Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 06/07

20070146233 - Driving method of three-dimensional display device: P

20070146237 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus having a displaying part, includes a video processing part to process an input video signal into a format which can be displayed on the displaying part, and a controlling part to determine whether a video image displayed on the displaying part is a still image, and if... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070146256 - Light emitting device: A light emitting device includes a time delay mechanism in electrical connection with a power source for time shifting at least a portion of a power signal outputted by the power source and a plurality of light emitting units formed by at least a light emitting diode (LED)structure, each light... Agent: Alexander R Schlee SchleeIPInternational P.C.

20070146259 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device including a main cell comprising a first substrate having a gate line, a data line, a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a black matrix and a color filter layer; and a first liquid crystal... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070146262 - Liquid crystal display meter apparatus: The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display (LCD) meter apparatus having a small influence of a residual image of a pointer. The LCD meter apparatus for displaying a dial plate and a pointer includes a moving-speed calculating device for calculating the moving-speed of the pointer; and an... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070146260 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display: An the driving method and apparatus including a liquid crystal display panel provided with a plurality of data lines; a brightness detector to detect a black brightness component and a white brightness component of data supplied to the plurality of data lines; a controller to compare magnitudes of a black... Agent: Mckennal Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070146267 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a display cell having a plurality of sub-pixels to make a single image or dual images, and a control cell for passing through the single image, and guiding a first image of the dual images toward a first direction and a second image of the dual... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070146268 - Method of realizing images in a portable display apparatus: A method of realizing images in a portable display apparatus including a camera module and an LCD monitor includes the steps of: converting three primary lights, which are realized by the camera module, into a first tri-stimulus value; converting the first tri-stimulus value into a second tri-stimulus value through a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070146273 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed to obtain rapid response speed and to enhance picture quality, in which the apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that includes liquid crystal cells formed in areas defined by gate and data lines; a gate driver that supplies a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070146271 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a first polarizer and a second polarizer respectively disposed at the upper side and at the lower side of the liquid crystal panel, and a light path control film disposed at an outer side of the first polarizer to redirect... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070146283 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display system is provided where a light irradiated onto each pixel provided at a liquid crystal display panel can be divided for each frame interval to selectively transmit and absorb the divided light. A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a timing... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146231 - Display drive device, display signal transfer device, and display device: A receiving circuit receives one or plural first signals involving display from the outside through an input unit. A first transmitting circuit transmits one or plural second signals relevant to the first signal from the first output unit. A second transmitting circuit transmits the second signal from the second output... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070146232 - Creating a depth map: A method of generating a depth map (122) comprising depth values representing distances to a viewer, for respective pixels of an image (100), is disclosed. The method comprises: computing a cost value for a first one of the pixels (108) of the image by combining differences between values of pixels... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146234 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes an image display configured to output image light which arrays a plurality of pixels and has polarization, a lens array arranged in front of the image display, configured to function as lens at light which has a 1st polarization direction, and not to function... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070146235 - Navigation system utilizing portable and adjustable heads up display: A navigation system with a portable heads up display (HUD). The HUD comprises a housing rotably mounted on a stand. The housing holds a device for generating an image that can be projected onto a vehicle windshield, for example a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) module. Preferably, the navigation system is... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20070146236 - Systems and methods for brightness preservation using a smoothed gain image: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for brightness preservation using a smoothed gain map.... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc

20070146238 - Fluidic display apparatus: A display device uses the presence or absence of a pigmented fluid in a pixel to indicate pixel state. Fluid flow to or extraction from individual pixels is controlled through manipulation of row and column fluid pressures. A pixel wall opposite a viewer may be provided with a background color... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20070146239 - Driver device of plasma display panel: To improve the power recovery rate of a driver device of a PDP. An output buffer circuit 10 is constituted by a totem-pole circuit where two NchMOS transistors Q1 and Q2 are cascade-connected, and the connection point (VOUT) of the two MOS transistors are connected to a data electrode C0... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070146240 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a scan driver. The scan driver supplies a first set-down voltage of a set-down pulse during a reset period, a scan voltage of a scan pulse... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070146241 - Method of driving field emission display: A method is applied on a display device. The display device includes a matrix of electron-emitting elements, an array of anodes, and an enclosure configured to maintain substantially vacuum space between the matrix of the electron-emitting elements and the array of anodes. The method of driving the display device includes... Agent: Nongqiang Fan

20070146246 - Current drive-type display apparatus and camera: A display apparatus capable of preventing thermal deterioration of an organic EL layer to improve a reliability without increasing a frame area thereof includes a display area, a circuit and wiring area, a pixel circuit common supply line, a contact hole, an external connection terminal, and an adhesion area. In... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146245 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes, on a substrate, an area in which a plurality of constituents each including a light-emitting device and a device control circuit for controlling current passing through the light-emitting device is disposed, a common interconnecting line disposed to surround a periphery of the area, a terminal portion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146244 - Display device: A display device that displays an image on a display screen includes plural light emitting members arranged along the display screen. The light emitting members emit light along a longitudinal direction thereof, and are coupled so that the light emitting members can be rolled around center of axis parallel to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070146250 - Display device: To provide a display device capable of allowing a light emitting element to emit light with a constant luminance while being free of an influence of deterioration over time and capable of accurate gradation display and high-speed writing of signal current to each pixel as well, in which an influence... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070146251 - El display apparatus, driving circuit of el display apparatus, and image display apparatus: The EL display apparatus according to this invention is provided with an EL light emitting element, a current driving device for driving the EL light emitting element by a current responsive to a source signal represented by a current, and a signal current source (634) for outputting the source signal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070146248 - Flat panel display: A flat panel display includes a plurality of pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes a light emitting device, a driving device to drive the light emitting device, and a storage device to store pixel data for controlling the driving device. The display includes a plurality of switches external to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070146242 - High resolution display for monochrome images with color highlighting: A flat panel display capable of presenting high resolution monochrome images in a desired first color and highlight images in at least a desired second color different from the first color, comprising a plurality of pixels each comprised of only two individually addressable differently colored sub-pixel elements, wherein the two... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070146247 - Organic light emitting display: A display having voltage-driven organic light-emitting pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit includes an organic light-emitting diode, a data writing circuit, a capacitor, three transistors, and a switch. The pixel circuit can compensate the threshold voltage variations of low temperature poly silicon thin film transistors. This increases the stability of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070146249 - Signal line driver circuit and light emitting device and driving method therefor: The variation of characteristics of transistors occurs. The present invention is a signal line drive circuit having a plurality of current source circuit corresponding to a plurality of wirings, a first and a second shift registers, a latch circuit, the foregoing plurality of current source circuits have capacity means and... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070146243 - Variable-sized screen: A variable-sized screen includes a support, at least one scrolling device and a flexible display. The support has a fixing frame and a movable frame, which are retractably connected. The scrolling device and the flexible display are assembled on the support. The flexible display is wrapped around the support, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146252 - Electroluminescent display brightness level adjustment: An electroluminescent display system, comprising: a) a display composed of an array of regions, wherein the current to each of the regions is provided by a pair of power lines and wherein each region includes an array of light emitting elements for emitting light; b) a pixel driving circuit for... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070146253 - Method and device for brightness stabilization in amoled display: A driving system is used in an active matrix display device to adjust the data line signal voltage level based on the voltage drop in the power supply so as to maintain the voltage potential between the gate terminal and the source terminal of a driving TFT to a certain... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070146254 - Light emitting device: A display device in which characteristic change of an organic light emitting layer due to deterioration or temperature change can be detected to keep the constant luminance of a light emitting element is provided. A monitor region is provided in addition to a pixel portion for display. A plurality of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070146255 - Organic light emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, a display unit formed on the first substrate, and a film disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising an opening in a region corresponding to the display unit.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070146257 - Motion-blur compensation in backlit displays: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. The screen is illuminated with light from a light source comprising an array of controllable light-emitters. The controllable-emitters and elements of the light modulator may be controlled to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070146258 - Digital micromirror device and method of driving digital micromirror device: A spatial light modulation device capable of displaying a large number of gray scales is provided. The inventors of the present invention proposed a spatial light modulation device having: a first structure in which a switching transistor and an erasure transistor, each having its gate electrode connected to a different... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070146263 - Common voltage adjusting circuit for liquid crystal display: A common voltage adjusting circuit (200) includes a delta adder (21), a sigma adder (22), a sigma latch (23), and a quantization circuit (24). The delta adder includes a first input terminal configured for receiving a binary signal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The sigma adder includes... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146265 - Display device: Display bright in contrast can be obtained without discrination and flicker in the display device of the direct vision type whose pixel pitches are short to 20 μm or less. A liquid crystal panel is driven through the frame inverse driving method, and the vertical frame frequency is set to... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070146264 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) including a LCD panel having optically compensated birefringent (OCB) mode liquid crystal (LC) cells, each OCB mode LC cell being associated with a gate line and a data line, and a LCD panel driver for applying an impulse voltage for a predetermined period within a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070146261 - Semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device and portable terminal device: A liquid crystal display element accommodates a reflective portion provided with a concavo-convex reflecting pixel electrode for reflecting incident light from the display face side and displaying information, and a transmissive portion provided with a transmissive pixel electrode for transmitting light that is output from the backlight. The voltages applied... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070146266 - Display characteristics calibration method, display characteristics calibration apparatus, and computer program: A liquid crystal display monitor comprises an LCD panel, a conversion section, an LUT, a monitor communication section, a light source control section, and a light source. The conversion section comprises an LUT. The LUT comprises, for example, an LUT for red, an LUT for green, and an LUT for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146270 - Dot inversion on novel display panel layouts with extra drivers: Dot inversion schemes are disclosed on novel display panel layouts with extra drivers. A display panel comprises substantially a plurality of a subpixel repeating group comprising an even number of subpixels in a gate direction, wherein at least one set of adjacent column of same colored subpixels share image data... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070146269 - Image display device and image display method: Provided are an image display device and an image display method capable of reducing the number of signal lines connected between a driver IC and a liquid crystal display portion and of displaying a preferable image. A liquid crystal display portion is divided into 16 division groups in a scanning... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146274 - Display device: A display device for use in compact portable devices is configured for assigning gray levels according to the pixel area ratio and, further includes a digital-to-analog (D-A) conversion circuit for converting digital data to gray-level voltage or analog signals. This configuration reduces the size of the circuit for D-A conversion,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070146272 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same are provided. A liquid crystal display device includes a driving circuit that includes a data driver that is inputted with a m-bit data signal. The data driver is operative to extract a n-bit data signal from the m-bit data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146276 - Active matrix liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary active matrix LCD (200) includes an LCD panel, a gate driver (211), a data driver (212), and a voltage compensating circuit (240). The LCD panel includes a plurality of gate lines (221) and a plurality of data lines (222) crossing the data lines to define a plurality of... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146277 - Display device: A display device including: pixels disposed where scanning lines and signal lines intersect, wherein each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode, a switching element, and a storage circuit interposed between the pixel electrode and the switching element for storing data to be written in the pixel electrode; and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070146275 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other to define liquid crystal cells, a first switching element in each liquid crystal cell connected to a data line, a second switching element in each liquid crystal cell connected to... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070146278 - Liquid crystal display panel and driving method therefof: A liquid crystal display panel and its driving method are provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a plurality of scanning lines and data lines; a pixel matrix having a plurality of pixels which are formed in the intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines; and each of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070146279 - Display device: An afterimage produced when a hold response display is used in an I/P conversion display mode is reduced. This is achieved by a display device comprising: a plurality of drain electrode lines and a plurality of gate electrode lines arranged in a matrix; and pixel areas, each surrounded by two... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070146280 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (20) includes: a plurality of parallel scan lines (21); a plurality of parallel data lines orthogonal to the scan lines (22); a plurality of pixel electrodes (25); a plurality of thin-film transistors (23) each positioned near a crossing of a corresponding scan line and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146281 - Display device and driving method of display device: Disclosed herein is a display device using a field inversion driving system, the display device being formed by arranging pixels each including an electrooptic element in a form of a matrix and inverting polarity of a display signal to be written to each of the pixels in field periods, the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070146284 - Interface idle terminal processing method and interface device employing same: An interface device is provided which is capable of eliminating the need for mounting an external resistor and of reducing manufacturing costs for the interface device. An internal resistor and a PMOS (p-channel Metal Oxide semiconductor) switch are serially connected between a non-inverted input terminal of an LVDS (Low Voltage... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070146282 - Liquid crystal device displaying and sensing images and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal device and method for displaying and sensing images are provided. According to one embodiment, the liquid crystal device includes a sensing part to sense an image in a scan mode of the liquid crystal device, the sensing part including at least one charging element which is charged... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146285 - Voltage adjusting circuit and method of liquid crystal display panel: An exemplary voltage adjusting circuit (100) of an LCD panel includes a first input port (1), a second input port (2), a database (3), a voltage adjusting unit (4), a first buffer (6), a second buffer (7), a first output port (8), and a second output port (9). The database... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146290 - Device for driving a display panel: A display device includes a scanning line drive circuit, which includes plural stages of Dtype of flip-flops (DFFs) connected in cascade. The first DFF stage receives a pixel signal of video data to be displayed. These DFF stages have outputs respectively connected to AND gates. The DFF stages and AND... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070146288 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A display device according to the present invention includes a pixel array including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other to define pixel regions and a plurality of first thin film transistors near the crossings, the first thin film transistors supplying pixel voltages... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070146291 - Active matrix liquid crystal display and driving method: An exemplary active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes a plurality of alternate first gate lines (23) and second gate lines (33) that are parallel to each other and that each extend along a first direction, a plurality of alternate first data lines (24) and second data lines (34)... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146286 - Apparatus and method for driving lcd: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a controller for controlling division and latch of data, and controlling the sampling of the divided data. A data driver divides input digital data into a number of digital data under control of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146287 - Apparatus and method for driving lcd: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a controller for controlling division and latch of data, and controlling the sampling of the divided data. A data driver divides input digital data into a number of digital data under control of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070146289 - Shift register and display device having the same: A shift register includes a plurality of stages connected to one another to sequentially generate output signals. Each of the stages has a plurality of output terminals, and each of the output terminals is connected to at least two gate lines and outputs a first output voltage alternately to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070146292 - Timing control circuit and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) includes an LCD panel (24), a timing control circuit (21), a plurality of gate drivers (23) connected to the LCD panel, and a plurality of data drivers (22) connected to the LCD panel. The timing control circuit includes a plurality of reduced swing... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146293 - Lcos integrated circuit and electronic device using the same: An LCOS IC and electronic device using the same is provided. The electronic device comprises an LCOS IC, a processor and a cooler. The LCOS IC comprising a temperature sensor embedded in the LCOS IC for sensing a temperature and outputting a temperature sensing signal according to the temperature. The... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070146298 - Led backlight apparatus with color deflection remove at periphery thereof: The invention relates to a direct backing type LED backlight apparatus which supplies a white light source by mixing monochromatic LEDs to a display device. The backlight apparatus includes a first LED row composed of red LEDs disposed adjacent to opposed peripheries of a substrate with green, blue and red... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070146299 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display includes a driver circuit configured to generate at least one liquid crystal driving pulse and at least one backlight driving pulse. The liquid crystal driving pulse includes a normal data signal and a blanking signal, and the backlight driving... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070146294 - Adjusting the refresh rate of a display: In a method for adjusting a refresh rate of a display, a current status of at least one lighting criterion is determined. The refresh rate is then adjusted depending on this determined status. A display module and an electronic device, respectively, comprise a display and a processing component adapted to... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070146297 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display using the same: This invention relates to a backlight unit that is adaptive for reducing light loss caused by an intermediate light guide panel and reducing sag of the intermediate light guide panel. A backlight unit may include a bottom cover where a reflection plate is formed, a plurality of light emitting diodes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146295 - Circuit and method for improving image quality of a liquid crystal display: where Hsync is the frequency of the horizontal synchronization signal in unit of (Hz); flamp is the lamp driving frequency for the lamp driving signal in unit of (Hz); m, n=1, 2, 3, . . . , an integer; and δ indicates the permissible error of the lamp driving frequency.... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070146302 - Display device and brightness self-adjusting method therefor: An exemplary display device (400) includes a display module (430), an integrated power supply (410), a display control circuit (420), a safe control circuit (465), a second power supply (460), a first sensor (425), and a second sensor (435). The integrated power supply is configured to provide electric energy to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146300 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof for adjusting refresh rate and luminance according to that of ambient light: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal (LC) panel (210), a gate driving circuit (220) for scanning the liquid crystal panel, a data driving circuit (230) for providing a plurality of gradation voltages to the liquid crystal panel, an photo sensor (250) configured for measuring a frequency... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146296 - Liquid crystal display device and fabricating and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel divided into a non-display area and a display area where pixel cells are arranged in a matrix, a backlight for supplying light to the liquid crystal panel, and a photo-sensing device in the non-display area for sensing an external light... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070146301 - Liquid crystal display having a light sensor and driving method thereof for adjusting luminance according to that of ambient light: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) has a liquid crystal panel (240); a gate driving circuit (230) configured for scanning the liquid crystal panel; a data driving circuit (220) configured for providing a plurality of gradation voltages to the liquid crystal panel; a photo sensor (241) configured for measuring a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146303 - Liquid crystal television receiver with liquid crystal panel and its illumination apparatus, liquid crystal display, electric device, liquid crystal projector, and liquid crystal display control method for controlling liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal television receiver reduces the brightness of a backlight which generates light to be passed through a liquid crystal panel and thereby forms an image, to a brightness invisible to human eyes. After the brightness is reduced, a panel signal to the liquid crystal panel is controlled to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070146304 - System and method for achieving optimal display contrast in a mobile communication device: A method is for calibrating a contrast offset value for an LCD contrast control system in a mobile device. The method includes the steps of adjusting a user contrast setting on the mobile device to a desired optimal values initializing the contrast offset value, determining a contrast ratio of the... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

20070146305 - Testing system for liquid crystal display: An exemplary testing system for liquid crystal displays includes a host (1) and a liquid crystal display (2). The host includes a display card (10) having a memory (105). Plural reference data according to a plurality of timing control modes are stored in the memory. The display card controls the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146307 - Portable display device using electrophoretic display: A portable display device includes a flexible electrophoretic display, a circuit board electrically connected to the display, and a base receiving and securing the display and the circuit board therein. The display includes a pair of electrodes for providing an electric field therebetween, and a microcapsule layer positioned between the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070146308 - Addressable brush contact array: An addressable brush contact array comprising oriented conductive fibers attached to addressing electrodes to transfer imagewise charge to or from an array of individual electrodes on a two dimensional surface. The two dimensional surface receiving this charge can be, for example, the writing surface of an electronic paper display or... Agent: John S. Zanghi, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070146309 - Electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display device includes a display element including a pair of first and second substrates which are opposed to each other, and a microcapsule enclosing a display material changed in optical characteristics in response to an electric impulse, the microcapsule being sandwiched between the first and second substrates; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070146310 - Materials for use in electrophoretic displays: The image stability of electrophoretic media, comprising a plurality of particles disposed in a fluid and capable of moving through the fluid upon application of an electric field to the medium, can be improved by including in the fluid either a polystyrene or an aggregating diblock copolymer which forms micelle-like... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070146306 - Transition between grayscale an dmonochrome addressing of an electrophoretic display: The present inventions relates to electrophoretic displays that are switchable between a grayscale updating mode (502) and a monochrome updating mode (501). The monochrome updating mode (501) provides for extreme pixel states only (e.g. black and white), whereas the grayscale updating mode (501) provides for intermediate grayscale pixels states as... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146312 - Interactive control system: The present invention relates to a system for enabling a platform to interact with a user. In a preferred embodiment, data corresponding to body motions of the user is first being detected and recorded by the use of a plural inertial sensing modules, and then the recorded data of body... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070146317 - Haptic devices using electroactive polymers: Haptic feedback interface devices using electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators to provide haptic sensations and/or sensing capabilities. A haptic feedback interface device is in communication with a host computer and includes a sensor device that detects the manipulation of the interface device by the user and an electroactive polymer actuator responsive... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070146315 - Key input device and key input method thereof: According to one embodiment, a key input device and a key input method thereof are disclosed. A key input device 1 is provided which sets a plurality of meanings by the operation with one input key. There are provided both or one of a guard section Gk after a judgment... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070146314 - Method and apparatus for a user interface: A system and method for mixing a data file in a portable electronic device (100), to modify the output of the data file, are provided. The portable electronic device includes a user interface (102), a filtering module (202), and a processing module (204). The user interface is configured to receive... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070146316 - Mobile apparatus having tactile feedback function: A haptic display includes at least one haptic device that can give tactile feedback instead of visible feedback. Each of the haptic devices converts a signal from a signal producing unit into force or tactile pattern. The haptic device does not require a large mass, so that it can be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146313 - Providing input data: Apparatus for covering a portable computer of the type provided with a touch screen as an alternative to a keyboard. A rectangular fabric bag has an opening at one of the smaller ends of the rectangle for receiving the portable computer. The bag includes a fabric surface sensitive to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070146311 - Roller with single piece carriage and open front hook: A roller apparatus for a computer input device, such as a mouse, that has a sturdier support than prior art supports. A scrolling wheel carriage is supported by a PCB for greater stability. An open hook support for the hinge of a wheel carriage angles outward below a retaining point... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146319 - Autonomic control of calibration for pointing device: A computer system includes a computer, a calibration module, an event detection module, and an application interface module. The computer executes one or more applications and receives pointing device events generated by a pointing device connected to the computer. The calibration module modifies a rate of movement of a cursor... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070146320 - Information input system: An information input system includes a projector capable of projecting an operation screen image for making an input operation of information to a computer, and an image pickup device capable of sending picked-up image data acquired by picking up the operation screen image to the computer, wherein, as a predetermined... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070146318 - Pointing device with an integrated optical structure: The present invention relates to a micro-optical pointing device suitable for mobile terminals such as a cellular phone and PDA. A disclosed pointing device includes a light source emitting light rays to a subject; a contact member comprising a lattice type or perceivable pattern, which reflects an image of the... Agent: Venable LLP

20070146321 - Method, apparatus, and medium for suspending repeated signal input using slope variation in tilting interface: A method, apparatus, and medium for suspending repeated signal input using a slope variation in a tilting interface are provided. In the method of suspending a repeated signal input using a slope variation of a hand-held device in implementing a tilting interface of controlling a predetermined signal based on tilting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070146323 - Method for acceleration estimation, acceleration estimating apparatus, and mobile terminal: After finishing extraction of the high-frequency acceleration components and the low-frequency acceleration components, and finishing calculation of the time-rate-of-changes of attitude angles, the rotation contributing acceleration and translation contributing acceleration are estimated based on the high-frequency acceleration components, the low-frequency acceleration components, the attitude angles and the time-rate-of-change of attitude... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070146322 - Method of providing information via a printed substrate and two-mode sensing device: A method of enabling a user to initiate an action via a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data, said coded data being indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate, said method comprising the steps of:... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070146325 - Computer input device enabling three degrees of freedom and related input and feedback methods: Disclosed herein are a system and method for simultaneously reporting changes in location and orientation of an object moving over a planar surface and forming part of a computer input device, interoperably with a conventional mouse where reporting only location is in question. Further the present invention provides improved ways... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070146324 - Multi-function roller apparatus and method for a control device: A roller for a control device includes a roller wheel having an outer portion formed of metal and a corrugated surface; a pivot arm configured to pivot in a first direction to contact the corrugated surface and to pivot in a second direction to move away from the corrugated surface;... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070146326 - Silent computer mouse: The present invention includes a silent mouse with tactile feel for use in association with a computer. The mouse comprises a housing having a lower surface and an upper surface with walls therebetween, to define a chamber for housing the electronic components, and left and right buttons on the upper... Agent: Brian L. Wamsley, Esq. Goodwin Procter LLP

20070146328 - Dustfree and waterproof rolling-ball optical mouse: A dustfree and waterproof rolling-ball optical mouse comprising: a concave housing (1); a rolling ball (3) movably engaged with said concave housing; a dustproof gasket (2) fixed on the concave surface of the concave housing; a leakage hole (22) of a conduit (4) defined in a center of said concave... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070146327 - Optical mouse and an optical structure of the optical mouse: An optical mouse and an optical structure of the optical mouse, wherein the optical mouse comprises a casing, an optical structure and a circuit board. The optical structure is mounted inside the casing. The optical structure includes a lens set, an LED luminous element, a laser luminous element and an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070146329 - Touch keyboard: A touch keyboard is provided, which mainly includes a touch panel to be sensed and actuated by touching with fingers and other objects, so as to execute instructions. A light-emitting display interface is mounted and integrated with the touch panel corresponding to a position sensed on the touch panel, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070146330 - Integrated handheld data processing device having a sliding form factor: A handheld data processing device having three functional components assembled in a sliding configuration. A processor module is mechanically coupled to two sliding covers. The processor module houses circuits for performing the functions of data processing and may also include a display and input/output functionality. The two sliding covers provide... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070146331 - Remote controller and display system: A remote controller device includes a transmitter; a pair of increasing and decreasing keys to increase and decrease a channel by a predetermined width; a switching key which switches the predetermined width corresponding to the pair of increasing and decreasing keys; and a controller which increases or decreases the channel... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146333 - Electronic device and method of usage thereof: The number of operation keys is normally on the order of 12 to 20, corresponding to numeral keys and specialized keys, even for a portable telephone device capable of sending signals to, and receiving signals from, the Internet. In order to input Japanese language characters, including kanji, and specialized characters... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070146332 - Method of emitting color depending on state of mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal using the same: A function of emitting a color depending on a state of a mobile communication terminal is implemented. To do this, a keypad of the mobile communication terminal is illuminated with a color corresponding to a sensed result when a predetermined operation or event occurs. In order to illuminate the keypad... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070146337 - Continuous scrolling list with acceleration: Movement of a point of contact by a user of a touch-sensitive display is determined. In response to the movement, a list of items on the touch-sensitive display is scrolled through. The scroll through is accelerated in response to an accelerated movement of the point of contact. The scroll through... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070146335 - Electronic device and method providing a touch-based interface for a display control: An electronic device and method providing a touch-based interface for a display control is provided. The electronic device includes a display, and a processing unit. The display includes a screen installed with a cursor thereon and a frame attached to the screen. The frame further has a first touch sensitive... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070146347 - Flick-gesture interface for handheld computing devices: A system is provided for wirelessly transferring at least one data file in response to a detection of a flick gesture performed by a user. An electronic device to receive at least one data file from a handheld computing device. The handheld computing device includes (a) a display to display... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070146343 - Input device: The invention relates to an input device, especially for a motor vehicle, wherein the input device comprises a display, a touch screen arranged above the display and having an operating surface, an actuator for moving the touch screen in at least one direction, and a control unit for visually representing... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070146341 - Input device for a motor vehicle: An input device, e.g., for a motor vehicle, includes: a display for the visual representation of an operating element; a touch screen disposed above the display for detecting a touching contact of the touch screen in the region of the operating element; and a control system for displacing the operating... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070146342 - Input device for a motor vehicle: An input device, e.g., for a motor vehicle, includes a display for displaying variable information, and a touch screen, disposed above the display, for inputting instructions by touching the touch screen, and the input device including a control system for generating a selection marking displayable on the display, and for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070146334 - Input device, information processing device, remote control device, and input device control method: An input apparatus 100 has a sensor section 101 that detects whether a pressing operation or a touching operation is being performed on the front surface of a panel with a detected data value that varies when the pressing operation or the touching operation is performed, a position determination process... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146346 - Input unit, mobile terminal unit, and content data manipulation method in mobile terminal unit: A mobile terminal unit that includes: a display section that displays thereon content data; a manipulation section that is provided close to the display section for being in charge of manipulation related to the content data; a pad section that detects the movement of an object on the display section... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070146344 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a display for an electronic device: A display module comprising a display screen; a controller, said controller having an input for receiving information, and an output coupled to said display screen for outputting display information to said display screen; said controller including a component for determining an area of interest on said display screen; and said... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070146340 - Method and system for on screen text correction via pen interface: A system and method for changing data displayed on a touch-sensitive display screen. The present system and method recognize handwritten strokes made with a stylus on the touch-sensitive display screen of a PDA or palmtop computer in order to alter or correct displayed data. In one mode of operation, computer... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070146339 - Mobile apparatus for providing user interface and method and medium for executing functions using the user interface: A mobile apparatus for providing a user interface and method and medium for executing functions using the user interface are provided. The mobile apparatus includes a user interface module sensing a user's touch and providing information regarding the user's touch, and a control module determining a type of mode and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070146345 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a body, an input module, a display device, and a solar charging system. The input module movably connects with the body and comprises an opening. The display device is disposed on the body. When the display device is partially covered by... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070146336 - Soft key interaction indicator: An indication of interaction with a touch-sensitive display is provided. A soft key is displayed on the touch-sensitive display. Contact with the touch-sensitive display corresponding to interaction with the soft key is detected. The periphery of the soft key smoothly changes in optical intensity in response to detecting the contact.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070146338 - Storage medium storing a training program, training apparatus and training control method: A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and a touch panel is provided on the second LCD. A question screen is displayed on the first LCD, and an operation screen for answering the question is displayed on the second LCD. On the question screen, a plurality... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070146348 - Touch-sensitive faceplate with tactile feedback: characterized in that it comprises means (48, 52) for producing a mechanical impulse of a vertical principal orientation on the upper panel (32), when the value of the pressure (F2) is greater than or equal to the threshold value and that is transmitted to the pointing element (30) to generate... Agent: Leon D. Rosen Freilich, Hornbaker & Rosen

20070146349 - Touch input device having interleaved scroll sensors: A touch input device includes two or more interleaved scroll sensors. A common area is interposed between two of the scroll sensors. A sense line snakes through the common area. Scrolling pressure applied to a sense layer causes the sense layer to contact and electrically connect the sense line to... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070146351 - Position input device and computer system: A position input device is provided in which signals are transmitted from a position indicator, and signals transmitted from the position indicator are received by a position detector device. According to certain embodiments, an electrical double-layer capacitor, a charging circuit which charges the electrical double-layer capacitor, and a power transmission... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070146350 - Verifying a written 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 that includes a writing element operable to discharge a marking substance on a surface in response to a movement... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070146352 - Portable device having rotatable input buttons and method of operating the same: A portable device having rotatable input buttons and a method of operating the portable device are provided. The portable device includes a button rotation detecting unit, a User Interface (UI) generating unit and a mode setting unit. The button rotation detecting unit detects the rotation of the input buttons. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070146354 - Data signal line drive circuit, drive circuit, image display device incorporating the same, and electronic apparatus using the same: An image display device includes two data signal line drive circuits and two scan signal line drive circuits configured differently from each other. Different data signal line drive circuits and scan signal line drive circuit are compatible with different display formats. A display can be produced in the most suitable... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070146355 - Driver and display device including the same: Provided are a driver that corrects a distorted image signal and a display device including the driver. The driver includes a control voltage signal generator which converts the voltage level of a control voltage signal according to an external signal, a clock signal generator which generates a clock signal whose... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070146353 - Image driving circuit and image display device using same and related driving method: An exemplary image driving circuit (300) includes a differentiating circuit (326), a random access memory (RAM) (322) connected to the differentiating circuit, a decoder (323) connected to the RAM, and a digital/analog (D/A) converter (324) connected to the decoder. The differentiating circuit receives a still image signal or a moving... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146357 - Light guide and display device incorporating the same: A light guide and a display device incorporating the same are provided. The light guide includes a first surface, a second surface and a lateral surface. The first surface is for receiving a light beam. The second surface is for guiding the light beam and is opposite to the first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070146356 - Method and device for setting or varying properties of elements on a visual display based on ambient light: A method and device for setting or varying properties of display elements on a visual display based on characteristics of ambient light. A light sensor is used to sense ambient light; a processor analyzes the ambient light data from the sensor to determine if there are variations in the characteristics... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20070146359 - Cad apparatus, cad method and recording medium storing cad program thereof: In order to create an appropriate two-dimensional extent so as not to be larger than necessary, for each figure of an object to be designed, a new coordinate system (a relative coordinate system) different from an originally employed global coordinate system is employed for creating a two-dimensional extent. Since a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070146361 - Information delivering method: The information delivering server for providing three-dimensional content is composed of a property information master storage device for storing the property information of the three-dimensional content, a skeleton master storage device for storing the content of invariable components (skeleton), a parameter master storage device for storing parameters, a property information... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20070146360 - System and method for generating 3d scenes: A system comprises memory for storing a 2D background object and a 2D object for a 2D storyboard frame, the 2D background object including 2D background metadata defining attributes of the 2D background object, the 2D object including 2D object metadata defining attributes of the 2D object; a camera module... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070146358 - Three-dimensional display: The invention relates to a three-dimensional auto-stereoscopic display aimed at, but not restricted to domestic television applications. In this display different viewing directions in the horizontal plane are created by projecting an image on a 2D display through lenticular lenses and onto horizontal lines of to the 3D screen. These... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146362 - Automatic drawing creation system: An automatic drawing creation system in which dimension lines required for a two-dimensional drawing are automatically written when the two-dimensional drawing is created from a three-dimensional model. A product specification determination means 10 creates a three-dimensional model which is then held while being associated with its attribute values. After a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070146363 - Leakage path simulation system and leakage path simulation method: A computer reads data from a database in an external recording device to generate an analysis model which represents the surface profile of a member with a mesh. Next, the computer initializes the meshes of the analysis model by setting thereto a gas attribute corresponding to a non-leakage site and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070146365 - Image processing device and method, recording medium, and program: An image processing device, method, recording medium, and program where the device includes an image data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by real world light signals being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements, and a real world... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070146364 - Methods and systems for displaying shaded terrain maps: Methods and systems for a display system for an aircraft are provided. The system includes a moving map display screen configured to display a shaded-relief terrain display representative of an area being traversed by the aircraft, and a light source representation providing shading to the shaded-relief terrain display wherein the... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070146366 - System and method for rasterization order independent line stipple: A method and apparatus for rasterizing a line, including determining a start point and initial line step count of the line, determining a line stipple pattern position and repeat count at each point of the line based on the start point of the line and initial line step count and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070146369 - Animation on object user interface: A system and method for graphically showing the animation order of animated elements in a presentation program or other software. The invention consists of a User Interface (UI) widget which shows the order of the animation in the presentation. This UI employs an animation On Object User Interface (OOUI), or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070146368 - Eye movement data replacement in motion capture: Replacing eye movement data in motion capture, comprising: capturing eye movement data from a first actor subsequent to a motion capture session where motion data for a second actor was captured, wherein the first actor performs to generate only the eye movement data with minimal movement of facial muscles that... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070146367 - System for editing and conversion of distributed simulation data for visualization: A simulation system for generating movie “scenes” that show interactions between simulated entities that populate a synthetic environment used to support training exercises and equipment. The simulation system includes a simulation engine that produces simulated entity state and event data; a visualization suite that allows an editor to display 2-D... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070146370 - Group tracking in motion capture: Tracking a group of motion capture markers in a sequence of frames, comprising: establishing a group relationship among a plurality of motion capture markers in a current frame; and labeling the plurality of motion capture markers in the current frame using the group relationship.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070146371 - Reconstruction, retargetting, tracking, and estimation of motion for articulated systems: A control system and method generate joint variables for motion or posing of a target system in response to observations of a source system. Constraints and balance control may be provided for more accurate representation of the motion or posing as replicated by the target system.... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070146372 - System, method and computer program product for creating two dimensional (2d) or three dimensional (3d) computer animation from video: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention a system, method and computer program product for creating at least a two dimensional or three dimensional (3D) datastream from a video with moving objects is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method of creating animated objects in... Agent: Venable LLP

20070146373 - Graphics processing on a processor core: In a many core system, receiving a call to a graphics driver; translating the call into a command executable on a core of the many core system; and executing the translated call on the core.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070146374 - System and method for creating minimum bounding rectangles for use in a geo-coding system: A method is disclosed for determining a minimum bounding polygon for use in a geo-coding system. A first polygon is received defining a geographic region. A minimal number of points is determined corresponding to the first polygon to define a second polygon at least bounding the first polygon.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070146375 - Buffer control circuit, semiconductor memory device for memory module including the buffer control circuit, and control method of the buffer control circuit: A buffer control circuit, a semiconductor memory device for a memory module including the buffer control circuit, and a control method of the buffer control circuit, in which power consumption can be reduced. The buffer control circuit includes a first control signal generator that generates an internal buffer control signal... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070146376 - Systems and methods of controlling 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

20070146377 - Display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure: The invention concerns a method for displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, involving the following steps: providing the document with an amount of graphic memory to create a buffer memory of the visible part of the document and zones nearest to... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070146378 - Method of and apparatus for processing graphics: A primitive list building unit takes each primitive 80 in turn, determines a location for that primitive, compares the primitive's location with the locations of the sub-regions 51 and the locations of the sets of sub-regions 52, 53 and 54, and allocates the primitive to respective primitive lists for the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070146379 - Osd controlling method of display device for setting shapes of osd menu: An exemplary OSD controlling method of a display device includes: generating a controlling signal and sending the controlling signal to a micro-controller unit (MCU); and setting a shape parameter which is stored in a register and which is represented a shape of a menu of on screen display (OSD) according... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070146381 - Computer graphics processor and method of rendering images: Therefore, a computer graphics processor with a forward mapping renderer is provided. The renderer comprises a texture space rasterizer (TS) for rasterizing a primitive in texture space, a color generating unit (PS) for determining the color of the output of the texture space rasterizer (TS) and for forwarding a color... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070146380 - Differential encoding using a 3d graphics processor: A 3D graphics rendering pipeline is used to carry out data comparisons for motion estimation in video data encoding. Video data for the pixel block of the video frame currently being encoded is loaded into the output buffers of the rendering pipeline. The video data for the comparison pixel blocks... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070146383 - Color uniformity system: A color uniformity system for correcting color uniformity problems that exist with today's display devices. The inventive device includes a device to measure the color uniformity of the display device and software that uses the information from the measuring system to correct the color uniformity problem on the display device.... Agent: Gokalp Bayramoglu

20070146384 - Display and driving method thereof: A display device adapted to minimize brightness deterioration and motion blurring in a motion picture and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device may include a data aligning part that analyzes a gray level of input data and inserts black data into frame data having less than a... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070146382 - Increased color depth, dynamic range and temporal response on electronic displays: A display method and system maps each source image pixel from a source device into several display pixels on a display screen, where the characteristics of the display pixels are selectively controlled to provide desired visual effects such as multiple luminance levels, increased color depth, increased dynamic luminance range and... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070146385 - Method and device for operating a display afflicted with wear: The invention concerns a display (1) afflicted with wear, and to a method for operating a display (1) of this type. In conjunction with the problems associated with the burning in of non-moving images or image elements in wear-afflicted displays, particularly plasma displays, and with the problems associated with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070146386 - Anti-aliased tagging using look-up table edge pixel identification: The teachings provided herein disclose an image processing method for rendering a digital image possessing anti-aliased pixels by selecting a target pixel location within the digital image; observing a set of pixels within a pixel observation window superimposed on the digital image relative to the target pixel location; generating edge-state... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070146387 - Information display system, information display apparatus, and position indicating apparatus: An information display system includes a position indicating apparatus that indicates a position and an information display apparatus that displays information and is connected to the position indicating apparatus so as to communicate with the position indicating apparatus. The position indicating apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects an indicated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070146388 - Method and apparatus for titling: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for presenting computer-generated characters. The method defines several frames for a character and sequentially presents the frames. Each frame depicts a particular representation of the character. Also, at least two of the frames provide different representations of the character. Some embodiments provide... Agent: Adeli Law Group

20070146389 - Methods and files for delivering imagery with embedded data: The present invention is directed to the realistic three-dimensional presentation of images in scenes, and is particularly useful for easily illustrating how artwork would appear on a surface in a scene, such as on a billboard. In one embodiment, image files are provided for use in an imaging application, such... Agent: Steven Vosen

20070146390 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: An operation panel display device (304) presents the state of each virtual object to an observer on the basis of information about the state of each virtual object. An input device (303) or 3D pointing device (302) inputs an operation to change a desired one of the presented states. A... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070146391 - Method of and system for determining inaccuracy information in an augmented reality system: In a method of and a system for determining inaccuracy information (600) in positioning a data model (1) of virtual information in an augmented reality system, the data model (1) is projected to the image plane of a display device (4) for mixing with visual impressions of a real environment.... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070146392 - System and method for magnifying and editing objects: An electronic method for magnifying and editing an object. The method includes receiving an image area defined as a portion of a workspace or image. The method further includes generating an enlarged image based on the image area selected, and a current zoom level; receiving an instruction for activating an... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070146393 - System and method for re-sizing objects: An electronic method for re-sizing an object. The method includes selecting an object for re-sizing, dragging a cursor from a first location to a second location to produce a cursor movement, and re-sizing the object based the cursor movement to obtain a re-sized object. The first location can be designated... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070146395 - Gamma control circuit and method thereof: A gamma control circuit and method thereof, in which the gamma control circuit includes a first gray-scale voltage selection unit that selects and outputs a highest gray-scale voltage and a lowest gray-scale voltage from among a plurality of first voltages present between a first supply voltage and a second supply... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070146394 - Display and driving method thereof: A display device that includes a data modulator for comparing input data of m (m is a natural number of not less than 2) number of frames and inserts any one of black data and gray data in accordance with the comparison result and a driving method thereof are provided.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070139304 - Display panel drive apparatus: A display panel drive apparatus which reduces noise to thereby prevent malfunction. A first switch connects based on pixel data between one of column electrodes of a display panel and a power supply line to which a pulsed supply voltage is applied. A second switch connects between the one column... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070139305 - Method and device for processing video pictures: The invention relates to a method for processing video pictures data for display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements corresponding to the pixels of a video picture. The invention is related to every kind of display devices based on the principle of duty cycle modulation (pulse... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070139307 - Apparatus and method for driving display panel: An apparatus for driving a display panel that applies a power source having at least one level to each of a plurality of electrodes is disclosed. The electrodes are divided into at least two groups and so as to reduce the instantaneous change in current when the electrodes are driven,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070139310 - Electron emission display device and driving method thereof: An electron emission display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The device and method limit a brightness thereof in order to reduce power consumption, and adjust a gamma compensation according to a limit width of the brightness to reduce a gamma compensation deviation, causing an increase in a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070139318 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a light emitting device where a cross-talk phenomenon is not occurred. The light emitting device according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes data lines, scan lines, pixels and discharging circuit. The data lines are disposed in a first direction. The scan lines... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070139319 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a light source unit including light emitting elements halving different wavelengths, wherein n (n is an integer higher that 2) light emitting elements have at least one wavelength; and a light-up controller which drives the light emitting elements having different wavelengths in a time-sequential manner... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139329 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a data analysis unit to analyze image data of an input image data stream for variation of luminance between the image data, a black data processing unit to insert black data into the input image data stream based on the variation of luminance analyzed... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070139340 - Flat panel display: A flat panel display includes pixel circuits, a signal divider for associating portions of the image signal with corresponding portions of the pixel circuits, and timing controller circuitry for receiving the portions of the image signal and outputting corresponding sets of control signals and pixel data, the timing controller circuitry... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070139339 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus and method for automatically sensing and compensating a delay time of a gate signal fed to the LCD display panel. The LCD panel includes a signal converter for generating a power clock signal, a delay controller for generating a delay control signal corresponding to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070139297 - Display apparatus: A display device mounted on an outside device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, a data driver applying a tone voltage through a common data line, and a scan driver applying a scan signal to the first and second display panels through a scan line for each... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070139296 - Extra-monitor control circuit and transmission system for monitor: An extra-monitor control circuit and transmission system for monitor includes an extra-monitor control circuit system having a scaler circuit, an On Screen Display (OSD) circuit, and a DC/DC converting circuit provided thereon. The extra-monitor control circuit system is located at a position outside a monitor and connected to the monitor... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139295 - Extra-monitor control circuit system for monitor: An extra-monitor control circuit system for monitor includes one or more of an OSD circuit, a scaler circuit, and an A/D converting circuit, and a DC/DC converting circuit. The extra-monitor control circuit system is located at a position outside a monitor, and the DC/DC converting circuit converts power supplied from... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139298 - Medical image diagnosis apparatus having a plurality of monitors: A medical image diagnosis apparatus, comprises an image generator, a display, and a mechanism. The image generator is configured to generate a medical image. The display comprises a plurality of monitors and is configured to display the medical image. The mechanism is configured to change an arrangement of the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070139299 - Stacked display with shared electrode addressing: A stacked color liquid crystal display uses shared electrode addressing including a plurality of liquid crystal layers each sandwiched between electrically conductive layers. Adjacent liquid crystal layers share one or two electrode layers located between the adjacent liquid crystal layers. A driving scheme is provided that allows the display to... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070139300 - Electronic brush position detection: The invention provides a method of activating an electronic paint (10). A first embedded position marker (20) in a first portion (14) of an image (12) written onto a first portion of the electronic paint (10) is scanned. A position of an electronic brush (30) is determined based on the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139301 - Charge recovery for enhanced transistor drive: A control circuit for an electro luminescent display in which a flyback converter and an H-bridge are used to provide a high voltage alternating current to a capacitive load from a low voltage DC source. Each time the polarity of the capacitive load is reversed, the capacitive load discharges. This... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070139302 - Image display apparatus: Improved is luminance of an image display apparatus in which a display panel is configured by a matrix wired plurality of electron emitting devices, and long life thereof is tried to be realized. In one select period, a scanning signal is applied to a plurality of scan interconnection. In a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139303 - Plasma display device and control method therefor: A plurality of sub-frames is classified into first-type and second-type sub-frames. In each reset period of the first-type sub-frames, a gradient voltage pulse having an reverse polarity to that of a final gradient voltage pulse is applied between first and second electrodes prior to the final gradient voltage pulse, while... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070139306 - Plasma display panel with simultaneous address drive operation and sustain drive operation: A circuit for driving a plasma display panel which includes first electrodes, second electrodes, and third electrodes extending substantially perpendicular to the first and second electrodes includes a first driver circuit configured to drive the first electrodes, a second driver circuit configured to drive the second electrodes, a third driver... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070139311 - Current feedback-type amoled driving circuit: A current feedback-type AMOLED driving circuit. The current feedback-type AMOLED driving circuit includes a plurality of pixel circuits each having a data terminal for receiving a pixel current command, and a sense terminal for transmitting pixel current to a driver Integrated Circuit (IC), and a plurality of data lines provided... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070139315 - Current load device and method for driving the same: This invention provides a precise current load device. A cell includes a power supply line, a ground line, first and second voltage supply lines, a signal line, first, third and fourth control lines, first to fourth switches, a p-type TFT, a capacitance element, and a current load element. A source... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070139313 - 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 first and second reference voltages depending on upper bits of data and supply the first and the second reference voltages to a first line and a second line, respectively, a se