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7603633 |
Position-based multi-stroke marking menus
Provided is multi-stroke marking menu techniques that increase menu breath over an eight-item limit of some orientation-based marking menus. Zone and polygon menus can be provided wherein the...
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7594191 |
Visually presenting information to a computer user
Information is visually presented to a computer user by receiving, in a computer system, a request to present a first visual item representing a first information portion selected from an...
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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...
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7586499 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting the color of a digital image
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for making a color adjustment to a digital image. The system displays a digital image in a user interface. Upon receiving an adjustment to...
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7574672 |
Text entry interface for a portable communication device
A method includes displaying a first tray and a second tray in a display of the portable communications device. The first tray is configured to display one of more characters that were selected by...
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7571393 |
Method for navigation between elements on a page of content in a handheld device
A method for navigating between elements on a page of content using an input in a handheld device. The method includes receiving an input corresponding to a navigation direction, determining an...
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7559036 |
System and method for displaying a constant time selection context menu interface
A system and method are provided for a context menu pop-up interface. In one embodiment, the context menu interface may be activated in relation to a second interface, and may include a plurality...
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7516419 |
Information retrieval device
An information retrieval device, including a jog-dial, a screen, a first level item processing unit to display at least a part of first level information items in a virtual ring segment on the...
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7506275 |
User interface navigation
User interface navigation is described. In an embodiment, an indicator displayed on a user interface rotates in place to indicate selectable directions of travel. When an input is received to stop...
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7502774 |
Ring method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing federated search results in a heterogeneous environment
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for managing federated search results in a heterogeneous environment. A user enters a search term and the search term is submitted to...
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7487147 |
Predictive user interface
A user interface enables the input of text and other complicated inputs by identifying entities having an increased likelihood of being selected and decreasing the precision needed to select these...
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7461355 |
Navigational interface for mobile and wearable computers
The navigational interface allows a user to control computer operations and input text into applications running on the computing system with a single input device. The navigational interface...
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7461354 |
System and method for consolidating associated buttons into easily accessible groups
A method for consolidating associated buttons on a screen into easily accessible groups includes: a control button and at least one other button that appears when the control button is selected,...
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7457772 |
Method and apparatus for interactive criteria-based commodity comparisons
A method and apparatus to remember and attempt to persist relative differences between automatically adjusted current weight values for non-directly adjusted graphic user interface elements,...
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7418671 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation
There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In...
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7404146 |
Input device for portable handset
There is disclosed an input device including a display for displaying a plurality of icons, and a selector for selecting a displayed icon. At least a portion of the display is an electronic...
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7350158 |
Icon display system and method, electronic appliance, and computer program
An icon display system is provided in which an icon train selectable on an icon menu screen is managed by a display icon management table and non-display icon management table to visualize a part...
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7325195 |
Adjustable-speed electronic method of composing information
A method of composing information by electronically advancing a sequence of information elements at controlled speed in an even step-wise fashion into a fixed transfer location while visibly...
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7286115 |
Directional input system with automatic correction
A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object...
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7281219 |
Blended learning experience tool and method
A blended learning solution is defined by determining degrees of elements in learning zones. The zones are defined by the types of interactions of the learners. Both formal and informal learning is...
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7266781 |
Method and apparatus for generating a graphical display report
A method and apparatus for generating a graphical display report. The method includes representing a plurality of events as one or more icons; and positioning the icons inside two or more...
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7266512 |
System and method for establishing business to business connections via the internet
A comprehensive and searchable network of on-line directories of service providers and a method for a user to use this network is disclosed. The network enables a user to obtain or market products...
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7260788 |
List display device
In a list display device, a current item frame being selectively intended at present is arranged in a central zone of a display screen, and precedent item frames and subsequent item frames of the...
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7254785 |
Selection interface system
A user selection interface system comprises one or more circular selectors linked to selectable characteristics, and a display linked to the selectors, for display of an image which corresponds to...
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7246329 |
Multiple menus for use with a graphical user interface
An approach for using multiple menus with a graphical user interface is disclosed. A multiple menu comprises a menu panel with two or more selection regions, each of which is associated with a base...
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7225413 |
Device for controlling a display screen
A device for controlling a display screen has an actuating element which can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and moved in the direction of the longitudinal axis, enabling a point of a menu...
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7210107 |
Menus whose geometry is bounded by two radii and an arc
Sector menus track a pointer's position as a pointing device is moved. Each sector menu is a geometric figure bounded by two radii and an included arc of a circle. Menu items are housed in segments...
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7174516 |
Communication log for an electronic device
A user's communication log for an electronic device, comprising: a first visual reference marker representing the current time; a second visual reference marker representing a past communication...
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7120878 |
Operation control device for imparting force to joystick knob
An operation control device is provided with: a manually-operating unit having a joystick knob capable of intermittently operating in two directions; a knob displacement detector for generating...
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7096431 |
Menu display apparatus and menu display method
A menu display apparatus includes a first display screen on which a plurality of first icons, each representing a selectable item, are sequentially disposed on a main circular arc; and a second...
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7093201 |
Loop menu navigation apparatus and method
A curved-listing file hierarchy and a preview window for more efficiently displaying file hierarchy information on a data processing device. Curved-listing file hierarchies may allow more elements...
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7091964 |
Electronic device with bezel feature for receiving input
An electronic device includes a bezel feature, a connector and a processor. The bezel feature is provided on the front panel and interfaces with the processor. The bezel feature includes a...
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7086012 |
Representation of weighted tree-related elements
A corresponding value is determined for each non-root node in a tree-defined path between a root node and a particular non-root node based on a weight W of the corresponding non-root node, a...
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7058903 |
Image database jog/shuttle search
A computerized system, comprising: manipulating a dial; interacting with software, wherein the dial is interactive with the software for sequentially viewing a plurality of files. Additionally,...
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7043702 |
Method for visualizing user path through a web site and a path's associated information scent
A method and system for visualizing actual and predicted usage patterns through a web site is provided. A plurality of web pages may be represented as a node and visualized on a dome tree. The dome...
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7036091 |
Concentric curvilinear menus for a graphical user interface
A user interface includes a first menu comprising a first set of selectable options circumferentially disposed on the first menu. In response to a selection of an option from the first menu, a...
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7036090 |
Concentric polygonal menus for a graphical user interface
A user interface includes a first menu comprising a first set of selectable options circumferentially disposed on the first menu. In response to a selection of an option from the first menu, a...
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7032187 |
Pen-based interface for a notepad computer
A notepad computer is disclosed with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen. Associated with the page is an interface useable with the pen...
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6920445 |
Contents browsing system with multi-level circular index and automated contents analysis function
Disclosed is a circular index structure. The contents feature analyzer analyzes the contents and stores information about virtual locations to be located on the indexes of the respective contents,...
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6918091 |
User definable interface system, method and computer program product
In a cursor-based computing environment having a display, a user definable interface (UDI) is displayed upon activation by a user. The UDI has a plurality of levels each having a plurality of...
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6856892 |
Navigation apparatus and information server
The navigation system includes an information server apparatus, a terminal apparatus for conducting navigation processing while conducting communication with the information server apparatus, and a...
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6812940 |
Data input
The invention is a method and an apparatus for selecting a character from a predetermined set of characters. An apparatus for selecting a character from a predetermined set of characters includes a...
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6710771 |
Information processing method and apparatus and medium
An information processing method and apparatus free from a defect in a conventional system that complicated processing operations need to be executed before a user selects a desired application...
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6618063 |
Method and apparatus for producing, controlling and displaying menus
A system that combines a radial marking menu portion with a linear menu portion in a single menu display. Item selection in the linear portion is performed by location selection using a pointing...
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6581039 |
Report searching in a merger and acquisition environment
A method of searching for a report in a database including a plurality of items generated by multiple users. Users are allowed to create an item with a plurality of fields. The item is stored in a...
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6549219 |
Pie menu graphical user interface
A graphical user interface includes a plurality of pie menu levels concentrically arranged. Located within the center most section are menu selections generally of greater importance, highest...
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6448987 |
Graphic user interface for a digital content delivery system using circular menus
Menu structures having a balanced, predominantly circular appearance for a graphic user interface (GUI) for a delivery system of multiple categories of digital information content. The menu has two...
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6359635 |
Methods, articles and apparatus for visibly representing information and for providing an input interface
Display and/or input regions to represent a plurality of tree-related elements include a region to represent a root element, at least two concave regions to represent at least two non-root,...
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6239803 |
Method to achieve least effort selection from an item list of arbitrary length
The invention determines the number of items in a list from which at least one item is to be selected. Using the number of items in the list the invention determines the most appropriate number of...
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6236912 |
Process and device for aiding aerial navigation, with display of navigation instruments used
A process and device for assisting aerial navigation. The system affords the pilot of the aircraft greater knowledge regarding the situation which results from automatic decisions of a flight...
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