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: A glove input device with two gloves and an encoder is described. Each glove has several finger parts for the insertion of fingers. The front and back of the finger part have several contact points. The contact points on the thumb are defined as the first set of contact points,...

20060132445 - Input device: An input device having a first character of a first color, a second character of a second color and an illumination device which produces light of the first color and/or of the second color such that, depending on the illumination of the input device, in a first operating state only...

20060132446 - Key input apparatus using magnetic force, operating method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium storing computer programs for performing the method: A method of operating a key input apparatus having one or more pressable keys, and a key input apparatus to perform the method, the method including selectively controlling an electromagnetic force to support at least one of the one or more pressable keys, wherein a height of the at least...

20060132447 - Method and apparatus for automatically transforming functions of computer keyboard keys and pointing devices by detection of hand location: This invention is an ergonomic method and apparatus for integrating the operation of computer keyboards and cursor control devices. It employs hand location detection to determine when the mouse hand is absent from its keyboard typing position or is present at the mouse. A detector output automatically transforms the functions...

20060132448 - Emulator with key press history: An emulation system that displays a key press history is provided. The emulation system emulates a handheld computing device, such as a calculator, on an electronic device such as a personal computer. A sequence of keystrokes is received by the emulation system, wherein the keystrokes represent input to the handheld...

20060132449 - System, apparatus, and method for displaying variable legends on key buttons: A keyboard includes a number of key buttons, each of which is mounted to move vertically above a display panel, such as an LCD. Each of the key buttons includes a transparent central portion, through which an area of the display panel is viewed. A computer system drives the display...

20060132464 - Contact sensitive device: A contact sensitive device includes a member capable of supporting bending waves, a first sensor mounted on the member for measuring bending wave vibration in the member, the sensor determining a first measured bending wave signal, a second sensor to determine a second measured bending wave signal and a processor...

20060132458 - Controlling device with selectively illuminated user interfaces: A controlling device using a source of energy, such as light energy, to provide the controlling device with a user interface having multiple, different visual appearances....

20060132461 - Flexible display and manufacturing method thereof: A flexible display of the present invention is an active matrix flexible display in which a TFT is provided for each pixel. In the flexible display, an adhesive layer, a protective layer, a gate electrode for the TFT, which is buried in the protective layer, a gate insulating layer for...

20060132453 - Frontlit illuminated touch panel: A frontlit touch panel for use with a reflective light valve, comprising a front light guide having at least one light input face that supplies light to the guide, a viewing face, a light output face opposite the viewing face, and at least one component of a touch-sensitive transducer, the...

20060132456 - Hard tap: The use of variable-pressure taps in computer interfaces is disclosed in which tap inputs cause different functions to execute depending on the pressure applied by the tap. A hard tap is interpreted when a user makes rapid contact with the input surface, exceeding a threshold pressure within a threshold time,...

20060132459 - Interpreting an image: A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure includes capturing an image corresponding to an object tapping on a display surface and interpreting the image as a computer command....

20060132451 - Optically addressable matrix display: A matrix display comprises a matrix of optically addressable pixels (Pij). The pixels (Pij) comprise a light sensitive element (LSij) having a state depending on a brightness of control light (Lj) impinging on it. The pixels (Pij) further comprise a pixel light generating element (LGij) for generating pixel light (LMij)...

20060132452 - Optically addressable matrix display: A matrix display device comprises a matrix of optically addressable pixels (Pij) with a light sensitive element (LSij) which receives data light (Lj) to control a state of the light sensitive element (LSij) depending on the data light (Lj), and a pixel light generating element (LGij) which generates an amount...

20060132455 - Pressure based selection: The use of pressure-sensitive selection tools in a graphical user interface is disclosed in which the amount of pressure during a selection operation may modify selection behavior. Upon receiving a selection input, the pressure applied is determined and the selection behavior modified. In some embodiments, the number of objects selected...

20060132457 - Pressure sensitive controls: The use of pressure-sensitive controls is disclosed in which controls respond differently to different pressure applied by a stylus on a digitizer. Users interacting with displayed controls may modify the speed, increment, or other property of the control by pressing harder or softer. Devices that allow for the input of...

20060132454 - Systems and methods for high resolution optical touch position systems: In one embodiment, a touch detection system and method is achieved having high resolution by forming an integrated array of alternating emitters and detectors. Using integration techniques, the detectors can be made much larger than the emitters while the gaps between the emitters and detectors are maintained relatively small. Thus,...

20060132450 - Touch panel: A touch panel (8) having a film/glass structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film (11) having upwardly-inclined end surfaces (11a) at the entire peripheral sides thereof. A touch panel (8A) having a film/film structure includes an upper electrode member (1) including a transparent insulation film...

20060132460 - Touch screen accuracy: A user interface is provided allowing a user to simulate mouse hovering with the user's finger on a touch-sensitive display. When a finger or other stylus touches the touch-sensitive display adjacent to a display cursor, a control appears that enables the user to drag the cursor about the display by...

20060132463 - Touch sensible display device: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel including a plurality of image scanning lines and a plurality of sensor scanning lines; a plurality of display units coupled to the image scanning lines; a plurality of photo sensing units coupled to the sensor...

20060132462 - Touch sensors incorporating capacitively coupled electrodes: The present invention provides touch sensors that incorporate electrodes that are capacitively coupled through a dielectric layer to one or more resistive touch sensing layers, for example for linearizing the electric field across the resistive layer of an analog capacitive touch screen or for addressing the conductive elements of a...

20060132465 - Narrow-frame touch panel: In an analog resistive-film type touch panel, a lower-side electrode member having a transparent electrode on a part of a top face of a transparent insulating base member, a pair of bus bars on two parallel sides of the transparent electrode, and routing circuits connected to the bus bars for...

20060132466 - Touch panel: The touch panel has a light-transmissive upper substrate, a light-transmissive lower substrate, and a bonding layer. The lower surface of the upper substrate is formed thereon with an upper conductive layer. The top surface of the lower substrate is formed thereon with a lower conductive layer facing the upper conductive...

20060132467 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a camera-based whiteboard scanner: In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiments, a calibration arrangement is configured to assist in calibration of a surface scanning system where the calibration arrangement includes a preconfigured physical object which may embody dimensional information wherein the dimensional information is used to calibrate a surface of the...

20060132468 - Pen/stylus apparatus and method: Embodiments of a pen/stylus apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, among others, a pen/stylus apparatus comprises a chamber configured to receive a pen, a holding element having a shaft, the holding element configured to retain the pen in a partially-ejected position, a button having a retainer, the retainer configured to...

20060132469 - Servosystem: A servosystem, in particular a servosystem for a motor vehicle, includes a display showing a list of clickable menu items, a rotary knob with a rotary element to operate the rotary knob, with a number of mechanical detents to alternately increase the rotary momentum necessary for rotating the rotary element,...

20060132472 - Emissive screen display with laser-based external addressing: A display apparatus includes an emissive screen having luminescent pixels that are addressed solely by a laser addressing system. Each pixel includes a luminescent region located next to a photocathode. When struck by the laser beam, free electrons are created that are accelerated by an applied high voltage field from...

20060132475 - Gate driving device with current overdrive protection and method thereof: A gate driving device comprises a control circuit, a shift register circuit, a level shifter, a buffer block and a current overdrive protection device. The control circuit receives and outputs the logic control signals. The shift register circuit receives the logic control signals and sequentially outputs N horizontal low-voltage pulse...

20060132471 - Illumination modulation technique: A technique includes pulse width modulating a beam of a light to establish a pixel intensity. The technique includes controlling a light source to modulate an illumination of the beam to create different tonal resolution ranges for the pixel intensity....

20060132470 - Overdrive method for anti-double edge: An overdrive method for anti-double edge uses: a register unit, a signal processing module including a selection unit and a driving-voltage lookup table (ADE LUT) and a plurality of multiplex processing units to effectively save the resources of hardware and to eliminate the double edge phenomenon generated during overdrive liquid-crystal...

20060132474 - Power conserving display system: Systems and methods of controlling a display provide for determining an operating mode of a mobile device, where the mobile device includes the display. An active region of the display and an inactive region of the display can be defined based on the operating mode. The active region enables user...

20060132473 - System and method for managing computer monitor configurations: Described is a method and system a system and method for dynamically and intelligently configuring a computer system's video-related settings upon connection of a monitor, and/or reconfiguring upon disconnection. A monitor configuration may include one or more display mechanisms, their video settings, relative positioning, and may include power scheme data....

20060132476 - Video system and processor for computer: A new video system and processor for computer is disclosed. In accordance to the present video processor that is capable of receiving TV signals and driving partial computer devices (such as a LCD panel) without starting the computer's operating system, the computer may display TV videos on the display panel...

20060132477 - Methods for making display: Methods for forming a display using imaging elements are provided. In one method, a first surface is provided and imaging elements are provided on the first surface. The imaging elements are positionally aligned and a location order is determined for the imaging elements. Wherein the imaging elements each comprise: a...

20060132478 - High-potential output stage: A high-potential output stage includes an output circuit to power a load with a variable high potential when it receives a low-level active input logic signal. It also includes a driving circuit which produces a high-level control logic signal as a function of the input logic signal to drive the...

20060132479 - Image display device for generating input image signals in best mode and method thereof: Disclosed is an image display device for generating input image signals and a method thereof. The image display device includes an outer device connector connected with a digital video interactive (DVI) cable or a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) cable, an image signal separator separating an image signal received through the...

20060132480 - Automatic testing of graphics programs: A method and system to automatically test graphical output. A graphical output is generated in a format that permits automatic comparison with a reference graphic. The reference graphic is created and retained in the test format. The test format reference graphic is compared with the test format output graphic. The...

20060132481 - Digital image processor: The present invention provides a digital image processing system comprising: a first workstation at which a first set of digital image data can be analysed to determine a first set of colour correction parameter data corresponding to colour corrections to be made to the first set of image data; a...

20060132483 - 3-dimensional image processing apparatus: A three-dimensional image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores data of a plurality of mask images and data of a plurality of contrast images, each of the plurality of mask images being obtained by radiographing a subject to be examined in a different direction before contrast medium injection,...

20060132484 - Adaptive rendering apparatus and method using hierarchical structure in 3d image and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for executing the adaptive rendering method: Provided are an adaptive rendering apparatus and method using a hierarchical structure in a 3D image and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the adaptive rendering method. The adaptive rendering apparatus includes a cell data provision unit, which divides an original 3D image into a plurality...

20060132482 - Method for inter-scene transitions: A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include...

20060132485 - Surveillance management system: A system is provided for collecting surveillance data from one or more sensor units and incorporating the surveillance data into a surveillance database. The system is configured to retrieve surveillance data from the surveillance database and perform predetermined analytical functions on the data. The system is also configured to present...

20060132486 - Rendering apparatus and method for real-time global illumination in real light environment: A rendering apparatus for real-time global illumination and a method thereof are disclosed. The rendering apparatus includes: a spherical harmonic processor for creating light samples and creating spherical harmonics basis functions; a light model processor for transforming radiance of a HDRI image to spherical harmonics light coefficients using the spherical...

20060132487 - Method of analyzing moving objects using a vanishing point algorithm: A process of video capture, segmentation, tracking, and mapping to obtain position and time data for motion analysis. The moving object is captured in video in a series of frames at a known frame rate. The moving object is isolated from all other data in a frame and the position...

20060132488 - Apparatus and method for representing multi-level lod three-dimensional image: Provided are an apparatus and a method for representing a multi-level LOD three-dimensional image. The present invention configures a multi-level LOD hierarchical mesh for each hierarchical level with a different LOD level by arranging triangular patches of a upper hierarchical level(lower resolution) to have approximately k×k of triangular patches of...

20060132489 - Remote computing: A graphic processor is connected to a main processor in a client device or in a host computer. The graphics processor executes software to to perform at least a portion of remote computing overhead associated with the remote computing session....

20060132490 - Method and system for high speed network application: A method and system for monitoring frame flow in a Fibre Channel network is provided. The method includes, deleting fill words before any frame data is allowed to be stored in a buffer memory; storing only certain primitive signals and/or frame data in the buffer memory; reading the buffer memory...

20060132491 - Real-time display post-processing using programmable hardware: In a graphics processor, a rendering object and a post-processing object share access to a host processor with a programmable execution core. The rendering object generates fragment data for an image from geometry data. The post-processing object operates to generate a frame of pixel data from the fragment data and...

20060132492 - Graphics processor with integrated wireless circuits: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that are capable of processing graphics information and wirelessly transmitting processed graphics information to a monitor. In order to achieve a high bandwidth, one embodiment of the present invention provides a graphics processor chip that includes multiple RF transmitters such that processed graphics information can be...

20060132493 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a video signal processing unit, a display panel, and a bidirectional bus. The video signal processing unit transmits a video signal via the bidirectional bus. The display panel displays an image in accordance with the video signal. The video signal processing unit and the display module...

20060132494 - High speed image processing method and apparatus, program product of the method, computer readable medium of the product, and image forming system having the apparatus: This patent specification describes a image processing apparatus which includes a CPU (central processing unit) configured to control the image processing apparatus, a memory configured to store data and an image processing device configured to read a source image stored in a storage area of the memory and implement a...

20060132495 - 2d/3d line rendering using 3d rasterization algorithms: This patent discloses a system and method to compile a set of display points that define a two dimensional representation of a straight line graphic object using three dimensional rasterization algorithms. In one embodiment, a three dimensional (3D) graphics accelerator may receive data. The data may define three vertices (x0,...

20060132496 - System and method for resampling texture maps: A system for resampling texture maps in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises memory and a texture map manager. The stores a first texture map defining a first texture, and the first texture map is based on an image of an object. The texture map manager...

20060132497 - Three-dimensional image rendering devices and methods: A three-dimensional rendering device may project an image on a movable display through a collimating device, which collimates the rays from the display into a narrow solid angle. The narrow solid angle may allow the rays from the display to be projected only to a viewer located at a particular...

20060132498 - Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images: A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each such window in the input picture, if the window is detected as around a ringing-like area in the picture, then the...

20060132499 - Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images: A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each such window in the input picture, if the window is detected as around a ringing-like area in the picture, then the...

20060132502 - Automatic 3d modeling system and method: An automatic 3D modeling system and method are described in which a 3D model may be generated from a picture or other image. For example, a 3D model for a face of a person may be automatically generated. The system and method also permits gestures/behaviors associated with a 3D model...

20060132501 - Digital platform apparatus: In a digital platform apparatus of the present invention, a position of a camera mounted on a screen in a display unit is detected by a position detection unit, and image data is transferred from the camera via a communication unit in accordance with a predetermined instruction operation. The transferred...

20060132500 - Method and computer program product for automatic image mirroring: Method and computer program product for mirroring an image according to internationalization information in an application supporting images. An initial image to be mirrored, which is described in a graphical format, is read. The image data is wrapped in a new image format by adding information about which area of...

20060132504 - Content combining apparatus and method: A content combining apparatus of this invention includes a control unit which designates, to a content distributing apparatus, a playback condition for the playback of content to be distributed from a content distributing apparatus and a playback condition for the playback of content to be read out from a recording...

20060132503 - Method and apparatus for video editing with a minimal input device: A system and method for displaying information about video/audio clips that are being edited. When two different clips are being matched, or when one clip is being used to replace another clip, the first clip is shown on a first timeline in a normal form. The other clip is arranged...

20060132505 - Image display apparatus for displaying screen of personal computer and method thereof: An image display apparatus for displaying a screen of a personal computer (PC) and a method for displaying the PC screen. The image display apparatus includes a connect section for providing an interface to a PC to receive a first video and a second video from the PC that displays...

20060132506 - Method of modifying facial images, makeup simulation method, makeup method, makeup support apparatus and foundation transfer film: New findings such as the highlight theory which determine the impression of a face are utilized for the technique of modifying a photographed facial image and the makeup technique. A method according to the present invention includes determining a desirable face desired by a person who is subjected to facial...

20060132507 - Method for generating a slide show of an image: The present invention discloses methods for generating a slide show of an image. With the methods, every still image could be displayed with the vivid effect of a dynamic video. The steps of one method according to the present invention comprise: performing a semantic analysis of a image for detecting...

20060132508 - Multi-planar image viewing system and method: A multi-planar image viewing system for displaying first and second selectable indicia on a display for application to a launching series having an initial planar orientation. The system comprises a series launching module, a viewing tool generation module and a viewing tool module. The launching module stores the initial planar...

20060132509 - Apparatus and method for reducing color error in display having sub-pixel structure: An apparatus and a method are provided for reducing color error in a display having a sub-pixel structure. The method includes: setting at least two directions based on a sub-pixel to be displayed and calculating differences of brightness values of at least two pixels or sub-pixels positioned in the set...

20060132510 - Illumination modulation technique: A technique includes pulse width modulating an illuminating beam of a light to establish a pixel intensity and modulating the illuminating beam to create different tonal resolution ranges for the pixel intensity....

20060132511 - System for reducing crosstalk: A system for reducing crosstalk for a display....

20060125714 - Heads-up display with improved contrast: A heads-up display for a vehicle is in contrast to the windshield behind the display or the environment outside of the vehicle windshield. In this way, the heads-up display is more visible than prior art heads-up displays. In one embodiment, the windshield is tinted to be in contrast with the...

20060125715 - Liquid crystal display device having ocb mode and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device (LCD) which applies a high voltage for carrying out a bend transition of an optically compensated birefringence (OCB) liquid crystal as a reset voltage to a common electrode of the OCB liquid crystal in the LCD having an OCB mode, and a method of driving...

20060125716 - Light-emitting diode display with compartment: A display segment includes a carrier, a first light-emitting diode attached to the carrier, and a second light-emitting diode attached to the carrier. An intermediate reflector structure is disposed on the carrier between the first light-emitting diode and the second light-emitting diode. The intermediate reflector structure has a first intermediate...

20060125717 - Proximity detection-display device and method of using said device: The invention pertains to a display device comprising means of detection of proximity and to a method of using this device. The device comprises a liquid crystal layer, at least two electrodes making it possible to excite the liquid crystal, means for generating a control signal for the electrodes, means...

20060125718 - Adaptive noise reduction for digital display panels: A plasma display panel is a pure linear display and does not provide a non-linear gamma behaviour like a CRT so that an artificial gamma function has to be applied to the signal in digital form. This gamma function increases the quantization steps in the dark areas whereas the quantization...

20060125722 - Pdp energy recovery apparatus and method and high speed addressing method using the same: A PDP energy recovery apparatus and method controls the time point of charging and discharging energy to a plasma display panel (PDP) optimally and performs a high speed addressing. The PDP energy recovery apparatus includes a PDP, a driving integrated circuit unit for driving the PDP; and a PDP energy...

20060125721 - Plasma display apparatus and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus of the present invention comprises a connector into which a terminal of a driving connector is inserted, whereby the terminal of the driving connector and a terminal of...

20060125719 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a driver that applies a plurality of sustain pulses to the scan electrodes or the sustain electrodes,...

20060125720 - Plasma display device: There is provided a plasma display device including a panel displaying an image, a frame supporting the panel, a driving unit coupled with the frame to generate electrical signals for driving the panel, and a signal transferring unit including at least one signal transferring line for transferring electrical signals between...

20060125723 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There is provided a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus comprises an APL controller controlling an average picture level (APL) to adjust the number of setup waveforms depending on frame data inputted from the outside; a waveform generator generating a setup waveform depending on...

20060125724 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. The plasma display device has a vertical synchronization signal of a second frequency lower than a first frequency, and is driven by a frame divided into a plurality of subfields having respective weight values. In an address period, the device sequentially...

20060125726 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. A plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, a scan driver for applying a negative voltage to the scan electrode before a reset period when the scan...

20060125725 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises: a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes intersecting with the scan electrodes; a scan driver for applying a negative waveform and a reset waveform subsequent to...

20060125729 - 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...

20060125727 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, a first voltage supply unit...

20060125728 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There is provided a plasma display apparatus and a driving method of a plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and an electrode driver alternatively applying a sustain pulse of a first polarity to the first electrode...

20060125730 - Cold cathode type flat panel display: A second interlayer insulation layer (15) is formed under an upper wiring electrode (16) serving as a power feed line to an upper electrode (13) in each thin-film type electron source array so as to prevent a failure of short-circuit. Further, an electron emission portion is limited by the second...

20060125731 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus comprises: display devices; members arranged at distance of the several display devices each other; and a drive circuit having an adjustment circuit and a correction circuit. The correction circuit corrects the drive signal and has a correction value calculation circuit for calculating a correction value that...

20060125732 - Image display device: For displaying an image on a display panel by luminance of a plurality of pixels having red, green and blue color elements based on a video signal, a correction circuit corrects the drive voltage by calculating a level for the correction of the drive voltage of the N pixels (N≧1)...

20060125736 - Data drive integrated circuit with reduced size and display apparatus having the same: There is provided a display apparatus including a data drive IC. The data drive IC includes a current-mode analog to digital converter (DAC) comprising a plurality of dynamic circuits (instead of conventional level shifters). In response to an enable signal received, each of the dynamic circuits convert a bit of...

20060125739 - Display device: The display device of this invention has a pixel element electrode 80, a plurality of drain signal lines 61 for supplying the digital image signals D0-D2, a plurality of capacitance elements C0-C2 with weighed capacitance value corresponding to the digital image signals D0-D2, a refresh transistor RT for initializing the...

20060125735 - Display device having a data driver integrated circuit with an improved transistor matching characteristic and a method of driving the same: A display device having a data driver integrated circuit with an improved transistor matching characteristic and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device includes a pixel, a voltage generator generating and outputting a plurality of bias voltages, and a current source supplying a current to the...

20060125733 - Image display device with capacitive energy recovery: Device comprising a display panel, preferably organic electroluminescent with passive matrix, comprising an array of columns and an array of rows of electrodes for powering an array of cells and drive means adapted for successively connecting each row electrode to one of the terminals of power supply means of this...

20060125738 - Light emitting display and method of driving the same: A light emitting display including a scan driver for supplying scan signals to scan lines in a first period of a horizontal period, a data driver for sequentially supplying a plurality of data signals to an output line in a second period of the horizontal period, a demultiplexer coupled with...

20060125734 - Oled display with aging compensation: An OLED display, comprising: a) a substrate; b) a plurality of independently controlled light emitting elements formed on the substrate, the light emitting elements having an output that changes with time or use; c) a plurality of active-matrix circuits formed on the substrate for driving the light-emitting elements wherein the...

20060125737 - Pixel and light emitting display: A pixel and a light emitting display including the pixel. The pixel includes first and second organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), a driving circuit commonly connected to the plurality of OLEDs to drive the first and second OLEDs, a switching circuit connected between the first and second OLEDs and the...

20060125740 - Light emission drive circuit and its drive control method and display unit and its display drive method: A light emission drive circuit includes an electric charge accumulating section for accumulating electric charges on the basis of a gradation sequence signal designating a luminance gradation sequence. A light emission control section flows a light emission drive current having a current value in accordance with an amount of the...

20060125741 - Display device and driving method thereof: The present invention enhances a display quality of a display device as a task. As means for solving such a task, the present invention provides a display device including a light emitting element and a switching element in a pixel, wherein the switching element is provided for supplying a power...

20060125743 - Lcd panel driving device and conductive pattern on lcd panel therefore: Disclosed relates to an LCD panel driving device that improves power input ends for inputting driving signals and connection patterns of the LCD panel driving device and the LCD panel, thus eliminating a block dim phenomenon generated when driving the LCD panel. The LCD driving device connected electrically with conductive...

20060125742 - Liquid-crystal display device and method of driving liquid-crystal display device: A liquid-crystal display device and a method of driving the same which can suppress flicker to maintain an enhanced quality of picture, and can reduce its power consumption. A backlight unit is turned ON and OFF a plurality of times in synchronism with a frame period having a scanning period...

20060125744 - Display device with pre-charging arrangement: The invention relates to a display device comprising a plurality of light emitting elements (1), wherein at least one of the elements has an associated capacitor (C1). The display device comprises pre-charging means (7;8) for generating a pre-charge signal for charging the associated capacitor (C1) at least partly. The pre-charging...

20060125745 - Enhanced viewing experience of a display through localised dynamic control of background lighting level: A method of controlling brightness, colour, hue, colour temperature, gamma response or contrast of at least one image for display on a multi-layer display device characterized by carrying out the steps of: receiving said at least one image(s) to be displayed, detecting the brightness, colour, hue, colour temperature, gamma response...

20060125746 - Microelectrical device: A microelectrical device has a ferroelectric layer (10) between parallel electrodes (20,21) at least one of which (21) is movable. The electrodes have a closed position in which the ferroelectric layer (10) is sandwiched between the two electrodes (21,21) and an open position in which the movable electrode (21) is...

20060125747 - Display device and automatic synchronization judging circuit: An automatic synchronization judging circuit to be used in a liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of realizing, by a small-scale circuit, a function of correctly judging a synchronizing signal to serve as a reference signal for displaying operations in any case of combinations of synchronizing signals...

20060125749 - Display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed is a display device with a driving method thereof. The display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines for transmitting gray voltages corresponding to image data among a plurality of the gray voltages as data voltages, and a plurality of...

20060125750 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device displaying a color by mixing light reflected by a first reflection element 22 and light reflected by a second reflection element 26 by additive color mixture, in which the light of a first wavelength reflected by the first reflection element and light of a second wavelength reflected...

20060125748 - Line compensated overdriving circuit of color sequential display and line compensated overdriving method thereof: A line compensated overdriving circuit for use in a color sequential display is disclosed. The line compensated overdriving circuit comprises an overdrive unit, a line compensation generator, and a line compensated overdrive (LCO) processor. The overdrive unit receives previous data and present data to output overdrive data. The line compensated...

20060125751 - Apparatus driving a liquid crystal display: The present invention is directed to an apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels. The driving apparatus includes a gray voltage generator for generating a plurality of gray voltages, an image signal driver for selecting gray voltages corresponding to color signals and applying the...

20060125752 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display with multi-line inversion which reverses polarity of applied voltages every two or more rows for preventing the deterioration of liquid crystal. An LCD according to the present invention includes a LC panel in matrix arrangement, a timing controller performing data format...

20060125753 - Spatial light modulator with charge-pump pixel cell: A voltage storage cell circuit includes an access transistor and a storage capacitor, wherein the source of said access transistor is connected to a bitline, the gate of said access transistor is connected to a wordline, and wherein the drain of said access transistor is connected to a first plate...

20060125754 - Tft-lcd capable of repairing discontinuous lines: A TFT-LCD capable of repairing discontinuous lines includes a repairing circuit, which includes a plurality of repairing OP amplifiers and a high-impedance detecting unit. The high-impedance detecting unit detects states of input terminals of the OP amplifiers. The high-impedance detecting unit enables a control signal to enable the OP amplifier...

20060125755 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes: pixel electrodes arranged in columns and rows, each including a reflective electrode region; scanning lines; and signal lines. The device sequentially supplies a scanning signal voltage to one of the scanning lines after another to select one group of pixel electrodes, connected to the...

20060125756 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device disclosed includes a timing controller and a data buffer for storing first and second data control signals from the timing controller, the data buffer having a first buffer and a second buffer, each of the first and second buffers capable of...

20060125761 - Digital-to-analog converters including full-type and fractional decoders, and source drivers for display panels including the same: A digital-to-analog converter includes a full-type decoder, a fractional decoder and an averaging amplifier. The full-type decoder is configured to select, based on N-bit digital data, one of a set of first gamma reference voltages corresponding to a first interval of gamma reference voltages. The fractional decoder is configured to...

20060125763 - Display apparatus and driving device for displaying: A display apparatus for displaying display data, including: a first driver applying a gray scale voltage to first lines in response to display data; and a second driver applying a selection voltage to second lines in a case of selecting a line of a pixel and a non-selecting voltage to...

20060125757 - Driver for display device: A driver for a display device includes: a timing controller for generating first and second signals; and a plurality of data drivers provided with a plurality of data drivers disposed on the left of the timing controller, a data driver disposed at the center thereof, and a plurality of data...

20060125758 - Driving circuit for display apparatus, flexible printed circuit, and active matrix display apparatus: A driving circuit of an LCD display apparatus, which adjusts the sampling timing of a video signal. Driving signals from a driving IC and a reference power source are supplied via a flexible printed circuit FPC to an LCD panel. A horizontal clock signal is subjected to switching adjustment in...

20060125762 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of first electrodes that are disposed to correspond to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, a second electrode that is provided to face the first electrodes, an electro-optical material that is interposed between the first electrodes and...

20060125765 - Image display method and image display apparatus: A display method can achieve both a substantially high definition image display and high speed dynamic image display. The image displaying method of an image displaying apparatus having a display portion consisting of a plurality of pixels takes each of a predetermined number of pixels as one block unit and...

20060125764 - Liquid crystal display driving method/driving circuit capable of being driven with equal voltages: A display apparatus comprising a plurality of pixel portions arranged in a matrix, a signal driver circuit which generates apply voltages corresponding to display data, and applies the apply voltages to the pixel portions, a scan driver circuit which applies a selecting voltage to selected ones of the pixel portions,...

20060125760 - Method of driving a display device, display controller and display device for performing the same: A method of driving a display device is provided, including storing drive data blocks in a drive data block unit, fetching the drive data blocks from the drive data block unit, storing the drive data blocks in data block setting registers, driving the display device using the drive data blocks...

20060125759 - Output buffer of a source driver in a liquid crystal display having a high slew rate and a method of controlling the output buffer: Provided is an output buffer for a source driver of an LCD with a high slew rate, and a method of controlling the output buffer. The output buffer, which outputs a source line driving signal for driving a source line of the LCD, includes: an amplifier section amplifying an analog...

20060125766 - Display: A display having a shift register circuit capable of suppressing increase of power consumption is provided. This display comprises a shift register circuit including a shift register circuit portion including a first circuit portion having a second transistor turned on in response to a first signal and a second circuit...

20060125773 - Backlight device, method of driving backlight and liquid crystal display apparatus: The present invention prevents extension of the time period from powering on a device to convergence of chromaticity of emitted white light on a certain chromaticity, irrespective of the temperature when the device is powered on. A color liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display unit, a backlight...

20060125775 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device is disclosed that is capable of presenting to a viewer a high-quality lustrous video on a display screen with best screen brightness by increasing visual contrast and avoiding loss of true black elements without widening a dynamic range of a picture signal. The image display device...

20060125771 - Image signal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrates; and a light source, a whose brightness of which is controllable, wherein the liquid crystal display apparatus further includes a unit for generating an image signal with a...

20060125768 - Light source device for image display device: A highly precise and durable light source device 10 for a two-dimensional or planar image display does not use a mechanical construction and thus can rapidly move an illuminating point on a light source to a position that best matches the positional movement of an observer. The light source device...

20060125770 - Light-merging control units: A light-merging control unit applied in a backlight module. The backlight module comprises first and second light emitting units respectively driven by first and second frequencies. Light from the first and second light emitting units is merged into merged light. The light detector detects the merged light and generates a...

20060125774 - Lighting device, liquid crystal display device, mobile terminal device and its controlling method: A lighting device of backlight type that transmits light of a plurality of light emitting elements from a display section includes a plurality of driving sections that drive the plurality of light emitting elements; and drive switching section, provided between the plurality of driving sections and the plurality of light...

20060125767 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a method of controlling luminance of a backlight based on a processed image data after receiving information of image data, in order to improve the visibility of moving picture. An inverter according to the present invention includes a first block generating a first luminance control...

20060125772 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: It is a liquid crystal display device which can display simultaneously information which is different in the front and rear sides. It has a single liquid crystal panel, a lighting unit which is arranged at both-sides and comprised with the light source, and a control circuit which carries out drive...

20060125769 - Photosensors for displays and related devices: An electronic device may include a liquid crystal display, a photosensor, a light, and a controller. The liquid crystal display may have first and second transparent substrates and a liquid crystal material between the first and second transparent substrates. The photosensor may be on a portion of the first transparent...

20060125776 - Display apparatus: There is a demand for preventing display quality of a display apparatus from deteriorating. When charged particles (9) are attracted to a first electrode (3), the distribution density may not become uniform over the entire area A1 and only the distribution density in the periphery of the first electrode (3)...

20060125779 - Electrophoretic display with dual-mode switching: The present invention relates to an improved EPD which comprises both the traditional up/down switching and the in-plane switching modes. In other words, the improved EPD has dual switching modes. The monochrome EPDs of the present invention are capable of displaying highlight color of choice which is different from the...

20060125777 - Rear-viewable reflective display: A novel reflective display system is described. The display system is viewable through the display backplane instead of the counterelectrode. Making the display viewable through the backplane allows use of a conducting elastomer as a counterelectrode which facilitates fabrication of a flexible display. The rear-viewable display also facilitates attachment of...

20060125778 - Time domain printing for electric paper: An improved method and system for printing electric paper is described. The method utilizes a system for keeping a writing characteristic, such as an electric charge or an electric current, constant with each pixel of an electric paper as the electric paper moves through a system. By keeping the electrical...

20060125785 - Apparatus and method for generating data signals: A handheld device having a main body and at least one button integral with the main body for causing generation of electrical signals. A pair of thumb controllers may be integral with the main body and positioned so that a user holding the device may tactilely engage each of the...

20060125787 - Data processing system: A data processing system including: a display screen; a keyboard; a sensor subsystem for generating a sensed output indicative of the position of the display screen relative to the keyboard; a memory for storing one or more outputs from the sensor subsystem; a comparator for generating feedback indicative of the...

20060125783 - Display device with detachable housing: A display device includes a main body, an interface unit, and a detachable housing. The interface unit interconnects the detachable housing with the main body. The detachable housing includes an on screen display (OSD) unit for storing a plurality of OSD data, and a command input unit for generating command...

20060125782 - Method and apparatus for controlling a computing system: A handheld computing device is introduced comprising a motion detection sensor(s) and a motion control agent. The motion detection sensor(s) detect motion of the computing device in one or more of six (6) fields of motion and generate an indication of such motion. The motion control agent, responsive to the...

20060125780 - Method for representing a graphical object and communication device: The present disclosure relates to a method for representing a graphical object. The method is characterized in that a movement of an input device is converted to a graphical object, and the graphical object is represented on a display device and the representation of the graphical object is automatically displaced...

20060125786 - Mobile information system and device: The present invention includes a mobile device that is capable of storing media and optionally a wireless network connection for streaming live data between the device and the database. The data from the orientation sensor and the position sensor both go directly into the mobile device as input to a...

20060125784 - Mobile terminal including folder type liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: A mobile terminal having a flat panel display device includes: a body unit having an input device; a display unit connected to the body unit; an extended display unit connected to the display unit using a hinge such that the display unit and the extended display unit are folded/unfolded; a...

20060125781 - Sliding structure location on a pointing device corrected for non-linearity of measured differential: A pointing device has a pointing device surface and a sliding structure that moves with respect to the pointing device surface. A detector outputs a value that varies as the sliding structure moves with respect to the pointing device surface. A controller estimates the sliding structure location on the pointing...

20060125788 - Input device for moving cursor and scrolling image on screen: In the case where the operator is moving the cursor on the computer screen through the use of a mouse, when the cursor display moves to a position which coincides with any of the menu display, a boundary position of the menu display or a position which coincides with the...

20060125789 - Contactless input device: The present invention provides an input device that gives users more flexibility and convenience by allowing them to move the input device in a three-dimensional (3D) space without requiring any flat surface. According to one embodiment of the invention, an input device is provided. The input device comprises a motion...

20060125790 - Joystick controller: A joystick controller comprises a housing (10) and a joystick (12) mounted for pivotal movement relative to the housing (10) by means of a ball (14) and socket joint (18,20). A yoke (18) resolves directional movement of the joystick (12) into a component direction. A sensor senses movement of the...

20060125791 - Mouse scroll device: An improved mouse scroll device installs a scroll sensing plate integrally coupled and neatly aligned with the main body of a mouse for providing an appropriate position to operate the mouse easily, and the scroll sensing plate is coupled to a microprocessor. After the neatly arranged scroll sensing plate is...

20060125793 - Apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer based on projection data: An apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer includes a light source for illuminating an imaging surface, thereby generating reflected images. The apparatus includes an optical motion sensor for generating one-dimensional projection data based on the reflected images, filtering the projection data, and generating movement data based on...

20060125795 - Foot controlled computer mouse with finger clickers: A device for generating and delivering control signals to a computer has a housing with a top foot engaging surface on a top portion. Roller bearings captivated between the top portion and a base portion are disposed in moving engagement with a plate, thereby allowing the user's foot to move...

20060125792 - Input device adapted for a variety of surfaces of different reflective natures: An input device includes a housing with an opening, a light source for generating light, a lens, a sensor for detecting light and generating an image signal, and a processing circuitry for receiving the image signal from the sensor and then generating a motion signal of the input device to...

20060125794 - Lift detection mechanism for optical mouse sensor: There is described a method for detecting a lift condition from an illuminated surface portion of an optical motion sensing device. According to a first embodiment, two different “loss-of-focus” thresholds are used. A first threshold is used when the optical pointing device is not moving, and a second threshold greater...

20060125796 - Systems and methods for configuring user interface devices: Systems and methods for positioning a keyboard of an information handling system such as a notebook computer relative to one or more other user interface devices of the information handling system, for example, to improve ergonomic alignment of the user interface devices of the information handling system....

20060125797 - Automated teller machine: An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) comprises a user interface and an operator panel. The operator panel is in the form of a Graphic User Interface arranged to provide two or more modes of interaction for a user, including a windows based mode and a text based mode, by emulating the...

20060125801 - Capacitive touchpad having dual traces coupled with uneven spaced interlaced sensors: A capacitive touchpad comprises two traces with a plurality of first and second sensors coupled thereto respectively, and the first and second sensors are arranged interlaced and uneven spaced to each other. By detecting the capacitance variances produced by the sensors from the traces, phase leading or lagging Z-axis signals...

20060125798 - Continuous scrolling using touch pad: A method for evoking the scrolling and panning operations utilizing the touch pad is disclosed, characterized by the ability to perform continuous scrolling or panning, with user selectable trade-off between the speed and accuracy....

20060125800 - Controlling device with dual-mode, touch-sensitive display: A universal controlling device having a touch-sensitive display which is switchable between two operational modes. In one operational mode, the display provides one or more graphical user interfaces comprised of graphical user interface icons that are selectable to command operational functions of one or more appliances. In a second operational...

20060125802 - Method for displaying flipping pages via electromechanical information browsing device: A method for displaying flipping pages of an electronic book via an electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides tactile feedback so as to lessen the user-interface differences between conventional...

20060125803 - System and method for packing multitouch gestures onto a hand: A multi-touch system is disclosed that compares finger arrangements at the beginning of multi-touch gestures and discriminates between neutral- and spread-hand performances. Gestures by the neutral- and spread-hand versions of each chord are then mapped to separate, but intuitively related cursor functions or sets of commands. Less-frequently performed functions and...

20060125799 - Touch driven method and apparatus to integrate and display multiple image layers forming alternate depictions of same subject matter: An interactive display system, including a touch sensitive display, establishes a first image and at least one secondary image, each image representing various spatial coordinates, the spatial coordinates overlapping at least in part such that each image comprises an alternate depiction of subject matter common to all of the images....

20060125804 - Acoustic condition sensor employing a plurality of mutually non-orthogonal waves: A touch sensor comprising an acoustic wave transmissive medium having a surface; a plurality of acoustic wave path forming systems, each generating a set of incrementally varying paths through said transmissive medium; and a receiver, receiving signals representing said sets of waves, a portion of each set overlapping temporally or...

20060125805 - Method and system for conducting a transaction using recognized text: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for conducting a transaction using recognized text. In one embodiment, an electronic interactive pen device recognizes a text string written on a writable surface. A function of the electronic interactive pen device is then automatically accessed. In response to accessing...

20060125806 - Human-activated displacement control appliance for use with computerized device/mechanism: A human-activated displacement control appliance for use with a computerized device to move an object—whether massless, such as a cursor/point/icon/etc. on a computerized display, or having mass, such as a vehicle/craft/robot/cart, manned or not. The appliance includes: (a) an electromagnetic (EM) positional detection component comprising a mechanism for generating a...

20060125813 - Active matrix liquid crystal display with black-inserting circuit: 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...

20060125808 - Current range control circuit, data driver, and organic light emitting display: A current range control circuit for a data driver in an organic light emitting display. The data driver includes a shift register for outputting a latch control signal, a data latch for sequentially receiving video data and to output the video data in parallel, a digital to analog converter for...

20060125810 - Display device and driving apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to a display device and a driving apparatus for the display device. The display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; a signal controller converting input image data having a first frequency into a plurality of output image data having a second frequency...

20060125809 - Displaying apparatus and control method thereof: The invention relates to a displaying apparatus having a display unit on which an image corresponding to an image signal inputted is displayed, comprising: an image signal processing unit processing the image signal so that the image is displayed on the display unit; and a control unit controlling the image...

20060125814 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic device includes a display having a memory function and a communications capability. Display functions are controlled based on a state of the operation of the device and/or based on a state of received data. Also disclosed is a method of selectively displaying advertising information based on a state...

20060125811 - Level shifter and display device including the same: A level shifter includes: a voltage dividing unit receiving a first voltage and an input voltage, and generating a middle voltage between the first voltage and the input voltage; first and second voltage compensating units connected to the voltage dividing unit and connected between the first voltage and a second...

20060125807 - Light emitting display: A light emitting display includes first and second scan lines arranged in a row direction to transmit first and second scan signals, a data line arranged in a column direction to transmit a data signal, an image display unit including first and second emission control lines arranged in the row...

20060125812 - Liquid crystal display and driving apparatus thereof: A liquid crystal display and an apparatus of driving display device including a plurality of pixels arrange in a matrix according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a signal controller converting an input image data (“current input image data”) inputted at a first frequency into a plurality of...

20060125815 - Method and device for controlling display device: Displaying by a display device is controlled by outputting a clock signal and an image signal to the display device. A clock signal and an image signal are prepared and stability of the clock signal is monitored by comparing a predetermined parameter relating to the clock signal with a threshold...

20060125816 - Methods of suppressing ringing artifact of decompressed images: A suppression method that provides adaptive (i.e., selective) processing of an input picture to generate an enhanced output picture with ringing-like areas of the input picture suppressed. For each such window in the input picture, if the window is detected as around a ringing-like area in the picture, then the...

20060125818 - Image data synchronizer applied for image scaling device: The image data synchronizer has a memory, an address write counter, an address read counter, a clock frequency modulator, and an analog/digital mixed value control oscillator. In order to prevent a read overhead to cause a disordered image, the analog/digital mixed value control oscillator is coupled to an output terminal...

20060125817 - Synchronisation and estimation of a transmission channel: A method of estimating a transmission channel (302) comprises receiving a signal burst, which includes a sequence of training symbols; and determining (305) a desired synchronization position (p) of the training sequence with respect to the received signal burst. The method further comprises determining estimates of the transmission channel as...

20060125819 - Creating effects for images: Methods, local processing devices, image editors, and computer program products may provide storable image effects in a local processing device. A signal may be used to transport such image effects to other devices. The local processing device includes an image effects store and an image editor configured to generate a...

20060125821 - Client and program for improving three-dimensional air excursion and method thereof: In a server, a client for improving a three-dimensional air excursion and a method and programs thereof, a three-dimensional data can be automatically produced from aerial pictures or satellite images, and the three-dimensional air excursion on a three-dimensional solid map can be provided to a lot of users via the...

20060125820 - Engines for generating journal display having three dimensional appearance: A layout engine responds to a format file referenced to selected audio, video and selected image files. A rendering engine generates journal display data defining a 3D journal image in accordance with the formal file, the journal display data being provided to the display and corresponding to a 3D model....

20060125823 - Method and system for providing data to a graphics chip in a graphics display system: An API is provided to feed multiple data objects, wherever originated or located at the time of operation, to a 3D graphics chip simultaneously or in parallel. Multiple containers may be fed to a 3D graphics chip memory at the same time. In the case where data is being transmitted...

20060125822 - Volume management system for volumetric displays: The present invention is a system that manages a volumetric display using volume windows. The volume windows have the typical functions, such as minimize, resize, etc., which operate in a volume. When initiated by an application a volume window is assigned to the application in a volume window data structure....

20060125824 - Rapid zippering for real time tesselation of bicubic surfaces: A method and system is provided for rendering bicubic surfaces of an object on a computer system. Each bicubic surface is defined by sixteen control points and bounded by four boundary curves, each corresponding to an edge, and each boundary curve is formed by boundary box of line segments formed...

20060125825 - Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system: A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. A relatively low chip-footprint, versatile texture environment (TEV) processing subsystem is implemented in a pipelined graphics system circulates computed color and alpha data over multiple texture blending/shading cycles (stages). The texture-environment...

20060125826 - Method and system for mass spectrometry and gas chromatographic data analysis: Systems and methods for correlating and displaying the data produced by GC and MS. The data are correlated by representing MS data in the time domain, and GC and MS data are simultaneously displayed. When a particular mass spectrum is extracted, a search engine searches libraries for components with matching...

20060125827 - System and method for interactively linking data to shapes in a diagram: A facility for linking data from an external data source to shapes in a diagram is provided. The facility is implemented as a component of a graphical visualization program, and provides a modeless data window that is operable to display data from a data source through a two dimensional table....

20060125828 - Land software tool: Disclosed is a network accessible tool that is capable of providing map and satellite image data, as well as other photographic image data to locate, identify, measure, view, and communicate information about land over the Internet-to-Internet users. The network accessible tool includes a location tool that allows the user to...

20060125829 - Silhouette-oriented gray font generation: A method, computer graphical user interface tool, and computer-readable medium for generating a set of characters for display in gray scale are provided, wherein each character comprises one or more strokes/glyphs, and each stroke/glyph is defined in silhouette-oriented representation. The method includes generally six steps. First, a set of characters...

20060125830 - Method for simulating motion of cloth: A method for simulating motion of cloth or other flexible membranes corrects surface-to-surface intersection involving a membrane. The method may be applied at time intervals of a conventional motion simulation for computer-generated animation. When a collision is detected, a function for a line of intersection between intersecting surfaces is parameterized...

20060125831 - Combined engine for video and graphics processing: The system includes an arbiter, a combined engine, a frame buffer, and a display processing unit. The arbiter provides three input channels: a first channel for graphics, a second channel for video and a third channel for processor. The arbiter performs prioritization and arbitration between the video and graphics and...

20060125832 - Data display system, data relay device, data relay method, data system, sink device, and data read method: A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom, store the read control data into the EDID memory and, when access is made to...

20060125833 - Image display device and method thereof: An image display device and a method thereof are proposed to solve the problem of bad image processing performance of existent image display devices. The image display device comprises an image processing controller, a transmission interface for input of an image signal, a plurality of graphics processing unit for graphics...

20060125834 - Memory controller with graphic processing function: A memory controller having graphic processing function that includes a graphic processing unit operating in response to a selection signal from a master, and a memory interface for storing outputs of the graphic processing unit in an external memory at and receiving graphic data from the external memory to provide...

20060125835 - Dma latency compensation with scaling line buffer: A video processing system configured with DMA latency compensation is disclosed. This compensation helps minimize or otherwise mitigate shortages of data to the display, thereby improving the quality of displayed video. A relatively small line buffer is used to stage data for video processing. Should an underflow of data occur...

20060125836 - Systems and methods for presenting descriptions of conditions with respect to a surface: Systems and methods present descriptions of conditions with respect to a surface by preparing and displaying a graphic presentation that includes a perspective view of the surface and at least one body apart from the surface. A graphic feature of the body is in accordance with a condition to be...

20060125840 - System and method for resampling texture maps: A system for resampling texture maps in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises memory and a texture map manager. The stores a first texture map defining a first texture, and the first texture map is based on an image of an object. The texture map manager...

20060125838 - System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image: Disclosed is as system for reducing memory and computational requirements of graphics operations. The system provides techniques for combining otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images. The combined filter emerging from the combination spares the processor time and the creation of an entire intermediary image. The system further provides...

20060125839 - System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image: Disclosed is as system for reducing memory and computational requirements of graphics operations. The system provides techniques for combining otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images. The combined filter emerging from the combination spares the processor time and the creation of an entire intermediary image. The system further provides...

20060125837 - System for stream video process: A system and method for processing animation stream are disclosed. Sequential images are input to the system and transformed to an animation. The system comprises a sequential image input module for inputting sequential images in real time, an feature based image process module changing the input sequential images, a feature...

20060125841 - Image display method and device, and projector: An image display method of splitting a frame into a plurality of sub frames by multiplying a frame frequency of an incoming image signal by an integer, and dividing an image that is originally for the frame into pieces for display on the sub frames. In the image display method,...

20060125842 - Image interpolation device and method of preventing aliasing: An image interpolation device and method of preventing aliasing. The image interpolation device to prevent aliasing includes an aliased-region detection part to detect a region where aliasing occurs based on the magnitudes and signs of high-frequency components RH, GH, and BH at pixels of n2-times-density R, G, and B images,...

20060125843 - Control method remembering display angle: A control method capable of remembering display angle includes a circuit module which has a file access unit, a memory unit, a file adjustment unit and an image output unit. The control method includes: checking a selected symbol in at least one selected bit of the file name or data...

20060125844 - Method of automatically processing an image and an apparatus using the method: An apparatus and method for automatically processing an image that displays changes to the image at the back of a display region on a window of the foremost software are provided. The method of automatically processing an image uses automatic image processing software which is executed in a graphical user...

20060125845 - Program, method and apparatus for operating objects displayed on a display: To display many objects within a limited display region so a user can easily select the desired object, the invention includes: processing of arranging the objects in a virtual plane, processing of arranging a projection surface (a virtual projection body) on the virtual plane, processing of computing positions of the...

20060125847 - Automated display of an information technology system configuration: An Information Technology (IT) system display method and computer program product. A description is provided of a configuration of devices, network segments, and vertical connectors relating to an IT structure. The devices are initially distributed to form a distribution of the devices in a matrix representing a display screen. A...

20060125848 - Systems and methods for rendering graphical data: A preferred method includes the step of receiving multiple digital video data streams. Preferably, a first of the multiple digital video data streams contains processed pixel data corresponding to at least a portion of the image to be rendered, and a second of the multiple digital video data streams contains...

20060125846 - Virtual overlay for computer device displays: A method of teaching with computer devices having displays. Virtual transparent overlays and underlays are generated that can be annotated with indicia such as words, marks, and other selected indicia. Alternately, or in combination with a transparent overlay as discussed above opaque overlays can be generated for selected uncovering of...

20060125849 - Image display device: There is provided an image display device which can control image retention-preventing means in a static image displaying part, according to a change with the passage of time in a luminance difference. The drive of the image retention-preventing means is cancelled when accumulated elapsed-time during which the luminance difference is...

20060114172 - Method and apparatus for led based modular display: A method and apparatus for a light emitting device (LED) based modular display have been described....

20060114171 - Windowed immersive environment for virtual reality simulators: A windowed immersive environment, particularly for use in training simulations provides a high degree of visual fidelity and realistic depth of vision at appropriate distances at a reasonable cost. The environment integrates physical components with virtual components to create a realistic visual environment. In one embodiment, a frame delineates a...

20060114173 - Screen image display apparatus: A master control 1 has a plurality of channels, with a signal line 2 being connected for transmitting a screen image signal so as to let each of the channels display a character or image. The signal line 2 is connected to a plurality of display blocks 3 by way...

20060114174 - Stabilization of the effects of jitter on a displayed image: In an exemplary display system adapted to display an image to an observer using a display where at least one of the display and observer is subjected to physical vibration referred to as jitter, accelerometers are mounted to elements subject to jitter and associated with the observer. A processing system...

20060114175 - Graphical user interface system and method for representing and controlling surgical parameters: Graphical user interface system and method for displaying and controlling a surgical device, such as a device used in phacoemulsfication procedures. A graphical user interface is displayed on a display screen and includes one or more representations of operating parameters, such as aspiration rate, vacuum, and power that are used...

20060114176 - Display panel: The present invention provides a display device which can suppress mura or irregularities of brightness of a display. To be more specific, in a display device including the plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix array and are respectively provided with light emitting layers, a power source is...

20060114177 - System and method for driving multiple display types using a single header block: An LED interface circuit provides connection options for one or more types of LEDs. In an embodiment, the circuit includes an input node that receives an LED control signal, and an output that has a first output node, and a second output node. A driving circuit is disposed between the...

20060114178 - Plasma display apparatus and method for driving the same: The present invention provides a method of driving a plasma display panel that reduces the noise generated in the waveforms applied to a scan electrode, or a sustain electrode, and prevents deterioration of address jitters, thereby stabilizing an address discharge. A plasma display device comprises a scan electrode, a sustain...

20060114180 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel and a driving method thereof that is capable of generating a sinusoidal initialization waveform. In the panel, a sinusoidal wave is used for forming wall charges....

20060114179 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A plasma display panel which is capable of decreasing a discharge firing voltage and reducing a reset period and an addressing period to improve a luminescence efficiency. The plasma display panel includes: a first and second substrate arranged to face each other with a predetermined space therebetween and having a...

20060114181 - Multi-gray-scale image display method and apparatus thereof: A multi-gray-scale image display method and apparatus for displaying a multi-gray-scale image on a PDP by diffusing, as an error, a part of gray scale data representing an input image requiring more than a gray scale resolution of the PDP to a target pixel from different adjacent pixels in a...

20060114185 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A driving method of a plasma display, where in order to initialize a discharge cell having a larger distance between a scan electrode and a sustain electrode in the plasma display, a negative voltage is applied to the scan electrode and a positive voltage is applied to the address electrode...

20060114183 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof in which an erroneous discharge, a misdischarge and an abnormal discharge are prevented, a darkroom contrast is increased, an operation margin is widen, and an influence of a lower substrate wall charge is reduced in a...

20060114186 - 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 power consumption can be reduced and contrast can be improved, so that a high contrast image can be displayed. The plasma display apparatus according to the present...

20060114187 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There is provided a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus which reduces a noise generating in a waveform applied to a scan electrode or a sustain electrode and stabilizes address discharge by improving applying time point of a waveform applied in an address period, so...

20060114184 - Plasma display device and driving method for stabilizing address discharge by varying sustain electrode voltage levels: Driving a plasma display device by a plurality of subfields divided from a frame, when different driving waveforms are applied during reset periods of the plurality of subfields. A defective address operation that may be caused by an unstable wall charge state remaining at the end of the reset period...

20060114182 - Plasma display panels and driving methods therefor: A plasma display panel comprises a display array and an electrode driver. The display array is constructed by sustaining electrodes, scan electrodes, and electrodes. Each scan electrode is parallel to the sustaining electrodes and disposed between two sustaining electrodes. The electrode driver drives a first scan electrode and a second...

20060114189 - Electron emission display and driving method: An electron emission display for improving brightness uniformity by compensating brightness deviation between respective elements. The electron emission display includes a display panel, a scan driver, a data driver, and a brightness compensator. The display panel includes a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, and a plurality...

20060114188 - System and method for recalibrating flat panel field emission displays: A field emission display (FED) having a correction system with a correction coefficient derived from emission current is presented. Within one embodiment in accordance with the present invention, a field emission display has an anode at the faceplate and a focus structure. The anode potential is held at ground while...

20060114190 - Active matrix organic electro-luminescence device array: An active matrix organic electro-luminescence device array comprising first sub-pixel regions and second sub-pixel regions defined by scan lines and data lines is provided. Each first sub-pixel region has a first light emitting device, a first control unit and a second control unit therein while each second sub-pixel region has...

20060114195 - Current programming apparatus and matrix type display apparatus: A current programming apparatus includes a current source; a plurality of first circuits to which data currents are supplied through a data line, the first circuits commonly connected with the data line; a second circuit having a terminal connected to the current source; a switch connecting or breaking the second...

20060114194 - Current programming apparatus, active matrix type display apparatus, and current programming method: An active matrix type display apparatus in which a plurality of pixel circuits each having an electroluminescent element EL, a 1st FET to control a current flowing in the EL, and a 2nd FET provided between a gate and a drain of the 1st FET are arranged in a matrix,...

20060114191 - Data driving circuit, organic light emitting display including the same, and driving method thereof: A data driving circuit for an organic light emitting display and a method of driving the display where the number of wiring lines is reduced approximately in half as compared with the conventional schemes. The data driving circuit includes a shift register generating sampling signals in sequence, a sampling latch...

20060114192 - Driving of data lines used in unit circuit control: The display matrix section 200 has pixel circuits 210 arranged in the form of a matrix, a plurality of gate lines Y1, Y2 . . . that extend in the row direction, and a plurality of data lines X1, X2 . . . that extend in the column direction. The...

20060114197 - Lighted display and method: A lighted display device which may be of either the EL or LED type. In the EL embodiment, an EL sheet may be positioned on an upper surface of a driver, and removably secured thereto with an outer snap ring. This configuration would permit changing out of an EL sheet,...

20060114196 - Organic electroluminescence display and method of operating the same: An organic electroluminescence display and a method of operating the organic electroluminescence display are disclosed. A pixel array unit, including a plurality of pixels, is divided into at least two pixel groups adjacent to each other. The first pixel group is selected by a first scan driving unit and the...

20060114193 - Pixel circuit and light emitting display: A pixel circuit for a light emitting display. Adjacent pixels of the light emitting display coupled to one scan line share one first power supply line. A driving circuit in each pixel circuit drives first and second organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). A switching circuit is coupled between the first...

20060114198 - Electroluminescent display device to display low brightness uniformly: An electroluminescent (EL) display device has current-driven pixels and is operable in at least two phases within each frame period. In one phase, one of a first plurality (31) of analogue drive currents can be driven through EL display element. In another longer phase, one of a second plurality (33)...

20060114199 - Organic light emitting display, and method for driving organic light emitting display and pixel circuit: An organic light emitting display, and a method for driving an organic light emitting display and a pixel circuit capable of improving a uniformity of a luminance. In the organic light emitting display, a scan driver sequentially supplies a scan signal to a plurality of scan lines during each of...

20060114200 - Pixel circuit, display device, and a driving method thereof: A pixel circuit, display device, and driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuit which is disposed in a place where a signal line through which a signal current is caused to flow, and scanning lines through which control signals are supplied, respectively, cross each other and which includes an...

20060114201 - Color temperature correction for phosphor converted leds: Color correction in phosphor converted LEDs 520. A system and method provide color correction in emission spectra of a phosphor converted LED under PWM current drive. A modulation for a driving current signal is determined 810. A constant-magnitude current signal is modulated based on the determined modulation 820. The modulated...

20060114202 - Array substrate for flat display device: An object of this array substrate for a flat display device is to eliminate display unevenness caused by the inequality of parasitic capacitances of switches of signal line switch circuits. Electrode patterns (P) which connects the gate electrodes of the switches (ASW) to any one of a plurality of switch...

20060114203 - Dark ring of a microdisplay and its driving method: A method for driving a dark ring of a liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) display is provided to prevent the fringe effect (bright lines) due to the constant voltage difference between the dark ring and the adjoining pixels within the LCOS display. A dark ring is divided into a plurality of portions. The...

20060114204 - Liquid crystal display: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display capable of ensuring brightness necessary for achieving satisfactory display by increasing ratio of light-emitting time to one frame period. A liquid crystal display is adapted to have a period (non-video signal write period) required for writing non-video signals different from video signals onto all...

20060114205 - Driving system of a display panel: A driving system of a display panel includes a timing control module with a timing controller for receiving image data, a Gamma circuit, a source driving circuit module and a gate driving circuit module; wherein the Gamma circuit generates at least two Gamma voltages for the image data and outputs...

20060114206 - Method and apparatus for modulating video data and liquid crystal display using the same: A method of modulating a video data includes extracting a luminance signal and a color difference signal from the video data, modulating the luminance signal to generate a modulated luminance signal, and modulating the video data by using the modulated luminance signal and the color difference signal as an un-modulating...

20060114207 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A display device including a liquid crystal display (LCD) device with an improved image quality is provided. The LCD includes a liquid crystal (LC) panel having horizontal lines and vertical lines arranged in a matrix configuration; a gate driver for supplying a scan signal to the horizontal lines; and a...

20060114208 - Display: A display capable of rendering flickering hard to visually recognize and reducing power consumption is obtained. This display comprises first and second pixel portions including subsidiary capacitors having first electrodes connected to pixel electrodes and second electrodes respectively, first and second subsidiary capacitance lines connected to the second electrodes of...

20060114209 - Gate line driving circuit, display device having the same, and apparatus and method for driving the display device: In a gate line driving circuit, a display device, a driving apparatus and a driving method, a shift register sequentially shifts and outputs a high level data in response to a carry signal. A level shifter level-shifts an externally provided first voltage based on the high level data. An output...

20060114212 - Buffer circuit: A pair of complementary clock signals are output from a level shifter, and input to first and second buffer circuits. The first and second buffer circuits are each formed of a plurality of inverters. An inverter in a first stage of one buffer circuit is provided close to the level...

20060114211 - Display unit: A driving circuit of the display unit includes a driving circuit including a read only memory and a rewritable nonvolatile memory. The rewritable nonvolatile memory stores display quality specifying information for specifying the display quality of a display panel connected to the driving circuit. The read only memory stores the...

20060114214 - Image rotation in display systems: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of converting a stream of pixel data representing an image in the first orientation in space and time into a stream of bitplane data representing an image in the second orientation. The second orientation can be a horizontal, vertical, or a combination...

20060114215 - Lcd for speeding initial bend state, driver and method thereof: The present invention is directed to a liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same for a fast transition into a bend state at initial operation such as immediately after power is inputted in a liquid display device with an OCB mode. According to one feature of...

20060114213 - Power consumption of display apparatus during still image display mode: A plurality of gate lines (51) connected to a gate driver (50) for supplying gate signals and a plurality of drain lines (61) connected to a drain driver (60) for supplying drain signals are provided on a substrate (10). Pixels (200) are formed in the regions surrounded by these lines....

20060114210 - Power saving flat type display and method thereof: A flat type display and method thereof capable of reducing power consumption includes a plurality of shift registers for temporarily storing digital image data, and a plurality of mode-selecting units for determining the shift registers not storing digital data, and then turning off corresponding output operational buffers based on the...

20060114216 - Gate line driver circuits for lcd displays: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes an LCD panel having a plurality of rows of pixel elements therein and a corresponding plurality of gate lines coupled to the plurality of rows of pixel elements. A gate line driver is also provided. The gate line driver is electrically coupled to the...

20060114217 - Routing signals to drivers of display device with minimized wiring: A display device includes a first set of data buses coupled between a timing controller and a first line driver. In addition, the display device also includes a second set of at least one data bus coupled between the first line driver and a second line driver. The second set...

20060114219 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method of operating the same prevents a tearing effect from occurring. The LCD device includes a frame memory for writing new red, green and blue data or reading previously written red, green and blue data according to address designation, and a detector...

20060114218 - System and method for flat panel display brightness correction: A system and a method for flat panel display brightness correction, removing brightness difference between flat panel displays in one product line. The brightness correction system comprises a converter for control of color temperature and brightness of an image frame, and a backlight controller for generating corrected light for display...

20060114220 - Method for controlling opeprations of a liquid crystal display to avoid flickering frames: A method for controlling operations of liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The LCD has a plurality of display units, arranged in a plurality of rows. The display characteristics of the display units are changed every frame period according to received display data. The method involves dynamically changing a polarity...

20060114222 - Biological signal utilizing appliance and method for controlling the same: In a biological signal utilizing appliance, an appliance control section controls the appliance in accordance with user's manipulation. At that time, an operation content is presented to a user through an operation presentation section. A biological signal detection section measures user's biological signal and detects from the biological signal the...

20060114223 - Interface device for sensing position and orientation and ouputting force feedback: An interface device for use with a computer that provides locative data to a computer for tracking a user manipulatable physical object and provides feedback to the user through output forces. The physical object is movable in multiple degrees of freedom and is tracked by sensors for sensing the location...

20060114221 - Position detection device, pointing device and input device: A position detection device includes an electromagnetic conversion element and a magnetic field generator. The electromagnetic conversion element is arranged on a given plane. The magnetic field generator is arranged facing one side of the electromagnetic conversion element in a direction vertical to the given plane and generates a magnetic...

20060114225 - Cursor function switching method: A hand-shaped cursor showing a scrolling function is displayed on the display screen of the information processing device in a state where a wheel is not operated. When a user rotates the wheel to change a cursor function, the cursor on the display screen is changed to an arrow cursor...

20060114224 - Electronic apparatus, input control apparatus, and input control program storage medium: An electronic apparatus moves a cursor to a desired position with simple operation using a few operation members. The apparatus includes a display section which displays an information screen within a display area, and an operation section in which a pointing device operable in an arbitrary direction and direction keys...

20060114226 - Input device with adjustable cable arrangement: The present invention relates to a wired input device with an adjustable cable arrangement. The wired input device may include, but is not limited to, a computer mouse, track ball, or game controller. To enable adjustment of cable position, the wired input device includes an adjustment mechanism that permits the...

20060114228 - Magnetic oscillation metric controller: A magnetic oscillation metric controller with return design comprised of a scrolling wheel mechanism, a dancer, a permanent magnet, a Hall sensor and a return structure to drive the permanent magnet by oscillation of the scrolling wheel mechanism to generate signals of changed magnetic fields resulted from displacement for achieving...

20060114229 - Magnetic oscillation metric controller: A magnetic oscillation metric controller applied to computer peripheral or electronic communication system essentially operating on a scrolling wheel for lateral metric control to provide precise, consistent, reliable and programmable adjustment oscillation sensitivity by driving a permanent magnet to generate signals of changed magnetic fields resulted from displacement; and retrieving...

20060114227 - Mouse: An improved construction of a mouse to provide more comfortable holding and prevent hand fatigue is comprised of a dome ergonomically designed and provided behind the keys, the dome being made of soft material including silica gel, or filled up with air, oil, water, emulsion or the like surrounded by...

20060114230 - Photo-controlled swing-metering controller: A photo-controlled swing-metering controller includes a light-blocking plate connected to and synchronously swinging along with a swing wheel mechanism to cause changes in a light-source signal emitted from a photo-sensing device. The photo-sensing device detects the changed light-source signal and outputs an encoded signal, and discrimination of which enables the...

20060114232 - Optical module and input apparatus using the same: Provided are an optical module and an input apparatus having the same. The input apparatus includes the optical module having a circuit board provided with a light source and a sensor installed therein, a lens disposed at one side of the circuit board, and a support bracket disposed at the...

20060114231 - Optical wireless mouse power saving feature: A wireless pointing device includes a push button switch, an optical sensor circuit, and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit to the optical sensor circuit a logic high signal in response to depression of the push button switch for a period greater than or equal to the predetermined...

20060114234 - Keyboard-mouse-video switch with a digital visual interface: A keyboard-mouse-video (KVM) switch has a server interface, a client interface, a switch circuit and a digital video overlapping circuit. The server interface is connected to plural computers, and the client interface is connected to plural sets of manipulation and display devices. The switch circuit routes paths between the computers...

20060114233 - Method for displaying approached interaction areas: A method, a computer program and a computer program product for interacting with a device via an interaction unit, wherein the interaction unit comprises a plurality of interaction areas that can be activated by an activation unit to effect the interaction, the method comprising detecting approached interaction areas, wherein the...

20060114235 - Mechanism and method for entering data: Described are methods and mechanisms for entering data using a limited keyboard. Very generally stated, the invention envisions a mechanism and method for entering data on a keypad having a limited number of buttons. Each of several characters is mapped to a two-button pairing on the input device. A first...

20060114236 - Reconfigurable lighted keypad: A dynamically reconfigurable input button display provided on an operational face of multi-function physically displaceable buttons allows easy dynamic display of various operating modes or functions associated with operation of the button. The button forms part of a user interface of a input device, such as a piece of office...

20060114240 - Controlling device for cursor and method for operating the same: A controlling device for the cursor and the method for operating the same are provided. The controlling device includes a capacitor array having a plurality of equivalent capacitors, a microprocessor electrically connected to the capacitor array for sending a pulse train to the capacitor array in the x-direction and receiving...

20060114242 - Detection method of touch-panel device: A detection method for a touch-panel device having a touch pad electrically connected to at least m×n equivalent capacitors is provided, wherein m is a number of the equivalent capacitors on a specific one of rows and n is a number of the equivalent capacitors on a specific one of...

20060114239 - Handwritten information input apparatus: A handwritten information input apparatus includes: a tablet including a handwriting input region and a text input item region; a pencraft selection processing part for receiving a handwritten input that selects at least a part of the pencraft displayed in the handwriting input region, and confirming the selected pencraft; a...

20060114241 - Identification method for touch control device: An identification method for a touch control device having a memory and a pad electrically connected to an equivalent capacitance is provided. The provided identification method for a touch control device includes steps of: (a) charging the equivalent capacitance for obtaining a first voltage value; (b) storing the first voltage...

20060114238 - Integrated input and display device for a mobile computer: A device and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the device comprises a primary display unit, a base unit coupled to the primary display unit, and a touch-sensitive secondary display unit, coupled to the base unit, operable to receive input from a user and display information for the user....

20060114237 - Method and system for providing a frustrated total internal reflection touch interface: A method and system for providing a touch interface on a display are described. The method and system include providing an emitter on a first side of the display and providing a detector on a second side of the display. The emitter provides an electromagnetic signal to the display. The...

20060114243 - Switching matrix apparatus for semiconductor characteristic measurement apparatus: The switching matrix apparatus is provided with a plurality of relay switches for opening and closing the electrical connections between a plurality of input terminals and a plurality of output terminals, and a display unit in which a plurality of light-emitting portions are arranged in a matrix in correspondence with...

20060114244 - Touch input system using light guides: A touch input system includes a light-emitting device, a bent light guide and a light detector. The light-emitting device emits light. The bent light guide receives the light emitted by the light-emitting device and guides the light to travel in a direction across a face of a display screen. The...

20060114245 - Touch screen cover: A touch screen cover is provided that includes a display filter having a front surface configured to be positioned to at least partially cover a display screen. The display filter has a rim integrally formed with and extending along at least a portion of a perimeter of the front surface...

20060114247 - Apparatus for measuring a capacitance and sensor array: A capacitance measuring apparatus is provided, for example for measuring variations in pixel capacitance of an active matrix liquid crystal display to provide a “touch screen” function. The apparatus comprises a capacitor network having a plurality of states presenting different capacitances. A sense amplifier compares a capacitance to be measured...

20060114248 - Displaying apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention relates to a display apparatus including an input unit receiving a digital image signal and an analog image signal, a first storage unit storing digital display identification data, a second storage unit storing analog display identification data, a switching unit connecting the first storage unit or the...

20060114246 - Maintaining a default window aspect ratio for each input of a display device: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing an aspect ratio setting for each of multiple inputs of a display device, so that, when displaying content from each input, the aspect ratio setting of the display device is set to the value for the aspect ratio...

20060114249 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystals interposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of drain driver semiconductor chips is mounted on the first substrate so as to extend substantially in parallel with one edge of the first substrate, and...

20060114252 - Methods for retrieving shapes and drawings: There are disclosed methods to provide stable pose determinations of various three dimensional shapes. Methods are also disclosed for determining multiple, unique drawing descriptors for two dimensional drawings, and for obtaining intermediate three dimensional representations of two dimensional drawings as one way to determine the descriptor. Methods are also disclosed...

20060114251 - Methods for simulating movement of a computer user through a remote environment: Methods are disclosed for simulating movement of a user through a remote environment. In one embodiment, a camera is provided having a panoramic lens. The camera is used to capture multiple 360 degree panoramic images at intervals along at least one predefined path in the remote environment. A computer system...

20060114250 - Systems and methods for modifying the graphics output of an application: A method of modifying the graphics output of an application written for a reference mobile device in order to optimize the graphics output for a target mobile device is disclosed. The target mobile device has a display having different characteristics from the reference mobile device. The method includes the following...

20060114253 - System and process for generating a two-layer, 3d representation of a scene: A system and process for generating a two-layer, 3D representation of a digital or digitized image from the image and a pixel disparity map of the image is presented. The two layer representation includes a main layer having pixels exhibiting background colors and background disparities associated with correspondingly located pixels...

20060114254 - Volume rendering apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for rendering multiplanar reformatting (MPR) images of volume data to be displayed to a user. The apparatus may comprise a conventional personal computer system having a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to a system memory for storing the volume data and a graphics processing unit (GPU)...

20060114256 - Image display apparatus, displaying method, and recording medium having display program for the image display apparatus recorded therein: An image display apparatus according to the present invention is provided for displaying a year circle as the time circle which indicates a predetermined length of time on the screen of its display unit. When the indicator at desired one of years provided on the year circle is selected and...

20060114255 - Method and apparatus for interface for graphic display of data from a kstore: A method for providing a display of data from an interlocking trees datastore in a graphical display system having a graphic display device is disclosed, the method including the steps of collecting display requirements for defining a value and at least one display characteristic to be displayed on the graphic...

20060114257 - Message display device and storage medium: A message display device includes: a display unit; a message data storage unit; a language selection unit; a readout unit; a character counting unit; a calculation unit calculating a display time for the character string data by multiplying the number of characters included in the character string data by one...

20060114258 - Dropout control in subpixel rendering: The present invention relates to dropout control in which one or more samples are added to adjacent samples that fall within an image outline. The samples are used in sub-pixel rendering to compensate for unnaturally thin or faint object stems. Horizontal dropout control operations are provided to add samples to...

20060114259 - Method for displaying picture animation on a display: A method for displaying a picture animation on a display utilizes execution of an OSD chip to present a picture animation, whereby both a power-on image from a computer and the monitor picture animation can be displayed at the same time. A user does not need to wait for the...

20060114260 - Programming multiple chips from a command buffer: A CPU selectively programs one or more graphics devices by writing a control command to the command buffer that designates a subset of graphics devices to execute subsequent commands. Graphics devices not designated by the control command will ignore the subsequent commands until re-enabled by the CPU. The non-designated graphics...

20060114261 - Three dimensional graphics system with early occlusion culling using z-ranges: An apparatus and a method for generating 3-dimensional computer graphic images. The image is first sub-divided into a plurality of rectangular areas (2). A display list memory (4) is loaded with object data for each rectangular area. The image and shading data for each picture element of each rectangular area...

20060114262 - Texture mapping apparatus, method and program: A texture mapping apparatus includes a vector computation unit configured to compute a plurality of projective coordinate system vectors to be acquired when a texture corresponding to an area included in a model surface is projected onto the area, based on configuration information of the area and the texture, a...

20060114264 - Method and apparatus for image blending: Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blending factors for the first...

20060114263 - Reducing the number of compositing operations performed in a pixel sequential rendering system: Apparatus 20 is disclosed for rendering an object-based image one pixel at a time in scanline order. The apparatus 20 comprises an optimisation module 550 for generating a set of compositing messages during a first pixel in a run of pixels between adjacent edges of one or two objects, and...

20060114265 - Display control device and display control method: A display control device comprises a first calculating unit calculating a first characteristic amount that indicates a characteristic of a first image, an image adjusting unit adjusting a second image and generating an adjusted second image based on the first characteristic amount, a generating unit generating a display image that...

20060114266 - Processor and related method for adjusting color attributes: A processor and a related method for adjusting color attributes of pixels are introduced. The method of the present invention includes transforming the color attributes of a first format having no independent luminance signal to color attributes of a second format having an independent luminance signal, and adjusting the color...

20060114267 - Apparatus and method for displaying power-saving level: An apparatus and a method for displaying a power-saving level. The apparatus includes a peripheral unit including a plurality of modules that operates by power supplied by a power unit, a user input unit to which a predetermined power-saving mode and power-saving state values for modules corresponding to the power-saving...

20060114268 - Composite works of art that incorporate video images within a painting and methods for creating such works: A composite work of art is comprised of a painted portion and a video portion. One or more video monitors are positioned such that images displayed thereon are visible through unpainted portions of a surface surrounding said monitors upon which a painting has been rendered. When viewed, the images displayed...

20060114273 - Display panel: Test data terminals R-DATA, G-DATA, and B-DATA are provided with respect to video signal lines VL-R, VL-G, and VL-B, via switches SW-R, SW-G, and SW-B, respectively. The switches SW-R, SW-G, and SW-B are turned ON by receiving an H level input signal supplied from a test terminal SW. Thus, a...

20060114269 - Driving apparatus for overcoming color dispersion on display: The present invention discloses a driving apparatus for a display, capable of providing a respective driving voltage/current for each of three primary colors so as to overcome color dispersion on the display. The driving apparatus comprises a converting device for receiving a digital data representing a first driving voltage; wherein...

20060114272 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus which includes: an imaging device; a reference luminance property storage device that stores a predetermined reference luminance property; a luminance property calculating device that calculates a luminance property of the imaging device from an image obtained by the imaging device; a comparing device that compares the...

20060114271 - Light source control device, light source control method, and image display apparatus: Aspects of the invention can provide a light source control device that controls driving for a light source unit in order to supply light that is modulated in response to an image signal. The light source control device can include an amplitude converting unit that allocates at least one bit...

20060114270 - Method and apparatus for color-compensating for aging in a display module: A spontaneously color compensating control apparatus is provided for performing spontaneous color compensation on the original pixel data and outputting compensated pixel data to a display module accordingly. The control apparatus includes a timer and a timing controller. The timer is used for providing the using time of the display...

20060114274 - System for reducing crosstalk: A system for reducing crosstalk for a display....

20060114275 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprises a display panel; a resolution adjustor adjusting a resolution of a video signal and outputting the adjusted video signal and a pixel clock signal; a frequency adjustor adjusting a frequency of the pixel clock signal outputted from the resolution adjustor; and a controller controlling the frequency...