50th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150355718 | PREEMPTIVE MACHINE LEARNING-BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION - A system and method for detecting a viewing gesture with respect to a wrist-worn device employ a logistic-regression model to pre-learn gesture metrics for on events. An output model is produced for deployment on a consumer device, allowing real-time gesture detection with high accuracy and low latency. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355719 | METHOD AND SYSTEM ENABLING CONTROL OF DIFFERENT DIGITAL DEVICES USING GESTURE OR MOTION CONTROL - A system for controlling operation of digital devices according to gesture of its user comprising: at least one gesture indicating hardware; at least one imaging device for capturing at least one first array of images of the at least one gesture indicating hardware; and a processor for processing the captured stream of images for; identifying at least one second array of images of the at least one gesture indicating hardware from the at least one first array of images captured by the at least one imaging device; determining at least one geometrical characteristic of bodies present in the at least one second array of images and their variation to construct at least one motion path of the at least one gesture indicating hardware; determining at least one key coordinates point representing at least one motion path; and generating at least one operating instruction to control at least one operation of at least one digital device. Noise cancellation while gesture detection is carried out by evaluating errors as a function of relative distances, boundary distances, and characteristics of various bodies identified beyond a threshold image size. Another approach of removing noise in gesture detection is to fix the emitting device in a still environment and identifying still bodies except emitter and thereby removing those stilt objects while capturing emitting device in motion. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355720 | USER INTERACTION WITH WEARABLE DEVICES - Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to determine that an unobtrusive gesture has been received on a first electronic device and send a signal to a second electronic device in response to the unobtrusive gesture. The first electronic device can also be configured to receive a signal from the second electronic device, determine an unobtrusive output in response to the signal, and generate an unobtrusive notification in response to the received signal. In an example, the first electronic device is a part of jewelry worn by a user. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355721 | Motion Pattern Classification and Gesture Recognition - Methods, program products, and systems for gesture classification and recognition are disclosed. In general, in one aspect, a system can determine multiple motion patterns for a same user action (e.g., picking up a mobile device from a table) from empirical training data. The system can collect the training data from one or more mobile devices. The training data can include multiple series of motion sensor readings for a specified gesture. Each series of motion sensor readings can correspond to a particular way a user performs the gesture. Using clustering techniques, the system can extract one or more motion patterns from the training data. The system can send the motion patterns to mobile devices as prototypes for gesture recognition. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355722 | Method, Device, System And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium For Providing User Interface - According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing a user interface. The method includes when an input event occurs, acquiring information on postures or motions of a first device and a second device associated with the input event in a preset time interval including the time of occurrence of the input event, and determining a command to be carried out in response to the input event with reference to a relative relationship between the posture or motion of the first device and that of the second device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355723 | FINGER POSITION SENSING AND DISPLAY - An apparatus includes a first sensor associated with a key location on a keyboard. The first sensor provides a finger presence signal when a user's finger is over the key location. A method includes generating a finger presence signal when a user's finger is over a key of a keyboard. The finger presence signal is received after it is generated. The finger presence signal is associated with a key of the keyboard to produce an association of the user's finger and the key. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355724 | HARD KEY CONTROL PANEL FOR A VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM - A control panel comprising a plurality of hard key buttons which are arranged in different groups is suggested. A first group of buttons is assigned to select predefined scene settings. A second group of buttons is assigned to select signals for a currently broadcasted scene. A third group of buttons is assigned to select signals for a next scene which is selectable by operating a button of the first group. The hardware control panel provides an operating interface that matches with the workflow of TV productions. It enables context related direct access to all functionalities which are needed during the TV show. However, it does not provide access to those functionalities which are not needed in a specific scene. Hence, it significantly reduces or even prevents malfunctions during a TV production. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355725 | Input Device - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is disclosed with: a touch surface having one or more key tops configured to identify one or more keys to a user; a key sensing circuitry configured to detect a key press of any one or more of the key tops; a network of electromagnetic touch detectors configured to continually detect touching of the touch surface; and an elastic layer between the key sensing circuitry and the key tops configured to relay pressing forces from the key tops to the key sensing circuitry. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355726 | T-Code Input Method - An input method, in particular, a T-code input method, includes three symbols used in two coding modes, namely, “•”, “-”, and “|” for Mode I and “∘”, “-”, and “|” for Mode II. 39 different codes can be obtained by combining the symbols in no more than three, which can represent 26 English letters, 10 Arabic numerals, question mark, period and space in three categories under the two modes, one started with “•”, “-”, “|” respectively and the other “∘”, “-”, “|”. The T-code method can be used in PCs by arbitrarily assigning the symbols to three keys on the keyboard, or be used in micro input terminals that support the operation of three symbols. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355727 | INPUT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CIRCULAR TOUCH KEYBOARD - Disclosed is a typing method for a circular touch-sensitive keyboard, comprising detecting a user's touch data on the circular touch-sensitive keyboard to initiate a pre-input state based on the touch data; detecting the user's swipe input data on the circular touch-sensitive keyboard; obtaining a character corresponding to the swipe input data; and outputting the character; wherein the circular touch-sensitive keyboard comprises an inner key zone and an outer key area, the outer key area comprises eight outer key zones, the inner key zone comprises eight sectors, each outer key zone comprises four sectors, each sector is assigned with a particular character, the circular touch-sensitive keyboard is provided with an input module for detecting the swipe input data. Also disclosed is a typing device for a circular touch-sensitive keyboard. The typing method and typing device of the present invention can increase typing speed. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355728 | DISPLAY DEVICE EXECUTING BENDING OPERATION AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - The present specification relates to a display device executing a bending operation and a method of controlling therefor. A method of controlling a display device, comprising the steps of detecting a first bending input, which is detected when a flexible display unit is bending to a first direction on the basis of a first axis, executing a first operation based on the first bending input, detecting a second bending input while a state that the flexible display unit is not bent is maintained, and executing the first operation based on the second bending input, wherein the second bending input is detected by a combination of a first control input and a second control input, wherein the first control input corresponds to the first axis and the second control input corresponds to the first direction. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355729 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first body, a second body mounted on one side of the first body to be slidably connected to the first body, a transparent display formed on the second body, and a controller configured to provide different user functions to a first area in the transparent display, which overlaps with the first body, and a second area which is a remaining part of the transparent display in response to the second body being slid from the first body to open the first body. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355730 | PERSPECTIVE TRACKING SYSTEM - Resolution of perspective in three dimensions is necessary for intermeshing real players into simulated environments during virtual training exercises. With the advent of high resolution image sensors the ability to sense position and orientation using image capture devices is possible. The combination of small sized sensors and image recognition tracking algorithms allows the tracking element to be placed directly on the device whose perspective is desired. This provides a solution to determining perspective as it provides a direct measurement from the center axis of the observer. This invention employs a perspective tracking device to determine a point-of-gaze or a point-of-aim in a three-dimensional space to a high degree of accuracy. Point-of-gaze may be used to determine views for head mounted displays and aim-points for weapons. The invention may operate in an unconstrained space allowing simulation participants to operate in a larger, open environment. Areas of interest in the environment are bounded by area of interest markers which identify the region and its physical constraints. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355731 | VEHICLE OPERATING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DEVICE - A vehicle operating system includes an operating device disposed in a vehicle compartment and an in-vehicle device equipped to the vehicle and selecting graphical user interface displayed on a display device corresponding to selection manipulation made to the operating device. The operating device includes a base capable of being disposed by a user, a rotatable knob supported by the base, a posture detector detecting an attachment posture of the operating device, a connection unit connectable to the in-vehicle device, a manipulation signal output unit outputting a manipulation signal of the rotatable knob, and a posture signal output unit outputting an attachment posture signal. The in-vehicle device includes a display control unit controlling the display device to display the graphical user interface corresponding to the attachment posture signal, and a selection display unit controlling the display device to perform selection display of the graphic user interface corresponding to the manipulation signal. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355732 | Stylus and Stylus Circuitry for Capacitive Touch Screens - A stylus for a capacitive touch screen includes an inverting charge integrator circuit is connected to a conductive tip for providing an output signal proportional to a charge induced at the conductive tip. An inverting amplifier generates an amplified signal proportional to the signal output from the inverting charge integrator. A conductive contact provides electrical or capacitive coupling between the amplified signal and an exterior of the stylus which may provide electrical or capacitive coupling with a person holding the stylus. In other embodiments, the order of the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier may be reversed. A power supply circuit powers the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier. Shielding may be implemented to isolate the stylus circuitry and prevent oscillation. The provided circuitry may enable a ball point or other fine point stylus tip configurations. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355733 | INPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH OPERATING PATTERN ANALYSIS - There is provided an input device including at least one input unit, a trigger detection unit, a storage unit and an analysis and processing unit. The at least one input unit is for inputting a plurality of trigger events by a user. The trigger detection unit is configured to detect the trigger events of the at least one input unit and generate a trigger signal corresponding to each of the trigger events. The storage unit is configured to record an operating condition associated with the user. The analysis and processing unit is configured to analyze an operating pattern of the trigger signals and determine a warning time according to the operating condition and the operating pattern. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355734 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEM, TOUCH STYLUS AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD BETWEEN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND TOUCH STYLUS - An electronic system, a touch stylus and a data transmission method between an electronic apparatus and a touch stylus are disclosed herein. The data transmission method, utilized between a first electronic device and a touch stylus, includes steps of: generating movement data according to displacement of the touch stylus. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355735 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CURSOR DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A mobile phone comprises a display provided with a touch panel, etc. When an end portion of the touch panel is touched, a touch icon that indicates a touch position is displayed. Furthermore, if a distance between the touch position and the end portion of the touch panel becomes larger than a first threshold value, a cursor is displayed based on the touch position. This cursor moves if a touch position changes with a touch operation. At this time, if a moving amount of the cursor is large, an afterimage object that indicates the last position (locus) of the cursor is displayed. On the other hand, a moving amount of the cursor is small, the above-described afterimage object is not displayed. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355736 | A CONTROL INPUT SYSTEM - A control input system comprising: an input unit comprising, a ferromagnetic material medium, a non-invasive detachable attachment means for attaching the ferromagnetic medium to the hand of the user; a control unit comprising, a control input area defining the input interface for interaction with the ferromagnetic medium, a sensor unit capable of registering the position of N the ferromagnetic medium of the input unit relative to the control unit and providing at least one sensor output signal, a signal processor for converting the at least one sensor output signal to a control output signals representing the position of the ferromagnetic material relative to the control input, a signal transmitter for transmitting processed signals to an external device, and a housing for enclosing the sensor unit, the signal process and/or the signal transmitter. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355737 | Steering Wheel with Improved Interface to a Finger Navigation Module - A steering wheel for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The steering wheel includes an optical finger navigation module, a steering wheel electronics unit, and a communication device for data transmission between the optical finger navigation module and the steering wheel electronics unit. The communication device is a data bus with two lines for data transmission and one line for clock pulse transmission. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355738 | TOUCH PANEL AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - A touch panel and a fabricating method thereof are provided in the instant disclosure. The touch panel having a non-display area and a display area includes a shielding layer disposed on a side of a substrate and defining the non-display area on the substrate; a sensing electrode layer disposed on the substrate at the same side as the shielding layer, wherein at least one portion of the sensing electrode layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate in the display area; a first protecting layer disposed in the display area and covering the sensing electrode layer; and a second protecting layer disposed in the non-display area and covering the shielding layer. By modifying the structure of the protecting layer, the height difference between the sensing electrode layer and the shielding layer may not cause the color difference due to the non-uniform protecting layer. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355739 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR TOUCH SENSOR PANEL - A control method for a touch sensor panel may be provided that includes: obtaining touch information on the touch sensor panel from which an electrical signal outputted is changed according to a touch; detecting at least one valid touch from the touch information; determining the valid touch which is included in a palm touch group among the at least one valid touch; and displaying an input corresponding to the valid touch other than the valid touch which is included in the palm touch group among the at least one valid touch, on a display unit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355740 | TOUCH PANEL SYSTEM - A touch panel system includes a touch panel and a touch position detecting section for detecting a touch position on the touch panel. The touch position detecting section includes a touch position predicting section which sets predicted coordinates or a predicted range of a touch position based on a touch operation record, and predicts, based on the predicted coordinates or the predicted range, a touch position from touch position candidates detected by the touch position detecting section. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355741 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DUAL-DIFFERENTIAL SENSING - A method and device for dual-differential sensing is disclosed. The sensing information can be generated from signals provided by a sensing device with a plurality of sensors. Each value of the sensing information corresponds to signals of three sensors, respectively. The sensing device is flexible and configured on a display. The noise effect of the display on the signal of each sensor corresponds to the distance between the display and the sensor. Besides, the noise effect of the display on each value of the sensing information corresponds to the distances between the display and the three sensors, respectively. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355742 | TOUCH PANEL HAVING VIRTUAL FUNCTION BUTTON, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING TOUCH CONFLICT ON THE SAME - A touch device capable of identifying touch conflict has at least one function button mounted on a touch panel of the touch device and at least one auxiliary button mounted around the at least one function button. The at least one function button and the at least one auxiliary button are touch-activated. When users simultaneously or sequentially touch the at least one function button and the at least one auxiliary button, the touch device determines that a touch conflict occurs and determines whether to execute a function originally defined by the at least one function button or to execute another function according to the touch conflict. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355743 | TOUCH POINT POSITIONING DETECTION CIRCUIT, OPTICAL TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a touch display technique field. There is disclosed a touch point positioning detection circuit, an optical touch panel and a display device, which are used for improving the touch accuracy of the touch panel. The touch point positioning detection circuit comprises: an optical touch sub-circuit for sensing a touch and generating a touch signal, an amplification sub-circuit connected to the optical touch sub-circuit for amplifying the touch signal, an output sub-circuit connected to the amplification sub-circuit for outputting the touch signal, and a detection sub-circuit connected to the output sub-circuit for determining a position of a touch point according to the outputted touch signal. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355744 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a display portion of a liquid crystal display device, the dead space corresponding to a unit pixel is reduced while the aperture ratio of the unit pixel is increased. One amplifier circuit portion is shared by a plurality of unit pixels, so that the area of the amplifier circuit portion corresponding to the unit pixel is reduced and the aperture ratio of the unit pixel is increased. In addition, when the amplifier circuit portion is shared by a larger number of unit pixels, a photosensor circuit corresponding to the unit pixel can be prevented from increasing in area even with an increase in photosensitivity. Furthermore, an increase in the aperture ratio of the unit pixel results in a reduction in the power consumption of a backlight in a liquid crystal display device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355745 | Touch Module and Method of Fabricating the Same - The present invention relates to a touch module and a method of fabricating the touch module. The method comprises: providing a substrate plate, applying an adhesive layer on the substrate plate, forming a sensing line trough and a peripheral line trough on the adhesive layer, forming a first conductive layer in the sensing line trough and a second conductive layer in the peripheral line trough, wherein the first conductive layer in the sensing line trough serves as a sensing line, covering an anti acid film on the sensing line trough, electroplating an electroplated layer on the second conductive layer in the peripheral line trough, wherein the electroplated layer plus the second conductive layer serve as a peripheral line, and removing the anti acid film. Comparing to the prior art, the invention reduces the width of the peripheral line, lowers the resistance of the peripheral line, and improves yield rate. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355746 | DRIVING SENSOR ELECTRODES FOR ABSOLUTE CAPACITIVE SENSING - In an example, a processing system includes a sensor module having sensor circuitry. The sensor module is configured to drive sensor electrodes with a capacitive sensing signal to acquire first changes of capacitance between each of the sensor electrodes and at least one input object; and drive at least one sensor electrode in a first set of the sensor electrodes with a reference signal and at least one sensor electrode in a second set of the sensor electrodes with a capacitive sensing signal to acquire second changes of capacitance between the at least one sensor electrode in the second set and the at least one input object. The processing system further includes a capacitive measurer module configured to determine a capacitive image based at least in part on the first and second changes of capacitance. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355747 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes at least a bonding pad, a touch-sensing structure and at least a protection component. The bonding pad has a first long side, a first short side, a second long side, and a second short side. The first long side is adjacent to the first short side and the second short side, and the first long side is opposite to the second long side. A touch-sensing structure is electrically connected to the first short side of the bonding pad. The protection component is disposed at the first long side and the second long side. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355748 | TOUCH PEN - A touch pen for a capacitive touch screen is provided. The touch pen includes a signal receiver conductor, a signal detecting and adjusting circuit, and a signal transmitter conductor. The signal receiver conductor receives a first touch signal from the capacitive touch screen. The signal detecting and adjusting circuit enlarges the first touch signal to a second touch signal having a standard intensity with a first magnification factor, a second magnification factor and a third magnification factor. The signal transmitter conductor issues the second touch signal to the capacitive touch screen. According to the second touch signal, the capacitive touch screen senses a position of a touch point of the touch pen. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355749 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE, AND TOUCH DRIVER FOR THE SAME - A display device, touch screen device, and touch driver for the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display substrate including a plurality of pixels and having a front surface, a touch substrate formed over the front surface, a flexible printed circuit substrate electrically connected to the touch substrate, and a touch driver formed over the flexible printed circuit substrate. The touch driver includes a touch controller configured to receive a touch control signal, a clamping circuit configured to substantially block an overcurrent voltage having a voltage level substantially equal to or higher than a predetermined clamping voltage, and at least one transient voltage suppressor (TVS) electrically connected to at least one voltage source including a voltage applied to the touch controller. The at least one TVS is also electrically connected to an electrical ground so as to discharge the overcurrent. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355750 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING CAPACITIVE TOUCH - There are provided a method for authenticating capacitive touch. The method for authenticating capacitive touch according to the invention is executed through a system interworking with a capacitive touch screen that supports multi-touch, the method comprising, a first step of receiving touch point information for the plurality of touch points recognized as multi-touch through the capacitive touch screen, a second step of reading the touch point information and identifying a specified touch point corresponding to any one specified touch portion fixed and arranged in a previously specified position in design among touch portions of a touch device in which a plurality of capacitively touchable touch portions are arranged according to a previously designed unique geometric relationship, a third step of coordinate-rotating the plurality of touch points or a geometric relationship for the plurality of touch points to match a designed geometric relationship based on a reference point corresponding to the specified touch point, and a fourth step of authenticating whether the coordinate-rotated geometric relationship matches the designed geometric relationship within a tolerance range or identifying the designed geometric relationship matching the coordinate-rotated geometric relationship within a tolerance range among the designed geometric relationships. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355751 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE - A sensor-equipped display device is provided and includes a display panel and a detection electrode. The panel includes a display area in which unit pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of unit pixels including subpixels. The electrode includes conductive line fragments arranged on a detection surface, and is configured to detect a contact of an object to the surface. The detection electrode has an electrode pattern formed of the line fragments on a grid defined by first and second lines. Extending directions of the first and second lines are tilted based on a first and second unit length of the unit pixel in the first and second direction. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355752 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE - A sensor-equipped display device is provided and includes a display panel and a detection electrode. The display panel includes a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. The detection electrode includes an electrode pattern having conductive line fragments arranged on a detection surface which is parallel to the display area, wherein the electrode pattern includes a connection point at which ends of three line fragments are connected together. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355753 | CONTROL DEVICE HAVING CAPACITIVE DETECTION - An approach detection device having capacitive detection comprises an electronic board provided with an encoder for detecting displacements which is tied to a knob. The encoder is fixed on the electronic board by a metallic casing comprising a capacitive detector connected to an electrode. The casing is electrically connected to the capacitive detector so the electrode can be used for capacitively detecting an approach to the knob. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355754 | CAPACITANCE TOUCH PANEL - A capacitance touch panel of the invention includes a display, a lower adhesive layer, a capacitance touch panel sensor, an upper adhesive layer and a protective substrate, which are formed in this order. Relative permittivity A in the upper adhesive layer and relative permittivity B in the lower adhesive layer satisfy expression (1): [relative permittivity A≧relative permittivity B . . . (1)] at respective temperatures set in increments of 20° C. from −40° C. to 80° C., and a temperature dependency of the relative permittivity B in the lower adhesive layer as determined by a temperature dependency evaluation test is up to 30%. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355755 | MUTUAL CAPACITANCE SENSING ARRAY - A method and apparatus for sensing a conductive object by a mutual capacitance sensing array is described according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mutual capacitance sensing array comprises one or more sensor elements. Each sensor element comprises an outer frame including a conductive material. A cavity is formed within the interior of the outer frame. In an example embodiment, the sensor elements include transmit (TX) sensor elements and receive (RX) sensor elements that are disposed in a stackup that comprises a substrate, where the TX sensor elements are laminated by optically clear adhesive and are disposed on one side of the substrate, and where the RX sensor elements are laminated by optically clear adhesive and are disposed on a different side of the substrate than the TX elements. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355756 | CAPACITIVE SENSOR FILTERING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM - A transform is used to transform raw sensor data from the time domain to the frequency or sequency domain. The transformed data falls into several signal bins. The transformed data in at least one of the signal bins is analyzed to determine whether a touch event or release event has occurred. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355757 | CAPACITIVE SENSING PATTERN - A capacitive input device comprises a plurality of receiver electrodes and a plurality of transmitter electrodes. The plurality of receiver sensor electrodes is oriented substantially parallel to a first axis proximate to a sensing region of the capacitive input device. The plurality of transmitter sensor electrodes is oriented substantially parallel to a second axis proximate to the sensing region and configured to be capacitively coupled with the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes. At least one of a receiver sensor electrode of the plurality of receiver sensor electrodes and a transmitter sensor electrode of the plurality of transmitter sensor electrodes is disposed in a configuration forming multiple crossings with a line that is perpendicular to the first axis, the multiple crossings occurring proximate to the sensing region. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355758 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE TOUCH PANEL, ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE - An electromagnetic inductive touch panel includes a first substrate and a touch structure layer disposed on the first substrate. The touch structure layer includes a plurality of first wires; a plurality of second wires insulatedly intersecting with the plurality of first wires; and a plurality of electromagnetic inductive coils disposed respectively at intersections of the first wires with the second wires. Each of electromagnetic inductive coils includes a first sub-coil and a second sub-coil spirally wrapped around each other. The first sub-coil has one end electrically connected with one of the first wires and the other end electrically connected with a common potential; and the second sub-coil has one end electrically connected with one of the second wires and the other end electrically connected with the common potential. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355759 | Multi-Touch Resistive Touch-Screen Sensor and Controller Assembly - A method and apparatus are provided for a touch sensor made from a flexible substrate with voids and resistive conductive elements suspended within it. The voids in the substrate are positioned in the areas where conductive elements cross. The substrate holds the conductive elements apart in these voids when no pressure is applied, but allows the crossing conductive elements to come into contact when pressure from a touch is applied. The conductive elements follow a serpentine path to increase the number of crossings for a given number of conductive elements. The ends of the conductive elements are connected to control electronics around the periphery of the substrate that energizes select conductive elements with constant voltage and constant current signals and measures voltage from other conductive elements to ascertain touch locations and touch contact areas respectively. The sensor can be planner or made to follow contoured surfaces such as the outer surfaces of a mobile electronic device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355760 | MULTI-MODAL SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE HUMAN MEMORY USING A VIDEO GAME - A multi-modal system to improve human memory using a video game comprises a multi-modal criteria having a task object for the video game and stimulus sets. There is also provided a multi-modal method to improve human memory using a video game by providing a video game comprising multi-modal criteria, having a task object for the video game, and having stimulus sets. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE FLASH GAME - The present invention relates to an online flash game system and method, a flash game web page providing method, a web server for providing web pages for flash game execution, and a storage medium for recording method programs. When a flash game execution is selected, a skin flash module performs a skin flash, which is a frame on a flash game screen, on a user terminal screen, and controls a UI flash module and a game contents flash module. The skin flash module displays the skin flash, which is a frame on the flash game screen, on the user terminal screen, and controls the UI flash module and the game contents flash module. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355762 | MID-FRAME BLANKING - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing mid-frame blanking. A first portion of a frame is driven to a display and then a first mid-frame blanking interval is generated. Following this first mid-frame blanking interval, a second portion of the frame is driven to the display, followed by a second mid-frame blanking interval, followed by a third portion of the frame, and so on. Any number of mid-frame blanking intervals may be introduced in a given frame. During each mid-frame blanking interval, touch sensing is performed to detect touch events on the screen for in-cell touch type displays. For displays with touch sensors electrically separated from the display common voltage layer, special sense scan steps are performed during mid-frame blanking intervals. By performing touch sensing or special sense scan steps during a frame rather than only at the end of a frame, the performance of touch sensing is improved. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355763 | SENSOR, INPUT DEVICE, AND INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE - [Problem] A novel input sensor that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. Furthermore, a novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. Furthermore, a novel input/output device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355764 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrate units, a display function layer, and a drive element. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, a display unit, and a circuit unit. The first substrate has a first surface including a display region and a peripheral region. The display unit is provided in the display region, and includes first lines, second lines, switch elements, pixel electrodes, and third lines. The circuit unit is provided in the peripheral region, and is electrically connected to one of the second lines and one of the third lines. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate and fourth lines. The display function layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The drive element is provided on the peripheral region. At least a portion of the circuit unit is disposed between the drive element and the first substrate. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355765 | DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SENSOR AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a display device provided with a sensor, includes a plurality of electrodes for a touch sensor, which comprise a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of detection electrodes, and a display panel, wherein a plurality of common electrodes for display which are provided in the display panel are also applied as the drive electrodes, an image display operation of the display panel and a driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor are performed in a time sharing manner, and in the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, a code division multiplexing (CDM) drive is performed in units of successive common electrodes, and a drive signal which synchronizes with the CDM drive is input to all common electrodes other than successive common electrodes subjected to the CDM drive. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355766 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises gate lines extending in a first direction, drain lines extending in a second direction, common electrodes extending in the second direction, and a drive circuit. The common electrodes are configured to be partitioned over drain lines of pixels of a specific color and to be used also as touch panel scan electrodes. The drive circuit is configured so that write periods for driving the gate lines and touch sensing periods for driving the scan electrodes are alternately repeated in each frame period, signal polarity of drain lines for colors other than the specific color is inverted every frame, signal polarity of drain lines for the specific color is inverted at a cycle shorter than one frame, and the cycle of the signal polarity inversion of the drain lines for the specific color can be changed. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355767 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises counter electrodes configured to be used as common electrodes for displaying and scan electrodes for touch sensing, a first scan circuit which scans gate lines, and a second scan circuit which scans the counter electrodes. In the display device, one frame period includes a write period for continuously scanning one screen and a touch sensing period existing between the write period and a write period in the next frame. The second scan circuit includes a shift register unit and a switch unit. The switch unit includes a seventh thin-film transistor which outputs a DC drive signal to an output node and an eighth thin-film transistor which outputs an AC drive signal to the output node. A second control signal for fixing the voltage of a third retention node to which the gate electrode of the seventh thin-film transistor is connected is inputted in the write period. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355768 | GAME APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A non-limiting example information processing apparatus comprises a housing, and a first portion of the housing is formed in an elliptical form when viewing from the front. A display panel and a touch panel constitute one main surface of the first portion. Holes are formed in left and right end portions of the display panel and the touch panel, and two operation sticks are provided through the two holes. When viewing the first portion from the front, an area except key tops of the operation sticks becomes a display area. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355769 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE USING ONE-POINT TOUCH AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a method for providing a user interface using a one-point touch capable of immediately carry out various user commands by changing the direction of force applied to a fixed contact point, and to an apparatus for same, wherein when contact on one point inside a touch area is sensed, the direction of force applied to the point or a pattern with respect to a change in the direction of the force is detected while the contact is maintained on the one point, and a predetermined user command is carried out according to the direction of the force or the pattern with respect to the change in the direction of the force. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355770 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus ( | 2015-12-10 |
20150355771 | TOUCH PANEL WITH PRESSING-FORCE MEASURING PERFORMANCE - A touch panel equipped with both a capacitive sensor and a piezoelectric sensor, wherein the touch panel solves the problems of increased panel thickness, changes in the optical properties, and increased manufacturing costs. This touch panel is provided with force measurement using a piezoelectric body and capacitive point detection. The force measurement uses a pair of electrodes arranged with the piezoelectric body sandwiched therebetween. The point detection uses one electrode and another electrode. At least one top electrode is disposed on the side of the top surface of the piezoelectric body, and at least one bottom electrode is disposed on the side of the bottom surface of the piezoelectric body. One electrode among the pair of electrodes used in force measurement is a bottom electrode, and at least one electrode among the two electrodes used in point detection is a top electrode. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355772 | TOUCH PREDICTION FOR VISUAL DISPLAYS - Touch events can be predicted relative to a visual display by maintaining a database of aggregated touch event history data relative to the visual display and from a plurality of touch screen devices. The database can be queried according to a set of input parameters defining an environment for use of the visual display. The results from the querying of the database can be analyzed to predict a set of touch events within the environment and based upon inferences obtained from the results. A representation of the set of touch events can be displayed along with the visual display. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355773 | UNLOCKING TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES - A method, system, and/or computer program product unlocks an electronic device that has a touchscreen. Multiple tactile inputs to a touchscreen on a locked electronic device are detected. A distance between the most distant tactile inputs is detected, and a relative position, as measured from the most distant tactile inputs, of other tactile inputs to the touchscreen is calculated. In response to the relative position of the other detected tactile inputs matching a stored positioning file for touchscreen tactile inputs, the electronic device is unlocked. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355774 | ADAPTIVE TOUCH PANEL SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to receive a touch event originating from a touch panel; compare a timing of the touch event and a timing of a display refresh event; determine whether to adjust a time during which a next scan of the touch panel occurs based on a comparison of the timing of the touch event and the timing of the display refresh event; calculate a time value that indicates when the next scan occurs based on a determination to adjust the time; and adjust the time during which the next scan occurs based on the time value. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355775 | CHARGE COMPENSATION DURING TOUCH SENSING - An apparatus of one embodiment includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor has first and second electrodes separated by an insulator. The controller includes measurement circuitry, a processor, and a memory comprising logic. The logic is operable to disconnect the second electrode from the measurement circuitry, induce a current on the second electrode by applying voltage to the first electrode, apply charge to the second electrode, connect the second electrode to the measurement circuitry after applying the charge to the second electrode, and determine a capacitance value associated with the second electrode. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355776 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SECURE LOCKING INTERFACE - Systems and methods for generating a secure locking interface on a touch-screen display of a computing device are disclosed. The system comprises a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores processor-executable instructions, which, on execution, cause the processor to perform operations comprising associating a first attribute and a second attribute to at least one alphanumeric code upon receiving an authentication request for authenticating a user. The first attribute and the second attribute include at least one of colors, shapes, special characters, and images. Further, the operations comprise rendering an alphanumeric interface to the touch-screen display. The alphanumeric interface has the at least one alphanumeric code with the first attribute and the second attribute associated. Further, the operations comprise rendering a keypad interface to the touch-screen display, wherein the keypad interface has an input key for each of the first attribute and the second attribute. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355777 | INTEGRATION CIRCUIT, TOUCH INTERACTION SENSING APPARATUS, AND TOUCHSCREEN APPARATUS - An integration circuit may include a plurality of switches, at least one operational amplifier, and at least one feedback capacitor, sequentially transfers electrical charges charged in a node capacitor to the feedback capacitor, and integrates the electrical charges. The operational amplifier may be synchronized with a clock signal applied to at least one of the plurality of switches to thereby be operated in one of a normal mode and a low power mode. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355778 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND TOUCH COORDINATE PREDICTING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a mobile terminal capable of predicting a future touch movement based on a previous touch movement, and applying the future touch movement onto a screen, and a touch coordinate predicting method thereof. Each touch coordinate with respect to a touch movement detected on an application screen is displayed. A change of previous touch coordinates is checked at a time point when a touch coordinate is displayed. A touch coordinate predictive value is calculated based on previous touch coordinates, and then the calculated touch coordinate predictive value is applied onto a current touch coordinate. Under such configuration, a response time, which occurs between a finger's movement and an actual character movement (or a drawing output) due to touch input lag, can be reduced. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355779 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device ( | 2015-12-10 |
20150355780 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTUITIVELY REFOCUSING IMAGES - Methods and systems for intuitively refocusing images are provided. First, an image is displayed on a touch-sensitive display unit, wherein the image is provided with a capability of focus adjustment. It is determined whether a contact event on the touch-sensitive display unit is detected. When a contact event is detected, the image is magnified according to a specific position where the contact event indicated on the image, and the image is refocused to the specific position. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355781 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF - A light source device including a light source module and an adjusting mechanism is provided. The light source module includes a base, a first light source and at least two second light sources. The first light source is disposed on the base and adapted to emit an invisible light curtain, wherein the invisible light curtain ranges over a display plane. The second light sources are disposed on the base and adapted to emit a first visible light beam and a second visible light beam respectively, wherein the first visible light beam is parallel to the invisible light curtain and the second visible light beam is parallel to the invisible light curtain. The adjusting mechanism is disposed on the base and used to adjust relative positions of the base and the display plane. In addition, an adjusting method of the light source device is also provided. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355782 | Touch screen terminal and method for achieving check function thereof - Provided is a method for achieving a check function on a touch screen terminal, which includes that the touch screen terminal selects a check mode and a positive/negative check manner, and in the check mode, the touch screen terminal locks a check page, identifies a gesture operation, and marks a plurality of target objects according to the gesture operation. A touch screen terminal is provided which can implement a check function. Through the touch screen terminal and the method for achieving a check function, the timer spent on a check operation is greatly reduced, the efficiency of the check operation is improved, and the user experience is promoted. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355783 | Control Apparatus and Control Method for Touch-Control Electronic Device - A control apparatus for a touch-control electronic system is provided. The touch-control electronic system includes a display control module and a touch panel. The control apparatus includes a detecting module, a driving frequency selecting module and a driving module. The detecting module detects a synchronization frequency of an image synchronization signal that the display control module adopts. The driving frequency selecting module determines a driving frequency according to the synchronization signal. The driving module generates a driving signal having the driving frequency, and sends the driving signal to the touch panel. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355784 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF AN ACTUATION MEMBER ON A DISPLAY SCREEN - The invention relates to a method including the steps of: displaying first successive images on a screen; acquiring at least one second image; searching for the position of at least one actuation member relative to the screen based on an analysis of the second image; and modifying at least one of the next first images to be displayed if conditions of determination of the position of the actuation member in the second image are only partially fulfilled. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355785 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE, AND DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL - A driving circuit outputs driving waveforms to operation signal lines. The waveforms are formed by combining a first-mode waveform for charging a node capacitor with a positive voltage and a second-mode waveform for charging the node capacitor with a negative voltage in a predetermined binary sequence. A sensing circuit is electrically connected with a plurality of sense signal lines and measures sense voltages delivered to one integration capacitor from a plurality of node capacitors which are electrically connected with the sense signal lines. A sense detector adds or subtracts the sense voltages which are measured by the sensing circuit at driving time points to measure capacitances of the node capacitors. Accordingly, an autocorrelation technique which is generally used in communication systems is applied to driving a touch screen device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355786 | INTERFACES FOR A SPIRIT LEVEL APPLICATION - In one mode of an interface, a bounded area is displayed on a mobile device. A straight line is displayed that divides the bounded area into first and second areas. An angle of the line indicates an orientation of a first axis of the mobile device relative to a respective vector. In response to detecting the change in orientation of the second axis of the device relative to the vector, while maintaining the angle of the line at a first angle, a relative size of the first and second areas is changed in accordance with the change in orientation of the second axis. In a second mode, first and second bounded shapes are displayed. Positions of the bounded shapes with respect to each other are changed along one or more axes in response to a change in orientation of a surface of the mobile device relative to a respective vector. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355787 | DYNAMICALLY EXECUTING MULTI-DEVICE COMMANDS ON A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL - A system and method for sending of data to a specified device without needing to preprogram a dedicated key of a human interface device. One embodiment provides for selection of a display where the display does not need to be programmed ahead of time. A user interface (UI) which allows the user to select the display is arranged in a similar configuration as the configuration of the physical display. In some embodiments, a method using another human interface device may be used. One embodiment may include the sending of data to a server, or first device, by means of a companion device, or second device. One embodiment provides for the sending of data to specific output devices for printing or manufacturing. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355788 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - Disclosed are a method and electronic device for information processing. The method comprises when the list interface is presented on the display unit, detecting whether or not a touch operation used for adjusting an M-number of items among the N-number of items from a current first position to a second position that is different from the first is found, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than N; when the touch operation is detected, responding to the touch operation and generating a first instruction; executing the first instruction, and adjusting the M-number of items from the first position to the second position. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355789 | TREATMENT PROFILES - Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to use and modify/create treatment profiles for extracorporeal blood treatments. For example, treatment profiles may include one or more preset, or predefined, settings or values for an extracorporeal blood treatment such as, e.g., therapy type, therapy set (e.g., tubing set, filter set, etc.), anticoagulation type, and one or more flow rates, etc. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355790 | EXTRACORPOREAL BLOOD TREATMENT DATA INTERFACE - Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to display and select various historical data for extracorporeal blood treatments. Historical data related to extracorporeal blood treatments may be displayed on a two-dimensional graph and in a list view that may be switched there between. Further, historical data may include various datasets (e.g., fluid datasets, patient fluid removal datasets, anticoagulation datasets, etc.) and event information that may be displayed simultaneously. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355791 | HANDHELD TERMINAL, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM - In a delivery network system, deliver a server that holds requested content is determined, using information included in a content request message from a communication terminal. A file or stream of the requested content is read from the determined server. When the content is moving image content, a bandwidth of a mobile network is estimated, based on a response signal or a congestion state notification signal from the communication terminal. The moving content is transmitted by controlling a timing of transmitting the read file or the read stream so as not exceed the estimated bandwidth. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355792 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - A method for operating a mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: displaying an object list through a display portion; receiving a selection of a specific object form the displayed object list; receiving an input of a tilting gesture for moving the position of the selected specific object; and moving the position of the selected specific object according to the tilting gesture. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355793 | RULE BUILDER FOR DATA PROCESSING - Disclosed are various embodiments for a rule builder for data processing. A proper subset of a data set of strings is selected from one or more columns into which the data set is organized. A selection pattern is identified based at least in part on substring selections and a set of pattern rules. The substring selections are received by way of a first user interface that presents strings from the proper subset. The selection pattern is separately represented in the individual substring selections. A second user interface is generated to present the selection pattern. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355794 | COMPUTER USER INTERFACE INCLUDING LENS-BASED ENHANCEMENT OF GRAPH EDGES - In one embodiment, a movable area, referred to as a “lens,” on a graph display allows the user to preview the zoom level of the graph. When a node, line or other item in the graph is in the area of the lens, then the item can be shown at a different zoom level than rest of the graph. In particular embodiments, a heuristic algorithm can be used to dynamically determine the visual representation of a node when in the lens as unique from the depiction of the node when the node is outside of the lens. Operations can be made to the graph items within the lens such as adding, moving, deleting, or connecting items, etc. Other features are described. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355795 | CONTINUOUS READING OF ARTICLES - A content list panel displays a list of article representations. In response to a selection of an article representation from the content list panel, the content application loads an article associated with the selected article representation in addition to one or more second articles. By preloading the second articles, the user can continuously read through different articles in the main window of the content application without having to select an article representation from the content list panel. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355796 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a screen, a receiving unit that receives an operation performed on the screen, a display that displays a document having multiple pages on the screen on a page-by-page basis, a processing mode changing unit that, upon detecting a predetermined first operation on the document displayed on the screen, changes from a first processing mode that moves one page at a time to a second processing mode that moves multiple pages, and a moving unit that, upon detecting a predetermined second operation in the second processing mode, moves multiple pages within the document. As the predetermined first operation, the processing mode changing unit detects continued detection of a first position where a drag operation has ended, or detects, while the first position is detected, an operation performed at a second position different from the first position. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355797 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic book reader includes a touchscreen display device disposed on a front surface of a housing. A storage medium stores image sequence information of plural images of a predetermined sequence. A contact surface portion is disposed on a side surface of the housing. A touch sensor detects contact with the contact surface portion. There is a CPU for display control of displaying the image sequence information on the touchscreen display device. An information processing device is connected between the storage medium and the CPU, for processing the image sequence information according to contact information from the touch sensor. The contact information is information of a rubbing movement in contact with the contact surface portion. The information processing device processes the image sequence information for forward or backward page turning according to a direction of the rubbing movement. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355798 | DOCUMENT READER, DOCUMENT PAGE TURN OVER METHOD AND PROGRAM - A document reader includes a display unit demonstrates a region representing contents of a page selected by a user of an electronic document of a style composed by a plurality of pages held together and a region which is provided neighboring to the region representing the page contents and which represents the thickness of a plurality of pages held together. The document reader also includes an action detection unit that detects contents of an action on the electronic document performed by specifying an arbitrary point in each of the regions, and a display control unit. In case an action of specifying two points, namely an arbitrary position in the region representing the page contents and an arbitrary position in the region representing the thickness of the pages held together, is carried out by a user so that the two points are specified in succession, the display control unit performs a processing of turning over pages up to a page corresponding to the position specified in the region representing the thickness of the pages held together. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355799 | ELECTRONIC ALBUM APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - An electronic album is created taking into consideration the intentions of the user regarding electronic album creation. Face images are extracted from among a number of images for an electronic album and the face images are displayed on a display screen. A face image of an important person is dragged and dropped onto an important image setting area, and the face image of a person not required to be included in the electronic album is dragged and dropped onto an excluded image setting area. An electronic album in line with user intentions is created so as to increase the proportion of images of an important person and exclude images of unwanted persons. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355800 | OPTIMIZING MEMORY FOR A WEARABLE DEVICE - Systems and methods for optimizing memory for a wearable device are provided. A selection may be received from a user via a user interface of a wearable device. Such user selection may indicate an application. Application data associated with the selected application may be identified as being located at another device selected from a plurality of other devices. The application data may then be retrieved from the selected device over a communication network. A display may be generated and displayed on the user interface of the wearable device. Such display may be based on the retrieved application data and associated with execution of the selected application. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355801 | RECORDED HISTORY FEATURE IN OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWING SYSTEM - Recording the video display of an application independently of the video displays of other applications and regardless of the characteristics of the video display—for example, regardless of whether the application is running in the foreground or the background or whether its display is fully visible, partially visible, or not visible at all on a monitor or other display device. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355802 | DISPAY FOR INPUT SELECTION ON A COMPACT INFORMATION PRO-CESSING DEVICE - Embodiments are provided for a system, a computer program product, and/or a method that improves a display of an input selection displayed on a compact screen. To improve this display, embodiments search displayed content for input items, wherein the input items are selections inputted by a user; display different marks, each associated with each of the input items; receive a subsequent input from the user; and change a selection state of each item of the input items corresponding to a mark of the different marks in response to the subsequent input received corresponding to that mark. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355803 | OPERATION UNIT-EQUIPPED DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An operation unit-equipped device includes an operation unit. The operation unit includes a property controller configured to store, in a storage unit, operation property information of an application for controlling a main body of the operation unit-equipped device or changed information that is a changed piece of the operation property information; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control, when the changed information is stored in the storage unit, an operation of the main body by an operation of the application corresponding to the changed information. The control unit is also configured to control, when the changed information is not stored in the storage unit, an operation of the main body by an operation of the application corresponding to the operation property information. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355804 | LIVE VIDEO BROADCAST USER INTERFACE - In an example embodiment, an indication is received via a user interface in a first mobile device to begin recording live video on the first mobile device. Then the recording of live video is begun by the first mobile device in response to the receiving of the indication. The live video is displayed in the user interface as it is being recorded. A gesture by a user of the first mobile device is detected. In response to the detection of the gesture, the broadcasting of the live video as it is being recorded to a plurality of mobile devices other than the first mobile device is begun. Then, in the user interface along with the live video, identifications of a plurality of users corresponding to the plurality of mobile device other than the first mobile device to which the live video is being broadcast are displayed. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355805 | DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT FOR OBJECT AND ATTRIBUTE DISPLAY AND INTERACTION - Systems, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems and interfaces include a dynamic environment generation subsystem that changes objects and subobjects based on locations of the motion sensors and/or the nature, time and/or location of sensed motion and include selection attractive movement as the selection protocol, where a selection object is used to discriminate between selectable objects and attract a target object toward the selection objects, where the direction and speed of the motion controls, discriminates, attracts, and activates the selected objects. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355806 | THRESHOLD-BASED DRAGGABLE GESTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING EVENTS - A novel approach to displaying content on user devices may include initializing a gesture-to-refresh functionality with a view of a page of a non-native application running on a client device. The non-native application can be platform-independent. Each page of the non-native application can have its own gesture-to-refresh functionality. User gesture events such as touch or mouse events relative to the view presented on a display of the client device are continuously monitored by the gesture-to-refresh functionality which detects and tracks the view when dragged by a dragging gesture from a first position to a second position on the display. The view is refreshed when the second position of the view reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold. The view is allowed to return to the first position upon release of the dragging gesture when the second position of the view is less than the predetermined threshold. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355807 | Systems and Methods For Selecting a Still Image From a Live Video Feed - In one aspect, systems and methods that make it possible for a user to view a live video feed on a display while at the same time select a suitable still image from the live video feed are provided. Thus, the live video feed is not hidden from the user while the user selects the still image. In some embodiments, this advantageous feature is achieved by providing a graphical user interface (GUI) having: i) a live video view for displaying a live video feed; ii) a video snippet view for displaying a snippet of the live video feed; and iii) a still image view. A frame from the live video view or a frame from the snippet view can be dragged to the still image view. Thus, an image can be grabbed from either the snippet view or directly from the live video view. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355808 | COMPUTER NETWORK AND METHOD FOR DISPLACEMENT OF AN OBJECT WITHIN A COMPUTER NETWORK - In a computer network and a method for displacement of an object within a computer network, the computer network has a first computer system with a first graphical user interface and a second computer system with a second graphical user interface. A selection view of the second graphical user interface can be presented on the first graphical user interface, and a target location can be selected in the selection view. An object on the first graphical user interface can be displaced onto the target location. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355809 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: an operation section; and a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through the operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display section in response to the dragging and execute, where a direction from one end portion of the cursor which is a start point side of the dragging to the other end portion of the cursor which is an end point side of the dragging is determined as a direction of the cursor, a process corresponding to the direction of the cursor for information displayed on the display section; the control section changing the information to be displayed on the display section when the other end portion of the cursor enters a predetermined region set on the screen by the dragging. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355810 | Systems and Methods of Multi-Touch Concurrent Dispensing - Systems and method for beverage dispense from a plurality of users include a beverage dispenser with a touch-sensitive graphical display. A computer of the beverage dispenser receives touch event data points and identifies one or more GUI sections of a plurality of GUI sections associated with the received touch event data points. The computer further operates to interpret a touch event input and provide a command responsive to the input to an associated dispensing unit. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355811 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE SURFACE AND INTERACTIVE DISPLAY SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for controlling a virtual interactive surface in a scene include a surface for displaying information and one or several virtual sensors positioned with respect to the surface. The virtual sensor includes data representing a geometric form, data representing a position in the scene, and data representing one or several trigger conditions. A data representation of the scene is captured and a determination whether a virtual sensor trigger condition is fulfilled is made, based on an analysis of the captured data representation in an area corresponding to the geometric form and position of the virtual sensor. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355812 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device including: a display unit configured to display a screen including an operation target to be subjected to a contact operation; a first detection unit configured to detect an object on the display unit; a second detection unit configured to detect an operation unavailable region among display regions of the screen based on a detection result obtained by the first detection unit, the operation unavailable region being a region in which an operation using the operation target is unable to be performed; and a change processing unit configured to change a configuration of the screen based on priority that is set for each operation target and to allow the operation target to be displayed in an operation available region, the operation available region being a region other than the operation unavailable region. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355813 | Movable Selection Indicators for Region or Point Selection on a User Interface - Methods, systems, and user interfaces enable users identify a user-selected location of a user interface with reduced movement and motor effort. A first selection indicator is overlaid on the user interface and moved in a first direction. Responsive to receiving a first user input to stop movement of the first selection indicator, movement of the first selection indicator is ceased over a first location of the user interface. A second selection indicator is overlaid on the user interface and the second selection indicator is moved in a second direction. Responsive to receiving a second user input to stop movement of the second selection indicator, movement of the second selection indicator is ceased over a second location of the user interface. The user-selected location of the user interface is selected based at least in part on the first and the second locations of the user interface. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355814 | Non-Transitory Storage Medium Encoded With Computer Readable Information Processing Program, Information Processing Apparatus, Method of Controlling Information Processing Apparatus, and Information Processing System, Capable of Controlling Virtual Camera While Grasping Overall Condition of Virtual Camera Arranged in Virtual Space - A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, causing one or more processors to perform a region display module having, together with an object representing a virtual camera located within a virtual space, at least a part of a region representing a range within the virtual space for setting a position of the object displayed, an input acceptance module accepting an input for the displayed object, an object posture setting module setting a posture of the object based on the input to the input acceptance module, a virtual camera control module controlling the virtual camera based on the posture of the object set by the object posture setting module, and a picked-up image display module having a picked-up image displayed, which is picked up by the virtual camera controlled by the virtual camera control module. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355815 | DYNAMIC ICONS - There is provided herein a system for identifying a selected icon, the system comprising at least one controller configured to obtain from a sensor a signal indicative of an eye-response of a user, said eye-response is responsive to at least one dynamic property of a dynamic icon selected by the user by watching said selected dynamic icon, analyze said eye-response of said user, identify said selected dynamic icon based on said analysis, and produce a signal indicative of said selected dynamic icon. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING A PLURALITY OF ICONS ON A SCREEN - A method and apparatus are provided for arranging icons on a screen of a device, wherein a first device receives information about a layout of a plurality of icons displayed on a screen of a second device, and then displays the plurality of icons on a screen of the first device, based on the received information. | 2015-12-10 |
20150355817 | ENHANCED VISUAL NAVIGATION BREADCRUMBS - A system that provides visual components generates a first display of selectable and hierarchical visual components, where each visual component has at least one associated attribute. The system receives a selection of one of the visual components and displays a second display of visual components at a next hierarchical level of the selected visual component. The system then generates and displays breadcrumbs that include a navigation path from the first display to the second display, and include the associated attribute for the selected visual component. | 2015-12-10 |