Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 08/07

20070200792 - High resolution 2d-3d switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus: Provided is a high resolution 2D-3D switchable autostereoscopic display apparatus including: a backlight unit emitting light; a spatial light modulator comprising a plurality of cells, the cells being arranged two-dimensionally and comprising left eye regions and right eye regions that are each independently switchable between a transparent state and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070200793 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method: A pixel including an organic light emitting diode, an organic light emitting display device including the pixel, and a method for driving the organic light emitting display device. The pixel includes first and second drivers and first and second selectors. A horizontal period for driving the pixel includes first and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070200797 - Filter and plasma display device using the same: A filter may include a base film and multiple color pattern units included in the base film. The filter may also include a front pattern layer containing multiple color pattern units, where widths of cross sections of the color pattern units may be greater in parts oriented toward a front... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070200798 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields having respective luminance weights, and a first line load ratio is measured from a plurality of video signals corresponding to a first row electrode among a plurality of row electrodes during the respective subfields. A first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070200800 - Energy recovery circuit and driving apparatus of display panel: A driving apparatus of a plasma display panel (PDP) operates stably and reliably. The driving apparatus to drive the PDP includes a pulse application unit which applies a pulse to the PDP; and an energy recovery unit which comprises an inductor which generates LC resonance with a panel capacitor element... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070200799 - Flat panel display device: A flat panel display device includes switching elements QA3 and QA4, respectively connected to a voltage Vs and ground to be applied to a panel capacitance Cp when performing light emission relating to image display, for clamping the voltage of the panel capacitance; coils LA1 and LA2 each having one... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070200801 - Display device: In a display device is capable of performing the gradation display of high bits by regulating the sheet resistance of the signal lines according to the set operation conditions of a display panel, plural pixels that are formed of plural sub-pixels each consisting of a pair of a cathode and... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20070200804 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method of the same: An organic light emitting display device and a driving method for the same is provided. The device includes a data driver that can cause a display of an image having a uniform luminance. The data driver includes a ramp pulse generating part for generating a ramp pulse. The data driver... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070200807 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method therefor: A driving section for a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel not requiring color filters supplies the LCD panel with a plurality of first image signals based on an original image signal during a plurality of first, equal-length field intervals of a frame and also provides a second image signal for... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070200811 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is disclosed, in which resolution of images can be improved by the difference in gray level between adjacent pixels of video data. The apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an LCD panel having a plurality of gate lines and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070200810 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus: A method of driving an electro-optical device having a plurality of pixels which are formed to correspond to intersections between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines and each of which exhibits a grayscale of output light corresponding to a data signal sampled and supplied to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200814 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method: A pixel including an organic light emitting diode for use in an organic light emitting display device and a method for driving the display device. First and second transistors are coupled with a current supply line and are turned-on by a scan signal supplied to a scan line to charge... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070200791 - Locating display items on multiple display devices: In a multiple-display configuration comprising multiple display devices, the display device on which a display item, such as a mouse cursor, is located, is indicated without obscuring the view of any information being rendered on any display device. In an exemplary configuration, light emitting devices, such as LEDs for example,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070200794 - Display unit and methods of displaying an image: The present invention provides a method of displaying an image on a display device having first and second sides, said image including an light restricting silhouette pattern having a plurality of first transparent or translucent areas, and at least one design layer having at least one color, said at least... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070200795 - Electrophoretic media and processes for the production thereof: A first electrophoretic medium comprises an electrically charged particle suspended in a suspending fluid, the particle having a polymeric shell having repeating units derived from at least one monomer the homopolymer of which is incompatible with the suspending fluid. A second, similar electrophoretic medium comprises a suspending fluid, and first... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070200796 - Method and apparatus for avoiding overheating of drivers of a plasma display panel: Overheating while enabling a full flexibility in the display usage should be avoided. This object is solved by a method for avoiding the overheating of a driver circuit in a plasma display panel wherein the driver circuit receives serially display data in form of a sequence of sub-field data bits... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070200803 - Display device, and driving method and electronic device thereof: By controlling gray scale of a display device in accordance with an average luminance of a display screen, sharp display is performed. In addition, it is an object to provide a display device with reduced deterioration of a light emitting element, by the control in accordance with the average luminance... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070200802 - Electronic circuit, electronic device, and electronic apparatus: To provide an electronic circuit, an electronic device, and an electronic apparatus, which are suitable for shortening data writing time or decreasing power consumption five driving transistors having the same gain factor are connected in series to form a driving current generation circuit unit. Further, five current supply transistors having... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200805 - Organic electroluminescent light emitting display device: In an organic electroluminescent light emitting display device comprising a plurality of pixels each of which includes an organic electroluminescent element emitting light by a current supplied thereto, a plurality of active elements including a first active element which acquires a data signal and a second active element which regulates... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070200806 - System and method for displaying images: System and method for enhancing image quality in a display system. A preferred embodiment comprises a variable light source capable of producing a light of specified intensity and color, an array of light modulators optically coupled to the variable light source, the array to modulate the light based upon image... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070200808 - Liquid crystal display and driving device thereof: The present invention discloses a data driver and a liquid crystal display including the same capable of solving the problems on the liquid crystal display and of decreasing the number of input pins of an external side by generating gamma reference voltages at internal or external side. According to the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070200809 - Liquid crystal display device: An object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized active matrix type liquid crystal display device that may achieve large-sized display, high precision, high resolution and multi-gray scales. According to the present invention, gray scale display is performed by combining time ratio gray scale and voltage gray scale... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070200812 - Organic el display device: [Problem]To provide an organic EL display device, which can prevent erroneous light emission of an active matrix type display panel and reduce power consumption during the display panel switching and is effective in reducing area and thickness of the organic EL display device. [Means for Resolution]An organic EL display device... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070200813 - Thin film transistor array substrate and electronic ink display device: A thin film transistor array substrate and an electronic ink display device are provided. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, thin film transistors, and pixel electrodes. The substrate has plural pixel regions, and the scan lines and the data lines are disposed on the substrate.... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20070200815 - Charge sharing method and apparatus for display panel: A charge-sharing method and apparatus for display panel including at least two data channels are provided. The charge-sharing method includes the following steps. First, one data channel is connected with another data channel at a first time-point of a period during which the pixels are turned on. The connections among... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070200816 - Decoder circuit having level shifting function and liquid crystal drive device using decoder circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes first to k-th decoders, and a MOS transistor switch group having a hierarchical structure of first to k-th hierarchies and operated on a second voltage level. An n-bit input signal of a first voltage level is divided into k groups (k is an integral... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070200817 - Driving device with light sensor module and electronic device using the same: A driving device (30) with a light sensor module (32) includes a circuit board (31), and a first light sensor hole (34). The light sensor module is electrically connected to a surface of the circuit board, and includes a chip carrier (320), a potting compound (322), and a light sensor... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070200818 - Image display device: An image display device for displaying a screen containing both moving image data, and image data stored in the internal memory with lower power consumption. The image display device contains a switch for controlling transfer to a display area for image data stored in the internal memory installed outside the... Agent: Mattingly Stanger And Malur PC

20070200819 - Display panel and method for driving the same: A display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. In the method for driving a display panel provided with a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes, the method according to an embodiment includes applying a first voltage to each of pixels at a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200822 - Information processing apparatus and light projection control method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus, including a projecting portion to project visible light indicative of at least one of a first input device and a second input device, and a switch to designate the at least one of the first input device and the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070200820 - Terminal for navigating documents: A terminal for navigating documents, comprising browser means (1), pointer means (2) arranged to be controlled by a terminal user, a small-size display (3), and display means (4) arranged to display a portion of a large-size document on the small-size display (3), the area of the complete large-size document being... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200821 - User interface navigation: User interface navigation is described. In an embodiment, an indicator displayed on a user interface rotates in place to indicate selectable directions of travel. When an input is received to stop the indicator from rotating, the indicator moves in a direction of travel. When another input is received, the indicator... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070200823 - Cursor velocity being made proportional to displacement in a capacitance-sensitive input device: A miniature touchpad disposed underneath a single key cap of a keyboard, wherein the touchpad is disposed within the key cap and provides sensing through the key cap to the key cap surface, wherein a user moves a finger across the key cap surface in order to manipulate a cursor... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070200825 - Mouse device and audio playback system: A mouse device includes a USB transceiver, an MP3 decoder, and an FM transmitter. The USB transceiver receives the audio data S(MP3), which is audio data that has been compressed in the MP3 format, from a computer, and outputs the audio data to the MP3 decoder. The MP3 decoder decodes... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070200824 - Wireless foldable mouse: A wireless foldable mouse can be unfolded into a thin configuration for mechanical engagement with a computer, and folded into a thick configuration for wireless mouse input to the computer. Also, the mouse while distanced from the computer can be unfolded to reveal remote control buttons so that the mouse... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070200826 - Computer input device for automaticall scrolling: A computer input device includes a body and a trace-detecting module coupled to the body. The body has a micro control unit (MCU), and the trace-detecting module has at least a light pervious area, and a trace-detecting unit. The trace-detecting unit further has at least a light source and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070200827 - Method and matrix for inputting symbols into computers: The invention relates to digital devices, employing a reduced keyboard for text entering. The technical effect of the invention is solving ambiguity of depressed key sequence by using disambiguation system at character level, minimizing a number of entered keystrokes, raising efficiency of inputting both broadly used and special characters of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070200829 - Operation panel having flexible display: An operation panel capable of being effectively reduced in size while the operability and the visibility are maintained at the conventional level. The operation panel includes a flexible display, a plurality of operation keys and a storing part for storing the flexible display in a wound state. In a second... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070200828 - Small form-factor key design for keypads of mobile computing devices: A keypad includes a plurality of multi-portion keys having two or more key-portions within a common footprint. Each key-portion is independently usable with respect to any other key-portion. A plurality of switches are oriented such that insertion of any key-portion will engage a respective switch associated with a particular key-portion.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070200833 - Display device and method of controlling touch detection unit: A display device may include a display panel, a plurality of pixels that are disposed on the display panel, a plurality of sensing units that are disposed on the display panel to generate sensing signals based on touch of the display panel, a sensing signal processor that receives the sensing... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070200832 - Display device and voltage adjusting method therefor: A display device includes: a plurality of sensing data lines; a plurality of sensing units that output sensing signals through the plurality of sensing data lines; a signal selector that selects one sensing signal among the plurality of sensing signals; an automatic voltage adjusting unit that, when one sensing signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070200830 - Input device using touch panel: There provided is an input device comprising a pressure-sensitive type touch panel; a housing for supporting the touch panel so as to contact the touch panel at a position which is away from a detection area on a surface of the touch panel; and a guide frame which is disposed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070200831 - Method and circuitry for self testing of connectivity of touch screen panel: A touch screen digitizing system includes a first resistive screen and a touch screen controller including an ADC and self-test circuitry having a driver switch coupled between a reference voltage and a first terminal of the first resistive screen, and a first test switch coupled between ground and a conductor... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070200834 - Hidden touch pad structure: A hidden touch pad structure adopted for an electronic product is provided, which discloses a touch pad; a plate covering the touch pad, the plate having a pad-recognizing portion thereon corresponding to the touch pad; and a circuit board electronically connecting to the touch pad for receiving pressure signal when... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070200835 - Touch panel, display device with the same, and method for manufacturing the display device: A display device is provided with a touch panel includes: a base substrate; a first transparent electrode layer located on the base substrate; an ultrasonic wave guiding layer located on the first transparent electrode layer; a second transparent electrode layer located on the ultrasonic wave guiding layer; an ultrasonic wave... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070200837 - Display device: A display device comprises a first connector, a communication controller coupled to the first connector to transmit addressed data comprising display data, a display controller receiving the display data to generate video signals, and a display unit receiving and displaying the video signal. The video signals comprise a color signal,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070200838 - Image displaying apparatus having frame rate conversion and method thereof: Provided are an image display apparatus with a frame rate conversion function and a frame-rate conversion method thereof. The image displaying apparatus includes a frame rate conversion (FRC) part which converts and outputs a frame rate of an input image signal depending on a motion of an image, and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070200840 - Optimized phase alignment in analog-to-digital conversion of video signals: A digital video system (2) is disclosed, in which an analog input video signal is sampled at an optimum sample phase (Pnc), and converted to a digital datastream for display. A phase-locked loop (12) generates a plurality of sample clock phases. One of the sample clock phases (Pnc) is applied... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070200842 - Organic electroluminescent display device: The present invention overcomes image defects such as the brightness inclination or smears by reducing the line resistance of a power source bus line which supplies electricity to organic EL elements. A plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix array is connected to power source lines, and the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070200841 - Information processing apparatus and imaging control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a body, a display unit which is supported by the body and which is rotatable between the closed position at which it covers the upper surface of the body and the open position at which it is raised up to expose... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070200839 - Method and system for updating of displays showing deterministic content: A method and apparatus for displaying image data is disclosed. The method includes receiving one of a plurality of sets of stored image update data to be displayed on a display device, wherein each set corresponds to one image in a sequence of images and wherein the plurality of sets... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070200836 - Sync processor of flat panel display for determining signal safety on the basis of hsync/vsync signal generated according to data enable signal: In a sync processor for determining safety of signals on the basis of a horizontal/vertical sync signal generated according to a data enable signal, the sync processor includes a digital horizontal/vertical signal generator, a selector, a digital horizontal/vertical signal detector, a horizontal/vertical polarity determination unit, and a horizontal/vertical frequency determination... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070200843 - Display driving integrated circuit and method of generating system clock signal using oscillator clock signal: A display driving circuit comprises a driving frequency output device which outputs a frame frequency of a vertical synchronization signal, a frequency of a horizontal synchronization signal, and a frequency of a PCLK signal in response to an oscillator clock signal, and a clock generator which generates a system clock... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070200844 - Template processing system and method: A system and method for processing digital templates having one or both of a pre-filled image and text field. Optional image and/or text fields are provided for filling in by the customer using customer-selected data. As the customer adds text and images to the template, a data file is created... Agent: Dennis B. Danella, Esq. Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP

20070200845 - Map creation device and navigation device: In a map creation device (100), a simple-three-dimensional-ground-information creating unit (104) creates, using a three-dimensional ground object indicating a three-dimensional shape of a ground, a simple-three-dimensional ground object having less amount of data than the three-dimensional ground object. A three-dimensional-on-ground-structure-information creating unit (105) adds, using the simple-three-dimensional ground object created,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070200847 - Method and device for controlling a virtual reality graphic system using interactive techniques: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling a virtual reality (VR) graphic system using interactive techniques. Said VR graphic system comprises a projection device for visualising virtual three-dimensional scenes and the interaction with the VR graphic system takes place using at least one interactive device, which... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070200846 - Object display device and object display program: There is provided a display device, with regard to a product existing in a real space and being assembled by a plurality of components, capable of displaying the component as component object in a virtual space and of displaying an in-process product on an in-process stage of the product by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070200849 - Graphic device and control method thereof: An apparatus of a graphic system is provided. The graphic system consists of a first graphic device and a second graphic device. The first graphic device has a clip and setup processor and a pixel shader. The clip and setup processor accesses and clips the graphic data. The pixel shader... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070200848 - Light map compression: A technique to reduce the size of a light map using variable sampling is provided. A surface is identified and divided into various regions in accordance with the frequencies associated with the regions. Different sampling rates for lighting information are allocated to the regions based on the different frequencies associated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070200851 - Policy analysis and action decision tool: Using stochastic directed graphs, a social network stochastic directed graph model allows for policy analysis and action. An activity generator may be used for creating agents that represent a population stratum. Agents may be proportionally selected to the size of the population stratum and representative activities that are associated with... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20070200850 - Methods and systems to communicate information: There is provided a method and system to communicate information. The system receives a first query that contains a first constraint and retrieves a first plurality of data items from a database based on the first query. Next, the system generates a first distribution based on the first plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070200852 - Method to protect display text from eavesdropping: A system and method for displaying a glyph on a graphical user interface to protect the displayed glyph against eavesdropping. The method comprises providing multiple frames of the glyph, each frame representing a partial glyph which includes at least one component of the glyph. The multiple frames of the glyph... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070200853 - Post production integration platform: Disclosed is a computer software application which integrates video, animation and sound file formats into a unified work environment. The proposed invention includes a unified timeline and a unified visual manipulation environment. By combining these formats into a unified and native format environment the user is able to change and... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20070200854 - Labeling used in motion capture: Labeling motion capture volume data includes: receiving a motion capture beat, the motion capture beat including unlabeled body points and unlabeled face points; labeling the unlabeled body points which have a valid fit to a predetermined body model template; verifying the labeled body points using stretch analysis; labeling unlabeled body... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070200855 - Video game apparatus for displaying information indicating boundary between fields: When movement of a player character is instructed, a position and a direction of the player character after movement thereof are calculated. When the calculated position of the player character after movement thereof is in a moving-to area moved from a current area over a boundary therebetween, map data of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070200856 - Image forming apparatus and display control program product: An image forming apparatus including: a display portion for displaying an image; a storing portion for storing a plurality of operative instruction reception images, and operation guide images associated with the respective operative instruction reception images; a display controller for controlling the display portion to display an operative instruction reception... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070200857 - Processor for video data: A video processor according to the invention is dynamically configurable as to the attributes of the video data upon which the processor operates. Some embodiments dynamically configure the processor via a sequence of instructions, where the instructions include information on the attributes of the current video data. Some embodiments include... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070200858 - Kvm switch and a computer switching method: A KVM switch has a switching device, a first computer video interface, a second computer video interface, an image processing unit, and at least one console video interface. The switching device is arranged to select a first computing device and a second computing device from the computing devices. The first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200859 - Parallel interface bus to communicate video data encoded for serial data links: In some embodiments, a device includes a bus, a parallel source, and a parallel sink. The parallel source is to provide parallel groups of signals including video signals to the bus, wherein the bus has a number of lanes that is fewer than a number of signals used to represent... Agent: Silicon / Blakely Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070200860 - Integrated packet based video display interface and methods of use thereof: An integrated packet based display interface arranged to couple a multimedia source device to a multimedia sink device is disclosed that includes a transmitter unit coupled to the source device arranged to receive a source packet data stream in accordance with a native stream rate, a receiver unit coupled to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070200861 - Display device and display system using the same: Provided are a display device with low power consumption which enables reduction of an operation processing amount of a GPU and which does not require a storage device for storing image data corresponding to one screen, and a display system using the display device. The display device is constituted by... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070200862 - Imaging device, location information recording method, and computer program product: A location-information storing unit stores therein location information. A location-information acquiring unit-acquires the location information from a location detecting device that detects a current location, and stores acquired location information in the location-information storing unit. An image storing unit stores an image in an image storing unit with stored location... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070200863 - System and method for wearable user interface in computer assisted surgery: A computer assisted surgery system includes a display for visual rendering of surgical data, a processor for receiving a control signal and performing operations associated with the control signal and for controlling the surgical data rendered by the display, and a wearable input device in communication with the processor. The... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070200865 - Data conversion method for processor, texture producing method, program, recording medium, and projector: In a data conversion method which refers to textures for converting an input value into an output value by using a predetermined function, the data conversion method includes: converting the input value into an unequal division value, producing a linearly approximated component of the unequal division value, producing an expansion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070200864 - Method and system for gathering per-frame image statistics while preserving resolution and runtime performance in a real-time visual simulation: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method and system for gathering per-frame image statistics in a real-time visual simulation comprises rendering a scene image in a frame of the real-time visual simulation with contents of a frame buffer copied to a texture comprising a plurality of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070200866 - Light source performing scanning operation twice, image apparatus using the light source, and method of driving the light source: A light source and an image apparatus which can reduce a rainbow effect and a color separation phenomenon in a pixel are provided. A different waveform is provided according to a color of the light source and methods of driving the light source and the image apparatus, respectively. The light... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070200867 - Data-driven color coordinator: A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20070200868 - Image synthesizing device: An image synthesizing device includes a graphics data expanding unit 2 for securing a rectangular area 4a whose alpha value is “0” in a region of a non-display memory 4, the region corresponding to a display area in which moving image data is to be displayed, and for expanding motionless... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070200872 - Generating an image sequence: A method and apparatus are provided for generating an image sequence, in which image elements are defined digitally. The method includes the steps of: defining the format of the image via a template system; generating thumbnail image data; transferring such thumbnail data into sequential storyboard panels for reference; drawing or... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20070200870 - Home appliance with electronic album function: Disclosed herein is a home appliance with an electronic album function which is capable of electronically constructing and displaying an album. The home appliance includes a washing device for washing or drying clothes, and a monitor device fixedly mounted in a predetermined position of the washing device or detachably mounted... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070200871 - Interface for enhanced movement of objects in a display: There is described a method for moving at least one object in a vertical plane in a display using an input device having a housing and a member that is rotatable relative to the housing. The method may comprise: selecting at least one object to be moved; rotating the member... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070200869 - Process for linking arbitrary computer models for process optimization: A process for providing a method for describing the sequencing of computer-based process models comprising the steps of: sequencing the models in the correct order, ascribing inputs to models based on outputs of precedent models, and allowing the inclusion of arbitrary control variables that are not derived from model outputs.... Agent: Darrell D. Massie Attn: Madn-cme

20070200873 - Pixel and vector layer interaction: A single graphics design application may provide both a vector object editor and a pixel editor. The application may automatically convert a graphic of a first type (e.g., vector or pixel) to a second type (e.g., pixel or vector) when copied to a layer having a mode of the second... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070200874 - Voltage modulated driver circuits for electro-optic displays: A method and system for applying addressing voltages to pixels of a display involves receiving input data. The input data includes an indication of an addressing voltage impulse to be applied to a pixel via an electrode. One or more voltage sources are selected, to provide the addressing voltage impulse.... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070200875 - Multimedia system for selecting and activating functions: A multimedia system may include a controller and display that displays status information, menu information, and other information. The information may include multiple status icons representing different status information. Each status icon may provide details regarding a setting or condition of the multimedia system, and may be associated with a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070195008 - Electronic conference control device, electronic conference assistance method, storage medium, and computer data signal: An electronic conference control device has a display controller that controls display of common screen images commonly displayed on display devices, local screen images displayed only on a connected one of the display devices, cut screen images generated by extracting a screen image portion contained in a closed space having... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070195012 - Image display apparatus and method for displaying image: A see-through type image display apparatus and a method for displaying image are provided. This is an image display apparatus mounted on the head or face of a user wherein the user can see through the apparatus to observe the external world, and includes: a see-through type display section for... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070195013 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, an energy storing unit, a first driver, and a second driver. The plasma display panel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The energy storing unit supplies a first voltage and a second voltage, or the second voltage. The first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070195019 - Image display apparatus: Active matrix circuitry includes a light emission selection element is disposed between a source electrode of a driver element and an anode of a light emitting element. By turning the light emission selection element off, an electric current of the driver element can be turned off, whereby the threshold voltage... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070195018 - Organic light emitting diode display and pixel circuit thereof: An OLED display and pixel circuit thereof are provided. The pixel circuit includes first and second switches, first and second PMOS transistors, a capacitor and an OLED. The first switch, controlled by a first scan signal, has a first end receiving a data signal and a second end. The second... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070195023 - Light emitting apparatus and control method thereof: A light emitting apparatus includes: a plurality of light emitting parts connected in series; a current supplying part supplying current to the plurality of light emitting parts; a plurality of current switches connected in parallel to the plurality of light emitting parts, respectively, and causing the current to flow through... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195024 - Thermal limited backlight driver: A system for powering and controlling an LED backlight, the system comprising: a control circuitry; a plurality of LED strings; a pulse width modulation functionality associated with the control circuitry and arranged to pulse width modulate a current flow through each of the plurality of LED strings; and a plurality... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070195025 - Voltage controlled backlight driver: A system for powering and controlling an LED backlight, the system comprising: a control circuitry; a controllable power source responsive to the control circuitry; and a plurality of LED strings receiving power from the controllable power source, the control circuitry being operative to control the output voltage of the controllable... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070195029 - Display panel, display apparatus having the same, and method thereof: A display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines and a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a pixel electrode... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070195033 - Driving method for liquid crystal light modulating device: A driving method for a liquid crystal light modulating device uses a liquid crystal composition that contains liquid crystals that exhibit a scattered focal conic phase state and a transparent nematic phase state depending on the applied voltage. The driving method includes a nematic phase holding operation period and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195034 - Method for driving liquid crystal light modulating device, and liquid crystal light modulating device: The present invention provides a driving method using a liquid crystal light modulating device including transparent electrodes which each have a horizontally alignment film; and a liquid crystal composition which contains at least a chiral dopant, a dichroic dye and a host liquid crystal. The transparent electrodes face each other... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195032 - Touch sensitive display device: A liquid crystal display includes a first display panel, a second display panel, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of sensing data lines formed on the second display panel, a plurality of variable capacitors connected to the sensing data lines and a first voltage of which capacitance is changed depending... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195040 - Display device and driving apparatus thereof: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a signal controller converting current input image data of a first frequency into first and second output image data of a second frequency and outputting the first and second output image data, and a data driver converting respective output image data from... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195041 - Liquid crystal display device having improved side visibility: A liquid crystal display device having optimal side visibility stores gray scale data corresponding to the input data signals in a look-up table. Each pixel of a liquid crystal panel includes two sub-pixels, and a controller of the liquid crystal display device applies a data voltage having different levels to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195044 - Light emitting diode substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and liquid crystal display device using the same: A luminance control circuit for controlling the luminance levels of different colored light sources that lends itself to easy incorporation into display devices is presented. A light emitting diode (LED) substrate includes a plurality of driving thin film transistors (TFTs) including a semiconductor layer deposited on a substrate. A plurality... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195043 - Organic electroluminescent display device: The present invention narrows a picture frame size by deciding line widths of respective power source bus lines which supply electricity to organic EL elements of respective colors corresponding to current quantities of the respective power source bus lines. Red pixels, green pixels and blue pixels which are arranged in... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070195045 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention allows a liquid crystal display device to perform an image display of high quality by suppressing lowering of image quality which is generated attributed to an AC driving method. In a liquid crystal display device of the present invention, each pixel includes a pixel electrode and a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070195046 - Data processing device, method of driving the same and display device having the same: A display device having a data processing section includes a memory, a first compensation section and a second compensation section. The memory outputs first compensated data based on first frame data. The first compensation section generates second compensated data based on the first compensated data and second frame data, while... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070195048 - Device for adjusting transmission signal level based on channel loading: A device for controlling the level of a transmission signal according to the channel loading is provided. The device may include a plurality of semiconductor devices and a controller to control the plurality of semiconductor devices. The controller may control the level of a signal to be transmitted to each... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195047 - Display device: In a display device, a first image processor outputs a first pretilt gray scale in response to a first external image signal during a first pretilt period and a second image processor outputs a second pretilt gray scale higher than the first pretilt gray scale in response to a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070195049 - Display device: A display device includes gate lines, data lines, storage electrode lines and pixels. Each pixel includes a switching element connected to a gate line and a data line, a liquid crystal capacitor connected to the switching element and a common voltage, and a storage capacitor connected to the switching element... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195009 - Information processing device and related method: An information processing device including a plurality of electronic display sheets, bound into notebook form, and a position information input portion having an input face is provided. The input face may be moved into opposing relationship with respect to the display face of any of the electronic display sheets of... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070195007 - Method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device: A method and system for auxiliary display of information for a computing device. An auxiliary display is integrated with a computing system to provide an area where notifications can be peripherally presented off-screen. Whenever a background task sends a notification to the main display of the system, the notification may... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070195010 - Display device: A display unit displays an image, and includes plural independent image displays. A sound output unit outputs sound corresponding to an image displayed on the display unit. A storage unit stores image data of an image to be displayed on the display unit, sound data to be output by the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070195011 - Work area setting and managing system: A work area setting and managing system which enables a operator to plan and manage work in a work area and set and store the work area at just the mobile work machine side at the work site is provided. The system is applied to a mobile work machine 11... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070195014 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. A scan driver of the plasma display apparatus supplies scan signals to scan electrodes using a first scan type in a first subfield of a frame, and supplies the scan signals to the scan electrodes using a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070195015 - Device for driving a plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a device for driving a plasma display panel having a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns, said device comprising row address means for selectively addressing the display cell rows and creating, where required, in cooperation with means for selectively applying data voltages to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070195016 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: The present invention is such that a method of driving a plasma display device, the plasma display device including (i) a PDP unit that includes a first and a second substrate arranged so as to face each other, the first substrate having pairs of a first and a second display... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070195020 - Method and system for light emitting device displays: A method and system for light emitting device displays is provided. The system includes one or more pixels, each having a light emitting device, a drive transistor for driving the light emitting device, and a switch transistor for selecting the pixel; and a circuit for monitoring and extracting the change... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20070195021 - Method for driving an electronic device, electronic device, semiconductor integrating circuit and electronic equipment: A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, current-driven elements provided corresponding to portions where the scanning lines and the signal lines cross one another, and performs a display operating in response to the amount of a driving current supplied to the current-driven elements.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195017 - Organic el driver circuit and organic el display device: [Problem]To provide an organic EL drive circuit including D/A converter circuits capable of reducing the number of elements, which are proof against relatively high voltage, restricting an increase of circuit size and restricting variation of luminance of a display screen and an organic EL display device using the organic EL... Agent: Mattingly Stanger Malur & Brundidge

20070195022 - Organic el display device: [Problem]To provide an organic EL display device which is suitable to minimize a size thereof and is capable of preventing erroneous light emission and reducing power consumption when a display is switched from one of a first and second organic EL display panels to the other. To provide an organic... Agent: John R Mattingly Mattingly Stanger Malur & Brundidge

20070195026 - Display methods and apparatus: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070195039 - Display apparatus: The present invention is so arranged as to include (a) gradation reference potential generating means including a group of output terminals whose voltages are determined in accordance with a voltage division ratio of one ladder resistor, so as to output gradation reference potentials, for example, of 1024, which is a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070195028 - Display device: A display device in which one frame period is divided to a plurality of field periods, it is made possible to set gray scale voltage groups of a plurality of kinds depending on the field period, and a gray scale voltage is equipped with a function of generating and outputting... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070195035 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same is capable of for preventing a difference in brightness from occurring between horizontal line blocks. A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix pattern; at least one integrated circuit... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070195036 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same is capable of for preventing a difference in brightness from occurring between horizontal line blocks. A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix pattern; at least one integrated circuit... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070195037 - Liquid crystal display device, method of controlling the same, and mobile terminal: A liquid crystal display device enabling a reduction in size and costs associated with the system as a whole, starting to display images without image distortion at power on time, and turning the screen off without image retention at power off time, a method of controlling the liquid crystal display... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070195038 - Liquid crystal display device, method of controlling the same, and mobile terminal: A liquid crystal display device enabling a reduction in size and costs associated with the system as a whole, starting to display images without image distortion at power on time, and turning the screen off without image retention at power off time, a method of controlling the liquid crystal display... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070195030 - Liquid crystal display panel utilizing redundancy line as repair line and method of repairing the same: A liquid crystal display panel utilizes a redundancy line as a repair line. The liquid crystal display panel has a substrate having data lines, and data drivers, which have plurality of data channels that have a plurality of corresponding data lines electrically connected to the data channels respectively. At least... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070195027 - Method of displaying moving image on a liquid crystal display panel: A display method capable of displaying motion images includes displaying a first image, displaying a white or a gray image after displaying the first image, and displaying a second image subsequent to the first image after displaying the white image or the gray image using a liquid display panel. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070195031 - Multi-configuration display driver: Modular and configurable display drivers for driving a bistable liquid crystal display. The drivers have configurable outputs set by a plurality of configuration bits for driving rows or columns of various displays configurations. The configurable outputs of some of the drivers can be reconfigured during a display operation. Thus, the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070195042 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention relates to an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device. In order to enhance the switching characteristics of the display and to improve contrast in displayed images, each pixel area on a substrate in the display is surrounded by strips of resistive material. By applying driving signals to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195050 - Active matrix type display device: In an active matrix type display device including two source line side drivers for driving a plurality of pixel TFTs, one gate line side driver, two line memories respectively including at least first and second memories, and a controller for controlling the first and second line memories, storing and transmitting... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070195051 - Plasma display panel driving circuit and plasma display apparatus: A plasma display panel driving circuit for driving a plasma display panel which has a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes and operates as a capacitive load, by applying a different waveform in each of a reset period, address period and sustain period, includes a voltage multiplying circuit having... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070195053 - Shift register circuit and image display apparatus containing the same: A shift register circuit comprises a first transistor between a gate line output terminal and a clock terminal, a second transistor between the gate line output terminal and a first power supply terminal, a third transistor between a carry signal output terminal and the clock terminal and a fourth transistor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195054 - Source driver circuit for controlling slew rate according to frame frequency and method of controlling slew rate according to frame frequency in the source driver circuit: A source driver circuit in which a slow rate is adjusted according to a frame frequency and a method for adjusting a slew rate according to a frame frequency in the source driver circuit, wherein the source driver circuit includes a plurality of driver amplifiers, a frequency-current converting unit, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070195052 - Source driving apparatus, method of driving the same, display device having the same and method of driving the same: A source driving apparatus includes a latch, an additional-data generator, an output controller and a buffer. The latch latches a normal-data signal received and outputs the latched normal-data signal. The additional-data generator generates an additional-data signal having a low value on the gray-scale and outputs the additional-data signal. The output... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195055 - Driving apparatus for display device and display device having the same: A driving apparatus for a display device that is capable of lowering the manufacturing cost for different types of gate driving integrated circuits is presented. The apparatus has pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel having a first and a second subpixels. A gate driver has a plurality of gate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070195056 - Optical device for producing a virtual image: An optical device can produce a virtual image visible from a vantage point. The device has one or more lenses, a source for producing light, and an internally illuminable, non-transparent display object. The source can produce light in the display object in order to internally illuminate the display object and... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070195057 - Electro-optical modulating display and method of making the same: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing micro-cell arrays. Such an array may find use in a number of applications such as, for example, a video display, electronic paper, and signage. The microcell arrays find particular use in electromodulating displays.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070195058 - Wireless cursor pointing device: A wireless cursor pointing device is disclosed, the device including: an RFID transponder for sensing a radio frequency signal; and a switch connected to the RFID transponder for switching on and off the RFID transponder; wherein when the switch is switched on and the RFID transponder senses the radio frequency... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195059 - Increasing force transmissibility for tactile feedback interface devices: Method and apparatus for increasing the transmissibility of forces produced by an actuator on a manipulandum. A haptic device, coupled to a host computer, outputs tactile sensations to a user based on interactions and events occurring in a displayed graphical environment. An actuator produces forces and a compliant suspension couples... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070195060 - Cursor management system: An N-screen computer display system is described that includes N panels having N screens capable of displaying a cursor. The system also includes a cursor repositioning component having N screen selectors associated with the N screens. Each of the N screen selectors can be activated to reposition the cursor such... Agent: Mass Engineered Design Inc.

20070195061 - Image reproduction apparatus and program therefor: A medical image is reproduced after being subjected to image processing appropriate for conversion into an image suitable for interpreting. Selection of a imaging menu item from a imaging menu being displayed is accepted, and the medical image is reproduced after being subjected to the image processing for converting the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195063 - Alphanumeric data processing in a telephone: A method of processing alphanumeric data entered by a human user into a telephone, using a plurality of numerical keys each assigned a unique numeral and a plurality of alphabetical keys each assigned a unique alphabetical letter. A numerical entry is processed by receiving a numerical input data based on... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070195062 - System and method for associating characters to keys in a keypad in an electronic device: The invention relates to a system and method of mapping a layout of a keyboard onto a keypad in an electronic device is provided. The method comprising steps of: providing a definition of a map of a keyboard layout as a collection of segments of the keyboard layout; associating a... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070195064 - Display device, input device, printing device, and electric device: A display device or an input device includes: a display section for simultaneously displaying (i) a first image in a first direction and (ii) a second image, which is different from the first image, in a second direction different from the first direction; and a reflecting section. The reflecting section... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195065 - Jog-dial assisted character selection: An apparatus such as a mobile telephone, a PDA or an electronic calendar, able to receive a string of characters, were a character or group of characters is selected by an operator performing a circular movement of a sensitive element, and where a displayed or highlighted character is subsequently selected.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070195066 - Temperature sensor and method for its production: In a method for producing a temperature sensor, there is first provided a substrate, on the first surface of which there is arranged a sensor structure having a first end and a second end, wherein the sensor structure substantially completely covers the first surface of the substrate. Then an insulation... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20070195070 - Coordinate detecting device, writing instrument, and coordinate inputting system: A pen includes a first speaker that outputs a first signal and a second speaker that outputs a second signal. The first and second speakers are located away from a tip of the pen at respectively different locations. The second signal is delayed with respect to the first signal by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070195069 - Pen apparatus, system, and method of assembly: Pen apparatus, system and method of assembly wherein a pick-up rod assembly performs in conjunction with a normally closed switch to define a pen-up tip switch condition. Coordinate signal information is provided from the pick-up rod assembly to an amplification network carried by an elongate printed circuit board. A biased... Agent: Mueller And Smith, Lpa Mueller-smith Building

20070195067 - Auto-calibration of a touch screen: Methods and systems are provided for automatically calibrating a pointing device, such as a stylus, with a writing surface, such as a touch screen. In one example, an automated method is implemented to calibrate the writing surface based user inputs attempting to use the computer for functions other than calibration... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070195068 - Pen apparatus and method of assembly: Pen apparatus and method of assembly wherein a pick-up rod assembly performs in conjunction with a normally closed switch to define a pen-up tip switch condition. Coordinate signal information is provided from the pick-up rod assembly to a signal treatment network carried by an elongate printed circuit board which supplies... Agent: Mueller And Smith, Lpa Mueller-smith Building

20070195071 - Hand-held device with character input rotary wheel: A hand-held device is provided. The hand-held device includes a rotary wheel, a first switch, a second switch, an encoder, a memory, and a controller. The rotary wheel has a plurality of positioning inputs. The encoder is responsive to operations on the rotary wheel and outputs positioning codes. The memory... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070195072 - Navigational device: A navigational device is disclosed. The navigational device includes a rotatable wheel. The rotatable wheel is attached in a wheel frame with a first rotatable member. The wheel frame is attached in a chassis with a second rotatable member. The navigational device further comprises a switch. The rotatable wheel pushes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070195076 - Apparatus and method for adaptively adjusting display parameters: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for adaptively adjusting display parameters. With the apparatus and the method, an adaptive adjustment can be performed on the display parameters from the host for displaying image signals automatically according to the display attributes information of the display, so as to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070195077 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a driving method thereof to increase a display quality include a signal receiver which receive an image signal from an external device, a controller which determines an image quality mode of the received image signal depending on whether recognition information is included in the image signal,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070195078 - Display device and electronic device having the same: A display device includes a phase comparator which compares whether phases of two signals which are input are different from each other or not; a counter circuit which counts the number of the cases where a phase shift is detected in the phase comparator; and a phase shift circuit which... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070195075 - Image display device and method of controlling an image display device: An image display device and a method of controlling an image display device are provided. The image display device may include a signal processor having a plurality of input/output ports to control a degaussing operation and a data download, a degaussing circuit connected a first port of the signal processor... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070195073 - Display panel, display apparatus, semiconductor integrated circuit and electronic apparatus: A display panel which achieves a high display quality is implemented. A drive circuit which drives a display panel which has a display region wherein sub pixels as minimum display units are arranged in a matrix includes a group of digital/analog conversion circuits configured to convert signal line data corresponding... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070195074 - Method and apparatus for power management in mobile terminals: A power saving management device includes a controller, a sensor (110, 111) in communication with the controller for providing status of whether or not the sensor is active. A power circuitry module is in communication with the controller and with at least one of a predetermined non-essential circuitry (127) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195079 - Remote status multifunction display for a transport vehicle: A display for a transport unit. The transport unit includes a vehicle, a trailer that defines a space, and a sensor that is in communication with the transport unit and that senses a parameter of the transport unit. The display unit includes a housing that is attachable to the trailer,... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070195080 - Apparatus and method for driving a display panel: An apparatus that drives a display panel by applying voltages from two or more voltage sources to a plurality of electrodes, includes a voltage converting unit receiving two or more input voltages, converting the input voltages into at least one output voltages, and outputting the output voltages, and an output... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070195081 - Authoring tool: An authoring tool provides a storage receptacle for text components of graphics designs. The storage receptacle is easily accessed from within the graphics authoring environment and allows for the text to be changed independently of the graphics authoring environment, for possible future insertion into graphics files. Once a text item... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070195082 - Three-dimensional processing device, information terminal, computer program, and three-dimensional processing method: A three-dimensional processing device (100) includes a table (180), a table reading unit (120), and a parallax image generator (130). The table reading unit (120) reads an object string (110) as input to display in a screen, reads from the table (180) depth position information and shape additional information for... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070195083 - Image-based protruded displacement mapping method and bi-layered displacement mapping method using the same: The present invention relates, in general, to technology applied to entertainment information devices, such as video game machines or computer game programs, information devices for representing geo-spatial information, or information devices for performing three-dimensional rendering using computer graphics and, more particularly, to a protruded displacement mapping method, which represents an... Agent: John M. Janeway Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070195084 - Methods and apparatus of aligning surfaces: Ultra-precision freeform surfaces are important to the development of complex and micro-optical-electro-mechanical devices used in many photonics and telecommunication products such as F-theta lenses for laser printers. These surfaces are complex and large scale surface topologies with shapes that generally possesses no rotational symmetry. Due to the geometrical complexities of... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070195085 - System and method for graphics culling: A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object parameters are encoded in texture format thereby creating at least one per-object texture containing the encoded per-object parameters. Next, a fragment program... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070195086 - Scene change determination device/method and data transfer device/method: The scene change determination device of the present invention comprises a first extraction unit for extracting a plurality of pixels used for determination from the first image data, a second extraction unit for extracting pixels corresponding to the pixels extracted from the first image data, an accumulation unit for accumulating... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070195088 - System and method for in-context volume visualization using virtual incision: A method for volume rendering a digitized medical image includes providing a digitized medical image volume comprising a plurality of intensities on a 3-dimensional grid of points, providing a projection plane comprising a 2-dimensional lattice of points onto which rendering rays are projected from a viewing point through said image... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070195087 - System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets: A system and method is provided for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets. In one embodiment of the invention, a ribbon section is produced which may include a plurality of planes projected from a polyline. The polyline may include one or more line segments preferably formed within a plane.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20070195089 - Image processing system and image processing method for aerial photograph: In order to increase the recognition rate of a shadow area contained in the image of an aerial photograph, a central control portion performs the processes of: comparing a shadow-produced angle with the angles of segments constituting the polygons generated by a polygon-generating portion to judge whether or not there... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070195090 - Determining illumination of models using an ambient framing abstractions: A system and method for determining light illumination on a model in a virtual environment. A plurality of ambient cubes are defined in the virtual environment. A plurality of lights is detected. Indirect lights are also detected. Lights incident on the ambient cubes are divided into major and minor lights.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070195091 - Radiation imaging device for correcting body movement, image processing method, and computer program: To high-accurately execute as mush as possible correction of a body movement for reducing an artifact occurring in case of creating a tomographic image from an X-ray projected image, the coordinates of the respective corresponding points are acquired between the projected images of which the projected angles overlap each other... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070195092 - Overlap density (od) heatmaps and consensus data displays: Systems and methods that generate or provide overlap displays of multiple sets of data in a manner that advantageously simplifies trend visualization in large sets of data. A 2-dimensional occurrence count array is generated for a plurality of similar data sets. Each element in the array is a number of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070195093 - Dynamic data flow and data linking: An electronic device capable of graphical data analysis is provided. The device includes a processor capable of obtaining numerical data from graphical data, a storage device for storing numerical data, and an output for displaying numerical data.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070195096 - System-wide content-sensitive text stylization and replacement: System-wide content-based text stylization by establishing an array of predefined stylization criteria, intercepting text output generated by an operating system to a graphics device driver, rasterizing the text according to the predefined stylization criteria and passing the rasterized images to the graphics device driver for display. The array of predefined... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070195095 - Applying effects to a merged text path: Effects are applied to a shape that is generated from a merged text path. The merged text path is created from text paths that are associated with a text run. Boolean operations may be used to create the merged text path. The merged text path removes any overlap and redundancy... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070195094 - Map depiction apparatus, navigation device, map depiction method, map depiction program, and information recording medium for recording map depiction program: Enabling a partial update of data for displaying map to thereby improve efficiency of an updating operation. The data for displaying map is constituted by a file group including a common map file CF and a plurality of regional map files RF-k. The regional map file RF-k is constituted by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070195098 - Moving image file producing method, computer program product and electronic camera: A moving image file producing method includes: inputting an image material; inputting a scenario information; and producing a moving image file that contains the image material based on the scenario information.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070195097 - Interactive video: Interactive video may involve user controlled characters. Additional interaction in broadcast interactive video may be provided by using video objects (3, 3′) and detecting any coincidence between a user controlled character (2) and the video objects. If coincidence is detected, an event may be triggered. Such an event may involve... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070195099 - Asymmetric multi-gpu processing: A system for processing video data includes a host processor, a first media processing device coupled to a first buffer, the first media processing device configured to perform a first processing task on a frame of video data, and a second media processing device coupled to a second buffer, the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070195100 - System and method for assessing performance optimizations in a graphics system: A system for identification and assessment of performance optimizations implemented in the graphics environment, the identification and assessment of the performance optimizations based upon an optimized graphics call sequence generated by an application of one or more optimizations applied to a captured graphics call sequence occurring between said first and... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070195101 - Frame buffer control for smooth video display: Video frame buffers are controlled using a sequence of new-frame-indicators (e.g., FLIP) and no-new-frame-indicators (e.g., NOFLIP) in a frame indicator queue that is accessed with each display refresh. Video samples are loaded into a chain of video frame buffers that is “rotated” during the vertical blanking signal of the display... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070195102 - Switch unit with ventilation: The invention relates to a switch unit for an electric tool, wherein the switch unit comprises heat-dissipating components, wherein the switch unit comprises a fan, which is adapted to cool the heat-dissipating components. The fan will herein generate an airflow which is guided via the relevant components. The heat developed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070195103 - Memory region access management: A memory region access management technique. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a technique to partition memory between two or more operating systems or other software running on one or more processors.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070195105 - Dynamic wallpaper on mobile communication device: A method, apparatus, set of executable instructions, and computer readable medium for enabling dynamic updating of a mobile communicat