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 correlation of movements of an input device, sent from a first location, with at least one configurable movement parameter set on a remote computer at a second location remote from the first location, wherein the method includes: (a) sending first movement information from... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070085826 - Method of and system for evaluating tactile sensations of car seat covers using artificial neural network: Disclosed herein is a method of and system for evaluating tactile sensations of car seat covers using an artificial neural network, in which mechanical and thermal/physiological characteristics of the seat covers is measured with a measuring system, the physical quantity of the measured characteristics is acquired, and then the acquired... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20070085827 - Mouth-operated computer input device and associated methods: A mouth-operated computer input device includes a mouthpiece to be positioned in a user's mouth, and an optical device carried by the mouthpiece for emitting light from a surface area thereof. The optical device controls movement of a cursor on a computer display based upon movement of the user's tongue... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070085829 - Methods and portable electronic apparatuses for application program execution: A method of application program execution performed by a portable electronic apparatus having a display unit is provided. A moving direction of the portable electronic apparatus is detected. A graphic display function is determined according to the moving direction. The determined graphic display function is executed on the display unit... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070085830 - Pointer displaying apparatus, method, and medium: A pointer displaying apparatus, method, and medium are provided. The pointer displaying apparatus includes a management unit which sets an event zone for an object currently being displayed on a screen, the object being referred to as the current object; a reception unit which receives the coordinates of a pointed-to-spot... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070085828 - Ultrasonic virtual mouse: An ultrasonic device determines a position of a user-controlled object within a virtual mouse region. The ultrasonic device includes an ultrasonic transmitter, spatially separated ultrasonic receivers and a processor. The ultrasonic transmitter produces an ultrasonic pulse and radiates the ultrasonic pulse into the virtual mouse region. The ultrasonic receivers receive... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070085831 - System and method for measuring operational life of a computer mouse wheel: An exemplary system for measuring operational life of a computer mouse wheel is disclosed. The system includes a computer (10), a control card (11), a stepper motor servo controller (12), a stepper motor (13), a vertical servo axle (14), and a measurement platform (15). The vertical servo axle is structured... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070085832 - Reducing dust contamination in optical mice: Reduction of dust contamination in optical mice. Operation of the mouse is adapted to direct air past optical surfaces, removing accumulated contaminants. In one aspect, lifting and resetting the mouse directs air through a funnel-like opening to a duct at the side of the optical surface. In a second aspect,... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070085833 - Typing aid for a computer: A typing aid including a keyboard and an auxiliary or integrated display screen deployed in close proximity to or within the keyboard, designed to assist the non-touch typist to enter text data into a computing device with a minimum of or no head and neck movements between keyboard and display... Agent: Wolf Block Schorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20070085834 - Segmented keyboard for portable computer system: The present invention provides an apparatus enabling users to input/manipulate data for portable computer systems. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of a segmented keyboard adapted to be coupled with a portable computer system. In the present embodiment, the segmented keyboard is comprised of a first flippable portion... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070085835 - Automatic language selection for improving text accuracy: A method, and a handheld electronic device that implements the method, for selecting a number of languages used by a text disambiguation function executed by an electronic device during a text entry session. The method comprises determining a context for the text entry session, and responsive to the determining, selecting... Agent: Richard J. Coldren Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070085836 - Digitiser system: An X-Y digitiser system is described for embedding within a host device, such as a tablet PC, a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant or the like. The digitiser is configurable so that it can detect and track the position of different types of position indicator. The digitiser that is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070085840 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, includes: display control means for displaying, on the display, an item associated with predetermined content; detection means for detecting a contact of a user with the touch panel; determination means... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070085839 - Key lock means and application method of the same: A key lock means set on a tablet personal computer and application method of the same are provided, wherein the key lock means comprises a graphic input device, a typing input device, and means for signal associating. The graphic input device is used for generating and transmitting a first signal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070085841 - Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling: Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070085838 - Method for making a display with integrated touchscreen: A method for making an electronically updatable touchscreen display having an electronically updatable display media and touch sensing capability is described.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070085837 - Touch input device with display front: An electrically updatable device having a touch sensor and a flexible display is disclosed, wherein the display is between the touch sensor and a viewer. The display comprises a pressure-insensitive imaging layer of polymer-dispersed imaging material, wherein the thickness of the imaging layer is defined by the polymer.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070085842 - Detector for use with data encoding pattern: A detector for use with a data encoding pattern, the pattern comprising a plurality of markings, wherein the detector is operable to generate pattern data representing a portion of the pattern imaged by an image capture device of the detector, process the pattern data in order to generate a model... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070085843 - Audio information display in a multimode display device: The present invention relates to a multimode display device (101) comprising a display area, where said display device is, in a first mode, adapted for displaying displayfocused applications on the display area, where said display device is, in a second mode, adapted for displaying audio-specific information on the display area... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070085845 - Display control apparatus, display method, and computer product: In a display control apparatus, a detecting unit detects a bend in a flexible display having a flex sensor, a determining unit determines, based on detected bend, a command to the flexible display, and a control unit controls the flexible display to display an image of pages being sequentially turned... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070085847 - Display device and driving method thereof: To provide a display device and a driving method thereof, where variations in the threshold voltage of transistors can be compensated and thus variations in luminance of light-emitting elements can be suppressed. In a first period, initialization is performed; in a second period, a voltage based on the threshold voltage... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070085844 - Display device, display method, and computer product: A display device includes a display unit, a state detecting unit, and a setting unit. The display unit includes a display screen on which an image is displayed. The state detecting unit detects a light emission state of a pixel of the display screen. The setting unit sets the pixel... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070085846 - Projector and method for issuing display authority token to computers from the same: A projector for selectively connecting to a number of computers is disclosed. The projector includes an access-point module and a projection module. The access-point module is for issuing a display authority token to one of the computers connected to the projector in response to a computer request for the display... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070085848 - Plasma display device and a power supply thereof: A plasma display device and a power supply thereof having a fewer number of power sources in the plasma display device is disclosed. The power supply generates a voltage corresponding to a Ve power source by using a variable resistance through a voltage distribution principle without including a Ve power... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070085849 - Color edge based system and method for determination of 3d surface topology: A method and system for determining surface topology of a three-dimensional (3D) structure, based on a structured pattern that is projected onto the surface structure, and images of the pattern superposed on the structured surface are analysed to provide surface coordinates of the structure. The pattern comprises a plurality of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070085850 - Method of curvature controlled data smoothing: The present invention involves a method of adjusting path data for a motive body includes identifying four consecutive points of the path data. The four consecutive points include a first point, a second point, a third point and a fourth point. It is determined whether the second point is suitable... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20070085851 - Method of simulating dynamic objects using position based dynamics: Disclosed is a method of simulating a dynamic object comprising a plurality of vertices. The method comprises defining a current position and a current velocity for a vertex “V” among the plurality of vertices, generating an estimated next position for vertex “v” based on the current position and current velocity,... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070085852 - Single-chip multi-output graphic system: The present invention provides a single-chip but multi-output graphic system which provides identical or different graphic images on two display screens. The graphic system comprises at least a multimedia database, a first input process router, a second input process router, a first graphic processing unit and a second graphic processing... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070085853 - Inheritance context for graphics primitives: An inheritance context is created for a graphics primitive object that is a property of a visual element. The inheritance context can be used to make some element information (e.g., information in resource dictionaries, name dictionaries, and inheritable properties that reside in the element tree containing the visual element) available... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070085854 - System and method for computing a desktop picture: Disclosed are a system and method for computing a desktop picture. Instead of loading a file that contains the desktop image from memory, the present invention provides for a system and method for opening and retaining a procedural recipe and a small set of instructions that can be executed to... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070085855 - Construction and use of a multi-shelled gamut boundary descriptor: Construction and use of an inner shell for a multi-shelled gamut boundary descriptor (GBD) for a source device based on a predesignated outer shell for the source device, for use in gamut-mapping from the gamut of the source device to a gamut of a destination device. An inner shell and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070085857 - Method and apparatus for adaptively filtering input image in color domains: A method and apparatus for adaptively filtering an input image are provided. The method includes dividing an input image into a plurality of color domains according to a distribution of colors in the input image, respectively calculating a plurality of filter coefficients for the color domains, and adaptively filtering the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070085856 - Method for adjusting hue or saturation of an individual color in a divided color space: Color adjustment includes dividing a color space into m tints, and then dividing each tint into n small areas. A chromaticity of a first color is adjusted by a first predetermined amount. An amount smaller than the first predetermined amount is generated according to the first predetermined amount. A chromaticity... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070085858 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus and method and program allows a user to efficiently and quickly select predetermined content such as content to play and content to purchase. When it is instructed to turn on power, key information and additional information stored in a key/additional information storing unit is read. The... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070085859 - Pattern detection using an optical navigation device: An optical navigation device that is capable of performing pattern detection. An optical navigation device according to the present teachings includes a image sensor that acquires a series of images of a surface and an image buffer for holding a template and a processor that detects a pattern on the... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070085860 - Technique for improving the readability of graphics on a display: A layered graphical display is provided. The layered graphical display comprises a plurality of graphics, wherein one or more of said plurality of graphics is overlaid onto one or more other graphics of said plurality of graphics. The layered graphical display also comprises a shaded region behind each of said... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070085861 - Liquid crystal display with brightness detector and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (210) having a first substrate (211), a second substrate (212), a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, and a brightness detector (214) provided at a blank edge area of the second substrate, the blank edge area having... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070085862 - Display device, method of disposing pixels, and pixel disposition program: A display device includes a first sub-pixel formed by a blue-type-hue colored area included in a visible light region whose hue changes in accordance with wavelength, a second sub-pixel formed by a red-type-hue colored area included in the visible light region, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel formed by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070085863 - Image display device, electronic apparatus, and pixel location determining method: An image display device displays an image by using a plurality of display pixels, each display pixel including four sub-pixels corresponding to different colors. The four sub-pixels forming each of the display pixels are located such that a sub-pixel having a smallest level of chroma is located at an edge... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070080892 - Aftermarket interactive screen display conferencing station: A computer system includes an interactive screen display and a base computer. The interactive screen display includes a display module with a transceiver and display screen in communication with each other. The base computer is in communication with the display screen through the transceiver. The display screen displays graphics in... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20070080893 - Method and system for determining characteristics of optical signals on spatial light modulator surfaces: The present application describes a system and method for determining characteristics (e.g., exact band location, orientation and height and the spot shape and size of a single wavelength and the like) of an optical signal projected on a spatial light modulator. In an embodiment, images with sharper edges (i.e. clear... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070080896 - Display device: A display device which can operate at lower driving voltages and have improved luminous efficiency is disclosed. The display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate with a plurality of cells therebetween, a plurality of first and second electrodes arranged between the first and second substrates, insulating layers... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070080894 - 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 plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a scan driver and a data driver. The scan driver scans the plurality of scan electrodes during an address period in one... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070080895 - 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 an address electrode, an address electrode driver, and an electrode group selection unit. The address electrode driver generates an address pulse supplied to a plurality of address... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070080898 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, X and Y electrodes are divided into a first group disposed in even-numbered rows and a second group disposed in odd-numbered rows, and the respective groups are again divided into a plurality of sub-groups. In addition, at respective subfields of one field, address periods are... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070080897 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and driving method thereof has a peak value of one frame is detected and then converted. A grayscale or a grayscale value is converted according to an original peak value and a converted peak value, and a total number of sustain pulses applied to the one... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070080899 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a method for driving the plasma display device. In a first subfield, a first voltage is alternately applied to the first and second electrodes by applying a first addressing scheme for converting an on-cell to an off-cell for a sustain period. In a second subfield,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070080900 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel including first display regions and second display regions extending in a first direction and first electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. First cells are defined by the first display regions and the first electrodes, and second cells... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070080901 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes formed to cross the first and second electrodes. A first voltage is alternately applied to the plurality of first and second electrodes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070080902 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, each of a plurality of scan lines is shared by a corresponding one of first display lines and a corresponding one of second display lines, and a plurality of address lines are formed in a direction crossing the plurality of scan lines. A plurality of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070080903 - Plasma display device and power supply used therein: A plasma display device includes a PDP, a driver for supplying driving signals to the PDP, and a power supply for supplying a power source to the driver. The power supply includes first and second resistors coupled in series between two terminals for outputting a predetermined output voltage, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070080904 - Plasma display device, driving apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display, a driving apparatus and a method of driving the same is provided. A first transistor is coupled between a first electrode and a first power source, and a second transistor is coupled to the first electrode. A third transistor is coupled between the second transistor and a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070080906 - Display apparatus with active matrix display panel, and method for driving same: A display apparatus with an active matrix display panel which can suppress gate stress to prevent a degradation of the display quality. Specified at least one pixel section having a light emitting element to driven for light emission in one row is supplied with a data pulse indicative of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070080907 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels; a scan driver for applying a scanning signal to the scanning signal line; and a data driver for generating a data voltage including a normal data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070080905 - El display and its driving method: An EL display apparatus includes EL elements 15 and driving transistors 11a placed like a matrix, a voltage gradation circuit 1271 for generating a program voltage signal, a current gradation circuit 164 for generating a program current signal, and a drive circuit means of applying a signal to the driving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070080908 - Circuit and method for driving an array of light emitting pixels: A technique for driving a column of pixels that include light emitting elements is presented. The technique incorporates feedback data provided from feedback data sources connected to the data line and to feedback line of the array, pixel driving circuit with feedback path. The technique can also include block of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070080910 - Display device with improved image sharpness: A display device that is capable of reducing the blurring of a moving image without decreasing the luminance level is presented. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a scanning driver for supplying scanning signals to the display panel, and a data driver for generating... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070080909 - Organic eletroluminescent display device and driving method thereof: A method of driving an organic electroluminescent display device, including measuring a gray level of an image, turning on a sampling transistor connected to gate electrode and drain electrode of a driving transistor during a sampling time, applying a data voltage to operate the driving transistor, and supplying a current... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070080911 - Controller circuitry for light emitting diodes: A method according to one embodiment may include supplying power to an LED array having at least a first string of LEDs and a second string of LEDs coupled in parallel, each of the strings includes at least two LEDs. The method of this embodiment may also include comparing a... Agent: Edmund P. Pfleger Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070080912 - Color liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes at least one polarization plate, a phase difference plate, a pair of oppositely disposed substrates at least one of which is a transparent substrate, a liquid crystal disposed between said pair of substrates, and means for applying a voltage to said liquid crystal so... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070080913 - Display device and testing method for display device: The present invention relates to a display device and a method of testing a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a gate driver for generating gate signals and applying the gate signals to switching elements; a precharge circuit for applying a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070080914 - Liquid crystal display and driving method therefor: A liquid crystal display and its driving method are disclosed. Among the pixels driven by the same data driving unit, firstly the pixels of same color are sequentially driven, and then the pixels of other colors are sequentially driven, so that the pixels have almost the same leakage current.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070080915 - Display driver, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and drive method: A display driver includes a display memory 100 which stores grayscale data, a correction calculation section 110 which corrects input grayscale data in units of dots forming one pixel, a line buffer 130 which stores corrected data of one scan line corrected by the correction calculation section 110, and a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070080916 - Circuit for addressing electronic units: The invention relates to an addressing circuit for an array arrangement (100) of electronic units (101), which may be, for example, pixels of an X-ray detector. Every pixel (101) is connected to a spatially adjacent shift register (110), the shift registers (110) being connected in turn column-wise in series and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070080917 - Display device: There is provided an active matrix EL display device that can display a clear multi gray-scale color display to reduce the shift in the potential caused by the potential drop due to the wiring resistance of a power source supply line, in order to decrease the unevenness in a display... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070080918 - Display device: A self-luminescence display device, in which dispersion in display among a plurality of pixels, caused by dispersion in characteristics among drive thin-film transistors, is decreased and uniform display free of unevenness can be obtained. The device includes a plurality of pixels having current drive type luminescent elements, and parallel-connected n... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070080919 - Method for eliminating deficient image on liquid crystal display: A method for eliminating deficient image on a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The method is used for eliminating the deficient image generated during the shutdown period in a normally white LCD. The method comprises the following steps. First, when a power indication signal changes from a first state... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070080920 - Electro-optical device, electro-optical device driving method, image processing circuit, image processing method, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in association with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, each of the plurality of pixels displaying a grayscale level corresponding to a data signal supplied to a corresponding data line when a scanning line... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070080922 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device, and more particularly to a display device which includes a drive circuit having a CMOS shift register which is constituted of a CMOS circuit. The display device includes: a plurality of pixels; and a drive circuit, wherein the drive circuit includes a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070080921 - Lcd gate driver circuitry having adjustable current driving capacity: An LCD gate driver circuitry having a control circuit to adjust the driving current according to a bias control signal, wherein the control circuit comprises a plurality of PMOS switching elements connected in parallel and a plurality of NMOS switching elements connected in parallel. These switching elements form a plurality... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070080923 - Area lighting device and liquid crystal display device having the same: The invention relates to an area lighting device and a liquid crystal display device having the same. An object is to provide an area lighting device which can provide excellent display quality and a liquid crystal display device having the same. An area lighting device is configured to have a... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070080924 - Driving method of liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a driving circuit and a backlight unit supplying light to the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal display device further includes a power management unit. The driving circuit includes a plurality of sub-circuits. The power management unit may provide a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070080925 - Power generating display device: Low power consumption display devices are disclosed. Phoactive layers are utilized that both respond to electrical energy to allow a display device to display information and that generate electrical energy in response to incident radiation. Display pixels of a single display device may be divided displaying and generating pixels. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070080927 - Crosstalk compensation in an electrophoretic display: An electrophoretic display device comprising charged particles in a fluid between two electrodes. Drive means supply the electrodes with drive waveforms in order to cause the charged particles to occupy a desired optical state according to an image to be displayed. In the case where a pixel is required to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070080928 - Display control apparatus, display device, and control method for a display device: A display control apparatus for controlling an electrophoretic display panel 5 having two types of electrophoretic particles of different color and polarity between electrodes has a display drive circuit 40 for supplying a pulse wave drive signal to apply a drive voltage between the electrodes to change the display color... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070080926 - Method and apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display device with reduced image retention: A method and apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display device with reduced image retention. Image transitions in respect of all pixels are performed during each image update, irrespective of whether the optical state of a pixel is required to change or not. Thus, pixels without substantial optical state change between... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070080935 - Accessory module for handheld devices: An accessory module or accessory display device for a handheld computer is disclosed. The device includes an interface configured to be coupled to a handheld computer through an interface slot. The module may be flexibly hinged to the interconnect interface, permitting the coupling of the module to a variety of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070080929 - Haptics transmission systems: In order to overcome the problems arising from network latency in haptic transmission systems a local PC (23, 24) attempts to build a force/position model of a remote haptic device (22, 21) so that when packetised position data is received through the network 5 signals controlling the motors of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070080931 - Human interface input acceleration system: A human interface and input system is implemented on an input accelerator device to remotely operate hand-held host electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDA's, pocket PC's, and smart phone's. The input accelerator device can control some or all functions of the host device to eliminate the need to directly... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070080934 - Human interface input acceleration system: A method and system for transmitting data to and from a hand-held host device are disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with a host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bidirectional data link between the accessory device and the host device. The accessory device also includes a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070080937 - Input system, program, and recording medium: An input system comprising a computer operably associated with a display screen, a first input device, and a second input device. The first input device has an operating region corresponding to an operation region displayed on the display screen. The operation region may be enlarged, reduced, or moved in response... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070080936 - Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling: Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070080933 - Mobile device customizer: A method and system for customizing a mobile host device is disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with and customizing a mobile host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bi-directional communication link between the accessory device and the host device. The accessory device also includes a processor... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070080930 - Terminal device for voice-directed work and information exchange: A device is comprised of processing circuitry operable for providing a speech interface to facilitate a speech dialog with a user or generates commands for a user. An RFID reader, operably coupled with the processing circuitry, is operable for reading data from an RFID tag. In one aspect, the reading... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070080932 - Wireless projector and method of scanning signal receiving units thereof: A wireless projector is provided. The wireless projector includes a microprocessor, a wireless module, a projecting module and several signal receiving units. The wireless module includes at least one image signal line electrically connected to the microprocessor. The projecting module is also electrically connected to the microprocessor to project an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070080938 - Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs: Improved approaches for users of computing devices to interact with graphical user interfaces are described. According to one aspect, a rotational user action supplied by a user at a user input device is transformed into linear action with respect to a graphical user interface. According to another aspect, a portion... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070080940 - Remote control system, and display device and electronic device using the remote control system: One embodiment of a remote control system according to the invention includes: a remote control transmitter including a light-emitting element control unit that emits light-emitting element that emit position detection light signals; a remote control receiver including a light-reception signal processing unit that detects position detection reception signals from the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070080939 - Remote control system, remote controller, information processing apparatus, remote control method, information processing method, and computer program therefor: A remote control system includes an information processing apparatus and a remote controller. The remote controller includes a start notification transmitter that transmits a notification for causing the information processing apparatus to start recording an inter-device distance. The information processing apparatus includes a conversion table showing an association between amounts... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070080941 - Display device, keypad thereof and method for activating display device: A display device includes a processor, a memory, an interface and a keypad. The keypad, separably connected to the interface, includes a signal generator. When the display device is connected to a power source, the processor sends a first signal to the interface. The signal generator generates a second signal... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070080942 - Method for searching data in a wireless terminal: Disclosed is a method for easily searching data displayed in a wireless terminal. The method comprises the steps of: determining if at least two keys are input while data is displayed in the wireless terminal; moving a cursor onto a position of specific data corresponding to consecutive inputs of the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070080943 - Computer mouse capable of receiving and transmitting voice via the internet: A computer mouse which includes a circuit board disposed within the body portion, a loudspeaker mounted on the circuit board, a microphone mounted on the circuit board, a switch mounted on the circuit board and extending upwardly out of the body portion, a volume control mounted on the circuit board... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070080945 - Mouse having a button-less panning and scrolling switch: A method of switching between operational modes of a computer mouse during operation of the computer mouse is disclosed. In the described embodiments, the mouse includes a housing that is gripped by a user during manipulation of the mouse. The method generally comprises first sensing in which hand position the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070080944 - Mouse with disengageable scroll function: The present invention is a mouse having a clickable scrolling wheel that includes a locking capability that is activated only when a user performs a clicking operation on the scroll wheel. In one embodiment, when the scroll wheel is depressed downward during a clicking operation, a slat element connected to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070080946 - Portable electronic device including trackball unit and associated methods: The portable electronic device, such as a cell phone or wireless email device, includes a portable housing, a battery carried by the portable housing, and a trackball carried by the portable housing for permitting user pointing. The trackball includes a ball, at least one rotation sensor cooperating with the ball,... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070080947 - Bartender's buddy: The Bartender's Buddy is an electronic bartender's guide that allows the user easy access to a variety of mixed drink recipes. The Bartender's Buddy is comprised of a small housing, a plurality of buttons, an electronic display and contains at least a circuit board and an internal memory. A user... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp

20070080949 - Character-input method and medium and apparatus for the same: A character-input method is provided. The character-input method includes providing a plurality of objects having a predetermined arrangement, mapping characters included in a character group represented by a representative character mapped to an object identified as a first signal among objects to which representative characters are mapped, to one or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070080950 - Keypad, sliding module and sliding module flexible circuit for portable terminal: A keypad for a portable terminal is disclosed. The portable terminal includes a first housing and a second housing coupled with the first housing so as to be able to slide in a first direction or in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The keypad includes a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070080948 - Multi-face button systems and electronic devices and methods using the same: A button system includes an image sheet including first and second source images, and a screen superimposed on the image sheet such that the image sheet is displayed to a user through the screen. The image sheet and the screen are relatively movable between a first position, wherein the button... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070080952 - Center button isolation ring: Selection button isolation arrangements for use with electronic devices are presented including: a selection pad forming a substantially planar surface disposed about a first axis, the selection pad having a pad top surface, the pad top surface configured to receive a user input, the selection pad configured to actuate a... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070080951 - Input device and electronic device using the input device: The present invention related to an input device including: an image display unit (30) that displays information; a touch panel (15) with which a user performs input operation of information by touching a portion corresponding to the position at which the information of the image display unit is displayed; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070080953 - Method for window movement control on a touchpad having a touch-sense defined speed: In a method for window movement control on a touchpad, the area size of the object sliding on the touchpad is calculated to determine the speed that the touchpad produces a movement signal to control a window such that the greater the area size is, the faster the window scrolls.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070080954 - System and method for using navigational and other commands on a mobile communication device: A wireless handheld communication device having a housing containing a display screen located above a physical keyboard. The keyboard includes a plurality of physical keys and corresponding indicia. Some of the keys are associated with alphabetic characters corresponding to a QWERTY array of letters A-Z and some are associated with... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070080955 - Electronic acquisition of a hand formed expression and a context of the expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, method, and computer program product. In an embodiment, a device includes a handheld writing device that includes a writing element, and a writing detector module operable to generate information indicative of a handwriting movement of the writing element. The device also includes a context detector... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20070080956 - Interactive display devices and methods of making the same: An interactive display device in one example may include: a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from each other for providing a display area; a plurality of display control elements in a first matrix over the first substrate; a plurality of first data lines over the first substrate,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070080957 - Electronic apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising such electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes a main body; a display portion, a responsive member and a frictional sliding member. The display portion is supported by the main body rotatably about an axis of a rotary shaft so as to extend and retract with respect to the main body. The responsive member... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070080958 - Single gesture map navigation graphical user interface for a thin client: An application on a thin client displays a map. A graphical user interface permits the application to receive single gesture inputs of a stylus. If the single gesture input comprises a drag of the stylus a minimum distance, the map is panned such that the map is shifted to a... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070080962 - Insertion apparatus: An insertion apparatus includes a tubular member equipped with a propulsion power generating portion, a rotating portion for rotating the tubular member around the longitudinal axis of the tubular member, a distal end which can be slidingly moved with respect to a rotation of the tubular member rotated by the... Agent: Thomas Spinelli Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070080961 - Method for generating unified three-dimensional models of complex infrastructure configurations: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for creating a complete 3D model of complex infrastructure configurations, such as divided highways, roadway intersections, etc. Current CAD applications have been limited to creating 3D models based on the geometry of a single alignment. In one embodiment, each baseline for a 3D... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070080959 - Stereo-projection control system: The invention relates to a DLP-projector for the active projection of stereoscopic images, with the projector comprising a DMD, at least a first driver circuit interacting with a memory (6) and controlling at least one DMD (4), and at least a first signal input (1) for the input of image... Agent: Glenn E. Klepac

20070080960 - Workflow system for 3d model creation: A 3D modeling workflow system is disclosed that allows the user to create multiple 2D planes or paint canvases in the 3D scene each having a position and orientation. These 2D planes can be arbitrarily positioned in the 3D scene and can contain a combination of paint and model construction... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070080963 - Method of rendering graphical objects: A method of mapping an input image split into input triangles including texels onto an output image also split into corresponding output triangles including pixels. Said method comprising the steps of: determining an inverse affine transform (BT) for transforming an intermediate rectangle triangle (T0) into an input triangle (T1); determining... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070080964 - Method of utilizing product proxies with a dependency graph: Changes to the outputs of a dependency graph, which has attribute nodes and operator nodes, are detected by forming product proxies for the outputs of dependency graph nodes. The product proxies can be formed by entering information about the dependency graph into a hashing algorithm. Before and after product proxies... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070080965 - Signal processing device, signal processing method, program, and recording medium: The present invention relates to a signal processing device and signal processing method, and program and recording medium, whereby images and the like closer approximating real world signals can be obtained. An actual world estimating unit 17003 estimates the actual world function, assuming that the pixel value of each pixel... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070080966 - Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points: The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points. Based on the positions of control points on an outline it is calculated, that between a first parent control point and a second parent control point, the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070080967 - Generation of normalized 2d imagery and id systems via 2d to 3d lifting of multifeatured objects: A method of generating a normalized image of a target head from at least one source 2D image of the head. The method involves estimating a 3D shape of the target head and projecting the estimated 3D target head shape lit by normalized lighting into an image plane corresponding to... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070080968 - Collision determination device and vehicle behavior control device: A control unit 5 calculates, by a statistical processing, the current front/rear-directional acceleration, the current front/rear-directional velocity, and the current front/rear-directional position of the three-dimensional object to be determined while considering an error caused by a camera. These values are used in the statistical processing so as to calculate the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070080969 - Image processing circuit, combined image processing circuit, and image forming apparatus: An image processing circuit comprising a plurality of line buffers is provided. Each line buffer stores pixel data of a plurality of pixels as line data, the plurality of pixels configuring a single image line of an image. A first image processing part performs a first image processing task on... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070080970 - On-screen signal processing apparatus: An on-screen signal processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a first display memory for storing binary image data, a second display memory for storing decoration data for decorating the binary image data stored in the first display memory in a unit of a fixed plurality of pixels, and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070080971 - Method and apparatus of image buffer compression for display device: A method and apparatus for reducing the density of a frame buffer image for display device is presented. The source image is compressed before storing into a temporary frame buffer and decompressed before displaying in a display device. When a new object is to be display into the previous frame,... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld.52

20070080972 - System and method for higher level filtering by combination of bilinear results: A method and system for higher level filtering uses a native bilinear filter, typically found in a texture mapper, and combines a plurality of bilinear filter results from the bilinear filter to produce a higher level filtered texel value. A native bilinear filter is operative to generate bilinear filtered texel... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070080974 - Arrangement for mapping colors between imaging systems and method therefor: A color mapping method is used in transforming colors between color imaging systems. The method includes using forward transformation profiles that characterize the color imaging systems to generate respective sets of device-independent color values for the color imaging systems. Color conversions are calculated by recursively reducing differences between the respective... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff, Eastman Kodak Company

20070080973 - Device and method for colour correction of an input image: The invention concerns a device and a method for colour correction of an input image. According to the invention, the device comprises: means for analysing the colours of an input image in order to get a colours parametric representation of said input image, means for selecting a set of reference... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070080975 - Visual processing device, display device, and integrated circuit: The invention achieves a visual processing device that can execute precise contrast adjustment on image signals that have been input and that does not cause discrepancies in the output timing of the image signals that are output. The visual processing device is provided with a gain-type visual processing portion that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070075915 - Mobile communication terminal having multiple displays and a data processing method thereof: A mobile communication terminal includes a display unit comprising a plurality of displays, one of which being formed as a touch panel, and a controller for analyzing a signal inputted through the touch panel to determine whether movement distance of data satisfies pre-set conditions, and outputting a control signal for... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070075916 - Generic utility supporting on-demand creation of customizable graphical user interfaces for viewing and specifying field device parameters: A universal device type manager (DTM) utility is described herein including a generalized architecture facilitating defining and generating user interfaces associated with a variety of field device types. The utility includes a device description data store interface that provides access to a device description store wherein standard device descriptions (DD... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070075918 - Auxiliary targeting viewer: A head mounting viewing system includes a viewer having a microdisplay for displaying images. Viewing optics can be included for viewing the display. The display and the optics can be housed in a housing. Integrated operational controls can be located on the housing for controlling the operation of the viewer.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070075917 - Image display device and simulation device: Gravity center position GRA of image display device 15 is, in a human state of standing, located in a more backward position compared with eyeball 9 and in a more downward position compared with eyeball 9. In this case, assuming that the rotation axes of the head are the X-axis,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070075919 - Vehicle with crash sensor coupled to data bus: Vehicle including sensors one of which is a motion-detecting crash sensor, a processing module for processing data generated by the sensors, the module being separate from most if not all of the sensors, and a data bus coupling the sensors and the module together and enabling transfer of data from... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq.

20070075920 - Lcd viewing system: A viewing device for viewing a video display on a display screen comprising the sequential display of right and left images of a video stereo pair, said viewing device including first and second spaced viewing structures positioned in front of the viewer's eyes, each structure alternating between viewing and masking... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070075921 - Radio audio indicator: A user interface for a communication device includes a light emitting diode (LED) (200) providing both a transmit-carrier indicator and transmit-audio feedback to the user. By varying the intensity (202, 204, 206) and/or color spectrum (302, 304, 306) of the LED (200). relative to changes in transmitted audio, the user... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070075922 - Electronic display systems: A display or light-modulating device incorporates one or more measures of liquid that obstruct or filter light that passes onto or through the liquid; a space distribution of different light-modulating filters, optical instrument or materials or of materials that change the frequency or color of light passing onto or through... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070075923 - Multiple row addressing: A passive-matrix display device has rows (2) of pixels (Pij). A row driver (8) selects sub-groups of the rows (2) to obtain multiple row addressing. Each sub-group has a particular number (p) of the rows (2). In each frame period (Tf) the sub-groups are selected a number of times equal... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070075924 - Display method of digital display device and digital display device: In an image signal processing unit in a PDP device, a noise reducer unit is provided at a former stage of an error diffusion processing unit. The noise reducer unit has an LPF to input display data and an edge determining unit and a level determining unit to the LPF.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070075926 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel: An apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel is disclosed. The apparatus includes a level shifting unit for gradually changing a bias level of the scan bias voltage, and a scan driving unit for sequentially applying the scan bias voltage having the changed bias level to the scan... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070075928 - Digital display apparatus and display method thereof: In a display method of a PDP apparatus or the like, there is provided a technique for reducing or eliminating dynamic false contours in a display video image by determining and detecting an occurrence region of dynamic false contours in display data with good accuracy for coping. In a false-contour... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070075925 - Method for prevention of distorted sub-picture display on a flat panel display: The present invention discloses a method for prevention of distorted sub-picture display on a flat panel display. The display image of the flat panel display comprises a main picture and a sub-picture. While a drop line is performed on the main picture, image data output of the sub-picture is stopped.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070075927 - 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 scan electrode, an outside luminance detector, a setup pulse controller and a scan driver. The outside luminance detector detects an outside luminance of the plasma display... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070075929 - Plasma display panel display device and driving method therefor: A PDP display apparatus driving method for performing multi-level gradation display by constituting one frame of a plurality of subfields assigned different weights, wherein in a subfield in which a relative luminance ratio corresponds to a lowest weight, display is performed according to discharges in two periods only, the periods... Agent: Attn: Joseph W. Price, Esq. Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070075930 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The method of driving the plasma display apparatus including a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode, includes generating a first surface discharge during a reset period of a first subfield, generating a second surface discharge between the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070075934 - Plasma display apparatus: A Plasma Display Apparatus having common electrodes and address electrodes extending in a first direction and scan electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and each address electrode is aligned with a respective common electrode. A display cell is formed at a crossing portion of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070075931 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided which has a first substrate and a second substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the first substrate to perform sustain discharge on the first substrate; a third electrode formed on the second substrate to perform address discharge between the second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070075932 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes first and second substrates; a plurality of X-electrodes provided on the first substrate; a plurality of Y-electrodes provided on the first substrate so as to be disposed in parallel with the plurality of X-electrodes, for generating sustain discharge between the plurality of X-electrodes and the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070075933 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A method of driving a plasma display panel including (a) a first electrode, (b) a second electrode extending in parallel with the first electrode to define a display line therebetween, and (c) a third electrode extending crossing with the first and second electrodes, display cells being defined at intersections of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070075939 - Active matrix oled driving circuit using current feedback: An active matrix organic light emitting diode AMOLED driving circuit using current feedback that ensures the uniformity of brightness in pixels of a flat panel display and shortens the time required to input accurate current to respective pixels in the driving circuit. The prevent invention provides an AMOLED driving circuit... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070075938 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes a light emitting device, a driving transistor for supplying a driving current to the light emitting device, a first switching transistor coupled with the control terminal of the driving transistor to transmit a data voltage,... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070075935 - Flat-panel display with hybrid imaging technology: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide a hybrid imaging display. An array of pixel units is formed. Each pixel unit has emissive and reflective sub-pixels. A sensor senses ambient light condition to generate a sense signal. A drive circuit generates driving signals to drive the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070075937 - Organic electroluminescent display device: In an organic electroluminescent (EL) display device, a main display panel and a sub display panel share a data line and a power supply voltage line. The organic EL display device has a top emission type main display panel and a bottom emission type sub display panel in a single... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070075936 - Organic light-emitting display device having a pixel unit for testing pixels of the display device: An organic light-emitting display device having a pixel unit to test pixels, wherein the organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate; a display unit located on the substrate; a plurality of first scan lines located in the display unit; and a second scan line located in the display unit and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070075940 - Organic el display and method of driving the same: An active matrix organic EL display includes pixels each including a pixel circuit and an organic EL element connected in series between first and second power supply terminals in this order, a temperature sensor sensing a temperature or temperature change of the organic EL element, and a power supply circuit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075942 - Control circuit for overcoming stiction: A circuit and method for controlling a micro-electromechanical system is herein disclosed. In one embodiment of a micro-electromechanical system having top and bottom capacitor plates with a pixel plate movably positioned therebetween, a release voltage sufficient to overcome stiction forces adhering the pixel plate to one of the capacitor plates... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070075944 - Display and method of manufacturing the same: A method of manufacturing a display includes selecting at least one of pixels which can be seen as a luminous line or a luminous dot with a dark line-like tail when an inspection image is displayed, and breaking a first conductive path connecting a display element to a power supply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075941 - Electrowetting display device: Several possibilities of driving devices (13,14,15) for optical switches, especially displays (1) based on the principle of electrowetting are given. This principle uses optical switches comprising a first fluid (5) and a second fluid (6) immiscible with each other within a space between a first transparent support plate (3) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070075943 - Flat panel display and a method of driving the same: The flat panel display includes an electrochromic device that is a controlling unit. The electrochromic device reversibly makes electrolytic oxidizing and reducing reactions so that coloring and decoloring can be made reversibly, when voltage is applied. With such the construction, the flat panel display controls the voltage applied to the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070075946 - Display device using lcd panel and a method of executing timing control options thereof: A display device including a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a driving circuit unit to drive the LCD panel, a main controller to generate a data signal that includes predetermined option information, and a timing controller ,to detect the option information upon receiving the data signal from the main... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070075947 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device can suppress the local temperature elevation of a liquid crystal in the vicinity of drivers. On a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching a liquid crystal therebetween, a switching element... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070075945 - Method for reducing time lapse of consecutive scan of lcd pixel: A double-frame-rate method for reducing the time lapse of a LCD pixel between its two consecutive scans within a frame is provided. The method horizontally partitions the scan lines into (k) non-overlapping regions, each containing m1, m2, . . . , mk scan lines. The method then scans each of... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property

20070075953 - Electro-optical device, drive method for electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical display device includes an electro-optical panel, a scanning line drive circuit for scanning the scanning lines of the panel during a selection period, and a signal line drive circuit for outputting a data signal to a predetermined pixel through the corresponding data line of the panel in synchronization... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070075951 - Flat panel display: A method of operating a display includes deriving first pixel data for overdriving pixel circuits of the display from initial gray levels to target gray levels based on values in the first and second lookup tables, rendering the second lookup table unavailable in memory in response to a change in... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070075949 - Gray-scale driving method for bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal display: A gray-scale driving method for a bi-stable chiral nematic liquid crystal display is provided. The present method divides an updated picture into a first-section frame, a second-section frame and a third-section frame. The present invented method includes to drive the first-section frame into a predetermined initial state, and drive the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070075950 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device has a gradation display function of at least an n-number of gray levels and has a viewing angle characteristic of Mi/Mj≦1.3 in a case where a display luminance range in a normal direction to a display surface in a gradation range of predetermined gray levels... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075948 - Organic electro-luminescence display panel: An organic electroluminescence display panel without electric leakage among pixels. An organic electroluminescence display panel comprises a plurality of organic electroluminescence elements, each of the elements comprising first and second display electrodes and at least one of organic function layers including an emission layer comprising an organic compound, the function... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070075952 - Voltage driver: Each of first and second decoders outputs two voltages each having a voltage value equal to any one of a plurality of gray-level voltages according to gray-level data as two selection voltages or outputs any two of the plurality of gray-level voltages according to gray-level data as the two selection... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070075954 - Luminescent display device and method that drives the same: A luminescent display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed which are capable of increasing the aspect ratio of pixel regions. The luminescent display device includes a display including gate lines, and data lines extending orthogonally to the gate lines, a first shift register connected to one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070075955 - Organic light emitting diode display: The present invention relates to an OLED display including a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel. Each pixel is defined by a gate line and a data line and includes a light-emitting element and a driving transistor connected to the light-emitting element. A light-emitting element of the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070075959 - Display device: A display device includes a gate driver for driving pixels (PX), a drive control circuit for outputting a predetermined control signal to the gate driver, and a frequency division circuit. The pixels, the gate driver, and the frequency division circuit are formed using amorphous silicon thin film transistors (a-Si TFTs)... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075960 - Electro-optical device, driving method therefor, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes pixel electrodes corresponding to intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines and specific to the pixels. A common electrode facing the pixel electrode, and A switching element that establishes conduction between the data line and the pixel electrode when a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070075957 - Flat panel display, image correction circuit and method of the same: A flat panel display, an image correction circuit and method thereof are provided. The image correction circuit mainly includes a digital to analog conversion unit and a data processing unit. The digital to analog conversion unit includes a temperature sensor and a gamma voltage generator. The gamma voltage generator is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070075958 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller for outputting a digital data signal to display images and a clock signal for sampling the digital data signal, and a data restorer for generating a reference voltage based on the clock signal from the timing controller, comparing the voltage level... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070075956 - Mobile terminal apparatus: A control portion 16 and a display portion controller 19 control driving of a display portion 20 comprised of a liquid crystal display unit, and change the driving operation such as a drive system, a driving frequency, etc. into a suitable driving condition in accordance with the operation condition of... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070075961 - Panel for liquid crystal display device: A panel of a liquid crystal display panel with a plurality of pixels is disclosed, wherein each pixel comprises one switch, one pixel electrode and one floating line. The switch comprises a gate, a source, and two drains. The pixel electrode can be electrically connected to the switch through the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070075963 - Bi-stable display with dc-balanced over-reset driving: A display device (101) has groups of display elements (118), which are changed from one optical state to another optical state by applying a waveform sequence of potential differences. The waveform enables particles (108, 109) to occupy a position corresponding to the other optical state and includes standard reset, over-reset... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070075962 - Electrophoretic display with reduced look-up-table memeory: An display device (301) has reduced memory (314) requirements for temperature compensation data. A scaling factors (433) for various temperatures and a look-up table for a waveform which is optimized to drive the grayscale for a given display temperature are stored in memory (314). The waveform for a particular temperature... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070075965 - Automated response to and sensing of user activity in portable devices: The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include one or more sensors for providing data relating to user activity and at least one processor for causing the device to respond based on the user activity which was determined, at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070075966 - Hand-held computer interactive device: In one embodiment an input device is provided. The input device includes a central body. A response and communications system is included in the input device. The response and communication system enables communication between the input device and a computing device. At least one protrusion extending from the central body... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070075964 - Mobile pointing device: A mobile pointing device having an inverted U-shape such that the device can be supported upon the proximal portion of the index finger of a user. The device can have controls and a wireless connection such that a user can selectively send indicator and/or position signals to an external device.... Agent: West & Associates, A PC

20070075967 - Image processing apparatus, storage medium having image processing program stored thereon, game apparatus and storage medium having game program stored thereon: For operating an operation target object displayed on a screen using a pointing device, a first input coordinate value indicating a position on the screen designated by the pointing device and a second input coordinate value detected discretely from, and before, the first input coordinate value are detected. A changing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070075968 - System and method for sensing the position of a pointing object: A system for sensing the position of a pointer with respect to a reference frame is described wherein the system has a sensing device capable of measuring an electric field around the pointer when it is in proximity to the reference frame and a processing device capable of receiving signals... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070075969 - Method for controlling display of image according to movement of mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method for controlling the display of an image according to the movement of a mobile terminal, which includes an image enlargement/reduction, image search and display of a portion of an image according to the movement of the mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: detecting a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070075970 - Method for controlling display of image according to movement of mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method for controlling the display of an image according to the movement of a mobile terminal, which includes an image enlargement/reduction, image search and display of a portion of an image according to the movement of the mobile terminal. The method employs the steps of detecting a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070075971 - Remote controller, image processing apparatus, and imaging system comprising the same: A remote controller for remotely controlling an image processing apparatus having a receiving unit, including: a sensing unit having a region for sensing a position value corresponding to user's contact and movement; a data processing unit for detecting information on a user's movement direction to convert it into a control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070075973 - Mouse having a digital television receiving function: The present invention relates to a mouse having a digital television receiving function and the mouse comprises a casing having an upper casing and a lower casing, a mouse function unit having an interface for detecting mouse coordinates and sending the mouse coordinates out from the interface, a digital television... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20070075972 - System and method for measuring operational life of a computer mouse: An exemplary system for measuring operational life of a computer mouse is disclosed. The system includes a computer (10), a servo controller (14), an X servo axis (12), a Y servo axis (13), and a measurement platform (16). The computer includes a file module (20), a setting module (21), and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070075974 - Hand-held electronic device: A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard, thumbwheel, display and associated software is optimized for use of the device with the thumbs. The associated software has a plurality of features to optimize efficient use of the limited keyboard space and encourage the use of the device by thumb-based data entry... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070075975 - Lap shade: The Lap Shade provides fun and essential device for business people and students. The Lap Shade will expand your limitations where you can operate and enjoy your portable lap top computers, notebook computers, portable DVD players and such like portable computers and players outdoors, and view your screens clearly where... Agent: Humberto G. Aguilera

20070075976 - Method, device computer program and graphical user interface for user input of an electronic device: A method of controlling an electronic device including a touch sensitive display the method including displaying a plurality of graphical items on the touch sensitive display where each graphical item has an identity; detecting a coupling, formed by a user, of at least two graphical items, the coupling including, a... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070075978 - Adaptive input method for touch screen: An adaptive input method for a touch screen is provided. A keyboard frame having a plurality of possible keys is on the touch screen, wherein the contents of the possible keys are determined according to the type of a preceding data inputted via the keyboard frame. A character is displayed... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070075981 - Display apparatus enabling to display and control a roundish-shaped osd menu and touch-based display and control method therefor: A touch-based method enabling a display apparatus to display and control a roundish-shaped on-screen display (OSD) menu is provided. The touch-based method includes the steps of: providing a display apparatus including a screen and a frame connecting to the screen, the screen including a first menu region and a second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070075980 - Display apparatus enabling to display multiple menus and touch-based display method therefor: A touch-based display apparatus and touch-based display method therefor is provided. The touch-based display method for the display apparatus includes the steps of: providing a display apparatus including a screen and a frame connecting to the screen, the screen having a plurality of menu regions and the frame having a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070075977 - Display system: Display systems with digitizers. In a display system, an interface is coupled to a host system, and a control unit is coupled to a digitizer module, the display panel and the interface. The control unit drives the display panel to display a corresponding image and generates a scan timing signal... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070075979 - Electronic device and method providing a cursor control: An electronic device and method for controlling a cursor is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a timer, and a processing unit. The display includes a screen and a frame thereof. The frame further has a touch sensitive region for generating sensing signals in response to an input operation.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070075984 - Method and device for scroll bar control on a touchpad having programmed sections: A scrolling region is selected on a touchpad and defined several sections each of which corresponding to a displacement signal in a specific direction, such that by touching on the programmed sections to trigger the respective displacement signals, a scroll bar on a window becomes more easily to control for... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070075983 - Method for gesture detection on a touchpad: A multi-function touchpad has a first button located at substantially a center of the touchpad and a second button at substantially an edge of the touchpad. When the first button is pressed, if the second button is also pressed, the touchpad triggers the function in response to the first button... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070075982 - Passive touch system and method of detecting user input: A passive touch system includes a passive touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and have overlapping fields of view. A processor receives and processes images acquired by the at least... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070075986 - Proximity sensing device and sensing method thereof: A proximity sensing device for judging an operation is provided. The proximity sensing device includes a first sensing area sensing the operation and generating a first signal; and a second sensing area sensing the operation and generating a second signal, wherein if a ratio of the first signal and the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070075985 - Storage medium storing object movement control program and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. A movement of an object is controlled in accordance with an input. For example, a starting point of the input is determined by detecting coordinates in a first area including the object. A second area is set, with the starting point set as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070075988 - Computer device with digitizer calibration system and method: A computer device comprises a calibration module adapted to detect an input frequency for at least one input mode of a digitizer device. The calibration module is configured to determine whether the input frequency is within a frequency tolerance band corresponding to the at least one input mode.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070075989 - Electronic acquisition of a hand formed expression and a context of the expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, method, and computer program product. In an embodiment, a device includes a handheld writing device that includes a writing element, and a writing detector module operable to generate information indicative of a handwriting movement of the writing element. The device also includes a context detector... Agent: Searete LLC Suite110

20070075987 - Retraction mechanism of light pen: Provided is a light pen comprising an elastic ejection assembly. In a retracting operation of the light pen, pressing a pushing rod into a barrel will move a pushing cylinder to compress a spring, push first teeth out of first grooves, clockwise turn the first teeth to move from the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070075990 - Output request apparatus, output request method, and computer program product: An output request apparatus that issues an output request to an image forming apparatus, includes a display control unit that displays on a display screen a symbol indicating the image forming apparatus and position information indicating an installation position of the image forming apparatus, an input receiving unit that receives,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070075991 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The display device confirms whether display data applied to a display panel are uniformly maintained for a predetermined time. As a result of confirmation, if the display data are uniformly maintained for a predetermined time, pixels of the... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070075992 - Method and apparatus for predictively and graphically administering a networked system in a time dimension: A method and apparatus are generally disclosed for presenting predictively and graphically administering a networked system in a time dimension. According to one aspect of the present application, a method is disclosed for presenting a projected status of at least one network system component. The method comprises identifying a present... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070075994 - Adaptive sampling of a static data set: A sampling module for adaptively sampling static data sets is provided. Two or more rays are cast onto a surface from a single point of origin. The ray or rays intersect the surface at various locations. The distance between the intersection points of each pair of adjacent rays is calculated.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070075997 - Artifact mitigation in three-dimensional imaging: Accuracy of a three-dimensional imaging system is improved through the use of model-based calibration and lookup tables to resolve distance according to, e.g., x-displacement, y-displacement, or image disparity data. In an embodiment, the lookup table(s) stores localized parameterization data used to calculate calibrated results.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070075996 - Modeling system, and modeling method and program: The present invention provides a modeling technique with improved modeling accuracy. A modeling system obtains a plurality of pieces of measurement data by measuring an object a plurality of times, and obtains a standard model as a standard three-dimensional model of the object. The modeling system deforms the standard model... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070075995 - Three-dimensional immersive system for representing an automation control environment: A computer-implemented system for representing a production environment comprises a modeling module that creates a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a production environment. The system also includes a view module that renders a graphical depiction of at least a portion of the three-dimensional model from a reference... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070075993 - Three-dimensional virtual space simulator, three-dimensional virtual space simulation program, and computer readable recording medium where the program is recorded: A three-dimensional virtual space simulator comprises a section for determining the action of an avatar according to the input by the user and generating action instruction data representing the content of the action, a section for determining the action of an agent autonomously and generating action instruction data representing the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070075998 - Shot shading method and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes determining first shading results associated with a geometric object in response to first shading computations and first shading data associated with the geometric object and associated with both a first scene and a second scene, determining second shading results associated with the geometric... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070075999 - Data distribution system: An interactive method for allowing a user to obtain image data for diagnostic purposes from a server having access to stored data, comprising: connecting a user's computer to the server over a communication network; receiving from the server image reconstruction software for the user's computer; requesting specific image data for... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070076000 - Method for selecting a low dimensional model from a set of low dimensional models representing high dimensional data: A particular model of a class of objects is selected from a set of models of the class, wherein the class models are graphs, each graph including a plurality of vertices representing objects in the class and edges connecting the vertices. Subsets of vertices of a selected set of graphs... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070076001 - Method for selecting a low dimensional model from a set of low dimensional models representing high dimensional data based on the high dimensional data: A model of a class of objects is selected from a set of low-dimensional models of the class, wherein the models are graphs, each graph including a plurality of vertices representing objects in the class and edges connecting the vertices. First distances between a subset of high-dimensional samples of the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070076002 - Systems and methods for providing an interactive graphical representation of a market for an electronic trading system: Systems and methods for providing an interactive graphical representation of a market for an electronic trading system are provided. A graph may be displayed on a display of a workstation in an electronic trading system. In one example, the graph may include a curve corresponding to a range of values... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070076003 - Sawtooth spline display: In a computer aided animation system where an animation spline is produced from a sequence of knots, the display of the animation spline is modified so that the vertical axis of the curve is flipped at selected ‘pose’ knots in order to allow ready evaluation, typically by visual inspection, of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070076004 - Semiconductor memory chip: A semiconductor memory chip in which signals are transferred as serial signal frames includes a frame decoder providing an interface between a memory core and a reception interface. The frame decoder includes a command type decoder for decoding the types of commands included in frames according to the decoded type... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070076006 - Detection of displays for information handling system: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically determining whether display is attached to a display interface port. In an embodiment of the invention a display can be automatically detected by determining whether an EDID is present and, therefore, whether a display is present at the video interface... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070076005 - Robust hot plug detection for analog displays using edid: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically detecting whether an external monitor is connected to a video port of an information handling system. In various embodiments of the invention, detection of the display is accomplished by periodic polling to detect the presence of an Extended Display Identification... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070076007 - Display controller capable of reducing cache memory and the frame adjusting method thereof: A display controller capable of reducing cache memory and a frame adjusting method thereof are provided. The display controller comprises a memory controller, a first memory, a second memory and a frame control circuit. The memory controller is for reading part of the image data from a source layer to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070076008 - Virtual local memory for a graphics processor: A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises one or more graphics local memory channels, one or more system memory channels, and a graphics processor operable to access the one or more graphics local memory channels and the one or more system memory channels in... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076009 - Bitstream format and reading and writing methods and apparatus therefor: Image data having a bit depth of m bits, where m is not a power of two, may be divided into two parts for storage. The first part is the n most significant bits, where n is a power of two. The second part is the k least significant bits,... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070076010 - Memory layout for re-ordering instructions using pointers: Embodiments include storing graphics instructions at addresses in a memory in an original order, and storing in the memory pointers associated with each instruction pointing to the addresses of the instructions in the original order. A first pointer associated with a first graphics instruction may then be moved from pointing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070076011 - 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

20070076013 - Computerized, personal-color analysis system: A method and apparatus to automatically generate a customized color palette receives data corresponding to several physical attributes of a living subject, such as hair, skin and eyes and conducts an analysis uniquely corresponding to each attribute, and may associate each attribute with at least one property such as a... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20070076012 - Method and system for increasing the effective dynamic range of a random-access pixel sensor array: To effective increase the dynamic range of a pixel array, a plurality of brightness groups is set. The pixels of a pixel array are then distributed among the groups according with their likely brightness. Each image frame is scanned in the order of brightness, with the pixels in the group... Agent: Honeywell International, Inc.

20070076014 - Universal color decoder an method for decoding input signal for a multiple primary color display system: A decoder and method of decoding converts color image data into a format for display by a display having N primary colors, where N>3. Each of a plurality of input format converters converts an input signal having a corresponding color format to a set of X, Y, Z tristimulus values,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070076015 - Video game program and video game device: Displayed on a first LCD 11 are a “fire” planet 40a, a “wood” planet 40b; an “earth” planet 40c, a “wind” planet 40d and a “water” planet 40e,each traveling along an orbit by a unique orbital period. While an attribute symbol is traveling through an active zone that is associated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070076016 - Photographing big things: The claimed subject matter can provide an architecture that facilitates producing a single image that can visualize a scene too large to depict from any single perspective view. These images can be stitched together on a 2-dimensional picture surface to form a multi-perspective image of the entire extent of the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070076017 - Electronic device and image displaying method thereof: An electronic device (100) includes a system module (110), a display module (131), and a control module (120). The display module is for displaying images of the electronic device. The system module includes an image module (111) for saving the image corresponding to a desired orientation of the image. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070076018 - Apparatus for image upscaling and the method thereof: An apparatus for image upscaling and the method thereof. The apparatus includes an ADC and a downscaling circuit. The ADC samples and digitizes the signal of an original image at a sampling rate of an integer multiple of the resolution of the original image. The sampled and digitalized result is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070076019 - Modulating images for display: A display may be implemented with a pulse width modulated system in which the number of pulse width modulated slots may be divided up across the frame using less than the full number of available pulse width modulated slots per color. In addition, within any given field time, the pixels... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070076020 - Method and apparatus for nonlinear anamorphic scaling of video images: Methods and apparatuses for nonlinear scaling of video images. To match the aspect ratios of a video image and the target display area, at least one embodiment of the present invention scales the video image according to one or more nonlinear functions along the horizontal direction and/or the vertical direction.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman