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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434177 | User interface for providing consolidation and access Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. To provide greater access and consolidation to frequently used items in the graphical user interface, a userbar is established which includes a plurality of item representations. To permit a ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7360159 | System for creating media presentations of computer software application programs A system for producing presentations of computer application programs that also allows the inclusion of advertising, or other information, into a presentation and which can be updated by a central ad server. When the presentation is viewed offline, default ads are k... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7069520 | Motion-based visualization A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects sat... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6690395 | Progressively rolling animation display method on cellular phones A progressively rolling display method of animation graphics on a cellular phone which offers a much more dynamic and interesting way of displaying the contents of a cellular phone, and in particular to one having a selection pending area presented by mea... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6662366 | Television receiver The present invention relates to a television receiver capable of receiving at least digital satellite broadcasting such as CS broadcasting. The television receiver according to the present invention comprises first means for displaying a plurality of pro... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6243076 | System and method for controlling host system interface with point-of-interest data A system and method are disclosed for a user interface control that utilizes one or more graphical objects ("comets"), which can be operated solely by the eye gaze of a user. The disclosed system and method enables users to access and control, for example... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6094195 | Dynamic presentation of frequently changing values A user interface component, gauge, is adapted to present a changing value according to a pre-determined behavioral and presentational characteristic. The component includes a kernel which is adapted to display a presentation value; a control interface thr... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5883627 | Advanced graphics controls A graphics control for an interactive user interface includes a plurality of individually specified graphics components. Each graphics component has non-transparent portions and potentially also has transparent portions. In one embodiment, the graphics co... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5864366 | System and method for selecting video information with intensity difference A system and method for browsing dynamic video information over a network includes selecting a small subset of frames from video shots and collections, using a threshold difference between two compared frames, to capture the dynamic content. Further selec... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5859639 | Mechanism to control visible presence of desktop objects in a graphical user interface Disclosed is a mechanism to control presentation of visible desktop objects in a graphical user interface (GUI). It is particularly related to a scenario where application windows are masking icons with regard to a window overlaying technique. The concept... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5850212 | System for changing modes and cursor appearance by a single button The present invention provides a small sized, inexpensive input unit which enables easy operation of computers, etc., even for people who have handicaps such as in the hands and/or fingers. The input unit consists of an input mode management part which ma... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5844560 | Graphical user interface control element A graphical user interface control element. A computer system for interfacing with a user has a display device and a user input peripheral device for controlling a positioning element on the display device. The positioning element has a location and an ac... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5831616 | Apparatus, and method for searching and retrieving moving image information An apparatus and method for searching and retrieving moving image information by using 3-dimensional icons is disclosed. The method for searching and retrieving moving image information in a computer system having a pointing device, a display unit, and ex... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5801713 | Data browsing apparatus and method therefor including automatic page-turning A data browsing apparatus displays data automatically in an automatic page-turning mode. The data browsing apparatus has dynamic picture display parameters comprising a frame display time (w), a frame display pitch (m), and a display priority (r). The dyn... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5630081 | Connection resource manager displaying link-status information using a traffic light iconic representation A communication and file-transfer program can be used to link a portable computer to a remote computer. The portable-computer link program displays on a user's screen a dynamic icon. The dynamic icon changes appearance as a connection to a remote computer... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5623590 | Dynamic graphics arrangement for displaying spatial-time-series data A computer is provided with the facility to display in map form spatially-time-varying data associated with respective nodes. Specifically, responsive to a user inputting a specific command, the computer displays a plurality of symbols representing respec... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5602981 | Quickselect icon button on a computer display which redisplays the last view style activated by the icon button A computer system having a visual display which displays a selectable button and permits a user to quickly redisplay a previous visual display selected by the user is dislosed. The selectable button preferably contains a textual or graphical representatio... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5564004 | Method and system for facilitating the selection of icons A method and system for facilitating the selection of icons. Those icons which are next likely to be used are selected and automatically moved towards a cursor thereby facilitating selection of the icons. Additionally, those icons likely to be used or oth... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5550967 | Method and apparatus for generating and displaying visual cues on a graphic user interface A user interface includes an object oriented graphic user interface having overlapping windows and provides an access window having topics, index and look for button functions for selection by a user. Through the use of the topics, index or look for funct... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550970 | Method and system for allocating resources A method and system for allocating at least one resource among a plurality of processes. The method includes the computer-implemented steps of displaying a representation of a proportion of the resource that is allocated to a first process on a display an... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5491743 | Virtual conference system and terminal apparatus therefor A terminal apparatus for a virtual conference system comprises: a display means for displaying a virtual conference room used for holding a virtual conference, and for displaying, in the virtual conference room, animated characters representing attendants... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5303388 | Method to display and rotate a three-dimensional icon with multiple faces A manipulable icon is displayed with multiple faces having particular application to computer displays and systems. The icon, which represents information about an object available within the computer, can be manipulated by the user to display different f... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5295243 | Display of hierarchical three-dimensional structures with rotating substructures A processor presents a sequence of images of a hierarchical structure that is perceived as three-dimensional. The hierarchical structure includes conic substructures that can have vertical or horizontal axes. Each cone has a parent node at its vertex and ... | 03/15/1994 |
