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 & Thomas, PLLC

20070063982 - Integrated rendering of sound and image on a display: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing computer input/output includes rendering an image on a display while generating sound with a sheet of optically clear material positioned above the display, and receiving data input from a touch sensitive array formed on the sheet.... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070063983 - Layout of touch panel for a voiding moires: This invention is a kind of layout of touch panel for avoiding moires, which deploys a transparent conductive layout on the touch panel, and let the open area of the transparent conductive layout discontinuous match and cover the corresponding sub-pixels of the display such that the behavior of the display... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070063988 - Mobile terminal device and program used in mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device, which is provided with the plurality of keys, includes: a detection interface for detecting touching any of the keys by a user; a press detection interface for detecting pressing the key by the user; a controller for executing a first function assigned to the key at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070063989 - Mobile terminal device, and program used in mobile terminal device: A mobile terminal device, which is provided with the plurality of keys, includes: a touch detection interface for detecting that a user has touched a key; a press detection interface for detecting that the user has pressed the key; a controller for switching the mode in response to whether or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070063980 - Reconfigurable user interface: A user interface for receiving inputs from a user includes a touch sensitive surface having a plurality of regions where each region corresponds to a switch having a function. The user interface also includes an interface disposed on the touch sensitive surface over at least one of the plurality of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070063981 - System and method for providing an interactive interface: An interactive system is disclosed that includes an infrared source assembly for illuminating an exposed interface surface that is exposed to a user with substantially uniform infrared illumination, a diffuser for diffusing infrared illumination, and an infrared detection system for capturing an infrared image of the exposed interface surface through... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070063991 - Touch sensitive display device and driving apparatus and method thereof: A display device includes a display panel, a plurality of pixels formed on the display panel, a plurality of sensing units formed on the display panel and generating sensor output signals in response to a touch exerted on the display panel, a sensing signal processor receiving and processing an analog... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070063990 - Touch sensitive display device and driving apparatus thereof, and method of detecting a touch: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device may include a display panel, a plurality of pixels disposed on the display panel, a plurality of first sensing units disposed on the display panel and generating first sensing signals in response to a touch exerted on the display... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070063992 - Finger-keyed human-machine interface device: A finger-keyed human-machine interface device and methods provide outputs suitable for entering keyed data into a computer, cash register, musical device or other machines. Varying relative positions or orientations of body-attached electrodes generates data. Combinations of connections between electrodes are translated into output signals corresponding to keyed outputs. Levels of... Agent: Law Office Of Timothy M. Barlow

20070063993 - Display device and driving method of display device: One feature of the present invention includes first to third steps of holding a voltage, corresponding to a difference between a voltage applied to a first power supply line and a threshold voltage of a first transistor, between both electrodes of first and second storage capacitors; holding a voltage, corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070063994 - Systems, methods, and media for determining the location of a stylus for a portable electronic device: Systems, methods and media for determining the location of a stylus for a portable electronic device are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for determining at a first time that a stylus was not returned to a stylus receiver of the portable electronic device and determining last usage information relating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070063995 - Graphical user interface for use with a multi-media system: A graphical user interface for use with a multi-media system, such as those found in vehicles, that includes a rotary knob, a graphics control circuit and a graphics display with a graphical depiction of a portion of the rotary knob. The graphical depiction includes a menu wheel and at least... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070063996 - Image display system and method: Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for processing an image. An image processing unit includes a processor unit and a control unit. The processor unit is configured to analyze an incoming video signal and to select an optimized frame period in response. The control unit is configured to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070063997 - Method and system for manipulating a digital representation of a three-dimensional object: A method of manipulating a three-dimensional virtual building block model by means of two-dimensional cursor movements, the virtual building block model including a plurality of virtual building blocks each including a number of connection elements for connecting the virtual building block with another virtual building block according to a set... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070063998 - Self-learning adaptive pacs workstation system and method: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for adaptive user interface configuration in a picture archiving and communication environment. Certain embodiments include a user interface configured for execution on a PACS workstation, wherein the user interface presents functionality to a user. The system also includes a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070064000 - System and method for interleaved slice volume rendering: A method for volume rendering a digitized image includes providing a digitized 3-dimensional image with a plurality of 2-dimensional slices comprised of a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on a 2-dimensional grid, interleaving said slices so that a predetermined number of slices are represented within 2-dimensional... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070063999 - Systems and methods for providing an online lobby: The invention is generally directed to online portals, and more particularly to systems and methods for providing an online lobby. In one embodiment, an online portal having a plurality of end users is accessible by a client software to be installed on an end user's workstation. The client software includes... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070064001 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing a three-dimensional image volume from two-dimensional projection images: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reconstructing a three-dimensional image volume from two-dimensional projection images of a subject which have been taken from different projection directions by rotating the recording system around the subject, wherein the grayscale values of the voxels of the image volume are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064002 - Method and apparatus for providing efficient space leaping using a neighbor guided emptiness map in octree traversal for a fast ray casting algorithm: An apparatus and method are provided for providing efficient space leaping using neighbor guided emptiness map in octree traversal for fast ray casting. The apparatus and method include providing a min-max octree structure, marching a ray through the min-max structure; and skipping empty nodes associated with the min-max structure along... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064003 - Net of regular shapes and a method of constructing a three-dimensional object: A net (902) of regular two-dimensional shapes applied to a sheet material (901) such that the net is foldable into a three-dimensional object (1901). A panoramic image (701) is applied to the net (901) to present a panorama over the three-dimensional object (1901) when assembled. The net (901) includes a... Agent: James C. Wray

20070064004 - Moving a graphic element: Embodiments of moving a graphic element are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064005 - Collaborative environments in a graphical information system: Collaborative environments in a geographic information system (GIS). Collaboration between multiple processors can be provided within the GIS. A first processor can stream to a server session list entry describing an edit conducted on an image by the first processor. The first processor can also stream a scenario describing geo-spatial... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070064006 - Dynamically configuring a video decoder cache for motion compensation: A video decoder cache used for motion compensation data may be dynamically reconfigured. In some embodiments, it may be reconfigured on picture or frame boundaries and in other embodiments it can be reconfigured on sequence boundaries. The cache may be flushed on each boundary to enable such reconfiguration.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070064007 - Image display system and method: Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for processing an image. An image processing unit includes a processor unit and a control unit. The processor unit is configured to receive an incoming video signal. The control unit is configured to generate first control signals that define bit planes manifested... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064008 - Image display system and method: Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for processing an image. An image processing unit includes a processor unit and a control unit. The processor unit is configured to receive an incoming video signal and to generate information indicative of the video signal. The control unit is configured to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070064009 - Terminal device having correction function for natural color and method thereof: A terminal device having a correction function for natural color and a method thereof are provided for creating an image closest in color to the natural color. A priority storing unit stores at a reference color data area a range of natural colors which are colors of objects existing in... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070064010 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus to display unit an image corresponding to an image signal provided from an external information processing apparatus, includes a nonvolatile memory having a first data area and a second data area to store data to adjust a display state of the displayed image and a program code... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070064013 - Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files: Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files. The method involves recognizing and removing reference labels from the raster illustrated parts image to produce a reference label scrubbed file. Reference lines are recognized and removed from the reference label scrubbed file to produce a scrubbed... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070064011 - Method for performing image editing: A method for performing image editing includes displaying an image in a first state; saving the image in the first state; performing an operation to change the image to a second state from the first state, the second state being different from the first state; displaying the image in the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070064012 - System and method for managing information: A system and method for managing a complex information process. The system includes an interface for allowing a user to manipulate identifiers indicative of respective information processes to create a user-defined process order; and a processor responsive to the interface for compiling the information processes in accordance with the user-defined... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070064014 - Graphics overlay detection: An overlay detection unit (300) for detecting whether a particular pixe of a first image of a display sequence of video images represents a part of a graphics over ay is disclosed. The overlay detection unit (300) comprises: first testing means (302) for to ting whether a first difference (D11)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070064015 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, method and program capable of preventing the execution of a process, which a user does not intend to perform, when the position and size of each operation button image displayed on a screen are changed in accordance with a change in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070064016 - Non-linear solver for a flexible slender-body system: For determining the behavior of a flexible system submitted to predetermined displacement boundary conditions, a process uses geometrically non-linear finite element analysis. The process has a plurality of incremental steps within a total Lagrangian formalism with co-rotational update. In each incremental step, one computes for a finite element of the... Agent: Clifford Chance US LLP

20070064017 - Display control apparatus and display control method: A display control apparatus and method is disclosed wherein the amount of use of a memory to be used to store an image to be displayed can be reduced. The display control apparatus has an execution section, a first retaining section, an image processing section, a second retaining section and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070064018 - Detail-in-context lenses for online maps: A method for providing a presentation of a region-of-interest within an original image to a client, the original image being stored in a content server coupled to a proxy server and the client over a network, the method comprising: in response to a request from the client for the presentation,... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070064019 - Method and device for encoding luminance values into subfield code words in a display device: The invention relates to a method and a device for encoding the luminance value of a pixel of a picture into a subfield code word in a display device. It can be applied to every display device using a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) technology and subfields for displaying video picture.... Agent: Joseph S. Tripoli Patent Operations

20070064020 - Color flat panel display sub-pixel rendering and driver configuration for sub-pixel arrangements with split sub-pixels: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel repeating group are disclosed. In one embodiment, an octal subpixel repeating group may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the red and green colored sub-pixels. In another embodiment,... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070057865 - Display driving circuit, display device, display system and method of driving display devices: A display driving circuit includes a first interface unit, a signal discriminating circuit, a signal distributing circuit, a driver logic circuit and a synchronization processing unit. The first interface unit receives a first signal through a first interface from a host. The signal discriminating circuit discriminates whether the first signal... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070057866 - Image capturing and displaying method and system: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a mobile communication terminal comprises a first display and a second display and a user interface for allowing a user to select one or more images to be displayed on either of the first and second displays, wherein images displayed on both... Agent: Jonathan Y. Kang, Esq. Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka, P.C.

20070057867 - Display device: A head-mount type display device has a first display unit for left eye, a second display unit for right eye, a guide that guides the first and second display units to slide them in a longitudinal way, and an adjustment mechanism that adjust a distance between the first and second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070057868 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus comprising a panel; one or more drivers applying a driving voltage to a plurality of electrodes formed in the panel; and a control board supplying a control signal to the one or more drivers, wherein the control board includes an image... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070057869 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus comprising an m-th scan electrode group and an n-th scan electrode group scanned later than the m-th scan electrode group is disclosed. The method comprises supplying a first setup pulse rising from a first voltage to a second voltage to the m-th... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057870 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: There is provided a plasma display device including a slope waveform generating circuit which supplies to an electrode a slope waveform of which voltage changes with the lapse of time, the electrode being formed in a capacitive load to serves as a display element in a display panel for displaying... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070057871 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device which changes, in accordance with an average luminance level of a video signal, the length of a pause period between a sustain pulse application end point at which one sustain pulse is applied in a sustain period of each of subfields and a sustain pulse application... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070057872 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus and the driving method of the same for providing an improved energy recovery circuit for a sustain discharge. A plasma display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a plasma display... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057874 - Display device and control circuit for a light modulator: The invention relates to an active-matrix image display device that comprises an array of light emitters. Each light emitter is controlled by a current modulator having a particular trip threshold voltage. The device also includes compensation means for compensating for the trip threshold voltage of the modulators. These compensation means... Agent: Thomson Licensing Inc.

20070057876 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a display device where an after-image is not displayed on a panel. The display device includes a panel and a driver. The panel displays at least one indicator. The driver drives the panel. Here, the indicator is changed by a predetermined way. The display device... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057875 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a light emitting device for preventing cross-talk phenomenon by using dummy scan line coupled to data lines. The light emitting device includes data lines, scan lines, at least one dummy scan line and a dummy scan driving circuit. The data lines are disposed in a... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057877 - Organic light emitting display device and method of operating the same: An organic light emitting display (OLED) device having a demultiplexer and a method of operating the OLED are disclosed. In the OLED device, each pixel column is provided two data lines, and each data line is connected to odd or even row pixels of the column. Accordingly, a data signal... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070057873 - Pixel circuit, display unit, and pixel circuit drive method: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070057878 - Self-emission type display device: The invention provides an organic EL display device usable for both negative and positive polarity video signals. The organic EL display device of the invention has a polarity switching circuit switching a polarity of a digital video signal. In a case where a display panel is made for a negative... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070057879 - Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and a driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of scan lines in a first direction, a plurality of data lines in a second direction different from the first direction, a panel having... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057880 - Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof. The method of driving an electroluminescent device having a plurality of pixels formed on emitting areas crossed by data lines and scan lines comprises detecting a gray scale of a data current according to a display data... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070057881 - Transflective display having an oled region and an lcd region: An exemplary transflective display (100) has a first substrate (110); a second substrate (120); and a plurality of pixels defined between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each pixel has an organic light emitting diode (OLED) region and a liquid crystal display (LCD) region adjacent to the OLED region.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070057883 - Display device and control method thereof: A liquid crystal display device employing the color sequential display method includes multiple, different color light sources. An image data arranging circuit sorts image data input from an external source for each frame according to color and arranges the sorted image data into a plurality of sub-frames. A data driver... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070057882 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention provides a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device for obtaining an image without tone reversal, having satisfactory color tone, and high light emitting efficiency; and a liquid crystal display device including the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element array... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070057884 - Display driver: In consideration of the current leakage path of a liquid crystal panel and a signal line voltage fluctuation due to the current leakage path, a γ adjusting function (second driving method) is applied for each divided period in the first driving method. In a signal line driving unit, a gray... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070057885 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixels that are provided at positions corresponding to intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines and include pixels each having a red color filter and pixels each having a blue... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070057887 - Display device and drive method of same: A display device having a pixel section including a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of capacity lines, a plurality of signal lines, a drive circuit, and a generation circuit generating a small amplitude common voltage signal switching in level at... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070057886 - Image decryption system: A decryption device (2) is arranged for visually decrypting an encrypted image displayed on a display device (1) emitting polarized light. The decryption device (2) comprises a polarizing element (21), a liquid crystal display (23), and a further polarizing element (22), arranged such that the polarized light received from the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070057889 - Method for applying detecting circuits of active-matrix organic light emitting diode: Detecting statuses of driving units of an active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) may reveal defects in the manufacturing process. This helps to detect and remove defective elements earlier in the manufacturing process before forming luminous layers in an AMOLED so as to decrease loss of organic materials and manufacturing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070057888 - Pixel matrix and the pixel unit thereof: A pixel matrix used in a liquid crystal display, including a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a storage unit, a first switch and a second switch. The storage unit determines the displayed gray scale of the pixel unit according to a pixel voltage applied to the storage... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070057890 - Liquid crystal microdisplay: The invention relates to liquid crystal matrix micro displays, and in particular those which are embodied on a monolithic silicon substrate in which are integrated the electronic circuits for control of a matrix array of liquid crystal cells. The matrix comprises, for each dot at the crossover of a row... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070057891 - Method for the transition of liquid crystal display: A method for the transition of a liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel including a first electrode, a second electrode and a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer between the first and second electrodes. The method includes performing a pre-driving step including applying... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070057892 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: An LCD apparatus includes a first pixel including a first TFT, a first pixel electrode connected to the first TFT and having an incision pattern, and an extended electrode having at least one part formed along the incision pattern, a second pixel including a second TFT, and a second pixel... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070057893 - Rfid transponder arrays for controlling and powering pixels: The invention described herein represents a significant advancement in electric display addressing and powering. A first display element comprising a first wireless transponder element is integrated with a first pixel element so as to controllably turn the pixel element on and off according to instructions received wirelessly from an RFID... Agent: Ray M. Alden

20070057895 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is provided. The apparatus for driving an LCD device comprises an image display unit that includes liquid crystal cells formed in each region defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. A data driver supplies analog... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070057897 - Image display device: A gradation potential generating circuit (24) in a color liquid crystal display device includes 65 resistance elements connected in series and dividing a voltage applied between first and second nodes to generate 64 gradation potentials; a first current amplifier circuit provided corresponding to each gradation potential higher than a precharge... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070057894 - Integrated circuit device and electronic device: An integrated circuit device, a first direction being a direction extending from a first side which is a shorter side of the integrated circuit device to a third side opposed to the first side, a second direction being a direction extending from a second side which is a longer side... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070057896 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes first to Nth circuit blocks (N is an integer of two or more) disposed along the long side of the integrated circuit device. One circuit block of the first to Nth circuit blocks is a logic circuit block, and another circuit block of the first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070057898 - Image display device: A supply voltage conversion circuit allowing fabrication of a charge pump circuit having a large current capability with a small area is provided. In a charge pump DC-DC converter (10) for converting a supply voltage VDD1 to a supply voltage VDD2, a level shifter (12) implements amplitude conversion to convert... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070057899 - Liquid crystal driving circuit and liquid crystal display device including the same: A liquid crystal drive circuit in which the degradation of the element is minimized in partial drive even for the GOG circuit configured by amorphous silicon, and a liquid crystal display device including the same are provided. The liquid crystal driving circuit includes a first shift register and a driving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070057902 - Circuit for controlling led with temperature compensation: A circuit for controlling an LED with temperature compensation is employed in the LED-based system. The circuit of the invention linearly controls luminance and color of the LED according to temperature change and more precisely compensates for temperature-related variations in LED properties. Also, the circuit saves the cost of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070057901 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes: a liquid crystal panel that includes display pixels each having a plurality of sub-pixels; and an illuminating device that illuminates the liquid crystal panel. In the electro-optical device, the plurality of sub-pixels include at least two cyan and white sub-pixels.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070057903 - Image display device: An image display device includes a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal composition and at least two types of color filters disposed between the pair of substrates, at least two types of light sources, and a light source controller. Each of the light sources generating peak wavelengths of at... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070057900 - Liquid crystal backlight device and method for controlling the same: A liquid crystal backlight device and a method for controlling the same are applied to a liquid crystal display apparatus, in which a backlight module is disposed behind a liquid crystal panel to illuminate the panel. The backlight device produces stable illumination to solve the hold type problem due to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070057904 - Driving method and system thereof for lcd multiple scan: A multiple scan method for driving a display and a display therewith is provided. The multiple scan method is achieved by alternately driving the active pixels in the display twice or more times for expediting response time of these active pixels to reach the target luminance in the display. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070057906 - Bi-stable display with reduced memory requirement: A display device (401) has groups of display elements (118), which are changed from one optical state to another by applying a waveform (330, 331) sequence of potential differences. The waveforms (330, 331) to be applied are stored in a look-up table (445) in a memory of the device (401).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070057907 - Display device, drive device, and drive method: A display device comprising an electrophoretic display panel comprising two types of electrophoretic particles of different color and polarity between electrodes, and a drive unit for supplying a drive signal to apply a drive voltage between the electrodes to switch a display color of the electrophoretic display panel between the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070057908 - Electronically addressable microencapsulated ink and display thereof: A system of electronically active inks is described which may include electronically addressable contrast media, conductors, insulators, resistors, semiconductive materials, magnetic materials, spin materials, piezoelectric materials, optoelectronic, thermoelectric or radio frequency materials. We further describe a printing system capable of laying down said materials in a definite pattern. Such a... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070057905 - Electrophoretic display activation with blanking frames: A system implements a method of activating an electrophoretic display (10). First, the system provides at least one image-dependent data frame (70) including pixel data (72) and a data frame time (74). Second, the system determines a blanking frame (80) including a blanking frame time (84) based on the data... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070057914 - Apparatus and method for controlling video display device, video display device and multivision system: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for selectively controlling one or more display devices among a plurality of video display devices constituting a multivision by using a remote controller; a video display device; and a multivision system. The method for controlling the video display device in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070057909 - Display screen loudspeaker: An apparatus (1) comprising a display screen (150), the apparatus (1) further comprising means (24) for activating said display screen (150) to serve as a loudspeaker for reproducing an audio signal (A), means (20) for detecting if said display is viewed by a user of the apparatus, and means (22)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070057916 - Envelope modulator for haptic feedback devices: An amplitude modulator circuit includes a reference oscillator and an envelope modulator coupled to the reference oscillator for receiving a reference signal. A microcontroller is coupled to the envelope modulator for providing an envelope signal to the envelope modulator and a low pass filter is coupled to the envelope modulator... Agent: Immersion - Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p Thelen Reid & Priest L.l.p

20070057915 - Input system: An input system for a vehicular device includes a display unit for displaying plural menu items, an operation unit for inputting instructions, a position detector for detecting the operation of the operation unit, a pointer control unit for pointing the plural menu items, an input determination unit for determining a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070057912 - Method and system for controlling an interface of a device through motion gestures: A method, device and video phone for controlling an interface of a device through motion gestures includes entering a command mode when a motion gesture corresponding to a request to enter the command mode is detected in a first video segment. The method further includes executing at least one interface... Agent: Trask Britt

20070057910 - Method for express execution of playing computer multimedia data with device group activation: A method for express execution of multimedia playing with device group activation is provided. A device activation group table is provided to a multimedia computer system. The device activation group table defines, according to the functional features of each multimedia players connected to the computer, each hot key and its... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070057913 - Methods and systems for providing haptic messaging to handheld communication devices: Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for providing customized “haptic messaging” to users of handheld communication devices in a variety of applications. In one embodiment, a method of providing haptic messaging to a hand communication device includes: associating an input signal with an event; determining a source... Agent: David B. Ritchie Thelen Reid & Priest LLP

20070057911 - System and method for wireless network content conversion for intuitively controlled portable displays: A system and method is described for converting wireless computer network rich content from display frames geared for Internet-connected PCs to display frames which are geared for wireless hand-held devices and sent over a wireless network. Such conversions are specifically for hand-held devices which use a system of instantaneous and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070057917 - Portable digital apparatus for conveniently inputting various characters and method of controlling the apparatus: Provided is a method and apparatus for inputting text into a portable digital apparatus. The method includes: allocating at least two characters of different language character sets to at least one input button; and selecting any one of the language character sets according to an inclination of the apparatus.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070057918 - Mouse with extensible ps/2 mouse buttons: A mouse with a plurality of buttons has a PS/2 driver as interface connected to a computer. A 4-bytes packet generated by the mouse is provided for the computer to analyze so as to update the display state of the mouse in the display and to perform specified function. This... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070057919 - Optical mouse: A pointing device having an illumination system, an imaging array, and a controller is disclosed. The illumination system illuminates a surface over which the pointing device moves, the illumination system generating a light signal having first and second spectral regions. A portion of the light signal is viewable by a... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070057920 - Method of fast typing twin special characters: A method for inputting characters pairs in an electronic device having a user input device, a display for displaying characters input through the user input device, and a memory for storing characters input through the user input device, including storing a character input through the user input device in the... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070057921 - Standardized/extensible semantics in device independent navigation shortcuts in an application: Provided is a method for assigning navigation shortcuts to computing elements in a manner that is not browser, platform or computing device specific and may, if desired, take into consideration an application, document landmark, document type, or genre. A user agent or application reserves a predefined set of access keys... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070057927 - Input device: The invention concerns an input device, especially for a vehicle, in which the input device includes a housing, a display arranged in the housing for optical display of information, a touchscreen arranged above the display to enter commands by touching an operating surface of the touchscreen, an actuator arranged in... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070057924 - Input device for a vehicle: An input device, especially for a vehicle, includes a display for optical display of information, a touchscreen arranged above the display to input commands by touching an operating surface of the touchscreen, an actuator to move the touchscreen in at least one direction, essentially parallel to the operating surface, and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070057928 - Input device for a vehicle: An input device, especially for a vehicle, has a housing, a display arranged in the housing for optical display of information, a touchscreen arranged above the display for input of commands by touching an operating surface of the touchscreen and an actuator to move the touchscreen and housing in at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070057922 - Input having concentric touch pads: Methods and apparatus include an input device for controlling an electronic device. The input device includes concentric touch pads. Contact with the touch pads includes tapping and/or sliding movement in order to provide signals that are processed and sent to the electronic device, which performs operations based on these inputs.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070057923 - System and method for recording handwritten notes: A system for recording handwritten notes includes a feature information obtaining section that obtains feature information of a user who is holding a handwriting tool, a handwritten notes obtaining section that obtains notes handwritten with the handwriting tool, and a recording section that records the feature information of the user... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070057925 - Touch display module and power saving method thereof: A touch display module for use in an electronic device includes a touch screen for receiving a touch signal, a detection unit for detecting a state of the touch display module, a logic unit for generating a control signal depending on the touch signal, the state and a determining condition,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070057926 - Touch panel input device: In a screen on a touch panel of a navigation device, an operation key is displayed in a standard size until a press operation is detected. When a press operation is detected and a press area is determined to be larger than a standard area corresponding to the standard size... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070057929 - Navigation device with a contoured region that provides tactile feedback: A navigation device includes a surface and an optical motion sensor. A user moves a finger across the surface to provide navigation information to a host device for the navigation device. The surface includes a contoured region that provides tactile feedback to the user as the user moves the finger... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070057930 - Freeform encounter selection tool: A freeform selection tool for a computer system with a graphical user interface allows a user to draw a freeform selection path so as to select one or more graphical objects. The user is provided with the freedom to input selection ink, in any orientation, and using any desired selection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070057932 - Flat panel display and organic light emitting display: The present invention relates to a flat panel display and an organic light emitting display which maintains an opaque state depending on a user's desired time point or an established time point, while maintaining a transparent state at ordinary times, by forming a transparent two side emission panel and a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070057933 - Image display apparatus and image display method: In an image display method which list-displays a plurality of images including still images and moving images, attention areas are respectively acquired for each image included in the plurality of list-display target images. For instance, if an image is a moving image, a logical OR of attention areas extracted from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070057931 - Image display system and receiver device: An image display system includes a transmitter device that can transmit video data and audio data, and a receiver device that is connected via an HDMI cable to the transmitter device and that includes a display device that displays video based on video data from the transmitter device and an... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070057936 - Display apparatus and method of providing power to light source: The present invention provides a display apparatus and method supplying power to a light source where driving power is supplied to the light source, a main power path is provided through which the driving power is supplied from the power supply to the light source, a standby power path is... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070057935 - Information holding device and communication support device: An information holding device includes: a storing portion that stores information; a transmitting portion that transmits the information; a sheet-like member having flexibility; and a detecting portion that detects a change in shape of the sheet-like member, wherein when a change in shape of the sheet-like member detected by the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070057937 - Power saving control method and apparatus employing the same: An apparatus and method for saving power in an office machine having a display panel are provided. The method comprises setting the apparatus in an operation standby mode, detecting whether an error exists in the apparatus and turning on the display panel to display the error thereon when the error... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070057934 - Voltage-converting circuit for adjusting output voltages: A voltage converter includes a pulse width modulation circuit and a feedback circuit. The pulse width modulation circuit provides output voltages in the form of pulses and changes the value and frequency of the output voltages by changing the width, frequency and distribution of the pulses. The feedback circuit includes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070057940 - 2d editing metaphor for 3d graphics: A system combines 2D and 3D modeling in rendering shapes and includes: a 3D modeling factory to generate a 3D model of selected shape parameters or features; a front face factory to generate 2D text and text effects, and some 2D shape effects; a ground plane factory to generate effects... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070057939 - 2d/3d combined rendering: A system combines 2D and 3D modeling in rendering shapes and includes: a 3D modeling factory to generate a 3D model of selected shape parameters or features; a front face factory to generate 2D text and text effects, and some 2D shape effects; a ground plane factory to generate effects... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070057941 - Method and apparatus for the registration of 3d ear impression models: A method of designing hearing aid molds is disclosed whereby two shapes corresponding to graphical images of ear impressions are registered with each other to facilitate joint processing of the hearing aid design. In a first embodiment, a first graphical representation of a first ear impression is received and a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070057942 - Method and apparatus for the rigid registration of 3d ear impression shapes with skeletons: A method of designing hearing aid molds is disclosed whereby skeletons, o r simplified models, of two ear impressions are used to register the graphical representations of the molds to facilitate the joint design of hearing aid shells. The center points of at least a portion of contour lines on... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070057938 - Method and program for generating volume data from boundary representation data: A data input means inputs boundary data of an object to a computer, a data converting means converts the boundary data into a triangle patch having a phase, an associating means divides a space into rectangular parallelepiped cells having boundary planes intersecting perpendicularly and associates the cell with a triangle... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070057943 - Multiple-level graphics processing system and method: A multiple-level graphics processing system and method (e.g., of an operating system) for providing improved graphics output including, for example, smooth animation. One such multiple-level graphics processing system comprises two components, including a tick-on-demand or slow-tick high-level component, and a fast-tick (e.g., at the graphics hardware frame refresh rate) low-level... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070057944 - System and method for rendering 3-d images on a 3-d image display screen: A system comprises a 3-D display device with a display screen, a means for addressing the 3-D screen, and a renderer having an input for a 3-D model and an input for at least one viewpoint for rendering image information for supply to the addressing means. The renderer comprises an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070057945 - Method of rendering a surface from a solid graphical image: A method for transforming solid, three-dimensional image data into three-dimensional surface data first smoothes the surface of the solid image by removing extraneous voxels both attached to main surface of the solid image as well as extraneous voxels about the main image before the surface transformation. Once the solid image... Agent: Heimbecher & Assoc., LLC

20070057946 - Method and system for the three-dimensional surface reconstruction of an object: A method for reconstructing 3D surface structure of an object uses a two stage approach. In the first stage, a first set of images is obtained, and a spatial coding technique, such as a random grid, is used for correspondence mapping of coordinates from a first image to a second... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070057947 - Program storage medium storing display program, apparatus, and method thereof: A display program for allowing a user to easily understand changes of observed values is provided. Information necessary for drawing is read from storage means to generate drawing data from the read information, and a bound graph, which is a two-dimensional representation, is displayed as an animation in which measurement... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070057948 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus includes a display control unit that displays a roadmap by using road data and an intersection arrangement at an intersection by using the intersection arrangement data. The intersection arrangement data include intersection coordinate data containing coordinate information corresponding to an intersection as well as display data used... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070057949 - Enlargement of font characters: A character within a font is enlarged to a desired size by first determining whether the font contains existing or predefined variants of the character having the desired size. If no appropriately sized variant exists, the enlarged character is assembled from a plurality of component glyphs that are stored with... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070057950 - Size-based font smoothing: Font smoothing technology is employed to enhance the readability of rendered text. Various font smoothing approaches can be used by an application to optimize the readability of text to be rendered.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070057951 - View animation for scaling and sorting: In an electronic file system environment, animations of file system items are provided in response to various user requests. For example, where the user requests to change the sort order of a set of displayed item representations, the system responds by animating the item representations to move to new destination... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070057952 - Adaptive scheduling to maintain smooth frame rate: Described is an adaptive scheduler associated with a desktop window manager that dynamically controls the rate at which graphics frames are composed. Values corresponding to performance when composing a frame are measured, and the frame composition rate is adjusted as necessary based on the values. The measured data is sampled... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070057953 - Providing 3d graphics across partitions of computing device: A computing device has a graphics hardware device employed to display graphics on a display, and is partitioned to include a video services partition (VSP) instantiated at least in part to provide graphics capabilities, and also to include a video client partition (VCP) instantiated at least in part to consume... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070057954 - Image input device and solid-state image pickup element: The solid-state image pickup element comprises a filter film made of a single-layer inorganic material which exhibits a maximum value at a specific wavelength on transmission spectra of incident light in accordance with a film thickness thereof, and a photoelectrical conversion part for generating a signal charge in accordance with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070057955 - Display panels and methods and apparatus for driving the same: Methods and apparatus for mitigating or substantially eliminating pixel burn-in on phosphor-based display panels. A visual display includes a display installation and a computer. The display installation may include a display panel having including a plurality of pixels each with a bit depth and an interface for receiving a video... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20070057956 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing self-modeling computer systems componentry: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing self-modeling of computer systems componentry. Each computer system component includes a scalable vector graphic (SVG). The SVG provides a graphical representation for the respective computer system component. The SVGs are collected and a visual representation of the computer system... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20070057957 - Address translation in an integrated graphics environment: A method of translating graphics virtual addresses to physical addresses in an integrated graphics processor environment includes receiving a request for a graphics operation from an application. The application may be an application executing in a partition of a virtual machine. The requested graphics operation involves at least one instruction... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070057958 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for managing images: Computer-implemented systems and methods for handling requests to execute software applications. A system and method can be configured to include a set of pointers that are created for both referencing data associated with the requested software application's associated image and data associated with changes made during execution of the requested... Agent: Stephen D. Scanlon

20070057961 - Data transfer apparatus: A reference-data storing unit stores reference data for determining whether to display image data by overwriting display data. A data converting unit converts the image data into display image data. A transparency determining unit determines whether a first pixel value of the display image data obtained through a color conversion... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070057959 - Display and driving method thereof: A display device includes a data modulator for analyzing a gray level of input data, modulating the input data in accordance with the analyzation result, and inserting one of black data and white data along with the modulated data, and a driver for supplying modulation data from the data modulator... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070057960 - Image display method and apparatus: An image has pixels arranged in ((M lines)×(N columns)) each pixel having color information. A display has elements arranged in ((P lines)×(Q columns), 1<P<M, 1<Q<N). The image is separated into a first component and a second component based on a threshold. The first component has a spatial frequency not lower... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070057962 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: When the user presses an Alt key, the mode makes a transition to a property value switching mode and all annotations are made visible. At this time, the originally invisible annotations with the visibility properties set to invisible are drawn translucently. That is, a scanner name, a color bar, and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070057963 - Four color arrangements of emitters for subpixel rendering: Novel three-color and four-color subpixel arrangements and architectures for display and the like are herein disclosed. Novel techniques for subpixel rendering on the above subpixel arrangements are also herein disclosed.... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070057966 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: This invention is directed to reduce the correction load on a user when a plurality of images are to be grouped. An information processing method of discriminating an object contained in a first image and grouping the first image to a plurality of grouping destinations for each object includes a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070057964 - Photo mantel view and animation: A system and computer-implemented method for rendering images on a two-dimensional display, such as a computer, handheld device, or television screen, so that the images appear to be positioned in a three-dimensional space is disclosed. The images may be graphics files or standard files with an associated thumbnail image. For... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070057965 - Positioning screen elements: An approach for positioning screen elements on a display screen is disclosed herein. The screen elements represent expressions in a formula and may include one or more glyphs. Optimal positions are determined for the screen elements based on analyzing positional characteristics associated with displaying the screen elements at the resolution... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070057967 - System and method for the display of versioned documents and amendments: A system and method are disclosed for displaying on a computer display a periodically amended document, such as statutes, regulations, city ordinances, or other legal rules. The system enables a user to easily view the currently effective version of the document, prior versions of the document, future versions of the... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070057968 - System and method for adaptive span computation during ray casting: A system and method for adaptive span computation when ray casting is presented. A processor uses start point fractional values during view screen segment computations that start a view screen segment's computations a particular distance away from a down point. This prevents an excessive sampling density during image generation without... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070057972 - Method and apparatus for blending colors: A method for blending two colors, where the colors are blended according to a blending factor, is performed as follows. First, a first factor and a second factor, represented in binary form, are determined. A sequence of binary operations, preferably consisting of a sequence of shift and masking operations, are... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070057970 - Multi-function display module for mobile stations: A mobile station including an illumination section for emitting light, a display section upon which an image can be formed and through which light can pass, and a display controller for controlling the image wherein the display section, in a first position, is generally parallel to and at least partially... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070057971 - Photography with embedded graphical objects: A digital photography system and a method of its use. The system includes a digital camera having a mechanism for selecting a graphical object, a mechanism for superimposing the graphical object within a field of view of a digital camera, a mechanism for manipulating the graphical object within the field... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070057969 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, reproducing method, program and integrated circuit for recording a video stream and graphics with window information over graphics display: A recording medium storing an AVClip structured by multiplexing video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents a moving picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the graphics stream includes graphics data representing graphics to be combined with the pictures. The graphics stream also includes window information... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070057973 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment of the invention, an information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit capable of displaying at least one of a first video and a second video in which the first video is enlarged; an operation unit operating a pointer displayed on the display unit; and a control... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070057974 - Scroll button assembly for video game controller: A system for receiving user inputs for a hand-held video game controller is provided. At least one scroll button assembly is coupled to the hand-held video game controller. Each scroll button assembly controls the scrolling through of options presented by a video game. The scroll button can also be configured... Agent: Peter J. Van Bergen

20070057975 - Apparatus and method for manufacturing display device: An apparatus for manufacturing a display device that includes a driving device and a communication line connected to the driving device is presented. The apparatus includes: an image signal creating unit that creates image signals and transmits the image signals to the display device; a plurality of optical sensors receiving... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070052615 - Configurable auxiliary output device for information: Described is the outputting of a representation of complex state or other information to an output mechanism, such as computer program state data, in which the output of the state information is configurable. The state information is conveyable via the output mechanism, which may be an auxiliary display device, such... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070052616 - Method and apparatus for displaying multimedia content with plug-in on wap browser incorporated in mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is a method of displaying multimedia content using a plug-in in a mobile communication terminal equipped with a WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser, including: receiving multimedia content during displaying a WAP page; and blending the WAP page with the multimedia content and displaying the multimedia content and the WAP... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070052614 - Tapered fiber optic bundle metadisplay: A metadisplay comprising a plurality of subdisplays, each subdisplay comprising a microdisplay for displaying a subimage, and FTFOB having an FTFOB entrance end and an FTFOB exit end, wherein said entrance end is optically coupled to said microdisplay for transmitting said subimage from said entrance end to said exit end,... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20070052617 - Moveable output device: A display system is disclosed. The display system includes a processor. The display system also includes a first display device having a first display surface and receiving display data from the processor. The display system also includes a second displayed device having a display area smaller then the first display... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070052618 - Entertainment system mountable in a vehicle seat: An entertainment system includes a housing adapted for being mounted within a seat of a vehicle and a media unit housed within the housing and pivotably coupled to the housing. The housing includes at least one of a groove formed within a sidewall of the housing adapted to engage a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20070052619 - Color display apparatus using two panels: A two panel type color display device is disclosed, comprising a buffer memory storing RGB information corresponding to one frame—herein, the RGB information contains the intensity of red, green, and blue colors of (the number of vertical line pixels)×(the number of horizontal line pixels) pixels constituting one frame—; an image... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20070052620 - Apparatus and method for driving an interlaced plasma display panel: An apparatus for driving an interlaced plasma display panel (PDP), including a delay device, an image upper and lower edge detection device, an image border processing device, an image processing and analog control loop. The delay device receives an image signal, delays the image signal for two fields and outputs... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070052621 - Method for driving gas discharge display device: In order to realize a display having good contrast and stable addressing by using a gas discharge display device having a screen of a three-electrode surface discharge structure having a characteristics that a counter discharge start voltage is higher than a surface discharge start voltage, prior to starting of initialization... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070052622 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a timing controller. The timing controller controls a duration of a rising period of at least one sustain pulse supplied to electrodes during a sustain period of at least one subfield of a plurality of subfields to be different... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052623 - Apparatus for energy recovery of a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an apparatus for energy recovery of a plasma display panel. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for energy recovery of a plasma display panel, which includes front and rear substrates confronting each other,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070052625 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. When the plasma display apparatus is driven by dividing a frame into a plurality of subfields, a portion of all scan electrodes is scanned during an address period of at least one of the plurality of subfields.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052624 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: Provided are a plasma display panel and a driving method thereof. The plasma display panel comprises a first display electrode provided in a front substrate, a second display electrode provided in a direction intersecting with the first display electrode in a rear substrate, and an address electrode provided in parallel... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20070052626 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, first and second electrodes formed on the first substrate, and a sustain driver for applying a sustain pulse to at least one of the first and second electrodes. The sustain pulse applied to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20070052629 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel that comprises an electrode; a sustain driver that supplies a sustain signal to the electrode and that comprises a first and second switching elements for supplying the sustain signal; and a first and second gate drivers that drives each of the... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052627 - Plasma display apparatus and method of 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 first scan electrode, a second scan electrode, a first sustain electrode corresponding to the first scan electrode and a second sustain electrode corresponding to the second... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052628 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a data electrode, and a driver. The driver raises a voltage of a data pulse supplied to the data electrode during an address period to a sum of a first voltage level higher than... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052630 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device in which at least one of a first sustain pulse having a first leading period and a second sustain pulse having a second leading period shorter than the first leading period is applied between row electrodes forming each row electrode pair by a number of times... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070052631 - Electron emission display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed are an electron emission display device and a driving method thereof capable of elevating a luminance and enhancing its lifetime. A pixel portion displays an image corresponding to voltages of a first electrode and a second electrode. A data driver transfers a data signal to the first electrode. A... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070052633 - Display device: The invention provides a display device that achieves optimization of an RGB signal without increasing power consumption required for displaying a test image. A display device of an embodiment of the invention has a display panel displaying an image corresponding to an RGB signal, a signal processing circuit portion including... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070052635 - Display device and driving method thereof: Each pixel of a display device has a current supply circuit, a switch portion, and a light emitting element. The light emitting element, the current supply circuit, and the switch portion are connected in series between a power supply reference line and a power supply line. The switch portion is... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070052632 - Driving method which drives display units of different frequency spectra with respective sweep signals and apparatus based on the same: A method for driving display units having different frequency spectra includes generating a plurality of sweep signals according to luminous characteristics of a plurality of display units having different frequency spectra, and controlling luminous periods of the display units based on the corresponding sweep signals and a data voltage. Temperature... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070052634 - Light-emitting device: m

20070052637 - Color display panel: A color display panel comprises at least one pixel. The pixel comprises a sub-pixel circuit of a type comprising a light-emitting cell (13) for emitting light with a first spectral distribution when a voltage in a first operating range is applied, and for emitting light with a different spectral distribution... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052636 - Flexible video displays and their manufacture: A high performance flexible, thin, flat panel display, has a linear array of switchable light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) to emit bands of light across the display, providing a light pattern programmable at video frequencies and a two-dimensional electropolymeric shutter array to convert the light pattern into a video image. In... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070052638 - Light interaction system: Various embodiments of moving between light interaction states are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070052639 - Methods and apparatus for driving pixels in a microdisplay: A pixel is driven with pulse width modulation (PWM). A cycle for the PWM signal is divided into a plurality of super-intervals. Each of the super-intervals is divided into a plurality of intervals. An interval index is stored for the pixel. The timing at which the pixel is changed from... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff, Talwalkar Llc

20070052640 - Field sequential lcd display system: A method and system for compensating for the response characteristics of a display using field sequential addressing and pre-processing. Utilizing a display with multiple backlights of various colors, each pixel of the display can be represented with a single LCD element. By examining the changes in the intensity of the... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070052642 - Circuit and method for driving flat display device: A circuit for driving a liquid crystal display device, as embodied, includes: a gray level voltage generator for generating a plurality of gray level voltages; and an intermediate gray level voltage generator for receiving a first gray level voltage and a second gray level voltage among the plurality of gray... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070052641 - Gray scale voltage outputting device: An object of the invention is to provide the miniaturized gray scale voltage outputting device. A gray scale voltage outputting device (6) for receiving an image signal (Si) to output a gray scale voltage comprises a gray scale voltage group outputting means (600) having a plurality of gray scale voltage... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052643 - Liquid crystal driving system and method for driving liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display includes: a) receiving a video signal from a first group of gray scales values; b) comparing a current frame of the video signal with a previous frame to determine whether the current frame is in a static state or in a dynamic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070052647 - Display and thin-film-transistor discharge method therefor: A display and the thin-film-transistor discharge method therefore are used for providing a dual-gate thin film transistor to drive the electroluminescent element to emit light. While the thin film transistor (TFT) is discharged, an electric field is formed between the top-gate and the bottom-gate. The electric field is for improving... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20070052646 - Display device: There is disposed a TFT for detecting characteristic having the same characteristic as a pixel TFT disposed at a pixel. The TFT for detecting characteristic detects a gate on voltage for driving the pixel TFT. The TFT for detecting characteristic is driven so as to agree with the pixel TFT... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070052645 - Organic electro-luminescence display apparatus: An organic electro-luminescence display apparatus including a substrate, data lines and scan lines, a plurality of first, second and third organic electro-luminescence units, at least one first source driver, second source driver and third source driver and a gate driver is provided. Data lines and scan lines are disposed on... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070052644 - Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving pixel circuit: A pixel circuit, a display device, and a method of driving a pixel circuit able to obtain a source-follower output without luminance deterioration even when the current-voltage characteristic of a light emitting element changes due to aging, making a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors possible, and in addition able to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20070052648 - Temperature compensation method for bi-stable display using drive sub-pulses: A drive circuit for a bi-stable display comprises: a driver (101, 102) which supplies drive waveforms (DWk) to the pixels (Pij) of the display during an image update period (IUk) wherein the image presented by the pixels (Pij) is updated. A temperature sensing circuit senses the temperature of the display.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052651 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A driving circuit of a display device includes a timing controller for combining p first digital data signals (p being a positive integer greater than 1) corresponding to colors for displaying images to generate q second digital data signals and for supplying the q second digital data signals to first... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.c.

20070052652 - Liquid crystal display and pre-charge driving method thereof: There are provided a liquid crystal display and a pre-charge driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel; a gate driver; a data driver; a pre-charge driver that sequentially transfers pre-charge signals to each of data lines by data enable signals before data signals are transferred... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070052654 - Liquid crystal display controller and liquid crystal display device: In conventional liquid crystal display controllers such as for portable telephone sets, the display is reduced in the stand-by state but the liquid crystal display duty is not changed, i.e., even the common electrodes of the rows that are not producing display are scanned, and the consumption of electric power... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20070052649 - Liquid crystal display device and mobile terminal: A liquid crystal display is provided that allows miniaturization, cost lowering, thickness reduction, and saving of unnecessary spaces of the device, and enhancement of the reliability of the device. If a variable resistor is used to set the DC potential of a VCOM potential, miniaturization of a liquid crystal display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070052653 - Scan driving circuit and organic light emitting display device using the same: Scan driving circuit having a number of stages coupled together in series and coupled with first and second lock signal input lines. Each of the stages receives a start signal or an output signal of a previous stage and includes a transfer unit, an inversion unit, and a buffer unit... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070052650 - Source-follower type analogue buffer, compensating operation method thereof, and display therewith: A source-follower-type analogue buffer with an active load, a new compensating operation and a display with the source-follower-type analogue buffers are developed to minimize the variation from both the charging time and the device characteristics and maximize the range of the input voltage. In the source-follower-type analogue buffer, during a... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070052655 - Display device: In a display device which includes a scanning circuit, an ON resistance of a non-selection switch of the scanning circuit is set larger than an ON resistance of a selection switch. By setting the ON resistance of the non-selection switch of the scanning circuit larger than the ON resistance of... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070052658 - Driver for display apparatus and display apparatus including the same: Provided is a driver for a display apparatus and a display apparatus having the same. The driver includes a plurality of gate lines that transmit gate signals, and first and second gate drivers that are respectively connected to odd-numbered and even-numbered gate lines among the plurality of gate lines and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070052657 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides an electro-optical device that includes an X address decoder that selects one of a plurality of X selection lines, a Y address decoder that selects one of a plurality of Y selection lines, and a plurality of pixel blocks, each of the pixel blocks being provided with... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070052656 - Flat panel display and manufacturing method thereof: A flat panel display with reduced malfunction rate and improved image quality and a method for making such flat panel display are presented. The flat panel display is operated by a gate drive circuit that receives a first gate signal for driving a first gate line at one end of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070052659 - Arrangement comprising a panel pertaining to a flat screen: The aim of the invention is to largely prevent certain influences from distributing the luminance of an image that can be reproduced on a panel of a flat screen. To this end, light-permeable parts are arranged between a sensor and a back light illuminating the panel from the rear, the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070052660 - Forming display color image: An apparatus for forming a colored image on a display, includes a VCSEL array device having a plurality of light-emitting pixels wherein each light-emitting pixel produces a beam of light including substantial components in a portion of the visible spectrum so that different light-emitting pixels produce different colored light; and... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Eastman Kodak Company

20070052663 - Liquid crystal display and method for lighting the same: The present invention relates to an LCD and a method for improving display thereof where a plurality of LED devices are mounted on a rear of LCD panel, and a partition which allows the plurality of the LED devices to be disposed in a plurality of partitioned areas is provided.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20070052662 - Liquid crystal display and method of controlling the same: A liquid crystal display and control method thereof, having a liquid crystal display panel, a light emitting diode device which is disposed on the rear of the liquid crystal display panel and which is divided into a plurality of partitioned areas that are capable of being driven independently, a light... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.l.p.

20070052664 - Liquid crystal display device having an improved lighting device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having plural pixels, a lighting device having at least one light source and projecting light generated by the light source on the liquid crystal display panel, and a circuit supplying a first current during a first period and a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070052661 - Luminance control method and a display device using the same: A display device includes a light source, a light guide plate diffusing light issuing from the light source and a non-light-emitting display panel illuminated with light being emitted from the light source via the light guide. The display device includes a storage for storing correction values determined beforehand for making... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070052667 - Bi-stable display with accurate greyscale and natural image update: An accurate greyscale is obtained with more natural image updates when updating a display (310) in a bi-stable electronic reading device (300,400), such as one using an electrophoretic display, by applying a first shaking pulse (S1) to the display, applying a first portion (R1) of a reset pulse to the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052665 - Driving scheme for an electrophoretic display: A display device (1) has electrophoretic particles (8, 9), a display element including electrodes (5, 6), between which a portion of the electrophoretic particles (8, 9) is present, a temperature sensor (25) and a processor (15) for supplying a driving pulse (32) to the electrodes (5, 6) to bring the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052668 - Electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1) for subsequently displaying pictures has a plurality of picture elements (2) and drive means (100). The drive means (100) are able to supply to each picture element (2) a picture pulse. Each picture pulse is a sequence of potential difference pulses and has a response-increasing... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052669 - Electrophoretic display panel: An electrophoretic display panel (1), comprises drive means (100) for controlling the potential difference of each picture element (2) to be a reset potential difference for enabling particles (6) to substantially occupy one of the extreme positions, and subsequently to be a grey scale potential difference for enabling the particles... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052666 - Image display device and substrate stacking apparatus used for manufacturing the same: In an image display device, in which image display media are sealed between opposed substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the image display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display an image, at least back... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070052670 - Substrate for liquid crystal display: Provided is a substrate for a liquid crystal display which is resistant to deformation. The substrate includes a flexible substrate, first and second barrier layers respectively disposed on first and second surfaces of the flexible substrate, and first and second hard coating layers respectively disposed on the first and second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070052671 - Pixel element actuation: Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for actuating pixel elements are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070052672 - Communication device, system and method: It is discloses a communication device, system and method comprising a Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) in form of glasses (1), at least one haptic sensor (12) mounted on the frame of said glasses or connected by a short range communication interface (13) to said glasses (1), wherein it is possible... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070052673 - Display device: A display device including a main body, a front plank and a hinge assembly is provided. The hinge assembly links the front plank and the main body. The hinge assembly includes a first component, a second component having protrusions and a third component having sleeves. The first component is disposed... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070052674 - Tactile feedback interface device including display screen: A control device including a housing and a carrier moveable with respect to the housing in a first rotary degree of freedom. A first sensor senses the movement of the carrier and outputs a first control signal. A roller rotatably coupled to the carrier rotates with the carrier in the... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070052675 - Remote controller and digital information control system employing the same: A remote controller (1000) includes a pointer (1200) for inputting information and a main module (1100). The main module includes a first detection module (1101), a position interpreting module (1102), an information processing module (1106), and a wireless communication module (1107). The first detection module is used for detecting information... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070052676 - Computer input device with housing inclination mechanism: A mechanism for inclining a first housing relative to a second housing of a computer input device. The first housing has at least a support, and an axial line of the support is screwed into the lower housing. The support is inclinable relative to the lower housing at an angle... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20070052677 - Control element for a motor vehicle: A control element for a motor vehicle is disclosed that includes at least one rotary actuator and one actuating element integrated in the rotary actuator, whereby the actuating element can be moved relative to the rotary actuator, and whereby a connecting member, which interacts with an optical system, is molded... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, Pllc

20070052678 - Optical trackball: A trackball adapted to an input facility is comprised of a circuit board, a retainer and an optical holder; the retainer containing a trackball; light from a light emitting device on the circuit board being reflected through the optical holder to the trackball; range and orientation of the movement by... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc Suite 1404

20070052680 - Energy recovering circuit with boosting voltage-up and energy efficient method using the same: There is disclosed an energy recovering circuit with boosting voltage-up and an energy efficient method using the same that are capable of boosting the voltage factor of an energy recovered from the panel to rapidly re-apply it to the panel, to thereby reduce the charging time of a panel capacitor... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052679 - Transparent key of an electronic device: A transparent key (100) of an electronic device includes a patterned portion (10) and a peripheral portion (11) surrounding the patterned portion. The patterned portion and the peripheral portion co-form a pressing portion (12), or one of the patterned portion and the peripheral portion forms the pressing portion. One of... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070052681 - Context sensitive labels for a hardware input device: A method and apparatus for hardware input devices provides context sensitive labels which can change according to an application running on a computer and/or the function assigned to an input element. An illustrative implementation of the method and apparatus includes employing ink having two or more electroluminescent pattern layers with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070052690 - Calibration of force based touch panel systems: A method and system are provided to correct inaccuracies in touch location determination associated with mechanical distortion of the touch screen. Calibration parameters are provided for a touch screen characterizing an error in an expected touch signal associated with mechanical distortion of the touch screen. A force responsive touch signal... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070052683 - Display and control device for medical equipment: A display and control device for medical equipment, comprising several identically configured display/control units, which are located on a base unit. The base unit is equipped with a bus, to which the display/control units and components of the medical equipment are connected. The base unit comprises connection devices, which are... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, Pc

20070052685 - Information processing apparatus and gui component display method for performing display operation on document data: An information processing apparatus includes an interpretation unit configured to interpret a command written on computerized document data, a creation unit configured to create a graphical user interface (GUI) component used to perform execution of the command interpreted by the interpretation unit, and a display control unit configured to cause... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070052686 - Input device: An input device having a touch pad that senses a touch of a finger for selectively providing plural types of instructions for a coupled apparatus includes a finger type recognition unit for recognizing a finger type of a finger that is sensed by the touch pad and an instruction output... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20070052688 - Input device: An input device is provided. The input device includes an operation unit. A coordinate input unit capable of detecting that an operating body is in contact with the operation unit and detecting a position coordinate on the operation unit of a position where the operating body contacted the operation unit.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070052682 - Method of inputting a character using a software keyboard: The present invention relates to a method of inputting a character using a software keyboard, and more particularly relates to a method of inputting a character using software keyboard used for inputting a character of mobile terminal (such as, PDA) using touch screen. The method for inputting a character using... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070052689 - Mobile communication terminal having content data scrolling capability and method for scrolling through content data: A mobile communication terminal capable of scrolling through content data includes at least one acceleration key configured to generate an acceleration signal when the acceleration key is activated. A controller is configured to scroll through the content data at a higher speed than a predefined speed based on the acceleration... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070052691 - Movable touch pad with added functionality: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070052687 - Parameter setting apparatus provided with a display unit having a touch sensor: When it is determined on the basis of the output from a touch sensor of a touch screen 5 that a touch operation is started in the area of one on/off button displayed on a display screen of the touch screen 5, the on/off state of an on/off parameter assigned... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070052684 - Position detection system using laser speckle: A detection system. The detection system includes a substrate, a laser, and a sensor array. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface conceptually divided into multiple areas, and a third surface. The laser is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation into the substrate and incident subsequently onto second surface... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070052693 - Coordinate position detecting apparatus and control method thereof: A coordinate position detecting apparatus includes: a scanning unit that scans a predetermined scanning area in predetermined scanning precision along a horizontal direction and a vertical direction with respect to a display screen by employing detection beams respectively. A position of a light shielding article on the display screen is... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070052692 - Position detection system: A position detection system. In representative embodiments, the position detection system comprises a support structure having a cavity, a first light source configured to emit light into at least part of the cavity, a second light source configured to emit light into at least part of the cavity, a first... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070052695 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames: A system for displaying an image using a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame is provided. The system comprises an image shifter configured to cause the first sub-frame to be displayed at a first position on a display surface and the second sub-frame to be displayed at a second position... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070052696 - Information processing apparatus and system control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a body, a processor provided within the body, a control device provided within the body and configured to control an operation of the body in conjunction with the processor, and a storing unit configured to store an image adjusting parameter. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070052694 - Optical measuring system: Apparatus and methods are described for of measuring amplitude and phase variations in a spatially coherent beam of light. A beam of coherent light is made incident upon a spatial array of phase modulating elements displaying a pixellated first phase distribution. In a measuring region of said spatial array, the... Agent: Peters Verny Jones & Schmitt, L.l.p.

20070052697 - Method and system for detecting a body in a zone located proximate an interface: The invention concerns a method and a system for detecting a body (801) in a zone (802) located proximate an interface (803). The body is illuminated by an electromagnetic radiation (804) comprising at least two different wavelengths, located in ranges corresponding to near infrared and to green-blue. The method comprises... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070052699 - Colour ratios 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

20070052703 - Display device: A display device has an indicator and a control unit. The indicator has a display element for displaying image information. The control unit controls the indicator to perform a three-dimensional visual display such that an image is visualized three-dimensionally and a two-dimensional visual display such that an image is visualized... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20070052698 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus is an apparatus for determining a gaze from a motion picture of a face taken by a monocular camera, and is configured to define a 3D structure of a center of a pupil on the facial picture by a static parameter and a dynamic parameter, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070052700 - System and method for 3d cad using projection images: A technique is provided for performing a computer aided detection (CAD) analysis of a three-dimensional volume using a computer assisted detection and/or diagnosis (CAD) algorithms. The technique includes selecting one or more three-dimensional points of interest in a three-dimensional volume, forward projecting the one or more three-dimensional points of interest... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070052702 - System and method for collecting and modeling object simulation data: A system and method for collecting and modeling simulated movement data on a graphical display is provided. Simulated movement data from a simulation is accessed from a database. The simulated movement data comprises each location of a object on a graphical display for multiple points in time of the simulation.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070052701 - System and method for collecting and transporting simulation data: A system and method for receiving and displaying simulated movement data on a graphical display in real-time is provided. Simulated movement data from a simulation is received. The type and location of each object to be displayed on a graphical display for a time step is extracted from the simulated... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070052704 - 3d graphics image formation: A data processing apparatus operable to form a graphics image is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a data store for storing an object list of objects to be displayed within said graphics image; a colour buffer operable to store a plurality of pixels to be displayed as said graphics image; a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20070052705 - Combinatorial evaluation of systems including decomposition of a system representation into fundamental cycles: One embodiment of the present invention includes a computer operable to represent a physical system with a graphical data structure corresponding to a matroid. The graphical data structure corresponds to a number of vertices and a number of edges that each correspond to two of the vertices. The computer is... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute

20070052706 - System and method for performing domain decomposition for multiresolution surface analysis: A computer-implemented method to process a model of an object includes mapping a mesh representation of the model onto a plane to form a planarized mesh; generating a shape image by associating a shape descriptor with each vertex of the planarized mesh; forming a color image of the planarized mesh... Agent: Louis J. Percello, Esq. International Business Machines Coropration

20070052707 - Method for interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object: The invention relates to a method for the interactive segmentation of a structure contained in an object from a three-dimensional image of the object. In an expansion mode a region expansion process is carried out, the results of said process simply being completely or partly undone again in a contraction... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070052708 - Method of performing a panoramic demonstration of liquid crystal panel image simulation in view of observer's viewing angle: The present invention discloses a method for displaying the result of the image simulation predicting color tone, contrast and brightness of image shown as a viewing angle of observer. The invention includes steps that perform transformation of coordinates on the basis of a viewing angle of observer and projection of... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070052709 - Display system: A display system utilizing a graphics box as a primary component is disclosed. The graphics box greatly increases the flexibility and aesthetic appeal of displayed graphics cards. The ability to mass produce the graphics box, use multiple graphics boxes to deliver displays of different size and information content and, especially,... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20070052712 - Game apparatus, storage medium storing a game program, and game controlling method: A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and on the first LCD, a two-dimensional game screen including objects positioned in a two-dimensional coordinate is displayed. When a two-dimensional coordinate of a specific object out of the objects positioned in the two-dimensional coordinate satisfies a predetermined condition,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20070052711 - Reconstruction render farm used in motion capture: Motion capturing markers coupled to at least one motion capture object, comprising: generating a plurality of Configurations, each Configuration including partitioning parameters; partitioning a motion capture beat into beat partitions using the plurality of Configurations; reconstructing the beat partitions, wherein each beat partition is reconstructed using each Configuration and corresponding... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070052710 - Virtual mounter system: A virtual mounter system is disclosed. The system can implement a mounter through an animation model or a simulation model before users substantially access a real mounter. The system can allow users to learn a necessary technology related to drive and maintenance of a mounter thorough animation or simulation for... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052713 - Systems and methods for storing and fetching texture data using bank interleaving: In systems and methods for graphic reproduction of an image including textural information, multiple rows or blocks of texture data can be retrieved from system memory in response to the single read command. In this manner, efficient use of system bus is achieved, and an increase in the texture cache... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070052714 - Video processing system: The present invention provides a video processing system including a plurality of buses, a plurality of codecs and a plurality of memories. The buses provide different access routes. The processed video data and the original video data are stored in different memories through different access routes. The video data of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070052715 - Device, system and method of graphics processing: Some embodiments of the invention provide devices, systems and methods of graphics processing. For example, a device in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a virtual machine monitor to replace a first memory address reference of a graphics instruction intended for execution by a graphics device of a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070052717 - 3d graphics processing method and device: A X-Y plane is divided into a plurality of tile rows. Each tile row covered by a triangle to be processed includes one or more tiles. The tiles in the same tile row are rastered in a specified order.... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070052716 - Methods and apparatus for method to optimize visual consistency of images using human observer feedback: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing visual consistency for a dataset of images by using observed and formulated display attributes. The formulated display attributes are derived from an analysis of a first set of images from the image repository. The formulated display attributes from the first set are combined... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070052718 - Texturing 3-dimensional computer graphic images: A method and apparatus are provided to generate automatically a mip-map chain of texture images from a portion of texture image data such that it may be used in texturing a computer graphic image. A portion of the texture image data is stored temporarily and is filtered to generate at... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.c.

20070052719 - Perceptual gamut mapping with multiple gamut shells: An improvement to sigmoidal gaussian cusp knee (SGCK) gamut mapping algorithm useful for gamut boundary descriptors (GBDS) that are defined with multiple shells rather than a single hull. The gamut mapping algorithm involves a lightness-rescaling step and a chroma compression step, in which points on each of the shells of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070052720 - Method, apparatus and system for performing tetrahedral color conversion for image processing: Apparatus, systems and methods for tetrahedral color conversion for image processing are disclosed. In one implementation a system includes memory at least capable of storing and/or holding one or more color conversion look-up tables. The system also may include an image processor at least capable of determining address values in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070052721 - Systems and methods for temporal subpixel rendering of image data: Methods are disclosed to render image data over time. In one embodiment, a mapping from image data values to first and second sets of subpixels in a plurality of output frames uses brightness versus viewing angle performance measures to reduce color error when the image is viewed on the display... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070052722 - Compositing rendering layers: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to applying effects to a target via compositing rendering layers. In aspects, an intent is determined and a area of a target copied to a surface based on the intent. Then, rendering may continue to the target without changing to another target.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070052723 - High level graphics stream: A system that provides graphics commands that represent graphics or an image, to a consuming process. The graphics commands are represented by a visual tree which includes objects and resources describing the objects. The objects and resources are communicated to a composition engine that creates an analogous composition tree that... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20070052724 - Method for navigating a virtual camera along a biological object with a lumen: A method of navigating along a biological object with a lumen represented by a three-dimensional volume data set comprises generating a plurality of navigation segments connectable in a sequence, each segment having a start point within the lumen, a direction and a length. The navigation may be used for a... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070052725 - User interface for simultaneous experiencing multiple application pages: A method and system for displaying a menu to a user via a user interface. The processor with instructions identifies an image type corresponding to a displayed image. Upon this determination, the processor selects a mask corresponding to the image type. Thereafter, the processor modifies the displayed image using the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070052727 - Digital watermarking compressed video captured from aerial sensors: Digital watermarking technology is used in conjunction with compressed video captured from aerial, unmanned apparatus, such as satellites and aircraft. One implementation includes a method of capturing video depicting at least a portion of the earth's surface, the video captured by an aerial, unmanned apparatus; compressing the captured video; and... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070052728 - Grouping layers in composited image manipulation: A method of compositing a plurality of ordered image layers which include a group of consecutive layers. The group has a shape effect and a composition effect. Any image layers under the group are composited to generate a first intermediate image. A first subset of the plurality of image layers... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20070052726 - Method and system for likeness reconstruction: The present invention provides a method and system for the efficient and accurate facial likeness reconstruction or composite generation from a witnesses' recollection as performed in conjunction with cognitive interview techniques employing a selection menu of facial features or other facial accessories from pre-selected groupings of such features and accessories.... Agent: John P. Luther, Esq. Jenkens & Gilchrist

20070052729 - Method, device, and program for producing elemental image array for three-dimensional image display: A two-dimensional image can be displayed in a desired position, a desired aspect ratio of the display image can be maintained, and such an elemental image array as to maximize an interpolating effect can be produced. A producing method of an elemental image array for three-dimensional image display includes: converting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070052730 - Image management system and methods using digital watermarks: Digital watermarking technology is used in an image management system. Images are uniquely identified by digital watermarking. The images are stored so as to be indexed according to unique identifiers. In one embodiment, related images are linked together by a unique watermark identifier. The unique watermark identifier is also used... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070052731 - Apparatus and method for correcting image distortion in display device: An apparatus for correcting image distortion in a display device and method thereof facilitate enhanced image distortion correction. The apparatus includes a first memory storing at least one interpolation constant; a control unit for generating a predetermined number of image point signals; a device for outputting at least one drive... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070052732 - Resolution independent image resource: In aspects, a class hierarchy is defined that provides definitions of methods for operating on at least bitmaps and vector graphics. A software developer may instantiate an object according to a class definition of the class hierarchy and assign it to any variable (e.g., a control's property) having a type... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070052733 - Image display device and projector: An image display device for adjusting an image based on a parameter set including a plurality of parameters and displaying the adjusted image, includes a storage section that stores a plurality of the parameter sets, a selection section that prompts to select desired one of the plurality of parameter sets... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070052734 - Method and apparatus for annotating images: A method for displaying an image includes executing a viewer application to display an image. The viewer application is linked to an annotation library including annotation instructions. The annotation instructions are called from the viewer application to display annotation data on the image. An imaging system includes an image data... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070052736 - Image display system, image display method, and image display program: An image display system includes a data processing device that processes image data, an image display device that displays an image on the basis of the image data processed by the data processing device, and a transmission path that transmits data between the data processing device and the image display... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070052735 - Method and system for automatically calibrating a color display: A system for calibrating a display device to improve its perceived image quality includes a calibration module that is configured to determine, for each of a plurality of white colors associated with a plurality of gray levels displayed sequentially by the display device, a measured chromaticity point on a chromaticity... Agent: Pinnacle Patent Law Group

20070046560 - Interleaved text display: A flexible electronic display device containing a plurality of fields for displaying information is disclosed. The electronic display device comprises an active area having at least one field comprising a series of interleaved characters that can be selectively activated such that different messages are readable depending upon which characters are... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070046561 - Mobile communication terminal for displaying information: The present invention is related to a mobile communication terminal capable of displaying information. The mobile communication includes a first display unit, a second display unit, a memory unit for storing displayable main information, and a control unit for controlling first sub-information of the main information displayable on the first... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070046562 - Auxiliary display device driver interface: In a main computer system coupled to an auxiliary display device, described is an interface set for implementation by an auxiliary display device driver, to couple the driver to an auxiliary display platform. Commands received from the auxiliary display platform may be handled by code external to the driver, such... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070046563 - Slideshow-data generating apparatus, slideshow generating apparatus, control methods therefor and programs for controlling same: An advanced slideshow is provided. To achieve this, a slideshow display period is divided into a plurality of units and a number of still images to be displayed is decided for every unit. One cell is selected from among a plurality of cells in accordance with the number of still... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046564 - Three-dimensional display device and driving method thereof: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display unit and a light control unit facing the image display unit. The light control unit includes first and second substrates facing each other, a 2-viewpoint electrode layer and a multi-viewpoint electrode layer located between the first and second substrates, and a liquid... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070046565 - Electronic image display system: The present invention relates to an electronic image display system. The system of the invention can be used, for example, as an advertising device using audiovisual presentations of digital image files, digital video files, and/or digital audio files.... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20070046566 - Collision electrification particle, electronic paper display device using the same and manufacturing method thereof: A collision electrification particle, an electronic paper display device using the same and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An electrified particle stabilizing agent is coated at the outside of polymer resin in a spherical shape. As a result, only an electrified particle stabilizing agent is used without an additional... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046567 - Display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines crossing each other; a first pixel connected to one of the plurality of data lines and one of the plurality of gate lines; and a second pixel connected to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046568 - Method of making a display device having a light-blocking layer and display device having the same: Disclosed is a non-photosensitive black electrode composition and a plasma display panel having a black electrode formed using the composition. The black electrode for the plasma display panel includes the non-photosensitive composition, thus yellowing does not occur on electrodes but conductivity to a transparent electrode layer is desirably assured even... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070046569 - Thin film transistor array panel for liquid crystal display having pixel electrode: A TFT array panel includes an insulating substrate, a gate line and a storage electrode line formed thereon. The gate line and the storage electrode line are covered with a gate insulating layer, and a semiconductor island is formed on the gate insulating layer. A pair of ohmic contacts are... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070046571 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel (PDP) including an electron emitter disposed between a pair of sustain electrodes to supply electrons is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes: a substrate, a first sustain electrode and a second sustain electrode formed over the substrate and spaced apart from each other, and an electron... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070046570 - Write-in driving method for plasma display: An addressing driving method for a plasma display is described. The plasma display comprises at least a scan line and at least a common electrode. The addressing driving method uses the following driving scheme. Initially the plasma display is in a reset period, a scanning voltage is used to drive... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070046573 - Driving method of plasma display panel (pdp): A display panel has a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels comprising two green cells, a red cell and a blue cell. The red cell or the blue cell is disposed between the two green cells. The display panel uses red-green-blue gray level data with respect to each of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070046574 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device capable of suppressing the streaking without losing the luminance in an AC plasma display device is provided. In an AC plasma display device in which one screen is comprised of a plurality of sub-fields, and an image is displayed by generating sustain discharges several times between... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070046572 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) having improved brightness and discharge efficiency includes: a first substrate and a second substrate separated from each other; barrier ribs disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and defining a plurality of discharge cells together with the first substrate and the second substrate;... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070046575 - Method for driving plasma display apparatus: A method for driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed in which a scan pulse which falls to a voltage level lower than a lower limit voltage of a ramp-down waveform applied during a set-down period is applied to a scan electrode during an address period to thereby improve jitter... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046576 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the method of driving the plasma display apparatus, a first pulse falling from a reference voltage level is supplied to a sustain electrode prior to a reset period. A voltage of a scan electrode is maintained... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046577 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is disclosed. The plasma display device includes a plurality of discharge cells and address electrodes passing through the discharge cells. Three discharge cells are associated with one pixel and each address electrode passes through at least two of the three discharge cells. Each discharge cell includes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070046580 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel: A plasma display panel driving apparatus and method for applying a driving voltage to drive a plasma display panel, where the plasma display panel includes discharge cells formed where the X electrodes cross the Y electrodes. The apparatus includes an X electrode driver for applying the driving voltages to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070046584 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel: An apparatus and a method for driving a plasma display panel are disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a voltage source, a capacitor charged with a voltage supplied from the voltage source, or discharging the charged voltage, a first switching unit for performing a switching operation to apply the voltage from... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070046581 - Organic electro luminescence display (oeld) to perform sheet unit test and testing method using the oeld: An Organic Electro Luminescence Display (OELD) to perform a sheet unit test includes a pixel unit including: a plurality of pixels to receive a first power supply voltage (ELVDD), a second power supply voltage (ELVSS) and scanning signals to emit light; a scan driving unit to supply the scanning signals... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070046579 - Plasma display apparatus: There is provided a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes a scan-up switch and a scan-down switch whose one ends are connected to the panel so as to apply a scan signal to a panel; and a scan switch that is connected to a node that is positioned... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046585 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are disclosed The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a plurality of electrodes, a driving pulse controller for outputting a timing control signal and a driver. The driver supplies a set-down pulse to at... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070046578 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The present invention can cut off current flowing into the sustain drivers 40, 140, and 240 when the set-up signal R_up or set-down sigal R_dn is applied, even without any other switching elements by using a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046582 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes an energy storing unit, a first energy recovery circuit unit and a second energy recovery circuit unit. The energy storing unit recovers a voltage stored in each of a scan electrode and... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070046583 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a drive integrated circuit for supplying a driving voltage to a scan electrode, a scan reference voltage supply unit, a setup supply unit and a sustain pulse supply unit. The scan reference... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070046586 - Plasma display apparatus, method of driving plasma display apparatus and address driving integrated circuit module: A plasma display apparatus, a method of driving the plasma display apparatus and an address driving integrated circuit module are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a panel capacitor, an external capacitor, an external inductor and an address driving integrated circuit module. The external capacitor supplies a charging voltage to... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070046588 - Acitvie display and pixel driving circuit thereof: A pixel driving circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a forth transistor, a switching circuit, a first voltage generator, a second voltage generator, and a light emitting element. The source of the first transistor is electrically connected to the drain of the second transistor. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046589 - Current driver circuit for a current-driven type of image displayer: A current driver circuit includes a current output terminal, a data electrode terminal, an active current conductive element, and a modification circuit. The current output terminal supplies a drive current with a magnitude according to a data signal supplied thereto to a data electrode terminal of a current-driven type image... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070046590 - Display device and method of driving the same: When a light-emitting element emits light for a long time, characteristics thereof change and current flowing therethrough is reduced even in the same voltage is applied. In particular, in a case of a display device with light-emitting element, there is a problem such that burn-in is generated in a display... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046587 - El display apparatus and drive method of el display apparatus: A precharge voltage Vp is applied in period A. The precharge voltage Vp is generated by applying a constant current Iw to a pixel driving transistor of a display panel and using gate terminal voltage of the driving transistor which passes the constant current Iw. The gate terminal potential is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070046591 - Display device and driving method thereof: A pixel is divided into m (m is an integer of m≧2) sub-pixels, and an area ratio of an s-th (s is an integer of 1 to m) sub-pixel is to be 2s−1. Also, k (k is an integer of k≧2) sub-frame groups including a plurality of sub-frames are provided... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070046592 - Image display apparatus and method for driving the same: An image display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a light emitting device; a drive transistor that has a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. One of the source and drain electrodes are electrically connected to one end of the light emitting device. Each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046593 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device. A first capacitor is coupled between a gate of a first transistor and a first voltage source, and a second transistor is coupled between the gate of the first transistor and a second voltage source. A third transistor is coupled between the first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070046594 - Optical shutter for a display apparatus comprising an array of switches: A class of electromechanical switch cell including an optical shutter mechanism suited for use as an optical light valve, light curtain, and/or other display applications, is disclosed. An optical shutter in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can include a first set of opaque elements on a substrate foil... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070046595 - Driving method of stacked light modulating device, and driving device of stacked light modulating device: A driving method of a stacked light modulating device for recording an image therein, which includes selective reflection layers each having a cholesteric liquid crystal, reflecting light with different wavelengths within a visible range, and being different in a lower threshold value of texture change from a planar to a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070046596 - Image display apparatus and image adjusting method: An image display apparatus includes: an image signal processing unit which adjusts an input grayscale values included in an input image signal according to a predetermined grayscale characteristic; a display unit which displays an image based on an image signal included in an output grayscale value adjusted by the image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070046597 - Liquid crystal display and method of modifying image signal for shorter response time: A liquid crystal display with improved response time and a method of making such display are presented. The invention improves the quality of moving images. The display includes a plurality of pixels, an image signal modifier for generating a preliminary signal based on a previous image signal and a current... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070046598 - Liquid crystal display drive circuit: The number of transistors in an output control circuit is significantly reduced in a liquid crystal display drive circuit. Also, power consumption is reduced and a drive voltage is stabilized. A pair of control transistors is provided for each of four output transistors TR1-TR4, resulting in total of eight control... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070046600 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a data voltage generating circuit supplied with a data signal and generating a data voltage. The data voltage generating circuit includes a gamma reference voltage generator generating first and second gamma reference voltages and a gray level voltage generator including a plurality of gray level voltage... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070046601 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix with each pixel including first and second subpixels. First gate lines are connected to the first subpixel and transmit a first gate-on voltage, second gate lines are connected... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070046599 - Display driving apparatus and method for reducing block dim and display device comprising the display driving apparatus: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of display panel driving apparatuses. Each of the display panel driving apparatuses includes a data line driving circuit, and a plurality of pads via which corresponding gray-scale voltages... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070046602 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes an over driving data generator that compares a gray level of a data signal of a present frame with a gray level of a data signal of a previous frame to output an over driving data signal.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070046605 - Light control device and light control system using same: A light control device has a substrate, a planar electrode, a light modulating film having a refractive index that is changeable in accordance with an electric field applied to the film, and a plurality of electrode segments arranged at a predetermined interval on the light modulating film. A controller applies... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070046606 - Liquid crystal display device, module for driving the same and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes an LCD panel and a driving module. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixel parts, each including a transmitting portion and a reflecting portion. The transmitting portion has a first switching element electrically connected to a first gate line, and a first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070046604 - Method for inserting black frames: A method of inserting black frames is provided. The LCD comprises a pixel, and the pixel comprises a liquid crystal capacitor. Firstly, during a normal-mode period, a common voltage is provided to a first end of the liquid crystal capacitor. Next, a data signal is provided to a second end... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070046603 - Multi-line addressing methods and apparatus: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for driving electroluminescent, in particular organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays using multi-ling addressing (MLA) techniques. Embodiments of the invention are particularly suitable for use with so-called passive matrix OLED displays. A current generator for an electroluminescent display driver, the current generator including:... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070046607 - Display panels: A display panel, comprising a scan driver, at least one data driver, and a plurality of pixel groups. The scan driver drives a plurality of scan lines arranged in a first direction. The data driver drives a plurality of data lines arranged in a second direction. Each pixel group comprises... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070046608 - Emission driving device of organic light emitting display device: A system on panel (SOP)-type emission driving device of an organic light emitting display device. The emission driving device includes an odd emission control line controller having a plurality of flip-flops for outputting emission control signals to odd emission control lines, and an even line controller having a plurality of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070046609 - Display device and driving method therefor: A display device includes an image signal modifier for modifying input image signals based on the difference between the input image signal for a pixel in a first row and the input image signal for the pixel in the adjacent row. The gate-on voltages includes a pre-charging voltage and a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070046610 - Driving method for display apparatus: A driving method for a display apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix along a line direction and a column direction implements sequential driving in the column direction by inverting a polarity of a plurality of pixels arranged in the line direction. The method includes driving a plurality... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070046612 - Liquid crystal display controller and liquid crystal display control method: A liquid crystal display controller includes a circuit which generates a signal for driving a signal line with the polarity of the signal controlled by a control signal; an inductance element into which current flows in synchronization with the control signal; and a switching unit which connects selectively one of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070046613 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display system reduces a consumed current and reduces generation of heat in a data integrated circuit. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal cell array, a first charge sharing circuit arranged on one side of the liquid crystal cell array to pre-charge the data lines... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070046611 - Pwm driver for a passive matrix display and corresponding method: This invention generally relates to apparatus and methods for driving passive, electro-optic displays with greater efficiency. The invention is particularly suitable for driving passive matrix organic light emitting diode displays.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070046614 - Apparatus for driving a thin-film transistor liquid crystal display: An apparatus for driving a thin-film transistor liquid crystal display is provided. The apparatus is able to reduce power consumption of its source driver IC in the vertical blanking time without affecting image quality in the normal display time. The apparatus comprises an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and a source... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070046615 - Liquid crystal panel operating in a frame-inversion driving scheme: A LC panel for use in a projection LCD device includes a source driver IC operating in a frame-inversion driving scheme. The luminance gradient caused by the frame-inversion driving scheme in the active-matrix substrate is cancelled by the luminance gradient caused by the heat generated by the source driver. A... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070046617 - Backlight assembly and display device having the same: A backlight assembly includes a light-generating unit, a heat-radiation member, a first receiving container, and a second receiving container. The heat-radiation member is disposed under the light-generating unit and radiates heat generated by the light-generating unit. The first receiving container is composed of a bottom portion and side portion extended... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070046618 - Display device and image forming apparatus with same: In addition to a normal waiting mode of displaying in a whole screen of a liquid-crystal panel and a first power-saving mode of eliminating the displaying in a whole screen of the liquid-crystal panel, a second power-saving mode of displaying at a part of the liquid-crystal panel is provided. In... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070046616 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and backlight module thereof: A backlight module at least includes a light-emitting unit, a driving circuit board, and a casing. The light-emitting unit at least has an electrode pin. The driving circuit board at least generates a power signal for driving the light-emitting unit. The electrode pin of the light-emitting unit is directly connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046619 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device 1 of the invention has a liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer 14 is provided between a TFT substrate 2 and a CF substrate 25 that has a common electrode 26, a light sensing component LS1 with a TFT photosensor that... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070046620 - Light transmission device and light transmission system: A light transmission device transmits an image signal on light to an output device based on a control signal for controlling the image signal. The light transmission device includes a transmitting interface component, a receiving interface component, and a light transmitting medium. The transmitting interface component converts the image signal... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070046623 - Electronic paper display device, manufacturing method and driving method thereof: An electronic paper display device, a manufacturing method and a driving method thereof are disclosed. Micro protrusion members are formed at electrodes or at insulating layers. Consequently, the electrophoretic particles are prevented from being securely attached to an upper or the lower structure, and therefore, the quality of pictures is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046622 - Electrophoretic device driving method, electrophoretic device, electronic apparatus, and electronic watch: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic device that includes a display region including a plurality of electrophoretic elements each including a dispersed system that includes electrophoretic particles and that is disposed between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, a driver that drives the electrophoretic elements by applying voltages... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070046621 - Image display device and method: An image display device and image display method are provided. The device and method can prevent changes in image density and contrast, which are caused by repeated displaying over long periods of time and changes in environment, by employing accurate electric current detection, due to the following operations. Voltage measurement... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070046628 - Apparatus and method for controlling user interface using jog dial and navigation key: An apparatus and method for controlling a user interface using a jog dial and a navigation key are provided. The method includes navigating a main menu by a jog dial and navigating a submenu by a navigation key in a menu structure having at least one step; and navigating the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070046626 - Digital presenter: A digital presenter has a base, an image acquiring device with an automatic focusing function, and a flexible support device connected between the base and the image acquiring device.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070046627 - Input device and method for protecting input information from exposure: An input device and method for protecting input information from exposure, in which the time of input of information is determined using a tactile output to protect the input information from being exposed. The input device for protecting input information from exposure includes a user-input module for receiving predetermined input... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070046625 - Input method for surface of interactive display: An interactive display system configured for detecting an object or user input provided with an object. The system includes a display surface on which graphic images are displayed, one or more scanning light sources configured for scanning the interactive display surface, and a light detector configured for detecting light reflected... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070046624 - Scalable controller for a computer input area: In one embodiment, a scalable controller for a computer input area is provided with: a plurality of drive signal pads; a plurality of signal detection pads; a programmable memory to store an indication of active ones of the drive signal pads and signal detection pads; and control circuitry to identify... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070046630 - Method and device for controlling display according to tilt of mobile terminal using geomagnetic sensor: Disclosed are a method and a device for dynamically changing the display of a picture according to the degree of tilt of a mobile terminal without any separate key input. The degree of tilt refers to the angle at which the mobile terminal is tilted with respect to a reference... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070046629 - Proximity sensor for a graphical user interface navigation button: A display device comprises a display screen, a graphical user interface navigation button and a proximity sensor including an infrared radiation emitter, an infrared radiation sensor and an infrared radiation source differentiator. The infrared radiation emitter emits a navigation infrared radiation. The infrared radiation sensor is positioned relative to the... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070046631 - Computer mouse having keying device: A computer mouse includes one or more tracing devices disposed in a housing, and a keying device attached to the housing for entering digital or control signals. A cover is pivotally coupled the housing for supporting the keying device. The keying device includes a number of key pads attached to... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070046632 - Support for sensorboards: The invention relates to a carrier that holds a component in a defined position on a circuit board in a housing or housing part. In particular, the invention relates to a carrier for a sensor board on which a light-sensitive sensor is mounted. According to the invention, it is proposed... Agent: Howson And Howson

20070046635 - Electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment of the invention, An electronic apparatus comprises; a body including a keyboard exposed on an upper surface hereof; a display device including a display surface and movable to a first state, a second state and a third state; an inversion hinge for rotating the display device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070046633 - System and method for user interface: A user interface apparatus for an electronic device. The apparatus comprises: one or more mechanical keys; one or more touch sensitive surfaces, the mechanical keys being adjacent to the touch sensitive surfaces; and a processor for receiving one or more user input operations performed on the mechanical keys and the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070046634 - Wireless method and system for power management of computing devices: A method for operating one or more computing input devices in a power saving mode. The method includes providing a computer input device having a wireless sensing device coupled to a processing unit. The wireless sensing device and the processing unit are provided in a housing of the computing input... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070046638 - Handheld electronic device having facilitated input and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and an improved method facilitate the entry of data when the data is to be of a particular arrangement of alphabetic (A) and/or numeric (N) and/or other characters. In the depicted exemplary embodiment, the handheld electronic device includes a user interface that facilitates the entry... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070046636 - Key pad assembly and mobile communication terminal having the same: A key pad assembly and a mobile communication terminal having the same. The key pad assembly comprises: a key pad installed at a front surface of a cover so as to be exposed outwardly; a switching unit arranged at a rear surface of the cover for generating a signal when... Agent: Cascio, Schmoyer & Zervas

20070046637 - Touch key assembly for a mobile terminal: A touch key assembly is structured to operate with a cover having at least one touch key, which is defined by an optically transmissive region of the cover. A touch pad is coupled to the cover and is shaped to define at least one aperture which forms a light guide... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070046651 - Capacitance touch slider: A device for detecting the position of a human finger or other object on a touch-sensitive scrolling pad. Dual independent oscillators may be used to generate two pulse trains at frequencies dependent upon the capacitance of two conductors resulting from the position of the finger on the conductors. The pulses... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070046644 - Electronic apparatus having buttons without forming gaps therein: An electronic apparatus having buttons without forming gaps therein comprises a housing having a first opening, an operation element, a supporting plate, a touch circuit board and at least one switch component. The operation element comprises a touch pad, a first fixing part and a button part. The touch pad... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070046641 - Entering a character into an electronic device: A method (300) for entering a character into an electronic device (100) is provided. The method (300) includes displaying (301) input character keys (204) on a touch sensitive region (202) of a display screen (105) of the device (100), the keys identifying an associated character. Next, a display step (309)... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070046645 - Information processing method and information processing device: In an information processing method for recognizing a handwritten figure or character, with use of a speech input in combination, in order to increase the recognition accuracy a given target is subjected to figure recognition and a first candidate figure list is obtained. Input speech information is phonetically recognized and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070046647 - Input data processing program and information processing apparatus: The game apparatus executes a storage step of repeatedly acquiring input area data representing an input area 41 in accordance with a detection result from the input device, and storing the input area data in a memory. Next, the game apparatus executes: a virtual area determination step of determining a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070046650 - Liquid crystal display including sensing unit: The present invention is related to a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a display panel, a plurality of pixels formed on the display panel, a sensing unit disposed among the pixels and generating a sensor data signal based on a touch to the display panel, a plurality... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070046646 - Mobile communications terminal having a touch input unit and controlling method thereof: A method and apparatus for scrolling a display includes detecting contact relative to a touch pad having a plurality of regions which individually correspond to a plurality of different scrolling directions, and determining which region of the plurality of regions the contact is detected. If the contact is maintained for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070046649 - Multi-functional navigational device and method: The present invention is related to a computer-implemented method of identifying and annotating an image from an electronic medical record displayed on a touch screen, which includes displaying the image on the touch screen; identifying medical issues shown in the image; annotating the image with at least one symbol correlated... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070046640 - Optical generic switch panel: A switch panel having a touch plate, image generator, imaging system and light source is disclosed. The touch plate includes an optically transparent layer having first and second surfaces in which a light signal is trapped by internal reflection. The image generator displays an image that includes a plurality of... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070046643 - State-based approach to gesture identification: A method and apparatus for identifying user gesture includes a touch sensor for determining contact information that describes locations at which a user contacts a touch sensitive surface corresponding to a display. The touch sensor provides the contact information to a gesture identification module which uses state information to identify... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070046642 - Touch panel having a speaker function: A touch panel includes a first supporting substrate, a second supporting substrate that faces the first supporting substrate, a first transparent electrode formed on the first supporting substrate, a second transparent electrode formed on the second supporting substrate, a third transparent electrode formed between the first and second transparent electrodes,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070046639 - Touch sensitive display device: A touch sensor is disclosed comprising a display device having a substrate on which substrate at least one display electrode is disposed for the display of a shape on the display device. An interface is coupled to the at least one display electrode for receiving display data to the display... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070046648 - Touch sensor having compensated base capacitance: A touch sensor comprises a plurality of traces in a same sensing layer or in different sensing layers, and the base capacitances of the traces are made uniform by connecting one or more compensation areas to one or more of the traces or selecting the distances between the grounding layer... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070046652 - Touch panel: A touch panel including a light-transmissive upper substrate, a light-transmissive lower substrate, an upper wave plate, a polarizing plate, a lower wave plate, and a first cover layer. An upper conductive layer is formed at a lower face of the upper substrate, and a lower conductive layer is formed at... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070046653 - Digital pen methods and apparatus for healthcare systems: Digital pen methods and apparatus for healthcare systems are shown. A digital pen is used with a form which then will be interpreted. Various actions may take place as a result. User interaction may include verification and error handling.... Agent: Joseph E. Chovanes

20070046654 - Electronic pen having an ultrasonic wave controller: The present invention aims to provide an electronic pen that is able to prevent the reflection of an ultrasonic wave. An electronic pen according to the present invention has: a housing having a longitudinal axis and a write side tip along the longitudinal axis; at least an ultrasonic wave transmitter,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070046655 - Simplified interface for dialog between a user and an interactive terminal, and interacttive terminal provided with said interface: The invention relates to an interface (12) for dialogue between a user and an interactive terminal (10), especially a parking meter for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one selection element (30) enabling the user to choose the value of at least one parameter from an associated list of values,... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070046656 - Display apparatus, display method, and storage medium storing display program: The display apparatus of the present invention performs display processing for outputting and displaying a plurality of screens consecutively on a display unit. The apparatus comprises a restart screen determination unit for obtaining a restart screen based on the screen displayed on the display unit when canceled, and a screen... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070046658 - Display drive control circuit: No flicker is displayed on the display screen during display of moving pictures and power consumption can be reduced by adding a high quality moving picture display function. Moreover, the number of times of transfer of moving pictures by comprising a still-picture•text•system•I/O•bus interface and a moving picture interface (external display... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070046657 - Display system and method of controlling same: A display system and display control method for displaying an image based upon image data supplied from an image supply device or external storage unit. Information indicating whether editing of image data is allowed or not is appended to an image, the information is discriminated and display areas of images... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070046659 - Drive circuit and display apparatus including the same: Disclosed is a drive circuit that allows an improvement of driving capability of switching devices in an output circuit that drives capacitive loads, and allows an improvement in power recovery efficiency. The drive circuit comprises: a second power supply circuit for supplying a second power supply voltage; and a plurality... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070046660 - Power supply circuit and electronic appliance therewith: A power supply circuit (10) has a current control portion (5) that controls, at a predetermined level, the currents passed through LEDs (3) and (4); a current setting portion (6) that sets, in the current control portion (5), the level of currents to be passed through the LEDs (3) and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070046662 - Authentication apparatus and authentication method: An authentication apparatus comprises a first acquiring part for acquiring three-dimensional shape information of a face of a target person to be authenticated, a compressing part for compressing said three-dimensional shape information by using a predetermined mapping relation, thereby generating three-dimensional shape feature information, and an authenticating part for performing... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070046663 - Method of determining the shape of a dental technology object and apparatus for per-forming the method: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a non-contact, three-dimensional determination of the shape of a dental technology object (10) whereby, to determine the space coordinates of the object's surface points to be measured, a thin stripe of light projected onto the object is measured by at... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070046661 - Three or four-dimensional medical imaging navigation methods and systems: Free-hand manual navigation assists diagnosis using perspective rendering for three or four dimensional imaging. In addition to a three-dimensional rendering for navigation, a number of two-dimensional images corresponding to a virtual camera location are displayed to assist the navigation and visualization. Alternatively or additionally, a representation of the virtual camera... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070046664 - Method and system for displaying performance constraints in a flow design tool: A method and system of the present invention determines the performance values of components of a flow by taking the interactions between the components into account, and visualizes the performance values on a graphical user interface during a flow design phase. Thus, interactions between the components of the flow become... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20070046665 - Apparatus and program for image generation: An image processing program which can create a gradation of a sharp edge shadow and a gradation of subtle colors. The program comprises, a step in which a diffuse reflection from a first and second object and a shadow of the first object on the second object in a lighting... Agent: Richard P. Berg, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070046667 - Image generation program product and image generation device: This program product causes a computer to function as the respective units for (a) arranging a model configured by intersecting a plurality of plate-shaped polygons in a virtual space, (b) calculating a parameter dependent on an angle formed from a first vector set in association with the model and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070046666 - Video rendering apparatus and method and program: Apparatus includes unit storing CG data containing data about coordinate transformation, camera, geometry, light source, and texture, unit transforming coordinate system of CG data into camera-coordinate system, unit calculating intersections of object and ray vectors passing through sampled points, unit calculating 3D motion vectors, unit calculating color values at intersections,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070046668 - System and method for predicting performance of electrical power cables: A computer simulation method is disclosed for simulating an electrical cable having a stranded conductor surrounded by a conductor shield encased in an insulation jacket and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor injected with a fluid composition comprising at least one dielectric enhancement fluid component... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070046670 - Aircraft flat panel display system with graphical image integrity: An improvement over prior art aircraft instrument flight display systems for imaging on a bit-mapped display formed of a multiplicity of individually addressable pixels at locations throughout the display and actuatable to create images on the display, employs a common processor operatively connected between a video graphics processor and the... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070046669 - Apparatus and method for automatic video summarization using fuzzy one-class support vector machines: Disclosed is an automatic video summarization device and method using a fuzzy OC-SVM (one-class support vector machine) algorithm. A user's subjective decision is reflected in order to generate an effective video summary, and a method for generating flexible video summary information which satisfies the user's environment or requirements is provided.... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070046672 - Chart display device and program for the same: A graph creation unit of a chart display device displays a plurality of charts (graphs), which is created by applying one graph-model form to a plurality of categories in a category list file, onto one graph destination sheet, by aligning and arranging the charts in the one graph destination sheet.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070046671 - Extended portfolio chart drawing device, processing method and computer-readable medium recording a program of the same: An extended portfolio chart drawing device draws an evaluation object on a portfolio chart. The chart drawing device selects the evaluation object to draw a radar chart, extracts a score from an index axis of an evaluation item designated by a dial drag position detection unit for the selected evaluation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070046674 - Graphic display control device for displaying graph and graphic and recording medium: A graphic display control device easily changes a display of a graph or graphic by operating an area where a graph or graphic is generally displayed. When a CPU detects trace execution inputting, the CPU displays a trace pointer on a graph, and simultaneously displays coordinates at which the trace... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070046673 - Method, arrangement and computer program for visualising a biochemical pathway: The present invention relates to a method of visualising a biochemical pathway, wherein said pathway represents a plurality of reaction stages linked by reaction steps. Said reaction stages are represented by nodes of said pathway. Said reaction steps are represented by links in between said nodes of said pathway. Node... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070046675 - Polygonal chart drawing processing method, device and computer-readable medium recording a program of the same: The polygonal chart drawing processing device inputs information including the number N of evaluation items, the length M of an evaluation axis, evaluation items and values for the drawing object from the radar chart drawing processing device. The device generates base graphics (e.g. isosceles triangle) as many as the number... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070046677 - Method of tolerance-based trajectory planning: The present invention involves a method of operating a motive body, where a target path is identified. The motive body is commanded to follow the target path from an initial position. The first actual position is sensed of the motive body after the commanding step. A first target subpath is... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070046676 - Polynomial generation method for circuit modeling: A method for determining polynomials to model circuit delay includes the step of determining one or more error areas in a characteristic map that exceed an error margin. Next, a current domain count is set to zero and selecting one error area of the one or more error areas is... Agent: Ingrassia, Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070046678 - System and method for training with a virtual apparatus: A method and system of training in conjunction with a computer animation executed by a computing environment is described. The method includes recognizing a task to be performed in the computer animation, recognizing a problem, displayed in the computer animation, to accomplish the task, and solving the problem by manipulation... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070046679 - Video processing apparatus, video processing method and program: There is provided with a video processing method including: writing first video signals representing an input video frame alternately into first and second storage regions every input video frame; reading out the written first video signals from either the first storage region or the second storage region; generating second video... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070046680 - Aircraft flat panel display system with improved information availability: An improved aircraft instrument flight display system employs primary and secondary video graphics processors for generating graphics video imaging information. Both the primary and secondary video graphics processors have associated potential failure threads and are preferably chosen to have different potential failure threads so that the same failure problem will... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070046681 - Memory apparatus and memory control method: A memory apparatus having first and second memories generates an address corresponding to input data, and compares an address corresponding to data stored in the second memory with the generated address. The memory apparatus reads out data corresponding to the generated address from the second memory, and determines the number... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070046682 - Methods and apparatus for retrieving and combining samples of graphics information: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for accomplishing the fetching or sampling of channels of pixels or texels such as neighboring pixels or texels or non-neighboring pixels or texels in a simultaneous operation in order to achieve optimization of the performance of a texture pipeline. In particular, logic is disclosed including... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070046683 - Image processor, imaging device, and image processing system: An image processor for lowering data transfer speed. A JPEG compression circuit performs two-dimensional compression process on data output from a YCbCr conversion circuit to generate compressed image data. A timing signal generator changes the frequency of a transfer clock signal in accordance with the compressed image data. An output... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070046684 - Methods and apparatus for efficiently accessing reduced color-resolution image data: The invention is directed, in one embodiment, to a method for generating memory addresses for accessing an image in which each pixel in a group of pixels has a luma component, but shares chroma components with other pixels of the group. A preferred method includes providing a memory, having a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070046686 - Image synthesis methods and systems: The invention provides systems and computer-implemented methods for evaluating integrals using quasi-Monte Carlo methodologies, and in particular embodiments, adaptive quasi-Monte Carlo integration and adaptive integro-approximation in conjunction with techniques including a scrambled Halton Sequence, stratification by radical inversion, stratified samples from the Halton Sequence, deterministic scrambling, bias elimination by randomization,... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070046685 - Volume rendering apparatus and method: An apparatus for rendering a two dimensional polygon image from volume data defining a volume and plane data defining a two dimensional plane which intersects the volume. The apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus is operable to generate triangle data comprising an indirect representation of each triangle... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070046689 - Method and apparatus for displaying bitmap multi-color image data on dot matrix-type display screen on which three primary color lamps are dispersedly arrayed: A large number of pixel lamps are evenly arrayed in a regular pattern to constitute a display screen. The pixel lamps are in three kinds which are a first color lamp, a second color lamp and a third color lamp. These three kinds of pixel lamps are evenly dispersed on... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070046687 - Method and apparatus for overlaying reduced color resolution images: In one embodiment, an image is created by combining an overlay image with a main image. Each pixel of the main and overlay images is defined by a luma component and at least one color component. Each luma component takes a value within a luma range, the lowest and highest... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070046688 - Source color modification on a digital nonlinear editing system: A system and method for generating a representation of a color modification to be applied to segments on a digital nonlinear editing system, where each segment is a component of a media composition, and represents a section of a digital media. An indication of a modification to be applied to... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070046691 - Gamuts and gamut mapping: Techniques relating to gamuts and gamut mapping are described. In one instance, a process identifies a gamut attribute and generates a gamut having the attribute.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070046690 - Laser-based display having expanded image color: A method for displaying a color image by providing a color image display apparatus having at least three narrow-band emissive light sources that define a display color gamut. Image data values are accepted that are defined within an original color gamut that is smaller in area than the display color... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070046692 - Graphics engine with efficient interpolation: A graphics engine includes a setup unit and a rendering unit. The setup unit computes coefficients A, B, and C used for interpolating an attribute v of a triangle to be rendered for a graphics image. The setup unit then derives compressed coefficients Ã, {tilde over (B)}, and {tilde over... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070046693 - Process model engine and method for constructing process models and managing their synchronized representations: The primary component of the present invention is an automated method for transforming any suitably well-formed textual description of a process into a series of diagrammatic representations of that process. The secondary component of this invention is an automated method for transforming any of these diagrammatic representations into a corresponding... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20070046695 - System and method for computer aided design: The invention provides a system and method for computer aided design. The system can include an electronic design tool configured to model a mechanical system. A first view type window can be in communication with the electronic design tool. In addition, a second view type window can be in communication... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070046694 - System and method for image customization: Embodiments of the present invention may provide methods, devices and systems for receiving a plurality of input records and for each of the plurality of input records, replacing a placeholder layer in a multilayered image template file with a customized image layer created based on data in the input record.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070046696 - System and method for learning relative distance in a shape space using image based features: A system and method for identifying a shape of an anatomical structure in an input image is disclosed. An input image is received and warped using a set of warping templates resulting in a set of warped images. An integral image is calculated for each warped image. Selected features are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070046697 - Notifying a graphics subsystem of a physical change at a display device: When a physical change (e.g. a change in screen orientation) is detected at a display device that is attached to a graphics subsystem of a host device and on which images are currently being displayed, a hot plug detect signal may be provided to the graphics subsystem. In response, the... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070046698 - Method for displaying high resolution picture in mobile communication terminal, mobile communication terminal and system for converting picture file format therefor: The present invention discloses a method for displaying a high resolution picture in a mobile communication terminal having a low resolution display means, the mobile communication terminal and a system for converting a picture file format therefor. The method for displaying the high resolution picture in the mobile communication terminal... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070046699 - Three dimensional adorner: A three dimensional adorner may be displayed with a corresponding three dimensional object when the object is created or inserted into a display and also at any subsequent time that the object is selected. Additionally, if any portions of the adorner are obscured, the adorner may be reoriented such that... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070046700 - Media receiving apparatus, media receiving method, and media distribution system: A media receiving apparatus capable of preventing media from being positioned in an invalid display area or a program from being temporarily stopped, even if the vertical/horizontal ratio of the resolution of the display section is switched while a broadcast or streaming program is being displayed. In this apparatus there... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP