Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 04/07

20070091010 - Methods and systems for user interface customization: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for user interface customization.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070091011 - Z-axis redundant display / multilayer display: A display system for presenting one or more planes of display information. The display system may include two or more display modules positioned in a spaced relationship in a stacked formation substantially along a Z-axis perpendicular to a display face of a display module. Each display module may be selectively... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070091012 - Cosmetic enhancement mirror: Cosmetic enhancement mirror methods and related systems... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070091013 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a first panel, a second panel facing and separated from the first panel, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second panels, a plurality of sensor data lines formed on the second panel, a plurality of variable capacitors of which capacitance thereof is... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091014 - Clocked inverter circuit, latch circuit, shift register circuit, drive circuit for display apparatus, and display apparatus: The present invention is applied to a flat display apparatuses using organic EL devices. Switching circuits implemented by a set of transistors TR1 and TR2 that perform on/off operations in a complementary manner form a series circuit, an output of the connection midpoint of the series circuit is output to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070091015 - Vehicle seat entertainment system incorporating a databus: A media system for a vehicle comprises a media unit including a display mounted to a seat of the vehicle, a databus line running from the media unit through the seat, and a plurality of media sources electrically connected to the databus line. The databus line may comprise optical fiber.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070091016 - Plasma display device and its driving method: In a plasma display device, a plurality of row electrodes are divided into first and second row electrode groups, and the respective first and second row electrode groups are divided into a plurality of sub-groups. In respective subfields of one field, an operation of an address period is performed for... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070091018 - Plasma display device and method for driving the same: A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device includes an X-board, a Y-board, a Z-board, a voltage generator, and a power supply controller. The X-board outputs an address voltage to an address electrode. The Y-board outputs a scan voltage to a scan electrode. A Z-board outputs a sustain... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091017 - Plasma display driving method and apparatus: In a driving circuit for alternately applying a high level voltage and a low level voltage to an electrode of a plasma display, a first capacitor formed in a power source unit and that supplies the high level voltage is used to increase a voltage at the electrode to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070091021 - Digital gamma correction circuit and digital gamma correction method: A digital gamma correction circuit includes: a data setting portion for setting set data including a section width W1 and coordinates (Xp,Yp) of a break point P; a coefficient calculation portion for calculating coefficients for straight-line equations representing a broken baseline including a break point and three predetermined approximate line... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091019 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A method and apparatus are provided for adjusting the contrast ratio in a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a signal input module which receives a video signal and a signal processing module which processes the video signal received from the signal input module. A display module has a display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091020 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus having different widths of data signals applied to an address electrode in the address period. Particularly, data signals are set to have different rising time, sustain time, and falling time such that the picture quality reduction and the driving efficiency degradation... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070091022 - 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 electrode and a second electrode, a first electrode driver, and a second electrode driver. The first electrode driver supplies a first sustain pulse of a... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070091024 - Circuit and method for resetting plasma display panel: A circuit and a method for resetting a plasma display panel (PDP) are provided. The circuit resets at least one display unit in the PDP at a resetting period. The circuit includes at least one energy recovery circuit (ERC). In a first period of the resetting period, the ERC provides... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070091023 - Driving circuit for plasma display panel using offset waveform: A sustain voltage applying circuit includes a circuit having a sustain pulse generating circuit for generating a sustain pulse of a predetermined waveform and an offset pulse generating circuit for generating an offset pulse higher in peak value than the sustain pulse, the sustain pulse generating circuit and the offset... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091025 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a method of driving a plasma display apparatus. The method of driving the plasma display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises the steps of applying a sustain voltage to a scan electrode, supplying... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070091028 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an electrode, a voltage controller, a scan operating unit, and a driving signal supply unit. The voltage controller includes a switch unit for forming a set-down pulse gradually falling to a first voltage for... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070091026 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, a drain of a first transistor is coupled to a power source supplying a Vs/2 voltage, and a second transistor is coupled between a source of the first transistor and a ground terminal. A first terminal of a capacitor is coupled to a node of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070091027 - Plasma display device, driving apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display device, a driving apparatus and a driving method is provided. The display device includes a plurality of electrodes, a first transistor is coupled to a power source, and a second transistor coupled between the first transistor and a second power source. A first capacitor is coupled to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070091031 - Data driving circuit, organic light emitting display device using the same, and driving method of organic light emitting display device: A data driving circuit for displaying uniform images, a light emitting display device using the same, a driving method thereof. The data driving circuit includes a holding latch part including a plurality of holding latches for storing data, a signal generation part including a plurality of digital-analog converters for receiving... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070091035 - Display device and method for driving the same: When a time grayscale method is used, it is an object to provide a display device in which the number of signal writings into a pixel can be reduced by dividing one frame period by the number of bits and power consumption can be reduced, and grayscale can be expressed.... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070091032 - Display method, display device, and electronic apparatus: [Solving Means] A panel drive current value K corresponding to a panel drive current In that is a sum of drive currents flowing into pixels 8R, 8G, and 8B is detected, and the panel drive current value K and a set current value Is that has been previously set are... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091030 - Electronic control cell for an active matrix display organic electroluminescent diode and methods for the operation thereof and display: An electronic control cell for at least one organic light-emitting diode (OLED) of a pixel or segment of an active matrix display, the cell including at least one control circuit (6,61,62) with a control input and operating relative to a control signal arriving at a control line (5,5′) and enabling... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070091034 - Image display device and driver circuit therefor: A waveform generator can be constructed at a small area size using thin-film transistors and generates multiple triangular-wave voltage waveforms different from one another in phase, and an image display device that applies the waveform generator. A waveform generator that uses loop-form resistive wiring is provided on a substrate. The... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070091033 - Method for driving active matrix type display device: Appropriate image quality is maintained when a display device is powered on or when a signal is applied. After a power supply is stabilized, a pixel select gate driver section scans all pixel circuits. A final illumination on/off driver outputs illumination on/off gate signals. In this case, a start pulse... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091029 - Transistor circuit, pixel circuit, display device, and driving method therefor: The transistor circuit includes a plurality of thin-film transistors (Tr1 to Tr3) formed on a substrate and wiring which connects the gate, source, and/or drain of each of the transistors, so as to perform a predetermined operation. During the operation, a forward bias is applied between the gate and source... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070091036 - Apparatus and method for regulating white leds: The present invention is an apparatus for driving white LEDs. The apparatus includes a switchable current sink, a DC-DC converter and a reference circuit. The DC-DC converter provides a driving voltage to a plurality of LEDs. The switchable current sink regulates currents through the plurality of LEDs, and the switchable... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070091037 - Energy efficient compact display for mobile device: Provided herein are methods and systems for providing an energy efficient display for mobile devices which has the means to locate and track the head movements of viewers and steer focused display light output torward the direction or directions of users without user intervention. The required optical elements for both... Agent: Sanjeet K. Dutta Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

20070091038 - Methods and apparatus for spatial light modulation: Improved apparatus and methods for spatial light modulation are disclosed which utilize optical cavities having both front and rear reflective surfaces. Light-transmissive regions are formed in the front reflective surface for spatially modulating light.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070091040 - Driving circuit having voltage detecting circuit and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) includes: a gate driving integrated circuit (IC) (22) for scanning an LCD panel (24) of the LCD; a data driving IC (23) for providing a plurality of gradation voltages to the LCD panel; a primary control circuit board (21) configured for providing the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091039 - Liquid crystal display device: In order to prevent a gradation shift due to variations in the thickness of a film used to form an auxiliary capacitance, a detection capacitance having a layer structure similar to that of the auxiliary capacitance placed for each pixel is provided on an array substrate. Furthermore, the capacitance value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091041 - Flat display apparatus and picture quality controlling method based on panel defects: A flat panel display device may improve picture quality by compensating a panel defect by use of a circuit and a picture quality controlling method. A flat panel display device includes a display panel.A memory stores a location information and a compensation value for a panel defect location on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070091042 - Flat display apparatus and picture quality controlling method thereof: A flat panel display device and a picture quality controlling method thereof is provided. The flat panel display device includes a display panel. A memory stores location information about a panel defect location on the display panel and a compensation value to be dispersed for a plurality of frame periods.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070091043 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes an array pixel including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. The plurality of pixels include a set of pixels including a pair of center pixels adjacent to each other, and a pair of first-color pixels and a pair of second-color pixels obliquely facing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091045 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a display section which enables color display in each of pixels, and a gradation control unit which controls a gradation level in each of the pixels. The display section includes a first white display structure which is configured to combine primary colors and to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070091044 - Liquid crystal display with improved pixel configuration: In a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels has a plurality of subpixels corresponding to a red, a green and a blue and is arranged along data lines. The subpixels are formed in pixel regions, which are defined by the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070091046 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving a picture quality. In the method, first and second sustain pulses having a different width during the sustain period are alternately applied to the first and second row electrodes.... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070091048 - Current-driven oled panel and related pixel structure: A pixel structure is disclosed. The pixel structure has a light-emitting device; a first scan line for transferring a first signal; a data line for transferring a data current signal; a first transistor having a gate coupled to the first scan line; a current mirror electrically connected to the light-emitting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091047 - Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic appliance: It is an object to correct a gap of a rise of a gate signal caused by characteristics of a transistor. In a display device, black is accurately displayed by using an inspecting circuit and a signal correcting circuit. In the case where a gate signal lags due to characteristics... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070091050 - Display device: In a display device using an RGB time division drive system in which RGB data to be supplied to display pixels of three colors RGB are subjected to time-division multiplexing and input to a liquid crystal panel unit, (1) data are input to the liquid crystal panel unit alternately in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070091049 - Electron emission display device and control method thereof: An electron emission display device and a control method thereof, which previously store variable voltage information according to a drive time and/or a size of frame data, and maintain current amount constant without measuring an electric current at the driving time of a real screen in order to prevent a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070091051 - Data driver, apparatus and method for reducing power on current thereof: A data driver, an apparatus and a method for reducing power on current thereof are disclosed. The invention is used to reduce the start-up current for the data driver. The data driver includes a high-voltage output circuit. The method comprises at least following steps. First, receiving a charge-sharing enable signal... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070091053 - Display device: Output voltages of R-2R ladder resistor type digital-to-analog conversion circuits are once stored in sample and hold capacitors through sample and hold charging amplifiers and the voltages stored in the capacitors are then supplied to a liquid crystal panel through panel drive amplifiers and multiplexers simultaneously. Power supplies to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070091052 - Output circuit, digital analog circuit and display device: A selection circuit receives a plural number (m) of respective different values of voltages as reference voltages to select and output two voltages. An amplifier receives at two input terminals the two reference voltages output from the selection circuit to output an output voltage extrapolated... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070091054 - Slew rate adjusting circuit, source driver, source driver module, and display device: Provided is a slew rate adjusting circuit, a source driver, a source driver module and a display device. The slew rate adjusting circuit may output a buffered signal, in response to an input signal input to an Mth stage shift register, where M is a natural number less than N,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070091055 - Aging compensation method for liquid crystal display device, aging compensation apparatus for liquid crystal display device, computer program, and liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is driven by liquid crystal drive output signals according to input image input signals Sin respectively corresponding to plural colors and displays a desired display image Lim, a backlight unit as a light source for transmitted light (display... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091060 - Backlight control for a handheld computing device: In a handheld computing device that includes a backlit display having a variable-intensity backlight, a method for controlling the intensity of light produced by the backlight involves the following steps. The computing device also includes user data input means, and data processing means coupled to the user data input means... Agent: Heenan Blaikie LLP

20070091057 - Device for driving a backlight, backlight assembly, lcd apparatus having the same and method for driving a backlight: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a backlight assembly which includes a device for driving the backlight including a light emitting diode (“LED”) used as a light source, which has a high efficiency and a high reliability for controlling brightness of each color light. The driving device drives a first,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091059 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method of driving the same are provided. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel partitioned into a plurality of panel regions, each panel region being independently driven and having data lines and gate lines; a backlight unit that is partitioned into a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091056 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, which includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates, illumination means for illuminating the panel, and a control unit which controls the panel and the illumination means. The panel includes a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091058 - Stereoscopic display device and driving method thereof: A system and method for driving a stereoscopic image display device includes, during a first period wherein no image is displayed, writing a first data signal corresponding to a first image on a first display cell and writing a second data signal corresponding to a second image on the second... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070091062 - Active matrix displays and other electronic devices having plastic substrates: A method of manufacturing an active matrix display device involves manufacturing a first substrate arrangement comprising a rigid glass substrate and an overlying plastic substrate. Pixel circuits are formed over the plastic substrate. The rigid glass substrate (12) is only removed from the plastic substrate after the mounting of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091061 - Electrophoretic display device and method for manufacturing such a device: The invention relates to an electrophoretic display panel (11) comprising one or more pixels (20; 42) comprising a fluid with dispersed charged particles (30) and a polymer wall (21; 44) enclosing the fluid. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing an electrophoretic display panel (11) comprising one or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091064 - Optical navigation device having a variable depth of field: An optical navigation device containing an adjustable depth of field light source is positioned with respect to a surface such that the depth of field of light source can be adjusted to match the Z dimension of a particular surface. In one embodiment, a plurality of individual light sources are... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070091063 - Tactile force sense information display system and method: A system and a method are realized in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P.

20070091068 - 3d pointing devices with orientation compensation and improved usability: Systems and methods according to the present invention describe 3D pointing devices which enhance usability by transforming sensed motion data from a first frame of reference (e.g., the body of the 3D pointing device) into a second frame of reference (e.g., a user's frame of reference). One exemplary embodiment of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070091067 - Driver circuit for driving a light source of an optical pointing device: A driver circuit for driving a light source of an optical pointing device includes a first transistor coupled to the light source. The driver circuit includes a controller coupled to the first transistor for monitoring a first current through the light source, comparing the first current to a reference current,... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd. C/o Klaas, Law, O'meara & Malkin, P.C.

20070091065 - Self-aligning pointing device having esd protection: A pointing device includes a pointer that is confined to move within a field of motion. A mounting structure is attached to a substrate and positions the field of motion upon the substrate. The pointing device further includes a restoring mechanism that returns the pointer to a predetermined resting position... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070091066 - Slide pad system and method with hybrid mode: A method comprising detecting a displacement of a slide disk relative to a frame and generating output information using first information configured to cause a pointer in a display to move to a position associated with the displacement and second information configured to cause the pointer in the display to... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070091069 - Mini ball displacement detecting system: The present invention relates to a mini ball displacement detecting system consisting of a laser diode as a light source; a ball rotationally supported by a ball cage and having a portion projecting outside the cage; and a photo-detector consisting of a sensor component and an analysis component. Rolling the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070091070 - Keyboard with integrated key and touchpad: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to a keyboard with integrated key and touchpad. In an example embodiment, a keyboard is provided that includes a plurality of keys, each key being capable of being pressed to select one or more keyboard inputs. The keyboard also includes a micro touchpad provided on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070091072 - Method for inputting words in an electronic appliance with buttons of inputting words: Disclosed is a method of inputting a character in mobile devices. A simultaneous pressing, an overlapped-pressing, a long-and-short continuous pressing of two buttons, and a double-click of one button are employed to input as many letters as possible in a fast and convenient mode using a limited number of buttons,... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070091071 - Portable electronic apparatus: In a portable electronic apparatus, a second keyboard to be manipulated with a right hand is joined to a first keyboard unit including a first keyboard to be manipulated with a left hand so that the second keyboard can be turned down. A display unit having a built-in liquid crystal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070091077 - Method for gesture detection on a capacitive touchpad: In a gesture detection method for a capacitive touchpad, various gesture operations are determined by detecting the touching on the touchpad, leaving from the touchpad, and moving on the touchpad.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091075 - Method for window operation on a touchpad using a touch defined original point: In a method for window operation on a touchpad, when an object is detected to slide on the touchpad, the position where the object falls down to touch the touchpad is defined as an original point, and a position where the object stops sliding on the touchpad is referred to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070091076 - Multifunctional multilayer optical film: Optical component for use in a touch sensor and method of fabrication of same are disclosed. Optical component includes a multilayer optical film at least some layers of which are fabricated on the same manufacturing line and using the same manufacturing method. Each layer of the multilayer optical film is... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070091078 - Touch sensitive display device and method thereof: The present invention relates to a touch sensitive display device, the display device including a display panel unit, a sensing unit formed on the display panel unit, receiving a sensor control signal, and generating a sensor data signal based on a touch exerted on the display panel unit, an output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091073 - Transmission screen: A transmission screen having a writable and erasable surface for one side is provided. This transmission screen is constructed so that the writable and erasable surface should have a specular gloss (JIS K5600-4-7:1999) of 70 to 135%, the transmission screen as a whole should have a haze (JIS K7136:2000) of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070091074 - Transparent conductive multilayer body and touch panel having same: A transparent conductive multilayer body of the present invention is characterized by having: a transparent film base; an SiOx film (x is no less than 1.5 and less than 2) which is provided on one surface of the above described film base in accordance with a dry process, and has... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070091079 - Touch panel device: Surface acoustic waves are propagated in a lower-left oblique direction and a lower-right oblique direction from an excitation element located on the upper side of a non-piezoelectric substrate and then received by receiving elements located on the left side and the right side, while surface acoustic waves are propagated in... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070091081 - Electronic sign with flexible display films: An electronic sign includes a support structure having at least one display mounting surface. A display film of light emitting material containing a matrix of pixels is mounted on each display mounting surface of the support structure. An interface is provided which is adapted for downloading a message to be... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070091080 - Non-volatile display for an electronic device having a reset circuit: A display unit for a portable electronic device includes a display panel having a plurality of display elements and configured to display information after a power supply signal to the display panel is interrupted, and a display driver circuit configured to control the presentation of information by the display panel.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070091082 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a displaying unit and an ambient brightness sensor. A plurality of gamma curves is stored in the displaying unit, and the displaying unit provides an image based on one of the gamma curves. The ambient brightness sensor disposed on and electrically... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070091084 - Sensing ball game machine: A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070091083 - Storage medium having game program stored therein, and game apparatus and game processing method therefor: An area, in a virtual game world, for arranging a plurality of objects and a minimum allowed distance between objects to be arranged therein are set. A position of an object is changed for temporarily arranging the object to an arbitrary position in the area set in the virtual game... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070091085 - Automatic 3d face-modeling from video: Systems and methods perform automatic 3D face modeling. In one implementation, a brief video clip of a user's head turning from front to side provides enough input for automatically achieving a model that includes 2D feature matches, 3D head pose, 3D face shape, and facial textures. The video clip of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070091086 - Interface and method of interfacing between a parametric modelling unit and a polygon based rendering system: An interface for use in a 3-d graphics system comprising a parametric modelling unit for modelling objects as high order surfaces, and a polygon based rendering system for rendering polygon modelled objects for display. The interface comprises an input for receiving data and a subdivision unit coupled to the input... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070091087 - Occlusion culling for object-order volume rendering: Computerized systems and methods provide occlusion culling for efficiently rendering a three dimensional image. The systems and methods calculate a set of occluder shields in a voxel dataset using a transparency value associated with each voxel of the dataset. Next, the occluder shields are applied to the dataset to identify... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070091090 - Hardware corrected software vertex shader: This invention discloses a method for executing vertex shader in a computer system, the method comprising running software vertex shader for a predetermined vertex shader command in a CPU thread when a GPU is overloaded by vertex shader execution, buffering the output of the software vertex shader, running hardware vertex... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070091089 - System and method for dynamically load balancing multiple shader stages in a shared pool of processing units: The present disclosure is directed to novel methods and apparatus for managing or performing the dynamic allocation or reallocation of processing resources among a vertex shader, a geometry shader, and pixel shader of a graphics processing unit. In one embodiment a method for graphics processing comprises assigning at least one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091088 - System and method for managing the computation of graphics shading operations: The present disclosure is directed to novel methods and apparatus for managing or performing the dynamic allocation or reallocation of processing resources among a vertex shader, a geometry shader, and pixel shader of a graphics processing unit. Specifically, embodiments of the invention embody or comprise plurality of execution units, wherein... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091091 - Systems and methods for displaying changes in biological responses to therapy: Systems and methods of this invention display data using pixels with information indicated by color and intensity changes, particularly used for monitoring of physiological variables in real time. For certain methods, physiological data can be acquired by sensors, acquired data can be stored in data frames, data frames can be... Agent: Borson Law Group, PC

20070091092 - Image display system and control method therefor: Provided are an image display system and a control method for the image display system capable of displaying an image, which is represented by raster image data to be transferred through burst transmission and which is formed with a plurality of scanning lines, through simple control. An image display system... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070091093 - Clickable video hyperlink: A system that provides binds or associates a clickable hyperlink with an object that appears in a video stream. The hyperlink may be sent in a separate stream from the video stream, and user interfaces are provided to a user to activate the hyperlink. Activation of the hyperlink may cause... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070091095 - Computer executable graphic method of generating animation elements: A computer executable graphic method of generating animation elements realized with computer software is provided, which is capable of being plugged in a computer graphics application, recorded in a recording and storage medium, or executed on a computer executable platform. Through an operating mode of a graphic user interface provided... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070091094 - Method of performing additive lookahead for adaptive cutting feedrate control: The present invention involves a method of processing path data for a motive body. The control identifies a plurality of points along a target path, determines a maximum allowable stopping distance of the motive body at a last of the points, and ascertains a last maximum allowable speed of the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20070091096 - Display device: A display device (2) can be coupled to or independent from a host computer (1). When coupled to the host computer, the display device serves as a man-machine interface of the host computer. The display device includes an external operation unit (80), a display unit (20); a memory (60); and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070091099 - Event memory assisted synchronization in multi-gpu graphics subsystem: A method and system are disclosed for synchronizing graphics processing events in a multi-GPU computer system. A master GPU renders a first image into a first portion of a master buffer associated with a display interface, and then writes a first predetermined value corresponding to the first image in a... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis L.l.p

20070091097 - Method and system for synchronizing parallel engines in a graphics processing unit: A method and system are disclosed for synchronizing two or more engines in a graphics processing unit (GPU). When issuing a command to an engine, a central processing unit (CPU) writes an event value representing the command into an element of an event memory associated with the engine. After executing... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070091098 - Transparent multi-buffering in multi-gpu graphics subsystem: This invention discloses a method and system for implementing transparent multi-buffering in multi-GPU graphics subsystems. The purpose of multi-buffering is to reduce GPU idle time. In one example, after rendering a first image by a first GPU in a back buffer, the first image is displayed by flipping to the... Agent: L. Howard Chen, Esq. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis L.L.P.

20070091102 - Gpu pipeline multiple level synchronization controller processor and method: A method for high level synchronization between an application and a graphics pipeline comprises receiving an application instruction in an input stream at a predetermined component, such as a command stream processor (CSP), as sent by a central processing unit. The CSP may have a first portion coupled to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091100 - Gpu pipeline synchronization and control system and method: A graphics pipeline configured to synchronize data processing according to signals and tokens has at least four components. The first component has one input and one output and communicates output tokens or wire signals after receiving tokens on the input, an internal event occurrence, or receipt of a signal on... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091101 - Graphics input command stream scheduling method and apparatus: A command parser in a GPU is configured to schedule execution of received commands and includes a first input coupled to a scheduler. The first command parser input is configured to communicate bus interface commands to the command parser for execution. A second command parser input is coupled to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070091103 - Information input device for tablet automatic packing machine: Disclosed is an information input device for a tablet automatic packing machine capable of easily and directly storing tablet information in a memory chip and updating/reading the tablet information in/from the memory chip at a user side. The information input device includes a plurality of cassette supporters each of which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091104 - Computer system and method: This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for connecting a plurality of memory controllers to one or more memory modules. Each memory module includes an advanced memory buffer (AMB) connected to a plurality of memory devices. A switch is connected between the plurality of memory controllers and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070091105 - High performance tiling for rram memory: A method of configuring a random access memory matrix containing partially configured memories in the matrix. The method includes the steps of independently calculating a memory enable signal and a configuration signal for a partially configured memory in each memory tile of the memory matrix. Memory tiles not supported by... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070091106 - Adaptive lexical classification system: A method for assigning a lexical classifier to characterize a visual attribute corresponding to an image element forming part of an image. The method involves capturing an initial attribute value for the image element and transforming the captured initial attribute value to a lexical classifier. Transformation involves reference to a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091107 - Image display system, image display apparatus, and image correction processing program: An image display system includes: an information processing apparatus that performs a predetermined image correcting process on image data; an image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of the image data corrected by the information processing apparatus; and a signal transmitting member that connects the information processing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070091108 - System and method for applying accurate three-dimensional volume textures to arbitrary triangulated surfaces: Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each texture atlas is allocated a specific amount of memory in a... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20070091109 - Image quality: A magnified image is improved by integrating the wavelength specific component into that image. A magnified images obtained, and at least one wavelength specific component images also obtained. The different images are converted in color space, and different channels, indicative of the different parts of the image shows, are also... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070091110 - Method of copying color image and copier using the same: An original color image is read to generate color image data. The color image data is converted into coordinate data including values associated with a first coordinate value and a second coordinate value in a color space. The first coordinate value is indicative of brightness. It is acquired correction data... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070091111 - Ambient light derived by subsampling video content and mapped through unrendered color space: Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristimulus primary matrices to form a second rendered color space to drive the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091112 - Method system and program for time based opacity in plots: The disclosed method relates to conveying a time component in a data representation comprising: attaching a time stamp to a data point and calculating an opacity for said data point based upon a time component of said data point. The disclosed computer program relates to conveying a time component in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070091113 - Technique for enabling color blind persons to distinguish between various colors: Systems and methods for processing data representative of a full color image. Such systems may comprise the steps of assisting a color blind person to indicate portions of an image which to their color-deficient vision are indistinguishable, and altering the image to cause those portions to become distinguisable and identifiable.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070091114 - Method and apparatus for calibrating color property of monitor: A method and an apparatus for calibrating a color property of a monitor used in a system including a color conversion module, a color measurement module and a display module. The method includes storing a target color property and measuring a color property of an image displayed on the display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091115 - Display driver: A YUV format to be stored in a memory is selected from A or B by a format judging unit for RGB data that is the input output display data of a memory unit, based on the comparison between chrominance (U, V) difference information on horizontal two pixels and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070091116 - System and method for creating an icc profile of an lcd: An exemplary system for creating an international color consortium (ICC) profile of a liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) is disclosed. The system includes: a setting module (101) is configured for setting parameters of color pictures; a transmitting module (102) is configured for transmitting the set parameters of color pictures to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070091117 - Electrophoretic display device and a method and apparatus for improving image quality in an electrophoretic display device: A method of driving an electrophoretic display device, in which at least one voltage pulse is provided in the drive waveform, prior to the drive signal for effecting a desired image transition according to an image to be displayed. The voltage pulse has a polarity and energy which is dependent... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070091118 - Image display system and method: A display system includes a display device and a data processing module. The display device is configured to display an image and has a processing profile associated therewith. The data processing module is remote from and operatively coupled to the display device and is configured to receive input image data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070091119 - Integrated massing and design cad models: Systems and techniques to provide for software installation. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes providing a first model, the first model being one of: a massing computer aided design (CAD) model or a detailed CAD model; providing a second model, the second model being an other one of:... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070091120 - Image display system, display apparatus, image re-synthesis apparatus, image re-synthesis method, and recording medium: An image display system includes a dividing apparatus which signals N divisional images formed by dividing a source image and having no overlap with each other, N transmission lines which transmit the N divisional images, N dummy pixel insertion sections which produce and insert dummy pixels based on the divisional... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070091123 - Image managing apparatus, image managing method and storage medium: An image managing method of an image managing apparatus which includes a display device and which manages a plurality of original images, the method includes displaying the plurality of images obtained by reducing the original images, indicating conditions on which display orders of the plurality of images are determined, setting... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070091122 - Information device: An information device includes a main processing circuit for executing signal processing related to a main function in the information device, a main microcomputer for controlling the main processing circuit, a receiver circuit for interfacing with the outside of the information device, and an interface microcomputer for controlling the receiver... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070091124 - Monitoring system and method, and program and recording medium used therewith: A monitoring system includes a picture capturing unit, a storage unit for storing original images composed of still images captured by said picture capturing unit, or a compressed images composed of compressed still images generated by compressing the still images, an image display unit, a designating unit for designating a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070091121 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program, and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070091125 - Index layout measurement method, position and orientation estimation method, index layout measurement apparatus, and position and orientation estimation apparatus: The layout relationship between indices included in a first image and those included in a second image are calculated using the layout relationship between a common index commonly included in the first and second images, and the indices included in the first image, and that between the common index and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070091126 - Interface device: The image processing device of the present invention comprises a presentation means for presenting on a screen a function for which a corresponding setting has been modified from a default value, and a resetting means for resetting a setting corresponding to a function selected from among the functions presented by... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070091127 - Arrangement with a panel of a flat screen: The invention relates to an arrangement with a panel of a flat display and with a graphics processor to which a digitized image signal can be supplied by an A/D converter, said image signal being generated from an analog image signal by the A/D converter. An amplification of the A/D... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070085758 - Display apparatus and method used in a hand-held device: A display apparatus used in a hand-held device is provided. The display apparatus includes a primary display, a secondary display, a plurality of input devices, and a processing unit. The primary display is a non-volatile display, and the secondary display is a volatile display. The input devices are for operational... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070085759 - Method for displaying multimedia contents and mobile communications terminal capable of implementing the same: The invention is directed to a method of displaying multimedia data and providing multitasking features and a mobile communications terminal capable of implementing the same; and cradle for the mobile communications terminal. A mobile communications terminal includes a transceiver, a memory, a first display unit, a second display unit, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070085760 - Electron gun with a multi-media monitor: An electron gun used with a multi-media monitor with a low cathode voltage and improved focusing performance. The electron gun, which includes a cathode, a control electrode, a screen electrode, and a plurality of focusing electrodes to focus and accelerate an electron beam, is designed to satisfy the condition that... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070085761 - Device for the optical display of n switching states: The invention relates to a device for the optical display of n switching states of a switching device or sensor, with a plurality of differently coloured lighting devices for the optical display of the information to be transmitted and each lighting device has at least one lighting element. The device... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070085762 - Method and its device for concealing at least a mark in a number: The present invention provides a method for concealing a mark in a number including the following steps: separating a number into seven segments, concealing at least a mark in at least a segment of the number, and displaying the number in a display device. Besides, the present invention provides a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070085764 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of sustain electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a scan driver, and a data driver. The scan driver supplies scan signals to the plurality of scan electrodes using one scan type selected... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085763 - Plasma display device with heat sink noise reducer: A plasma display device to reduce noise generated from heat sinks. A chassis base is attached to a surface of a plasma display panel. A printed circuit board assembly is mounted to the chassis base at a side opposite to the plasma display panel and connected to the plasma display... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070085766 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is provided. When the plasma display apparatus is driven by dividing a frame into a plurality of subfield groups including one or more subfields, a portion of all scan electrodes is scanned during an address period of at least one subfield of... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085767 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display device is driven by dividing a plurality of row electrodes into first and second row groups. A first row group of electrodes are dividedinto a plurality of first sub-groups, and a second row group of row electrodes are divided into a plurality of second sub-groups. During a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070085765 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the plasma display apparatus, a relative time ratio of one of a reset period, an address period or a sustain period of an r-th subfield of each of a p-th frame and a q-th frame is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070085769 - Energy recovery circuit for display panel and driving apparatus with the same: An energy recovery circuit for a display panel, which can normally operate at its initial operation stage, and a driving apparatus with the same includes, an energy storage unit, an energy recovery switching unit, an inductor, and a charge power supply unit. The energy storage unit recovers an electric charge... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070085768 - Plasma display and its driving method and circuit: A plasma display has a first power recovery unit including a first inductor having a first end coupled to a second electrode and a second power recovery unit including a second inductor having a first end coupled to the second electrode, the second inductor having an inductance different from that... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070085771 - Driving method of plasma display device: In a sustain period, a positive voltage is applied to an address electrode during at least one part of a period for applying a last sustain discharge pulse that is gradually increased and applied to a scan electrode. In this manner, an occurrence of misfiring between the address electrode and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070085773 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a first driver, and a second driver. The plasma display panel includes a sustaining electrode and a data electrode intersecting the sustaining electrode. The first driver supplies a positive sustain pulse and a negative sustain... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085772 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the plasma display apparatus, a scan driver supplies scan signals to a plurality of scan electrodes using a first scan type in a first subfield of a frame, and supplies the scan signals to the plurality... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085770 - Plasma display device and a driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof are provided. A sustain pulse is applied to a scan electrode while biasing a sustain electrode at a predetermined voltage during a sustain period. A first sustain pulse having a first magnitude of voltage is applied at lease once to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070085774 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel and improving display characteristics through multiple discharges: A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel and improving the display characteristics through multi-discharge phenomenon is provided. The driving method is used for providing energy to light up at least a display unit in the plasma display panel and includes the following steps. Before providing any external... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070085775 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a source capacitor, an inductor, and an energy recovery/supply controller. The source capacitor supplies energy to the plasma display panel, and recovers energy from the plasma display panel. The inductor is connected in series to... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085776 - Display apparatus and display panel: An electron emission type display apparatus has on a flat plane a matrix layout of multiple light-emitting elements which are connected to cross-points of longitudinal and lateral common electrodes, for sequentially turning on a line of light-emitting elements connected to a common electrode. In such the device, distortion takes place... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070085777 - Image display apparatus and control method thereof: An image display apparatus includes a display panel having an electron source, an acceleration electrode for accelerating electrons emitted from the electron source and phosphors for emitting light by collision of electrons accelerated by the acceleration electrode, and a detector for detecting a current flowing through the acceleration electrode during... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070085778 - Display device: To provide a highly reliable display device whose electrical element is applied with a low voltage. The display device is an active matrix FED display device whose pixel has an individual extraction gate electrode, an emitter array, a driving transistor which is connected to the emitter array in series, a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070085781 - Data driving circuits and organic light emitting displays using the same: A data driving circuit for driving pixels of a display to display images with uniform brightness may include a gamma voltage unit that generates gray scale voltages, a digital-analog converter that selects, as a data signal, one of the gray scale voltages using first data, a decoder that generates second... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070085782 - Display apparatus: A capacitance setting line is disposed at the top end of a pixel, a light emission setting line is disposed at the bottom end of the pixel, and a gate line is disposed at the center between both the lines. A selection transistor, a potential control transistor and a capacitor... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070085783 - Method of driving display device: An active matrix type EL display device is provided, which is capable of suppressing the unevenness of luminance display due to the unevenness of the characteristics of TFTs which constitute pixels, or due to variations in the environmental temperature at which the display device is used. The active matrix type... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070085779 - Multi-line addressing methods and apparatus: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for driving emissive, 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 emissive display, the display comprising a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070085780 - Systems for controlling pixels: Systems for controlling pixels are provided. A representative system comprises a scan driver comprises: a data signal line operative to provide data to the pixel; and a scan driver operative to control illumination of the pixel during sequential time periods such that, if data provided by the data signal line... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070085785 - Drive apparatus and drive method for light emitting display panel: A drive apparatus is provided which can calculate a suitable APL value when driving a color display panel using PLE control. Further, a drive apparatus is provided which can inhibit output capacity of a power supply circuit by controlling display brightness according to a lighting rate of a pixel. An... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070085784 - Electroluminescent display using bipolar column drivers: A driver apparatus for an electroluminescent display comprising a plurality of rows to be scanned and a plurality of columns which intersect the rows to form a plurality of pixels, comprises addressable row drivers, each row driver applying an output voltage to its associated row when addressed. The value of... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070085787 - Light emitting device: The present invention relates to a light emitting device where difference of brightness of pixels can be reduced when the same data currents are applied to the pixels. The light emitting device includes anode electrode layers, cathode electrode layers, pixels and cathode lines. The anode electrode layers are disposed in... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070085786 - System and method for driving keypad backlight with balance-dimming capability: The present invention is an apparatus with balance-dimming capability for controlling the brightness of keypad backlight. The keypad backlight includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The apparatus includes a switch and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator. The switch is coupled between a power supply and the plurality of... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070085788 - Method for driving optical address type spatial light modulation device and apparatus for driving optical address type spatial light modulation device: A method drives a spatial light modulation device to record an image into the device. The device includes first and second light modulation layers. The method includes exposing the device to imagewise light while applying a first voltage between electrodes of the first light modulation layer. If the second light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070085790 - Flat display apparatus and picture quality controlling method thereof: A flat panel display device includes a display panel, a memory storing a compensation value that corresponds to a panel defect location, the panel defect location being where any one of a brightness and a color difference exists compared to other part of the display panel, a compensating unit to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070085789 - Multiple primary color display system and method of display using multiple primary colors: A color display system and a method of displaying an image uses at least four primary colors, where one of the primary colors can achieve substantially greater brightness levels than the closest of the three other primary colors. Where six primary colors are used, color saturation requirements and brightness requirements... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070085793 - Display device and display driving device for displaying display data: A display device for displaying display data includes a display panel having pixel sections in a matrix form, a scanning circuit which selects a line of the pixel sections, a generation circuit which generates a plurality of gray-scale voltages based on a reference voltage, and a selection circuit which selects... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070085792 - Display device and gray-scale voltage generating device thereof: A display device and a gray-scale voltage generating device for the display device are provided. The gray-scale voltage generating device includes a reference voltage source, a curve-shifting control unit, and a gray-scale voltage output unit. By correcting the output voltage of the curve-shifting control unit, the devices are able to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070085791 - Gray-scale method for a flat panel display: A gray-scale method for a flat panel display is provided, which includes the following: A plurality of scan-line initial signals are provided during a frame period. The scan-line initial signals are transmitted sequentially. According to the scan-line initial signals, the scan-lines are scanned. In which, the frame period includes X... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070085794 - Matrix-type display device: A display device includes a display panel having display elements, arranged in a matrix, a drain driver which supplies gradation voltages corresponding to image data to the display elements, a gate driver which scans lines of the display elements for supplying the gradation voltage, and a data generation circuit which... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070085795 - Display device and related driving circuits: A driving circuit of a display panel includes a plurality of data lines equidistantly arrayed in a substrate of the display panel and including a plurality of first data lines and a plurality of second data lines, a plurality of scan lines equidistantly arrayed in the substrate and perpendicular to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070085796 - Element substrate and light emitting device: A light emitting device and an element substrate which are capable of suppressing variations in the luminance intensity of a light emitting element among pixels due to characteristic variations of a driving transistor without suppressing off-current of a switching transistor low and increasing storage capacity of a capacitor. According to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070085798 - Device and method for driving large-sized and high-resolution display panel: A display device is provided with a display panel, a data line driving circuitry, and a scan line driving circuitry. The display panel includes: a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction; a plurality of scan lines extending in a row direction; a plurality of pixels disposed at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070085797 - Thin film transistor array panel and liquid crystal display: A thin film transistor array panel includes: a plurality of pixels including pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes; first and second gate lines that are connected to the switching elements extend in a row direction and correspond to one row of pixel... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085799 - Liquid crystal display apparatus, device of drivng the same and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display panel includes a pixel having a switching element electrically connected to a gate wiring and a source wiring and a liquid crystal capacitor electrically connected to the switching element. A timing controller receives a mode selecting signal corresponding to an impulsive driving mode, and outputs a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070085800 - Liquid crystal display driving device that reduces crosstalk: A liquid crystal display driving device that reduces horizontal crosstalk and a liquid crystal display employing the driving device are presented. The driving device includes a common voltage generator that generates first and second common voltages, and the common voltage generator includes a first capacitor provided between a first terminal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085804 - Driving circuit for electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: In a driving circuit for an electro-optical device in which a transmissive display mode and a reflective display mode can be switched, the driving circuit includes an image-processing circuit that converts image data for reflective display for the reflective display mode to image data for transmissive display for the transmissive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070085806 - Driving voltage generating circuit, liquid crystal display having the same and method of generating driving voltage: In a liquid crystal display, a driving voltage generating circuit generates a driving power voltage and a gate on voltage substantially in inverse proportion to a temperature variation of an ambient temperature. A data driver outputs a data signal in response to the driving power voltage and a gate driver... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085805 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a pair of a first substrate and a second substrate between which an electro-optical material is held, a first electrode formed in each of a plurality of pixel portions disposed in an pixel area on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, a first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070085801 - Flat panel display and method of driving the same: In a flat panel display, a display panel has a data line, a gate line and a pixel electrically connected to the data line and the gate line, and a timing controller outputs control signals and an image data signal. A data driver drives the data line in response to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085807 - Lcd design for cold temperature operation: A method of controlling a liquid crystal display (LCD) integrated within a sensing device for operation in cold temperature is provided. The method includes providing electrical power to the LCD, providing an electrical signal to the LCD to update displayed information, measuring the ambient temperature proximate the LCD and making... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070085803 - Temperature compensating arrangement for liquid crystal display: A circuit generates a reference voltage in inverse proportion to the variation in temperature to control the gate-on voltage for a gate line of a liquid crystal display so that the liquid crystal display may display an image without distortion.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070085802 - Timing control method and device for liquid crystal display: A timing control method and device for LCD panel is provided. The timing control device comprises a mode selection unit storing timing parameters corresponding to resolutions of the LCDs, with the timing parameters updateable; a video device outputting a video signal; and a logic unit receiving the video signal and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070085810 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display device are disclosed in which the response speed of the liquid crystal can be increased without using a digital memory. The driving apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel with gate lines and data lines arranged perpendicularly to each other, a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070085809 - Backup shift register module for a gateline driving circuit: A backup shift register module having at least two backup shift registers is used to repair a defective main shift-register module. A normally open link is provided between the input of first backup shift register and the input of each odd-numbered main shift register, and between the output of first... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070085812 - Gate driving apparatus and image display device using the same and driving method thereof: A gate driving apparatus and image display device using the same and driving method thereof comprises a start pulse generator which generates a second gate start pulse by a logic operation of a first gate start pulse and a gate output enable signal, a shift register which generates a shift... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070085811 - Gate driving circuit and display device having the same: A gate driving circuit and a display device having the same, in which the gate lines can be divided into p groups using p shift registers and p-time gate lines can be driven using a signal shifted by 1/p, wherein p is an arbitrary natural number of three or more.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070085808 - Systems involving signal driving circuits for driving displays: Systems for driving displays are provided. In this regard, an representative system for driving a display comprises a signal driving circuit having a first shift register and a second shift register coupled in series to the first shift register. The signal driving circuit is operative to drive a display according... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070085813 - Flat panel display device having thermostat: A flat panel display device includes an electron emission substrate; an image forming substrate spaced apart from the electron emission substrate; a spacer disposed between the electron emission substrate and the image forming substrate; a detector coupled to the electron emission substrate for detecting a temperature value of the flat... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070085815 - Automatic liquid crystal display contrast adjustment: A display, a method of controlling contrast of a liquid crystal display, and a liquid crystal display. The display includes a liquid crystal panel and a controller for controlling contrast voltage to the liquid crystal panel. The display further includes a temperature sensor operably attached to the controller. A display... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070085814 - Image display device: A display device comprising a display panel (62) having a plurality of separately addressable pixels (64) for displaying an image, a first group (64a) of said pixels being configured to provide emergent light in a first polarisation state (P), and a second group (64b) of said pixels being configured to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070085817 - Method for driving active matrix liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display (200) includes: providing a liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixel units and a backlight; dividing a frame time into a plurality of sub-frames; defining each pixel unit to have two states, namely on or off, in each of the sub-frames;... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070085816 - System and method for providing a wide aspect ratio flat panel display monitor independent white-balance adjustment and gamma correction capabilities: A system and method are described herein for controlling the white balance and providing gamma correction without compromising gray-scale dynamic range in a flat panel liquid crystal display (LCD). According to one embodiment of the present invention, the flat panel LCD includes electronic circuitry for coupling to a host computer... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070085818 - Use of a storage capacitor to enhance the performance of an active matrix driven electronic display: A system and method of use of a storage capacitor to improve the appearance and addressing characteristics of an electronically driven display. The capacitor is formed by the overlap of portions of electrodes used to address different pixels, or by the overlap of an addressing line and a conductor. An... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070085819 - Look-up tables with graylevel transition waveforms for bi-stable display: A method and system for controlling electrophoretic and other bi-stable displays (310). Coded data (605, 610, 615) for driving the display is stored in memory (320) for different pixel transitions and different temperatures. The coded data includes voltage level and timing information for the different pixel transitions. A portion (705,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070085823 - Data encoding pattern: A data encoding pattern comprising a plurality of markings, the shape of at least one marking adapted on the basis of the data to be encoded, the or each adapted marking having a specific orientation with respect to unadjusted markings for the pattern.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070085820 - Inner force sense presentation device, inner force sense presentation method, and inner force sense presentation program: A force feedback apparatus of the present invention includes: jetting means that includes a nozzle and that can control a jet amount or a jet direction of gas or liquid jetted from the nozzle; jet control means for controlling the jet amount or the jet direction of the gas or... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070085821 - Man-machine interface method and device: A man-machine interface method comprising generating physical interactions with active zones (10) belonging to an interface object (5), the active zones being associated with predetermined items of information, detecting the active zones where interactions occur by measuring at least one physical magnitude, and associating each detected interaction with the corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070085824 - Remote control device, image processing apparatus having the same and method of driving the same: A remote control device that can increase the convenience of a user, a display processing apparatus having the same and a method of driving the same are provided. The remote control device has a moving object and a vibration member generating a vibration. If a vibration is generated as the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070085822 - Wireless transmitter enabling/disabling system: A computer device comprises a display member coupled to a base member to enable variable positioning of the display member relative to the base member. The computer device also comprises an enabling/disabling system configured to automatically disable a wireless transmitter without changing an operating state of the computer device based... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070085825 - Input-device movement to cursor movement correlator: A method and system to detect a corr