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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191009 | 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... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE42414 | Drawing management device having ability to retrieve and display a desired amount of data within a desired display time A drawing management device for managing the drawing of an entire facility, such as a water supply facility, as digital information. This device includes a unit for storing drawings with priorities obtained by separating the entire facility drawing into sub-facility... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7895528 | System and method for reversing a windows close action A system and method for reversing a windows close action is provided. The system retains data corresponding to a window after the window is closed for some period of time. The parameters by which the closed window data is retained is user-configurable. When a window... | 02/22/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7412664 | Mouse input panel windows class list A method for returning focus to a user interface window is disclosed. Information relating to each user interface window existing within a computer operating system is stored in a working database that is different from real-time user interface window information ma... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7373611 | Method and computer program for integrating a basic program with a basic program window into an auxiliary program with an auxiliary window At least one basic program and an auxiliary program run on a computer and collaborate with the computer via an operating system, with windows being displayed on a viewing device allocated to the computer. The auxiliary program determines a basic window pointer on th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362334 | System for regional data association and presentation and method for the same A database methodology that concerns the mapping of any arbitrary object into a plurality of regions, enabling the assignment of multiple region-specific attributes thereto and facilitating the concurrent, graphical presentation of any assigned attributes. Attribute... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340687 | 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... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336268 | Point-to-point display system having configurable connections An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337401 | User interface element representation with simplified view A composite user interface element can be assembled from plural sub-elements. A simplified view of the representation of the user interface element can be provided wherein the composited user interface element appears to be a single element. When defined, various no... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7315957 | Method of providing a second clock while changing a first supplied clock frequency then supplying the changed first clock Methods, circuits, and apparatus for changing a frequency of a clock signal provided to a graphics memory while reducing any resulting visual glitch or disturbance on a monitor. A specific embodiment provides multiple clock sources that may be multiplexed or selecte... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310104 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7302647 | 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... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7268829 | Display apparatus A display apparatus including a display to display a picture; a signal processor to format a video signal to be output to the display; and a controller to output a control signal to the signal processor on the basis of a picture display state controlled through a co... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266254 | Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method therefor There are provided a data processing apparatus which makes an I/F for data processing modules (processors) versatile to facilitate addition/modification on a data processing module basis in accordance with processing contents, an image processing apparatus, and a me... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260786 | 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... | 08/21/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7254779 | Customizable presentation environment A customizable environment is disclosed including an interactive presentation having a plurality of object placeholders, each for holding a presentable object or a presentable reference to an object. Each placeholder has a selector for selecting the presentable obje... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248291 | Digital camera with priority information Even if the digital camera is inexpensive without the function of reproducing images, it can effectively use a memory capacity and has the function of responding to quick image-capturing, and important images can be recorded with higher priority. The digital camera ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245749 | Image acquiring display apparatus, method and apparatus for editing photographing conditions, and program for arranging photographing conditions An image acquiring display apparatus comprising an editing system for photographing conditions, a method of editing photographing conditions by using the apparatus, and a program for arranging photographing conditions, in order to select any of photographing conditi... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245281 | Drive circuit device for display device, and display device using the same A drive circuit device for a display device which drives a plurality of source bus lines provided on a display panel includes a driver unit that receives a clock signal, a data signal and a control signal, sequentially fetches the data signal, and generates drive si... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239733 | Image display apparatus, image display method, and program The magnification of an image is set. The distance between the positions of two designated points on the image is measured. On the basis of the set magnification set and a measurement value, an actual measurement value on the object corresponding to the measurement ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213213 | 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... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209779 | Methods and software for retrospectively gating a set of images Methods, devices, and software for selecting image slices. The image slices are preferably taken during a quiet part of the patient's heart cycle in which the heart is relatively motionless so as to reduce blurring and the introduction of artifacts into the resultan... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7206006 | Real size display system Disclosed is a real size display system comprising a real size display system comprising a photographing unit for photographing an image of a subject, and outputting first image information that includes measurement information of the subject; a flat panel display u... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193622 | Method and apparatus for dynamically changing pixel depth An electronic device (108) includes a display panel (126) and a display controller (124) for controlling the display panel (126). A plurality of data lines supplies image data to the display panel (126). The data lines include data... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7164442 | Image control device with information-based image correcting capability, image control method and digital camera A digital camera includes an image control processing section in which a memory controller controls a video memory, a bus arbitrator, a display sequencer, and a timing adjusting section. Image data are read out of the video memory and fed to a data corrector. The di... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7120774 | Efficient management of memory access requests from a video data stream A method and apparatus for managing overlay data requests are disclosed. One embodiment of an apparatus includes a request unit and a timer. A request is made by a graphics controller to the request unit for a line of overlay data. The request unit divides the reque... | 10/10/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7107544 | Display of messages A message viewer for generating a prioritized view of a plurality of messages stored in an email mailbox is disclosed. The viewer includes a script for defining one or more concepts against which a message can be prioritized, the or each concept comprising one or mo... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098930 | Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095450 | Method and apparatus for generating a display signal Apparatus for interactively generating a display signal. The apparatus comprises: a receiver (2) for receiving a broadcast signal (15), the broadcast signal comprising a plurality of datastreams each including image data defining a background object ( | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086028 | Simplified generation of design change information on a drawing in a computer aided design (CAD) environment The invention includes computer instructions that operate to receive an indication of a modification of a design, the design being displayed as part of a drawing within a computer aided design (CAD) environment. Responsive to the received indication, the computer in... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072948 | Information retrieval system using an internet multiplexer to focus user selection The invention provides a method and system for receiving incoming information from multiple information sources, both interactive and passive, and for engagingly presenting that information to a recipient on a presentation interface. The system includes a “backgro... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7073136 | Method for keystroke delivery to descendants of inactive windows A method for delivering keystrokes to descendants of an inactive window includes remembering a descendant of the inactive window as the next focus owner when the descendant receives a focus-in event, creating a focus proxy for the inactive window and issuing a reque... | 07/04/2006 |
