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 input and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080042984 - Device and method for scrolling through list in portable terminal with touch pad: A device and method for displaying a list in a portable terminal having a touch pad are provided. The portable terminal includes an input unit for generating a sweep event; a speed-determining unit for checking speed of the sweep event and setting a scroll speed corresponding to the speed of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080042993 - Sensor pad using light pipe input devices: A sensor pad input system for use with an electronic display screen includes a transparent sensor pad overlaying the display, and at least one tactile input device removably secured to the sensor pad. Each input device emits an IR beam transmitted by the sensor pad to an IR sensor at... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20080042981 - System and method for inputing user commands to a processor: A system for inputting operation system (OS) commands to a data processing device. The system comprises a video camera that captures images of a viewing space. A processor detects a predetermined object in the images using an object recognition algorithm not involving background information in an image. One or more... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080042992 - Touch screen display apparatus and method fof driving the same: A touch screen display apparatus includes a touch screen panel, a driver circuit unit, and a hybrid touch screen panel controller. The touch screen panel includes first and second screen regions that provide first and second analog sensing signals when respective touch events occur in the first and second screen... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080042982 - Device having a device managed input interface: A device includes a sensor which generates a value representative of a position of the device relative to an object surface. The device then uses the value obtained from the sensor to automatically transition from a first state in which the input interface is enabled to a second state in... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080042985 - Information processing apparatus, operation input method, and sensing device: An information processing apparatus includes an operation surface, a first sense unit for electrically detecting whether the operation surface is directly touched, a second sense unit for detecting whether the position pointing device approaches or contacts the operation surface based on an electromagnetic interaction, an approach detector for detecting whether... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080042991 - Method of capturing note-taking session using interactive notepad: A method is provided of capturing, in a computer system, data relating to a note-taking session using an interactive notepad. In the method, the computer system receives: a session start indication indicated by interaction of a writing implement with coded data of a control portion of the notepad; data indicative... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080042986 - Touch sensing architecture: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080042987 - Touch sensing through hand dissection: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080042989 - Typing with a touch sensor: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080042983 - User input device and method using fingerprint recognition sensor: Disclosed are a user input device and a method for rapidly selecting an operation mode in a mobile terminal having a touch screen input panel and a fingerprint recognition sensor. The user input method includes setting operation modes for at least one fingerprint data and input pattern, each comprised of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080042988 - Writing using a touch sensor: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080042994 - 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)

20080042995 - Wearable signal input apparatus for data processing system: The present invention discloses a wearable signal input apparatus for a data processing system comprising a wearable unit at least having a index finger sleeve and a middle finger sleeve; a position sensing unit located on said wearable unit for detecting a movement of the index finger and generating a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080042997 - Touch panel having curved surface and manufacturing process: The present invention is directed to the provision of a touch panel having a curved shape and its manufacturing process; for this purpose, the touch panel having a curved shape comprises an upper film substrate and a lower film substrate, each formed from a transparent plastic film having a transparent... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080042996 - Touch panel with a transparent electrically conductive polymer film and manufacturing process: A touch panel according to the present invention is constructed such that a transparent substrate coated with a transparent electrically conductive film and having dot spacers formed on top thereof, and a polarizing plate coated with a transparent electrically conductive polymer on a side thereof facing the transparent substrate, are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080042998 - Method and system for screen navigation: A screen system includes a display, three or more sensors, a processor connected to the display and the three or more sensors, and a clock connected to the processor. When a position on a display is selected by a stylus that includes one or more emitters, the one or more... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080042999 - Projection display system with pressure sensing at a screen, a calibration system corrects for non-orthogonal projection errors: Calibration structure, method, and code for correcting non-orthogonal misalignment of a computer-generated image that is projected onto a large screen touch-detecting display, so that a computer-generated image appears substantially where the display is touched. Structure/method/code generates at least four calibration marks, respectively, substantially proximate four corners of a projected image... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080043000 - System and method to accelerate identification of hardware platform classes: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for concisely identifying the hardware configuration of a computer system through a single signature value. This signature value is computed by passing specific hardware configuration information through a hashing function. The hardware configuration information may include, among other things, selected... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080043001 - Writing stylus: A stylus for an electrographic position location apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the stylus includes a writing element that is retractable. The stylus may have a proximal end and a distal end. A conductive annular structure may be at the proximal end of the stylus.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080043005 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device may include a plurality of data lines, a plurality of selection lines, a plurality of unit circuits, a selection circuit, and a control circuit. Each of the plurality of unit circuits is connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of data lines and a corresponding one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080043004 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: An LCD device and a method of driving the same are disclosed, to improve a picture quality by realizing a rapid response speed, wherein the LCD device comprises an image display part which includes liquid crystal cells formed in respective regions defined by a plurality of gate and data lines;... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080043003 - Smart display pixel: Construction of a pixel-based display using a set of pixel assemblies poured or placed into a display area or volume. Each pixel assembly has a means to produce a visible display output at its position and identify its own position within a 2-D or 3-D display space continuously or when... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080043002 - Systems and methods for alternative to serial peripheral interface communication in dumb display driver integrated circuits: An embodiment generally relates to a method of communicating with a plurality of registers in a display driver integrated circuit (IC). The method includes providing a data message and driving the data message over color select lines of the display driver IC in response to the display driver IC being... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080043006 - Display device and shift register array for driving a pixel array: A shift register array includes a plurality of first shift registers, a second shift register, a first connection line, a second connection line, and a third connection line. A signal output terminal of each first shift register overlaps the first connection line and the third connection line without electric connection.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080043009 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus includes first and second display panels, and first and second driver circuit parts. The first display panel includes first pixels. Each of the first pixels includes a switching element electrically connected to a gate line and a source line, and a first liquid crystal capacitor electrically connected... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080043008 - Multifunctional driver controllers: The present invention discloses a multifunctional driver controller capable to drive one or more voltage-controlled devices or current-controlled devices. According to one embodiment, the multifunctional driver controller comprises a selection unit receiving a control signal, one of a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, the selection unit selecting... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Agency

20080043007 - Active matrix array device and method for driving such device: An active matrix array device (100) comprises a plurality of matrix elements (110a-i), each matrix element comprising a charge storage device (112a-i), and a plurality of charging conductors (142, 144, 146; 704). Each charging conductor is coupled to a subset of the plurality of matrix elements (110a-i) via respective thin... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080043011 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof, and mobile terminal having the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device of a mobile terminal and a driving method of the LCD device are provided, including an LCD panel for presenting images, driver ICs for driving the LCD panel, and a system controller for comparing a measured signal with a normal state signal and initializing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080043010 - Driving circuit and method for data drivers in a bi-stable display: A display employs an arrangement of a matrix of pixels (30), and a column driving circuit (10) including an array of fixed level data drivers (30) for generating a drive waveform that is applied to the matrix of pixels (30) during an image update period. A power supply (VPS) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080043012 - Display panel drive technique for reducing power consumption: A method is provided for operating a display apparatus in which one source output of a source driver is connected with first to N-th data lines through first to N-th time division switches, which method includes: driving a first pixel positioned in a first horizontal line and connected with one... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080043015 - Online volume rendering system and method: A volumetric rendering system including a user electronic interface device having data storage for storing volumetric scan data, a server device including a volume rendering software program and having data storage for receiving the volumetric scan data from the user electronic device, and a network coupling the user electronic device... Agent: Robert A. Parsons

20080043013 - System for designing shopping environments: A shopping environment design system comprises a computing environment; a virtual reality system operatively associated with the computing environment and configured to produce a virtual reality shopping environment according to at least one three-dimensional image of the virtual reality shopping environment, the three-dimensional image including design elements selected from one... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Catherine E. Wolf

20080043014 - 3d image display method: A stereoscopic image display method capable of stereoscopic display of a photographed image. One two-dimensional image is selected, and one pixel capable of being viewed from a corresponding viewpoint position is selected from a plurality of pixels. A virtual surface with the selected two-dimensional image pasted thereon is assumed, and... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20080043016 - System and method for trimmed surface tessellation: A system, method, and computer program for tessellation, comprising tessellating a curve having a plurality of polygons; connecting said plurality of polygons in a preferred direction; decomposing polygons into a plurality of triangles; and whereby a mesh representation is creating from said plurality of triangles, and appropriate means and computer-readable... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080043017 - Systems and methods of non-rigid volume registration: A method and system of volume deformation, including accessing a tree structure for a set of deformation maps. The tree structure is traversed for each voxel in an original volume and each voxel is transformed according to each deformation map corresponding to a node of the tree structure until the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080043018 - Instant ray tracing: Methods, systems, devices and computer program products operable in a computer graphics system include constructing a hierarchical ray tracing acceleration data structure comprising a tree structure, the modes of which are generated utilizing a bounding interval hierarchy based on defining an axis-aligned scene bounding box and two parallel planes to... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080043019 - Method and apparatus for transforming object vertices during rendering of graphical objects for display: A method of transforming object vertices during rendering of graphical objects for display comprises multiplying each object vertex in object space that is to be transformed, by a product matrix. The product matrix is the product of a model-view matrix and a projection matrix. As a result, each object vertex... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080043020 - User interface for viewing street side imagery: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing an immerse view having at least one portion related to aerial view data and a disparate portion related to a first-person ground-level view. A receiver component can receive at least one of geographic data and an input.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080043022 - Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus: A relative position of each object with respect to a point of view is changed by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a position of the object, the pieces of information being stored in a storage section. It is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080043021 - Three dimensional polygon mesh deformation using subspace energy projection: A computer implemented method for deforming a 3D polygon mesh using non-linear and linear constraints. The method includes creating a coarse control 3D polygon mesh that completely encapsulates the 3D polygon mesh to be deformed, projecting the deformation energy of the 3D polygon mesh and the constraints of the 3D... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080043023 - Approximating subdivision surfaces with bezier patches: Surface modeling systems and techniques are described which approximate Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. A quadrilateral mesh is analyzed by applying shape and tangent masks to faces on the quad-mesh. Through application of the shape masks, a shape patch is created which approximates the subdivision limit surface. This shape patch can be... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080043024 - Method for reconstructing an object subject to a cone beam using a graphic processor unit (gpu): A method for reconstructing an object subject to cone beam passing through the object and generating projection images of the object using a graphic processing unit (GPU). The method applies a non-linear curvature-based smoothing filter to the projection images. The method applies a high-pass filter to the curvature-smoothed images. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080043026 - System and method providing variable complexity in a physics simulation: A system and method of providing physics data generated by a physics simulation and consumed by main application are provided. The main application may incorporate different scene versions or varying physics-based complexity while running on systems having different hardware and software resources.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080043025 - Using disc to evaluate the emotional response of an individual: The present invention comprises the use of Digital Image Speckle Correlation (DISC) to map facial deformations due to voluntary and/or involuntary, often subtle, facial expressions. The facial expressions may be the result of a response to internal or external stimuli. It is possible to develop quantitative and qualitative characterizations of... Agent: The Estee Lauder Cos, Inc

20080043028 - Information processing device and control method: There is disclosed an information processing device with an operator unit capable of providing adequate operationality for both of display devices or drive modes which respectively require different rewrite times. The information processing device includes: at least one display device; an operator unit that is displaced from a reference point;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080043027 - Image data processing device, liquid crystal display apparatus including same, display apparatus driving device, display apparatus driving method, program therefor, and storage medium: In cases where the amount of gradation transition is greater than a threshold value, a modulation processing section corrects image data D of a current frame by making an interpolation calculation with reference to a look-up table, and output the image data D thus corrected. In cases where the amount... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080043029 - Golf ball with improved dimple pattern: A golf ball comprising a substantially spherical outer surface and a plurality of dimples formed thereon is provided. To pack the dimples on the outer surface, the outer surface is first divided into Euclidean geometry based shapes. These Euclidean portions are then mapped with an L-system generated pattern. The dimples... Agent: Acushnet Company

20080043030 - Method and system for organizing topology elements for better compression: A system, method, and computer program for for organizing elements for compression, comprising nesting a hierarchical topological structure having a plurality of elements; arranging said plurality of elements in a pattern to facilitate data compression; representing said pattern as four arrays; and compressing said plurality of elements from said arrays,... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080043031 - Picture adjustment methods and apparatus for image display device: Described are methods, devices, and systems for optimizing presentation of an image-bearing signal on a display device equipped with at least one adjustable picture control variable. The methods utilize, and the devices include, a picture control setting generator for determining different picture control settings, and an on-screen display generator for... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080043032 - Method and apparatus for rotating an image on a display: A method and apparatus utilizes a three dimensional rendering engine to rotate an image based on user selected or otherwise determined screen orientation. A vertex coordinate transformation is defined for a rotated destination image. The source image is used as a texture for texture mapping during rendering operation to produce... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080043033 - Contour free point operation for video skin tone correction: A method for a color tone correction is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of first intermediate components by scaling a plurality of first color components towards a first ideal color, wherein the first color components (i) are for a first plurality of pixels... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080043034 - Hdr displays and control systems therefor: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen. The display may provide a high dynamic... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080043035 - System and method for filtering a point cloud: An exemplary method for filtering a point cloud is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: acquiring a point cloud from a point cloud obtaining device; identifying an outmost point on each of surface edges of the point cloud in a coordinate system; determining a cubical figure that confines the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080043036 - Method, apparatus and computer program for presenting cases comprising images: A method and apparatus presents cases comprising images, wherein selection values are provided, which are assigned to the cases and which are determined from the images of the respective case, wherein the presentation of the cases depends on the selection values. The sorting values are determined depending on the selection... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080043037 - Systems and methods for generating user specified information from a map: An embodiment relates generally a method of generating user-specified information. The method includes selecting a plurality of points on a map, where the plurality of points forms a closed polygon. The method also includes determining a plurality of coordinate pairs, where each coordinate pair is associated with a point from... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080043038 - Systems and methods for incorporating three-dimensional objects into real-time video feeds: Devices, systems and methods for incorporating three-dimensional objects into a real-time video feed are disclosed. The exemplary method may transmit a first video signal of a live event to a processing means and receive the first video signal at the processing means. One or more predefined three-dimensional objects are generated... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20080043039 - Image composer: In an image composer, an image input unit receives an image signal representative of the image of a subject, and outputs image data corresponding to the image signal to an expression feature extractor. The expression extractor extracts feature data representative of a facial expression contained in the image data. A... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080043040 - System and method for combining satellite imagery with virtual imagery: A system and method for combining computer generated 3D environments (virtual environments) with satellite images. In a specific application, the system enables users to see and communicate with each other as live avatars in the computer generated environment in real time.... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080043041 - Image blending system, method and video generation system: A method and system for image blending is disclosed. A destination image is received (100), the destination image including an image portion to be replaced and having characteristics associated with the identified image portion. A source image is also received (130). An image portion of the source image to be... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080043042 - Locality based morphing between less and more deformed models in a computer graphics system: Locality based morphing in a computer graphics system provides efficient techniques for simulating or animating position-based changes including but not limited to deformations. Two models are provided: a model unaffected by a destructive or other process, and a further model that has been totally affected by the process. Position information... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080043043 - Display simulator: A system for generating and providing a simulated image. Based upon a source image and first parameters for a first display device, the system generates and displays a simulated image on second display device having second parameters. The first parameters are different from the second parameters, and the simulated image... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080043044 - Method and circuit of selectively generating gray-scale voltage: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using gray-scale voltages whose dynamic ranges are different from each other depending on pixel color. The gray-scale voltages are output to a source line driver. Embodiments of the invention also provide a gray-scale voltage... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080043045 - Image display device and method of manufacturing the same: The present invention relates to an image display device and a method of manufacturing the image display device that make it possible to form pixels with a smaller number of sub-pixels as compared with a case where one pixel is formed so as to separately include one each of sub-pixels... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080043046 - Flat panel display and method for driving the same: A flat panel display and method for driving the same are disclosed. The flat panel display comprises a display unit, a scan driver, and a data driver. The display unit comprises sub-pixels disposed at an area where scan lines and data lines cross one another in a matrix form. The... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080043047 - Light source apparatus and method for driving the same: A light source apparatus includes a substrate, cell blocks, a scan driver and a data driver. The cell blocks includes a plurality of sub-pixels located in a matrix type format at intersections between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines on the substrate. The scan driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080036691 - Multi-display system and display method: A multi-display system includes: a plurality of display devices that each display a partial image being at least a part of an original image of a screen, display the original image by the partial images, and include: a plurality of signal input channels that are each provided with an input... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036694 - Architecture for displaying data on a remote display: The present invention relates to an architecture for displaying data on a remote display for use with an electric device, including a network system, a first device, a second device, a first display, a second display and a first input unit. When the first device and the second device respectively... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080036695 - Image display device, image display method and computer readable medium: There is provided with a method of receiving application screen image from an information processing terminal through a wireless network and displaying the application screen image, and receiving moving picture image from a server apparatus through the network and displaying the moving picture image, including: carrying out processing of discarding... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080036696 - System, method, and computer program product for compensating for crosstalk during the display of stereo content: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for compensating for crosstalk during the display of stereo content. In use, display content is received for being outputted utilizing a display system. Such display system inherently exhibits crosstalk, whereby an amount of left eye display content is displayed to a... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080036698 - Display: A display arranged with, in a matrix way, signal lines for providing brightness information to each of pixels, and scanning lines for selecting, in a predetermined cycle, pixels to be provided with brightness information; intake of the brightness information to each of the pixels being executed by intake of signal... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080036697 - Logic gates, scan drivers and organic light emitting displays using the same: A logic gate includes a first driver connected to a first power source, a first control transistor connected between a first node and a second power source to control a voltage of the first node, a second driver connected between a gate electrode of the first control transistor and the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080036701 - Method of driving electrodes in a plasma display device: A method of driving electrodes in a plasma display device, which includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes for performing a reset and a display period, includes classifying a plurality of first drive signals, applied to the plurality of first electrodes, into a plurality of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080036700 - 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 connected to a reference voltage source, and a sustain driver that includes a capacitor performing charge and discharge operations. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080036702 - Plasma display apparatus: Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus, comprising: a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of electrodes; and a driver supplying a driving signal to a predetermined electrode of the plurality of electrodes, wherein the plasma display panel comprises a front substrate on which first and second... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080036706 - Active-matrix-type light-emitting device, electronic apparatus, and pixel driving method for active-matrix-type light-emitting device: An active-matrix-type light-emitting device includes: a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element, a driving transistor that drives the light-emitting element, a holding capacitor whose one end is connected to the driving transistor and which stores electric charges corresponding to written data, at least a control transistor that controls an operation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036708 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same, and display driver and method for driving the same: A display apparatus includes: a light-emitting device; a pixel circuit which is connected to the light-emitting device; a display driver having a voltage adjustment section which adjusts the potential of an adjustment voltage such that the potential thereof is approximated to a potential which is changed in accordance with the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080036705 - Electroluminescent device, method for manufacturing electroluminescent device, and electronic apparatus: An electroluminescent device includes a substrate; a light-emitting region including a plurality of sub-pixels including switching elements, portions of an organic planarization layer for covering irregularities caused by the switching elements, reflective layers arranged on the organic planarization layer, protective layers extending over the respective reflective layers, light-transmissive first electrode... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036707 - Organic light-emitting display apparatus, and methods for manufacturing and driving the same: A more simplified organic light-emitting display (OLED) apparatus includes a display panel, gate and data driving circuit parts. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting element having an organic light-emitting layer disposed between first and second electrodes, to emit light. Driving and common voltages are respectively applied to the first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080036704 - Pixel and organic light emitting display using the same: A pixel and an organic light emitting display using the same, which reduces the number of output lines in a data driver and stably express black gradation. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode; a storage capacitor coupled between a first power supply and an initialization power supply and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080036703 - System and method for reducing mura defects: A representative system for displaying images comprises a pixel array, a conversion circuit, a memory device, and a compensation circuit. The pixel array has a plurality of pixels, each having at least one organic light emitting element equipped with a sensing unit which retrieves display information when the organic light... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080036712 - Logic gate, scan driver and organic light emitting diode display using the same: An organic light emitting diode display, including pixel circuits coupled to respective data lines and scan lines, a data driver configured to supply data signals to the data lines, and a scan driver configured to provide scan signals to the scan lines, wherein the scan driver includes at least one... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080036711 - Organic light emitting display and driving method of inspection circuit of organic light emitting display: An OLED display and a driving method of an inspection circuit are provided. The OLED display may include a data driver, a scan driver, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, an organic light emitting diode, and an inspection circuit. The data driver and scan driver may apply a data signal... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080036710 - Pixel, organic light emitting display, and driving method thereof: A pixel, an organic light emitting display, and a method for driving an organic light emitting display using the pixel, which can display an image with substantially uniform luminance. In one embodiment, the method for driving an organic light emitting display having a pixel disposed at an i-th horizontal line,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080036716 - Display and regulating device thereof: A display including a base, a panel and a regulating device is disclosed. The regulating device disposed between the base and the panel comprises a first element and a second element. The first element comprises a first positioning region. The second element connected to the panel and disposed on the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080036715 - Display device, display device testing system and method for testing a display device using the same: A display device testing system and a method for testing a display device using the same, which are capable of testing whether a display panel is defective or not according to a variation of the frame frequency and whether the driver module operates normally or not even at a voltage... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080036718 - Display device: A display panel has a high pixel and a low pixel that are formed in a pixel area. A driving section receives a first image signal from an external device, outputs a second image signal to the high pixel using gamma data that corresponds to a high pixel gamma curve,... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080036719 - Flat panel display capable of automatically correcting color characteristics and method thereof: A method for correcting color characteristics of a flat panel display comprises the steps of using a signal generating device to generate an input signal to the display and a color measurement instrument to measure color displayed by the display to obtain an output value; obtaining corrected color characteristic values... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080036720 - System and method for driving a liquid crystal display to reduce audible noise levels: A system and a method are provided for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) (30) in manner to reduce audible noise therefrom. A video display system (18) includes a thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel (32) having a plurality of gate electrodes (56), a plurality of source electrodes (58),... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080036721 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a data drive circuit that inverts polarities of data every 2k horizontal periods (k is an integer not less than 2); and an LCD panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines crossing each other to define a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080036722 - Scanning line drive circuit for display device: To effectively perform an MF drive by using a simple configuration, a scanning line drive circuit for a display device includes scanning-line driving shift registers serially disposed at a plurality of stages; first switch elements each connected between an output terminal of a first one of the scanning-line driving shift... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080036692 - Display device having multiple image display units: A display device includes a main display unit for displaying main images by processing main image data in response to main gate signals, a sub display unit for displaying sub images by processing sub image data in response to sub gate signals, a connection part for connecting the main and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080036693 - Method and apparatus for displaying images on mixed monitor displays: A method relates to operating a system using a mixed monitor workstation, such as a medical PACS workstation, having a first display of a first resolution and a second display having a different resolution. The method may include moving a graphical element displayed on the first display to the second... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080036699 - Active matrix display device: In order to provide an active matrix display device in which parasitic capacitance or the like is suppressed by forming a thick insulating film around an organic semiconductor film and disconnection or the like does not occur in the opposing electrode formed on the upper layer of the thick insulating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036709 - Light emitting device and drive method thereof: The reliability of an EL element is enhanced while the increase of the electric power consumption is suppressed. It becomes possible that in a SES drive, the reverse bias is applied to the EL element driven at a constant electric current. Moreover, the application of the reverse bias is performed... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080036713 - Operating system and method of light emitting device: An operating system for estimating thermal property of a light emitting device to operate the light emitting device, and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The operating system of a light emitting device includes a light emitting device package and a driving unit to drive the light emitting device package... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080036714 - Display control device, display apparatus, method of controlling display device, display control program, and storage medium storing the program: A control section of a portable phone controls a display on a main display section with a viewing angle that is variable. The control section includes: a viewing-angle obtaining section to obtain viewing-angle information about the viewing-angle of the main display section; and a viewing-angle display control section to control... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080036717 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: Disclosed is an LCD apparatus having improved display characteristics. A clock generator applies first and second clock signals to a gate driver so as to control a pulse width of a gate driving signal. A discharging transistor connected to first ends of gate lines discharges a present stage before operating... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080036724 - Image display device: An image display device in which a positive clock signal and a negative clock signal of high frequency are made slightly different in a pulse rise time (tr) and a pulse fall time (tf) from each other to reduce the magnitude of noises each having a sharp waveform which noises... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080036723 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device capable of improving display quality by enabling proper execution of receipt and acceptance of image signals through compensation for variation in duty ratios of clock signals as input to liquid crystal driver circuitry, is provided. In a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080036725 - Gate driver and display apparatus having the same: A gate driver comprises a shift register that has a plurality of stages connected together and outputs a gate signal comprising a first pulse and a second pulse to a gate line. A stage includes a holding part, a pre-charging part, a pull-up part, and a pull-down part. The holding... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080036726 - System and method for processing and representing a sampled signal: In an system for representing a signal on a display device, the signal is fed to a first sampling device and, time-displaced via a time-delay device, is fed at least to a second sampling device for sampling. The sampling values of the first sampled signal and the sampling values of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080036727 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device for displaying an image on a display panel is provided. The image display device includes a temperature variation rate detecting unit that detects a temperature variation rate of the display panel; a driving condition setting unit that sets driving conditions so as to display the image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080036728 - Multi-segment displays: A method and system to reduce power consumption of a display includes using a matrix of light sources to illuminate pixels in display segments. The light sources may be light emitting diodes (LED). An LED may be associated with a display segment. The intensity level of an LED may be... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080036729 - Backlight control method, backlight control system and liquid crystal display device: A backlight signal used for luminance control of a backlight and a RGB signal to be transmitted to a liquid crystal display panel side are extracted based on encoded data of received image information (image data). Then, the backlight signal is transmitted to the backlight and the RGB signal to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080036730 - Particle movement-type display apparatus: A particle movement-type display apparatus is constituted by a pixel portion, a peripheral area around the pixel portion, and particles. At least a part of the peripheral area around the pixel portion is provided with a recess portion capable of accommodating a part of the particles therein.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080036731 - Image displaying medium, image display device, writing device and displaying method: The present invention provides an image display medium comprising a pair of substrates at least one of which having translucency, the substrates being disposed opposite to each other with a gap, a dispersion medium which has translucency and is enclosed in a space between the pair of substrates; and plural... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036733 - Depressable computer touch input device for activating an additional control signal: A trace-detecting computer input device such as a touch input device, optical tracing module, or optical tracing plate includes a trace-detecting module and a microswitch. The trace-detecting module has a neutral position and a depressed position. A first control signal is generated when an object moves across the top of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080036732 - Virtual controller for visual displays: Virtual controllers for visual displays are described. In one implementation, a camera captures an image of hands against a background. The image is segmented into hand areas and background areas. Various hand and finger gestures isolate parts of the background into independent areas, which are then assigned control parameters for... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080036734 - Scrolling input arrangements using capacitive sensors on a flexible membrane: Scrolling input arrangements are presented including: a flexible membrane; a number of capacitive sensors mechanically integrated with the flexible membrane, the capacitive sensors radially disposed with respect to a first axis that is perpendicular with respect to the flexible membrane; an integrated circuit mechanically coupled with the flexible membrane and... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080036735 - System and method for providing passive haptic feedback: Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be,... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080036736 - System and method for providing passive haptic feedback: Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be,... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080036737 - Arm skeleton for capturing arm position and movement: A wearable computer input apparatus for the human arm having arm skeleton for inputting arm and hand position data and movement data into a computer, one or more 3-axis analog accelerometers and programmable micro controller(s).... Agent: Juneau Partners

20080036738 - Techniques for pointing to locations within a volumetric display: The present invention is a system that creates a volumetric display and a user controllable volumetric pointer within the volumetric display. The user can point by aiming a beam which is vector, planar or tangent based, positioning a device in three-dimensions in association with the display, touching a digitizing surface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080036739 - Integrated wireless pointing device, terminal equipment with the same, and pointing method using wireless pointing device: A wireless pointing device, a terminal equipment with the same, and a pointing method using the wireless pointing device are disclosed. A disclosed wireless pointing device includes a lighting means, an image acquisition area, an image formation means, a light receiving means, a movement detection means, and a wireless communication... Agent: Venable LLP

20080036740 - Electronic pen/mouse system: An interactive display system in which a computer controls display of source content on a display device is provided. An electronic mouse causes the computer to add to the display additional indicia representing movement of the mouse, the mouse providing the computer with data on both its movement and when... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080036741 - Keyboard-video-mouse switch capable of being controlled by hand-held device and method thereof: A hand-held device capable of controlling a keyboard-video-mouse switch and method thereof is disclosed. The hand-held device shows a control menu for inputting a control signal to control the keyboard-video-mouse switch or particularly an on screen display circuit of the keyboard-video-mouse switch. The keyboard-video-mouse switch includes a processor and a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080036742 - Method for resetting configuration on a touchscreen interface: Factory settings of a touchscreen interface may be restored by cycling power off and on to initiate system startup while simultaneously touching the touchscreen. If a screen touch is in progress at system startup, the user is prompted to discontinue the screen touch, and then is prompted to touch the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080036744 - Operating element and method of inputting values into a medical apparatus: The present invention relates to an operating element and a method of inputting values into a medical apparatus (1), having a touch-sensitive sensor (19) and an operating surface (22), the sensor (19) being mounted below a cover (20) forming the operating surface (22), which detects the presence or absence of... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080036745 - Blended transfer function for computer pointing devices: A transfer function is provided for use with computer pointing devices such as trackpads. The transfer function includes a first component having characteristics of a positional transfer function and a second component having characteristics of a velocity-based transfer function. The first (positional) component and the second (velocity-based) component of the... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20080036743 - Gesturing with a multipoint sensing device: Methods and systems for implementing gestures with sensing devices are disclosed. More particularly, methods and systems related to gesturing with multipoint sensing devices are disclosed.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080036746 - Control interface for electronic device: Input interface for an electronic device, comprising a touch-sensitive input detection layer (102), and an input sensor (201) connected to said layer for detecting touch-generated capacitance variations in said detection layer, wherein said detection layer is transparent, and in that a polymer layer (103) of a polymer light emitting diode... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080036747 - Stylus activated display/key-lock: A device may include an instrument-enabled user interface. The device may also include a switch to at least partially enable operations associated with user input via the user interface. Triggering of the switch may be based on a relative positioning of the instrument.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080036748 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing display streams: Apparatus, systems and methods for the synchronization of asynchronous display streams are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed including receiving a first display data stream, receiving a second display data stream, determining a temporal offset between the first display data stream and the second display data stream, and adjusting... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080036749 - Display driver and display panel module: A display driver includes: a first memory circuit for storing a line of pixels constituting an image; a second memory circuit for storing pixels of the immediately previous line; an output terminal pair switch circuit which outputs voltages each corresponding to a value of a pixel stored in the first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080036750 - Drive method and drive circuit for plasma display panel: In a drive method of a mixed scan-sustain type of plasma display panel, set-up discharge is performed in the next scan line to be scanned when any particular scan line is in a write period. At this time, a first set-up discharge pulse, which is a gradually rising pulse of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036751 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of capacitor lines, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a capacitor line driving circuit, a first capacitive signal output circuit, and a data line driving circuit. Each of the pixels includes a pixel switching... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080036752 - Signal processing apparatus and method: A method and an apparatus to analyze two measured signals that are modeled as containing desired and undesired portions such as noise, FM and AM modulation. Coefficients relate the two signals according to a model defined in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment, a transformation is used to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080036753 - Display device and driving method thereof: An example control signal generating circuit CTL for controlling the writing into pixels PIX instructs a data signal line drive circuit SD2, which is for driving pixels in a non-display area, to write a voltage VB or a voltage VW which are for non-displaying, not only in the first frame... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080036755 - System and method for analyzing modeling accuracy while performing reverse engineering with 3d scan data: An automated mechanism for measuring the amount of accuracy loss attributable to reverse engineering processes that use 3D scan data is discussed. The embodiments provide a mechanism that displays to a user the effect scan data editing and CAD remodeling operations have on scan data accuracy. Additionally, the user can... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080036756 - System and methods for content conversion and distribution: A system and method for content conversion comprising a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor operative to generate a request for access to at least one mapped interactive environment, receive a plurality of viewing data generated from one or more viewing resources included in the at... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080036754 - Controller, mobile terminal apparatus, and program: Provided is a controller capable of preventing unnecessary contents from being displayed in a period from when a failure occurs on a terminal apparatus to when the failure is restored. When a failure monitoring section (104) detects that a failure has occurred on a display control section (102), failure detection... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080036757 - Image display apparatus, image data providing apparatus, and image display system: A television 1 of the present invention is a television 1 for processing display data and displaying an image based on the processed display data, the display data containing the image and a control script that defines at least a function of displaying the image, wherein the television 1 includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080036760 - Method, apparatus and computer program product enabling a dynamic global parameterization of triangle meshes over polygonal domain meshes: A method, a data storage medium storing a computer program, and a data processing system are disclosed to process data comprised of a triangulated mesh representation of an object. The method includes establishing a continuous bijective mapping between a first triangle mesh representation of the object and a second polygonal... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080036758 - Systems and methods for determining a global or local position of a point of interest within a scene using a three-dimensional model of the scene: A three-dimensional image is generated using global or local coordinate, 3-D spatial data, and image data gathered from one or more locations relative to a scene. The global or local position of 3-D spatial data points on the image is determined. The position of a point of interest on the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080036759 - Three-dimensional display device: A number of pixels 51, 52 are formed on a two-dimensional image display device 1 for providing image data of a three-dimensional image. A lens array 2 constituted of a large number of micro lenses 3 is disposed on the two-dimensional image display device 1. Each of the micro lenses... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080036761 - Method for the editing of three-dimensional graphic models: Method called “2d-like” for the editing of three-dimensional graphic models, including: preparing a three-dimensional graphic model, including a plurality of structural elements, each associated with one or more of the other structural elements according to a data structure, said data structure including sufficient data for a complete description of said... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080036762 - System and method for generating three-dimensional figures: The present invention relates to a system and method, which establish a plug-in relationship with a graphic program, such as Adobe Illustrator, and are adapted to reconstruct each face in three dimensions to include content designed in a two-dimensional development figure, thus converting a two-dimensional object into a three-dimensional object.... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080036764 - Method and apparatus for processing computer graphics data: An apparatus for processing computer graphics data includes a perfragment unit performing a depth test with respect to a present fragment of graphics data, and a cache controller that prefetches a color value of the present fragment from an external memory device to a cache memory while the perfragment unit... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080036763 - Method and system for computer graphics with out-of-band (oob) background: An embodiment of a method for computer graphics with out-of-band (OOB) background comprises the following steps. A 2D OOB background image is provided. A 3D entity is provided. A 2D foreground image is generated by rendering the 3D entity. A 2D display image is generated according to the 2D background... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080036765 - Model simplification apparatus and program: A model simplification apparatus performs: inputting a 3D geometric model; forming a surface mesh on the input geometric model and registering the surface mesh as an initial mesh; classifying the surface mesh into partial surface meshes, and calculating feature quantities of the partial surface meshes; inputting each group of mesh... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080036766 - Display control apparatus, display control method and display control program: Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus which may include an image conversion unit, a display unit, a point specifying unit, and a visual-point position setting unit.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080036767 - Apparatus and method for selecting visualizations of multidimensional data: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to associate data from a data source with one or more axes of a first visualization. A set of rules are applied to determine if it is meaningful to render the data in a second visualization.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080036768 - Pincer parametric intersector: A system, method, and computer program for a finding an intersection for geometrically coincident curves, comprising selecting a curve pair where at least one curve in said curve pair is a parametric curve; determining a curve parameter for each curve in said curve pair; splitting each of said curves into... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080036769 - Computer aided design (cad) system: In one aspect, a computer aided design (CAD) system is disclosed that includes a user interface comprising means for updating a current reference point for specifying a plurality of coordinate positions indicating endpoints of a plurality of graphical objects. The user interface can accept successive coordinate positions corresponding to the... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080036770 - System and method for lightweight polygonal topology representation: A system, method, and computer program for storing a polygonal topology, comprising representing a primitive with a plurality of vertices, internal half-edges and external half-edges; and storing said plurality of vertices in a vertex array and said plurality of external half-edges in a half-edge array, wherein said arrays are indexed... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080036772 - Pen-based 3d drawing system with 3d mirror symmetric curve drawing: A pen-based system allows users, such as artists, graphic designers and illustrators, and the like, to create accurate curve models by sketching. A tool set implemented in software that runs on a computer system combines paper sketch metaphors and a minimalist gesture set. This tool set provides an environment where... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080036773 - Pen-based 3d drawing system with 3d orthographic plane or orthrographic ruled surface drawing: A pen-based system allow users, such as artists, graphic designers sand illustrators, and the like, to create accurate curve models by sketching. A tool set implemented in software that runs on a computer system combines paper sketch metaphors and a minimalist gesture set. This tool set provides an environment where... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080036771 - Pen-based drawing system: A pen-based system allows users, such as artists, graphic designers and illustrators, and the like, to create accurate curve models by sketching. A tool set implemented in software that runs on a computer system combines paper sketch metaphors and a minimalist gesture set. This tool set provides an environment where... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080036774 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program: p

20080036775 - Method for generating characters: Generating a character includes recording key points and the start and ending points of a stroke, and a stroke-generating program corresponding to the stroke drawing a fine-line structure of the stroke according to the key points and the start and ending points of the stroke. After generating the centerline structure... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080036776 - User interface for controlling three-dimensional animation of an object: A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. The control area includes an ellipse. The user-manipulable control element includes a three-dimensional arrow with a straight body, a three-dimensional arrow with a curved body, or a sphere.... Agent: Apple/fenwick

20080036778 - Method and apparatus for sending, retrieving and planning location relevant information: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for sending and retrieving location relevant information to a user by selecting and designating a point of interest that is displayed on a graphical user interface and sending the location information associated with that point of interest to a receiver... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080036777 - System and method for cache optimized data formatting: A system and method for cache optimized data formatting is presented. A processor generates images by calculating a plurality of image point values using height data, color data, and normal data. Normal data is computed for a particular image point using pixel data adjacent to the image point. The computed... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080036779 - Method and system for managing apparatus: A storage unit is configured to store screen element data on screen elements included in an operation screen of each apparatus. A receiving unit is configured to receive screen design data on the screen elements that forms the operation screen and setting data on settings for each apparatus. A screen... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080036780 - Turbo station for computing systems: In one embodiment, a system comprises a portable computing device comprising a first graphics controller and a first communication interface, and a turbo station comprising a second communication interface to manage communication with the portable computing device, and at least one auxiliary computing component comprising a multi-core graphics engine coupled... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080036781 - Data federation system, and control method and control program thereof: The present invention allows highly efficient high-speed data processing based on dynamic data federation among a plurality of data display means, without increasing the data volume in the individual data display means. A user data display section has a classification and component specific information table, which is extracted from a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080036782 - Hair motion compositor system for use in a hair/fur pipeline: A hair pipeline utilizes a surface definition module to define a surface and a control hair and a hair motion compositor module combines different control hair curve shapes associated with the control hair and the surface. In particular, the hair motion compositor module generates a static node defining a static... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080036783 - Interpolation according to a function represented using unevenly spaced samples of the function: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to identifying function samples for use in interpolation. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: obtaining a set of unevenly spaced sample points, x, and corresponding sample outputs, y, of a function y=f(x) within a domain; generating a data structure including... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080036784 - Automated system and method to develop computer-administered research questionnaires using a virtual questionnaire model: A configurable electronic system provides a software based system by which researchers set up self-monitoring field protocols in a common computer format and deploy the protocols to computer devices to research participants. The system includes electronic software modules of tasks useful in generating of questionnaires for recording research data. By... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080036785 - Image correction apparatus, method and medium: An image correction apparatus, method and medium which can perform color component correction and geometric correction using the property of a projector projecting light of a plurality of color components of an input image at different times is provided. The image correction method includes sequentially projecting light of a plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080036786 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, pixels arranged so as to correspond to intersections of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines, and an electro-optical material in which a response speed at a time of halftone display... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080036787 - System and method for labeling maps: A system and method for label placement is disclosed that achieves the twin goals of practical efficiency and high labeling quality by employing cartographic heuristics. A caller defines map and label properties. Then labels are pulled within a map boundary. Labels are next ordered by priority in descending importance. The... Agent: David Tichane

20080036788 - System and method for labeling maps: A system and method for label placement is disclosed that achieves the twin goals of practical efficiency and high labeling quality by employing cartographic heuristics. A caller defines map and label properties. Then labels are pulled within a map boundary. Labels are next ordered by priority in descending importance. The... Agent: David Tichane

20080036789 - Custom image frames: A method includes retrieving an image stored on a device, creating a mask in a portion of the image, and creating a custom image frame from the image and the mask.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080036790 - Image display system, image display method and image display program: An image display system includes an image display device; an image creating device which creates display image data of a display image displayed in the image display device; a face image pickup device which picks up a face image of a person to look at the display image; and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080036791 - In place rotation of images for low memory systems: Rotation in the storage domain is a one-one function with the domain equal to the range. This permits an image to be rotated in place. Each image size implies at least one garland of closed chains of pixels. Each image includes a spanning set of these garlands. Rotation in place... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080036792 - Adaptive spatial variant interpolation for image upscaling: This disclosure describes adaptive spatial variant interpolation (SVI) techniques for image upscaling. In various embodiments, the interpolation techniques described in this disclosure may support low complexity upscaling of image while promoting high image quality, including enhanced sharpness, higher contrast and more accurate interpolation. The interpolation techniques may be applied using... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080036793 - Electronic device with a function to magnify/reduce images in-situ and applications of the same: A handheld electronic device with a function for magnifying/reducing an initial image displayed on the hand held device, and displaying at least one magnified/reduced image without shifting a focal point identified by the initial image and the applications of the same are provided. The handheld electronic device comprises a display... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080036794 - System and method for personalized scrolling banner: A system and method of delivering pre-selected categories of message data from a server to a client, and displaying such message data in a designated area of a screen, where the designated area appears in a display of many applications that may be shown on such screen.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080036795 - Method and device for modulating light: Light in the visible spectrum is modulated using an array of modulation elements, and control circuitry connected to the array for controlling each of the modulation elements independently, each of the modulation elements having a surface which is caused to exhibit a predetermined impedance characteristic to particular frequencies of light.... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080036796 - Method of providing image data to a panel with a delta arrangement of pixels and apparatus using the same: Architecture for providing serial RGB data to be displayed in the panels with the delta arrangement of pixels is provided herewith. In the architecture, data sequence transmitted from an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to a panel of a device is modified to avoid the problem of saw-toothed images, which... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080036797 - Flat panel display and method of controlling picture quality thereof: This invention relates to a flat panel display device that is adaptive for perfectly compensating a panel defect by performing an electrical compensation on pixels in a panel defect location, and a method of controlling a picture quality thereof. A flat panel display device according to an embodiment of the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080030425 - Methods and apparatuses for controlling display devices: In one example according to this aspect, the method further includes displaying on a high resolution display and a low resolution display an image, stored in the corresponding frame buffers, with substantially the same physical size even though the displays have different scale factors and pixel densities. Also, the extreme... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080030427 - Video display screen systems and methods for displaying information: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for displaying information in a real-time updateable form. In one embodiment, the present invention can comprise a system comprising a vehicle, a video display attached to the vehicle, a wireless data transfer device capable of receiving data transmissions, an... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080030429 - System and method of enhanced virtual reality: A method and system for virtual reality imaging is presented. The method includes placing a user in a known environment; acquiring a video image from a perspective such that a field of view of the video camera simulates the user's line of sight; tracking the user's location, rotation and line... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080030430 - Video processing apparatus and video processing method: A video processing apparatus and method, the apparatus including: a signal processing part to process an inputted video signal; a display panel to display the processed video signal; a backlight unit that comprises a plurality of light emitting elements that correspond to pixels of the processed video signal and emit... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080030433 - Driving circuit: A driving circuit for driving an organic electro-luminescence device through a high voltage source and a low voltage source is provided. The driving circuit includes a scan line, a data line and a control unit. The control unit is electrically coupled with the scan line, the data line and the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080030435 - Organic light emitting display apparatus and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display apparatus, capable of removing motion blurring and preventing deterioration in brightness and an increase in power consumption, and a driving method thereof. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels, each pixel including an organic light emitting device (OLED) and a pixel... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080030436 - Display device, method of driving same, and electonic device: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array portion and a driver portion for driving the pixel array portion. The pixel array portion has rows of scanning lines, columns of signal lines, pixels arranged in rows and columns at intersections of the scanning lines and the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030439 - Organic light emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device includes data lines, selection scan lines, and emission scan lines for transmitting data signals, selection signals, and emission signals, respectively. Pixel circuits are arranged at regions defined by the data lines and the selection scan lines. A first scan driving unit outputs the emission... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080030442 - Optimized rowoff voltage: Circuitry for controlling a display matrix formed of light-emitting diodes arranged in rows and columns, diodes in each row being connected to common row lines, and diodes in each column being connected to common column lines, each of the column lines being selectively connected to a current source for providing... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080030443 - Display device and electronic equipment: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array unit and a driving unit which drives the pixel array unit. The pixel array unit includes rows of first scanning lines and second scanning lines, columns of signals, pixels in a matrix state arranged at portions where the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030446 - Display apparatus and driving method for display apparatus: A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section and dependence cancellation means. The pixel array section wherein a plurality of pixel circuits each including an electro-optical element, a driving transistor configured to drive said electro-optical element, a sampling transistor configured to sample and write an input signal voltage and a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030445 - Display device: In one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines transmitting normal gate signals, a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines and transmitting data voltages, and a plurality of storage electrode lines extending in parallel to the gate lines and transmitting storage signals. The display device... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030444 - Gamma voltage generator, source driver, and display device utilizing the same: A gamma voltage generator generating a plurality of gamma voltages transformed into a plurality of data signals by a processing unit is disclosed. The processing unit outputs the data signals according to a color separation method. The gamma voltage generator comprises a setting unit, a resistor string, and a selection... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080030449 - Display device having dimming panel, dimming panel driving device, and control method thereof: A display device includes a light source, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a dimming panel provided between the light source and the LCD panel, having a plurality of cells, and transmitting light received from the light source to the LCD panel at an individual light transmission rate for each... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080030450 - Image display apparatus: An image processing apparatus is obtained which is capable of performing gray-level correction while maintaining real-time property and accurately recognizing the feature of content obtained from an image signal. A luminance information detecting block detects a luminance information value about individual pixels from a luminance signal contained in an image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080030448 - Method of eliminating disclination of liquid crystal molecules: A voltage difference is set between a control electrode and a pixel electrode of a pixel dependent on the gray level of at least one adjacent pixel. A minimum voltage difference, increasing with the gray level of the pixel, is required between the control and the pixel electrodes to prevent... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080030451 - Active matrix organic electro-luminescence display panel: An active matrix organic electro-luminescence display panel including a substrate, an organic electro-luminescence device array, and a driving circuit array is provided. The organic electro-luminescence device array includes numerous organic electro-luminescence devices which are arranged in array one the substrate, and the driving circuit array includes numerous driving circuits arranged... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080030452 - Method and circuit for controlling the voltage polarity of pixel structure: In a pixel array, each column of the pixel array is coupled to one of a plurality of first and second channels of a driver. A first and second control signals are generated. Polarities of the first channels are inversed when a logic level of the first control signal changes... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080030453 - Lcd with source driver and data transmitting method thereof: A data transmitting method for inputting a data signal to an electronic device. The data signal includes first and second sets of data, and the electronic device includes first to fourth receiving units and corresponding first to fourth registers. The transmitting method includes the following steps. First, the first and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080030426 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes detection unit for detecting, if a display request for use of a plurality of display unit is made by a predetermined application, connection states of the display unit currently connected, a unit for conducting display to urge connection of a new... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080030428 - Stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device: There is provided a stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device including: a stereoscopic image display unit that includes a display unit having an image display surface that displays an image, and an image transmitting panel apart from the image display surface, and a stereoscopic two-dimensional image by imaging light emitted from... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080030431 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080030432 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080030434 - Display device and electronic device: The display device of the invention includes a light emitting element, a monitoring light emitting element, a constant current source which supplies a constant current to the monitoring light emitting element, a time-based measurement circuit which measures time to supply a power source to the light emitting element, a memory... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080030437 - Display device and electronic equiipment: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array unit and a driving unit which drives the pixel array unit. The pixel array unit includes rows of scanning line, columns of signal lines, pixels in a matrix state arranged at portions where scanning lines and signal lines... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030438 - Circuit and control method for a light-emitting display: A circuit for an element of a light-emitting display is proposed. The element comprises a current control means, first and second switching means, and a light-emitting means. In one embodiment, a signal holding means is provided. The arrangement of the first and second switching means of the element makes it... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomson Licensing Inc

20080030440 - Display apparatus and electronic device: A display apparatus, comprising a pixel array section and a drive section that drives the pixel array section, wherein the pixel array section includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines arranged in rows, signals lines arranged in columns, matrix pixels that are provided where the first scanning lines, the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030441 - Driver for color tunable light emitting diodes: A decorative lighting system includes a command controller, a plurality of illumination devices and a flexible cord interconnecting each. The command controller includes a microcontroller that provides a data signal and a clock signal. The data signal instructs a plurality of addresses corresponding to the lighting devices. Each illumination device... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080030447 - Device, system and method for color display: A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080030454 - Transflective mode liquid crystal display: An exemplary backlight driving circuit (20) a first power supply (260); a second power supply (270); a signal output terminal (280); an AND gate (210); a follower (220); a capacitor (290); a reverser (230); a first transistor (240), which is a N-Channel mode metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (N-MOSFET), having a gate... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080030456 - Apparatus and methods for providing motion responsive output modifications in an electronic device: A portable electronic device includes multiple user output records and a user interface configured to generate a user detectable output corresponding to a selected one of the multiple user output records. The device also includes a motion detector configured to generate motion information that is indicative of movement of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080030457 - Computer peripheral with integrated infrared therapy and method of making same: An apparatus for infrared therapy includes a body having a first surface portion and a second surface portion. A motion sensing device is positioned adjacent to the first surface portion and is configured to determine movement of the body, such as a computer mouse, relative to a reference, such as... Agent: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, Sc (zps)

20080030455 - Device with game-dependent user interface, method, game module and computer program product therefor: A device is provided with a user interface, a control unit for controlling the operations of the device including changeable parameters of the user interface, and a game platform for running a game. The control unit is configured to change parameters of the user interface based on events occurring in... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080030458 - Inertial input apparatus and method with optical motion state detection: An apparatus includes an inertia sensing system, an optical motion sensing system, and a processing system. The inertia sensing system generates inertial data indicative of movement in relation to an inertial reference frame. The optical motion sensing system generates optical data from received light. The processing system determines movement measures... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080030461 - Mixed reality presentation apparatus and control method thereof, and program: The pointing position of a pointing device is measured based on position and orientation information of the pointing device. The pointing position is measured based on the pointing position in a sensed image obtained by sensing the pointing position of the pointing device by an image sensing device, and position... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080030459 - Information processing device for controlling object by using player image and object control method in the information processing device: An information processing device includes: detection means for detecting an area having motion from a mirror moving picture from a player; control means for creating a computer image containing an object too be moved; and display control means for causing a display device to display a superimposed moving image obtained... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080030462 - Interactive music interface for music production: A system for composing music provides the user with a user interface allowing the user to select music clips. The clips can include intros, loops, and ends, and the user can be allowed to search them by theme. The invention can be implemented on a standalone computer or over the... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080030463 - User interface apparatus and method: The apparatus and method of the invention relate to data entry and menu selection. Applications include: (a) data entry for ideographic languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean; (b) fast food ordering; (c) correction of documents generated by optical character recognition; and (d) computer access and speech synthesis by persons temporarily... Agent: Donald K. Forest

20080030460 - Video-based image control system: A method of using stereo vision to interface with computer is provided. The method includes capturing a stereo image, and processing the stereo image to determine position information of an object in the stereo image. The object is controlled by a user. The method also includes communicating the position information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080030464 - Motion-based user interface for handheld: A mobile wireless communications device is arranged to allow for the entry of a motion capture command from a user interface. After receiving such a command, the device generates a recorded motion from output signals from a motion sensor incorporated in the device. A user may then identify a particular... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080030465 - Removable dial with touch switch control and electroluminescent backlighting: An embodiment includes a control apparatus for at least partially controlling a component of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a knob having a body portion, a connection portion, and a conductive portion. The apparatus also includes a device having a proximity sensor and an illuminating portion. The conductive portion is... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080030466 - System and method for correcting positioning and triggering errors for aim-and-trigger devices: A system and method for correcting mispositioning of an aiming device including extracting features from an information stream which includes position information for an aiming device and comparing the features with feature profiles to determine modifications to remediate mispositioning actions. The information stream with the modifications is provided as a... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080030467 - Method and device for controlling pointer on a computer screen by spatial movements such as head movements: The invention relates to a method for controlling a pointer on a computer screen, comprising of a. providing a holder having at least two acceleration sensors which are arranged with a sensitive axis at an angle to each other on the holder and which generate acceleration signals, b. processing the... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080030468 - Systems and methods for acquiring calibration data usable in a pulse oximeter: The present disclosure includes a portable physiological monitor including a first local display and configured to communicate with a second physiological monitor including a second display.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080030470 - Automatic mode determination for an input device: Automatic mode determination for an input device is disclosed. Depending on conditions of the input device, the input device can transition from a first mode to a transition mode and/or a second mode.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080030471 - Mouse having a receiving and positioning structure: A mouse having a receiving and positioning structure comprises a mouse body, a cord, and a connector. The surface of the mouse body has a first positioning portion. The cord extends from the mouse body. The connector is disposed at the distal end of the cord. The surface of the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080030469 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse includes a housing, a rubbery cover and a wireless signal receiver. The housing has a receptacle therein for accommodating the wireless signal receiver therein. The receptacle has an entrance exposed from the housing. The rubbery cover can be plugged into the entrance of the receptacle to close... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080030472 - Optical mouse using vcsels: An optical mouse for controlling a cursor on a display. The mouse emits a light beam that interacts with a target surface and receives reflected light therefrom to detect movement of the mouse. The mouse includes a housing, a single-mode VCSEL disposed within said housing for emitting the light beam... Agent: Casey Toohey Emcore Corporation

20080030473 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus disclosed facilitates the replacement of an input device. In the electronic apparatus equipped with the input device allowing various input operations, the input device including first signal generators is positioned by being placed in an opening of a housing from the outside. A cover can be detached... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080030474 - Portable terminal: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provide a portable terminal including: a plurality of keys including a first key and a second key; a display section; and a display control unit configured to display a list of a first function menu in portrait orientation if the first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080030475 - Display device, method of manufacturing the same and mobile communication terminal having the same: A display device includes a display panel, an integral type printed circuit board electrically connecting the display panel and a signal transmission member formed on a rear side of the integral type printed circuit board to transmit the input signal. The integral type printed circuit board comprises a driving circuit... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080030478 - Digital photo frame: A digital photo frame includes a processing unit (110), a display controller (120), a display unit (130) and a control panel (150). The processing unit modifies an original image from an original image file (210) stored in a first storage (20) according to modifying instructions received from the control panel,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080030476 - Mobile device with software-based keypad: A mobile device may include a touch-sensitive display and a data input overlay covering at least a portion of the display. The overlay defines a plurality of data input keys. A first location of each of the keys is associated with a second location on the display. Coordinates of the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080030483 - Touch screen panel, method of manufacturing the same, and display having the same: Disclosed herein is a touch screen panel, a method of manufacturing the touch screen panel, and a display having the touch screen panel. Ultrasonic excitation and detection transducers are attached to the front surface of the image display unit of a display, thereby implementing the touch screen panel. The substrate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030480 - Data entry for personal computing devices: In one aspect of the present invention the user can rapidly enter and search for text using a data entry system through a combination of entering one or more characters on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to obtain a list of completion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080030481 - Data entry for personal computing devices: In one aspect of the present invention the user can rapidly enter and search for text using a data entry system through a combination of entering one or more characters on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to obtain a list of completion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080030477 - Display motion multiplier: Navigating on a display includes tracking coordinate information of an input tool on a display and moving a visible portion of a page of information on the display a distance equal to a change in the coordinate information of the input tool multiplied by a multiplier.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080030482 - Force-based input device having an elevated contacting surface: A projected force-based input device comprising a projected or elevated contacting element configured to receive an applied force, a sensing element located in a different plane with respect to the contacting element, and a sensing portion operably supported to displace in response to the applied force. The sensing element further... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080030479 - System and method of integrating a touchscreen within an lcd: A touchscreen liquid crystal display, method for using a liquid crystal display as a user input, and a mobile electronic device are provided. The touchscreen liquid crystal display comprises: a liquid crystal display having a viewing surface and including a plurality of parallel first electrodes located on one side of... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080030484 - Dual liquid crystal display having touch screen: A dual display apparatus includes a display panel and a light unit disposed at a first side of the display panel which includes a light source, a light-guide plate having a first transparent electrode and an optical film having a second transparent electrode opposite to the first transparent electrode. The... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030485 - Surface wave type touch panel: The present invention is directed to the provision of a touch panel comprising a glass plate, a film that faces a surface of the glass plate, and dot spacers formed on the glass surface that faces the film, wherein the effective diameter of the dot spacer portion 51 that contacts... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080030486 - Multi-functional pen input device: A multi-function pen input device is disclosed which includes a conventional pen input device for use on a paper medium, such as a ball point pen and/or a pencil lead feeder, and an active stylus for use with a paperless medium, carried in a single housing which includes a cap... Agent: John T. Cook

20080030488 - Display control device, content output system, method for controlling display of image used in retrieval operation, and program: A display control device includes a retrieval image generation unit that generates images used in a retrieval operation which include retrieval condition images and item images arranged on a plane by arranging the retrieval condition images indicating a plurality of retrieval conditions for the plurality of pieces of content data... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080030487 - Signal control device, liquid crystal display having the same and signal control method using the same: Disclosed are a signal control device and a liquid crystal display device having the same. The signal control device includes receivers and data storage units. The receivers receive clock signals and data signals through channels. The data storage units are provided according to channels and store the data signals transmitted... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080030489 - Digital to analog converter with minimum area and source driver having the same: Embodiments of the invention provide a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that is configured to process upper data bits, a control data bit, and a lower data bit using two decoders and a control logic. The resulting DAC provides high resolution output using a minimum circuit area. Embodiments of the invention also... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080030490 - Lcd signal generating circuits and lcds comprising the same: A signal generating circuit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes circuitry adapted to receive a gate clock signal and an output enable signal. The gate clock signal is a combination of a gate-on signal and a gate-off signal and the output enable signal is operable to adjust the width... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030492 - Display apparatus for improved optical communication: A display apparatus for optical communication that has increased sensitivity to optical signals is presented. The display apparatus has a display panel displaying an image. The display panel has a light receiver that is formed in the display panel to receive an optical signal and output a photo-current corresponding to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030491 - Mobile terminal and control method thereof: A mobile terminal is disclosed. In one embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a display implemented by using an organic light emitting display device, a memory storing a graphic user interface (GUI) of low brightness, a key input unit to enable the input of whether the graphic user interface of low... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080030493 - Inverter for liquid crystal display: An inverter for liquid crystal display is disclosed. The inverter for liquid crystal display includes a switching circuit, a transformer, and first and second protective circuits. The switching circuit includes first and second switches and converts a direct current power input into an alternating current power. Each of the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080030494 - Gate-on voltage generation circuit, gate-off voltage generation circuit, and liquid crystal display device having the same: A gate-on voltage generation circuit, a gate-off voltage generation circuit, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) using the same are provided. The gate-on voltage generation circuit includes a first capacitor charged with a first control signal and a first reference voltage to output a first charging voltage through a first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080030495 - Display drive apparatus and display apparatus: A display pixel including a light-emitting element and a drive element for supplying current flowing in a current path to the light-emitting element is applied with a detection voltage based on a predetermined unit voltage. Based on a value of current flowing in the current path of the drive element,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080030496 - On-line interaction system: An avatar display system monitors the activities or status of different members on a network site. Avatars representing the different members are displayed in conjunction with an on-line application according to the different identified member activities or status. Different avatar display techniques and filtering schemes are used to both promote... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080030499 - Mixed-reality presentation system and control method therefor: In a mixed-reality presentation system, a handler for manipulating a virtual object is displayed as a virtual object. Then, manipulation of the handler by the hand(s) of an observer is detected as manipulation of the virtual object associated with the handler, and those detection results are reflected in a display... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080030498 - System and method for integrating dispersed point-clouds of multiple scans of an object: A system for integrating dispersed point-clouds of an object is provided. The system includes a fixture for fixing an object, a measurement machine to scan all surfaces of the object and a computer. The fixture, which has three reference balls, is 360-degree rotatable. The computer includes a point-cloud reading module,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080030497 - Three dimensional modeling of objects: A method is disclosed for segmentation of three dimensional image data sets, to obtain digital models of objects identifiable in the image data set. The image data set may be obtained from any convenient source, including medical imaging modalities, geological imaging, industrial imaging, and the like. A graph cuts method... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080030500 - Systems and methods of image rendering from datasets: A system and method for rendering an MIP image that has reduced high frequency component loss and reduced chessboard artifacts. The method includes accessing volumetric data, having random noise. Rays are shot, or cast, through the volumetric data, onto a voxel grid, which has grid points. Sampling data along each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080030501 - System and methods for rule-based volume rendition and navigation: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for clinical presentation of a radiological study including: associating a customizable set of rules with image data corresponding to at least a portion of the radiological study; and rendering automatically the image data to form volumetric data; and navigating automatically the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080030502 - Diacritics positioning system for digital typography: A diacritic positioning system employs a diacritic glyph's bounding box and the base glyph's bounding box, in combination with diacritic position data stored in the diacritic positioning system, to properly position one or more diacritics relative to the base glyph. The position data enables the diacritic positioning system to call... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20080030504 - Framework for graphics animation and compositing operations: A framework for performing graphics animation and compositing operations has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media, or any other type of object for a... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080030503 - Optimization of time-critical software components for real-time interactive applications: A method for optimizing the performance of a time-critical computation component for a real-time interactive application includes the use of an algorithm having a precise logical thread and at least one fast estimation logical thread. The computation errors generated by the fast estimation thread are imperceptible by humans and are... Agent: Law Office Of Karry W. Wang

20080030505 - Device and adapter system for transmission of monochrome image information: A device for transmission of monochrome image information from at least two imaging devices to at least two display elements via a cable connection is provided. The device includes an interconnection unit; and a splitting unit connected to the interconnection unit via a common multi-channel transmission cable. The at least... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080030506 - Video card and the sound processing module therein: The invention relates to a video card, an audio-video card, and an audio processing card, in which a digital signal processing unit performs a sound processing on a raw sound signal to thereby output a digital sound signal. Besides, a high quality multimedia interface transmission unit receives the digital sound... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080030509 - Method and apparatus for switching between graphics sources: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that switches from a first graphics processor to a second graphics processor to drive a display. During operation, the system receives a request to switch a signal source which drives the display from the first graphics processor to the second graphics... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080030507 - Multi-graphics processor system and method for processing content communicated over a network for display purposes: A system and method are provided including a first graphic processor in communication with a content source. In operation, the first graphics processor is adapted for processing content from the content source. Further included is a second graphics processor in communication with the first graphics processor utilizing a network. The... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080030508 - System and method for dynamically processing content being communicated over a network for display purposes: A system and method are provided for dynamically selecting one or more modules of a graphics processor for processing content to support communication of the content over a wireless network link for subsequent display of the content utilizing a display.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080030510 - Multi-gpu rendering system: A multi-GPU rendering system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a CPU, a chipset, the first GPU (graphics processing unit), the first graphics memory for the first GPU, a second GPU, and the second graphics memory for the second GPU. The chipset is electrically connected to... Agent: John Chen Room 303

20080030512 - Graphics processing unit with shared arithmetic logic unit: This disclosure describes a graphics processing unit (GPU) pipeline that uses one or more shared arithmetic logic units (ALUs). In order to facilitate such sharing of ALUs, the stages of the disclosed GPU pipeline may be rearranged relative to conventional GPU pipelines. In addition, by rearranging the stages of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080030511 - Method and user interface for enhanced graphical operation organization: A computer-implemented method and user interface for organizing graphical operations and displaying performance data of a graphics processing pipeline. More specifically, embodiments provide a convenient and effective mechanism for enhancing graphics processing by automatically determining and grouping graphical operations with similar state attributes relating to one or more units of... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080030514 - Display device: There is disclosed a display device which is driven by a two-field drive scheme. That is, brightness corresponding to one frame of image is obtained in two scans. The display screen is divided into plural regions. One of the regions is driven by a black insertion method. The other region... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080030513 - Graphics processing unit with extended vertex cache: Techniques are described for processing computerized images with a graphics processing unit (GPU) using an extended vertex cache. The techniques include creating an extended vertex cache coupled to a GPU pipeline to reduce an amount of data passing through the GPU pipeline. The GPU pipeline receives an image geometry for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080030515 - Intelligent display method for multimedia mobile terminal: Disclosed is an intelligent display method for a multimedia mobile terminal. The method includes the steps of determining a type of a camera shot existing in a sport game video; deciding a region of interest within an image frame of the sport game video when it has been determined that... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080030516 - Electronic presentation system and method: A presentation system that includes a first image file containing computer readable information representing a first image and a second image file containing a plurality second image files each containing computer readable information representing a second image, and computer readable instructions for selectively superimposing each second image file onto the... Agent: Kourosh Salehi

20080030517 - Color-revealing method, color-changing method and color-processing device: A method is used for changing colors of a first image frame to form a second image frame. Palette index values of the first image frame are first read. Then, color change index values specific to the second image frame and correlating to the palette index values are read respectively... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080030518 - Systems and methods for selecting a white point for image displays: Several embodiments of the present application disclose techniques, systems and methods for changing or rendering input image data that may assume a first white point for a given display into image data to be rendered under a second—assumed, desired or measured—white point of the display.... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080030519 - Apparatus for displaying advertisement image: An apparatus for displaying an advertisement image having a plurality of image elements includes a display panel for displaying the advertisement image thereon. The display panel includes a plurality of clusters which are serially connected with one another and are arranged in a pattern same as that of the advertisement... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20080030520 - Deep pixel pipeline: In a pixel imaging method and system, pixel information is stored into backing stores in system memory of a computer. A graphics processing unit (GPU) composites the pixel information into a first assembly buffer that has a first color depth of at least greater than 8-bits per color component. The... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080030521 - Method for extracting edge in photogrammetry with subpixel accuracy: A method for extracting edge with subpixel accuracy in photogrammetry, comprising steps of: a. capturing into a computer a picture, of which the edge is to be extracted; b. defining as a cell four neighboring pixels that form a square; c. recognizing the type of each cell composed of the... Agent: Fang Xin College Of Mechanical And Electrical Engineering

20080030522 - Graphics system employing pixel mask: The system includes a bounds primitive rasterizer that rasterizes a bounds primitive into a selection of primitive pixels. The selection of primitive pixels bounds a shape to be rendered to a screen. The system also includes a pixel mask generator that generates a pixel mask for the shape. The pixel... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080030523 - Image processing apparatus, computer program product, and preview image displaying method: An image processing apparatus includes a system control unit, and a display control unit. The system control unit judges whether a setting item that is newly selected on a preview image is mutually exclusive with a setting item that has already been selected on the preview image. The display control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080030524 - Method and apparatus for imaging display panel and method for manufacturing display panel: An imaged picture is obtained by imaging the display panel having a plurality of periodically arranged image elements by an imaging device having a plurality of periodically arranged imaging components, by imaging each image element of the display panel by a plurality of the imaging components. Then a reduced picture... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080030525 - Pixel snapping for anti-aliased rendering: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for improving output rendering in anti-aliased rendering scenarios. The system receives information regarding at least one visual element area which is important for symmetric appearance. The information can include at least one coordinate of a guideline that a client would like to be snapped... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080030526 - Methods and systems for sub-pixel rendering with adaptive filtering: Processing data for a display including pixels, each pixel having color sub-pixels, comprises receiving pixel data, and converting the pixel data to sub-pixel rendered data. In one embodiment, the conversion generates the sub-pixel rendered data for a sub-pixel arrangement including alternating red and green sub-pixels on at least one of... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080030527 - Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, image processing method, and computer product: An image processing apparatus that performs resolution conversion on image data to output to a display unit includes a resolution converting unit configured to perform resolution conversion on the image data to generate pixel data having a resolution α times as high as a resolution of the display unit, where... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.