Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 05/07

20070120762 - Providing information in a multi-screen device: A method of displaying information in an information display device may include retrieving an information file from storage media accessible from an information display device, displaying a first portion of the retrieved file in a first electronic display screen based on a first value from a sensor, displaying a second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070120763 - Display system for viewing multiple video signals: The present invention provides a method and device for displaying a plurality of video signals on one single display. According to embodiments of the present invention a plurality of display systems can be replaced by one display system being fully backwards compatible without the need to change any software or... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070120764 - Rotating module: The present invention provides a rotating module for adjusting a display. The rotating module includes a first rotating part and a second rotating part that are coupled together. The first rotating part moves the display around a first axis. The second rotating part moves the display around a second axis.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120765 - Backlight, display apparatus and light source controlling method: A backlight for illuminating the back of a display section includes a plurality of light sources disposed in positions corresponding to a display area of the display section; a diffusion member configured to transmit light from the light sources to the display section; a photo-sensor; a light guiding member configured... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070120766 - Driving method for liquid crystal display device assembly: A driving method for a liquid crystal display device assembly that includes a transmissive-type liquid crystal display device, a planar light source device including P×Q planar light source units, and a drive circuit that drives the two devices is disclosed. The driving method includes the step of, when the value... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070120767 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first cell provided inside a window having a percentage of “a” or more of an on-cell turned on during one frame; and a second cell provided inside a window having a percentage of less than “a” of the on-cell turned... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070120770 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) comprising sustain electrodes commonly connected through a conductive connection pad, two or more Z sustain boards for driving the sustain electrodes, and a current communication... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070120771 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel: An interlace-type PDP is driven by an improved driving method so as to achieve a greater operating margin, higher resolution, and higher brightness. The interlace-type PDP is driven using odd and even frames in such a manner that the cells are grouped into cell groups such that each cell group... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070120769 - 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, a panel driver, a subfield mapping unit, and a controller. The plasma display panel, on which an image is displayed through a video signal input from the outside,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070120768 - Three-dimensional display device: A three-dimensional display device includes an image display portion displaying left and right eye images, and a parallax barrier directing the left and right eye images respectively towards left and right eyes of a user. The parallax barrier includes first electrodes located on a first substrate, a first connection electrode... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070120772 - Display system and operation method thereof: A display system includes a display device and a remote controller. Remote controller makes RF communication with the display device so as to obtain device information and includes a display panel that displays the device information. Remote controller adjusts the device information and sends the adjusted device information to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070120773 - Plasma display device, and apparatus and method for driving the same: A driving circuit for a plasma display having a plurality of first electrodes is provided. The driving circuit has first and second transistors coupled to first and second power sources, respectively. First and second capacitors are coupled between the drain and the source of the first and second transistors, respectively.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070120774 - Plasma display, driving device, and driving method: A plasma display according to an embodiment of the present invention has first, second, and third transistors which are coupled between a first power source for supplying a first voltage and a second power source for supplying a second voltage which is lower than the first voltage is disclosed. A... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070120775 - Microcontroller for driving vacuum fluorescent display: A digit waveform control circuit shifts in time, based on the setting of a digit time shift register, digit scan display data sequentially outputted from a display output control circuit such that digit driving signals are simultaneously outputted from digit driving terminals (high breakdown voltage output terminals for digit display... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070120776 - Electron emission device, electron emission display device including the electron emission device, and method of driving the electron emission device: An electron emission device that is driven at a low voltage has lower power consumption, and can be mass-produced. An electron emission display device includes the electron emission device, The electron emission device includes: a base substrate; a cathode electrode disposed on the base substrate; an electron emission source disposed... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070120779 - Current drive-type apparatus and display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a display area, in which pixels each including an EL device and a pixel circuit are arranged in a matrix on a substrate, and a column control circuit for controlling the pixel circuit column by column. The EL device is disposed between a lower pixel electrode... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120781 - Data driver, organic light emitting display, and method of driving the same: A data driver, including a first digital-to-analog converter configured to select two reference voltages of a plurality of reference voltages depending on upper bits of data, and a second digital-to-analog converter configured to divide the two reference voltages into a plurality of voltages and supply any one voltage of the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070120782 - Driving arrangement for an oled panel: In a driving arrangement for an OLED panel, by using different voltage levels for a gate driver and a source driver, a driving voltage higher than a wafer process voltage is produced for the OLED panel and therefore improves the picture quality.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070120777 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a light emitting device to which cross-talk phenomenon is not occurred. The light emitting device includes data lines, scan lines, a plurality of pixels, and a discharging circuit. The data lines are disposed in a first direction. The scan lines are disposed in a second... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070120778 - Method and apparatus for driving a display panel: A drive apparatus of a display panel is provided with an anode driver that drives m anode lines CL, a cathode driver that scans n cathode lines RL, and control means. In a process of pre-charging a parasitic capacity Cp of display elements connected to any of the scan lines... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070120783 - Method of driving light-emitting device: Degradations in light emitting elements occur with the passage of time. The invention provides a method of driving a light-emitting device provided with a plurality of pixels, which includes a light-emitting means with a first and a second electrodes, a drive means for supplying the light-emitting means with a current... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070120780 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method are provided. The organic light emitting diode display device comprises a data driver that generates a plurality of reference data voltages that have a level proportional to a gray scale level of a digital data supplied from the timing... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070120784 - Semiconductor circuits for driving current-driven display and display: In current output stages 14a and 14b, current mirror circuits are constituted at both ends of a chip, and a reference current to be a reference of gradation display is supplied from both the ends. Moreover, by increasing a resistance value of a gate line of the current mirror circuit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120785 - Display device: To provide a high-performance and highly reliable display device with a high aperture ratio, including light-emitting elements, and a manufacturing method thereof, and a technique for manufacturing such a display device at a low cost with high productivity. A compensating circuit, a light-emitting element, a switch, and a transistor are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070120787 - Mapping pixel values: The present invention provides a various methods, systems and devices for controlling light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators. In some embodiments of the present invention, a recursive feedback method is used to control light modulating elements and/or spatial light modulators.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20070120786 - Sequence design in a display system: Method for designing color display sequences in a display system using rapidly switching light sources. A preferred embodiment comprises determining a number of bit segments in a frame time, determining a color sequence, and specifying a bit sequence from the color sequence. The bits in the bit sequence are delineated... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070120789 - Display device and method for testing the same: A method of economically manufacturing display devices having a matrix of drivable pixels arranged in rows and columns arranged to be driven by IC drivers, including the steps of including a plurality of sensor signal lines in the display device that are selectively connectable to certain of the pixel rows,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070120788 - Display devices and panel modules: A display device comprising a glass substrate, a display array, a backlight unit, at least one first driver, a second driver, a scalar, and a timing controller. The display array is disposed on the glass substrate and comprises a plurality of pixel units. The backlight unit provides light to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070120790 - Display substrate and method of testing the display substrate: A display substrate includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a gate signal-inputting unit, a first test unit, and a first dummy switching unit. The gate lines extend in a first direction. The data lines extend in a second direction intersected with the first direction. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070120794 - Driving apparatus for display device: Driving apparatus for a display panel having a plurality of pixels includes a plurality of gate line sets connected to the pixels and transmitting a gate-on voltage to the pixels, a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels and transmitting a normal data voltage and an impulsive data voltage... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070120791 - Driving circuit and driving method for liquid crystal display panel: A driving circuit for a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) panel is provided which is capable of performing overdriving operations in all shades of gray and of obviating the necessity of predetermining a driving pattern based on experimental results. The driving circuit for the LCD panel includes an operational amplifier to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120792 - Gamma-correction circuit and display panel control circuit: A gamma-correction circuit, comprising a gamma-reference voltage generation circuit capable of outputting voltages from connection nodes between a plurality of first resistor units connected in cascade, a gamma-correction voltage generation circuit configured to output gray level voltages from connection nodes between a plurality of second resistor units connected in cascade,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120793 - Image display device, driving circuit and driving method used in same: An image display device is provided which is capable of improving its image quality when a moving picture is displayed by using a holding-type display panel such as a liquid crystal panel. A display gray-level feature value of each display screen is extracted based on a video input signal. A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120796 - Circuit and method for driving a light-emitting display: The invention proposes a circuit for an element (3) of a light-emitting display. The element comprises a current control means (4), first and second switching means (12, 10) and a light-emitting means (8). In one embodiment, a signal holding means (6) is provided. In addition, a light-emitting display having a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070120798 - Liquid crystal display panel and driving method for liquid crystal display panel: A couple of scanning signals are applied to a pixel on the liquid crystal display panel. The scanning signals allows voltage to be separately written into a control electrode and a pixel electrode during two adjacent horizontal scanning periods or a vertical scanning period, and a coupled voltage is induced... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070120795 - Pixel circuit, display device, and method for driving pixel circuit: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120797 - Transflective liquid crystal display: A single-gap transflective LCD panel having a voltage divider in each sub-pixel for reducing the voltage potential across part of the liquid crystal layer in the sub-pixel. In a normally-black LCD panel, the voltage divider is used to reduce the voltage potential across the liquid crystal layer in the reflection... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070120802 - Circuit for generating driving voltages and liquid crystal display using the same: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels including switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines, liquid crystal capacitors and storage capacitors connected to the switching... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070120800 - Display control circuit: A display control circuit includes a driver circuit DR which drives a plurality of pixels, and a driver control circuit which controls the driver circuit. The driver control circuit includes a control bus which transfers instruction data, an operation setting unit which executes operation settings in accordance with the instruction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120803 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a pixel array having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines. A first driving circuit outputs scanning signals to the plurality of first signal lines, and a second driving circuit outputs display signals to the plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070120799 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display aimed at improving response speed, movie characteristics and viewing angle dependence of gradation is provided as having a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of gate lined selecting pixels and a plurality of data lines supplying pixel data, and a data driver dividing one frame into... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120801 - Method and system for driving an active matrix display device: A method for driving an active matrix display wherein each image frame is divided into a number of displayed frame portions, each of which is followed by a darker frame portion. The image data in the darker frame portion is removed so as to allow the pixel luminance to diminish.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070120804 - Lcd module and control method: A TFT liquid crystal display (LCD) module comprising a timing controller and a reversal data generator is disclosed. The timing controller provides a plurality of signals to the column-driver and row-driver of LCD panel. The reversal data generator outputs a reversal data signal to the timing controller, which in turn... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070120805 - Data driver integrated circuit device, liquid crystal display including the same and method of data-driving liquid crystal display: A data driver integrated circuit device includes a gamma decoding unit that receives differential gamma data transmitted by a timing controller and decodes the received differential gamma data, a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) unit that converts the decoded differential gamma data into analog voltage values, land a buffer unit that amplifies... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070120806 - Backlight variation compensated display: Methods and apparatus are provided for compensating a liquid crystal display for changes in brightness level. The apparatus comprises a variable brightness back-light optically coupled to a display panel whose properties depend upon back-light brightness. An electrical circuit measures back-light brightness and/or display flicker and sends this information to a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070120807 - Display system with high motion picture quality and luminance control thereof: Disclosed is a backlight control system for a display system with motion picture quality improvement and dynamic luminance control. In the backlight control system, a dynamic motion picture detector outputs an enable signal and a luminance control signal by judging whether the input video data are dynamic motion pictures or... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070120808 - Display unit and portable device provided with the same: A liquid crystal display unit includes a control section. The control section reads LED electric current data stored in a storage section based on input information to control a backlight drive section, and controls an LCD panel based on the input information and a video signal. The backlight drive section... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070120809 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having pixels, a light source which illuminates the display panel, and a control unit which controls the display panel and the light source. The control unit includes an insertion unit which causes the pixel to store a first voltage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120811 - Device for driving a display apparatus: A display driver used in common for a first screen and a second screen. The display driver includes a data line drive circuit which supplies gray scale voltages to the first and second screens in accordance with display data via data lines in common for the first and second screens,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070120810 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device includes a plurality of pixel cells divided into at least a first pixel cell group and a second pixel cell group; a first data line electrically connected to the pixel cells in the first pixel cell group, and a second data line electrically connected to the pixel... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070120814 - Display medium, display device and display method: The invention provides a display medium having a dimmer layer which comprises at least two kinds of charged mobile fine particles. Each of the at least two kinds of the charged mobile fine particles respectively has different coloration and a different mobility, and the charged mobile fine particles of at... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070120813 - Electronphoretic display unit and associated driving method: Display units (1) comprise display panels (90) which are divided into active parts and inactive parts. The driving of an entire display panel (90) requires a minimum amount of time, which amount of time increases with an increasing number of rows and columns. By providing data signals to the pixels... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070120812 - Electrophoretic display apparatus and driving method thereof: An electrophoretic display device is constituted by a substrate, a partition wall disposed on a surface of the substrate; a liquid layer, disposed in a container defined by the substrate and the partition wall, comprising electrophoretic particles and a dispersion medium; a first electrode formed at a position apart from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120815 - Information display panel: In a first aspect of the invention, an information display panel, in which at least one group of display media having optical reflectance and charge characteristics, formed by at least one group of particles, are scaled in a cell (corresponding to one display unit) formed by partition walls between two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120816 - Method of driving information display panel: In a method of driving an information display panel of a passive matrix driving type, in which display media are sealed in a space between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which an electrostatic field, which is generated from an electrode at scan side and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120823 - Automatic click input system: Position change of a cursor and an input from a keyboard are monitored and when the cursor is stopping over a predetermined time and also there has not been an input from the keyboard over a predetermined time retroactively from the present time, a click event is made to automatically... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070120821 - Complex button assembly and portable multimedia device using the same: The present invention relates to a complex button assembly and a portable multimedia device using the same. The complex button assembly 20 is installed to an upper end of a case 10 which defines an external appearance of the portable multimedia device. The complex button assembly 20 is provided with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120820 - Graphics device comprising remote transfer controller for remote visualization: A graphics device, which is adapted to be coupled to an internal bus of a local data processing unit, includes a memory unit, which is adapted to store digital representation data of an image to be displayed on the monitor, wherein the digital representation data are provided to the memory... Agent: Perman & Green

20070120822 - Information processing apparatus and change-over method: To enable change over in a plurality of display patterns of virtual input section such as a virtual key board for increasing usability. An information processing apparatus includes, at user's hands, a virtual input section display unit for displaying an input section of the virtual key board or the like... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070120817 - Isotonic interface which is used to control a real or virtual object: An isotonic interface for controlling a real or virtual object. The interface includes support means for supporting three pivot shafts, the axes of the first and second shafts being mutually parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the third shaft; handle means enabling each of said shafts to be pivoted;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070120819 - Method and system for accessing data stored in an electronic device: A method and a system for accessing data stored in an electronic device (102) are disclosed. The data is stored in a data structure. The data structure includes a plurality of sets. Each of the plurality of sets includes at least one entry with an identical first character. The method... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070120818 - Method for selecting input end of display: A method for selecting an input end of a display so that the display can display the signals from a selected input end wherein the user can select switching functions automatically or manually. Furthermore, if a manual switching mode being selected, selecting an input end to be displayed; and if... Agent: Young Kai Li

20070120824 - Producing display control signals for handheld device display and remote display: Systems and methods of producing display control signals for a handheld device display and a remote displace are described. In one aspect, display control signals are produced in response to user input. In a handheld device mode of operation, the display control signals are selectively communicated to a display subsystem... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070120825 - Dual mode input device: A dual mode input device, e.g. an optical mouse, is capable of performing data input function by moving the input device. Alternatively, the dual mode input device can also be an optical trackball. By turning the dual mode input device upside down, a trackball can be mounted to or exposed... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070120827 - Keyboard for blind people: The keyboard for blind people comprises a body carrying a plurality of keys and interface means for its connection to an external unit. The keys have a number of portions each having associated a function of the key and having represented such a function in Braille characters thereon. Moreover, the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070120826 - Keypad with flanged keys for high audio front porting communication products: The embodiments of the invention concern a keypad (120). The keypad can include a membrane (143), at least one key with at least one flange 150 to overlap with at least one second flange of a second key (146), and at least one audio port opening (107) in the membrane... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070120828 - Keyboard with two-stage keys for navigation: A handheld electronic device has a display screen and uses a keypad as an input means. The keypad has multiple keys, at least some of which are two-stage keys such that a light touch indicates one function and a full depression indicates another function. The device is programmed so that... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070120829 - Portable electronic apparatus and power save control method: A portable electronic apparatus permitted to be powered by a battery and including a function for reproducing contents data acquired by multiplexing and encoding video data and audio data, includes a separation unit which separates the contents data into the video data and the audio data, a video decoder which... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070120833 - Display apparatus and display method: A display apparatus and display method are provided. The display apparatus capable of displaying an image and receiving light simultaneously or alternately, the display apparatus including: a plurality of display devices laid out to form a matrix; a plurality of light receiving devices for receiving light hitting a display screen;... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070120835 - Input device and scroll control method using the same: An input device is described, which is capable of quickly searching a part of information included in a large amount of continuous data (contents), and a scroll control apparatus using the input device. If a key input operation on one of the operation keys is performed through a key input... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070120834 - Method and system for object control: A system (111 ) and method (200) for providing sensory feedback (210) for touchless feedback control is provided. The system can include a touchless sensing unit (110) that detects at least one position (304) of an object in a touchless sensing space (300), and an indicator (166) communicatively coupled to... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070120831 - Neutralizing elecromagnetic noise for a capacitive input device: A method of capturing user control inputs for an electronic device comprises sampling an input measurement signal at a capacitive input sensor of the electronic device to capture user control inputs for operating the electronic device. Electromagnetic interference affecting the sampling of the input measurement signal is electronically neutralized.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070120832 - Portable electronic apparatus and associated method: A portable electronic apparatus including a touch-sensitive display on a first side surface of the apparatus housing; a first input device arranged to be actuated with a first digit of a hand of a typical user; a second input device arranged to be actuated with a second digit of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070120830 - Rotatable touchpad and angle of rotation sensor: A device comprises a rotatably supported touchpad, especially on the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, means for measuring an angle of rotation of the touchpad in relation to a reference system, and means for processing inputs into the touchpad taking into consideration the measured angle of rotation.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070120837 - Including environmental information in a manual expression: Embodiments include a method, a manual device, a handheld manual device, a handheld writing device, a system, and an apparatus. An embodiment provides a system. The system includes a manual device. The manual device includes a first writing element operable to discharge a first marking substance on a surface in... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070120836 - Inputting apparatus, inputting method and fabrication method for inputting apparatus: An inputting apparatus, inputting method and fabrication method for inputting apparatus are provided. The inputting apparatus for inputting information making use of light, including, a body member having an end portion, a substantially spherical lens member retained at the end portion of the body member, and a reflecting member disposed... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070120838 - Movable user interface: A wireless communication handset (100) having a movable housing portion (204) coupled to a housing portion (202) that rotates relative to the housing portion. The movable housing portion may be a ring that rotates from one position 200 to another position 300 relative to the housing. Rotation of the ring... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070120839 - Method for displaying non-specified resolution frame on panel: A method for displaying a non-specified resolution frame on a panel is provided. The method is suitable for displaying a frame data whose resolution is not the same as the specified resolution of the panel module on the panel module. The method mainly inserts a dummy pulse into a clock... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070120840 - Computer generated broadcast video stream for multiple product sale display: An apparatus for a virtual turntable system for computer generated broadcast video streams for a multiple product sales display. The virtual turntable system collects data, including images and status information, and generates a video stream for presenting product information sequentially on a video monitor. In one embodiment, the virtual turntable... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20070120841 - Video overlay device of mobile telecommunication terminal: A video overlay device of a mobile telecommunication terminal comprises a multiplexer for outputting at least one of a first video data and a second video data; and a video overlay unit for overlaying at least one of the first and second video data with graphic data in accordance with... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070120843 - Apparatus and method for creating 3-dimensional image: The present invention relates to a apparatus and method for generating 3-dimensional image, which comprises a image photographing part composed of a camera part, a turn table part, a photographing angle adjustment part, a X-axis adjustment part, and a Y-axis adjustment part; a image photographing control part that creates movement... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070120845 - Image processing method and computer readable medium for image processing: Disks having the maximum radius of a large intestine are created and the contours of the disks are connected by virtual springs. Next, the directions of the disks are adjusted so that virtual spring energy becomes the minimum, so that the adjacent disks are prevented from crossing each other. Virtual... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070120844 - Method and apparatus for the graphical operation of real-time image processing systems: A method for configuring, on the basis of only a small number of reference images, image processing systems for the inspection of objects on the basis of geometric primitives extracted from the camera images in video real-time, by a user who is inexperienced in image processing but thinks technically-geometrically and... Agent: Charles N. J. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070120842 - Method for manipulating a three-dimensional surface: The invention relates to a method for removing material from a three-dimensional surface (1) of any shape in a multi-layered manner by means of a material removing agent (9) such as a laser that acts in points on a surface. According to said method, a surface structure (2) is removed... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC

20070120847 - Signal processing device and signal processing method, and program and recording medium: A signal processing device, signal processing method, and program and recording medium, whereby images and the like closer approximating real world signals can be obtained. The signal processing device includes a movement vector setting unit and a real world estimating unit.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120848 - Signal processing device and signal processing method, and program and recording medium: A signal processing device, signal processing method, and program and recording medium whereby images and the like closer approximating real world signals can be obtained. The signal processing device includes a movement vector setting unit, a model generator, an equation generator, and a real world waveform estimating unit.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120846 - Three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and apparatus and method for providing three-dimensional motion graphic user interface: A three-dimensional motion graphic user interface and an apparatus and method for providing the three-dimensional motion graphic user interface are provided. The apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphic user interface includes a display unit displaying along a first view point a plurality of polyhedral objects having surfaces on which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070120849 - Mesh generation method for numerical simulation: A mesh generating method for numerical simulation, generating mesh data for numerical simulation of one (1) piece of an analysis target, in a short time period, where there are plural numbers of high-density configuration data, each presenting a configuration surface thereof said one (1) piece of analysis target, comprising the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070120851 - Method and apparatus for fast and efficient mesh simplification: A method and apparatus for the simplification of a mesh surface is disclosed that preserves the original geometry of the shape of the surface and, at the same time, reduces undesirable triangle geometries. In one embodiment, a mesh simplification process first determines whether an edge swap operation should be performed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070120850 - Method and apparatus for non-shrinking mesh smoothing using local fitting: A method and apparatus for the smoothing of a mesh surface is disclosed whereby neighboring vertices of a target vertex are identified, for example, by identifying the neighboring vertices within a desired distance from the target vertex. A normal of the target vertex is determined as a function of, for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070120852 - Method for interpolating volume data: In the case of a method for interpolating volume data, the values of interpolation points that are to be assigned to a set of scanning points are buffered in a linear storage area. It is thereby possible to prevent stalling the pipeline of a processor used to carry out an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070120854 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program and a learning device, where the learning device includes a computer configured to compute image data corresponding to light signals when the light signals corresponding to second image data pass through an optical low-pass filter and to output computed image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120853 - Signal processing device, method, and program: An image processing device and method, where the image processing device includes an angle detector configured to detect an angle between a reference axis of data continuity with image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120855 - Signal processing device, method, and program: A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency corresponding to pixels belonging to the region, a continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070120857 - Computer-implemented system and method for generating data graphical displays: A computer-implemented system and method for generating data graphical displays. The data is indicative of a plurality of variables. The system and method receive data that is to be displayed in a non-textual format. Graph style data items are retrieved that contain display characteristics for displaying the data in the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070120856 - Method and system for organizing content on a time axis: A method and system are provided for organizing content on a spiral time axis. Content is organized on the spiral axis, for example, based on the creation date or reception time of the corresponding content. More recent content can be positioned, for example, towards the outside of the spiral while... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070120858 - Generation of motion blur: In a method of generating motion blur in a 3D-graphics system, geometrical information (GI) defining a shape of a graphics primitive (GP) is received (RSS; RTS) from a 3D-application. A displacement vector (SDV; TDV) defining a direction of motion of the graphics primitive (GP) is also received from the 3D-application... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070120859 - Apparatus and method for an interface architecture for flexible and extensible media processing: A method and apparatus for an interface architecture for flexible and extensible media processing. In one embodiment, the apparatus may include on-chip interconnection logic, such as, for example, a crossbar. The apparatus, which in one embodiment is a chipset, may include at least one on-chip, functional unit, which is coupled... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070120860 - Archival imaging system: An external memory system for use with an imaging system, and methods for archiving digital content are provided. The external memory system has a communications link adapted to exchange data with the imaging system; an archival memory device interface adapted to store data using an archival memory; and an external... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070120861 - Chipset and related method of processing graphic signals: A chipset is electrically connected with an external graphic module, which generates a first graphic signal and outputs it to the chipset. The chipset includes an internal graphic module and a control module. The internal graphic module generates a second graphic signal, and the control module receives the first graphic... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070120862 - Image data processing apparatus and processing method: An image data processing apparatus has: an image processing unit outputting image data for display; a compressing unit compressing the display image data; a decompressing unit to which the compression image data is supplied through a communication path and which decompresses the supplied compression image data; an image display unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070120863 - Apparatus and method for automatically analyzing digital video quality: An apparatus and method for automatically analyzing digital video quality are provided. The apparatus for automatically analyzing digital video quality includes a video analyzing unit and a result displaying unit. The video analyzing unit analyzes a texture attribute of an input video and analyzes a color attribute of the input... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070120864 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Image quality adjustment of an inputted image signal is performed with higher accuracy to display a more preferable image to the user. An attribute information determining unit obtains first attribute information indicating the format of the inputted image signal and second attribute information indicating transmission characteristics of the image signal.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070120865 - Applying rendering context in a multi-threaded environment: A method and system are provided for managing a multi-threaded process invoking an OpenGL32 command to an OpenGL32 library. Each command requires rendering context as a parameter for access to the library. A manager is provided in conjunction with a table to store rendering context. Each rendering context in the... Agent: Rochelle Lieberman Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070120866 - Enhacement of video images by boost of secondary colors: A method for enhancing a video image by processing a video signal includes inputting a video signal and boosting color saturation or lightness of the video signal as a its hue gets closer to a secondary color, and/or shifting the hue of the video signal toward one or more secondary... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070120867 - Fir-based interpolation in advanced video codecs on vliw processor: A half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculation classifies a set of all possible half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculations into a plurality of interpolation types. A function kernel for each interpolation type includes a half sample pixel and all quarter sample pixels whose value... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070120868 - Method and apparatus for displaying an image: A method for displaying an image, in which video data are received and M sub-frame gray signals are generated based on the received video data, where M is an integer no less than two. Each of the M sub-frame gray signals has N gray levels, and the M sub-frame gray... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070120869 - Image display apparatus and method, program therefor, and recording medium having recorded thereon the same: An image display apparatus for displaying an image on a panel having pixels each including a plurality of subpixels of different colors includes an interpolation operator interpolating consecutive sampling values of pieces of input color data to correct phases of the pieces of input color data on the basis of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070120871 - Information presentation method and information presentation apparatus: External data acquired via an input device during display of presentation information on a display device is recorded, and feature amounts are calculated from the external data. An importance level is calculated by integrating the feature amounts for each section during the display period of the presentation information. First headline... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070120870 - Method and system for generating dynamic blocks: Tools and techniques for creating and editing a master block definition for a block, and manipulating a block instantiation of the block are described. User input can be received defining a block and a master block definition can be generated for the block. The block can include one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070120872 - Image processing device and method therefor and program codes, storing medium: Firstly, a template image is created (S501). Then, an image It is photographed (S502). And the sensor output is acquired (S503). A model view matrix Mt is calculated on the basis of the sensor output (S504). And a correction matrix ΔMt is calculated (S505). And the model view matrix Mt... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070120874 - Graphics display system with line buffer control scheme: A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip includes a display engine that processes graphics images organized as windows. The system includes... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070120873 - Selectively applying spotlight and other effects using video layering: A video layer effects processing system which receives normal video and special effects information on separate layers has been presented. The system selectively mixes various video layers to transmit a composite video signal for a video display such as a television, or a virtual reality system. Special effects include spotlights,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070120875 - Computer aided design interface: In a CAD system, dimensions are entered as an arithmetic combination of quantities expressed in both English and metric units. The system converts the units and combines the quantities to produce the dimension. Also, an undo tool stores undo information in nonvolatile storage, so that drawing operations may be undone... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P.

20070120876 - Image display apparatus and method, program therefor, and recording medium having recorded thereon the same: An image display apparatus displaying an image on a panel having pixels each including a plurality of subpixels of different colors includes an interpolation operator interpolating consecutive sampling values of input color data supplied to drive the panel to correct phases of the input color data on the basis of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070120877 - Method of driving electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: The invention enhances gradation characteristics and realizes higher quality in a picture, in the context of subfield driving using a pixel provided therein with a memory. A method of driving an electro-optical device that divides a predetermined period of time into a plurality of subfields SF5 to SF17, performs gradational... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070120878 - Flat panel monitor including a frame having a protrusion: A flat panel monitor includes a first frame having an opening at a bend; a second frame having a protrusion corresponding to the opening, the protrusion being inserted into the opening for fixing the second frame to the first frame; and a display panel fixed on a housing formed by... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115202 - Electronic device with dual view displays: An electronic device, such as a laptop computer, that includes a case containing electronic components suitable for processing digital data and generating a visual representation of the digital data for display. A first flat panel display is pivotally mounted on the case and is operatively connected to the electronic components... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20070115203 - Method and arrangement for fitting an improved display device interface between a display device and a processor: The invention relates to the connecting of an improved, intelligent display device interface to a processor that controls the display device through the display device interface. The arrangement according to the invention comprises a display device, an intelligent connection interface of the display device and a processor controlling the display... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070115204 - Method of navigation in three-dimensional image data: A method of navigation in three-dimensional, electronic image data sets is disclosed, whereby the image data sets contain three-dimensional image data subsets. The method includes optically representing at least one two-dimensional projection of an image data set that includes a two-dimensional subprojection of at least one image data subset, optically... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115205 - Display device for vehicle: A reflecting mirror is rotatably supported and reflects display light. A stepping motor rotates the reflecting mirror. Storage means can store position data in accordance with the rotation position of the reflecting mirror for each user. Control means receives an identification code from a keyless entry device for specifying the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115206 - Wavelength-selective light-absorbing optical element: r

20070115207 - Display with a window assembly and a mobile phone having the same: A display with a window assembly includes a display unit and a backlight unit on the a first side of the display unit. The backlight unit has a housing unit enclosing. at least a portion of the display unit, exposing a second side of the display unit. The housing unit... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070115208 - Low power led visual messaging device, system and method: A visual messaging system and device can employ high efficiency LEDs and current driven versus voltage driven circuits to reduce power consumption and enable the device to be powered from IEEE 802.3af (Power over Ethernet (PoE)) standard based power sources. The device can be powered from a local area network... Agent: Williams Mullen

20070115210 - Light emitting apparatus, method for driving the light emitting apparatus, and display apparatus including the light emitting apparatus: A light emitting apparatus comprises a light emitting section for emitting light, a color of the light being changed with a value of a driving current, and a driving section for driving the light emitting section so that the light emitting section emits light having a desired color and a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070115209 - Luminance control apparatus for light emitting device: A luminance control apparatus for a backlight of a display device in a vehicle has a first transistor and a second transistor connected to the backlight. The first transistor is controlled by pulse-width modulation control, and the second transistor is controlled to supply a low level current at nighttime and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070115211 - Liquid crystal shutter device for a camera: A liquid crystal shutter (100) and a camera (200) with therein. The liquid crystal shutter (100) includes a power supply (10), a switch (20) and a liquid crystal box (40), all parts are electrically connected and form a control circuit. The liquid crystal box (40) includes a first electric plate... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070115212 - Method of driving high definition opposed discharge plasma display panel: The present invention is to provide a method of driving a high definition opposed discharge PDP comprising transversely disposing a barrier rib on a center of any elongate discharge cells of the opposed discharge PDP to divide the discharge cell into two sub-cells; disposing a sustain electrode on a front... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070115215 - Apparatus and method for displaying and controlling picture signal: An inputted picture signal is stored in an image memory 1 into which a picture signal for at least one frame period can be written, while rewriting thememory. At a plurality of timings within one frame period, an average brightness calculation means 2 calculates an average brightness from the picture... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070115213 - Apparatus and method for luminance adjustment of plasma display panel: A luminance adjustment apparatus for a plasma display panel (PDP) is proposed. The luminance adjustment apparatus includes a luminance controller, a gray level shifter and a power controller. The luminance controller outputs a gray level shifting signal and a power adjustment signal. The gray level shifter receives a first luminance... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070115214 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, subfields may be divided into subfield groups and row electrodes are driven by row groups. Non-light emitting cells may be selected from discharge cells of the row groups during a first address period of the row groups, and light emitting cells of the row groups... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070115218 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel. 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070115217 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The method includes supplying a data signal to a discharge cell during a-th to b-th subfields, arranged in increasing order of gray level weight, of an n-th frame, and supplying a data signal to the discharge cell during a (b+1)-th... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070115216 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A plasma display device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode is disclosed. A plurality of first sustain pulses are applied to the first electrode and a plurality of second sustain pulses are applied to the second electrode... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070115219 - Apparatus for driving plasma display panel and plasma display: A PDP driving apparatus drives a plasma display panel (PDP) having sustain electrodes, scan electrodes, and address electrodes. The PDP driving apparatus includes a high side switch element and a low side switch element, those electrically coupled in series. A specific pulse voltage is applied from a junction point of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070115220 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, and an energy recovery circuit that supplies an energy to the plasma display panel using one inductor and recovers an energy from the plasma display panel using a plurality of inductors. Inductance in an energy... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070115224 - Display and method for driving display: In a display in which pixel circuits each including a drive transistor, switching transistors and a capacitor are arranged in rows and columns, two-stage mobility correction is implemented in which mobility correction with an intermediate grayscale level (gray level) is executed before mobility correction is executed with an input signal... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070115225 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel-array unit, a scanner unit and a signal unit. The pixel-array unit has pixels laid out to form a matrix and each provided at an intersection of first and second scanning lines each oriented in a row direction of the matrix and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070115223 - Electronic device and method of driving electronic device: Problems such as insufficient brightness, caused by a reduction in duty ratio (the ratio of a light emitting period and a non-light emitting period), are improved upon in accordance with using a novel method of driving and a novel circuit in an electronic device. Signals are written into pixels of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070115221 - Full-color organic display with color filter technology and suitable white emissive material and applications thereof: o

20070115222 - Organic el drive circuit and organic el display device: To provide an organic EL drive circuit and an organic EL display device using the organic EL drive circuit, which, when grey levels of passive matrix type organic EL elements are controlled time-divisionally, is capable of easily collecting luminance in low luminance level with low drive voltage and restricted power... Agent: Mattingly Stanger & Malur

20070115226 - Organic light-emitting diode display: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a first pixel including a first light emitting diode, a first driving transistor connected to the first light emitting diode and having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, and a first storage capacitor connected between the first terminal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070115227 - Semiconductor laser driving circuit, light emitting device, and disk drive: A semiconductor laser driving circuit has a circuit protection function at low temperature and includes a voltage current converter that converts an input voltage Vin, which is determined according to a desired light brightness of the semiconductor laser to be driven, into a current. A current limiter limits an output... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070115228 - Systems and methods for calibrating solid state lighting panels: Methods of calibrating a lighting panel including a plurality of segments, each of said segments configured to emit a first color light and a second color light in response to pulse width modulation control signals having respective duty cycles include determining an average segment luminance for the lighting panel, determining... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115229 - Display device and apparatus using same: A display device has a data-holding circuit with a capacitance and a display portion with a plurality of pixel electrodes, formed on a first carrier substrate. In the display device, a second carrier substrate disposed opposite the first carrier substrate is placed above the display portion, but the opposing substrate... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070115230 - Image display device and electronic apparatus: An image display device includes the following elements: a display panel that has a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined first direction and in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a light source that emits light to the display panel; a polarization axis controller that separates the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115231 - Lcd panel drive adopting time-division and inversion drive: A method of operating a liquid crystal display device includes: (A) time-divisionally driving pixels in a certain line of an LCD panel so that pixels adjacent in a horizontal direction are driven with data signals of opposite polarities. The (A) step includes: (A1) generating a first data signal of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115232 - Liquid crystal television adjustment system, liquid crystal display unit adjustment system, and liquid crystal display unit: A PC 40 outputs a picture signal for a white color to a TV 100, and generates chromaticity information by measuring luminance values of respective RGB color components from a picture displayed on the TV 100, thereby determining whether the chromaticity information undergoes a change by varying an output of... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20070115233 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device which can reduce motion picture blurring while suppressing the lowering of luminance, the lowering of contrast or the increase of electric power necessary for emission of light. In a hold-type display device which holds a display of gradations for 1 frame period, each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070115234 - Display apparatus: In a display apparatus, a first display substrate includes a common electrode to which a common voltage is applied. A second display substrate facing the first display substrate includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The first and second pixel electrodes formed in one pixel region are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070115235 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) wherein driving stability is secured. The LCD includes Optically Compensated Birefringence (OCB) mode liquid crystal cells formed where a data line and a scan line cross over within a display region of an LCD panel, a panel driver for driving the data and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070115236 - Liquid crystal display device: In a case where a frame display is provided on a display screen of a liquid crystal panel, the prior art necessitates data for frame display to be directly written to all the display data or 2 screenful of data to be prepared and overwritten on each other. To overcome... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070115237 - Liquid crystal display device, active matrix type liquid crystal display device, and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device with no flicker and with bright excellent display is provided. A polarity pattern of a conventional frame inversion driving is one kind of display. A polarity pattern of a conventional source line inversion driving is two kinds of display, and a disclination pattern is one... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070115238 - Apparatus and method for data transmission, and apparatus and method for driving image display device using the same: An apparatus for transmitting an image data within a display device includes a data converter converting an N-bit data, N is a positive integer, into an (N−1)-bit data and concurrently generating a restoring signal; and a data restorer restoring the (N−1)-bit data to the N-bit data in accordance with a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070115240 - Display device and driving method of the same: A display device includes a plurality of rows of display pixels, a driver circuit which drives the plurality of rows of display pixels in units of a predetermined number of rows, and a control circuit which controls the driver circuit in such a manner as to alternately execute non-video signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115241 - Display panel control circuit and display device: A display panel control circuit includes a controller which processes external image data and sync signals from an external signal source, and source and gate drivers which drive a display panel on the basis of processed results from the controller. The controller is configured to provide predetermined internal image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115242 - Driving circuit of display device and method of driving same: There is provided a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device capable of solving a problem of power consumption while solving a problem of time required for charge/discharge of source lines by virtue of shorting by use of precharge. The driving circuit of the liquid crystal display device comprises... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070115239 - Electro-optical apparatus, method for driving electro-optical apparatus, method for monitoring voltage, and electronic device: An electro-optical apparatus includes a plurality of rows of scanning lines, a plurality of columns of data lines, and a plurality of pixels disposed so as to correspond to intersections of the plurality of rows of scanning lines and the plurality of columns of data lines. The scanning lines, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115245 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device that has a driving circuit including a single channel bidirectional shift register with which the circuit scale can be reduced without increasing the number of elements. The driving circuit includes a single channel bidirectional shift register. This single channel bidirectional shift register has... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20070115244 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the scanning lines, a plurality of pixels each of which includes a switching transistor connected to a scanning line and a data line, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor, and an emitting element... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070115243 - Precharging circuits for a signal line of an liquid crystal display (lcd) in which the precharge voltage is based on the magnitude of a gray-scale voltage corresponding to image data and related lcd systems, drivers, and methods: An LCD system includes a TFT-LCD panel and at least one driving device for driving the TFT-LCD panel. The LCD driver includes a decoder, an output buffer and a precharging circuit. The precharging circuit receives a gray-scale voltage corresponding to source data in response to a first precharge control signal... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070115246 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel provided with plural gate lines to select a pixel and plural data lines to supply pixel data and a data driver dividing a single frame into plural fields and converting frame data into field data to supply the field data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070115247 - Programmable picture frame: Picture frames and display devices that use a layer of a dichroic optical material placed between two transparent substrates to control an optical transmission at different locations across the layer by applying control voltages at the different locations to display digital images.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070115248 - Solid state lighting panels with variable voltage boost current sources: A lighting panel system includes a lighting panel having a string of solid state lighting devices and a current supply circuit having a voltage input terminal, a control input terminal, and first and second output terminals coupled to the string of solid state lighting devices. The current supply circuit is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115251 - Electro phoretic display device and driving method of the same: An electro phoretic display device comprises: a first substrate including a first electrode; a second substrate including a second electrode positioned facing the first substrate; a plurality of spaces formed between the first electrode and the second electrode; fluid including a plurality of charged particles disposed in the spaces; and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070115250 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device is described. The device includes a substrate, first electrodes, an electrophoretic film having electrophoretic particles, and second electrodes. The substrate is has a plurality of pixel regions. First electrodes are disposed respectively on each pixel region, and include first patterns separated from one another and second... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070115249 - Embedded location codes for e-brush position determination: An electronic ink stack (70) employs a pair of electrodes (71, 74, 78), an electronic ink layer (73), and an optional photoconductor layer (72, 76). The electronic ink layer (73) and the photoconductor layer (72, 76), if employed, are disposed between the electrodes (71, 74, 78). One or more location... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115252 - 3-d cursor control system: A 3-D cursor control system includes a remote control unit (20) which emits ultrasonic waves. Ultrasonic sensors (14a,14b,14c) measure changes in the position of the remote control unit (20) for controlling the position of a cursor on a display. The ultrasonic sensors (14a,14b,14c) also measure the distance that the remote... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070115254 - Apparatus, computer device, method and computer program product for synchronously controlling a cursor and an optical pointer: An apparatus, computer device, method and computer program product for synchronously controlling a cursor and an optical pointer are provided. The method comprises the steps of generating an optical point on a screen using an optical pointer, capturing the image of the screen and generating an image signal according to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070115256 - Apparatus, medium, and method processing multimedia comments for moving images: An apparatus, medium, and method for processing a multimedia comment for a moving image, where a user can input a comment of various multimedia types while viewing a moving image, and view the moving image along with the input comment. The apparatus for processing multimedia comments for a moving image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115255 - Mobile device: A mobile device comprises a first module and a second module connected to the first module. The second module relatively sliding along an X-axis with respect to the first module comprises a display module rotatable around a Y-axis perpendicular to the X-axis.... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070115258 - Personal electronic device with display switching: A novel personal electronic device includes a first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) processors including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first processor performs relatively limited functions, while the second processor performs relatively broader functions under control of the first processor. Often the second processor requires more power... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070115257 - Sequence status display during output for signal generator: A signal generator displays signal patterns according to a sequence and displays a current output or waiting signal pattern distinctively from other signal patterns after the start of signal output operation. Identifiers such as index numbers may be related to the respective signal patterns and displayed. The identifier of the... Agent: William K. Bucher

20070115253 - Workstation enabler apparatus and related methods and devices: Methods and devices for adapting media data for visual presentation include obtaining at least one visualization property information of a first visual information presentation device, obtaining media data signal, adapting obtained media data signal, according to the obtained at least one visualization property information, and providing adapted obtained media data... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070115259 - Receiving structure for receiver of wireless mouse: A receiving structure for a receiver of a wireless mouse is disclosed. An accommodating slot for receiving a receiver is disposed on rear end of an upper cover of a wireless mouse. And a vertical pin on an arm is arranged on center line of a bottom plate of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070115260 - Optical pointing device and method of computing movement value thereof: Provided are an optical pointing device and a method of computing a movement value thereof. The optical pointing device includes: an image input part for emitting light and accumulating the light reflected from a working surface during a sampling period to generate an analog image, and converting the analog image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070115261 - Virtual keyboard input system using three-dimensional motion detection by variable focal length lens: A virtual keyboard input system using three-dimensional motion detecting by variable focal length MMAL is provided. The compactness of the virtual keyboard input system is accomplished by the variable focal length MMAL performing three-dimensional imaging function. Since the three-dimensional imaging process occurs in a very short time scale, the system... Agent: Stereo Display Inc.

20070115262 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters in mobile communication terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for inputting characters in a mobile communication terminal in which at least one character is mapped to each key An input key including a desired character is selected, a sequence key corresponding to the mapping sequence of the desired character is selected, and the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070115263 - System for disposing a proximity sensitive touchpad behind a mobile phone keymat: A proximity-based mutually capacitance-sensitive touchpad that is disposed directly beneath a keypad keymat of a mobile telephone, wherein posts associated with each key pass through a mutually capacitance-sensitive sensor electrode grid of the touchpad such that the keypad posts do not interfere with touchpad detection and tracking of a pointing... Agent: Morriss O'bryant Compagni, P.C.

20070115264 - Gesture based document editor: A method for editing objects on a device comprising forming a first path on a touch screen with a pointing device. The first path at least partially encloses an object. The at least partially enclosed object is automatically selected. A second path is formed at a predetermined area on the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070115267 - Image processing device: An image processing device with a function setting screen that is easily viewable and operable even when the function setting screens are distributed over a plurality of pages. Image processing functions are set by operating function setting item buttons on the function setting screen. A display control unit displays a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070115265 - Mobile device and method: A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal comprises the steps of sensing (201) a touch on a touch sensitive display, determining (203) a type of implement having provided the sensed touch on the touch sensitive display, where the type of implement is one of at least a blunt type... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070115266 - Portable device for controlling a computer and method therefor: A method for controlling a computer via a portable device is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing an input unit configured in the portable device for operational inputs; providing an operation interface for selecting either one of a computer controlled mode and a portable device controlled mode if... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070115269 - Display window assembly and portable electronic device case including display window assembly: A display window assembly having a reduced thickness, which can be easily manufactured with increased yield. The display window assembly may be employed with portable electronic devices. The display window assembly may include a case including an engaging portion and a predetermined opening, the predetermined opening may be at least... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070115268 - Display with window assembly and mobile phone having the same: A display with a