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

20060139233 - Image display apparatus for displaying composite images: Image display apparatus (2) for displaying composite images, which image display apparatus (2) comprises a primary image source (4), at least one secondary image source (6), first distortion, means (12) for distorting the image geometry of the secondary image source (6) such that the image geometry of the secondary image...

20060139234 - Display device and display method: A display device includes a display section and a video signal generating section. The display section displays n video pictures in n viewing directions on one and the same screen on a basis of a video signal where n indicates natural number. First particular number of pixels are arranged in...

20060139235 - Driving circuit system for stereoscopic image display device and driving method thereof: A driving circuit system for a stereoscopic image display device including a central controlling unit outputting control signals and selection signals according to command signals of an external device, a signal-generating unit outputting driving signals according to the control signals, an output signal-controlling unit receiving the driving signals and outputting...

20060139236 - Projection type image display apparatus: A projection unit comprises a laser diode (LD) for emitting a laser beam, and a LD control section for controlling the LD. The laser beam emitted from the LD is scanned in horizontal and vertical directions respectively by first and second micro mirrors, and is projected on a projection surface...

20060139237 - Driver circuit, in particular for laser diodes, and method for providing a drive pulse sequence: A driver circuit that provides a driver pulse sequence with different adjustable driver pulse heights in different time segments is provided. The driver circuit includes n pulse generators that supply pulse height contributions to a summing node, wherein the supplying can be controlled by switching elements individual to the pulse...

20060139238 - Light emitting display device and method of driving the same: A unit quantity of electricity is input to each pixel of a plurality of pixels according to image data so that the each pixel emits a predetermined light. The luminance of the predetermined light per unit quantity of electricity is smaller as electric resistance value of each pixel become larger....

20060139239 - Liquid crystal display device and projector: The present invention, in a projector, prevents the generation of a color domain which is generated attributed to the orientation direction having a pretilt angle. In a projector including a light source, a plurality of liquid crystal display panels which modify light irradiated from the light source, and a screen...

20060139240 - Liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal driving method and data recorder/reproducer: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can regulate a visual field angle and a contrast that matches a using state. There is provided a liquid crystal display device having a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines provided by intersecting the scanning lines...

20060139244 - Method and device for controlling a plasma matrix screen: The method is for controlling a plasma matrix screen, including sequential selection of rows of the matrix and, for a selected row, deselection of a plurality of columns of the matrix which were previously selected during the selection of a previous row. To avoid excessive steepness of the falling edges...

20060139246 - Method of driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel enabling to improve an overall contrast characteristic of the plasma display panel by reducing a voltage difference between scan and sustain electrodes Y and Z to decrease an emission amount of light generated by a discharge between the scan and...

20060139243 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a data driver for applying a data voltage to a plurality of address electrodes; and a connection unit connected between the address electrode and the data driver, and having a different resistance from the address electrode....

20060139242 - Plasma display apparatus and driving apparatus of plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and a driving apparatus of a plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus and the driving apparatus of the plasma display panel according to the present invention comprises an energy storage unit connected to a voltage source that supplies a reference...

20060139241 - Plasma display device and method of manufacturing same: A plasma display device including a green phosphor of which brightness is hardly deteriorated and a production method therefor are disclosed. The plasma display device comprises a plasma display panel in which a plurality of discharge cells of one color or a plurality of colors are disposed, red phosphor layers...

20060139245 - Projection video display apparatus and brightness adjustment method therefor: This invention is applied to a projection video display apparatus which causes a DMA to modulate light from a light source having a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed LEDs in accordance with a video signal and projects the modulated video light onto a screen via a projection optical lens. The two-dimensionally...

20060139247 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, in which an afterimage occurring when the plasma display panel is turned on can be obviated and an erroneous discharge phenomenon and damage to elements can be prevented. A plasma display apparatus according to an aspect of...

20060139250 - Control method for a matrix display screen: Control method for a matrix display screen wherein a line selection voltage is applied to a line during a line selection time and simultaneously a voltage is applied to a column corresponding to a grey level to be displayed chosen from among 2q levels and numerically coded according to a...

20060139249 - Electron emission display and a method of driving the electron emission display: An electron emission display includes: cathode electrode lines electrically connected to electron emission sources; gate electrode lines including openings corresponding to the electron emission sources, the openings being arranged at intersections of the gate electrode lines and the cathode electrode lines; phosphor cells arranged to correspond to the openings of...

20060139248 - Planar display apparatus: A technique capable of displaying an efficient bright image in an image display apparatus using electron sources is provided. The image display apparatus includes a plurality of electron sources, and a plurality of phosphors provided so as to be opposed to the electron sources, light being emitted by the phosphors...

20060139258 - Buffer circuit and organic light emitting display with data integrated circuit using the same: In an organic light emitting display with a data integrated circuit using the same, a buffer circuit comprises: a first capacitor receiving gradation voltage through a first terminal; a first inverter having an input terminal connected to a second terminal of the first capacitor; a second capacitor having a first...

20060139264 - Data driver and light emitting diode display device including the same: A data driver and a light emitting diode display device including the circuit that cause a pixel current through the light emitting diode to be independent of the threshold voltage of a transistor driving the light emitting diode. The data driver includes a voltage digital-analog converter for generating a data...

20060139263 - Data driver and organic light emitting display device including the same: A data driver and an organic light emitting display device including the data driver. The data driver including a shift register part to generate sampling signals in sequence, a latch part to store external data in response to the sampling signals, a current digital-analog converter to generate a data current...

20060139261 - Data driving circuit, organic light emitting diode (oled) display using the data driving circuit, and method of driving the oled display: A data driving circuit including: a voltage digital-analog converter adapted to generate a first gradation voltage corresponding to external data; a current digital-analog converter adapted to generate a gradation current corresponding to the external data; a voltage control unit adapted to receive a feedback pixel current from a pixel via...

20060139260 - Display and array substrate: Each pixel of a display includes a light emitting element including an anode connected to a high potential power supply terminal, a cathode, and an active layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, a drive control element including a p channel thin film transistor whose drain is connected to...

20060139252 - Display device and display panel, pixel circuit and compensating method thereof: A display device including a timing control circuit, a programmable voltage generator, a gate driver, a source driver circuit and a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of redundancy pixel cells and display pixel cells. The redundancy pixel cells and display pixel cells may include a—Si...

20060139254 - Display device and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus: The brightness of a light emitting element varies when changes in ambient temperature or changes with time occur. In view of this, the invention provides a display device where the influence of variations in the current value of the light emitting element due to changes in ambient temperature and changes...

20060139251 - Display device and method for driving display device: A display device that displays image information in response to a display signal consisting of digital signals includes a display panel comprising a plurality of signal lines (DL) and a plurality of scanning lines (SL) which intersect at right angles with each other, and a plurality of display pixels (EM)...

20060139259 - Light emitting display: A light emitting display that includes a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels to display an image, a scan driver to supply a scan signal and an emission control signal to the pixel portion, and a data driver connected to a plurality of data lines each divided into a...

20060139256 - Method and apparatus for driving light-emitting display panel: A passive matrix light-emitting display panel including, at cross points of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines which cross each other, light-emitting elements having anode terminals connected to the scan lines and cathode terminals connected to the data lines, respectively, is used. The display panel...

20060139262 - Organic electroluminescent device and method of driving the same: An organic electroluminescent device has a plurality of sub-pixels formed on an area having crossed over data lines and scan lines. The device includes a preliminary charge driving circuit which discharges each data line during a discharge time of preliminary charge time, and pre-charges the discharged data line by applying...

20060139255 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display that reduces the number of output lines from a data driver, attains image stability, and adjusts white balance. A plurality of demultiplexers at the primary output lines of the data driver simultaneously supply the data signals from each primary output line to a plurality of...

20060139253 - Pixel and light emitting display: Circuits for a pixel in a light emitting display capable of displaying an image with desired brightness are described. The pixel circuit includes a driver to supply a pixel current to the light emitting device corresponding to a data signal supplied from a data line, a first switching unit coupled...

20060139257 - Pixel circuit and organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display includes a pixel circuit having first, second, and third organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), for emitting red, green, and blue light, respectively, a driving circuit commonly connected to the OLEDs, and a switching circuits connected to the OLED and the driving circuit to sequentially control...

20060139265 - Driving method of display device: In a display device for displaying gray scales by dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes and using a time gray scale method, pseudo contour is generated. In the case where high-order bits are displayed, gray scales are displayed by sequentially adding the weight (light-emitting period, the frequency of...

20060139266 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display and a driving method thereof, has an image displayed with uniform brightness. The method of driving a organic light emitting diode display, includes dividing one frame into one or more sub-frames, and supplying scan signals in sequence to some of plural scan lines provided...

20060139267 - Light-emitting element driving apparatus: A light-emitting element driving apparatus includes a constant-current circuit and a control circuit. The constant-current circuit includes a plurality of constant-current sources that are connected in parallel with each other and are respectively connected in series to a light-emitting element to supply current to the light-emitting element. The constant-current sources...

20060139269 - Apparatus for measuring response time and method of measuring response time using the same: An apparatus for measuring response time of a display apparatus including a photographing part including a charge coupled device camera and a microscope, an image processing part receiving a picture taken from a photographing part and calculating the response time thereof, and a control part applying a predetermined image signal...

20060139268 - Display device: A flat panel display device 1 capable of displaying images on both its front and back panels includes first pixel electrodes 31 and 32 disposed at pixels 11b and second optically transparent pixel electrodes 32 disposed at pixels 11a, and common electrodes 35 and 36 provided with optically transparent portions...

20060139270 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal dispaly device: A method and an apparatus for driving a display device including a histogram calculator to calculate a histogram of pixel data for an input image and a data stretching curve generator, which divides the histogram into n (n being a positive integer above 2) gray level areas to generate a...

20060139271 - Display and portable device: A display capable of suppressing breakage of a display panel against an impact resulting from a fall or the like is obtained. This display comprises a display panel, an upper frame having a first opening for exposing a display surface of the display panel, a first flexible printed wiring board...

20060139273 - Display driving device and display apparatus comprising the same: A display driving device includes a gradation voltage generating section for generating a plurality of gradation voltages corresponding to the number of gradation levels in display data and reversing polarities of the gradation voltages at a time based on a horizontal synchronizing signal corresponding to the display data. A plurality...

20060139272 - Gamma voltage generating apparatus and method of testing a gamma voltage: An apparatus for generating a gamma voltage capable of testing the gamma voltage includes a gamma voltage selection unit, a gamma voltage output unit and a gamma voltage test unit. The gamma voltage selection unit selects at least one of a plurality of source gamma voltages generated by a resistor...

20060139274 - Ocb mode liquid crystal display and a driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display includes a TFT array panel, a color filter panel, a liquid crystal layer in an OCB mode, a pair of compensation films provided on outer surfaces of the TFT array panel and the color filter panel, a pair of polarization films provided on outer surfaces of...

20060139277 - Active matrix liquid crystal display with black image: An active matrix LCD (200) includes: a plurality of scanning lines (23) that are parallel to each other and that each extend along a first direction; a plurality of signal lines (24) that are parallel to each other and that each extend along a second direction orthogonal to the first...

20060139276 - Data driving integrated circuit (ic), light emitting display using the ic, and method of driving the light emitting display: A data driving integrated circuit to display an image with a desired brightness includes: a shift register adapted to generate sampling signals in sequence; a latch adapted to store external data in response to the sampling signal; a register adapted to temporarily store the data stored in the latch; a...

20060139278 - Driving method of display device: The present invention provides a driving method for a display device which includes a display part having pixels of M columns×N rows and a memory, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting element. At times other than a usual light...

20060139279 - Light emitting device: The light-emitting element has a problem that reliability, heat-resisting stability and durability are low because of the deterioration in an organic compound layer. The TFT for driving the light-emitting element has a problem that variation readily occurs in its electrical characteristic due to the defects existing in grain boundaries. The...

20060139275 - Organic electronic devices including pixels: An organic electronic device includes a pixel. In one embodiment, the organic electronic device is a bottom emission electronic device. The pixel has an aperture ratio of at least 40%. In another embodiment, the pixel has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. From a plan...

20060139280 - Pixel structure of a low color shift liquid crystal display (lcd) panel, a driving method, and a fabrication method thereof: A pixel structure of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, an LC layer, and a common electrode layer is provided. The LC layer is interposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The common electrode layer is formed on a lower surface...

20060139282 - Driver circuit of display device: A driver circuit of a display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a dot-inversion switch selectively supplying a driving voltage generated with an operational amplifier to a first pixel electrode or a second pixel electrode, the dot-inversion switch including: an operational amplifier-side switch and a pixel-side switch...

20060139281 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a timing control unit for generating first and second control signals, which are transitioned every ½ frame. A polarity signal is set according to a count number obtained by counting the number of wave forms of the first and/or second control signals. A plurality...

20060139289 - Apparatus and method to improve quality of moving image displayed on liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a panel having pixel electrodes arranged at intersections of a plurality of signal lines via switching elements for transmitting display data and a plurality of scanning lines for transmitting control signals, and a control circuit for controlling the panel. The liquid crystal panel is...

20060139286 - Display device and mobile terminal: A display device and mobile terminal are provided. The display device can narrow the pitch, able to narrower the frame, and able to further reduce power consumption, comprising a display area; a vertical drive circuit; a first horizontal drive circuit converting input first and second digital image data to analog...

20060139283 - Display with reduced block dim effect: The present invention is directed in general to a LCD-panel, and particularly to a LCD panel whose gate drivers (GD) are assembled without a printed circuit board (PCB). This technique is so called PCB-less, where the wiring of the gate drivers (GD) is not done with conventional printed circuit boards...

20060139287 - Dynamic capacitance compensation apparatus and method for liquid crystal display: A dynamic capacitance compensation (DCC) apparatus and method for a liquid crystal display (LCD). The apparatus includes a one-dimensional block-encoding unit reading pixel values of an image in line units, dividing the pixel values of the read image into one-dimensional blocks in predetermined pixel units, transforming and quantizing the one-dimensional...

20060139288 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel having a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and pixels provided corresponding to intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines; a first scanning line driving circuit that outputs first scanning signals to odd-numbered scanning lines of the plurality...

20060139285 - Electronic device capable of displaying images: An overdrive system is disposed on a computer motherboard and generates an overdriven signal through an overdrive chip. By using a preset lookup table database in the overdrive chip, the overdrive chip optimizes image signals according to different liquid crystal display (LCD) panels to accommodate the character of each LCD...

20060139284 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: A driving method and apparatus of a liquid crystal display device is described. Data from a current frame is compressed and delayed by a frame memory. Compressed data of the current frame and the compressed data of a previous frame from the frame memory are restored. The restored data of...

20060139294 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines, at least one data line, and a plurality of pixels connected to the plurality of gate lines and the at least one data line. The display device is configured to perform a first step of sequentially selecting N lines of the...

20060139292 - Driving circuit including shift register and flat panel display device using the same: A driving circuit for a flat panel display device includes shift register stages, each containing: a first TFT charging a Q node according to a start signal; a second TFT discharging the Q node according to an output voltage of a next shift register stage; a pull-up unit increasing an...

20060139290 - Dual single-ended driven liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A dual single-ended driven LCD and driving method thereof are provided. The LCD comprises a pixel, a data line, a first scan driver, a second scan driver, a first scan line and a second scan line. The pixel comprises a first and a second switches. The control ends of the...

20060139291 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A LCD device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of perpendicularly crossing gate and data lines, first and second display sections divided by a specific one of the data lines, a plurality of first data drive ICs driving the data lines in the first display section, a plurality...

20060139293 - Shift register and liquid crystal display device using the same: A shift register and an LCD device to prevent the deterioration of a transistor by controlling a bias stress are disclosed. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequential shift signals, wherein each of the plurality of stages is connected with first and second supplying voltage input lines...

20060139296 - Display apparatus having temperature compensation function: The invention provides a display apparatus having a temperature sensor and a step-up circuit generating a drive voltage of the display apparatus by stepping up a power source voltage. The temperature sensor provides temperature data indicative of the temperature of the display panel with a reduced measurement error without limiting...

20060139295 - System and method for controlling the operation of a cholesteric display: A cholesteric display includes a display controller and a database. The database includes a control program for programming the operation of the display controller, a display field for storing information to be displayed at the cholesteric display, and a temperature range field for storing the temperature range of the environment...

20060139300 - Backlight device using a field emission light source: A backlight device (100) includes a light source (110) and a light guiding plate (120). The light source includes a cathode (111); a nucleation layer (112) formed on the cathode; a field emission portion (102) formed on the nucleation layer; and a light-permeable anode (117) arranged over the cathode. The...

20060139298 - Backlight driving method: A method of driving a backlight unit is provided. The backlight includes a plurality of lamps sequentially turned on/off. Each of the plurality of lamps is periodically turned on for a predetermined period. The method includes applying a first lamp current to one of the plurality of lamps for a...

20060139297 - Display for mobile phone: A mobile communication apparatus including a display unit, wherein the display unit includes a first and a second display arranged back-to-back, a light source, and a single reflective layer arranged between the first display and the second display is disclosed. Each of the first and second displays includes a light...

20060139301 - E-paper panel: An electrode of an E-paper panel having a lattice structure, wherein an electric field concentrated on edge regions of the electrode is dispersed, and thus while driving a cell, charged particles are uniformly distributed over an entire region of the cell, thereby improving display performance. For this purpose, the E-paper...

20060139302 - Method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display: A method for driving an active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes: dividing a frame time into a first period and a second period; defining a gradation voltage that makes the light transmission of a pixel unit accumulated in the first period correspond to image data of an external...

20060139299 - Surface light source control device: A surface light source control device has a plane light source control circuit for setting a current amount to a plurality of diode arrays. The light source control circuit comprises a constant current circuit for holding currents respectively flowing in the plurality of diode arrays constant at the same current...

20060139303 - Plasma display apparatus: This document invention relates to a display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel in which upper and lower substrates are combined, a vibration damping sheet formed on a rear surface...

20060139308 - Addressing schemes for electronic displays: An electronic display comprises an electro-optic material (preferably an electrophoretic medium) having a plurality of pixels, and separate first, second and third sets of addressing means for addressing these pixels. Each of the pixels is associated with one addressing means in each of the three sets, such that addressing of...

20060139305 - Driving a bi-stable matrix display device: In a first display mode, only the information in a first sub-area (W1) of the display screen of a bi-stable matrix display (100) has to be updated. In a second display mode, the information in a second sub-area (W2) of the display screen has to be updated. The information in...

20060139304 - Driving method of electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device includes a plurality of electrophoretic particles and an insulating liquid which are held in a container, a first electrode and a second electrode which are disposed close to the insulating liquid, and means for applying voltages between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrophoretic...

20060139309 - Electrophoretic device, electronic apparatus, and method for driving the electrophoretic device: A method for driving an electrophoretic device, having: an electrophoretic element, in which a dispersal system that includes electrophoretic particles is laid between a common electrode and a pixel electrode; a driving circuit for driving the electrophoretic element by applying a voltage between the common electrode and the pixel electrode;...

20060139306 - Electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1) for displaying a picture corresponding to image information has drive means (100) which are able to control for each picture element (2) the potentials, thereby being able to change the position of the particles (6) based on the image information. Furthermore, the display panel (1)...

20060139307 - Electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1), for displaying a picture, has drive means (100) which are arranged for controlling the potential difference of each picture element (2) to be a sequence of preset potential differences and subsequently to be a picture potential difference for enabling the particles (6) to occupy one...

20060139310 - Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein: A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an initial gray level to a final gray level;...

20060139311 - Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein: A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an initial gray level to a final gray level;...

20060139315 - Apparatus and method for inputting alphabet characters on keypad: The invention is to efficiently input characters on a keypad and, more particularly, to input various symbols by using the hiding control processing method, thereby maintaining a simple arrangement of the keypad. Furthermore, the present invention produces simple codes using the relation between characters allocated to the keypad and numerals,...

20060139320 - Bezel interface for small computing devices: A user interface for small computing devices. The user interface includes a display screen and a bezel encircling the display screen. The bezel is adapted to move relative to the display screen in one or more axes. For example, the bezel may be rotated about the display screen, pivoted about...

20060139321 - Display status modifying apparatus and method, display status modifying program and storage medium storing the same, picture providing apparatus and method, picture providing program and storage medium storing the same, and picture providing system: In a display status modifying apparatus, objects each including a temporally continuous picture of an arbitrary shape are received from the objects are displayed on a predetermined display according to display specification information that specifies display status of the objects, and specified content of the display specification information is modified...

20060139314 - Interactive video display system: An interactive video display system. A display screen is for displaying a visual image for presentation to a user. A camera is for detecting an object in an interactive area located in front of the display screen, the camera operable to capture three-dimensional information about the object. A computer system...

20060139322 - Man-machine interface using a deformable device: In one embodiment a method for triggering input commands of a program run on a computing system is provided. The method initiates with monitoring a field of view in front of a capture device. Then, an input object is identified within the field of view. The detected input object is...

20060139312 - Personalization of user accessibility options: A computing environment can dynamically respond to user preferences and personal abilities by enabling computer users to configure their computing experience by implicitly gathering information about the users' needs. The system can detect users' issues during the natural course of interaction with the system and offer to make adjustments to...

20060139313 - Pressed key structure with lighting module: The present invention concerns to a press key structure with a light module in use of illuminant variation for arrow keys of an appliance. The press key structure with light module comprises a key base plate, a light source, a spread slice and a light guiding cap. The light guiding...

20060139318 - System and method for displaying images on a pacs workstation based on level of significance: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for determine a level of significance of an image. Certain embodiments include selecting one or more parameters for use in determining a level of significance for an image, assigning a value to each of the one or more parameters, and...

20060139319 - System and method for generating most read images in a pacs workstation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for identification of most read images. Certain embodiments provide automatically determining a reading time for an image based on at least one of image viewing time and tool usage with respect to the image, and generating a viewing order for...

20060139316 - Systems and methods for replicating virtual memory on a host computer and debugging using replicated memory: Systems and methods are described for replicating virtual memory translation from a target computer on a host computer, and debugging a fault that occurred on the target computer on the host computer. The described techniques are utilized on a target computer having a processor that has halted execution. Virtual to...

20060139317 - Virtual environment navigation device and system: An impact platform device for use with a virtual reality interface system that promotes navigation by a user in a virtual environment, the platform device including a platform being configured to receive impacts from the user, an odd-numbered plurality of sensors evenly spaced about a circumference and disposed relative the...

20060139323 - Puck-based pointing device that provides multiple buttons: A pointing device having a puck that is confined to move in a field of motion on a surface and that provides pointing and clicking functions analogous to those of a conventional mouse is disclosed. The puck has first and second members that are spaced apart from one another by...

20060139324 - Display and remote controller: The invention is related to a display with remote control, includes a display and a remote control. The user can wirelessly transfer a cursor-shifting signal to the display via remote control, process decoding via cursor-shifting circuit, and display the correspondent shifting movement of the cursor on the display. Therefore, the...

20060139325 - Handheld devices with intuitive page control: A handheld device is disclosed. A processor thereof changes a page shown on a display thereof according to the displacement of the handheld device on a reference plane detected by a sensor....

20060139326 - Managing laptop power based on display angle: A notebook type of computer of one embodiment includes a display unit, a housing to which the display unit is pivotally attached, an angle sensor which detects an opening angle between the display unit and the housing, a sensor driver which A/D converts an output from the angle sensor and...

20060139327 - Method and system for controlling a display device: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for controlling a display device. In one embodiment, a start position is registered which defines the first position and orientation of a remote controller relative to the position of the display device. When movement of the remote controller...

20060139328 - Mobile communications terminal and a method therefor: A mobile terminal having a user interface formed by a controller, a display and a multi-way input device for navigating and selecting among information shown on the display is presented. The controller is adapted, in a current context among a plurality of possible contexts, to make different logical actions available...

20060139330 - Adaptive mouse re-direction: A method includes detecting the type of a first mouse, and receiving data generated by a second mouse. The method further includes determining whether to modify the format of the received data. The determination is made at least in part on the detected type of the first mouse....

20060139329 - Computer wireless input device with compartment for retaining a wireless receiver: An input device has a body for receiving a circuit board therein. The body has a retaining device which is moved to secure or release a wireless receiver in or from an exterior-facing compartment in the body....

20060139331 - Ergonomic computer mouse: An ergonomic computer mouse is provided. The mouse has at least one signaling device that is positioned to accommodate a user's fingers when they are in a relaxed, nonextended state and the user's hand is resting on the mouse. The user may actuate a signaling device by exerting pressure on...

20060139332 - \"seeing eye\" mouse for a computer system: A hand operated pointing device for use with a computer includes a movable housing, a source of non-coherent light illuminating a work surface and circuitry in the movable housing using arrays of data related to light reflected by the illuminated work surface to produce values by processing portions of a...

20060139333 - Method for operating an application and mobile terminal used therefor: Disclosed is a method for operating an application and a mobile terminal used therefor. A key input unit receives a key value to operate an application. A memory stores one or more applications and key values preset for the applications. A display unit displays a screen for operating the application...

20060139335 - Assembly and device for a display having a perimeter touch guard seal: An assembly and device that provides a flexible, removable and sealable touch guard system for use with retail display systems and more specifically for use with displays requiring repeated human interactive use is provided for. More particularly, the present invention relates to an assembly and device that provides a sealable...

20060139334 - Interactive display system: TFTs (10) within a display device (1) are intentionally made sensitive to radiation from an external light source (12), for example by making a pin-hole (34) in the socalled black-matrix layer (33). The voltage across the pixel (8) or sensing this voltage drop just before refreshing the pixel content during...

20060139336 - Method to validate the identity of a user of a mobile computer and mobile computer: The present invention provides a method to validate the identity of a user of a mobile computer, especially a laptop computer or a notebook computer, which comprises an integral pointing device. The method is characterized in that the integral pointing device of the mobile computer is used as signature input...

20060139337 - Operation display device: An operation display device comprises an operation control unit which executes a function corresponding to a selection key displayed on a display unit, and a guide display control unit which displays a guide message corresponding to the selection key. The operation control unit causes the guide display control unit to...

20060139338 - Transparent optical digitizer: The present invention provides a digitizer that includes a transparent overlay that incorporates a transparent material pattern that is coded to be indicative of position and detection device configured to read the pattern for determining position information. The transparent material of the coded pattern can include infrared sensitive materials, for...

20060139339 - Touch location determination using vibration wave packet dispersion: Methods and devices provide for determination of the location of a touch on a touch plate by sensing dispersive vibrations at each of a number of vibration sensors coupled to a touch plate, the vibrations caused by the touch on the touch plate. An amount of dispersion in the dispersive...

20060139341 - Touch panel device: A touch panel device including: a substrate; a first sender element for sending surface acoustic wave, which is placed along a first direction on the substrate; a second sender element for sending surface acoustic wave, which is placed along a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, on the substrate;...

20060139340 - Touch panel system and method for distinguishing multiple touch inputs: Touch panel systems and methods are disclosed that can distinguish temporally overlapping touch inputs from single touch inputs so that valid touch position coordinates can be determined. Touch panel systems and methods of the present invention can distinguish overlapping touches by comparing signal magnitudes to specified thresholds, by comparing the...

20060139343 - Data driving circuit, organic light emitting diode display using the same, and method of driving the organic emitting diode display: A data driving circuit for displaying an image with a desired brightness comprises: a current digital-analog converter for generating a gradation current corresponding to external data, and for receiving a first current corresponding to the gradation current from a pixel via a data line; a current control unit for receiving...

20060139342 - Electronic devices and processes for forming electronic devices: An electronic device includes a substrate and a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first pixel driving circuit that overlies the substrate and includes a first electronic component. The first electronic component includes a first electrode and a first organic layer. The first electrode overlies at least a part...

20060139344 - Display monitor with a common display data channel: A display monitor for a common display data channel uses a DDC access switch to separate the common display data channel, so that regardless of whether the display monitor is powered on or off, a personal computer can access the Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) in the EEPROM, and the...

20060139345 - Method for recognizing video signal timing of analog input: The present invention relates to a method applied on displays for recognizing video signal timing of analog input. The present invention employs the horizontal-synchronized-signal interrupt value to distinguish among its inputted video signal timing, allowing to recognize its pixel and correctly display its corresponding video signal timing even when the...

20060139346 - Input file generating method and system using meta representation of compression of graphics data, and afx coding method and apparatus: A system and method of generating an input file using meta representation of graphics data compression, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including preparing a first style sheet supporting conversion of an input XMT file containing graphics data into a scene file according to an XMT schema,...

20060139347 - Method and system of real-time graphical simulation of large rotational deformation and manipulation using modal warping: A real-time simulation method and system for large deformations is provided. Green's nonlinear strain tensor accurately models large deformations. Modal analysis based on a linear strain tensor has been shown to be suitable for real-time simulation, but is accurate only for moderately small deformations. In the present invention, the rotational...

20060139348 - Method and system of real-time graphical simulation of large rotational deformation and manipulation using modal warping: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for approximating and displaying a three-dimensional object represented by CAD data. In particular, the present invention provides a method for approximating CAD data representing a three-dimensional object, comprising steps of: (a) generating a mesh with mesh lines for approximating...

20060139349 - Applications of interval arithmetic for reduction of number of computations in ray tracing problems: Embodiments provide for ray tracing traversal that relies on selected geometrical properties of the application to reduce the number of operations required during each traversal step. The traversal algorithm does not depend on the number of rays in the group. As a result, multi-level traversal schemes may be implemented, starting...

20060139350 - Method and apparatus for triangle representation: Embodiments of the invention provide for accelerated polygon intersection testing of rays against a set of polygons. The amount of computation required in the rendering process is reduced by preprocessing the scene into a data structure that can be more efficiently traversed. During the preprocessing stage, triangles such as triangle...

20060139351 - Object visibility control for ray tracing: A computer graphics method and apparatus allows designer control over the rendering of objects and scenes, in a rendering system using ray tracing for example. A modeling system is adapted to accept rules for controlling how certain objects affect the appearance of certain other objects. In a ray tracing implementation,...

20060139352 - Computer product, operation-analysis support device, and operation-analysis support method: A workflow chart, which is a plot of a plurality of blocks connected by a plurality of lines on a coordinate system that has at least a first axis and a second axis, is generated and displayed. Each of the blocks expresses a work and each of the lines expresses...

20060139353 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus having: a first screen processing section for performing a screen processing to image data; and an outline processing section for determining whether to output or not to output a dot with respect to an outline pixel of the image data, based on an outputting condition of...

20060139356 - Adaptive caching of animation controls: The determination of the final posed position is optimized by tracking the changes in animation variables associated with the sequence of deformers over two or more poses. The earliest deformer of the sequence affected by a changed animation variable is designated the cached deformer, and the input to this deformer...

20060139354 - Operation instruction method, operation instruction device, electronic device, and computer product: An operation instruction device includes a display control unit, an accepting unit, and an executing unit. The display control unit repeatedly displays, on a display screen, at least one animation indicative of contents of an operation to be executed. The accepting unit accepts designation of an animation made by a...

20060139355 - Physically based motion retargeting filter: A method for editing motion of a character includes steps of a) providing an input motion of the character sequentially along with a set of kinematic and dynamic constraints, wherein the input motion is provided by a captured or animated motion; b) applying a series of plurality of unscented Kalman...

20060139357 - Methods for allocating information to system resources using improved mapping: Embodiments described herein provide a programmable mapping scheme for mapping information to resources of a system. In an embodiment, a programmable lattice method operates to map information to resources of a system. For example, the programmable lattice method can be used to map pixel data to graphics processing resources of...

20060139358 - 3d graphic engine and method of providing graphics in mobile communication terminal: A graphic engine is provided. The graphic engine includes an object analysis module, a mesh extraction module, a mesh control module, and an algorithm applying module. The object analysis module extracts an array for 3D data and the mesh extracting module has a plurality of meshes and selects a mesh...

20060139359 - Matrix type display device and display method thereof: In the case where graphic data GD1 needing a high-speed rendering are to be written in a frame memory (14) from an image writing unit (1), the graphic data GD1 are written in the frame memory (14) in accordance with an instruction from the image writing unit (1) irrespective of...

20060139360 - System and method for one step address translation of graphics addresses in virtualization: A system and method including, in some embodiments, receiving a request for a graphics memory address for an input/output (I/O) device assigned to a virtual machine in a system that supports virtualization, and installing, in a graphics memory translation table, a physical guest graphics memory address to host physical memory...

20060139361 - Adaptive image interpolation for volume rendering: Because of the increasing size of digital images available, an interactive rendering speed at a high display quality continues to be a challenging task. According to the present invention, a sampling frequency of a ray casting for generating the projection image is varied in dependence of information derived from the...

20060139364 - Image processing device, portable information processing device and controlling method thereof: An image processing device, a portable information processing device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The image processing device includes a first storage storing user attribute information applied to the image processing device; and a first controller, provided that different user attribute information is downloaded to the portable information...

20060139362 - Robust estimation of pixel values: An exemplary method for estimating pixel values of displayed images captured by an image capture device comprises determining a status of a pixel of a displayed image based on a confidence value for the pixel and a comparison of an estimated value and a direct sampling value of the pixel,...

20060139363 - Slow dither display: Embodiments of the invention provide an image display mode for displays, such as a television, that do not use the entire display field for displaying an image. A user selectable modification of the image display is provided, where the image may be stepped a predefined column of pixels, or predefined...

20060139365 - Rendering processor, rasterizer and rendering method: A shader sends a “completely full” signal to a buffer control unit when a head pixel in a first pass input from a DDA arrives at a final stage of a pipeline process. When the head pixel in the first pass arrives at a stage in the middle of the...

20060139366 - Efficient z testing: Z testing during computer graphics rendering is performed in a manner so as to optimize rendering. The status of a pixel as non-promotable may be tracked using a pixel status array (PSA). Each PSA row may contain bits which correspond to the non-promotable status of pixels. Each row may include...

20060139367 - Method and system of color-real adjustment for adjusting a display device: A method of color-real adjustment and system for adjusting a display device is disclosed, the system includes a server for outputting an image triggering signal and inputting an image extraction signal, performing a color-real process on the image extraction signal to obtain color data, transforming the color data into a...

20060139368 - Color space correction circuit in display device: A color space correction circuit in a display apparatus comprises: means for holding optimal R, G and B correction values at chromaticity coordinate points corresponding to a white, primary colors and complementary colors, respectively, in a color reproduction region of a display on a chromaticity diagram; means for connecting the...

20060139369 - Manipulating text and graphic appearance: A method, device and computer system for creating a smooth, continuous height (scalar or vector) field are described. The described techniques permit arbitrary closed regions to be smoothly shaded without producing unnatural smoothness at the region's edges or boundaries....

20060139370 - Strong wave: My invention “STRONG WAVE” is a design of a geometric figure, this figure can be used itself or combined with itself (two or more combinations), in the same size or different sizes, in a lot of different positions; resulting in graphic symbols, patterns, logos and others new designs....

20060139371 - Cropping of images for display on variably sized display devices: Cropping source images for display on user devices. A source image is cropped and/or resized to correspond to dimensions of a display screen of a device by selecting an area of interest of the source image which will not be lost in the process of resizing the image. Coordinate points...

20060139372 - Providing graphic generating capabilities for a model based development process: A method and system for providing a block for use in a block diagram in a graphical modeling environment which is capable of rendering a parameterized graphic annotation....

20060139373 - Selectively overlaying a user interface atop a video signal: Overlaying visual interface information atop a video signal without obscuring desired features of the video signal. The video signal may contain one or more pre-selected features, such as text. Two or more display sections equally divide the video signal, and any pre-selected features in the video signal are identified as...

20060139374 - Method and virtual retinal display for reproducing the image of a person: A method for reproducing the image of a person is disclosed. According to the invention, an image of a person or of part of a person is recorded with an image recording sensor (1.5) and the recorded image is immediately afterwards projected in modified or unchanged form with a Virtual...

20060139375 - Secondary map in digital mapping system: Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide more flexibility to the user through the use of multiple views of map information, including a secondary map and a main map. The secondary map can provide the user with either a zoomed out or in relative to the main map, or a...

20060139376 - Content adaptive resizer: The present description discloses a method for resizing an input image having input pixels. The method comprises segmenting the input made into region types by assigning one of the region types to each one of the input pixels; and interpolating the input image according to the region type assigned to...

20060139377 - Lcos micro-display driver integrated circuit: Embodiments of the invention provide a driver device for delivery of pixel values in a digitally encoded (PWM) fashion to a LCOS imager, such as a 2-megal pixel imager. In particular, modulated pixel values may be delivered to a LCOS imager. Driver device functions as a high definition imager driver...

20060139378 - Driving method for high frame rate display system: The invention relates to a device and driving method for increasing frame rate of a display system without increasing its video input data rate. Or, reducing its input data rate at reasonable display frame rate without flickering. The device uses a driving scheme which consists of bit set generation, bit...

20060139379 - Medium data display device, medium data display method, and medium data display program: The present invention provides a media data display device, a media data display method and a media data display program for displaying, on a display screen, multimedia data made up of a plurality of media including moving images in a variety of display methods. The media data display device (85)...

20060132381 - Image display apparatus: Disclosed is an image display apparatus, including: a first image pickup unit; a second image pickup unit; a display unit for displaying a first image picked up by the first image pickup unit and a second image picked up by the second image pickup unit; a detecting portion for detecting...

20060132382 - Data input management system for wearable electronically enabled interface: A data input management system is disclosed, for allowing a user to select one or more data sources, to be placed either simultaneously or one at a time into electrical communication with a single user interface. The user interface may comprise a wearable support, such as an eyeglass frame, adapted...

20060132383 - System and method for illuminating interferometric modulator display: d

20060132384 - Graphic data files including illumination control and related methods and computer program products: An electronic device may include a screen and a plurality of lights. A plurality of image frames may be provided with each image frame defining an image for display on the screen. Illumination instructions may be provided for the plurality of lights, wherein different illumination instructions are associated with different...

20060132385 - Optically addressable matrix display: A matrix display device comprises a matrix of optically addressable pixels (Pij). The pixels (Pij) comprise a light sensitive element (LSij) and a pixel light generating element (LGij). The light generating element (LGij) of a particular pixel (Pij) produces light with a brightness which depends on the state of the...

20060132386 - Image display unit: An image display unit includes an image display section and a support structure. The support structure has a higher part and a lower part, wherein the higher part and the lower part individually have circuits, and the circuit having the maximum height is arranged on the lower part....

20060132388 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus in which the noise of a data pulse can be reduced. In the transmission process of an image signal, a low voltage signal comprising a first signal and a second signal, preferably at least one of a LVDS, a BLVDS and...

20060132387 - Plasma display panel apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display panel apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. Right after power is supplied to a panel, driving waveforms are applied such that an address discharge and a sustain discharge cannot occur during at least one or more sub-fields. Accordingly, time for a source capacitor...

20060132389 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, in which they can enhance the capability of representing low gray levels. A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a PDP comprising a plurality of scan...

20060132390 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a plasma display device and a method of driving the same. By partially overlapping the sustain pulses applied to the scan and sustain electrodes, during the sustaining period, sustain discharges are achieved during certain voltage variation intervals such that discharge efficiency and brightness are improved,...

20060132393 - Method and apparatus for driving panel by performing mixed address period and sustain period: A display device for displaying pictures by sequentially performing an address period and a sustain period. The panel pixels are arranged into groups, and an address period and a sustain period are sequentially performed on the pixels of individual groups. While an address period is being performed on the pixels...

20060132392 - Plasma display apparatus: Provided is a plasma display apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a plasma display panel; an energy storing unit supplying or recovering energy; an energy supply controller forming a path for supplying the energy from the energy storing unit; a first resonance unit supplying the energy supplied from the energy supply controller,...

20060132391 - Plasma display device and capacitive load driving circuit: A problem is to be solved that there is to be provided a plasma display device capable of generating driving signals with less variation in delay time and without carrying out any phase adjustment. There is provided a plasma display device including; a first display electrode; a second display electrode...

20060132394 - Image display apparatus and television apparatus: There is provided an image display apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels each having an electron emitting element and a light emitting area to be irradiated by electrons from the electron emitting element; and a driving circuit for outputting a driving signal that drives the electron emitting element, wherein the...

20060132395 - Current programming apparatus, matrix display apparatus and current programming method: A current programming apparatus having two data lines for a pixel line is presented. An image data current is supplied to the first and the second data lines alternatively by switching M1 and M2 complementally. By switching M7 and M8 on during the switches M1 and M2 turn on respectively,...

20060132396 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus comprises: display devices; members arranged at distance of a plurality of the display devices each other; and a drive circuit outputting drive signals that corresponds to the colors respectively based on input image data. The drive circuit has a correction circuit for outputting the corrected drive...

20060132398 - Current range control circuit, data driver, and organic light emitting display: Embodiments of a current range control circuit, data driver and organic light emitting display are disclosed, wherein the current range control circuit is configured to adjust a range of an input current in the data driver according to a type of display device. One embodiment of the data driver comprises...

20060132399 - Electronic circuit, method of driving electronic circuit, electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: To provide an electronic circuit, a method of driving the electronic circuit, an electro-optical device, a method of driving the electro-optical device and an electronic apparatus, capable of reducing deviations in threshold voltages of transistors. A pixel circuit 20 is constructed with three transistors of a driving transistor Trd, an...

20060132397 - 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: a plurality of data lines for transmitting a data signal; a plurality of gate lines intersecting the data...

20060132400 - Ambient light detection using an oled device: An OLED device for the detection of ambient light level, comprising: a) a substrate; b) one or more OLED element(s) formed on the substrate and having a common electrical connection for passing current through the OLED element(s); c) one or more transistor circuit(s) for controlling current passing through the OLED...

20060132401 - Light emitting module and method of driving the same, and optical sensor: The light emitting module includes a light emitting device containing at least a pixel section 101 and a sensor section 104, which are formed on the same insulating body, and further includes means for sensing illuminance of a use environment with the sensor section 104 and for adjusting luminance of...

20060132402 - Display apparatus and driving pulse control method thereof: An apparatus and method is disclosed for controlling a display driving pulse to drive an LED display. In one embodiment, an RGB signal is received and a period during which all the LEDs are switched off is detected. Also, the period during which an image is not being displayed is...

20060132403 - Display systems with and methods for multiple source colour illumination: A colour display (100, 200) for displaying an image is described wherein the colour display (100, 200) is adapted for displaying a number of basic colour light channels (102a, 102b, 102c). The colour display (100, 200) comprises a basic colour combiner (112, 212) for combining the basic colours and at...

20060132404 - Display device: Display device based on layer displacement having a perforated white substrate (14) positioned close to a transparent substrate (4). Layer (fluid) displacement such as oil movement results in the (colored) oil film (5) being pumped in a controlled manner above the white substrate. Fluids of three subtractive colors can be...

20060132405 - Frame-varying addressing method of color sequential display: A frame-varying addressing method of a color sequential liquid crystal display is disclosed for display of successive frames. Each of the frames is composed of three subframes, and each of the subframes is composed of a plurality of scan lines. According to the frame-varying addressing method of the invention, the...

20060132406 - Display having controllable gray scale circuit: A display that includes a circuit to receive pixel data and to generate a first set of gray-scale voltages based on the first set of reference voltages to drive pixel circuits to display respectively different gray-scale levels during a first time period in accordance with the pixel data, and generate...

20060132409 - Driving method for active matrix liquid crystal display panel: A driving method for an active matrix liquid crystal display panel includes the following steps. First, a frame period is divided into a display period (t1) and a black insertion period (tr). A gray-scale voltage is generated according to a desired corresponding light transmittance of each pixel of the liquid...

20060132408 - Liquid crystal display and driving method of the same: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display comprising a thin film transistor substrate formed with a gate line and a data line; first and second gray scale voltage generating parts generating a first and a second gray scale voltage, respectively; a data driving part receiving the first and...

20060132407 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: There are provided a liquid crystal display panel 2, a resin frame member 3 on which the liquid crystal display panel 2 is mounted and that is formed in the shape of a picture frame, and a front-face frame 6 that is formed in the shape of a box having...

20060132410 - Integrated circuit devices having a data controlled amplifier and methods of operating the same: An integrated circuit device includes an amplifier circuit that includes first and second differential transistor pairs that are selectively operable responsive to at least one bit of a multi-bit data signal....

20060132411 - Thin film transistor array substrate and fabricating method thereof: A thin film transistor array substrate and a fabricating method are disclosed. A gate line and a data line cross each other and a thin film transistor (TFT) is provided at the intersection between the gate and data lines. A protective film covers the data line and the thin film...

20060132412 - Display device and method for driving a display device with reduced power consumption: The invention concern a display device comprising a liquid crystal material between a first substrate provided with row electrodes (7) and a second substrate provided with column electrodes (6), in which overlapping parts of the row and column electrodes define pixels (8), driving means (5) for driving the column electrodes...

20060132413 - Liquid crystal display: An alternating electric field is applied across liquid crystal cells of pixels of an optically compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal display during a time period after power is provided to the display to cause the liquid crystal cells to change from a splay state to a bend state. The alternating...

20060132421 - Display device and its control method: There is provided a display device which enables both a full color moving image display (analog mode) and a shallow depth still image display (digital mode), and which achieves a significant reduction in the energy consumption of the display device system including the external LSI. Each of the pixel elements...

20060132415 - Liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a display panel, an adjusting circuit, and a driving circuit. The display panel includes a common electrode. The adjusting circuit is electrically connected with the common electrode. According to the voltage distribution on the common electrode, the adjusting circuit outputs a distribution parameter. The...

20060132416 - Liquid crystal display driving circuit: A liquid crystal display driving circuit is provided. The liquid crystal display driving circuit includes a front driving stage and a plurality of serially connected subsequent driving stages. The front driving stage receives a first trigger pulse and a second trigger pulse consecutively in a testing operation. The serially connected...

20060132414 - Liquid crystal display with nightlight: The present invention is about a liquid crystal display (LCD) with nightlight including a display housing and a liquid crystal panel that is received in the inner chamber of the display housing. A display panel of the liquid crystal panel corresponds to a front opening of the display housing, and...

20060132420 - Matrix substrate and display which inputs signal-polarity inverting signals to picture data: A matrix substrate having plural switching elements provided in matrix corresponding to intersecting points of scanning lines and signal lines, plural picture element electrodes connected to the switching elements, and horizontal circuits and vertical circuits for inputting the signals to the switching elements comprises a horizontal scanning circuit for sampling...

20060132418 - Power supply circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and method of controlling power supply circuit: A power supply circuit including: a high-potential-side voltage generation circuit which generates a high-potential-side voltage to be supplied to the common electrode; a low-potential-side voltage generation circuit which generates a low-potential-side voltage to be supplied to the common electrode; and a switch circuit which alternately supplies the high-potential-side voltage and...

20060132419 - Power supply circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and method of controlling power supply circuit: A power supply circuit including: a high-potential-side voltage generation circuit which generates a high-potential-side voltage; a low-potential-side voltage generation circuit which generates a low-potential-side voltage; and a switch circuit which alternately supplies the high-potential-side voltage and the low-potential-side voltage to the common electrode as a common electrode voltage. The power...

20060132417 - Semiconductor integrated circuit for liquid crystal display driver: In a liquid crystal drive controller formed as a semiconductor integrated circuit having therein a power source circuit including a boosting circuit and driving a source line and a gate line of a TFT liquid crystal panel, the number of external capacitive elements and the number of external terminals for...

20060132422 - Method of driving liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display: In a 2H reverse driving method or the like as a driving method for a liquid crystal display, it is set that a time period from the time when the polarity of a data signal is reversed to the time when a gate selection signal is turned off should be...

20060132424 - Electronic device with optoelectronic input/output compensation function for a display: Portable devices (100) that include displays (102) and are used in widely ranging ambient light conditions use selectable or adjustable optoelectronic input/output compensation functions to drive their displays. According to certain embodiments, a camera (122) or a light sensor (120) is used to measure the ambient light level, and an...

20060132423 - Scanning backlight for flat-panel display: An illuminator for a flat-panel display comprises a tapered slab waveguide 1 co-extensive with the display, a light source 2-4 arranged to inject light into an edge of the waveguide so that it emerges over the face of the waveguide, and means for scanning the light injected into the wedge...

20060132425 - Display device: A display device is provided, which includes: first and second panel units; a first connector attached to one side of the first panel unit; a second connector attached to one side of the second panel unit; and a flexible printed circuit film attached to a portion of the first connector...

20060132428 - Backplane design for display panels and processes for their manufacture: The present invention relates to a backplane design for display panels and processes for their manufacture....

20060132426 - Driving an electrophoretic display: A drive circuit for an electrophoretic matrix display comprises a select driver (16) for selecting lines of pixels (18) of the matrix display. A data driver (10) supplies drive voltage waveforms (VD) to each one of the selected pixels (18) via data electrodes (5, 5′). A controller (15) controls the...

20060132427 - Flexible display system: The present exemplary embodiment relates to an improved flexible display system. One form of the display may use various types of switchable materials contained in micro cells formed from a fabric or mesh material. These cells may serve as a spacer between two opposing electrode sheets and may be individually...

20060132430 - Color-changing electronic signage: An electronically updatable display having an electronically updatable display media with two or more color sets is disclosed, wherein the viewed color sets, and the image, are changeable....

20060132429 - Scrolling electronic signage: A display, a signage system including the display, and methods of writing the display, are described, wherein the system includes at least one looped scroll of bistable display media and at least one electronic writehead. The entire display can be written by using the writehead to address individual sections of...

20060132432 - Interactive video display system: An interactive video display system. A display screen is for displaying a visual image for presentation to a user. A camera is for detecting an object in an interactive area located in front of the display screen, the camera operable to capture three-dimensional information about the object. A computer system...

20060132433 - Interface for controlling a graphical image: An interface device for interfacing a user with a computer, the computer running an application program and generating a graphical image and a graphical object, comprises a user manipuatable object in, communication with the computer, a sensor to detect a manipulation of the object, the sensor providing a signal to...

20060132434 - Method and apparatus for controlling a display: A method and apparatus for controlling a display in which the display is provided with an embedded switch with a sensor interface. The switch is adapted to switch the display between an active state and a dormant state based upon sensor input. The display is switched to an active state...

20060132431 - Multi-function digital device as a human-input-device for a computer: System and method for interfacing with a digital computer using a multi-function device. A preferred embodiment comprises a multi-function device comprising a controller configured to process information and regulate operations of the multi-function device, a sensor coupled to the controller, the sensor configured to capture information in a movement of...

20060132435 - Cursor motion control of a pointing device: A pointing device generates pixel counts at a predetermined frame rate indicative of motion in predetermined axes of a user's digit across an imaging surface. A cursor motion controller receives the pixel counts and generates navigation output signals representing averages over predetermined time intervals selected to smooth the motion of...

20060132437 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus for communicating with a computer main body through a DPVL system, wherein the display apparatus is provided with a video signal processor to process a video signal output from a computer main body into a displayable video signal, a frame buffer to store frame information corresponding to...

20060132436 - Pointing device with light source for providing visible light through a moveable puck: A pointing device includes a base surface. The pointing device includes a moveable puck confined to move over the base surface within a puck field of motion. The pointing device includes a position detector for identifying a position of the puck. The pointing device includes a first light source for...

20060132438 - User interface device with double sensor input to capture rotation: Embodiments of the present invention provide a user interface device that can capture motion in more than two degrees of freedom at a time. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention can include multiple sensors so that, in addition to xy motion, rotational motion can be captured....

20060132441 - Computer mouse having cable collecting structure: A computer mouse having a cable collecting structure is provided. The computer mouse includes a body, a cable, and a first button. The body has a top portion, a bottom portion and a first groove. The first groove is located in the top and/or bottom portion and the first groove...

20060132439 - Computer peripheral device arranged to emit a homogeneous light: A computer peripheral device includes a body, a printed circuit board (PCB), a light source, and a reflecting device within the body arranged to cause light to be emitted from the body in a homogeneous manner....

20060132440 - Mouse input device with secondary input device: A mouse input device includes a tracking device and a secondary input device. The tracking device tracks movement of the mouse input device over an underlying surface. The secondary input device is located on a surface of the mouse input device. The secondary input device has a sliding structure. A...

20060132443 - Controlling a light source of an optical pointing device based on surface quality: A method for controlling a light source of an optical pointing device includes generating quality data representative of a surface quality of an imaging surface being imaged by the optical pointing device. The method includes controlling the light source based on the generated quality data....

20060132442 - Methods and systems for measuring speckle translation with spatial filters: Two or more spatial filters are used in determining velocity based on speckle translation. A light source may be turned on, turned off, or both for a variable amount of time during operation. The velocity may then be determined with trend identification, correlation, recursive frequency estimation, or measurement bandwidth variation....

20060132444 - Glove input device: