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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8191011 | Motion activated content control for media system A media system is described including a graphical display that presents an iconic menu and a textual menu. The iconic menu includes a plurality of icons arranged in a two-dimensional collection, where each icon provides access to media content. The textual menu incl... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8166419 | Apparatus and method for navigating amongst a plurality of symbols on a display device A display device is provided for selecting a plurality of selectable symbols on an electronic display. The display device comprises an electronic display that displays a plurality of selectable symbols, a user input control device, and a processor coupled to the ele... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161408 | Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing an energy map A method for providing an energy map may include receiving an indication of status for each of a plurality of individual entities with respect to corresponding priorities defined for each respective individual entity, correlating received indications of status to re... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156447 | Contact sheet generator Implementing a digital contact sheet generator includes receiving input parameters from a remotely located user to create a table. The table includes one or more table cells, each of which comprises a text cell and an image cell. The input parameters define an appea... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151215 | Favorite GUI for TV A favorites GUI for a TV includes a carousel-type display of icons representing user-defined favorites that is overlaid on the current background video of the TV, with the center-most icon being the “current” icon and being enlarged relative to the other icons. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146017 | Declarative data binding and data type propagation in a remote workflow schedule authoring system Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media are provided herein for declarative data binding and data type propagation in a remote workflow schedule authoring system. According to one method, a user interface is provided for binding a parameter in a wor... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8108797 | Integrated content guide for interactive selection of content and services on personal computer systems with multiple sources and multiple media presentation A integrated content guide for multiple sources is provided with hyper-text type links to allow for the selection of various programs. The hyper-text links are provided for a transmitted and then stored digital bit stream. This allows for the embedding within the co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099680 | System and method of contextual pre-tuning A method implemented on a multi-tuner receiver system comprises successively displaying a set of visual cards where each visual card of the set of visual cards comprises a graphical representation. A visual card of the set of visual cards is selected, the visual car... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8069420 | System for controlling the communication of medical imaging data A system for controlling the communication of medical imaging data is disclosed generally comprising a computer, a plurality of sources of medical imaging data and a plurality of destinations of medical imaging data in communication with the computer, and a touchscr... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056017 | Real estate value map computer system A computer system creates and displays a map image based upon a value database associating a plurality of values each with a geographic location in a geographic area and a map program associating each location with a map image location. The computer system assigns o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051387 | Method, computer program product and apparatus providing an improved spatial user interface for content providers Methods, computer program products and apparatus provide an improved spatial user interface for content providers. In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: displaying a plurality of first user interface (UI) objects each corresponding to an indi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046715 | Real estate value map computer system A computer system creates and displays a map image based upon a value database associating a plurality of values each with a geographic location in a geographic area and a map program associating each location with a map image location. The computer system assigns o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8042062 | Computer system with enhanced user interface for images A computer system and method are presented that enhance a user experience when viewing images displayed on the computer. The system includes a user interface for the computer that displays a number of thumbnail images that are small representations of image files ex... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037423 | Apparatus, method and computer-readable medium for organizing the display of visual icons associated with information technology processes A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for enabling the organization, presentation and selection of icons related to information technology processes. In a first version, icons related to individual information technology processes are associated... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028249 | Method and system for browsing large digital multimedia object collections A display system and method for operating a display and a collection of digital multimedia objects are provided. A first selection set of predefined organizational metaphors is presented and a selection of a first organizational metaphor from the first selection set... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024669 | Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus allows a user to quickly find a changed setting value in a list screen after the user changes the setting value of a desired setting item and returns to the list screen. When a rightward direction button is pressed with the list screen bein... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7996789 | Methods and apparatuses to control application programs Methods and apparatuses for controlling application programs are described. A first item and a docking interface having a second item are displayed on a screen space. A selection of the first item is received. A proxy of the first item is positioned over the second ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992103 | Scaling icons for representing files A method and system are provided for displaying icons in accordance with user preferences. The method includes providing a user with a size selection mechanism for selecting an icon size from a range of sizes. The method additionally includes searching a set of stor... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7966577 | Multimedia control center Techniques and systems for centralized access to multimedia content stored on or available to a computing device are disclosed. The centralized access can be provided by a media control interface that receives user inputs and interacts with media programs resident o... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7886225 | Method and apparatus for the creation, location and formatting of digital content A system of translating a first schema of data having one structure or semantics into a second schema of data having a second structure or semantics by using a computer-implemented ontology deconstruction and reconstruction transfer mechanism which automatically cre... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877705 | System and methods for interacting with a control environment A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user int... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861185 | System and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management A system and method for dynamically determining quantity for risk management are described. According to one example embodiment, as a trader positions an order icon at a desired price or price-derivative value on a graphical interface, an order quantity for the orde... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856603 | Graphical user interface An apparatus for selection of characters to be displayed on a display screen. Has input actuators with associated fields containing graphical symbols representing the characters. The user is guided during selection of a character via the display. The selection proce... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853895 | Control of background media when foreground graphical user interface is invoked A contents display control system includes: a media type determination unit configured to determine a media type of selected media contents; a contents display parameter adjustment unit operating to generate at least one adjustment value for at least one display par... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7831930 | System and method for displaying a user interface for a remote control application A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances f... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814435 | Method and apparatus for displaying local brand icons for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system displays local brand icons in such a way that a user not familiar with the local brand icons can tell the types of business that the brand icons represent through graphic representations on a screen of the navigation sy... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7783991 | Image display apparatus and method and image management program Date and time information concerning image files included in the folder is obtained, a time range from the oldest image to the newest image is calculated, and the time range is displayed with folder information. For example, data on shot dates and times recorded as ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761812 | Media user interface gallery control Outputting a user interface having a list of a plurality of representations of media items on a display of a computing device is presented. In one embodiment, a center locking region (CLR) is defined in the user interface and covers a portion of the plurality of rep... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761811 | User interface for assisting in the installation of an asset Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that assists in the installation of an asset in a graphical user interface for a computer system. The method receives a selection of the asset that has not yet been installed on the computer system. It then responds... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752573 | Display controller, display control method, mobile terminal device, and display control program Disclosed is a display controller having: time line display means that includes at least two or more units of time on, of a first display area and a second display area that are formed on display means, the first display area, and that displays a time line manipulab... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739622 | Dynamic thumbnails for document navigation A “Spatial Navigator” provides a document navigation environment that leverages user spatial memory. Graphical thumbnail-type representations (“thumbnails”) provide scaled versions of entire documents. Changes to documents are immediately reflected in corres... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730426 | Visual thesaurus as applied to media clip searching A Visual Thesaurus program is provided that allows a user to find media clips through successive queries by example. Clips similar to the example clip may be retrieved based on artistic style, color and shape, or keywords. Clips retrieved based on keywords may be fo... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7730425 | Function-oriented user interface A function-oriented user interface presents users with selections related to what they want to do, rather than selections related to what tool they want to use. Functions may be dragged onto elements (data objects) or elements may be dragged onto functions to initia... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721229 | Displaying overlaid calendars Displaying calendars may be provided. In response to a first input initiated by a user, a first calendar may be displayed comprising a user's calendar. Next, a second calendar may be overlaid over the first calendar. The second calendar may be displayed transparentl... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716604 | Apparatus with thumbnail display In a thumbnail screen, categories and category thumbnails are disposed and displayed in the depth (Z-axis) direction and in the horizontal (X axis) direction, respectively. When focus is given by a focus to any of upper and lower category thumbnails, which are displ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707517 | Systems and methods for displaying meta-data Techniques are presented to display values for a set of icons by controlling their assignment to a set of rows and their placement within these rows. A plurality of icons to be displayed is determined. An abacus attribute taking a finite set of values is associated ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698658 | Display controlling apparatus, display controlling method, and recording medium A display controlling apparatus which displays icons representative of data in layers on a screen, the display controlling apparatus including: an operating section which, based on operations performed by a user, obtains at least instructions for how to display the ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694235 | Integrated content guide for interactive selection of content and services on personal computer systems with multiple sources and multiple media presentation A integrated content guide for multiple sources is provided with hyper-text type links to allow for the selection of various programs. The hyper-text links are provided for a transmitted and then stored digital bit stream. This allows for the embedding within the co... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7665040 | Information processing apparatus utilizing real image data An information processing apparatus has a first section for specifying a selection range with respect to a real image displayed on a display screen, a second section for acquiring image data corresponding to the real image in the specified selection range, a third s... | 02/16/2010 |
| RE41138 | OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING APPARATUS, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING SUPPORTING APPARATUS, COMPONENT BUILDER APPARATUS, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR USE IN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, COMPONENT STORAGE MEDIUM, AND OBJECT-BETWEEN-NETWORK DISPLAY METHOD As to an object-oriented programming, reuse of softwares is enhanced and running speed is improved. There are made up a data element list in which pointers to data storage areas of object A are arranged and a pointer element list in which pointers to pointer storage... | 02/16/2010 |
