189 results about "User interface design" patented technology

A multi-modal human computer interface (HCI) receives a plurality of available information inputs concurrently, or serially, and employs a subset of the inputs to determine or infer user intent with respect to a communication or information goal. Received inputs are respectively parsed, and the parsed inputs are analyzed and optionally synthesized with respect to one or more of each other. In the event sufficient information is not available to determine user intent or goal, feedback can be provided to the user in order to facilitate clarifying, confirming, or augmenting the information inputs.

Dynamic modification of user interfaces is disclosed, based upon identification of the current state of the user and the sensing of a particular situation in which the user is involved and / or environment in which the user is situated. In particular, emotional and mental states of a user are identified and these states are taken into consideration when creating and / or adapting an interface to be used by the user. The interface is modified / created automatically based on identified user biometrics, that is, measured physical properties of the user.

In embodiments, methods and systems for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for customizing a user interface to an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to provide a user interface designed by a tenant of the on-demand database service. The customization can include including third party content into the customized user interface, overriding a standard object, and providing content inline at a specified location.

A multimodal user interface is provided. A human machine interface in a vehicle utilizes a plurality of modalities. A cognitive model for secondary driving tasks indicates a best use of one or more particular modalities for performing each secondary driving task.

A user interface design and evaluation system and a hand-interaction-based user interface design and evaluation system are provided. The user interface design and evaluation system includes: a user interface design unit, a human model interaction design unit, a user interface prototype simulation unit, a human model simulation unit, and a user interface evaluation unit. In order to develop a user interface in consideration of usability of a user, the system provides a usability evaluation feedback system performing optimization of an interface design based on a motion simulation of a body model and user interface model. Through this, an optimum interface design is derived and by reducing the initial usage difficulty of the new interface for a user, the user can easily use the new interface and work performance of the user can be enhanced. In addition, by supporting fast prototyping and evaluation in a new product development stage, efficient production of a product having a short life cycle can be actively implemented.

The present invention provides a system and method for real-time communication signaling between HTML5 endpoints and the IMS Core of a telecommunication network. The system includes a WebRTC Session Controller (WSC) that terminates Web communications with the client-side, parses, and normalizes the Web communications into an internal protocol suitable for communication with telecommunications network systems. The client-side controller provides a JavaScript API which encapsulates the signaling aspect of a communication session of the HTML5 application, including gathering media description, establishing signaling channels, and exchanging media descriptions with the WSC, populating the relevant WebRTC objects, managing the call after it has been established. The JavaScript API, which is more flexible than widgets that provide rigid capabilities, thereby simplifies development and implementation of real-time communication Web applications, enabling the developers to concentrate on the business logic implementation and innovate on user interface designs.

The “Pull and Swipe Navigation” comprises a set of heuristic gesture-based commands overlaid on a smart user interface that optimizes for dynamic content and ease of navigation on touch screen devices.The feature set improves upon existing touch screen user interface design, user experience design, and navigation by freeing up valuable on-screen real estate for relevant content by hiding otherwise static menu bars and icons until required; implementing a set of easy to use and simple to navigate heuristic commands that delineate between menu access and scrolling; making menu bars and icons accessible to the touch at any part of the touch screen, thus solving reach issues particularly for larger devices; and by providing theoretically unlimited real-estate for menu items through over-scrolling.

The invention discloses UI (User Interface) performance and service logic separation method and system. The method comprises the following steps of: correlating a UI object with a service data object by data binding; correlating the state of the UI object with the state of the service data object by state binding; correlating the action of the UI object with the action of the service data object by action binding; and carrying out united management on the data binding, the state binding and the action binding by logic model binding, therefore, the dynamic and indirect correlation between a UImodule and the service data object can be achieved. By adopting the invention, the mandatory dependence relation between a user interface and logic codes is relieved; the user interface design and the service logic programming can be developed in parallel as two completely independent works in the designing process; and the UI object and the service logic processing object are mutually independent to respectively support dynamic switching of UI views and change a logic processing unit in the software running process.

A program module that serves as a dispatcher for client-side desktop applications that use web-based markup language as a graphic user interface to access both web resources and execute local functionalities is described. An embedded browser component within a desktop application allows the client computer to host markup language forms and interact with other web resources. The forms and resources can reside on the client computer or any other networked remote or server computer. The embedded web browser is functional as a stand-alone web browser as well as an interface adapter for the desktop application. Desktop application files or forms can be modified without recompilation of the underlying application code, and the adaptation of the desktop application interface to the web browser interface provides a consistent user interface design for both the desktop and web applications.

A user interface design and evaluation system and a hand-interaction-based user interface design and evaluation system are provided. The user interface design and evaluation system includes: a user interface design unit, a human model interaction design unit, a user interface prototype simulation unit, a human model simulation unit, and a user interface evaluation unit. In order to develop a user interface in consideration of usability of a user, the system provides a usability evaluation feedback system performing optimization of an interface design based on a motion simulation of a body model and user interface model. Through this, an optimum interface design is derived and by reducing the initial usage difficulty of the new interface for a user, the user can easily use the new interface and work performance of the user can be enhanced. In addition, by supporting fast prototyping and evaluation in a new product development stage, efficient production of a product having a short life cycle can be actively implemented.

An apparatus or multiple driver video card that simplifies user interface design through displaying portions of a single image on multiple screens, and processing feedback from multiple devices as if the interface was a single device. Method, device, and computer-readable medium embodiments generate a user interface image, separate the user interface image into a plurality of sub-images, convey the plurality of sub-images to remote terminals, and configured to receive input data from the remote terminals.

A system for creating a user interface is disclosed herein. The system comprises (a) a display for viewing a visual representation of the user interface being created, (b) a processor, (c) data storage, and (d) program code stored in the data storage and executable by the processor to (i) implement a UML model explorer that communicates with a model driven design tool to access one or more UML models, (ii) implement a rule-based object visual creation system that is operable to map UML elements to corresponding user interface objects, (iii) in response to input from a user, add corresponding user interface objects to the visual representation, and (iv) implement a model generator that is operable to generate a UML model based on the visual representation of the user interface, wherein the UML model can be executed to create an instance of the user interface on a display.

The invention provides a user interface processing and video playing method and a user interface system. The method comprises the following steps: an all-video user interface is designed into two layers, a first progress is started by a terminal to play a video, and a video layer which is played currently is set as a background layer; when a new video is requested by the terminal, the first progress is made asleep, a second progress is started to display a graph operation layer, and the graph operation layer is set as a foreground layer; the second progress enables the graph operation layer to be displayed above the played video layer and plays the new video; after playing of the new video is completed, the first progress is awoken to continue playing the original video. By the adoption of the user interface processing and video playing method and the user interface system and through a multithreading scheme, the videos on the background layer and the user interface on the foreground layer are used as the two progresses which run independently from each other and do not affect each other, so that it is guaranteed that the video played on the background layer is not affected by operations on the user interface on the foreground layer by the user, and operations on software become easier.

The invention relates to providing to a user a user interface. It is determining from a plurality interactions by a user with a first user interface whether they experienced difficulties using at least one module of the first user interface. Responsive to determining that the user did experience difficulties, that user is provided with at least one module of a different user interface. Thus it can be seen that a user is preferably provided with the first interface unless they experience difficulties with that interface. Other users who do not experience such difficulties continue to interact with the first interface.

The invention provides a stroke and phonetic text input entry system that has substantially the same definition of stroke match as that used in T9, where the input is a phrasal input rather than a character input. The invention solves the problem of Chinese phrasal stroke and phonetic text input by allowing users to enter an arbitrary number of strokes for each character in a phrase, where each character is separated by a delimiter. In this way, the invention provides a system that is easily learned and efficiently applied. Thus, the invention makes it possible for users to enter multiple characters while keeping their single character input habits. Each Chinese character has a standard stroke sequence in Guo Biao (GB), which is the standard for mainland China, or multiple sequences for BIG5 Chinese Character Encoding for Traditional (Complex) Characters, which is the de facto standard in Taiwan but not used in mainland China. With the invention, users do not have to enter the complete sequence for a single character, but instead can stop at any point and enter a delimiter which indicates the end of the previous character and the start of the next character. The whole stroke sequence entered by the user can then be split into a few groups that are separated by zero or more delimiters. Phrases can then be identified by user entry of groups of characters. The presently preferred phrase matching criteria are as follows: the first stroke group matches the leading stroke sequence of the first character of the phrase; the second stroke group matches the leading stroke sequence of the second character of the phrase, etc; the phrases that match the entered stroke sequence are presented to the user for selection. A user interface design for Chinese phrasal stroke text input is also provided.

Methods, systems, and computer program products that automatically generate and track undo information so that the developer of a user interface object need not be responsible for generating and tracking undo information. Change notifications for changes to an object within a visual user interface designer are processed. Data representing an initial state of the object prior to the changes and data representing a subsequent state of the object after the changes is persisted. From the persisted data, an undo unit is prepared for undoing the changes to the object. The undo unit may comprise a transaction of multiple changes made to the object. Each undo unit may identify corresponding routines for undoing and redoing the actions included within the undo unit. An undo unit may be stored until an undo / redo notification is received, and then used to undo / redo the changes represented by the undo unit.

A method that incorporates a detailed, precise procedure of designing a user interface by utilizing agent behavioral models. This method applies quantitative and qualitative agent behavioral models derived through the Categorize Describe-Model (CDM) methodology to the iterative design stage of interface development. The method includes: (1) categorizing at least two users; (2) validating targeted user behaviors and preferences; (3) capturing emergent behaviors and preferences; (4) tracking design requirements and implementations; (5) accommodating diversity in performance and preference during interactive testing; and (6) customizing a user interface design to each of the at least two users.

The invention provides a user interface generating method and device and an electronic device. The method includes the steps of obtaining each element adopted in a design diagram of a user interface and attributes of each element; according to each obtained element and the attributes of each element, generating a description file of the user interface; generating codes of the user interface according to the description file. According to the provided user interface generating method, the description file of the user interface can be automatically generated on the basis of the design diagram ofthe user interface, and the codes of the user interface can also be automatically generated on the basis of the description file; compared with a situation in the prior art that software developers compile codes of user interfaces on the basis of design diagrams of the user interfaces, the user interface generating method has the advantage that the efficiency of generating the codes of the user interfaces can be improved.

A method is disclosed which may include providing a display operating within a computing system; selecting at least one display characteristic to represent respective activity statuses of a plurality of windows present in the display, the at least one display characteristic including at least resolution; and displaying the windows employing values of the at least one selected display characteristic corresponding to the windows' respective activity statuses.

The invention provides an image signal processor with two-dimensional code identification and a two-dimensional code identification method. The two-dimensional code identification is integrated in an image signal processor, and is matched with a two-dimensional identification method, so that a camera module can be used for directly shooting a picture and then identifying a two-dimensional code, thus the advantages of strong generality, no limit of outside interference by software, fast reflection, convenience for operation, high identification correction rate, no occupation of benefit of hardware resources of handheld devices are achieved; and meanwhile, because all functions are integrated into the image signal processor, the influence of massive production on the increase of the cost of final products is little, more importantly, the two-dimensional code identification can be realized without changing an external interface design and a structure size design of equipment, and the application of the two-dimensional code is promoted to reach a higher level.

The preferred embodiment of the invention encompasses a method used to (a) create computer applications, or (b) create database-backed forms / documents for a customizable user interface within an existing computer program, that (c) can then be stored, queried and analyzed using map-reduce techniques; using nothing but the front-end user-interface design performed on the device and without the use of any computer coding or database management or setup of any kind.The preferred embodiment invention permits both simple documents (also known as forms), documents-within-documents, and business processes that link documents together, to be defined and converted into a working application on a smart phone, tablet or computer system by end users without the use of code or database management by the end user.

Monitoring and controlling apparatus and related methods for use with collective protection shelters or other isolation environments utilizing one or more digital processors to monitor and control the operation of the shelter. The apparatus affords shelter design and functional growth flexibility, along with diagnostic and prognostic capability, including condition based maintenance, interactive electronic manuals, and access to systems for replacement parts requisition. Further, the physical and functional expandability of the apparatus affords easy incorporation of shelter design changes, user interface design changes, and sensor design changes as well as improved functional and operational flexibility. The system also decreases volume and weight over prior designs.

The invention discloses a realization method of a mobile terminal interface and a system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a user interface design scheme; converting the interface design scheme to obtain a code corresponding to the interface design scheme; and sending the code to the mobile terminal of the user so as to bring convenience for the mobile terminal of the user to display the interface according to the code. The invention realizes low cost, does not depend on specific platform interface and improves user experience.

The invention provides a user interface control apparatus and a method thereof, which can enhance operability of a user interface by replacing an presentation of the user interface designed by a developer of an application program with a UI component that is easy to use for each user and customizing a user-friendly user interface. The client computer 101 acquires an application software including an element describing an presentation of a user interface and an element describing a data model expressed in the user interface by having the communication unit 205 access the application server 102 through the network 103. The UI component search unit 207 searches the personal UI component library 206 for a UI component having an presentation preferred by a user, which is replaceable with the element of the data model. The UI component replace unit 208 replaces the second element of the application software with the searched UI component.

Described herein is a task modeling system configured to process a task model that is described by a task modeling notation. Further, the task modeling notation may provide for attaching the task model to a user interface description. The system comprises a computer readable storage medium containing program code, wherein the program code is executable by a processor to (a) generate a task tree from a task model, wherein the task tree comprises a plurality of interconnected task nodes, wherein the task model is described by a task modeling notation, (b) attach the task tree to a user interface description, (c) coordinate a state of the task tree with a state of the user interface, and (d) cause the state of the user interface to be updated as indicated by the state of the task tree, wherein the state of the user interface is updated by updating a graphical display of the user interface.

Techniques are disclosed relating to providing customized user interfaces to different groups of users. A computing system may determine a plurality of different design types for a user interface and cause display of user interfaces that exhibit the different design types to different users. Based on user interactions with the user interfaces, the system may generate one or more metrics. The system may and may determine attribute values for attributes of users who interact with the user interface. The system may perform one or more correlation procedures to correlate the attribute values with one or more of the metrics. In disclosed embodiments, the computing system generates groups of users based on the correlation. The computing system may assign at least one of the design types to at least one of the groups of users based on the correlation.

A method of obtaining information about usage of application executable files and associated software program in a network of computers or on an individual computer is provided. The method involves collecting information about last use of software programs, and associated executable files, on a computer or a set of managed computers from various resources on the computers. The information that is collected includes file name, directory, date and time the executable was last started, a security identifier of the last user, the method of last use, whether the executable was found to be running at the time it was found, and whether the executable is registered to run as a service. From this information, a list is generated regarding software items, and the list is merged such that a given executable has a single software item on the list. Reports are produced detailing information about one or more software items on the list. The reports may be displayed in a graphic user interface designed for that purpose.