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7631278 System and method for directional focus navigation  
A system and method for improved directional focus navigation in a user interface is provided. The directional focus navigation engine may receive directional input for changing the input focus of...
7624358 Mouse radar for enhanced navigation of a topology  
A system and method for enhancing navigation of a topology within a visual display. A system is disclosed including: a system for displaying an enhanced mouse pointer in a current view, wherein the...
7605804 System and method for fine cursor positioning using a low resolution imaging touch screen  
A system to position an element on a visual display is provided. The disclosed system comprises a touch detection module that detects a touch upon a touch-sensitive surface of a visual display....
7574678 Pointer movement display for selecting desired available object  
A right link of each button to be displayed on a display device is set in such a way that the position of an anchor moves through all the buttons from the left to the right. In response to an...
7573462 Image display apparatus, multi display system, coordinate information output method, and program for implementing the method  
An image display apparatus which is capable of operating smoothly over a plurality of image display devices. When a pen has come into continuous contact with a first display screen, a system...
7523418 Techniques for choosing a position on a display having a cursor  
Techniques are provided for choosing a position on a display having a cursor. In one aspect, an exemplary method, which can be computer-implemented, includes the steps of automatically moving the...
7509593 Mouse sound volume control  
A distance between a cursor and an object displayed on a Web page or other image automatically controls a volume with which an audio file associated with the object is played. A user can thus...
7486274 Method for stabilizing and precisely locating pointers generated by handheld direct pointing devices  
The invention provides a method to stabilize a pointer displayed within an output image. The method enables the user to magnify selected areas within the output image. This allows the user to...
7405733 Spline drawing in a computer-implemented graphics program  
A computer-implemented graphics program for drawing a spline. The spline is drawn using a first method in the graphics program. Thereafter, the graphics program seamlessly switches from drawing the...
7395515 Method and apparatus for screen object manipulation  
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for manipulating screen objects utilizing multiband regions of influence. Positioning a reference point of an object within a particular band...
7394453 Method for scrolling and edge motion on a touchpad  
A method of using capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a plurality of zones on a surface thereof, wherein detection of a finger within one of the plurality of zones...
7383517 System and method for acquiring a target with intelligent pointer movement  
The present invention is generally directed to assisting users to position a pointer on a target. Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer-readable medium that...
7327347 Image classifying systems and methods  
Methods and systems for classifying images, such as photographs, allow a user to incorporate subjective judgments regarding photograph qualities when making classification decisions. A slide-show...
7302649 Operation method for processing data file  
In an operation method for processing data file of the present invention, reduced-size images and file icons of small area associated with the reduced-size images are displayed in pairs at...
7293246 System and method for aligning objects using non-linear pointer movement  
The present invention provides a system, method, and computer-readable medium that adjusts pointer movement when an input device causes the pointer to intersect one or more alignment areas. Pointer...
7260789 Method of real-time incremental zooming  
a method for navigating a pointer on a graphical user interface (GUI) includes the steps of: scrolling an input device to locate the pointer corresponding to the input device on a point of interest...
7254775 Touch panel system and method for distinguishing multiple touch inputs  
Touch panel systems and methods are disclosed that can distinguish temporally overlapping touch inputs from single touch inputs so that valid touch position coordinates can be determined. Touch...
7240299 Method for improving usage of a graphic user interface pointing device  
A two part method for improving the usage of a pointing device by a physically impaired user is disclosed. A first method is provided for learning how a user moves the pointing device by acquiring...
7193609 Constraining display motion in display navigation  
Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of...
7194702 System method apparatus and software for minimizing unintended cursor movement  
A system for minimizing unintended cursor movement in computer display systems, using GUI operating systems or software, that can result from such things as muscle spasms, or rough travel is...
7148892 3D navigation techniques  
A system and method is provided for facilitating navigation techniques in a three-dimensional virtual environment. The present invention couples input driving techniques to the state of one or more...
7073138 Method and apparatus for cursor positioning in bi-directional text  
A cursor is moved through regions of text 300 having differing directions to a location visually adjacent to a previous cursor location. The cursor is moved in the direction of requested cursor...
7042449 Push-tumble three dimensional navigation system  
The present invention relates to a system of interactive navigation of a tool relative to three-dimensional volumetric data. The tool may be a camera or a brush and the volume data may be points,...
7016941 Web-site host consistency administration among inconsistent software-object libraries of remote distributed health-care providers  
A method of Web-site host consistency administration provides for consistent presentation of data despite presentation on client machines with inconsistent software-object libraries. The host sends...
6971071 System and method for implementing an image ancillary to a cursor  
A system and method to display an ancillary image which is movable with a cursor image. A cursor image indication is obtained which is indicative of the cursor image. An ancillary image indication...
6961911 DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA AS A COMBINATION OF THREE SECTIONAL IMAGES, RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH A COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM IS SAVED FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD  
A method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional CT (Computed Tomography) data as a combination of three sectional images defined by an X-section, a Y-section and a Z-section orthogonalizing...
6954899 Human-computer interface including haptically controlled interactions  
The present invention provides a method of human-computer interfacing that provides haptic feedback to control interface interactions such as scrolling or zooming within an application. Haptic...
6907574 System and method of hyperlink navigation between frames  
A system and method for navigating between hyperlinks and frames on a Web page within a Web browser in a client system in communication with one or more server systems. A plurality of hyperlinks...
6889365 Terminal operation apparatus  
The terminal operation apparatus of the present invention is used for an electronic conference and the like, in which an operated terminal having a shared screen is remotely operated through a...
6856333 Providing a user interactive interface for physically impaired users dynamically modifiable responsive to preliminary user capability testing  
Enhancing access for physically impaired users to selectable items in a hierarchical arrangement through the preliminary testing of a user response time in moving a user controlled on-screen...
6857128 Electronic programming guide browsing system  
An electronic programming guide (EPG) browsing system and method for its operation are disclosed. A viewer navigates this EPG using traditional up, down, left, right commands. But unlike the prior...
6781571 Method and system for selectively controlling graphical pointer movement based upon web page content  
A method and system for selectively controlling mouse movement speed during movement within a particular web page or display window based upon a user's prior experience within that web page or...
6765598 Method and apparatus for enabling selection in an on-screen menu  
A method and apparatus for selecting an on-screen menu is provided. In the method, the speed of movement of a pointer between icons of different levels is made faster than the speed of movement of...
6683626 Focus-based scrolling  
Scrolling through one or more focusable and/or non-focusable items may be accomplished by: scrolling the display a set number of pixels in said direction if the cursor location is on a...
6678865 Method for adding a cell to the side of an existing table in a document  
A method and system for inserting a table over text, for splitting a cell with text into two or more cells, for converting a bordered paragraph into a table, and for adding cells to a table. A...
6677928 Method and system for improved communication between human and computer  
System for controlling a marker on data screen using a pointer tool, the pointer tool comprising an indication device for tactile feedback to the user for transferring information about the...
6664989 Methods and apparatus for graphical display interaction  
The present invention includes systems and methods which overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by providing improved control of cursor commands directed by a user (such as a pilot). Various...
6620206 White space equalization around features placed on a page  
A method for the equalization of white space around multiple placements of photographs or other placement items with optional, associated captions on a medium such as a page or a computer screen....
6587132 Method and system for efficiently navigating a text entry cursor provided by a mobile device  
Improved approaches are disclosed for efficiently navigating a cursor to an edit location within previously entered text so that the text can be edited. These improved approaches enable users to...
6583801 Data processing apparatus utilizing proximity sensing to determine whether user's hand is within predetermined distance  
An array of user-operable controls and a proximity sensing apparatus are contained in an apparatus wherein the proximity sensing apparatus detects whether a user's hand is within a predetermined...
6577296 Fixed cursor  
A cursor which is fixed at a point in a display screen, where navigational controls move the contents of display screen rather than the cursor. Preferably the cursor is used in conjunction with...
6518983 Display of messages from a plurality of processes running in parallel  
A method is provided which allows the display of messages, and particularly error or fault messages, from a plurality of user applications in data processing (processes) which are running in...
6489981 Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for processing screen pointers in a display  
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing a first screen pointer and a second screen pointer in a viewable screen area, where the first screen pointer moves in response to user...
6466197 Method and apparatus for driving pointing device of computer system  
A method for driving a pointing device of a computer system is provided. In the method, a pointer is positioned in a user interface area for performing a specific command such as an icon, a menu...
6421828 Program guide display controller and television receiver  
A cursor can be moved quickly between program guides which are adapted to contents set by a user on a program guide screen. There are provided a display control unit for displaying a plurality of...
6392675 Variable speed cursor movement  
A method, a front-of-screen graphical display system, and a computer program product for controlling the speed sensitivity of a GUI cursor. GUI objects, such as icons, occupy predetermined areas of...
6392674 Pointer mark display controller, display control method, display control system, and its storage medium  
A method and an apparatus for displaying a pointer mark preferable for an application to a presentation system and the like. With a reference point on a display screen being preset, when an...
6339440 Method and apparatus for positioning a cursor  
A method for positioning a cursor ( 20 ) on a display ( 16 ) includes receiving a store signal from a user input arrangement associated with a computer system ( 10 ). In response to the store...
6337702 Method and system for graphically indicating a valid input within a graphical user interface  
A data processing system and method of graphically indicating a valid input are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a graphical display including one or more regions is displayed...
6266043 Apparatus and method for automatically positioning a cursor on a control  
A method and apparatus for managing controls on the screen of a computer controlled display. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides for quick and efficient activation and...
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