Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 07/06

20060164324 - Sending notifications to auxiliary displays: Described is a system and method by which application programs running on a main computer system communicate with an auxiliary display device (such as a cell phone, pocket-sized computer, alarm clock, television, digital picture frame and so forth) to provide viewable information on the device, remote control capabilities, and notifications....

20060164325 - System and method for modular display: A modular display system and method assembles an external interface module with a display module to support built-to-order display configurations. The display module has display panel, timing controller and speaker components assembled in a display module housing that accepts a single LVDS and a single audio interface. The external interface...

20060164326 - Multi-display configuration method: A multi-display configuration method and a multi-display adaptor are disclosed, in which the digital content stream distributed through a network is displayed on a large screen configured of a plurality of displays, and the network, to which a plurality of the displays may be connected, is automatically set while automatically...

20060164327 - System for lighting an electronic label display: An electronic label, which is wirelessly connected to a product information updating system, said label comprising at least one display adapted to display product information. The display has a transparent or semitransparent backside and is adapted to be lit up from behind by either an external light source, surrounding main...

20060164328 - Method and apparatus for wireless display monitor: Systems and methods that facilitate wireless display via employing a frame buffer encoder and a wireless transmission as part of a graphics card of a computing device. The encoder can encode a scheme programmable in software to detect type of format the receiving monitor is capable of displaying. The wireless...

20060164329 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling display of liquid crystal display, program product for executing method of controlling display, and information processing apparatus with improved adjustment effects on viewing angle range: A system, method, and computer-usable medium are presented for controlling viewing angle characteristics by performing a color palette gradation control of a liquid crystal display, such that adjustment effects on a viewing angle range are improved....

20060164330 - Scanned light beam display with brightness compensation: A scanned beam display is operable to compensate for variations in apparent pixel brightness arising from variations in beam scanning velocity and/or pixel dwell times. A compensation circuit modifies pixel values according to their scanning velocity and/or dwell time....

20060164331 - Light emission control for forming two-dimensional and three-dimensional images: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a more robust flat panel display by using the Faraday effect to control light emission from a solid state material so as to form two-dimensional or three-dimensional images. Flux tubes can be configured to define a two dimensional array. Each flux tube is...

20060164332 - Method for fabricating a plastic molded indicator symbol and a plastic molded indicator symbol: A method for fabricating a homogeneous plastic molded object and a plastic molded object comprising a first surface and second surface, which second surface. further comprises a symbol-shaped hollow such that the object transmits light within the area of the hollow. The fabrication method for a plastic molded object comprises...

20060164333 - Transparent programmable led display panel and method: A programmable transparent display message center is formed from an array of rows and columns of light emitting diodes (LED's). A wire connects each row of LED's. Each column of LED's is connected to a conductive transparent layer. The transparent layer is electrically isolated from the rows of wires. A...

20060164337 - Device for driving capacitive light-emitting elements: A device for driving capacitive light-emitting elements, includes the power source circuit having a series connection circuit of a capacitor and a coil, a first switching element connected between one end of the series connection circuit and a ground, a DC power source that generates a first potential, and a...

20060164334 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display, a driving waveform for a reset discharge, an address discharge, and a sustain discharge is applied to a Y electrode, and an X electrode is biased at a constant voltage. All cells are set to turn-on cells in the reset period, and turn-off cells are selected...

20060164335 - Plasma display panel having improved efficiency: Embodiments of the present invention offer an improved PDP that offers a lowered discharge initiation voltage as well as improved efficiency of discharge. The PDP may satisfy the equation 180≦(A+B)+P×0.1≦240 in which A is a distance between opposite recessed portion of a pair of a first electrode and a second...

20060164336 - Plasma display, driving device and method of operating the same: In a driving circuit of a plasma display, a drain of a first transistor is coupled to a scan electrode and a switch driver is coupled between a gate and a source of the first transistor. The switch driver turns on the first transistor to reduce voltage of the scan...

20060164338 - Plasma display panel drive method: Barrier ribs are disposed on a back substrate so as to separate main discharge cells and priming discharge cells, and the top parts of the barrier ribs are formed so as to abut on a front substrate. In a driving method, in an odd-numbered line writing time period, scan pulse...

20060164343 - Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display device: In a plasma display device comprising: plural first, second, and third electrodes disposed adjacently and extending in a first direction, the third electrodes being provided between the first and second electrodes for repeating discharges; a dielectric layer covering the electrodes, a first electrode driving circuit for driving the first electrodes;...

20060164342 - Method of driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a method of driving plasma display panel. A method of driving a plasma display device driven by dividing a plurality of scan electrode lines into the m (m is a integer more than 2) number of groups, according to the present invention includes: applying p...

20060164339 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel and a timing controller. The plasma display panel is driven by dividing each of a plurality of subfields into a reset period, an address period and a sustain period. A...

20060164340 - Plasma display panel and method for driving the same: Disclosed is a reset waveform of a plasma display panel. A rising or falling voltage is applied rapidly enough to cause an intense discharge in a reset interval. The electrodes are then floated to reduce the voltage applied into a discharge space during the discharge to cause a self-quenching of...

20060164341 - Plasma display panel and method for driving the same: Disclosed is a reset waveform of a plasma display panel. A rising or falling voltage is applied rapidly enough to cause an intense discharge in a reset period. The electrodes are then floated to reduce the voltage applied into a discharge space during the discharge to cause a self-quenching of...

20060164345 - Active matrix organic light emitting diode display: An improved AM OLED pixel circuit and method of wide dynamic range dimming for AM OLED displays are disclosed that maintain color balance throughout the dimming range, and also maintain the uniformity of the luminance and chromaticity of the display at low gray-levels as the display is dimmed to lower...

20060164347 - Display device and driving method thereof, display module, and portable information terminal: [Summary ][Problem] It is an object to provide a display device having a simple structure of a driver circuit for inputting a video signal to a pixel, high display quality of the intermediate gradation and low power consumption, and a driving method thereof. [Solving Means] Each of a plurality of...

20060164344 - Electroluminescent display devices: In an active matrix electroluminescent display device a storage capacitor (24) is provided in each pixel (10) for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor (22) which controls the illumination of the electroluminescent display element (20) and gated discharge photosensitive means (36), for example a phototransistor,...

20060164346 - Emissive-reflective display and a method for adjusting the display mode thereof: An emissive-reflective display and a method for determining the display mode thereof are provided. The emissive-reflective display is composed of emissive components and reflective components. The emissive component and the reflective components exist in a pixel. The emissive-reflective display has good image quality whether it is operated either indoors or...

20060164348 - Sticking phenomenon correction method, self-luminous apparatus, sticking phenomenon correction apparatus and program: A self-luminous apparatus is disclosed wherein a deterioration amount difference between different pixels can be eliminated accurately to correct a sticking phenomenon while the self-luminous apparatus is used. In the self-luminous apparatus, a deterioration amount difference appearing between a correction object pixel and a reference pixel within a first light...

20060164349 - Liquid crystal display module having rigid-flexible printed circuit board: An LCD module (2) includes a frame (230) having a first containing space (231) and a second containing space (232), a light guide plate (240) received in the first containing space, an LCD panel (220) disposed on the light guide plate, a rigid-flexible printed circuit board (210) electrically connecting to...

20060164351 - Bistable liquid crystal displays and the method for driving the same: The present invention provides a bistable chiral tilted-homeotropic nematic liquid crystal (BCTHN) display, which can be switched between the tilted-homeotropic state (TH state) and the twisted state (T state) by using dual frequency liquid crystal material. These two states can be maintained without the application of any electric field. In...

20060164352 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels having first and second subpixels, a plurality of gate lines connected to the first and second subpixels to transmit gate signals, a plurality of first data lines intersecting the gate lines and connected to the first subpixels to transmit first...

20060164350 - Thin film transistor array panel and display device: Disclosed is a thin film transistor array panel. The panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged in the form of a matrix each with a pixel electrode and a switching element connected to the pixel electrode, and a plurality of gate lines connected to the switching elements and extending in...

20060164356 - Display device and apparatus and method of driving same: A driving apparatus driving method of a flat panel (e.g., LCD) display device. The driving apparatus of the display device includes: a data processor that selects a (at least) two of output gray levels (output image data ) based on an input gray level (of received image data) and outputs...

20060164354 - Display device and apparatus for driving the same: A display device includes a display panel and a voltage generating part. The display panel includes a switching element, a main pixel section, a coupling capacitor and a sub pixel section. The main pixel section is electrically connected to the switching element. The coupling capacitor has a first end electrically...

20060164353 - Flat display apparatus and portable terminal apparatus: The present invention applies illustratively to a liquid crystal display apparatus as well as to a PDA and a mobile phone each using that liquid crystal display apparatus. Typically, a gradation setting circuit 20B for the green color is disposed along one of two opposing sides of a display unit...

20060164355 - Gamma correction device, display apparatus including the same, and method of gamma correction therein: A gamma correction device and method thereof is described herein, in which gray-scale voltages may be generated that correspond with a plurality of gamma values. The gray-scale voltages may be generated by adjusting output ranges of the gray-scale voltages while fixing a gamma correction voltage on a constant level. The...

20060164357 - Liquid crystal display device having stabilized drive circuit: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel and a drive circuit for supplying gray scale voltages to pixels in the liquid crystal display panel. The drive circuit selects intended gray scale voltage levels from a gray scale voltage varying with time periodically by determining a timing...

20060164358 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel for adaptively reducing load effect and improving luminescence efficiency and discharge efficiency, and a driving method thereof. A plasma display panel includes a capacitive load; a source capacitor; a sustain voltage source to generate a sustain voltage; a first inductor formed on a first current path...

20060164359 - Semiconductor device, display device and electronic apparatus: When a resistance load inverter is used to control lighting/non-lighting of a pixel, in accordance with characteristic variations of a transistor forming the resistance load inverter, variations occur in light emission of each pixel. As an inverter in a pixel, an N channel transistor and a P channel transistor are...

20060164360 - Pixel circuit, light-emitting device and electronic device: A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element that has a luminance corresponding to a level of a driving signal; and a signal generating circuit that generates a driving signal indicating the luminance of the light-emitting element on the basis of a data signal. The signal generating circuit includes a driving...

20060164361 - Inversion method for liquid crystal display: An inversion method for use in a liquid crystal display having pluralities of pixels. First, at least one inversion signal is provided to determine a polarity. A data voltage is then generated according to the polarity and a data signal. Thereafter, a scan signal is provided to activate a pixel,...

20060164362 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A TFT panel includes (i) a plurality of signal electrodes, (ii) a plurality of scanning electrodes which cross the plurality of signal electrodes, (iii) an active element provided in a vicinity of each intersection at which one of the plurality of signal electrodes and one of the plurality of scanning...

20060164363 - Active matrix display: An active matrix display has a column driver for providing signals to the pixels for driving the display elements, the column driver comprising digital to analogue converter circuitry providing a first number of display element drive levels. Within each pixel, the first number of display element drive levels is converted...

20060164366 - Circuits and methods for synchronizing multi-phase converter with display signal of lcd device: A controller for controlling at least two power circuits comprises a synchronous oscillator and a multi-phase PWM controller. The synchronous oscillator receives a timing signal for generating a synchronous control signal in which the timing signal is synchronous to a display signal. The multi-phase PWM controller receives the synchronous control...

20060164364 - Delay time correction circuit, video data processing circuit, and flat display device: The present invention is applied to, for example, a liquid crystal display device having a driving circuit integrally formed on an insulating substrate, and makes it possible to effectively avoid a variation in delay time in a logical circuit using TFTs or the like by inserting dummy data (DD) into...

20060164368 - Display apparatus with reduced power consumption in charging/discharging of data line: A comparator compares an input voltage input in the current write cycle with a voltage (output voltage) of a data line set in the immediately preceding write cycle. Based on the result of comparison made by the comparator, one of two switches is turned on to cause either a charging...

20060164367 - Dual display device: A display device includes a first panel unit, a first driving chip driving the first panel unit, a second panel unit, and a second driving chip driving the second panel unit, wherein the first and second driving chips share at least a portion of a plurality of power supply voltages...

20060164369 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device with a source driver in which a significant signal delay is not generated, and which has a fast response speed. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a scan driver including a D/A converter for outputting...

20060164370 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device with a source driver in which a signal without a significant delay is generated, which has a fast response speed and provides a liquid crystal display device having a scan driver comprising a memory in which gradation data values are...

20060164371 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD device operated by a remote controller comprises: an LCD unit having a display electrode supplied with voltage based on a video signal and a counter-electrode supplied with counter-electrode voltage; a remote control receiver for receiving a flicker adjustment control signal from the remote controller; a microcomputer for outputting...

20060164365 - Overdrive device and method thereof: An overdrive device for driving a display panel includes a comparison circuit, a multiplexer, and an overdrive module. The comparison circuit receives pixel values of display cells of the display panel in a previous frame carried on a first decompressed data signal and in a current frame carried on a...

20060164372 - Apparatus for driving a plasma display panel: Provided is a PDP driving apparatus for reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated during operation of a PDP. The PDP driving apparatus drives a PDP with X electrodes and Y electrodes arranged parallel to each other, and Address electrodes arranged to cross with the X electrodes and the Y electrodes to...

20060164373 - Plasma display panel comprising energy recovery circuit and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel comprising an energy recovery circuit and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display panel comprises an energy charging part for supplying a predetermined voltage, an energy supply and recovery part for receiving an energy of the predetermined voltage from the energy charging part, and...

20060164375 - Flexible control of charge share in display panel: A source driver of a display panel includes a channel state signal generator, first switches, and second switches. The channel state signal generator generates first and second channel state signals that are each activated for a respective time period depending on adjustable state length data. The first switches are opened...

20060164376 - Shift resister and liquid crystal display having the same: In a shift resister and an LCD having the same, the shift resister includes plural stages having odd stages for receiving a first clock signal and a first control signal and even stages for receiving a second clock signal and a second control signal. Each of the plural stages includes...

20060164374 - Source driver and source driving method: A source driver for LCD devices, used for driving at least one data line, comprises an input for receiving a predetermined voltage; an output electrically being connected to the data line and having an output voltage; a voltage clamping circuit for clamping the output voltage within a predetermined voltage range;...

20060164378 - Keyboard illumination system and method: A keyboard illumination system comprises a computer device having a plurality of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). The system also comprises a display controller adapted to change an electrical state of at least one of the LCDs for providing a predetermined level of illumination by the at least one LCD for...

20060164377 - Light emitting diode driving apparatus with high power and wide dimming range: Apparatus are provided for driving an LED light source and controlling a light output of the light source over a wide luminance range in response to a luminance input. The apparatus includes: a voltage source having an output configured to couple with the light source, a first input configured to...

20060164379 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of display regions that correspond to the division images. The number of the division images can be set with consideration of the number of lamps covering the display regions. The average brightness of an entire image is compared with the average brightness of...

20060164380 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes an active display area and gate drivers. The active display area includes display blocks, each display block including pixel rows. The gate driver sequentially outputs gate signals to the display block and drives corresponding pixel rows to display pixel images, or outputs a dummy gate...

20060164382 - Image manipulation in response to a movement of a display: A handheld device includes a position sensor for sensing movement of the device's display screen relative to another object. A user of the device is able to vertically or horizontally move an image within the display screen by moving or positioning the device in space. An image can also be...

20060164387 - Input apparatus and touch-reading character/symbol input method: An input apparatus including: a display screen which visually displays information; an input member which is made of a transparent member to allow at least part of beams to pass and placed in a region of space in front of the display screen and elastically displaces a specific region of...

20060164388 - Input device: An input device, which detects a position of a movable object moving on a given plane and inputs an instruction, includes a first detection portion and a second detection portion. The first detection portion detects the position of the movable object in a first direction. The second detection portion detects...

20060164384 - Multimedia user interface: A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive...

20060164385 - Multimedia user interface: A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive...

20060164386 - Multimedia user interface: A user interface for multimedia centers advantageously utilizes hand-held inertial-sensing user input devices to select channels and quickly navigate the dense menus of options. Extensive use of the high resolution and bandwidth of such user input devices is combined with strategies to avoid unintentional inputs and with dense and intuitive...

20060164383 - Remote controller ring for user interaction: A hand-worn controller consisting of a housing having a central opening sized to permit the controller to be worn as ring on the index finger of a human hand. A joystick lever projects outwardly from said housing and is positioned to be manipulated by the user's thumb. The joystick operates...

20060164381 - Reversible laptop computers: A computer switching system is disclosed to include a switch for causing changing use of a portable computer keyboard and a portable computer mouse of a portable computer to use of the same by a non-portable computer, wherein the keyboard and mouse of the portable computer are utilized even when...

20060164389 - Method of controlling a multimedia device for a motor vehicle and a device implementing said method: The invention relates to a method of controlling a multimedia device, which employs a graphic display screen (130) and a biaxial button (150) (up/down right/left). According to the invention, if the biaxial button is pressed in a first axis, a function can be selected from a looped scrolling menu (131)...

20060164390 - Pointing device for a computer system with automatic detection of the state of motion, and a relative control method: A pointing device for a computer system includes a displacement transducer of the pointing device, provided with: an inertial sensor, supplying acceleration signals indicative of an acceleration according to two axes of detection; and a processing unit, which, on the basis of the acceleration signals, generates velocity signals regarding the...

20060164391 - Joystick structure for a computer usb keyboard and mouse: A joystick structure for a computer USB keyboard and mouse is a multi function product combining a mouse, a keyboard, a joystick, and a network phone controller. Upon plugging into a computer, the computer can detect and control the USB keyboard and press buttons of the USB mouse, and can...

20060164393 - Highly sensitive inertial mouse: A highly sensitive inertial mouse is in particular to one using an MEMS(Micro-Electrical-Mechanical System)inertial sensitive principle; the mouse uses MEMS inertial sensitive principle including a two-dimensional or three-dimensional inertial sensors or accelerometers and with the use of signal processing methods such as collecting of data, noise cancellation, setting of threshold...

20060164392 - Integrated mouse and the keyboard device: An integrated mouse and the keyboard device comprises a hand-held part having 5 buttons for hand holding; a moving part which can detect the rotation angle and moving range of user's palm; a stationary part placed under the user's forearm; a circuitry to convert the status of the said buttons,...

20060164394 - Compound optical input device and an upholding pedestal thereof: A compound optical input device provides a pen-type optical mouse an additional function of joystick, which has a pen-type optical mouse and a upholding pedestal. The pen-type optical mouse has a barrel and a head. The head has an image-sensing device mounted therein. The upholding pedestal has a covering body...

20060164395 - Arrangement for integration of key illumination into keymat of portable electronic devices: A keypad including a set of switches; a set of key elements each capable of being moved by a user so as to operate a respective switch; and a display device, the display pattern of from which can be varied under the control of a display controller, and arranged so...

20060164397 - Appliance with membrane overlay: An appliance includes a console, a control member attached to the console manually shiftable to selectively establish a desired setting for the appliance, and a membrane overlay upon the console having at least one embedded indicator light for indicating the desired setting, at least one embedded switch to activate a...

20060164398 - Mobile terminal apparatus, character input method and character input program: A mobile terminal apparatus requests a character be displayed which is assigned to a first key upon being pushed, and if operated continuously for a time span that exceeds a predetermined time, requests a next character be displayed which is assigned to the first key instead of the character assigned...

20060164396 - Synthesizing mouse events from input device events: Mouse events are synthesized from input received from input devices other than a mouse. Input received is used to select focusable regions in an interface. The input can include navigation input triggering movement between focusable regions or region select input select a currently focused region. pointer events are generated in...

20060164401 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels in a display region, a contact sensing unit which senses contact of an object with a display screen of the display region, photosensors which detect a position of the object and which are placed in the pixels, and...

20060164402 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal display panel including a display region, a planar light source device having a light exit surface which faces the liquid crystal display panel and from which planar light exits toward the liquid crystal display panel, and a back surface located opposite...

20060164400 - Touch pad module: A touch pad module of a computer has a metal click plate to control its operation system. A plastic member is attached under the metal click plate to provide a suitable and comfortable click action. The plastic has a frame portion and two button portions. Two button portions are respectively...

20060164399 - Touchpad diagonal scrolling: A method and system for providing diagonal scrolling on a touchpad of a device is disclosed. The method and system comprises determining if at least one finger is in contact with the touchpad, and entering a diagonal scroll mode if more than one finger is in contact with the touchpad....

20060164403 - Operator control element for electronic equipment used for actuating sensors and a method for selecting functions contained in an electronic memory and for displaying the selected function using a cursor: Operator control element for electronic equipment used for actuating sensors and a method for selecting functions contained in an electronic memory and for displaying the selected function using a cursor The task to develop a control element for actuating sensors as well as a method for the selection of functions...

20060164404 - Adaptive hysteresis for reduced swing signalling circuits: Apparatus (50) for processing a differential input signal. The apparatus (50) comprises a minimum peak detector (51) with a differential input (28). The peak detector (51) provides a first voltage being proportional to an average voltage peak at the peak detector's differential input (28). A compressor (53) is provided for...

20060164405 - Driving scheme for a bi-stable display with improved greyscale accuracy: An image is updated on a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display by driving the display from a current optical state to a reference optical state, and then to a final optical state. The optical stated may be greyscale or color states. The reference state is selected based...

20060164407 - Method and apparatus for defect correction in a display: A display device, comprising: a) a display having a plurality of pixels including one or more defective pixel(s) and one or more additional pixel(s); and b) a controller for driving the display pixels and for transforming an input signal into a compensated signal for selectively modifying the output of one...

20060164406 - Operating system independent method and apparatus for graphical remote access: A method and apparatus for updating video graphics changes of a managed server to a remote console independent of an operating system. The screen (e.g. frame buffer) of the managed server is divided into a number of blocks. Each block is periodically monitored for changes by calculating a hash code...

20060164408 - Display device: A photo sensor is disposed on the same substrate as that of a display area. External light sensed by the photo sensor is inputted into a luminance adjustment controller, and luminance necessary to maintain constant contrast is obtained. A correction value corresponding to the luminance to be adjusted is outputted...

20060164412 - 3d navigation system for motor vehicles: A 3D navigation system for motor vehicles includes a set-up combining a first motor vehicle and an environment scanner to generate a three-dimensional image of an environment around the first motor vehicle or at least a part of the environment around the first motor vehicle as well as at least...

20060164410 - Invisible space skipping with adaptive granularity for texture-based volume rendering: A method of accelerating texture-based volume rendering is provided. The method includes the following steps. A plurality of levels of granularity comprising a plurality of sub-volumes organized in a hierarchical structure are built. The hierarchical structure is ordered top-down from a coarsest level of granularity to a finest level of...

20060164409 - System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene: A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene is presented. Clusters are placed in a three-dimensional scene arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine. Each cluster includes one or more concepts. Each cluster spine is projected into a...

20060164411 - Systems and methods for displaying multiple views of a single 3d rendering (\"multiple views\"): Systems and methods are presented for substantially simultaneously displaying two or more views of a 3D rendering. Such methods include generating a stereo pair of projections from a 3D model, receiving display mode information, processing the stereo pair of projections in accordance with the display mode information to create output...

20060164413 - Computer-implemented geometric shape interaction process: A computer-based method of creating displays of a number of different geometric shapes that are displayed on the computer display. Display limitations that retain predetermined orientations of at least two of the geometric shapes are defined, and the user is allowed to manipulate the display of the geometric shapes, but...

20060164414 - System and method for graphics culling: A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object parameters are encoded in texture format thereby creating at least one per-object texture containing the encoded per-object parameters. Next, a fragment program...

20060164415 - Method, apparatus and computer program product enabling a dynamic global parameterization of triangle meshes over polygonal domain meshes: A method, a data storage medium storing a computer program, and a data processing system are disclosed to process data comprised of a triangulated mesh representation of an object. The method includes establishing a continuous bijective mapping between a first triangle mesh representation of the object and a second polygonal...

20060164416 - Method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally transforming two-dimensional flyover data in three-dimensional graphics environment and for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in three-dimensional graphics environment: A method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally transforming two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment and a method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment are provided. The apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment includes an...

20060164417 - Imagery-based synthetic environment for computer generated forces: Systems and methods usable to provide synthetic environments for computer generated forces include supplemental identifying information applicable to the respective surface. Polygons used to represent the surface can be overlayed with supplemental information to provide a higher fidelity environment in which to mobilize the computer generated forces....

20060164418 - Method and system for automated visualization using common scale: Embodiments include methods and systems for automated visualization using a common scale. One embodiment is a computer method for presenting data. The method computes a multi-level hierarchical structure for data and a common color scale for the multi-level hierarchical structure. Pixels are used to represent data records in the multi-level...

20060164419 - Image drawing device and image drawing method: A figure dividing unit sequentially generates, on the basis of sequentially input figure data, plural processing unit data respectively representing portions corresponding to plural partial areas constituting an image drawing area of a figure represented by the figure data. Drawing processing units each correspond to at least one of the...

20060164420 - Self-sustained asian font server and service: A system for providing non-standard characters over a network is provided. The system includes: (a) a non-standard character server coupled to the network, (b) a character database coupled to the server, and (c) one or more client terminals coupled to the network. A user of each client terminal may create...

20060164421 - Centralized software maintenance of blade computer system: A method and system are disclosed in which a management module (MM) designates an idle blade in a client blade farm to be an “administrative blade” that has administrator access to the virtual images of all users. The MM identifies when a particular user image is, or is not, in...

20060164422 - Portable screening room: A method and system are provided for screening media segments received from at least one originator. The method includes receiving at least one media segment from an originator, providing the media segment to at least one screener, associating feedback from the at least one screener with the at least one...

20060164423 - Interactive device capable of transmitting parameters of image objects: An interactive device includes an image sensor for generating a plurality of pixel signals, and a processor for determining a static parameter of at least one image object of the image based on the plurality of pixel signals. A transmission interface is used for outputting a control signal based on...

20060164424 - Methods and systems for updating a buffer: The present invention relates to methods and systems for updating a buffer. In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for updating a buffer, which includes strategically writing to the buffer to enable concurrent read and write to the buffer. The method eliminates the need for double buffering, thereby...

20060164425 - Methods and apparatus for updating a memory address remapping table: Methods and apparatus for updating a memory address remapping table using a graphics processing circuitry are disclosed. The methods include assembling a command sequence of commands executable by the graphics processing circuit, the sequence configured to include one or more memory address remapping table updates for one or more page...

20060164427 - Bandlimited noise for computer graphics: Function spaces defined by scaling functions are used to generate bandlimited noise octaves and other attribute data sets. Scaling functions are basis functions that admit multiresolution analysis and include piecewise constant scaling functions, piecewise polynomial scaling functions, bandlimited scaling functions, Daubeschies scaling functions, as well as other multiresolution analysis scaling...

20060164426 - Method of bandlimiting data for computer graphics: Function spaces defined by scaling functions are used to generate bandlimited noise octaves and other attribute data sets. Scaling functions are basis functions that admit multiresolution analysis and include piecewise constant scaling functions, piecewise polynomial scaling functions, bandlimited scaling functions, Daubeschies scaling functions, as well as other multiresolution analysis scaling...

20060164428 - Method of creating and evaluating bandlimited noise for computer graphics: Function spaces defined by scaling functions are used to generate bandlimited noise octaves and other attribute data sets. Scaling functions are basis functions that admit multiresolution analysis and include piecewise constant scaling functions, piecewise polynomial scaling functions, bandlimited scaling functions, Daubeschies scaling functions, as well as other multiresolution analysis scaling...

20060164429 - 3-d rendering texture caching scheme: A 3D rendering texture caching scheme that minimizes external bandwidth requirements for texture and increases the rate at which textured pixels are available. The texture caching scheme efficiently pre-fetches data at the main memory access granularity and stores it in cache memory. The data in the main memory and texture...

20060164430 - Color conversion with many input channels: A method and apparatus for color conversion useful for color devices having a large number of input channels, for example CMYK color printers having additional inks used to enhance the color printer's gamut. The color conversion is performed using a strata collection of look-up tables that stratify an n-dimensional color...

20060164431 - Apparatus and method for displaying graphic objects concurrently: An apparatus is provided for displaying all graphic objects after having captured a point in time when an event is transmitted to the last graphic object, when a double buffering method is used, to prevent a transition of a windows system generated by visually observable intervals occurring between events where...

20060164432 - Communication terminal: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another...

20060164433 - Communication terminal: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another...

20060164434 - Communication terminal: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another...

20060164435 - Display device, display control method thereof, and storage medium: Four windows A, B, C, and D are displayed on the display screen. Of the four windows displayed on the display screen, an active window which is currently being accessed is A, and other windows, i.e., windows B, C, and D are inactive windows. The inactive windows are displayed at...

20060164436 - Device and method for controlling the display of electronic information: The present invention provides a novel device and method for controlling the display of electronic information. The device can be based on the computing environment of an enhanced personal digital assistant with cellular telephone and electronic message capabilities. The device is operable to present, on its display, user customizable information,...

20060164437 - Reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing picture data: A reproducing apparatus includes a graphics data output unit that outputs, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, alpha-data-added graphics data containing graphics data that forms a first screen picture and alpha data that indicates a degree of transparency of each of pixels of the graphics data, a video data output unit that...

20060164438 - Reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing picture data: A reproducing apparatus includes a graphics processing unit that outputs graphics data, which forms a first screen image, in sync with a vertical sync signal and a pixel clock signal, a video decoder that outputs video data, which forms a second screen image, in sync with the vertical sync signal...

20060164439 - System and method for inserting content into an image sequence: Systems and methods for augmenting an image sequence with content are disclosed. A system may include a character generator, a graphics frame buffer and a graphics insertion system. The character generator may generate pixel block content. The graphics frame buffer may be in communication with the character generator and store...

20060164440 - Method of directly manipulating geometric shapes: An artist directly manipulates the surface of a geometric shape, which is a blended result of a number of weighted shapes, to indicate how the surface of a geometric shape should look. In response to the direct manipulation, the weightings that must be applied to the number of different shapes...

20060164441 - Image display apparatus, image display program, image display method, and recording medium for recording the image display program: An operation input unit designates an image to be compared via a thumbnail image or the like. A photographing-information extracting unit extracts, from an image file of the image stored in an image memory, photographing information including the size and the number of pixels of CCD in an image pickup...

20060164442 - Display device: A display device such as a projector and its adjusting system are provided which are arranged to easily adjust a brightness tracking (gamma) characteristic and a white balance of a displayed image. On the screen of the display device of the invention are displayed an image composed from a video...

20060164443 - Modulating spatial light modulator with logically or'ed values of bit planes: For each bit plane of a plurality of bit planes of a pixel, a first spatial light modulator is modulated in accordance with a value of the bit plane. For each bit plane of at least one of the plurality of bit planes of the pixel, a second spatial light...

20060158385 - User interface for different displays: This invention relates to a method for adjusting a graphical user interface for at least two displays, wherein due to an activation of at least one of at least two displays the graphical user interface is informed about the characteristics of said at least one activated display whereby the graphical...

20060158386 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device. A plasma display panel includes a plurality of address electrodes, a plurality of scan electrodes, and a plurality of sustain electrodes. A temperature detector detects a temperature of the plasma display panel. A controller outputs a scan electrode driving signal to control a reset waveform to...

20060158387 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device determining whether to perform power recovery in address and sustain periods of each subfield according to the temperature of a plasma display panel. When the temperature is outside of a predetermined temperature range, the address voltage is applied by hard switching to the third electrode in...

20060158388 - Plasma display device and driving method: A plasma display device driving method that sets the voltage applied to the sustain electrode in the falling period of the reset period to be higher than the voltage applied to the sustain electrode in the address period. As a result, the address voltage applied to the address electrode in...

20060158389 - 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 aspect of the present invention comprises a plasma display-panel in which images are represented with each of a plurality of sub-fields being divided...

20060158390 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display apparatus: In a conventional method of driving a plasma display panel, for example, an auxiliary discharge is executed between an A electrode and a Y electrode to improve light-emission efficiency of a display discharge. However, since a phosphor layer is present between the A electrode and the Y electrode, the phosphor...

20060158391 - Driving method and driving circuit of plasma display panel and plasma display device: In a driving method of a plasma display panel having a plurality of first electrodes provided so as to correspond to phosphors of a plurality of emitted light colors and having a plurality of second electrodes disposed so as to intersect with the first electrodes, the first electrodes for each...

20060158397 - Display device and driving method therefor: A display device and a driving method of the same are provided. The display device includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor having a control port connected to a first node, an output port connected to a second node, and an input port and applying a driving current to...

20060158393 - Display device and driving method thereof: [Solving Means] A first substrate having a pixel portion in which pixels constituted by a plurality of transistors are arranged in matrix has a source driver for supplying a video signal, a gate driver for selecting a pixel, a power source circuit, and a compensation circuit for compensating variations in...

20060158396 - Electro-optical device, drive circuit, driving method, and electronic apparatus: A drive circuit of an electro-optical device comprising electro-optical elements of which each gray scale is controlled in accordance with a data signal output to a data line includes a reference current that generates unit generating reference current and a signal output unit that generates the data signal corresponding to...

20060158395 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit of electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit drives an electro-optical device in which a gray-scale level of each of a plurality of electro-optical elements provided so as to correspond to a plurality of data lines is controlled on the basis of a voltage of a corresponding data line. The driving circuit includes a pulse...

20060158394 - Scan driver, organic light emitting display using the same, and method of driving the organic light emitting display: Embodiments of a scan driver capable of freely adjusting the width of emission control signals are disclosed. One embodiment of the scan driver comprises a shift register configured to sequentially shift a start pulse in response to a clock signal to generate sampling pulses, a NOR gate coupled to each...

20060158392 - Two-part driver circuit for organic light emitting diode: The present invention provides an improvement of a two-part driver circuit designed for achieving the stability of the intensity of an OLED panel. A pre-charge circuit and a constant current circuit are added before a MOS driver of an OLED panel, and a switch is used to select the pre-charge...

20060158399 - Driving method of display device: In a display device in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subframes and a gray scale is expressed by a time gray scale method, there is a problem of pseudo contour. A gray scale is expressed by sequentially adding a weight of each subframe (light emission period,...

20060158398 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus capable of effecting displays high in both reliability and luminance. With the image display apparatus, a transistor switch is provided between a light emitting device and a drive transistor, and a voltage value expressed by formula (a gate voltage at an on-time of the transistor switch)—(the...

20060158400 - Light emitting device: A light emitting device capable of feeding a reverse current to the defective structural part of a light emitting element, e.g. an organic EL element, without using the power supply voltage as reverse bias. The light emitting device comprises a capacitive light emitting element, e.g. an organic EL element, emitting...

20060158401 - Integrated display unit: An integrated display unit described with a display having a plurality of display elements (Dx) which are joined together into a plurality of groups, and with various circuit arrangements for controlling the display. The display is in particular a pixel-based display such as, for example, a (P or O) LED...

20060158402 - Method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display: A method and system for programming, calibrating and driving a light emitting device display is provided. The system may include extracting a time dependent parameter of a pixel for calibration....

20060158403 - Color emitting device: A color emitting device (1) comprising an emitting device (10) and a color conversion member (21) which absorbs light emitted from the emitting device (10) and emits light; the emitting device (10) including at least a first reflecting section (12) and a second reflecting section (15) provided in that order...

20060158404 - Organic light-emitting diode display device: An organic light-emitting diode display (OELD) device is presented that reduces the number of outputs of a data driver. The OELD device includes data and scan lines which cross each other. Pixel cells that contain organic electro-luminescence diodes are arranged in a matrix in pixel areas between the data lines...

20060158405 - Progressive data delivery to spatial light modulators: In a spatial light modulator, a frame may be broken up into a plurality of colors. A given frame may include at least a first portion and a second portion. During the first portion of the frame, more significant bits of the data for a given pixel may be displayed...

20060158406 - Semi-permanent electronic paper: An apparatus and method to control the writing on electronic paper....

20060158409 - Driving circuit and method of flat panel display: A driving circuit. The driving circuit includes a plurality of scan shift register cells, a pair of complementary clock signal lines, and a horizontal start signal generator. Each scan shift register cell comprises a bidirectional circuit, a shift register coupled to the bidirectional circuit, a transmission gate coupled to the...

20060158408 - Liquid crystal display device: A left TFT 26 and a right TFT 28 are provided at both sides of one signal line 24, a first scanning line 30 to supply a gate signal to the left TFT 26 is provided, a second scanning line 32 to supply a gate signal to the right TFT...

20060158407 - Liquid crystal display device, driving circuit and driving method thereof: A driving circuit for use in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes: a drive signal generator for supplying a gate low voltage (VGL) signal, wherein the voltage swing of the VGL signal is substantially zero; a drive signal modifier coupled to the drive signal generator for generating a modified...

20060158411 - Display apparatus and its control method: The invention discloses an image display apparatus having a display device and a signal processing circuit for performing a signal processing according to a size of region of a predetermined color in an image to be displayed. The invention also discloses an image display apparatus having: a display device; and...

20060158410 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display has an LCD controller, a microcomputer, and a storage section. The LCD controller is capable of setting up an image display period for performing display based on input image data and a black display period for performing display based on black display data, within one field...

20060158412 - 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 and a low-potential-side voltage generation circuit which respectively generate a high-potential-side voltage and a low-potential-side voltage to be supplied to a common electrode, and alternately supplying the high-potential-side voltage and the low-potential-side voltage to the common electrode as a common...

20060158413 - Power supply circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and method of controlling power supply circuit: A power supply circuit includes a high-potential-side voltage generation circuit and a low-potential-side voltage generation circuit which respectively generate a high-potential-side voltage and a low-potential-side voltage supplied to the common electrode; and alternately supplies the high-potential-side voltage and the low-potential-side voltage to the common electrode as a common electrode voltage...

20060158416 - Apparatus and method for driving small-sized lcd device: An apparatus and method for driving a small-sized or low-powered liquid crystal display (LCD) device are provided to reduce the amount of energy consumed in driving the LCD device while displaying a high-quality moving image on a small-sized LCD panel without distortion such as tailing or blurriness, where the apparatus...

20060158415 - Overdrive circuit having a temperature coefficient look-up table and liquid crystal display panel driving apparatus including the same: A overdrive circuit and a liquid crystal display panel driving apparatus that can overdrive the display panel with a high accuracy without requiring a large memory capacity or a complicated arithmetic circuit is disclosed. The overdrive circuit includes a basic look-up table (LUT) that outputs a basic overdrive amount, and...

20060158414 - Storage device equipped with bistable display: A storage device is disclosed that includes a housing; a storage medium for storing data; a bistable display; and a control unit electrically connected to the storage medium and the bistable display for receiving power from an external host device or an access point so as to control the bistable...

20060158417 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same. In a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention a driving pulse corresponding to an image data inputted through one input terminal is outputted to m output...

20060158418 - Display device with pixel inversion: The invention relates to a display device (2) with pixels (8) arranged in columns m and rows n, wherein the pixels of a row n can be selected by a row voltage (VROW) supplied through control lines (6), and column voltages (VCOL) that correspond to the picture data of the...

20060158421 - Driver circuit of display device and method of driving the same: A display device is provided with pixels, data lines to supply the pixels with video signals, a shift register circuit to select the pixels, a power source to generate a voltage, a detection circuit to detect a starting-up portion of the voltage, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit includes...

20060158420 - Driving multiple sub-pixels from single gray scale data: For generating source line voltages in a display device, gray scale data is received at a source driver for a first sub-pixel of a pixel. The source driver generates a first source line voltage for the first sub-pixel and a second source line voltage for a second sub-pixel from the...

20060158419 - Shift register unit: A shift register unit capable of generating two output pulses in turn. In the shift register unit, a first unit receives a start pulse and a clock signal to output a first output pulse during a first period. A second unit receives the first output pulse and an inverse signal...

20060158422 - Rotating type electric sign board and method for driving thereof: A rotary electronic display board and a method for driving the same. The rotary electronic display board switches individual LEDs on or off at their correct positions irrespective of a variation in rotation speed of a drive motor, and correctly and sharply indicates text and image data without using a...

20060158427 - Desktop electronic magnifier: A desktop electronic magnifier in a first embodiment includes a monitor and a control panel mounted to the monitor so that access to the control panel cannot be blocked by any position of the monitor. In a second embodiment, a monitor is positioned atop a flat platform that surmounts the...

20060158426 - Display apparatus with input devices: A display apparatus with input devices includes a display unit including a liquid crystal display and a frame surrounding the periphery of the display unit. The input devices that are disposed on the frame are being used to switch a switching circuit when touched by an operator. A plurality of...

20060158423 - Electronic display and control device for a measuring device: The invention relates to an electronic display and control device for a geodesic measuring device containing capturing means and representation means for detecting and reproducing a measuring range together with input means for controlling the measuring processes. The radiation beam necessary for said measuring processes is emitted by a radiation...

20060158424 - Optical slide pad: An input device includes a movable pad within a frame, a first linear array of optical sensors located opposite the movable pad, and a second linear array of optical sensors located opposite the movable pad. The first and the second linear arrays are arranged along different axes and generate signals...

20060158425 - Screen calibration for display devices: Methods and apparatus enable calibration of a display for a particular user thereof. An image displayed such as by an interactive system is adjusted based on physical attributes associated with the user or other characteristics of the user in order to customize the image being displayed. For some embodiments, change...

20060158428 - Handheld electronic device with roller ball input: An improved handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a processor apparatus. The input apparatus includes a reduced keyboard and a roller ball input. The roller ball input includes a movable portion that is substantially continuously rotatable with respect to a housing of the device and...

20060158429 - Pointing device including a moveable puck with mechanical detents: A pointing device includes a moveable puck that is capable of moving over a surface in a puck field of motion. The surface includes a detent feature defined within the puck field of motion for engaging with a detent feature of the moveable puck....

20060158431 - Pointing device with multidirectional window viewing function: The present invention relates to a pointing device with multidirectional window viewing function. The pointing device with multidirectional window viewing function comprises a multidirectional roller, which moves in at least three directions and triggers actuating signals corresponding to each direction, including an oblique direction; and a controller, which receives the...

20060158430 - Resizable wireless pointing device with a storable receiver: The present invention relates to a resizable wireless pointing device with a storable receiver. The body housing comprises at least one inner compartment which is located next to the back of a wheel and used for storage of said wireless receiver. A sliding cover, located on the top of said...

20060158432 - Three-dimensional optical mouse system: A three-dimensional optical mouse device with a Micromirror Array Lens(MMAL) is provided. To have the three-dimensional optical mouse system, a three-dimensional imaging device is used for detecting the motion of optical pointer or fingers of the user and gives a location of the pointer to computer working as a pointing...

20060158433 - Data input device: A data input device including plural keys that are arranged over at least two lines. A unidirectional position detector is associated with each line of keys and each unidirectional position detector includes a first input connection, a second input connection, and an output connection. The output connections of the unidirectional...

20060158435 - Data input device: A data input device comprises a microprocessor electrically connected to a camera device, a mirror installed in front of a lens of the camera device to allow the camera device to take a reference image reflected by the mirror. When the microprocessor detects that the camera device takes that a...

20060158434 - Electronic payment terminal with active cover: An apparatus useful in facilitating commercial transaction payments as a secured electronic payment terminal and a thin keyboard cover. The keyboard cover is adjustably attached to the electronic payment terminal so that the keyboard cover can alternatively serve to cover the keyboard or to swing away from the keyboard to...

20060158436 - User interface with augmented searching characteristics: Appliances, methods and devices are disclosed in which a first selection corresponding to symbols is used to identify a non-information function. An object corresponding to the non-information function may be provided and selected to indicate a user's desire to execute tasks of the function. Upon receiving the user's selection, the...

20060158437 - Display device: Devices, systems, and methods for directing a beam of light into a display such that the beam of light undergoes internal reflection within the display and capturing a reflected light beam are disclosed....

20060158438 - Dynamic software control interface and method: A software interface that is installable on a processor for interfacing with an electrically or electronically controllable device. The software comprises means for receiving input from a user remotely via a network and a means for translating the network communicated user input into at least one of a control signal...

20060158439 - Methods and systems for audio and video communication: Systems for audio and video communication used in a mobile electronic device are provided. An embodiment of a system comprises a display object generation unit, an acoustic object generation unit and a transport unit. The display object generation unit repeatedly generates display objects corresponding to intensity of light sensed by...

20060158440 - Active dynamic tactile feedback stylus: An improved system and method for user input in to a computer particularly tablet computers. The improvements involve generating tactile feedback through a stylus to a user. The feedback being dependant on what virtual function the pen is providing or where the stylus is positioned relative to the information displayed...

20060158443 - Light modulator with bi-directional drive: A spatial light modulator may be adapted to receive bi-directional drive signals. The spatial light modulator may include a plurality of pixel elements having individual first electrodes and a common electrode providing a second electrode for each of the pixel elements. The pixel elements may be adapted to change between...

20060158442 - Method and apparatus for representation of video and audio signals on a low-resolution display: The method for the representation of video and audio signals on a low-resolution display panel, which includes the steps of: scaling the video or audio frame to fit the display panel, quantization of the video or audio signals to predetermined level values, temporal representation of video data by using the...

20060158441 - Timing control circuit with personal identification function and application thereof: A timing control circuit with personal identification function suitable for a display device is provided. The timing control circuit has a driving control unit, a video processor and a personal identification circuit. The driving control unit controls the display device according to a horizontal synchronous signal and a vertical synchronous...

20060158445 - Method of manufacturing image display apparatus: t

20060158446 - Methods and apparatuses using control indicators for data processing systems: A control indication assembly. A first control mounted on a surface of a computer is coupled to a first sensor, to a first sensing circuit to send an electrical signal to the first control when a user-touch occurs to the first sensor, and to a first indicator to indicate an...

20060158444 - Voltage variation processing mechanism built-in a microcontroller: A voltage variation processing mechanism built-in a microcontroller aims to transmit signals of a low voltage detector or a voltage detector monitor to an address generator, a memory and an instruction register. When the low voltage detector or the voltage detector monitor is activated, the microcontroller is frozen until system...

20060158448 - Method and program for improving three-dimensional air excursion using a server and a client: 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...

20060158447 - System and method for fast tensor field segmentation: Segmenting a digitized image includes providing a diffusion tensor field image, partitioning the image into 2 regions, each point being assigned to one of the regions, associating a level-set function with each region, the level-set function having a negative value in one region and a positive value in the other...

20060158449 - Computerized deformation analyzer: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining deformation of a surface of a material is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computer, an elastic deformation range and a plastic deformation range of the material. The method also includes modeling a region of the material with...

20060158450 - Function portions of animation program: The present invention consists of an evaluation engine, which is a system for evaluating the state of an animation at a specific time where secondary animation may be derived from the state of the animation at another time. Unlike DAG-based systems where time is another variable, time is external to...

20060158453 - Method and apparatus for the digital creation of fur effects: A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb the placed hairs, adjust the hairs on surface boundaries to ensure continuity across surface patches, selectively break hairs along...

20060158452 - Remote set-up and calibration of an interactive system: Techniques for remotely calibrating an interactive system are provided. In one aspect, a three-dimensional model of the target environment is obtained, image and parameter data of the target environment are obtained, the image and parameter data are mapped onto the three-dimensional model, and calibration data of the target environment is...

20060158451 - Selection of a mipmap level: A computer graphics includes a texture memory (134) storing texture maps in a mipmap structure, texels in a texture map being specified by a pair of u and v coordinates. A rasterizer (120) determines for a texel (u, v) corresponding initial 4D mipmap levels (mmlu, mmlv) and a magnification factor...

20060158456 - High-resolution rapid manufacturing: The present invention is a method for forming an object, the method comprising jetting a first material to form a plurality of layers that define a support structure increment, and extruding a second material to form a layer of the object. The layer of the object substantially conforms to an...

20060158457 - Individual channel filtering of palettized image formats: A method, system, and a computer program product for filtering palettized image formats are presented. In an embodiment, data is retrieved from a palette of an image. Data associated with a channel of the palette is filtered, and stored, for example, together with a pixel buffer of the image to...

20060158454 - Method of displaying an image on a color display: A method of displaying an image on a color display comprises receiving image data to be displayed, forming a first sub image and a second sub image from said image data, said first sub image comprising a first set of colors and said second sub image comprising a second set...

20060158455 - Real clear 3d multi-user communicator: Color 3D image display devices that show realistic 3D images using right images for right eye and left images for left eyes. Multi-users can view the 3D images from different angles. The size of data is small enough to be practical. Location changeable slots means such as liquid crystal slots...

20060158458 - Display device, and method of operation thereof: It is an object of the invention to provide a display device which performs high grayscale display in accordance with display contents and a game machine with an improved realistic sensation. The invention is a display device characterized by including a pixel portion which performs display based on a video...

20060158460 - Message display unit and message display method for mobile communication terminal: A message display method for a mobile communication terminal comprising changing either a color of letters of a message displayed on a screen or a color of a background of the message or both to be similar to or the same as each other....

20060158459 - Systems and methods for creating user interfaces: The present invention allows users to customize user interfaces within software programs on the fly. By customizing user interfaces users can streamline their own work process, particularly when the user is dealing with large amounts of data. In addition to customizing user interfaces, the present invention also allows users to...

20060158461 - Controls for digital lighting: A digitally controlled lighting system where aspects have a central media server connected to remote media servers. The connection may have separate networks for control versus media. Automatic synchronization of the contents of the media servers may be carried out....

20060158462 - High dynamic range image viewing on low dynamic range displays: Techniques and tools for displaying/viewing HDR images are described. In one aspect, a background image constructed from HDR image information is displayed along with portions of the HDR image corresponding to one or more regions of interest. The portions have at least one display parameter (e.g., a tone mapping parameter)...

20060158463 - Online digital and analog photographic album design and album ordering system: A turnkey solution is provided to users who wish to create a customized photo album with personalized features. The turnkey solution is an online system for designing and printing or designing and printing and binding photo albums. According to certain embodiments, such an online system includes providing a web-based workstation...

20060158464 - System for secure text display: Techniques for securely displaying text on a display panel involve destroying spatial and temporal correlations in an otherwise uniform visual field. The techniques render the displayed text secure with respect to attempts to copy the text using a video capture device or still-picture camera. The techniques also render the displayed...

20060158465 - Illumination modulation technique for microdisplays: A projection display may use pulse width modulation wherein the duty cycle may be varied. This duty cycle variation may improve bit depth in some embodiments. For example, on alternate frames, the duty cycle may be reduced by a given percentage....

20060158467 - Distributed aperture display: Methods and apparatus are provided for reducing the visual artifacts exhibited by a display employing individually addressable pixels. The apparatus comprises an array of pixels, each pixel having a switchable region of alterable transparency or luminance and a non-switchable region. The switchable region of each pixel is distributed, that is,...

20060158466 - Shared pixels rendering display: A shared pixels rendering display includes the procedures of taking samples of sub-pixels (r, g, b) of original pixels that mate the pixel layout (R, G, B) of a color filter; determining content variations of neighboring pixels after sampling, and redistributing after a weighted ratio has been applied to the...

20060152433 - 3d display device and an electronic device with the same: A 3D display device includes two display portions (200, 201) each having a display for generating a particular image thereon. The two display portions are substantially symmetrically arranged. Images associated with the two display portions are slightly different from each other. An electronic device includes a main body (10) and...

20060152432 - Information display system: The system for displaying information displays, to a user of a vehicle, information data on a first screen (16) which is connected to a computer (14) connected to a portable electronic device (19) which contains a second screen (17), via a data input/output means (15), such that the first screen...

20060152431 - Screen adjusting apparatus and method for use in multi-display unit: There is provided a screen adjusting apparatus and method of a multi-display unit, in which a plurality of image display panels are selected and a screen display state of the selected image display panel is adjusted in a single operation....

20060152434 - Calibrating real and virtual views: A method for calibrating real and virtual views includes tracking a calibration screen, wherein a real reference point, generated by a real reference point generator, is projected on the calibration screen, aligning a view of a virtual reference point to a view of the real reference point in a display,...

20060152435 - Display device and display method: The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a display method that enable multiple users to view high resolution moving images from various viewing points of the users. A light-control screen 25 is rotated, and projectors 211 to 21N irradiate the screen 25 from various directions with light rays...

20060152436 - Display system incorporating trilinear electromechanical grating device: A display system comprises a light modulator having at least three linear arrays of light modulating devices on a common substrate, at least one light source producing at least three colors of light for illuminating the at least three linear arrays, a lens for creating line images of the at...

20060152437 - Residual image display: In one of the present invention, a scanning control means and a generating means scan an image by part of light-emitting diodes among a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and generate two-dimensional residual image data enlarged from the image. A light-emission control means controls light emission of the plurality of light-emitting...

20060152438 - Electrochemical display and drive method: In impressing a voltage on pix