Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 12/05

20050285811 - Display apparatus: There is provided a display apparatus comprising: first display means including a first display section; and second display means including a second display section and a non-display section located at an outer periphery of the second display section; wherein partial area of a display surface of the first display section...

20050285812 - Image display method, apparatus and program: A method, apparatus and program for implementing the method is provided for performing efficient and stable comparative image observation in which a plurality of digital images inputted for comparative observation is switched and displayed on the screen of a display means. Brightness adjusting process for the plurality of images inputted...

20050285813 - Display controller, electronic equipment, and image data supplying method: A display controller includes a UV sampling rate converter which converts a format of image data of a first YUV format from a host to a second YUV format by changing a U component and a V component, a memory in which image data of this converted second YUV format...

20050285814 - Electroluminescent display: A driver circuit drives an electroluminescent display (1) which comprises a matrix of display pixels (10) associated with intersections of data electrodes (12) and select electrodes (11). The driver circuit comprises a select driver (2) which supplies a select signal (VS) comprising non-overlapping select pulses (VSP) with a predetermined repetition...

20050285815 - Lcd blur reduction through frame rate control: Reducing fast motion artifacts in an LCD panel by receiving a video stream at a first frame rate which is then downsampled to a second frame rate. The downsampled video stream is then upsampled to a third frame rate and a voltage is applied to a pixel element such that...

20050285816 - Electrowetting display: The present invention comprises construction of a display from display elements that are actuated using the physical principle of electrowetting. In one embodiment, pores within porous silicon are filled with an ionic and an optically reflective electronic conductor, and actuated by application of an electric potential across the pore. An...

20050285818 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel which is capable of increasing the number of intermediate luminance levels which can be represented in units of pixel cells while suppressing spurious borders. Each frame display period includes a first sub-field group which has a plurality of sub-fields arranged in succession...

20050285817 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: Disclosed is a plasma display panel, and more particularly to, a plasma display apparatus for driving an address electrode and a method of driving a plasma display panel. The plasmas display apparatus comprises: a load calculator for calculating the data load of image data to be input to a plasma...

20050285820 - Plasma display panel driver and plasma display: A reset pulse generating section applies the total of voltages of a positive voltage source and two constant-voltage sources from a high side ramp wave generating section to a high side scan switching device as the upper limit of a reset voltage pulse, and applies the ground potential from a...

20050285819 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, drive circuit, and plasma display apparatus: A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of reducing the influence of the difference in ambient temperature etc. and realizing a stable phase adjustment circuit has been disclosed. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a delay time adjustment circuit for delaying the rising edge or the falling edge of an input signal and...

20050285821 - Display device: In a driver for a luminescent display feedback techniques, in particular techniques using a control amplifier (25), are used to reduce the power supply voltage....

20050285823 - Display device and electronic device: The luminance of light emitting elements varies when the characteristics thereof change due to changes in environment temperature and changes with time. It is an object of the present invention to suppress the effect of the change in current value of a light emitting element due to the changes of...

20050285822 - High-performance emissive display device for computers, information appliances, and entertainment systems: Information appliance device and method for operating display associated with information appliance. Information appliance includes display device comprising plurality of active-matrix pixels arranged as two-dimensional array, each pixel including a photon emitter, emitter drive circuit receiving input image data for each pixel and generating pixel drive signal intended to produce...

20050285829 - Image display device: The invention provides an image display device that has an especially satisfactory display quality for animated images, and sufficiently suppresses the irregularities of display quality among pixels. The image display device includes a light emitting drive means that drives a light emitting means, based on an analog display signal inputted...

20050285826 - Light emitting display: A light emitting display has a main displaying part and a subsidiary displaying part formed on one substrate and equalized in brightness. The light emitting display comprises: a first displaying part formed on a substrate and displaying a picture; a second displaying part formed on the substrate and displaying a...

20050285827 - Light emitting display: A light emitting display including a selection signal unit, an emission control signal unit and a plurality of pixels. The selection signal unit receives a first start signal, generates a first shift signal, generates a selection signal using the first shift signal, and outputs the selection signal. The emission control...

20050285824 - Light emitting display and driving device and method thereof: A driving device for a light emitting display, which includes a plurality of scan lines for transferring a selection signal, comprises: a first driver for shifting a first signal having a first integer multiple of first pulses by a first period, and sequentially outputting the first signal; a second driver...

20050285825 - Light emitting display and driving method thereof: A light emitting display includes pixel circuits capable of compensating for the threshold voltages of their driving transistors. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a capacitor having one end coupled to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, a first switch coupled between the gate electrode of the driving...

20050285828 - Signal processing circuit and method for self-luminous type display: In a self-luminous type display in which one pixel includes four unit pixels of RGBW, a signal processing circuit includes first, second and third parts. The first part subtracts a minimum value in RGB input signals from each input signal of RGB. The second part calculates an RGBW signal corresponding...

20050285830 - Semiconductor display device and electronic appliance: A semiconductor display device which can suppress the drive frequency while increasing the number of gray scales. According to the semiconductor display device, a plurality of pixels can be selected per row by a first scan line driver circuit, the plurality of pixels can be selected per row by a...

20050285831 - Addressing multistable nematic liquid crystal devices: A method of addressing bistable nematic liquid crystal devices is provided. The method is suitable for implementation using commercially available STN drivers. The method involves applying one of at least two data waveforms simultaneously to each column electrode whilst an active row waveform is applied to an active row and...

20050285832 - Computer system: A computer system including a display having a digital receiving connector receiving a digital video signal according to a predetermined digital video interface, and a display module displaying a picture based on the digital video signal received from the digital receiving connector, a computer separated from the display and including...

20050285833 - Display device: Let a drive circuit chip shrink in outer shape size to thereby enable miniaturization of a display device as a whole. The display device is equipped with a plurality of pixels disposed on a substrate in the form of a matrix and more than one drive circuit chip GDR as...

20050285834 - Color display apparatus and semiconductor device therefor: One frame of a color image data is resolved into three frames of R, G, and B colors, which are displayed in sequence. In synchronism with the R, G, B frames, a power supply voltage for displaying each of the three frames is altered to predetermined levels set for the...

20050285835 - Electrowetting and electrostatic screen display systems, color displays and transmission means: Methods and related devices for manipulating ambient light and various light sources for applications including colour displays, screen displays and colored coverings for a multitude of items is disclosed. Methods and related devices for manipulating light for decorative, signaling and other purposes are also disclosed....

20050285836 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus including a display panel including a pixel electrode and a plurality of first signal lines transmitting a driving signal to the pixel electrode, a conductive member on the first signal lines, the conductive member having a resin, and a second signal line on the conductive member, the...

20050285837 - Apparatus and method for driving display optical device: In order to prevent a burn-in phenomenon from occurring in a liquid crystal, the present invention provides a display apparatus including a liquid-crystal display device employing the liquid crystal and a driving circuit. In an operation to drive the liquid-crystal display device, the driving circuit inverts the polarity of a...

20050285838 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: A driving method and a driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display device is provided. A first modulated data of a designated distance is determined and stored in a timing controller. An area existing between the first modulated data is judged using the present frame data and the previous frame...

20050285840 - Driving circuit including shift register and flat panel display device using the same: A driving circuit for a flat panel display device includes a generation unit for generating n-phase form generation clocks; and a plurality of shift register stages for sequentially generating a plurality gate signals to a plurality of gate lines using the n-phase form generation clocks, one of the shift register...

20050285839 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A driving circuit for an LCD device, and a method for driving the same, that minimizes RC delay is provided. The driving circuit includes a clock signal generating unit for outputting a clock signal at a predetermined period; a plurality of latches connected in series for sampling inputted digital data,...

20050285841 - Video display driving method of an lcd: A video display driving method of an LCD includes the following processes. A data transforming process transforms plural sets of video frame data into a plurality of preset voltage signal sets and post-set voltage signal sets. A display driving process writes at least one preset voltage signal of a first...

20050285842 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed, enabling to prevent a flickering phenomenon of the liquid display device using a data drive IC having an odd number of channels. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of...

20050285843 - Panel for display device, and display device: To provide a panel for a display device, which has an improved level of a poor gradation resulting from noises received by an electroconductive substrate acting as an antenna, and has the improved reliability of a display operation, and to enable the panel for the display device to cope with...

20050285844 - 3d display system and method: An apparatus configured to display 3D volumetric data acquired from a patient by an imaging system comprises a 3D volumetric display system configured to generate a 3D diagnostic display of the 3D volumetric data. The 3D volumetric display system includes a graphical user interface (GUT) configured to permit a user...

20050285845 - Orienting information presented to users located at different sides of a display surface: Information is oriented when presented to a user on a display surface, so that the information can be readily read and/or used by the user. The information is displayed on a generally horizontal display surface to users who may be located at different positions around the display surface. A different...

20050285846 - Tactile display device and touch panel apparatus with tactile display function: Conductivity of a photoconductive layer 420 changes in accordance with a display pattern made of black and white, which is displayed on a display device 200 of a touch panel apparatus with tactile display function 10. With this change of the conductivity, viscosity of an electrorheological fluid layer 430 changes...

20050285847 - Display apparatus, display system and control method thereof: A display system including a display apparatus having an interface part to receive a video signal, a display part to display a picture thereon, a signal processing part to convert a format of the video signal to be displayable in the display part, and a controller to control the display...

20050285848 - Image display system: An image display system is capable of controlling an image displayed by a projector using a single image signal cable connected to a personal computer. Control information is combined as images with image information that is transmitted from the personal computer through the image signal cable to the projector. The...

20050285849 - Image display device, image display system and electronic device: Power source control pertaining to a plurality of control units is made to be easy. Moreover, the productivity and the versatility of a control program are improved. A logical operation unit performing a logical operation of a power source control signal outputted from each control unit is provided. The power...

20050285850 - Methods and apparatuses for a polygon binning process for rendering: Various methods, apparatuses, and systems are described in which subdivided polygons are derived from a first polygon. Bin assignments of subdivided polygons derived from a first polygon may be stored. One or more reference coordinate points associated with coordinates of the first polygon may be stored. One or more reference...

20050285853 - 3d display system and method: An apparatus configured to display 3D volumetric data acquired from a patient by an imaging system comprises a 3D volumetric display system configured to generate a real-time 3D diagnostic display of the 3D volumetric data. The 3D volumetric display system includes a graphical user interface configured to permit a user...

20050285854 - 3d display system and method: An apparatus configured to display a 3D image comprises a 3D display system. The 3D display system is configured to display a 3D data set in the form of a real-time 3D image, and to display a haptic tool having a virtual lens configured to navigate through the 3D data...

20050285856 - Method for generating a realistic representation: In a method for generating a realistic representation of an environment in a computer by means of a 3D model, a texture being selected for an area of the environment and being laid onto the area, areas of the environment are intended to be covered with a texture from the...

20050285855 - Method of rapidly building multiple three-dimensional pipes: A method of rapidly building multiple three-dimensional pipes includes three primary steps: step of accepting inputs of geometric parameters; step of deriving the surface shape of multiple joined pipes according to geometric parameters; and step of deriving meshing points which present three-dimensional meshes of multiple joined pipes. There are “vacant...

20050285851 - System and method for blending data sampling techniques: A system and method for terrain rendering using a limited memory footprint is presented. A vertical ray intersects a terrain data map at an angle which includes a minor step size. Weighting factors are assigned to triangular data sampling values and quadrilateral data sampling values based upon a vertical ray's...

20050285852 - System and method for terrain rendering using a limited memory footprint: A system and method for terrain rendering using a limited memory footprint is presented. A system and method to perform vertical ray terrain rendering by using a terrain data subset for image point value calculations. Terrain data is segmented into terrain data subsets whereby the terrain data subsets are processed...

20050285857 - Method of reconstructing an image with data acquisition according to several imagery modes and synchronisation of image series: Measurements of a mobile object and particularly a living being are made using two techniques, normally radiation attenuation and radiation emission, in synchronisation to provide images of the object state. Movement displacement fields from one phase to the next are estimated for both techniques, but the final images obtained by...

20050285858 - System and method for fast volume rendering: A method of propagating a ray through an image includes providing a digitized volumetric image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of voxels in a 3-dimensional space, providing a reduced path octree structure of said volumetric image, said reduced path octree comprising a plurality of first level...

20050285859 - System and method for cache optimized data formatting: A system and method for cache optimized data formatting is presented. A processor generates images by calculating a plurality of image point values using height data, color data, and normal data. Normal data is computed for a particular image point using pixel data adjacent to the image point. The computed...

20050285860 - Scene reflectance functions under natural illumination: A method and system estimates a reflectance function of an arbitrary scene. The scene is illuminated under various lighting condition. For each lighting condition there is an associated illumination image and an observed image. Multiple, non-overlapping kernels are determined for each pixel in a reflectance image from the pairs of...

20050285861 - Detail-in-context lenses for navigation: A method in a computer system in a vessel for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original chart image for display on a display screen, the computer system displaying a representation of the vessel moving along a course in the original chart image, the region-of-interest being located along...

20050285862 - Semiconductor device and semiconductor signal processing apparatus: A memory cell mat is divided into a plurality of entries, and an arithmetic logic unit is arranged corresponding to each entry. Between the entries and the corresponding arithmetic logic units, arithmetic/logic operation is executed in bit-serial and entry-parallel manner. Where parallel operation is not very effective, data is transferred...

20050285863 - Discrete graphics system unit for housing a gpu: A DGS (discrete graphics system) unit is disclosed. The DGS unit includes a system chassis configured to house a GPU, the GPU for executing 3-D graphics instructions, and a GPU mounting unit coupled to the system chassis and configured to receive the GPU. A serial bus connector is coupled to...

20050285865 - Method and system for a scalable discrete graphics system: A scalable discrete graphics system (DGS) is disclosed. The DGS includes a serial bus bridge configured to couple a plurality of GPUs to a serial bus. A serial bus connector is coupled to the serial bus bridge. A system chassis coupled to the serial bus bridge and the serial bus...

20050285864 - Method and system for stand alone graphics independent of computer system form factor: A discrete graphics system (DGS) for executing 3D graphics instructions for a computer system is disclosed. The discrete graphics system includes a GPU for executing 3D graphics instructions and a DGS system chassis configured to house the GPU. A serial bus connector coupled is to the GPU and the DGS...

20050285866 - Display-wide visual effects for a windowing system using a programmable graphics processing unit: Techniques to effect arbitrary visual effects using fragment programs executing on a programmable graphics processing unit are described. In a first technique, visual effects are applied to a buffered window system's assembly buffer prior to compositing a target window. In a second technique, visual effects are applied to a target...

20050285867 - Partial display updates in a windowing system using a programmable graphics processing unit: Techniques to generate partial display updates in a buffered window system in which arbitrary visual effects are permitted to any one or more windows (e.g., application-specific window buffers) are described. Once a display output region is identified for updating, the buffered window system is interrogated to determine which regions within...

20050285868 - Display controller, electronic appliance, and method of providing image data: A display controller includes: a first memory that stores multiple frames of the image data; a second memory having a smaller storage capacity than that of the first memory, storing at least one frame of the image data; and a memory data switching circuit that outputs, either the image data...

20050285869 - Cross-platform runtime code generation for bit block transfer functions: An exemplary method for performing a bit block transfer (bitblt) includes receiving one or more graphics parameters specifying the bitblt and generating a specialized bitblt function to perform the bitblt. The specialized bitblt function includes a one or more code blocks selected from a superset of code blocks based on...

20050285870 - Cross-platform runtime code generation for bit block transfer functions: An exemplary method for performing a bit block transfer (bitblt) includes receiving one or more graphics parameters specifying the bitblt and generating a specialized bitblt function to perform the bitblt. The specialized bitblt function includes a one or more code blocks selected from a superset of code blocks based on...

20050285871 - Image-processing circuit, electronic apparatus, and method for processing image: An image-processing circuit includes a memory including a data table for a plurality of calculations; a central processing unit executing the calculations; and a memory controller controlling read of data from the data table upon instruction from the central processing unit. The memory controller includes address registers holding a predetermined...

20050285873 - Applying multiple texture maps to objects in three-dimensional imaging processes: Systems and methods for providing multi-pass rendering of three-dimensional objects. A rendering pipeline that includes (N) physical texture units and one or more associated buffers emulates a rendering pipeline containing more texture units (M) than are physically present (N). Multiple rendering passes are performed for each pixel. During each texture...

20050285872 - System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views: A system and process for reconstructing optimal texture maps from multiple views of a scene is described. In essence, this reconstruction is based on the optimal synthesis of textures from multiple sources. This is generally accomplished using basic image processing theory to derive the correct weights for blending the multiple...

20050285874 - System and process for generating a two-layer, 3d representation of a scene: A system and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a digital or digitized image from the image and a pixel disparity map of the image is presented. The two layer representation includes a main layer having pixels exhibiting background colors and background disparities associated with correspondingly located pixels...

20050285876 - Composition of raster and vector graphics in geographical information systems: A method for editing composite geographical images, including importing a raster geographical map file, the raster file including geographical information identifying raster image data, global positioning reference data and a first projection that transforms geographical coordinates to linear coordinates, importing a vector geographical map file, the vector file including geographical...

20050285875 - Interactive viewpoint video system and process: A system and process for generating, and then rendering and displaying, an interactive viewpoint video in which a user can watch a dynamic scene while manipulating (freezing, slowing down, or reversing) time and changing the viewpoint at will. In general, the interactive viewpoint video is generated using a small number...

20050285877 - Video event statistic tracking system: A method for calculating a parameter from an image sequence includes selecting a first frame and a second frame in an image sequence. The image sequence has a frame speed. The image sequence or another image sequence is enhanced using a calculation that considers the frame speed and selected frames....

20050285879 - Method and apparatus for processing information: An information processing method of adjusting the position/orientation of a virtual object combined with a physical object includes steps of: acquiring position information of a virtual index defined on the virtual object; informing a user of the position of the virtual index; acquiring position information of a physical index on...

20050285878 - Mobile platform: A mobile platform for providing a mixed reality experience to a user via a mobile communications device of the user, the platform including an image capturing module to capture images of an item in a first scene, the item having at least one marker; a communications module to transmit the...

20050285880 - Method of magnifying a portion of display: The present invention discloses a method of magnifying a portion of a display of a portable communication device, which is implemented in the portable communication device including a magnification software being executed to perform the steps of taking a selected location of the display of the portable communication device as...

20050285881 - Magnetic control plane: Modification of a model in situations, where one end of several parts should be transferred for the same distance, for instance, has posed a problem in modeling systems. The problem can be solved by defining a magnetic control plane to which model part handles locating thereon will adhere without separate...

20050285882 - Display device and television device: Reduction of a display period due to blank shift of a shift register is eliminated. To achieve this, a driving device of a display panel comprises a scanning driver of sequentially selecting scanning wirings by sequentially transferring a selection signal by using the shift register, and a controller of giving...

20050285883 - Method for determining digital video signal of digital display: A method for determining a digital signal of a digital display is provided. An extended display identification data (EDID) of the display is read by a computer via a display data (DDC) bus. Firstly, a predetermined parameter is outputted from the computer via the DDC when a user utilizes the...

20050280601 - Display control apparatus and display control method: A display control apparatus has a synchronizing signal generating section which generates a display synchronizing signal, a bus access control section which reads out video data for a plurality of system, one system at a time, from a local memory, a screen combining section which processes to combine video data...

20050280602 - Stereoscopic display method and arrangement: The invention relates to arrangements for spatial display, and in particular to such arrangements that, by means of wavelength or gray level filter arrays, present an image visible in three dimensions to one or several observers without the use of auxiliary aids such as glasses. In such arrangements, an increased...

20050280603 - Gaze tracking system, eye-tracking assembly and an associated method of calibration: A system for tracking a gaze of an operator includes a head-mounted eye tracking assembly, a head-mounted head tracking assembly and a processing element. The head-mounted eye tracking assembly comprises a visor having an arcuate shape including a concave surface and an opposed convex surface. The visor is capable of...

20050280604 - Materials and methods of derivitzation of electrodes for improved electrical performance of oled display devices: A method of derivitization of electrode surfaces in small molecule or polymeric organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and display devices employing the same are presented whereby and assemblage of molecular wires are employed. The assemblage of molecular wires facilitates the transportation of electrical energy from an inorganic electrode, such as...

20050280605 - Error correction schemes for volumetric 3d displays: This invention describes methods and systems for correcting frame position error on one category of volumetric 3D displays that generates volumetric 3D images by using a rotary mechanism to move a screen to sweep a volume and projecting 2D profile images on the screen. The screen motion is in general...

20050280606 - Method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of dividing a screen into two or more blocks, and performing an address in...

20050280608 - Driving method of plasma display panel: In a plasma display panel, a plurality of row electrodes is divided into a plurality of row groups. One row group is driven by a first method and the remaining row groups are driven by a second method. Light-emitting cells are set by a selective write process in a first...

20050280607 - Method of driving a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a method of driving a plasma display panel. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method of driving the plasma display panel includes the step of: alternately applying a first sustain pulse to scan electrode...

20050280609 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) and a method of driving the same are provided. The apparatus for driving the PDP includes a data determining part for analyzing image data input from the outside to count the number of turned on cells and for checking the turn...

20050280610 - Plasma display device and drive method for use in plasma display device: Scan electrodes are provided separately in addition to sustain electrode pairs generating a sustain discharge. An Address-While-Display drive, in which a scan pulse and a sustain pulse are applied at the same timing, is conducted for each subfield. When scan pulses are applied to the scan electrodes, a wall voltage...

20050280611 - Image display apparatus and image display methods: Provided are image display apparatus and image display methods capable of suitably making correction for variation of driving conditions due to an electric resistance of matrix wiring of a display panel by downsized hardware. The apparatus and methods involve a device of calculating voltage drop amounts caused by the resistance...

20050280612 - Matrix type display unit and method of driving the same: A matrix type display unit includes a plurality of row wires, and a plurality of column wires, and the matrix type display unit includes a scanning signal applying section performing scanning on each frame of image display through sequentially and alternatively applying a scanning signal to each of the plurality...

20050280614 - Display device and a driving method thereof: A display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes: a light emitting element; a storage capacitor; a driving transistor that has a control terminal, an input terminal, and an output terminal and supplies a current to the light...

20050280613 - Display device and associated drive control method: A display device which displays image information based on display data comprising a display panel having a plurality of signal lines and scanning lines with a plurality of display pixels containing current control type light emitting devices; a scan driver circuit applies a scanning signal to each of the scanning...

20050280616 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a driver circuit that controls so that an electric charge accumulation and a voltage detection/supply start simultaneously for a pixel circuit in a first row in the matrix and a pixel circuit in a second row in a matrix and adjacent to the pixel circuit in...

20050280615 - Method and apparatus for uniformity and brightness correction in an oled display: A method for the correction of brightness and uniformity variations in OLED displays, comprising: a) providing an OLED display having a plurality of light-emitting elements with a common power signal and local control signals; b) providing a digital input signal for displaying information on each light-emitting element, the signal having...

20050280617 - Organic light emitting diode display and luminance compensating method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a first and a second digital/analog current converters, a feedback unit and a compensating unit. The feedback unit includes the first and second feedback circuits for generating the first and second feedback currents, respectively. The compensating unit includes the first and second...

20050280618 - Display module: An organic EL display module includes a plurality of current supply lines extending to a first side of a substrate from a display region, a currently supply bus line connecting with a plurality of current supply lines on a peripheral region of the first side of the substrate, and a...

20050280619 - Reflective displays with color filter cross-talk compensation: A color filter cross-talk compensator is provided for a multi-color reflective display system having a controllable display cell with multiple adjacent color filters that transmit generally different components with overlaps between them, ambient light being transmitted into the display cell and reflected back through it. The color filter cross-talk compensator...

20050280621 - Active matrix display device: In the active matrix display device with a DRAM as the retaining circuit, the voltage retained in the retaining circuit is set in the brightness saturation region, which is outside the region of the voltage used in the moving picture display mode. With the voltage in this region, the difference...

20050280620 - Liquid crystal display device having a low-voltage driving circuit: A liquid crystal display device which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal composition sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of pixels disposed on the first substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels is supplied with a video signal via a...

20050280622 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: A driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel display a video signal by use of a liquid crystal cell of a matrix shape. A plurality of data drive circuits generate a polarity pattern of the video signal in accordance with a polarity signal...

20050280623 - Display control device and mobile electronic apparatus: A display control device and technique for controlling displays on a display unit, in which a plurality of display segments are two-dimensionally arranged (e.g. a dot matrix type display unit), is provided. The technique is effectively applicable to a write data latch circuit of a memory for storing display data...

20050280624 - Circuit architecture for compensating for brightness and chromatic aberration of an lcd and method thereof: Providing a set of calibration gamma curves, and applying different driving voltages to corresponding positions of an LCD according to the set of calibration gamma curves so that at a same gray scale and at a same fundamental color, brightness is identical and no chromatic aberration occurs in all the...

20050280625 - Liquid crystal display device having an improved backlight: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates, at least one of which has patterned electrodes on an inner surface thereof, and a backlight disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight has at...

20050280626 - Methods and apparatus for driving electro-optic displays: Waveforms for driving electro-optic displays, especially bistable electro-optic displays, are modified by one or more of insertion of at least one balanced pulse pair into a base waveform; excision of at least one balanced pulse pair from the base waveform; and insertion of at least one period of zero voltage...

20050280629 - Image display apparatus, image signal processing method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: An image display apparatus which is capable of optimizing the image quality of a plurality of display devices having different optical characteristics when carrying out processing of an image signal supplied to the display devices, without providing a dedicated display driving circuit for each display device. The image display apparatus...

20050280627 - Image writing apparatus, connector and display record medium: To provide an image writing apparatus with good operability capable of surely rewriting an image and management information, a connector and a display record medium. When electronic paper (display record medium) capable of visibly displaying an image without a power source is attached to a connector and the electronic paper...

20050280630 - Methods and systems for providing programmable computerized interactors: A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object and communicates the identifier to a computer system. The computer...

20050280628 - Projector pen image stabilization system: A high resolution pen-sized projector for controlling the position and size of an image generated by a closed loop control system consists of four major system components including: a virtual VGA display located inside of a XGA display, a position acquisition system, a displacement compensating control system to determine correct...

20050280632 - Detachable wireless presentation device: A detachable wireless presentation device is provided, which not only functioned as a touchpad of a presentation playing apparatus but also allows user to operate the presentation playing apparatus in a wireless remote manner. The presentation device comprises left and right buttons replacing the original function of a mouse, last/next...

20050280631 - Mediacube: An object placed on a display surface conveys an image appearing on the display surface to a surface of the object. The object can include one or more optical elements such as a lens, or may include a plurality of fused fiber optics or collimated light tubes to convey the...

20050280633 - Computer pointing device having a storage means: A pointing device operable with a computer system having transmitting means for transmitting data between the pointing device and the computer system; and a storage medium....

20050280637 - Input and output device and terminal device: A lenticular lens is provided in front of a liquid crystal panel composed of a plurality of pixels. In this case, the lenticular lens is arranged so that one cylindrical lens corresponds to two pixels adjacent to each other. Then, light rays outgoing from two pixels are refracted by this...

20050280635 - Input device, electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, method of manufacturing input device, and method of manufacturing electro-optical device: An input device includes a first substrate that has a coordinate input surface, and a second substrate that faces the first substrate. In the input device, a position on the coordinate input surface of the first substrate is directly indicated, such that coordinate information at the indicated position is input....

20050280634 - Input panel and input device using the panel: An input panel which includes at the top of the upper substrate a flexible display section working on the electric-charge principle for displaying letters and drawings written with an electric-charge pen. Letters and drawings being written for entry are displayed on the display section, so an inputting operator can see...

20050280636 - Interactive communication systems: The present invention includes interactive communication systems that incorporate several beneficial embodiments including an interactive tray system, an electronic presentation messaging system, an interactive podium, and a key drive system. The interactive tray system enables a single, transferable interactive unit to be fastened to a communication medium, turning into a...

20050280638 - Position detecting device: The present invention provides a position detecting device capable of detecting a position specified by a pointing device with reliability in low voltage driving. In the position detecting device for transmitting signals from a transmitting coil included therein to a pointing device and receiving signals from the pointing device through...

20050280639 - Single-layer touchpad having touch zones: A single-layer touchpad comprised of a relatively clear substrate, a first active electrode disposed thereon, and a sense electrode disposed thereon, wherein the first active electrode and the sense electrode are comprised of a conductive material, wherein the first active electrode in combination with the sense electrode are used to...

20050280641 - Pixel overdrive for an lcd panel with a very slow response (sticky) pixel: A memory efficient providing LC overdrive for sticky pixels at a frame n−1 for a current frame n based upon sticky pixel data associated with a frame n−2....

20050280640 - System and method for error messaging of an incorrect information handling system graphics cable connection: An incorrect connection of an information handling system graphics cable to a display peripheral is automatically detected with an error message presented by the display peripheral. For instance, a graphics projector accepts a VGA input from an information handling system through a VGA cable and port to project information for...

20050280642 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: A video signal processing apparatus comprises an A/D converter for digitizing an analog video signal, an integration circuit for integrating the digitized video signal within a predetermined integration range, a picture display device for displaying a picture based on an integration output, and a control unit which, when an offset...

20050280643 - Graphic image to 3d image conversion device: A device applicable to computers, TV sets, and projectors for converting a graphic image into a 3D image includes an image input loop, image control loop, output parity horizontal translation image IR circuit, and IR spectacles, wherein the IR spectacles create masking effect on both eyes, a CF lens is...

20050280645 - Image processing: Provided is image processing technology capable of displaying lines on a field clearly on a screen regardless of the distance to the viewpoint or the visual direction. This image processing method has a step for disposing a linear model formed from multiple polygons in a coordinate system of a three...

20050280644 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and storage medium: An image processing method includes creating a three-dimensional proto-model of a subject, creating a three-dimensional model of the subject by projecting to map a photographed image of the subject on the surface of the three-dimensional proto-model, displaying the three-dimensional model on the display, transforming or modifying the shape of the...

20050280648 - Optimizing real-time rendering of texture mapped object models relative to adjustable distortion thresholds: A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open and closed surfaces of arbitrary geometry. In general, the GDM represents the distance to solid mesostructure along any ray cast from any point within a volumetric sample. Given the...

20050280646 - Real-time texture rendering using generalized displacement maps: A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open and closed surfaces of arbitrary geometry. In general, the GDM represents the distance to solid mesostructure along any ray cast from any point within a volumetric sample. Given the...

20050280647 - System and method for generating generalized displacement maps from mesostructure geometries: A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open and closed surfaces of arbitrary geometry. In general, the GDM represents the distance to solid mesostructure along any ray cast from any point within a volumetric sample. Given the...

20050280649 - Character provision service system, information processing apparatus, controlling method therefor, and recording medium: In a character provision service system for providing users with characters such as interface agents and virtual characters in virtual spaces on computers or in TV games, charges for use of a provided character is computed according to a motion made by the character. This system enables each user to...

20050280650 - Image display system and image processing device: A read unit reads a plurality of pieces of image data from an image storing unit for output, respectively. A destination specifying unit specifies image display units to be display destinations of the image data from the read unit. A divided-period setting unit divides a unit display period of the...

20050280651 - Apparatus and method for enhanced video images: Enhanced video images are provided by an apparatus and method configured to associate one or more “interest markers” with a video stream, preferably in real-time. The combination video stream, comprised of the video output from the imaging machine interspersed with the associated interest markers, can then be segmented into desired...

20050280652 - System and method for a universal data write unit in a 3-d graphics pipeline including generic cache memories: A system and method for a data write unit in a 3-D graphics pipeline including generic cache memories. Specifically, in one embodiment a data write unit includes a first memory, a plurality of cache memories and a data write circuit. The first memory receives a pixel packet associated with a...

20050280653 - Display panel driver unit: To provide an inexpensive display panel driver unit with a built-in memory, which is capable of achieving the same operation as that obtained in using a dual port memory by employing a single port RAM without reduction in an operation speed. A reservation buffer 14 for storing an address and...

20050280654 - Api communications for vertex and pixel shaders: A three-dimensional API for communicating with hardware implementations of vertex shaders and pixel shaders having local registers. With respect to vertex shaders, API communications are provided that may make use of an on-chip register index and API communications are also provided for a specialized function, implemented on-chip at a register...

20050280655 - Kill bit graphics processing system and method: A present invention pixel processing system and method permit complicated three dimensional images to be rendered with shallow graphics pipelines including reduced gate counts and also facilitates power conservation. Pixel packet information includes pixel surface attribute values are retrieved in a single unified data fetch stage. At a data fetch...

20050280656 - System and method for computing a continuous local neighborhood and paramaterization: The present invention relates to a system for interactively moving a hit point within a current triangle of the model, where the hit point defines a location of a brush stamp relative to the model, where a circle with a radius either defines the brush stamp or minimally contains the...

20050280657 - Object region data describing method and object region data creating apparatus: An object region data describing method of describing information about the object region in an image over a plurality of frames determines the region of a target object in an image using an approximate function that approximates the trajectory obtained by arranging, in the direction of frame advance, one representative...

20050280658 - Method of accurate fixed-point line clipping: A line-clipping method includes determining whether a fixed-point-arithmetic line-clipping operation would likely be inaccurate due to limitations of fixed-point arithmetic. A line to be clipped has a first end point and a second end point. Responsive to a determination that the line-clipping operation would likely be inaccurate, a line-fractioning operation...

20050280659 - Display controller bandwidth and power reduction: Apparatus, systems and methods for providing display bandwidth and power reduction are disclosed. In one implementation, a display controller may treat overlay layer image data as non-transparent and to fetch only base layer image data that will not be overlain. In another implementation, a display controller may auto detect when...

20050280660 - Method for displaying screen image on mobile terminal: A mobile terminal that is capable of displaying a screen image during a specific state, which includes a character memory for storing character images and a screen image created by a combination of the character images and which is displayable during the specific state of the mobile terminal. The mobile...

20050280661 - Information presentation apparatus and information processing method thereof: An information presentation apparatus comprises an input unit, a measurement unit to measure a user's viewpoint position and pose, a model data storage unit to store virtual world model data, real world model data, and data necessary to generate a virtual world image, an annotation data storage unit to store...

20050280662 - Display system and method of diminishing unwanted movement of a display element: A method and apparatus for diminishing display transients and jitter. The method and system disclosed utilizes prior illumination and position histories in displaying and illuminating representations, and elements comprising the representations, on the display. Recognizing repeated representations, finding their prior and current positions, and determining if the difference in position...

20050280663 - Determining display subsystem compliance: A system and method for determining whether a target display subsystem is compliant with a reference display subsystem is provided. A target display subsystem is selected for outputting image data. Drawing instructions are generated and applied to the target display subsystem. Image data generated by the target display subsystem, responsive...

20050275603 - Display apparatus and display system using the same: A display system having a computer including a computer network module accessing to a network for data communication, a data storage to store multimedia data and a computer controller to transmit the multimedia data stored in the data storage through the computer network module; and a display apparatus including a...

20050275602 - Presentation system and associated method: A system for presenting a unit is provided, comprising a first viewing medium configured to provide a static visual indicia of the unit. At least one second viewing medium disposed in proximity to the first viewing medium and is configured to provide a dynamic visual indicia of an aspect associated...

20050275605 - Driving apparatus for plasma display panel and image processing method thereof: A plasma display panel displaying grayscales by a combination of brightness weights of a plurality of subfields in a frame. A peak subfield index of a current frame is generated based on a highest grayscale value detected from an input image data of the current frame, wherein the peak subfield...

20050275604 - Mount structure of vehicular sub-frame: A structure of a mount of a vehicular sub-frame includes a main cup into which a sub-frame pipe can be pressure-fitted, an upper plate coupled to the main cup, an auxiliary cup coupled to one end of the main cup, and a lower plate coupled to the auxiliary cup....

20050275607 - Image display apparatus without occurence of nonuniform display: A pixel drive circuit includes a drain voltage increase limiter circuit composed of a TFT device provided between a node and the drain of a TFT device serving as a current source, a capacitor and a switch. In a data write mode, switches are turned on to allow drive curent...

20050275608 - Organic electroluminescence display and method of driving the same: An organic electroluminescence display has data, gate, and signal lines arranged on a substrate. Pixel regions are defined by the gate and signal lines. Switching elements provided in the pixel regions are electrically connected to the signal lines and the gate lines. Switching blocks open and close an electrical connection...

20050275606 - Pixels, display devices utilizing same, and pixel driving methods: A pixel including a light-emitting element, a driving transistor, a maintain capacitor, a switch device, and a control device. The driving transistor is serially coupled to the light-emitting element for driving the light-emitting element to emit light and has a threshold voltage and a gate connected to a point. A...

20050275609 - Driving apparatus for display device and display panel thereof: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention, a driving portion of a display device is formed on the same plane as a display portion of a display device. The driving portion includes cumulative layers of a control electrode, a first insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a...

20050275610 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method for the same: Provided are a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method thereof for displaying high-resolution images. The LCD device comprises a plurality of pixel groups including a first pixel and a second pixel arranged in a same pixel column of two adjacent pixel rows. Each of the first and...

20050275611 - Circuit and method for driving electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A circuit for driving an electro-optical device has a plurality of pixel portions that contain an electro-optical material responsive to an electric signal. The circuit includes a driving unit that supplies an image signal corresponding to one screen to the pixel portions in each of a plurality of unit periods...

20050275612 - Liquid crystal display capable of reducing flicker and method thereof: A method for controlling an LCD to display an image. The method includes receiving a display data flow, generating a polarity signal, generating a gray-scale signal according to the polarity signal and the display data flow, and driving a pixel unit to display image according to the gray-scale signal. The...

20050275613 - Source voltage removal detection circuit and display device including the same: A control signal for removal of an afterimage from an active matrix display device is generated after the removal or disconnect of power from the device. A detector circuit receives a first voltage from a first voltage source and a second voltage from a second voltage source, and outputs a...

20050275614 - Gate driving portion and display device having the same: A gate driving portion comprises a plurality of stages. Each stage comprises a first driving portion and a second driving portion. The first driving portion generates first and second output signals according to first input signals, and the second driving portion is connected to the first driving portion and generates...

20050275616 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a panel assembly, a backlight unit supplying light to the panel assembly, a first photosensor, a second photosensor, a sensing signal processor and a signal controller. The first photosensor is supplied with ambient light and light from the backlight unit to generate a first sensing signal....

20050275615 - Display device using vertical cavity laser arrays: A display apparatus for producing colored pixelated light includes a backlight unit for providing a pump-beam light. The apparatus also includes a microcavity light-producing array responsive to pump-beam light and having pixels wherein each pixel including a transparent substrate, a bottom dielectric stack reflective to light over a predetermined range...

20050275617 - Storage device: The present invention provides a storage device including a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes arranged opposite the first electrode across a gap, and a particle which is selectively placed in one of the gaps between the first electrode and the second electrodes and which is movable between the...

20050275619 - Apparatus for cursor control and method thereof: A method for cursor and application control using a hand held device. First, a movement is detected by the hand held device. A position differential is calculated according to the detected movement. Then, the hand held device transmits the position differential to a specific device wirelessly to control cursor activity...

20050275622 - Computer-implemented system and method for defining graphics primitives: Systems and methods for generating graphic primitives. Data is received that is indicative of a gesture provided by a user. It is determined whether the received gesture data is indicative of a graphic primitive. A graphic primitive is generated for use on a user display based upon said determining step....

20050275626 - Entertainment lighting system: Provided herein are methods and systems for providing audio/visual control systems that also control lighting systems, including for advanced control of lighting effects in real time by Video Jockeys and similar professionals....

20050275625 - Ergonomic computer input device having pistol-type grip: A computer input device includes a housing having top, bottom, front, and back surfaces. The housing is adapted to be held in pistol-type grip with the bottom surface positioned adjacent a reference surface. First and second finger activation devices are mounted in the housing to be exposed on the front...

20050275621 - Ergonomic pointing device: An input device for a computer is described that positions the user's hand in a more ergonomically desirable position, i.e., at an angle of about 45° to the work surface. In preferred embodiments, the input device accommodates either a user's left or right hand, and in either case, positions the...

20050275624 - Hand-held communication device having folding joystick: A folding joystick assembly for a hand-held communication device includes a joystick that is extended from a recess in the housing of the device during use and folded back into the recess for ease of storage and/or improved portability. When extended, the joystick is manipulated by the user's hand for...

20050275627 - Input device having coordinate-inputting unit and switching unit: An input device is provided. The input device contains a face sheet, coordinate-inputting means opposing the lower portion of the face sheet, and switching means opposing the lower portion of the coordinate-inputting means. The face sheet, the coordinate-inputting means, and the switching means are laminated in a thickness direction. The...

20050275623 - Optical joystick for hand-held communication device: An optical joystick for a hand-held communication device employs an image capture device for sensing movement of a stylus by capturing images of the stylus or a target attached to a socket receiving the stylus. The captured images are processed for tracking movement of the stylus so that movement of...

20050275618 - Pointing device: A pointing device to operate a portable electronic device using a finger is disclosed. The pointing device comprises a light emitting means for illuminating a subject; a hole through which light from the light emitting means is transmitted; an image-acquisition area for taking an image of the subject from the...

20050275628 - System for physical rotation of volumetric display enclosures to facilitate viewing: The present invention is a system that allows a user to physically rotate a three-dimensional volumetric display enclosure with a corresponding rotation of the display contents. The rotation of the enclosure is sampled with an encoder and the display is virtually rotated by a computer maintaining the scene by an...

20050275620 - Tongue-operated input device for control of electronic systems: A method and apparatus for tongue-operated control of an electronic system is presented. The apparatus includes a sensor-mounting device secured in the mouth, a sensor that interfaces to the tongue and a sensor interface device that converts sensor outputs to sensor signals proportional to a measure of the interface of...

20050275629 - Mouse pad with wire-wound induction coil: The present invention offers a mouse pad with wire-wound (WW) induction coil, which is designed for use with battery-free wireless optical mouse. Both the mouse pad and battery-free wireless optical mouse are equipped with induction coils. The features include: the mouse pad device includes a mouse pad of smooth surface...

20050275630 - Apparatus for capturing and analyzing light and method embodied therein: An apparatus including an image sensor is disclosed. The apparatus includes a polarization filter, an image sensor, and a processor connected to the image sensor. The polarization filter is adapted to filter out light polarized in a first direction from a first scene. The image sensor is adapted to capture...

20050275631 - Surveillance system workstation: A workstation for a surveillance system comprising a display, a user input device and a control unit in communication with the display and the user input device. The user input device has a plurality of keys and a light source to light the keys with a plurality of different colors....

20050275632 - Information entry mechanism: Techniques for efficiently entering data with a progressively reduced key set are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, an emulated key set is used for entering data within some criteria or confined measures. A key set is generated dynamically each time in accordance with preceding entries. An example...

20050275635 - Manipulating association of data with a physical object: Data elements stored in a computing system and associated with a physical object are reassociated with the same or another physical object. An identifying characteristic presented by the physical object, such as a reflective pattern applied to the object, is detected when the object is positioned adjacent to the interactive...

20050275636 - Manipulating association of data with a physical object: Data elements stored in a computing system and associated with a physical object are reassociated with the same or another physical object. An identifying characteristic presented by the physical object, such as a reflective pattern applied to the object, is detected when the object is positioned adjacent to the interactive...

20050275637 - Method for displaying information responsive to sensing a physical presence proximate to a computer input device: In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls system can be used to anticipate a user's action. When a user's hand approaches a touch sensitive input device, feedback can be displayed on a display screen. A user can receive feedback without activating the input...

20050275634 - Resistive scanning grid touch panel: An improved resistive touch panel is disclosed. The improved resistive touch panel includes a first plurality of stripes of a resistive coating on a front sheet running in a first direction and a second plurality of stripes of a resistive coating on a back sheet running in a second direction....

20050275633 - Virtual keypad for touchscreen display: A method for changing a transparency level of a virtual keypad on a display, comprising the steps of: activating a pointing device on the display; and dragging the pointing device along the display for a predetermined distance; whereby said dragging step causes the transparency level of the virtual keypad on...

20050275638 - Dynamic feedback for gestures: Gesture feedback techniques are discussed that provide prompt feedback to a user concerning the recognition of one or more gestures. The feedback may be employed to confirm to a user that a gesture is being correctly recognized. The feedback may alternately warn a user that a desired gesture is not...

20050275639 - Roller construction with direction finding for a mobile navigation device: The present invention is a roller construction with direction finding for a mobile navigation device. The present invention comprises a hollow conductive ring with several slots at an end, wherein a contacting area is set on the inner surface of the protruding part between each two neighboring slots; a support...

20050275643 - Asymmetrical switching delay compensation in display systems: A method and apparatus of the present invention is particularly for use in display systems having spatial light modulators in which the pixels present asymmetrical switching delays. For a desired illumination intensity of a pixel, a series of pulse-width-modulation bit values for the pixel is determined based at least in...

20050275641 - Computer monitor: A computer monitor comprises an input for at least first and second computer video signals. First and second of the video signals are respectively assigned to main and auxiliary pictures that are simultaneously applied to a single display....

20050275649 - Display and display system: A display for displaying an image on the basis of input image data includes an image adjusting unit configured to perform adjustment processing on the input image data and an image detecting unit configured to detect a first image data segment matching a predetermined condition in the input image data....

20050275647 - Display apparatus: When the transistor Q3 is OFF, a predetermined potential is supplied to a potential wire Ui such that a switching transistor Q2 becomes ON. This changes a gate potential of a driving transistor Q1 from an ON potential to a threshold potential. Thereafter, the transistor Q2 is turned OFF, with...

20050275646 - Driving system and driving method for motion pictures: A driving system and a driving method for motion pictures are described, using an input, a black image insertion module, an advanced overdrive module, and a partial frame rate control module. The input receives a first frame and a second frame in order. The black image insertion module inserts a...

20050275642 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames: A method of displaying an image with a display device is provided. The method comprises receiving first image data for the image where the first image data is associated with a first color space, converting the first image data to second image data associated with a second color space, generating...

20050275648 - Host device to display independent menu groups of driver registration information: A host device includes one or more menu groups provided in a driver program to drive an external device connectable to the host device and to set driving options of the external device, a user interface section connected to the one or more menu groups to provide a user interface...

20050275644 - Method of fast gray-scale converting of lcd: A method of fast gray-scale converting of an LCD comprising the following steps: dividing plural gate lines of an LCD into plural areas; dividing the frame interval time relative to the plural areas into plural sub-intervals, and sequentially activating each first gate line of these areas during a time period...

20050275645 - Method of increasing image gray-scale response speed: A method of increasing image gray-scale response speed comprising the following steps: to divide plural driven gate lines of an LCD into plural areas; to divide the frame interval time relative to the plural areas into plural sub-intervals, and to sequentially activate each first gate line of these areas during...

20050275640 - Non-linear processing apparatus, image display apparatus: A nonlinearly processed (gamma-corrected) video signal is subjected to three-dimensional signal level correction using three-dimensional correction values and corresponding to a position in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of a pixel on a display screen of an image display unit and the signal level of the pixel data....

20050275650 - Suppression of noise in pixel vdd supply: A circuit and method for correcting for power supply voltage noise using two dummy pixels in each row of pixels of an imager having a number of pixels arranged in rows and columns are described. The dummy pixels are driven by the same power supply as the active pixels but...

20050275651 - Histogram and spatial-based power savings: Described herein are systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device that includes a display. Power conservation systems and methods described herein alter video information in one or more inactive portions of a display area such that the alteration decreases power consumption. The invention finds use with...

20050275652 - Computer graphics system and computer-implemented method for simulating participating media using sample points determined using elements of a low-discrepancy sequence: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera. The computer graphics system comprising an offset value generator and a function evaluator. The offset value...

20050275653 - System and computer-implemented method for evaluating integrals using a quasi-monte carlo methodology in which sample points represent dependent samples generated using a low-discrepancy sequence: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the computer graphics system comprising a sample point generator and a function evaluator. The sample...

20050275654 - Method, computer program product, and device for processing projection images: A method for improving the quality of a projection image. The method includes setting a plurality of rays that pass through voxels. Each ray corresponds to a pixel. The method further includes storing a plurality of pixel values, each associated with one of the voxels existing on each of the...

20050275655 - Visualizing multivariate data: The invention provides methods and apparatus for visualizing multivariate data being provided with attributes. It further provides systems for displaying multivariate data. A method and a system allow identification of items of interests and to increase the amount of information to be displayed in respect to the attribute mapped to...

20050275656 - Method and arrangement for font building: A method and system for font building by providing for the downloading of a subset of glyphs at a client device from a server. The subset can include one or more particular requested glyphs. The subset is accompanied by one or more further glyphs determined by selection criteria, which can...

20050275657 - Method and system for a general instruction raster stage that generates programmable pixel packets: A method and system for a general instruction capable raster stage that generates flexible pixel packets is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rasterizing of a geometric primitive comprising a plurality of vertices wherein each vertex comprises a respective color value, is performed by a rasterization module of a graphics pipeline....

20050275658 - Information processing apparatus with a cache memory and information processing method: A secondary texture cache is used commonly by a plurality of texture units, and stores part of texture data in a main memory. A cache controlling CPU controls a refill operation from the main memory to the secondary texture cache in accordance with cache misses of the plurality of texture...

20050275659 - System, method, and article of manufacture for shading computer graphics: A computer system, method, and article of manufacture for shading graphical objects and/or displays is disclosed. A graphical geometric data structure has a plurality of vertex positions defining one or more polygons, typically triangles. In a preferred embodiment, the polygons define a wireframe representation of a geometric object. Each of...

20050275660 - System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera. The computer graphics system comprises a sample point generator and a function evaluator. The sample point...

20050275662 - Developing electronic documents employing multiple display regions: A method of designing a plurality of elements to be implemented on at least one web page of a website is provided. The method includes providing a first display region on a user interface, the first display region being capable of displaying the plurality of elements; providing a second display...

20050275661 - Displaying a trusted user interface using background images: In one implementation, a method for ensuring the trustworthiness of graphical user interfaces is described wherein a computing system user selects and/or modifies an image to be used as at least a portion of the background of one or more visual elements of a graphical user interface of a trusted...

20050275663 - Rendering apparatus, rendering processing method and computer program product: A setup section acquires vertex data including at least homogeneous coordinate and window coordinate relevant to two vertexes of rendering primitive, that is, segment. An edge coefficient calculation unit calculates an edge coefficient used for determining whether or not a pixel exists inside a projection area (parallelogram) of the segment....

20050275664 - Method for advanced imaging in augmented reality: The invention is a method for displaying otherwise unseen objects and other data using augmented reality (the mixing of real view with computer generated imagery). The method uses image parameters (such as field of view, focus, aperture, and shading) that affect the real world view as captured by a camera....

20050275665 - System and method for efficiently supporting image rotation modes by utilizing a display controller: A system and method are disclosed for efficiently supporting image rotation modes by using a display controller that includes a controller interface, a memory array of memory cells, and controller logic. The controller interface receives image data from an image data source, and responsively generates one or more memory addresses...

20050275666 - System and method for dynamic control of file size: The present invention is a system and method for dynamically altering the size of scanned image files based on the export file size, network demand and/or transmission requirements specified by a system administrator or end user. An embodiment as described here discusses about pushing the color text/edges into the black...

20050275667 - Multi-display system method of controlling the same: A multi-display system having a plurality of display apparatuses, the multi-display system including a host device including a scroll configuration part setting a scroll function to scroll a screen of each display apparatus and a host communication interface part communicating with each of the plurality of display apparatuses, and transmitting...

20050275668 - System for reducing crosstalk: A system for reducing crosstalk for a display....

20050275669 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames: A method of displaying an image with a display device is provided. The method comprises receiving image data comprising a first portion and a second portion for the image, generating a first plurality of sub-frames using the first portion and a simulation kernel, generating a second plurality of updated sub-frames...

20050270251 - Immersive input display apparatus: An apparatus includes a deformable eyecup. A display shares an optical path with the eyecup. A monocular houses the display. A shutter shares the optical path with the eyecup and the display, wherein the shutter opens upon deformation of the eyecup. Optionally, the eyecup includes a rubber, neoprene, plastic, and/or...

20050270252 - Backlight control for a handheld computing device: In a handheld computing device that includes a backlit display having a variable-intensity backlight, and a function key, a method for controlling an intensity of light produced by the backlight involves the steps of (1) setting the intensity to a first level sufficient for viewing information on the display under...

20050270253 - Priming method in a plasma panel: The present invention relates to a priming method in the cells of a plasma display panel and a device implementing said method. In a plasma display panel, each cell is provided with at least two electrodes and one type of phosphor out of at least two types is associated with...

20050270254 - Control circuit of display device, display device and electronic appliance having the same, and driving method of the same: Downsizing and improvement in operating efficiency of a control circuit of a display device is achieved. Two video data storage units that have conventionally been used in a control circuit are combined into one, and an address area thereof is divided in half. One of the areas is used as...

20050270255 - Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel: A plasma display panel sustain-discharge circuit. First and second signal lines for supplying first and second voltages and at least one inductor coupled between one end of the panel capacitor and a third voltage are formed. Energy is stored in the inductor through a path formed between the third voltage...

20050270259 - Display device and method of manufacturing the same: A display device includes a substrate, and a light-emitting element which is provided on one side of the substrate. A pixel circuit is provided on the side of the substrate, and has at least one electrode to drive the light-emitting element. An interconnection is provided on the side of substrate,...

20050270256 - Organic el drive circuit and organic el display device using the same organic el drive circuit: An amplifier circuit for generating a predetermined constant voltage required for resetting organic EL elements or capacitors is provided and an operating current switching circuit switches the operating current of the amplifier circuit to an idling current in a display period and to a steady operation current required to performing...

20050270257 - Organic electroluminescent display and demultiplexer: An organic electroluminescent display and a demultiplexer, wherein the organic electroluminescent display comprises: a plurality of pixels including a plurality of sub-pixels and displaying images corresponding to a first data current; a plurality of scan lines transmitting a scan signal to the plurality of pixels; a plurality of first data...

20050270258 - Organic electroluminescent display and demultiplexer: An organic electroluminescent display and a demultiplexer, wherein the organic electroluminescent display comprising: a plurality of pixels displaying an image corresponding to output data current; a plurality of scan lines to transmit a scan signal to the plurality of pixels; a plurality of output data lines to transmit the output...

20050270260 - Active display: The invention relates to a projection system comprising an active display (1, 1′). The display comprises radiation-sensitive control units (4) which decode the information about brightness and color of a pixel in the signal beam (1) of a projector (2) and drive connected light-emitting diodes (3) accordingly. Due to the...

20050270261 - Methods for driving electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein: A method for addressing a bistable electro-optic display having at least one pixel comprises applying an addressing pulse to drive the pixel to a first optical state; leaving the pixel undriven for a period of time, thereby permitting the pixel to assume a second optical state different from the first...

20050270262 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A driving method of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including a light source controller controlling red, green, and blue lights to be sequentially transmitted through a pixel formed by a liquid crystal disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate. First grayscale data is applied to the pixel....

20050270264 - Offset cancel circuit of voltage follower equipped with operational amplifier: A differential amplifying circuit 11 includes a current mirror circuit having first and second current ends to which drains of MOS transistors M8 and M9 are respectively connected, and a pair of differential MOS transistors M1 and M2 having gates between which a switch SW1 is connected. A reference potential...

20050270263 - Source driver and a source line driving method using a gamma driving scheme for a liquid crystal display (lcd): Provided are a source driver and a source line driving method using a gamma driving scheme for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. The source driver for driving the LCD device encodes serially input red (R), green (G), and blue (B) digital image data during a horizontal scan period, stores...

20050270265 - Lcd plateau power conservation: Described herein are power conservation systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device including a liquid crystal display (LCD). The LCD includes a backlight that offers multiple luminance levels, where each level consumes a different amount of power. The systems and methods alter video information while the...

20050270266 - Liquid crystal display module and scanning circuit board thereof: A liquid crystal display module and its scanning circuit board therein. There are a first scanning circuit and a second scanning circuit located at both ends of each of the scanning lines in the LCD panel. While scanning, both the first scanning circuit and the second scanning circuit drive the...

20050270267 - Electrophoretic display device: The invention relates to a display device for displaying information comprising a plurality of display elements with an electrophoretic medium, a first electrode (6), a second electrode (6′) and a third electrode (7) associated with each display element for receiving a drive signal, and control means for supplying, in correspondence...

20050270268 - Lighting apparatus and projection type display, and driving method therefor: A lighting apparatus used for a projection type display is provided, which can change the incident ray volume to an optical modulation device without changing the optical output intensity of the lamp, and can exhibit excellent effects in expressive power of an image and adaptability to the use environment. The...

20050270269 - Method and user interface for entering characters: The invention relates to a method for entering characters in a user interface of an electronic device. The method according to the invention comprises: detecting the direction of movement indicated by the input device when the start of the character entering function has been detected; showing the character of the...

20050270270 - Hand-held communication device having navigation key-based predictive text entry: A hand-held communication device provides navigation key-based predictive text entry. The hand-held communication device includes a housing generally sized to be held in a human hand having a display disposed for displaying characters selectable for entry in a character position of a text string being entered and a navigation key...

20050270271 - Scroll wheel assembly for scrolling an image in multiple directions: A scroll wheel assembly for computer input device having a housing. The scroll wheel assembly includes a housing and an engagable scroll wheel. The scroll wheel is rotatable with a shaft to preferably cause vertical scrolling of an image on a display. The scroll wheel is laterally tiltable relative to...

20050270278 - Image display apparatus, multi display system, coordinate information output method, and program for implementing the method: An image display apparatus which is capable of operating smoothly over a plurality of image display devices. When a pen has come into continuous contact with a first display screen, a system controller determines whether or not the pen has got out of contact with an edge of the first...

20050270277 - Portable computer having display mode changed according to attachment/detachment of pen and control method thereof: Disclosed is a portable computer comprising a main body, and a display part having a tablet allowing a user to input information with a pen, and displaying a picture based on a video signal transmitted from the main body. The portable computer has a pen-mounting portion to which the pen...

20050270276 - Portable electronic device, method of controlling input operation, and program for controlling input operation: Disclosed herein is a portable electronic device including an operation surface for inputting an operating action of a user, detecting means for detecting the coordinates of a point of contact of a user's finger with said operation surface, a memory for storing information representing a deviation between the coordinates of...

20050270274 - Rapid input device: The invention relates to a rapid input device comprising at least one input means, at least on input-capture unit and a computer. The input means defines at least one point by means of the spacial position thereof and the co-ordinates thereof are converted into electric signals in the at least...

20050270275 - Scrolling device of human interface device and human interface device using the same: A scrolling device of human interface device and human interface device using the same is disclosed. The scrolling device of human interface device includes a plurality of touch sensing pads and performs scroll operation by sensing contact of at least one of the plurality of touch sensing pads. Thus, it...

20050270273 - Sensor for capacitive touch pad pointing device: The topology and the shape of sensing electrodes (4, 31) on the Capacity Touch Pad Sensor that allow sensing of small targets are disclosed. Sensor construction utilizes common PCB manufacture technique....

20050270272 - Touch control display screen apparatus with a built-in electromagnet induction layer of conductor grids: A touch control display screen with a built-in electromagnetic induction layer of wire lattice includes at least a display screen and a housing. An induction layer is provided behind the display screen and is connected to the induction collection control circuit by its output. A control circuit of display screen...

20050270279 - Electroluminescent display and electronic device comprising such a display: The invention relates to an electroluminescent display comprising a first display pixel and a second display pixel formed on a substrate. The display pixels comprise a first electrode deposited on or across the substrate, an electroluminescent layer and a second reflective electrode. The first and second display pixels are separated...

20050270282 - Flat display panel driving method and flat display device: A flat display panel comprises a matrix array of pixels that displays an image, a controller that receives a video signal supplied externally along with a horizontal sync signal defining a horizontal scanning period and a vertical sync signal defining a vertical scanning period, a driver circuit that is controlled...

20050270281 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate; an image display area formed of the plurality of pixels and displaying each image with a different ratio according to a first aspect ratio or a second aspect ratio of image information; plurality of lamps for...

20050270280 - Video message device: A video display device. The video display device includes a display device, a display, and a memory device for storing video data. A controller controls the display and the memory device so as to display a video sequence as a function of the video data stored in the memory device....

20050270283 - Methods for spatial-based power savings: Described herein are systems and methods that reduce power consumption for an electronics device that includes a display. Power conservation systems and methods described herein alter video information in one or more inactive portions of a display area such that the alteration decreases power consumption. The invention finds use with...

20050270284 - Parallax scanning through scene object position manipulation: One aspect of the invention includes and method of generating virtual autostereoscopic images using a computer. The method may include defining at least one object in a virtual three-dimensional space and defining a virtual point of view. Images may be generated by simulating a parallax scanning motion of the at...

20050270285 - Stretch-driven mesh parameterization using spectral analysis: A method of performing stretch-driven mesh parameterization. A method of performing stretch-driven mesh parameterization comprising, computing a spectral analysis to parameterize a mesh, and iterating a stretch optimization calculation to further optimize the initial parameterization....

20050270287 - Image processing: Provided is image processing technology capable of avoiding image degradation even when a luminous body model is expanded on a three-dimensional virtual space. This image processing method generates a two-dimensional image obtained by performing perspective projection to an image model disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space on a perspective view...

20050270286 - Method and apparatus for classifying an object: A method and apparatus for classifying an object in an image is disclosed. A depth image is provided. At least one area of the depth image unsatisfactory for object identification are identified. A plurality of two-dimensional projections of surface normals in the depth image is determined without considering the unsatisfactory...

20050270288 - Method for encoding and serving geospatial or other vector data as images: A system and method are disclosed which include providing a first layer of an image, the first layer including features of the image having locations within the first layer; and providing a second layer of the image, the second layer including data blocks corresponding to respective ones of the features;...

20050270289 - Graphics identification program: An information processing device executing a graphics identification program detects a trace drawn on an input surface as coordinate points in chronological order. Coordinate points for representing the trace are selected from a group of coordinate points arranged in chronological order. Lengths of line segments obtained by connecting the selected...

20050270292 - Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal: Apparatus and methods of selecting special characters in a mobile communication terminal are provided. The method includes storing a set of European alphabet letters in a memory, inputting an alphabet letter to be converted in a European alphabet letter, determining a mode conversion key has been activated, displaying a plurality...

20050270290 - Font display method using a font display co-processor to accelerate font display: A font display method using a font display co-processor to accelerate font display includes receiving font information from a baseband CPU and loading a mapping table, a font bitmap table, and a font code table to the font display co-processor. The font information is corresponded to a font code according...

20050270291 - Method and system for creating, modifying, and storing photographic fonts: A method of creation, distribution and storage of photographic fonts. At least one image is perceived containing text. The image is photographed onto a photographic media and transferred to computer memory in digital format. Using software, at least one individual image of a character is isolated from the text. Software...

20050270293 - Conversational interface agent: A video rewrite technique for rendering a talking head or agent completely simulates a conversation by including a waiting or listening state. Smooth transitions are provided to and from a talking state....

20050270294 - Methods and apparatus for supporting and implementing computer based animation: The present invention provides a method for hierarchically decomposing a visual or audio object within an animation into plurality of objects which can be individually edited to achieve particular animation effects. For example, a graphical object may be decomposed into a plurality of graphical sub-objects, each of which inherits an...

20050270295 - Shape and animation methods and systems using examples: Shape animation is described. In one aspect, examples that pertain to a shape or motion that is to be animated are provided. The examples are placed within a multi-dimensional abstract space. Each dimension of the abstract space is defined by at least one of an adjective and an adverb. A...

20050270296 - Video card: A video card is controlled by a control unit to output video data to a display or through a network. The video card includes a network interface, an interface controller and a bus interface. The network interface is connected to the network to transfer the video data. The interface controller...

20050270298 - Daughter card approach to employing multiple graphics cards within a system: The invention provides, in one aspect, a digital data processor including a motherboard comprising a printed circuit board having disposed thereon (a) a central processing unit and one or more associated memories, and (b) a primary slot adapted to provide signal coupling compatible with the PCI-Express industry standard. The digital...

20050270297 - Time sliced architecture for graphics display system: A system and method for rendering multiple windows across multiple display planes utilizing a sliced rendering data pathway architecture for achieving a highly area efficient design of the graphics display system. Windows across multiple display planes are rendered from direct memory access fetch engines retrieving pixel data from memory. Rendering...

20050270299 - Generating and serving tiles in a digital mapping system: Digital tile-based mapping techniques are disclosed that enable efficient online serving of aesthetically pleasing maps. In one particular embodiment, an image tile-based digital mapping system is configured for generating map tiles during an offline session, and serving selected sets of those tiles to a client when requested. Also provided are...

20050270300 - Method and system for low cost line buffer system design: Various aspects of the low cost line buffer system allow a reduction in circuitry versus conventional approaches to line buffer design. A plurality of line buffers such that the output of one line buffer in the plurality of line buffers may be coupled to an input of a succeeding line...

20050270301 - Color control system and color control method for the same: A color control system for controlling display colors of plural display sections arranged at respective sites for displaying color images, including: plural terminal apparatuses, each having; a display section, and a transmitting section for transmitting measured values of display colors of the display section measured by a calorimeter and identification...

20050270302 - Method and apparatus for modifying graphics content prior to display for color blind use: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for dynamically modifying computer graphics content for colors and/or patterns that are problematic for color-blind viewers prior to display. In particular, graphics content may be modified in various stages of the graphics pipeline, including but not limited to, the render...

20050270303 - Method and system for providing accelerated video processing in a communication device: Providing accelerated video processing in a communication device may comprise receiving video data from a video source on a chip, determining a first format for at least a portion of the received video data, and determining a second format of at least a remaining portion of the received video data....

20050270304 - Display controller, electronic apparatus and method for supplying image data: A display controller includes a memory in which image data as a YUV format and image data as a RGB format are mixedly stored, a format conversion part 30 that performs a conversion processing between the YUV format and the RGB format, an image data input interface that supplies input...

20050270305 - Generating, storing, and displaying graphics using sub-pixel bitmaps: Techniques for generating storing and displaying graphics on computer systems are disclosed. The type of graphics in particular are images, where the image can be defined as a set of areas, whether these areas are lines, geometric shapes, letters or other types of areas. The effect of using these methods...

20050270308 - Display controller, electronic device, and method of supplying image data: A display controller comprising: an image data input interface; a first image processing section for a first processing operation including at least a turning operation to turn an orientation of an image of the image data with a first turning angle or a mirror image reversing operation; a second image...

20050270307 - Dynamic graphic user interface: A Graphical User Interface or “GUI” for use with a computer operating systems that operates dynamically according to the user's preferences. Each element of the GUI is surrounded by a dynamic edge which allows the user to combine two or more elements together to create a visually coherent unit in...

20050270306 - Map data product and map data processing device: A data product that can be read by a computer or a map data processing apparatus, contains map data including map-related information related to a map. And the map-related information includes a compilation of a plurality of information elements of a single type; the map-related information can be updated in...

20050270309 - Program product, image generation method and image generation system: When the occurrence of an effect event in which an effect object is generated is determined, it is determined whether or not a virtual camera exists within an effect range set based on an occurrence position of the effect event. When the existence of the virtual camera within the effect...

20050270310 - Apparatuses and methods for incorporating a border within an image: A hardware implemented method for incorporating a border region within an image region is provided. In this hardware implemented method, a main image fetching circuit is accessed to determine a relative position of a pixel within the image region. Subsequently, an image pixel or a border pixel is fetched dependent...

20050270311 - Digital mapping system: Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system are disclosed. One such method includes sending a location request from a client-side computing device to a map tile server, receiving a set of map tiles in response to the location request, assembling said received map tiles...

20050264471 - Display device and electronic apparatus having the same: A thin display device having a plurality of panels and an electronic apparatus using such a display device are provided at low cost. The display device of the invention has a plurality of display units. A controller IC for controlling a signal supplied to the display units is provided in...

20050264470 - Variable size multi-pane display: This invention relates to method of presenting content by means of a display unit (10) connected or attached to a media device (23-26). The invention further relates to a display unit for presenting content. The media device may be a personal computer, a television, a camera, a video camera, a...

20050264472 - Display methods and systems: A method and system of controlling element activation within arrays subject to row and column address signaling. The display, or other form of output device, is configured with circuitry for controlling element activation. The multiplexed row and column signals are utilized for commanding activation of the element, whereas power is...

20050264473 - Modular lighted display and method therefor: A modular lighted display and method therefore. An electronic driving device provides an electrical signal to power an attachable illumination device. An illumination device has a front viewing surface and input contacts to receive an electrical signal for emitting light from the front viewing surface....

20050264474 - System and method of driving an array of optical elements: A system and/or method for controlling a display array without the use of row and column drivers. The display elements within the system are configured to maintain an active address signal in response to a received signal containing serially encoded display settings. Each display element is loaded with an address...

20050264476 - Plasma display device and driving method of plasma display panel: In a reset period of a subfield of a subfield group, a load ratio is calculated in correspondence with an input video signal, and then a gradually increasing voltage is applied to a scan electrode during a first period. The gradually increasing voltage increases from a first voltage to a...

20050264479 - Plasma display device and driving method of plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel having a plurality of scan, sustain, and address electrodes is presented. Reset, address, and sustain discharge are performed by applying a driving waveform to a scan electrode while the sustain electrode is biased at a ground voltage. Address electrode is set to...

20050264475 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. For a plasma display device having an M electrode between X and Y electrodes, a sustain pulse is applied to the X and Y electrodes during an entire period, and a reset waveform and a scan pulse are applied to the...

20050264478 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes: a front substrate; a rear substrate opposite to the front substrate; a dielectric wall arranged between the front and rear substrates to define discharge cells together with the front and rear substrates; pairs of discharge sustaining electrodes separately arranged along respective discharge cells and...

20050264477 - Plasma display panel driving method: In a plasma display panel, one field is divided into a first group of subfields and a second group of subfields. A first subfield of the first group of subfields selects light-emitting cells using a selective write process, and the remaining subfields of the first group of subfields select non-light-emitting...

20050264485 - Discharge display apparatus capable of adjusting brightness according to external pressure and method thereof: A discharge display apparatus includes a discharge display panel, and a device driving the discharge display panel according to grayscale data of each frame in an input video signal. The average brightness of the frame is adjusted in proportion to an external pressure....

20050264489 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that can prevent thermal destruction and burning with a simple structure, has been disclosed. In the apparatus it is judged that there is possibility of a pattern, whose area with high brightness is small, being displayed frequently, when a state in which the total light emission pulse...

20050264482 - Display device: Disclosed is an user-friendly display device for operating with a power consumption desired by the user. The display device comprises: a characteristic acquisition unit for obtaining a characteristic indicative of a correspondence relationship between an average peak level and the number of display pulses corresponding to a target power consumption;...

20050264484 - Method for expressing gray scale of plasma display panel and plasma display device: A plasma display device including a plasma display panel having a plurality of discharge cells and expressing gray scales in the plurality of discharge cells using a sum of weight values of subfields that are selected to be turned on from among a plurality of subfields. The plasma display device...

20050264480 - Method, circuit and program for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel. In this method, one field corresponding to one image is divided into a plurality of sub-fields, and at least one second sub-field is arranged after a first sub-field. In the first sub-field, the method comprises a first step of forming...

20050264481 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: Disclosed is a plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same. The plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same, in which a plasma display panel displays images by constituting a plurality of sub-fields including a reset period in one frame, are characterized in that: gray levels...

20050264487 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device having a plasma display panel in which, each display cell contains a magnesium oxide layer including magnesium oxide crystals that are excited by an electron beam to emit cathode luminescence light having a peak in a wavelength range of 200 to 300 nm. In an addressing...

20050264486 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof The driving method includes estimating a gray scale of an input image signal and checking on/off patterns of discharge cells in a sub-field representing the gray scale, identifying an insufficient discharge cell having the insufficient discharging pattern among the on/off patterns...

20050264488 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel is provided having a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes formed parallel to each other in pairs on a first substrate, and a plurality of address electrodes formed on a second substrate that cross the plurality of first and second electrode pairs. A reset waveform...

20050264483 - Plasma display panel driving method and apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel driving method and apparatus for reducing subfield position variation between display frames by arranging an idle period among the subfields. The subfields included in the frame may be divided into at least two subfield groups with reference to a predetermined weight...

20050264490 - Plasma display panel driving device and method: In a plasma display panel, sustain discharge pulses having a first voltage and a second voltage, which is a negative voltage of the first voltage, may be applied to a scan electrode when a sustain electrode is biased with the ground voltage during a sustain period. The second voltage is...

20050264491 - Plasma display panel and driving method of the same: A plasma display panel having enhanced discharge cell light emission efficiency while minimizing the increase in power consumption. The plasma display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other, address electrodes formed on the first substrate, and barrier ribs arranged between the first and the second substrates to partition...

20050264494 - Bistable electoluminescent panel with three electrode arrays: A bistable electroluminescent panel, in particular based on photoconductive effect, with only three electrode arrays in total is described....

20050264496 - Display and driving method thereof: In an organic light emitting display, a first pixel and a second pixel share a data line, a select scan line, and a driving element, and a field is divided into first and second subfields. An organic light emitting element of the first pixel is driven by a first emission...

20050264495 - Display device and demultiplexer: A display device and a demultiplexer. A display device includes plural pixels for displaying an image corresponding to first data currents, each pixel including plural sub-pixels. The display device also includes plural scan lines for applying scan signals to the pixels; plural first data lines for applying the first data...

20050264493 - Display device and display panel and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits formed in a matrix; a plurality of first scan lines for transmitting selection signals to select one or more of the pixel circuits; a plurality of second scan lines for transmitting emission control signals to control the duration of one or...

20050264497 - Display, and display panel and driving method thereof: A display device includes a display area having a plurality of data lines, a plurality of first scan lines, a plurality of second and third scan lines, and a plurality of pixel areas. In addition, the display device includes a first driver, a second driver, and a third driver. At...

20050264492 - Electroluminescent display devices: In an active matrix electroluminescent display device, an overall brightness level of an image to be displayed in a frame period is determined. A drive transistor of each pixel is controlled in dependence on an input drive signal for the pixel and on the overall brightness level, for example using...

20050264499 - Organic electro luminescence display device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to an organic electro luminescence display device using a pre-charge, and a driving method thereof. An organic electro luminescence display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel where a plurality of data lines cross a plurality of gate lines, and...

20050264498 - Pixel circuit and display device: A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel...

20050264500 - Display drive apparatus and display apparatus: A display drive apparatus includes a selection circuit which sets display pixels in a plurality of specific rows of the display panel in a selected state with periods at least overlapping each other. A gradation signal generation circuit generates a gradation signal which controls a luminance gradation of each display...

20050264501 - Display device: A device for improving resolution by using visual characteristics, wherein an image can be displayed at a more improved resolution than the actual physical resolution, thereby obtaining the same effect as the case where the resolution is physically improved. An image signal corresponding to one frame is separated into a...

20050264502 - Scanned light display system using large numerical aperture light source, method of using same, and method of making scanning mirror assemblies: A scanned light display system includes a light source operable to emit light and a curved mirror positioned to receive at least a portion of the light. The curved mirror is configured to substantially collimate the received light. The substantially collimated light is scanned to form an image by moving...

20050264506 - Apparatus and method of generating reference data for image signal modification: A method for generating reference data for modifying image signals of a liquid crystal display includes: selecting at least one pair of previous and target image signals, extracting a response image signal for each selected pair of previous and target image signals, generating a response curve by interpolating the extracted...

20050264507 - Driving circuit built-in liquid crystal display panel: A driving circuit built in liquid crystal display panel for increasing an area of a driving circuit by an overlap between the driving circuit and a sealant is disclosed. In the driving circuit built in the liquid crystal display panel, a liquid crystal cell matrix is provided in a display...

20050264504 - Liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof: A method for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. The display includes a liquid crystal formed between a first substrate and a second substrate, a first electrode arranged at the first substrate, a second electrode arranged at the second substrate, and red, green, and blue lights sequentially transmitting on...

20050264503 - Liquid crystal display panel having a cell test structure and method for making the same: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel having a cell test structure and a method for making the same. The liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate having a plurality of first driving IC mounting areas, a plurality of first conductive wires located on the substrate, a...

20050264505 - Shift register and liquid crystal display device using the same: A shift register is provided that outputs a gate driving pulse even if a start pulse provided to a first stage is not synchronized with a clock pulse. The shift register has multiple stages that sequentially output gate driving pulses. At least one stage includes a first switching device turned-on...

20050264508 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device can have enhanced display quality of a display screen by preventing the generation of lateral stripes on the display screen when the polarity of a gray scale voltage is inverted for every N (N≧2) lines without providing a new display control signal. In the liquid...

20050264509 - Display device: The level of a storage capacitor line is changed 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....

20050264510 - Drive circuit, operation state detection circuit, and display device: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a drive circuit for driving a capacitive load. The drive circuit comprises an amplification circuit for amplifying an input signal and outputting the amplified signal to the capacitive load and an operation state detection circuit for detecting an operation state...

20050264511 - Image display apparatus, timing controller for driver ic, and source driver ic: An image display apparatus includes a timing controller to generate a control signal according to image data, a driver IC to take in image data according to the control signal and to supply the image data to source lines, and a display panel to perform screen-displaying according to the image...

20050264512 - Image display apparatus and setting method of image display apparatus: An image display apparatus which outputs an inputted image signal to the image display device after processing the inputted image signal with processing device is arranged so that when a scanning direction of image display device is changed by the image display apparatus, setting processing corresponding to the changed scanning...

20050264514 - Shift register: Disclosed is a shift register capable of mitigating gate bias stress. The shift register, including a plurality of stages, includes an output buffer having a pull-up transistor and two pull-down transistors, each with gates connected to different nodes. One of the two pull-down transistors operates during an even frame portion...

20050264513 - Shift resistor circuit and method of operating the same: A shit resistor circuit and a method of operating the same are disclosed. The shift resistor circuit includes an OR-gate unit for receiving a start pulse or an output of a previous stage and a feedback signal; a level shift unit for level-shifting a swing voltage of a clock signal...

20050264516 - Apparatus and method for driving lamp of liquid crystal display device: A driving apparatus and method are presented to drive lamps that irradiate a liquid crystal display panel of a liquid crystal display device. A picture implementing period, during which a picture is implemented by the liquid crystal display device, and a shorter, scanning period before the picture implementing period are...

20050264515 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display includes inverters, a cover, a liquid crystal display panel, and a backlight. The inverters mechanically couple a cover which supports a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight. Each of the inverters is spaced apart from a substantial heat generating electrode region. The inverters are configured...

20050264518 - Drive circuit achieving fast processing and low power consumption, image display device with the same and portable device with the same: A liquid crystal display unit is divided into a plurality of blocks aligned in a horizontal direction. Each block has twenty-four source lines. A plurality of data buses are arranged corresponding to the plurality of blocks, respectively. Each data bus receives image data from a data terminal. Each data bus...

20050264517 - Method for eliminating flickers of liquid crystal display: The screen of a liquid crystal display is first divided into a compensation portion, a compensation transition portion and a non-compensation portion in a sequence arranged along the scanning line. Then storage capacitor areas of the pixels in the non-compensation portion are made equal, whereas the difference between the storage...

20050264527 - Audio-visual three-dimensional input/output: Methods and apparatus for determining an object's three-dimensional location (i.e. real world coordinates) using the audio-video infrastructure of a 3G cellular phone or a 3C (Computer, Communications, Consumer) electronic device. A first detection device (e.g. a camera) is used to capture images of the objects. The captured image data is...

20050264522 - Data input device: An input device that performs an input operation to an information technology device such as a computer is provided. The input device has a switch arranged at a finger part of a hand and for outputting a signal corresponding to a pressing operation, and a position detecting unit for detecting...

20050264523 - Display device which enables information to be inputted by use of beams of light: Disclosed is a display device where, in order to distinguish between regions which react to environment light and regions which react to a source of light in a display screen, and in order to identify exact positional coordinates of the source of light, a signal processing IC divides image data,...

20050264524 - Haptic feedback input device: A haptic feedback input device includes an operating member having an annular circumferential surface, capable of rotating in a circumferential direction and moving radially, a motor that applies a torque to the operating member, a detecting unit that detects radial movement of the operating member, and housings that have an...

20050264526 - Information input device: It is an object of the invention to perform an accurate position input having a directivity while at the same time ensuring a high resolution, or to perform a mode switchover operation for effecting a switchover among different functions in input information and for inputting information into a plurality of...

20050264520 - Input device with multi-directional roller assembly: A multi-directional roller assembly for an input device includes a housing and a carrier supported within the housing. The carrier has a roller that can be rotated so as to scroll an image vertically on a display. The carrier can also be tilted left and right so as to execute...

20050264519 - Method and apparatus for dynamically modifying web page display for mobile devices: A method of dynamically modifying web page displays used in various mobile devices. The method uses a motion detection mechanism to detect whether the mobile device is moving or in motion and then modifies web page displays sent to the device based upon the sensor readings. As such, the method,...

20050264525 - Mouse pointing system/icon identification system: A small hand-held pocket-pen sized image projector device having enhancement features which include a pointing capability whereby a user can direct a laser pointing beam to a projected image and an icon identification capability for selectively orienting or otherwise controlling an image projected by the device. Also, a button type...

20050264521 - Multimode key system: A multimode key system provides a multiple of keys for multimode control, wherein only desired function keys are shown on the control panel at a time, and whereby the operation thereof can be much simplified. The key system can be a touch panel or a pressure sensing panel, which characterized...

20050264528 - Low profile pointing device with tactile feedback: A low profile pointing device is described that includes a strain sensitive resistor assembly, a tactile feedback unit operably connected to the strain sensitive resistor assembly, and an actuator operably connected to the strain sensitive resistor assembly to produce an electrical signal in response to movement of the actuator and...

20050264529 - Display method and system with select lighting to denote button action: Button action in a display system is dynamically denoted by either illuminating or not illuminating an illuminable element adjacent to the button to provide a lighting effect around the periphery of the button. The illumination of an illuminable element adjacent to an active button has the effect of drawing attention...

20050264530 - Key sheet for pointing device and pointing device: Provided is a pointing device that can be reduced in thickness even if a magnetic field sensor is mounted to a front face of a printed circuit board. When a support portion laterally moves, a reverse face of a flexible portion is displaced while being guided away from the printed...

20050264533 - Input device including a wheel assembly for scrolling an image in multiple directions: A computer input device having a housing and a finger-engagable scrolling device. A portion of the scrolling device is endlessly rotatable about a first axis to preferably cause vertical scrolling of an image on a display. The scrolling device is pivotally movable relative to the housing about a second axis...

20050264532 - Optical device for optical mouse: The present invention relates to an improved optical device for optical mouse, being installed inside the case body of the optical mouse, comprising: a LED, a lens mount, a sensor and a digital signal processor. That is, instead of using the LED, the LED assembly clip, the positioning holes and...

20050264531 - Optical pointing device with variable focus: A method and apparatus for focusing an image of a work surface on an optical sensor array in an optical pointing device. Light from a region of the work surface is captured by an imaging system incorporating an optical coupling system and the optical sensor array. The focus of the...

20050264534 - Position tracking sensor of optical mouse and method of controlling the same: Disclosure is a position tracking sensor of an optical mouse and method of controlling the same. The position tracking sensor comprises an image sensor for receiving light inputted from exterior of the optical mouse to detect an image and outputting image information on the detected image, and a controller for...

20050264540 - Data processing device, data processing method, and electronic device: Provided is an electronic device including: a device main body that processes data; a display device arranged in the device main body to display the data; a first operation device arranged in the device main body on a display surface side of the display device within a movable range of...

20050264539 - Electronic apparatus: A portable computer as an example of an electronic apparatus has a main unit, and display unit including a liquid crystal display panel. A mounting base is formed on the upper surface of the main unit. The mounting base is formed over the front and rear halves of the upper...

20050264537 - Electronic device: An electronic device. The electronic device includes a housing and a touchpad module disposed in the housing. The touchpad module includes a body, a light permeable element, and a light source. The body has a surface. The light permeable element is disposed adjacent to the surface. The light source is...

20050264536 - Indication system for use with portable electronic devices: A portable electronic device, comprising: a housing having an open position and a closed position, a touch-sensitive input area, a data input device for interacting with the touch-sensitive input area and a data input device storage region for the data input device. The device also includes a system for alerting...

20050264541 - Information input/output apparatus, information input/output control method, and computer product: Comprises a panel, and a coordinate control section that detects a point touched on the panel and generates a signal according to the detected point. The coordinate control section generates a coordinate signal that shows coordinates of a touched point, when one point touch on the panel has been detected....

20050264538 - Remote controller: A remote controller comprises a touchpad having a handwriting region to be operated to generate an input signal, a driver coupled with the touchpad, and a microcontroller coupled with the driver to respond to the input signal to generate a control signal for a controlled apparatus, so as to give...

20050264535 - Touch sensing: A touch sensitive matrix display senses touch input in sense periods (SP) which are selected to occur non-concurrently with data (DA) written to the pixels (10) of the matrix display during the addressing period (AP). As now, no data (DA) is written to the display while the sensing is performed...

20050264542 - Stylus with function key: The present invention has a hollow stem, a printed circuit board, a cursor control unit, a control knob unit and a function key. The printed circuit board is located within the hollow stem, and the cursor control unit is located within the hollow stem and near a tip of the...

20050264547 - Display device: A system for improving the resolution by using human's visual characteristics wherein an image is displayed at a more improved resolution than an actual physical resolution, thereby obtaining the same effect as if the resolution is physically improved. An image signal corresponding to one frame is separated into a first...

20050264544 - Display device and driving method thereof: A driving method for a display device. The display device includes an over drive (OD) system, a timing controller, an interface, a memory and a display panel. In the method, first image data is received from a host system. The first image data is then converted into an overdriven image...

20050264549 - Display device and driving method thereof: The display device of the invention includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and switching elements each being connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of pixels; row driving circuits to for each selecting a row in the plurality...

20050264550 - Display with multiple emission layers: A display has light emitting elements, a first driver, a power source, and a second driver. Each light emitting element includes “n” emission layers formed one over another to form a color dot in each pixel. The first driver drives the emission layers to emit light or no light. The...

20050264548 - Liquid crystal display driver device and liquid crystal display system: There is provided a display driver device (liquid crystal driver) causing no degradation in display image quality even when a plurality of signal lines (source lines) of a display panel are divided into a plurality of groups as a countermeasure against EMI. With a liquid crystal display driver device (the...

20050264545 - Method and system for determining the location of a movable icon on a display surface: A method of determining the location of a movable icon on a display surface in a digital light projection system is disclosed. The method includes projecting modulated light to the display surface to generate a viewable image and projecting an identifiable optical signal to the display surface with the viewable...

20050264551 - Multi-driving circuit and active-matrix display device using the same: An active-matrix display device (2) includes a substrate (250), a plurality of scanning lines (120) and data lines (140) formed on the substrate, a gate driving IC device (200) with a plurality of outputs for supplying scanning signals to the scanning lines, a source driving IC (400) for supplying data...

20050264546 - Source driver, source driver array, and driver with the source driver array and display with the driver: A source driver, a source driver array, and a driver circuit with the source driver array and a display with the driver are provided in the invention. These devices are improved by receiving a position code signal through a start pulse generating circuit, which also accordingly generate a start pulse....

20050264543 - Video backpack and garment system and method of using the same: An image display system is provided, comprising a wearable gear, such as a backpack or garment, with an integrated electronic display screen, at least one video image source capable of providing an image on the display screen, and a control unit. The control unit controls the video image source to...

20050264552 - Information processing apparatus, display control method, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus is connectable to a bus that is connected to a further apparatus. A detecting circuit detects whether the bus is connected to the information processing apparatus. When the detecting circuit detects that the bus is connected to the information processing apparatus, a control circuit controls a...

20050264553 - Image processing device and method: An image processing device includes a frame buffer, a first display engine, a clock signal generator, a spread spectrum clock generator, a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer and a reset signal generator. The FIFO buffer receives and stores the pixel digital data from the first display engine according to a data writing...

20050264554 - Tile based rendering of smooth points using polygons: An apparatus and method for rendering a smooth circular point using polygons on a computer graphics display. The circular point is approximated by a polygon and the selection of the polygon depends on the diameter of the point. The polygon is enclosed in a bounding area that is divided into...

20050264555 - Interactive system and method: An interactive system for providing a mixed reality experience to a user, the system including an object having at least two surfaces, where each surface having a marker. The system also including an image capturing device to capture images of the object in a first scene and a microprocessor configured...

20050264560 - Method for formating images for angle-specific viewing in a scanning aperture display device: A method for formatting images for angle specific viewing in a scanning aperture dimensional display device. Input images are rearranged into slices or sections to create a set of output images. The images derived from the output images are formed by rearranging the image slices or sections and disposing the...

20050264558 - Multi-plane horizontal perspective hands-on simulator: The present invention discloses a multi-plane hands-on simulator system comprising at least two display surfaces, one of which displaying a three dimensional horizontal perspective images. Further, the display surfaces can have a curvilinear blending display section to merge the various images. The multi-plane hands-on simulator can comprise various camera eyepoints,...

20050264559 - Multi-plane horizontal perspective hands-on simulator: The present invention discloses a multi-plane hands-on simulator system comprising at least two display surfaces, one of which displaying a three dimensional horizontal perspective images. Further, the display surfaces can have a curvilinear blending display section to merge the various images. The multi-plane hands-on simulator can comprise various camera eyepoints,...

20050264556 - System and method for processing a point cloud in a simulated three-dimensional space: A system for processing a point cloud in a simulated three-dimensional space includes an application server (1), client computers (3), and a database (5). The application server includes: a data acquiring module (10) for acquiring from the database point cloud data on an object measured by a measurement apparatus; a...

20050264557 - Three-dimensional object recognizing system: A three-dimensional object recognizing system comprises a distance image generating portion for generating a distance image by using image pairs picked up by a stereoscopic camera, a grouping processing portion for grouping the distance data indicating the same three-dimensional object on the distance image, an input value setting portion for...

20050264563 - Method of analysis of comfort for virtual prototyping system: A method for analyzing the comfort of an actual product on an actual body by use of a virtual product model and virtual body model to calculate a comfort indicator. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a virtual body model; (b) providing a virtual product model; (c) providing...

20050264562 - System and method of virtual representation of thin flexible materials: A virtual model for simulating physical deformation of at least a portion of a product to be worn on a body is disclosed. The portion comprises a thin, flexible material, wherein the thin flexible material is modeled as having at least one zone comprising its contact and compression properties and...

20050264561 - Virtual prototyping system and method: A virtual model capable of simulating physical deformation of at least a portion of a body. The model comprises at least two computer-generated volumes that together define an external surface and an interfacial surface, one of the computer-generated volumes being a deformable volume and one of the computer-generated volumes being...

20050264565 - Computer graphic system and computer-implemented method for generating an image using sample points determined on a sub-pixel grid offset using elements of a low-discrepancy sequence: is the representation of “x” in a selected integer base “b”. The function evaluator is configured to evaluate a selected function using the strata coordinates generated by the sample point generator, the value generated by the function evaluator corresponding to the pixel value....

20050264564 - Computer graphic system and computer-implemented method for generating images using a sub-domain photon map methodology:

20050264567 - Rule-based procedural terrain generation: Disclosed are systems and methods for rule-based procedural generation of terrain in real time for a virtual world. By describing the terrain with rules rather than storing the actual geometry data, a drastic savings in terms of memory and disk space is achieved by generating terrain procedurally on the fly...

20050264566 - Terrain editor tool for rule-based procedural terrain generation: Disclosed are systems and methods for rule-based procedural generation of terrain in real time for a virtual world. By describing the terrain with rules rather than storing the actual geometry data, a drastic savings in terms of memory and disk space is achieved by generating terrain procedurally on the fly...

20050264568 - Computer graphic system and computer-implemented method for generating images using a ray tracing methodology that makes use of a ray tree generated using low-discrepancy sequences and ray tracer for use therewith: s

20050264570 - Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points: The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points. Based on the positions of control points on an outline it is calculated, that between a first parent control point and a second parent control point, the...

20050264569 - Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points: The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has excessive control points. A computer system identifies a point of junction between a first and second feature of the outline. The computer system accesses an excess control point included in the first...

20050264571 - Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline lacks control points: The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline lacks necessary control points. A computer system calculates the target width for a feature of the graphical object. The computer system calculates the position of a center line corresponding to the feature. The...

20050264572 - Virtual prototyping system and method: A computer method for simulating motion of at least a portion of a virtual body is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: providing a surfaced body model; capturing or computing motion data for an external surface of the surfaced body; dividing the body model into at least two volumes,...

20050264573 - Graphics texture processing methods, apparatus and computer program products using texture compression, block overlapping and/or texture filtering: A pixel is textured by storing a first texel reference value, a second texel reference value, and texel mapping values where each texel mapping value represents a k-tuple of (ternary) references to the first texel reference value, the second texel reference value and a third texel reference value to thereby...

20050264574 - Data processor having unified memory architecture using register to optimize memory access: In order to reduce degradation of the processing performance of the data processor due to use of a part of the main memory as a display frame buffer, when an access request to the memory 200 is generated from the CPU 310, the memory controller 400 holds it once, requests...

20050264575 - Method of implementing an accelerated graphics port for a multiple memory controller computer system: An architecture for storing, addressing and retrieving graphics data from one of multiple memory controllers. In a first embodiment of the invention, one of the memory controllers having an accelerated graphics port (AGP) includes a set of registers defining a range of addresses handled by the memory controller that are...

20050264576 - Resource management for rule-based procedural terrain generation: Disclosed are systems and methods for rule-based procedural generation of terrain in real time for a virtual world. By describing the terrain with rules rather than storing the actual geometry data, a drastic savings in terms of memory and disk space is achieved by generating terrain procedurally on the fly...

20050264577 - Map re-projection using graphical techniques: A system and method of re-projecting a map image using graphical techniques is provided. A digital map image, in a first projection, may be divided into a number of rectangular sub-images, the geographic coordinates for the four corners of the rectangular sub-image may be computed, the planar coordinates in a...

20050264578 - Sliding texture volume rendering: Subsets of volume data are sequentially stored for volume rendering from two dimensional textures. For example, pairs of adjacent two-dimensional images are loaded into RAM or cache. One or more strips of texture data are interpolated for polygons extending between the two-dimensional images. The strips or polygons are more orthogonal...

20050264579 - Texture engine state variable synchronizer: A mechanism for synchronizing state variables used by texture pipelines in a multi-pipeline graphics texture engine. The mechanism ensures that, as polygons are processed by a texture engine, the state variables associated with each polygon are distributed in parallel to each texture pipeline, regardless of whether the texture engine is...

20050264580 - Hue angle calculation system and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed to calculate the hue angle of image data. One system includes at least one input channel, an octant determining unit, an angle determining unit, and an angle offset unit. Each input channel receives chroma components of image data. The octant determining unit determines which octant...

20050264581 - Dynamic program modification: A system, method and media for a service oriented architecture. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures and the claims....

20050264582 - Method and system for application page description in print device color space: A technique for combining graphical objects in a computer system works by removing the destination dependent ROP commands to permit rendering directly to the device color space and pixel depth. The solution is to recognize that the GDI command sequences that applications use to generate various special print effects, such...

20050264583 - Method for producing graphics for overlay on a video source: Discloses a method for producing graphical overlay elements on a source video program stream using Microsoft PowerPoint slides as a source of the graphical overlay elements to be overlaid on the source video program stream, including representations of real-time information such as stock quotes or weather data. A computer software...

20050264584 - [method for fast input of chinese character]: A method for rapidly inputting a Chinese character in a mobile phone is provided. The method comprises: entering into a Chinese text editing status and receiving an input code; displaying a plurality of choices of the Chinese characters corresponding to the input code, the plurality of the choices of the...

20050264585 - Visual display transformation: A visual display system includes a buffer that receives and stores first coordinates of locations of anomalies on a surface. Some of the locations occur in out-of-round patterns including deviations from round. A processor receives the first coordinates and that transforms the first coordinates to second coordinates. Deviations from round...

20050264587 - Color filter, color image display device, and electronic apparatus: A color image display device includesa display panel including pixel regions and a color filter, the color filter including, in each pixel region, a red filter region and a cyan filter region arranged adjacent to and parallel to each other in a direction, a green filter region and a magenta...

20050264586 - Display device: A display device is provided. The display device includes a signal controller for converting image data from an external device into multi-level signals, a data driver for receiving and converting the multi-level signals into analog data voltages corresponding thereto and for outputting the analog data voltages; and a panel assembly...

20050264588 - Color flat panel display sub-pixel arrangements and layouts: An array comprising a plurality of three-color pixel elements is disclosed. The three-color pixel element has square design disposed at the origin of an X, Y coordinate system. Disposed at the center of the square is a blue emitter. Red emitters are disposed in the second and fourth quadrants not...

20050264589 - System, method, and program for displaying multiple windows having different resolutions: To allow a resolution to be changed by a single drawing command for each window instead of using different drawing commands in an application program depending on resolutions, in order to display a plurality of windows having different resolutions on a single display screen by use of a drawing facility...