Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 09/07

20070222702 - Interface adjustment support system: An interface adjustment support system that adjusts a display environment of a first display device (standard device)'s user interface used by a user to adapt to a second display device (device used), via a network, inputs setting information of a customized user interface of the standard device, stores the display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070222703 - Video display apparatus and method: A video display apparatus displays videos corresponding to a plurality of observers respectively and comprises a display device. A control unit controls a scan timing so that a sum of a video scanning period from an upper end to a lower end of the display device concerning one video input... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070222710 - Display panel drive-control device and display panel drive-control method: A first latch circuit temporarily memorizes a display pixel data by one line. A second latch circuit temporarily memorizes the display pixel data as a preceding display pixel data that precedes the display pixel data by one line. The load judging circuit judges a transition state of the display pixel... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070222708 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode, and a scan driver for supplying a driving signal to the scan electrode in a first subfield and a second subfield. The duration of a first period ranging from a supply... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070222709 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus including a sustain driving apparatus that supplies a sustain signal to a panel. The plasma display apparatus includes a panel in which a front substrate having formed first and second electrodes therein and a rear substrate are coalesced, a sustain driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070222715 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel (pdp): An apparatus and method to drive a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) having discharge cells arranged where X electrodes and Y electrodes cross each other includes: generating a driving control signal including X, Y, and A driving control signals according to an image signal of an image to be displayed; X,... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070222720 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a display device. The display device comprising: a plurality of pixels formed in cross areas of data lines and scan lines; and a driver for providing data current to at least one pixel. Here, the driver includes a controller for providing second display data of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070222721 - Light emission control device, display device, drive control device, and control device: A light emission control device has a drive current feeder supplying a drive current to a light-emitting element, a drive current controller controlling the current level of the drive current based on the number of pulses in an enable signal, and a resetter resetting the controlling of the current level... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070222727 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: A display device includes a signal line formed on a substrate, a repair line formed on the substrate crossing and insulated from the signal line, and a first redundancy conductive pattern formed on a first region of the substrate where the signal line crosses the repair line, wherein the first... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070222728 - Video signal processing: In a video signal processing device, a black-white expansion circuit performs black-white expansion of a luminance signal (Y signal) included in a video signal to generate an expanded luminance signal (Y′ signal). A luminance ratio ‘n’ is computed as the rate of the expanded luminance signal (Y′ signal) to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222729 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels which perform display of different color components, a driver which drives the liquid crystal pixels according to a video signal which expresses gradations of the color components, and a video signal processor which corrects the video signal to keep a color... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070222704 - Visual display: A visual display is formed by picture elements, which are optically coupled to optical pathways through which light is supplied from light sources. Light sources, controlled by control hardware, transmit light to the optical pathways by scanning light from the light sources to different optical pathways. The light sources and... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20070222705 - High resolution computer operated digital display system: A high definition and high resolution digital display system, which is computer operated and preferably in the form of a plasma operated display system. More preferably the display system may adopt the form of a television system. The computer controls the generation of the display on the display screen with... Agent: Robert J. Schaap Ste. 188

20070222707 - Method and apparatus for generating a look-up table in the video picture field: The present invention is particularly useful in the field of plasma display panels (PDPs) or other display devices wherein each video level is represented by a combination of bits according to a specific coding. In this case, when the algorithms used to improve picture quality are based on data stored... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070222706 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel having display electrode pairs each one of which pairs is formed of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. A priming electrode is placed in every other spaces between the display electrode pairs and in parallel with the display electrode pairs. An... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070222712 - Image display apparatus and method of driving the same: An image display apparatus divides one field into plural weighted subfields and combines the plural subfields to perform a multi-gray-scale image display on a display panel. The image display apparatus includes a motion amount detecting circuit 50, a diffusion amount calculating circuit 52, and a diffusion circuit 53. The motion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070222713 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel that reduces the intensity of a light unit and performs a stable address discharge. Each frame includes a plurality of subfields. A sustain discharge is performed according to a grayscale weight allocated to each subfield. A first subfield having a lowest grayscale... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070222711 - Method to reduce image sticking in plasma display panels: The method to reduce image sticking in a plasma display panel (PDP) includes four steps. There is converting a relationship between gray level and brightness of an input signal into a linear relation by a converter. Next, there is recording an image with a static image detector at time t... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20070222714 - Method and apparatus for driving ac plasma display panel with four electrodes: The present invention provides a driving method of a plasma display panel with ADS method comprising a reset period including an erase period, a rising period and a falling period, an address period and a sustain period, in which an auxiliary electrode is inserted between a scan electrode and a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070222718 - El display device and driving method of same: A driving method of an electroluminescent (EL) display device for driving the EL display device having EL elements placed in a matrix state thereon, has when a pixel line selected to write a video signal matches with a pixel line selected to supply a current to the EL elements, deselecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070222717 - Organic el display device: An organic EL display device has a high resolution in which an organic EL panel current is driven by a plurality of current drive ICs (current drivers). The occupation area required for the current drive circuits is suppressed and unevenness in luminance of the display screen is reduced. The EL... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070222716 - Source driver and driving method for display: A source driver and driving method for display are provided. The source driver of the present invention comprising a plurality of current-driving units, each of which outputs a data current according to a display data for driving a light-emitting device. Each of the current-driving units comprises a plurality of current... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070222719 - Pixel driving method of organic light emitting diode display and apparatus thereof: A method pixel driving method of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a pixel unit is reset to a predetermined voltage in a reset time period. After that, a frame period is divided into two driving... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070222722 - Method for forming a movable matrix image and device for a light-emitting diode running letters: The set of inventions relates to display engineering and is used for displaying color alphanumeric and graphical information for designing and developing different infomercial display means on externally and internally located objects. The said invention makes it possible to improve the quality of displayed information, the operational reliability thereof and... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070222723 - Image display apparatus and image display module: An image display apparatus configured by a display panel having an image memory element in a pixel, which achieves low power consumption. A nonvolatile image memory element 1, which can change the resistance value by phase change, is connected to a pixel electrode 25 of a liquid crystal element 5.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070222726 - Apparatus and method for generating overdriving values for use in lcd overdriving: An apparatus and a method for generating overdriving values are provided, used to generate the overdriving values for displaying image data. The apparatus for generating overdriving values includes an outside environment sensor unit and an adjustment module. The outside environment sensor unit is for detecting at least an environment parameter.... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070222724 - Crosstalk elimination circuit, liquid crystal display apparatus, and display control method: The crosstalk of a display apparatus can be efficiently eliminated to realize a precise, high-quality display. A liquid crystal display apparatus includes, as a crosstalk elimination circuit, an adjacent picture element acquisition circuit (1) that acquires display signals of picture elements adjacent to a self picture element, and two-dimensional LUTs... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222725 - Structure and driving method for active photoelectric element: A structure and driving method for active photoelectric element that aims to every matrix-arranged pixel on the display panel. The pixel structure includes a set of first thin film diodes and a set of second thin film diodes. The first set and the second set of film diodes are connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222731 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: The liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel having a liquid crystal layer and an electrode for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer; and a drive circuit for supplying a drive voltage to the liquid crystal panel. The drive circuit supplies a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070222730 - Method to automatically regulate brightness of liquid crystal displays: The present invention provides a method to automatically regulate brightness of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which resolves the overload and easy fatigue of human eyes and poor image contrast due to high brightness of the conventional LCD. The present invention includes use of four parts, including an image brightness regulating... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20070222732 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus includes pixels each having a light emitting element and a pixel circuit, analog signal lines and current-supply lines. The pixel circuit includes first and second TFTs and first and second capacitors. Drain and source electrodes of the first TFT are coupled to the light emitting element... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070222733 - Lcd device capale of driving in an interlaced scan mode or in a progressive scan mode and related driving method thereof: An LCD device includes a LCD panel, a driver circuit coupled to the LCD panel for driving the LCD panel, a memory coupled to the driver circuit, a micro control unit for outputting image data to the memory, a selecting device for selecting an operation mode that the driver circuit... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070222735 - Method and apparatus for increasing data read speed from subscriber identity module: Provided is a method of efficiently reducing time taken for reading data from a SIM. For this purpose, the valid records of each EF are checked and only valid records with data are selectively read from a desired EF.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070222734 - Mobile device capable of receiving music or video content from satellite radio providers: Systems and methods are disclosed to play satellite radio music on a mobile phone by authenticating the mobile phone; generating a stream universal resource locator (URL) for a predetermined content; and receiving data from the stream URL and playing audio associated with the stream URL on the mobile phone.... Agent: Tran & Associates

20070222736 - Method of driving liquid crystal display panel: A method of driving a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a data line, a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel has a first switch, a second switch and a first pixel electrode.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070222737 - Display device: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which consumes less electric power by reducing the number of times to output sampling pulses in a pulse output circuit or write video signals to pixels. A display device includes a pixel portion in which a plurality of... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070222738 - Luminance control device, display device, luminance control method, luminance control program, and recording medium storing the luminance control program: Provided is a display device (100) which predicts a predicted temperature difference between a peripheral display area and an outer peripheral area of a display section (200) based on an input image signal from an image-signal input section (10). When the predicted temperature difference is a set reference value or... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070222739 - Driving circuit with protection module for back light module: A driving circuit for a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) comprises a transformer, a driving module, and a protection module. The transformer has a primary coil and a secondary coil, wherein a first end of the primary coil is coupled to a voltage source. Furthermore, a second end of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070222742 - Electrooptic device and electronic device: An electrooptic device includes: a first panel; a second panel on the back of the first panel; a first receiver circuit that measures a first ambient light incident on the first panel; a second receiver circuit that measures a second ambient light incident on the second panel; and a control... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222743 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display is provided and includes: a liquid crystal panel; light sources for illuminate light from M kinds of colors onto the liquid crystal panel; and a light source driving unit in which a one-frame period of an input image signal is divided into M or more subfields,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070222741 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and backlight unit used in liquid crystal display apparatus: A display apparatus provides an improved control accuracy of the brightness and the chromaticity. The liquid crystal display apparatus has a liquid crystal panel and a backlight unit for applying diffused light to the liquid crystal panel in a form of a sheet. The backlight unit has a light source,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070222740 - Display apparatus, image data providing apparatus, and controlling method: A display system is arranged such that an image data providing apparatus calculates a brightness level of original image data (by brightness level calculating section), generates brightness-adjusted image data by increasing brightness of the original image data based on the brightness level (by brightness adjusting section), and transmits the brightness-adjusted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222744 - Liquid crystal display device and display control method: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel having liquid crystal pixels, and a backlight which illuminates the display panel. In particular, this liquid crystal display device further includes a light source driving unit which turns on and off the backlight at a predetermined duty ratio every frame period... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070222745 - Electrophoresis device, electronic apparatus, and method of driving electrophoresis device: An electrophoresis device is provided which includes: a display area including electrophoresis elements, each of which has a dispersion system, which includes first electrophoresis particles and second electrophoresis particles having different electrical polarities, between a first electrode and a second electrode disposed opposite to each other; and a voltage control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070222748 - Computer input mobility station: The present invention is a computer input mobility station comprised of a computer keyboard stand and a mouse mechanism that is integrated into the stand. This device allows for and encourages the use of the major muscles in the upper and lower body while simultaneously typing and using a computer... Agent: Lott & Friedland, P.A.

20070222747 - Recognition and capture of whiteboard markups in relation to a projected image: The computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for capturing markup layers on a whiteboard in relation to a projected image. A presentation page is displayed on a whiteboard as the projected image. A set of markups on the whiteboard associated with the presentation page is identified. The set... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070222746 - Gestural input for navigation and manipulation in virtual space: A gestural input system provides an intuitive man-machine interface that converts human locomotion in free space, independent of fiducials and references surfaces to data that may be processed by a controller. A gestural input translates movement of a human and/or manipulation of a device in free space to data or... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070222749 - Operating device, electrical appliance with such an operating device, arrangement of a glass ceramic hob or an oven with such an operating device and method for operating such an operating device: An operating device and an electrical appliance provided with said operating device is disclosed. The electrical appliance comprises light barriers mounted on a frame that rests on a worktop. The light barriers can detect whether a finger is placed on one or more of the control panels for operation or... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070222750 - Position calculation apparatus, storage medium storing position calculation program, game apparatus, and storage medium storing game program: A position calculation apparatus calculates a positional relationship between an image pickup device, which is for taking an image of first and second imaging targets, and at least one of the first and second imaging targets. The position calculation apparatus obtains a first size, which indicates a size of a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070222755 - Combined mouse and laser pointer: There is provided a combined mouse and laser pointer that has a positional information input section provided on the bottom surface, a outer casing in which a laser light outlet through which a laser beam is output to the outside of the outer casing is provided, a mouse function section,... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20070222752 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is provided. The computer mouse includes at least a scroll wheel, wherein the scroll wheel includes: a plurality of openings and a plurality of lenses embedded in the plurality of openings separately. Another computer mouse is also provided, including at least a scroll wheel including at least... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070222753 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is provided. The computer mouse includes an upper cover, a scroll wheel module and a supporting component. The scroll wheel module includes at least a scroll wheel, an axle orthogonally installed on and passing through the scroll wheel, and a supporting component installed on an inner surface... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070222751 - Computer mouse having rotatable detection: A computer mouse having rotational detectability is disclosed. The mouse has an outer housing adapted for directional movement on a horizontal plane. The mouse includes the conventional left and right buttons and scroll wheel. Additionally, the mouse includes an extendable plunger which, when extended, prohibits movement of the mouse in... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070222754 - Mouse device with keys: A mouse device includes a lower case, a circuit board mounted to the lower case, an intermediate plate secured with the circuit board, a keyboard with a plurality of keys thereon, an upper case coupled to the lower case, and at least one key lock secured to the intermediate plate.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070222756 - Optical mouse having an optical structure capable of high sensibility: An optical structure of the optical mouse is disclosed, which comprises a light source providing an incident light beam transmitted onto a target surface at a specific incident angle and a photosensor pre-disposed at an angle of between 1 and 179 degrees or between 181 and 359 degrees so as... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070222759 - Computer pointing device: A computer pointing device for use to move a screen curser much like a computer mouse. The device is adapted for engagement with a computer keyboard and features a pair of thumb levers that are positioned for isometric engagement by the user's thumbs when the user's hands are in the... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20070222760 - Data input device: A data input device and method including an illuminator operative to illuminate at least one engagement plane by directing light along the at least one engagement plane, a two-dimensional imaging sensor viewing the at least one engagement plane from a location outside the at least one engagement plane for sensing... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070222757 - Display for statuses of keys on a wireless keyboard: A display for showing statuses of keys on a wireless keyboard, which provides a key set, a central processing device, a wireless emitter, a battery and an electronic sheet display module in the base thereof. Signals of functional keys are processed by the central processing device to supply driving voltage... Agent: G. Link Co. Ltd.

20070222758 - Method, system, and computer peripheral for docking a handheld computer: In one embodiment, a computer peripheral, is provided with 1) a human input interface; 2) a first computer interface; 3) a data link to provide data connectivity between the human input interface and first computer interface; and 4) a docking port to substantially encase a handheld computer engaged with the... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070222761 - Apparatus for defining keystroke values of keyboard, keyboard with definable keystroke values, and method therefor: A keyboard with definable keystroke values is provided. The keyboard includes an output interface for connecting to a keyboard interface of a host computer; keycaps for receiving operational inputs; a signal generation unit for generating keystroke signals in response to the operational inputs on the keycaps; a storage unit; and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070222767 - Glide touch sensor based interface for navigation infotainment systems: The invention provides glide touch sensor interfaces for controlling various features of a navigation infotainment system, which combines navigation guidance capabilities with multimedia features. In an embodiment, the navigation infotainment system includes a glide touch sensor that may be used to control navigation features of the system such as zoom... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070222768 - Browsing media items: A method of navigating, organising, browsing, searching, and selecting information objects and/or content in a ring based structure is provided wherein the relation between rings are clear and easily grasped. The method is particularly well suited for navigating in media content. The method comprises locating a number of information objects,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070222769 - Display apparatus: A touch location detection section (103) detects the location on a display screen where the operator's finger touches. A transfer length calculation section (104) calculates the transfer length La of the operator's finger from the touch start location S to the touch end location E. A transfer length judgment section... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070222764 - Glide touch sensor based interface for navigation infotainment systems: The invention provides glide touch sensor interfaces for controlling various features of a navigation infotainment system, which combines navigation guidance capabilities with multimedia features. In an embodiment, the navigation infotainment system includes a glide touch sensor that may be used to control navigation features of the system such as zoom... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070222763 - Increasing conductive polymer life by reversing voltage: The invention relates to a method of extending the life of conductive polymer in a device comprising providing conductive polymer, passing direct current through said polymer, and reversing the voltage gradient in the organic polymer conductor.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070222765 - Slider input lid on touchscreen: A device features a touch sensitive area, such as a touchscreen or touchpad, responsive to a first set of user interface inputs from a user; a lid arranged in relation to the touch sensitive area, having a physical guiding form for enabling the user to provide a special set of... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070222762 - Touch sensitive display: There is provided a touch sensitive display comprising a passive substrate, an active substrate, and a display material disposed between the passive and active substrates, wherein driving circuitry for driving a pixel of the display and touch sensing circuitry are arranged on the active substrate. The touch sensing circuitry comprises... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070222766 - Touch sensor effective area enhancement: A touch sensor device is provided that that uses an edge electrode set to provide an improved effective area. Specifically, the touch sensor device includes an edge electrode set that together substantially surround a perimeter of sensing. The edge electrode set increases the effective sensing area of the touch sensor... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20070222770 - Recording and communication of handwritten information: A pen system for recording a track of handwritten information created by the pen device is provided. The pen system comprises: a handheld pen device for recording the information in a digital format; and a memory for storing the recorded information. The memory includes: a first memory unit located in... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070222774 - Artifact-free transitions between dual display controllers: A method, system and computer program product for driving a display device by a display system is provided. The display system includes a processor, a first display controller, a second display controller and the display device. The first display controller receives display frames that are sent by the processor. The... Agent: William L. Botjet

20070222775 - Display device: In a display device that provides a first observation region with a first picture and provides a second observation region with a second picture, a double image made of the first picture and the second picture is suppressed. First columns of pixels that display the first picture and second columns... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070222776 - Display rotation apparatus: The present invention relates to a display rotation apparatus. The present invention provides a display rotation apparatus, including a support, a universal joint coupled to the support, a movable body coupled to the universal joint, a driving part coupled to the movable body for rotating the movable body about the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070222773 - Display apparatus and display method: Solving means: View direction detection section 101 detects the direction from which a viewer, who is a fellow passenger of a vehicle, views the display surface of display section 105. Expansion rate control section 103 controls expansion rates so as to select the expansion rates that correspond to the detected... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070222771 - Proximity sensor display assembly and method: This disclosure generally relates to a multimedia display equipped with a proximity sensor. The display is made of a device equipped with a proximity sensor and a computing device to better create and manage multimedia presentations. The display allows owners to insert a panel equipped with an LCD screen inside... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070222772 - System and method for assisting those with diminished mental capacities: A system and method is disclosed to associate with a device images corresponding to the control of same for use by those with diminished mental capacities, such as dementia. The system of the present invention associates with a device images corresponding to the control of same with which a person... Agent: J. Kevin Gray

20070222777 - Electrooptic device, wiring board, method for manufacturing electrooptic device, and electronic device: An electrooptic device includes: a first substrate including a first terminal group having a plurality of first terminals and a second terminal group having a plurality of second terminals; a second substrate including a third terminal group having a plurality of third terminals that are conductively connected to the plurality... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070222778 - Apparatus and method for adjusting a display using an integrated ambient light sensor: An apparatus includes a display panel capable of displaying content. The apparatus also includes a light sensor having an integrated circuit and a photo-sensitive device. The photo-sensitive device is capable of measuring an amount of ambient light. The integrated circuit is capable of performing one or more functions associated with... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070222779 - System, method, and apparatus for content delivery format control: The present invention is directed to a system, method and apparatus for implementing a content delivery system that includes at least one bi-directional distribution system between a generalized content source and a generalized content sink. The bi-directional distribution system enables the content source and the content sink to coordinate with... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20070222780 - Generating images using ray tracing and ray tree generated using low-discrepancy sequences: Computer graphics apparatus, methods and systems and program products operable to generate and display human-perceptible images, comprise a ray tracer operable to generate a ray tree, the ray tree comprising a primary ray shot along a selected direction and a plurality of other rays, the other rays being generated by... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070222781 - Image processing method, image processor, and image processing program: A polarized image acquisition section shoots a subject through a polarizing element operable to set principal axes of which directions are different from each other. An incident plane specifying section specifies an incident plane of each pixel, and an incident angle computation section computes an incident angle of each pixel.... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070222782 - Method of super image resolution: A method of improving resolution for an image is disclosed. The method for improving resolution of an image includes loading a first image and creating a first super grid image based on the first image. The method also includes loading a second image and creating a second super grid image... Agent: Michael T. Raggio Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20070222783 - Declarative definition enabling graphical designer reuse: The reuse of one or more shared components of graphical modeling tools amongst multiple graphical modeling tools. Graphical designers, or graphical modeling tools, allow for the construction of graphical representations of models in which objects, object properties, and object interrelationships may be visualized. Thus, a variety of graphical modeling tools... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070222784 - Method for graphically generating rounded-end lines: The field of the invention is that of graphical libraries providing graphical functions used for drawing symbologic images. The object of the invention is to replace the rectangular elementary lines with lines having rounded ends so as to eliminate the problems of artifacts which appear when a thick line is... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070222785 - Multi-thread graphics processing system: A graphics processing system comprises a command processing engine capable of processing pixel command threads and vertex command threads. The command processing engine is coupled to both a renderer and a scan converter. Upon completing processing of a command thread, which may comprise a pixel command thread or a vertex... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070222786 - Multi-thread graphics processing system: A graphics processing system comprises at least one memory device storing a plurality of pixel command threads and a plurality of vertex command threads. An arbiter coupled to the at least one memory device is provided that selects a pixel command thread from the plurality of pixel command threads and... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070222787 - Multi-thread graphics processing system: A graphics processing system comprises at least one memory device storing a plurality of pixel command threads and a plurality of vertex command threads. An arbiter coupled to the at least one memory device is provided that selects a command thread from either the plurality of pixel or vertex command... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070222788 - Method and system for sharing user interface rendering among heterogeneous architectures: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a method for sharing rendering of a user interface component for an information handling application comprises instructing a plurality of information handling application components, using an information handling application code, to send a particular component to be rendered by one of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070222789 - Image processing method, image processing apparatus, storage medium and program: An image processing parameter is determined by moving an image displayed on a map representing a color space to an arbitrary position on the map, and an image process corresponding to the arbitrary position is performed to the image at the position after the movement. Besides, the map representing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070222790 - System and method for display compositing: A method for display compositing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of respective color values and a plurality of respective blending values for a plurality of graphics pixels to be blended with a display picture, (B) examining in a sequence a plurality of... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20070222791 - Adjustment of color values for optimized image processing: A method for processing an image of a given file type is disclosed. The method involves converting the image into data formatted for a new pixel type, the new pixel type is closely correlated with and has all the components of pixels for the given file type. In addition, the... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070222792 - Image processing system, projector, storage medium, and image processing method: In order to provide an image processing system and the like that can reproduce colors more appropriately, a projector is provided with a calibration signal generation section that generates a calibration signal for a white image and calibration signals for three subtracted-primary-color images, each of which is obtained by subtracting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222794 - Coordinate transformations system and method thereof: A two-dimensional coordinate transformations software program and method thereof is described. In one aspect, the present invention solves problems of accurately and efficiently placing data from Records of Surveys, subdivision plats, deeds, highway right of way plats, and other map data onto the State Plane Coordinate Systems or other projection... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070222793 - Evolutionary direct manipulation of free form deformation representations for design optimization: An improved method for optimizing a design, based on direct manipulations of the object points of a design. In addition, the number and modifications of control points is kept as minimal as possible while the targeted movement of object points is realized and the automatic adaptation and generation of a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070222795 - Optimized frustum clipping via cached clip vertices: Apparatus, systems and methods for optimized frustum clipping via cached clip vertices are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed, the method including generating a clip vertex for a leading edge of a triangle of a triangle strip or fan, indicating that the leading edge is shared with an adjacent... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070222797 - Information provision apparatus, information provision system and information provision method: According to an aspect of the present invention, it is possible to visually show both of information which is originally visually recognizable and information which is originally not seen that have been provided from equipment on the same image, so that it is possible to grasp the content of information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070222796 - Methods and systems for controlling a computer using a video image and for combining the video image with a computer desktop: Methods and systems for controlling a computer using a video image of a computer user and for combining the video image with a computer desktop are disclosed. In one method, an image of a user is combined and transparently displayed with a computer desktop. The user may point to or... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070222798 - Information reproduction apparatus and information reproduction method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproduction method that includes executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data, and performing control to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding a part... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070222799 - Method and apparatus for image upscaling: A circuit for upscaling an image. The circuit comprises an overampling unit and an upscaling unit. The oversampling unit receives an image signal, oversamples the image signal to generate an oversampled data stream, wherein a sampling rate of the oversampling unit is equal or greater than an output resolution of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070222800 - Colour electroluminescent display device and its driving method: A colour electroluminescent, EL, display device comprising an array of pixels (11) each comprising sub-pixels (1) of two or more colours (R, G, B). For at least one of the colours (R, G, B), the pixel (11) comprises a first sub-pixel (RL, GL, BL) comprising a first EL material and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070222801 - Parallax-reducing, luminance-preserving diffuser: A diffuser incorporates diffuser elements (10) that each include a waveguide (12) coupled between a concentrator (14) and an inverse concentrator (16). The diffuser (44) may be disposed between a backlight (102) and a modulator (114) in a display (100). Luminance ratios of light rays emitted by a low resolution... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20070216602 - Led drive circuit: An LED drive circuit of the disclosed subject matter can include an LED unit and a serial circuit connected in parallel therewith. The serial circuit includes a resistor and a positive temperature coefficient resistor having a positive linear temperature coefficient. A voltage across the positive temperature coefficient resistor is fed... Agent: Cermak Kenealy & Vaidya, LLP

20070216603 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. In the method, a first pulse of a negative polarity is applied to a scan electrode prior to a reset period. A second pulse is applied to the scan electrode during the reset period. The second pulse gradually rises from... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216605 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. In the method, a scan pulse is applied to a scan electrode during an address period, and a data pulse corresponding to the scan pulse is applied to an address electrode during the address period. The scan pulse falls from... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216604 - Plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is provided. In the method, a positive first pulse and a negative second pulse are alternatively supplied to a first electrode in a sustain period. A second electrode sustains a ground level in a second electrode while the positive first pulse is... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216607 - Driving a plasma display panel (pdp): A method of driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes: arranging discharge cells in the PDP to each include sustain electrode lines and address electrode lines crossing each other; defining a display period in which each frame includes a plurality of subfields, each subfield having a corresponding gray scale weight... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070216608 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. In the method, a first pulse with a gradually rising voltage is applied to a scan electrode during a setup period of a reset period. A second pulse gradually falling from a first voltage to a second voltage is applied... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216606 - Plasma display panel driving: A plasma display panel and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The method of driving the plasma display panel includes applying a first pulse to the scan electrode during a reset period, applying a third pulse wherein the third pulse comprises a rising period and a maintaining period,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216609 - Apparatus and method of driving plasma display panel: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes i) first and second electrodes configured to generate a sustain discharge in a frame which includes a plurality of subfields and ii) a driver configured to provide a series of driving pulses to at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070216612 - Data driver and organic light emitting display using the same: A data driving circuit including n channels, where n is an integer, the data driving circuit including a shift register unit receiving data during a first input period and a second input period, the shift register unit shifting and outputting the received data, a first latch unit receiving the data... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070216613 - Display apparatus and drive control method: A display apparatus includes a display panel having a plurality of display pixels two-dimensionally arrayed display pixels having pixel drive circuits and light emitting devices near at intersections of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines laid out in a row direction and in a column... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070216611 - Display control system of a display panel and control method thereof: When electric current is provided to a scan line of a display panel, electric current flowing from an initial end to a final end of the scan line is gradually reduced because of resistance consumption, resulting in lower brightness on both left and right sides of the display panel. Therefore,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216614 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: In the light emitting device and driving method thereof according to the present invention, a stripe pattern according to the sub-pixels corresponding to the outmost data lines does not appear since the gray scale of the sub-pixels corresponding to the outmost data lines is set up lower than a predetermined... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070216615 - Light emitting element driving apparatus, method of driving a light emitting element and computer readable recording medium: A light emitting element driving apparatus for driving a light emitting element, includes driving means for a executing PWM driving operation to drive the light emitting element at a predetermined duty cycle and for executing a soft-start driving operation during each ON-period in the PWM driving operation. During the soft-start... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070216618 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel area with a plurality of pixels each including a switching element and gate lines and data lines connected to the pixels, a precharge circuit for applying a precharge voltage to the pixels to precharge the pixels, and at least two voltage transmission lines... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070216619 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display has a pixel array including first and second pixel electrodes. Each of the first pixel electrodes is divided into at least two first sub-pixel electrodes in two pixel areas sharing a corner or an edge. Similarly, each of the second pixel electrodes is divided into at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070216621 - Optically compensated bend (ocb) liquid crystal display: An exemplary optically compensated bend liquid crystal display (OCB-mode LCD) (20) has a liquid crystal panel (30), which has a pixel electrode (31) and a common electrode (32); a common voltage supply unit (24) providing a common voltage signal to the common electrode; a gamma circuit (26) providing a data... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070216622 - Apparatus using ambient light as backlight and method for correcting colors therein: Provided are an apparatus using ambient light as backlight and a method for correcting colors in the apparatus. The apparatus includes a color correction matrix generator and a color corrector. The color correction matrix generator generates a first color correction matrix for correcting a second color conversion matrix when ambient... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216624 - Driving device for liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display panel driving device is provided which is capable of reliably improving a response speed of a liquid crystal and of obtaining good display quality. When overshooting driving is performed in a current frame for displaying, an excessive response level in a next frame is predicted based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216623 - Liquid crystal driving device: A liquid crystal driving device is provided which enables an overshooting driving operation in transition among all gray levels. When a voltage for displaying is controlled so as to be a highest-level value out of the voltages for displaying corresponding to an input gray level range, an overshooting driving voltage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070216625 - Switch matrices: A switch matrix having a plurality of switch devices each of which has switch terminals is disclosed. An input side and an output side of the switch matrix are connected through the plurality of switch devices with coaxial cables. Two of the plurality of switch devices are disposed such that... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070216629 - Apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving an LCD device includes an image display unit having liquid crystal cells in respective regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines; an over-driving apparatus to detect a signal of a moving image based on a source data and to detect modulated data based... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070216600 - Portable interactive display system: The invention relates to portable interactive display systems, which may be used with for instance advertising using multimedia presentations. Past portable display systems have not allowed the audience to interact with the display in an effective manner. The device of the invention is configured to be mounted on the human... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20070216601 - Stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus: A stereoscopic two-dimensional image display apparatus includes: a display unit 1 having an image display surface 1A displaying a two-dimensional image; and a micro lens array 3 (image transfer panel) that displays a stereoscopic image on a stereoscopic image display surface 2 in space separated from the image display surface... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070216610 - Display device: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is described, the display device having a plurality of pixels each comprising at least two sub-pixels of different types, a first sub-pixel type comprising an OLED device including a first type of OLED material and a second sub-pixel type comprising an OLED... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070216617 - Active matrix liquid crystal image generator: A system for producing spatially modulated monochrome or color light having gray scale includes an active matrix liquid crystal spatial light modulator having light modulating means including (i) a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal material which is designed to switch between ON and OFF states and (ii) active matrix means... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070216616 - Display device comprising a light source: A display device (DD) comprises a light source (LS); a display panel (DP) with display pixels for modulating light originating from the light source (LS); and processing circuitry (P) coupled to the display panel (DP) and the light source (LS). The processing circuitry (P) has an input for receiving an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070216620 - Charge pump circuit, lcd driver ic, and liquid crystal display device: A charge pump circuit has a first controller (in the embodiments, switches SW1a to SW4b and charge transfer transistors P2b to P4b) that increases and decreases the number of step-up units actually operated according to the specified step-up factor; and a second controller (in the embodiments, an inverter INV4) varies... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070216626 - Digital/analog conversion device and display device having the same: A pulse number control circuit inputs, to a charge pump circuit, pulses of a number according to digital data constituted of weighted data bits. The charge pump circuit includes a pump capacitor connected between a first node to which the pulses are input and a second node, a switch element... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070216627 - Thin film transistor array panel and a liquid crystal display including the same: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second signal lines intersecting, and intersection from, the first signal lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in insulated areas of the first and second... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070216628 - Lcd device with gamma correction function by adjusting pulse width of pwm signal and related method thereof: An LCD device includes a memory for storing image signals, a PWM clock generator for generating an aperiodic PWM clock signal according to a clock signal and a gamma correction signal, a PWM counter for generating count values corresponding to the aperiodic PWM clock signal generated by the PWM clock... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216633 - Digital-to-analog converter and method of digital-to-analog conversion: In one embodiment, the DAC includes an analog gray voltage generation unit configured to generate a plurality of analog gray voltages, and a first decoder configured to select two different voltages of the plurality of the gray voltages as a first level voltage and a second level voltage, respectively, in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216634 - Gate driver and repairing method thereof: A gate driver and a repairing method are disclosed, wherein the gate driver is provided with one or more plurality of auxiliary stages that can substitute for a disabled stage, the gate driver including a shift register provided with a plurality of first output lines; at least three output repairing... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070216631 - Image display device: An image display device includes a liquid crystal display part, a gate line driving circuit, a source line driving circuit, and a timing controller. The source line driving circuit includes a horizontal shift register, a first latch circuit, a second latch circuit, a D/A converter circuit, and a demultiplexer capable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216632 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel; a mth gate line, a (m+1)th gate line, a (m+2)th gate line and a (m+3)th gate line in the liquid crystal panel, wherein m is a natural number; at least one data line crossing the mth gate line, the (m+1)th... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216630 - Method for transmitting data signals and control signals using a signal data bus and related apparatus: A display device includes a timing controller, a plurality of source drivers, and an interface. Data signals and control signals generated by the timing controller are embedded and transmitted to the source drivers via a data bus of the interface. Decoders of the source drivers can then generate corresponding data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216635 - Liquid crystal device: There is provided a liquid crystal comprising a liquid crystal panel with a memory effect (2) sandwiching liquid crystals of a memory effect, a driving circuit (10) outputs driving voltage for driving the liquid crystal panel with a memory effect (2) and a temperature sensor for detecting an ambient temperature,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070216636 - Apparatus and method for controlling display backlight: An apparatus and method for display backlight control are disclosed. The method includes: finding statistics characteristics of pixels in a frame; using statistics characteristics to refer to a table for outputting representative gamma value; using a user setting value and representative gamma value for calculating a backlight setting range; starting... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070216637 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a display unit having a plurality of pixels, and the display unit is divided into a plurality of areas. The electro-optical device also includes a plurality of optical sensors that are provided for the plurality of areas, each of the optical sensors being configured to detect... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216638 - Method for driving planar light source device, method for driving color liquid crystal display device assembly, method for driving light emitting diode, and pulse-width modulating method: A method for driving a planar light source device is provided. The planar light source device includes (a) a plurality of planar light source units to light a color LCD device from the back, each planar light source unit including a red LED, a green LED, and a blue LED;... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070216639 - Rollable display device with strain reduction: A rollable display device including an inner housing 102 having an inner slot 108, a rollable display 106 having a bend portion 118, which is disposed through the inner slot 108, and a strain reducer 100 operably connected to the rollable display 106 to reduce strain at the bend portion... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070216640 - Back-loading input device: A back-loading input device for electronic equipment includes at least a chassis, an operation interface on the backside of the chassis and a screen to display a keyboard table corresponding to the operation interface to be referred by users to do input operation. Thereby input operation can be done rapidly... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070216643 - Multipurpose navigation keys for an electronic device: A method and apparatus for multipurpose navigation in a portable electronic device are described. According to an exemplary embodiment, a portable electronic imaging device is described including a display screen for displaying objects including at least one of digital still images, video clips, menu items, and icons. The device also... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070216642 - System for 3d rendering applications using hands: The present invention relates to a system (200) for rendering a three-dimensional object, comprising an input device (202, 302), a processor (204, 306), and a picture reproduction device (206, 308). The input device (202, 302) comprises an image sensor (303) for capturing images of a first hand of a user,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070216641 - User interface stabilization method and system: Methods (800, 1000) and a corresponding system (100, 200) are configured for mitigating effects of motion induced variability caused by a user or the environment while the user interacts with a device. One method includes determining whether stabilization of input data is required and if so applying stabilization and outputting... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070216644 - Pointing input device, method, and system using image pattern: A pointing input device and method, a pointer control device and method, and an image pattern generation device and method which move a mouse pointer displayed in a display region according to the movement of a location pointed at by the pointing input device. The pointing input device includes an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216645 - Joystick device configured with a mouse unit: A joystick device includes a base, an upright joystick handle disposed pivotally on the base and operable to generate a first input signal, and a mouse unit disposed on a top end of the joystick handle and operable to generate a second input signal. An output unit is disposed on... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070216646 - Computer mouse with heating function: A mouse having a heating function is provided. The mouse includes a shell, a cable connected to a host computer for transmitting signal from the mouse to the host computer, and a heating device mounted in the shell. The heating device includes an electric heater, and a switch connected in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070216647 - Left/right hand operated sensing intelligent mouse: A mouse includes a left button, a right button, a touch sensing unit and a processing unit. The left button and the right button generate click signals in response to click operations. The touch sensing device generates touch positional signals when the left or right button is touched. The processing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216648 - Mouse: A mouse including a first microphone, a first speaker, an altitude sensor and a controller is provided. The altitude sensor is for outputting a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal when the mouse is horizontally and laterally orientated, respectively. The controller is electrically connected to the altitude sensor,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070216649 - Method and device for optical input, and a spectroscopic lens module of the device: The optical input device of the present invention comprises a casing, an optical sensor component, a light source and a spectroscopic lens module. The optical sensor component, the light source and the spectroscopic lens module are disposed inside the casing. The spectroscopic lens module comprises a prism, a spectroscope and... Agent: Eric Chan

20070216650 - Data recording device for data processing units: The invention relates to a data-registration device for data-processing units, in particular for the registration of multi-dimensional coordinates. Said devices serve for the recognition or input of data defining a movement and/or a position in a multi-dimensional space. According to the invention, the data-registration device consists of a stand, a... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20070216651 - Human-to-computer interfaces: The invention relates to an improved keyboard and keyboard driver for facilitating a reduction in the number of key presses required to create or delete a given data string (i.e. mnemonics, abbreviations, words, sentences, paragraphs etc.). The keyboard includes an array of keys having multi-character indicia and an interface system... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070216652 - Induction key input method: An induction key input method to improve input accuracy includes at least the following steps: corresponding a movement of an induction key to at least one character table; displaying a character table on a screen according to different conditions when a user's finger touches the surface of the induction key;... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070216653 - Pointing method and system for quickly moving an object to a designated area: A pointing method for a mobile communication device having a screen and a plurality of keys with respective key values for moving an object to a designated area of the screen is provided. The pointing method includes steps of (A) dividing the screen into a number of screen areas in... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20070216654 - Adaptive content delivery: A method and apparatus that provides adaptation in the content delivered to a palmtop computer. Connections between a palmtop computer and the Internet can vary from low speed dial-up to very high speed. Also, a palmtop computer's display, memory and processing power can vary considerably. Communication with the Internet is... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070216662 - Electronic apparatus and program storage medium: An electronic apparatus has a display screen; a touchpad capable of indicating a point on the display screen according to a movement of a finger placed on the touchpad; and a digitizer capable of indicating a point on the display screen according to a movement of the tip of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216661 - Information navigation methods: Information navigation methods. Contact is made with a touch-sensitive surface, and a navigation speed is determined according to contact movement speed. Information is continuously navigated according to the navigation speed.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070216656 - Composite cursor input method: A composite cursor input method that moves a cursor through at least two different ratios includes at least the steps of: 1. getting a cursor position on a screen; 2. getting a displacement signal; 3. jointly calculating a displacement value; and 4. moving the cursor on the screen. The method... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070216657 - Flat panel display screen operable for touch position determination system and methods: A system and method are disclosed that determines the location of an object touching a display screen. The system and method modifies already existing display technology, including using the underlying structure of many types of existing displays as the touch detecting structure. The systems and methods are applicable to virtually... Agent: Jon E. Kappes Law Offices Of Steven G. Lisa, Ltd.

20070216663 - Method of producing a touch panel: First, a display panel having a pixel region and a controlling circuit region is formed. Then a plurality of pixels arranged in array is formed in the pixel region. A plurality of orientation patterns that do not overlap the pixels is formed. Finally an input device is provided. The input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216660 - Methods and apparatus to implement electronic whiteboards: Methods and apparatus to provide electronic whiteboards are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a housing, a display in the housing for presenting at least one of stored information or received information, a memory in the housing to store information associated with the electronic whiteboard, and an authenticator in the housing... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070216658 - Mobile communication terminal: It is presented a text input method for an electronic apparatus with a touch sensitive display, the apparatus comprising a user interface, wherein a virtual keyboard is displayed on the display so as to facilitate input of an intended character for a user by touching keys of the virtual keyboard... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070216659 - Mobile communication terminal and method therefore: An input method for a mobile communication apparatus, and such a mobile communication apparatus, which comprises a processor and a touch sensitive display, is disclosed. The invention particularly comprises displaying a touch keypad comprising a set of keys, detecting an object over one key of said set of keys, and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070216655 - Portable electronic device with switchable interfaces: A portable electronic device with switchable interfaces is provided. The device comprises a body with a touch panel, and a plurality of panels which can be used alternatively. The body is disposed with a corresponding interface panel for displaying one of the plurality of user interfaces, thus an interface adaptable... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216664 - Stylus to assist data entry: A stylus to assist data entry has a disk having a curvature outward to a thumb or finger. A nipple for pressing keys or the like is affixed to the disk. One or more attachments are affixed to the disk to engage a strap. The strap removably connects the stylus... Agent: Glast, Phillips & Murray, P.c

20070216665 - Tuning dial user interface: A controller for use by a user is utilized to select media for playback by an entertainment system. A display displays a hierarchy of levels of options to the user. One level of the hierarchy of levels is displayed at a time. A physical dial is utilized to select an... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070216668 - Information terminal with image display apparatus: Disclosed herewith is an information terminal provided with a function for displaying image data. An electromagnetic wave output from a main device provided outside the information terminal is received by an antenna and converted to a binary signal by a wave detection circuit. Using the signal obtained by this wave... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070216667 - Content output system, information display apparatus, content output apparatus, and content information display method: A content output system includes a content output apparatus; and an information display apparatus, the content output apparatus and the information display apparatus being capable of communicating with each other. The content output apparatus includes a selection section configured to select, in response to a selection instruction, one piece of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216669 - Image display apparatus and image display method: Disclosed herein is an information display apparatus for displaying an image received from an image supplying source on an image display section after carrying out a conversion process on the image in an image conversion section employed in the information display apparatus on demand. The information display apparatus may include... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070216666 - Television display system for portable communication device: A display device receives and initiates the display of television broadcast signals on the display of a portable communication device. The display device automatically scans for the strongest UHF/VHF signal available through an antennae. The strongest channel(s) may be displayed in a LCD panel along with its associated signal strength,... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070216670 - Display device: The present invention ensures the efficient radiation of heat of a flat display panel without increasing a space outside a display screen of the flat display panel. A periphery of a reinforcing member adhered to a back surface of the flat display panel is folded in an L-shape and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070216673 - Negative step-up charge pump circuit, lcd driver ic, and liquid crystal display device: In a negative step-up charge pump circuit according to the present invention, of a plurality of stages of charge transfer transistors and an output transistor, the former-stage transistors are P channel type field effect transistors, and the later-stage transistors are N channel type field effect transistors. With such configuration, it... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070216672 - Power driving system and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary power driving system (21) typically used in a liquid crystal display (LCD), including a power supply circuit (22), the power supply circuit (22) includes a flyback circuit (224) configured for transforming a high alternating current (AC) voltage to a plurality of low DC voltages and providing a plurality... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070216671 - Power supply circuit, lcd driver ic, lcd driver circuit, and liquid crystal display device: A power supply circuit is provided with a temperature gradient variable circuit that produces a gradient voltage whose voltage level varies with a temperature gradient commensurate with the ambient temperature and a temperature gradient setting circuit that produces an output voltage (and hence a drive voltage of an LCD panel)... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070216674 - Method and system to pre-fetch data in a network: A system and method of pre-fetching data in a network includes displaying first data to a user, the first data being upstream of other data in a data flow. Before receiving a request from the user to view the other data, retrieving at least some of the other data and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070216675 - Digital video effects: Digital video effects are described. In one aspect, a foreground object in a video stream is identified. The video stream comprises multiple image frames. The foreground object is modified by rendering a 3-dimensional (3-D) visual feature over the foreground object for presentation to a user in a modified video stream.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070216676 - Point-based rendering apparatus, method and medium: A point-based rendering apparatus, method and medium. The point-based rendering apparatus includes a projector to project a point model and to generate a plurality of rendered points, a radius calculator to calculate a radius, corresponding to a predetermined resolution of each of the rendered points, and a splat generator to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216677 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including: a production section configured to determine polygon groups each composed of a predetermined number of polygons juxtaposed in a first direction successively as an object block, which is an object of a production process, in an order in which the polygon... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216679 - Display, displaying method, information recording medium, and program: To provide a display, etc. suitable for appropriately processing display in a case where it is expected, in three-dimensional graphics display, that a viewpoint will collide with an object, a storage unit (202) of a display (201) stores the coordinates of a viewpoint and an object in a virtual three-dimensional... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070216678 - Image processing system for displaying information relating to parameters of a 3-d tubular object: An image processing system, for processing a 3-D image of a 3-D substantially tubular structure (AAA), formed of a lumen (LUTM) limited by a wall (5,6), comprising processing means (102) for segmenting the 3-D external or internal surface of the structure; estimating a local parameter such as the local wall... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070216680 - Surface detail rendering using leap textures: The present surface detail rendering technique provides an efficient technique for applying a mesostructure to a macrostructure for an object that minimizes the amount of memory required for pre-computed data. A leap texture is pre-computed for a mesostructure by classifying each voxel in the mesostructure geometry and assigning a value... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070216681 - Method, apparatus, and system for processing geometric data of assembled parts: A geometric data processing apparatus which can determine whether a specific component of a three-dimensional model has changed, display two-dimensional images of the specific component and neighboring components thereof, and indicate whether the change in the specific component influences the images of the neighboring components.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070216683 - Method and apparatus for displaying a third variable in a scatter plot: A scatter plot showing the relationship of one variable as a function of a second variable on an x-y graph is enhanced by displaying information about a third variable by means of the shade or color of the data points comprising the scatter plot in correlation with the value of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070216682 - Method and apparatus for displaying three dimensions of data in a trend plot: A trend plot showing the trend of one variable or characteristic as a function of a second variable or characteristic on an trend graph is enhanced by displaying information about a third variable of a continuous nature by means of continuously varying the shade or color of the background on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070216686 - Pixel structure and liquid crystal display panel: A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a substrate, a scan line, a data line