Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 03/07

20070069973 - Controlled and monitored remote advertising and information display system: A network of modular video display stations controlled from one or more remote locations using commercially available or proprietary software. Each station contains a complete modular computer system and one or more display screens which can be arranged in many configurations. Each station is equipped with one or more cameras... Agent: William Gerbacia

20070069974 - Multiple image display apparatus: A multiple image display apparatus includes a back surface display apparatus arranged on a back surface side, a transmission type display device arranged to oppose a display region of the back surface display apparatus, and a light path control unit arranged between the back surface display apparatus and the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070069975 - Detachable expandable flexible display: A display system for,a handheld computing device is disclosed. The display system includes a processing unit having a first communication port, and a visual display unit separable from the processing unit. The visual display unit further includes a visual display, and a second communication port. The display unit can be... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070069976 - Method and system for interface between head mounted display and handheld device: Described is a head mounted display device which includes a mounting attachment to attach the head mounted display to a user and a radio frequency transceiver to communicate with a computing device, wherein the computing device formats and transmits video signals for output on the head mounted display. A display... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070069978 - Surface light source and liquid crystal display apparatus: A surface light source includes a light guide unit which allows two linear polarized lights having polarized planes perpendicular to each other to alternately exit from an exit surface in a direction substantially parallel with a normal line of the exit surface. A retardation element is arranged to face the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070069977 - Video training system: A self-viewing environment and an apparatus enabling unrestricted movement of a subject within the self-viewing environment are disclosed. A subject wears a head mounted display that receives a video signal by wireless transmission. The subject is positioned within the field of view of a video camera that sources a video... Agent: Morrison Ulman WoodsideIPGroup

20070069979 - Dishwasher with a display device: A dishwasher with a display device that uses a display surface in order to display a plurality of information and light means in order to display different colors is provided. The light means produces a light beam that is directed to at least one display surface, wherein at least one... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070069980 - Method and sysem for estimating nosie in video data: Described herein are a method and a system for noise estimation. The method and system produce a noise level estimate based a plurality of residual values. A residual value may be the difference between a pixel that is in a location in one picture and another pixel that is in... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070069985 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: It is disclosed that there are a method and an apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that are adaptive for reducing an initialization period. A driving apparatus and a method of a plasma display panel according to the present invention include a driving circuit applying to the plasma display... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069983 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel and plasma display device driven using the method and apparatus: A method of driving a PDP, in which discharge cells are defined in regions where a plurality of electrodes cross one another and a unit frame displaying an image is divided into a plurality of subfields, each subfield including a reset period for initializing all discharge cells, an address period... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070069981 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus of scanning a scan electrode Y with one or more scan types among a plurality of scan types. The present invention has an effect of preventing the excessive displacement current from beign generated by scanning the scan electrodes with any one... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069982 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof, in which scan electrodes Y are scanned according to one or more of a plurality of scan types. The scan electrodes Y are scanned according to any one of a plurality of scan types. Therefore, generation of... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069984 - Plasma display device: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel which includes a plasma display panel, a driving circuit for driving the plasma display panel, an electrical signal transmitting wire for electrically connecting an electrode extended from the plasma display panel to the driving circuit, and an adhesive film interposed between... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070069986 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus for displaying an image by processing image data input from the outside is selectively driven depending on whether the image data is an effective signal or an ineffective signal. Accordingly, reliability of the plasma display apparatus is improved.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069987 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There is provided a plasma display apparatus which scans the scan electrodes (Y) with at least one scan type among a plurality of scan types and a driving method thereof. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an excessive displacement current and thus protecting a data driver integrated circuit from electrical... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069988 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed, which can prevent the generation of a displacement current having an excessive magnitude, and therefore prevent an electrical damage to a driver, by applying scan signals to scan electrodes using at least one of a plurality of scan types which are different from each... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069989 - Plasma display panel and method for driving same: Provided are a plasma display panel (PDP) and a driving method thereof. The PDP includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed in parallel and spaced apart from one another. Address electrodes are provided on the first substrate with a first dielectric layer over the address electrodes and the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070069990 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: In a plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same which is driven by a driving signal having a reset period, an address period and a sustain period, a sustain pulse is applied during the sustain period, the sustain pulse including: an interval in which the sustain pulse... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070069991 - Electron emission display and method of driving the same: An electron emission display capable of controlling brightness to correspond to the emission ratio of a pixel unit so as to improve contrast, prevent voltage overshoots and prevent excess power consumption. The electron emission display includes a pixel unit that displays an image that corresponds to the voltages of first... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070069994 - Circuit for driving load with constant current: A circuit for driving a load with a constant current, includes a first transistor electrically connected in series to a load to be driven, a second transistor electrically connected in series to the load, and electrically connected in parallel with the first transistor, and a resistor electrically connected in series... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070069993 - Display apparatus: A driving circuit includes a power supply portion for supplying a voltage, an electric current path switching portion for switching a path of an electric current, a resonance portion in which the drive voltage is generated, and a resonance suppressing portion for suppressing the drive voltage generated in the resonance... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070069997 - Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus: A light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus, which are capable of preventing reduction of the amount of current flowing through light-emitting elements and which have an excellent display characteristic, are provided. Cathode wiring lines 13 connected to a cathode 12 are provided to surround an effective area 2a outside the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070069996 - Electroluminescent device: An electroluminescent device includes a first optical output part having a light-emitting layer emitting a light ray of a first color, a second optical output part having a light-emitting layer emitting a light ray of a second color, and a third optical output part having a light-emitting layer emitting a... Agent: Robert A. Zambias President

20070069995 - Flat panel display and a method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a flat panel display and a method of driving the same for maximizing the effect of two direction emission in the flat panel display that uses a transparent thin film transistor. The flat panel display of the present invention comprises a transparent emission panel that... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070069992 - Multi-line addressing methods and apparatus: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for driving electro-optic, in particular organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays using multi-line addressing (MLA) techniques Embodiments of the invention are particularly suitable for use with so-called passive matrix OLED displays A method of driving an electro-optic display, the display having a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070069998 - Method and apparatus for controlling pixel emission: Emission from a pixel is received by a sensor. The sensor is coupled to a control unit that receives or determines a value of the sensor's measurable parameter during operation of the pixel. A target value is coupled to the control unit, allowing the control unit to compare the measurable... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070070000 - Image display device: The present invention provides an image display device which suppresses the generation of sparks between end portions of divided portions and an anode when data signal lines are divided in two. Within a display region, between scanning lines GAN, GB1, data signal lines are divided in two in one direction... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070069999 - Spatial light modulator employing voltage gradient pixels, and associated methods: A spatial light modulator has a transmissive window with a transparent conductive film forming a ground plane and a direct drive backplane with a plurality of voltage gradient pixels. Each of the voltage gradient pixels has (a) resistive film, (b) resistive metal conductor frame on a boundary of the resistive... Agent: Kutak Rock LLC

20070070001 - Advanced method and device with a bistable nematic liquid crystal display: The invention relates to a bistable nematic liquid crystal matricial display device wherein the shift to one of the at least two bistable states is carried out by displacing the liquid crystal parallel to the surfaces of the device, characterized by the fact that it comprises a system for addressing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070070004 - Display apparatus and electronics device: A display section of a portable phone includes a first polarizer, a switching panel section, a reflective polarizer, and a main panel section. The switching panel section has a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of regions having at least two different alignment directions. This makes it possible, by utilizing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070070002 - Liquid crystal device, light emitting device, electronic apparatus, method of controlling liquid crystal device, and method of controlling light emitting device: A liquid crystal device is provided. The liquid crystal device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates which interpose a liquid crystal layer; a plurality of light receiving elements which detect ambient light; and a control unit which controls a display state of an image displayed on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070070003 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and monitor system having the same: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a matrix of pixels, a control circuit, and a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor directly or indirectly detects a temperature of the liquid crystal panel. The control circuit reverses a polarity of a voltage applied to each pixel at... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070070005 - Display control/drive device and display system: A display control/drive device (a liquid crystal controller driver and a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving liquid crystals) which can serve to reduce peak currents and thereby restrain the occurrence of EMI is to be provided. In a liquid crystal display control/drive device in which image signals to be applied... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070070006 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the corresponding plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of pixels disposed at intersections of the corresponding plurality of scanning lines and the corresponding plurality of data lines, the plurality of pixels including a plurality... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070070009 - Display device: An afterimage produced when a hold response display is used in an I/P conversion display mode is reduced. This is achieved by a display device comprising: a plurality of drain electrode lines and a plurality of gate electrode lines arranged in a matrix; and pixel areas, each surrounded by two... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070070007 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: In order to prevent reduction in performance due to variations in illuminance of external light, a liquid crystal display unit includes: a pixel section including pixels arranged at each of intersections where a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines intersect, and optical sensor circuits provided to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070070010 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display device and driving method therefor are disclosed. The device includes a plurality of signal lines that apply different gray scale voltages to each of the pixels. A driving circuit is provided to generate the gray scale voltages to be applied to the pixels. In operation, the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070070008 - Liquid crystal display panel, method for driving the same, and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display panel, a method for driving the same, and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the same which can improve visibility and transmittance in a multi-domain VA mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels each having first and second gray scale... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070070011 - Active matrix liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary active matrix LCD (200) includes: a plurality of scanning lines (23) that are parallel to each other and that each extends along a first direction; a plurality of signal lines (24) that are parallel to each other and that each extends along a second direction different from the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070070012 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same to prevent a repaired pixel from being a bright spot: A liquid crystal display and method for driving the same to prevent a repaired pixel from being a bright spot. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including: a pixel capacitor, a storage capacitor, and a thin film transistor (TFT) having a first electrode coupled to first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070070013 - Common voltage modification circuit and the method thereof: A common voltage modification circuit and a method thereof are provided. The present invention is characterized in that an output voltage is provided to a storage capacitor in each of the pixels in a thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) based on a predetermined voltage and a common voltage.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070070015 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display including a plurality of pixels having a plurality of sub-areas, an image signal modifier for generating a preliminary signal based on a previous image signal and a current image signal and generating a modified image signal based on the preliminary signal and a next image signal,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070070014 - Pixel structure of liquid crystal device and driving method thereof: A driving method for activating an optical self-compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal device is provided. The optical self-compensated birefringence mode liquid crystal device has plural pixel structures, plural substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the plural substrates. Each of said plural pixel structures comprises a first electrode, a... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070070017 - Display panels: Display panels capable of eliminating reliability issues due to high switching frequency. The display panel comprises a data driver outputting first, second, third and fourth data signals in sequence through a data line, a scan driver outputting first and second scan signals in sequence through first and second scan lines... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070070018 - Liquid crystal display with improved image quality: A liquid crystal display with improved color reproducibility and image quality is presented. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels, a signal controller, and a data driver. The signal controller stores a dithering data patterns, selects one of the dithering data patterns... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070070019 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device for enhancing a picture quality. More specifically, in the method and apparatus, source data are modulated based on registered data previously provided. The modulated data derived from the source data are applied to a liquid... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070070016 - Pixel sample circuit for active matrix display: A pixel sample circuit for active matrix display is provided. The pixel sample circuit transmits scan line data to the display panel in line pairs, and drives the display panel in column inversion to display the frame. Therefore, the pixel sample circuit of the present invention is able to increase... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070070022 - Differential amplifier, digital-to-analog converter and display device: Disclosed is a multi-level output differential amplifier which includes a first differential pair; a second differential pair; a load circuit commonly connected to output pairs of the first and second differential pairs; first and second current sources for supplying current to the first and second differential pairs, respectively; an amplifier... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070070021 - Display apparatus: A scan driver sequentially activates scan lines of a display apparatus having m-number of scan lines. The scan driver includes a pull-up driving section and a pull-down driving section. The pull-up driving section includes a pull-up transistor that is electrically connected to an ith scan line to activate the ith... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070070020 - Shift register circuit and display apparatus using the same: A shift register circuit which stably operates with low electric power consumption and can realize a long life. In the shift register circuit constructed by connecting a plurality of fundamental circuits in each of which fundamental clocks of three phases are inputted to input terminals and is constructed by a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070070025 - Liquid crystal device, light-emitting device, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel having a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, a plurality of light receivers that receives an ambient light and obtains an intensity information of the ambient light, and a controller that controls a display state of an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070070026 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel assembly having a plurality of scanning regions that include a plurality of pixels, respectively; a plurality of light source units that include a plurality of light sources supplying light to the plurality... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070070023 - Liquid crystal display device: To provide a field-sequential liquid crystal display device capable of reducing color shading. The field-sequential liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a driving circuit driving the liquid crystal display panel and a backlight irradiating plural colors of light including a first color and a second color... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070070024 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device, which performs color display by sequentially displaying different color images in a time division manner and mixing the color images, includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates, color light sources of a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070070027 - Array substrate, liquid crystal display panel having the array substrate and liquid crystal display device having the liquid crystal display panel: An array substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of storage voltage lines, a plurality of connecting lines, and a common voltage applying section. Pixels are formed in regions defined by a plurality of gate lines extending along a first direction and data lines extending along a second direction. The... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070070030 - Display cell structure and electrode protecting layer compositions: The invention is directed to compositions of display cell structure and electrode protecting layers for improving the performance of display devices. The composition comprises a polar oligomeric or polymeric material having a glass transition temperature below about 100° C., and the resulting display cells or electrode protecting layer have an... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070070032 - Electrophoretic display driving approaches: A system and method are disclosed for reducing reverse bias in an electrophoretic display. The system and method include the application of varying levels of voltages across an array of electrophoretic display cells of the electrophoretic display to move the cells towards a stable state in a driving cycle. In... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070070028 - Electrophoretic display with improved image quality using rest pulses and hardware driving: 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 applying rest pulses (R1, R2) adjacent to and following hardware driving pulses (S1, S2). The voltage of the rest pulses (R1, R2) is zero... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070070031 - Information display panel and method of manufacturing the same: In an information display panel, in which display media are sealed between opposed two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as an image, a gap maintaining... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070029 - Method and apparatus for improving brightness in an electrophoretic display: An electrophoretic display (1) comprising an electrophoretic medium (5) comprising a plurality of negatively charged black particles (6) and a plurality of positively charged white particles (6) in fluid. The average dc value of the drive voltages is arranged to be non-zero, so as to maximise brightness or contrast ratio... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070070036 - Electronic presentation control device, system and method: An electronic presentation control device (100) includes a keyboard module (110), a command encoding module (120), an electronic presentation control module (130), and a wireless communication module (140). The keyboard module is provided for inputting information. The command encoding module encodes the input information into control information. The wireless communication... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070070038 - Ergonomic man-machine interface incorporating adaptive pattern recognition based control system: An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20070070037 - Graphic signal display apparatus and method for hand-held terminal: A method and apparatus is disclosed where a graphic signal is moved and displayed on a screen of a hand-held terminal according to movement of the hand-held terminal If the graphic signal is displayed on the screen, a camera integrally disposed in the hand-held terminal photographs a predetermined object. Feature... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070070033 - Imaging system with haptic interface: An imaging system includes a processing component which receives images to be rendered and a rendering device, such as a marking engine, fax machine or email system, in communication with the processing component for rendering an image supplied by the processing component. A haptic interface is in communication with the... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070070034 - Interactive entertainment system: A system and a method for providing interactive entertainment are disclosed. The system includes a projectile, a target, a reader, and a controller. The projectile has a wireless actuator. The target includes a detector, which is configured to detect wireless actuators. The reader is configured to read the detected wireless... Agent: Eric Ringer Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha LLC

20070070035 - Method for pairing 1-way devices without buttons: Disclosed is a peripheral device, comprising a sensor to trip when in proximity to a host device, and a transmitter coupled to the sensor to transmit a bind request to a host device. Further described is a method of binding the peripheral device to a host device.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070070039 - Method for controlling data using mouse function in wireless terminal: Provided is a data control method in a wireless terminal which can perform various control functions, such as selection, input, and edition of data, using a mouse function provided in the wireless terminal. The data control method includes selecting and dragging any character or numeral from a plurality of characters... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070070040 - Product of computer peripheral designed based on ergonomics and fabricating method thereof: A product of computer peripheral designed based on ergonomics and fabricating method thereof is to integrate all components of the computer system based on ergonomic analysis and the system housing design of the computer. The integration of the components can be done with screening the portable storage media device and... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070070041 - Cursor control and input device with safety cut-off: There is provided a cursor control and input device for connection to a computer. The cursor control and input device includes a housing assembly with at least one base; at least one hole of predetermined shape and size in the at least one base; an integrated circuit board mounted in... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070070042 - Control system and method for controlling a keyboard-video-mouse (kvm) switch: A control system for controlling a keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch interconnecting among at least one set of keyboard, video, mouse of a console and a plurality of computers comprises a first memory and at least one embedded module. The first memory stores a plurality of control instructions to control operational signals... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070070043 - Keypad backlighting device: A keypad backlighting device includes a light source having an emission chip and a fluorescent material applied to the emission chip. The emission chip and the fluorescent material interact with each other and generate white light. The light source can realize white light by means of interaction between the emission... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070070044 - Key touchpad module: The present invention provides a touchpad module which obtains a touching sensibility and a uniform transmission of light to avoid non-linear problem by using a soft touch pad.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070070049 - Base capacitance compensation for a touchpad sensor: For a compensation to the sensed capacitive values of a touchpad sensor, the variance profile of the base capacitance or the sensed capacitive values of the traces in the touchpad sensor is determined, and then a firmware operation based on the variance profile is carried out to modify the sensed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070070047 - Display panel, display device having the same and method of detecting touch position: A display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate. The array substrate includes pixels, first signal lines, and second signal lines. The opposite substrate is combined with the array substrate, interposing a liquid crystal layer there between. The opposite substrate includes an opposite base substrate and first and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070070045 - Entering a character into an electronic device: A method of entering a character into an electronic device (100) is provided. The method comprises automatically performing a scribed stroke character input mode (220) at a touch sensitive tablet (170) of the device (100) in response to receiving at least one scribed stroke on the touch sensitive tablet (215).... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070070048 - Method and apparatus for controlling input devices in computer system with tablet device: According to one embodiment, a tablet device has a detector which detects whether the tablet device is in an available state or an unavailable state. An input device such as a keyboard and a touch pad inputs data in accordance with a user's input operation. A control unit makes the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070070050 - Multi-touch contact motion extraction: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070070051 - Multi-touch contact motion extraction: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070070052 - Multi-touch contact motion extraction: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070070046 - Sensor-based touchscreen assembly, handheld portable electronic device having assembly, and method of determining touch location on a display panel: A sensor-based touchscreen assembly for use with a display panel is configured to determine a location on the display panel touched by a user. The sensor-based touchscreen assembly employs at least three sensors mounted on the display panel at different locations. The sensor-based touchscreen assembly further includes a controller coupled... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070070053 - Force sensor with dilatant fluid stop: A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a housing for a load bearing member for receiving an input force to be sensed and associated circuitry for converting the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070070055 - Portable telephone: In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070070054 - Slide-type input device, portable device having the input device and method and medium using the input device: A slide-type input device, a portable device provided with the input device and a method and medium of using the input device, which more freely move a pointer displayed on a screen, and more conveniently and exactly select a specific object, is provided. The slide-type input device includes a slide... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070070056 - Display device: A display device which incorporates a touch panel function therein can reduce the number of elements which constitute a photo sensor circuit and can accurately detect an input coordinate position without requiring a particular coordinate arithmetic circuit. In a display device which includes: a display part on which a plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070070057 - Display device and method for controlling a display device: A display device for the display of information in an environment where the intensity of ambient light varies between high and low levels has a variably intensity light source for illuminating the display and a controller for controlling intensity of the light source automatically in response to a sensed intensity... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070070058 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The waveform of a set up signal applied in a reset period rises in at least two steps and first and second switches provided for applying the set up signal are simultaneously turned on. Therefore, it is possible to prevent strong discharge from being... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070070061 - Display device and electric equipment using the same: A display device which can operate at low power consumption is provided. When multi gray scale display is conducted and when display in which the number of gray scales is reduced is conducted, signal line driver circuits having different structures (first signal line driver circuit and second signal line driver... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070070060 - Information-processing device and information-processing system: For an information terminal to be operated by users for collecting predetermined pieces of information from remote information devices by free-space optical communication, the present invention provides a technique for suppressing the power consumption of the information terminal by minimizing the amount of calculation performed to collect the aforementioned information.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070070059 - Refinement of block motion estimate using texture mapping: A process for successive refinement to arbitrary precision of a supplied interframe motion estimate for a block of pixels, making use of texture mapping. A bounding box which constrains the limits of the motion estimate must be externally provided, typically one square pixel in size, centered on the original motion... Agent: Levisohn, Berger & Langsam, LLP

20070070062 - Method and apparatus for three-dimensional display of images: A method and device for three-dimensionally depicting images, in which a sequence of two-dimensional individual images are produced by means of a two- dimensional array, which consists of individually controllable light-emitting diodes (LED's) and which focuses light emitted by the LED's of the array onto a projection device. The light... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070070065 - Method, apparatus, and medium for efficiently rendering 3d object: A method, apparatus and medium to render three-dimensional (3D) objects for 3D graphics. The method includes detecting the presence of a motion by performing local coordinate calculations with respect to each 3D object, performing global coordinate calculations with respect only to objects that each has a motion among the 3D... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070070063 - Non-photorealistic volume rendering of ultrasonic data: A non-photorealistic image of a volume is rendered with ultrasound data as a function of a geometric primitive. A geometric primitive is identified and geometric primitive information is used for ultrasound image processing. The image is created such that each pixel in the image is one of a limited number... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070070064 - Program storage medium storing cad program for controlling projection and apparatus thereof: When three-dimensional shape information is represented by a feature-based model, a fillet/chamfer feature is searched for and accumulated. When three-dimensional shape information is not represented by a feature-based model, information of a fillet surface/chamfer surface is searched for and accumulated. From corner shapes accumulated, a corner shape to be removed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070070066 - System and method for providing three-dimensional graphical user interface: Methods and systems are provided for providing an improved three-dimensional graphical user interface. In one embodiment, the method generally comprises: receiving an input from an end user, and capturing computing output from at least one computer source in response to the received end-user input. The computing output can be presented... Agent: Brian M Berliner, Esq O'melveny & Myers, LLP

20070070067 - Scene splitting for perspective presentations: A controlling device 110 that splits a 3D scene 131 into 3D sub-scenes, each including a sub-volume 133 of the 3D scene 131, and distributes the 3D sub-scenes to multiple rendering devices 120. Each rendering device 120 independently determines a 2D sub-image 141 responsive to its 3D sub-scene and a... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20070070068 - Method and apparatus for processing of diagnostic image data: A method is disclosed for processing of diagnostic image data. In one embodiment, the method includes determination of three-dimensional image information using an imaging medico-technical method, in which an examined volume is subdivided into a plurality of voxels and each voxel is allocated one measurement value, and selection of a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070070070 - Method for cache-optimized processing of a digital image data set: An image proceseing algorithm is provided in the context of a cache-optimized optimization of an image data set to access at least one part of the pixels of the image data set in accordance with its image coordinates in an acces order determined by a space-filling curve.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070070069 - System and method for enhanced situation awareness and visualization of environments: The present invention provides a system and method for processing real-time rapid capture, annotation and creation of an annotated hyper-video map for environments. The method includes processing video, audio and GPS data to create the hyper-video map which is further enhanced with textual, audio and hyperlink annotations that will enable... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070070071 - Outline font compression method: A Bezier curve constituting outline font data represents a curve by four coordinate values of a start point, an end point, and two control points. The curve is represented by two coordinates of the start point and the end point in collinear approximation, and by three coordinates of the start... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070070072 - Open-loop controller: An apparatus for controlling the movements of an avatar in a virtual environment includes a user input means, such as a gamepad with a plurality of joystick-controlled and button-controlled outputs, a tracker, and optional sliding foot pedals; a processor for running virtual environment (VE) software that includes an avatar moving... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070070073 - Method and system for generating automated exploded views: A method for generating an automated exploded view of an assembly of parts is presented. The method includes determining at least one sequence of viable directions of motion of at least one moving part in the assembly of parts. Computer-readable medium and systems that afford functionality of the type defined... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070070074 - Various apparatuses and methods for switching between buffers using a video frame buffer flip queue: A method, apparatus, and system are described in which a signal is generated to inhibit the execution of flip commands that cause a flip between buffers of a frame buffer. One or more of the flip commands and their associated instruction pointers may be preloaded into a frame buffer flip... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070070075 - Register-collecting mechanism, method for performing the same and pixel processing system employing the same: A pixel processing system includes a register-collecting mechanism and a pixel shader. The register-collecting mechanism corrects a first program to a second program. The first program requires a number of first registers. The second program requires a portion of the first registers of the first program. The pixel shader executes... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070070076 - Device with graphics dependent on the environment and method therefor: The invention relates to a device with graphics that depend on the environment, particularly a mobile device such as a mobile phone with graphics that change in dependence of signals registered by a camera. The invention also relates to a method for controlling changeable graphics of a graphical interface in... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070070077 - Instruction removing mechanism and method using the same: The present provides an instruction removing mechanism and a method using the same. The instruction removing mechanism is capable of scanning a graphic program to determine whether there is any simple texture load instruction (texld instruction) in the program. The simple texld instructions will be transmitted directly to the texture... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070070078 - Method for adding detail to a texture map: A method and apparatus for mapping a texture to a surface of a computer generated object dependent upon the geometric shape of the object. The method includes the steps of approximating a true pixel color by performing a number of texturing operations and averaging the results of the texturing operations.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070070079 - Programmable 3d graphics pipeline for multimedia applications: A programmable graphics pipeline and method for processing multiple partitioned multimedia data, such as graphics data, image data, video data, or audio data. A preferred embodiment of the programmable graphics pipeline includes an instruction cache, a register file, and a vector functional unit that perform partitioned instructions. In addition, an... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070070080 - Systems and methods for accelerating sub-pixel interpolation in video processing applications: A data path for a SIMD-based microprocessor is used to perform different simultaneous filter sub-operations in parallel data lanes of the SIMD-based microprocessor. Filter operations for sub-pixel interpolation are performed simultaneously on separate lanes of the SIMD processor's data path. Using a dedicated internal data path, precision higher than the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070070081 - On screen display control device and related control method thereof: An on screen display control device includes a plurality of setting tables, a setting unit, an analysis unit, a parameter generating unit and an adjusting unit. The on screen display control device adjusts a plurality of display parameters of an original image data at a time.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070070082 - Sample-level screen-door transparency using programmable transparency sample masks: Described are a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a sample-level screen-door transparency technique for rendering transparent objects. The GPU includes a scan converter and a shader. The scan converter identifies pixels to be processed for rendering a transparent object and divides each pixel into a plurality of samples. The shader... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070070083 - Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory: A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics processor includes an embedded frame buffer for storing frame data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070070084 - Method and apparatus for bit resolution extension: A bit-resolution-extension method is provided. The resolution extension method includes normalizing n-m upper bit values of adjacent pixels based on an upper n-m bit value of each pixel of a sample image, analyzing a statistical distribution of a lower m bit value of the reference pixel by patterns of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070070085 - Display image correcting device, image display device, and display image correcting method: Disclosed herein is a display image correcting device including, retaining means configured to retain reference correction amount data for correcting nonuniformity as a predetermined factor of an image displayed on a basis of a video signal, the reference correction amount data representing an amount of correction at a predetermined horizontal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070070086 - Subpixel rendering filters for high brightness subpixel layouts: A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. The device further comprises a subpixel rendering unit configured to render source image data onto the panel. The subpixel rendering techniques may render three-color source image data onto the panel comprising the high... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070070087 - Portable information terminal and image management program: A portable information terminal and an image management program are provided. A portable information terminal includes: a display part which has a screen capable of displaying at least an image; an in-focus value computing part which computes an in-focus value from an original image; an image cutting part which cuts... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070070088 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a grouping unit configured to group rendering data into a first group that is to be rendered with a painter's algorithm and a second group that is to be rendered with a scanline algorithm, and an output unit configured to output the rendering data grouped... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070070089 - Character/graphic display apparatus, character/graphic display method, program, and recording medium: The size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics is modified while the size of each of the plurality of virtual areas included in the display area is maintained, so that the visual recognizability (ease of reading, or ease of recognition through reading) of characters or graphics is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070070090 - Vehicle navigation system: Methods and apparatus for manipulating a map in a navigation system are described. A navigation system includes a first control having a first function that orients a panning axis relative to a display in the navigation system. A second control includes a first function that moves the map along the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070070091 - Method for compensating an image: A method for compensating an image produced by image means for implementing image information takes account of ambient illumination. Luminance of external background illumination around the image means is measured. The measured luminance of the background illumination is compared with preset tristimulus values and a reflectance factor of the image... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070070092 - Viewing angle adaptive brightness-correction method and image forming apparatus using the same: A viewing angle adaptive brightness-correction method is provided, in which brightness of an image is adaptively corrected according to a viewing angle and the brightness-corrected image is displayed by an image display unit whose orientation angle is controllable, and an image forming apparatus using the same. The viewing angle adaptive... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070070093 - Active matrix substrate: An active matrix substrate including a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of sub-pixels is provided. The scan lines and the data lines are disposed on the substrate, and define a plurality of sub-pixel regions distributed in a delta arrangement. The sub-pixels... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070070094 - Graphical user interface for managing native display resolution from a distance: An exemplary method for managing display resolution of a display from a distance is provided including: selecting a display resolution within a graphical user interface environment, where the graphical user interface environment is configured to be readable at a distance more than approximately two meters; selecting a native display setting... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070063921 - Multi display device: A multi display device includes: a first display disposed at a predetermined position; a second display disposed 10B in front of the first display 10A and being movable from a first position where the second display overlaps with the first display to a second position where the second display does... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070063923 - Multi-task interactive wireless telecommunications device: A portable wireless telecommunications device has electronic computer visual display includes at least one central display screen and at least two additional screens respectively disposed foldably to the right and left of said central screen, for displaying simultaneous, multiple images to a user in a super video graphics array (SVGA).... Agent: Alfred M. Walker

20070063922 - Portable multi-display device: A separable portable multi-display device is provided. A portable multi-display device includes a main body panel housing having a first display, a sub-panel housing having a second display, and a coupling device for coupling the main body panel housing to the sub-panel housing such that at least one sides of... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20070063924 - Fuel cell powered wireless network display systems: Methods of wireless network display systems powered by fuel cells. Fuel cell powered wireless network display systems consist of one or plurality of wireless networks and the respective plurality of wireless displays powered by fuel cells or micro fuel cells with replenish-able fuel sources.... Agent: Frank Yau

20070063925 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device that carries out image display using multiple liquid crystal panels stacked, the average change in the direction of the optical axis due to the response of liquid crystal molecules with respect to the applied voltage, that is, the change in the direction of the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070063926 - 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. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode and a second electrode, a first electrode driver, and a second electrode driver. The first electrode driver supplies a first falling signal... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070063927 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and an apparatus thereof enabling to manage digital signal for driving a plasma display panel. The apparatus for driving a plasma display panel has a PDP driving unit which supplies the plasma display panel with the video signal outputted from... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070063928 - Plasma display panel and method of driving plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes a plurality of sustain electrode pairs, each of the sustain electrode pairs including an X electrode and a Y electrode; and a plurality of address electrodes crossing the sustain electrode pairs; wherein each of the address electrodes includes a main section having a first width,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070063929 - Plasma display panel driving and a method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus includes an address driver for applying a predetermined waveform to an address electrode so that the predetermined waveform overlaps a sustain pulse applied to a scan electrode or a sustain electrode during a sustain period. As a result, it is possible in accordance with at least... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070063930 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a panel comprised of a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the upper substrate, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070063931 - Clock generator and organic light emitting display (oled) including the clock generator: A clock generator, which can be included in an Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED), includes four switching units and two inverters. Each of the switching units includes two transistors. Transistors of two switching units that are connected to a high-level voltage line are PMOS transistors, and transistors of two switching... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070063932 - Compensation technique for luminance degradation in electro-luminance devices: A method and system for compensation for luminance degradation in electro-luminance devices is provided. The system includes a pixel circuit having a light emitting device, a storage capacitor, a plurality of transistors, and control signal lines to operate the pixel circuit. The storage capacitor is connected or disconnected to the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070063935 - Display device and driving method thereof: To solve the lack of program time, which is a problem of a display device including an EL element, and to provide a display device including a pixel circuit with a high aperture ratio and a driving method thereof. In a circuit including a driving transistor, a capacitor, a display... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070063934 - Drive apparatus and drive method for light emitting display panel: One frame (period) is divided into a plurality of sub-frames including a lighting period and a non-lighting period for a pixel, and gradation control is carried out by selecting the above-mentioned sub-frames and by summing the lighting periods of the pixel within one frame period. In addition, proportions of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070063933 - Emission control line driver and organic light emitting display using the emission control line driver: An emission control line driver capable of being mounted on a panel, of improving driving speed, and of minimizing power consumption. The emission control line driver includes stage circuits each having clock, inverted clock, and start pulse inputs and each generating an emission control signal pulse. The stage circuits are... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070063936 - Organic light-emitting diode display: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display includes a substrate, an auxiliary electrode disposed on the substrate, a first signal line disposed on the substrate, a second signal line crossing the first signal line, a driving voltage line disposed on the substrate, a first thin film transistor connected to the first... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070063937 - Display device and control method thereof: A display device and method for supplying stable electric power for a light source are provided. A display device comprises a plurality of light sources, a variable electrical power supply which supplies electric power for the light sources, a switching unit which is connected in series with the light sources,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070063943 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display panel that displays individual images in a plurality of viewing directions on a common screen, a parallax barrier that makes the individual images respectively visible from the plurality of viewing directions, a light guide plate provided on a back surface of the display panel,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070063938 - Driving method for pixles: A pixel driving method is provided. The driving method includes selecting subpixels from different frame periods with different selecting modes in order to form a pixel array, and driving the pixel array. Different pixel arrays that are formed with subpixels selected from different frame periods are shifted by a distance... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070063944 - Image display apparatus and image display method: When displaying moving images by using liquid crystal panels and others, a problem exists in that tail streaks occur, and image degradation is resultantly caused. To solve this problem, an echo suppression circuit divides a video signal into a pair composed of two successive frames for comparison between these two... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070063941 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: There is provided a display apparatus including a liquid crystal display having a parallax barrier so that a first image and a second image are respectively visible from different angles on a commonly provided display screen, a backlight that sheds lights from a backside of a liquid crystal panel, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070063942 - Liquid crystal display drive and control device, crystal display panel module and mobile terminal system: A liquid crystal drive controller comprises first lines drawn from the input terminals of a strobing comparator, first external terminals capable of connecting the first lines to strobing transmission lines, second lines drawn from a strobing offset current source, and second external terminals capable of connecting the second lines to... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070063939 - Liquid crystal display on a printed circuit board: The present invention features a liquid crystal display device including a printed circuit board, PCB, substrate composed of non-conductive material and having a front surface and having an opposing back surface that contains electrical circuitry and is located near the back of the display device. A liquid crystal display is... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070063940 - System and method for managing information handling system display panel response time compensation: LCD panel response time parameters are stored in local memory of the LCD panel, such as EDID ROM, for retrieval by an information handling system to use in adjusting visual information for presentation on the LCD panel. For instance, a response time compensation engine running on firmware in the graphics... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070063946 - Display device and color filter substrate: A display device includes a pixel defined by a plurality of subpixels. The plurality of subpixels include: first and second red subpixels for displaying red; a green subpixel for displaying green; a blue subpixel for displaying blue; and a yellow subpixel for displaying yellow.... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070063945 - Four-color transflective color liquid crystal display: The pixel in a transflective color LCD panel of the present invention has an additional sub-pixel area. The pixel is divided into three or more color sub-pixels in R, G, B and at least one sub-pixel M. Each of the color sub-pixels is divided into a transmission area and a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070063949 - Driving circuit, electro-optic device, and electronic device: A driving circuit that drives a data line of an electro-optic device includes: a plurality of grayscale signal lines supplied with grayscale voltages, respectively; a voltage-selecting circuit that selects one grayscale voltage from the plurality of grayscale voltages supplied to the plurality of grayscale signal lines; an operational amplifier that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070063948 - Grayscale voltage generating circuit: A grayscale voltage generating circuit includes a first constant-voltage source for generating a high potential; a second constant-voltage source for generating a low potential; γ resistor connected between outputs of the first and second constant-voltage sources; a difference voltage detecting circuit for detecting a difference voltage across the γ resistor;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070063947 - Method for driving liquid crystal display and apparatus employing the same: Provided are a method and apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display. The apparatus includes: a moving image detector which reads an input signal frame by frame and compares gray-scale data of a previous frame to gray-scale data of the current frame to detect a moving pattern; a gray-scale difference... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070063950 - Scan driving circuit and organic light emitting display using the same: A scan driving circuit and an organic light emitting display using the scan driving circuit are disclosed. The circuit effectively reduces power consumption by removing a flow path of a static current from a stage of each unit. The scan driving circuit is coupled with an input signal line or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070063951 - Repairing a display signal line: An apparatus is for use in a display device having a defective signal line with a defect that isolates a first signal line portion from a second signal line portion of the defective signal line. The apparatus includes a signal driver that has a driver output terminal electrically connected to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070063952 - Driving methods and devices using the same: Driving methods and devices are provided. In a representative method, Nth and (N+K)th rows of pixels are scanned sequentially and a signal of a first polarity is provided in sequence to the Nth and (N+K)th rows of scanned pixels, during a first period of a frame period. During a second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070063953 - Liquid crystal device, drive method therefor, and projection type display apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal device which can suppress cross-talk and can maintain uniformity of the display quality within the screen, and for which problems such as insufficient writing do not occur. In a liquid crystal light valve of the invention, an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070063954 - Apparatus and method for driving a display panel: An apparatus and method of driving a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a comparison unit and a source driver. The comparison unit receives and stores a current line data, and compares the current line data with a previous stored line data. When a pixel data within the current... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070063957 - Display device and method for adjusting a voltage for driving a display device: A display device includes a display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix form, a driving circuit for outputting an analog voltage according to a video signal to the pixels through signal lines, a plurality of measuring circuits each for detecting the amount of transmitted light, a single totalizing circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070063955 - Driving device: A driving device, suitable for driving a liquid crystal display panel, comprises a gate driving unit, a source driving unit, a power supply, a unit for reducing tide phenomenon and a current/voltage limit unit. The gate driving unit and the source driving unit are electrically connected with the liquid crystal... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070063958 - Level converter circuit, display device and portable terminal device: This invention realizes reduction in consumption of DC current in a level converter circuit by setting level shifters in an operating state only when necessary in accordance with hierarchical control, in which an output pulse of a level shifter (311) that is constantly in a power-ON state is used to... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070063956 - Liquid crystal display control circuit and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) control circuit is disclosed. The control circuit includes an edge detecting circuit for detecting image edges in each frame of an image data, and outputting an edge data and a non-edge data; a memory for saving the edge data of the frame; a driving decision... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070063960 - Display device: The present invention provides a technique which, in a display device, can easily realize the inversion of an image displayed on a display panel in the lateral direction as well as in the vertical direction without requiring an external switching part for changing over a start pulse, the changeover of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070063959 - Display device and driving method thereof: In order to achieve lower power consumption, a technique of performing display (partial display) by utilizing only a part of a display area is used. For example, a display area is divided, a plurality of driver circuits for driving the divided display areas independently are provided, and only a region... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070063962 - Backlight for liquid crystal display and lighting control method therefor: A backlight for a liquid crystal display including a plurality of liquid crystal display elements arranged in a matrix of n rows and m columns, in which optical transmittance of each of the liquid crystal display elements is changed, thereby switching an image every one frame period includes a plurality... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070063963 - Backlight for liquid crystal display and lighting control method therefor: A backlight used for a liquid crystal display including a plurality of liquid crystal display elements arranged in a matrix of n rows and m columns, in which constant-time row scanning is performed in row order to change the optical transmittance of the liquid crystal display elements includes a plurality... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070063961 - Display apparatus and method, storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to a display apparatus and a method, a storage medium, and a program which cause a so-called “hold-type display apparatus” to display an image that makes it difficult for motion blur and jerkiness to be perceived at a lower frame rate. Display of individual pixels of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070063964 - Displaying method, display element and display device: A displaying method includes forming nuclear crystals of a metal on an electrode, and depositing a metal on a surface of the nuclear crystals from a solution including a metallic ion, so as to form particles having a particle diameter corresponding to a display color.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070063965 - Electrophoresis device, electronic apparatus, and driving method of electrophoresis device: An electrophoresis device includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on a surface thereof, a second substrate having a common electrode formed on a surface thereof and disposed to face the pixel electrodes, and an electrophoretic layer disposed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070063966 - Display device: A display device comprises a display unit and a base for supporting the display unit to locate at difference positions. The base comprises a first element moved between a first position and a second position, a first magnet-generator and two second magnet-generators disposed on the first element with respect to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070063971 - Actuator for an elongated object for a force feedback generating device: An actuator for an elongated object may include one or two electromagnetically-activated braking mechanisms to provide haptic sensations in conjunction with a device that tracks a rotationally symmetric instrument manipulated by a user. A contact-free motion sensor may provide information about the longitudinal movement and about the rotational movement of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070063967 - Hand writing input device: A hand-writing input device comprises: an input surface, a guidance device provided on the input surface along a predetermined track to guide a finger or pen along the track; a plurality of switch elements provided at particular positions on the track. When a particular character is inputted, the triggered switch... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070063972 - Image control from composed composite image using hid signal conversion to source image coordinates: Image control involves receiving source images defined with respect to respective source coordinate systems from source image generators also respectively associated with source IDs. The source images are composed to generate a composite image defined with respect to a composed coordinate system, and the composed image is sent to a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070063970 - Multilayered task supporting apparatus and method for supporting multilayered task: A multilayered task supporting apparatus includes: a display area that is divided into three or more; an input unit that is provided with a group of control buttons for assigning a display object; and a control unit that controls a content to be displayed on the display area on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070063968 - Portable communication device: A portable communication device includes first and second parts, a user input device, and a control unit. The second part is rotatably coupled through a hinge to an end of the first part and configured to be positioned relative to the first part in at least one open position and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070063969 - Single finger micro controllers for portable electronic device: A portable electronic device that can be held in one hand includes a graphical display and an input device that is mounted on a surface opposite the graphical display. The input device can be operated with the user's index finger. This configuration is very space efficient and allows the user... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20070063973 - Method for inputting letter using pointer for portable device and the portable device: A character input method for a portable device including a display screen and the portable device are provided. The character input method for a portable device includes a step of locating a pointer at a predetermined pointer start area on the display screen; a step of sensing the movement of... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20070063975 - Evaluation method for a control element: An evaluation method is disclosed for a control element for a motor vehicle, wherein with an actuating element, an optical system comprised of a transmitter and a receiver is interrupted and electrically evaluated by an actuating element, whereby the interruption of the optical systems is evaluated analogous to the deflection... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070063974 - Textured cushion for cursor control stick: A cushioned cap for a control stick of an electronic device defining a recess for receiving at least a portion of a control stick. The recess includes a lower portion and an upper portion.... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070063978 - Cordless computer keyboard with illuminated keys: A remote keyboard has keys which are illuminated for identification under a dim motherboard. For a first embodiment of the invention, the identifying symbol or symbols on each key cap of the keyboard is formed from luminescent material. Alternatively, the symbol or symbols on each key cap are formed from... Agent: Trask Britt, P.C./ Micron Technology

20070063977 - Keyboard with a camera: A keyboard with a camera comprises a plurality of general keys, a plurality of hot keys, a keyboard module, a hot key module and a camera module. The keyboard module outputs corresponding messages in response of the input of the general keys. The hotkey module outputs corresponding instructions in response... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070063976 - Mobile information terminal: A mobile information terminal has a front surface on which a display surface of a display device is arranged and a rear surface on which a plurality of operation keys are arranged. The mobile information terminal further has a half-depressing sensor for detecting that each of the operation keys is... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070063979 - Systems and methods to provide input/output for a portable data processing device: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide input/output for a portable data device by projecting a keyboard pattern using a light projector; capturing one or more images of a user's digits on the keyboard pattern with a camera; decoding a character being typed on the keyboard pattern; and displaying the... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070063985 - Electronic device: An easy to use electronic device is provided. The electronic device functions as a telephone and has a display portion, an audio input portion, an audio output portion, and operation keys. The display portion has a passive element, and the operation keys have LEDs. The direction of an image displayed... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070063986 - Game system and game apparatus used for the same: In the state where a card having a hole or a cut-out portion of a predetermined shape is placed on a touch panel of a game apparatus, a player performs an input operation along the hole or the cut-out portion. Then, the input operation is detected. It is determined whether... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070063987 - Input device: An input device is provided. The input device includes a first position detection unit having a detection section which detects the absolute position of a predetermined operation tool in a predetermined region. A second position detection unit has a detection section, which detects contact or approach of the operation tool.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070063984 - Input method for touch screen: An input method for a touch screen is provided. The touch screen includes a virtual keyboard having a plurality of virtual keys. The method includes a step of displaying a possible key frame in response to the action of touching one of the virtual keys. The possible key frame includes... Agent: Bacon &