42 results about "Intelligent user interface" patented technology

Personal data services, such as a set of Web services, are enabled that allow a user to enter personal metadata information, e.g., about likely people and / or events to be targets of a camera capture event. Then, when a user's computing device acquires such metadata, e.g., via embedded Web services software, an intelligent user interface allows the user to enter whether any of such personal metadata information pertains to any personal data, such as a video, an audio file or an image, which is captured by the user's computing device. The personal data including the metadata information can be automatically uploaded via one or more wired and / or wireless networks to a device that hosts a personal data service, which stores the personal data and associated metadata, providing for effective means to access and manage a user's personal data store. The services of the invention also enable a system for identifying unknown or new metadata where existing metadata is not sufficient to describe a video, audio or image capture event. In addition, a gateway is provided that enables transfer of content from the Web services to other media service providers, such as a cable or television over Internet Protocol (“TVoIP”) video or other video on demand (“VOD”) service.

A system for managing large quantities of business related documents stored electronically requires little or no reliance on the corresponding hardcopy versions. The management system data includes a processing approach that allows for the creation of documents electronically, i.e., by virtual documents the system users in concert with their everyday business activities-thus overcoming the previous difficulty in implementing paperless office environments. In particular, essentially all documents are stored as system available image files on a central image server. Organization of these image based virtual documents are created during initial document review by the users having review responsibilities in the first instance. During the review process, the system provides a highly intelligent user interface which permits the creation of indexing values corresponding to the document in a highly simplified and intuitive manner. This permits the rapid and burden free preparation of document indices to support useful interaction with the image based virtual document-thus eliminating the need for any supporting hardcopy.

An interactive and intelligent user interface for inputting a query, generating a query result including one or more matching concepts stored in a knowledgebase of one or more media types, and presenting the user with a rich personalized query result based on the user's preferences and personal information, and provides improved relevant search results.

A dynamic, intelligent user interface for an on-line, virtual application whereby user input customizes the subsequent display of application data and queries presented to the user / applicant. The present invention includes a facility for intelligent editing, data state presentation, and error flagging and correction. In one embodiment of the present invention, the intelligent user interface is implemented as part of a series of dynamically generated web pages (a form set) presented to a user of an ecommerce Internet web site. This presentation is in the form of a collection of tabbed panes of data, the selected pane being displayed on a web page, wherein each pane contains one or more pages of data and queries. This organization and presentation of the virtual application provides re-entrant editing; error trapping, flagging, and correction; and easy navigation from sub-pane to sub-pane (page to page) within each pane and from pane to pane using the tabs and conventional browser Back and Forward button functionality.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems combining user interface features with force feedback techniques in clinical applications. Certain embodiments provide a user interface providing clinical software tools and information access for a picture archiving and communication system. The user interface includes a plurality of regions displayed to represent selectable functionality for an associated plurality of clinical software tools and information. The user interface also includes a cursor movable by a user to select one of the plurality of regions. The user interface further includes a processor configured to determine a location and pattern of movement of the cursor and provide force feedback to the user based on the location and pattern of movement of the cursor to provide a non-visual indication to the user of the location and pattern of movement of the cursor.

The “Pull and Swipe Navigation” comprises a set of heuristic gesture-based commands overlaid on a smart user interface that optimizes for dynamic content and ease of navigation on touch screen devices.The feature set improves upon existing touch screen user interface design, user experience design, and navigation by freeing up valuable on-screen real estate for relevant content by hiding otherwise static menu bars and icons until required; implementing a set of easy to use and simple to navigate heuristic commands that delineate between menu access and scrolling; making menu bars and icons accessible to the touch at any part of the touch screen, thus solving reach issues particularly for larger devices; and by providing theoretically unlimited real-estate for menu items through over-scrolling.

A buyer agent system is disclosed for assisting purchasers to retrieve data, obtain services, and purchase products on a computer network. One embodiment identifies a purchaser's goal and then uses a knowledge base to create a plan for meeting the determined goal. The system uses an inference engine such as a partial order planner, or a non-monotonic truth maintenance system to create plans. One embodiment of the present invention is an Internet browser plug-in for assisting purchasers in conducting electronic commerce.

A system, method and software program is provided for creating and implementing self-contained mini-applications that store, retrieve and display data and allow user interaction in a constrained computing environment such as a set-top box used in the delivery of digital television. The system, method and software program of the present invention, also known as “TV widgets” allows users to personalize data and facilitate the access of such data with a click of a button from a remote control unit. The TV widgets include a myriad of widgets of which some are, “My 8 ball”, a widget that recommends television programming to a viewer, “My TV search” for searching specific television programs, “My Weather”, “My Yellow Pages”, “Smart Navigation”, “Instant Messaging with Smart User Interface”, as well as others. A TV widget framework provides user interface context for launching and managing the widgets, in addition, it maintains a library code that implements the TV widget components. Among the implementations of the TV widgets is a widget based TV navigator created as a collection of widgets from conventional grid guides and navigators that include a grid guide widget, a “what's on now” widget (sorted by channel), a movie recommendation widget among others.

An electronic circuit including a microchip for use as an intelligent user interface also comprises touch sensor technology that differentiates between proximity and physical contact events to activate and control various loads including light bulbs, products with radio frequency circuitry or electric motors. An input to the microchip is connected to a switch or sensing structure that does not form a serial link between the power source and the load. The electronic circuit controls various functions in response to user actions including automatic delayed shut-off functions, find-in-the-dark indicator and a power source level / product state indications. The microchip allows the user to select specific functions based on the time duration of activation signals, the time duration between activation signals and the number of activation signals at the input. The microchip is further configured to interpret and react to the signals received from a user in a way that enhances ease of use of the product and to use the indicators to provide information to the user that is influenced by the signals received as well as the state of the product.

An integrated tool captures institutional and expert knowledge, then stores policy exclusion rules used to evaluate and enforce legal, regulatory, business and contract policy. Rules driven intelligent user interfaces enable efficient, validated and standardized entry of both policy exclusion rules and business operations plans to increase time and cost efficiency and lower risk. A rules engine evaluates business operation plans and identifies policy exclusions that should be enforced. A management information system automates methods and integrates tools to provide a tangible, integrated system.

The present risk management system with intelligent user interfaces divides all processes within the system into different "flowchart" phases. Decisions or inputs that can have knock-on effects on other decisions or inputs will be required at an earlier phase or level. If say, a particular decision or input has a knock-on effect on another decision or input, the system will require this decision or input to be entered at an earlier phase. This ensures a systematic and logical input of data as opposed to having all decisions or inputs appearing at the same time or in one phase, as in the case of other financial option and derivative pricing and structuring software programs. The system uses this "flowchart" process to provide an on-line guidance system for the users to input only the required decisions or inputs as they go along. As such, in adopting the intelligent user interface processing methodology, the user need not be an "expert" in knowing which inputs are required and which are not This system also minimizes user input errors.

A module for controlling power supply to a load in a product which includes a microchip, and an electromechanical switch and a proximity / touch sensor connected to the microchip, preferably to the same input. The switch is primarily used to activate or deactivate the load and the proximity / touch sensor to vary the effect of operating the switch, or to control additional functions such as the activation of a signal, typically a light signal, which helps to locate the product, particularly in the dark, and to vary the duration of an automatic time-out period at the end of which the load is deactivated.

A system and method for recording an individual performing an activity such as a golf swing includes a kiosk structure with an easy to use intelligent user interface to allow the individual to use the recording to analyze his or her own performance. The system accommodates input from multiple cameras to allow the playback of different views of the activity without the need to reposition the capture portion of the system in a different location, and can correct or partially correct the images that contain conventional distortion from fish-eye or other lenses that are used to provide close-up images, thereby allowing the use of the system in the spaces of existing facilities. The system may include an array microphone in the kiosk to detect the hit of the target ball while rejecting hits from adjacent stalls, which enables the system to identify and synchronize, at the point of impact, multiple video images of the same swing or of different swings. The system can employ any of a variety of conventional payment systems to allow it to integrate into the operations of the facility in which it will be used. The system can advertise and integrate with other facility operations to allow it to direct business to a professional or other operation of the facility.

Personal data services, such as a set of Web services, are enabled that allow a user to enter personal metadata information, e.g., about likely people and / or events to be targets of a camera capture event. Then, when a user's computing device acquires such metadata, e.g., via embedded Web services software, an intelligent user interface allows the user to enter whether any of such personal metadata information pertains to any personal data, such as a video, an audio file or an image, which is captured by the user's computing device. The personal data including the metadata information can be automatically uploaded via one or more wired and / or wireless networks to a device that hosts a personal data service, which stores the personal data and associated metadata, providing for effective means to access and manage a user's personal data store. The services of the invention also enable a system for identifying unknown or new metadata where existing metadata is not sufficient to describe a video, audio or image capture event. In addition, a gateway is provided that enables transfer of content from the Web services to other media service providers, such as a cable or television over Internet Protocol (“TVoIP”) video or other video on demand (“VOD”) service.

The present invention generally relates to intelligent software agents. Agents are interfaced with through user interfaces that are generated according to the agent's intelligence. In one aspect, the interfaces are dynamically and programmatically generated in response to a request from a user desiring to interface with a particular agent. In this way, the interface may be generated in real time according to the applied intelligence of the agent. Interfaces may also be updated periodically and, in this way, be available prior to a user's request.

The object based navigation is an intelligent user interface that uses a source object to determine which target information is to be presented to the user. This is done by associating an object to one or more operations, so that selection of a given source object would result in a predefined operation to be activated. The role of the user may also affect the predefined operation that is activated. If multiple operations are associated with a given source object, these operations may be prioritized, so that the one with the highest priority is performed as a default operation.

A system for an intelligent user interface is provided. The system includes a handset, a user activity logger, a user activity analyzer, and a user interface composer. The user activity logger logs a user activity for the handset, a time of the user activity, and a geographic location of the user activity. The user activity analyzer analyzes the logged user activity, the logged time of the user activity, and the logged geographic location of the user activity. The user interface composer composes a user interface based on the analyzed user activity, the analyzed time of the user activity, and the analyzed geographic location of the user activity. The user interface composer also displays the composed user interface on the handset at a later time related to the analyzed time of the user activity when the handset is at a geographic location related to the analyzed geographic location of the user activity.

Concepts and technologies are described herein for supporting intelligent user interface interactions. Commands accepted by applications can be published or determined. Before or during access of the application, the commands can be presented at clients to indicate commands available for interfacing with the application. The commands can be presented with information indicating how the user interface and / or input device of the client may be used to execute the available commands. Input received from the client can be compared to the available commands to determine if the input matches an available command. Contextual data relating to the client, preferences, and / or other data also can be retrieved and analyzed to determine the intent of the client. The intent can be used to identify an intended command and to modify the input to match the intended command. The modified input can be transmitted to the application.

A display apparatus includes a user input circuitry for receiving user commands and a display for outputting video content and a user interface. The video content includes metadata. The apparatus also includes a processor in communication with the user input circuitry and the display, and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executed by the processor and causes the processor to receive, from the user input circuitry, a first scene command to search for scenes in the video content of a scene type. The processor determines, from the metadata, one or more scenes in the video content related to the scene type. The processor then updates the user interface to depict one or more scene images related to the one or more scenes related to the scene type.

A display apparatus includes user input circuitry for receiving user commands and a display for displaying video content and a user interface. The video content includes metadata. The display apparatus includes a processor in communication with the user input circuitry and the display; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive, from the user input circuitry, a query regarding an image of the video content currently displayed on the display; and determine one or more objects of the image associated with the query based on the metadata. The processor updates the user interface to depict one or more controls, each control being associated with one of the determined one or more objects; and receives a selection of one of the controls. The processor then updates the user interface to depict information related to the selection.

An electronic circuit including a microchip for use as an intelligent user interface also comprises touch sensor technology that differentiates between proximity and physical contact events to activate and control various loads including light bulbs, products with radio frequency circuitry or electric motors. An input to the microchip is connected to a switch or sensing structure that does not form a serial link between the power source and the load. The electronic circuit controls various functions in response to user actions including automatic delayed shut-off functions, find-in-the-dark indicator and a power source level / product state indications. The microchip allows the user to select specific functions based on the time duration of activation signals, the time duration between activation signals and the number of activation signals at the input. The microchip is further configured to interpret and react to the signals received from a user in a way that enhances ease of use of the product and to use the indicators to provide information to the user that is influenced by the signals received as well as the state of the product.

The object based navigation is an intelligent user interface that uses a source object to determine which target information is to be presented to the user. This is done by associating an object to one or more operations, so that selection of a given source object would result in a predefined operation to be activated. The role of the user may also affect the predefined operation that is activated. If multiple operations are associated with a given source object, these operations may be prioritized, so that the one with the highest priority is performed as a default operation.

A display apparatus includes a display for displaying video content and a user interface; a processor in communication with the presence detection circuitry and the display; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executed by the processor and causes the processor to receive data that relates a smart appliance state to display apparatus usage. The processor also determines current display apparatus usage; and determines a proposed smart appliance state corresponding to the current display apparatus usage based on received data. The processor adjusts the smart appliance to the determined state.

The invention provides an artificial intelligence user interface. The artificial intelligence user interface comprises a resource management module, a resource scheduling module, a system monitoring module and a general management module, wherein the resource management module is used for managing data in a database, a continuous message queue or a transactional file system; the resource scheduling module is used for scheduling cloud computing resources; the system monitoring module is used for monitoring the operating state of each module; the general management module is respectively connected with the resource management module, the resource scheduling module and the system monitoring module and used for managing the modules.

A display apparatus includes presence detection circuitry for detecting an individual in proximity to the display apparatus; a display for displaying video content and a user interface; a processor in communication with the presence detection circuitry and the display; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executable by the processor, and causes the processor to determine, from the presence detection circuitry, whether a user is in proximity of the display apparatus. When the user is determined to not be in proximity of the display apparatus, the processor pauses the video content. When the user is determined to subsequently be in proximity of the display apparatus, the processor resumes the video content.

The invention discloses an air borne entertainment system which comprises a common passenger entertainment unit, a distinguished passenger entertainment unit, a data interchange network and a passenger entertainment streaming media server, wherein the common passenger entertainment unit and the distinguished passenger entertainment unit are connected with the passenger entertainment streaming media server through the data interchange network. The invention further discloses a control method of the air borne entertainment system on the basis of streaming media unicast. The method includes the steps of monitoring a distinguished passenger service port, judging whether a client is connected successfully, judging whether a program watching request exists, sending program data point to point, judging whether a program canceling command is received, judging whether playing of programs is finished and the like. According to the system and the method, a limited and small transmission bandwidth is occupied to provide multiple channel entertainment programs capable of being selected by common passengers, and meanwhile intelligent user interfaces and interactive programs are provided for a minority of distinguished passengers, so that entertainment requirements of different passengers are met.

A user request is received to access one or more resources. In response to the receiving and as a first background task, one or more remote data sources are queried for information associated with a user of the user request. The information from the one or more remote data sources are obtained. One or more portions of a user interface are caused to be generated based at least on the obtained information and as a second background task.

A user request is received to access one or more resources. In response to the receiving and as a first background task, one or more remote data sources are queried for information associated with a user of the user request. The information from the one or more remote data sources are obtained. One or more portions of a user interface are caused to be generated based at least on the obtained information and as a second background task.

Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems combining user interface features with force feedback techniques in clinical applications. Certain embodiments provide a user interface providing clinical software tools and information access for a picture archiving and communication system. The user interface includes a plurality of regions displayed to represent selectable functionality for an associated plurality of clinical software tools and information. The user interface also includes a cursor movable by a user to select one of the plurality of regions. The user interface further includes a processor configured to determine a location and pattern of movement of the cursor and provide force feedback to the user based on the location and pattern of movement of the cursor to provide a non-visual indication to the user of the location and pattern of movement of the cursor.