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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171426 | Method for secondary selection highlighting A method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A display of color coding and selection highlighting may be provided. A secondary highlighting color may be provided to indicate messages related to a selected message. One... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8151214 | System and method for color coding list items A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8127230 | Display control device, image forming apparatus, method for controlling display device, and storage medium A display control device controls an image display device capable of displaying a preview of an output image that is to be subjected to an output process, before the output image is subjected to the output process. The display control device refers to a storage sect... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7917867 | System for providing a category separator in a list of documents A system is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to in... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7873916 | Color labeling in a graphical user interface A method for providing visual cues to a user of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a computer system is disclosed. The visual cues indicate a relationship with an icon having text and/or image elements. In some embodiments, the method receives a color for labeling... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7627816 | Method for providing a transient dictionary that travels with an original electronic document A method for providing a transient electronic dictionary that travels with an original electronic document is provided. An author of an electronic document may generate a transient electronic dictionary that is linked with the original electronic document such that ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7587683 | Display method, portable terminal device, and display program A display method for displaying a plurality of icons in list form on a display device by a list-form displaying section and for enlarging and reducing an icon. When a first icon is selected while second icon previously selected is being enlarged, the second icon is ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7432939 | Method and apparatus for displaying pixel images for a graphical user interface Methods and apparatuses for displaying pixel images to provide visual-based emphasis in a graphical user interface. In one aspect of the invention, a method to display a pixel image for a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a data processing system includes: detecting... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7421664 | System and method for providing a category separator in a list of documents A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403206 | Picking TV safe colors Validating a color that is selected in an authoring environment for display in a destination media environment includes selecting a color for an application, converting the values of the color to those in a fundamental color space, and converting the values from the... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394469 | Picking TV safe colors Validating a color that is selected in an authoring environment for display in a destination media environment includes selecting a color for an application, converting the values of the color to those in a fundamental color space, and converting the values from the... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383515 | Previewing next state based on potential action in current state A method, program and system for displaying the consequence of an input in a graphical user interface (GUI) are provided. The invention comprises displaying a GUI including a plurality of interaction control mechanisms (controls) having a selected or a deselected st... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355611 | Method and arrangement for improving image quality on a display of an imaging device In the method and arrangement, a value of at least one image parameter of a liveview scene that is displayed on an imaging device display is determined. Based on the determined image parameter value, compensation value for the image parameter is determined, and the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352488 | Spectrally matched print proofer A device, system and a method for soft proofing of an image before it is printed onto printed material, such that the colors of the image substantially reproduce, to the human eye, the colors as they should appear on the printed material. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349916 | Information organization using markup languages The presentation of information in HTML files is desirably en hanced by the use of one or more separate scripting Javascript™ files, referenced from the HTML file, which uses information presented as variables in the HTML file. In this manner, a high degree of for... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346854 | Method and apparatus for facilitating entry of manually-adjustable data setting in an aircraft cockpit A system and method for facilitating user entry of a manually-adjustable data setting in an aircraft cockpit normally presents an image of the data setting on the display at a predetermined size. When the user commences to manipulate a control for manually adjusting... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336265 | Display control device for touch panel-type setting-operation unit, electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus Disclosed is a display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, which is designed to display a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen and to perform an input processing corresponding to the operation of one or more of the keys. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337390 | Method and system for embedding voice notes A method of embedding voice data in a computing system includes detecting a record event and detecting if a software application currently running on the computing system is voice-aware. The method also includes embedding the voice data within associated data in the... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330195 | Graphic pieces for a border image A graphic piece can be used to add a border to an image. The graphic piece is created by creating a graphic image foreground image and a graphic image background image. The foreground and background images are merged into a graphic image file, the contents of which ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299420 | Graphical user interface for imaging A graphical user interface is provided which allows the user to perform numerous operations suitable for analysis of in-vivo images within a single display screen or a single window. Using the the-vivo GUI, the user may create and manipulate analysis tools such as r... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7299424 | Lasso select A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connec... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290219 | System and method for selection based action bar A system and method is provided for displaying a selection based action bar to a user that the user is able to use to perform actions using selected data. A user selects one or more displayed selections using a selection device. After the user selections have been m... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290220 | Method and apparatus for non-sequential access of form fields A method and system for non-sequential access to fields in a window, document, form or template. When the window, document, form or template is opened for user input, the user activates the non-sequential mode of operation, such as by hitting a particular keystroke ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283845 | Mobile telephone with improved man machine interface The present invention envisages a GSM mobile telephone in which a line of icons is displayed on a display. As a user navigates through the displayed line of icons, the positions of the icons alter so that the selectable icon moves to the head of the line. This appro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284209 | Managing position and size for a desktop component In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the d... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284206 | Image processing apparatus, its control method, and storage medium An object of this invention is to process image data in which a plurality of link destinations are set in one region. Another object of this invention is to allow the user intuitively to recognize the setup states of links, since link regions have different display ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272800 | Message analysis device and method for displaying messages A message analysis device is described including a storage device, display device, and a selection device. The storage device can be used to store messages in a file in chronological order, and the a display device can be used to display at least one first and one s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7248248 | Pointing system for pen-based computer A secondary input system for a pen-based computer allows users to control a graphical user interface without the use of a stylus. The secondary input system may be in the form of a pointing system. A display surface may be attached to a housing in which the display ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243309 | Interface accelerator To facilitate interface navigation, accelerator keys are assigned to links within the interface. If the interface is a web browser, for example, accelerator keys may be associated with link elements, e.g., URLs, images, objects, scripts, etc., linking to a resource.... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234119 | Device and method for editing processed data input A portable electronic device (100) and method (400) is capable of editing processed data input. The portable electronic device (100) comprises a display area (224) and a processor (206) coupled to the display area. The device colle... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228188 | Recording and reproducing apparatus and a method thereof The present invention comprises a communicating means to communicate with external device providing content, a storage medium retaining the content capable of recording and reading the content, recording and reproducing means which record the content obtained by mea... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7216303 | Menu emulation for content browser clients A network distributable emulated menu. The menu can include one or more composite images, each image including menu text and a graphical icon, the icon denoting a selectable menu; one or more selectable form-based input elements, each element encapsulating one of th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209985 | Input information processing apparatus, method and program There are provided, on the POS device unit side, a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical keys arranged thereon; a screen keyboard comprising a plurality of screen keys arranged and displayed on a screen having a touch panel arranged thereon adjacent the p... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200803 | System and method for visually categorizing electronic notes Described is a mechanism for visually categorizing electronic notes so that important information within the notes can be easily discerned. More specifically, a user may request to categorize an object (i.e., a note) in a document that is being displayed on a screen... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193634 | Image transferring apparatus and method, file transferring apparatus and method, and program storage medium Disclosed is an image transferring apparatus for transferring an image displayed by a first program to a second program. The image transferring apparatus comprises: image copying means for storing a copy of the image into a predetermined temporary storage area; and ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194699 | Animating images to reflect user selection Images displayed on a display device are animated to reflect a user's selection of the images. According to one embodiment, the displayed images include keyboard characters that are selected when the user touches the display at the locations of the display where the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190369 | Application programming interface for changing the visual style A method of communicating between a graphical component library and an appearance manager is provided that includes issuing a request, that includes component defining parameters, for rendering services by a graphical component library. The appearance manager receiv... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191408 | Display control system to view intended pages A display control system for easy viewing of intended information. A display control means of a server computer controls, when the cursor of a display means of a personal computer is brought to one of plural items of information constituting a second group of items ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171903 | Ratioing algorithm for a label printing system using plates A system and method of producing labels at remote locations worldwide in communication with a server and central database via the internet is shown and described. The present invention accommodates vastly different printing methods including thermal printing, lithog... | 02/06/2007 |
