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 window assembly includes a case unit with an opening and having a stepped part in at least one side of an edge of the opening; a window member having a first surface coupled with the stepped part; a display unit closely adhered on a first side... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070115272 - Flat panel display having a multi-channel data transfer interface and image transfer method thereof: A flat panel display includes a scaler, a first transmitter, a second transmitter, a first receiver, a second receiver, a compensated driving unit, a timing controller, a data driver, a scan driver and a panel. The scaler generates first and second adjusted image data according to an image signal, and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070115270 - Image manipulation apparatus: Methods for manipulating the appearance of a source image are provided. One method includes specifying at least one first parameter for changing pixel data defining a source image, fetching the pixel data from a memory, writing pixel data to a display device, and causing a first change to the pixel... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070115273 - 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 802.3 af (Power over Ethernet (PoE)) standard based power sources. The device can be powered from a local area... Agent: Williams Mullen

20070115271 - Source drivers having controllable output currents and related display devices and methods: Source drivers and display devices that include such source drivers are provided that may be used to control the amount of output current from an output buffer. These source drivers may comprise a buffer that is configured to receive an input signal and a control circuit that is coupled to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070115274 - Circuit for setting up common voltage and method therefor: A device for setting up common voltage is provided. The device includes a voltage-dividing circuit, a coupler, a switch and a testing module. The voltage-dividing circuit divides a DC bias according to a voltage-dividing proportion and produces a common voltage for the coupler. The switch determines whether to transfer the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070115275 - Grip manipulatable shadows in 3d models: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for manipulating the position and appearance of shadows cast by light striking objects within a three dimensional model. Typically, the location and appearance of shadows are determined using the position of a distant light source. A user selects a point from within a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070115276 - Apparatus and method for processing 3d video based on mpeg-4 object descriptor information: The present invention relates to three-dimensional video processing apparatus and method using MPEG-4 object descriptor information and structures. The three-dimensional video processing apparatus and method that can support a three-dimensional video service smoothly to thereby provide a sense of reality and a cubic effect in an MPEG-4-based system by suggesting... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070115278 - Cad method with capability of correcting dimension line with changes, recording medium storing cad program, and cad apparatus thereof: When a user specifies a graphic element to which he or she wants to attach a dimension line in a drawing, a dimension-line creation instructing unit identifies the graphic-element ID. Then, the user specifies a position at which he or she wants to attach the dimension line in the specified... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115277 - Posture detection system: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for posture detection. Orientations of a body are detected with respect to first and second axes. A movement of the body with respect to a third axis is also detected. Three-dimensional orientations of the body are determined based on the orientations and the movement.... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20070115279 - Program, information storage medium, and image generation system: An image generation system including a vertex processing section and a pixel processing section. When subjecting an object which is distant from a virtual camera to predetermined processing which is implemented by a first processing and a second processing, the vertex processing section performs the first processing with a processing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115280 - Program, information storage medium, and image generation system: A program for generating an image, the program causing a computer to function as: an object space setting section which sets an object in an object space; a vertex processing section which performs per-vertex processing; and a pixel processing section which performs per-pixel processing, wherein, when subjecting an object of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070115281 - Three-dimensional genealogical display system: The three-dimensional genealogical display system is a three-dimensional structure, in the shape of a cone or a pyramid, which is divided into vertical tiers, with each tier representing a genealogical generation. Each vertical tier includes a name entry region for each member of the respective generation, allowing the user to... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20070115282 - Server-client architecture in medical imaging: A method of processing medical imaging volume data in a computer network is described. The method comprises loading a medical imaging data set to be processed to a server computer, processing the data set on the server computer, e.g. by executing a software application, and generating corresponding server-generated results. The... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP Nineteenth Floor

20070115283 - Casting shadows: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are configured to cast a shadow for a two-dimensional vector geometry. A two-dimensional computer-generated rendering comprised of vector geometry is obtained. A face of the vector geometry is then selected and a virtual height is assigned to the face. Once a location of... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070115285 - Method and apparatus for user customized shading of a graphical user interface: To allow users to compensate for different and dynamically changing lighting conditions, the present invention introduces a graphical user interface shading system. The graphical user interface shading system provides a very simple intuitive interface to the user. In one embodiment, the user is presented with an adjustable user interface widget... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20070115284 - Method of extracting 3d building information using shadow analysis: Disclosed herein is a method of extracting three-dimensional building information using shadow analysis. In the method, an image of a building captured through a manmade satellite, an airplane or some other means, and metadata to be used for extraction of building information is received, the azimuth and altitude angles of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070115286 - Signal processing device, signal processing method, program, and recording medium: A signal processing device, signal processing method, and program and recording medium which provide images and the like closer approximating real world signals. The signal processing device includes a processing region setting unit, a motion vector setting unit, a model generator, a normal equation generator, a weighting change unit, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115287 - Stroked fill: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to display a stroked fill for an object. A computer-generated rendering is obtained that consists of vector geometry. Closed geometry is obtained in the computer-generated rendering. Lastly, a fill is automatically created. The fill consists of a series of two... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070115289 - Non-hierarchical unchained kinematic rigging technique and system for animation: In computer enabled key frame animation, a method and associated system for rigging a character so as to provide a large range of motion with great fluidity of motion. The rigging uses a character body that moves along a path or freely as needed. The nodes in the body and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070115288 - Sprite interface and code-based functions: Sprite interface and code-based functions is described. In an embodiment, a sprite interface is implemented in managed code to provide an interface to sprite animation functions for a gaming application. A sprite application is implemented in native code to provide the sprite animation functions via the sprite interface when initiated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070115290 - Integrating display controller into low power processor: In one embodiment, a system comprises a memory; a memory interface coupled to the memory; a processor unit coupled to the memory interface, a second interface coupled to the processor unit, and a graphics processing unit. The processor unit comprises at least one processor core and a display controller configured... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070115292 - Gpu internal wait/fence synchronization method and apparatus: A GPU pipeline is synchronized by sending a fence command from a first module to an addressed synchronization register pair. Fence command associated data may be stored in a fence register of the addressed register pair. A second module sends a wait command with associated data to the addressed register... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070115291 - Multiple graphics processor systems and methods: Multiple graphics processor system and method embodiments are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a multiple graphics processor system, comprising a first graphics processing unit having first status information and a second graphics processing unit having second status information, and first key logic corresponding to the first graphics processing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070115293 - Method and apparatus for transforming display data using multiple frame buffers in a display device: Methods and systems for transforming data in a system are provided. In one implementation, the method includes providing a first frame buffer, and providing a second frame buffer that is separate from the first frame buffer. The first frame buffer is configured to support a first format compatible with a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070115295 - Dynamically adjusted brush for direct paint systems on parameterized multi-dimensional surfaces: A system that implements a “tangent space brush,” allowing a user to paint directly onto a parameterized object, for example a three dimensional object. A tangent space brush projects coordinates from an input device to the world-space point on the surface of the 3D object. A normal is determined at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070115294 - Image processing system and method thereof: A method and system is described by which a graphics engine can be shared to implement the functions of video encoder, such as video compression, to generate motion vectors.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070115296 - Method of displaying colors of graphic objects on screen control display: A method of displaying color objects for the screen control display is provided. First, a plurality of elements and son elements on a screen control display respectively to a first level list and a plurality of second level lists is provided. Each of said elements of said first level list... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070115297 - Display apparatus, display method, display system, server, and recording medium having program recorded thereon: A display apparatus employs a display of a non-emitting type such as a liquid crystal display for the display unit, the system control unit of a mobile terminal converts the color of the object having the largest display area among the objects constituting the image of map image data displayed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115298 - Systems and methods for motion adaptive filtering: Methods and systems for motion adaptive filtering detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame of an image. When such movement is detected and meets a certain level or threshold, the subpixel rendering processing of such text or areas of high spatial... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070115299 - System and method for creation of motor vehicle graphics: The present invention relates to methods, apparatus, product by-process, and computer program product for generating graphics for motor vehicles such as motorcycles, four-wheelers, snowmobiles, bullet bikes, auto vehicles, and the like. A user interface is provided which supplies the tools for allowing a user to create desired graphics. The user... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070115300 - System and method for creation of motor vehicle graphics: Generating customized images graphics for apparatus including motor vehicles such as motorcycles, four-wheelers, snowmobiles, bullet bikes, auto vehicles, and the like. A user interface is provided which supplies the tools for allowing a user to create desired graphics. The user interface can comprise a software program, an Internet website, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070115301 - Display of symmetrical patterns with encoded information: A first pattern is created by providing an image and its enantiomorph on opposite sides of an axis of bilateral symmetry and selectively removing elements from the image and its enantiomorph without removing any element from both the image and its enantiomorph. A second pattern is created, being an enantiomorph... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070115303 - Contrast adjusting circuitry and video display apparatus using same: With the aim of offering a video display technique by which stable and high contrast video images are reproduced, contrast adjusting circuitry is constructed. The contrast adjusting circuitry detects a maximum picture level (MPL) and an average picture level (APL) of analog-to-digital converted luminance signals for a predetermined period, determines... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070115302 - Method and structure for automatic adjusting brightness and display apparatus: A method for automatic adjusting brightness includes receiving pixel informations. The pixel informations are analyzed to obtain an image load. The image load is compared with a predetermined range. If the image load is less than the range, then a display duty cycle is set to be an upper limit.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070115304 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling led backlights and for improved pulse width modulation resolution: A method for driving an LED backlight device using pulse width modulation with an additional timer to manage the power consumption, thermal output, and lighting level of the device with improved resolution.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070115305 - Display apparatus, display system, and control method thereof: A display system includes a signal source to provide a video signal and location information on a partial area of a display picture which is selected in order to control an image display state, a signal processor to process the input video signal to be converted to a predetermined display... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070109215 - Liquid crystal display device: A display device used in a miniaturized portable equipment is capable of driving two display panels, consisting of main and sub display-panels. The display device includes a main display panel, a sub-display panel and a drive circuit. The drive circuit can simultaneously drive the main display panel and the sub-display... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070109214 - Method and system for depicting digital display elements: Disclosed is a method for depicting digital display elements (a1-n, b1-n, c1-n, d1-n) on a number of display devices (1) that occurs in a temporarily and/or spatially coordinated manner. In order to depict display elements in a chronologically coordinated manner. At least one display computer device (4) and a control... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070109216 - Etthernet video input output: Multi Internet Video Card is a multiple output video card and multiple keyboard/mouse input port circuitry design provides a low cost method for creating three video outputs and two additional sets of keyboard/mouse input ports. A software driver acts as a port handler for the extra keyboard/mice. A modified custom... Agent: Scott J. Mcgowan

20070109217 - Hdtv crt display having optimized tube geometry, yoke field and gun orientation: A cathode ray tube (1) has a faceplate panel (3) with a short axis and a long axis. The faceplate panel has a display screen on the inside of the panel and the panel extends back to a funnel (5) which houses an electron gun system within an integral neck... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070109219 - Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays: An electro-optic display comprises, in order, a backplane comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a layer of a solid electro-optic medium; a main adhesive layer; and at least one of a light-transmissive protective layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. The electro-optic layer may be in direct contact with the backplane... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070109218 - Display apparatus and display element driving method: A display apparatus includes a display element that includes an electrolyte solution layer containing an electrochemical luminescent material; and a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage with a waveform having a gradient for a first period and a flat top for a second period following the first period, to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109220 - Plasma display module: A plasma display module is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display module includes i) a chassis base that has a bent portion bent with respect to at least one edge of the chassis base, ii) a plasma display panel that is supported in front of the chassis base and displays... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070109221 - Method of driving discharge display panel for effective initialization: A method of driving a discharge display panel is disclosed The method includes dividing a unit frame with a plurality of subfields for a time-division gradation display, and dividing each of the subfields into an initialization period, an addressing period, and a sustaining period, wherein a driving power for the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070109222 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof, the plasma display device driven by dividing a plurality of scan electrodes into a plurality of groups. In one embodiment, to compensate for a weak discharge that may be generated when a temperature of the plasma display device is relatively high,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070109226 - Driving method of plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel, which is capable of uniformly performing a sustain discharge in upper and lower portions of the plasma display panel is disclosed. The method includes dividing discharge cells into a plurality of groups and driving the discharge cells for each group. A frame... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070109227 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Method for driving a plasma display panel, wherein an address reinforcement period is added between an address period and a sustain period, and a scan voltage Vw of positive polarity and a third DC voltage Zdc3 are applied, for inducing floating charges in discharge cells, whereby preventing erratic discharge caused... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070109224 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention is related to a plasma display panel, in particular to a plasma display apparatus capable of preventing an error discharge or an error writing of a discharge cell. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel including a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070109223 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: During each set-up period, wall charges of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, between which sustain discharges were generated in the previous subfield, are adjusted, and parts toward the sustain electrodes of positive charges in the scan electrodes are replaced by negative charges and parts toward the scan electrodes of negative... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070109225 - Plasma display apparatus and method for driving the same: This document relates to a plasma display apparatus, and more particularly, to a plasma display apparatus that drives electrodes and a method for driving the same. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a panel comprising a plurality of address electrodes and a driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070109228 - Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel: A plasma display panel sustain-discharge circuit. First and second signal lines for supplying first and second voltages and at least one inductor coupled between one end of the panel capacitor and a third voltage are formed. Energy is stored in the inductor through a path formed between the third voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070109229 - Energy recovery circuit and driving method thereof: An energy recovery circuit of the present invention includes a panel capacitor, a source capacitor for recovering and charging the voltage of the panel capacitor and re-providing the charged voltage to the panel capacitor, a reference voltage supply unit for supplying a discharge sustain voltage to the panel capacitor, an... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070109230 - Electron emission display device and method of driving the same: An electron emission display device for reducing or preventing non-uniformity in color from being generated due to a difference in brightness characteristics of red, blue, and green light components, and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: red, blue, and green pixels adapted to emit light in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070109231 - Light-emitting device, driving circuit, driving method, electronic apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, each emitting light with a light amount according to a driving signal, a storage unit that stores first gray-scale data for assigning a gray-scale value of each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, a data processing unit that generates second gray-scale... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109232 - Method for driving display and display: In an embodiment of the present invention, for an active-matrix organic EL display in which pixel circuits each including five transistors and one capacitor are two-dimensionally arranged in rows and columns, the timing of transition of a drive signal DS from the “H” level to the “L” level is brought... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070109233 - Light emitting device: An organic electroluminescent device having an improved display quality without pectination is provided. The organic electroluminescent device comprises a plurality of the cathode electrode layers comprising a plurality of first cathode electrode layers, wherein one end of each first cathode electrode layer is connected to one of the scan lines... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070109240 - Display apparatus for controlling the brightness values of a plurality of light sources and method of controlling the same: A display apparatus comprising a display panel and a plurality of light source units corresponding to the blocks of the display panel, each of the plurality of light source units having one or more light source elements includes a light source driver for separately driving the light source units; a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109237 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a data line transmitting a data voltage to the pixels, and a floating bar crossing the data line and being divided into a plurality of pieces. By dividing the floating bar into a plurality of pieces, a delay of a data signal... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070109239 - Integrated light sensitive liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal device including a front electrode layer, rear electrode layer, a liquid crystal material located between the front electrode layer and the rear electrode layer. A polarizer is located between the liquid crystal material and the front electrode layer and changing an electrical potential between the rear electrode... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070109236 - Liquid crystal device and projector: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal disposed between the pair of substrates, and a seal member disposed around the liquid crystal, wherein a liquid crystal storage portion is disposed in the inner circumference of the seal member by forming a concave portion on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109234 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving same: A LCD display method capable of over-driving the LCD panel of small, portable electronic apparatus is proposed. The display method includes the steps of: storing the input image data into a first random access memory (RAM); synchronously comparing a current image frame stored in the first RAM with a previous... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p

20070109238 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: The liquid crystal display includes a substrate, and pixel electrodes are formed on the substrate, each of which has first and second subpixel electrodes. Each of the first and second subpixel electrodes has at least two parallelogrammic electrode pieces, each of which has lengthwise edges and oblique edges adjacent to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109235 - Liquid crystal display and repair lines structure thereof: A liquid crystal display and a repair lines structure thereof are provided. In the liquid crystal display, an amplifier is disposed inside an integrated circuit chip, such as a data driver or a scan driver. The amplifier is serially connected to the signal line via a repair line by means... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070109242 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of driving a liquid crystal display by frame rate control (FRC) is provided, which includes: receiving an input data having a first gray from an external graphic source; converting the input data to have bit number larger than the input... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109241 - Method and system for adjusting gray-scale level of liquid crystal display device: A method and system for adjusting a gray-scale level of an LCD device. The method includes: checking a default gray-scale value A; comparing default brightness value YA with a target brightness value YX; inputting a trial gray-scale value B; and outputting a target gray-scale value X. The method employs a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070109243 - Liquid crystal display device, driving method for liquid crystal display devices, and inspection method for liquid crystal display devices: Using technology which uses a single shit register and simultaneously generates multiple pulses, this invention is a liquid crystal display device which rapidly drives data lines. It is possible to increase the frequency of the shit register output signal without changing the frequency of the shift register operation clock. If... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109244 - Liquid crystal display panel, stack type liquid crystal display panel and driving method: There is provide a low cost liquid display panel with high image quality, the liquid crystal display in which temperature compensation is unnecessary and image quality is not affected by temperature changes of the surrounding environment. In the active matrix cholesteric liquid crystal display panel, the time Tw for applying... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109246 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal display panel, a temperature sensor which detects temperature of the liquid crystal display panel, and a controller which controls a voltage applied to the liquid crystal display panel. The controller sets a black-insertion ratio to 0% and changes the voltage applied... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109247 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided. In the liquid crystal display device having a source signal line driver circuit, a gate signal line driver circuit, a DAC controller, and a pixel portion and performing an image display using an n-bit (n is a natural number,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070109245 - Method and apparatus for fabricating flat panel display: A fabricating method of a flat panel display device includes inspecting the flat panel display device by supplying test data and a test scan signal to data electrodes of the flat panel display device to generate an inspection result, judging a location of a panel defect in the flat panel... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070109248 - Liquid crystal device and projector: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates between which liquid crystal is sandwiched, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix on one of the substrates, switching elements that control the supply of current to the pixel electrodes, scanning lines that supply scanning signals to the switching... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109249 - Driving apparatus for liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixels and blocks of shift registers that are connected to one another for temporarily storing data signals and from which the data signal outputs are sequentially applied to drive the pixels. Each of the shift registers receives a shift start signal and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070109250 - Gate driving circuit and repair method thereof, and liquid crystal display using the same: A gate drive device includes first, second and third stages, each of which for shifting a signal from an input thereof to an output thereof; and a dummy stage having a substantially similar circuit configuration as one of the first, second and third stages, the dummy stage for shifting a... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070109253 - Backlight control circuit with two transistors: An exemplary backlight control circuit (200) includes two load circuits (210), a pulse width modulation integrated circuit (PWM IC) (250) having a current sampling pin (251), a switching circuit (270), a first input circuit (230) and a second input circuit (240) including an input resistor. Each load circuit includes a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070109251 - Method and apparatus for extending the color depth of displays: A method of extending color depth in a display includes determining pixel sub-intervals for pixel intervals in a video signal, modulating a transmissivity of a display panel of the display from one sub-interval to another sub-interval, and modulating backlight intensity of a backlight from the one sub-interval to the another... Agent: Kurt A. Luther Honeywell International, Inc.

20070109252 - Methods and devices for driving a display backlight, and display apparatus having a backlight driving device: A device for driving a display backlight, a method for driving a display backlight, and a display apparatus having a backlight driving device. The device, method, and display apparatus are capable of displaying a substantially uniform white light. A sensing unit senses light intensities for each of a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109254 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method for driving the same are provided. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel divided into a plurality of panel regions having data lines and gate lines arranged two-dimensionally; gate drivers that correspond to the panel regions, are independently driven, and alternately supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109255 - Method and apparatus for display: A display apparatus includes a conveyor base to carry a plurality of display stripes having a plurality of light emitting elements to form one or more planar display surfaces when the conveyor base travels around two or more rotating shafts, a power supply to supply constant power to the display... Agent: Suibin Zhang

20070109259 - Exploring platform for virtual environment: An exploring platform for indicating a position of a user in a virtual environment in a computer includes a supporting base defining a sensing area, a plurality of rotors, and a motion capture system. The rotors are spacedly disposed on the sensing area, wherein each of the rotors has a... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070109261 - Information processing method and information processing apparatus: On a display screen of an information processing apparatus, input unit information (an image or a color) which represents an input unit used to move a focus to an item capable of being focused on is displayed along with the item capable of being focused on so as to enhance... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070109260 - Keypad display method and apparatus of portable device: A keypad display method of a portable device includes initializing by partitioning a keypad display area and storing each partition area corresponding to individual gradients; checking whether the operation mode requires a keypad display; displaying a keypad in a specific area of a screen; detecting the gradient of the portable... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070109256 - Methods and apparatus for driving a display device: According to the present disclosure, a transmitter for transmitting control characters to a display device over an interface includes a transmitter portion configured to transmit a control character having a plurality of bit values to the display device. The transmitter also includes logic configured to determine values of the bits... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070109258 - Methods for presenting parameter status information and related portable electronic devices and parameters: A device for indicating a present status for a certain parameter, such as the charge of a battery. A parameter-sensing unit devised to sense a parameter value is connected to a control unit, devised to present an indicator area on a display. The indicator area is defined within an indicator... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070109262 - Ofdm signal transmission system, portable terminal, and e-commerce system: A portable terminal includes a receiver, a barcode former configured to form barcodes and a display. The barcode former forms a barcode from the data received by the receiver and the display displays the formed barcode.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070109257 - Wireless virtual computer operating platform device: A wireless virtual computer operating platform device includes a main computer, a wireless transmission device, and a wireless virtual host computer. The main computer is capable of providing a audio-video signal and receiving at least the working signal of an operating unit, and displaying on a display unit through processing.... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070109264 - Letter inputting system and method using analog joystick controller: There are provided a letter inputting system and method capable of effectively and rapidly inputting a letter using an analog joystick controller for an existing consol game. The letter inputting method includes the steps of: inscribing a character string by controlling an input pointer using an analog joystick controller; recognizing... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070109263 - Matrix architecture for kvm extenders: A matrix architecture for KVM extenders connecting a plurality of console terminals and a plurality of computers. The matrix architecture for KVM extenders includes a plurality of first extenders and a plurality of second extenders. The first extenders transform keyboard, mouse analog signals into keyboard, mouse data packets and transform... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070109266 - Enhanced input peripheral: A peripheral device for use with a computer system includes a housing adapted to fit within a user's palm, an optical sensor, a lens, circuitry for processing the signals from the sensor and producing corresponding output data, and a wireless link for relaying the output data from the peripheral device... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070109265 - Mouse with a multi-function button: A mouse with a multi-function button is provided. By using firmware, the scroll wheel signal and the button signal are simulated as the fourth button's information and the fifth button's information of a five-button mouse identifiable by the operation system. Consequently, no additional mouse driver for executing the functions of... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070109269 - Input system with light source shared by multiple input detecting optical sensors: In one aspect, an input system includes a light source, a first optical sensor, a second optical sensor, and a processing system. The light source illuminates a first scene that changes in response to a first type of user input and a second scene that changes in response to a... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070109267 - Speckle-based two-dimensional motion tracking: Reflected laser light having a speckle pattern is received in a pixel array. Pixel outputs are combined into series representing pixel intensities along particular dimensions at times t and t+Δt. Centroids for each series can be identified, and vectors determined for movement of centroids from time t to time t+Δt.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070109268 - Speckle-based two-dimensional motion tracking: A relatively moving surface is illuminated with a laser. Light from the laser is reflected by the surface into an array of photosensitive elements; the reflected light includes a speckle pattern. Sums are calculated for outputs of pixels perpendicular to a first dimension along which motion is to be determined.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070109270 - Method for inputting keys in portable terminal: Disclosed is a method for inputting keys in a portable terminal, which is convenient and efficient. The method includes displaying one letter of at least two letters disposed in a predetermined key of the portable terminal, if a first input time period elapses while key input is performed for the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109277 - Constraining display motion in display navigation: Navigating on a display includes tracking motion of an input tool on a display, comparing a motion of the input tool to a threshold, and changing a position of the visible portion of a page of information on the display if the input tool motion exceeds the threshold. The position... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070109276 - Method for allocating/arranging keys on touch-screen, and mobile terminal for use of the same: A method for allocating/arranging keys on a touch-screen and a mobile terminal for the same are disclosed. The method for allocating at least one key on a touch-screen includes establishing a plurality of sensing zones on the touch-screen, wherein sizes of the plurality of sensing zones change in sequential order... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070109275 - Method for controlling a touch screen user interface and device thereof: A method for controlling a touch screen user interface is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of touch screen events; selectively discarding at least one of successive discardable touch screen events; translating non-discarded touch screen events into a plurality of screen update commands; and processing the screen update commands... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070109273 - Method of capturing user control inputs: A method of capturing user control inputs includes providing a first navigation member slidably coupled on a housing portion of a portable computer and a stationary second navigation member external to and independent of the portable computer. An input card is provided that includes an optical navigation sensor and is... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070109274 - Methods and systems for detecting a position-based attribute of an object using digital codes: Methods, systems and devices are described for detecting a position-based attribute of a finger, stylus or other object with a touchpad or other sensor having a touch-sensitive region that includes a plurality of electrodes. Modulation signals for one or more electrodes are produced as a function of any number of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070109272 - User control input device: An optical input card is shaped and sized for removable slidable insertion within a slot of a portable computer. The optical input card comprises an optical navigation sensor, a control panel and a wireless communication module. The optical navigation sensor is disposed on the first side of the card for... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070109271 - [a portable storage device with handwritten input device]: A portable storage device with handwritten input device is provided. The portable storage device comprises a storage device and an input device. When the storage device is electrically connected to a host end, an execution program installed in the host end can read coordinates data and the displacement data stored... Agent: Phison Electronics Corporation

20070109278 - Input apparatus and method using optical sensing, and portable terminal using the same: An input apparatus and method in a portable terminal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display unit having pixels, an optical sensing unit for forming a grid corresponding to the pixels and producing location information of a pointer in the grid, a coordinate converter for converting the location information into... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070109280 - Apparatus and method for reporting tie events in a system that responds to multiple touches: Method and apparatus for detecting multiple touch events on a touchscreen system and determining the occurrence of tie events. The system comprises a touchscreen, a touchscreen controller and a microprocessor. The touchscreen comprises a touch surface for receiving touch events. Each of the touch events occurs at a discrete location... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070109279 - Method and apparatus for identifying locations of ambiguous multiple touch events: Method and apparatus for identifying locations on a touchscreen of at least two touch events that occur within a predetermined time of one another comprises monitoring the touchscreen for touch events. Each touch event occurs at a discrete location on the touchscreen defined by an XY coordinate pair. A coordinate... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070109281 - Free form wiper: A free-form wiper tool may be used to select and move document objects in an electronic document. A free-form wipe selection may be determined by analyzing the shape of a free-form selection in order to distinguish it from a free-form lasso selection. Once determined, document objects situated on the document... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070109282 - Data transfer circuit and flat display device: The present invention is a data transfer circuit applicable to a liquid crystal display apparatus with a drive circuit formed integral, for example, on an insulation substrate, configured such that only an inverted output of a latch result of a first latch section (41) or only a non-inverted output thereof... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070109283 - Display apparatus for conveyor: A display device for conveyor according to the present invention: a plurality of safety device disposed on various points of a conveyor; a display for displaying information such as operation conditions of the conveyor or broken locations thereof by means of predetermined display patterns; a contactor for intermittently charging current... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109284 - Display device: In a display element such as an organic EL element, deterioration progresses due to light emission, and emission luminance is lowered even if the same voltage is applied to the display element. Therefore, use over time causes variations in luminance of each pixel, thereby a so-called “image burn-in” phenomenon occurs.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070109286 - Display device: A display device, comprising: display elements formed in vicinity of intersections of signal lines and scan lines aligned vertically and horizontally; image pickup units provided corresponding to each of the display elements by at least one piece, each converting incident radiation at predetermined range into an electric signal; electric charge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070109285 - High-voltage ternary driver using dynamic ground: Systems and methods for implementing a ternary driver that provides three voltage levels: a high positive voltage, a high negative voltage and a zero voltage. The ternary driver utilizes a dynamic ground to maintain the mid-level zero voltage level at approximately zero volts allowing for voltage regulation during high voltage... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070109287 - Picture display device and picture display method: A picture display device displays a video signal supplied from a data process device. Bi-directional communication is carried out with each of a plurality of data process devices. A plurality of video signals is combined into one screen corresponding to information of the picture size of each of the plurality... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070109290 - Display device having plurality of power supplies and method for controlling the same: A display device having a plurality of power supplies and a method for controlling the same are provided. A large-screen display device can be embodied using a plurality of small-capacity power supplies. The operating states of the power supplies are monitored so that the user can immediately deal with abnormal... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070109292 - Display power management: An apparatus and method for power management of a display system. A display controller couples to a memory storage device. A frame buffer in the memory storage device is filled with frames of information for display on a display device. The frames of information transfer to a display buffer in... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070109293 - Energy recovery circuit and driving method thereof: An energy recovery circuit of the present invention includes a panel capacitor, a source capacitor for recovering and charging the voltage of the panel capacitor and re-providing the charged voltage to the panel capacitor, a reference voltage supply unit for supplying a discharge sustain voltage to the panel capacitor, an... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070109288 - Flat display apparatus and integrated circuit: The present invention is applied, for example, to a liquid crystal display apparatus in which drive circuitry is formed integrally on an insulating substrate, wherein processing results from circuit blocks 41A, 41B on the side of a higher power supply voltage are inputted into the side of a lower power... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070109291 - Portable electronic apparatus and portable music-reproducing apparatus: The invention provides a portable electronic apparatus and a portable music-reproducing apparatus which realize power saving promotion, and life prolonging promotion for a display panel, and which prevent display quality from being deteriorated. A portable electronic apparatus (1) can instruct an EL-displaying portion (12) to perform clock display while realizing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070109289 - Power supply control circuit of display device: A power control circuit includes an isolation circuit for receiving a separate image signal and outputting a start signal, and a driving circuit for outputting a direct current (DC) power to start a power module. The other power control circuit includes a first signal generating circuit, for generating a first... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070109294 - Workflow optimization for high thoughput imaging enviroments: A medical diagnostic imaging system (10) is coupled to a hospital network (14) to optimize a throughput of a scanner (24). The hospital network includes a hospital records database (18) and a plurality of hospital computers and remote means (20). A workstation (12) is coupled to the scanner (24) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070109298 - Offline optimization pipeline for 3d content in embedded devices: Apparatus are provided including assets defining 3D models, including 3D icons and scenes, and animations of the 3D models. An offline optimization engine is provided to process data to be acted upon by a graphics engine of a target embedded device. A graphics engine simulator is provided to simulate, on... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070109295 - Photographing apparatus, device and method for obtaining images to be used for creating a three-dimensional model: This invention introduces, as one aspect, an apparatus for creating three-dimensional object model, comprising photographing means for photographing an object to be modeled for obtaining images to be used for creating the three-dimensional object model, setting means for longitudinally and latitudinally setting a relative position between the object and said... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109297 - System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene: A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene is presented. Clusters are placed in a three-dimensional scene arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine. Each cluster includes one or more concepts. Each cluster spine is projected into a... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070109296 - Virtual space rendering/display apparatus and virtual space rendering/display method: A view image rendering module (102) generates an image of a virtual space on the basis of a first viewpoint indicating the viewpoint of a user on the virtual space, and displays the generated image on a view image presentation module (101). A map image rendering module (104) generates a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070109299 - Surface-based characteristic path generation: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for efficiently using surface data to calculate a characteristic path of a virtual three-dimensional object. A surface mesh is constructed using segmented volumetric data representing the object. Geodesic distance from a reference point is calculated for each shape element in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070109300 - Virtual view specification and synthesis in free viewpoint: A system that receives a first video stream of a scene having a first viewpoint and a second video stream having a second viewpoint wherein camera calibration between the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint is unknown. A viewer selects a viewer viewpoint generally between the first viewpoint and the... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070109301 - Data analysis applications: A system and method of monitoring equipment performance and predicting failures. The system can include a data historian that stores data for a piece of equipment and designates the data to tags. The tags can correspond to sensors that gather the data from the piece of equipment. A matrix model... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070109302 - Link relationship display apparatus, and control method and program for the link relationship display apparatus: A link relationship display apparatus for displaying a link relationship between first and second node groups, each of which includes at least one node, the link relationship display apparatus includes: a unit to set one of the first and second node groups as a master node group, and another one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070109303 - Map data updating system: A map data updating system is basically provided with a map distribution system and at least one map data updating device. The map distribution system includes a map data generating section and an information distributing section. The map data updating device is configured to process the distribution map data from... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070109305 - Animation reproducing apparatus and method: An animation reproducing apparatus and method of reproducing an animation reproduces an animation of a predetermined model. The animation reproducing apparatus includes a motion blending unit blending one or more previously prepared animations according to a desired motion that is to be reproduced and a rendering unit rendering a result... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070109304 - System and method for producing animations based on drawings: A method and system for providing animation services to casual users, having little or no experience in creating animations or using animation software packages. One or more individuals create one or more drawings that will serve as the basis for the animation and a storyline for the characters and other... Agent: Kenneth L. Stein Jenner & Block

20070109306 - Transparency optimization method and system: A method includes monitoring one or more print commands received by a print driver to identify a suspect command. The suspect command is indicative of a repetitive rendering process. The suspect command is modified to include a set flag proximate a beginning portion of the suspect command.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070109307 - Apparatus for video graphics array testing: An apparatus for video graphics array (VGA) testing includes a connector, a switch, and an output. The connector has at least one signal output pin. The signal output pin of the VGA connector is connected to the output via the switch. The output can be coupled with an oscilloscope or... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070109308 - Inter-cpu data transfer device: The inter-CPU data transfer device is used for an electronic control apparatus which includes a first CPU having a first memory and a second CPU having a second memory, the first CPU periodically performing a data-updating process to update a plurality data items stored in the first memory, the second... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070109309 - Buffer management in vector graphics hardware: A graphics processor or a graphics block for use in a processor includes a type buffer used for determining if a currently processed pixel requires further processing. Each pixel has a number of sub-pixels and each sub-pixel line includes at least one counter that is stored in an edge buffer.... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070109310 - Sketching reality: Systems and methods for sketching reality are described. In one aspect, a set of vector primitives is identified from a 2-D sketch. In one implementation, the 2-D sketch is hand-drawn by a user. A 2.5D geometry model is automatically generated from the vector primitives. The 2.5D geometry model is automatically... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070109311 - Planetarium picture-creating apparatus and picture-creating method thereof: A planetarium apparatus of this invention memorizes a plurality of texture image data expressing conditions of a surface of an object in a picture memory by relating to the range of a distance from a viewpoint to the object. One of the texture image data in the picture memory is... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070109313 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus including a signal input unit to which an analog image signal is inputted, includes a first conversion unit for converting the analog image signal inputted through the signal input unit into a first digital image signal,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070109312 - Image processing apparatus, pattern detecting method, program, and recording medium: An image processing apparatus is provided that can make judgment of a specific pattern accurate and easy and can judge a copying-prohibited original document regardless of the color of the original document and inputted image information of the copying-prohibited original document added with the specific pattern and even when the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070109314 - Adaptive pixel-based blending method and system: The present invention is a general mode of a pixel-based adaptive blending method. By receiving several different input signals to generate a pixel and a blending factor of each signal, an output pixel can be generated depending on these pixels and blending factors. Thus, several different video and graphic images... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070109315 - Method and system for arranging a paint color display: One aspect of the present invention provides a method for systematically arranging paint color samples for convenient browsing and identification of desired colors by shoppers. Paint color sample cards are arranged on a two-dimensional display surface such that colors of similar hue are categorized or grouped together (e.g., along a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070109316 - Color disparity correction in image sensors methods and circuits: A method of displaying a captured image includes using an array of pixels to capture an image. The array of pixels includes a first plurality of pixels of a first color, a second plurality of pixels of a second color, and a third plurality of pixels of a third color.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070109317 - Display device, signal processing circuit, program, and display method: When a YUV signal is inputted to a signal processing circuit from the outside, a histogram detection unit detects a histogram of a single frame of the Y signal, a correlation determination unit determines a correlation between a gain and a level of an inputted Y signal on the basis... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070109319 - Fragmenting image files systems and methods: Embodiments herein receive and fragment image data into image data fragments. Each single image data fragment comprises a complete, but lower resolution/quality image. The image data fragments are stored in different hardware devices, and a fragment table that comprises pointers from one image data fragment to locations of additional data... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070109320 - Image synthesis by rank-1 lattices: Systems and techniques are described in which rank-1 lattices are used in computerized image processing, in particular in the context of image synthesis. These include systems and techniques for selection of rank-1 lattices, rasterization on rank-1 lattices, anti-aliasing by rank-1 lattices, and adaptive refinement and filtering by rank-1 lattices.... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070109318 - Vector graphics anti-aliasing: A processor unit that can be used in a handheld device and configured for anti-aliasing of a vector graphics image, and including a counter value calculator configured to calculate, for one edge at a time and pixel-by-pixel, counter values for each pixel in a rasterization direction, a counter value recorder... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070109321 - Method for compensating a brightness error of a flat panel display: The present invention discloses a method for compensating a brightness error of a flat panel display that compensates the input gray levels under a fixed sustain frequency by an error diffusion compensation circuit. After the gray levels are inputted to the flat panel display, the brightness will be outputted and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070109322 - Print control program product: A print control program product comprises storing an image data of a rendering object displayed in a preview image as a dot data in which a range containing at least the rendering object is represented in a dot arrangement, generating a tag information for distinguishing a portion corresponding to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070109323 - System and method for displaying map: A map display system includes an operation detection unit for detecting a contact of an indication member with a window frame of a map, a window resizing unit for resizing the window frame according to a movement of the indication member, and a window restoring unit for restoring the window... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070109324 - Interactive viewing of video: Interactively displaying video includes outputting the video for playback at full resolution, receiving an externally-generated command to enlarge an area of the video while the video is being played, upscaling the area, and outputting the upscaled area for display.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070109326 - Intelligent scrolling: A method and apparatus for intelligent scrolling. In a computer system that has a user interface which allows for the movement of items from a first open window to a second open window or to a second region, such as a desktop, the present invention allows a user to select... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070109325 - System and method for rapid input of data: A data inputting system includes a communication device and user-activated control or input device, both coupled to a processor. Data and a focus indicator are displayed or otherwise communicated to a user through the communication device. The position of the focus indicator relative to the displayed data indicates a changeable... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070109327 - Method and apparatus for defect correction in a display: A full-color display device, comprising: a) a display having a plurality of sub-pixels formed in rows or columns in a first dimension including at least three different color sub-pixels forming a color gamut, and grouped into pixels within each row or column, each pixel including at least two of the... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070109328 - Led brightness control: A device for controlling the brightness of a one or more LEDs (light emitting diodes) includes a modulator having at least 11 bits of pulse width modulation resolution. A buffer receives pulses from the modulator. A driver may be coupled to receive pulses from the buffer and drive the one... Agent: Eric G. Halsne Honeywell International Inc.

20070109330 - Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format: A method of determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in a source pixel data specified in a first sub-pixel format is used for sub-pixel rendering an image on a display specified in a second sub-pixel format. Each of the first and second sub-pixel formats comprises... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070109331 - Conversion of a sub-pixel format data to another sub-pixel data format: A method of operating spatial sampling filters comprises detecting subpixel rendered areas, turning on a first set of spatial sampling filters for the subpixel rendered areas in response to detecting said subpixel rendered areas, detecting non-subpixel rendered areas; and turning on a second set of spatial sampling filters for the... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070109329 - Display device: A display device is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix, each pixel including a first set of three primary color subpixels (R, B, G) and at least one of a second set of three primary color subpixels, (C, M, Y) wherein the first and the second... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070109332 - Display driving signal processor, display apparatus and a method of processing display driving signal: Disclosed herein is a display driving signal processor and a display apparatus. A display driving signal processor includes: input means; number-of-horizontal pixels converting means; second clock generating means; and output means. A display apparatus includes: an image displaying portion; input means; number-of-horizontal pixels converting means; second clock generating means; and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070103385 - 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 first display, a second display, a plurality of input devices, and a processing unit. The first display is a non-volatile display, and the second display is a volatile display. The input devices are for operational... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070103386 - Display device assembling method and display device: The present invention provides a display device which includes at least one module mounting frame which is mounted on a display device mounting structure, a plurality of display modules which are detachably mounted on the module mounting frame and constitute a display screen, a signal cable which has a wiring... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070103383 - Displaying a user name by a secondary display of a notebook computer: A notebook computer comprises a notebook computer lid, a notebook computer display viewable on a face of the notebook computer lid, and a secondary display viewable on an opposite face of the notebook computer lid. A processor causes the secondary display to display a user name in response to a... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070103384 - Liquid crystal information display: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal information display, which comprises a main-control system used to edit the information to be displayed, a transmission interface transmitting the edited information, at least one liquid crystal display (LCD) billboard displaying the edited information, and at least one control system, receiving and storing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103382 - Portable terminal having single extended screen for dual display panels, method of controlling screen display thereof and control device thereof: Disclosed are a single extended screen formed by a dual display panel, and a method and a device for controlling display on the screen. A portable terminal having a dual display panel comprises a body having a plurality of function keys and number keys; and a folder coupled to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070103387 - Transmitting apparatus, transmitting method, receiving apparatus, receiving method, transmitting and receiving apparatus, transmitting and receiving method, record medium, and signal: On the transmission side, a background picture and objects #1 to #3 are transmitted at a transmission rate R/4 each. On the reception side, a picture composed of the objects #1 to #3 and the background picture is displayed with a particular spatial resolution and a particular temporal resolution. In... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070103388 - Compact, head-mountable display device with suspended eyepiece assembly: A compact, lightweight, head-mountable display device is provided for transmitting an image to a user's eye. The device includes a projection system including a display attached at one end to a head-mountable support fixture. An eyepiece assembly is attached to a second end of the support fixture. The support fixture... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Hayes LLP

20070103389 - Data driving circuit and electroluminescent display using the same: A data driving circuit may include a shift register unit which may further include a plurality of first stages connected in series that may receive data signals and may output the data signals, in which each first stage may receive the data signals output from a preceding first stage, a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070103391 - Method of driving opposed discharge plasma display panel: The present invention is to provide a method of driving an opposed discharge PDP comprising causing a driving circuit of the PDP to apply a sustaining pulse to each of a plurality of sustaining electrodes thereof for showing each of a plurality of sub-fields wherein a phase of the sustaining... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070103392 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display calculates a screen load ratio from a plurality of video signals input during one frame, determines a total number of sustain pulses of the frame according to the screen load ratio, and determines a number of sustain pulses allocated to each subfield from the total number of... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070103393 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, a plurality of row electrodes performing a display operation are divided into first and second row groups, and row electrodes of first and second row groups are divided into a plurality of sub-groups. In a first subfield of a first subfield group among the plurality... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070103390 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. A scan pulse is supplied to scan electrodes according to one or more of a plurality of scan pulse supply orders. Therefore, the present invention is advantageous in that it can prevent the occurrence of an excessive... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070103397 - Method and apparatus for power control in a display device: The invention relates to a new method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, the contrast/brightness control and the power management (based on an average power level control) are made independently. These two controls can be contradictory. According to the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070103398 - Method and apparatus for power level control in a display device: The invention relates to a method for power level control of a display device and an apparatus for carrying out the method. Classically, a power level mode defining a subfield organization to be used for subfield coding is selected as a function of the average power level of the picture... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070103399 - Method and apparatus for power level control of a display device: The invention concerns a video processing for improving the picture quality of picture which are displayed on display devices like plasma display panels and all kind of display devices based on the principle of duty cycle modulation of light emission and for reducing the average power dissipation. The basic idea... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070103396 - Method for driving discharge display panel to lower rated voltage of driving apparatus and driving apparatus having lower rated voltage: A method of driving a discharge display panel, including X electrode lines, Y electrode lines and address electrode lines, to display at least one frame of an image, wherein the frame includes a plurality of subfields, and during a reset period of at least one of the plurality of subfields,... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070103394 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a high brightness and high contrast plasma display panel which does not generate an erroneous discharge in a sustain period due to a strong discharge in a reset period. The method includes initializing discharge cells defined in areas where a plurality of electrodes cross, in a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070103395 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device in which a sustain pulse having a leading period is applied between row electrodes forming each row electrode pair by a number of times previously determined for each subfield, in a sustain period, and a length of the leading period of the sustain pulse is set... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070103400 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same. Since wall charges are remained without performing an additional erasing discharge after the sustain period is terminated and before the initiation of the reset period, the set up discharge can be generated with a small... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103401 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel that permits a high-speed addressing. In the panel, scanning/sustaining electrodes are provided at each discharge cell. Common sustaining electrodes are arranged in parallel to the scanning/sustaining electrodes at each discharge cell. At least two dummy electrodes are provided at the non-display area to supply the non-display... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070103402 - 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, and a scan driver. The scan driver supplies a setup pulse to the scan electrode through resonance between the plasma display panel and a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070103403 - Plasma display device, driving apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, the plurality of first and second electrodes adapted to generate a sustain discharge so as to display an image on a screen, a first inductor including a first end coupled to the plurality of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070103407 - Display device: A display device includes a case in which a storage space is formed and an organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) panel inserted into the storage space. The case includes a front face and a rear face, whereby one of the front and the rear face includes an opening defining a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070103409 - Display device and driving method thereof: This invention provides a display device in which it is possible to have a light emitting element emitted light with constant luminance without coming under the influence of deterioration over time, and it is possible to realize accurate gray scale express, and yet, it is possible to speed up writing... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070103405 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a driving method using a time division control drive method for OLEDs having a relatively longer life time and a general drive method for OLEDs having a relatively shorter life time. A gate drive circuit provides scan signals in sub-frames to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070103406 - Pixel and organic light emitting display device using the same: A pixel for displaying an image with uniform brightness is provided. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) that is driven by a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit is coupled to a data line, two scan lines, and an emission control line of a display device. The pixel... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070103408 - Self-luminous display apparatus, light emission condition control apparatus, light emission condition control method and program: Disclosed herein is a self-luminous display apparatus including a light emission panel whose light emission time period can be varied within a period of one frame, including: an area-specific motion decision section configured to make a decision between a moving picture area and a still picture area for each one... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070103404 - Shift register circuit: A shift register circuit comprising a plurality of stages dependently connected to an initial input signal or an output signal of a previous stage and connected to first and second clock signals which are mutually inverted. Each stage includes eight switching devices interconnected together with three capacitors and interfaced through... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070103410 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method of the same: An organic light emitting display device and driving method of the same is provided. The device includes a pixel unit including pixels for receiving scan signals and emission control signals from a scan driver, and a plurality of data signals from a data driver. The device also includes a frame... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070103411 - Oled display with aging compensation: A method of compensating image signals for driving an OLED display having a plurality of light-emitting elements having outputs that change with time or use, comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a measured or estimated first value of the current used by individual light-emitting elements in response to known image... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070103414 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes an OCB mode liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of electrode substrates, and a phase-transition voltage application circuit which provides an alternating phase-transition voltage which is applied to the liquid crystal layer to transition liquid... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103415 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of source lines, a plurality of display pixels, each of which is connected to an associated one of the plurality of source lines, a source driver which successively outputs a non-video signal which is common to the plurality of source lines and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103412 - Liquid crystal display having a voltage divider with a thermistor: A liquid crystal display includes a glass substrate, a plurality of pixels formed on the glass substrate for displaying an image according to gamma voltages, a voltage divider installed on a printed circuit board, the voltage divider including a resistor and a thermistor coupled in series with the resistor for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070103413 - Method for transmitting control signal of flat display panel: A method for transmitting control signal of flat panel display is provided. The method is used for controlling a display panel module with a display control device. There is a transmission interface including a display data transmission channel between the display panel module and the display control device. The method... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070103416 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: An LCD and method for driving the LCD that can prevent hue distortion and variation in color temperature in which the LCD includes a memory storing G (green) gray scale correction values for each gray scale level so that the G gray gamma value for each gray scale measured from... Agent: Frank Chan, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070103417 - Discharge display having three electrodes formed in a partition-wall plate of the display: A discharge display apparatus having a discharge display panel and a driving device that drives the discharge display panel is disclosed. The discharge display panel includes a partition-wall plate, address electrodes, common electrodes, and scan electrodes. The partition-wall plate has through-cells and is disposed between first and second substrates. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070103418 - Image displaying apparatus: An image displaying apparatus, for improving motion blur, in particular, on an image displaying apparatus of hold-type, such as, a liquid crystal display element, etc., comprising: sub-frame producing portions (5, 6) for producing a first sub-frame, a second sub-frame being lower in the gradation than the first sub-frame, from an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070103419 - Pixel circuit, active matrix apparatus and display apparatus: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. The pixel circuit includes an electro-optical element, a holding capacitor, a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a switching transistor,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070103420 - Driving circuit and driving method for active matrix liquid crystal display using optical sensor: A driving circuit of an active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) (600) having an LCD panel includes a plurality of gate lines (601) that are parallel to each other; a plurality of data lines (602) that are parallel to each other and across the gate lines; a gate driving circuit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070103423 - Display device and configuration of common electrode thereof: A display device and a configuration of common electrode thereof are provided. The display device and the configuration of common electrode thereof are used for dividing the common electrode connected to an electrostatic discharge protection circuit into two conducting wires and electrically connecting two conducting wires between two corresponding adjacent... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103421 - Liquid-crystal display, projector system, portable terminal unit, and method of driving liquid-crystal display: A sequence for applying pulses to control lines in a horizontal period is differentiated for every horizontal period or vertical period and a sequence for data driver circuitry to write signals in data lines in a horizontal period is differentiated for every horizontal period or vertical period so that potential... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070103422 - Wire-on-array liquid crystal display: A wire-on-array (WOA) flat panel display is provided. The wire-on-array (WOA) flat panel display is characterized in a plurality of high input impedance components between the flexible printed circuit (FPC) board and the corresponding source driver circuits. Each of the high input impedance components is able to receive gamma voltages... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070103424 - Display apparatus with dynamic blinking backlight and control method and device thereof: A display apparatus with dynamic blinking backlights, a control method and a device thereof are provided. The dynamic blinking backlight control method for dynamically controlling the lighting status of the backlights of the display panel includes the following steps. First, the motion condition of a frame to be displayed on... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070103425 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device which includes a plurality of OCB liquid crystal pixels arrayed substantially in a matrix, and a driver circuit which cyclically writes a non-video signal and a video signal as a pixel voltage in each of the liquid crystal pixels. The liquid crystal display device further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103427 - Display apparatus with a display device and a cyclic rail-stabilized method of driving the display device: A cyclic rail-stabilized method of driving an electrophoretic display device (1), wherein a substantially dc-balanced driving waveform is used to effect the various required optical transitions. The driving waveform consists of a plurality of picture potential differences (20), which cause the charged particles (6) of the electrophoretic device (1) to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070103428 - Display device: A display device includes at least one cell containing a fluid having colored particles dispersed in the fluid and at least one dot field applicator associated with the cell. The dot field applicator may be a dote electrode.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070103429 - Electrophoretic display module and electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display (EPD) module includes an EPD laminate, conductive portions made of ITO layers which are located at both ends of the EPD laminate, a casing that encloses the EPD laminate, and retentive portions that are provided in the casing and retain the EPD laminate, in which the retentive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070103426 - Electrophoretic display unit: Electrophoretic display units (1) can get a shorter total image update time by generating and supplying at least some of the data independent signals (Sh1, Sh2, S4, Sh5) during the processing of image information (Del). The processing is done to calculate the data-dependent signals (R,Dr). Data-independent signals (Sh1, Sh2, Sh3,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070103431 - Handheld tilt-text computing system and method: A handheld device serves as a general purpose computer with Tilt-Text input and Text-To-Speech (TTS) feedback to the operator. The device can be operated with one hand and accommodates “eyes-free” operation. The Select button is used in conjunction with the X-Y accelerometer to implement a unistroke, Tilt-Text character set for... Agent: Robert Powley And Nancy Juette, Powley & Gibson, P.C.

20070103430 - Information inputting tool, storage device, information inputting device, and information processing equipment: The present invention provides, among other things, an information inputting tool that can be made space-saving and places small constraint on key touch actions. For that purpose, an information inputting tool of the present invention is provided with a reflection portion (11B) provided with a single or a plurality of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070103435 - Input system, program, and recording medium: An input system for a computer includes a first input device, such as a mouse or a tablet, and a second input device differing from the first input device. The first input device specifies a position on a display screen, which is connected to a computer for executing an application... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070103432 - Optical sub-frame for interactive display system: An interactive display includes an optical sub-frame assembly and a sub-frame suspension that operates to isolate critical optical components of the interactive display from vibration and external forces applied to the interactive display. The optical sub-frame is affixed to the display surface and coupled to a frame of the interactive... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070103434 - Portable communication device and power saving method used therein: A portable communication device is provided. The device has a primary display, a secondary display, and a processing unit. The processing unit is programmed for controlling the primary display and the secondary display according to a current state of the device. The processing unit has the primary display in a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070103433 - Touchscreen device for controlling a security system: The present invention is a hand held portable remote such as a key fob that allows a user to interact with the security system using a flat panel touch-pad. The touch-pad input allows a user to rapidly select and control a large number of security functions, such as Arm, Disarm,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070103436 - Optical tracker with tilt angle detection: Optical tracking systems, method, and devices are described in which optical components detect light within a substantially planar region adjacent to a user device. Tracking logic may receive signals output by the optical components and determine coordinates associated with a movement of a pointing object through the substantially planar region.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070103437 - Haptic metering for minimally invasive medical procedures: A method of providing spatially metered haptic sensations to a user includes detecting motion of a surgical instrument within two degrees of freedom; repeatedly determining whether the surgical instrument has moved by an incremental distance in a particular direction with respect to some portion of a patient's body; and imparting... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070103438 - Charging device and its charging method of self-moving type of mouse: A charging device and its charging method of self-moving type of mouse is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: Step (a): providing a wireless mouse and a charging device, wherein the wireless mouse comprises a base, a displacement-detecting portion positioned on the base, a moving portion capable of stretching... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070103439 - Method of operating an optical mouse: An optical mouse images as an array of pixels the spatial features of generally any micro textured or micro detailed work surface below the mouse. The photo detector responses are digitized and stored as a frame into memory. Motion produces successive frames of translated patterns of pixel information, which are... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070103440 - Optical tracker: Optical tracking systems, method, and devices are described in which optical components detect light within a substantially planar region adjacent to a user device. Tracking logic may receive signals output by the optical components and determine coordinates associated with a movement of a pointing object through the substantially planar region.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070103441 - Optical tracker for tracking surface-independent movements: Optical tracking systems, method, and devices are described in which optical components detect light within a substantially planar region adjacent to a user device. Tracking logic may receive signals output by the optical components and determine coordinates associated with a movement of a pointing object through the substantially planar region.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070103442 - Multipurpose computer display system: A computer system is provided that allows a computer user to easily and effectively maximize the value and utility of the computer system's display screen. In a preferred embodiment, a laptop computer system includes a keyboard unit that includes a computer keyboard mounted to (or within) a system base. A... Agent: Basam E. Nabulsi Mccarter & English, LLP

20070103444 - Method for searching menu in mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to a method for searching a menu in a mobile communication terminal, wherein a plurality of main menus and sub menus of each main menu are simultaneously searched on a single menu screen using various navigational keys.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070103443 - Mobile terminal and method for changing mode thereof: A mobile terminal including a first body, a second body covering at least a portion of the first body, and a hinge module disposed to be eccentric to one of upper left and right sides between the first and second bodies and configured to the allow the second body to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070103448 - Adaptable keyboard for a tablet pc: A system and method are provided for enabling a Tablet PC to receive a keyboard and to communicate depression of keys on the keyboard to an associated operating system. The keys of the keyboard are translucent or transparent. When the keyboard is in an active position, the operating system displays... Agent: Rochelle Lieberman Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070103454 - Back-side interface for hand-held devices: An electronic device uses separate surfaces for input and output. One of the surfaces (e.g., the bottom) includes a force-sensitive touch-surface through which a user provides input (e.g., cursor manipulation and control element selection). On a second surface (e.g., the top), a display element is used to present information appropriate... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070103451 - Capacitive touch switch: A capacitive touch switch, for a control panel of a domestic electrical appliance, includes a touch panel having an upper side and an underside. A printed circuit board is disposed at a distance below the underside of the touch panel. A sensor element is disposed between the underside of the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070103449 - Cost efficient element for combined piezo sensor and actuator in robust and small touch screen realization and method for operation thereof: A device comprising a piezo element includes a piezo-electric material the piezo element including a piezo actuator, and at least one piezo sensor coupled to the piezo actuator, wherein the piezo actuator and the at least one piezo sensor include a common element.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070103452 - Method and apparatus for detecting and interpreting path of designated position: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103445 - Navigation device with touch screen: A navigation device is programmed to be able to associate any function, belonging to a core set of functions, with a non-overlapping touch input zone that is large enough to be reliably activated using a finger. Hence, the present invention is predicated on the insight that it is possible to... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070103447 - Segmented touch screen console with module docking: A segmented touch screen overlies the display or displays of a console having an operating system and display controller for the display. A touch screen controller is continuously connected to each of the touch screen segments and separate touch position information is obtained for each touch screen segment. The console... Agent: Philip M. Kolehmainen Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070103450 - Touch control bar with button function: A touch control bar with button function comprises a plurality of scroll sensor areas and at least a button sensor area disposed between two adjacent ones of the scroll sensor areas. On the touch control bar, a virtual button is defined over an area covering at least a button sensor... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070103453 - Touch key assembly for a mobile terminal: A touch key assembly includes a cover having at least one touch key which is identified by an optically transmissive region of the cover. The cover is also shaped to define a push key opening. The assembly also includes a touch pad structured to operatively couple to the cover such... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070103446 - Wiring of touch panel: The present invention is to provide a wiring of a touch panel comprising a glass substrate including a transparent and conductive layer on a top surface; a plurality of wires disposed along a border of the glass substrate; a plurality of conductive ends formed at the top side of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070103455 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: Provided is an information processing apparatus for receiving an input from a stylus pen and executing a predetermined process. The information processing apparatus includes: a housing unit detachably housing the stylus pen; detection means for detecting attachment and detachment of the stylus pen to and detachment from the housing unit;... Agent: David R. Metzger Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070103457 - Communication terminal: A communication terminal equipped with a sliding-type flat display module includes a main body and a flat display which slides between retracted and extended positions along a first axis relative to the main body and which rotates to a tilted position along a second axis when in the extended position.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070103458 - Driving ic and display device: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a driving IC incorporated in a display device, includes: a first field effect transistor among field effect transistors at an output stage, which is supplied with an output control signal not through the other field effect transistors; a plurality of divided gate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103456 - Video signal processing circuit, control method of video signal processing circuit, and integrated circuit: A display error occurs upon contention between writing of pixel data in a GRAM and reading of pixel data representing a scanning line including pixels which correspond to the pixel data above. Pixel data corresponding to pixels representing a scnaning line sotred in a latch circuit is displayed on a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103460 - Determining camera motion: Camera motion is determined in a three-dimensional image capture system using a combination of two-dimensional image data and three-dimensional point cloud data available from a stereoscopic, multi-aperture, or similar camera system. More specifically, a rigid transformation of point cloud data between two three-dimensional point clouds may be more efficiently parameterized... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070103459 - Method and apparatus for integrating three-dimensional and two-dimensional monitors with medical diagnostic imaging workstations: A system and method for utilizing a spatial three-dimensional display unit with a medical diagnostic imaging system is disclosed. The medical diagnostic imaging system may be a picture archival communication system. The system may include at least one two-dimensional display unit and an additional spatial three-dimensional display unit. Accordingly a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070103461 - Virtual space image display method, apparatus, virtual space image display program, and recording medium: Three-dimensional map data of drawing objects in respective division areas and distant view images in respective directions on map data, which are obtained when viewing is made from insides of the respective division areas, are held in a recording medium, three-dimensional map data of a drawing object for a near... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070103462 - Method and apparatus for rendering semi-transparent surfaces: A system that renders a three-dimensional model which contains semi-transparent surfaces. During operation, the system renders the semi-transparent surfaces in the three-dimensional model by performing the following operations iteratively for each semi-transparent surface in draw-order instead of depth-order: (1) rendering the semi-transparent surface to a Z buffer, (2) calculating a... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070103463 - Simulation apparatus: To realize high speed simulation a simulation apparatus is provided with a graphics board including a depth buffer that stores a depth value of each polygon represented by three dimensional polygon data. In the graphics board, the depth value of each polygon is calculated on the basis of a camera... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070103464 - System and method for performing a three-dimensional virtual examination of objects, such as internal organs: Methods for generating a three-dimensional visualization image of an object, such as an internal organ, using volume visualization techniques are provided. The techniques include a multi-scan imaging method; a multi-resolution imaging method; and a method for generating a skeleton of a complex three dimension object. The applications include virtual cystoscopy,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070103465 - Computer graphics processor and method for rendering 3-d scenes on a 3-d image display screen: A computer graphics processor having a renderer for rendering N views of 3D scenes is provided. Said renderer comprising a rasterizer SSR for transversing a surface grid over a surface of primitives of said 3D scenes for all N views. Furthermore, said renderer comprises a shader means PPS for determining... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070103466 - System and computer-implemented method for modeling the three-dimensional shape of an object by shading of a two-dimensional image of the object: A computer graphics system generates a three-dimensional model of an object in an interactive manner under control of an operator. An initial model for the object to be modeled is displayed to the operator as illuminated from a particular illumination direction and projected onto an image plane. The operator can... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070103467 - System and method for reproducing images onto surfaces: Systems and methods of reproducing images onto surfaces are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an image file that digitally produces a planar surface normal to a surface of a master model. The planar surfaces are referenced to a coordinate system of the master model through a series of... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070103468 - Smart shape insert: A method for determining the location of a shape to be inserted into a diagram representing a data graph is disclosed. The method comprises determining a starting shape within the diagram; retrieving the number of nodes associated with the node associated with the starting shape; and comparing a preferred number... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070103469 - System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance: A method (500) of creating an image is disclosed. The image (e.g. 200) is formed by rendering a plurality of graphical objects (e.g. 203, 204, 205) on a scanline (e.g. 301) basis, where each scanline (301) comprises at least one run of pixels (e.g. 325). The method (500) forms an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070103470 - Apparatus and method for configuring animated graphic image and effect handler used in the apparatus and method: An animated graphic image configuration apparatus and method usingan animated graphic image format including an image header, a component header, an effect header and a component image, and an effect handler used in the apparatus and method are provided. The animated graphic image configuration apparatus is used to generate an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070103471 - Discriminative motion modeling for human motion tracking: A system and method recognizes and tracks human motion from different motion classes. In a learning stage, a discriminative model is learned to project motion data from a high dimensional space to a low dimensional space while enforcing discriminance between motions of different motion classes in the low dimensional space.... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070103472 - Page buffer and a method for driving the same in a nonvolatile memory device: A page buffer may comprise of a latch connected to a sense node at a first contact point. The page buffer may also comprise of a sensing circuit connected to the sense node at a second contact point, the sensing circuit being configured to sense cell data of the sense... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070103473 - Display apparatus and signal processing method thereof: A display apparatus and a signal processing method thereof are disclosed. The display apparatus comprises a micro-controller, a detection module, an image processor, a first bus, and a second bus. The detection module is used to detect a status of the display apparatus. The image processor is used to process... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070103474 - Graphics pipeline precise interrupt method and apparatus: A graphics processing unit (“GPU”) is configured to interrupt processing of a first context and to initiate processing of a second context upon command. A command processor communicates an interrupt signal on a communication path from to a plurality of pipeline processing blocks in a graphics pipeline. A token, which... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070103476 - Interruptible gpu and method for context saving and restoring: A graphics processing unit (“GPU”) is configured to receive an interrupt command from a CPU or internal interrupt event while the GPU is processing a first context. The GPU saves the first context to memory and records a precise processing position for the first context corresponding to the point interrupted.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070103475 - Interruptible gpu and method for processing multiple contexts and runlists: A graphics processing unit (“GPU”) is configured to interrupt processing of a first context and to initiate processing of a second context upon command so that multiple programs can be executed by the GPU. The CPU creates and the GPU stores a run list containing a plurality of contexts for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070103477 - Method and apparatus for frame buffer management: Methods and apparatuses for dynamic virtual frame buffer management. At least one embodiment of the present invention dynamically enables or disables the use of a virtual frame buffer, which is not under control of graphics hardware of a data processing system, without restarting the graphical user interface system (e.g., the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070103478 - Display device and display method of monitor: The present invention relates to a display device and a display method of a monitor. The display device comprises a plurality of memories for receiving a plurality of exterior video images via an input buffer, the memories being coupled to a wide-area X-axial address line and a wide-area Y-axial address... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070103479 - Depth image-based rendering method, medium, and system using splats: A method, medium, and system of rendering image data, including receiving three-dimensional space data for each pixel forming the image data, the three-dimensional space data including depth and color information values for each pixel, determining an order of rendering for a plurality of surfaces forming the image data in an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070103481 - 3-d graphics texturing system using encrypted textures: A texturing system for use in a three-dimensional graphics system has an input for receiving object data for an object to be textured. Encrypted texture data is obtained from a store a decrypted in a decryption unit. The decrypted texture data generates texture image data for a frame buffer from... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070103480 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the three-dimensional map is generated with respect to a focal point; identifying means for identifying the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070103482 - Image processing device, image processing method, program for the same, and computer readable recording medium recorded with program: A determination target region includes a combination of a red gray image, a green gray image, and a blue gray image. A CPU part transforms a three gray value matrixes to a single first data array uniquely associated with a pixel position in the determination target region. The CPU part... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070103483 - Adaptive alpha blending: Methods for processing a first image which has a plurality of pixels. One method processes the first image by obtaining (105) a first value of a pixel, determining (110) whether the first value is in a first predetermined relationship with a blending threshold and, if so, designating (115) the pixel... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070103484 - Video to animation conversion with file size constraint: A method for converting video from a first format into a second format, the method including decoding into a series of frames video that is encoded in a first format, mapping the colors represented in the frames into a palette having fewer colors than the number of colors represented in... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070103485 - Edge directed de-interlacing: One implementation of a method for edge directed video de-interlacing in accordance with the disclosed invention includes obtaining at least a portion of a field of input video data including at least portions of four consecutive rows of field pixels including first, second, third, and fourth rows of field pixels.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070103486 - Interpolation of plotted points between sample values: A video display for digitized video data interpolates values between time samples, such as luminance over a horizontal line or over an average of all the horizontal lines in a video signal, so as to produce a digitally plotted test display resembling the continuous line display of an oscilloscope. A... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070103487 - Pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines: A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the overlay engine and a mapping engine cache,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070103488 - Substituting pattern fills: Lower resolution bitmaps are substituted with higher resolution bitmaps before output. The higher resolution bitmaps are substituted for the lower resolution bitmaps such that the bitmaps are of sufficient resolution and may be anti-aliased to produce a shape that has high resolution for printing and display devices.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070103489 - Graphics display system with anti-aliased text and graphics feature: 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 system may use anti-aliased text and graphics to provide high quality display of graphical elements,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070103490 - Automatic element substitution in vector-based illustrations: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are configured to substitute an element in a vector-based computer generated illustration. A computer generated illustration comprised of vector geometry is obtained. A block that consists of one or more referenced first ancillary elements is also obtained. An instance of the block is... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070103491 - 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 two sub-pixels having a smaller level of luminance are located at edges of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070103492 - Image display adjusting device: An image display adjusting device wherein a difference portion obtains a difference between an input signal f0 preceding by one frame as an input signal f1 held by one frame by a memory portion and a current input signal f1, a multiplication portion 106 multiplies this difference signal (f1−f0) by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097015 - Display device: A display device for so-called facade displays is proposed which comprises several supports that can be affixed to the facade of an edifice, in particular a building, on the outside or the inside; a plurality of groups of light-emitting diodes that are provided on the several supports and serve as... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070097014 - Electronic device with flexible display screen: An electronic device comprises a plurality of support members coupled to each other by a fold portion, the fold portion enabling rotational movement of the plurality of support members relative to each other. The electronic device also comprises a flexible display screen extending across the fold portion.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097017 - Generating single-color sub-frames for projection: A method of displaying images with a display system. The method includes receiving image data for the images. A plurality of multiple-color frames corresponding to the image data are generated. A first single-color frame is generated based on the plurality of multiple-color frames. The first single-color frame is processed, thereby... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097019 - Multi-depth displays: A multi-depth display apparatus comprises: a display panel comprising pixels arranged to display first image and second images; and a direction changing layer arranged so that light forming said first and second images enters the layer and then exits the layer, wherein: in relation to the light forming said first... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070097018 - Picture displaying method, system and unit: A picture displaying method is for displaying a picture by means of a plurality of picture displaying units. A picture signal representing the picture is supplied to each of the picture displaying units. A first picture displaying unit displays a first part of the picture according to the picture signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097016 - Triple screen video arcade circuit: Triple Screen Arcade is a video circuitry design that provides a low cost method for creating three video outputs that span a single large video bitmap area. The method uses low cost video controller chips intended for dual screen applications of Laptop PCs (personal computers) combined with an FPGA (field... Agent: Scott Mcgowan

20070097020 - Display device: The display device can reduce a burden on a user. The display device includes a plurality of input terminals to receive a plurality of display signals, respectively. A digital input terminal is included in the input terminals. The display device also includes a display signal processing section to select one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097021 - Information processing device: There is provided an information processing apparatus which occupies a small space and which is capable of supplying image information having high definition and high resolution. An information processing apparatus of the invention employs a head mount display (HMD) utilizing compact flat panel displays as a display device for displaying... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070097022 - Display apparatus for automatically visualizing an application landscape: A visualization system effectively presents even extraordinarily complex systems in a readily understandable manner. The visualization system generates and displays a process-product matrix that includes the applications assigned to each matrix coordinate, arranged in a compact and easily readable format. The resulting visualization is useful in identifying the relationships and... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097023 - Display device and board supporting structure: Provided are a display device and a board supporting structure. The board supporting structure includes: a board; a main frame to which the board is fixed; a receiving portion formed at the main frame and on which the board is placed; and a connection member being a separate component fixing... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097024 - Multi-channel imaging system: A multi-channel imaging system that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously see different images in full-screen on a single screen includes: a mode selector which selects a general 2D mode, a multi-channel 2D mode, or a 3D mode; a source selector which provides an image from at least one channel; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097025 - Lcd display: The present invention is an LCD display unit, including an LCD display having a predetermined number of segments, a drive unit that drives the LCD display, a control unit that controls the drive unit to display the display information on the LCD display, and an operation unit for selecting display... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070097026 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor detects an ambient luminance of a plasma display panel. The controller controls at least one of a voltage of driving signal and the number of driving signals for driving the plasma display... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097028 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of discharge cells, and a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) in which a unit frame is driven with it being divided into a plurality of subfields,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097029 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a first electrode formed in a panel, and a first electrode driver configured to apply a driving waveform to the first electrode, wherein the first electrode driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097027 - 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 electrode, and a driver. The driver supplies a second reset pulse to the electrode during a second frame when a variation between a load of video... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097030 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a voltage supply unit, a voltage storing unit, and a voltage path selection unit. The voltage supply unit supplies a positive voltage to the data electrode during an address period. The voltage storing unit is formed between the data... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097031 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel is disclosed in which generation of a region having brightness non-uniformity can be reduced over an entire screen without changing the voltage and pulse width of sustain pulses thus enabling suppression of an increase in power consumption. This method for driving a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070097032 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display: An apparatus and method for driving a plasma display including first and second electrode driving units for applying a driving waveform to first and second electrodes formed in parallel on a front panel are disclosed. The second electrode driving unit applies a first bias voltage having a certain size not... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097033 - Driving of plasma display device: A circuit for supplying voltages to an electrode of a plasma display device is disclosed. The circuit includes an inductor connected to the electrode, a first capacitor and a second capacitor serially connected to the first capacitor. The circuit selectively forms certain paths to provide pulses to the electrode to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070097035 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed The plasma display apparatus includes a first voltage source, a multiplying unit, and a sustain pulse supply controller. The multiplying unit is charged to a voltage of the first voltage source, and then supplies a multiplying voltage equal to two times the voltage of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097036 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, and a scan driver. The scan driver charges a first capacitor to a first voltage charged to a source capacitor, and supplies a setup pulse having a voltage equal to a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070097034 - Plasma display device, driving apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display device, a driving apparatus and a driving method are provided. A first transistor is coupled to a power source and electrodes of a first group. A second transistor is coupled to the power source and electrodes of a second group. A third transistor is coupled to a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070097037 - Active matrix-type display apparatus and camera: An active matrix-type display apparatus, includes a plurality of pixels 101, each comprising a display device and an active element, arranged two-dimensionally; a plurality of data signal lines 102 extending in a direction; and a plurality of power lines 103 extending in a direction perpendicular to the data signal lines.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070097038 - Light emitting device and electronic apparatus using the same: Providing a light emitting device capable of suppressing the variations of luminance of OLEDs associated with the deterioration of an organic light emitting material, and achieving a consistent luminance. An input image signal is constantly or periodically sampled to sense a light emission period or displayed gradation level of each... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070097039 - Ac switch with zero off current for el panel: A power supply for driving an EL panel includes an inverter that produces a polarity reversing voltage at a pair of output terminals. A switching circuit coupled to the output terminals and to at least one EL lamp applies alternating current to the at least one EL lamp in the... Agent: Paul F. Wille Cantor Colburn LLP

20070097041 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels comprising normal pixels and sample pixels; a plurality of sensing units which sense luminance of the sample pixels and generate sensing signals based on the sensed luminance; a gray voltage generator which generates a plurality of reference gray voltages having values depending... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070097040 - Light-emitting device, driving circuit, driving method, and electronic apparatus: A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements whose luminous energy is controlled according to a current value and a pulse width of a driving signal; a storage unit that stores first and second coefficients for every light-emitting element; a pulse width determining unit that determines the pulse width... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070097046 - Data driving circuit, light emitting display device using the same, and driving method thereof: A data driver in which the size of the data driving circuit is reduced or minimized so as to be applied to a high-resolution panel. The data driving circuit includes a plurality of shift registers for generating first sampling signals; a plurality of sampling latches arranged as first sampling latches... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070097045 - Display apparatus having led backlight and brightness adjusting method for the same: A display apparatus including a backlight with an LED and a brightness adjusting method which is capable of accomplishing uniform brightness across the entire display screen are provided. A display apparatus comprising a backlight comprising a plurality of LEDs and a plurality of current supplying parts respectively supplying a driving... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070097044 - High efficiency switching led driver: The present invention provides a LED driver for control the brightness of the LED. An inductor and a switch are connected in serial with the LED for control the current of the LED. A control circuit is developed to generate a control signal for switching the switch in response the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070097042 - Refrigerating appliance provided with an oled display: A refrigerating appliance provided with a display including at least one organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The display can include a plurality of individual displays which are respectively provided with at least one OLED, and are superimposed in a sandwich-type arrangement and can be of different colors.... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070097043 - Switching led driver: The present invention provides a LED driver for controlling the brightness of the LED. An inductor and a switch are connected in series with the LED for controlling the current of the LED. A diode is coupled in parallel to the inductor for freewheeling the energy of the inductor through... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070097047 - Variable storage of bits on a backplane: 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

20070097049 - In-vehicle liquid crystal display device with temperature sensor: An exemplary in-vehicle LCD device (100) includes a temperature sensor (101), a power circuit selector (102), a power circuit (103), a reverse power circuit (105), a Peltier member (106), and a LCD module (107) having the Peltier member operatively coupled thereto. The temperature sensor, the power circuit selector, the power... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070097048 - Information processing device and control method for information processing device: According to one embodiment, an information processing device adapted to use in a first mode and a second mode includes a body, a display unit supported by the body, a display panel disposed at the display unit, a viewing angle control filter disposed at the display unit and arranged facing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070097050 - Display driving integrated circuit and method: A display driving integrated circuit (IC) capable of reducing the number of transmission lines for transmitting gray-scale data from a memory. The display driving IC receives M-bit gray-scale data to represent the gray scale of one pixel and drives a panel including a plurality of pixels. The display driving IC... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070097051 - 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

20070097052 - Liquid crystal display device: In a LCD device, at least two switching elements are connected to each of the pixel electrodes. A first switching element out of the two switching elements is connected to a first drain line which supplies display signals having a positive polarity. A second switching element out of the two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097053 - Plasma display apparatus with differing-size protrusion electrodes: In a PDP apparatus a first protrusion is formed in the column direction at a scan electrode. A second protrusion is formed in the column direction at a sustain electrode. The first and second protrusions face each other with a protrusion gap therebetween. An area of the first protrusion is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070097055 - Drive apparatus of liquid crystal display device: An apparatus includes a polarity reversing section which generates a polarity reversing signal for the liquid crystal drive voltage; a liquid crystal driver which reverses the polarity of the liquid crystal drive voltage based on the polarity reversing signal to drive the liquid crystal display panel; a warning signal generation... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070097056 - Driving method and data driving circuit of a display: A driving method and data driving circuit of display is provided. A frame is divided into a first field and a second field, and respectively driving a first and a second part of those data lines within the first and second field. Sequentially driving a first part of the data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070097054 - Method for driving a thin film transistor liquid crystal display: A method for driving a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) not only accelerates a response speed of the liquid molecules, but applies to the highest and the lowest margin voltage as well. In addition, this method comprises the following steps: during a period of a changing of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070097058 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and a method that drives an LCD device is provided. The apparatus that drives an LCD device includes an image display unit that includes liquid crystal cells that are formed in areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. A data driver... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097059 - Driver for liquid crystal display: In a liquid crystal display driving circuit, upon time-sharing output of gray scale voltages from an amplifier of an output circuit for each unit pixel composed of three sub-pixels of red(R), green(G) and blue(B) in the output sequence of R, G and B, a data matching detector compares gray scale... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097057 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method for preventing a phenomenon causing a non-uniform charge characteristic between liquid crystal cells are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a picture display part having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines and having liquid crystal cells sharing... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070097060 - Liquid crystal display driver, and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: A liquid crystal display driver includes a first selecting circuit configured to select a voltage from a first voltage range based on a digital signal; and a second selecting circuit configured to select a voltage from a second voltage range based on the digital signal. A voltage which is applied... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097061 - Display device: A display apparatus includes scan lines, a scan line driving circuit connected to at least left or right ends of the scan lines so as to apply a scan voltage to the scan lines, data lines, a data line driving circuit connected to the data lines to apply a driving... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070097063 - D/a converter circuit, display unit with the d/a converter circuit, and mobile terminal having the display unit: A D/A converter circuit according to the present invention allows adaptation to multi-gradation by reducing the circuit size. A reference-voltage-selection-type D/A converter circuit that converts 4-bit digital data into an analog signal having 16 voltage values V1 to V16 generates in a reference voltage generating circuit (11) four reference voltages... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070097062 - Scanning electrode driver, display driver device, and electronic device: A scanning electrode driver for supplying a drive signal to a plurality of scanning electrodes in a display device having a plurality of display pixels, the plurality of display pixels respectively including memory liquid crystal layers that are applied with drive voltages corresponding to data voltages and scanning voltages when... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070097064 - Display control circuit, display control method and display apparatus: A display control circuit which controls a display panel on which a plurality of pixels having an optical control layer between a pair of substrates are allocated in a substantial matrix form, the circuit includes a temperature detecting unit which detects a temperature relating to a temperature of the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070097065 - Automatic screen and keypad brightness adjustment on a mobile handheld electronic device: A method is set forth for automatically adjusting screen and keypad brightness on a mobile electronic device having a light sensor, display screen and keypad, for optimum legibility under varying lighting conditions, with minimal eye strain and distraction to the user. The method includes obtaining light level samples from the... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partner

20070097067 - Backlight unit and driving method using the same: A backlight unit includes: an array unit, wherein the array unit comprises an input terminal, a first output terminal and an array coupled to the input terminal and coupled to the first output terminal, the array including a plurality of light emitting diodes; a switching unit coupled to the input... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097071 - Backlight unit for liquid crystal display: The invention provides a cost effective way of determining the status of a light emitting device, such as a light emitting device in a non-emitting display device. The apparatus includes a light emitting device, a voltage supply coupled to the light emitting device for making a current flow through the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070097068 - Display apparatus and information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a display panel, a light emitting element arranged as a light source for the display panel, a board on which a first circuit for controlling power supply to the light emitting element is arranged, and a second circuit which is arranged on... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070097069 - Display driving circuit: In a display driving circuit according to the present invention, not all the pixel values (example : 0˜255) but only the values (example : 179˜255) of the significant partial range (N˜100%) have data of histogram of pixels of an image as a partial histogram, and when the pixel (Ds) at... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070097066 - Lcd display utilizing light emitters with variable light output: A display having a light source, an LCD panel, and a controller and a method for displaying an image on an LCD panel are disclosed. The light source includes a first light emitter that generates a first light signal having first and second intensities. The LCD panel is illuminated by... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070097070 - Multi-light driving device, lcd with multi-light driving device and method for driving lcd: A method for driving an LCD includes a first brightness adjusting step and a second brightness adjusting step. In the first brightness adjusting step, the relative brightness of a plurality of light-emitting units is adjusted, so that the screen of the LCD presents a dark zone. The dark zone is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097072 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a substrate; first and second pixel rows formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels; a first gate line extending in a row direction on the substrate and connected with the first pixel row; a second gate line extending in the row... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070097073 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a contact detection section for detecting contact from a user, a vibration output section for outputting an acoustic vibration that can be sensed by the user as a sound and a haptic vibration for stimulating the haptic sense of the user,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070097074 - Portable information communication terminal: A portable information communication terminal includes an operation unit composed of an integrated combination of a first operation detection device for detecting an operation in a first direction substantially parallel to a predetermined axis direction of a terminal housing and a second operation detection device for detecting an operation in... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070097077 - Input device for pointing coordinates: Provided is a coordinate pointing device including a detecting unit for detecting movement of a main body of the coordinate pointing device, a signal processing unit for outputting a coordinate input signal based on information detected by the detecting unit, and a switching unit for switching a valid state in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070097076 - Method and system for secure password/pin input via mouse scroll wheel: A method and system for inputting a character string using a handheld input device, such as a mouse wheel or touchpad. Signals are grouped depending on a change in direction, depressing the mouse button as an interrupt, holding a mouse button down, etc., and the groupings are translated into symbols.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070097075 - Roller mechanism for multiple directions control: The present invention relates to a roller mechanism for generating a plurality of control signals, for example to scroll an image on a computer display in multiple directions. The roller mechanism has a carriage, and a roller rotatable within the carrier. The roller can drive an encoding unit to output... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070097078 - Battery-free wireless optical mouse: A battery-free wireless optical mouse comprises a wireless optical mouse and a mouse pad. This invention is different from the traditional optical mouse is that it is battery-free. It has no power connector and requires no battery. The wireless optical mouse and mouse pad are installed with an electromagnetic inductance... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070097081 - Input device: An input device is provided. The input device includes a key input unit having a plurality of input keys and an input operation unit. A key input monitor monitors a key input to the key input unit. A timer measures a setting time upon the key input. A relay driver... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097079 - System and method for connecting information handling system with a unified keyboard and mouse cable: A portable information handling system keyboard cable integrates keyboard and point stick conductors in a common membrane to communicate user inputs from a keyboard and point stick to processing components. The cable terminates at a motherboard end with a ZIF connector to connect with processing components at the motherboard and... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070097080 - Wireless keyboard for chair: A wireless computer keyboard having a support, a keypad, an analog input device, and a hinged anchor allowing at least one degree of rotational motion of the device relative to a chair armrest to which it is secured by the hinged anchor. In a first position it rests in front... Agent: Barber Legal

20070097082 - Electronic device including digital tuner unit: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a cabinet having an upper case and a lower case. The upper case has an upper wall, and a keyboard mounting section is provided on the upper case. The cabinet incorporates a main board. A connector is provided on the top surface... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070097083 - Method and mobile telecommunication handset for switching between screens using an abbreviation key: Provided are a method for switching between screens using an abbreviation key in a mobile telecommunication and a mobile telecommunication capable of switching between screens using an abbreviation key. The present invention makes it possible to read again the received short message during the time of composing a short message... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070097095 - Apparatus and method for recognizing and transmitting handwritten data in a mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method for transmitting a handwritten data during a messenger conversation in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes disabling a key input function of a keypad to receive handwritten data when a handwriting mode is set; driving a pressure sensor for sensing pressing of the keypad; determining... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070097096 - Bimodal user interface paradigm for touch screen devices: A touch screen device provides bi-modal user interaction. The touch screen device includes (a) a touch screen interface, (b) a detector to detect an area of finger interaction with the touch screen surface, and (c) a processor. The processor determines, based on at least one of a size, a shape,... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070097084 - Command input device using touch panel display: Contact time detection means (101) for detecting a time period for which a finger is in continual contact with a touch panel display (100), contact number detection means (102) for detecting the number of times a finger touched the touch panel display (100), and contact interval detection means (103) for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070097085 - Data processing device: A display unit 10 consists of a CRT, a liquid crystal display unit or the like, and displays a virtual keyboard. A touch panel 12 is a touch panel formed from a nearly transparent material provided in front of the display unit 10. A control unit 14 displays a virtual... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070097090 - Digital camera user interface: An exemplary user interface for a digital camera includes a first elongated button, a second elongated button and a third elongated scroll strip located between the first and second elongated buttons.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097089 - Imaging device control using touch pad: An exemplary method for controlling an electronic imaging device may include detecting a sweeping motion on a touch pad, and adjusting a setting on the electronic imaging device in response to the sweeping motion.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097088 - Imaging device scrolling touch pad with tap points: An exemplary method for controlling an electronic imaging device may include detecting a sweeping motion on a touch pad, and scrolling a feature of the electronic imaging device in response. The method may also include detecting a tap on a predetermined location on the touch pad, and in response selecting... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097091 - Input device: An input device, especially for a vehicle, includes a first display for optical display of information, at least a second display arranged above the first display for optical display of information and a touchscreen arranged above the second display for entry of commands by touching an operating surface of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070097094 - Input device: An input device, especially for a motor vehicle, has a display for the visual representation of information, a touch screen arranged above the display for the input of commands by touching an operating surface of the touch screen, and a layer having adjustable transparency arranged between the display and the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070097092 - Method of using a touch screen and user interface apparatus employing the same: A user interface apparatus and method of using a touch screen are provided. The apparatus includes a touch screen division unit for dividing a screen area of the touch screen into zones, an allocation unit for allocating a user interface unit to each of the zones and a plurality of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070097093 - Pad type input device and scroll controlling method using the same: A pad type input device is provided. The pad type input device includes an operation surface which includes a scroll area operated by an operation body. A detector is operative to detect a touch position of the operation body placed on the operation surface as positional information on a coordinate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070097087 - Tablet computer overlay membrane: A tablet computer device comprises a overlay membrane detachably couplable to the tablet computer device to protect a display element of the tablet computer device, the overlay membrane having an integrated keyboard.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097086 - Viewing device having a touch pad: Viewing devices are disclosed herein. One embodiment of a viewing device is a digital camera having at least one function. And embodiment of the digital camera comprises a touch pad, wherein in which a stylus that is moved relative to the touch pad is detectable by the digital camera. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097097 - Laser type coordinate sensing system for touch module: A laser type coordinate sensing system for touch module includes an X-direction light emitting array, an X-direction light receiving array, a Y-direction light emitting array, and a Y-direction light receiving array provided at four sides of a touch area on a substrate, so that a plurality of X-direction laser beams... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070097099 - Information management unit and method for controlling data flow from electronic pens: An information management unit is arranged in an electronic network as a flow path controller for electronic data between electronic pens and destination units, the electronic data comprising handwriting data recorded by the electronic pens and one or more pen-resident parameters. The information management unit receives at least part of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097100 - Method and system for invoking computer functionality by interaction with dynamically generated interface regions of a writing surface: A device user interface in which computer functionality is invoked by user interaction with dynamically generated interface regions of a writing surface. A computer system identifies a marking written on the writing surface or a user selection of an existing written marking. Adjacent to the marking, the computer system automatically... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070097102 - Temporary lines for writing: A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool close to a display and writing surface. Alternately, the guidelines may appear after the user has... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070097098 - Terminal device, display system, display method, program, and recording medium: To provide a terminal device whereby a conference can be conducted smoothly by users inputting handwritten information. A terminal device comprises: display means for displaying a background image in accordance with background image data; reception means for receiving handwritten data indicating the content of notes handwritten on a medium the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070097101 - User-interface system, method & apparatus: A user-interface system for interfacing with a device, the system comprising a printed user-manual for the device, wherein a user is able to interface with the device by using a digital pen to mark a portion of the user-manual or otherwise indicate a desired configuration setting for the device using... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097106 - Constant point in space lateral map lighting: A method of providing perspective depth information on a computer screen. The method includes generating light and dark areas so that it appears to the observer a light source is illuminating the information from an imaginary point in space. The method further includes maintaining the appearance of the light source... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070097104 - Display apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a display apparatus and method for presenting a moving image of less degradation to an observer who is a person viewing a displayed moving image, on the basis of human visual characteristics without unnecessarily increasing the frame rate. A control signal generation section 125 and... Agent: Ronald P Kananen Rader Fishman & Grauer

20070097108 - Elastic fiber optic image guide: There is disclosed a mobile consumer electronic device comprising a display capable of providing information at an external display surface. The device further includes an elastic fiber optic image guide extending between a first end and a second end. The first end of the elastic fiber optic image guide is... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070097107 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal display panel drive method capable of controlling gamma value: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, a data driver configured to drive the liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit configured to control the data driver in response to display data and a control signal supplied from an exterior, wherein the control circuit is configured to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070097103 - Portable display device: A mobile telephone has a display section for displaying a left screen in the left direction and a right screen in the right directions. Accordingly, a viewer holding the mobile telephone in hand can view the left screen when viewing the display section from the left side and the right... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097105 - Video controller switching system and method: A video controller switching system comprises a computing platform having a user video controller configured to control non-administrative video output of the computing platform, a management module video controller disposed on the computing platform configured to control administrative video output for the computing platform and a switching module configured to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097110 - Image output device: An image output device includes a reception unit, an output unit, and a selection reception unit. The reception unit receives a change of setting from a display mode, which is currently set to one of a plurality of display modes, to a different display mode. The output unit outputs an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070097109 - Method and system for generating detail-in-context presentations in client/server systems: A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen of a client coupled over a network to a server, comprising: establishing a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region; if the... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070097114 - Apparatus and method of controlling three-dimensional motion of graphic object: An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a movement and rotation of a displayed three-dimensional graphic object using a user input, such as a click or slide on a touch pad. The apparatus for controlling a three-dimensional motion of a graphic object includes a touch pad which receives a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097116 - Information display apparatus: An information display apparatus connected to a display unit for visually presenting information to a user is disclosed. The information display apparatus displays a frame within a display region of the display unit, information to be displayed in the frame, and an operation guide at the outer peripheral edge of... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070097112 - Method of tracking an object in a video stream: A method of tracking an object such as a face in a video stream comprises running an object detector at a plurality of locations on a first frame, defining a coarse grid. This is repeated for second and subsequent frames, with the grid slightly offset each time so that, ultimately,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097111 - Moire-based auto-stereoscopic images by duplex printing on transparencies: Provided herein are teachings directed to using duplex printing on transparencies to create auto-stereoscopic images viewed in a “see-through” manner. By choosing different halftone structures, differing by having different spatial frequencies for each of the two sides of a transparency, a moiré pattern resulting due to halftone overlapping can be... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20070097113 - Three-dimensional graphic user interface, and apparatus and method of providing the same: An apparatus and method for providing a three-dimensional graphic user interface includes a control module which creates a three-dimensional interface space having a predetermined plane and an axis perpendicular to the plane, and a plurality of objects presented in the space, and a user interface module which presents a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097115 - Three-dimensional motion graphical user interface and apparatus and method of providing the same: A three-dimensional motion graphical user interface and an apparatus and a method of providing the same are provided. The apparatus for providing a three-dimensional motion graphical user interface includes a creation module which creates a polyhedral object having a face on which first information to be communicated to a user... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097117 - Automated mesh creation method for injection molding flow simulation: An automated mesh creation method for automatically creating meshes for a model that may be applied in a mold flow analysis. The method includes the steps of creating surface meshes for the model from a CAD model or a STL file; refining the surface meshes; creating boundary solid meshes for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070097118 - Apparatus and method for a frustum culling algorithm suitable for hardware implementation: A method and apparatus for a frustum culling algorithm suitable for hardware implementation. In one embodiment, the method includes the separation of coordinates of a normal vector of each frustum plane of a frustum view into positive normal coordinates and negative normal coordinates. In one embodiment, the separation of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070097119 - Realistic video color display: A computer-implemented method for displaying on a color display device a realistic color of a paint coating comprising the following steps: (A) identify L*, a* b* color values at at least three different angles for a paint coating from a data base; (B) convert the at least three angle L*,... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070097120 - Determining appearance of points in point cloud based on normal vectors of points: A method relating to a point cloud includes defining a line of sight of a point cloud on a display of a computer, estimating a normal vector for at least one point of the plurality of points, and determining the appearance on the display of at least one point of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070097121 - Resolution-independent surface rendering using programmable graphics hardware: Surfaces defined by a Bézier tetrahedron, and in particular quadric surfaces, are rendered on programmable graphics hardware. Pixels are rendered through triangular sides of the tetrahedra and locations on the shapes, as well as surface normals for lighting evaluations, are computed using pixel shader computations. Additionally, vertex shaders are used... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070097122 - High rate line-by-line calculation method and program by forked line type resolution: The invention offers a calculation method and program capable of performing line-by-line calculations using a Voigt function at speeds of 50-100 times what is conventional. The Voigt function is divided into a first range around the peak and a skirt portion not contained in the first range. The first range... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070097123 - Resolution-independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware: A shape defined partially be a Bezier curve is rendered through a GPU-implemented technique which determines for various screen points which side of the curve the points lie on. This is done in the particular case of cubic Bezier curves for shapes defined by the Bézier control points of the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070097124 - Personalized chinese character system: The present invention relates to a personalized Chinese character system capable of enabling the user to input a personalized Chinese font into a computer. The font can be processed using technologies and saved as a personalized font file. The user can then use the personalized font to create a document... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070097129 - Animation reproduction terminal, animation reproducing method and its program: When reproducing animation data stored in a data storing section (11), a data evaluation section (21) evaluates the complexity of the animation data before reproducing the animation data, and judges whether or not an animation reproducing section (12) can reproduce the animation data without problem. When the data evaluation section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070097128 - Apparatus and method for forming scene-based vector animation: An apparatus for forming scene-based vector animation includes: an animation component database which stores vector information for basic animation components, a scene listing database which stores scene information for each scene which includes the animation components, an alarm generation unit which generates an alarm at predetermined intervals, an animation manager... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070097125 - Artist directed volume preserving deformation and collision resolution for animation: A computer-based animation method and system for deforming animated characters (people, animals, etc.) using a volume preserving and collision resolution process for the animation. Parts of a character are deformed by a soft mesh deformation to emulate skin deformation due to flesh and muscle movement driven by the rigid body... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070097127 - Method of executing game function in wireless terminal: A method of executing an avatar game with at least one wireless terminal, which includes the steps of setting a communication link with the at least one wireless terminal and transmitting/receiving information on avatars to be applied to the avatar game if a key of the avatar game is input... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070097126 - Method of transmutation of alpha-numeric characters shapes and data handling system: A method for constructing of human readable animated alpha-numeric characters from a sequentially arranged graphical alpha-numeric characters shapes adaptable for processes by a data handling and transfer system is disclosed in this invention. The method includes the steps of: (a) defining a plurality of transmuted graphical shapes representing characters of... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20070097131 - Display and operation device: In an inventive display and operation device, unit data to be transferred at a time for data transmission from the main body (2) to the display and operation portion (3) differs in size from unit data to be transferred at a time for data transmission from the display and operation... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070097130 - Multi-user terminal services accelerator: A multi-user host computer system comprises a host computer that processes applications and the desktop environments for multiple remote terminals. The host computer includes a terminal services offload processor to supplement the processing of the host CPU. For each remote terminal, the terminal services offload processor may improve the video... Agent: James Eppa Hite, Iii

20070097132 - Virtualization of graphics resources: Graphics resources are virtualized through an interface between graphics hardware and graphics clients. The interface allocates the graphics resources across multiple graphics clients, processes commands for access to the graphics resources from the graphics clients, and resolves conflicts for the graphics resources among the clients.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070097133 - Virtualization of graphics resources: Graphics resources are virtualized through an interface between graphics hardware and graphics clients. The interface allocates the graphics resources across multiple graphics clients, processes commands for access to the graphics resources from the graphics clients, and resolves conflicts for the graphics resources among the clients.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070097134 - Systems and methods of testing micro-electromechanical devices: An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provides greater flexibility. Electronic hardware can be field reconfigured to accommodate different display formats and/or application functions. An... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070097140 - Full screen anti-aliasing with dynamic filters: A method and apparatus for improving the quality of a computer-generated image including a number of different objects. The apparatus includes a graphics display system with means to identify objects to be rendered into a graphic display as either ones to which anti-aliasing is to be applied, or ones to... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070097136 - Method and apparatus for filtering the display of vectors in a vector image: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method retrieves a vector image from a device. The vector image illustrates the device and comprises a number of embedded handles, each handle of which is associated with a set of vectors in the vector image. The method proceeds with parsing the vector image in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097139 - Method and apparatus of primitive filter in graphic process applications: This invention discloses an apparatus and a method for a primitive filter. The primitive filter apparatus is used in graphic process and is applied in Graphic Process Unit. The primitive filter apparatus at least comprises a storage unit and a filter unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of input... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070097137 - Utilities, methods and device providing vector images that may be updated to reflect the status of a device: In one embodiment, in response to receiving an image request, a computer-implemented method 1) retrieves a vector image from a device that is a target of the image request, the vector image illustrating at least a portion of the device, and 2) retrieves status information for the device. The vector... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097135 - Utility, method and device providing vector images that may be updated to reflect the physical states of configurable components of a device: In one embodiment, in response to receiving an image request, a computer-implemented method 1) retrieves a vector image from a device that is a target of the image request, the vector image illustrating at least a portion of the device; 2) retrieves physical state information for a configurable component of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097138 - Virtual view tree: A virtual view tree for representing a document. A virtual view tree is maintained by an application, rather than a renderer (e.g., graphics rendering library) called upon by the application to display the document. The view tree is virtual in that nodes need not be created until they are to... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20070097141 - Primitive edge pre-filtering: A computer graphics system renders an image using forward texture mapping. Image pixels form a pixel grid in a screen space. Objects of the image are modeled by primitives. A texture memory (134) stores a texture map with texels forming a texel grid in a texture space. A rasterizer (120)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070097142 - Resampling chroma video using a programmable graphics processing unit to provide improved color rendering: A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream is decoded. After decoding the compressed image is separated into an image representing the luminance and an image representing the chroma. The chroma image is resampled as... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070097143 - Application of variable opacity (image alpha) to power and probability distributions superimposed on cartographic displays: A system and method are disclosed for superimposing data on an image using a variable opacity that is based upon variations in the numerical values of the data to be superimposed. This allows for representing data most prominently where it the values are higher, while still providing a clear view... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070097144 - Resampling individual fields of video information using a programmable graphics processing unit to provide improved full rate displays: A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each interlaced video field is resampled to provide full resolution and then displayed at full rate. The field pixel values are resampled as appropriate using the GPU to provide values corresponding to the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070097145 - Method and system for supersampling rasterization of image data: A sample-sharing pattern covering a set of pixels for use in an anti-aliasing system where each pixel has a pattern of sample points. A first sampling point is provided at a corner of the pixel, and second and third sampling points are provided at separate borders of the pixel, which... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070097146 - Resampling selected colors of video information using a programmable graphics processing unit to provide improved color rendering on lcd displays: A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream is decoded and converted to RGB values. The R and B values are resampled as appropriate using the GPU to provide values corresponding to the proper, slightly... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070097147 - Dynamic image editing system, the same apparatus and mobile device: In a moving image editing system, when a recorded encoded image file is to be edited, an editing process or a decoding process for editing is executed for an encoded image file with a low process load recorded for editing or corresponding editing information, to reduce a consumption power of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070097148 - Layout system, layout program, and layout method: A system is provided that sets reference points or lines in a layout region and arranges a layout element in the layout region using the positions of the reference points or lines as reference positions. The system includes: a unit storing reference position information defining positions of the reference points... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070097149 - Utility, method and device providing vector images that may be updated to reflect the presence of removable components of a device: In one embodiment, in response to receiving an image request, a computer-implemented method 1) retrieves a vector image from a device that is a target of the image request, the vector image illustrating at least a portion of the device; 2) retrieves component presence information for a removable component of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070097151 - Behind-screen zoom for handheld computing devices: A portable computing device provides behind screen zooming. A display screen is disposed upon a frontal surface of the portable computing device. A rear-mounted manual control is disposed upon a rear surface of the portable computing device and is positioned at a location directly behind at least a portion of... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070097150 - Viewport panning feedback system: A graphical user interface (GUI) displaying a viewport includes a panning control region defined within an outer boundary of the viewport within the GUI. The panning control region includes multiple segments, each of the multiple segments corresponding to a panning direction, wherein a panning rate is indicated by a level... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070097152 - Display device driving circuit: The present invention provides a driving circuit capable of reducing power consumption in an amplifier for outputting a target voltage. A driving circuit for driving a capacitive load Ccol of a display device, comprising: driving signal supplying means (10) for supplying a driving signal Vin having a target voltage to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070097153 - Image display apparatus and driving method thereof: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an image data processor detecting a first region from first image data input from an external source, adjusting a brightness of the first region and generating second image data; and a display device for displaying the first region on a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP