676 results about "Situated display" patented technology

In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The method includes: displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display; detecting a finger contact with the touch screen display; and in response to the detected finger contact, expanding the insertion marker from a first size to a second size on the touch screen display and expanding a portion of the graphics on the touch screen display from an original size to an expanded size. The method further includes detecting movement of the finger contact on the touch screen display and moving the expanded insertion marker in accordance with the detected movement of the finger contact from the first location to a second location in the graphics.

An information processing apparatus, which issues a print instruction when a dragged file is dropped on a print object, the apparatus comprises: a layout unit configured to lay out the print object at a first position; and a display control unit configured to display, when the file is dragged, the print object at a second position which is closer to the dragged file than the first position by moving the print object from the first position.

A device to input a special symbol in an apparatus having a touch screen includes a touch sensor to detect a user touch at a first position, a text input controller to switch from a general character input mode to a special symbol input mode if the user touch is maintained for at least a predetermined time, and a special symbol display unit to display a special symbol at the first position. A method for inputting a special symbol includes a touch detecting step of detecting the user touch at the first position, switching to the special symbol input mode if the user touch is maintained for at least a predetermined time, and displaying a special symbol at the first position in the special symbol input mode.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of display processing of applications, and provides an application position display method and an application position display system and touch equipment. The method comprises the following steps of: predefining a position easiest to touch on a touch screen; acquiring the usage frequencies of the applications; and putting an application icon with the highest usage frequency at the position easiest to touch, and positioning other application icons around the position easiest to touch in a sequence from near to far according to the order of the usage frequencies from high to low for display. By defining a point easiest to touch by a user on a table and recording the usage frequencies of the table applications, the application with the highest usage frequency on the table is positioned at the position easiest to touch to make the user more conveniently find the required application from increasing applications so as to achieve better user operation experience.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of controlling a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module of the mobile terminal, an operation screen on which a plurality of icons including a first icon and a second icon are arranged, displaying at least one pocket area on one side of the operation screen, receiving, on the display module, a dragging input for dragging the first icon into the at least one pocket area, wherein the first icon disappears into the pocket area as a result of the dragging input, and displaying the second icon at a location where the disappeared first icon was originally displayed.

A method for controlling a printing apparatus includes displaying a display image on a display unit based on image data, detecting a plurality of positions touched on a touch panel, for each of the positions detected on the touch panel, designating a position on the display image displayed on the display unit according to the position detected on the touch panel, obtaining an aspect ratio of a printing area, determining a crop area of the display image having the aspect ratio of the printing area and including all of the designated positions on the display image, and printing an image on a recording sheet based on the determined crop area.

A portable device is disclosed. A method of controlling a portable device, comprising the steps of capturing an image in front of the portable device, detecting a marker object from the image, displaying a virtual image corresponding to the marker object based on a location of the marker object, and terminating a display of the virtual image corresponding to the marker object, when the detecting of the marker object is terminated, terminate a display of the virtual image based on a first terminate mode if the gaze location of the user is detected at a first location, and terminate the display of the virtual image based on a second terminate mode if the gaze location of the user is detected at a second location.

A method is disclosed for receiving a plurality of play events associated with a sporting event, wherein each play event of the plurality of play events comprises a timestamp; for each of the play events, associating the play event with a sports team of a plurality of sports teams; for each of the play events, associating with the play event a particular icon from among a plurality of different icons based, at least in part, on the sports team that is associated with the play event; causing to display a bar in a graphical user interface of a mobile computing device, wherein the bar represents at least a portion of a time duration of the sporting event; for each of the play events, causing to display the particular icon at a position in the bar, wherein the position is based, at least in part, on the timestamp of the event.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an operation management method of a touch screen, comprising the following steps of: displaying icons corresponding to the management contents of a particular program in any position of the touch screen after entering a management interface of the particular program; selecting the icon when receiving a touch signal in the positioned area of any icon on the touch screen; and carrying out preset operations to the selected icon according to the touch signal, wherein the present operations comprise the operations of moving the selected icon and/or invoking an operation menu of the content corresponding to the selected icon. The embodiment of the invention also discloses a touch screen terminal. The invention can be used for vividly and visually realizing visualized man-machine interaction, thereby improving the user experience.

A segmented touch screen overlies the display or displays of a console having an operating system and display controller for the display. A touch screen controller is continuously connected to each of the touch screen segments and separate touch position information is obtained for each touch screen segment. The console operating system can be supplied with separate position information for each segment or with a single touch position for combined segments. A number of docking module ports near the display optionally receive docking modules that cover segments of the touch screen and display. A module, including tactile elements such as push button switches, can be docked at any port. When a module is detected, the touch screen segment under the module is disabled and the display under the module is switched to display module specific information.

A meter display device includes a display panel that can display a plurality of different types of display information on the same position. The display information includes, at the least, first display information related to a hybrid vehicle and second display information related to the hybrid vehicle. The meter display device also includes a meter control unit that performs control such that any one of the plurality of different types of display information are displayed on the display panel.

There is provided an information processing device comprising a housing, a display screen, a touch panel arranged on the display screen, an icon, which is displayed on the display screen and manipulated through the touch panel, a state detection unit for detecting a state change of the housing, a state determination unit for determining the state change of the housing detected by the state detection unit, and a display control unit for displaying the icon in a desired position on the display screen in response to a determination result of the state determination unit.

A method and apparatus for controlling picture quality of a flat panel display capable of electrically compensating for a display defect of a display panel are disclosed. The method of compensating for a display defect of a flat panel display includes reading identification information of a display panel; generating positional information indicating the position of the display defect and the form of the display defect of the display panel on the basis of first input information and the identification information; generating a compensation value for compensating the degree of the display defect of on the basis of second input information; storing the positional information and the compensation value in a memory; and reading the positional information and the compensation value from the memory, modulating data to be displayed at the position of the display defect of the display panel by the compensation value, and displaying the modulated data on the display panel.

An image display apparatus includes: an image information storage that stores image information including locations where images are captured as information corresponding to captured image data; a cluster managing section that manages the image information with hierarchical clusters including a plurality of clusters configured in a plurality of layers; a display layer designation section that designates a layer to be displayed as a display layer among from an uppermost layer through a lowermost layer in the plurality of layers; a display condition designation section that designates a display condition of the image data; a conditional filtering section that selects such image data in the display layer that the image information thereof exists within a predetermined range based on the display condition; and a drawing section that draws in the display layer, as an image location display, the image captured locations of the image data selected based on the image information.

A user interface method of a touch screen terminal for realizing touch commands on the screen is realized by providing at least one or more virtual touch pads, each of the virtual touch pads being displayed on the entire screen at a desired size and location and providing information and touch commands through the entire screen according to a touch event generated on each of the virtual touch pads.

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a touch screen display configured to display contents; and a controller configured to receive a touch and drag action across the touch screen display, display a moveable partitioning graphic at a position corresponding to the touch and drag action and partition the displayed contents into first and second display regions, and independently control a function of the contents in the first display region and independently control a function of the contents in the second display region.

A process control monitoring system for a process control plant uses graphic trend symbols to assist in detecting and monitoring trends of process variables within the process control plant. A graphic display application within the process control monitoring system may implement and display each graphic trend symbol to graphically indicate or encapsulate current trend and value information of a process variable within the process control plant. The graphic display application may display the graphic trend symbol in a spatially realistic location within a graphical representation of the process control plant while maintaining the hierarchical structure or each hierarchical level of the process plant. The graphic display application may also include a navigation pane and a zoom feature that enable a user to quickly drill down through tend data to obtain more information and to support problem identification and diagnosis tasks.

An optical system controller for a video camera having a lens barrel in which is arranged a movable optical system and on the outer surface of which is arranged an adjusting movable mechanism for the movable optical system. It permits the user to recognize easily and directly the display indicating the position of the movable optical system or the opening of the aperture in the lens barrel. The optical system controller consists of the focus adjusting movable mechanism, the zoom adjusting movable mechanism, and the aperture adjusting movable mechanism, which are arranged on the outer surface of the lens barrel; it also consists of the focus lens position display, the zoom lens position display, and the aperture opening display, which constitute the optical display means arranged respectively in the vicinity of the movable mechanisms; the focus lens position display performs optical display in response to the position of the focus lens in the lens barrel, the zoom lens position display performs optical display in response to the position of the zoom lens in the lens barrel, and the aperture opening display performs optical display in response to the opening of the iris diaphragm in the lens barrel.

The invention relates to a high-power LED (light-emitting diode) chip packaging quality detecting method, and relates to a contact-type detecting method based on a PN junction photovoltaic effect. During the process of packaging a high-power LED chip, firstly, a uniform light field generated by a light source device (1) is irradiated vertically on light receiving surfaces of to-be-detected LEDs (3) and a standard LED (4) on a stand; secondly, photo-generated current signals generated on the PN junction are respectively guided into a signal sampling comparison circuit (6) by utilizing a pin fixture (5), and then the voltage values generated by each detected LED and the standard LED are compared and are subjected to difference value amplifying treatment; treated voltage difference values pass through a simulation switch (7), and are provided for a central control system (8) for analog-digital conversion and analysis, and the position of the LEDs with unqualified packaging quality is displayed on a display screen (9), and meanwhile an alarm is sent out. The method is used for eliminating errors generated by fixture contact resistors through introducing in the uniform light field and the standard LED and performing subtracting treatment for photo-generated signals, and guaranteeing the detection accuracy.