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 - Interactive input system: An interactive input system comprises at least two imaging devices associated with a region of interest. The at least two imaging devices acquire images of the region of interest from different locations and have overlapping fields of view. At least one receiver is operable to receive data output by an... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070165009 - Touch panel, method for detecting touch input position, electro-optic device, and electronic device: A touch panel includes: a touch panel substrate having an input surface; a cover film arranged separately from the input surface, and facing to the input surface; spacers extending upright from the touch panel substrate toward the cover film; a transmitter causing surface acoustic waves to be propagated on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165011 - Hand-held device with character input rotary wheel: A hand-held device is provided. The hand-held device includes a rotary wheel, a switch, a character region, and a controller. The rotary wheel has a plurality of positioning inputs. The character region includes a plurality of icon areas corresponding to the positioning inputs. Each icon area includes a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165010 - Multi-direction roller structure for input device: A multi-direction roller structure for an input device is provided. The multi-direction roller structure includes a roller, a switch actuator, a left push-on switch and a right push-on switch. The roller includes an axle stretching to both sides. The switch actuator includes a left supporting portion and a right supporting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165012 - Selection device of items arranged in multi-dimensional manner and cursor movement method thereof: According to an embodiment of the invention, a selection device of items arranged in multi-dimensional manner, wherein the items are arranged along a plurality of virtual axes, and each of the items is selectable by a cursor that is movable along the plurality of virtual axes, the selection device comprising:... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070165014 - Display driver ic and display driving method for supporting various driving modes: A display driving integrated circuit (IC) and a display driving method for supporting various driving mode include an input unit, a digital-analog converter and a row data output unit. The row data output unit outputs at least one of the row data to a row line corresponding thereto for each... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070165015 - Efficient use of synchronous dynamic random access memory: DDR_SDRAM chips running at 1.5 clock rate are used for transferring image data from an image data source to a source driver in a display panel. In general, P DDR_SDRAM chips running at a 1.5 clock rate are used to store frame data in N frames. If the frame date... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070165013 - Apparatus and system for reproducing 3-dimensional images: This invention relates to optical-electronic technology and can be used for building 3-dimensional displays for computers, television (TV) receivers and other devices, as well as for building systems for volumetric television. The technical result is an increase in the number of aspect angles with relatively simple construction and the use... Agent: Thomas Loop

20070165016 - Apparatus, system, and method for capturing an image with a scanned beam of light: A device for image transmission includes a first scanner at a first location and a second scanner at a second location, with an optical fiber linking the scanners. The first scanner scans the first location and couples light from the first location to the optical fiber. The fiber transmits the... Agent: Chris Wiklof Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070165017 - Power supply circuit and image display apparatus using the same: A power supply circuit comprises, on a single circuit board, an AC inlet to which a power cord is connected from an external AC power supply, a filter circuit to which an inductance element is connected to suppress leakage of electromagnetic waves to the outside of the image display apparatus,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070165018 - Computer system: A client device used by a user is formed by a PC as a first client and a terminal device as a second client. The terminal device is, for example, a portable type and has software capable of inputting/outputting information to/from a personal computer (PC) and being controlled at a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070165019 - Design of systems for improved human interaction: A method for designing a human interface of a system includes establishing guidelines for avoiding sensory overload conditions of a human interacting with the system. The method also includes identifying an event associated with the system producing a potential sensory overload condition. The method further includes generating a human interface... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070165020 - Patient device with separate user interface: A patient device including a case and a user interface for interaction between a patient and the patient device, wherein at least a part of the user interface is separable from the case and may be used or recognized by the patient.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070165023 - Image display with radiator: An image display with a radiator is disclosed. The image display includes a light source for generating light, a display panel for receiving the light, to display an image using the received light, and a radiator arranged between the light source and the display panel, the radiator including at least... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070165022 - Method and system for the automatic computerized audio visual dubbing of movies: A method for automated computerized audio visual dubbing of a movie comprises (i) generating a three-dimensional head model of an actor in a movie, the head model being representative of specific facial features of the actor, and (ii) generating a three-dimensional head model of a dubber making target sounds for... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070165021 - System for manipulating three-dimensional images: An automated three-dimensional and related data access system, said system comprising manipulating means for virtually manipulating, testing, and controlling the three-dimensional and related data. A system for controlling and adjusting three-dimensional and related data, said system comprising manipulating means for virtually manipulating, testing, and controlling the threedimensional and related data.... Agent: Kenneth I Kohn Kohn & Associates

20070165024 - Section writing method for volumetric 3d displays: This invention describes a data writing method for improving resolution of volumetric 3D display based on a rotating display screen or a rotating display panel. The method separates the active display area of an SLM (or a rotating display panel) into a number of sections. When displayed, each section corresponds... Agent: Che-chih Tsao

20070165025 - Method, system, and program product for re-meshing of a three-dimensional input model using progressive implicit approximating levels: A method, system and program product for re-meshing of a three-dimensional (3D) input model using progressive implicit approximating levels are provided. Specifically, an initial quadrilateral mesh for a 3D input model is provided. Then, an implicit approximating field is built for a first approximating level (L) of the 3D input... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070165026 - System and method for empty space skipping in sliding texture based volume rendering by trimming slab polygons: A method for volume rendering a digitized image includes providing a pair of adjacent 2-dimensional images of texture data, identifying a plurality of polygons extending in slabs between said adjacent two dimensional textures, and finding the first and last visible voxel for the data rows and data columns of each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070165029 - method and apparatus for generating shadow by using an adaptive shadow volume algorithm: A method and apparatus for generating shadow by using an adaptive shadow volume algorithm are disclosed. By accumulating the number of Z pass and Z fail during shadow volume rendering, the performance can be improved by adaptively selecting the z pass algorithm or the z fail algorithm. Accordingly, one of... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070165027 - 3d displaying method, device and program: In a technology for displaying two-dimensional images on a plurality of display planes placed at different depth positions as seen from an observer to display a three-dimensional stereoscopic image, when a display object having brightness darker than that of a background is displayed, the disclosed method including: generating first two-dimensional... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070165028 - Instruction folding mechanism, method for performing the same and pixel processing system employing the same: An instruction folding mechanism, a method for performing the instruction folding mechanism and a pixel processing system employing the instruction folding mechanism are described. The pixel processing system comprises an instruction folding mechanism and a pixel shader. The instruction folding mechanism folds a plurality of first instructions in a first... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070165032 - Apparatus and method for teaching artwork and cosmetic adjustment on the human form using 4d rendering: This invention is an application of 4D human form modeling technology enabled by high-speed data processes and a temporal adjustment scheme for teaching and understanding external and/or cosmetic changes on the human form. The potential applications of this technology are limitless within the confines of external human modeling and are... Agent: Teri Dougherty

20070165030 - Content display device and method for controlling display according to complexity of content and content display program: The content display apparatus related to mobile terminals, mobile phones, computer apparatuses and others performs the following process to accurately display the content. The content to be reproduced is stored in a storage unit. Data of the content to be reproduced is evaluated, and complexity of the content is calculated.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165031 - Scripted graphics in a process 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 devices within a process plant. The graphic elements and displays include one or more objects, each of which includes... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070165033 - Image generating method: This invention provides an image generating method that simplifies moving body operation. This method includes the following steps. (1) a step of receiving environment information (for example, environment images) using one or a plurality of space measurement sensors (for example, a camera) attached to a moving body; (2) a step... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070165034 - Snap to element analytical tool: An analytical tool for measuring spacing between elements in a web page is provided. In one implementation, the analytical tool identifies locations indicated on a web page and automatically determines one or more elements in proximity to those indicated locations. The analytical tool automatically identifies points on the determined elements... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070165035 - Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features: A deferred shading graphics pipeline processor and method are provided encompassing numerous substructures. Embodiments of the processor and method may include one or more of deferred shading, a tiled frame buffer, and multiple?stage hidden surface removal processing. In the deferred shading graphics pipeline, hidden surface removal is completed before pixel... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20070165037 - Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional image according to position of user: An apparatus and method for displaying a three-dimensional image according to the position of a user, in which the distance between a display panel displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional optical panel converting a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image is controlled in accordance with the position of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070165036 - Method for programming display display controller chipand related apparatus thereof: A system for programming at least a controller chip is disclosed. The system includes a programming apparatus and at least a programmable device mounted on the programming apparatus. The programming apparatus has at least a first connection interface and a micro-controller. The programmable device has the monitor controller chip mounted... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165038 - Information processing apparatus and operation control method for use in the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an external display connection terminal, a display controller which receives video data from software and generates a digital video signal from the received video data, an interface control circuit which outputs the digital video signal, which is generated by the display... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070165040 - Display apparatus capable of preventing firmware update failure and method thereof: The invention relates to a display apparatus and related method thereof capable of preventing firmware updating failure. The display apparatus includes a first memory block for storing a first firmware; a second memory block for storing a second firmware; and a micro controller unit coupled to the first memory block... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070165039 - Method and apparatus for decoding video data: A video decoder organizes and stores pixel lines of a reference picture into first and second memory devices. The video decoder then reads portions of a pixel block from the first and second memory devices and processes such a pixel block for generating a subsequent picture. By reading from the... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070165041 - Method and apparatus of reporting memory bit correction: Briefly, a method, main processing unit and a computer system to report a failure in a bit of a memory line by updating first and second counters for a first time and a second time correction of bit failures in a line, respectively. The updating of first and second counters... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070165042 - Rendering apparatus which parallel-processes a plurality of pixels, and data transfer method: A rendering apparatus includes a memory device, a cache memory, a cache control unit and a rendering process. The memory device stores image data. The cache memory executes transmission/reception of the image data to/from the memory device. The cache memory includes a plurality of entries, each of which is capable... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070165043 - Method and apparatus for buffering graphics data in a graphics system: A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. Techniques for efficiently buffering graphics data between a producer and a consumer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070165044 - Architectural structure design methods, architectural structure design apparatuses, and articles of manufacture: Architectural structure design methods, architectural structure design apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects of the disclosure. In one aspect, an architectural structure design method includes responsive to user input, modifying a visual representation of an architectural structure, wherein the visual representation comprises an object of... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070165047 - Graphic rendering system capable of performing real-time compression and decompression: A graphic rendering system capable of performing real-time compression and decompression, which includes a storage device, a decompressor, a rendering engine, a first real-time compressor, a frame buffer and a first real-time decompressor. The storage device stores a compressed sprite image and a compressed background image. The decompressor performs a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070165046 - Computer graphics methods and systems using quasi-monte carlo methodology: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the computer graphics system comprising a sample point generator and a function evaluator. The sample... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070165045 - Method and tool for modifying a procedural map: Method for modifying a procedural map for use with a tree driven procedural map comprising a plurality of levels (at least two levels) each having at least one node associated to at least one parameter, comprising the steps of: ● providing a node selection tool allowing the selection of at... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (other)

20070165048 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: The present invention provides an image processing device with which the storage capacity for storing lookup tables can be reduced while allowing the degree to which various color processing operations are performed to be freely adjusted. The image processing device 10 performs color processing of an image signal d2, and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070165049 - Configurable system and method for results review: The system includes a remote computer-readable storage medium including a set of medical results for a plurality of patients and a computing device including a computer-readable storage medium, where the computer-readable storage medium includes a set of instructions for the computing device. The set of instructions includes a selection routine... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070165050 - Method and system for geographically-based and time-based online advertising: A method for generating a presentation of an advertisement image for display on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating the advertisement image with a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being one of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal selecting the region-of-interest;... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070165051 - Image display method and image display device: An image display method and an image display device in which one field is constructed by plural subfields weighted in brightness, and coding for controlling light emission and light non-emission of a pixel every each subfield is performed to display gradation, and coding with respect to a pixel of a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070159414 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving plasma display panel: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving a plasma display panel are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode and a second electrode, and an integrated sustain driver. The integrated sustain driver supplies a sustain signal of a positive polarity and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070159415 - 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 first driver and a second driver. The first driver supplies the last scan signal to a first electrode, and supplies a first sustain signal and a third sustain signal to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070159417 - Semiconductor device, display device and electronic device: A potential which is applied to a gate electrode of a driving transistor in accordance with an emission state or a non-emission state of a light-emitting element fluctuates due to noise or leakage from a selection transistor, or the like, which causes a problem in that the driving transistor cannot... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070159423 - Plasma display panel apparatus capable of updating and updating method thereof: A plasma display panel (PDP) apparatus and a method of updating the PDP apparatus are provided. The PDP apparatus includes: a PDP module which displays an image; and a signal processing module which processes audio and/or video signals provided from a signal source and provides the connected PDP module with... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159427 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal modulation element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, a potential difference providing unit that provides a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an illumination optical system that illuminates the liquid... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070159431 - Liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal driver: In order to prevent the reproducibility of a display image from degrading due to the characteristic of a liquid crystal, a liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; a gray scale value generation unit which generates, based on a first gray scale value, a second gray scale value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070159435 - Control method, device and electronic system utilizing the same: A control method for a display panel including a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix is disclosed. A plurality of video signals are received. A sequence of the video signals and a preset arrangement are compared. When the sequence of the video signals differs from the preset arrangement,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070159436 - Liquid-crystal display devices and repairing method therefor: A liquid-crystal display device of OCB mode, comprising: signal and scanning lines arranged on an insulator substrate as the signal lines are intersected by the scanning lines to form intersections; pixel-dot TFTs arranged respectively in vicinity of the intersections and connected respectively with pixel electrodes, with the signal lines and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070159438 - Driving apparatus and liquid crystal display including the same: A driving apparatus that can easily detect a failure occurring in a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display comprising the driving apparatus for a display comprises a voltage generator generating first and second gate clock signals that are a combination of a gate-on signal and a gate-off signal,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070159410 - Display device, method of controlling same, computer program for controlling same, and computer program storage medium: A liquid crystal display device (100) includes mean value computing sections (9a, 9b) and an optical intensity regulation section (11). The mean value computing section (9a) outputs a mean luminance level (A1) for the pixels forming an image display produced in a driver seat display area (2). The mean value... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070159411 - Information-processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, an information-processing apparatus according to the present invention has a main unit, a display unit and a latch. The main unit has a holding part. The latch is provided on the display unit and has a latch part, wires, and first connectors. The wires are embedded... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070159412 - Method of synchronizing images on multiple display devices with different refresh rates: A method for displaying images on multiple monitors with different refresh rates is disclosed. To prevent screen tearing, the surface containing image data is not released when the access by the master monitor is completed until the slave monitor or monitors finish access. To synchronize images with a predefined playback... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070159413 - Display system: A display system is described having a plurality of display units, wherein each of the display units is movable between at least a first position and a second position, and wherein each display unit is provided with at least a first light emitting element. Each display unit may be configured... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070159418 - Current driving circuit: A current driving circuit includes: a reference input terminal to which a first reference current is given; a current mirror circuit for receiving the first reference current and outputting a first internal current corresponding to the first reference current; a bias voltage generation section for receiving the first internal current... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070159416 - Video data signal correction: A video signal distribution system contains a video stream source (10) that produces a data stream with an encrypted video signal, control word information for decrypting the video signal and fee information indicative of fees for viewing respective parts of the video signal. A plurality of video reproduction apparatuses (12)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159419 - Communication device with an adjustable brightness: The present invention discloses a communication device with an adjustable brightness that includes a control circuit coupled to a modulating unit, and the modulating unit includes a tuning button disposed on the communication device that allows user to make adjustments or controls by the tuning button to produce a first... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070159420 - A power led light source: Disclosed is a power LED light source that can be employed with different reflectors and other additional parts to form various power LED light units. Compared with the power LED light unit utilizing Luxeon LED packages and the like, the disclosed invention has the advantages of higher power, lower costs,... Agent: Jeff Chen

20070159422 - Active material and light emitting device: An active material and light emitting device comprises an ultrasonic atomizer assembly and a light emission device. The active material and light emitting device are operated such that the active material is periodically or aperiodically dispensed and the light emitting device flickers to simulate a real candle.... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20070159421 - Secondary side post regulation for led backlighting: A secondary side post regulator arrangement for a plurality of LED strings. For each secondary winding, a first electronically controlled switch is provided arranged to control the power output, and a LED string is connected thereto. A second electronically controlled switch is further connected in series with the LED string,... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070159426 - Display device and driving method thereof: A driving circuit for a display device includes an input signal generator generating an input signal having one of a plurality of input frequencies corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of operating modes of the display device; a main operating clock generator responsive to the one of the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070159429 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention is intended to achieve an improvement in the horizontal resolution of an active matrix semiconductor display device. In accordance with the present invention, by supplying a modulated clock signal obtained by frequency modulating a reference clock signal at a constant period to a driving circuit of an... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070159428 - Liquid crystal display and control method: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal modulator that includes first and second electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second electrodes, and a controller for changing at least one of potential provided to the first electrode and central potential of the potential provided to the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070159424 - Methods for driving devices capable of displaying images and processing audio messages: Methods for driving devices capable of displaying images and processing audio messages are provided. A representative method comprises: operating a device capable of displaying images and processing audio messages at a first operating frequency when the device is not processing audio messages; and operating the device at a second operating... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070159425 - Video optimized lcd response time compensation: An improved system and method for selectively applying LCD Response Time Compensation (LRTC) to areas of an LCD panel containing video motion. Motion vectors contained within macroblocks in a compressed video stream are utilized to qualify whether individual pixels in a video frame are a candidate for LRTC. In various... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070159430 - Cholesteric liquid crystal driving device and driving method: A cholesteric liquid crystal driving device according to the present invention includes a first driving circuit for displaying one part of the image data to be displayed by a cholesteric liquid crystal on a first scanning line by driving the cholesteric liquid crystal on the first scanning line in accordance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159434 - Driving system of light emitting diode: The invention relates to an LED current driving system. The LED current driving system comprises an LED driver. The LED driver comprises at least one LED driving unit for outputting a driving current to an LED. Each LED driving unit comprises a plurality of current sources and a plurality of... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070159433 - Organic light emitting diode display and manufacturing method thereof: An OLED display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a gate line formed on the substrate and including a first control electrode, a data line intersecting the gate line, a switching TFT connected to the gate line and the data line, a driving TFT... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070159432 - Organic light emitting display having organic light emitting diode circuit with voltage compensation and technique thereof: An organic light emitting diode circuit of an organic light emitting display with voltage compensation technique includes a first capacitor, a first TFT, a second TFT, a third TFT, a reset circuit and an OLED. The first TFT has a first terminal for receiving a first voltage, and a second... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070159437 - Phoretic cell: A relief structure alignment layer comprising a relief structure surface incorporating at least one indentation, the at least one indentation having an internal surface extending from the relief structure surface, wherein the relief structure alignment layer has a surface memory alignment layer arranged to impart a preferred liquid crystal director... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070159439 - Liquid crystal display: In a liquid crystal display, a timing controller compares a current pixel data signal corresponding to a currently driven gate line with a previous pixel data signal corresponding to a previously driven gate line to output control signals, and selectively outputs an output pixel data signal corresponding to the currently... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070159440 - Data line driver circuits and methods for internally generating a frame recognition signal: A data line driver includes a circuit that is configured to drive data lines of a display panel in response to digital image data, a horizontal start signal and a load signal. The circuit is further configured to internally generate a frame recognition signal from the horizontal start signal and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070159441 - Signal compensation for flat panel display: A flat panel display includes a plurality of pixel circuits, each pixel circuit including a switch and a storage capacitor, in which the storage capacitor receives pixel data from a data line when the switch is turned on. A scan driver controls the switches of the pixel circuits, in which... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070159444 - Display array of display panel: A display array organization used in a display panel is provided. The display array includes a data line, a first scan line, a second scan line, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a front-end switch and an intermediary switch. The first pixel electrode is connected to the data... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070159442 - Analog output buffer circuit for flat panel display: An analog output buffer circuit for a flat panel display is provided for improving an output signal distortion. The circuit includes a transistor, a current source, an input capacitor, an upper switch, a lower switch, a first switch, a second switch and a third switch. In which, the transistor and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070159443 - Methods of operating source driving circuits having d/a converter test capabilities for liquid crystal display devices and related source driving circuits: An LCD source driving circuit includes a gray voltage generator and a D/A converter. The gray voltage generator receives reference gray voltages to generate gray voltages having 2n different voltage levels. The D/A converter has 2n conversion paths and selects one gray voltage according to a received n-bit data among... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070159445 - High voltage discharge lamp lighting method, lighting apparatus and image device using that lighting apparatus: The present invention applies to provide a lighting method of a high pressure discharge lamp dedicated particularly for image equipments in which re-lighting when turning ON the switch again immediately after the switch OFF is instantaneously performed even in the high pressure discharge lamp. In the transition state of transitioning... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070159449 - Dimming structure for image display device: A dimming structure for an image display device further includes a contrast panel for altering contrast differences in a portion around an outputted image to achieve dimming effects on an image smaller than a light emitting lamp. In the dimming structure, a backlight unit has a plurality of light sources... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070159447 - Lcd capable of controlling luminance of screen and method for controlling luminance thereof: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of controlling a luminance of a screen and a method for controlling a luminance thereof, which includes a backlight unit irradiating a light on the LCD panel by an input driving current; a driving voltage generating unit generating a driving voltage signal... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070159450 - Backlit display with improved dynamic range: A display is backlit by a source having spatially modulated luminance to attenuate illumination of dark areas of images and increase the dynamic range of the display.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159451 - Backlit display with improved dynamic range: A display is backlit by a source having spatially modulated luminance to attenuate illumination of dark areas of images and increase the dynamic range of the display.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070159448 - Display device: A display device configured to realize a high display quality by correcting irregularity, caused by a lighting unit, by signal processing. The target light quantity in a displayed image of the liquid crystal panel is set, the estimated light quantity at each pixel location in the plane of the backlight... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070159446 - Lcd backlight lifetime indicator: An improved apparatus and method for measuring and reporting the amount of time an LCD panel backlight has been in operation. Various embodiments of the invention can provide backlight usage data that can be correlated with vendor-specified lifetime curves to determine its remaining life. In various embodiments these correlations can... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070159459 - Omni-directional image navigator: An omni-directional image navigator is described. The omni-directional image navigator includes a first touch area and a direction control area constituted by a second touch area adjacent to the first touch area. The direction control area is utilized to move an image on a display of an electronic device. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070159454 - Control panel for an electronic device: A control panel for an electronic device includes a sensor array capable of sensing a location along the sensor array of a finger proximate to the sensor array. A channel on the control panel defines a guide path in register with at least a portion of the sensor array and... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20070159460 - Device for entering values with a display screen: The invention relates to a device for entering values by using a display screen provided for displaying the values and by using at least one element for manually entering values. The device includes a support for the element which is connected to the display screen upstream in a viewing direction.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070159455 - Image-sensing game-controlling device: An image-sensing game-controlling device comprises a detector and a controller, wherein the detector comprises a X-axial digital camera, a Y-axial digital camera, and a Z-axial digital camera, and the controller comprises an image integrator, an image comparator, and a motion database. Besides, the detector is connected to the controller for... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070159453 - Mobile communication terminal: This mobile communication terminal includes an image projection unit 130, a key selection detection unit (an operation detection means) 180, and a main control unit (a data processing means) 111. The image projection unit 130 projects an operation-plane image that virtually displays the operation-plane of an operation device operated by... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070159458 - Mobile communication terminal and user interface method thereof: A user interface method of a mobile communication terminal is provided, including: (a) interpreting a key inputted from a user to extract a number; (b) retrieving content corresponding to the number from at least one content stored in the mobile communication terminal or downloaded from a server; and (c) outputting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070159457 - Multiple-input selectable systems integrated display and control functions unit for electrophysiology and the like: A systems integrator that brings various separate systems into one keyboard, video and mouse configuration with customized viewing of the different monitors on one large screen LCD monitor. This permits a user to control the display of several video/audio inputs simply and efficiently, for many diverse purposes including medical procedures,... Agent: Michael Tavella

20070159456 - Navigation system: A navigation system including a first navigation sensor configured to provide a first set of positional capacitance values, a second navigation sensor configured to provide a second set of positional capacitance values, and a controller configured to select between the first and second sets of positional capacitance values and to... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070159452 - Operating element for a multi-media system in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a rotating actuator/pressure actuator (13) comprising a ring-shaped rotary transducer (5) consisting of an inner ring and a rotary ring with a handle (1) and which can rotate around the inner ring about an axis (z) and which is displaceably arranged in a linear manner along... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070159462 - Input device with tiltable scroll wheel module: A tiltable scroll wheel module for use in an input device is provided. Two confining members with complementary shapes are arranged inside the tiltable scroll wheel module. When the scroll wheel is pressed down, these two confining members are engaged with each other. Under this circumstance, the carrier member is... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070159461 - Weight adjustable computer input device: A computer input device has a housing having a wall with a first side and an opposing second side. A magnet is positioned on the first side, and a counterweight is positioned on the second side opposite to the magnet, with the magnet attracting the counterweight to the wall of... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070159463 - Wireless input apparatus capable of storing a receiver: The present invention discloses a wireless input apparatus capable of storing a receiver that includes a main body and a receiver, and the main body has a detachable upper cap and a accommodating space disposed at the bottom of the upper cap and interconnected to the outside, and the receiver... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159464 - Apparatus and method for navigation in three-dimensional graphical user interface: A navigation apparatus and method for a three-dimensional graphical user interface are provided. The apparatus includes an input unit that has a plurality of trackballs, in a space containing a certain plane and an-axis crossing the plane at a right angle, for navigation in a direction of the plane and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159465 - Span and angle adjustable keyboard for an abnormally big body size user: A keyboard for an information processing machine, such as personal computer, is designed so that each alphanumeric key has a rectangular upper surface of 17 mm to 20 mm in width and 20 mm to 25 mm in length. The distance between the upper surfaces of each key is set... Agent: Eugene Oak, Ph.d., J.d., M. Div. Law Office Of Jane Oak & Associates, P.C.

20070159466 - Pad computer: A computer can include a high-resolution color display, built-in keypad, wireless LAN connection, hi-fidelity audio system, and a multi-gigabyte disk drive. The screen can be formed in a top face of a computer and a keypad can be a split on opposite sides of the screen. The computer can also... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070159467 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device which includes a touch screen panel including a plurality of x-axis sensors and a plurality of y-axis sensors and outputting sensor data sensed by the x-axis and y-axis sensors in a frame unit, and a controller for receiving the sensor data to output coordinates of a contact... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070159468 - Touchpad control of character actions in a virtual environment using gestures: A touchpad that shows a representation of at least a portion of a virtual or real object, wherein the touchpad can be used to select a portion of the virtual or real object, such as an appendage or appendages, or the entire virtual or real object, and wherein the touchpad... Agent: Morriss O''bryant Compagni, P.C.

20070159471 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus is provided to improve display characteristics, the apparatus including a prism and a pixel section on one side of the prism. The pixel section includes a reflective electrode and dielectrics disposed at a predetermined distance from the reflective electrode. The dielectrics are in contact with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159472 - Apparatus and method for driving led: Provided are an apparatus and method for driving LEDs. The apparatus comprise a plurality of red, green, and blue light emitting diodes connected, respectively; switching units turned on or off by an inputted pulse to turn on or off the red, green and blue light emitting diodes, respectively; and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159470 - Apparatus for automatically adjusting display parameters relying on visual performance and method for the same: The present invention provides an apparatus for automatically adjusting display parameters relying on visual performance and its method. The present apparatus includes a display, a detecting system and a control system. The detecting system is disposed in a predetermined position to detect visual performance of a user operating the display.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070159474 - 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

20070159469 - Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular for large area flicker effect reduction: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular for large area flicker effect and false contour effect reduction. This method concerns a new coding called Parallel Peak Coding. The general idea of the Parallel Peak Code is to have almost always the same energy... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070159473 - Reusable poster holder and methods for display: A poster holder having a first member, a second member moveable away from the first member to an open position and moveable towards the first member to a closed position, the second member cooperating with the first member to secure the substrate in the closed position, a controller configured to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159475 - Voltage generating system: A voltage generating system has a first voltage generating device for generating a plurality of voltages between a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage as a first set of voltages, and a second voltage generating device for generating a plurality of voltages between the maximum voltage and the minimum voltage... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070159477 - 3d scene object switching system: A system is described that allows a user to create a lineup of alternatives as controls for a part of a 3D scene. Once the alternatives are created, the user can click between them by selecting a desired button and only the alternative selected in that lineup is shown in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070159476 - Method for creating a stereoscopic image master for imaging methods with three-dimensional depth rendition and device for displaying a steroscopic image master: The invention relates to a method for production of three-dimensional image patterns from two-dimensional image data, in particular from image data from image sequences, video films and the like. In this case, a virtual three-dimensional image framework (307) which is based on a supposition-based three-dimensional image depth graduation is generated... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20070159478 - Image display apparatus for controlling luminance and the luminance controlling method thereof: An image display apparatus capable of controlling a luminance and a luminance controlling method are provided. The image display apparatus includes a luminance sensor to measure a surrounding luminance, a luminance change sensor to sense a change of the surrounding luminance using the measured surrounding luminance, a luminance energy comparator... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159479 - Mapping and drawing method for a tetrahedron map: This invention relates to a drawing method for Tetrahedron Mapping, a tetrahedron map formed by equilateral triangles is converted to relative positions of two dimensional planar image and three dimensional object, then project each object in three dimensional space from the tetrahedron center to tetrahedron map on two dimensional plane,... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070159480 - Process for selecting objects in a plm database and apparatus implementing this process: The invention is directed to a process, an apparatus and a program for selecting objects in a PLM database containing modeled objects. The invention allows a user to rapidly display a view of the set of objects while allowing for selecting objects in the view, without the need for loading... Agent: Clifford Chance US LLP

20070159481 - Method and apparatus for presenting feature importance in predictive modeling: Feature importance information available in a predictive model with correlation information among the variables is presented to facilitate more flexible choices of actions by business managers. The displayed feature importance information combines feature importance information available in a predictive model with correlational information among the variables. The displayed feature importance... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, PC

20070159482 - Methods and apparatuses for accessing an application on a remote device: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses display a list representing a plurality of devices; view a status of each of the plurality of devices; view a target device as an available device from the plurality of devices; display an application that is accessible on the target device; select content... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070159483 - System and method for presentation of data streams: An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display of the data stream.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070159484 - Method for processing computer aided polygon model: The invention relates to a method for processing a computer aided polygon model, and to a device and computer program for implementing the method. The invention comprises presenting the polygon model with a linear and static vertex array (304A) and with a linear index array (306A) including vertex array pointers.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070159485 - Method and apparatus for generating vector font: Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating transformed fonts using a small amount of memory by transforming vector font data stored in the memory and outputting the transformed vector font data. As to certain identical characters in one text, it is decided to transform the respective identical characters... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159486 - Techniques for creating facial animation using a face mesh: Techniques for creating facial animation using a face mesh are provided. The techniques include determining a face mesh sequence. A portion of the face mesh sequence is then fitted to an image of the face. For example, a first frame of the face mesh sequence is fitted to the image.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070159487 - Processing image data: A method of processing image data, in which object data is associated with animation data. The animation data has a plurality of keyframes, and each keyframe has a time value, an animation value and two handles. Adjacent keyframes are interpolated to produce a curve that does not overshoot animation values... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070159488 - Parallel array architecture for a graphics processor: A parallel array architecture for a graphics processor includes a multithreaded core array including a plurality of processing clusters, each processing cluster including at least one processing core operable to execute a pixel shader program that generates pixel data from coverage data; a rasterizer configured to generate coverage data for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070159489 - System and method for information handling system external graphics box local diagnostic message: An activity poller on an external graphics box is activated during inactivity in communication from a host information handling system to the external graphics box, such as over an external PCI Express cable. The activity poller periodically sends a memory read request from the external graphics box to the host... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070159490 - Displaying on a matrix display: A display method comprises the steps of generating (1) images comprising source data (SDA) and source frame synchronization instants (SSI) having a source frame rate (SFR). The source data (SDA) is stored (2) in a frame memory (5) under control of a first address pointer (AP I) having a start... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070159491 - Fast display initialization and light up: Described is a technology by which a computer display may quickly resume outputting video data following its awakening from a deep sleep state. Displayed settings are maintained in a memory, such as a memory of the display, while the display is in a sleep state. The settings are associated with... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070159493 - Computer system for converting pictures and designs into line drawings and reproducing the drawings on substrates: A computer system, preferably in the form of a craft kit, is provided for converting a picture composed of color regions distributed throughout the picture into a line drawing in which each of these regions can be delineated to define a zone. The zone can have a symbol which identifies... Agent: Diehl Servilla LLC

20070159492 - Image processing method and pixel arrangement used in the same: An image processing method is provided for generating multi-color data comprised of three primary-color sub-pixels and a brightness-enhancing sub-pixel, where a combination selected three at a time from these sub-pixels constituting a target pixel for the image processing method. First, a three-color pixel is converted into a four-color pixel, where... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159494 - System and method for managing memory for color transforms: A system and method for managing memory for color transforms. Color input data representing a colorized electronic document is first received by a color management module and analyzed. The. color transformations required to complete processing of the color document is then determined. A plurality of lookup tables are then generated... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070159495 - Method and system for processing an image: A method and system for processing an image is provided. The method and system are used to enhance the sharpness of the image. First, an input pixel value is filtered for producing a filter value. Afterwards, an output pixel value is determined according to whether the compensation value is higher... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070159496 - On-screen display device and control method thereof: An on-screen display device including: an on-screen display generating unit to generate an on-screen display picture on the basis of previously stored font data and a controller to control the on-screen display generating unit to generate the on-screen display picture by adjusting a display position and a rotational position of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070159497 - Rotation control: A rotation control interface is disclosed. A two-dimensional graphical user interface having a first control portion associated with rotation about a first axis and a second control portion associated with rotation about a second axis is displayed. An indication that at least one of the first control portion and the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070159498 - Display apparatus adapted for a display wall, image adjustment method therefor and display wall therewith: A display apparatus adapted for a display wall, an image adjustment method therefor and a display wall therewith are provided. The image between display apparatuses of the display wall is not exactly displayed, especially for adjacent areas between every two neighbored display apparatuses, and the displayed image is required to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070159499 - Magnification engine: An improved graphics processing system and method are described for magnifying visual output information for printing, display, or other output. A graphics engine transforms display information so as to magnify one or more components or areas of an output image for display via output hardware such as a screen or... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070159500 - Reinforcement design support apparatus and reinforcement design support program: The present invention provides a reinforcement design support apparatus and so on for assisting the selection of a reinforcing metal fixture to be used to reinforce a web opening. The reinforcement design support apparatus comprises an application condition determining unit for determining whether or not a web opening provided in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159501 - A data driver: A data driver has several gamma-voltage generating circuits and several driving channels. The gamma-voltage generating circuits are used to process gamma-voltages of different colors. Each two groups of the driving channels are correspondingly coupled with the gamma-voltage generating circuit that generates a single color and is separately disposed at either... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070159502 - 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

20070152912 - Plasma display panel without transparent electrodes: In order to reduce reactive consumption power and enhance daylight contrast, provided is a plasma display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate that are facing and separated from each other; a plurality of barrier ribs defining a discharge space between the first substrate and the second substrate... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070152923 - Light emitting display and method of driving thereof: There are provided a light emitting display comprising at least a light emitting unit comprising at least two light emitting diodes which are electrically connected to the same driving unit to emit light, and a plurality of voltage sources whereby one voltage source supplies a voltage different from the other... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070152932 - Liquid crystal panel capable of controlling viewing angle and liquid crystal display device with the same: Provided is a liquid crystal panel that limits a viewing angle. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of color pixels and a plurality of interference sub-pixels. Each of the color pixels includes red (R), green (G) and blue (B) sub-pixels. The interference sub-pixels are included in each of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070152944 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a number of gate lines, a gate driver having a number of gate channels, wherein the number of gate channels is different than the number of gate lines, and a timing controller to apply a gate shift clock... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070152943 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a lower substrate having a first and a second common voltage supplying line, pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines and arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070152908 - Adaptive image block fusion: According to some embodiments, motion vector information associated with a set of image blocks is tracked. The tracked information may include motion vector information associated with subsets of the image blocks, and at least some of the subsets may be of different sizes. At least one subset of image blocks... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070152909 - Led device: An LED device comprises first to N-th (N is an integer of 2 or more) LEDs each having one end connected to one another and having different emission colors, and first to N-th transistors each having one end connected to the other ends of the individual LEDs and the other... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070152910 - Liquid crystal display panel having wide viewing angle: A liquid crystal display and method of fabrication are provided, the liquid crystal display having a pixel electrode with a plurality of interconnected partitions, and a common electrode disposed opposite to the pixel electrode and having a plurality of apertures, where the plurality of partitions and the plurality of apertures... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070152911 - Method of driving a plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a PDP apparatus to sufficiently suppress the background light emission and improve the dark room contrast, in which first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged adjacently by turns, a first display line is formed between one side of the second electrode and the first electrode adjacent... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070152913 - Driving method for significantly reducing addressing time in plasma display panel: There is provided a method for controlling a pixel in a plasma display. The method includes applying a first voltage to a first electrode, a second voltage to a second electrode, and a third voltage to a third electrode to generate a first plasma discharge of a dischargeable gas in... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070152916 - Plasma display apparatus: Provided is a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes a first electrode and a second electrode formed in parallel on an upper substrate, and a third electrode formed on a lower substrate to intersect with the first electrode and the second electrode. A driving signal is applied to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152917 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and an address electrode, and a driver. The driver supplies a first data pulse of either a high level or a low level to the address electrode during... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070152914 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, a scan driver, and a data driver. The plasma display panel comprises a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, a first address electrode, and a second address electrode. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152915 - 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 driver supplying a first signal and a second signal to a scan electrode during a reset period of at least one of a plurality of subfields of a frame. The first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152918 - Plasma display apparatus: Provided a plasma display apparatus. The apparatus includes a first electrode and a driver. The first electrode is formed at an upper substrate. The driver applies a sustain pulse to the first electrode. The driver applies a driving waveform whose, in one subfield, any one sustain pulse (SP1) has a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152922 - Display device: A display device includes an insulating substrate including a display region, at least one pad disposed in a non-display region on the insulating substrate which applies a voltage to the display region, a connecting part which is electrically connects at least two pads or at least two portions of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070152925 - Light emitting device and method of driving the light emitting device: A light emitting device that achieves long life, and which is capable of performing high duty drive, by suppressing initial light emitting element deterioration is provided. Reverse bias application to an EL element (109) is performed one row at a time by forming a reverse bias electric power source line... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070152924 - Organic light-emitting diode (oled) display and data driver output stage thereof: An output stage circuit of a data driver for an display is provided. The circuit includes a current mirror having a first transistor and a current source on a reference current path, having a second transistor on an output current path, wherein the reference and output current paths are commonly... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070152920 - Pixel circuit and display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit that includes a correcting section configured to correct the input voltage sampled in the pixel capacitance in order to cancel out the dependency of the output current on the carrier mobility. In the pixel circuit, the correcting section operates depending on the control signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070152919 - Pixel unit and display and electronic device utilizing the same: A pixel unit. A first thin film transistor comprises a first control terminal receiving a scan signal, a first electrode receiving a data signal, and a second electrode. A second thin film transistor comprises a second control terminal coupled to the second electrode, a third electrode receiving a first voltage,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070152921 - Semiconductor device, and display device and electronic equipment each having the same: Amplitude of a data line is made small, thereby reducing power consumption. Included are a first transistor to which a first scan signal is supplied through a first scan line; a second transistor to which a second scan signal is supplied through a second scan line; a third transistor which... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070152926 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells in respective regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines, a data driver providing video signals to the data lines, a gate driver providing scan signals to the gate... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070152927 - Method and apparatus for display: According to one embodiment, a method for providing position feedback for a device includes providing a photointerrupter having a light-emitting diode, a phototransistor, and an aperture between the light-emitting diode and the phototransistor. For a given size aperture, a current through the phototransistor is a function of a current through... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070152929 - Device and method for generating synchronous double-frequency signal: A synchronous double-frequency signal generating device includes an integration switching unit controlled by a scan synchronous signal; a first integration unit connected to the integration switching unit for outputting a first integration signal when the scan synchronous signal is at high level; a second integration unit connected to the integration... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070152928 - Drapable liquid crystal transfer 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

20070152931 - Lcd driver: A capacitor divider comprising a plurality of capacitors is used for driving liquid crystal displays. The use of capacitor dividers reduces power consumption, which would be desirable for portable devices. Power consumption is reduced in some embodiments where no static current would flow in the divider.... Agent: Parsons Hsue & De Runtz LLP

20070152930 - Method for driving lcd device: An LCD device is disclosed in which the LCD device is driven in an FFS mode and a VAC mode during a frame frequency period to obtain a narrow viewing angle. The method for driving the LCD device includes driving the LCD device in an FFS mode during a frame... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070152933 - Driving device for liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a driving device for a liquid crystal display includes a gray voltage generator that generates first and second reference gray voltages, a common voltage generator that generates a common voltage, and a data driver that generates a data voltage on the basis of the first... Agent: David W. Heid Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070152934 - Circuit for driving self-luminous display device and method for driving the same: An organic EL has a problem of element life. Causes of the element life include a temperature and an amount of current. As for a display using an organic EL element, light is emitted by using a current so that an amount of light emission of a screen is proportional... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070152936 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device is divided into a display region and a non-display region. A first thin film transistor is formed in each pixel region of the display region, and a second thin film transistor is formed in the non-display region. The first thin film transistor is a switch... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070152935 - Organic el panel dirving circuit, organic el display device and organic el panel driving circuit inspecting device: [Problem]To provide a drive circuit (driver IC) of an organic EL display panel and an organic EL display device, which is capable of shortening a test time when a test on appropriateness of current values outputted to respective column pins of the drive circuit. [Means for Solving the Problem]Output currents... Agent: John R Mattingly Mattingly Stanger Malur And Brundidge

20070152937 - Organic electroluminescence display device: An electroluminescence display device includes a first switching device for transferring a data current, which represents a data signal, using a first scan signal, a second switching device for transferring the data current from the first switching device using a second scan signal, a storage device for storing a charge... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070152940 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and method for driving the liquid crystal display are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070152939 - Multi-domain liquid crystal display device: Provided is a multi-domain liquid crystal display device capable of improving a viewing angle by decreasing a color shift. The multi-domain LCD device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of gate lines provided in one direction on the first substrate, a plurality of data lines provided substantially... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070152938 - Resonant structure-based display: A display of wavelength elements can be produced from resonant structures that emit light (and other electromagnetic radiation having a dominant frequency higher than that of microwave) when exposed to a beam of charged particles, such as electrons from an electron beam. An exemplary display with three wavelengths per pixel... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070152941 - Pixel structure and liquid crystal display panel: A pixel structure for being driven by a scan line and a data line is provided. The pixel structure includes an active device, a pixel electrode, an insulating layer, and a transition electrode. The active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrode... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070152942 - Liquid crystal display device: To keep down deterioration in picture quality caused by an AC driving method to enable image display with high quality to be achieved. In the invention, each of the pixels in a first frame just after the phase inversion for a predetermined starting time period is driven so that each... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070152945 - Liquid crystal display of field sequential color type and method for driving the same: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display, which can increase a design margin upon designing a driving timing chart, improve picture quality characteristics and reduce power consumption, and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display of a field sequential color type comprises an LCD panel having a plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070152948 - Driving circuit for tft liquid crystal display: A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of driving units each including a first OP amplifier, a second OP amplifier and a plurality of switches for switching outputs and feedback paths of the OP amplifiers. Because the switches are disposed in the feedback paths of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152947 - Display apparatus: There is a need for decreasing a variation in times for writing to TFT elements for pixels in a direction along the extension of a gate line in a liquid crystal display apparatus. A display apparatus includes a display panel having multiple gate lines and multiple drain lines arranged in... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070152946 - Display control device: A display control device has: a shift register generating n shift pulses in series; a data hold block configured to hold n gradation data; and a DA converter for converting the n gradation data into corresponding gradation voltages. The data hold block includes: n first latch circuits configured to respectively... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070152951 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having first data lines crossing gate lines on a first region of the liquid crystal panel and second data lines crossing the gate lines on a second region of the liquid crystal panel; a data converter for converting a first... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070152952 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate having a display region and a non-display region, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; a backlight unit opposite a surface of the first substrate that illuminates light onto the liquid crystal display panel;... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070152954 - Backlit display with improved dynamic range: A display is backlit by a source having spatially modulated luminance to attenuate illumination of dark areas of images and increase the dynamic range of the display.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070152950 - Devices and methods for intradevice optical communication of data: Disclosed are devices and methods for intradevice communication in a mobile communication device having a display. A method includes providing a supply signal and superimposing a data signal onto the supply signal. The method further includes driving a light source with the supply signal and the superimposed data signal to... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070152953 - Liquid crystal display device and apparatus and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel with four colors of sub-pixels, and a backlight unit having light emitting diodes of at least five colors to apply multi-primary light to the liquid crystal display panel.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070152949 - Luminance control method, liquid crystal display device and computer program: A luminance detected by a built-in photosensor and a luminance of light emitted from a backlight through a liquid crystal panel are measured in a plurality of states where the backlight has a different luminance, and are preliminarily stored in a storage unit. Moreover, a luminance of light emitted through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152955 - Reduced power consumption display panel: A display device is formed of a first display panel coupled to a first common voltage, and at least one additional display panel coupled to at least one additional common voltage, wherein the first display panel and the at least one additional display panel are coupled to form a single... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070152956 - Electro-optic display with edge seal: Various types of edge seals for protecting electro-optic displays against environmental contaminants are described. In one type of seal, the electro-optic layer is sandwiched between a backplane and a protective sheet and a sealing material extends between the backplane and the protective sheet. In other seals, the protective sheet is... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070152962 - User interface system and method: A user interface system and method for providing a vibration signal are provided. The user interface system includes a storage module to store a plurality of graphic objects and attribute information of each of the graphic objects, a control module to receive motion information of an interface object moved a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070152960 - Airbag-form key: An airbag-form key comprises a pressable unit; a top of the pressable unit being the soft rubber body; an internal of the pressable unit having the hollow airbag; a wall of the hollow airbag having a recess; a cross section of the recess having a T shape; a bottom of... Agent: Hsien Ta Huang 235 Chung-ho

20070152958 - Button-type device for three dimensional rotation and translation control: Disclosed herein is a device for rotating or translating a three-dimensional object using a 3×3 button array, in which an application program runs to rotate and to translate a predetermined three-dimensional object on a display screen. The device comprises a button-part including 9 buttons of a 3×3 array and having... Agent: Jhk Law

20070152957 - Mobile communication terminal casing, mobile communication terminal, server apparatus, and mobile communication system: A display panel made of electronic paper is provided on externally exposed portion of the present mobile communication terminal (mobile phone). This display panel forms a casing image displaying unit 217 and a casing image based on image data in accordance with a command from a main control unit 215.... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070152965 - Multi-functional control interface: A system and method are used to provide a user control interface for controlling multiple device functionality. The system comprises a support structure, control regions, depressible interaction devices, and a controller. The control regions are formed on the support structure. Each of the control regions comprises one or more light... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070152963 - Orientation dependent functionality of an electronic device: An electronic device is provided that includes a housing, a plurality of modules, a sensor and a selection mechanism. The housing has multiple housing segments, with each segment housing one of the plurality of modules. The sensor detects an orientation of the electronic device. The selection mechanism automatically selects at... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070152959 - Pressure-sensitive button: A pressure-sensitive button on an input device capable of multiple functionality and usable with a computing device. Different applications can vary differences in pressure inputs to represent a size of data selection, different size cursors, applying different ranges of values, different zooms, or different speeds.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070152964 - Remote controller and system having the same: In order to provide a remote control system that is easy to use, a first displaying unit displays a remote controller side display information. Since a first operation unit is used to select the remote controller side display information and then drag towards an image display apparatus, a display position... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070152961 - User interface for a media device: A user interface for a media device may be described. An apparatus may comprise a user interface module to receive movement information representing handwriting from a remote control, convert the handwriting into characters, and display the characters in a first viewing layer with graphical objects in a second viewing layer.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070152968 - Cursor control apparatus: A cursor control apparatus that allows a user to double-click the left key. A second left key is added to the traditional cursor control apparatus. The user can press the second left key once to achieve the multi-clicking effect. The speed of performing shooting actions in a game application or... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070152969 - Operating structure of electric pointing device: An operating structure of an electric pointing device is provided. The operating structure includes a multi-directive movable part, comprising a manual operating area and at least a button. The manual operating area includes a curved surface contacted and moved by a palm of a hand, wherein the buttons are installed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152970 - Scroll wheel control module of computer mouse: A scroll wheel control module of computer mouse is provided, wherein the computer mouse comprises at least one touch switch capable of generating an electric signal when being touched. The scroll wheel control module includes: a swing structure having at least a scroll wheel, a supporting base for supporting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152966 - Mouse with optical sensing surface: A mouse with an extended optical sensing surface is disclosed.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070152967 - Waterproof and impact resistant mouse: A waterproof and impact resistant mouse is provided. The mouse comprises a body case, an electronic device included in the chamber of the body case, operable units which are left and right keys in the front part of the body case, and three scroll keys (3) in a tandem arrangement... Agent: Storm LLP

20070152971 - Mouse pen and an optical structure thereof: A mouse pen and an optical structure thereof are disclosed. The mouse pen includes a penholder and an optical structure. The optical structure is located in the penholder. The optical structure includes a fixing base, a lighting element, a photo sensor and a circuit board. The fixing base includes a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070152974 - Haptic button and haptic device using the same: A haptic button providing various stimulations to a user according to a current application and a haptic device using the same are provided. The haptic button includes an electro-active polymer having a flat shape, a pair of electrodes contacting two sides of the electro-active polymer, an electric circuit applying a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070152973 - Keyboard for notebook computer: A keyboard for a notebook computer includes a plurality of keys, and a touchpad positioned among the keys. This type of keyboard makes a full use of space of the notebook computer, and also is comfortable and matches demands of ergonomics.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070152972 - Kvm switch system capable of invoking osd menu by dedicated key: A keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch system capable of invoking an on-screen display menu or a hotkey menu with one keystroke rather than a sequence of keystrokes. The KVM switch system includes a KVM processor and at least one menu key. The menu key generates at least one trigger signal based on... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070152982 - Input device supporting various input modes and apparatus using the same: An input device for adaptively providing various input modes according to an aspect of the present application and providing a clicking feeling to a user by controlling the stiffness of a button pressed by the user is provided. The input device includes a contact surface (physically) contacting a user, an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070152983 - Touch pad with symbols based on mode: A multifunctional handheld device capable of operating in different modes includes a single input arrangement that provides inputs for each mode of the multifunctional handheld device. The single input arrangement includes at least an input pad that provides signals when touched or pressed. The input pad may for example be... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20070152981 - Contents navigation method and contents navigation apparatus thereof: A contents navigation method includes: sensing a touch; generating sensing information based on the sensed touch; and determining, by using the sensing information, whether the sensed touch is a continuous movement, by sensing an electrical sensor, or a pressing, by sensing a mechanical button. If it is determined that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070152977 - Illuminated touchpad: The present invention pertains to improved feedback mechanisms for touch pads. One aspect relates to devices capable of illuminating the touch sensitive surface of the touch pad. Another aspect relates to methods for providing visual feedback at the touch pad.... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20070152978 - Keyboards for portable electronic devices: A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in at least a subset of the plurality of icons corresponds to two or more symbols. A contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the respective icon is detected. A respective symbol in... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070152984 - Portable electronic device with multi-touch input: A portable communication device with multi-touch input detects one or more multi-touch contacts and motions and performs one or more operations on an object based on the one or more multi-touch contacts and/or motions. The object has a resolution that is less than a pre-determined threshold when the operation is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070152979 - Text entry interface for a portable communication device: A method includes displaying a first tray and a second tray in a display of the portable communications device. The first tray is configured to display one of more characters that were selected by a user using a click wheel. The second tray includes a first plurality of icons that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070152980 - Touch screen keyboards for portable electronic devices: A plurality of icons are displayed on a touch-sensitive display. A respective icon in the plurality of icons corresponds to at least one symbol. An actual contact by a user with the touch-sensitive display is detected. An estimated contact that corresponds to the respective icon and at least the one... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20070152975 - Touch screen-type input device: A multi-functional remote controller (1) has a multi-functional button (20) consisting of an LCD panel (21), a touch panel (22), a transparent button sheet (23), and mechanical switches (22). The transparent button sheet (23) has a shape with concavities and convexities, and the shape enables a user to recognize the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070152976 - Unintentional touch rejection: A method for rejecting an unintentional palm touch is disclosed. In at least some embodiments, a touch is detected by a touch-sensitive surface associated with a display. Characteristics of the touch may be used to generate a set of parameters related to the touch. In an embodiment, firmware is used... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070152985 - Optical touch pad with multilayer waveguide: An optical touch pad that includes a multilayer waveguide optically coupled to at least one electromagnetic radiation detector. Based on electromagnetic radiation directed from an object to the detector by the multilayer waveguide, information related to an object proximate to (e.g., hovering above) and/or in contact with the optical touch... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070152987 - Control of a unit provided with a processor: The invention relates to a method for controlling a unit provided with a processor. The method comprises receiving at least one graphical notation in the form of positions representing a sensor device's movement across a base that is provided with a position-coding pattern, while the graphical notation was made, identifying,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152986 - Coordinate input device working with at least display screen and desk-top surface as the pointing areas thereof: A coordinate input device includes a pair of cameras positioned in an upper left position and an upper right position of a display screen of a monitor lying close to a plane extending from the display screen of the monitor and views both a side face of an object in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070152988 - Control knob with multiple degrees of freedom and force feedback: The present invention provides a control knob on a device that allows a user to control functions of the device. In one embodiment, the knob is rotatable in a rotary degree of freedom and moveable in at least one transverse direction approximately perpendicular to the axis. An actuator is coupled... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070152989 - Display capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats: A display is capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats. The display includes a controller that is coupled to a plurality of image data interfaces. When the plurality of image data interfaces are simultaneously operating, the controller selects one of the plurality of... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070152991 - Harmonic edge synthesizer, enhancer and methods: An edge enhancer for enhancing edges within a video image, forms an edge enhancement signal of odd harmonics of a sinusoid representative of the edge content in an incoming signal. The edge enhancement signal may be added to a version of the incoming signal, thereby sharpening the edge in the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070152990 - Image analyser and adaptive image scaling circuit and methods: An image analyser analyses regions of an image. An image scaler may then scale the image adaptively, in dependence on the nature of region of the image being scaled. In one embodiment, adjacent pixels are analysed to determine their frequency content. This frequency analysis provides an indication of whether the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070152992 - Image data transmission apparatus and method for image display system: An image display system comprises: a transmission device (PC) 10, for transmitting image data upon receiving a drawing command from an OS or an application; and a receiving monitor 40, for displaying, on a high-resolution panel 41, image data received via a monitor cable 39, wherein the transmission device 10... Agent: David Aker

20070152994 - Display apparatus and power control method thereof: A display apparatus and a power control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a power supplying part; a Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS) receiving part which decodes a TMDS signal input from an external signal source; a controller which controls the power supplying part to supply driving power... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070152995 - Liquid crystal display element: A segment block 61, which is formed into a shape like the numeral eight (“8”) constituted by seven segments 63, is connected to the adjacent segment block 61 by way of liquid crystal injection paths 62, each of which has a key-type S-shaped structure. Within the segment block 61, two... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070152993 - Method, display, graphics system and computer system for power efficient displays: Some embodiments of a method, display, graphics system and computer system are described for power efficient operation of displays. The graphics system includes a processing system, which has a video decoder to operate with a display controller. The video decoder and/or display controller may include logic for shutting down portions... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070152996 - Methods and devices for signal synchronization: A signal synchronization device and signal synchronization method are provided. The method comprises determining whether a receiving device can receive data output from an output device synchronously and adjusting the dummy period of the signal, which will be received by the receiving device, when the data output from the output... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070152998 - 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional image display device and method of manufacturing the same: Provided are a 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional image display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes: an image display panel including first and second substrates with a first liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween; a switching panel including third and fourth substrates with a second liquid crystal... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070152997 - Display panel for 3-dimensional display device and 3-dimensional display device comprising the same: A display panel for a 3-dimensional display device is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix form having a row and column with each unit pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. Further, the plurality of unit pixels form each of a plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070152999 - Computational geometry using control geometry having at least two dimensions: A method and system for computer aided design (CAD) is disclosed for designing geometric objects. The present invention interpolates and/or blends between such geometric objects sufficiently fast so that real time deformation of such objects occurs while deformation data is being input. Thus, a user designing with the present invention... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070153000 - Method and apparatus for discrete mesh filleting and rounding through ball pivoting: A method and apparatus for rounding a sharp edge of a model of an object is disclosed whereby a ball is propagated in a desired direction along the edge to be smoothed. The position of the ball at each point in its propagation is noted and, as a result, a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070153001 - Intelligent graph range for computer algebra system: Mathematical expressions and functions are graphed using a computer implemented method that automatically determines an appropriate graph range. One implementation of the method begins with determining an initial variable seed range. A number of points within this seed range are randomly selected. The method determines whether the selected points correspond... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070153002 - Method of rendering text on an output device: A method of rendering text on an output device using a pre-developed image of a custom font. An image file defines an image of a custom developed character set. The custom character set may be developed off-line using graphics development tools. Associated character information enables the location of specific characters... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070153003 - Font-size changing and printing method, and host and printer therefor: A font-size changing and printing method and a host and a printer therefor are provided. The present invention receives a before-change font size in a unit of font size generally used in software applications and an after-change font size in a unit which a user is familiar with, converts the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153005 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes an unconscious expression parameter storing unit configured to store a parameter specifying a facial expression that unconsciously appears in a steady state as an unconscious expression parameter, a conscious expression parameter storing unit configured to store a parameter specifying a facial expression that is consciously... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070153004 - Method and system for displaying animation with an embedded system graphics api: An animation file player can display animation files with an embedded system graphics application programming interface (graphics API). In an example implementation, an animation file comprises a Flash® animation file such as, a Shockwave Flash® animation file, and the embedded system graphics API comprises an OpenGL®|ES graphics API. The present... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070153006 - Representing animation as a static image on a graphical user interface: A computer system and for displaying a static animation image in response to an action related to a displayed object that occurs on the computer system is presented. An initial state of the displayed object is determined with regard to the action. A final state of the displayed object with... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070153008 - Direct macroblock mode techniques for high performance hardware motion compensation: Direct macroblock mode techniques for high performance hardware motion compensation are described. An embodiment includes a hardware motion compensation graphics display device driver. More specifically, an embodiment mitigates a macroblock data parsing bottleneck in the display device driver by directly generating macroblock instructions and storing them in a dedicated buffer.... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070153009 - Display chip sharing method: A display chip sharing method allows any one of a plurality of blade servicing units of a blade server to display through the use of a switching unit electrically connected to a display device even if the blade servicing unit does not have any display chip. The method includes electrically... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070153010 - Interference suppression in computer radio modems: The present invention can reduce interference generated by processors and other computing devices when a connected radio is active. In one embodiment, the invention may include determining a start of reception of radio signals by a radio, generating a radio active signal, transmitting the radio active signal to a coupled... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070153007 - Method, processing system and computer system for sparse update displays: Some embodiments of a method, processing system and computer system are described for sparse updating of displays. The graphics system includes a processing system, which has a video decoder to operate with a display controller. The video decoder and/or display controller may include logic for shutting down portions of the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070153011 - Video signal circuit of notebook computer: A video signal circuit of a notebook computer includes a north bridge chipset, a control module, a VGA port, an A/D converter, a selection module, and a control unit. The north bridge chipset is coupled to the control module and the selection module. The VGA port is coupled between the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070153012 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system: An image processing apparatus and an image processing system are capable of efficiently carrying out processing using a smaller memory. When a control program is downloaded via a network from an external apparatus such as a PC and stored in a volatile memory, a job analyzing unit analyzes the content... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070153013 - Hybrid multiple bit-depth video processing architecture: An apparatus including a processor and a memory. The processor may be configured to process pixel data comprising eight or more bits. For pixel data having bit-depths greater than eight bits, a number of most significant bits (MSBs) of a pixel are presented as a first byte and a number... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070153015 - Graphics processing unit instruction sets using a reconfigurable cache: Graphics processing unit instruction sets using a reconfigurable cache are disclosed. The Graphics processing unit instruction sets includes following elements: (1) a vertex shader unit, for operating vertex data; (2) a reconfigurable cache memory, for accessing data with the vertex shader unit via a plurality of data buses; (3) a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070153014 - Method and system for symmetric allocation for a shared l2 mapping cache: A method, apparatus, system and medium for reading data from a tiled memory. In some embodiments a method may, include for one tiled-X cache read request, requesting two cache lines from the tiled memory without fragmenting the tiled-X cache read request, and returning data associated with the two requested cache... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC Attorneys For Intel Corporation

20070153016 - Method for publishing dialogue: A method of preparing dialogue in printed media includes defining/identifying character ‘voices’ by the means of type family, size, weight, and color. Any combination of type family or colors may be used in any order. The ‘code’ defines a ‘style’ of writing that introduces or defines each character in the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070153018 - Projection system and method of curved film: The invention involves a sort of curved film projection system, including a rendering surface, a projection screen, a real scene rendering model of image system, a rendering model of projection system that renders the projection the image rendered by the rendering model of image system on the rendering surface, and... Agent: Hytechnology Inc. 18/f, Tower 1, China Hong Kong City

20070153017 - Semantics-guided non-photorealistic rendering of images: A facility for semantics-guided non-photorealistic rendering is described. In various embodiments, the facility receives a set of objects that are to be rendered in a non-photorealistic manner. For each received object, the facility determines whether the object has an associated indication of a feature type and, when the object has... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070153019 - Color correction involving color phase detection and phase-dependent control: Color correction is performed on a first set of three pixel values by determining a color phase of the pixel values. The determined color phase is used to determine a phase difference, and the phase difference is used to control an amount of color phase rotation applied to the chrominance... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20070153020 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, image processing program, and a computer-readable storage medium: In an image processing apparatus of the present invention, interpolation operations are performed with a LUT to obtain CMY image data corresponding to input RGB image data. The image processing apparatus includes a gamut selecting section for selecting a gamut corresponding to an inputted image, from an RGB color space,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070153021 - Data converting circuit and display apparatus using the same: In a data converting circuit, an approximation calculation circuit calculates an approximation value of an output to input data by using an n-th order equation (n is an integer equal to or more than one). An error reducing circuit generates an error correction value by using a multiplication factor determined... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153023 - System and method of temporal anti-aliasing: A system and method for temporally anti-aliasing a display of a set of frames rendered from scene information without significantly increasing an amount of processing power used in rendering the frames. In some embodiments of the invention, a view used to render the frames from the scene information may be... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070153022 - Upscaling of anti-aliased graphical elements: Upscaling of an anti-aliased graphical element in a raster image includes generating a grid of pixels. Resolution of the grid is higher than resolution of the graphical element. Each pixel in the anti-aliased graphical element corresponds to a group of pixels in the higher resolution grid. The upscaling further includes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070153024 - Multi-mode pixelated displays: A method and system that allow two or more pixel format modes to be displayed on a pixelated display (e.g., PDP, LCD, etc.) to provide optimal display for different applications without the artifacts that are often generated by conventional scaling.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070153025 - Method, apparatus, and system for encoding and decoding a signal on a viewable portion of a video: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a system that is operable to encode a signal within a video by increasing a brightness of a first portion of a first frame by less than about five percent, decreasing a brightness of a second portion of the first frame by less... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070153026 - Control apparatus and method for use with digitally controlled light sources: The present invention provides an extension to a standard N-bit digital pulse width control method which can discriminate 2N discrete pulse widths per pulse cycle. The present invention provides a method and apparatus that can modulate the pulse widths over a period of 2M pulse cycles in which each pulse... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070153027 - Control apparatus and method for use with digitally controlled light sources: A method of determining implied sample areas for each data point of each color in a source pixel data specified in a first sub-pixel format is used for sub-pixel rendering an image on a display specified in a second sub-pixel format. Each of the first and second sub-pixel formats comprises... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070153028 - Real size display system: Disclosed is a real size display system comprising a real size display system comprising a photographing unit for photographing an image of a subject, and outputting first image information that includes measurement information of the subject; a flat panel display unit for displaying image and providing information on installed dot... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC