Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 05/06

20060109197 - Display system: A display system (100) is provided which includes two display devices (101a and 101b); a coupling section (102) for coupling the two display devices such that one display device can be displaced relative to the other display device; a detection section (111-114) for detecting a value by which a position...

20060109198 - Method and apparatus for using picture-in-picture data as an independent display: A display in communication with a first display panel and a second display panel is provided. The display controller includes a memory having main display data and PIP display data, wherein the PIP display data is provided by a camera sensor. Tracking circuitry configured to determine a display position of...

20060109199 - Edge lighting system for interactive display surface: An edge lighting system has a plurality of light sources, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted at spaced-apart intervals along a rail that is disposed adjacent to an edge of a display surface. Orifices formed in the rail in which the light sources are inserted are sized to enable...

20060109200 - Rotating cylinder multi-program and auto-stereoscopic 3d display and camera: The invention described herein represents a significant improvement for the users of displays. In a first reflective immersive embodiment, a rotating encompassing projection screen with integral horizontal and vertical reflective lenticulars completely surrounds users to enable multiple users to concurrently watch completely different programs including auto-stereoscopic 3D programs in an...

20060109201 - Wearable apparatus for converting vision signal into haptic signal, agent system using the same, and operating method thereof: A wearable apparatus for converting a vision signal into a haptic signal, an agent system using the same, and an operating method thereof are provided. If a blind person has a vision signal processing module mounted on glasses and a haptic signal processing module wore on a skin, it can...

20060109202 - Multiple program and 3d display and 3d camera apparatus and process: In a first preferred embodiment, this invention provides a low cost means for reliably providing auto-stereoscopic 3D high resolution images on a very large display. A vertical lenticular array is actuated in pixel wide increments to display full resolution auto-stereoscopic image from every pixel on the display such that many...

20060109203 - Method for the allocation of short addresses in illumination systems: In a method for the allocation of short addresses in illumination systems, whose illumination components (DALI EB, Lp) are controlled via a DALI bus, the short address is determined and allocated automatically without the intervention of an operator with the aid of a localization device (Tag, 4)....

20060109205 - High efficiency multi-mode charge pump based led driver: A high efficiency multi-mode charge pump based LED driver comprising a multi-mode charge pump and a LED driver controls the brightness level of at least one group of a plurality of LEDs, which is used as a backlight for a display device. The charge pump provides an output voltage to...

20060109204 - System for controlling led devices: A DMX512 signal source distributor and a loader for a plurality of LED controllers can control LED devices such as an LED board. The DMX512 signal source distributor includes a UART, an MCU connecting to a memory, and a DMX512 encoder chip connecting to a memory. The UART is connected...

20060109206 - Plasma display module: A plasma display module includes a plasma display panel, a chassis supporting the plasma display panel, and a conductive member between the plasma display panel and the chassis. The conductive member may reduce the distortion of electrical signals applied to electrodes....

20060109207 - Driving device and method for plasma display panel: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are provided. According to an embodiment, the plasma display apparatus is driven by dividing a sub-field into at least an address period and a sustain period. The apparatus includes a timing controlling unit to vary a length...

20060109213 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel and a method thereof is described. A frequency of a sustain pulse varies according to a screen load ratio in each subfield or frame. The frequency of the sustain pulse is determined such that power consumption of the plasma display panel, which is a function of...

20060109211 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode, a sustain electrode and an address electrode; a first controller for controlling an application time point of the data pulse for the address electrode...

20060109208 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a driver that supplies a pre-reset waveform to the scan electrodes or the sustain electrodes prior...

20060109209 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, in which scan electrodes are scanned according to one of a plurality of scan types and a last sustain pulse of sustain pulses applied to scan electrodes or sustain...

20060109210 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device in which in a sustain period for each subfield, a time point to clamp to a second potential a sustain pulse belonging to a first group including a sustain pulse to be first applied is delayed comparing to a time point to clamp to the second...

20060109212 - Plasma display device and method for driving the same: In a plasma display device, the application of at least one address signal to a cell receiving a scan signal is offset from the application of the scan signal. Such offset improves picture quality and/or reduces noise....

20060109214 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel in which a plurality of electrodes are formed, an energy storage unit for storing energy applied to the electrodes, and a protector for maintaining a voltage level of the energy...

20060109216 - Display device: A display device which operates appropriately independently of the manufacture variations of each element formed over a substrate is provided without increasing the number of components. The display device includes an external correction circuit and a panel, and the external correction circuit and the panel are connected to each other...

20060109215 - Display device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a display device and an electronic apparatus which can reduce power consumption in the case of being driven by using a digital time grayscale method. According to the invention, a row in which all the pixels display black is focused on in a plurality of pixels arranged...

20060109218 - Device and method for driving organic el display: A device and method for driving an organic EL display is disclosed, in which the device includes a photo converter sensing an intensity of external light, and converting the sensed light to an electric signal; an A/D converter converting the electric signal of the photo converter from an analog signal...

20060109217 - Emissive circuit capable of adaptively adjusting brightness: An emissive circuit capable of adaptively adjusting brightness is as follows. A brightness adjusting circuit is for receiving the incident ray and is adapted to adjust the power of the driving device according to the intensity of the incident ray. Thus, the driving device, for driving and controlling the brightness...

20060109219 - Apparatus and method for controlling colour and colour temperature of light generated by a digitally controlled luminaire: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling the correlated colour temperature (CCT) or colour of light produced by an array of light-emitting elements by providing multiple selectable paths for the flow of drive current. The apparatus includes a primary path comprising primary light-emitting elements, and one or...

20060109220 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device preventing a deterioration of picture quality. More specifically, in the method and apparatus, a difference between modulated data and normal input data is calculated, and the normal input data are modulated by using the difference...

20060109221 - Apparatus and method for improving recognition performance for dark region of image: An apparatus and method are provided for displaying an image. A process of human color recognition and a process of human color response are analyzed to find a reference brightness value of an image such that a dark region of the image can be correctly detected. A brightness of the...

20060109222 - Touch sensible display device: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel; a plurality of pixels disposed on the display panel; a plurality of sensor data lines disposed on the display panel and disposed between two adjacent pixels; and a plurality of sensing units disposed on the...

20060109223 - Display with improved color depth and method thereof: A display includes a display device and a logic processing unit. The logic processing unit is formed on the display panel to transform a gray value of an original data into the gray value of a display data....

20060109224 - Viewing-angle adjustable liquid crystal display and method for adjusting viewing-angle of the same: A viewing-angle adjustable liquid crystal display includes a display panel and a data driver. The display panel includes several pixel units. Each pixel unit has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The data driver provides a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage, respectively, to the first sub-pixel...

20060109225 - Semiconductor device, circuit, display device using the same, and method for driving the same: A device excellent in electrical characteristics is provided by suppressing an operation failure owing to a hysteresis effect that occurs in a circuit using MOS transistors having floating bodies. Moreover, sensitivity of a sense amplifier circuit and a latch circuit including these MOS transistors as components is improved. A signal...

20060109229 - Display device and driving method thereof: A driving method of an active matrix display device having M gate lines and N source lines, comprises the steps of writing a data signal of an (m-1)-th row (2=m=M, m is a natural number) to the source line, comparing a data signal of an m-th row with the data...

20060109228 - Liquid crystal display (lcd) driving circuits and methods of driving same: An integrated circuit device includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) driver circuit. This LCD driver circuit includes a decoder and a multi-stage sample-hold circuit coupled to an output of the decoder. The LCD driver circuit supports different contrasts for the red, blue and green color signals. In particular, the LCD...

20060109230 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display may include: a panel assembly provided with a plurality of pixels connected to gate lines and data lines; a signal controller generating a plurality of output control signals on the basis of image data and input control signals from an external MPU; a gate drive circuit...

20060109226 - Relative brightness adjustment for lcd driver ics: Circuits and methods to adjust the brightness of LCD displays have been achieved. The invention applies for LCD systems having a single or multiple display panels. The technique applied makes use of the property of LCDs where each pixel responds to the applied RMS voltage across it, and changing the...

20060109227 - Source driver, gate driver, and liquid crystal display device implementing non-inversion output: A source driver and a gate driver for implementing a non-inversion output characteristic of a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device may include, a liquid crystal panel including pixels, each pixel including TFT transistors connected to different source lines and different gate lines, a source driver which...

20060109231 - System for correcting display device and method for correcting the same: In a display device having a nonvolatile memory device, such as an active matrix type liquid crystal display device, display contents displayed on the display device are obtained by a camera device. The obtained information (corresponding to the display contents) is digital-converted and then processed to detect a defect and...

20060109232 - Liquid crystal display and driving circuit thereof: A gate driver of a liquid crystal display includes classes of driving circuits coupled to each other for outputting gate pulses. At least one class of driving circuits includes a shift register and a switch. The shift register outputs the gate pulse corresponding to the class of driving circuit according...

20060109234 - Apparatus and method for luminance control of liquid crystal display device: A luminance control apparatus of a liquid crystal display device (LCD) is presented. The LCD includes a liquid crystal display panel divided into areas, lamps, an arithmetic unit, and a lamp driver. Fewer lamps are present than the number of areas. The arithmetic unit scans pixels of each area, extracts...

20060109233 - Method for improving a display image performance of a transflective lcd: A method for improving the display image performance of a transflective LCD containing a back light is disclosed. The method includes setting the LCD driving voltages in a first range when the back light unit is on, and setting the LCD driving voltages in a second range when the back...

20060109235 - Controller, control method, and display device utilizing the same: A controller switching a display mode of a display panel. A processor provides a first initial signal and switches to a first display mode when a select signal is asserted. A gate driver simultaneously activates the gate electrodes in a first gate electrode group when receiving the first initial signal,...

20060109236 - Image display device: The present invention provides an image display device capable of freely changing a scanning direction of an image display medium including support plates, first and second electrode groups provided at the plates and colored particles provided between the plates, including first and second electrode-driving components which receive electrode-designation signals and...

20060109240 - Apparatus and method for enhancing the capability of the display output of portable devices: An intelligent surrogate apparatus and method for enhancing the display output and interaction capability of a portable device. The apparatus comprises a communication interface for connecting the portable device and an display controller. In addition, the apparatus comprises a connection manager for establishing connection and managing data flows; a graphics...

20060109241 - Dense multi-axis array for motion sensing: The present disclosure describes an optical displacement sensor having a dense multi-axis array of photosensitive elements. Generally, the sensor includes a two dimensional array of multiple photosensitive elements. In one embodiment, the array includes multiple linear arrays of photosensitive elements arranged along three or more axes in a space-filling, close-packed...

20060109243 - Foldable electronic book: An electronic book includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. Microprocessor circuitry is positioned in the housing portions to control operation of the electronic book. A cylindrical spine is interposed between the first and second housing portions, which are pivotally connected to the spine to be pivoted...

20060109239 - Integrated module combining cursor control and numeric keypad: A peripheral device for computers or similar electronic devices includes a combination of a cursor controller, such as computer mouse, including a displaceable casing and a numeric keypad having at least one functional key and a plurality of numeric keys formed on a surface of the casing. A displacement detection...

20060109237 - System and method for presentation of enterprise, clinical, and decision support information utilizing eye tracking navigation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for using gaze detection to improve information display in a healthcare environment. Certain embodiments of a gaze detection and control system include an information system including information related to at least one image, a display device capable of displaying...

20060109238 - System and method for significant image selection using visual tracking: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for improved identification of significant images using visual tracking. Certain embodiments of the system include a visual tracking system capable of tracking a user gaze with respect to a display device and a significant image selector for identifying at...

20060109242 - User interface for impaired users: A user interface for visual browsing of content that is optimal for disabled or impaired people is built around a limited set of actions, e.g., SELECT and BACK, or just SELECT. The rest of the useful information is gathered by the act of pointing. The result is a visual browsing...

20060109244 - Manually operated control: A control includes a drum (36) that is rotatably mounted in a housing (22), and includes devices for generating signals to indicate the direction in which the drum is turning and for generating signals to indicate which end of the drum is depressed. A gear (100) is fixed to the...

20060109245 - Pointing device and cursor for use in intelligent computing environments: A system and process for directing a laser beam within a space is presented. The system includes a pointing device which periodically outputs orientation data indicative of the direction it is pointing and a cursor device which projects a laser beam. The orientation data is used to compute the direction...

20060109247 - Battery-receiving structure of wireless mouse: A battery-receiving structure of a wireless mouse has a front section structure belonging to a front part and a receiving structure belonging to a rear part. The receiving structure has a first latching part, a second latching part, a seat body with multiple battery holes and an upper cover covering...

20060109246 - Oscillation & rotation metric controller: An oscillation and rotation metric controller comprised of a scrolling wheel mechanism to oscillate for driving magnetic poles of a permanent magnet to displace thus to generate signals of changed magnetic field, signals being retrieved to achieve lateral oscillation metric control; and a knob switch encoder being fixed to the...

20060109249 - Electronic device having a multi-functional pointing device of a track ball: An electronic device having a multi-functional pointing device of a track ball in which a connecting part is arranged through which a shaft is connected so that the shaft is connected to the pointing device of track ball. When the shaft moves and pushes, the pointing device of the track...

20060109248 - Pseudo trackball optical pointing apparatus: The present invention is related to a pseudo trackball optical pointing apparatus comprising of a palm-manipulated part of which includes at least a rotating ball by finger's manipulation and the ball is used to reflects the incident light, and an optical module of which produces a correspondingly indicative signal due...

20060109251 - Combined keyboard and movement detection system: This invention integrates a keyboard and movement detecting means into one device. Accordingly, the present invention provides for a combined keyboard and movement detection system for inputting electronic data. The system comprises a unitary keyboard provided with a plurality of data keys for entering data. The keyboard is sized to...

20060109250 - Non-binding sliding display for a handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device having a slidable display is provided. A display unit is slidably connected to a body unit at two (or more) sliding joints. A mechanical linkage constrains motion at all of the sliding joints to be substantially equal. In this manner, binding of the slidable display is...

20060109253 - Electronic device with functions comparable to joystick and tablet: A multifunction electronic device with function comparable to joystick and tablet, comprising: an electromagnetic signal emitting unit, having an electromagnetic signal emitter arranged at the bottom thereof; a supporting frame, for fixing and supporting the electromagnetic signal emitting unit at a position over an electromagnetic signal receiving unit while allowing...

20060109256 - Haptic feedback for button and scrolling action simulation in touch input devices: A planar touch control is used to provide input to a computer and haptic feedback is provided thereto. A touch control includes a touch input device with a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor associated with the computer based on a location of user implemented...

20060109254 - Haptic panel apparatus: A haptic panel apparatus is disclosed that enables an operator to sense movement of a touch panel through touch when an input is made. The touch panel is accommodated within a base member, and an electromagnetic drive mechanism is provided between the touch panel and the base member. When the...

20060109255 - Notebook with touch pad module: A notebook and a touch pad module are disclosed. The notebook includes a main body and a touch pad module. The touch pad module is disposed on the main body, having a major surface with a first region and a minor surface with a second region. Area of the first...

20060109258 - Operation input device and electronic device: An operation input device or an electronic device equipped with the operation input device comprises an operation panel which includes a half mirror-deposited film being formed in one surface, and a plurality of touch input sensors of an electrostatic capacity detecting type arranged to face the surface in which the...

20060109252 - Reducing accidental touch-sensitive device activation: Aspects of the present invention reduce the number of false positive touch inputs made by a non-stylus object such as the user's finger or hand. When the stylus is located proximate to the touch-sensitive surface, the sensitivity of the surface to non-stylus input is disabled, reduced, or otherwise modified. For...

20060109259 - Storage medium storing image display program, image display processing apparatus and image display method: A game apparatus includes an LCD, a touch panel is provided in association with the LCD. On the LCD, a game screen of a game such as a puzzle game is displayed. It is noted that a part of the puzzle (virtual space) is displayed on the LCD. During the...

20060109257 - Writing tablet: A movable writing tablet for a chair comprising of a tablet mounted to a tablet support. A double rotating hinge connects to the tablet and support on one end, and is connected to a support block on the other end. The other end of the support block is connectable to...

20060109260 - Handwriting input apparatus: A handwriting input apparatus comprises a position-encoding layer and a pen. The position-encoding layer comprises a plurality of position-encoding pattern. The position-encoding layer is transparent to visible light and is reflective to light of predetermined wavelengths. Each position-encoding pattern represents a specific code. The pen has a projector and a...

20060109261 - Surface acoustic wave touch panel and system of the same: A surface acoustic wave touch panel and a system of the same are provided. The system includes the touch panel, an input/output (I/O) controlling unit, a detecting unit, and a signal processing unit. The touch panel includes a substrate on which at least one first emitter and at least one...

20060109262 - Structure of mouse pen: An improved structure of a mouse pen is disclosed. The mouse pen mainly comprises a hollow pen shaft inside which a refill having a spring is mounted. A pen cover for press is mounted on a distal end of the pen shaft. A cursor control device is mounted on the...

20060109263 - Universal computing device: A universal input device is described. The universal input device provides a common user interface for a variety of different computing platforms including printed documents. Using the present system, one may use the universal input device to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have...

20060109264 - Driving method of integrated circuit: A field-effect transistor (T2SW) in a semiconductor integrated circuit is driven by periodically applying positive and negative voltage pulses, with reference to the voltage applied to the source and drain electrodes, to the gate electrode. Stable operation of integrated circuit is realized by a simple method, even if the integrated...

20060109265 - Movement compensation: Aspects of the invention can provide data processor for generating driving image data for operating an image display device, including an image memory, a write-in control section for sequentially writing-in plural frame image data having a predetermined frame rate to the image memory, a read-out control section for reading-out the...

20060109266 - Apparatus and methods for haptic rendering using data in a graphics pipeline: The invention provides methods for leveraging data in the graphics pipeline of a 3D graphics application for use in a haptic rendering of a virtual environment. The invention provides methods for repurposing graphical information for haptic rendering. Thus, at least part of the work that would have been performed by...

20060109267 - Three-dimensional visualization architecture: A virtual terrain architecture and computer program product for employing a geocentric coordinate system, using a tessellated three-dimensional shape for representing a celestial body, and mapping terrain data to the tessellated three-dimensional shape is disclosed. In one embodiment, the methodology begins with a seed polyhedron such as an ellipsoid model....

20060109268 - System and method for generating rendering data associated with a 3-d image: A system and a method for generating rendering data associated with a 3-D image are provided. The system includes a 3-D API configured to generate a first 3-D data message indicative of one or more voxels in a first 3-D image from first 3-D image data. The system further includes...

20060109269 - Systems and methods for three-dimensional modeling: Systems and methods for modifying a virtual object stored within a computer. The systems and methods allow virtual object modifications that are otherwise computationally inconvenient. The virtual object is represented as a volumetric representation. A portion of the volumetric model is converted into an alternative representation. The alternative representation can...

20060109270 - Method and apparatus for providing calligraphic light point display: A visual display system uses commercial graphics processing units (GPUs) to determine an occlusion of calligraphic light points (CLPs) in a visual display. A color buffer pointer address of the GPUs is changed to point to a CLP subpixel counter and color datum associated with each CLP is changed to...

20060109271 - Collapsible (folding) graph: Generally, the present invention is directed towards a system and method for displaying a scientific research data set viewable on an electronic display. The system is made up of a computerized device having an electronic display for displaying a selectable range of data points, an input device for receiving user...

20060109272 - Electronic presentation system: An electronic presentation system of the present invention comprises: communication means; a first image and voice display means connected to the communication means in which display control and communication control through the communication means are controlled by remote control means; and a personal computer provided with a second image and...

20060109274 - Client/server-based animation software, systems and methods: Various embodiments of the invention provide novel software, systems and methods for animation and/or filmmaking. In a set of embodiments, for example, a client-server system provides the ability to control various aspects of a live-action and/or an animated scene, including cameras and/or light sources (either real and/or virtual), animated characters,...

20060109273 - Real-time multi-media information and communications system: An interactive multi-media information and communication system translates an intelligible data stream with discrete elements into one or more logically derived output data streams. The discrete data elements are analyzed by real-time dictionary look-up processing procedures to determine context, application and rule settings. The outcome of the analysis is used...

20060109275 - Method and apparatus for accumulative vector drawing using buffering: A method and apparatus for accumulative vector drawing are provided. The method includes receiving a graphics command, accumulating the graphics command, and rendering the graphics command in an order reverse to an order in which the graphics command was stored, and when the graphics command is a valid definite drawing...

20060109276 - Data outputting method, data outputting device, liquid crystal panel driving device, and liquid crystal display device: A data outputting method is provided which is capable of reducing a memory capacity of a LUT (Look-Up Table). Compressed data obtained by dropping low-order bits making up gray-level data is stored in a manner in which the compressed data can be accessed by high-order bits to be input to...

20060109277 - Efficient bump mapping using height maps: A method for generating bump map data substantially in real time for use in a 3-dimensional computer graphics system. Data is received which defines an area to which a texture is to be applied. Texture data to apply to the area is also received. This data includes surface height data....

20060109278 - Color melding apparatus and method: Techniques for locating an array of melded colors onto a software application's component window in order to create three-dimensional and multicolor graphics within the component window. The techniques include decoding a first and second color into their respective individual color components, performing a transition operation on the foregoing color components...

20060109279 - Display unit and methods of displaying an image: The present invention provides a method of displaying an image on a display device having first and second sides, said image including an light restricting silhouette pattern having a plurality of first transparent or translucent areas, and at least one design layer having at least one color, said at least...

20060109280 - Systems and methods for rendering a polygon in an image to be displayed: Polygon rendering systems for rendering a polygon in an image to be displayed include a rasterizer unit, a first memory buffer, and one or more additional memory buffers. The rasterizer unit is configured to generate one or more low resolution fragments representing a portion of the polygon at a low...

20060109281 - Video display apparatus: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a video display apparatus that can use a controller to calculate a correction value and determine the sampling clock to improve the accuracy of a correction clock, where the correction clock can be used for error reduction, so that degradation of the...

20060109282 - Non-rectangular image cropping methods and systems: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide techniques to automatically crop an image to a desired size and non-rectangular crop shape. A non-rectangular crop shape can, for example, be input to an image processing system. The non-rectangular crop shape is then used to process the original image to...

20060109283 - Temporal-context-based video browsing interface for pvr-enabled television systems: A method and system for presenting a set of graphic images on a television system is presented. A sequence of frames of a video is received. The frames are decoded and scaled to reduced size frames, which are sampled temporally and periodically to provide selected frames. The selected frames are...

20060109284 - Method for image blending: A method for blending multiple layers of images into a blended image is disclosed. Each layer of image contains a plurality of pixels and has a corresponding transparent coefficient. At least one image-overlapping area is formed by overlapping at least two of the layers of images. The method employs a...

20060109285 - Method and apparatus for writing a non-rectangular frame to a display device: The invention is directed to an apparatus and method for writing a non-rectangular frame to a display device and for animating window transitions. The apparatus comprises a memory for storing at least one parameter for defining a first aperture boundary and a data selecting part. The data selecting part is...

20060109286 - System and method for correcting defective pixels of a display device: A method of displaying an image with a display device having at least one defective display pixel is provided. The method comprises generating first, second, and third sub-frames using image data for the image, information that identifies the at least one defective display pixel, a first pixel offset associated with...

20060103587 - Receiver and method for decoding of truncated data: Coded digital data symbols sent from a transmitter through a transmission channel of a communications network are received in a receiver. An estimate, represented by a first number of bits, of a sent data symbol is calculated, and a second number of bits, lower than the first number, is selected...

20060103588 - Methods and systems for imaging device dynamic document creation and organization: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device dynamic document creation and organization....

20060103589 - Device and method for providing illuminating light using quantum dots: A device and method for providing illuminating light utilizes quantum dots to convert at least some of the original light emitted from a light source of the device to longer wavelength light to change the color characteristics of the illuminating light. The quantum dots may be included in the light...

20060103590 - Augmented display system and methods: A mobile augments information system with capabilities of displaying information within field of view of the eyes a vehicle operator. The mobile augments information system includes a Head Up Display (HUD) apparatus consisting of a projector, a selectively reflecting visor and a HUD processing units. The Mobile HUD displays digital...

20060103591 - Information processing apparatus and method for providing observer with information: There is provided a technology for controlling information to be supplied to an observer depending on a state of an apparatus, namely, whether the observer is receiving information. A use state of a head-mounted display device, for example, the position and/or orientation of the head-mounted display device is detected to...

20060103592 - Projection display: The present invention provides an inexpensive projection display that allows a pixel grid as ineffective portions of respective pixels of a light valve to be made inconspicuous. The projection display includes a birefringent element (43) for spatially separating light from a transmission liquid crystal light valve (39). The birefringent element...

20060103596 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel for preventing and a spot misfire and a miswriting is disclosed. In the method, wall charges are formed at a discharge cell in an initial period. The discharge cell selects discharge cells in an address period. A wall charge control...

20060103595 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus including a plasma display panel, on which terminal units of electrodes are drawn and disposed at an edge of the panel, a chassis base supporting the plasma display panel, and a circuit board arranged at a rear portion of the chassis base to drive the plasma...

20060103593 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: In the method of driving a plasma display panel according to the present invention, the address electrodes are divided into a plurality of electrode groups, and the an application time point of data pulses applied to one or more of the address electrode groups in the address period is different...

20060103594 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel that includes a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a plurality of address electrodes crossing the scan electrode and the sustain electrode. An electrode driver is provided for driving the scan electrode, the sustain electrode, and the address electrode. A controller...

20060103597 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A driving waveform is applied to a scan electrode while a sustain electrode is biased at a ground voltage such that a driving board for driving the sustain electrode may not be needed. In addition, when grouping a plurality of scan electrodes into a plurality of groups and representing grayscale...

20060103598 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the plasma display panel: A plasma display panel including a first substrate facing a second substrate, partition walls arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and defining a plurality of discharge cells, pairs of R, G, B discharge electrodes for generating a discharge in the discharge cells, a fluorescent layer emitting red,...

20060103600 - Driving method of plasma display panel: A driving method of a plasma display panel in which scan electrode lines and sustain electrode lines are parallel to each other and address electrode lines are spaced from and intersect the scan electrode lines and the sustain electrode lines, includes temporally dividing a unit frame into a plurality of...

20060103601 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: When driving a plasma display panel, in a first subfield of a first frame, turn-on cells are selected among cells of a first group of electrodes by performing an address operation for the first group, and a sustain discharge is performed for selected cells, and turn-on cells are selected among...

20060103602 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, an M electrode is provided between the X and Y electrodes. When an X or Y electrode driver applies a sustain pulse voltage of Vs/2 during a sustain period, a third power source also applies voltage Vs/2 to a node of the M electrode driver....

20060103603 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel including an upper substrate and a lower substrate facing each other; barrier ribs arranged between the upper and lower substrates to define a plurality of discharge cells together with the upper and lower substrates; a discharge sustain electrode pair extending along discharge cells arranged in a...

20060103599 - Plasma display panel apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel apparatus and its driving method are disclosed. When temperature of a panel or an ambient temperature of the panel is higher than a reference temperature, the number of reset rising waveforms applied during one frame is increased. Accordingly, degradation of the panel contrast according to a...

20060103604 - Surface discharge type plasma display panel divided into a plurality of sub-screens: A surface-discharge type PDP includes plural electrode pairs formed of first and second sustain electrodes arranged on a first substrate. Each pair extends along a line direction, and the first and second sustain electrodes are in parallel and adjacent to each other. Plural address electrodes arranged on a second substrate...

20060103605 - Plasma display panel driving apparatus: A plasma display panel driving apparatus for applying a voltage to an electrode of the plasma display panel. The apparatus includes a first voltage applying unit to apply a first voltage and a third voltage to the electrode, and a second voltage applying unit to apply a second voltage to...

20060103607 - Apparatus for driving electroluminescence display panel capable of energy recovery: An apparatus for driving an electroluminescence display panel having an icon area where predetermined icons are displayed according to input icon data and a dot-matrix area where variable images are displayed according to input dot-matrix data. A current that is discharged after the dot-matrix area is driven in each horizontal...

20060103608 - Light emitting panel and light emitting display: A light emitting display increases the lifetime of a light emitting element by reverse biasing the light emitting element without using an additional power source and a power source line. The light emitting element is reverse biased without using the power source and the power source line for the reverse...

20060103609 - Method for driving bistable organic light emitting device display: Methods for driving a display consisting of organic bistable light-emitting devices (OBLEDs), each corresponding to one pixel in the display. An exemplary method comprises respectively writing a signal during a sub-frame, into each selected OBLED, applying a certain voltage to all the OBLEDs such that the brightness of each OBLED...

20060103606 - Organic electroluminescence display device: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescence display device which can prevent the degradation of image quality and the property deterioration of a transistor provided in each pixel. The organic electroluminescence display device comprises data lines, gate lines, pixels and a power line, wherein, each of the pixels comprising: a first switching...

20060103610 - Signal line driving circuit and light emitting device: Dispersion occurs in the characteristics of the transistors. The invention is a signal line driving circuit having a first and a second current source circuits corresponding to each of a plurality of signal lines, a shift register, and a constant current source for video signal, in which the first current...

20060103611 - Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display including a scan driver for supplying scan signals to odd scan lines in an ith frame and for supplying scan signals to even scan lines in an (i+1)th frame, a data driver for supplying data signals corresponding to the scan signals, and an image display...

20060103612 - Led driving device and led driving method: Driving voltages of an LED of each color are stored in applied voltage storage register 11, 12 or 13, and the LED of each color is driven with independent driving voltage, whereby current consumption is reduced. Further, data in applied voltage storage registers 11, 12 and 13 is made rewritable...

20060103613 - Interferometric modulator array with integrated mems electrical switches: An interferometric modulator array is integrated with collapsible cavity MEMS electrical switches. The electrical switches may have similar physical geometry as the display elements. The switches may form row or column select functions for the display....

20060103614 - Light adjuster and laminated glass: A light adjuster according to which the wavelength dependence of the transmissivity when a voltage is not being applied can be reduced, and a laminated glass containing the light adjuster. The light adjuster 100 is comprised of a single liquid crystal layer 104, a pair of transparent electrically conductive films...

20060103615 - Color display: A color display comprises a plurality of first pixel groups and a plurality of second pixel groups. Each first pixel group includes three color pixels and each color pixel has at least two subpixels. Each first pixel group has a first arrangement of subpixels. The first pixel groups and the...

20060103617 - Apparatus and method for realizing gray levels of lcd: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method, in which gray levels are realized in such a manner that a pixel is supplied with a constant current instead of a voltage and charging duration (required for inputting data until a gate is turned on/off) is time-divided by the number of gray...

20060103616 - Method for realizing gray levels of lcd device: Disclosed is a method for realizing gray levels of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, which realize various gray levels by interworking a gamma voltage and a sub-frame. The method includes the steps of dividing a liquid crystal response time interval for a pixel during one frame into n sequential...

20060103618 - Driver circuit and display device: To provide a driver circuit that enables reduction in the number of elements formed through a high-voltage process and in chip size. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a driver circuit for inversion-driving a liquid crystal display panel, including: a positive-polarity line transmitting a positive display signal relative...

20060103620 - Driver chip for a display device and display device having the same: A display device includes a PCB, a driver chip and a display panel. The driver chip is mounted on an FPCB that is electrically coupled to the PCB and to the display panel. The driver chip includes a first circuit operating at a relatively low voltage and a relatively high...

20060103619 - Driving unit and display apparatus having the same: In a driving unit and a display apparatus having the driving unit, a control part outputs a first control signal, a second control signal, and a gamma reference voltage in response to an external signal and a data driver outputs a data voltage in response to the first control signal....

20060103621 - Technique that preserves specular highlights: A method for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display that includes a plurality of light emitting elements and a light valve. A image signal is received and a first light emitting element is illuminated based upon a substantial maximum of a non-uniform image signal in a first region....

20060103625 - Electric appliance system having selectable user interfaces and method for controlling the same: In an electric appliance system, an electric appliance for performing designated functions and first and second remote controllers are included. The first remote controller is optionally triggered for controlling a first group of the designated functions, and the second remote controller is optionally triggered for controlling a second group of...

20060103626 - Image display apparatus, display control method for the same, program, and storage medium: An image display apparatus includes a first casing having an operation unit, a second casing having a display unit capable of displaying a plurality of images received from different input sources, and a connection unit configured to interconnect the first and second casings and to allow the second casing to...

20060103624 - Image display apparatus, electronic apparatus, and image display method: When an electronic book 1 momentarily moves by Δy in the direction of the arrow A because of a vibration, an image display 7 (an LCD module 15) is changed downward by Δy so that when the user is viewing an image, the user's line of sight is substantially fixed...

20060103627 - Information displaying device: The conventional mirror shows only a reflected image. For example, a user who looks at the same mirror at a face-washing place at home every day can see only the similar reflected image. The present invention provides an information displaying device capable of displaying information which can be displayed by...

20060103628 - Input device: An input device includes a substrate and a movable object that moves on the substrate. One of the substrate and the movable object includes a magnetic field generator and the other of the substrate and the movable object includes electromagnetic conversion elements provided to detect magnetic fields generated outside of...

20060103623 - Method and apparatus to enter text in a phone dialer entry field: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus to dial a telephone number that includes at least one numeric symbol and at least one non-numeric symbol. The method includes, in response to a user entering a numeric symbol, entering the numeric symbol into a telephone number buffer; in response to the user...

20060103622 - Portable computer device: A portable computer device has data acceptance logic (24,40) that determines whether input data items have time and location information. If not, data items are stored together with time and location information taken from clock (30) and location determining circuitry (28), here a Global Positioning Service (GPS) system. A screen...

20060103629 - Programmable virtual book system: An electronic information browsing system that provides a book-like interface—a virtual book—for presenting electronic contents. Specifically, an electronic information browsing system that allows users to configure its behavior via data and program specification encapsulated in a dynamic file format. Configurable behavior includes but not limited to the kind of contents...

20060103630 - Electronic device and pointing representation displaying method: An electronic device has a display capable of displaying a pointing representation, a detector for detecting a movement of the electronic device, and a display controller for controlling the display so as to move the pointing representation displayed on the display in response to the movement of the electronic device...

20060103631 - Electronic device and pointing representation displaying method: An electronic device has a display capable of displaying a pointing representation, a detector for detecting a movement of the electronic device, and a display controller for controlling the display so as to move the pointing representation displayed on the display in response to the movement of the electronic device...

20060103634 - Apparatus and method of providing fingertip haptics of visual information using electro-active polymer for image display device: An apparatus provides fingertip haptics of visual information using an electro-active polymer for an image display device. The apparatus includes a sensing unit which outputs a detecting signal by detecting a user's finger touching a surface of a touch panel; a pattern generating unit which generates a pattern signal of...

20060103633 - Customizable touch input module for an electronic device: A system having a customized interface for providing user inputs to an electronic device and a method for configuring the system is disclosed. The system comprises a user interface that includes a finger sensor and a mechanical component, both for receiving user inputs. A customizable device interface couples the user...

20060103635 - Device and method of avoiding noise in touch screen panel: A method of avoiding noise in a touch screen panel, and a device to perform the method, the method including providing a clock signal to a control unit to control the touch screen panel; wherein the clock signal is supplied to the control unit according to a received touch screen...

20060103632 - Integral spacer dots for touch screen: A touch screen comprising a flexible sheet comprising a substantially planar surface and integral compressible spacer dots formed thereon, where each spacer dot comprises a base cross section in the substantially planar surface of the flexible sheet defined by a first point or set of connected points intersecting an axis...

20060103636 - Interactive display suspended for patient viewing: An electronic display assembly for viewing by a person in a resting position includes: a carriage movable along a translation axis; a pivot arm coupled to the carriage, the pivot arm pivotable about a pivot axis; and a subassembly coupled to the pivot arm. The subassembly includes an electronic display...

20060103637 - Inputting/outputting apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: An inputting/outputting apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the position of an object which is in contact with or in the proximity of the apparatus can be detected with a high degree of accuracy with a simple structure without deteriorating the picture quality while the convenience in use is assured....

20060103639 - Display device: A display device is provided which is capable of, at time of driving a display panel section, preventing noise caused by components exhibiting a piezoelectric effect and of achieving silent operations and removal of unpleasant audible noise. When load variation for each line has an audio frequency component, noise occurs...

20060103641 - Display device with electrical zipper interconnect: A display device includes an electronic display adapted to produce images, an electronic device that electrically communicates with the display and a zipper interconnect adapted to enable electrical connection between the display and the electronic device. The electronic display can be a reflective display such as a liquid crystal display...

20060103638 - Light film device: A light film apparatus that can be used to display static any/or dynamic graphics on an illuminated graphics panel. The illuminated graphics panel can be mounted in or near a window of a vehicle, a building or the like. Any one or more sensors can detect a condition and communicate...

20060103640 - Organic electroluminescence display: Embodiments of an organic electroluminescence display capable of preventing line mura generated due to manufacturing differences in driving transistors are disclosed. The manufacturing differences may be due to deviations of irradiated energy beam density generated from an excimer laser annealing process for crystallizing amorphous silicon into polycrystalline silicon. One embodiment...

20060103642 - Charging and communication cable system for a mobile computer apparatus: A charging and communication cable system for a handheld computer system is disclosed. The charging and communication cable system includes a first interface for connecting to the handheld computer system, a second interface for connecting to another computer system, and a third interface for coupling to a charger system. In...

20060103643 - Measuring and modeling power consumption in displays: Methods and systems for determining power consumption in displays are described. In some cases, the power may be determined by determining the capacitance of each pixel in the display, where the capacitance may be different for pixels in bright and dark states and for pixels of different color. Methods and...

20060103644 - Display apparatus and method for eliminating incidental image thereof: A display apparatus having a display panel on which an image is displayed, including: an image sensing unit sensing whether the displayed image is still; a video processing unit capable of changing a video gain of a video signal applied to the display panel; and a controller controlling the video...

20060103645 - Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons: The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of occludee polygons. Occluders and occludees are also transformed into non-interpenetrating, non-overlapping polygons. Winged-edges are employed to minimize...

20060103646 - Entertainment apparatus, object display device, object display method, recording medium and character display method: An entertainment system 10 has: a depth computing module 210 which computes a viewpoint distance from viewpoint coordinate to an object; a scaling computing module 208 which computes scaling for a unique size of the object based on the viewpoint distance; a model transforming module 206 which multiples the unique...

20060103647 - Transparent depth sorting: Methods and systems for transparent depth sorting are described. In accordance with one embodiment, multiple depth buffers are utilized to sort depth data associated with multiple transparent pixels that overlie one another. The sorting of the depth data enables identification of an individual transparent pixel that lies closest to an...

20060103648 - Method and system for mesh-free analysis of general three-dimensional shell structures: A method, system and computer program product pertained to engineering analysis of a general three-dimensional (3-D) shell structure using the mesh-free technique is disclosed. The structural responses are solved with mesh-free technique after the 3-D shell structure is mapped to a two-dimensional plane. According to one aspect, the present invention...

20060103650 - Display controlling apparatus, information terminal unit provided with display controlling apparatus, and viewpoint location controlling apparatus: The object of the present invention can be achieved by a display controlling apparatus for displaying a plurality of information objects including an information object shown by a three-dimensional shape in a three-dimensional virtual space. In the display controlling apparatus, a view to display is determined based on a shape...

20060103649 - Method and computing device for rendering graphical objects: A method and computing device for rendering graphical objects is provided. A transformation to be applied to a graphical object is determined. Verification data corresponding to the transformation is determined. The transformation is adjusted using the verification data. The graphical object transformed with the transformation is rendered via an output...

20060103651 - Method and computer program for implementing interactive bargraphs of any shape or design on a graphical user in interface: A method and computer program are provided for implementing an interactive bargraph that includes associating an interactive bargraph with an independent touch map image having a plurality of pixel values, displaying the interactive bargraph, determining a current level of the interactive bargraph based on the content of the touch map...

20060103652 - Graphics systems and methods: Embodiments of graphics systems and methods are disclosed. In one method embodiment, a graphics method comprises receiving information about a line primitive and segmenting the line primitive with a plurality of bounding areas....

20060103653 - System and method of caching glyphs for display by a remote terminal: A method and system of operating a remote terminal by a terminal server caches representation data of glyphs to be displayed on the remote terminal to reduce the amount of glyph data that have to be transmitted to the remote terminal through a network connection. The glyph caching is performed...

20060103654 - System and method of caching glyphs for display by a remote terminal: A method and system of operating a remote terminal by a terminal server caches representation data of glyphs to be displayed on the remote terminal to reduce the amount of glyph data that have to be transmitted to the remote terminal through a network connection. The glyph caching is performed...

20060103656 - Communication protocol for synchronizing animation: A communications protocol is described that governs asynchronous exchange of data between a high level animation system and a low level animation system. The high level animation system has a variable, medium-frequency frame rate and is optimized for interactivity. The low level animation system has a constant, high frequency frame...

20060103655 - Coordinating animations and media in computer display output: Described is a method and system in which storyboard objects coordinate the animation of multiple elements and/or media displayed on a computer graphics display. Storyboards relate properties of elements in an element tree to a timeline, such that the properties associated with a storyboard are animated/play together as a group...

20060103657 - Systems and methods of providing image copy and modify commands to a receiver with an associated display: A method comprises providing image copy and modify commands to a receiver. Each copy command causes pixel values in an area of a display associated with the receiver to be copied to another area of the display and each modify command causes at least one pixel value in an area...

20060103658 - Color compression using multiple planes in a multi-sample anti-aliasing scheme: Systems and methods are provided for compressing computer graphics color data in a system utilizing a multi-sample anti-aliasing scheme using multiple planes for storing color data samples. Each of the planes is configured as a block of contiguous memory....

20060103659 - Latency tolerant system for executing video processing operations: A latency tolerant system for executing video processing operations. The system includes a host interface for implementing communication between the video processor and a host CPU, a scalar execution unit coupled to the host interface and configured to execute scalar video processing operations, and a vector execution unit coupled to...

20060103660 - Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding images: Methods and apparatus for generating images, compressing image data, decompressing image data, and processing the decompressed image data so that it can be used by a rendering circuit of a device, e.g., a set top box, are described. Images are generated in the native format used by the rendering circuit...

20060103661 - Rendering volumetric fog and other gaseous phenomena: Systems and methods for rendering a gaseous display. The distance from a user's reference point to each pixel through the gas is determined. The distance is then converted into an attenuation factor that is used to blend the scene color with the gas color. The result can then be used...

20060103662 - Method and system for displaying a menu which has an icon: A menu displaying system and method having an icon for editing image data in an AV (Audio and Video) device, the AV device having a recording medium capable of storing image data and audio data, and which is capable of reproducing image data and audio data. The method comprises steps...

20060103663 - Method and system for real-time anti-aliasing using fixed orientation multipixels: An improved method and system for generating real-time anti-aliased polygon images is disclosed. Fixed orientation multipixel structures contain multiple regions, each with independent color and depth value, and an edge position. Regions are constructed for polygon edge pixels which are then merged with current region values, producing new multipixel structures....

20060103664 - Contents reproduction device capable of reproducing a contents in optimal reproduction mode: When contents which are an animation are downloaded, a contents reproduction terminal identifies whether or not each object, such as a figure, an image or text, which is included in the contents is a 3-D (stereoscopic) object that includes deepness information on the depth of the object. Thus, it is...

20060103668 - Dynamic representation process and system for a space of characterized objects enabling recommendation of the objects or their characteristics: A process for generating a dynamic and contextualized cartography of information including a step of collaborative filtration which includes determining at least one affinity group formed from a set of profiles, wherein the distance from the profile to a reference object is less than a threshold value, a step of...

20060103665 - Method and system for streaming documents, e-mail attachments and maps to wireless devices: A method for streaming vector images to wireless devices, including receiving a request from a wireless device for a portion of a vector image and a target display width and height, the vector image including a plurality of vector primitives, determining which of the vector primitives are positioned so as...

20060103667 - Method, system and computer readable code for automatic reize of product oriented advertisements: A system, method and computer readable code for re-sizing (e.g. shifting and re-scaling) graphical objects is disclosed. According to some embodiments, a layout engine differentially re-sizes different groups of graphical object in accordance with different re-size parameters. According to some embodiments, the layout engine re-sizes graphical objects in accordance with...

20060103666 - Operating apparatus and remote control system: The operating apparatus having: a display section to display an operation screen showing an item of a function of an equipment; an operating section to accept input of message information for the operation screen displayed on the display section and setting of a display position of the message information on...

20060103669 - Method and device for constructing and viewing a computer model image: The invention relates to a method and a device for constructing and viewing a computer model image. The invention comprises the following steps: at least one zone of the image is selected; the part of the image that is located outside the selected zone (2) is displayed with standard display...

20060103670 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: A multi-value mask as shown in FIG. 2B2 is applied on a target image shown in FIG. 2B1. The multi-value mask can have a real value corresponding to each voxel; for example, the multi-value mask has real values in the boundary area of the target image like “1, 1, 1,...

20060103675 - Display apparatus and displaying method for the same: It is determined whether or not blocks of a main scanning direction-wise pixel line of an LCD and a sub-image data of an image information table are superposed. When they are determined to be superposed, a reading out address of the sub-image data is calculated, a sub-image block data is...

20060103671 - Method of background colour removal for porter and duff compositing: A method (700) of compositing a group of graphical objects onto a background image, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, is disclosed. The method (700) allows a grouped plurality of objects to be composited onto a background image to produce the same result as if each of...

20060103674 - Methods for automated and semiautomated composition of visual sequences, flows, and flyovers based on content and context: A system with the ability to dynamically compose a sequence of visual views or flows allowing a single object or region, or multiple objects or regions, to be viewed from different perspectives and visual distances is described. The sequence of views can provide smooth flyovers over positions and details on...

20060103676 - System and method for providing a dynamically updating legend: Generating a dynamic legend for a drawing developed by a diagramming software program. A drawing sheet module and legend module, logically-coupled to the drawing sheet module, are useful for generating and updating a dynamic legend. The legend module can support the addition of a legend to a drawing sheet. The...

20060103672 - System, method, and computer program product for managing parametric and other objects: An XML system and format for managing multiple parametric objects. The preferred embodiments allow users to model complex systems of discrete parametric objects. Complex equipment systems such as overhead conveyors or automated guided vehicles can be modeled using a simple center-line path and a library of parametric XML objects. Properties...

20060103673 - Vector path merging into gradient elements: In one embodiment, methods and architectures are provided that heuristically analyze an incoming vector path data stream over multiple DDI calls, and merge the path data strips into a single gradient element. This single gradient element can then be processed, as by being serialized into XAML, so that it can...

20060103678 - Method and system for interactive visualization of locally oriented structures: A method of visualizing an object in an image includes presenting an image, selecting a point in an object of interest in said image, determining a main orientation of said object of interest, presenting a first visualization of said object of interest, wherein said first visualization has a first display...

20060103677 - System and method for effectively performing arbitrary angle sprite rotation procedures: A system and method for effectively performing arbitrary angle sprite rotation procedures includes a display controller with an input module that is configured to store an unrotated sprite into a sprite memory. The display controller also includes a sprite pipe that performs sprite rotation procedures upon the unrotated sprite to...

20060103679 - Apparatus and method for transposing data: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for transposing data. The apparatus includes a pair of line memories, a pair of memories and output units. The line memories horizontally read image data a frame of which is composed of K×L byte data (row length: K bytes, column length: L bytes),...

20060103680 - Apparatus and method for calculating source image coordinates: A method and an apparatus for calculating source image coordinates. In an embodiment, a variation rate of the source image coordinate with respect to a converted image coordinate is calculated by a recursive computation, and variation rates are accumulated to obtain the source image coordinate. Because the converted image coordinate...

20060103681 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus with a display part to display a picture thereon, including a user interface (UI) generator to provide an interface screen for setting an overscan region of a picture displayed on the display part; a user input part used for selection/input of a user; and a controller to...

20060103684 - Light emitting device and electronic apparatus using the same: Providing a light emitting device capable of suppressing the variations of luminance of OLEDs associated with the deterioration of an organic light emitting material, and achieving a consistent luminance. An input video signal is constantly or periodically sampled to sense a light emission period or displayed gradation level of each...

20060103682 - Liquid crystal panel drive device: A liquid crystal panel drive device performs overdrive by using a frame memory (1) and a lookup table (2). The device is characterized by that there are provided a plurality of types of lookup table (2) to be used according to temperature and the lookup tables (2) are selectively switched...

20060103683 - Method and system for gamma adjustment of display apparatus: A method for gamma adjustment of a display apparatus having a gamma transform table for an input signal, the method including selecting a plurality of sample gray levels among gray levels of the input signal; measuring a brightness level of an output video signal with regard to the plurality of...

20060103685 - Method for generating video clock and associated target image frame: A method for generating a video clock and an associated target image frame is disclosed. The method generates an output clock signal for outputting a target image frame to a panel according to a frame pixel number and a vertical synchronization signal (Vsync). The target image frame corresponds to a...

20060097954 - Method of displaying text on multiple display devices: A method of displaying text on multiple display devices. The multiple display devices include a master device with a master display and at least one slave device with a slave display. The method includes establishing communication between the master device and the slave device, dividing the text into a first...

20060097955 - Portable electronic device: A display operation mediating means is placed between an application executing means for selectively executing a plurality of applications and generating display control information for each application, and first and second display devices. In this display operation mediating means, priorities are preset for a plurality of pieces of display control...

20060097956 - Programmable display device: A programmable display device selects and displays one screen data item from one of screen data groups each constituted of a plurality of screen data items indicative of control conditions. Further, the programmable display device includes a selection information forming section and a screen data group setting section. The selection...

20060097957 - Display panel and large display using such display panel: A tiling of multiple display panels having reduced seam widths (gap) therebetween using a plurality of single edge connect display panels, wherein for each display panel: interconnect lines in the lateral direction are formed on a front plate; input portions of the interconnect lines are routed on an area where...

20060097958 - Projection system: A projection system having a projection display (20), at least one light source (10), and a sensor means for sensing and compensating for changes in the luminous flux emitted by the at least one light source (10) is described. The sensor means comprises in this case at least one sensor...

20060097960 - Driving method: The present invention provides a driving method suitable for a plasma display. The plasma display includes multiple scan electrodes, multiple sustain electrodes and multiple address electrodes, for example. Successive frames are adapted to be displayed in repeating reset periods, address periods and sustain periods by applying driving signals to the...

20060097959 - Electrode driving apparatus for plasma display panel: e

20060097961 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. In accordance with a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, widths of scan pulses are different depending on locations of the scan lines. Since scan pulse widths are set depending on locations of the scan lines,...

20060097963 - Driving method of plasma display panel, and plasma display device: According to a plasma display device of the present invention, a waveform for erasing a wall charge of an address electrode formed near a sustain electrode is applied during a first period of a sustain period, when a temperature of a PDP is lower that room temperature. Thereby, with an...

20060097962 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display device having a plurality of discharge cells formed thereon. At least one first discharge cell is selected from among the plurality of discharge cells to be in a light emitting cell state by discharging the at least one first discharge cell in an...

20060097964 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. In an embodiment of the present invention, a scan bias voltage that is controlled according to a mapped sub-field, a data load or an APL of each sub-field is supplied. In an embodiment of the present invention,...

20060097965 - Active matrix electroluminescent display devices: Each pixel of an active matrix electroluminescent display device has a first amorphous silicon drive transistor for intermittently driving a current through the display element and a second amorphous silicon drive transistor for intermittently driving a current through the display element. The aging effect of amorphous silicon TFTs can be...

20060097966 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof, in which an image is displayed with uniform brightness. The organic light emitting display includes: a scan driver for supplying a plurality of first scan signals at substantially a same time to a plurality of scan lines in a first...

20060097968 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an illuminator for irradiating light onto the light bulb, and a control unit that includes a data analyzer for analyzing image data, an image memory for storing the image data, a display-data generating converter for converting the stored image data to display-data for the light bulb,...

20060097967 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An LCD groups pixels in each row into a plurality of blocks, and calculates difference in gray between every two image data applied to a pair of adjacent odd and even pixels in each block including pixels in a row for each of first to third colors. It is determined...

20060097969 - Data driving system and display having adjustable common voltage: The invention relates to a data driving system and a display, wherein the data driving system for driving a display panel, comprises a Gamma reference voltage generator, a common voltage generator, and a plurality of data drivers. The Gamma reference voltage generator is used for generating a plurality of Gamma...

20060097971 - Liquid crystal display and driving device of the same: e

20060097970 - Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same: Fine electrode patterns pattern-formed in the shape of fine teeth of a comb bilaterally symmetrical with respect to band-shaped portions are formed at even intervals in a pixel electrode, and band-shaped dielectric layers are pattern-formed at even intervals to cover the fine electrode patterns in a display pixel. By the...

20060097972 - Liquid crystal display device: In an active-matrix liquid crystal display device, each of multiple pixels includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, through which different voltages are applicable to a portion of the liquid crystal layer. Each of the first and second sub-pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor defined by a counter electrode...

20060097973 - Current-driven oled panel and related pixel structure: A display apparatus includes a light-emitting device, a first scan line for transferring a first signal to select the light-emitting device, a data line for transferring a data current signal to drive the light-emitting device, a first transistor having a gate coupled to the first scan line for selecting the...

20060097976 - Display device and driving device thereof: A device of driving a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided. The display device includes a plurality of display circuits, a plurality of sensing circuits, and a plurality of data lines connected to the display circuits and the sensing circuits. The driving device includes:...