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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7750927 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus includes an image input section configured to input still image data; a number-of-pixel converter configured to perform number-of-pixel conversion on the still image data; a display image generator configured to generate a scroll displa... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7340688 | Application of paging to a dataset, graphical display window and graphical scrollbar grip A dataset is divided into overlapping logical pages, each associated with a different page index. A graphical display window is then filled with data corresponding to a current page offset which is mapped into a subset of data in a logical page corresponding to a cu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327349 | Advanced navigation techniques for portable devices The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be pe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325195 | Adjustable-speed electronic method of composing information A method of composing information by electronically advancing a sequence of information elements at controlled speed in an even step-wise fashion into a fixed transfer location while visibly displaying each of them there during a dwell time to permit the operator to... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7284201 | User attention-based adaptation of quality level to improve the management of real-time multi-media content delivery and distribution A method for transmitting a stream of multi-media content from provider server to a user device includes transmitting multi-media content from the provider server to the user device via a communication network and outputting the multi-media content from the user dev... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7251774 | System for describing markup language for mobile use, and information processing apparatus and program for generating display content A partial image to be displayed is extracted from an original image. The partial image is displayed along with information, such as a radar display, that indicates which part of the original image is being displayed. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7154513 | Method and system for displaying images Vector data indicating a plurality of points for representing an image is classified for storage under three groups: a group 1 of the vector data DP1, DP5, DP9 indicating indispensable points P1, P5, P9 required for recognit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145550 | Method and apparatus for reducing repetitive motion injuries in a computer user A pointing device is provided for use with a computer, including a tracking device adapted to generate a signal for use by a processor in moving a pointer on screen, and a selecting device adapted generate a selection signal for use by the processor to determine ope... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7130705 | System and method for microphone gain adjust based on speaker orientation A system and method for automatically adjusting the gain of an audio system as a speaker's head moves relative to a microphone includes using a video of the speaker to determine an orientation of the speaker's head relative to the microphone and, hence, a gain adjus... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7091928 | Intelligent eye A new approach for visual man-machine interaction that mimics the human response to natural visual information by instructing the computer with eye and ocular appendages. The system may also be used to uniquely identify the user. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7071919 | Positional scrolling A method and system for electronically scrolling a document with a data processing apparatus uses an input device, e.g., a mouse, to permit position based scrolling without first accessing a scroll bar or other scrolling functionality element. In a page positional s... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050072 | Method and system for specifying a pan path A method and system for generating an image display plan is provided. In one embodiment, a planning system allows a user to create a display plan that specifies a sequence of images that are to be displayed and how the images are to be displayed. The planning system... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7013258 | System and method for accelerating Chinese text input A Chinese text entry system with eye-tracking technique can be used for computer input of Chinese characters. The system is comprised of two main components: the Chinese pinyin software and the eye-tracking system. Chinese characters corresponding to pinyin input ar... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6909433 | Image display apparatus and image display method Image display apparatus and image display method which realize smooth scroll-display of image data and enlargement/reduction display, and attain cost reduction by reducing the capacity of local memory for temporarily storing image data. In the image display apparatu... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907569 | “Show me” user interface command with scroll tracking Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for displaying a document on a display device. Methods include receiving a user input selecting a location in a document displayed in a display pane and requesting a show-me operation, and, in response to t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6847386 | Visual cue for on-screen scrolling A method for displaying data on a computer screen. The method includes receiving a user command to scroll the data displayed on the screen, scrolling the data displayed on the screen so that a line of data in proximity to a first edge of the screen is shifted to app... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6750886 | Method and software for displaying information on a display area of a screen of an electronic device A method is provided for displaying information on a display area of a screen of an electronic device. An initial page of information is displayed on the display area. A signal is transmitted from a user interface device operated by a user. A subsequent page of info... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6421064 | System and methods for controlling automatic scrolling of information on a display screen A system for controlling the automatic scrolling of information includes a screen, a computer system, gimbaled sensor system for following and tracking the position and movement of the user's head and user's eye, and a scroll activating interface algorith... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6416410 | Data compression/decompression based on pattern and symbol run length encoding for use in a portable handheld video game system Loss-less data compression/decompression especially useful in a limited resource environment such as a handheld portable video game system allows graphics and/or attribute data to be efficiently and quickly decompressed on an as-needed basis in real time ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6411274 | Digital map display zooming method, digital map display zooming device, and storage medium for storing digital map display zooming program A digital map display zooming method for continuously enlarging and reducing a displayed portion of a digital map as map information in digital form within a display screen is provided which comprises the steps of displaying the displayed portion of the d... | 06/25/2002 |
| 5659333 | System and method for scrolling control Scrolling control is carried out in response to a press of a cursor key or a scroll key. While a scroll control is carried out, data displayed on a screen is reduced, to thereby increase an amount of the data displayed at the same time.... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5477240 | Character scrolling method and apparatus A method for scrolling, at a desired rate and in a given direction, a graphic character on a display having a predetermined number of actual scan lines and a vertical blanking interval occurring between successive display of all the actual horizontal scan... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5434591 | Scrolling method and apparatus in which data being displayed is altered during scrolling In a scrolling of a display of graphic data in response to an operator command, a characteristic of the data is altered, according to the speed of the scrolling, to facilitate the viewing of the data as the data is scrolled. In one case, a selected part o... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5172102 | Graphic display method In the case where a map is used as a figure upon vertical scrolling for enlarging or reducing a map having a predetermined accuracy, a map having a higher accuracy as well as a map having a less amount of graphic data are subjected to vertical scrolling s... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5121114 | Information processing apparatus having a specified-area confirming function An information processing apparatus having a specified-area confirming function comprises a keyboard for inputting information and marking the beginning and end points of a desired area in the information to specify the area; an inputted information memor... | 06/09/1992 |
