38 results about "Z-order" patented technology

In a client-server system, a server-node application runs a user session and a remote presentation protocol communicates between the client node and the server node. The server node stores a remote virtual desktop including remote windows of the user session. The client node displays multiple local windows of applications running locally on the client node and further displays one or more windows of the remote virtual desktop. The one or more windows are clipped to produce a clipped region so that the remote windows are displayed therein to appear as the local windows. The local windows are enumerated according to z-order from back to front and an area of each local window which overlaps the clipped region is subtracted from the clipped region so that the local windows show through the area.

An interactive TV content creation tool imports video and other assets, including WebPages, Java script, etc., as a series of resources for interactive TV content creation for real time audience estimation and program ratings. A processing system embeds hyperlinks into one or more objects contained in a program frame as desired. Each hotlink has attributes. These attributes include shape, name, description and Z-order. The hotlink can have one of several shapes, including rectangle, ellipse and parallelogram. The hotlink types are included in an object tree which is displayed in a window to a creator. A hotlink type is selected in the hotlink tree, and a window displays a linked properties tab available for the selected object. There are several link types available; linking to a URL, another interactive TV content file, a video clip, an audio clip, an image, or a tracking action and transaction action. There are different parameters for different actions. One parameter is a tracking script. Another parameter is a tracking flag. The tracking flag can be set to follow different tracking modes. If the "enable global tracking" is chosen, a name / value pair "global=true" will be appended to the tracking script transmitted to the global tracking server through network. If the "enable local tracking" is chosen, a name / value pair "local=true" will be appended to the tracking script. The embedded tracking information can follow three multi-level tracking patterns (MTP): regular program viewing tracking, enhanced program viewing tracking, and per object granularity tracking. The viewer returns the script to a server which calculates audience estimation and program ratings for the interactive TV program.

The present invention includes systems for and methods of visually integrating application windows in a virtual machine environment. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system for and method of visually integrating application windows of host and guest operating system in a virtual machine environment in order to reduce difficulties that the users of computers experience in navigating between applications in a virtual machine environment. The present invention accomplishes this by using a composite window list in the virtual machine monitor (VMM) to manage the configuration, the focus, the geometry, the Z-order of the windows across guest and host operating systems, and the arrangement of doppelgangers (virtual application windows, in this case) in a way that allows host and guest application windows to appear integrated in a single display window.

An abbreviated user interface for instant messaging (or other type of communications occurring in a graphical user interface environment permitting concurrent running of multiple application) is provided. The abbreviated user interface is different from a related primary user interface and is presented when the primary user interface is instantiated, yet is not on top of a z-order of a graphical environment. The abbreviated user interface can be a light-weight one that permits a user to quickly read messages. In one embodiment, a user can create outgoing messages using the abbreviated user interface. Presentation of the abbreviated user interface can require a user action, such as hovering a pointer over a task bar element for a duration or pressing a hot-key combination. In one embodiment, presentation of an otherwise unread message within the abbreviated interface for a designated time can cause the message to be marked as read.

Authorized priority alerts are permitted to “pop up” on top of a running screensaver in a computer display without suspending operation of the screensaver. A windows manager monitors for priority alerts from applications. If the screensaver is active in the display, the windows manager determines if the alert issuing application and alert type are permitted to breakthrough the screensaver. If so, an alert notification window identifying the content of the alert is generated and displayed in z-order on top of the screensaver, without interrupting the operation of the screensaver displayed underneath. Some notification windows implement security features by displaying only a portion of the content of the corresponding alert or completely obscuring the content of the alert and only notifying of the presence of the alert. An additional security feature requires the user to enter a password in the notification window before the content or type of alert is displayed.

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for predicting the availability of an instant messaging user in an instant messaging system and providing that information to a message sender. The present invention analyzes a user's collaborative data to determine the user's availability to respond to an instant message and monitors z-order movement of an instant messaging window on a user's screen to determine how much attention the user is paying to the instant messaging. The instant messaging application then uses the collaborative data and the z-order information to predict the availability of the user to respond to the instant message. This information is subsequently displayed to an instant messaging partner in the partner's instant messaging window.

A method, system and program for selectively adjusting transparency of windows within a user interface are provided. An n-level is determined within a z-order of at least one displayable object from among multiple displayable objects distributed within the z-order. A transparency level is selectively adjusted of the at least one displayable object within a user interface positioned at the n-level within the z-order, such that the transparency level of the at least one displayable object is selectively adjusted without adjusting the z-order of the displayable objects.

An improved system for managing user inputs and z-order in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment is disclosed. A GUI element may include a plurality of keys corresponding to keys on a typical keyboard, and may serve as a replacement for the keyboard. The system permits an application having an input focus to retain the input focus while inputs are received in the GUI element, and even transient user interface elements (e.g., menus) will remain displayed in those applications after the user inputs are entered. Input pen and mouse events may first be forwarded to the input area application, which may remove the events from the normal circulation, preventing other applications from learning of the events, and then post those events to the input panel application separately.

Security levels and positional information in the Z-axis direction (Z-order) of windows on the screen with a limitation. A program that is assigned a low security level cannot become higher than a program that is assigned a high security level in the Z-axis direction. In addition, a restriction is imposed on information flow via a clipboard and a window message from a higher program to a lower program in the Z-axis direction. The security levels are managed on the window basis according to attributes of files to be accessed or documents to be displayed. The display state of each window in the desktop is dynamically controlled depending on the security level of the window on which a user actually performs operation. The visual states of system resources such as printers and drives are controlled in accordance with the assigned security level.

In a client-server system, a server-node application runs a user session and a remote presentation protocol communicates between the client node and the server node. The server node stores a remote virtual desktop including remote windows of the user session. The client node displays multiple local windows of applications running locally on the client node and further displays one or more windows of the remote virtual desktop. The one or more windows are clipped to produce a clipped region so that the remote windows are displayed therein to appear as the local windows. The local windows are enumerated according to z-order from back to front and an area of each local window which overlaps the clipped region is subtracted from the clipped region so that the local windows show through the area.

The present invention includes systems for and methods of visually integrating application windows in a virtual machine environment. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system for and method of visually integrating application windows of host and guest operating system in a virtual machine environment in order to reduce difficulties that the users of computers experience in navigating between applications in a virtual machine environment. The present invention accomplishes this by using a composite window list in the virtual machine monitor (VMM) to manage the configuration, the focus, the geometry, the Z-order of the windows across guest and host operating systems, and the arrangement of doppelgangers (virtual application windows, in this case) in a way that allows host and guest application windows to appear integrated in a single display window.

The invention provides an opening-closing fault diagnosis method for an air circuit breaker based on vibration signals, wherein an acceleration sensor is used to collect machine body vibration signals generated during opening-closing courses of the air circuit breaker. The method comprises the steps that firstly, the acceleration sensor is used to collect the machine body vibration signals generated during opening-closing actions of the air circuit breaker and transform the vibration signals into digital signals, so that initial vibration signals are obtained; secondly, an improved wavelet packet threshold de-noising algorithm is used to process the collected vibration signals; thirdly, a complementary ensemble-average empirical mode decomposition algorithm is used to extract intrinsic mode function components from the de-noising vibration signals; fourthly, the quantity Z of the intrinsic mode function components is determined; fifthly, the intrinsic mode function components of the first Z orders are selected and extracted as sample entropies of a characteristic quantity; sixthly, binary tree multi-classifiers based on a relevance vector machine are established; and seventhly, the binary tree multi-classifiers based on the relevance vector machine obtained at the sixth step are used to establish a fault recognition model of the air circuit breaker.

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are disclosed for displaying the true status of hierarchical operations being performed in a data processing system. For example, a Z-order layering technique can be used to display simultaneously on a screen the status of a plurality of operations being performed on elements of a hierarchical structure, such as, for example, on an inverted tree directory and a plurality of its sub-trees. Advantageously, the display can be scaled to include operations being performed for many nested levels of the hierarchical structure, without having to increase the overall footprint of the display. Also, an application for copying a directory has to traverse the directory's structure only one time (e.g., during the copying operation), because the application does not need to know in advance the total number of files that have to be copied.

Systems and methods are provided for detecting objects of an object class, such as faces, in an image sensor. In some embodiments, the image sensor can include a detector with an image buffer. The image buffer can store image data in raster order. The detector can read the data out in Z order to perform object detection. The image data can then compute feature responses using the Z-ordered image data and determine whether any objects of the object class are present based on the feature responses. In some embodiments, the detector can downscale the image data while the object detection is performed and use the downscaled image data to continue the detection process. In some embodiments, the image data can perform detection even if the image is rotated.

Described are various methods and apparatuses for fine grained control of z-order elements in a presentation. A structure is defined containing user interface elements and an order is defined for rendering such user interface elements. It is desired that some elements may need to be rendered out of the defined order, therefore a raise user interface element is defined allowing for one or more user interface elements to be defined to be rendered out of the normally defined order. User interface elements may something to be presented on a display and may also include program code for defining behaviors.

The invention discloses a location privacy protection method, system and equipment based on neighbor query and a medium. The method comprises the following steps executed by an LBS client: based on atarget position and an interest point type, querying Z-order tree in advance based on a quadtree and a Z-oder curve for obtaining a target node and a target sub-tree; traversing leaf nodes in the target subtree, and obtaining target node truncation coordinates and adjacent node truncation coordinates; Based on the private key, an improved privacy homomorphic encryption algorithm is adopted for encryption calculation, encrypted data of a target node and encrypted data of adjacent nodes are obtained and sent to an LBS server, and secret distance data returned by the LBS server are received; Based on the private key, an improved privacy homomorphic decryption algorithm is adopted to decrypt the secret distance data, the distances between the target node and the adjacent nodes are obtained respectively and ranked, and neighbor interest points corresponding to the number of neighbors are obtained. According to the method, rapid positioning and query can be rapidly realized, the calculationcost is low, and the confidentiality effect is good.

Trapping graphics during pre-press workflow involves intensive computation. In this invention, the trapping engine uses simple bounding boxes, colors, and temporal order information, to eliminate the possibility of trapping many pairs of objects without ever having to calculate their exact shapes. By considering the temporal order of the objects in a page, such a z-order display list, the trapping engine can quickly reject the possibility of trapping in areas where it is not necessary.

There is provided a display processing device having an improved display performance of graphics image. The display processing device includes: an OSD plane (211) having a first OSD area (671) and a second OSD area (672) for storing graphics image; a Z order management unit (601) containing the hierarchical relation set for the first OSD area (671) and the second OSD area (672) and reporting the hierarchical relation; a CPU (217) executing an application (506) downloaded so as to store graphics image in the first OSD area (671) and the second OSD area (672) according to the hierarchical relation reported from the Z order management unit (601); and a display (212) for superimposing the graphics images stored in the first OSD area (671) and the second OSD area (672) according to the hierarchical relation and displaying them.

In order to efficiently conduct the display processing of a GUI screen by suppressing the drawing of unnecessary objects, the objects are, first, searched from the front toward the rear according to a reverse painter's algorithm while tracing a z-order for processing the drawing. In this step, flags necessary for the drawing may be raised instead of drawing the objects, and a z-buffer needs not be provided. The objects can be really drawn from the rear toward the front according to a painter's algorithm.

The invention discloses a method and a system for switching of superposed windows of a joined screen to realize window switching in complete window coverage. The method includes: 1) recording coordinate information and Z-order information of all windows on the joined screen; 2) judging whether window superposition exists or not and whether other windows are completely covered or not, when other windows are completely or partially covered, acquiring information of a top-layer window and the windows covered by the top-layer window, starting a step 3), and otherwise, starting the step 1); 3) setting a plurality of new tags on the top-layer window according to the acquired information, wherein the quantity of the tags is equal to amount of the top-layer window and the windows covered by the top-layer window, each tag describes attributes of one window, and window switching is realized by the tag of the top-layer window. The tags are set for the top-layer window in the superposed windows and other windows covered by the top-layer window for recognition, and switch display among the plurality of superposed windows is realized by operating the tags.

This invention enables accurate comparative analysis by converting, with a low load and without omitting information, data of multiple samples collected by LC / MS, GC / MS, etc., into a two-dimensional table format. Once LC / MS measurement data of multiple samples is acquired and extracted ion chromatograms (XICs) are prepared (S1, S2), time axis adjustment is performed to correct the retention time shift (S3), and thereafter, processing is performed to correct the data omissions occurring in the beginning and end portions of the data due to the time axis adjustment (S5). Specifically, in the retention time range in which there are data omissions, the data of all the samples is deleted, and the beginnings and ends of the data are aligned. Thereafter, one-dimensional tables for each XIC are created comprising a list of signal intensity values, and a long one-dimensional table is created by joining the one-dimensional tables of the XICs of one sample in m / z order (S6), and a two-dimensional table is created by lining up the one-dimensional tables of the multiple samples in another dimensional direction (S7).

Trapping graphics during pre-press workflow involves intensive computation. In this invention, the trapping engine uses simple bounding boxes, colors, and temporal order information, to eliminate the possibility of trapping many pairs of objects without ever having to calculate their exact shapes. By considering the temporal order of the objects in a page, such a z-order display list, the trapping engine can quickly reject the possibility of trapping in areas where it is not necessary.

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are disclosed for displaying the true status of hierarchical operations being performed in a data processing system. For example, a Z-order layering technique can be used to display simultaneously on a screen the status of a plurality of operations being performed on elements of a hierarchical structure, such as, for example, on an inverted tree directory and a plurality of its sub-trees. Advantageously, the display can be scaled to include operations being performed for many nested levels of the hierarchical structure, without having to increase the overall footprint of the display. Also, an application for copying a directory has to traverse the directory's structure only one time (e.g., during the copying operation), because the application does not need to know in advance the total number of files that have to be copied.

A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to accept a set of document objects, wherein each document object is associated with a z-order. A document object in the set of document objects is passed to a pre-rendering region comprising a stack of one or more panes, wherein the document object is added in z-order. The document object is checked against each pane in the stack for document object overlap, beginning with a topmost pane, until a pane selected from one of a bottommost pane and an overlap pane is reached. The document object is associated with a pane selected from one of the bottommost pane and a pane above the overlap pane. The pane above the overlap pane is selected from one of a pane in the stack and a new pane added to the top of the stack.

When two objects have overlapping without the intervention of another object, it is determined that the two objects are in contact with each other. Then, a second object, which reaches a state having overlapping with a first object and then reaches a state having overlapping again via a state without any overlapping during movement of the first object, is detected. When it is determined that the first and second objects are in contact with each other before and after the state without any overlapping, an information processing apparatus interchanges a hierarchical relation in Z-orders of the first and second objects.

A system for presenting pictures on a touch screen is disclosed. The system displays a plurality of pictures associated with a Z-order of layout in the touch screen. When a user selects one of the presented pictures and performs a long tap for a time period on the selected picture, the system changes the Z-order index of the selected picture to a new Z-order index. If necessary, the system adjusts the Z-order indices of the other pictures to accommodate to the new Z-order index of the target picture and generates a new Z-order of layout. Then the system presents the plurality of pictures on the touch screen according to the new Z-order of layout.

A method including: receiving a document encoded in a markup language and having a page with an image and text; creating a first high-level graphics (HLG) object corresponding to the image, where the first HLG object specifies a first z-index less than zero for the first HLG object; generating a first entry in an input file including a pointer to the first HLG object; generating a second entry in the input file corresponding to the text; generating an output file using a typesetting program and the input file; in response to the first z-index not being zero: parsing the output file to identify the page; creating an ItemHandles List (IL) for the page; adding a first ItemHandle corresponding to the first entry to the IL, where the first ItemHandle including the pointer; and generating a display list for the page using the output file and the IL.