Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Natan Linder

Eyal Toledano

Eli Ben-Ami

Eran Davidov

Daniel David Blaukopf

Omer Pomerantz

Israel Disatnik

Israel Distanik

Jong-Goo Lee

Ytai Ben-Tsvi

Kim Michael Lee

Yael Dror

Ran Ben-Yair

Yariv Eisenberg

Orna Bregman-Amitai

Noam Sorek

Tom Shenhav

Michal Geva

Asaf Barzilay

Lilach Armony-Shimoni

Eyal Sadeh

Amir Primov

Nitsan Goren

Ehud Lavski

Jonggoo Lee

Eval Toledano

Joon-Hyuk Choi

Ehud Lavsky

Adar Shtainhart

A proactive user interface, installed in (or otherwise control and/or be associated with) any type of computational device. The proactive user interface actively makes suggestions to the user, based upon prior experience with a particular user and/or various preprogrammed patterns from which the computational device could select, depending upon user behavior. These suggestions can be made by altering the appearance of at least a portion of the display, for example by changing a menu or a portion thereof; providing different menus for display; and/or altering touch screen functionality. The suggestions can also be made audibly.

Proactive user interface including evolving agent

A method of assembling a panoramic image from a plurality of frames in a camera, the method comprising: (a) acquiring a video stream using a camera; (b) selecting an initial frame from the video stream for capture as a still image; (c) further selecting additional frames; and (d) stitching the additional frames to the initial frame in the camera to create a panoramic image.

Panoramic image production

A wireless gaming method and wireless gaming-enabled mobile terminal are provided for enabling a number of players to participate simultaneously in a game using their mobile terminals. A wireless gaming method of the present invention includes inviting, if a multi-player gaming mode for a game is activated, at least one counterpart terminal on a short range wireless communication network by transmitting a multi-player gaming mode request message; synchronizing, if an acknowledge message is received in response to the multi-player gaming mode request message, game data with the counterpart terminal transmitted the acknowledge message; and generating a game screen with an image taken by the camera as a background image after the game is synchronized; and starting the game with the game screen.

Wireless gaming method and wireless gaming-enabled mobile terminal

A portable electronic device having a screen and a numeric keypad, comprises: a sound card for processing sound signals to produce musical tones; a musical synthesizer, associated with said sound card, for electronically synthesizing musical instruments; and a user interface for interfacing said musical synthesizer to a user via said screen and said numeric keypad. The device can be a cellular telephone and may be able to interact with other devices.

Electronic music on hand portable and communication enabled devices

A method for animating a virtual scene that comprises managing a virtual scene comprising at least one virtual object, receiving a text message via a wireless communication network, identifying a pattern indicative of an animation sequence in said text message, and applying a non-facial animation on said at least one virtual object according said animation sequence.

Apparatus, a method, and a system for animating a virtual scene

An apparatus for sharing user-defined media content with a peer. The apparatus comprises a repository for storing media content inputted by a user of the apparatus and a wireless interface for establishing a wireless personal area network (WPAN) with a first communication entity of the peer in a proximity to said apparatus. The WPAN allows the peer to access the media content using the first communication entity, thereby allows the user to share said media content with the peer.

Portable cellular enhancer

A displacement detection method for a portable autonomous device having an integrated image sensor. The method comprises several steps. In the first step a current digital image is received from the image sensor; the current digital image depicting a background scene. Then, the position of a first area within the current digital image is chosen. Afterwards, a later digital image is received from the image sensor depicting an overlapping portion of the background scene. Then, the position of a second area matching to the first area within the later digital image is identified. After a match has been identified, the first and second areas depict approximately the same portion of the background scene. Then, a current motion vector of the portable autonomous device is calculated, according to a displacement between the first area and the second area.

Displacement and tilt detection method for a portable autonomous device having an integrated image sensor and a device therefor

An autonomous handheld device comprises a drawing module having drawing capabilities for electronically editing a drawing and a motion sensing feature for sensing self-motion. The autonomous handheld device is configured to associate the motion sensing feature with the drawing capability thereby to allow sensed motion of the motion sensing feature to modify the electronic editing.

Autonomous handheld device having a drawing tool

A proactive user interface, installed in (or otherwise control and/or be associated with) any type of computational device. The proactive user interface actively makes suggestions to the user, based upon prior experience with a particular user and/or various preprogrammed patterns from which the computational device could select, depending upon user behavior. These suggestions could be made by altering the appearance of at least a portion of the display, for example by changing a menu or a portion thereof; providing different menus for display; and/or altering touch screen functionality. The suggestions could also be made audibly.

Proactive user interface including emotional agent

A computing application for a mobile information device is generated from An extensible markup language, MIDML, in which different types of tags correspond to different application functions. A command line compiler parses the MIDML specification, reading the tags in specialized readers, which are then accessed by generators of specialized objects for an object model using different generators for each type. A predefined set of tags is extendible by the application developer. The generation process results in Java source code, which is then compiled into a MIDlet and packaged into a JAR file and a JAD file.

Markup compiler that outputs MIDlets

An infrastructure is provided for creating applications for mobile information devices, using a tag-based markup language, MIDML. Applications are defined based on easily manipulated textual tags, without need for writing specific code. The tags are processed to ultimately generate source code files. Initially, the input is parsed. Next, a hierarchical object model of the application is populated with objects. Separate readers read and parse the different tags and accompanying elements. The readers are registered in a descriptor object factory, to be instantiated as required in processing extended MIDML files. The object model enables the capabilities of the system to be easily extended, simply by adding new tags, and readers to the existing factory set. The resulting object model is accessible to a generator that produces the actual output.

Language and object model for describing MIDlets

An infrastructure is provided for creating applications for mobile information devices, using a tag-based markup language. Developers can use the markup language to define applications and content based on easily manipulated textual tags, rather than having to write specific source code. A compiler, processes the tags in several phases. In one phase, a hierarchical object model of the application is populated with objects. Then, in another phase, a generator traverses the object model hierarchy in a top-down manner, producing source code files corresponding to objects in the object model. The code files may include various elements, for example screens, forms, and servlets. For each element required to be generated, an appropriately configured generator class is invoked. The output code can be Java source code.

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Motza Illit, Israel

Natan Linder