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715 - Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
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|Print preview
|Plural documents or plural portions of single document
|Color attribute
|Utilizing page description language
|Method of background form print submission for document enhancement - Background form print submission enhancements are provided by attaining background form print submission enhancements for layered documents by generating a background form from a single print job file, the background form containing master data and overlay data in a monolithic page description language (PDL); applying said background form to pages in said document; performing variable length merging on multiple pages of said background form; submitting static content of said document to create said background form; submitting variable content of said document to merge with said background form; and merging arbitrary pages of said background form with said arbitrary pages of a second PDL. The improvement may be best implemented in the print driver while others may be best implemented at the digital front end (DFE) proper. Overall, the improvement aim to retain workflow function with applications that do not actually support true variable information (VI) document authoring.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS - A document analysis system receives multiple concepts along with multiple reference documents and generates sensory indicators that assist a researcher in assessing the relevance of each of the documents to the concepts. In one exemplary aspect, the document analysis system displays a table of keywords separated into blocks, each block of keywords corresponding to one of the concepts. Each block is colored according to the prevalence of any keyword within a given keyword group. The color of a block thus indicates the relative presence of a concept in the document. The document analysis system also determines a unique color for each block of keywords for highlighting in the text of the document. In this manner a researcher can quickly identify passages that contain multiple concepts. Additionally, the researcher is provided the ability to quickly locate reference characters, figure numbers and patent numbers in the document.
|Application Content Format Based on Display Resolution - An apparatus includes an interface to receive a first indicator representative of a display resolution of a display device and a second indicator representative of an application content file and an application content store configured to select the application content file from a plurality of application content files based on the second indicator. The apparatus further includes an application style store configured to select an application style file from a plurality of application style files based on the first indicator, an interpreter application configured to generate a visual representation of an application using the application content file and the application style file, the visual representation being formatted for the display resolution of the display device. The application further includes an interface to provide the visual representation of the application for display at the display device.
|METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT AGENDA DRAFTING, SYNCHRONIZATION AND DISPLAY - The present invention relates to a method for efficient agenda drafting, synchronization and display comprising:
|DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND DATA SIGNAL - A document management device, which includes: a document receptor that receives a document; a pattern information generator that generates first information on which a first background pattern image is based; an addition section that adds the first information to the document; a setter that sets, to the document, a prohibition on editing the first information; a document storage that stores the document having the first information added thereto; a printing request receptor that receives a printing request; an prohibition lifting section that lifts the prohibition; an edition section that edits the first information to make second information on which a second background pattern image is based; a printing image generator that generates a printing image having the second background pattern image incorporated thereinto; and a sender that sends, to an image formation device, the printing image having the second background pattern image incorporated thereinto.
|GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING THUMBNAIL IMAGES WITH FILTERING AND EDITING FUNCTIONS - An enhanced graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying a main document image and multiple thumbnail images, with filtering functions to allow the user to display selected pages as thumbnail images. In particular, the GUI is implemented in a Make Ready program used in a print shop to manipulate documents before printing. Each page of the document being processed by the Make Ready program is assigned one of multiple processing phases (or processing status values), depending on whether any editing changes are required, and whether any required changes have been made or all required changes are completed. The operator can selectively display pages of a certain phase as thumbnail images, and use this display to make editing changes to the pages. The program automatically updates the phase assignment for a page after changes are made to it. The operator can also manually update the phase of a page.
|Computer Method and Apparatus Providing Social Preview in Tag Selection - A computer method and apparatus of social tagging computer resources is disclosed. In the invention method and apparatus, a data store holds social tagging data of previously followed tags throughout a system. In response to end-user indication of a tag candidate, the invention system retrieves from the data store social tagging data about the tag candidate. A tag previewer forms and renders a display of the retrieved social tagging data. The display indicates number of users having interest in (i.e., having followed, searched with, browsed and/or subscribed to) the candidate tag and its variants, and the type of interest. The display may further indicate identities (e.g., email addresses) of these users having such interest. The display may serve as a precommit preview to the end-user during selection of a tag (the candidate) for a given resource. Alternatively, the tag previewer may provide the invention display of social tagging data during end-user browsing as well.
|INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR RECTIFYING AND SCROLLING PHOTOS OF DOCUMENTS IN A 3D VIEWPORT - Systems and methods for providing a user interface to help users rectify and scroll photos of documents. Systems and methods are based on an approach employing a 3D viewport with multi-touch gestures along with scroll bars. Scrolling a rotated photo in a 3D space exhibits some strange and unexpected behaviors; wherein systems and methods solve these problems using trigonometry in 3D and Newton's Method while being fast enough to support real-time interaction.
|SIMULATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS AND SECONDARY DEVICES IN A WEB BROWSER, WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, AND METHODS USING THE SAME - Device simulators and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the device simulators are capable of permitting accurate pixel to pixel and inch to inch mapping between a simulated display and a display of a target device. Web application development tools utilizing such simulators are also disclosed. In some embodiment, such web application development tools provide a convenient method to convert electronic document source files to interactive document web applications for multiple operating systems and form factors.
|METHODS AND SYSTEMS INVOLVING OBJECT ATTRIBUTE RECOGNITION - A method for displaying formatting of objects, the method comprising, receiving an input, wherein the input is a selected range of objects, determining formatting attributes of the selected range of objects, determining an amount of objects having each of the formatting attributes in the selected range of objects, displaying each of the determined formatting attributes, designating each of the determined formatting attributes displayed with a unique non-textual indicator, marking the objects in the selected range of objects with the unique non-textual indicator corresponding to the determined formatting attributes of the objects in the selected range of objects, and marking the objects in the selected range of objects with a second type of indicator to indicate the determined amount of objects having each of the formatting attributes in the selected range of objects relative to a total amount of objects in the selected range of objects.
|Look Ahead of links/alter links - A computationally-implemented method comprises obtaining at least a portion of data from a data source, determining a content of the data, determining an acceptability of an effect of content of the data at least in part via at least two virtual machine representations of at least a part of a real machine having at least one end-user specified preference, at least one of the at least two virtual machine representations operating at least in part on an individual core of a multi-core system, and displaying at least one data display option based on the determining an acceptability of a content of the data.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION - A method of risk management across a mission support network is provided, including identifying a mission of the mission support network, and identifying, by a computer processor, assets of the mission support network. The assets include a mission asset to support the mission and a support asset to provide support to the mission asset. Each of the assets is characterized by a criticality index value to measure how important the asset is to a performance of the mission, and a vulnerability index value to measure a vulnerability of the asset to a threat.
|Automated visual analysis of nearby markings of a visualization for relationship determination and exception identification - To automatically visually analyze relationship in data records that are presented by a visualization containing cells representing corresponding data records, identification of a threshold of interest is received for a particular one of attributes in the visualization. Nearby areas in the visualization are marked based on the threshold, and data records in the marked areas are mined to determine at least one relationship between the particular attribute and at least one other attribute, and to identify information associated with an exception. A result of the mined at least one relationship is provided, for display, in a graphical element.
|Software Tool for Creating Outlines and Mind Maps that Generates Subtopics Automatically - A system automatically generates a text outline or mind map by applying pattern-matching translation rules to topic text. The system may be used as an educational aid for writing and/or brainstorming, or to enhance structured and in-depth thinking in any industry. A user may choose a topic, such as by choosing one of several topics displayed by the system or by typing a topic. In response, the system may apply rules to the topic to identify one or more relevant subtopics. The system may display the subtopics to the user. The user may select one of the subtopics, in response to which the system may apply the same or different rules to the subtopic to identify one or more additional subtopics. This process may be repeated to any depth to create and explore an outline, mind map, or other representation of topics related to the original topic.
|IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An attribute determining unit determines an attribute of image data of an image. A still-image extracting unit extracts, when the attribute is a moving image, a still image from the image data. A feature-amount obtaining unit obtains a feature amount from image data of the still image and image data of a still image when the attribute is the still image. An arrangement-position determining unit determines an arrangement position of a display area based on the feature amount. A display-image generating unit generates a thumbnail image from the still image and displays a list of thumbnail images in the display area, based on the arrangement position and the display area.
|System and Method for Adapting Information Content for an Electronic Device - A system and method is provided for efficiently adapting information content for an electronic device. A normalizer includes a template normalizer for matching and applying a document tree to a template tree, and applying changes to the document tree. If the template normalizer does not find an appropriate template match, an automatic normalizer is utilized. The automatic normalizer utilizes weighting heuristics and pattern recognition with formatting rules to partition content into folders. The automatic normalizer can also utilize embedded normalization markup in the information content to assist in normalizing the information content. Information content can be represented by a document object tree. A document object tree is created by storing information relating to the information content into arrays. The stored information describes a document object tree structure and tree dependencies as a mutable object.
|Method to Support Selective Graphical Display of System Configurations Using View Filters - A user enters a selection of system components to be included within a configurable system. An initial top-level system diagram is then generated and displayed to the user. The user can then input a designation specifying one or more logical groups, functional groups, or other specified system components that the user wishes to display as a filtered system diagram. Other system components are examined to determine which, if any, of the system components have attributes matching the designation. A filtered system diagram is then generated highlighting the included system components having attributes matching the designation. Alternatively, the filtered system diagram can exclude those system components not having attributes matching the designation.
|Carousel User Interface For Document Management - Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.
|Carousel User Interface For Document Management - Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.
|CONVERSION OF A COLLECTION OF DATA TO A STRUCTURED, PRINTABLE AND NAVIGABLE FORMAT - A system for converting a collection of data to a structured, printable and navigable document includes: an analyzer and a layout unit. The analyzer is coupled to receive a data collection source such as a web page associated with a wiki and other user parameters, and generates a representation of content associated with the data collection source. The output of the analyzer is coupled to an input of the layout unit to provide the representation of content. The layout unit is also coupled to receive a style sheet or other user preferences. The linearizer of the layout unit retrieves the necessary content using the representation of content. The retrieved content is then formatted by the layout selector of the layout unit to generate a paginated document and metadata. This output can then be printed on any conventional printer or manipulated and interacted with using applications or a web browser.
|SELECTING PORTIONS OF COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS FOR POST-SELECTION PROCESSING - Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.
|Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigating and Annotating an Electronic Document - A device, configured to operate in a first operational mode at some times and in a second operational mode at other times, detects a first gesture having a first gesture type; in response to detecting the first gesture: in accordance with a determination that the device is in the first operational mode, performs an operation having a first operation type; and, in accordance with a determination that the device is in the second operational mode, performs an operation having a second operation type; detects a second gesture having a second gesture type; and in response to detecting the second gesture: in accordance with a determination that the device is in the first operational mode, performs an operation having the second operation type; and in accordance with a determination that the device is in the second operational mode, performs an operation having the first operation type.
|INTERACTIVE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE FOR A LITERARY WORK - An interactive digital experience for a literary work is described. An embodiment describes a method which provides an interactive service, such as a website or mobile application, to a user. As the user interacts with the service which is related to a literary work, they navigate along a storyline within the service which corresponds to the storyline within the literary work and the user's position along that storyline is stored. Within the service, the user generates elements of user generated content and each element of user generated content which is created is stored with a position reference specifying a position of the user when that element was created. User generated content which Was generated by one or more other users of the service is displayed to the user; however content which was generated by any user at a position beyond the user's stored position along the storyline is not displayed.
|SCROLL-BASED SERIALIZED BOOK READER - A method and a device are disclosed for a reader application configured to run on a computing device. The scrolling reader application, when run on the computing device, causes the computing device to display a scrolling text stream field, a control panel configured to control the scrolling of the text stream, a status line including at least a page number and a line number, and several special-function elements including a table of content button, a current position button, and an index button. The scrolling reader application may further include a module to serialize a text document into a character array usable to form a text stream.
|Object Placeholders in Electronic Documents - An electronic book ("eBook") reader application executing on an electronic device conserves non-volatile, random access memory by reading from non-volatile memory an electronic document page that includes text and at least one non-textual object (e.g., an image), storing the read electronic document page in volatile memory such that the at least one non-textual object is replaced with a placeholder that occupies less memory than the non-textual object (e.g., a blank rectangle having the same dimensions as the image), determining that the electronic document page stored in volatile memory is likely to be displayed imminently, and replacing the placeholder in the stored electronic document page with the non-textual object.
|DATA TRANSFER METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for utilizing an object in cooperation between computer apparatus and a mobile device, comprises the steps of: a) identifying an object shown on a screen associated with computing apparatus; b) determining the coordinates of said object on said screen; and c) transmitting said object and/or its metadata.
|IMAGE PREVIEW - A method, apparatus, and system are provided for displaying a graphical representation of at least a portion of a file by interfacing with a graphical interface relating to the file. A request for viewing a file content is received. A window for viewing a graphical representation of at least a portion of the content of a file is provided.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVEALING HIDDEN INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Methods, systems and computer readable medium allow a user to open an electronic document in one of various applications while revealing hidden information, without having to know or execute manual steps or procedures to reveal the hidden information. A user interface of a reveal hidden information application is displayed, the user interface displaying a list of one or more native applications each of which is associated with an electronic document type. An input is received selecting a first native application from the list, and one or more hidden information types are displayed corresponding to the selected native application. Settings for the hidden information types corresponding to the first native application are received. Using the first native application, an electronic document whose document type corresponds to the first native application is then displayed with hidden information revealed/not revealed in accordance with the settings.
|Selection and Display of User-Created Documents - The invention relates to methods and apparatus for displaying documents created by a particular user to that user. A source of documents created electronically by the user is accessed and an automatic selection of a plurality of parts of documents is made according to selection criteria. The selected parts are displayed sequentially on a peripheral display means associated with the user.
|DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - The object of the present invention is to create a template for print settings used for printing a document based on an existing document. To achieve the object, the present invention is capable of registering the print settings for a document being currently edited as template information and reading the registered template information as print settings for the document being currently edited or a new document. Thus, in the present invention, the print settings for an existing document can be utilized as print settings for printing a document. More preferably, the contents of a registered template can be edited. More preferably, a document in the present invention has a tree structure with pages as leaves; print settings can be made for each subtree; and, when a template is registered, the print settings made for the entire tree structure are registered as the template. More preferably, the document has a tree structure with pages as leaves; print settings can be made for each subtree; settings made at a lower hierarchy are preferentially applied to overlapped setting items; and when a template is registered, the print settings applied to a selected subtree is registered as a template. More preferably, the print settings can be modified by editing the document.
|EMBEDDED DOCUMENT WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Data structures, methods, program products and systems for creating and executing an executable file for the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) where the file is capable of causing presentation of a document embedded in the file on a BREW system.
|DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - There is provided a technique to contribute to an improvement in convenience of a setting screen for performing setting for a function capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus. A display control apparatus causes plural setting screens to be selectively displayed, which are respectively for performing settings for plural functions capable of being executed by the image processing apparatus and on each of which plural setting items for each of the functions can be displayed, and includes a selection function determination unit to determine that a setting screen for which function among the plural functions has been selected, an item information acquisition unit to acquire information relating to, among the plural setting items relating to the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, a setting item to be displayed on the setting screen for the function, and a control unit to display, based on the information acquired by the item information acquisition unit and on the setting screen for the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.
|APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING PROCESSING OF CHARACTER STRING IN DOCUMENT - A support apparatus, computer-implemented method, and article of manufacture for supporting a processing of a character string in a document. The support apparatus includes: a document storage unit; a designation reception unit; a document acquisition unit; a historical-information storage unit; a reference-information generator; and a presentation unit. The method includes: receiving designation from a user; acquiring a document from the document storage device based on the designation by the user; reading pieces of historical information related to the acquired document from the historical-information storage device, and thereby generating reference information for helping the user to select a processing of the character string in the document; and presenting, to the user, a screen for receiving the designation of the processing of the character string in the acquired document, together with the reference information.
|System and method for reporting medical information - A system and method for reporting medical information permits a user to output reports containing the information in multiple formats. The user can select report recipients, report templates and output formats. The report templates can be populated with data stored in a database. Different recipients can receive the reports in different formats and/or languages. Different recipients can also receive reports generated from the same template but containing different data.
|IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR SAME, IMAGE READING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE READING SYSTEM - A guidance display control unit performing control so that operation guidance is displayed in a preview display area provided to preview-display image data read by an image reading apparatus is provided, where the operation guidance is used to read the image corresponding to the preview display area.
|PREPARING A DISPLAY DOCUMENT FOR ANALYSIS - A method for preparing a display document for analysis includes: extracting character data from the display document; determining a first order associated with processing of the character data and a second order associated with a logical order of the character data; determining whether the first order is different from the second order; and reversing at least a portion of the character data in response to the determination that the first order is different from the second order.
|DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded for causing a computer to execute a data management method includes the steps of obtaining document identification data used for identifying a target document, obtaining page identification data used for identifying a page of the target document, obtaining document use data indicating a display time and a display location in which the page of the target document has been displayed, obtaining recording data indicating a recording time and a recording location in which AV (Audio Visual) data has been recorded in a case where the recording location is within a predetermined range from the display location, identifying a portion of the AV data corresponding to the display time of the page of the target document, and outputting access data that provides access to the portion of the AV data.
|DETECTING AND REJECTING ANNOYING DOCUMENTS - A system and method for evaluating documents for approval or rejection and/or rating. The method comprises comparing the document to one or more criteria determining whether the document contains an element that is substantially identical to one or more of a visual element, an audio element or a textual element that is determined to be displeasing.
|IMAGE PROCESSOR - An image processor includes an extracting unit, an assigning unit, and an output unit. The extracting unit extracts at least one set of frame image data from the plurality of sets of frame image data included in one of the at least one set of moving image data. The assigning unit assigns a set of control data to each of the at least one set of frame image data extracted by the extracting unit. The output unit outputs an image list including a moving image index, the moving image index having an index frame image and information with respect to the set of control data, the index frame image being either one of a frame image corresponding to the at least one set of frame image data assigned with the set of control data and a resized frame image resized from the frame image.
|SERVER APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC BOOK PROVIDING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC BOOK PROVIDING METHOD, ELECTRONIC BOOK DISPLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - [Object] To lead a user to various types of information easily with an electronic book as a starting point. [Solving Means] A server apparatus includes a storage, a communication section, and a controller. The storage stores an electronic book obtained by digitizing a book having at least one page in which at least one information item is represented, and associated information that is associated with the information item. The communication section communicates with an external electronic apparatus. The controller generates, when the electronic book is displayed by the external electronic apparatus and the information item of the electronic book is designated, an electronic book unit by adding first metadata to the information item so that display processing of the associated information is executed on the external electronic apparatus, and controls the communication section to transmit the generated electronic book unit to the external electronic apparatus.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MESSAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, MESSAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a computer is an information processing apparatus which is connectable to a server apparatus via a network. The computer includes an HDD which stores the model information of the information processing apparatus, a network controller which transmits the model information stored in the HDD to the server apparatus via the network, a CPU which determines, upon receiving, from the server apparatus, support information corresponding to the model information transmitted by the network controller, whether the computer includes a device corresponding to device information contained in the support information, and an LCD which displays, when the CPU determines that the computer includes a device corresponding to the device information, device information corresponding to the device.
|X-RAY IMAGE RECEPTION SYSTEM - When a reception unit in an X-ray image reception system receives an image and additional information for the image from an X-ray image transmission system, the received additional information is sent to a resend setting determination unit. The resend setting determination unit determines a resend setting based on the received additional information and information acquired from a database and transmits the result to a reception completion determination unit. A packet loss determination unit determines packet loss in data received from the reception unit and transmits the result to the reception completion determination unit. The reception determination completion unit sends the results to the resent setting determination unit and the packet loss determination unit to the resend request unit. The resend request unit sends a resend request to the X-ray image transmission system based on the information from the reception unit and the result determined by the reception completion determination unit.
|DOCUMENT MODIFICATION BY A CLIENT-SIDE APPLICATION - A method for modifying a document at a client-side application is disclosed. The method involves receiving a user-requested document at a client-side application from a server; querying a database by the client-side application with entities in the user-requested document, where at least one entity is associated with entity information stored in the database; in response to querying the database, receiving the entity information associated with the at least one entity at the client-side application; modifying the user-requested document at the client-side application to obtain a modified document, where modifying the document comprises adding the entity information or a link to the entity information associated with the at least one entity; and displaying the modified document with the client-side application.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING READABILITY CONTROL IN A PORTABLE DEVICE DISPLAY - A method and system for providing readability control are described. The rendering and display of a data file on the display can be switched between a layout view and a column view. Initially, the data file is displayed on the display in one of the layout view or the column view. A portion of the displayed data file is selected by positioning a cursor over the portion and a trackball is actuated, for example, by clicking and holding the trackball for a predetermined time to display the data file in the other of the layout view or the column view within the selected portion. The selected portion is rendered on the display and centered generally in the vicinity of the cursor position when actuating the trackball.
|DIGITAL PLAQUE THAT DISPLAYS DOCUMENTS AND UPDATES PROVIDED BY A PLAQUE MANAGEMENT SERVER - A plaque management server provides document delivery and update services to a digital plaque, such as delivering a document whose status can change. The plaque management server is communicatively coupled to the Internet and accessible over the Internet
|CONTENT RENDERING ON A COMPUTER - Portions of content are transformed into portions of rendered content. While the portions of the content are being transformed into portions of the rendered content, each discrete portion of the rendered content can be provided to the application program after that portion is completed.
|SELECTIVE ACCESS TO A FRAME BUFFER - A method, system, and computer program display data by selectively providing access to a frame buffer. When a request for a destination location for display data is received, a determination is made as to whether the data will require further processing prior to display. If further processing is needed, a location of an external application buffer is provided. If no further processing is needed, a frame buffer is provided. Thus, improved efficiency is achieved, while still providing functionality for processing occlusions and/or composited sections of the display data.
|DOCUMENT PROVIDING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY PANEL - A document providing system includes a server and an electronic device. The server provides a first document that the electronic device requests. The electronic device includes a communication unit, a display panel and a processing unit. The processing unit is electrically coupled to the communication unit and the display panel. The communication unit communicates with the server. The display panel includes a memory which stores a unique identification code, and the unique identification code records a first panel information related the display panel. The processing unit transmits the unique identification code to the server when the electronic device requests the first document from the server. The server then converts the first document into a second document suitable to be displayed by the display panel according to the first panel information, and transmits the second document to the electronic device.
|CONTRACT AUTHORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer based system and method for contract authoring. The method can receive an external contract document in electronic form, wherein the external contract document comprises a plurality of text portions relating to a plurality of contract component types, respectively. The method can accessing a knowledge base describing a plurality of text patterns which identify with the plurality of the contract component types, respectively. Moreover, the method can process the external contract document utilizing the knowledge base to automatically identify the plurality of the contract component types for the plurality of the text portions in the contract document, respectively.
|IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disclosed image display apparatus for displaying multiple images on a single screen includes a magnification unit configured to, in response to a zooming operation on the screen, magnify distances between centroids of first group images included in the multiple images and magnify the first group images; and a display control unit configured to display in a space of the magnified distances one or more images different from the multiple images. A magnification rate of the distances between the centroids has a nonlinear relationship to a magnification rate of the first group images, and within an extent of the nonlinear relationship, the magnification rate of the distances between the centroids has a predetermined range in which the magnification rate of the first group images is larger than the magnification rate of the distances between the centroids.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC MESSAGE PLACEMENT - The present invention is a system and a method for selecting an appropriate location for displaying messages, such as graphic or textual advertisements, on the display screen of users of electronic devices. Embodiments of the present invention employ algorithms for analyzing the graphic content of the screen in real-time to select the most appropriate position for placing the message. In addition, according to some embodiments of the present invention the activities of the user are also monitored to enhance the suitability of the selected position of the advertisements. The algorithm constantly monitors screen information and user activity and removes the message whenever the selected area is no longer appropriate for displaying the message.
|Document Processing Device, and Document Processing Method - A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus renders the document content on a first layer
|Device And Method For Generating A Text Object - A graphic output device for generating a mixed graphic-textual depiction having at least one text object consisting of multiple letters for identifying a geographic feature, the output device comprising a processor unit, which is set up to reshape the text object in such a manner that the reshaped text object comprises, in addition to a normal text area having letters in the original size, a compressed text area having letters shrunken and/or compressed in relation to the original size, the boundary between the normal text area and the compressed text area running along a semantic jump point of the text object. A method for preparing a text object consisting of multiple letters using a processor unit, for the purpose of depicting the text object using a graphic output device.
|ELECTRONIC FORMS PREPARING AND MANAGING SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC FORMS PREPARING AND MANAGING PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM STORING MEMORY MEDIA - An electronic forms preparing and managing system in which electronic forms data are selected from a memory of a computer, new electronic forms having an optional format are prepared using the selected data, and are shown on a monitor of the computer. The electronic forms preparing and managing system includes a data creating unit changing the optional format data on the electronic forms into object format data, and a unit hierarchically defining access rights to the object format data.
|CUSTOMIZING CALENDAR VIEWS - The present solution provides a system for users to create public and/or personal custom tags, apply them to calendar events, and then view calendar events based on various combinations of tags. Users can manually apply either preexisting or newly created tags to individual (or repeating) calendar events or they can create filters to automatically apply tags to meetings. Filters may used to apply tags to events in an individual's personal calendar, or they may be used to apply public, system-wide tags to calendar events being sent to a list of participants. Filters can be created to apply tags to a meetings based on a various attributes of the meeting, such as keywords in either the subject or meeting text, the meeting chair, the number of attendees, whether or not the user is required to attend, etc.
|INTERACTIVE PLACEMENT ORDERING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more content items are displayed at a client device, and each syndication space is associated with one or more attributes. One or more of the attributes are selectively displayed on the webpage at the client device.
|Campaign Monitor - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more content items are displayed at a client device, and each content item associated with one or more campaign attributes. Display data is generated that causes each syndication space to selectively display a visual indication of one or more of the campaign attributes on the webpage at the client device.
|Website Advertising Inventory - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which syndication spaces for a webpage are identified, each syndication space defining a location on the webpage in which one or more advertisements are displayed at a client device, and each syndication space associated with one or more attributes. Display data is generated that causes each syndication space to selectively display a visual indication of one or more of the attributes on the webpage at the client device.
|Magnifying the Text of a Link While Still Retaining Browser Function in the Magnified Display - A web browser magnifies the content of the whole page in memory and displays the relevant portion in a magnifier with hyperlinks. The web browser then maps the magnified display to the original document. Thus, manipulation of the mouse in the magnified display may result in an action with respect to the original document. The user may then select a link for navigation within the magnified display. Alternatively, the web browser may analyze the original web page and construct magnifier contents on the basis of either the document object model, extensible markup language (XML), or hypertext markup language (HTML) representation of the magnified portion.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SLIDESHOW TO MULTIPLE PLATFORMS - A computer-implemented method and system for displaying multimedia content on a device corresponding to a platform are described. The multimedia content includes a plurality of items. The method and system include determining at least one attribute associated with an item of the plurality of items. The method and system also include placing the item in a cluster based on the attribute(s) and without requiring user-selection of the item. The cluster includes at least a portion of the items. The method and system further include rendering a slideshow of the cluster as a formatted slideshow. The formatted slideshow corresponds to the platform. The method and system further include providing the formatted slideshow to the device for display.
|System and Method of Creating and Displaying Messages - A system and method of creating a message and displaying the same are described. The system includes a message composer operable on a computer system for composing and generating a message file. The message file has a content portion for containing a message content and a header portion for containing a message attribute. The system also includes a display device having a memory for storing the message file and a message management module for retrieving and rendering the message content on a screen, wherein the stored message file is assigned at least one of a time stamp and a sequential number for establishing a queue.
|Method And System For Displaying Article - The embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for displaying an article, including: an action analyzing module, adapted to obtain action information of a user corresponding to user information, obtain article property information according to the action information; an article matching module, adapted to obtain articles related to the article property information according to the article property information; and a display system interface module, adapted to display the articles obtained by the article matching module. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose a method for displaying an article. According to the embodiments of the present invention, customized article display is provided for the user. Moreover, since the search of the user is avoided, the resources of the article sale system are saved.
|Image Capture And Sharing System and Method - An image capture and sharing system and method are disclosed. A viewing space is provided in a browser window of a browser application. An image capture tool receives image information into the viewing space from images displayed in one or more web pages obtained by the browser application. Tag information associated with the images is received and associated with the image information. The image information is displayed in the viewing space according to an arrangement. A metabase of the tag information is created and is accessible by a user command directed to associated image information in the viewing space.
|Intelligence Driven Icons and Cursors - A method is presented for representing emergent data in intelligent icons. The intelligent icons are visually coded to represent the emergent data. When logically linked, the visual coding of linked intelligent icons changes in accordance with how the intelligent icons are linked.
|Font preloading - There is provided a method for preloading the glyphs required to display the content of a system. In accordance with an embodiment of the present technique, only those glyphs which are present in the system upon startup or synchronization of an electronic device are preloaded. The glyphs present upon startup or synchronization of the electronic device may be determined by scanning the system. In an illustrated embodiment, scanning the system may include analyzing models and views to determine the glyphs present in the system.
|Method and System of Displaying More Relevant Internet Ads - A method and system are provided for displaying more relevant ads to a user on the Internet. In one example, the method includes displaying a first content match module including a first ad set and a first keyword set having first keyword phrases, receiving a first keyword phrase selection of the first keyword phrases, and displaying a second content match module including a second keyword set, a second ad set targeted to the first keyword phrase selection, and a first content match module link.
|Document Processing Device and Document Processing Method - A document processing apparatus provides a function as a browser that allows the user to browse a document held by a Web server. Specifically, the document processing apparatus acquires a document from the Web server via the Internet, and displays the document thus acquired. A mode detection unit detects a mode transition to a value-added operation mode, i.e., a mode that allows the user to reuse the Web page, examples of which include: a mode that allows the user to edit the Web page, a print mode, a storage mode, and a mode which allows the user to duplicate a part of the Web page. In such a case, an advertising display unit displays additional content such as an advertisement. A business model is proposed, whereby, in a case of executing the mode transition to the mode that allows the user to reuse the content, instead of charging the user, advertising is displayed.
|Image Application Performance Optimization - Some embodiments provide a method that from a source external to a device, imports a first image and a lower resolution second image that corresponds to the first image into the device. The method assigns the second image as a temporary preview of the first image. The method generates a preview third image for the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display before generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the temporary preview image to be displayed as a preview of the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display after generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the preview third image to be displayed as a preview of the first image.
|Situation Sharing and Viewing - A system for sharing and displaying information may have a definition tool that allows a user to select a group of information sources and publish the sources as a situation for the user. A display mechanism may be able to collect several situations from various sources and display the situations using various formats to view situations and links between situations. A server system may facilitate communication and sharing data between clients.
|OVERFLOW STACK USER INTERFACE - Systems and methods for providing an overflow stack. An overflow stack can be generated based upon adjustments to a group display area and based upon application of one or more display criterion. An overflow stack can include representation of any system objects that can not be displayed in an adjusted group display area based upon the one or more display criterion.
|ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT OF CROSS-PLATFORM CALENDARS - A system is disclosed for users to manage calendars in mobile computing devices. The system retrieves calendar entries from multiple calendars of distinct calendar platforms, extracts event information from the retrieved calendar entries, and aggregates extracted event information. The system can simultaneously display calendar entries extracted from multiple calendars of distinct platforms. The system provides various features for users to operate the calendars, such as (1) hiding calendar entries from some calendars and visually distinguishing the time scheduled for the hidden entries from free time; (2) compressing the display of extended free time periods; and enabling users to (3) navigate time as a scrolling list not subject to the limitations of arbitrary calendar units (e.g., month, week).
|MULTIPLE DOCUMENT DISPLAYING FOR VIEWING AND EDITING - In some example embodiments, a computerized method includes receiving multiple documents from at least one machine-readable media. The multiple documents have a hierarchical relationship relative to each other. The multiple documents include a first document, wherein a second document of the multiple documents comprises an enhancement to first document. The enhancement is at least one of a replacement of part of the first document or an addition to the first document. The computerized method includes displaying the multiple documents on a display screen such that the multiple documents are arranged according to the hierarchical relationship.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SIZING AND ADAPTING A WIDGET TO AVAILABLE SPACE - A smart-sizing, browser-based widget uses both information defined by a user (e.g., a width value, etc.) and information provided by the web browser and web page within which it is being displayed, to calculate, in real-time, which of its elements to display, and at what scale, so as to make the most efficient use of its available space. The determination as to which elements to display may be a function of a pre-defined relationship among the elements.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A PERSONALIZED REPORT WITH REUSABLE PARAMETERS - Methods and systems for generating personalized reports are disclosed. In some embodiments, a report generating application or service facilitates generating reports that can be personalized on a per-user and per-report basis. Accordingly, after personalizing a report to include only those columns desired, and formatting the report to have the columns appear in a desired order, the report generating application or service enables a user to save the personalization preferences to a file. Upon receiving a subsequent report request from the same user, the report generating application or service automatically generates the report in accordance with the user's saved personalization preferences. In addition to personalizing the report by specifying the particular columns and format, a user may establish, and save for later use, other report parameters (e.g., such as a date range) that are required in order to generate the report.
|Processing of Printed Documents - A document processing method comprises adding document markers to predetermined locations of an electronically stored document. These are printed with the document. The document is scanned and the scanned document markers are used to process the scanned image. This processing comprises at least pixel threshold setting, and determination of the locations of the scanned image which are to be processed to derive the pixels of a digital version of the document. This enables local deformations in the paper document to be corrected, and enables correct thresholds for the printing and scanning operations to be applied. The electronically stored document can be processed to derive a set of document properties which can be used when constructing the digital version.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PICTURES ACCORDING TO SHARING LEVELS - A picture sharing apparatus and method are provided. The picture sharing apparatus includes technology for providing pictures differentiated according to sharing levels. The picture sharing technology may receive a picture request from a user's terminal and determine that user's sharing level and provide a picture differentiated in a predetermined form according to the user's sharing level. The picture sharing technology fulfils the two conflicting tasks of privacy protection and picture sharing.
|CONSUMER MARKER OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE MEDIUM - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing a marker with an item of invitational content. A marker provided with an initial view of invitational content communicates features associated with a subsequent view, including the specifications or content of the invitational content, user terminal, or content provider. The marker is determined from input gathered from numerous data sources and according to a set of rules specifying what features and where and how the features are communicated. The rules can dictate that certain variants be selected based on gathered input concerning the user terminal or a user profile. The marker can be determined and changed based on real time status changes of the user terminal. A marker can receive input from the user which can be used to select a variant or change a setting. Marker data is stored and used to create reports and optimize future campaigns.
|CLIENT-SIDE COMPOSING/WEIGHTING OF ADS - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates displaying relevant advertisements to a user. A display engine can browse a portion of image data during a browsing session. An evaluator can identify a context related to two or more concurrent and on-going browsing sessions. An ad selector can locate an ad from a data store based on the identified context and seamlessly incorporate and display the ad into at least one of the browsing sessions.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE OPERATION MONITORING - The subject application is directed to a system and method for document processing device operation monitoring. Operational data is first communicated between document processing devices on one of a plurality of networks, each network having an assigned audit server from among a plurality of audit servers. Operational data is received into each audit server from each document processing device in its associated network. The audit servers output operational data from each document processing device in a thin client language via attachment to an e-mail. A data server receives the e-mail from each audit server and parses the operational data from each received e-mail. The parsed data is then stored in a database associated with the data server. The data server then generates a device report in accordance with a query to the database.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REFORMATTING A REPORT FOR ACCESS BY A USER IN A NETWORK APPLIANCE - A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to receive a report for access by a user. The report is divided into sections and each section is tokenized based on the user's interests. A section score is calculated for each section in the report. One or more sections are selected for display to the user according to their section scores. The one or more sections are delivered to the user.
|Image processing apparatus,image forming apparatus, and image sending apparatus - In one embodiment of the invention, an image processing apparatus provided with a display unit that displays an operation screen is provided with a user authentication unit that performs user authentication, an input unit that inputs comment information to the operation screen of the display unit, for each user that has been authenticated by the user authentication unit, and an output unit that outputs, among comment information that has been input by the input unit, comment information of a user that has been authenticated by the user authentication unit.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ENABLE PRIORITIZED PRESENTATION CONTENT DELIVERY AND DISPLAY - A method and device for content presentation are disclosed. The device receives one or more elements of content according to the priority setting thereof. The device displays the received elements. A sequence setter, responsive to a request for opening a remote slide file, is operable to receive an index of a set of slide objects for the slide file. The index comprises priority settings comprising a priority setting for each slide object within the set of slide objects and set a receive sequence based on the priority settings. A placeholder setter is operable to identify a subset of slide objects that have not been received and to replace the second subset of slide objects that have not been received with placeholders.
|GRAPHICAL DISPLAY FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PATIENT DATA - An intuitive graphical display as described herein can be rendered by a host device that obtains physiological patient data (such as blood glucose values) in real time or substantially real time. The graphical display includes a calibrated bar graph having a desired measurement range for the monitored parameter. The graphical display also includes a dynamic measurement value indicator that moves along the bar graph in a manner that tracks the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic. The graphical display may also incorporate easy-to-interpret display elements that allow the user to quickly determine whether the current value of the monitored physiological characteristic is within or outside a normal range, whether the monitored physiological characteristic is rising or falling, and the approximate rate of change of the monitored physiological characteristic.
|Rendering Data From A Server For Display In A Web Browser On A Client Computer - Data from a server is rendered for display in a web browser on a client computer. At least one static page is retrieved from the server. Data instructions for rendering the data are requested from the server. In response to the request for data and instructions, data and instructions for rendering the data are received. Received data and instructions for rendering are stored on the client. The data is rendered for display using the at least one static page and the instructions for rendering the data.
|Adaptive document displaying apparatus and method - Provided are an adaptive document display apparatus and method, and more particularly, an adaptive document displaying apparatus and method which can adaptively convert a document according to the screen size of a device that is to display the document. The adaptive document displaying apparatus includes: a document analyzing unit analyzing each of a plurality of components included in a document; and a document converting unit converting the document according to the result of analysis and attributes of a display device.
|Apparatus and method for visualization of operating status in a process control system - Deviations associated with a process system are identified, such as by identifying deviations of process variables or production measurements from target values. A graphical display is generated that identifies at least some of the deviations and one or more characteristics associated with the deviations. For example, the graphical display includes a time axis, and each deviation is associated with a bar positioned in the graphical display to identify a start time and an end time of the deviation along the time axis. Also, each bar may include one or more indicators (such as patterns, colors, or shadings) that identify the one or more characteristics (such as an economic impact and/or a cause) of each deviation identified in the graphical display. In this way, a user can, among other things, identify when deviations from target values occur, durations of the deviations, and economic impacts and/or causes associated with the deviations.
|AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF A CUSTOMER'S DOCUMENT BY CUSTOMER SUPPORT - Customer support systems and associated methods are disclosed. A customer wishes to inquire about a particular document individualized for the customer and sends a support request to a customer support system using a client device. The support request includes identification information of the customer and image information based on an image captured by the customer from a copy of the particular document. The customer support system is operable to receive the support request and to select a subset of documents for the customer from a plurality of documents for a plurality of documents based on the identification information. The customer support system is further operable to identify the document from the subset of documents based on the image information, and to initiate a response to the support request using information from the document.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT - Provided are an apparatus and method for displaying a document, the document display apparatus including an image processor which displays a document including a plurality of pages; a memory unit which stores individual unit elements constituting the document and image data including the individual unit elements; and a controller which controls the image processor to generate the image data corresponding to at least one page estimated to be turned to among the plurality of pages, store the image data in the memory unit, and display the image data corresponding to a requested page among the stored image data when a user requests a page transition. With this, the page transition speed may be improved through image caching.
|DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores definition information that defines a process executed to document information representing a document, a sequence to execute the process, and a parameter used in the process; a holding unit that holds a parameter of an unexecuted process and a set value set to a parameter of an executed process corresponding to the parameter of the unexecuted process, with the definition information that the memory stores; and a display controller that controls a display to display the set value that the holding unit holds and the parameter in relation to each other.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DIRECTED READING OF DOCUMENT PORTIONS BASED ON INFORMATION-SHARING RELEVANCE - One embodiment provides a system to facilitate directed reading of a selected portion of an original document by a recipient. During operation, the system creates a transfer document based at least on the original document and the selected portion. The transfer document, when viewed by the recipient, enables the following operations: opening the transfer document to the selected portion without requiring manual navigation to the selected portion, highlighting the selected portion, obscuring a context surrounding the selected portion based at least on a distance metric from the selected portion, and directly navigating from one highlighted portion to another highlighted portion in the transfer document without requiring manual navigation within obscured contexts. After the system creates the transfer document, it sends the transfer document to the recipient.
|DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR THE CONTROL METHOD - When editing a document having a page that contains image data and text data arranged to coexist, a document processing apparatus determines whether text data exists in each text region in the page. Then, when a user inputs a predetermined operation, among a plurality of text regions in the page, the document processing apparatus performs, on a screen thereof, enlargement display of ranges respectively containing text regions each of which is determined so that text data exists therein. Consequently, when editing a document having a page that contains image data and text data arranged to coexist, users can easily confirm input contents of text.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT - Provided are an apparatus and method for displaying a document, the document display apparatus including an image processor which displays a document including a plurality of pages; a memory unit which stores individual unit elements constituting the document and image data including the individual unit elements; and a controller which controls the image processor to generate the image data corresponding to at least one page estimated to be turned to among the plurality of pages, store the image data in the memory unit, and display the image data corresponding to a requested page among the stored image data when a user requests a page transition. With this, the page transition speed may be improved through image caching.
|Interacting with rendered documents using a multi-function mobile device, such as a mobile phone - A system and method for facilitating interactions between multi-function devices and rendered documents is described. In some examples, the systems overlays an image of a rendered document with display elements associated with actions to perform for the rendered document. In some examples, the system presents a virtual real-time image in place of a real-time of a document or other display of information.
|DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA FOR THEREON - An algorithm is implemented on a digital media device (
|CREATING DOCUMENTS FROM OBJECTS WITH TEXT IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - Described herein are processes and devices that create and manage documents in a virtual universe. One of the devices described is a virtual document converter. The virtual document converter can determine a plurality of text objects associated with a document graphic. The plurality of text objects present text, such as of a multiple page virtual document in a virtual universe. The virtual document converter generates a single, multi-page document file, for example, by encoding the text presented by the plurality of text objects into the document file.
|CREATING DOCUMENTS FROM GRAPHICAL OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - Described herein are processes and devices that create and manage documents in a virtual universe. One of the devices described is a virtual document converter. The virtual document converter analyzes a set of one or more graphical objects of a virtual document in a virtual universe. The virtual document presents document content. The virtual document converter determines format information for generating a document file. The virtual document converter parses the document content of the virtual document. The virtual document converter generates the document file with the parsed document content and the determined format information.
|VIEWING POINT FOR A COMPOSITION WITH MULTIPLE LAYERS - A position of a viewing point within a plurality of layers of a composition is received. Of the plurality of layers, at least a layer that is immediately adjacent to the viewing point is displayed. Those layers, if any, that are on the opposite side of the viewing point as the displayed layer(s) are not displayed.
|ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT VIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR - A document is divided into a plurality of regions so that each page has a meaning and, for each of the regions, there is generated a similarity table indicating a similarity degree and a data amount corresponding to the multiplexed resolution level data. By referencing this similarity table, each page of the electronic document in the region specified by the user is represented by a predetermined similarity (resolution) and at the reading speed specified by the user. Moreover, by referencing the similarity table, each page of the electronic document is represented at the maximum speed while guaranteeing the predetermined similarity.
|DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing device includes: a setting unit that sets an acquisition condition of data to be arranged as an additional element in a region on a printing format document in correlation with the region; an acquiring unit that acquires the data according the acquisition condition set by the setting unit; an arranging unit that arranges the data acquired by the acquiring unit as the additional element in the region on the printing format document, correlated with the condition used for acquisition of the data; and a creating unit that creates a printing format document having data of ground with display contents in which display content by the additional element and display content by the ground are unified, by executing virtual printing for data of the additional element arranged on the printing format document by the arranging unit and data of the ground of the printing format document.
|GENERATION OF OUTPUT DATA PROCESSABLE BY DATA OUTPUTTING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a data requesting unit configured to request the data outputting apparatus to provide output condition setting screen data for displaying an output condition setting screen, a screen display unit configured to receive the output condition setting screen data sent from the data outputting apparatus and to display the output condition setting screen based on the output condition setting screen data, a setting information storing unit configured to store output condition setting information that is set on the output condition setting screen displayed by the screen display unit, and an output data generating unit configured to generate output data processable by the data outputting apparatus in response to the output condition setting information stored in the storage apparatus.
|CUSTOMIZING WIDGET DRAW STYLES - Techniques for customizing draw styles of widgets to better accommodate a user's direct manipulation needs. A user can customize various attributes of a widget and its manipulators to suit the user's needs. The customizations are stored as a style. The stored style can subsequently be applied to the widget to control the appearance and behavior of the widget. Stored styles may be applied to other widgets and can also be shared between users.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT CONTENT USING UPnP - A system and method for displaying document content using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is provided. A media server provides meta information corresponding to the document content to a control point if a user request for displaying the document content is received, the control point provides the meta information of the document content to a media renderer that can display the requested document content together with an operation performance command for displaying the requested document content, and the media renderer receives the document content from the media server and renders the document content in accordance with the operation performance command to display the document content on a screen.
|Visual Screen Indicator - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for viewing electronic documents. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes an electronic viewer application to display contents of an electronic document; and a visual indicator logic configured to display at least one visual indicator on the electronic display, each visual indicator indicating a portion of the contents that are to be subsequently displayed on the electronic display in response to a navigation command. Other systems and methods are also provided.
|OUTPUT PREVIEW FOR A USER INTERFACE - A method and system to generate a user interface for an application, the user interface including a plurality of screen items, and each screen item being rendered based on associated screen item data. An output preview is generated and includes at least one preview item representative of a corresponding one of the plurality of screen items. Each preview item in the output preview is linked to the screen item data associated with the corresponding screen item, and is rendered in the output preview based on the linked screen item data.
|DOCUMENT VIEWING DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT DATA - A MFP is a document viewing device for displaying document data divided for each page. The document viewing device includes a processing device which performs a process of generating a viewing history of a document by a user based on a user operation performed for the document currently displayed on a display device; a process evaluating relevance to an object displayed on the display device to extract the page relevant to the object displayed on the display device from the document data; a process of determining based on the viewing history whether the object is checked or unchecked by the user to extract, from the extracted pages, a page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked; and a process of causing the display device to display, together with the displayed object, a shortcut linked to the page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked.
|Patent Analyzer - Systems and methods are disclosed to analyze a patent document by receiving patent application text including background, description of drawings, description and claims; generating a claim chart showing claim dependencies; checking for antecedent, support in drawings, support in the description; generating a navigable claim hierarchy; and generating a diagnostic message for the patent document.
|PREVIEWING DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOCUMENTS - This is directed to a preview application for displaying several documents simultaneously in a single window, where the several documents are displayed as books. To view the pages of a document, the preview application can open the book and display the pages of the document (e.g., in a one or two-dimensional array). A user can also search for particular terms within the several documents. In response to a search, the preview application can filter the pages of the several documents and only display those pages that include the search terms. The displayed pages can be ordered in any suitable manner, including for example by search rank.
|CONFIGURING OBJECT DISPLAYS - An object configuration module for configuring an object retrieves a view object associated with a user from a database. The view object may comprise a plurality of attributes. The object configuration module may further retrieve configuration information for the view object from the database. The configuration information may comprise properties of the attributes, and the properties may be customized by the user for the view object. The object configuration module may then set the properties for each of the attributes based on the retrieved configuration information.
|DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING VISUALIZATIONS - An adaptive visualization system is provided. The system includes a processing component that receives visualization configurations to determine a suitable visualization for a user. A visualization component automatically adapts a visualization output based in part on the visualization configurations. The visualization configurations can include user context inputs, user profile inputs, device characteristic inputs, or background data inputs, for example.
|DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a display apparatus including a storage unit that stores information on electronic tickets; a reading unit that reads the information on electronic tickets stored in the storage unit; a determining unit that determines whether the electronic tickets are in use based on usage information of the electronic tickets included in the information on electronic tickets read by the reading unit; a display order determining unit that determines display order on a screen display of the electronic tickets based on results of the determination made by the determining unit; and a display screen generating unit that generates a display screen showing the electronic tickets according to the display order on the screen display determined by the display order determining unit.
|Gene information display method and apparatus - Apparatus and method for appropriately processing gene information in order to allow an easy estimation of haplotypes in large quantities of genome data. A list of genotypes at a plurality of gene loci in a plurality of individuals is displayed, using individual data and gene locus data. The individual data indicates gene loci of individuals and the genotype that exists at each gene locus. The gene locus data indicates a major allele and a minor allele at each gene locus. The individual genotypes are color-coded when they are displayed depending on whether they consist of homozygous major alleles, homozygous minor alleles, or heterozygous major and minor alleles at a particular gene locus.
|INFORMATION DISPLAYING DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAYING METHOD - An information displaying device
|METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS - Techniques for adaptively processing a set of documents. The techniques include adaptively processing a plurality of documents associated with one or more transactions by processing at least a first document of the plurality of documents based at least in part on a first rule, wherein the first rule uses a first value for a first parameter associated with the first rule, determining whether to update the first rule based at least in part on a measure of performance evaluated for the first document, and if it is determined based on the measure of performance that the first rule is to be updated, updating the first rule by changing the first value of the first parameter to a second value different from the first value.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING DOCUMENT INFORMATION, ITS PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus displays document information obtained from a storing unit for storing document time/date information at which document data is processed and the document information including storing time/date information at which the document data is stored. The apparatus obtains displaying order information for deciding order of displaying the document information when the document information is displayed, sorts the document information in accordance with the obtained displaying order information, displays the sorted document information. The displaying order information is displaying order based on the storing time/date information. The document information is sorted in accordance with the storing time/date information in order from the old storing time/date information. on the basis of the storing time/date information of the document information, the document information in which a predetermined time has elapsed is displayed distinguishably from the document information in which the predetermined time has not elapsed.
|DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - There is provided a technique to contribute to an improvement in convenience of a setting screen for performing setting for a function capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus. A display control apparatus causes plural setting screens to be selectively displayed, which are respectively for performing settings for plural functions capable of being executed by the image processing apparatus and on each of which plural setting items for each of the functions can be displayed, and includes a selection function determination unit to determine that a setting screen for which function among the plural functions has been selected, an item information acquisition unit to acquire information relating to, among the plural setting items relating to the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, a setting item to be displayed on the setting screen for the function, and a control unit to display, based on the information acquired by the item information acquisition unit and on the setting screen for the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.
|SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATING MOBILE CUSTOM VIEWS FOR TENANTS OF AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create and push instructions for generating user-defined views to mobile devices, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces on mobile devices.
|Image Application Performance Optimization - Some embodiments provide an image editing application that allows users to quickly preview images and to edit images. The image-editing application provides a quick preview tool for foregoing the loading of a particular image in the display area after the particular image has been selected. Specifically, for each particular image, the image-editing application maintains or generates a preview image for the particular image. In place of a particular image, the quick preview tool when selected causes the image editing application to only load the preview image of the particular image for full or partial display in the display area. When the quick preview tool is not selected, the image editing application loads each image in its entirety for full or partial display in the display area.
|List display method and list display apparatus - In a Web system that provides a social networking service in which information such as a diary and personal information is published on the Internet, upon displaying a list of articles of a diary or the like, if the number of the articles is equal to or less than a predetermined display number, a Web server creates a list that includes a subject of each article, and if the number of articles is larger than the predetermined display number, the Web server creates a list that includes categories in which the articles are categorized, and Web server then displays any of the lists thus created in a list display area of a Web browser provided in a user terminal.
|METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC CONTENT GUIDE - A method and apparatus that generates an electronic content guide using received metadata associated with content provided from a plurality of servers and which has different formats. The received metadata is collected, the formats of the collected metadata are converted into a same format, and an electronic content guide is generated using the metadata having the same format.
|COMPARING AND MERGING MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for comparing and merging multiple documents. A determination is made of a plurality of merge documents to merge, wherein each merge document includes content element locations, wherein content in the content element locations comprises user content or indication that the content element location is empty. A determination is made for each content element location in the determined merge documents content element locations in the merge documents having a same content and content element locations in at one of the determined merge documents having different content than the other determined merge documents. An aggregate document is generated including content element locations corresponding to the content element locations in the determined merge documents. A content graphical indicator is rendered with content element locations in the aggregate document for which at least one of the determined merge documents provide different content. User selection is received of one content element location for which the graphical indicator is rendered. Information is rendered for the content in the plurality of the merge documents provided for the selected content element location, wherein at least one of the merge documents provide different content for the selected content element location.
|Displaying Documents To A Plurality Of Users Of A Surface Computer - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for displaying documents to a plurality of users of a surface computer, the surface computer comprising a surface, surface computer capable of receiving multi-touch input through the surface and rendering display output on the surface, that include: registering a plurality of users with the surface computer, the plurality of users including a moderator and a plurality of participants; assigning, to each registered user, a portion of the surface for interaction between that registered user and the surface computer; selecting, by the moderator for sharing with the plurality of participants, a document stored in the surface computer; rendering contents of the document on the moderator's assigned portion of the surface; and rendering the contents of the document on each of the participants' portions of the surface.
|ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic system comprises an electronic processing device and a reading device having a display screen. When the electronic processing device is connected to the reading device through a data-transmitting interface, the electronic processing device transmits an electronic file in the electronic processing device to the reading device by a predetermined mode, such that the reading device displays images of the electronic file on the display screen according to a predetermined specification.
|COMPUTER DEVICE FOR READING E-BOOK AND SERVER FOR BEING CONNECTED WITH THE SAME - A device, server, method, and computer program product for reading an e-book are provided. The e-book may include at least a content identifier corresponding to a content in the e-book. The device may include a content navigator configured to present the content according to a command from a user and a processing unit configured to acquire the content identifier corresponding to the content presented by the content navigator, send the content identifier to a server, and receive from the server a message associated with the content. An output unit configured to output the message to the user may be provided.
|DOCUMENT STREAM OPERATING SYSTEM - A document stream operating system and method is disclosed in which: (1) documents are stored in one or more chronologically ordered streams; (2) the location and nature of file storage is transparent to the user; (3) information is organized as needed instead of at the time the document is created; (4) sophisticated logic is provided for summarizing a large group of related documents at the time a user wants a concise overview; and (5) archiving is automatic. The documents can include text, pictures, animations, software programs or any other type of data.
|Transaction Automation And Archival System Using Electronic Contract Disclosure Units - A transaction automation and archival system is provided for controlling, real-time logging, and archiving complex commercial transactions such as the purchase and financing of an automobile. An electronic contract disclosure unit or ECDU includes a digitizing display that includes a video display for imaging to participants the various documents involved in the transaction and a digitizer for allowing participants to sign, indicate choices, and otherwise interact directly on documents and images presented on the display. A computer controls the progress of the transaction, controlling, for example, the order of presentation of documents to a vehicle purchaser, receiving signatures on the displayed documents, offering choices of various packages to the purchaser, and insuring that the transaction is carried out properly. The transaction is logged for future review which may include a video record. One or more fingerprint readers allow participants to select between options while simultaneously verifying the identity of the individual making the selection.
|METHOD OF MANAGING ATTRIBUTES AND SYSTEM OF MANAGING SAME - A method of associating attributes with an information element adapted to be individually or collectively retrievable on a basis of at least one of the attributes is presented. Attributes adapted to have a direct attribute configuration, when associated with the information element for characterizing the information element, and a bridge attribute configuration, when associated with the information element for providing a link between the information element and another information element without characterizing the information element it is associated therewith; and associating an attribute from the plurality of attributes with an information element, the associated attribute being in one of the direct attribute configuration and the bridge attribute configuration is also hereby provided.
|FULL SCREEN VIEW READING AND EDITING USER INTERFACE - An improved full screen view user interface is provided that presents a user interface-light reading mode for reading a document, and a user interface-light editing mode for editing or authoring a document. A full screen view reading mode provides a full page reading environment that simulates real world effects, such as page curls, to enhance a reading experience that is intended to be focused on the task of reading a document. A full screen editing mode provides a full page editing environment that, upon demand, reveals selectable controls that are relevant to editing or authoring a document to provide a simplified, non-distracting writing environment.
|METHOD FOR SIMULATING A PAGE TURN IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A method is disclosed for simulating a page turn in an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages having a given width, the method comprising displaying a first page; detecting a signal indicative of a page turn of the first page in a given direction; displaying a first image having a first portion having a first width and comprising the first page and a second portion having a second width substantially smaller than the first width and comprising a selected visible portion of a third page located behind the first page wherein the width of the first portion decreases while the width of the second portion increases such that the sum of the first width and the second width remains constant and further wherein the selected visible portion of the third page is a portion of the third page unmasked by a projection of the first portion of the first page; when said first width is equal to zero, displaying a second image adjacent to said first image, said second image comprising a corresponding second image portion having a width substantially smaller than the width of the second portion, said second image for displaying a second page, said width of said corresponding second image portion increasing until reaching said given width to thereby simulate a page turn.
|System and Method for Simultaneously Commencing Output of Disparately Encoded Electronic Documents - The subject application is directed to a system and method for simultaneously commencing output of disparately encoded electronic documents. Selection data representative of multiple electronic documents encoded in multiple disparate formats is first received. For example, the electronic documents are capable of being encoded in MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD, MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL, ADOBE ACROBAT formats, and the like. Each of the disparate formats is associated with a corresponding software module and then retrieved in accordance with received selection data. Next, the electronic documents are communicated to corresponding software modules, and the document processing device commences a selected document processing operation on each of the electronic documents by a corresponding software module. Each application-specific module is adapted for processing a document processing request for one or more types of documents that are associated with one specific application.
|ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING PAGE DIVISION DISPLAY FUNCTION AND PAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An electronic device which comprises a storage unit to store files and a division information table, an input unit generating input signals in response to user input operations, a display unit displaying information, and a processing unit controlling the electronic device to enter into a reading mode, controlling the display unit to a page of a file, determining whether the page has a portrait layout or a horizontal layout according to the properties of the page, dividing the page into a plurality of blocks according to a division information table, controlling the display unit to display all the blocks thereon, and displaying a selected block of the page with a magnified display size according to an input signal from the user. A page display method is also provided.
|INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An image forming apparatus specifies, if a trouble occurs, a corresponding trouble code, generates a command including area specifying information corresponding to the trouble code, and transmits the command. A portable terminal receives the command and obtains the area specifying information therefrom, and displays a range of a manual specified by the area specifying information as an image. The range specified by the area specifying information is the range describing a method of fixing the trouble, and the area specifying information includes a text related to the trouble and a tag designating an attribute related to document configuration of the manual with respect to the text. Thus, a range describing the method of fixing the trouble is automatically displayed on the portable terminal, enabling a highly efficient trouble-shooting by a serviceman.
|ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH RESTRICTED ACCESS FEATURES - A viewer for displaying electronic books and having various features for restricting access to their content. A user may assign ratings to stored electronic books, or use standard ratings, and assign access levels to potential users. The ratings and access levels determine which electronic books, or portions of the electronic books, a particular user may access on the viewer.
|Print management method, recording medium storing a program, and print management apparatus - Disclosed is a print management method includes: managing a printing condition of a plurality of files created by at least one application program; and controlling an instruction for print execution corresponding to the at least one application program according to the printing condition when performing print output of the plurality of files.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT VIEWING - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of converting a document to an image set includes receiving the document; generating a conversion specification with a unique document identifier and a set of image parameters; combining the conversion specification and the stored document into a conversion task object; generating the image set using the conversion task object; and providing the generated image set to an image server. In another embodiment, a computer-implemented system for viewing documents includes a first node configured to receive a document file from a first user and generate a conversion specification using the unique identifier and a set of image parameters relating to the document file. A conversion feeder receives and converts the conversion specification and the document file into a conversion task object. At least one converter generates an image set including one or more images related to the document file by using the conversion task object.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display unit configured to display content to a user. The display unit includes a display surface, and the content is associated with at least a portion of a first page of an electronic document. A detection unit is configured to detect a first type of user activation associated with a first-type activation position on the display surface. A control unit is configured to determine whether the first-type activation position falls within a predetermined portion of the display screen, which is visually imperceptible to the user. The control unit is further configured to identify a first successive page of the electronic document based on at least the type of user activation, when the activation falls within the pre-determined portion.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from a user to access portions of content associated with pages of an electronic document. The apparatus also includes a control unit configured to identify a page of the electronic document currently displayed to the user. The control unit is further configured to generate, in response to the instruction, sequential images corresponding to a transition between the identified page and a successive page, based on at least a position of the identified page within the electronic document.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LONG-TERM PLAN BY AN E-CALENDAR - Provided is a method for managing a long-term plan by an e-calendar, including creating a plan and setting the keyword with respect to the plan, by a user, and pushing related information to the user when an event related to the keyword occurs.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus is connected to a viewing apparatus through which a document is viewed. A view management part creates view information that indicates a viewed portion of the document where the document has been viewed. A document management part creates change information that indicates a changed portion of the document where the document has been changed. A creation part creates individual apparatus basis change information that indicates a coincident portion where the viewed portion indicated in the view information and the changed portion indicated in the change information are coincident with each other. A transmission part transmits the individual apparatus basis change information to the viewing apparatus through which the document was viewed.
|Screen Capture - A method and system for screen capture are provided. The method includes: selecting a screen area; determining properties of an open window displayed in the screen area, including determining the position of the window and the application and current application data; using image processing to detect scroll bars within the application data of the open window, including detecting the position of the slider in the scroll bar; and saving metadata of the screen area including the open window and the scroll bars as a file. The metadata file re-creates the screen area including the open window with the application data in the correct position within the application.
|MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a controller, a touch screen, a memory configured to store a first list of at least one e-book of a first user and first reading progress information for each of the at least one e-book of the first user, and a communication module configured to receive e-book information including a second list of at least one e-book of a second user and second reading progress information for each of the at least one e-book of the second user. The controller is configured to display at least one icon on the touch screen, each of the at least one icon representing one of the at least one e-book in the first list or one of the at least one e-book in the second list, and display the first and second reading progress information corresponding to at least one e-book included in both the first and second lists.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAYING OUT PAGINATED CONTENT FOR VIEWING - CONTINUATION - A method and system in a document viewing control for laying out an invisible page grid based on various criteria, including whether the pages of a document are fixed, contain reflowable content, whether the fixed pages are all the same size, and where the user has actively focused a page when a new layout needs to be generated, which may be anytime a user changes the number of pages to display. Upon such a change, a mechanism determines page sizes based on whether the focused page has flow or fixed content. A layout mechanism computes the grid based on the number of pages (columns) to display across. For documents with mixed-sized and/or mixed flow and fixed pages, rows of the grid are determined from the active page to the start of the document, and from the active page's row to the end of the document. The grid provides consistent viewing results.
|Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Mail Message - Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. This identified remote server typically hosts a web site containing content intended for viewing by the recipient of the electronic mail message. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic mail message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server, typically a web site on an intranet or the global Internet. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic mail message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network.
|DOCUMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM, DOCUMENT DISPLAY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A document display system is provided which includes a first document display device, and a second document display device. The first document display device includes a display processing portion configured to display an electronic document, a settings update portion configured to update display settings information indicating latest display settings in response to operation for modifying settings by a user during a period in which the electronic document is displayed, and a document transmission portion configured to send out the electronic document and the display settings information. The second document display device includes a document obtaining portion configured to obtain the electronic document and the display settings information sent out from the first document display device, and a display setting portion configured to incorporate settings for display settings indicated in the display settings information into display settings to be applied at a start of display of the electronic document.
|Systems and Methods for Communicating Information - Methods and systems for communicating information are disclosed, including creating sequence instructions configured to define a set of permitted sequences for a plurality of documents. The sequence instructions may be sent to a user and interpreted using an active user interface for the user to select one or more sequences from the set of permitted sequences. The plurality of documents may then be executed in response to the selecting one or more of the sequences.
|Workflow executing device, preview creating method - A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a document processing program constituting a workflow system includes a user interface and a plurality of types of editing processing can be executed by a user's operation, an erroneous operation is executed, so that a mismatch may occur in a workflow. When a selected document is transmitted to a second processing program, a user interface that disables a user to select a predetermined function is displayed.
|SAFETY METHODS FOR NON-PROGRAMMATIC INTEGRATION SYSTEMS - Integration applications and methods non-programmatically collect application data from a mapped source reference of an application. The integration application retrieves at least one of a document and a list of documents associated with the first collected application data for display on a user interface and monitors the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data. Upon detecting a difference, the integration application removes at least one of a document and the list of documents from the user interface. The integration application may automatically notify a user of the difference using a visual indicator or an audio signal. The integration application may modify the appearance of at least one of a document and the list of documents on a user interface.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF HIERARCHICAL TIME SERIES DATA - A method for presenting detailed information for an item within overview information on a display screen, comprising: displaying a first presentation of the overview information on the display screen, the overview information being presented on one or more lines of a grid; receiving a signal selecting the item from the first presentation; generating a second presentation by displacing the overview information at least partially away from a region in the first presentation and inserting the detailed information for the item into the region, wherein the overview information remains at least partially visible in the second presentation to provide context for the detailed information in the region, wherein the displacing displaces the one or more lines of the grid away from the region without distorting the lines, and wherein the inserting inserts one or more additional lines into the grid in the region upon which the detailed information is presented; and, displaying the second presentation on the display screen.
|IMAGE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION - Some embodiments provide a method that from a source external to a device, imports a first image and a lower resolution second image that corresponds to the first image into the device. The method assigns the second image as a temporary preview of the first image. The method generates a preview third image for the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display before generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the temporary preview image to be displayed as a preview of the first image. In some embodiments, the method further selects the first image for display after generating the preview third image. The selecting causes the preview third image to be displayed as a preview of the first image.
|Management of Presentation Timing in a Distributed Presentation Environment - A data processing system invokes presentation of a presentation element of a distributed presentation by a plurality of devices. The data processing system receives progress reports from the plurality of devices, where the progress reports indicate progress in presenting the presentation element. The data processing system determines whether a quorum threshold of presentation progress has been achieved based upon the progress reports. In response to determining that the quorum threshold of presentation of presentation progress has been achieved, the data processing system presents an indication that a spoken presentation associated with the presentation element can commence. The notification is presented prior to completion of presentation of the presentation element by at least one of the plurality of devices.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING USER INTERFACE FOR PERIODICALS - A system and method for displaying periodical digital content. A device sorts and organizes the periodical content stored on the device according to the title of the periodical and further according the dates of the periodicals. Each periodical, e.g., newspapers and magazines, after sorting, are displayed on the device's user interface on its own virtual shelf according to the periodical, and then preferably in chronological order within the shelf that is dedicated to the periodical. Alternatively, the periodicals are sorted by issue date, and virtual shelves are dedicated specific date ranges, e.g., "Today," "This Week," "This Month."
|GENERATION AND CACHING OF CONTENT IN ANTICIPATION OF PRESENTING CONTENT IN WEB CONFERENCES - A method, system and computer program product for sharing the contents of a presentation in a web conference. A web conference server in a web conferencing system extracts a document that is likely to be viewed by the presenter during the web conference prior to the presenter actually viewing the document. The web conference server processes the extracted document into a displayable screen image which is sent to the participant computers in the web conference to be cached. When the presenter computer actually displays the extracted document, the web conference server informs the participant computers to display the cached screen image. Since the screen image of the document has already been cached by the participant computers, the document will be more quickly viewed by the participant computers and will reduce the time lag between when the presenter views the document and when the audience views the same content.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING SPATIAL INFORMATION OF DEVICE COMPONENT - An apparatus that is capable of outputting spatial information of a device component is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The storage unit stores a component model file. The processing unit receives an accessing command which includes a reference data of the device component. The processing unit reads the component model file corresponding to the reference data according to the accessing command, and the component model file is then outputted by the output unit. Specifically, the outputted component model file includes a two-dimensional (2D) paper-based image file, which could be folded into a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) model. It is worth noting that the size of 3D model is substantially equal to the actual size of the device component represented by the 3D model.
|HTML5 Selector for Web Page Content Selection - An education digital reading platform provides HTML5 pages to a user's computing device to enable a browser executing on the user device to display it. Words, lines, paragraphs and columns on the page are identified to enable a user to easily select one or more words within the displayed page. Additionally, custom tools are provided to the user to enable the user to interface with the selected words. For example, a user is provided with customizable magnification and highlight tools, wherein the user can choose custom magnification levels and custom highlight colors. The tools advantageously enable a user perform such actions on the page without accessing the operating system resources on a computing device.
|UPDATING DOCUMENT PREVIEWS OF EMBEDDED FILES - When a multi-page document is embedded in a notebook system, a preview object is generated for pages of the embedded document. The preview objects are displayed in the notebook, and when a user modifies the document underlying the preview objects, to change a relationship between the preview objects, the preview objects are synchronized with the underlying document to reflect those modifications.
|DATA VISUALIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A data visualization device comprises a focal attribute calculator for calculating a focal value of each of a plurality of data input items, and for categorizing each of the plurality of data input items as either non-cluster blobs or second blobs. The device further comprises a clustering attribute calculator for clustering data input items categorized as second blobs into one or more cluster blobs, and a visualization shaper for arranging the one or more cluster blobs and the non-cluster blobs, relative to each other in accordance with the focal values of the data input items of respective blobs.
|Viewing System that Supports Multiple Electronic Document Types - A method of interpreting electronic documents, e.g., an interactive technical manual, provides an interpreter responsive to at least one global navigational input data of a client user in order to generate a displayable output. The displayable output is generated from informational input and a contextual status. The method of interpretation includes a base semantics module and any number of extended semantics modules, a symbol table, and an output module. A plurality of global navigational data are received at the interpreter, which associates and processes the informational data received with the contextual status and outputs displayable data which is renderable by the display system into a current view. A system and computer medium are also disclosed.
|Event-Sensitive Content for Mobile Devices - Computer program products, methods and systems for accepting content that defines an event handler. The content is provided to a media player configured to render the content. The event handler is configured to receive an event from an operating system on which the media player runs, the operating system executing on a mobile device having an integrated display and an integrated telephone. The content is presented by the media player on the display. The event is received from the operating system and providing the event to the event handler. And the presentation of the content is modified by the media player based on processing of the event by the event handler.
|Method and system for visual cues to facilitate navigation through an ordered set of documents - Systems and methods for organizing a repository of unstructured documents into groups of ordered reading lists, i.e., document trails, comprising an ordered list of documents that relate to each by subject matter. Text analytics and natural language processing steps group documents, chose the most important/relevant documents from each group, and organize the documents into a suggested reading order. Document fragments are also analyzed by such analytic and processing steps to identify preselected fragment characteristic aspects. Documents within each document trail may be marked up or highlighted to indicate which paragraphs therein contain such aspects as novel or useful information, or information that is not useful or redundant.
|Visual Interface Browser - The present disclosure describes viewing visual interface documents through a visual interface browser. A visual interface browser is caused to be displayed on a user device. A visual interface document representing a technical interface specification is retrieved from a repository in response to user selection of a technical interface icon through the visual interface browser. Sub-document technical data associated with the visual interface document is retrieved from the repository. The visual interface document including sub-document technical data is caused to be displayed on the user device. Notes associated with the visual interface document and associated with an authenticated user of the user device are caused to be displayed on the user device.
|CONTENT DISPLAY MONITOR - The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring, information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring of the display at a content display site of content that is provided by a content provider site over a network to the content display site. It is contemplated that the invention can be particularly useful with a computer network, including private computer networks and public computer networks. In particular, the invention can be advantageously used with computer networks or portions of computer networks over which video and/or audio content are transferred from one network site to another network site for observation, such as the World Wide Web portion of the Internet.
|System and Method for Providing a Dynamic Advertising Content Window within a Windows Based Content Mainfestation Environment Provided in a Browser - System and method for providing a dynamic advertising content manifestation window within a windows based content manifestation environment provided within a web browser. The system and method include and involve an server system configured to transmit a software system and data related to a advertising content source via an electronic data network. Also included and involved is a web browser client operating within a data processing system that is coupled to the server system via the electronic data network. The web browser provides a content manifestation environment. The web browser client is operative to receive the software system and the data via the server system, to process the software system and the data to produce a window object within the content manifestation environment provided by the web browser client. The window object is configured to dynamically manifest therein advertising content received from the advertising content source in accordance with the data. Also disclosed is a window object that is manifested within a windows based content manifestation environment which is provided within a web browser client. The window object includes a content manifestation area that is configured to dynamically manifest advertising content received from an advertising content source via an electronic data network.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING AND PRESENTING PARTIAL (SKIPPED) DOCUMENT CONTENT - Systems and methods of retrieving and presenting partial (skipped) document content are provided. A typical system includes a document parsing stage, a device request for content stage and a delivery of requested content stage. A target device can include a device presentation of the requested content stage. The system parses the content of an electronic document and generates a document object model (DOM) representation of the electronic document, where each source and destination target is assigned a document object model identifier (DOM ID). In some instances, upon completion of parsing, the document object model is then paginated in computer memory into segments of a certain size called chunks; in such instances the pagination operation can update each DOM ID with an additional information attribute containing the chunk index with the purpose of establishing a relationship between a document object model identifier and the corresponding chunk index. Thus, when a device requests specific content corresponding to the DOM ID the chunk index value indicates the correct chunk to be returned to the device. The device initiates a document viewing experience by requesting, parsing and displaying an initial chunk of document content as delivered by the corresponding server. The device can, upon parsing the data chunk, record navigational information provided in the form of link information containing corresponding DOM ID and Chunk Index information. The link information can in certain instances be presented visually by a dotted underline.
|METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND VIEWING A PREVIEW OF A TABLE ATTACHMENT ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A process is set forth for previewing a table attachment on a mobile communication device, and upon identifying table content of interest viewing and/or retrieving the entire table from an attachment server. In one embodiment, a small 4×4 row/column preview is presented on the device of every table found in a document attachment, with the cell content textual information limited to the requesting device display capabilities. This limitation avoids any requirement to download large amounts of individual cell content to the device. Thus, the user is able to quickly identify which tables are of interest and then request a full table download from the attachment server in an on-demand fashion. In this regard, the preview table itself preferably also functions as a link to the full table stored at the server to facilitate easy retrieval to the device for viewing in a spreadsheet view.
|METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT, AND DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR - An electronic document includes a set of pages. A display is used that is configured to sense movement of a movable object in a vertical direction relative to a screen. In response to sensing movement using the display, a page corresponding to the electronic document is displayed on the screen in accordance with the sensed movement.
|ENHANCED RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION SPEED-READING FOR ELECTRONIC READING DEVICES - A system and method for controlling the presentation of words on an electronic reading device to assist in speed reading. A portion of the display screen on the device is reserved for the serial presentation of the words in accordance with the speed reading method. The remainder of the screen contains the current text of the content being read, but is shaded, darkened, so as to not distract the reader. The presentation of words is momentarily paused at sentence and chapter transitions. This momentary pause allows the user to maintain perspective as to the user's location in an electronic text (e.g., a book) and enhances the reading experience and ultimately enhances the speed of the reading exercise and the retention of content.
|SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PERFORMING ACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH DATA TO BE DISPLAYED, UTILIZING A WIDGET - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for performing actions associated with data to be displayed, utilizing a widget. These mechanisms and methods for performing actions associated with data to be displayed, utilizing a widget can enable enhanced and expedited data development, improved data display, etc.
|Content Volume Throttling in Feed Aggregators - Methods and systems of managing feed items may involve receiving a feed item and determining an estimate of an amount of time to read the feed item. In addition, the feed item can be prioritized in a feed aggregator based at least in part on the estimate of the amount of time to read the feed item.
|INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING PREVIEW FUNCTION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus having a display function capable of easily designating a page and skipping pages to a page desired to be displayed. A CPU displays data on a page-by-page basis according to a display instruction. The CPU extracts consecutive pages of each of document sections of the data, as logical pages, in association with physical page numbers each sequentially assigned to each at least one of the pages of the data. The CPU decides a leading logical page of each document section, as a reference logical page, and gives the display instruction so as to cause a display unit to consecutively display a plurality of reference logical pages.
|DOCUMENT-BASED WORKFLOWS - A workflow application allows users to store, manage, and perform tasks related to workflows comprised of ordered sets of documents. The application provides an interface for creating and managing a workflow. Each document added to the workflow is assigned to a particular position in the workflow. Via the interface, the user saves data defining the workflow. In this manner, the workflow may be shared or preserved for subsequent re-use. The application allows a user to perform various tasks with respect to the workflow. Via an interface control presented by the application, the user instigates such tasks. In response, the application causes the task to be performed for each document in the workflow in an order corresponding to the arrangement of the documents within the workflow. For example, the application may render and print each document in the workflow. Or, the application may generate a combined workflow report.
|Intelligent Prioritization of Activated Extensions - Extension prioritization may be provided. Upon opening a document in a software application, a determination may be made whether the document satisfies a respective activation rule for each of a plurality of application extensions associated with the software application. In response to determining that the document satisfies a respective activation rule for each of a plurality of application extensions associated with the software application a priority may be identified for each of the plurality of application extensions and a user interface element associated with at least one of the plurality of application extensions may be displayed.
|Screen Capture - A method and system for screen capture are provided. The method includes: selecting a screen area; determining properties of an open window displayed in the screen area, including determining the position of the window and the application and current application data; using image processing to detect scroll bars within the application data of the open window, including detecting the position of the slider in the scroll bar; and saving metadata of the screen area including the open window and the scroll bars as a file. The metadata file re-creates the screen area including the open window with the application data in the correct position within the application.
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