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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908568 | Method of displaying graphical objects A method and computer program product for displaying graphical objects in a display is presented. A first input from a user is received. In response to receiving the first input, a graphical object is displayed in the display. A second input is then received from th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7890883 | Information processing for creating a document digest Digest screen display content deciding means selects display elements belonging to respective regions of a document based on display priorities of the display elements, which are obtained by digest screen display priority information creating means, and decides sele... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7818684 | Rendition-based graphical layout management Systems and methods which implement rendition-based graphical layout management techniques are shown. According to an embodiment, desired resizing of items within a program's user interface is managed through a developer graphically describing a plurality of differe... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7783989 | Apparatus and method for managing layout of a window An apparatus and method for managing the layout of a window is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit that displays the window on a screen; the screen is divided into a plurality of display areas; a pointer-position-checking unit that checks the coordinate ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7739619 | Display control device and method A display control device for controlling a display of a display device responding to display processing from a plurality of processing units. A display controlling program controls the display device in response to at least one processing unit. The display controlli... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730417 | Terminal apparatus, network system, window display method, and computer program Upon reception of data updating information from a server apparatus (14) in a situation in which a presentation window is “closed” or “minimized” on a display unit (24) of each of terminal apparatuses (11-13), that presentation wi... | 06/01/2010 |
| RE41113 | Systems and methods for replacing open windows in a graphical user interface Systems and methods for returning windows to an original location are described. When springing already open windows to a new location on a display space, it is desired to return that window to its original location for certain situations. A list is provided when th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7610561 | Fine-grained control of z-order elements in a presentation Described are various methods and apparatuses for fine grained control of z-order elements in a presentation. A structure is defined containing user interface elements and an order is defined for rendering such user interface elements. It is desired that some elemen... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7484182 | Rendition-based graphical layout management Systems and methods which implement rendition-based graphical layout management techniques are shown. According to an embodiment, desired resizing of items within a program's user interface is managed through a developer graphically describing a plurality of differe... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7441207 | Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of content A system and method for small computing devices that present a thumbnail image of content such as a web page, allows a viewer to select a region, and zooms in on the selected region in a way that reduces scrolling and helps users to understand the content they are r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426697 | Multi-application tabbing system A method for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen is described. The method includes steps of associating a first window with at least one second window, the at least one second window being independent of and external to the first window, and combin... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7406663 | Graphical input device with dynamic field width adjustment for input of variable data via a browser-based display A graphical input device having the appearance of a drop-down menu in a browser-based display is generated locally, within a user's computer, in place of a pull-down menu expressed in a mark-up language such as HTML or its derivatives downloaded into the user's comp... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401299 | Method and apparatus for providing a presumptive drafting solution A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a presumptive drafting solution. Input from a cursor control device is received, wherein the input reflects a movement in a computer drawing program of a cursor over a drawing having one or more geometric... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389475 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and Z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386803 | Method and apparatus for managing input focus and z-order An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380218 | Method and apparatus for managing windows A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing windows in a foreground and a background in a data processing system. A buffer is monitored for user input in response to receiving a request to present a pop-up window in a foreground. A determination is m... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376910 | Displaying objects using group and object priority levels A display device which displays a plurality of objects on a screen has a group configuration storage section for storing association information indicating the association between each of the plurality of objects and one of a plurality of groups, a group priority le... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370330 | Information processing apparatus having simplified user switching function and program for use therewith An information processing apparatus having a simplified switching function of a user is disclosed that can reduce the processing burden upon a CPU and eliminate an action that is not intended by its user. If an application, which implements a function of a device or... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353461 | Method and apparatus for selection control The present invention provides a method and apparatus for selection control using a touch screen, wherein first and second intersecting bars (1, 2) are displayed, preferably near the edge, on the screen (3), and the first bar (1) displays contai... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350156 | Audio signal editing apparatus and control method therefor Interlocking flag, indicating whether or not an interlocked display should be made, can be set in association with predetermined editing operators. When any of the operators is operated, a displayed screen on a display is switched over to a screen related to the ope... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343307 | Dynamic help method and system for an insurance claims processing system An improved method and system for providing context-sensitive help and interactive search capability in an insurance claims processing system is described. Context-sensitive help for a step in processing an insurance claim may be automatically invoked when entering ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7293241 | Method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation in a user interface The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for scrollable cross point navigation on a user interface in order to select a feature by combining object fields. Bars, where at least one of them is scrollable, have object fields which overlap and combine each ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7280123 | Display priority for 2D CAD documents Three values for each CAD image element are set: an element priority, a level priority, and a model reference priority. In addition, for the CAD project that contains the CAD image element, a separate priority multiplier value may be set project-wide for elements, l... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7265762 | Method and apparatus for representing data using layered objects A multilayer data animation program is provided that controls the simultaneous display of objects that represent complex or interrelated data, where the appearance of the objects may change over time to reflect changes in the data. The multilayer data animation prog... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265764 | System and method for providing a hardware icon with magnification and security A compositor for providing a pixel value corresponding to a current pixel is implemented on a chip. A desktop pixel logic circuit supplies a desktop pixel value. A cursor logic circuit supplies a cursor pixel value. A hardware icon logic circuit provides an icon pix... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257777 | System and method for automatic control of window viewing A system and method for automatic ways of prioritizing the presentation of windows on a graphical user interface (GUI) and for prioritizing and accessing information stored in cache that is used by a web browser. The viewing (tiling) priority of windows, the size of... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239347 | Image display controlling method, image display controlling apparatus and image display controlling program An image display controlling apparatus comprises a memory means for storing an attention area information and a date and time information for each image data of a plurality of images to be displayed on an image display means, an evaluation means for evaluating the a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221362 | Display control device and method The present invention provides a device and a method for displaying appropriately on the display area for each processing unit such as an application according to the applied equipment. The CPU 12 processes display area acquisition requests from a plurality o... | 05/22/2007 |
| RE39610 | Systems and methods for replacing open windows in a graphical user interface Systems and methods for returning windows to an original location are described. When springing already open windows to a new location on a display space, it is desired to return that window to its original location for certain situations. A list is provided when th... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200817 | Graphical program execution on a personal digital assistant A system and method for deploying one or more graphical programs on a personal digital assistant (PDA). One or more selected graphical programs may be programmatically converted to an executable format that can be executed by the portable computing device. For examp... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7145558 | Selective illumination of regions of an electronic display An electronic device (1) provides for the selective illuminating of an associated display (5) thereby reducing battery power consumption. The electronic device (1) provides for detecting an event that will trigger an update of the display (5 | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134089 | Directional focus navigation A rendering engine that supports directional focus navigation, in response to a directional input, shifts the focus to an appropriate focusable element. The rendering engine determines one or more focusable elements that are candidates to receive the focus based on ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129993 | Method and apparatus for processing on-screen display data displayed on screen An on-screen display (OSD) processor and a method for processing OSD data, by which only non-overlapped OSD data corresponding to each of a plurality of OSD windows is actually displayed on a screen can be processed, are provided. The method comprises storing coordi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113982 | Method and device for sending an event in a digital broadcast receiver To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113972 | Method for sending an event in a digital broadcast To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113973 | Digital broadcasting receiver for a digital broadcasting system To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113974 | Digital broadcast receiver for a digital broadcasting system To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114128 | Object-oriented framework for hyperlink navigation An object-oriented framework comprises system services, objects, and integration interfaces which unify retrieval and browsing of data among multiple different application programs, document formats, and local and remote data storage sites. The framework provides a ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7111041 | Digital broadcast receiver for a digital broadcasting system To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111040 | Digital broadcast receiver for a digital broadcasting system To provide a device capable of determining a delivery destination of an event automatically without requiring choosing operation of an operator. An event entered through an event input means 4 is given to a delivery destination determining means 6 whic... | 09/19/2006 |
