Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 11/05

20050259032 - Handheld electronic device supporting multiple display mechanisms: A method for independently supporting at least two display mechanisms in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device implementing the method includes a primary display window, a secondary display window and a display manager coupled to the primary and secondary display windows. According to the present invention, the...

20050259034 - Head-up display device: A head-up display device includes a housing; a display unit accommodated in the housing for emitting a projected image; a reflector for reflecting the projected image passing through an opening in the housing toward an eye range of a vehicle driver. The head-up display device further includes a movable member...

20050259033 - Multiplex-selective heads-up displays for cars: Safety systems and methods for driver operated motor vehicles. The systems and methods respond to adverse weather to regulate traffic flow of vehicles, and to change the performance of vehicles in more than two different modes of operation. The systems and methods further locate other vehicles ahead and at the...

20050259035 - User support apparatus: A user activity support agent in a user support apparatus includes a target detection evaluation module configured to detect demand, desire, and/or instruction of the user in the form of a target based on a user's activity state and/or an environment situation detected by a sensor group, and to ask...

20050259036 - Expanded bit map display for mounting on a building surface and a method of creating same: An expanded bit map display (“EBMD”) (10) for displaying an image (14) and a method of creating such for mounting the EBMD (10) to a building surface (12) is provided. The EBMD (10) is a large-scale colored light display comprising a plurality of intelligent light fixtures (16) having a microprocessor...

20050259037 - Alternating current plasma display panel: A closed type AC plasma display panel. A first substrate and a second substrate are provided with a predetermined gap therebetween. Barrier ribs are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The barrier ribs define a plurality sets of a first, a second and a third discharge cell....

20050259039 - Display apparatus having heat dissipating structure for driver integrated circuit: A display apparatus having a heat dissipating structure for a driver integrated circuit is provided. The display apparatus may be a plasma display apparatus including a chassis base, a plasma display panel (PDP) adjacent to a first side of the chassis base, and a driving circuit board attached on a...

20050259038 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device including: a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, with capacitances of display cells being formed therebetween; a first X-electrode current path through which an electric current flows to/from the odd-numbered X electrodes; a second X-electrode current path through which...

20050259040 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. According to the present invention, the plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which scan electrodes and sustain electrodes are formed, and a scan driving unit that applies a scan voltage and a sustain voltage...

20050259041 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Provided is a plasma display apparatus. A plasma display apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes: a plasma display panel (PDP); and a set-up pulse supplying unit generating a constant current to be supplied to the PDP using a set-up voltage source, and supplying a set-up...

20050259043 - Display-panel driving method: The number of subfields that are to be allocated to a luminance level in an input picture signal is changed in accordance with the peak luminance level in one field's worth of the input picture signal if the luminance level is lower than a predetermined luminance....

20050259042 - Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display: The plasma display panel includes a subfield having a sub-reset period for performing a reset operation in a discharge cell where a sustain-discharge is generated in a previous subfield among a plurality of subfields, and a subfield having a main reset period for performing a reset operation in discharge cells....

20050259044 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. In the inventive plasma display apparatus and the driving method, when an image is displayed by dividing one subfield into a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, a second sustain pulse applied in the sustain period...

20050259046 - Plasma display apparatus and image processing method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and, more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus in which the ability to represent gray levels can be improved and halftone noise can be reduced by improving a plasma display apparatus and image processing method thereof. According to the present invention,...

20050259045 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes: a front substrate; a rear substrate arranged parallel to the front substrate; barrier ribs arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate and adapted to demarcate light-emitting cells in a lattice pattern; upper electrodes and lower electrodes embedded in the barrier ribs around...

20050259047 - Driving a plasma display panel: A three electrode PDP comprises a scan driver (SD) which supplies a substantially sine wave shaped voltage (VS) between first and the second scan electrodes (SEi, CEi), an amplitude of the substantially sine wave shaped voltage (VS) being large enough to sustain plasma cells (PCij), but being too small to...

20050259048 - Plasma display panel and a drive method therefor: A plasma display panel (PDP) includes first and second substrates provided in opposition to one another, address electrodes formed on the first substrate, barrier ribs mounted between the first and second substrates so as to define a plurality of discharge cells, phosphor layers formed in the discharge cells, first and...

20050259051 - Display device and driving method thereof: Each pixel includes: a light emitting element; a capacitor; a driving transistor that has a control terminal, an input terminal, and an output terminal and supplies a driving current to the light emitting element to emit light; a first switching unit that diode-connects the driving transistor and supplies a data...

20050259050 - Organic el drive circuit and organic el display device using the same organic el drive circuit: A current inputted from a first input terminal and a reference current generated by an internal reference current generator circuit, which are in phase, are inputted to a reference current selector circuit by which either the inputted current or the reference current is selected. The selected current is temporarily phase-inverted...

20050259049 - Organic electroluminescent display structure: An organic electroluminescent display (OEL) structure is utilized the UV light as a light source. The light is converted into three original colors of red, green, and blue lights through the fluorescent color conversion layer, so as to be able to eliminate the additional color filtering layer and raise light...

20050259052 - Display device and demultiplexer: A display device including plural pixels, plural scan lines for applying scan signals to the pixels, plural first data lines for transmitting first data currents to the pixels, a scan driver for outputting the scan signals, a demultiplexer including plural demultiplexing circuits for demultiplexing second data currents into the first...

20050259053 - Light emitting device and driving method thereof: A light emitting device capable of suppressing generation of pseudo-contours by increasing the frame frequency while suppressing the drive frequency of a driver circuit is provided. According to the present invention, gray scales are displayed not only by controlling the emission period of a light emitting element, but also by...

20050259054 - Method of driving organic light emitting diode: A method of driving an organic light emitting diode using an applied voltage to increase the voltage of the anode is provided. The voltage of the anode is detected and compared to a reference voltage. When the voltage of the anode is lower than the reference voltage, a voltage source...

20050259056 - Liquid crystal display device and television receiver set: An MVA liquid crystal display device for displaying motion pictures includes a polymer layer formed on a surface of a vertical alignment film so as to tilt liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer slightly from a direction perpendicular to the plane of the liquid crystal layer. Further, the...

20050259058 - Liquid crystal display driver device and liquid crystal display system: The present invention is directed to reduce the size of a liquid crystal driver (semiconductor integrated circuit for driving liquid crystal) having therein a D/A converting circuit, converting digital image data to analog gradation voltage, and outputting a voltage to be applied to a signal line (source line) of a...

20050259055 - Pixelized driving means for cholesteric display: A pixelized driving means for cholesteric liquid crystal display comprises driving waveforms and related circuitry employing one voltage level. The first pulse with a voltage level and sufficient pulse duration can erase a single pixel to the planar texture; while the second pulse with the same voltage level but relatively...

20050259057 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel and driving method thereof. Waveforms for performing a reset operation, an address operation, and a sustain operation are applied to a scan electrode while a sustain electrode is biased with a predetermined voltage, and it is controlled such that the absolute value of a positive voltage...

20050259059 - Field sequential liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. A liquid crystal is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, and R, G, and B color lights are sequentially applied to a plurality of pixels. A first common voltage and a first gray scale waveform corresponding to first...

20050259060 - Redundancy shift register circuit for driver circuit in active matrix type liquid crystal display device: In accordance with the present invention, an active matrix display device is presented. The display device comprises a substrate having an insulating surface, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix form over the substrate, and a plurality of switching elements operationally connected to the pixel electrodes. Each of...

20050259061 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit thereof, and electronic apparatus: A circuit of driving an electro-optical device includes: a storage unit and a correction unit. The storage unit stores a correction value corresponding to a pixel position of a display section in which pixels are formed so as to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a...

20050259062 - Display device: The level of a storage capacitor line changes between two types, an H level and an L level. As a result of this change, the voltage applied to a liquid crystal is shifted so that a sufficient voltage is applied to the liquid crystal to perform a display operation. Then,...

20050259063 - Impulse driving method and apparatus for lcd: There is provided an impulse driven LCD which comprises: an LCD drive controller for outputting normal data, adjust data for impulse generation, and a first control signal for controlling the output of the normal or adjust data, and for outputting a second control signal for controlling display of an image...

20050259065 - Back light source generator: The present invention provides a back light source generator for solving the problem of uneven illumination and shadow of a bottom lighting type back light source. The present invention increases the brightness of light generating elements and then increases the illumination of the two outsides of the liquid crystal panel...

20050259064 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device in which a frame of the image signal to be displayed is written into a liquid crystal display panel while a backlight is activated intermittently within one frame period so as to prevent blur injury arising when displaying motion pictures includes: sections and for variably...

20050259066 - Television apparatus having liquid crystal display: A television apparatus having a liquid crystal display includes a signal processing portion for reproducing a received video signal, a liquid crystal cell for displaying a video reproduced by the signal processing portion, backlight light sources arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell for illuminating the...

20050259067 - Liquid crystal display and its driving method: A thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display comprises a display unit which contains a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines arranged to cross the plurality of scanning lines and defining a plurality of pixels, and a data driving circuit providing pixel data signals to the plurality of data lines....

20050259068 - Image display: An image display device has an image display panel, in which two or more groups of particles having different colors and different charge characteristics are sealed between two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the particles, to which an electrostatic field produced by a...

20050259069 - Force sensing pointing device with click function: An input device for an electronic system includes a force sensor having conductive interdigitated traces on a bottom substrate and a flexible substrate spaced apart from the bottom substrate. The flexible substrate has a resistive layer deposited on a bottom side facing the interdigitated traces. A snap dome is positioned...

20050259072 - Image-processing apparatus: An image-processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting operational signals. The input unit includes an operation surface and outputs, as the operational signals, a position detection signal representing a detected operation position of an operation instrument moving on the operation surface and a selection confirmation signal generated when a...

20050259070 - Multi-position multi-level user interface system: A multi-positional, multi-level user interface system including a keyboard hinged over a base surface for a pointing device such as a mouse. The keyboard and base rotate relative to each other about a hinge axis to reveal the surface, providing a portable keyboard and pointing surface. A kickstand can support...

20050259071 - Secure enclosure for portable electronic display device operated by push buttons: A secure robust protective enclosure for a portable electronic display device that incorporates a sufficiently ridged transparent window so as to limit the user interface to push buttons located on the front of the enclosure. The enclosure's control buttons mechanically actuate corresponding control buttons on the enclosed portable electronic display...

20050259073 - Coordinate input device: A coordinate input device of the present invention includes a base having a deformation sensor; a stick that stands upright with a specified height from the base; a rubber cap that can be press-fitted on the stick; and a pressure sensor that can be controlled by pushing a control section...

20050259075 - Haptic feedback input device: A haptic feedback input device includes a pair of driving levers journaled at a frame such that rotary shafts thereof are perpendicular to each other, an operating lever coupled to an intersection of the two driving levers such that it can rock, and a pair of rotary motors that apply...

20050259076 - Haptic feedback input device: A haptic feedback input device includes an operation unit that calculates distances from the current position of a pointer to display positions at the peripheries of a plurality of buttons nearest to the pointer, based on coordinates at the current position of the pointer and positional information about the peripheries...

20050259074 - Input device for touch screen: A movement input device for use on a touch screen and a portable electronic device including such a device are described. The movement input device includes a fastening unit securing the movement input device on the portable electronic device, and a user input unit extending through the fastening unit. The...

20050259077 - Input device including a scroll wheel assembly for manipulating an image in multiple directions: A scroll wheel assembly includes a rotatable member. Encoded rotation of the rotating member causes scrolling of an image on a display screen along an axis. An actuator is located within the rotational member. Pressure on different parts of the actuator causes scrolling of the image in opposing directions along...

20050259078 - Optical positioning device with multi-row detector array: One embodiment relates to an optical displacement sensor for sensing relative movement between a data input device and a surface by determining displacement of optical features in a succession of images of the surface. The sensor includes a plurality of linear comb arrays (LCAs) arranged along an associated axis. Each...

20050259080 - Apparatus, method and computer-readable media having key mode override: An apparatus receives key mode and input data generated by a user's operation of its keys. The keys generating the input data can be shared to generate different data depending upon how the key mode data is set by a mode key. For example, one key mode can designate numeric...

20050259079 - Computer keyboard: A computer keyboard is provided which is constructed in such a manner that an auxiliary key group of the keyboard is moved to the left of a text creation key group, the phase of the keys of each key group belonging to the auxiliary key group being mirrorlike-symmetrical with respect...

20050259081 - Input device: An input device contains a plurality of push switch elements that are connected to a single switch signal line. When a switch signal is detected from the switch signal line, it is determined which push switch element is enabled based on coordinate data obtained from a primary input sensor. By...

20050259085 - Annular potentiomentric touch sensor: The present invention determines angular position using a potentiometric touch sensor. The sensor has an annular pattern of resistive material on a bottom substrate top surface. Conductive drive lines radially traverse the resistive material so as to make electrical connection with the resistive material. A top substrate is spaced above...

20050259086 - Capacitive touchpad integrated with a graphical input function: A capacitive touchpad provides operational modes including key input, graphical input, handwriting input, and mouse control. The touchpad comprises a panel having several programmed regions thereon, several patterns in the regions are programmed for the operational modes, and a pattern on the panel is programmed as a mode switch to...

20050259082 - Display device: A display apparatus having a display layer (2) and a touch-sensitive layer (3) running parallel thereto. An antireflection lattice is provided which is arranged on the touch-sensitive layer (3), the lattice elements being able to move toward one another or having a touch sensitivity which is independent of other lattice...

20050259087 - Display unit with touch panel and information processsing method: A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can drag...

20050259083 - Electrographic position location apparatus and method: An apparatus for use in an electrographic position sensing system comprises an antenna system and a signal strength detector. In one embodiment, the antenna system comprises two antennas. The detector measures the signal strength from each antenna. A microprocessor contains an algorithm to calculate the position of the detector near...

20050259084 - Tiled touch system: A tiled touch system comprises a display on which a computer-generated image is presented. The image is formed of an array of image segments. A digitizer is mapped to the display and senses pointer contacts made thereon....

20050259088 - Haptic feedback input device: There is disclosed a haptic feedback input device including a power supply unit that supplies a torque of a motor to an operating part; a movable part that operates with rotation of the operating part; a control unit that calculates the rotational speed of the operating part from the change...

20050259093 - Display device: When a thin film transistor has an LDD structure or a double gate structure, the number of manufacturing steps increases, which may decrease the yield. The invention provides a display device where the influence of off current is reduced by a method different from the conventional one. According to the...

20050259090 - Display device with a control module for preventing harmonic interference: A display device is adapted for receiving an image signal having a display scanning frequency, and includes an internal light source, a light source adjustment module, and a control module. The light source adjustment module includes a pulse-width-modulation controller that generates a source control signal for controlling turning on and...

20050259095 - Display device, display panel, driving method thereof and deposition mask: A display device having a display area in which a plurality of pixel circuits are formed. The display area is divided into a plurality of first pixel groups, each comprising some of the plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the first pixel groups is divided into a plurality of second...

20050259089 - Driving method of light emitting device: The present invention provides a method of driving a light emitting device in which a plurality of pixels having a light emitting element are formed, characterized by including: setting j display periods (where j is a natural number) to appear in one frame period, each of the j display periods...

20050259092 - Image-correction-amount detecting device, circuit for driving electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An image-correction-amount detecting device includes an image signal generation unit, a luminance detecting unit, and a correction value calculation unit. The image signal generation unit generates and supplies image signals having inverted polarities to a display section in which pixels are formed so as to correspond to intersections of a...

20050259091 - Light-emitting element drive circuit: A laser diode drive circuit that yields a steady optical waveform even when the illumination characteristic of a light-emitting element changes has a first S/H circuit that acquires a monitor voltage (OFF level) that prevails when a laser diode is extinguished. A second S/H circuit acquires a monitor voltage (ON...

20050259094 - Resolution detection method for an electronic display device: A resolution detection method for an electronic display device. The method first receives a line rate, a frame rate, and a horizontal total of an electronic display device to calculate candidate resolutions. A horizontal display of the electronic display device is then received. Next, a horizontal blank is calculated according...

20050259096 - Method and structure for measuring a bonding resistance: A structure and a method for measuring the bonding resistance are provided. The structure for measuring a bonding resistance between a first object and a second object is provided, wherein the first object has a plurality of first pins and a reference pin, and the second object has a plurality...

20050259097 - Optical positioning device using different combinations of interlaced photosensitive elements: One embodiment relates to an optical displacement sensor for sensing relative movement between a data input device and a surface by determining displacement of optical features in a succession of frames of the surface. The sensor includes at least a detector, first circuitry, and second circuitry. The detector includes a...

20050259098 - Optical positioning device using telecentric imaging: One embodiment relates to an optical displacement sensor for sensing movement of a data input device across a surface by determining displacement of optical features in a succession of frames. The sensor includes at least an illuminator, telecentric imaging optics on the object (scattering surface) side, and an array of...

20050259099 - Current supply circuit, current supply device, voltage supply circuit, voltage supply device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: To reduce the variation of luminance between driving modules. Driving modules DR1 to DR3 each have monitor current output circuits, and output monitor current signals MI12, MI21, MI22, and MI31. A monitor unit of a control circuit converts the monitor current signals into monitor data D12, D21, D22, and D31,...

20050259100 - Graphic processing apparatus, graphic processing system, graphic processing method and graphic processing program: A graphic processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of stamp information storages provided corresponding to a plurality of line equations, respectively, capable of storing values obtained by inputting coordinates relating to a stamp including a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other to the corresponding line equation; a plurality of information...

20050259101 - Irregular mesh and embedded geometric description in a computer graphics system: The present invention relates to a method for creating an irregular mesh description and an embedded geometric description in a computer graphics system. The method comprises steps of receiving topological input data representing vertices and faces of the mesh, creating a G-map representation of the topology of said mesh based...

20050259102 - Method and apparatus for displaying characters on a screen: A method and apparatus for displaying characters on a TV screen in an electronic appliance such as a DVD player is disclosed. Vertically compressed character fonts are stored. When it is requested to display a character, the stored character font is read and displayed in a video field and then...

20050259103 - System, method and computer program product for programmable fragment processing: A system, method and computer program product are provided for programmable processing of fragment data in a computer hardware graphics pipeline. Initially, fragment data is received in a hardware graphics pipeline. It is then determined whether the hardware graphics pipeline is operating in a programmable mode. If it is determined...

20050259104 - Texture unit, image rendering apparatus and texel transfer method for transferring texels in a batch: An image rendering apparatus is provided to reduce the amount of data communicated between a shader and a texture unit. The texture unit performs a texture mapping operation for mapping a texture to an object in a three-dimensional space. An input unit receives a single texture address parameter from the...

20050259105 - System and method for detecting memory location modifications to initiate image data transfers: A system and method for detecting memory location modifications to initiate image data transfers includes a display controller device with a location detector module and controller logic. The location detector module detects register write operations from a host central-processing unit to on-screen registers in a controller registers of the display...

20050259106 - Intelligent wait methodology: A central processing unit (CPU) configured to apply an intelligent wait methodology is provided. The CPU includes a chip select module that defines a chip select signal associated with an external device. The chip select module includes an address space configured to store addresses associated with the external device. The...

20050259107 - Sprite rendering: Computation of sprite position and size in JSR-184 with revised modelview matrix made with column vector lengths of original modelview matrix....

20050259108 - System and method for dynamically generating images using repeatable textures: In one embodiment, software is operable to identify a plurality of repeatable textures. The texture coordinates used by at least one of the plurality of repeatable textures is then modified using the software. A new texel fragment is dynamically computed for an image based, at least in part, on the...

20050259109 - System and method for a gamut mapping platform having plug-in transform functions: A system and related techniques enhance the gamut mapping from input devices, such as cameras, scanners and other devices or sources to output devices such as printers or other destinations in modular, plug-in fashion. An operating system may expose an application programming interface or other resource to graphical and other...

20050259110 - Multiple color transformation apparatus, method of forming image, and a computer-readable recording medium storing computer program: A multiple color transformation apparatus and method for an image and a computer readable recording medium storing a computer program therefore are provided. The multiple color transformation apparatus includes a middle status chrominance component producer which linearly combines first through Mth (where M is a positive integer larger than “3”)...

20050259111 - Device-specific color intensity settings and sub-pixel geometry: A method for determining device-specific information for pixels to obtain an optimal display of fine structure monochrome images on an output display device, the method comprising determining a set of device-specific pixel input values that will cause the display system to display a corresponding set of target visual output intensities...

20050259112 - Information processing apparatus and display control method for information processing apparatus: According to this invention, an information processing apparatus includes a display, a processor which executes a predetermined program process for data to be displayed on the display, and outputs first data as a result of execution, and an external input terminal which externally inputs second data to be displayed on...

20050259113 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: An information processing apparatus capable of displaying moving-picture image on a display device comprises a display controller which generates an image signal corresponding to a display image to be displayed on the display device, an image processing controller which processes the image signal generated by the display controller to enhance...

20050259114 - Method and device for rendering an image for a staggered color graphics display: A method for rendering an image for a staggered color graphics display comprises calculating first and second color values for each pixel or dot. The first color value is based on a portion of the image corresponding to a first dot, and the second color value is based on a...

20050259116 - Medical image display apparatus: A medical image display apparatus includes a storage unit, a display unit, and an input unit. The storage unit is configured to store examination information of a plurality of examinations and image data resulting from the plurality of examinations. The display unit is configured to display a plurality of selectable...

20050259115 - System and method for generating unified image output: A system and related techniques generate a unified representation of graphical representations, such as documents, graphic images or others, for displaying on a display screen, printing on a printer, faxing via a facsimile machine or outputting in other ways. In embodiments a media integration layer, which may reside in the...

20050259117 - Virtual staging apparatus and method: The present invention is a process of staging a live or pre-recorded performance that follows a schedule, optionally before a mass audience. The performance involves electronic and/or mechanical media that is computer controlled, preferably so as to create a virtual reality of one or more events. In the course of...

20050259118 - Panoramic imaging and display system with canonical magnifier: The present invention provides an image acquisition and viewing system that employs a fish-eye lens and an imager, such as, a CCD array, to obtain a wide angle image, e.g., an image of a hemispherical field of view. The system of the invention further includes a primary display for displaying...

20050259119 - System and method for reducing image scaling complexity with flexible scaling factors: Methods and systems for processing a plurality of pixels are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise acquiring a plurality of increment values that correspond to a plurality of output pixels from an increment value table. A plurality of filter coefficients that correspond to the plurality of output pixels may...

20050259120 - Method for adding a user-selectable function to a hyperlink: A multifunction hyperlink and method for providing an multifunction hyperlink are provided. This invention permits the user to interact with a hyperlink in a variety of ways without necessarily having to open and/or follow the hyperlink. This is accomplished by detecting the presence of a cursor near a hyperlink. After...

20050259121 - Semiconductor display device and driving method: The invention provides a semiconductor display device with less generation of a pseudo contour while the drive frequency of a driver circuit is suppressed. Furthermore, the invention provides a semiconductor display device with less generation of a pseudo contour while the decrease in image quality is suppressed. A semiconductor display...

20050259122 - Image display system and method including optical scaling: A method of displaying an image having a first aspect ratio with a display device having a second aspect ratio includes receiving image data for the image, buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image at the first aspect ratio, defining a first sub-frame and a second...

20050253773 - Display: To reduce the number of panel driving circuits of a display apparatus having a plurality of display panels, and to minimize the mounting area of the display apparatus, a display apparatus with two kinds of display panels of a first display panel (4) and a second display panel (5) includes...

20050253774 - Multi-display system and display apparatus: A multi-display system includes a plurality of display apparatuses capable of mutual data communication, and at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses receives predetermined control information from a user and transmits the control information to another display apparatus. The display apparatus can be remotely controlled without a central...

20050253775 - Multi-screen laptop system: A multi-screen laptop system for providing increased laptop functionality and productivity. The multi-screen laptop system includes a laptop having a first display and a second display movably connected to one another. The first display is pivotally attached to the second display for allowing the user to view either the first...

20050253778 - Method and system for driving dual display panels: For driving dual display panels, one of first and second display panels is determined to be a display mode panel, and the other one of the display panels is determined to be a non-display mode panel. Image data is displayed on the display mode panel, and the image data is...

20050253776 - System and method for projecting images in an electronic device: A portable computer includes an adjuster for varying the throw distance of a projected image. The computer include a housing, a screen connected to the housing, and an image projector coupled to the housing in alignment with the screen. The screen has at least one size dimension that is different...

20050253777 - Tiled displays and methods for driving same: A tiled electro-optic display (100) comprises a plurality of display units (102) each of which can be individually removed from the display, and a controller (104, 110) arranged to supply drive signals to the plurality of display units (102) and thereby write images thereon, the electro-optic display (100) further comprising...

20050253779 - Display apparatus: In a 2D/3D display, a switchable lenticular array having foci which can be switched in a continuous way between first focal strength and a second focal strength is provided. The switchable lenticular array comprises fluid cylindrical lens portions, while the foci can be controlled by electrowetting....

20050253780 - Interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software: An interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software in a computer system via a sensing device, the interactive surface comprising: visual information relating to a drawing field and the computer software; and, coded data indicative of an identity of the interface and reference points on the surface; wherein, the...

20050253781 - Driving method of plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a plurality of Y electrodes, a plurality of X electrodes, and a plurality of address electrodes. The Y electrodes are divided into a plurality of groups according to an order for scanning the Y electrodes and scan...

20050253782 - Plasma display apparatus and image processing method thereof: There are provided a plasma display apparatus and an image processing method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes an inverse gamma correction unit performing inverse-gamma correction on image data applied from the outside; and a halftoning unit respectively applying different error coefficients to Red, Green, and Blue image data of...

20050253783 - Plasma display having electrodes provided at the scan lines: A plasma display for causing a stable discharge at all lines and eliminating a side abnormal discharge is disclosed. In the plasma display, a width of at least one of electrodes at a first scan line selected firstly of scan lines is different from a width of electrodes provided at...

20050253785 - Image processing method, display device and driving method thereof: The present invention provides an image processing method of a hold type display device, a driving method of the display device and a display device driven by the method, for improving the moving picture quality without lowering the luminance and the contrast. In the image processing method for dividing one...

20050253786 - Plasma display apparatus and image processing method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and image processing method thereof. According to the present invention, the plasma display apparatus includes a scan driving unit and a sustain driving unit which have a sustain driving circuit for allowing a peaking pulse to be included in one sustain...

20050253784 - Video circuit: The invention relates to a video circuit (1) for processing video signals which show images on a display panel with linear light transition, comprising a gamma correction circuit (3), a quantizer (11) and a sub-field generator circuit (8). To save computing time, a random-access memory (7) replaces the quantizer (64)....

20050253787 - Plasma display device and method for driving a plasma display panel: There are provided a plasma display device in which dark contrast can be enhanced without deteriorating an image quality and a method of driving a plasma display panel. In a case of driving a plasma display device in which a magnesium oxide layer containing a magnesium oxide crystal to be...

20050253789 - Display: A display apparatus comprises transparent display elements arranged on a transparent substrate, a display panel DP whose display image can be observed from either side, a pair of liquid crystal shutter means 2as and 2bs disposed in such a manner as to sandwich the display panel DP, display control means...

20050253790 - Display apparatus and image reading/displaying system incorporating the same: A display apparatus includes a display panel 110 including a light emitting device 120 for each of a plurality of pixels, and a light receiving device 130 provided on the display panel 110 for each of the plurality of pixels. The display panel 110 displays an image by using light...

20050253788 - Electroluminescent panel which is equipped with light xxtraction elements: Each optical light extraction element comprises: an entry interface optically coupled with the emissive surface of the cells or that of the substrate of the panel, so as to capture the rays emitted by these cells; an exit interface of suitable shape so that the rays emitted by the cells...

20050253791 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: A light emission device according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixel circuits in a matrix. A plurality of first scan lines transmits a selection signal to select the pixel circuits. A plurality of second scan lines transmits an emission signal to control the duration of light emission...

20050253793 - Driving method for a liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel is connected to a corresponding scan line and a corresponding data line, and each pixel has...

20050253794 - Impulse driving method and apparatus for liquid crystal device: An impulse driving method and apparatus thereof for a liquid crystal display (LCD) are provided. The gate driver of the liquid crystal device generates first scan signals for controlling gate lines of the liquid crystal device according to the received first start vertical signal and first output enable signal. The...

20050253792 - Silicon-based color liquid crystal display microdevice: A color LCoS microdisplay device, consisting of a CMOS silicon backplane, a metal reflector array, a lower LC alignment layer, an LC layer, an upper LC alignment layer, a transparent conductive layer, and a cover glass plate, with a micro-dichroic-filter array between the said upper LC alignment layer and the...

20050253795 - Display device and electronic apparatus: To provide a display device with an excellent image representation capability, which is capable of vividly reproducing colors existing in nature. A display device according to the present invention performs color reproduction by additive color mixture of four primary colored light components consisting of Red, Green, Blue, and Cyan, wherein...

20050253796 - Liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. Liquid crystal is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, and first, second, and third color lights are sequentially transmitted for each of a plurality of pixels. A first voltage corresponding to first gray data is applied to a...

20050253797 - Liquid crystal display device with improved viewing angle characteristics: A liquid crystal display device, in which the liquid crystal molecules are aligned vertically when no voltage is applied, includes pixels each having plural sub-pixel electrodes, a data bus drive circuit for applying drive signals to the sub-pixel electrodes via a data bus line and a switching element, and alignment...

20050253798 - Image display system and image information transmission method: To provide a display device capable of displaying a moving picture with high definition and at high speed. An image display system includes: an image display unit; and a control unit. The control unit has: a block discrimination circuit portion; an image processing portion; a storage portion; and a synchronizing...

20050253799 - Electronic apparatus with display device: Two display panels constituted at least by having a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines with display pixels situated near each intersecting point of each scanning line and signal line besides a common electrode situated in common with each of the display pixels and the display panels having a...

20050253800 - Electrochromic display panel with electrodes for adjusting crosstalk: The display panel (1) has multiple picture elements (2), each picture element (2) having respective neighboring picture elements (2′). The picture elements (2) have a first electrode (3) and a second electrode (4) for the application of a potential difference between the first and the second electrode (3,4), and electrochromic...

20050253801 - Photo-write-type image display method and image display device: A photo-write-type image display method photo-writes into an image display medium comprising a polarity display element and an optical switching element. The method includes applying a first polarity pulse to the image display medium to write a first display color into the image display medium, and applying a second polarity...

20050253803 - Electric paper display with a thin film transistor active matrix and integrated addressing logic: An electric display is described including a plurality of rotatable elements, a thin film transistor active matrix array containing a plurality of thin film transistors which are arranged as one or more rows and one or more columns of transistors, each transistor having a gate input and a data input,...

20050253802 - Gyricon media using amorphous silicon thin film transistor active matrix arrays and a refresh method for the same: A gyricon medium comprising amorphous silicon thin film transistor active matrix arrays and a method of refreshing a gyricon active matrix display. The method involves the use of field effect instead of current flow in altering the orientation of rotary balls in a gyricon medium, thereby emulating the high brightness...

20050253804 - Finger navigation input device: An input device includes a navigation mechanism configured to move parallel to a shaft and to move tangential to the shaft. The input device further includes a movement detection system to detect movement of the navigation mechanism relative to the shaft....

20050253806 - Free space pointing devices and methods: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a free space pointing device, which uses at least one sensor to detect motion of the handheld device. The detected motion can then be mapped into a desired output, e.g., cursor...

20050253805 - Hand positioner for computer mouse: A mechanical device to be cooperatively associated with a computer mouse to cause proper positioning of a user's hand and wrist when using the mouse. The device comprises a support surface to be positioned both longitudinally and height-wise with respect to the mouse so as to support the heel of...

20050253808 - Input guide display operation system: A remote controller which allows one key to make touch and push inputs, and a TV that supports an instruction issued by that remote controller are used. If a touch input is made on the remote controller, a first display corresponding to this touch operation is made. If a push...

20050253807 - Method for displaying information and information display system: An information display system has display unit having a display screen, a control unit for controlling the displayed information, and an input devices for inputting a user's control command. The input devices may be a distance detecting sensor adapted to detect the position of a user controlled object in a...

20050253809 - User interaction with hand-drawing software via interface surface: An interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software in a computer system via a sensing device, the interactive surface comprising: visual information relating to a drawing field and the computer software; and, coded data indicative of an identity of the interface and reference points on the surface, the coded...

20050253810 - Textured cushion for cursor control stick: A cushioned cap for a control stick of an electronic device defining a recess for receiving at least a portion of a control stick. The recess includes a lower portion and an upper portion....

20050253811 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is provided which includes an elastic cover detachably secured upon a main body of the mouse, to enhance ease of operation and reduce muscle strain and soreness by repeatedly operating the computer mouse. The main body has left and right click knobs and optionally a scrolling wheel...

20050253812 - Optical mouse with shade compensation and its shade compensation method: An optical mouse, with shade compensation, has a light source, a sensor and a controller. The light source illuminates a sampling plane of a mouse. The sensor consists of a 2-dimensional array of sensing elements to capture an image from the sampling plane and temporarily store the image into a...

20050253813 - Enhanced visibility character identification system: An enhanced visibility lettering system comprising means to enter information into an electronic device, larger characters identifying the letters, numbers, symbols and functions that the means to enter information control; wherein the means to enter information upon which the characters are placed are larger than the keys of a conventional...

20050253814 - Integrated keypad system: A data entry system includes a predefined number of keys for at least inputting arbitrary characters through the keys. The data entry system uses a number of symbols having at least the letters of the alphabet of at least one language and where the symbols are assigned to the keys...

20050253815 - Preventing inadvertent striking of keys and like buttons in handheld palm-type devices when such devices are not in handheld usage: A handheld palm-type device senses that it is being held in a human hand, but not any specific human hand. It can sense whether it is held in any human hand. A handheld palm-type device with keys for data entry and apparatus for preventing inadvertent striking of the keys when...

20050253820 - Cycle computer display apparatus: A cycle computer display apparatus is provided with a touch panel for the rider to input data into the cycle computer. The cycle computer includes a display screen for producing visual images and a controller that selectively controls the visual images and the touch panel such that sensor areas of...

20050253816 - Electronic device and method of managing its keyboard: The invention relates to an electronic device and a method of managing a virtual keyboard of the electronic device. The device comprises a touch pad (106), a processing unit (600) and a feedback unit (612), which provides tactile feedback unit (612) for the user. The processing unit (600) is configured...

20050253822 - Integral wiring harness: A method of manufacturing a touch panel wherein a glass substrate is coated with a resistive layer; a pattern of conductive edge electrodes and a conductive wire trace pattern are applied to the resistive layer; the conductive edge electrodes are electrically isolated from the conductive wire traces; and a protective...

20050253817 - Method of deactivating lock and portable electronic device: The invention relates to a method of deactivating the touch screen lock in a portable electronic device comprising a touch screen and means for locking the touch screen. The method comprises detecting touches on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order during touch screen lock and...

20050253818 - Method of interpreting control command, and portable electronic device: The invention relates to a method of interpreting a control command given on a touch screen of a portable electronic device, in which method the combination of a touch on an area interpreted as a contact area and a release of the touch from the area interpreted as said same...

20050253819 - Portable data processing device with one touch control and switching method thereof: A portable data processing device with one touch control and a switching method thereof apply to the portable data processing device with a touch pad and a built-in one touch control official system, and users can directly press the key on the touch pad to execute the corresponding application program...

20050253821 - Reduced-height terminal display with adaptive keyboard: A terminal apparatus includes a display screen having a first area and a second area. A keyboard assembly overlies the second area of the display screen....

20050253823 - Information processing device: An information processing device capable of starting an application by a simple operation upon power turning on or return from the suspend state or halt state and not inhibiting reduction of the device size. The information processing device includes an application selection dial rotatably attached to a housing and capable...

20050253828 - Computer system and method of controlling the same: A computer system having an internal graphics module; an external graphics module detachably connected to the computer system; and a power controller turning on/off power supplied to the internal graphics module depending on a connection state of the external graphics module. With this configuration, the computer system and the method...

20050253833 - Controller driver and display apparatus: A driving apparatus for over-drive driving includes a display memory, a memory control circuit performing control for receiving input image data supplied from an image rendering device, reading out image data one frame before of the input image data from the display memory and for writing the input image data...

20050253827 - Digital video signal processing devices for liquid crystal displays: A digital video signal processing device. A display memory stores a digital image signal. A scaler locates on a circuit board for adjusting image size corresponding to the digital image signal, and outputs a first display data. An LCD panel includes a plurality of display cells respectively coupled to corresponding...

20050253829 - Display device and display device driving method: A display device of the present invention includes a plural scan lines, plural signal lines each intersecting each of the plural scan lines, plural counter-electrode lines each extending along each of the plural scan lines, plural pixels each connected to each of the plural scan lines, to each of the...

20050253832 - Display device capable of detecting battery removal and a method of removing a latent image: Provided is a display device capable of detecting battery removal and a method of removing a latent image from a panel. The display device includes a panel, and a driver unit displaying an image on the panel, wherein the driver unit comprises: a controller, generating a control signal and color...

20050253831 - Drive circuit for flat display apparatus and flat display apparatus: A drive circuit for a flat display apparatus is disclosed wherein different display objects can be displayed at a time individually with appropriate gamma characteristics. Reference voltages are produced in a plurality of systems having different gamma characteristics from each other, and one of the systems is selected in response...

20050253830 - Electron emission display (eed) with separated grounds: An EED capable of reducing noise influence between a high voltage element and a low voltage logic element in an EED panel includes: a high voltage ground for a high voltage element, a low voltage ground for a low voltage element, and a ferrite bead, connected between the high voltage...

20050253826 - Liquid crystal display with improved motion image quality and a driving method therefor: A liquid crystal display (LCD) with improved motion image quality. The LCD displays a frame during a frame time. A pixel of the LCD has a first switch and a second switch. At a first time point, the first switch is turned on by a video scan line, and a...

20050253825 - Video display apparatus: A video display apparatus includes a brightness modulating circuit that reduces the image brightness of the peripheral area of a display panel as compared to that of the central area of the display panel, and a control circuit that controls the operation of the brightness modulating circuit on the basis...

20050253824 - [serial-protocol type panel display system and method]: A serial-protocol type panel display system is suitable for use in a panel display apparatus. The panel display system includes a pixel-array display unit. Multiple divers are used to drive the pixel-array display unit to display an image. A VGA unit uses a serial protocol for encoding and exports a...

20050253835 - Active matrix type of display unit and method for driving the same: An organic EL active matrix type of display apparatus includes an illuminance detector for detecting brightness of an ambient environment, a calculating section for calculating a brightness set value corresponding to an output from the illuminance detector, and a duty scanning drive circuit as a control unit for controlling a...

20050253834 - Display apparatus and display system: A display apparatus 10 has a display screen 11 comprised of plurality of pixels displaying images based on image data, light sensors 14 to detect light entering the display screen 11 and arranged with display elements 13 to form the pixels, and compound imaging systems 20 comprised of imaging lenses...

20050253836 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided which includes an LCD panel having first and second substrates facing each other, a plurality of gate and data lines crossing each other to define a plurality of pixel regions; a common electrode; a coupling line perpendicular to the data lines, to...

20050253837 - Matrix display device: A matrix display device comprises cavities (20) having walls at least one of which is covered with a material (24) having a secondary emission coefficient of more than unity. The cavities form a planar arrangement substantially parallel to the display screen which has a phosphor display screen. The cavities are...

20050253839 - Automatic pre-render pinning of change isolated assets methods and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes receiving a selection of a plurality of assets to be rendered from a user, wherein the selection comprises a plurality of symbolic references, determining respective static references associated with each asset from the plurality of assets in response to the plurality of symbolic...

20050253838 - Key-frame processor for computer system: A key-frame processor for computer system is provided to couple with the streaming server of the computer system to transmit a series of continuous computer image frames to a plurality of user sites. The key-frame processor for computer system comprises a key-frame reconstruction module and a key-frame selective streaming module....

20050253842 - Hair rendering method and apparatus: A method for rendering hair particles includes determining a grid with vertices and voxels bounding the hair particles, determining hair densities for the vertices, smoothing the hair densities, solving a distance function to form a distance field in response to the smooth hair densities, wherein a distance function returns zero...

20050253840 - Method and system for interactive three-dimensional item display: A system and method for interactive three-dimensional (3D) object simulation is provided that includes a simulated interactive 3D environment that runs locally on the user's computer, and provides automatic compatibility handling to enable vendors and consumers to place, modify, manipulate, integrate, and freely move virtual products in the 3D environment....

20050253841 - Volume rendering processing distribution in a graphics processing unit: An intersection of a cut plane with a proxy geometry representing a scan volume is determined with a processor. The intersection is simplified, such as identifying a quadrilateral or triangle most closely enclosing the intersection. The vertex processor of a GPU deforms a reference grid and determines Cartesian coordinates and...

20050253844 - Systems and methods for providing a fine to coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization metrics in a graphics system: Systems and methods are provided for providing a fine-to-coarse look ahead in connection with parametrization in a graphics system. The use of a variety of parametrization metrics may be supplemented and improved by the fine-to-coarse look ahead techniques of the invention. First, the metric of a parametrization is minimized using...

20050253843 - Terrain rendering using nested regular grids: Plural levels of detail of a terrain are stored in memory in regular grids. In one such example, a terrain is cached in a set of nested regular grids obtained from the plural levels as a function of distance from a viewpoint. In one such example, the plural levels of...

20050253849 - Custom spline interpolation: User-defined interpolation modules can be associated with animation variables in an animation system. Interpolation modules determine the values of animation variables at a given time. Interpolation modules can perform any arbitrary type of calculation, evaluation, simulation, or other data manipulation using the knots of one or more animation variables and/or...

20050253852 - Foot roll rigging: A system and method enables animators to efficiently pose character models' feet. An initial foot model position is received. The initial foot model position specifies a foot model contact point. One or more foot roll parameters are specified that change the relative angle between at least a portion of the...

20050253848 - Manual component asset change isolation methods and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes receiving and storing a first model of an animation asset in a first version location of the animation asset, providing a link between a named version of the animation asset to the first version location of the animation asset, wherein a name of...

20050253850 - Mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions and method for editing avatar motions: A mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions. The mobile communication terminal includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores a plurality of commands corresponding respectively to a plurality of avatar motions. The plurality of commands are associated with a plurality of numerals, respectively. The controller displays specific...

20050253846 - Patch picking methods and apparatus: A computer program product for a computer system includes code that directs a processor to display a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object on a display, wherein the two-dimensional representation comprises a plurality of two-dimensional regions, wherein the three-dimensional object is associated with a plurality of components in a component...

20050253845 - Pickwalking methods and apparatus: A method for an animation environment includes displaying a first geometric object on a display, wherein the first geometric object comprises a plurality of geometric components, wherein the plurality of geometric components are coupled according to a geometric hierarchy, wherein the plurality of geometric components includes a first geometric component...

20050253851 - System for providing virtual space, a virtual space providing server and a virtual space providing method for advancing communication between users in virtual space: Based on the positions of characters that are supplied from a character position management unit, a communication control unit monitors whether or not another character is within a prescribed sphere that takes the position of a particular character as its center. The communication control unit permits the communication of information...

20050253847 - Techniques for automatically maintaining continuity across discrete animation changes: Techniques for automatically maintaining continuity in animation across discrete animation changes. Smooth animation is achieved without forcing the animator to manually calculate compensation values or introducing extra controls to the models that are animated. Continuity or smoothness of the animation is maintained as varying aspects of the animation change under...

20050253854 - Method and system for performing computer graphic simulation of a fluid using target-driven control: Method and system for efficiently controlling animated smoke which utilizes a sequence of target smoke states to generate a smoke simulation in which the smoke is driven towards each of these targets in turn, while exhibiting natural-looking interesting smoke-like behavior. This control is made possible by two new terms added...

20050253853 - Variable motion blur: Variable motion blur is created by varying the evaluation time used to determine the poses of objects according to motion blur parameters when evaluating a blur frame. A blur parameter can be associated with one or more objects, portions of objects, or animation variables. The animation system modifies the time...

20050253856 - Auto software configurable register address space for low power programmable processor: A configurable graphics pipeline has more than one possible process flow of pixel packets through elements of the graphics pipeline. In one embodiment, a data packet triggers an element of the graphics pipeline to discover an identifier....

20050253857 - Reconfigurable pipeline for low power programmable processor: A graphics processor has elements of a graphics pipeline coupled by distributors. The distributors permit the process flow of pixel packets through the pipeline to be reconfigured in response to a command from a host....

20050253855 - Statistics instrumentation for low power programmable processor: A graphics processor includes a graphics pipeline having a set of tap points. A configurable test point selector monitors a selected subset of tap points and counts statistics for at least one condition associated with each tap point of the subset of tap points....

20050253858 - Memory control system and method in which prefetch buffers are assigned uniquely to multiple burst streams: In a prefetch buffering system and method, a pool of prefetch buffers are organized in such a manner that there is a tight connection between the buffer pool and the data streams of interest. In this manner, efficient prefetching of data from memory is achieved and the amount of required...

20050253859 - System lsi and data processing system: The system LSI has a MCU, a memory access control means equipped with unified memory interfaces with which at least two lines of unified memories A and B can be connected. In the main unit of the data processing system, the purpose of each unified memory is set like “mainly...

20050253860 - Systems and methods for efficiently displaying graphics on a display device regardless of physical orientation: The method of one embodiment for the invention is for the CPU to read a subset of consecutive pixels from RAM and cache each such pixel in the WC Cache (and load corresponding blocks into the L2 Cache). These reads and loads continue until the capacity of the L2 Cache...

20050253861 - Low power programmable processor: A graphics processor is disclosed having a programmable Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) stage for processing pixel packets. Scalar arithmetic operations are performed in the ALUs to implement a graphics function....

20050253864 - 3-dimensional computer graphics system: Texturing operations are performed on objects in a 3-dimensional computer graphics system by providing pixel data for objects to be textured, providing texture data for these objects, supplying the object and texture data to a blend buffer 32. The texture data is then applied to each pixel of each object...

20050253862 - Data format for low power programmable processor: A graphics processor includes programmable arithmetic logic units (ALUs) for performing scalar arithmetic operations on pixel packets. For a selected scalar arithmetic operation, operands in pixel packets may be formatted in a S1.8 format to improve dynamic range. For at least one other scalar arithmetic operation, the pixel packets may...

20050253863 - Image texture segmentation using polar s-transform and principal component analysis: The present invention relates to a method and system for segmenting texture of multi-dimensional data indicative of a characteristic of an object. Received multi-dimensional data are transformed into second multi-dimensional data within a Stockwell domain based upon a polar S-transform of the multi-dimensional data. Principal component analysis is then applied...

20050253865 - Encoding cleartype text for use on alpha blended textures: Provided is a method where a background ARGB must not be taken into consideration before a foreground ARGB including TrueType fonts is combined therewith to create a composite image for display on a display device. A common alpha value is made use of in the process of combining the foreground...

20050253866 - Method and apparatus for creating profile: A profile creation method and apparatus that allow a user to select a gamut mapping algorithm and create a profile using the selected gamut mapping algorithm. The profile creation apparatus has an interface unit through which a selection command is input, a memory unit storing a plurality of gamut mapping...

20050253867 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a first display control unit for generating first image data to be displayed on a first image layer, a second display control unit for generating second image data to be displayed on a second image layer, a display update unit for controlling the second display...

20050253869 - Full scale video with overlaid graphical user interface and scaled image: The present disclosure relates to displaying full scale images with overlaid similar scaled images and a graphical user device in a display of a client device. The client device receives video streams of the full scale images and scaled images. The video streams are broadcast independent of one another, and...

20050253868 - Image synthesis output apparatus, image synthesis display apparatus, portable communication equipment, image synthesis output method, and program product: An image synthesis output apparatus is provided which is capable of saving a power consumption in the stage of obtaining a synthetic image of a plurality of images. In this image synthesis output apparatus, during an ordinary period when either of first and second input images which are stored in...

20050253871 - Information processing method and system: An information-processing system for calibrating an orientation sensor mounted on an image-pickup device calculates a relative orientation between the orientation sensor and the image-pickup device by using information about image coordinates of indices detected from a photographed image and an orientation-measurement value. At the same time, the information-processing system obtains...

20050253870 - Marker placement information estimating method and information processing device: A marker placement information estimating method includes a constraint condition setting step for setting a constraint condition that can be defined with a geometric condition regarding placement information of markers, a capturing step for capturing photographed images including a marker image, a marker detecting step for detecting markers from the...

20050253873 - Interleaving of pixels for low power programmable processor: A graphics processor includes an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) stage for processing pixel packets. Pixels are assigned as either even pixels or odd pixels. The pixel packets of odd and even pixels are interleaved to account for ALU latency....

20050253872 - Method and system for culling view dependent visual data streams for a virtual environment: A method for culling visual data streams. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for culling view dependent visual data streams for a virtual environment. The method begins by determining a view volume of a viewing participant within the virtual environment. The view volume determines a field-of-view...

20050253874 - Report customization and viewer: A computer-implemented method for presenting information to a user is provided. The method includes displaying a report having a plurality of groups in a report display. Each group has a plurality of elements. A modification pane is displayed proximate the report display. The modification pane including a plurality of modification...

20050253875 - Driving scheme for cholesteric liquid crystal display: A drive scheme is described for a display capable of gray scale. Multiple two-level pulses are used in conjunction with dynamic relaxation techniques to write pixels ON or OFF and to adjust the gray level of pixels. Only two voltage levels are used, a maximum level U, and a minimum...

20050253876 - Method and apparatus of dynamic frame presentation improvement for liquid crystal display: A method of dynamic frame presentation improvement for liquid crystal display is disclosed. The method comprises the step of providing a gray level mapping table, which maps the signal gray levels from 0 to N into mapped gray levels from 1 to N−1 level. Thereafter, the mapped data is fed...

20050253877 - Display resolution systems and methods: Systems and methods for improving resolution in a display are disclosed. One embodiment of the system includes a display and logic configured to change brightness levels of at least one of an image and graphics to improve resolution between the image and the graphics provided in the display....

20050253878 - Image display device: The present invention provides an image display device that resolution-converts input image data to perform image display. The image display device includes an image memory storing the input image data, a control section specifying an effective range from the input image data, and a resolution converting section reading image data...

20050248501 - Multi display device: A multi display device includes panel housings having displays. The panel housings are foldable on each other and the displays are disposed adjacent to each other when the panel housings are unfolded. A key input part is further provided to be foldable on the panel housings. Accordingly, the multi display...

20050248502 - Method, apparatus and system for a secondary personal computer display: An independently functional secondary device may be coupled to a personal computer (“PC”) system. In one embodiment, the secondary device may be capable, when coupled to the PC system, of displaying output data from the PC system on the secondary device display. The secondary device may also perform independent processing...

20050248503 - Display system for displaying images within a vehicle: A display system (100) for displaying images from different data streams (1,2) simultaneously is described. Images corresponding to the first data stream (1) are shown to a first observer (106) in a vehicle and images corresponding to the second data stream (2) are shown to a second observer (108) in...

20050248504 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. According to the plasma display apparatus and the method of driving the same, when a plasma display panel (PDP) displays a screen with one frame comprised of a plurality of sub-fields including reset periods, different reset pulses...

20050248506 - Apparatus and method for increasing the display gray level: The invention discloses an apparatus for increasing the display gray levels. The apparatus includes a signal transformation circuit, an error diffusion circuit, and an operation circuit. According to a first predetermined manner, the signal transformation circuit transforms a set of image signals into a set of transformed signals. The error...

20050248508 - Display apparatus: The present general inventive concept relates to a display apparatus processing a frame for a picture by a plurality of timesharing subfields, comprising a gradation converter to convert a video signal into a moving picture gradation, and the moving picture gradation comprises at least two linear gradation levels including one...

20050248509 - Method for driving a gas electric discharge device: A method for driving a gas electric discharge device which has a first electrode and a second electrode and is constructed such that a wall voltage is capable of being produced between the first and second electrodes. The method includes applying a voltage monotonously rising from a first set value...

20050248507 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same. According to the present invention, the plasma display apparatus includes a calculation unit for calculating an average picture level of an input picture, a sub-field mapping unit for mapping data of the input picture to...

20050248505 - Video coding method and system for a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a coding method intended to improve the performance of GCC coding based on the temporal centre of gravity of displayed video codes. According to the invention, the number of video levels that can be selected in order to implement the GCC coding is increased by...

20050248511 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of a plasma display panel: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of a plasma display panel which can improve a gradation expressing ability at low luminance. A magnesium oxide layer containing a magnesium oxide crystal which is excited by irradiation of an electron beam and performs a cathode luminescence light emission having a...

20050248510 - Plasma display device and method of driving plasma display panel: A plasma display device and a method of driving a plasma display panel are provided for improving the contrast without degrading the image quality. Each of display cells formed on the plasma display panel has a magnesium oxide layer containing magnesium oxide crystals. The magnesium oxide crystals are excited by...

20050248513 - Compensating color shift of electro-luminescent displays: An electro-luminescent display comprises a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines which are arranged to cross the plurality of scanning lines and forming a plurality of pixel regions, at least one indicating driving circuit, and at least one indicating electro-luminescent device. Each of the pixel regions includes...

20050248514 - Display module: A display module includes a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, the pixel includes a data storage device for storing...

20050248512 - Matrix display device with energy recovery circuit: Matrix display device having row electrodes (4) and column electrodes (5), an intersection of a row and a column electrode defining a pixel cell (1) having a pixel cell capacitance (8), and drive circuits (2,3). Blind energy used for charging the pixel cell capacitances (8) when driving the pixel cells...

20050248515 - Stabilized active matrix emissive display: The embodiments of the present invention provide a flat panel display having a plurality of pixels, each comprising a light-emitting device configured to emit light in accordance with a current flowing through the light-emitting device, a transistor coupled to the light-emitting device and configured to provide the current through the...

20050248516 - Driving apparatus and method for light emitting diode display: The present invention provides a driving apparatus, method and system for a light emitting device, suitable for use in an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display, which has an adjustable reference voltage, so as to compensate for degradation in brightness due to LED materials decay....

20050248517 - System and method for luminance degradation reduction using thermal feedback: A system to compensate for luminance degradation of an emissive display is provided. As its primary components, the system includes a controller and a temperature sensor. The controller is coupled to the emissive display to provide a driving signal thereby controlling the display luminance. The temperature sensor is located proximate...

20050248518 - Image display device and light source unit therefor: A bright image with smooth grayscale is ensured. Semiconductor light emitting devices that separately emit red, green, and blue light are used as a light source. The peak values of power needed to cause the semiconductor light emitting devices to emit light are varied according to image grayscale during the...

20050248520 - Liquid crystal display with temporal black point: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248519 - Method for driving a nematic liquid crystal: In a liquid crystal display device including a nematic liquid crystal confined between two electrodes with polarizing plates, a voltage applied between two electrodes to drive the nematic liquid crystal is maintained at a predetermined value for a predetermined duration of time in predetermined intervals to increase the response speed...

20050248521 - Lcd device having scanning lines and common lines: An active matrix LCD device includes a TFT panel, a counter panel and liquid crystal interposed therebetween. The TFT panel includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of common lines formed in one layer and extending in a row direction, and a plurality of signal lines extending in...

20050248522 - Display driver ic, display module and electrical device incorporating a graphics engine: The invention provides a display driver integrated circuit, for connection to a small-area display, the integrated circuit including a hardware-implemented graphics engine for receiving vector graphics commands and rendering image data for display pixels in dependence upon the received commands, and also including display driver circuitry for driving the connected...

20050248524 - Liquid crystal display with colored backlight: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248523 - [a lcd lighting control system]: A LCD lighting control system comprises a lamp, a self-oscillation inverter, a sampling-frequency generating circuit, a detecting-feedback circuit, a modulator and a buck circuit. The LCD lighting control system samples at the preset sampling location in the self-oscillation inverter or the preset sampling location between the self-oscillation inverter and the...

20050248526 - Analog input mapping for hand-held computing devices: A first hand-held computing device includes an analog input device and a processor. The analog input device generates analog input. The processor receives the analog input and converts the analog input to coordinates. The processor then maps the coordinates to a button for a second hand-held computing device and generates...

20050248531 - Coordinate input apparatus, coordinate inputting method, information display system and storage medium and program: To provide a coordinate input apparatus with higher resolution and excellent agility in terms of usage, without causing reduction in the detection speed of input light. At the time of calculating coordinate data of a predetermined ordinal number, a readout portion of a CCD is determined from coordinate data whose...

20050248525 - Information display input device and information display input method, and information processing device: An information processing device according to the invention is adapted to receive information as input. A software keyboard is assigned to part of a pressure detection panel (4) for key arrangement and only markers are normally displayed in a display (3) to indicate the home position (reference position) of the...

20050248530 - Information input device and information input method: It is an object of the invention to provide an information input device capable of performing a minute position input corresponding to a large display screen having a high resolution. The information input device comprises: a plate-like input member slidable by fingertip of one hand; an information creating section for...

20050248529 - Operation input device and method of operation input: A three-dimensional image sensor for detecting the three-dimensional position of an object, a coordinate detection unit for detecting the coordinate position of an objective point on a display screen based on the position of the object in a virtual pointing space, a movement detection unit for detecting the three-dimensional movement...

20050248527 - Symbol views: A graphical user interface for inputting symbols into a handheld mobile communication device having a reduced key keyboard is disclosed. The reduced key keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys and corresponding indicia including keys associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to an array of letters A-Z defined with reference to...

20050248528 - Time management in presentation device: Embodiments of the present invention provide a presentation device that is simple to control for managing time and providing presentation instruction to a host device to make a presentation. In one embodiment, a presentation device is controlled by a user for providing presentation instruction to a host device to make...

20050248532 - Apparatus and method for implementing mouse function and scanner function alternatively: The X, Y axes transition of position of apparatus according to the present invention is detected by employing portion of section of image input device, information concerning said detected X, Y axes transition of position is forwarded to a computer, and thus the apparatus of the present invention can be...

20050248533 - Apparatus for setting multi-stage displacement resolution of a mouse: An apparatus for setting multi-stage displacement resolution of a mouse is disclosed, which has a X-Y axis plane displacement detector, a switching circuit and a mouse micro controller. The X-Y axis plane displacement detector senses a distance and a moving direction generated by the mouse. The switching circuit has at...

20050248534 - Pointing device with hand detection: An input device having a housing and electronic circuitry for detecting user inputs, and transmitting signals corresponding to those inputs to an electronic device, such as a computer. A sleep mode is provided for the electronic circuitry to conserve power. A hand detection circuit is provided for detecting the proximity...

20050248535 - Pointing devices: A ball 1 for use in a pointing device 19, the ball 1 having provided thereon a pattern 2 which is of a different optical reflectance to the remainder 6 of the ball, the pattern comprising a line running from a first point 3 on the ball to a second...

20050248536 - Electrical apparatus with illumination device: An electrical apparatus comprises a casing, a light-guiding device and a light-emitting device. In this case, the casing has a keyboard setting area for accommodating a keyboard. An opening is located at one side of the keyboard setting area. The light-guiding device is set in the casing and is near...

20050248537 - Raised keys on a miniature keyboard: A miniature keyboard wherein the keys are arranged in a way to improve data entry and decrease the chance of depressing multiple keys at a time. Accordingly, the height of the keys are patterned to decrease the chance of multiple key depressions thus increasing the accuracy of data input into...

20050248538 - Media drive control system and method: Media drive control system and method. The media drive control system comprises a player console, a user operation filter, and a plurality of playback management devices. The player console provides an instant user operation (UOP) according to a received user command. The user operation filter comprises a queue and a...

20050248539 - Apparatus and method for detecting a pointer relative to a touch surface: An apparatus for detecting a pointer relative to a touch surface includes at least two spaced imaging assemblies having overlapping fields of view encompassing the touch surface. The imaging assemblies see the touch surface in three-dimensions as a perspective view. The imaging assemblies acquire overlapping images from different locations. A...

20050248544 - Capacitive proximity and/or contact sensor and electrically conductive plastic body for such a sensor: A capacitive proximity and/or contact sensor has an electrically conductive plastic body, which is disposed between an electrically insulating cover plate and an electrically conductive contact surface of a carrier plate disposed at a distance therefrom. The contact surface can be connected to a gating circuit, through which a change...

20050248546 - Character and text unit input correction system: An input device is disclosed that includes a sensor for editing characters and text units. The sensor has an elongate configuration and is laterally-oriented with respect to sides of the input device. The input device also includes a plurality of keys for entering individual characters or multiple characters that form...

20050248542 - Input device and method for controlling input device: An input device comprises a display and a touch panel, which are combined with each other. A menu, shown on a surface of the display, contains signs for prompting an input operation, which is carried out through the touch panel. A moving direction, from a first touch position to a...

20050248541 - Input system, coordinate input device, and method: The present invention provides an input system capable of assuring the excellent performance of each of coordinate input devices arranged. A tablet and a flat panel display (FPD) tablet are connected to a computer to realize the input system. Each tablet includes loop coils and detects a position designated by...

20050248545 - Method, apparatus, and software program for processing information: An information processing apparatus includes a display having a display screen with a display-enabled display window, and a tablet having predetermined coordinates and permitting handwriting. A predetermined process is performed on the display window presented on the display in response to an operation on the tablet, and a size of...

20050248543 - Theft resistant monitor: A theft resistant touch sensor system is provided that can be easily integrated into a touch monitor and configured to be used with a wide variety of host computers. The theft resistant touch sensor system involves a handshake procedure conducted between a controller and a host computer. The controller acts...

20050248540 - Touch panel display system with illumination and detection provided from a single edge: A touch panel that has a front surface, a rear surface, a plurality of edges and an interior volume. An energy source is positioned in proximity to a first edge of the touch panel and is configured to emit energy that is propagated within the interior volume of the touch...

20050248547 - Acoustic touch sensor: A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves. The substrate includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region and a first sidewall intersecting the first surface at a first edge. A transmitter is provided on the first sidewall of the substrate. The transmitter generates acoustic waves...

20050248548 - Acoustic touch sensor: A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves. The substrate includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region. A transducer is formed on the substrate. The transducer comprises a piezoelectric element which is thermally cured after being formed on the substrate. The transducer is configured for...

20050248549 - Hand-held haptic stylus: Touch screen interfaces suffer from a visual-motor conflict when the user attempt to interact with a virtual object but experiences no physical sensations resulting from that interaction. This can result in uncertainly and decrease performance as well as overall satisfaction with the interface. We introduce a method and device that...

20050248550 - Active matrix type liquid crystal display device: An active matrix type liquid crystal display device capable of reducing power consumption and eliminating switching loss so as not to cause surge when stepwise changing the gate pulse supplied to a gate line during selection. The device includes, as the selection voltage supply circuit (18), a first power source...

20050248553 - Adaptive flicker and motion blur control: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248552 - Calculator with a color changing display: A calculator with a color changing display, comprising mainly a keyboard, a CPU which is connected with said keyboard, an oscillator which is connected with said CPU, a LCD, a LED driver and a set of LED; by pressing the different key on the keyboard, the CPU would be driven...

20050248556 - Display device and projection type display apparatus: In a display device of a matrix drive method in which gate lines X in the row direction and data lines Y in the column direction are arranged in matrix shape and a pixel P is arranged at the intersection of the gate line and the data line, a display...

20050248554 - Liquid crystal display with filtered black point: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248555 - Liquid crystal display with illumination control: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248551 - Non-linear picture processing: The present invention provides a method of picture processing for a display device, characterized by the steps of processing input picture signals (R,G,B) in a non-linear manner so as to produce output picture signals (R′,G′,B′) for die device, such non-linear processing being responsive to parameters (Y,S,H) of the input picture...

20050248557 - Picture signal processing device, display device, receiver, and display method: The gradation representation capability is automatically controlled according to gradation regions and properties (moving or still image) of an input video signal. In a gradation representation pattern information storage circuit is stored a plurality of pieces of gradation representation pattern information which are different in the number of repetition unit...

20050248558 - Scanning line driving circuit, display device, and electronic apparatus: To reduce a voltage applied to a scanning line driving circuit. Buffer circuits respectively connected to gate electrodes of an N-channel transistor and a P-channel transistor which are connected to the scanning lines are provided and driving voltages are made different from each other, such that voltages applied to the...

20050248559 - String display system, string display method and storage medium: A string display system for displaying display target strings includes a storage unit 50 that correlates and stores detection target strings and display numbers, a display time determination unit 56 that provisionally determines display times of the display target strings, and a detection unit 52 that detects the detection target...

20050248560 - Interactive exploded views from 2d images: A framework for authoring and presenting an interactive exploded view diagram from an image or set of images. The framework includes an authoring component that receives the image and facilitates processing of the image into the exploded view diagram, and a viewing component that facilitates dynamic filtering of diagram information...

20050248567 - Calculating three-dimensional (3d) voronoi diagrams: Systems and methods for computing three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean Voronoi diagrams are disclosed. For some embodiments, a set of 3D objects is accessed, in which each 3D object is mathematically defined. Thereafter, a Voronoi region associated with each of the 3D objects is computed, thereby resulting in a complete Euclidean Voronoi...

20050248562 - Deformation of a computer-aided design model: Deforming a three-dimensional target model using a three-dimensional tool model to cause a change of shape of the target model includes selecting the three-dimensional tool model whereby the tool model representing an archetype of a shape to impress upon the three-dimensional target model, and deforming the target model in accordance...

20050248566 - Horizontal perspective hands-on simulator: Thus the present invention discloses a hands-on simulator system using horizontal perspective display. The hands-on simulator system comprises a real time electronic display that can project horizontal perspective images into the open space and a peripheral device that allow the end user to manipulate the images with hands or hand-held...

20050248561 - Multimedia information generation method and multimedia information reproduction device: To a multimedia information file including three-dimensional image data, three-dimensional display control information is added that indicates an intended three-dimensional display method for the three-dimensional image data or a data format in which the data is recorded. A three-dimensional image reproduction apparatus performs conversion appropriate for data characteristics derived from...

20050248564 - Techniques for animating complex scenes: Techniques that enable users (e.g., animators) to accurately animate models in a scene without having to load all the models involved in the scene concurrently in computer memory. For a particular model that a user wishes to animate, only a minimal set of models involved in the scene that are...

20050248565 - Techniques for processing complex scenes: Techniques for processing scenes of arbitrary complexity comprising a number of objects represented by models. Techniques are provided for building a representation in memory that stores information or represents the inter and intra-model dependencies between the various inputs and outputs of the models included in a scene. The memory representation...

20050248563 - Techniques for rendering complex scenes: Techniques that facilitate rendering of a scene of arbitrary complexity without having to load all the models involved in the scene simultaneously in computer memory. A representation of the inputs and outputs of the various models involved in the scene and the dependencies between the inputs and the outputs is...

20050248568 - Systems and methods for voxel warping: Systems and methods for calculating a modification of a geometrical shape by applying an inverse modification function to an array representing the shape. An array representing the geometrical shape is defined on a multi-dimensional space. A modification function is used to modify the geometrical shape. A user or a programmed...

20050248569 - Method and apparatus for visibility determination and processing: A method and apparatus for visibility determination and processing. The method includes receiving at least information associated with a plurality of objects, generating a first plurality of geometric primitives based on at least information associated with the plurality of objects, generating a first plurality of grids based on at least...

20050248570 - Method and system for performing speculative collisions for a video game: A system and method directed to speculating a collision in a video game. A vectorial sum of vertices of a first object, a second object, and motion vector for the first object is used to determine if a collision occurs. A shifted motion vector beginning at an origin within the...

20050248571 - System and method for displaying the effects of light illumination on a surface: Provided is a system and method for displaying the effects of light illumination on a surface. One or more light sources are illuminating a surface. The surface is divided into one or more cells. The orientation of each cell is determined and saved in an orientation field. A multidimensional light...

20050248572 - Method and apparatus for modeling and real-time rendering of surface detail: A method comprising generating a surface detail model using a modeling technique, and rendering surface detail in accordance with the developed surface detail model over an object surface. The described method enables computer-generated images containing representations of hair to be rendered in real time....

20050248575 - Animation display apparatus and method: An animation display device, which is a dedicated hardware circuit implemented in an integrated circuit, includes a control register for storing a plurality of control bits, an image memory for storing image data, and a processing unit coupled to the control register and the image data. The processing unit reads...

20050248574 - Method and apparatus for providing flash-based avatars: Method and apparatus for providing flash based online identities is disclosed. For example, the present invention applies a multimedia animation component such as a Flash component in the present avatars architecture. In one embodiment, each avatar is represented using a plurality of layers, where each layer employs at least two...

20050248573 - Storing intra-model dependency information: Techniques for determining intra-model dependencies for a model and persistently storing the determined dependency information. The dependency information for a model may be stored in file associated with the model....

20050248577 - Method for separately blending low frequency and high frequency information for animation of a character in a virtual environment: The method enables the blending of high frequency information and low frequency information at different rates to generate a relatively realistic animation of a character in a virtual environment. Typically, the high frequency information corresponds to a characteristic motion of a character and the low frequency information corresponds to gross...

20050248576 - Transformation method and system of computer system for transforming a series of video signals: A transformation method and system of computer system for transforming a series of video signals read at least a piece of video information via a decoding unit and to access a timer of capture rate and a detecting unit of assumption of difference of the P pictures upon the decoding,...

20050248578 - Method and apparatus for high density storage and handling of bit-plane data: In an image processing system, high density storage of bit-plane data is provided in a secondary or page memory as well as high bandwidth access to the data by an image processor. The page memory provides storage of data not currently being processed. The page memory may also be part...

20050248579 - Method and apparatus for reordering memory requests for page coherency: A method and apparatus for reordering memory requests for page coherency. Various data streams are frequently found in separate areas of physical memory (i.e. each data stream is found in a separate memory “page”). Because these requests from different streams become intermixed, a certain amount of latency results from the...

20050248580 - Image processing system for increasing the number of rendered polygons: An entire view volume in a virtual three-dimensional game space to be displayed on a display unit is divided into a front view volume closer to a view point and a back view volume away from the view point. In a first frame of two successive frames, polygons in the...

20050248581 - Apparatus and method for adjusting primary color component of image, and computer-readable recording media for storing computer program: An apparatus for and a method of adjusting a primary color component of an image and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a computer program for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a weight determiner which determines a weight corresponding to a hue difference between a hue of each of...

20050248582 - Dynamic wrinkle mapping: A method for a computer system includes retrieving a plurality of base poses for an object, retrieving a plurality of base texture maps associated with the plurality of base poses, receiving a desired pose for the object, determining a plurality of coefficients associated with the plurality of base poses in...

20050248583 - Dither processing circuit of display apparatus: A dither processing circuit of a display apparatus including a dither value generator for generating a dither value correspondingly to each pixel position for each pixel group in a frame, and an adder for adding the dither value to pixel data for each pixel of each pixel group to output...

20050248584 - Imaging system and image processing apparatus: An imaging system that implements a PCI Express high-speed serial interface system is disclosed in which a plurality of point-to-point simplex communication channels are established to realize a data communication network having a tree structure. The imaging system includes a PCI Express high-speed serial interface, and plural independent image processing...

20050248585 - Image signal processing circuit and image display apparatus: The present invention is an image signal processing circuit, comprising; a first memory part; a second memory part; and a control circuit which controls the first memory part and the second memory part, wherein the image signal processing circuit is constituted so that image signals outputted from one of the...

20050248586 - Memory efficient method and apparatus for compression encoding large overlaid camera images: A memory efficient method and apparatus for compression encoding large overlaid camera images. Main image data are combined with overlay image data to form composite image data, and the composite image data are compression encoded. According to one aspect of the invention, the overlay image data are stored in a...

20050248587 - Medical imaging apparatus: A medical imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit, a first processor, a second processor, a display unit, and an output unit. The imaging unit is configured to image a subject. The first processor is configured to prepare an image data based on the imaging unit. The second processor is configured...

20050248590 - Method and system for scaling, filtering, scan conversion, panoramic scaling, yc adjustment, and color conversion in a display controller: Techniques for performing panoramic scaling are disclosed that reduce visible distortion in a panoramic image. Further, techniques for performing combined YC adjustment and color conversion are disclosed that reduce the size and power requirements of video manipulation hardware by reducing the number of logic gates and memory buffers required when...

20050248589 - System and method for rapidly scaling and filtering video data: This invention relates generally to hardware for scaling and filtering video data and more specifically to algorithms and techniques for accelerating scaling and filtering operations on digital video data. The hardware is designed so that scaling and filtering operations are combined and performed simultaneously where possible to speed manipulation of...

20050248588 - User interface for representing multiple data sets on a common graph: A method and user interface are provided for independently and conveniently scaling y-values of multiple data sets whereby the data sets may be plotted against a common y-axis and provide satisfactory variability. A multiplier is selected by which data points in a data set are multiplied, allowing plots of multiple...

20050248594 - Display device drive apparatus and drive method: An apparatus includes a detecting section for detecting a brightness level of a screen image of a video signal as an area brightness level for each of a plurality of display areas on a display screen; and an adjustment driving section for comparing the area brightness levels with each other...

20050248591 - Liquid crystal display with adaptive width: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248593 - Liquid crystal display with modulated black point: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248592 - Liquid crystal display with reduced black level insertion: A backlit display with improved dynamic range....

20050248595 - Video signal processing circuit, video signal processing method, video signal processing program, and computer-readable storage medium: With regard to each of primary colors for image display on the image display panel, (i) three video signals are extracted from each of video signal rows of J types in which the video signals supplied to pixels are aligned in line with time series, in such a manner as...

20050248596 - Apparatus and method for increasing pixel resolution of image using coherent sampling: An apparatus and method for adjusting the pixel resolution of an input image is disclosed. According to the present invention, the pixel resolution of the input image is adjusted by oversampling an analog signal representative of the input image at a higher frequency than the pixel rate of the original...

20050243017 - Image-displaying apparatus: An image-displaying apparatus has a displaying device including plural displaying parts with the displaying parts being aligned without any space therebetween along the path of mobile object, a supplying device for supplying to the displaying device an image signal on plural still images constituting motion image, a speed-detecting device for...

20050243021 - Auxiliary display system architecture: Described is an architecture by which application programs can provide data to auxiliary display devices of essentially any type for display to a user. A defined application layer (e.g., accessed via interfaces) allows programs to provide data to a service that controls the output of data to an auxiliary display...

20050243020 - Caching data for offline display and navigation of auxiliary information: Described is a system and system by which application programs provide data to auxiliary display device (that is associated with a main computer system) for display, including at times when the main computer system is powered down. The cache maintains the user data in association with structured navigational information, to...

20050243019 - Context-aware auxiliary display platform and applications: Described is a mechanism by which application programs (or plug-ins) and an auxiliary service adjust the output and/or data available for output on an auxiliary device based on changes detected in the current context of the auxiliary display. Context sensors detect and report changes in context, whereby some action is...

20050243018 - Method and system for outdoor advertising: A method and a system for projecting messages, advertisements and other multimedia creations on semitransparent surfaces wherein a mirror image is projected on one side and the correct image is visible to the general public from the second side....

20050243022 - Method and ic driver for series connected r, g, b leds: A LED driver is connectible to several series connected RGB LEDs which connect in series with a current generator. A plurality of LED switches are respectively connectible across one RGB LED. Each LED switch, operating in response to a binary signal is either open to permit electrical current to flow...

20050243023 - Color filter integrated with sensor array for flat panel display: The embodiments of the present invention provide a color filter integrated with a sensor array and methods of fabricating the same. By integrating the sensor array with the color filter, the overall cost of the display is reduced. Moreover, the integration allows the sensor array to be used like a...

20050243024 - Line scanning in a display: The present invention is directed towards a method of scanning lines in a display and towards a display control device for scanning lines in a way which is less trackable by the human eye as well as towards an electronic device including such a display control device. The control device...

20050243025 - Matrix display including inverse transform decoding and method of driving such a matrix display: A display component includes in each pixel of a block a summing element, such as a capacitor (26), current source (22) and current sink (32), and switches (24,34) connecting the current source and sink to the summing element (32). Basis functions are supplied to basis function inputs (42, 44) to...

20050243027 - Plasma display panel and driving method therefor: A method for driving a plasma display panel. In the method, a gradually rising ramp voltage is applied in the reset period, and a final voltage of a falling ramp voltage is reduced to generate discharges in discharge cells. A difference between voltages applied to an address electrode and a...

20050243026 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display: A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel in which discharge cells are formed by first, second, and third electrodes, has a frame divided into a plurality of subfields, each of which includes a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period. In the reset period, a...

20050243028 - Display panel drive method: A display panel drive method performs image display at a good brightness level regardless the pattern of the image while decreasing power consumption. In this drive method, the number of emission of pixel cells assigned to each subfield is changed based on the peak brightness level of the input video...

20050243029 - Electron emission display (eed) device with variable expression range of gray level: An Electron Emission Display (EED) device, adapted to of adjust a pulse width of data signal according to an active pulse width of a horizontal synchronization signal, displays a display data signal on an EED panel according to a scan signal of a scan driver, the display data signal being...

20050243030 - Electron emission display and driving method thereof: According to the present invention, the electron emission display includes a display panel, a data electrode driver, a scan electrode driver, and a voltage compensator. The display panel includes a plurality of scan electrodes and data electrodes arranged in a matrix format, and displays an image in response to a...

20050243034 - Electro-luminescence display device: An electro-luminescence display device for reducing the number of output channels of a data driver is disclosed. An electro-luminescence (EL) display device according to the present invention includes an EL display panel having a plurality of pixels; m data electrode lines (wherein m is an integer) and a plurality of...

20050243031 - Electroluminescent display devices: In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, a storage capacitor (24) is provided for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor (22). A discharge photodiode (27) is provided for discharging the storage capacitor in dependence on the light output of the display element, and an input...

20050243035 - Light emitting panel and light emitting display: A display device including a plurality of scan lines provided in a first direction for transmitting select signals, a plurality of data lines provided in a second direction for transmitting data signals, and a plurality of pixel circuits respectively coupled to the scan lines and the data lines. At least...

20050243038 - Light emitting panel and light emitting display: A display device including scan lines provided in a first direction for transmitting select signals, data lines provided in a second direction for transmitting data signals, and pixel circuits respectively coupled to the scan lines and the data lines. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a driving transistor...

20050243039 - Light emitting panel and light emitting display: A display device having components that are efficiently arranged in a pixel. A pixel circuit includes a capacitor for charging a voltage which corresponds to a data signal transmitted from a data line. A first transistor of the pixel circuit outputs a current corresponding to the voltage charged in the...

20050243037 - Light-emitting display: A pixel circuit of a light-emitting display that reduces the influence of kickback generated by parasitic capacitance. The pixel circuit includes first to fourth transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting element. The first and second transistors are serially coupled to each other and turned on in response to a first...

20050243033 - Organic electro luminescence device: An organic electro luminescence device includes first, second, and third switching elements connected in series with each other, the first switching element controlled by a first signal, and the second and third switching elements controlled by a second signal, the second signal being different from the first signal, a first...

20050243036 - Organic electroluminescence pixel circuit: A potential on a control terminal of a driver transistor is controlled and a drive current corresponding to the potential is supplied to an organic electroluminescence element. A drive controlling transistor is inserted between the driver transistor and the organic electroluminescence element and the drive current is switched on and...

20050243040 - Pixel circuit for light emitting element: Pixel circuit 210 includes a current programming circuit 240 and voltage programming transistors 251 and 252. In order to set the tone of the light emission from the organic EL element 220, the first and second voltage programming transistors 251 and 252 are set to the OFF and ON state,...

20050243032 - Power line layout for electroluminescent display: In a pixel array of an electroluminescent display, a power line arrangement includes a mesh of interlacing power lines running along perpendicular directions. The power lines intersect at connection nodes provided for each pixel. The interlacing power lines thereby prevents a power bias due to the selective illumination of the...

20050243041 - Light emitting diode driver circuit: Describe is a device for a multiplexing, output current-sensed, boost converter circuit which may be used as an LED driver. A boost converter LED driver circuit using a single set of passive external LC components for controlling the current through, and thus the output of, one and more than one...

20050243042 - Method and apparatus for led based display: A method and apparatus for a light emitting diode based display have been disclosed....

20050243044 - Display device: A display device includes a pixel matrix having pixel rows and pixel columns and including pixels having switching elements positioned alternately at a corner near an upper and a lower side of each pixel row and positioned alternately at a corner near an upper and a lower side of and...

20050243043 - Liquid crystal display and pre-charging method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a pre-charging method thereof for pre-charging data lines using a ESD circuit to simplify a circuit configuration are provided. In the method, video lines receiving video signals are floated in a pre-charge interval of time. A pre-charge voltage is supplied to the video lines floated...

20050243046 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a liquid crystal panel driven by gate signals from a gate driver, an interface for converting an external video signal into an LVDS (low voltage differential signal), a reset circuit for generating a reset signal for initializing the LCD, a discharge circuit provided between...

20050243045 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of data lines; a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines; first and second control lines parallel to the gate lines; first liquid crystal cells provided at one side of the data lines, respectively; second...

20050243047 - Color display device: One unit pixel is constituted by a subpixel a provided with a red color filter and a subpixel b at which green and blue are displayable in an electrically controlled birefringence (ZCB) mode. The subpixel b is provided with a cyan color filter to increase color purity. As a result,...

20050243048 - Display device, and electronic apparatus: The present invention provides a display device and an electronic apparatus which are capable of realizing a remarkably wide range of color reproduction and displaying an image with display colors in a wide wavelength region which is similar to that of natural light and which are capable of minimizing the...

20050243050 - Display device: Power consumption is reduced in a driving circuit of a display device capable of handling a low voltage amplitude input signal by employing level shifters that utilize a differential amplifier. The driving circuit is divided into a plurality of units and each unit is provided with a constant current source....

20050243049 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor IC device includes a receiver having a bias circuit that applies a first bias potential to a first receiver for a clock signal and a second bias potential to each of a plurality of receivers for display data. The first bias potential is led out by first bias...

20050243051 - Liquid crystal display controller: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of...

20050243052 - Apparatus and method for driving lamp of liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving a lamp of a liquid crystal display device includes a control signal generator generating a switching control signal, a waveform modulator modulating at least an amplitude of the switching control signal to generate a modulated switching control signal, and an AC waveform generator converting a supply...

20050243055 - Data input devices and methods for detecting movement of a tracking surface by a laser speckle pattern: A data input device for use with an optically rough tracking surface comprising a substantially coherent light source for projecting a substantially coherent light beam onto the tracking surface for scattering the substantially coherent light beam. An optic guides the projected substantially coherent light beam toward the tracking surface and...

20050243056 - Input device for portable computer: A portable (or laptop) computer that includes the novel user-input device. The user input controls a variety of interface and media applications commonly found on portable computer systems. The novel input device detaches to facilitate remote operation or compact storage. Device includes user-interface hardware and manual controls for pointer, video,...

20050243053 - Method of measuring the movement of an input device: A small and cheap user's input device for measuring scroll-and-click movements of a finger (132) or other object relative to the device comprises at least one sensor unit (124, 126, 130) and sensor signal analyzing means (136) to derive click information and scroll information from the same sensor signal. The...

20050243057 - Peripheral device control apparatus: Upon receipt of an IR code from a remote controller, a peripheral device control apparatus generates, on the basis of peripheral device control information acquired from a server, a code for causing a peripheral device, which is an object of remote control by the control apparatus, to perform an operation...

20050243054 - System and method for selecting and activating a target object using a combination of eye gaze and key presses: A pointing method uses eye-gaze as an implicit control channel. A user looks in a natural fashion at a target object as a button on a graphical user interface and then presses a manual selection key. Once the selection key is pressed, the present method uses probability analysis to determine...

20050243062 - Free space pointing devices with tilt compensation and improved usability: Systems and methods according to the present invention describe free space pointing devices which enhance usability by transforming sensed motion data from a first frame of reference (e.g., the body of the free space pointing device) into a second frame of reference (e.g., a user's frame of reference). One exemplary...

20050243058 - High-reliability computer interface for wireless input devices: A computing system wherein communication between a host computer and peripheral units, e.g. computer mouse and keyboard, is performed using RF signals. The host computer and the peripheral units each contain a transceiver for managing and transmitting the RF communication messages. An acknowledgement is sent by the receiving transceiver to...

20050243059 - High-reliability computer interface for wireless input devices: A computing system wherein communication between a host computer and peripheral units, e.g. computer mouse and keyboard, is performed using RF signals. The host computer and the peripheral units each contain a transceiver for managing and transmitting the RF communication messages. An acknowledgement is sent by the receiving transceiver to...

20050243060 - Information input apparatus and information input method of the information input apparatus: A two-dimensional position detection unit takes the procedure so that two ultrasonic speakers attached to both end portions of a wrist outputs an ultrasonic wave while five ultrasonic microphones attached to fingertips detect it. The two-dimensional position detection unit measures time difference from output to detection of the ultrasonic wave....

20050243061 - Methods and devices for identifying users based on tremor: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a free space pointing device, which uses hand tremor as an input. One or more sensors within the handheld device detect a user's hand tremor and identify the user based on...

20050243063 - Method and device for displaying programmable-duration time intervals: The invention relates to a method and device for displaying programmable-duration time intervals. The inventive method can be used to display programmable-duration time intervals throughout at least one time scale of a given length, using a cursor which moves from one end of said time scale to the other at...

20050243064 - Capacitance type sensor: A capacitance type sensor includes a substrate, a group of electrodes fixed on an upper face of the substrate, a movable electrode plate having an electrode on its lower side and a gap between the group of fixed electrodes on the substrate and the electrode on the movable electrode plate....

20050243065 - Computer navigation device: A computer navigation device includes a movement sensor and a trigger device activated by a timer. The computer navigation device periodically transmits to a host computer a pre-defined signal corresponding with the signal that would otherwise be generated by the movement sensor on detection of specific movements of the computer...

20050243066 - Command line interface in a communication system: A help mechanism with regard to commands for a command line interface in a communication system. In embodiment a method of operating a command line interface (CLI) in a communication system is disclosed. The method comprises displaying tokens and associated context specific descriptions for CLI commands in response to a...

20050243067 - Method and system providing for keyboard navigation of a displayable representation of connectable objects: A method and system are described of providing for keyboard navigation of a displayable representation of connectable objects. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method of providing for keyboard navigation of a displayable representation of connectable objects includes assigning keystrokes to provide for separately traversing a plurality of connectable objects...

20050243069 - Display-input apparatus for a multi-configuration portable device: A portable electronic device includes a display-input apparatus (108) for displaying alternate character sets, in correspondence with a selected mode of operation of the device. The display-input apparatus uses first and second cholesteric display layers (302, 304) to display the different character sets. Each cholesteric display layer displays a different...

20050243068 - Touch sensing: A touch sensitive matrix display senses touch input during a sense period (TS) in a separate sense area (A1) which is selected to be non-overlapping with a display area (A2) in which information is displayed dependent on the touch position which is sensed in the sense area (A1). During the...

20050243070 - Dual mode touch system: An apparatus for detecting a pointer includes a waveguide and a touch surface over the waveguide on which pointer contacts are to be made. At least one reflecting device extends along a first side of the waveguide and touch surface. The reflecting device defines an optical path between the interior...

20050243071 - Acoustic touch sensor: A touch sensor comprises a substrate capable of propagating acoustic waves and includes a first surface having a touch sensitive region. A first sidewall intersects the first surface along a first edge. The first edge is configured to propagate a first acoustic wave along the first edge. The first acoustic...

20050243072 - Force-feedback stylus and applications to freeform ink: This invention relates to a force-feedback apparatus which includes a stylus that is equipped with an electromagnetic device or a freely rotating ball. The stylus is functionally coupled to a controller which is capable of exerting a magnetic field to the electromagnetic device or to the rotating ball, which results...

20050243074 - Absolute coordinate, single user-interface element pointing device: A pointing device includes a single control element to provide a user with absolute coordinate information and to enable user control of a computer cursor and emulation of mouse clicks. User movement of the single control element in an (x-y) plane preferably moves an optically reflective surface relative to an...

20050243073 - Presentation device and display method: Upon certain operations by a user, the presentation device displays a zoom window ZW in an image. The user moves the zoom window ZW by moving a mouse 19, so as to indicate a desired area in the image. When the desired area is indicated by the user, the presentation...

20050243077 - Electro-luminescence display device and method of driving the same: An electro-luminescence display device and a method of driving the same for controlling a full white brightness depending upon a brightness of the external environment and thus controlling a brightness mode is disclosed. An electro-luminescence display device according to the present invention comprising: a display panel having pixels light-emitted by...

20050243078 - Image display system: An image display system includes a screen comprising a pair of substrates with transparent electrodes provided thereon, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, the liquid crystal layer containing a cured resin and being capable of exhibiting a light transmissive state and a light scattering state; and an...

20050243079 - Light emitting device: A light emitting device with generation of a pseudo contour suppressed is provided in which the drive frequency of a driver circuit is suppressed while the frame frequency is increased. In addition, a light emitting device with generation of a pseudo contour suppressed is provided in which the drive frequency...

20050243075 - Liquid crystal display and processing method thereof: A liquid crystal display is provided, including a conversion circuit to convert a fist image data to a second image data, a frame memory to store the second image data, a difference circuit to output in units of pixel a difference data between the second image data of the present...

20050243076 - Organic light-emitting device: An organic light-emitting device includes a first transistor for applying a data voltage; a second transistor for applying a driving current depending on the data voltage and an initiation voltage to an organic light-emitting diode; a third transistor for generating a threshold voltage; a fourth transistor for applying an initiation...

20050243080 - Pixel device: A pixel device, comprising; a first plate, a second plate disposed under the first plate, and a third plate disposed under the second plate; a first power supply for providing a first voltage to the first plate; a second power supply for providing a second voltage to the second plate;...

20050243081 - Power supply device of video display apparatus and method thereof: A power supply device of a video display apparatus and a method thereof is capable of improving operation reliability of a video display apparatus, preventing erratic operation of the video display apparatus caused by higher harmonics and preventing erratic operation of other apparatus caused by unnecessary transmitted radiative wave. The...

20050243082 - Multiresolution geometry caching based on ray differentials with modifications: A method and apparatus for rendering a plurality of objects. The method includes receiving ray differential information associated with a ray, determining a first ray differential based on at least information associated with the ray and a first surface patch, processing information associated with the first ray differential and the...

20050243083 - Computer-implemented system and method for displaying images: Computer-implemented systems and methods for displaying an object having three-dimensional characteristics on a user interface Metadata and shape data related to a three-dimensional object are received. The shape data defines the three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional coordinate format. Computer instructions are generated that define region(s) of the object in a...

20050243085 - Model 3d construction application program interface: An application program interface may be used to construct a three-dimensional (3D) scene of 3D models defined by model 3D objects. The interface has one or more group objects and one or more leaf objects. The group objects contain or collect other group objects and/or leaf objects. The leaf objects...

20050243084 - Translating user input through two-dimensional images into three-dimensional scene: A computing system translates two-dimensional (2D) graphical input by a user who is selecting one or more 2D images in a three-dimensional (3D) scene of 3D models created by model 3D objects. The computing system comprises a viewport module, a retrieve module, set ray module and, a hit detection module....

20050243087 - Gpu-based finite element: Exemplary methods and systems are provided for performing the Finite Element Method. An exemplary method includes the steps of transferring a set of nodes and elements (i.e., a mesh) from a memory to a graphics processing unit (GPU); and performing the Finite Element Method on the set of nodes and...

20050243086 - Integration of three dimensional scene hierarchy into two dimensional compositing system: A hierarchy of 2D visual objects and 3D scene objects are integrated for seamless processing to render 2D images including a 2D view of a 3D scene on a 2D computer display. The processing of the 3D model objects and 2D visual objects in the visual hierarchy is integrated so...

20050243088 - Method and apparatus for modeling and real-time rendering of surface detail: A method comprising generating a surface detail model using a modeling technique, and rendering surface detail in accordance with the developed surface detail model over an object surface. The described method enables computer-generated images containing representations of hair to be rendered in real time....

20050243089 - Method for 2-d animation: A method for approximating the lighting of a 2-dimensional image having an interior defined by an edge. The method includes: approximating a plurality of edge normal vectors along the edge of the image, approximating a plurality of interior normal vectors across the interior of the image, and rendering the image...

20050243090 - Generic parameterization for a scene graph: A parameterized scene graph provides mutable (animated) values and parameterized graph containers such that an application program or the like can selectively change certain aspects of the scene graph description while leaving other aspects intact, and also reuse portions of the scene graph with different parameters. To this end, mutable...

20050243092 - Method for defining animation parameters for an animation definition interface: A system and a computer-readable medium are provided for controlling a computing device to define a set of computer animation parameters for an object to be animated electronically. An electronic reference model of the object to be animated is obtained. The reference model is altered to form a modified model...

20050243091 - System and method for distributing drawings that illustrate animation: Disclosed is a system for distributing drawings that illustrate animation. This system includes a global computer communication network, and a web site connected to this network that is adapted to display on a monitor screen a unique ordering display. The display enables a buyer (a) to select at least one...

20050243093 - Universal controller help on a multimedia system: A system architecture within a multimedia console having a host application that provides information to a user related to a configuration of a controller of a multimedia application with which user is currently interacting A system application residing in the memory and running concurrently with a multimedia application receives a...

20050243094 - Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline: An enhanced graphics pipeline is provided that enables common core hardware to perform as different components of the graphics pipeline, programmability of primitives including lines and triangles by a component in the pipeline, and a stream output before or simultaneously with the rendering a graphical display with the data in...

20050243095 - Information handling system including detection of inappropriate video connection: A method for detecting an inappropriate video connection in an information handling system (“IHS”) that includes an integrated video controller, the integrated video controller operable to be coupled to a display device, is provided. The method includes determining if an add-in video controller is coupled to the IHS, the add-in...

20050243096 - Memory controller hub interface: A memory controller hub includes a graphics subsystem adapted to perform graphics operations on data, and interface circuitry adapted selectively to couple the graphics subsystem to a local memory through electrical connectors and to couple the memory controller hub to a graphics controller through the electrical connectors....

20050243097 - System and method for caching and rendering images: A system and method for caching and rendering an image database enables predictive loading of unrequested portions of the image. A raw image is preprocessed and subdivided into tiles. As a portion of a raw image is displayed on a screen and the user zooms and pans the image, a...

20050243098 - Photo movie producing method and apparatus: In a photo movie producing apparatus, a scenario producing section includes a parameter normalizing circuit which normalizes a parameter in a scenario into a format based on a predetermined pixel number not dependent on a pixel number of still images to be inputted in an image editor and an edited...

20050243099 - Texture replacement in video sequences and images: Systems and methods for reducing bit rates by replacing original texture in a video sequence with synthesized texture. Reducing the bit rate of the video sequence begins by identifying and removing selected texture from frames in a video sequence. The removed texture is analyzed to generate texture parameters. New texture...

20050243100 - Displaying least significant color image bit-planes in less than all image sub-frame locations: A color image is produced from image data. Color image bit-planes are generated from the image data. Each color image bit-plane represents a time increment for displaying one color of a plurality of colors for each pixel of the color image. For each of the colors, color patterns are displayed...

20050243101 - Image generation apparatus and image generation method: A texture unit is provided for performing texture mapping. A computation unit provides a separation unit with a texel value of a texture given by an index form. The separation unit takes an index value and an alpha value separately out of the texel value in the index form, and...

20050243102 - System and method for diffusing curvature: A system or method to distribute curvature in a set of target vertices by computing curvature at boundary vertices of the set of target vertices by use of an umbrella operator. The boundary curvatures may be distributed into the set of target vertices by solving for a system of Umbrella...

20050243103 - Novel method to quickly warp a 2-d image using only integer math: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate rapidly warping a two-dimensional image using integer math. A warping table can contain two-dimensional floating point output pixel offset values that are mapped to respective input pixel locations in a captured image. The warping table values can be pre-converted to integer offset values...

20050243104 - Method of labelling an image on a display: A method of labelling an image for display on a screen is disclosed together with a computer program, a computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for the same. The method comprises the steps of retrieving the image, displaying the image rotated, and displaying first and second text labels on the image...

20050243105 - Systems and methods for the processing of digital files: Systems and methods for the processing of digital files, such as digital images, for use on card devices, such as financial cards, identification cards or smart cards, are provided. In an exemplary method, a system receives a digital image, analyzes the image, re-dimensions or re-sizes the image as necessary, and...

20050243106 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is capable of enhancing the heat dissipating ability of a plasma display panel, and of reducing the total weight of the plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, a frame to which the plasma display panel is attached and by which...

20050243108 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus displaying a picture based on a video signal, including a color temperature transformer detecting a transform objective pixel distributed within a transform objective space defined by an achromatic color and a set of colors adjacent to the achromatic color in a color coordinates system among pixels of...

20050243107 - Liquid crystal color display system and method: Methods and apparatus are provided for a color liquid crystal display (CLCD). The apparatus comprises a processor coupled to the CLCD for receiving a character code and a color code and translating them into character and color pixel arrays that are overlaid and summed to produce a composite pixel array...

20050243109 - Method and apparatus for converting a color image: A method and an apparatus for converting input data produced by sampling a color image having pixels arranged in a first grid into output data resulting in a reproduction of the color image having pixels arranged in a second grid, each pixel of the input data and of the output...