Class 715/815 - Sizing modification (e.g., scaling)

Subclass of Class 715 - Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
Definition: Subject matter wherein the dimensions of the list of items
No. of applications: 37
Last issue date: 02/25/2010

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20100050120	User Interface for Selecting Options Icons can be combined to form toolbars such as those appearing on computer desktops and within application windows such as web browsers. Small icons are desired because desktop real estate is expensive. Small icons can be difficult to select or open because it can be ha...	02/25/2010
20100042947	ANIMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS Animations and transitions are provided for display of objects in a user interface. The animations and transitions include movement of objects into and within a display area, changes in the size or orientation of an object, and intensity changes for objects within a dis...	02/18/2010
20100005417	POSITION EDITING TOOL OF COLLAGE MULTI-MEDIA In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for flexible and user-friendly position editing of loaded media in a multi-media presentation. In one embodiment, a method for editing the position of loaded media c...	01/07/2010
20090288039	MANAGING INPUTS FROM A PLURALITY OF USER INPUT DEVICE ACTUATORS A computing device and method for managing inputs from a plurality of user input device actuators are provided. The computing device may include code stored in memory for implementing, via a processor, an actuator input module configured to receive a first actuator inpu...	11/19/2009
20090287992	METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING LABELS USED BY PHARMACEUTICAL DISPENSING SYSTEMS Apparatus, methods and computer program products for creating and modifying labels for use by pharmaceutical dispensing machines are provided. A pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus includes a touch screen, a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and a computer pro...	11/19/2009
20090282352	CONFIGURABLE ICON SIZING AND PLACEMENT FOR WIRELESS AND OTHER DEVICES A method for displaying icons of a graphical user interface on a display screen of a device (e.g., a wireless or other device), comprising: receiving a signal indicating a selected number of the icons to be displayed; comparing the selected number to a current number of...	11/12/2009
20090271735	Extensible and Application-Adaptable Toolbar for Web Services Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more g...	10/29/2009
20090106694	APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AFFECTING AN ARRANGEMENT OF SELECTABLE ITEMS Provided is an apparatus that includes a processing unit configured to monitor a quality of user performance in selecting one or more selectable items that are presented on a display. The processing unit is further configured to cause the one or more selectable items to...	04/23/2009
20090085874	TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE AND CHARACTER INPUT METHOD THEREIN A device, computer program product and method of inputting a character in a touch screen device, in which a touch area is partitioned into a plurality of array positions, and one or more letters are assigned to each of the partitioned array positions. The method compris...	04/02/2009
20090037844	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COORDINATES OF ICON ON DISPLAY SCREEN OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL Provided is an apparatus and a method for determining coordinates of an icon on a display screen of a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a display unit displaying the icon selection screen including the at least one icon and icon regions including ico...	02/05/2009
20080250351	MANIPULATING TOOLBAR COMPONENT DIMENSIONS Systems and methods for manipulating toolbar dimensions are provided. Each toolbar includes a number of toolbar components each having a first and second representation and the toolbar is associated with a reference value. As the toolbar dimensions are adjusted, if the ...	10/09/2008
20080163116	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PANNNING AND ZOOMING AN IMAGE ON A DISPLAY OF A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE Method and arrangement for panning and zooming a displayed image on a display screen of a handheld electronic device 300 using the same auxiliary user input device 328 is described. The displayed image can be toggled between panning and zooming modes that ...	07/03/2008
20080022218	Method for cache image display A method for cache image display in an electronic apparatus having at least a LCD screen and a storage device, said method being applied when a user performs operations such as shrinking, enlarging, dragging or adjusting the viewing area of a thumbnail image on said scr...	01/24/2008
20070234233	Method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows A method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows includes: adjusting a display multiplier of the edit window to display a first electric element at a first coordinate in the edit window; establishing a first view point shifting command, which corresponds t...	10/04/2007
20070209022	Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizi...	09/06/2007
20070198950	Method and system for improving interaction with a user interface Upon detection of user input, a computing device (e.g., tablet PC, PDA, cellular device) may determine whether the input corresponds to a request to enhance elements of the user interface. In response to a positive determination, the computing device may magnify or othe...	08/23/2007
20070150837	GRAPHICS STACK SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface ...	06/28/2007
20070079255	Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizi...	04/05/2007
20070033518	Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for hiding columns in an electronic table Under the present invention, when a user resizes or otherwise hides a column in the electronic table, a graphical indicia is displayed that represents the hidden column(s). If a user interacts with the indicia (e.g., by hovering a mouse/input device over it), a pop-wind...	02/08/2007
20060248476	Printer control program and apparatus A program product for enabling a computer to control operations of a printer. The computer includes a display and a pointing device for controlling a position of a pointer on the display. The program product includes: software instructions for enabling the computer to p...	11/02/2006
20060236264	Automatic window resize behavior and optimizations A method and system for managing the layout of an application window during a resize operation. An application is responsive to a resize request to automatically resize the application window to have minimum height and/or width the dimensions when the user adjusts one o...	10/19/2006
20060230354	User interface with multi-state menu A user interface having a persistent graphical interface element is disclosed. The element may have an appearance of a mechanical structure that traverses one or more displayed tracks. Movement along the tracks may be animated in response to navigation commands. Selecta...	10/12/2006
20060143577	GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANIPULATING GRAPHIC IMAGES AND METHOD THEREOF A method for enabling the manipulation of a plurality of items in a graphic user interface (GUI) is provided. One embodiment of the method includes steps of: dividing the plurality of items to a plurality of groups, each group and item are represented by a graphic image...	06/29/2006
20060064647	Web browser graphical user interface and method for implementing same An improved graphical user interface for browsing web pages on small screens is provided. The user interface first displays a reduced representation of the web page on the screen. Upon selection of a portion of interest within the web page, the user interface displays t...	03/23/2006
20060059438	Optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting size of OSD menu An optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting a size of a menu view. An user input unit selects a predetermined menu view mode among a plurality of menu view modes displaying a standard menu view in different sizes. A storage stores an image informati...	03/16/2006
20050251757	Display of enlarged visual container graphical user interface (GUI) components during GUI layout or design During Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout and design, selection of a GUI component causes either the selected component or an ancestor of the selected component to be displayed in a design area. If the selected component is capable of displaying other GUI components ...	11/10/2005
20050210399	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 readi...	09/22/2005
20050198582	User interface expander and collapser A method of indicating expanded states and collapsed states of lower level expander/collapser items in a higher level visual control of a user interface display. The method includes providing, in the higher level visual control, a lower level expander/collapser indicato...	09/08/2005
20050193351	Varying-content menus for touch screens A method and system implementing menus for touch screens. A touch screen shows at least one menu that can be touched with a probe, which is the user's finger, for example. When the touch time of a menu reaches a predetermined time limit, a user is preferably given feedb...	09/01/2005
20050183030	Automatically scaling the information and controls in navigation tabs per available window area A method in a data processing system for providing a user of the data processing system with control of a software object organized into a plurality of information levels including initially displaying a first display window having a first size. The first display window...	08/18/2005
20050138570	Methods and systems for supporting presentation tools using zoomable user interface Methods and systems for supporting presentation using a zoomable space. In an exemplary method, a structure, such as a hierarchy, of presentation information is provided. The presentation information may include slides, text labels and graphical elements. The presentati...	06/23/2005
20050138575	Information processing apparatus with display An information processing apparatus comprises a display which is capable of displaying a display area thereon, and the display area is associated with a running program and is either active or inactive. The information processing apparatus also comprises a first user in...	06/23/2005
20050138568	System integrated window sizing device A system integrated window sizing device for varying the display size of displayed windows in a portable computing device. A pointer stick device is integrated into the portable computing device and supports movement of a cursor pointer in both an X axis and Y axis dire...	06/23/2005
20050120310	Information processing apparatus and display control method According to one embodiment, a CPU executes a zooming utility program in accordance with, e.g., the operation of an enlargement button or reduction button provided as user operation means. The zooming utility program executed by the CPU searches for running application ...	06/02/2005
20050055646	Method for controlling a window-based user interface and an HMI device for carrying out said method A control of a window-based interactive user interface (210) includes at least two overlapping display and control windows (220, 230). When one display and control window (220) is activated, the other display and control window (230) is autom...	03/10/2005
20050039138	Method and system for displaying comic books and graphic novels on all sizes of electronic display screens. A method and system for displaying comic books, and graphic novels on all sizes of electronic display screens. This method maximizes visual quality and text legibility by: displaying one panel, e.g., image at a time, and by generating and sizing the text balloons based ...	02/17/2005
20050039137	Method, apparatus, and program for dynamic expansion and overlay of controls A set of replacement system window controls is provided that are instantiated as the result of the receipt of create control messages into the system message queue, instead of the built-in system window controls. The replacement window controls result in replacement con...	02/17/2005

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