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 communication device display is described. Wallpaper, including dynamic content, is displayed and automatically updated on the display. A computer system for dynamically updating a mobile communication device display is described. The computer... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070195104 - On-vehicle information terminal abridged map generation apparatus and abridged map generation method: An on-vehicle information terminal generates an abridged map by abridging a map based upon map data and displays the abridged map. The on-vehicle information terminal comprises an abridgment factor setting unit that sets an abridgment factor indicating an extent to which the map is to be abridged, a map abridging... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070195108 - Photographic device with image generation function: A photographic device includes a moving image generator, an image display, an image memory, and an image size adjuster. The moving image generator generates a moving image. The image display displays the moving image. The moving image is stored in the image memory. The image size adjuster adjusts the image... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070195107 - Combining multi-layered bitmap files using network specific hardware: Images and video can be produced by compositing or alpha blending a group of image layers or video layers. Increasing resolution or the number of layers results in increased computational demands. As such, the available computational resources limit the images and videos that can be produced. A computational architecture in... Agent: Kermit Lopez Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070195106 - Detecting doctored jpeg images: Systems and methods for detecting doctored JPEG images are described. In one aspect, a JPEG image is evaluated to determine if the JPEG image comprises double quantization effects of double quantized Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients. In response to results of these evaluation operations, the systems and methods determine whether the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070195109 - Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects: Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adjusting color correction parameters (e.g., the look up table... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070195110 - Image display apparatus and method employing selective smoothing: An image display device detects mutually adjacent bright and dark parts of an image and detects fine bright lines in the image. Bright parts of the image that are not fine bright lines are smoothed if they are adjacent to dark parts. This smoothing scheme improves the visibility of dark... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070195111 - Device and method for overlapping multi-channel digital display signals: The present invention discloses a device for overlapping multi-channel digital display signals, the device comprises: a first display signal inputting channel; a second display signal inputting channel; a coordinate generating unit for generating coordinates of a second display window; a detection unit for receiving coordinates of pixel currently being scanned... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070195112 - High resolution display apparatus and methods: A combined-resolution display system including a surface for displaying images; a first display device adapted to display a first image, having a first resolution, on substantially all of the surface; at least one second display device adapted to display a second image having a second resolution greater than the first... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070195113 - Image processor and method of image rotation: A method of rotating a digital image includes performing a first pass to process a selected image tile of a source image. The first pass includes copying a set of pixels of the selected image tile from a first memory to a processor memory, where the set of pixels comprises... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070195114 - Method for displaying image in wireless terminal: A method for displaying an image in a wireless terminal including at least two screen modes is provided, in which a display buffer existing in one Device Context (DC) is formed, capable of recording a corresponding image to be displayed according to screen sizes in the at least two screen... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070188405 - Double sided video monitor: A double-sided video monitor has a pair of display panels mounted back-to-back. The panels are capable of displaying same or separate video signals at the same time. Each panel has an inset viewing area capable of displaying an additional video signal. Video input signals are received through a variety of... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070188406 - Dual display device: A dual display device includes a first panel, a first driving part, a second display panel, and a second driving part. The first display panel displays a first image, and a the first driving part is formed on the first display panel and outputs a first data signal. The second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070188404 - Information processing apparatus: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus having panels formed inside and outside of its covering member. The information processing apparatus includes a body, a covering member, a first panel, a second panel, a first driver and a second driver. The covering member covers the body. The first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070188409 - Luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems: A luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems includes a panel equipped with light sources, for example made up of LEDs, arranged in a pre-ordered configuration of discrete segments, which can be combined with one another according to paths corresponding to the representation of a plurality of encoded generally arrow-shaped... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20070188410 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving thereof: Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of address electrodes, a data driver, and a timing controller. The data driver supplies a plurality of data pulses to the plurality of the address electrodes and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070188411 - Image display apparatus and method which switch drive sequences: An image display apparatus includes a displayed-subfield selecting circuit configured to select a lit-up pattern table from a plurality of lit-up pattern tables in response to an input image signal, a gain-characteristic generating circuit configured to select, from a plurality of gain characteristics, a gain characteristic corresponding to the selected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070188413 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device, including a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other, a first electrode and a second electrode arranged in parallel on one of the first and second substrates so as to enable a generation of a display discharge therebetween and a chassis which supports... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070188417 - Servo-assisted scanning beam display systems using fluorescent screens: Scanning beam display systems using fluorescent screens and various servo feedback control mechanisms to control display imaging qualities.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070188420 - Driver for display panel: It is an object of the present invention to provide a driver for a display panel in which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged in a matrix, which prevents false emission and/or destruction of the light-emitting elements from being caused when reset control is performed when scanning row lines... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070188419 - Voltage transfer method and apparatus using organic thin film transistor and organic light emitting diode display device including the same: A voltage transfer method and apparatus using an organic thin film transistor (“TFT”) and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including the same to increase response speed of the organic TFT. The voltage transmission method includes turning on the organic TFT, applying a first voltage having a plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070188429 - Screen transmission device, method of generating screen and computer readable medium: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a screen transmission device including: an information receiver configured to receive operating condition information indicating an operating condition of a screen display device; a coloring determiner configured to determine coloring of screen data to be displayed on the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070188430 - Gamma-reference-voltage generating circuit and apparatus for generating gamma-voltages and display device having the circuit: A first resistor string provides a plurality of first polarity gamma-reference-voltages. A second resistor string provides a plurality of second polarity gamma-reference-voltages. A first main-thermal compensation section exhibits a resistance value that increases with an increase of temperature. A second main-thermal compensation section has a resistance value that is decreases... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070188433 - Display device: A display device which stores display data for every display pixel can reduce the number of transistors which constitute 1 display pixel. In a display device which includes a display panel having a plurality of display pixels, video lines which apply video data to the display pixels and scanning lines... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070188403 - Device and method for displaying information: A device for displaying information, comprising at least one display stand (10) and a transfer unit (17) wirelessly connected to associated display stands. The display stand supports a plurality of displays (11) positioned adjacent to one another, and comprises a control unit (16). The control unit (16) comprises communication means... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070188407 - Image display device and image display system: An image display device comprising a display portion that projects, via eyepiece optical systems which respectively correspond to each of the both eyes of a user, a light emitted from a two-dimensionally light emitting type photoelectric device which is perpendicular to the light beam emitting direction onto the eyeballs of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070188408 - Method for displaying a graphic object and communications device: The invention relates to a method for displaying graphic objects in which the graphic objects are arranged in a virtual surface field, the virtual surface field is larger than a display field, a section of the virtual surface field is displayed in the display field, and graphic objects which are... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070188412 - Portable communication terminal for games and user interfacing device thereof: Provided are a portable communication terminal that is easy to manipulate for games and a user interface device of the portable communication terminal. The portable communication terminal includes a main body, a rotation unit combined with the main body unit with respect to a hinge shaft at a predetermined position... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070188415 - Apparatus for driving plasma display panel and plasma display: A PDP driving apparatus drives a plasma display panel (PDP) having sustain electrodes, scan electrodes, and address electrodes. The PDP driving apparatus has a plurality of switch elements. At least one of the plurality of switch elements is a normally-on switch element which turns on while a driving voltage is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070188416 - Apparatus for driving plasma display panel and plasma display: A PDP driving apparatus drives a plasma display panel (PDP) having sustain electrodes, scan electrodes, and address electrodes. The PDP driving apparatus includes switch elements, and a power source circuit generates a driving voltage of the switch elements. The power source circuit includes a first voltage source, a first capacitor... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070188414 - Driving circuit of plasma display panel and reset circuit thereof: A driving circuit of a plasma display panel (PDP) and a reset circuit thereof are disclosed. The above-mentioned driving circuit includes a reset circuit and a sustaining circuit. The reset circuit is connected to a display cell of the PDP and generates a reset signal for the above-mentioned display cell... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070188418 - Electron-emitting apparatus and method for emitting electrons: An electron-emitting apparatus includes an electron-emitting element having a lower electrode, a dielectric emitter section, upper electrodes having micro through holes, and a circuit for applying a drive voltage Vin between the lower and upper electrodes. The drive voltage is applied between the lower and upper electrodes to set an... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070188423 - Display apparatus: The present invention comprises: a display unit having a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix; a drive voltage generating circuit for generating a drive voltage for driving the plurality of display elements; a dataline drive circuit for generating a signal voltage according to display data, the signal voltage... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070188422 - Display device: The invention provides a portable information terminal, such as a notebook PC, including light-emitting elements entirely having longer lives (a double-sided display panel having longer lives) and allowing lower power consumption with a double-sided display panel having a first screen on one surface of a substrate in the portable information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070188421 - Display device and electronic equipment using the same: In an active matrix EL display device, pixels which are suitable for a constant current drive are structured. The pixel includes a first switch which has one end connected to a source signal line and the other end connected to a current-voltage conversion element, a second switch which has one... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070188426 - Led driver circuit: Disclosed is an LED driver circuit that can suitably detect a minimum voltage and can be produced at low cost. A selector circuit is comprised of a comparator C, an inverter I and analogue switches. A minimum voltage selecting circuit can be constructed by causing the selector circuit and a... Agent: Yokoi & Co. U.s.a., Inc.

20070188427 - Organic light emitting diode methods and apparatus: Organic light emitting diode (OLED) methods and apparatus in which at least one first OLED generates first radiation having a first spectrum, and at least one second OLED generates second radiation having a second spectrum different from the first spectrum. In one example, an addressable controller is coupled to the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

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20070188425 - Systems and methods for controlling light sources: A system for controlling a set of light sources may include a set of light sources, at least one optical conduit arranged relative to the set of light sources so as to collect excess light from the set of light sources, and at least one sensor coupled to the optical... Agent: Kurt Luther, Esq. Honeywell International, Inc.

20070188428 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal display method: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes crystal pixels, and a drive controller which makes the liquid crystal pixels hold a pixel voltage corresponding to a video signal for a first period and a non-video signal for a second period, and cyclically repeats the first and second periods, wherein the drive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070188431 - Display device: A display device having a pixel section pixel circuits, scan lines, capacity lines, a drive circuit driving the scan lines and the capacity lines selectively, a generation circuit generating a common voltage signal switching in level at a predetermined cycle, and a correction circuit correcting the signals driving the capacity... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070188432 - Method and apparatus of driving liquid crystal display device: A method and apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the data lines, a plurality of first liquid crystal cells on a first side of the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070188434 - Apparatus for driving display panel: An apparatus for driving a display panel includes: a memory that stores pixel data to be displayed on the display panel; a multiple line selection (MLS) decoder that receives a plurality of pixel data from the memory and then decodes the plurality of pixel data simultaneousty, and a plurality of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070188435 - Display device with high resolution and slim border structure: A display device has a pixel array, a plurality of data buses and a drive circuit. The pixel array has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels. The pixels are electrically coupled to the data lines, and these data lines are electrically coupled to these data buses.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070188437 - Charge transfer circuit and method for an lcd screen: A charge transfer circuit of a liquid crystal display includes at least one inductive element connectable between first and second common terminals, to a first and to a second groups of lines of the display, respectively.... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070188436 - Shift register: A shift register includes a signal generating circuit for generating an output signal at an output end of the shift register in response to a clock signal while the signal generating circuit is turned on, a driving circuit electrically coupled to the signal generating circuit for controlling the signal generating... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070188440 - Apparatus and method for displaying graphic object with low power consumption: Provided are an apparatus and method for displaying a graphic object with low power consumption, more particularly, an apparatus and method for displaying a graphic object with low power consumption that reduces power consumption by adjusting complexity and surfaces properties of the graphic object that is displayed and increasing transmittance... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188441 - Display: A display 10 according to one embodiment of the invention includes a display panel having an active matrix substrate and a color filter substrate, a lighting unit for the display panel, ambient light photosensors 321 to 326, a controller that controls luminous intensity of the lighting unit based on outputs... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070188439 - Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device: An electrooptic device includes: a display panel; an illuminating unit that emits light onto the display panel; an ambient-light measuring unit that measures the illuminance of ambient light; a luminance control unit including a light control profile for obtaining the optimum surface luminance of the display panel, the luminance control... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188438 - System and method for adjusting a backlight level for a display on an electronic device: The invention provides a system and method for calculating a backlight level for an image being displayed on an electronic device. The system comprises: a backlight adjustment module to calculate an intensity value of an image for display on the electronic device; a display for displaying the image; and a... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070188442 - Display medium and method of manufacturing display medium: A display medium includes a pair of substrates, an electrophoretic medium, and a partitioning medium. The pair of substrates is disposed in spaced-apart relation and substantially parallel to each other. The electrophoretic medium is disposed between the pair of substrates and contains charged particles. An electric field generated between the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070188443 - System and method for displaying images: System and method for simultaneous display of multiple images using a single light modulator array. A preferred embodiment comprises a light source that produces a light with desired spectral characteristics, a color filter optically coupled to the light source, and an array of light modulators optically coupled to the color... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070188447 - Light-pointing device and light-tracking receiver having a function selection key and system using the same: A light-pointing device generates a light beam, and converts the light beam into a flicker mode with the function selection keys. Different function selection keys trigger different flicker frequencies. The dotted image of the light beam is formed in a plurality of frames detected by the tracking receiver. The tracking... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20070188448 - Alternate key options for launching applications in mobile communication devices: A system and a method are disclosed for using an application button on a hand-held computing device to launch a plurality of applications including a primary application and an alternate application. A primary application is associated with an application button and an alternate application is associable with the application button.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070188446 - Digital image display system: A dynamic picture display system. The system consists of an LCD display that is approximately the size of a framed picture, a USB cable that is connected to the LCD display, and a computer system for formatting still or moving images, (pictures) for display on the computer system.... Agent: J. Curtis Edmondson

20070188444 - Physical-virtual interpolation: A display system and method for use in controlling movement of a virtual image version of a physical object is described. A physical object may be placed on or near a display surface, which may sense the presence of the object and display a virtual image version of the object.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070188445 - Uniquely identifiable inking instruments: A method of interacting with a computing device via one or more inking instruments to generate digital ink may include the steps of emitting light from a light emitting device to an inking instrument, receiving first user inputs from the inking instrument, and identifying the inking instrument based on sensed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070188449 - Pointing device user interface method, medium, and system robust against external noise: A pointing method, medium, and system detecting a synchronization signal from a plurality of light sources sequentially blinking at predetermined periods, detecting position information of the light sources by driving a video camera in synchronization with the synchronization signal, removing noise from among observed light sources by using the position... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070188450 - Method and system for a reversible display interface mechanism: A system for displaying data in a portable data processing system with a plurality of display interfaces. Data is displayed within a first display interface of the portable data processing system. A user input, which is a change in orientation of the portable data processing system, is detected. After determining... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070188452 - Input device for computer: An input device includes a mouse unit, a keyboard unit, and two covers. The mouse unit includes two spaced mounting portions arranged on a front end thereof, the keyboard unit is mounted on the mouse unit at rear of the mouse unit, and the covers are pivotally attached to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070188453 - Input device roller with hybrid magnetic ratchet system: A rotatable wheel for an input device which interfaces with a computer. The input device includes both a permanent magnet and an electromagnet. A rotor of material which will magnetically interact with the permanent magnet and electromagnet is coupled to the rotatable wheel. The permanent magnet and electromagnet can be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070188451 - Mouse having massage function: A mouse having a massage function, the mouse includes a shell, a cable connected to a host computer, and a vibration device mounted in the shell. The vibration device includes a vibrator and a switch. The cable is connected to the vibrator via the switch, and transmits power from the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070188456 - Dead front mouse: A mouse configured to display an icon including a top housing that is semi-opaque; and an icon indicator disposed under the top housing, the icon indicator including a light source and an icon plate. The light source is configured to light the icon plate to display an icon through the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070188454 - Magnetic ratchet for input device roller: A reduced power magnetic or electromagnetic ratchet for a roller on an input device. In one embodiment, opposing rings of permanent magnets are mounted in the roller, or are attached to the roller by a gearing arrangement. In another embodiment, a variable reluctance stepper motor is used... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070188455 - Single element digital and analog input for a control device: A input element which moves in two directions to activate a digital on/off switch in each direction. In addition, moving beyond a certain point will activate an analog input. The on/off switch activates a function, while the analog input varies the amount of the function in the direction activated. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070188457 - Optical mouse system with illumination guide having a light spreading lens: An optical mouse system with an illumination guide includes a concave lens for spreading light to create a uniform, low contrast, illumination pattern. The uniform illumination pattern increases the accuracy of mouse movement detected by the sensor. The illumination source and optical sensor are mounted in the same plane, directly... Agent: Hdsl

20070188460 - Adjustable on-screen cursor sensitivity on a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard: Method and arrangement for adjusting sensitivity in the horizontal and/or vertical directions for the motion of a cursor on the display of a handheld electronic device having a full alphabetic keyboard. The sensitivity can be user defined, program defined or a combination of the two. The sensitivity adjustment allows for... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188461 - Adjustable on-screen cursor sensitivity on a handheld communication device having a reduced alphabetic keyboard: Method and arrangement for adjusting sensitivity in the horizontal and/or vertical directions for the motion of a cursor on the display of a handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard. The sensitivity can be user defined, program defined or a combination of the two. The sensitivity adjustment allows for special... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188459 - Adjustable on-screen cursor sensitivity on a wireless handheld communication device: Method and arrangement for adjusting sensitivity in the horizontal and/or vertical directions for the motion of a cursor on the display of a wireless handheld electronic device. The sensitivity can be user defined, program defined or a combination of the two. The sensitivity adjustment allows for special properties associated with... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188465 - Lockable keyboard for a handheld communication device: A handheld electronic device useful for wireless communication has a keyboard including a plurality of externally accessible keys. The keys can be disabled (i.e. the keyboard can be locked) to prevent accidental actuation thereof by using the navigation tool which has a depressible rolling member. Thus, for example, depression of... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188466 - Lockable keyboard for a wireless handheld communication device: A handheld electronic device useful for wireless communication has a keyboard including a plurality of externally accessible keys. The keys can be disabled (i.e. the keyboard can be locked) to prevent accidental actuation thereof by using the navigation tool which has a depressible rolling member. Thus, for example, depression of... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188471 - Method for facilitating navigation and selection functionalities of a trackball incorporated upon a wireless handheld communication device: Method an arrangement for facilitating the use of a trackball on a wireless handheld communication device as a navigation tool and a selection tool of designated information presented on a display screen of the device. A wireless handheld communication device is provided that has at a front face thereof a... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188467 - Power saving system for a handheld communication device: Method and arrangement that provides a power-saving mode for a handheld electronic device. The power-saving mode is enabled through disabling a sensor that detects motion of a ball of the trackball navigation tool and disabling the display screen of the handheld electronic device. The power-saving mode may be exited before... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188470 - Power saving system for a handheld communication device having a reduced alphabetic keyboard: Method and arrangement that provides a power-saving mode for a handheld electronic device having a reduced alphabetic keyboard. The power-saving mode is enabled through disabling a sensor that detects motion of a ball of the trackball navigation tool and disabling the display screen of the handheld electronic device. The power-saving... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188458 - Adjustable on-screen cursor sensitivity on a handheld communication device: Method and arrangement for adjusting sensitivity in the horizontal and/or vertical directions for the motion of a cursor on the display of a handheld electronic device incorporating a trackball as a user input device. The sensitivity can be user defined, program defined or a combination of the two. The sensitivity... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188462 - On-screen diagonal cursor navigation on a handheld communication device: Method an arrangement for affecting diagonal movement of a cursor 171 on the display screen 322 of a handheld communication device 300. The method includes sensing movement at an auxiliary user input 328 of the handheld communication device 300 indicative of the user's desire to affect diagonal movement of the... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188464 - On-screen diagonal cursor navigation on a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard: Method an arrangement for affecting diagonal movement of a cursor 171 on the display screen 322 of a handheld communication device 300 having a full alphabetic keyboard. The method includes sensing movement at an auxiliary user input 328 of the handheld communication device 300 indicative of the user's desire to... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188463 - On-screen diagonal cursor navigation on a wireless handheld communication device: Method an arrangement for affecting diagonal movement of a cursor 171 on the display screen 322 of a wireless handheld communication device 300. The method includes sensing movement at an auxiliary user input 328 of the handheld communication device 300 indicative of the user's desire to affect diagonal movement of... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188469 - Power saving system for a handheld communication device having a full alphabetic keyboard: Method and arrangement that provides a power-saving mode for a handheld electronic device having a full alphabetic keyboard. The power-saving mode is enabled through disabling a sensor that detects motion of a ball of the trackball navigation tool and disabling the display screen of the handheld electronic device. The power-saving... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188468 - Power saving system for a wireless handheld communication device: Method and arrangement that provides a power-saving mode for a wireless handheld electronic device. The power-saving mode is enabled through disabling a sensor that detects motion of a ball of the trackball navigation tool and disabling the display screen of the handheld electronic device. The power-saving mode may be exited... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070188472 - Systems to enhance data entry in mobile and fixed environment: A data input system having a keypad defining a plurality of keys, each key contains at least one symbol of a group of symbols. The group of symbols is divided into subgroups each having at least one of alphabetical symbols, numeric symbols, and command symbols, where each subgroup is associated... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070188473 - System and methods for document navigation: The application relates to computing devices, computer readable media, and methods for navigating content via a touch screen display having dedicated zones for accepting zooming instructions and scrolling and/or panning commands.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070188474 - Touch-sensitive motion device: A method of entering data to an electronic device is outlined using a modified touch-pad. The touch-pad is modified to include the addition of surface features, which provide distinguishable tactile feedback to the user allowing improved spatial resolution of the positioning of an object onto the surface of the touch-pad.... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070188476 - Touch detection: A touch detection device for detecting touches on a given surface. The inventive device includes a surface where a touch generates acoustic waves, transducers that detect these waves, a controller that calculate the location of the touch and a host device where the touch position is used to communicate with... Agent: Gokalp Bayramoglu

20070188475 - Projector and projector accessory: A projector for enlarging and projecting the display image on a light valve onto a screen is provided with: an infrared photodetector for photodetecting infrared light that is emitted by an electronic pen that is manipulated on the screen and that is provided with an infrared light emission device and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070188480 - Digital pen: A digital pen including a pen body and a radio frequency module is provided. The pen body has a first end and a second end. The radio frequency module is installed within the pen body and is used to send out a first signal at the first end and a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070188479 - Input pen storage: An input pen storage includes a pen holding part coupled to an input pen; a loader having an arm having a pen constraining part for constraining the pen holding part; an obstruct member for expanding the arm; an extendable lock mechanism having an extension state and a return state for... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070188477 - Sketch pad and optical stylus for a personal computer: A notebook computer has tablet and stylus functionality and drawing tool selection functionality by providing indicia near the keyboard and by providing an optical stylus that can recognize the indicia. The indicia includes a sketch pad area that cooperates with the optical stylus to transmit X and Y coordinates to... Agent: Peter H. Rehm

20070188478 - Uniquely identifiable inking instruments: A method of interacting with a computing device via one or more inking instruments to generate digital ink may include the steps of emitting light from a light emitting device to an inking instrument, receiving first user inputs from the inking instrument, and identifying the inking instrument based on sensed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070188482 - Image display system, image display method, image display program, recording medium, data processing device, and image display device: An image display system includes a data processing device that processes image data of a display screen capable of simultaneously displaying a plurality of display items, and an image display device that receives the image data transmitted from the data processing device and displays an image. The data processing device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188483 - Display apparatus for outdoor signs and related system of displays and methods of use: An apparatus, systems and corresponding methods for a network of outdoor modular signs. Each outdoor sign is composed of various modules which combined make the sign fully contained and operable. Modules include paper-like displays, a wireless port, solar panels, battery packs and a frame. A network of such modular signs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070188481 - Wireless monitor proxy: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for optimizing the transmission of video configuration data in a system comprising a host computer and a display monitor. The invention comprises a wireless video source adapter connected to the host computer and a wireless video sink adapter connected to the monitor.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070188484 - Systems and methods for adjusting light output of solid state lighting panels, and adjustable solid state lighting panels: A lighting panel includes a first circuit including a first LED configured to emit light at a first wavelength, a second circuit including a second LED configured to emit light at a second wavelength, and an adjustment circuit connected in parallel with the first circuit and configured to adjust a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070188488 - Computer network-based 3d rendering system: A computer network-based 3D rendering system. A client computer is coupled to a server over a computer network (e.g., Internet). A user uses a front-end interface to manipulate lower resolution 3D objects at a client computer, sends the parameters of the 3D objects to the server, which generates a higher... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070188487 - Efficient triangular shaped meshes: The present invention renders a triangular mesh for employment in graphical displays. The triangular mesh comprises triangle-shaped graphics primitives. The triangle-shaped graphics primitives represent a subdivided triangular shape. Each triangle-shaped graphics primitive shares defined vertices with adjoining triangle-shaped graphics primitives. These shared vertices are transmitted and employed for the rendering... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20070188485 - Image formation processing simulation apparatus and image formation processing simulation method: An image formation processing simulation apparatus includes: an acceptance unit that accepts image data targeted for image formation processing in an image formation processing device; a performing unit that performs a simulation of image formation processing for which the image data in the image formation processing device is targeted using... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070188486 - Image formation processing simulation apparatus and image formation processing simulation method: An image formation processing simulation apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives image data to which image formation processing is applied in an image formation processing device; a performing unit that performs simulation of image formation processing applied to the image data in the image formation processing device using the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070188489 - Morphological genome for design applications: This invention deals with an integrated morphological system, herein called a morphological genome (morph genome), for design applications. This is the genome that encodes all form and is similar in intent to the biological genome that encodes all living things by its genetic code. The morph genome comprises a finite... Agent: Haresh Lalvani

20070188490 - Apparatus, method and program for segmentation of mesh model data into analytic surfaces based on robust curvature estimation and region growing: An apparatus, a method and a program segment mesh model data into analytic surfaces based on robust curvature estimation and region growing by extracting, from mesh model data, analytic surface regions (planar, cylindrical, conical, spherical and toric surface regions) and by automatically recognizing fillet surface regions, linear-extrusion surface regions and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20070188491 - System and method for fast efficient contour shading of sampled data: A system and method for fast efficient contour shading of spatially sampled data presents accurate contour regions. The system and method render a contour graphic for display by obtaining a set of gridded data, dividing the set of gridded data into tiles, analyzing each tile sequentially to determine contour levels... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070188492 - Architecture for real-time texture look-up's for volume rendering: A slice plane, oriented parallel to a viewing plane, is passed through a cuboidal dataset at regular intervals. The intersection of the slice plane with the cuboidal volume dataset results in primitives (quads, triangles, etc. depending on the angle and position of the intersection) whose vertices have position coordinates (xu,... Agent: Jones Day

20070188493 - Display apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method, imaging apparatus, and program: A system and method displays a realistic image that allows a user to readily grasp his/her own positional relationship and also to experience a sense of presence. An outer dome screen is disposed so as to surround a user, and an immersion image such as the scenery of the surroundings... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070188496 - Graphic display control apparatus and program: A geometrical graphic form (for example, a straight line 100) displayed on a geometrical window GW1 is selected, and a copy operation is carried out. When pasting is carried out for a formula window CW1, the selected geometrical form object is converted into the corresponding formula (for example, y=x), and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070188494 - Systems and methods for displaying and querying heterogeneous sets of data: A visualization system for heterogeneous data sets comprises: a unique visualization interface created by a visualization engine. The visualization interface comprises a window or canvas having a first area defining a center of attention, second area defining a parameter space and a plurality of correlation elements. The first area is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070188495 - Virtual display: Display objects are defined that are capable of visually indicating physiological measurements and physiological monitor status. A virtual display utilizing these display objects is characterized by selecting those display objects corresponding to one or more particular physiological parameters, organizing the selected display objects within a virtual display area corresponding to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070188498 - Character generation processing method: In order to generate a character main body including a character outline from data in which character shape information is stored as a character outline and generate a character with a design, this method comprises steps of generating the outline of the character main body, setting decoration process contents to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070188497 - Glyph adjustment in high resolution raster while rendering: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, that implement a method for glyph adjustment in high resolution raster while rendering. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a glyph for display at a size on a raster output device; receiving a grid ratio specifying an integer number... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070188499 - Course grid aligned counters: Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for scaling a character having stems. A character including stems and having an associated output resolution and an associated bit depth can be received. The counters defined by the stems can be grouped into one or more chains of counters. The stems of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070188500 - Method and system for generation of presentation of house animation using multiple images of house: The present invention relates to service-based generation of house presentation for real estate industry. More particularly, it relates to a system including user-generated photography and service provider using this photography to generate house presentation including general textual information and a number of animated video segments. In the context of this... Agent: Eli Talmor

20070188502 - Smooth morphing between personal video calling avatars: Dynamic animated avatars selectively morph to reveal or depict the user's identity while simultaneously emulating or tracking active movements associated with the user's verbal stream or perceived movements of the user. A user elects morphing to transition the rendered avatar to another, more revealing avatar, for example from a cartoon... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070188501 - Graphical computer simulation system and method: A system and method for creating real-time cinematic presentations and experiences of variable duration from unscripted content in interactive or non-interactive graphical computer simulations or environments, such as in strategy games in which enemy armed forces are aligned and fight against each other in battles.... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20070188503 - Method and system for programmable breakpoints in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator: A method and system for programmable breakpoints in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator are described. Aspects of the system may include circuitry that enables generation of control signals for pipeline processing of video data within a single chip by at least selecting a target location of the video... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188504 - Random-text display lighter: A lighter including, in one embodiment, a housing, a fuel tank disposed within the housing, a valve adapted to release fuel from the fuel tank, a piezoelectric unit adapted to provide a spark to ignite fuel released from the fuel tank, a display, circuitry, and an activator. The circuitry includes... Agent: Mendelsohn And Associates, P.C.

20070188505 - Method and apparatus for scheduling the processing of multimedia data in parallel processing systems: An efficient method and device for the parallel processing of multimedia data. Blocks (or portions thereof) are transmitted to various parallel processors, in the order of their dependency data. Earlier blocks are sent to the parallel processors first, with later blocks sent later. The blocks are stored in the parallel... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070188506 - Methods and systems for power optimized display: One inventive aspect relates to a display system for displaying information and a method for displaying. The system comprises a processing unit and a display unit comprising a display panel. On the image data processing path for transferring information to the display panel the number of writable memory components external... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070188507 - Storage control device and storage system: The present invention enables to update a program in a storage control device while processing access requests, without imposing any burden on a host. When execution of updating of a program is commanded from a management terminal, an update control unit starts within the controller which is the object of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070188508 - Optimized memory addressing: Embodiments of the present invention relate to accessing a first pair of adjacent data blocks using a first channel of a dual channel memory device; and simultaneously accessing a second pair of adjacent data blocks using a second channel of the memory device, the second pair being spaced apart from... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070188509 - Image displaying medium, image display device, and image displaying method: The present invention provides an image display medium comprising a pair of substrates at least one of which having translucency, the substrates being disposed opposite to each other with a gap, a dispersion medium which has translucency and is enclosed in a space between the pair of substrates; and plural... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070188510 - Self-adaptive brush for digital images: A method for applying a selective enhancement to an image based on a pointing device input from a user, where responsive to a selection from the user image pixels are changed as a function of the pixel isolation from initial conditions. The initial conditions may be base conditions that are... Agent: Nik Software, Inc. C/o Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson

20070188511 - Multilevel texture processing method for mapping multiple images onto 3d models: A multilevel texture mapping process for a 3D model which maps different perspective images onto a 3D model is developed. The textures mapped to the 3D model are processed from image level to texture level, then to pixel level to ease the edge appearance problem at the boundary where neighboring... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070188512 - Electronic color matching apparatus and method of display: In accordance with the description, electronic color matching apparatus with a display of multiple independently controllable segments enable a user to visually compare, capture, catalog and disseminate color as tangible information. In one embodiment, the invention provides an accurate color display representation of a color by means of a novel... Agent: John Ramirez

20070188513 - Method and system for providing accelerated video processing in a communication device: Providing accelerated video processing in a communication device may comprise receiving video data from a video source on a chip, determining a first format for at least a portion of the received video data, and determining a second format of at least a remaining portion of the received video data.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188514 - Method and system for performing interleaved to planar transformation operations in a mobile terminal having a video display: Methods and systems for performing interleaved to planar transformation operations in a mobile terminal having a video display are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include extracting similar color space components from a received block of interleaved YUV color space format video data as data is received, where the block... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188515 - Method and system for video format transformation in a mobile terminal having a video display: Methods and systems for video format transformation in a mobile terminal having a video display may include converting interleaved YUV 4:2:2 color space video data to YUV 4:2:0 color space video data as the interleaved YUV 4:2:2 color space video data is received. The conversion may use Y, U, and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070188516 - Method for efficiently transforming a raster image from one map projection to another map projection: A method and system for efficiently converting an image from a first map projection to a second map projection image. The method includes precomputing coordinates in the first map projection for a subset of the total number of pixels in an empty second map projection image and subsequently, finding the... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070188517 - Three-dimensional display: An object of the present invention is to eliminate color non-uniformity and intensity non-uniformity on a three-dimensional image. The present invention provides a three-dimensional display comprising: a two-dimensional display, which comprises a plurality of color subpixels arranged in rows extending in a horizontal direction and in columns extending in a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070188520 - 3d presentation process and method: The invention relates to a user interface, and method of providing three dimensional presentations of material for improved user understanding. Further the invention allows users to manipulate the direction of the presentation dynamically from within the three dimensional presentation and to transition from one section of a presentation to another... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070188519 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit; an operation input unit for receiving an operation input; a communication unit for carrying out a communication with an external apparatus; a reproduction unit for reproducing a content; and a display control unit for executing control to display first... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070188518 - Variable orientation input mode: User input methods may employ an input sensitive display screen that is agnostic with regard to the orientation in which the user is viewing the screen. Input methods may involve touching objects displayed on the screen, and movement of the objects may be determined by the release of a selected... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070188521 - Method and apparatus for three dimensional blending: The present invention uses a dynamic transparency scheme to vertically blend a first layer of data onto a second layer of data and then horizontally merge multiple such “stacks.” For example, the present invention provided a satellite image wherein the transparency of the cloud formations dynamically changes and therefore provides... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070188522 - Mixed reality display system: In a mixed reality display system having a video see-through HMD (head mounted display) and a virtual-space image generation unit, a synthesis processing unit for synthesizing a virtual-space image generated by the virtual-space image generation unit and an image captured by the video see-through HMD is provided on the side... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070188525 - Image processing method and apparatus and image display apparatus: An image processing method extends n-bit input image data by α bits to generate (n+α)-bit source data, where n and α are positive integers, and smoothes the source data. The maximum difference between gray levels of the unsmoothed source data in an area localized around each pixel is calculated, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070188524 - Methods and systems of pixel illumination: A method of illuminating a pixel on a display to a desired brightness level that includes dividing a time required to reach a maximum brightness level into one or more time slices, varying a pixel voltage associated with the pixel according to a sequence of voltage values over the one... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070188523 - Driving circuit with low power consumption multiplexer and a display panel and an electronic device using the same: The invention provides a low power multiplexer configuration in a display panel and a display panel and an electronic device using the same. The multiplexer conducts one of source output signals into to red (or green or blue) sub-pixels under control of control signals. In every time a frame is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070188526 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of electron emission portions that emit electrons, a plurality of light emitting regions positioned corresponding to the plurality of electron emission portions to emit light in response to irradiation of electrons from the electron emission portion thereon, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070188527 - System and method for compensating for visual effects upon panels having fixed pattern noise with reduced quantization error: A display system comprises a display panel having a plurality of subpixels, a first look-up table (LUT) configured to provide gamma adjustment signals to input image data, an image processor configured to receive the gamma adjusted input image data for processing, a demultiplexer configured to receive and demultiplex the processed... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070182662 - Portable electronic advertising system and method of use: A portable electronic advertising system for delivering targeted advertising content include a display and a controller coupled to the display. The controller is capable of processing predetermined advertising information to be displayed on the display, wherein the predetermined advertising information is either stored within the memory module or is wirelessly... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20070182665 - Display device: A display device includes: a pattern display unit having a display area in which a background display region for displaying a background pattern that changes as time advances and an information display region for displaying a predetermined information pattern are integrally provided. A display mode of the information pattern changes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182667 - Source driver and display device having the same: A source driver and a display device having the same, in which the source driver performs charge sharing on source line driving signals in synchronization with an odd-numbered rising edge of the first output control signal, and outputs analog data signals to source lines of a display panel in synchronization... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070182668 - Method of driving a plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) may perform a stable sustain discharge. The PDP may include discharge cells in areas where display electrodes cross address electrodes. The discharge cells may be divided into a plurality of groups in a direction of the address electrodes. A unit frame... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070182669 - 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

20070182679 - Display device: An oscillator circuit includes (2n+1) inverters connected in series when n is a natural number, an integrator circuit having an input terminal connected to an output terminal of a (2n+1)-th inverter and an output terminal connected to an input terminal of a first inverter, first and second p-type transistors connected... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070182681 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a signal receiving part to receive an image signal, a signal processing part to process the image signal, an OSD (on screen display) generating part to generate an OSD signal, a control part to detect the image signal inputted through the signal receiving part to determine... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070182680 - Display device and driving apparatus: In one embodiment of the invention, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines transferring gate signals, a plurality of data lines transmitting data voltages, a plurality of storage electrode lines transferring storage signals, and a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel comprising a switching element... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070182682 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving an LCD device is provided. The apparatus includes an LCD panel that is comprised of red, green, blue and white sub-pixels. A data converter converts input data of three colors into input data of four colors. A data driver converts the input data of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070182683 - Gamma voltage generating apparatus for display device: In an apparatus for generating a gamma voltage to enhance a display quality and a display device having the apparatus, the apparatus of the display device having a display panel and a plurality of driving chips mounted on the display panel, each of the driving chips having a data driving... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070182685 - Display device: A display device with less horizontal crosstalk includes an array of pixel electrodes connected to and driven by a plurality of switching devices, the plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines which extend in a row-wise direction and are located between each of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070182687 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device is provided. The apparatus includes a converter for detecting a motion vector from externally input source data, converting one frame of an input original image of the input source data into at least two conversion frames, filtering images of the at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182688 - Gate driver: A gate driver includes a plurality of stage groups, a gate driving circuit, and an output controller. The gate driving circuit supplies the plurality of stage groups with a plurality of clock pulses. The plurality of stage groups supply the input clock pulses to associated gate lines of a liquid... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070182689 - Liquid crystal display device: A low power-consumption liquid crystal display device is achieved by providing the memory element in each pixel and transferring no image signal. The voltage held in the pixel memory in the liquid crystal display panel is used to generate an alternating drive signal in the pixel. Even when the image... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070182663 - Portable, folding and separable multi-display computing system: The present invention provides a coupling mechanism between a primary computing device and a secondary computing device, wherein each computing device may be physically separated from each other while continuing to communicate with each other. The primary computing device has the minimum functionality of a complete computing system such as... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070182664 - Head-worn assembly with removable display: A helmet or headgear assembly that includes a fixed or removable display that can display any message desired by the user and a set of fixed or removable accessories including a radio, earphone(s), microphone, earmuffs and camera. The display can be an LED display and can optionally scroll horizontally, vertically... Agent: Clifford Kraft

20070182666 - Curtain display unit for light emitting elements: A display unit, a display system, and a method of manufacturing thereof are disclosed. The display unit includes a first substrate and a second substrate attached to the first substrate to form a cavity between the substrates. A pixel is then disposed within the cavity and is configured to receive... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070182670 - Display device having a circuit protection function: To protect a high-voltage circuit in a field emission display, a configuration according to the present invention includes a high-voltage power supply circuit, a field emission display panel to which a voltage is supplied from the high-voltage power supply circuit, a data driver for supplying display data to the field... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070182673 - Active matrix display device: The invention relates to an active matrix display device (6) comprising a display panel (2) with a matrix of display pixels (3), and row and column electrodes (11,12) coupled to the display pixels (3). Each of the display pixels (3) has a current mirror circuit adapted to receive a programming... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070182674 - Active matrix display devices: Methods for exchanging signals via a network with nodes (11-15) improve the performance of the network by letting a destination node (12) receive the signals originating from a source node (11) via different first and second signal routes, and by processing and correlating these signals in the destination node (12).... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070182672 - Active matrix display with reduction of power onsumption: An active matrix display comprises a select driver (SD) to drive select electrodes (SE), and a data driver (DD) to supply data (D) to data electrodes (DE). Pixels (10) are associated with intersections of the data electrodes (DE) and the select electrodes (SE). The pixels (10) comprise a light emitting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070182675 - Display device and driving method thereof: In order to keep the luminance of a light emitting element constant, the correction is performed by an external device such as a computer, in which case a display device is inevitably complicated and increased in size. Even when degradation characteristics of the light emitting element are previously stored in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070182671 - Pixel driver circuit: A pixel circuit for use in a display comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. The load-balanced current mirror pixel circuit can compensate for device degradation and/or mismatch, and changing environmental factors like temperature and mechanical strain. The pixel circuit comprises a pixel drive circuit comprising, switching circuitry, a current... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070182676 - Device for dynamic illumination: A device for dynamic illumination has groups of light sources, a power supply source, each of the groups of light sources is formed as a light-emitting module which includes light diodes selected from the group consisting of one light diode and several light diodes, electronic keys corresponding to the light... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070182677 - Vehicle display configuration and method of controlling a display: A vehicle display configuration includes an LED (light emitting diode) display with a flexible circuit board and a plurality of LEDs mounted on the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board conforms to the surface shape of a mounting layer to which it is fastened. A control circuit which includes... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.A.

20070182678 - 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

20070182684 - Electrical circuit arrangement for a display device: The electrical circuit arrangement (A) for a display device (6) comprises an input terminal (11;13) a first memory element (M1); a driver element (D) coupled to the first memory element (M1); and a calibration circuit (S) coupled between the driver element (D) and the input terminal (11; 13). Information about... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070182686 - System for displaying images utilizing two clock signals: Systems for displaying images are provided. In this regard, a representative system incorporates a signal driving circuit that includes a plurality of PMOS shift registers connected in series and controlled only by a first clock signal and a second clock signal, wherein the PMOS shift registers are operative to output... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070182693 - Data driver, flat panel display device using the same, and driving method thereof: A data driver including: a shift register unit for providing sampling signals by generating at least one shift register clock; a sampling latch unit for sampling and latching digital data having m bits by receiving the sampling signals for every column line; a holding latch unit for simultaneously receiving and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070182692 - Digital-analog converter, data driver, and flat panel display device using the same: A digital-analog converter (DAC) including: a gray scale generator for generating gray scale voltages corresponding to digital data input through charge sharing between a plurality of data lines and a plurality of dummy data lines; a switching signal generator for providing operation control signals for a plurality of switches of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070182690 - Receiver for an lcd source driver: A receiver for an LCD source driver of an LCD panel includes a converter, a comparing circuit and a decoding circuit. The converter converts two pairs of differential current signals into two pairs of differential voltage signals. The comparing circuit is coupled to the converter for generating reference signals based... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070182691 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device which is capable of improving display characteristics by preventing horizontal stripes from being generated thereon is provided. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel displaying image data, a plurality of gate integrated chips (“ICs”) connected to a first side of the liquid crystal panel,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070182694 - Apparatus and method for driving display panel with temperature compensated driving voltage: Provided is a method and an apparatus for driving a display panel with a temperature compensated driving voltage, which comprises a temperature sensor, a temperature section register, a comparing unit, a voltage register, a voltage controller and a driver. The comparing unit compares temperature data output from the temperature sensor... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070182695 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display including a liquid-crystal display unit having a matrix of multiple pixels. A field of a digital input video signal to be supplied to the liquid-crystal display unit is divided into a plurality of subfields. The voltage of the digital video signal is adjusted per subfield to... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor Weber Fourth Floor

20070182697 - Backlight module driving circuit: A backlight driver circuit has a transformer, a switching circuit and a plurality of switch devices. The switching circuit couples a DC voltage to a primary side of the transformer and alternates polarities thereof so that an AC voltage is generated on a secondary side of the transformer to turn... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070182698 - Drive device of color led backlight: The drive device for driving the color light emitting diode (LED) backlight which includes a plurality of color LED arrays includes an I/O interface for inputting/outputting a signal, a control unit for controlling a driving voltage and driving current according to a brightness control signal output from the I/O interface,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070182699 - Field sequential color mode liquid crystal display: In an FSC mode LCD, a controller operates in response to an external adjustment, and a DC/DC converter converts a battery voltage into a driving voltage under control of the controller. A color LED backlight includes first, second and third color LED arrays connected in parallel, which are operated by... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070182696 - Liquid crystal display device and controlling method thereof: A control method is for inputting a plurality of image frame data into a liquid crystal display device in order. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of light-emitting units as the backlighting and a display screen, and has a preset display mode reference. The display screen is divided... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182701 - Method of driving a lamp, lamp driving apparatus, and liquid crystal display device having the same: A lamp driving apparatus includes a change rate calculating section, a dimming transforming section and a power supplying section. The change rate calculating section calculates a change rate signal from an image signal corresponding to the image. The dimming transforming section outputs a digital dimming signal and an analog dimming... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070182700 - Image display device and image display method: A liquid crystal panel for displaying an input image and a black image during one frame period, a target black display period ratio calculating unit configured to obtain a black image display period occupying one frame period of the input image, a black display period ratio change amount calculating unit... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070182703 - Lcd backlight duration proportional to amount of information on the lcd display screen: A method, and device incorporating the method, permits adjustment of the on time of a light source that illuminates a display within a handheld wireless communications device. The on time may be adjusted by the amount of information to be displayed, the font size of the information, the behavioural characteristics... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20070182702 - Liquid crystal display device having an improved backlight: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes: a light source including a discharge tube having no electrodes therein, and first and second electrodes disposed outside the discharge tube; and a power source which... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20070182705 - Electrochromic device employing gel or solid polymers having specific channel direction for the conduction of ions: An electrochromic device in which specific channel direction for the conduction of ions is implemented. As a result ionic crosstalk between display pixels is greatly reduced and unwanted transient coloration effects are minimized. Further, specific gel, polymer, or ionic liquid solutions can greatly eliminate the corrosive effects associated with the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070182704 - Electrophoretic display, method for driving electrophoretic display, and storage display: An electrophoretic display according to the present invention includes a first reset step for applying a first voltage to electrophoretic devices such that no image is displayed and no afterimages are present in the electrophoretic devices between a first step for displaying a first image on the electrophoretic devices and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182706 - Reflective display devices: An enhanced reflective layer is described herein for use in a display device. Displays including the enhanced reflective layer are also described. The enhanced reflective layer includes particles that reflect, absorb or emit light with desired properties to enhance the display properties. Use of the enhanced reflective layer in displays... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070182707 - Method and system for writing data to mems display elements: Another embodiment has a method of driving a display device including an array of MEMS elements is disclosed. The MEMS elements are characterized by a preferred set of drive potential differences including preferred positive and preferred negative actuation potential differences, preferred positive and preferred negative hold potential differences, and a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070182711 - Haptic device testing: A method of testing a haptic device that includes an actuator and has a first weight includes placing the haptic device on a test fixture that has a second weight that is greater than the first weight. The haptic device is placed on the test fixture so that the actuator... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070182712 - Slide operation apparatus: A slide operation apparatus capable of preventing damages to a movement guide for slidably supporting a movable member, without increasing the weight and length thereof. The movable member (70) is disposed for sliding motion relative to guide bars (78, 79). Usually, a protrusion (70a) of the movable member is apart... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070182709 - Foot-based interface for interacting with a computer: Methods and systems for using a foot-based interface to interact with a computer are described. An application program from a plurality of application programs is executed on an operating system of a personal computer. The application program is configured to receive user input via a foot-based interface. Further, user input... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070182710 - Integrated material handling and displaying unit, system and method of use: A food service article includes a feature for displaying data and method displaying data. The feature includes a display unit having a display screen that displays data as text data or image data, a receiver that receives the data, and a processor for processing and storing the data and providing... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20070182708 - Tactile and force feedback device: Disclosed is a system including a tactile feedback device with which a user can sense the tactile force that is applied by the user on actuating a button or the like. The system includes a main body part (10), an operating unit (20) on which the user acts for inputting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070182713 - Device and method for spatial orientation: There is provided a device for displaying, navigating and editing of geographical and/or geometrical data and/or images, including a housing, a display of the data and/or images affixed on the housing, and a joystick mechanism controlling at least the x and y axes for navigating and/or editing the displayed data... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070182714 - Methods and apparatus for securing keystrokes from being intercepted between the keyboard and a browser: The invention described herein provides a method and system for foiling a keylogger by creating a custom keyboard driver and passing the keystrokes directly to the browser in an encrypted format. The browser (which is used to access the Internet) has a component that decrypts the keystroke before it is... Agent: Ram Pemmaraju

20070182716 - Portable device with improved user interface: A portable device such as a mobile phone, comprising a display screen, an input interface having a plurality of activable elements and processing means in connection with the display screen and the input interface, wherein the value of at least one parameter of the device can be changed by means... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070182715 - Configurable handheld electronic device: An improved handheld electronic device can be configured in a variety of different ways by a user. The user can select, for instance, a keypad module from among a plurality of similar but different keypad modules, and/or can select a display module from among a plurality of similar but different... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070182717 - Touch-sensitive pushbutton switch: A touch-sensitive pushbutton switch includes an optical sensor, in particular an infrared sensor, and an evaluation circuit. The evaluation circuit is able, through the use of a reference device, to set a sensitivity of the optical sensor in dependence on a detected basic level of an evaluation signal.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070182719 - Display device and sensing signal processing apparatus: A display device includes a plurality of first and second sensing data lines; a plurality of first and second sensors connected to the first and second sensing data lines, respectively; a plurality of first signal converters which compare a first sensing data signal with a first reference voltage and output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070182720 - Touch panel: A touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a wiring substrate provided with a plurality of wiring patterns formed thereon, and an anisotropic conductive adhesive layer. The first substrate has a first conductive layer and first electrodes extending from two opposite sides of the first conductive layer. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070182721 - Display device, user interface, and method for providing menus: A display device may include a display unit, a touch detecting unit that detects a touch on the display unit, a touch-position detecting unit that detects a touch position on the touch detecting unit and outputs coordinate data of the position, a display control unit that causes the display unit... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070182718 - Operator control device: An operator control device for controlling systems in a motor vehicle by inputs by a user includes a touch-sensitive operator control panel on which it is possible to represent two surface shapes which may be changed into one another alternately, with the first surface shape being structured so as to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070182722 - Wide touchpad on a portable computer: In one exemplary embodiment, a portable computer having a display assembly coupled to a base assembly to alternate between a closed position and an open position. Palm rest areas are formed by a touchpad disposed on the surface of the base assembly. In an alternative embodiment, a touchpad disposed on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070182723 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of scan lines and each of a plurality of signal lines which are provided intersecting to each other; a plurality of display sections each disposed at an intersection of each of the plurality of scan lines and each of the plurality of signal lines;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070182724 - System and method for interacting with a display through a display window: The invention is related to a system for interacting with a display through a display window, comprising a recording unit configured to be placed behind the display window for recording a pointer object in front of said display window, at least one deflection unit configured to direct a beam path... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070182725 - Capturing hand motion: A portable electronic device, a digital camera associated with the portable electronic device, and software configured to run on the portable electronic device and to derive handwriting and control information from hand motion of a writing instrument in the vicinity of the digital camera.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070182727 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes: a display portion that displays images; a power source portion; a converter that has an antenna receiving wireless signals including display controlling signals and image signals from the external based on a wireless transmission method and that converts the wireless signals received from the antenna into... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182728 - Image display system, image display method, image display program, recording medium, data processing apparatus, and image display apparatus: An image display system includes a data processing apparatus that processes image data, an image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of the image data processed by the data processing apparatus, and a communication unit for data communication between the data processing apparatus and the image display... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182726 - Display apparatus, wireless transmitting and receiving system, display method, display control program, and recording medium: A display apparatus of the present invention has been made so that: in cases where a video signal cannot be normally received, the display apparatus allows a display representing whether a video signal is not normally received due to presence of other wireless communication apparatus. The displaying is carried out... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070182729 - Apparatus for interventional therapy: The invention relates to a system for performing an interventional therapy of a patient comprising a display unit. The display unit is assigned as a single large format flat screen display, on which information relating to monitoring of the medical intervention, patient information and information to control the system are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070182731 - Method and device for virtual endoscopy in a hollow tract: A method and a device for virtual endoscopy in a hollow tract is disclosed in which at least one volume record of the hollow tract, recorded by tomographic imaging, is provided from which a virtual flight through the hollow tract in endoscopic perspective is calculated and visualized on a display... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070182730 - Stereoscopic image display apparatus and program: Received electronic mail includes a text code and a pictographic character code, for example. A non-stereoscopic process is performed on an image of characters by the text code, and a stereoscopic process is performed on an image of a pictographic character by the pictographic character code. The stereoscopic process allows... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070182734 - Adaptive quadtree-based scalable surface rendering: The present invention relates to computer graphics. This method allows efficient real-time 3D rendering of high-detail smooth surfaces. It is exceptionally effective with software rendering and low-end weaker graphics accelerators, and provides excellent visible quality per the amount of polygons used, while retaining low CPU processing overhead and high efficiency... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20070182732 - Device for the photorealistic representation of dynamic, complex, three-dimensional scenes by means of ray tracing: The invention relates to a device for the photorealistic representation of dynamic, complex, three-dimensional scenes by means of ray-tracing. Said device comprises at least one programmable ray-tracing processor in which are implemented: special traversing instructions and/or vector arithmetic instructions and/or instructions for establishing ray-tracing acceleration structures and/or at least one... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070182736 - Method and system for a computer-rendered three-dimensional mannequin: A human body is three-dimensionally reproduced to create a computer-rendered model. The model is dynamically manipulable to adjust or customize the dimensions of the model to specified measurements. Computer renderings of garments are stored in the computer. The model may be “clothed” with one or more garments, the representation of... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070182735 - Numerical analysis mesh generation apparatus, numerical analysis mesh generation method, and numerical analysis generation program: The present invention has been made to provide a technique capable of contributing to a reduction in operational burden on workers and an increase in operating accuracy in a generation process of a mesh for numerical analysis for a geometric model. A numerical analysis mesh generation apparatus generates a mesh... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070182733 - Three-dimensional cad system: It is possible to match a parts model with a two-dimensional drawing. A parts model has shape changing elements whose shapes are changed before and after assembling and other common elements. Three-dimensional shape data on the shapes of the shape changing elements before assembling and their shapes after assembling and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070182737 - Computer graphics systems and methods for encoding subdivision triangular surfaces: A system is described for generating a plurality of identifiers, each associated with one of a like plurality of subdivision surfaces of a surface element, and for generating, using an identifier for a subdivision surface, coordinates for the subdivision surface. Each identifier includes one or more position codes. Each position... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070182739 - Method of and system for determining a data model designed for being superposed with an image of a real object in an object tracking process: A data model which is designed for being superposed with an image of a real object in an optical object tracking process is determined by the following steps: providing a three-dimensional CAD model (10) for representing the real object, and thereafter there are different synthetic two-dimensional views (31 to 34)... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070182738 - On the fly hardware based interdigitation: A method of interdigitation for display of an autostereoscopic source image to a screen comprising a plurality of pixels having sub-pixels and sub-pixel components and apparatus for interdigitation is provided. The method comprises generating a texture memory coordinate at each pixel location on the screen of the source image, calculating... Agent: Smyrski Law Group, A Professional Corporation

20070182741 - Display apparatus, display method, and display program: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display control section configured to cause a display to display an image that contains a plurality of content indication marks each associated with a separate content, each of the plurality of content indication marks being arranged at a position corresponding to an... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070182743 - Displaying visual content using multiple nodes: Display of visual content is disclosed which utilizes nodes that launch only when necessary. The nodes may be rendered and/or displayed in the coordinate system of another node, perhaps a parent node, when appropriate.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070182740 - Information processing method, information processor, recording medium, and program: A method of processing information is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: creating a timeline based on data used in executing a user interface; creating a state transition diagram based on the data; manipulating the timeline or the state transition diagram; editing the timeline based on contents of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070182742 - System and method for providing a perspective-corrected representation of a multi-dimensional cluster: A system and method for providing a perspective-corrected representation of a multi-dimensional cluster is presented. Clusters are displayed based on independent spatial orientations within multiple dimensions. For each such spatial orientation, the clusters are located at an independent distance from a common origin. A relationship between a pair of the... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070182744 - Polynomial encoding of vertex data for use in computer animation of cloth and other materials: An alternative to cloth simulation in which a plurality of different poses for a material are established, and then each component of each vertex position of the material is encoded into a polynomial by using corresponding vertices in the plurality of different poses for the material. The vertices are encoded... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070182745 - Apparatus and method for capturing images: An apparatus for capturing images is provided. The apparatus for capturing images includes a control unit that determines whether an internal memory is available for use, and a process-driving unit that loads background processes.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070182746 - System and method for vector computations in arithmetic logic units (alus): The present disclosure describes implementations for processing instructions and data across multiple Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs). In one implementation, a graphics processing apparatus comprises a plurality of ALUs configured to process independent instructions in parallel. Pre-processing logic is configured to receive instructions and associated data to be directed to one... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070182747 - High-level program interface for graphics operations: Disclosed is a system for producing images including an application program interface. The system includes an API and techniques for creating images by defining relationships between filters and images, such relationships programmatically assembled in an object by a cooperative session between a requesting application and a graphics services resource. The... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070182748 - Method and system of rendering 3-dimensional graphics data to minimize rendering area, rendering time, and power consumption: A three-dimensional graphics data rendering method. The method divides initially inputted first graphics data into a static object and a dynamic object, performs a rendering process with respect to the static object, and updates a predetermined buffer with the rendering result. Then the method performs a transformation process, a portion... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070182749 - Partial display updates in a windowing system using a programmable graphics processing unit: Techniques to generate partial display updates in a buffered window system in which arbitrary visual effects are permitted to any one or more windows (e.g., application-specific window buffers) are described. Once a display output region is identified for updating, the buffered window system is interrogated to determine which regions within... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070182750 - Drawing apparatus and method for processing plural pixels in parallel: A drawing apparatus includes a reception unit, a first holding unit and a drawing processing unit. The reception unit receives graphic information. The first holding unit holds a plurality of first data which is a part of the graphic information received by the reception unit, in association with identification numbers... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070182751 - Generating, storing, and displaying graphics using sub-pixel bitmaps: Techniques for generating, storing and displaying graphics on computer systems are disclosed. The type of graphics in particular are images, where the image can be defined as a set of areas, whether these areas are lines, geometric shapes, letters or other types of areas. The effect of using these methods... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070182752 - 3-dimensional computer graphics system: Texturing operations are performed on objects in a 3-dimensional computer graphics system by providing pixel data for objects to be textured, providing texture data for these objects, supplying the object and texture data to a blend buffer 32. The texture data is then applied to each pixel of each object... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070182753 - Method and apparatus for selecting a mip map level based on a min-axis value for texture mapping: Min-axis based mip map determination logic receives a plurality of texture space derivatives with respect to screen space for a given pixel and texel location and selects from a plurality of mip map levels a mip map level based on a min-axis without using a max-axis value and without using... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070182754 - Color profile generation method and apparatus: A color profile generation method and apparatus are provided, in which at least one of a reference color and a color table of the reference color on a display screen of an image forming device is displayed and at least one of the reference color and the color table that... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070182755 - Technique for enabling color blind persons to distinguish between various colors: Systems and methods for processing data representative of a full color image. Such systems may comprise the steps of assisting a color blind person to indicate portions of an image which to their color-deficient vision are indistinguishable, and altering the image to cause those portions to become distinguishable and identifiable.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070182756 - Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment: Sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment allows the luminance for the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel, while the chrominance can match the linear response of the human eye's chrominance channels. The gamma correction allows the sub-pixel rendering to operate independently of the... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070182757 - Video enhancement and display power management: In visual display devices such as LCD devices with backlight illumination, the backlight typically consumes most of device battery power. In the interest of displaying a given pixel pattern at a minimized backlight level, the pattern can be transformed while maintaining image quality, with a transform determined from pixel luminance... Agent: Peter A. Businger, Esq.

20070182760 - Processing & determining valuation over a data network for a physical item in the control of a user: An item data management server to automate the generation of estimated valuations based on physical item inventories as a whole, and based upon database contents storing attributes associated for each of the physical items and collections of the physical items.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070182759 - Graphics processing apparatus, method and program storage medium thereof: An input section allows a user to input an input signal including selection information and operational direction information. A dimensional constraint data storing section stores dimensional constraint data of a graphic object. An extent data storing section stores extent data of the graphic object. An arithmetic section determines a moving... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070182758 - Item data management over a data network for physical items in the control of a user: An item data management server to capture, store, organize, and present information regarding a plurality of physical items in the control of a user. The item data management server is coupled to a user terminal via at least one data network.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070182761 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A measured value of a physical quantity measured using a measuring device within a predetermined region on a real space, and a position where the measuring device performs measurement are acquired (S1001 to S1003). An analytic value of the physical quantity at that position in the predetermined region is calculated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070182762 - Real-time interactive rubber sheeting using dynamic delaunay triangulation: A novel, easy to use, and computational efficient rubber sheeting algorithm is designed for interactive image registration in a web-based application environment. The algorithm has two steps, including a piece-wise linear interpolation step to interactively find a suitable set of control points and displacement vectors, and a following optional global... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070182763 - Zooming controller: A method and device for accessing a broad data field having a fine resolution. The user selects a scale which can be varied. The scale controls a range within the data field. By moving the range to encompass different portions of the data field, the user can scan that portion... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070182764 - Multi-tone display device: A multi-tone display matrix display device including a matrix display panel having a matrix having plural X and Y direction signal lines lying at right angles to each other, intersecting points on the matrix being pixels of an image, an X direction driving section for sequentially scanning X direction signal... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070182765 - Display device with sensor: A display device includes a plurality of polygonal display elements each including: a display unit that displays an image; and a sensor disposed at a peripheral edge of the display unit.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070176848 - Component displays and beamsplitter that form composite image: An apparatus in one example comprises a first component display with a first display area, a second component display with a second display area, and a beamsplitter. The first component display is positioned such that the first display area is viewable through the beamsplitter as a transmitted display area. The... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070176849 - Magnifying viewing apparatus: An apparatus for viewing an environment. The environment may be, for example, water inside a fish tank, the interior of a pet cage or habitat, or simply a room divided by a wall or window. The apparatus includes a first viewing piece defining a first viewport. The apparatus may further... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070176850 - Document processing operation system: A document processing operation system includes: a rewrite unit; and an image display medium for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state, which is attached to the rewrite unit, wherein the rewrite unit performs display image rewrite processing for the image display medium,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176853 - Control panel device and display: Disclosed herein is a control panel device includes: a substrate; a panel section disposed oppositely to one principal surface of the substrate, with a predetermined spacing therebetween; an operating member exposed at a panel surface, on the opposite side of the substrate, of the panel section; a detecting element provided... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070176856 - Automatic high voltage gate driver ic (hvic) for pdp: A PDP sustain driver circuit including at least one high voltage gate driver IC (HVIC) having a logic functional block. The PDP sustain driver circuit includes a signal buffer for receiving two input signals and providing the two signals to the logic functional block; and at least four switches including... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070176855 - Diagnostic/protective high voltage gate driver ic (hvic) for pdp: A PDP sustain driver circuit including at least one high voltage gate driver IC (HVIC) having internal logic functions. The PDP sustain driver circuit including a plurality of switches, the HVIC providing a unique control signal to at least one first and at least one second switch. The internal logic... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070176860 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an insulating substrate having a display region, a light emitting layer formed in the display region, a first voltage pad applying a reference voltage to the display region, the first voltage pad being formed in a non-display region on the insulating substrate, a frame supporting the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070176864 - Light emitting device, image processing device, and electronic apparatus: A light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a first storage unit that stores first correction values corresponding to the light emitting elements, a counting unit that counts the number of pixels whose gray-scale values designated by image data are within a predetermined range, the pixels being... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176865 - Light-emitting device, electronic apparatus and image processing device: Provided is light-emitting device including: a plurality of light-emitting elements which correspond to pixels for configuring an image and emit light by being supplied electric energy; a first storage unit which stores a first correction value with respect to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements; a specifying unit which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176863 - Organic electroluminescent display: An organic electroluminescent display (“OELD”) includes an organic light-emitting diode (“OLED”) panel and a driving panel. The OLED panel includes an image display portion which displays an image using an OLED, and the driving panel includes a driving circuit portion which controls the image display portion. The OLED panel and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070176868 - Display device, liquid crystal display, and method thereof: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) that includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including sensing data lines, variable capacitors having a capacitance changed by pressure and connected to the sensing data lines, and reference capacitors connected to the sensing data lines, and a plurality of sensing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070176870 - Display apparatus and method for adjusting a display apparatus: A display apparatus outputs a video frame according to ambient brightness. The display apparatus includes an ambient sensor for sensing the ambient brightness of the display apparatus to generate an ambient brightness sensing signal; and a control circuit, coupled to the ambient sensor, for dynamically adjusting display characteristics of the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070176869 - Electro-optical device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device which has a display region including a plurality of pixels each of which has a plurality of sub-pixels displaying different monochromes, the sub-pixels having scan lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and switching elements arranged at intersections of the scan lines and the data lines. The electro-optical device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176871 - Measurement device for measuring gray-to-gray response time: The present invention discloses a measurement device for measuring the gray-to-gray response time. The measurement device is capable of precisely measuring the gray-to-gray response time of an LCD. According to a video signal comprising a synchronous message, the measurement device obtains the initial time and the final time of each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070176873 - Display apparatus and filter controlling method: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus including a display screen, a first view-angle-controlled filter which is effective on a first direction of the display screen, a second view-angle-controlled filter which is effective on a second direction of the display screen, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070176874 - Display panel and device utilizing the same and pixel structure: A display panel includes a first row line, a second row line, a first column line, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The second row line is parallel to the first row line. The first column line is vertical to the first row line and the second row line.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070176875 - Image display device: The present invention provides an image display device having about the same numbers of gate lines and data lines as before and capable of reducing the power consumption of a static memory during rewriting of a display image. In the configuration of the image display device, the drain electrode of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070176878 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device and a driving method thereof, include input data that is converted into first and second data, and one of the first and second data is selectively generated. The first and second data exist together in each field according to a location of a subpixel... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070176847 - Method and system to reduce display power consumption: A method and system to control power consumption of a display system includes using a low power display and a normal power display. The low power display may be a reflective display and may be used when the environment is bright. The normal power display may be a transmissive display... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070176852 - Display apparatus for a 3d solid image: A two-dimensional image is displayed on a flat display device. A solid diffusion panel which is composed of six transparent panels is disposed in an optical path of image light emitted from the flat display device and is moved periodically in a depth direction. Sectional images of a 3D solid... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070176851 - Projection display with motion compensation: A control system for a projection display includes means for compensating for relative movement between a projection display and a projection surface and/or between a projected image and a viewer. The system may compensate for image shake. Movement may be detected optically, through motion or inertial detection, etc. The image... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070176854 - Irregular screen format for led and oled systems: A display panel including a plurality of pixels disposed on a surface of the display panel is disclosed. The plurality of pixels are configured to receive an electrical signal and power and are disposed in an irregular arrangement. Furthermore, a method for displaying an image is disclosed. The method includes... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070176857 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel: This invention relates to a driving apparatus of a plasma display panel that is capable of being operated stable, regardless of temperature. A driving apparatus of a plasma display panel according to the present invention includes a panel having a scanning electrode for receiving a scanning pulse in an address... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070176858 - Apparatus and method for driving plasma display panel: This invention relates to a driving apparatus of a plasma display panel that is capable of being operated stable, regardless of temperature. A driving apparatus of a plasma display panel according to the present invention includes a panel having a scanning electrode for receiving a scanning pulse in an address... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070176859 - El device having improved power distribution: An active-matrix electroluminescent device, comprising: a plurality of light-emitting elements laid out over a substrate, a plurality of electrical buses carrying a common signal connected to the light-emitting elements; and a plurality of electrical cross-connections intersecting and electrically connecting the plurality of electrical buses. The plurality of light-emitting elements are... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070176861 - Self-luminous display apparatus, light emission condition control apparatus, light emission condition control method and program: A self-luminous display apparatus capable of varying a peak luminance of a display panel in a unit of one frame, includes: a mean gradation value calculation section configured to calculate a mean gradation value of a video signal in a unit of a frame for each one frame; a specific... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070176862 - Active matrix display with pixel to pixel non-uniformity improvement at low luminance level: An active matrix display (1) comprises a pixel (P) including sub-pixels (10), and a drive circuit (6) which receives an input signal (IV) determining a desired luminance (BR) and a desired color (AC) of the pixel (P). The drive circuit (6) comprises a level detector (3) which determines whether the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070176866 - Display panel with image sticking elimination circuit and driving circuit with the same: A display panel with image sticking elimination circuit is provided. The image sticking elimination circuit can be applied in a display unit comprising a plurality of pixel units driven by a gate driving circuit and a data driving circuit. The gate driving circuit is driven by a first voltage and... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070176867 - Method and system for providing a fault tolerant display unit in an electronic device: Method and apparatus for providing a fault tolerant display unit for an electronic device such as a glucose meter, including display unit, and a controller unit operatively coupled to the display unit, the controller unit configured to control the display unit to display an information, where when a failure mode... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070176872 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, which can control a viewing angle in vertical and horizontal directions without forming a specific liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display device comprising a display screen including a plurality of color pixels and liquid crystal molecules; and a viewing-angle control pixel... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070176877 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus is disclosed which can prevent occurrence of flicker for a long time. The apparatus comprises a liquid crystal modulation element which includes a first electrode, a second electrode made of a material different from that of the first electrode, a liquid crystal layer disposed between... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070176876 - Systems for displaying images and control methods thereof: Systems for displaying images and control methods are provided. In this regard, a representative control method for a display panel comprising a first source line, a second source line, a third source line, a first gate line and a second gate line, comprises: asserting the first gate line; and sequentially... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070176880 - Display control drive device and display system: In a display control drive device that displays an image on a display device, a data transfer rate may vary depending on received image data because of a difference in an image size. Assuming that driving force with which a driver or an amplifier is driven is designed based on... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070176879 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device, halftones are displayed by applying voltages to liquid crystal elements so that the transmittance of liquid crystals is changed. A plurality of gradation-reference-voltage-generation circuits are provided as sources for generating the voltages to be applied to the liquid crystals to realize display of the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070176881 - Driving circuit for driving liquid crystal display device and method thereof: In a driving circuit and its driving method for driving a liquid crystal display device without using a pre-processor, the driving circuit includes a first timing controller for receiving a first part of digital image data, a second timing controller for receiving a second part of the digital image data,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070176882 - Liquid crystal display device:

20070176885 - Back light unit having a plurality of luminous elements and control method thereof: A back light unit (BLU) having a plurality of luminous elements, and a control method thereof is provided. The BLU includes a temperature detector to detect a temperature of the BLU, brightness detectors to detect a brightness of the plurality of luminous elements, a voltage supplier to supply a driving... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070176884 - Liquid crystal display device, and driving circuit and driving method used in same: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of improving display quality of moving images. In the liquid crystal display device, every time a driving pulse voltage is generated by a backlight driving circuit in synchronization with a timing signal fed from a lighting timing control section and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176887 - Display device, terminal device, and display panel: A display device is composed of a light source device and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel, and the light source device is provided with a transparent/scattering switching element capable of switching between states in which incident light is transmitted or scattered. Pixels for displaying are disposed in the form... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070176886 - Information processing apparatus and luminance control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a light source which illuminates a display panel and a first area in which a first red element, first green element and first blue element and a second area which is arranged in one direction with respect to the first area... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070176883 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight module, a dimming control unit and a backlight module driving circuit. The liquid crystal display panel has a first display area and a second display area. The backlight module... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070176888 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for driving the same: There are disclosed methods for driving liquid crystal display apparatuses for certainly completing in a short time to performing a transition of liquid crystal molecules to a displayable alignment in liquid crystal display apparatuses such that an initial alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is different from the displayable alignment,... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070176889 - Electrophoretic display with cyclic rail stabilization: An image is updated on a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display by using cyclic rail-stabilized driving, where an image transition is realized either directly via a single drive pulse (D1), or indirectly via a reset pulse (R) and a drive pulse (D2) of opposite polarity. First shaking... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070176893 - Method in an information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and computer-readable medium: An information processing apparatus transmits and receives drawing data with another information processing apparatus connected via a network and can share display contents to be displayed on a display unit based on each other's drawing data. The information processing apparatus receives drawing data via the network, and stores first drawing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070176892 - Mouse structure: A mouse structure including a casing, an assembly and a leather layer, wherein the casing and the assembly are assembled together. The assembly has a first surface and a second surface. The leather layer has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion covers the first surface and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070176894 - Position input device, remote control device, computer system and electronic equipment: A position input device is provided which includes a sensor portion having a detection face, an operation element movable along the detection face of the sensor portion, and a position detection unit which detects the position of the operation element on the detection face. According to additional embodiments, the position... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070176890 - Equipment for the biological activated sludge treatment of waste-water and procedure its operation: The equipment has a main reactor (I) and an anterior reactor (II), as well as facilities for feeding in untreated sewage, removing cleaned water and sludge and aerating the wastewater entered into the main reactor, and a mixer (2) situated in the anterior reactor (II), and it is characterised by... Agent: Joseph G. Seeber

20070176895 - Measuring apparatus: A measuring apparatus has a display unit that can be favorably viewed when a measured object is clamped by a clamp-type sensor regardless of the orientation and position of the measured object. The measuring apparatus includes a first main unit on which the clamp-type sensor is disposed and a second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070176891 - Monitor apparatus: A monitor apparatus includes a display panel housed in a housed position, a driving section, a detecting section, and a controlling section. The driving section includes a gear transmission mechanism for driving the display panel and causes the display panel to perform a first operation in which the display panel... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070176896 - 3d pointing devices with keysboards: A 3D pointing device includes a keyboard for character entry. In pointing mode, data from at least one motion sensor is provided, e.g., to be transmitted to a user interface for movement of a cursor. In text entry mode, data from at least one depressed key is provided, e.g., to... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070176897 - Tray mounted cursor control input device for integration with computer keyboard: A pointing device for use with a keyboard functions like a computer mouse. It incorporates a plurality of configurable function keys. The pointing device is composed of a rolling surface capable of rotation and translation that may activate a switch when it is depressed. An optical sensor monitors the rotation... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070176899 - Pointing device and method and pointer display apparatus and method: A pointing apparatus and method and a pointer display apparatus and method using a virtual region which generate a virtual region corresponding to a detected display region, convert coordinates of a location, and display a pointer at the converted coordinates. The pointing device includes a region detector detecting a display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070176898 - Air-writing and motion sensing input for portable devices: The use of motion sensing to perform sophisticated command control and data input into a portable device is disclosed. A motion sensor is embedded or fixedly attached to a portable device to measure movement, motion or tilt of the device in one-, two- or three-dimensions when the portable device is... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070176900 - Controlling cursor speed from a pointing device: A method for controlling cursor speed from a pointing device is performed by first subdividing a displayed image with a user-controllable into a number of areas. The cursor location is defined by cursor location information, for example the X-Y position of the cursor on the display. The displayed image is... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070176901 - Computer mouse palm deck: The invention is a device used in conjunction with a computer mouse and provides a flat platform for the entire palm area of the hand and thumb to rest upon and allows the remaining fingers to drape over its forward edge to engage any buttons or wheel. It utilizes a... Agent: Roland Fujiyama

20070176902 - Providing input data: Apparatus for covering a portable computer of the type provided with a touch screen as an alternative to a keyboard. A case generally includes a first part connected to a second part by an axial hinge. The axial hinge allows the first part and the second part to be configurable... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070176903 - Capacitive touch sensor button activation: A first touch is sensed at a first button on a capacitive touch sensor. A second button on the capacitive touch sensor is activated using one of a search-and-tap technique or a search-and-lift technique.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070176906 - Proximity sensor and method for indicating extended interface results: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved system usability. Specifically, the proximity sensor device and method provide a user with the ability to easily cause different results in an electronic system using a proximity sensor device as a user interface. For example, it can be used... Agent: Ingrassia, Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070176905 - Pixel structure for lcd with embedded touch screen: A pixel structure for an liquid crystal display (LCD) with an embedded touch screen is provided. The pixel structure includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, each formed by intersecting two adjacent gate lines and two adjacent data lines, the first pixel including a pixel... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070176904 - Size variant pressure eraser: A method of adjusting the size of an area to be deleted in a pen-based computing system is provided. An electronic pen may include an eraser end. The eraser end may be used to contact the display surface of a computer system. Application of pressure to the display through the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070176907 - Touch panel, electrooptical device, and electronic apparatus: A touch panel includes a first touch panel substrate; a second touch panel substrate disposed opposite the first touch panel substrate; at least one surface acoustic wave generator that generates a surface acoustic wave propagating across a surface of the second touch panel substrate facing the first touch panel substrate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070176908 - Control apparatus: An interface including a panel (100) defining at least one edge (114, 116, 118, 120) at least one detector (102) arranged along the at least one edge (114) of the panel, an electromagnetic radiation beam emitter (152) operative to direct at least one beam of electromagnetic radiation onto the panel... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070176909 - Wireless mobile pen communications device with optional holographic data transmission and interaction capabilities: A highly integrated and mobile wireless pen device for transmission, manipulation, visual and audio interaction of data with optional holographic data interface capabilities. A wireless pen device to interface with a desktop computer, laptop computer, cell phone, PDA, (personal digital assistant), Bluetooth device, IEEE 802.16 WiMax technology and protocols, or... Agent: Eric John Pavlowski

20070176910 - Systems and methods for navigating a mobile communication device menu: A mobile communication device comprising a rotary input device, wherein the rotary input device comprises an optical sensor configured to sense rotation of the rotary input device and a processor coupled to the rotary input device configured to process input from the rotary input device. The rotary input device can,... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20070176914 - Apparatus, method and medium displaying image according to position of user: An apparatus, method, and medium displaying an input image according to a position of a user, extracting a position vector of the user and warping the image input to both eyes of the user according to the extracted position vector in order to provide a stereoscopic image that is not... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070176913 - Driver circuit usable for display panel: A driver circuit usable for a display panel can generate an output signal in response to an input pulse signal supplied to only one input signal terminal thereof. The driver circuit includes a pulse generating circuit for generating an output signal at the output terminal. The pulse generating circuit has... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070176911 - Data transmission method, data transmission circuit, output circuit, input circuit, semiconductor device, and electronic device: A data transfer circuit comprises a voltage/current converter circuit for converting a first binary voltage data of n bits (n is an integer equal to or larger than two) to multi-value current data of 2n values which is output to a single data transfer line. A current comparator circuit converts... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070176915 - Method for displaying an image having a maximal brightness: An electro-optical device and method for displaying an image are disclosed. A clear image with a clear profile can be displayed therein by processing input image data, for example input image data of TV broadcasting received by the device.... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070176912 - Portable memory devices with polymeric displays: A portable memory device having a flexible polymeric display panel which comprises a memory controller configured to determine memory information from a memory coupled to the memory controller, generate memory information signals in dependence on the determined memory information and output the memory information signals to a display driver. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070176916 - Image display apparatus and method: An image display apparatus and method are provided. The image display apparatus includes an external light detection module which detects an intensity of external illumination; a storage module which stores a plurality of light emitting unit control values; and a control module which selectively performs, according to a result of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176917 - Flat-panel display devices and manufacturing method therefor: A flat-panel display device comprises: a display panel having a pixel area for matrix imaging; a plurality of driver IC chips mounted in a row on a fringe part of the display panel; extension wirings extended out from wirings within the pixel area and electrically connected to terminals of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070176918 - Controlling display: An energy-conserving mobile station and a means for reducing the energy consumption of a mobile station and to reduce burn-in on the display element, where a part of the liquid crystal display element (LCD) of a mobile station is switched off, when the whole display element is not needed and... Agent: Perman & Green

20070176919 - Interface: A controller for switching the operation state of a transmitter portion sets a transmitter portion in which the data amount to be transmitted is larger than a predetermined amount to a high speed mode, sets a transmitter portion in which the data amount to be transmitted is below a predetermined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070176920 - System for providing a personlized experience to a person in a medical environment: Through changes in lighting and audio solutions together with projections of images and/or animations that are initiated by the entrance of a person (professional or patient) in a medical environment, such as a radiology department, cardiology department, intensive care unit, etc., a certain ambience/atmosphere is created in this specific architectural... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070176922 - Information display apparatus, information display method, information display program, graphical user interface, music reproduction apparatus, and music reproduction program: Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus includes: candidate object display means configured to display selectable candidate objects in a first display layer; and selected object display processing means configured to display a selected object, which is selected by user from the candidate objects, in a second display layer, which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070176921 - System of developing urban landscape by using electronic data: The present invention has means for displaying an urban landscape with a food shop zone including a cluster of various restaurants, a sports/hobby zone including baseball stadiums and pools, a living zone including flats and public facilities, a zone for female company employees to get together, and news including weather... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070176923 - 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

20070176924 - Apparatus, and method for generating analytical model, and recording medium in which program for generating analytical model is stored: An apparatus for generating an analytical model of an object shape model including: a detail-mesh-model generating section generating a detail mesh model of the object shape model based on the object shape model; a maximum outer shape mesh model generating section generating a maximum outer shape mesh model corresponding to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070176925 - Computer graphics systems and methods generating smooth feature lines for subdivision surfaces: Computer graphics systems and methods are provided for generating a representation of a feature in a surface defined by a mesh representation, the mesh comprising at a selected level a plurality of points including at least one point connected to a plurality of neighboring points by respective edges, the feature... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070176927 - Image processing method and image processor: There are provided an image processing method and an image processor for detecting an object to be detected in a simple and accurate manner without detailed adjustment of illumination. Light sources provided in four directions around a camera are sequentially lighted, and a camera is driven every time the one... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070176926 - Lighting states in a computer aided design: A multi-dimensional model can be displayed according to a lighting state. A multi-dimensional model includes one or more lights. A lighting state includes a set of settings for the one or more lights. The lighting state can be applied to the multi-dimensional model in order to view the multi-dimensional model... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070176929 - Identification of occlusions in stroke-based rendering: A renderer for performing stroke-based rendering determines whether two given overlapping strokes depict an occlusion in a three-dimensional scene. The renderer may then use this information to determine whether to apply an occlusion constraint between the strokes when rendering an image or a frame from an animation. In one implementation,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070176928 - Plotting method, plotting program, and plotting equipment: A ground object is arranged so that it overlaps with a cylindrical object. Inside the cylindrical object, foot data of the ground object is arranged. Since the foot data on the side of a fore-end opening is positioned behind a fore-end face object with respect to view point coordinates, hidden... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070176930 - Computer graphics using coarse level meshes: Computer graphics systems, devices and methods adapted to enable display and/or storage of human-perceptible images on a display, device include an arrangement for generating a coarse level mesh representing a surface, from a finer level mesh surface representation. The arrangement includes an indicator value generator and a coarse level mesh... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070176932 - Design of arbitrary linear and non-linear maps: Various software mapping aspects are provided. They include, but are not limited to, providing linear map to non-linear map conversion or transformation (and vice versa) in a symmetric fashion, so that data in one map upon conversion is symmetric in another map with respect to the former map. One way... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070176931 - Method of automatically displaying medical measurement data: The invention relates to a method of automatically displaying medical measurement data in which a computer receives the medical measurement data, automatically, in real time, converts the received measurement data into data for histograms and outputs the converted data picture signals.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070176933 - Self-centering zoom bar graph: A self-centered zoom system includes a display device to indicate a measured quantity, and first and second bar graphs displayed on the display device. The first bar graph displays both a current value and a peak value of the measured quantity. The second bar graph displays an automatically zoomed range... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070176935 - Adjusted stroke rendering: Methods and apparatus implementing and using techniques for rendering a stroke (e.g., a line or glyph). An initial adjustment value can be calculated for the stroke, and an offset amount calculated based on the initial adjustment value, such that a minimum number of device pixels will be marked by the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070176934 - Method, program, and apparatus enabling font color selection enhancement: In one aspect thereof, this invention provides a method for displaying the font colors of a selected portion of text having a plurality of font colors. The method includes gathering data about the selected portion of text including at least font color attributes used in the selected portion of text;... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070176936 - Portable computer and control method therefor: A portable computer including a display unit, and a video processor generating and supplying a first video signal to the display unit, includes a video adaptor outputting the first video signal to the outside, and receiving a second video signal from an external input source, and a control unit for... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070176937 - Document processing operation system: A document processing operation system includes: an image display holding medium that includes a display section for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state; and a processing unit that processes document data in response to operation information of a user for the medium,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070176938 - Statistically cycle optimized bounding box for high definition video decoding: A method for conserving memory accesses in motion compensation of compressed video gathers a plurality of motion compensation data accesses into a single bounding box for direct memory access data transfer. The method places the motion compensation data of a current macroblock into a current bounding box until placing the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070176939 - Data replacement method and circuit for motion prediction cache: A system for decoding a video bitstream and a method for replacing image data in a motion prediction cache are described. For each of the cache lines, a tag distance between pixels stored in the cache line and uncached pixels that are to be stored in the cache is calculated.... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070176942 - Color difference display control apparatus, color difference display control method, and control program: This invention provides a display control apparatus and control method, which allow the operator to easily identify the correspondence between the patch icons and their color difference values. To accomplish this, the display control method of this invention includes an icon displaying step of displaying a plurality of color difference... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070176943 - Field sequential image display apparatus and method of driving the same: Provided are a field sequential image display apparatus that reduces flicker and a method of driving the same. The field sequential image display apparatus, which uses a plurality of single color light sources, includes: an image analyzing unit dividing frames of an image signal into fields, whereby the number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070176940 - Bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model for image manipulation: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for manipulating an image comprises the steps of deriving a bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model representation of the image, and utilizing the bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model representation to manipulate the image.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070176941 - Bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model for image manipulation: In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for manipulating an image comprises the steps of manipulating the image to provide an intensity adjusted image, deriving a bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model representation of the image and utilizing the bi-illuminant dichromatic reflection model representation to manipulate... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070176944 - Semi-transparent highlighting of selected objects in electronic documents: Highlighting selected objects in an electronic document is provided in a manner such that a highlighted object maintains coloring and formatting properties to allow for a maintenance of visual fidelity with a pre-highlighted view of the highlighted object and that allows for a semi-transparent background underneath a highlighted object that... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070176945 - Color scheme-compatible color selection with hue preservation: A facility for adapting a subject color to be compatible with a basis color is described. The facility accesses a color transformation specification that specifies how the subject color is to be adapted to be compatible with the basis color. The facility then applies the accessed color transformation specification to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070176946 - Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and program for implementing the method: An image forming apparatus which enables even a user inexperienced in configuration operations to easily configure settings of a job. A touch panel section displays a configuration screen for use in carrying out configuration operations concerning a job. A storage section stores history records, on an executed job-by-executed job basis,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070176947 - Information organization and navigation by user-generated associative overlays: Digital information objects in a digital information space are linked through the use of an overlay. A dynamic association between an accessed digital information object and each concept node in the overlay is established if the accessed digital information object and the overlay include at least one common concept. Links... Agent: Qwest Communications International Inc Law Dept Intellectual Property Group

20070176949 - Dithering system: Disclosured is a dithering system applied to a multimedia player. The dithering system comprises a pattern generator to generate video data; a processing unit to receive the video data as pre-processed by way of fixed-pattern and output; a timing controller to receive the output video data; and a dynamic index... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070176948 - Method, device and system of displaying a more-than-three primary color image: Embodiments of the invention include a method, device and/or system for displaying a more than three primary color (RGB) image. The device (100,200) may include, for example, a driver control module (218) to controllably activate one or more drivers (206,210) of an array of sub-pixel elements of at least four... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070176950 - Color flat panel display arrangements and layouts with reduced blue luminance well visibility: A transflective display panel substantially comprises a plurality of a sub-pixel grouping substantially comprising a plurality of at least first and second color sub-pixels. The plurality of the sub-pixel grouping forms an array across said display panel in a plurality of rows and columns. The first color sub-pixel is a... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070176951 - Display control device: When the horizontal period is less than a lower limit threshold value in a state that an LCD panel is driven in an SVGA mode, a mode judging circuit judges the resolution of an image signal as VGA. When the horizontal period is above an upper limit threshold value in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP