Newness and distinctiveness is claimed in the features of ornamentation as shown inside the broken line circle in the accompanying representation.

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.

Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode

An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as to generate one or more distinct second control signals. The control signals being used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.

Movable touch pad with added functionality

A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other appropriate mechanism that activates the preferred contact group centric experience. A user selects the preferred contact group from among an array of the user's contacts. Once the contact group is configured, a minimal number of navigation/selection features is necessary to activate any number of communication modes available to the contacts. The contact group is configured such that simple and quick navigation between the contact members is achieved. The contact group can be presented in 2D and 3D arrangements, in any number of list or geometric configurations. A pricing plan can optionally be tied to each member of the contact group.

Preferred contact group centric interface

A display method includes displaying a plurality of icons in list form on a display device by a list-form displaying section, enlarging, to a predetermined size, an icon selected from the icons displayed, when a different icon is selected, reducing the icon selected and enlarged to the predetermined size so as to have a size substantially equal to the size of each of icons which are not selected, and performing control so that, when the different icon is selected while the icon selected is being enlarged, the selected icon is temporarily enlarged to the predetermined size, and immediately after the enlargement, the temporarily enlarged icon is reduced so as to have a size substantially equal to the size of each of icons which are not selected.

Display method, portable terminal device, and display program

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate or drastically reduce the number of keys necessary for a character input operation. SOLUTION: This portable telephone set is provided with: a voice recognition designation key 17 for designating a character input with voice. At the time of detecting the depressing operation of the voice recognition designation key 17, a control part shifts the current mode to a "voice character input mode" for performing a character input with voice. A user utters a character that the user wants to input toward a microphone part 3. A control part 10 recognizes the uttered voice, and retrieves a plurality of conversion candidates from a dictionary in the order of a higher hit rate, and mixes those conversion candidates, and controls a display part 7 to display them with a cursor. At the time of detecting voice to instruct the movement of the cursor, the control part controls the movement and display of the cursor to the display position of the next conversion candidate, and at the time of detecting voice to determine input, the control part controls the display part 7 to display the conversion candidate where the cursor is positioned at present as a character whose input has been determined. Thus, a character is inputted only with voice. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Voice character input program and portable terminal

There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for displaying a cursor which permits a user to recognize a moving direction and moving speed of the cursor through intuition when he or she selects a menu SOLUTION: When a rotating operation of a rotating dial 12 provided on a portable telephone is detected, a CPU detects the rotating direction and the rotating speed of the rotating dial 12, and displays the cursor CR by adding a predetermined visual effect to it More specifically, according to the rotating direction and the rotating speed of the rotating dial 12, the CPU adds a visual effect for showing flower petals or flames fluttering in the wind Otherwise, the CPU adds a visual effect for showing bubbles rising from the cursor CR or meteors released radially from the cursor CR The user can recognize the moving direction and the moving speed of the menu through intuition by the display direction and display speed of the visual effect COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Information processor, information processing method, storage medium with information processing program stored thereon, and information processing program

Tatsuya Hama

Papers

Display method, portable terminal device, and display program

Voice character input program and portable terminal

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

Information processor, information processing method, storage medium with information processing program stored thereon, and information processing program