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

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