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A method and system for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of columns on a display screen is disclosed. The at least one column of the plurality of columns has at least one entry containing text data. The method and system include obtaining the at least one entry from the at least one column, and abbreviating a width of the at least one entry, determining if there is another entry containing text data. The method and system further include repeating the steps of obtaining the at least one entry, abbreviating the at least one entry and determining if there is another entry until all of the at least one entries are abbreviated. The method and system further include displaying the at least one column having the at least one abbreviated entry.

A display hanger is provided which allows multiple pairs of socks or other articles to be hung without interference from other pairs on arms therebelow. The display hanger can be manufactured using conventional molding techniques employing standard polymeric materials. The arms are offset to allow better viewing and convenience of the supported articles while loading and unloading the hangers.

A system and attendant structural components for incorporating an alternate fuel supply, such as of the type used in combination with a conventional distillate fuel, to power a heavy duty industrial vehicle, such as a mine haul dump truck. The system and attendant structure includes a mounting assembly structured for containment and support of the alternate fuel and a containment area disposed on the vehicle and structured and dimensioned to retain the mounting assembly therein. The containment area and the mounting assembly are disposed in laterally adjacent, exposed relation to an operator area of the mine haul truck, wherein the mounting assembly and the containment area are cooperatively disposed and structured to facilitate storage of the alternate fuel and operative communication and distribution thereof with the powering engine of the mine haul vehicle.

An invention is provided for presenting time related data on small screen devices is disclosed. The invention includes examining a plurality of time related data entries to obtain a start time and an end time for each time related data entry, and generating a time bar based on the time related data. The time bar includes a plurality of pixels, wherein a predefined block of pixels represents a particular period of time. The time bar also includes a plurality of indicia, such as hour numbers, indicating a plurality of times. The start time and the end time of each time related data entry are correlated to pixels on the time bar, and an intensity of pixels on the time bar between the start time and the end time of each time related data entry is changed.

A device includes a character-data rotating section that rotates a regular-position character by a predetermined angle with respect to a reference point that is the center point of the background area of the regular-position character by using regular-position character data having a rotation angle of 0° and a center-point matching processing section that horizontally and / or vertically enlarges the background area of the rotated character data to cause the center point of the rotated character and the center point of BMP data to match each other even with respect to rotated character data. Thus, when multiple pieces of character data are arranged so that the center points thereof lie on a reference line, not only are the center points of the characters aligned along the reference line, but also bottom portions of the characters aligned with respect to the reference line.

Display devices for a cord are provided. The display device has a display surface for displaying a message or idea. The display surface can be sized, shaped and colored to display the message. Text or images can be applied to the display surface. A notch formed in the display device is sized for selective attachment to the cord of an electronic device such as a computer, MP3 player, or cellphone.

An image processing device includes an operation reception portion which receives an instruction operation for displaying a desired image from a plane image or a stereoscopic image that is stored in a recording medium; an information output portion that is connected to a display device which displays the plane image or the stereoscopic image to output image information for displaying the image stored in the recording medium on the display device; and a control portion.

A secure packaging unit utilizing an open top container that is filled and an intermediary section having an integral removable seal fixedly attached thereto after the open top container is filled thereby sealing the contents therein. A user is able to break out the removable seal and replace a standard lid upon the intermediary section / open top container combination thereby capping and containing the contents therein. Such a unit allows a pharmacist to fill a prescription in a manner that prevents third parties from tampering with the filled prescription between the time of filling and the time the customer removes the removable seal.

A compact mounting device for releasibly securing a GPS receiver or other electronic accessory to a handlebar of a motorcycle or other handlebar-steered vehicle is described. The device includes a clamp releasibly attachable to a motorcycle handlebar; a cylindrical mounting post rotatably attached to the upper surface of the clamp; a mounting yoke pivotally attached to the mounting post; and a mounting plate to support a GPS receiver or other accessory rotatably attached to the yoke. The face of the accessory can be oriented toward the vehicle rider by rotating the post, tilting the yoke and / or rotating the mounting plate, so that the device is useable with a wide variety of handlebar orientations.

An assembly structured to inflate a retaining or pressure cuff of the type associated with an artificial airway tube such as an endotracheal tube and / or tracheostomy tube and concurrently monitor pressure therein including a casing having a pressure chamber on its interior. A pump assembly is movably connected to the casing and structured to force fluid flow to the retaining cuff, for inflation, through said pressure chamber. An indicator member is disposed within the casing and is visually accessible through casing window, wherein the indicator member is variably positionable dependent on and indicative of existing pressure within the retaining cuff. The existing pressure within the pressure chamber is substantially equivalent to that within the retaining cuff thereby facilitating the variable position of the indicator member to be indicative of pressure within the retaining cuff. A junction is disposed in interconnecting relation between the casing and an inflation lumen to the restraining cuff and is structured to allow disconnection between the casing and the lumen but prevent reconnection thereto.

A thumbnail creating section creates a thumbnail of a specified object to be read. A linear information computing section computes an internal coordinate used as linear information from attribute information on each content. An order-of-priority determining section determines the order of priority of each content. A thumbnail line-forming section forms a line of thumbnails according to the scale specified by the user. A superposition thumbnail nondisplay section does not display a thumbnail having the lower order of priority than that of the other of the superposed thumbnails.

A vehicular display control apparatus includes: a condition determination portion that determines whether a deviation prediction condition has been established, the deviation prediction condition being a condition based on which a deviation between a sensible speed for a driver and an actual traveling speed is predicted; a speed difference determination portion that determines whether a speed difference between the actual traveling speed and a speed limit is a switching determination value or larger, and whether a shortage of the traveling speed from the speed limit is the switching determination value or larger; and a switching control portion that switches a speed display indicating the traveling speed to an emphasized display in a case when the condition determination portion determines that the deviation prediction condition has been established, and also when the speed difference determination portion determines that the speed difference is the switching determination value or larger.

Novel optical disc storage units comprising transparent polypropylene are provided. Such storage units exhibit sufficient impact resistance to protect the target disc and sufficient clarity that any informational literature may be placed entirely within the storage unit and easily viewed and read through the walls thereof without impediment. Furthermore, the target storage unit must also include a spine section of sufficient width to permit a section of the informational literature to be placed internally thereon and viewed and easily read (such as, for example, the title and accompanying language describing the target disc placed therein) substantially without impediment as well. Additionally, provided therein are novel insert trays that simultaneously permit proper placement of such internally placed informational literature against the internal portion of the aforementioned walls, and particularly the spine portion, as well as provide antitheft properties. Such insert trays are designed to encompass any discs placed therein to the extent that such discs cannot exit such trays when the container is in closed position without breaking the disc itself. Specific novel storage units, in addition to these necessarily transparent walls and spine portions, are also possible to maximize the benefits of the transparent properties thereof.

The present invention provides an apparatus which displays a plan wiring diagram and three-dimensional layout diagram by associating them with each other so that they can be viewed easily. A apparatus for displaying wiring includes a first storage for storing an image of a plan wiring diagram which shows parts and wirings and a second storage for storing a three-dimensional layout of an apparatus which incorporates the parts and the wirings, and a third storage for storing intermediate images transitional between a starting image in the plan wiring diagram and an ending image of a shape of the corresponding wiring in the three-dimensional layout. A processor displays the plan wiring diagram on the display device by retrieving the plan wiring diagram from the first storage based on a user's selection, and retrieves the intermediate images of a wiring from the third storage when the wiring is selected from the plan wiring diagram and displays transitions to the shape shown in the three-dimensional layout.

A display on a boat's dash enables the driver to display desired data in easy-to-read format while the boat is underway. Two screens adjacent to each other are separated by a mullion. In its initial state, the display shows a speedometer split across the screens. Additional data can be displayed on the screens along with the speedometer portions. The boat driver presses a button on the display causing the speedometer to move to the left and in doing so the speedometer portions appear to move together under the mullion to form a whole speedometer on the left screen. Moving the speedometer to one screen frees display area on the other so that additional or different data can be displayed. By pressing certain buttons on the display any already-displayed additional data may remain on the screen or disappear, and different additional data may be added to the screens.

A mobile terminal device includes: a touch panel in which one of a plurality of segment areas is adjacent to the other segment areas different in at least three directions; a pattern storing unit that associates and stores any of functions of the mobile terminal device with a registered pattern formed of the plurality of adjacent segment areas of the segment areas of the touch panel; a pattern recognizing unit that recognizes the plurality of segment areas continuously touched by a user, as an input pattern; and a function activating unit that compares the input pattern recognized by the pattern recognizing unit with the registered pattern stored in the pattern storing unit, and activates the function corresponding to the registered pattern when the input pattern matches the registered pattern.

A seat caddy for secure organization of personal items at a stadium event and having variable attachment means to permit it to be releasably attached to either the seat back or seat bottom of a standard stadium seat and a method for using same. In a first configurations the seat caddy is releasably attached to the seat back of the seat in front of the user using a strap that wraps around one or more of the horizontal slats of the stadium seat back. In a second configuration, the seat caddy is provided with a hook that hooks the caddy to the back edge of and across the top of the seat base of a stadium seat such that the caddy is disposed in a vertical position at the front edge of the seat base. The caddy contains pockets for holding personal items and that are held in a vertical position according to both methods for attaching the seat caddy to a stadium seat. The caddy is further designed to be waterproof and removable so that a spectator may keep his personal items organized across multiple stadium events.

A video display device includes a brightness range specifying unit configured to specify a range of brightness values for highlight, a signal processing unit configured to detect signals relevant to an area other than an area in the brightness range specified by the brightness range specifying unit from input video signals, suppress color components of the detected signals, and not suppress color components of signals relevant to the area in the specified brightness range, and a display unit configured to display video based on the video signals processed by the signal processing unit, the unit being capable of performing color display.

A scanning probe microscope probe is produced by depositing a raw-material film on the surface of a cone made of Si, etc. and growing a needle-like crystal by using the raw-material film by irradiating an energy beam to a point on the cone at a predetermined distance along the side surface from the cone tip under such conditions as not to melt the cone. Also, a charge density wave quantum phase microscope is provided which uses a probe made of a charge density wave crystal. Also, a charge density wave quantum interferometer is provided which uses the needle-like crystal formed from the charge density wave crystal. Also, the scanning probe microscope probe is formed from a pressure-induced superconducting substance.

Related embodiments of self-supporting permanently-formed, or foldable and quick-setup, food-protective apparatus are disclosed, each for safely storing and protecting, serving and / or transporting food-products in or to one or more, food-preparation or food-serving settings. The apparatus include one or more openable and closeable openings or apertures each having a positionable door or covering that can quickly and easily be moved to an opened or closed position. The apparatus may optionally incorporate see-through ventilative screened or meshed material and may be made of a rigid or flexible insulative material. The Enclosure embodiments also include stackable and / or side-by-side quick alignment elements, optional one or more trays or shelves having one or more receptacles for retaining a heating or chilling material, or having receptacles for one or more garnishes, herbs, spices, enclosures having various shapes, and the option to make a barbeque with one or more integrally-incorporated food-protective enclosures.

A lever assembly for an optical scope defining a mounting surface, a mounting hole, and indicia, the lever assembly comprising a lever member and a mounting member. The lever member comprises a base portion comprising a base wall defining an engaging surface adapted to engage the mounting surface and an extension portion comprising at least one extension side wall extending from the base wall such that a lever sightline is defined by the base wall and the at least one extension side wall. The mounting member is adapted to secure the base wall to the mounting surface by engaging the mounting hole. The mounting member secures the lever member to the optical scope such that the indicia can be viewed along the lever sightline while the lever member is displaced through a range of movement to adjust the optical scope.

A measuring tape device with illumination function comprises a casing; a measuring tape received in the casing; an illuminator having a switch and an illuminating unit; the switch serving for actuating the illuminating unit; the illuminating unit being installed at a lateral side of the casing and near the measuring tape and hook; a cover covering upon the illuminating unit; the cover being reflective and deflective so that light is incident into the measuring tape for viewing the scales on the measuring tape. The casing has at least one battery. The illuminating unit is one of a bulb or light emitting diodes. The cover has a cross section of a right triangular. One side of the cover faces toward an exterior of the casing and another side of the cover faces toward the measuring tape.

An example game system includes a game device, a controller, and a terminal device which is a portable display device. The terminal device displays an image representing a ball placed in a virtual game space. The game device calculates the attitude of the controller to move a club in the game space based on the attitude, and moves the ball in response to the club striking the ball. An image of the game space including at least the ball after being moved is displayed on a display device separate from the portable display device.

An image display control device for displaying an image that is easy to view for a person is provided. The image display control device includes: an entry detector that detects, based on an image captured by an imaging device, an entry position through which a person entered a range of imaging; an entry direction identifying unit that identifies, based on the detected entry position and a center position of a region including a range of projection by a projecting device, an entry direction in which the person entered the range of imaging; a renderer that performs on an image data item a rotational rendering process in which an image to be projected by the projecting device is rotated according to the identified entry direction; and an output unit that outputs to the projecting device the image data item on which the rotational rendering process has been performed.

A webpage is presented to a student upon beginning an examination. Text of the question is provided to the student on the upper part of the page. The student is shown a timer that shows how much time has elapsed since the student has begun taking the examination. The webpage permits the student to hide the timer or to show how much time is remaining. The student begins typing the answer in the text box provided. As the student types the answer in the text box, the text is communicated asynchronously request to a web application. The web application is executing on a web application server and stores the received answer of the student in a database at various time intervals. For example, every minute, the web-application stores the answer of the student. An instructor is able to see exactly how issues, rules, and facts are discussed throughout the exam.

An electronic apparatus wearable for a user and a display control method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes an interactive display device, a supplementary input device and a processor device. The interactive display device displays a user interface. The processor device coupled to the interactive display device and the supplementary input device detects a clockwise movement and a counter-clockwise movement performed on the supplementary input device, wherein the clockwise movement and the counter-clockwise movement are associated with a function under an operation mode of the electronic apparatus. When one of the clockwise movement and the counter-clockwise movement is detected, the processor device correspondingly performs is the function. When the function is an interface rotation function, the processor device rotates the user interface on the interactive display device in accordance with the detected clockwise movement and the detected counter-clockwise movement.

A management hub is disclosed. The management hub comprises an interface; a master hub controller coupled to the interface; a plurality of ports coupled to the master hub controller; a microcontroller coupled to the master hub controller; and hub setting switch and a slave hub controller coupled to the microcontroller and the plurality of ports. The management hub also includes a memory device coupled to the microcontroller, the memory device including a hidden drive information partition and a hidden drive organizer partition for managing and identifying information in various drives coupled to the plurality of ports, wherein when the management hub is first connected to a host system the drives are displayed in an inactive state.

A display controlling apparatus, connected to an input apparatus and a display apparatus, comprises: an acquiring unit of acquiring, from the input apparatus, image information of a first image displayed on a display screen of the input apparatus and cursor information indicating a display position of a first cursor image on the display screen; a deciding unit of deciding a display position of a second cursor image in a display range within which the display apparatus displays an image, based on the cursor information acquired by the acquiring unit; and a controlling unit of performing control to display a second image based on the acquired image information and the second cursor image on the display apparatus, and change, according to a change of a size of the second image to be displayed on the display apparatus, a size of the second cursor image to be displayed on the display apparatus.