5452 results about "On-screen display" patented technology

Information presentation system comprises a computer device having a display terminal for providing a graphical user interface (GUI), capable of generating a cluster of items comprising graphical or textual elements for display thereof according to a fractal appearance. Each item in a cluster represents information having a degree of relatedness with information represented by other items in a cluster. A control mechanism is provided for controlling the spatial extent, nesting and arrangement of items within a cluster according to a specified criteria, which spatial extent and arrangement is controlled to provide optimal display and conserve screen display space on the display terminal. Users may manually enter a criteria for organizing and adjusting the spatial extent of a cluster in order to provide continuous display space on the computer display terminal. The invention may be implemented in text editors to provide a multiresolution annotation feature for portable and lap / palm-top computer devices having pen-based or keyboard based inputs.

A television viewer uses a PIP format for display of program related information such as television program listings from a program schedule data base in the background and moving, real time images of a program selected from the displayed listings in the PIP window. All the text of the background information lies outside the PIP window. In one embodiment, as the viewer selects a particular program from the display of current television program listings by means of a cursor or a code number, the corresponding program automatically appears in the PIP window.

An interactive video window display system. A projector projects a visual image. A screen displays the visual image, wherein the projector projects the visual image onto a back side of the screen for presentation to a user on a front side of the screen, and wherein the screen is adjacent to a window. An illuminator illuminates an object on a front side of the window. A camera detects interaction of an illuminated object with the visual image, wherein the screen is at least partially transparent to light detectable by the camera, allowing the camera to detect the illuminated object through the screen. A computer system directs the projector to change the visual image in response to the interaction. The projector, the camera, the illuminator, and the computer system are located on the same side of the window.

A system for facilitating client and advisor communications which may include a port to an aggregate database of a client's holdings and profile. When servicing or analyzing a client's financial needs, a financial advisor at a call center or other facility may be presented with a screen displaying some or all of the client's accounts, profile or analysis tools, collected via Internet or other sources. Other parties, including the client, may be offered access to the same, similar or related data and the financial advisor's analysis via a Web browser or other interface.

This invention relates generally to a game, and more particularly to an electronic game that simulates trading securities on an exchange. The game of the present invention is preferably played as a video gaming machine for gambling purposes. A computing device is provided having, among other things, a video screen display on which a line chart is displayed. The computing device also includes a selection device, which provides a means by which the player interacts with the computing device to “buy” or “sell”. The line chart includes a vertical axis that corresponds to the value or price of one or more securities, and a horizontal axis that corresponds to time. A segmented line is plotted on the line chart during a round of play. A random number generator randomly determines the vertical axis value for each point plotted along the segmented line.

This invention is a system, method, and article of manufacture for imaging tubular structures of the human body, such as the digestive tract of a living person, with a medical imaging device such as a computed tomography (CT) scanner and a computer work station. The system comprises receiving a first image data set representative of a portion of the colon in a prone position and a second image data set representative of a portion of the colon in a supine position, at a series of viewpoints. At each of the viewpoints, an image is generated of the colon in the prone and supine positions. The prone and supine images of the colon are simultaneously displayed on a screen display in a dual view mode.

As shown in FIG. 3A, a touch panel 2 is provided on a display screen 1, and a touch panel 3 using infrared rays is provided thereon. A shown in FIG. 3B, when a finger 6 touches the touch panel 3, its touching position is detected, and screen displaying is carried out on the display screen 1 according to the touching position. Then, the finger 6 is brought closer to the display screen 1. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 3C, when the finger 6 touches the touch panel 2, its touching position is detected, and screen displaying is carried out on the display screen 1 according to the touching position. For example, in the case of an operation button 7, in FIG. 3B, displaying is carried out in a state different from that of FIG. 3A and, in FIG. 3C, displaying is carried out in another different state.

A method and apparatus implementing a user interface device, such as a mouse or trackball, having electronically controllable tactile responsiveness which is flexibly programmable. A user interface device effects positioning of a cursor within a limited area, such as on a display screen, with limits imposed by controllable tactile responsiveness. Programmable force-position characteristics relate the tactile responsiveness of the interface device to the position of the cursor within the limited area or on the display screen. In a described embodiment, the interface device includes at least two sets of wheels that move as the interface device is actuated. The at least two sets of wheels are aligned on mutually orthogonal axes. A servo motor is attached to each of the at least two sets of wheels. A position encoder is associated with each servo motor and outputs position information to a controller that has access to force-position relation information that is a function of a screen display on which the cursor is manipulated. The controller outputs a digital signal, in accordance with the force-display position relation information. The digital signal is converted to an analog current signal applied to the servo motor(s) to generate force in the servo motor. The force, presenting a tactile response to a human interacting with the user interface device, is perceived as a resistance, tactile pressure or lack thereof, or as a positive, assisted motion which is indicative of position on a screen display.

A screen display apparatus for controlling the size each display area to appropriately display content information of each display area into one display screen. The screen display apparatus includes a selection accept block for accepting selection of first content information displayed in a first display area, a content information acquisition block for acquiring the content information associated with the selected first content information, this content information being second content information located on a layer below the first content information, and, in order to allocate a second display area for displaying the second content information to the display screen, a display area control block for controlling either or both of the first display area and the second display area.

A method and system for notifying a user of an event or information using motion and transparency on a small screen display are provided. When an in-application event occurs or an indication that a new event has occurred, a notification window is created off display, and graphically animated on top of the current application display, in a small window which is un-obtrusive to user interaction in the active application. A user may set preferences for display location, size, transparency, color, time displayed, and content, and each window may vary based on the notification type, allowing users to quickly glance and identify the information displayed. The alert information may be summarized and or prioritized based on notification types,

A method of specifying design parameters is provided for configuring circuits for programmable ICs. A design database describing a circuit is displayed in table-based format on a computer screen display. The design database may include a memory map including data to be placed in bit-storage space in the target programmable IC. This design database requires no schematics or HDL description of the circuit, even for complicated application-specific circuits. The desired parameters are entered by the user, typically using toggle buttons, pull-down menus, or keyboard entry. The selected parameters are then entered into the design database, thereby configuring the design database in accordance with the selected parameters. Next, the design database is transmitted over a data communications link such as the internet to a second computer, on which the compilation software resides. The design is then compiled and the resulting netlist is transmitted back to the originating computer. In one embodiment, a schematic symbol or HDL instantiation is also generated by the second computer, and transmitted back to the originating computer.

Disclosed are features and characteristics of a user interface of a portable device having a touch-sensitive display screen. The interface may display a first screen display layout on the display screen, for example the first display screen layout showing a home screen of an application program executing on the device. A special indicator in the display is used to invoke a “window shade” operation. Responsive to a user touching the indicator, a second screen display layout is shown on the device, wherein the second display screen layout comprises at least one icon corresponding to an available menu option of the application program. Preferably, the transition from the first screen display layout to the second screen display layout, is animated so as to imitate lowering of a physical window shade. Swiping actions may be used to display additional icons or menu options of the executing application program.

A video processing device has a viewer detector to recognize a face of a viewer using a video shot by a camera in order to acquire position information of the viewer, a subscreen display controller to superimpose a live video shot by the camera on a part of a display screen of a display device as a subscreen, a viewing area frame display controller to display, in the live video in the subscreen, a viewing area frame representing a viewing position where the viewer is viewable a stereoscopic video, and a face frame display controller to display a first face frame showing that the stereoscopic video is viewable when the viewer is located within the frame, and to display a second face frame showing that the stereoscopic video is not viewable when the viewer is located outside the frame.

Techniques to facilitate a system to capture, process, and archive a series of user interactive events and subsequently retrieve the stored user interactive events are disclosed. The captured information is indexed and stored for future access either on a terminal device or an accessible remote server device.

A screen change method and device are provided. A first screen, from among a plurality of screens, is displayed on a first touch screen. A second screen, which precedes or succeeds the first screen in a sequence of the plurality of screens, is displayed on a second touch screen. A touch is detected on the first touch screen. Continuous movement of the detected touch from the first touch screen to the second touch screen is detected. Other screens, which are different from the first screen and the second screen, from among the plurality of screens, are displayed on the first touch screen and the second touch screen, in response to the detected continuous movement of the touch.

The invention discloses an active safety type assistant driving method based on stereoscopic vision. An active safety type assistant driving system comprehensively utilizes an OME information technology, consists of a stereoscopic vision subsystem, an image immediate processing subsystem and a safety assistant driving subsystem and comprises two sets of high resolution CCD (charge-coupled device) cameras, an ambient light sensor, a two-channel video collecting card, a synchronous controller, a data transmission circuit, a power supply circuit, an image immediate processing algorithms library, a voice reminding module, a screen display module and an active safety type driving control module. According to the active safety type assistant driving method, separation lines and parameters such as relative distance, relative speed, the relative acceleration and the like of dangerous objects such as front vehicles, front bicycles, front pedestrians and the like can be accurately identified in real time in sunny days, cloudy days, at nigh and under the severe weather conditions such as rain with snow, dense fog and the like, so that the system can prompt a driver to adopt countermeasure through voice and can realize automatic deceleration and emergency brake at emergency situation, thereby ensuring safe travel in a whole day.

A playback apparatus includes a menu screen display unit for displaying a content menu screen, an input unit for detecting a user's input operation to detect a selection of the content, and a control unit for causing the menu screen display unit to switch the menu screen, and for instructing playback of the selected content. The menu screen display unit, under the control of the control unit, switches an upper layer menu screen to and from a lower layer menu screen through an intermediate layer menu screen. The upper layer menu screen shows categories of the contents using menus. The lower layer menu screen shows some of contents using menus. The intermediate layer menu screen displays the menu selected in the upper layer menu screen in an area and a plurality of menus displayed in the lower layer menu screen in another area.

In the case that the LED is used as a light source for a backlight such as a display unit or the like, if a lot of current is circulated for securing a brightness, a lot of heat is generated in view of a characteristic of the LED, so that the LED comes to a high temperature, and there is a problem that the characteristic of the LED itself is deteriorated such as a light output is lowered, a long-term service life can not secured, or the like. Further, in the case that a temperature difference exists between a plurality of LEDs, there is a problem that it appears as a brightness irregularity of a screen of the display unit. The display unit is provided with a heat sink attached so as to be thermally contacted with an opposite side to an LED mounting surface of a substrate on which the LEDs are mounted, and one or a plurality of fans, a base portion of the heat sink has a substrate mounting surface and a fin constituting surface, the fin constituting surface is approximately perpendicular to the substrate mounting surface, and the fin constituting surface of the base portion and an air supply and exhaust surface of a cooling air are formed in an opposite side to a screen display side of the display.

A gaming machine has at least one video screen, but preferably three. One screen displays a primary game and the other two screens preferably display pay tables, a secondary game, or artwork related to the primary and / or secondary game. The content of the video screens is reconfigurable. The content may be downloaded over a network connecting a plurality of gaming machines to a central computer or the content of several different games may be stored locally within the gaming machine.

A display screen magnifier is controllable by a user to magnify selected portions of a desktop including windows open on the screen. A moveable magnifier frame is provided, within which a magnified image is presented. The magnified image corresponds to screen content located within a magnification region underlying the magnifier frame, magnified to a set level of magnification. In one embodiment, the magnification region is moveable relative to the magnifier frame, in relation to movement of the magnifier frame on the display screen. Such relative movement can be used to avoid a potentially disorienting edge condition that arises when a magnifier frame reaches an edge of the display screen and stops, while its associated magnification region continues to pan. In another embodiment, the cursor of a user input device is moveable across the screen display into and out of the magnification region. When the position of the cursor falls within the magnification region, the cursor appears within the magnified image presented within the magnifier frame. A related feature avoids the potentially disconcerting effect of cursor disappearance as a pointing device cursor passes into a “lens shadow” defined between the magnification region and the magnifier frame.

A user information input apparatus (an information terminal) includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display an input screen including a first editing area including a first object group for displaying and editing first user information and a second editing area including a second object group for displaying and editing second user information. When causing the display unit to display the input screen, the display control unit causes the display unit to display at least a part of the second object group together with the first editing area.

The present invention provides an apparatus, method and program product for analyzing a digital image for consumer identifying characteristics, and generating advertisements specifically to the consumer based on the identifying characteristics of the digital image. The analysis of the digital image may involve object recognition, text recognition and / or metadata analysis of a selected digital image. The present invention may be implemented, for example, within a photo kiosk or digital minilab. The generated advertisements may utilize a variety of media, including on-screen displays on the photo kiosk, a customized coupon, or a photo jacket insert.

The invention concerns new computer aided methods and apparatus for designing objects, particularly 3D objects, and especially those having a sculpted form such as found in automobiles, boats, planes, furniture and certain fashion apparel items. Preferred embodiments employ optical sensing of the designers' hands, fingers, or styling implements, or his sketches, in conjunction with large screen displays and several novel software based methods which have the further advantage of direct interface to conventional CAD (Computer Aided design) systems which are then used to physically manifest the results as models, tooling or whatever. Use of the invention not only saves time and cost, but allows, in a “natural” way, much greater freedom of expression for the artist / designer than any known computer based system.

Display and optical pointer systems and related methods are disclosed that utilize LEDs in a display device to respond to optical signals from optical pointing devices. In part, the disclosed embodiments relate to displays with arrays of LEDs and associated pointing devices that communicate with individual LEDs in the arrays using visible light. The LED arrays can produce images directly as in LED billboards and sports arena scoreboards or can produce the backlight for LCD screens for instance. The pointing devices communicate with individual pixels or groups of pixels using a beam of light that may or may not be modulated with data, which is detected by the LEDs in the array that are exposed to the beam. Periodically, the LEDs in an array stop producing light and are configured with an associated driver device to detect light from the pointing device. Such configurations enable the user to point and click at on screen displays much like a computer mouse.