Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 11/07

20070273609 - Display system, display method, and display program: Enlarged display of part of display data on display by a first display section is performed to a second display section, based on a relative position of the second display section with respect to the first display section. A display system has a first display section that displays display data;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070273610 - System and method to display maintenance and operational instructions of an apparatus using augmented reality: A head-mounted display provides a user with an augmented view of an object being viewed; a tracking mechanism such as a camera repeatedly determine the position and orientation of the head-mounted display relative the object being viewed; and a computer system provides information for the augmented view and repeatedly updates... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070273612 - Plasma display, and driving device and method thereof: In a plasma display, an output terminal of a scan integrated circuit is coupled to a plurality of scan electrodes, a first input terminal of the scan integrated circuit is coupled to a voltage source supplying a VscH voltage, and a second input terminal thereof is coupled to a source... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070273613 - Light circuit and electronic book employing same: An exemplary light circuit includes a light unit (7) that includes a plurality of light branches (L1, L2 . . . and Ln) connected in parallel; an ambient light detector (9) for detecting an ambient luminance; an ambient light switch (101) for enabling/disenabling the ambient light detector; a control unit... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070273616 - Driving method for plasma display apparatus: A driving method for a plasma display apparatus is provided. In the method, a first pulse is applied to a first electrode in a positive direction and a second pulse is applied to the first electrode in a negative direction alternately during the sustain period. a predetermined bias voltage is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070273622 - Amoled pixel unit: An AMOLED pixel unit includes an OLED, first to fourth switches, and an energy-storage element. The OLED has a cathode receiving a ground voltage. The first switch has a first terminal receiving a data signal. The second switch has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070273620 - Image display: Herein disclosed an image display including: row scan lines configured to supply a control signal; column signal lines configured to supply a video signal; and pixel circuits configured to be disposed at intersections between the scan lines and the signal lines, wherein each of the pixel circuits has at least... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070273621 - Image display device: Herein disclosed an image display device including a pixel circuit array portion, a scanner portion, and a signal portion.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070273618 - Pixels and display panels: A pixel providing voltage compensation and comprising a compensation device, a first switch element, a driving transistor, and a display element. The compensation device generates a compensation voltage during a first period. The first switch element transfers a data signal during a second period following the first period. The driving... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070273619 - Unit circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A unit circuit includes an electro-optical element, a first capacitive element, a second capacitive element, a third capacitive element, a drive transistor, a first switching element, an initialization unit, and a compensation unit. The electro-optical element emits an amount of light in accordance with a magnitude of a drive current.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273623 - Method and apparatus using a dual axis optical dithering system to increase a perceived resolution of a display: According to one embodiment, a method of increasing a perceived resolution of a display includes directing light at an optical dithering system. The position of one or more optical elements associated with the optical dithering system is selectively alternated between a first set of positions relative to a first axis... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070273628 - Electro-optical device, image processing device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a display unit that has a plurality of pixel portions constituting a display area on a substrate and an image signal processing. The image signal processing circuit generates an image signal that sets a first subframe frame luminance of the pixel portion in a first subframe... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273627 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal module, a disk drive and a wiring board. The liquid crystal module has protrusions formed on a back plate of the liquid crystal module. The disk drive has attachment components aligned with the protrusions and fixed to the protrusions. The wiring... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070273630 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines transmitting gate signals wherein each gate signal has a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines and transmitting data voltages, a plurality of storage electrode lines extending in parallel to the gate lines... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070273629 - Display drive circuit and drive method for the same: A display drive circuit and a drive method for the same are proposed. The drive circuit is alternately controlled by a first control signal and a second control signal in each frame time, and alternately performs storage or release of image data to a first maintaining capacitor and a second... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070273633 - Display driving circuit and driving method: A driving circuit for a display apparatus includes a common line driver that supplies at least two different common voltages to a common line included in the display apparatus, a plurality of data line drivers that supply a data voltage to each of a plurality of data lines included in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070273632 - Driver controller: Data driver modules are connected to a driver controller. In driver-data output clock selection sections and driver data control sections, each equal in number to the data driver modules that are connected to the driver controller, the phase of driver data is adjusted for each data driver module, while the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070273631 - Interface circuit for data transmission and method thereof: An interface circuit for data transmission and the method thereof is described. The interface circuit includes a transmitter providing data through first data signals during the data periods corresponding to rising and falling edges of a clock signal, a transition detection unit selectively asserting a detection signal in response to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070273634 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of an OCB mode includes a liquid crystal layer held between an array substrate and a counter-substrate, and a display section composed of display pixels arrayed in a matrix. The array substrate includes pixel electrodes which are disposed in association with the display pixels. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273611 - Biosensors, communicators, and controllers monitoring eye movement and methods for using them: Biosensor, communicator, and/or controller apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring movement of a person's eye. The apparatus includes a device configured to be worn on a user's head, a light source for directing light towards one or both eyes of the user, one or more image guides on... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070273614 - Method and device for reducing line load effect: The present invention relates to a method for processing data of a picture to be displayed on a display panel with persistent luminous elements in order to reduce load effect in said display means. The method comprises the following steps: computing, for each subfield, the amount of activated luminous elements... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070273615 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A driving method of a plasma display panel with discharge cells formed at intersections of scanning electrodes SC1 through SCn and sustaining electrodes SU1 through SUn with data electrodes D1 through Dm includes setting a voltage applied to sustaining electrodes SU1 through SUn in a writing period of a sub-field... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070273617 - Field emission display and method for controlling the same: A field emission device and a method for controlling the same which can control a drive voltage so as to place a density of electrons reaching an anode electrode or an anode current into a desired value. A field emission display is provided with a gate electrode 3, an emitter... Agent: Floyd B. Carothers Carothers And Carothers

20070273624 - Portable navigation device: A navigation device is configured to allocate display setting such as color schemes and screen contents to at least one ambient lighting condition, monitors and evaluates a signal indicative of ambient lighting conditions and determines whether display settings for the current ambient lighting conditions are already in use and to... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tom Tom International Bv

20070273625 - Method and apparatus for transiting display panel: A method and apparatus for the transition of display panel are provided. The method and apparatus are applied to a display panel which is transforming from an abnormal display state into a normal display state. The display panel includes a data electrode and a reference electrode. According to this invention,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070273626 - System for pixel defect masking and control thereof: A technique for the modification of sub-pixels to hide defects for defective sub-pixels.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20070273636 - System for displaying image: Systems for displaying images are provided. A representative system incorporates a digital data sampling circuit with N stage data inputs. The first stage flip-flop outputs a first output signal. The second stage flip-flop outputs a second output signal. The first stage sample latch circuit receives digital data according to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070273635 - Circuit arrangement for driving arrangement: The invention concerns a circuit arrangement (2) for driving a display arrangement (1). Further it concerns a display arrangement (1) and a method for driving a display arrangement (1). To provide an arrangement (2) having a good offset cancellation combined with high quality illustrating of an image the circuit arrangement... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20070273637 - Rail-stabilized driving scheme with image memory for an electrophoretic display: An image is updated on a bi-stable display (310) such as an electrophoretic display in a transition from a current image state to a subsequent image state. A voltage waveform (600, 620, 640, 660; 700, 720, 740, 760) is selected based on the current and subsequent image states, and a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070273640 - Anti-harmful impact input device: An anti-harmful impact input device has one or more than one housing space formed in its main body. Each housing space accommodates at least one gravity buffer, and an elastic buffer is intercalated between the gravity buffer and the inner wall of the housing space. The gravity buffer is made... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070273643 - Dongle joystick: A portable data storage device (dongle) is configured to serve as a joystick. A method and system are supplied for using the dongle joystick to modify the presentation of an a electric media content item over a host and for using the dongle joystick as a user input interface to... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20070273641 - Electronic devices: An electronic display for an electronic device, the display being arranged to be able to indicate one or more user commands on the display, one or more of the user commands being indicatable on the display to be associated with a particular movement direction, and wherein the display is arranged... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070273639 - Track type impact buffered input device: A track type impact buffered input device is equipped with an extra weight buffer. When the input device is moved from a position to another by the user, the weight buffer will retard the motion of the input device with its increased inertia as if a reversed force were applied... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070273642 - Method and apparatus for selecting information in multi-dimensional space: Method and apparatus for selecting information in a multi-dimensional space are provided. The method includes the steps of sensing the motion of a user intending to select information, and determining whether the sensed motion is an effective motion intended for information selection and returning to the sensing step if it... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070273638 - Onboard display device, vehicle, display method, image display program and recording medium: A display screen of an onboard display device is disposed so that a speedometer is displayed in front of a driver of a vehicle. When a right-turn instruction is detected, a blinker is displayed and a rightward rear view image outside the vehicle is displayed on the right side of... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070273644 - Personal device with image-acquisition functions for the application of augmented reality resources and method: The invention relates to a personal device with image-acquisition functions. The device comprises a first image-acquisition unit; a display screen able to display therein acquired images acquired by said first unit; a connection with a second unit suitable for: processing said acquired images for the identification of a pattern; calculating... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070273646 - Pointer positioning device and method: A pointer positioning device for positioning an aiming point on a display screen of an image display comprises at least one auxiliary point, an image sensor and an optical filter. The auxiliary point is disposed at the peripheral of the display screen for generating a predetermined spectrum. The image sensor... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070273645 - Pointing device, pointer movement method and medium, and display device for displaying the pointer: A pointing device and a pointer movement method and medium are disclosed. The pointing device includes an angular velocity detection module detecting a first angular velocity, a second angular velocity, and a third angular velocity of the pointing device turning about three different axes according to movement of a housing,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070273647 - Pivoting pointer display device: A display device includes a first portion of a flexible ribbon, the first portion secured along the pointer and a bend portion of the flexible ribbon disposed between the first portion of the flexible ribbon and a first loop branch, the bend portion folded over one end of the pointer... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070273648 - Method and apparatus for entering data with a four way input device: An input device and a method for entering data in an electronic terminal. The aspects of the invention relates in particular to a method of using joystick movement sequences or the like to enter data and to a mobile communication terminal incorporating such a method.... Agent: Perman & Green

20070273649 - User interface system program and recording medium: There is provided a user interface with which a greater number of processes are executable in response to user operations made to a directional input device. When the directional input device receives a first direction followed by a second direction within a predetermined time period, the amount of change from... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20070273651 - Cursor control device: A cursor control device includes a main body, a circuit board, a base, a touch support stand, a touch sensor and a knock sensor. The circuit board is disposed within the main body. The base is disposed within the main body and above the circuit board, and includes an elongated... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070273650 - Method of data transferring for bluetooth mouse: The present invention discloses a method of data transferring for a Bluetooth mouse, wherein the time interval between data transmissions is adjusted according to the coordinate displacement values created by the movements of the mouse; before displacement detection and data transference, the method firstly checks whether the current data transfer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070273652 - Mouse with a caterpillar track type wheel: A mouse is disclosed to include a casing covered with a top cover shell, a first wheel and a second wheel respectively rotatably mounted inside the casing, a caterpillar track surrounded on the first and second wheels and partially exposed to the outside of an opening of the top cover... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070273653 - Method and apparatus for estimating relative motion based on maximum likelihood: A method for estimating relative motion based on maximum likelihood and the apparatus using the same are provided. An image capture device captures a first image frame and a second image frame. An image buffer stores the image frames captured by the image capture device. A motion estimation device determines... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070273654 - Optical module and computer input apparatus with improved capability of optical recognition: An optical module of an optical mouse includes a light source, a light-guiding unit having a fixing portion, a first lens and a second lens. A housing of the light source includes a substantially plane light-emitting surface, and the light-guiding unit guides light emitted by the light source. The fixing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070273656 - Modular keyboard for an electronic device and method operating same: A modular keyboard configured for an electronic device having a mechanical portion and a virtual portion. One of the two portions is an alphanumeric keypad and the other portion is a navigation keypad. The alphanumeric keypad is preferably arranged on a lower portion of the body of the electronic device.... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20070273655 - Remote controller with a communication function: A remote controller includes an input module including an input panel and a controller coupled to the input panel for generating coordinate information of the input panel. The remote controller further includes a data transmission interface for transmitting data to an electronic appliance, a microphone for transforming sound waves into... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070273657 - On-vehicle manipulating system: An on-vehicle manipulating system includes a manipulating device having a housing, a first side pushbutton switch disposed at one side of the housing, a second side pushbutton switch disposed at the other side of the housing and an additional switch disposed at a prescribed portion of the housing and a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070273664 - Controlling pointer movements on a touch sensitive screen of a mobile terminal: A system for managing a graphical user interface (GUI) pointer on a touch sensitive screen of a mobile communication terminal is provided. The system comprises a logic unit for displaying a pointer on a first display point on the screen in response to a user touching the screen at a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070273658 - Cursor actuation with fingerprint recognition: A method for controlling a graphical display receives a user input at a touch-sensitive user interface. Responsive to receiving that user input, a user is automatically recognized from biometric data gathered at that touch-sensitive user interface, such as by comparison to a locally stored database of authorized users. A visual... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070273662 - Display apparatus and display method for a portable device: A display apparatus adapted for a portable device is provided. The display apparatus includes a storage unit, a primary display, a secondary display, a touch pad, and a processing unit. The primary display is in a larger size than that of the secondary display. The primary display is capable of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070273661 - Input device with a page turning function: An input device with a page turning functionality is used with a set of communication cards, and includes a casing, a clip provided to hold the communication cards together, a processor, a touchpad, a memory, a speaker and a target page reminding device. When at least one communication block on... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070273659 - Multi-function slider in touchpad: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for mapping a touch sensing device to two sets of output objects. In one embodiment, the method includes mapping a first set of output objects into a plurality of one dimensional positions of a touch sensing device when a presence of a conductive... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070273660 - Multi-function slider in touchpad: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for providing a touch-sensor device. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data indicative of movement of a conductive object on a first area of a touch-sensor device. The method further includes detecting data indicative of a presence of the conductive object in... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070273667 - Touch screen device and method of 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

20070273668 - Touch screen device and method of selecting files thereon: A touch screen device and a method of operation are provided. The device and method allow for scrolling and selection of files from a file list, and for skipping or reversing an execution order of the selected files simply by performing a drag on a touch screen. The method of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273663 - Touch screen device and operating method thereof: A touch screen device and an operating method are provided in which only a specific position on a touch screen is activated to receive signals. The touch screen device includes a screen including a display configured to display menu images thereon and a detector configured to detect a screen touch,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273665 - Touch screen device and operating method thereof: A touch screen device and an operating method thereof are provided. More specifically, a touch screen device is provided which allows a user to selectively restrict input through a touch screen. The touch screen device includes a screen that includes a display configured to display images thereon and a detector... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273666 - Touch screen device and operating method thereof: A touch screen device and operating method thereof are provided. The touch screen device includes a screen including a display configured to display images thereon and a detector configured to detect a user touch and movement thereof, a storage device configured to store image information corresponding to the movement, and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273669 - Touch screen device and operating method thereof: A touch screen device and an operating method are provided in which only a specific position on a touch screen is activated to receive signals. The touch screen device includes a screen including a display configured to display menu images thereon and a detector configured to detect a screen touch,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273671 - Movable touch pad with added functionality: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070273672 - Touch screen system and display device using the same: A touch screen system includes a touch panel to input image signals, a touch controller to drive the touch panel, an extension between the touch panel and the touch controller, and an anisotropic conductive film electrically interconnecting the extension to the touch controller.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070273670 - User identification for multi-user touch screens: The invention relates to a touch screen system with a touch screen (400) comprising a transparent and electrically conductive surface (450) arranged to receive touches from users (UA, UB) of the touch screen system; and touch sensitive elements (420) arranged to detect the position of said touches on said electrically... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070273673 - Touch screen device and operating method thereof: A touch screen device and an operating method thereof are provided. More specifically, a touch screen device is provided which allows a user to selectively restrict input through a touch screen. The touch screen device includes a screen that includes a display configured to display images thereon and a detector... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070273674 - Machine-differentiatable identifiers having a commonly accepted meaning: Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, system is provided that includes at least two machine-differentiatable identifiers, each identifier of the at least two machine-differentiatable identifiers being respectively keyed to a data recipient and associatable with a hand-formed mark on a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070273677 - Driving device and display apparatus having the same: In a driving device and a display apparatus having the driving device, a converter converts input image data and outputs first and second sub-image data which have different values. A first compensator compensates the first sub-image data and outputs a first compensated image data, and a second compensator compensates the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070273675 - Image capture and display system and method: A combination image capture and display system has a display module with a combined mirror and display panel facing in a first direction, the panel having a mirror layer and an image display layer disposed behind at least a portion of the mirror layer, the display panel selectively operable to... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070273676 - Smart talk backlighting system and method: A smart talk mechanism provides feedback information from a driver to a DC-to-DC converter, enabling the DC-to-DC converter to adjust an input voltage for at least one illumination source backlighting the display for increasing the power efficiency.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070273678 - Liquid crystal display device, light source device, and light source control method: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which periodically performs graduation display and non-graduation display, a backlight which illuminates the liquid crystal display panel, and a light source control circuit which sets an illumination period that allows illumination of the backlight for the gradation display and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070273680 - Method for adjusting visibility of a display and system thereof: Accordingly, a method of adjusting the visibility of a display is disclosed. The method comprises detecting whether any button is pressed. If a button is pressed, a display shows a first group of pictures and the back light is ignited. A surrounding luminance is compared with a first threshold. If... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070273679 - Orientation data collection system: A data collection system includes a sensing device to receive a visible light signal, an optical characteristic recognition processing device to receive a signal from the sensing device, and an optical signal device adapted to generate, reflect or transmit the visible light signal onto the sensing device. The optical signal... Agent: Bergman & Song, LLP

20070273681 - Method and apparatus to power light emitting diode arrays: A light emitting diode array powering method and apparatus is disclosed. An apparatus according to aspects of the present invention includes a power supply circuit having input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals of the power supply circuit are to be coupled to receive a supply voltage. A plurality... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070273682 - Panel module and the power saving method used thereon: A panel module and the power saving method used thereon, which use a timing controller to receive and compare a first frame image data and a second frame image data in order to obtain an image data comparison result and accordingly determine whether a plurality of source drivers, a plurality... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070273683 - Active matrix substrate and drive circuit thereof: An active matrix substrate used in a display device or the like capable of making substantially uniform the level shift generated in the pixel potential caused by the distribution of resistance and capacity in each signal line is disclosed. On the TFT substrate which is an active matrix substrate including... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070273684 - Storage media: The invention broadly and generally provides an apparatus for reading a storage device, such as a DVD, comprising: (a) a reading component for reading stored data from a first data storage element of the aforesaid storage device, the aforesaid first storage element comprising a first storage material; (b) a bookmark... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070273685 - Fill-volume techniques for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to generate a shape defining a surface and an associated volume. A control hair module may be used to fill the volume with control hairs and an interpolation module may be used to interpolate final hair strands from the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070273686 - Image processing device, image processing method, program, storage medium and integrated circuit: It is an object to easily, and using existing devices, perform shadow enhancement that achieves an increase in the feeling of depth of 2D video. The input image data are first converted into brightness information by a brightness information calculation portion. Then, based on that brightness information, the normal direction... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070273688 - System and method of applying geometric surface features to volumetric cae mesh models: A CAE mesh modeling system and method for use with a CAE mesh morphing software system to interactively determine a deformation of design mesh models selected from solid meshes, multiple layers of surface meshes, or a combination of each using a base model and defined deformation features. The methodology advantageously... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070273687 - Device for scanning three-dimensional objects: A scanning system and method for constructing a three-dimensional model of an object, the scanning system comprising: a scanning device (2) and a scanning template member (4). The scanning device (2) has an emitter (20) for projecting light and a sensor (22) for capturing images, the emitter and the sensor... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070273689 - System and method for adaptive tile depth filter: An efficient system and method for adaptive tile depth filter (ATDF) is disclosed. The key concept of this system and method is to consider more occlusion conditions in order to achieve a better performance of filter before the conventional Z test process in three dimensional graphics pipeline. Two occlusion criteria,... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070273690 - System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points: A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera. The computer graphics system comprises a sample point generator and a function evaluator. The sample point... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20070273692 - 3-dimensional graphics processing method, medium and apparatus performing perspective correction: A 3D graphics processing method, medium and apparatus performing perspective correction is described. The 3D graphics processing method includes receiving a homogeneous coordinate and an attribute value of both end points of one scan line of a polygon composed of a plurality of perspective projected vertices, calculating a reference value... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070273691 - Image rendering: A method of forming a two dimensional map of a three dimensional environment, there being a map origin located in the three dimensional environment, a viewing direction vector defined passing through the map origin, and a one-to-one correspondence between map positions in the map and the directions of vectors passing... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070273693 - Macro-level digital data event display: A macro-level digital data event display provides event-based views of the digital, either in the form of a state machine representation or in the form of events versus time. Events within the digital data are defined, including assigning a specific color as desired. The digital data is parsed to locate... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070273694 - Method and apparatus for digitized waveform display: An apparatus for displaying a digitized waveform includes an overview display configured to display a digitized waveform scrolling across the overview display, a zoom display configured to display a portion of the digitized waveform, and a control unit configured to cause the portion of the digitized waveform displayed in the... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070273695 - Mechanism for collaboratively exchanging navigation information in distributed document review: A mechanism is disclosed for enabling a plurality of nodes on a network to collaboratively exchange sets of rendering information respecting a file. In one implementation, each node maintains its own copy of the file, and each node may access its copy of the file. Whenever a node does access... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070273696 - Automated video-to-text system: A method for transforming Video-To-Text is disclosed that automatically generates text descriptions of the content of a video. The present invention first segments an input video sequence according to predefined semantic classes using a Mixture-of-Experts blob segmentation algorithm. The resulting segmentation is coerced into a semantic concept graph and based... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20070273698 - Graphics processor with arithmetic and elementary function units: A graphics processor capable of efficiently performing arithmetic operations and computing elementary functions is described. The graphics processor has at least one arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that can perform arithmetic operations and at least one elementary function unit that can compute elementary functions. The ALU(s) and elementary function unit(s) may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070273697 - Processes and apparatus for information transfer: Systems, processes and apparatus are described through which signals are modified within a system. A signal conditioning module is configured for insertion into the system and provides capability for expansion of information exchange capabilities between system elements responsive to modification of the system. The signal conditioning module includes a first... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070273699 - Multi-graphics processor system, graphics processor and data transfer method: A multi-graphics processor system includes a CPU; a first GPU connected to the CPU via an input/output interface; and a second GPU connected to the first GPU via a second-GPU interface. The first GPU is provided with a second-GPU bus for communicating the CPU and the second GPU via the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070273700 - Method, system and computer program product for efficiently utilizing limited resources in a graphics device: A memory management system provides microcode instructions that are divided into multiple tuned phases and stored as separate modules inside a phase code depository. A microcode manager, containing a mode detector, sequence identifier, code loader, drawing data processor and phase executor, interacts with a microcode processor and the phase code... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070273701 - Display apparatus: After a look-up table applies y correction to each of R, G, and B signals, a multiplier multiplies a y corrected signal by a gain. An adder adds an offset to an output of the multiplier and supplies a resultant gain/offset corrected signal to a display panel. Memories store entropy... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070273702 - Image displaying device having image cache memory: An image displaying device with an image cache data storage unit, including: an image cache identifier generating unit that obtains a hash value of a fixed length from sampling data of original image data and generates an image cache identifier unique to said original image data based on the hash... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070273705 - Geometric instancing techniques for use in a hari/fur pipeline: A hair pipeline may be used to generate a user-selected geometry based upon a hair location for at least one hair with respect to a surface. A surface definition module may be used to define the surface. A display module may be used to: process a user-selected geometry and render... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070273704 - Hair caching optimization techniques for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A lighting module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to produce lighting effects in a lighting phase for a shot and an optimization module may be used to: determine if a cache hair state file including hair parameters exists; and determine if the cache hair state file includes matching... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070273703 - Method and apparatus for improving images provided by spatial light modulated (slm) display systems: The invention provides a method and system for reducing distortion in images provided by display systems employing Spatial Light Modulating elements is provided. A method comprises steps of providing a set of pixel values corresponding to pixels of an image to be displayed. The number of pixel values comprising the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070273706 - Texture mapping 2-d text properties to 3-d text: Three-dimensional text is displayed without losing its related two-dimensional text properties. The two-dimensional text properties are captured and mapped to the three-dimensional text. Capturing the properties helps preserve the look of the two-dimensional text when it is converted and displayed as three-dimensional text. A texture map is used to capture... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070273707 - Method for showing various color temperatures on a digital display: A method for showing various color temperatures on a digital display simultaneously, which is more convenient and reduces the time users spend tuning color temperatures according to the different color temperatures shown in a video frame.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070273708 - Reading glasses for the color blind: An electronic equipment includes an image storage device for capturing and/or storing data representative of an image, and an image processing circuit. The image processing circuit is operable to modify the stored image data when a color combination as defined in the image data corresponds to a color combination associated... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070273709 - Image control device and image display system: Provided is an image control device that achieves energy saving effects without degradation of an image to be displayed, even if image data includes a fault. The image control device is configured to decode the received image data into an image, generate display information based on the received image data,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070273710 - Method and system for image templates: A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first editable object,... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070273711 - 3d graphics system and method: A method of correcting bleed-through for layered three dimensional (3D) models is disclosed. A 3D body model and one or more 3D clothing items overlying the body model are provided, where the clothing items are layered. At least one slicer object is embedded in the clothing items. Inner layers of... Agent: Kenneth Maffei

20070273712 - Embedded navigation interface: A navigation interface is embedded in imagery and includes various controls for manipulating the imagery. The controls provide various navigation operations, including but not limited to: rotation, tilt, zoom and 360 degree. In some implementations, one or more controls can be operated to restore the imagery to a predetermined state.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070273715 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a display panel having a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines, pixel electrodes arranged in corresponding intersections of the plurality of data lines and the plurality of scanning lines; a parallax barrier which is arranged on a surface of the display panel and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070273714 - Portable media device with power-managed display: Improved techniques for controlling power utilization of a display device are disclosed. The improved techniques reduce power consumption by lowering display intensity at appropriate times. In one embodiment, the display intensity can be controlled depending on the type of content being displayed. In another embodiment, the display intensity can be... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/apple Inc.

20070273713 - Driving a matrix display: A driver (D) for a matrix display panel (1) with a pixel (Pk) comprising a first and a second sub-pixel (SP11, 12) both having an inertia, receives a first and second input signal (R, G) indicating a first and a second desired brightness transition (BT1, BT2) of the first and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070268200 - Auxiliary display within a primary display system: An auxiliary processing state of a computing device provides an auxiliary display within a primary display device of the computing device. As such, a computing device can switch from a primary processing state (e.g., full power, full operating system, full functionality) to an auxiliary processing state and yet still provide... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070268201 - Back-to-back displays: Two-sided, back-to-back displays are formed by sealing the backplates of two displays against one another. Mechanical parameters of the backplates, e.g., stiffness and strength, do not meet the requirements for standalone one-sided displays which are otherwise similar to the two displays. However, when sealed against one another, the backplates reinforce... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070268199 - Devices: A user portable electronic device comprises a first electronic display configured to electronically display, positioned to be viewed from a first face of the electronic device, the first face being viewed during normal operation of the electronic device, and a second electronic display configured to display, wherein the second electronic... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070268203 - Image display system, host machine and recording medium for storing program: An image display system is provided that has a plurality of compact, easy to carry, and easy to use display devices. The image display system having the feature of transmitting image data and also supplying power successively for every prescribed number of display apparatuses from a host machine to a... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070268202 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling a display device: A mobile terminal and method of controlling a display device are provided. The present invention includes a display unit displaying information and a control unit controlling the display of the information according to whether luminescence conversion is performed, the luminescence conversion converting a plane luminescence of the display unit to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070268204 - Driver circuit: A driver circuit for supplying a display video signal to a display panel, the driver circuit including a signal processing unit that processes an incoming input digital video signal; an output unit that outputs to the display panel the video signal processed by the signal processing unit, and the signal... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070268206 - Image display device: The image display device comprises a display unit in which display pixels having thin-film transistors are arranged in a matrix and a plurality of light detection pixels within the display unit. The image display device is configured in such a way that a first light sensing element that receives observation... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070268205 - Multiprimary color display: A display displays a color image by using a light source of at least four or more primary colors, and at least one color of the light source is yellow. Thus, it is possible to provide a flat panel display that can acquire a wider color reproduction range without sacrificing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070268210 - Display apparatus and method of driving same: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel array and a driver configured to drive the pixel array, the pixel array having scanning lines as rows, signal lines as columns, a matrix of pixels disposed at respective intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and power supply... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070268209 - Imaging panels including arrays of audio and video input and output elements: Arrays of audio and video input and output elements are combined in various combinations in an imaging panel. The audio input and output elements may take the form of miniature speakers and microphones manufactured utilizing CMOS-MEMS technology. The video imaging input and output elements may take the form of display... Agent: John R. Benefiel

20070268214 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) is disclosed to reduce noise generated during a discharge sustain period, wherein a timing signal generator includes a first random timing signal generator and a second random timing signal generator, and wherein the first random timing signal generator generates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268213 - Plasma display apparatus: A PDP apparatus has a plurality of address driving modules (ADMs) connecting a PDP, a chassis, PDP address electrodes with an address driving circuit of the chassis side. The ADM has a flexible substrate on which wiring and a driver IC are mounted and an address substrate formed by a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268212 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an address electrode, a control board, and a data driver. The control board converts a video signal input from the outside into a differential signal, and transmits... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070268215 - Driving a plasma display panel: A plasma display panel and method of driving the plasma display panel are described. The plasma display panel includes a scan electrode, a sustain electrode positioned in parallel to the scan electrode, an address electrode overlapping the scan electrode and the sustain electrode, a partition and a scan driver. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070268218 - Active matrix display device: An organic EL display device, including a display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix state, each pixel including an organic EL element and being provided with a driving thin film transistor that corresponds to each organic EL element, and which controls light emission therefrom; a driving power supply that... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070268219 - Image display device: The level shift circuit comprises a pair of transistors each having a source electrode connected to a power, a gate electrode and a drain electrode (the gate electrode and the drain electrode of one of the transistors being connected with the drain electrode and the gate electrode of the other... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070268217 - Pixel circuit of organic light emitting display: A pixel circuit of an organic light emitting display includes a first transistor that transmits a data signal from a data line in response to a scan signal from a scan line; a first capacitor that stores the data signal received from the first transistor; a second transistor for threshold... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070268220 - Pixel circuit of organic light emitting display: The pixel circuit of an organic light emitting display includes a first transistor to a seventh transistor, a first capacitor, a second transistor and an organic light emitting diode. The first capacitor stores the data signal from the first, second and third transistors, and the second capacitor stores the threshold... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070268225 - Display device, driving apparatus for display device, and driving method of display device: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a gray voltage generator that generates a plurality of gray voltage sets, each including a plurality of gray voltages having different levels, and a signal converter that includes a first selector for selecting one gray voltage set among the plurality of gray... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070268226 - Video data control circuit, drive method thereof, and display device and electronic device having the video data control circuit: It is an object of the present invention to provide a video data control circuit that satisfactorily displays an image on a display panel without increasing accesses to a frame memory or increasing power consumption when conducting vertical-horizontal image display conversion when video data is converted into digital video data... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070268207 - Electronic display system, electronic paper writing device, electronic paper and method for manufacturing the same: Aspects of the invention provide an electronic paper display system that can include an electronic paper and the writing device. The writing device transmits power and baseband signals by using an electromagnetic coupling between a coil of the writing device and a coil of the electronic paper. The baseband signals,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070268211 - Hdr displays with individually-controllable color backlights: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. The screen is illuminated with light from a light source comprising an array of controllable light-emitters. The controllable-emitters and elements of the light modulator may be controlled to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070268208 - Multi-primary color display device: A display device which exhibits functional effects in which color separation between sub-pixels constituting a pixel is hardly recognized and white line display is easily recognized as one line, in enlargement of the color reproduction range in image display using multi-primary colors, and thereby improves display quality, and provides a... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070268216 - Plasma display panel driving circuit and plasma display apparatus: A PDP driving circuit is comprised of a power recovery unit for recovering an electric power from a capacitive load by resonance operation with PDP which is the capacitive load Cp, and reusing the recovered power. The power recovery unit includes a recovery inductor for resonating with the capacitive load,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070268221 - Electro-optical device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus: Aspects of the invention provide an electro-optical device including first pixel portions each including an active element and second pixel portions each not including any active element, the first and second pixel portions being provided in an image display region of a substrate, a first driving device for driving the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070268222 - Apparatus and method of controlling brightness of image: Provided are an image brightness controlling apparatus and method, and an adaptive brightness controlling apparatus and method based on the brightness degree and/or brightness range of an image. The image brightness controlling apparatus includes a brightness increment arithmetic unit for outputting a brightness increment for a pixel, and an individual... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070268223 - Active-matrix organic light emitting diode display: An active-matrix organic light emitting diode display. The active-matrix organic light emitting diode display comprises a rectangular pixel unit having an indium tin oxide region disposed therein. The indium tin oxide region has an opening region disposed therein, wherein the opening region is rectangular.... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070268224 - Hdr displays with dual modulators having different resolutions: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. The screen is illuminated with light from a light source comprising an array of controllable light-emitters. The controllable-emitters and elements of the light modulator may be controlled to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070268227 - Active matrix display device: A display device includes a dynamic ratio less shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratio less shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of p-Si on a substrate surface,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268228 - Data driver and driving method of a flat panel display: A data driver of a flat panel display comprises an input register, at least one ramp signal unit, a counter and a switch device. The input register receives a control signal and an N-bit digital image data, and outputs respectively a most significant bit and the remaining (N-1) bits of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268233 - Displaying apparatus using data line driving circuit and data line driving method: A data line driving circuit includes a first buffer circuit configured to drive a data line, and a second buffer circuit configured to drive a data line. N first data lines (n is a natural number larger than 1), and m second data lines (m is a natural number larger... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070268230 - Level shifter and liquid crystal display using the same: Disclosed is a level shifter having an amplifier amplifying a second supply voltage and generating an input voltage higher than the predetermined signal, a input buffer selectively transferring an input signal based on the input voltage of the amplifier and an output transistor providing a first supply voltage to an... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070268231 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) in which a single frame is divided into a plurality of sub-frames includes applying a first scan pulse signal and a second scan pulse signal to each gate line for each sub-frame, applying a first data signal to a data line... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070268229 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes: a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines that cross the gate lines to define pixel regions; a plurality of thin film transistors at the crossings of the gate and data lines, the thin film transistors of vertically adjacent pixels each... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070268232 - System for displaying image and driving method for liquid crystal displaying device: A system for displaying image includes a driving circuit of a liquid crystal displaying device. The driving circuit of the liquid crystal displaying device includes a shift register, a voltage booster and a sample switch. The shift register receives an input pulse signal and shifts the input pulse signal to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268240 - Display device and method of driving the display device: A display device includes a display panel assembly having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns and a backlight unit disposed behind the display panel assembly and having a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The number of the pixels of the backlight unit is less... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070268238 - Image-displaying control circuit of a scan-backlight lcd: An image-displaying control circuit used in a scan-backlight LCD is disclosed. The image-displaying control circuit comprises a driver control circuit, a plurality of gate driver groups, a backlight control circuit and a plurality of backlight driver groups. Each of the gate driver groups is used to drive one of the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070268239 - Lcd backlight driving signal generator: The present invention discloses a backlight driving signal generator used in a liquid crystal display (LCD) controller. The backlight driving signal generator is coupled to a backlight driving circuit of the LCD and capable of issuing a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal to control the backlight driving... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20070268237 - Method for driving display device to hide transient behavior: The major characteristics of the present invention lies in that, on one hand, conventional driving or overdriving techniques that do not add significant cost to the display device are used for scanning while, on the other hand, the direct-lit, LED-based backlight is turned off during the pixels' transient period where... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268236 - Methods and systems for lcd backlight color control: The present invention provides a low-cost, highly flexible display system which comprises a programmable CPU, a LCD module for displaying visual information, an array of light emitters for providing backlighting to the LCD module, an array of light emitter driver circuits, and an array controller. The programmable CPU accesses ROM... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070268235 - Content-transformation power management of a mobile display: The present invention provides a video server. In one embodiment, the video server includes a perceptual analyzer configured to analyze frames of a video sequence and provide a video analysis file. The video server also includes a transmitter coupled to the perceptual analyzer and configured to transmit both the video... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070268234 - Display device: A display device (1) of the present invention displays an image by using an organic layer (9) which emits light having such a wavelength that affects a biorhythm, and the display device (1) controls a luminous intensity of the organic layer (9).... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268241 - Display device: An ambient light sensor 10 and a backlight sensor 9 are located on the liquid crystal panel 6 adjacently to each other, for correcting a variation of an output characteristic of the ambient light sensor 10. This location keeps the manufacturing variation of each liquid crystal panel 6 even in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268242 - Image display apparatus and image display method: There is provided with an image display method including: detecting a minimum gray-scale level and a maximum gray-scale level of an input image; acquiring a maximum light source luminance capable of displaying a minimum luminance to be displayed with the minimum gray-scale level on a light modulation device and a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070268243 - Panel assembly: According to an embodiment of the present invention a panel assembly includes a first display panel having a first insulation substrate, a second display panel having a second insulation substrate opposite to the first insulation substrate, and a touch sensing unit formed on a surface of the second insulation substrate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070268245 - Electrophoresis display device: An object of the present invention is to realize an image display device for color display with high luminance and high contrast. In the present invention, a unit cell 111 is filled with electrophoresis ink including two kinds of particles different in chargeability and color being dispersed in transmissive solvent... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070268244 - Electrophoretic display and method of displaying images: A method of displaying an image in an electrophoretic display device having at least one display layer including a multiplicity of individual reservoirs containing a display fluid between conductive substrates, wherein the display fluid comprises at least two sets of particles in a liquid medium, the at two sets of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070268246 - Electronic equipment with screen pan and zoom functions using motion: An electronic equipment, such as a mobile phone, includes a display for viewing content and/or information, a transducer operable to detect motion of the electronic equipment, and a control circuit for providing information to the display. The control circuit is responsive to detected motion to perform at least one of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070268247 - Mobile tablet computer: Disclosed is a mobile tablet computer comprising: a central body housing a processing unit, at least one handle coupled to the central body, and a plurality of ergonomic user interface features disposed on the handle. The central body has a display screen. The handle serves as a handgrip for holding... Agent: Robert J. Sayfie, P.C.

20070268248 - Method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface: A method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface. The method includes the steps of generating a representation of an object in graphic space, sensing the position of the user in real space and calculating a force to be applied to a... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070268249 - Rotary input apparatus: A rotary input apparatus is disclosed. As the rotary input apparatus comprises a rotatable wheel; a magnet joined to a surface of the wheel to co-operate with the wheel and magnetized to have alternating N- and S-poles; an electromagnet part positioned facing the magnet and magnetized to have at least... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070268250 - Remote input device for computers: A palm sized input device for computers comprises a first cursor position sensor which is mounted on the underside and may be operated by a finger, typically the index finger or the middle finger, from the underside of the device (hand held mode); a second cursor position sensor which may... Agent: Byung Kon Min

20070268251 - Joystick controller: A joystick controller comprises an operating shaft mounted for pivotal movement relative to a body. The operating shaft extends through an opening in the body. A bush is coupled to the operating shaft and biased into contact with a contact surface of the body so as to provide a force... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070268252 - Computer peripheral device: A computer peripheral device includes a first housing, a second housing, a connecting member, and a judging circuit. The connecting member is made of a conducting material and includes a rotating shaft. The second housing is rotatable relative to the first housing with rotation of the rotating shaft, so that... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070268253 - Wireless input module with wireless input device and receiver: A wireless input module including a wireless input device and a signal receiver is provided. The wireless input device is formed with a cavity and the signal receiver is formed with an antenna part and a connector part for selectively connecting with an electronic apparatus. When the signal receiver is... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070268255 - Computer pointing device with laser safety apparatus: A laser pointing device having a laser safety apparatus is provided. The laser pointing device includes a laser sensor and a switch. The laser sensor is coupled to a laser diode and a controller. The switch has an end coupled to a power, and another end electrically coupled to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070268254 - Driving circuit adapted for use in optical mice: A control circuit having a drive circuit and a controller adapted for use in optical mice is disclosed. The drive circuit is connected between first and second ports and passes a current between those ports having an amplitude determined by a control signal that is generated by the controller. The... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070268256 - Tactile feedback system and method for a mobile communication device having a trackball: The invention is directed at a tactile feedback system and method for a handheld electronic device having a trackball. As the user uses the trackball to move a navigation tool over the display, a tactile feedback is provided to the user as an indication of the objects over which the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20070268257 - Method of and station for integrated typed data and optically scanned data capture for computer interfacing and the like: A novel integrated keyboard and flatbed optical scanner, preferably of shape and size corresponding to that of standard conventional keyboard, sharing common mechanical support and electrical and electronic functions.... Agent: Robert H. Rines Rines & Rines

20070268258 - Hand-held device with character input rotary wheel: A hand-held device is provided. The hand-held device includes a rotary wheel, a switch, a character region, a display, and a controller. The rotary wheel has a plurality of positioning inputs. The character region includes a plurality of icons corresponding to the positioning inputs. Each icon includes a plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070268261 - Handheld electronic device with data entry and/or navigation controls on the reverse side of the display: A handheld electronic device has a display screen on a front planar surface and a command entry structure comprising a keyboard on a rear planar surface parallel to the front planar surface. Mirror images of the rear keys are displayed on the screen and are highlighted when a key is... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070268260 - Haptic keypad and electronic device: An improved handheld electronic device includes an improved keypad with keys that impart a plurality of different instances of a given physical property. In one embodiment, each key imparts of plurality of different instances of the given physical property, such as by forming each key of a plurality of materials.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070268259 - Handheld wireless communication device: A handheld wireless communication device cradleable by an operator during text entry. A display, key field and trackball navigation tool are located on a front face of the device. Alphanumeric input keys include several alphabetic keys with letters arranged in a traditional (QWERTY), but non-ITU Standard E.161 telephone letter layout.... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20070268262 - Text input device and adapter mechanism: A text input device for attachment to a game controller includes a small-sized housing, a plurality of text entry keys disposed on the upper face, and an attachment interface. The housing including a plurality of conformal structures laterally extending from a central portion of the housing, each of said conformal... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070268263 - Light-indicating input device for marking available function keys thereon: A light-indicating input device has a housing having a plurality of function keys and control keys, with the control keys being divided into a first group of control keys and a second group of control keys, with a first function key controlling the first group of control keys, and a... Agent: Raymond Sun

20070268269 - Apparatus, method, and medium for sensing movement of fingers using multi-touch sensor array: A sensing technique using a capacitance touch sensor as a user interface is provided. An apparatus for sensing the movement of fingers using a multi-touch sensor includes a touch determination module which determines whether a user has actually touched a touch sensor comprising one or more touch points with at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070268264 - Electronic devices: A foldable electronic apparatus comprising first and second parts being arranged to be foldable with respect to each other about a folding axis to define first and second apparatus folding configurations, wherein the first and second parts comprise respective first and second displays, wherein the device is arranged to have... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070268266 - Toothed slider: A slider has a first conductive trace having at least one sub-trace and a second conductive trace having at least one sub-trace. The at least one sub-trace of the first conductive trace is interleaved with at least one sub-trace of the second conductive trace. Each sub-trace of the first and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070268270 - Touch operation input device: A touch operation input device, such as used in an automobile, controls selective manipulation of a functional item from among a plurality of installation devices when an operator cannot see a manipulation surface or a display screen of the input device. The touch operation input device operates by selective detection... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070268267 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method thereof: A transmission apparatus and a transmission method are disclosed. The transmission apparatus comprises a handwritten input unit, a processing unit and an execution unit. The handwritten input unit is provided with a handwritten screen for continuously inputting a plurality of handwritten scripts or at least one handwritten pattern. The processing... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070268265 - Two-pin buttons: An apparatus and method for detecting a presence of a conductive object on a sensing device, and recognizing three or more button operations performed by the conductive object using two sensing areas of the sensing device. The sensing device may include first, second, and third sensor elements. The third sensor... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070268271 - Image display apparatus and image display method: The image display apparatus includes an image data acquiring section for acquiring image data, an image display section having a plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums bundled and integrated for displaying images by using the obtained image data, an image display mode setting device for setting an image display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070268273 - Sensor arrangement for use with a touch sensor that identifies hand parts: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070268275 - Touch sensing with a compliant conductor: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070268274 - Touch sensing with mobile sensors: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070268268 - Touchpad device: A touchpad device for use with electronic apparatus is disclosed. The device has an active area that is sensitive to movement thereon and to generate electrical signals in response thereto for inputting into the electronic apparatus. The active area of the device defines a plurality of active portions, each of... Agent: Weiner & Burt

20070268272 - Variable capacitor array: A digitizer includes a digitizer sensor comprising at least one pair of conductive lines coupled to at least one differential amplifier through which a difference signal is detected, and at least one capacitor operative to balance differences in parasitic capacitance between the conductive lines of the at least one pair... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070268276 - Acoustic touch sensor with low profile diffractive grating transducer assembly: A touch sensor having an acoustic substrate, an acoustic transducer, and an acoustically diffractive grating is provided. The grating is disposed between the transducer and the substrate, so that acoustic energy from the transducer is coupled to an acoustic wave propagating along the surface of the substrate. If used in... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20070268277 - Touch panel that uses transparent conductor: A transparent conductor includes a film-shaped or plate-shaped support and a transparent conductive layer that is disposed on the support and has a surface formed as a rough surface. The surface of the transparent conductive layer is formed so that a maximum peak height that shows a surface roughness of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070268278 - Durable digital writing and sketching instrument: A hand-holdable, durable digital writing and sketching device or assembly having rugged construction that houses an on-board camera with a view through an optical window of a writing surface brought in view by a user moving the device. The device is rugged, sealed, and is capable of withstanding dropping, water... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

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