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, an active device, a pixel electrode and a common line. The active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070216687 - Methods, systems, and programming for producing and displaying subpixel-optimized font bitmaps using non-linear color balancing: The invention relates to methods, systems, and programming for producing and drawing subpixel-optimized bitmap images of shapes, such as fonts, by using non-linear color balancing. Some embodiments associate a luminosity with each subpixel of such an image as a function of (a) the percent of the subpixel's area covered by... Agent: Edward W. Porter Porter & Associates

20070216684 - Multiple brush components: In a brush tool of an electronic graphics design application, a single composite brush may include one or more brush components which are applied to the same stroke trail defined by a single pen down and pen up event. An interaction operation of the brush component(s) may be indicated such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070216685 - Scene write-once vector and triangle rasterization: Described is a rasterizer that processes the graphics primitives of a frame's image to build an array of entries representing which scanlines are affected by which graphics primitives. When built, the array is then referenced to draw the data of more or more combined primitives, e.g., on a scanline-by-scanline basis.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070216688 - Display program, data structure and display device: A display program for displaying a character by acquiring an instruction for rendering each element composing the character and rendering the element based on the instruction, the program being executed on a computer includes a setting function of setting a method of handling an argument associated with the later acquired... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216689 - Rendering stroke pairs for graphical objects: The principles of the present invention relate to rendering stroke pairs. A graphical object includes at least a first stroke and a second similarly oriented second stroke collectively representing a stroke pair. A calculated distance between the first stroke and the second stroke is constrained (e.g., to a center line... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070216690 - Outline font compression method and outline font decompression method: A difference of coordinate values stored adjacent to each other is compressed by means of a statistical coding system when reading out outline font data storing coordinate values necessary for drawing a contour of a character in order of drawing the contour in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction and also... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216691 - Multicast control of motion capture sequences: Capturing motion comprising: generating a time reference; substantially synchronizing a plurality of motion capture cameras to the time reference; transmitting a multicast signal including information derived from the time reference to enable at least one device used in motion capture to operate synchronously with the plurality of motion capture cameras.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070216692 - Video-processing chip, audio-video system and related method capable of saving power: A video-processing chip capable of saving power is disclosed. The video-processing chip includes a microprocessor, a scalar, a first memory, and a second memory. The microprocessor is used for executing program codes. The scalar is used for adjusting a size of a received image. The first memory is coupled to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216693 - Method and apparatus for generating a pixel using a conditional if_neighbor command: A device and method for controlling generation of a final pixel utilizes a conditional statement, referred to as an IF_NEIGHBOR statement, which when compiled, causes a programmable pixel shader to perform mip map texture lookups even if a pixel of interest does not meet the condition of the conditional statement.... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070216694 - Multi-dimensional locating system and method: A system and a method for organizing information elements in a system having a display capability which (a) generates a first information element vector based on a predetermined first characterization attribute, (b) generates a second information element vector based on a second characterization attribute, and (c) display on the display... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20070216695 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including: first storage means for storing data in a unit of a word; second storage means for storing data in a unit of a word, address information for managing writing and reading out of the data of a unit of a word and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216696 - System and method for document rendering employing bit-band instructions: A system and method for rendering of electronic documents includes interpreting of page description language to generate a series of instruction arrays corresponding to each of a plurality of bands that conjoin to form a rendered document output. Each instruction array includes instructions descriptive of a band of pixels to... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20070216698 - Method and apparatus for status display: A system and method for information display based on a family of display screens for displaying information derived from numerous data sources. Each display screen includes function controls as well as indicator controls. The function controls link a first level display screen to subsidiary display screens. A capacity is provided... Agent: Jeffrey A. Pyle Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070216697 - Print buffer unit: A print buffer unit temporally storing print data to be printed on a printer includes a data-storing section storing the print data, a print-image creating section creating a print image from the print data, and a print-image displaying section displaying the print image.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070216699 - Method and device for decoding an image: In order to decode and display a previously compressed digital image portion, a first portion of this image being previously decoded and displayed in a first display window:—a request of a user defining a direction of movement in the image is read (115);—a new display window in the image is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070216700 - Multi-screen synthesizing display apparatus and method: A multi-screen synthesizing apparatus and method have been disclosed by the present invention. Display data of windows required to be displayed on the display terminal are mapped onto at least one logical screen by storing data in a video memory. Each of the windows is correlated with a set of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070216701 - Screen space optimization techniques for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to define a surface and an optimization module may be used to determine whether a hair is to be rendered upon the surface. In particular, the optimization module may be used to: determine a size metric for the hair;... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070216702 - Image display device: Disclosed herein is an image display device including a display panel having a flat display surface; a mounting frame having an opening for mounting the display panel in the condition that the display surface is exposed to the opening, the mounting frame having an outer transparent portion and an inner... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070216703 - Image display apparatus: A rotating unit forwards and rewinds a recording medium by rotating in a normal direction and in a reverse direction, respectively. A recording unit records an image on a surface of the recording medium. An erasing unit erases the image recorded on the surface of the recording medium. A shift-amount... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070216704 - Systems and methods for calibrating solid state lighting panels using combined light output measurements: A method of calibrating a lighting panel including a plurality of segments, a respective segment configured to emit a first color light and a second color light in response to pulse width modulation control signals having respective duty cycles, includes activating the plurality of segments to simultaneously emit the first... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070216705 - Image input unit and image input method: The invention is characterized by the fact that an area sensor for outputting an analog signal responsive to the light reception amount of light of CMYG is used and when CMYG image data is converted into RGB image data, RGB image data having a domain also in negative values is... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070216706 - Multidimensional data display apparatus: A method for displaying multidimensional data on a screen of a display device, includes assigning a first dimension element, having been selected by a user from among the multidimensional data, to an axis; giving weights to a plurality of member regions using a function of number of data belonging to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070216707 - Splat filtering method, medium, and system: A filtering system, medium, and method, including determining whether a size of a splat exceeds a predetermined size, smoothing a boundary of the splat if it is determined that the size of the splat exceeds the predetermined size, and sharpening the boundary of the splat if it is determined that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070216709 - Display control apparatus, display control method, computer program, and recording medium: A display control apparatus may include a calculating unit for calculating the degree of similarity of each of a plurality of second images to a selected first image, a display control unit for controlling displaying of the second images in the order of similarity, and a selecting unit for selecting,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070216708 - Handwritten-data-processing device and installation, which provide a certified data back-up with links: The invention relates to an improved handwritten-data-processing device and installation, which provide a certified data back-up with links. According to the invention, the data processing device comprises processing means (10) which are designed to address instructions to a display device (6), such as a PDA, said instructions requiring the display... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070216710 - Automatically generating appropriate near and far clipping planes for a 3d scene while guaranteeing minimum of z-buffer precision: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the automatic generation of near and far clipping planes for a 3D scene. The viewing frustum is intersected with the scene to determine the range of depth that a particular scene occupies in the viewing frustum. The ratio of the near clipping... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070216711 - Abstracting transform representations in a graphics api: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the process of working with 3D rotations. Rotations are treated as a separate abstract entity from general transforms. By having rotations separate from general transforms, the user can perform the various operations on any “rotation” regardless of its encoding. An abstract 3D... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070216712 - Image transformation based on underlying data: A method for dynamically transforming an image in a region. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image contained in a region on a display can be re-rendered based on the underlying data associated with the rendered image. In one embodiment, text strings in a selected region can... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070216713 - Controlled topology tweaking in solid models: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to motify a three-dimensional model. A 3D model is displayed in a computer implemented solid modeling system. A vector is selected that is comprised of one or more first faces, first edges, or first vertices of the three-dimensional model. One... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070210984 - Display device and driving method thereof: Provided are a display device and a driving method thereof, which is miniaturized thereby reducing manufacturing costs. The display device includes an interface which receives image information from at least one host device according to a specified or an unspecified transmission scheme to communicate with the host device, a memory... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070210989 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel for displaying an image using a plasma discharge; and a driver for driving the plasma display panel by enabling a length of an address period of at least one of subfields of a frame to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070210990 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof represent an image by a combination of a plurality of subfields, supply a first pulse to the first electrode in a negative polarity direction before a reset period for initializing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070210991 - Apparatus for driving plasma display panel: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that generates a power level to reduce manufacturing costs and pressure of circuitry elements. The plasma display panel is constructed with a plurality of electrodes. The apparatus includes a scan pulse application portion generating a scan pulse and outputting the scan pulse... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070210995 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device includes a pixel array in which a plurality of display pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional manner which is divided into a plurality of column groups composed of the display pixels of a predetermined number of columns, a signal drive circuit which produces a signal current based... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070210993 - Drive device and drive method of display panel: In a drive device of a display panel, a write operation (Ws, We) for writing display data into a frame memory and a read operation (a, a′ to h, h′) for reading the display data written in the frame memory are performed. An implementation start timing a of the read... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070210994 - Organic light emitting diode display and pixel driving method thereof: A light emitting diode (OLED) display and pixel driving method thereof are disclosed. Each storage capacitor is discharged via the driving TFT and OLED until conductive current of each OLED is almost zero so as to record a sum of a voltage drop across each OLED under a specific condition... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070210997 - Light-emitting device, electronic apparatus, and driving method: A light-emitting device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit light in response to driving signals; a control unit that adjusts the timings at which the driving signals are supplied to a plurality of blocks each composed of one or more light-emitting elements to generate control signals for indicating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070210999 - Driving method for light emitting device: A driving method for a light emitting device according to the present invention comprises inputting a scan signal to a pixel comprising two and more sub-pixels formed between data lines and scan lines through the scan lines; and inputting data signals to the two and more sub-pixels so that at... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070211003 - Liquid crystal display device capable of switching scanning frequencies: A liquid crystal display device includes a noise-receiving module for receiving external noise signals, a liquid crystal display module, and a frequency-switching means for switching scanning frequencies of the liquid crystal display module according to frequencies of the noise signals received by the noise-receiving module.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070211007 - Low color-shift liquid crystal display and driving method therefor: A liquid crystal display including a number of scan lines, a number of data lines, a pixel, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit is provided. The scan lines include an Nth scan line and an (N+1)th scan line, where N is a positive integer. The pixel includes... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070211008 - Data converting device, method thereof, and liquid crystal display device having the same: Provided are a data converting device for improving image quality, a method thereof, and an LCD device having the same. The data converting device includes a polarity signal generating part and a data varying part. The polarity signal generating part generates a polarity signal inverting polarity of a data signal... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070211009 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels arrayed substantially in a matrix, a vertical driving circuit that selects the rows of pixels for video signal writing and for non-video signal writing, a horizontal driving circuit that writes a video signal in the pixels of a row selected for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070210982 - Apparatus for driving a plurality of display units using common driving circuits: In an apparatus for driving a plurality of display units in a mobile electronic apparatus, each including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan line and a plurality of pixels each provided at one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, at least one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070210981 - Automatic address dispatch method for control of a plurality of light emitting units: An automatic address dispatch method for control of a plurality of light emitting units includes the following steps, Step 1: installing a server having a network float address protocol; Step 2: providing a light emitting device with the same network float address protocol as that of the server; Step 3:... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070210983 - Wearable computer in a process control environment: A wearable computer for use in a process control environment includes a central processing unit, a memory and a number of other or integral devices such as a display, a microphone, a video camera, a voice recognition unit and a remote communication device that communicates with a host computer. The... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070210985 - Three dimensional imaging system: The subject apparatus is a three dimensional imaging system adapted to capture an actual object image from one location to be transmitted to a remote location for a continuous duplication of such image at a remote location, generally comprising an electrical system of light sensors dispersed above and laterally relative... Agent: George R. Royer

20070210986 - Task light: A technology for illuminating almost an entire console with a simple structure, even when a display is located at the right or left of the center of the console is disclosed. According to this technology, when a display 1 is located at the center of a console 2, a detection... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070210987 - Image display device and image display method: The present invention relates to an image display device that includes a display screen where subpixels emitting colored light of each color are arranged cyclically so as to repeat every predetermined display pixel pitch at least in a predetermined rotation arrangement direction and displays images on the display screen. The... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070210988 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: A method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for making a stable operation at both a low temperature and a high temperature. In the apparatus, a scan driver supplies a rising ramp waveform in a set-up interval and a falling ramp waveform in a set-down... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070210992 - Electroluminescent wire display device: A self-contained electroluminescent (EL) wire display device is presented for displaying different types of user-configurable information. Generally, the device includes a display module which contains an array of pegs located within a viewable window. Individual segments of EL wire are routed by a user through the array of pegs into... Agent: Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070210996 - Organic electrolimunescent display apparatus: An organic EL display apparatus including in each display pixel an organic EL element. A drive transistor supplies a drive current that depends on brightness data and having the display pixels arranged in a matrix form. The display includes a correction gain storage unit for storing display pixel positions and... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070210998 - Lighting emitting display, pixel circuit and driving method thereof: A lighting emitting display, a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a capacitor and a LED. The capacitor receives a first supply voltage and is coupled to a gate of the driving transistor. A cathode of the LED receives a second supply... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070211000 - Image processing apparatus and image display method: There is provided with an apparatus for image processing for displaying an image on a dot matrix type display device having a plurality of display elements each emitting single light, including: an image input unit configured to input an input image having pixels each including one or more color components;... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070211002 - Electro-optic display with edge seal: An electro-optic display (100) comprises a backplane (102); an electro-optic layer (112) adjacent the backplane (102), the electro-optic layer (112) being smaller than the backplane (102) so as to leave a peripheral portion of the backplane extending beyond the edges of the electro-optic layer (112); and a protective layer (118)... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070211001 - System and method for laser speckle reduction: A system and method for reducing or eliminating speckle when using a coherent light source is provided. A light modulator reflects light emitted by the coherent light source towards a display screen. The light modulator is controlled by selectively applying a bias voltage having a DC component and an AC... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070211004 - Display panel including liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization: There is provided a liquid crystal display including a panel using a liquid crystal material having spontaneous polarization, such as ferroelectroic liquid crystal (FLC), having a faster response time suitable to display dynamic images. The FLC has the disadvantage caused by the incomplete memory effect at during driving for displaying... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070211005 - Gamma voltage generator: A gamma voltage generator comprises a multiplexer circuit and a control circuit is provided. The multiplexer circuit receive a plurality of voltages and outputting a part of the voltages in accordance to a plurality of polarity signals, respectively. The control circuit outputs the polarity signals at different time points such... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070211006 - Liquid crystal display: A gamma voltage generator for a liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of removing residual images by compensating a gamma voltage is presented. The gamma voltage generation apparatus adjusts the common voltage by the kickback voltage for the intermediate gray level, and tunes the gamma voltages other than the intermediate gray... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070211010 - Display system capable of automatic de-skewing and method of driving the same: A display system generates a plurality of sampling signals each having distinct phases based on external clock signals provided by a timing controller, latches data from external data signals provided by the timing controller based on the sampling signals, and sends the latched data to a decoder for determining a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070211012 - Display device: In the display device which is used in a miniaturized portable equipment, when a drive circuit is also connected on the same substrate as pixels, an input signal of low voltage has a level thereof shifted even when the threshold value is large or fluctuated. The display device includes pixel... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070211011 - Flat panel display device and data signal generating method thereof: A flat panel display device and a data signal generating method thereof, in which data signals are different in voltage levels, thereby enhancing efficiency of representing a gray level and reducing power consumption. The flat panel display device includes: a display region for receiving a data signal and a scan... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070211015 - Dynamic adjustment of counter electrode voltage of liquid crystal panel according to illumination light control: The image display apparatus of the invention has: a liquid crystal panel that is used to display an image represented by input image data; and a lighting device that emits illumination light controlled according to a light control level suitable for the input image data and irradiates the liquid crystal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070211014 - Methods and circuits for synchronous operation of display backlighting: A method of controlling backlighting of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) can include generating an on-time signal to activate a backlight for an LCD in synchronization with providing a frame of data to the LCD.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070211013 - Light source apparatus, display apparatus, terminal apparatus, and control method thereof: A light source apparatus has two or more light sources that have different light-emission spectra and that can be controlled independently, and also has light sensors for detecting the quantity of light emitted by the light sources. The light sensors are composed of one type of light sensor that is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211016 - Method for controlling operations of a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display: A method for controlling operations of a backlight unit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. The LCD includes a LCD panel and the backlight unit. The LCD panel has a plurality of display units. The backlight unit is placed behind the LCD panel and has a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070211019 - Electro-optical suspended particle cell comprising two kinds of anisometric particles with different optical and electromechanical properties: An electro-optical suspended particle cell comprises a liquid acting as a suspending medium. First particles (3) and second particles (4), which are anisometrically shaped, are dispersed in the liquid and have different optical properties. A driver is coupled between electrodes for generating an electrical field in the cell. The first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070211018 - Particles for display media, imformation display panel and information display, utilizing the particles for display media: Particles for display media used for an information display device, wherein the display media are sealed between two opposed substrates, at least one of which is transparent and wherein the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211017 - System and apparatus for an electrophoretic display: An embodiment generally relates to a system for electronic paper. The system includes an electret substrate embedded with a plurality of charged capsules each capsule includes a plurality of charged pigment particles, where the electret substrate is charged opposite of the plurality of charged pigment particles. The system also includes... Agent: Kurt A. Luther Honeywell International, Inc.

20070211020 - Method for driving information display device and information display device using the method: In an information display device according to the first to third inventions of the present invention, when a particle movement type information display device of passive matrix drive and dynamic drive is driven, the particle movement type information display device configured to be driven by using a drive circuit having... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070211022 - Method and device for three-dimensional sensing: An apparatus (100) and method is provided that identifies and tracks a relative location and movement of an object in a three-dimensional space. The sensing unit includes a processor (122) for communicating a coordinate information of the object within the three-dimensional space. The method includes emitting a pulse from a... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070211024 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes first and second substrates arranged facing each other, barrier ribs between the first and second substrates, the barrier ribs defining a displaying domain including discharge cells and a non-displaying domain, and first and second discharge electrodes, each discharge electrode including a discharge portion in the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070211021 - Rotatable inputting apparatus: A rotary input apparatus is disclosed. The rotary input apparatus comprising a rotatable wheel, a multi-pole ring-type magnet secured to the bottom of the wheel to rotate together with the wheel, a printed circuit board on which one or more detection elements are mounted that are capable of detecting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211023 - Virtual user interface method and system thereof: A virtual user interface (VUI) is provided. The VUI (120) can include a touchless sensing unit (110) for identifying and tracking at least one object in a touchless sensory field, a processor (130) communicatively coupled to the sensing unit for capturing a movement of the object within the touchless sensory... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070211027 - Image processing apparatus and storage medium storing image processing program: Predetermined image processing is performed in accordance with an input operation performed by an input device having image pickup means for taking an image of one or a plurality of imaging targets. Target image data, which is obtained from one target image of the one imaging target or a plurality... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070211026 - Coordinate calculating apparatus and coordinate calculating program: A coordinate calculating apparatus detects a coordinate point (detected coordinate point) of an area satisfying a predetermined condition in a captured image for each area. Next, a vector (assumed vector) indicating a relative positional relationship between two position coordinate points in the captured image is set. The coordinate calculating apparatus... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070211025 - Motion determining apparatus and storage medium having motion determining program stored thereon: Acceleration data representing accelerations in at least two axial directions which is output from an acceleration sensor included in an input device is obtained. Based on a shift of the acceleration data, a motion direction of the input device with respect to the direction of the acceleration of gravity acting... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070211032 - Device and method for transmitting shape information of image through tactile sensation using rheological fluid: The tactile transmission device includes a plurality of cells arranged at regular intervals, each having a storage space therein. A contact member is installed in each of the cells, an upper portion of the contact member protruding out of the cell. An elastic member is installed in each of the... Agent: John M. Janeway Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070211030 - Mouse device with keys: A mouse device includes a case, a click operating area mounted on the case, a key inputting area mounted on the case, and a key lock moveably attached to the case. The click operating area performs selection and/or scrolling within an active window or graphical user interface. The key inputting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070211031 - Touchless tablet method and system thereof: A system (100) and method for a touchless tablet that produces a touchless sensory field over a form (111). The touchless tablet includes a touchless sensing unit (110) for identifying a finger action above the form, and a controller (130) communicatively coupled to the sensing unit for associating the finger... Agent: Marc Boillot

20070211033 - Multi-button mouse: A mouse with multi button functionality is disclosed. The mouse includes a housing that surrounds the internal components of the mouse. The housing includes at least a first member and a second member, each of which forms a substantial portion of the housing. The first member moves relative to the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20070211028 - Slim mouse: A slim mouse includes a first housing, a second housing and a connecting member. The first housing includes a first front part and a first rear part, wherein the first rear part has a first slant. The second housing includes a second front part and a second rear part, wherein... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070211029 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse includes a lower housing, a carrier, a battery cover, an elastic element, a first conductive piece and a second conductive piece. The lower housing receives therein a circuit board. The carrier is disposed above the circuit board and has a receptacle for accommodating a battery therein. The... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070211034 - Handheld wireless communication device with function keys in exterior key columns: A handheld wireless communication device configured to send and receive text messages. The device is hand cradleable with a body configured to be held in one hand by an operator during text entry. A display is located on a front face of the body and upon which information is displayed... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070211035 - Human interface system: A human interface configured to optimize a biomechanical effect of a human user's opposing thumb and fingers by including, on one surface, one or more software configurable input elements manipulatable by a user's thumb(s) or a stylus, and, on another surface, one or more software configurable selection elements manipulatable by... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070211041 - Electronic device for moving the display position of a screen by a displacement sensor and method thereof: The present invention discloses an electronic device for moving the display position of a screen and a method thereof, which comprises a display device for outputting the screen; a displacement sensor for detecting a displacement of said electronic device to generate a displacement signal; and a processor connected separately to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070211040 - Item selection methods: Item selection methods. Users touch, drag, and release contact along a touch-sensitive mechanism to select software hotkeys or menu items on a display screen. As soon as contact is made with and remains on the surface of the sensor, a menu appears on the display screen. Sustained contact and dragging... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211039 - Multifunction activation methods and related devices: Multifunction activation methods. A touch-sensitive mechanism comprising a first zone and a second zone is provided. The first zone has a first input definition. Upon contact with the second zone, maintained contact with the touch-sensitive mechanism and movement from the second zone to the first zone, a function is activated.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070211038 - Multifunction touchpad for a computer system: A multifunction touchpad is placed on an operation panel of a notebook computer to control the notebook computer. The multifunction touchpad comprises a display panel, a control module, and a wireless transmission module. The multifunction touchpad can display an operation menu and a system message on the display panel by... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070211037 - Photoelectric sensing array apparatus: A photoelectric sensing array assembly is disclosed for use in combination with an optical touch screen that is externally adaptable to a video monitor for serving as an input device to an electronic device connected to the video monitor. More particularly, the photoelectric sensing array utilizes interconnectable segment components of... Agent: Scott T. Griggs

20070211036 - Roll-out touch screen support system (rots3): A method for providing interactive self-supporting screen with scalable flexibility. Such a support combined with a flexible computer screen enables reliable touch, writing, mobile drawing, accurate selection, and virtual typing without requiring desk or table space. A flexible screen when rolled up will provide a reduced footprint device for storage... Agent: Michael T. Perkins

20070211042 - Method and apparatus for selecting menu in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and a method for selecting a menu in a portable terminal. The portable terminal includes a first input means that can be rotated stepwise by a predetermined angle, a second input means that can be continuously rotated and pressed, and a controller for providing a menu... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070211043 - Current drive circuit: A current driver circuit includes a DA conversion part for generating a display current whose magnitude corresponds to a value of a displayed data, a timing control part for generating a write controlling signal, and a plurality of electric current latching parts, each of which generates a driving current. Each... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070211045 - Driving method of display device: The present invention provides a driving method for a display device which includes a display part having pixels of M columns×N rows and a memory, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting element. At times other than a usual light... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070211044 - Signal display device for displaying the signals on signal paths: The invention relates to a signal display device for displaying signals, in particular on signal paths, in particular of a wiring harness, which may be connected to the signal outputs of an electronic apparatus (4) generating/receiving signals, or looped into the signal paths (SW) between a signal-generating electronic apparatus (5)... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20070211046 - System and method for calibration of ambient light sensor brightness output: Information handling system display brightness adjustments in response to ambient light sensed by an ambient light sensor are calibrated by reference to brightness levels, such as manually selectable brightness levels stored on the display. A brightness calibration module running on the information handling system or a controller of an inverter... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070211047 - Persistent authenticating system and method to map real world object presence into virtual world object awareness: A persistent authenticating system and method to map real world object presence into virtual world object awareness are provided. The illustrative embodiments provide a mechanism by which the presence of a real world object is detected and, while the real world object's presence is continued to be detected, it is... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070211048 - Method and apparatus for rendering computer graphic images of translucent and opaque objects: A method and apparatus provided for rendering three-dimensional computer graphic images which include both translucent and opaque objects. A list of objects which may be visible in the image is determined and for each pixel in the image a determination is made as to whether or not an object for... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20070211052 - System, method and media processing 3-dimensional graphic data: A system, method and medium for processing objects including 3D graphic data, wherein the processing time for converting 3D graphic data into a 2D image can be minimized by aligning and converting the objects of the 3D graphic data into the 2D image based on the appearance information corresponding to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211051 - Computer graphics systems, methods and computer program products using sample points determined using low-discrepancy sequences: A computer graphics system generates, and displays or stores for later use, human-perceptible images, such as for animated motion pictures or other applications, by generating pixel values for respective pixels in an image, each pixel being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070211050 - Coordinate calculating apparatus and coordinate calculating program: A coordinate calculating apparatus detects a coordinate point (detected coordinate point) of an area satisfying a predetermined condition in a captured image for each area. When a plurality of position coordinate points have been detected, the coordinate calculating apparatus sets a reference (a previous vector or an assumed vector) concerning... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070211049 - Methods and systems for enhancing display characteristics with ambient illumination input: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for adjusting image code values for enhanced image display.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070211054 - Method, medium and apparatus rendering 3d graphic data using point interpolation: A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphic data is provided. The 3D graphic data is projected onto a 2D screen and points are interpolated and rendered, thereby quickly processing the 3D graphic data.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211053 - Flexible landscape display system for information display and control: The present invention is a system that grids original data, maps the data at the grid locations to height values at corresponding landscape image pixel locations and renders the landscape pixels into a three-dimensional (3D) landscape image. The landscape pixels can have arbitrary shapes and can be augmented with additional... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211055 - Adaptive degradation: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability adaptively render/adjust a display. A visual style comprising an encapsulated set of one or more (or all of the) display properties may be set. An adaptive degradation chain is then determined/established that comprises an ordered sequence of the display properties.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070211058 - Graphic drawing program, method, and apparatus: A graphic drawing apparatus for drawing a graphic representation in which a plurality of evaluation objects are drawn by lines connecting scores with respect to a plurality of evaluation items executes a drawing-position adjusting to adjust drawing positions for each of the evaluation items where the scores of the evaluation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211059 - Method and system for substance relationship visualization: A method, system, and software of relating metadata to chemical structures includes displaying chemical structures in a first display area and displaying metadata related to the chemical structures in a second display area. In response to a change in the display of one of the chemical structures in the first... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070211056 - Multi-dimensional data visualization: Techniques for generating a visual data model include providing first and second objects that represent first and second portions of data from a model; assigning attributes to the first and second objects, the attributes representing characteristics of the first and second portions of the data; providing a relationship object that... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070211060 - Multidimensional data display program: A method for displaying multidimensional data on a screen of a display device, includes assigning a first dimension element, having been selected by a user from among the multidimensional data, to an axis; giving weights to a plurality of member regions using a function of number of data belonging to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070211057 - Process monitoring using multivariate data: In an embodiment, a system and method are described that enable a display of a parallel coordinate plot. Such a parallel coordinate plot includes a plurality of parallel axes, and each of the parallel axes represents a variable. The display further includes one or more polygonal lines connecting values of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070211061 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: A image processing apparatus has a first data generation unit which generates triangular data by making straight line contours and curved contours triangles by analyzing the straight line contours and the curved contours with respect to vector format graphic data, a second data generation unit which generates stencil data from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070211063 - Display program, data structure and display device: A display program for displaying a character by acquiring an instruction for rendering each element composing the character and rendering the each element based on the instruction, the program being executed on a computer, includes a determination function of determining whether the acquired instruction is a complex glyph instruction indicating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070211062 - Methods and systems for rendering complex text using glyph identifiers in a presentation data stream: Methods and systems for rendering code points on a presentation device with layout processing performed outside the presentation device. In one aspect, a layout processor translates one or more code points into a sequence of one or more glyph indices and corresponding positioning information. The glyph indices and corresponding positioning... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070211064 - Processing machine learning techniques using a graphics processing unit: A system and method for processing machine learning techniques (such as neural networks) and other non-graphics applications using a graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate and optimize the processing. The system and method transfers an architecture that can be used for a wide variety of machine learning techniques from the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070211065 - Integration of graphical application content into the graphical scene of another application: This application describes a system that captures 3D geometry commands from a first 3D graphics process and stores them in a shared memory. A second 3D environment process creates a 3D display environment using a display and display hardware. A third process obtains the 3D commands and supplies them to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211066 - Screen display control apparatus and program product: A screen display control apparatus receives screen update information which represents content of display update. Screen image is updated in an update area in accordance with the received screen update information. When the update area is not in a display range of the display screen and a size of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070211067 - System and method for generating an animatable character: A system and method are disclosed for generating an animatable object. A skeleton of the desired character is constructed by the user utilizing various predetermined components. These predetermined components include a various selection of rods and joints. The rods are static components which remain rigid during motion, while the various... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070211068 - Reconfigurable floating point filter: Apparatus, systems and methods for implementing a reconfigurable floating point data filter are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed, the method including configuring a texture filter in response to state data, where the state data specifying at least a data width of input texture data to be filtered, where... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070211069 - Shading using texture space lighting and non-linearly optimized mip-maps: A technique for rendering non-linear BRDFs that are stable in both the temporal and spatial domains, without serious interruption to the content creation pipeline used in most games, is provided. Non-linear content is linearized by rendering in texture space at a fixed resolution. A MIP-map chain is calculated from this... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070211070 - Texture unit for multi processor environment: Methods and apparatus for performing texture mapping of pixel data are disclosed. A block of texture fetches is received with a co-processor element having a local memory. Each texture fetch includes pixel coordinates for a pixel in an image. The co-processor element determines one or more corresponding blocks of a... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20070211071 - Method and apparatus for interacting with a visually displayed document on a screen reader: User interaction of a visually displayed document is provided via a graphical user interface (GUI). The document includes, and is parsed into, a plurality of text-based grammatical units. An input device modality is selected from a plurality of input device modalities which determines the type of input device in which... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070211072 - Image display and storage apparatus, method and medium: An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are displayed.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211073 - Compressor, color converter, method thereof, program, look-up table, and storage medium: Color conversion corresponding to input color signals of M kinds (where M is an integer of 2 or greater) is expressed as signal groups, and a principal component analysis is executed to determine a basis signal so that a difference between (1) a value of addition of an average value... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070211075 - Apparatus and method for converting rgb data in wireless terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus for converting Y, U and V data to R, G and B data, the apparatus including a YUV buffer for receiving and outputting the Y, U and V data; an R computation unit for receiving the Y and V data and computing an R data value... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070211074 - System and method for color management: The invention provides a color processing system comprising an image capture device for capturing a scene and providing first color image data representative of the scene. A color space transformer is coupled to the image capture device for transforming the first color image data to second color image data. A... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070211076 - Method and apparatus for detecting water leaks: A low cost, robust, wireless sensor system that provides an extended period of operability without maintenance is described. The system includes one or more intelligent sensor units and a base unit that can communicate with a large number of sensors. When one or more of the sensors detects an anomalous... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070211077 - Fast gridding of irregular data: A method of fast gridding of irregular data, has been developed for spatial interpolation of large irregular spatial point data sets; for example building a 3D geographic terrain grid surface from billions of irregularly spaced xyz coordinates on the earth's surface. The method developed typically translates into many orders of... Agent: Ambercore Software Inc.

20070211078 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing apparatus capable of efficient rendering is provided. In an image processing apparatus which renders, in a screen coordinate system, unit figures each constituting the surface of a three-dimensional object to be rendered, a rasterizing unit divides a rendering area corresponding to a screen into multiple unit areas,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070211079 - Graphic display configuration framework for unified process control system interface: A common process control graphical user interface plant operators, plant maintenance personnel, and management is disclosed which provides a real-time interface to both the process and the plant. The common interface is modular in design and is capable of supporting various specializations for each user type. Operator consoles are dedicated... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070211080 - Web-based image extraction: Images may be extracted from a site in a network for further processing, such as storing or printing. The extraction process may change depending on the site type or classification. Sites may be categorized as belonging to one or more predetermined types. Sites may be categorized as belonging to a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070211081 - Augmented reality system for a dental laboratory: An augmented reality system for integrating video imagery of an actual dental restoration into a computer-implemented display of a model (that represents a preparation, mesial/distal neighbors, and opposing occlusion) that has been generated from a 3D scan of a patient. The 3D scan data may be generated at a dental... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070211082 - Method and system for volatile construction of an image to be displayed on a display system from a plurality of objects: A method for building an image displayable on a screen (1) from a plurality of objects (2) stored in a memory (3). The method includes building for each video frame of the screen (1) a line-at-a-time image directly from the objects (2) and involves the following stages: for each screen... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070211083 - Method and apparatus for adjusting luminosity of monitor based on image: A method for deciding the maximum luminosity of a monitor is provided. The monitor is used for displaying a target image including a plurality of target pixels. Each of the target pixels has a target gray level. The target image and each adjacent image respectively has a maximum gray level.... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070211085 - Method and apparatus for displaying monochrome images on a color monitor: Disclosed is a method for increasing the number of grey levels used to create a monochrome image on a color display which comprises pixels with individual red, green, and blue color components. If the luminance value of each color component is controlled by an n-bit value, the number of true... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070211084 - Light emitting device and driving method of the same: The invention provides a light emitting device which can suppress the reduction of luminance in accordance with the light emission time and light emission at a high luminance. Moreover, the invention relates to a driving method which can suppress the reduction of luminance in accordance with the light emission time... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070205965 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) by stably performing sustain and reset discharges. The PDP includes first and second electrode lines, and third electrode lines extending to cross the first and second electrode lines, wherein discharge cells are defined where the first, second and third electrode lines... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070205967 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method according to the present invention erase more wall charges formed on electrodes by controlling a voltage applied to a sustain electrode and a scan electrode during a falling period of a reset period of the next subfield as the number of sustain... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070205968 - Organic light-emitting diode display, organic light-emitting diode panel and driving device thereof: An OLED display, an OLED panel and a driving device are disclosed. Wherein, the OLED display includes the OLED and the driving device. The OLED panel has a plurality of display pixels, every display pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels, and each of the sub-pixels respectively corresponds to a different... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070205971 - Display drive integrated circuit and method for generating system clock signal: A display drive integrated circuit is for driving a display panel. The display drive integrated circuit includes a division rate output unit which outputs as a division rate corresponding to a quotient obtained by dividing by M a total number of clock cycles of a dot clock signal corresponding to... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070205974 - Display control semiconductor integrated circuit: The present invention provides a display control semiconductor integrated circuit having therein a RAM, capable of repairing a defective bit included in the RAM and improving the yield without significantly increasing the occupation area. A liquid crystal controller/driver in which a RAM for storing display data is provided in a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070205962 - Wirelessly controlled display system and display media server: A display system includes a number of display blocks and a control device. At least one of the display blocks includes a shell structured to define an open region, a controller with a wireless transceiver structured to receive control information, and an output device structured to be turned on and... Agent: Martin J. Moran, Esq. Eaton Electrical, Inc.

20070205963 - Heads-up billboard: A method of providing visual information to a human viewer includes the steps of defining a range of distances from a surface and a range of viewing angles with respect to the surface, determining the location and viewing angle of a human viewer with respect to the surface, and providing... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20070205964 - Plasma display panel display device: A plasma display panel (PDP) display device is provided, which can reduce the power consumption in the PDP display device without lowering of the display luminance of the PDP and has excellent reliability in suppressing rise of temperature. The PDP display device has a PDP (1) having a plurality of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070205966 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, a scan driver for applying a first pulse, which rises to a first voltage at a predetermined slope, to the scan electrode... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070205969 - Direct-view mems display devices and methods for generating images thereon: A direct-view display includes an array of MEMS light modulators and a control matrix formed on a transparent substrate, where each light modulator can be driven into at least two states, and a controller for controlling the states of each light modulator in the array. The control matrix transmits data... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070205970 - Power-saving device for driving circuits of liquid crystsal display panels: A power-saving device for a driving circuit of a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The device comprises a first switch, a first capacitor, a second switch, a second capacitor, a third switch, an output buffer and a common electrode or a data line. The first capacitor and the second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070205972 - Color display device: An active matrix display apparatus includes an active matrix display panel comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a row direction and a column direction, each pixel being constituted by a plurality of subpixels; and a drive circuit for applying a voltage to each of the subpixels... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070205973 - Method for driving lcd panels: A method for driving TFT LCD panels is provided. When a first output enable signal assumes a first state, turn on the N-th gate line of a TFT LCD panel so that liquid crystal capacitors turned on by the N-th gate line load an image signal. When a second output... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070205975 - Test system for testing a liquid crystal display module and method thereof: A test system includes a parameter control platform including a control unit for generating a signal corresponding to control parameters of an LCD module, and a signal output interface coupled to the control unit for outputting the signal generated by the control unit. The test system further includes a system... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070205976 - Display apparatus: Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing the scale of a drive circuit and decreasing the frame. A display area in which pixels are provided in matrix, a scanning line drive circuit for driving scanning lines, and a signal line drive circuit for driving signal lines are provided on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070205977 - Backlight assembly driving apparatus for liquid crystal display: A backlight assembly driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display device includes a light emitting diode string of serially connected light emitting diodes, and switching devices connected in parallel to and in a one-to-one correspondence with the light emitting diodes to conduct or turn off current applied to a correspondingly... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070205979 - Electro-optical modulating display devices comprising and array of microcells and a method for making such devices: The present invention relates generally to the field of electro-optical modulating displays, for example, electrophoretic displays and, specifically, to a method of manufacturing such displays. In particular, the invention relates to electro-optical modulating display structures and methods of sealing fluid-based imaging material in microcells.... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070205978 - Electroporetic display with rapid drawing mode waveform: An electrophoretic display (10) and a system (12) implement a method of activating a portion of the electrophoretic display (10). The method involves a reception of drawing information (14), a determination of at least one drawing-mode waveform (68) based on the drawing information (14), and an addressing of the electrophoretic... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070205981 - Media device having alternatively accessible sides: This application discloses a media device including a reversible video screen. A case is connected to a reversible unit via an arm and a guide. The arm and guide direct the movement of the video screen such that it rotates 180 degrees within the case. In a first orientation, the... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070205980 - Mobile projectable gui: A hand-held device creates a projection of visual information onto a surface under control of a stabilizing the projection for a motion of the device. The device has a component for creating in the stabilized projection a visual indicium that is moveable with respect to the projection under user control.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070205982 - Information processing device with an acceleration sensor: The operating state of a computer is switched only when moving of the computer is detected. An information processing device has a detection unit, which detects, as a lifting action, a fact that an accelerated velocity has been kept applied in one direction for a given period of time, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070205983 - Character input using multidirectional input device: Character information is input into a computing device using one or more multidirectional keys, such as an analog stick, a multidirectional button, or a d-pad. The complete collection of desired characters can be divided into character sets. Each of these sets can then be associated with one input value of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070205984 - Intelligent mouse: The present invention provides an intelligent mouse includes a physical environment conditions detector for sampling physical environment conditions in the intelligent mouse, a physical condition adjustor for adjusting the physical environment conditions; and a microprocessor unit for processing operations of the intelligent mouse. The microprocessor unit comprises a memory for... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070205985 - Method of using optical mouse scanning assembly for facilitating motion capture: Motion capture is a field where sensors are disposed about an animate object and the motions of the object are recorded such that they can be represented as 3D graphics on a computer. Unfortunately, motion capture devices, such as motion capture suits that are currently available on the marker are... Agent: Michael Trzecieski

20070205986 - Metal keypad assembly for mobile phone and manufacturing method of keypad: There is provided a keypad assembly operating a dome switch of a mobile phone. The keypad assembly includes a keypad disposed on the dome switch and having a plurality of bosses protruded from a position corresponding to the movable contacts, and a plurality of metal keys each disposed on the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070205989 - Camera with a touch sensitive keypad: A mobile handset having a camera is provided. The mobile handset includes a touch-sensitive keypad having a plurality of keys, a first component operable in response to one of the keys being touched to provide a first response related to using the camera, and a second component operable in response... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205987 - Handheld electronic device and method for disambiguation of text input providing suppression of low probability artificial variants: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070205993 - Mobile device having a keypad with directional controls: A mobile handset is provided. The mobile handset includes a keypad including a plurality of keys each having at least one of an alphanumeric aspect and a functional aspect, at least some of the plurality of keys including control indicia thereon and used for navigational control of a user interface... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205991 - System and method for number dialing with touch sensitive keypad: A mobile handset is provided. The mobile handset includes a plurality of touch-sensitive keys; a display; a component operable in response to a user contacting one of the plurality of keys to provide a preview to the display, the preview including a number associated with the key contacted by the... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205990 - System and method for text entry with touch sensitive keypad: A mobile handset having a keypad with keys having three states is provided. The handset includes a plurality of keys provided in a first state, the keys having alphanumeric character disposed thereon; a touch-sensitive component operable to detect a second state when one of the keys has been touched; a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205988 - Touch sensitive keypad and user interface: A mobile handset with a touch-sensitive keypad is provided. The touch-sensitive keypad includes a plurality of keys and is operable to detect when one of the plurality of keys has been touched and further operable to detect when one of the plurality of keys has been pressed.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205992 - Touch sensitive scrolling system and method: A mobile handset for touch-sensitive scrolling is provided. The mobile handset includes a plurality of touch-sensitive keys, a user interface having a scrollable portion, and a navigational component operable in response to a user touching adjacent keys in succession to scroll on the scrollable portion of the user interface.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070205995 - System for providing tactile sensation to a robotic grasping mechanism using capacitance touchpad technology: A capacitance sensitive touchpad, wherein X and Y electrode grids are separated by a resilient but deformable material, such as a gel or other rubber-like material, wherein an object coming into contact with the touchpad causes the resilient material between the electrode grids to be compressed, and wherein the touchpad... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070205994 - Touch system and method for interacting with the same: A method of manipulating an object displayed on a touch screen of an interactive input system comprises contacting the displayed object to be manipulated with a pointer and moving the pointer on the touch surface thereby to manipulate the object. Pointer up events that occur during the pointer move resulting... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070205996 - Pen-type computer: A pen-type computer includes a pen barrel, a sensor, a primary processor, and a storage device. The pen barrel has a writing tip. The sensor is disposed in the pen barrel, sensing movement of the writing tip and generating a tracking signal corresponding to the movement of the writing tip.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070205998 - Asymmetric display panel and image inversion method thereof: An asymmetric display panel has driver integrated circuits. When the asymmetric display panel is in an image inversion state, a boosting clock signal is transmitted to drive the data lines or the scan lines that are disconnected from the asymmetric display panel. A pulse number of the boosting clock signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070205997 - Controlling a visual display by bending: A method and apparatus are provided for controlling a visual display 16 on a display panel 12 by applying a bending force 18 to the display panel 12. The bending force 18 is detected, and the visual display 16 is modified in accordance with a predetermined relationship between the bending... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070205999 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus for resolving the problem that read out of high-sensitivity optical signals was impossible when there is a strong backlight effect on displays of the related art and particularly liquid crystal displays. The above problem is resolved by an image display apparatus containing an optical signal summing... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070206002 - Display data extraction methods, devices and computer systems utilizing the same: A device of capturing display data is implemented in an electronic device. A first request for capture of display data associated with the display of the electronic device is received. The display is a composite image generated by a program from one or more raw data objects in the electronic... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070206000 - Electronic device and a method in an electronic device for processing image data: The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes data-processing means and a memory, for performing processing on image data on the basis of blocks. The image data is arranged to be coded into unit blocks (B, MB) arranged in a preset manner, from which a processing area (PA) according... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070206001 - Interactive electronic directory service, public information and general content delivery system and method: The present invention might is a large-screen electronic building directory system that also integrates advertising and non-commercial content and is positioned and deployed in various public spaces, such as commercial building lobbies, indoor shopping malls, airports or other commercial and transportation hubs. The system combines facility directory, facility services information,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070206004 - Image-signal adapter which receives electric power from a computer: An image-signal adapter includes an image signal input interface, a plurality of image signal output interfaces and a circuit board. When the image signal input interface is coupled to a computer, the circuit board of the image-signal adapter receives electric power from the computer.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070206003 - Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for generating an image: In a 2D and 3D character determining process, the contents of display status information indicating a display status of a non-player character, such as a display position and display brightness, is confirmed. It is then determined whether or not the display status of the non-player character satisfies a non-display condition.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070206006 - 3d point-based modeling system, medium, and method: A 3-dimensional (3D) point-based modeling system, medium, and method, with system generating scene information by using point information in relation to a 3D polygon object and position, rotation, and size information of a 3D polygon object in a scene such that the modeling speed of a 3D image can be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070206005 - Method for generating 3d views or landscapes: A method for generating 3D landscapes which comprises the steps of selecting a plurality of 3D elements from a library of vegetative elements and distributing the 3D elements. The method either distributes the 3D elements on a terrain so that parameters of the 3D elements depend on an environment of... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070206007 - Bi-level iso-surface compression: Methods, structures and systems for encoding and decoding isosurface data. An encoder process takes volume data and an isolevel as input and produces compressed isosurface data as output. The compressed isosurface data produced by an encoder process is composed of an occupancy image record, an optional intersection points record, and... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070206008 - Apparatus and method for real-time volume processing and universal three-dimensional rendering: An apparatus and method for real-time volume processing and universal three-dimensional rendering. The apparatus includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) memory units; at least one pixel bus for providing global horizontal communication; a plurality of rendering pipelines; at least one geometry bus; and a control unit. The apparatus includes a... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070206009 - Facilitating image-editing operations across multiple perspective planes: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing an image-editing operation across multiple perspective planes. During operation, the system receives a selection for a source area for the image-editing operation, wherein the source area spans one or more perspective planes. The system also receives a selection... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070206010 - Computer readable recording medium recorded with graphics editing program, and graphics editing apparatus: When a new element is interactively arranged in cooperative with an input device and a display device, an element arranged just before is specified based on the time relation of the new element to already arranged elements, the association is made to provide a relation between the specified element and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070206011 - Liquid crystal display and method therefor: A liquid crystal display device and method therefore include a substrate; first, second and third pixel electrodes formed on the substrate and adjacent to each other in a row direction; first, second and third gate lines connected to the first, second and third pixel electrodes, respectively; and first, second and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070206012 - Efficient rendering of page descriptions: A method (600) is disclosed of generating a representation of a page (1500) to be rendered to a raster image (1600) of pixels. The page (1500) comprises one or more graphical objects (1520 and 1530), arranged in a rendering order. Each the object (1520 and 1530) comprises one or more... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206013 - Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment: Sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment allows the luminance of the sub-pixel arrangement to match the non-linear gamma response of the human eye's luminance channel. For each of a subset of input sampled data indicating a region of an input image, a gamma-adjusted data value is generated for each input image... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070206014 - Gamma curve generation method and device for the same: The gamma curve generation method of the invention selects each set of three consecutive control points among multiple consecutive control points, forms a cubic curve passing through the selected three consecutive control points, and combines all formed cubic curves to generate a gamma curve. The selected three consecutive control points... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206015 - Methods and apparatus for convenient change of display characters on a handheld device: A method and apparatus for convenient changing of a character display on a handheld device is disclosed. An example handheld device includes a screen to display an alphanumeric character, the alphanumeric character being displayable in at least two different font sizes. A user input device enables selection between the at... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070206016 - Angular animation of a physical model: Physical modeling of a humanoid form may be accomplished using a three-part model, where angles on the model drive the display of animation frames for the object. An animation sequence may associate one or more animation frames with angles in an angular range of a physical model. The physical model... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070206017 - Mapping attitudes to movements based on cultural norms: A character programming and control system and method for programming and controlling a virtual character during a social simulation, a character programming method for programming the actions of a virtual character, and a system and method for developing social skills of a user.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070206018 - Dynamically controlled power reduction method and circuit for a graphics processor: A graphics processor may be operated in a reduced power mode to render frames at rate equal to or less than the rate at which frames are presented on an interconnected display. Graphics processor clock speeds are controlled to reduce the time during which the graphics processor is idle between... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20070206019 - Computer having removable input/output device: A computer is disclosed that includes a switching part configured to detect connection of an external computer to the computer upon the connection, and to determine, in response to the detection of the connection of the external computer, that the output signal of the external computer be received and output... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070206020 - Watermarking of motion picture prints: An apparatus for marking a film copy includes a mapper and a coder. The maper maps a print identifier to be associated with the film copy into a serial number comprising a sequence of J numbers. The coder creates at least two-error correcting numbers, e.g. Y and Z, as a... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070206022 - Method and apparatus for associating text with animated graphics: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and/or systems for creating a file to associate text with animated graphics are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070206021 - Adapting and rendering graphic effects: Methods, systems, and computer program products adapt and render a graphic effect associated with text rendered via an output device. A method involves receiving a character associated with a graphic effect and determining whether the graphic effect has not been fully rendered with a previously received character via the output... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070206023 - Random map generation in a strategy video game: The generation of a random map for use in a video game may involve a random value generation function, with weighted texture and/or object values to control whether certain textures and/or objects are placed at certain locations on the map. Some locations may have no objects, or may have rivers... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070206024 - System and method for smooth pointing of objects during a presentation: A system and method are provided that allows a speaker to provide real-time annotations to one or more displayed images during a presentation. The speaker inputs the annotations my manually identify a portion of the displayed image using an input mechanism such as a touch screen that is in communication... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20070206025 - Image processor and method, computer program, and recording medium: A plurality of relative orientation detection filters having orientation coefficients that represent a relative orientation of a connected sequence of pixel drawing regions with their pixel values distributed in a predetermined pattern in a buffer memory having the same structure as an image memory, and a plurality of smoothing filters... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070206026 - Computer readable recording medium recorded with graphics editing program, and graphics editing apparatus: When an element is interactively deleted in cooperation with an input device and a display device, if the element is in association with more than one element to provide relations thereamong, other elements, obtained by deleting the element to be deleted from more than one element specified by the relations,... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070206027 - Method and related apparatus for image processing: Method and related apparatus for image processing. When projecting a polygonal object in three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional screen according to a viewing range, faces of the object which intersect boundaries of the viewing range are clipped to form clipped planes. Vertices of all of the clipped planes of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070206028 - Manipulating text and graphic appearance: A method, device and computer system for creating a smooth, continuous height (scalar or vector) field are described. The described techniques permit arbitrary closed regions to be smoothly shaded without producing unnatural smoothness at the region's edges or boundaries.... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070206029 - Method for decoding an encoded point matrix image and an electronic device implementing the same: A method is provided for decoding an encoded point matrix image including a first set of real grid points aligned along a first axis, a second set of real grid points aligned along a second axis intersecting the first axis, and a plurality of encoded data points distributed throughout the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070206030 - Graphical user interface for three-dimensional manipulation of a part: A software method allows a user to manipulate a three-dimensional object, particularly a custom designed part to be injection molded, on a computer screen with a mouse. The object or part is manipulatable about a center of rotation. The center of rotation is established on a face of the part,... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20070206031 - Control circuit for electronic devices, electronic circuit, electro-optical apparatus, driving method for electro-optical apparatus, electronic system, and control method for electronic devices: A data-line drive circuit controls a current value of a control signal in every cycle T1 based on upper 8-bit digital data DAB of digital data In, and performs pulse-width control in a cycle T2 based on lower 2-bit digital data SUB of the digital data In for the portion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206032 - Control circuit for electronic devices, electronic circuit, electro-optical apparatus, driving method for electro-optical apparatus, electronic system, and control method for electronic devices: A data-line drive circuit controls a current value of a control signal in every cycle T1 based on upper 8-bit digital data DAB of digital data In, and performs pulse-width control in a cycle T2 based on lower 2-bit digital data SUB of the digital data In for the portion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC