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Grouping and navigating media files within a playlist on a computer-readable medium. Invention software selects media files according to a grouping criterion to define a group from the media files. The invention software generates a group header associated with the group. The group header includes a value identifying the defined group and a reference to another group to enable navigation. The invention software stores the selected media files, the playlist, the defined groups, and the associated group headers on a computer-readable medium. The invention software also includes playback software for navigating and selecting media files via groups within a playlist. In one embodiment, the invention is operable as part of a compressed media format having a set of small files containing metadata, menus, and playlists in a compiled binary formal designed for playback on feature-rich personal computer media players as well as low cost media players.

A query server of a mobile search engine system for searching content items accessible online, is arranged to send at least a first screenview of search results (63) to a browser of a mobile device (10), and send instructions (69, 74) in a scripting language to the browser for a background process to fetch further search results to the mobile device for presentation later. The further search results can then be viewed as desired without the need for a further round trip delay across the wireless network. The user can be presented with a simpler navigation model. The first screenview can be sent in the form of a page formatting template, and results data. The formatting information can be reused for other results, to reduce formatting overhead in the downloads. The instructions can also be used for showing information while waiting for downloads, or downloading information during entry of search queries.

A method of content presentation on a device is disclosed. The method includes: presenting a media presentation structure through a view window on a display screen of the device, wherein the media presentation structure includes multiple presentation layers; detecting a navigation command through an input stream from an input hardware of the device, wherein the navigation command enables the view window to traverse through presentation of a first presentation layer of the media presentation structure; determining when the navigation command indicates a layer transition from the first presentation layer to a second presentation layer by determining whether the navigation command exceeds a limit of the first presentation layer; and rendering a transition sequence of the layer transition when the layer transition is indicated.

The sprocket shaped menu except selections of information from the menu, where selecting an item in the menu causes other parts of the look of the menu to change. In one embodiment, this can cause a break in the menu which shows a preview. In another embodiment, touching an item on the menu can cause an automatic update of the other items unless those other items have been automatically updated within a predetermined time before, such as within 15 minutes.

Devices and methods are disclosed for treating tissue with microwave energy. Such devices and methods are able to treat cavities or surface tissue by creating one or more area or volumetric lesions. Also disclosed are flexible, low-profile devices that can be inserted non-invasively or minimally invasively near or into the target tissue as well as microwave antennas designed to generate ablation profiles that can ablate a large area or a large volume of target tissue in a single ablation. The devices include antennas wherein the field profile generated by an antenna is tailored and optimized for a particular clinical application. The antennas use unique properties of microwaves such as interaction of a microwave field with a metallic object and the use of additional shaping elements to shape the microwave field.

An acetabular component alignment device for total hip arthroplasty comprises a calibration component (9) allowing for aligning a main instrument axis (5) of the acetabular component depending on a set of two patient specific calibration parameters relating to rotational offsets of the acetabular component, whereas the device is constructed in such a way that calibration parameters may be chosen such that a second parameter of the set of calibration parameters is adjustable independently from a first parameter of the set of calibration parameters by rotating the acetabular component around the main instrument axis (5) of the acetabular component. A method for obtaining patient specific calibration parameters for alignment of an acetabular component in total hip arthroplasty, comprises the steps of determining patient specific morphology information relating to a geometry of the patient's pelvis; and processing the patient specific morphology information for obtaining a set of two patient specific calibration parameters relating to rotational offsets of the acetabular component. The calibration parameters are chosen such that a second parameter of the set of calibration parameters may be adjusted independently from a first parameter of the set of calibration parameters by rotating the acetabular component around a main instrument axis of the acetabular component.

A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information.

A method and apparatus of simplified navigation. A web page is provided having a link to a sister site. The sister site facilitates simplified navigation. Pages from the sister site are served responsive to actuation of the sister site link. In one embodiment, the sister site includes matrix pages to permit matrix navigation.

The invention relates to the field of domestic network technology. The control of an appliance in the network via a central appliance for the network and having a display unit is normally simplified with the aid of user interfaces. When an audio-video datastream has to be transmitted between two network appliances, then this takes place via data links that are set up. There is then a close relationship between the connected appliances, and this requires frequent switching between the user interfaces of the two appliances. For example, when the user interface for a CD player is displayed, this user interface must first of all be closed and a user interface for an amplifier in the network must be started, usually by selection from the list of all the appliances in the network, in order then to set the volume for the amplifier. The aim of the invention is to simplify the control of such appliances which are coupled to one another via a data link that has been set up. This is achieved by providing a field in the user interface for an appliance to be controlled, in which field a list of those appliances which maintain a connection that has been set up is displayed, and the user interface of that appliance is displayed with it. This results in a preselection from the list of all of the appliances in the network, allowing the desired user interface to be selected more quickly.

A graphical user interface is provided that permits the navigation of dynamic collections of information. A simplified presentation allows navigation between multiple levels of information content. Navigating through the various levels of the collection of information causes the information to be recursively presented in a hierarchical fashion. Furthermore, the information content may be dynamic in nature such that changes to the information content or its structure is reflected in the hierarchical presentation. The present invention may be used to navigate collections of information including web sites, computer file systems, databases, and other hierarchical systems.

An improved method and system for storing a structured document in its native format in a database is disclosed. The method includes receiving the structured document, generating a hierarchical node tree comprising a plurality of nodes, where the node tree represents the structured document, and storing the plurality of nodes in at least one record in the database. Through the aspects of the present invention, a structured document is parsed and a hierarchical node tree comprising a plurality of nodes is generated from the parsed data. The plurality of nodes is stored in one or more records. Each node points to its parent, to its attributes, and to its child-elements. By storing the structured document as a plurality of nodes forming a node tree, the document's structure is preserved and navigation up and down the tree is simplified. Moreover, by storing the nodes of the tree in standard database records, the existing infrastructure for fixed page buffer management, utilities, and operations, e.g., logging, locking and replication, can be utilized.

The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. A typical larger enterprise's portal contains large numbers, e.g., thousands of pages and portlets. Due to the complexity of an enterprise portal, manual administration is inefficient as it is time-consuming, error-prone and thus expensive. In order to overcome these disadvantages, it is proposed that a Portal according to the invention performs some mining of the portlet markup and / or that of the portlet description in order to autonomously compute and propose an enhanced portal content structure. This helps to provide a user-friendly content structure that reflects well the relationships between portlets.

A method and apparatus for sub-topic identification from a search result that matches a query, said method including the steps of receiving a search result, extracting snippets from said search result that contain said query, truncating snippets on an instance of a boundary token, identifying phrases within said snippets that include the query, comparing all said phrases to determine optimal phrases, and presenting said optimal phrases. The apparatus for sub-topic identification from a search result that matches a query may include a dedicated server or a proxy for processing the search and sub-topic query.

An angiography system for angiographic examination of a patient is provided. The system has an x-ray emitter and an x-ray image detector attached to the ends of a C-arm, a patient support couch, a system control unit, an image system and a monitor. The system control unit generates a mask image that detects a reference image, effects a registration of the reference image to the C-arm, whereby if necessary a segmentation of the examination object is implemented in the reference image, contrasts image regions lying inside of the segmentation in order to generate a mask image, and subtracts the mask image from fluoroscopy live images acquired by the angiography system without contrast agent in order to form a roadmap image. The image system effects a reproduction of the roadmap images on the monitor.

A method for increasing multimedia data accessibility is presented and more specifically increasing the interactivity with images shown on a display device. A series of images is displayed according to a user's position relative to a display screen by displaying a first image, receiving information regarding a change in the user's position relative to the display screen, and displaying a second image in response to the change in the user's position. The series of images are packaged, compressed and transmitted in a manner that makes it feasible to simultaneously receive, display and interact with the series of images. The scale of a portion of the images is manipulated based on interaction therewith.

Systems and methods are shown which provide processor-based self-service systems for use with respect to controlled environment facilities. Embodiments provide processor-based self-service systems having robust input / output capabilities in order to support a wide range of functionality. Processor-based self-service systems of embodiments are adapted to be deployed within a controlled environment facility, such as within a lobby area, a holding area, and / or a restricted area of a controlled environment facility. According to embodiments, processor-based self-service systems are used with respect to a plurality of functions and a plurality of users, thereby processing a variety of information associated with a controlled environment facility. Embodiments operate to aggregate, compile, correlate, and link information to provide data heretofore unavailable from separate or manual systems used with respect to controlled environment facilities.

A method for increasing multimedia data accessibility is presented and more specifically increasing the interactivity with images shown on a display device. A series of images is displayed according to a user's position relative to a display screen by displaying a first image, receiving information regarding a change in the user's position relative to the display screen, and displaying a second image in response to the change in the user's position. The series of images are packaged, compressed and transmitted in a manner that makes it feasible to simultaneously receive, display and interact with the series of images. The scale of a portion of the images is manipulated based on interaction therewith.

A wireless handset having the capability of browsing full Internet web pages is disclosed. The handset includes a position sensing device, such as an optical sensor or a mouse ball and rollers, at its bottom surface. In an Internet browsing operating mode, a portion of a web page is displayed on a graphics display of the handset. Movement of the handset along a solid surface, similar to the movement of a computer mouse, will change the portion of the web page displayed. A cursor is displayed over the web page, and handset keys correspond to “left-click” and “right-click” functions in this mode. In a text entry mode, a portion of a keyboard layout is displayed, so that selection of characters using the cursor and movement of the handset is effected.

A system for controlling a menu based augmented reality (AR) Graphical User Interface (GUI) according to predefined head movement positions, comprising a head mounted AR display and one or more hardware processors adapted to execute a code, the code comprising code instructions to present one or more selection menus of a GUI displayed by the head mounted AR display, the selection menu(s) comprising one or more control display objects, code instructions to detect one or more predefined discrete head movement positions of the head mounted display by analyzing sensory data received from one or more orientation sensors monitoring orientation of the head mounted display, each of the predefined discrete head movement positions maps one of a plurality of navigation actions and code instructions to apply a respective navigation action mapped by the detected predefined discrete head movement position(s) on a currently pointed control object of the control display objects.

In a method and apparatus for acquisition and evaluation of image data of an examination subject that are to be created with at least one imaging medical imaging apparatus, generation of a whole-body overview image of the examination subject is generated and selection of an anatomical region in the whole-body overview image is selected. A point in the selected anatomical region is established that forms the origin of a whole-body coordinate system relating to the examination subject, and establishment of an associated, subject-related coordinate system is established / Upon a later examination with a medical imaging apparatus, a whole-body overview image and / or a partial image containing the origin and / or another marker point is / are generated, and examination (diagnostic) images of the examination subject (S3), are generated. Using new whole-body overview images and / or the partial image, the examination images and spatially arranged in the original whole-body coordinate system dependent on a comparison of at least one item of image information of the examination image with at least one item of image information of the whole-body overview image and / or at least one item of information of the partial image that is related to the whole-body coordinate system.

Method for the selective navigation of a medical instrument, in particular of a catheter, invasively inserted into a hollow organ of the human body or the body of an animal to a pathological site in the hollow organ, in which method on the basis of a prior, first image display recorded by means of a non-invasive examination procedure of at least a part of the hollow organ the position of one or more pathological sites is determined and the image display is reproduced during subsequent navigation of the instrument together with a continuous angiographically recorded angiography image display of at least a part of the hollow organ in which the tip of the instrument is located.

The present invention provides a wearable navigation forearm-band device for intuitive navigation of a user to his destination, the device including at least four tactile stimulus providers, each adapted to impact on different areas of a forearm of a user to provide a specific direction of movement of the user, wherein the device is adapted to receive commands from a communication apparatus to activate said vibration indicators response to a position of the user.

The invention relates to a method and a device for interactive control of a machine, whereby the operating parameters necessary for the working process of the machine are inputted into a data processing unit (12), for storing the operating parameters, using an input unit (10) with input fields in a form which guides the user. Working processes are thus carried out as a result of the inputs. A data set of the base rules for the working process of the machine is recorded in the data processing unit. A limited selection (11) of possible input choices is provided for the user by application of the data set based on the machine configuration and machine environment, which further comprise compatible parts for addition to the extant parts of a working process. Operator guidance is facilitated, whereby the user is provided with a limited selection (11), corresponding to the further parts of the process, on operating fields, by the input unit (10) on the surface (16) for manual input and / or for input using a manipulator (38).

A path calculation method based on location information is provided. The method is applied to a navigation device. In this method, the navigation device obtains information of a location transmitted by an electronic device. The location information is a text information or a picture. The navigation device obtains information of a coordinate contained in the location information, a starting road name to which its own location belongs and a corresponding starting point, as well as a navigation road name to which the coordinate information belongs and a corresponding navigation point. The navigation device then calculates a best navigation path according to the above information through a global positioning system (GPS). By this method, the navigation device may perform navigation path planning or calculation upon reading the location information, so as to shorten time for a user to input text and coordinates.