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

20070171146 - Led driving apparatus with temperature compensation function: An LED driving apparatus having a temperature compensation function includes a reference voltage generator for generating a first reference voltage and a non-inversion amplification unit for performing non-inversion amplification to a difference voltage between the first reference voltage and a forward voltage with a preset gain. A driving unit adjusts... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171147 - Apparatus and method for representation gradation: An apparatus and method for representing gradation are provided. The apparatus for representing gradation comprises a diode which emits light with an intensity which is proportional to the current flowing therethrough, a gradation representation unit that is connected in series to the diode and includes a plurality of switches connected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171148 - Active matrix electrochromic display: The present invention is an active matrix electrochromic display architecture where the active components are placed on the backplane of the display, thereby maximizing the viewable pixel area. The cathode of the electrochromic pixel is placed on top of the active components, with respect to the viewer, thereby allowing the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070171151 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode; and a driver for supplying a voltage of a rising signal with a gradually rising voltage and a voltage of a scan signal of a negative... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070171152 - Method for driving a flat-type display device: A method for driving a flat-type display device which includes a cathode panel having first electrodes and second electrodes and an anode panel, the cathode panel and the anode panel having spacers is provided. The method includes the steps of: in the non-display operation period of the flat-type display device,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070171158 - Low power led-based marquee systems: A low power LED based marquee is described. The LEDs are powered by 3.3 VDC.... Agent: Autotech Technologies, LLP

20070171159 - Color led driver: Disclosed herein is a color LED driver, which is capable of being implemented by a compact structure without a feedback structure and accompanying a small size and low cost, by directly connecting a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor to a driving current path of a color LED applied to an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171161 - Display system and method for embeddedly transmitting data signals, control signals, clock signals and setting signals: A display system includes a display panel, a timing controller, a plurality of source drivers and an EDDS interface. The control signals, the clock signals and the setting signals generated by the timing controller are embedded as protocols into the data signals. The embedded signals are then transmitted from the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171166 - Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: A display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof which allow a component to be replaced and repaired simply, rapidly, and stably are provided. The display apparatus comprises a main body which accommodates a light source part, and comprises a display element which displays an image using light emitted from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171167 - Gamma curve compensating device and method using the same: The present invention provides a gamma curve compensating device and method using the same. The gamma curve compensating device includes an amplifier module, a signal corrector, and an attenuating unit. The amplifier module receives and amplifies a signal, and couples to a first impedance element and a second impedance element.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070171168 - Display device having reduced flicker: A driving apparatus for a display device and display device having the driving apparatus. The display device has a plurality of pixels each having a switching element. The driving apparatus includes a gate line connected to the switching element, a gate driver to apply a gate signal having first to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070171169 - Driving apparatus capable of quickly driving a capacitive load with heat generation reduced and a method therefor: A liquid crystal display driver is configured so that an external power supply is provided in an area separate from an internal power supply, which is connected to the driver to supply current at a voltage in the range between voltages V1 and V4. Switch signals are supplied from a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070171142 - Vehicle information display apparatus and method of displaying vehicle information: In a vehicle information display apparatus including a meter device (first display means) for displaying a first display image 17, a multi-display (second display means) 2 for displaying a second display image 24, and control means 110 for controlling the operation of the meter device 1 and the multi-display 2,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171143 - Color display device and color display method: The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to generate an image corresponding to each of the plurality... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070171144 - Display device and manufacturing method of the same: In a display device with a pixel constituted using an EL element or the like, leak light from a monitoring element that is provided for correcting changes in the properties of the element due to the temperature change, deterioration, or the like is effectively suppressed. The display device has a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070171145 - Circuit for lighting device, and method of lighting: A circuit for a lighting device comprises a sub-circuit which comprises a series current regulator and a group of solid state light emitters. The current regulator and the solid state light emitters are arranged in series. In some embodiments, the circuit further comprises a fan electrically connected in series in... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070171150 - Burning apparatus: A burning apparatus for burning data stored in a burning machine to a chip includes: a power transforming circuit for providing a working voltage to the chip, a connector for receiving parallel burn data and control signals from the burning machine, and a data transforming circuit for transforming the parallel... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070171149 - Plasma display panel apparatus and method of driving the same: The present invention aims to provide a PDP apparatus, where a sustain data pulse is applied to data electrodes during a sustain period, having high display quality,and capable of displaying a dark screen image vividly with high contrast without using an error diffusion method, as well as to provide a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070171156 - Display device: The organic EL display device includes first and second sets of stripe electrodes; third and fourth sets of stripe electrodes crossing the stripe electrodes of the first and second sets; and pixels, each including a light emitting section, one of the electrodes of which is connected electrically to the stripe... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070171155 - Driver for an oled passive-matrix display: An OLED (organic light-emitting diode) passive-matrix display includes a display portion and a driver portion. The display portion includes a matrix of OLEDs for displaying information. The driver portion includes a monitor circuit and a voltage adjusting circuit. The voltage adjusting circuit has a power-up portion that generates a supply... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070171154 - Method and apparatus for creating sequenced motion using electroluminescence: An apparatus includes a top plate [245] of a first transparent conductive material, a middle plate [225] of a second transparent conductive material, and a bottom plate [205] of conductive material. At least one upper dielectric layer [240] is disposed between the top plate [245] and the middle plate [225],... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070171153 - Organic el display device, and method for driving the organic el display device: Scanning switch means 21 to 2m can connect scanning lines S1 to Sm freely to a first potential or a second potential. Drive switch means 71 to 7n can connect drive lines D1 to Dn freely to a drive current source 70 or an off potential. Control means 8 connects... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171157 - Display apparatus having photo sensor: An electronic display apparatus includes a substrate, pixels and light sensing parts. The substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region adjacent the display region, and the substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction and a plurality of data lines extended in a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070171160 - Adjustment system for display device: The invention relates to a system for pre-adjusting the video image adjustment parameters of a flat screen device for displaying images, consisting of a screen and electronic control circuits which transmit video signals to it and a reticle generator. According to the present invention, the device further includes acquisition means... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070171164 - 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

20070171162 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device comprising an image signal line that supplies an image signal to a sampling circuit, the image signal line extending from an image signal terminal, bypassing a data line driving circuit, and reaching the sampling circuit. The image signal line has a first straight line portion extending in... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20070171163 - Liquid crystal display device, driving method thereof, liquid crystal television having the liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal monitor having the liquid crystal display device: A device is provided for setting a voltage applied to each of data signal lines so as to correct a voltage, applied to the pixel, which corresponds to a gradation data signal in each of sub-frames of a single frame. As such, voltage drop, caused by a combination of voltages... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171165 - Devices and methods for controlling timing sequences for displays of such devices: Methods for controlling display panels, in which the display panel comprises a plurality of pixels and wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises a plurality of sub-pixels, are provided. A representative the method comprises: controlling a timing sequence for turning on the pixels such that at least one of:... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171170 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: t

20070171171 - Display device and driving method: A display controller (40), comprising: a processor (62) for providing row selection pulses (52, 54, 56) for a display comprising M rows of pixels, the row selection pulses (52, 54, 56) having respective durations (t1, t2, t3 . . . tM) that increase from the pulse (52) for row 1... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070171172 - Flat display structure and method for driving flat display: A flat display structure including a substrate, a pixel matrix, a driving circuit and several voltage adapting devices and driving method thereof are provided. Each of voltage adapting devices includes an input terminal, a first control terminal and an output terminal. The input terminal is electrically connected to the i-th... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070171173 - Picture display device and method of driving the same: In a picture display device, a picture having high gradation is obtained by using an alternating method which can deal with a video signal having a high frequency band region. On the basis of an input signal, a signal processing circuit outputs a pair of analog video signals (a signal... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070171174 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes first display electrodes and second display electrodes positioned inside barriers while opposing each other. A front panel has closed-type barriers to increase fluorescent substance application area. A rear panel has stripe-type barriers to lower address voltage between the first display electrodes and address electrodes and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070171178 - Active matrix display device: A display includes a display area where the pixels are arranged in a first sub-matrix and a second sub-matrix positioned adjacent to each other. The sub-matrices have respective individual gate drivers and a common source driver. Each column of pixels in the first sub-matrix is interconnected with a corresponding column... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171176 - Digital-analog converter, data driver, and flat panel display device using the same: A digital-analog converter (DAC) including: a gray scale generator having a plurality of switches for generating desired gray scale voltages through charge sharing between at least two data lines; a switching signal generator for providing operation control signals for the plurality of switches of the gray scale generator; and a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070171177 - Driving device, display device, and method of driving the same: A driving device for a display device includes a gray voltage generator generating a plurality of gray voltages, a voltage selector selecting an output voltage from the plurality of gray voltages, a voltage level converter converting a level of the output voltage selected by the voltage selector and applying the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070171175 - Liquid crystal display devices and methods for driving the same: A method for driving a liquid crystal display panel. A turn-on signal is provided to first gate electrodes in sequence by a first direction and provided to second gate electrodes in sequence by a second direction opposite to the first direction during a frame. A data signal is provided to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171179 - Shift register circuit and display drive device: A shift register circuit includes plural stages of signal holding circuits which are cascade-connected to hold a signal based on a supplied input signal, to output an output signal based on the held signal, and to supply the output signal as an input signal to a subsequent stage. Each of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070171183 - Image processing method for display device: The present invention provides an image processing method for a display device. The method includes: calculating an average brightness of an image; adjusting the average brightness to generate an adjusted average brightness; utilizing Brightness Preserving Bi-Histogram Equalization (BBHE) and the adjusted average brightness to process the image; and displaying the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070171182 - Light control circuit and a liquid-crystal-display control drive device: A light control circuit that makes it possible to, when the light intensity of the area surrounding a display screen varies in a relatively short time, prevent the brightness of a backlight from being erroneously adjusted as the result of the variation being detected is provided. The light control circuit... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070171180 - Light source driving circuit, lighting apparatus, display apparatus, field sequential color liquid crystal display apparatus, and information appliance: The invention provides a light source driving circuit that can enhance a power supply efficiency while permitting reductions in the size and the noise of the power supply, and also provides a lighting apparatus, a display apparatus, a field-sequential-color liquid crystal display apparatus, and an information appliance that use such... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070171181 - Power supply device for a lcd backlight panel: The present invention provides an improved power supply circuit for a backlight control of the LCD panel, capable of initiating a plurality of CCFL. The electrical lighting device comprises an switching electronic ballast circuit, a CCFL abnormal detective circuit, an impedance matching device at positive end of balancing current, an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171184 - Thin film transistor array panel and liquid crystal display: A thin film transistor array panel is disclosed. The thin film transistor array panel includes a gate line formed on a substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line, a semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulating layer, a data line and a drain electrode formed on the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070171187 - Driving device and driving method of electrophoretic display: A driving device of an electrophoretic display panel having a common electrode and a plurality of divided electrodes disposed opposite to the common electrode includes: a first driving circuit that outputs a plurality of voltages corresponding to a plurality of voltage data supplied as a series of data and supplies... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171186 - Backlight module of liquid crystal display: A cut filter is used in a backlight module or a display device and positioned over the light source to filter off a part of the light comprising an overlap of at least two of the red light, the green light, and the blue light. By filtering off the overlapping... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171185 - Information display device: In an information display device, in which display media (particles or liquid powders) are sealed between opposed substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media (particles or liquid powders), to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171191 - Apparatus and method of scrolling screen in portable device and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A screen scroll apparatus of a portable device includes: a sensor unit which senses and outputs 2-dimensional coordinate values of at least one position related to the portable device; a display unit; a memory storing contents with a resolution higher than that of the screen that can be displayed; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171196 - Controller user interface and method: The method of operating a controller interface and an interface for a controller has a display, a plurality of manual user input mechanisms for receiving user input, a processor, and memory. The interface includes an actuation mechanism configured for receiving an actuation by a user and a user interface module... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070171193 - Display device: A display device for a vehicle includes a display LCD and a control LCD, which has transmission switching portions, each of which has three segment units. When the vehicle is running, left-side two-third segment units of each transmission switching portion are set to a non-transparent state in a portion of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070171198 - Image display apparatus, image recording apparatus, and control system for image distribution: Because there is a limit in the number of functions included in a device (a television set or a recorder, etc), which are shared by a plurality of users over a network, the sharing is also limited. The conflict of sharing the device (or the function thereof) between the users... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171190 - Intuitive display controller on a portable electronic device: An intuitive display controller on a portable electronic device is provided. The intuitive display controller includes a motion sensor and a processor coupled with the motion sensor. The motion sensor is for detecting at least one acceleration parameter of the electronic device. The processor generates at least one displacement parameter... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070171197 - Method for zooming image proportion of a mobile electronic apparatus and the mobile electronic apparatus using the same: The present invention discloses a method for zooming image proportion of a mobile electronic apparatus, wherein the mobile electronic apparatus includes an accelerated displacement detector and a display screen and, when the mobile electronic apparatus is moved, the accelerated displacement detector will detect the physical properties of the movement of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070171195 - Sliding/swing-type portable terminal capable of positioning liquid crystal display at center portion thereof and method of using the same: A sliding/swing-type portable terminal with a liquid crystal display unit is provided. The sliding/swing-type portable terminal can guide the swing movement of the liquid crystal display unit to the center portion of the terminal when the terminal swings. The sliding/swing-type portable terminal includes a body housing, a sliding housing provided... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070171189 - Auxiliary reading system of handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device having an auxiliary reading system for helping the user clearly understand what reading procedure is proceeding and make notes by themselves is provided. The auxiliary reading system of the handheld electronic device comprises a text generating program executed to perform a text decoration operation for successively... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070171199 - Locomotion simulation apparatus, system and method: A motion simulation system for providing force feedback to a user in response to movement of the user within a virtual environment comprises a virtual environment system for producing a virtual environment to the user. Cables are connected to a user interface to support the user interface in a suspended... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070171200 - Physically realistic computer simulation of medical procedures: An apparatus for interfacing the movement of a shaft with a computer includes a support, a gimbal mechanism having two degrees of freedom, and three electromechanical transducers. When a shaft is engaged with the gimbal mechanism, it can move with three degrees of freedom in a spherical coordinate space, where... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070171192 - Screen image presentation apparatus and method for mobile phone: An idle mode screen image presentation apparatus and method is provided for a mobile phone. A screen image presentation apparatus for a mobile phone according to the present invention includes a memory storing a character house including a background and function items for executing functions of the mobile phone; a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070171188 - Sensor for handheld device control illumination: The present invention is a sensor for installation within a handheld device, such as a portable media player or a mobile phone, that turns on illumination of controls for the device (graphical user interface, buttons, etc.) while the device is being gripped by a user, and turns off control illumination... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070171194 - Workspace expansion controller for human interface systems: A workspace expansion controller for human interface systems is provided. The controller resolves the physical workspace constraint by relocating the physical workspace of the device mapped inside the environment (virtual or robot) towards the area of interest of the operator without disturbing his or her perception of the environment. The... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070171201 - Computer input device: A computer input device for operating a computer system having a display and being capable of executing an application program provides a user with control of the computer and can include one or more input keys for accepting user input, control logic for converting the first user input into first... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070171202 - Trajectory estimation apparatus, method, and medium for estimating two-dimensional trajectory of gesture: A trajectory estimation apparatus, method, and medium using a triaxial accelerometer are provided. The trajectory estimation apparatus includes a motion sensing module which measures an acceleration component for each of three axes from the input 3D gesture using a triaxial accelerometer, a gravitational component removal module which calculates a gravitational... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171203 - Method for functioning a mouse zx scroll with a standard mouse driver: In a method for functioning a mouse Zx scroll with a standard mouse driver, a pair of middle-button signals of a mouse are generated by a standard mouse driver of Microsoft to sandwich a horizontal movement amount signal when scrolling a horizontal scroll bar of a window by a Zx... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070171204 - Method, sensing device and optical pointing device including a sensing device for comparing light intensity between pixels: A method for operating an optical motion sensing device comprising a light source and a photodetector device, said method comprises the steps of: a) illuminating a surface portion with radiation by means of the light source; b) detecting radiation patterns reflected from the illuminated surface portion by means of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171205 - Keyboard having magnet-actuted switches: A text input keyboard with magnet-actuated proximity switches, and a stylus having a magnet at the tip. Each key of the keyboard has a magnet actuated switch. A key is selected by disposing the stylus magnet near the selected key and switch. The switch closes due to the magnetic field... Agent: Dan Steinberg

20070171208 - Side key flexible circuit board for mobile telecommunication terminal: The present invention relates to an apparatus for supporting a function key of a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a flexible printed circuit for electrically connecting a plurality of function keys to the mobile communication terminal, wherein the flexible printed circuit is conformable to a shape of a mounting... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070171206 - 2-in-1 terminal having turnable display: A method and apparatus are provided for viewing a display arranged on a mounting assembly of a terminal, wherein the display turns or rotates in the mounting assembly so as to enable viewing of the display on either the frontside or backside of the terminal. Covers are arranged on a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070171207 - Actuated multi-faced keys: An assembly may include information that includes a first plurality of stripes making up a first icon and a second plurality of stripes making up a second icon. The assembly may include an actuator configured to displace the information to a first position in response to a change in length... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070171209 - Touch sensing apparatus: A touch sensing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a flip-flop (15), a sensor (13), an AC signal (14), and a detector (16). The AC signal supplies AC signals to the flip-flop. The flip-flop outputs a first output signal at the output of flip-flop when the sensor is not touched.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171211 - Touch detection for a digitizer: A detector for detecting touches of at least one object on a transparent sensor located over a display screen, the detector comprising. a display screen; a patterned arrangement of conductors extending into said sensor situated over said display screen; and detection circuitry adapted to detect capacitive coupling of said at... Agent: Martin Moynihan C/o Anthony Castorina

20070171210 - Virtual input device placement on a touch screen user interface: A display is generated on a touch screen of a computer. The display includes an application display, associated with an application executing on the computer, and a virtual input device display for a user to provide input to the application executing on the computer via the touch screen. In response... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070171212 - Touch panel, electro-optic device, manufacturing method for electro-optic device and electronic device: A touch panel includes: a first touch panel substrate having a first surface and having a flexibility; a second touch panel substrate arranged a fixed distance away from the first touch panel substrate via spacers, having a second surface that faces the first surface; a position detecting section formed on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070171213 - Stylus pen: A stylus pen used for a touch screen is provided. The stylus pen includes a holding part and a pen nib. The holding part includes a main part, a first casing and a second casing. The pen nib is used for touching the touch screen. One end of the pen... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070171215 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel, a rear case, a printed circuit board (PCB), and a conductive adhesive member. The rear case includes a bottom plate and sidewalls. The bottom plate faces the display panel and the sidewalls are extended from the bottom plate along the display panel. The... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070171214 - Driver ic for transforming image data arranged in a stripe format into image data arranged in a delta format and display using the same: A driver integrated circuit with a central processing unit interface and a display panel in a delta arrangement are incorporated in a display. The central processing unit interface of the driver IC receives an image data arranged in a stripe format. An image transformation device of the driver IC transforms... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070171216 - Interconnect structure for display device and projection display apparatus: An interconnect structure for a display device includes a driver from which display data are supplied, and an interconnect material having a plurality of signal lines disposed in parallel through which the display data are supplied from the driver. In the interconnect structure for a display device, the signal lines... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070171217 - Display device capable of compensating for luminance of environments: A display device capable of compensating for luminance of an environment is disclosed. The display device includes: a sensor, for sensing the luminance of the environment to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the luminance; a scaler, coupled to the sensor, for processing an original image signal according to the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070171218 - Apparatus and method for driving mobile display device: A mobile display device driving apparatus and method which can reduce power consumption are disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of liquid crystal cells each formed in sub-pixel areas of four colors, a battery charged with a voltage, a power saving mode signal generator... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070171221 - Image processing program and image processing device: A computer of an image processing device executing an image processing program displays, on a display device, a virtual three-dimensional space where there are a plurality of objects. The computer varies a size of a collision detection region defined for a predetermined object so that the size repeatedly increases and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070171219 - System and method of early rejection after transformation in a gpu: A system of early rejection after transformation in a Graphics Processing Unit is disclosed. The system includes following elements: (1) a vertex cache, for receiving vertex data of a triangle from system memory or video memory and storing the vertex data; (2) a vertex shader arithmetic logic unit, for operating... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070171220 - Three-dimensional scan recovery: A scanning system that acquires three-dimensional images as an incremental series of fitted three-dimensional data sets is improved by testing for successful incremental fits in real time and providing a variety of visual user cues and process modifications depending upon the relationship of newly acquired data to previously acquired data.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070171222 - Application-independent method for capturing three-dimensional model data and structure for viewing and manipulation: A computer-implemented method, apparatus and article of manufacture for capturing three-dimensional (3D) model data and structure maintained by a computer-implemented graphics program for display and manipulation. Calls made by the graphics program to a graphics library for displaying and manipulating the 3D model data are captured, and the captured calls... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070171223 - Method for creation of architectural space objects: Embodiments of the invention allow users to generate and maintain space objects in a computer-aided design model representing regions bounded by a set of drawing elements included in the model. The space object contains the geometry of such a bounded region and may be used to calculate values such as... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070171224 - Universal timelines for coordinated productions: Embodiments of the invention provide a universal timeline application that may be used to effectively manage the access and display of content related to multiple aspects of a production. The universal timeline application provides an interface presenting users with a visualization of all the different data elements of a production,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070171226 - Electronic presentation system: The invention provides a digital, animation presentation system for dramatically presenting various works. The digital and animated presentation in accordance with the invention is not limited by the conventions of paper books or electronic books that mimic paper-based books, and provides for the dramatic presentation of animation and animated text... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20070171227 - Methods and apparatus for accelerated animation using point multiplication: A method for a computer system includes determining an animation variable response subspace within an animation variable response space associated with an animation variable, in response to a set of training data for the animation variable, determining a set of characteristic calculation key points configured to allow navigation within the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070171228 - Methods and apparatus for accelerated animation using point multiplication and soft caching: A method for a computer system includes determining an animation response subspace within an animation response space for an animation variable responsive to training data for the animation variable, determining calculation key points for navigating within the animation response subspace, calculating animation response values for the calculation key points in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070171225 - Time-dependent three-dimensional musculo-skeletal modeling based on dynamic surface measurements of bodies: Active contour models and active shape models were developed for the detection of the kinematics landmarks on sequential back surface measurements. The anatomical landmarks correspond with the spinous process, the dimples of the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS), the margo mediales and the elbow. Back surface curvatures are used as... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20070171229 - Image display system: Disclosed is a processing on a host side and a panel side, thus optimizing a work load of the whole of a system including a graphics chip. Provided is an image display system which comprises a host side for executing an application and a panel side connected to the host... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070171230 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus includes a first graphics chip having a first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a first image signal; a second graphics chip having a second drawing processing capacity higher than the first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a second image signal;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070171231 - Image display controlling device and image display controlling method: A data buffer unit retains unit data sequentially decoded by a JPEG decoder. The data buffer unit has memory capacity equal to or larger than capacity required for storing unit data and smaller than capacity required for storing a screenful of image data on a display device. A data output... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070171232 - System and method for collecting and distributing market information: A method includes providing a first graphical user interface displayable on a display device, the first interface operable to enable a data provider to provide multiple sets of forest-product-market data, each data set being provided by the data provider at a time of the provider's choosing. A second graphical user... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070171233 - Resolution independent user interface design: Graphical user interface material map objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprises a complete description of the material map and may be used by a rendering engine to create a visual representation of the material map at any resolution. That is, material map... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP

20070171234 - System and method for asynchronous continuous-level-of-detail texture mapping for large-scale terrain rendering: A multi-resolution texture mapping system suitable for large scale terrain rendering using commodity graphics processing units (GPU). The GPU vertex and fragment shaders are used to implement the clip-mapping functionality. The terrain texture is represented by a combination of a mip-map and a multi-level clip-map having independent origins and off-set... Agent: Catalina + Associates, LLC

20070171235 - Display unit: A display unit has an image presentation section 10 for receiving a plurality of monomedia data and presentation style data describing a presentation style of a frame of each of the individual monomedia data, for generating scaling/combining control information 111 for combining the individual monomedia data, and for generating a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171236 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: Method in a mobile communications device, comprising: providing foreground picture data, providing background picture data, displaying the background and foreground picture data according to determined first positions and amounts on said display unit, receiving direction data, determining, based on the received direction data, a second position and amount of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20070171237 - System for superimposing a face image on a body image: A software application, and associated systems and methods, for superimposing a face extracted from one digital image onto a body, human or otherwise, in a background scene image. The software application can be used on different platforms, such as a handheld communication device or a standard desktop computer. The software... Agent: Marco Pinter

20070171238 - Viewing digital images on a display using a virtual loupe: A method and apparatus for viewing digital images is provided. A digital image may be viewed using a digital image system that employs a virtual loupe. A virtual loupe comprises a lens region and a target region. A user may position the target region over a portion of a screen,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070171240 - Apparatus, method and medium for controlling image orientation: An apparatus, method, and medium for controlling image orientation are disclosed. An orientation mode detector measures multi-directional rotational angles of a display panel and determines an orientation mode for original image data based on the measured rotational angles. A system memory stores orientation parameters corresponding to a plurality of image... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070171239 - Multiple-position docking station for a tablet personal computer: Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for operating a computing device. One method comprises determining if a screen of the computing device is oriented facing upward, and implementing a first software configuration in response to a determination that the screen is oriented facing upward. Another embodiment provides a computer system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070171241 - Driving method of display device: It is an object to provide a driving method of a display device capable of reducing pseudo contours while increase in the number of sub-frames is suppressed as much as possible. In a driving method of a display device where one frame is divided into a plurality of sub-frames to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070171242 - Display system and method of outputting image signal corresponding to display panel: Provided are a display system and a method of outputting an image signal corresponding to a display panel. The display system includes an image processor converting original video data input from a video signal converting unit into converted video data corresponding to a recognized output standard and outputting the converted... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070171243 - Systems for providing dual resolution control of display panels: Systems for providing dual resolution control of display panels are provided. A representative system incorporates two pairs of shift registers, each of the shift registers outputting a shifting signal; two pairs of logic gates; and a switching network coupled among the shifting registers and the logic gates. In a low... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070164925 - Projection system and control method of the same: A projection system has a display part and a digital light processor (DLP) optical system, the projection system including: a system storage part to store data inherent information corresponding to optical system data of the DLP optical system; a DLP storage part to store the optical system data and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164928 - Light emitting diode light source module: A light emitting diode (LED) light source module includes plural voltage converters to convert an input voltage into plural corresponding different operation voltages. A plurality of sets of different color LEDs are provided in the light source module, where each set receives a corresponding one of the operation voltages.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070164927 - Task analysis system, task analysis device, task management apparatus, document display, computer readable medium, method of task analysis, and computer data signal: A task analysis system includes: a document display that displays a document image and retains unit identification information identifying the document display itself; and a task management apparatus that manages a task, the task management apparatus including: a task associating unit that previously determines the unit identification information of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070164932 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a driver that supplies a driving voltage to the plasma display panel, and a controller. After a luminance difference between a first area and a second area of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070164931 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel according to the present invention is a plasma display panel including a screen with plural display lines, comprising a temperature detector which detects a temperature of at least a portion of the plasma display panel, and a display data adjustor which adjusts a line display data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070164934 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. In the plasma display apparatus, a data signal includes a voltage rising period during which the data signal gradually rises to a first voltage using an inductor, a voltage maintaining period during which the data signal is maintained at a second voltage higher than... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070164938 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a light emitting element, a first driving transistor coupled to the light emitting element and supplied with a first driving voltage, and a second driving transistor coupled to the light emitting element and the first driving transistor and supplied with a second driving voltage having a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070164939 - Display device and electoric device having the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device where power consumption can be suppressed and the number of gray scales can be increased without a scanning line driver circuit on both sides of a pixel portion. In a display device having a scanning line driver... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070164936 - Organic light-emitting display and driving device thereof: A driving device for an organic light-emitting panel is provided. The driving device includes a data-driving unit, a first scan-driving unit and a second scan-driving unit. The organic light-emitting panel includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. Each scan line has two ends connected to... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070164941 - Display device with enhanced brightness and driving method thereof: A display device that does not suffer from blurring or reduction in brightness is presented. The device includes a plurality of pixels, a scan driver, a signal controller, and a data driver. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element and a driving transistor that outputs a driving current to the light-emitting... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164945 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprises a light source which sequentially emits light of a plurality of colors, a display part which selectively projects the light emitted from the light source and displays an image, a data storage which stores a plurality of waveform data for representing a ratio of the plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164952 - Apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display: A plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines are provided at a liquid crystal display panel. A gate driver supplies a gate pulse to the plurality of gate lines. A data driver supplies a positive polarity gray scale level voltage and a negative polarity gray scale level... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070164949 - Device and method for driving liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a device and a method for driving a liquid crystal display. The device comprises: a luminance weighting value processor for calculating a luminance weighting value according to a luminance value of a current frame and a luminance value of a previous frame of the video... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164951 - Display device: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal panel is provided to a glass substrate. A power supply IC for supplying power to the driving circuit is mounted on FPC for electrically connecting the liquid crystal panel and an image output IC at the outside of the liquid crystal panel. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164950 - Image display and electronic device: An image display includes the following components. A display panel has a plurality of pixels arrayed in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. A light source emits light toward the display panel. A polarization-axis control unit is disposed between the display panel and the light... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070164948 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a gate driving unit mounted onto the liquid crystal display panel and connected to the plurality of gate lines and a plurality of lines applying an external signal to the gate driving unit. The plurality of lines are connected... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070164947 - Method for improving display uniformity: A method for driving a panel includes measuring common electrode voltage characteristics of the panel in the X and Y direction of the panel, and modifying driving voltages of the pixel units based on the corresponding measured common electrode voltage characteristics. The pixel units on different locations of the panel... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070164954 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix on the substrate where each pixel includes a switching element, a plurality of gate lines that are connected to the switching elements and extend in a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164953 - Transflective liquid crystal display and driving method of the same: A transflective liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of primary color sub-pixels and a brightness-enhancing sub-pixel. The reflective region of the transflective liquid crystal display is formed only on the brightness-enhancing sub-pixel.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164960 - Array substrate, display apparatus having the same and method of driving the display apparatus: An array substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of pixels on the base substrate. Each pixel includes a data line, first and second gate lines, first to third switching devices, and first and second pixel electrodes. The first and second gate lines cross the data line, and the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070164963 - Common voltage generation circuit and liquid crystal display comprising the same: A common voltage generation circuit includes a common voltage adjusting circuit adjusting a level of a common voltage in response to a compensation signal and providing the adjusted common voltage to a liquid crystal panel, and a common voltage compensating circuit including a resistor producing potential differences between the adjusted... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070164967 - Display device: A display device is proposed in which scan line driver circuits are not disposed on opposite sides of a scan line, but one end of the scan line is driven by a scan line driver circuit, while the other end of the scan line is driven by a scan line... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070164964 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display including a substrate, first and second rows of pixels each formed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels, a first gate line extending in a row direction on the substrate and connected to the first row of pixels, a second gate line extending in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070164970 - Timing controller: A timing controller includes an interface controller that reads out a current identification code and current address information of the current identification code. A data comparator compares a previous identification code stored in a memory provided in the timing controller with the current identification code. If the current identification code... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164923 - Electronic device: An electronic device is provided that has excellent portability because it can be folded to a compact size at coupling means. In addition, a first display portion of a first display unit and a second display portion of a second display unit can form a single, large-screen display portion when... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070164924 - Multi-function two pannel device with 360 relative motion: A multi-function electronic device is designed to provide a wide variety of functions. The device consists of two panels attached for relative movement by a hinge. The hinge provides a range of movement of a full 360°. The various functions are accessed by moving the relative position of the panels... Agent: Perman & Green

20070164926 - Display control device, display control method, and program: A display control device for controlling the display of an image in a display device includes a decision unit configured to decide whether the state of a scaling of a moving-image portion in a display object image or an image to be displayed in the display device has changed; and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070164929 - Electronic device with reflective panel: An electronic device such as a portable phone has a casing, a display element provided in the casing, and a panel attached to the casing to cover the display element. A half mirror layer and a shading layer are formed on the panel. An opening of the shading layer is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070164930 - Led driving device with pulse width modulation: The present invention discloses an LED driving device with pulse width modulation (PWM) capable of preventing the LED display from flickering. The LED driving device primarily comprises a PWM unit for modulating the ON/OFF signal with a PWM cycle from one signal of higher resolution to two or more signals... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20070164933 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: Disclosed herein is a plasma display device and a method of driving the plasma display device. In the method of driving the plasma display device, the plasma display device includes sustain electrodes and scan electrodes formed in parallel with each other, and ITO electrodes are spaced apart from each other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070164935 - Active matrix organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: A display includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of pixel circuits, a source driver, a gate driver, a timing controller and a gray scale circuit. The source driver includes a data line driving circuit for generating driving current corresponding to an image to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070164940 - Display apparatus and pixel driving method thereof: A display device comprises a pixel structure. The pixel structure includes a first transistor having a gate and circuitry to initially set the first transistor gate at a first voltage. In response to a data signal received over a data line of the display device, the first transistor gate is... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070164937 - Display device and control method thereof: A display device with improved brightness and a method of controlling the display device are presented. The display device includes a driving transistor, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor, a detecting transistor detecting a magnitude of an electric signal transferred from the driving transistor to the pixel... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164942 - Driver circuit of a display device: In a driver circuit of a display device handling a digital image signal there is provided a driver circuit with a structure in which the timing of holding the image signal in a latch circuit is not influenced by a delay of a sampling pulse. A precharge TFT (102) is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070164943 - Display system: One embodiment of a display system includes a control module that controls a position of an adjustable neutral density filter based on a calculated filter setting and that controls modulation of a set of frame data by an image modulator based on a calculated gain setting, and an image analysis... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070164944 - Display system: One embodiment of a display system includes a control module that controls an adjustable aperture based on a calculated aperture setting and that applies a calculated gain setting to a set of frame data to define a modified set of frame data, an image analysis module that calculates a gain... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070164946 - Liquid crystal display device, signal processing unit for use in liquid crystal display device, program and storage medium thereof, and liquid crystal display control method: When receiving an interlaced video signal, an I/P conversion section converts the interlaced video signal into a progressive video signal by any of two or more I/P conversion methods. Further, an emphasis conversion section subjects the progressive video signal to emphasis conversion. Here, a control CPU controls the degree of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164955 - Liquid crystal display device and head-up display using it: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can be produced at low costs, can achieve miniaturization, and can offer clear virtual images. The liquid crystal display device is provided with: a frame body that is so disposed as to cover a top face of a liquid crystal cell, that... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070164957 - Liquid crystal display: A multi-domain LCD panel includes data lines, scan lines and pixels. Each pixel includes first and second sub-pixels respectively having first and second storage capacitors. A first data switch is selectively coupled to a first terminal of the first capacitor and one of the data lines. A second data switch... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070164956 - Liquid crystal display device: It is possible to eliminate the blue tone in the black color display in the OCB liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display cell (110) includes an opposing substrate (130) having an opposing electrode (Ecom), an array substrate (120) having pixel electrodes of the respective colors (dpixR, dpixG, dpixB),... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164958 - Active matrix liquid crystal display device: An active matrix liquid crystal display device has an array of picture elements (12), each comprising a picture element electrode (14) and a switching device (16), addressed by crossing sets of selection (row) and data (column) address conductors (18,20), and a set of supplementary connection lines (30) extending in the... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070164961 - Liquid crystal display device, method of driving the same, and method of driving a portable information device having the liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device that displays an image by inputting n (n is a natural number) bit digital signals has n memory circuits in each pixel. The n memory circuits store n bit digital signals, which are converted into corresponding analog signals by a D/A converter provided in each... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070164962 - 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. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070164959 - Threshold voltage compensation method for electroluminescent display devices: An active matrix electroluminescent display device has a shorting transistor (30) connected between the gate and drain of the drive transistor (22). Means (42) is provided for measuring a voltage on the data line (6). The shorting transistor (30) can be used to discharge the voltage on the gate of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070164965 - Crystal display apparatus and method of controlling the same: A liquid crystal display apparatus is disclosed which can prevent occurrence of flicker regardless of display modes. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal modulation element which includes a liquid crystal layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, a controller which controls a potential difference to be applied between... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070164968 - Liquid crystal display control device: There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performed by a frame memory, a line... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070164966 - Liquid-crystal display device: In an embodiment of the invention for an OCB (Optically Compensated Bend)-mode liquid-crystal display (LCD) device, retardation and/or a predetermined voltage range, from which a voltage applied to pixels in a viewing area is selected, is set for the each pixel or for the pixels in each region of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164969 - Timing controller for liquid crystal display: A timing controller for a liquid crystal display device includes an error detection module that detects an error in signals input from an external source and generates a data signal based on the error in the signals, so as to display the data signal on a liquid crystal panel for... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164972 - Liquid crystal display and method of repairing the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) having a working and a redundant shift register for driving the gate lines of the display. A plurality of repair lines RL1-RLn run in parallel with the plurality of gate lines GL1-GLn between the working shift register whose stages are arranged to one side of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164974 - Output buffer with improved output deviation and source driver for flat panel display having the output buffer: An output buffer with an improved output deviation and a source driver of a flat panel display which employs the output buffer wherein the output buffer includes a first input terminal to which a first differential input signal is applied, a second input terminal to which a second differential input... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070164973 - Shift register and image display apparatus containing the same: A shift register includes a first transistor connected between an output terminal and a first clock terminal, a second transistor connected between the output terminal and a first power terminal, and an inverter in which a first node to which the gate of the first transistor is connected serves as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070164971 - Shift register turning on a feedback circuit according to a signal from a next stage shift register: A shift register includes a signal generating circuit for generating an output signal at an output end of the shift register according to a first clock signal while the signal generating circuit is turned on; a driving circuit, electrically coupled to the signal generating circuit, for generating a driving signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070164979 - Video display driving method of lcd: A video display driving method of a liquid crystal display (LCD) receives a plurality of sets of video frame data for an LCD panel. The method transforms each set of the video frame data into a preset-voltage signal and a post-set-voltage signal for driving a plurality of pixels during a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164976 - Backlight module of a display panel: A backlight module of a display panel includes a first light source, a second light source, a first inverter, and a second inverter. The first light source is disposed on a first side of the display panel and includes a first light-emitting device and a second light-emitting device. The second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070164975 - Display device: A display device (10; 200; 300; 400) including a display (20) for presenting images is described. The display (20) includes an illumination unit (25) for generating first radiation for illuminating a pixel liquid crystal display unit (20), the display unit (20) selectively transmitting the first radiation to generate second radiation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070164977 - Inverter for boosting rotational image displaying gain: An inverter for boosting rotational image displaying gain has a driving module to output a plurality of driving signals of the same frequency and same phase to synchronously drive a plurality of voltage transformation modules. The driving signals have a duty cycle consisting high luminance cycles and low luminance cycles.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164978 - Method and system or driving a display apparatus: The display apparatus has several display blocks. The display blocks are driven in a first sequence during a first frame period. The display blocks are driven in a second sequence during a second frame period immediately following the first frame period. The display block driven last in the first sequence... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070164980 - Remote cholesteric display: The present invention enables a user of a portable electronic communications device such as a cell phone to view information on a larger remote reflective cholesteric display. The portable communications device may connect with the remote display by wire or wirelessly. The remote display is separate from the portable communications... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070164981 - Display element: A display element comprising at least two conductive porous layers and a conductive liquid, the conductive porous layers comprising a plurality of connected conductive particles insulated from the conductive liquid by a dielectric and lyophobic covering, and means for separately connecting a voltage across the at least two porous layers... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070164983 - Electrophoretic display apparatus: An electrophoretic display apparatus which is equipped with first and second substrates, an electrophoresis dispersing liquid, and first and second electrodes, and whose display state is made to be a planar distribution state of charged migration particles wherein a first planar distribution state that the charged migration particles spread on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070164982 - Electrophoretic display with uniform image stability regardless of the initial optical states: Respective voltage waveforms (700, 720, 740, 760; 800, 820, 840, 860, 900, 920, 940, 960; 1000, 1020, 1040, 1060) are provided for driving respective portions, e.g., pixels, of a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display, to a common final optical state. Each waveform includes a driving pulse (D)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070164984 - Information display device: In an information display device which comprises an information display panel, in which at least one group of particles are sealed in a plurality of cells formed by partition walls between the opposed substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the particles, to which an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164989 - 3-dimensional graphical user interface: A system comprising a display, a processor, and a storage device is provided. The storage device is operable to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, display on the display a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of objects. The plurality of objects each have a substantially similar... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070164987 - Apparatus for hands-free support of a device in front of a user's body: An apparatus is disclosed for supporting an electronic device in front of the body of a user. The apparatus comprises a chest-engaging member, a first back-engaging member and at least one resiliently deformable first arm coupling the chest-engaging member to the first back-engaging member. Resilient deformation of the at least... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20070164988 - Augmented reality apparatus and method: An augmented reality apparatus and method in which the direction of a camera is adjusted to be consistent with a direction toward which a user faces and an augmented reality image is realized for a subject image incident from the adjusted camera direction. The augmented reality apparatus includes a viewing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070164991 - Display control apparatus: The display control apparatus installed in an electronic device includes a motion sensor, a processor and a display controller. The motion sensor senses the motion of an electronic device and sends out a motion parameter to a processor. Each motion parameter is related to a specific page motion. Therefore, when... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070164994 - Input device: An input device includes an input section formed of a display sheet and a coordinate input sheet, and a switch section allowing a push-input and placed on a substrate at a place corresponding to a display section of the display sheet. A foamed layer containing air and working as an... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070164986 - Interface apparatus and method using electronic paper: An interface apparatus with: a display module having a plurality of display devices that display an image using electronic paper, a control module that provides enable information needed to enable the respective display devices and image information needed to display the image, a decoding module that decodes the enable information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070164992 - Portable computing device for controlling a computer: A portable computing device for controlling a computer is provided. The portable computing device includes an input device, and an optical sensing module. The optic sensing module is for capturing images which map a movement of the portable computing device. When the portable computing device is connected to the computer... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070164985 - Apparatus and method for selecting and outputting character by teeth-clenching: An apparatus and method for selecting and outputting characters by making a teeth clenching motion for disabled person are disclosed. The apparatus includes: an electromyogram signal obtaining unit including electromyogram sensors disposed at both sides for generating an electromyogram signal according to a predetermined muscle activated when a disabled person... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070164990 - Arrangement, method and computer program for controlling a computer apparatus based on eye-tracking: A computer based eye-tracking solution is disclosed. A computer apparatus is associated with one or more graphical displays (GUI components) that may be manipulated based on user-generated commands. An event engine is adapted to receive an eye-tracking data signal that describes a user's point of regard on the display. Based... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070164993 - Display control apparatus: The display control apparatus of the present invention includes a motion sensor, a processor and a display controller. The motion sensor is used to sense the motion of an electronic device and sends out a motion parameter to a processor. Each motion parameter is related to a special motion direction... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070164995 - Ergonomic input device: The present invention relates to an ergonomic device (100) for manual input of control signals in a computer environment. The device (100) is adapted for connection in communication with a computer processing unit, and comprises: a base (10) for supporting the device on an operating surface; a control panel (20)... Agent: The H.t. Than Law Group

20070164996 - Joystick controller with centre-lock: A joystick controller comprises an operating shaft mounted for pivotal movement relative to a housing. The joystick controller is configured such that when the operating shaft is in a null position a release of pressure applied on the operating shaft is effective to lock the joystick so as to prevent... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070164997 - Device for vitality diagnostics: A device for vitality diagnostics on a test person having an output unit (10) associated with a data processing device which is constructed to output a visual and/or acoustic signal for the test person, as well as an actuating and sensor device (10, 22, 42) which is set up to... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070164998 - Invisible infrared laser mouse: This invention is directed to a device of “Invisible Infrared Laser Mouse” characterized by fixing a light emitter and an image sensor at the inner open side of bottom shell; whereas the light emitter emits invisible infrared, and the image sensor is used to sense infrared. Accordingly, the invisible infrared... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070164999 - Optical navigation module and lens having large depth of field therefore: An optical navigation module includes a body having a base which rests on a surface with respect to which the optical navigation module moves; a lens disposed in the body and having a large depth of field that is longer than a distance between the lens and the surface so... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070165000 - Universal input device and system: The present invention relates to input devices and particularly to input devices for use with computer and telecommunications systems and/or other object systems and/or devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to a universal input device for inputting data.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070165001 - System, computer program product and method of preventing recordation of true keyboard acoustic emanations: A system, computer program product and method of preventing recordation of true keyboard acoustic emanations are provided. In an embodiment, it is determined whether a user has stricken a key on a keyboard. In response to the stricken key a keystroke sound from a mask which is dissimilar to a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ve) C/o Volel Emile

20070165002 - User interface for an electronic device: A user input interface for an electronic device, comprising a keyboard with a plurality of keys arranged in proximity to each other. Each key comprises an input detector sensitive to detect user activation, such as a pressure switch. A sensor in each key is configured to generate a signal responsive... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070165003 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input and providing spelling substitution: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. The device is structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input. The device is... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070165004 - Capacitive touch sensor with integral el backlight: A personal electronic device includes a programmable display and a programmable keypad, wherein at least one of the programmable display and the programmable keypad includes a capacitive touch sensor and an EL panel in a unitary structure. A conductive layer shields the capacitive touch sensor from the EL panel and... Agent: Paul F. Wille Cantor Colburn LLP

20070165005 - Method for multiple objects detection on a capacitive touchpad: A multiple objects detection method for a capacitive touchpad, through at least one preset time, whether it is noise and interference or an operation of object on touchpad is thus distinguished, actions such as object touches the touchpad, leaves the touchpad are then judged correctly, and different kinds of gesture... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070165006 - Input device and electronic apparatus: An input device and electronic apparatus are provided. The input device includes a detecting region that is operative to detect a change in capacitance between electrodes. The detecting region extends from an image display region that displays an image and has a predetermined area to a non-display region that is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070165008 - Compact infrared touch screen apparatus: An infrared touch screen apparatus includes a display screen mounted within a frame, a circuit board disposed behind a back side of the display screen, an infrared transmitting device mounted on the circuit board and an infrared receiving device mounted on the circuit board. A first reflective device is in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20070165007 -