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