Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 12/07

20070296643 - Display extension using terminal clients: Extending graphical information to a remote computing system such that a multiple monitor configuration can be implemented for the first computing device is illustrated. The multiple monitors include a display connected to the first computing device and one or more displays connected to other computing devices. A remote session is... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070296644 - Three-dimensional display device: A three-dimensional display device includes a plurality of projection portions to project a plurality of images, respectively, a plurality of wedge-shaped light guide plates corresponding to the plurality of projection portions, respectively, to emit the plurality of images, respectively, and a plurality of directional diffuser screen corresponding to the plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070296645 - Display apparatus using laser and method of using the same: A display apparatus which uses a laser to realize a clear image by reducing speckle noise is provided. The display apparatus comprises a laser light source which emits light a scanning mirror which scans light emitted by the laser light source, a speckle removing mirror which periodically reciprocates within a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070296646 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: The present invention provides a display apparatus which enables high-accuracy, hands-free operation, while adopting a low-cost configuration. The display apparatus according to the present invention includes: an obtainment unit that obtains a display element which is information to be displayed to the user; a determining unit that determines a display... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070296648 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method therefor are provided. The driving method includes gradually decreasing a voltage of a first electrode during a reset period, biasing a voltage of a second electrode to a first voltage during a first period of the falling period, and biasing the second... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070296650 - Dual-scan circuit for driving an oled display device: A luminescent display device is disclosed. The luminescent display device is comprised of an array of pixels, a first driving chip and a second driving chip. The array of pixels is comprised of columns and rows of pixels. The first driving chip is connected a first pixel of the array... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070296651 - Organic electroluminescent display device and driving method of the same: An organic electroluminescent display device includes an organic light-emitting diode, a first transistor outputting a data voltage by an nth scan signal (n is a natural number), a second transistor providing a current to the organic light-emitting by the data voltage, a capacitor storing the data voltage, and a third... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070296659 - Display substrate and display device having the same: A display substrate includes source lines, gate lines, an output pad part, a fan-out part and a first voltage line part. The source lines are in a display area. The gate lines cross the source lines. The output pad part is in a peripheral area surrounding the display area and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070296662 - Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same: In a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, the gate driving circuit comprises a plurality of stages. At least one of the stages comprises a pull-up section responsive to a first node signal; a pull-down section responsive to a second input signal; a discharging section discharging the first node... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070296654 - Image processing device of a liquid crystal display: An image processing device of a liquid crystal display device includes a digital signal reception interface, a digital signal output interface, a plurality of image signal reception interfaces, an image processing unit coupled to an output terminal of the digital signal reception interface and the image processing unit, a switch... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070296661 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes pixels, gate lines and source lines, active elements, a gate driver circuit, a source driver circuit, and a timing controller circuit. The source driver circuit conducts a prescribed operation of supplying the source signals of positive polarity and negative polarity having a prescribed voltage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070296656 - Liquid crystal display monitor capable of automatically switching display mode and the control method thereof: An LCD monitor capable of automatically switching display mode, the corresponding control method and the controller for controlling the LCD monitor are provided. The LCD monitor includes a digital signal receiver, a signal certification unit, an image processor, and an LCD panel. The digital signal receiver receives a digital image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070296658 - Liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display device having the same and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal panel includes a gate line; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a common line parallel to the gate line; a first switching part in the pixel region for applying a first voltage from the data line to the pixel region; and... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070296655 - Method and system for frame insertion in a digital display system: A method and system for frame insertion in a digital display system is provided. The method is adapted for use with a liquid crystal display (LCD) type display and is effective to substantially reduce motion blur. The LCD display receives a sequence of digitized input frames at a first frequency.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070296660 - Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus having the same: With an offset circuit including transistors of the same conductivity type, offset of an input signal is performed. Then, the input signal after the offset is supplied to a logic circuit including transistors of the same conductivity type as that of the offset circuit, thereby H and L levels of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070296666 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including one or more pixel region partitioned into first, second and third sub-pixels; a backlight including first and second sources for projecting onto the one or more pixel region one of a first light having a first wavelength and a second... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070296669 - Display apparatus, and method and apparatus for driving the same: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a gray scale compensator, and a date driver. The gate driver sequentially applies gate data to the gate lines. The gray scale compensator compares the primitive gray scale data of the n-th frame with the primitive gray scale data of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070296667 - Driving device and driving method of plasma display panel: A driving device of a plasma display panel including a gray level arrangement unit, a still frame detection unit and a gray level arrangement controller is provided. The gray level arrangement unit receives image data and arranges the image data according to different gray level arrangement rules. The still frame... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070296668 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes multiplying a frame frequency of an inputted current frame to generate a multiplied odd-numbered frame and a multiplied even-numbered frame; determining whether said current frame is a still image frame or a dynamic image frame; detecting an edge area at... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070296671 - Light emitting device: Provided is a light emitting device. Particularly, the light emitting device comprises a threshold voltage compensator. The threshold voltage compensator is connected between a gate and a drain of the driving TFT and has a gate connected to a second scan line to temporarily store at the storage capacitor a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070296673 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes a liquid crystal panel for displaying images, a backlight unit for supplying light to the liquid crystal panel, an operation unit for generating an operation value by performing operations on pixel data supplied to the liquid crystal panel during at least one frame,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070296672 - Organic light-emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light-emitting diode display device includes a first switch element turned-on in response to a first scanning signal during a first period to supply a data to a first node, and then maintaining an off-state during a second period, a driving device adjusting a current through an organic light-emitting... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070296675 - Display driver apparatus and inversion driving method thereof: A display driver apparatus and an inversion method thereof are provided. The display driver apparatus includes a gate drive unit, a source drive unit, a multiplexer unit and a common voltage generation unit. The gate drive unit is used to generate a gate signal for turning on/off sub-pixels. The source... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070296676 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver configured to supply gate signals to gate lines on the liquid crystal panel, a data driver configured to supply data voltages to data lines on the liquid crystal panel, and a partial controller configured to control the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070296647 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel using selective writing and erasing: A plasma display driving method and apparatus for stabilizing an initialization upon selective erasing in a case of simultaneously performing a selective writing and a selective erasing is disclosed. In the method and apparatus, at least one selective writing sub-field for selecting on-cells using a writing discharge is arranged within... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070296649 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells defined with areas in which the electrodes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070296652 - Electro-optical device and driving device thereof: The invention provides an electro-optical device having circuits for driving electro-optical elements, such as organic EL elements, and a driving device, which can employ driving elements having low driving ability, such as α-TFTs. By providing a charge storage capacitor between the source electrode and the gate electrode of a driving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070296653 - Method and appartus for uniformity and brightness correction in a display: A method for the correction of average brightness or brightness uniformity variations in electroluminescent (EL) displays comprising: a) providing an EL display having one or more light-emitting elements responsive to a multi-valued input signal for causing the light-emitting elements to emit light at a plurality of brightness levels; b) measuring... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070296664 - Display device and driving method and terminal device thereof: A display method can be flexibly applied to suppress the power consumption and a device and display method which can reduce the power consumption while the image quality is prevented from being deteriorated are provided. A display device which can be operated in a progressive mode and interlace mode includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070296657 - Flicker controlling system for liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is provided which is capable of preventing occurrence of accidental abnormal flicker control caused by calibrating work being not related to the flicker controlling operation. The liquid crystal display device so configured that its flicker controlling system performs the flicker controlling operations on a liquid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070296665 - Liquid crystal drive device: A VCOM operation waveform in a charging process from a second voltage VCOML to a first voltage VCOMH shows that a charging current Icha represents the sum of a charging current from VCOML to a reference voltage VCI, Icha1=Cp (VCI−VCOML)/Δt, and a charging current from the reference voltage VCI to... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070296663 - Pulse width driving method using multiple pulse: A method, device and computer program are detailed for modulating write light. For a plurality of pixel locations of an electro-optic layer of an optical write valve and across each of a plurality of consecutive frames, a set of pixel data bits is modulated across a first and a second... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070296670 - Data driver and electro-optical device: A data driver includes a capture start timing setting register in which is set data for setting capture start timing of the gray-scale data based on a signal which indicates supply start timing of the gray-scale data, and a capture instruction signal generation circuit which generates first and second capture... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070296674 - Display device: A TFT array substrate of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of scanning signal lines formed in a display region; a plurality of display signal lines formed in the display region; a plurality of TFTs arraigned in matrix in the display region;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070296677 - Data driver and electro-optical device: A data driver drives comb-tooth distributed data lines of an electro-optical device in units of a predetermined number of data lines. The data driver includes first and second divided gray-scale buses, a gray-scale bus to which gray-scale data is supplied corresponding to an arrangement order of each of the data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070296678 - Method for driving display and drive circuit for display: A drive circuit of a display that decreases the number of gates in a selection circuit to reduce chip area. The drive circuit includes a first voltage dividing circuit for generating a plurality of divisional voltages by dividing a predetermined reference voltage. A selection circuit receives a selection signal and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070296679 - Method for driving display and drive circuit for display: A drive circuit of a display that decreases the number of gates in a selection circuit to reduce chip area. The drive circuit includes a first voltage dividing circuit for generating a plurality of divisional voltages by dividing a predetermined reference voltage. A selection circuit receives a selection signal and... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070296680 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: An data driver for driving an LCD device includes a modulator that generates modulated data from input data; and a control circuit to selects between converting the modulated data to first analog data of a driving output and converting the input data to second analog data of the driving output,... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070296683 - Display device: The LCD panel 101 of the present invention includes a panel side wiring 110 that electrically connects mutually adjacent source side drivers 102, 102 and a capacitor 106 connected to the panel side wiring 110. Therefore, by collectively fabricating the capacitor 106 on the LCD panel 101 together with LCD... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070296681 - Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same: A gate driving circuit and a display apparatus having the gate driving circuit include a pull-up part and a carry part pull up a present gate signal and a present carry signal, respectively, to a first clock during a first period within one frame. A pull-down part receives a next... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20070296682 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device capable of improving a response speed of liquid crystals includes an LCD panel for displaying images and first and second gate driving circuits connected respectively to opposite sides of each of a plurality of gate lines formed in the LCD panel, driving the plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070296686 - Apparatus and method of driving backlight of liquid crystal display: An apparatus for driving a backlight includes: a pulse width modulation signal phase shifting unit that shifts phases of at least one of red, green, and blue pulse width signal modulation signals so as to output at least one of phase-shifted red, green, and blue pulse width signal modulation signals;... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070296687 - Light sensing circuit, backlight control apparatus having the same, and liquid crystal display device having the same: A light sensing circuit capable of enhancing a reliability by lowering a dependency on a temperature change without using a resistor, a backlight control apparatus having the same, and an LCD device having the same. The light sensing circuit includes a first MOS-transistor; and a second MOS-transistor serially connected to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070296688 - Liquid crystal display device achieving imaging with high s/n ratio using invisible light: A liquid crystal panel brightness controller notifies a backlight controller that an illuminance of ambient light is equal to or less than a threshold value. Upon notification, the backlight controller causes invisible light emitted, for example. The invisible light passes through a liquid crystal panel and is reflected by an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070296685 - Liquid crystal display device and fabricating method and driving method thereof: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device, a fabricating method, and a driving method thereof that includes at least one integrated photosensor that senses external light illumination on the liquid crystal display device. A sensing signal from the at least one photosensors are converted into a digital signal that is... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070296684 - Power efficient screens through display size reduction: According to some embodiments, an apparatus, a system and a method are provided to reduce a backlit area of a display screen and resize an image to fit in the backlit area.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070296689 - Display device and display control method: A display device to display an image corresponding to image signals in a display area is provided. The display device includes a backlight including individually placed light sources corresponding to areas in the display area; a panel that includes pixels corresponding to the display area and that changes transmittance of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070296690 - Display device and timepiece: A display device having an electrophoretic display panel that has two types of electrophoretic elements of different color and polarity disposed between electrodes, and changes display state according to an applied voltage, and a drive means for driving the electrophoretic display panel by applying a voltage between the electrodes. The... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070296691 - Systems and methods for driving mems display: Systems and methods for driving a display of MEMS devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display device comprises an array of MEMS display elements, at least one test deflecting element, and a deflection sensing circuit connected to the test deflecting element, the deflection sensing circuit being configured to monitor... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070296694 - Input device with display buttons and portable electronic device having the same: Provided are an input device with display buttons and a portable electronic device having the same. The input device with display buttons may include a button frame having at least one button window; a touch interface, which is disposed below the button frame and generates a signal by sensing a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070296693 - Automatic orientation-based user interface for an ambiguous handheld device: An electronic device is provided that includes a user-interface feature, a detection mechanism and one or more internal components. The user-interface feature is configurable to have a selected orientation about one or more axes. The detection mechanism can detect orientation information about the electronic device. The one or more components... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20070296692 - Coordinating haptics with visual images in a human-computer interface: The present invention provides a method of generating haptic interface experiences that is capable of generating haptic companions to existing two-dimensional images. The method exploits the dominance of visual over haptic in humans: human tactile, proprioceptive, and kinesthetic senses do not supply as much fine detail as human vision, and... Agent: V. Gerald Grafe, Esq.

20070296695 - Document processing system, document processing method, computer readable medium and data signal: A document processing system includes a first acquisition section, a storage section, a second acquisition section and a data processor. The first acquisition section acquires a position specified by a user in an actual document. The storage section stores layout data of the document and content data of the document... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070296696 - Gesture exchange: A device including: an output device; a memory for storing first device movement data; a transmitter for sending to another communications device the first device movement data; a receiver for receiving second device movement data from the another communications device; and a processor operable to compare the stored first device... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070296698 - Pointing device: A pointing device includes a movement detector adapted to detect movement of an operating object, a pressure detector adapted to detect an operating pressure of the operating object, and a controller adapted to direct movement of a target object, wherein the controller controls the moving direction of the target object... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070296697 - Wireless cursor indicating device: A wireless cursor indicating device includes a first body and a second body combined with each other. The first body includes a containing space for containing a control circuit and a wireless receiver, and both sides of the first and second bodies include a sliding track and a sliding groove... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070296699 - Multi-mode optical navigation: A system and method is provided for selecting a light source in a pointing device such as a mouse. The selection of the light source may be based on attributes of a received image, which are in turn based on reflected light received at the pointing device from the tracking... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070296700 - Washable mouse: Embodiments of a washable computer mouse are disclosed. In an embodiment, a water impermeable layer is sealably mounted to a housing so as to provide a water impermeable region and a water permeable region. Mouse circuitry, which includes a sensor and a light source and a responsive element, is positioned... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070296701 - Input device having a presence sensor: A system and method for reducing power consumption of a wireless input device is disclosed. The input device may convert between a high power state and a low power state. In the high power state, a transmitter and light sources are activated, whereas both the transmitter and the light sources... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070296703 - Four column keypad: A keypad arrangement and keypad arrangement of a handheld device implements a 12-key keypad to optimize space utilization on a handheld device. The display area on a user viewable side may occupy 25% or more of the available user side surface of the handheld device. The keypad is arranged as... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070296702 - Touch sensitive keypad with tactile feedback: A keypad includes discrete keys formed by touch sensors or virtual keys on a touch sensitive area. The discrete or virtual keys are mechanically linked to a biased switch. The key that has been touched during a keystroke is identified through a signal from the touch sensors whilst a keystroke... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070296704 - Virtual wheel interface for mobile terminal and character input method using the same: A virtual wheel interface structure of a mobile terminal having a wheel input unit and a character input. A virtual keypad in a wheel shape is displayed on a display unit adjacent to the wheel input unit having a wheel, a selection, and navigation keys. The virtual wheel keypad includes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070296705 - Miniature keyboard for a hand held computer: A miniature keyboard for a palm held computer is disclosed. The miniature keyboard includes a plurality of keys for providing input to a hand held computing device. The keyboard includes a platform supporting the plurality of keys. The platform is configured to be sized for use by a single hand... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070296706 - Luminous keyboard module: A luminous keyboard module uses a luminous material to produce keys of the keyboard module, or uses the luminous material to produce a backlight plate under the keys. When an UV light source irradiates UV light on the keys or the backlight plate containing the luminous material, the keys or... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070296707 - Keypad touch user interface method and mobile terminal using the same: A keypad touch user interface method and a mobile terminal using the same are disclosed. If a touch is generated by a finger operation on a keypad installed with a touch sensor, the touch sensor detects the touch and a control unit identifies the type of the touch. According to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070296709 - Apparatus and method for detecting multiple buttons with one pin: An apparatus and method for distinguishing a particular button operation from among multiple button operations on a sensing device having multiple sensor elements that are electrically coupled together. The apparatus may include a sensing device having a first sensor element and a second element that are electrically coupled to detect... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070296708 - Computer system: A computer system includes a computer apparatus host, a flat display device, and a touch panel so as to increase more conveniences in operating and watching. The flat display device of the system is electrically connected to the computer apparatus host and is selectively rotated on the computer host. The... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20070296710 - Position encoded sensing device and a method thereof: A position encoded sensing device having a display panel, and a reflective plate having encoded information thereon. The reflective plate is disposed within the display panel. In addition, the position encoded sensing device includes a transceiver for emitting and receiving light. The transceiver transmits light onto the reflective plate, and... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070296712 - Multifunction slider: An apparatus has conductive traces of a slider. A processing device is coupled to the conductive traces. The processing device generates a signal based on the presence of a conductive object in proximity or in contact with the slider, and the duration of time of the presence of the conductive... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070296711 - Techniques for device display navigation: Techniques are provided for vertical navigation of displayed content. A physical wheel on a device is provided for navigating through content displayed on a display associated with the device. The physical wheel is moved in a direction and a distance about its rotational axis to indicate a scrolling direction and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070296714 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: An exemplary embodiment of the display apparatus connected to an external source, comprises a data storing unit that exchanges data with the external apparatus through a bi-directional communication line; a video signal processing unit connected to the bi-directional communication line; a write function controlling unit that outputs to the data... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070296713 - Method and apparatus for driving a plurality of display devices using a single video stream: A method for driving a plurality of display devices includes Arranging image data to be output to the display devices in an alternating sequence and used to construct a single video stream. The constructed video stream is transmitted to each of the display devices using a single video driver. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070296715 - Substrate treatment apparatus: The object of the present invention is to provide a heat treatment apparatus which makes it possible to prevent the temperature distribution from fluctuating in the upper surface of a substrate to be treated. In the heat treatment apparatus, a lower case is lowered by a pantograph mechanism, and a... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070296716 - Digital controlled multi-light driving apparatus and driving-control method for driving and controlling lights: A digital controlled multi-light driving apparatus for driving and controlling a plurality of lights. The digital controlled multi-light driving apparatus includes a plurality of oscillation step-up circuits and a digital control circuit. The digital control circuit has a counter unit, a memory unit, a comparator unit, and a driving unit.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070296717 - Video display device and operating method therefore: A video display device comprises a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a matrix having rows and columns; a plurality of first current modulators each of which is associated to one of said light emitting elements for drawing a feed current of programmable intensity for the associated light emitting... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20070296718 - Dynamic resizing of graphics content rendered by an application to facilitate rendering of additional graphics content: A means is provided by which a software application, such as a video game application, may be enhanced to render application-related graphics content to one portion of a display area and additional graphics content, such as advertising content, to a second portion of the same display area, even though the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20070296720 - Efficient object storage for zone rendering: Similar, contiguous primitives are stored as a single primitive in zone rendering bins. A primitive packet used in the bin is allowed to vary in length and the currently open type of primitive is recorded on a per-bin basis. A special code is used to specify a variable number of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070296719 - Multi-chart geometry images: Techniques and tools for mesh processing are described. For example, a multi-chart geometry image represents arbitrary surfaces on object models. The multi-chart geometry image is created by resampling a surface onto a regular 2D grid, using a flexible atlas construction to map the surface piecewise onto charts of arbitrary shape.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070296721 - Apparatus and method for producting multi-view contents: Provided are a contents generating apparatus that can support functions of moving object substitution, depth-based object insertion, background image substitution, and view offering upon a user request and provide realistic image by applying lighting information applied to a real image to computer graphics object when a real image is composited... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070296722 - Imagery-based synthetic environment for computer generated forces: Systems and methods usable to provide synthetic environments for computer generated forces include supplemental identifying information applicable to the respective surface. Polygons used to represent the surface can be overlayed with supplemental information to provide a higher fidelity environment in which to mobilize the computer generated forces.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070296723 - Electronic simulation of events via computer-based gaming technologies: Systems and methods for electronic simulation of events via computer-based gaming technologies are provided. Data relating to an event such as a sports games is received containing event object information. Events objects can be, for example, players on a field or objects relating to the event environment. A game object... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ea

20070296724 - Graphic display meter: When a motion blur pointer image 10 is switched to a normal pointer image 20a, multiple pointer images 20 including the normal pointer image 20a are displayed adjacent to or in abutment with a leading part of the motion blur pointer image 10 in a direction where the pointer is... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070296725 - Method for parallel fine rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline: In a raster stage of a graphics processor, a method for parallel fine rasterization. The method includes receiving a graphics primitive for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor. The graphics primitive is rasterized at a first level to generate a plurality of tiles of pixels. The titles... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070296726 - Method for rasterizing non-rectangular tile groups in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline: In a raster stage of a graphics pipeline, a method for rasterizing non-rectangular tile groups. The method includes receiving a graphics primitive for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor. The graphics primitive is rasterized at a first level by generating a non-rectangular footprint comprising a set of... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070296727 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus including a connector, a determination unit configured to determine whether a display device, which is connected via the connector, is adaptive to an underscan display scheme or an overscan display scheme, and a setting unit configured to set one of underscan and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070296728 - Image processing device, image processing system, image processing method, computer program, and semiconductor device: Provided is an image processing device for outputting a graphic image drawn into a frame memory after saving the image in a display memory. The image processing device is provided with a save processing section for saving frame data representing a predetermined image from a graphic memory in which the... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070296729 - Unified virtual addressed register file: A multi-threaded processor is provided, such as a shader processor, having an internal unified memory space that is shared by a plurality of threads and is dynamically assigned to threads as needed. A mapping table that maps virtual registers to available internal addresses in the unified memory space so that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070296730 - Texture synthesis using dimensionality-reduced appearance space: A dimensionality-reduced appearance space system and method that transforms an exemplar image from a traditional three-dimensional space of pixel colors to a low-dimensional Euclidean space of appearance vectors. The transformation of an exemplar is a preprocessing step, and the transformed exemplar becomes the starting point for high-quality texture synthesis. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070296731 - Method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint: In a method for determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint covering a plurality of texels in a texel grid, in a graphic system, form information of the footprint is determined at first. Afterwards, the edges of the footprint are determined... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070296732 - Image formats for video capture, processing and display: Techniques and tools for representing pixel data in a video processing or capture system are described. Described techniques and tools provide efficient color representation for video processing and capture, and provide flexibility for representing colors using different bit precisions and memory layouts. Described techniques and tools include video formats that... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070296733 - Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid: The embodiments of the present invention are a method and apparatus to perform anti-aliasing using multi-sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid. Using the present invention with 6 sample multisampling gives the same visual antialiasing quality as 8 samples using a prior art technique but uses less memory. A non-power-of-two equally... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070296734 - Method and apparatus for creating and managing high impact special effects: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for creating and managing high impact special effects by composing one or more elemental and/or composite special effects into one or more composite special effects wherein said composition is carried out on the basis of rules specifying the number, relative positions, relative... Agent: Frank Edughom Ekpar

20070296735 - System for and method of managing drawings: After CAD drawing data and drawing attribute data are registered in a data memory by a CAD drawing registering means, the CAD drawing data edited by a CAD drawing editing unit. At this time, it is confirmed whether the CAD drawing data is being edited by another operator or not... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070296736 - System and method for scaling overlay images: A system and method for scaling a composite overlay image, wherein the composite overlay image comprises a plurality of pixels and each pixel comprises at least one color channel and at least one alpha channel, and further wherein at least one pixel of the composite overlay image has an alpha... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070296739 - Image based dialing: A device may include an image display component to display an image that includes a subject, where the image has a header portion, and to display subject information that includes a communication identifier related to the subject, and wherein the subject information is stored in the header portion. The device... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070296738 - Manipulating desktop backgrounds: Apparatus, methods and systems for manipulating desktop images are described. A method is provided that includes identifying a trigger event; displaying an interface including an image associated with a background of a display environment, the image being displayed in substantially an entire display space of the display environment; receiving user... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070296737 - Apparatus and method for displaying image data: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for displaying image data, wherein the apparatus includes a display unit displaying image data, a control unit dividing a plurality of image data by a desired number to form groups and display representative images of each group, and displaying images of a corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070296740 - Multiplanar reformatting visualization with multiple scrolling speeds: Multiplanar reformatting visualization is provided with multiple scrolling speeds. A plurality of buffers is provided. Each buffer stores composites of data from different planes. The amount of compositing to generate a total composite for a visualization may be less since the division into partial composites may reduce addition and subtraction... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070296741 - Multi-color display device and driving method therefor: A display device and a driving method using four color pixels, a signal processor that converts three input image signals having gray levels to four output image signals that display four colors based on a look-up table without separate gamma conversion; and a data driver that generates a data voltage... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070296742 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames on a diamond grid: A method of displaying an image with a display device includes receiving image data for the image on a diamond grid. The method includes generating a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame corresponding to the image data, the first and the second sub-frames each generated on a diamond grid. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070290946 - Display panel: A display panel includes a plurality of light guides which emit received light, and a plurality of external light blocking members which are disposed between exit surfaces of the plurality of light guides, and block light from the outside. Accordingly, the bright room contrast of the PDP is enhanced.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070290947 - Method and apparatus for compensating aging of an electroluminescent display: A method of compensating an electroluminescent display device having light-emitting elements that change with use, comprising the steps of: a) using the device to display images; b) sequentially displaying an ordered series of calibration images, wherein each of the calibration images have one or more corresponding flat fields, at least... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070290954 - Electronic circuit, method for driving the same, electronic device, and electronic apparatus: A method drives an electronic circuit for driving a driven element including a transistor which includes control, first, and second terminals, and in which a conduction state representing conduction between the first and second terminals changes depending on a potential of the control terminal, a first capacitive element that includes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070290953 - Oled display device with high output impedance: An OLED display device includes a current source and an OLED equivalent module. The current source includes a first controller, two biased sources, and two PMOS transistors. The current source outputs current to the OLED equivalent module to enable the OLED equivalent module emitting light.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070290955 - Organic electroluminescent display device and manufacturing method thereof: An organic EL display device having high fineness includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in series. Each of the pixels includes a first area, a second area, and a third area arrayed in series along the array direction of the pixels. The first area, the second area, and the third... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070290958 - Method and apparatus for averaged luminance and uniformity correction in an amoled display: e) receiving a signal for driving the one or more light-emitting elements after step d), correcting the signal by employing the updated offset voltage and gain relationship values to compute a linear correction for the light-emitting elements to form an updated corrected signal, and driving the display with the updated... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070290957 - Method and apparatus for compensating aging of oled display: A method of compensating an OLED display device having light-emitting elements that change with use, comprising the steps of: a) using the device to display images; b) sequentially displaying an ordered series of calibration images, wherein each of the calibration images have one or more corresponding flat fields, at least... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070290959 - Instrument cluster for a vehicle: An instrument cluster for a vehicle is disclosed. A display panel with markings and characters of various gauges, such as a speedometer, tachometer and hydraulic gauge, displays information on various conditions and operations of vehicle. An indicating pointer indicates the markings. An LED placed at the rear side of the... Agent: Coleman Sudol Sapone, P.C.

20070290960 - Light source driving circuit and method: A light source driving circuit and method is provided. The light source driving circuit includes a light source for outputting light, a light receiving unit for detecting a portion of the light output from the light source, a switching unit for controlling the supply of a source voltage according to... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070290961 - Method and apparatus for low range bit depth enhancement for mems display architectures: A light modulator device includes a first electrical conduit, a second electrical conduit electrically isolated from the first conduit, a first display element, and a second display element. The first display element is in an actuated state when a voltage difference between the first conduit and the second conduit has... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20070290962 - Method and system for displaying an image: According to one embodiment, a method for displaying an image in a light processing system includes receiving an image to be displayed. The method also includes generating a light from a light source. The method further includes receiving the light at a spatial light modulator having a group of pixels.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070290967 - Display device and method of fabricating the same: A display device includes a substrate with a display area having gate lines and data lines defining cells that each has a pixel electrode, a driving circuit on the substrate, at least one first signal line including lower and upper lines overlapping each other with an insulation layer interposed therebetween,... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070290963 - Image sensor array and liquid crystal display with sensor elements: The present invention provides an image sensor array and a liquid crystal display for increasing the readout time thereof. The image sensor array and liquid crystal display both comprise a substrate, a readout line disposed on the substrate, a first switch line and a second switch line both intersecting the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070290966 - Liquid crystal display and method for controlling brightness of an image: A liquid crystal display and method for controlling brightness of an image on a liquid crystal display are provided, in which, a liquid crystal display panel displays an image, a light generating unit provides a laser beam to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel, a scanning unit scans the liquid... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070290965 - Liquid crystal display device: The invention provides a miniaturized liquid crystal display device used in a mobile phone or the like which prevents the possibility of short-circuiting of lines of a flexible printed circuit board which supplies a power source or the like to a liquid crystal display device due to a phenomenon that... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070290970 - Method for driving a liquid crystal display: A method for driving a normal black type liquid crystal display (LCD) includes driving the LCD by applying uncompensated source signals corresponding to gray levels; recording first optimized common signal voltages (Vcom-opt1) of common signals corresponding with the gray levels; adjusting the source signal to drive the LCD so second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070290969 - Output buffer for gray-scale voltage source: An output buffer for a gray-scale voltage source adapted to a flat panel display such as a liquid crystal display is provided. The gray-scale voltage source provides a reference voltage for converting digital data into corresponding gray-scale voltages. The output buffer comprises a differential amplifier, a power amplifier and a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070290971 - Driving circuit and driving method for input display: A novel driving circuit for an input display is provided. The driving circuit includes a first and a second data lines disposed in parallel with each other, a first and a second gate lines disposed in parallel with each other and intersected with the first and the second data lines,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070290974 - Liquid crystal display panel and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display panel comprising a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The first substrate comprises a first base, a first pattern and a second pattern. The first pattern and the second pattern are disposed on the first base. The second substrate comprises... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070290973 - Structure of pixel circuit for display and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit including a first transistor, a coupling capacitor, a second transistor, and a luminescent element is provided. The first transistor is used as a switch. The coupling capacitor stores a coupling voltage and transmits the coupling voltage to the gate of the second transistor for compensating a drift... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070290976 - Liquid crystal display device: An object is to provide an OCB-mode liquid crystal display device causing no flicker even with varying environment temperature, and flicker prevention is offered by dividing a transition voltage to that of a first pulse and that of a latter pulse, and varying a ratio of pulse width of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070290975 - Method for driving reflective liquid crystal display and apparatus for driving reflective liquid crystal display: A method for driving a reflective liquid crystal display having a selective reflection layer to record an image on the reflective liquid crystal display is provided. The method includes: selectively applying two or more kinds of voltages, which includes a voltage V1H exceeding an operation threshold value of the selective... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070290977 - Apparatus for driving liquid crystal display and method thereof: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a timing controller, a source driver and a gate driver. A panel of the LCD includes gate line groups, and each of the gate line groups includes gate lines. Scan pulse signals having a same scan pulse period and output... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070290978 - Timing controller for controlling pixel level multiplexing display panel: A timing controller including a memory and a memory controller is provided. The memory includes an odd-field block and an even-field block. The memory controller is coupled to the memory and controls the memory. When two of a first, a second and a third gate output enable signals output by... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070290949 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells defined with areas in which the electrodes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290950 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells defined with areas in which the electrodes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290948 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving a plasma display panel: An interlace-type PDP is driven by an improved driving method so as to achieve a greater operating margin, higher resolution, and higher brightness. The interlace-type PDP is driven using odd and even frames in such a manner that the cells are grouped into cell groups such that each cell group... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290951 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells defined with areas in which the electrodes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290952 - Method for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a plasma display panel in which a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel to each other, a plurality of third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells defined with areas in which the electrodes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070290956 - Active matrix electroluminescent display devices, and their manufacture: Physical barriers (210) are present between neighbouring pixels (200) on a circuit substrate (100) of an active-matrix electroluminescent display device, particularly with LEDs (25) of organic semiconductor materials. The invention forms these barriers (210) with metal or other electrically-conductive material (240) that serves as an interconnection between a first circuit... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070290964 - Flat panel display scan signal compensation: An apparatus includes a display panel having pixels, and a timing controller that uses a frame rate control look-up table to generate more gray scale levels than available from a data driver. The timing controller uses the increased number of gray scale levels to compensate distortions in luminance across the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070290968 - Liquid crystal display device, method for controlling the same, and portable terminal: An active-matrix liquid crystal display device has pixels arranged in a matrix which each include a thin film transistor (TFT) as an active element. When the device is in a power-off state, TFTs in all the pixels are switched on, and all horizontal switches are turned on so that all... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070290972 - Method to reduce power consumption with electro-optic lenses: Provided is an electro-optic device having reduced power consumption. More specifically, an electro-optic device is provided comprising: a liquid crystal layer between a pair of opposing transparent substrates; a patterned electrode set positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the inward-facing surface of the first transparent substrate; a conductive layer... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070290980 - Digital-to-analog conversion unit, driving apparatus and panel display apparatus using the same: A digital-to-analog conversion unit, and a driving apparatus and a panel display apparatus using the same are provided. A driving voltage output from the digital-to-analog conversion unit can be a positive polarity voltage or a negative polarity voltage, wherein the driving voltage output from an output buffer is a positive... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070290982 - Gate driving circuit for liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A gate driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of shift register stages each including pull-up and pull-down transistors, wherein each of the pull-up and pull-down transistors is connected to a gate driving signal output terminal and controlled by voltages on first and second nodes, respectively,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070290981 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method: A liquid crystal display device and driving method is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first data line to which a data voltage is supplied and a second data line separated from the first data line with a pixel row therebetween and connected to the first data line... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070290983 - Output circuit of a source driver, and method of outputting data in a source driver: An output circuit of a source driver may include a first buffer adapted to receive a first voltage and to output a first sub-voltage, a second buffer adapted to receive a second voltage and to output a second sub-voltage, the second sub-voltage being complementary with the first sub-voltage, and a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070290979 - Source drive amplifier for flat panel display: An output buffer (100) for a TFT-LCD display device includes a push-pull output stage having a first device (Mp) for supplying current to an output (Vout) and a second device (Mn) for drawing current from the output. A first pre-amplifier (101) is coupled to an input (Vin) of the buffer... Agent: Thomas E. Kocovsky, Jr. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070290984 - Liquid crystal display and control method of the same: A liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel, a temperature sensor sensing a temperature of the liquid crystal panel, a gray scale voltage generating part including a plurality of gray scale voltage generating units each generating a first gray scale voltage set corresponding to a preset temperature and a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070290985 - Display apparatus: In a display apparatus including: a display panel; a backlight unit disposed on the rear side of the display panel; a circuit board disposed on a side of the backlight unit which is different from the display panel side; and a brightness sensor for measuring brightness of light from the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070290986 - Apparatus and method for disabling a user interface: An apparatus including a first user interface and a second user interface and a processor connected to the first and second user interface. The processor being configured to disable at least one feature of the second user interface when a user interface deactivation input is received from the first user... Agent: Perman & Green

20070290988 - Feel presenting device and method: The present invention provides a device configured to present the feel of a plane or an object surface to a user using equipment configured to generate physical vibration such as a vibration motor or the like. A plurality of vibration motors including an eccentric rotor are put on a human... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070290989 - Detachable expandable flexible display: A display system for a handheld computing device is disclosed. The display system includes a processing unit having a first communication port, and a visual display unit separable from the processing unit. The visual display unit further includes a visual display, and a second communication port. The display unit can... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070290990 - Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs: Improved approaches for users of computing devices to interact with graphical user interfaces are described. According to one aspect, a rotational user action supplied by a user at a user input device is transformed into linear action with respect to a graphical user interface. According to another aspect, a portion... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20070290987 - Multifunctional mouse: A multifunctional mouse includes a poke stick at a side of its housing. The poke stick is extended to a control circuit inside the housing, and a turning wheel is located at a front middle position of the housing. By using a thumb to touch the poke stick to move... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070290992 - Control interface for media player: There is provided a media player including a casing with a front panel mounted thereon; the front panel including at least one touch sensor; and at least one mechanical switch incorporated within the casing. It is preferable that a combination of activating at least one touch sensor, and activating the... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070290991 - Enhanced lift detection technique for a laser illuminated optical mouse sensor: A method for detecting lift from a surface portion of an optical pointing device comprising a coherent light source, a photodetector device including an array of pixels, and means for extracting motion features including comparators with an adjustable offset value, the method comprising the steps of: (i) illuminating said surface... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070290996 - Image processing method of pointer input system: The present invention relates to an image processing method of a pointer input system. In the image processing method, a color channel image is generated from an image pickup device, so that image processing capability, the image processing efficiency and the data transmitting speed of the pointer input system are... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070290994 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit configured to display information on a display screen, a detection unit configured to detect the operation direction and an operation amount of a direction inputting operation, a scroll control unit configured to scroll the information displayed on the display screen... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070290995 - Input method of pointer input system: The present invention relates to an input method of a pointer input system. A setting procedure and a correcting procedure having been performed on the pointer input system to obtain a space conversion relationship and an over-bright position. The input method includes steps of inputting at least a light spot... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070290993 - Soap mobile electronic device: A new mobile electronic device, referred to as a soap, may be used to control electronic devices, external or internal to the soap, in an intuitive, convenient, and comfortable manner. For example, a soap may serve as an alternative to input devices such as a mouse. A soap device may... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070290997 - Puck-based input device with rotation detection: The present invention includes a pointing device having a first surface on which a puck field of motion is defined, a moveable puck, and a position detector. The moveable puck is confined to move on the first surface within the puck field of motion. The position detector determines a position... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070290998 - Input device comprising geomagnetic sensor and acceleration sensor, display device for displaying cursor corresponding to motion of input device, and cursor display method thereof: A display device for displaying a cursor according to motion of an input device is provided. The input device comprises an input part which receives pitch angle information and yaw angle information corresponding to motion of an external input device; a computation part which computes a first relative angle corresponding... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070290999 - Method, medium and apparatus browsing images: A method, medium and apparatus browsing images is disclosed. The method browsing images includes sensing acceleration imparted to a portable digital device, and moving an image onto a display area in accordance with a tilt angle of the portable digital device if the sensed acceleration is greater than a first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070291000 - Joy-stick like graphical user interface to adjust 3d cross sectional plane in 3d volume: Methods for a joy-stick graphical control in 3D space are disclosed. 3D data are rendered with a certain orientation in a 3D rendering space within a region of a 2D screen. One or more cross sectional views of the 3D data are rendered in the 3D rendering space where the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070291002 - Laser mouse and control method thereof: A method for controlling a laser mouse on a surface is provided. The laser mouse includes a laser mouse control unit, a light transmitter and a light receiver. The laser mouse control unit radiates a beam of laser light and detects a moving position of the laser mouse relative to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070291001 - Optical navigation sensor with tracking and lift detection for optically transparent contact surfaces: In one embodiment, an optical navigation sensor for a computer mouse is designed to be operable on an optically transparent material. The optically transparent material may include a contact surface on which the mouse sits during normal operation. An optically rough tracking surface is provided below the contact surface. The... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20070291003 - Lap positioned computer cursor control /input device: A computer cursor control which includes a base having two side ends, a bottom surface and a top surface is disclosed. The bottom surface of the base has a concave side-to-side cross section. This concave cross section is ergonomically shaped to conform to and engagingly rest upon the thigh of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070291004 - Kvm switch including a terminal emulator: A method and system for converting the output of a communications port (e.g., a serial port or a USB port) into video signals representing the output of a terminal using a KVM switch. Upon receiving characters from the communications port, the system interprets the characters as terminal emulation commands and... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070291005 - Operation panel and image formation apparatus or electronic equipment using the operation panel: A display section of an operation panel is raised relative to a horizontal plane. If the display section consists of a liquid crystal having an angle of visibility of 80 degrees (i.e., with an angle formed between the line normal to the display surface of the display section and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070291006 - User interface apparatus and method: A user interface apparatus and method requiring a limited number of input keys, and a computer-readable recording medium storing the same, the user interface apparatus including a display unit to display a menu; an input unit to include one or more input keys; and a control unit to control a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070291009 - Apparatus and method for detecting a touch-sensor pad gesture: An apparatus and method for distinguishing a particular gesture from among multiple gestures, performed by a conductive object on the sensing device, using fewer than three time intervals. The apparatus may include a sensing device to detect a presence of a conductive object, and a processing device, coupled to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070291011 - Control device and method with compensation of coordinate calculating for a capacitive touch panel: A control device for a capacitive touch panel has multiple voltage driving/current detecting circuits respectively connected to four corners of a top conductive layer of the touch panel. An auxiliary voltage driving/current detecting circuit is connected to a bottom conductive layer of the touch panel. When the touch panel is... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070291008 - Inverted direct touch sensitive input devices: A direct touch-sensitive input device includes a display surface configured to display images on a front of the display surface, and a direct touch-sensitive surface mounted on a back of the display surface. The display surface and the direct touch-sensitive surface are geometrically coincident. The device can also include a... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070291007 - Method and system for switching between absolute and relative pointing with direct input devices: A method maps positions of a direct input device to locations of a pointer displayed on a surface. The method performs absolute mapping between physical positions of a direct input device and virtual locations of a pointer on a display device when operating in an absolute mapping mode, and relative... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070291015 - Portable terminal equipment: Portable terminal equipment contains plane display device made of a transparent or translucent material and a touch sensor made of a transparent or translucent material. The touch sensor mounts the plane display device. The portable terminal equipment also contains a casing that holds the plane display device by fastening the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070291012 - Scanning control device for a capacitive touch panel: A scanning control device for a capacitive touch panel uses voltage driving/current detecting circuits to connect to a top conductive layer of the touch panel. Output terminals of all voltage driving/current detecting units are connected to a signal processing unit through a switching unit. Output data of the signal processing... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070291010 - Touch screen assembly for a lighting control: A user interface for a load control device comprises a bezel, a touch sensitive device, and a touch sensitive actuator. The touch sensitive actuator is received in an opening of the bezel and comprises a plurality of force concentrator for actuating the touch sensitive device. A front surface of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070291013 - Touchpad including non-overlapping sensors: A touchpad in which a user input is received includes at least first through third zones, with the first zone and the third zone being non-adjacent. The touchpad further includes at least first and second non-overlapping sensors, with the first sensor disposed in at least a portion of the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070291014 - Method of scrolling that is activated by touchdown in a predefined location on a touchpad that recognizes gestures for controlling scrolling functions: A method of using a capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a zone on a surface thereof, wherein touchdown of a pointing object within the zone enables activation of a scrolling function, wherein direction of scrolling is then controlled by a gesture by the pointing object, such as moving in... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070291016 - Capacitive position sensor: A capacitive position sensor comprising a preferably annular sensing path, the sensing path having one or more virtual buttons designated along its length. The sensing path has a plurality of terminals connected to it to subdivide it into a plurality of sections, each terminal providing a sensing channel for a... Agent: David Kiewit

20070291017 - Camera-equipped writing tablet apparatus for digitizing form entries: The embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus, method, etc. for a camera-equipped writing tablet for digitizing form entries. More specifically, a data capture apparatus comprises a form holder and an image capture device connected to the form holder. The image capture device is positioned to capture an image of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070291018 - User interface device and user interface method: An input device for effective navigation, a user interface device and a user interface method, and a computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to perform the method, the user interface device including a display unit, a rotatable input unit used to instruct a movement and a selection... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070291019 - Light emission device and display device using the light emission device as light source: A light emission device and a display device using the light emission device as a light source are provided. The light emission device includes first and second substrates facing each other, an electron emission unit located on an inner surface of the first substrate, a phosphor layer located on an... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

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20070291021 - Display driver and display driving method: In a liquid crystal driver of a liquid crystal display having a structure to switch between image data for partial display from a partial memory and non-display (background pattern), changes in a partial-display area is detected according to a setting command of partial-display area, and a mask switch is controlled... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070291022 - Electrooptical device: In an electrooptical device including an electrooptical modulating layer between a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 105, all edges 107 to 109 of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 105, except an edge where IC chips 110 and 111 are attached, are trued up each other... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070291023 - Electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus control method: An electronic apparatus and an electronic apparatus control method that accomplish a low power consumption are disclosed. A switch 11 disposed on a video camera 1 is operated. A process corresponding to the operation is executed. When the executed process is a predetermined process for example loading/unloading of a cassette... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070291024 - Viewing-angle control device, display apparatus, method for controlling viewing-angle control device, viewing-angle control program, and storage medium storing the program: A control section of a portable phone controls a viewing-angle changing section that changes a viewing angle of an image display section. The control section controls the viewing angle of the image display section on the basis of a status of use of various devices. Specifically, the control section includes:... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070291025 - Method and apparatus for music enhanced messaging: An apparatus including a processor connected to a user interface and a text conversion device connected to the processor, the text conversion device being configured to convert text input through the user interface into a musical composition.... Agent: Perman & Green

20070291026 - Method and device for preparing a parts catalog: A method of preparing a parts catalog that converts a first parts catalog data, including an exploded view of a product and a parts table of parts in the exploded view, into a second parts catalog data, including part numbers and part names of the parts in the exploded view.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070291027 - Computer generated hologram display system: A system includes a computer generated hologram (CGH) design plane and a processor capable of representing a three dimensional object. The processor is configured to represent a surface of the three dimensional object by a facet, impose a grid defining a set of nodes upon the facet, and associate object... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20070291028 - Fast interactive object manipulation: Methods, systems, and program products for detecting user manipulation of one or more elements of a presentation of a complex solid represented by a solid history tree. A reduced history representation of the complex solid is created. The reduced history tree is repeatedly evaluated to recreate the presentation of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070291029 - Unification and part hiding in three dimensional geometric data: Technology is disclosed for improving the rendering of a three-dimensional (3D) object. In one aspect, the technology applies multi-scale visibility patches and adjacency heuristics to restore proper face and normals orientation at a per-object and per-polygon level; and target where best to apply ray-casting metrics to refine visibility determination.... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070291030 - System and method for performing depth testing at top and bottom of graphics pipeline: Embodiments of a system and method including graphics processing of a pixel sample are described. According to an embodiment, a first depth test processes a value, such as a z/stencil value, of a pixel sample and determines whether the value of the pixel sample satisfies the first depth test. If... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070291031 - Three dimensional geometric data correction: Technology creates visualization data which corrects defects present in the native application data created by a CAD or other graphic application. A computer implemented process creates three dimensional object view data, and includes the steps of: accessing a three dimensional object data comprising a plurality of polygons having borders; building... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070291032 - Image process apparatus for three-dimensional model: A calculation area including a three-dimensional (3D) product model is specified, and a plurality of cross-sectional images is cut out from the calculation area. Each cross-sectional image is divided into plural pieces of voxel data, and voxel data of a gap area of the inside of a product is generated... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070291033 - Method for producing three-dimensional views using a brightness control: A process for creating three-dimensional or relief views with the help of software running on a computer system for adjusting brightness of a scene comprising a plurality of pixels includes: determining a representative brightness of at least one predetermined area of the scene based on brightness of each pixel of... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070291034 - System for presenting a navigable virtual subway system, and method for operating and using the same: A navigable virtual environment that comprises a graphic representation of an environment modeled after a transportation system which is navigable by a user and which provides at least one service to the user appropriate to the transportation system. The environment is preferably rendered in three dimensions and designed to provide... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20070291035 - Horizontal perspective representation: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for a creating a horizontal perspective image from a representation.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070291036 - Method for generating regular elements in a computer-aided design drawing: The process of generating regular elements in a CAD drawing is accelerated by providing a CAD designer with graphical user interface (GUI) tools to generate regular elements for a CAD drawing interactively, dynamically, and in real-time. The GUI tools allow the CAD designer to preview the regular elements that he... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070291037 - Apparatus and method for selectively double buffering portions of displayable content: A method of generating displayable content is provided. The method includes obtaining a display package having a plurality of display elements defining a plurality of display frames. The method further includes rendering at least one selected group of the plurality of display elements. Each selected group is based on indicator... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070291039 - Graphics processing unit for cost effective high performance graphics system with two or more graphics processing units: A graphics processing unit is operable as an individual graphics processing unit. However the graphics processing unit has a mode of operation in which a private bus is formed with a second graphics processing unit.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070291038 - System, method, and computer program product for adjusting a programmable graphics/audio processor based on input and output parameters: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for adjusting at least one aspect of a programmable graphics and/or audio processor. In use, at least one input parameter and at least one output parameter of a programmable graphics and/or audio processor are identified. Thereafter, at least one aspect of... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070291040 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system supporting dynamic profiling of graphics-based applications and automatic control of parallel modes of operation: A multi-mode parallel 3-D graphics system having multiple graphics processing pipelines with multiple GPUs supporting a parallel graphics rendering process having time, frame and object division modes of operation, wherein each GPU comprises video memory, a geometry processing subsystem and a pixel processing subsystem, and wherein 3D scene profiling is... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20070291041 - Apparatus for driving a plurality of display units using common driving circuits: In an apparatus for driving a plurality of display units in a mobile electronic apparatus, each including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan line and a plurality of pixels each provided at one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, at least one of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070291042 - Display substrate having integrated bypass capacitors, display device having the same and method of manufacturing the same: A display substrate includes an output pads section, a fan-out section, a first power wiring section and a first conductive pattern. The output pads section is electrically connected to a plurality of output terminals of a first driver chip. The fan-out section electrically connects the output pads section to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070291043 - Instanced hair database for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to define a surface. An instancing module is used to instance hairs. An instanced hair database coupled to the instancing module is used to store hair data. The instancing module retrieves hair data from the instanced hair database to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070291044 - Systems and methods for border color handling in a graphics processing unit: Systems and methods for border color handling in a graphics processing unit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a border color register that stores at least one border color pointer. A border color pointer indicates an address in an external memory at which border color information is located.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070291045 - Multiple texture compositing: A machine readable storage media containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to set a plurality of operands and operators. A plurality of texture maps are sent to a processor for texture compositing. Operands are selected for a texture operation. A first logic is used... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070291046 - Color calibration method and device used for displaying device: A color calibration method and device used for a displaying device, which is used to first calculate the RGB signal level value of the RGB colors of the first color signal, and next obtain the color area corresponding to the RGB signal level value through calculation and search, and then... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070291047 - System and method for generating scale maps: A method includes determining a first blend map for a first projector, the first blend map including a first plurality of attenuation factors corresponding to a region of overlap between first and second images projected by the first projector and a second projector, respectively, on a display surface, applying the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070291048 - Systems and methods for tone curve generation, selection and application: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for calculating and selecting tone curves for image enhancement.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070291049 - Automatic color adjustment of a template design: The present invention generates a color template design. According to one aspect, a source image is selected. Colors of a selected template design are adjusted automatically using color data collected from the selected source image. A histogram may be generated for the selected source image. The histogram may be analyzed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070291050 - Multiple instantiable effects in a hair/fur pipeline: A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to define a surface. An interpolation module may be used to interpolate at least one final hair on the surface based upon at least one control hair. An effects module including an effects pipeline may be utilized to apply... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070291051 - Image generation with interpolation and distortion correction: An image generation apparatus provides interpolation and distortion correction. The interpolation and distortion correction may be provided in one or two dimensions. Nonlinear image scan trajectories, such as sinusoidal and bi-sinusoidal trajectories are accommodated. Horizontal and vertical scan positions are determined using a linear pixel clock, and displayed pixel intensities... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20070291052 - Panoramic display for a wireless device: Various embodiments of a panoramic display for a wireless device are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a display comprising a plurality of display regions. The display regions may include a central display region and multiple lateral display regions arranged to provide a panoramic display. Image compression... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070291053 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device comprises the following five units. A histogram generating unit generates histogram data based on an image signal. An amount-of-light control unit controls an amount-of-light adjustment unit so that the amount of light decreases as a ratio corresponding to a black color increase based on the histogram... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20070291054 - Three-dimensional image display: A three-dimensional image display device including a display device having odd-numbered sub-pixel columns for displaying a left image and even-numbered sub-pixel columns for displaying a right image; a first set of sub-pixels disposed in a same first horizontal line of adjacent odd-numbered sub-pixel columns have different colors; a second set... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070285337 - Visual display screen apparatus: A visual display screen apparatus including a support member and a visual display screen for collapsible displays such as flexible projection screen systems and light-emissive screens screen systems in combination with the elongated support member. The elongated support member includes or consists of a strip of material having an arcuate... Agent: David Odell Simmons

20070285343 - Dual-screen mobile display device: A dual-screen mobile display device, which embodies a dual-screen display according to a user's selection. The dual-screen mobile display device for a mobile device includes an image signal supply part for supplying a first image signal and a second image signal. A first active matrix organic light emitting display panel... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070285341 - Folding multimedia display device: Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070285346 - Head mounted display and image adjustment method for the same: A head mounted display including a frame wearable on a user's head, first and second imaging apparatuses integrating on the frame and at least one control unit. Each imaging apparatus includes a display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix. The control unit is utilized for selectively setting... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070285349 - Liquid crystal display device and integrated circuit chip therefor: A display device includes a plurality of pixels; a gate driver that supplies a gate signal to the pixels; a data driver that supplies a data voltage to the pixels; an additional frame generator that generates an image signal of a third frame based on an image signal of a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070285350 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided to reduce noise. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a chassis which is disposed behind the plasma display panel and supports the plasma display panel, a circuit unit which is disposed behind the chassis and drives the plasma display panel, a... Agent: Robert E. Brushnell

20070285355 - Control of a plasma display panel: The control of a plasma display panel, successively comprises, at least for all the cells of a current line having to switch state for the next line: a connection of a terminal of application of an intermediary supply voltage to output terminals of column control stages corresponding to the junction... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070285353 - Plasma display apparatus and drive circuit with reduced effect of surge voltage: A plasma display apparatus includes an IC that operates with a power supply voltage, of which a difference between a ground potential and a power supply potential is substantially more than 50 V, a ceramic condenser disposed in a vicinity of the IC and coupled between the ground potential and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285352 - Plasma display apparatus and driving thereof: Provided is a a plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same. The plasma display apparatus includes a scan driver. The scan driver supplies a first driving signal to the scan electrode in a first subfield during a first reset period, a first address period, and a first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070285354 - Plasma display panel and manufacturing method of the same: A plasma display panel has a dielectric layer with a relatively high dielectric withstanding voltage that can be easily formed, and a manufacturing method thereof. The plasma display panel includes a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed along a first direction... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070285356 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes an upper substrate, a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, a dielectric layer, a lower substrate, and address electrodes. The scan and sustain electrodes are formed on the upper substrate, and the dielectric layer covers the scan... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070285358 - Active matrix display element and device: An active matrix display device includes a CPU; a glass substrate; and a display panel unit formed on the glass substrate, the display panel unit including a control unit and a display section together. The display panel unit is provided with a data input terminal, a clock terminal and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070285359 - Display apparatus: A display including a plurality of pixels in matrix, wherein each pixel includes first and second power source lines; a switching device for controlling writing of a signal voltage supplied via a signal line; a capacitor for storing the signal voltage supplied via the switching device; an n-type driver device... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070285360 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device capable of reducing power consumption by limiting a current to lower the total luminance if an area exhibiting a high luminance is larger than a threshold, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The device includes a luminance controller for controlling an emission... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070285366 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display: An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display to improve the quality of moving pictures are provided. The apparatus includes a transition check unit that determines whether an input image signal between a first frame and a second frame has changed and whether an input image signal between... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285367 - Burning system having optic-electric transformer and comparator circuit and method for burning liquid crystal display: An exemplary burning system (600) for a liquid crystal display (670) includes an optic-electric transformer (610), a comparator circuit (650), and a micro-controller unit (660). The optic-electric transformer is configured for measuring optical flicker of a liquid crystal display, and transforming the measurement into a corresponding flicker signal. The comparator... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070285365 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display, comprising a plurality of pixels, a data driver and a sense signal generator, where each of the pixels comprises a switch coupled to a data line and a liquid crystal capacitor. The liquid crystal capacitor is coupled to the switch and its capacitance is varied in... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070285363 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A LCD device includes a liquid crystal panel and a control circuit. The liquid crystal panel is configured to display an image in response to various received signals, one of which may include a common voltage signal. The control circuit receives a control signal. In response to the control signal,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070285362 - Memory module with display functions: A memory module with display functions and a display unit thereof are provided. The memory module includes a first circuit board, a memory chip, a display unit and a controller. The memory chip is disposed on the first circuit board. The display unit is disposed on the first circuit board.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070285368 - Driving circuit with mode switch circuit, liquid crystal display with same, and driving method for same: An exemplary driving circuit (3) for a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: an RGB (red green blue) signal interface (371) for receiving a plurality of RGB signals, a serial interface (372) for receiving a mode signal, a light emitting diode (LED) driving circuit (377), an LCD panel driver (376), a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070285369 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method: There is disclosed a liquid crystal display device and driving method are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel where pixels are defined by gate lines and data lines that are arranged in a matrix shape. A gate driver is operable to supply a gate... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070285370 - Thin film transistor substrate and liquid crystal display panel having the same: A thin film transistor substrate includes a plurality of signal lines formed in a display area, at least one fan-out line part including a plurality of fan-out lines, and a signal compensation line part including a plurality of signal compensation lines. At least a portion of at least one of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070285371 - Display apparatus having data compensating circuit: In a data compensating circuit and a display apparatus having the same, a previous compressed data compressed from a previous frame data is previously stored in a memory, a decoder decompresses the previous compressed data from the memory to output a previous decompressed data, a coder-decoder compresses a present frame... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070285372 - Liquid crystal display device and method for displaying a landscape mode image: A mobile LCD device controls a common voltage signal VCOM to effectively display a landscape mode image instead of using a separate integrated chip (IC). The LCD device utilizes a method of displaying a landscape mode image including selecting a video frame from M video frames received from an external... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070285374 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a plurality of data electrodes arranged in parallel to each other, and a data driver. The data driver applies a driving voltage to the plurality of data electrodes. The data driver includes a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285339 - Image display apparatus and camera and image communication system: The camera reads identification information of the user, which is contained in an identification card, through a card reading part. The camera connects automatically to a server designated in accordance with the read identification information through a communication interface. Then, the camera transmits and stores the data of recorded images... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285340 - Portable computer with multiple monitors: The present invention provides a portable computer with multiple monitors, comprising: a main unit; a first monitor pivotally disposed on one side of the main unit to display a first image signal; and at least one second monitor sited on the surface of the main unit to display a second... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20070285338 - Video display system and video display method: An image display system includes a camera that shoots a background, a monitor that displays a shot background image, and an optical lens arranged between a display surface of the monitor and an observer. An imaginary image, obtained due to presence of the optical lens, of the monitor image is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070285342 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus for displaying image signals of a form of packets incorporating display position information includes a combination of unit display devices so as to acquire translational objectivity. Each of the unit display devices including a receiving part for receiving image signals, a processing part for dividing input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285344 - Low power projection display devices: Described herein are devices that provide projection-type video output in a portable design. The projection-type display devices include a battery that stores electrical energy. The battery increases display device portability and flexible usage by permitting display device operation in locations not serviceable by a fixed power supply. For example, inclusion... Agent: William J. Plut Honeywood Technologies, LLC

20070285345 - Image display system implements a light source with a contrllable schedule to emit light of adjustable intensities: An image display system includes a light source for projecting an illumination light. The image display system further includes a light source control unit that controls the light source to adjust the illumination intensity and/or light emission time of the illumination light. The display system further includes an SLM (Spatial... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20070285347 - 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

20070285348 - Mesh-pattern partitioned plasma display panel: A plasma display panel is provided in which discharge connection in the column direction is prevented without increasing the number of man-hours in a formation process of a partition and without deteriorating ventilation for an exhaust process. A pattern in a plan view of a partition is made a mesh... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070285351 - System and method for dark noise reduction in pulse width modulated (pwm) displays: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a system and method for dark noise reduction in pulse width modulated (PWM) displays. The system includes means for determining bright corrected pixel values for dark portions of an image corresponding to a first subframe and means for determining dark corrected... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070285357 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes, in an envelope, an electron-emitting element for emitting an electron by applying a voltage between electrodes, an image-forming member for forming an image by irradiation with an electron beam emitted from the electron-emitting element, and a supporting member for supporting the envelope. The supporting member has... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070285364 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus (100) comprises: a video selection section (105) that selects video based on the outputs of a video 1 detection section (111), video 2 detection section (112), mode management section (104), seat sensor (301) and seat sensor (302); two screen combining section (106) that combines the screens of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070285361 - System of wireless electronic registration plates: The system of wireless electronic registration plates (3) which is comprehended by the existance of the central wireless module (29) placed within the motor vehicle and connected on to an electric energy source, and the wireless electronic registration plates (30, 31), that are placed at the front and the rear... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070285373 - Gate driving apparatus: A gate driving apparatus for driving a pixel array on a panel. The apparatus includes a driver chip having a first transistor with a gate coupled to receive a Nth gate driving signal, a source coupled to receive a first voltage and a drain coupled to a Nth scan line... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070285375 - Image processing apparatus and method, image forming apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus configured to control displaying of an image, which may include an upper-quadrant liquid crystal panel; a lower-quadrant liquid crystal panel; an upper-quadrant memory; a lower-quadrant memory; an offset adder; and a switching controller.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070285376 - Data driver and driving method of tft-lcd: A data driver for a TFT-LCD. N1 channels of the data driver can be disabled. The data driver comprises a multiplexer and a shift register. The multiplexer receives a horizontal start pulse and at least one control signal. Output signals are transmitted from output terminals of the multiplexer according to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070285377 - Electro-optical device, circuit and method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus: A circuit for driving an electro-optical device including a plurality of pixels includes a look-up table that stores response-compensated data in accordance with supplied image data and image data of an immediately preceding frame, which is one frame before the frame of the supplied image data, a temperature sensor that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070285380 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus including a signal input unit, to which a video signal and a synchronization signal are input; a storage unit, in which a luminance conversion table corresponding to a plurality of display regions on the display unit is stored; a signal processor for processing the video signal so... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285381 - Inverter driving circuit for lcd backlight: An inverter driving circuit for an LCD is switched on/off more stably to improve heating radiation characteristics and drive efficiency. In the driving circuit, a controller supplies a first driving signal. A level shifter provides a second driving signal. A first delay circuit delays a rising section of the first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070285378 - Led backlight for lcd with color uniformity recalibration over lifetime: An LED light source for LCD backlighting is described that recalibrates itself over time so that color and brightness uniformity across the backlight is maintained over the life of the backlight. The backlight contains clusters of red, green, and blue LEDs, each cluster generating a white point. In one embodiment,... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20070285379 - Liquid crystal display and method of adjusting brightness for the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and method of adjusting brightness for the LCD are provided. The LCD includes a light emitter including a plurality of luminescent bodies which are divided into a predetermined number of partial areas, a backlight driver connected to the light emitter to control the brightness of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070285382 - Methods and systems for motion adaptive backlight driving for lcd displays with area adaptive backlight: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for generating, modifying and applying backlight array driving values.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070285383 - Electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes that are disposed in a pixel area on the substrate; a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines that are disposed on the substrate so as to intersect each other in the pixel area; an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070285384 - Liquid crystal display with interface circuit: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes an LCD panel (210) and a driving circuit (220). The driving circuit includes a signal generator (221), an LCD panel driver (223), and an interface circuit (225). The signal generator generates data signals, system controlling signals, image controlling signals, and an interface... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070285385 - Broadcast system for electronic ink signs: A system for centrally controlling and messaging electrically active displays distributed at a single site or at multiple sites. A process for creating an electronically addressable display includes multiple printing operations, similar to a multi-color process in conventional screen printing. In some of the process steps, electrically non-active inks are... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20070285387 - Output property adjusting apparatus and output property adjusting method: An exemplary output property adjusting apparatus includes a first display area, a second display area, a third display area, a scroll bar, and a micro controller unit (MCU). The first display area is for displaying data files. The second display area is for displaying output properties in a property select... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070285386 - System and method for interactive three-dimensional position tracking: A system and method for tracking the x, y and z coordinates of a position of an input device in an interactive computer system is disclosed. An image sensor situated on the input device captures images of an electronic marker displayed on a display screen. As the position of the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070285388 - Graphic meter display: A trapezoid-shaped motion blur pointer image is composed of edges of normal pointer images. The normal pointer image and the motion blur pointer image are not overlapped with each other to prevent unevenness in brightness. The brightness of the motion blur pointer image is even in a whole area of... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070285389 - Display device, sensor panel, position-detecting device, position-inputting device, and computer system: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display screen having a light-transmissible display conductor extending in a predetermined plane, and at least one detection conductor extending along the predetermined plane, the at least one detection conductor having at least one base line portion formed of a conductor... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20070285390 - Auxiliary output device: Techniques are provided for notification regarding communications. An incoming communication for a user of a primary device is received. An auxiliary device is provided for the primary device. Filter criteria for the auxiliary device is provided. A determination is made as to whether information regarding the incoming communication is sent... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070285391 - Peripheral device: Disclosed herein is a peripheral device connected to an electronic device via an interface cable for exchanging first data with the electronic device via the interface cable based on a general interface standard. The peripheral device includes a radio communication section configured to perform radio communication with an outside and... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070285392 - Utilizing an internal reflection surface to reflect and collimate sidelight in an optical navigation device: An optical navigation devices and methods that utilize an internal reflection surface to reflect and collimate sidelight from a light source are described. A light source is configured to emit light. The sidelight from the light source is reflected and collimated by an internal reflection surface towards a work surface.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070285394 - Kvm switch system capable of transmitting keyboard-mouse data and receiving video data through single cable: A KVM switch system capable of communicating with a selected computer through a single cable is disclosed. Between the computer and the KVM switch system, keyboard/mouse data is transmitted and video data is received through a single cable. The KVM switch system includes a protocol controller, a graphic controller, a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20070285395 - Computer keyboard: An adjustable keyboard includes a first keying module situated pivotably with respect to the second keying module for providing a keyboard having improved ergonomics and comfort, and promoting improved productivity of a user. In one embodiment, the first and the second keying modules are pivotably mounted on a base assembly... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070285393 - Universal multifunctional key for input/output devices: The present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, provides multifunctional key (20) adapted to be used in input and output devices. The multifunctional key comprises a touch surface (22) and a display means (32) adjacent to the touch surface wherein the display means is adapted to changeably display signs. Keying... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070285396 - Electric circuit structure of a question-and-answer alarm clock: An electric circuit structure of a question-and answer alarm clock includes an interface used as a transmitting interface for each unit, a display unit electrically interlocked onto the interface to show time and a question, an input unit electrically interlocked onto the interface, putting data in through an input device... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070285397 - Mobile appliance system and method enabling efficient entry: A mobile appliance and a method of using a mobile appliance are disclosed. The mobile appliance may include a microprocessor, a data entry device, a monitor, a candidate selection device, and software having instructions for controlling the microprocessor. A series of characters are provided to the appliance, and the series... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070285403 - Display apparatus and driving method: A display apparatus includes a display panel in which pixels are arranged in a matrix, a light source which is provided to face the display panel and illuminates one face of the display panel, selecting means which is provided between the display panel and the light source and is configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285399 - Extended eraser functions: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow an eraser to be used for additional operations. A pen feature is provided that supports various eraser gestures. An eraser gesture is detected from a pen input device. If the eraser gesture matches a supported eraser gesture, then an operation associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070285404 - Fingertip touch recognition for a digitizer: A method for verifying a fingertip touch input to a digitizer, the method comprises detecting a pattern of signals obtained from conductive lines of a digitizer sensor, comparing the pattern to a pre-determined fingertip characteristic, and recognizing a fingertip touch input based on the comparison.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070285402 - Mobile terminal and method of displaying image thereof: A method for providing light feedback responsive to user contact with an input device includes receiving user contact at an input area associated with a touchpad that includes a plurality of regions, and identifying which region of the touchpad is associated with the user contact. The method further includes navigating... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070285398 - Sensors: A sensor comprised includes a rectangular conductive sheet. Electrical connectors are connected at each corner of the sheet. A number of non-conductive features, e.g. apertures, are formed in this sheet. In one embodiment, V-shaped features extend from near the corners of the sheet towards the centre of the sheet and... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070285400 - Palm attached touch-pad computer mouse: A palm attached touch-pad computer input mouse that provides both right and left hand use equally with capabilities of both thumb and index finger input and a 360 degree rotational plastic snap close joint with a palm attached base.... Agent: Sibin Lu

20070285401 - Portable information terminal: A portable information terminal includes a body section (1) having a liquid crystal display screen (3) and a speaker (4, 5) on a front face thereof, a pull-out section (2) having a liquid crystal display/input screen (20) facing the same direction as the first screen and a microphone (11). The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285405 - Relative-position, absolute-orientation sketch pad and optical stylus for a personal computer: A notebook computer is upgraded by providing stylus-cooperating indicia near the keyboard and an optical stylus that can recognize the indicia. The indicia includes a sketch pad area that cooperates with the optical stylus to transmit movement data to the computer. The movement data is relative in position and absolute... Agent: Peter H Rehm

20070285406 - Waveguide materials for optical touch screens: This invention relates to polymeric optical materials suitable for use in waveguide-based optical touch screen sensors. In particular, the materials should have a glass transition temperature (Tg) below a minimum operating temperature of the touch screen device. Preferably, waveguides composed of the materials are fabricated on polymer substrates, so that... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20070285408 - Apparatus and methods for ensuring closure of displays: Devices, systems and methods for controlling displays in a multi-display environment are disclosed. An exemplary method may create a request to close a display in response to a request inputted to the display system. The method may generate a display monitoring thread in response to a request inputted to the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070285407 - Enhanced user interface for an oscilloscope: A user interface for an oscilloscope, or the like, simultaneously displays data in a plurality of selectable formats, such as hexadecimal or binary, and allows a user to edit the data in a selected one of the formats. The data is input by an operator of the oscilloscope and used... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20070285409 - Electronic device: To reduce EMI and current consumption in internal wiring after display data have been input to a data driver. Display data DN/DP constituted by RSDS signals input to a data driver in a first stage are converted to display data DA constituted by CMOS signals, subjected to primary inversion control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070285410 - Illuminating device and display device: An illuminating device includes a light-condensing sheet, a light-emitting portion, and a control unit. The light-condensing sheet includes a plurality of lenses each with a light-condensing function ranged on a light transmittance substrate. The light-emitting portion is opposed to the light-condensing sheet and includes light-emitting areas with respective dimensions. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070285411 - Organic light-emitting display device and method for fabricating the same: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor having a gate insulating layer and an inter-insulating layer, an organic light emitting diode electrically connected with the thin film transistor, and a photo sensor, wherein the gate insulating layer includes a relief structure positioned above the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070285412 - Amplifier circuits in which compensation capacitors can be cross-connected so that the voltage level at an output node can be reset to about one-half a difference between a power voltage level and a common reference voltage level and methods of operating: A circuit includes an amplifier circuit that is configured to generate voltage levels between a power voltage level and a common reference voltage level at an output thereof responsive to image data. A reset control circuit is configured to reset the voltage level at the output of the amplifier circuit... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070285413 - Double-sided display: A double-side display includes two display screens (101, 101′) mounted back-to-back. The display screens are driven by a first driving circuit (130) and a second driving circuit (160) respectively and share a backlight module (150). The first driving circuit and the second driving circuit receive data that a first data... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070285414 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device used for a mobile phone display is disclosed. Battery life is prolonged by limiting the brightness of the picture on the mobile phone, thus reducing unnecessary power consumption when the mobile phone is in a telecommunications mode. In some embodiments, the amount of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070285415 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, row electrodes are divided into first and second row groups, the row electrodes of the first row group are divided into first subgroups, and the row electrodes of the second row group are divided into second subgroups to be driven. A first voltage and a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070285416 - Method for displaying frame and display apparatus using the same: A method for displaying frame and a display apparatus using the same, suitable for displaying a plurality of frame data in an image signal on a display panel, are provided. A vertical blank period is located between every two adjacent frame data in the image signal. The method for displaying... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070285417 - System and method for memory bandwidth compressor: Various embodiments for reducing external bandwidth requirements for transferring graphics data are included. One embodiment includes a system for reducing the external bandwidth requirements for transferring graphics data comprising a prediction error calculator configured to generate a prediction error matrix for a pixel tile of z-coordinate data, a bit length... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070285418 - Depth ordering of planes and displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics: A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other plane, determining a number of points of interest on... Agent: Adeli Law Group, A Professional Law Corporation

20070285419 - System and method for 3d space-dimension based image processing: Apparatus for 3D representation of image data, comprises: a structure identifier for identifying structures in motion within image data, and a skeleton insertion unit, which associates three-dimensional skeleton elements with the identified structures. The skeleton elements are able to move with the structures to provide a three-dimensional motion and structure... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20070285420 - Systems and methods for photogrammetric rendering: Systems and methods are provided for producing a rendered drawing or rendering from a detailed image of an object (e.g. photograph) resulting in a rendering that is photogrammetric and that preserves detail in the said image of said object. The combination of the metric nature and image detail preservation in... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20070285421 - Ultrasonic imaging apparatus, an image-processing apparatus, and an ultrasonic image-processing method: A transmitter/receiver obtains scanning data by transmitting ultrasonic waves to a subject to be examined and receiving reflected waves from the subject to be examined. An image processor converts the scanning data into image data represented by a predetermined coordinate system and applies a predetermined smoothing process to the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070285423 - Splat lights: Splat lights apply environmental lighting effects to objects in a scene. Splat light sources bypass all or a majority of the operations of a shader program. The rendered color of an object due to the splat light is specified directly by the color of the splat light. A splat light... Agent: Jonathan M. Hollander Pixar - Hollander

20070285422 - Method for separating direct and global illumination in a scene: A method and apparatus for determine an effect of direct and global illumination in a scene. A scene is illuminated with spatially varying illumination. A set of images is acquired of the scene, and a direct and global radiance in the set of images is determined.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070285424 - Generating annotation graphics in 2d form to model 3d elements: A model-based design system couples intelligent 3D model elements with an analytical model that describes fluid flow through the 3D model. The system automatically generates annotation graphics for a 2D view of the elements with respect to a view plane. The system displays a drop symbol when the elements are... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070285425 - Reverse modeling method using mesh data as feature: A reverse modeling method using mesh data as a feature to allow reverse modeling to be conducted by following a procedure of an original designer includes the steps of detecting optional model data, setting the model data as a feature, and establishing a reference coordinate system of set mesh data;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070285426 - Graph with zoom operated clustering functions: Software and methods of graphic representation of data are contemplated in which the data points are displayed in a clustered and/or de-clustered format as a function of a user zooming in and out of the display. Most preferably, the zoom is a continuous zoom, and the program further allows for... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070285427 - Graphics processing architecture employing a unified shader: A graphics processing architecture employing a single shader is disclosed. The architecture includes a circuit operative to select one of a plurality of inputs in response to a control signal; and a shader, coupled to the arbiter, operative to process the selected one of the plurality of inputs, the shader... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20070285428 - Self-refreshing display controller for a display device in a computational unit: A method, system and computer program product for a display system driving a display device is provided. The display system includes a processor, a primary display controller, a secondary display controller and the display device. The primary display controller receives display data that is sent by the processor. The primary... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070285429 - System for generating a distributed image processing application: The present invention relates to a system for distributing an image processing application over a set of processors. Said system comprises reading means for reading an input document, compiling means for detecting inconsistencies in said input document, and building means for building an executable code from said compiled document for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070285430 - Graphic system comprising a pipelined graphic engine, pipelining method and computer program product: A graphic system includes a pipelined graphic engine for generating image frames for display. The pipelined graphic engine includes a geometric processing stage for performing motion extraction, and a rendering stage for generating full image frames at a first frame rate for display at a second frame rate. The second... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070285431 - Systems and methods for elliptical filtering: An improved attribute determination process allows the sharpness of a surface attribute function to be adjusted on a per-object, per-surface, per-texture, per-function, or other appropriate basis. A computer-based animator then can selectively adjust the sharpness or other attribute(s) of portions of a to-be-rendered image without significantly increasing the rendering time.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20070285432 - Processing of image data: A method of processing image data produced by a solid state image sensor that is overlaid with a color filter array is based on range scaling, demosaicing, matrixing, range clipping and gamma correction being performed in two data collection passes. The demosaicing can be performed with pixels grouped in 2×2... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070285433 - Color temperature calibration methods and related devices: A color temperature calibration method for calibrating the color temperature of a display device according to a set of target chromaticity coordinate values, includes: measuring colors displayed by a plurality of display cells of the display device to generate at least a set of measurement chromaticity coordinate values; and adjusting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070285434 - Hue adjustor and method for adjusting hues for specific colors in an image: A hue adjustor and method for adjusting hues for specific colors in an image are provided. The hue adjustor includes a CORDIC unit (coordinated rotation digital computer unit), a color partition operation unit and a hue rotation unit. The color partition operation unit is coupled to the CORDIC unit and... Agent: J.c. Patents

20070285435 - Methods and apparatus for converting color values: Color conversion apparatus and methods are provided for converting a first color value, such as an RGB, L*a*b* or XYZ color value, to a second color value, such as an RGB, CMY, CMKY, L*a*b*, L,C1C2, or XYZ color value, without saturation error.... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070285436 - Color adjustment method and related device: A color adjustment method for adjusting color characteristics of a display device includes: respectively utilizing a plurality of sets of digital color channel values to drive the display device, each set of digital color channel values respectively corresponding to a plurality of color channels; and regarding at least a portion... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070285437 - System for and method of managing image data: Drawings in a desired range of pages are selected from drawings which make up a completion report retrieved by a completion report retrieving means. A tag data setting means sets tag data for the selected drawings. The tag data is stored as data related to the drawings in a tag... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070285438 - Frame grabber: A method for producing images is provided. The method involves acquiring images, acquiring data corresponding to the location of the acquired images, and transferring the images and data to a frame grabber. The method also involves combining the images and data within the frame grabber to provide a plurality of... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070285439 - Blending multiple display layers: Image processing techniques are described that reduce the amount of bandwidth required to read an image from memory for display. According to the techniques, a processor stores low change rate display layers in a memory such that a processor can read the display layers from the memory using a reduced... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070285441 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus and an image processing method for amplifying an image signal are provided without reducing an image size and without lowering a sense of resolution. An edge-direction detecting arithmetic section (2) detects an edge minimum direction from extracted Bayer data (BAY). An assigning arithmetic section (4) assigns... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070285440 - Graphics display system with video synchronization feature: A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, graphics input and audio input simultaneously. The system includes a video decoder having a chroma-locked sample rate converter. The chroma-locked sample rate converter converts... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070285442 - Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with gamma adjustment: A hardware-implemented function evaluator performs mathematical calculations at high speeds to generate data values in place of an LUT. The disclosed embodiments can generate a small number of output values from a large number of input values. The calculations can use functions that are monotonically increasing such as, for example,... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070285443 - Apparatus and method for generating internal signal with variable pulse length according to period of external clock signal: An apparatus for generating a pulse which generates an internal signal. The apparatus includes a latch circuit latching an input signal to output a first signal. A clock period detector detects a period of an external clock signal to output a period detecting signal and a delay controller adjusts a... Agent: Venable LLP

20070285444 - Lcd controller to hold a fixed image aspect ratio: A circuit and a method for maintaining the aspect ratio of images when there is a difference in format between image sources and display panels is provided. Lines are added in the vertical direction both at the top and at the bottom of the display panel in order to make... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20070279315 - Apparatus and method for displaying content on a portable electronic device: An apparatus and method for displaying content on a portable electronic device is described. One illustrative embodiment acquires in a portable electronic device content to be displayed on the portable electronic device; displays the content on a composite display of the portable electronic device, the composite display including a plurality... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070279314 - Front and rear removable panel for electronic displays: Display apparatus and methods of making them are disclosed. The display apparatus includes frame members assembled to form a frame for the display apparatus and display modules configured for displaying at least a portion of an adaptable image. Each display module is coupled to the frame members to form a... Agent: Trask Britt

20070279317 - Visual recognition assistance device for vehicle: Vehicular visual recognition assistance device includes a dividing section provided, substantially horizontally on a windshield of the vehicle, for vertically dividing at least a part of the windshield into a plurality of areas. The dividing section is formed into a length such that, when the dividing section is projected to... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20070279320 - Six segments display and the method of the same: The present invention discloses a display device comprising a microprocessor; seven display elements coupled to an electronic circuit and arranged in a predetermined configuration, wherein the electronic circuit comprises a pulse-generating means and a plurality of switches coupled to the microprocessor respectively, wherein the seven display elements comprise two first... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070279321 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is provided. The plasma display apparatus including an upper substrate; a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes formed in the upper substrate; a lower substrate arranged to be opposite to the upper substrate; and a plurality of third electrodes and barrier ribs formed in the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070279322 - Numeric display: A numeric display, comprising a matrix having nominally m columns by n rows, a plurality of light emitting diodes populating at least some of the matrix, first and second void areas within the matrix wherein respective first and second subsets of the m columns by the n rows are devoid... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20070279323 - Method of compensating for channel interference of display apparatus and device for controlling driving of data signal: A method of compensating for channel interference of a display apparatus and a device for controlling driving of a data signal are provided. The method of compensating for the channel interference of the display apparatus includes: receiving pixel data of a scan line selected from an external screen memory; summing... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070279327 - Display device and its driving method: A display device has centers of three sub-pixels arranged to form a triangle together and one side of the triangle is orientated in the same direction as a vertical direction of a displayed image. When a black or white vertical line is displayed, image signal data of left and right... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070279325 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, which includes a front substrate; a plurality of first, second electrodes formed on the front substrate; a rear substrate that is faced with the front substrate; a plurality of third electrodes formed on the rear substrate; and a discharge cell that... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070279326 - Plasma display panel device: A plasma display panel device including a plasma display panel forming an image, a plurality of fixing devices attached to the rear of the plasma display panel via an adhesive member, a plurality of board units applying an electrical signal to patterned discharge electrodes in the plasma display panel, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279329 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, which includes a front substrate; a plurality of first, second electrodes formed on the front substrate; a rear substrate that is faced with the front substrate; a plurality of third electrodes formed on the rear substrate; and a discharge cell that... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070279330 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus, which includes a front substrate; a first, a second electrode formed on the front substrate; a rear substrate that is faced with the front substrate; a third electrodes formed on the rear substrate; a first barrier rib formed in parallel with... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070279339 - Amoled panel: An AMOLED panel includes an AMOLED pixel unit, a scan driving unit and a data driving unit. The scan driving unit is coupled to the AMOLED pixel unit. The data driving unit is coupled to the AMOLED pixel unit and a voltage source and includes a switch and a DC-to-AC... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070279334 - Crosswire radiation emitter: A radiation emission element includes a first array of substantially parallel wires and a second array of substantially parallel wires formed at an intersecting angle with the first array of wires. A nanocomposite or molecular film is used as an electroluminescent or electron emissive material and is formed between the... Agent: Blaise Mouttet

20070279340 - Current control driver and display device: In a current control driver that drives an active matrix device, a write current can be set larger and unevenness in currents can be reduced between elements receiving the currents. In the current control driver having an element circuit for each of the elements comprising a converting unit for converting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070279336 - Driving circuit and organic electroluminescence display thereof: A driving circuit capable of decreasing an error of a gray level voltage without affecting a voltage drop when a gray level signal of a D/A converter is generated in an analog switch, and an organic electroluminescence display using the same. The driving circuit includes first and second switch units... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279337 - Organic light-emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light-emitting diode display device and driving method thereof are provided. The organic light-emitting diode display device including a driving voltage source; a reference voltage source that generates a reference voltage; a reference current source; and a storage capacitor connected between a first node and a second node. An... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070279333 - Pulse amplitude modulation driver with fewer transistors for driving organic light-emitting diode display: An OLED driver circuit includes a plurality of current sources, where each current source comprises a first reference current generation circuit generating a first reference current, a second reference current generation circuit generating a second reference current, a first set of transistors coupled to the first reference current generation circuit... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070279335 - Signal level adjusting apparatus: A signal level adjusting apparatus is provided. The signal level adjusting apparatus uses a clamping circuit as an automatic level adjusting apparatus to adjust a signal level. Then, a peak or a valley voltage of a driving signal output from the signal level adjusting apparatus can be confined in a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070279344 - Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic appliance: An object is to reduce a pseudo contour occurring in time gray scale method display. One pixel is divided into m subpixels (m is an integer of m≧2), and the area of the (s+1)th subpixel (1≦s≦m−1) is twice the area of the s-th subpixel. Further, one frame is divided into... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070279341 - Driving circuit and organic electroluminescence display thereof: A driving circuit to decrease an error of a grey level voltage without affecting a voltage drop when a grey level signal of a D/A converter is generated in an analog switch, and an organic electroluminescence display using the same. The driving circuit includes first and second switches to select... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279342 - Driving circuit and organic electroluminescence display thereof: An organic electroluminescence display capable of reducing a size of a data driving unit by decreasing an area of a D/A converter, and a driving circuit thereof. The data driving unit includes a first decoder to generate a first selection signal to correspond to a data signal; a first switch... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279343 - Organic electroluminescence display and driving method thereof: Disclosed are an organic electroluminescence display having simple configurations of a pixel circuit and a driving circuit by using a frequency characteristic of an organic electroluminescence device to display a gray level, and a driving method thereof. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence display including a plurality of scan... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279345 - Organic electroluminescence display and driving method thereof: An organic electroluminescence display transmits a data driving voltage to a data driving unit to make different a voltage of the data signal outputted from the data driving unit, the data driving voltage being in a different level in every subframe according to the digital data signal, and displaying a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070279347 - Image display device: The present invention enhances the repeatability of a low gray scale display of an image display device which uses oil layers. The enhancement of the repeatability of a low gray scale display can be realized by an image display device which includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer,... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070279353 - Active matrix substrate, reflection type of liquid crystal display and projection type liquid crystal display apparatus: An object of the present invention is to reduce the number of necessary terminals on a substrate, realize data transmission resistant to disturbance noise even when a source voltage of a logic system for processing a digital video signal is lowered, reduce an influence of a radiated noise, and provide... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279351 - Chip on glass type display device: A display device includes a display panel including a display region and first and second non-display regions disposed at a periphery of the display region, a first drive integrated circuit including a first signal input terminal, a second drive integrated circuit including a second signal input terminal, the first and... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070279355 - Display device: The present invention enhances accuracy in feedbacking a common potential applied to common electricity supply lines. On a substrate of a display device, a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines which stereoscopically intersects the plurality of scanning signal lines by way of an insulation layer,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070279354 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device having a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels having three subpixels of which centers form a triangle and of which a direction of a side of the triangle is horizontal with respect to the displayed image is provided. In the display device, when a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070279349 - Image contrast correction system and method thereof: An image contrast correct system and method thereof is provided. Exploiting Fuzzy theorem to analysis the image, which the LCD is going to display, identify the correction strength to several levels and real time correct the image contrast according to the Fuzzy rule and the Fuzzy decision theorem. On the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070279350 - Method and apparatus for driving bistable liquid crystal display: An apparatus and method of using a driver (e.g., a commercially available, off-the-shelf driver) designed for a traditional passive matrix liquid crystal display, such as a Twisted Nematic (TN) and supertwisted nematic (STN) displays, for example, to drive a bistable liquid crystal display.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070279356 - Picture display apparatus: Disclosed is a picture display apparatus displaying a picture on a display section based on a picture signal, comprising, an input determining section determining whether the picture signal is input, a display determining section determining, based on whether sight/hearing restricting information is added to the picture signal, whether the picture... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070279359 - Display device and driving method thereof: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark image, and... Agent: Eric Robinson

20070279360 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a data driver that is operative to supply data to the data lines. The data have the same polarity for the liquid crystal cells that are adjacent horizontally and opposite polarities for the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070279361 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal display panel provided a plurality of data lines; a data distributor distributing input data; a first and second memories equally storing data to be supplied to an odd-numbered data line among data distributed by the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070279362 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (3) includes: a liquid crystal panel (31) including a plurality of pixel units; a printed circuit board (32) including a Vcom modulating circuit (321); and a timing controller (322). The timing controller includes a gray scale voltage modulating circuit (3221), the Vcom modulating circuit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20070279316 - Optical display system for a vehicle: An optical display system for a vehicle (10), having at least one first display unit (1) and at least one second display unit (2), with information for display being allocated to the at least one first display unit (1) and/or to the at least one second display unit (2). It... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070279318 - Image display apparatus: To make images of an image display apparatus that is mounted on the head easily viewable, an image display apparatus 1 includes a main body 10 that is formed in the shape of eyeglasses. The main body 10 can be fixed onto the head of a user. The main body... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070279319 - Three dimensional display unit and display method: In a structure in which six active matrix regions 103 to 108 are integrated on one glass substrate, horizontal scanning control circuits 101 and 102 are commonly disposed for the respective active matrix regions 103 to 105 and 106 to 108. Then the horizontal scanning control circuits 101 and 102... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070279324 - Method and apparatus for processing video pictures, in particular in film mode sequences: The invention relates to a method for processing video pictures, the video pictures consisting of pixels digitally coded, the digital code word determining the length of the time period during which the corresponding pixel of a display is activated, wherein to each bit of a digital code word a certain... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070279328 - Video display device, driver for video display device, and video display method: Display data for a current frame is compared with display data for an immediately previous frame, or display data for a current line is compared with display data for an immediately previous line. The input display data is converted, based on a result of the comparison and by referring to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070279331 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A plasma display device that enables a stable address operation even in a high-speed drive so as to display an image of high definition and high quality. A PDP having discharge cells each provided with a scanning electrode and a sustaining electrode is driven by a method for displaying a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. Attn: Joseph W. Price, Esq.

20070279332 - Display activated by the presence of a user: A display, typically an electroluminescent display, of the type having both an activated, “on”, state and an inactivated, “off”, state, and being switchable between the two, which display incorporates a capacitance sensor, able to detect the near presence of a user, together with means able to utilise the output of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070279338 - Display system having pixels: A light emitting apparatus and a method of displaying an image therewith is disclosed. The light emitting apparatus includes a spine and a rib. The rib is attached to the spine and includes a plurality of alternating nodes and connection links. At least one of the connection links is thinner... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070279346 - Display with embedded image sensor: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070279348 - Display device with lcos valve of reduced size: The present invention relates to the architecture of a valve of liquid crystal elements with pixel memory for front or rear projector. The valve comprises elements arranged in rows and columns, each of the elements comprising a liquid crystal controlled by drive means so as to display video information relating... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070279352 - Plane light source apparatus and prism sheet and liquid crystal display apparatus: The present invention provides a LCD panel with an isosceles triangular cross-section having a base angle of 50 to 55 degrees, and an incident angle equal to 10 to 24 degrees. Several triangular prisms are installed downwardly on a prism sheet by using the base angle as a vertex angle... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070279357 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, liquid crystal drive device, and liquid crystal display system: A liquid crystal drive device having a differential-type input circuit including a differential amplification stage for receiving a differential signal and a buffer stage for generating an output signal on the basis of an output of the differential amplification stage, the liquid crystal drive device for receiving a signal of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070279358 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, liquid crystal drive device, and liquid crystal display system: A liquid crystal drive device having a differential-type input circuit including a differential amplification stage for receiving a differential signal and a buffer stage for generating an output signal on the basis of an output of the differential amplification stage, the liquid crystal drive device for receiving a signal of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070279363 - Display apparatus, device for driving the same and method of driving the same: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a driving part, a gate driving part and a gate selecting part. The display panel has source lines and gate lines intersecting the source lines. The driving part converts original data signals received through an interlaced scan method into analog-type data voltages and... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070279366 - Image display device: The present invention provides an image display device that is capable of reducing the power consumption. The total power consumption of a level shifter is reduced by using a pulse of an oscillator circuit as an enable signal of a level shifter for amplifying the enable signal to be supplied... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070279364 - Liquid crystal display device, data driver thereof, and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and driving method thereof which generate a desired gamma curve according to a selected gamma voltage include a reference voltage generator and a data driver. The reference voltage generator generates reference voltages and the data driver generates gamma voltages according to a data signal and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070279365 - Automatic focusing apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic focusing apparatus which can reduce the time required to detect focused position in accordance with the operating environment by adjusting the voltage applied to a liquid crystal lens. The apparatus includes a liquid crystal lens whose focal length varies... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070279376 - Backlight driving system for a liquid crystal dispaly device: A backlight driving system for a backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device using a field sequential driving scheme, the backlight unit including a plurality of first color (C1), second color (C2), and third color (C1) organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), a first switch unit including first, second and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20070279369 - Dynamic backlight control system: Embodiments are provided herein which may be utilized to eliminate stray light emissions from an LED while ambient light is being sensed. As such, dynamic backlight control systems for use with an electronic display are presented including: an ambient light sensor for sensing ambient light intensity; a backlight for illuminating... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070279370 - Field-sequential liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A field-sequential liquid crystal display and method for driving the same are disclosed to provide sufficient gate-on time for attaining a high-resolution field-sequential liquid crystal display. According to one embodiment of the present invention, at least two adjacent rows of pixels are scanned to turn on transistors during a scan... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070279371 - Light emitting device and method of controlling the same: Provided is a light emitting device and a method of controlling the same are disclosed. The light emitting unit includes a power supply unit for supplying a drive voltage to the light emitting unit, and a control unit for comparing a first current level previously applied to the light emitting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070279374 - Liquid crystal display device, driving method of the same, and electronic device using the same: It is an object to provide a display module which can display a correct gray scale by a field sequential driving method and an electronic device including the display module. One frame period is divided into a plurality of lighting periods, and in each of the plurality of lighting periods,... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo , Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070279375 - Method and circuit for controlling a display apparatus: In a display device images are reproduced by controlling the amount of light provided by a light source by means of light modulators for individual pixels. Subsequent images are synchronised to each other by synchronisation signals regularly occurring at intervals corresponding to first time periods. The backlight is controlled to... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070279368 - Low intensity displays compatible with night vision imaging systems: An controllable intensity LCD display that provides normal or extremely low visible light and infrared intensity levels so as to be usable with military night vision gear (NVG) or Night Vision Imaging Systems (NVIS). The LCD display includes wide dynamic range backlight inverter power supply to extend the range of... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070279372 - Multiprimary color display with dynamic gamut mapping: The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels wherein one such colored subpixel is substantially wide spectrum bandpass; a transmissive... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20070279373 - Portable electronic apparatus capable of adjusting backlight automatically and adjusting method of backlight thereof: A portable electronic apparatus with automatic backlight adjustability and an adjusting method thereof are provided. The portable electronic apparatus comprises a display unit, a storage unit, an image capture unit, a processing unit and a backlight driver. The storage unit is used for storing a backlight parameter table. The image... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070279367 - Tiled optical fiber display: The present invention provides a tiled optical fiber display device structure which includes a light emitting diode (LED) backlit liquid crystal display (LCD). Light from the LCD enters an array of optical fibers that directs the light to a viewing screen. The optical fibers eliminate the use of energy absorbing... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070279378 - Display medium, display device, and display method: The present invention provides a display medium including: a pair of substrates at least one of which has transparency; supporting members which partition a space between the pair of substrates into plural cells along surfaces of the substrates; metal ions which are injected into the plural cells and are deposited... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070279377 - Self assembly of elements for displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light emitting elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light emitting and self-organizing characteristics may be used during display assembly.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070279379 - Method of identifying a source of a software distribution between portable computer systems: A system and method of identifying a source of a software distribution between portable computer systems. A user of a first hand held computer may transfer software, for example operating system extensions, application programs and data sets etc. to a second hand held computer. This transfer may occur wirelessly. An... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070279380 - Computer input device: The present invention involves a computer input device that can be attached to a hand. The device includes an adjustable band that can be wrapped around the palm portion of the hand. A control housing is attached to the adjustable band. A control joystick used for controlling a computer screen... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20070279383 - Computer mouse cover: A cover for covering a computer mouse is provided. The cover includes a chassis which defines a mouse receiving area and a shell connected to the chassis further defining the mouse receiving area. The shell includes a moveable touch area for contacting a first control portion of the computer mouse... Agent: Dovas Law P.C.

20070279381 - Ergonomic input device: An ergonomic mouse is described. A computer mouse may include a position tracking engine and a housing to encapsulate the position tracking engine. The housing may have a bottom portion with a substantially flat surface and an aperture for the position tracking engine. The housing may also have a top... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070279382 - Combination travel and work mouse: A dual size mouse apparatus comprising: a first outer shell with: a base to be placed on a working surface and with an inner cavity shaped to receive a second inner mouse and having at least one outer shell contact device; a first raised portion and a second raised housing;... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20070279384 - Apparatus for controlling a screen pointer that distinguishes between ambient light and light from its light source: An apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer for an electronic device having a display screen, includes a light source for illuminating an imaging surface with a plurality of light pulses, thereby generating reflected light pulses. A detection circuit is configured to sense light, distinguish between the reflected... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070279386 - Adjustable display for a data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus is described comprising: a body having a surface defining a first plane, the body comprising a first group of control elements and a second group of control elements for entering data and performing control operations; a display having a display area defining a second plane, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070279385 - Capacitance sensing touchpad circuit capable of dual use as a touchpad controller and keyboard controller: Touchpad sensor control circuitry that controls the operation of a touch or proximity sensitive touchpad in a first mode, and in a second mode functions as a keyboard controller, wherein the touchpad sensor control circuitry also determines which keys on a keyboard have been actuated by manipulation of keys, wherein... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070279390 - Method and apparatus for automatic screen calibration and color reproduction in a display system: Apparatus, systems and methods for automatic screen calibration and color reproduction in a display system are disclosed including an apparatus comprising a remote control unit where the remote control unit is capable of measuring the luminous intensity of two displayed images individually, or the difference thereof, and where the remote... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070279389 - Method of task-oriented universal remote control user interface: A dynamic, flexible and intuitive task-oriented graphical user interface (GUI) is implemented on network accessible hand-held mobile devices. A mobile hand-held device is characterized by limited screen size and fewer input keys compared to a keyboard. In a home network environment, such mobile hand-held devices act as remote control devices... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20070279387 - Pivoting, multi-configuration mobile device: A mobile device 500 comprises a display portion 502 including a display screen, a first keypad portion 501, a second keypad portion 502, and at least one input device 508, 510-524, 531-544 associated with at least one of the first keypad portion 501, the second keypad portion 502, and the... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070279388 - Pivoting, multi-configuration mobile device: A mobile device 200 comprises a display portion 204 and a keypad portion 202. The display portion 204 has a front side that includes a display screen 206 and a back side. The keypad portion 202 is rotatably coupled to the display portion 204 between a plurality of operational configurations.... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070279391 - Keypad with virtual image: A keypad having a virtual floating image that appears to a user to be in a plane other than the apparent plane of the keypad surface. More particularly, the indicia on the keypad appear to float above or below the surface of the device. The keypad can be, for example,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070279396 - Game program and game apparatus: A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD. The first LCD and the second LCD are arranged in either side of a predetermined axis. A computer of the game apparatus respectively displays a first character image and a second character image on the first LCD and the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20070279394 - Techniques for interactive input to portable electronic devices: Techniques for providing input to interactive and multitasking applications are disclosed. A game input area (surface or plane) receives input for multiple applications including an interactive application executed in connection with a scene. The input received is directed to the appropriate application based on one or more locations (e.g., points,... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20070279393 - Touch pad input device for electronic device and procedure for making the same: A touch pad input device for an electronic device includes a shell, a touch pad and a pressing board. The shell has a step groove. The touch pad is disposed in the step groove, and the pressing board is adhered on the touch pad and the shell. Hence, the touch... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070279395 - Two dimensional position sensor: A two-dimensional position sensor comprising a substrate with a sensitive area defined by a pattern of electrodes including electrodes for determining x-position and electrodes for determining y-position. The x-electrodes and y-electrodes generally extend in the x-direction and are interleaved in the y-direction. The x-electrodes comprise at least first, second and... Agent: David Kiewit

20070279397 - Fault-tolerant method, apparatus, and medium for touch sensor: A fault-tolerant method, apparatus, and medium for a touch sensor is disclosed. The fault-tolerant apparatus for a touch sensor includes a plurality of sensor pads composed of outer sensor pads and an inner sensor pad to receive an input of operation signals, a clustering unit detecting signals by clustering the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070279392 - Networked applications including haptic feedback: Method and apparatus for providing peer-to-peer force feedback over a computer network. A network force feedback system includes a network, a first computer coupled to the network, and a second computer coupled to the network. The first and second computers each include a visual display and a force feedback interface... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070279398 - Acoustic wave type touch panel: An acoustic wave type touch panel is equipped with: a substrate that objects contact; reflective arrays having a great number of inclined lines provided on the substrate; acoustic wave generating sections provided on the substrate; and detecting sections provided on the substrate. An array of micro reflectors, which are shorter... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20070279399 - Method and apparatus for obtaining navigation information from a ball mounted in a stylus: An apparatus for generating navigation information indicative of translational movement of a stylus including a ball rotatably mounted at an end of the stylus, a sensor system and a processor. The ball has an orientation-indicating property and the sensor system is arranged to sense the orientation-indicating property of the ball.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070279400 - Electronic device with a thin display: A user interface assembly includes a thin display and a control element such as a rotary encoder, rotary switch, or toggle switch. The control element is manipulable by a person to generate an electronic input signal to a processor, with the thin display presenting a feedback indication received from the... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20070279401 - Hybrid haptic device: System and method for a rotary control in a device that comprises a knob, a shaft supporting the knob and coupled to rotate therewith a base supporting the shaft. A sensor, operationally coupled to the base, is configured to detect an aspect of manipulation of the knob, which may include... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070279402 - Video signal line drive circuit, and display device having the circuit: In an error diffusion operation circuit (36) of a source driver unit (302), an error diffusion process is performed for each pixel based on, in addition to image data (Da) for a display block of the source driver unit (302), image data (Da) for areas near boundaries between the display... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070279403 - Pixel circuit and display device: A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070279404 - Semiconductor integrated circuit, liquid crystal drive device, and liquid crystal display system: A liquid crystal drive device having a differential-type input circuit including a differential amplification stage for receiving a differential signal and a buffer stage for generating an output signal on the basis of an output of the differential amplification stage, the liquid crystal drive device for receiving a signal of... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070279405 - Plasma display and driving device therefor: A plasma display and a driving device therefor. In a sustain discharge driving circuit that includes a power recovery circuit and a sustain voltage supply circuit, a transformer is used. The transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil that are coupled with each other. The primary coil of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070279406 - Liquid crystal device, liquid crystal driving device and method of driving the same and electronic equipment: A liquid crystal panel (10) has a scanning line (Y) and a data line (X), a TFT (30) connected to the scanning line (Y) and the data line (X), a pixel electrode (32) connected to the TFT (30), and a rectangular opposite electrode (C) arranged oppositely to the pixel electrode... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070279408 - Method and system for data transmission and recovery: Multiple data streams are distributed using conventional data cables and multiplexing circuits by taking advantage of a technique that allows reliable high speed transmission of digital data. In one example, a number of parallel data streams (e.g., video data streams) are serialized to allow them to be economically and reliably... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070279407 - Switching of display refresh rates: Some embodiments describe techniques that may relate to switching of display refresh rates. In one embodiment, modification of a display refresh rate may be initiated after the last pixel of a portion of a first image frame is driven. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20070279409 - Reset circuit for timing controller: A reset circuit of a timing controller includes: a transistor including an emmitter connected to a first node, a base connected to a second node and a collector connected to a third node, a digital input voltage (DVCC) being applied to the first node; a first resistor connected between the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070279410 - Method for synthesizing dynamic virtual figures: The invention discloses a method for synthesizing dynamic virtual figure, including: a synthesis server end receives a user request sent by a user and, according to information of the user request, obtains image files of all the components for synthesizing the required virtual figure; reading the corresponding image files of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070279412 - Infilling for 2d to 3d image conversion: A method for associating a portion of a stereoscopic image with a perceived depth is described. The method includes determining offset values that each indicate a displacement between image data in a first image of a stereoscopic pair and corresponding image data in a second image of the stereoscopic pair.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070279413 - Method and a system for generating a synthesized image of a hair: where α=Lk0 and β=K/gμL3, and where L designates the length of the hair, k0 its spontaneous curvature, K its bending moment, μ its linear density and g the acceleration due to gravity, {tilde over (s)} the curvilinear abscissa relative to the length of the hair, {tilde over (k)} its local... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070279411 - Method and system for multiple 3-d graphic pipeline over a pc bus: Method and system for improving the parallelization of image processing, using one or more parallelization modes, wherein the4 image that is displayed on at least one computer screen by one or more Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) (130). Software applications (121) are provided for issuing graphics command and graphics libraries (122)... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski

20070279414 - Methods and apparatus for automated part positioning based on geometrical comparisons: A method of determining a rigid motion between a master solid model and an approximated target model (or, more generally, between any two models having different types) includes identifying, within each model, geometrical entities having a unique characteristic, and then determining the best match between the identified geometric entities. The... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (boeing)

20070279415 - 2d to 3d image conversion: A method of creating a complementary stereoscopic image pair is described. The method includes receiving a first 2D image comprising image data, where the first 2D image is captured from a first camera location. The method also includes projecting at least a portion of the first 2D image onto computer-generated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070279416 - Enabling and rendering business components in an interactive data visualization tool: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for enabling and rendering business components in an interactive data visualization tool. A method in accordance with the present invention includes: importing a data set into a CBM visualization tool, the data set providing content and attributes related to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070279417 - Modifying a chart: Modifying a chart may be provided. Chart elements are pictorially presented to a user for use by the user in modifying a generated standard chart. The chart elements may be presented to the user in a chart ribbon.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070279418 - Remoting sub-pixel resolved characters: Remoting sub-pixel defined text. Text is remoted at sub-pixel precision in a computing environment including a terminal server and a terminal client. At a terminal server text definitions are generated. The text definitions include character definitions defining character boundaries with colors so as to be able to define character boundaries... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070279419 - System and method for transmission of messages using animated communication elements: A method for receiving a message includes receiving a sent message, and ascertaining a characteristic of the message. A receipt of the message is displayed by providing a first animation allocated to an animatable figure on a display. In dependence on the ascertained characteristic, a second animation different from the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070279420 - Apparatus for processing print data: A graphic-drawing processing unit performs a rendering process of print data with respect to a band memory or a page memory. When there is a rendering engine that performs a memory access using a memory word width as a minimum unit as a rendering environment, an arbitrary-word-width drawing unit is... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070279421 - Vertex shader binning: A system for rendering three-dimensional graphics for display on a display using bins, the system including a graphics rendering engine configured to receive information representative of three-dimensional (3-D) objects in an object space and to render an image for display on the display, the graphics rendering engine including a processor,... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070279422 - Processor system including processors and data transfer method thereof: A processor system includes a plurality of first processors, a second processor, and a memory device. The first processors execute image processing on first image data to generate second image data. Each of the first processors processes the first image data in pixel group units. The memory device holds luminance... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070279423 - Methods and apparatus for repairing inoperative pixels in a display: Methods and apparatus for repairing inoperative pixels in a display are provided. In particular, the present invention provides methods and apparatus for improving the effective yield rates of displays, such as liquid crystal micro-displays, by disconnecting inoperative pixels from their defective drive circuitry and tying such pixels to the working... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070279424 - Methods and apparatus for repairing inoperative pixels in a display: Methods and apparatus for repairing inoperative pixels in a display are provided. In particular, the present invention provides methods and apparatus for improving the effective yield rates of displays, such as liquid crystal micro-displays, by disconnecting inoperative pixels from their defective drive circuitry and tying such pixels to the working... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20070279425 - Image processing apparatus, its control method and data management method: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that can make effective use of a memory area. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus comprises storage means having a first management record storage area for storing a first management record used for management of image data and a second management... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070279426 - Image data transfer method, image processing device, and imaging system: An image data transfer method including the steps of: (a) reading pixel data of a two-dimensional image stored in a first image storage and having a plurality of pixels, the position of each of the pixels being represented by coordinates of first and second directions, the pixel data being read... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070279427 - Lighting control of a user environment via a display device: A system and method for controlling lighting conditions in a user environment in the context of an image capture device are disclosed. An inner frame area and an outer frame area adjust certain lighting conditions in the user environment in response to certain lighting conditions detected by the image capture... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070279428 - Sub-patch optimization techniques for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to define a surface and an optimization module may be used to: create a bounding box for a set of hairs; determine whether the bounding box is visible; and if the bounding box is visible, hair associated with the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070279429 - System and method for rendering graphics: An apparatus for conducting simulations and presenting the results in real-time or substantially in real-time to a user comprises one or more CPUs operating in parallel with one or more GPUs. CPU software controls user interface functions and GPU software effects the simulations. Users can interact with the simulation as... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070279430 - User interface color based on background image: Various embodiments utilize a set of pixels that that make up an image that is to appear in a user interface. The method divides the applicable color space into pre-defined regions and then analyzes the image by mapping color values associated with pixels of the image into defined regions. After... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070279431 - Program, information processing method, and information processing apparatus: A program causes an information processing apparatus to execute the steps of assigning an operating element of an operation input device to a search term having been input, displaying an information image containing the search term on a screen, the information image being obtained on the basis of search processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070279432 - Method and apparatus for spatial and temporal dithering: An apparatus and method for spatially and temporally dithering pixels. A pixel comprising at least one color component of a first size is provided. A dither addend is determined based on the display position of the pixel. The dither addend is added to the color component, and the color component... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070279433 - Apparatus and method for driving a display device: A gamma correction device and method for a display device are provided, which requires fewer look-up tables and small-size driving voltage generating circuits to generate three sets of driving voltages. A plurality of difference values between three gamma curves R, G, and B and a reference curve is stored in... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070279434 - Image processing device executing filtering process on graphics and method for image processing: A method for image processing includes receiving a first coordinate in first image data which is a set of a plurality of first pixels, the first coordinate corresponding to a second coordinate in second image data which is a set of a plurality of second pixels, and positional information indicative... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20070279435 - Method and system for selective visualization and interaction with 3d image data: A data processing system which allows a user to interactively identify a portion of a volume and display the identified portion of the volume in a way that is particularly adapted for the visualization of the identified portion of the volume. One embodiment provides identifying a location of a volume... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv2)

20070279436 - Method and system for selective visualization and interaction with 3d image data, in a tunnel viewer: A data processing system which allows a user to interactively identify a portion of a volume and display the identified portion of the volume in a way that is particularly adapted for the visualization of the identified portion of the volume. One embodiment provides identifying a location of a volume... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv2)

20070279438 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus that executes information display processing is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a display unit that executes information display; and a data processing unit that executes a control of the information display of the display unit and data processing based on a user input. The data processing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070279437 - Method and apparatus for displaying document image, and information processing device: A document-image acquiring unit acquires document-image data containing a document with an image size larger than a screen size of a display unit and display control data specifying an order of reading the document and a range of the document-image data to be displayed. A display control unit controls a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070279439 - Method and device for region-based bitblt with clipping-in or clipping-out: A device and method for region-based bitblt with clipping-in or clipping-out. Data within a source bitblt region at a first source base address is selectively moved to a destination bitblt region at a first destination base address. One or more bitblt commands are produced if one or more regions within... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070279440 - Lighting device and method of lighting: A lighting device, comprising at least first and second current regulators, each switchable among two settings, and at least first and second groups of solid state light emitters. If the first regulator is in a first setting, a first current is supplied to the first group and a second current... Agent: Burr & Brown