143 results about "Window selection" patented technology

A method and system for generating variable modality child windows. An application is executed utilizing a graphical user interface (GUI) which enables a parent window. One or more child windows may be available to the user during execution. The level of modality of the child window is determined during programming by the application developer. The operating system is modified to permit a variable level of modality during application execution. The developer selects variable modality for one or more of the child windows. When the child window is opened, the user is allowed to interact with the other windows based on the developers determination of level of modality. The variability may be either application or system-wide. The user is thus permitted to interface with only some of the functions on the other windows on the desktop while the child window is open.

A cursor location associated with a user controlled cursor is obtained. For each of a plurality of windows, a respective distance to the user controlled cursor is determined based at least in part on the cursor location. A transparency value for each of the plurality of windows is determined based at least in part on the respective distance. The plurality of windows is displayed, wherein at least a portion of each window is displayed based on its corresponding transparency value.

A gaming machine with interactive pop-up windows providing enhanced game play schemes, including side-bet schemes, is described herein. Placing a side-bet utilizing interactive pop-up windows enables the player to make an additional wager to “purchase” one of any number of game enhancements, or to “side-bet” that the game outcome will include a particular symbol or symbol combination, depending on the side-bet scheme enabled for a particular gaming machine. In an embodiment, the player has an option to select one or more side-bet(s) via a pop-up window(s) prior to game play initiation. In another embodiment, the player has an option to select one or more side-bet(s) via a pop-up window(s) after a partial game outcome is displayed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of vision measurement, in particular to an automatic focusing method. In the method, an idea, which comprises that an image definition evaluation function is designed on the basis of improved discrete cosine transformation (DCT) to represent detail information of the image and highlight high frequency energy, and the relative definition is brought in by consideration of a close relation between the definition of the image and the brightness and the gray scale of the image, is provided. Meanwhile, in the method, a scale-variable window selecting scheme is provided on the basis of analyzing the influence from the selection of a focusing window on a focusing result. Experimental results show that the effect of the improved image definition judgment is improved greatly; in the actual application of the method, a partial extreme value of the image definition judgment is hard to avoid, so, by combining return information of a lens, an improved climbing method search strategy of total-range rough adjustment large step length focusing and partial refine adjustment small step length focusing is provided; and in the method, a scheme of starting automatic focusing when a shooting scene is changed or the lens is zoomed is provided.

A method of transferring image data from a first terminal to a second terminal connected via a communication network, the method comprising: displaying on a screen of the first terminal a screen image generated by a processor executed application; a processor executing a communication client to: establish a communication event between the first and second terminals and display at the first terminal an interactive selection component; a user at the first terminal actuating the selection component to select at least one object displayed on the screen to be shared with the second terminal, wherein the communication client accesses data defining displayed object dimensions and adjusts the selection component based on those dimensions to cause the at least one object selected by the window selection component to be displayed on a screen of the second terminal by transferring image data over the communication network in the established communication event.

A system and method for searching for items in a hierarchy of palette windows and for incorporating located items into programs. Palette windows may include one or more palette window selection items that, when selected, open child palette windows of the current palette window. Palette windows may include one or more items for navigating in the hierarchy. A search mechanism for locating palette windows and/or palette window content may be provided. From the search mechanism, the user may locate and open palette windows in one or more hierarchies. The user may also incorporate palette window content into something, for example, a program being edited in a graphical programming environment. In one embodiment, the user may drag-and-drop palette window content onto a window being edited.

A floating point unit capable of executing multiple instructions in a single clock cycle using a central window and a register map is disclosed. The floating point unit comprises: a plurality of translation units, a future file, a central window, a plurality of functional units, a result queue, and a plurality of physical registers. The floating point unit receives speculative instructions, decodes them, and then stores them in the central window. Speculative top of stack values are generated for each instruction during decoding. Top of stack relative operands are computed to physical registers using a register map. Register stack exchange operations are performed during decoding. Instructions are then stored in the central window, which selects the oldest stored instructions to be issued to each functional pipeline and issues them. Conversion units convert the instruction's operands to an internal format, and normalization units detect and normalize any denormal operands. Finally, the functional pipelines execute the instructions.

An apparatus and method is provided for substantially reducing the possibility that a message received at a computer terminal during an instant messaging conversation will become accessible to unintended viewers. A useful embodiment is directed to an arrangement wherein a computer terminal at a first client work station is disposed to receive chat messages from a second client work station during an instant messaging conversation. Apparatus associated with the computer terminal for limiting access to the received chat messages includes a device for attaching a security identifier to each received chat message. A display device at the computer terminal generates a window that selectively provides a specified one of the chat messages in viewable form. A concealment device coupled to the display device is-operable to make the specified chat message unviewable on the display device. A component connected to the concealment device activates the concealment device when a prespecified event occurs.

A floating point unit capable of executing multiple instructions in a single clock cycle using a central window and a register map is disclosed. The floating point unit comprises: a plurality of translation units, a future file, a central window, a plurality of functional units, a result queue, and a plurality of physical registers. The floating point unit receives speculative instructions, decodes them, and then stores them in the central window. Speculative top of stack values are generated for each instruction during decoding. Top of stack relative operands are computed to physical registers using a register map. Register stack exchange operations are performed during decoding. Instructions are then stored in the central window, which selects the oldest stored instructions to be issued to each functional pipeline and issues them. Conversion units convert the instruction's operands to an internal format, and normalization units detect and normalize any denormal operands. Finally, the functional pipelines execute the instructions.

The invention relates to a generation method for a network object database and a sorting method for the searching result, belonging to the field of internet application; the generation method and the sorting method are improved and extended existing searching methods and establish the search object database manually or in the way of program grasp. According to different objects, detailed subjective and objective indexes are respectively established; wherein, the subjective index comprises classification grades and weight arrangement carried out by normal users and expert users; subsequently, according to a certain calculation method, the objective index and the subjective index of the object are respectively quantized as corresponding scores; furthermore, the scores affect each other; when the user selects the value or range of each index in the searching window and after the user personally arranges the weight of each index classification, a searching result sorting which meets the requirement of the user most can be searched. The method is especially suitable for searching products and also for non-product objective objects such as webpage, website, persons, cities and the like.

The invention discloses a VANET (vehicular ad-hoc network) media access control method. The VANET media access control method comprises the following steps of: distributing a special code path, namely a broadcasting code path, for broadcasting traffic safety information; dividing a busy-tone channel from a physical channel, so that a node transmits a busy-tone signal to notify a neighbor node that a current broadcasting code channel is occupied through the busy-tone channel, therefore, the problem of a hidden terminal on the broadcasting code channel is solved; simultaneously, placing a traffic safety information broadcast on a preferential position so as to ensure the timeliness of the traffic safety information broadcast; avoiding the increase of a window selection region by selecting K time slots as an advanced preferential competition time slot, and reducing the probability of selecting windows with the same size through a plurality of nodes so as to reduce confliction probability and reduce node access delay; simultaneously, integrally planning the time to be periodical control frames and data frames so that node-associated information can be periodically updated and can better adapt to the change of a vehicle network dynamic topologic structure; and finally, effectively improving the network throughput rate of the VANET by utilizing a DS-CDMA (direct sequence -code division multiple access) multi-address access advantage.

A method of automated identification of specific sounds in a noise environment, comprising the steps of: a) continuously recording the noise environment, b) forming a spectral image of the sound recorded in a time/frequency coordinate system, c) analyzing time-sliding windows of the spectral image, d) selecting a family of filters, each of which defines a frequency band and an energy band, e) applying each of the filters to each of the sliding windows, and identifying connected components or formants, which are window fragments formed of neighboring points of close frequencies and powers, f) calculating descriptors of each formant, and g) calculating a distance between two formants by comparing the descriptors of the first formant with those of the second formant.

The applicaiton relates to a display system, a display apparatus, a manipulation apparatus and a function selection apparatus. Wherein the display system includes a screen panel (52), an input unit (31, 231), a switch section (S103, S106, S107, S203, S206, S207), and a resizing section (S104, S108, S204, S208). The screen panel (52) switches a display mode between a window selection mode and a function selection mode. The input unit (31, 231) includes an input panel (32) arranged apart from the screen panel (52), and defines an arrangement of input regions corresponding to an arrangement of display windows displayed in the window selection mode of the screen panel (52). When a target input region (S103, S106, S107, S203, S206, S207) is manipulated, the switch section sets the target input region as a selected input region, and the resizing section (S104, S108, S204, S208) enlarges a size of the selected input region and rearranges an enlarged selected input region (32) on the input panel.

A digital television and a channel editing method are provided wherein various channel information is edited efficiently. In the channel edit method of the digital TV, the channel information stored according to a user's request is displayed on a multi-window. If the user selects a channel based on the multi-window, the channel selected by the user is tuned by a tuner and displayed as a moving picture. The user can edit the corresponding channel referring to the multi-window. In another embodiment, the user can edit the set favorite channel(s) separately. The broadcast status of all channels can be recognized almost instantaneously by viewing the multi-window displaying all the broadcast programs of multiple channels.

The invention relates to the field of image processing and display and aims at providing a rapid self-adaptive frame rate conversion display device. The device can meet the demands for multiple kinds of video input and display equipment and rapidly achieve a self-adaptive frame rate conversion function according to system requirements in a real-time video system, and is high in universality. Meanwhile, in the high-speed cache process of data, the device can effectively process data loss or overflow in a self-adaptive mode, so that data transmission precision is effectively improved. According to the structure of the rapid self-adaptive frame rate conversion device, a video input control unit stores the data into a first row cache unit and a second row cache unit in an alternate storage mode; a window selection control unit screens and adjusts the row cache data in the first row cache unit and the row cache data in the second row cache unit to obtain effective row data of the same size; later, the effective row data is transmitted into a first-in-first-out (FIFO) memory. The device is mainly applied to image processing and display occasions.

The invention discloses a patent retrieval system and a patent retrieval method. The patent retrieval system comprises a user information management module, a retrieval type selection module, a retrieval input module, a retrieval pairing module and a retrieval output module. The patent retrieval method includes: S1, selecting a retrieval mode suitable for current retrieval from retrieval modes including simple retrieval, advanced retrieval and expression retrieval, and entering a window of the selected retrieval mode; S2, inputting a retrieval word in the window of the selected retrieval mode, and clicking the retrieval window to enter a display window; S3, selecting a patent presentation form in the retrieval window, and popping up a presentation window, or re-presenting after quadratic retrieval filtering; S4, selecting to save a patent or end a process. By arrangement of a simple retrieval selection module, an advanced retrieval selection module and an expression retrieval selection module, the window suitable for the current retrieval to enter can be selected, and retrieval precision can be arbitrarily adjusted during retrieval.

The invention includes a system for product selection, the system including: a CPU; a memory operatively connected to the CPU, the memory containing a program adapted to be executed by the CPU and the CPU and memory cooperatively adapted for presenting a user interface and expert interface to an expert system for product selection; a expert-interface code segment embodied on a computer-readable medium configured and adapted for: creating and modifying via a graphical user interface a graphically-displayed tree structure representing a plurality of product applications; associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more use condition with each node of the tree structure; and associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more suitability ratings for a plurality of applications; creating and modifying via a graphical user interface a list of products associating and modifying via a graphical user interface one or more product with each leaf node of the tree structure; associating via a graphical user interface use condition choices with each product associating via a graphical user interface suitability ratings for each product a user-interface code segment embodied on a computer-readable medium configured and adapted for selecting via a graphical-use interface a path in the tree structure, and for displaying on the same window of the graphical-use interface: the products associated with the leaf node of the selected path; the use conditions associated with each node of the selected path; and the product usability suitability indicators associated with each node of the selected path; selecting via the same window of the graphical-use interface one or more of the use conditions associated with the nodes of the selected path and for entering the user-defined relative importance of the product usability suitability indicators for the intended application of the products associated with the leaf nodes of the selected path; comparing the selected use conditions with the displayed products, where products not having such selected use conditions as attributes are filtered out of the displayed list of products; comparing the entered relative importance of the product usability suitability indicators with the product usability suitability indicators associated with the displayed products, associating a score with each displayed product indicating the correlation of the comparison, and displaying the score with the product; and printing the resulting product list, corresponding suitability scores, selected tree path, selected use conditions, and entered relative importance of product usability suitability indicators.

The invention discloses a remote-sensing image building detection method based on multi-scale and multi-characteristic fusion. The method comprises steps that through high resolution remote-sensing image downsampling, an image pyramid formed by images in different scales is acquired; edge images of the image pyramid are calculated; a characteristic model is established through multi-set characteristic calculation and fusion of the edge images in different scales; according to the characteristic model and neighborhood local non-maximum inhibition, window selection is carried out to acquire a target window; small-scope expansion/contraction calculation of the target window is carried out to acquire a rectangular window; the rectangular window is turned according to a main direction of the target window to acquire an optimal target window, and a building is extracted according to the optimal target window. The method is advantaged in that multi-scale building detection on the Gaussian pyramid image is carried out, universality of detection on buildings different in sizes, shapes and directions is realized, and automatic building detection precision and efficiency are effectively improved.

The invention provides a 24-hour electric power load prediction method. The method comprises steps of data collection and data pre-processing, effective characteristics are calculated through the characteristic entropy weight, in combination with the window selection method, the 24-hour power load condition in the fixed time is selected as input data of DBN network training, the DBN network structure is determined, a network model is established, the network model is trained and tested through the DBN, characteristic value data of the prediction day and a 24-hour power load value of one day ofseveral days before the prediction day selected by the window selection method are inputted to obtain the electric power load value result of the prediction day, reasonable initialization of the weight is carried out through pre-training of the 2-layer RBM network layer, adjustment is carried out through the BP network layer, no shortcomings such as over-fitting occur, the characteristic entropyweight method is utilized to extract factors affecting the electric power load, the corresponding weight is calculated, and each factor is quantified to obtain the influence weight for the electric power load. The window selection method is proposed to improve prediction accuracy, and the prediction effect is better than an electric power load prediction model in the prior art.

The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for receiving data analysis instructions from a user and for displaying results of the data analysis to the user. In one embodiment, the invention provides a series of interface windows displayed on a computer display screen. A first window allows a user to select one or more specification files comprising reference data specifying capabilities and or resources with which other data is to be compared. A second window allows the user to select one or more data files to be compared to the one or more specification files selected using the first window. A third window allows the user to interactively select the type of analysis to be performed and provides the results of the selected analysis to the user. The third window also allows the user to interactively apply one or more filters to the results and to select the manner (view) in which the results are displayed.