39th week of 2017 patent applcation highlights part 42 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20170277341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-SENSING - An electronic device includes a sensor configured to sense a touch event in association with the electronic device or a deformation in a physical shape of the electronic device. The sensor includes a first sensor electrode, a second sensor electrode, and a third sensor electrode. The first sensor electrode extends in a first direction. The second sensor electrode extends in a second direction different from the first direction. The second sensor electrode overlaps with the first sensor electrode in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The third sensor electrode extends in a fourth direction different from the second direction. The third sensor electrode overlaps with the second sensor electrode in the third direction. The first sensor electrode, the second sensor electrode, and the third sensor electrode are insulated from one another and are disposed on different layers than one another. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277342 | ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR INTEGRATED IN AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An environmental sensor for an electronic device includes a substrate, a first sensing unit having a first sensor electrode disposed on the substrate, a second sensing unit having a second sensor electrode disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer covering the first sensor electrode, and a cover that is disposed over the first and second sensor electrodes, the cover including at least one hole through which chemical particles pass. The first and second sensing units each sense one of a capacitance-change due to the chemical particles that pass through the hole and then adhere to the insulating layer located on the first sensor electrode and a resistance-change due to the chemical particles that pass through the hole and then adhere to the second sensor electrode. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277343 | ELECTRONIC-BOOK READER DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN A DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - An electronic-book reader device includes a screen that displays a page image of an electronic book; a first sensor disposed on a side face of the electronic-book reader device; a second sensor disposed on a reverse face of the screen of the electronic-book reader device; a determiner that determines a rate of switching display of a plurality of the page images using an amount of input operation via the first sensor and an amount of input operation via the second sensor; and a display controller that carries out continuous page-turning display on the screen by displaying the plurality of page images being successively switched at the rate determined by the determiner. This configuration makes the reader possible to turn pages, feeling as if reading a paper-medium book. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277344 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus capable of reducing the lowering of detection sensitivity is provided. A display apparatus provided with a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form includes: detection electrodes which are in parallel with each other, which are arranged so as to extend in a first direction, and which are connected so as to form a magnetic-field detection coil; and a detection electrode having one end which is arranged inside the magnetic-field detection coil and which is connected to the magnetic-field detection coil, and the other end which is electrically insulated from the magnetic-field detection coil. At the time of each of the magnetic field detection and the electric field detection, an external object is detected based on a change in a signal in the detection electrodes. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277345 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a touch detector including first group electrodes extending in a first direction and second group electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a display unit that displays an image; a display controller that controls the display unit to display the image on the display unit; and a touch detection controller that detects contact or proximity of a detection target object based on mutual capacitances between the first and the second group electrodes. The touch detection controller measures a frame frequency that is a number of times frames are displayed per unit time, to sequentially output touch drive signals having a frequency corresponding to the frame frequency to the first group electrodes, and to detect the contact or proximity of the detection target object based on signals output from the respective second group electrodes. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277346 | TOUCH DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CLUSTER-BASED TOUCH DETECTION - A touch detection apparatus includes: a touch panel including a plurality of sensing nodes; and a touch detection unit configured to perform a hover detection operation on a plurality of clusters in which each of the clusters is configured as any one of the plurality of sensing nodes and at least one sensing node adjacent thereto, and to detect whether a touch occurs on sensing nodes included in a specific cluster based on a result of the hover detection operation. A touch detection method includes: performing hover detection operation for each of a plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising any one of a plurality of sensing nodes and at least one sensing node adjacent thereto; and detecting the occurrence of touch for the sensing nodes in the corresponding cluster based on the result of the hover detection operation. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277347 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING KEY FUNCTIONS OF TOUCHSCREEN TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for switching key functions of a touchscreen terminal are described. The method includes: correspondingly setting a second function different from an original function for each physical key; after monitoring that a preset state of the physical key is enabled, executing the second function of the physical key; and after monitoring that the preset state of the physical key is disabled, executing the original function of the physical key. Based on the characteristics of the existing touchscreen operation and in combination with the characteristic of easy operability of the physical keys, the concurrency of actions of the touchscreen keys and the physical keys is realized. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277348 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSING SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED GUARDING SCHEME AND DEVICES EMPLOYING SAME - A capacitive touch sensing system with improved guarding method employing square wave guarding signal applied to sensors adjacent to sensor of interest such that time-averaged value of signal added due to guarding is completely equal and opposite to the signal due to presence of mutual capacitance from the sensor of interest to adjacent sensors. A touch sensor device, processor with logic for effecting the method, and storage device for storing logic to effect the method are also disclosed. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277349 | TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel includes multiple first touch electrode units and multiple second touch electrode units. The first touch electrode units are arranged in an array in a first direction and a second direction, and the first touch electrode units are insulated from one another in a display region of the touch display panel. Each of the second touch electrode units includes multiple second strip-shaped electrodes electrically connected, and the second strip-shaped electrodes extend in the second direction. At least one of the first touch electrode units is arranged between any two adjacent second strip-shaped electrodes in the first direction. The second touch electrode units are insulated from one another in the display region, and a ratio of an effective width of the second touch electrode unit in the first direction to a width of the first touch electrode unit in the first direction is in a range from 0.8 to 1.2 inclusively. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277350 | FORCE SENSOR RECALIBRATION - Embodiments described herein include a method for calibrating capacitive force sensors. The method includes measuring a force level at each of a first electrode and a second electrode. The method also includes determining an expected force level at the second electrode based on the measured force level at the first electrode and a force contribution ratio for the second electrode. The method includes determining a difference between the measured force level at the second electrode and the expected force level at the second electrode and adjusting a force weighting factor for the second electrode in response to the difference exceeding a predetermined threshold to create an adjusted force weighting factor. The method also includes adjusting the measured force level at the second electrode. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277351 | INTEGRAL SENSING APPARATUS FOR TOUCH AND FORCE SENSING AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - An integral sensing apparatus includes an upper substrate having a first electrode layer with a plurality of polygonal touch sensing electrodes staggered to each other, a second electrode layer having at least one force sensing electrode, a dielectric layer, and a capacitance sensing circuit. In touch sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a touch capacitance-exciting signal to a selected touch sensing electrode and obtains a touch sensing signal therefrom, wherein an auxiliary signal with same phase as the touch capacitance-exciting signal is sent to at least one corresponding force sensing electrode. In force sensing operation, the capacitance sensing circuit sends a force capacitance-exciting signal to the at least one corresponding force sensing electrode and obtains a force sensing signal from the force sensing electrode. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277352 | TOUCH DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOUCH DISPLAY SCREEN - The disclosure provides a touch detection method and apparatus for a touch display screen, wherein a time period for scanning the touch display screen within each frame comprises a display scanning phase and a touch scanning phase, the method comprising: scanning a part of the touch display screen during the touch scanning phase to detect whether there is a touch signal; and reducing a frame rate of the touch display screen and scanning the whole touch display screen when the touch signal is detected. Accordingly, the charging time of the panel is guaranteed while displaying and touch detecting functions are multiplexed. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277353 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPERATOR CONTROL DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A detection device detects a position at which a touch-sensitive operator control unit is touched by an object by detecting a pressure (p | 2017-09-28 |
20170277354 | MULTI-TOUCH DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR - A multi-touch device detecting a touch input by using a passive element comprises: a plurality of driving electrodes; a plurality of detection electrodes; a plurality of impedances positioned at an intersecting point of the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes; and a control unit selecting a first driving electrode and a first detection electrode from the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes, outputting a first voltage on the first driving electrode, outputting a second voltage on at least one of the remaining driving electrodes and at least one of the remaining detection electrodes, and detecting a touch input on a first intersecting point of the first driving electrode and the first detection electrode on the basis of a detection voltage detected from the first detection electrode. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277355 | DETERMINING UNINTENDED TOUCH REJECTION - Examples relate to improving unintended touch rejection. In this manner, the examples disclosed herein enable recognizing a touch on a touch-sensitive surface, capturing a set of data related to the touch, wherein the set of data comprises a set of spatial features relating to a shape of the touch over a set of time intervals, and determining whether the recognized touch was intended based on a comparison of a first shape of the touch at a first time interval of the set of time intervals and a second shape of the touch at a second time interval of the set of time intervals. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277356 | Display - A display includes a substrate, a photo-sensing unit, a sheltering unit and a light source unit. The substrate includes intersecting data lines and scan lines. The substrate has pixel zones, each being defined by adjacent two of the data lines and adjacent two of the scan lines. The photo-sensing unit includes infrared sensors disposed at positions corresponding to the scan lines or data lines. The sheltering unit is made of a material that allows transmission of infrared light therethrough and that blocks transmission of visible light therethrough, and fully covers the photo-sensing unit. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277357 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A display system including an information processing device, a projector (a first projector), and a projector (a second projector) includes a first sensing unit sensing a first event which occurs by an operation of an indicator with respect to an image projected from the first projector; a second sensing unit sensing a second event which occurs by the operation of the indicator with respect to an image projected from the second projector; a replacement unit replacing a set of first event information representing the first event and second event information representing the second event with third event information representing a predetermined third event, in a case where the first event and the second event satisfy predetermined conditions; and a processing unit performing processing corresponding to the third event information. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277358 | DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Each projector specifies coordinates of a position which is indicated by an indicator, and outputs coordinate information representing the coordinates which are specified, and identification information identifying a display position of the image. An information processing device includes a conversion unit converting the coordinate information into coordinate information representing coordinates in a coordinate system of the information processing device on the basis of the identification information. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277359 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SOUND OUTPUT METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and sound output method thereof are provided. The electronic device may include: an input unit comprising input circuitry configured to sense an input from outside of the electronic device; a plurality of piezo drivers including a first piezo driver and a second piezo driver; and a processor functionally connected with the input unit. The processor may be configured to detect an input through the input unit, to use a first piezo driver set including the first piezo driver to output sounds when the detected input corresponds to a first input, and to use a second piezo driver set including the second piezo driver to output sounds when the detected input corresponds to a second input. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277360 | GAZE DETECTION TO PREVENT INADVERTENT KEY GRABBING - A first input of a user is received in a first window. The first window is active. An indication that a second window is active and the first window is inactive is received. In response to receiving the indication that the second window is active, the first input of the user is directed to the second window from a time that the second window became active. The gaze of the user is determined. In response to determining that the gaze of the user is on the second window, the first input of the user is accepted in the second window from a time the gaze of the user is on the second window. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277361 | CONTENT OPTIMIZATIONS FOR A LOCK SCREEN - Approaches are described for determining, updating, and displaying recommended content on a lock screen of a computing device. For example, a lock screen can include recommended content that can display user-specific offers and/or other information determined to be relevant to the user. One of a full-screen template, a banner template, or a notification template can include the recommended content. The recommended content can include selectable elements that, when selected, can cause the computing device to perform an action such as launching an application, providing additional displays, etc. The recommended content can be updated. For example, in response to a lock screen event, such as powering on and off the display screen, recommended content can be updated and provided for display the next time the display screen is powered on. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277362 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FOCUS BOX - A method for controlling a focus box is provided. The method includes: at an electronic device, monitoring slide events of a recycler view; freezing the focus box in a current position when monitoring a beginning of slide of the recycler view; calculating an item of the recycler view corresponding to the current position of the focus box when monitoring an end of the slide; and setting the item of the recycler view in the position covered by the focus box such that the item covered by the focus box obtains a focus. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277363 | AUTOMATIC TAGGING OF OBJECTS ON A MULTI-VIEW INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF A DYNAMIC ENTITY - Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for automatic tagging of objects on a multi-view interactive digital media representation of a dynamic entity. According to particular embodiments, the spatial relationship between multiple images and video is analyzed together with location information data, for purposes of creating a representation referred to herein as a multi-view interactive digital media representation for presentation on a device. Multi-view interactive digital media representations correspond to multi-view interactive digital media representations of the dynamic objects in backgrounds. A first multi-view interactive digital media representation of a dynamic object is obtained. Next, the dynamic object is tagged. Then, a second multi-view interactive digital media representation of the dynamic object is generated. Finally, the dynamic object in the second multi-view interactive digital media representation is automatically identified and tagged. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277364 | USER INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC REFINEMENT OF FILTERED RESULTS - Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. To assist users in accomplishing a search and discovery system and process, electronic devices include a user interface implementing a filter mode in which search results of records are visually presented and dynamically refined to smaller sets of records. Users may interact with the device using touch-screen interactions, representing one example of a user interaction. The user interface may support a user in both entering filter options and applying them to records, while dynamically viewing and scrolling through the resulting filtered records, with multiple interfaces on the user interface remaining operable for user interaction and display of results at the same time. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277365 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR USER APPAREL SELECTION - This disclosure is directed to a control system for user apparel selection. A system may comprise a control device to receive information from at least one sensor in an environment where apparel selection may commonly take place (e.g., closet). The control device may include communication circuitry, user interface circuitry, closet controller circuitry, etc. to receive user sensor data and apparel sensor data from the at least one sensor. Some or all of this data may be provided to at least one external resource such as, for example, an apparel designer, an apparel manufacturer, a feedback accumulation website, etc., to elicit at least styling data. Apparel control logic within the device may utilize the above data along with context data that describes, for example, the event for which the apparel is required, environmental data (e.g., weather), etc. to disposition apparel, suggest at least one piece of apparel to the person, etc. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING USER INTERACTIONS ON TOUCHSCREEN DEVICES - Disclosed systems and methods provide an integrated hypermedia engine (IHE) that monitors and predicts user activity on spawned document windows and spliced network management CLI/GUI sessions. In embodiments, the IHE pro-actively assists a user to efficiently use device-related documentation in an intuitive manner that requires minimal user interaction and, thereby, reduces the likelihood of human error, e.g., when configuring network devices involves multi-tiered, dynamic configuration paths. The IHE may acts as bridge between document windows and spliced network management sessions, for example, to enable seamless transfer of a CLI command from a document window to an inline GUI panel launched by a CLI session when constructing a command line. In embodiments, a context-ware IHE may create and take advantage of documentation tags by interpreting relationships between commands to enable auto-navigation of the document. Certain embodiments provide for monitoring and mapping a CLI/GUI output back to the appropriate documentation. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277367 | APPLICATIONS FOR MULTI-TOUCH INPUT DETECTION - In general, the multi-touch detection implementations described herein use touch detection technologies to provide new and advantageous interactions between users and touch displays using touch, pens and user-wearable devices (UWDs). These new and advantageous interactions include user-associated mobile menus, combined click-through and radial marking menus, menus to automate and improve drawing or manipulation of content on a display, new menus and methods of selecting objects and text on a display, and new interactions with UWDs and touchscreen displays by using UWDs with gestures. In addition, targeted haptic feedback to the UWD of specific users of a display is enabled. In some multi-touch detection implementations menus or tools available to act on object on a display can be ported entirely, or in part, between displays, such as between small and large displays. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277368 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an information processing apparatus. A first display controller displays a list of data pieces on a display. A determination unit determines a display omitting item in an index in a case where the item sorting the data pieces displayed on the list is displayed as the index of the data, and determines an item in which N number of data items is greater than M number of data items (M and N are natural numbers which satisfy M2017-09-28 | |
20170277369 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STARTING AN APPLICATION APP - Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for starting an application APP so as to address the problem of troublesome starting of the APP in a secured network environment. The method for starting an application APP includes: upon determining that a currently accessed network is a secured network, displaying, by a terminal, on a display screen of the terminal a button to start a verification-exempt function corresponding to at least one APP installed on the terminal, and setting the displayed button to start the verification-exempt function to an optional state; and if it is detected that one of the APPs is selected and the button to start the verification-exempt function corresponding to the selected APP is selected, then opening directly an interface of the selected APP. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277370 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus that serves as a display that displays a list of processes executed by applications includes a list display controller and an operation screen display controller. The list display controller causes, for each of the processes, an operator to be displayed in the list, the operator being provided for displaying an operation screen for performing operation of a function that is specific to corresponding one of the applications. The operation screen display controller causes the operation screen provided for the operator to be displayed when the operator is operated in the list. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277371 | TASK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, TASK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A task management device includes a first display controller which controls a display to display a schedule template including a plurality of schedule areas, predetermined date information or time zone information being associated with each schedule area; a first selecting unit which selects a predetermined stamp mark in accordance with a user's operation from a plurality of stamp marks which indicate different types of tasks and with which different message information is associated; and a second selecting unit which selects a schedule area in which the stamp mark selected by the first selecting unit is placed in accordance with a user's operation from the plurality of schedule areas. The first display controller controls the display to display the schedule template where the stamp mark selected by the first selecting unit is placed in the schedule area selected by the second selecting unit. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277372 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING HUB, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A display apparatus including: a display; a communicator configured to communicate with a third hub; a user input configured to receive a user's input; and a processor configured: to receive information about a list of apparatuses, which are connected to a first hub and a second hub using a different protocol from the first hub, through the third hub, to control the display to display a list of first electronic apparatuses connected to the first hub and second electronic apparatuses connected to the second hub based on the received information about the list of apparatuses, and to control an operation of an electronic apparatus selected by a user's input to the user input among the first electronic apparatuses and the second electronic apparatuses. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277373 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATION CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A multi-dimensional remote control device which may be more effectively manipulated and a method of controlling an operation thereof are provided. The remote control device for controlling an electronic device may include a processor configured to activate an input interface provided on one surface from among input interfaces provided on at least one of multiple surfaces of the remote control device, to receive an input from the activated input interface, and to transmit the input to the electronic device via a communication interface. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277374 | VISUAL REGRESSION ANALYSIS - Aspects of the technology described herein can detect visual regressions in a computer-generated document, such as a web page, caused by programming errors. The technology can be used to detect errors in programs coded in a variety of different languages and used in a variety of applications that generate user interfaces. In one aspect, the technology is used to validate an updated program module prior to replacing a production version of the program module with the updated version. The technology described herein can compare a baseline version of a user interface with a test version of the user interface generated using the updated program module. In an aspect, a visual parity analysis is run to detect a visual regression. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277375 | ON-BOARD UNIT AND FAULT DETERMINATION METHOD - This on-board unit is an on-board unit that is attached to a vehicle, stores information about the vehicle, and performs a process using the information about the vehicle, and includes a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information indicating a state of the on-board unit, a storage unit management unit that stores state information in a storage unit when the on-board unit is powered off, and a fault determination unit that determines whether or not state information acquired when the on-board unit is powered on matches the state information stored in the storage unit, and determines a fault when the fault determination unit determines that the state information acquired when the on-board unit is powered on does not match the state information stored in the storage unit. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277376 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PROVIDING MEDIA GUIDANCE BASED ON DETECTED USER EVENTS - Methods, systems, and media for providing media guidance are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving device data from a mobile device associated with a display device; identifying a media content item being presented on the display device; determining a first indication that the mobile device has been interacted with during the presentation of the media content item; storing a first timestamp corresponding to the first indication; determining a second indication that the interaction with the mobile device has ceased; storing a second timestamp corresponding to the second indication; receiving an indication that the media content item is to be played back; determining, using a hardware processor, a first playback position in the media content item based on the first timestamp; and causing the media content item to be presented from the determined first playback position in response to receiving the indication. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277377 | PERSONAL NOTES ON A CALENDAR ITEM - Embodiments provide functionality to provide electronic calendar features and functionalities including personal note-taking features on calendar items, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method can be configured to provide a personal note-taking space that enables users to take personal notes on appointment or meeting items with or without sharing the personal notes. Other embodiments are included. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277378 | INTUITIVE DOCUMENT NAVIGATION WITH INTERACTIVE CONTENT ELEMENTS - Improved computer efficiency for document navigation is provided. A transparent overlay is automatically applied to an interactive content element to prevent inadvertent interaction with the element during scrolling operations. In some examples, upon determining a user's intent is to navigate a parent document comprising an embedded interactive element, the overlay is applied, and user-interaction with the interactive element is temporarily disabled. Upon determining the user's intent is to interact with the interactive element, the overlay is removed, and user-interaction with the interactive element is enabled. When the overlay is removed, a contextual hint, such as via a user interface control, can be provided to indicate how to continue navigating the parent document. In other examples, the transparent overlay is customized according to each interactive content element, wherein user controls associated with the interactive element are exposed, and wherein the overlay is perpetually applied to the interactive element. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277379 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR PROCESSING DESKTOP ICON - Disclosed are method and terminal for processing desktop icon, includes: monitoring an operation behavior of a user for a desktop icon on the terminal; and merging, if it is monitored that the desktop icon on the terminal is dragged to an edge touch area of the terminal, the dragged desktop icon into a designated folder. The embodiment of the present disclosure solves the problem in the prior art that it is complex to perform operations of managing desktop icons, thus leading to high operating costs and low efficiency. In addition, convenient and fast processing of desktop icons is realized, operating costs are lowered, and the efficiency in processing is increased. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277380 | Icon Control Method and Terminal - An icon control method and terminal that include detecting first input of a user, moving a first icon towards a second icon in response to the detected first input, instructing to perform a first operation on the first icon and the second icon when a distance between the first icon and the second icon falls within a first distance range, and that in the first distance range, duration in which the first icon is in a staying state is greater than a first preset time length, and instructing to perform a second operation on the first icon and the second icon when the distance between the first icon and the second icon falls within a second distance range, and that the first icon is in the staying state in the second distance range. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277381 | CROSS-PLATFORM INTERACTIVITY ARCHITECTURE - Maintaining an application for deployment across platforms requires significant engineering effort and an expanded code base, especially when dealing with different input types from the host platforms. To reduce the computational expenses and improve the standardization of the user interface, systems and methods are provided to recognize gestures in a platform agnostic code architecture, which may be deployed on multiple platforms with different input and output methodologies to provide a consistent user experience with a smaller code base to install on those platforms and to maintain. Individual platforms may tailor the size of the architecture to meet their deployment needs and the architecture may be updated independently of the client logic of various applications. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277382 | PAGE SWITCHING METHOD AND DEVICE APPLIED TO ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A page switching method applied to an electronic device and the electronic device includes: judging whether a current interactive graphic interface displayed by a display unit of the electronic device is a calendar interface or not; if the current interactive graphic interface is the calendar interface, then detecting whether an interface switching instruction is received or not in the calendar interface, wherein the interface switching instruction comprises a pinch-in reduction instruction or a pinch-out enlargement instruction, and a view comprises a year view and a month view; and switching the view displayed currently into another view according to the interface switching instruction. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277383 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display in an image display device displays images. A processor generates an image for display on the display. A map provider provides a map image to the processor. An image provider provides a display image associated with a type of a function item. An acknowledging unit acknowledges a user input. When the acknowledging unit acknowledges an input to display the function item, the processor causes the display to display the map image and the display image associated with the user input. When the display image for a predetermined function item is displayed, the processor displays the map image in a blurred manner. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277384 | A SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR SENDING A TOUCH MESSAGE - A method of sending a touch message comprises recording a touch area on a touch receiving surface of a first device; recording a response to be triggered upon touch of a touch receiving surface within the touch area; forming a message comprising the recorded touch area and the response; transmitting the message from the first device to a second device; receiving a touch on a touch receiving surface of the second device; and checking that the touch is within the touch area and in that event triggering the response. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277385 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN OPERATOR CONTROL DEVICE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IN MULTI-FINGER OPERATION - A number of objects simultaneously touching a touch-sensitive operator control unit of an operator control apparatus are detected and a trigger position at which one of the number of objects detected touches the touch-sensitive operator control unit is determined. When more than one object touches the touch-sensitive operator control unit, a touch pressure with which the touch-sensitive operator control unit is acted on overall by the number of objects detected is compared to a predefined pressure threshold value. A function of the motor vehicle, assigned to the trigger position, is triggered if the touch pressure is higher than the predefined pressure threshold value. The predefined pressure threshold value is defined in a manner dependent on the number of objects detected. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277386 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of effectively managing contents, and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal disclosed herein includes a display unit that is configured to display a plurality of contents, and a controller that is configured to display a first identifier on a first content among the plurality of contents, the first identifier indicating that the first content has been selected, and display a second identifier on a second content among the plurality of contents, the second identifier indicating that the second content has been selected in a different manner from the first content. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277387 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING AN UI AND USER TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method of adjusting the size, position, or arrangement of a UI and a user terminal using the method are disclosed. The user terminal includes a display unit for displaying a UI, and a UI control unit configured to display the UI on the display unit with at least one of a position, size, and arrangement of the UI adjusted according to an input by a user. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277388 | Method for Displaying Interface Content and User Equipment - A method for displaying interface content and user equipment, which effectively improve interaction experience of a user when the user performs a flick operation on a touchscreen, and enhance pleasure in application interaction. A specific solution is acquiring an initial position and a movement direction of a touch point, determining a motion parameter of an interface element object in each grid on a screen according to the initial position and the movement direction, where the screen is divided in advance into multiple grids, and each grid includes a preset quantity of pixels, and moving the interface element object in each grid according to the motion parameter of the interface element object in each grid. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277389 | PROCESS OF GENERATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF A GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT FROM POSITIONING DATA - Process of generating a three-dimensional graphical representation of a geographical environment from positioning data provided by a user, said process comprising the following steps: receiving positioning data corresponding to a geographical environment, said data defining the limits of said geographical environment; normalizing said positioning data with respect to an altimetry database; defining the area of three-dimensional graphical representation to be generated from said positioning data; obtaining information of the three-dimensional graphical representation to be generated from an altimetry database; a landcover database; a vegetation database; a road database; and an image database; and graphically representing the information obtained to generate the three-dimensional graphical representation. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277390 | PROVIDING USER-DEFINED APPLICATION START PAGES - An ability to present user-defined start pages on graphical user interfaces is provided. At least one of a user interface of a computing device, an operating system executing on the computing device, and an application executing on the computing device is monitored to detect, on the user interface, one or more trigger conditions that are associated with the application. The one or more trigger conditions are detected, and in response, a start-page database is queried for information that describes, at least in part, a user-defined start page that is associated with the application. The user-defined start page, and not a default start page, is presented on a screen of the computing device via an interface with at least one of the application and the operating system. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277391 | Content Chase-Ability for Apps - Providing context from a dynamic icon to an underlying application. A method includes displaying dynamically, at a dynamic icon, a plurality of context elements. Each of the context elements corresponds to an item available in an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes receiving user input at the dynamic icon indicating a desire to open an application underlying the dynamic icon. The method further includes, providing to the application underlying the dynamic icon an indication of a context element that was being displayed at the dynamic icon when the user input was received. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277392 | VEHICLE MAP ICON - A method, system, and computer program product for generating a graphical icon for a vehicle carrying a payload is provided. The graphical icon includes a first icon portion that indicates a status of the first deployable payload, which can include several separately deployable sub-payloads. The graphical icon also includes a second icon portion that indicates the vehicle. The second icon portion is arranged relative to the first icon portion to indicate a direction of travel of the vehicle. The second icon portion may be smaller than the first icon portion to emphasize the payload status. The graphical icon is generated based on information about the vehicle and payload received from the vehicle. The generated graphical icon can be displayed on a computer display, such as on a top-down view map display in which the generated icon is overlaid on the map at the location of the vehicle and its payload. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277393 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a setting-information changing unit and a selecting unit. The setting-information changing unit changes setting information which is information for specifying a condition when a function is to be implemented. When a derived function obtained by changing the setting information of the function is to be stored in association with a selected icon, the selecting unit restricts selection of a first icon associated with the function, and permits selection of a second icon different from the first icon. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277394 | Method and Terminal for Processing Desktop Icon - The present disclosure provides a method and terminal for processing a desktop icon. The method for processing the desktop icon according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring an operation information of a user at an edge touch area of the terminal; and incorporating a desktop icon of the terminal into a designated folder according to the user operation information at the edge touch area of the terminal. The present disclosure solves problems of high operating costs and low efficiency caused by complex desktop icon management operation in the prior art, achieves convenient and efficient processing of desktop icons, reduces the operating costs, and improves the processing efficiency. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277395 | CONTROL METHOD FOR TERMINAL AND TERMINAL - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method for a terminal and the terminal. On the one hand, the control method comprises: acquiring operation information of a user operated at an edge touch area of the terminal; and hiding a specified desktop icon according to the operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure are used for solving the problem of low operation efficiency caused by setting a private mode for user's private contents in the prior art, are simple and convenient in operation, and improve the operation efficiency. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277396 | CONTEXTUAL TASK SHORTCUTS - In one example, a device includes one or more processors, a presence-sensitive display, and a storage device that stores one or more modules. The modules are executable to, responsive to receiving an indication of a first user input: output, for display, a graphical element including at least one task shortcut from a plurality of task shortcuts for an application, receive an indication of a second user input that selects a particular task shortcut included in the graphical element, and, responsive to receiving the indication of the second user input, output, for display, a shortcut icon for the particular task shortcut within the graphical user interface. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277397 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display in an image display device displays images. A processor generates an image for display on the display. A map provider provide a map image to the processor. An item provider provides a menu icon to the processor. An acknowledging unit acknowledges a user input. The processor causes the display to display the map image received from the map provider, and, when the acknowledging unit acknowledges an input to display the menu icon, blurs the map image and displays the menu icon received from the item provider, superimposing the menu icon on the blurred map image. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277398 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes: an image display means; a user operation input means provided in a display area of the image display means; and a display control means configured to control display by the image display means. The display control means: generates a menu screen that shows a plurality of main icons indicating a plurality of function types and one or more sub-icons indicating a function belonging to one of the plurality of function types; and displays one of the plurality of main icons in the menu screen in a larger size than the other main icons, and displays, around the main icon displayed in the larger size, the one or more sub-icons corresponding to some of functions belonging to the function type indicated by the main icon, an upper limit of a number of sub-icons being defined by a predetermined number. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277399 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes selecting at least first and second applications to be simultaneously run together; displaying, via a touchscreen of the mobile terminal, an integrated icon corresponding to the selected first and second applications; and simultaneously running, via a controller of the mobile terminal, the first and second applications and displaying execution screens of the first and second applications in a formation corresponding to a layout of the created integrated icon, in response to a selection of the integrated icon. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277400 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A mobile terminal is capable of automatically editing icons corresponding to a plurality of applications included in a home screen page. The mobile terminal includes: a touch screen configured to output a home screen page including icons corresponding to applications; and a controller configured to generate a folder including at least part of the applications by using attribute information of the applications, when an edition request with respect to the icons included in the home screen page is received, wherein an image of the generated folder, rather than the icons corresponding to the applications included in the generated folder, is output to the home screen page. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277401 | 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 information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position of the visible portion of the page of information on the display is constrained if the motion does not exceed the threshold. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277402 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCENTUATING CANDIDATE CHARACTERS OF STRINGS RELATING TO PROMOTIONAL CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided herein for accentuating candidate characters of strings relating to promotional content. To this end, a media guidance application may receive user input of a character through a user interface. The media guidance application may identify a plurality of strings that the character could be used to achieve, compare each string of the plurality of strings to entries of a promotional database, and identify, based on the comparing, a string that is designated as a promotional string. The media guidance application may then determine a next character of the promotional string, and may accentuate a portion of the user interface that corresponds to the next character. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277403 | Screen Capturing Method and Apparatus - Embodiments disclose a screen capturing method and an apparatus. The screen capturing method includes: running a target application, and displaying a first interface of the target application. The method also includes receiving a screen capturing instruction entered by a user; sending an indication message to the target application according to the screen capturing instruction, so that the target application modifies the first interface to a second interface according to the indication message, where the first interface is different from the second interface; and generating a screen capture picture according to the second interface. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277404 | Optimizing Layout of Interactive Electronic Content Based on Content Type and Subject Matter - Certain embodiments involve optimizing how interactive content is arranged in electronic communications. A processor identifies a subject matter type associated with first and second online content items having respective first and second presentation types. The processor determines that a client has previously interacted more extensively with online content having the subject matter type and the first presentation type as compared to other online content having the subject matter type and the second presentation type. The processor selects a layout for an electronic communication for accessing the online content items based on determining that the client interacted more extensively with online content having the first presentation type. The layout displays a first portion for accessing the first online content item more prominently than a second portion for accessing the second online content item. The processor presents the layout via an interface for editing the electronic communication. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277405 | PERSONALIZED TIMELINE PRESENTATION - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for personalized timeline presentation. Client devices may be presented with video content in association with a content management account. A video content item may be associated with more than one pause point, with each pause point indicating a time at which playback of the video content item was paused. Different profiles associated with the content management account may be associated with different pause points for the same video content item. Playback of the video content item may be resumed at one of the pause points when one of the profiles is selected. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277406 | PERSONALIZED TIMELINE PRESENTATION - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for personalized timeline presentation. Client devices may be presented with video content in association with a content management account. A video content item may be associated with more than one pause point, with each pause point indicating a time at which playback of the video content item was paused. Different profiles associated with the content management account may be associated with different pause points for the same video content item. Playback of the video content item may be resumed at one of the pause points when one of the profiles is selected. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FUNCTIONALLY CUSTOMIZABLE USER INTERFACES - A method for customizing an interactive presentation layout for a remote system controller is disclosed. The method is implemented by a functional interface customization (FIC) computing device comprising a memory device, a processor, and the interactive presentation layout. The method includes storing a plurality of presentation layout files associated with a plurality of presentation layouts for the remote system controller in the memory device; storing a plurality of layout component files associated with a plurality of layout components in the memory device; receiving, from a consumer computing device, a selection of a presentation layout of the plurality of presentation layouts; and transmitting a presentation layout file of the plurality of presentation layout files to the remote system controller for installation on the remote system controller, wherein the presentation layout file corresponds to the presentation layout selected by the consumer computing device. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277408 | Optimizing Window Resize Actions for Remoted Applications - Techniques for optimizing window resize actions for a remoted application are provided, where the remoted application has a server-side window running within a remote desktop of a server system, and where the server-side window is made accessible to a user of a client system as a client-side window displayed in a client desktop of the client system. In one embodiment, the client system can receive from the server system a notification that the server-side window is being resized in the remote desktop, and can determine that the user is currently entering one or more input commands for resizing the server-side window. In response, the client system can send a message to the server system for canceling the resizing of the server-side window. The client system can then allow the user to resize the client-side window via the one or more input commands, while the server-side window remains a fixed size. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277409 | EXTERNAL TIME-ASSOCIATED DATA IN OPERATING SYSTEM INTERFACE - An operating system that includes a time user interface module that presents a time user interface on a display. The time user interface allowing a change in focal date and displays external time-associated data as instructed. An application program interface communicatively couples one or more non-native programs with the time user interface module, to thereby allow the one or more non-native programs to provide time-associated data and corresponding presentation instructions to the time user interface module. This causes the time user interface to display the external time-associated data sourced from a non-native program responsive to instructions from the non-native program. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277410 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit that displays an image on a display unit, a selection unit that selects an operation image from a group of operation images used to receive different operations with respect to the displayed image, depending on a magnification of the displayed image, and a second display control unit that displays the selected operation image on the display unit. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277411 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display control device. A display control unit displays a first operation image operated by a user when a state notification screen for notifying the user of a state of a process is not displayed and a second operation image operated by the user when the process is stopped, and displays movement when the state notification screen transits from a display to a non-display in a case where the first operation image is operated. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277412 | METHOD FOR USE OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN A CONTACT CENTER ENVIRONMENT - A method is presented for the use of virtual reality in a contact center environment. A customer may be viewing a virtual reality scene in a virtual reality environment and desire to initiate an interaction from within the virtual reality world. The interaction may be to bring in one or more additional parties to the virtual reality session. The customer may want to connect with an agent in a contact center and/or with an additional party at any time during the session. An interaction may be initiated from a menu of options in real-time, allowing for a customer to share their virtual reality session with the one or more additional parties. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277413 | METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING SCREEN AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a display, and a processor electrically connected to the memory and the display. The processor is configured to transparently output a first screen related to a first application, if receiving a user input, change a transparency of at least a partial area of the first screen in correspondence to the user input, and output the first screen on the display. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277414 | DATA POSITIONING METHOD, DATA POSITIONING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A data positioning method includes obtaining positional information indicating a position which is designated by operation of an operation unit in any region among a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions corresponding to a predetermined direction along which values of a series of pieces of data are varied and being provided for designating a position of the series of pieces of data in the predetermined direction, and the plurality of regions include at least one region for designating a plurality of discrete positions of the series of pieces of data in the predetermined direction. The method further includes determining the position for designating a portion of data corresponding to the obtained positional information, any one position being determined among the plurality of discrete positions when positional information indicating a position in the region for designating the discrete positions is obtained. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277415 | DYNAMICALLY SELECTING STORED CONTENT FOR DISPLAY BASED ON REAL-TIME PARAMETERS CALCULATED FOR OPERATIONS PERFORMED ON IMAGE DATA DISPLAYED BY AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing system that calculates an estimated display duration for which a content item will be displayed on a page displayed by a display of an electronic device; determines an amount of content to be included in the content item, wherein the determining includes reducing an amount of content included in the content item in a case that the estimated display duration is less than a predetermined threshold value; and causes the content item to be displayed on the page displayed by the display of the electronic device based on the determining. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277416 | DATA SET VISUALIZER FOR TREE BASED FILE SYSTEMS - A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing database maintenance is described. Index information for data stored in a tree based file system running in a computer is received. The file system includes a set of data blocks arranged in logical layers and a set of pointers within the set of data blocks which reference respective data blocks in different logical layers. The received index information is parsed. A model of the file system is built based on the parsed index information. A graphical user interface having an index panel is presented. In the index panel, ones of a plurality of icons respectively represent ones of the set of data blocks and are arranged in layers representing the logical layers. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277417 | Method for Adjusting Setting and Terminal - Disclosed by the embodiments of the present disclosure are a method for adjusting a setting and terminal. In the method, an operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal is acquired and the setting of the terminal are adjusted according to the operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the setting can be directly adjusted, thereby avoiding the problem of cumbersome steps during setting adjustment, reducing the operation cost of the user, improving the operation efficiency, and meanwhile avoiding the problem of operation inconvenience under a particular circumstance. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277418 | DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS SELECTION INTERFACE - In order to browse between a collection of datasets susceptible of graphical representation, these datasets are associated with points on a sliding scale of one, two or three dimensions. When a point corresponding to a particular dataset is selected by a user via a mouse pointer etc. it is rendered as a graphical representation and presented to the user. When an intermediate point is selected, a interpolation of the datasets corresponding to the nearby points is generated and the resulting dataset rendered as a graphical representation and presented to the user. The interaction may be implemented with a slider bar type widget having hybrid behaviour such that clicking on the bar causes the button to jump to the nearest point corresponding to a data, while sliding to a chosen intermediate position activates the interpolation of adjacent datasets. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277419 | Method and Electronic Device for Replying to a Message - Disclosed are a method and electronic device for replying to a message. On the one hand, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal acquiring an operation information of a user at an edge touch area of a terminal if a new message is received by the terminal; and executing a shortcut reply operation to the received new message according to the operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal. Therefore, a user can quickly complete replying to a message only by simple operation at an edge touch area of a terminal without any other operations on a screen, thereby solving the problem of the prior art that users fail to rapidly reply to messages, saving the operation time of replying messages, and improving the efficiency of replying message. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277420 | CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TERMINAL - The embodiments of the present application provide a control method and device for a terminal. The control method for the terminal comprises: acquiring first operation information of a user at an edge touch area of the terminal; and cleaning up a memory of the terminal according to the first operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal. In the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application, when the memory of the terminal is cleaned, the operation is simple and convenient, the efficiency of cleaning up the memory of the terminal is improved, and the problem that the efficiency of cleaning up the memory of the terminal is relatively low existed in the prior art can be solved. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277421 | METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING MULTIMEDIA - Disclosed are a method and mobile device for adjusting multimedia. The method for adjusting multimedia comprises: detecting an operation information of a user at an edge touch area of a side border of the mobile device in a state that the mobile device plays multimedia; analyzing a multimedia adjusting instruction corresponding to the detected operation information according to a preset corresponding relation between the operation information and the multimedia adjusting instruction; and adjusting the multimedia according to the analyzed multimedia adjusting instruction, so that the user can accomplish the adjusting operation while holding the mobile device by one hand, one-hand operation is thus realized, the operation is convenient and fast, meanwhile, screen blocking is also avoided, good watching effect is guaranteed, then the use experience of the user is promoted, and the user satisfaction is improved. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277422 | METHOD, APPLICATION, BROWSER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING WEBPAGE CONTENT - In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, an application, a browser, and an electronic device for providing webpage content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: detecting a sliding action of a user when a first content webpage is displayed, and providing a second content webpage based on the detection, wherein the second content webpage is a new content webpage obtained based on the first content webpage. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an electronic device, a handwriting input operation by a user; acquiring, using a processor, a first input feature information associated with the handwriting input operation; and generating, using a processor, an index based on the first input feature information. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277424 | CLIENT TERMINAL USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTING WITH CONTACTS - There is provided a computerized method for establishing a communication session with at least one contact based on a cross display gesture, comprising: displaying an array of contacts at a first location on a display of an interactive user interface on a screen of a client terminal; displaying an array of applications at a second location on the display of the interactive user interface, the first and second locations being located on opposite sides of the screen separated by an interactive region of the interactive user interface; identifying a cross display gesture manually performed by the user, the cross display gesture connecting a certain contact of the array of contacts with a certain application of the array of applications while crossing some of the interactive region; and establishing a communication session between the user and the certain contact activated by the certain application. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277425 | PROGRAM FOR CHARACTER INPUT SYSTEM, CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A non-transitory computer readable medium including a plurality of character types classified into two groups, and for each group, a plurality of characters assigned to each of the character keys for each group, flick input-use definition information that correlates the assigned characters to the various directions of flick input operations registered for one group, and toggle input-use definition information that correlates the assigned characters to the display order of the toggle input operation registered for the other group. The character corresponding to the direction of flick input operation is determined on the basis of the flick input-use definition information pertaining to the character key being operated, and the determined character is displayed. When a toggle input operation is performed, an assigned character indicated by the toggle input-use definition information pertaining to the character key being operated is displayed by being switched in the defined order. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277426 | ENABLING PERIMETER-BASED USER INTERACTIONS WITH A USER DEVICE - A user device may include a display that includes a first area and a second area. The first area may be located around a periphery of the second area, and the first area may include a touch-sensitive surface. The user device may detect a user interaction with the first area and may determine an action associated with the user interaction. The user device may perform the action in association with information displayed in the second area. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277427 | CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TERMINAL - The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method and device for a terminal. The control method for the terminal provided by the disclosure comprises the steps: acquiring operation information of a user at an edge touch area of the terminal; and controlling the display direction of a keyboard of the terminal according to the operation information of the user at the edge touch area of the terminal. The technical solutions of the present disclosure have the advantages that the operation is simple and convenient, the man-machine interaction efficiency is improved, and the problem of relatively low man-machine interaction efficiency caused by a reason that it is quite inconvenient to input data via the keyboard when the holding direction different from the display direction of the keyboard is adopted in the prior art can be solved. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277428 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEMORY MEDIUM - An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a shape detector detecting a shape of a detection object, an output controller performing a control to select a virtual input device to be displayed based on the detected shape of the detection object, and to display the selected virtual input device, and a display displaying the selected virtual input device based on the control given by the output controller. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277429 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY TOUCH CALIBRATION - Embodiments described herein include devices and methods for detecting a current form of a touch display unit of an electronic device. The current form includes one of a first form and a second form different from the first form. A relative position of a display layer of the touch display unit with respect to a touch layer of the touch display unit in the second form is different from the relative position of the display layer relative to the touch layer in the first form. The method also includes determining a first touch coordinate corresponding to a first touch operation. The method also includes acquiring a coordinate transformation associated with the current form of the touch display unit. The method also includes applying the coordinate transformation to the first touch coordinate to identify a corresponding first display coordinate and a display object corresponding to the first display coordinate. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277430 | PROGRAM FOR CHARACTER INPUT SYSTEM, CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A non-transitory computer readable medium includes a character input system including a first band-shaped key area displayed including the characters of character groups including representative characters lined up one by one. When a touch point is detected in this area, a second band-shaped key area is displayed including the characters of the group including the representative characters lined up at that detection position. When movement of a touch point from the first band-shaped key area to the second band-shaped key area is detected, a band-shaped candidate area is displayed including candidate character strings matching the characters in a line at that movement position. These areas are arranged in the width direction and with their orientations aligned. When the touch point disappears after moving from the second band-shaped key area to the band-shaped candidate area, the candidate character string displayed at that disappearance position is confirmed as the input character string. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277431 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEARCH SYSTEM AND SEARCH METHOD - The present invention relates to a semiconductor device capable of providing extensibility in the entry direction and bit direction of a search table. The semiconductor device includes: a block search circuit that searches each of a plurality of block tables into which a search table, which is configured in the entry direction and in the bit direction, is divided in the entry direction and in the bit direction; a circuit that combines the search results of the block search circuits in the bit direction; and a control circuit that inputs a search key as well as the outputs of the combining circuits, and outputs hit information. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277432 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A data storage device and a method of operating the same are provided. The data storage device includes a first non-volatile memory device, a second non-volatile memory device, and a management module. The management module receives a multi-access command including first and second physical addresses which are different from each other from a host, generates and sends a first access command including the first physical address to the first non-volatile memory device, and generates and sends a second access command including the second physical address to the second non-volatile memory device. The data storage device performs the first and second access commands on the first and second physical addresses, respectively. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277433 | MASK PATTERNS GENERATED IN MEMORY FROM SEED VECTORS - The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to mask patterns generated in memory from seed vectors. An example method includes performing operations on a plurality of data units of a seed vector and generating, by performance of the operations, a vector element in a mask pattern. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277434 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A data storage device includes: a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices; and a controller suitable for receiving a command and executing the command for the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices. The controller includes: a first queue suitable for storing the command; and a command manager suitable for managing the command in the first queue, based on a first attribute of the command and queue information of the first queue. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277435 | MANAGING STORAGE SPACE BASED ON MULTIPLE DATASET BACKUP VERSIONS - A storage tier manager creates different versions of a dataset backup for different retention periods. Each of the versions is distinctly identifiable despite initially representing a same dataset backup. One version can be referred to as a cached version of the dataset backup and another version can be referred to as a cloud version of the dataset backup. When the retention period expires for the cached version of the dataset backup, the storage tier manager migrates the cloud version of the dataset backup from the caching storage tier to the cloud storage tier. The storage tier manager can then recover storage space occupied by data that has been migrated, as long as that data is not shared with other cached versions of other dataset backups due to deduplication. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277436 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT - A memory management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes: receiving first data; performing a first programming process and determining whether a total number of a first-type physical unit is no larger than a first threshold value, wherein each physical unit belonging to the first-type physical unit does not store valid data; performing a data merging process if the total number is no larger than the first threshold value; determining whether the first data is first-type data; stopping the data merging process before the total number of the first-type physical unit reaches a second threshold value if the first data is the first-type data. Accordingly, an influence caused by the data merging process on the writing speed for specific type of data may be reduced. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277437 | ATTRIBUTE-BASED DEPENDENCY IDENTIFICATION FOR OPERATION ORDERING - Systems, components, devices, and methods for synchronizing a local object model with a remote object model are provided. A non-limiting example is a system or method for synchronizing a local object model with a remote object model. The method includes receiving a plurality of changes associated with the local object model. The changes modify at least one attribute state of an object in the local object model. The method also includes identifying outcome attribute states of the objects that are modified by the plurality of changes. The method includes identifying required attribute states of the objects for the plurality of changes. The method also includes building a dependency graph for the plurality of changes based on the identified required attribute states and generating an ordered list of the plurality of changes based on the dependency graph. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277438 | METHOD TO EFFICIENTLY STORE OBJECT DATA OF AN OBJECT STORAGE SERVICE ON A MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE AND MAGNETIC SMR DISK DRIVE - In a data storage system, the available space of a magnetic storage device is divided into multiple sequential write regions for storing sequentially written data, where the regions are each separated from adjacent sequential write regions by a guard space. Object data, such as key-value pairs, are written sequentially to a particular sequential write region, in blocks of data that correspond to the contents of a nonvolatile buffer being flushed to the magnetic storage device. When a key-value pair stored in the magnetic storage device is subsequently updated, the original key-value pair is not overwritten. Instead, the new version of the key-value pair is included in the next block of data to be written to the magnetic storage device, and a mapping table tracks the location of the newest version of each key-value pair stored in the magnetic storage device. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277439 | Techniques for Path Optimization in Storage Networks - Disclosed are various embodiments for managing paths in a cluster environment. The cluster environment receives a request from a client to access a logical storage volume via a selected one of a plurality of paths defined for the logical storage volume. In response to an access of the logical storage volume via one of the paths, the cluster environment updates a timestamp for the respective path that corresponds to a time of the access via the respective path. Subsequently, the cluster environment determines a remote path defined for the logical storage volume that can be removed based upon comparing a timestamp for the selected path with a timestamp for the remote path. | 2017-09-28 |
20170277440 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS TO DETERMINE TIMING OF OPERATIONS - The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods to determine timing of operations. An example method includes performing a first operation type that uses a shared resource in a memory device. The method includes applying a scheduling policy for timing of continued performance of the first operation type based upon receipt of a request to the memory device for performance of a second operation type that uses the shared resource. | 2017-09-28 |