713 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.

This invention enhances the usability of the human-computer interface by disclosing a technique for the display of single and multi-generation pop-up controls at a location that best meets the user's criterion of an optimal display location. The technique determines the minimum size of a rectangle capable of displaying the actual or likely maximum size of pop-up controls requested during any given activation of the subsystem that manages display of requested controls. The invention then identifies a location that assures the said rectangle either has no overlay or a minimum overlay of the screen area of current interest to the user while avoiding display clipping. A fixed-point is now determined within said rectangle based on physical characteristics of the controls to be displayed that permits display of descendant controls in a backward cascade that enables the user to maintain visual focus at a fixed screen location while manipulating successive controls. The invention provides the user with the ability to redisplay any previously displayed control irrespective of control type as well as provide a "Done" capability for appropriately designed controls that permits the user to convert a single selection control into a multi-selection control. As an adjunct to the reverse order the invention provides four capabilities that permit the user to undo and redo arbitrary services via performed via redisplay of ancestor controls.

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.

Systems and methods for providing a user interface by using a flexible display screen as well as an inflexible display screen. The dual display screens are installed on the same electronic device and may be used to display information simultaneously or alternatively. The flexible display screen can display information in an expanded position and is substantially compacted in size in a retracted position. In response to a user request, the flexible display screen can automatically wind around a rotatable axial connector. The inflexible touchscreen may serve to receive user input with respect to the content displayed on the flexible display screen. An instant size of the flexible display screen can be detected by a sensor and used to adapt a format of the content displayed on the flexible display screen.

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.

A method to facilitate circuit design. First, a schematic and data sheet for a selected module may be displayed. Next, in response to a request for a position for the module among available resources (e.g., programmable system blocks), a potential position for the module is computed. The position is displayed on a graphical user interface by mapping the module to one or more programmable system blocks. Additional user modules may then be selected and placed. After allowing the user to configure the circuit by selecting circuit parameters and pin-outs, various items are automatically generated to facilitate programming the target device. For example, application programming interfaces (APIs) for programming an operation of the modules, source code for realizing the modules in the resources, an interrupt vector table, and a data sheet for the circuit may be automatically generated.

An apparatus and a method for ultrasonic testing obtains high-resolution and high-S / N ratio testing results by driving a number of piezoelectric elements using fewer pulsers and receivers in comparison with the number of elements composing an array transducer. A sensor information setter sets a plurality of piezoelectric element groups used for transmission and a plurality of piezoelectric element groups used for reception among the plurality of piezoelectric elements composing an ultrasonic array transducer. A computer transmits an ultrasonic wave from the element cluster set for transmission, and stores an ultrasonic wave received by the element cluster set for reception. The procedure is repeated including different element cluster sets for transmission and reception to obtain first receive signals. The first receive signals are summed to obtain a second receive signal; and the second receive signal is displayed with reference to the sensor center position on a display unit.

Calibration structure, method, and code for correcting non-orthogonal misalignment of a computer-generated image that is projected onto a large screen touch-detecting display, so that a computer-generated image appears substantially where the display is touched. Structure / method / code generates at least four calibration marks, respectively, substantially proximate four corners of a projected image to be displayed on the display. Structure / method / code, responsive to a touch on the large screen touch-detecting display where each of the four calibration marks is displayed, identifies horizontal and vertical coordinates of each touched location. Structure / method / code calibrates the projected image to the display after the four calibration marks have been touched. Structure / method / code, responsive to another touch on the display after calibration, displays a computer image substantially at the location of the another touch.

An information display device having a large display screen which enables a user to operate an object displayed at a position distant from a user operation position is provided. The information display device has the display screen with a touch sensor, and enables a remote control of the display screen through a touch operation on the small screen area which is set to display a demagnified version of an image displayed on the display screen, by shifting a touch operation position in the small screen area to a position on the display screen. Hence an operation on the display screen and that on the small screen can be executed as the operations corresponding with each other.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates displaying calendar information on a display. The system operates by displaying a status bar in a location on the display, which does not preclude other content from being displayed simultaneously. In addition, the system displays a calendar timeline including calendar information in the status bar, wherein one end of the calendar timeline represents a beginning of a displayed time period and an opposite end of the calendar timeline represents an end of the displayed time period. Moreover, the status bar is continuously viewable to a user regardless of what other content is being displayed on the display.

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 method for displaying an on-screen keyboard is applied a computing device connected to a physical keyboard and a screen, where the physical keyboard includes a plurality of keycaps capable of responding to a touch on the keycap to output a first key signal and responding to a keystroke on the keycap to output a second key signal to the computing device, and the method for displaying an on-screen keyboard includes: displaying an on-screen keyboard on a topmost layer of a display image of the screen; reading the first key signal output by the physical keyboard corresponding to the touch on the keycap; and displaying, according to the first key signal, a first key mark at a position corresponding to the touched keycap on the on-screen keyboard.

There is provided a method for displaying aircraft positions, which is capable of effectively avoiding the occurrence of near miss or collision. The method displays the terrain of an air space under air traffic control apparently in three dimensions on a display screen, displays aircraft marks at positions on the display screen so as to correspond to the three-dimensional positions of the respective aircraft, and displays a warning mark when a distance between two aircraft is shorter than a threshold value, wherein the warning mark comprises a triangle having three apexes, which comprise the aircraft marks, and a position that is apart from the aircraft mark of one of the aircraft along a vertical line extending perpendicular to the one aircraft toward a ground surface of the terrain by a distance corresponding to an altitude difference between both aircrafts on the display screen. A certain warning mark may be displayed when protective air spaces for both aircraft are predicted to conflict each other based on flight trajectories and flight conditions.

A method for controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) comprises preparing a window for displaying at an intended display location in a window display operation. The location of GUI control elements of the window at the intended display location and the location of a graphical cursor are identified. GUI control element location and the graphical cursor location are compared. The window display operation is modified if the two coincide, for example by moving the window display location so that they do not coincide.

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 a method for displaying aircraft positions, which is capable of effectively avoiding the occurrence of near miss or collision. The method displays the terrain of an air space under air traffic control apparently in three dimensions on a display screen, displays aircraft marks at positions on the display screen so as to correspond to the three-dimensional positions of the respective aircraft, and displays a warning mark when a distance between two aircraft is shorter than a threshold value, wherein the warning mark comprises a triangle having three apexes, which comprise the aircraft marks, and a position that is apart from the aircraft mark of one of the aircraft along a vertical line extending perpendicular to the one aircraft toward a ground surface of the terrain by a distance corresponding to an altitude difference between both aircrafts on the display screen. A certain warning mark may be displayed when protective air spaces for both aircraft are predicted to conflict each other based on flight trajectories and flight conditions.

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.

Provided is a stand of a display device that can be reduced in its volume and allows a user to adjust a position of a display device more conveniently. The stand of a display device includes: a sliding unit for vertically moving a display device, the sliding unit mounted on the display device; a base unit for supporting the display device; and a hinge connection unit having a first end pivotally coupled to the sliding unit and a second end pivotally coupled to the base unit.

Included are a display control unit configured to display a live view image being imaged by an imaging unit, and to display a display item indicating a degree of in-focus, superimposed on the live view image; an acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to a degree of in-focus in a focus detecting region; and a changing unit configured to change display positions and display forms of a first indicator and second indicator that indicate a degree of in-focus by a positional display relationship with each other, and a third indicator that indicates a focus position, based on information acquired by the acquiring unit, the first indicator and the second indicator and the third indicator are included in the display item.

A product location display system and method are provided that allow travel related product information, such as the geographic location of hotels, to be displayed on an interactive display. An application server of the product location display system receives user inputted criteria for a travel product search. A location management system determines a location for the travel product being searched based on the inputted criteria. Sub-locations associated with the geographic location being searched are pre-defined as being within the searched geographic location and stored within a location database memory component coupled with the location management system. A display configuration component of the location management system arranges and displays results of the search for the travel product by the sub-locations defined as being within the searched location.