Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 08/06

20060192726 - Apparatus with display: A (display) device (31,4,5) contains multiple panels (3,7) like e.g. displays. Every display can be used to display its own content and can be rolled out of a sub-housing (5) like e.g. a cartridge separately. In different configurations the same cartridge can be arranged in such a way that the...

20060192727 - Temperature control method and device for a display device: A temperature control method for a display device comprising a lamp box for emitting a light, a fan for cooling down the display device and a digital image device for receiving the light from the lamp box and forming an image, comprises acquiring an operating time of the lamp box;...

20060192728 - Led driver: The present invention relates to an LED driver for driving a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), comprising a current controller to control power supply of a predetermined power source unit to make a current flowing in the plurality of LEDs reach a predetermined target current value which sequentially changes...

20060192729 - Display device with flexible substrate and shift register: A matrix array display device (100) is mounted on a flexible substrate (110) such as a polyimide substrate, and has a plurality of first conductors (120) crossing a plurality of second conductors (130), with a plurality of pixels (140) being located in the vicinity of a crossing between a first...

20060192730 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device including a plasma display panel, a chassis base having a first surface adjacent to which the plasma display panel is attached, a boss mounted in the chassis base, and a printed circuit board assembly that is supported by the boss and disposed adjacent to a second...

20060192731 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel; driving circuits for applying voltages to multiple electrodes of the panel; and a power supply circuit for supplying power supply voltage to the driving circuits, wherein the driving circuits apply positive sustain discharge voltage higher than ground and negative sustain discharge...

20060192732 - Plasma display panel and imaging device using the same: A plasma display panel and an imaging device realize a high luminous efficiency, a long lifetime and stable driving. The plasma display panel uses a discharge-gas mixture containing at least Xe, Ne and He. A Xe proportion of the discharge-gas mixture is in a range of from 2% to 20%,...

20060192733 - Light emitting device and electronic device: A TFT for controlling the amount of current flowing into a power supply line when an EL element does not emit light (electric discharge TFT) is provided in each pixel. When an EL driving TFT is turned ON to make an EL element emit light, the electric discharge TFT is...

20060192734 - Spoke light compensation for motion artifact reduction: A sequential color display system includes a color changer that causes each of a set of primary colors to appear on an imager that illuminates of each of a plurality of pixels on a display screen. A controller applies control signals to the imager to control the pixel brightness for...

20060192735 - Information processing apparatus and display apparatus: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a display having a deviation filter formed by a right deviation filter which blocks and transmits a light from a predetermined direction and a left deviation member which blocks and transmits a light from a direction different from...

20060192736 - Information processing apparatus and its control method: According to one embodiment, an information-processing apparatus includes a display panel, a filter arranged to face one surface of the display panel, and driven based on a filter driving signal to control, in accordance with a value of the filter driving signal, an amount of a light headed in a...

20060192737 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of image signal lines for applying a plurality of gray scale voltages to the plurality of pixels, and an image signal line drive unit including a film substrate and a semiconductor integrated circuit device formed on the film...

20060192738 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal supported between the first substrate and the second substrate. A signal line, a pixel electrode, and a thin film transistor are formed on the first substrate and electrically connected to the signal line and...

20060192739 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arrayed in a matrix, each pixel electrode of the plurality of pixel electrodes having first and second sub-pixel electrodes. The apparatus further includes a plurality of first switching devices connected to the first sub-pixel electrodes, a plurality of gate...

20060192740 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes m valid gate lines G1 to Gm arranged in a first direction with first constant intervals between gate lines, n valid data lines arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the valid gate lines with second constant intervals between data lines, and at least one...

20060192741 - Display device, method of controlling the same, and projection-type display apparatus: A liquid-crystal display device performs a feedback process. A video signal is written on pixels on a unit by unit basis, each unit including a plurality of pixels (six pixels, for example). Scan pulses output from RGB LCD panels are supplied to a driver IC that supplies the RGB LCD...

20060192744 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes pixels that are provided to correspond to intersections of a plurality of rows of scanning lines and a plurality of pairs of first and second data lines; a scanning line driving circuit that selects the plurality of rows of scanning lines according to a predetermined sequence;...

20060192745 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes pixels that are provided to correspond to intersections of a plurality of rows of scanning lines and a plurality of columns of first data lines, each pixel having an pixel electrode, a common electrode that faces the pixel electrode, a first transistor that is turned on...

20060192742 - Reference voltage generator for use in display applications: A multi-reference voltage generator includes an interface controller, a first bank of N m-bit registers and a second bank of N m-bit registers. A first multiplexer has inputs connected to outputs of the first and second bank of registers. An m-bit digital-to-analog (DAC) has an m-bit parallel input connected to...

20060192743 - Reference voltage generator for use in display applications: A multi-reference voltage generator includes an interface controller, a first bank of N m-bit registers and a second bank of N m-bit registers. A first multiplexer has inputs connected to outputs of the first and second bank of registers. An m-bit digital-to-analog (DAC) has an m-bit parallel input connected to...

20060192748 - Backlight control for a portable computing device: In a portable computing device that includes a backlit device having a variable-intensity backlight, a light sensor, and a light controller coupled to the light sensor and the backlight, a method for controlling the intensity of light produced by the backlight involves the steps of (1) with the ambient light...

20060192749 - Dual-function light guide for lcd backlight: A portable computing device includes a housing having an external surface, and an event notifier, a display device, and a light controller disposed within the housing. The event notifier includes an event notification lamp, and a light conduit terminating at the external surface for conveying light between the event notification...

20060192746 - Image display: The present invention provides an image display system in which an image can be seen from positions other than predetermined viewing position. The image display system includes optical means for allowing light from a backlight (810) to be transmitted to a left eye image area and a right eye image...

20060192750 - Liquid crystal display and method for adjusting temperature thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a backlight module and a heat dissipation device. The backlight module includes a frame, a reflector and several light sources. The reflector is disposed on the frame. The light sources disposed above the reflector. The heat dissipation device includes a fan, a sensor and...

20060192747 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: In an LCD apparatus (400) having simplified structure and improved luminance, a light supplying unit (100) supplies an LCD panel (280) with red light during a time corresponding to one-third of a frame, green light during the time and blue light during the time. A light reflective-transmissive unit is disposed...

20060192751 - Method of driving an electrophoretic display: An electrophoretic display device includes M×N numbers (M, and N are integers more than two) of pixels. The M×N numbers of pixels include M numbers of pixel groups having N numbers of pixels. Further, an image on the electrophoretic display device is displayed by making some of the M×N numbers...

20060192753 - Control signal input system and control signal input method: Disclosed herein is an interface which users can intuitively operate. A control signal input system includes a display device which displays a graphical user interface including plural control items for controlling a device, the control items being displayed in a predetermined layout; and an input device having an input unit...

20060192752 - Inspection method semiconductor device and display device: The present invention allows an efficient test as to the presence of line defects in data lines and gate lines in a liquid crystal display. A logic circuit for a test is provided according to the interconnect layout structure on a semiconductor substrate of a liquid crystal display, and ends...

20060192754 - Hybrid pointing device: An input device having a movable puck and display screen is disclosed. The puck is confined to move on a puck surface having a puck field of motion defined thereon. The puck field of motion is divided into a pointing region and a function region. A controller determines a position...

20060192755 - Detecting light to determine position of object: Infrared light is emitted towards a surface. The infrared light is redirected by an object positioned on the surface. The infrared light as redirected by the objected is detected. A position of the object on the surface is determined based on the infrared light detected....

20060192760 - Actuator for providing tactile sensations and device for directional tactile sensations: An interface device providing haptic feedback to a user is in communication with a host computer. The device includes a housing, at least one sensor for detecting user input, and an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly includes a grounded flexure suspension coupled to an inertial mass which moves when the...

20060192756 - Computer mouse with capability to control an electronic therapy device: A computer mouse with capability to control an electronic therapy device. In one embodiment, the computer mouse includes a main body, a power circuit, and a cursor control circuit electrically coupled to the power circuit. The computer mouse further includes a function module electrically coupled to the power circuit for...

20060192759 - Input device including a scroll wheel assembly for manipulating an image in multiple directions: A scroll wheel assembly includes a rotatable member. Encoded rotation of the rotating member causes scrolling of an image on a display screen along an axis. An actuator is located within the rotational member. Pressure on different parts of the actuator causes scrolling of the image in opposing directions along...

20060192757 - Receiver accommodative wireless input equipment: A receiver accommodative wireless input equipment includes a main input unit, such as a mouse, a magnetic element, a magnetic inductor, and a receiver. The main input unit has an accommodation cavity in which the built-in magnetic element and the receiver are accommodated. The magnetic inductor is attached to one...

20060192758 - Wireless mouse-based method for remote control: The present invention describes a wireless mouse-based method for remote control. The method detects whether the wireless mouse receives a signal indicative of the wireless mouse being away from a mask plane. A touch panel of the wireless mouse is activated. One type of wireless mouse-based remote control is chosen....

20060192762 - Multi-function optical input device: In some embodiments, an input device includes a multi-function optical input device including, for example, traditional mouse functions, barcode reading functions, and/or optical character reading functions. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed....

20060192761 - Optical mouse with barcode reading function: An optical computer mouse has a support structure that can be moved across a surface. An illumination source that illuminates a region of the surface is coupled to the support structure. An imaging system in the mouse includes an optical sensor array that receives light from the illuminated region of...

20060192763 - Sound-based virtual keyboard, device and method: A virtual input apparatus uses an array of transducers in contact with a sounding surface to detect a location of a sound or vibration transmitted by the sounding surface. A signal processor connected to an output of the transducer array provides data corresponding to a determined location of the vibration...

20060192764 - Navigation wheel having switching assembly: An ergonomic pointing device receives user commands for controlling an electronic device. Typically a switching assembly is provided underneath a navigation wheel. The switching assembly comprises switches for generating and/or modulating signals in response to the received commands. Locating the switches in the switching assembly allows, for example, increased manufacturing...

20060192765 - Chinese character auxiliary input method and device: A Chinese character auxiliary input method and device applicable to Chinese input operation of electronic equipment is proposed. When a Chinese character is inputted by a user, an auxiliary input module serves to recognize the content of the Chinese character outputted on a display installed in the electronic equipment. Subsequently,...

20060192766 - Display device and information terminal device: A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel array unit 1 having signal lines and scanning lines respectively arranged side by side, a signal line drive circuit 2 which drives the signal lines, a scanning line drive circuit 3 which drives the scanning lines, a...

20060192771 - Haptic feedback touchpad: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor...

20060192770 - Information processing apparatus and method for electrostatic capacity type switch: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a touch switch which inputs data in the main body according to a change in electrostatic capacity, and touch switch is arranged at the upper face of the main body, a display unit is supported on the main body, and the...

20060192769 - Navigation device with touch screen: task away: A navigation device programmed with a map database and software that enables a route to be planned between two user-defined places. The device may be further programmed to be able to display on a touch sensitive display a main navigation mode screen showing a map and to allow the user...

20060192768 - Remote control device with touch function and method for processing the same: A remote control device with a touch function and a method for processing the same are proposed which are used for controlling the operation of an electronic device equipped with a receiving unit to receive commands from the remote control device and a displaying unit to communicate with a user....

20060192767 - Transparent touch panel and electronic apparatus: A transparent touch panel comprises a transparent first substrate (110) and a second substrate (130) that each has a transparent electro-conductive layer (111, 131) on one surface and that are arranged with a predetermined interval between each other such that the transparent electro-conductive layers (111, 131) are facing each other....

20060192772 - Data control pen device: A pen-like pointing device with data transfer capability is disclosed. The pen device functions as a pointing and writing device in a traditional manner. In addition, it has onboard memory and a wireless receiver, so that data and files can be transferred wirelessly from the computer to the pen device...

20060192773 - Method, a system and a computer program for signal display: A method is provided to display a plurality of signals, on a display screen with an intuitive graphical interface, wherein a user has ability to monitor overall data from a single view. A plurality of signals having different frequencies and remaining in a complex relationship with each other may be...

20060192774 - Switching power supply circuit: A plurality of switching converters (101), (102) are of the composite resonance type wherein a partial resonance voltage circuit is combined with a switching converter of the current resonance type according to a half-bridge connection system. Changeover control is performed such that a rectification circuit serves as a voltage doubler...

20060192775 - Using detected visual cues to change computer system operating states: Described is a method and system that uses visual cues from a computer camera (e.g., webcam) based on presence detection, pose detection and/or gaze detection, to improve a user's computing experience. For example, by determining whether a user is looking at the display or not, better power management is achieved,...

20060192776 - 3-dimensional image creation device, 3-dimensional image reproduction device, 3-dimensional image processing device, 3-dimensional image processing program, and recording medium containing the program: An image signal composed of sequential frames is input to a 3-dimensional image creating apparatus, frame by frame. A controller (102) designates the presence/absence of reduction, the presence/absence of joining and 2D select. An image converter (101) creates image data in the format designated by the presence/absence of reduction and...

20060192778 - Apparatus and method for outputting print data: In order to output print data representative of an image to be printed by a printer, first image data representative of a first image of an object is generated based on first polygon data representative of a three-dimensional shape of the object with coordinates of apexes of each of first...

20060192777 - Method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional video: A three-dimensional video display method includes a first step of causing a first optical pulse to enter a fluorescent space from a predetermined direction, and a second step of causing a second optical pulse, into which cross-sectional information is written, to enter the fluorescent space from a direction opposite to...

20060192779 - Hidden line processing method for erasing hidden lines in projecting a three-dimensional model consisting of a plurality of polygons onto a two-dimensional plane: A hidden line processing method includes the steps of obtaining the maximum value PZmax of the Z-axis direction component of each vertex in a viewpoint coordinate system for each of the plurality of polygons; sorting the plurality of polygons in a descending order based on the obtained maximum values PZmax;...

20060192780 - Method and system for displaying stereoscopic detail-in-context presentations: A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation. The method includes the steps of: (a) selecting first and second viewpoints for the region-of-interest; (b) creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for the region-of-interest, the lens surface having a plurality...

20060192781 - Character image generating apparatus, character image generating method, display control apparatus, display control method and computer-readable recording medium recorded character image generation program or display control program thereon: The present invention relates to a character image generating apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plurality of types of partial base line generating units, a vector font data storing unit, a partial base line length calculating unit for calculating a line length of a partial base line of a character, a...

20060192784 - Image reproduction apparatus and program, and photo movie producing apparatus and program: When a slide show in which a plurality of still images is reproduced and displayed in sequence is executed, the number of subjects captured in each still image is determined. Display time of each still image is calculated based on the determined number of the subjects. The number of the...

20060192783 - Interactive spacetime constraints: wiggly splines: Animation techniques for producing physically-realistic animation while providing the interactivity and control desired by animators. Techniques are provided specifying animation for motion problems that give rise to quadratic optimization functions solvable with linear systems of equations. The resultant splines generalize traditional splines to encompass oscillatory solutions. These problems can be...

20060192785 - Methods and systems for animating facial features, and methods and systems for expression transformation: The illustrated and described embodiments describe techniques for capturing data that describes 3-dimensional (3-D) aspects of a face, transforming facial motion from one individual to another in a realistic manner, and modeling skin reflectance....

20060192782 - Motion-based tracking: In one implementation, a first captured image is accessed. The first captured image includes (1) a first display produced at a first point in time, and (2) a user interacting with the first display and not part of the first display. A second captured image is accessed. The second captured...

20060192787 - Digital image display device: The invention concerns a portable digital image display device having a scanner for generating digital images, a disc media drive for reading digital images from a disc medium and writing digital images onto the disc medium and a display device for displaying digital images. Also, the invention concerns a digital...

20060192786 - Image signal processing method and image signal processing apparatus: Disclosed here is an image signal processing method and apparatus. In the image signal processing, with the use of characteristically different low-pass filters disposed in parallel, a current-field image signal undergoes low-pass filtering process, and the outputs from the low-pass filters are mixed to produce an extended image signal including...

20060192788 - Hardware accelerated blend modes: Blending colors of source and destination primitives by a graphics processing unit is disclosed. The graphics processing unit executes a blending program that blends the primitives. The graphics processing unit receives the blending program from a central processing unit or a graphics application program. For example, the graphics processing unit...

20060192789 - Method and system for constrained pixel graytones interpolation for pattern rasterization: A method and system for preparing data to be used by a patterning device. The method including the following steps: a first set of graytones for a set of pixels is calculated, the first set of graytones corresponding to a center of a pattern being located at a first grid...

20060192790 - Remote control system and remote control method: A remote control system in which an instruction from a remote terminal is transmitted to a controlled device through a remote control device. Device unique data which is information specific to the controlled device is stored in the remote control device or the controlled device. The remote control device generates...

20060192791 - Method and apparatus for the display of still images from image files: An apparatus for creating a digital photo album is disclosed. Digital photo albums may be created on the storage media by a method that includes the steps of displaying a group of images, receiving instructions to select a subset of those images and save the subset as an album, compressing...

20060192793 - Display control circuit: A display control device of the present invention includes a gamma circuit producing and outputting a gray scale voltage and a selection drive circuit selecting the gray scale voltage on the basis of a pixel data displayed on a display device and outputting the selected gray scale voltage as a...

20060192792 - Image display method, image display processing program, and image display apparatus: In an image display method for providing display in a predetermined color order using a plurality of color signals of image data for an electro-optical modulation device which modulates light emitted from a light source in accordance with signals, color distribution ratios for the plural color signals are established such...

20060192794 - Methods and systems for using control data to control a display of an image by a display device: Methods of using control data to control a display of an image by a display device include encoding the control data as a line of video data, including the line of encoded control data in a video signal having a number of lines of image video data, transmitting the video...

20060187142 - Computer display apparatus: A computer display apparatus includes first and second display units operatively coupled to a display controller. The display controller receives imaging instructions for images and display mode instructions for displaying the images, and causes the display units to independently generate images from the imaging instructions according to the display mode...

20060187140 - Double-sided electronic display: An electronic display includes a first display, a second display and an enclosure that is adapted to house the first display and the second display such that the back side of the first display faces the back side of the second display. The enclosure includes a first side wall, a...

20060187143 - Dual type lcd module for mobile phone: A dual type LCD module for a mobile phone includes: a main LCD; a sub LCD; and a bracket interposed between the main LCD and the sub LCD. The main LCD and sub LCD are separated by a first distance by the brackets, which covers a periphery of the main...

20060187141 - Mobile display: A mobile, multi-room display environment. The display environment has a first room, the first room having a first set of sensory cues, and a second room, the second room having a second set of sensory cues substantially different from the first set of sensory cues. The first and second rooms...

20060187144 - Mounting structure of cover plate and plasma display module including the same: A mounting structure of a cover plate using connection members to maintain a regular interval between the cover plate and a chassis, protect an integrated circuit chip, and effectively dissipate heat generated from the integrated circuit chip, and a plasma display module including the structure. The structure includes a chassis;...

20060187145 - Plasma display panel, plasma display apparatus, driving apparatus of the panel and driving method of the apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, a plasma display apparatus, a driving apparatus of the plasma display panel and a driving method of the plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of scan electrodes, a...

20060187146 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: A plasma display apparatus and the method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes are formed on a top substrate to make pairs and address electrodes are formed on a bottom substrate...

20060187147 - Plasma display panel, plasma display apparatus, driving apparatus of plasma display panel and driving method of plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. According to the present invention, the plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel on which images comprised of a frame are displayed by means of a combination of at least one or more sub-fields in which driving pulse are applied...

20060187149 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel and plasma display panel: A driving circuit of a plasma display panel is provided in which a display cell including a first electrode and a second electrode is selected to light up, for applying a first voltage Vs1 to the first electrode and a second voltage Vs2 to the second electrode adjacent to the...

20060187148 - 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 including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, a scan driver and a sustain driver. The scan driver supplies a first pulse including a positive pulse and a negative pulse...

20060187150 - Plasma display: A plasma display panel employs a voltage circuit having an input and an output, the voltage circuit configured for supplying a negative voltage for an electrode. The plasma display panel also employs a power supply that has a positive terminal and a negative terminal, where the negative terminal is connected...

20060187151 - Display device: Input display data (D0, D1, D2) are converted into currents ij which are allowed to flow into respective pixels by a data/current conversion part 66, electric currents IN at end portions of a row wiring are calculated by a current IN calculation circuit 68-2 using the currents ij, and a...

20060187152 - Image display apparatus for forming an image with a plurality of luminescent points: The present invention relates to an image display apparatus for forming an image with a plurality of luminescent spots to be precisely aligned in a matrix. For example, a spacer disposed between an electron source and a face plate causes luminescent spots on the face plate spaced unevenly. The luminescent...

20060187154 - Display apparatus and method of driving same: Disclosed is a display apparatus which can improve the characteristics of TFTs used to select and drive self-emissive elements such as OLEDs. The display apparatus has row electrodes, column electrodes, and a driving unit. The self-emissive elements are formed in regions corresponding to intersections of the row electrodes with the...

20060187155 - Organic light emitting display devices and methods of rendering images thereof: Organic light emitting display (OLED) devices and methods of rendering image of an OLED device. A pixel of the OLED device includes a first sub-pixel corresponding to a first color, comprising a first pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel corresponding to a second color, comprising a second pixel electrode. A...

20060187153 - Voltage programmed pixel circuit, display system and driving method thereof: A voltage programmed pixel circuit, display system having the pixel circuit and driving method thereof is provided. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting device, a driving transistor connected to the light emitting device and a programming circuit. The programming circuit adjusts a pixel current during a programming cycle of...

20060187156 - Electronic circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: To provide an electronic circuit, an electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus, which are capable of producing digital signals having predetermined output values in accordance with digital data. A bit extending circuit 40 is constructed for producing 8-bit digital data in order to change current Im of data line driving...

20060187157 - Driving method of light emitting diode: A power-saving and efficient driving method for driving a matrix of a plurality of light emitting diodes arrayed in rows and columns, for enabling each row and column being driven with respect to the state thereof while each row being in a state selected from the group consisting of active...

20060187159 - Display device and driver: A display device includes a display panel including a bus line section; and at least one driver for driving the bus line section included in the display panel. Each of the at least one driver includes an amplifier for generating a non-driving signal based on an input signal, the non-driving...

20060187158 - Display device, and large-sized display apparatus employing the same: The present invention provides a display device capable of alleviating afterimage phenomena or, even in the event of the occurrence of afterimages, reducing the visibility thereof, and also provides a large-sized display apparatus employing the same. A non-self-luminous display device includes an image changing unit (image scaling-down processing circuit and...

20060187161 - Field sequential driving method and field sequential liquid crystal display: A field sequential LCD and a method of initializing a liquid crystal using the same are provided. A reset voltage having a higher voltage level than a data signal is applied to initialize the liquid crystal. Accordingly, the field sequential LCD includes a reset voltage generator to generate the reset...

20060187160 - Method for solving feed-through effect: A method for solving feed-through effect, including steps of: obtaining desired gamma voltage value from a V-T curve (effective voltage-transmission curve) of the Liquid crystal and a gamma curve (gray scale-transmission curve); obtaining positive and negative frame feedback values by means of the desired gamma voltage value and the transistor...

20060187163 - Method of driving a color liquid crystal display and driver circuit for driving the display as well as portable electronic device with the driver circuit: The present invention provides a method and a circuit for driving a color liquid crystal display in a normal driving mode and a power saving mode, wherein in the normal driving mode, voltages corresponding to image display data are applied to data electrodes of the color liquid crystal display, and...

20060187162 - Plain display apparatus, display control circuit and display control method: A plain display apparatus has a plurality of display elements formed in vicinity of signal lines and scanning lines disposed in a matrix form, and a signal line drive circuit which switches order of supplying pixel data to the signal lines at random for each horizontal line....

20060187164 - Liquid crystal display device performing dot inversion and method of driving the same: An LCD device for performing a dot inversion and a method of driving the same. A storage line is provided separately from a common electrode line so that a level of a storage voltage applied through the storage line can be shifted once per frame. As the storage voltage is...

20060187165 - Display device: In a display device in which each pixel includes a thin film transistor which is turned on in response to a scanning signal from a gate signal line, and an electrode to which a video signal from a drain signal line is supplied through the thin film transistor, the scanning...

20060187166 - Semiconductor device and display device: A circuit capable of reducing a consumption current is provided for a digital display device composed of unipolar TFTs. There is provided a latch circuit for holding a digital video signal. According to the latch circuit, when the digital video signal is inputted to an input electrode of a TFT...

20060187171 - Driving circuit for electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit for an electro-optical device that includes scan lines, a data lines, and pixel portions, all of which are arranged in an image display region on a substrate. The driving circuit includes sampling switches for supplying an image signal supplied by an image signal line to each of...

20060187168 - Field sequential liquid crystal display: A field sequential LCD includes a reset selector supplying a reset signal having a higher voltage level than a data signal to the liquid crystal. The reset selector selects the reset signal in response to a reset control signal, and supplies the selected reset signal to a data line....

20060187170 - Field sequential liquid crystal display: A field sequential LCD capable of applying a reset signal having a higher voltage level than a data signal to a liquid crystal so as to represent a predetermined gradation is provided. The field sequential LCD includes an LCD panel having a plurality of pixels for displaying an image, a...

20060187173 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and method for driving the liquid crystal display are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and...

20060187174 - Liquid crystal display control device: There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performed by a frame memory, a line...

20060187169 - Liquid crystal display device having filter to reduce riffle noise: An LCD having a filter is provided. The filter is located along a common voltage line Vcom or on a flexible printed circuit board between a regulator and a common voltage generator, thereby filtering a riffle noise occurring in a common voltage electrode and thus enhancing the display performance of...

20060187167 - Liquid crystal display having feed-forward circuit: A liquid crystal display (LCD) has a feed-forward circuit, as a result of which an interference phenomenon occurring in each line of an LCD panel (that is, a color blurring) is prevented, and image quality and life of the LCD panel are enhanced. The LCD comprises a feed-forward circuit for...

20060187172 - Power supply voltage converting circuit, control method thereof, display apparatus, and portable terminal: In a power supply voltage converting circuit using a charge pump circuit having a switch device (Nch MOS transistor Qn(12) and Pch MOS transistor Qp(12)) in an output unit, a first clamp circuit (13) diode-clamps a switching pulse voltage (control pulse voltage) for the switch device at the time of...

20060187176 - Display panels and display devices using the same: A display panel comprising a display unit, a first scan driver, a first data driver, a second scan driver, and a second data driver. When the first scan driver turns on the display unit according to a first scan start signal, the first data driver provides a video signal related...

20060187178 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device comprises pulse generation, sampling, comparison, latch, and digital-to-analog conversion capabilities. A sample pulse is generated, which samples in time series a digital signal input corresponding to a pixel. The input digital signal is sampled in response to the sampling pulses...

20060187175 - Method of arranging embedded gate driver circuit for display panel: A method of arranging an embedded gate driver circuit for a display panel having a screen area is provided by the invention. The method comprises causing a gate line G(i) in the screen area associated with each shift register SR(i) to serve as a line for transmitting signal to both...

20060187177 - Shift register units, display panels utilizing the same, and methods for improving current leakage thereof: A shift register comprising at least one shift register unit. The shift register unit comprises an input unit, at least one first TFT, and at least one second TFT. The input unit receives an input signal from the input terminal and outputs a switching control signal in accordance with a...

20060187182 - Apparatus and method for compensating regional nonuniformity of a display panel: Several display regions are defined on a display panel, and each display region has its panel characteristic data. A pixel data is received and the determined display region of the pixel data is determined. The pixel data is calibrated according to the panel characteristic data of the determined display region,...

20060187180 - Back light unit and liquid crystal display device using the same: A back light unit and an LCD device using the same in which current which flows in a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is uniformly controlled having a small PCB is provided. The back light unit includes a plurality of LED arrays having LEDs and a detector which detects...

20060187181 - Backlight driver circuit and liquid crystal display device having the same: In a backlight driver circuit and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device employing the same, separate forward driving currents are applied to red (R), green (G) and blue (B) backlights, respectively, thereby overcoming the problem of brightness variation resulting from forward voltage Vf variation in a light emitting diode (LED)....

20060187183 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method used in same: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of reducing a number of components and fabricating processes and of realizing a bright display even at time of a transmissive display and of simplifying configurations of a data signal. Transistors are controlled ON/OFF based on selecting signals input to...

20060187179 - Switchable 2d/3d display: A display device comprises a backlight (6) and a light modulating layer (5) such as an LCD device. The backlight (6) can be controlled to operate as a single homogenous light source for producing 2D images or a series of narrow parallel light sources for producing 3D images. Preferably, the...

20060187184 - Projector and processing line specification method: A projector of the invention includes: a projection lens that is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis to project and display an image on a projection object; an imaging structure that photographs an area including at least the projected image on the projection object to take...

20060187188 - Dispersion, microcapsule, electrophoretic device, electro-optical device, and method of forming a dispersion: A method for making an electrophoretic solution includes: including two kinds of particles having different charging polarities into the electrophoretic solution; calculating a mixing ratio so that charge amounts of the two kinds of particles become approximately equal to each other on a basis of a unit volume of a...

20060187187 - Display device: A display device comprising electrophoretic particles, a display element comprising a pixel electrode and a counter electrode between which a portion of the electrophoretic particles are present, and control means for supplying a drive signal to the electrodes to bring the display element in a predetermined optical state corresponding to...

20060187185 - Driving method of display apparatus in which a handwriting can be overwritten on the displayed image: A display device is driven by a driving method including a first drawing step of displaying an image by controlling a display medium on the basis of a signal from first image creation means, and a second drawing step of overwriting a handwritten image on the displayed image by controlling...

20060187189 - Electro-optic device and electronic instrument: An electro-optic device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes each formed for respective unit areas with a distance between one of the pixel electrodes and another of the pixel electrodes adjacent to the one of the pixel electrodes, the unit areas being arranged in a plane and defined by dividing...

20060187186 - Electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1) for displaying pictures has drive means (100) which are arranged for controlling the potential difference of each picture element (2) to be a picture potential difference having a picture value and an associated picture duration representing a picture energy for enabling the particles (6) to...

20060187190 - Display methods and apparatus: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators....

20060187191 - Display methods and apparatus: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators....

20060187192 - Control unit, in particular for medical equipment: The invention relates to a control unit, in particular for medical equipment. Said unit comprises a display surface (5) that can be sterilised, a protective housing (3) that can be sterilised and is mechanically connected to the display surface (5) and a recording unit (4) that can be inserted into...

20060187195 - Display system and displaying method capable of auto-adjusting display brightness: A display system includes a remote control and a display apparatus. The remote control includes a photo sensor, a particular button and a wireless transmitting module. The display apparatus includes a screen, a wireless receiving module and a microprocessor. When the particular button is triggered, the photo sensor senses a...

20060187197 - Electrical damping system: An electrical damping system provides damping over a wide range of frequencies including high frequencies. The system includes a resistance in parallel with an electric motor or series connected resistance and capacitance in parallel with the electric motor. In another embodiment, an electrical damping system is provided for a motor...

20060187198 - Input device: A virtual data entry device including an illuminator generating a generally planar beam of light and an impingement sensor assembly operative to sense at least one location of impingement of the planar beam of light by at least one object, the impingement sensor assembly including at least one optical element...

20060187201 - Method and apparatus for designing force sensations in force feedback computer applications: A design interface tool for designing force sensations for use with a host computer and force feedback interface device. A force feedback device is connected to a host computer that displays the interface tool. Input from a user is received in the interface to select a type of force sensation...

20060187194 - Multimedia player having a detachable display screen: A multimedia player having a detachable display screen includes a host body and a display panel body. The host body has a first signal transmission port and a coupling slot on one lateral side and the display panel body has a display panel and a connection dock. The coupling slot...

20060187200 - Optically based operating device for a household appliance: An operating element can be used to operate or control a household appliance, for example a cook top heating element. A seven-segment display is arranged beneath a cover in the region of a contact surface. A light source and a light receiver are arranged inside respectively of four LED elements...

20060187193 - System and method for generating a virtual reality presentation: A system and method for generating a video presentation on a portable video data storage medium. The system includes one or more position sensors wearable by a person, the position sensors configured to move upon a movement of the person. The system also includes a computer system in communication with...

20060187196 - System and method for gesture based control system: The system provides a gestural interface to various visually presented elements, presented on a display screen or screens. A gestural vocabulary includes ‘instantaneous’ commands, in which forming one or both hands into the appropriate ‘pose’ results in an immediate, one-time action; and ‘spatial’ commands, in which the operator either refers...

20060187199 - System and method for projection: A pattern projector including a source of light to be projected, a spatial light modulator arranged in a spatial light modulator plane, the spatial light modulator receiving the light from the source of light and being configured to pass the light therethrough in a first pattern and projection optics receiving...

20060187202 - Handheld electronic device, cursor positioning sub-system and method employing cursor scaling control: A track ball cursor positioning sub-system is employed by a handheld electronic device including an operating system and a plurality of applications having a plurality of predetermined scaling values. The cursor positioning sub-system includes a track ball cursor positioning device adapted to output a plurality of device pulses, and a...

20060187204 - Apparatus and method for controlling menu navigation in a terminal: An apparatus controlling menu navigation in a terminal. The apparatus includes a display for display a menu screen; a user interface; an inertial sensor for instantaneously sensing a motion of the terminal; and a controller for displaying the menu screen on the display in response to a first input sensed...

20060187203 - Handheld electronic device, system and method for inverting display orientation for left-handed or right-handed operation responsive to a wireless message: A handheld electronic device, such as a fob, includes a wireless communication port and a display alternatively displaying a first or right-handed display orientation and a second or left-handed display orientation. The first display orientation is inverted with respect to the second display orientation. A processor component cooperates with the...

20060187205 - Apparatus and associated method for wireless computing systems: The present invention provides a peripheral device for establishing radio frequency communication links between peripheral devices using wireless protocols. Preferably, the peripheral includes radio frequency electronics and peripheral electronics connected to universal serial bus hub that is further connected to the universal serial bus port on the computer....

20060187206 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse includes a body having a bottom and a top cover mounted to the bottom to define therebetween an interior space for accommodating mechanical/electronic/optic components. The cover has front and rear portions separated by a partition wall. The front portions forms control buttons of the mouse. The rear...

20060187207 - Mouse and portable computer for receiving the same: A mouse for receiving in the portable computer is provided. The mouse includes a main body and a button portion. The body has a first side and a second side. The first side can be installed in a plugging slot of the portable computer. The button portion is electrically connected...

20060187209 - Computer input apparatus: A computer input apparatus is disclosed which has improved safety control. Computer input devices with coherent light sources are popular. However, coherent light sources may cause serious and unrecoverable injuries to human eyes. Accordingly, there are several safety specifications defined by manufacturers and governments. Therefore, an improved device is disclosed...

20060187208 - Programmable lift response for an optical navigation device: An optical pointing device comprising an optical navigation sensor and an adjustment module for adjusting an operational height of the optical navigation sensor is provided in one embodiment. In another embodiment, an optical pointing device comprising a housing and an optical navigation sensor contained in the housing is provided where...

20060187210 - Handheld electronic device and keypad providing enhanced usability and reduced size, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device, keypad, and method in accordance with the invention meet these and other needs. An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keypad provides enhanced usability and reduced size by organizing its keys in pairs, with a pair of keys being disposed on a support. Each...

20060187211 - Changing keys drawn on a display and actuating them using a sensor-screen: This invention describes a method for changing a keypad layout with keys (e.g., graphics and text) drawn on a display of an electronic device (e.g., wireless portable device, a mobile communication device or a mobile phone) and actuating said keys by a user of the electronic device using a transparent...

20060187212 - User interface apparatus and method: A user interface apparatus comprises a plurality of key buttons, and a plurality of touchpad pieces, each located under an associated key button and situated such that a touch of an associated key button can be sensed. When a user touches predetermined key buttons among the plurality of key buttons...

20060187216 - Closed-loop sensor on a solid-state object position detector: The present disclosure discloses an object position detector. The object position detector comprises a touch sensor formed as a closed loop and having a physical constraint formed on an upper surface of the touch sensor and coextensive with the closed loop. The touch sensor is configured to sense motion of...

20060187213 - Electroluminescence display with touch panel: An electroluminescence display with a touch panel comprises a first substrate, an organic light emitting element disposed on the first substrate, a passivation layer disposed on the organic light emitting element, a resistive touch panel element disposed on the passivation layer, and a second substrate disposed on the resistive touch...

20060187215 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor...

20060187214 - Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition: A method of generating a signal comprising providing a capacitive touch sensor pad including a matrix of X and Y conductors, developing capacitance profiles in one of an X direction and a Y direction from the matrix of X and Y conductors, determining an occurrence of a single gesture through...

20060187217 - Automatic changing system of standby screen and method thereof: Disclosed is an automatic changing system of standby screen and method thereof that automatically change a standby screen of a mobile terminal corresponding to position information of the user and the number of times the folder has been opened/closed by the user and thus provide required information in accordance with...

20060187218 - Electromagnetic interference prevention apparatus for flat panel display: An electromagnetic interference (EMI) prevention apparatus for a flat panel display which is capable of modulating the frequency of an input clock signal using a spread spectrum clocking method to increase the frequency of the clock signal and reduce the amplitude thereof so as to reduce EMI by a clock...

20060187219 - Evolutionary optimization and free form deformation: Techniques are provided for representation of designs using a basic design which is then modified by a transformation function. In free form deformation techniques the transformation function is defined by a spline function which transforms the space in which the design is defined into a second space where the new...

20060187220 - Apparatus and method for performing hidden surface removal and computer program product: An image processing apparatus includes a first and second Z value calculators that calculate a polygon Z value and a block Z value, respectively. The polygon Z value is a coordinate value of a pixel located at a closest point to a viewpoint. The block Z value is a coordinate...

20060187221 - System and method for identifying and removing virtual objects for visualization and computer aided detection: A method for removing a virtual object from a digitized image comprises the steps of computing a point spread function of the intensities of an image, wherein a point spread function is a measure of the blurriness of said image, marking a plurality of points that represent an object of...

20060187222 - Changing states of elements: In embodiments, states of elements of a surface are changed....

20060187223 - Program, information storage medium, and image generation system: An image generation system includes: a glare source drawing section which draws a glare source while referring to a Z value of an original image stored in a Z buffer to generate a first glare source image, and draws the glare source without referring to the Z value of the...

20060187224 - Predictive display for a system having delayed feedback of a command issued: A method to provide feedback to an operator of a device having feedback delay. The method includes the steps of displaying a first image of a view from the device, the device being at a first position, issuing a movement command to cause a desired movement of the device to...

20060187225 - Display driver: A display driver includes holding circuits outputting data of n bits (n≧2), a multiplexer receiving data output from the holding circuits and time sharingly outputting the data in normal operation, and a D/A converter, having converting input terminals, converting based on data of n bits input via the converting input...

20060187226 - Dynamic memory clock switching circuit and method for adjusting power consumption: A power adjustment circuit includes memory controller logic that is couplable to system memory or other memory if desired. The memory control logic is operative to provide a variable memory clock signal to the system memory and to place the system memory in a self refresh mode wherein the self...

20060187227 - Storage aspects for imaging device: In one aspect, a technique including receiving at least a portion of at least one shared image at a receiving image device from at least one capturing image device that has captured the at least the portion of the at least one shared image. Either the capturing image device or...

20060187228 - Sharing including peripheral shared image device: Transferring at least a first shared image from a first shared image device to at least one other shared image device, wherein the first shared image device and the at least one other shared image device are both configurable to capture one or more images. Transferring at least a second...

20060187229 - Page based rendering in 3d graphics system: A method of rendering 3D graphics image using page based rendering technique includes the steps of: dividing a plurality of primitives having respective primitive ID into a plurality of pages having respective page ID; sorting the primitives for each of the pages, and storing the sorted primitives into a page...

20060187230 - Peripheral shared image device sharing: A mechanism configurable to transmit at least a portion of at least one image representation at a peripheral shared image device in a manner that can be received by at least one capturing shared image device, and/or configurable to receive at least the portion of the at least one image...

20060187231 - Image data processing method and apparatus, storage medium product, and program product: When printing image data obtained by an input device, the present invention is intended to effectively utilize the color reproduction area of the printer. An image data processing method of the present invention comprises the steps of scale-down shifting a first color space point outside a maximum color reproduction area...

20060187233 - Dynamic image luminance adjustment based on backlight and/or ambient brightness: Methods and apparatuses for the application of image intensity and luminance adjustment and gamma adjustment for the purpose of compensating perceived image brightness. Thereby enhancing the range of display backlight brightness adjustment that may be applied to conserve power, while minimizing impact to image color shade, hue or saturation characteristics....

20060187232 - System and method for local value adjustment: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for local value adjustment are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a hue, saturation, and brightness value for each pixel of an image, determining whether the hue and saturation for each pixel fall within a...

20060187235 - Compositing in the presence of different transparencies: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending in the presence of different transparencies. In one aspect, the invention provides a computer implemented method for blending a first graphic element and a second graphic element in accordance with a transfer mode T, the first graphic element having a color...

20060187234 - System and method for blending images: A method of blending a pair of images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels having an intensity. A blending edge is determined for each image, each blending edge comprising at least one group of pixels, with each pixel at a pixel position, and an average intensity of pixels of...

20060187236 - Control interface for converting subtractive color input to additive primary color output: A control interface for producing a composite color through the mixing of primary colors selected from a first color spectrum including red, yellow, and blue, resulting in the display of said composite color through a light array containing lights of a second primary color spectrum is disclosed. The user selects...

20060187237 - Surveillance system for masking privacy zone and method of setting mask zone: Provided is a surveillance system for masking a privacy zone and a method of setting up a mask zone. The surveillance system comprises a photographing unit, a zone setting unit, a display unit and an image signal processor. The photographing photographs a surveillance zone. The zone setting unit sets up...

20060187238 - Vehicle-periphery viewing apparatus: A vehicle-periphery viewing apparatus comprises an imaging device, an electronic control unit, and a display device. The imaging device captures an image of a surrounding area of the vehicle and comprises a field of view larger in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction. An electronic control unit comprises:...

20060187239 - System and method for improving visual appearance of efficient rotation algorithm: A write order of a rotation/reorientation algorithm, which converts a source image to a target image with a different type orientation, is modified to reflect an order of a vertical trace at a target display. If the algorithm is triggered by the same signal as the trigger signal for a...

20060187241 - Lossless manipulation of media objects: An original media object, such as an image, is edited without loss of the data comprising the media object. Changes applied to the media object are defined by metadata associated with the media object. For example, metadata define the cropping of an original JPEG image without loss of the original...

20060187240 - Method and system for browsing multimedia document, and computer product: A system for browsing a document includes an object storing unit that stores an object forming the document and to be zoomed on a display; a display-description storing unit that stores a description indicative of a display condition on which the document is to be displayed; an operation acquiring unit...

20060187242 - Method of, and apparatus for image enhancement taking ambient illuminance into account: A method of and an apparatus for image enhancement taking ambient illuminance into consideration. The image enhancement method includes calculating an original-luminance contrast which is a luminance contrast with respect to an original-luminance of pixels forming an original image, calculating a fade-luminance by reflecting the variation of perceived luminance based...

20060181480 - Detecting attachment or removal of a display monitor: A change in state is detected at an output port terminal of a video graphics adapter card when an analog monitor is connected or disconnected. A negative current source causes a negative voltage to be developed at the output port terminal during a blanking interval of a color drive signal....

20060181481 - Assembly and method for head-up display (hud) tray harmonization: There is provided a head-up display (HUD) tray harmonization assembly, including a mount alignment jig (MAJ) having a first end and a second end, the first end being connectable to an adjustable tray affixed in an aircraft front cabin at spaced-apart relationship to a front window having a lower edge...

20060181482 - Apparatus for providing visual data during an operation: A method and apparatus for providing visual data during an operation is described, comprising a processing base with memory and storage; a source of images such as x-rays and fluoroscopes; and a personally worn display such as a heads-up display. The display provides images of x-rays; fluoroscopic images; ultrasound images;...

20060181483 - System and method for improving nighttime visual awareness of a pilot flying an aircraft carrying at least one air-to-air missile: A method for improving nighttime visual awareness of a pilot flying an aircraft carrying an air-to-air missile including one or more one gimbaled imaging sensor. The method includes providing a helmet for the pilot, a helmet tracking system for determining the attitude of the helmet relative to the aircraft, and...

20060181484 - Scanned light display system using large numerical aperture light source, method of using same, and method of making scanning mirror assemblies: A scanned light display system includes a light source operable to emit light and a curved mirror positioned to receive at least a portion of the light. The curved mirror is configured to substantially collimate the received light. The substantially collimated light is scanned to form an image by moving...

20060181485 - Led driver: The present invention relates to an LED driver for driving light emitting diodes. The LED driver comprises a linear mode driver to increase and decrease a linear mode current to make a current flow in the LED at a predetermined target current value and output it to the LED; and...

20060181486 - Driving circuit of light emitting element: A driving circuit for a light emitting element, electrically connected to a data line and a scan line and powered by a bias voltage so as to drive the light emitting element, comprising: a first transistor, further comprising: a first gate, electrically connected to the scan line; and a first...

20060181487 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plurality of drivers. The plurality of drivers are formed on one board, respectively....

20060181488 - Plasma display device and method for driving the same: There is provided a plasma display device that has a first, a second, and a third electrodes, phosphors emitting a light depending on discharges generated by applying voltages of the first to third electrodes, and a drive circuit for applying a pulse to the third electrode in every time discharge...

20060181489 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode, a set-up driver that applies a rising pulse to the scan electrode during a reset period, a set-down driver that applies a first...

20060181490 - Display device and driving method of the same: In a display using a time gradation method, as the number of the subframes in one frame period increases, the number of writings of video data to a pixel and the operating quantity of a driver circuit of the display increase so that power consumption increases. In a display device...

20060181491 - Display device comprising display driver having display driving section formed between transistors providing electric current thereto: The first and second chips are provided side by side. The first chip includes: a current supply section for outputting a drive current, the current supply section including a current mirror; a current distribution MISFET; a current input MISFET for transmitting an electric current to the current supply section, the...

20060181492 - Methods for controlling electro-optic displays: An electro-optic display comprises a bistable electro-optic medium, a plurality of pixel electrodes, with associated non-linear elements, and a common electrode, disposed on opposed sides of the electro-optic medium. The display has a writing mode, in which at least two different voltages are applied to different pixel electrodes, and a...

20060181493 - Reflective display device: A reflective display device includes a retroreflective layer including a plurality of unit structures that are arranged two-dimensionally on a virtual plane and a modulating layer, which is arranged closer to a viewer than the retroreflective layer is and which is switchable between a first state and a second state...

20060181494 - Reference voltage generation circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A reference voltage generation circuit includes: a serial/parallel conversion circuit which converts serially input gamma correction data into parallel data of a given number of bits; a level shifter which converts a signal level of each bit of the parallel data; a gamma correction data register in which the gamma...

20060181495 - Active matrix array device: An active matrix array (25), e.g. an active matrix liquid crystal display array, comprising an array of matrix elements (10), e.g. pixels (10), each comprising a circuit, e.g. a refresh circuit comprising a CMOS inverter (70); and column conductors (16) arranged for inputting data signals (117) to, or outputting data...

20060181497 - Display and method of driving same: A display with low power consumption using a memory-incorporated pixel system capable of refreshing the image signal memory and updating an image without causing a flicker. Each pixel arranged in matrix has, at an intersection between the signal line and the scan line, a first transistor and a second transistor...

20060181496 - Display units: A display unit for a display panel having a display array. The display array is formed by at least one data line and at least one scan line. During a frame, a voltage of a video signal is provided to the display unit. Before a subsequent frame, the voltage of...

20060181498 - Display device: A display device is formed by a panel in which a display area and a peripheral circuit part for driving the display area are integrally formed in an integrated manner on an insulating substrate 1. The display area includes pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix, a common...

20060181501 - Driving apparatus and driving method of light emitting display panel: An analog image signal is supplied to a driving controlling circuit and an A/D converting circuit and is converted to image data corresponding to each one pixel by the A/D converting circuit and is written to an image memory. The image data is read from the image memory for each...

20060181500 - Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes, on a substrate, a plurality of pixel portions arranged in a pixel region; a peripheral circuit which is placed in a peripheral region located at a periphery of the pixel region, and controls the plurality of pixel portions; image signal lines that supply image signals; and...

20060181499 - Scan method for liquid crystal display: A scan method for use in a flat panel display comprising K groups of lines, comprising the following steps. First, K sequences S1 to SK are provided. A scan order is then determined according to the K sequences S1 to SK. Thereafter, the K groups of lines are synchronously scanned...

20060181502 - Signal line driving circuit and image display device: A signal line driving circuit includes a shift register having a plurality of shift circuits, each of which shifts a start pulse successively to the next stage, synchronizing with the timing of a clock signal. In this signal line driving circuit, shift pulses are outputted from an AND gate based...

20060181503 - Black point insertion: A backlight display has improved display characteristics. An image is displayed on the display which includes a liquid crystal material with a light valve. The display receives an image signal, modifies the light valve with an overdrive for a first region of the image based upon the timing of the...

20060181504 - Electrophoresis device, method of driving electrophoresis device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoresis device includes a pair of substrates, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a common electrode formed on the pair of substrates, a liquid material formed by dispersing charged particles sealed between the pair of substrates and a driving circuit for applying a voltage to the pixel electrodes and...

20060181507 - Apparatus for generating exact vertical or horizontal motion-with a dual-axis input device: A user of a two-axis input device has the capability to automatically construct a vertical or horizontal line. The input device has a mechanical means that the user can implement to inhibit inputs submitted from either the X-axis or the Y-axis to the computer. As a result, the computer only...

20060181506 - Handheld electronic device including a variable speed input apparatus and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and method provide an input apparatus having a number of input members, at least a portion of the input members being movable among an unactuated position, a first actuated position, and a second actuated position in order to provide input. The improved method of enabling...

20060181509 - Input device for a cellular phone: An input device includes a casing having a retention groove, a flexible membrane disposed on the casing and having a plurality of keys, a connecting portion an outer flange extending outwardly from an outer surface of the connecting portion, an upper recess formed on an inner surface of the connecting...

20060181508 - Operation input device and electronic appliances using the same: An operation input device excellent in an operation feeling, capable of smooth rotation and having less occurrence of dust includes a base 10; a support shaft 30 elastically implanted to and supported by the base 10 in such a manner as to be capable of tilting; a printed substrate 20...

20060181505 - Real motion detection sampling and recording for tracking and writing instruments using electrically-active viscous material and thin films: The present invention details a system for tracking writing motions internally to the pen (or other instrument) and communicating such motions to a general or specific purposes computer systems. In a preferred embodiment the present invention uses multiple tubes with electrically active material with viscosity surfaces in order to generate...

20060181510 - User control of a hand-held device: A hand-held device (10), comprising a computing application of the hand-held device which responds to directional commands of a user; an image registering unit to register a series of images; an image processing unit (162) to derive motion data from the series of images corresponding to translational and/or rotational movement...

20060181511 - Touchpad integrated into a key cap of a keyboard for improved user interaction: A miniature touchpad disposed underneath the surface of a single key cap that is disposed in a keyboard, wherein the key cap touchpad provides proximity sensing through the material of the key cap to the key cap surface, wherein a user moves a finger across the key cap surface in...

20060181513 - Method and related apparatus for decreasing delay time: A method for increasing a report rate of a wireless mouse for decreasing delay time of the wireless mouse includes selecting a packet mode, inputting data corresponding to the selected packet mode according to control signals inputted into the wireless mouse, performing a first error check operation according to a...

20060181512 - Mouse: A mouse comprises a body and a supportive housing. The supportive housing is disposed on the body and shifted between a first position and a second position, wherein when the supportive housing is in the first position, the supportive housing contacts and supports the palm of a user....

20060181514 - Providing input data: A manually operable data input device is constructed from fabric and is configured to receive input data from a user. A low power consumption radio transmitting device is interfaced to the input device for transmitting input data. A radio receiving device receives transmitted input data and conveys this to a...

20060181516 - Contact input apparatus for touch screen assemblies: A contact input apparatus for providing a linear response throughout an active area of a touch screen assembly including a substrate, a first pattern of relatively low resistance material disposed on a first surface of the substrate and substantially along an outer perimeter thereof, and a second pattern of relatively...

20060181517 - Display actuator: A display device that both displays visual information and that serves as a mechanical actuator to generate input signals is disclosed (i.e., display device is not only an output device, but also a mechanically actuated input device). By way of example, the display device, which displays visual information such as...

20060181520 - Information input device, information input method, and information input program: An information input device which enable even a user incapable of seeing an operation panel to identify the respective locations of keys on the operation panel and functions assigned to the keys, thereby enhancing operability of the device. The information input device is provided with a touch panel for inputting...

20060181519 - Method and system for manipulating graphical objects displayed on a touch-sensitive display surface using displaced pop-ups: Graphical objects, such as documents and pop-up items, are projected onto a display surface of a touch-sensitive graphical user interface. The pop-up items associated with a particular document are displayed at a distance from the document. The distance is sufficient to prevent occlusion of the associated document when any of...

20060181518 - Spatial multiplexing to mediate direct-touch input on large displays: A graphical user interface has a display surface that is segmented into multiple regions. A set of unique, non-overlapping locations is associated with each region. A set of actions that can be performed by the graphical user interface is defined. A document to be displayed on the display surface is...

20060181521 - Systems for dynamically illuminating touch sensors: A system for and method of illuminating a contact (or touch) device such as a fingerprint sensor are disclosed. In an exemplary system, a touch sensor system has a surface or contact area and comprises a substantially transparent molding positioned over the contact area and a dynamic illuminator positioned to...

20060181515 - Transaction terminal and adaptor therefor: A transaction terminal (10) having a touch screen (20) disposed in a recess (30) in the terminal housing (12) includes an adaptor (25) for facilitating use of the touch screen by persons that are vision-impaired, hearing-impaired or dexterity-challenged. The adaptor (25) is selectively positionable in operative engagement with the touch...

20060181522 - Electronic apparatus: In an electronic apparatus having a touch panel and pair of vibrating elements for vibrating the touch panel, pair of fixing cushions are fixed on a rear surface of the touch panel along right and left edges of the touch panel. The vibrating elements are fixed to the rear surface...

20060181523 - Touch panel device: A plurality of excitation elements are disposed on two facing sides of a quadrilateral detection range in a non-piezoelectric substrate, and a plurality of receiving elements are disposed on the other two sides of the detection range so as to face the excitation elements respectively. Surface acoustic waves are transmitted...

20060181524 - Touch panel device: Surface acoustic waves are transmitted from a respective plurality of excitation elements to a non-piezoelectric substrate, and the surface acoustic waves propagating in the non-piezoelectric substrate are received by a respective receiving elements, thus a position of an object in contact with the non-piezoelectric substrate is detected based on received...

20060181525 - Force measuring systems for digital pens and other products: Force measuring systems for electronic pens, styli, or other products may include structure for changing a direction or location of application of a force (e.g., a force transmitted via pen or stylus contact with a writing surface) from a first direction or location to a second direction or location. In...

20060181526 - Display driver: A display driver including: a hold circuit; a D/A converter converting display data from the hold circuit; and an output selector receiving a gray scale voltage based on output of the converter into a first input terminal and outputting a drive voltage to a drive voltage output terminal, the hold...

20060181527 - Method and apparatus for specifying and displaying measurements within a 3d rangefinder data set: A method, computer program product, and apparatus for specifying, making, and displaying measurements within a 3D range data set obtained using a 3D rangefinder device. A 3D range data set is provided and represented as a first 2D displayed image and a second displayed image. The second displayed image is...

20060181528 - Multiple effect expression method and apparatus in 3-dimension graphic image: A method and apparatus for synthesizing and expressing multiple effects and textures in a 3-dimensional graph image. The method includes: defining nodes in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), the nodes being used to express multiple effects; inputting VRML files corresponding to the defined nodes, the VRML files having information on...

20060181529 - Apparatus and method of browsing image data based on color temperature, and computer readable medium therefor: An image browsing apparatus capable of calculating color temperature of an image and browsing the image based on the color temperature, and a method of browsing an image are provided. The image browsing apparatus includes a data storage unit for storing a plurality of image data; a color temperature calculator...

20060181531 - Incremental plotting of network topologies and other graphs through use of markup language: Plotting a graph using a markup language comprises receiving a request to generate a display of a graph of nodes connected by links and focused on a first entity; retrieving first graph information describing the first focus entity and first nodes and links to the first entity; creating a first...

20060181530 - Resampling system and method for graphics data including sine-wave components: A method and system for calculating resample output values from input samples and their associated sample values. A resampling circuit calculates a frequency value for a sine-wave model from a sample set of the input samples and determines whether the frequency value is in a frequency range. In the case...

20060181533 - Device dependent rendering: Method and apparatus implementing and using techniques for processing a character for display on a raster output device having a resolution defined by a set of output pixel positions. A stem of the character is aligned to a best sub-pixel boundary. The character is rendered at a resolution higher than...

20060181532 - Method and system for pixel based rendering of multi-lingual characters from a combination of glyphs: The present invention provides a method and system for dynamically rendering multi-lingual characters from a combination of pixels. The system of the present invention comprises, an input member, a database member, a processor and a display member. The user initially selects a language from a plurality of languages and further...

20060181535 - Apparatus for controlling a virtual environment: An apparatus for controlling an interactive virtual environment is disclosed. The apparatus comprises means for defining a virtual environment populated by objects, the objects comprising at least avatars and props, objects within the virtual environment may be dynamically attached to and detached from other objects under user control. A prop...

20060181537 - Cybernetic 3d music visualizer: 3D music visualization process employing a novel method of real-time reconfigurable control of 3D geometry and texture, employing blended control combinations of software oscillators, computer keyboard and mouse, audio spectrum, control recordings and MIDI protocol. The method includes a programmable visual attack, decay, sustain and release (V-ADSR) transfer function applicable...

20060181534 - Generation of motion blur: In a method of generating motion blur in a 3D-graphics system, geometrical information (GI) defining a shape of a graphics primitive (GP) is received (RSS; RTS) from a 3D-application. A displacement vector (SDV; TDV) defining a direction of motion of the graphics primitive (GP) is also received from the 3D-application...

20060181536 - System and method of streaming 3-d wireframe animations: Optimal resilience to errors in packetized streaming 3-D wireframe animation is achieved by partitioning the stream into layers and applying unequal error correction coding to each layer independently to maintain the same overall bitrate. The unequal error protection scheme for each of the layers combined with error concealment at the...

20060181538 - Displaying apparatus and data writing device: The present invention relates to a displaying apparatus communicating with a video source through a DPVL mechanism, comprising a plurality of interface units to receive video signals respectively received from a plurality of video sources supporting the DPVL mechanism; a signal processing unit to process the respective video signals received...

20060181539 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus with a portion of a display substrate area, around a display section, being small, low in power consumption, and capable of effecting high-definition image display. A built-in memory configuration is provided wherein one unit of analogue image signal is generated on the basis of a memory...

20060181540 - Image editor with plug-in capability for editing images in a mobile communication device: A method and system for image editing in a mobile multimedia processor utilizing an image editor with plug-in capabilities. The processing of information may include editing image data within a mobile multimedia chip comprising an integrated image editor utilizing at least one plug-in that interfaces with the image editor. The...

20060181541 - Apparatus and method for creating moving picture: The present invention extracts information related to rendering from structured scenario description 101 that describes information related to objects and the rendering, extracts a rendering setup corresponding to information related to the extracted rendering from rendering knowledge base 109, extracts a moving picture corresponding to the objects described in structured...

20060181542 - Equivalent primary display: A method and system for driving an LED based projector in which each of the LED banks is excited during a single duty cycle of a frame time rather than sequentially. This method powers multiple LED banks at least partially simultaneously producing an equivalent HDTV Primary color and thereby a...

20060181543 - Image display apparatus and image display method: When an image of a certain band in a multiband image obtained by a multiband camera capable of capturing at least two bands is displayed with a computer and at least one pixel is specified on the image, a spectrum computing section estimates a spectrum from the signal value of...

20060181544 - Reference voltage select circuit, reference voltage generation circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A reference voltage select circuit including: a first switch element which outputs a first select voltage of first to third select voltages as a first reference voltage of first and second reference voltages; a second switch element which outputs the second select voltage as the first reference voltage; a third...

20060181545 - Computer based system for selecting digital media frames: A computer based system for selecting digital media frames is capable of predicting the frames that are to be subject to a subsequent action. The subsequent action could be the selection of the predicted frames for inclusion to create a new set of frames consisting of the selected frames; it...

20060181546 - Interactive key frame image mapping system and method: Provided is a computer system and method for providing key frame image mapping. A method includes collecting one or more images of a predetermined area on the map; and organizing the one or more images on the map as a function of a time, location, and/or image history parameter....

20060181547 - Method and system for image editing in a mobile multimedia processor: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for image editing in a mobile multimedia processor and may include editing image data within a mobile multimedia chip comprising an integrated image editor. At least a portion of the image data may be acquired for the...

20060181548 - Methods and apparatus for controlling the display of medical images: A navigation rectangle controls display of medical images in a multi-display system. Multiple thumbnail sized medical images are displayed on a control panel. Each navigation rectangle encompasses one or more thumbnail size medical images on the control panel. In turn, images, corresponding to the thumbnail size medical images encompassed by...

20060181549 - Image data processing using depth image data for realistic scene representation: A method for processing video image data for display during interactive game play is provided. During a game play session, processing of one or more images of the game play session is performed to adjust scene representation of objects at a first distance relative to objects at a second distance....

20060181550 - Image processing apparatus and method: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which, when processing speed is deemed important, as when performing frame-advance playback or a scrolling display, a low-resolution display is presented using an image reduced to a size smaller than the display size. When frame-advance playback or scrolling is halted, a high-resolution image...

20060181551 - Method, computer program product, and apparatus for designating region of interest: A method for designating a region of interest from volume data of a subject. When a user clicks a mouse to specify designation points, a CPU generates a curved surface including the designation points. The CPU executes a hidden surface removal process on the curved surface to generate a plotted...

20060181552 - Image display calibration for ultrasound and other systems: A light sensor is positioned to detect and correct for variations in light output by a flat panel display over time. The calibration occurs automatically, rather than in response to user activation of a calibration routine. The light sensor is positioned fixedly and senses in front of the flat panel...

20060181553 - Image-displaying device and pixel control method therefor: An image-displaying device and a pixel control method therefore are provided. The image-displaying device includes a luminance information extraction unit which is configured to extract luminance information from an image; an image enhancement decision unit which is configured to decide an image enhancement mode based on the extracted luminance information;...

20060176239 - Display management system: Systems and methods for providing personalized information are provided. Based on an identification of a customer and/or a product, the personalized information is produced and wirelessly provided to a display such as a wireless display. A wireless information reader is used to gather the identification and the personalized information and...

20060176240 - Information process apparatus and electronic appliance: An information process apparatus is provided with an interface transmitting and receiving data between a plurality of display devices provided with a display portion of showing information and electronic appliances, a reception unit-receiving a given data from the electronic appliance via the interface, a judgment unit judging an action status...

20060176241 - System and method of transmitting video data: One embodiment comprises a system and method of transmitting video data to an array driver bypassing a processor, e.g., a central processing unit. In one embodiment, the transmitted data that bypasses the processor is targeted for display in a particular region of the display. In one embodiment, the size, location,...

20060176242 - Augmented reality device and method: An augmented reality device to combine a real world view with an object image. An optical combiner combines the object image with a real world view of the object and conveys the combined image to a user. A tracking system tracks one or more objects. At least a part of...

20060176243 - Electronic device with display of continuously adjustable area: An electronic device with a display of a continuously adjustable area. The electronic device includes a frame, a flexible display panel, a detent unit and a recovering unit installed in the frame and connected with the display panel. The frame includes a surface and a window formed on the surface....

20060176244 - Light emitting element and display device: A phosphor element (10) of the present invention includes a pair of electrodes (2, 6) facing each other, and a phosphor layer (4) interposed between the pair of electrodes and including a semi-conductive phosphor fine particle (7) in which at least a part of the surface is covered with a...

20060176245 - Autostereoscopic display: In the autostereoscopic display which provides with the display with non-luminescence area between blue, red, green forms between each pixel and the each pixel, each display parts, the lens sheet where a lot of lenses were displayed, and the diffusion board placed between the above mentioned display and the above...

20060176246 - Display device and drive method thereof: A first group of data drivers is connected to a sub-field processor, a first power recovery circuit, and a PDP, and a second group of data drivers is connected to a sub-field processor, a second power recovery circuit, and a PDP. The first and second groups of data drivers apply...

20060176248 - Flat display panel having internal lower supply circuit for reducing power consumption: A flat display employs at least one high voltage different from logic voltages. The display has a voltage detection unit and a drive control signal control unit. The voltage detection unit is used to detect the high voltage. The drive control signal control unit is used to control drive control...

20060176247 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of sustain electrode pairs; and a sustain waveform driver comprising a filter unit provided at a path for supplying a sustain waveform to at least any one electrode of...

20060176249 - Setting up a pixel in a plasma display: There is provided a method that includes generating a first waveform for a first electrode of a pixel of a plasma display, and generating a second waveform for a second electrode of the pixel. The first waveform includes a first setup waveform and a first sustain waveform, and the second...

20060176251 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of data lines, a transmission gate element connected to the data lines, wherein the transmission gate supplies precharge voltages and data voltages to the data lines in response to transmission gate signals, and a plurality of pixels connected to the data lines. Each of...

20060176250 - Method and system for programming and driving active matrix light emitting devcie pixel: Method and system for programming and driving active matrix light emitting device pixel is provided. The pixel is a voltage programmed pixel circuit, and has a light emitting device, a driving transistor and a storage capacitor. The pixel has a programming cycle having a plurality of operating cycles, and a...

20060176252 - Output circuit for gray scale control, testing apparatus thereof, and method for testing output circuit for gray scale control: An output circuit for gray scale control includes a low-side current mirror unit, a low-side gray scale control circuit, a high-side current mirror unit, a high-side gray scale control circuit, a current increment control circuit and a selective precharge control circuit. A gray scale control circuit for outputting gray scale...

20060176253 - Driving apparatus and driving method of light emitting display panel: A measurement current whose value is lower compared to a light emission drive current If for allowing light emitting elements to emit light for display is supplied to an anode line, and a forward voltage value of the light emitting element of this time is obtained by a sample and...

20060176254 - Display apparatus: In a display apparatus, a printed circuit board has a base substrate, a flip chip, and an adhesive member. The flip chip is mounted onto a first face of the base substrate by the adhesive member between the flip chip and the first face of the base substrate. The first...

20060176255 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of storage electrodes, a plurality of storage electrode lines connected to the storage electrodes,...

20060176257 - Color cholesteric liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method for the same: A color cholesteric liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method for the same are proposed in the present invention. A display device is made via an inkjet process and two ultraviolet exposure processes. The simple inkjet process is used, and an ultraviolet exposure is performed twice to provide a...

20060176258 - Color cholesteric liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method for the same: A color cholesteric liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method for the same are proposed. A color cholesteric liquid crystal display device has a bistable single-layer or stacked structure. The display is made of cholesteric liquid crystal material via an inkjet process and ultraviolet exposure processes that induce a...

20060176259 - Liquid crystal display device and display control method and program for the liquid crystal display device: A display control method in a liquid crystal display device for displaying an image on a liquid crystal panel, comprising: fetching position information of a viewer relative to the liquid crystal panel; calculating a direction of the viewer's viewing the liquid crystal panel by using the position information; computing color...

20060176256 - Liquid crystal on silicon (lcos) display driving system and the method thereof: The present invention relates to a LCOS display driving system. The driving sequential control block generates a control code representing a loading sequence of the R, G, and B data for pixels in one of scan lines. The multiplexer multiplexes the R, G, and B data from latches according the...

20060176260 - Burn-in prevention circuit, projector, liquid crystal display apparatus, and burn-in prevention method: A tone correction LUT 310 reads an offset Vos1 corresponding to a tone level of a digital image signal Vi and outputs the offset Vos1 to an adder-subtracter circuit 320. The adder-subtracter circuit 320 adds the offset Vos1 to the digital image signal Vi according to the polarity of a...

20060176261 - Display device: In a hold-type display device, such as a liquid crystal display device, so-called blurring which appears on a profile of a displayed animated image can be suppressed without degrading the brightness of the image. An image based on video data to be inputted to a display device is displayed for...

20060176263 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a data driver, an inverter, a display panel, and an intercept unit. The data driver provides an image signal and the scan driver generates a control signal corresponding to the image signal. The inverter provides an inverted control signal. The display panel has a PMOS transistor...

20060176262 - Liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display control method, program thereof, and recording medium: When a video signal type detecting section detects an interlace signal, an I/P conversion section subjects the interlace signal to I/P conversion, and the signal is supplied to an enhancing conversion section. In the enhancing conversion section, the image data is subjected to enhancing conversion, so that optical characteristics of...

20060176265 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a plurality of pixels that are arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a first subpixel and a second subpixel, a plurality of first gate lines connected to the first subpixels to transmit gate-on voltages to the first subpixels, a plurality of second gate lines connected...

20060176264 - Gate driver, display device having the same and method of driving the same: A gate driver includes a shift register part and an output control part. The shift register part sequentially shifts a first pulse signal in response to a clock to output a second pulse signal. The output control part converts the second pulse signal based on a first control signal to...

20060176266 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. A sensing array outputs an initial voltage in response to an initial thickness of the liquid crystal layer during an initializing time and a sensing voltage...

20060176267 - Improvements in electro-optic displays: An electro-optic display comprises first and second substrates and a lamination adhesive layer and a layer of an electro-optic material disposed between the first and second substrates, the lamination adhesive layer having a thickness of from about 14 to about 25 μm....

20060176269 - Activation of electronic paint with registration codes: The invention provides a method of activating an electronic paint (50). An electronic-paint registration code on a coded portion (20) of an electronic paint (50) is scanned. A position of an electronic brush (30) relative to the coded portion (20) of the electronic paint (50) is determined based on the...

20060176268 - Device for inputting control signals to a peripheral unit and a combination including such a device: The invention concerns a device for inputting control signals to a peripheral unit. The device is designed to be able to be used in both a first and a second working position. In the first working position it is worn on a first hand of a user. It comprises at...

20060176273 - Ergonomic mouse: An ergonomic input controller includes a pedestal that is in contact with a work surface, such as a desk or an equipment operation panel. A stem is attached atop the pedestal and a grip body is rotatably attached atop the stem at an input housing. An input detector is incorporated...

20060176271 - Interface for consistent program interaction with auxiliary computing devices: Described is a system and method including an auxiliary display platform having an interface (API) set that provides a way for client applications running on a main computer system to interact with various types of auxiliary displays, irrespective of differences between various device implementations. Interaction includes displaying content and notifications...

20060176272 - Method and apparatus for controlling human-computer interface systems providing force feedback: A method and apparatus for controlling and providing force feedback using an interface device manipulated by a user. A microprocessor is provided local to the interface device and reads sensor data from sensors that describes the position and/or other information about an object grasped and moved by the user, such...

20060176270 - One dimensional and three dimensional extensions of the slide pad: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing three-dimensional motion inputs to a device includes measuring characteristics (e.g., capacitances) between sense electrodes and a reference electrode on a movable pad, determining three-dimensional displacements of the movable pad from the capacitances, determining the three-dimensional motion inputs from the three-dimensional...

20060176274 - Photographic type pointer positioning device: A photographic type pointer positioning control device (200)for controlling the positioning of a pointer on a display (100)screen by means of photographing the display screen (100)with a video camera (230)and then processing the video signal thus obtained through an image out-line and recognition processing process and then computing the processed...

20060176276 - Computer mouse assembly: A computer mouse assembly is provided with a fastening and releasing mechanism for battery compartment cover arranged on the computer mouse assembly. The computer mouse assembly includes a seat, a middle seat cover connected to a top of the seat and defining a battery compartment for receiving at least one...

20060176277 - Flat and collapsible mouse: A mouse (1) suitable for use as a computer input device that is collapsible between a flat configuration in which the mouse (1) is generally planar, and an optional popped configuration in which the mouse (1) has increased volume and forms a generally curved ergonomic profile, where said mouse (1)...

20060176275 - Input unit for computer or the like: An input peripheral (1) for a computer or the like, includes a movable portion handled by the operator and fitted with electrical sensors suitable for generating electrical signals for sending to the computer in response to movements imparted to the movable portion by the operator, wherein the movable portion includes...

20060176278 - Method and system for display orientation: A system (10 or 80) for orienting a display image and mapping key functions includes a sensor portion (86) for sensing at least one characteristic of an object and a processor (84). The processor can be programmed to determine an orientation and orient a display image including a soft key...

20060176283 - Finger activated reduced keyboard and a method for performing text input: A reduced keyboard apparatus and method for use with small-sized communications and computing devices. Input via the keyboard is performed using fingers or thumbs The keyboard is characterized by having no discrete boundaries between the included character spaces. The direction and the destination area of a keystroke do not have...

20060176279 - Handheld electronic device having keyboard that provides two-dimensional navigation, and associated method: A method of enabling navigation on a display of a handheld electronic device. The display has an X-Y coordinate system for identifying particular locations thereon. In addition, the handheld electronic device has a keyboard having a first plurality of keys, each of which has an assigned first X coordinate and...

20060176280 - Handheld electronic device providing feedback to facilitate navigation and the entry of information, and associated method: A method of facilitating the input of information in a handheld electronic device having a plurality of input elements such as, without limitation, keys. The method includes receiving a signal indicating that a particular one of the input elements is being touched in a first manner, providing a feedback signal,...

20060176281 - Keyboard with built in display for personal area network establishment and inter-operation: A method and apparatus are provided for creating a personal area network with a wireless keyboard, comprising generating a text message on a keyboard integrated display to prompt a user to enter a password, determining all available personal area network devices and displaying a subset of the available personal area...

20060176282 - Keyboards for handheld electronic devices: Keyboards for handheld electronic device are provided. A keyboard for a handheld electronic device includes a main body, a plurality of function keys, and a plurality of alphabetical keys. The function keys and the alphabetical keys are disposed on the main body The alphabetical keys are disposed in a matrix...

20060176285 - Touch sensing display panel: A display panel includes a first pixel occupying a first pixel area and a second pixel occupying a second pixel area that is disposed adjacent to the first pixel area. A sensing element disposed in the first pixel area generates an output signal in response to a touch exerted on...

20060176284 - Universal x,y-axis positioning input method: A universal x, y-axis positioning input method used for electronic devices having number keys, direction keys and a display screen integrates the characters and/or function keys into several character options to define a menu of columns in at least two rows displayed on the screen, and the menu can be...

20060176288 - Electronic pen holding: Motion of a writing instrument is tracked from sensors located in the vicinity. The signals generated from the sensors are processed and used in a wide variety of ways....

20060176287 - Light sources for digital pen: Motion of a writing instrument is tracked from sensors located in the vicinity. The signals generated from the sensors are processed and used in a wide variety of ways....

20060176286 - Touch pad stylus with roller ball: A stylus useful for direct contact with an electronic touch pad has an elongate body and a dry, inkless ball disposed at the tip end of the body. The ball is attached within the elongate body, such that it is rotatable in all directions when the ball is placed in...

20060176289 - Advertisement comprehension in mobile media: The present invention enhances comprehension of advertising messages on GPS computer controlled mobile signs by the implementation of an algorithm that accounts for the relative speed of the viewer, the orientation of the mobile sign relative to the direction of travel, the estimated reading speed of the viewer and the...

20060176290 - Display device featuring a reduced amount of time for detecting video input signals: A display device includes a plurality of video input interfaces and a display controller. The display controller is operable for determining whether a specified video input interface included by the plurality of video input interfaces is coupled to a video source. This is accomplished while scanning the plurality of video...

20060176291 - Display device with divided display regions: A display device having gate signal lines, a scanning signal driving circuit which supplies scanning signals to respective gate signal lines, drain signal lines, and a video signal driving circuit which supplies video signals to respective drain signal lines formed on one surface of an insulating substrate. The display device...

20060176292 - Voltage feedback controlled circuit and method for organic electroluminescent panel: A voltage feedback controlled circuit for an organic electroluminescent panel comprises at least one power supply and a voltage feedback detecting controlling circuit. In this case, the voltage feedback detecting controlling circuit connects with the organic electroluminescent panel and the power supply. The voltage feedback detecting controlling circuit detects at...

20060176293 - Computer switching device, computer switching method therefor, program thereof and computer system thereof: The present invention provides a computer switching device that can easily monitor a plurality of computers for errors. A keyboard connection switch distributes the input operation information of keyboard over the plurality of computers in accordance with an instruction of a switching control device. A mouse connection switch distributes the...

20060176295 - 3-dimensional graphics data display device: This system comprises a three-dimensional graphics data retaining means 3 that retains three-dimensional graphics data 2; a three-dimensional display parameter retaining means 5 that retains a set of display parameters 4 for displaying the aforementioned three-dimensional graphics data 2; a rendering processing means 7 that performs a rendering processing based...

20060176297 - Apparatus and method for triangulating 3d image and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for controlling the apparatus: Provided are an apparatus and method for triangulating a three-dimensional (3D) image, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for controlling the apparatus. The apparatus includes: a surface expression unit expressing the surface of the 3D image as triangles without holes; and an information output unit outputting a...

20060176294 - Cursor for electronic devices: The present invention describes a method, electronic device and computer program for displaying a cursor on the display of an electronic device. The size of the display is typically so small that only part of a virtual view is displayed at one time on the display. The user of the...

20060176298 - Systems and methods for characterizing protein structures: In one embodiment, a system or method involves accessing a database having a macromolecular structure of a protein, the molecular structure being represented as a set of spheres, retrieving the molecular structure of the protein from the database, and mathematically computing a Euclidean Voronoi diagram representing atoms of the protein...

20060176296 - Systems and methods for rendering three-dimensional graphics in a multi-node rendering system: A system is provided for rendering three-dimensional graphics. An embodiment of the system comprises a host capable of executing an application program that calls for the rendering of at least three-dimensional graphics in an application window, and logic associated with the host for apportioning content defining a three-dimensional graphics window...

20060176299 - Robust hidden data extraction method for scaling attacks: A product and process for extracting hidden data from a stego-image that has been subjected to scaling attacks are disclosed. The hidden data extraction method of the present invention retains the one-to-one mapping of the stego-image blocks to the corresponding blocks in the scaled image. When the stego-image is scaled...

20060176300 - Triangle management in triangular meshes based on a tri-edge structure: Improved triangle management in triangular meshes uses a data structure having two fields to store data for each triangle in the triangular mesh. The first field is a set of three vertices for the triangle and the second field is a set of three edges, each edge corresponding to one...

20060176301 - Apparatus and method of creating 3d shape and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program for executing the method: An apparatus and a method of creating a three-dimensional (3D) shape, and a computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method. The apparatus includes: a factor value setting unit setting factor values including a weight, a mapping factor, and a focal distance, for each of a plurality...

20060176304 - Method and apparatus for rapid shading in a raster image processor: Methods of mapping the shading dictionary parameters provided by a postscript language interpreter into device space coordinates and performing shading in the device space is disclosed. For radial shading, the shading transformation matrix representing the coordinate conversion from the shading space to device space is embedded within the shading mechanism...

20060176303 - Systems and methods for the real-time and realistic simulation of natural atmospheric lighting phenomenon: Systems and methods are provided for visually realistic simulation and real-time rendering of natural atmospheric lighting and related phenomena in an outdoor scene represented by an image provided by a simulation environment. The systems and methods of the present invention provide techniques to approximate the visual effects of natural atmospheric...

20060176302 - Visible surface determination system & methodology in computer graphics using interval analysis: A system (40) is provided for visible surface determination in furtherance of photorealistic rendering in a computer graphics environment. The system includes a scene database (42) and a processor, visual characteristics of objects of an image frame (44) of a scene of the scene database (42) are delimited as geometric...

20060176305 - System and method for managing communication and/or storage of image data: A system and method are disclosed, that may include establishing communication between a first computer and a second computer over a communication link, the second computer having an image collection stored therein in the form of compressed image data; selecting a plurality of images in the collection for communication to...

20060176306 - Graph extraction labelling and visualization: A technique is provided for modeling a network relationship via providing a graphical representation of the network relationship and labeling the graphical representation based on a symbol sequence. Further, one or more tools is provided by the present technique for interactively visualizing and/or analyzing the graphical representation of the network...

20060176307 - Apparatus and method for turning of pages in a digitised virtual document: An apparatus and a method for displaying a digitised document to an audience. A memory (20) is provided for storing of at least one digitised document in a computer readable file format, wherein a processing unit (10) is adapted to retrieve documents and process it into a near-identical document replica....

20060176308 - Multidimensional datapath processing in a video processor: A multidimensional datapath processing system for a video processor for executing video processing operations. The video processor includes a scalar execution unit configured to execute scalar video processing operations and a vector execution unit configured to execute vector video processing operations. A data store memory is included for storing data...

20060176309 - Video processor having scalar and vector components: A video processor for executing video processing operations. The video processor includes a host interface for implementing communication between the video processor and a host CPU. A memory interface is included for implementing communication between the video processor and a frame buffer memory. A scalar execution unit is coupled to...

20060176310 - Method and apparatus for de-indexing geometry: A pixel shader is operated to perform a first texture lookup in an index buffer to obtain a vertex index value for a geometric primitive to be displayed. The pixel shader is also operated to perform a second texture lookup in a vertex buffer to obtain vertex data, wherein the...

20060176311 - Image display device and image display method: A projector capable of performing color adjustment through a display mode which reduces the occurrence of color contrast phenomena. A main microcontroller (70), which determines a boundary position for dividing the display into a first area and a second area, and a switch control unit (56) switch the output of...

20060176312 - Reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing picture data: A reproducing apparatus includes a graphics processing unit that outputs graphics data of an RGB color space, a video decoder that outputs video data of a YUV color space, a conversion unit that converts a color space of the graphics data from the RGB color space to the YUV color...

20060176313 - Luminance preserving color conversion from yuv to rgb: This invention presents a YUV to RGB conversion method which preserves high precision of luminance information in an original YUV image signal when converting it to RGB signal. The method can be used to convert the original YUV signal to arbitrary quantization levels in RGB space. In addition, this invention...

20060176314 - Image input unit and image input method: The invention is characterized by the fact that an area sensor for outputting an analog signal responsive to the light reception amount of light of CMYG is used and when CMYG image data is converted into RGB image data, RGB image data having a domain also in negative values is...

20060176315 - Method and apparatus for expanding a source pixel in a digital image: An apparatus for expanding a source pixel in a digital image includes an edge direction detector detecting edge direction in the vicinity of the source pixel. An interpolator interpolates multiple sets of pixels in a region surrounding the source pixel in the detected edge direction to generate a set of...

20060176316 - Drawing processing apparatus and method for compressing drawing data: A drawing processing apparatus is provided to solve the problems in which pixels of a drawing primitive with sub-pixel information may have an increased amount of data causing a burden on implementation. A setup processing unit sets up various parameters to allow a digital differential analyzer (DDA) to process the...

20060176319 - Image editing method and image editing apparatus: An image editing method comprises storing original images, storing alpha masks corresponding to the original images, respectively, superposing in turn object images that are extracted from the original images by the alpha masks, to display a composite image on a first display region of a display screen, modifying selectively the...

20060176317 - Information processing apparatus for setting background image, information display device and program: An information processing apparatus for controlling a display unit for displaying information together with a background image, comprising a display control unit for allowing the display unit to display an image and a setting unit for setting a background image on the basis of the image when a predetermined operation...

20060176318 - Method for manipulating artwork to form decorative pieces: A method of forming decorative pieces includes copying a portion of a digitized image of a piece of artwork to form a first image, duplicating the first image to form a second image, and transferring the first and second images to a target object. Preferably, the first and second images...

20060176321 - Endoscope apparatus: An endoscope apparatus captures a subject, samples data at predetermined pixel spacing as an original image, and specifies a feature point in an original image, thereby performing a measurement. When a measurement point is specified in an enlarged image in an enlarged image generating process on the original image obtained...

20060176320 - Method for video processing and scalar using the same: A method for video processing which provides a scaled image using two different clock frequencies is provided. The method receives source pixel data using a first clock signal and scales the source pixel data to destination pixel data. After that, the destination pixel data is provided using a second clock...

20060176322 - Driving apparatus of display device: An apparatus for driving a display device having a plurality of pixels includes a signal controller for selecting one data from a plurality of image data based on input image data, converting the selected data into output image data and outputting the output image data, and a data driver for...

20060176323 - Optical system and method for increasing image resolution and/or dithering in projection applications: An optical system for projecting an image having x and y axes onto a image plane is provided. The system includes an SLM device spaced from the image plane, the SLM device having a plurality of pixels operable to project pixels of the image onto the image plane and positioned...

20060176324 - Display system having demand-based resolution and method therefor: A display system, method and apparatus having a demand-based resolution for displaying an image having a resolution greater than a predetermined resolution, in which a user computer has display hardware capable of generating a display signal. The display signal is of one of a low resolution display signal and a...

20060170613 - Auxiliary display unit for a computer system: A host computer is provided with a main display unit and an auxiliary display unit. The host computer can free up screen space on the main display screen by routing certain types of display information to the auxiliary display unit for display. Display information can range from notification of events...

20060170614 - Large-scale display device: A large-scale display device has a plurality of display units, a plurality of screens and a plurality of adhesive bands. The plurality of display units is arranged in a matrix, and Frensnel lens screen(s) and diffuser screen(s) are correspondingly overlaid on the display units. The adhesive bands are used to...

20060170615 - Pen type virtual display: The invention relates to a display module, a portable device comprising a display module, and a method of displaying graphical information. A virtual image is generated using a micro-display, imaging optics and a diffractive beam expander. The virtual image is observable through the exit aperture of the diffractive beam expander....

20060170616 - 3d image reproduction apparatus: A 3D image reproduction apparatus including a display and an optical system is described. The display includes a screen on which a plurality of pixels are arranged to display synthesis parallax images in units of arrayed sub regions. Each of the pixels includes three sub pixels that differ in color,...

20060170617 - System and method for imaging enhancement via calculation of a customized optimal pupil field and illumination mode: A system and method for patterning a beam of radiation based on a pupil field distribution. In an embodiment, the distribution of the field in an area of the pupil plane affecting an image and an illumination mode are selected so as to render an image with desired characteristics. Additionally...

20060170618 - Driving method and driving circuit of plasma display panel: A driving method and a driving circuit of a plasma display panel are provided. The driving circuit comprises a calculating unit, a gain unit, and a control unit, wherein the calculating unit is used for receiving an image signal to output a first display loading corresponding to the image signal....

20060170619 - Display unit and display method: The combination patterns of emissions and non-emissions from the n-th sub-field to the m-th sub-field (where m and n are integers smaller than the total number of sub-fields, and m is greater than n) for a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel that are...

20060170620 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Embodiments of the present invention may relate to a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof, to reduce the magnitude of noise. The driving method may include applying a ramp-down waveform decreasing to a first voltage to a plurality of scan electrodes, applying a ramp-up waveform increasing from the...

20060170621 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A plasma display device includes a first electrode from which sustain discharge occurs; a second electrode from which sustain discharge occur to the first electrode, a distance from the second electrode to the first electrode continuously varying in one discharge space; and a driving circuit which generates a sustain discharge...

20060170624 - Active matrix type display device, active matrix type organic electroluminescent display device, and methods of driving such display devices: When a current-writing type pixel circuit is made, it involves a greater number of transistors and TFTs occupy much of the area of the pixel circuit. To alleviate this problem, two pixel circuits (P1, P2) have a first scanning TFT (14), a current-voltage conversion TFT (16), respective second scanning TFTs...

20060170626 - Current-driven data driver ic with decreased number of transistors: A current-driven data driver IC includes a bias voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of bias voltages, a decoder configured to select one of the plurality of bias voltages based on a video data signal, and a digital-to-analog converter configured to receive the selected bias voltage and to responsively...

20060170629 - Display driver circuit, current sample/hold circuit and display driving method using the display driver circuit: A display driver circuit may include, a shift register configured to shift a first clock signal to generate at least one second clock signal, a digital-to-analog conversion unit configured to convert digital gray-scale data to an analog gray-scale signal, a first sample/hold output circuit configured to sample/hold the analog gray-scale...

20060170622 - Driving method of display device: A driving method of a display device for performing time-division gray scale display is disclosed, which is capable of inputting accurate data into a panel by using one memory. M groups each having a pair of a first period and a second period are provided in one frame period. Video...

20060170623 - Feedback based apparatus, systems and methods for controlling emissive pixels using pulse width modulation and voltage modulation techniques: The present invention provides techniques for emissive pixels of flat panel displays. Specifically, pixel feedback and a combination of voltage modulation and pulse width modulation are used to improve the quality and consistency of aging pixels. Based on feedback, an image frame is divided into sub-frames of various time periods....

20060170627 - Method and apparatus for taking a reading of a sensor coupled to a light emitting element of a flat panel display: The present invention discloses an OLED display having a first row of light emitting diodes and a second row of light emitting diodes. A first sensor circuit is coupled to a light emitting diode of the first linear array for detecting an output of the light emitting diode of the...

20060170625 - Organic electroluminescent display device and method of driving the same: An organic electroluminescent display device and a method of driving the same, which can prevent a voltage drop and ensure a simple layout, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the organic electroluminescent display device includes: i) a display unit including a plurality of pixel circuits, ii) a data driver providing a...

20060170628 - Pixel circuit, display and driving method thereof: The invention provides a pixel circuit that can cancel the influence of the mobility of a drive transistor. A drive transistor supplies to a light-emitting element, an output current dependent upon an input voltage during a certain emission period. The light-emitting element emits light with a luminance dependent upon a...

20060170630 - Plasma display panel (pdp) and method of driving pdp: A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) has an opposed discharge structure to reduce its discharge firing voltage and to enhance its luminescence efficiency. The PDP includes: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged to face each other with a space therebetween, the space between the first substrate and the second...

20060170631 - Drive device and drive method of a light emitting display panel: Provided is a drive device and a drive method of a light emitting display panel in which shadowing generated due to the lighting ratio of light emitting elements and a dimmer setting condition can be reduced to a level at which there is no problem for practical use. An analog...

20060170632 - Drive method and device for light-emitting display panel: There is provided a drive method and device for a light-emitting display panel which can reduce shadowing caused by an ON rate of light-emitting elements and a condition of dimmer setting to a level at which a problem is not posed. An analog video signal is supplied to a drive...

20060170633 - Reflective display device: A reflective display device includes a retroreflective layer including a plurality of unit structures that are arranged two-dimensionally on a virtual plane and a modulating layer, which is arranged closer to a viewer than the retroreflective layer is and which is switchable between a first state and a second state...

20060170636 - Display and method of driving pixel: In a pixel circuit formed by using a MOS process, a constant current is applied from a second transistor (T2) as a constant current source to an organic EL device coupled to a third transistor (T3) so that the organic EL device emits light, during the period when the third...

20060170635 - Display device, driving method thereof and electronic appliance: A display device with high productivity and high display quality and a driving method thereof are provided by suppressing generation of a luminescent spot. A first switching element and a second switching element each of which has a different polarity are disposed in series between a power source line for...

20060170634 - Top-emitting organic light emitting device: A top-emitting organic light emitting device having an improved pixel electrode layout for decreasing photo-leakage of a thin film transistor and enhancing an aperture ratio is provided. In the top-emitting organic light emitting device, the pixel electrode is designed to have the maximum size allowed by a layout design rule....

20060170637 - Lcd panel and lcd device: An LCD (liquid crystal display) panel is electrically connected to a control circuit board, which at least outputs a common voltage. The LCD panel includes a transistor substrate having at least one metal trace, a color filter plate having a common electrode layer and facing to the transistor substrate, a...

20060170639 - Display control circuit, display control method, and liquid crystal display device: A display control circuit includes a vertical timing control circuit that generates first and second start signals, a panel driving unit that sequentially drives OCB liquid crystal pixels in units of one row under the control of the first start signal to hold pixel voltages for gradation display in the...

20060170641 - Driving apparatus for liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display including the same: A driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display, including a signal line transmitting a gate voltage, a gate voltage generator generating the gate voltage, a switching unit disposed between the gate voltage generator and a gate voltage line, and a signal controller generating a control signal for control of the...

20060170640 - Liquid crystal display with feedback circuit part: In a liquid crystal display device having a feedback circuit part, the feedback circuit part prevents black points and blinking pixels from being generated on a liquid crystal display panel by compensating ripple voltages generated from a common electrode of a common substrate. The feedback circuit part comprises a negative...

20060170642 - Method and circuit for driving liquid crystal display: A driving method of an LCD panel having a plurality of display groups comprising a plurality of display cells and respectively coupled to a data electrode and a gate electrode. The display cells of the display group are coupled to the data electrode and the gate electrode connected to the...

20060170638 - Video driver with integrated sample-and-hold amplifier and column buffer: A video driver includes an input stage (320, 322, 324) adapted to receive a video input signal (aMP-iN), an output stage (330, 332, 334) adapted to provide a video output signal (aMP-oUT) to charge a capacitor, a feedback path (330, 322) between the output stage and the input stage adapted...

20060170643 - Bidirectional shift register: A bidirectional shift register includes multi-stages of shift register unit circuits that transmit a start pulse in a direction indicated by a logical level of a transmission direction control signal. Each of the shift register unit circuits has a first transfer gate that transmits the start pulse in synchronization with...

20060170645 - Active matrix display with a scanning backlight: The invention relates to an active matrix display system and a method of operating such a system. The system comprises an active matrix display panel and a scanning backlight including several light members (3a-e) each of which illuminates a pixel line or a sector of pixel lines, in a fully...

20060170646 - Drive device of display panel: The present invention relates to a drive device of display panel, which integrates the drive circuit of the display panel and the drive circuit of the backlight module to enable the image-display timing of the display panel to mate the light-dark timing of the luminance variation cycle of the backlight...

20060170644 - Image display unit: The invention is intended to change the viewing angle in accordance with a viewer's intention. Disposed between a light source (810) and a liquid crystal display panel (804), a Fresnel lens (812) converts light coming from the light source (810) to approximately parallel light and allows plural images to be...

20060170647 - Electrophoretic display unit: Electophoretic display units (1) are driven with a relatively low amount of power and more efficiently by addressing the pixels (11) only once during a sequence of frame periods. Compared to addressing a pixel (11) each frame period, for signals having a duration of more than one frame period, a...

20060170648 - Electrophoretic or bi-stable display device and driving method therefor: A drive circuit for a bi-stable display comprises: a driver (101, 102) which supplies drive waveforms (DWk) to the pixels (Pij) of the display during an image update period (IUk) wherein the image presented by the pixels (Pij) is updated. A controller (103) controls the driver (101, 102) to supply,...

20060170649 - Input device, information terminal device, and mode switching method: A display portion 3 and a camera portion 4 are disposed in a main body 1. A housing of the main body 1 is made of an non-electroconductive material. One side surface of the main body 1 is an information input surface 5 of an input apparatus. Disposed in the...

20060170650 - Method and system for gestural control of an apparatus: In order to control an apparatus (40), in particular provided with an image display associated with a display screen (41), this control system comprises a control device (1) carried by the user and including means for measuring his movements following at least a first axis (Z), and means for transmitting...

20060170651 - Portable information terminal: In a portable information terminal enabling faster entry of frequently used symbols and pictograms, the control unit determines whether the pressing of the “*” key is recognized by the entry unit. If recognized, it is determined whether the mark list display setting is ON. If ON, it is determined whether...

20060170652 - System, image processing apparatus, and information processing method: An image (200) displayed on a display device (23a, 23b) includes a mixed reality space viewed from an operator, i.e., a physical object (42), virtual object (43), stylus (41a), and pointer (41d)....

20060170653 - Pointing device with switch: A system for controlling location of a pointing icon in a graphic user interface on a display, comprises: a movable element; means to detect the motion of the element; a controller responsive to the motion of the element to change the location of the pointing icon in the graphic user...

20060170654 - No tilt joystick with ccd sensing: A manually-operated control for generating a vector signal comprises first and second plates arranged in substantially parallel planes and being movable relative to each other in two directions while remaining substantially parallel. A non-tilt handle connected to one of the plates causes the relative movement of the plates. A CCD...

20060170655 - Ergonomic mouse: An ergonomic mouse has a sliding cap matching the curvature of a normal human palm. The sliding cap may be slid on the top of a hollow body to reach a desired operation position, then fine-tuned and anchored. Thus when the mouse is moved during operation, it can absorb reaction...

20060170656 - Mobile station with satellite antenna: A mobile station comprises a substrate having circuitry adapted to perform communication functions. The mobile station also comprises a keypad adapted to receive input from a user to control the mobile station, wherein at least one key of the keypad is operably coupled to the substrate. The mobile station also...

20060170657 - Form factor and input method for language input: An input method and apparatus is provided for use in various computer and mobile devices. The input device utilizes a rotating dial in which four arrows printed on the dial are rotated to select characters that are fixed along the circumference of a circle. The characters are divided into various...

20060170658 - Display device including function to input information from screen by light: In order to enhance accuracy of determination as to whether an object has contacted a screen and to enhance accuracy of calculation of a coordinate position of the object, edges of an imaged image are detected by an edge detection circuit 76, and by using the edges, it is determined...

20060170659 - Pressure sensitive conductive sheet, method of manufacturing the same, and touch panel using the same: A pressure sensitive conductive sheet is provided by having a plurality of ferromagnetic conductive particles dispersed in a transparent elastic member joined together and linearly aligned with the thickness direction thereby forming a linear aggregate and then having the linear aggregate segmented into a plurality conductive elements, held linearly aligned...

20060170660 - Touch input device: A touch input device for use with a display that shows a plurality of items. The touch input device is operated by a user to select an item shown on the display. The touch input device includes a sensor having an operation plane for touching by the user with a...

20060170663 - Analog/digital recording and playback device, and display device: An analog/digital recording and playback device and display device which reduce influences of noise between a digital circuit block and analog circuit block to the lowest possible level are provided. A main substrate constituting an analog circuit block which controls an analog signal received from analog broadcasting and an IP...

20060170666 - Digital video screen device: Device for a digital video screen comprising one or more printed circuit substrates on which are mounted one or more integrated circuits covered by a one-piece display surface. The display surface is covered by one or more luminous substances that are excited by the integrated circuits placed underneath. A video...

20060170664 - Electrochromic display: An electrochromic display is disclosed which comprises an array-side substrate (10) in which a pixel electrode (15) and an electrochromic layer (30) are formed, a color filter-side substrate (50) in which a counter electrode (53) and an electrochromic layer (54) are formed, and an electrolytic layer (80) injected between the...

20060170665 - Electrochromic display: An electrochromic display is disclosed which comprises an array side substrate (10) on which a pixel electrode (15) and an electrochromic layer (30) are formed, a color filter side substrate (50) on which a counter electrode (53) and an electrochromic layer (54) are formed, and an electrolytic layer (80) injected...

20060170662 - Image pickup device: When a saturation flag of HDR-RAW data accumulated in a BRAM data accumulating section 19 is “1” and a saturation flag of HDR-RAW data accumulated in an input data accumulating section 18 is “0,” i.e., when a pixel being in a saturated state no longer attains the saturated state, the...

20060170661 - Updating embedded firmware in a video system: An electronic device (18). The device comprises an analog (16) interface for receiving an analog waveform. The device also comprises an image screen (20) and circuitry (42) for at times displaying an image on the image screen in response to at least a portion of the analog waveform. The device...

20060170667 - Electrophoretic display with reduced power consumption: This invention relates to an electrophoretic display panel, comprising:—a plurality of pixels, each containing an amount of an electrophoretic material comprising charged particles,—a first and a second electrode associated with each pixel for receiving a potential difference as defined by an update drive waveform; and—drive means, for controlling said update...

20060170668 - Monitor circuit board: A circuit board in a monitor containing a switch unit to control the size of the amperage outputted to drive the corresponding monitor for the circuit board to adjust its outputted amperage by means of the switch unit depending on the size of the monitor to be adapted to....

20060170671 - Cad data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus: The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 for searching the reference CAD data in the reference...

20060170669 - Digital picture frame and method for editing: The invention provides a digital picture frame that allows a user to edit a displayed picture using simple and intuitive controls. Modifications to an image may be stored by the digital picture frame so that the digital picture frame may later display the edited or modified version of the picture...

20060170670 - Interactive electronic dispaly, methods and apparatus for targeted propagation of sign content, systems for capturing and sending photographs and video, as a means of integrated customer service, information capture and marketing: The present invention provides an apparatus and methods for a photo-interactive consumer service and marketing system. The system apparatus consists of a network of terminals back-ended by a central server. The onsite terminal consists of an interactive electronic display featuring a lighting display compartment and a electronics compartment for user...

20060170675 - Method and apparatus for rendering 3d graphics data: A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphics data. The method includes analyzing a characteristic of input 3D graphics data, reconstructing a rendering function based on the analyzed characteristic, and rendering the input 3D graphics data using the reconstructed rendering function. The characteristic of 3D graphics data to be rendered...

20060170673 - Method and system for hapto-visual scene development and deployment: A method of creating a system for haptically and graphically rendering one or more scenes. The method includes generating one or more haptic targets for haptically rendering the scene as a virtual scene. The scene is haptically rendered as the virtual scene. The method also includes providing one or more...

20060170674 - Photographing apparatus and three-dimensional image generating apparatus: This specification discloses a three-dimensional image pickup and display apparatus having a radiation source for applying a radioactive ray to an object, a photographing unit for photographing the transmission image of the object, and a control unit for setting three-dimensional display parameters for observing a three-dimensional image which conforms to...

20060170672 - System for acquiring profile information from three-dimensional profile data, its method and computer software program: In order to circumvent the problems above, the present invention aims to expand the scope of the usage of the information included in three-dimensional shape data by acquiring the shape information included in the three-dimensional shape data automatically on a shape element basis and setting linkages across the acquired information....

20060170676 - Representing a 3d object with a pde surface patch: A set of control curves P1, P2, D1, D2 act as boundary conditions to a partial differential equation (PDE) which when solved provides a PDE surface patch of a 3D object. Also, a spine S is provided which allows coordinated manipulation of the control curves. The spine S is ideally...

20060170677 - Method and apparatus for generating morphing sequence: A method of generating a morphing sequence utilising a computer, the method comprising the step of user-defining respective components in a source object and a target object respectively, wherein each component comprises a plurality of local features of respective source and target meshes representing the source and target objects, and...

20060170678 - Method, apparatus, and medium for transforming graphic data of an object: A method, apparatus, and medium for transforming a graphic data of an object and a computer readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. The method includes; determining at least one triangle to be collapsed among one or more triangles comprised in the object, determining a...

20060170679 - Representing a volume of interest as boolean combinations of multiple simple contour sets: An apparatus and method of representing a volume of interest as Boolean combinations of multiple simple contour sets....

20060170681 - Graphic processing apparatus and method: A normal vector mapping unit maps a texture of the MIP-map level corresponding to a level of detail (LOD) of a polygon onto a polygon surface to generate a pseudo-normal vector on the polygon surface. A normal vector replacing unit refers to the vector quantization (VQ) table of the relevant...

20060170680 - Preshaders: optimization of gpu programs: A shader program capable of execution on a GPU is analyzed for constant expressions. These constant expressions are replaced with references to registers or memory addresses on the GPU. A preshader is created that comprises two executable files. The first executable file contains the shader program with the each constant...

20060170682 - Caching for volume visualization: A system for visualizing a 3D volume, represented by a 3D data set stored in a memory (890) as contiguous 2D slices with successive depths. A memory cache 895 provides faster access to part of the data set. A processor 860 creates a 2D representation of the volume by casting...

20060170684 - Font cache and meta-fonts: Methods and systems for managing the access and display of characters from one or more fonts may include initializing a storage space (e.g., a font cache) in a computer memory. The storage space may store information for select characters from the one or more fonts, allowing easy access by a...

20060170683 - Ink input region adjustments: Aspects of the present invention relate to the creation of an ink font. Based on characteristics of handwritten characters, the collection of characters may be scaled so as to adjust the size of the font to match predefined size values or relationships....

20060170685 - System and method for using device dependent fonts in a graphical display interface: An improved system and method for using a device-dependent font in a graphical display interface is provided. A font resource may be included among components provided for executable software code such as an application to display and edit text using a device-dependent font without having to install the device driver...

20060170686 - Technique for storing and displaying computer text: A technique for storing displayable computer text comprises a number of steps. Initially, each of a plurality of language characters is assigned to an appropriate sized stick frame, which includes a plurality of vertical and horizontal segments, in order to provide a different graphical representation for each of the language...

20060170687 - Electronic device and its operation explanation display method: Disclosed is an electronic device/apparatus capable of displaying an animation that varies with internal settings and minimizing the amount of memory use for handling information for animation generation. When a shutter button (12) is pressed in a help display mode, flash ON/OFF setup information (52) stored in an EEPROM (25)...

20060170688 - Time-dependent animation of a 3d object: A plurality of control curves P1, P2, d1, d2 are provided as boundary conditions to a partial differential equation. At least one of the boundary conditions is defined as a function of time t. Solving the partial differential equation with respect to the time-variant boundary conditions provides a surface patch...

20060170689 - Image display system: An image display system delivers image data to multiple separate displays without expensive duplication of image processing hardware. The image display system may be used in a vehicle to distribute many types of information to different individuals in the vehicle. The image display system may deliver navigational information to a...

20060170690 - Method and apparatus for rasterizer interpolation: The present invention relates to a rasterizer interpolator. In one embodiment, a setup unit is used to distribute graphics primitive instructions to multiple parallel rasterizers. To increase efficiency, the setup unit calculates the polygon data and checks it against one or more tiles prior to distribution. An output screen is...

20060170691 - Apparatus and method for frame buffer control: The present invention provides a display control system, which comprises a display for showing a whole frame composed by a plurality of divided frames and a control apparatus controls said plurality of divided frames to said display. In this regards, the control apparatus further comprises a frame buffer composed by...

20060170692 - Moving image composition device, moving image composition method, and information terminal with moving image composition function: One of a plurality of items of control-data-for-synthesis (G2C) is read from a storage (3) at a timing based on a moving-image control signal (G1C), an image-data-for-synthesis (G2G) associated with the read control-data-for-synthesis (G2C) is read from the storage (3) in accordance with the read control-data-for-synthesis (G2C), and processing to...

20060170693 - System and method for processig map data: A system and method is provided for assembling graphics information as a graphics display for presentation on a visual interface, the graphics information including a plurality of image tiles stored in a data store. The system and method comprise a management module for receiving a graphics request message and for...

20060170694 - Patterned polygon rendering apparatus: A patterned polygon rendering apparatus has an edge dot attribute setting section 1 that assigns an attribute dot, which indicates an edge of a polygon, to respective dots located in an edge line of the polygon and stores the assigned attribute dots in work memory 2 on a per-dot basis,...

20060170695 - Decorating surfaces with textures: Surfaces can be decorated with texture tiling and/or texture painting using one or more sample textures, such as BTFs. In a described implementation of texture tiling, a patch-based BTF synthesis algorithm is utilized. In an example embodiment, a mesh of a target surface is re-sampled to produce a dense mesh...

20060170696 - Method and apparatus for generating procedural texture for natural phenomena and recording medium storing the method: A method of generating procedural textures for a plurality of natural phenomena, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including inputting a set of common parameters required to represent the plurality of natural phenomena; inputting a set of specific parameters required to represent physical properties of at least...

20060170698 - Constant-weight bit-slice pwm method and system for scrolling color display systems: A display system 100 includes a light source 110 and a color wheel 114. An optical section 112 is arranged to receive light from the light source 110 and to direct the light toward a color wheel 114. A digital micromirror device 122 is arranged to receive the light from...

20060170697 - Imaging apparatus, imaging method, program and recording medium: An image processing apparatus has an enlargement processing function of displaying an image on an image display unit at a designated enlargement magnification, and a color conversion processing function of changing a designated conversion source color to a conversion destination color. This image processing apparatus determines at least one of...

20060170699 - Constant-weight bit-slice pwm method and system for scrolling color display systems: A display system 100 includes a light source 110 and a color wheel 114. An optical section 112 is arranged to receive light from the light source 110 and to direct the light toward a color wheel 114. A digital micromirror device 122 is arranged to receive the light from...

20060170700 - Control interface: A device operator interface includes a first operational parameter display field for displaying a first adjustable parameter characterizing a first operational state of a device and displaying a first distinctive color associated with the first operational state of the device, a second operational parameter display field for displaying a second...

20060170701 - Image display device and a method for adjusting color thereof: An image displaying device and a method for controlling color thereof. The image displaying device includes a lattice selection unit which selects a lattice of a look-up table (LUT) for reference of each pixel of an input image, a lattice control unit which determines whether the selected lattice requires to...

20060170702 - Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects: Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adjusting color correction parameters (e.g., the look up table...

20060170703 - Color compression using an edge data bitmask in a multi-sample anti-aliasing scheme: Systems and methods are provided for compressing computer graphics color data in a system utilizing a multi-sample anti-aliasing scheme using an edge data bitmask to generate a compression code for determining the compressibility of tile color data, where the edge data bitmask is a record of edge locations relative to...

20060170704 - Image editing apparatus and image editing method: Modified image data is composed by combining unprocessed original image data and modification information expressing a modification process applied to that original image data, enabling the original image data to be recreated from modified image data without deterioration in picture quality. In addition, recording modification information at each process step...

20060170705 - Method and system to review the display of content: A system and method is provided to review the display of content by at least one client application. The method may include communicating content to client applications and automatically simulating user interaction with the client application in response to receiving the content. Thereafter, an image displayed by the client application...

20060170707 - Overlayed graphic user interface and method for image processing: A graphical user interface for execution on a computer for image processing of a digital image, and method, in which an input interface is overlayed in the digital image and visually connected to the coordinates of one or more pixels to be processed. A graphical icon, such as a circle,...

20060170706 - Systems and methods for rendering three-dimensional graphics in a multi-node rendering system: A system is provided for rendering three-dimensional graphics. The system comprises a host capable of executing an application program that calls for the rendering of three-dimensional graphics in an application window and a plurality of render nodes configured to collectively render a three-dimensional graphics image in response to graphics input...

20060170708 - Circuits for processing encoded image data using reduced external memory access and methods of operating the same: A circuit for providing image data for display can include a signal conversion unit configured to receive JPEG decompressed image data organized as horizontal block lines of an image directly from a JPEG compliant decoding unit....

20060170709 - Image realignment apparatus and a method thereof: An image realignment apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The method includes judging whether an image feature, such as the facial feature in an image, is facing upwards by using a feature identification algorithm, wherein the image and the feature identification algorithm are stored in an image acquisition apparatus...

20060170710 - Method and device for scaling a two-dimensional image: A scaling device for video displays includes a limited number of line buffers and produces stable output frames by using a stable clock source to produce the output image clock. The scaling device further includes an error counter for determining an error between an ideal output line length and an...

20060170711 - Input device: An input device allowing an operator to select any one of selection items of a pop-up menu with an easy operation is provided. The input device includes two kinds of operation units configured to output a coordinate translation signal in at least one direction and a control unit configured to...

20060170712 - Color display device with enhanced pixel pattern: A color display device is disclosed, comprising: an array of subpixels of three different colors, including subpixels of a relatively high luminance first color and subpixels of relatively lower luminance second and third colors, wherein the subpixels are arranged into rows or columns to form a repeating pattern of alternating...