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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095888 | Mobile terminal and image control method thereof A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to connect to the Internet to receive a Web page, a display unit configured to display the Web page, and a controller configured to receive an input signal corresponding to a selection of at least ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7949955 | Virtual magnifying glass system architecture A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A magnified image is presented within a moveable magnifier frame. The magnified image corresponds to screen content located within a ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7900158 | Virtual magnifying glass with intuitive use enhancements A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen conten... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7712046 | Virtual magnifying glass with intuitive use enhancements A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen conten... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7694234 | Virtual magnifying glass with on-the fly control functionalities A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen conten... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7404147 | System and method for dynamic space management of a display space A method for space management of a workspace provided on a display includes defining a first data structure of full-space rectangles present on the workspace, wherein at least a portion of the full-space rectangles are permitted to overlap. A second data structure o... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395510 | Method of, and system for, adjusting a document configuration A method of adjusting a document configuration includes the steps of generating a set of document configuration constraints that define an acceptable range of change in the look and feel of a document, the configuration of which is to be adjusted. The method include... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7370284 | User interface for displaying multiple applications Multiple applications are displayed. A request to change a display of a first application is received. A determination is made regarding how displays for one or more other applications should change in response to changing the display of the first application in ord... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359762 | Measurement and alignment device including a display system A graphical user interface communicatively coupled with a non-contact measurement and alignment device enables user control over and display of the readings from the non-contact measurement and alignment device. In operation with a power tool, the graphical user int... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339598 | System and method for automated product design Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a plurality of layouts are retained. Stored images are identified based on keyw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340689 | Method, system and program product for automatically modifying a display view during presentation of a web page A system and method are disclosed for displaying a web page on a computer screen. The method and system provide zoom in and out viewing of the web page as the web page is constructed. In accordance with the method, a browser determines whether web object display has... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7302649 | Operation method for processing data file In an operation method for processing data file of the present invention, reduced-size images and file icons of small area associated with the reduced-size images are displayed in pairs at predetermined interval between a reduced-size image and a file icon in each p... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302648 | Method and apparatus for resizing buffered windows Methods and apparatuses for resizing buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to resize a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining an estimated size for a window which has a first pixel image of a first size buffered in a f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293243 | Application sharing viewer presentation An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein an application sharing viewing display is modified to increase the likelihood that a viewing user is able to see without scrolling the entirety of a window of interest displayed by a sharing use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275219 | Fast and accurate rendering of pliable display technology distortions using pre-calculated texel coverages A method for generating a presentation of region-of-interest in an information representation including the steps of: selecting a viewpoint for the region-of-interest; selecting a location for the region-of-interest; creating a lens surface having a predetermined lo... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272790 | Method and device for automatically selecting a frame for display The present invention relates to the display of multi-frame-based information on devices such as mobile terminal devices, wherein a possible definition of “a frame” is a display area of an application that is scrollable, if the whole content can not be displayed... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263668 | Display interface to a computer controlled display system with variable comprehensiveness levels of menu items dependent upon size of variable display screen available for menu item display A display interface system for computer controlled displays including a window in a display screen, for the display of visible data; a set of selectable items in the portion of said display screen; an implementation for varying the area of the display screen portion... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263670 | Information displaying method, information displaying device, and computer program In order to display all information to be displayed on a computer screen in a manner which is easy to understand in hierarchical window displaying, an entire screen is taken as a root window, and display objects of windows and icons corresponding to child windows of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257776 | Systems and methods for scaling a graphical user interface according to display dimensions and using a tiered sizing schema to define display objects Systems and methods are described for scaling a graphical user interface (GUI) to fit proportionally in displays of different sizes. Bounds of display objects to be displayed in the graphical user interface are defined in terms of position relative to horizontal and... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7225973 | Self-service terminal A self-service terminal (10) comprising a user interface (14) including a display (30) is described. The display has a display area (80) for presenting financial information to a user (12). The terminal (10), which may be an... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222308 | Slider bar scaling in a graphical user interface A graphical user interface element for modifying parameters of a graphing widget includes a first slider bar with a first slider control operable to adjust a first parameter of a graphing widget, and a second slider bar with a second slider control operable to adjus... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222306 | Methods, systems, and programming for computer display of images, text, and/or digital content A bitmap of a shape, such as a font, can be subpixel optimized by producing for each of a display's subpixels a coverage value representing the percent of its area covered by the shape being represented and by distributing, to prevent color imbalance, an amount of a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219309 | Innovations for the display of web pages Web pages are displayed with a simultaneous overview and magnified view. An indicator can show the portion of the overview in the magnified view. Both views can be shown, one above the other, across the full width of the same screen. A user can select between such a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216293 | Display control method, program product, and information processing apparatus for controlling objects in a container based on the container's size The present invention provides a technique to improve productivity on a task for redesigning a screen depending on change in a display size of the screen displayed on a display unit. In a computer environment, a display of a screen composed of a container for defini... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213214 | Graphical user interface with zoom for detail-in-context presentations A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for manipulating a presentation of a region of interest within visual information displayed on a display screen of a computer display system. The GUI includes: a first bounding shape surrounding the focal region; a second... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210093 | Method, system, and program for displaying pages downloaded from over a network in an application window Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying pages in a viewer program on a computer display monitor. The viewer program displays an application window. The viewer program downloads a first and second pages from one of multiple servers over a network an... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197719 | Graphical user interface for detail-in-context presentations A method for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer, the region of interest including a focal region and a base region. The method includes the steps of: providing means for selecting at least one parameter for tr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197718 | Interactive virtual area browser for selecting and rescaling graphical representations of displayed data A computer implemented graphical user interface and data processing method is provided that facilitates manipulation of objects on a display by directly manipulating a graphic representation of an active area of data. The user can select an active region of a larger... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188315 | Method of establishing a customized webpage desktop The present invention relates to a method of establishing a customized webpage desktop applied in an information apparatus. After an operating system is enabled, a shell program is initialized, and a browser is called to register the browser as a desktop format, and... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188310 | Automatic layout generation for photobooks A method and system for the automatic layout of a photobook page are disclosed. The method includes receiving a number of images for placement onto the photobook page, the photobook page having a first dimension and a second dimension wherein the first dimension is ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177948 | Method and apparatus for enhancing online searching A method and apparatus are provided for processing search results obtained in response to a user query. This may include examining document pointers returned by a search engine to identify a source from which the documents are available and generating at least two v... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7152211 | Resolution independent theming Several systems and associated methodologies are provided for rendering a themed image while mitigating pixelation and/or the disproportionate appearance thereof when the image is sized and/or scaled. The systems include at least one sizing module adapted to size co... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149984 | Image configuration method A method in a computing environment is provided for configuring images for display on the Internet. The method includes selecting first and second component images and positioning the images according to a coordinate system to create a configured image. In the prefe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124361 | Apparatus and method for forming processed data An apparatus for forming processed data includes a data storage device. Data storage device is connected to form engine. Form engine is connected to output device. Form engine formats processed data contained on data storage device in accordance with predetermined h... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7091974 | Method for selecting and displaying a subject or interest in a still digital image The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method for determining the coordinates of a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this subject of interest on the screen of a terminal with low display capac... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6950993 | System and method for automatic and dynamic layout of resizable dialog type windows The present invention involves a new system and process for automatically and dynamically laying out elements within an overall window of a graphical user interface by using dynamically resizable frames, i.e., “FlowFrames” disposed within the window. FlowFrames ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6845488 | Multi-line editor for compact display A method for displaying information, expressed as a sequence of alphanumeric characters, on a screen having a sequence of entry lines. Where a designated entry includes more than one line of characters: (1) one or more additional lines, associated with that entry, i... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6704016 | Method and apparatus for the graphical presentation of selected data A method graphically presents a selected group of data values of a series of data values in a predetermined presentation area. The largest data value within the selected group of data values is determined. A scaling factor for the determined largest data ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 5864332 | Scalable edit window and displayable position indicators for an electronic typewriter A scalable edit window and position indicators displayable on a display of an electronic typewriter are provided. The width of the scalable edit window adjusts in accordance with the paper size or size of the recording medium selected for printing the key... | 01/26/1999 |
