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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2012
Applicant:
Byron Allen Schiel, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Inventor:
Byron Allen Schiel, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G09G 2340/12 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and electronic devices for providing a wallpaper viewfinder are described. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving image data from a camera of the electronic device; displaying a viewfinder for the camera on a display of the electronic device based on the image data; identifying a subject in the image data; and overlaying one or more interface element representations on a portion of the displayed viewfinder which does not contain the identified subject, the interface element representations depicting interface elements associated with a graphical user interface of the electronic device.