Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 10/07

20070247393 - Information processing method and device for presenting haptics received from a virtual object: At the time of using a haptic device to present to a user haptics which a first virtual object superimposed on the haptic device receives from a second virtual object superimposed on a real object, the user is enabled to touch within the second virtual object, regardless of the real... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070247396 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and a driver. The plasma display panel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The driver makes a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode gradually rise from a magnitude of a first voltage to a sum... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247400 - Control method of display apparatus: A control method of a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a light source module for generating at least one first light source and a second light source, and a display plane for displaying at least one image frame, which has a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame. The control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247404 - Lcd unit, lcd apparatus, and method of setting drive voltage of lcd unit: The present invention is to provide an LCD unit, an LCD apparatus, and a method of setting a drive voltage of the LCD unit with a simple operation. The LCD unit includes a label pasted on a place of the LCD unit, wherein the label includes an information code, which... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070247405 - Liquid crystal display having image edge enhancement circuit and image edge enhancement method for same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a data circuit (230), a timing control and video output unit (210). The timing control and video output unit includes an image edge enhancement circuit (211) configured for sharpening at least one edge of an image shown by the liquid crystal display, and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070247407 - Gamma adjusting apparatus and method of the same: The invention discloses a gamma adjusting apparatus for adjusting the gray level of each pixel of an image signal. The gamma adjusting apparatus includes a measuring unit, a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a third processing unit. The measuring unit measures the lightness of N reference gray... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070247410 - Liquid crystal device, control circuit therefor, and electronic apparatus: A liquid-crystal-device control circuit includes pixels corresponding to intersections between scanning lines in rows and data lines in columns, a counter that counts the number of horizontal lines included in a video signal supplied correspondingly to a region broader than pixels corresponding to the scanning lines in the rows, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247391 - Image display apparatus and method: An image display device and an image display method are provided so as to suppress consumption power and provide a more brightly colored display image. The image display device is provided with a light modulating means wherein image data is inputted and an image is formed by modulating light from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247392 - Method for displaying private/secure data: A system and method for allowing users to view secure data while excluding others from viewing. The method includes generating a stream of first data frames including secure data content to be viewed on a display device; inserting second data frames within the stream in a manner to thereby render... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070247394 - Display menu allowing better accessibility in a limited space: A parent menu in the display of an electronic device includes a conditional branch key. The conditional branch key is associated with an action and a branch menu. When the conditional branch key is selected a first time, the action is performed by the electronic device and a visual characteristic... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070247395 - Communications multiplexing with packet-communication networks: A communication link is established with a packet-communications device. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a network connection is established between the packet-communications and a server to pass data such as requests and responses, as well as files, media, streaming and other data. The network connection is... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20070247397 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a data drive IC for supplying a data signal corresponding to an image signal to the address electrode through an output terminal formed at one side and the other side of the data driver IC, which oppose to each... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070247399 - Pixel circuit, display and driving method thereof: The invention provides a pixel circuit that can cancel the influence of the mobility of a drive transistor. A drive transistor supplies a light-emitting element with an output current dependent upon an input voltage. The light-emitting element emits light with a luminance dependent upon a video signal in response to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070247398 - Stable driving scheme for active matrix displays: A method and system for operating a pixel array having at least one pixel circuit is provided. The method includes repeating an operation cycle defining a frame period for a pixel circuit, including at each frame period, programming the pixel circuit, driving the pixel circuit, and relaxing a stress effect... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070247401 - Microelectromechanical device and method utilizing nanoparticles: A microelectromechanical device (MEMS) utilizing nanoparticles for reducing stiction is disclosed. In one embodiment, a microelectromechanical device is an interferometric modulator that includes a transparent electrode assembly having a first surface; and a movable reflective electrode assembly with a second surface facing the first surface. The movable reflective electrode assembly... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070247403 - Flat-panel display device and display driving method: A flat-panel display device includes a display panel having scanning lines, signal lines, and pixels which have electron-emitters each connected between one scanning line and one signal line, and a drive circuit which sequentially drives the scanning lines with a scanning signal and drives the signal lines with drive signals... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247402 - Method and a system for displaying a digital image in true colors: This method of displaying a digital image includes a step of obtaining a radiometric spectrum for each pixel of the image and over the entire visible light spectrum. For each of the pixels, and for at least four primary colors, the method comprises the steps of: calculating a luminance level... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070247408 - Display and circuit for driving a display: A display driver for evenly display the screen driven by a plurality of driver circuits is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel driven by data lines and driver units. Each of the data lines is driven by the corresponding driver unit. Each of the driver units has a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070247409 - Liquid crystal display apparatus containing driver ic with grayscale voltage generating circuit: A liquid crystal display (LCD) driver integrated circuit includes a grayscale voltage generating circuit configured to generate a plurality of grayscale voltages from a set of supply reference voltages; and a converting section having connection terminals and configured to drive each of a plurality of data lines of a liquid... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070247406 - Method and apparatus for updating sub-pictures in a bi-stable electronic reading device: Image quality is improved in an electronic reading device (300, 400), such as an electronic book using a bi-stable electrophoretic display, by determining a position to display a sub-picture (900) over a background picture (800, 810) so that like colors do not overlap. This avoids having a noticeable contrast between... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070247412 - Voltage level shifter: A voltage level shifter formed by single-typed transistors comprises two input terminals, two power supply terminals, a plurality of thin-film transistors, and an output terminal. Another voltage level shifter formed by single-typed transistors comprises two input terminals, an output terminal, two power supply terminals, two input units, a first thin-film... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070247411 - Integrated circuit capable of synchronizing multiple outputs: A source driver of an LCD includes a first and second power sources, a first and second inversion units, a first and second charging switches, and a first and second discharging switches. The first charging switch is coupled to the first power source, a first end of the first inversion... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070247413 - Display device: A display device includes an LUT storing circuit and an LUT holding circuit, a representative point selecting circuit, and a compensation amount calculating circuit. The storing and holding circuits store and hold not compensation amounts of all points but compensation amounts of representative points in a lookup table. The representative... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070247415 - Method for driving liquid crystal display assembly: A method driving an LCD assembly, the LCD assembly including a transmission-type LCD including a display area configured of pixels, a planar-light-source device illuminating the display area, and a driving circuit driving the planar-light-source device and LCD; wherein the driving circuit supplies a control signal controlling the optical transmittance of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070247414 - Solid state luminaires for general illumination: A lighting panel includes a tile having a first side parallel to a principal plane of the lighting panel, a plurality of solid state lighting devices arranged on the first side of the tile and configured to emit light, a reflector sheet on the first side of the tile, and... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070247416 - Transflective liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same: A transflective liquid crystal display device. A first substrate having viewing and peripheral areas is provided. The viewing area comprises transmissive and reflective regions. A backlight device is disposed under the first substrate, used to provide a backlight passing through the transmissive region. A power management controller connects the backlight... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070247417 - Electrophoresis display device, method of driving electrophoresis display device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoresis display device includes electrophoresis display elements, corresponding to pixels of a display unit, each having a structure where a dispersion medium containing electrophoresis particles is interposed between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, a driving unit that applies a voltage between the common electrode and the pixel... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070247418 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate positioned to face each other. A first electrode is so mounted to the first substrate as to face second and third electrodes. The second and third electrodes have an area smaller than that of the first electrode. Also,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070247419 - Power consumption optimized display update: Systems and methods for reducing the power consumption necessary for updating a display are provided. The methods include determining a row addressing order based on an attribute of the image data that minimizes the number of column charging transitions necessary to write the image data to the display. In some... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070247421 - Capacitive-based rotational positioning input device: An input device includes an electrode base and a code wheel rotatably mounted and vertically spaced relative to the electrode base. The electrode base includes a first array of circumferentially spaced sense electrodes, an array of non-conductive portions interposed between adjacent respective sense electrodes, and at least one drive electrode.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070247422 - Interaction techniques for flexible displays: The invention relates to a set of interaction techniques for obtaining input to a computer system based on methods and apparatus for detecting properties of the shape, location and orientation of flexible display surfaces, as determined through manual or gestural interactions of a user with said display surfaces. Such input... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070247420 - Reconfigurable, shape-changing button for automotive use and vehicle control panel having reconfigurable, shape-changing buttons: A button configuration includes a shape-changing button that has a central region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region encircles the central region and defines a surface plane. The shape-changing button has an active state and an inactive state. The central region of the button protrudes from the surface plane... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.A.

20070247423 - Re-centering mechanism for an input device: An input device includes a positioning element and a spring member. The positioning element comprises a generally disc shaped member. The spring member is a generally annular shaped spring member that is generally planar and that defines a generally serpentine pattern. The spring member is positioned laterally outward relative to... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070247424 - Input arrangements for electronic devices: A new form of input arrangement for cursor control devices or other handheld electronic devices in which the activation surfaces are designed to allow the fingers and thumb of the user to effect commands by means of non-repetitive motion as compared to current devices. Specifically, sensors are associated with the... Agent: Bernard J. Lacomis

20070247425 - Methods and devices for identifying users based on tremor: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, which uses hand tremor as an input. One or more sensors within the handheld device detect a user's hand tremor and identify the user based on the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070247426 - Pointing device for navigating three dimensional space using multiple finger actuated sensors: The invention relates to the field of pointing devices for navigating in a virtual three-dimensional graphical user interface. The pointing device of the present invention comprises a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein the first sensor is placed at the left button of the pointing device and is operated... Agent: Bayshore Patent Group, LLC

20070247427 - Versatile laser pointer and mouse combination: A versatile laser pointer and mouse combination integrates together the functions of laser pointer and mouse, also preferably includes a presentation program operation function, multimedia player program operation function, and timer to provide users with versatile functions and operation convenience during computer aided presentations, such as lectures, speeches, and the... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070247428 - Dynamic self-switchable cpi resolution for an optical mouse sensor: An optical mouse employs an optical mouse controller and an optical mouse sensor. In operation, the optical mouse sensor generates an image sensing report signal indicative of a movement of the optical mouse over a surface of an object and communicates the image sensing report signal to the optical mouse... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070247430 - Keyboard and mouse operation data recording/reproducing system and method thereof: A keyboard and mouse operation data recording/reproducing system for recording/reproducing or further editing, programming the operation data of a set of keyboard and mouse and method thereof. The keyboard and mouse operation data recording/reproducing system, coupled to a keyboard, a mouse, a display and at least one computer. The keyboard... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070247429 - Keystroke tactility arrangement on a smooth touch surface: Disclosed are four arrangements for providing tactility on a touch surface keyboard. One approach is to provide tactile feedback mechanisms, such as dots, bars, or other shapes on all or many keys. In another embodiment, an articulating frame may be provided that extends when the surface is being used in... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070247433 - Operating method and apparatus for a portable electronic device: An operating method and apparatus are applied to a portable electronic device for performing plural touch operating modes and a press operating mode. In this method, the portable electronic device is first to determine whether the touch keypad is touched or not. Then, it is determined whether the metal dome... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247431 - Keypad and sensor combination to provide detection region that overlays keys: A computing device is provided comprising a keypad having a plurality of key structures, and a sensor mechanism. The sensor mechanism is positioned with respect to the keypad to provide a sensor detection region that overlays at least a portion of the keypad. The sensor mechanism is configured to detect... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070247432 - Multiple mode display apparatus: A multiple mode display apparatus and methods of use. An apparatus includes a display surface with a first and a second display area. A housing pivotally attached with the display proximate a first edge of the housing is displaceable from a coplanar position with the surface of the display device... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070247443 - Hybrid capacitive touch screen element: A capacitive touch sensitive position sensor is provided which has a substrate defining a touch sensitive platform. First and second resistive bus-bars arranged spaced apart on the substrate. A conductive sensing area is formed between the bus bars and is constructed with first and second conductive elements connected to the... Agent: David Kiewit

20070247441 - Terminal and method for entering command in the terminal: A terminal including a touch-screen display configured to be touched by a user, and a controller configured to determine a number of simultaneous touches on the touch-screen and to perform a function based on the determined number of simultaneous touches.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247440 - Touch screen device and method of displaying images thereon: A touch screen device and method of displaying images using display windows and selecting execution menus displayed on the display windows in a touch screen device are provided. The touch screen device includes a screen, a display configured to display images thereon and a detector configured to detect a touch... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070247442 - Activating virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard: A method of operating a touch screen to activate one of a plurality of virtual keys is provided. A touch location is determined based on location data pertaining to touch input on the touch screen, wherein the touch input is intended to activate one of the plurality of virtual keys.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070247437 - Capacitive touch panel with improved electrode patterns: A capacitive touch panel with improved electrode patterns includes an insulating substrate, a conductive layer formed on a surface of the insulating substrate, and an electrode pattern formed on the surface of the conductive layer and disposed along the edges of the touch panel, and the electrode pattern includes a... Agent: Frenkel & Associates

20070247436 - Electronic apparatus and method for symbol input: An electronic apparatus having a user interface for symbol input is disclosed. The apparatus has a display and an input device having an elongated touch-sensitive sensor area and capable of detecting user actuations of a plurality of sensor positions along a main axis of the elongated touch-sensitive sensor area. The... Agent: Perman & Green

20070247434 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for entry of data or commands based on tap detection: An electronic device includes a housing that encloses a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. One or more tap sensors provide a tap signal in response to a user's tap on an outside surface of the housing. A position detecting mechanism determines the position of a user's tap... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070247435 - Precise selection techniques for multi-touch screens: A unique system and method is provided that facilitates pixel-accurate targeting with respect to multi-touch sensitive displays when selecting or viewing content with a cursor. In particular, the system and method can track dual inputs from a primary finger and a secondary finger, for example. The primary finger can control... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070247438 - Sensor arrangement: A sensor arrangement for an electronic device with user input means comprises a sensor. The sensor is adapted to generate an electric field in an area of the user input means and to enable a detection of a change in the electric field. The sensor arrangement further comprises a conductive... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070247439 - Spherical display and control device: A spherical display and control device, that is preferably collapsible between a spherical configuration and a collapsed generally cylindrical ellipsoid configuration, comprising a flexible transparent spherical surface sprung attached to a central hinged modular cube assembly that contains digital displays on outward faces, and circuitry, battery units and electronic modules... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20070247444 - Method for measuring pressure resistance of touch panel: The present invention is related to a method for measuring pressure resistance of a touch panel. A reference resistor Rr is added to a measurement terminal which is coupled with a X-axis of a glass substrate of the touch panel. When users touch the touch panel, the touch point is... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070247445 - Data processing in an electric pen: In an information management system for handling digital position data recorded by an electronic pen, the pen is controlled to convert recordings of a first code on a product to position data in a coordinate system, to convert recordings of a second code to input data, and to process the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247446 - Linear positioning input device: An input device of an electronic device includes a position sensor, a base, a slider, and a controller. The position sensor includes a first positioning element and a second positioning element with the first positioning element being operably coupled relative to the second positioning element. A slider includes the first... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070247450 - Led driving device of overvoltage protection and duty control: An LED driving device comprises a PWM IC including an RT/CT terminal operated by a power voltage and generating and outputting a sawtooth wave voltage of a predetermined frequency, a COMP terminal to which a comparison voltage compared with the sawtooth wave voltage is inputted, and an output terminal generating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070247449 - Wireless display: A method and system for displaying visual content is disclosed. In some embodiments the system comprises a processor configured to process visual content that is to be displayed on the display, a storage coupled to the display and adapted to store the visual content, and a wireless interface configured to... Agent: Kevin J. Mack

20070247451 - Display device substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same: The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070247447 - Mobile display: A method and system for displaying visual content is disclosed. In some embodiments the system comprises a processor configured to process visual content that is to be displayed on the mobile display, a storage device coupled to the mobile display and adapted to store the visual content, and an interface... Agent: Kevin J. Mack

20070247448 - System status display module and level-shift circuit thereof: A system status display module with a level-shift circuit thereof is provided for processing signals of system status data. The level-shift circuit includes an input circuit and an output circuit for processing plural input signals that have different voltage ranges. The input circuit includes two field effect transistors (FETs) in... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070247452 - Thin image display apparatus: A thin image display apparatus includes a thin image display apparatus body, a hollow support member having a first end at which the hollow support member supports the thin image display apparatus body through a rocking mechanism section and a second end at which a plug element configured to engage... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070247453 - Image processing apparatus and control method of the same: This invention increases the design efficiency of an upper layer such as a job control means. To accomplish this, an image processing apparatus having a plurality of types of external interfaces (a USB and LAN) different in protocol has an external interface adaptor 203 which dynamically allocates external interfaces as... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070247455 - Method and apparatus for generating on-screen display using 3d graphics: A method and a system are provided for generating an on-screen display using 3D graphics in devices without a high quality 3D graphics accelerator. 3D graphic images obtained from a 3D graphic image generator are mapped to 2D graphic images, and the mapped 2D graphic images are moved according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070247454 - 3d visualization with synchronous x-ray image display: A data processing system and method for multi-modal viewing of medical image visualization is described. The system includes an image display device operable to display an on-the-fly (“fly”) visualization of a three dimensional (3D) data set, and a live X-ray image, where the parameters of the “fly” visualization are adjusted... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070247456 - Flattening a three-dimensional wire harness representation to two dimensions: A method and system are described that allow conversion of a three-dimensional representation of a wire harness to a two-dimensional representation. In one aspect, an optimal viewing angle of the three-dimensional representation is automatically computed such that overlap of nodes and/or branches is minimized. Using the optimal viewing angle, the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070247457 - Device and method for presenting an image of the surrounding world: A device and a method for displaying an image of the surroundings to a user (90), comprising an image sensor device (10), which records image information of a surrounding world, connected via a transmission device (20) to a central unit (30), and a head-mounted display device (40), where the central... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070247458 - Adaptive computation of subdivision surfaces: A method for the computation of a subdivision surface from a base mesh of coarse faces which requires no dynamic allocations is performed as follows. First, a static data structure is allocated. The static data structure includes a hierarchy of data arrays, where each of the data arrays is for... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070247459 - Brick-based fusion renderer: A method for combining at image data sets to generate a composite image. The method divides each of the data sets into a plurality of bricks along three mutually orthogonal axes. The method includes (a) building a hierarchical structure for each one of the at least two data sets, each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070247461 - Subaperture 3d imaging: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving phase history data collected from synthetic aperture radar imaging of a terrain, dividing the received phase history data into a plurality of subsets corresponding to a plurality of subaperture intervals, computing for each of a plurality of points of the terrain, a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070247460 - Systems and methods for light pruning: The effective illumination volume (e.g., angular spread and falloff) of each light source in an object model scene can be represented by a simple geometry. Geometry-based culling techniques then can be used to automatically remove or de-activate lights for a frame, set of frames, or entire shot of animation, based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070247463 - Displaying cellular analysis result data using a template: In accordance with the principles of the invention, methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums are provided for displaying cellular analysis result data including accessing cellular analysis result data, accessing data of at least one template, and displaying the cellular analysis result data and the data of at least one template by... Agent: Beckman Coulter, Inc.

20070247462 - Method for displaying graphical data: A method for displaying graphical data includes displaying a first graph of a first data set, receiving a first open drag command indicative of a first handle position on the first graph, positioning a first handle on the first graph based on a first close drag command and receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070247464 - Method and apparatus for generating performance curves: A system and a method are set forth for generating performance curves for enabling user customized marketing communications proficiency and performance optimization, comprising collecting and storing historical vehicle data and response data relating for a marketing plan, normalizing the data to a standardized schema, performing non-linear polynomial regression analysis on... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partners

20070247465 - Goal-directed cloth simulation: A method of simulating a cloth includes: determining a first shape for the cloth at a first time; determining a first goal shape for the cloth at the first time; determining a first goal-directed force for the cloth at the first time from the first shape and the first goal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070247466 - Image processing apparatus and program: An image processing apparatus including an image processing unit structured to include one or more image processing modules and one or more buffer modules each having a buffer for storing image data, the respective modules being connected in a pipe line mode or a directed acyclic graph mode. Each of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070247467 - Energy-saving mode-equipped apparatus, information processing apparatus, and control method: An energy-saving mode-equipped apparatus for implementing an energy-saving mode for limiting power supply to modules notifies an information specifying a restore time from the energy-saving mode to an information processing apparatus connected via a network before switching into the energy-saving mode. The information processing apparatus transmits a processing request to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070247468 - System and method for processing graphics operations with graphics processing unit: Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for accumulating changes to the data structures. A... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070247469 - Method and device for determining size of memory frames: A method for determining the size of each of a predetermined number of memory frames to be allocated for storing data blocks in a memory, and a processing device for implementing the method. The method comprises determining a data block size distribution for at least one set of data blocks.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070247470 - Latency reduction in a display device: A display device may reduce the latency of the display of a digital signal by reducing the latency that the display device adds to the digital signal. After a digital signal is received by an input module, the signal is stored in a frame buffer as a plurality of pixels.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070247471 - Adaptive closed group caricaturing: A method and system for generating caricatured images of subjects wherein the caricatured image of each subject is adapted when subjects join and leave a closed group of which they are members. By adapting the caricatured images in this manner, it can be ensured that each caricatured image remains maximally... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070247472 - Capturing and rendering geometric details: A method and system for implementing capturing and rendering geometric details for mesostructure surfaces is described herein. A mesostructure distance function is defined as a function of a given reference point and a given viewing direction. A distance from a reference point to a mesostructure surface point along a viewing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070247473 - Mip-map for rendering of an anisotropic dataset: Mip-map construction is provided for three-dimensional rendering from an anisotropic dataset. One or more mip-map levels are generated by down sampling in the world space rather than texture space. The down sampling may be by an arbitrary scale factor rather than a power of two. For example, the voxels may... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070247474 - Method, apparatus and recording medium for image processing: The color and tone of an image of an object are changed to a color and tone desired by a user. Image data including an image of an object is input to image processing means and displayed on a monitor. The user observes the image displayed on the monitor and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247475 - 3d histogram and other user interface elements for color correcting images: The disclosed implementations relate generally to 3D histograms and other user interface elements for color correcting digital images. A color correction method includes: generating a user interface for display on a display device, the user interface including a display area; generating a three-dimensional cube representing a color space for display... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070247476 - Fast smooth up-sampling of binary volumes derived from medical imaging: This invention describes a computer method of up-sampling (enlarging) a binary volume where the shapes and regions in the final up-sampled volume have smooth shapes and regions without the jagged edges exhibited in the up-sampled volumes processed by conventional methods. This up-sampling method is suitable for any multi-dimensional binary volumes... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070247477 - Method and apparatus for processing, displaying and viewing stereoscopic 3d images: A method of processing stereoscopic 3D images for display on a 2D display device and viewing using eyewear having a first lens and a second lens includes receiving a first content image stream and an associated second content image stream of common imagery from an image source, where each content... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070247478 - Matrix addressing circuitry and liquid crystal display device using the same: The invention aims at preventing an occurrence of artefacts while reducing power consumption. A matrix addressing method for alternately driving pixels. The frame period of the images is formed by successively sequencing on a time series a plurality of block periods, the block periods each being composed of a first... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070241989 - Lcd driving device: In a driving device for an LCD that enables accurate compensation of sub image data, a memory sequentially stores an image data in a frame unit. A memory controller reads out a previous image data corresponding to a previous frame from the memory, stores a present image data corresponding to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070241990 - Method for automatically switching video sources to a display device: A system and method for automatically switching display of video signals between a first device and a second device. The system may include a display device with display circuitry for displaying an image on the display in response to a received video signal. The display device may include a first... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070241991 - Flat panel display and assembling method thereof: A flat panel display including a display panel and a frame is provided. The outer edge of the display panel has a first combining portion, and the first combining portion has a guide angle. The inner edge of the frame has a second combining portion, and the second combining portion... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070241995 - Driving method of plasma display panel: To provide a driving method of a plasma display panel capable of improving a dark contrast while preventing a spurious discharge. A discharge is produced in discharge cells only in an address erasing process for one subfield selected from a plurality of subfields constituting a unit display period, so that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070241997 - Method for driving plasma display panel: For display using a plasma display panel including a screen made up of cells each of which has an address discharge portion controlled by a scan electrode and a data electrode and a priming discharge portion that is controlled by the scan electrode and an auxiliary electrode and tends to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242004 - Organic electroluminescence display device: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display device wherein pixel defects are reduced with a minimum increase in the number of thin film transistors used is to be provided. The organic EL display device has: a plurality of power supply lines each for supplying a current to one or another of pixel... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242000 - Scan driving circuit and organic light emitting display using the same: A scan driving circuit includes a plurality of stages. Each stage receives three of four clocks that may be sequentially generated, receives and delays an input signal through an input terminal, and outputs an output signal through an output terminal. The input terminal of each stage is connected to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070242001 - Scan driving circuit and organic light emitting display using the same: A scan driving circuit and an organic light emitting display using the same. The scan driving circuit includes stages that each includes: a switch for turning on/off a connection of the input terminal according to a first clock among a plurality of clocks, the first clock for inputting through a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070242005 - Brightness adjustment circuit and electroluminescent display using the same: A brightness adjustment circuit for an electroluminescent display is provided. The brightness adjustment circuit is electrically connected to an electroluminescent panel and a power supply. The brightness adjustment circuit provides a feedback voltage to the power supply. The power supply provides a working voltage to the electroluminescent panel in response... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070242007 - Active matrix organic led display and driving method thereof: A display capable of adjusting its driving circuits according to an input resolution includes an active organic light emitting unit, a time data controller, a gate driving circuit and a source driving circuit. The time data controller includes a video data determining unit for determining a resolution of received video... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070242010 - Display apparatus and in-vehicle display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a main body that includes an operating portion at a front surface thereof, and a display portion that includes a display screen visible when the display portion covers the front surface of the main body, and that exposes the operating portion when the display portion is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242011 - Display device: A source driver of a liquid crystal display device comprises: a display signal generation unit for generating drive signals to drive data lines based on data signals; a vertical back porch setting switch terminal connected to the display signal generation unit; a ground terminal set at a ground potential; and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070242012 - Liquid crystal panel, driving method for liquid crystal panel, and program: Herein disclosed a liquid crystal panel, including: a plurality of liquid crystal cells each serving as a pixel and disposed in a matrix of N horizontal lines and M vertical lines, each of N and M being an integral value equal to or greater than 1; a switching element provided... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070242017 - Light-emitting element driving device and image forming apparatus using the same: To provide an image forming apparatus having a plurality of light-emitting elements as its light source, capable of realizing a further increase in an image forming speed and a printing speed, a TFT circuit is formed on a glass substrate, a source driver signal line extending from the source driver... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070242016 - Pixel, organic light emitting display device, and driving method thereof: A method for driving an organic light emitting display device capable of reducing the number of output lines in a data driver, as well as ensuring a sufficient driving time. The method for driving the organic light emitting display device includes steps of supplying a data signal and a reset... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070242019 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, a pulse width controller, and a data driver. The display panel has pixels divided by gate lines arranged in first direction and data lines arranged in second direction. The timing controller generates gate control signals and first... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070242020 - Liquid crystal display device and common voltage generating circuit: A common voltage generating circuit which is provided to an active matrix type liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixel electrodes, switch elements provided correspondingly to the pixel electrodes and a counter electrode opposed to the pixel electrodes, and generates a common voltage to be applied to the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070242022 - Method for controlling a universal backlight inverter: The present invention introduces methods to modify the burst frequency of an inverter in a given LCD panel without any component change on the inverter board. The present invention also introduces methods to adjust the setting of a sensing system for duty cycles and accept Display Power Saving Technology (DPST)... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070241988 - Dynamic message sign display panel error detection, correction, and notification: In accordance with the invention, the present disclosure is related to a sign display panel for displaying a sign display panel message. The sign display panel includes at least one set of display units. Each display unit of the at least one set of display units includes a plurality of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070241992 - Element substrate and light emitting device: No need of lowering off-current of a switching transistor, fewer luminance variations of a light emitting element between pixels due to characteristic variations of a driving transistor, and less risk of steps due to increase in the number of wirings. A video signal for light emission or non-emission of a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070241993 - Liquid-crystal display apparatus: A front frame has a panel opening in an area corresponding to the display surface of a liquid-crystal panel. In the picture frame that corresponds to the boundary of the panel opening, two through holes are formed in each of the two sides that are parallel to the panel horizontal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070241994 - Plasma display panel drive method: A plurality of subfields configuring a field period include the subfield(s) in charge of an every-cell initialization operation of causing initial discharge in every discharge cell in an initialization period, and the subfield(s) in charge of a selective initialization operation of causing the initial discharge in any predetermined discharge cell... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070241996 - Plasma display-panel comprising a reduced-section discharge expansion zone: Display panel comprising two plates, separated by a gas-filled space partitioned by separating elements forming an array of barrier ribs, and arrays of coplanar sustain electrodes and address electrodes; with each cell subdivided into a trigger zone at each of the intersections of an address electrode with a sustain electrode... Agent: Joseph S Tripoli Thomson Licensing Inc

20070242003 - Device and method for controlling an organic light-emitting diode: A device for controlling an organic light-emitting diode having a normal operating mode and an adjusting mode has a driver for providing a control current in the normal operating mode; and an adjusting current in the adjusting mode. In addition, the device for controlling has a measuring sensor for detecting... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070242002 - Display device: A display device in which measurement emissive elements that emit light in accordance with a drive current are arranged in a matrix within a display region, the display device includes a measurement emissive element which is formed in a position different from the display region and formed by the same... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070241998 - Electroluminescent display devices: An active matrix display device comprises an array of display pixels, with each pixel comprising an EL display element, a light-dependent device for detecting the brightness of the display element and a drive transistor circuit for driving a current through the display element. The drive transistor is controlled in response... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070241999 - Systems for displaying images involving reduced mura: Systems for displaying images are provided. A representative system incorporates a display device that includes a data line operative to provide display signals and sweep signals; a scan line operative to provide scan reset signals; a first capacitor having a first end coupled to the data line for storing charges... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070242006 - Systems and methods for providing driving voltages to rgbw display panels: Systems and methods providing driving voltages to an RGBW display panel. A representative system comprises a data driver with a reference voltage generation circuit that is operative to provide reference voltages according to a white component signal (W) extracted from three color input signals (R,G,B), and a digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070242008 - Mode indicator for interferometric modulator displays: A method and apparatus for displaying data on bi-stable and non-bi-stable displays is provided. The apparatus includes a controller chip capable of being connected to a non-bi-stable display through a first interface channel and also capable of being connected to a bi-stable display via the first interface channel and an... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070242013 - Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method of the same: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines (GØ-Gn), a plurality of data lines (D1-Dn) formed in a direction crossing the gate lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed in a pixel area defined by the gate lines and the data lines, the pixel electrodes indicating pictures by... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070242009 - Liquid crystal display with sub-pixel structure: A liquid-crystal display wherein each color sub-pixel is divided into at least a first region and a second region, each region having a pair of electrodes and a storage capacitor. The lower electrode in each region is connected to the same gate line via a different TFT. The upper electrode... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070242014 - Transflective liquid crystal display: The apparatus, methods, system and devices of the present invention provides transflective LCD system structure wherein each pixel is composed of at least three reflective sub-pixels and at least one transmissive sub-pixel. The reflective sub-pixels have a color filter layer for displaying color reflective images and the transmissive sub-pixel it... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20070242015 - H-bridge driver for electroluminescent lamp that reduces audible noise: A low noise H-bridge driver for EL lamps is described herein. The H-bridge controls switching transistors to create an AC voltage across the EL lamp. To reduce audible noise of the EL lamp when driven by an H-bridge, the current through the switching transistors is limited while the voltage across... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070242018 - Bi-directional driving circuit of liquid crystal display panel: A bi-directional driving circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is disclosed, in which forward scanning and backward scanning are available. In a bi-directional driving circuit of an LCD panel having a plurality of blocks, each block includes a first start pulse input terminal to which a start pulse... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070242021 - Level shifter circuit and display device provided therewith: A level shift circuit includes first and second level shifters which respectively output first and second output signals that are produced by level shifting two kinds of input clock signals whose high level periods do not overlap. The level shift circuit also includes control transistors and control lines which, together,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070242025 - Drive circuit of display device and method for driving the display device: A drive circuit of a display device and a method for driving the display device are disclosed. The drive circuit includes at least one data transfer line to receive analog data signals including information for an image; a first latch to sequentially sample analog data signals transferred from the at... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070242023 - Driving apparatus: A driving apparatus for driving a display panel having N data lines is provided. The driving apparatus comprises a driving unit and a switching unit. The driving unit includes N/K output ends, wherein N and K is a positive integer. The driving unit receives data signals and latches the data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070242028 - Liquid crystal display device: A LCD device includes first and second LCD panels stacked one on another. Each of the first and second LCD panels includes a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, and a pair of polarizing films sandwiching therebetween the pair of transparent substrates. A light diffusion layer... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20070242024 - Thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel driving device and method thereof: A thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display panel driving device and a method thereof are provided. The TFT liquid crystal display panel driving device is characterized by including a modulation signal generator for providing at least one modulation signal to at least one output buffer of a source driver... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070242026 - Apparatus and method of pulse generation for ultra-wideband transmission: Aspects include methods and apparatuses for generating pulses in an ultra-wideband transmission. For example, some aspects include a method of providing a signal comprising at least one pulse. The method includes generating a first signal, generating at least one pulse based on at least one slope of said first signal,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070242027 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device used in data line driver of plane type display apparatus: In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a shift register Includes a plurality of cascaded flip-flops adapted to generate shift pulse signals in response to a start signal. A logic circuit receives a pulse signal at its input end and supplies the pulse signal from its plurality of output ends to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070242029 - Apparatus and method for driving backlight of liquid crystal display apparatus: A backlight driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including a master trans and a slave trans for supplying a current to a plurality of lamps, and a master driver and a slave driver for driving the lamps, includes an operated condition unit that converts an AC voltage... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070242031 - Display device and method for driving the same: It is an object to provide a display device in which a problem of light leakage from a liquid crystal element in black display is reduced or overcome and the contrast is improved. It is another object to provide a pixel circuit having a function to control a lighting state... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070242030 - Optical sensor for sensing peripheral light and liquid crystal display device using the same: An optical sensor providing enhanced reliability in sensing peripheral light and reduced power consumption, and a liquid crystal display device incorporating this optical sensor. In the optical sensor, a first transistor is electrically coupled between a first power supply and a second transistor, which is electrically coupled between the first... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070242032 - Display apparatus: Display apparatus with a display area (2) having a plurality of pixels (9), a mixing unit (3) for preparing a predetermined quantity of color material for one of the plurality of pixels (9), and a transfer unit (4) for transferring the predetermined quantity for a pixel (9) to the associated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070242037 - Electronic device housing with integrated user input capability: An electronic device housing with a seemless user input zone that measures the level of force applied by the user is described. It is particularly advantageous when used with small hand-held consumer electronic devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, game- and media players. A housing for an electronic device includes... Agent: Boris Leschinsky

20070242038 - Thin film switch with changeable outlet joint: A thin film switch with a changeable outlet joint includes two thin films, a touch circuit, and a soft flat cable. The two thin films have two opposite inner surfaces. The touch circuit includes a plurality of touch portions and an outlet end, which are disposed on the two opposite... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070242033 - Apparatus, system, and method for electronic paper flex input: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed to control an application interface displayed on electronic paper. A detection module is included to detect intentional bending of an electronic paper at a particular location. A correlation module is included to correlate the particular location where the electronic paper is bent with... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler & Associates

20070242036 - Dual control data entry: Alphanumeric input is achieved using a handset having a limited number of controls but at least two controls—a first control and a second control. A key layout is rendered on a display. The key layout includes two parts—a first part and a second part. One of the two controls of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070242034 - Position determination with reference: A system for generating position information includes a first set of image data, a second set of image data, and a processor. The first set of image data is generated to indicate the position of a surface plane marker. The second set of image data is generated to indicate the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070242035 - Wireless network phone: The present invention discloses a wireless network phone that includes a wireless transmitter connected to a computer system and a wireless phone connected to the wireless transmitter for transmitting data signals, wherein the wireless phone comes with an Internet dialing/receiving telephone mode, a PowerPoint presentation mode, a file/data mode, and... Agent: Robert Tsao

20070242040 - System and method for automatically producing haptic events from a digital audio signal: The system and method described is directed to receiving digital audio files and automatically converting the received files into haptic events. In an embodiment, the received files are of sampled digital or digitized analog audio files. The system and method separates the audio signal into a plurality of sub-band signals... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070242039 - Pointing device with security capabilities: Pointing device providing security means are disclosed. A pointing device is designed to be able to read or write various cards (e.g., tags, IC or magnetic cards, etc.) and communicate securely with a host device. In one embodiment, the pointing device includes a card detector that communicates with a card,... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20070242041 - Character input program and character input device: A plurality of character input key images are displayed on the screen. One character is displayed on the screen as an undetermined character in a cyclic order from among a group of characters associated with one of the character input key images each time a button provided on the pointing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070242043 - Contactless electron joystick of universal joint structure using single hall sensor: A contactless joystick of a universal joint structure using a single hall sensor is disclosed, in which a two-dimension coordinate of an end of a joystick bar is obtained based on a principle that a rotation of a horizontal vector of a magnetic field is detected using a hall sensor,... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070242042 - Free standing joystick: A free standing joystick that is unrestricted in terms of its DOF of movement is disclosed, which can detect and represent all of the linear and rotational movements that can be made with a user's hand. As one example, a free standing joystick is disclosed, which includes a hand-held fixture... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070242046 - Computer pointing device with pliable outer shell having memory of original form: A computer peripheral, including a body, a surface on the body having at least a part of the surface that conforms to an external force applied to the surface and returns to an original shape once the external force is removed, at least one control element disposed at a first... Agent: Terry M. Sanks Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070242045 - Roller function switching method: A roller function switching method is used between a mouse device and a computer system operated with a browser program. Firstly, the computer system is operated in a roller function switching mode. Then, the computer system controls the browser program to change a browsing page in response to a directional... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070242044 - Mouse with direction-adjustable connecting wire: A mouse with direction-adjustable connecting wire includes a housing, a connecting wire and a turntable. The connecting wire has one end that is embedded in the housing. The turntable is pivotably disposed in the bottom of the housing, and the connecting wire is passed through the turntable and located therein.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070242047 - Hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs: A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard optimized for use with the thumbs is disclosed. In order to operate within the limited space available on a hand-held electronic device, the present invention optimizes the placement and shape of the keys, preferably using keys that are oval or oblong in shape,... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070242048 - Electronic device and keyboard module thereof: The keyboard module includes a base, a transparent layer, a light source, and a reflective layer. The base includes a dome, and the transparent layer is adjacent to the base. The light source provides light to the transparent layer. The reflective layer covers the transparent layer and has a first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070242049 - Function button and method of inputting letter using the same: Disclosed herein are a keypad havng a function button used to easily input characters in cellular phones and other character input devices and a method of easily inputting various languages and letters using the function button. The function button is set independently of a menu button. Whenever the function button... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070242050 - Multifunctional operating device for motor vehicles: A multifunctional operating device for a hierarchical menu structure consisting of several menus, includes a video screen, several operating keys, to which in each case one function within the menu structure can be assigned arbitrarily and can be selected by operating the respective operating key, and assigned visual information concerning... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070242052 - Cursor device and electronic device: A cursor device having a housing and a touch pad is provided. The housing has a first opening and a second opening. The touch pad is disposed inside the housing. The touch pad has regions exposed by the first opening and the second opening, respectively.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070242051 - Electronic conference system, electronic conference support method, electronic conference control apparatus, and portable storage device: A first conference controller that controls display of a first display includes a storage processing unit that stores in a screen image data storage a screen image displayed on the first display upon receipt of copy-instructing request from a portable storage, and a writer that sends, to the portable storage,... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070242056 - Gesture recognition feedback for a dual mode digitizer: A system and method for providing feedback to a user making a gesture for switching between at least two types of user interactions used to operate a digitizer system, the method comprising recognizing the gesture to switch between the types of user interactions, switching the type of user interaction used... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070242053 - Input device: An electrostatic capacitance type input device includes a plurality of electrodes, and detects coordinate position on the basis of a variation in an electrostatic capacitance between the electrodes. The device corrects an erroneous operation in which the device is not properly operated but certain coordinate positions are continuously detected.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070242054 - Light transmission touch panel and manufacturing method thereof: A light transmission touch panel comprises a transparent substrate, a first transparent conductive layer, an insulation layer and a second transparent conductive layer, wherein the first transparent conductive layer, the insulation layer and the second transparent conductive layer are patterned and overlaid on a surface of the substrate. The first... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242055 - Top-emitting oled display having transparent touch panel: A top-emitting OLED display having a transparent touch panel includes a substrate, an upper cover plate, an OLED display device, a capacitive touch device and a sealant layer. The OLED device is stacked on the substrate, the capacitive touch device is stacked on the upper cover plate, and the sealant... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070242058 - Displaying and inputting apparatus: A displaying and inputting apparatus includes a touch panel display, a layout information memory which stores a plurality of layout information which sets a layout of a plurality of functions displayed on the touch panel display, a selector which selects one layout information from the plurality of layout information, and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070242057 - Touch pad for handheld device: A media device for storing and playing media such as audio, video or images, includes a memory device configured to store a plurality of media items in a digital format. The media device also includes a display configured to present a group of media items from the plurality of stored... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20070242059 - Digital signature collection and authentication: A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signature shape, and to generate velocity and acceleration data. The pen also... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070242060 - Directional input device with knob: A controller with a dial for manipulating objects in a computer environment. The dial is in communication with an optical encoder system using the reflective method. A knob is attached to the dial and provides both a reference point for the rotational position of the dial and a tactile element... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070242063 - Display device substrate and liquid crystal display device having the same: The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070242062 - Edid pass through via serial channel: Techniques are disclosed for passing Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or Enhanced-EDID (E-EDID) in an uncompressed multimedia communication system including a video sink side communicatively coupled to a video source side. An EDID AVAILABLE packet is communicated via a serial backward channel from the video sink side. A REQUEST is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070242061 - Mobile auxiliary display model: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a software platform capable of sending data to auxiliary-display devices that are either connected (e.g., wirelessly) to a computing device or associated with the computing device in some way. Embodiments of the invention relate to a mobile auxiliary-display device model that enables communication... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070242064 - Reflective photo device, electronic apparatus with built-in camera using the device for providing colorimeter and ambient light sensor functions and method thereof: A reflective photo device, and electronic apparatus with a built-in camera using the device for providing calorimeter and ambient light sensor functions and the method thereof is provided, in which the built-in camera and a reflective photo device are used to provide the colorimeter and ambient light sensor functions. When... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070242065 - Target acquisition training system and method: A method, computer program product, and system for receiving an object descriptor from a user. The object descriptor is processed to associate the object descriptor with one of a plurality of synthetic objects, thus defining an associated synthetic object. At least a portion of a synthetic three-dimensional environment is scanned... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070242066 - Virtual video camera device with three-dimensional tracking and virtual object insertion: A method and apparatus are described that provide a hardware independent virtual camera that may be seamlessly integrated with existing video camera and computer system equipment. The virtual camera supports the ability to track a defined set of three-dimensional coordinates within a video stream and to dynamically insert rendered 3-D... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070242067 - Smartform: A method of determining points on a three-dimensional surface, comprising determining a plurality of first points on a first curve on the surface; determining a plurality of second points on a second curve on the surface; determining a further point in a set of further points, wherein the further point... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070242068 - 2d/3d image display device, electronic imaging display device, and driving method thereof: A 2-dimensional (2D)/3-dimensional (3D) image display device generates 2D or 3D image data according to an input image signal and displays them on a display unit. The display unit includes a display panel for displaying an image in response to the 2D or 3D image data and an optical element... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070242069 - Medical image display apparatus: A medical image display apparatus 1 having a display component 9, an image data storage part 31, an information storage component 32, an operation component 10, and a control part 2. The display component 9 displays a medical image display screen P on which image display regions P1 to P4... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070242070 - Gpu having raster components configured for using nested boustrophedonic patterns to traverse screen areas: In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a GPU configured for traversing pixels of an area. The GPU includes a set-up unit for generating polygon descriptions and a rasterizer unit coupled to the set-up unit for rasterizing the polygon descriptions. The rasterizer unit is configured to traverse a... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070242071 - Character display system: A method and system for generating display data for a user interface, including: (i) receiving an input string including ideographic characters; (ii) selecting an ideographic character from said input string; (iii) generating a first word or phrase starting from said selected character, said first word or phrase corresponding to the... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070242072 - Systems, methods, user interfaces, and computer-readable media for activating and managing fonts: Systems and methods for activating and/or managing fonts allow users to selectively activate individual fonts from inside a multi-font suitcase by separating the individual fonts from a multi-font suitcase file. The separated font may then be saved in a font management “vault” or file that activates only the fonts desired... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070242073 - Robot simulation apparatus: A robot simulation apparatus which simulates a motion of a robot equipped with an end effector on a display screen, having: a position specifying portion, which, along with a three-dimensional model of the robot and three-dimensional models of a workpiece and a peripheral device displayed in prescribed positions relative to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070242074 - Parallel data processing apparatus: A method for supplying instructions to a data processor having a plurality of processor arrays, each of which includes a plurality of processing elements, the method comprising retrieving instruction items for each of a plurality of instructions streams, each instruction stream having a plurality of instructions items, combining the plurality... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070242075 - Screen control system: The invention discloses a screen control system including a panel, a magnetic member, at least three magnetic inductive (MI) sensors, and a processing unit. The magnetic member is used for indicating a specific position on the panel. Each of the MI sensors is located under the panel and used for... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070242076 - Low power display mode: A controller is described that includes wiring to transport notification that a FIFO that holds data to be used to display content on a display has reached a threshold. The controller also includes first control circuitry to turn on a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit to cause logic circuitry within... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070242077 - Optimized tile-based image storage: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to store image data for use in a real-time compositing computer application. A storage tile size is determined based on disk input/output (I/O) hardware testing. A processing tile size is determined based on graphics I/O testing. An image is... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070242078 - Method for mapping a single decoded content stream to multiple textures in a virtual evironment: A system includes a computing device to obtain encoded content data corresponding to at least one participant of a virtual reality environment. A memory device stores at least one texture corresponding to the at least one participant. A single decoder decodes the encoded content data into decoded content buffers for... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070242079 - Method and apparatus of analyzing and generating image data: It is received first image data described on the basis of a first color space. It is acquired color space converting information adapted to be used to convert the first image data into second image data described on the basis of a prescribed second color space. The first image data... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070242080 - Image display apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique of appropriately compensating for loss of even an entire image frame due to data error such as a transmission error to allow display of a high quality image. An image display apparatus of the present invention comprises: a decoding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242081 - Method and apparatus for interpolating color value: A method and apparatus are provided for receiving a color signal detected by a single chip image sensor which detects only a single one of a plurality of color components and for interpolating a color component that cannot be detected in each pixel. The apparatus determines information horizontal and vertical... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070242082 - Scalable vector graphics, tree and tab as drag and drop objects: A mechanism is disclosed for providing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images, Tree and Tab as drag and drop objects. A page design tool receives an indication that a user wishes to place a metadata-defined image onto a page design canvas. The page design tool further receives an association of metadata... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070242083 - Mesh-based shape retrieval system: A retrieval method targeted for partial characteristic shapes existing in a polyhedral shape is provided. The method converts inputted shape model data into triangular mesh data, extracts and classifies triangular mesh data groups that form the partial characteristic shapes. The method calculates the characteristic amount of the triangular mesh data... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070242085 - Method and apparatus for image blending: Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blending factors for the first... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070242084 - Stitching of paths for improved text-on-path rendering of map labels: A wireless communications device obtains sets of map data for rendering portions of a map on a display of the device. The map data includes label data for rendering labels on the map for identifying map features. Once the map data is obtained, the wireless device generates a list of... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070242086 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, image sensing apparatus, and control method thereof: A first process to be executed by an apparatus and a second process to be executed by an apparatus to obtain a composite image by compositing a real space image with a virtual space image are determined by negotiation. The apparatus (101) transmits data necessary for executing the second process... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070242087 - Image transforming method: The present invention provides a method for rotating YUV4:2:0 image in a digital display device, such as TV image system. A YUV4:2:0 image is separated to a Y division matrix and a U and V division matrix. Then the Y division is performed a rotation matrix calculation. And the U... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070242088 - Method for intelligently displaying sports game video for multimedia mobile terminal: Disclosed is a method for intelligently displaying a sports game video for a multimedia mobile terminal, the method including the steps of: determining if a camera shot existing in the sports game video is a long-shot; when the camera shot is determined as a long-shot, determining a ROI within an... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070242089 - Image display apparatus and image display method: An image display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal display body 80 having a first display region; an image data acquiring portion 10 that acquires image data having a drawing region of a size larger than a size of the first display region; a virtual display region generating portion 40 that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070242090 - Apparatus and method for setup frame sequencing in color sequential display systems: A color sequential image display apparatus and method which reduces the effects of display frame crosstalk in the display apparatus by incorporating setup display frames for each color component in the color display sequence, where the display of each sequentially displayed color component is initiated and updated immediately prior to... Agent: Schroeder & Siegfried, P.A.

20070236411 - Indicating lamp control program, information processing apparatus, and indicating lamp control method: An indicating lamp control program adapted for a computer to perform processing for controlling an illuminating operation of indicating lamps disposed around a display surface of a display apparatus, includes as functions for the computer: window information acquiring means for acquiring information representing a back-to-forth position and a size of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236415 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method of plasma display apparatus: The present invention provides a plasma display apparatus comprising a second driver supplying a first bias signal with a voltage maintained at a first bias voltage in a reset period and an address period, a first sustain rising signal that gradually rises from the first bias voltage to a second... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236417 - Plasma display apparatus: In a PDP apparatus provided with a PDP having (X, Y, A) and various drivers, two adjacent Ys in a plurality of Ys are commonly connected by a wiring so as to form one set unit, in the vicinity of a connection portion of the PDP and the drivers. A... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070236423 - Amoled display device: An active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display device including a panel, a master source driver and at least one slave source driver is provided. The panel has a group of master column pixels and at least one group of slave column pixels. The master source driver receives a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236421 - Data driver and organic light emitting display using the same: A data driver including a shift register unit configured to receive a first clock signal, a second clock signal, and a start pulse, and to generate a sampling pulse, a sampling latch unit configured to receive and output bits and reversed bits of digital data, in correspondence with the sampling... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070236422 - Display device and driving method of the same: A display device includes a first pixel representing a first color, a second pixel representing a second color, a first scanning line connected to the first pixel and transmitting a first scanning signal, a second scanning line connected to the second pixel and transmitting a second scanning signal, a data... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070236424 - Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device: A pixel includes a load, a transistor which controls a current supplied to the load, a storage capacitor, and first to fourth switches. By inputting a potential in accordance with a video signal into the pixel after the threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the storage capacitor, and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236420 - Source driver for display and driving method thereof: A source driver comprises a plurality of current-driving units, each of which includes a digital to analog converter (DAC), an operational amplifier, a first and second current source, a resistor, and a current mirror unit. The DAC converts programming data to an analog signal. The operational amplifier receives and amplifies... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070236432 - Compensation for display device flicker: Systems and methods are provided for use in correcting flicker of a display (e.g., an LCD display). For example, correction may employ the insertion of at least one transition data frame between display data frames for use in displaying a transition image by pixel elements of the display such that... Agent: Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.

20070236433 - Control method and control apparatus for liquid crystal display: The image display apparatus of the invention applies a tone-based voltage, which corresponds to a tone value of image data at each of multiple pixels on a VA liquid crystal display, to the pixel for display of an image represented by the image data on the VA liquid crystal display.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236435 - Driver circuit, display apparatus, and method of driving the same: A display apparatus drives a data line on a time division basis. In this process, the data line is driven twice, namely in two modes: a precharge mode and a drive mode. Before the drive mode in which a drive voltage according to display data is supplied to a data... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070236436 - Liquid crystal display and driving method and driving circuit thereof: An exemplary driving circuit (250) of an LCD (200) includes: gate lines (210) that are parallel to each other and that each extend along a first direction; data lines (202) that are parallel to each other and that each extend along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction;... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070236439 - Generating corrected gray-scale data to improve display quality: A method of displaying image data, which can mitigate a double-boundary problem and improve MPRT, includes the steps of: receiving a plurality of frame data of a pixel; correcting subframe data of two of the plurality frame data; and sequentially displaying each of the subframe data of the plurality frame... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070236408 - Computing device, computing device system and power control method: There is provided with a computing device including: a coupler configured to couple to a display device having a chargeable first battery and be able to be separated from the display device, wherein charging to the first battery and wired communication with the display device can be performed via the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070236407 - Method and system for displaying data from auxiliary display subsystem of a notebook on a main display of the notebook: In some embodiments, a notebook including a main display, a main graphics subsystem, and an auxiliary display subsystem, but typically not an auxiliary display, wherein the notebook is configured to display on the main display one or both of data from the auxiliary display subsystem (or a scaled or otherwise... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070236409 - Ornament apparatus, system and method: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an ornamental system, apparatus and method that is dynamically modifiable. Embodiments of the ornament system comprise a processor, at least one ornamental member and a data controller. The processor is a computer which stores user input data for transmission and transmits a... Agent: Piccionelli & Sarno

20070236410 - Image display apparatus and display screen burn-in prevention method: A display position of an entire image in one frame of an input image signal is moved as time elapses. When there is a region displayed with a constant image signal level for a predetermined period in the moving image, level adjustment is performed on the image signal for only... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070236412 - Organic electro luminescence display driving circuit for shielding a row-line flashing: Disclosed is an organic electro luminescence display driving circuit. According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent a generation of a row-line flashing, which may happen when a display signal from a display signal terminal enters the organic electro luminescence display driving circuit. The organic electro luminescence display... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070236413 - Fluted optical plate with internal light sources and systems using same: A display system includes a programmable display panel having a viewing side and a back side, and a backlight unit disposed on the back side of the display panel. The backlight unit includes a fluted plate having a front layer facing the display panel, a back layer and connecting members... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070236414 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the substrate and arranged corresponding to a pixel array; a first data line and a second data line formed on the substrate; a plurality of scan lines formed on the substrate, in which the scan lines... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070236416 - Method of driving plasma display panel: Disclosed herein is a method of driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP). The PDP driving method includes the steps of providing a first group of sustain pulses to scan electrodes in a sustain discharge period, and providing a second group of sustain pulses to sustain electrodes in the sustain discharge... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236418 - Field emission display: A faceplate for using in a filed emission display includes an array of conducting sheets, a biasing conducting electrode, an array of load resistors, an array of contacting electrodes, and an array of coupling elements on a substantially transparent plate. A load resistor is electrically connected between the biasing conducting... Agent: Nongqiang Fan

20070236419 - Auto-calibrating gamma correction circuit for amoled pixel display driver: A drive circuit is provided for an OLED in a pixel array. The circuit includes input voltage signal receiving means. Output voltage signal generating means are operably connected to the pixel diode. Means are provided for processing the input voltage signal to replicate the inverse IV characteristic of the pixel... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20070236426 - Method for driving display: A method for driving a display is disclosed. The method is particularly useful for driving a passive matrix organic light-emitting diode (PMOLED) display. The method includes the following steps. First, a preparation gray level and a current gray level for the pixels within a scan line to be displayed are... Agent: J.c Patents, Inc.

20070236425 - Organic light emitting display device: In an organic light emitting display device, a plurality of pixel regions are formed two-dimensionally on a transparent substrate, wherein each pixel region includes the multilayered structure which is formed by sequentially stacking a lower transparent electrode, an organic light emitting layer (including at least one organic material layer) and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070236427 - Light emitting device and method of driving the same: A method of driving a display device capable of obtaining a luminance of constant level irrespective of temperature change is provided. A change in luminance of an EL element due to temperature change is prevented by controlling the luminance of the EL element with current instead of voltage. Specifically, a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070236428 - Organic electroluminescent device and fabrication methods thereof: An organic electroluminescent device is disclosed. A substrate comprises a control area and a sensitive area. A switch device and a driving device are disposed overlying the control area. A photo sensor is disposed overlying the sensitive area, wherein the photo sensor is a thin film transistor. An OLED element... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236429 - Organic electroluminescent device and fabrication methods thereof: An organic electroluminescent device is disclosed. A substrate comprises a control area and a sensitive area. A switch device and a driving device are disposed overlying the control area. A photo diode is disposed overlying the sensitive area. An OLED element is disposed in the sensitive area and illuminates the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236430 - Active matrix display devices: An active matrix display device has an array of display pixels, each pixel comprising a current-driven light emitting display element (2), a drive transistor (22) for driving a current through the display element and pixel circuitry including an optical feedback element (38) for controlling the drive transistor to drive a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070236431 - Light-emitting display device, electronic apparatus, burn-in correction device, and program: A light-emitting display device is disclosed. The display includes: a display panel having a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed on a substrate in a matrix; a deterioration amount difference calculation section; a correction amount calculation section; a deterioration amount difference correction section; a gamma conversion section; an actual deterioration amount... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070236434 - Display drive device and liquid crystal display device: A display drive device includes a plurality of cascade connected source drivers, each having a pixel data input circuit for receiving and outputting a pixel data, a clock input circuit for receiving a clock signal for latching a pixel data outputted from the pixel data input circuit, a latch circuit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236437 - Dynamic gamma control method for lcd: A dynamic gamma control method for an LCD is provided in the present invention. The LCD displays a present frame by a plurality of gamma reference voltages and the present frame includes an R-pixel data sum, a G-pixel data sum and a B-pixel data sum which are obtained by respectively... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070236438 - Low power and high quality display device: This invention applies a luminance detection device to determine the brightness of the place where the display device is located and adjusts the power of the light source accordingly. The photo sensor can also be place in front of the light source to detect the color deviation and to compensate... Agent: Chih-ta Star Sung Rm. 308, Bld. 52, No. 195

20070236441 - Instant-on heater: A heater, used in a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) pixel array that uses a common voltage polysilicon line to supply heat to the pixel elements, instead of using active control transistor input lines, such as gate input lines. The approach permits the display to be activated during the warm-up process.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070236440 - Oled active matrix cell designed for optimal uniformity: A drive circuit is provided for an OLED pixel display. The drive circuit is adapted for use with a reference voltage source. It includes a first transistor and an OLED. The output circuit of the first transistor is operably connected between the reference voltage source and the OLED. Transmission gate... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20070236442 - Display panel and display device having the same: A display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines crossing the gate lines, a first integration gate line, a first pixel part, a second pixel part and a third pixel part. The first integration gate line integrates a (6K-5)-th gate line, a (6K-3)-th gate line... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070236447 - Backlight unit using light emitting diode: A backlight unit using LEDs in which a plurality of LEDs of different colors used for a surface light source are connected in an electric connection structure incorporating series and parallel connections so that the LEDs of the same color are driven by a single driving circuit, thereby improving the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070236445 - Driving circuit for lcd backlight: In a driving circuit for an LCD backlight, a fundamental wave generator generates a triangle wave signal and a square wave signal in accordance with time constant of a time constant circuit including a time constant capacitor. A PWM comparator compares a difference signal between a feedback voltage and a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070236443 - Electrostatic discharge preventing apparatus for light emitting diodes for backlighting: An electrostatic preventing device for light emitting diodes (LED), operative to backlight a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed. The device includes RGB assemblies installed on a flexible circuit board, and an electrostatic preventing circuit separately installed on the flexible circuit board. The device is adapted to protect RGB... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070236446 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: An LCD apparatus displays a color image of a frame divided into a plurality of periods in which different colors are displayed. The LCD apparatus includes an LCD panel and a number of light-emitting units. The LCD panel includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070236444 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a compensation data generating part for converting a source data signal into at least one of a conversion data signal and a compensation data signal; and a backlight unit, including a plurality of light sources, for performing a single irradiation of one of the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070236448 - Driving device for image display medium: There is provided a driving device for an image display medium that drives the image display medium including: a display substrate; a back surface substrate; plural first electrodes; plural second electrodes; and particles enclosed between the display substrate and the back surface substrate so as to move according to an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070236449 - Systems and methods for enhanced haptic effects: Systems and methods for enhanced haptic effects are described. One described method includes receiving an input signal having haptic information and multimedia data, the input signal formatted in a first format, decoding the haptic information from the input signal, and determining a parameter associated with an actuator in a haptic... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070236450 - Haptic device with indirect haptic feedback: A haptic device provides indirect haptic feedback and virtual texture sensations to a user by modulation of friction of a touch surface of the device in response to one or more sensed parameters and/or time. The sensed parameters can include, but are not limited to, sensed position of the user's... Agent: Mr. Edward J. Timmer

20070236451 - Camera and acceleration based interface for presentations: Systems and methods for a camera and acceleration based interface for presentations are described. In one aspect, a handheld device is utilized capture optical information. The optical information is then used to identify the location of a cursor that is presented on a display surface. While a user moves the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070236454 - Apparatus for determining the location of a pointer within a region of interest: An apparatus for detecting a pointer within a region of interest includes a first reflective element extending along a first side of the region of interest and reflecting light towards the region of interest. A second reflective element extends along a second side of the region of interest and reflects... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070236452 - Free-standing input device: A controller apparatus for manipulating objects in an electronic application. The controller apparatus comprises a free-standing graspable controller. The controller apparatus comprises a first optical component and a second optical component to determine the rotation direction and speed of the controller. The direction and speed data are relayed to the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070236453 - System for and methods of storing and comparing computer generated continuous vector lines through a non-secure or a secure communication channel: The present invention includes a system for and methods of storing and comparing computer generated vector lines through an insecure or a secure communication channel. A continuous vector line (CVL) identifier includes from an ordered collection of 2 or more points. Using an input device (such as computer keyboard, finger,... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20070236456 - Optical navigation system with adjustable operating z-height: An optical navigation system having an illuminator housing and a sensor housing that are movably connected at a connection point with a connection mechanism, which may include a pivot. The illuminator housing and the sensor housing may be rotated about the connection point relative to each other so that the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070236455 - Optical navigation system with multiplexed image processing: An optical navigation system having two or more optical pipelines for image acquisition and a single multiplexed optical array. Each of the two or more optical pipelines for image acquisition may include an illuminator that emits optical radiation at a navigation surface where each navigation surface is separate from the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070236458 - Method and apparatus for coupling a display to an information handling system: A display coupling apparatus includes a first circuit board including a display connector end. A first cable coupling pad is located on the first circuit board. At least one trace on the first circuit board runs from the display connector end to the first cable coupling pad. The display coupling... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070236457 - Trackball systems and methods for rotating a three-dimensional image on a computer display: A trackball rotates a three-dimensional image displayed by a computer. Displacement data is generated for designated first and second non-antipodal points on the surface of the trackball's roller ball, for displacement of the designated first and second points during a time interval between a starting time and an ending time.... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070236459 - Interchangeable keyboard for computer systems: A keyboard is to be designed as a standardized keyboard having a certain length, width and thickness. The keyboard may be used interchangeably among different mobile computer systems. A keyboard cable associated with the keyboard may be designed such that it can accommodate an interface connector at any location relative... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20070236463 - Electric commutator with multiple switch ways: An electric commutator (20) with multiple switch ways comprising a horizontal upper panel (24) with an upper face (24s) that can be contacted by a pointing element, a supporting frame (22) and means (26) for locating the point of contact of the pointing element on the horizontal upper face (24s)... Agent: Leon D. Rosen Freilich, Hornbaker & Rosen

20070236462 - Electronic device: A device comprises a housing including an internal chamber and an external keypad mounting area and a primary printed circuit board mounted within the internal chamber along with a secondary printed circuit board mounted on the external keypad mounting area and electrically coupled to the primary printed circuit board in... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070236460 - Method and apparatus for user interface adaptation111: A method (FIG. 1 ) and apparatus (205) for user interface adaptation determines (110) a handedness of a user who is operating the handheld device, and changes (115) physical aspects of at least one touch target of a user touch interface of the handheld device to adapt to the handedness... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070236461 - Method and system for selecting a currency symbol for a handheld electronic device: A method for selecting a symbol for presentation on a display of a handheld electronic device, comprising: receiving a signal from a key on the handheld electronic device actuated by a user to select a default symbol, the default symbol being one of a plurality of symbols available through actuation... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070236464 - Information processing device and key button function allocating method used therefor: An information processing device includes a main body, a display unit pivotally coupled between a first position and a second position, the display unit having a buttons arranged on an outer surface of the display unit, a detector detecting whether the display unit is in a first position or in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070236469 - Fluid level sensing utilizing a mutual capacitance touchpad device: A capacitance-sensitive sensor array and associated touchpad sensor circuitry, the sensor array comprised of a flexible substrate having a plurality of printed conductor elements disposed thereon to form the sensor array, the printed conductor elements being coupled to touchpad sensor circuitry that includes data processing capabilities, wherein the sensor array... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070236475 - Graphical scroll wheel: A touch screen interface including a display screen, a touch sensor device, and a processor coupled to the display screen and the touch sensor is described. The touch sensor device is adapted to sense object motion in a sensing region that overlaps at least part of the display screen. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20070236476 - Input device and computer system using the input device: An input device enables a user to easily and precisely select menu indications displayed in a display image. A capacitance-type input pad and a computer system are provided. Menu open regions and an operation region are set on an input surface of a capacitance type input pad. When a finger... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070236473 - Mounting assembly for touchpad: A mounting assembly for mounting a touchpad to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plate defining a through opening for exposing the touchpad. The mounting assembly includes a plurality of fastening portions arranged on the plate of the electronic device, and a fixing member fixable to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070236474 - Touch panel with a haptically generated reference key: A touch panel provides an indication of a reference key and non-reference keys to a user. The touch panel senses a touch and determines the location of the touch. The touch panel then generates a haptic effect if the location is the reference key, and generates a different haptic effect... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070236465 - Face panel mounting structure: A face panel mounting structure includes a base frame, which is mountable on a front side of a LCD monitor and has a plurality of locating grooves at one side thereof, a face panel, and a packing member, which has a back bonding surface bonded to a border area of... Agent: Datavan International Corp.

20070236466 - Force and location sensitive display: A unit to provide both force and location detection includes a first transparent substrate (having first and second sets of conductive traces oriented in a first direction), a second transparent substrate (having a third set of conductive traces oriented in a second direction) and a plurality of deformable members (e.g.,... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070236468 - Gesture based device activation: A method of device feature activation is provided. The method includes detecting a mark made by an input device on a touch enabled screen of the device, displaying at least one command to at least one feature available to be selected on the screen in response to a detection of... Agent: Perman & Green

20070236471 - Multi-media device: A multi-media device comprises a storage device to store multi-media files and a touchpad with a handwriting area thereon for user to input by handwriting to search or to name a file in the storage device. The storage device and the touchpad can be in a same device, or respectively... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070236467 - Point-of-service device: Described is a Point-of-Service device comprising a touch screen having an input receiving area, a stylus and a mounting arrangement receiving the stylus. When the stylus is received in the mounting arrangement, the stylus at least partially covers the input receiving area of the touch screen.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070236478 - Touch panel system and method for distinguishing multiple touch inputs: Touch panel systems and methods are disclosed that can distinguish temporally overlapping touch inputs from single touch inputs so that valid touch position coordinates can be determined. Touch panel systems and methods of the present invention can distinguish overlapping touches by comparing signal magnitudes to specified thresholds, by comparing the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070236470 - Touch sensitive and mechanical user input device: User interfaces or input devices are provided with both touch-sensitive (e.g., capacitive) and mechanical hardware input portions. Mechanical switches are overlaid with a touch sensitive pad, providing improved versatility of input. An application programming interface (API) enables different modes of input operation for the mechanical and touch sensitive input portions,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070236477 - Touchpad-based input system and method for portable device: A touchpad-based input system and method of a portable device capable of facilitating manipulation of device operation. The touchpad-based input method of a portable device having a display and a touchpad determines whether a scrolling signal is input through the touchpad, scrolls a current presentation across the display in a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070236472 - Universal user interface device: A flexible, scalable hardware input device for interacting with a variety of devices ranging from a phone, to a media playback device to a steering wheel or a tablet PC is provided. The input device includes a set of mechanical input controls, each mapping to one or more independent functions... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070236479 - Intuitive image navigator: An intuitive image navigator is described. The intuitive image navigator comprises a direction control device and a rotational control ring. The image direction control device moves an image shown on a display of an electronic device, for example, an electronic map on a display of a portable electronic device. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070236484 - Method of extracting optimized digital variable resistor value and system using the same: A method of extracting an optimized digital variable resistor (“DVR”) value of a display panel, the method including varying a DVR value, corresponding to a common voltage, and applying the varied DVR values to the display panel, measuring brightness values of the display panel for at least two frames, extracting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070236482 - Attachable display system for a portable device: A larger display can be directly attached to the portable device to enhance the experience of the portable device. In the case of video or pictures, the optimal resolution shows on the attachable display. When the attachable display is not connected, the local display on the device shows the appropriate... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070236480 - Fast rasterizer: A fast rasterizer uses a fast memory that has a bit-set port for receiving data and a totally independent readout and clear port for outputting a waveform image. The fast memory is organized into rows and columns corresponding to the rows and columns of a raster display device, with each... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070236481 - On-screen display system: An on-screen display system is located externally a KVM switch. The on-screen display system includes a first end, an on-screen display circuit, a switch circuit and a second end. The first end receives a video signal from a computer. The on-screen display circuit generates an on-screen display menu signal. The... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070236483 - Systems for displaying images involving display panels: Systems for displaying images are provided. A representative system comprises a display panel. The display panel comprises first, second and third signal lines, and first and second pixel areas. The first and second signal lines are extended straight along a first direction. The third signal line is extended straight along... Agent: Liu & Liu

20070236485 - Object illumination in a virtual environment: Methods and systems for displaying an image as a virtual representation of an object based upon detected external light are described. An illustrative computer-implemented method includes steps of detecting the ambient light of an environment, such as a room, at a display surface. Data representative of the detected ambient light... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070236486 - Method for transmitting a video signal and operation clock signal for a display panel: Architecture for transmitting a video signal and an control clock signal between an ASIC and a panel in a display is introduced. Two dummy shift registers (DSRs) and switches are used for sending out the control clock signal to an ASIC. The ASIC compares the control clock signal sent out... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236487 - Driving apparatus of plasma display panel and fabrication method thereof: Disclosed are a driving apparatus of a PDP to decrease the size of the PDP as well as to enhance electrical characteristics by mounting a plurality of control chips and memories on a single package, and a fabrication method thereof. The driving apparatus includes a multi-chip module in which at... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070236492 - System and method for processing an image: There is provided an image processing system, which includes: a volume data processor for forming volume data based on image signals and setting at least one frame in the volume data; an AGC/LGC parameter setting unit for setting axial gain compensation (AGC) and lateral gain compensation (LGC) parameters based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236491 - Cardiac visualization systems for displaying 3-d images of cardiac voxel intensity distributions with optional physician interactive boundary tracing tools: Physician interactive workstations with global cardiac voxel distribution visualization may also include one or more of a 3-D color scale image of a population of voxel in the heart and/or an electronic boundary-tracing tool configured to accept user input to electronically define at least one boundary of a target region... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070236490 - Medical image display and review system: An image display and review system for display of medical images represented by a digital image data set wherein a pre-defined number of viewports for display of different image representations is provided and wherein at least some of these viewports are configured to enable sequential display of different image representations... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070236489 - Positional display elements: One aspect relates to determining a position of at least one positional display element that can be used to display at least an image portion; and displaying the at least the image portion with the at least one positional display element based at least in part on the determining the... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070236488 - Rapid serial visual presentation triage prioritization based on user state assessment: A method and system are provided that prioritize the output of an image triage that is based on rapid serial visual presentation. User responses and estimates of the effectiveness with which each image is likely to have been processed by a user are employed for post triage image prioritization of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070236493 - Image display apparatus and program: [problem] New functions including fade-in and fade-out are provided in view of particularity of three-dimensional image display. [means to solve the problem] During a fade-out process, a left-eye image (L image) is moved in a left direction while it is gradually reduced in size, and a right-eye image (R image)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070236494 - Three-dimensional scan recovery: A scanning system that acquires three-dimensional images as an incremental series of fitted three-dimensional data sets is improved by testing for successful incremental fits in real time and providing a variety of visual user cues and process modifications depending upon the relationship of newly acquired data to previously acquired data.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070236495 - Method and apparatus for processing pixel depth information: An apparatus and method for processing pixel depth information eliminates stalling of data in a pixel pipeline, by performing late Z processing for one or more pixels currently in the pixel pipeline and early Z processing for one or more pixels entering the pixel pipeline. The apparatus and method also... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070236496 - Graphic arts image production process using computer tomography: A graphic arts image development process includes the generation of a computer tomography scan of an object to yield a computer data file representative of a three-dimensional volume X-ray density of the object. Computer algorithms operate on the computer data file to yield an object rendering as a three-dimensional array... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070236497 - Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus, image-capturing device and method, recording medium, and program: A feature extracting unit obtains sensor data from a plurality of sensors to calculate each feature. When an event determining unit determines the occurrence of an event based on each feature, a display data constructor generates remote-controller display data for displaying the event, and controls a remote-controller display device to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236500 - Image processing system using vector pixel: An image processing system using vector pixel is disclosed. The system includes a vector pixel with 1 byte, a data unit structure, a data portion, a file generation unit, and a data processing unit. The vector pixel with 1 byte is configured such that, in the low 4 bits, a... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070236498 - Graphics-rendering apparatus: Graphics-rendering operation is performed by a procedure including: inputting a vector data group representing the shape of a graphic object to a vector data group management unit; inputting, to a rendering attribute data management unit, rendering attribute data representing information pertains to internal attributes of the graphic object; inputting resource... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236499 - Graphics-rendering apparatus: A graphic object is rendered by means of managing a processing sequence and data, both of which pertain to a vector to be processed included in a vector data group to become inputs; extracting data pertaining to data to be processed from the vector data group which are to become... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070236502 - Generic visualization system: The combination of complex physical simulations and realistic real-time interactive virtual environments provides engineers with a means to test the design in various environments before finishing the final products, and program management with a means for better communication and measurement of progress. The present invention provides a system that combines... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070236501 - Method for generating intuitive quasi-eigen paces: In blendshape-based facial animation, two main approaches are used to create the key expressions: manual sculpting and statistically-based techniques. Hand-generated expressions have the advantage of being intuitively recognizable, thus allowing animators to use conventional keyframe control. However, they may cover only a fraction of the expression space, resulting in large... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070236503 - Digital visual interface apparatus: A digital visual interface apparatus includes a digital visual interface, a first memory, a second memory, and a switch unit. A transmission mode of the digital visual interface apparatus includes a digital mode and an analog mode. The first memory and the second memory are respectively used for storing the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20070236504 - Intelligent graphics plug map system and method of use: The Intelligent Graphics Plug Map System automatically converts plug maps into Intelligent Graphics with intelligent behaviors. The electronic trouble shooting system enables users to easily navigate large quantities of interrelated data and accurately analyze how each plug is used. The system automatically integrates additional information such as the function of... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070236505 - Resampling of transformed shared image techniques: This disclosure describes a number of devices or techniques that can be capable of obtaining an operational capacity for a shared image device; estimating at least one operational resource to perform a transformation of one or more images based at least in part on the obtaining the operational capacity; and... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070236506 - Black enhancement in perceptual gamut mapping: The present invention provides for gamut mapping between a source device and a destination device, the destination device having a destination device black point with a hue, and the source device and the destination device being respectively characterized by a source gamut shell and a destination gamut shell. A lightness... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070236507 - Method and system for transparency adjustment and occlusion resolution for urban landscape visualization: A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest within an original image for display on a display screen, the region-of-interest being at a depth within the original image and being occluded by a portion of the original image at a lesser depth, the method comprising: applying graduated transparency to... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070236509 - Automatic resizing of moved attribute elements on a graphical representation of a control object: Enhancements to a strategy object editor for creating and modifying control strategies for process control systems (both distributed and discrete) is described. The improvements include: supporting a set of graphical depictions for individual control object (modified by an appearance object editor), drag and drop connections for declarations that connect control... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070236508 - Management of gridded map data regions: A system(s) and method(s) that facilitate managing regions of a gridded map. The regions maintain independent status and functionality while interfacing with one or more other installed regions. Grids duplicated between one or more regions do not consume system resources and/or are not removed if needed by at least one... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070236510 - Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program: An acquired real image undergoes conversion based on a first parameter to generate an image corresponding to a designated characteristic. A virtual image is generated on the basis of a second parameter to generate an image corresponding to a designated characteristic. The converted real image is composited with the generated... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070236512 - Method and system for image overlay processing: An image processing system is provided. A first interface receives a first pixel of a first image. A second interface receives a second pixel of a second image. An overlay processor retrieves one of the first pixels and the corresponding second pixel, generates a selection signal, and switches to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070236513 - Image blending system, method and video generation system: A method and system for image blending is disclosed. A destination image is received (100), the destination image including an image portion to be replaced and having characteristics associated with the identified image portion. A source image is also received (130). An image portion of the source image to be... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070236511 - Techniques to facilitate use of small line buffers for processing of small or large images: The disclosure describes image processing techniques useful for devices that support image processing of different sized images. The techniques can be used in many contexts, and may be particularly useful for front-end image processing of small viewfinder images and large still images captured by the device. In one embodiment, this... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070236514 - Methods and apparatuses for stereoscopic image guided surgical navigation: Methods and apparatuses to generate stereoscopic views for image guided surgical navigation. One embodiment includes transforming a first image of a scene into a second image of the scene according to a mapping between two views of the scene. Another embodiment includes generating a stereoscopic display of the scene using... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070236515 - Extended rotation and sharpening of an object viewed from a finite number of angles: A method of continuously rotating a subject object top over bottom over top on a display screen encompasses jumping to a view having a longitude that is 180 degrees from the previous and displaying the image in an up-side-down orientation. Upon pausing, or completing the rotation by releasing the mouse... Agent: Roland W Montague

20070236517 - Method and device for improving spatial and off-axis display standard conformance: The invention describes a method for improving the spatial and off-axis conformance of display systems with respect to an enforced greyscale or colour display standard. In the display systems, the native transfer curve is obtained for each pixel or zone of pixels, i.e. as a function of position on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070236516 - Sensor and display-independent quantitative per-pixel stimulation system: Sensor independent display characterization system spectrally characterizes a display system to measure radiant power emitted by the display system that displays a video image to a trainee pilot during sensor stimulation. A sensor spectral response for each wavelength produced by the stimulated sensor is determined. A stimulated luminance for each... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070236518 - Hysteretic led driver with low end linearization: Systems and methods for smoothing out visual effects of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). An example circuit includes one or more LEDs, a hysteretic controller circuit, and a linearization circuit. The hysteretic controller circuit supplies current to the LEDs when a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal is in a first state... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070229392 - Panel for multi-panel display and method of manufacture: A panel for a multi-panel display effectively reduces the width of its connecting portion. The panel for a multi-panel display comprises a substrate, a display element mounted on the substrate, a glass cover attached to the substrate, and a recess in the substrate between the display element and an end... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070229394 - Headup display apparatus: A display apparatus for use in a vehicle includes an irradiation source for irradiating a light of an image, a redirection component for redirecting the light of the image, an optical component for magnifying the image that enters therein, and a reflection component for reflecting the light of the image... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070229395 - System, method, and computer program product for controlling stereo glasses shutters: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for controlling stereo glasses shutters. In use, a right eye shutter of stereo glasses is controlled to switch between a closed orientation and an open orientation. Further, a left eye shutter of the stereo glasses is controlled to switch between the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070229396 - Virtual navigation system for virtual and real spaces: A system for Virtual Navigation in real and Virtual Spaces. Such navigation in Virtual spaces may be applied particularly in 3D computer games and 3D programming of motion pictures. Such navigation in real spaces creates a new paradigm in communication and media particularly with unique 3 D video interface devices... Agent: Arjuna Indraeswaran Rajasingham

20070229398 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method for the same: An organic light emitting display device and a driving method for the same is provided. The device includes a pixel portion adapted to receive a scan signal and a data signal and display an image. A scan driver generates and applies the scan signal to the pixel portion. A data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070229402 - Filter and display apparatus having the same: A display apparatus includes a display and a display filter, wherein the display filter includes a base film and a plurality of beads, wherein each bead includes a light absorbing element and a transparent layer.... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070229401 - Filter assembly for display panel and display apparatus comprising the same: A filter assembly includes a film type filter with a base film and a plurality of light absorption pattern units thereon, and an adhesion pattern layer attached to the film type filter. The adhesion pattern layer may include a plurality of protrusions arranged in a zigzag structure with respect to... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070229400 - Method and device for driving display device: A method for driving a display device includes the steps of setting a plurality of light emission quantity control patterns for associating a measurement parameter having a value corresponding to brightness of each frame of an original image with a control parameter that determines light emission quantity of the entire... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229404 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and an electrode driver. The plasma display panel includes a first driving electrode and a second driving electrode. The electrode driver supplies a pulse of a second polarity to the second driving electrode and a pulse of a first polarity opposite... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070229405 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus comprises a controller receiving and processing the same image signal during each unit period, a plasma display panel including a discharge cell corresponding to an area where a first electrode and a second electrode, and displaying an image corresponding to the same image signal, a first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070229406 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes an electrode driver and a plasma display panel. The electrode driver supplies a first data pulse corresponding to an image to a first electrode, and supplies a second data pulse corresponding to the image to a second electrode. The... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070229399 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel provided with plural discharge cells each having discharge gas, a pair of sustain electrodes which generate sustain discharge, and a phosphor, and a driving circuit which applies a sustain pulse voltage between the pair of sustain electrodes for generating the sustain... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070229403 - Plasma display unit and method of driving the same: A plasma display unit includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of display cells, wherein a display cell to be lit is selected among the display cells by applying a scan pulse thereto, and sustaining discharge is generated in the selected display cell for causing the selected display cell... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229407 - Display device: Provided is a display device that performs addressing by discharging electrons and performs a sustain discharge according to gradation in an addressed discharge cell. The display device includes: first and second substrates facing each other; barrier ribs disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and defining a plurality... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070229412 - Active-matrix device: A display device includes a driving transistor for supplying driving current to a display element; a first switch connecting the driving transistor to a corresponding data line; a second switch selectively connecting a control electrode of the driving transistor to one of two main electrodes of the driving transistor; and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229410 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a color display unit including pixels arranged in a matrix. The pixels includes first pixels for blue, second pixels for green, and third pixels for red, data lines connected to corresponding columns in the color display unit, and column-driving circuits connected to the columns in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229414 - Dual oled panel module: A dual OLED panel module uses a common package for linking two display panels. The common package has wires for a controller chip to deliver driving signals to drive the two panels simultaneously or either one. The dual OLED panel module needs fewer components, has smaller mechanical dimension, and requires... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070229413 - Electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of write scan lines including a predetermined number of the plurality of pixels as a unit, and a drive device driving the plurality of write scan lines non-sequentially and adjusting a light-emission period of the plurality of pixels in accordance... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229411 - Pixel and organic light emitting display device using the pixel: An organic light emitting display device pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED). First, second and third transistors each have first, second and gate electrodes. A storage capacitor is connected between a power source and the first transistor gate electrode. A power source line is connected with a cathode... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070229409 - Scan driving circuit and electroluminescent display using the same: A scan driving circuit having a shift register unit with a plurality of stages, each stage includes an input terminal; an output terminal; first, second, and third clock terminals; a first transistor in communication with the input terminal and the second clock terminal, the first transistor configured to transfer the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070229415 - Self-emission type display device: A self-emission type display device is disclosed. A current comparator circuit (47) in a data line drive circuit having a current compensating function (2) detects only the result of size comparison between the current amount due to the degeneration of a self-emission element and a reference value. The reduction of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070229418 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is disclosed, to prevent error of a timing controller and to prevent the defective image on a frequency conversion, the apparatus comprising a liquid crystal display part to display images, a driver to drive the liquid crystal display... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070229419 - In plane switching mode liquid crystal display device: Disclosed is an IPS mode LCD device, which comprises first and second substrates, N gate lines arranged on the first substrate substantially in parallel, M data lines arranged to cross the gate lines so as to define m×n pixel regions, a plurality of first switching devices formed at each crossing... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070229420 - Picture quality controlling method and flat panel display using the same: A picture quality controlling method including determining a charge characteristic compensation data of a link sub-pixel electrically connected to a defect sub-pixel and a normal sub-pixel, judging a first and second display surfaces different in brightness from each other, determining a first compensation data which compensates a brightness of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229421 - View angle controllable display device and terminal having the same: A display device, capable of changing view angle range and suitable for reducing thickness and weight, is provided. One compensating panel has such a structure that two polymer films, having birefringence, adhere to each other. The birefringence directions of the polymer films are parallel or orthogonal to the liquid crystal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229422 - Method and device for controlling delta panel: A control device is used with a delta panel of a display for processing and transmitting color data to be displayed on the delta panel according to a pixel clock received from the image processing circuit. A clock duplicating circuit of the control device processes said pixel clock into three... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070229426 - Apparatus and method of converting data, apparatus and method of driving image display device using the same: An apparatus and method of converting data and an apparatus and method of driving image display device using the same includes a gray scale detector that detects a same gray scale, from an M bit input data, in a plurality of pixels adjacent to one another, and a gray scale... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070229424 - Display device including optical sensor in pixel: In order to maintain display performance of a display device, the display device includes an optical sensor disposed across three sub-pixels of red, green and blue colors in each pixel. This configuration makes it possible to adjust the aperture ratios of the respective sub-pixels, and thus to make the amount... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229425 - Image information transmitting device and image information receiving device: To provide a technology capable of transmitting image information at a high speed under the same physical conditions as those in the prior arts. An image information transmitting method of the present invention includes replacing, in data with a plurality of gradations that form image information, high-order data with low-order... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229428 - Organic el display apparatus and driving method therefor: An organic EL display apparatus has a driving circuit. In the driving circuit, the source and drain of a driving transistor and the anode and cathode of an organic EL device are connected in series between voltage sources. A current passes between the source and drain of the driving transistor... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229427 - Pixel driving method and flat panel display thereof: A pixel driving method applied to a flat panel display is provided. In a first time period, an Nth scan line provides a first scan voltage to a pixel row to conduct the corresponding thin film transistors (TFT). Also, an N+1th scan line provides a second scan voltage through the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070229429 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes data lines and gate lines on a substrate intersecting each other to define a plurality of pixel areas; a plurality of liquid crystal cells formed in respective pixel areas; a data driver that generates a positive and a negative data signals, the data driver... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070229433 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and driving method are provided. A display device includes a display area that includes a plurality of pixel cells in respective pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines crossing each other. A data driver is operable to supply data signals to the pixel... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070229431 - Display panel and method of driving display panel using inversion driving method: A method of driving a display panel that comprises a plurality of source lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of cell capacitors each of which includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and a plurality of cell transistors that transmit a data voltage applied to the source... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070229432 - Liquid crystal display device, driving control circuit and driving method used in same: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of improving quality of moving images. A field dividing driving operation is performed in which an odd field during which each of scanning electrodes in odd-numbered rows is sequentially driven and an even field during which each of scanning electrodes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229436 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The method includes storing image data of one frame in a memory, selecting an output order of the data stored in the memory and outputting the data in the selected output order in accordance with a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070229434 - Method and apparatus of transmitting data signals and control signals via an lvds interface: A display method transmits data signals and control signals via an LVDS interface. The display method includes transmitting data codes corresponding to a control signal using a reserved bit of a channel of the LVDS interface, and generating the control signal for a display panel by decoding the data codes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229435 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method for the same: An organic light emitting display device is provided. The device includes a photo sensor adapted to: sense a brightness of ambient light; output a pulse width of an emission control signal corresponding to a sensed brightness of the ambient light; and output a gamma compensation coefficient corresponding to the sensed... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070229438 - Data driver and organic light emitting display using the same: A data driver includes a shift register unit receiving a first clock signal, a second clock signal and a start pulse, and outputting a sampling pulse, a sampling latch unit storing data based on the sampling pulse and a charging signal, and a holding latch unit receiving data stored in... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070229393 - Display control device, computer, image display device, and image display system: A writing device constituting an electronic book includes a connector to which electronic papers are detachably connected. The number of connected sheets of electronic paper is recognized, and is output to a host computer. In the host computer, display data is output on the basis of the number of electronic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229397 - Virtual reality system: A virtual reality (VR) system includes an image playback system that sends images to an image viewing device, such as a pair of display glasses. Each image has a 360-degree field of view. A user views a portion of the images. The portion of the image viewed is determined by... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20070229408 - Active matrix display device: A display device includes address decoding circuitry for causing the activation or deactivation of the pixel circuits a row at a time during a cycle containing a plurality of different time windows, wherein each time window has different time values, the total time of activated windows for a given pixel... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20070229417 - Flexible display device: Complementary transistors e.g. a p-channel TFT-transistor (16) and an n-channel TFT-transistor (17) are used as driving transistors in a pixel circuit (10). Upon bending they vary in opposite ways, one with smaller (drain) current the other with larger (drain) current, and in total the effect will be reduced.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070229416 - High voltage hysteretic led controller: Systems and methods for hysteretically controlling Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) in a high voltage environment. An example system includes a plurality of LEDs and a circuit electrically coupled to the plurality of LEDs. The circuit hysteretically controls an input voltage supplied to the plurality of LEDs based on an input... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070229423 - Combined gamma and phase table data in memory for lcd cstn displays: Methods and systems to optimize the adaptation of gamma curve and phase table data to a color LCD STN display anytime by storing these data in a same memory are disclosed. The gamma curve and phase table data are stored in a same read/write memory element; hence allowing the adaptation... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20070229430 - Multi-domain liquid crystal display: A multi-domain liquid crystal display includes a plurality of first and second picture elements and a plurality of first and second auxiliary electrodes. The first and second picture elements have opposite polarities under the same frame of an inversion drive scheme. The first auxiliary electrodes are connected to the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229437 - Driving method for cholesteric liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a driving method for cholesteric liquid crystal display. A plurality of pixels of the display are controlled by a plurality of row drivers and a plurality of column drivers. According to the method of the invention, firstly, a DC input voltage or a non-symmetric AC... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070229441 - Display device: A display device is disclosed, which has a printed circuit board, a display panel, data driver chips and a scan driver circuit. The display panel has a substrate, scan lines and data lines. The scan lines are disposed on the substrate, and the data lines perpendicular to the scan lines... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070229442 - Lcd device and driving circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display device and driving circuit thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a storage unit, an external gamma reference voltage generator and a source driver IC. The storage unit stores a plurality of digital gamma data each relating to at least one predetermined color. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070229439 - Gamma reference voltage generating device and liquid crystal display using the same: A Gamma reference voltage generating device related to a liquid crystal display is provided. The device comprises a voltage dividing device and multiple voltage followers. The voltage dividing device provided multiple voltage dividing signals comprises multiple voltage dividing elements (usually resisters or capacitors) connected in series. An optional image data... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070229440 - Source driver of an lcd panel with reduced voltage buffers and method of driving the same: A source driver for driving an M-bit liquid crystal display panel includes a reference voltage generator, 2M-X voltage buffers and a voltage-dividing circuit. The 2M-X voltage buffers are coupled to the reference voltage generator for enhancing the driving abilities of 2M-X reference voltages generated by the reference voltage generator, thereby... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229443 - Image display apparatus and image display method: An image display apparatus that displays an image on a display includes: a temperature measuring unit that measures temperatures of a plurality of display regions of the display; a determining unit that determines whether or not a temperature difference between one of the plurality of display regions and the other... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070229445 - Apparatus for driving the backlight unit of a display provided in a mobile communication terminal with an economical power and a method therefor: Disclosed is an apparatus for driving the backlight unit of a display in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a storage device to store multimedia data, wherein the storage device receives power from an electric power source, a data processor to play the multimedia data, and a control unit... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070229448 - Backlight module: A backlight module including a control unit, a backlight driving unit, a first light source set, and a second light source set is provided. The backlight driving unit is controlled by the control unit to generate a driving command to light on/off the light source sets. Therefore, the first and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070229450 - Driving apparatus and method for driving light emitting elements, and projector: The light-emitting element driving apparatus comprises a direct-current power source 13 for supplying direct current I-in, a light-emitting element selection controlling section 11 for selecting light emitting elements 10R, 10G, 10B, successively, to which elements different rated current values are set respectively, a power supplying section 13 for changing the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229446 - Driving apparatus of light emitting diode and liquid crystal display using the same: A driving apparatus of a light emitting diode and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The driving apparatus of a LED includes a plurality of LED groups in which LEDs are connected in series to each other; a plurality of constant voltage supply units that supplies a constant voltage required... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070229452 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel having a TFT substrate 2, a CF substrate 25, and a liquid crystal layer 14 interposed between the two substrates; a TFT ambient light photosensor having a semiconductor layer 19L for... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

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20070229451 - Liquid crystal display device improved in white balance of display: A surface illuminant device to be set as a backlight of a liquid crystal display panel has a light guide plate and LEDs. The LEDs each include LED chips for emitting rays of light having wavelengths of red, green, and blue, which are each driven by an LED drive control... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070229453 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display unit for displaying image signals, a lighting device including a light-adjustment unit for adjusting a quantity of light from a light source, which is transmitted to each of plural regions into which the lighting device is divided for illuminating corresponding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070229447 - Liquid crystal display device: Common signals VCOM during a black voltage writing period are set to be larger than common signals VCOM during a video writing period. The common voltage signals VCOM is VmH or VmL during the black voltage writing periods. The common voltage signals VCOM is VcH or VcL during video writing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229444 - Liquid crystal display, method for displaying color images, and method for controlling light sources of an lcd panel: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of light sources of different colors and a control device. The control device is used to control the light sources to emit light with different duty cycles. Through persistence of vision, light generated by the light sources will form an image of desired... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229454 - Drawing apparatus and dotted line drawing method: The challenge of the present invention is to prevent a crook line part of a dotted line from being displayed in half tone. The present invention is contrived to calculate a center coordinate of a texture pixel in a zone including a reference texture beginning point coordinate S_Begin as reference... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070229455 - Method and apparatus for providing tactile sensations: Products and processes for providing tactile sensations to input devices or electronic devices are provided. Input devices include mechanical input devices (such as, for example, mechanical switches) and non-mechanical input devices (such as, for example, touchpads). Tactile feedback is provided by using an actuator or other means in communication with... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070229458 - Wheel input device and method for four-way key stroke in portable terminal: A wheel input device and a method thereof enable a four-way key stroke, space saving, effective key arrangement, and suitability for existing operating systems or application programs by using a scroll wheel. A direction change button may be used to control the directional property of the scroll wheel. By rotating... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070229456 - Dual mode input device: When the user depresses a freely rotating input device, it engages a spring-cantering mechanism and enables the user to move the pointer quickly with a velocity control pointing method. The spring-centering provides the user haptic feedback of the pointer speed. When the pointer is near the target, the user can... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070229457 - Electronic blackboard system and method of controlling display thereof: An electronic blackboard system characterized in including a position detecting portion for detecting a position of a member brought into contact with a screen, an electronic paper for displaying the position of the member detected by the position detecting portion on the screen as a locus, a control portion for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070229459 - Computer peripheral input device: A computer peripheral input device is described. The computer peripheral input device includes a housing and a button. The housing is under a user's palm. The button, sideward positioned on the housing, is for the user to non-downward push with the user's index finger or middle finger.... Agent: Heng-yi Lin

20070229460 - Pointing device, and method of displaying remaining battery power thereof: According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes an optical motion detector, battery lifetime display unit, battery, communication unit, communication signal emitting opening, and mouse button unit. The optical motion detector includes a CPU, RAM, ROM, and optical unit. The optical unit has a light emitting unit configured to emit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070229461 - Optical mouse that automatically adapts to glass surfaces and method of using the same: A pointing device and method for using the same are disclosed. The pointing device includes an illumination system, an imaging system, and a controller. The illumination system illuminates a portion of a surface over which the pointing device travels with coherent light. The imaging system includes a first window for... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070229462 - System and method for mapping user-input controls to corresponding regions of a user display: A mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display, a keypad including a plurality of keys, and a controller configured to receive input commands from the keypad and to deliver video information to the display. The mobile phone also includes a memory holding game instructions that, when executed by the... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070229463 - Device and program for keyboard management: A keyboard management method, program product, and system for switching display of keyboards supporting multiple languages for MFPs. An inner keyboard data memory unit stores in advance keyboard data and font data to be displayed on a display panel associated with the keyboard data. An external keyboard data memory unit... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070229470 - Capacitive touch sense device having polygonal shaped sensor elements: A touch sensor pad having polygon shaped sensor elements of five or more sides is described.... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070229472 - Circular scrolling touchpad functionality determined by starting position of pointing object on touchpad surface: A circular touchpad, or a touchpad of some other shape but having a circular scrolling region outlined thereon, wherein functions are defined as a button on the circular touchpad or within the circular scrolling region, wherein the function is actuated by touching down on the button, and then performing the... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070229469 - Non-planar touch sensor pad: A non-planar touch sensor pad is described.... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070229474 - Parameter editor and signal processor: A device editing a value of a parameter according to an operation by a user operates in a normal mode and in a detailed edit mode. In the normal mode, according to an operation sensed by a touch panel, the position of a cursor in a main screen displayed on... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20070229471 - Terminal and method for selecting displayed items: A terminal and method for selecting an item displayed on a touch screen are disclosed. The method for selecting an item displayed on the screen includes simultaneously touching the screen at two or more locations to define a selection area and identifying the items within the selection area. The section... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070229473 - Terminal equipped with touch-wheel and method for entering command in the terminal: A terminal equipped with a touch-wheel and a method for entering a command in the terminal are disclosed. The terminal includes a first touch-wheel and a second touch-wheel for recognizing a variety of user's touch actions, the first touch-wheel and the second touch-wheel being substantially configured concentrically and a controller... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070229476 - Apparatus and method for inputting character using touch screen in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for inputting characters in a portable terminal. The method for inputting characters in a portable terminal includes the steps of: performing a soft keyboard when in a character input mode; recognizing a character touched on the soft keyboard; displaying the recognized character enlarged and... Agent: Stimson, Shin & Associates, LLP

20070229466 - Apparatus and method for recognizing a tap gesture on a touch sensing device: A method and apparatus to recognize a tap gesture on a sensing device. The method may include detecting a presence of a conductive object on a sensing device, determining a velocity of the detected presence of the conductive object, and recognizing a tap gesture based on the velocity. The velocity... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229468 - Apparatus and method for reducing average scan rate to detect a conductive object on a sensing device: An apparatus and method to reduce an average scan rate to detect a conductive object on a sensing device. The method may include detecting a presence of a conductive object in a first area of a sensing device using a first scan of the sensing device, and detecting the presence... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229467 - E-ink touchscreen visualizer for home av system: An interface apparatus includes a main unit, an array of interface modules, driver circuitry, and a remote unit. The main unit outputs files to an output unit, is detachably couplable to interface modules and assigns content identifiers to interface modules. The array presents an image to the user and each... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070229464 - Force imaging input device and system: A force imaging touch pad includes first and second sets of conductive traces separated by a spring membrane. When a force is applied, the spring membrane deforms moving the two sets of traces closer together. The resulting change in mutual capacitance is used to generate an image indicative of the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070229478 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070229477 - High parameter-count touchpad controller: Touchpad user interfaces for controlling external systems such as computers, machinery, and process environments via at least three independent control signals. The touchpad may be operated by hand, other parts of the body, or inanimate objects. Such an interface affords a wide range of uses in computer applications, machine and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070229465 - Remote control system: The present embodiments provide systems and methods for use in remote controlling devices including consumer electronic devices. Some embodiments provide a remote control system that comprises a processor, a display driver coupled with the processor, a touch screen display coupled with and receiving display control signals from the display driver... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070229475 - Single piece top surface display layer and integrated front cover for an electronic device: A single-piece top surface display and integrated front cover for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the cover comprises a thin, flexible, transparent layer coupled with a supporting structure. The flexible layer is supported above a display screen which is coupled with pressure activated sensors located under the display screen.... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070229479 - Panel assembly: A panel assembly is provided. The panel assembly includes a first panel having a first insulating substrate, and a second panel having a second insulating substrate and a touch sensing portion formed on the second insulating substrate. The first panel and the second panel face each other.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070229482 - Image data display control device: A memory access switchover circuit relays a data access to the image memory by a writing control circuit and a data access to the image memory by the display control circuit. A blanking period change control circuit extends the blanking period in a display frame at timing of reception of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070229480 - Picture display device and picture display method: A picture display device 1 for displaying a picture based on a picture signal includes: a correction data storage means 13 for storing compressed data of correction data for correcting luminance variations among display pixels, compressed by a predetermined data compression technique; a picture signal correction means 15 for correcting... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229481 - Scanning signal line driving device, liquid crystal display device, and liquid crystal display method: The gate driver of the present invention operates so as to apply an image signal to a pixel when a start pulse signal having a short pulse length out of start pulse signals having different pulse lengths is inputted, and the gate driver operates so as to apply a black... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070229483 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070229484 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a substrate having a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels each including a pixel electrode and a switching element, the pixels disposed at positions corresponding to intersecting portions of the scanning lines and the data lines; a photoelectric... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229485 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in displays: A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in graphical displays is described. A display may includes decision logic to determine if a first pixel of the display will undergo a state transition, and if so, charge sharing switch logic switches the first pixel to a common bus for charge... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229486 - Apparatus and method for detecting sync signal: An apparatus and a method for detecting the sync signal of a data signal are disclosed. The apparatus includes a clamping unit, a subtraction unit and a detection unit. The clamping unit receives the data signal and varies the level of the data signal. The subtraction unit coupled to the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070229488 - Computer system capable of operating functions according to a scene change and method thereof: A computer system includes an image capturing module for capturing a first image, a scene generating means for generating a background image according to the first image, a scene comparing means for comparing a second image captured by the image capturing module with the background image so as to generate... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070229489 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a graphics controller, a signal outputting unit inputting a picture signal from the graphics controller, and a display unit receiving and displaying the picture signal output from the graphics controller, upon receiving a change signal from the graphics controller, the signal... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070229487 - System, method, and computer program product for increasing an lcd display vertical blanking interval: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enhancing a viewing experience when display content is viewed utilizing stereo glasses. In use, display content is received for being outputted utilizing a display. Further, a duration of a vertical blanking interval associated with the display content is increased for... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070229491 - Image processing apparatus and image data list display method: An image processing apparatus includes an image data storage unit, an operation unit, a generation unit, a display unit and a control unit. The image data storage unit stores plural pieces of image data. The operation unit allows a user to input an instruction. The generation unit outputs one of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229490 - Map version control methods and apparatus for updating the use of network-maintained map data sets for mobile communication devices: A map version control method of providing updates of network-maintained map data sets in mobile communication devices includes the steps of receiving a version of map data from a network database through a wireless communication network; causing the map to be visually displayed in a display in accordance with the... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070229492 - Medical image-processing apparatus and method, and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus: A medical image-processing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a plurality of medical images obtained at different imaging positions, a setting unit configured to set a point of interest on each of the medical images in accordance with an operation of an operator, an alignment unit configured to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070229495 - Three-dimensional display apparatus: A three-dimensional display apparatus is provided that is suitable for displaying information or instruction relating to the work that the viewer is doing. The three-dimensional display apparatus has a display data generation unit for generating a plurality of display data each expressing a screen at a depth from a viewpoint... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070229497 - High-resolution rapid manufacturing: The present invention is a method for forming an object, the method comprising jetting a first material to form a plurality of layers that define a support structure increment, and extruding a second material to form a layer of the object. The layer of the object substantially conforms to an... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070229494 - Image drawing device, vertex selecting method, vertex selecting program, and integrated circuit: The present invention provides a dividing method taking, into consideration, memory access when determining vertices of polygons created through division in an image rendering apparatus for rendering a 3-dimensional image with polygons, in which a polygon is divided into smaller polygons in order to improve the representational power of an... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070229493 - Method for determining the three-dimensional surface of an object: vi represents said distance, w represents a second preset value, and j indicates a neighbourhood of cells of the i_th cell; determining (9) the sum in module of the variations of the value of each cell between the time t and the time t+l; repeating (10) said phase of determining... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070229496 - Three-dimensional imaging system and methods: The present invention relates to a system and methods for rendering simulated three-dimensional images on a display device. More particularly, the present invention involves systems and methods for organizing, configuring and transmitting data from a server to a client for the display of a simulated three-dimensional image.... Agent: Trask Britt

20070229499 - Restoring and collating system and method for 3-dimensional face data: A 3-dimensional face data restoring and collating system includes a 2-dimension face image storage unit configured to store a plurality of 2-dimensional face images of persons, and a 3-dimensional face restored shape storage unit. A 3-dimensional face shape restoring unit restores a 3-dimensional face shape data from one of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070229498 - Statistical modeling for synthesis of detailed facial geometry: The invention provides a system and method for modeling small three-dimensional facial features, such as wrinkles and pores. A scan of a face is acquired. A polygon mesh is constructed from the scan. The polygon mesh is reparameterized to determine a base mesh and a displacement image. The displacement image... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070229500 - System and method for in-context mpr visualization using virtual incision volume visualization: A method for multi-planar reconstruction of digitized medical images includes providing an image volume, sampling the neighborhood about each point in a planar region and saving a color value and a depth, providing a projection plane onto which rendering rays are projected from a viewing point through said image volume,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070229501 - Method and system for organizing and rendering multiple geometric parts within a volume graphics data set: Various methods are provided for organizing multiple geometric parts forming an object in 3D voxel data and/or for permitting a user to detach and/or reattach these parts. In one embodiment, the 3D voxel data are organized in two steps. First, a part voxel set is created for each geometric part.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070229502 - Shell radiance texture function: A shell radiance texture function (SRTF) is defined to record an outgoing radiance from a base volume of an object to be rendered. Using the SRTF, radiance values are precomputed and stored for the base volume. The object is rendered using the precomputed radiance values.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070229503 - Method of and system for non-uniform image enhancement: Methods of rendering a view of a scene include steps that specify quality levels of anti-aliasing and texture filtering for predetermined regions of a display, or selected objects within the scene, or both. Methods of processing data for display include steps adapted to process portions of the image according to... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070229504 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes: a display device; and a processor. The processor operates to: perform a process for processing an image, the process including a plurality of process steps including an image acquiring process step for acquiring an image data and an image processing process step for processing the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070229507 - Data processor with a built-in memory: A memory-built-in data processor comprises a controller connected to an external unit and a memory via first and second buses, and a data processor performing readout/write-in of data with respect to the memory via a third bus, the controller and the second bus, the controller performing arbitration between a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229506 - Rendering apparatus, method and program, and shape data generation apparatus, method and program: Rendering apparatus includes input unit inputting vector graphics data, computation unit computing shape feature quantity related to vector graphics data, acquisition unit acquiring, as rendering parameters, position of shape on screen, and matrix indicating affine transformation to position, computation unit computing number of pixels, first conversion unit converting vector graphics... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229505 - Selective rendering for driver classes: Described is a filtering mechanism/process that selectively controls whether graphics primitives are provided to a given driver. For example, graphics primitives of an accessibility (e.g., magnification) program may be excluded from being obtained by mirror drivers associated with the accessibility programs, so that the mirror drivers receive only the primitives... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070229508 - System and method for generating curved pipe objects for computer aided design models: One embodiment of the invention provides a method for generating a curved pipe object in a computer-aided design drawing where the geometry of a curved pipe object is generally represented as a segment of a helix. A user selects a curved pipe creation method and a set of geometric attributes... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070229510 - Displaying of vector graphics, in particular of geographical maps: The simplification/reconstruction processing of an image comprising areas delimited by polygonal lines whose points defining said lines are initially stored in a memory consists in organising sets of remaining points of each line after different initial image simplifications with different simplification ratios in a hierarchical database (SER) and, for processing... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070229509 - Graphic system, broken line texture image generation apparatus, and broken line texture image generation method: A graphic system includes a texture storage area 4b for storing a broken line texture image in which broken line patterns by modifier function are arranged, a texture module 3b for reading a specific broken line pattern arranged in the broken line texture image based on coordinates on the broken... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070229511 - Input unit arrangement: An input unit arrangement for controlling an electronic device is provided. The arrangement comprises: a base; a position-coding pattern provided on the base and coding a first and second sets of absolute positions on spatially separate areas of the base. the first and second sets of absolute positions being mutually... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070229512 - Device and program for image formation and processing: A method for efficient incorporation of additional language fonts in creating panel display data, print image data, and facsimile transmission image data. The method enables MFPs to easily create an image data containing a new font when character font data and symbol codes are added or altered. Input units are... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070229513 - Method of labelling a highly curved path on a map rendered on a wireless communications device: In displaying a map on a wireless communications device, a method is provided that resolves labelling of sharp curves. The method entails a determination of whether a curvature of a map element associated with the map feature exceeds a predetermined threshold (e.g. whether a rate of change in slope of... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070229515 - Image forming apparatus and image forming control program: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a font data storing section for storing font data; an input section for inputting image data and font data used for this image data from outside; and a font data addition control section for recognizing the font data used for this... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070229514 - Image forming device and electronic medium and image processing program for image forming device: A method for an image forming device, an electronic medium, and an image processing program, which enables external output of image data and font data for the image data with ease. The image forming device includes an input unit, a font data memory unit, a font data read-and-write control unit,... Agent: Kyocera Technology Development Intellectual Property Administration

20070229516 - Device, method and program for image processing: m

20070229517 - Snooze support for event reminders: Snooze support for event reminders produced on a hand held mobile device is disclosed. Snooze support in at least one example embodiment is characterized by an event reminder rescheduling method. This event reminder rescheduling method includes the step of prompting for a device user to take one of a number... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20070229518 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a display unit; a communication unit for carrying out a communication with an external apparatus; a reproduction unit for reproducing a content; and a control unit for executing control to change a predetermined display screen appearing on the display unit on the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070229519 - Mirror driver notification of device independent bitmap drawing calls: Described is a technology including a mechanism a mechanism that when activated, detects a call to a device independent bitmap. An appropriate mirror driver, such as one or more registered as an accessibility driver, may then be notified of the call. The mechanism may be activated upon creation or selection... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070229520 - Buffered paint systems: Methods and systems for allocating a buffer from a buffer pool and for performing buffered rendering with animated transitions are described. An illustrative computer-implemented method includes steps of receiving, from a thread, a request for a buffer from a buffer pool associated with the thread, determining whether a first pre-existing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070229521 - Memory management system and method for gpu-based volume rendering: A memory manager interfaces between a rendering application and the driver controlling one or more memories. A multi-level brick cache system caches bricks in a memory hierarchy to accelerate the rendering. One example memory hierarchy may include system memory, AGP memory, and graphics memory. The memory manager allows control of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070229523 - Method and device for decoding and displaying video frames: A method of decoding and displaying video frames and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method includes indexing the first portion of a buffer with the first reference number, said first portion to be stored with the first reference frame; changing said first reference number to the second reference upon... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070229522 - System and method for animal gait characterization from bottom view using video analysis: In general, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for finding the gait parameters of an animal using video. The invention includes a system with a video camera coupled to a computer in which the computer is configured to automatically provide animal segmentation, foot identification, foot tracking, and... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20070229524 - Draggable maps: A web server receives a request from a client specifying a location and a bounding area. A mapping engine creates a tile grid centered at the specified location. A seed tile is created, including or adjacent to the center location. The web server creates a resource identifier for each tile... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070229525 - Parity-scanning and refresh in dynamic memory devices: A method and apparatus that coordinates refresh and parity-scanning in DRAM-based devices such that parity-scan operations substitute for refresh operations when both operations are required in the system. The process of parity-scanning automatically refreshes tie entries being scanned, subject to refresh and parity-scan interval requirements. As such, refresh and parity-scan... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070229527 - Display digital signal visualizations with increasing accuracy: Digital signal visualizations may be displayed with increasing accuracy as the signal data is processed. According to one embodiment, an entire digital signal visualization is displayed as data processing begins. As the digital signal data upon which the visualization is processed, the visualization is refined with increasing accuracy. In one... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20070229528 - Image generation using low-discrepancy sequences: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image and displays a human-perceptible image on an LCD CRT or other display device based on an electrical output generated in response to the pixel value, the pixel being representative of a point in a scene as... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070229526 - Vector based object property variations: An electronic vector based graphics design application may automatically introduce a variation to a property of a vector based graphic object, existing ones or those to be created using one of the vector object creation tools, by specifying a variation through any suitable set of one or more user interfaces.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070229529 - Texture mapping apparatus, method and program: Texture mapping (TM) apparatus includes unit acquiring texture data items (TD) and model data items (MD), unit generating control data used for TM according to TD and MD, unit generating control instructions (CIs) for TM processes corresponding to control data, unit selecting at least one model data item (ALMD) and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229530 - Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image: A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using the one or more graphics textures of differing resolutions. The one or more graphics textures have different resolutions,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070229531 - Wireless terminal and method for personalizing display colors of menu screen using color information of an image: A wireless terminal for personalizing display colors of a menu screen using color information of an image, wherein the wireless terminal includes; a memory for storing the image captured by the camera module; an image processing unit for determining colors used to display the menu screen using color information of... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070229532 - Color conversion device and image display apparatus having the same: A color conversion device includes a three-dimensional lookup table and an interpolation unit. The interpolation unit includes a plurality of operation circuits for realizing an operation process.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070229533 - System and method for reducing complexity in a color sequential display system: A system and method for reducing complexity in a color sequential display system that utilizes motion compensation and color conversion. A color sequential display system (10) is provided that comprises: a motion estimation system (14) that operates on a Y component from a set of YUV components to generate a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070229534 - Apparatus and method for converting interlaced image into progressive image: An apparatus and method for converting an interlaced image into a progressive image, the apparatus includes a motion detector which detects motion at an object pixel of the interlaced field image, using proceeding and following field images; an interpolation direction determination unit which determines a direction in which the object... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229536 - Method and apparatus for transforming images to accommodate screen orientation: A method and apparatus for transforming a display image on a display from a first orientation to a second orientation, the method having the steps of: breaking up the display image into multiple sub-images; and transforming each of the multiple sub-images individually, the transforming step including selecting a pixel, determining... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070229535 - Method and apparatus for icon visual representation of a connected device: A computerized method, in accordance with various embodiments, for visual notification comprising detecting a device that is newly in communication with a computer; determining a type information for the device; and outputting an animated visual representation or a large visual representation on a display device corresponding to the type information... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070229539 - Method of graphically indicating on a wireless communications device that map data is still being downloaded: Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes downloading map data from which the map is to be rendered, rendering portions of the map for which the map data has been fully downloaded, and then graphically overlaying on a portion of the map for which the map data has... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070229538 - Methods and apparatus for dynamically labeling map objects in visually displayed maps of mobile communication devices: Methods and apparatus for dynamically labeling map objects for different views of a visually displayed map are disclosed. For each view of a plurality of different views of a map, a view of the map is rendered “on-the-fly” in a display. The technique is performed by retrieving map data which... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070229537 - Virtual view schematic editor: Embodiments of the present invention provide a virtual-view schematic editor for use in CAD systems. In response to a user request, the editor selects elements from a CAD database, determines the connectivity between the elements, and renders the elements on a single display. Virtual views may be created and stored... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070229540 - On-vehicle stereoscopic display device: There is provided an on-vehicle stereoscopic display device wherein the same graphics having different brightness levels are superimposed on display devices to represent the depth of a graphic. The device has a configuration such that information indicating a cross-sectional shape of a graphic to be stereoscopically displayed is generated, and... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070229541 - Method of displaying labels on maps of wireless communications devices using pre-rendered characters: Labels can be rendered on a map displayed on a wireless communications device by using pre-rendered characters. The pre-rendered characters can be pre-rotated to one of a number of angular orientations and stored as a variable transparency bitmap for rapid overlaying on the map. The bitmap can include an array... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070229542 - Method and graphical interface for embedding animated content into a computer application: A method of displaying a computer application comprising a plurality of objects within an initially transparent application window comprises creating an animated content window below the application window for each animated content object of the computer application and directing the player responsible for playing the animated content object to draw... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070229544 - Nurbs surface deformation apparatus and the method using 3d target curve: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for deforming a curved surface using a three-dimensional target curve. The curved surface deformation apparatus of the present invention includes object curved surface selection means, sample vertex extraction means, basis function calculation means, target curve input means, control point variation calculation means, and... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament&rubenstein,pc

20070229545 - Real-time spherical correction of map data: A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes steps of obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, generating corrected map data by applying a spherical correction factor to the obtained map data, and rendering the corrected map data... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070229543 - System for controlling deformation: A system or tool kit is provided that allows a user to specify a deformation for a model. When the deformation produces anomalies the user can select functions or solutions from the tool kit to be executed that correct the anomalies. When the effect of a warp or deformation extends... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070229546 - Method of applying a spherical correction to map data for rendering direction-of-travel paths on a wireless communications device: Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes steps of obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, determining a rotation that, when applied to the map, will orient a selected path in a selected direction, such as a current direction of... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070229547 - Image processing device for expanded representation of three-dimensional image data sets: An image processing device has an image presentation module that is fashioned for 3D representation of a 3D subject on an image display device, and has an interaction module with which an operator can interactively displace, rotate or zoom the 3D subject in the 3D representation. The image processing device... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070229548 - Method and image processing device for improved pictorial representation of images with different contrast: A method and an image processing device are disclosed for improved or even optimized pictorial representation of images with different contrast. In the case of at least one embodiment of the method, a 3D pictorial representation is generated from two 2D image data records, which represent images of the same... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070229549 - Methods and apparatus for associating mapping functionality and information in contact lists of mobile communication devices: In one illustrative example, a method of providing mapping functionality in a contact list of a mobile communication device comprises the acts of providing a contact list organizer function in the mobile communication device for use in organizing a plurality of contacts of a contact book or list; identifying, through... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070229550 - Using self-adjustable three-dimensional matrix to simplify the construction of a complex 3d scene: The aspects of the present invention provide for a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for adding a new virtual object into a virtual scene having at least one existing virtual object. An exemplary computer-implemented method includes calculating the dimensions for each cell in a matrix that... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070229551 - Part table creating apparatus and part table creating method: To solve an overlap between a part table and components automatically and adequately in a drawing using a CAD. In a part table creating method for creating a part table including a plurality of rows of CAD data, an overlap between the part table and other geometric elements is detected.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070229552 - Color compensation method for a display: A color compensation method for a display is disclosed. The display includes a display module for receiving a plurality of original pixel data. The method includes calculating power-on time duration of the display module; and adjusting gray levels of the original pixel data according to the power-on time duration.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070229553 - Display device having an improved video signal drive circuit: A display device including: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix array; a selector circuit for selecting one from a plurality of rows of pixels in said matrix array; and a video signal supplying circuit for supplying a video signal to each of pixels in said selected row in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070229554 - Display device: A display device includes a display unit in which display elements provided with pixel circuits are arranged so as to have a sequence of three different colors in a row direction and the colors are shifted in a column direction by 1.5 columns. A scanning line is provided in every... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070229555 - Electronic device and operation controlling method thereof: According to one embodiment, an electronic device in which a display unit is detachable from a device body and the display unit and the device body are able to make wireless communication with each other when the display unit is detached from the device body, the electronic device includes a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070229556 - Display data size adjustment apparatus and method for portable terminal: An apparatus and method for a portable terminal that adjust sizes of user data displayed on a screen are provided. Requested user data is displayed on a screen of the portable terminal in response to a request from a user. If a key is input, a determination is made as... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070229557 - Image display apparatus and method: An image display unit has a display region with a higher resolution than a number of pixels of an image. A base information storage unit stores viewing position information of a viewer and size information of the display region. A wide-angle transformation unit calculates a central area including a viewing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070229558 - Image viewing control: A computer implemented method, computer program, data processing device and user interface for controlling display of an image by a program on display device are described. The method includes detecting a command to cause the program to display the image. A password for the program is displayed on the display... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie