Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 02/07

20070040762 - Planar display device: A planar display device includes: a first display panel having a plurality of first scan lines and a plurality of first signal lines; a second display panel having a plurality of second scan lines and a plurality of second signal lines; and a second selective connection circuit in which the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070040763 - Image display system: An image display system for simultaneously displaying an original image and a processed image of the original image is provided. The image display system includes a display screen, a first memory unit, a second memory unit and a control unit. In response to some specified commands, the original image and... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070040764 - Data driver and organic light emitting display having the same: An organic light emitting display having color-specific demultiplexers is disclosed. Each demultiplexer receives a data signal for a specific color and sequentially supplies the data signals to sub-pixels for the specific color. Therefore, a data driving circuit supplying the data signal to the demultiplexer receives and successively processes only data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070040765 - Method for driving display panel: A driving method for a display panel which has, for each subfield, an address process in which a display data write scan is performed to set pixel cells respectively in a light emitting mode or a non-light emitting mode by scanning the pixel cells for each at least one display... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070040766 - Plasma display panel power recovery method and apparatus: In the plasma display device, a voltage of a power recovery capacitor is set to be greater than half of a sustain discharge voltage when a voltage of a power recovery circuit is increased, and is set to be lower than half of the sustain discharge voltage when the voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070040767 - Plasma display apparatus: An apparatus for driving a PDP is capable of controlling a scan reference voltage when set up pulses are supplied to scan electrodes Y1 to Ym in a set up period of a reset period and when the scan reference voltage is supplied to the scan electrodes in an address... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070040768 - Display apparatus: The present invention provides a technique for reducing power losses in a display apparatus such as an FED, especially power losses due to leak currents occurring when a non-selective voltage is applied. A display apparatus according to the invention is provided with scan drivers for selecting one line at a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070040769 - Active matrix organic light emitting diodes pixel circuit: A pixel circuit of an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode does not provide currents for an organic light-emitting diode during a compensation period, and provides currents, free from variation of a threshold voltage of a thin-film transistor, for the organic light-emitting diode during a data input period, so as to improve... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070040770 - Organic light emitting display (oled): An Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED) that is capable of decreasing the number of output lines for a data driver using a demultiplexer, displaying an image with uniform brightness, and adjusting white balance includes: a plurality of red, green and blue sub-pixels, and each sub-pixel is provided with an auxiliary... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070040772 - Pixel circuit of organic electroluminescent display device and method of driving the same: A pixel circuit of an organic electroluminescent display device and a method of driving the same. In the pixel circuit, a capacitor has a first electrode connected to a gate of a driving transistor, and a second electrode connected to a drain of a switching transistor. Further, a compensation voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070040771 - Shift register circuit: A shift register circuit that improves yield, reduces cost, and embodies a pull-swing drive and low power consumption is disclosed. The shift register is a 4-phase shift register circuit comprising a plurality of PMOS transistors, and capacitors. The shift register circuit includes n (n is integer) register stages, and each... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070040773 - Data driver circuits for a display in which a data current is generated responsive to the selection of a subset of a plurality of reference currents based on a gamma signal and methods of operating the same: A data driver for a display includes a reference current generator that is configured to generate L gray scale reference currents, the L gray scale reference currents being associated with non-zero gray scale levels, a gamma selection module that is configured to select M gamma reference currents from the L... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070040774 - Organic light emitting display device having automatic brightness control apparatus: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device having an automatic brightness control apparatus that can control the luminance of the OLED device according to the brightness of ambient light. The OLED device includes a light sensor adapted to sense ambient light and produce an output voltage corresponding to the ambient... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070040775 - Light quantity control device and light quantity control method and electro photographic device using the same: The present invention provides a light quantity control device comprising organic EL elements 3a to 3n and a measuring unit 51 measuring cumulative number of light emitting (time) of the organic EL elements 3a to 3n, a nonvolatile memory 52 storing a driving preset value of the organic EL elements... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070040776 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus including a displaying part, a light source generating light and a display driving part displaying an image on the displaying part by controlling the intensity of the light generated by the light source on the basis of one of a plurality of image signals. A light... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070040777 - Methods and devices for inhibiting tilting of a mirror in an interferometric modulator: Interferometric modulators having a separable modulator architecture are disclosed having a reflective layer suspended from a flexible layer over a cavity. The interferometric modulators have one or more anti-tilt members that inhibit undesirable movement of the reflective layer, such as curling and/or tilting. The stabilization of the reflective layer by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070040781 - Amplifier circuit and display device: A first switch which controls input of an input signal to an input terminal of a buffer amplifier is provided. A first capacitor having a first terminal connected to an input terminal of the buffer amplifier and a second terminal connected to an output terminal of the buffer amplifier via... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20070040780 - Display device and liquid crystal display panel: A display device is provided that comprises a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image by spatial light modulation, and circuitry for switching liquid crystal in the panel between having a first configuration in a first mode to cause an image displayed using the panel to be discernible from... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070040779 - Image processing apparatus for processing moving image to be displayed on liquid crystal display device, image processing method and computer program product: An image processing method for a liquid crystal display device includes: calculating first difference gradation, which is a difference between predicted attainment gradation and input gradation, the predicted attainment gradation being a predicted value of gradation which respective pixels of the liquid crystal display attain after one frame period after... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040778 - Optimising brightness control 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

20070040783 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display apparatus: An object of the invention is to provide a liquid crystal display apparatus, that achieves excellent color reproducibility with simple circuitry, and a method for driving such a liquid crystal display apparatus. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a color light source, a liquid crystal display section for controlling transmission... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040782 - Method for driving liquid crystal display having multi-channel single-amplifier structure: A method is provided for driving a liquid crystal display having a multi-channel single-amplifier structure, where the number of times of coupling according to video signals transmitted to adjacent source lines while the source lines are floated is 3 and it is equal for the respective source lines for 6... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070040784 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display deriving modulated data using approximation: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display device improving a picture quality. In the method and apparatus, modulated data bands including at least two modulated data centering a gray scale being approximate to a gray scale value of source data are derived. An... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070040785 - Active matrix array device, electronic device and operating method for an active matrix array device: An active matrix array device has a plurality of matrix array elements (100), each of which have a first capacitive device (120) coupled to a charging conductor (32m) via a first switch (100) being responsive to an addressing conductor (22n). In addition, the matrix array elements (100) comprise a second... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070040786 - Emission control driver and organic light emitting display device having the same and a logical or circuit for an emission control driver for outputting an emission control signal: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device using a tiling technique including a system-on-panel (SOP)-type emission control driver. The emission control driver includes a shift register and a logical operation portion having a plurality of logic gates, each of which receives output signals from the shift register and performs a... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070040787 - A modular graphics stack: A system is provided that includes a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel and an LCD controller coupled to the LCD panel. The system also includes a processor coupled to the LCD controller and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores a modular graphics stack that provides images and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070040788 - Modular graphics stack with video support: A system is provided that includes a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel and an LCD controller coupled to the LCD panel. The system also includes a processor coupled to the LCD controller and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores a modular graphics stack that provides images and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070040789 - Protection device for gate integrated circuit, gate driver, liquid crystal display including the same and method of protecting a gate ic in a display: A gate IC protection device that protects a gate IC from damage and allows image to be generated normally even when an abnormal vertical synchronization start signal is received is presented, along with a gate driver and a liquid crystal display employing the gate IC protection device. A method of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070040790 - Residual image improving system for liquid crystal display: An exemplary residual image improving system (100) for an LCD includes an LCD panel, a gate driver, data driver, a video and timing control unit (12), a DC power supply (13), an power input terminal (VCC), and a current limiting resistor (R). The power input terminal receives operating power from... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070040795 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes an LCD panel, a data driver and a gate driver. The LCD panel includes a first pixel section and a second pixel section formed in regions defined by a adjacent gate lines and adjacent data lines. The first pixel section is electrically charged... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070040794 - Liquid crystal display device repair system and method thereof: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display (LCD) device which can minimize power consumption and detect whether a repairing process is successful or not during a testing process, and testing and repairing methods thereof. The LCD device includes gate lines formed on a substrate, data lines formed on the substrate by... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070040791 - Overdrive source driver for liquid crystal display: An overdrive device for a liquid crystal display, providing a 2-level overdrive signal, reducing a response time of the liquid crystal display, comprises a first multiplexer, a source driver, and a second multiplexer. The first multiplexer receives first and second reference voltages and provides the first or second reference voltage... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070040793 - Shift register and display device having the same: A shift register includes a plurality of stages to output a plurality of output signals, in sequence. Each of the stages includes a driving part and a discharging part. The driving part outputs an output signal of a present stage based on one of a start signal and an output... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070040792 - Shift register for display device and display device including a shift register: A shift register that is capable of performing partial driving and a display device having the shift register, in which the shift register has at least two display regions, each of which includes pixels and signal lines connected thereto. The shift register includes at least two stage groups, each of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070040797 - Driving technique for a liquid crystal display device: A driving method or apparatus for use in a liquid crystal display (LCD) device stores picture data displayed by the LCD device in plural frame times by comparing first picture data for a first frame time with second picture data for a second, previous frame time, and adjusts a gray... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070040796 - Liquid crystal display including a transflective polarizing filter and a method of providing power saving and security functions in the same: An LCD including a transflective polarizing filter and a method of providing a power-saving function and a security-function in the LCD. The LCD includes an application module to receive a reflection ratio of a transflective polarizing filter which performs reflecting and polarizing operations, a reflection/polarization control module to control the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070040798 - Electrophoresis device and electronic apparatus: An electrophoresis device includes a translucent first substrate having a first electrode on one surface thereof; a second substrate having a second electrode on one surface thereof, and disposed to face the first substrate such that a protruding portion which does not overlap the first substrate in a substrate thickness... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070040799 - Systems and methods for procesing data entered using an eye-tracking system: A method for processing data entered using an electronic device and an electronic device capable of implementing the method is described. In one embodiment, the electronic device includes at least one multi-value key associated with at least two input data values. Each multi-value key includes a plurality of units and... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070040801 - Method and apparatus for displaying movement of input device in on-screen display (osd) area: A wireless display apparatus and a method of displaying an input device movement in an OSD area in a wireless display apparatus. The method includes receiving information on the movement of an input device, such as a mouse, displaying a pointer position of the input device in an on-screen display... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070040800 - Method for stabilizing and precisely locating pointers generated by handheld direct pointing devices: The invention provides a method to stabilize a pointer displayed within an output image. The method enables the user to magnify selected areas within the output image. This allows the user to ‘zoom’ in on areas of interest in the output image, and to make accurate selections with the stabilized... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. Patent Department

20070040802 - Magnetic control device: A control device having an elongated shaft, a C-shaped magnet, and an anti-rotation pin. The magnet and the anti-rotation pin are encapsulated in a spherical member. The C- shaped magnet has opposing ends defining an open slot along the C-shaped main body. The anti-rotation pin extends through the slot and... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070040803 - Method of joining a sintered magnet to a pivot arm: A method of forming a control device includes the steps of positioning a magnet and a shaft in a die and die-casting zinc around the magnet and the shaft. The magnet is a sintered C-shaped magnet having opposing ends defining an open slot along the C-shaped main body. An anti-rotate... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20070040805 - Method of detecting the movement of an entity equipped with an image sensor and device for implementing same: In relation to a current image from a sequence of images captured by an image sensor, in a first step, a temporary motion vector is determined as a function of reference data comprising a preceding image and a motion vector associated to the preceding image. Then, in a second step,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070040804 - Protective mechanism for an optical input device: A protective mechanism terminates the emission of a laser beam from an inadvertently inverted laser input device. A transmitting/detecting circuit is positioned under a laser input device that emits laser beams from a laser light. The transmitting/detecting circuit projects an infrared ray to a working surface to be reflected therefrom,... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070040807 - Keyboard: The invention comprise a one hand keyboard having thumb and finger receptacles for the thumb and fingers to signal the entire alphabet of a language, all numbers, and all essential punctuation with the fingers tips and thumb that need only move the them a fraction of or less than an... Agent: Robert E. Kleve

20070040806 - Keypad: A keypad is disclosed which has a plurality of keys (12) for the input of information. Each key has a first switch (80) and a second switch (90). The first switches (80) are all connected to a common electrical interconnection (120) and the second switches (90) are connected into a... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070040808 - User configurable button: A user configurable button (20) for a portable media player device (10), wherein the button (20) is configurable by associating at least one action with the button (20) in response to pressing and holding down the button (20) at least once, and subsequent pressing of the button (20) at least... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070040809 - Creating responses for an electronic pen-computer multimedia interactive system: A system for associating a selected object on any printed material to a valid response provided by a computer system includes a maker component to define an object on a page of printed material, and to link a position of the object on the page, the contents of the page,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070040815 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20070040812 - Internet phone integrated with touchpad functions: An Internet phone comprises a touchpad on which a panel is provided and several regions are defined on the panel for inputting by object touch, a mode-switching region on the panel for being touched to switch the touchpad among various modes, several icons in the defined regions for supporting the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070040814 - Liquid crystal display device having improved touch screen: A liquid crystal display having a touch screen includes a plurality of sensing data lines formed on a display panel, a plurality of variable capacitors connected to the sensing data lines and having capacitance that varies with a pressure, a plurality of reference capacitors connected to the sensing data lines,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070040811 - Navigational interface providing auxiliary character support for mobile and wearable computers: A text input mechanism is provided especially for non-keyboard input devices for inputting text for languages that include large numbers of characters and that are not based on the Roman alphabets. Reading symbols of a language are presented to the user for selection. Reading symbols can be phonetic symbols for... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070040813 - System and method for continuous stroke word-based text input: The disclosed System enables word-level text entry on a small displayed keyboard by tracing an input path that begins on or near the key of the first letter, passes through or near the key of each letter in sequence, and terminates in the vicinity of the key of the last... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070040810 - Touch controlled display device: In one aspect of the invention, a display device is provided. The display device comprises a body having an opening to a display receiving area. A display is joined to the display receiving area and a generally transparent contact element positioned between the opening and the display. At least two... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070040816 - Display apparatus, electronics device equipped with display apparatus, and manufacturing method thereof: A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image thereon, a cover panel arranged facing the display panel across an air layer, and an electro-conductive material opening electrically and arranged on a surface of one of the display panel and the cover panel faced with the air layer.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070040817 - Force sensor with angled coupling: A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses an applied force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a load bearing member for receiving an input force to be sensed and associated circuitry for converting the input force into... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070040821 - Amplifier circuit and display device: In a buffer amplifier which receives an input signal on a positive input terminal, has an output terminal connected to a negative input terminal, and outputs a stabilized output signal, a switch for connecting the positive input terminal and the output terminal is provided. By switching the switch ON, the... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20070040820 - Apparatus and method for displaying a mobile terminal standby screen: An apparatus and method for displaying a standby screen of a mobile terminal, the apparatus having a display for displaying an image, and a controller for measuring a color-distributed degree of the image when a terminal is converted into a standby mode, and for inverting a certain color of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070040822 - Display device and driving method thereof: It is an object to provide a semiconductor device in which a correct video signal is inputted into a display regardless of whether a luminance signal and a color-difference signal, or a three-primary color signal of R, G, and B is inputted as a video signal and which is also... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron,manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Itd

20070040819 - Image display system, image display method, image display device, image data processor, program, storage medium, and image processing program distribution server: An image display system includes an image data processor that processes image data, an image display device that displays an image based on the image data processed by the image data processor, and a transmission path that allows bi-directional data communication between the image data processor and the image display... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070040818 - Moving image distribution system and moving image distribution server: A moving image distribution system is capable of making phase adjustment of video data and audio data while preventing the cost of a display apparatus from increasing, by adjusting time information with a moving image distribution server. The moving image distribution server stores moving image data, reads the moving image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070040823 - Semiconductor display device and method of driving a semiconductor display device: A semiconductor display device capable of performing clear display of a high definition image, in which flicker, vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, and diagonal stripes are unlikely to be seen by an observer, is provided. An image signal input from the outside to a RAM of a frame conversion portion in... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070040825 - Display device: A display device includes first and second voltage generation circuits each including a voltage circuit for outputting an internal voltage on the basis of a plurality of clocks, a sampling circuit for sampling an output signal from the voltage circuit, a monitoring circuit for comparing an output signal from the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070040826 - Electronic apparatus and control method thereof: An electronic apparatus and method of controlling the electronic apparatus are provided, in which a power supply supplies a driving voltage to a system; and a controller sequentially outputs a control signal controlling a level of the driving voltage to the power supply until a level of a usage voltage... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070040824 - Optical energy driven information display device: An optical energy driven information display device comprises an information-display unit, an optical-to-electrical energy converter, and an electricity-control unit. Wherein the information-display unit includes a memory unit, a display unit, a display-control unit, and an information transmission control unit. The information transmission control unit transmits information to the memory unit,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070040827 - Power supply generating circuit, display apparatus, and portable terminal device: A power supply generating circuit, a display apparatus incorporating the same, and a portable terminal device using the display apparatus as an output display unit are provided. In a DC-DC converter having a charge pump circuit (31), a voltage dividing circuit (32), and a regulation circuit (33), p-channel MOS transistors... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070040828 - Optical method and system for enhancing image resolution: A method and system are presented for imaging an object with image resolution for at least a part of the object exceeding by a predetermined factor a geometrical resolution defined by a detector pixel array. A predetermined aperture coding is applied to the wavefront of a light signal indicative of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070040829 - Three dimensional display: The invention provides an improved means for displaying computer generated hologram (CGH). Images appearing in the image volume are realised as a set of planar facets that approximate to the shape of the original object to be displayed. These facets are populated with points, that act as the visible parts... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070040831 - Method for filtering of tomographic 3d displays on the basis of the reconstruction of volume data: A filter method for tomographic 3D displays is disclosed, in which a volume model is used for display, which reproduces the volume of the examination object in the form of a large number of three-dimensional image voxels, and the image value of each voxel reproduces one object-specific characteristic of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070040830 - Volume rendering apparatus and process: A computer automated process is presented for accelerating the rendering of sparse volume data on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are typically SIMD processors, and thus well suited to processing continuous data and not sparse data. The invention allows GPUs to process sparse data efficiently through the use of scatter-gather... Agent: Don W. Bulson, Esq. Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070040833 - Method and system for adaptive maximum intensity projection ray casting: The adaptive MIP ray casting system first fragments a 3-D dataset into multiple sub-volumes and constructs an octree data structure with each sub-volume being associated with one node of the octree data structure. The system then establishes a 2-D image plane and selectively launches a plurality of rays towards the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070040832 - Trapezoidal shadow maps: A method of real-time shadow generation in computer graphical representation of a scene, the method comprising defining an eye's frustum based on a desired view of the scene; defining a location of a light source illuminating at least a portion of the scene; generating a trapezoid to approximate an area,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070040834 - Method and apparatus for supporting universal serial bus devices in a virtualized environment: A method for performing virtualization, includes managing data between a virtual machine and a bus controller by transmitting an input output (IO) request from the virtual machine to a service virtual machine that owns the bus controller. According to an alternate embodiment, the method for performing virtualization includes managing isochronous... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Portfolioip

20070040835 - Point-sequence approximation method and apparatus: A point-sequence approximation apparatus determines whether a proportion of a straight-line approximation region is high as compared to that of a curve approximation region. In addition, if it is determined that the proportion of the straight-line approximation region is high as compared to that of the curve approximation region, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070040836 - Choreography recording and access system: This invention provides a system for recording, storing and accessing choreographic elements. It includes a data storage medium such as a video disk/DVD allowing storage of and access to sound recordings via speakers or headphones, and video images via a screen display such as a television or computer monitor. The... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070040837 - Motion vector estimation method and continuous picture generation method based on convexity property of sub pixel: A motion vector estimation method and continuous discrete image generation method based on a convexity property of a sub-pixel are provided. The method of estimating a motion vector includes: generating an objective function for a differential definition of a sub-pixel system composed of a chain of arbitrary n-tap filters with... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070040838 - Efficient scaling of image data in graphics display systems: In a preferred embodiment, a system includes a host, an image data source, and a graphics controller. The image data source provides a frame corresponding to a particular image size. The graphics controller is receives the frame. Preferably, the graphics controller is remote from the image data source and the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070040839 - Motherboard and computer system with multiple integrated graphics processors and related method: Motherboards with multiple integrated graphics processors (IGPs) for performing graphics processing operations are disclosed. A proposed motherboard includes a first integrated graphics processor (IGP) having a first north bridge circuit and a first graphics processing circuit; at least one second IGP, each having a second north bridge circuit and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070040840 - Method and/or apparatus for video data storage: An apparatus and method for storing image data comprising a first storage device and a second storage device. The first storage device may be configured to store at least one first pixel from a first field of a frame of the image at a first physical address in the first... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070040841 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a display unit to display an image, an image processing unit to apply an image signal to the display unit, a nonvolatile memory having a data area to adjust a display state of the image displayed on the display unit, a correction data area to store... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070040842 - Buffer memory system and method: A method is provided for use in a buffer memory system having at least one buffer memory to process image data of an image frame. The method may include writing a first plurality of lines of the image data to the buffer memory in a first writing sequence; reading the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070040843 - System for providing image contents and drawing image, electronic apparatus and method: A plurality of image files (Pa,Pb) are linked to obtain one linked image file 306 on the image contents server 300 side. Then, the linked image file is expanded only once, then only data of the necessary image file is cut out by looking up original image file group information... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070040844 - Reducing memory bandwidth to texture samplers via re-interpolation of texture coordinates: Apparatus, systems and methods for reducing memory bandwidth to texture samplers via re-interpolation of texture coordinates includes at least one texture sampler coupled to at least one shader core where the texture sampler is at least capable of generating texture map addresses by re-interpolating pixel fragment block texture coordinates from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070040846 - Method and apparatus of correcting color coordinate and display device including apparatus of correcting color coordinate: A method and an apparatus of correcting a color coordinate and a display device including the apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes: a first memory for storing optical characteristic information of a display module; a controller for reading the optical characteristic information from the first memory and generating and outputting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070040845 - Pixel adaptive image color adjusting device and method thereof: A pixel adaptive image color adjusting device, including: a channel separation unit for separating an input image into a plurality of color channels by pixels; a conversion unit for converting the value of an adjustment target color channel based on an adjustment value for at least one of the plural... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070040847 - Method and device for processing video data to be displayed on a display device: The invention relates to a method for processing video data to be displayed on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to the pixels of a video picture, wherein an error diffusion step is applied to at least a part of said video data to refine the... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070040848 - Fractal image data and image generator: A fractal generation process, including: (i) randomly selecting images from a set of V>1 input images; (ii) selecting transformation functions from a set of transformation functions; (iii) generating transformed images by applying the selected transformation functions to the selected images; and (iv) generating an output image by combining the transformed... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070040849 - Making an overlay image edge artifact less conspicuous: The invention is directed, in preferred embodiments, to method and apparatus for storing overlay pixels of a scaled overlay image over background pixels of a background image. The overlay and background pixels being defined by at least a luminance component and a color component. A preferred method comprises: (a) defining... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070040850 - Media delivery system and method: An interactive system that provides real time animated broadcast graphics which are input directly from a mobile device. The input from the mobile devices may include text messages and the like. The broadcast graphics are then output by the system to any kind of display screen, such as a television,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070040851 - Rendering translucent layers in a display system: A system and method of rendering overlapping layers in a computer display, such as a windowing system, employs front-to-back assembly of the displayed image. An arbitrary number of overlapping elements, such as windows, can be presented, without requiring temporary storage space or additional off-screen buffers. The front-to-back assembly technique minimizes... Agent: Apple/fenwick

20070040852 - Global shape definition method for scatterometry: A method for modeling samples includes the use of control points to define lines profiles and other geometric shapes. Each control point used within a model influences a shape within the model. Typically, the control points are used in a connect-the-dots fashion where a set of dots defines the outline... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20070040853 - Method for photographing on board of a flying rotating body and system for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a method for photographing on board of a flying rotating body and system for carrying out said method. According to said invention, pictures (V0, V90, V180, V270) are taken at predetermined angular positions of said flying body by a device which is rigidly fixed to the... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070040854 - Method for the representation of 3d image data: A method for presenting image data 1 that represents a three-dimensional object 7 in a space, wherein projection data which represents a two-dimensional projection 6 of the object 7 are generated by computational superimposing of multiple image planes, wherein the projection 6 is displayed on a monitor for viewing by... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20070040855 - Display control apparatus capable of decreasing the size thereof: In a display control apparatus for applying to a display panel first gamma voltages within a first voltage region with reference to two first reference voltages, a gamma voltage generating circuit is adapted to generate second gamma voltages within a second voltage range. A maximum voltage of the second voltage... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070035469 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a screen generating module which generates a screen for displaying a service and a service selecting module which connects the service to the screen generated by the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035470 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module producing at least one of logical screens and display screens for displaying a service, and an output module mapping the logical screens to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035471 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus and method for providing multiple screens is provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a service processing module providing a plurality of services, an interface module through which an audio content is independently selected from the plurality of services, and an output module outputting the selected audio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035472 - Multi-display system with independent operating areas: A multi-display system includes a display module, a memory module, and a control module. The display module displays a first image and a second image, the memory module has at least a first operating area and a second operating area, and the control module utilizes the first operating area to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070035473 - Display module, and cellular phone and electronic device provided with display module: It is an object to achieve downsizing and a thin shape of a display module and an electronic device provided with the display module. The display module includes a first display panel in which a first display screen is formed on one main side; and a second display panel that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070035474 - Plasma display device having improved luminous efficacy: There is provided a plasma display device capable of high luminous efficacy and stable driving for displaying images at various image display load factors. The plasma display device performs the sustain discharge for a light-emission display, and is configured to apply a sustain pulse voltage between a sustain electrode pair... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070035475 - Method of driving plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus driven using the method: In a method and apparatus for improving the address discharge efficiency of a plasma display panel (PDP), the PDP has a new structure which improves light-emitting efficiency and reduces a permanent afterimage. The PDP includes first and second substrates spaced apart from each other, a barrier rib which, together with... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070035476 - Method of driving plasma display panel and plasma display device driven using the method: A method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) and a plasma display device driven by the method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display image is represented by a plurality of unit frames, and each unit frame is divided into a plurality of sub-fields. Each of the sub-fields includes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035477 - Method of driving plasma display panel and plasma display device driven using the method: A method of selectively performing a reset discharge in a plasma display panel (PDP) and a plasma display device driven by the method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display image is represented by a plurality of unit frames, and each unit frame is divided into a plurality of sub-fields,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070035478 - Plasma display apparatus and method or driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, a sustain electrode and an address electrode, a scan driver, a sustain driver and a data driver. The scan driver supplies a first pulse... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070035480 - Circuit for driving plasma display panel: A circuit for driving a plasma display panel includes a scanning-electrode driving circuit for applying a drive voltage to a scanning electrode, which includes a first sustaining-clamp circuit for applying a sustaining-discharge pulse to the scanning electrode, and a reset circuit for applying a reset pulse to the scanning electrode.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035481 - Gate driving device and flat display device employing such a gate driving device: A flat display device may include a plurality of electrodes arranged in one direction, a first transistor coupled between the plurality of electrodes and a first power source for supplying a first voltage, and a gate driving circuit for supplying a driving voltage to a gate of the first transistor... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070035479 - Method for reducing power consumption of plasma display panel: A method for recovering electric energy of a plasma display panel (PDP) by controlling two recovery units respectively connected to two sides of the PDP is introduced. The method includes forming series resonance loops within corresponding periods of a working period so that a capacitor of one of the two... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070035487 - Data driver, organic light emitting display device using the same, and method of driving the organic light emitting display device: A data driver capable of displaying images with a substantially uniform brightness, an organic light emitting display device using the same, and a method of driving the organic light emitting display device. The data driver includes a plurality of current sink units for controlling predetermined currents to flow through data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070035482 - Driving circuits and methods for driving display cells: A driving circuit for driving a plurality of display cells, includes: a plurality of first switches, a plurality of driving units coupled to the first switches, and a plurality of second switches respectively corresponding to the first switches. The first switches receive and output a plurality of data signals, respectively.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070035483 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing an array of pixels each employing an organic light emitting diode: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of OLED-based pixels that are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signal for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this manner,... Agent: David P. Gordon Gordon & Jacobson

20070035484 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing an array of pixels each employing an organic light emitting diode: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of OLED-based pixels that are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signal for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this manner,... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070035485 - Organic light emitting display device: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device including a plurality of electroluminescent (EL) panels that are coupled with one another. In order to facilitate the coupling of the EL panels, respective data drivers are disposed at one side of pixels, and a scan driver and an emission control driver are... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070035486 - Signal transmission circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A signal transmission circuit includes: an electro-optical substrate having electro-optical elements; a plurality of driving circuits that drives the electro-optical elements; a first connection path that electrically connects the plurality of driving circuits; and a first substrate including at least a part of the first connection path. The electro-optical substrate... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070035488 - Driving method of display device: Pseudo contours occur in a display device that expresses a gray scale by dividing one frame into a plurality of subframes and using a time gray scale method. In the case of expressing a high-order bit, a gray scale is expressed by sequentially adding the weight (light emitting period, frequency... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070035489 - Flat panel display device and control method of the same: A control method of a flat panel display device includes the steps of: receiving external power supply signals and initial signals and supplying driving power supply to each component including a scan driver and a data driver; storing a plurality of register set values for controlling a level of brightness... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070035490 - Color display screen comprising a plurality of cells: A color display screen has a plurality of cells (2). Each cell (2) has a pixel (P) capable of providing a first output light of a first color and a second output light of a second color and a photosensitive device (D) for converting an optical display control signal (Li)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035491 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel, a driving circuit and a repair line. The display panel has a display region and a peripheral circuit region adjacent to the display region. The peripheral circuit region has a driving circuit bonding region and a plurality of conductive wires extending from the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070035496 - Driving circuits: Driving circuits capable of outputting video data or OSD data selectively are used to serve as images on a display. The driving circuit which is integrated in a display panel comprises a selection unit that receives video data and on-screen-display (OSD) data and outputs the video data and the ODS... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070035497 - Electrophoretic displays with improved high temperature performance: The invention is directed to a novel sealing composition and a method for improving performance of an electrophoretic display, especially at high temperatures. The invention is also directed to an electrophoretic display comprising display cells wherein said display cells are filled with an electrophoretic fluid and sealed with a sealing... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070035492 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing a reflective active-matrix liquid crystal pixel array: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of reflective liquid-crystal-based pixels that are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signals for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070035493 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing a reflective active-matrix liquid crystal pixel array: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of reflective liquid-crystal-based pixels that are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signals for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070035494 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing a transmissive active-matrix liquid crystal pixel array: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of liquid-crystal-based transmissive pixels are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signal for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this manner,... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070035495 - Method and apparatus for stereoscopic display employing a transmissive active-matrix liquid crystal pixel array: An improved stereoscopic display apparatus and methodology includes an array of liquid-crystal-based transmissive pixels are cleared (i.e., placed in a “dark” state) before being loaded with the desired analog voltage potential signal for display during both left perspective image display periods and right perspective image display periods. In this manner,... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070035498 - Light emitting display: The light emitting display further comprises a scan driver that supplies a first scan signal, which is a write signal that selects the data signal and a second scan signal, which is an erasing signal to the pixels, and a timing controller that supplies data, which divide one frame into... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070035499 - Driving circuit for driving liquid crystal display panel: A driving circuit for driving a display panel including a plurality of cells arranged in rows. The driving circuit comprises a gate electrode driving circuit to provide a gate voltage to a row of cells, a common electrode driving circuit to provide a common voltage to the row of cells,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070035500 - Data bus structure and driving method thereof: A data bus structure, a driver therewith, and a display with a driver capable of low power consumption are provided herewith. In the proposed structure, data lines of the data bus corresponding to a plurality of output channels are divided by alternatively inserting isolating elements. By controlling these isolating elements,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070035503 - Display driver control circuit and electronic equipment with display device: There is provided a display driver control circuit which is just suitable for display drive including display with a small amount of change and display with a large amount of change and can realize saving of chip area and reduction of power consumption and cost. In this display driver control... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070035502 - Liquid crystal display device, method for controlling display data for liquid crystal display device, and recording media: A liquid crystal display device which enables a reduction in power consumption at low cost, includes: a liquid crystal display panel having signal lines and scan lines arranged in a matrix; a gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to any of the scan lines; a source driver having... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035501 - Voltage converting unit and display device having the same: A voltage converting unit includes a converting module part, a temperature compensating part, a first gate driving signal generating part and a second gate driving signal generating part, whereby an image display quality is improved. The converting module part generates a gate driving pulse based on an externally provided voltage.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070035504 - Optical-emission-signal output apparatus: There is provided an optical-emission-signal output apparatus for outputting an optical-emission signal specifying an optical-emission timing to an optical-emission unit for outputting light to an optical-scan unit for scanning incident light by resonance. The optical-emission-signal output apparatus comprises a frequency divider for dividing a master clock output at predetermined intervals,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070035506 - Data driving apparatus and method for liquid crystal display: A method of driving a data driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display panel, the method including converting at least two pixel data into analog pixel signals, outputting the converted pixel signals to one of at least two output buffer integrated circuits based on a time division of the pixel... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070035505 - Shift register circuit: A shift registers circuit having a series of cascading shift registers comprises a first transistor coupling to an output signal of a pre-stage shift register, a second transistor coupling to the first transistor, an output and a first clock signal, and a pull-down module coupling to the output, output signals... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070035507 - Light guide panel using stamper, and method and device for producing the same: Disclosed is a light guide panel using a laser stamper, and a method and a device for producing the same. The light guide panel using a laser stamper, which is used as a rear surface light source of a liquid crystal display, is characterized in that a substrate for the... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20070035508 - Light scan device and image display device: A light scan device which forces a beam light depending on an image signal to scan, including: a light source part for supplying the beam light; and a scanning part for forcing the beam light from the light source part to scan an illumination-target region in a first direction and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070035509 - Video display apparatus and method for driving lamp in advance of watching: A video display method and apparatus including a display panel; a lamp which generates light to display a video image on the display panel; a lamp driving unit which drives the lamp; an information storage unit which stores information about a predetermined start-up time of the lamp; and a controller... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035510 - Reset pulse driving for reducing flicker in an electrophoretic display having intermediate optical states: The present invention relates to a novel driving scheme for an electrophoretic display providing accurate intermediate optical states. According to the invention, the level of remnant voltage across pixels are taken into account when driving the display. Remnant voltage is built up when resetting the pixel between consecutive image states,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035512 - 3d image display device using integral imaging technology: A three dimensional (3D) image display using integral imaging technology is provided. The 3D image display A three dimensional (3D) image display comprises: a point light source array; a display element modulating incident light from the point light source array pixel by pixel by electric control to form an image;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035511 - Compact haptic and augmented virtual reality system: The invention provides compact haptic and augmented virtual reality system that produces an augmented reality environment. The system is equipped with software and devices that provide users with stereoscopic visualization and force feedback simultaneously in real time. High resolution, high pixel density, head and hand tracking ability are provided. Well-matched... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070035514 - Method to create multiple items with a mouse: A system, method, and computer program product that have a graphical user interface capable of easily generating different kinds of items on a canvas by a user by operation of a mouse pointer on the canvas without requiring movement of the mouse pointer between a palette and the canvas are... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070035513 - Preferred contact group centric interface: A preferred contact group centric interface for a communication device can be used to facilitate communications by a user. The user interface can be arranged to activate from a user's “home page” on the display, from an idle screen that is accessed after a timeout period expires, or any other... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070035515 - Slidable input device and portable apparatus including the same: A slidable input device and a portable apparatus including the same, in which objects arranged in three-dimension or the size of a specific object can be easily manipulated and controlled. The portable apparatus includes an input unit for generating a key-selection signal corresponding to up, down, right or left directions... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035516 - Joystick sensor with light detection: The present invention creates a virtual sensor plane by arraying two one-dimensional light sensors at right angles to one another wherein the shaft of a joystick extends perpendicularly through the virtual sensor plane. With this configuration, the sensor plane can detect traditional joystick rotation around a point along its axis... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070035518 - 3d pointing devices: A remote control device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, has a ring-shaped or arcuate-shaped housing and at least one sensor mounted within the housing for sensing movement of said remote control device. The housing is adapted to promote a user's arm, hand and wrist to be substantially in a neutral... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070035520 - Adjustable mouse: An adjustable mouse comprises a first shell, a second shell and a connecting assembly. The first shell movably connects to the second shell via the connecting assembly. The first shell moves relative to the second shell. When the length of the adjustable mouse is adjusted, the height of the adjustable... Agent: Quintero Law Office

20070035517 - Computer mouse with microphone and loudspeaker: A computer mouse includes a body, a microphone module, and a loudspeaker, wherein the microphone module and the loudspeaker are fixed to the body. The microphone module is disposed at the front, a side, or the top of the body. The body includes a speaker chamber with the loudspeaker disposed... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070035519 - Thumb and finger guide attachable to a computer mouse and a computer mouse incorporating same: Thumb and finger guide structure for a computer mouse includes two guides, one located on either side of the mouse. One guide is designed to receive the user's thumb and the other is designed to receive the user's little finger. The structure of the present invention positions the user's thumb... Agent: Thomas M. Galgano, Esq. Galgano & Burke, LLP

20070035522 - Lighting and usability features for key structures and keypads on computing devices: A keypad is provided for a computing device. The keypad includes one or more lighting devices or mechanisms for illuminating a plurality of keys structures. In an embodiment, the plurality of key structures are formed from a milky material.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070035521 - Open virtual input and display device and method thereof: An open virtual input and display device and method thereof, in which a micro project module projects various input interface images; at the same time a detecting light source emit module emits a detecting beam above an image frame; based upon the reflective beam, a detecting light source receive module... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070035523 - Method and apparatus for navigating a plurality of menus using haptically distinguishable user inputs: Menus are created that facilitate access to data in a menu database. The menus include a plurality of menus items laid out so as to duplicate a spatial organization of keys on a numeric keypad, such that a one-to-one relationship between the keys on the keypad and the menu items... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070035525 - Integrated touch screen control system for automobiles: The present invention discloses an integrated touch screen control system implemented in an automobile. The touch screen control system includes a touch screen device having a pressure sensitive screen for converting at least one pressured point thereon into at least one control signal representing a location thereof. A controlled device... Agent: Howard Chen Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

20070035524 - Methods, electronic devices and computer program products for controlling a touch screen: Methods for controlling a touch screen of an electronic device include: providing a soft key on the touch screen; determining an update triggering event; and, responsive to the update triggering event, relocating the soft key and/or a label of the soft key from a first location on the touch screen... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070035526 - Touch panel display apparatus, electronic device having touch panel display apparatus, and camera having touch panel display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a touch panel display apparatus including: a display panel; a movable panel unit including a touch panel and being flat plate-like in shape; a movable support section for supporting the movable panel unit on a support structure so as to permit the movable panel unit to be... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070035527 - Touch screen assembly, mobile terminal having the touch screen assembly, and key input method on the mobile terminal: A terminal is disclosed. The terminal includes a touch screen type display part for displaying key buttons used for a user to input information to the terminal, a speaker part for outputting an audio signal, when the user has correctly touched the key buttons, to inform the user that the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070035528 - Method and apparatus for determining and retrieving positional information: An apparatus for determining and retrieving positional information including a surface having a plurality of first elements and a plurality of second elements, a first detection element connected to at least one of the plurality of first elements, and a second detection element connected to at least one of the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070035529 - Portable communication apparatus, and a method of controlling a user interface thereof: A method of controlling a user interface of a portable communication apparatus (100) is disclosed. The user interface includes a display (240, 336) with a limited presentation area (352) and a manual input device (250, 338) with a rotary element (252). Graphical data to be presented is received and represents... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070035535 - Apparatus and method for compensating for image distortion of display apparatus: A method and apparatus for compensating for image distortion, which compensate for a difference between an input image signal and an output image signal of a display apparatus, are provided. An apparatus for compensating for distortion of an image which is output from a display unit for an image display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070035532 - Backplanes for display applications, and components for use therein: A thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode having a first gate electrode edge and a second gate electrode edge opposite the first gate electrode edge. The TFT also includes a drain electrode having a first drain electrode edge that overlaps the first gate electrode edge, and a second drain electrode... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070035534 - Display driving circuit: A display driving circuit includes a differential amplifying circuit having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first transistor of first conductivity type coupled between a first source potential and an output node, a second transistor of second conductivity type coupled between the output node and a second... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070035530 - Motion control for image rendering: A display apparatus (100) for displaying an output image on basis of 3D visual information is disclosed. The display apparatus (100) comprises: first receiving means (101) for receiving a first signal (3DV) representing the 3D visual information; second receiving means (116) for receiving a second signal (P) representing positional information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070035533 - Protection circuit, flat display device using the same, and method for driving flat display device using the same: A protection circuit which is capable of preventing a faulty operation resulting from an abnormal control signal a method for operating the same, a flat display device using the same, and a method for driving the flat display device using the same are disclosed. The protection circuit includes a reference... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070035531 - System for improving the subjective impression of a digitized image: A system improves the subjective impression of a digitized image displayed with a low amplitude resolution. The system digitizes an analog video signal with a first amplitude resolution. Before the amplitude resolution of the video signal is reduced to a second, lower amplitude resolution, the system adds a digital noise... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070035536 - Display calibration method for optimum angular performance: A method of calibrating a flat panel display, comprising the steps of: providing a flat panel display, calibrating the display to establish desired chromaticity and/or luminance for one or more colors of interest at a first reference angle, measuring the chromaticity and/or luminance data for at least one color of... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070035537 - Driving power-supply circuit: In the case where the driving voltage Vi is lower than the reference voltage ViL, the PMOS 61 becomes on-state and increases the driving voltage Vi, and concurrently the operation of the constant current circuit 20P halts. At the same time, in the case where the reference voltage ViL is... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070035538 - System and method for driving light-emitting diodes (leds): System and method for improving efficiency in driving LEDs. A preferred embodiment comprises a switch current regulator coupled to a current control signal input, the switch current regulator to control an amount of current provided to the LED based upon a magnitude of a voltage on the current control signal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070035540 - Durable top surface for interactive display: An interactive display that is resistant to liquid spills and vandalism. An interactive display includes a display chassis that has a chassis top support. A tamper proof and liquid resistant display surface can be attached to the chassis top support with a plurality of fasteners, so that the top is... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070035539 - Image acquisition system for generation of three-dimensional models: A photographic apparatus and a method for taking images of an object for use in generating a three dimensional model of the object are described. The apparatus includes an object placement unit, an image capturing unit and an object illumination unit. The image capturing unit and the object illumination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070035543 - System and method for managing visual structure, timing, and animation in a graphics processing system: A visual tree structure as specified by a program is constructed and maintained by a visual system's user interface thread. As needed, the tree structure is traversed on the UI thread, with changes compiled into change queues. A secondary rendering thread that handles animation and graphical composition takes the content... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20070035542 - System, apparatus, and method for capturing and screening visual images for multi-dimensional display: A system, apparatus and method are provided for capturing visual images and spatial data for providing image manipulation options such as for multi-dimensional display.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070035541 - Three-dimensional animation of soft tissue of characters using controls associated with a surface mesh: A face, as well as any other soft tissue of a character, can be animated much in the same way that a skeleton is animated by creating a soft tissue solver attached to the surface mesh. In particular, deformation objects are associated with regions of the surface mesh. The deformation... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070035545 - Method for hybrid rasterization and raytracing with consistent programmable shading: A method of generating a computer image wherein secondary raytrace vectors are calculated for the image after the image is rendered using rasterization. The secondary raytrace vectors are based on virtual camera angles that are stored during the rasterization process. The raytrace vectors can be calculated using the same processor... Agent: Greenberg-traurig

20070035544 - System and method for ray tracing with depth buffered display: A system and method for generating an image that includes ray traced pixel data and rasterized pixel data is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) uses a rendering algorithm to generate ray traced data for objects that require high-quality image rendering. The ray traced data is fragmented, whereby each fragment... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070035546 - Animation composing vending machine: An animation composing vending machine automatically composes a specific body part photographed from a user with animation contents. This machine includes a casing, a monitor, a camera for capturing a face image of a user, a CD recorder for recording an animation of the face image captured by the camera... Agent: Jones Day

20070035547 - Statistical dynamic modeling method and apparatus: A method for animating soft body characters has a preparation phase followed by an animation phase. In the preparation phase, the skin deformation of the character model is determined for a set of basis poses. The skin deformation from posing is compactly represented in terms of the set of basis... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070035548 - Rating technique for virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback... Agent: Searete LLC

20070035549 - Variant rating plans for a virtual world environment: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world experiences including activities, settings, events, purchases, sales and diverse transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070035550 - Advanced load value check enhancement: Systems and methods for performing re-ordered computer instructions are disclosed. A computer processor loads a first value from a first memory address, and records both the first value and the second value in a table or queue. The processor stores a second value to the same memory address, and either... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070035551 - Auto stacking of time related images: Digital images may be grouped based on attributes of the images. To represent this grouping, the representations of the digital images are arranged into stacks.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Computer, Inc

20070035552 - Graphics processing apparatus and graphics processing method: A graphics processing unit is provided. A basic model display processing unit generates and displays rendering data based on three-dimensional model information on an object to be rendered. An effect model processing unit performs processing for applying a predetermined effect to a three-dimensional model of the object. A basic model... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070035553 - General framework for aligning textures: A method in image processing for aligning a texture from at least one input region to an output region is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving information pertaining to at least one input, the information including a texture and corresponding texture coordinates, receiving information corresponding to the output... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070035555 - Display device, method of controlling the same, and game machine: A display device includes: a display unit having an illuminating device that emits illumination light, a display panel that has an image display region where a two-dimensional image is formed by a light modulating device for modulating the illumination light, and a barrier that is arranged opposite to the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge,