METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING OBJECTS ON A DISPLAY DEVICE

Patent №

US 7,370,288

Granted

2008-05-06

Filed 2002

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10186874

Different levels or categories of text or images or both can be selected on a display device with simple commands. A selection region including one of selected text and selected images can be increased or decreased depending upon an executed command. A first command can increase a selection region while a second and different second command can decrease a selection region. Once a maximum amount is selected by using the first command and if the first command is selected again, the selection region can return to the minimum amount of text and images that can be selected. And vice-versa.

AI classification

AI hardware0.94
Vision0.83
Natural language0.28
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 130820230

Assignors

SIMMONS, ALEX J., YALOVSKY, MARK

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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