Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 02/08

20080048931 - Helmet system for information or weapon systems: A helmet position measuring system for use in a predefined environment. The system includes a helmet-mounted illumination system for directing electromagnetic radiation of one or more wavelength from the helmet in one or more range of angles, a set of three or more passive reflectors deployed at fixed positions in... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080048933 - Display device capable of automatically adjusting display orientation and the display segment arrangement thereof: The present invention provides a display device capable of automatically adjusting display orientation and the display segment arrangement thereof. The display device is provided for an electronic product. The display device includes: a segment display device, a position detection device and a decoding circuit. The segment display device has plural... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080048935 - Digital-to-analog converter and image display device: Disclosed herein are a digital-to-analog converter and a video display device. The digital-to-analog converter includes a converting section. The converting section has a code converting section, a reference voltage generating section, a plurality of transistors, and a plurality of gate electrodes. The video display device includes: a pixel section; a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080048934 - Display device: In a display device of built-in driver circuit type including a non-rectangular image display area, the frame area surrounding the display area is reduced and the wiring delay is reduced. The image display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an orthogonal matrix form, a plurality of scanning wiring... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080048937 - Method of driving plasma display panel: In the initializing period of each of sub-fields comprising one field, one of all-cell initializing operation and selective initializing operation is performed. The all-cell initializing operation causes initializing discharge in all the discharge cells for displaying an image. The selective initializing operation selectively causes initializing discharge only in the discharge... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080048939 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, an integrated driver supplying a driving signal to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode, a frame positioned between the plasma display panel and the integrated driver,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048938 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel (PDP) capable of providing excellent luminous efficiency and generating a stable address discharge is provided. The plasma display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a barrier rib, sustain electrode pairs, a first dielectric layer, address electrodes, phosphor layers, and a discharge gas. The second... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080048942 - Method for grayscale display processing and plasma display device: In the PDP device, for example, two types of SF lighting patterns (A and B modes) are equally divided and arranged in spatially different regions in a field. For example, the patterns are arranged in a zigzag manner in units of pixels. At all lighting steps, existence of an absence... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080048943 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided, which includes: a first electrode; a second electrode adjacent to the first electrode; a third electrode adjacent to the second electrode at an opposite side of the first electrode, and performing sustain discharges with the second electrode; and a drive circuit supplying plural first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080048945 - Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of unit circuits that are arranged therein. Each of the plurality of unit circuits includes an electro-optical element that has a gray-scale level according to a current value of a driving current, a reference setting unit that generates a reference signal having a level... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080048947 - Image display system: An image display system comprises a pixel driving circuit. A storage capacitor is coupled between the first and second nodes. The first switch is turned on in the first and second periods. The second switch, coupled to the first node, is turned on in the first and second periods. The... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080048948 - Display device, flexible member, and method thereof: A display device includes a display panel having a display region where an organic light emitting layer is formed and a non-display region, a circuit board which generates a reference voltage and a panel driving signal to be applied to the display panel, and a flexible member which connects the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080048949 - Pixel and electroluminescent display using the same: A pixel includes a first transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a scan line and a first electrode coupled to a data line, a second transistor including a gate electrode coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor, and a first electrode coupled to a first power supply,... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080048950 - Led display system with embedded microprocessors: An LED display system with embedded microprocessors is disclosed. It includes an image signal source, an image capture controller, a digital multiplexed encoder, a digital multiplexed decoder and a LED display panel. The image signal source provides signals of static or dynamic images. The image capture controller transmits the control... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080048952 - Passive matrix type display device: A passive matrix type display device includes: a display unit having a display area; first electrodes on the area for switching between a conductive state and a non-conductive state; second electrodes on the area; a driving current source for supplying a driving current to the second electrodes; light-emitting elements at... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080048955 - Pixel circuit: A pixel circuit is disposed where a scan line arranged in a row direction to supply a control signal and a data line arranged in a column direction to supply a video signal intersect each other. The pixel circuit includes: a sampling transistor; a drive transistor; a capacitor connected between... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080048956 - Color management system and method for a visual display apparatus: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a color management system for a visual display apparatus comprises a light source operable to produce a light beam having at least one color component, wherein at least one color component has a plurality of visual characteristics defining the quality of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080048959 - Display device having a support structure: A support structure includes a base and a support unit. The base has a restricting member for restricting movement of a lower portion of the display device with respect to the base. The support unit includes a pivot unit and a support plate. The pivot unit is disposed on the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080048958 - Flat panel display and a method thereof: A flat panel display including a first mold frame and a bottom chassis. The first mold frame includes a first base plate with an inside region opened and a plurality of first coupling members protruding from a rear side of the first base plate. The bottom chassis includes a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080048957 - Liquid crystal display and operation method thereof: A pixel unit in the present invention is divided into two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a thin film transistor, a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The two transistors respectively located in different sub-pixels are connected to different scan lines. One of the two transistors is connected to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080048962 - Field sequential lcd driving method: A field sequential driving method for driving a liquid crystal display, wherein said liquid crystal includes a plurality of gate lines, comprising the steps of: grouping said gate lines into a plurality of zone, including a first zone to an Nth zone; sequentially addressing the first zone to the Nth... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048961 - Method for improving image quality differences on an lcd due to different viewing modules: A method for improving image quality differences on an LCD due to different viewing modules, includes: transforming an image data from a spatial domain with the luminance signal and the chrominance signal to a spatial domain with three color signals; adjusting the LCD's luminance, color and contrast parameters according to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080048963 - Display method for improving image quality and device used the same: The present invention discloses a method for improving the image quality of a MSHD (Multi-Switch Half source Driving) display panel and a device used the same. The method comprising following steps: First, using a polarity-line-inversion source driver to drive a plurality of pixels of a MSHD display panel, then a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080048964 - Shift register with lower coupling effect and a related lcd: A shift register for use in an LCD is disclosed. The shift register provides better gate driving signals with the lower coupling effect. The shift register includes two switches. The control node of the first switch is electrically coupled to the control node of the second switch. One end of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080048965 - Driving system of liquid crystal display: An exemplary driving system (100) of an LCD includes a control circuit (10) and a driving circuit (11). The control circuit includes a decoder circuit (13), a DC-DC converter (130), and a timing control circuit (14). The driving circuit includes a gate driver circuit (15), a source driver circuit (16),... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080048930 - Vehicular heads-up display system: Heads-up display systems for vehicles which generate a virtual display in a field of view of an occupant of the vehicle when facing outward of the vehicle. A control system is coupled to the heads-up display system and detects an action by the occupant, e.g., touching of a touch pad,... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080048932 - Information display apparatus and navigation apparatus: In an information display apparatus such as a head-up display, while safety is being secured, visibility from a user is improved. Image data having an object such as an arrow showing an advancing direction or a road sign drawn on it are generated as information to be given to the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080048936 - Display and display screen configured for wavelength conversion: A display screen includes an array of cuplets containing a wavelength converting material. The cuplets may be configured to receive light at a first wavelength and responsively emit light at a second wavelength preferentially in a direction.... Agent: Graybeal - Microvision

20080048941 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that can be driven at a low voltage and prevent undesired discharge from being generated under high temperature environment. A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080048940 - 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. (matsushita)

20080048944 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that can be driven at a low voltage and prevent undesired discharge from being generated under high temperature environment. A method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K.jung

20080048946 - Organic light emitting display device and mother substrate of the same: An organic light emitting display device may include a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines for selectively applying a scan signal to the pixels, a plurality of data lines crossing the scan lines for applying a data signal to the respective pixels, a scan driver for applying a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080048954 - Apparatus and method for displaying operation mode of kimchi refrigerator: An apparatus and a method for displaying an operation mode of a kimchi refrigerator are disclosed. The apparatus and method display information regarding food items stored in the kimchi refrigerator and operation information regarding operation modes of the food items. The method includes, if any one of the food items... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080048953 - Display apparatus and method thereof: A display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area, and a power applying terminal portion is formed on the peripheral area. The frame includes a cover portion covering an edge of the display panel, and a power connecting terminal portion formed on an inner surface of the cover... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080048951 - Method and apparatus for managing and uniformly maintaining pixel circuitry in a flat panel display: The present invention describes a method and apparatus for measuring the voltage and current characteristics of the OLED pixel as it ages and correlating the measured data to the decrease in quantum efficiency and changes in OLED impedance over the life of the OLED, so that corrections can be made... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080048960 - Microdisplay for portable communication systems: The invention relates to a microdisplay system that utilizes a small high resolution active matrix liquid crystal display with an illumination system and a magnifying optical system to provide a hand held communication display device. The system can employ an LED illumination system and cellular communication or processor circuits within... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080048966 - Displaying method for liquid crystal display: A displaying method for liquid crystal display, which has a light source integrated therein, includes the following steps: inputting a first video signal to the liquid crystal display during a first period of time and controlling the light source by means of modulating a light control signal; and inputting a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080048967 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight, the present invention provides a detection-use pixel having the same constitution as respective pixels constituting a liquid crystal display part in the liquid crystal display panel and being formed on a region other than the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080048968 - Display apparatus using electrophoretic element: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080048970 - Full color reflective display with multichromatic sub-pixels: A full color, reflective display having superior saturation and brightness is achieved with a novel display element comprising multichromatic elements. In one embodiment a capsule includes more than three species of particles which differ visually. On embodiment of the invention employs three sub-pixels, each sub-pixel comprising a capsules including three... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080048969 - Methods for driving electrophoretic displays: A pixel of an electrophoretic display is driven from one extreme optical state to a second optical state different from the one extreme optical state by applying to the pixel a first drive pulse of one polarity; and thereafter applying to the pixel a second drive pulse of the opposite... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080048971 - Integrated housing and battery pack for portable data terminals: A housing for a portable computing device. An upper surface of the housing facilitates access to at least one interface component. A lower surface of the housing defines a cavity to receive a battery pack. A battery pack, adapted to fit within the cavity, defines at least a portion of... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20080048972 - Optically detecting click events: Apparatus and method of optically detecting click events are described. Images of a contact surface are captured at respective capture times. The captured images are convolved with a two-dimensional circularly symmetric spatial bandpass filter to produce corresponding filtered images each including a set of pixels with respective pixel value magnitudes.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080048975 - Apparatus and system for managing multiple computers: A system is presented for interconnecting a single user console having user interface devices, including a console keyboard, a console video display unit, a console mouse, and speakers, to a plurality of host computers each capable of using user interface devices, including a keyboard, a video display unit, and a... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080048974 - Textures and other spatial sensations for a relative haptic interface device: Methods and systems for textures and other spatial sensations for a relative haptic interface device are described. One embodiment includes a method comprising the steps of receiving a signal from a sensor, the sensor signal associated with a change in a position of a haptic feedback device, transmitting sensor data... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080048973 - User interface for large-format interactive display systems: A specialized graphical user interface for use with interactive large-format display systems provides for intuitive operation and flexible content presentation. Designed primarily for use in unattended public spaces, the interface facilitates navigation through complex multi-level content in a consistent, intuitive manner.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080048976 - Ergonomic cursor navigation controller for a handheld mobile communication device: An ergonomic cursor navigation controller for a handheld mobile communication device generally includes a navigation button having a ringed and waved upper surface and may further include an execution button disposed within a perimeter defined by the ringed and waved upper surface. The navigation button is provided for navigating a... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080048977 - Pointing device: A pointing device includes a movable member, a guide mechanism, an operation member, a press board and a switch. The guide mechanism guides the movable member in a first axis direction and in a second axis direction so that the movable member is movable, the first axis and the second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080048978 - Closed-loop sensor on a solid-state object position detector: The present disclosure discloses an object position detector. The object position detector comprises a touch sensor formed as a closed loop and having a physical constraint formed on an upper surface of the touch sensor and coextensive with the closed loop. The touch sensor is configured to sense motion of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20080048980 - Detecting movement of a computer device to effect movement of selected display objects: The systems and methods of the invention relate to providing a computer device, having a display unit, with an accelerometer (or other motion sensor) to detect movement of the computer device (and/or an associated display unit) and generate movement data. An accelerometer driver may receive the generated movement data. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080048979 - Optical method and device for use in communication: A method and device are presented enabling communication between two or more parties. A pattern input at a first party side is identified and data indicative of the input pattern is generated. This data is used to operate an illumination process to create an illuminated pattern, indicative of the input... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20080048981 - Mouse having a changeable pad: A mouse having a changeable pad is comprised of a case, at least one replacement board and a plurality of pads. The replacement board is installed in the bottom of the case. The pads are installed on both faces of the replacement board. When the pad on the first face... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080048982 - Wireless mouse system containing a flash memory: The present invention relates to a wireless mouse system. Particularly, the present invention relates to a wireless mouse system in which includes a controller, which controls a receiver and a flash memory device integrated into an interfacing device, can be performed function of the receiver and the flash memory device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048983 - Method of operating an optical mouse: A method for operating a hand held optical pointing device, such as an optical mouse, involves capturing a plurality of arrays of data in a hand held optical pointing device representing light reflected from irregularities on a surface, processing at least some of the plurality of arrays of data in... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080048985 - Information input device: An information input device has a main section where an operation member used to input information is disposed. The information input device also has a support section on which the main section is mounted and which slidably supports the main section in a depth direction. The support section is capable... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080048984 - Information processing device and display device: An information processing device has: a support stand having a base that lies flat and a pole that stands on the base; a processing unit that performs data processing; a display panel that displays an image; and a storage unit that stores information. The device further has an adaptor that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080048986 - Compound computing device with dual portion keyboards controlled by a single processing element: A compound portable computing device comprising two or more separate portable devices coupled over a hardwired or wireless link is described. The compound device includes a first portable device and a second portable device that controls the input from the keyboards of both devices for display on a common display.... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080048987 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Daniel C. Abeles, Esquire Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20080048990 - Apparatus, method, and medium of sensing movement of multi-touch point and mobile apparatus using the same: A user interface technique using a two-dimensional capacitive sensor is provided. An apparatus for sensing movement of multi-touch points includes a capacitance sensing unit sensing two or more touch points, and sensing capacitance and a change in capacitance on the basis of the sensed touch points, a movement analyzing unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080048993 - Display apparatus, display method, and computer program product: A display apparatus includes a display unit that includes a first area that stretches along an outer periphery of the display unit and a second area in which an image can be displayed. In the first area, a plurality of sensors that senses a finger touch is arranged. A pattern... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080048992 - Electronic apparatus having display device: An electronic apparatus includes a display device having a case and a display unit provided on a top of the case so as to be viewable. An input device for inputting necessary operation information is provided such that the input device includes a recess defined on an edge part between... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080048994 - Liquid crystal display device having touch panel function and method for detecting a touch position: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first substrate, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates. A sensing controlling section is also included in the LCD device. The second substrate includes a sensing array that senses a change... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080048988 - Mobile device with acoustically-driven text input and method thereof: A mobile device has a housing having first and second display areas. A mic-array is integrated into the housing and has microphones operable to sense sound signals at multiple locations on the housing from a sound pen when handwriting an alphanumeric symbol on a surface separate from and in proximity... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080048989 - Touch screen display device and method of manufacturing the same: A touch screen display device includes a common electrode, a base substrate disposed opposite to the common electrode, a display signal line formed on the base substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a touch position sensing part formed between the base substrate and the pixel electrodes, the touch position sensing... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080048991 - Display apparatus for teaching writing: Apparatuses and methods are provided directed at teaching writing, such as printing, cursive, and calligraphy, to users of all ages. Typically, the embodiments are directed toward teaching children the basic skills of writing. However, it may be appreciated that the embodiments may be utilized by users of all ages. In... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080048995 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080048996 - Touch screen devices employing nanostructure networks: Touch screen displays comprising at least one nanostructure-film, and fabrication methods thereof, are discussed. Nanostructure-films may comprise, for example, a network(s) of nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles and/or graphene flakes. Such films are preferably at least semi-transparent and relatively flexible, making them well-suited for use in a variety of touch screen applications.... Agent: Unidym

20080048997 - Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition: A method of generating a signal comprising providing a capacitive touch sensor pad including a matrix of X and Y conductors, developing capacitance profiles in one of an X direction and a Y direction from the matrix of X and Y conductors, determining an occurrence of a single gesture through... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20080049000 - Apparatus and method of driving flat panel display device: An apparatus and method of driving a flat panel display device is disclosed, to prevent the appearance of afterimages on the flat panel display, the apparatus comprising an image displaying unit which includes a plurality of pixel cells in regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines on... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080049001 - Gamma voltage output circuit for liquid crystal display: An exemplary gamma voltage output circuit (2) for a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of operational amplifiers (221) and a plurality of resistors (Rn1˜Rn2). Each of the operational amplifiers includes a high voltage input port, a low voltage input port, a non-inverting input port, an inverting input port, and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080048998 - Image forming apparatus for displaying information on display unit removable from apparatus main body: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body and a display unit that is removable from the apparatus main body. A positional relationship between the display unit and the apparatus main body and a direction are detected by a detecting portion. Based on results of the detection and apparatus... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080048999 - Liquid crystal display and operation method thereof: A pixel unit in the present invention is divided into two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a thin film transistor, a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The two transistors respectively located in different sub-pixels are connected to different scan lines. One of the two transistors is connected to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080049002 - Scan line driving method: A scan line driving method of a liquid crystal display divides scan times of a first scan line and a second scan line so that enabled times of the first scan line and the second scan line respectively equal a charge time and a discharge time. The first scan line... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080049003 - Display device: A display device including a display unit and a circuit unit for driving the display unit, in which the display unit includes a flexible substrate and can be housed by rolling and drawn out in a predetermined direction, one electrode is a metal electrode, and the other electrode is a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080049004 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of the invention has: a display panel with an active matrix substrate 2 and a second substrate of transparent material deposed opposite that substrate; an illuminating unit that illuminates the display panel; and a photosensing unit that is provided on the active matrix substrate and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080049005 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a reflective display part and a transmissive display part in each of a plurality of matrix-arrayed pixels. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel which is configured such that a liquid crystal layer is held between a pair of substrates... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080049006 - Display and power saving apparatus and method thereof: A display and its power-saving apparatus and method are provided. The power-saving method is adapted for a display with a backlight module. The power-saving method of the present invention includes the following steps. First, the brightness of the backlight module is adjusted by an adjusting signal. After then, the refresh... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080049007 - Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel array unit and a driver unit. A sampling transistor samples a signal potential to hold the signal potential in a holding capacitor. A driver transistor flows a drive current to a light emitting element in accordance with the signal potential held. A power supply... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080049008 - Gamma voltage output circuit and liquid crystal display having same: An exemplary gamma voltage output circuit (3) has an internal resistor string (31), which has a plurality of resistors and a plurality of nodes; at least one external resistor string (32, 33, 34), which has a plurality of resistors and a plurality of nodes; a plurality of switching circuit (35),... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080049009 - Dynamic clock control circuit and method: A variable clock control information generator receives graphics engine activity data relating to the operating level of a graphics engine, and memory activity data relating to an activity level of memory. In response, the variable clock control information generator produces graphics engine clock control information and memory clock control information... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080049010 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: Disclosed herein is a plasma display device and a method of driving the plasma display device. In the method of driving the plasma display device, the plasma display device includes sustain electrodes and scan electrodes formed in parallel with each other, and ITO electrodes are spaced apart from each other... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080049011 - Surface mapping arrangement and method: The present invention concerns a mapping arrangement for defining selected physical characteristics of a surface to be imaged and a method of mapping a surface. The arrangement comprises a template device (6, 7, 8) for temporary application to a surface (2, 3, 4) to be mapped, the template 10 device... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080049012 - 3d line-of-sight (los) visualization in user interactive 3d virtual reality environments: The present invention is for a decision support tool for 3D LOS visualization in user interactive 3D virtual reality environments for enabling true 3D LOS analysis for assisting decision making in a wide range of applications including inter alia land development projects, military operational planning, sensor placement in surveillance systems,... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080049014 - Registration of imaging data: A method of determining in a three-dimensional operating space a measure of super-imposition M between at least a portion of an object and a spatial representation of the object or part thereof in an object representation pose, a pose comprising position and orientation in operating space includes: a) obtaining a... Agent: Renner, Oto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080049013 - Systems and methods for real-time advanced visualization for predicting the health, reliability and performance of an electrical power system: A system for real-time three-dimensional (3D) visualization of an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system. The power analytics server is comprised of a virtual system... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080049015 - System for development of 3d content used in embedded devices: Apparatus are provided which include exported assets and an exporter. The exported assets define a 3D user interface, and include 3D model assets defining 3D models and animation assets defining animations of the 3D models. The exported assets are exported from a 3D image defining system. The exporter exports the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080049016 - Methods and systems for partitioning a spatial index: Embodiments of the invention provide devices and techniques for partitioning a spatial index. In one embodiment of the invention, an image processing system may partition a spatial index into a plurality of portions such that different processing elements may be responsible for traversing a ray through different portions of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080049017 - Methods and systems for reducing the number of rays passed between processing elements in a distributed ray tracing system: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques and systems for reducing network traffic in relation to ray-tracing a three dimensional scene. According to one embodiment of the invention, as a ray is traversed through a spatial index, a leaf node may be reached. Subsequent rays that traverse through the spatial index... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080049018 - Bicubic surface real time tesselation unit: The present invention provides a graphics processing unit for rendering objects from a software application executing on a processing unit in which the objects to be rendered are received as control points of bicubic surfaces. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the graphics processing unit includes a transform... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080049019 - Generating images using multiple photon maps: Computer graphics apparatus, methods, systems and program products (the term “programs” can include a product consisting of computer-readable program instructions encoded on a computer readable medium) operable to generate pixel values for pixels in an image, and store or display a human-perceptible image based on the pixel values, comprise a... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080049020 - Display optimization for viewer position: A method and implementing computerized system are provided for enhancing a viewing experience by automatically modifying a displayed presentation, such as those used by computer monitors and other related technologies, in response to detected positional attributes of one or more human viewers.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080049021 - Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels: A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as ITU-R 601 compliant images such as... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080049022 - Distributing services in graph-based computations: A service request is processed according to a computation graph associated with the service by receiving inputs for the computation graph from a service client, providing the inputs to the computation graph as records of a data flow, receiving output from the computation graph, and providing the output to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080049023 - Method for reducing size and increasing speed for font generation of instructions: A method for compressing font instruction data. The method includes analyzing a set of pixel-per-em values and fractional pixel shifts contained in font instruction for each glyph in a font data set to construct a database of values. The pixel-per-em values and fractional pixel shifts are converted into operational codes... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20080049024 - Method and apparatus to generate borders that change with time: A method and apparatus for changing over time the appearance of a border around a displayed image. A graphics controller includes a number of border address registers and border changing parameter registers that are written into from a host device. In response to an activation signal from the host device... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080049025 - Methods and apparatus for supporting and implementing computer based animation: The present invention provides a method for hierarchically decomposing a visual or audio object within an animation into plurality of objects which can be individually edited to achieve particular animation effects. For example, a graphical object may be decomposed into a plurality of graphical sub-objects, each of which inherits an... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20080049027 - Method and apparatus for monitoring a user's activities: A method for monitoring a user's activities, wherein the activities comprising an output via a graphics device having a frame buffer. The method includes retrieving image data from the frame buffer, examining the image data, identifying an offensive attribute within the image data, and reacting to the attribute in a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080049028 - Method and system for image monitoring: A system for verifying the generation of a critical symbology includes a display processor configured to generate graphic commands from one or more system inputs. The display processor is further configured to determine the critical symbology. A graphics processing unit is coupled to the display processor. The graphics processing unit... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080049029 - Data processor: The present invention is to contribute to reduction in cost of a system performing image recognition and display control on input image data. A data processor includes a central processing unit, a graphic controller, a display controller, an image recognizing module, a memory controller capable of controlling an access to... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080049030 - System, method, and computer program product for remote graphics processing: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for remote rendering of computer graphics. The system includes a graphics application program resident at a remote server. The graphics application is invoked by a user or process located at a client. The invoked graphics application proceeds to issue graphics instructions.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080049031 - Systems and methods for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit: Systems and method for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit are provided. One embodiment can be described as a system for evaluating attributes in a graphics processing unit having a plurality of processing stages. The system can include an evaluation block, configured to process a plurality... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080049032 - Checkerboard buffer using two-dimensional buffer pages: Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving data using two-dimensional arrays. In one implementation, a checkerboard buffer page system includes: a data source, providing data elements in a first order; a data destination, receiving data elements in a second order; memory devices having memory pages, data elements stored and retrieved... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20080049033 - Computer graphics system and method thereof: A computer graphics system and method thereof comprise a graphics data computation unit, a memory unit and an arbitrator. The graphics data computation unit is for receiving geometry data and a rendering parameter to generate intermediate data and output pixel data corresponding to the geometry data. The memory unit is... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080049034 - Uniform image display for multiple display devices: Methods and systems for equalizing visual characteristics of images displayed on display units arranged proximate each other. The method may includes generating first and second video signals for first and second display units, respectively, displaying images on the first and second display units based on the first and second video... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080049035 - Apparatus and method for accessing image data: Apparatus and method for accessing image data in reduced transfer cycles. The image data access apparatus has: a plurality of external memories in which a plurality of parallel pixel data that are adjacent to each other in a prescribed block area of the image data are separately stored at assigned... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080049036 - Multimedia playback system, fifo memory system, and method for storing multimedia data: A multimedia playback system, a FIFO memory system, and a method for storing multimedia data are provided. The multimedia playback system or the FIFO system comprises a FIFO memory and a memory controller. The FIFO memory buffers a first and a second multimedia data. The memory controller allocates the FIFO... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080049037 - Display processing line buffers incorporating pipeline overlap: Apparatus, systems and methods for display processing line buffers incorporating pipeline overlap are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed including processing logic to use pixel processing algorithms to process a pixel value of a first portion of an image, and line buffers coupled to the processing logic. The line... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080049038 - Display device integrated circuit (ddi) with adaptive memory control and adaptive memory control method for ddi: A graphics memory device includes a memory array configured to store data for a display device comprising b*y rows by a*x columns of pixels, where b>a. The memory array is arranged in a*y rows by b*x columns of memory locations. Each memory location is adapted to store n-bit image data... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080049039 - Method and apparatus of choosing ranges from a scale of values in a user interface: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for choosing ranges from a scale of values in a user interface without the loss of detail or context while minimizing the real estate used on the user interface. The invention, more particularly, relates to a method and apparatus for selecting, viewing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080049040 - Viewing multi-dimensional data in two dimensions: Various technologies for visualizing a multi-dimensional view object in a two-dimensional format are described. In accordance with one described embodiment, an interface for visualizing a multi-dimensional view object in two dimensions includes a surface selection tree panel, a view object information panel, and a visualization panel. The surface selection tree... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080049041 - Drawing device, drawing method, and drawing program: A display device according to the present invention includes a wavelet transform unit for transforming an original image into wavelet coefficients using a Harr wavelet transform formula, a level obtaining unit for obtaining a mipmap level of a mipmap image, an inverse wavelet transform unit for receiving and subjecting at... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080049042 - Apparatus and method of converting image signal for six color display device, and six color display device having optimum subpixel arrangement: A method of converting image signals for a display device including six-color subpixels is provided, which includes: classifying three-color input image signals into maximum, middle, and minimum; decomposing the classified signals into six-color components; determining a maximum among the six-color components; calculating a scaling factor; and extracting six-color output signals.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080049043 - On-screen colour selection: A method of displaying colours for selection by a user is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a range of first colour attributes (e.g. hue) in a first linear selection bar, the first colour attributes varying along the length of the first selection bar, and displaying a range of second colour... Agent: B. Todd Patterson Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080049044 - Display system and display method: [Means for Resolution] A display system 2 includes a display object 14 having a first image 12 formed thereon, an image display unit (a projection display unit 26 of a projector 18) that displays a second image 16, which includes an area having a gradation state substantially identical with an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080049045 - Image scaling system capable of saving memory: An image scaling system includes a window memory, a longitudinal scaler, a buffer and a latitudinal scaler. The window memory temporarily stores partial data of N image lines. The longitudinal scaler performs a longitudinal scaling operation on the partial data of the N image lines to thereby produce partial data... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080049046 - Method for detecting two dimensional sketch data from source model data for three dimensional reverse modeling: A method for detecting two dimensional sketch data from source model data for three dimensional reverse modeling. The method includes the steps of detecting optional model data, establishing X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis of the model data depending upon a reference coordinate system information inputted from a user, and setting a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080049049 - Display apparatus, and control method thereof: A control method and a display apparatus are provided. The control method includes dividing a display part into sections; detecting output luminance levels which correspond to grayscale levels of an input video signal on a section by section basis; converting the output luminance levels by calculating calibration coefficients on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080049047 - Subpixel layouts for high brightness displays and systems: A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that in some embodiments are part-striped colored subpixels and part-checkerboard pattern colored subpixels.... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080049048 - Subpixel layouts for high brightness displays and systems: A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that include first and second primary color stripes and third and fourth primary color subpixels that are disposed on a checkerboard pattern. A subpixel rendering operation includes, or... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080049050 - Image display apparatus: In an image display apparatus, image data on which gradation conversion for compensating phosphor saturation has been carried out by a gradation convertor (200) undergoes voltage drop compensation and then amplitude regulation using a gain (Gd) before being fed to modulating means (8). Here, the gradation convertor (200) changes its... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080049051 - Method of controlling picture quality in flat panel display: A method of controlling a picture quality of a flat panel display for automatically analyzing a shape, a size, and brightness of a display stain of indeterminate shape having an irregular pattern, and compensating brightness of the display stain of indeterminate shape on the basis of the analyzed result is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080049052 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels that are arranged in matrix so as to form a plurality of rows extending in an X direction and a plurality of columns extending in a Y direction. Each pixel includes a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of electrodes... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080049053 - Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section wherein a plurality of pixel circuits each including an electro-optical element, a driving transistor, a sampling transistor and a capacitor are disposed in a matrix; a dependence cancellation section configured to negatively feed back, within a correction period before... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080042922 - Projection system, information processing apparatus, information processing program, recording medium therefor, projector, computer program therefor, and recording medium therefor: A projection system includes: plural projectors that modulate a light beam emitted from a light source on the basis of image data transmitted by a signal transmitting device and expand and project the light beam to display images, each of the projectors including: an image-data restoring unit that converts the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080042923 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for recording of graphical display: Embodiments include systems, methods, and apparatus configured to record (A) protocol requests that specify display operations on a screen image and (B) information copied from a display buffer storing the screen image. Such embodiments may also be configured to record states relating to an appearance of an output of the... Agent: Hartman Patents PLLC

20080042924 - Stereo-image displaying apparatus and method for reducing stereo-image cross-talk: A stereo-image displaying apparatus includes a light-source module and an image displaying device. The light-source module has at least one light-emitting block. A light-source driving unit is coupled with the light-source module and the image displaying device. The light-emitting block is driven by the light-source driving unit to synchronously emit... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080042925 - Key assignable portable terminal device: To provide a portable terminal device that can secure the same operability even when a user changes his or her portable terminal device to a new one, the portable terminal device is made to comprise a function providing unit for providing a function according to key inputs, a standard profile... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080042927 - Display apparatus and method of adjusting brightness thereof: A display apparatus and a method of adjusting brightness thereof. The display apparatus displays an image, and includes a light emitting unit divided into a predetermined number of portion areas, so that brightness is adjusted according to the respective portion areas. A driving unit is connected to the light emitting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080042929 - Flexible display and method for forming alignment key of the same: A flexible display and method for forming alignment key of the same are disclosed, which includes an alignment key required to align positions between film layers, the flexible display comprising a substrate defined display area and non-display area and an alignment key forming part including an alignment key and transmission... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080042930 - Circuit and method for driving an lcd panel capable of reducing water-like waveform noise: A circuit for driving an LCD panel and a method thereof is provided. The circuit utilizes a timing controller to receive a plurality of low-voltage differential signals (LVDS) provided by an image inverter, wherein the LVDS have a horizontal synchronize signal. The timing controller, based on the horizontal synchronize signal,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080042931 - Plasma display panel with high brightness: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes N scan electrodes, N auxiliary electrodes, M address electrodes, and N rows and M columns of lighting cells. The ith row of lighting cells among the N rows of lighting cells corresponds to the ith scan electrode among the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042934 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first, second and third electrodes, a sustain driver supplying a sustain signal to the first electrode during a sustain period, a data driver supplying a data signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042935 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a driver. The driver supplies a rising signal and a falling signal to the first electrode during a reset... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080042937 - Active matrix type display apparatus: There is provided an active matrix type display apparatus including pixel circuits arranged in the row and column direction to form a display portion, the pixel circuit including a capacitor which holds an electric signal representing information, a driving transistor, a control terminal of which is connected to one end... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080042940 - Display device: The invention provides a display device comprising a display unit, a circuit unit for driving the display unit and a bend suppressing member for suppressing bending of the display unit in a predetermined direction, the display unit comprising a flexible substrate and a display element having at least one layer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042938 - Driving method for el displays with improved uniformity: A method of driving an electroluminescent (EL) display having a plurality of light-emitting display elements having outputs that change with time or use, comprising the steps of: a) providing an external image signal with a first image aspect ratio; b) providing an EL display having light-emitting display elements formed in... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080042939 - Image display device and electronic appliance: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080042936 - Method for processing display signals of light-emitting module string and related display system: Utilizing a single signal line to transmit a display signal to a light emitting module string, a first light-emitting module of the light emitting module string receives and updates the display signal, and transmits the updated display signal to a second light-emitting module. Finally, the display signal is transmitted to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080042941 - System for displaying image and driving method for organic light-emitting element: A system for displaying an image includes a plurality of pixel structures. Each pixel structure includes an organic light-emitting element and a pixel driving circuit, which drives the organic light-emitting element and is electrically connected with a first scan line and a data line. The pixel driving circuit includes a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042942 - Electro-optical device, method for driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a unit circuit and a signal generating circuit. The unit circuit includes a first element section that controls a first electro-optical element to a gradation level corresponding to a level of a data signal, and a second element section that controls a second electro-optical element to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080042943 - Method and apparatus for averaged luminance and uniformity correction in an am-el display: A method that corrects average luminance or luminance uniformity variations in an active-matrix EL display by determining a first offset voltage and a first gain relationship between the voltage and the current passing through one or more light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements are driven with a corrected signal formed by... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080042945 - Pixel circuit, image display device and drive method for the same, and electronic device: A pixel circuit is disclosed. The pixel circuit includes, at least a drive transistor; an input transistor; a first switching transistor; a second switching transistor; a retention capacity; and an electro-optic device. The retention capacity is connected, at both ends, to a gate node and a source node, respectively, of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080042944 - Voltage-current converting method, voltage-current converting circuit and active matrix type display apparatus: A voltage-current converting circuit turns on a transistor M1a to give a blanking signal to the gate of a transistor M5a (PMOS transistor) through capacities C1a and C2a, and turns on a transistor M3a with the transistor M5a diode-connected to supply a current from a power source voltage VCC. Next,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080042948 - Display device and electronic equipment: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array part; and a drive part that drives the pixel array part. The pixel array part includes row-wise first scan lines and second scan lines, column-wise signal lines, pixels arranged in a matrix form on parts where the lines... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080042946 - Display panel, display apparatus having the same and a method of driving the display apparatus: A display panel includes a plurality of data lines each extended in a first direction substantially parallel with each other, a plurality of driving voltage lines each extended substantially parallel with the plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines each extended in a second direction substantially perpendicular to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080042949 - Liquid crystal display capable of compensating feed-through voltage and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a gate driver, a source driver, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. The gate driver is used for generating scan signals. The scan signals include a first voltage level, a second... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080042952 - Power supply circuit of liquid crystal display for reducing residual image: An exemplary power supply circuit (212) for a liquid crystal display (LCD) (2) includes a power source integrated circuit (IC) (214). The power source IC includes a voltage input (213) configured for receiving an external power source Vcc; a positive voltage output (215) configured for providing a first voltage; a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080042954 - Method of preventing image sticking for liquid crystal display: A method of preventing an image sticking for a liquid crystal display includes alternately providing a high gray-level picture and a low gray-level picture between any two adjacent pictures, wherein the backlight is turned off. Or, in the turning-off process of the liquid crystal display, the high gray-level picture and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042956 - Display panel and method thereof: In a display panel, gate lines, data lines, pixel electrodes and a trap electrode are formed on a second display substrate. The gate lines are extended in a first direction, and the data lines are extended in a second direction while insulating from and intersecting with the gate lines. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080042957 - Liquid crystal display device capable of reducing power consumption by charge sharing: An LCD device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of display units, two dummy gate lines, and a plurality of dummy switches. When performing charge sharing during a positive driving period, the data lines are coupled to a positive voltage source via a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080042958 - Circuits and methods for generating a common voltage: A circuit and a method for generating a common voltage, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the circuit for generating a common voltage. Chip size and accumulated offset voltage of a liquid crystal display (LCD) may be reduced. The circuit for generating a common voltage includes a digital... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080042962 - Display and display panel thereof: A display and a display panel thereof are provided. A driving circuit is formed on one side of the display panel to output an auxiliary scan signal to one terminal of the scan line in the display panel. A gate driver is formed on another side of the display panel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080042963 - Liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device having a first substrate, a second substrate, and liquid crystal provided between the first substrate and the second substrate includes: a plurality of scanning lines provided in the first substrate; a plurality of data lines provided in the first substrate; a plurality of switching elements provided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080042964 - Simple-matrix liquid crystal driving method, liquid crystal driver, and liquid crystal display apparatus: A cyclic orthogonal matrix with three rows and four columns is used to drive a simple-matrix liquid crystal panel. Three gradation palettes having different phases of ON/OFF data of intermediate gradations are generated. A frame-rate-control phase table for an entire screen of the liquid crystal panel is generated in which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080042926 - Display device: The display device includes an anti-reflection film having a plurality of projections over a display screen surface and a protective layer filling a space between the projections. The number of times of incidence of external light entering the display device on the anti-reflection film is increased; therefore, the amount of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080042928 - Electrophoretic display panel: For the electrophoretic display panel (1) to be able to have a pixel (2) which is able to have a relative large number of different attainable optical states for displaying a picture, even if the pixel (2) has three electrodes, the electrophoretic display panel (1) has a pixel (2) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080042932 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a drive integrated circuit (IC) supplying a driving voltage to a scan electrode, a scan reference voltage supply unit, a setup supply unit, and a sustain pulse supply unit. The scan reference... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080042933 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel capable of improving stability of discharge. The plasma display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, discharge cells defined in a space between the first substrate and the second substrate, first electrodes formed between the first substrate and the second substrate... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080042947 - Display device: The inventors found out that in the case of performing a low gray scale display in which a very small amount of current is supplied to a light emitting element, variations in threshold voltages of driving transistors become notable since the gate-source voltage is low. In view of this, the... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080042950 - Display substrate and display device having the same: A display substrate provides more reliable operation comprising a gate driver having groups of stages each connected to one end of each gate conductor of a respective group of gate conductors and groups of sub-gate drivers connected to the other end of the gate conductors of the respective groups of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080042951 - 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 the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080042953 - Display time control for images: This invention relates to a method, a computer program, a computer program product and a device for reducing motion blur of images shown on non-stroboscopic display devices, in which local areas p, of an image of a video signal are displayed during respective local display times t; that are less... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080042955 - Display device: The present invention efficiently arranges a spare TFT element in a pixel region of a liquid crystal display device. A display device includes a substrate on which TFT elements which are arranged in pixel regions each of which is surrounded by two neighboring scanning signal lines and two neighboring video... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080042959 - Drive scheme for a cholesteric liquid crystal display device: A cholesteric liquid crystal display device comprises three cells each comprising a layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material and an electrode arrangement capable of providing independent driving of a plurality of pixels across the layer of cholesteric liquid crystal material by respective drive signals. A drive circuit applies a respective... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080042961 - Liquid crystal display device and alignment process method: Although portions of electrodes in proximity to a driver IC are covered with an insulating film, part of the electrodes is not covered with the insulating film. Thus, this insulating film absent region functions as an external voltage supply region that receives, from the outside, application of a voltage which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080042960 - Systems and method for displaying images with reduced power consumption: A method and a system for displaying images are provided. In the method, a pixel is provided that includes a layer of ferroelectric material and a layer of liquid crystal material. A first electric field is momentarily applied to the pixel to electrically polarize the ferroelectric layer to a first... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080042965 - Stressless shift register: A shift register unit includes a plurality of register units electrically coupled in cascade. Each register unit outputs an output pulse according to a first clock signal, a second clock signal and an output pulse of a previous register unit. Each register unit includes a first switch unit, a second... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080042968 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a back light assembly that emits light on a liquid crystal panel; and an inverter that controls brightness of the light emitted from the back light assembly according to a difference between video data of at least three frames that are sequentially inputted to... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080042967 - Inverter circuit, fluorescent tube lighting apparatus, backlight apparatus, and liquid crystal display: A driving apparatus and a driving method are disclosed that are capable of uniformly lighting each entire fluorescent tube irrespective of the length or number of fluorescent tubes when simultaneously driving a plurality of fluorescent tubes in a fluorescent tube lighting apparatus. When two inverter circuits having respective transformers are... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042966 - Monochromatic field sequential liquid crystal display: A device and a method are provided for establishing a monochromatic background light source in an electronic device with a field sequential liquid crystal display. The device and method provide for the continuous illumination of one or more of a plurality of color backlights of a field sequential liquid crystal... Agent: Michael R. Asam, Esq.

20080042970 - Associating a region on a surface with a sound or with another region: A surface that includes a pattern of markings that define spatial coordinates on the surface is scanned. The pattern of markings is decoded to define a region on the surface. Additional information is associated with the region. For example, a sound may be associated with the region such that, when... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080042972 - Light beam delivery system: A device for projecting images from a video generating device such as a computer, television receiver, or similar device onto a screen or other surface is described in this invention. The device uses a rotating disk containing numerous lenses to direct a light beam from a laser or other light... Agent: Richard A. Baker, Jr.

20080042969 - Projector pen: A small device for projecting images from a video generating device such as a computer, television receiver, or similar device onto a screen or other surface is described in this invention. The device is the size of the pen, and converts video instructions using a processing unit and memory into... Agent: Richard A. Baker, Jr.

20080042971 - System and method for automatic re-calulation and monitoring of thresholds in a puck-based pointing device: A pointing device system includes a moveable puck, a first surface on which a puck field of motion is defined, a controller, and a pressure-sensing mechanism. The pressure sensing mechanism measures an amount of pressure applied to the puck. The controller determines whether the measured amount of pressure meets a... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080042973 - System for sensing yaw rate using a magnetic field sensor and portable electronic devices using the same: An attitude- and motion-sensing system for an electronic device, such as a cellular telephone, a game device, and the like, is disclosed. The system, which can be integrated into the portable electronic device, includes a two- or three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis magnetic compass. Data about the attitude of the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080042975 - System and method for controlling the movement of an object using a user-controlled pointing device that measures magnetic fields: A user observes an object in a visual scene and moves a user-controlled pointing device that measures magnetic fields to control or move the object. One or more magnetic sensors are included within the user-controlled pointing device and each magnetic sensor measures a magnetic field component associated with a respective... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080042974 - System and method for determining cursor speed in a puck-based pointing device: A pointing device includes a moveable puck, a first surface on which a puck field of motion is defined, and a controller. The total distance the puck can move from its centered or resting position is divided into N regions using one or more transition points. Each transition point corresponds... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080042976 - Closed-loop sensor on a solid-state object position detector: The present disclosure discloses an object position detector. The object position detector comprises a touch sensor formed as a closed loop and having a physical constraint formed on an upper surface of the touch sensor and coextensive with the closed loop. The touch sensor is configured to sense motion of... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20080042977 - System and method for controlling device operations with a joystick: A system for controlling device operations with a joystick includes: a computer (10) connects to the device (2), a joystick (4) and a control panel (5) connect to the computer through a control circuit (3); the computer is configured for configuring a predetermined data format of data transmissions between the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080042978 - Contact, motion and position sensing circuitry: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing data entry associated with a keypad and a touchpad. An interface can facilitate receiving input data. A combined circuitry component can employ a keypad functionality and a touchpad functionality based on the input data utilizing a single... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080042979 - Method and apparatus for executing commands or inputting data based on finger's characteristics and multi-finger key: The present invention uses a key to produce more than one action based on the finger which has pressed or touched the key. By knowing which finger has acted on the key the present invention takes different actions, executes different commands or inputs different data. So by using multi-finger keys... Agent: Barry Choobin

20080042980 - Telephone keypad with quad directional keys: A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the quad position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time... Agent: James H. Bowen

20080042990 - Apparatus and method for changing input mode in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for changing an input mode of a portable terminal according to the current state of the portable terminal during a character input operation using an input tool such as a stylus pen. The apparatus includes a touch sensor for detecting an inp