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 second digital-to-analog converter having the first line and the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070139309 - Electro-optical device and driving method of the same: In the electro-optical device for carrying out an image display by using n-bit (n is a natural number) digital image signals, one pixel incorporates n×m (m is a natural number) memory circuits, and has a function to store the digital image signals for m frames in the pixel (in examples... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070139308 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a light emitting device for preventing cross-talk phenomenon. The light emitting device includes a plurality of pixels and a scan driving circuit. The pixels are formed in cross areas of data lines and scan lines. The scan driving circuit couples at least one scan line... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070139312 - Organic light emitting display device and mother substrate for performing sheet unit test and testing method thereof: The present invention relates to an organic light emitting display device, a mother substrate, and a testing method, in which a sheet unit test is performed by directly supplying a test signal to a display region, rather than passing through a data distributor. The organic light emitting display device includes:... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070139314 - Pixel circuit and organic light emitting diode display device using the same: A pixel circuit of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is provided, which supplies a small current to an organic light emitting diode during stoppage of a display operation. The pixel circuit includes a second driving transistor, which is coupled in parallel with a first driving transistor. A... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070139317 - Led electric circuit assembly: A luminaire comprising an electric circuit element for a lighting system. The electric circuit element comprises an LED electric circuit assembly. The LED electric circuit assembly comprises one or more current regulated LED strings or chains. Each of the LED strings or chains comprises a respective current regulator and one... Agent: Ronald S. Kosie Bcf LLP

20070139316 - Led module with integrated controller: An LED module may include a plurality of LED wafers. Each LED wafer may be capable of emitting light in a different color. The LED module may also include an intelligent controller to control operation of each of the LED wafers. Each of the LED wafers may be integrated with... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070139320 - Active matrix display device: An active matrix display device has column address circuitry for generating pixel drive signals. The column address circuitry has an output buffer for providing a pixel drive signal to a column conductor, and the positive and negative slew rates of the output buffer are different. By selecting the positive and... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139323 - Display system having liquid crystal display device and external image compensative source: An exemplary display system (400) includes an image compensating source disposed in a video source (420), the image compensating source is configured to generate a compensative gray scale voltage signal according to two different images to be displayed by the display system in two sequential frame periods; and an LCD... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139322 - Index identification method and apparatus: The orientation of each index is estimated from a sensed image, and the index detected from the image is identified based on the orientation of an image sensing device and that of the index estimated from the known coordinate information of the index. In this way, indices which are located... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139321 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A sensed image of the physical space is acquired by an image sensing apparatus. One or more indices are detected from the sensed image. A first reliability based on the sensed image and a second reliability based on orientation information of the image sensing apparatus are calculated for each of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070139324 - Transflective liquid crystal display and method for adjusting gamma setting thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (200) includes a transflective liquid crystal display panel (210) having a first substrate (212), a second substrate (214), and a liquid crystal layer (213) disposed between the first and second substrates. The second substrate includes an integrated circuit (28). The integrated circuit includes a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139325 - Adaptive pre-write for colour sequential lcd driving: This invention relates to a system (100) for adaptively driving a coloured liquid crystal display (102) displaying a sequence of images. The system (100) comprises driving electronics (106) for supplying a driving voltage for each pixel in the display (102), a frame memory (116) for storing a first image of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070139326 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display minimizes a gray loss of an image displayed on an RGBW-type display device, and enhances brightness and image quality. The apparatus for driving the LCD device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of unit pixels composed of 4-color... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070139328 - Digital-to-analog converter (dac) for gamma correction: In one aspect, a system provides gamma correction in a thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal-display (LCD). The system includes a resistor network comprising a plurality of resistors coupled in series between a first terminal and a second terminal. The resistor network is operable to provide a plurality of voltage values. A plurality... Agent: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

20070139327 - Dot inversion driving apparatus for analog thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel and method thereof: A dot inversion driving apparatus for an analog thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) panel and the method thereof are disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a control circuit and a source driver IC. The control circuit rearranges the orders and polarities of the grayscale signals of the TFT... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070139330 - Display units, display devices, and repair methods for convering a bright dot to a dark dot in same: A display unit for a display panel. The display unit comprises a switch unit, a liquid crystal capacitance, and a storage capacitor. The switch unit has a control terminal coupled to a scan line, an input terminal coupled to a data line, and an output terminal coupled to a pixel... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070139332 - Driving circuit having static display units and liquid crystal display device using the same: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (1) includes a first substrate (3), a second substrate (2) facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (4) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of scan lines (11); a plurality of first and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139331 - Liquid crystal display, liquid crystal panel, and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines disposed on a substrate in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, pixel electrodes formed at intersecting regions of the data lines and the gate lines, a plurality of erasing signal disposed parallel to the gate... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070139333 - Optical element: The focal distance can be greatly changed by performing an electrical control in an optical element. The optical element comprises a first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate, a second electrode arranged outside the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070139334 - Liquid crystal display apparatus, and apparatus and method of driving the same: A source driver outputs a first data signal to a source wiring of the pixel section during a first time interval of one frame. A source driver re-outputs the first data signal to a source wiring during a second time interval which is delayed from the first time interval by... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070139335 - Liquid crystal display device having data memory units: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (200) includes: a first substrate, the first substrate including a parallel scan lines (201) and parallel data lines orthogonal to the scan lines (202); pixel electrodes (203); switches (211) each positioned near a crossing of a corresponding scan line and a corresponding data line,... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139336 - Array substrate and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same: In an array substrate and an LCD apparatus having the same, the array substrate includes a signal line, a first insulating layer formed on the signal line, and a pixel electrode formed on the first insulating layer and overlapped with the signal line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected with... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070139337 - Display panel driving device for reducing crosstalk and driving method thereof: A display panel driving device capable of reducing crosstalk and a driving method thereof is disclosed. The display panel driving device includes a plurality of source driving units, a NOT gate and a timing controller. The timing controller, through the NOT gate, provides an inversed-polarity control signal for the source... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070139338 - Liquid crystal display driver: A liquid crystal display (LCD) driver has the characteristic that using a voltage-switching control circuit to receive the liquid crystal positive voltage and the segment positive voltage generated by the driving voltage generating circuit. The voltage-switching control circuit respectively switches the liquid crystal positive voltage and the liquid crystal negative... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070139344 - Active matrix liquid crystal display and driving method and driving circuit thereof: An exemplary driving circuit of an active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) (2) having an LCD panel includes a gate driving circuit (22), a data driving circuit (23), a timing control circuit (21), and a detecting circuit (21). The data driving circuit provides a plurality of gradation voltages to the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139345 - Active matrix liquid crystal display and driving method thereof for adjusting refresh rate according to frequency of ambient light: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes an LCD panel (250); a gate driving circuit (240) configured for scanning the LCD panel; a data driving circuit (230) configured for providing a plurality of gradation voltages to the LCD panel; an optical sensor (210) configured for measuring a frequency of... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139342 - Circuit for amplifying a display signal to be transmitted to a repair line by using a non-inverting amplifier and lcd device using the same: A circuit for amplifying a display signal transmitted to a repair line by using a non-inverting amplifier is disclosed, which comprises a voltage follower, a non-inverting amplifier, a repair line, a thin film transistor (TFT) and a liquid crystal (LC) capacitor. The voltage follower is electrically connected to a data... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070139346 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (600) includes a liquid crystal panel, a scanning driving circuit (61), a compensation circuit (68), a control circuit (67), and a signal line driving circuit (62). The liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139341 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device, both of the brightness characteristic and the chromaticity characteristic are set to optimum values. In the liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display panel, a data driver, a scanning driver and a display control circuit, the display control circuit includes a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070139343 - Liquid crystal display panel with photo sensors and method for adjusting reference voltage in the panel: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes scan lines, data lines, a scan driver connected to the scan lines, a data driver connected to the data lines, a controller connected to the scan driver and the data driver, and pixels formed by the scan lines and the data lines.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139350 - Amplification circuit, driver circuit for display, and display: An amplification circuit includes: an amplifier apparatus configured to amplify an input signal and outputting the amplified signal from an output terminal; and a boost circuit which, when a difference between a voltage of the input signal and a voltage at the output terminal is greater than a given value,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070139351 - Circuit devices: The invention provides a circuit device for reducing the number of fabrication processes. A circuit portion 12 provides power supply voltage V10 to a node N0 through a first route 52 and power supply voltage V−5 to the node N0 through a second route 62. The circuit device includes a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070139349 - Driving ic for a display device: A driving IC for a display device that reduces the number of circuits included in a source driver, thereby decreasing the entire chip area of the driving IC. The driving IC drives a panel including a plurality of pixels whose respective gradations are represented by M-bit gradation data, and includes... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070139347 - Method for eliminating residual image in display device: A gate driver circuit for eliminating power-off residual image form a display device is provided. The gate driver circuit comprises a first capacitor, a diode, a second capacitor and a regulator circuit. The first capacitor filters out high frequency surge and high frequency noise of an input voltage. The diode... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139348 - Systems for displaying images: Systems for displaying images are provided. A representative system comprises a signal driving circuit comprising a plurality of shift registers connected in series and controlled only by a first clock and a second clock, generating corresponding driving pulses in turn in response to a start pulse. Each shift register comprises... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139352 - Color lcd with bi-color sequential backlight: In an LCD, a backlight having red, green, and blue LEDs is controlled to generate monochromatic light (e,g., blue) during a portion of a cycle, such as an image frame cycle. During another portion of the cycle, all the LEDs are illuminated to create white light. The color filter in... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070139354 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a data converter for processing first and second data signals, a backlight unit emitting light having a luminance, and a liquid crystal panel supplied with the light. The LCD panel has a first and second region corresponding to the first and second data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070139353 - Liquid crystal display television capable of automatically turning off a backlight source and method therefor: A liquid crystal display television capable of automatically turning off a backlight source is provided, which turns off the backlight source in case of no video signal. The method includes the steps of: (A) selecting a signal source as a working signal source for the liquid crystal display television; (B)... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070139356 - Display apparatus and method of driving the display apparatus: A display apparatus including a plurality of data lines which transmit a data signal received from a data driving unit, a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines, which cross the data lines and are arranged in such a manner that the first gate lines... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070139355 - Display device and automobile having the same: There are provided a display device which consumes little power and which is suitable for displaying multiple contents, and an automotive vehicle having the same. The display device according to the present invention includes a display panel having a first display section and a second display section, and driving circuitry... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070139357 - Flat panel display: An exemplary flat panel display (2) includes a front housing part (20), which has a frame (21) having a button through hole (222) defined in a lower side thereof; a button (221) corresponding to the button through hole, the button comprising a pressing end (2215), at least one claw (2213),... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139358 - Electrophoretic display device and driving method for same: An electrophoretic display device is provided which is capable of preventing an afterimage and an image burn-in. Frames to make electrophoretic elements making up pictures of an active-matrix and a microcapsule-type electrophoretic display device be driven are divided into a plurality of white frames and black frames. The number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139365 - Portable electronic device with a function of displaying a personal favorite computer environment for user: A preferred embodiment of a method of this invention includes the following steps: changing a configuration data pointer of the computer from pointing to the computer configuration data of the computer to pointing to the preferred computer configuration data of the portable electronic device, and simultaneously, the computer changing a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070139364 - Portable input device with a function of displaying a personal favorite computer environment for user: A preferred embodiment of a method of this invention includes the steps of: connecting the portable input device to a computer; changing a configuration pointer of the computer from pointing to computer configuration data of the computer to pointing to a selected computer configuration data of the portable input device,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070139367 - Apparatus and method for providing non-tactile text entry: A non-tactile system and method of text entry on a device is disclosed, comprising capturing printed text as an image using a camera associated with the device, performing optical character recognition on the image to yield text recognizable by the device, and storing the text on the device. In one... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070139360 - Apparatus and method of driving plasma display panel: An apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel for preventing a brightness spot miss-fire and a miss-writing as well as reducing a manufacturing cost are disclosed. In the apparatus, a set-up supplier supplies a rising ramp waveform to scan electrodes in an initialization period, and supplies a positive... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070139372 - Application adaptive mobile terminal: A user interface is presented for mobile devices that provides for efficient and logical movement between applications on the mobile device. Multiple applications may be used simultaneously and interactively. Such uses and data are stored on the device and re-presented to the user at subsequent uses to provide efficiencies in... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC Matters For Cingular Wireless Ii, LLC

20070139371 - Control system and method for differentiating multiple users utilizing multi-view display devices: A system differentiates user controls by arranging a conductive surface in a close approximation to each control. A transmitter is connected to the conductive surfaces. The transmitter emits a unique signal to each conductive surface. Electrodes are arranged in close proximity to users of the controls, and a receiver is... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070139359 - Device for inputting text by actuating keys of a numeric keypad for electronic devices and method for processing input impulses during text input: The aim of the invention is to provide a device for inputting text by a single actuation of a key on a numerical keypad and a method for processing input impulses for portable electronic devices comprising a display. To achieve this, sensors that measure the finger position of the operator... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus, P.A.

20070139368 - Display device capable of quickly switching signal sources and the method thereof: A display device capable of quickly switching signal sources, including a connection interface and an input interface. The connection interface electrically connects a plurality of signal sets. The input interface has a plurality of signal set selection keys corresponding to the signal sets respectively to thereby select a signal source.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070139362 - Health management system for personal computer users: A monitoring and corrective action system for computer users. The system monitors the real-time interactions of a user with a computer workstation's keyboard, mouse, and video display unit to determine the strain induced in the user. The induced strain value also is based upon setting entered by the user indicating... Agent: Knox Patents

20070139361 - Method of manufacturing information display device: A method of manufacturing an information display device having an information display panel, in which display media are sealed between two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139363 - Mobile phone: The present invention provides a mobile phone including a-mobile phone body, a cursor sensor, briefing buttons and briefing cursor interface circuitry. The mobile phone body has a communication microprocessor and a keypad. The cursor sensor disposed on the surface of the mobile phone body, senses and outputs briefing cursor controlling... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139370 - Motion recognition system and method for controlling electronic devices: A motion recognition system and method for controlling electronic devices are disclosed, in which at least a micro inertial sensor, each being arranged at a specific location of a human body, is used to detect and measure a motion of the body so as to correspondently obtain a plurality of... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070139369 - Portable electronic device and method for sharing a common display screen: A portable electronic device with a power saving function includes a portable electronic system, a DSC (Digital Still Camera) system and a transmission interface. The portable electronic system has a first process unit, the DSC system has a second process unit, and the transmission interface is electrically connected between the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139366 - Sharing information between devices: A mobile terminal may include a sensor to sense movement of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may also include logic configured to receive information from the sensor and generate motion-related information based on the received information. The mobile terminal may also include a transmitter to transmit the motion-related information... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070139374 - Pointing device adapted for small handheld devices: A display device having a puck, a display screen, and a controller is disclosed. The puck moves in a puck field of motion on a surface, the field of motion being divided into a pointing region and a function region. The controller determines a position of the puck within the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070139373 - Wireless handheld device and method with remote gui control: A wireless handheld device is disclosed that includes a device housing, a wireless transmitter, such as a short range wireless transmitter, a local display and a housing motion detector that is operative to detect motion of the housing, for example, relative to a surface or other reference point, and outputs... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070139375 - Providing force feedback to a user of an interface device based on interactions of a user-controlled cursor in a graphical user interface: A method and apparatus for providing force feedback to a user operating a human/computer interface device in conjunction with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed by a host computer system. A physical object, such as a joystick or a mouse, controls a graphical object, such as a cursor, within the... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070139376 - Computer mouse: The mouse computer input device (401) only outputs left button switch (109) signals to the application program (321). The mouse body (401) and buttons form substantially hemispherical shape. The mouse buttons are activated with an inward force to the side surfaces of the buttons or a downward force to the... Agent: Paul K Tomita Dergosits & Noah

20070139377 - Cursor control device: A cursor control device for use with a computer system includes a main body, a scroll wheel assembly and a tilt sensing module. The scroll wheel assembly is disposed within the main body, and operable to move in a vertical direction and tilt toward a first tilt direction. The tilt... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070139379 - Pointing device with solid-state roller: A solid-state roller on a pointing device with enhanced features. The solid-state design described herein allows the sensor to be placed on any shape of surface, such as one that has curvature in two directions. In one embodiment, a trench or downward curve contains sensors for detecting finger movement. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070139378 - Wireless computer mouse and presenter having text capability: A wireless computer mouse and presenter for use with a computer or media device has the normal functions of a wireless mouse with the addition of an alphanumeric keypad on its case that allows the user to enter numbers and text into the computer directly from the mouse. The case... Agent: Richard A. Ryan Attorney At Law

20070139380 - Hand-held combined mouse and telephone device: The present invention provides a hand-held combined mouse and telephone device functioned to be operated in a mouse mode for a computer system and a telephone mode for a telephone telecommunication. The hand-held combined mouse and telephone device comprises a telephone body, an optical cursor detection unit, a telecommunication processor,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139381 - Speckle navigation system: One embodiment relates to a laser positioning device for sensing relative movement between a data input device and a surface by determining displacement of image features in a succession of images of the surface. The device forms a single integrated package, which includes a planar substrate and a transparent encapsulant... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20070139382 - Smart soft keyboard: Methods of using a soft keyboard are disclosed. A soft keyboard having one or more soft keys with a symbol displayed on the one or more soft keys is provided. A modifier may be applied to one of the symbols displayed on one of the soft keys by selecting the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070139383 - Touch inductive key: The present invention relates to a touch inductive key, and more particularly to a key that is able to give out a response prompt when senses finger touching it so as to improve the input accuracy and decrease the frequency user required glancing at the key. The key is a... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070139384 - Key input device: A key input device includes a key input section, mode switching section, key backlight, and key backlight lighting control section. The key input section inputs characters by key input in a plurality of character input modes. The mode switching section switches a plurality of character input modes. The key backlight... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070139389 - Button structure: A button structure applied to an electronic device includes a housing, a button plate, a support element and a printed circuit board. The button plate is contained to a central opening of the housing. The central region of the button plate has a first thickness, while two sides of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070139392 - Display apparatus to generate a signal representing a state of battery of input device, and method thereof: A display system includes a display part; an input device to generate a position signal on the display part, a sensor part to receive the position signal from the input device, and a controller to display a warning message when intensity of the position signal from the sensor part is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070139388 - Touch pad structure for notebook computer: An improvement of a touch pad structure for a notebook computer comprises a housing, a printed circuit board, a plurality of keys and a touch pad. The housing downwardly concaves to form a contained groove, and the printed circuit board is installed in the contained groove and has a plurality... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070139390 - Touch screen measurement circuit and method: A touch screen digitizing system comprising a touch screen unit and an analog to digital converter. The touch screen unit includes a first resistive sheet with opposing first and second terminals and a second resistive sheet with opposing third and fourth terminals. The first and second resistive sheets are alternatively... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139396 - Electronic apparatus having pointing device: An electronic apparatus includes a body, and a display that displays information and is foldable over the body, a pointing device that designates an input position and coordinate on the display, and a lock mechanism that locks the display that has been folded over the body, part of the lock... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070139395 - Ellipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070139394 - Flat panel display having touch panel for controlling on screen display thereof: An exemplary flat panel display (1) includes a display unit (10), a touch panel unit (12), and a host (16). The touch panel unit is configured (i.e., structured and arranged) for detecting contact by a stylus or a user's fingertip, recognizing a position of a point of the contact, and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070139391 - Input device: In one aspect, an input device having a flexible display and a three-dimensional sensitive layer for acquiring inputs is provided. The flexible display of the input device is advantageously very thin, pliable and energy-saving. The three-dimensional sensitive layer is embedded behind the display means as a 3D touch panel. Inputs... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070139387 - Linear compensation method for touch control systems: A linear compensation method for touch control systems aims to provide an accurate correction for the depressing electric field that generates signal sources in a touch control system. Through a voltage detection and compensation approach, and after the touch control system has been shipped from the plant with correction done... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20070139385 - Signal processing system: Enhancement of responsiveness of a pressure-sensitive pointing device can be realized without deteriorating the performance for removal of low frequency noises. A voltage corresponding to a strain along an x-axis direction of the pressure-sensitive pointing device (11) is amplified by an operational amplifier (3), passes a switch (SW1), then it... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139393 - Touch panel: A touch panel includes a light-transmissible upper board, a lower board, an upper resistor layer on a lower surface of the upper board, a lower resistor layer provided on an upper surface of the lower board and facing the upper resistor layer with a predetermined space between the resistor layers,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070139386 - Touch screen user interface for digital reprographic device with pop-up menu display: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, and systems for an efficient user interface implemented on a touch screen for a digital reprographic machine. In particular, the touch screen may display various objects, such as icons or command buttons. In response to a user selecting one of these objects,... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP

20070139397 - Touch sensitive projection screen: An optical device and a projection system incorporating same is disclosed. The optical device includes a light management element. The light management element includes an electrically conductive light absorber that is disposed in a display area for controlling a viewing angle of light transmitted through the display area. The conductive... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070139398 - Collapsible stylus: A collapsible stylus (100) is disclosed, which includes at least one spring (202) and a plurality of body panels (204). The at least one spring can be placed along a longitudinal axis of the collapsible stylus. The plurality of body panels can envelope the at least one spring. The plurality... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070139399 - Systems and methods for enabling tablet pc/pen to paper space: A computer system includes an electronic recording system and a pen input device that is suitable for use with forms in a paperless environment and optionally a paper environment. The pen input device may be an inertial type device so that it can be used on virtual writing surfaces and... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070139403 - Visual display driver and method of operating same: A visual display driver (e.g., LCD display driver) includes a memory array and a multiplexer unit therein. The memory array includes a plurality of rows and columns of memory cells and the multiplexer unit includes a plurality of N-to-1 multiplexers. These multiplexers are configured to route display data from N×M... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070139401 - Display with an interactive lighting frame: A display having a lighting frame includes a display portion, a frame and at least a lighting element. The display portion provides contents for viewing. The frame, made of a transparent material, surrounds the display portion and includes a space for containing the lighting element. The lighting element is electrically... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070139402 - Image display control method: In an image display control method for use with a computer system, a main frame and a sub-frame are simultaneously shown on the display. Then, a function menu bar is displayed at an edge of the sub-frame in response to a specific action of a cursor control device of the... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070139404 - Solid-state imaging apparatus: A plurality of pixel sets each of 16 pixels are vertically provided successively one after another. A vertical transfer path 2 has two groups a and b of transfer electrodes 1a, 1b to 16a, 16b. Two like sequence transfer electrodes in the two electrode groups are provided for each of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070139400 - System and method for optimizing display bandwidth: Aspects of a system and method for optimizing memory bandwidth in a video system may comprise examining different combinations of input and output video formats and video processes that occur between the input and output of the video system. For each combination, a desirable memory bandwidth may be determined, where... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070139405 - Apparatus and method of automatically adjusting a display experiencing varying lighting conditions: Disclosed is a means for adjusting color gamut data associated with a digital media file to compensate for changing ambient light conditions at a display screen. Ambient light conditions at the display screen are detected using a light sensor and converted into ambient light data. Alternate color gamut data is... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070139406 - Self light emission display device, power consumption detecting device, and program: Disclosed herein is a self light emission display device includes a buffer memory configured to delay the supply of pixel data to a self light emission panel, a lookup table configured to store all gradation values corresponding to a variable range of the pixel data and electric power values to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070139407 - Determining the convex hull of convex polygons with congruent corresponding angles: The convex hull of two polygons having congruent corresponding angles with the same orientation can be determined by analyzing the relationship of each vertex of one of the polygons relative to its adjacent vertices. More particularly a line may be defined between a selected vertex on one of the polygons... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070139409 - Global illumination filtering methods and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes determining a plurality of illumination modes associated with a plurality of scene descriptors, wherein the plurality of scene descriptors includes a first scene descriptor and a second scene descriptor, determining a first plurality of weights, wherein each weight from the first plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070139408 - Reflective image objects: A method of computer graphics is shown for rendering reflections on surfaces of a three-dimensional object. An environment image to be reflected is determined and a normal vector is computed for at least one reflective vertex of the object; the normal vector is rotated into view-space and an environment map... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070139410 - Data display apparatus, data display method and data display program: A data display apparatus includes: an axis display section that displays an axis indicating a predetermined range on a display section; a data association section that associates a plurality of data with positions on the axis based on attribute information of the data, the plurality of data being different from... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070139411 - Methods and systems for downloading and viewing maps: Embodiments of the present invention comprise a method for transmitting map data, a method for displaying map data, a system for processing and displaying map data, and a method for rendering line segments on a pixel display. A preferred method for transmitting map data comprises receiving, layering, and simplifying map... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070139412 - Automatic font control value determination: Font control value selection is automated by progressively filtering a distribution of font property values until a threshold number of font control values is identified. Font-hinting instructions may be parameterized using these algorithmically determined font control values, which may be derived from measurements of font properties of glyph outlines across... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070139413 - Composite characters font hinting: An auto hinting module defines typographically relevant control points and relative offset constraints for use in composite character generation. Control points in one or more dimensions are defined for each glyph component. The control points may be represented as control points on the outline of the component glyphs, although control... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070139414 - Iteratkively solving constraints in a font-hinting language: The principles of the present invention relate to iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language. A computing system accesses a more complex constraint that can not be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font-hinting language, the more complex constraint constraining at least a portion of the outline. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070139415 - Stroke contrast in font hinting: Stroke contrast is preserved for a range of font sizes and display resolutions using programmatic constraints or “hints”. One implementation of a “font hinting” approach enforces a regularization of stroke weights such that stroke contrast is preserved for font sizes and display resolutions sufficient to render it. Font hinting instructions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070139417 - Method and apparatus for chaining two or more tweens to provide non-linear multimedia effects: An improved method for generating non-linear multimedia effects by employing two or more tweens. Specifically, a second tween mapping is chained to a first tween mapping. A first time signal is received. The first tween is employed to map the first time signal into a second time signal. The second... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070139416 - Method of causing object to take motion using motion data: A first display displays a game image which is generated by perspective transformation of a virtual three-dimensional space. A second display is provided under a touch panel to display an image of a two-dimensional plane excluding a height direction with a player character always placed in a center position. Multiple... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070139418 - Control of animation timeline: A method for controlling an animation timeline comprising the steps of determining the three-dimensional assets of the data in the animation timeline and, if required, converting the data dimensionally, cleaning up the data in the animation timeline, building a mesh for the data in the animation timeline, setting up a... Agent: Alton W. Payne

20070139419 - Method of causing first object to take motion according to positional relationship with second object: When a direction is input through a direction indicating switch of an operation switch unit, a player character of a game, such as, but not limited to, for example a basketball game, moves in the inputted direction while dribbling a ball. When a direction directed toward the position of the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070139420 - Subdividing rotation in a character using quaternion interpolation for modeling and animation in three dimensions: Subdividing rotation between two poses in three dimensions may be accomplished in three parts. First, data defining the two poses is obtained from the animation or modeling interface. Second, a path associated with the two poses is determined. Third, using quaternion interpolation, the roll between the two poses is interpolated... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20070139421 - Methods and systems for performance monitoring in a graphics processing unit: Provided is a system for monitoring the performance in a computer graphics processor having a plurality of pipeline processing blocks in a graphics pipeline. The system includes: performance monitoring logic, configured to gather data corresponding to graphics pipeline performance; a plurality of counting logic blocks, located within the performance monitoring... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139423 - Method and system for multiple gpu support: Supporting multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) comprises a first path coupled to a north bridge device (or a root complex device) and a first GPU, which may include a portion of the first GPU's total communication lanes. A second communication path may be coupled to the north bridge device and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139422 - Switching method and system for multiple gpu support: A system and method for supporting multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) includes a first communication path coupled to a root complex device and a first connection point of a first GPU. A second communication path is coupled to the root complex device and a first set of switches. The first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070139424 - Dsp system with multi-tier accelerator architecture and method for operating the same: In a DSP system, a processor accesses a plurality of accelerators arranged in a multi-tier architecture, wherein a primary accelerator is coupled between the processor and a plurality of secondary accelerators. The processor accesses at least one of the secondary accelerators by sending an instruction with ID field for the... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070139425 - System and method for analyzing multiple display data rates in a video system: Certain aspects of a system and method for handling video data may comprise determining data rates associated with each of a plurality of destination devices utilized for processing video data in a video processing system that supports multiple display data rates. A data rate associated with a first portion of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070139426 - Apparatus, system, and method for graphics memory hub: A memory hub permits a graphics processor to access random access memories, such as dynamic random access memories (DRAMs). In one implementation, the memory hub permits an increase in effective memory bandwidth by aggregating the memory of two or more memories. In another implementation, the memory hub permits a graphics... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070139427 - Information processing apparatus and operation speed control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processor, a display controller which executes a graphics arithmetic process of drawing frames in a video memory in accordance with a drawing request from the processor, and executes a screen refresh process of updating a display screen of a display... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070139428 - Address generator for an interleaver memory and a deinterleaver memory: Method and device for generating an address value for addressing an interleaver memory. Consecutive address fragments to which a most significant bit(s) is to be appended are generated. Only a fraction of the address fragments generated, which potentially will exceed a maximum allowable value, is compared to the maximum allowable... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070139429 - Normalization of vector-based graphical representations: In order to convert graphical content to a canonical format, the graphical content is separated into linear and filled polygonal planes. Linear features in the linear plane are decomposed into line segments having a canonical line segments ordering. Polygonal features in the polygonal plane are decomposed into trigons having a... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070139430 - Rendering \"gadgets\" with a browser: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating and displaying a graphical item. An interface component can facilitate receipt of data related to the graphical item associated with an operating system. An enhancement component can leverage a browser to generate the graphical item with an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070139432 - Accelerated statistical rendering methods and apparatus: A method for a computer system includes performing rendering operations for a plurality of scenes to form a plurality of intermediate rendering data in response to a plurality of scene descriptor data associated with the plurality of scenes, processing the plurality of intermediate rendering data to form a model for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070139434 - Component surface with three-dimensional surface texture and method for the creation of a component surface with three-dimensional surface texture: This invention relates to a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. This invention further relates to a method for the creation of a component surface (side section 1a), in particular a vehicle surface, with a three-dimensional surface texture. To keep the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070139435 - Data structure for texture data, computer program product, and texture mapping method: The present invention has as an object to propose a texture mapping method which enables smooth shading, and is also appropriate for conserving memory resources. In order to achieve this object, in this invention, data regions with different color tones are set so as to form density gradients in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070139433 - Methods and apparatus for determining high quality sampling data from low quality sampling data: A method for a computer system includes determining a plurality of illumination modes associated with a plurality of scene descriptors, wherein the plurality of scene descriptors includes a first scene descriptor and a second scene descriptor, determining a first plurality of weights, wherein each weight from the first plurality of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070139431 - Texture resampling with a processor: A system, a method and computer-readable media for performing texture resampling algorithms on a processing device. A texture resampling algorithm is selected. This algorithm is decomposed into multiple one-dimensional transformations. Instructions for performing each of the one-dimensional transformations are communicated to a processing device, such as a GPU. The processing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070139436 - Digital content creation system, program product, and storage medium: There is disclosed a digital content creation system including: a representative color obtaining section that obtains, from a digital content input, a characteristic amount of at least one representative color for the digital content input, the digital content input including a plurality of digital content sets and coloration information indicative... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070139437 - Oled display with improved power performance: An OLED display for producing a full color image, comprising a plurality of at least four different colored pixels including three different colored addressable gamut-defining pixels and a fourth addressable within-gamut pixel, each pixel having an organic light-emitting diode with first and second electrodes and one or more organic light-emitting... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070139438 - Aggregation of non-linear pixel effects: A system, a method and computer-readable media for applying curve effects to a digital image. Multiple curve effects are selected to be aggregated. The curve effects are applied to test pixel values. The outputs from this application are used to generate an aggregated look-up table. The aggregated look-up table is... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070139439 - Apparatus and method for converting preference color: An apparatus and method are provided for converting a preference color, in which the color space of a preference color selected by a user is divided into a plurality of sub-regions according to color distribution characteristics, and the colors of the respective regions of an input image corresponding to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139440 - Method and system for rendering polygons having abutting edges: A method for rendering adjacent polygons. The method includes determining when a first polygon and a second polygon have an abutting edge. If an abutting edge exists, a majority status is assigned to a pixel on the abutting edge. A first color of the first polygon or a second color... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070139441 - Graphics integration into a process configuration and control environment: Graphic elements and graphic displays are provided for use in a process environment to display information to one or more users about the process environment, such as the current state of device within a process plant. The graphic elements and display may be associated with various logical and physical elements... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070139442 - Coated blending system: A blending system that includes a blending vessel having an internal surface that has at least one layer of a polymeric coating material thereon, and an impeller is disclosed. The polymeric coating material preferably includes a fluorocarbon polymer.... Agent: Glaxosmithkline Corporate Intellectual Property, Mai B475

20070139443 - Voice and video control of interactive electronically simulated environment: A method of moving objects in a graphical user interface, includes obtaining a video image of a user of the interface; displaying the video image on a display such that the video image is superposed with one or more objects displayed on the display; and moving one or more objects... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070139444 - Methods and apparatus predicting variations in material properties: A method for using an electronic computer to model a deformable object includes generating a point cloud of (x,y) coordinates, developing computer aided design (CAD) surfaces at a region of interest (ROI) using the point cloud as an input; and calculating a displacement field using a finite element method and... Agent: Geam - 08ctIPLegal

20070139445 - Method and apparatus for displaying rotated images: A graphics system includes a single buffer coupled between a graphics controller and a display controller. The graphics controller rotates a frame generated by an application and writes the rotated frame into the buffer. The rotation is performed a segment (e.g., a quartile of a frame) at a time. Each... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070139446 - Systems and methods for manipulating high resolution scan images using web-based user interfaces: A system and method are provided by which a user, at a client workstation, can efficiently, simply and effectively manipulate, and specifically crop, a high resolution image that has been scanned and/or otherwise stored in a server with which the client worksation is in web-based communication. The disclosed system and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070139447 - Mobile communication terminal and method for displaying character message selectively: A mobile communication terminal for a character message display and a method thereof are provided to enable individual configuration of a display condition and a display with respect to individual character messages, in which, a storage unit stores the character message, a display unit displays the character message on a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070139448 - Method and system for color correction for a display terminal: A method and system relating to color correction for the display terminal of a display device, such method includes a master control unit generating color adjusting ratios, a display driver using the color adjusting ratios to perform color calibration, and a display panel displaying the resulting colors. Specifically, the master... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20070139449 - Display device with dynamic color gamut: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for dynamically adjusting a color gamut of a display (e.g., a field sequential color display) and further adjusting a luminance of the display in an electronic device by adjusting and turning on field duties of primary colors. During... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070139450 - Method and apparatus for rendering smooth teletext graphics: Method for rendering smooth teletext graphics, when an input teletext page (D1) is to be displayed at a target resolution on a device. The method comprises the steps of:—separating (100) non-text information and text information composing the input teletext page (D1) in order to give as output an intermediate non-text... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070132659 - Apparatus and method for displaying image: An apparatus for displaying image has plural display devices for receiving and flashing still images to provide a consecutive image, which are arranged along a route of a mobile object. The apparatus has a speed detection device for detecting a traveling speed of the object and a control section for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070132660 - System and method for media distribution and display: A communications network that controls gasoline pumps having multimedia players. The communication network comprises one or more communication networks including satellite, terrestrial, and wireless. A data center transmits media to the gasoline pumps and receives feedback from the gasoline pumps. The operation of the system includes broadcasting media, playing media,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070132661 - Compensation hardware device for non-uniform regions in flat panel display: The present invention discloses a compensation hardware device for non-uniform regions in a flat panel display. The hardware device processes the flat panel display having non-uniform regions through digital signal processing, instead of by using materials, optical films or fabrication processes. Therefore, the manufacturing cost and complexity of the flat... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070132663 - Information display system: An information display system is a head-worn information display system, and includes at least a display panel. A display mode of information displayed on the display panel is switched automatically according to an active state of a user using the information display system. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070132662 - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and image sensing apparatus: The position and orientation of the viewpoint of an observer (100) are acquired. The position and orientation of a stylus (120) are acquired. A list image is laid out near the position of the stylus (120). An image of a virtual space after laying out the list image, which is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132664 - Surface-mounted contour-fitting electronic visual display system for use on vehicles and other objects: A surface-mounted contour-fitting electronic visual display system for use on vehicles and other objects, comprising one or more flexible contour-fitting light-emitting elements that can be arranged and configured to be mountable on surfaces of vehicles and other objects, a system controller which connects to said one or more light-emitting elements... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

20070132665 - Programmable power supply: A programmable power supply provides multiple output channels that may be independently driven to vary the frequency and duty cycle of each channel. The power supply includes the capability of receiving a program via a program interface on the power supply. The power supply also includes the capability of reading... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070132668 - Apparatus for driving a plasma display panel with apl pre-measurement and corresponding method: A picture quality when reducing the brightness or the contrast of the picture on a plasma panel shall be improved. For this purpose there is provided a driving apparatus including brightness/contrast control means for receiving video input data for modifying the video levels of the video input data in accordance... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070132666 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a driver that controls one or more of sustain pulses supplied... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070132667 - Plasma display apparatus and method for driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a plasma display panel comprising an address electrode, a data drive integrated circuit (IC), connected to the address electrode, for supplying a voltage of a data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132669 - Method for reducing dynamic false contour on plasma display: A method for reducing dynamic false contour on a plasma display is provided. The steps of the method are as follows. Firstly, determine a grayscale phase of a current pixel. And then change the grayscale phase of the current pixel if any one of the N pixels before the current... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070132670 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. A scan driver of the plasma display apparatus supplies a voltage of a scan signal of a negative polarity direction and a voltage of a sustain signal to a scan electrode using one voltage source. Further, a sustain driver of the plasma display apparatus... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070132671 - Plasma display apparatus: Disclosed is a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising scan electrodes, and a scan driver comprising a set up pulse supplier forming a current loop connecting a resistor and capacitors of the plasma display panel to the scan electrodes to thereby supply set... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070132673 - Display device: Each pixel has a display element, a pixel transistor which controls an operation of the display element, and a storage capacitor which stores charges corresponding to display data for a predetermined period. During a normal operation, a capacitor signal to be output to a capacitor line connected to each storage... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070132672 - Organic el drive circuit and organic el display device using the same: [Problem]To provide an organic EL drive circuit and an organic EL display device, capable of restricting an area taken by gamma correction circuits provided correspondingly to terminal pins. [Means for Solving the Problem]An organic EL drive circuit includes switch circuits for connecting the terminal pins to a predetermined potential line... Agent: Mattingly Stanger Malur & Brundidge

20070132674 - Driving method of self-luminous type display unit, display control device of self-luminous type display unit, current output type drive circuit of self-luminous type display unit: The method includes applying a gray level current corresponding to a display gray level to each of pixel circuits for a first period, applying a display current based on the gray level current to the self-luminescent elements during a second period succeeding the first period to display corresponding the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070132675 - Color display apparatus: A color display apparatus is consituted by a display panel which has light reflection area and a light transmission area for each pixel , and a light source for causing light to enter said display panel from a back surface of said display panel. The light reflection area includes plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132676 - Backlight for color liquid crystal display apparatus: A backlight for a color liquid crystal display apparatus in which light of the three primary colors of red, blue, and green is directly incident on the corresponding pixels of a liquid crystal layer, the backlight comprising a first light-guide plate; a first incidence part for receiving light of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132678 - Dimming method and system thereof: A dimming method for LED driving circuit is proposed. By temporary switching a pin that is originally used for the input/output of other electric signals to a high impedance node, the dimming control signal may be inputted to dim LEDs. The dimming method comprises the steps of: floating the pin... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132677 - Element substrate and a light emitting device: A light emitting device and an element substrate which are capable of suppressing variations in the luminance intensity of a light emitting element among pixels due to characteristic variations of a driving transistor without suppressing off-current of a switching transistor low and increasing storage capacity of a capacitor. According to... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070132680 - Image display apparatus: A field-sequential display apparatus having a light source that emits light of different colors in different subframes of an image controls the spectral distribution of the light emitted in each subframe according to characteristics of the input image data, or to ambient conditions or other user-specified conditions. The input image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132679 - Recursive feedback control of light modulating elements: 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

20070132682 - Analog micromirror devices with continuous intermediate states: An image display system includes an array of movable micromirrors each controlled by a mirror control system to oscillate between a fully ON and fully OFF positions. The mirror control system further includes at least electrode for applying voltages thereon according to an analog scale for controlling each of the... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070132681 - Passive micro-mirror-array spatial light modulation: A passive spatial light modulator device includes a plurality of micro mirrors hinged over a pivot point supported by a substrate. A micro mirror includes a conductive surface on a lower surface and a first electrode situated under the conductive surface. The micro mirror can be selectively tilted about its... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132683 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is provided. The apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an image display unit that displays an image, and a driving circuit that varies the number of frames of the image displayed in the image display unit in response to motion... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070132685 - Display device: A device is described that comprises a layer of material (254) disposed between first and second cell walls (250,252) and is capable of adopting, and being electrically latched between, at least two stable configurations. The layer of material (254) comprises one or more separate electrically addressable regions (270, 272, 274,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070132684 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display having specific dispositions of pixels of a liquid crystal display so as to prevent the coupling defect and the stripe defect in high speed driving. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape, a switching element connected to each pixel,... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070132686 - Semiconductor device, and display device and electronic device utilizing the same: A semiconductor device having a normal function means is provided, in which the amplitude of an output signal is prevented from being decreased even when a digital circuit using transistors having one conductivity is employed. By turning OFF a diode-connected transistor 101, the gate terminal of a first transistor 102... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132687 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device is driven by application driving waveforms comprising application of various potential differences (R, Gs, P) to bring about a change in image. In the display and method in accordance with the invention the duration of the time period (Δt) in which the end of the transition... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070132688 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: In an OCB liquid crystal display device, a gradation voltage of a video signal is set to be lower than a black display optimum voltage, and a reverse transition prevention voltage is set to be higher than the black display optimum voltage and to be lower than a maximum applied... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070132689 - Liquid crystal display panel capable of easily adjusting grayscale voltage: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate cooperatively form a multiplicity of pixels. The first substrate also includes a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070132691 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided by using a driver circuit and a pixel that have novel circuit structures. In a liquid crystal display device using n (n is a natural number and satisfies n≧2) bit digital video signals to display an image, n×m (m... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132690 - Liquid crystal display device and method of suppressing afterimages: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate bus line and a data bus line formed on a first substrate, a first transistor formed on the first substrate and connected to the gate bus line and the data bus line, a plurality of sub-picture element electrodes formed the said first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

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20070132692 - Led drive circuit having temperature compensation: A LED driver circuit is provided for controlling the brightness of a LED. A control circuit is used for generating a LED current in accordance with a resistor. The control circuit is further coupled to detect a LED voltage for adjusting the LED current in reference to the LED voltage.... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc. Suite 250

20070132694 - 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, and a drive transistor. The sampling... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070132698 - Display apparatus: A horizontal driving circuit (17) sequentially generates sampling pulses of which sampling pulses supplied to sampling switches (23) connected to an identical video line (25) do not overlap each other and sampling pulses supplied to adjacent sampling switches (23) overlap each other, and drives the switches, whereby a video signal... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070132696 - Display device and driving circuit for capacitance load thereof: A driving circuit and display device reducing waste of a bias current of an amplifier and conserving power. The driving circuit includes a driving signal supply mechanism, an amplifier mechanism and a control mechanism. The supply mechanism supplies a driving signal having a target voltage represented during periodic update. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132697 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof to speed up a bend alignment at an initial operation such as right after power on in the liquid crystal display with OCB mode. According to the present invention, the LCD, which includes a LCD panel, a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070132695 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of pixels, each having first and second subpixels, an image signal converter dividing an input image signal having a first bit number into a first pre-signal and a second pre-signal each having a second bit number... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070132701 - Display device: A display device in which a plurality of pixels are disposed in a matrix form includes data lines connected with the pixels, a signal controller for processing image data received from the outside and generating a plurality of control signals and clock signals, a gray voltage generator for generating a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070132703 - Display device: To take aim at low power consumption when controlling display/non-display in an arbitrary area. A display panel including a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, and a drive circuit which drives the display panel are provided, and the drive circuit has shift resister circuits sequentially outputting... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070132702 - Display driving integrated circuit and method for determining wire configuration of the same: A display driving integrated circuit includes: a tone display reference voltage generating circuit for generating 64 tone display reference voltages by resistive division on the basis of a predetermined reference voltage; D/A conversion circuits each for performing an analog conversion with respect to display data on the basis of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070132700 - Gate driver and method for repairing the same: A gate driver and a method for repairing the same are disclosed. The gate driver includes a shift register including a plurality of stages each having a respective one of a plurality of first output lines; at least one repair line connectable to the first output lines; a storage device... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070132699 - Output buffer for reducing emi, source driver including the same, and display device including the same: An output buffer for reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) occurring due to a supply voltage applied to an integrated circuit includes a voltage sensing circuit sensing a voltage change caused by rapid voltage change at an output terminal in an internal circuit of the output buffer. The voltage sensing circuit senses... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070132710 - Display: The present invention is to reduce power consumption in a display that concurrently (or alternately) implements light emission and light reception in parallel. A display is provided with a display panel configuration including a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix and a plurality of light-receiving elements that are... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070132705 - Display device and method for correlating pixel updates with pixel illumination: A display device reduces artifacts in displayed images using an illumination device that includes light sources for emitting light and an illumination drive circuit operable to individually modulate each of the light sources. Electro-optical elements defining pixels of an image are each optically coupled to receive light correlated with one... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070132706 - Display device and method for providing optical feedback: A display device for providing optical feedback includes light sources, each for emitting light in a different respective wavelength range, electro-optical elements defining pixels of an image, each for selectively passing light in one of the wavelength ranges and a sensor for measuring the intensity of light output from a... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070132707 - Display device and method of driving the same: In a display device and a method of driving the display device each having an improved image display quality, the display device includes the display panel assembly, a light emitting unit and a control unit. The display panel assembly has a plurality of unit pixels and displays an image. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070132711 - Driving apparatus of backlight and method of driving backlight using the same: A driving apparatus of a backlight includes a controller for controlling square wave oscillation, a square wave oscillator for oscillating a constant square wave signal in accordance with a control signal from the controller, and a signal generator for generating a burst dimming signal using the square wave signal.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070132708 - Driving system for matrix type backlight module: A driving system for a matrix type backlight module having a plurality of light spots is provided. The driving system includes a timing controller providing a timing signal to control a starting up sequence and a turning on time for each of the plurality of light spots, a row driver... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070132712 - Image display apparatus and power controlling method of the image display apparatus: Provided is an image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes an inverter for supplying electric power to a light source, a dimming control unit for controlling the power supply of the inverter, and a control unit providing a dimming frequency selected according to an image signal inputted to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070132709 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Occurrence of insufficient writing to a liquid crystal display element is prevented in the liquid crystal display device which causes a backlight to illuminate only while the liquid crystal display element responds to the display data. A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel using an OCB... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070132704 - System and method for applying power to high intensity discharge lamps: A liquid crystal display television receiver projection system uses a controller responsive to a first signal by providing power to a first set of circuits of the system. The controller is responsive to a second signal by removing power from a second set of circuits of the system; A timer... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20070132713 - Electrophoresis type display device and method of fabricating and driving the same: Provided is a electrophoresis type display device includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode on a substrate and inducing an in-plane electric field; an electric charge layer on the pixel electrode and common electrode and having a plurality of first particles and a plurality of second particles, the first... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070132714 - Acceleration reference devices, cellular communication terminal systems, and methods that sense terminal movement for cursor control: An acceleration reference device comprises an accelerometer that is configured to generate acceleration information that is indicative of movement of the device; a communication interface that is configured to be communicatively coupled to a proximately located computer; a controller that is configured to generate movement information based on the acceleration... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070132719 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same: A display apparatus includes a matrix display unit including light-emitting devices of a plurality of colors; a plurality of column control circuits that generate and output current-data signals from input image signals; and data lines that transfer the current-data signal output from the column control circuits to circuits that drive... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132725 - Electronic appliance: An electronic appliance includes a display. A screen of the display on which an image from a video camera is displayed is divided horizontally by N and vertically by M, to define a plurality of detection zones. A detection unit of the electronic appliance includes detectors assigned to the detection... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070132720 - Electronic terminal having screen division display function and screen display method thereof: The present invention provides an electronic terminal having a screen division display function, the terminal including a memory for storing at least one document file and a viewer program for opening and showing the contents of the document file; and a control unit for executing the viewer program to divide... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070132718 - Foot-operated electronic device controller: A foot-operated controller is disclosed for controlling a display device. The device is manipulated by a user's feet in order to send commands to a display device. The foot-operated controller can communicate with a display device either wirelessly or through a cable. The foot-operated controller may use buttons, joy sticks,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070132722 - Hand interface glove using miniaturized absolute position sensors and hand interface system using the same: A hand interface glove using a miniaturized absolute position sensor and a hand interface system using the same for allowing a user to naturally interact with a virtual environment are provided. The hand interface glove includes a glove unit formed in a shape of a hand to be worn by... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070132716 - Handheld electronic device having virtual keypad input device, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device having a virtual keypad input device includes a case, and further includes an input apparatus and a processor apparatus disposed on the case. The input apparatus includes a number of vibrational sensors that sense the vibrational results of a contact with the case. The processor... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070132726 - Information device: An information device including a flexible display unit capable of displaying information having page information in units of pages, a unit that detects at least one of the bending direction, the amount of bending, and the duration that the display unit is bent, and a unit that determines whether or... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070132724 - Input device and electronic apparatus using the same: An input device having a substrate having a first region and a second region. The first region is configured to receive movement operations by an input mechanism, such as to control a pointer or cursor on a display. The second region has an input pad, such as a number pad,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070132717 - Input device and method of locking a computer system: An input device capable of locking a computer system is provided. The input device has an interface, a pressure sensor, and a microcontroller. The interface is for communicating with the computer system. The pressure sensor is for generating pressure sensing signals if pressed. The microcontroller is configured for scanning occurrence... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070132715 - Inputting device for electronic products and method for interacting with a graphical user interface: An inputting device for electronic products and method for interacting with a graphical user interface, wherein the inputting device for electronic products has a plurality of mechanical reactors to lower the cost and make maintenance easier compared to the prior art. The method for interacting with a graphical user interface... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070132723 - Laboratory apparatus with a control device: A laboratory apparatus having at least one control device (4) comprising an electric printed-circuit board (15) of the control device (4) that is disposed on an instrument body (2) of the laboratory apparatus (1) and has at least one electric control element (16, 18), at least one operator interface (6)... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070132721 - Three-dimensional virtual-touch human-machine interface system and method therefor: A three-dimensional virtual-touch human-machine interface system (20) and a method (100) of operating the system (20) are presented. The system (20) incorporates a three-dimensional time-of-flight sensor (22), a three-dimensional autostereoscopic display (24), and a computer (26) coupled to the sensor (22) and the display (24). The sensor (22) detects a... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20070132727 - Apparatus and method for movement-based dynamic filtering of search results in a graphical user interface: A movement-based filtering mechanism in a graphical user interface allows a user to filter search results by simply moving a pointer, such as a mouse. One or more attributes are displayed to the user in a graphical format. By selecting the pointer (such as clicking on a mouse button), the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070132728 - Status sensing mechanism and the cursor-control device applying the same: A status sensing mechanism is disclosed, which comprises: a post, and a sleeve, ensheathing the post for enabling the post to slide up and down therein; wherein the post is abutted against a side of the sleeve as the inertial cursor-control device is subject to a first movement while the... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell Suite 1404

20070132729 - Character positioning system, and method thereof: Provided is a character positioning system, and a method thereof. The system, includes: a command data analyzer for analyzing a signal inputted from outside and performing a control command according to its kinds; a positioning device for receiving an analysis result for a certain input signal from the command data... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070132733 - Computer apparatus with added functionality: A computer apparatus such as a mouse apparatus or a keyboard apparatus with additional functionality or features disposed within the apparatus enclosure. Each additional functionality enhances the overall functionality of the computer apparatus. In the preferred embodiments, the additional devices include a remote control, a multiple host mouse apparatus, a... Agent: Mr. Pranil Ram

20070132732 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus. A housing includes a first end and a second end. A first cover is connected to the first end. A second cover is connected to the second end and first cover. The first and second covers operate between an open position and a closed position with respect... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070132731 - Mouse having storable hook module: A mouse has a storable hook module, which is stored within the main body of the mouse in most circumstance. In a case that the notebook computer is carried to another place, the hook module should be protruded from the main body of the mouse and then secured onto lock... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070132730 - Wireless cursor control device: A wireless cursor control device for use with a computer system includes a main body, a wireless signal receiver, a storing portion and a supporting member. The main body generates a wireless signal to control a cursor of the computer system. The wireless signal receiver is swappable to be electrically... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070132734 - Optical navigation device and method of operating the same: Provided is an optical navigation device and a method of operating the same. The optical navigation device includes: a light source for irradiating light; an image sensor for collecting incident light to obtain an image; and a controller for performing a calculation mode that obtains an image when the light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070132735 - Selectively illuminated keyboard systems and methods: One exemplary method embodiment herein can run an operating system on a processor and executes one or more applications on the operating system (sometimes simultaneously) that causes different input requests to be dynamically displayed on a visual display. If more than one application is being executed at a time, only... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070132738 - Handheld electronic device having virtual navigational input device, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device having a virtual navigational input device includes a case, and further includes an input apparatus and a processor apparatus disposed on the case. The processor apparatus executes a routine that compares vibrational results of a contact by a user on the case with reference vibrational... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070132741 - Movement detection method for multiple objects on a capacitive touchpad: In a movement detection method for multiple objects on a capacitive touchpad, the waveform of sensed values on the touchpad is monitored for its variation to determine respective movements of the objects on the touchpad, and various operational gestures are further determined exactly.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070132736 - Sensor assembly: A sensor comprising a plurality of layers, comprising a first mask layer; a second mask layer; a third mask layer disposed between said first and second mask layers and defining an aperture; and a first conductive layer disposed between the first mask layer and the third mask layer; a second... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070132737 - Systems and methods for determining touch location: A touch panel includes first and second layers of electrodes. The first layer of electrodes is electrically connected in an arrangement that produces a regional ambiguity in a touch location determined using the first electrodes with respect to a first axis. The second layer of electrodes is configured to resolve... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070132740 - Tactile input device for controlling electronic contents: A tactile input device configured to control electronic contents of an electronic device includes a tactile key section and a scroll touch bar section. The input device provides a tactile user interface that is configured to allow a user to control aspects of an electronic device by tactile control.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070132739 - Touch screen driver and methods for use therewith: A touch screen driver includes a conditioner module for conditioning a first input/output port of a touch screen. The conditioner module includes a precharge module for charging the first input/output port to a precharge voltage in response to a precharge signal, and a pull-up module for maintaining the precharge voltage... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070132742 - Method and apparatus employing optical angle detectors adjacent an optical input area: In one embodiment, each of a plurality of optical angle detectors has a plurality of light sensing elements and is positioned at a different location adjacent an optical input area. Each of a plurality of light-control devices is positioned between the optical input area and one of the optical angle... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070132743 - Touch detection system: A touch detection using wavelet algorithm for detecting touches on a surface by receiving acoustic waves generated by the touch and performing signal analysis on these acoustic waves using wavelet transformation where the storage requirement for reference signal is reduced. The inventive device includes a substrate that can be any... Agent: Gokalp Bayramoglu

20070132744 - Method and system for processing observation charts: The invention concerns a method and system for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with at least one blank chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form being also preprinted with... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070132747 - Control circuit of display device, and display device and electronic appliance incorporating the same: An object is to realize downsizing and cost reduction of a display device by efficiently using a physical region of a memory in a control circuit of the display device. A structure of a video data storage portion of the control circuit is that provided with a video data storage... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132745 - Display control device, display control method, and the like: A display control device is provided that can maintain excellent display for users while the timing of displaying each pixel is being adjusted. A display control method and a display control program are also provided. The display control device that causes a display screen to display predetermined image information includes;... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070132746 - Layer structure providing method for converting and displaying background screen based on data storage information and background screen converting method therefor, and mobile terminal for the same: Disclosed herein are a layer structure providing method for converting and displaying a background screen based on data storage information and a background screen converting method therefor, and a mobile terminal for the same. The providing method includes providing and configuring a background layer to match to one region on... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070132748 - Screen display with sound lamps: Disclosed herein is a screen display which enables visual change of light related to sounds to be exhibited along with images on the screen. The screen display comprises a frame surrounding the screen display to couple a plurality of lamps to the screen display, a lamp line constituted by the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070132750 - System and method for controlling display device brightness: A brightness controlling system includes a sensor, an input device, a display device and a control circuit. The sensor is used for detecting a current ambient illumination level. The input device is used for inputting brightness adjusting commands. The control circuit is used for receiving the brightness adjusting commands and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070132749 - Systems for controlling brightness of displayed images: Systems for controlling brightness of displayed images of a display panel are provided. A representative system incorporates a control unit that is operative to adjust brightness of a corresponding display panel based upon at least one of: detected brightness of ambient light and brightness of light emitting elements of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070132751 - Apparatus and methods for communicating with a low duty cycle wireless device: A low duty cycle wireless device is disclosed. The low duty cycle wireless device includes a high data rate transceiver, a low data rate receiver, and a microprocessor. The low data rate receiver receives a command to receive a large amount of information. The display information far exceeds the capacity... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20070132753 - Alternative graphics pipe: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the operation of accessibility applications. A graphics pipe is provided that can be called in user mode from multiple accessibility programs. A request is received from an accessibility application to access the graphics pipe, and a connection is established. The accessibility application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070132752 - Object loading and unloading system: An object loading and unloading system for loading and unloading objects in a graphically simulated virtual environment, or virtual world, is described. A world object manager manages multiple object loaders to load and unload objects as geographic cells move within and out of a loading radius of each loader based... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070132754 - Method and apparatus for binary image classification and segmentation: A method and apparatus for binary classification includes using signs of float values to detect different subgroups, detecting whether all entries in the group belong to the same subgroup, splitting original subgroup into uniform subgroups and classifying subgroups using array of float values. Coherency in groups of rays is detected... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070132755 - Unified framework based on extensible styles for 3d non-photorealistic rendering and method of configuring the same: There are provided a unified framework based on extensible styles for 3D non-photorealistic rendering and a method of configuring the framework. The unified framework includes: 3D model data processing means for generating a scene graph by converting a 3D model input into 3D data and organizing the scene graph using... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070132757 - Constrained model composition: A method includes combining at least two 3-D models, given the positions of the models and constraint areas of the models that should not be changed by the combination. The combining includes generating a weighted graph representation of the models at least in a transition volume and including at least... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20070132756 - System and method for aiding spacial orientation for persons using three-dimensional graphical models of large buildings: A system and method for aiding spatial orientation of displayed graphical models of structures. A monitor displays the graphical model and an input commands a processor to selectively display the model as a two dimensional model or a three dimensional model. The processor displays selected features such as specific areas... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick, Esq. Patent Services

20070132758 - System and method for generating surface mesh surrounding particles: Provided are a system for generating a surface mesh surrounding particles on a 3D space. An implicit function module receives particle data containing three-dimensional location and radius data of the particles, grids the particles into rectangular parallelepiped shape, and generates implicit function data having implicit function value determining the surface... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070132759 - Methods for identifying, separating and editing reflection components in multi-channel images and videos: The present invention presents a framework for separating specular and diffuse reflection components in images and videos. Each pixel of the an M-channel input image illuminated by N light sources is linearly transformed into a new color space having (M-N) channels. For an RGB image with one light source, the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070132760 - Method and apparatus for displaying 3-d state indicators: A method for presenting a user selected status of an object in a three dimensional graphic display is disclosed. The method includes the step of receiving a request to select a property of an object for display. The method further includes the step of displaying at least one property which... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070132761 - Signal measuring device: It is possible to easily set the operation of a spectrum analyzer. The spectrum analyzer receives a signal to be measured. The spectrum analyzer includes a display device (28) having a display screen for displaying the signal to be measured with a vertical axis representing a measurement value (power) of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070132762 - Formatting object for modifying the visual attributes of visual objects to reflect data values: A formatting object according to the present invention conveys information to the reader of a document (such as a table or chart) by associating visual attributes (such as color, fill type, border width, line width, line style, font size, marker size and marker type) to characters or markers within the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070132763 - Method for creating 3-d curved suface by using corresponding curves in a plurality of images: Provided is a method for creating a 3-D curved surface by using corresponding curves in a plurality of images. The method includes performing an NURBS fitting curve with respect to one image in a plurality of images having camera calibration and extracted camera parameter by using control points designated in... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070132764 - System and method for displaying text: A system and method for displaying text are described. According to embodiments of the invention, the system and methods describe operations for displaying text, where the text does not include hints.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070132766 - Apparatus and method for processing collision information in graphic system: An apparatus processes collision information in a graphic system, and includes a first storage unit for loading geometry information of primary and secondary object graphics inputted from outside, and outputting the geometry information of the primary object graphics and geometry information of a plurality of secondary object graphics in which... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070132765 - Method of representing and animating two-dimensional humanoid character in three-dimensional space: There is provided a method of representing and animating a 2D (Two-Dimensional) character in a 3D (Three-Dimensional) space for a character animation. The method includes performing a pre-processing operation in which data of a character that is required to represent and animate the 2D character like a 3D character is... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070132767 - System and method for generating stories in time and space and for analysis of story patterns in an integrated visual representation on a user interface: A system for generating a story framework from a plurality of data elements of a spatial domain coupled to a temporal domain. The story framework includes a plurality of visual story elements including storage for storing the plurality of data elements of the domains for use in generating the plurality... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070132768 - Accessible display system: The subject application is directed to display means adapted to interface with multiple personal electronic devices, such as personal data assistants, cellular telephones, laptops, and the like. An accessible display system includes shared display means and access control means in data communication with the shared display means. The access control... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070132769 - Data processing apparatus, job processing method, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: When there are a plurality of kinds of starting modes in which conditions to start a process of a job are different, a device driver of an information processing apparatus can recognize the starting modes which can be designated by a peripheral apparatus.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070132770 - Method and apparatus with dynamic graphics surface memory allocation: An apparatus and method utilizes system memory as backing stores so that local graphics memory may be oversubscribed. Surfaces may be paged in and out of system memory based on the amount of usage of the surfaces. The apparatus and method also prioritizes surfaces among different tiers of local memory... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070132771 - Efficient video frame capturing: A method for capturing images includes associating the pixels with tiles. An input data sequence representing respective current values of the pixels of a currently-captured image frame is accepted. Within each of at least some of the tiles, the current values are compared with respective reference values of the pixels... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070132772 - Memory management for systems for generating 3-dimensional computer images: A 3-dimensional computer generated image is generated by subdividing the image into a plurality of rectangular areas. Object data for each rectangular area is loaded into a display list memory (4) until that memory is substantially full. Image data and shading data for each picture element of each rectangular area... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070132773 - Multi-stage memory buffer and automatic transfers in vehicle event recording systems: Vehicle event recorder systems are arranged with three stage memories and special mechanism to manage those memories including transfer of data there between. Namely, a managed loop memory receives data from a video camera in real-time and continuously overwrites expired data implicitly determined no longer useful. Data in a managed... Agent: Smartdrive Systems, Inc.

20070132774 - System and method for a patch minimization tool: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for a patch minimization tool. In one example, the method includes identifying object files required for forming an image for a wireless device, where at least one of the object files is received from an assembler in machine language. Components... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070132775 - 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

20070132776 - System and method for mosaic rendering of three dimensional image: A system and method for a mosaic rendering of a 3D model is provided. Textures are created using polygon information related to a vertex of each face of an inputted 3D model, a normal, and a face index, and the textures are one-to-one mapped on respective polygons of the 3D... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070132777 - Storage medium having game program stored therein and game apparatus: A color image viewed from a virtual camera is generated. Next, a fog image is generated by adding a fog color to respective objects in accordance with distances from a position, which is represented by a Z value, of a player object to positions of the respective objects which are... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070132778 - Display: A display comprises a display device having an image output surface at which an image is displayed as a spaced array of pixel elements, a light transmitting element in the form of an image guide having a viewing surface, the light transmitting element arranged to receive light from the display... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070132780 - Control of digital media character replacement using personalized rulesets: An apparatus, program product and method utilize rulesets associated with particular individuals to restrict or otherwise control the use of such individuals' likeness data into media presentations using character replacement or like technologies. A ruleset includes at least one rule configured to define a condition under which the likeness data... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070132779 - Graphic element with multiple visualizations in a process environment: Smart graphic elements are provided for use as portions or components of one or more graphic displays, which may be executed in a process plant to display information to users about the process plant environment, such as the current state of devices within the process plant. Each of the graphic... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070132781 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof: A recording title is separated into arbitrary chapters, the chapters are associated with blocks and located in an association area, desired blocks are relocated in a coupling and editing area, the chapters associated with the relocated blocks are edited as a new title in accordance with the location of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070132784 - Circuit and method for modifying a region of an encoded image: A video processing circuit includes a processor that receives an encoded image having first and second regions, decodes the first region of the image, modifies the decoded first region, and re-encodes the modified first region. Such a circuit allows one to modify a region of an image by decoding and... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070132783 - Method for displaying background image in mobile communication terminal: Provided is a method for displaying a background image in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes storing a predetermined image as background image depending on user's selection, storing position information of vertical screen frame and horizontal screen frame on the background image, and setting the background image; displaying an... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070132782 - Method for processing graphics data by a graphic controller: In a drawing processing apparatus and a drawing processing method for superposing a plurality of graphics present on the same plane, a data format is previously extracted in a data format extraction control section. A write data extracting section converts write data from a DDA section into the extracted data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070132785 - Platform for immersive gaming: An instrumented game controller (such as a firearm simulator), head-mounted display system, with electronic equipment with positional tracking equipment, together with associated software, to create unprecedented immersive virtual reality or augmented reality games, entertainment or “serious” gaming such as training,... Agent: Brian M. Dingman, Esq. Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP

20070132788 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit which displays an image on a screen based on an input image signal; a scaler which scales the image signal to control a size of the image displayed on the screen; and a controller which controls the scaler to change the size... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132787 - Multimedia system having application scaling function, application scaling method, and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A multimedia system that automatically scales an application according to the resolution of a graphics device when applications having different resolutions coexist on one screen, a method of scaling an application, and a recording medium storing a program for performing the method. The method includes setting a ratio of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070132786 - Segment-based video and graphics system with video window: The present invention provides a system for a video window in a graphics background of a screen. The video window is allowed to be removed anywhere and be scaled up or down. The system comprises a receiving module to receive the video and graphics data and group both of the... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070132789 - List scrolling in response to moving contact over list of index symbols: Movement of a point of contact by a user over an index on a touch-sensitive display is determined. The displayed index has a sequence of index items. In response to the movement, a list of information items on the touch-sensitive display is scrolled. The list of information items may include... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070132793 - Display device and controlling method thereof: A conventional setting voltage was a value with an estimated margin of a characteristic change of a light emitting element. Therefore, a voltage between the source and drain of a driver transistor Vds had to be set high (Vds≧Vgs−VTh+a). This caused high heat generation and power consumption because a voltage... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132792 - Display device and method of driving thereof: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device and a method of driving the display device that can reduce pseudo contours while suppressing the number of sub-frames as much as possible. In the display device, where one frame is divided into a plurality of sub-frames... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070132791 - Display device with point-to-point transmitting technology: A display device with point-to-point transmitting technology is provided. The display device comprises a smart panel and a image processor. Wherein, the smart panel comprises a plurality of source drivers ICs that are coupled to a pixel array for transmitting an image data to the pixel array to drive a... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070132790 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a color display panel and related manufacturing and service method: A display device is disclosed, in which calibration information for the display panel is stored in a memory separate from an image processor that controls the display panel. The image processor, which receives input signals and generates control signals to control the display panel, performs various calibration functions using calibration... Agent: Ying Chen

20070126654 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device. The display device according to the present invention includes a first display panel for displaying an image in a first display direction, a second display panel for displaying an image in a second display direction that is substantially opposite to the first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070126655 - Image observation system: An image observation system includes a pair of image observation devices each having i) an image pickup device, ii) an image pickup optical system for directing light rays from an outside world to the image pickup device, iii) a display device for displaying an outside world image obtained by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126656 - Illumination brightness and color control system and method therefor: An illumination brightness and color control system and method therefor are provided, implemented in a time division manner. A single photosensor senses and samples a point light source for the luminous intensity signal value. Then, the luminous intensity signal value at each wavelength and a target brightness/color value are computed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126657 - Method and device for visual masking of defects in matrix displays by using characteristics of the human vision system: The present invention provides a method for reducing the visual impact of defects present in a matrix display comprising a plurality of pixels, said pixels comprising at least three sub-pixels, each sub-pixel intended for generating a sub-pixel colour which cannot be obtained by a linear combination of the sub-pixel colours... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070126660 - Plasma display apparatus: It is an object of the present invention to provide a plasma display apparatus in which reliable erase discharge is performed and an erroneous discharge is suppressed, even when a discharge sustain period is shortened so as to realize a PDP having high definition. The above object is achieved in... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. Attn: Joseph W. Price, Esq.

20070126658 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of the same: A plasma display apparatus for reducing heat generated in a data driver for supplying a driving voltage to an address electrode formed on a plasma display panel when driving the plasma display apparatus, and a driving method of the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070126659 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: There are provided a plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same. A plasma display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) in which a plurality of scan electrode and sustain electrode pairs are formed, and a sustain pulse driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070126661 - Apparatus and method for adjusting image on the basis of characteristics of display system: A method for adjusting an image on the basis of characteristics of a display system is provided. The image includes M horizontal lines. Each of the M horizontal lines respectively includes N pixels. Each pixel has an original gray level. A look-up table previously stores a plurality of conversion coefficients... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126662 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus a first energy recovery circuit and a second energy recovery circuit. The first energy recovery circuit forms a first energy supply path for supplying an energy to a scan electrode and a first energy recovery path for recovering an energy... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070126666 - Display device and electronic device: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which a reverse current sufficient enough to insulate a short-circuited point flows and a transistor using amorphous silicon is used is applied. The display device includes a switching transistor that controls an input of a video... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070126667 - El display apparatus and method for driving el display apparatus: An EL display apparatus in which pixels having EL elements are formed in a matrix, has a constant current circuit which generates a predetermined constant current; and a gradation voltage circuit which generates a gradation voltage; wherein the constant current generated by the constant current circuit is supplied to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070126669 - Image display device: An image display device having a plurality of selfluminous pixels, for displaying an image by selectively making the pixels luminous is disclosed. The image display device includes: the pixels each divided into a plurality of small light-emitting sections; an ejection-direction selecting section that deflects the light emitted from the small... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20070126670 - Light emitting device and electronic appliance: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting device which can be made into a module with smaller volume. By using a light emitting element represented by an EL element and the like as a pixel portion, two pixel portions are formed at different portions... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070126663 - Pixel driving circuit with threshold voltage compensation circuit: Provided is a pixel driving circuit including a threshold voltage compensation circuit. The pixel driving circuit includes a diode-connected type first transistor through which input current data flows; a second transistor copying the current data flowing through the first transistor; a third transistor connected in series to the second transistor;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070126668 - Semiconductor device: The invention provides a semiconductor device which is capable of decreasing an effect of a variation in characteristics of transistors, supplying a predetermined current even when voltage-current characteristics of a load change, and improving a write speed of a signal sufficiently even when the amount of a signal current is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070126664 - Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device: A load, a transistor which controls a current value supplied to the load, a capacitor, a power supply line, and first to third switches are provided. After a threshold voltage of the transistor is held by the capacitor, a potential in accordance with a video signal is inputted and a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070126665 - Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device: A display device includes a load, a transistor for controlling a current value supplied to the load, a capacitor, a first wiring, a second wiring, and first to fourth switches. Variations in the current value caused by variations in the threshold voltage of the transistor can be suppressed through the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070126671 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device, which can independently (or freely or individually or arbitrarily) control light emission times of red, green and blue subpixels and a driving method thereof. The organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of subpixels connected with scan lines, light emitting control lines, and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070126672 - Self-luminous display apparatus, peak luminance adjustment apparatus, electronic apparatus, peak luminance adjustment method and program: A self-luminous display apparatus, a peak luminance adjustment apparatus is disclosed wherein power to be consumed by a self-luminous display panel is compulsorily suppressed to a level within a prescribed range and consequently the life of a battery is maintained. A mean gradation value calculation section calculates a mean gradation... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070126673 - Method and system for writing data to mems display elements: Charge balanced display data writing methods use write and hold cycles of opposite polarity during selected frame update periods. Spatial dithering of hold cycle signals can reduce flicker.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070126675 - Detecting and eliminating method for ghosting effect of lcd: Methods for detecting and eliminating a ghosting effect of liquid crystal display (LCD) are disclosed. The ghosting effect detecting method comprises the steps of providing a visual persistency period, providing a maximum color alternation speed of the LCD, obtaining a threshold value by multiplying the human visual persistency period by... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070126674 - Liquid crystal display films: The present invention relates to a display film that may be transferred by lamination or otherwise onto a substrate. The display film is formed of a stack of layers that can include different types, arrangements, and functionality within the stack depending upon factors including the characteristics of the substrate (e.g.,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070126676 - Color filter substrate, liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device having the same, and method thereof: A color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a first common electrode layer, a second common electrode layer, and a color filter layer. The base substrate includes a plurality of pixel parts. The first common electrode layer is on the base substrate and receives a first voltage. The second common... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070126677 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of first pixels provided with RGB color filters and a plurality of second pixels provided with CMY color filters are formed at a liquid crystal display panel. A video processing part is inputted with RGB data to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070126678 - Liquid crystal display: A method of operating a display includes providing light having a luminance that varies periodically, overdriving a pixel circuit of the display, and modulating the light using the pixel circuit to generate modulated light. The amount of overdrive and the phase of the light relative to the overdriving of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070126679 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method therefor comprises a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; data lines and gate lines connected to the pixels; a signal controller processing first image data and a plurality of control signals from an external device and transmitting the processed first image... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070126681 - Display apparatus and method for manufacturing same: In a display apparatus, second organic EL elements are closer to the edge of a display portion than first organic EL elements. The voltage drop in the first organic EL element is larger than that in the second organic EL element. The thickness of the organic compound layer in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126683 - Display device and driving method therefor: A display device having light-emitting pixels, a driving transistor that supplies a current to the light-emitting pixels, a switching transistor that is connected to the driving transistor and selectively transmits a data voltage, and a first capacitor that turns off the driving transistor according to a voltage signal. A capacitor... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070126680 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device for compensating for degradation of a threshold voltage of a driving thin-film transistor (“TFT”) and method for driving the display device includes a light-emitting element, wherein the light-emitting element emits light by a driving current applied thereto, a driving TFT controlling the magnitude of the driving current... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070126682 - Liquid crystal display with shared gate lines and driving method for same: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines (201) and a plurality of data lines (202) insulated from and crossing with each other defining a plurality of display regions, each one of the display region includes a first pixel unit (208), and a second pixel unit (218).... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070126684 - Liquid crystal display with three-level scanning signal driving: An exemplary thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) (100) includes an LCD panel having a number n (where n is a natural number) of gate lines G1-Gn that are parallel to each other, a data driving circuit (120), and a gate driving circuit (110). The gate driving circuit sequentially... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070126685 - Display device and electronic device using the same: The present invention reduces power consumption of a display device. The display device includes a wire to which a video signal is input, a first capacitor element and a second capacitor element which are connected to the wire in parallel, and a pixel. Between the first capacitor element and the... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070126687 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device for automatically selecting a common voltage adaptive for a scan line system to supply it to a common electrode of liquid crystal cells is disclosed. In the liquid crystal display device, a controller is selectively controls a supply of a first common voltage or a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070126686 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a display panel including a gate line and a data line, a gate driver that outputs a gate voltage to the gate line according to a gate output enable signal, a data driver that outputs a data voltage to the data line, a detecting circuit that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070126689 - Digital-to-analog converter, data driver and display device using same: Disclosed is a digital-to-analog converter including a decoder which receives m (where m>=4 holds) reference voltages having voltage values that differ from one another, and selects and outputs n (where n>=3 holds) identical or different voltages from among the m reference voltages based upon a digital signal; and an amplifying... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070126688 - Source driver capable of removing offset in display device and method for driving source lines of display device: A source driver and a source line driving method capable of removing the offset effect of an amplifier for every two frames. The source driver includes an amplification unit, an input controller and an output controller. The amplification unit includes a positive amplifier outputting an output voltage having a positive... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070126691 - Display panel having multiple display regions and corresponding backlight regions and method of controlling the same: In a 3D display having a plurality of display regions and corresponding backlight regions, the image data is sequentially sent to the display regions. The respective light source(s) of the corresponding backlight region is/are turned ON after a response time of each display region, without waiting for a response time... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070126690 - Light source driving apparatus, display device having the same and method of driving a light source: A light source driving apparatus according to the present invention includes a controller, a first driver and a second driver. The controller outputs a first control signal to drive the light source in a normal-luminance mode and outputs a second control signal to drive the light source in a low-luminance... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070126695 - Color electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device includes a substrate and unit cells. Each of the unit cells has one display electrode, two collection electrodes and two types of charged particles differnt from each other in charged polarity and coloration, and has a driving means capable of forming a state in which each... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070126694 - Display medium, display device, and displaying method: A display medium including a light-modulating layer containing charged mobile particles assuming a color at a lightness corresponding to the dispersion state of the charged mobile particles and first particles with lower mobility than the charged mobile particles. The first particles assume a color at a lightness that is outside... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070126692 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device is constituted by a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed with a spacing therebetween, a partition wall disposed in the spacing, electrophoretic particles sealed in a closed space defined by the first and second substrates and the partition wall, a first electrode disposed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126693 - Method and apparatus for reducing edge image retention in an electrophoretic display device: The invention relates to an electrophoretic display device (1) comprising charged particles (8, 9) in a fluid (10) between a pair of electrodes (5, 6). A drive means is arranged and configured to supply a drive waveform to the electrodes (5, 6), the drive waveform comprising a sequence of drive... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070126698 - Automotive information display system: An information display system for a vehicle includes: a display for displaying, an operation screen for operating at least one piece of in-vehicle equipment; a first operation section including a leftward moving switch, a rightward moving switch, and a selection enter switch capable of being manipulated upward and downward and... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070126697 - Liquid crystal display device and display device: In a liquid crystal display device which controls the brightness of a backlight by measuring an external light intensity around the liquid crystal display panel, it is possible to enhance the detecting accuracy even when the external light illuminance is low. A liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070126696 - Method and system for mapping virtual coordinates: A system (100) and method (200) for mapping a virtual user interface (VUI) to a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided. The method can include identifying (202) a range of object movement in a first coordinate system of the Virtual User Interface (101), identifying (204) a display range in a... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070126699 - Optical navigation device and method of operating the same: An optical navigation device and a method of operating the same are provided. The optical navigation device includes: an image sensor for obtaining a sampling image; a filter selector for selecting an image filter performing a filtering operation according to an image pattern of the sampling image, and transmitting the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070126700 - Method and apparatus for sensing motion of a user interface mechanism using optical navigation technology: A method and an apparatus for determining displacement of a surface member coupled to a user interface mechanism, for example a joystick handle, using a fixed optical motion sensor. Using the displacement of the surface member, the method, and apparatus may determine an absolute position of the surface member, recalibrating... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070126701 - Hand held control device with dual mode joystick for pointing and scrolling: Control device (computer mouse) for moving a visual pointer on a display constituting part of a user interface for computer equipment. The control device is designed to be used hand held free of support from any surface, as the movement of the pointer in two dimensions takes place by means... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070126702 - Keyboard integrated navigation pad: A key arrangement that includes a plurality of keys arranged in a pattern including a first column, a last column, and one or more middle columns. At least one of the middle columns includes a multidirectional navigational key. The first and last columns have keys in each row. A plurality... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070126703 - Keyboard integrated navigation pad: A key arrangement that includes a plurality of keys arranged in a pattern including a first column, a last column, and one or more middle columns. At least one of the middle columns includes a multidirectional navigational key. The first and last columns have keys in each row. A plurality... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070126704 - Method and system for displaying textual information: A system for displaying textual information includes a receiver (300) for receiving textual information that includes a plurality of words. A text segmenter (302), operatively associated with the receiver (300), segments the plurality of words into a plurality of word segments, each word segment having one or more words. A... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070126705 - Mobile terminal and method for operating touch keypad thereof: A mobile terminal and method for operating a touch keypad, the mobile terminal including a touch keypad, a touch sensor for sensing a signal inputted from a key selected by a user on the touch keypad and outputting location information corresponding to the selected key based upon the sensed signal,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070126713 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus including a display panel, a main body casing to support the display panel and having a display opening to expose a display surface of the display panel and having a plurality of sensor mounting openings formed in a front surface thereof, an input unit provided to be... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126712 - Display apparatus, display system and control method thereof: A display apparatus having a multi-screen displaying mode to display a plurality of images, the display apparatus comprises: a displaying part displaying an image; a location detecting part detecting location information pointed on the displaying part through a predetermined pointing device; and a controller adjusting the location information detected through... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070126709 - Electronic device having symbol entering function: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a processing unit, a display and a touch-sensitive apparatus. The touch-sensitive apparatus includes a plurality of touch-sensitive units. Each touch-sensitive unit is corresponding to a symbol. The processing unit receives a stroke operation on a touch-sensitive unit, and displays the corresponding... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070126710 - Electronic device having symbol inputting function: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a processing unit, a display and a touch-sensitive apparatus. The touch-sensitive apparatus includes a plurality of touch-sensitive units. The display defines a symbol selection area for displaying a plurality of symbols corresponding to the touch-sensitive units. The processing unit receives a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070126715 - Image display apparatus, and image display method: An image display apparatus that includes: a display screen having a touch panel function on which an image is displayed with operation buttons superimposed on the image, and a switching detection means for detecting a display switching operation for switching the display of the image from the display screen to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126714 - Information processing apparatus and touch pad control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a main body, a touch pad which is provided on the main body, a determination unit which determines whether an external pointing device is connected to the main body, and a control unit which controls the touch pad in one of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070126711 - Input device: A touch pad device has an operating surface configured to receive contact activity, such as contact by a finger or stylus. A detection circuit detects the contact activity and communicates a detection signal to a data processing unit. The data processing unit associates the contact activity with either a first... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070126707 - Linearized touch sensor having protective coating: A touch sensor is disclosed. The sensor includes an electrically resistive layer that covers a touch sensitive area. The sensor further includes an electrically insulative layer that is disposed on the electrically resistive layer. The insulative layer has one or more open areas. Each open area exposes a portion of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070126708 - Method for gesture detection on a touch control bar with button and scroll bar functions: In a gesture detection method for a touch control bar with button and scroll bar functions, according to the present invention, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by detecting an object that touches on the touch control bar, leaves from the touch control bar, and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070126706 - Touch-sensitive input device and fault detection device for a touch-sensitive input device, in particular for medico-technical devices: The invention relates to a resistive touch-sensitive device for detecting a short-term or long-term dysfunction by means of measuring devices (32,33), a monitoring device (34) and a memory (35) in such a way that a timely signaling is carried out.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070126716 - Digital pen: A handheld writing instrument achieves digital positioning capabilities in a compact form factor by incorporating passive fiducials such as RFID tags into the body of the writing instrument. By positioning the fiducials in known locations relative to the writing tip, an active sensing system outside of the pen can remotely... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070126717 - Including contextual information with a formed expression: Embodiments include a method, a manual device, a handheld manual device, a handheld writing device, a system, and an apparatus. An embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a writing element having a first portion operable to discharge a first marking substance on a surface in response to a movement... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070126719 - Aging pad and flat panel display device having the same: A flat panel display device includes: a display panel; a driving circuit unit for applying a drive signal to the display panel; and a plurality of aging pads connected with the driving circuit unit and applying aging signals to the display panel, wherein each aging pad includes a plurality of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070126725 - Display apparatus and assembly of its driving circuit: A display apparatus and an assembly of a driving circuit for the display apparatus having a display device, a film carrier with a lead to transfer a signal for driving the display device, and a bus board to supply a signal to the lead. A dummy lead is provided along... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126726 - Display control device with multipurpose output driver: A display control device includes a controller, a scaling engine, a timing controller, a selector and an interface circuit. The controller is for providing a mode-control signal. The scaling engine is for producing a first interface signal. The timing controller is for converting the first interface signal into a second... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070126721 - Display module and electronic device using the same: A display module is provided, which comprises a stacked printed circuit board, and a control circuit mounted on the stacked printed circuit board. The stacked printed circuit board includes at least a first printed wiring board, a second printed wiring board, and a flexible insulating substrate interposed between the first... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070126722 - Display panel driver for reducing heat generation therein: A display panel drive circuit is provided with a first display output terminal to be connected with a data line of a display panel, first and second output stages, and a control circuit. The first output stage is directly connected with the first display output terminal and configured to output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070126720 - Error display system: Upon detection of an error such as a malfunction occurring at a drive mechanism, a sensor transmits an error signal to a control section. The control section selects character information about details of the error corresponding to the error signal and an image representing the drive mechanism where the error... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070126723 - Liquid crystal display having improved image and modifying method of image signal thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels; an image signal modifier comparing a previous image signal and a current image signal, modifying the current image signal based on the comparison result to generate a first modified image signal, calculating an average modified value, and modifying the first modified... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070126718 - Method and system of many-to-one transmission and information display via local area network: A many-to-one transmission and information display method via local area network is implemented in a local area network comprising a first electronic device, at least one second electronic device, and at least one processing device connected to an output device to display information. In this method, a predetermined display information... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070126724 - Noise suppressing method for flat panel display: A noise suppressing method for a flat panel display which is driven by a time controller IC and a plurality of driver IC's is described. The noise suppressing method includes providing a signal detect circuit and a video signal processor; detecting a switch-off signal while switching off the flat panel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070126727 - Method for adjusting monitor luminance: A method for adjusting monitor luminance applied to a monitor having a light sensor is provided. The method includes the steps of detecting environmental luminance by the light sensor, and adjusting the monitor luminance according to a predetermined monitor luminance adjusting curve and the environmental luminance; determining whether the user... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070126729 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in display area: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a display area of an electronic device such as a portable computer are provided. Such a method includes: (a) activating a mode of setting the display area to a white background screen using a first input command of a user; and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070126728 - Power circuit for display and fabrication method thereof: Power circuits for display and fabrication method thereof. The power circuit supplying voltages to a plurality of pixel driving circuits in a display, comprises a power rail and a plurality of pixel power lines. DC voltage is provided externally and conducted by the power rail of first material. The pixel... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070126731 - Graphical architecture for handheld measurement system: A method and system for providing a “framing” architecture which draws both real-time and post acquisition measurements such that multiple types of drawing objects can exist on the screen of a handheld computer at the same time independent of its exact location on the screen is disclosed. The “framing” architecture... Agent: Philip Virga

20070126730 - Image processing method, image processing device, computer aided detection, and method for filtering along the time axis: An image processing method comprises: an inputting step of inputting image data which is obtained by imaging a subject for a predetermined period of time with a medical imaging apparatus and is arranged in time series; an extracting along the time axis step of extracting pixels which satisfy a predetermined... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070126732 - Accessing 2d graphic content using axonometric layer views: Providing axonometric views of layers containing objects while preserving the visual attributes of the objects is disclosed. A group of objects, e.g., overlapping objects, is determined. Layer dimensions are calculated such that each object in the group is encompassed by a layer. Objects are placed in the layers and the... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070126733 - Apparatus and method for immediately creating and controlling virtual reality interactive human body model for user-centric interface: Provided is an apparatus and method for immediately creating and controlling a virtual reality interactive human body model for a user-centric interface. The apparatus and method can transform a whole body three-dimensional (3D) default model into a model close to the body of a user by collecting data from the... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070126734 - Image generation program product and image processing device: This program product causes a computer to function as a unit for setting spectator information including the number of spectators belonging respectively to first and second spectator types, a unit for determining the number of spectators belonging to the respective spectator types to be allocated respectively to each area, a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070126735 - Method and apparatus for 3-d data input to a personal computer with a multimedia oriented operating system: In this exciting time of increasingly powerful computer tools only few imaginable things are left to be invented. Recently issued PC multimedia operating system Vista supports speech and hand writing recognition, visual and data streaming and networking, as well as traditional computer powers. Present invention is meant to fulfill the... Agent: Sergey Antonov

20070126736 - Persistent formatting for interactive charts: User requested format alterations to interactive chart elements, including, but not limited to, legends, axes, gridlines, data labels, axes labels, error bars, and datapoints, whether they be represented as points, bars, pie wedges, etc., are persisted in spite of chart navigations, underlying data changes and/or format alterations. Interactive chart element... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070126738 - Drawing device, drawing method, and storage medium: A drawing device which outputs an image datum based on a drawing mode and a command to draw, includes a coordinate conversion unit which converts coordinates in the command to draw in accordance with a designated reduction ratio and a compensation unit which adds a width to a line to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070126737 - Method and device for detecting the orientation of an image: The invention relates to a method and device for detecting the orientation of an image. The method is such that it comprises the steps of: detecting the lines in the image, calculating, for each line detected, attributes characterizing each line, said attributes classifying each line as being an horizontal or... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20070126739 - Vector-based geometric polygon schema: A system for configuring orientation and storing criteria corresponding to vector elements that form a boundary of a polygon is provided. This innovation can define the boundary of a polygon as individual vectors with implied “from-” and “to-” directionality and can store the vectors in a standard manner such that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070126740 - Apparatus and method for creating animation: An animation creating apparatus that realizes more expressive “talking animation” by simplifying interface functions of a voiced/silent decision section and animation creating section and providing these sections in independent configurations, and that flexibly support various animation creating schemes and enable portable terminals to have lip-sync animation creating functions. In this... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070126742 - Movement management system for a cellular telephone: Apparatus for transition management in an a priori undefined animation sequence that combines a plurality of separate animation clips having a category determination unit for determination of category classifications of succeeding animation clips in a sequence and indicating whether the category classifications are the same or different, and a blending... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070126741 - Techniques for automated animation: Techniques are provided for forming one or more animation sequences used in animating a graphic. A semantic model of one or more semantic elements corresponding to content data is received. A presentation model of one or more presentation elements corresponding to objects is received. A set of one or more... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070126743 - Method for estimating three-dimensional position of human joint using sphere projecting technique: A method for estimating three-dimensional positions of human joints includes the steps of: a) marker-free motion capturing a moving figure for obtaining a multiview 2D image of the moving figure, and extracting a 2D feature point corresponding to a bodily end-effector; b) three-dimensionally matching the 2D feature point corresponding to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070126744 - Data processing apparatus and method thereof: A data processing apparatus generates a memory address corresponding to a first memory, and interpolates data read out from the first memory. The data processing apparatus selects a part of the memory address, checks if the first memory stores data corresponding to the selected part of the memory address, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070126746 - Managing information in mobile communication terminal: The present invention relates to managing information in a mobile communication terminal. Preferably, the present invention includes detecting whether a first memory is operationally connected to the mobile communication terminal, storing first attribute information related to data stored in the first memory in an internal memory of the mobile communication... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070126745 - Method and system for displaying digital video: The present invention provides a method and system for displaying digital video. The CPU configures a space in the main memory for entries to record the displaying information in accordance with a video source in sequence and transfer the corresponding video data of the entries to the main memory. The... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20070126747 - Interleaved video frame buffer structure: An embodiment is an interleaved video frame buffer structure that merges two separate chroma frame buffers into one chroma frame buffer by interleaving the individual chroma frame buffers. The merged chroma buffer, based on improved memory space adjacency versus two separate chroma frame buffers, may reduce the possibility of cache... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070126748 - Hardware animation of a bouncing image: A graphics controller for animating an overlay is described. The graphics controller includes a host interface for communicating with an external processor and a plurality of registers in communication with the host interface. Logic is configured to periodically change coordinates of an overlay image. The logic responds to values stored... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070126749 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically identifying, selecting and extracting graphical and media objects in frames or scenes rendered by a software application: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing and measuring a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070126750 - Replication of object graphs: The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2 . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Objects A and B in each local memory... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070126751 - Method and device for creating patterns for bead-inlaid plates: In a method of forming patterns for bead-inlaid plates original pictures such as photographs are used which are converted to digital, bitmapped representations. From such a representation a pattern is then produced by a user selecting an area of the represented picture, by dividing the picture using a grid of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070126752 - Signal processing method in a dental radiology apparatus: The application relates to a signal processing method in a dental radiology apparatus comprising an intraoral sensor that delivers at least one analog image output signal in response to an exposure of said sensor to x-rays, characterized in that it includes the following steps: conversion of said at least one... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070126753 - Implementing compositing operations on images: A method is described of compositing graphic elements in a pixel-based renderer (18). A first graphic element is received (step 2601) having a first colour and a first opacity and a second graphic element is received (step 2602) having a second colour and a second opacity. A blend output is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070126754 - Color correction using a device-dependent display profile: A method includes obtaining a chromatic correction for a display device based on a device-dependent display profile. The method may ensure that images that appear on a display device in a soft proofing environment will be visually equivalent to images that appear on print media.... Agent: David A. Novias Patent Legal Staff

20070126755 - System and method for whiteboard and audio capture: A system that captures both whiteboard content and audio signals of a meeting using a digital camera and a microphone. The system can be retrofit to any existing whiteboard. It computes the time stamps of pen strokes on the whiteboard by analyzing the sequence of captured snapshots. It also automatically... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070126756 - Memory access techniques providing for override of page table attributes: A memory access technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes selectively overriding attributes contained in a translation lookaside buffer or page table data structure with attributes contained in a context specifier.... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20070126758 - Flat display panel, picture quality controlling apparatus and method thereof: A method of controlling a picture quality of a flat panel display device includes storing a first compensation data used to compensate a panel defect area of a display panel, wherein the first compensation data is judged by a first inspection process, storing a second compensation data used to compensate... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070126757 - Video display device: A first light emission component is emitted which accounts for D % of the vertical cycle of a video signal in terms of duration and S % of the light emission intensity of a pixel over the vertical cycle. A second light emission component is emitted which accounts for (100−D)%... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126759 - Method and system for image processing for spatial light modulators: A method of enhancing the gray scale resolution of a PWM system. The method includes defining an N-bit PWM sequence with a length of 2N−1 units. The N-bit PWM sequence includes a least significant bit (LSB) segment characterized by a temporal length of one unit. In some embodiments, the temporal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP