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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135736 | Content providing system, content providing apparatus and method, content distribution server, and content receiving terminal A content providing system includes a content distribution server and a content receiving terminal connected to each other through a communication channel. The content receiving terminal includes an operation input unit specifying one point on a line, a time informa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135700 | Content providing system, content providing apparatus and method, content distribution server, and content receiving terminal A content providing system includes a content distribution server and a content receiving terminal connected to each other through a communication channel. The content receiving terminal includes an operation input unit specifying one point on a line, a time informa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8086970 | Address range viewer The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for a graphical user interface for managing a plurality of internet protocol ranges. A plurality of internet protocol ranges are displayed in a control area.... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8056016 | Method and mobile communication terminal for changing the mode of the terminal Disclosed is a mobile communication terminal and a method for changing modes of the terminal, which changes a mode of the mobile communication terminal according to a location of a changed menu bar if a menu bar displayed on a touch screen is dragged and dropped. | 11/08/2011 |
| 7941764 | System and method for assigning user preference settings for a category, and in particular a media category A system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the media category fields is disclosed. A subset of fields for a media category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset o... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934169 | Graphical user interface, electronic device, method and computer program that uses sliders for user input A graphical user interface including a first slider having a first widget that is movable by a user along a first track and a second slider, integrated within the first widget, wherein the second slider has a second widget that is movable by a user along a second tr... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7921109 | Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference theret... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7873917 | Locking relationships among parameters in computer programs Some embodiments provide a method for locking in a mathematical relationship between a set of at least two parameters in a computer program. The method selects a first parameter. The method defines a mathematical relationship that ties the value of the first paramet... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7805685 | Method and apparatus for displaying a gain control interface with non-linear gain levels A method for displaying a gain control interface having a gain level display with non-linear gain levels. The gain level display has a first end having an associated first pixel offset value and a second end having an associated second pixel offset value. A range of... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7779368 | Systems and methods for presenting managed data Systems and methods for presenting managed data from one or more applications are invented and disclosed. A data storage management system comprises a data store, a data storage manager, and a graphical user interface. The data storage manager is communicatively cou... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774718 | Time handle in a media diary application for accessing media files A media management application implemented in a digital device that incorporates a media handle. The media handle is moveable within a display to provide the user of the application with viewable access to media file representations or calendar events. The media han... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765491 | User interface widget for selecting a point or range A technique for selecting and/or displaying an exact point or a range is provided wherein a slider widget comprising a thumb with a left edge and a right edge lying in proximity to the left and right edges of the thumb is provided such that a user may utilize the wi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7716602 | Accessible markup language defined slider control An accessible markup language specified slider control. A slider control which has been configured for rendering in a content browser in accordance with the present invention can include a script controlled slider track; a markup language specified text input field;... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698657 | System and process for presenting search results in a histogram/cluster format A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7657845 | Media frame object visualization system The present invention provides a unique system and method for facilitating browsing, sorting, clustering, and filtering any number of media objects grouped together in a quick and easy manner. In particular, the invention involves annotating the media objects, which... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7562310 | Slider control movable in a two-dimensional region for simultaneously adjusting values of multiple variables The invention concerns methods and apparatus for generating and controlling a slider control for simultaneously changing values of two variables. In the methods and apparatus of the invention a graph having two axes is displayed, wherein the axes correspond to first... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7523417 | Changing display of data based on a time-lapse widget A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, display a time-lapse widget having time indicators associated with times. In an embodiment, each of the time indicators represents a relative ranking of changes to data at the times, and ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519922 | Technique for effectively aiding a user to park a vehicle In a control and management system for automobiles, a central processor in the system connects traditionally unrelated vehicle subsystems together to realize synergistic functions such as smart driving, automatic parking, etc. A master interface having a display is ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7496857 | Systems and methods for relating events to a date or date range selection Systems and methods for selecting a time/date, or a range of times/dates are provided. In one aspect, systems and methods having non-linear timeline UI mechanism(s) for selecting a date, or selecting a date range, are provided. In recognition that user interaction w... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7434170 | Drag and drop metadata editing A method and system for modifying metadata of one or more media files via a drag and drop operation. A media library stores one or more media files. A graphical user interface displays the one or more media files in the media library via a display. The graphical use... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424686 | System and method for selecting a setting by continuous or discrete controls A method and apparatus for selecting a setting within a selected view mode for displaying one or more items in a screen display. Continuous and discrete controls are simultaneously presented to the user. Input is accepted from either the continuous control or from t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421665 | Node scrollers Techniques employed in displays of graphs with large numbers of nodes for viewing details of an area of interest while preserving context. The techniques take advantage of parent-child and sibling relationships. Sibling nodes and children of sibling nodes are displa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7380216 | Zoom-capable scrollbar A graphical user interface displays a coarse control scrollbar to provide a user with coarse resolution sequential data control and a magnified view scrollbar proximate to the coarse control scrollbar. The magnified view scrollbar provides the user with fine resolut... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376469 | Methods and apparatus for implementing manual and hybrid control modes in automated graphical indicators and controls The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for enabling manual control over selection of a value for at least one operating parameter of a computer system resource. Manual control is enabled by de-coupling a pointer of a graphical indicator and control fro... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370286 | Accessible markup language defined slider control An accessible markup language specified slider control. A slider control which has been configured for rendering in a content browser in accordance with the present invention can include a script controlled slider track; a markup language specified text input field;... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368653 | Electronic musical apparatus and program for controlling the same An electronic musical apparatus in which operators for changing pages on a musical instrument function-related screen and history pages on a Web screen are shared, so that those pages can be changed using similar operating systems to improve the userfriendliness. A ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366307 | Programmable interface for fitting hearing devices A graphical interface is provided to select parameters for fitting a hearing device. The graphical interface provides means visually representing and controlling values of these parameters using a common reference axis for multiple parameters related by a programmab... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363584 | Method and article for interactive data exploration A markup programming technique is described which directs a rendering agent to display at least two charts at the same time and, in response to a cursor operation over one of the charts, to replace the other chart. The cursor operation need not be a mouse click and ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7340691 | Method, system, and program for accessing calendar information for shadowed users from a database Provided is a method, system, and program for accessing calendar information of users in a database for presentation by a personal information manager. Scheduled event records for users are maintained within the database. Further maintained in the database is inform... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333120 | Zooming controller A method and device for accessing a broad data field having a fine resolution. The user selects a scale which can be varied. The scale controls a range within the data field. By moving the range to encompass different portions of the data field, the user can scan th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328412 | Method and apparatus for displaying a gain control interface with non-linear gain levels A method for displaying a gain control interface having a gain level display with non-linear gain levels. The gain level display has a first end having an associated first pixel offset value and a second end having an associated second pixel offset value. A range of... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324924 | Curve fitting for signal estimation, prediction, and parametrization A method and system of automatically curve fit data series to generate data signal characterization and prediction is disclosed. The method includes receiving input data including a plurality of data series and set of input parameters. The method also includes prepr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321390 | Recording medium management device and digital camera incorporating same A digital camera showing on a display a graphical user interface having a first display portion for inputting priority ratio of high speed in access to an external memory card to recordable capacity in formatting the external memory card, a second display portion fo... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315984 | User interface for presenting media information A user interface and methods for using a user interface for controlling processing of time-based media files. In one exemplary method, a graphical representation of a time line for a time-based media is displayed along with a graphical representation of a current ti... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308653 | Automated scrolling of browser content and automated activation of browser links An automatic scrolling mechanism that converts the passive browser/web/computer media or any other information repository into an active media that can actively present and “push” information to the users/viewers while retaining the browser/web media's existing ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305625 | Data networking system and method for interfacing a user An interface is provided for data networking. Included is a network browser window associated with a network browser for displaying content associated with uniform resource locators (URLs) during network browsing. Also displayed is a plurality of identifiers adjacen... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302111 | Graphics engine for high precision lithography The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298383 | Method and user interface for modifying at least one of contrast and density of pixels of a processed image An image which has been subjected to image processing wherein contrast amplification and density can be specified independently is displayed on a display screen. The contrast of all pixels in the displayed image is changed upon movement of an indicium in a first dir... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298373 | Method and user interface for modifying at least one of contrast and density of pixels of a processed image An image which has been subjected to image processing wherein contrast amplification and density can be specified independently is displayed on a display screen. An initial density level is specified. The contrast of pixels in the displayed image having a density su... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296062 | Method for generating a presentation for re-locating an information page that has already been called In a method for generating a presentation for re-locating an information page that was already called proceeding from a home page of an information vendor, and which has been exited in the meantime, the home page being able to be called via the Internet, and an intr... | 11/13/2007 |
