Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 10/06

20060238440 - Multi display device: The present invention is directed to a multi display device that can realize a large-sized screen by interconnecting a plurality of display elements. The multi display device comprises at least two flat display elements of which adjacent sides are closely contact each other to make a large-sized screen, housings receiving...

20060238439 - State-based auxiliary display operation: Described is a technology by which the operation of an auxiliary computing device, comprising a display and/or actuator set, may be automatically modified based on detected state data. For example, user input may be routed from the actuator set to the host computer system when the host computer system is...

20060238442 - Direct ocular virtual 3d workspace: A direct ocular virtual 3D workspace (laser-based 3D display system) utilizes traditional binocular methods of image composition to produce a 3D workspace in the observers' psyche. This direct ocular virtual 3D workspace is implemented such that in moving environments, such as on a ship or vehicle, the immersion of the...

20060238441 - Method and apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic image: A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a mount, an arm connected to the mount for movement relative to the mount, and a pair of independent visual displays mounted on the arm for movement relative to the mount so that the pair of displays is positionable for viewing by a user. A...

20060238446 - Flat type image display apparatus: There are provided a bracket 3 that has a frame section 11 integrally formed by a transparent material, an apparatus mounting section 12 disposed in an inner peripheral edge of the frame section, and parts fixing sections 13, 13, . . . disposed on the outside of the frame section;...

20060238444 - Quality metric-biased region-of-interest coding for video telephony: The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) coding for video telephony (VT). The disclosed techniques include a technique for generation of a quality metric for ROI video, which jointly considers a user's degree of interest in the ROI, ROI video fidelity, and ROI perceptual quality in evaluating the...

20060238445 - Region-of-interest coding with background skipping for video telephony: The disclosure is directed to techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) coding for video telephony (VT). The disclosed techniques include adaptive skipping of non-ROI (i.e., background) areas to conserve encoding bits for allocation to the ROI....

20060238443 - Simple matrix addressing in a display: An addressing mechanism for charging and discharging quasi-capacitive elements in an X-Y matrix. The addressing mechanism may be configured to toggle a resistor-capacitor (RC) time constant between large and small values such as by opening or closing a circuit path to a low impedance resistor disposed in parallel with a...

20060238451 - Display device: Disclosed is an image display device that is capable of preventing malfunction of drive sequence control of light emission to enable stable control. The image display device comprises a memory, a control section, and a signal output section. The memory stores a plurality of data sets and the corresponding data...

20060238447 - Driver circuit for plasma display panels: A driver circuit for plasma display panels is provided. The driver circuit includes four switches and an energy recovery circuit coupled to an equivalent capacitor of a plasma display panel. The present energy recovery circuit includes a first unit, coupled to the X side of the equivalent capacitor, for passing...

20060238448 - Driver circuit for plasma display panels: A driver circuit for plasma display panels is provided. The claimed driver circuit includes four switches and an energy recovery circuit coupled to an equivalent capacitor of a plasma display panel. The present energy recovery circuit includes a first unit, coupled to ground and the X side of the equivalent...

20060238449 - Driver circuit for plasma display panels: A driver circuit for plasma display panels is provided. The claimed driver circuit includes three switches and an energy recovery circuit coupled to an equivalent capacitor of a plasma display panel. The present energy recovery circuit includes a first unit coupled to the X side of an equivalent capacitor and...

20060238450 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: There is an electro-optical device. The electro-optical device includes: a substrate; a plurality of terminals, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, and a plurality of wiring lines that are provided on the substrate; a mounting component that is mounted on the substrate with an anisotropic conductive...

20060238452 - Pre-drive circuit, capacitive load drive circuit and plasma display apparatus: A pre-drive circuit having low deviation of timing of a high level and a low level output voltages is disclosed. A plurality of drive systems are comprised, each having an input amplifier circuits for amplifying input voltages input to input voltage terminals, high level shift circuits for shifting signal levels...

20060238453 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus implementing gray levels and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to the present invention comprises a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes and...

20060238454 - Analog front-end circuit for digital displaying apparatus and control method thereof: An analog front-end (AFE) circuit of a digital display is disclosed including: a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for converting a first analog video signal into a first digital video signal according to a first sampling signal; a second ADC for converting the first analog video signal into a second digital...

20060238455 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device comprising a screen (1) with a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a corresponding electron emitting structure (8, 9, 11), such as a gate-cathode combination. The electrons emitted by each electron emitting structure (8, 9, 11) are accelerated toward an anode layer...

20060238456 - Display device an driving method of the same: Scan electrode potential detected by a feedback switch is inputted into a negative-phase input terminal of an amplifier, reference selection potential from a reference-selection-potential-signal generation circuit is inputted into a positive-phase input terminal of the amplifier, and the reference-selection-potential-signal generation circuit delays reference potential of a reference voltage source, thereby...

20060238457 - Field emitter devices with emitters having implanted layer: Some embodiments of the invention include structures and methods for a field emitter display device with a coating and an implantation layer underneath a surface of the emitter. Other embodiments are described and claimed....

20060238460 - Data driving circuit of display device: A data driving circuit, used to drive display devices, comprises a digital-to-analog current converter (DAC), a reset circuit connected to the output terminal of the DAC for resetting the output potential of the DAC to a specific gray scale potential, and plural stages of data driver units connected to the...

20060238459 - Date driver circuit of display device: A data driving circuit, used to drive display devices, comprises: a digital-to-analog current converter for receiving a digital signal and further converting the digital signal to an analog current which is larger than a current for driving display units; and plural stages of data driver units connected to the digital-to-analog...

20060238461 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a light emitting element connected to a common voltage, a driving transistor having a control terminal, an output terminal connected to the light emitting element, and an input terminal connected to a driving voltage, a first capacitor connected to the control terminal of the driving transistor,...

20060238458 - Display device and method of driving a display device: Write in of lower significant bits of a digital video signal to a memory is eliminated by a memory controller of a signal control circuit in a display device during a second display mode in which the number of gray scales is reduced, as compared to a first display mode....

20060238462 - Organic light emitting diode device including brightness compensation plate: An organic light emitting diode device includes a substrate having first and second surfaces and a diode on the first surface of the substrate. The diode includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode and an organic emitting layer between the first and second electrodes. Light is...

20060238463 - Electro luminescence display device: The present invention provides electro luminescence display devices comprising a pixel circuit comprising a pixel circuit comprising a plurality of pixels on a substrate; a data driver formed on one side of the pixel circuit for supplying a data signal to the plurality of pixels; at least one scan driver...

20060238466 - Control circuit for balancing current and method thereof: A control circuit for balancing current in a thin display device includes a light source, a power supply, and a control part. The light source includes a plurality of parallel light-emitting diode (LED) rows. The LED row includes at least one LED and a switch unit. The switch unit is...

20060238465 - Led driving circuit, illuminating device, and electro-optical device: An LED driving circuit for driving a plurality of different LEDs includes: a first power supply circuit that is supplied with an input voltage for generating a plurality of driving voltages and a reference voltage with respect to the input voltage and generates a first output voltage and a second...

20060238464 - Superimposed displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for constructing and utilizing displays constructed from superimposed display subunits are disclosed....

20060238467 - Full-color light-emitting diode scanning display: A full-color scanning-type LED display is provided, including a scanning LED module, a projection screen and a structure frame. The scanning LED module further includes a red LED row having a plurality of red LEDs, a green LED row having a plurality of green LEDs, a blue LED row having...

20060238468 - Light emitting device and display device: A light emitting device of the present invention includes: a plurality of light emitting sections arranged in a matrix of n×m (n and m are positive integral numbers); power source lines for supplying power currents for light emission to the respective light emitting sections; control sections for controlling supply of...

20060238469 - Display device: The invention relates to a display device comprising a liquid crystal material between a first substrate provided with row or selection electrodes and a second substrate provided with column or data electrodes, in which overlapping parts of the row and column electrodes define pixels, and drive means for driving the...

20060238470 - Ltps display panel and manufacturing process thereof: An LTPS (low temperature poly-silicon) display panel includes a display area and a pair of driving circuit areas. The display area is fabricated by cutting from a display substrate. The driving circuit areas are fabricated by cutting from an insulated substrate having a poly-silicon film thereon. The driving circuit areas...

20060238473 - Display driver circuit and display apparatus: A driver circuit includes an analog voltage signal generating circuit configured to generate first and second groups of analog voltage signals; a first D/A converter configured to operate in a first voltage range between a first voltage and a second voltage which is lower than the first voltage, and to...

20060238472 - Driver of display device: A driver of a display device is provided. The driver for a display device includes a signal controller receiving first and second input image data, converting the first input image data into first output image data having a grayscale higher than that of the first input image data and converting...

20060238471 - Driving device and driving method for a display: A driving device and driving method for a display is provided that enhances the difference between the brightness displayed by the low gray-scale data and the brightness displayed by the high gray-scale data. The driving device and method include dividing input gray-scale data into high gray-scale output data and low...

20060238474 - Display device: A color display of high numerical aperture and multiple gray scales, which can realize multicoloring and area gray scales is accomplished by simplifying the pixel circuit constitution of the display device. A pair of transistors which hold video signals by bridging alternating power supply sources are used as an output...

20060238476 - Display panel, display device having the same and method of driving the same: A display may include switching circuitry in pixel regions to implement impulse driving. A first pixel region may include switching circuitry to provide a data voltage to the first pixel region during a first portion of a frame, and to provide an impulse voltage to the first pixel region during...

20060238475 - Organic electroluminescent display device and driving method thereof: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a gate line receiving a gate signal, a data line crossing the gate line, the data line receiving a data signal, a first transistor switching the data signal according to the gate signal, the first transistor being turned on during a single horizontal scan...

20060238477 - Driving circuit for liquid crystal display device: A driving circuit for Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device includes a unity-gain operation amplifier (OP amp), three switches, and two capacitors. The unity-gain OP amp buffers and carries a signal voltage on a transmission line. The first switch switches a connection between a noninverting terminal of the unity-gain OP amp...

20060238480 - Display control apparatus and method of creating look-up table: A display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a grayscale converting circuit for converting input image data to output image data using a look-up table showing a correspondence between input image data of i bits and output image data of k bits larger than the...

20060238479 - Display device: The present invention, in a display device which includes a SRAM, prevents a phenomenon that power source fluctuation and display timings are not synchronized and hence, flickering occurs on a display surface of a liquid crystal panel. A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and...

20060238478 - Soft-start high driving method and source driver device: A soft-start high driving method and device to drive display panels are provided. The driving method includes the following steps. First, a display signal is provided for driving a display panel and displaying images. If no predetermined event happens, then, a high-driving mode is used for dynamically adjusting the driving...

20060238481 - Liquid crystal display device: In an LCD device, a driver circuit board for outputting signals to source driver ICs and gate driver ICs is placed at a position on a cover panel distant from a position on the cover panel at which an inverter control board for cathode ray tubes is placed. The driver...

20060238482 - Shift register and method for driving the same: A shift register and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The shift register includes a plurality of stages serially connected to each other. Each of the stages independently generates first and second scan pulses. The first scan pulse is simultaneously applied to a previous stage and to a...

20060238483 - Shift register circuit, driving circuit of display device, and display device using the driving circuit: There is provided a driving circuit which is simple and has a small occupied area. A shift register circuit of the present invention includes a plurality of register circuits. Each of the register circuits includes a clocked inverter circuit and an inverter circuit. Both are connected in series with each...

20060238485 - Brightness control method and device for a display: A brightness control method and device for a display, which calculates a brightness distribution of partial frame image, determines when the partial frame image tends to be dark or light, compares a backlight brightness of the display with a predetermined value in accordance with the partial frame image determined, and...

20060238484 - Display: A display includes a flat display panel and at least a polarizer positioned on an upper surface or a lower surface of the flat display panel. The polarizer has at least a surface treated with a roughness treatment....

20060238487 - Display device and method: A region-based image display device includes a backlight module, a separating unit, a signal-processing unit, and a modulation unit. The backlight module includes several backlight regions. Each backlight region includes an adjustable luminance unit. Each luminance unit has a basis luminance value. The separating unit separates an input image signal...

20060238486 - Liquid crystal display device suitable for display of moving pictures: A back lighting has first and second back lighting units which respectively supply light to a first display region that has first gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel, and a second display region that has second gate lines, the liquid crystal control circuit unit performs, during the frame...

20060238489 - Electrophoretic display and process for its manufacture: This invention relates to an electrophoretic display comprising cells which are filled with charged particles dispersed in a solvent and are individually sealed with a polymeric sealing layer....

20060238488 - Image display unit: Each embodiment relates to an image display device which comprises 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 particles, to which an...

20060238496 - Apparatus and method for displaying user interface for telecommunication terminal: Disclosed is a system for displaying a user interface for a telecommunication terminal. A control unit determines the current rotation state of a display unit through a rotation sensing unit. When the rotation state of the display unit varies, UI information is loaded according to the currently-determined rotation state of...

20060238503 - Deputy series-music cinema or transfortainment pc (phirst classic) or digi-tasking mobile-cycle devices for maximum digital mobilosity or the digital entertaining pc or the all digital activity center or satellite entertainment mogul or satellite entertai: Deputy Series-Music Cinema et. al. Is a televisual/satellite, mass production and communications system. Coliseum Screens are maximized in mobility as a part of our “Digi-Tasking-Mobile-Cycle”. The Coliseum Screens are two wireless/cordless detachable television/computer monitors. Multiple style tooth ray enhancements along with media to media digital interface transfer. The Arsenal Tower...

20060238491 - Design for a computer pointing device: An improved computer pointing device includes improved button placement, adjustable wrist support, and a guide for elevating the mouse cord above the user's hand. The buttons are placed to engage a proximal portion of the user's fingers. A wrist support is provided that relieves the tension on the wrist. The...

20060238500 - Dual configuration portable electronic apparatus: The inventive apparatus is an electronic apparatus (e.g., remote control unit, PDA, computer, etc.) having two sections, each with an interface surface facing the user disposed at an (optionally adjustable) angle to one another. The interface surfaces may include one or more buttons, touchpads, screens, dials, joysticks, touchscreens, or any...

20060238494 - Flexible displays as an input device: A display comprising: (a) a flexible surface operable to exhibit images, the aforesaid flexible surface being capable of exhibiting variable degrees of bend; (b) a plurality of bend sensors for creating a plurality of bend measurements from a line of bend; and (c) a line detection device operable to detect...

20060238502 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device includes a distance detecting unit for detecting a distance from an outputting signal out of a sensor unit to a viewer, an angle detecting unit for detecting an angle of the outputting signal out of the sensor unit relative to a holding position by a viewer,...

20060238490 - Non contact human-computer interface: A human-computer interface includes a plurality of transducers comprising of emitters ad transducers arranged to detect patterns relating to movement of an object such as a gesture or a user's hand within a detection volume in the vicinity of the transducers, and to provide an input to computer equipment depending...

20060238497 - Peel-off auxiliary computing device: An auxiliary computing device that can be electrically charged, synchronized, or updated when docked to a main computing device through a built-in data communications pathway. A computer system includes a first computing device with a microprocessor configured for operating computer-executable instructions. The first computing device may include a main body...

20060238504 - Portable information terminal apparatus, information processing method, computer-program storage medium, and computer-program: Disclosed herein are a portable information terminal apparatus, an information processing method, a computer-program storage medium, and a computer-program. In a portable information terminal apparatus capable of managing a schedule list, the apparatus includes acquiring means for acquiring program information; displaying means for displaying the program information acquired by the...

20060238492 - Position determination utilizing a cordless device: A system for generating position information includes a reflector, an image collection system, and a processor. The image collection system is configured to collect at least two sets of image data, where one set of image data includes a stronger indication of the reflector than the other set of image...

20060238499 - Powerless signal generator for use in conjunction with a powerless position determination device: A reflector and a powerless signal generator mechanism are incorporated into a single powerless pointing device. A light source generates a light signal, and the reflector incorporated within the powerless pointing device reflects the light signal back to a image collection system of a computer. Image data is generated, and...

20060238498 - Storage medium having stored therein game program and game device: When a player selects an object group displayed on a screen, a related selected area display indicating that the object group is in a selected state is displayed. While the display remains, the player performs an input by drawing a track which intersects the related selected area using a stick...

20060238493 - System and method to activate a graphical user interface (gui) via a laser beam: A method and system for activating a graphical user interface (GUI) or controlling a device with gesture commands via a laser beam. The method includes detecting, by a laser beam detector, a laser beam on a screen and then determining, by a laser beam processing module, a position of the...

20060238495 - User input device for electronic device: A user input device for controlling the movement of a cursor in a graphical user interface (GUI) includes a touch sensitive surface arranged to provide a pre-defined number of touch sensitive surface areas substantially continuous with one another each of which is associated with a corresponding pre-defined functionality. Touching contact...

20060238501 - Video card with a control input/output module: A video card has a processor and a cable. The processor is configured on the video card and has a control input/output (digital I/O, DI/O) module. The control input/output module outputs or receives a control signal. The cable is electrically connected to the processor and transmits the control signal between...

20060238505 - Control device for browsing and selecting an item in a list: The invention relates to a control device for browsing and selecting an item in a list. Especially the invention relates to a joystick type control device to be used in portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones and laptops. The control device comprises a stick means, which is coupled with...

20060238506 - Double roller mouse structure: The present invention relates to a double roller mouse structure, and more specifically to a computer mouse consisting of two roller structures mainly comprising a front roller and a left roller. The front roller is designed at the front part of the lower shell body of the mouse between the...

20060238507 - Wireless mouse for receiving a receiver therein: A wireless mouse for receiving a receiver is described. The wireless mouse has a mouse body, a circuit board and a receiver. The mouse body has an upper casing and a lower casing mating with each other, the circuit board is disposed on the lower casing of the mouse body,...

20060238508 - Optical location measuring system: An optical location measuring system is provided including taking a reference image, taking a later image, comparing the reference image and the later image to determine a number of integer and non-integer pixels of movement, and taking a new reference image when the number of pixels of movement is substantially...

20060238509 - Pointing device and associated method of operating: The pointing device is used in connection with a computer system, and has a sensor for sensing data representing a displacement information in at least two spatial coordinates. The device is capable of toggling between a first and a second mode of operation, and also adjusting the displacement information referring...

20060238511 - Multifunction keyboard for advanced cursor driven avionic flight decks: An aircraft display and control system generally includes a processor, a cursor control and selection device, a multifunction keyboard, an aeronautical information database, a geographic database, and a plurality of display devices. Users, such as an aircraft pilot and copilot, can perform flight plan entry and modification by manipulating graphical...

20060238510 - User interface incorporating emulated hard keys: An emulated hard key that emulates a key of a user-selected keyboard is generated on a reconfigurable keyboard. In one exemplary embodiment, the reconfigurable keyboard has an array of microchambers. Each microchamber is operable to change from a first height to a second height. A keyboard emulator controller controls the...

20060238512 - Dedicated proximity-detection display device: The invention pertains to a display device, the surface of the device being rendered touch-sensitive, the device comprising a first dedicated part comprising two insulating plates, a layer of material exhibiting electro-optical properties suitable for rendering all or part of its surface visible under the effect of an electrical control...

20060238517 - Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive bezel for user interface and control: An electronic device has a display and has a touch sensitive bezel surrounding the display. Areas on the bezel are designated for controls used to operate the electronic device. Visual guides corresponding to the controls are displayed on the display adjacent the areas of the bezel designated for the controls....

20060238521 - Identifying contacts on a touch surface: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060238522 - Identifying contacts on a touch surface: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060238515 - Input device: An input device that allows a user to move a pointer with a few operations to resize a window displayed on a screen of a personal computer, is provided. The input device includes an operating surface with a predetermined specific region for detecting contact from an operating object, such as...

20060238516 - Liquid crystal display with touch panel: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal display panel (202), a touch panel (201) adjacent to the liquid crystal display panel, a display driving integrated circuit (206) arranged on the liquid crystal display panel, and a printed circuit board (203). One end of the printed circuit board...

20060238514 - Slide pad membrane: A slide pad membrane is provided. The slide pad membrane comprises an annular ring having an inner edge, a center portion having an outer edge, and a plurality of concentric annular ripples including an outer annular ripple connected to the inner edge of the annular ring and an inner annular...

20060238513 - Touch sensitive control panel: A touch sensitive control panel is described. The control panel comprises a sensor surface in which a plurality of sensor areas are arranged and a circuit board offset from the sensor surface. The circuit board has an electrical contact associated with each of the sensor areas. The electrical contacts are...

20060238518 - Touch surface: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060238519 - User interface gestures: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060238520 - User interface gestures: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060238523 - 3d display: A three dimensional display has an array of quantum dots configured to provide phase controlled light that defines a three dimensional image. A quantum dot driver can be used to determine which quantum dots are activated and when they are activated. A three dimensional phase pattern generator can be used...

20060238526 - Display apparatus, control method thereof and communication system: A display apparatus includes a first communication line usable for display data channel/command interface (DDC/CI) communication with a first signal source, and a second communication line usable for the DDC/CI communication with a second signal source, a third communication line to connect the first communication line and the second communication...

20060238525 - Display apparatus, driving device and method thereof: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus employing an impulsive driving method, a timing control part outputs a first control signal and a second control signal in response to a timing control signal. A data driving part provides a display panel with a first data signal in response to the...

20060238528 - Driving apparatus and driving method for electron emission device: A driving apparatus and a driving method for an electron emission device include a polarity operator for receiving an external video data signal and a horizontal synchronization signal, and generating a polarity control signal in response to the horizontal synchronization signal. The apparatus further includes a data inverter for selectively...

20060238527 - High speed logic signal level shifter: A high speed logic signal level shifter is comprised of: a logic signal buffer for receiving logic signal information and having true and complement state differential outputs; a binary flip-flop circuit with set and reset inputs; a first coupling capacitor connected from the true buffer output to the set input...

20060238524 - Signal conversion apparatus for display device: A signal conversion apparatus, connected to one or more electronic apparatuses and a display device, mainly includes one or more input interfaces, a signal conversion unit, and an output interface. Each input interface is for connecting to an electronic apparatus and receiving signals therefrom. The input interfaces include analog interfaces...

20060238529 - Vehicle display device having a wireless transmitter: There is provided a display device for a vehicle having a seat. The display device includes an assembly housing adapted to mount at a rear portion of the seat. A receiver is adapted to receive at least one of video and audio signals from at least one external input device....

20060238530 - Micro-mirror element and method: According to one embodiment of the present invention a micro-mirror element comprises a lower layer, a middle layer, and a micro-mirror. The middle layer includes at least one hinge. The entire middle layer is operable to receive a bias charge. The micro-mirror is operable to receive the bias charge from...

20060238533 - Battery power level inspection device co-constructed with system indicators of notebook computer and inspection method thereof: A notebook computer battery power level inspection device, which is co-constructed with system indicators of the notebook computer, employs an embedded controller of the notebook computer to detect the status of a battery test signal and, in response thereto, generate a signal representing the power level of the battery. Upon...

20060238531 - Method of controlling screen brightness of an electronic device: A method of controlling screen brightness of an electronic device includes detecting the remaining capacity of a battery installed on an electronic device, and controlling screen brightness of the electronic device according to the remaining capacity of the battery. Power consumption of the electronic device can be reduced according to...

20060238532 - Ornamental lcd: An ornamental LCD capable of displaying full color photographs, video, text and graphics. The device contains a outer display screen with an LCD feature, a printed circuit board containing a memory module, a microprocessor, a USB connection and, in some cases, a power source. The device is adapted to have...

20060238534 - Exfoliated picture projection method, program and exfoliated picture projection device: An exfoliated picture projection method and device are provided which are capable of outputting distortion information of three-dimensional picture data. A distortion amount is calculated in accordance with the difference between the position of a reference virtual ray and the position of a virtual ray projected during creating of the...

20060238535 - Method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation: A method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation includes a vertex grouper tessellator operably coupled to receive primitive information and an index list and a shader processing unit coupled to the vertex grouper tessellator. During a first pass, the shader processing unit receives primitive indices generated from the primitive...

20060238536 - Image synthesis method, image synthesis apparatus, and storage medium: An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accordance with the placement information. Prior to performing mapping...

20060238537 - Screen display method and device and program for the same: There is provided a knowledge (information) providing type display method, especially a screensaver, offering a benefit to a lot of people who watch simultaneously by giving them motivation to look at a knowledge item shown adjacent to a knowledge item which is too easy or too difficult. A plurality of...

20060238538 - System and method for data visualization using a synchronous display of sequential time data and on-map planning: A system and method is provided for coordinating display of synchronized spatial information and time-variant information on a visual interface as a visual representation of a multi-dimensional planned process. The system and method comprise a data store configured for storing the time-variant information, such that the data store is further...

20060238539 - Method and apparatus for glyph hinting by analysis of similar elements: A method for grouping glyphs or characters together by certain characteristics, and then mechanically performing hinting on each group based on the hand-done hinting of an avatar character or glyph in each class, and then reusing this hinting for other glyphs or characters is disclosed....

20060238540 - Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events: The methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events include declaratively playing a first media sequence; and declaratively initiating a second media sequence at a predetermined time prior to an end point of the first media sequence wherein the predetermined time is independent from an amount of time...

20060238541 - Displaying an image using memory control unit: A memory control unit controls the transfer of image data from a video buffer to a frame buffer, and from the frame buffer to a display, to be performed block by block. Image data is written from a video buffer to the frame buffer one block at a time. When...

20060238542 - Palette-based, multi-tint, named color methods and systems: Palette-based, multi-tint, named-color methods and systems utilize a pixel-by-pixel indexing technique in which individual index values into a palette of interest can be used in different ways for rendering associated images across different devices. For some devices, the index values are used to index into the palette of interest to...

20060238543 - Color information processing apparatus and method: The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, initial 3D object data is generated based on color distribution...

20060238544 - Method and system for display image information: An image information displaying system includes a media receiver that receives image signals and a PDP device that displays performs display based on the image signals. The media receiver includes an encoding unit that converts an N-bit input image signal, where N is a positive integer, into an M-bit output...

20060238545 - High-resolution autostereoscopic display and method for displaying three-dimensional images: A display device (10) having pixels elements (118) divided into subpixel zones (131), so that each subpixel zone is associated to a predetermined viewing direction (160, 162, and 164). The light outputs of subpixel zones are controlled by an array of scanning focused electron beams (82). Each electron beam corresponds...

20060238546 - Comparative image review system and method: A comparative review system for displaying views associated with studies on first and second display areas according to a screen layout, a study view mode, and a hanging protocol. The screen layout is used to determine the number of display slots to display in the first and second display areas....

20060238547 - System and method for dynamically generating on-demand digital images: A system and method is provided that dynamically creates, manipulates and transfers digital images over a communication network on a per request basis in an efficient manner, wherein the composition, format, presentation, and content of the digital images are determined by directives presented at the time of the request. The...

20060238548 - Method and systems for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop: Methods and systems for controlling a computer using a video image of a computer user and for combining the video image with a computer desktop are disclosed. In one method, an image of a user is combined and transparently displayed with a computer desktop. The user may point to or...

20060238549 - System and method for object tracking: A system for tracking an object is disclosed. The exemplary tracking system comprises an input device configured to detect two-dimensional input pixel data from a prop device and a multiprocessor unit configured to calculate three-dimensional position and orientation data associated with the prop device from the two-dimensional input pixel data....

20060238550 - Hands-free data acquisition system: A wearable data acquisition system is described in which the data input devices are contained within a headpiece apparatus thereby permitting the operator to control acquisition integration of image capture and display in a hands free environment. The system includes a portable data terminal communicating with the headpiece apparatus which...

20060238552 - Drive method to reduce power dissipation for flat panel display and device of the same: A control module for reducing power dissipation is connected to a column driving unit and a row driving unit. The control module includes a memory for storing display data temporarily and an arithmetic/logic unit connected to the memory. The arithmetic/logic unit takes grayscale image data of a current conducted row...

20060238551 - Liquid crystal display gamma correction: Gamma correcting procedures suitable for single-panel LCD/LCoS projectors are provided. Initially, linearly derived gamma values are used to produce gray scale color images (such as RED, GREEN, and BLUE). The brightness-voltage characteristics of the projector are determined by measurement and calculation. New gamma correction values are calculated and used to...

20060232494 - Automatic cross-display coordination: The invention relates to improved systems and methods for communicating information between an auxiliary display device and a primary display device. Methods and systems for automatic cross-display coordination between an auxiliary and primary display device through the use of executable command lines are provided. In at least one embodiment, a...

20060232495 - Dual panel display: A dual panel display including a first panel including a first display area thereon, a second panel including a second display area thereon, a first flexible printed circuit (FPC), an electronic element and a second FPC is provided. The electronic element is mounted on the second panel and connected to...

20060232496 - Multi display device: There is provided a multi-display device capable of displaying the entity of an image even in a case of a large image to be displayed, and capable of changing a horizontally long image screen to a vertically long image screenor vice versa by utilizing no mechanism for rotating, by 90...

20060232497 - Method and system for presenting an image of an external view in a moving vehicle: Methods and systems for processing images corresponding to views external to a vehicle are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes first and second signal receiving portions configured to receive a signal corresponding to an image of a view external to the vehicle and a...

20060232498 - Three-dimensional display using variable focal length micromirror array lens: A three-dimensional display device includes a two-dimensional display displaying a depthwise image, and a variable focal length micromirror array lens receiving light from the two-dimensional display and forming a corresponding image in the required location in space. Each depthwise image represents a portion of an object or scene having the...

20060232499 - Method and apparatus for using thermal imaging and augmented reality: A method for using Augmented Reality (AR), in conjunction with a real or simulated thermal imager. A primary application is to train emergency first responders. Particularly, the system uses a thermal imaging camera or standard video camera, and tracking system to provide a tracked viewpoint in an AR environment. The...

20060232500 - Numeric value display method: In a numeral value display apparatus, in the case that a display processing unit (8) executes such an operation that a numeral value stored in a storage member is read out to display the read numeral value, the display processing unit (8) is arranged to be controlled that if a...

20060232501 - Method and apparatus for implementing a pulse skip method of controlling light intensity: A method and an apparatus for modulating light emitted by an at least one LEDs using a pulse skip modulation technique (PSM). The apparatus having an at least one first LED adapted to output at least first radiation having a first spectrum, an at least one second LED adapted to...

20060232502 - Image display apparatus, image display method and computer-readable recording medium storing image display program: An image display apparatus in which image signals of a plurality of primary colors are transformed by an image processing section into color space that includes lightness and chromaticity. When the chromaticity (color vividness) in this color space is being corrected, the correction method is changed in accordance with the...

20060232503 - Active matrix-type liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device which performs a gradation display for each frame, by eliminating fluctuations in pixel voltage. The device includes a pixel electrode and a MOS transistor circuit driving the pixel electrode. The MOS transistor circuit is disposed near a cross-over point of a scanning line and a...

20060232504 - Active matrix-type liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device which performs a gradation display for each frame, by eliminating fluctuations in pixel voltage. The device includes a pixel electrode and a MOS transistor circuit driving the pixel electrode. The MOS transistor circuit is disposed near a cross-over point of a scanning line and a...

20060232505 - Active matrix-type liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device which performs a gradation display for each frame, by eliminating fluctuations in pixel voltage. The device includes a pixel electrode and a MOS transistor circuit driving the pixel electrode. The MOS transistor circuit is disposed near a cross-over point of a scanning line and a...

20060232512 - Method of driving plasma display panel (pdp): A method of driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) having discharge cells formed where sustain electrodes cross address electrodes, the method including: processing an input image signal received from an external device and dividing the processed input image signal into frames, each frame including a plurality of subfields, each subfield...

20060232507 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same, more particularly to, a plasma display apparatus considering the gray level values of sub-fields and a method of driving the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus controls the magnitudes of reset pulses or the widths of scan pulses...

20060232510 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is configured as having a first display line containing a first scanning electrode in a display region; a first non-display line including a second scanning electrode outside the display region; a first potential line capable of applying a first potential of a scanning pulse, the scanning...

20060232514 - Plasma display device: The present invention solves the problem that the color temperature of initial setting is changed, when a PDP is driven for a long period of time, due to the non-uniform deterioration of red, green and blue fluorescent materials that is caused by the ultraviolet rays generated for discharge. Color temperature...

20060232508 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In conventional plasma display devices, reset by obtuse waves has been performed since discharge intensity becomes higher and background light emission is increased when reset by rectangular waves is performed. However, further improvement of the contrast to improve the image quality has been demanded. The present invention provides a driving...

20060232506 - Plasma display device, power device thereof, and driving method thereof: A power supply for a plasma display device controls an output voltage by using a voltage divided by first resistors coupled to an output terminal, and outputs the output voltage as a driving voltage for driving a PDP. The output voltage is changed by varying a resistance of at least...

20060232509 - Plasma display module: A plasma display module includes a plasma display panel displaying images using a gas discharge phenomenon, and a color temperature compensation filter in a viewing path of the plasma display panel, the color temperature compensation filter having at least one transparent region, e.g., a hole, in the viewing path....

20060232513 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: In a plasma display panel, a sustain discharge pulse voltage is applied to the scan or sustain electrodes while the address electrode is biased with a ground voltage, and a negative assistant pulse voltage is applied to an electrode that is not receiving the sustain discharge pulse. At least a...

20060232511 - Plasma display panel and plasma display device: Conventionally, when a thickness of a dielectric layer is reduced without changing an electrode shape, a drive margin is reduced and stable driving cannot be performed. In a discharge cell, a display electrode comprises a projection extending in a column direction from an electrode body extending in a row direction,...

20060232515 - Method for driving a plasma display panel: The invention relates to a method for driving a display panel comprising a matrix array of cells which could be “ON” or “OFF”, wherein, to display an image, a video frame is divided into N sub-fields, each sub-field comprising at least an addressing period and a sustaining period, the addressing...

20060232516 - Plasma display apparatus, plasma display panel, and driving device and method thereof: A plasma display apparatus, a plasma display panel, and a driving device and method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes including: a plasma display panel having a scan electrode, a sustain electrode and an address electrode for applying a predetermined voltage by constituting one frame of a combination...

20060232517 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel reduces a resonance space between a frit and dummy partition walls so as to suppress noise and smoothly supply and exhaust a discharge gas. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate that face each other, address electrodes and display electrodes that...

20060232518 - Electron emission display and method of controlling the same: An electron emission display and a method of controlling the same, in which a voltage applied between a cathode electrode and a gate electrode is adjusted according to an image level, includes: a pixel portion having a plurality of electron emission devices formed adjacent to a region where a plurality...

20060232522 - Active-matrix display, the emitters of which are supplied by voltage-controlled current generators: The display comprises an array of pixel circuits each comprising an emitter 1 in series with a current modulation transistor, and at least one address circuit, which integrates, for each column, a differential amplifier and a passive element preferably a resistive element, which cooperate with the current modulation transistors so...

20060232521 - Circuit and method for driving organic light-emitting diode: Disclosed are driving circuit and method which are used in an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED), and more specifically to a driving circuit of an organic light emitting diode and a driving method thereof which use a thin film transistor (TFT) as an active device. The driving circuit and method...

20060232523 - Display device and display panel device: A functional sheet is brought into intimate contact with a front surface of a plasma display panel, and the functional sheet has a structure in which heat diffusion is superior to heat insulation between the plasma display panel and outside air. In addition, a display device includes a controller for...

20060232519 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device configured to minimize a layout area of a driver and a method of driving the same is provided. First and second scan drivers are disposed on opposite sides of a display panel. Each of the first and second scan drivers has a plurality of circuit parts corresponding...

20060232520 - Organic light emitting diode display: An OLED display device which has a peripheral circuit and a display area on the same substrate and provides enhanced gamma correction is disclosed. The OLED display includes a plurality of pixels, a resistor ladder, a predetermined number of voltage selectors, and a data driver, all of which are formed...

20060232524 - Variable power control for oled area illumination: An OLED area illumination apparatus, comprising an OLED device, a variable power controller connected to the OLED device for providing variable power to the OLED device and responsive to a control signal, a feedback circuit for measuring the resistance of the OLED device and using the measurement signal for providing...

20060232525 - Illumination assembly: An illumination assembly includes a first diode row having first and second multi-chip LED units, and a second diode row having third and fourth multi-chip LED units. The first through fourth multi-chip LED units each includes red, green, and blue LEDs. Light of the red, green, and blue LEDs of...

20060232526 - Level shifting and logic circuit: The present invention provides a various methods, systems and devices for controlling light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators....

20060232528 - Apparatus and method for use of large liquid crystal display with small driver: A liquid crystal display driver has N common drive lines and M segment drive lines. A liquid crystal display has M segment driver leads and N times P common drive leads, P being at least two. P multiplexers are provided, each external to the liquid crystal display driver. Each of...

20060232527 - Apparatus for receiving monitor for vehicles: An apparatus for receiving a television or a navigator display monitor for vehicles which can easily and automatically regulate a horizontal angle of a monitor mounted therein. The apparatus comprises a chassis panel (5) having synthetic resin sliders positioned at both sides thereof, a tilting body (1) being connected to...

20060232532 - Display device: A display device includes a substrate having display portion and peripheral portion, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines formed over the substrate, a plurality of switching elements connected to the plurality of gate signal lines and the plurality of drain signal lines and...

20060232530 - Information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes, the light source including a first area including first and second light emitting elements, and a second area including third and fourth light emitting elements, the third light emitting element being connected in series to the first light emitting element, the...

20060232529 - Liquid crystal display device and production method thereof: Each pixel of an array substrate is provided with a reflective region and a transmittance region. A first color filter layer is provided between each pixel electrode and a gate insulating film of the array substrate. The first color filter layer of each pixel has spectral characteristics corresponding to the...

20060232531 - Methods for driving bistable electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein: A gray scale bistable electro-optic display is driven by storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary for transitions, storing data representing at least an initial state of each pixel of the display, storing data representing temporal and gray level prior states of each pixel, receiving an input...

20060232533 - Display device employing time-division-multiplexed driving of driver circuits: A display device includes a display panel having plural pixels each provided with a thin film transistor and arranged in a matrix configuration in its display area, and a drain driver for supplying video signals to the plural pixels. The drain driver supplies video signals to the plural pixels in...

20060232534 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method for liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device where each unit pixel p arranged on a liquid crystal panel 101A is constituted by a plurality of pixels p1, p2, and p3, the pixels p1, p2, and p3 are divided into sub-pixels p11 and p12, sub-pixels p21, and p22, and sub-pixels p31 and...

20060232535 - Liquid crystal display and portable terminal having the same: A liquid crystal display that is unsusceptible to the effect of a pixel potential during writing of data to a memory, allowing a large margin to be provided against variation in characteristics of transistors forming a pixel circuit, and a portable terminal having the liquid crystal display. In a pixel...

20060232536 - Dual select diode active matrix liquid crystal display employing in-plane switching mode: A pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a dual select diode arrangement configured for an in-plane switching mode of operation....

20060232537 - Array substrate for in-plane switching liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of the same: An array substrate for an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line and a data line on the substrate and crossing each other to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor adjacent to a crossing of the gate line and the data line, a...

20060232538 - Method of driving liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display device,and electronic apparatus: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines arranged to intersect the plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in correspondence with the intersections between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data...

20060232539 - Liquid crystal display and drive circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display of this invention includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and pixels provided at each intersection of the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of data lines. The liquid crystal display further includes a plurality of pixel groups constituted of the...

20060232540 - Display: A display has active elements and pixels arrayed in a matrix and drives the active elements to apply a voltage to the pixels for displaying an image. The display includes a gate driver IC for generating a signal for controlling the active elements, a plurality of gate interconnect lines for...

20060232541 - Display device and method for driving a display device: A demultiplexer circuit selects one of data signals, which are sent via an output port of a data driver circuit, on a time division basis, and distributes the data signals to data lines. For high-resolution display, the demultiplexer sequentially distributes data signals to associated data lines. For low-resolution display, the...

20060232542 - Liquid crystal panel driving device: A switching-controlling section turns ON one of a transfer gate for high voltages or a transfer gate for low voltages and subsequently turns ON the other one of the transfer gates according to the outputs from the data latches only when the outputs from data latches are different from each...

20060232543 - Display device and drive method thereof: A display apparatus and a method for driving the display apparatus that are capable of suppressing image quality degradation resulting from delay in sampling pulses or from waveform rounding thereof and image quality degradation caused by coupling between the signal line and the common line and that between the signal...

20060232545 - Display device: A display device comprises a light source consisting of three emission elements, each of which emits light of different wavelength regions corresponding to the respective colors of red, green and blue, and a display module consisting of a display part wherein each pixel has two types of color filters that...

20060232544 - Liquid crystal display device: An object of the present invention is to present a transmission type liquid crystal display device capable of achieving at least one of reduction of size of device and enhancement of performance of operation and display. A liquid crystal panel is divided into four divided regions in vertical direction in...

20060232546 - User identity authentication system and user identity authentication method and mobile telephonic device: It is an object to provide an user identity authentication system and an user identity authentication method with the Internet and a mobile information communication device. The mobile information communication device includes a liquid crystal device with a built-in image sensor. The image sensor reads individual information of a user,...

20060232547 - Electrophoretic display panel with reduced power consumption: This invention relates to an electrophoretic display panel (1), for displaying an image corresponding to image information, comprising a plurality of pixels (4), each containing an amount of an electrophoretic material, an electrode arrangement (8, 9) associated with each pixel (4) for receiving a potential difference as defined by an...

20060232548 - Grayscale generation method for electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1) for displaying a picture has a plurality of picture elements (2) and drive means (100). Each picture element (2) has two electrodes (3,4) for receiving a potential difference and charged particles (6) being able to occupy positions between the electrodes (3,4). The drive means (100)...

20060232552 - Display system and method for controlling rotation angle therefor: An image display system including an image display device and a remote control is provided. The image display device used for displaying image includes a wireless receiving module, a driving unit and a controlling unit. The remote control includes an adjusting unit and a wireless transmitting module. The adjusting unit...

20060232551 - Electronic device and method for simplifying text entry using a soft keyboard: An electronic device predicts a target key on a soft keyboard for selection by a user and enlarges the target key to make it easier for the user to select the target key. The electronic device includes a display that displays a cursor and keys that constitute a soft keyboard...

20060232553 - Electronic device with bezel feature for receiving input: An electronic device includes a bezel feature, a connector and a processor. The bezel feature is rotatable amongst a plurality of positions on an arc length that defines a path of motion for the bezel feature. The plurality of positions are distributed along the entire arc length of the path...

20060232550 - Integrated mouse in remote control: In various embodiments, a remote control may include a mouse logic functionality on the remote control such that when the remote control is placed on a surface, the movements of the remote control are translated into movements for a movement functionality (e.g., moving an on screen cursor) on a system...

20060232549 - Non-contact electric inductance circuit for power source: A non-contact electric inductance circuit for a power source converts input alternating current into signals with harmonic vibration and of high frequency, a coil of a set of corresponding receiver equipment receives the harmonic vibration of the signals to convert it into electric energy; wherein the entire electric inductance circuit...

20060232554 - Scrolling interface for media player: A media player comprising: (a) a body comprising a front face; (b) a display mounted in the front face; and (c) a scrolling activator mounted in the front face for controlling longitudinal movement of a cursor/selector on the display....

20060232555 - Wired/wireless chargeable mouse: A wired/wireless chargeable mouse, within which is configured a coil winding mechanism that is used to rewind a connecting wire and a connector into the mouse. When using the mouse in wired mode, a charging circuit of a circuit board charges a battery within the mouse using electric power transmitted...

20060232556 - Lens module for optical mouse and related optical module and computer input apparatus: A lens module for an optical mouse includes a fixing part and a light guiding part. The fixing part is for fixing a light source, so that light emitted by the light source travels along a predetermined path only, the fixing part comprising at least two fixing members, one of...

20060232559 - Capacitive touchpad with physical key function: A capacitive touchpad with physical key function comprises a soft flexible first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; and a soft flexible insulator layer disposed between the first and the second conductive layers. The insulator layer has at least a through hole for the first conductive layer to connect to...

20060232557 - Combination consisting of a computer keyboard and mouse control device: The invention relates to a keyboard, particularly a computer keyboard, comprising a keyboard housing (1, 3) and a capacitive device, which comprises at least one electrode (35) and is provided for inputting position data for a mouse pointer. The inventive keyboard is characterized in that the at least one electrode...

20060232560 - Key and keyboard: A key includes a light-permeable body, a light-shading layer and a first dye layer. The light-shading layer is formed on the surface of the light-permeable body and has a first light-permeable area and a second light-permeable area. The first dye layer is formed on the first light-permeable area....

20060232558 - Virtual keyboard: The present invention discloses a virtual keyboard, which includes a virtual region, at least two vibration sensors, a storage unit and a processing unit. The virtual region is formed on a surface and has a plurality of virtual keys. The vibration sensors are provided on the surface. The storage unit...

20060232567 - Capacitive sensing arrangement: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer...

20060232566 - Color liquid crystal display device and image display thereof: There is disclosed a color liquid crystal display (LCD) device capable of displaying color images in response to direct entry of input data and/or instructions through operation of an associated coordinate pointing tool. Typically, this tool is a pen-like input device known as the “input pen” for use in determining...

20060232564 - Electronic apparatus: In an electronic apparatus having a touch panel and a chassis for supporting the touch panel, pair of fixing cushions are fixed to the touch panel along edges, which are parallel to each other, of the touch panel. Pair of vibration absorbing cushions are fixed to the chassis parallel to...

20060232565 - Electronic media reader that splits into two pieces: The inventive device is an electronic media reader that allows the user to experience text, graphics, video and audio. The device also includes a method to separate the heavy portions from the physical display portion. The two pieces are tethered together to allow for power and communication. This serves to...

20060232561 - Electronic writing apparatus: An electronic writing apparatus includes a transparent writing board mounted in front of a display surface of a display unit and having a writing surface distal from the display surface of the display unit. The writing board permits transmission of a light signal with a wavelength within a range from...

20060232562 - Tablet liquid crystal display device: Disclosed is a tablet liquid crystal display device which senses light applied from a light irradiating device to receive an input signal applied from an exterior. The tablet liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel for displaying an image, including a black matrix formed in a lattice form;...

20060232563 - Touch-sense apparatus available for one-dimensional and two-dimensional modes and control method therefor: A touch-sense apparatus available for one-dimensional and two-dimensional modes comprises a sensor having a plurality of traces in two directions to sense the position touched by an object to produce a first signal, a two-dimensional coordinate processor to produce a two-dimensional coordinate based on the first signal in the two-dimensional...

20060232568 - Coordinate input apparatus, control method thereof, and program: A signal change range generated by a pointing operation of a pointer on a coordinate input region is specified in correspondence with the initial detection signal distribution of a detection unit in an initial state without pointing on the coordinate input region. Pieces of end information of the specified signal...

20060232569 - Direct homography computation by local linearization: A method and apparatus for determining a homography between an image and an expected image is described. The homography accounts for differences in perspective of a camera viewing an objective plane of the image, in some examples, a paper with information on it....

20060232570 - Signaling pen: A signaling pen of improved construction includes an actuator that functions generally independent of a bias and stop arrangement. Preferably an antenna is fixed to a PCB board secured within a body. This provides an efficient signal communication path. Preferably the PCB board is secured within an inner casing that...

20060232571 - Stylus retaining mechanism: A retaining mechanism for a stylus. A hollow receiving passage is surrounded by a passage wall. A holding member is connected to the passage wall and includes an abutting portion. The abutting portion protrudes from the passage wall and is disposed in the hollow receiving passage. A wear-resistant portion is...

20060232573 - Display description format providing device, method of controlling same, communications network system, display control device, method of controlling same, display system, program for controlling display description format providing device, program for co: A display template server supplies, to an information communications terminal via a communications network, a display template for displaying a plurality of contents on the information communications terminal. The server includes (i) a template storage section that stores original templates each including display area specifying information that specifies a plurality...

20060232572 - Method and circuit arrangement for driving a display as well as chip card with display: To provide a method and circuit arrangement for driving a display, in particular the display on a chip card, by means of which information optionally comprising a plurality of display images may be displayed simply and efficiently, provision is made that (a) in write mode, information to be displayed on...

20060232574 - Unit circuit, control method thereof, electronic device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: There is provided a unit circuit comprising: a capacitive element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first electrode, a first terminal supplied with one of a low...

20060232576 - Compact flat panel color calibration system: A compact flat panel color calibration system includes a lens prism optic able to pass a narrow, perpendicular, and uniform cone angle of incoming light to a spectrally non-selective photodetector. The calibration system also includes a microprocessor operable to determine the luminance of the display based upon the information gathered...

20060232575 - Methods and apparatus to detect an operating state of a display based on visible light: Methods and apparatus to detect operating states of a display based on visible light are disclosed. An example device to detect an operating state of a display includes at least one optical sensor and a logic circuit. The at least one optical sensor is disposed to detect visible light emanating...

20060232580 - Amplifying solid-state imaging device: A signal charge is transferred from a photodiode to a signal charge storage portion through a depletion mode transfer transistor. A reset transistor is connected between an input terminal and an output terminal of a MOS transistor. A vertical scanning circuit always turns on the reset transistor during a non-read...

20060232577 - Circuit for signal amplification and use of the same in active matrix devices: An amplification circuit comprises a capacitor arrangement (42) and a switching arrangement The capacitor arrangement has a first capacitor (C2) which has a voltage-dependent capacitance and a second capacitor (C1) (which may also be voltage-dependent). The circuit is operable in two modes, a first mode in which the input voltage...

20060232578 - Collapsible portable display: A collapsible portable video display is provided, which incorporates a mini-projector, a folding mirror, and a rear projection foldable screen. In one type of implementation the display is incorporated into a mobile device, such as a cellphone, mobile DVD player, etc. In other type of implementation the display device is...

20060232579 - Woa panel architecture: The present invention provides solutions to simplify and reduce the resources needed for manufacturing liquid crystal display modules. Failure of mid-process steps during mass production can result in significant costs. According to certain embodiments of the present invention, a WOA display panel architecture requires fewer LCM resources or has no...

20060232581 - Method and computer program for constructing complex structure graphic: A general complex structure graph constructing method and the associated computer program is described. The generators and initiators selected by the user are used as the geometrical graphing basis. Using the transformation information of the generators and the operation information between the generators and the initiators, the geometrical transformation and...

20060232583 - System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling: System and method for constructing a 3D model of an object based on a series of silhouette and texture map images. In the exemplary embodiment an object is placed on a rotating turntable and a camera, which is stationary, captures images of the object as it rotates on the turntable....

20060232582 - Virtual reality theater: Stadium seating arranged within a dome for a virtual reality experience. The stadium seating is arranged in tiers so that the view of the dome, that receives a display or projection, is not obscured from any of the seats. The stadium seating can be brought down to the level or...

20060232584 - Stereoscopic picture generating apparatus: An apparatus for rendering a three-dimensional model from a plurality of eye points to present a three-dimensional picture, wherein the position of a virtual camera for rendering apexes of the three-dimensional model is controlled in accordance with the amount of protrusion of an object under rendering from a display plane...

20060232585 - Detail-in-context terrain displacement algorithm with optimizations: A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in a terrain data representation for display on a display screen, comprising: translating each point of the representation within a lens bounds to a rotated plane being normal to a vector defined by a position for the region-of-interest with respect to...

20060232586 - Parameter setting apparatus and method for audio mixer: There are displayed an array of parameter setting images (e.g., virtual operator images) corresponding to a plurality of parameters, and a plurality of tab images for selecting any one of a plurality of groups formed by grouping the plurality of parameters. The plurality of tab images correspond to the plurality...

20060232588 - Automatic synthesis of font tables for character layout: Data tables that are required for the proper processing of font glyphs are automatically synthesized if they do not form part of an original font definition. The synthesized tables are stored in an annex file that is associated with the font, rather than being incorporated into the font definition. As...

20060232587 - Av (audio/video) system and method for forming bitmap font outline of the av system: An AV system and a method of forming a bitmap font outline of the AV system are disclosed. The method of forming a bitmap font outline of an Audio/Video (AV) system includes: searching for a font corresponding to received text code data, and displaying the font on a background graphic...

20060232589 - Uninterrupted execution of active animation sequences in orphaned rendering objects: An animation model is disclosed for generating animations that may be associated with one or more user interfaces utilized by executing software applications. The animations may be activated responsive to one or more events during software execution, such as when associated user interfaces may be initially generated for display or...

20060232591 - Circuit structure for dual resolution design: A dual resolution circuit for supporting normal resolution display mode and half resolution display mode is disclosed. In the dual resolution circuit, cascaded shift registers are controlled by a group of clock signals to generate intermediate scan signals in response to a start pulse. A normal/reverse scan switch, controlling a...

20060232590 - Graphics processing and display system employing multiple graphics cores on a silicon chip of monolithic construction: A high performance graphics processing and display system architecture realized on a monolithic silicon chip, supporting a cluster of multiple cores of graphic processing units (GPUs) that cooperate to provide a powerful and highly scalable visualization solution supporting photo-realistic graphics capabilities for diverse applications. The present invention eliminates rendering bottlenecks...

20060232592 - Method of internet surfing to eliminate the risk of receiving malicious code: A method of surfing the Internet or receiving email, utilizing a conversion device having transient memory isolated from other parts of the computer to download digital data from a web page or email client and convert the digital data into an analog display signal for display on a television or...

20060232594 - Image outputting apparatus, and archive system including that image outputting apparatus and its control method: When data is output from an archive-function incompatible driver to an archive-function incompatible device, that data is omitted from those to be archived. To this end, an image outputting apparatus of this invention determines whether or not received data has already been archived. When it is determined that the received...

20060232593 - System and method for effectively utilizing a memory device in a compressed domain: A system and method for effectively storing compressed information in an electronic device includes a memory device coupled to the electronic device for storing the compressed information. A compression module sequentially performs a forward write procedure to store first components of the compressed information. The forward write procedure begins at...

20060232595 - Rasterizer driven cache coherency: Apparatus, systems and methods for providing rasterizer driven cache coherency are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes at least one rasterizer capable at least of identifying a rendering order conflict between first and second portions of pixel data and of generating one or more indicators of the rendering order...

20060232596 - Computer graphics processor and method for generating a computer graphics image: A computer graphics processor is described comprising a model information providing unit (210) for providing information representing a set of graphics primitives, a rasterizer (227) capable of generating a first sequence of coordinates which coincide with a base grid associated with the primitive, a color generator (235) for assigning a...

20060232597 - Hybrid vector/raster based paint: A method, system, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to conduct a hybrid raster/vector based paint operation. A user commences a raster based paint operation. Based on the raster operation, vector-based information is determined and recorded. The system then determines if a requested user operation requires the vector-based...

20060232598 - System for adaptive resampling in texture mapping: An apparatus for mapping primitives of a 3D graphics model from a texture space to a screen space. The apparatus includes a texture memory (134) for storing texture maps. A resampler (132, 140) resamples, for each primitive, data from a texture map that corresponds to the primitive to corresponding pixel...

20060232599 - Color clone technology for video color enhancement: A processing apparatus has a video signal receiver, a color enhancement filter and a video signal renderer. The video signal receiver is arranged to receive a video signal. The color enhancement filter is arranged to adjust the video signal according to a color parameter table. The display effect of the...

20060232601 - Display device, and driving method and electronic apparatus of the display device: To reduce a pseudo contour which occurs when displaying by a time gray scale method. When gradation is expressed with an n bit, bits each of which is shown by a binary of the gray scales are divided into three bit groups, and one frame is divided into two subframe...

20060232600 - Display device, driving method of the display device, and electronic device: To reduce a pseudo contour which occurs when displaying by a time gray scale method. When gradation is expressed with an n bit, the bits are divided into three bit groups, and one frame is divided into two subframe groups. Then, a (0<a<n) subframes corresponding to bits belonging to a...

20060232602 - Font generation system: A method for displaying a simulated anti-alias font on a display device, the method comprising providing a first font element, the first font element being semi-transparent, providing a second font element, and rendering the first font element and the second font element on top of each other on the display...

20060232605 - Housing-related commodity sales support system, housing-related commodity sales support method, housing-related commodity sales support program, and computer-readable storage medium storing such program: A housing-related commodity sales support system provides information regarding a housing-related commodity to a computer of a prospective purchaser via a network system. The system includes a database which stores housing display data, including information regarding a layout of the housing. A browser provider provides the computer of the prospective...

20060232603 - Modifying a path in a drawing: A technique for editing is disclosed. The technique includes generating a path definition for a path, generating a plurality of subpath definitions of subpaths of the path based on an intersection of the path, associating the subpath definitions with the path definition, modifying the intersection of the path using an...

20060232604 - Reproduction apparatus, display method thereof, display program thereof, display apparatus, and display method: A reproduction apparatus is disclosed. A display section displays a screen. A reproduction section reproduces a video signal recorded on a record medium. A display control section selects one of three display screens. A first display screen displays a picture corresponding to an externally input video signal or a video...

20060232606 - Method of transmitting signal for indicating opening or shuttering of a shutter in a private image display device: A method of transmitting a shutter opening/closing signal in a private image display device. In the method of the present invention, a shutter opening/closing sequence time point generated by a shutter opening/closing sequence time point generated by a shutter opening/closing sequence and signal generating unit is synchronized with a time...

20060232607 - Layer based paint operations: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to conduct a paint operation in a procedural renderer and a reveal paint operation while dynamically selecting multiple layers. For the procedural renderer based paint operation, a schematic view of a flow of clip image data is displayed having nodes...

20060232608 - Object identifying system for segmenting unreconstructed data in image tomography: Tomographic projection data is segmented spatially by forming segmentation masks over the full outlines of objects appearing in isolation within selected data frame images. Further processing locates the object outlines in other data frames. Predictable effects of attenuation are used to attribute appropriate amounts of intensity to the segmented object...

20060232609 - Method and system for presenting different views to passengers in a moving vehicle: Systems and methods for presenting images in a vehicle as the vehicle rotates about a rotation axis are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a signal receiving portion that receives a first signal corresponding to an image of a first view from a position located a first distance from...

20060232610 - Display device: A display device includes a handset having a display window on which an image is displayed, a projection unit included in the handset and enlarging an image and projecting the enlarged image, and a screen movably installed on the handset and displaying the enlarged and projected image thereon. In the...

20060232611 - System and method for zooming an object through spiral interaction: A system and method for zooming an object through a spiral movement of a pointer. The method provides three-dimensional interaction with an object in response to a two-dimensional pointer input. The method includes monitoring pointer movements to determine whether a movement indicates a spiral movement. When a spiral movement is...

20060232612 - Display device using self-luminous element and driving method of same: A display device includes three reference current generating units 61 which generate reference currents corresponding to three display colors and outputs the reference currents, a selector 471 which outputs an optimum reference current among the outputs of the three reference current generating units 61 according to a display color of...

20060232613 - Video-signal processing apparatus and video display system: In an apparatus for processing video signals to control a display device that displays a video, a display video signal is generated for each of the colors from received video signals; a delayed display video signal is generated for each display video signal by delaying the display video signal by...

20060232614 - Dynamic resolution determination: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to dynamically determine and utilize an image resolution. An audio/video clip comprising two or more frames (with each frame comprising a source image having a source image resolution) is obtained. Proxy image(s) associated with each source image are computed. Each...

20060227064 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes an input range discriminator which discriminates a type of an input digital video signal, on the basis of a setup level and a dynamic range of the digital video signal; a signal processor which corrects the setup level and the dynamic range of the digital...

20060227066 - Human machine interface method and device for automotive entertainment systems: A human machine interface device for automotive entertainment systems, the device includes user interface input components receiving user drawn characters and selection inputs from a user, and user interface output components communicating prompts to the user. A browsing module is connected to the user interface input components and said user...

20060227065 - Human machine interface system for automotive application: An integrated control interface is provided for the driver of the vehicle. The control interface employs a plurality of multi-functional switches located proximate to the driver in combination with a display that provides an indicia of the vehicle function controlled by each switch. A control module receives control signals from...

20060227067 - Image display apparatus and method: An image display apparatus attachable to an eyeball includes: a display unit including on a curved surface a plurality of display areas for displaying images; a lens array unit integrated with the display unit, the lens array unit having lenses corresponding to the respective display areas, each lens allowing light...

20060227068 - Image display device: An image display device which displays an image to a viewer in front thereof without cross-talk and displays a two-dimensional image in wider space is provided. The image display device which projects an image on the viewer includes; a light source unit which emits light to the viewer; an imaging...

20060227069 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing a blazing portion of a contrast device: A system and method utilize a lithographic apparatus comprising an illumination system, an array of individually controllable elements, and a projection system. The illumination system conditions a radiation beam. The array of individually controllable elements modulates the beam. At least one group of elements in the array of individually controllable...

20060227070 - Led drive circuit: A plurality of grids of LED segments form an LED array. Each grid includes a plurality of LED segments connected in a common cathode configuration at a common cathode node. A high side driver is connected to all of the plurality of grids. This high side driver is operable responsive...

20060227073 - Display apparatus and multi-display system: A CCD 14 is disposed on the rear of the discharge cell structures 13, and light introduced from the discharge cell structures 13 to the rear side, or light leaked from the discharge cell structures 13 to the rear side is measured by the CCD 14. Then, the light amount...

20060227072 - Driving method of a display panel: A method of driving a display panel is provided which can reduce power consumption. During a unit display period, the number of times of second and subsequent selective erase operations performed on one display cell of each pixel is different from the number of times of second and subsequent selective...

20060227074 - Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display device: In a plasma display device including: a plasma display panel having scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes; scan electrode driving circuits; a sustain electrode driving circuit; and an address electrode driving circuit, each sub-field has a reset period, an address period in which scan pulses are sequentially applied to...

20060227071 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a plasma display apparatus in which an arrangement of use channels of data drive ICs is improved. The plasma display apparatus may include a plasma display panel including first and second address electrode groups that correspond to first and second screen regions, respectively,...

20060227076 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Disclosed are a plasma display panel, a plasma display apparatus and a driving apparatus and method of the plasma display panel. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode and a reset pulse controller for controlling a amplitude of reset pulse...

20060227075 - Plasma display panel and apparatus, and driving device and method of plasma display panel: A plasma display panel, a plasma display apparatus, and a driving device and method of the plasma display panel are provided. The plasma display apparatus which comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode and a sustain pulse controller for setting a number of sustain...

20060227077 - Display apparatus with cooling means: A display apparatus has a cooling means, including a display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate which are spaced from each other. A chassis member is placed at the rear surface region of the display apparatus and is formed to surround sides and a front edge region...

20060227078 - Driving apparatus, driver circuit, and image display apparatus: The present invention can provide a driving apparatus capable of compensating an influence of a voltage drop at low costs in a simple manner, which includes: a column driver circuit that generates at least one of modulation signals different in start reference time in one horizontal scanning period and the...

20060227080 - Charge-recycling circuit of display device: The present invention provides a charge-recycling circuit of display device, which is coupled to the connection line between the display panel of the display module and the source driver circuit of the display module. The display module has a source driver circuit and a gate driver circuit, and when the...

20060227081 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel and the second pixel are defined by a first gate bus line, a second gate bus line, a first power supply line and a second power supply line. A data bus line between the first supply...

20060227083 - Electronic circuit, electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: The present invention provides an electronic circuit that can achieve adequate display quality by a small amount of electrical power, an electro-optical device, a method for driving the electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus. A drive current corresponding to a digital-data voltage or an analog-data voltage transmitted via a data...

20060227079 - Organic el device and display: A red light emitting layer 11, a green light emitting layer 12, a blue light emitting layer 13 are laminated in this order between an anode 3 and a cathode 5, and an intermediate layer “a” formed by use of an organic material is provided between the green light emitting...

20060227082 - Semiconductor intergrated circuit for display driving and electronic device having light emitting display: The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a light emitting panel such as an organic EL panel capable of displaying a picture with the optimum picture quality by changing a gray scale voltage and a gamma curve characteristic in accordance with brightness of the environment and specifications...

20060227084 - Oled display manufacturing method with uniformity correction: A method for manufacturing and grading OLED devices comprising the steps of: a) manufacturing OLED devices having a plurality of pixels with inherent pixel brightnesses and uniformity variation; b) measuring inherent pixel brightnesses and uniformity variation performance for each of the OLED devices; c) grading each of the OLED devices...

20060227085 - Led illumination source/display with individual led brightness monitoring capability and calibration method: An LED area illumination source/display (10) such as an electronic billboard is made up of a number of individual pixels with each pixel including a number of LEDs, e.g., a red (18), blue (19) and green LED (20), with each LED representing a primary color being arranged to be energized...

20060227086 - System and method for projecting video onto a screen: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for projecting video onto a screen. A video unit (10) may comprise a plurality of light emitting diodes (40a, 40b, and 40c) disposed in an annular formation (41) and configured to produce light (44), a reflector configured to reflect the produced...

20060227087 - Laser displays using uv-excitable phosphors emitting visible colored light: Laser display systems using at least one scanning laser beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials....

20060227088 - Display panel, display apparatus having the same, and method of manufacturing the same: A display panel including a first capacitor and a second capacitor is disclosed. The first and second capacitors boost a second driving voltage from a driving chip and apply the boosted second driving voltage to the driving chip. The driving chip receives the boosted second driving voltage and outputs a...

20060227089 - Liquid crystal panel and liquid crystal display device having the same: A liquid crystal panel is disclosed that minimizes driving power consumption. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines defining pixel regions. Pixels are arranged in the pixel regions and respond to signals from corresponding gate lines, corresponding data lines, and previous...

20060227090 - Electro-optical device, writing circuit, driving method, and electronic apparatus: There is provided a writing circuit of an electro-optical device having a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels disposed to correspond to intersections between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines. Here, each pixel comprises: a pixel capacitor...

20060227092 - Liquid crystal display device for improved inversion drive: A liquid crystal display device is composed of first and second data lines, first and second operational amplifiers, and a short-circuiting circuit. The first operational amplifier is configured to drive the first data line to a potential of a first polarity during a first period, and to drive the second...

20060227091 - Semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a liquid crystal display: A semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a liquid crystal display, capable of improving the quality of an image displayed by preventing an imbalance between the outputs of a pair of amplifiers for positive voltage and negative voltage for AC driving of the liquid crystal panel and transmission of noise from...

20060227096 - Driving circuit for liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display device, method of driving liquid crystal display device, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit includes a scanning-line driving circuit applying an on potential to sequentially drive scanning-lines, a data-line driving circuit that, when the on potential is applied to each scanning-line, turns each data-line potential to a potential difference corresponding to a density based on a counter electrode potential and a...

20060227095 - Gate drive device for display device and display device having the same: A gate drive portion for a display device including multiple pixels having first and second sub-pixels includes a first shift register generating a first output signal in response to a first gate clock signal, a second shift register generating a second output signal in response to a second gate clock...

20060227094 - Gate driver for a display device and method of driving the same: A gate driver for a display device includes a plurality of shift registers to sequentially generate output signals during a frame period in response to multi-phase clocks; and a dummy clock provided to the plurality of shift registers during a vertical blank time to reduce a stress voltage in the...

20060227093 - Method of driving shift register, gate driver, and display device having the same: A gate driver, comprises a plurality of shift registers configured to output signals sequentially such that an Nth shift register is reset by an output signal of an (N+2)th shift register, wherein last, second last and third last shift registers are reset by a last output signal of the last...

20060227097 - Electrophoretic active matrix display device: The invention relates to an apparatus for displaying data on a display, the apparatus comprising an electrophoretic display device, a storage device, user input means and a central processing unit conceived to retrieve data from the storage device and send the retrieved data to the display device for display. Advantageously,...

20060227098 - Gravity control: My goal is to get the patent license and then sell, lease, or rent it to a gaming or manufacturing company for further development. I am just an individual not a company, I feel a larger company would have the means for a more precise manufacturing so the world can...

20060227101 - Hand-held screen-interface device: A hand-held screen-interface device may include the following. A base has an arm brace coupled to and extending from the base. A first finger receptacle is coupled to the arm brace and positioned away from the base. A first selector switch is coupled to the first finger receptacle. A pointer...

20060227100 - Mobile communication terminal and method: During handwriting recognition input, when the user needs to input, e.g., a digit or a commonly used punctuation symbol (e.g. comma and period) into a text, she/he can simply make a single-click or a double-click on a corresponding “shortcut” sub-area on the touchpad under the existing input mode and the...

20060227102 - Multi-function electronic device: A multi-function electronic device, includes a cover mounted on a body for pivotal motion from a closed position to an open position. The cover is transparent. A keyboard is mounted on the cover and a display is mounted on the body for viewing through the cover in operative relation with...

20060227099 - Responding to change of state of control on device disposed on an interactive display surface: A user input device includes one or more user controls that enable a user to selectively imports bits of data by activating the control when the user input devices proximate to a display surface of an interactive display system. By depressing or otherwise activating a user control, the user causes...

20060227104 - Rotation display apparatus using two display buffers in mobile phone and method thereof: Disclosed is a rotation display apparatus capable of reducing an image distortion phenomenon caused when a liquid crystal display (LCD) window is rapidly rotated and a method thereof. The rotational display method of a mobile phone for a predetermined image including N image frames, includes (1) storing a first image...

20060227103 - Three-dimensional display device and method using hybrid position-tracking system: A 3D display device and method using a hybrid position-tracking system is provided, along with a method for displaying the 3D image. The 3D display device includes a main body, a display, a camera, a first calculation part, a gyroscope, a second calculation part, and a Kalman filter. The display...

20060227105 - Typing game apparatus: With a typing game apparatus, it is possible to select a desired difficulty level setting with a difficulty level selection procedure, and, when the execution of the typing game is started, determination is made in a correctness determination procedure as to whether keys which have been input via a keyboard...

20060227106 - Storage medium storing input position processing program, and input position processing device: An input position processing program detects a series of pieces of position data based on input positions outputted from a pointing device, and defines a reference position. When the last piece of position data indicates a point within a defined area other than a reference area, an operation is to...

20060227107 - Laser pointer with a cursor function: A laser pointer with a cursor function has a shell body, a laser pointing module, and a wireless operation module. Both the laser pointing module and the wireless operation module are disposed in the shell body. The laser pointing module controls emission of a laser light. The wireless operation module...

20060227108 - Computer mouse for harsh environments and method of fabrication: A rugged computer mouse for use in a harsh liquid, chemical or gaseous environment, includes a pliable cover formed as a single unit that forms a generally impenetrable surface having a seal edge. The seal edge includes a trench. The surface has formed thereon at least one mouse control button...

20060227109 - Computer mouse with changeable holding part: The present invention relates to a computer mouse with changeable holding part, including a body, an upper case and a location changing mechanism. The upper case is covered on the top surface of the body and can change locations. The location changing mechanism is for engaging the upper case and...

20060227110 - Storage device for a cleaning cloth: A storage device for a cleaning cloth has the shape of a computer mouse. The storage device for a cleaning cloth includes a computer mouse device, a movable shell and a storage space. The position of the storage space for the cleaning cloth is between the mouse casing and the...

20060227112 - Combined keyboard and wireless transceiver: A wireless communication between a mouse and a keyboard connected to a computer with a cable provides a means for connecting mouse signals to a computer. Transceivers located in both the mouse and the keyboard provide RF communications that are converted by the keyboard transceiver to electrical signals to be...

20060227111 - Keyboard to be inside page of notebook: A keyboard to be an inside page of a notebook comprises a main body on which a keyboard region, an electronic region having a transmission device mounted therein, a mounting region having a liftable cover mounted thereon, and a connection part are mounted. A top plate is pivotally connected to...

20060227117 - Circular touch sensor: A circular touch sensor has three or more sensors arranged in an iris pattern. Each pad is defined by continuous edges that spiral outward about a center point. The unique geometric shape allows measurement of relative amounts of contact on adjoining sensors. In one implementation, the sensors measure relative capacitance...

20060227118 - Digital notepad with changeable writing style: A digital notepad which records not only the trace but also the style of the trace is provided. The digital notepad provides a set of dedicated writing tools, each of which would issue a predetermined radio signal representing the writing tool's pen color, pen style, and tool type. When a...

20060227113 - Infrared keypad actuator having improved false triggering resistance: An actuator configured for use with an infrared (IR) touch screen device includes a flexible body having a cutout portion formed therein for viewing a display region of the touch screen device. One or more input buttons are formed in the flexible body, the one or more input buttons configured...

20060227115 - Method and apparatus for touch sensor with interference rejection: A touch sensitive control system for controlling a device includes a touch sensitive interface and a controller configured to communicate with the touch sensitive interface. The control system detects user manipulation of the touch sensitive interface with a touch detection sequence executed by the controller. The touch detection sequence determines...

20060227116 - Processing for distinguishing pen gestures and dynamic self-calibration of pen-based computing systems: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media process and distinguish user input device gestures, such as gestures input via a pen in a pen-based computing system, e.g., to quickly and reliably distinguish between electronic ink entry, single taps, double taps, press-and-hold actions, dragging operations, and the like. Systems, methods, and computer-readable media...

20060227114 - Touch location determination with error correction for sensor movement: Touch location determination is enhanced by correcting for errors that arise due to touch panel movement. A touch sensitive device includes a capacitive touch sensor configured to generate signals indicative of a location of a capacitively coupled touch on a touch surface. An error correction sensor generates a signal associated...

20060227119 - Touch sensing apparatus with differential signal source: A preferred embodiment of the touch sensing apparatus includes one or more touch sensing units, a detector, and a signal processing unit. Each touch sensing unit comprises: a differential signal source for generating two signals which have a same frequency but reverse phases; and two sensors for receiving a touch...

20060227120 - Photonic touch screen apparatus and method of use: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for determining the position of a stimulus in two axes on a surface. The apparatus includes: a transparent waveguide panel with parallel top and a bottom surfaces and at least one edge that is perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces; a light...

20060227121 - Systems and methods for providing a dual mode input device in a computing system: Systems and methods for providing a dual mode input device, such as a pen or a stylus, in a computing system are provided. Storage is provided inside the input device for a variety of types of data files other than for storing positional information and a corresponding storage access mode...

20060227124 - Flat panel display including transceiver circuit for digital interface: The present invention relates to a digital data transceiver circuit applicable to a flat panel display such as an LCD to be placed between graphic signal generation module and liquid crystal display module or between timing control IC and data driver IC, etc. A digital data transceiver circuit of the...

20060227122 - Implementing multiple display modes on one display panel: An electronic device has a single display panel that operates in multiple modes to support different display capabilities. In one implementation, the device operates the display panel in a first mode to support a rich user experience, such as watching video, playing games, reading and writing email, and so forth....

20060227123 - Storage device with illuminated panel: Different peripheral devices of the present invention include: a display panel interface to which is reversibly operationally attachable a display panel and a power interface for receiving power from a host; a display panel to which are individually reversibly operationally attachable display panels for displaying respective aspects of the device's...

20060227125 - Dynamic backlight control: Display power consumption may be reduced by identifying an interested area and one or more non-interested areas of an application executing within an active window and by reducing brightness of pixels associated with the non-interested areas....

20060227126 - Fuse trimming circuit with higher reliability: A fuse trimming circuit includes trimming pads, a fuse resistance, an input circuit and current limit units. The fuse resistance is configured to be connected to the trimming pads and blown out by a trimming current which flows through the trimming pads. The input circuit is configured to output one...

20060227127 - Video graphic array colorful signal generator: A video graphic array colorful signal generator is provided. The signal generator includes a FPGA (field program gate array) device (1), a PROM (programmable read only memory) (2), a PLL (phase locked loop) circuit (3), a D/A (digital/analog) convertor (4) connected with the FPGA device, a VGA (video graphic array)...

20060227128 - Imaging apparatus including an incising unit: An imaging apparatus includes a printing unit and an incising unit. A processor is communicatively coupled to the printing unit and the incising unit. The processor processes job data for use by at least one of the printing unit and the incising unit. An input device is located at the...

20060227132 - Depth image-based representation method for 3d object, modeling method and apparatus, and rendering method and apparatus using the same: A depth image-based representation (DIBR) method of modeling a 3-dimensional (3D) object, by which the 3D object is expressed by depth information, color information, and camera parameters or geometry information, color information, and camera parameters. The camera parameters include position, orientation, ranges of camera view or angle (fieldOfView), front and...

20060227131 - Flat texture volume rendering: A GPU accelerated volume rendering method from flat textures (also known as texture atlas) is disclosed. The method is not restricted to a specific rendering technique. The method is fast as it requires no reordering or copying passes. An image processing system is also provided. Addressing of two dimensional flat...

20060227130 - Graphical method and system for making drawings directly in three-dimensions on a computer monitor or other display device: A method and system for making computer-aided drawings of an object directly in 3D. The object or its parts are bounded by m-dimensional enclosing subspaces whose boundaries are shrunk to intersect the topographical features of the enclosed object or its parts. The resulting boundary-boundary intersections define a set of key...

20060227129 - Mobile communication terminal and method: A mobile communication apparatus comprising a processor and a user interface UI is disclosed. The UI comprises a display and an input means, the input means is arranged to sense a three-dimensional direction, the processor is arranged to assign three-dimensional spatial data to said three-dimensional direction and to a plurality...

20060227133 - System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling: System and method for constructing a 3D model of an object based on a series of silhouette and texture map images. In the exemplary embodiment an object is placed on a rotating turntable and a camera, which is stationary, captures images of the object as it rotates on the turntable....

20060227134 - System for interactive 3d navigation for proximal object inspection: A system that transitions from freeform camera motion to surface following motion as a surface of an object is approached by clipping the vectors for closest point and look-at point. When the surface is reached and while following the surface the user can designate an up model that sets an...

20060227135 - System and method for n-dimensional parametric analysis: The system and method for n-dimensional parametric analysis solves the problem of finding conditional overlap probabilities for M objects of N dimensions each by decomposing N-dimensional feature spaces into 3-dimensional feature spaces. Intersectors for objects in N-dimensional feature space are used to identify density intersection cubes in the three dimensional...

20060227136 - Method for representing preoperatively recorded three-dimensional image data when recording two-dimensional x-ray images: In a method for representing preoperatively recorded three-dimentional image data when recording two-dimentional X-ray images, parameters for recording the two-dimentional X-ray images are placed in relation to two-dimentional representations of the three-dimentional image data and coupled thereto. When paraneters for recording the two-dimentional X-ray images change, corresponding two-dimentional representations of...

20060227137 - Skin reflectance model for representing and rendering faces: A face is scanned to obtain a three-dimensional geometry of the face, images are also acquired of the face, and subsurface scattering of the face is measured. A translucency map is determined from the subsurface reflectance. A total surface reflectance and a normal map are estimated from the three-dimensional geometry...

20060227138 - Image processing device and method: An image generating device and method for a vehicle that improves the image quality of the output image and provides images that can be better perceived by the driver. A camera allows adjustment of the image output range by manipulation from external to the camera, an image processing device performs...

20060227140 - Sketch beautification: There are disclosed methods to provide methods for beautifying sketches. Methods are disclosed for determining segments of drawings that represent geometric primitives and implied geometric constraints. Beautification methods provide for replacement of sketched primitives and over- and under-sketched drawings. After beautification methods provide for checking the initial segmentation of the...

20060227139 - Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus therefor: The present invention is a storage medium storing a game program to be executed by a computer in a game apparatus comprising an input device for detecting positions designated by a player on an input surface. The game apparatus calculates an input graphic drawn on the input surface by using...

20060227142 - Exposing various levels of text granularity for animation and other effects: Described is a system and method by which text elements to be rendered on a computer display (e.g., paragraph, line or any subset of text including a character or glyph) may be individually or collectively animated, at an author-selected level of granularity. Animation of text may be specified by setting...

20060227141 - System for efficient remote projection of rich interactive user interfaces: An exemplary method of communicating between a host device and a rendering device for controlling a user interface of the rendering device includes generating messages, encoding the messages in a buffer as blobs of data and communicating the blobs of data to the rendering device. Various other exemplary methods, devices,...

20060227143 - Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image input device that reads an image to obtain image data and a printer engine that forms an image on a medium based on image data. A bus of a PCI Express standard is used to transfer data. Storage areas serving as end points...

20060227144 - System and method for creating motion blur: An embedded, programmable motion blur system and method is described herein. Embodiments include applying displacement on a vertex level and amplification on a primitive level within a graphics pipeline. Embodiments include receiving a plurality of vertices in a first component of a graphics processing unit (GPU), displacing each of the...

20060227145 - Graphics controller having a single display interface for two or more displays: The invention, in one preferred embodiment, is directed to a method for fetching image data from a memory for transmission on a data bus to at least two display devices. First portions of a first frame are fetched at a non-interleaving fetch rate in response to receiving a first signal....

20060227147 - Method and apparatus for an image presentation device with illumination control for black image processing: An image presentation device (100) includes a microdisplay panel (150) and a set of light sources (122, 124, 126) operable to emit light of different colors. An optical structure (140) couples the set of the light sources (122, 124, 126) to the microdisplay panel (150). A controller (110) is responsive...

20060227146 - Systems and methods for media production color management: Systems and methods for color management are disclosed. Some of the methods are tailored for a desktop publishing environment and include receiving a project definition that indicates a publication tool, and a design tool environment definition that indicates a design tool. Device color guides associated with the publication tool and...

20060227148 - Visual determination of gamma for softcopy display: Provided herein are teachings directed to calibrating an output device such as a color display, using a visual method of determining the gamma for the blue primary that is easier to perform and more consistent than methodologies employing a luminance-matching task. The methodology is based on the insight that accurate...

20060227149 - Interpolated color transform for changing color of an application user interface: A system and method for adjusting the color of an application user interface (UI). A UI allows a user to define hue and saturation values used to adjust first RGB values of pixels determining the color of the UI. A media player application (MPA) calculates second RGB values as a...

20060227150 - Methods and systems for brush composition: In various embodiments, methods and systems for brush composition are described. In one particular application of brush composition, opacity issues are addressed by focusing on the composition of objects having opacity effects in terms of the brushes that are used to render the objects. By focusing on the brushes that...

20060227151 - Information processing method and apparatus: An information processing method and apparatus enables one or more further users to share a mixed reality space image including a virtual object superimposed in a space where a first user exists. A first stereo image is acquired based on a stereo video captured by a first stereo capturing section...

20060227152 - Methods and apparatus for re-scaling image by variable re-scaling factor: A method includes receiving a sequence of samples that represents a row of pixels in an image. The method further includes selecting a re-scaling factor for at least a portion of the row of pixels. The method further includes selecting a filter from a bank of low pass filters based...

20060227153 - System and method for dynamically zooming and rearranging display items: The invention relates to a system and method for dynamically zooming and rearranging display items through a series of output displays. In each subsequent output display, visual components making up the display are rearranged and scaled....

20060227154 - Electronic device display panel: An electronic device includes a panel having a display screen that moves along a first axis and pivots about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis....

20060227155 - Gamma adjustment method for multi-channel driver of monitor and device of the same: A GAMMA adjustment method for a multi-channel driver of a monitor and device thereof are provided. The GAMMA adjustment method converts an m-bit input signal of a high bit signal corresponding to an m-bit simulated GAMMA curve into an n-bit signal of a low bit signal. Then the n-bit signal...

20060220983 - Album creating apparatus, album generating method and program: There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution...

20060220982 - Display device, display method and recording medium: To provide a display device capable of processing display objects displayed in a single display area distinctively on a user-by-user basis by making a display unit display the display objects displayed through operations of a plurality of users in a way that executes a process corresponding to an associated user...

20060220984 - Image processing, compressing, decompressing, transmitting, sending and receiving devices and methods, programs thereof and displaying device: Image processing, compressing, decompressing, transmitting, sending and receiving devices and methods, their programs and a displaying device, in which a bit plane number is increased again after the bit plane number is first reduced to enable it to largely improve or remove granular quality deterioration in a mild gradation area...

20060220985 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition program storage medium, and image data file: There are provided an image recognition apparatus that is useful for identifying an image, an image recognition program that causes a computer to operate as the image recognition apparatus, and an image data file that is useful for identifying an image. The image recognition apparatus includes an image acquiring section...

20060220981 - Information processing system and information processing method: There is provided an information processing system including multiple controlled devices respectively having display areas and a controlling device that controls the controlled devices to display given images in the display areas thereof and that identifies positions of the display areas on the basis of image information including the display...

20060220986 - Display method and display apparatus: In order to display a large number of images on one screen efficiently and simultaneously, it is arranged that, in case of displaying a plurality of images on the screen in a reduced size, the plurality of images to each of which a related time is added are stored; a...

20060220987 - Active flowchart label: An active flowchart label is provided for displaying information regarding the state of an instrument. A label is provided having transmissive regions positioned within a graphical representation of a circuit path or in relation to textual messages provided on the label. Light sources within the instrument are positioned to illuminate...

20060220989 - Method of assembling displays on substrates: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light-modulating elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light-modulating and self-assembling characteristics may be used during display assembly and operation....

20060220988 - Self assembling display with substrate: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light-modulating elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light-modulating and self-assembling characteristics may be used during display assembly and operation....

20060220990 - Three color led bulb: The multi-color light lamp has a base divided into a plurality of segments. The three segments are spaced at 120 degrees. More or less segments can be used. An LED is positioned in each segment, the LED in each segment emits a color distinct from the light emitted by the...

20060220991 - Circuit board and display device having the same: Provided are a circuit board and a display device having the circuit board. The circuit board includes a first surface opposite to a second surface and a first and a second wire disposed on the first surface. The circuit board is attached substantially to one side of the display panel...

20060220992 - Display device: A test pattern generation circuit (100) outputs a test pattern (TP) during a clock phase adjustment period. A flip-flop circuit (110) latches the test pattern (TP) at the fall of a shift clock (SCK) and outputs it as a test pattern (Tpa). A latch miss detection circuit (130) outputs a...

20060220993 - Driving method for gas discharge display apparatus and apparatus therefor: The present invention provides a method of driving a gas discharge display apparatus for displaying gray-scale display levels finer than those achieved by the conventional methods, and also to provide a gas discharge display apparatus with a driver capable of performing such a driving method. An opposed discharge between the...

20060220995 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a display area where an image is displayed and an auxiliary display member surrounding the display area of the plasma display panel. The auxiliary display member causes a user to think that he/she is seeing a screen that appears larger...

20060220994 - Plasma display device and method for driving the same: A plasma display device capable of stably generating a discharge between an address electrode and a scan electrode without being influence by temperature in an address period is provided. The plasma display device having a temperature detecting part that detects temperature, a scan electrode to which a scan pulse for...

20060220997 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving plasma display: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are provided. The plasma display apparatus sets a part of the entire image signal corresponding to a specific region of a plasma display panel to a gray level value 0....

20060220996 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A plasma display panel (PDP) and a method of driving the same, and the PDP includes a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other with a discharge space therebetween, a plurality of barrier ribs arranged between the lower substrate and the upper substrate to partition the discharge space...

20060220998 - Plasma display panel and plasma display device: A plasma display panel in which firing voltages between any of electrodes are low can be realized. A plasma display panel has a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a group of laterally extending first electrodes for performing sustain discharge and a group of laterally extending...

20060221000 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising an electrode and an energy recovery/supply unit comprising a variable inductor located over a supply path of a pulse applied to...

20060220999 - Scan drive circuit for plasma display panel, driving circuit for plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus using same: A scan drive circuit is provided for a plasma display panel (PDP). The scan drive circuit may reduce a number of switching elements by having one scan electrode correspond to a single switching element, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the plasma display panel driving circuit and the plasma display...

20060221001 - Display unit which converts the frame rate of image signal: A display unit converts the image signal having the converted frame rate into an interlacing scanning format when the scanning frequency of a progressive image signal having the converted frame rate is higher than a predetermined value. The predetermined value corresponds to the maximum operation frequency of a display device...

20060221002 - Electron emission display device and method of controlling the same: An electron emission display device and a method of controlling the same, in which a voltage applied between a cathode electrode and a gate electrode is controlled corresponding to a current in an anode electrode. The electron emission display device includes a display region including a anode electrode, and a...

20060221003 - Flat-panel video display apparatus and its drive method: There is provided a flat-panel video display apparatus, which improves a brightness of a screen at low price and low power consumption, and reduces flicker. When a scanning line is successively driven by several lines, the apparatus is provided with means for supplying a first voltage to a driven main...

20060221008 - Apparatus and method for driving self-luminescent display panel: An apparatus for driving a self-luminescent display panel is provided with a plurality of luminescent elements 14 that are arranged at intersection positions of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines. One frame period is time-divided into N subframe periods (N is a positive integer). A...

20060221011 - Display and method of driving the same: A display executes a first reset operation during a blanking period, and second and third reset operations and a write operation during each selection period. The first reset operation includes connecting a current source to a precharge circuit and writing a first reset signal into the precharge circuit. The second...

20060221004 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device including a plurality of pixels is provided, each pixel includes: a light emitting element; first and second driving transistors connected between a driving voltage and the light emitting element and supplying a driving current to the light emitting element; a first switching transistor transmitting a data voltage...

20060221012 - Display device and method for driving display device: An element driving transistor controls an amount of power supplied from a power supply PVDD to an element to be driven (display element) provided in a pixel of each row. A storage capacitor has a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of an element driving transistor and a second...

20060221006 - Display device, display module, electronic apparatus and driving method of the display device: To provide a display device which can apply a voltage at which an operating point becomes a saturation region even when a light-emitting element deteriorates without applying a voltage to a driving TFT and the light-emitting element larger than necessary. A monitor pixel has a monitor pixel power supply line,...

20060221005 - Display, array substrate, and method of driving display: Each pixel of a display includes a drive control element including first and second terminals and a control terminal, a display element including first and second electrodes and an active layer interposed therebetween, an output control switch connected between the second terminal and the first electrode, a switch group capable...

20060221010 - Display, array substrate, and method of driving display: Each pixel of a display includes a drive circuit including a drive transistor whose source is connected to a first power supply terminal, a switch group switching between a state that drain and gate of the drive transistor and a video signal line are connected to one another and a...

20060221009 - Drive circuit for electroluminescent device: A drive circuit that compensates for the dispersion of the characteristics of drive transistors is disclosed. A switch SW2 is turned off, and switches SW1 and SW3 are turned on. Thereby, a constant current from a constant current source CC1 is flown in a drive transistor T1. Consequently, a gate...

20060221013 - Light emitting device and electronic device: There is provided a light emitting device capable of preventing light emission of an OLED caused due to an off current of a driver TFT and suppressing a reduction in a contrast, to thereby display a beautiful image. A wiring which is kept at a predetermined potential (hereinafter referred to...

20060221007 - Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display with improved display quality. The organic light emitting display includes a display panel including red pixels having red organic light emitting diodes (OLED), green pixels having green OLEDs and blue pixels having blue OLEDs, a first divided power source connected to at least one of...

20060221015 - Display drive apparatus, display apparatus and drive control method thereof: There is provided a display drive apparatus for operating, in accordance with display data, a current control type optical elements each having a display pixel provided with the optical element and a drive element which supplies a driving current to the optical element. The display drive apparatus includes a gradation...

20060221014 - Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display, and a method of driving the same, including a pixel unit having pixels to display images and a brightness controller to restrict the brightness of the pixel unit. The brightness controller generates frame data by summing the video data in one frame so that the...

20060221016 - Display: A display includes a video signal line, a current source which outputs a video signal, a voltage source which outputs a reset signal, and pixels each of which includes a drive circuit and a display element. The display executes a reset operation during a blanking period. The reset operation includes...

20060221017 - Apparatus and a method for displaying colors or color patterns based on time and other information sources: An apparatus and a method are disclosed comprising a timepiece, a color display device, and an information source device with one or more information sources. The color display device may display different colors or color patterns depending on time and the one or more information sources, such as a luckiness...

20060221018 - Driving apparatus and driving method for an electron emission display: A driving apparatus, and a driving method for an electron emission display, includes a controller for comparing external video data input signals, switching a polarity control signal in a predetermined period on the basis of the comparison and controlling a video data output signal in accordance with the polarity control...

20060221020 - Digitally modulated image projection system: A projection display may include a spatial light modulator that receives light from a light source via an analog modulator. The analog modulator may be a liquid crystal device. The bit depth may be increased by modulating the light from the lamp, for example to account for different pixel luminance...

20060221021 - Display systems having screens with optical fluorescent materials: Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots. A screen...

20060221022 - Laser vector scanner systems with display screens having optical fluorescent materials: Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots. A screen...

20060221019 - Spatial light modulation display system: An improved spatial light modulation display system includes light sources for providing red, green, and blue light. A system controller includes functionality for controlling a color balance of the red, green, and blue light. A sensor is provided for sensing light from each of the light sources. The controller can...

20060221025 - Arrangement comprising a look-up table of an lcd display module: An arrangement comprising a look-up table of an LCD display module is proposed, to which look-up table video input values can be fed, the look-up table assigning video output values to the video input values and feeding the video output values to an LCD display of the LCD display module....

20060221023 - Liquid crystal display device: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate on which a picture element electrode is provided for each picture element, a counter substrate having a common electrode provided thereon, and a liquid crystal contained between the TFT and counter substrates, the liquid crystal display device achieving to...

20060221024 - Pixel shift device and display apparatus: A pixel shift device has at least one liquid crystal structure. In the liquid crystal structure, a pair of transparent electrodes is located facing each other. A pair of alignment films is between the pair of transparent electrodes. Each of the pair of alignment films has mutually anti-parallel alignment direction....

20060221028 - Display, array substrate and method of driving display: Each pixel includes a drive control element which includes a control terminal, a first terminal connected to a first power supply terminal, and a second terminal outputting a current having a magnitude corresponding to a voltage between the control terminal and the first terminal, a display element which includes a...

20060221030 - Displaying method and image display device: In a displaying method for use in an image display, an original gray scale is divided into a higher gray scale and a lower gray scale. Further, the color subpixels are divided into two groups corresponding to the higher and lower gray scales, respectively. The gray scale to be expressed...

20060221029 - Drive system and method for a color display: A display has plural pixel groups each having plural color pixels. In a given frame that is divided into a first sub-period and a second sub-period, a first signal is provided in the first sub-period to a pixel of a given color in a first pixel group, and a second...

20060221027 - Liquid crystal display device: There is disclosed a transflective liquid crystal display having pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region. The aperture ratio of the pixels can be enhanced. End portions of two adjacent color filters are overlapped to form an optically shielding portion for each pixel. The optically shielding portion...

20060221026 - Spoke recovery in a color display: Embodiments of the invention include a method, device and/or system for spoke recovery. A method for spoke recovery in a sequential multi-primary color display may include producing a primary color image component corresponding to a first primary color during a display period including at least a portion of a spoke...

20060221031 - Display panel and display device having the same: A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The second substrate includes a switching device that is electrically connected to a data line and a gate line, a pixel electrode that is electrically connected to the...

20060221032 - Multiple-tone display system: A dot matrix display system for multiple-tone displays, including a display device in which pixels are arrayed in a matrix shape, an LC (liquid-crystal) drive signal generator which converts color display data into LC display data, an 8-level data driver which selects one of 8-level voltages in accordance with the...

20060221033 - Display device: In a display device which arranges a memory part for every display pixel, an erroneous operation of the memory part and the power consumption can be reduced. In a display device provided with a display panel which includes a plurality of display pixels, video lines which apply video data to...

20060221034 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device which includes a common electrode drive circuit having the single channel constitution which can miniaturize a circuit scale without increasing elements compared to a conventional display device. A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a common electrode drive circuit. The common...

20060221035 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: The present invention provides an LCD capable of being driven with various frequencies without deterioration of image quality. According to the present invention, a method of driving an LCD in two-dot inversion for a low vertical frequency and in one-dot inversion for a high vertical frequency is provided. The method...

20060221036 - Flat-panel video display apparatus and its drive method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a flat-panel video display apparatus, which improves a brightness of a screen at low price and low power consumption, and reduces flicker. When a scanning line is successively driven by several lines, the apparatus is provided with means for supplying a first voltage...

20060221039 - Liquid crystal display device and large scale liquid crystal display system using the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate (transparent substrate), a second substrate (transparent substrate) placed opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal which is held between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a driving circuit which is provided in each of pixels on the first...

20060221038 - Method and arrangement for calibrating an arangement for driving image-reproducing means subject to inertia: In a method and arrangement for correcting an arrangement for driving imagereproducing means subject to inertia, and particularly liquid crystal displays, wherein a stored correcting variable is added to infed video signals to compensate for the effects of inertia, which correcting variable depends on changes in the video signals from...

20060221037 - System for driving inertia-prone picture-reproducing devices: In a system for driving inertia-prone picture-reproducing devices, in particular liquid-crystal displays, in which a correcting value that depends on changes in the video signals from frame to frame is added to incoming video signals to compensate for the inertial effects and in which the corrected video signals are passed...

20060221043 - Display: A display capable of inhibiting a logic composition circuit from outputting a signal to a gate line or a drain line at unintentional timing is obtained. This display comprises a shift register circuit including a logic composition circuit portion constituted of a plurality of first conductive type transistors turned on...

20060221041 - Gate driver and display device having the same: A gate driver includes a plurality of shift registers connected in cascade to each other and driven by a plurality of multiphase clocks, respectively, wherein the next shift register to which one of the plurality of multiphase clocks is applied is reset using an output signal outputted from the previous...

20060221042 - Gate driver and display device having the same: A display device is set forth that comprises a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. A data driver supplies pixel drive signals to data lines that are connected to drive the individual pixels of at least one row of pixels with corresponding pixel drive signals....

20060221040 - Gate driver circuit and display device having the same: A gate driver circuit includes a first shift register and a second shift register. The first shift register applies (4n−3)-th and (4n−2)-th gate signals to (4n−3)-th and (4n−2)-th gate lines, respectively, in response to a first clock signal, a second clock signal having a delayed phase by 1H time with...

20060221045 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device integrated with the same: A backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device into which the backlight unit is integrated are provided. The backlight unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other and spaced apart to provide a discharge space, a plurality of barrier ribs for forming a plurality of...

20060221046 - Display device and method of driving display device: A display device has a display drive unit, a light-emitting drive unit, a display unit which displays images in accordance with the display drive signal from the display drive unit, an irradiation unit, a detection unit, and a control unit which compares a displayable bandwidth of the display unit with...

20060221047 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of shortening the time required for stabilizing the brightness and the chromaticity to the temperature change. The input of an LED driver is connected to the output of a PWM controller, so that the electric power supplied to the respective...

20060221044 - Synchronized light emitting diode backlighting systems and methods for displays: A display screen includes at least two arrays of at least two different color picture elements. A backlighting system for the display includes at least two arrays of Light Emitting Diode (LED) devices that are configured to radiate light of at least two colors in a light path that impinges...

20060221048 - Image processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a filter panel and a terminal. The liquid crystal panel includes a driver IC which displays an image on a display area. The filter panel is located opposite to a display surface of the liquid crystal panel,...

20060221050 - Active-matrix bistable display device: An active-matrix bistable display panel is provided in which a pixel electrode is formed at each intersection of each of a plurality of scanning lines in a row direction and each of a plurality of signal lines in a column direction and a display state is made to occur depending...

20060221049 - Electrophoretic display device and method for driving the same: In an electrophoretic display device sandwiching an electrophoretic material between a first substrate and a second substrate, a plurality of pixels are formed on the first substrate; each pixel is composed of n subpixels (n being an integer of 2 or more); and the n subpixels contain at least one...

20060221052 - Input device: An input device includes an operation portion to be operated by an external force, a signal generating portion that generates a signal according to a movement of the operation portion, and a tactile sense stimulus mechanism that applies a tactile sense stimulus to an object that applies the external force....

20060221051 - System and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness: A system and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness. A smart computing device includes non-environmental impact settings that indicate what type of user impact will be recognized as an input. The smart computing device monitors environmental conditions to distinguish a user impact from an environmental...

20060221053 - Drum control device for an electronic apparatus: The invention proposes a device (10) of the type comprising a housing (12, 24) in which is arranged a control shaft (22) that is driven by a manual drive drum (66), and that is rotatably connected to at least one member (70) belonging to a generator (22, 70, 16) of...

20060221054 - Joystick connectable to the operating member of an exerciser or game machine: A joystick used in a motion apparatus, for example, an exerciser or game machine, is disclosed to include a base fixedly fastened to the body of the motion apparatus, a motion member fixedly fastened to the operating member of the motion apparatus for biasing with the operating member by the...

20060221055 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse can self-generate and self-accumulate electrical energy by utilizing the kinetic energy during user shaking the mouse. The wireless mouse has a shell, a command device, a rechargeable battery and a generating device. The command device is assembled in the shell. The command device has a controller for...

20060221056 - Method and system for inputting single-stroke code: A single-stroke code input method and system applicable to on electronic equipment with an inputting device and a monitor enables users to use the inputting device as a writing media and perform the writing directly on the monitor. The system connecting to the inputting device and the monitor includes at...

20060221057 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation employing advanced editing features: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but...

20060221058 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation employing advanced text case feature: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides an improved text case feature. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood...

20060221059 - Portable terminal having display buttons and method of inputting functions using display buttons: A portable terminal having display buttons for displaying images corresponding to specific functions through keys pressed by a user, and a method of inputting functions of the portable terminal using the display buttons. The portable terminal includes: a controller which receives signals corresponding to a user key pressed from the...

20060221060 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiquation employing advanced word frequency learning feature: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. An enhanced word frequency learning feature is provided. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood...

20060221062 - Controller, system and method for identifying a number of interactions with a computer input area: Disclosed is a method for identifying a number of interactions with a computer input area defined by at least first and second intersecting sets of detection paths. First, indications of which of the detection paths are affected by the interactions are received. Then, for each of the detection path sets,...

20060221063 - Indicated position recognizing apparatus and information input apparatus having same: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image displaying apparatus, which includes a drawing-light-beam projecting unit, a scanning device, an indicating device, a light receiving device, and a position detecting device. The drawing-light-beam projecting unit projects a visible drawing light beam. The scanning device can two-dimensionally scan visible...

20060221064 - Method and apparatus for displaying electronic document including handwritten data: A display apparatus (50) that appropriately displays a dynamic layout type electronic document having a handwritten memo additionally input to a main body even in different environments includes: a display unit (74) also serving as a handwritten data input unit (76); a layout calculating unit (72) calculating a layout of...

20060221061 - Touch sensor and control with random pulse spacing: A control system for controlling a device includes a touch sensitive interface. The control system also includes a controller configured to communicate with the touch sensitive interface and to detect user manipulation of the touch sensitive interface with a series of non-periodic test pulses and monitored responses thereto, thereby avoiding...

20060221065 - System and method for constructing optical devices using fold-up portions extended from a substrate: In one embodiment, the transmitters and detectors for an integrated optical touch panel (OTP) are mounted at right angles to the surface of the OTP. The transmitters and detectors are contained on a substrate which is an extension of the substrate containing the touch panel display itself. The sides of...

20060221066 - Touch screen data control device: The present invention is a hands-free touch screen data control device for use in conjunction with electronic data storage equipment, which allows a screen operator to operatively engage a touch screen and enter or manipulate data without the necessity of holding or gripping the touch screen device; removing the touch...

20060221067 - Device and method for outputting a private image using a public display: Disclosed are a device and a method for displaying a private image on a public display device. Image sequence pattern is generated for the private image and the corresponding masking image. The masking image is made from the dynamic inverse image of the private image, based on the refresh rate...

20060221069 - Display apparatus and display control method therefor: Image data items are compared on a frame basis, a driving voltage of image data to be displayed is changed in accordance with the result of the comparison, and a frame rate of the image data to be displayed, that is displayed by the driving voltage changed in the drive...

20060221068 - Display device: An optical switch, e.g. a display cell based on layer displacement or layer break up having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e.g. oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid...

20060221070 - Clock switching device and clock switching method: A clock switching device capable of automatic switching to a clock distribution system for back-up without interrupting processing of the device, which includes an abnormality detection unit which detects lack of coincidence in a logical level between a current clock pulse and a one-cycle preceding clock pulse as abnormality in...

20060221071 - Horizontal perspective display: The personal computer is perfectly suitable for horizontal perspective display, designed for the operation of one person, and well capable of rendering various horizontal perspective images to the viewer. Thus the present invention discloses a real time electronic display that can adjust the horizontal perspective images to accommodate the position...

20060221072 - 3d imaging system: The present invention provides a system (method and apparatus) for creating photorealistic 3D models of environments and/or objects from a plurality of stereo images obtained from a mobile stereo camera and optional monocular cameras. The cameras may be handheld, mounted on a mobile platform, manipulator or a positioning device. The...

20060221073 - Techniques for accurately determining visibility of objects from multiple viewpoints in a three-dimensional (3d) environment: An apparatus for determining visibility of agents in a scene from multiple viewpoints in a there-dimensional environment. The apparatus comprises a programmable vertex processor operable to execute a plurality of vertex programs. A programmable fragment processor is provided that is operable to execute a plurality of pixel shaders programs, said...

20060221074 - Image processing method and image processing program: A virtual ray makes one revolution around an imaginary path with an umbrella-like elevation angle θ kept constant with respect to the imaginary path to thereby generate a projected image. When the virtual ray is radiated obliquely, a shaded portion of an inner wall surface of a tubular tissue can...

20060221075 - Three-dimensional data controller and three-dimensional data processor: A three-dimensional data controller controls voxel data by distributing the voxel data to hierarchical nodes. The three-dimensional data controller stores combination patterns, each representing combinations of model statuses of lower nodes towards an upper node of the hierarchical nodes, and converts, based on the combination patterns stored, the voxel data...

20060221076 - Program, information storage medium, image generation system, and image generation method: An image generation system generates an image of an object space viewed from a given viewpoint. When a contact event in which a first model object comes in contact with a second model object in the object space has occurred, height information of grid points corresponding to a contact plane...

20060221077 - System and method for large scale information analysis using data visualization techniques: A system and method for processing a stored original data set for subsequent display on a user interface of a computer, the original data set having multiple dimensions and a number of original data points greater than the number of pixels available on the user interface for displaying a representative...

20060221078 - Method for comparing semiconductor characteristic curves: An analysis system includes a storage device for storing semiconductor-device measurement results and a graph display program; a display for displaying the measurement results in graphs in windows; input device for selecting some of the windows; and a processor for superimposing and displaying the graphs in the windows, by using...

20060221079 - Method and system for filling in a parallelogram: The invention relates to a method of tracing and filling in a parallelogram (ABCD), comprising a first vertex (A), a second vertex (B), a third vertex (C) and a fourth vertex (D) on a discrete grid of a graphics screen from knowledge of the coordinates of its vertices. The method...

20060221080 - Character image generating system, storage medium storing character image generating program and method: The present invention is a character image generation system for generating outline font based on character information and displaying the outline font on a display with a prescribed number of pixels. The character image generation system subdivides a curve expressed by character outline information corresponding to inputted character information, calculates...

20060221082 - Elapsed-time digital counter mouse pointer: A method of indicating an elapsed amount of time related to the functioning of a computer system, generally comprising the steps of indicating the number of time increments (such as seconds) in a numeric digital display, and changing color at intervals....

20060221083 - Method for displaying an image assigned to a communication user at a communication terminal: A technical function that is of interest for mobile or stationary communication terminals is the playing of a video of the corresponding person when a call is received. However, the playing of a video during an incoming call is associated with highly complex processes, as the stored videos have to...

20060221081 - Reactive animation: System and method for generating reactive animation, providing a generic link between tools for graphic animation, by operatively linking the representation of an event driven system in conjunction with an event driven engine to an animation engine to generate reactive animation....

20060221084 - Method and apparatus for animation: Embodiments of a method and system for generating an animated image are disclosed. Methods include obtaining a video of an object to be animated in which the object performs defined actions accompanied by corresponding sounds. Key points on the object to be animated are defined, and a table of trajectories...

20060221085 - Information processing apparatus and program: An information processing apparatus having a print preview function, includes: a setting unit that sets preview objects; a list display unit that displays a list of the preview objects set by the setting unit on a display device; a selection unit that selects at least one of the preview objects...

20060221086 - Adaptive load balancing in a multi-processor graphics processing system: Systems and methods for balancing a load among multiple graphics processors that render different portions of a frame. A display area is partitioned into portions for each of two (or more) graphics processors. The graphics processors render their respective portions of a frame and return feedback data indicating completion of...

20060221087 - Adaptive load balancing in a multi-processor graphics processing system: Systems and methods for balancing a load among multiple graphics processors that render different portions of a frame. A display area is partitioned into portions for each of two (or more) graphics processors. The graphics processors render their respective portions of a frame and return feedback data indicating completion of...

20060221088 - Memory interface control circuit: The memory interface control circuit includes a mask-release-signal generation circuit which generates a basic mask-release signal from a data strobe signal input from a DRAM and a read timing signal indicative of a read start, a mask-release-signal generation circuit which generates a mask signal from a basic mask-release signal and...

20060221089 - Memory controller, image processing controller, and electronic instrument: A memory controller including: a rectangular area designation register which is used for designating a rectangular area inside a display area; an address generation circuit which generates an address of the memory corresponding to a position of each pixel inside the rectangular area; a color designation register in which designated...

20060221090 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program: Image processing method includes acquiring image including object and background, acquiring initial region including object region containing object and background region containing background, setting target region including initial region in image, setting local region containing pixel of interest, calculating local object reliability indicating a degree that pixel of interest seems...

20060221092 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels configured to display a plurality of colors including white. Each of the sub-pixels includes a self-luminous element configured to emit light by receiving supply of electric current, an input unit configured to input a luminance signal for determining luminance of the self-luminous...

20060221093 - Methods and apparatus for calibrating a color display: Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters....

20060221091 - System and method for providing a visual display element for a graphical browser interface: In one embodiment according to the invention, there is disclosed a method for providing a visual display element for a graphical browser interface. The method comprises setting a background color for a region of the graphical browser interface; and providing a visual display element overlaying the background color, wherein the...

20060221094 - Printing tree-described documents: In various embodiments, methods and systems for brush composition are described. In one particular application of brush composition, opacity issues are addressed by focusing on the composition of objects having opacity effects in terms of the brushes that are used to render the objects. By focusing on the brushes that...

20060221095 - Methods and systems for combining luminance preserving quantization and halftoning: A color quantization or re-quantization method is provided that combines two dimensional halftoning with luminance preserving quantization (LPQ) for better perception results of high precision color video quantization. A combination of LPQ and error diffusion, and a combination of LPQ and spatial dithering, is provided. To combine LPQ and spatial...

20060221097 - Display data generation device, display automatic operation data generation device, display data generation method, display automatic operation data generation method, display data generation program, display automatic operation data generation program, a: An image automatic display device for reading automatic operation data as one of pieces of input data has a display image data generation device and a display image data generation operation processing unit. The display image data generation device generates image data to be displayed on a display device on...

20060221096 - Processing instrument and processing instrument system: In a processing instrument in which detailed processing conditions can be set, it has been made possible that one achieves simplification of operations and prevention of operation errors and software having a track record in operation installed in a processing instrument and reused efficiently without modification. A function which receives...

20060221098 - Calibration method and apparatus: An instruction is detected which indicates that a physical object having a fixed plane where the physical object can be moved, and a virtual object rendered so as to be positioned on the plane where the physical object can be moved, are observed as being in a predetermined positional relationship....

20060221099 - Image data processing apparatus and image data processing method: An image data processing apparatus includes: a data dividing unit dividing arithmetic image data into arithmetic pixel data corresponding to a signal line of a display device; an adder adding first data and second data; and a data delaying unit delaying the added data, wherein the first data is the...

20060221100 - Apparatus and method for adjusting brightness: The invention discloses an apparatus for adjusting the brightness of the ith image of an inputted image sequence in a display system. The image sequence includes a plurality of images which each consists of a plurality of pixels. The apparatus includes a first calculating module for calculating a current brightness...

20060221101 - Color image display device, method of driving the same, and electronic equipment: A gray-scale power supply line supplied to a source signal line driving circuit is made only one system, and each of D/A conversion circuits drives source signal lines in which three source signal lines corresponding to RGB are made a unit and the number of which is a multiple of...