Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 03/06

20060066503 - Controller and driver features for bi-stable display: The invention comprises systems and methods for partitioning displays, and in particular, displays of interferometric modulator displays. In one embodiment, a display system includes one driving circuit configured to provide signals based on video data intended for display, and a bi-stable display comprising an array having a plurality of bi-stable...

20060066502 - Miniature colored digital placard structure: A miniature colored digital placard structure has on a small wearable housing a colored displaying screen and a communication connecting port for connecting exteriorly for downloading digital image data; the housing has therein a driving control-unit, a memory storing unit, a set of batteries and an automatic playing unit. The...

20060066504 - System with server based control of client device display features: Systems and methods of controlling client display modes are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes an array of interferometric modulators, and an array driver for the array of interferometric modulators. The array driver is configured to receive video data which at least a portion of is in an...

20060066505 - Image display apparatus and image display method: The invention realizes an image display by wireless communication. There is provided an image display apparatus constituted by an image display unit including an arrangement of plural wireless image forming elements, and a wireless transmission unit. The wireless transmission unit is provided with a wireless transmission circuit, while the wireless...

20060066506 - Screen display device: Herein disclosed is a display controlling apparatus, comprising: data output units (140) to be electrically connectable to respective display apparatuses; an information inputting unit (110) to be operable to have inputted therein information to be required for said display apparatuses to display on screens; a controlling unit (120) for producing...

20060066507 - Display apparatus, and method for controlling the same: A dual-view display apparatus is provided which, when one operator manipulates an operation screen for the operator's corresponding content, can prevent a displayed image of another operator's content from being obscured by the one operator, and which has a simple construction to allow reduction in cost, size, and weight. The...

20060066508 - Image display system utilizing light emitting material: A display system includes at least one light emitting material having an absorption band carried on a support, wherein the support is a laminated article having a first ply and a second ply; and a projection assembly having an electromagnetic radiation source, the projection assembly configured to direct radiation of...

20060066509 - Method and apparatus for evoking perceptions of affordances in virtual environments: Methods and apparatus are provided for evoking perceptions of affordances in a user/virtual environment interface. The method involves recognizing the absence or inadequacy of certain sensory stimuli in the user/virtual environment interface, and then creating sensory stimuli in the virtual environment to substitute for the recognized absent or inadequate sensory...

20060066510 - Image display system, image display method and image display program: A server includes: a first image DB that stores a first image; a second image DB that stores a second image having a file format different from the first image; and an image distributor for distributing, in response to an image display request from a user terminal (20), the first...

20060066511 - Systems and methods using interferometric optical modulators and diffusers: Various embodiments include interferometric optical modulators comprising a substrate layer having a thickness between about 0.1 mm to about 0.45 mm thick and a method for manufacturing the same. The interferometric modulator can be integrated together with a diffuser in a display device. The thin substrate permits use of a...

20060066512 - Dual-gate transistor display: A dual-gate thin-film transistor (DG-TFT) voltage storage circuit is provided. The circuit includes a voltage storage element, a DG-TFT having a first source/drain (S/D) connected to a data line, a top gate connected to a first gate line, a second S/D region connected to the voltage storage element, and a...

20060066513 - Flat display unit and method for converting color signal in the unit: There is disclosed a flat display unit which can obtain color signals adapted to a pixel arrangement. The unit has a gate drive circuit and a source drive circuit. Among R, G, B input video signals, a G signal is regarded as a color signal of a reference, R and...

20060066515 - Data control method and apparatus thereof: A plasma display apparatus has scan electrodes, data electrodes intersecting the scan electrodes, and discharge cells disposed at the intersections of the scan electrodes and the data electrodes. A scan driving unit scans the scan electrodes. A data driving unit supplies a data signal to the data electrodes, and a...

20060066514 - Data integrated circuit and apparatus for driving plasma display panel using the same: An integrated circuit (IC) device for controlling a plurality of electrodes in a plasma display device, and a plasma display device including one or more IC devices, are provided. The IC device includes a plurality of output parts coupled to the plurality of electrodes, first and second terminals coupled to...

20060066516 - Driving method of plasma display panel: A method of driving a PDP including, in a sustain discharge period, alternately applying a first sustain pulse and a second sustain pulse to a first electrode and a second electrode, respectively, and applying a pulse to a third electrode. The first sustain pulse and the second sustain pulse rise...

20060066517 - Method and apparatus for generating subfield codes: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating subfield codes for pictures displayed on a display device like plasma display panels (PDPs) or display devices wherein the grey level of the pixels of the pictures displayed by the display device is obtained by modulating the number...

20060066518 - Plasma display and drive method for use on a plasma display: A plasma display improved in variation of display brightness between unit cells. A control circuit sets, for every pulse, a charge-recovering time period for recovering a charge on a capacitance component of the plasma display panel and a clamp timing period for applying a predetermined sustain voltage to the sustain...

20060066519 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel. Pulse voltage values and/or pulse widths of a variety of drive pulses that are applied to the plasma display panel are adjusted in accordance with the accumulated usage time of the plasma display panel....

20060066521 - Method for driving plasma display panel and plasma display device: A method for driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display device for improving the amount of emitted light are disclosed. In a three-electrode type PDP, a third (Z) electrode is provided between a first (X) electrode and a second (Y) electrode between which a discharge is caused to...

20060066522 - Method for driving plasma display panel and plasma display device: A novel method for driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display device for reducing background emission due to a reset discharge are disclosed. In a three-electrode type PDP, a third (Z) electrode is provided between a first (X) electrode and a second (Y) electrode between which a discharge...

20060066520 - Plasma display panel and plasma display device: A plasma display panel, the light emission efficiency of which has been improved without increasing the discharge start voltage, is disclosed. In a three-electrode type PDP, a fourth (Z) electrode is provided at the portion between a first (X) electrode and a second (Y) electrode between which a main discharge...

20060066523 - Display device and display method: A display device 1 includes: a display panel 10 in which display pixels Px driven by a drive signal having plural stages of amplitudes and pulse widths are disposed; an output data conversion circuit for an X driver 46 converting an image signal inputted from an inverse γ correction circuit...

20060066524 - Display device and display method: Gradations on a display unit having spacers and pixels disposed between a first and a second substrates are corrected with corresponding to dispositions of the spacers on the display unit. The gradations are corrected with corresponding to the dispositions of the spacers on the display unit and values of the...

20060066536 - Active matrix display device: An active matrix display device comprises a plurality of pixels which are arranged in the form of a matrix on a substrate and each of which includes a display element and a pixel circuit which supplies the display element with a drive current, video signal lines arranged along the pixels,...

20060066527 - Active matrix light emitting device display pixel circuit and drive method: Display pixel circuits and a drive scheme utilizing a switching element operating in reverse direction in a data scan period to provide voltage reference are provided. Preferred embodiments and operation method leading to three-transistor solutions in current-control mode, common-cathode, and n-channel transistor drive configuration for light emitting device display are...

20060066525 - Colour control for active matrix electroluminescent display: A colour active matrix EL display device has a row and column array of colour pixels (1) which each comprise an electroluminescent display element (2) connected in series with a drive transistor (22) to a power line (26). The different colour pixels in a row are connected to respective and...

20060066533 - Display device and the driving method of the same: A plurality of organic EL elements which are arranged on a display panel lowers the brightness along with a lapse of light emitting time and hence, the power consumption is increased to maintain the brightness. However, the increase of the power consumption shortens a lifetime of the organic EL elements....

20060066534 - Display panel: A display panel includes a plurality of sets of transistors which are formed on an upper side of a substrate. An insulating film is formed to cover upper surfaces of the transistors and has a plurality of trenches formed an upper surface thereof. A plurality of first interconnections are buried...

20060066535 - Display panel: A display panel includes a transistor array substrate which has a plurality of pixels and is formed by providing a plurality of transistors for each pixel, each of the transistor having a gate, a gate insulating film, a source, and a drain. A plurality of interconnections are formed to project...

20060066526 - Driving apparatus for organic electro-luminescence display device: A driving apparatus for an organic electro-luminescence display device for reducing a deterioration of organic light-emitting diode device in the organic electro-luminescence display device is disclosed. In the driving apparatus, a data supplier supplies a data signal to an anode of an organic light-emitting diode device. A first voltage source...

20060066530 - Light emitting device: A pixel having a structure in which low voltage drive is possible is provided by a simple process. A digital image signal input from a source signal line is input to the pixel through a switching TFT. At this point, a voltage compensation circuit amplifies the voltage amplitude of the...

20060066531 - Light emitting display: A light emitting display includes: a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver adapted to supply a scan signal to scan lines connected to the pixels; a DC/DC converter adapted to supply a first voltage and a second voltage to the plurality of pixels; and a synchronizer...

20060066532 - Organic light emitting diode display: An organic light emitting diode display includes a pixel having: a first capacitor connected between a first node and a second node; a second capacitor connected between the first node and a third node; a first switching device connected between a data line and the first node, and for selectively...

20060066529 - Pixel circuit, light-emitting device, and image forming apparatus: A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element which emits light having the intensity corresponding to an amount of a driving current; a driving transistor which supplies the driving current to the light-emitting element; a storing circuit which writes a data signal instructing the light-emitting brightness of the light-emitting element during...

20060066528 - Pixel circuit, method of driving pixel, and electronic apparatus: A pixel circuit that makes an electro-optical element emit light includes a transistor inserted into a driving current path of the electro-optical element; a current value setting circuit that sets a current value of the driving current path; a level holding unit that stores the level of a supplied image...

20060066537 - Touch panel, display device provided with touch panel and electronic equipment provided with display device: A touch panel using an optical sensor has a simple construction and can accurately detect an input position. An illuminating lights emitted from illuminating means are turned into lights having a high directivity in an X-axis direction and in a Y-axis direction of the prism lens sheet and thereafter enter...

20060066538 - Data line driving circuit, electro-optical device, data line driving method, and electronic apparatus: A data line driving circuit connected to data lines includes a bit shift unit that outputs input digital data composed of a plurality of bits for defining the brightness of pixels or bit-shifts the plurality of bits to lower levels to output them, based on a control signal, and a...

20060066539 - Display device employing capacitive self-emitting element, and method for driving the same: A plurality of scan electrodes and data electrodes, and a self-emission layer disposed between the two electrodes are provided, wherein a scan voltage is supplied sequentially to the scan electrodes, and data voltage that corresponds to the display signal data is supplied to the data electrodes. The emission layer of...

20060066541 - Method and device for manipulating color in a display: Embodiments include methods and devices for controlling the spectral profile and color gamut of light produced by an interferometric display. Such devices include illuminating a display with selected wavelengths of light. Embodiments also include a display comprising separate sections that output different predetermined colors of light. Other embodiments include methods...

20060066540 - Spatial light modulation display system: An improved display system includes LED light sources for providing red, green, and blue light. A controller for the display system includes a sequencer that controls the timing and sequence of image data to a spatial light modulator (e.g., a DMD) and activation of the light sources. The sequencer can...

20060066542 - Interferometric modulators having charge persistence: An iterferometric modulator is formed having a dielectric with charge persistence. The interferometric modulator is addressed by a method making advantageous use of the charge persistence property, wherein the interferometric modulator is pre-charged in such a way that the pre-charging is not observable to a viewer, and the actuation voltage...

20060066543 - Ornamental display device: An ornamental display device having an interferometric modulator for displaying an ornamental image. The ornamental device may have a patterned diffuser formed on a transparent substrate to provide an ornamental image. The ornamental device may also be a piece of jewelry or an article that may be worn. The image...

20060066544 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: In driving a liquid crystal display device having an alignment regulating structure for regulating liquid crystal, when the display state of the pixel is to be changed from a dark display to a bright display, a difference between the magnitude of a voltage Vd4 applied to the liquid crystal of...

20060066545 - Memory-type liquid crystal display device: An object of the present invention is to provide a memory-type liquid crystal display device capable of controlling a color to be displayed in a peripheral area without using display data based on which display is achieved in the peripheral area. The memory-type liquid crystal display device having a display...

20060066547 - Display control apparatus and method: A display control apparatus that controls first and second modulation sections optically connected in series includes a storage unit and a control unit. The storage unit stores information to specify a defective pixel of the first modulation section. The control unit controls the second modulation section in response to a...

20060066546 - Gamma correction, image processing method and program, gamma correction circuit, image processing apparatus, and display apparatus: A gamma correction method including an inverse gamma correction process for inputting a value of a tone input signal Tin of X bits having non-linear tone-luminance characteristic and for outputting a tone signal Tout of Y bits (X<Y) having the tone-luminance characteristic converted to the linear characteristic, and a format...

20060066549 - Flat display apparatus and driving method for flat display apparatus: A flat display apparatus and a driving method therefor are disclosed wherein an image having a pseudo gradation is displayed and peripheral circuits for a driving method based on frame rate control can be formed integrally on an insulating substrate to assure reliable operation. In the flat display apparatus, image...

20060066548 - Sample-and-hold circuit and driver circuit: A sample-and-hold circuit according to the present invention includes an amplifier circuit amplifying a signal from an input terminal to output the amplified signal to an output terminal, a first switch connected to the input terminal, and a second switch arranged in parallel to the first switch and connected to...

20060066550 - Electronic discharging control circuit and method thereof for lcd: A control circuit and a method discharging capacitor/transistor, for a liquid crystal display (LCD), are provided. The control circuit includes a signal-off detector and an all-gate-on delay cell. When an LCD power-off signal is detected, a first control signal is transmitted to a power supply module for turning off power...

20060066551 - Inverter driving circuitry: The present invention pertains to an inverter driving circuitry, which receives an input power signal from a power unit and outputs another power signal to drive a load to operate. The inverter driving circuitry is designed to be that a sinusoidal-wave signal generator receives a power signal, and outputs a...

20060066552 - Voltage supply circuit, power supply circuit, display driver, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus: A voltage supply circuit which switches a first voltage supplied to an electrode to a second voltage and supplies the second voltage to the electrode including: a first voltage boost circuit including a switching element for generating a boosted voltage boosted by charge-pump operation; and a charge supply circuit for...

20060066553 - Active matrix display device with dc voltage compensation based on measurements on a plurality of measurement pixels outside the display area: An active matrix display device, particularly a liquid crystal display device, having an array of display pixels (25) driven with inverting polarity drive voltages includes correction means (40, 55) for providing a measurement indicative of a DC voltage level at the pixels (25), for example caused by kickback effects, and...

20060066554 - Apparatus and method for processing moving picture, and computer program product: A method of processing a moving picture includes determining, based on a pixel value at a predetermined position in a first frame included in a moving picture, a pixel value at a corresponding position to the predetermined position in a second frame which is subsequent to the first frame in...

20060066555 - Active display device and driving method thereof: When adopting a time division gray scale, a pseudo contour occurs. The invention provides a new driver circuit and driving method of an active display device, which can reduce the occurrence of a pseudo contour by using an interlace method. The invention provides an active display device adopting an interlace...

20060066556 - Clock with intelligent backlight device: This invention relates to a clock with intelligent backlight device comprising a casing, a power supply, timing components, a printed circuit board, time setting buttons and so forth. The power supply is in the form of dry batteries placed inside the battery box of the casing. Inside the casing there...

20060066557 - Method and device for reflective display with time sequential color illumination: In various embodiments of the invention, a display device comprises an illumination apparatus configured to emit light of a different color at different times and at least one interferometric light modulating device illuminated by the illumination apparatus. In certain preferred embodiments, interferometric light modulating devices are illuminated for short durations...

20060066558 - Electrophoretic display device and driving method therefor: An electrophoretic display has at least one pixel (18) which comprises electrophoretic material (8, 9), a first electrode (6) and a second electrode (5). An addressing circuit (16, 10) addresses the at least one pixel (18) by applying between the first electrode (6) and the second electrode (5): (i) a...

20060066559 - Method and system for writing data to mems display elements: Charge balanced display data writing methods use write and hold cycles of opposite polarity during selected frame update periods. A release cycle may be provided to reduce the chance that a given display element wil become stuck in an actuated state....

20060066561 - Method and system for writing data to mems display elements: Charge balanced display data writing methods use write and hold cycles of opposite polarity during selected frame update periods. A release cycle may be provided to reduce the chance that a given display element wil become stuck in an actuated state....

20060066560 - Systems and methods of actuating mems display elements: Apparatus and methods of actuating MEMS display elements are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments can be incorporated into other drive schemes for MEMS display elements. In one embodiment, an apparatus for controlling a MEMS display element to display a frame of video data, said MEMS display element comprising a portion of...

20060066562 - Display and method of operation: A sign structure having a display, movable member and computer means creates a unique vehicle for displaying content. In one version, the movable member is adjacent to the display and substantially shields a portion of the display as it traverses thereover. Coordinated content transmitted to the display gives the appearance...

20060066568 - Computer pointing device with motion-driven electromagnetic induction module: In one embodiment, a computer pointing device is provided with a navigation module, an electronic control system, and a motion-driven electromagnetic induction module. The electronic control system serves to activate and deactivate the navigation module. At times, the control system enters a sleep mode and deactivates the navigation module. In...

20060066565 - Controller apparatus: A controller comprising a housing, at least one user input device and an output assembly. The housing includes an upper surface, a lower surface, opposing side surfaces and a front surface. The at least one user input device comprises a 3D roller assembly. The 3D roller assembly comprises a x-axis...

20060066563 - Finger-mounted instrument: A finger-mounted instrument comprising a sheath for fitting onto a fingertip, the sheath having at least one node and a protruding element removably affixed onto said at least one node. The protruding element is detachable and includes a cavity therein for receiving the node for attachment. In one embodiment, a...

20060066564 - Method and system for hiding visible infrared markings: A marking carried by a physical object and discernible by an infrared (IR) sensor is at least partially concealed from the human eye. The marking is covered with a coating that is at least partially opaque in the visible spectrum and at least partially transparent in the IR spectrum (or...

20060066566 - Method of emulating a pointing device button: A method of emulating a pointing device button press in a computer includes determining whether a key press input event is detected during a time when a pointer input event is detected, and is so performing a command to emulating a pointing device button click. The method is included in...

20060066569 - Methods and systems for providing haptic messaging to handheld communication devices: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing customized “haptic messaging” to users of handheld communication devices in a variety of applications. In one embodiment, a method of providing haptic messaging to a hand communication device includes: associating an input signal with an event; determining a source...

20060066567 - System and method of controlling scrolling text display: A display system and method for presenting scrolling text on a display is provided in a manner that generally minimizes driver distraction. The system includes a display for displaying scrolling text. The system also includes a gaze monitor having an imaging camera oriented to capture images of a person, such...

20060066571 - Computer interface system using multiple independent graphical data input devices: Improved computer interface system using multiple independent graphical data input devices is disclosed. Multiple independent graphical data input devices allow users to input data independently from multiple independent graphical data input devices to operating system. Graphical input device driver decodes input from multiple independent graphical input devices. Operating system interface...

20060066570 - Pointing device and method: A method and device for an enhanced pointing device is provided. The pointing device includes an encoder and a pressure sensor circuit. The encoder is operable to detect a directional user input. The pressure circuit includes a pressure sensor and a pressure detector having an off-state and an on-state. The...

20060066572 - Pointing device offering good operability at low cost: A pointing device includes a sensor obtaining image information, and an image producing unit producing a comparison image at predetermined time intervals by lowering a spatial resolution of an image based on the image information obtained by the sensor and increasing a density resolution of the image based on the...

20060066573 - Device control system: A device control system allows a terminal owned by the user to control the functions of various connected devices as if through operation panels of those devices. A control requester sends a terminal message including coordinate information of a display screen and an identifier of the terminal for making a...

20060066574 - Parallel haptic joystick system: The present invention relates to a haptic joystick system that is used with a computer system. The system according to the present invention includes the mechanism comprising the first link work and the second link work that respectively conduct 3 degree-of-freedom independently and are serially connected to each other. Therefore...

20060066575 - Laser power control manufacturing method of matching binned laser to drive conditions through soldering and component mounting techniques to convey binning information: A method for programming a function of an optical mouse during assembly includes (1) mounting a dummy resistor on a printed circuit board, the dummy resistor being indicative of a parameter of the function, (2) mounting an optical mouse sensor and a nonvolatile memory on the printed circuit board, (3)...

20060066577 - Input keyboard with increased number of keys for an electronic device with a limited number of connecting pins: An electronic device includes a microprocessor connected to an input keyboard comprising primary conductive lines connected to primary areas and to a terminal. It further includes first, second and third secondary conductive lines connected to secondary areas and to a terminal. It further includes input keys each of which, when...

20060066576 - Keyboard or other input device using ranging for detection of control piece movement: A keyboard detects press or release of keys using one or more ranging techniques. Targets are attached to keys of the keyboard. As keys are pressed or released, attached targets move into paths of distance measuring sensors. A range finder determines sensor-target distances and reports those distances to a microprocessor....

20060066578 - Image display remote control system, image display system and method of controlling same: Image data representing a number of images is recorded in a electronic album control apparatus. The image data is transmitted from the electronic album control apparatus to a television, and thumbnail images of a number of frames are displayed on the television screen in an array that corresponds to the...

20060066585 - Apparatus for induced capacitor: Disclosed is an apparatus for induced capacitor, an insulating substrate; and a plurality of capacitive sensing devices, being arranged on the insulating substrate in a matrix form, each of the plurality of capacitive sensing devices further comprising: a first electrode; and a second electrode, having an inner rim and an...

20060066587 - Electronic apparatus and touch pad device: An electronic apparatus includes a touch pad having an operation surface formed by a first surface extending vertically or horizontally, and a second surface which is contiguous to the first surface at right angles, a detection unit which detects the operation position and the operation direction of a touch operation...

20060066580 - External hanging touch screen: An external hanging touch screen including a touch panel and a controller, wherein the touch panel is fabricated from a transparent material. The present invention is characterized in that a rectangular frame is constructed around an edging of the touch panel, and an inner side edging of the frame is...

20060066589 - Input device: An input device includes: a display unit indicating an image of an input position; a contact position detecting unit detecting a position of an object brought into contact with a contact detecting layer provided on a display layer of the display unit; a contact strength detecting unit detecting contact strength...

20060066590 - Input device: An input device includes a display unit indicating an image which represents an input position; a contact position detecting unit detecting a position of an object brought into contact with a contact detecting surface of the display unit; a memory storing data representing a difference between the detected position and...

20060066581 - Low emi capacitive trackpad: A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly provides a two layer capacitive trackpad sensor in which an EMI ground grid is interposed among the sensor's capacitive elements on each of its layers. The EMI grid on each of the two layers is electrically coupled via, typically, vias. The described arrangement of...

20060066579 - Magic panel: A metal structure (1) has a display region being a second region and being integrate with another region being a first region which is a display region. The metal structure may constitute a monolithic structure of an information display unit, for example, a front panel of an electronic device. The...

20060066584 - Optical touch screen arrangement: An optical touch screen arrangement includes two optical cameras arranged so that their planar fields of view intersect each other in a touch area situated adjacent a display screen operative for displaying visual prompts to solicit action from a user. The user's finger, or a pen, entering the touch area...

20060066582 - Raw data track pad device and system: An input device and system are described that acquires (measures) raw track pad sensor data and transmits this data to a host computer where it is analyzed by an application executing on one or more host computer central processing units. The resulting input processing architecture provides a track pad input...

20060066588 - System and method for processing raw data of track pad device: An input device and system are described that acquires (measures) raw track pad sensor data and transmits this data to a host computer where it is analyzed by an application executing on one or more host computer central processing units. The resulting input processing architecture provides a track pad input...

20060066583 - Text entry method and system using a numeric or non-qwerty keypad: In one embodiment, a method of precise text entry using a numeric keypad comprising numeric keys and non-numeric keys is provided. The method comprises mapping each of a plurality of pairs of keys to an associated character value, each key in a pair being selected from the group consisting of...

20060066586 - Touchscreens for displays: In various embodiments of the invention, an interferometric light modulating display device is provided having a touchscreen above the light modulating display device. The touchscreen may have a diffusing material that may be part of the touchscreen. In some embodiments, the diffusing material may be used to reduce or minimize...

20060066591 - Method and system for implementing a user interface for a device through recognized text and bounded areas: A method and system for implementing a user interface for a pen device through recognized text and bounded areas. The method includes recognizing a text string and accessing a function or application related to the text string upon the recognition. An output is provided in accordance with the function and...

20060066603 - Display device and display method: A first, a second, and a third gradations respectively corresponding to a first, a second, and a third display colors at a display unit having a plurality of spacers disposed between a first and a second substrates and pixels of the first, the second, and the third display colors different...

20060066604 - Display device with improved seal and a method of manufacturing the same: A display device for improving a binding force between upper and lower substrates and a method of manufacturing the display device are presented. The display device includes a display panel having a display area, a sealant area enclosing the display area, a first peripheral area positioned outside the sealant area...

20060066602 - Grayscale voltage generation device, display panel driver and display: The grayscale voltage generation device includes a first line, a second line and a plurality of serial digital analog converters (DACs). A first reference voltage having a first voltage value is supplied to the first line, and a second reference voltage having a second voltage value is supplied to the...

20060066592 - Line scanning in a display: The present invention relates to a method of scanning lines in a display, a device for scanning lines and a portable electronic device including such a device. Driving luminance information for each pixel within a frame is divided into subfields (90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100). Subfields are selected for...

20060066598 - Method and device for electrically programmable display: One embodiment includes a display of interferometric modulators having a configurable resolution characteristic. Selected rows and/or columns are interconnected via a switch. The switch can include a fuse, antifuse, transistor, and the like. Depending on a desired resolution for a display, the switches can be placed in an “open” or...

20060066595 - Method and system for driving a bi-stable display: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing video data and display signals. In one embodiment, a system is configured to display video data on an array of bi-stable display elements, where the system includes a processor, a display comprising an array of bi-stable display elements, a driver controller connected to...

20060066597 - Method and system for reducing power consumption in a display: A method and system for reducing power consumption in a display includes driving a display comprising a plurality of display elements characterized by a display state. In a first mode of operation, the display state of substantially all the display elements is periodically re-set so as to display a first...

20060066605 - Methods and apparatus for driving pixels in a microdisplay: A first pixel of a pixel array of a microdisplay is driven with a first pulse having a duration determined on the basis of a value loaded into a counter. A second pixel of the pixel array is driven with a second pulse having a duration determined on the basis...

20060066593 - Phase-tolerant pixel rendering of high-resolution analog video: Methods for recovering high-resolution images from an analog video interface by autonomously correcting for phase errors between a synchronized clock signal to a sampling analog-to-digital converter and the input video signal. A global phase adjustment first detects video transitions in the sampled video data stream in order to determine and...

20060066599 - Reflective display pixels arranged in non-rectangular arrays: A display is formed with a plurality of reflective display pixels arranged in a curvilinear configuration, and a plurality of electrodes, where each electrode is electrically coupled to two or more reflective display pixels. In some embodiments, the array is at least partially curvilinear. The reflective display pixels include interferometric...

20060066600 - System and method for display device with reinforcing substance: A package structure and method of packaging an interferometric modulator with a reinforcing substance to help support the integrity of the package. In some embodiments the reinforcing substance is a desiccant integrated into the backplate or the transparent substrate....

20060066601 - System and method for providing a variable refresh rate of an interferometric modulator display: Embodiments includes methods and systems for updating display devices at a variable refresh rate. One embodiment includes a method of updating an image displayed on a display device. The method includes setting an indicator to a first state that indicates that image data has been received subsequent to a previous...

20060066596 - System and method of transmitting video data: One embodiment comprises a display controller having two interfaces for receiving video data. In one embodiment, video data that is transmitted to the first of the two interfaces is stored in a frame buffer. Video data that is transmitted to the second of the two interfaces is transmitted independently of...

20060066594 - Systems and methods for driving a bi-stable display element: Due to the bi-stable nature of interferometric modulator elements, the state of each modulator element may be held at either an actuated or a released state with a common voltage difference. Because modulator elements often require less time to change states than is allotted in a line time, power drawn...

20060066606 - Energy recovery apparatus and method of a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an energy recovery apparatus of a plasma display panel and method thereof. The energy recovery apparatus includes a capacitive load equivalently formed between a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, an energy recovery unit for recovering energy...

20060066611 - Image processing device and program: A virtual plane of projection on which a virtual three-dimensional object constructed by a set of specific structures oriented in predetermined directions is projected is set. First, while generating a basic image by projecting one specific structure oriented in a predetermined direction onto the virtual plane of projection, a reference...

20060066607 - Method and device for creating a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional structure: The invention relates to a method and a device for two-dimensionally representing a three-dimensional world, in which rays are combined into packets during ray tracing, and said packets of rays are processed in adequate steps....

20060066612 - Method and system for real time image rendering: An image-based rendering system and method for rendering a novel image from several reference images. The system includes a pre-processing module for pre-processing at least two of the reference images and providing pre-processed data; a view synthesis module connected to the pre-processing module for synthesizing an intermediate image from the...

20060066610 - Method, device, and computer program product for displaying 3d grid in designing configuration model: Grid space designation information and grid plane designation information are acquired. The grid space designation information includes a width of the three-dimensional grid and a distance between two points of the three-dimensional grids. The grid plane designation information includes a display width of the three-dimensional grid and a display position...

20060066609 - Methods and systems for viewing geometry of an object model generated by a cad tool: A system for remotely viewing geometry of an object model generated by a CAD tool hosted on a server computer on a network. The system has an image viewer accessible via a client computer on the network and an image server operatively connected between the image viewer and the CAD...

20060066608 - System and method for determining line-of-sight volume for a specified point: A system and method determines a Line-of-Sight volume for a specified point within a three dimensional model. Each data file includes data about geometric entities that make-up a geographic feature that may impact a Line-of-Sight from a focus. A processor is operative for processing the data files and creating a...

20060066613 - Method and system for partitioning the surface of a three dimentional digital object model in order to map a texture: The present invention is directed to a method and system and computer program for decomposing a triangle mesh representing the surface of a digital object model, reconstructed from 3D scanning data, into a small number of height-field patches (partitions) (in the order of the number of the original scans) with...

20060066614 - Method and system for providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object: A method of providing a volumetric representation of a three dimensional object includes defining a plurality of voxels in a three dimensional space, categorizing voxels as foreground or background according to at least one silhouette image of the object, foreground voxels being assigned a first binary value, and background voxels...

20060066615 - 3d summary display for reporting of organ tumors: A computer-implemented method for visualizing a tumor in a volume data includes providing a plurality of tumors, detected and segmented from the volume data, storing locations of a plurality of voxels corresponding to each of the plurality of tumors, and determining a mesh of surface voxels for each of the...

20060066616 - Diffuse photon map decomposition for parallelization of global illumination algorithm: A given computer graphics scene may be rendered as a set of triangles. A set of photons may be distributed over the scene, and a number of steps may be performed for each triangle. For each triangle, a list of photons may be constructed. For that triangle, a set of...

20060066617 - Computerized method and software for data analysis: The computerized method for data analysis is a computerized method for identifying a causal relationship between at least one independent variable and a dependent variable in a set of data representing historical operating parameters of an industrial process. Data representing historical operating parameters of an industrial process is input into...

20060066619 - Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility: Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A character is retrieved to be output. A determination...

20060066618 - Zhuyin symbol and tone mark input method, and electronic device: A method for entering ZhuYin symbols and tone marks into electronic text is provided. The method comprises receiving an input symbol and providing a candidate list comprising the input symbol and the Chinese characters associated with the input symbol. After the selection of the input symbol from the candidate list,...

20060066621 - Dynamic render algorithm selection: A method of rendering a sequence of graphical objects, where two or more different renderers are available and one of the renderers is designated as a currently-used renderer, includes the steps of receiving a current object in the sequence of graphical objects, adding the current object to a set of...

20060066620 - Method, software and apparatus for efficient polygon rendering: One or more special merge vertices (1, 8) each of which is a root of two braches each including a monotonic (in respect to a particular coordinate) series of vertices are selected from an ordered arrangement of vertices (1-10) that defines a polygon (102). The special merge vertices (1, 8)...

20060066622 - Electroluminescent display devices: An active matrix electroluminescent display device has a current sampling resistor within each pixel in series with the display element. A feedback signal represents the voltage drop across the current sampling resistor and the pixel drive signals are modified in dependence on the feedback signal to control the current driven...

20060066623 - Method and system for non stalling pipeline instruction fetching from memory: A method and system for graphics instruction fetching. The method includes executing a plurality of threads in a multithreaded execution environment. A respective plurality of instructions are fetched to support the execution of the threads. During runtime, at least one instruction is prefetched for one of the threads to a...

20060066624 - Method and system for generating per-pixel error bounds for a rendered image: A method and system measuring the correctness of rendered images. A reference renderer generates a reference image from data describing the image. A tolerance buffer is generated that includes a tolerance for a pixel representing a portion of the reference image. If a renderer renders the pixel outside the tolerance...

20060066625 - Process and system for securing the scrambling, descrambling and distribution of vector visual sequences: A process for secured distribution of vector visual sequences in at least two dimensions, animated and including a succession of frames containing at least one multidimensional geometric object to be displayed on a screen of a user and determined by at least one parameter including: analyzing the stream prior to...

20060066626 - Screen creating device: A screen creating device includes a screen creating section and an address assigning section. The screen creating section forms a screen including a display element for showing a condition under which data is read out of or written in a region of a memory specified by an address. The address...

20060066627 - Semantically applying formatting to a presentation model: The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically generates a color scheme for graphics. In embodiments of the present invention, the graphics software program receives a selection of a color transformation and a semantic model describing a graphic. The graphics software program interpolates color values for different portions...

20060066629 - System and method for color selection: A system and method for color management are disclosed. The system may include stored color palettes and a structured color picker for selecting color choices from the color palettes. The structured color picker may include a set of colorist theory rules for facilitating selection of harmonious colors from the color...

20060066628 - System and method for controlling dynamically interactive parameters for image processing: A system and related techniques generate and present a set of linked, dynamically interactive image processing controls for image editing and optimization tasks. In embodiments a user interface may present a set of global editing modes such as color manipulation, exposure correction or others. Each mode may contain a hierarchical...

20060066630 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data between graphics controller and external storage: A graphics controller and associated method of operation is provided. The graphics controller includes a memory for receiving image data from an image producing source. The graphics controller also includes an image data wrapper module having circuitry that operates independent of a processor external to the graphics controller. The image...

20060066632 - Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations: A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, formatting and other visual attributes associated with the graphical elements. These properties...

20060066633 - Method and apparatus for processing on-screen display data: A method and apparatus for processing on-screen display (OSD) data are provided. The method includes processing basic OSD data to yield processed OSD data that can be displayed with a certain visual effect....

20060066631 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating and laying out a graphic within a drawing application program. The method includes receiving a data model defining a set of data and data relationships to be represented in the graphic, receiving a graphic definition describing the mapping of the...

20060066634 - Video object clipping method and apparatus: A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from the original images and the reference alpha images, determining a...

20060066635 - Video object clipping method and apparatus: A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from the original images and the reference alpha images, determining a...

20060066636 - Video object clipping method and apparatus: A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from the original images and the reference alpha images, determining a...

20060066637 - Multiple backdrop compositing: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for compositing a digital image. The invention performs the steps of providing a current accumulation image; identifying as the current element of the digital image to be processed a graphics element having a backdrop property, the backdrop property identifying a backdrop...

20060066638 - Methods and apparatus for displaying information: A display system according to various aspects of the present invention provides systems and methods for an integrated graphical user interface which facilitates the interactive and dynamic display aircraft data. In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, a user (e.g., a pilot) provides input to a processor and...

20060066639 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: When the fact that the display mode of motion picture data is a full screen mode is detected, the display control mode for sending a video signal generated by a graphics controller to an LCD is switched from a normal mode for sending the video signal to the LCD without...

20060066644 - Display element drive circuit and display apparatus: A display element drive circuit includes a first circuit which holds as a voltage component electric charges based on a gradation signal corresponding to display data, a second circuit which supplies the gradation signal to the electric charge holding circuit at a timing of application of a selection signal, current...

20060066640 - Display region architectures: A bit depth of a pixel comprising multiple display elements, such as interferometric modulators, may be increased through the use of display elements having different intensities, while the lead count is minimally increased. An exemplary pixel with at least one display element having an intensity of 0.5 and N display...

20060066642 - Image display device: In an update operation of uneven luminance correction values, a display area of a flat display is handled as if it is divided into a plurality of small areas A to I. Then, in one update operation of the uneven luminance correction values, the uneven luminance correction values are updated...

20060066643 - Image display device and image signal processing device: A judging unit compares data in a dither table for each display pixel with a numerical value of low-order 2 bits of an input signal (12 bits) and outputs 1 to an adder when the numerical value of the low-order 2 bits of the input signal is larger than the...

20060066641 - Method and device for manipulating color in a display: Embodiments include methods and devices for controlling the spectral profile and color gamut of light produced by an interferometric display. Such devices include illuminating a display with selected wavelengths of light. Embodiments also include a display comprising separate sections that output different predetermined colors of light. Other embodiments include methods...

20060066645 - Method and apparatus for providing a pulse width modulation sequence in a liquid crystal display: A method for converting a compound data word 10 into a modified data word (12). The compound data word (10) has a plurality of equally weighted thermometer data bits (14) and a plurality of binary weighted data bits (16). The thermometer data bits (14) are repeated in the modified data...

20060055625 - Microscopy laboratory system: A microscopy laboratory system for efficient instruction is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of student microscopes each equipped with a camera for generating an image signal representing a student view image of at least a portion of the field of view of the student microscope, multiplexed control means connected...

20060055626 - Dual screen display using one digital data output: A circuit and method for dual screen display using a single digital video output. Circuitry is provided to sample a single pixel stream input serially but representing two images, separate the pixel stream into the two images, format each pixel stream to correspond to the output device on which the...

20060055627 - Randomized patterns of individual optical elements: A method of randomizing elements into a random pattern on a surface so the random pattern of elements substantially entirely consumes a region of the surface includes choosing an overlap distance and creating an initial pattern of elements that substantially entirely consumes a region of the surface, wherein neighboring elements...

20060055628 - Situational awareness components of an enhanced vision system: A virtual sphere provided by an enhanced vision system includes synthetic imagery filling said virtual sphere and a common view window mapped to a dedicated position within the synthetic imagery. Imagery of the line of sight of a user is displayed in the common view window. By providing the common...

20060055629 - Ambient light adaptation for dynamic foil displays: The present invention relates to the driving of optical displays, such as Dynamic Foil Displays, and provides dynamic adaptation of the number of subfields into which frame times of such displays are divided. The number of subfields can thus be selected (1202) depending on for example the ambient light conditions...

20060055630 - Chromatically enhanced display: A display and method for displaying data are disclosed. The display includes a light source and a gauge that displays a quantity. The gauge is illuminated by the light source that has a color specified by a first control signal. A controller generates the first control signal based on the...

20060055631 - Drive device of light emitting display panel: In a light emitting display panel 10, a large number of light emitting display pixels 10a are arranged in a matrix pattern, and a monitoring element Ex is provided therein which can extract a voltage which corresponds to the forward voltage of EL elements E1 on the display panel. By...

20060055632 - Organic electro-luminescence display device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to an organic electro-luminescence display device and a method of driving the same that is adaptive for reducing power consumption by removing an unnecessary current as well as for improving a uniformity of a display screen. An organic electro-luminescence display device according to an embodiment of...

20060055633 - Display device: A display device capable of switching over between vertical and horizontal display on a screen without using a frame memory is provided. A display device has a source signal line driver circuit (102), a first gate signal line driver circuit (103), and a second gate signal line driver circuit (104)....

20060055634 - Data control unit for a plasma display panel and method of using the same: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for data control in a plasma display panel that reduces power consumption and heat generation in a data driving circuit. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a scan driver for scanning the scan electrodes;...

20060055635 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There is provided a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus which drives an electrodes and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an electrodes; a first voltage supply unit supplying a first voltage...

20060055636 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel having discharge cells formed between a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes and a driving circuit dividing one frame into a plurality of subfields, each subfield including a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period,...

20060055637 - Image display apparatus: Provided is an image display apparatus including: a vacuum container having an electron source enclosed therein for displaying an image; an ion pump communicating with the vacuum container for discharging air therefrom and decreasing pressure therein; and a resistor connected in series with the ion pump with respect to a...

20060055638 - Organic electroluminescent module: An organic electroluminescent module is disclosed. The organic electroluminescent module comprises a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines perpendicular to the plurality of scan lines, a plurality of light emitting diodes formed at cross regions of the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines,...

20060055640 - Active matrix display device and digital-to-analog converter: An active-type display device includes a plurality of video signal lines that are formed on a substrate, a plurality of pixels that are connected to the video signal lines and are operated by current signals, and a video signal driver that supplies video currents to the pixels via the video...

20060055639 - Display device, on-vehicle display device, electronic apparatus, and display method: Aspects of the invention can provide a display device having at least two sets of chromatic balance coordinates which define reference colors for a display color....

20060055643 - Display module: A display module includes an emitting device provided with a first electrode layer that is driven by an active device, an organic emitting layer that is coated on said first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer CD that is formed over said organic emitting layer. An electrode layer CNTB...

20060055641 - Led billboard controller with integrated sign interface module: An apparatus that supports operation of an LED sign includes a backplane that connects a backplane frame output of a first video data processor circuit card to a backplane frame input of a second video data processor circuit card, and also connects a backplane frame output of the second video...

20060055642 - Led display modules with pixel designs for enhanced visual quality of virtual pixels: An LED visual display apparatus includes a plurality of LED pixels arranged in a generally rectangular array and each having a substantially identical construction. A controller controls groups of the LEDs to produce virtual pixels. In some instances, the construction of each LED pixel consists of 6 to 9 LEDs,...

20060055644 - Tdc panel driver and its driving method for reducing flickers on display panel: The present invention provides a time division controlled (TDC) panel driver for reducing flickers. The TDC panel driver includes an address counter for counting a pixel address of a line corresponding to a predetermined resolution of a TDC panel to thereby output a counting value; a timing generating block for...

20060055646 - Latch-based serial port output buffer: An integrated circuit (22) having a serial interface (25) with improved access times is disclosed. The serial interface (25) includes a serial output port arranged as a shift register of flip-flop stages (321 through 32n) and a last output latch stage (320). The last output latch stage (320) includes an...

20060055645 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An LCD includes a plurality of upper, middle, and lower gate lines transmitting scanning signals provided on upper, middle, and lower areas, respectively, a plurality of pairs of upper and lower data lines transmitting data voltages, and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines....

20060055649 - Liquid crystal display device having a drive ic mounted on a flexible board directly connected to a liquid crystal panel: A liquid crystal display device converts input signals into liquid crystal drive signals so as to display an image on a liquid crystal panel. A plurality of flexible boards are connected to the liquid crystal panel, each of the flexible boards having a drive IC which converts the input signals...

20060055650 - Method and apparatus for driving reflective bistable cholestric displays: This invention provides a method and apparatus for driving bistable cholesteric liquid crystal displays. The method and apparatus provided a display in which all the pixels are initially driven to the P state. Selected pixels for the display are then driven to the FC state to provide the desired message....

20060055647 - Method for resolving display nonuniformity: A method for resolving display nonuniformity is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: (a1) turning on a display screen; (a2) dividing the display screen into a plurality of areas; (a3) using the center line as a baseline in each area for separating the pixel capacitors of each area into...

20060055648 - Method of driving liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device: A combination of a bright and dark display pattern and a polarity pattern is used to drive a liquid crystal display device. In the bright and dark display pattern, bright display picture elements and dark display picture elements alternate with each other every one picture element in horizontal and vertical...

20060055651 - Light emitting display device, electronic equipment into which the same device is loaded, and drive method of the light emitting display device: A correction voltage retaining capacitor C2, a correction voltage write transistor Tr4, and a switching transistor Tr5 are added to a pixel structure of an SES drive method provided with an organic EL element E1 as a light emitting element, a light emission drive transistor Tr1, a data write transistor...

20060055653 - Display element drive apparatus and image display apparatus: In order to correctly hold a low-amplitude input signal even when the operating speed of a display element drive apparatus is high, a differential signal including a pair of CLKP1 and CLKN1 is input to a first comparator and a second comparator in a manner that provides opposite phases between...

20060055654 - Display method for liquid crystal panel, and display apparatus: A display method for a liquid crystal panel is provided. The method includes a step of scanning pixels, arranged in a matrix, in an horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, to write video signals, thereby performing display; and a step of delaying the vertical-direction scanning for writing the video...

20060055655 - Driving unit and display apparatus having the same: In a driving unit and a display apparatus, a master driving chip includes a common voltage generator configured to receive power and generate a master common voltage and a slave common voltage and a first data driver configured to output a master image signal based on the master common voltage...

20060055652 - Latch, latch drive method, and flat display device: This invention applies illustratively to a horizontal driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device, and to a liquid crystal display device utilizing that horizontal driving circuit. With a CMOS latch cell 12 disconnected from power supplies VDD2 and VSS2, the input of the latch cell 12 is connected to...

20060055656 - Time division driving method and source driver for flat panel display: A source driver and method of driving a flat panel display is provided. As a circuit unit including a multiplexer and a channel selection unit, a source driver performs a single operation to drive one source line in a segment of a horizontal scan period and repeats the single operation...

20060055657 - Display apparatus, display control method , program and recording medium: A display apparatus is provided, which comprises a display device including a display screen for displaying characters and/or graphics, in which each of the characters and/or graphics contains a basic portion and a neighboring portion arranged in the vicinity of the basic portion, and a control section for controlling the...

20060055661 - Display control circuit, display control method, and liquid crystal display device: A display control circuit includes a vertical timing control circuit that generates first and second start signals, a panel driving unit that sequentially drives a plurality of OCB liquid crystal pixels in units of one row under the control of the first start signal to hold pixel voltages for gradation...

20060055660 - Light source device: A light source device includes lamp-type light sources which respectively illuminate display areas obtained by dividing a screen of a display panel, and a backlight drive circuit which drives the lamp-type light sources. Particularly, the backlight drive circuit includes a dimmer control circuit which generates dimmer control signals having a...

20060055659 - Method for modulating and driving backlight sources for flat panel displays: The present invention provides a method for modulating backlight sources for flat panel displays (FPD), which comprises: lowing steps: step 31: turning on a display screen; step 32: identifying whether the total number of the BLS groups provided on the backlight module is an odd number or an even number;...

20060055658 - Visual notification methods for candy-bar type cellphones: A wireless handheld communications device with a liquid crystal display, especially, a field sequential liquid crystal display, includes a visual notification for a powered up, inactive state. The visual notification is preferably through a light emitting diode that may be part of the backlighting system for the LCD or may...

20060055663 - Displaying apparatus and control method: The displaying apparatus 100 displays a plurality of display data sequentially by updating its display. On a surface of the frame 100a, the displaying apparatus 100 includes a display panel 110, a bend member 120a, and a bend member 120b and both the bend member 120a and the bend member...

20060055662 - Flick gesture: A system and method for determining whether a flick gesture has occurred is described. A flick gesture is a simple gesture that may be easily detected and is characterized by minimal interference with other applications or gestures....

20060055669 - Fluent user interface for text entry on touch-sensitive display: A user interface method and apparatus for an electronic device operates by detecting a stroke (20) of a touch sensitive display (10) forming a part of the electronic device. The stroke is interpreted by the user interface method (73) as a sequence of commands where each command is associated to...

20060055666 - Method for controlling illumination employed by a computer pointing peripheral and computer pointing peripheral: In one embodiment, a method of operating a computer pointing peripheral comprises capturing images of a support surface to perform navigational analysis, analyzing at least one image characteristic, modifying an image exposure time in response to the analyzing, and modifying an intensity of illumination of the support surface when the...

20060055667 - Pointing device with extended travel: A pointing device having a moveable puck that moves in a predetermined field of motion by applying a lateral force thereto is disclosed. A first linear spring is attached to the puck, the first spring applying a first force to the puck at each location in the field of motion....

20060055668 - Thin remote controller: The thin remote controller of the present invention can have the size of a standard-sized PCMCIA card, and so the thin remote controller can be inserted into a PCMCIA slot of the notebook computer. Therefore, the user can remove the thin remote controller from the slot and use it as...

20060055664 - Unified user input device: A unified user input device is provided. The input device may include keys normally provided as part of a general purpose alphanumeric computer keyboard. In addition, a positional controller is provided. Both the conventional alphanumeric keys and the positional controller are associated with the same device platform. Additionally, special function...

20060055665 - User interface having button delineating control panel: A machine user interface (UI) having a control panel that includes (a) controllable machine operating software; (b) a controllable display screen for displaying results from the controllable machine operating software; (c) a housing for the UI containing the controllable display screen; and (d) a button delineating control panel on the...

20060055671 - Input device for improving man-machine interface: An input device for improving man-machine interface is disclosed. The input device provides a more direct and natural relationship between the control movements of an operator and the output from the data processing system. One embodiment of the input device includes a fluid medium sealed inside a chamber, a control...

20060055670 - Interactive object property region for graphical user interface: An interactive object property region displayable in a graphical user interface for an application program is disclosed. The interactive object property region is preferably automatically generated in response to a mouse pointer being moved over the object, but may also be affirmatively selected. Preferably, the region is initially positioned proximate...

20060055672 - Input control for apparatuses: A device for controlling an apparatus depending on a position or movement of an object in a control region includes a light-beam mover for moving a light-beam in the control region depending on a light-beam motion signal to guide the light-beam over the control region, different positions or positional changes...

20060055673 - Voice output controls on a mouse pointing device and keyboard device for a computer: A mouse pointing device and keyboard device having voice output controls for the voice chat room is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a computerized system comprises a computer connecting to the internet, a mouse pointing device, a voice input equipment, a voice chat room downloaded from Yahoo website....

20060055674 - Optical mouse and control method thereof: An optical pointing device and a control method thereof are provided. The optical pointing device includes: an illumination unit for illuminating light on a working surface, and generating light in a predetermined code in response to a code signal; a control unit for detecting an image on the working surface...

20060055675 - Systems and methods to move a keyboard: According to some embodiments, a keyboard may be moved to a location behind a display....

20060055676 - Apparatus for and method of inputting alphabets using a reduced keypad: The invention concerns an apparatus for inputting English alphabets, comprising: a keypad having five buttons of one central button, a left top button, a left bottom button, a right top button and a right bottom button arranged at each vertex of a square shape an d around the central button;...

20060055679 - Capacitive sense toggle touch dimmer: A touch/toggle dimmer circuit that includes a controller coupled to at least one measurement capacitor whose capacitance is known, and at least one touch pad where the controller is configured by an algorithm to measure changes in the capacitance of the touch pad in response to a user touching the...

20060055677 - Cover for an electronic device and electronic device with a cover: The invention relates to a cover comprising a decoration 11 which is visible to a user when the cover is connected to an electronic device. In order to enhance the functions provided by such a cover, it is proposed that the cover further comprises contact sensitive means 22, 23 arranged...

20060055678 - Handheld device with a display screen: A handheld device (1) has a display screen (2, 22), and means for displaying a document on the screen and means for scrolling through the document by tilting the device. The device comprises a splitting screen (23, 24, 61, 71) in front of the display screen (22) for splitting the...

20060055680 - Information processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same: An information processing apparatus has a resistance film type touch panel generating position coordinate data at predetermined sampling interval, a liquid crystal display panel driven by a liquid crystal drive voltage, a first control circuit (liquid crystal display panel control circuit) having a first generating circuit generating a horizontal synchronizing...

20060055681 - Touch panel cradle: A surface-mount touch panel cradle is disclosed for use in electrically controlling remote components. The surface-mount touch panel cradle comprises a surface mounted receptacle. A cradle frame can be coupled to the receptacle. A frame biasing mechanism can be configured to move the cradle frame away from the information mount...

20060055682 - Surface sensitive input device with indexes and computer system using the input device: A computer system, which has a host, a surface sensitive input device and an optical reader. The surface sensitive input device can be a display connected to the host for displaying output data of the host on its screen. The surface sensitive input device is divided into plural areas, each...

20060055685 - Asynchronous and synchronous gesture recognition: A system and method for determining whether a flick gesture has occurred is described. A flick gesture is a simple gesture that may be easily detected and is characterized by minimal interference with other applications or gestures....

20060055684 - Gesture training: A system and method for determining whether a flick gesture has occurred is described. A flick gesture is a simple gesture that may be easily detected and is characterized by minimal interference with other applications or gestures....

20060055683 - Personal digital assistant device with stylus: A portable stylus information input processing apparatus (1) with a removable stylus (2) and a stylus housing (9), a user-interface (UI) (3), said apparatus comprising a computer program for running a user-interactive application on or via the apparatus, or a means for inputting such a computer program, interaction taking place...

20060055686 - Stylus pen combined with antenna in protable wireless terminal: Disclosed is a stylus pen combined with an antenna in a touch screen type-wireless terminal. The stylus pen has a built-in antenna and is detachably disposed in the touch screen type-wireless terminal, and the built-in antenna makes electrical connection with an antenna contact portion of an RF board of the...

20060055687 - Brightness control circuits: Brightness control circuits and drivers and display devices using the same. In the brightness control circuit, a current digital-to-analog converter (DAC) receives a digital code and generates a control current, and an one-shot circuit is coupled to the current DAC to generate a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal according to...

20060055689 - Display device having a fastening mechanism for preventing tilting of a port-holding back plate from a base member: A display device includes a base member, an outer casing disposed above for covering the base member and defining a rear opening for access to the base member, and a back plate fastened to the base member via a fastening mechanism so that the back plate extends upwardly from the...

20060055688 - Method of resolving display delay: A method of resolving display delay is disclosed. The method of resolving display delay comprises the steps of: dividing a period of turning on scan lines of an image is into at least two sections; and charging at least one section of the period while discharging the other sections of...

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