Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 09/06

20060208959 - Electronic entertainment and communication system: A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portion of the memory system. The contents...

20060208960 - Display specific image processing in an integrated circuit: An image processing circuit, such as a graphics accelerator chip or any other suitable circuit, includes display output control logic that is operative to receive a current frame of information from a frame buffer and is operative to process a current frame, such as by providing gamma correction, image scaling,...

20060208961 - Driving circuit for current programmed organic light-emitting diode displays: A load driving circuit for a load having a parasitic capacitance associated therewith is provided. The load being current programmed. The driving circuit has a data line having a voltage controlling the load, a feedback loop having a lowpass filter for monitoring the voltage of the data line; and a...

20060208962 - Organic transistor, organic transistor unit and display device: An organic transistor includes: a substrate made of electrically conductive material or semiconductor material; an insulating layer on the substrate; and an organic semiconductor layer and a pair of electrodes on the insulating layer, wherein a configuration is made such that: the organic semiconductor layer is sealed by a translucent...

20060208963 - Instructions controlling light modulating elements: The present invention provides a digital backplane and various methods, systems and devices for controlling a digital backplane and light modulating elements. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control a digital backplane and/or light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators....

20060208969 - Control circuit for the switch in a switching power supply: The present invention refers to a control circuit and an associated method of controlling the output voltage of a primarily controlled power switching supply with a primary-sided switch and a transformer with an auxiliary winding, in which after opening the primary-sided switch an auxiliary voltage for indicating the output voltage...

20060208966 - Drive circuit and plasma display device: There is provided a drive circuit including: a first signal line connectable to a capacitive load; a second signal line connectable to the capacitive load; a first switch connected between the first signal line and a first potential; a second switch connected between the first signal line and a second...

20060208968 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: This document invention relates to a display device and driving method thereof, more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus for driving electrodes and driving method thereof. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising an electrode a sustain voltage source...

20060208967 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided, which includes a plasma display panel displaying an image, composed of plural display cells, and a reset circuit changing a reset power supply voltage to reset the display cell in accordance with an image to be displayed on the plasma display panel, and in...

20060208964 - Plasma display device and operating method of the same: There is provided a plasma display device which can improve a brightness characteristic and a driving method thereof, where a screen load is detected and a rising time or a falling time of a sustain pulse changes depending on the detected screen load. A rising time or a falling time...

20060208965 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) easily extends each electrode terminal to terminal blocks of a front substrate or a rear substrate in a 4-electrode structure and includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a barrier rib disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and...

20060208970 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. To prevent the occurrence of EMI when a plasma display panel is driven, directions of driving pulses supplied to a plurality of the same kinds of electrodes are set to be different each other....

20060208971 - Active matrix oled display device with threshold voltage drift compensation: An active matrix display device has an array of oled display pixels (2) operable in two modes in which the power supply line (26) is modulated between a low voltage and a normal power supply voltage. In a first mode, a pixel drive transistor current is supplied to the display...

20060208976 - Active matrix type display device and driving method thereof: A residual image effect is suppressed to improve quality of display of an active matrix type display device. An electric potential switching circuit switches an electric potential on a capacitor line from a first capacitor electric potential (ground electric potential, for example) to a second capacitor electric potential (power supply...

20060208975 - Display apparatus: Apparatus for compensating for a threshold voltage of a driver element having gate and drain electrodes which controls current flowing in a light emitting element effective in an on and off state. A capacitor is disposed between the gate electrode and a drain electrode when the light emitting element is...

20060208978 - Display apparatus driving method using a current signal: A method of driving a display apparatus includes the steps of (a) providing the display apparatus with a plurality of pixel circuits having an electroluminescence element, a driving transistor for providing driving current to drive the electroluminescence element and a capacitor connected to a gate of the driving transistor, and...

20060208972 - Electronic circuit, electroluminescent display device, electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, method of controlling the current supply to an organic electroluminescent pixel, and method for driving a circuit: The invention provides an electronic circuit that can include a programming path and a reproduction path. The circuit can further include a current driven element, a transistor in the production path arranged so as to operatively control a current supplied to the current driven element, a capacitor arranged for storing...

20060208973 - Organic electro-luminescent display device and method for driving the same: An organic electro-luminescent display device according to an embodiment includes a light emitting device in a pixel to emit light in response to a current applied thereto; a data line for providing a data voltage in a write period and a ramp voltage in a display period; and a first...

20060208974 - Organic electroluminescent device, driving method thereof and electronic apparatus: An organic electroluminescent device, comprises a plurality of pixels each including a light-emitting element, and a drive device adjusting a light-emission period of the light-emitting element included in each of the pixels in accordance with a luminance ratio of an image to be displayed....

20060208977 - Semiconductor device, and display device, driving method and electronic apparatus thereof: When light emitting elements have the same luminance, luminosity obtained from one pixel can be higher as area of a light emitting region in the pixel (also called an aperture ration) is increased. The aperture ratio of a pixel is low if the number of transistors and wires constituting the...

20060208979 - Light emissive active matrix display devices with optical feedback effective on the timing, to counteract ageing: In an active matrix display, each pixel has a storage capacitor for storing a voltage to be used for addressing a drive transistor. A discharge transistor is provided for discharging the storage capacitor thereby to switch off the drive transistor. The timing of this is controlled by a light-dependent device...

20060208980 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit and a conversion unit. A shot of an image displayed on a display under evaluation is taken, and first and second areas are defined in a resultant captured image. The calculation unit performs a calculation such that a pixel value of a...

20060208981 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: an array of a plurality of alternately arranged first and second rows of pixels, each first row including red, blue and green pixels or red, green and blue pixel arranged in sequence and each second row including red, blue and green pixels...

20060208982 - 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...

20060208983 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a signal controller including a gamma converter outputting output image data have gamma characteristic adapted to a gamma 2.2 curve based on input image data with a bit number smaller than the output image data, a color correction unit including color coefficients for performing color...

20060208984 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pixel including a first subpixel and a second subpixel; a first signal line connected to the first subpixel and transmitting a first signal; a second signal line connected to the second subpixel and transmitting a second signal;...

20060208986 - Electronic device and driving method: An electro-optical device is provided having a pixel portion with a novel structure, and in which display irregularities such as crosstalk, which develop due to a drop in voltage caused by the wiring resistance of electric current supply lines in an electro-optical device, are improved upon. Attention is drawn to...

20060208985 - Liquid crystal display device and operating method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes one or more data line on a substrate; first and second gate lines crossing the one or more data line to form first and second pixels, the one or more data line providing an image signal to a first electrode of each of the...

20060208992 - Active matrix type liquid crystal display device: Power consumption in an active matrix type liquid crystal display device having partial display function is reduced. In one frame period, a display area corresponding to first 80 horizontal periods, that is the first line through the 80th line, is set as a partial display area and a display area...

20060208991 - Display: A display capable of rendering flickering hard to visually recognize, reducing power consumption and simplifying the structure of a circuit for negatively/positively reversing an image is provided. This display comprises a plurality of drain lines and a plurality of gate lines, a first pixel portion and a second pixel portion...

20060208993 - Display device and mobile device including display device: A display device includes a timing controller for generating a plurality of gate signals and a plurality of data signals associated with at least one image; and a plurality of display panels controlled by the timing controller for receiving the corresponding gate signals and data signals from the timing controller....

20060208987 - Image projection system comprising a single imager which is equipped with photsensitive sensors for the identification of illumination colours: System comprising an illumination system for moving bands of different colored light over the light valve, means for identifying the illumination color of each row of pixels of this light valve, means of managing video data of said images to control the writing of the pixels, means of synchronizing the...

20060208989 - Liquid crystal display and integrated driving circuit threreof: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display module, an integrated driving circuit, and a power supply circuit. The integrated driving circuit is used for driving the liquid crystal display module to display video frames according to a video signal. The integrated driving circuit includes a pulse width...

20060208988 - Low power multi-phase driving method for liquid crystal display: A method for driving a display panel is disclosed. At the transitions of scan periods, common and pixel electrode are coupled together to receive one of the power supply voltage and the ground in one phase of a transition, and the common and pixel electrode are further coupled together to...

20060208994 - Method for eliminating residual image and liquid crystal display therefor: A method for eliminating a residual image and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) therefore is disclosed. The method includes the steps of deactivating the LCD such that the LCD enters a non-active mode; and providing a scan signal, a data signal and a common voltage signal to the LCD wherein the...

20060208990 - Panel source driver circuits having common data demultiplexing and methods of controlling operations of the same: Panel source driver circuits include a first data register and a second data register. A common data demultiplexer coupled to the first and second data registers is configured to provide control data from a first input of the demultiplexer to the first data register and control data from a second...

20060208997 - Display device and driving method of the same: A display device is provided with a display controller, a source driver, and a liquid crystal panel, and two pairs of wirings are provided between the display controller and the source driver. The display controller is provided with a V-I conversion circuit for image data and a mode register, and...

20060208995 - Liquid crystal display device: In order to facilitate connecting work of electrodes in a liquid crystal panel, a liquid crystal panel (2) includes: N pieces of electrodes connected to N pieces of electrodes in a first liquid crystal panel (1); NN (larger than N) pieces of signal lines connected to the N pieces of...

20060208996 - Semiconductor circuit: A two-stage decode system is provided which uses a pre-stage decoder comprising a pre-stage first decoder which decodes a bit of arbitrary part of address signals and a pre-stage second decoder which decodes the remaining bits, level shifters which respectively shift the levels of outputs of the pre-stage decoder, and...

20060209005 - Dynamic backlight scaling for power minimization in a backlit tft-lcd: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method for determining a pixel transformation function that maximizes backlight dimming while maintaining a pre-specified distortion level. The method includes determining a minimum dynamic range of pixel values in a transformed image based on an original image and the pre-specified...

20060209004 - Lcd device having a homogeneous lc layer: An LCD device includes an LC panel, and a backlight unit having a backlight source and a luminous intensity control unit. The backlight source has a peak luminous intensity in each of wavelength ranges corresponding to red, green and blue colors. The luminous intensity control unit controls the peak luminous...

20060209006 - Lcd display module: An LCD display module with a backlight is proposed, of which the light backlights an LCD display of the LCD display module. The fact that the backlight is arranged between a circuit board and the LCD display, the circuit board is equipped with white LEDs or OLED segments which are...

20060208998 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display including a blink backlight system light source and a liquid crystal panel for adjusting the amount of light transmitted from the light source. The light source is made of a plurality of light emitting tubes each having one or more kinds of phosphors, and having a...

20060209001 - Liquid crystal display (lcd) device and method of driving lcd: In a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device having an Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal and a method of driving the device, a source driver applies a transition pulse wave voltage to a pixel electrode of the liquid crystal for a predetermined time duration. The pulse wave voltage is...

20060208999 - Liquid crystal display and controlling method thereof: A liquid crystal display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel screen divided into a plurality of areas; a plurality of backlight sources to selectively irradiate light respectively to the divided areas of the screen; and a controller...

20060209002 - Liquid crystal display device and electronic device equipped therewith: A liquid crystal display device, that can display images in an optimal display mode by switching it from one mode to another when the backlight luminance is set to secure good visibility in any environment, has a liquid crystal panel for display, a backlight unit provided to the backside of...

20060209000 - Liquid crystal display device, backlight used for same display device, method for driving same backlight and method for manufacturing same backlight: A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a backlight used for the LCD and a method for producing the LCD and the backlight are provided which are capable of inhibiting an increase in component counts and in assembling processes and of reducing them, thereby achieving low costs. A display image is obtained...

20060209003 - Methods and systems for determining a display light source adjustment: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for adjusting display light source levels for enhanced image display....

20060209007 - Method and apparatus for controlling electrochromic device: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling an ECD for reducing power consumption of the ECD. In The the method for of controlling an ECD coloredcoloring and decolored discoloring of an ECD by using a coloring voltage and a discoloring voltage, does not apply the coloring voltage and the...

20060209009 - Color electrophoretic display: A color electrophoretic display has pixels which each comprise an image volume (IV) and a reservoir volume (RV). Different types of particles (Pf, Pm, Ps; Pa, Pb, Pc) which have different colors and different electrophoretic mobilities are present in each one of the pixels. The particles (Pf, Pm, Ps; Pa,...

20060209011 - Electrophoretic display device and driving method thereof: An electrophoretic display device including a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrophoretic material interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the electrophoretic material including a positively charged particle and a negatively charged particle, a common electrode provided on the second substrate, a pixel provided at an intersection...

20060209008 - Image display device: An image display device according to first to third aspects of the invention has an image display panel, in which two or more groups of particles having different colors and different charge characteristics are sealed between two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the...

20060209010 - Transflective electrophoretic display and manufacturing method thereof: A transflective electrophoretic display and a method for manufacturing the same are proposed. The transfiective electrophoretic display including a top substrate and a bottom substrate, multiple separating walls disposed between the top and bottom substrates, a transflective film, and an electrophoretic display medium, can be designed to display colors by...

20060209012 - Devices having mems displays: Improved portable hand held devices having bright, high resolution MEMS display panels with shutters and optionally optical cavities having both front and rear reflective surfaces. Light-transmissive regions are formed in the front reflective surface for spatially modulating light....

20060209017 - Acquisition of a user expression and an environment of the expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, and method. In an embodiment, a human wearable apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an annotation environment capture device operable to generate information indicative of a recognizable aspect of an item and an annotating device operable to generate information indicative of a user expression...

20060209016 - Computer interaction based upon a currently active input device: Described is a computer-implemented system and method that dynamically detects which input device (e.g., pen or mouse) is currently in use, and based on the device, varies a program's user interaction model to better optimize the user's ability to interact with the program via that input device. A tablet input...

20060209022 - Electronic device and method of controlling the same: In an electronic device and control method therefor according to the invention, a stick is used to operate a pointer controlled by an OS. A touch wheel is used not to operate the pointer displayed on an LCD panel but to perform an operation controlled by application software. For example,...

20060209019 - Magnetic haptic feedback systems and methods for virtual reality environments: A haptic feedback system comprises a moveable device with at least three degrees of freedom in an operating space. A display device is operative to present a dynamic virtual environment. A controller is operative to generate display signals to the display device for presentation of a dynamic virtual environment corresponding...

20060209014 - Method and system for providing modifier key behavior through pen gestures: Described is a system and method in which pen gestures cause a mode to be entered in which a computing device acts as if a modifier key (e.g., Control, Alt, or Shift) was being pressed. This is accomplished by a pen driver sending a modifier key down to the keyboard...

20060209013 - Method of controlling a machine connected to a display by line of vision: A method of controlling a machine connected to a display comprising an absolute pointing method providing a wearable apparatus (1) including an image sensor (61) worn on an operator's head (58) or ear and adjustable so that the pointing direction (57) of the image sensor (61) is congruent with the...

20060209020 - Mobile phone with a virtual keyboard: The present invention relates to a mobile phone with a virtual keyboard. The mobile phone includes a main phone module, a rotary base, a display module, and a virtual keyboard module. The rotary base is coupled to the main phone module and is rotatable thereon. The display module is coupled...

20060209015 - Optical navigation system: An optical navigation system. The optical navigation system includes an image sensor capable of optical coupling to a surface of an object, a data storage device, and a navigation circuit. The image sensor includes multiple photosensitive elements with the number of photosensitive elements disposed in a first direction greater than...

20060209018 - Program product, image generation system, and image generation method: An image generation system includes: a flash image generation section which generates a flash image which increases luminance of scan light for detecting an indication position of a pointing device including a photosensor which detects scan light from a display section; a luminance adjustment processing section which displays a luminance...

20060209021 - Virtual mouse driving apparatus and method using two-handed gestures: A virtual mouse driving apparatus and method for processing a variety of gesture commands as equivalent mouse commands based on two-handed gesture information obtained by a video camera are provided. The virtual mouse driving method includes: keeping track of an input gesture input with the video camera; removing a background...

20060209023 - Image navigation in a mobile station: an image navigation apparatus in a mobile station comprises a tilt sensor unit adapted to sense a tilt of the mobile station based on information related to a distance between a reference point and a target point on a displayed image. The image navigation apparatus also comprises a processing unit...

20060209024 - Machine interface control method and system: A method for processing control signals of a multi-axis joystick. The method may include processing a first control signal corresponding to movement in a first direction of the joystick and processing a second control signal corresponding to movement in a second direction of the joystick. The method may also include...

20060209026 - Computer mouse cover: A cover (20) for a computer mouse (1) having a first section (24A) for covering a first mouse button (12A), a second section (24B) for covering a second mouse button (12B), and a third section (23) for covering the main body (11). The cover may be made from natural or...

20060209025 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse includes a mouse main body, a wireless signal receiver and a storage device. The storage device is pivotally coupled to the mouse main body. In response to an elastic force resulting from a resilience element, a storage part of the storage device is easily exposed from the...

20060209027 - Optical mouse with a light-interfering unit: An optical mouse includes a housing formed with a light-passing hole, alight source, alight-interfering unit and an image sensor. The light source is mounted in the housing for generating a coherent light beam that can pass through the light-passing hole toward a reference surface so as to be reflected by...

20060209028 - Computer keyboard with processor for audio and telephony functions: A computer keyboard provides for one or more of processing, interfacing, input/output control with respect to the computer and/or one or more devices coupled to the keyboard, and/or for control of one or more devices coupled to the keyboard. The keyboard comprises at least one processor, and may also include...

20060209030 - Hygienic input device for medical information systems: A system for hygienic input of data into a medical information system is provided. In one embodiment of the system, a computer terminal, a mobile wireless input tray, a mobile wireless interactive visual display system, and a wireless headset are used. During a medical procedure, the mobile input tray, the...

20060209029 - Operator element including freely programmable symbols: An operator element having freely programmable symbols, which includes a keycap, a display unit arranged at a distance and behind the keycap in a housing of the operator element, whereby the display unit interacts with a light-guiding element so that symbols are projected onto the keycap, and a diffusion layer...

20060209031 - Hand held communications computer and keyboard: A portable hand held communications computer terminal with data, audio and video communications capabilities using a rearranged QWERTY keyboard for the visually impaired, mobility impaired and the masses designed for one finger operation. The portable hand held computer terminal includes a microprocessor, a battery and standard plug type connection for...

20060209034 - Hand-held electronic device: A hand-held electronic device with a plurality of operating functions, comprising a main body, a plurality of number keys disposed on the main body, a display and at least M buttons is provided. The display displays an operation indicator area and a numeral area. The operation indicator area has N...

20060209032 - Handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device including a main body, a display unit and a press-type keyboard is provided. The main body has a data process module, and the display unit is mounted on the main body. The press-type keyboard having a center and a plurality of keys is mounted on the...

20060209033 - Support and adjustment apparatus for a data processing device display: An apparatus is described comprising: a data processing device comprising a base with a plurality of input elements configured thereon, and an adjustable display having a display screen for displaying text and graphics, the display cooperatively engaged with the base to move from between a first position, in which none,...

20060209035 - Device independent specification of navigation shortcuts in an application: Provided is a method for navigation shortcuts to computing elements or functions on a computing device in a manner that is browser, platform and hardware independent. A computing device reserves a set of device dependent mechanisms, or access keys that may be assigned to functionality associated with a document or...

20060209036 - Digital multifunction and information display device and method thereof: A digital multifunction and information display device and method, which may include a plurality of buttons that have button information corresponding to a plurality of modes. Once a mode is selected the information displayed corresponding to the plurality of buttons may be changed to detailed information corresponding to the selected...

20060209038 - Control arrangement for dental device and method of controlling dental device: A dental apparatus which comprises a dental device, a graphic display and a user interface connected functionally to one another, the user interface being arranged to be used in controlling functions of the dental device. The user interface is a touch pad and the graphic display comprises means for showing...

20060209045 - Dual emission display with integrated touch screen and fabricating method thereof: A dual emission display comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electroluminescent device (ELD), a second electroluminescent device and a touch sensitive device. The first ELD and the second ELD are disposed on the first substrate and the second substrate, respectively. During assembly of the dual emission display,...

20060209044 - Forms for completion with an electronic writing device: Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a display surface that includes a machine-distinguishable form identifier keyed to an electronic version of the form and at least two fields. Each field of the at least two...

20060209042 - Handwriting regions keyed to a data receptor: Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting. Each region of the at least two regions that accept handwriting respectively includes a unique user-understandable identifier and...

20060209046 - Integrally formed monitor having one or more touchpads as function keys: An integrally formed monitor comprises one or more touchpads to provide function keys, and therefore projecting structure for function keys to be pressed by users is not necessary for the monitor owing to the touch-sense feature of the touchpad....

20060209043 - Machine-differentiatable identifiers having a commonly accepted meaning: Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, system is provided that includes at least two machine-differentiatable identifiers, each identifier of the at least two machine-differentiatable identifiers being respectively keyed to a data recipient and associatable with a hand-formed mark on a...

20060209041 - Method and apparatus for automatic calibration of a touch monitor: A method and apparatus for associating components within a touch monitor comprising a monitor and a touchscreen which are interconnected with one another. A first data value is stored in a memory interconnected with the monitor, and a second data value is stored in the memory which is interconnected with...

20060209037 - Method and system for providing haptic effects: A transparent haptic overlay device, system and method are provided. The transparent haptic overlay device (10) includes a transparent overlay (22) for transmitting the force of the user to a display (20), an actuator (24) for generating forces corresponding to haptic effects and imparting these forces to the user's finger...

20060209049 - Operation panel and method of controlling display thereof: An operation panel which is applicable to an electronic device includes: a display having a plurality of display regions; a plurality of operating buttons connected to the display regions; a plurality of lights which illuminate the display regions; a timer which is adapted to detect whether or not a predetermined...

20060209040 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for invoking an electronic ink or handwriting interface: User interfaces, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for activating and/or displaying text input systems on display devices may include: (a) displaying a text input system activation target at a user changeable location on a display device; (b) receiving user input directed to the activation target; and (c) activating a text...

20060209048 - Touch panel: A touch panel which is constituted by using an adhesive layer having a thickness which is 70% or more of a thickness of an approximately picture-frame-like spacer which allows respective outer peripheries of an upper substrate and a lower substrate to adhere to each other is provided. Due to such...

20060209047 - Touch screen plasma display: A touch screen plasma display includes: a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) adapted to display images by a gas discharge, and including a front substrate, front electrodes extending in a predetermined direction on a rear portion of the front substrate, a rear substrate facing the front substrate, rear electrodes extending in...

20060209039 - Touch sensitive display for a portable device: A portable device is provided having a touch sensitive display (100) comprising an active matrix display element (101) and a touch sensitive element (103). The touch sensitive element (103) is disposed on the viewer distal side of the active matrix display element (101) thereby not affecting the display properties. The...

20060209050 - Position detection device: A position detection device including a substrate; a first ohmic resistor applied to the substrate and extending along an active surface of the position detector, whereby the first ohmic resistor is connected between a first terminal and a second terminal of the position detection device; a plurality of electric conductors...

20060209053 - Article having a writing portion and preformed identifiers: Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture method is provided that includes a writing portion that accepts at least one hand-formed mark. The article of manufacture also includes a tag portion displaying at least two machine-distinguishable tags,...

20060209051 - Electronic acquisition of a hand formed expression and a context of the expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, method, and computer program product. In an embodiment, a device includes a handheld writing device that includes a writing element, and a writing detector module operable to generate information indicative of a handwriting movement of the writing element. The device also includes a context detector...

20060209052 - Performing an action with respect to a hand-formed expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes generating a content signal indicative of a hand-formed mark on a surface. The method also includes generating a label signal indicative of a machine-distinguishable tag associated with the hand-formed mark....

20060209056 - Display device with multi-level drive: In some embodiments, a drive circuit may be coupled to a pixel element, wherein the drive circuit is configured to provide at least three different signal levels to the pixel element. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed....

20060209055 - Driver circuit and display device: A display device according to this invention includes: a display panel (2) having plural pixels configured to display image information; plural driver circuits (10) configured to drive the plural pixels according to a video signal indicative of the image information which is inputted externally, the video signal being a radio...

20060209054 - Image signal processing apparatus and processing method, and image display apparatus using the same: An apparatus for processing an image signal prevents burn-in of display devices such as a PDP and an LCD. A number-of-pixels conversion section generates pixel data located at interpolation positions in horizontal or vertical directions based on information about the interpolation positions obtained from a controller, to obtain an image...

20060209057 - Projection of overlapping sub-frames onto a surface: A method of displaying an image with a display system includes receiving image data for the image. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data based on a geometric relationship between a hypothetical reference projector and each of a first and a...

20060209058 - Display: An electronic paper having a display unit formed of a flexible sheet. The electronic paper comprises the display unit composed of a light-emitting device and a switching device and a drive unit composed of a drive circuit disposed at one edge of the display unit. The light-emitting device and the...

20060209060 - Display device and portable terminal: In order to increase the continuous operating time of a display device driven by a battery or the like, and a portable information terminal using the same, the volume and weight of the battery are increased. Thus, there arises a trade-off between the increased capacity of the battery and the...

20060209059 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an operating unit including a flat panel display that displays information for a user. The flat panel display maintains displaying displayed information even after power for driving the flat panel display is shut off....

20060209062 - Automatic layout of items along an embedded one-manifold path: The coordinates for laying out visual items in two-, three-, or n-dimensional space along an embedded one-manifold or path are calculated and coordinates are generated for placement of the items in a container. A one-manifold may be continuous, discontinuous, be contained entirely within a container or extent beyond a container....

20060209061 - Generating 2d transitions using a 3d model: A system and method for generating a 2D transition between a first media object and a second media object. A 3D model is defined corresponding to a desired 2D transition pattern. A graphics processing unit (GPU) or a set of instructions generates a transition between the first media object and...

20060209064 - Image data generator and 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 polygons constituting a surface of the object and having a first size. The first image is...

20060209063 - Toboggan-based method for automatic detection and segmentation of objects in image data: An exemplary method of detecting one or more objects in image data is provided. The image data includes a plurality of pixels/voxels. The method includes sliding pixels/voxels that meet sliding criteria; and collecting the slid pixels/voxels that satisfy collecting criteria. An exemplary method of segmenting an object in image data...

20060209065 - Method and apparatus for occlusion culling of graphic objects: A method of occlusion culling of graphic objects, comprising the steps of storing a first mask and one or more depth values associated with areas inside and outside the mask for a pre-defined region, and evaluating the visibility of the primitive covering the same region, wherein visibility evaluation begins after...

20060209066 - Three-dimensional image communication terminal and projection-type three-dimensional image display apparatus: It is possible to provide a three-dimensional image display apparatus which can reproduce a three-dimensional image having an appearance of solidity with a simple configuration. The three-dimensional image reproduction apparatus includes: a display device 2 for displaying two-dimensional element images having a plurality of horizontal and vertical parallax images 1...

20060209067 - Hybrid hardware-accelerated relighting system for computer cinematography: An interactive cinematic lighting system used in the production of computer-animated feature films containing environments of very high complexity, in which surface and light appearances are described using procedural RenderMan shaders. The system provides lighting artists with high-quality previews at interactive framerates with only small approximations compared to the final...

20060209068 - Information processing program and information processing apparatus: As a virtual plane used when converting a designation point, which is a touched position on a touch panel, into a control point, in a virtual three dimensional space, used for controlling a movement of an object, a first virtual plane is used when a ball is an object to...

20060209070 - Apparatus for displaying workflow, method for displaying workflow, and program for displaying workflow: The present invention provides an apparatus for displaying a workflow, a method for displaying a workflow, and a program for displaying a workflow that can depict a workflow dynamically and easily from a multidirectional viewpoint. The workflow displaying apparatus displays a workflow which connects work symbols representing works using flow...

20060209069 - Direct manipulation of time scale: A method of presenting time-dependent information displays a first time scale that includes at least one first time unit and a plurality of second time units, which are subunits of the first time unit. The method displays time-dependent information according to the first time scale. A graphical drill-up control is...

20060209071 - Expanded graphical interface for information cognition: A graphical interface for information cognition uses knowledge enhanced graphical symbols. The interface is implemented using a visual language and visual metaphors which enable quick and ready understanding of the states of complex systems represented using the language. Individual knowledge enhanced graphical symbols may have the capability of representing or...

20060209072 - Image-based vehicle occupant classification system: A system and method for processing acquired images to develop useful classifications of subjects such as occupants of a vehicle preferably employs a hierarchical and probabilistic structure, such as a Bayesian Network to analyze acquired images and produce a meaningful classification. The structure preferably includes set of analyzers, a set...

20060209073 - Display device, display method, display program, and recording medium containing the display program: In a PDA (100), a ROM (11) stores beforehand a character code for specifying each character in a text and character shape data corresponding to the character code in a correlated manner while a RAM (12) stores an image code for specifying a registered image and registered image data corresponding...

20060209074 - Methods and portable apparatuses for displaying characters: A method for character display receives a request comprising information regarding a character to be displayed on an area corresponding to a first coordinate on a screen, acquires a bitmap image corresponding to the character, determines at least one second coordinate near the first coordinate, draws the bitmap image on...

20060209075 - Method for generating a dot-based image of a character by scaling strokes of the character: A method generates a dot-based image of a character (such as a Chinese character) by establishing a monochrome or gray-scale stroke data set, selecting a plurality of strokes from the stroke data set, scaling the selected strokes, and combining and adjusting the strokes to form the dot-based image of the...

20060209076 - Variable play back speed in video mail: The present invention relates to the play back of previously recorded audio and video data. More particularly, the present invention relates to a computer system, method, and computer readable medium storing instructions executable by computer system for varying the playback rate of audio data as corresponding motion video data is...

20060209077 - Systems and methods for evaluating the operation of a multi-node graphics system: Embodiments of the present invention are broadly directed to novel systems and methods for evaluating a performance aspect in a multi-computer graphics system. One embodiment comprises selection logic capable of enabling a user to specify at least one render node for selection and generating logic associated with the compositor for...

20060209078 - Tiled prefetched and cached depth buffer: A 3D graphics pipeline includes a prefetch mechanism that feeds a cache of depth tiles. The prefetch mechanism may be predictive, using triangle geometry information from previous pipeline stages to pre-charge the cache, thereby allowing for an increase in memory bandwidth efficiency. A z-value compression technique may be optionally utilized...

20060209079 - Graphics controller providing for efficient pixel value transformation: A graphics controller providing for efficient pixel value transformations. A graphics controller interfaces between a host and a graphics display device for displaying pixels having pixel values. The graphics controller includes a solarizing circuit having means for transforming an original pixel value to a transformed pixel value according to a...

20060209080 - Memory management for mobile terminals with limited amounts of graphics memory: Method and system are disclosed for more efficiently managing the dedicated graphics memory in mobile terminals that have a limited amount of dedicated graphics memory. In one implementation, the display of the mobile terminal is configured as an active area surrounded by a static area. Only the active area is...

20060209081 - Pixel data preprocessing methods and systems: Methods and systems are disclosed for preprocessing video display pixel data. A preprocessor is provided with a selectable gamma correction mode and a selectable palette lookup mode. In palette lookup mode, a LUT memory area is used for performing a palette lookup for each of the red, green, and blue...

20060209082 - Image processing apparatus, image processing process, and recording medium: The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus that performs predetermined conversion processing with keeping the color of an original image and eliminating processing time necessary for color space conversion, when applying special effects on video signals. The image processing apparatus includes a video signal input section for receiving...

20060209083 - Method and electroactive device for a dynamic graphical imagery display: A low-cost and low-power dynamic graphical imagery display device and method of physically manipulating graphical images in size and/or shape by electronically deforming a compliant surface upon which the graphical images are affixed. The dynamic graphical imagery display device utilizes electroactive polymers and has applications including but not limited to...

20060209085 - Providing 1d and 2d connectors in a connected diagram: Dynamic routing of 1D and 2D connectors is provided in a connected diagram. 2D connector shapes, end-shapes, content such as text or images are dynamically adjusted as objects are placed onto the diagram canvas. Connection points for connectors are determined using cardinal points, shortest distance between objects, or by generating...

20060209087 - Strobe image composition method, apparatus, computer, and program product: There are disclosed a method, apparatus, computer, and program product for generating a strobe composite image from a plurality of frames of a moving image. A first frame is selected from the plurality of frames of the moving image. A plurality of second frames relating to the first frame are...

20060209088 - System and method for data assisted chroma-keying: The invention illustrates a system and method of displaying a base image and an overlay image comprising: capturing a base image of a real event; receiving an instrumentation data based on the real event; identifying a visual segment within the base image based on the instrumentation data; and rendering an...

20060209084 - System and method for providing 1d and 2d connectors in a connected diagram: System and methods for providing 1D and 2D connectors in a connected diagram. Routing and layout of connectors is accomplished through a pre-defined set of behaviors and properties on a connector that enable an aesthetic layout. Routing behaviors and visual look of the connectors within a diagram may be included...

20060209086 - Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels: A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as ITU-R 601 compliant images such as...

20060209089 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system: An information processing apparatus includes an image-information obtaining unit configured to obtain first image information; an information associating unit configured to generate first related information having certain content related to the first image information and to associate the first related information with the first image information; a display processor configured...

20060209090 - Synchronized graphical information and time-lapse photography for weather presentations and the like: A dynamic graphical information presentation is generated and overlaid onto a time-lapse video image sequence to form a combined graphical information and time-lapse photography presentation. The time-lapse photography video image sequence and dynamic graphical information presentation are preferably time synchronized in the combined presentation. For a weather presentation of past...

20060209091 - Methods, systems, and software for facilitating the framing of artwork: Digital images comprising artwork, matting samples, and molding samples can be received and accessed by a system. Various points selected on the digital image can be received by the system. Using the selected points, the system can render images illustrating the artwork surrounded by a full matting and molding of...

20060209092 - Display apparatus, display control apparatus, display method, and computer-readable recording medium recording display control program: A display apparatus is designed to make a display corresponding to one pixel through the use of a plurality of rectangular display elements. The apparatus comprises a multi-gradation character generating unit for generating information on a multi-gradation character image obtained by gradating a character edge portion and an element display...

20060209093 - Method and computer-readable medium for generating graphics having a finite number of dynamically sized and positioned shapes: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for generating graphics having a finite number of dynamically sized and positioned shapes. According to the method, a relative size and position are defined for each of the shapes in a graphic. The relative size and position of the shapes may be defined...

20060209094 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display memory for storing an image of a first area forming a portion of an entire image; a display section including a display screen having a display area usable for displaying at least a partial image of the first area; a case for exposing the...

20060209096 - Display mode control method for an electronic device: A display mode control method includes the steps of: enabling an electronic device to determine the time of day; and enabling the electronic device to operate a display panel thereof in a first display mode when the time of day corresponds to nighttime, and in a second display mode when...

20060209095 - Over-driving apparatus and method thereof: An over-driving apparatus, for use with a display device, receives a plurality of pixel gray values of a pixel in a plurality of frames. The apparatus includes a storage unit for storing the pixel gray values, and an over-driving generation unit, coupled to the storage unit, for outputting an over-driving...

20060209097 - Image display apparatus: In the image display device according to the present invention, control is performed such that a condition of not using a subsidiary pixel which corresponds to a specific color among the subsidiary pixels constituting a first pixel is selected as a condition for signal processing to output a signal for...

20060202910 - 2d/3d switchable display: Provided is a two-dimension/three-dimension (2D/3D) switchable display. The 2D/3D switchable display includes: a display device which generates an image; a first optical element which includes convex lens cells; a second optical element which includes concave lens cells that-coincide with the convex lens cells of the first optical element; and a...

20060202911 - Distance measuring device: Parallax is the apparent “shift” or “movement” of an object caused by a change in the position of the observer and is the phenomenon upon which the claimed invention operates. The invention is a mechanical device, comprising a viewing slide which has been marked with a series of markings, which...

20060202912 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus including a unit for reinforcing a coupling force of a boss to a chassis is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes: a chassis disposed on a side of a plasma display panel displaying images using a gas discharge, and supporting the plasma display panel, a...

20060202913 - Device and method for driving active matrix light-emitting display panel: Drive voltages corresponding to forward voltages for colors R, G, and B are supplied to display pixels for colors R, G, and B arranged on a display panel to correct disruption of a color balance due to aging and temperature dependence of EL elements. The maximum voltage among the drive...

20060202915 - Light emitting apparatus generating white light by mixing of light of a plurality of oscillation wavelengths: A first light emitting diode and a second light emitting diode are connected in parallel between a first node and a second node. The two light emitting diodes are connected to each other in such a manner that, an anode of each one light emitting diode is electrically connected to...

20060202914 - Method and apparatus for controlling thermal stress in lighting devices: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling the thermal stress in lighting devices, for example light-emitting elements, that are exposed to large thermal gradients typically upon start-up, for example light-emitting elements operating in relatively cold ambient environments. The present invention provides an apparatus that can reduce this...

20060202918 - Multi-scan device and multi-scan method for plasma display panel: A multi-scan device and a multi-scan method for a plasma display panel is provided wherein data signals forming one frame (or sub-frame) relative to each line are compared, and data signals having the same line are simultaneously scanned based on the comparison. A scanning time may be decreased by simultaneously...

20060202917 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Provided are a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, and a single sustain driving board. The plasma display panel comprises a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. The single sustain driving board comprises a single energy recovery circuit unit and a...

20060202916 - Set-up voltage generating circuit and plasma display panel driving circuit using same: A set-up voltage generating circuit for a plasma display panel (PDP) is disclosed. The circuit is capable of generating a set-up voltage by way of a method of charging a predetermined capacitor using a sustain voltage Vs without recourse to a DC/DC converter in forming a set-up voltage necessary for...

20060202920 - Display and array substrate: A display includes a substrate and pixels arranged in a matrix form on the substrate. Each of the pixels includes a display element and first and second field-effect transistors equal in conduction type to each other. The display element and the first field-effect transistor are electrically connected in series between...

20060202919 - Display, array substrate, and method of driving display: A display includes pixels arrange in a matrix. Each pixel includes a display element, a first drive current control circuit which is supplied with a first video signal and outputs a first drive current to the display element at magnitude corresponding to magnitude of the first video signal, and a...

20060202921 - Driving device of self-luminous panel and driving method of the same: A device for driving a self-luminous panel has self-luminous elements arranged at intersecting positions of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines and selectively drives the self-luminous elements for luminescence by data line driving means and scanning line scanning means and includes luminescence controlling means for...

20060202923 - Image display device and method of testing the same: It is the object of the present invention to provide a simple and accurate testing circuit and a testing method while occupying as small space as possible in an image display device. By partly changing dummy pixels arranged in the periphery of a display region into a testing circuit, tests...

20060202922 - Method for optimizing a purification procedure: This invention relates to a method of optimizing a process for extracting an analyte from a liquid sample. A plurality of samples can be processed simultaneously while varying several factors independently to determine extraction efficiency under a wide variety of conditions....

20060202924 - Spontaneous light emitting device and driving method thereof: A counter 102 counts the accumulated lighting time or the accumulated lighting time and the intensity of lighting of each pixel by a first image signal 101A and stores them in a volatile memory 103 or a nonvolatile memory 104. A correction circuit 105 corrects the first image signal based...

20060202925 - Remote cholesteric display: The present invention enables a user of a portable electronic communications device such as a cell phone to view information on a larger remote reflective cholesteric display. The portable communications device may connect with the remote display by wire or wirelessly. The remote display is separate from the portable communications...

20060202926 - Semiconductor circuit, driving circuit of electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A semiconductor circuit includes a first circuit block, a second circuit block, and power wiring lines that supply a plurality of reference potentials. The first circuit block and the second circuit block are connected to a common power wiring line that is one of the power wiring lines and supplies...

20060202928 - Active matrix display devices: An active matrix display device, such as an AMLCD, having sets of row and column address conductors (18, 19) connected to an array of colour picture elements (12) arranged in columns of one colour and with adjacent columns being of different colours, and drive means (21, 23, 25) for supplying...

20060202927 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of subpixels respectively having switching elements and arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines connected to the subpixels via the switching elements and transmitting a gate signal for turning on or off the switching elements, and a plurality of data lines...

20060202930 - Image display device and projector: An image display device that displays an image by modulating a light from a light source according to display image data, includes: a first light modulation element that modulates a light emitted from the light source; and a second light modulation element that is disposed on an optical path in...

20060202929 - Method and apparatus for setting gamma correction voltages for lcd source drivers: A gamma reference voltage generator (10B) for an LCD display includes a control interface logic circuit (48) having an output bus coupled to inputs of a first register (46) having outputs coupled to inputs of a second register (42) the outputs of which are coupled to corresponding inputs of plurality...

20060202931 - Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed so as to be opposite to each other; a driving circuit part that has a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and is provided on a surface of the first substrate opposite to the second substrate; a first connecting part that...

20060202932 - Single plate system color solid-state image pick-up device of microlens loading type and image input device: A single plate system color solid-state image pick-up device of a microlens loading type, the device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of light receiving portions formed in a two-dimensional array in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate; color filters each of which is for any of red, green...

20060202933 - Picture element using microelectromechanical switch: A robust microelectromechanical switch. In an illustrative embodiment, the switch is adapted for use in a display and includes a first flexible surface and a second surface. The second surface is angled relative to the first surface, forming a wedge the first surface and the second surface. A first terminal...

20060202934 - Display panel: In an OELD panel capable of decreasing a cross-talk and an OELD apparatus having the OELD panel, a switching part is formed in a unit pixel defined by a data line and a scan line to control the output of a data signal in response to a scan signal. A...

20060202935 - Dispaly panel for liquid crystal display: A display panel for a liquid crystal display comprising a timing controller and a plurality of source drivers is provided. The timing controller receives a differential signal (LVDS/TMDS/DVI) to generate a plurality of TTL signals and a sync signal. Each of the source drivers comprises at least one bus directly...

20060202936 - Chip-on-glass liquid crystal display and data transmission method for the same: A display implemented with a unique circuit arrangement. The display includes a glass substrate, a plurality of serial-connected source drivers and at least one gate driver. The source drivers and the at least one gate driver are disposed on the glass substrate using, for example, chip-on-glass technology. The display further...

20060202939 - Identifier of source driver of chip-on-glass liquid crystal display and identifying method thereof: An identifier for identifying a source driver of a chip-on-glass liquid crystal display and an identifying method thereof are provided. The identifier includes a comparator for receiving a chip identity and a target identity, and generates a triggering signal to activate the source driver if the chip identity coincides with...

20060202937 - Method and apparatus for generating gate control signal of liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display is disclosed, which includes a panel having an array of pixels, a timing controller outputting image data and source control signals, a series of source drivers and a gate driver. One of the source drivers is selected to generate gate control signals by reference to at...

20060202938 - Method for transmitting control signal of chip-on-glass liquid crystal display: A method for transmitting control signals of a liquid crystal display is provided. The LCD includes a timing controller. The method packs the control signals of the timing controller into a control packet which comprises a header field and a control item having a control field and a data field....

20060202940 - Pulse output circuit, shift register and display device: A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 so that the TFTs would turn ON and then potential of a node á rises. When the potential of the node á reaches (VDD−VthN), the node á became in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 then turns ON, and potential...

20060202946 - Channel data setting circuit and light emitting element drive circuit using the same: A channel data setting circuit and a light emitting element drive circuit using the channel data setting circuit are disclosed. A channel data setting circuit includes a clock unit that measures one of a low level period and a high level period of a pulse signal supplied from a single...

20060202944 - Elements for self assembling displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light emitting elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light emitting and self-organizing characteristics may be used during display assembly....

20060202945 - Image display device with reduced flickering and blur: A backlit display with improved display characteristics....

20060202942 - Mirrored lcd display: A mirrored liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. One embodiment, among others, comprises a liquid crystal display (LCD); and logic for controlling the LCD to selectively operate in one of two alternative states. The two states include a first state in which the LCD operates in a conventional manner to...

20060202943 - Self assembly of elements for displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light emitting elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light emitting and self-organizing characteristics may be used during display assembly....

20060202941 - System and method for determining illumination of a pixel by shadow planes: A graphics processing circuit includes a pixel shader operative to provide pixel color information in response to image data representing a scene to be rendered; a texture circuit, coupled to the pixel shader, operative to determine a luminance value to be applied to a pixel of interest based on the...

20060202947 - Thin film panel, driving device, and liquid crystal display having the same: A thin film panel, a driving device, and a liquid crystal display having the thin film panel and the driving device are provided. The thin film panel includes a first panel, a second panel, and an illumination sensor, wherein the illumination sensor includes a plurality of color filters formed on...

20060202949 - Electrophoretic display elements: The invention relates to methods and materials for controlling stability and color intensity in an electrophoretic display element. Filler particles in the electrophoretic display element, serves as a medium that the electrophoretic particles must travel through during switching between optical states of the display. The filler particles provide improved control...

20060202948 - Electrophoretic display panel: An electrophoretic display panel (1) comprises: an electrophoretic medium (5) comprising charged particles (6); a plurality of picture elements (2); electrodes (3,4) associated with each picture element (2) for receiving a potential difference; and drive means (100). The drive means (100) are arranged for application of a grey scale potential...

20060202954 - Computer based browsing computer program product, system and method: A computer based browsing computer program product, system and method arranges a set of information hosted on a computer into a book or a set of books, where each book includes a subset of the set of information, labels each book with a respective portion of the subset of the...

20060202952 - Location-based information: In response to a positional relationship (distance, or a combination of distance and angle) between an information output unit and a user who uses information displayed in the display unit, a control unit changes the amount of information to be displayed in the display unit based on an information level,...

20060202950 - Method for configuring 3d input device, method for reconfiguring 3d input device, method for recognizing wearing of the 3d input device, and the apparatus thereof: Provided are a method for configuring a three-dimensional (3D) input device, a method for reconfiguring the 3D input device, a method for recognizing wearing of the 3D input device, and an apparatus for the same. The method of configuring a three-dimensional (3D) input device, which performs information input operations using...

20060202953 - Novel man machine interfaces and applications: Affordable methods and apparatus are disclosed for inputting position, attitude (orientation) or other object characteristic data to computers for the purpose of Computer Aided Design, Painting, Medicine, Teaching, Gaming, Toys, Simulations, Aids to the disabled, and internet or other experiences. Preferred embodiments of the invention utilize electro-optical sensors, and particularly...

20060202951 - Scroll disc input apparatus for a data processing device: An apparatus is described comprising: a data processing device having a memory for storing program code and data and a processor for processing the program code and data, and a display for displaying graphical images and text; a control disc rotatably and communicatively engaged with the data processing device, the...

20060202956 - Method for a host computer having network function to detect the motion signal of a wireless mouse: A method for a host computer having network function to detect the motion signal of a wireless mouse comprises the following steps of: gathering statistics of system information of the host computer; receiving ID authentication information from the wireless mouse; determining whether the wireless mouse is authenticated; activating a network...

20060202960 - Mouse with adjustable center of gravity: A mouse with adjustable center of gravity has a casing and a weight. The casing has an accommodating space formed therein, and the weight is received in the accommodating space. The weight can be used to adjust easily the center of gravity of the mouse. Hence, the center of gravity...

20060202961 - Mouse with adjustable center of gravity: A mouse with adjustable center of gravity has a mouse body, a top cover and a weight. An accommodating space is formed in the mouse body or is formed under the top cover, and the weight is received in the accommodating space. The weight can be used to adjust easily...

20060202958 - Queue management and state record display device for a computer mouse: A queue management and state display device of a computer mouse is described. The computer mouse has an image queue management unit and a function state record unit. Shifting the computer mouse is increasingly smooth due to the image queue management unit, and the function state record unit displays the...

20060202959 - Rechargeable mouse holder: A rechargeable mouse holder includes a housing, a first contact set and a second contact set. The housing has a mouse cavity and a battery cavity, the mouse cavity receives a rechargeable mouse therein, and the battery cavity receives a rechargeable battery therein; the first contact set is disposed in...

20060202957 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse for sending an operation signal to a receptor includes a housing having a pivot portion disposed at a rear thereof; a circuit board disposed in the housing; a battery holder suspended over the housing, and having a battery cavity and a receptor cavity; and a keystroke lid...

20060202955 - Wireless mouse for receiving a receiver thereunder: A wireless mouse has a main body and a receiver. The main body has a sensor device and an energy-saving device-disposed thereunder. The receiver is detachably disposed under the main body by a sliding or a retaining method. When the receiver is disposed under the main body, the receiver covers...

20060202962 - Computer input apparatus: A computer input apparatus is disclosed which has improved safety control. The computer input apparatus includes a calibration circuit to control the operation current of a coherent light source to be above a minimum threshold required for normal operations, but below an upper threshold for safety reason. The computer input...

20060202967 - Actuation mechanism for use with keyboards on mobile computing devices: Embodiments of the invention provide an effective keypad assembly and keypad layout for mobile computing devices. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide keyboard layouts and designs. Additionally, embodiments described herein provide for stack components to make keyboards operable on small-form factor devices....

20060202966 - Device and technique for assigning different inputs to keys on a keypad: Embodiments of the invention provide an effective keypad assembly and keypad layout for mobile computing devices. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide keyboard layouts and designs. Additionally, embodiments described herein provide for stack components to make keyboards operable on small-form factor devices....

20060202963 - Extractable terminal keypad: A terminal includes a terminal body, a data output interface, and a data input interface. The data output interface includes a display disposed on a face of the terminal body. The data input interface includes a keypad that is extractable from a storage space inside the terminal body. The keypad...

20060202965 - Handheld electronic device having improved display of disambiguation choices, and associated method: A method of displaying character combination choices on an electronic device having a text disambiguation function, wherein the choices are generated by the text disambiguation function based on a previously entered key depression sequence. The method first determines whether all of the character combination choices will fit on a first...

20060202964 - Intelligent modular server management system with enhanced graphical user interface: Disclosed is a remote computer or server management system for coupling a series of remote computers to one or more user workstations and providing an enhanced user interface for the selection, monitoring and control of a plurality of remote computers or servers by each workstation. Preferably, the user workstations include...

20060202968 - Small form-factor keypad for mobile computing devices: Embodiments of the invention provide an effective keypad assembly and keypad layout for mobile computing devices. In particular, embodiments of the invention provide keyboard layouts and designs. Additionally, embodiments described herein provide for stack components to make keyboards operable on small-form factor devices....

20060202973 - Coordinate input apparatus, control method thereof, and program: Position coordinates in a space defined by the first to third axes of a coordinate input pointing tool are calculated. A coordinate output form includes at least an absolute coordinate output form in which calculated coordinate values are directly output, and a relative coordinate output form in which the differential...

20060202972 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display panel to display a picture thereon, a front cover and a rear cover to support the display panel, a pen unit movable on the display panel and including a light generator to emit light and a supersonic wave generator to emit a supersonic wave,...

20060202969 - Method for simulating a touch on a touch screen: Methods are provided for simulating a touch on a touch screen by applying a first signal to a first surface of the touch screen, applying a second signal to a second, opposing surface of the touch screen sensor, and changing the first signal relative to the second signal. Such methods...

20060202971 - Shared electrode pattern field effect sensor and joystick therewith: The present invention is directed to a shared electrode pattern field effect touch sensor apparatus. The apparatus includes first and second spaced electrode patterns, each having an inner electrode and an outer electrode. The inner electrode includes a primary portion defining a primary sense area and at least one secondary...

20060202970 - Touchpad with single-layered printed circuit board structure: In a touchpad with single-layered PCB structure, a PCB has a bottom layer with a sensor area and a component area thereon, the sensor area includes two directional traces directly connected to the component area, respectively, and carbon film wires in the sensor area for interconnecting one or more of...

20060202974 - Surface: Embodiments including a surface are disclosed....

20060202975 - Light guiding apparatus for optical pen: A light guiding apparatus for optical pen comprising a light source, an optical sensor and a light guide is disclosed. The light source emits light towards an outlying surface where the optical sensor captures a reflected imaging light that travels in a direction defined with a captured light. The light...

20060202976 - Writing stylus: A stylus for an electrographic position location apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the stylus includes a writing element that is retractable. The stylus may have a proximal end and a distal end. A conductive annular structure may be at the proximal end of the stylus....

20060202980 - Display chip protection device for a display: A display chip protection device for a display receiving an image signal and a power signal comprises a display chip and a protection unit. The display chip receives the power signal and the image signal from the protection unit. The protection unit is coupled to the display chip for receiving...

20060202978 - On screen display apparatus and method for displaying menu thereon: An on screen display (OSD) apparatus and a method for displaying a menu on the OSD apparatus are provided. The ODS apparatus includes: a memory module which stores a system program and