Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 12/06

20060290592 - Advertising method for dynamic billboards: An advertising billboard comprises a server and a display controller adapted to receive, store, and display dynamic-content from a server. At least one content display unit is in communication with the display controller, wherein the content display unit visually displays the information from the dynamic-content. The display controller may be... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20060290593 - Device and method for controlling scanning directions of color signals in flat panel display: Disclosed herein is a device and method for controlling the scanning directions of color signals in a flat panel display. The method includes the first step of converting digital color data into analog color signals using a plurality of Digital-to-Analog (D/A) converters provided in a driver Integrated Circuit (IC), and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290594 - Multilayer video screen: A display device comprising at least two display layers at least in part overlapping in which at least one of said display layers has a dissimilar configuration to the other display layer(s) such that moiré interference is reduced.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20060290595 - Image display device: The image display device of the present invention includes: a display layer that comprises a photochromic compound and whose regions, which have been irradiated with visible light, can be optically rewritten in a color corresponding to the color of visible light irradiated thereon; a light-emitting layer in which multiple luminescent... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060290597 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, a first path forming unit forming a first path for supplying an energy to the first electrode and for recoverying the energy from the first electrode, a second path forming unit forming a... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060290599 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising address electrodes, a data driver for supplying a data voltage and a first voltage with a voltage that is more than a ground voltage to the address electrodes and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060290598 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode and a data electrode, and a scan driver for supplying a scan bias voltage and a scan voltage to the scan electrode. Magnitudes of the scan bias voltage and the scan... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060290600 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are disclosed. A waveform generator of the plasma display apparatus adjusts at least one of brightness and contrast through a reset pulse and a sustain pulse supplied to an electrode of a plasma display panel.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060290596 - Plasma display device: Disclosed is a plasma display device. The plasma display device including a plurality of display segments is disclosed. The edges of the display segments face each other and form a larger display device. The display segment includes first and second electrodes crossing each other where the discharge cell is located.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060290601 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device which selectively generates address discharge in each display cell in accordance with pixel data based on a video signal in an address period, applies a sustain pulse between row electrodes forming each row electrode pair in a sustain period, and applies a wall-charge adjusting pulse between... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20060290602 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device which selectively generates address discharge in each display cell in accordance with pixel data based on a video signal in an address period, applies a sustain pulse between row electrodes forming each row electrode pair in a sustain period, and applies, in the sustain period, a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20060290603 - Driving circuit for plasma display panel: A driving circuit for the sustain waveforms of plasma display panel (PDP) includes voltage clamping and energy recovery. The PDP functions as an equivalent capacitor having X and Y sides. A Scan IC has a transistor QH coupled between a first terminal of the Scan IC and the Y side... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290604 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel: A plasma display panel driving circuit includes a panel capacitor having a first side and a second side, a diode electrically connected between the first side of the panel capacitor and a first voltage, a first switch electrically connected between the first voltage and a first node, a second switch... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290605 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel: A plasma display panel driving circuit includes a panel capacitor having a first side and a second side, a first switch electrically connected between the first side of the panel capacitor and a first voltage, a second switch electrically connected between the second side of the panel capacitor and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290608 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel: A plasma display panel driving circuit includes a panel capacitor having first and second sides; a first switch electrically connected between a first voltage and the first side of the panel capacitor; a second switch electrically connected between a second voltage and a first node; a third switch electrically connected... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290609 - Driving waveform and circuit for plasma display panel: A driving circuit, which can realize the driving waveforms for a PDP without staying at ground potential includes having one side, the X side, of an panel equivalent capacitor Cp of the PDP coupled directly to ground with the Y side of the equivalent capacitor having a Scan IC 99... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290610 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, a sustain voltage source, an inductor, an energy supply/recovery capacitor, and a maintenance capacitor. The inductor and the energy supply/recovery capacitor form... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060290606 - Plasma display panel driving circuit: A driving circuit for producing sustain waveforms of a plasma display panel (PDP) is mentioned. The driving circuit includes the functions of voltage clamping and energy recovery. By controlling switches contained in the driving circuit, the supplied voltage source can be made to be only half of the sustain voltage.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290607 - Plasma display panel driving circuit: A driving circuit for producing sustain waveforms of a plasma display panel (PDP) is mentioned. The driving circuit includes the functions of voltage clamping and energy recovery. By controlling switches contained in the driving circuit, the supplied voltage source can be made to be only half of the sustain voltage.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290611 - 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... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290612 - Current sample-and-hold circuit and display device including the same: A current sample-and-hold circuit of the present invention includes a storage capacitor for storing an initial image-signal current, a first transistor for receiving one of an initial image-signal current from a voltage power supply and an input image-signal current from a pixel circuit, a second transistor for connecting between the... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20060290615 - Driving current output apparatus, method of manufacturing the same, display device and driving apparatus thereof: A display device, which includes a plurality of pixels; a data driver for outputting data signals to the pixels; a bias current outputting unit for outputting a bias current having a predetermined magnitude; a plurality of driving current outputting units for outputting driving currents to the pixels; and a first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060290617 - Electronic circuit, method of driving electronic circuit, electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: The present invention provides an electronic circuit, a method of driving the electronic circuit, an electro-optical device, a method of driving the electro-optical device, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving yield or aperture ratio by reducing the number of transistors to be used. A pixel circuit can include a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060290614 - Method and system for driving a light emitting device display: A method and system for driving a light emitting device display is provided. The system provides a timing schedule which increases accuracy in the display. The system may provide the timing schedule by which an operation cycle is implemented consecutively in a group of rows. The system may provide the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060290613 - Organic light-emitting device and organic light-emitting display: An organic light-emitting device including: a light emitting diode that emits light by a signal current; a driving thin film transistor connected between a source voltage and a light emitting diode and connected at its drain to the light emitting diode and a current source, and that supplies the signal... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20060290616 - Self-emission panel: It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved self-emission panel capable of adjusting its light emission in response to an intensity of an external light without performing some troublesome operations. The panel comprises a plurality of self-emission elements having a light emitting function and a light... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060290619 - Circuits, displays and apparatus for providing opposing offsets in amplifier output voltages and methods of operating same: A driver circuit can include a channel amplifier configured to operate in a first mode to provide a channel amplifier output including a positive offset voltage responsive to a first state of a control signal and configured to operate in a second mode to provide the channel amplifier output including... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060290618 - Display panel conversion data deciding method and measuring apparatus: A high-speed correction of display panel luminance variation is performed by use of a display panel conversion data deciding method, which comprises a first measuring step for determining a first driving current of the light emitting elements of the display panel when the capacitors of the pixels other than pixels... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20060290622 - Active matrix display device and method of driving active matrix display device: There are provided pixel units arrayed in a matrix, and a signal line driving circuit. The signal line driving circuit divides a 1 frame into a first period in which a video signal is supplied to the pixel unit of a high gray level and a second period in which... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290620 - Direct type backlight: A direct type backlight has a plate and a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) rows. The LED rows are disposed on the plate, and every two adjacent LED rows have a row gap positioned therebetween. The one of these gaps, which is nearest to the center of the direct... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060290621 - Driving method and circuit for automatic voltage output of active matrix organic light emitting device and data drive circuit using the same: Disclosed herein is a driving method and circuit for the automatic voltage output of an active matrix organic light emitting device, which is capable of resolving the non-uniformity of brightness between pixels. The circuit of the present invention includes timing generation means for generating a data drive start signal; sweep... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20060290623 - Light emitting device using organic electroluminescent element: A light emitting device (10) may comprise a constant current source (12), a first organic electroluminescent element (16), switches (14, 20), and a second organic electroluminescent element (18). The first organic electroluminescent element (16) may be connected to the constant current source (12). The switches (14, 20) may switch the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060290624 - Backlighting apparatus and method: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for generating light having a desired chromaticity, wherein two or more light-emitting elements which emit light having a dominant wavelength different from the dominant wavelength of a desired chromaticity can be used to generate light having the desired chromaticity. In particular, the... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20060290625 - Light source device and projection type display device: There is provided light source device comprising; a plurality of light source sections, a control section, and a light amount monitoring section, wherein the control section gradually increases a voltage value applied to the light source sections from a low voltage value, the light amount monitoring section obtains a voltage... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20060290627 - Illumination device and display apparatus having the same: An illumination device is partitioned into a plurality of areas. Rays of light emanating from light sources 203 of individual units are intercepted appropriately by means of a light barrier 204 and the transmission factor at individual positions of a light diffuser 205 is changed in accordance with light flux... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060290626 - Matrix type display apparatus and method for driving the same: A γ1A converter circuit 1a and a γ2A converter circuit 2a to a λ1C converter circuit 1c and a γ2C converter circuit 2c use first to third types of first and second γ-characteristics to γ-convert an input video signal IS. Selectors 3 to 5 select one pair among three pairs... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20060290628 - Imaging apparatus: Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: a pixel section having a plurality of pixels arranged in two dimensions for effecting photoelectric conversion; a light blocking section for blocking light to conceal the pixel section in accordance with a light blocking instruction signal; a region setting section for outputting the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060290629 - Positive and negative voltage sources: A plasma display panel voltage source includes a first capacitor electrically connected to a first voltage and a second capacitor electrically connected in series with the first capacitor and electrically connected to a second voltage, wherein a required voltage is produced between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290632 - Display and array substrate: A display includes pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes a drive transistor whose source or drain being connected to a power supply terminal, a display element including a pixel electrode, a counter electrode connected to a second power supply terminal, and an active layer interposed therebetween, and a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290631 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel: A driving circuit for creating sustain waveforms of plasma display panel (PDP) is provided. The driving circuit includes the functions of voltage clamping and energy recovery. The main structure of this driving circuit is composed of 5 switches, two diodes, and an inductor which couple to the panel capacitor of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060290633 - Light emitting display and thin film transistor (tft): A light emitting display for improving image quality and a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) includes at least one data line for transmitting a data signal, at least one scanning line for transmitting a selected signal, and at least one pixel electrically connected to the data line and the scanning line.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20060290630 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first thin film transistor having a first channel W/L (width/length) ratio and a first gate-drain parasitic capacitance. The second pixel includes a second thin film transistor that is disposed at a different... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060290634 - Organic light emitting display and method of fabricating the same: An organic light emitting display (OLED) and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The OLED includes a substrate and a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate. A first inorganic passivation layer is disposed on the thin film transistor. A second inorganic passivation layer whose hydrogen content is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060290640 - Apparatus and method for controlling gate voltage of liquid crystal display: Gate voltage controlling apparatus and method wherein a gate voltage may be applied to a gate driver sequentially from a lower voltage toward a higher voltage to stably drive and protect the gate driver, thereby minimizing any defects in the gate driver. In the gate controlling apparatus, a power supply... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20060290635 - Comparator-based drivers for lcd displays and the like: A comparator-based driver has a configurable inverter that inverts one of the comparator output signals for application to the gate of a driver transistor used to generate the driver output signal. The configurable inverter can be selectively configured to provide any one of at least two different inverter logic threshold... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20060290641 - Flat panel display: A display includes an array of pixel circuits and data drivers to drive the pixel circuits. The data drivers include a first data driver to receive pixel data according to a first clock frequency and to forward some of the pixel data to a second data driver according to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060290638 - Liquid crystal display and corresponding driving method: A liquid crystal display device is set forth that comprises a data line that is connected to drive a liquid crystal cell and an output driver connected to selectively provide a pixel drive signal to the data line. The pixel drive signal corresponds to a digital video data signal provided... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290637 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a first transistor that outputs a charge share voltage to a data line in response to a first output control signal. A second transistor outputs a pre-charge voltage, which is greater than the charge share voltage, to the data line in response to a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290636 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: A method for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. In the method, a first pre-charge voltage and a second pre-charge voltage are generated from an external voltage source separated from a data driving integrated circuit. A data line is pre-charged with the first pre-charge voltage during a first period.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290642 - Method of overdriving lcd device and overdriving circuit for lcd device: An overdriving circuit for a liquid crystal display device, includes a system signal treating unit configured to treat an image data to generate a present frame data, a frame memory configured to store a former frame data used for treating the image data in the system signal treating unit, an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290639 - Reduced swing differential signal transmission device for liquid crystal display: The present invention is applied to a liquid crystal display (LCD) having a big size so that the LCD can be used with saved energy, small amplitude and low electromagnetic interference.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060290643 - Organic electroluminscent display device: An organic electroluminescent display device in which a wiring layer, an insulating layer 3, first electrodes, an organic electroluminescent layer 5, and second electrodes 6 are laminated on a substrate 1, wherein the wiring layer sandwiched between a row of the first electrodes 4 and the substrate 1 comprises a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290645 - Electron emission display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed are an electron emission display device and a driving method thereof, which protect a drive circuit such as a display region or a data driver when the data driver operates erroneously. The display region receives a data signal from a data driver and a scan signal from a scan... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060290646 - Liquid crystal display of line on glass type: A line-on-glass type liquid crystal display device, which includes a gate drive integrated circuit mounted on a liquid crystal display panel for supplying a gate signal to the liquid crystal display panel, and a data drive integrated circuit for supplying a data voltage to the liquid crystal display panel. Further,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290644 - Method of driving liquid crystal display device: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device having a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixel electrodes includes: applying sequentially a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines, the gate signal being applied to odd gates lines of the plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290648 - Backlight control unit and liquid crystal display device having the same: A backlight control unit for a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel for displaying an image, a backlight for providing light to the liquid crystal panel, a gate driving unit and a data driving unit for driving the liquid crystal panel, a timing controller for outputting signals... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20060290647 - Optical waveguided dashboard display: An all-optical automotive, aircraft, marine and industrial dashboard display having embedded passive waveguides and illuminators, fed by a replaceable central unit of light sources and their controls, called the “light box,” minimizing the number of light sources required, and permitting elimination of the multiplicity of electrical cable connections from the... Agent: Stephen G. Rudisill Jenkens & Gilchrist

20060290653 - Display device and display method: A display device of the present invention comprises display unit cells having a display region that shows coloration, a shield region that shields the coloration, and a horizontal projection surface area adjustment unit that relatively changes the horizontal projection surface area in the display region by increasing or decreasing the... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060290652 - Driving scheme for monochrome mode and transition method for monochrome-to-greyscale mode in bi-stable displays: Image quality is improved when updating a display image (310) in a bi-stable electronic reading device (300, 400) such as one using an electrophoretic display, by providing both monochrome and greyscale images. When an update mode of a pixel (2) of the display changes from a monochrome to greyscale, a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290651 - Electrooptic/micromechanical display with discretely controllable bistable transflector: A display (1) comprises a display device (2), such as an LC cell and a switchable transflector (7). The transflector 7 comprises a plurality of discrete portions and is configured so that the transmittance and reflectance properties of at least one of said portions can be tuned independently of other... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290649 - Electrophoretic display and addressing method thereof: An electrophoretic display comprises a matrix of pixels (18) which comprise electrophoretic material (8, 9) being sandwiched between a top electrode (6) and a bottom electrode (5, 5′). An addressing circuit (16, 10) addresses the pixels (18) during an image update period (IUP) by applying drive voltages (VD) between the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290650 - Electrophoretic display panel: An electrophoretic display panel and a method for driving an electrophoretic display panel in which the drive pulse, i.e. the grey scale pulse, to bring an element from a preceding optical state to an optical state is split in more than one sub-pulses. A more gradual introduction of the grey... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290656 - Combined input processing for a computing device: Input is received from at least two different input sources. Information from these sources are combined together to provide a result. In a particular example, input from one source corresponds to potential recognition candidates, and input from another source corresponds to other potential candidates. These candidates are combined together to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060290654 - Holder for electronic apparatus: The present invention is to provide a holding device comprising a support having its underside attached to a seat and a top surface adapted to hold an electronic apparatus; a shuttle member having one end slidably passed one end of the support; a pivot at the other end of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060290658 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a display unit, a plurality of types of input units, an input unit recognizing unit that recognizes a type of input unit via which input is being performed, and a display control unit. If a function menu has been selected of the first screen via... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060290655 - Input device including a multi-direction type scroll wheel: An input device with a multi-direction type scroll wheel includes a multi-direction command type switch and a scroll wheel for controlling the switch to output a command. The switch includes a base, a controller, and a pair of positioning bodies. An interior of each positioning bodies is provided with a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290657 - Multi-instruction transverse input device: A multi-instruction transverse input device includes a hand-control unit and two anchor members located on two sides of the hand-control unit to generate instruction signals. The hand-control unit is mounted onto a base. Each anchor member includes a leg coupler which contains a plurality of legs. The hand-control unit is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290661 - Re-configuring the standby screen of an electronic device: An electronic device including a user interface having a display for displaying a standby screen when the device is in an idle state and a user input device, wherein the user interface provides a menu system, for re-configuring the standby screen, that is navigated using the user input device.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060290663 - Simulated training environments based upon fixated objects in specified regions: Objects associated with fixation regions are used to support training tasks that are characterized by operation within a dynamic 3D environment, problem-solving that involves user multi-tasking, fast decisions, heavy workloads, potential for unexpected events, and the need for high-performance skills. The invention is ideally suited to measure the nuances associated... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20060290659 - Solid-state imaging device: A solid-state imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a pixel region including a modulation part formed adjacent to the photoelectric conversion element; and a peripheral region in which a peripheral circuit including a driving circuit driving the photoelectric conversion element and the modulation part is disposed, wherein the peripheral... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060290660 - Switching between input modes in a limited input device: The present invention is directed to a method for switching a data entry mode, when editing data displayed on a limited input device. The method comprises evaluating a first input point, in relation to a second input point, postioned in an input window of the limited input device, wherein the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20060290662 - Synchronized vibration device for haptic feedback: The present invention relates to synchronized vibration devices that can provide haptic feedback to a user. A wide variety of actuator types may be employed to provide synchronized vibration, including linear actuators, rotary actuators, rotating eccentric mass actuators, and rocking mass actuators. A controller may send signals to one or... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060290664 - Dual mode input device: An input device having a pointing mode and a joystick mode is disclosed. The input device includes a housing, a tracking assembly, and at least one actuator. In some aspects of the invention, a controller is located within the housing to receive input from the tracking assembly and the actuator,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060290666 - Method and device for assisting searching for an item in a list by accelerated scrolling on a display device: This method of scrolling a list of items on a display device of a multimedia device consists in accelerating the scrolling of the list or browsing within a multimedia content (14; 18; 22; 26) by actuating (12; 16; 20; 24) one or more buttons of the device.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20060290667 - Multi-function laser pointer mouse: This invention discloses a multi-function laser pointer mouse which contains a main body, left button, right button, cursor controller, at least one document scrolling control button, and at least one volume control button. The left button and right button are placed on the front side of the main body. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060290665 - Slide pad notebook pointing device with sealed spring system: A pointing device having top and bottom pucks that move on a stage is disclosed. The top puck moves over the top surface of the stage in response to a lateral force applied thereto. The top and bottom pucks are magnetically coupled such that the two pucks maintain a predetermined... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20060290668 - Simplified user control and associated user interface: A user-input device includes a control having an axis. A circuit is coupled to the control and generates a first command signal in response to movement of the control about the axis from a first angular position to a second angular position. The circuit generates a second command signal in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060290669 - Joy stick: A first casing is comprised of metal and has a side face formed with a cutout portion. A second casing is comprised of resin. A pivot member has a pivot shaft and is disposed between the first casing and the second casing so as to be pivotable about the pivot... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060290670 - Joy stick: A board has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. A movable member is provided on the first face so as to be movable in a first direction. An operating stick is coupled to the movable member, thereby being movable in the first direction from... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060290671 - Input device including a scroll wheel assembly: An input device including a scroll wheel assembly for moving an image in multiple directions on a display screen. The scroll wheel assembly may include a finger-engagable control member that may be endlessly rotated about a rotation axis and a tilt sensor containing a tilt contact member coplanar with the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060290672 - Pointing device: A pointing device is communicated with a computer system for controlling movement of a cursor shown on a display screen of the computer system. The pointing device includes a housing and a scroll wheel assembly. The housing has an opening therein. The scroll wheel assembly is positioned within the opening... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group

20060290673 - Bi-directional induction mouse component part: A bi-directional induction mouse component part which uses the surface protruding points as monitoring points of optical inductor's coordinates, counter-weight balance fixed inside of photosphere produces barycenter and positioned downward, so that the body placing photosphere can rotate freely in X and Y axis, photosphere is elevated without any movement... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060290674 - Input device: Embodiments of an input device are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060290675 - Ball device for controlling cursor: The invention proposes a device (20) comprising a ball (30), rolling elements (56) for guiding the ball (30), a light source (112) for emitting at least one incident light beam through a window, a sensor of the image of the illuminated zone of the ball (30), characterized in that the... Agent: Leon D. Rosen Freilich, Hornbaker & Rosen

20060290676 - Key input device: A key input device includes a key input unit and an illuminating unit. The key input unit has a key cap, movable mechanism, pressure sensing part, and a frame housing these components. The illuminating unit illuminates the key cap from the bottom of this key input unit through the movable... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060290680 - Apparatus, operation terminal, and monitoring method of apparatus: An apparatus including: a reception section to receive operation information from an operation terminal; a display section; and a controller that selectively executes a first control to display in the display section an operation screen corresponding to the operation information received by the reception section, and a second control not... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060290682 - Coordinate input pen and coordinate input apparatus having the same: The coordinate input pen according to the present invention is a coordinate input pen for specifying a current position of the coordinate input pen by emitting an ultrasonic wave, including: an ultrasonic wave oscillating section for oscillating the ultrasonic wave for specifying coordinates of the current position; an ultrasonic wave... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20060290679 - Method for detecting overlapped function area on a touchpad: In a method for detecting overlapped function area on a touchpad with the overlapped function area overlapped by more than two different function areas, when the overlapped function area is touched by an object, a further function can be correctly performed according to touched duration, touched movement, or a terminal... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060290681 - Method for zooming image on touch screen: The invention provides a method for switching the size of an image displayed on a touch screen between a full-screen size and a normal size. A user can selectivity display the image on the touch screen in the full-screen size or the normal size by use of the method according... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20060290678 - Scroll control method using a touchpad: A scroll control method using a touchpad comprises predefining a region on a touchpad, whereby a scroll function will be triggered by a landing of an object on the region, and terminated by a leaving of the object from the touchpad. During the scroll function is executed, the moving distance... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060290677 - Trackpad sensitivity compensation: A device compensating for a loss in sensitivity of a sensor, such as a trackpad. The device may be standalone, integrated with the trackpad itself, or within the associated integrated circuit designed to measure relative electrode capacitances. The embodiment generally employs a current source to negatively compensate for the current... Agent: Apple Computers, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20060290684 - Coordinate detection system for a display monitor: The present invention relates to an apparatus for detecting an input position on a screen of a display monitor. The apparatus comprises a light guiding layer (301) having an optical structure such that a fraction (304) of the light (303) incident on the layer (301) from the apparatus' exterior is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290683 - Device with light-guiding layer: Devices (1) comprising light detectors (11-14) for detecting light and in response generating detection information, and light-guiding layers (15) comprising outer sides for guiding incident light (21) arriving at the outer sides and originating from input devices (20) towards the light detectors (11-14) are provided with converters (16) for converting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290685 - Multicolored lighting device and coordinate input device: Provided is a multicolored lighting device capable of illuminating an operation surface with high efficiency and high quality and a coordinate input device. Themulticolored light sources are disposed in the vicinity of the edges of a bar-shaped light guide having a plurality of chromatic light sources. The chromatic light sources... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060290686 - Input pen: Disclosed is an input pen for entering information into an input device by a handwriting input operation. The input pen includes: a grip, to be held by a user for a handwriting input operation, having a shape substantially resembling a flat plate; and a pointed tip continuous with the grip.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060290687 - Display apparatus having turnable display: A display apparatus includes a base, a display screen part supported on the base turnably, a driving part for turning the display screen part in accordance with an inputted control signal, a turning prevention mechanism for preventing turning of the display screen part, a judgment part for judging on the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060290688 - Flexible display device and method for changing display area: Provided is a display device and method configured to change an image displayed in a display area flexibly when the display area is changed. The flexible display device depending on change of a display area comprises a memory, a location output unit and a screen display unit. The memory is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060290689 - Semiconductor half-bridge module with low inductance: A power module that includes embedded power bus bars and output bus arranged to lower the parasitic inductance.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20060290690 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display part, a video signal processor to convert an input video signal into a format displayable by the display part, a network controller to be connected to a network and to transmit and receive data according to a predetermined protocol, a data processor to process... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060290691 - Display device and information display system: The control system of the display device is divided into a power supply control system, a main control system and a liquid crystal display panel driving system. When a main power switch 192 is turned on, only a sub-control circuit 170 as the power supply control system is supplied with... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060290692 - Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus using the same: The transistor suffers the variation caused in threshold voltage or mobility due to gathering of the factors of the variation in gate insulator film resulting from a difference in manufacture process or substrate used and of the variation in channel-region crystal state. The present invention provides an electric circuit having... Agent: Eric Robinson

20060290693 - Large mesh deformation using the volumetric graph laplacian: Large mesh deformation using the volumetric graph Laplacian is described. In one aspect, information is received from a user, wherein the information indicates how an original mesh is to be deformed. The original mesh is then deformed based on the information and application of a volumetric differential operator to a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060290694 - Local reconstruction of a tetrahedral grid: A method of local reconstructing a grid containing a plurality of adjoining tetrahedrals wherein spheres cannot be constructed around each tetrahedral without including a vertex of another tetrahedral into a grid containing the tetrahedrals wherein spheres can be constructed around each tetrahedral without including a vertex of another tetrahedral. In... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20060290695 - System and method to obtain surface structures of multi-dimensional objects, and to represent those surface structures for animation, transmission and display: Four related but independent aspects are described: (1) a method and a system to derive mesh surface descriptions (also called connectivity-wireframes) and material properties from objects represented as a scalar field (e.g. discrete multi-dimensional data), scalar functions (e.g. implicit surfaces) or any other surface description, (2) a compact, optionally multi-scalable,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060290696 - Method and apparatus for implementing level of detail with ray tracing: The present invention relates to computer graphics applications involving scene rendering using objects modeled at multiple levels of detail. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a ray tracer implementation allows users to specify multiple versions of a particular object, categorized by LOD ID's. A scene server selects the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060290697 - System for arranging a plurality of relational nodes into graphical layout form: A system for arranging a plurality of nodes into graphical layout form partitions the nodes into a set of clusters from which a cluster graph is created. The cluster partitioning is based on the inter-nodal relationships, and cluster size depends on the number of nodes associated with each cluster. The... Agent: Thelen Reid & Priest

20060290698 - Method and system for representing and displaying digital ink: A method and system for compressing and displaying a digital ink trace. Raw ink data is smoothed, and sharp points of the smoothed line are found. Curve-fitting is then used to generate a mathematical expression that defines the line segments between adjacent sharp points. The ink trace then is represented... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20060290699 - System and method for audio-visual content synthesis: A system and method is provided for synthesizing audio-visual content in a video image processor. A content synthesis application processor extracts audio features and video features from audio-visual input signals that represent a speaker who is speaking. The processor uses the extracted visual features to create a computer generated animated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290700 - Multiple parallel processor computer graphics system: An accelerated graphics processing subsystem that significantly increases the processing speed of computer graphics commands. The preferred embodiment of this invention presents a first-of-its-kind graphics processing subsystem that combines the processing power of multiple, off-the-shelf, video cards, each one having one or more graphic processor units. The video cards can... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20060290701 - Display unit, method for identifying manufacture number, and method for registering manufacture number: A display unit includes a main body section including an image display device; a memory section for storing a manufacture number assigned to the image display device; an I/F section provided with a terminal part for inputting and outputting data from and to an external device; a control section for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060290704 - Caching digital image data: Methods and systems for processing digital image data utilizing vertically-oriented Effect graphs are provided. When processing digital image data utilizing Effect graphs, it is often necessary for certain Effects on the graph to render their outputs multiple times during a single rendering pass. To alleviate the exponential processing that such... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060290703 - Non-destructive processing of digital image data: Systems for rendering Effect graphs for non-destructively processing digital image data which integrate Central Processing Unit (CPU) processing and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing are provided. Additionally provided are systems for processing digital image data utilizing Effect graphs. The systems of the present invention integrate CPU processing and GPU processing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060290705 - Performing a pre-rendering pass in digital image processing: Methods for processing, e.g., non-destructively processing, digital image data utilizing an Effect graph are provided. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving an Effect graph including a plurality of Effect objects each having an image buffer associated therewith for storing digital image data, receiving digital image data to be... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060290702 - Translating layers into effect graphs in digital image processing: Methods and systems for processing, e.g., non-destructively processing, digital image data utilizing one or more Effect Layers are provided. Effect Layers combine Effects in useful ways that simplify the process of creating Effect graphs. Each Effect Layer contains a logical Effect sub-graph that includes a plurality of logical Effects, e.g.,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060290707 - Method and mechanism for programmable filtering of texture map data in 3d graphics subsystems: A system, method and apparatus to provide flexible texture filtering. A programmable texture filtering module is introduced into the graphics processing pipeline of a graphic coprocessor and graphic processor integrated with the host. A program from a defined instruction set may then be loaded into texture processing cores to process... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060290706 - Terrain map summary elements: Method and system for image data analysis, by making use of a Terrain Map Summary Element (TMSE) data structure, in which a Terrain Map data structure provides processed primitive data about each 2×2 kernel of pixels from an original image. The new TMSE is a hierarchical multiple-level or tiered structure... Agent: Greensfelder Hemker & Gale PC

20060290708 - Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature: A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-flutter filtering and scaling of graphics. Anti-flutter filtering may help... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060290709 - Information processing method and apparatus: In an information processing method for processing a user's instruction on the basis of a plurality of pieces of input information which are input by a user using a plurality of types of input modalities, each of the plurality of types of input modalities has a description including correspondence between... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060290710 - User interface for controlling light emitting diodes: A LED lighting system (100) employing a LED light source (115), a user interface (124, 128, 134, 138), and a controller (112). The LED light source (115) includes a plurality of colored LEDs emitting one of a plurality of spectral outputs as a function of one or more currents flowing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060290711 - System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super-resolution: An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separately on the three different color layers. The second step is based on minimizing a maximum... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20060290714 - Matching digital information flow to a human perception system: A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks into information planes (which are based on a concept of “triage and focus”).... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060290712 - Method and system for transforming adaptively visual contents according to user's symptom characteristics of low vision impairment and user's presentation preferences: Disclosed are a method and a system that could adaptively improve the visual quality of people with low-vision impairment, regardless of network and terminal. The low-vision impairment is described by a set of “symptoms” that is semantically defined. As the description tool of low vision impairments, it is flexible and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060290713 - System, method and computer-readable medium for producing indicating figures: This present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable medium thereof that allow a user to produce an indicating figure from a multidimensional data table by means of drag-and-drop functions. The invention displays the multidimensional data table, which has a set of measurement data and category data; displays a predetermined... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20060290715 - Image-based clipping: Disclosed is a tangible computer-readable medium encoded with an image-based clipping computer program. This image-based clipping computer program when executed by one or more processors should cause the processor(s) to generate a clipped pattern. To generate this clipped pattern, the processors preferably select a pattern using coordinates from an original... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20060290716 - Program creation apparatus, program creation method and program: A program creation apparatus creates a program for a microcomputer that includes an input section, a processor and an output section. The apparatus includes a GUI display section displaying a plurality of icons, each corresponding to each operation of the input section, the processor and the output section, and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060290717 - Display apparatus, information processing apparatus, and method for controlling display apparatus: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes an input unit configured to input any one of display data in m-bit gradation in each color and display data in n(m>n)-bit gradation in each color, a display control unit configured to execute display control of display data inputted by the input... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20060290718 - Drive circuit: A drive circuit of the present invention is a drive circuit for driving a display element in accordance with grayscale information, which circuit outputs a drive waveform controlled through (i) plural-stepped voltage amplitude modulation and (ii) a pulse width modulation which is settable for each voltage amplitude of the plural-stepped... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060290719 - Representing quasi-homogenous materials: Representing quasi-homogenous materials is described. In one aspect, quasi-homogenous materials are modeled to generate a material model of a physical sample. The material model identifies how light is scattered by the quasi-homogenous materials. The material model, independent of an object model of the physical sample, provides information that is useful... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060284786 - Display control apparatus, system, and display control method: A display control apparatus having capabilities of converting multiple images to be displayed in a first site to display said multiple images in a second site. The display control apparatus includes a receiver that receives information on a noteworthy image selected from said multiple images and setup information on at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060284785 - Generation of an object-processing platform between two computers by joining screens: A method for generating an object processing platform between an object computer and a processing computer, wherein an ad hoc assembly of screens is performed by the object computer with the processing computer in order to couple their input and/or output means. The method of the present invention includes generating... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20060284787 - Method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device: A method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device. An auxiliary display is integrated with a computing system to provide an area where notifications can be peripherally presented off-screen. Whenever a background task sends a notification to the main display of the system, the notification may... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20060284788 - Infinity tunnel display system with floating dynamic image: An optical display apparatus includes a housing, a partially reflective front window or beamsplitter having a front side forming a face of the housing, wherein the front window or beamsplitter appears transparent from the face of the housing and is at least partially reflective to light coming from within said... Agent: Aquilla Patents & Marks, PLLC

20060284789 - Systems and methods for location based games and employment of the same on location enabled devices: A location-based game system is provided. Such a system may take the form of any device (e.g., a wireless telephone) that includes a locating device (e.g., a GPS system). One such location-based game may operate such that the actual, physical location of a user on a physical playfield corresponds to... Agent: Jeffrey D. Mullen

20060284790 - Optical scanning system with correction: A scanning system device has a predetermined aberration as it scans or switches light along selected optical paths. A deformable membrane receives the light and introduces an inverse “aberration” that offsets that of the scanning system. In one embodiment the scanning system includes a torsion arm that supports an oscillatory... Agent: Edward W. Bulchis, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20060284791 - Augmented reality system and method with mobile and interactive function for multiple users: An augmented reality system with mobile and interactive functions for multiple users includes two major portions: a computer system for handling augmented reality functions, and a user system for each user. The computer system for handling augmented reality functions has very powerful functionality for processing digital image data and transforming... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060284792 - Self-referenced tracking: A new tracking technique is essentially “sourceless” in that it can be used anywhere with no set-up, yet it enables a much wider range of virtual environment-style navigation and interaction techniques than does a simple head-orientation tracker. A sourceless head orientation tracker is combined with a head-worn tracking device that... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060284793 - Display system using mobile communication terminal, method of displaying image, and computer program product: Provided is a display system that uses a mobile communication terminal. The display system includes a mobile communication terminal having an insertion unit, and a mobile display device having a slot-type connection unit insertable into the insertion unit of the mobile communication terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to display received... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060284794 - Electrophoretic display activation with symmetric data frames: A system implements a method of activating an electrophoretic display (10). First, the system receives image information (14) and generates a plurality of symmetric data frames (70) from the received image information. The symmetric data frames include symmetric pixel data (72) and substantially symmetric data-frame times (74). Thereafter, the system... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060284796 - Method of driving plasma display panel: In the initializing period of each of sub-fields comprising one field, one of all-cell initializing operation and selective initializing operation is performed. The all-cell initializing operation causes initializing discharge in all the discharge cells for displaying an image. The selective initializing operation selectively causes initializing discharge only in the discharge... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060284795 - Plasma display panel aging method: Disclosed here is a method of aging a plasma display panel. The aging method of the present invention contains a first aging period and a second aging period. In the first aging period, applying voltage Vd1 to at least any one of the scan electrodes, the sustain electrodes, and the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20060284797 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes: a front substrate; a rear substrate arranged parallel to the front substrate; barrier ribs arranged between the front substrate and the rear substrate and adapted to demarcate light-emitting cells in a lattice pattern; upper electrodes and lower electrodes embedded in the barrier ribs around... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20060284799 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus a plasma display panel comprising an electrode, a sustain voltage circuit unit, and an energy supply/recovery circuit unit. The sustain voltage circuit unit comprises a plurality of sustain voltage circuits, which maintain a voltage of the plasma display panel at... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060284798 - Soft switching of high-side switches of pdp scan ics: A method of switching a high-side switch of a plasma display panel (PDP) scan circuit in zero-voltage-switching mode. The scan circuit contains a high-side switch and a low-side switch. By controlling the voltage potential difference across the high-side switch, the high-side switch of the PDP scan circuit can operate using... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060284802 - Assuring uniformity in the output of an oled: A display area of a display panel is divided into a plurality of areas, and a current detector detects a driving current (i.e. CV current) that flows when light is emitted from an area or a block including a plurality of areas. Such current detection is repeated while sequentially changing... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20060284801 - Driving circuit for organic light emitting diode, display device using the same and driving method of organic light emitting diode display device: An organic light emitting diode drive circuit includes an organic light emitting diode which emits light with a current, a first transistor, a second transistor and a stress compensation circuit. The first transistor supplies a data voltage to a first node in response to a scan pulse. The second transistor... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284803 - Electroluminescence display device: A display portion in which pixels are arranged in a matrix is formed on a display panel and a drive current line, which supplies a drive current from a terminal formed at a side along a column direction to a display element in each pixel, includes a branch line provided... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060284800 - Semiconductor device and driving method of the same: In the case of reducing an effect of variations in current characteristics of transistors by inputting a signal current to a transistor in a pixel, a potential of a wiring is detected by using a precharge circuit. In the case where there is a difference between a predetermined potential and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060284804 - High efficiency electronic display device: The present invention is related to a high efficiency electronic display device comprising a plurality of EPDs and a plurality of LEDs, [especially to a like electronic paper display equipment made by EPD and the adding cooperation for LED]. Therefore, the device is capable of display information by means of... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060284805 - Apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device and driving method using the same: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display, which is capable of controlling image brightness according to an Average Picture Level (APL) in a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) type display, and a driving method using the same is disclosed. The apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284807 - Display device, driving apparatus for the display device and integrated circuit for the display device: A driving apparatus and a circuit for a display device are presented. The driving apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a positive polarity reference gray voltage generator capable of generating a plurality of positive polarity reference gray voltages, and a data driver capable of generating a plurality of negative polarity... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20060284806 - Driver circuit , electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A driver circuit includes an operational amplifier OPC1 which drives a data line by a rail-to-rail operation or a non-rail-to-rail operation based on a grayscale voltage corresponding to one of first to Pth (P is an integer of four or more) grayscale values, and an operational amplifier control section OPCC1... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060284808 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: On both sides of a resin-made frame, a metallic edge frame member that surrounds a liquid crystal panel and a metallic backboard member equipped with a circuit board are disposed, and these are screw-fitted to the frame. Screw-fitting points are provided as four points in corner portions, and by screws... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20060284809 - Display panel: A display panel is disclosed. The display units with the same position at odd rows and even rows are electrically coupled to different data lines, such that most of the time each of the data lines on the display panel is maintained on a single polarity, respectively. Accordingly, the swing... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060284810 - Image display method and image display apparatus: This invention implements an image display technique capable of setting a display effect and providing a more effective display which reflects a feature in an image without performing any cumbersome operation by a viewing user in a slide show of sequentially displaying digital images. An image display method of adding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060284811 - Lcd device with improved optical performance: In an LCD pixel, the pixel voltage is usually reduced after a gate line signal has passed. To compensate for this voltage reduction, the voltage applied to the charge storage capacitor in the pixel is increased from Vcom to Vcom1 after the gate line signal has passed. Voltage adjustment can... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060284812 - Method for mrt imaging on the basis of conventional ppa reconstruction methods: In a method and apparatus for generating a magnetic resonance image of a contiguous region of a human body on the basis of partial parallel acquisition (PPA) by excitation of nuclear spins and measurement of radio-frequency signals indicating the excited spins, the spin excitation is implemented in steps with measurement... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20060284813 - Scanning display: A scanning display includes plural light sources, and a scanner for two-dimensionally scanning a scanning area in a scanning surface from lights from the plural light sources, wherein the scanner scans plural partial scanning areas that are arranged in a first direction within a range corresponding to the scanning area,... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20060284816 - Apparatus and method for driving image display device: An apparatus and method for driving an image display device is disclosed, in which data signals are transmitted in a multilevel to reduce transmission frequencies, power consumption and transmission lines. The apparatus for driving an image display device includes a display panel including an image display unit for displaying images,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284815 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel with pixels defined by data and gate lines. A gate driver provides different gate pulses to the odd-column pixels than to the even-column pixels. The gate pulses have different voltages... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284814 - Asynchronous display driving scheme and display: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060284818 - Display, liquid crystal display, and data processing method: Disclosed herein is a display including, a digital signal processing circuit that processes pixel data, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit that converts pixel data that has been subjected to signal processing into an analog signal for driving a display device, and an error data addition circuit that is provided at a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20060284817 - Liquid crystal display device and display control method thereof: A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of pixels are arrayed substantially in a matrix, and a display control circuit which sequentially selects the rows of pixels in synchronism with a horizontal period of a sync signal externally supplied together with a video... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060284821 - Display device and inspection method of position gap: The present invention can easily inspect the connection between a flexible printed circuit board and terminals. In a display device which includes a display panel which forms a plurality of lines as first lines on a terminal portion thereof, and a film-like substrate which forms a plurality of lines as... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20060284820 - Driving circuit, liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: An LCD capable of discharging a residual voltage of a panel and a method of driving the same are provided. In the LCD, a gate signal is supplied to the liquid crystal panel during a time interval when a supply voltage is shut off, and a residual voltage is discharged.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284819 - Panel display apparatus and method for driving display panel: A panel display apparatus and a method for driving the display panel are provided. The panel display apparatus includes a display panel and a plurality of source drivers. The display panel with X*Y display unit includes X+1 data lines, and each source driver has M+1 data output terminals DOi,j. In... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060284827 - Liquid crystal display and brightness enhancement film therefor: A brightness enhancement film a includes a main body for reflecting and polarizing light, a protection layer disposed on the main body, and an adhesive layer disposed between the main body and the protection layer and containing a photo-curable resin, a photo-initiator, and a radical scavenger.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060284825 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight which illuminates the liquid crystal display panel, and a display control circuit which controls the liquid crystal display panel and the illumination light source. The display control circuit includes a panel driving section which drives the liquid... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060284826 - Liquid crystal display device, method of driving the same: The liquid crystal display device includes an active matrix type liquid crystal display panel using OCB mode liquid crystal, a source/gate driving unit, a backlight and a backlight control unit which controls the backlight to turn on/off periodically, the backlight control unit periodically assigns on and off periods of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060284824 - Luminance auto-adjustment for displays: The present invention provides a luminance auto-adjustment device for the display, which comprises a light source-detecting module and a voltage modulation module, which are set in the power control circuit of the rear-projection fluorescent tube of the display. The light source-detecting module is used to sense the external luminance, based... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060284822 - Methods and systems for enhancing display characteristics: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light source illumination.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060284823 - Methods and systems for enhancing display characteristics with frequency-specific gain: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light source illumination.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060284828 - Transmission system: In one aspect a transmission system with a transmitter which can be connected to a video source and a receiver linked to the transmitter via at least four circuit pairs, to which receiver a playback device can be connected is provided. Data is usually exchanged digitally between a graphics card... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060284829 - Display medium and display element, and display method: The invention provides a display medium comprising a light control layer, wherein the light control layer comprises mobile fine particles developing a color in a dispersion state and hetero-particles having characteristics different from those of the mobile fine particles. The invention also provides a display method comprising at least one... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20060284834 - Apparatus and methods for haptic rendering using a haptic camera view: The invention provides systems and methods for using a “haptic camera” within a virtual environment and for using graphical data from the haptic camera to produce touch feedback. The haptic camera obtains graphical data pertaining to virtual objects within the vicinity and along the trajectory of a user-controlled haptic interface... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20060284836 - Control panel: A control panel having a touch sensitive position sensor and at least one mechanical switch located within a sensitive area of the position sensor is provided. The position sensor comprises a capacitive position sensing element coupled to position sensing circuitry operable to determine the position of a capacitive load, such... Agent: David Kiewit

20060284835 - Force feedback input device: Disclosed is a force feedback input device including a cylindrical operating member having an open bottom. A support member that is rotatable supports a central portion of an inner surface of the operating member, and a motor which is held by the support member. A rotary shaft of the motor... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060284837 - Hand shape recognition apparatus and method: A similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity between a hand candidate area image and a template image. A consistency probability calculation unit and an inconsistency probability calculation unit use probability distributions of similarities of a case where hand shapes of the template image and the hand candidate area image are... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060284830 - Input device for a computer system: A peripheral input device having a body configured to be stored within a housing of a computer device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a wireless input device is configured to be recharged within the housing. Further aspects of the invention relate to an input device configured to operatively... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060284832 - Method and apparatus for locating a laser spot: Disclosed is a system for locating a laser spot on a screen. The system includes a projector, a laser pointer, a camera, a diffractive optical element, and a computer. The projector casts an image on the screen. The laser pointer casts the laser spot on the screen. The camera takes... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20060284831 - Optical input device with a rotatable surface: A input device comprises a navigation member, a light source, a sensor module, and a support structure. The navigation member includes a substantially spherical first portion and a second portion, the first portion extending outwardly from the second portion. The light source is configured to illuminate the first portion and... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060284833 - Portable electronic device capable of performing a function according to a sensing result of pressure: A portable electronic device includes a housing and a pressure sensor installed on the housing for sensing pressure applied to the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device further includes a logic unit for controlling operation of the portable electronic device according to a sensing result of the pressure sensor.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060284839 - Vehicular steering wheel with input device: Vehicle includes a vehicular frame and a steering wheel connected to the vehicular frame, the steering wheel includes an annular frame and one or more user-manipulatable input devices arranged thereon. Each input device includes electronic components which initiate a change in the operation of a component of the vehicle or... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20060284838 - Virtual office environment: A system and method for monitoring remote employees, having a computer for a user perform job related tasks, wherein the computer is enabled to record various data regarding the user's use of the computer; and a network to transmit the various data to a storage unit, to allow the data... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060284841 - Apparatus, method, and medium for implementing pointing user interface using signals of light emitters: An apparatus, method, and medium for implementing a pointing user interface using light emitters are disclosed. The pointing device includes a light-noise removing unit which receives signals emitted from a plurality of light emitters included in a display device in predetermined manners, a light emitter position detecting unit which calculates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060284840 - Portable electronic device including pointer and related methods: A portable electronic device includes a portable housing, and a battery and pointing device carried by the portable housing. The portable electronic device further includes electronic circuitry carried by the portable housing and connected to the battery and the pointing device. The electronic circuitry may switch from a sleep mode... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20060284842 - Rechargeable cordless input and pointing device: A human interface device (HID), comprising A human activity detector, a wireless communication link for communicating a signal corresponding to at least one human activity to a receiver, and a wireless powering device for supplying power to power at least the wireless communication device. The wireless powering device may be... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20060284843 - Inverter controlled generator set: An inverter controlled generator set including: a power supply unit that uses a generator driven by an engine as a power supply to output a DC voltage; an inverter device that converts the output voltage of the power supply unit into an AC voltage; and a rotational speed control unit... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060284844 - Computer mouse with noiseless button: A computer mouse with noiseless button is disclosed. The computer mouse is charactered by using a shade to prevent light beam reception of a light receiver, so that the light receiver transmits the control signal to express whether the light is received or detected by the light receiver. The computer... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060284845 - Miniaturized optical mouse core: An optical mouse system with a high-angle optical path features small size and low power consumption. The illumination source and optical sensor are mounted in the same plane, directly on the PCB. The higher angle of the optical path causes more light to be reflected to the optical sensor, increasing... Agent: Hdsl

20060284846 - Keyboard with auxiliary display: Embodiments of the present invention provide programmable keys in a keyboard that provide the user with added functionalities and versatility to enhance the usage of the computer for game play or the like. In one embodiment, an input device for use with a computer comprises an input device housing; at... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060284847 - Keyboard with programmable keys: Embodiments of the present invention provide programmable keys in a keyboard that provide the user with added functionalities and versatility to enhance the usage of the computer for game play or the like. In one embodiment, a keyboard for use with a computer comprises a plurality of keys which include... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060284848 - System and method for saving power: The present invention provides a system for saving power of a portable electronic apparatus, which comprises a central processing unit, a display unit connecting to the central processing unit, an audio processing unit connecting to the central processing unit, and a sensor unit receiving an external signal representing reduced illumination... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060284853 - Context sensitive data input using finger or fingerprint recognition: A context sensitive data input device (30) and method (100) can include a touch sensitive surface (32) such as a touchscreen and a processor (34) coupled to the touch sensitive surface. The processor can be programmed to map (102) at least one finger to at least one among a function... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20060284854 - Cordless electromagnetic induction system and method for automatic wake up: The present invention discloses a cordless electromagnetic induction system, which comprises a cordless pen and a tablet connecting to a host. In this regards, the cordless pen comprises a battery for supplying power to the cordless pen, a radio frequency (RF) oscillation circuit for generating RF signal representing the location... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060284858 - Input device, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An input device includes: a contact detector configured to detect at least a size of contact area by detecting a physical contact with a control input section; a pressure detector configured to detect a pressure applied by the physical contact; and a controller configured to output signals in response to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060284850 - Method and software application for transmitting information remaining behind an obstacle located in front of the display to the user of a data processing device: The object of the invention is a method and a software application embodying the method for displaying the information in the display (10) of a data processing device in a situation where a portion of the display (10) area, and thus also a portion of the information on the display,... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20060284859 - Method of estimating position of writing nib relative to an optical sensor: A method of estimating a position of a point on a writing implement relative to an optical sensor mounted on the writing implement is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) placing the point in contact with a coded surface; (b) capturing, using the sensor, at least two images... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20060284849 - Methods and systems for providing a virtual touch haptic effect to handheld communication devices: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems (100) for providing customized “haptic messaging” to use of handheld communication devices in a variety of applications. In one embodiment, a method of providing virtual touch to a handheld communication device includes: receiving an input signal associated with a virtual touch;... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20060284852 - Peel back user interface to show hidden functions: A user is able to access additional functions not represented in a current image displayed by a graphical user interface. At least one function not presented on the current image is represented by a symbol on an underlying image that is at least partially covered by the current image. When... Agent: Ronald M. Anderson Microsoft Corporation

20060284855 - Portable terminal device: A portable terminal device comprises an input device configured to receive an input operation on a plurality of positions, the input device allocating a function to be executed to the plurality of positions by an input operation, a sensor configured to detect a posture of the portable terminal device, and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060284857 - Power-saving function for touch screen device: A power-saving function for a touch screen device provides efficient use of power, such as from a battery for a portable device. The touch screen device may include a sampling unit for digitizing an input to the touch screen. The power-saving function is provided with a battery level-monitoring unit for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060284851 - Programmable orientation handwriting recognition system and method: A system and method are provided for recognizing handwritten alphanumeric characters placed at varying, programmable angles across a display device. Therefore, the system and method can recognize handwritten characters entered at different angles, yet maintains other textual information at a horizontal angle relative to the display device. Therefore, a user... Agent: Daffer Mcdaneil LLP

20060284856 - Sensor signal conditioning in a force-based touch device: Disclosed is method and device for signal conditioning in a force-based touch screen. In one embodiment, signal conditioning includes multiplying a force signal by a scaling signal which is a predetermined function of the total force applied to the force-based touch screen and integrating the force signal over a touch... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060284861 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus and method is provided having a display part for receiving an image signal from the outside and displaying an image, comprising a user window generator for generating a history window comprising at least one display parameter for determining a display state of the image displayed in the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060284860 - Display device and method for recovering from abnormal power-on therefor: A display device includes a driving unit and a processing unit. If the driving unit operates abnormally during a power-on period, the processing unit generates a control signal according to a driving signal outputted by the driving unit. In response to the control signal, the driving unit is reset and... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20060284863 - Display driving circuit: Display data D1 to Dn are latched by a data latch, and are supplied to AND gates which are gate-controlled by a blanking signal/BLK. Output signals from the AND gates are delayed by delay circuits having different time delays of τ1 to τn, and then supplied to drivers. Subsequently, the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20060284862 - Method and apparatus for processing bayer-pattern digital color video signal: Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a Bayer pattern digital color video signal, where the video signal processing apparatus includes a BP detector that generates the pixel information signal PIS representing whether the current pixel is good or bad from the input video data based on the difference... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20060284864 - Apparatus for supplying power source: The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying power source for providing power source to a plurality of display devices. The apparatus for supplying power source includes a boosting circuit and a voltage adjusting circuit. The boosting circuit boosts a battery voltage to a first voltage, and supplies the... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060284865 - Current supply for luminescent diodes: The present invention is based on a regulation circuit (200a, 200b) for making available a constant current supply on the basis of a transformer principle, in which there flows through the luminescent diodes (D1, . . . ,DN) a triangular a.c. current (ID) varying periodically around a d.c. current value.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060284866 - Method and device for the generation of specific elements of an image and method and device for the generation of overall images comprising said specific elements: The invention relates to a method and device for generation of specific elements with characteristics different to those of the majority of generic elements of an image, in particular, image points with a resolution, a positional precision and a contrast greater than for the rest of the image. The invention... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20060284868 - Apparatus and method for displaying 3-dimensional graphics: An apparatus and method for displaying topography around a position of a mobile object such as a vehicle in 3-dimensional graphics. The method includes predicting a candidate region for the mobile object's position at a display time after a predetermined period of time using current position and motion information of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060284867 - Web application system, web application server device and web client device: A screen image for operating a modeling application in a web application server device is displayed in a browser window of a web client device. When an operator inputs an operation related to a three-dimensional model whose CG should be displayed in the screen, the web application server device transmits... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060284869 - Binding using rollback: Most three dimensional geometric modeling programs employ a feature-based parametric modeling technique. A modification attempted by a user in a feature-based parametric modeling may provide a result different than that expected by the user, since most edits require a “roll back” of a history tree to the state wherein the... Agent: Ugs Corp.

20060284870 - Fast surface interpolation: The invention relates to an imaging device DEV comprising means for interpolating SIP a surface D from a set S of paths. Said imaging device DEV includes determination means UIF for determining at least two closed termination curves C1 and C2, said termination curves C1 and C2 joining points of... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Corporate Patent Counsel

20060284871 - Systems and methods for generating and measuring surface lines on mesh surfaces and volume objects and for mesh cutting techniques (\"curved measurement\"): Systems and methods are presented for generating surface lines on mesh surfaces and voxel objects. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention directed to mesh surfaces, such methods include preprocessing a triangle mesh data structure, constructing a grid data structure for the triangle mesh object, representing a relationship of triangles... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20060284872 - Improved bichromatic display: A display system includes a subpixelated display panel having subpixels in two saturated primary colors. In one embodiment, the primary colors are selected so as to be a substantially metameric pair for an achromatic color such as white. Information display efficiencies arise from utilizing a checkerboard arrangement for the two... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc Suite 14

20060284873 - Blog map for searching and/or navigating the blogosphere: A blog map for searching and/or navigating the blogosphere is provided. In accordance with one method for generating a blog map, a number of blog posts within the blogosphere are accessed. Each of the blog posts is converted to a feature vector, which represents the position of the blog post... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060284874 - Optical flow-based manipulation of graphical objects: Motion of one or more physical objects relative to a display surface of a display system is detected and an optical flow determined from the motion is used to manipulate a graphical object presented on the display surface. The one or more physical objects are detected in response to light... Agent: Ronald M. Anderson Microsoft Corporation

20060284875 - Digital video data transmitting apparatus and display apparatus: A digital video data transmitting apparatus and display apparatus for transmitting digital video data to a panel driving part are provided. The apparatus includes a video data output part which outputs a first digital video signal having even data and odd data of an n-bit bus width or a second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060284876 - Method and apparatus for programming an input/output device over a serial bus: A preferred embodiment is an apparatus for programming an input/output device over a serial bus that significantly reduces the burden placed on a host device associated with programming such devices. The preferred embodiment includes (a) a first memory for storing units of a programming sequence, each unit in the programming... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20060284877 - Photonic mems and structures: An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provides greater flexibility. Electronic hardware can be field reconfigured to accommodate different display formats and/or application functions. An... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060284878 - Resolution independent user interface design: Graphical user interface material map objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprises a complete description of the material map and may be used by a rendering engine to create a visual representation of the material map at any resolution. That is, material map... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20060284879 - Animation generating apparatus, animation generating method, and animation generating program: An animation generating apparatus for generating a three-dimensional animation tracking a moving object includes a camera parameter setting section setting a point of regard and a point of view based on a current position of the moving object using route data indicating a route of the moving object so that... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060284880 - Texture montage: Texture montage is described. In one aspect, feature correspondences are received. The feature correspondences map at least one region on a 3-D mesh to at least one region on an image of one or more images. Each of the images provides texture information. An atlas of texture patches is created... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060284881 - Picture signal processing device: A picture signal processing device is provided capable of correcting black level in a display device with minimal memory capacity, by switching the capture region of input picture signals from valid display region to a blanking region at the timing of automatic signal format detection, such as input signal switchover.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060284882 - Methods and systems for enhancing display characteristics with high frequency contrast enhancement: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for increasing the perceived brightness of an image. In some embodiments this increase compensates for a decrease in display light-source illumination.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060284884 - Analyzing alpha values for flicker filtering: A flicker filter is adjusted according to degree of alpha blending performed on a display signal. For some weakly showing graphics images, a lower flicker filter level may be implemented or the flicker filter may be turned off. A threshold for turning off the flicker filter may be programmable. Other... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20060284883 - Device for processing pixel rasterization and method for processing the same: The present invention relates to a device and method for processing pixel rasterization in 3-Dimensional graphic engine. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of processing pixel rasterizaton in 3-Dimensional graphic engine comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of fragment informations; verifying whether the coordinate of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060284887 - Edit tool for line vector data: The invention is devised to facilitate the editing of a graphic displayed on a screen. An editing device includes: an edit object display unit for displaying on a screen a graphic to be edited which includes at least one line graphic defined as a line segment extending from a first... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20060284886 - Maximize data visibility using slated viewer: A slanted viewer is provided to maximize data visibility. In the context of computer graphics and a rendering technique, the slanted viewer's use of three-dimensional rendering provides an instant view of full data without compromising the visibility of other view areas or data and with minimum user interactions. The slanted... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20060284885 - Slide show generation on dvd-video compatible discs including dvdand dvd+r: The invention proposes a method and a device for generating a DVD-Video compatible data structure from at least a plurality of still pictures so as to create a slide show, said data structure being compatible with the DVD+RW and DVD+R specifications. In the proposed structure, a set of Ni VOBUs... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060284888 - Using detail-in-context lenses for accurate digital image cropping and measurement: A method for cropping a computer generated original image on a display, comprising the steps of: adjusting a user-selected movable boundary on the original image to define a cropped image within the boundary, the boundary defined by two or more points on the original image; and, distorting the original image... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20060284889 - System and method for combining independent scene layers to form computer generated environments: A system and method is provided for combining independent scene layers to form computer generated environments. The method includes the operation of constructing a terrain layer using stored terrain data. Another operation is generating a feature layer using feature layer data that is stored separately from the stored terrain data.... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060284890 - System and method for combining independent scene layers to form computer generated environments: A system and method is provided for combining independent scene layers to form computer generated environments. The method includes the operation of constructing a terrain layer using stored terrain data. Another operation is generating a feature layer using feature layer data that is stored separately from the stored terrain data.... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060284891 - Method for spatial up-scaling of video frames: The present invention relates to method for spatial up-scaling of an original video frame comprising p rows and q colums of pixels, where p and q are integers. Said up-scaling method comprises a step of constructing high-low (HL), low-high (LH), and high-high (HH) virtual spatial frequency subbands comprising p rows... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060284892 - Persistent portal: A method of proportionally reducing the area of the operating system's active “desktop” display with all functions operational, then deploying and displaying a secondary graphical user interface (GUI) known as a “Persistent Portal” (PP) into the resulting blanked area.... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20060284893 - System and method for managing and displaying securities market information: A message screen display comprises a static non-scrollable display area for display of at least part of a first message, the first message having an associated first message time. The message screen display further comprises a scrollable display area for display of at least part of a second message, the... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20060284898 - Brightness correction method and system utilizing the same: A brightness correction method for a display panel, comprising showing a plurality of image areas in the display panel, wherein the image areas display different colors, each color has a plurality of luminance values according to a plurality of gray values, and wherein each gray value corresponds to a gamma... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20060284894 - Display device: The invention relates to an active matrix display device comprising a display with a plurality of display pixels, a data input for receiving a data signal and a controller for distributing said data signal over said display pixels to generate an image on said display with an overall brightness value... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060284899 - Display device operating in sub-field process and method of displaying images in such display device: A display device operating in accordance with a sub-field process, includes a first block which varies the number of bits of a received image signal, a second block which calculates an average picture level (APL) of images defined by the image signal transmitted from the first block, a third block... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060284896 - Display overdrive method: A display overdrive method applicable to LCD picture process involves having image data containing gray scale presentation range inputted into the display; a corresponding gray scale range being set up based on the time of a frame from the former range to be present on the display; each gray scale... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20060284897 - Drive method for display of grid array pixels: A method to drive a display with grid array pixels is comprised of writing image data containing a range of grayscale code into multiple pixels; at least a time of a pixel row being divided into frame time and black picture time; each code in the grayscale range being mapped... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20060284895 - Dynamic gamma correction: Systems and methods for providing dynamic gamma correction are provided. In one implementation, a method for automatically adjusting a gamma correction of a display is provided. The method includes receiving an input signal from a sensor. The input signal indicates an amount of ambient light intensity. The method also includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060284901 - Display debiasing scheme and display: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060284902 - Display driving scheme and display: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060284900 - Single pulse display driving scheme and display: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060284903 - System and method for discarding data bits during display modulation: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060284904 - System and method for using current pixel voltages to drive display: A novel method for asynchronously driving a display device including a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows includes the steps of receiving a first multi-bit data word indicative of a first grayscale value to be displayed on a pixel of a first... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20060279474 - Methods and systems for imaging device data display: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device display standardization.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060279475 - Methods and systems for integrating imaging device display content: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device display standardization.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060279476 - Systems and methods for conveying message composer's state information: Systems and methods for conveying a message composer's state to the message recipient are provided. The message composer's state can be selected by the message composer, or can be automatically determined. The message composer's state is encoded in a message and transmitted to the message recipient. The message composer's state... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060279477 - Adjusting light intensity: In embodiments, an intensity of light is adjusted according to data indicating the states for elements.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060279478 - Light-emitting device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: There are provided a light-emitting device and a driving method thereof capable of suppressing an image blur and a flicker. The light-emitting device includes: a display unit in which a plurality of pixel circuits for allowing light-emitting elements to emit light with brightness corresponding to a data signal is arranged;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279479 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method of a plasma display panel are provided. This may include a plasma display panel having a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, and a plurality of address electrodes formed to intersect with the plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes. A... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060279482 - Display driving method and apparatus: A display driving method drives a display to make a gradation display on a screen of the display depending on a length of a light emission time in each of sub fields forming 1 field, where 1 field is a time in which an image is displayed, N sub fields... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060279481 - Image displaying apparatus: An image displaying apparatus, comprises: a plural number of electron sources, being disposed in matrix-like manner, each for emitting electrons therefrom; a driver for producing drive voltage for driving the electron sources upon basis of a video signal, to be supplied to the electron sources; and a correct circuit for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060279480 - Oled display device: The invention relates to an active matrix display device comprising a display with a plurality of display pixels, each having a current driven emissive element, a data input for receiving an analogue data signal, at least one drive element connected to a power supply and arranged to drive the current... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279483 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel comprises a plurality of discharge units composed by a plurality of address electrodes, sustain electrodes and scan electrodes. Its driving method is characterized by using a set of sustain electrode control signals and a set of scan... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20060279485 - Method of driving plasma display panel (pdp) and pdp driven using the method: A method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) that includes providing a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes extending in a first direction, a plurality of A electrodes arranged between the X electrode and the Y electrode and extending in a second direction that crosses... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20060279486 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are provided. A maintenance period of a sustain signal changes depending on a temperature of a plasma display panel or an ambient temperature of the plasma display panel.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060279484 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided which can stabilize discharge and improve display quality. In the plasma display device, a rear edge part of a sustain pulse to be applied at the end of a sustain period of each of the subfields is formed of a first section in which... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20060279487 - Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel includes a first driver and a second driver and a first power supplier and a second power supplier for generating sustain discharge pulses having no negative (−) level. The first driver includes a first capacitor charged to a first voltage and is... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20060279491 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality simultaneously, the arrangement is provided such that if the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279490 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a signal controller generating data accumulations for current image data for the pixels based on an accumulation of input image data, calculating modification coefficients according to the data accumulations, and modifying the current input image data based on the modification coefficients to... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20060279488 - Drive apparatus and drive method for light emitting panel: The present invention aims to ease intense rush current which is supplied to a drive voltage generation means (DC-DC converter) for supplying a drive voltage to a light emitting panel, as a dimmer setup value of the light emitting panel is changed. A constant electric current value supplied to a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060279489 - Image display device and drive method for the same: An image display device is provided in which the screen is partitioned into upper and lower areas both being driven simultaneously. Image data read out of a frame memory #1 is displayed in the upper area of the present screen and at the same time, image data of the preceding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060279492 - Method for driving passive matrix oled: A method for driving a passive matrix organic light emitting diode (PMOLED) is provided. A pulse width modulation (PWM) constant current is provided to OLED pixels connected to a segment of a PMOLED array without voltage pre-charging the segment. Then, an offset value corresponding to missing gray scales of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060279493 - Electronic display panel: An electronic display panel having a combination of aligned and connected forwardly located panels to which a plurality of rearwardly located LED modules easily and readily secure using three-point attachment to form an electronic display panel suitable for accommodation by and for securing to the structure and framework of a... Agent: Hugh D Jaeger

20060279494 - Color compensation system and color compensation method for a display: A color compensation system for a display including least one display panel and a light source is provided. The system includes a memory, a modulator and a controller. The memory stores a number of sets of gamma look up tables (LUTs) consisting of a color data. The modulator is electrically... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060279495 - Dynamic driver ic and display panel configuration: A display device which can provide configuration information to the driver circuit and methods of manufacturing and operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display device comprises a display array and a collection of links configured to store information related to the display array.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20060279496 - Microelectromechanical device array and method for driving the same: In a microelectromechanical device array including an array of devices arranged at least one of one-dimensionally and two-dimensionally each of which includes a movable portion that is supported to be elastically deformed and that has a movable electrode on at least one part thereof and fixed electrodes that are disposed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279497 - Liquid crystal display device: One picture element of a liquid crystal panel is divided into a region I where a cell gap is set to 4 μm and a region II where a transparent insulating film is formed and a cell gap is set to 2 μm. In the region I, there occurs a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060279498 - Display signal processing device and display device: A display signal processing device includes a reference gradation voltage generating circuit that generates ten reference gradation voltages, and a D/A converting circuit that converts a video signal to a pixel voltage by selectively using the ten reference gradation voltages obtained from the reference gradation voltage generating circuit. The reference... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279500 - Display device: A display device such as liquid crystal display device which restrains the entrance of static electricity into a scanning signal driver circuit or a video signal driver circuit includes a pair of substrates, a signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060279499 - Organic light-emitting device: An organic light-emitting device (OLED) includes an array of scan lines, data lines and power supply lines having a connecting section inserted in each data. The connecting section controllably connects m number of the power supply lines that are adjacent to each other so that should and an electrical short... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060279501 - Bi-stable chiral nematic liquid crystal display and driving method for the same: The present invention provides a bi-stable chiral nematic liquid crystal display and a driving method for the same. Each pixel of the liquid crystal display includes at least a transistor as a switch element to switch a column voltage to the pixel and a capacitor for storing a voltage of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060279502 - Method for fabricating liquid crystal display panel: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The method includes the steps stated below. At first, providing an LCD panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The liquid crystal layer includes several photo-sensitive monomers and several liquid crystal molecules.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20060279506 - Apparatus and method of driving liquid crystal display apparatus: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display apparatus include a receiver for receiving input image data, a data processor for processing output image data output from the receiver, and a memory and a transmitter connected to the data processor. The data processor selects a portion of polarities... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060279504 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes: a common line driving circuit; a data line driving circuit; a scanning line driving circuit; and an equalizing circuit which connects/disconnects a plurality of data lines to/from a plurality of common lines and equalizes the data lines with the common lines. The common line driving circuit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279505 - Liquid crystal display control circuit: A liquid crystal display control circuit comprising a counter, inputted with a first signal for controlling a display status of a display unit and a second signal corresponding to an image data to be displayed on the display unit, for counting clocks for the second signal in 1 cycle of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279507 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element section that is initialized such that the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned from a splay alignment to a bend alignment capable of displaying an image, and a driving circuit DR that cyclically applies, after the initialization,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279503 - Thin-film transistor circuit and a semiconductor display using the same: To provide thin-film transistor circuits used for a driving circuit that realizes a semiconductor display capable of producing an image with high resolution and high precision without image unevenness. TFTs with small channel widths are used to form an analog buffer which comprises a differential amplifier circuit and a current... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20060279508 - Apparatus to drive plasma display panel (pdp): An apparatus to drive a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) reduces heat by preventing a current generated by a sustain discharge from affecting a drive circuit. The apparatus is to drive a PDP including discharge cells and at least first and second electrodes. The apparatus includes: a display data signal supplier... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20060279513 - Apparatus and method for driving gate lines in a flat panel display (fpd): Provided are an apparatus and method for driving the gate lines of a flat panel display (FPD). The apparatus for driving the gate lines of an FPD, includes: a first circuit converting a peak-to-peak level of an input pulse and outputting the converted input pulse as a first selection signal;... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20060279510 - Display panels: A display panel comprising a plurality of first and second signal lines, first and second detecting lines, a plurality of ESD protection circuits, and first and second common electrode lines. The first and second detecting lines are respectively coupled to the first signal lines and the second signal lines. Each... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060279515 - Liquid crystal display device, driving method for liquid crystal display devices, and inspection method for liquid crystal display devices: Using technology which uses a single shift register and simultaneously generates multiple pulses, this invention is a liquid crystal display device which rapidly drives data lines. It is possible to increase the frequency of the shift register output signal without changing the frequency of the shift register operation clock. If... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279514 - Liquid crystal displaying apparatus using data line driving circuit: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of scan lines which intersect the plurality of data lines; pixels arranged at intersections of the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanning lines; and a data line driving circuit configured to drive the plurality... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060279509 - Operational amplifier with constant offset and apparatus comprising such as operational amplifier: Apparatus (80) comprising an input stage (61) with an NMOS transistor doublet having a first differential input for receiving input signals, and a PMOS transistor doublet having a second differential input for receiving input signals. The apparatus (80) further comprises switching means for receiving and selectively directing analog input signals... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279511 - Shift register and a display device including the shift register: A shift register and a display device having the shift register are provided. The shift register has a plurality of stages which sequentially generate output signals in synchronization with a plurality of clock signals. Each of the stages includes an input unit for receiving a scan start signal or an... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20060279512 - Shift register and liquid crystal display using the same: A shift register for a gate driving circuit in a liquid crystal display device, the shift register including a plurality of stages, each stage including a control block connected to receive a first clock signal, a start pulse, and a high-level supply voltage to generate a first control signal and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060279520 - Display apparatuses and methods for color temperature adjustment thereof: A method for color temperature adjustment. A first color temperature parameter and a second color temperature parameter are acquired. It is determined whether the difference between the first and second color temperature parameters falls into an acceptable range. When the difference between the first and second color temperature parameters falls... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20060279521 - Inverter controller with automatic brightness adjustment circuitry: An inverter controller for an LCD panel display with automatic brightness adjustment circuitry is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the controller includes a look-up table that receives a signal indicative of the ambient light around the LCD panel and generates a signal corresponding to desired panel brightness. The signal corresponding... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20060279523 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A display apparatus for executing display in accordance with an image signal, including, a display panel, a plurality of light-sources for illuminating the display panel, and a control circuit for controlling light-emission luminance of the light-sources. The light-emission luminance includes a first light-emission luminance and a second light-emission luminance, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060279522 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of reduced power consumption has a liquid crystal display panel and at least a backlight unit disposed in opposition to a liquid crystal display part of the liquid crystal display panel. The surface of the backlight unit that is opposed to the liquid crystal display... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20060279517 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Provided are a liquid crystal display device capable of improving image quality with enhanced response characteristic and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display device is implemented with a combination of an ODC driving scheme and a scan driving scheme. Specifically, in the scan driving scheme, a backlight driving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20060279516 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a gate line sequentially selected by a gate pulse and a plurality of light sources which are sequentially turned on along a scan direction of the gate line. The plurality of light sources are turned on with a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060279519 - Low voltage differential signal direct transmission method and interface: A low voltage differential signal (LVDS) direct transmission method and interface in accordance with the present invention are used to directly transmit LVDS from a graphic/video source to a display without digital to analog (D/A) or analog to digital (A/D) conversion and maintain optimal image quality. The interface has a... Agent: Thomas E. Sisson Jackson Walker, LLP

20060279518 - Portable terminal capable of controlling backlight and method for controlling backlight thereof: Disclosed is a method for controlling a backlight of a portable terminal, which includes the steps of storing preset backlight brightness values so as to correspond to the backlight brightness values to backlight steps, detecting a backlight brightness value stored so as to correspond to the backlight step required by... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279524 - Display panel and rescue method: A display panel comprising a pixel array is provided. The pixel array, laid on a first circuit layer, comprises at least one first pixel, at least one second pixel, at least one rescue line, and an isolation layer. The first pixel comprises a thin film transistor aligned to upper edge... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060279525 - Electrophoretic display apparatus and driving method thereof: A distribution of migration particles 5 and 6 dispersed in a closed space formed by first substrate 1 and a second substrate 2 is changed by a display electrode 7 to effect display. The migration particles 5 and 6 are migration particles of two types having different charge polarities and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060279526 - Electrophoretic display unit: Electrophoretic display units (1,100) are provided with switching circuits (50) to reduce the energy necessary for supplying data pulses (DP1, DP2) to pixels (11) via a data electrode (31,32,33,34). This energy is proportional to a differential voltage to be realised and to a capacitance (13) to be charged or discharged,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279527 - Machine-readable displays: A reflective electro-optic display (200) has a bar code display area (206) arranged to display a bar code readable by a bar code scanner.... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20060279532 - Data input device controlled by motions of hands and fingers: A system for manual data input into computers, mobile phones or other electronic devices comprising a display device (70) and two pointing devices (60L, 60R) each equipped with a cluster of up to five finger-activated sensors (63). The display device presents a subset of characters from an alphabet and two... Agent: Piotr Olszewski School Of Civil & Environmental Eng.

20060279538 - Design of force sensations for haptic feedback computer interfaces: A design interface tool for designing force sensations for use with a host computer and haptic feedback interface device. A haptic feedback device communicates with a host computer that displays the interface tool. The user selects and characterizes force sensations using the interface tool, and a graphical representation of the... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20060279533 - Electronic book reading apparatus: An electronic book reading apparatus mainly includes a user interface, an operation controlling unit, and a display unit. The user interface allows a user to flip an appropriate number of pages of a displayed electronic book. The user interface includes a plurality of sensing units for generating sensing signals in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060279529 - Input device: [Means for solving the problem] An input device 10, which inputs information into an electronic apparatus, comprises a hold member 16 which is held by one hand; and input keys which are provided on that portion where the input keys are operable by the tip of a finger of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20060279535 - Input device for electronic device: An input device (100) includes a housing (80), a base (40), a shaft (20), a first elastic member (60), and at least one second elastic member (70). The housing has a cavity (800), a first end and an opposite second open end. The first end has a hole (802) communicated... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060279536 - Liquid crystal display: An LCD including an LCD panel and a frame having a front frame portion providing a display window exposing a display area of the LCD panel. The frame includes a side frame portion and a chamfer portion intermediate the front and side frame portions.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060279537 - Method and apparatus for efficiently providing tactile information: A method and apparatus for efficiently providing tactile information. The method includes receiving a position indicated by input means, determining whether the input means is in contact with an object using the position indicated by the input means and the position of the object, generating tactile information about movement of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060279528 - Multi-view display: A display system (100) comprises: a display device (102) being arranged to generate a first view (112) in a first direction relative to the display device (102) and to generate a second view (114) in a second direction relative to the display device (102), the second direction being different from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279531 - Physical interaction-responsive user interface: In one aspect, a method related to a physical interaction-responsive user interface. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC

20060279530 - Physical interaction-sensitive user interface: In one aspect, a method related to a physical interaction-sensitive user interface. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC

20060279534 - Replaceable instrument mechanism for haptic devices: A replaceable instrument mechanism for a haptic device comprises a coupler having a coupler body adapted to be connected to an output end of the haptic device. A force transmission mechanism is connected to the coupler body, has a movable connector displaceable along one degree-of-freedom with respect to the coupler... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20060279539 - User interface and method of adapting a sensor signal to actuate multiple dimensions: A user interface for a mobile device includes an input sensor having one degree of freedom operable by the user to generate a sensor signal, a screen having a two-dimensional surface showing a graphical user interface object, a processor coupled to the sensor and to the screen to actuate the... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20060279540 - Loop means for pointing devices, equipped with friction material and intermediate flexing zones: The invention includes a loop in the form of a tangentially flexible cylinder for use preferably in conjunction with pointing devices of the type where the loop can be moved by the user in its axial direction and rotate over two parallel supports that tighten the loop. The loop includes... Agent: Don W Bulson Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar

20060279541 - Apparatus and method for supporting user interface enabling user to select menu having position or direction as corresponding to position or direction selected using remote control: An apparatus and method for providing a user interface that enables a user to select a menu having the same position or direction as a position selected by a remote control. The apparatus includes an interface storing unit which stores items of menus and information about functions provided by the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060279542 - Cellular phones and mobile devices with motion driven control: The present invention relates to a cellular phone having motion driven access to object viewers. More particularly, the cellular phone is equipped with a motion sensor which is capable of sensing motion of the cellular phone initiated by a user. The motion sensor detects translational and rotational motion of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20060279544 - Joystick and switch: A joystick includes a base and a cover mounted over the base. A stick has a first end that extends from the cover and a second end. An active yoke is mounted above the base and is coupled to second end of the stick. The active yoke has a first... Agent: Cts Corporation

20060279543 - Method and device for preventing unintended input of information in an electronic device: In an electronic device having a multi-dimensional input device to input information, a mechanical restraining mechanism is used to mechanically engage with at least a part of the multi-dimensional device when the latter is not used so as to prevent unintended input of information in the electronic device. The multi-dimensional... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060279545 - Sensor chip for laser optical mouse and related laser optical mouse: A sensor chip for a laser optical module has a plurality of sensor units and a processor. The sensor units sense speckles formed on a working plane and generate image data. A distance between each of the sensors and a closest sensor is not larger than 30 micrometers. The processor... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060279546 - Keyboard with surface for computer mouse operation and moveable numeric keypad: A keyboard device includes an alphanumeric keyboard and a numeric keypad moveable relative to the keyboard. The keyboard has structure defining a rolling or sliding surface for a mouse and also defining a storage compartment for the numeric keypad below the mouse rolling/sliding surface. In preferred form, the numeric keypad... Agent: Mirek A. Waraksa

20060279547 - Grey scale contrast in a 3d image display device: A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle has a display panel with a plurality of separately addressable pixels for displaying said image. The pixels are grouped such that different pixels in a group correspond to different views... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279555 - Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program therefor: An album creating apparatus for creating an album with an appropriate layout dependent on the content of the image. The album creating apparatus according to the present invention includes: an album template storage section for storing a plurality of album templates to define the design form of an album; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279556 - Correction of alignment and linearity errors in a stylus input system: A method and system for correcting alignment and linearity errors in devices using a finger or stylus input device with a display device interactively coupled to a digitizer is disclosed. Touching intersections in a calibration grid on the display device may be performed to create a linearity map. Subsequently, detected... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060279554 - Electronic device for inputting user command 3-dimensionally and method for employing the same: An electronic device for 3-dimensionally inputting a user command and a method employing the same are provided. The electronic device includes a touch pad sensing a 3-dimensional interface and a controller controlling a GUI (graphical user interface) in response to the 3-dimensional interface sensed by the touch pad. Thus, a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060279553 - Force-based input device: Disclosed is an input device comprising (a) a base support, having a periphery and a plurality of apertures formed therein to define a circumscribed or circumscribing input pad configured to displace under the applied force; (b) a plurality of isolated beam segments, defined by the plurality of apertures, and operable... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060279552 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus includes a display acquisition unit including a display screen which displays information to a user, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input pattern written by the user, a storage unit which prestores, as a registered pattern, a pattern corresponding to the input pattern, a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279550 - Integrally formed touchpad module: An integrally formed touchpad module comprises a touchpad integrated with peripheral functional buttons and directly attached underneath the equipment case. Therefore, no holes need to be opened on the case and no additional real buttons are required in the touchpad module mechanism. It is thus achieved the goals of integrally... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060279551 - Method for object detection on a capacitive touchpad: In an object detection method for a capacitive touchpad, at least one reference time interval is used to distinguish whether a variation of the sensed value on the touchpad is resulted from an operation of an object on the touchpad, actions such as an object touch down to the touchpad,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060279548 - Touch location determination involving multiple touch location processes: Touch location determination approaches involving a plurality of touch location techniques are described. Each touch location technique is capable of independently determining a location of a touch within a touch area of the touch sensitive device. The touch location determination made by at least one touch location technique is enhanced... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20060279549 - Writing system: A Micro Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) which is based on MEMS accelerometers and gyro sensors is developed for real-time recognition of human hand motions, especially as used in the context of writing on a surface. Motion is recorded by a rate gyro and an accellerometer and communicated to a Bluetooth... Agent: Curtis L. Harrington Suite 250

20060279557 - Display system: A display for providing information relating to an object relative to the display is disclosed. The display includes a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of light sensors. An individual light sensor of the plurality of light sensors is provided near an individual pixel of the plurality of pixels. An... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060279558 - Touc input screen using a light guide: The present invention relates to a display device having a touch screen (301). The touch screen comprises a first light guide (302), a second light guide (307) and a media (309) between the light guides for eliminating interference and reflections. A light source (308) is arranged to emit light (310)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060279559 - Mobile communications terminal and method therefore: An apparatus for handwriting recognition has a display screen providing a handwriting input area capable of detecting input from a user. A processing device is coupled to the display screen and provides a handwriting user interface to the user. The handwriting user interface is operable in at least a first... Agent: Perman & Green

20060279560 - Stylus and retainer card combination: A stylus and card combination is provided wherein a convenient size stylus carrying card has at least one recess, or a pair of recesses for a stylus, a stylus in each recess, and structure separably retaining the stylus in its recess. The stylus may be hingedly attached to the card... Agent: Thomas Patrick Walsh

20060279561 - Display device: A display device includes a main video data storage means for storing video data; a display mode storage means for storing a display mode; a display mode writing means by which a display mode of a supplied video signal is judged and the judged information is written to the display... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060279562 - Adaptive mode change for power unit: In one embodiment of the present invention, a system includes a power stage component operable to generate an output voltage from a power source and to provide the output voltage to an electrical device. The power stage component is capable of operating in a plurality of modes depending on a... Agent: Philip W. Woo Attorney For Applicant

20060279564 - Image display apparatus and control method thereof: An image display apparatus that receives an input of a video signal and displays an image based on the video signal, includes: a copyguard detecting unit that detects whether or not the video signal is copyguarded; and a brightness adjusting unit that adjusts the brightness of the image on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060279563 - Method for calibrating flat panel display: A method for calibrating a flat panel display comprising the following steps is provided. First, initialize a flat panel display and an optical meter. Provide a predetermined period of delay. Use the flat panel display to display a test pattern. Provide another predetermined period of delay. Use the optical meter... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060279565 - Dimming method and system thereof: A dimming method for LED driving circuit is proposed. By temporary switching a pin that is originally used for the input/output of other electric signals to a high impedance node, the dimming control signal may be inputted to dim LEDs. The dimming method comprises the steps of: floating the pin... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060279566 - Constraint-based albuming of graphic elements: Methods, machines, systems and machine-readable instructions for albuming graphic elements are described. In one aspect, candidate relative layouts of graphic elements on a page are identified. Each of the candidate relative layouts describes a respective set of layout relationships among the graphic elements. A respective set of constraints describing the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060279567 - Autostereoscopic multi-user display: The invention relates to an autostereoscopic multi-user display comprising a focussing element and a selectable display for the time-sequential representation of 2D and/or 3D images. When viewed in the direction of the observer, said display contains a sweet-spot unit and an image matrix, which function separately from one another. The... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20060279568 - Image display method and computer readable medium for image display: A three-dimensional image as a tubular tissue (colon) is divided longitudinally along a center line (path) is generated, and divided pieces are displayed in association with each other. When the number of dividing planes is one, the dividing plane and the divided pieces may be simply synthesized. However, when the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060279569 - System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets: A system and method is provided for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets. In one embodiment of the invention, a ribbon section is produced which may include a plurality of planes projected from a polyline. The polyline may include one or more line segments preferably formed within a plane.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20060279570 - Pre-computed shadow fields: Pre-computed shadow fields are described. In one aspect, shadow fields for multiple entities are pre-computed. The shadow fields are pre-computed independent of scene configuration. The multiple entities include at least one occluding object and at least one light source. A pre-computed shadow field for a light source indicates radiance from... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060279571 - Automated user interface testing: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for testing user interfaces of software application. The techniques include interacting with a user to identify one or more straight lines in a first rendering of a user interface for a software application, the straight lines being diagnostic of the correct... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20060279572 - Cad data generating device and generating method: A CAD data generating device includes a character string information obtaining unit for obtaining character string information from CAD data having character string information, an association information obtaining unit for searching a database to obtain attribute information associated with the character string information as association information, an understanding support data... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279573 - Systems and methods for generating 3d simulations: An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems for creating real-time closed loop parametrically driven simulations for inverse kinematics defined objects using models created by a computer aided design application. In embodiments, custom design inverse kinematics devices are imported into the simulation application and users interactively modify... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20060279574 - Systems and methods for generating 3d simulations: An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems for creating real-time closed loop parametrically driven simulations for inverse kinematics defined objects using models created by a computer aided design application. In embodiments, custom design inverse kinematics devices are imported into the simulation application and users interactively modify... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20060279575 - Systems and methods for generating 3d simulations: An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems for creating real-time closed loop parametrically driven simulations for inverse kinematics defined objects using models created by a computer aided design application. In embodiments, custom design inverse kinematics devices are imported into the simulation application and users interactively modify... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20060279576 - Systems and methods for generating 3d simulations: An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems for creating real-time closed loop parametrically driven simulations for inverse kinematics defined objects using models created by a computer aided design application. In embodiments, custom design inverse kinematics devices are imported into the simulation application and users interactively modify... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20060279577 - 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 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 along the graphics pipeline by dynamically... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20060279578 - Systems and methods for updating a frame buffer based on arbitrary graphics calls: A method for dividing a display into zones at system initialization for tracking which zones have any pixels revised so that, when the time comes to update the display, only the zones requiring revision (that is, those zones in which any pixel has been revised) are copied from shadow memory... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060279579 - Image display device, image display method and image display system: The present invention is relative to a picture display system (100) in which a plurality of applications (10) each render a window W on a single display (50). The system includes a picture server (20). The picture server (20) calculates a re-rendering range O of a window W, based on... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060279580 - Tiled view-maps for autostereoscopic interdigitation: A method for creating a reduced sized view-map of an autostereoscopic source image is disclosed. The method comprises creating a mathematical model for mapping the autostereoscopic source image into a first view-map, mapping the autostereoscopic source image into the first view-map, wherein the first view-map comprises a source-view image value... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20060279581 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing picture format conversion to x, y plot: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing picture format conversion to X, Y plot for waveform comparisons. A picture file and user selected X, Y boundaries are received. Non-white pixels of the picture file between the user selected X, Y boundaries are converted to X, Y... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20060279582 - Color management method capable of transforming color coordinates between different color spaces: A color management method transforms color coordinates between devices that use different color spaces by finding a plurality of weightings in an intermediate color space. The method can transform color coordinates of a pixel from the color space of a display device to the color space of a printing device,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060279583 - Information processing apparatus and image processing method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image processing unit which executes a non-linear scaling process of vertically dividing input image data having a first size into a plurality of image blocks and horizontally reducing at least one of the image blocks, which belongs to a central... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060279584 - Av network system and display device-side subsystem included in the same system: An AV network system including a display device-side subsystem and a source device-side subsystem is provided. When detecting a user's finger placed on a touch panel of the display device, a microprocessor in the display device determines a position (current position) on the touch panel where the user's finger is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060279585 - System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super resolution: A method of creating a super-resolved color image from multiple lower-resolution color images is provided by combining a data fidelity penalty term, a spatial luminance penalty term, a spatial chrominance penalty term, and an inter-color dependencies penalty term to create an overall cost function. The data fidelity penalty term is... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20060273982 - Superimposed displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for constructing and utilizing displays constructed from superimposed display subunits are disclosed.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20060273983 - Volumetric three-dimentional display panel and system using multi-layered organic light emitting devices: A volumetric three-dimensional display panel and a volumetric three-dimensional display system employing the volumetric three-dimensional display panel are provided, wherein the volumetric three-dimensional display panel is formed by stacking a plurality of transparent flat display panels, such as, organic light-emitting devices. In the volumetric three-dimensional display panel, two-dimensional images are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060273984 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: When a plurality of mixed reality (MR) experiencing persons experience the same mixed reality, there is a possibility that the experiencing persons come into contact with one another. An image processing apparatus capable of reporting to the MR experiencing persons that there is a possibility of contact. Therefore, a real... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20060273985 - Led system for illumination and data transmission: A LED system (100) for illumination and data transmission employs a LED driver (110), an electronic switch (130), and an illumination unit (150). In a first illumination state, illumination unit (150) receives LED current(s) from LED driver (110) to emit a first light output. In a second illumination state, the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060273986 - Method for driving plasma display panels: A method for driving plasma display panels (PDPs) includes dividing a plasma display panel having stripe ribs into at least two scanning regions. Each of the scanning regions has a plurality of scan and common electrodes, and these electrodes are arranged in an interlaced fashion according to an electrode arrangement... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060273987 - Display device: A brightness level frequency indicated on a frame basis by an input video signal is accumulated in decreasing order or increasing order of the brightness level so that an accumulated brightness level frequency is calculated for every brightness level. The brightness level corresponding to the accumulated brightness level frequency smaller... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060273988 - Method of driving display apparatus and plasma display apparatus: The method of driving a display apparatus, in which the gradation scale is represented, by the subfield method, with less flicker even when driven at a frequency of 50 Hz has been disclosed. In this method, the two most weighted subfields (subfields of Bn brightness and Bn−1 brightness when it... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060273989 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. A sustain discharge before a reset period for initializing a cell which is sustain discharged in a previous subfield is generated as a weak discharge rather than a strong discharge. By generating a weak sustain discharge, the amount of wall charge... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060273990 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method. A driving waveform is applied while sustain electrodes are biased at a predetermined voltage. During an address period of a predetermined first subfield, a first scan pulse of a first voltage is applied to perform write addressing at a discharge cell to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060273991 - Driving circuit for reducing noise of a ceramic capacitor: A driving circuit for reducing noise of a ceramic capacitor, that is capable of driving a plasma display unit, is provided. The circuit includes a circuit board, a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor set, a second capacitor set, and a control switch. The first switch is located... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060273992 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, wherein a sustain waveform can be improved. According to the present invention, the plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of sustain electrode pairs wherein... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060273993 - Display device and method for driving a display device: A display device driver constructed of scanning selection switches corresponding to a plurality of scanning wiring lines, a non-selection switch which brings the scanning wiring line into a non-selected state, a feedback switch which detects a scanning electrode potential and a negative feedback amplifier which sets the scanning electrode potential... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060273995 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality simultaneously, the arrangement is provided such that if the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060273996 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality simultaneously, the arrangement is provided such that if the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060273994 - Electroluminescence display and pixel array thereof: A pixel array of electroluminescence display including a number of data lines, a scan line, and a number of pixels is provided. The pixels are respectively electrically connected to the scan line and the corresponding data lines. Each pixel respectively has a storage capacitor. The storage capacitors have different capacitance... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060273997 - Method and system for compensation of non-uniformities in light emitting device displays: A method and system for compensation of non-uniformities in light emitting device displays is provided. The system includes a module for estimating degradation of an entire pixel circuit based on measurement of a part of the pixel circuit. Based on the estimation, a correction factor is produced to correct non-uniformity... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20060273998 - Colour electroluminescent display devices: A colour active matrix electroluminescent (EL) display device has an array of pixels (10) comprising sets of red, green and blue emitting pixels, each of which pixels comprises an EL display element (20), a drive transistor (22) for driving a current through the display element, a storage capacitor (24) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060273999 - Display device and electronic device: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which images can be seen under a dark place to intense external light. In the display device, display is performed by changing the gray scale number depending on external light intensity, and display modes can be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060274001 - Bit serial control of light modulating elements: 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.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20060274000 - Conditional control of an array of outputs: 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.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20060274003 - Liquid crystal display device: In a layer of liquid crystals of a liquid crystal panel, polymer is formed which causes liquid crystal molecules to be tilted in a predetermined direction when no voltage is applied; a control circuit includes a display signal output section and a display signal monitor section; the display signal output... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274002 - Masked write on an array of drive bits: 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.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20060274004 - Energy saving passive matrix display device and method for driving: The present invention concerns generally passive matrix displays, in particular a display device and a method for driving a display device. For reducing power consumption a display device is provided comprising a liquid crystal material between a first substrate provided with row electrodes (7) and a second substrate provided with... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274005 - Gradation display reference voltage generating circuit and liquid crystal driving device: In a gradation display reference voltage generating circuit, first reference voltages (VH0 to VH63) produced by resistors for positive polarity (RH0 to RH64) of a first ladder circuit in a first reference voltage producing section (LDH) are output from reference voltage output terminals (T0 to T63), respectively, at the positive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274007 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: Disclosed is an LCD and driving method thereof. The present invention comprises a data gray signal modifier for receiving gray signals from a data gray signal source, and outputting modification gray signals by consideration of gray signals of present and previous frames; a data driver for changing the modification gray... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060274006 - Liquid crystal display having gray voltages with varying magnitudes and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) having a plurality of gray voltages with varying magnitudes and a driving method thereof. An LCD includes a reference voltage generator changing level of a supply voltage based on a first signal to generate a reference voltage. The first signal varies depending on the surrounding... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060274009 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a first gate electrode, a storage electrode having a body and an extension, a first semiconductor formed on a gate insulating layer, a first drain electrode formed on the first semiconductor, separated from a first source electrode, and having an end portion overlapping the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20060274008 - Transflective liquid crystal display: A transflective liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a plurality of color sub-pixels, each sub-pixel having a transmission area associated with a first charge storage capacitance and a reflection area associated with a second storage capacitance. In the sub-pixel, a data line, a first gate... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20060274010 - Dsd lcd driving method and driving device thereof: A DSD display driving method and driving device thereof are provided. Each of the pixels of the display is selectively driven by a pair of select lines, and the polarities of the select signals can be alternately changed in accordance with different frame times. The driving method and the driving... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20060274011 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element section that is initialized such that the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned from a splay alignment to a bend alignment capable of displaying an image, and a driving circuit that applies, in the initialization, a transition... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274012 - Thin film transistor substrate and display apparatus having the same: A TFT substrate with reduced pixel defect rate is presented. The TFT substrate includes a pixel electrode, a negative line to apply a reverse voltage to the pixel electrode, and a recovery transistor including a drain electrode overlapping a part of the negative line with a insulating layer disposed between... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20060274018 - Apparatus and method for performing a mirror function in a portable terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for embodying mirror function in a portable terminal by which a user can use an LCD of the portable terminal as a mirror, with a rear polarizer of the LCD constructed to allow the LCD to reflect incident light and to perform as a... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20060274013 - Lcd panel driving method and device with charge sharing: An LCD panel driving method and device with charge sharing is disclosed. The LCD panel includes a plurality of switches, a plurality of data lines, a signal driving circuit for generating a plurality of image signals, a charge sharing common voltage driving circuit and a common capacitor having one end... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060274017 - Liquid crystal display device: The liquid crystal display device of the invention includes a liquid crystal display element section that is initialized such that the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules is transitioned from a splay alignment to a bend alignment capable of displaying an image, and a driving circuit that applies to the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274014 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving thereof: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has: a liquid crystal panel having a data line group; a data driver configured to drive the data line group of the liquid crystal panel by using a dot inversion driving method; and a power recovery circuit having an inductor.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20060274016 - Liquid crystal display having data driver and gate driver: A liquid crystal display can operate with as the small number of control signals supplied to individual drivers as possible while current control functions are maintained. The liquid crystal display comprises a liquid crystal panel containing a data line, a data driver driving a data line, and a controller outputting... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060274015 - Semiconductor integrated circuit with voltage generation circuit, liquid crystal display controller and mobile electric equipment: There is to be provided a liquid crystal drive controller with a built-in power supply circuit wherein latch-up is made difficult to arise even if one amplitude level of the segment line drive voltage is set to the ground potential and the levels of other liquid crystal drive voltages are... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060274020 - Apparatus and methods for controlled transition between charge sharing and video output in a liquid crystal display: An output circuit for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) data line includes a selection circuit having a first input, a second input coupled to a charge sharing line, and an output coupled to the LCD data line. The selection circuit is configured to selectively couple the first and second... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060274021 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device, and more particularly to a display device in which gate lines and a main gate driver can be repaired. The display device includes a plurality of pixels respectively including a switching element, a gate line connected to the switching element, and first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20060274019 - Operational amplifier circuit having digitally controllable output stage: An operational amplifier circuit includes a control stage and an output stage. The control stage includes an analog control stage for generating a first control signal according to an input signal and a digital control stage for generating a second control signal according to the input signal. The output stage... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060274025 - Driving circuit and lcd incorporating the same: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) (23) includes a system driver (28), a power supply device (26) and a system control device (25). The power supply device provides a votage to the system driver. The system control device generates a control signal, a data signal, and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20060274027 - Image display device: The image display device includes a liquid crystal panel which has at least one optical sensor for outputting an electric signal resulting from light irradiation, pixel electrodes for driving a liquid crystal, switching elements for switching the pixel electrodes and a single transparent substrate on which the at least one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274024 - Liquid crystal display and light emitting diode drive circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) including a light emitting diode (LED) driving circuit and an LED module is provided. The LED module includes a plurality of LEDs. The LED driving circuit includes a transformer, a rectification circuit and a filter circuit. The transformer is used for outputting an AC voltage.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274022 - Photometric device of liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display: A photometric device of liquid crystal display and a liquid crystal display in which photometry can be performed without relying upon manpower and the liquid crystal plane is shielded only at the time of photometry. The photometric device comprises a liquid crystal display part, a bezel surrounding the four sides... Agent: Young & Thompson

20060274023 - System and method for portable information handling system integrated backlight control: An information handling system inverter powers a display backlight at variable brightness levels determined by a brightness module integrated in the inverter. The brightness module sums a user interface setting, automated brightness setting and ambient light sensor measurement input into the inverter to determine the inverter power output, thus simplifying... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20060274026 - Systems and methods for selecting a display source light illumination level: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for selecting a display source light illumination level based on distortion parameters.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20060274028 - Display drive device, display device having the same and method for driving display panel: A display drive device which drives a display panel based on display data, comprises the display panel including a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines, the signal lines being divided into a plurality of signal line groups, each of the signal line groups including a predetermined... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060274029 - Mobile device and display: A display includes a substrate, a pixel array and an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The substrate has a display region. The pixel array is formed on the display region, and constituted by several mutual parallel scan lines and several parallel data lines. The data lines intersect with the scan... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20060274030 - Electrophoretic display panel: An electrophoretic display panel and a method for driving an electrophoretic display panel in which to bring an element from a preceding optical state to a grey scale in accordance with the image information Preset pulses and driving (grey scale pulses) are integrated into an integrated series of asymmetric (in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060274034 - Apparatus and method accommodating to operating system for processing screen data: An apparatus and a method accommodating to an operating system for processing screen data are provided. A virtual video memory is virtualized in a system memory of a computer. Next, in a kernel mode of the operating system, the screen data are written in a video memory of a graphic... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20060274033 - Control element with programmable haptics: The invention is directed to a control element, particularly for automotive electronics, having programmable haptics. Moments of force or a variation of the friction moments are formed on a control element by dynamically adapting the operative currents of electromagnetic arrays in dependence of the adjustment path. The force/path behavior (tactile... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20060274036 - Display input device and display input system: A display input device comprises a display unit having a flexibility; and a first form change detection unit having a flexibility. The first form change detection unit is able to detect a deformation ascribed to the flexibility as a change in a electrical property. A display input system further comprises... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274031 - Display system and method: A display system is disclosed as including first and second visual display units (VDU's), each for displaying visual images for viewing; a first digital video camera for capturing images of a first individual viewing images displayed by the first VDU; at least second and third digital video cameras for capturing,... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20060274035 - Haptic feedback using rotary harmonic moving mass: A haptic device comprises an actuator and a mass. The actuator has a shaft. The actuator is elastically coupled to the mass and/or a base.... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20060274032 - Tracking device for use in obtaining information for controlling game program execution: A tracking device for use in obtaining information for controlling an execution of a game program by a processor for enabling an interactive game to be played by a user and related apparatus are disclosed.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20060274038 - Menu input apparatus and method using camera of mobile communications terminal: A menu input method for a mobile terminal including displaying a menu having a plurality of items on a display of the mobile terminal, displaying a cursor used to select one of the plurality of items at a first position on the display, capturing images of a pointer object moving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274037 - Onboard pointer system: A laptop computer includes a wireless pointer device which is located within the base of the laptop. In an exemplary embodiment, the pointer device is an infrared mouse designed to fit within a cradle mechanism. In one example, the cradle mechanism is located centered and below the keyboard and may... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20060274039 - Method of performing communication in a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method and apparatus for performing communication in response to a video telephone call in a wireless terminal having a main body, and a folder pivotally mounted on said main body, are disclosed. Wireless terminal is switched to a first video communication mode either if a folder thereof is turned... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060274040 - Manual control device including a magnetoresistive sensor element: A control device comprises a base portion and a handle portion extending from the base portion. The handle portion is movable from side to side relative to the base portion in an X direction, and forward and backward relative to the base portion in a Y direction perpendicular to the... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20060274041 - Mouse: A mouse according to the present invention, comprises: a casing; a button part disposed on the casing, for generating a click signal by being pressed; and a sensing part fixedly disposed on the casing in the vicinity of the button part in such a fashion as to be slantedly lower... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20060274042 - Mouse with improved input mechanisms: A mouse having improved input methods and mechanisms is disclosed. The mouse is configured with touch sensing areas capable of generating input signals. The touch sensing areas may for example be used to differentiate between left and right clicks in a single button mouse. The mouse may further be configured... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20060274044 - Whole hand computer mouse with a button for each finger: A whole-hand computer mouse that has one button for each finger of the hand. Each finger can press its own button that, in itself or in combination with other pressed buttons or hand movements (gestures), executes a computer command such as cutting, pasting, opening a new document, scrolling, copying and... Agent: David Cameron Gikandi

20060274043 - Wireless mouse having receiver receptacle: A wireless mouse having a receptacle for the storage of its wireless receiver is provided. When the wireless mouse is not in use, the wireless receiver could be inserted into a receptacle chamber built in the wireless mouse. An internal mechanism inside the wireless mouse automatically holds the wireless receiver... Agent: Leong C Lei

20060274045 - Ergonomic keyboard systems and methods: The present invention provides ergonomic keyboards and methods of using such keyboards. In particular, the present invention provides split keyboards for use on non-traditional surfaces such as body parts and provides keyboard components having one or more additional non-keyboard functionalities (e.g., point-and-click capabilities).... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20060274054 - Device for the manual entry and/or display of data: The invention is directed to a device for the manual entry and/or display of data, comprised of a housing and a touch-sensitive display screen accommodated in the housing, said touch-sensitive screen being connected to a data processing unit that processes the entered data, whereby the display screen is movably integrated... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20060274053 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus capable of a suppress area for user interface parts and improving operability, including a touch sensor for detecting contact by an object on a predetermined detection area and operation buttons for detecting press imposed at predetermined positions on the detection area; wherein a screen of a display... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060274052 - Electronic device with a touch display: An electronic device with touch display is disclosed. The electronic device includes a host, a main display apparatus and a touchable display apparatus. The main display apparatus is connected with the host via a joint structure which is able to make the main display apparatus and the host fold against... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060274049 - Multi-layer conductor with carbon nanotubes: The present invention is directed to an electronically conductive article comprising at least one conductive carbon nanotube layer in contact with at least one conductive layer comprising electronically conductive polymer.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20060274046 - Touch detecting interactive display: The invention provides an interactive display that is controlled by user gestures identified on a touch detecting display surface. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, imagery is projected onto a horizontal projection surface from a projector located above the projection surface. The locations where a user contacts the projection... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060274050 - Touchpad supporting two-side operation: For supporting two-side operation, a touchpad comprises a sensor, an insulator layer above the sensor for providing an operation area, and a button operation conductor under the sensor to be moved to connect to or approach the sensor for triggering a button function.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060274048 - Touchscreen with conductive layer comprising carbon nanotubes: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side and device side electrodes wherein each electrode comprises in order an insulating substrate, a first electrically conductive layer in contact with said substrate, an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20060274047 - Touchscreen with one carbon nanotube conductive layer: The present invention is directed to a touchscreen comprising touch side electrode and device side electrode wherein each electrode comprises an insulating substrate and an exposed electrically conductive layer, wherein said exposed electrically conductive layers are adjacent and separated by dielectric spacers, and wherein only one of the exposed electrically... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20060274051 - Virtual keyboard systems with automatic correction: There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to correct inaccuracies automatically in user keystroke entries on reduced-size or virtual keyboards. A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting region.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060274055 - Touch pad with flexible substrate: A touch sensor device is provided that uses a flexible circuit substrate to provide an improved input device. Specifically, the present invention uses a touch sensor controller affixed to the flexible circuit substrate, which is coupled to a sensor component to provide a flexible, reliable and cost effective touch sensor... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20060274056 - Methods and apparatus for operating optical sensors: In a method for operating a plurality of optical sensors, each of the optical sensors is sequentially coupled to a shared input of a receiver. When electrically coupling a given one of the optical sensors to the shared input, at least one other of the optical sensors is shunted to... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20060274057 - Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment: A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060274059 - Electronic painting: An electronic painting comprising a display unit which is provided with a display element, an energy supply and a control unit, having a rigidly installed, non-replaceable storage medium, wherein non-changeable information which is used to control the display unit is stored. The electronic painting assumes the functions of a traditional... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060274058 - Portable computer having a detachable display, the detachable display, and a supporting device to support the same: A portable computer includes a computer main body, a display to form an image, a coupling member tiltably coupled with the display, a projection holder provided in one of the computer main body and the coupling member, and a projection part provided on the other one of the computer main... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060274060 - Three-dimensional object display apparatus, three-dimensional object switching display method, three-dimensional object display program and graphical user interface: The present invention allows a device to display image data in a visually easy-to-see manner to users. The device generates a cubic object OB1 or a cylindrical object OB2, which is a three-dimensional shape to be displayed on a display 6, by laying out a plurality of thumbnail images IM... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274061 - Four-dimensional volume of interest: A method and apparatus for a four-dimensional volume of interest is described.... Agent: Accuray/blakely

20060274062 - Method for data clustering and classification by a graph theory model - network partition into high density subgraphs: where the minimum is taken over all possible partitions P of the vertex set of H, and E(H/P) is the set of edges crossing between parts of P. The subgraphs H found are identified as a level-k community if they are maximal, which means that there are no larger subgraphs... Agent: Douglas L. Wathen Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle,

20060274063 - System, method and computer program product for modeling a transition between adjoining surfaces: According to one aspect of exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a method is provided for modeling a transition between adjoining surfaces. The method includes determining a curve of intersection of two adjoining surfaces, where the curve includes a plurality of points. For each of at least some of the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060274064 - System for softening images in screen space: A graphics rendering system and method is disclosed, in which color values for certain pixels appearing on the screen may be adjusted to create a blurring effect. A pixel-by-pixel comparison may be used to compare differences in depth, as noted in a depth buffer, and if pixel depths are sufficiently... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20060274065 - Method and system for adaptive direct volume rendering: An adaptive image volume rendering system first fragments a 3-D dataset into multiple sub-volumes and constructs an octree structure, wherein each sub-volume is associated with one node on the octree. The system then establishes a 2-D image plane and selectively launches a plurality of rays towards the 3-D dataset, each... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060274066 - Method of and system for 3d display of multi-energy computed tomography images: A method of and a system for displaying volumetric multi-energy CT images are disclosed, wherein a CT image, a Z image, and a label image from an automatic explosive detection are provided, are disclosed. The method comprises generating an index image through a nonlinear transformation of the CT image, the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP Attn: Intellectual Property Deptartment

20060274067 - Image processing apparatus, display apparatus with touch panel, image processing method and computer program: An image processing apparatus comprises: a boundary line designating unit which designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a plurality of regions; and a region selecting unit which selects either one of the inside and the outside of the boundary line designated by the boundary line designator as... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060274068 - Adaptive contact based skeleton for animation of characters in video games: Equilibrium forces and momentum are calculated using character skeleton node graphs having variable root nodes determined in real time based on contacts with fixed objects or other constraints that apply external forces to the character. The skeleton node graph can be traveled backwards and in so doing it is possible... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274069 - Three dimensional animated figures: A system comprising a plurality of three dimensional artificially animated portraits for performing preprogrammed animations of voice and facial expressions in the form of a scripted dialogue orchestrated by a central source. The system is operable to prepare animations of recorded voice and selected depictions of facial expressions to be... Agent: John E. Simms Jr.

20060274070 - Techniques and workflows for computer graphics animation system: The disclosed implementations describe techniques and workflows for a computer graphics (CG) animation system. In some implementations, systems and methods are disclosed for representing scene composition and performing underlying computations within a unified generalized expression graph with cycles. Disclosed are natural mechanisms for level-of-detail control, adaptive caching, minimal re-compute, lazy... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060274071 - Method of predicting the appearance of at least a portion of an individual's body: The present invention relates to a method of predicting the appearance of an external portion of the human body as a function of time and/or treatment, in which method at least three images are generated, the images corresponding to different grades of at least one appearance parameter as a function... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060274072 - System and method for validating the graphical output of an updated software module: A system for validating the output of an updated graphics rendering engine is presented. The system includes two computer systems, with one computer system including an updated graphics rendering engine. The two computers are configured to execute test instructions that cause graphic information to be rendered on the computers. The... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060274073 - Multiple graphics adapter connection systems: A system provides a digital multi-bit connection between two or more graphics adapters. Each graphics adapter is manufactured as a printed circuit board including a finger-type edge connector. When two or more graphics adapters are installed in a system the edge connectors of each graphics adapter may be coupled to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20060274074 - Display device having a movable structure for modulating light and method thereof: An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provides greater flexibility. Electronic hardware can be field reconfigured to accommodate different display formats and/or application functions. An... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060274075 - Moving picture conversion apparatus and method, moving picture reconstruction apparatus and method, and computer program: A moving-picture conversion apparatus includes a block generator configured to generate blocks by dividing each frame forming moving picture data into the blocks, an amount-of-movement detector configured to detect an amount of movement of a subject corresponding to each block generated by the block generator, a block processor configured to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060274076 - Dynamic model generation methods and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes opening a model of an object, wherein the model comprises a plurality of geometric elements, determining a subset of geometric elements from the plurality of geometric elements of the model, modifying properties of one or more of the geometric elements in the subset... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274077 - Apparatuses and methods for processing graphics and computer readable mediums storing the methods: An apparatus according to an example embodiment of the present invention, may process data of a present span. During processing, data corresponding to an address of the start data of the next span may be prefetched from the external memory device based on information related to the presently processed data.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060274078 - Graphic systems and methods having variable texture cache block size: Systems and methods for graphic reproduction of an image including textural information permit the texture cache block size to be varied to accommodate different texture data bit format patterns and different texture data storage patterns. In this manner, efficient use of memory access time is provided, and an increase in... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20060274079 - Image processing apparatus, method of same, and program and storage medium of same: An image processing apparatus for sequentially generating rendering data of a plurality of images composing a moving image, comprising a velocity vector detecting unit for detecting a velocity vector of a block image in an image in accordance with the rendering data based on rendering basic data used for the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20060274080 - Texture cache memory device, 3-dimentional graphic accelerator using the same and method thereof: Disclosed is a texture cache memory device in which the size of an active field in a cache unit changes along the number of the textures to be mapped on an abject. If the required number of the textures is small, a hit rate is maintained even with a smaller... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060274081 - Image retrieving apparatus, image retrieving method, program, and storage medium: An image retrieving apparatus that can suitably retrieve a similar image of image data whose density has changed. Image data is inputted from image input unit 12. Image feature amount extraction unit 14 divides normalized image data to plural regions, and extracts a feature amount in units of region. Feature... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060274082 - Data structure relating a device characteristic to a device position in a support structure: A method that comprises generating a first data structure relating a physical interface to a corresponding position in a support structure, generating a second data structure relating the physical interface to an address of a device in the support structure and, using the first and second data structures, generating a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060274083 - System and method for maintaining a view location during rendering of a page: An improved system and method for maintaining a view location during the rendering of content on a display of an electronic device. When a user views a web page or similar content while the content is in the process of being loaded onto the display of the electronic device, a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060274084 - Table data entry using instrument markers: An instrument uses a marker as a passive element for indicating measurement and reference points and also uses the marker to enter data. In response to a user placing the marker on a graph and selecting a predetermined key on a keypad of the instrument, the instrument enters at least... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060274085 - Methods and apparatus for structuring geometric models: A method for a computer system includes receiving a model of an object, wherein the model of the object comprises a plurality of geometric elements, determining a reverse pruning order for geometric elements in a first plurality of geometric elements from the plurality of geometric elements, and storing a revised... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060274086 - Clipview applications: An implementation allows a user to select an area of interest in a content source and to clip content from the area of interest. A variety of content types may be clipped and presented to a user, and the clipped content may be refreshed from the selected area of interest.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060274087 - Method of presenting images on the screen of a display provided in a wireless terminal and wireless terminal implementing the same: A method and wireless terminal for presenting characters or images on a screen of a display provided in a folder pivotally mounted on the main body of a wireless terminal are provided. The method involves detecting an existence of a rotation allowable zone on the screen of the display upon... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20060274089 - Image scaler with controllable sharpness: A method and system for scaling an original image into a scaled image is disclosed. Rather than using the corresponding position in the original image to generate the pixels values of a current pixel in the scaled image, image scalers in accordance with the present invention, calculate a high frequency... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20060274088 - Method for drawing graphics in a web browser or web application: A graphics drawing method minimizes the number of predetermined images required to perform a plot on or within a web browser. A limited number of previously generated images or overlay tools are provided, referred to herein as “image tiles”, which are then tiled and stretched by the user to define... Agent: Tim Cook

20060274090 - Display device, and computer, camera, portable information terminal device, image reproducing device, clock, mobile phone device and other electronic apparatuses using the display device: In a display device using a delta arrangement, in a case where a circuit of a large number of elements such as a static memory is arranged every pixel, a wire becomes complicated to cause wiring delay. A shape of a pixel electrode is formed polygonally to arrange in a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP