30th week of 2018 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20180210598 | FORCE SENSING BEZEL TOUCH INTERFACE - A handheld device includes an electronic display having an active area for presenting visual content and a bezel disposed around the electronic display. The bezel may have an opening allowing a person to view the active area. The handheld device also includes a force sensing system having a force sensing element that is disposed below an external surface of the bezel. The force sensing system may be configured to a sense a force on the bezel and to generate a sensor signal indicative of the force. The handheld device may further include a processor operable to receive the sensor signal and to execute a function based on the sensor signal. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210599 | TOUCH PRESSURE SENSITIVITY CORRECTION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A touch pressure sensitivity correction method may be provided that includes: defining a plurality of reference points on a touch sensor panel; generating a reference data for a capacitance change amount sensed by applying the same pressure to the plurality of reference points; generating an interpolated data corresponding to a capacitance change amount for a random point present between the plurality of reference points; calculating, on the basis of the reference data and interpolated data, with respect to the reference points and the random point respectively, a correction factor for correcting a sensitivity of a touch input device to a target value; and correcting uniformly for the touch pressure sensitivity of the touch input device by applying the calculated correction factor to each corresponding point. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210600 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a display panel including a display area including at least a partially curved surface area; a touch sensor overlapping the display area to acquire touch information on a touch of a user; a pressure sensor to sense a pressure of the touch; and a controller configured to perform user authentication by controlling the display panel, the touch sensor, and the pressure sensor, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of sensor pixels that senses a change in capacitance corresponding to the touch, wherein the pressure sensor includes: a first electrode; a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode; and a pressure sensing element provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210601 | PRESSURE SENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pressure sensor and a display device are described. The pressure sensor includes a plurality of pressure units. Each of the pressure units includes four resistors having substantially the same resistance value. The four resistors form a Wheatstone bridge. Two resistors of the four resistors form a first resistor group. The other two resistors of the four resistors form a second resistor group. Orthogonal projections of electrodes of the two resistors of each of the resistor groups at least partially overlap in a direction perpendicular to a plane on which the pressure units are located. Extension directions of electrode patterns of the two resistors of each of the resistor groups are different. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210602 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including a bottom cover, a window disposed on the bottom cover, a frame disposed between the bottom cover and the window, a display panel disposed between the frame and the window, a bracket disposed between the display panel and the frame, and a pressure sensing portion disposed between the bracket and the display panel, in which the frame includes a base portion disposed between the bottom cover and the bracket, a first support portion protruding from an edge of the base portion toward an edge of the window, and a second support portion protruding from the first support portion, disposed between an edge of the bracket and the base portion, and spaced apart from the base portion. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210603 | TOUCH SENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A touch sensor includes sensor pixels which provide output currents which change in response to a touch made by a user, a sensor scan driver coupled to the sensor pixels through sensor scan lines and supplies sensor scan signals to the sensor pixels, and a read-out circuit coupled to the sensor pixels through output lines, and senses a touch using the output currents. The sensor scan driver changes a scheme for supplying the sensor scan signals depending on a fingerprint sensing mode and a touch sensing mode. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210604 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display device for a vehicle may include a display panel configured to display an image and a touch sensor configured to sense a touch of a user and generate touch information about the touch. The touch sensor may be operated in a first mode or a second mode. The touch information may include first information about a fingerprint of the user, second information about a position of the touch, and third information about movement of the touch. When the touch of the user is sensed, the touch sensor may operate in the first mode and generate the first information. When the generation of the first information is completed, the touch sensor may operate in the second mode and generate the second information and the third information. The power and the ignition of the vehicle may be controlled using the touch information. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210605 | INPUT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INPUT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An input device for a vehicle includes a determiner to calculate a correspondence position corresponding to the position of an input operation in a display unit, and to determine a content of the input operation; and a controller to control displaying an object depending on a determination result of the determiner, and to overlappingly display a selection image to select an object at the correspondence position. When the selection image is overlappingly displayed with an object whose selection items are consecutively replaced and displayed by the input operation, if the position is moved without a preceding press or long press operation, the selection item to be displayed is changed by a predetermined count in the moved direction of the position; or if the position is moved after a preceding press or long press operation, the selection item is consecutively changed proportionally to the moved amount of the position. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210606 | TOUCH CONTROL PANEL, TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TOUCH POINT - A touch control panel ( | 2018-07-26 |
20180210607 | MULTIPLE THRESHOLD MOTION TOLERANCE TO FILTER COORDINATE JITTER IN TOUCH SENSING - A touch screen controller includes input circuitry receiving touch data from a touch screen, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines first coordinates of a touch at a first time, based upon the received touch data. A first threshold window is set about the first coordinates, with the first threshold window having a central point at the first coordinates, and a second threshold window is set about the first coordinates, with the second threshold window having a central point at the first coordinates and being larger than the first threshold window. Second coordinates of the touch are determined at a second time, based upon the received touch data, and where the second coordinates are not within the first threshold window but are within the second threshold window, the second coordinates are corrected based upon a distance between the second coordinates and the central point of the second threshold window. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210608 | PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS AND PANEL DRIVING SYSTEM INCLUDING RESET FUNCTION - The present disclosure relates to a panel driving apparatus, in which a touch driving circuit determines whether there is a fault therein, using frame signals received to a data driving circuit, and when it is determined that there is a fault in the touch driving circuit on the basis of a fault signal, a touch data processing apparatus automatically recovers the touch driving circuit by outputting a reset signal. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210609 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CALIBRATION METHOD AND CALIBRATION PROGRAM - A terminal device such as a smartphone displays a first image on a display unit, and outputs a second image including the first image as a part to a display device such as a navigation device. Also, the terminal device obtains relative position information indicating a relative positional relation of the first image with respect to the second image from an external server. When a user makes a touch input to the second image displayed on the display device, the input position is transmitted from the display device to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains the conversion necessity information indicating whether or not the input position on the second image needs to be converted based on the relative position information, and converts the input position on the second image to the input position on the first image based on the relative position information when the conversion is necessary. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210610 | MULTIPLE CORRELATIONS IN A TOUCH SENSOR - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to touch input detection in a touch sensor. One example provides a method comprising establishing a first reference sequence, starting with a first set of candidate reference sequences each differing from the first reference sequence, reducing the first set of candidate reference sequences by applying a rule set to the first set to derive a relatively smaller second set of candidate reference sequences, for each candidate reference sequence in the second set of candidate reference sequences, calculating a touch detection performance score of a combined reference sequence, and configuring at least a portion of a receive circuit to correlate signals to at least one of the touch detection conditions by using the first reference sequence in a combined correlation operation with at least a selected candidate reference sequence from the second set of candidate reference sequences. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210611 | TELEVISION VIRTUAL TOUCH CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a television virtual touch control method and system. The television virtual touch control method is used in a television having a depth camera and includes the following steps: acquiring a human body image having depth information by the depth camera in real time; presetting an area excluding a hand area in a human body area as a reference area; extracting the depth information of the reference area and the hand area from the human body image; defining a virtual touch surface between the depth camera and the reference area at a first predetermined distance D1 from the reference area; and determining whether the hand area touches or penetrates through the virtual touch surface according to the depth information of the hand area, the depth information of the reference area and the first predetermined distance D1. The present invention has the beneficial effects of improving touch sensitivity and enhancing user experience. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY ON MOBILE DEVICES - The invention relates to a system and method of utilising live wallpaper on a mobile device, particularly for advertisement purposes. The system and method are operable to provide dynamic, animated and interactive advertising to mobile computing devices. The advertising is specifically targeted at the user of the mobile device and is presented to the user as live wallpaper when the device is active or as a screensaver when the device is in charging state. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210613 | MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL FOR AIRPORT SERVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL - Disclosed are a display method for a multimedia terminal for an airport service and multimedia terminal. The method comprises collecting user information; classifying the user information into different target user groups on the basis of characteristic attributes of users in the user information; and calling a skin interface that matches a target user group corresponding to the user, and loading the skin interface to a terminal display page of the user. A skin that matches the user can be displayed based on the identity of the user, and another skin that matches another user can be re-loaded along with the identity change of the user so as to meet needs of different target groups and enhance the experience of the users. The skin interfaces are quite user-friendly, so that the satisfaction degree of users is improved. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210614 | HIERARCHICAL, ZOOMABLE PRESENTATIONS OF MEDIA SETS - Media sets may be presented as a media presentation (e.g., a slideshow or a thumbnail set), but many such presentations exhaust the attention of a user, particularly for large media sets. Instead, ratings may be identified that represents the relevance or interest of respective media objects of the media set to the user. These ratings may be identified explicitly by the user or automatically detected (e.g., by assessing image quality or monitoring user interactions with respective media objects). A zoomable media presentation of the media set may first present only media objects having a high rating, and upon zooming in near a media object, may insert, near the zoomed media object, one or more media objects associated with the zoomed media object and having a lower rating. This presentation therefore hierarchically organizes the media set, and utilizes zoom operations as a “drill-down” metaphor within the hierarchy of the media set. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210615 | Tile Interface and Launchpad System - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a tile interface and launch pad system. An embodiment operates by providing a user interface with a plurality of tiles. An indication is received to move a first tile from a first section of the user interface to a second section of the user interface. The first tile as displayed in the first section includes a first selection of information, and tiles of the second section include a section selection of information. The visual appearance of the first tile is modified, and the second selection of information is displayed in the first tile. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210616 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes: a display section of a touch panel type; and a control section performing screen display control on the display section and operating in accordance with touch operation performed on a screen of the display section, wherein the control section generates a virtual button corresponding to an existing button originally arranged at a predetermined position of a screen image of a desired application, arranges the virtual button at another predetermined position of the screen image, causes the display section to display on the screen thereof, the screen image on which the virtual button is arranged, and upon touch operation performed on the virtual button, operates on assumption that touch operation has been performed on the existing button corresponding to the virtual button. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAN INTERACTION, TEAM/PLAYER LOYALTY, AND SPONSOR PARTICIPATION - A system for fan interaction is disclosed including, in some embodiments, a fan-interaction module stored in a memory of a mobile device; a touchscreen display interface; and one or more sensors selected from a touchscreen sensor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a global positioning system receiver. The fan-interaction module can be configured to: 1) provide a notification to a fan that an entity the fan supports is to perform or an event the fan supports is to occur; 2) log an interaction of the fan with the device regarding the entity ready to perform or the event ready to occur; 3) calculate an amount of kinetic energy associated with the interaction; and 4) provide the amount of kinetic energy to a server for combination with a combined amount of calculated kinetic energy for up to all fans of the entity ready to perform or the event ready to occur. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210618 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC MENU GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE LAYOUTS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Certain exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for generating electronic menu (eMenu) graphical user interface layouts for use in connection with electronic devices (e.g., tablets, phablets, smart phones, etc.). A virtual grid-based layout including rows and columns that together constitute regularly sized and shaped grid cells is defined. Input identifying items to be included in the eMenu is received. Each item has associated length and width dimensions corresponding to a number of grid cells. At least some of the items are flagged for inclusion in the eMenu. Those items marked for inclusion are automatically and programmatically arranged in the eMenu in the grid cells of the grid-based layout in a manner that minimizes the number of unused grid cells. A tag-based representation of the layout corresponding to the formatted eMenu is stored. The file is made available to the electronic device in enabling the formatted eMenu to be displayed thereon. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210619 | AUTOMATED USER INTERFACE DESIGN IMPROVEMENT - Systems and methods for automated interface design improvement. The method includes receiving, with an electronic processor, a manifest associated with a first application. The manifest includes an element indicator corresponding to an adjustable-user-interface-element of the first application, an adjustment range associated with the adjustable-user-interface-element, and a user satisfaction criterion associated with the adjustable-user-interface-element. The method includes assigning, with the electronic processor, an initial value for the adjustable-user-interface-element, the initial value being within the adjustment range. The method includes receiving a configuration request for the first application. The method includes transmitting the initial value. The method includes receiving, from the user device, a user success score for the user satisfaction criterion. The method includes generating, with the electronic processor, an adjusted value for the adjustable-user-interface-element based on the user success score. The method includes setting, with the electronic processor, the initial value for the adjustable-user-interface-element to the adjusted value. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATIVE WORK COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and tangible computer-readable storage mediums for tracking collaboration are presented. More particularly, embodiments relate to providing, using a processor, an environment for collaboration between users; and tracking, using the processor, information regarding the collaboration; such that the tracked information includes rights information regarding rights of the collaborating users. Some further embodiments include storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, the rights information. Some further embodiments include determining compensation for at least one user based on the rights information. Some further embodiments include: storing, in a non-transient, computer-readable storage medium, initial content; and storing, in the storage medium, additional content, such that the additional content builds on the initial content. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210621 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SCREEN BY THE SAME - An electronic device may include a display, a memory storing a plurality of objects, and a processor configured to display at least a portion of a scroll page including the plurality of objects on a screen of the display and to, when a speed of a scroll input is a preset value or more while the scroll input is entered to the screen (quick scroll input), display at least one second object corresponding to at least one first object selected from among the plurality of objects. Other various embodiments are possible as well. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210622 | Run Time Integrated Development and Modification System - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an integrated development and modification system. An embodiment operates by providing an application including a user interface component bound to perform a function on data from a data source. A modification of the user interface component is received during a run time of the application. The modification is applied to the application. The application including the modification is provided to the user during the run time of the application. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210623 | VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE - A vehicular input device includes a position detection unit that is disposed within a vehicle cabin, has an operative input surface on which a user performs an operative input, and detects a position of the operative input performed on the operative input surface; a display unit that is disposed within the vehicle cabin; and an ECU configured to display a selection image in an overlaid manner on an object within the display unit in a position corresponding to the position of the detected operative input when the position detection unit detects the operative input. The selection image is used to select the object within the display unit. The ECU highlights the selection image displayed on the display unit when the position of the operative input is detected by the position detection unit, further than when the position of the operative input is not detected by the position detection unit. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210624 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen configured to display an execution screen; a camera disposed in a front of a main body of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to receive a touch input to one end of the touch screen that continuously moves in a direction toward the other end of the touch screen, track a direction of a user's sight line using an image captured in the camera, and display a control screen among any one of first and second control screens comprising different graphic objects based on a point to which the touch input is applied, wherein a display position of the control screen is varied according to the tracked direction of the user's sight line. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210625 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OTHER DEVICES USING THE SAME - Provided is a method of controlling an electronic device by using a remote control device comprising a touch screen, the method including selecting one of a plurality of functions supported by the electronic device via the touch screen, sequentially displaying a plurality of user interfaces, usable for controlling the function selected with an input detected by the touch screen, one-by-one, and controlling the electronic device by using one of the plurality of user interfaces that are sequentially displayed. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210626 | VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE - A vehicular input device includes a position detection unit, a display unit, and an ECU. The ECU is configured to set, based on a movement amount of a position of an operative input, a determination threshold of the movement amount of the operative input used in determination of movement to a next object from a current object to be smaller than a determination threshold of the movement amount of the operative input used in determination of movement to a next second object from the next object. The ECU is configured to display a selection image that indicates selected objects on the display unit on the current object. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING PARTIAL SPACE IN AUGMENTED SPACE - The present invention includes: a targeting unit configured to, when an event by a user's action is generated in a 3D image displayed on a display device, acquire a first subspace of a first three-dimensional (3D) shape corresponding to the user's action; and a refinement unit configured to acquire a second subspace of a second 3D shape, of which position and scale are adjusted according to a user's gesture within a range of the first subspace acquired by the targeting unit. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210628 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION SYSTEM - Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of computer imaging software and systems by facilitating the manipulation of virtual content displayed in conjunction with images of real-world objects and environments. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow virtual objects to be moved relative to a real-world environment and manipulated in other ways. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210629 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF BROWSING NOTIFICATION THEREOF - An electronic device and an operation method of browsing notification thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a body and a touch display. The operation method of browsing notification comprises: displaying a notification image on the touch display when an instruction of sliding along a first direction is received at the touch display, the notification image includes an information display area and an operation area, and the operation area includes a plurality of notification icons; displaying a first notification corresponding to a first notification icon at the information display area when the first notification icon of the notification icons receives a touch instruction at a first position; and converting to display a second notification corresponding to the second notification icon at the information display area when the touch instruction slides from the first position to a second notification icon of the notification icons at a second position. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210630 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes a first reception unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The first reception unit receives a request for display of a plurality of lists. The determination unit determines, when the first reception unit receives the request for display, whether or not it is possible to display all of items in a display area of a display screen in an arrangement direction of the items for each of the lists. The display control unit performs, in sequentially displaying the plurality of lists in the display area, control such that, for the list for which the determination unit has determined that it is not possible to display all of the items, all of the items in the list are displayed once, and then, only some of the items are displayed. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210631 | DIGITAL FLASH CARDS INCLUDING LINKS TO DIGITAL CONTENT - Techniques are disclosed for creating digital flash cards that include links to content from one or more digital content sources, referred to herein as a flash card mode. The mode allows a user to create a digital flash card by selecting a portion of a digital content source and performing a create command. The created flash card includes at least two virtual sides and a first side of the flash card identifies the location of the selected portion of digital content. The location may be identified, for example, by a canonical fragment identifier (CFI). Text can then be entered for a second side of the flash card. Flash cards can be shared with other users, and because the flash cards only identify locations of content within digital content sources, the mode is well-suited to handle sources including digital rights management (DRM) protection, for example. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210632 | METHOD AND ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING AN ULTRASOUND IMAGE WITH A TOUCH SCREEN - An ultrasound imaging system and a method for controlling a diagnostic imaging system are disclosed. The system includes a probe, a main screen, a touch screen and a processor connected to the probe, the main screen and the touch screen. The processor is configured to display an ultrasound image on the main screen, display graphical user interface icons on the touch screen, and to perform a command associated with one of the graphical user interface icons on the touch screen while in a standard mode. The processor is configured to switch from operating in the standard mode to operating in an image-manipulation mode in response to receiving a multi-touch gesture through the touch screen. In the image-manipulation mode, the multi-touch gesture is used to adjust the ultrasound image. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210633 | GENERATING AND PROVIDING THEMES FOR MAPS - A user interface is provided that allows a user to customize features, and attributes of features, of a map displayed by a map application. The features may include roads, buildings, parks, bodies of water, specific types of businesses (e.g., restaurants, drug stores, hospitals, banks), etc. The attributes of a feature may include colors, graphics, and fonts that are used to display the associated feature on the map. The user interface allows the user to customize the attributes and features, and to save the customized attributes and features as a theme. The theme can then be enabled or disabled by the user for a map, and can be distributed or shared by the user through a theme marketplace. The theme marketplace may allow users to browse available themes which may be made available for free or for purchase. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210634 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING CAPTURED IMAGE FOR DISPLAY WINDOWS - A method and device for generating a captured image for display windows displayed on a screen are provided. The method includes determining a first display window to be captured from among a plurality of display windows displayed on the screen, capturing data displayed on the first display window based on a user input, and overlapping a captured image, which is generated by the capturing of the data displayed on the first display window, with the first display window to a size of the first display window, and displaying the captured image on the first display window. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210635 | SMART AUDIENCE PICKER - Various embodiments include a graphical user interface for a social network system. The graphical user interface includes a slider for selecting recipients who may receive communications from a user (or sources who may send communications to the user). Various positions of the slider may correspond to or otherwise constrain the size of the communication recipient (or source) set. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210636 | Methods and Apparatus for Dynamically Updating Drop Zone Data During Flight - A method for computing drop zone data onboard an aircraft is provided. The method obtains, by a processor, current drop zone parameters for an air drop, during flight of the aircraft; receives, by the processor, changes to dynamic conditions associated with operation of the aircraft, wherein the dynamic conditions comprise at least one of wind speed, drop altitude, current temperature, angle of approach, aircraft speed, and number of stages of planned drop; calculates, by the processor, updated drop zone parameters, based on the current drop zone parameters and the changes to the dynamic conditions; and presents the updated drop zone parameters, via a display device. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210637 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF PARAMETER SELECTION THEREOF - An electronic device and an operation method of parameter selection are provided. According to the method, a first parameter adjustment interface is displayed on a touch display. The first parameter adjustment interface includes an inner circular area and a surrounding area surrounding the inner circular area. The surrounding area closest to the touched first position corresponds to a first parameter value. When the object slides from the first position to a second position of the peripheral region, the touch display is switched to a second parameter adjustment interface The selected area of the second parameter adjustment interface displays the first parameter value. When the object slides from the second position to a third position along the peripheral region, the selected area is switched to display a second parameter value corresponding to the third position. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210638 | INTERACTIVE CONTROL OF THE CURVATURE OF LINKS - A link curvature processing module enables a user with the ability to control the curvature of links in a node-link diagram. As a node-link diagram is displayed to a user, the user may interact with the diagram and adjust the curvature of one or more links in the diagram to improve the readability of the diagram. The user's modification to the curvature of a link alters the shape of the link so that the position of the nodes connected to the link does not change. By providing the user with such control, the user is able to tailor the visual display of the links to the user's preference. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210639 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING PHYSICAL KEYBOARD AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SELECTION OF INFORMATION - A method of controlling selection of information on an electronic device including a display and a physical keyboard. The method includes displaying the information on the display, displaying a first selection indicator identifying a start of the selection of information, and a second selection indicator identifying an end of the selection of information, and detecting a gesture on the physical keyboard. In response to detecting the gesture, an associated one of the first selection indicator and the second selection indicator is identified based on a location of the gesture on the physical keyboard. The associated one of the first selection indicator and the second selection indicator is moved within the information based on the gesture, to move the start or the end of the selection of information and adjust the amount of the information included in the selection of information. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210640 | METHODS FOR REPOSITIONING ICONS ON TOUCH DISPLAYS BASED ON CHARACTERISTICS OF TOUCH GESTURES AND RELATED PROGRAM PRODUCTS - Methods and program products repositioning icons on a touch display based on characteristics of touch gestures performed on the touch display. The disclosed method may include detecting characteristics of a touch gesture performed on a touch display of an electronic device, and determining if the detected characteristics of the touch gesture exceed a predetermined threshold. In response to determining the detected characteristics exceed the predetermined threshold, the method may also include selecting a group of icons based on at least one of the detected characteristics of the touch gesture performed on the touch display, or predetermined electronic device data. Additionally, the method may include repositioning the selected group of icons on the touch display. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210641 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MANAGING OPERATIONS AND FUNCTIONALITY OF APPLICATIONS - A method for managing operations of an electronic device and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes detecting an input performed on a first item associated with a first application and displayed on a display screen of the electronic device, wherein the first item is associated with at least one second item associated with at least one second application and performing at least one operation corresponding to the at least one second item associated with the at least one second application based on the input detected on the first item. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210642 | Navigation System - Touchscreen-enabled devices are provided to display images of either real or virtual environments, the devices having user interfaces including a graphical overlay laid over the images for navigating the environments. The device can interpret gestures made by the user on the touchscreen as commands, and the graphical overlay guides the user as to where to make the gestures to achieve intended maneuvers such as translations of the point of view and rotations of the point of view within the displayed environment. The graphical overlay can comprise only a single symbol, and gestures that originate within the area of the display marked by the symbol are differentiated from those gestures originating from outside of the symbol, where the differentiated gestures control translation and rotation, respectively. This allows for one-finger navigation of the environment. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210643 | DATA ENTRY SYSTEMS - A system is described with a plurality of keys, five of the keys representing all of the letters of an alphabet. The five keys are arranged to form two to three rows of keys. A first row includes two of the five keys and a second row includes at least two other keys of the five keys. The keys are hard keys and/or virtual keys. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210644 | DISPLAY OF SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT ON A WEARABLE MOBILE DEVICE - Display of supplemental content on a smartwatch wearable mobile device. A method establishes, on supplemental physical display plane(s) of a smartwatch wearable mobile device, virtual display plane(s). The smartwatch includes a primary physical display plane and the supplemental physical display plane(s). The supplemental physical display plane(s) at least partially surround the primary physical display plane. The method displays primary content on the primary physical display plane and supplemental content on the virtual display plane(s). The method also receives touch sensor input from a touch sensor of the smartwatch and maps the touch sensor input to interface element(s) of the supplemental content on the virtual display plane(s). The method selects the interface element(s) based on the mapping the touch sensor input to the interface element. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210645 | Method, computer program product and device for determining input regions on a graphical user interface - A method and device are described for determining input regions that are affected by a user input at a graphical user interface, GUI. For each input region, the following are associated with one another: (i) an actuation level of the input region, (ii) an allocation of the input region to a region of the GUI, and (iii) a blocking type of the input region. The method includes detecting a user input, wherein the user input is allocated an input position on the GUI. The method additionally includes determining at least one input region that contains the input position. Finally, the method includes evaluating the blocking type allocated to that input region in order to determine whether the user input to at least one lower-ranking input region that contains the input position is blocked. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210646 | EXTENDING SHELF LIFE OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES - Methods, systems and computer program products for extending the shelf life of non-volatile memory devices, aspects of which include detecting that the non-volatile memory device has been disconnected from a power supply and responsively resetting a timer, a first counter, and a second counter and incrementing the first counter and the second counter based on the timer. Based on a determination that the first counter has reached a first threshold value, aspects also include initiating a wireless charging a battery of the non-volatile memory device. Based on a determination that the second counter has reached a second threshold value, aspects also include initiating a refresh of a non-violate memory of the non-volatile memory device. Based on a determination that the refresh of the non-violate memory of the non-volatile memory device has been completed, aspects also include resetting the timer, the first counter, and the second counter. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210647 | PHYSICAL ALLOCATION UNIT OPTIMIZATION - A method for optimizing the allocation of extents to data sets is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing multiple storage classes. These storage classes may include a first storage class configured to allocate larger extents to data sets, a second storage class configured to allocate smaller extents to data sets, and a mixed-mode storage class configured to allocate a combination of the smaller and larger extents to data sets. The method further enables data sets to be assigned to one of the multiple storage classes. Upon assigning a data set to the mixed-mode storage class, the method causes an initial portion of the data set to be allocated the larger extents, and an ending portion of the data set to be allocated the smaller extents. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210648 | ENABLING SCSI COMMANDS THAT ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY A CLIENT TERMINAL - SCSI commands that are not supported by a client terminal can be enabled. In scenarios where the client terminal's operating system may not support the same SCSI commands as the server's operating system, a redirected mass storage device that does support the same SCSI commands as the server's operating system can still be initialized on the server as supporting these SCSI commands. Then, to allow the SCSI commands that are not supported by the client terminal's operating system to be provided to the mass storage device, a client-side proxy can employ a SCSI Pass Through Interface to send the unsupported commands rather than providing them to the client-side disk driver. The proxy may still provide supported SCSI commands to the client-side disk driver for typical handling. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210649 | INPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides an input device capable of communicating with other electronic devices, including a housing, a key module, a communication module and a message prompt module. The key module includes a plurality of keys disposed in the housing. The communication module transmits or receives at least a signal. The message prompt module prompts at least a message. The communication module receives a first signal, and the message prompt module prompts a first preset message corresponding to the first signal. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210650 | VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE MANAGEMENT QUEUE - Embodiments are directed to a method performed by a computing device. The method includes (a) receiving, by the computing device, a stream of storage management commands directed at logical disks hosted by a DSS, the logical disks being accessible to VMs running on a remote host, each storage management command having a command type of a plurality of command types, each command type of the plurality of command types having a respective timeout period, (b) placing the storage management commands of the stream into a VM storage management queue stored on the computing device, and (c) selectively dequeueing storage management commands stored in the VM storage management queue to be performed by the DSS, wherein selectively dequeueing includes applying a set of dequeueing criteria, the set of dequeueing criteria including a criterion that selects storage management commands from the VM storage management queue according to their respective command types. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210651 | NON-WRITING DEVICE FINALIZATION OF A WRITE OPERATION INITIATED BY ANOTHER DEVICE - A method includes sending a read threshold number of access requests to storage units regarding a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes receiving access responses from at least some of the storage units in response to the read threshold number of access requests. The method further includes determining, from the access responses, that writing of the set of encoded data slices to a set of storage units has not been finalized. The method further includes determining whether the computing device can finalize the writing of the set of encoded data slices on behalf of a source that initiated the writing. When the computing device can finalize the writing, the method further includes determining one or more finalization steps for completing the writing and executing the one or more finalization steps to complete the writing of the set of encoded data slices. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210652 | REFERENCE CLOCK SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND CONNECTION INTERFACE UNIT - An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a reference clock signal generation method for a memory storage device. The method includes: receiving a first type signal from a host system; generating a first control parameter according to a frequency of the first type signal; receiving a second type signal from the host system after the first type signal is received; generating a second control parameter according to a frequency of the second type signal; and generating a reference clock signal meeting a first condition according to the second control parameter. Therefore, an efficiency of generating the reference clock signal can be improved. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210653 | PARTIALLY WRITTEN BLOCK TREATMENT - The present disclosure relates to partially written block treatment. An example method comprises maintaining, internal to a memory device, a status of a last written page corresponding to a partially written block. Responsive to receiving, from a controller, a read request to a page of the partially written block, the example method can include determining, from page map information maintained internal to the memory device and from the status of the last written page, which of a number of different read trim sets to use to read the page of the partially written block corresponding to the read request. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210654 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE THAT RANDOMIZES DATA AND RANDOMIZER THEREOF - A semiconductor memory device includes a NAND memory including a plurality of blocks, each of which is a unit of data erasing, and a controller. The controller is configured to select an initial value from a group of initial values, based on an address of the NAND memory in which data are to be written, set a value corresponding to the selected initial value to a linear feedback shift register circuit, randomize the data using an output value of the linear feedback shift register circuit, and write the randomized data to the address of the NAND memory. A size of each of the blocks S is smaller than 2 | 2018-07-26 |
20180210655 | HYBRID MEMORY DRIVES, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND RELATED METHOD FOR OPERATING A MULTI-MODE HYBRID DRIVE - A multi-mode hybrid memory drive comprises a bulk memory device and a removable cache memory device. A controller of the bulk memory device may be configured to operate the bulk memory device in either a stand-alone mode or a hybrid mode responsive to detecting the removable cache memory device being coupled with a cache port of the bulk memory device. A method of operating a multi-mode hybrid drive may also comprise monitoring a cache port of a bulk memory device to determine a presence of a removable cache memory device, operating the bulk memory device as a stand-alone drive responsive to determining the removable cache memory device is not present, and operating the bulk memory device as a hybrid drive using the removable cache memory device as a data cache responsive to determining the removable cache memory device is present. Additional hybrid memory drives and computer systems are also described. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210656 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING PERFORMANCE OF STORAGE APPARATUS - Proposed are a method and a device for managing the performance of a storage apparatus which uses a combination of different types of drive devices which mutually have different limits as its storage medium so that measures can be systematically taken against problems that may arise in the future as a result of the drive devices reaching their limit. Based on a premise of being able to tier two or more types of storage mediums which have mutually different rewriting limits and response performances and migrate data between the respective tiers according to the response performance, a performance management device estimates a decrement of a storage capacity pursuant to each of the two or more types of storage mediums reaching a rewriting limit, estimates a performance influence on the virtual volume and a timing of occurrence, and displays information related to the estimated performance influence and the timing of occurrence. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210657 | SOFTWARE CONTROL OF STATE SETS - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing software control of state sets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes at least an execution unit and a plurality of state registers. The processor is configured to detect a command to allocate a first state set for storing a first state, wherein the command is generated by software, and wherein the first state specifies values for the plurality of state registers. The command is executed on the execution unit while the processor is in a second state, wherein the second state is different from the first state. The first state set of the processor is allocated with the first state responsive to executing the command on the execution unit. The processor is configured to allocate the first state set for the first state prior to the processor entering the first state. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210658 | OPTIMIZING DUAL-LAYERED COMPRESSION IN STORAGE SYSTEMS - Embodiments for optimizing dual-layered data compression in a storage environment. In a data storage system having a primary compressor and a secondary compressor, the primary compressor is selectively used to perform a first one of a plurality of actions on Input/Output (I/O) data while a second one of the plurality of actions is performed on the I/O data by the secondary compressor, thereby reducing latency and improving an overall compression performance while processing the I/O data. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210659 | ALGORITHM METHODOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENT COMPACTION OF OVERPROVISIONED MEMORY SYSTEMS - A method of dynamically selecting deduplication granularity in a memory system to decrease deduplication granularity and to increase hash-table efficiency, the method including selecting one or more deduplication granularities at an application level of an application using the memory system, the one or more deduplication granularities being selected according to features of the memory system, and assigning a memory region corresponding to each of the one or more selected deduplication granularities, where the method may use a memory manager to share memory translation table and hash table, and may be employed by a system that enables using higher capacity pre-allocated counter fields for frequently utilized lines. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210660 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONTIGUOUS MEMORY ALLOCATION - The present disclosure is related to multidimensional contiguous memory allocation. Multidimensional contiguous memory allocation can include receiving an allocation request for an amount of memory that is contiguous in a multiple dimensions of the memory and determining whether the memory includes a region corresponding to the requested amount that is a candidate as being unallocated based on information indicating a maximum number of contiguous unallocated allocable portions of the memory. In response to determining that the memory includes the candidate region, the method can include determining whether the candidate region is unallocated based on a subset of information indicating whether each allocable portion of the memory is allocated. The subset of information corresponds to the candidate region only. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210661 | STORAGE OPERATION INTERRUPT - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for interrupting storage operations. An integrated circuit chip comprising non-volatile memory, the integrated circuit chip configured to, determine a number of portions into which a storage operation is to be split; pause execution of the storage operation from within the integrated circuit chip according to the determined number of portions; execute one or more other storage operations on the integrated circuit chip while the storage operation is paused, each of the one or more other storage operations having a shorter duration than the storage operation; and continue the paused storage operation in response to a trigger. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210662 | MANAGING PROGRAM ACCESS TO STORAGE DATA RESOURCES - Providing access to a data storage resource. A storage subsystem comprising one or more storage address units and is associated with one or more access interfaces is identified. An address-interface correlation guideline is identified that defines a combination of rules that govern which access interfaces are used to access storage address units. A target address unit identification is received from a requesting system. A processor determines which storage address units a requesting system requests to access to based on the received target address unit identification. The target address unit identification is associated with at least one of the storage address units. The requesting system is provided with access to the storage address units using access interfaces that are determined based on a target interface conclusion. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210663 | THIN PROVISIONING OF RAID STORAGE - This invention relates to a storage system, storage system method and computer program product comprising: providing a distributed collection of drives, each drive having logical blocks, each logical block being assignable to a segment with an associated volume and being configurable to RAID characteristics associated with that volume; assigning a first group of logical blocks to a segment with an associated volume and configuring the first group of logical blocks to RAID characteristics associated with that volume; and wherein a further group of logical blocks is ready to be assigned to any segment but is not yet assigned. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A STORAGE SYSTEM - A system and method for managing a storage system may include recording, in a cache memory, data related to user writes to the storage system; setting a time in a next consistency point (NCP) object with a value greater than the current time; and maintaining a first counter related to the number of user writes recorded in the cache memory and that occurred before the time included in the NCP object and after a time included in a consistency point (CP) object; maintaining a second counter related to the number of user writes that were stored in a persistent storage system and that occurred before the time in the NCP object and after a time in the CP object. A system and method for managing a storage system may include initializing the storage system to a consistent state based on the time included in the CP object. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210665 | SUPPORTING MPIO FOR LOGICAL VOLUME BACKED VIRTUAL DISKS - Embodiments include systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation for enabling multipath I/O for logical volume backed virtual disks through redundant virtual I/O servers (VIOSs) on a computing system. The operation generally includes creating, from a physical storage device, a logical volume on a first VIOS. The logical volume on the first VIOS is activated in a first access mode. The operation also includes importing the logical volume to a second VIOS. The logical volume on the second VIOS is activated in a second access mode different from the first access mode. The operation further includes mapping the logical volume on the first and second VIOSs as a backing storage device for at least one logical partition hosted on the computing system. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210666 | Time Shift Retransmission System - Provided is a time-shift retransmission system which is a system that manages communication of a remote sensor connected to a communication line, the time-shift retransmission system including: a) temporary storage means in which measurement values measured according to a sampling schedule by the remote sensor is temporarily stored at a predetermined interval; and b) retransmission means that retransmits the measurement values according to a retransmission schedule with plural different cycles, in which a delay time from the measurement to the retransmission differs according to the cycle, and the delay time is set in a range in which the data amount of a measurement value group that is temporarily stored within the delay time falls within the storage capacity of the temporary storage means. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210667 | EFFICIENT CONTROL OF DATA STORAGE AREAS BASED ON A SIZE OF COMPRESSED DATA TO BE WRITTEN - Management information is provided to control a storage including storage-areas so that each storage-area includes a set of data-areas allocated from each storage-area and each set of data-areas has a data-area size that is a different integer multiple of an access unit of the storage. Logical address information stores information identifying a data-area into which target-data obtained by compressing data has been written, in association with a logical address of the data. Upon reception of the data and the logical address of the data, the apparatus identifies the management information corresponding to a data-area size greater than or equal to a size of the target-data, writes the target-data into an unused data-area of one of the sets of data-areas corresponding to the identified management information, and stores, in the logical address information, information identifying a physical address of the unused data-area in association with the logical address of the data. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210668 | ENHANCED DATA PROTECTION IN DATA STORAGE DRIVES - A data storage device comprises a host interface and a storage control system coupled to the host interface. The storage control system is configured to perform a write process to write data to storage in response to one or more write operations received over the host interface from a host, determine a quality of written data produced by the write process; and in response to when the quality of the written data fails to satisfy one or more quality criteria, obtain data parity information to compensate for the quality of the written data and write the data parity information to storage. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210669 | MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory system includes: a non-volatile memory device for including a first storage region and a second storage region; and a controller for including first and second interfaces for inputting/outputting a data to/from a host, inputting/outputting a first data of the first storage region through the first interface, and inputting/outputting a second data of the second storage region through the second interface, wherein when the first data is programmed in the first storage region, the controller detects a value of the first data, selectively inverts the value of the first data based on the detection result, and program a resultant value, and when the second data is programmed in the second storage region, the controller detects a state of the second storage region where the second data is programmed, selectively inverts a value of the second data based on the state detection result, and program a resultant value. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210670 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT OF METADATA - In one example, write request for input data record that includes input data and metadata associated with input data. If any input metadata are common metadata, and if length of a common metadata group hash formed from combined common metadata is less than sum of lengths of the input metadata that are common metadata, generate a common metadata hash record to include the common metadata group hash and the common metadata. If any input metadata are common metadata, and if length of a common data group hash formed from the common data is less than sum of lengths of the common data, generate a common data hash record to include the common data group hash and the common data. Generate an output data record to include the common metadata and data group hash of the hash records and include input metadata and data not in the generated hash records. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210671 | TRANSIENT COMPRESSION LAYER - A storage device or storage system includes a transient compression layer that is established based on a level of finishedness of the capacity of the storage device or storage system. Data may be compressed and written to the transient compression layer until the capacity is sufficiently finished, after which the compressed data may be destaged and written to the capacity. The transient compression layer may be established on a hard disc media of the storage system or in a SSD of the storage system. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210672 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A management device includes: a determiner that, in a plurality of storage area pools each of that has a configuration including a plurality of storage devices, determines a storage area pool into that a spare storage device is incorporated for adding an area storing data; and a manager that incorporates the spare storage device into the determined storage area pool. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210673 | STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA OUTPUT METHOD FOR STORAGE DEVICE - A storage device includes a storage retaining content data, an input receiving instructions to reproduce the content data stored in the storage and a reproducer outputting the content data to an external reproducing device. The storage retains a table including identification information of the external reproducing device and a data format of the content data reproducible in the external reproducing device. The reproducer includes a notifier notifying reproduction information necessary for the external reproducing device to reproduce the content data before the content data are outputted to the external reproducing device in response to a reproduction instruction, and a data controller acquiring unique identification information for the external reproducing device when the external reproducing device is connected to the storage device and converting the content data into the data format reproducible in the external reproducing device and outputting the content data thereto. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210674 | HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY DIE STACKING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING - Methods and apparatus to provide heterogeneous memory die stacking for energy efficient computing are described. In one embodiment, a Phase Change Memory with Switch (PCMS) die is coupled to a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) die and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) die. CPU checkpointing state data is stored in the PCMS die first before transferring the checkpointing data to a backup media at a later and more extended time. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210675 | HYBRID DRIVE GARBAGE COLLECTION - A garbage collection method comprises selecting one or blocks in a SSD of a hybrid drive for garbage collection; determining a state of data of the one or more selected blocks, wherein the state suggests a location and temperature of data; and executing a garbage collection efficiency and caching efficiency action on the data of the one or more selected blocks based on the determined state. The garbage collection process may utilize the state information provided by the cache layer of the hybrid drive to make decisions regarding data in the one or more selected blocks. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210676 | LAZY MECHANISM FOR PREVENTING UNNEEDED DATA REPLICATION IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments for managing data stored in a tiered data storage system, by a processor device. Upon submission of a workload to a queue of workloads of a workload manager, a set of storage demands included in metadata associated with the workload is received by an optimization policy generator. A current state of each one of a plurality of storage tiers within the storage system is combined with information comprising the set of storage demands to create data scheduling and placement policies such that the optimization policy generator controls which storage tier in the tiered data storage system incoming data is written to while a scheduling logic determines at what time to dispatch at least a portion of the workload. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210677 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided is a storage apparatus including a plurality of storage devices which store data, a controller which executes data input/output processing to the storage devices, and a processor which transmits/receives information with the controller, wherein the controller manages a plurality of different tag numbers by separating the tag numbers into a plurality of groups, and upon receiving a first command from the processor, assigns a tag number belonging to one group among the plurality of groups to the first command, and transfers the first command to a designated storage device, and, upon subsequently receiving an instruction for a chip reset from the processor, executes a chip reset, and, upon subsequently receiving a second command from the processor, assigns a tag number belonging to a group which is different from the group used before the chip reset to the second command, and transfers the second command to a designated storage device. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210678 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A display input device includes a display unit, a display control section, a touch panel, a message control section, and a determination section. When there is a notification item to notify a user during processing of an image forming device, the message control section instructs the display control section on contents of a message. The determination section determines whether a predetermined event has occurred. When the determination section determines that the predetermined event has occurred, the display control section changes a transmittance of a pop-up display. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210679 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - An information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile storage unit including an auxiliary storage area defined therein to save data from a real storage area, and a control unit configured to reduce a tendency for saving data from the real storage area to the auxiliary storage area from a tendency in a first power state based on a transition of the information processing apparatus from the first power state to a second power state with lower power consumption than power consumption in the first power state. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210680 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FIRMWARE UPDATING METHOD OF THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes a session determining section that determines to execute a multipoint session, a first request section that enquires about whether to participate in the multipoint session to other image forming apparatuses, a group forming section that forms a group that participates in the multipoint session including the image forming apparatus and the other image forming apparatuses that have sent a response to participate in the multipoint session when the response to participate in the multipoint session is received from the other image forming apparatuses, and a second request section that enquires about whether to execute the multipoint session to all of the other image forming apparatuses included in the group. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210681 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a printing job generation unit that generates, on a basis of document data, a printing job including data of a printing condition for a printing operation to be executed by the image forming apparatus, a data writing unit that writes, in the external memory, an auto-run program for causing the image forming apparatus to automatically execute the printing operation, and the printing job, and a first controller that controls the data writing unit. The image forming apparatus includes a data reading unit that retrieves the auto-run program and the printing job from the external memory, and a second controller that causes the printing unit to execute the printing operation based on the retrieved printing job, according to the retrieved auto-run program. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210682 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT COMPLIANCE - Systems and methods for bypassing a print dialog box that indicates a print confirmation, a prompt message, or a page preview, by employing a background print applet. The systems and methods may include detecting a print content to be printed by a printer, identifying one or more features of the print content, and determining one or more print settings based on the identified one or more features. The systems and methods may further include initiating the print content to be printed by the printer based on the determined print settings, whereby initiating the print content includes bypassing the print dialog box. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210683 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF FOR PARSING INSTANT MESSAGING INFORMATION - An image forming system and an image forming method for parsing instant messaging information are provided. The system includes a receiver for receiving instant messaging information, a parser for determining a data type of the instant messaging information, a processor for processing the instant messaging information based on the determined data type and converting the instant messaging information into image information recognizable and printable by the image forming device, and an imager for controlling the image forming device to print the image information. The processor includes an imbedded browser, and when the data type is website link, the embedded browser acquires related content corresponding to the link, the processor converts the related content into image information recognizable and printable by the image forming device. The image information is sent to the imager. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210684 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPRATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A mobile terminal device executes an OS including a printing system that supports a first search protocol and a printing function using a first printing method as a standard. If instructions for the use of the printing system included in the OS are provided by the user, the mobile terminal device receives a message conforming to the first search protocol from a printer that has been newly detected via the first search protocol. In a case where the detected printer has been selected, if the printer is determined not to conform to the first printing method based on the contents of the received message, the mobile terminal device activates a function for downloading a plug-in that supports the printer. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210685 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In an image forming system, an image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to start image generation that is based on received print data, and a unit configured to interrupt, according to receiving a notification concerning a printing instruction during execution of the image generation, the image generation and to transmit, to an image forming apparatus, generated image data and interrupted data including command information about a page whose image data is ungenerated. The image forming apparatus includes a unit configured to accept a printing instruction and to notify the image processing apparatus of the accepted printing instruction, and a unit configured to cause an image acquisition unit to acquire image data about all printing target pages using the interrupted data received from the image processing apparatus and to cause an image forming unit to perform image formation that is based on the image data about all printing target pages. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210686 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses to individually store a print job executable with an image forming apparatus, and a management apparatus. Each information processing apparatus includes a first memory to store the print job and first circuitry to transmit, through a network, user identification information identifying one or more users who are allowed to execute the print job. The management apparatus includes a second memory to store association information associating for each print job the user identification information transmitted from the first circuitry and apparatus identification information identifying one of the one or more information processing apparatus storing the print job, and second circuitry to refer the association information and specify apparatus identification information of at least one of the one or more information processing apparatuses, and to transmit a list of information processing apparatuses through the network. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210687 | SYSTEM INCLUDING OPERATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION STORING APPARATUS, METHOD PERFORMED BY THE SYSTEM, AND THE INFORMATION STORING APPARATUS - A system includes an operation device and an information storing apparatus, which are connected via a network. The operation device determines, based on information input from the outside of the operation device in response to an operation performed on the operation device, an electronic device among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the system, for causing the electronic device to input electronic data to the information storing apparatus, and sends, to the information storing apparatus, a first request to cause the determined electronic device to input the electronic data to the information storing apparatus. The information storing apparatus sends, to the determined electronic device, a second request based on the first request sent from the operation device, and stores the electronic data that has been sent from the determined electronic device based on the sent second request. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210688 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information terminal apparatus includes an associating processor, a process execution circuitry, a base detector, and a controller. The associating processor associates each of connection bases with both base identification information and limitation information regarding a data process. The base identification information identifies corresponding one of the connection bases. The process execution circuitry causes an information processing apparatus to execute the data process. The information processing apparatus is connected to at least one of the connection bases. The base detector detects that any of the connection bases becomes a connectable base. The controller causes, when the connectable base is detected by the base detector, the information processing apparatus connected to the connectable base to perform the data process based on the limitation information. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210689 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS - A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions, in response to being activated by an operating system, causing the portable terminal to perform: a first acceptance process of accepting an operation designating one of image forming devices communicable; a first storage process of causing the memory to store a first device ID, as a designated device ID; a second acceptance process of accepting an operation designating contents; and an operation instruction process of transmitting operation instruction information, and the computer-readable instructions, in response to being activated by another program, causing the portable terminal to perform: an acquisition process of acquiring, from the another program, a second device ID for identifying the image forming device; and a second storage process of causing the memory to store the second device ID, as the designated device ID. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210690 | PRINTING SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD - A printing system includes a printing apparatus that stores print data and a mobile terminal. The printing system determines whether or not the mobile terminal and the printing apparatus are in a closer state to each other than a predetermined distance, based on field intensity of a packet. The printing system sets whether to perform printing triggered by the closer state, based on a user operation, and controls the mobile terminal to transmit information to the printing apparatus, if certain conditions are met. The printing system controls the mobile terminal to not transmit information to the printing apparatus even if it is determined that the mobile terminal and the printing apparatus are in the closer state, and controls the printing apparatus to perform printing based on the print data stored in the printing apparatus in a case when the printing apparatus receives the transmitted information. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210691 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, a 2D code detecting unit detects a 2-dimensional code in a document image to be printed. A divisional code distributing unit (a) removes the 2-dimensional code in the document image, (b) divides the 2-dimensional code into a predetermined number of divisional codes, (c) performs a zooming process and/or a rotation process for a part or all of the divisional codes, (d) distributes the divisional codes after the zooming process and/or the rotation process, and (e) generates and outputs a decode key that includes (e1) the number of the divisional codes, (e2) positions of the divisional codes, and (e3) a zooming ratio of the zooming process and/or a rotation angle of the rotation process. A printing device prints the document image in which the divisional codes are distributed. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210692 | SYNCHRONIZING METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICES - A synchronizing method is applied to processors each installed with a control program, a player program and a combination thereof, and display devices each electrically connected to one of the processors. The method includes: defining the control program of one of the processors as a primary control program; defining a system time of the primary control program as a standard time for the player programs; by the primary control program sending a first play command instructing each player program to start playing image data at a time position corresponding to the standard time; by the primary control program sending a state command to instruct each player program to return a first decoding position; and by the primary control program determining, according to the first decoding positions, whether the image data played by one of the player programs is synchronous to the image data played by another one. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210693 | VIRTUAL REALITY REAL-TIME VISUAL NAVIGATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A virtual reality real-time visual navigation method and system includes at least one reality display device and a visual navigation control interface connected to the reality display device. A user may play a virtual reality display screen after wearing the reality display device, and the electronic device has a visual navigation control interface including at least one user screen display area for synchronously displaying a virtual reality display screen played by each reality display device to facilitate a commentator to make a narration through the screen and let users understand more easily. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210694 | PLUG-IN LOAD BALANCING - A digital audio workstation software package is provided with computer readable instructions that, when executed, direct a multi-core processor to perform acts comprising accessing an audio signal. The digital audio workstation software package further includes computer-readable instructions that, when executed, direct the processor to utilize, at least in part, pipeline parallelism to enable a plurality of serially ordered plug-ins in an effects rack to process the audio signal utilizing a plurality of available processing cores to create a processed audio signal. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210695 | BINAURAL RENDERING FOR HEADPHONES USING METADATA PROCESSING - Embodiments are described for a method of rendering audio for playback through headphones comprising receiving digital audio content, receiving binaural rendering metadata generated by an authoring tool processing the received digital audio content, receiving playback metadata generated by a playback device, and combining the binaural rendering metadata and playback metadata to optimize playback of the digital audio content through the headphones. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210696 | Audio Systems and Related Devices and Methods - An audio playback device includes a housing, an electroacoustic driver, and a wireless receiver capable of receiving first and second signals from respective first and second remote control devices. The first signal includes an identification of the first remote control device and an identification of the selected one of the first plurality of preset indicators. The second signal includes an identification of the second remote control device and an identification of the selected one of the second plurality of preset indicators. In response to receiving one of the first and second signals, the playback device is configured to use both the identification of the corresponding remote control device as well as the identification of the selected one of the corresponding plurality of preset indicators in the received signal to select an audio source. | 2018-07-26 |
20180210697 | PERSPECTIVE-BASED DYNAMIC AUDIO VOLUME ADJUSTMENT - Perspective-based dynamic audio volume adjustment. A method obtains multimedia content, the multimedia content including video frames of a scene and audio content for playing in conjunction with display of the video frames. The audio content includes audio portions corresponding to objects in the scene. Based on a selection of a viewing perspective from which to view the scene, the method determines an audio mix for the audio portions given the selected viewing perspective. Determining the audio mix includes determining, for each object of the objects in the scene, a respective audio volume level for an audio portion, of the audio portions, corresponding to the object. The respective audio volume level is based at least in part on a position of the object relative to the selected viewing perspective. | 2018-07-26 |