Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 03/08

20080074347 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel groups for displaying respective images independently of each other, and a parallax barrier for limiting view ranges of images displayed respectively by the pixel groups such that the view ranges overlap each other in an overlap area. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080074348 - Light-emitting apparatus and driving circuit thereof: An apparatus for driving an LED includes a power conversion module and a protection module. The power conversion module shifts the potential of an input voltage upward or downward according to a duty cycle of a PWM signal, and outputs a driving signal to drive the LED. In addition, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080074349 - Flat panel display device and frame for the same: Provided is a frame for flat panel display device so that a single frame can be variably used for various types of display devices. The frame includes: a first frame extending in a first direction and having a coupling section formed in a lengthwise direction of the first frame; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074350 - High-definition image display device and method of converting frame rate thereof: A high-definition image display device and a method of converting a frame rate thereof are provided. The high-definition image display device includes an image processing unit which processes an input image signal, a first frame rate conversion (FRC) unit which receives an image signal from the image processing unit and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080074373 - Digital power manager for controlling and monitoring an array of point-of-load regulators: A power control system comprises a plurality of point-of-load (POL) regulators each adapted to convey regulated power to a load, a serial data bus operatively connecting the plurality of POL regulators, and a digital power manager connected to the data bus. The digital power manager includes a controller adapted to... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080074374 - Display drive method, display, and program therefor: In one embodiment of the present invention, data, such as video signal data, for example, for a next desired frame is first modulated or varied to facilitate a transition from a current frame to a next desired frame. A modulation processing section can be used, for example, to thus produce... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080074372 - Image display apparatus and image display method: There is provided with an image display method including: creating a histogram indicating frequencies of pixels included in level-ranges associated with representative gray-scale levels; calculating differences between first brightnesses each predetermined for the each representative gray-scale level and second brightnesses each preliminarily obtained for the each representative gray-scale level displayed... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080074379 - Gate drive circuit and display apparatus having the same: A gate drive circuit of a display device includes a plurality of stages, each stage being coupled to at least one other stage. A current stage among the stages includes a gate section, a carry section, a buffer section, and a reset section. The gate section generates a current gate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080074382 - Display device, control method thereof, and backlight unit used therefor: A display device, including: a light source part having a plurality of light sources; a color sensing part having a dummy light source, and a color sensor sensing a color information of light emitted from the dummy light source; a light source driving part driving the light source part so... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080074380 - Graphical user interface based control of imaging parameters including scene illumination parameters: Systems and methods that provide graphical user interface based control of imaging parameters, including scene illumination parameters, are described. In one aspect, optical data is generated in response to light received from a field of view. Output light is produced. The output light is projected toward the field of view.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080074381 - Liquid crystal display and its light source driving method: A black insertion dimming PWM generation portion (32) outputs a black insertion PWM pulse VBL to drive a fluorescent lamp (43) in such a manner that a black insertion period during which the fluorescent lamp (43) is lit OFF and a light-ON period during which the fluorescent lamp (43) is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080074383 - Portable electronic device having appearance customizable housing: A portable electronics device (110) is provided having a thin, low power color and pattern customizable housing surface (118, 120, 122) wherein the color and/or pattern can be configured at anytime to any color. The portable electronics device (110) comprises a skin (200) positioned on the surface, wherein the skin... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080074384 - System and method for adjusting icons, text and images on an electronic device: The invention relates to a system, method and device for controlling the display of elements on a display on an electronic device, according to movement of the device. In the system, a displayed element management system is provided. The system comprises: a sensor; a movement detection module connected to the... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080074386 - Virtual input device and the input method thereof: This invention provides a virtual input device. The virtual input device comprises an image device, a tip generation module, a display with an input interface and an inputted message area, a transformation device and a key-press determination device, wherein the input interface includes a first button corresponding to a first... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080074388 - 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: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080074387 - Method and apparatus for voice-controlled graphical user interface pointing device: A pointing device is provided for use in computing devices comprising a printed circuit board, a tracking device adapted to generate a tracking signal in response to a user vocal input and relay the tracking signal to the printed circuit board, and a selection device adapted to generate a selection... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Attention: Eamon J. Wall, Esq.

20080074385 - Stand-alone device, system and method for navigating in a space having at least three dimensions: A stand-alone device for navigating in a space having at least three dimensions comprises a housing capable of being manipulated by a user. The housing houses means for generating signals that represent the inclination of the housing according to its pitch axes, rolling axes and yaw axes, and houses at... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080074389 - Cursor control method: A method of controlling the movement of a cursor includes selecting a direction of intended movement of the cursor. Thereafter a jump mode is executed in which the cursor is caused to jump in at least one step towards a predetermined target. Subsequently, a drift mode is executed in which... Agent: Ira S. Dorman

20080074390 - Cordless communication device with laser beam and mouse ball: A communication device is provided with a ball turned by hand to reflect a laser beam within a housing. The laser beam proceeding within the housing is in response to motion of the ball and received by a light sensor. The communication device is capable of operation without providing a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080074391 - Zero-click activation of an application: A method is described for activating an application without specific positioning of a mouse or clicking a mouse button (“zero-click activation”). This is done by evaluating motion of an input device with regard to predetermined criteria; detecting a rapid, multi-directional motion (a shaking motion) of the input device, and initiating... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080074392 - Lightguide subassembly for receiving a trackball navigational tool mountable within a handheld mobile device: A user input subassembly and method of constructing a user input subassembly for accommodating a navigational tool and keypad assembly. The user input subassembly can be integrated into a handheld wireless communication device. The user input subassembly includes a lightguide panel and trackball navigation tool. The lightguide panel is constructed... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080074395 - Concave handheld mobile device with tactile side grip: A handheld wireless communication device includes features that make it easier to differentiate among various keys and to correctly select a desired key. It also includes features that make the device more comfortable to use. In particular, corner keys have decreasing height profiles to make above-adjacent keys easier to reach... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080074398 - Single-layer capacitive sensing device: A touch-sensor device, and method of making same, having a sensor element, conductive sensor trace, and active electronic components disposed on a single-layer.... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080074400 - Input detection system for a portable electronic device: A proximity input detection system for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes an inductive field sensor to detect a change in a magnetic field when an input device with a coil is within a threshold distance. In another embodiment, the present invention utilizes a capacitive sensor... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080074399 - Mobile communication terminal and method of selecting menu and item: A menu selection method, which includes selecting a main menu displayed on a touch device of a terminal, displaying one or more sub-menus corresponding to the selected main menu, sensing a direction of a dragging operation on the touch device, and executing a corresponding sub-menu located in the sensed direction... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080074401 - Display with infrared backlight source and multi-touch sensing function: A touch-sensing display screen includes an upper transparent substrate, a lower substrate opposite the upper substrate, and a backlight unit having an infrared light source configured to radiate infrared light through the upper substrate in a first direction. A transparent window is disposed in alignment with the infrared light source... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080074402 - Waveguide configurations for optical touch systems: The present invention relates to waveguide structures and optical elements for use in an optical touch screen sensor. The waveguide structures and optical elements allow for reduced bezel width and simplified assembly of optical touch screens sensors, and relaxed component tolerances.... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080074407 - Display device with temperature compensation and driving method of same: An exemplary display device (200) includes a control circuit (22), a driving circuit (24), and a display module (25). The control circuit is configured to generate temperature compensation values according to ambient temperature signals inputted to the control circuit. The driving circuit is configured to generate compensated display signals according... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080074404 - Display driving apparatus and display apparatus comprising the same: A display driving apparatus that drives display pixels having pixel electrodes arrayed in rows and columns on the basis of display data includes a signal generating circuit generates a driving signal for sequentially sets the respective display pixels corresponding to the respective rows in a selected state, and applies a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080074403 - Display system with plural displays, display apparatus and display method thereof: A display system includes a host apparatus that generates a main image signal and a sub image signal; a compressor that compresses the sub image signal generated by the host apparatus; a primary display that displays an image based on the main image signal generated by the host apparatus; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080074405 - Operational amplifier and method of driving liquid crystal display: It was difficult to design an operational amplifier which can cancel an offset to drive a liquid crystal display. An operational amplifier includes: a first differential pair having a first transistor and a second transistor of a first conduction type; a second differential pair having a third transistor and a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080074406 - Panel display device: In a forward-direction fetching operation mode, each of display panel drive devices other than a last display panel drive device fetches display data upon the reception of a start signal. In the forward-direction fetching operation mode, the last display panel drive device fetches the display data upon the reception of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080074408 - Flat panel display device and portable display apparatus using the same: The present invention relates to a dual type flat panel display device and a flexible printed circuit board that is integrated to simultaneously transfer electric signals to both of a light source device and a main display panel. According to one aspect of the present invention, the first flexible printed... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080074410 - Liquid crystal display and common voltage generating circuit thereof: A voltage generating circuit includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, and a voltage generator. The first storage unit stores first voltage data, and the second storage unit stores second voltage data. The voltage generator generates a voltage corresponding to one of the first and the second voltage... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080074411 - Power control apparatus, power control system and power control method: According to one embodiment, a power control apparatus is applied to a video display apparatus displaying video. The power control apparatus includes an apparatus switching unit switching any one of a plurality of external apparatuses connected to the video display apparatus to be for video display, and an activation control... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080074409 - Method for controlling the power supply from a power source to a power consumer: A system and method for controlling power supply of a power source to at least one power consumer to a desired value in the range of from 0 and 100% in which the operating time of the power consumer is divided up into periods and the power output by the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080074413 - Display apparatus, display driving apparatus and method for driving same: A light-emitting element capable of emitting light having a preferred gradation level depending on display data. During a precharge period, a data driver applies a precharge voltage to a capacitor via a data line. After the application of the precharge voltage, a voltage converter reads a first reference voltage Vref(t1)... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080074412 - Light emitting device, method of driving pixel circuit, and driving circuit: A method of driving a pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element that emits light by receiving a deriving current, a driving transistor that generates the driving current, and a light-emission control transistor of the same conductivity type as that of the driving transistor, the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080074414 - Display apparatus capable of modifying image data for improved display: A display apparatus capable of reducing discrepancies between the image data received from the external graphic controller and the image that is actually displayed on the display panel is presented. The display apparatus includes a display panel having horizontal sub-pixels arranged in a first direction and a data modifier that... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080074415 - Method, medium and apparatus rendering 3d graphic data: Provided are a method and apparatus rendering three-dimensional (3D) graphic data. The method includes eliminating at least one of a plurality of processes for rendering the three-dimensional (3D) graphic data in consideration of a rendering environment of the 3D graphic data and a state of power of a system rendering... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080074424 - Digitally-augmented reality video system: A system and methods are provided which are configured to store and display video-animated objects, re-rendering digital content objects according to the specific animation characteristics of the video-animated objects and superimposing the video-animated objects with the re-rendered digital content object. The digitally-augmented reality video system comprises means for storing an... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080074425 - Graphics processing device, graphics processing method, game machine, and storage medium: In a simulation game machine for play on the basis of images of three-dimensionally constituted terrain features and characters which are represented as if viewed from a prescribed camera within a virtual space, allows the viewing point to be shifted in three dimensions while looking over a stage, thereby enhancing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080074426 - Multiprocessor decoder system and method: Multiprocessor decoding is accomplished in a first mode by generating with a series of n processors, from a set of data macroblocks, the entropy decoding output of each data macroblock and storing the entropy decoding output of each data macroblock in n storage elements, respectively, associated with the processors and... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080074427 - Method for display of medical 3d image data on a monitor: In a method for display of medical 3D image data on a monitor, a rotation center is established in the 3D image data and at least two windows with views of the 3D image data that differ per pair of windows are shown on the monitor. The views are arranged... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080074437 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for implementing picture format conversion to x,y plot: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing picture format conversion to X, Y plot for waveform comparisons. A picture file and user selected X, Y boundaries are received. Non-white pixels of the picture file between the user selected X, Y boundaries are converted to X, Y... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080074438 - Sampling methods suited for graphics hardware acceleration: Embodiments of the invention provide sampling methods suited for graphics hardware acceleration. A graphics application may specify a grid of pixels to be rendered. The graphics application may supply a graphics rendering engine with one or more sets of camera parameters. Each set of camera parameters is used to alter... Agent: John C. Carey Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080074439 - Selectively transforming overlapping illustration artwork: Computer-implemented methods and apparatus for converting a computer graphics illustration that includes a plurality of overlapping artwork elements from an input format to an output format that differs from the input format. The overlapping artwork elements are classified as transparent or non-transparent artwork elements. The transparent artwork elements are classified... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080074440 - System and method of optimizing optical products through public communication network: An optical products optimization system for use with a public communication network includes an optimization center, a posting platform, and a calibration device. The optimization center has a database which contains a plurality of digital spectacle frame images of a plurality of spectacle frames for the user to select. The... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20080074445 - Image display apparatus and method of driving image display apparatus: A method of driving an image display apparatus having a display section having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of a plurality of frames of a digital video signal are converted into a plurality of subframes having different display periods each shorter than a one-frame period, in... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20080068285 - Display control system and method, display control apparatus and method, and program: A display control system for controlling display of images on a plurality of display units, the plurality of display units being arranged in an array, includes a determining unit determining whether or not information of interest is being displayed; a first recording control unit controlling recording of a first image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068286 - Monitor with spectrum panel: A monitor with a spectrum panel is provided. The monitor includes: a micro controller unit (MCU) connecting with an audio module, a spectrum module. The spectrum module is connected with a spectrum switch and a spectrum panel. The audio module converts audio data from a computer into sound. The spectrum... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080068287 - Intelligent video graphics switcher: Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently and intelligently communicating characteristic information in video graphics switcher environments. An intelligent video graphics switcher obtains display device characteristic information associated with multiple display devices and maintains updated characteristic information. When an event such as a connection/disconnection or switching event occurs between the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080068288 - Foldable display screens: The invention is a foldable set of six displays screens in two rows of three screens. The top and bottom middle screens are hinged together. First side of upper and lower screens are hinged to the one side of the upper and lower middle screens. The second side of the... Agent: Louis L. Dachs

20080068291 - Electronic devices having complementary dual displays: Methods for controlling complementary dual displays for use with an electronic device are presented including: sending a video signal to a first display, wherein the first display is a low resolution, high frame rate display; displaying the video signal on the first display; and printing a frame of the video... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20080068292 - Electronic devices having complementary dual displays: Electronic devices having complementary dual displays are presented, the electronic devices including: a first display, wherein the first display is a low resolution, high frame rate display; a first display controller for outputting an internal video signal to the first display; a second display, wherein the second display is a... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20080068289 - System and method for multiple display support in remote access software: A method of supporting multiple display configurations in a remote access environment, the remote access environment having a host computing device in communication with a viewer computing device comprises: receiving from a host computing device, by a viewer computing device having one or more viewer displays, a list of rectangles,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080068290 - Systems and methods for multiple display support in remote access software: A method of supporting multiple display configurations in a remote access environment, the remote access environment having a host computing device in communication with a viewer computing device comprises: receiving from a host computing device, by a viewer computing device having one or more viewer displays, a list of rectangles,... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP

20080068293 - Display uniformity correction method and system: A method and system are provided for correcting non-uniformity of a display device having a display screen comprising a pixel matrix. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include in response to receiving display data for display, reading from a memory of the display device compensation data stored for a subset of pixel... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080068295 - Compensation for spatial variation in displayed image in scanning beam display systems using light-emitting screens: Implementations of display systems and devices based on scanning light on a light-emitting screen where at least one excitation optical beam is used to excite one or more light-emitting materials on the screen which emits light to form images. The light-emitting materials may include fluorescent and phosphor materials. A control... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080068294 - Electronic devices having complementary dual displays: Methods for controlling complementary dual displays for use with an electronic device are presented including: sending a video signal to a first display, wherein the first display is a refresh-based, high frame rate display; displaying the video signal on the first display; and printing a frame of the video signal... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080068298 - System and method for constant power led driving and a redundancy dircuit thereof: A constant power DC light emitting diode (LED) driving system and method is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of LED, a DC voltage source for LED current generation, and a constant-voltage and constant-current regulator for constant luminance control. A method and a redundancy circuit thereof for LED current detouring... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080068299 - Display device: The present invention provides a display method realizing reduction in a moving picture blurring by forming one frame by two fields of different luminance, in which increase in an unapplied voltage due to shortening of data voltage write time is suppressed. A gate voltage is applied in a light field... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080068300 - Plasma display device: There is provided a plasma display device including: a plasma display panel having a plurality of address electrodes selecting a display cell to emit light; a data generation circuit generating and outputting a plurality of address data for an application of a voltage to the plurality of address electrodes; a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080068301 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A driving method of a plasma display device driven by dividing one frame into a plurality of sub-fields may include generating sustain pulses to be applied to at least any one sub-field among the plurality of sub-fields as first and second sustain pulses, the first and second sustain pulses having... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080068305 - Burn-in reduction apparatus, self-luminous display apparatus, image processing apparatus, electronic device, burn-in reduction method, and computer program: Disclosed herein is A burn-in reduction apparatus, including: an illumination sensor configured to detect brightness of outside light incident on an area near a display screen; and a contrast control section configured to control a drive condition of a display device in accordance with the detected brightness to reduce a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080068307 - Gate and data drivers for display: A display device including a display array comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and, in each pixel, a self-emissive element, a first transistor which controls a supply of electric current contributing to light emission of the self-emissive element, and a second transistor which controls a supply of... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080068308 - Light-emitting unit system: In the light-emitting unit system, a signal line Sb of the first LED unit is set to logic 1. On the basis of the input of an address write starting signal As, a microprocessor of each LED unit stores an address “1” into a register and sets a signal line... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080068309 - Organic light emitting display device, mother substrate of the same, and method for fabricating organic light emitting display device: Organic light emitting display (OLED) devices are arrayed on a mother substrate so that testing can be performed before the mother substrate is scribed. The mother substrate includes organic light emitting display devices, a first wire group formed in a first direction at on a region between the organic light... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080068310 - Organic light-emitting diode display device and method for driving the same: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel includes a plurality of pixels displaying a plurality of colors. Each pixel has an OLED element. A gamma voltage-generating section generates a reference gamma voltage based on a gamma curve in which the lowest gradation of the total number of gradations is mapped... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080068312 - Organic light emitting display apparatus and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display apparatus minimizes brightness reduction and power consumption increase, and can remove motion blurring. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, each including an organic light emitting device and a pixel circuit, a data driving unit to apply a data signal to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080068316 - Driver circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A driver circuit which drives a source line of an electro-optical device includes a source line driver section which supplies a grayscale voltage corresponding to grayscale data to the source line, a source output switch section which short-circuits the source line and a common line connected with a capacitor before... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068318 - Apparatus and method for performing response time compensation: An apparatus and method for performing response time compensation. The apparatus described includes a first response time compensation (RTC) module for providing boosted gray level values when transitioning only from a previous gray level of zero to a first current gray level for a color of a pixel of a... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20080068320 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display achieving brightness uniformity, thereby reducing manufacturing costs, includes a liquid crystal panel having a first region and a second region that exhibit different brightnesses when a predetermined data voltage is applied, a memory storing a reference brightness that is to be exhibited by the liquid crystal... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080068319 - Method for driving liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display is disclosed. A driving voltage corresponding to a gray scale is provided during a first interval of a time period to drive a pixel in response to the gray scale, and a reset voltage responsive to the gray scale is provided during... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080068321 - Liquid crystal display and its driving method: A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) includes: a liquid crystal panel having liquid crystal cells divided by scan lines and data lines and arranged in a matrix shape; a data driving circuit to supply an image signal to the liquid crystal cells via the data lines; a scan driving circuit to... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080068322 - Display device and storage driving circuit for driving the same: A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit, a data driving circuit, and a storage driving circuit. The storage driving circuit includes a plurality of stages to apply a plurality of storage voltages, which are inverted in every frame, to the storage lines, respectively. A kth stage... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080068323 - Integrated display panel: An integrated display panel is provided. The integrated display panel includes a video connector, a signal selector, an image scaler and a timing controller. The video connector transmits a differential signal or a video signal. The signal selector determines whether or not to receive and output the differential signal according... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080068284 - Display device: A display device whereby appropriate operation control desired by a user can be conducted is implemented even if an image for driver's seat which can be seen by a driver but cannot be seen by a passenger in a passenger seat and an image for passenger seat which can be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068296 - Device for representing optical information by means of a virtual image, in particular in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a device for representing optical information by means of a virtual image (P), in particular in a motor vehicle. The optical information is in the form of light beams extending from an image generating device (1), over at least one optical element to a surface and... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080068297 - Rotational display system: The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080068302 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized-by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up, write... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080068303 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080068304 - Plasma display panel and drive method therefor: A plasma display panel and a drive method therefor, which can enhance a representation capability when displaying a dark image. The plasma display panel includes fluorophor layers containing magnesium oxide. The drive method includes a reset step to initialize all the pixel cells into states of one of a light-up... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068306 - Display apparatus, display method and method of manufacturing a display apparatus: To precisely reduce fluctuations in brightness of respective light emitters when displaying an image by having a plurality of light emitters emit light, and thereby improve image quality. A display apparatus can be made of an arrangement of a plurality of pixels respectively composed of a predetermined driving circuit and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068311 - System and method of driving an array of optical elements: A system and/or method for controlling a display array without the use of row and column drivers. The display elements within the system are configured to maintain an active address signal in response to a received signal containing serially encoded display settings. Each display element is loaded with an address... Agent: Rastar Corporation

20080068315 - Display unit and method of manufacturing the same: A display unit having a stacked display panel is disclosed. The display unit includes a first end display panel placed at one end; a second end display panel placed at another end; and one or more internal display panels placed between the first end display panel and the second end... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080068313 - Liquid crystal display: A display device includes a display panel provided with an electrode pad, a light source to emit light to the display panel, a mold frame to support the light source; a bottom chassis to accommodate the mold frame, a driving part to apply a driving signal to the display panel... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080068314 - Liquid crystal displays having wide viewing angles: A liquid crystal display includes sub-pixels each having a first display field and a second display field that both operate in a transmissive mode or both operate in a reflective mode. The first and second display fields of a sub-pixel are driven by a same driving device. The first and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080068317 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a video signal converter unit which converts input video signals of n colors (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) into converted video signals of at least (n+1) colors, a video signal generator unit which, on the basis of the input video signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080068324 - Flat panel display and method of controlling picture quality thereof: This invention relates to a flat panel display device that is adaptive for optimizing data, which are to be displayed in a panel defect area, in used of a compensation value of a compensation circuit as well as compensating defect pixels by a repair process, and a method of controlling... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080068326 - Shift register, shift register array, and flat display apparatus: A flat display apparatus comprising a shift register array is provided. The shift register array comprises a plurality of shift registers. At least one of these shift registers comprises a shift register unit, a first TFT, and a second TFT. The shift register unit is configured to receive an activation... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080068325 - Source driver, common voltage driver, and method of driving display device using time division driving method: A source driver and a common voltage driver for a display device using a time division driving method, in which the source driver outputs an analog voltage corresponding to digital image data to a corresponding source line out of a plurality of source lines, after precharging the corresponding source line... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080068328 - Apparatus and method for adaptively adjusting backlight: An apparatus and method for adaptively adjusting backlight are described. The backlight adjusting apparatus includes an intensity-pair distribution device, a brightness compensation module, a frame-adjusting device, a backlight control device, and a backlight module. The intensity-pair distribution device generates a plurality of intensity-pair distribution values of the image frames each... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080068327 - Backlight module, liquid crystal display and method for controlling the same: A backlight module includes a control unit, a transformer unit, a light source unit, and a detection unit. The control unit generates a control signal and a protection instruction signal based on a detection signal group. The protection instruction signal instructs a state of the backlight module. The transformer unit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080068329 - Multi-view autostereoscopic display with improved resolution: A multi-view autostereoscopic display apparatus with improved resolution, includes: a display panel alternately displaying a plurality of images of different view points; an image separating device for separating the plurality of images such that the separated images can be alternately observed in different viewing zones; and a directional backlight unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068331 - Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same: There is provided a liquid crystal display having good display characteristics and a method of driving the same. Pixel data is written in plural pixels on one gate bus line at a top end of a display area at a first point in time on a line sequential basis. At... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080068330 - Liquid crystal display unit and liquid crystal television: A microcomputer 15 refers to the luminance stabilizing program and the look-up table stored in the ROM 16 to allow the video circuit 12 to execute a contrast adjustment of the video signal based on the look-up table such that the luminance change of the liquid crystal display unit 13... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080068334 - Localized haptic feedback: A surface that generates a haptic feedback includes a first region having a first level of stiffness and a second region having a second level of stiffness that is less than the first level of stiffness. The second region defines a deformation region within which the haptic feedback is generally... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080068332 - Optical input device and method of optically sensing user inputs: An optical input device and method of optically sensing user inputs captures frames of image data using light reflected from an undersurface of a movable pad to estimate movements of the movable pad. Furthermore, the movable pad is automatically returned to an initial position when the movable pad is released.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080068333 - User input device with self-centering flat spring: A user input device utilizes a self-centering flat spring to allow a user interface structure of the device to be manipulated by a user and to return the user interface structure back to its initial position.... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080068335 - Information processing device: An information processing apparatus capable of easily inputting a telephone number. In a cellular phone equipped with jog dial, displayed on LCD display 18 of such a cellular phone are the telephone number display section and fixed cursor. Also displayed on the LCD display are a substantially arc shaped line... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080068336 - Input device and method and medium for providing movement information of the input device: Provided is an input device and method for providing movement information of the input device. The input device includes an image processing module to extract a motion vector with respect to an external image, a motion sensing module to sense motion of a housing of the input device and to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068337 - Inputting apparatus: An inputting apparatus for use in an electronic device, etc., that includes: a case, which has a through-hole and which forms an interior space; an upper movement key, which has a portion exposed to the exterior through the through-hole and which is movable in certain directions in a plane; an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068338 - Mouse device: A mouse device. A circuit board is disposed on a bottom cover and includes an encoder, a first switch, and a second switch opposite the first switch. A support base is movably disposed on the bottom cover and wiggles with respect thereto. The support base is disposed between the first... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080068339 - Electronic device with keypad assembly: An electronic device includes a keypad assembly. The keypad assembly has a plurality of alphanumeric keys for user entry of alphanumeric characters and a navigation input device for user entry of plural directional inputs. The navigation input device and the alphanumeric keys are commingled such that an area consumed by... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080068340 - Mobile communication device having automatic scrolling capability and method of operation thereof: To enable a user of a mobile communication device to make a selection from a list of items with a minimum of input actions, a method for displaying information, in particular text information, on the display of a mobile communication device is introduced. The method calls for the display of... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080068341 - Defining user input fields on a portable media device: A user may always know that on a portable media device, by pressing an input field in particular location, such as the input field to the right of the center point of a plurality of input fields, the same function may occur no matter what the orientation of the device.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080068344 - Computer-assisted image editing method for handheld device: A computer-assisted image editing method for a handheld device is provided. A computer-assisted data editing method for a handheld device includes transmitting a target data corresponding to an area selected on a touch screen of the handheld device to a computer; displaying the target data on a display of the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080068347 - Display-input device, display-input method, and computer program product: A display-input device includes an input unit that receives touch input; a display unit that displays a screen including a symbol selectable to specify setting in response to the touch input; a position detecting unit that detects a position of the touch input on the input unit; a distance detecting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080068345 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling same: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for data input in which input and editing can be performed through a simple operation, the apparatus having a coordinate input device and a display device and being operable in a drawing mode and an editing mode. The apparatus includes determination means for determining... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068346 - Information processing apparatus and method of controlling same: An information processing apparatus for data input in which input and editing can be performed through a simple operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes first determination means for determining whether drawing has been completed following input of coordinate data in the drawing mode; second determination means which, if completion of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068343 - Tactile pin display apparatus: A pin matrix having a plurality of pins disposed in a matrix pattern is mounted on a display unit disposed on an upper surface of a dot figure display main body in the housing of a dot figure display apparatus. As pins are driven, a dot figure capable of being... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080068342 - Touch-screen display device and method thereof: A touch-screen display device includes a display panel, a touch panel, and an adhesive member. The display panel has a peripheral area surrounding an effective area. The touch panel is separated from and faces the display panel. The adhesive member has an adhesive part disposed along the peripheral area and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080068351 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch control: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080068348 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080068349 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080068350 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080068352 - Apparatus for detecting a pointer within a region of interest: An apparatus for detecting a pointer within a region of interest includes at least one pair of imaging devices. The imaging devices have overlapping fields of view encompassing the region of interest. At least one light source provides illumination across the region of interest and is within the field of... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080068353 - Optical touch panel: An optical touch panel including a support, an optical light guide illumination assembly arranged along and above at least most of a periphery of the support to define a detection region, the assembly including at least one optical light guide and a light source arranged for directing light along the... Agent: Klony Lieberman Lumio Inc.

20080068354 - Input apparatus: An input apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention may include an operation member that is rotatable and is movable in a direction along a rotation axis between an extended position and a pushed-in position. When a user rotates the operation member without pushing in it, a detection... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080068358 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus has a pixel including a main pixel connected to a main gate line and a data line, and a sub-pixel connected to a sub-gate line and the data line. A main gate driver outputs a main gate pulse to the main gate line during a time period... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080068359 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention solves the motion blur of moving images in hold-type display devices. An amount of a moving image is detected from image data included in frames and an image at the intermediate state between an image of the current frame and an image of the next frame is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080068360 - Driving circuit and data driver of planar display device: A clock signal, a data signal, and a latch signal are commonly supplied from a controller to a plurality of the data drivers. The data signal and the latch signal are synchronized with the clock signal. In each of the data drivers, an internal latch signal is generated in synchronization... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080068357 - Driving control apparatus and method for use with a display array: A driving control apparatus and method for use with a display array are provided. The display array comprises a plurality of pixel areas arranged in an array configuration. The driving control apparatus comprises a system control circuit and a drive circuit. The system control circuit is adapted to detect an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080068355 - Low voltage differential signal receiving device: A low voltage differential signal receiving device includes two differential receivers, two oversamplers, a phase locked loop, and a clock edge and data boundary detection & data extraction logic module. Clock and data signals are transmitted via channels having the same circuit layout, so that the clock signal is treated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080068356 - Method and apparatus for delivering and displaying multimedia content to food service customers: A display tray apparatus, a system and a method for displaying multimedia content to customers of food service establishments. The display tray apparatus consists of a food serving tray having a rigid plate portion, and a display apparatus embedded in the plate portion. The display apparatus includes a display screen,... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080068362 - Display panels and methods and apparatus for driving the same: Methods and apparatus for mitigating or substantially eliminating pixel burn-in on phosphor-based display panels. A visual display includes a display installation and a computer. The display installation may include a display panel having including a plurality of pixels each with a bit depth and an interface for receiving a video... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080068361 - Electronic circuit, optoelectronic device, method for driving optoelectronic device, and electronic apparatus: An electronic circuit, an electronic device, and an electronic apparatus are provided that are capable of display with good quality and reducing operation delay, and a method to drive the electronic circuit. First and second switching transistors are turned on and an operation voltage Vdx and a data-current Idata are... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080068363 - Apparatus for driving plasma display panel: Disclosed therein is an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel, with a simple structure. The apparatus includes a signal processor for converting an external image signal into image data suitable for driving the plasma display panel; a data arranger for reconstructing the image data to a plurality of sub-fields... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080068364 - Thin film transistor panel and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same: A thin film transistor panel includes an insulating substrate including a display area and a peripheral area. A plurality of pixels is defined by a plurality of data lines that cross a plurality of gate lines. A pixel electrode is formed in each of the pixels. A plurality of dummy... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080068366 - Plasma display, and driving device and method thereof: In a plasma display device, a driver circuit and a method of driving that reduces costs by eliminating the need for high voltage transistors. A first terminal of an inductor is coupled to a plurality of first electrodes. A first terminal of a first capacitor is coupled to the first... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080068367 - Plasma television and power supply circuit: The present invention discloses a power supply circuit initiating an oscillation on a primary side of the power supply circuit upon receipt of a startup signal, comprising: a detecting module receiving an output voltage from the power supply circuit for detecting whether the output voltage is below a predetermined voltage;... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080068365 - Systems for displaying images and related methods: A representative AC signal generating circuit includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch and a fourth switch. The first capacitor is coupled between a first node and an AC signal. The second capacitor is coupled between a second node and the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080068368 - Sustain driver, sustain control system, and display device: The collector, emitter, and base of a bipolar transistor circuit are connected to a high side power supply terminal, the drain of a level shift transistor, and a floating power supply terminal, respectively. When a high side output transistor is on, the floating power supply terminal is at the potential... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080068369 - Display driving apparatus: A display driving device outputting a driving signal to a display includes a high-voltage power supply terminal, an output terminal, a high-side output transistor connected between the high-voltage power supply terminal and the output terminal, a reference power supply terminal, a low-side output transistor connected between the output terminal and... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080068370 - Methods for segment driver circuits and application specific seg decoders in lcd driver systems: This invention describes methods and circuits for the segment driver circuit in a LCD driver system as well as application specific SEG decoder. The methods include the following steps: the array signal undergoes an inversion process (from 1 to 0, or from 0 to 1); the data and the array... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20080068371 - Method and system for realizing presence service, presence information processing device presentity client: The present invention discloses a method for realizing presence service. By recording a correlation between a watcher identity and a class in an authentication configuration information of a presentity for a watcher and making presence information related to a corresponding class in the presence information issued by the presentity, a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080068373 - Free style deformation: A method for modifying an object design using a computer comprises the steps of: selecting a first sub-design of the object design comprising a first free form deformation geometry and a first free deformation control volume that is variable and adaptive; choosing a second sub-design comprising a second free form... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080068372 - Three-dimensional display system: A three-dimensional display system provides a projection screen having a predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function. Three-dimensional images are respectively modulated in coordination with the predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function to define a programmable mirror with a programmable deflection angle.... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20080068374 - Display control apparatus, method, and program: A display control apparatus which controls display of information about a group of data having a predetermined relevance, the apparatus may include a means for generating a three dimensional model for display in accordance with a first item of information of the information about the group; and a means for... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080068375 - Method and system for early z test in title-based three-dimensional rendering: A method and system for an early Z test in a tile-based three-dimensional rendering is provided. In the method and system for an early Z test, a portion which is not displayed to a user is removed prior to performing a rasterization process, and thereby performing the 3D rendering efficiently.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068376 - Three dimensional human-computer interface: A system includes a three dimensional display device configured to project computer generated controls and a target image in a three dimensional target volume; and an actuator configured to be worn by an operator. The system further includes one or more sensors configured to sense a movement of the actuator,... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080068377 - Re-coloring a color image: Technology for re-coloring a region of a color image including determining an original base color in a region of a color image; establishing at least one shading parameter in the region of the color image; and combining a new base color with the at least one shading parameter in the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080068378 - Generating images using sub-domain 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) are operable to generate pixel values for pixels in an image, and store or display a human-perceptible image based on the pixel values, using... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080068379 - Systems and methods for automatically determining 3-dimensional object information and for controlling a process based on automatically-determined 3-dimensional object information: An image containing one or more types of objects to be located is analyzed to locate linear features within the image. The objects have edges having known spatial relationships. The linear features and identified virtual lines are analyzed to find groups of linear features and/or virtual lines that have one... Agent: Lathrop & Clark LLP

20080068380 - Customized wall map printing system: An electronic wall map design and printing system enables a user to select or specify the size, coverage area and detail level of a wall map and to customize the wall map based on the user's needs via a fully automated electronic interface. For ease of viewing during the creation... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080068382 - Process data presentation based on process regions: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and data processing systems for presenting dynamic data pertaining to a process. In one aspect, region information identifying a plurality of user-selected regions of the process, switching information identifying criteria for switching among the user-selected regions, and dynamic data pertaining to the process, are used... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080068381 - Using network access port linkages for data structure update decisions: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for displaying a portion of a data structure or for obtaining an inter-core linkage in association with a tabular data object and for deciding whether to update the data structure in response to an inter-core linkage and to input... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080068383 - Rendering and encoding glyphs: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for compactly encoding font information. In one aspect a method is provided that includes identifying a library of elements where each element in the library of elements is associated with an outline and one or more parameters. A glyph is identified that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080068385 - Apparatus and method for changing a screen in a portable terminal: An apparatus and method for changing a screen size in a portable terminal are provided. In the apparatus and method, an input portion provides a request for a change to one of a specific font, a specific font size, and a specific screen size. A font adjuster changes a current... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080068384 - Method and apparatus for preserving font structure: A method of preserving the structure of a font character being scaled comprises analyzing the font character to determine if the font character is complex. If the font character is complex, information concerning the strokes forming the font character is extracted. The strokes are then scaled to a desired size... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080068386 - Real-time rendering of realistic rain: Real-time rendering of realistic rain is described. In one aspect, image samples of real rain and associated information are automatically modeled in real-time to generate synthetic rain particles in view of respective scene radiances of target video content frames. The synthetic rain particles are rendered in real-time using pre-computed radiance... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080068387 - Image processing device and information recording medium: An image processing device for realizing more realistic pictures of explosions in video game devices and the like. Objects displaying such pictures of explosions are formed of spherical polygons (R1, R2, R3, . . . ) and planar polygons (S1, S2, S3, . . . ). Pictures of explosions are... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080068388 - Method and device of displaying characters: A method of displaying characters is adapted to a displaying device. First, the displaying device receives and analyzes a frame to obtain subtitle data including a first character. Then, the subtitle data is analyzed to obtain at least one first location of the first character on the frame. Finally, the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080068389 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (mmpgrs) embodied within a host computing system and employing the profiling of scenes in graphics-based applications: Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (MMGRPS) embodied within a host computing system and employing the profiling of scenes in a graphics-based application. The MMPGRS supports multiple modes of parallel operation selected from the group consisting of object division, image division, and time division. A plurality of graphic processing pipelines (GPPLs)... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080068390 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and mobile terminal device: In a semiconductor integrated circuit device of a liquid crystal display drive controller, the present invention is intended to suppress an increase in the number of output terminals for interface control signals for control of parallel interface to a sub liquid crystal display controller. A host interface circuit comprises a... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080068391 - Display apparatus and data display method thereof: A display apparatus includes a display; a receiver which receives a broadcasting signal including a program with a data format; an image processing part which processes the received program according to an available data format; and a controller which controls the image processing part to display a message informing that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080068392 - Display control apparatus, display control method, and program: A display control apparatus includes: an input means for inputting an image of a compression target; a comparing means for comparing an input image inputted from the input means with a decompressed image that is obtained by decompressing a compressed image obtained by compressing the input image; an image processing... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080068393 - Computer-readable recording medium recording a mask data generation program, mask data generation method, mask fabrication method, exposure method, and device manufacturing method: A computer-readable recording medium recording a mask data generation program, the mask data generation program causes the computer to execute: Fourier-Transforming a function indicating an effective light source to generate a coherent map expressing a coherence distribution on the object plane of the projection optical system, on which the mask... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080068394 - Virtual memory based noise textures: A large non-patterned noise texture occupies a relatively small physical memory space. Each of a small set of physical pages in physical memory includes noise texels forming part of a noise texture. A large “virtual” noise texture is created by mapping each one of a large number of pages in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080068395 - Display device: The present invention reduces moving image blurring in a hold-response-type display device. 1 frame is divided into 3 fields. Assuming the gradation-brightness characteristic of a first field as 1g, the gradation-brightness characteristic of a second field as 2g, and the gradation-brightness characteristic of a third field as 3g, the third... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080068396 - Gamma uniformity correction method and system: A method and system are provided for performing gamma correction on display data. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include using at least a portion of the display data to fetch in parallel from a table memory a gamma correction data value stored at an odd address and a gamma correction data... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080068397 - Emotion-based digital video alteration: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for emotion-based digital video alteration that include receiving digital video of a face of a person, detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person, and altering expressions of the face represented in the digital... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080068398 - Algorithm for automatic layout of objects in a database: Systems and methods that automatically arrange, or re-arrange, object nodes in a diagram such that the total length of all associations between nodes and the number of overlapping associations is reduced or minimized. In mathematical terms, the process simplifies the graphical representation of an arbitrary graph. In one aspect, processes... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080068399 - Display device for a vehicle and method for displaying data: A display device includes at least one processing device and at least one display element for representing at least two image planes that are able to be combined with each other, and a method is for representing a plurality of combinable image planes for displaying data.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080068400 - Electro-optic vision systems: An image processing system for delivering real scene information to a data processor. The system includes the data processor, an image-delivery mechanism, an information delivery mechanism, and a graphic processor.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080068401 - Browser creation of graphic depicting relationships: A method and/or system for creating a graphic to depict relationships via a browser is disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080068402 - Image display method and image display device: An image display device includes an image division unit 12 dividing an input image into a plurality of image segments partly overlapping each other, an image enlargement unit 13 enlarging the plurality of image segments to form a plurality of enlarged image segments, an output image formation unit 15 forming... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080068403 - Scroll control apparatus, scroll control method, and computer product: Specific information is detected from a portion of image information displayed on a display screen during scrolling the image information. When the detected specific information is displayed at a predetermined position on the display screen as a result of scrolling, the scrolling is stopped. When a predetermined time has elapsed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080068404 - Frame rate controller method and system: A frame rate controller method and system are provided. Aspects the exemplary embodiment include a data separator responsive to receiving display data comprising frames of digital pixel data for separating the display data into an integer part comprising upper bits of the display data, and a fraction part (Din_f) comprising... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080068405 - White balance correction circuit and correction method for display apparatus that display color image by controlling number of emissions or intensity thereof in accordance with plurality of primary color video signals: A display apparatus, which displays a color image by controlling the number of emissions or the intensity thereof in accordance with primary color video signals input thereto, has a detection portion and a white balance correction portion. The detection portion is used to detect the number of emissions or the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062069 - Personal video display device: A personal video display device includes first and second display screens and a controller connected to the screens for showing video signals received from a source. The controller selectively switches between a two-dimensional mode and a three-dimensional mode based solely on the received video signals.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080062070 - Led brightness compensation system and method: LED brightness compensation system and method to account for aging and/or temperature effects on LED brightness. The system includes one or more LEDs and a circuit coupled to the LEDs to maintain substantially constant LED brightness based on determined operating characteristics of the LEDs. The circuit includes an LED brightness... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080062071 - Shift register and organic light emitting display using the same: A shift register and an organic light emitting display using the same with a simplified design of a shift register having high reliance, and reduced dead space includes a plurality of stages dependently connected to a start pulse input line, each of the stages including: a voltage level controller to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080062074 - Display medium: A display medium including a layered structure that comprises two or more stacked display elements that each are provided, on or above a flexible substrate, with a pixel portion and lead line(s) for electrically connecting the pixel portion to outside of the pixel portion, and a hole portion or a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062072 - Flat display and timing controller thereof: A timing controller adapted to a flat display includes a voltage detecting circuit, a clock generator, a first multiplexer and a second multiplexer. The voltage detecting circuit detects a variation of an operating voltage and thus outputs a reset signal. The clock generator outputs a start signal and a first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080062075 - Gas discharge display device: A gas discharge display device is provided which includes a screen for color display in which pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels being made up of three cells having different light emission colors, and a driving circuit that is configured for replacing each multi-gradation frame with... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080062076 - Plasma display and voltage generator thereof: In a plasma display, a first electrode and a second electrode of a transistor may be respectively coupled to a scan electrode and a power source for supplying a scan voltage. The plasma display may include a scan electrode, a first transistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor. The... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080062077 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and a first driver. The plasma display panel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first driver includes an inductor into which a current flows in a first direction before and after a voltage between the first electrode and... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080062079 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the method, a first pulse of a positive polarity direction and a second pulse of a negative polarity direction are alternately supplied to the first electrode during a sustain period. In this case, an absolute value... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062086 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, a sustain driver, a data driver and a reference separation controller. The plasma display panel including a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode. The sustain driver supplying a sustain signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062087 - Plasma display and voltage generator thereof: In a plasma display and a voltage generator thereof, a first electrode of a transistor is coupled to a scan electrode. In addition, a cathode of a Zener diode is coupled to a second electrode of the transistor, and an anode of the Zener diode is coupled to a power... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080062089 - Organic electro luminescence display device and driving method for the same: An organic electroluminescence display device capable of reducing a size of a data driver by reducing the channel number of the data driver, and capable of reducing a deviation of electric current flowing in pixels by resetting data lines, and a driving method for the same. The organic electroluminescence display... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080062090 - Pixel circuits and methods for driving pixels: A current-driven display according to one embodiment includes a circuit producing a variable average output current during a frame period in response to a variable average input current received during a line period, wherein a ratio of high and low values of the output current is different than a ratio... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080062091 - Pixel circuits and methods for driving pixels: A display driver according to one embodiment includes a digital to analog converter producing a current at a selected level an output of the digital to analog converter being coupleable to a data line of a display; and a voltage source being coupleable to the data line for precharging the... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080062088 - Pixel driving circuit and oled display apparatus and electrionic device using the same: A pixel driving circuit for OLED display apparatus is provided. The pixel driving circuit is adapted to drive an OLED having a first terminal and a second terminal, while the first terminal couples to a first voltage source. The pixel driving circuit comprises a control circuit, a driving transistor and... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080062092 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of unit circuits that are provided in correspondence with intersections of the data lines and the scanning lines. Each of the data lines is supplied with a data voltage in accordance with a gray-scale... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062097 - Shift register and organic light emitting display using the same: A shift register, including first through third output nodes and first through third input lines for first through third clock signals, a fourth input line adapted to supply a start pulse or an output signal, a voltage level controller coupled between the second and fourth input lines, the voltage level... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080062099 - Display device: A conventional display device is constituted such that, when the display section is rotated to change the orientation thereof, the center of rotation and the center of the display section do not coincide, whereby the rotation operation lacks balance. Hence, the present invention provides a display device comprising a guide... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062103 - Display panel, display device having the display panel and method of operating the display device: A display panel includes a first switching element, a liquid crystal capacitor and a second switching element. The first switching element receives a gate signal and a data signal. The liquid crystal capacitor is connected to the first switching element, and charged with an initial pixel voltage corresponding to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062102 - Liquid crystal display device and control method used in same: A liquid crystal display device employing an AC driving method is provided which is capable of minimizing a period of time during which a difference in magnitude between a positive voltage and a negative voltage relative to an intermediate potential occurs in gray-level reference voltages making up AC driving voltages... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062105 - Brightness adjusting device and liquid crystal display having the same: A brightness adjusting device includes a multiplication circuit, which multiplies a vertical signal by a predetermined multiplication ratio to output a multiplication signal, a differential circuit that distinguishes between different multiplication signals, a serrated wave generator that charges/discharges a condenser according to a signal output from the differential circuit and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062104 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines transmitting gate signals wherein each gate signal has a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines and transmitting data voltages, a plurality of storage electrode lines extending in parallel to the gate lines... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062108 - Array substrate and display apparatus having the same: An array substrate includes a first thin-film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a storage line. The first TFT is electrically connected to a gate line and a data line. The second TFT is electrically connected to the gate and data lines.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062107 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a gate driver, a data driver and a pixel matrix. The gate driver is for outputting a plurality of gate signals successively. The data driver is for providing a plurality of data signals. The pixel matrix includes a number of pixels. Each pixel includes a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062106 - System for increasing circuit reliability and method thereof: A system for increasing circuit reliability and a method thereof are disclosed. A second thin film transistor (TFT) is used as a contrastive group of a first TFT in the circuit, and variations of device parameters of the first TFT are estimated through the contrastive group. The operation environment of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080062073 - Image display device and method of controlling same: The invention relates to an image display device with active matrix comprising a number of light emitters forming a network divided into rows and columns; a current modulator for each emitter; and at least one inverse bias voltage generator. This device is characterized in that it also comprises: an inverse... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080062083 - Pdp energy recovery apparatus and method and high speed addressing method using the same: A PDP energy recovery apparatus and method controls the time point of charging and discharging energy to a plasma display panel (PDP) optimally and performs a high speed addressing. The PDP energy recovery apparatus includes a PDP, a driving integrated circuit unit for driving the PDP; and a PDP energy... Agent: Fleshner & Kim

20080062078 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a first driver, a third driver, and a separation controller. The first driver supplies a driving signal to a first electrode of a plasma display panel during a reset period, an address period and a sustain period and is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062080 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080062081 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080062082 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080062084 - Method for representing gray scale on plasma display panel in consideration of address light: A gray-scale representation method for a plasma display panel, which method includes arranging, in time sequence, a plurality of subfields each having a brightness weight and achieving gray-scale representation by a combination of the subfields, each subfield including an address period and a sustain period. In the gray-scale representation method,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080062085 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080062093 - Electronic apparatus, electronic system, and driving method for electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes unit circuits provided with electronic devices, data lines connected to the unit circuits, a first output device to output, as a first output, a current or a voltage corresponding to an externally supplied data signal, a second output device to output, as a second output, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062094 - Active matrix organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line over the substrate, a switching thin film transistor near the crossing of the gate line and data line, a driving thin film transistor system including a plurality of sub-TFTs... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080062095 - Active matrix organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line over the substrate, a switching thin film transistor near the crossing of the gate line and data line, a driving thin film transistor system including a plurality of sub-TFTs... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080062096 - Active matrix display apparatus and electronic apparatus: An active matrix display apparatus includes a substrate having scanning lines, signal lines, and pixels thereon. Each of the pixels includes a sampling transistor for taking in a video signal, a drive transistor for generating a driving current, and a light-emitting device which emits light with luminance in accordance with... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080062100 - Lcd voltage generating circuits: In a voltage generating circuit and a display apparatus, a driving voltage generator receives an input voltage to output a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage that is inversely proportional to a temperature in response to a feedback voltage. A temperature compensator generates the feedback voltage as a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062098 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A plurality of signal wires of a liquid crystal display apparatus are constituted by a plurality N of switching wires (SW1-SW3) and a plurality P of driving wires (L1-L4). The driving wires (L1-L4) are connected to P respective ones (e.g., ta1-ta4) of the plurality of signal input terminals via P... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080062101 - Gray-scale improvement circuit and display system: A gray-scale conversion means (10) converts the gray scale of an input video signal (100) as necessary, and outputs the video signal with the converted gray scale. A statistical processing means (13) detects a statistical property of each field or frame of the input video signal; a scene change detection... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062109 - Liquid crystal display panel with signal transmission patterns: A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver IC formed on said base substrate,... Agent: Howrey & Simon Attn: Docket Depratment

20080062110 - Apparatus for driving a display: The present invention discloses an apparatus for driving a display in which each pixels of the display receives a driving voltage and a common voltage, and a luminance of each pixel is determined by a difference between the received driving voltage and the common voltage. The apparatus comprises a plurality... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080062111 - Apparatus for driving a display: The present invention discloses an apparatus for driving a display in which each pixels of the display receives a driving voltage and a common voltage, and a luminance of each pixel is determined by a difference between the received driving voltage and the common voltage. The apparatus comprises a plurality... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080062113 - Shift resister, data driver having the same, and liquid crystal display device: Disclosed are a shift register capable of reducing power consumption, a data driver having the same, and a liquid crystal display device. The shift register includes a storing cell array including storage cells which store a plurality of serial data, and a control array for outputting sampling signals, which are... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080062114 - Display driver circuit and display device: A display driver circuit includes first to Mth SR blocks which are disposed in a region on the right side of a data input control circuit and hold first to Mth gray-scale data, and (M+1)th to (M+N)th SR blocks which are disposed in a region on the left side of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080062112 - Liquid crystal display device: A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor are provided. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring; a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor; a gate terminal is electrically connected to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062117 - Apparatus and method for displaying an image on a display unit and controlling the backlight module utilized to irradiate the display unit: A method and an apparatus for displaying an image on a display unit and controlling a backlight module which irradiates the display unit are disclosed. The method includes: processing the image signal and generating a driving signal to drive the display unit; displaying contents of the image signal; analyzing luminance... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080062118 - Backlight unit and driving method of the same: A backlight unit includes: a light source part that comprises a plurality of point light sources; a power supplying part that supplies power to the light source part so that the light source part outputs light having a first luminance; and a light source controller that determines a deterioration level... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062115 - System and method for predicting a failure of a backlight for an lcd display: An early warning system and method for predicting a failure of a backlight of any display that uses internal illumination, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), digital light processing™ (DLP), or liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS). This display could be a flat screen type or a projector type. A... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080062116 - Illuminated light box with light-emitting diodes: The invention relates to a light box, intended especially for the backlighting of liquid crystal displays. The box includes a lightguide in the form of a thin plate having two opposed main faces and at least two edges, the lightguide having a light-diffusing optical structure on one of the faces.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080062119 - Electrophoretic display and method of manufacture: An electrophoretic display and a method for more easily manufacturing the same which includes forming a thermal conversion film on a transfer substrate, forming a transfer film having an electrophoretic member dispersed therein on the thermal conversion film, preparing a first panel where a first electrode is formed and aligning... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062120 - Location tracking system: A multi-range location tracking system for tracking a location of one or more objects, such as people, pets, or things, has one or more GPS-enabled accessory devices, with each accessory device being coupled to a corresponding one of the objects and being configured to generate location data of the corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080062121 - Shuttle control system for controlling kvm switch and method thereof: A shuttle control system to generate control signals to operate a control menu or an on-screen display menu for controlling a KVM switch. The shuttle control system includes a shuttle control module and a KVM control module. The shuttle control module generates control signals. The KVM control module receives the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080062122 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080062123 - Interactive video display system using strobed light: An interactive video display system uses strobing light to allow easy and unencumbered interaction between a person and projected video images. A camera may be synchronized to the strobing light and the strobing light may be in an infrared spectral range. A processing system detects images of a human in... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080062125 - Electronic appliance: An electronic appliance includes detectors that are assigned to detection zones defined on a display. The detection zones correspond to push buttons that are arranged in an operation menu displayed on the display. Each of the detectors includes a temporal difference filter. The temporal difference filter includes a detection zone... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080062124 - Mouse interface apparatus using camera, system and method using the same, and computer recordable medium for implementing the same: Provided is a mouse interface apparatus using a camera, and system and method using the mouse interface apparatus. The mouse interface apparatus detects image coordinates (xi, yi) of a plurality of points existing on edges of a camera-photographing computer window image from the camera-photographing computer window image, obtains a homography... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080062126 - 3d method and system for hand-held devices: A 3D input method and system that enables the user to interact with various 3D applications on the hand-held device's display. The 3D input method is based on utilizing five positions that can be five spots on a touch screen such as that of the iPhone, or a 5-way button... Agent: Cherif Atia Algreatly Mathematical Inventing- Silicon Valley

20080062127 - Menu overlay including context dependent menu icon: A video device displays video in one of a plurality of contexts in an onscreen display area. In response to the menu command, the video device generates a menu overlay within the onscreen display area while maintaining the video within the menu overlay, and generates within the menu overlay a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062128 - Perspective scale video with navigation menu: A video system generates a user interface by performing a perspective transition of a video from a first video environment to a second video environment that defines a space and generates a navigation menu in the space.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062129 - Remote controller having concentric cursor control islands: A remote control select button 101 for use with consumer electronics and computer devices having a housing 102 for electronic circuitry for controlling remote electronic devices.... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20080062130 - Mouse having hot key for internet searching: A mouse having a hot key is used for performing an internet searching operation. The mouse is electrically connected to a computer system, which is linked to a preset search website including a search box. The mouse includes a hot key and a hot key processing program. The hot key... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080062131 - Programmable resolution for optical pointing device: A pointing device, such as an optical mouse, includes a light unit for illuminating a surface, a photodetector array configured to generate image information related to the illuminated surface, a navigation engine for generating navigation information at a target resolution of the pointing device, and a resolution input interface for... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080062132 - Kvm switch capable of detecting keyword input and method thereof: Disclosed is a keyboard-video-mouse switch capable of detecting keyword input and recording video data from a computer and keyboard input data from a console and method thereof. The keyboard-video-mouse switch includes a keyword filter and a capture unit. The keyword filter detects whether a predetermined keyword is inputted from the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080062133 - Messaging including active response feature: An enhanced messaging capability which enables the recipient of the message to respond to a query by pressing a single button or multiple buttons to issue the response. Code for enabling a receiving device to display the message and provide simplified response options is carried by a messaging format such... Agent: Jonathan A. Small JasIPConsulting

20080062134 - Virtual hard keys on a wireless device: Embodiments of the claimed invention provide systems and methods whereby the functionality of soft keys on a mobile electronic device may be shifted depending on the orientation of the device. The device detects its orientation and then maps a different function to the appropriate soft keys to ensure that the... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080062135 - Dynamic seat labeling and passenger identification system: A placard for displaying a customer specific message includes a receiver, a capacitor, and an electronic updateable static display. The receiver has a memory storing an identification code and an antenna for receiving a signal. The capacitor is coupled to the receiver and capable of being charged by the signal.... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20080062136 - Character input device, character input device control method, and information storage medium: To provide a character input device allowing a user to smoothly carry out a “character input operation which is carried out by initially selecting any character group from a plurality of character groups each corresponding to a plurality of characters, then selecting any character from among those corresponding to that... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080062138 - Computer system and control method therefor: A computer system includes a touch pad having plural key areas and generating a key signal according to a touch input with respect to the respective key areas, a display, a storing unit for storing a relation table of the character value corresponding to the key area, and a controller... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080062141 - Media player with imaged based browsing: Methods and systems that improve the way media is played, sorted, modified, stored and cataloged on a portable media player are disclosed. One aspect relates to an image based browser that allows a user to navigate through and select images that are related to media items.... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080062137 - Touch actuation controller for multi-state media presentation: A media processing system determines if an actuation of in input device exceeds an actuation threshold and switches presentation of the media from a first presentation state to a second presentation state upon so determining. The second presentation state can be maintained for the duration of the touch actuation.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062142 - Touch panel having high environmental durability and manufacturing method thereof: A touch panel including an upper electrode plate including a plastic film base plate and a transparent conductive film provided on a first surface of the plastic film base plate; and a lower electrode plate including a glass base plate and a transparent conductive film applied to a surface of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080062143 - Haptic interface for touch screen embodiments: A haptic feedback touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that provides position information to a computer based on a location of user contact. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080062144 - Haptic interface for touch screen embodiments: A haptic feedback touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that provides position information to a computer based on a location of user contact. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080062145 - Haptic interface for touch screen embodiments: A haptic feedback touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that provides position information to a computer based on a location of user contact. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080062139 - Touch screen liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein are liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the display circuitry. The integration may take a variety of forms. Touch sensing elements can be completely implemented within the LCD stackup but outside the not between the color filter plate and the array plate.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080062140 - Touch screen liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein are liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the display circuitry. The integration may take a variety of forms. Touch sensing elements can be completely implemented within the LCD stackup but outside the not between the color filter plate and the array plate.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080062146 - Apparatus and method for preventing capacitive overlay touchscreen from malfunctioning in tdma scheme-based mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for preventing a capacitive overlay touchscreen from malfunctioning in a mobile terminal using a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme are provided. The method includes determining, by checking information on time slots, if transmission of data is generated during a first time slot occupied by the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080062147 - Touch screen liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein are liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the display circuitry. The integration may take a variety of forms. Touch sensing elements can be completely implemented within the LCD stackup but outside the not between the color filter plate and the array plate.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080062148 - Touch screen liquid crystal display: Disclosed herein are liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrate the touch sensing elements with the display circuitry. The integration may take a variety of forms. Touch sensing elements can be completely implemented within the LCD stackup but outside the not between the color filter plate and the array plate.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080062149 - Optical coordinate input device comprising few elements: The present invention is an optical electronic input device for identifying the coordinates of an object in a given area. The device may capture two-dimensional or three-dimensional input information, using a minimal number of optical units (one for two dimensional coordinates and two for three dimensional coordinates). The invention requires... Agent: Itzhak Baruch

20080062150 - Touch screen for mobile terminal and power saving method thereof: A touch screen of a mobile terminal and a power saving method thereof are provided. The power saving method of a touch screen for a mobile terminal includes determining whether a touch panel is contacted by controlling light emitting elements to emit light with a first scan speed and detecting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080062151 - Acoustic condition sensor employing a plurality of mutually non-orthogonal waves: A system and method for processing input from a touchscreen having a substrate and a touch surface thereof, adapted for manual interaction with a human hand, having an electronic sensor associated with said substrate adapted to detect a pressure sensitive response to at least two concurrent touches on the touch... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080062152 - Writing instrument that calculates grade: A writing instrument for use by a grader comprises an elongate, tubular housing, a writing component secured within the housing and operative to make marks on a surface, and a calculation assembly comprised of electronic components. The calculation assembly is retained within the housing and includes a plurality of data... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080062153 - Flushness shims: A media player according to the invention is provided. The media player may include a scroll wheel and a housing including a retention ledge. The retention ledge may maintain the position of the scroll wheel with respect to the housing. A flexible printed circuit may also be included in the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080062155 - Display device and method capable of adjusting slew rate: A display device capable of adjusting slew rate includes a display panel, a driving circuit, a storage unit, and a compensating circuit. The display panel includes a plurality of signal lines for signal transmission. The driving circuit is coupled to the display panel for generating driving signals to a signal... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080062154 - Structure of digital flat panel display: A digital flat panel display includes a case, a display module and an electrical control system. The electrical control system comprises a signal-input terminal to connect with the display module for receiving signals. A signal input/output module is located at the upper area of the signal-input terminal to process the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080062158 - Light modulator having pixel memory decoupled from pixel display: A light modulator such as an SLM, in which the pixel data array is decoupled from the pixel display array. The pixel data array can be located externally, permitting significant reduction in the circuitry present under each pixel of the display, in turn permitting significant reduction in display pixel size... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080062156 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080062157 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080062159 - Electrophoretic display and method for driving thereof: An electrophoretic display and a method for driving thereof are disclosed. Some embodiments provide an electrophoretic display comprising: (a) a first electrode; (b) a second electrode; (c) an electrophoretic member between the first and second electrodes, the electrophoretic member comprising: first particles each of which carries a first charge, second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062160 - Video display driving method of lcd apparatus: A video display driving method includes: a data transforming process of transforming first sub-video frame data into a preset-voltage signal and a post-set-voltage signal and transforming second sub-video frame data into a preset-voltage signal and a post-set-voltage signal; a display driving process of sequentially writing the preset-voltage signal and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062161 - Apparatuses and methods for utilizing non-ideal light sources: A method includes obtaining a measurement of a property of a light source, scanning light from the light source onto a surface, such that the light interacts with the surface, detecting light from the surface to create a picture element, and correcting the picture element with the measurement of the... Agent: Michael G. Pate, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080062162 - Display device: Tonal data of one frame of a video signal is subject to time division into dark subframe tonal data at a low tone and bright subframe tonal data at a high tone to compensate for a lowered luminance in the dark subframe by the bright subframe so as not to... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080062165 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display and a driving method thereof, a misfiring prevention period is provided between a reset period and an address period in response to a temperature of the plasma display being higher than predetermined temperature or a weight value of a previous subfield being higher than a predetermined... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080062163 - Display control method, driving device for display device, display device, program, and storage medium: A modulation unit is disclosed which compares video data on a current frame to a representative value of the preceding frame from a frame memory and corrects the video data so as to emphasize the gradation transition from the gradation indicated by the representative value of the preceding frame to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080062164 - System and method for automated calibration and correction of display geometry and color: Various embodiments are described herein for a system and method for calibrating a display device to eliminate distortions due to various components such as one or more of lenses, mirrors, projection geometry, lateral chromatic aberration and color misalignment, and color and brightness non-uniformity. Calibration for distortions that vary over time... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062166 - Drive control method and device for current drive circuit, display panel drive device, display apparatus and recording medium storing drive control program: The method includes the steps of: (a) supplying second digital data, in place of first digital data that should originally be supplied, to a current drive circuit to allow the current drive circuit to supply a drive current corresponding to the second digital data during a first time period; and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080062167 - Computer-based system and method for providing situational awareness for a structure using three-dimensional modeling: A system for providing real-time or near real-time situational awareness for a structure includes a database module for storing structural information associated with the structure. The system includes a situational awareness module for gathering situational awareness information associated with the structure. The system includes a three-dimensional (3-D) rendering module in... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080062168 - Method for bulk provision of interactive virtual visits for multimedia broadcast, and system therefor: The invention concerns a delocalized fast and easy-to-implement system for automatically creating virtual visits enabling a very large amount of data to be simultaneously processed. Therefor, the invention concerns a digital processing system comprising: an interface viewable on a device such as a computer equipped with a network connection, to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080062170 - Part identification image processor, program for generating part identification image, and recording medium storing the same: A part identification image processor includes a model manager to manage a 3D model, a model region calculator, a part region calculator, an image data processor, and an image data manager. The model region calculator projects the 3D model in a direction specified by visual point information and computes model... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080062169 - Method of enabling to model virtual objects: A data processing system has a display monitor for rendering a virtual object, and a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the object rendered. The system is operative to enable the user to modify a shape of the object at a first location on the object. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080062171 - Method for simplifying maintenance of feature of three-dimensional mesh data: A method for simplifying the maintenance of a feature of three-dimensional mesh data includes: receiving an input of three-dimensional mesh data from a three-dimensional range scanning system; creating a surface approximated with regard to points of the mesh data; measuring the curvature and curvature derivative value for respective points on... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080062172 - 2d/3d display and method for forming 3d image: A display capable of providing 2D and/or 3D images. The display comprises a liquid crystal display device and a self-emissive display device. The self-emissive display device is disposed on the rear of the liquid crystal display device, in which the liquid crystal display device provides a first image and the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080062173 - Method and apparatus for selecting absolute location on three-dimensional image on navigation display: A method and apparatus for a navigation system for selecting a location on a three-dimensional map view has a pyramid cursor that identifies a focused location and a means to change a viewing angle. The three-dimensional map view shows the three-dimensional image of roads and flat surfaces but not buildings... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080062174 - Method and device for the display of images: A device for the display of images with a data processing system is provided. The device includes a display device; a memory storing an original image comprising a number of pixels; and a processor operable to generate a second image on the basis of the original image. The second image... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080062177 - Dynamic feedback and interaction for parametric curves: Methods, program products and systems for accepting user input selecting a parameter for a parametric curve, the parametric curve being displayed in a graph. A range of curves for the parametric curve is determined based on a range of values for the parameter. And the range of curves for the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080062176 - Method for generating graphs for the comparison of data: Graphs for displaying data are generated by acquiring signals using a signal acquisition device. The signals are processed to obtain a first series of data and a second series of data comprising independent and dependent variables. A search is performed of the dependent variables of the first series of data... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080062175 - System for acquiring signals and for displaying and comparing data from the signals: A measurement system comprises a signal acquisition device for acquiring signals. A processor processes the signals to obtain a first series of data and a second series of data. A display device receives the first series of data and the second series of data. A first graph on the display... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080062178 - Voip group resource management: Group resource management is provided utilizing assignment of resources in a persistent manner, which involves assigning a channel and resources to a user device for a specified interval while allowing users within the group to be multiplexed dynamically. A first bitmap is created that is a function of the number... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062179 - Data display system to facilitate pattern recognition and classification: A data display system and method to facilitate pattern recognition is disclosed. The display system can be used to monitor a live or pre-recorded data stream with the aim of determining instances in one dimensional data when the process generating the signal or numerical sequence has changed its fundamental characteristics.... Agent: Rolando Manuel Branly

20080062180 - Character/graphic display apparatus, character/graphic display method, program, and recording medium: A character/graphic display apparatus includes a display device for displaying a character or graphic; and a control section for controlling the display device. The control section executes character/graphic display processing, which includes the steps of (a) scaling a character or graphic including reference points along a specific axis so as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062181 - Receiving system's display property provided to a sending system: A method comprises a receiving system receiving display properties of a display coupled to the receiving system. The receiving system is operatively coupled to a sending system. The method further comprises transmitting the display properties to the sending system and informing an operating system running on the sending system of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080062182 - Control of color depth in a computing device: A computing device, such as a hand-held computing device, like a personal digital assistant (PDA), includes a communications bus and a display configured to display in more than one display mode and the display coupled to the communications bus. The computing device also includes a processor coupled to the display... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080062183 - Hybrid data structures for graphics programs: The use of data structures for displaying images is described: A first minimal data structure. In this structure only that information needed to show the data in the form of a 3D image, either wire mesh or rendered, to the user, is loaded into memory, e.g. the RAM memory. No... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080062184 - Image-capturing apparatus: An image-capturing apparatus is provided having a storage control device, a writing speed measuring device, and a selecting device. The storage control device writes image data into memory devices. The writing speed measuring device measures the writing speed of the memory devices by writing dummy data into the memory devices.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080062185 - Frame synchronization method and device utilizing frame buffer: A frame synchronization method includes: temporarily storing input data of at least one source frame in a frame buffer according to an input time sequence; generating an output time sequence according to the input time sequence and a delay time; generating output data of a destination frame according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080062186 - Display device, control method for the same, and information storage medium: A font data memory unit (50) stores font data which contains a plurality of font records each containing font information for displaying a character and line feed control information for controlling line feed conducted before and/or after the character. A character string display unit (54) displays a character string based... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080062187 - Moving picture coding apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus: A video encoder (70) for coding moving pictures comprising a buffer (16c) with a plurality of memory areas capable of storing frames composed of top fields and bottom fields, a motion estimation unit (19) operable to code, field by field, inputted pictures performing moving estimation and moving compensation by referring,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080062188 - Method of and apparatus for saving video data: A method of and apparatus are provided for saving video data. The method for saving video data in a memory includes mapping the memory such that data of a plurality of consecutive lines in a video frame is recorded one after another in a single memory bank at intervals of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062190 - Image editing method and apparatus thereof: A method and an apparatus for editing an image are provided. The present image editing method includes recording by coding edit information in a predetermined field of an original image frame, and displaying either the original image or an image edited based on the edit information. Accordingly, the edit information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080062189 - Method for automatically unfolding a computer monitor when starting a notebook: According to a method for automatically unfolding a computer monitor when starting a notebook, the opening speed of the computer monitor is determined, according to a predetermined starting time needed for a computer starting program (for example, the average time needed for the operating system initialization after activating the notebook)... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080062191 - Apparatus and method for converting metadata color temperature and apparatus and method for providing metadata: A method and an apparatus for converting the color temperature of metadata and a method and an apparatus for providing image metadata are provided. The apparatus for providing image metadata includes an input unit, an image metadata decoding unit, and an image color temperature converting unit. The input unit receives... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080062193 - Apparatus and methods for editing hue and saturation in color profiles: Apparatus and methods are provided for editing color profiles. In particular, apparatus and methods in accordance with this invention receive an output color including a first hue, identify from the color profile a plurality of output color values that have a hue substantially equal to the first hue, provide a... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080062192 - Color selection interface: Displaying colors in a color selection interface is disclosed. Displaying includes identifying a first plurality of colors associated with a color selection interface, mapping each color in the first plurality of colors to an allowed color in an allowed color set of one or more colors to obtain a second... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Adobe Sys. Incorp.

20080062194 - Method of detecting global image, display apparatus employing the method and method of driving the display apparatus: A method and apparatus for detecting a global image and removing image blur includes receiving an n-th frame in a frame period, presuming a motion of the n-th frame by using the n-th frame and a previous frame of the n-th frame, determining the kind of motion picture of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080062195 - Method for coordinated drawing review of realted cad drawings: Embodiments of the invention provide methods for performing coordinated drawing review of related CAD drawings. In general, a user may select a review drawing to compare with a project drawing. Once selected a CAD application may identify differences between the review and project drawings and provide a display of the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080062196 - System and method for enhancing the visual effect of a video display: A system and method for enhancing the visual effect of a video display. Such a system includes a video display that displays moving images and a light source connected to the video display for providing a light effect that softens visual boundaries of the video display and enhances overall visual... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080062197 - Method and device for performing user-defined clipping in object space: A method and device for performing and processing user-defined clipping in object space to reduce the number of computations needed for the clipping operation. The method and device also combine the modelview transformation of the vertex coordinates with projection transform. The user-defined clipping in object space provides a higher performance... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080062199 - Host apparatus to set n-up function and control method thereof: A host apparatus capable of setting an N-up function and a control method thereof. The host apparatus provides a function of printing a plurality of pages on a single sheet of printing paper, and includes a Graphic User Interface (GUI) generating unit which generates a user interface to set a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080062198 - Storage medium having game program stored thereon and game apparatus: A reference character is generated by combining part objects prepared for each site. At least one candidate character object is generated by changing at least one part object among the part objects used in the reference character object. The reference character object and the candidate character object are displayed by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080062200 - System and method for providing graphics using graphical engine: Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. In one example, a system may provide layered graphics in a video environment. The system may include a bus, a graphical engine and a graphical pipeline. The graphical engine may be coupled to the bus and may be... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080062201 - System, method, and apparatus for displaying streams with dynamically changing formats: A system and method for displaying frames with dynamically changing display parameters is described herein. The display engine stores new display parameters detected by the decoder in one buffer of a ping pong buffer, while continuing to use another set of display parameters stored in the other ping pong buffer.... Agent: Christopher C. Winslade Mcandrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.

20080062202 - Magnifying visual information using a center-based loupe: A method and apparatus for magnifying selected portions of visual information on a screen is provided. In response to receiving first user input, displaying, within a first bounded region that encloses a first portion of visual information, (a) the first portion at a same magnification level as the visual information... Agent: Hickman Palermo Troung & Becker LLP And Apple Inc.

20080062203 - Scalable vector graphics editing systems and methods: Methods and systems for the creation and delayed-rendering of scalable vector graphic scenes are disclosed. By creating Techniques for a database containing a plurality of objects with each object being a scalable vector graphic, an editing tool containing a plurality of graphics controls can be used to create a graphic... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080062204 - Automated pixel snapping for anti-aliased rendering: An anti-aliased computer display system has graphical elements that may be defined with a pixel-snapping property that causes the elements to be shifted or transformed to align with the pixel map of a display. When the property is set, horizontal and vertical guidelines are established that are used to calculate... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080062205 - Dynamic pixel snapping: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for improving output rendering in anti-aliased rendering scenarios. A pixel snapping mode of operation is turned on and off to improve output rendering. When the system detects that an animation has started, the pixel snapping mode is turned off, and when the system detects... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080062206 - Pixel snapping with relative guidelines: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for improving output rendering in anti-aliased rendering scenarios. Relative guidelines are used to improve output rendering in certain anti-aliased rendering scenarios. The system receives information regarding at least one visual element area which is important for symmetric appearance, with at least two guideline pairs... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080062207 - Scrolling method and mobile communication terminal using the same: A scrolling method, which includes displaying at least one scroll icon on a screen of a touch device, sensing an operation in which one of the displayed scroll icons is touched and dragged, and scrolling the screen displayed on the touch device in a direction in which the touched scroll... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080062208 - Power consumption reduction device, visability improvement device, self-luminous display apparatus, image processing device, electronic equipment, power consumption reduction method, visibility improvement method, and computer program: Disclosed herein is a power consumption reduction device including: a region-adaptive gray level conversion unit; wherein the gray level conversion unit is operable to convert n1 bits of gray level information for a low gray level region into m1 (<n1) bits of gray level information, further operable to convert n2... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080062209 - Displaying time sequence of 2-dimensional data: A method of displaying a time sequence of 2-dimensional data represents each data set in the time sequence as a normalized figure based upon a reference set of data. The perimeter of the normalized figure is color coded to represent deviations from a data standard that corresponds to the 2-dimensional... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080062210 - Driving device, display apparatus having the same and method of driving the display apparatus: In a driving device, a display apparatus having the driving device and a method of driving the driving device, a timing controller outputs a present image data during a first period within one frame and sequentially outputs a gray data having a lower gray-scale than a previous image data and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080055190 - Signal receiving apparatus, display apparatus and control method thereof: A signal receiving apparatus includes: a communication part which communicates with a plurality of display apparatuses, and a controller which determines whether at least one of the plurality of display apparatuses is connected to the signal receiving apparatus, and, if it is determined that the at least one display apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080055191 - Methods and systems for displaying one or more images on multiple remote displays: A system and method for displaying one or more images on multiple remote displays. An image is selected to be displayed on one or more remote displays and a remote image file is generated for the selected image. The remote image file is transmitted to one or more remote displays... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080055192 - Display device for vehicles: A display device for vehicles (a head-up display device for vehicles) includes an indicator 2 emitting display light, and display means 1 for projecting display light L to a projection member. Also included is control means 14 for making the display means 1 display thereon a road shape image indicating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080055193 - Image display apparatus: The image display apparatus is capable of reducing moire fringe when electric inverse-correction is performed on an image output to an image display element. The apparatus includes an optical system for observation of an image displayed on an image display element, a processor performing distorting processing that electrically provides to... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080055194 - Method and system for context based user interface information presentation and positioning: A method (90) and system (30) of presenting and positioning information on a user interface (56) includes a wearable display device, sensors (32) for detecting a context of use of the wearable display device using at least a vision sensor and a motion sensor, and a processor (42 or 50)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080055195 - Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display device: A technique which relates to discharge in sustain operation of a PDP device and a driving waveform thereof, and which can improve luminous efficiency to achieve stability while reducing a possibility of failure of discharge is provided. In a generating operation of a sustain pulse in a sustain pulse generating... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080055196 - Light emitting element driver and light emitting element driving method: In a high luminance area having a target luminance L of not lower than a preset reference luminance L0, the light emitting element driver of the invention adopts a direct current drive mode and enables the function of a constant current driving circuit to drive an LED or light emitting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055197 - Electro-optical device, method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of scanning lines arranged in rows, a plurality of data lines arranged in columns and grouped in blocks for every m columns (m being an integer more than one), a plurality of pixels, a scanning-line driving circuit, a block selecting circuit, a sampling circuit,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055199 - Driving method of plasma display panel and plasma display device: In a sustain operation in an ALIS PDP device, a combination in which a basic first waveform and a second waveform in which a discharge peak is separated are mixed is applied. In the combination, the probability that the second waveform occurs successively is sufficiently reduced to less than 20%,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080055200 - High voltage gate driver ic with multi-function gating: A high voltage gate driver circuit in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes a first driver operable to provide a first output voltage signal, a second driver operable to provide a second output voltage signal, internal circuitry operable to process the second output voltage signal to provide... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080055198 - Method of driving plasma display device for reducing power consumption: A driving method of a plasma display device for reducing power consumption is provided. In the driving method of the plasma display device, a discharge current, which is consumed during a period where a voltage of a first electrode is increased and maintained through an inductor in a sustain discharge... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080055201 - Panel interface device, lsi for image processing, digital camera and digital equipment: The panel interface control device, which eliminates the necessity of newly producing video data for panel display and flexibly responds to a change in the type of display panel, includes a data conversion circuit and an RGB filter circuit that are both programmable and scale up or down a digital... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080055208 - Emission driver and electroluminescent display including such an emission driver: An emission driver may include a first signal processor adapted to receive a clock signal, an input signal and an inverse input signal, and generate a first output signal, a second signal processor adapted to receive the first output signal, an inverse clock signal and negative feedback signals, and generate... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055207 - Emission driver, emission control signal driving method and electroluminescent display including such an emission driver: An emission driver may include a first signal processor adapted to receive a clock signal, an input signal and an inverse input signal, and to generate a first output signal, a second signal processor adapted to receive the first output signal, an inverse clock signal and negative feedback signals, and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055205 - Organic electro luminescence display device and driving method for the same: An organic electroluminescence display device capable of extending a functional period of the battery is disclosed. The device reduces power consumption by using colors having a low power consumption to display an image. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence display device, including a pixel unit with pixels for emitting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080055209 - Method and apparatus for uniformity and brightness correction in an amoled display: A method for reducing brightness uniformity variations in an active-matrix OLED display employing amorphous silicon thin-film transistors, by providing an active-matrix OLED display having amorphous silicon thin-film transistors; and deriving a first correction value from a measured or estimated value of light-emitting element performance. Subsequently groups of light-emitting elements are... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker Patent Legal Staff

20080055210 - Method and apparatus for uniformity and brightness correction in an electroluminescent display: A method for reducing brightness uniformity variations in an active-matrix electroluminescent (EL) display employing amorphous silicon thin-film transistors, by providing an active-matrix EL display having amorphous silicon thin-film transistors; and deriving a first correction value from a measured or estimated value of light-emitting element performance. Subsequently groups of light-emitting elements... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080055212 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display is provided. In the organic light emitting display, when a wiring section including a plurality of signal lines for transmitting signals to a driving circuit unit or an organic light emitting device is formed under a non-display region, more specifically, a COG region where a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080055214 - Display device and method for driving the same: A driver for driving a display device having a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of data lines includes: a signal controller that creates a plurality of image signal groups and a plurality of identification codes corresponding to the plurality of image signal groups; and a plurality of data... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080055215 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate. A plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines are disposed on the first substrate to define a plurality of pixel regions. A plurality of common line groups is disposed on the first substrate, and each of the common line... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055216 - Liquid crystal display and methods for driving the same: Embodiments of the present invention set forth methods and systems for driving display devices. In one embodiment, a first set of image data to be displayed on a display panel is stored. During a first time period, a reset signal is asserted to set the display panel associated with a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080055217 - Method for driving liquid crystal display device: A method for driving a liquid crystal display device (20) is provided. The liquid crystal display device comprising a plurality of scanning lines (201), a plurality of data lines (202), a scanning driving circuit (210) for providing scanning signals to the scanning lines, a data driving circuit (220) for providing... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080055220 - Display control device, semiconductor integrated circuit device and mobile terminal device: Tone modification of pixel data is performed, minimizing dummy cycles inserted by a host device that transfers the pixel data. A modification circuit capable of modifying tone values of pixel data sequentially transferred from an external entity comprises a shift circuit for shifting pixel data in sync with an operational... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080055219 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a processor for outputting a most-significant m-bit data from an n-bit data and one of a plurality of patterns indicative of first and second locations of a first modulation data in first and second consecutive frames, respectively, in accordance with least significant (n−m) bits of the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080055222 - Charge pump pixel driving circuit: The present invention provides a charge pump pixel driving circuit, which includes a first storage capacitor, a second storage capacitor and switch means. The first end of the second storage capacitor is coupled to a pixel electrode. The switch means responsive to a control signal to couple a signal voltage... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055224 - Array substrate and display panel having the same: In an array substrate, a gate line is arranged on a base substrate and extends in a first direction, and a data line is insulated from and crossing the gate line and extends in a second direction. A switching part is connected between the gate line and the data line.... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080055223 - Pixel circuits and methods for driving pixels: A circuit according to one embodiment includes a data line; a select line; a storage node coupled to the select line; a first transistor with a gate coupled to the select line, a first electrode thereof coupled to the storage node, and a second electrode thereof coupled to the data... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080055225 - Display device capable of displaying partial picture and driving method of the same: Disclosed is a display device, including: a display substrate which comprises a gate line and a data line and a gate driving unit which is coupled to the gate line of the display substrate and outputs a gate signal. The gate driving unit is comprised of a shift register that... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080055189 - System and method for displaying computer data in a multi-screen display system: Described herein is a graphics apparatus for displaying video data on a display system having N monitors each containing a screen. The apparatus includes a central controller for receiving from a graphics card a video signal. The central controller divides at least a portion of the video signal into N... Agent: Ray Wilk

20080055202 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: A method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for making a stable operation at both a low temperature and a high temperature. In the apparatus, a scan driver applies a first sustaining pulse to a scan electrode during a sustain period. A sustain driver applies... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080055203 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080055204 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the method of driving the plasma display apparatus, a first pulse falling from a reference voltage level is supplied to the sustain electrode during a pre-reset period prior to a reset period. A voltage of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080055206 - Driving method of a display: In a method for driving a display, one frame may be divided into more sub frames than a number of bits of data. A time period of the one frame may be divided into a number of periods corresponding to a number of scan lines multiplied by the number of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055211 - Method of inspecting defect for electroluminescence display apparatus, defect inspection apparatus, and method of manufacturing electroluminescence display apparatus using defect inspection method and apparatus: A dark spot defect caused by short-circuiting of an EL element is detected based on an emission brightness or a current flowing through the EL element when an element driving transistor which controls a drive current to be supplied to the EL element is operated in its linear operating region... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080055213 - Method and apparatus for driving a display device with variable reference driving signals: A method and an apparatus capable of increasing the video depths depending on the video content of each line in order to provide a maximum of color gradation for each given scene shall be proposed. For this purpose there is disclosed an apparatus for driving a display device including input... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080055218 - Display device, method of driving same and electronic device mounting same: A liquid crystal panel (2) includes scanning signal lines (31) for supplying scanning signals to gate electrodes (20) of TFTs (14), and data signal lines (32) for supplying data signals to data electrodes (24) of TFTs. The liquid crystal panel further includes auxiliary capacitive electrode pads (27a) for use in... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080055221 - Display device, viewing angle control device, and electronic device: A first transparent electrode film, which is a component of a SW-LCD for viewing angle control, is used as a touch panel. When a contacting object contacts the surface of the first transparent electrode film, a position detector detects currents flowing from plural parts of the first transparent electrode film... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080055226 - Dac and source driver using the same, and method for driving a display device: A DAC and a source driver using the same, and a driving method for a display device are provided. The DAC comprises a positive polarity resistor string and a negative polarity resistor string. The resistance of each resistor of the positive polarity resistor string is determined based on positive polarity... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080055227 - Reduced component display driver and method: A display driver circuit for driving display elements in a row of a display array, includes an m input, n-bit input multiplexer; a digital to analog converter, and a one input, m output, analog output multiplexer. A clock source, clocks the input and output multiplexers, to sequentially provide an analog... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080055228 - Adjusting brightness of a display image in a display having an adjustable intensity light source: To adjust brightness of at least a portion of a display image, a type of content to be included within the display image is determined and, based on the identified content type, the light source of the display is set to an adjusted intensity. Thereafter, that portion of the display... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080055230 - Backlight driver, display apparatus having the same and method of driving backlight: A backlight driver includes an inverter controller, a dimming signal compensator and an inverter. The inverter controller generates a pulse width modulation signal in response to a control signal and outputs a first dimming signal that represents a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal and a second dimming... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080055233 - Driving-control device and method of backlight module: A driving-control device of a backlight module receives a first digital burst signal and includes a start signal generating unit, a counter unit, a memory unit, a comparator unit and a driving unit. The start signal generating, unit generates a digital start signal on receiving the first digital burst signal.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055229 - Method for enhancing response speed of hold-typed display device: The method increases the output frame rate to p/q (p, q are both natural numbers and p>q) times of the input frame rate. In a period of time equal to the least common multiple of the input and output frame times, q input frames are output and (p−q) transient frames... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080055231 - Mobile terminal and display panel driver: To provide a technique for protecting a fast interface for transferring image data among a plurality of cases from noise caused by controlling of the brightness of the backlight. The mobile terminal according to the present invention has a body case 1, a display part case 2, a coupling mechanism... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080055232 - Backlight driving apparatus of lcd and driving method thereof: An inverter of a liquid crystal display for receiving a power voltage for burst dimming via one power terminal to simultaneously adjust a burst dimming and an analog dimming is disclosed. In the inverter of the liquid crystal display, a burst dimming signal generator receives a triangular-wave signal and a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080055234 - Color electrophoretic display device: Set forth is an electrophoretic display device including a display region, between substrates, at least one of which is transparent, the display region including a multiplicity of pixels, wherein one or more of the pixels have three or more subpixels, the three or more subpixels being made up of individual... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080055235 - Electrophoretic display device and method of fabricating the same: In fabrication of an electrophoretic display device, a display defect (blotches or smears on the display screen) caused by the fact that a very small quantity of moisture and/or air bubbles existing near the electrophoretic display element layer enter the inside of the layer, and another display defect (defective driving)... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080055237 - Cord retraction mechanism: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a cord retraction mechanism for an input device. A subassembly having an input device, a cable, and a retraction mechanism is provided. The cable has first and second opposing ends, with the first end being operable to be coupled to a computing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080055240 - Display apparatus with on screen display controller: An exemplary display apparatus (2) includes a front cover (21) having an opening (210) and a peripheral side (211) beside the opening; an on screen display button board (22) having a main body (223) with locating holes (2234); and a display panel (23) having a display area (231) corresponding to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080055239 - Global input device for multiple computer-controlled medical systems: An integrated control and display system for operating a plurality of separate computer systems each having a visual display, includes at least one cursor control device for seamlessly moving a cursor among the visual displays of the separate computer systems, the cursor control device operating to control the computer system... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080055238 - Method and apparatus for controlling and array of input/output devices: A processing system may include an array of input/output (I/O) devices (e.g., an array of microphones, an array of antennas, etc.) A device array control program for the processing system may provide a user interface for controlling the array of I/O devices. The user interface may include an array of... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080055236 - Method for operating a mobile communication device, software provided for carrying out the method, software storage medium for storing the software, and the mobile communication device: A method of operating a mobile communication device comprising displaying a array of selectable functions in a first direction on a display of the communication device; scrolling through the selectable functions in the array of functions by using one or more navigation keys, wherein for each one of the selectable... Agent: Perman & Green

20080055241 - Systems and methods for haptic feedback effects for control knobs: Systems and methods for haptic feedback effects for control knobs are described. One method comprises the steps of receiving a sensor signal associated with a motion of a manipulandum in a degree of freedom, and determining a direction of the motion of the manipulandum in the degree of freedom based... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080055242 - Apparatus and method for performing analog input operation in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for performing an analog input operation in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes checking first and second coordinates respectively mapped to first and second keys consecutively input; checking an input time difference between the first and second keys; computing a movement direction and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080055244 - Control schemes for haptic feedback interface devices: A method is disclosed that includes outputting haptic feedback based on a movement of an object in a first direction from a first position to a second position. The haptic feedback is discontinued when the object is moved in a second direction opposite the first direction subsequent to the movement... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080055243 - Method of operating an optical mouse: A method for controlling a computer cursor involves capturing a plurality of arrays of data in a hand held device representing light entering the device from an environment in which the device resides, processing at least some of the plurality of arrays of data in the device to estimate motion... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20080055247 - Method and apparatus for touchless calibration: A touchless sensing unit (110) and method (210) for calibrating a mobile device for touchless sensing is provided. The method can include evaluating (214) a finger movement within a touchless sensory space (101), estimating (216) a virtual coordinate system (320) from a range of finger movement, and mapping (218) the... Agent: Marc Boillot

20080055245 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing non-visual access to on-screen menus for remote controlled devices: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing non-visual access to on-screen menus for remote controlled electronic devices, such as DVD players, DVRs, VCRs, satellite receivers, televisions, etc. A repeater device is interposed between the remote control and the electronic device. The repeater device includes a receiver for receiving... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080055246 - Projector, terminal, and image communication system: A projector projects an image onto an image projection area by scanning the image projection area with a light beam including both image signal light and communication signal light. The image signal light and communication signal light may have different wavelengths, or the communication signal may be modulated onto one... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080055248 - Tactile feedback man-machine interface device: A man-machine interface which provides tactile feedback to various sensing body parts is disclosed. The device employs one or more vibrotactile units, where each unit comprises a mass and a mass-moving actuator. As the mass is accelerated by the mass-moving actuator, the entire vibrotactile unit vibrates. Thus, the vibrotactile unit... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080055249 - Mechanically powered cordless pointing device: A computer peripheral system comprising a computer peripheral and a mechanical input device adapted to initiate a conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy. The computer peripheral includes an energy conversion device adapted to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. The converted electrical energy provides power to at least one... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080055251 - Mouse with a two-way movable cover module: A mouse is disclosed to include a mouse body, which has a coupling structure on the top and two accommodation open chambers respectively at two sides of the coupling structure for storing different items, and a movable cover module, which has a top cover and a coupling structure fastened to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080055250 - Mouse with gain weight means: A mouse with gain weight means comprising a case, a cursor control unit, a plurality of keys, a housing, and a balancing weight component. The case has a circuit board disposed inside of the case and a plurality of balancing weight notches in the bottom of the case. The cursor... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080055252 - Operation panel apparatus and electric apparatus provided with the same: To provide an operation panel apparatus which can be used without exchanging the whole operation panel, even when input of a part of an input apparatus cannot be performed. In a test mode, a plurality of fixed keys 7 are in sequence checked on whether or not the input of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055254 - Disambiguated text message review function: A method of displaying text on a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects having a frequency... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080055253 - Handheld mobile communication device with flexible keys: Keypad keys for handheld mobile communication devices feature flexible key bodies and actuators extending from the key bodies. Switches below the actuators are connected in series circuits. All actuators beneath an intended key must be depressed in order for the circuit to be closed and the key to be recognized... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP (rim Prosecution)

20080055271 - Display system, display method, and display program: A display system according to the present invention includes: a plurality of pieces of electronic paper, each of which includes a display section that displays data and a light quantity detection section that detects an irradiated light quantity; a positional relation determination section that determines a mutual positional relation of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080055260 - Electrical touch screen sensor: Apparatus, systems including an electrical touch screen sensor and methods for implementing an electrical touch screen sensor are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed including a display having an array of display pixels and a plurality of sensors distributed amongst the display pixels and embedded within the display, where... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20080055258 - Enclosure to prevent fluid ingress of a device having a touch screen interface: An electronic device enclosure having an integrated in-mold foil, which prevents fluid ingress around an included display of the electronic device, is disclosed. A portion of the in-mold foil is adapted to the specific contour and profile of the display, thereby allowing a user to use a touch screen interface... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP One Dayton Centre

20080055266 - Imaging and display apparatus, information input apparatus, object detection medium, and object detection method: The imaging and display apparatus is provided. The imaging and display apparatus includes the following elements. An imaging-and-display panel has an image display function and an imaging function. A generation unit generates a difference image representing a difference between a display-light-based image and a shadow image, the display-light-based image being... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080055261 - Lcd panel with integral touchscreen: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device (100) having an integrated touchscreen includes a built-in probe signal source behind the liquid crystal (LC) layer (20). The probe signal source may include a pair of light sources (82 and 84) modulated at first and second frequencies (f1 and f2), respectively. A pair... Agent: Attn: Kurt Luther Honeywell International Inc.

20080055262 - Liquid crystal display with a liquid crystal touch panel having photo-sensing elements: A liquid crystal display includes a light source for emitting light, a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to and facing the first substrate, and a plurality of pixel units formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one pixel unit comprises a reflecting element disposed on... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080055259 - Method for dynamically adapting button size on touch screens to compensate for hand tremor: A computer system is described for dynamically adapting the size of touch sensitive areas or “buttons” on touch screens in response to the motor skill level of the user. Data from sensors arrayed around a touch screen send small changes in the user's hand position, and pass this data to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080055269 - Portable electronic device for instant messaging: A portable electronic device for instant messaging is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a graphical user interface (GUI) on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The GUI has a set of messages exchanged between a user of the device and another person. The set of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080055256 - Touch screen controller with embedded overlay: A method according to one embodiment may include receiving, by a touch screen controller, an overlay request signal. The method may also include reading, by the touch screen controller, overlay information stored in a memory device. The method may also include sending, by the touch screen controller, the overlay information... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Portfolio Ip

20080055270 - Touch screen display having touch panel, and method of manufacture: A resistive type touch panel includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and a porous polymer. The upper substrate has a first electrode. The lower substrate has a second electrode facing the first electrode. The porous polymer layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode to increase... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080055255 - Touch sensitive display having tactile structures: An improved handheld electronic device has a touch sensitive display which comprises a number of elongated tactile structures that are haptically detectable by a user. Various routines executable on the handheld electronic device can cause visual elements to be output in various predetermined arrangements with respect to the arrangement of... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080055267 - Touch-control liquid crystal display background of the invention: A liquid crystal display includes a source driver, a gate driver, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of detecting circuits, and a decision unit. Each pixel unit includes a switch transistor and a liquid crystal capacitor. When turned on by a scan signal generated by the gate driver, the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080055257 - Touch-sensitive interface operating system: A touch-sensitive interface operating system for applying to search objects of an electronic map or guide route includes a touch-sensitive panel for inputting at least one graphic instruction, a database, and an arithmetic unit. The database stores information relative to the at least one graphic instruction, the electronic map, and... Agent: Hdsl

20080055272 - Video manager for portable multifunction device: A video player for a portable multifunction device is disclosed. In some embodiments, a list of video items is displayed in a portrait orientation of a touch screen display of a portable electronic device. Upon user selection of a respective video item in the list, the user selected video item... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080055264 - Voicemail manager for portable multifunction device: A computer-implemented method for management of voicemail messages, performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, includes: displaying a list of voicemail messages; detecting selection by a user of a respective voicemail message in the list; responding to the user selection of the respective voicemail message by... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080055273 - Web-clip widgets on a portable multifunction device: In a computer-implemented method for use at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display, a web page or portion thereof is displayed on the touch screen display. An activation of a web-clip widget creation icon is detected. In response to detecting the activation, a web-clip widget is created... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080055263 - Incoming telephone call management for a portable multifunction device: In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. Upon detecting an incoming telephone call from a caller, a text identifier of the caller is displayed; an image associated with the caller is displayed;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080055265 - Interactive touchpad: A film interactive touchpad for control of home systems. A touchscreen defined by a glass panel and polyester film defines active areas responsive to contact. Multiple, customizable and interchangeable templates correspond with multiple levels of functionality and define input and control buttons corresponding to active areas of the touchpad. A... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080055268 - Touch screen panel and method for manufacturing the same: A plurality of pixel parts is electrically connected to gate and source lines. Each of the pixel parts has a thin-film transistor (TFT) formed therein. A plurality of hall sensing parts is formed in the pixel parts. A plurality of hall sensing parts varies a reference current applied to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080055274 - Display and input device: A display and input device, comprising a substrate (30), for example a flexible conducting foil, comprising a front surface (8) and a rear surface (10); a plurality of layers (32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39) provided on the front surface (8) of the substrate (30), the plurality of layers (32,... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055276 - Method for controlling partial lock in portable device having touch input unit: A control method for providing a partial lock function in a portable device having a touch input unit and a lock key is provided. The control method includes entering a first lock state; determining whether an input of the lock key is received; determining, if an input of the lock... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080055275 - Optical sensing in displacement type input apparatus and methods: In an input apparatus, an input system includes a displaceable member movable in an operational zone and a tracking surface that moves in correlation with movement of the displaceable member. An optical sensor has a field of view of at least a portion of the tracking surface during movement of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080055277 - Touch panel display, electronic apparatus and playing apparatus: Disclosed herein is a touch panel display including, a flat plate-shaped movable panel unit, a movable support member, an acoustic vibration unit, and a soft member, wherein the acoustic vibration unit includes, a sound generating member, an actuator, and a hard member.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080055279 - Electronic pen and electronic pen system: To provide a small and light-weight writing instrument that can accurately read information written down on a display portion as electronic information. A pen-shaped device which includes a battery capable of being charged wirelessly from the outside, a first sensor which detects whether a pen nib has contact with a... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080055278 - System and method for alarming for misplaced computer tablet pen: A computer tablet includes a wireless receiver, and a pen is configured to be manipulated by a person to ride against the computer tablet and thereby provide input to the computer tablet. The pen includes a wireless transmitter. A processor associated with the computer tablet outputs an alarm when a... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080055280 - Ink trails on a wireless remote interface tablet and cross-reference to related cases: A computer system which includes one or more wireless interface devices that are adapted to communicate with a remote host over a radio link. Each of the wireless interface devices is a pen-based device which includes an ink field in which pen events are translated into pen data packets and... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080055281 - Input device: There is disclosed a thin input device capable of being made small and thin, and capable of preventing an excessive force from acting on a connecting part with a substrate, etc. due to an operating force when an operating part is operated to detect deformation of an actuating member. An... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080055291 - Chip film package and display panel assembly having the same: A chip film package which can achieve a fine pitch and a display panel assembly having the same are provided. The chip film package includes a base film made of an insulating material, a wire pattern formed on the base film to form a predetermined circuit, and a lead which... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080055284 - Controlling a message display in an electronic device: A method of controlling a display of an electronic device for displaying a list of electronic messages. The method includes comparing a width of a designated space for a field of the electronic messages to a minimum width to determine if the width is sufficient, and if the width is... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20080055283 - Digital photo frame with storing functions: A digital photo frame with storing functions includes a house, at least one storing device arranged in the house configured for storing the digital photos, at least one inserting groove arranged on a periphery of the house configured for being communicated with a memory sick, at least one peripheral hole... Agent: Hdsl

20080055289 - Display device, driving method thereof and display driver therefor: A digital driving system for a display includes a scan driver adapted to supply scan signals serially to scan lines of the display, a data driver adapted to supply a first data signal and a second data signal to data lines of the display, a timing controller adapted to control... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055292 - Display panel: In a display panel, main and sub pixel electrodes are connected to first and second drain electrodes of a thin film transistor, respectively, to receive a data voltage during a 1 H period as main and sub pixel voltages. A main storage electrode overlaps the main pixel electrode to receive... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080055294 - Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device: A driving circuit of an electrooptic device comprises: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels, the pixels each including: a pixel switching element; a pixel capacitor; and a storage capacitor; a scanning-line driving circuit; and a capacitor-line driving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055290 - Field sequential image display method and apparatus: A field sequential color display is obtained by successive display of a sequence of monochrome images of different colors. Monochrome images in at least one of the colors are displayed with light of two different brightness levels, the light of the lower brightness being used to display comparatively low gray... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055286 - Method and apparatus for displaying bitmap images: A method and apparatus for displaying a bitmap image that may be only partially visible once displayed. The method comprises dividing the bitmap image into a plurality of tiles; writing the tiles to a temporary data storage; determining which of the tiles are required to display the portion of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080055285 - Repeatably displaceable emanating element display: One aspect relates to generating a repeatably displaceable emanating element display that may display at least part of an at least one synchronously modifiable oriented image based at least in part on alterable vehicle-related information, wherein the repeatably displaceable emanating element display may be synchronously modified as perceivable by a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080055287 - Repeatably displaceable emanating element display: One aspect relates to generating a repeatably displaceable emanating element display that may display at least part of an at least one synchronously modifiable oriented image based at least in part on alterable vehicle-related information, wherein the repeatably displaceable emanating element display may be synchronously modified as perceivable by a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080055293 - Signal-driving system and shift register unit thereof: A signal-driving system for constructing gate signals of liquid crystal display (LCD), includes a plural stage of cascaded shift register units. Each stage of shift register unit includes a first pull-up switch unit, which is turned on for outputting a gate pulse on an output of this stage, based on... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080055282 - Systems for display images including two gate drivers disposed on opposite sides of a pixel array: Systems for displaying images are provided, comprising a pixel array, a first gate driver and a second gate driver. The first gate driver is disposed on a first side of the pixel array and the second gate driver is disposed on a second side opposite to the first side. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080055288 - Flat display apparatus and driving method for the same: A flat display apparatus comprises a flat display panel in which at least some of display electrodes are formed from a scan electrode and an address electrode arranged so as to intersect each other, and has a characteristic such that as the amount of driving load of the flat display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080055295 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080055296 - Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus: Provided herein is an electro-optical device including electro-optical elements whose gradation levels are controlled according to driving signals; and a driving circuit which generates the driving signals in which unit pulses, each having a pulse width including a basic period having a predetermined time length and a correction period having... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055298 - Emission driver and electroluminescent display including such an emission driver: An emission driver may include a first signal processor adapted to receive a clock signal, an input signal and an inverse input signal, and to generate a first output signal, a second signal processor adapted to receive the first output signal, an inverse clock signal and negative feedback signals, and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055297 - Liquid crystal display device, method of driving the same, and method of fabricating the same: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel, a first sensor, a light emitting unit, a second sensor and a controller. The first sensor is provided in the display panel to detect input light, which is incident from an exterior. The second sensor is provided in the display panel or... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080055299 - Pixel circuit, display including the same, and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit includes first, second, and third transistors, and first and second capacitors, wherein the first transistor is controlled by a scan line and is configured to controllably couple a data line to the first capacitor and a gate electrode of the second transistor, the second transistor is controlled... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055300 - Electrooptic device, driving circuit, and electronic device: A driving circuit of an electrooptic device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines; first and second capacitor lines; a common electrode; pixels; a scanning-line driving circuit; a capacitor-line driving circuit; and a data-line driving circuit. The pixels each include: a pixel switching element; a pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055301 - Display apparatus and brightness control method thereof: Discloses is a display apparatus capable of alleviating an offset value occurring for the same current command value and minimizing a delay time taken for a light source to emit light after transmission of the current command value. The display apparatus comprises a display part that displays an image based... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080055303 - Display unit and electronic device: A display unit that receives a signal from a display control section and makes a display corresponding to display data represented by the signal, the unit including: a display element; a drive unit that drives the display element; a wireless reception section that wirelessly receives the signal from the display... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080055304 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display adapted to be driven using a frame divided into a plurality of sub-frames includes a scan driver adapted to sequentially provide a scan signal to scan lines every sub-frame, a data driver adapted to provide an output signal to an output line when the scan... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080055302 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first, second and third electrodes, a data driver supplying a data signal to the third electrode during an address period, and a sustain driver. The sustain driver consecutively supplies a first signal of a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080055307 - Graphics rendering pipeline: A method and system of processing graphics data using fine-grain instruction parallelism is provided. The method includes geometrically processing a three dimensional data set with an integral parallel machine to produce a two dimensional geometry. The integral parallel machine can include a data parallel system and a time parallel system... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080055306 - Virtual three-dimensional environment: A virtual space and apparatus for constructing, displaying, and interacting with the virtual space. The virtual space may take the form of a tradeshow, complete with exhibit booths, video screens, a convention hall and so forth. In such an exemplary virtual space, the user may navigate between booths, displays, halls... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080055305 - System and methods for multi-dimensional rendering and display of full volumetric data sets: A stand-alone platform and a method for the multi-dimensional rendering, display, manipulation, and analysis of full high resolution volumetric data sets. The systems and methods provide the ability to volumetrically render images with extremely high resolution in applications such as medical imaging procedures, digital microscopy such as in use of... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20080055308 - Virtual endoscopy: In a virtual endoscopy method, an unfolding axis (100, 100′) substantially along an elongated lumen (150) is divided into axis segments (110). Ray casting directions (104) are selected extending generally radially from the axis segments. At least some of the ray casting directions are tilted away from a camera position... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080055309 - Image generation device and image generation method: In an image generation device that includes a memory in which a burst length, which is the smallest unit of read/write processing, is large, an image generation device in which processing efficiency at the time of a memory access does not decrease, even in the case of accessing a rendering... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080055310 - Super resolution contextual close-up visualization of volumetric data: The present invention relates to a method and system for processing a volumetric dataset for providing close-up visualization of a subset therefrom. A volumetric dataset is processed based on a dual access gradient quantization data structure. The data structure is generated in a fast pre-processing stage and provides substantially immediate... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080055311 - Portable device with run-time based rendering quality control and method thereof: A device includes a controller that is operative to dynamically control rendering quality of an output image when the device is in a reduced power mode based on data representing a desired runtime length of an application. Memory containing data representing quality of rendering control information may be utilized by... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080055312 - Dynamic monitoring system with polychromatic gradient - dmspg: Dynamic Monitoring System With Polychromatic Gradient—DMSPG concerns a mechanism of visual monitoring by any visual analog or digital representation means, based on a color scale in the form of a polychromatic gradient, that is, a gradated scale. This color presentation is present in the background and its real-time variation is... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080055313 - Methods and apparatus for producing a chart: Methods and devices are provided for a computer implemented method of producing a chart, such as, for example, a Gantt chart. The method can include providing a template containing a definition of at least one column of the chart and inserting the template into a basic layout to form a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080055314 - Pillarboxing correction: A display control device used to govern non-content regions in a display space, and selectively determine data for display in the non-content regions is described. The display control device can identify the non-content regions, and determine types of data that can be filled in the non-content regions. Once determined, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080055315 - Method and system to establish and animate a coordinate system for content on a display: An authoring tool for programming Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) includes a camera tool. The camera tool may be manipulated to select portions of content to be displayed on a target device to define an SVG viewport and viewBox attributes for the content. The viewBox attributes may be animated, defining a... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080055316 - Programmatically representing sentence meaning with animation: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for programmatically representing sentence meaning. Metadata is retrieved for an actor, the actor representing a noun to be in a scene. At least one image is also retrieved for the actor and displayed on the background. An action representing a verb for the actor... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080055317 - Synchronization and coordination of animations: A method of synchronizing and controlling a source animation with a target animation is provided. In another embodiment of the present invention a method of synchronizing and controlling a source animation with a plurality of target animations with all the animations on the same web page is provided. In yet... Agent: Alton W. Payne

20080055318 - Dynamic frame rate adjustment: An image rendering unit (IRU) of a device determines the dynamic frame rate capabilities (DFRCs) of a display and an image frame rate of content to be displayed. Preferably, the DFRCs are stored in a storage device deployed within the display itself. Based on the DFRCs and the image frame... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080055320 - Image display system and image display apparatus: An image display system includes an information processing apparatus and an image display apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes: an image processing unit that acquires image information and executes predetermined image processing for the acquired image information; a processed image in o mat ion acquisition command unit that gives an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055319 - Apparatus and method of conversing data: A data converting apparatus and a method of converting data are provided. The data converting apparatus includes a header extracting unit extracting a file size information, and an offset information about starting of an actual data in a header of a file, and erasing the header of the file; a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080055321 - Parallel physics simulation and graphics processing: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and computer program product for performing physics simulations and graphics processing on at least one graphics processor unit (GPU). Such a method for performing physics simulations and graphics processing on at least one GPU includes the following steps. First, physics... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080055322 - Method and apparatus for optimizing data flow in a graphics co-processor: A computer system includes a computer system having a system memory and a bridging device coupled to the system memory, the bridging device including a memory controller. The computer system also includes a graphics processor unit (GPU) coupled to one port of the bridging device and a central processing unit... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080055323 - Systems and methods for reducing latency for accessing compressed memory using stratified compressed memory architectures and organization: Compressed memory systems are provided to reduce latency associated with accessing compressed memory using stratified compressed memory architectures and memory organization protocols in which a region of compressed main memory is allocated as a direct access memory (DAM) region for storing uncompressed data items. The uncompressed data items in the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080055324 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a data driver block, a memory block, an information storage block in which an address of a defective cell of the memory block is programmed and stored as a defective address, and a switch control circuit which performs control for switching access to the defective... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055325 - Methods and systems for tiling video or still image data: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for tiling video or still image data. At least some preferred embodiments include a method for accessing data that includes partitioning a display of graphical data into a plurality of two-dimensional tiles; mapping a two-dimensional tile of the plurality of two-dimensional tiles to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080055326 - Processing of command sub-lists by multiple graphics processing units: Techniques to allow multiple graphics processing units to operate in parallel, even with limited storage space, are described. An apparatus includes first and second processing units and a memory. The first processing unit performs pre-processing on a batch of graphics application data for an image (e.g., for vertices in the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080055327 - Highly efficient display fifo: A graphics controller including a display pipe and a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer within the display pipe is provided. The FIFO buffer stores pixel data representing an image for display. The pixel data includes a pixel value and a corresponding repeater value. The repeater value indicates the number of times the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080055328 - Mapping method and video system for mapping pixel data included in the same pixel group to the same bank of memory: Provided are a mapping method and a video system for mapping pixel data included in the same pixel group to the same bank of a memory, A method for mapping the position of pixel data of a picture to an address of a memory comprises a pixel group dividing operation... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080055329 - Information processing device, information processing program, and recording medium for the same: An information processing device that includes: a correction parameter storage unit that stores therein an individual correction parameter for each of a plurality of projectors connected to the information processing device for use to individually perform an image correction process of enabling appropriate image display by each of the projectors;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055330 - Techniques for projecting data sets between high-resolution and low-resolution objects: A method for projecting a data set from a first object to a second object includes the steps of defining one or more sub-objects, wherein each sub-object represents a portion of the second object, associating the first object with a first sub-object, expanding a projection cage to substantially encompass both... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080055331 - Texture compression techniques: A texture compression method is described. The method comprises splitting an original texture having a plurality of pixels into original blocks of pixels. Then, for each of the original blocks of pixels, a partition is identified that has one or more disjoint subsets of pixels whose union is the original... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080055332 - Texture replacement in video sequences and images: Systems and methods for reducing bit rates by replacing original texture in a video sequence with synthesized texture. Reducing the bit rate of the video sequence begins by identifying and removing selected texture from frames in a video sequence. The removed texture is analyzed to generate texture parameters. New texture... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080055333 - Gamut converting device and gamut converting method: A gamut converting device that applies gamut conversion to image data includes a signal converting unit that performs, when a negative value is included in an image signal value forming the image data, processing for converting the image signal value forming the image data to eliminate the negative value from... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080055334 - Image processing device and image processing method: An image processing device that performs color conversion processing using a lookup table (LUT) includes an acquiring unit that acquires an emulation LUT for applying emulation of a gamut to a target device from a device in use, the emulation LUT being generated using a device-in-use LUT for performing correction... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080055335 - Level of detail value calculating method and medium reducing power consumption, and 3-dimensional rendering system: A system, method and medium renders an object into a 3-dimensional (3D) graphic image. The rendering system includes a polygon processing unit to calculate a plurality of LOD values of a plurality of fragments corresponding to a plurality of vertices of a predetermined polygon, among a plurality of fragments constructing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080055337 - Apparatus and method for managing contents using metadata in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for managing contents in a portable terminal. In the method, selection of a metadata setting menu during display of contents is detected, a list of image-based metasymbols is displayed, and one or more metasymbols of the metasymbol list are mapped to the contents.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080055336 - Image data management apparatus, image data management method, computer-readable storage medium: An image data management apparatus which changes attribute information of an image on a display device, the apparatus comprises a display control unit adapted to display, on the display device, an icon representing attribute information recorded in correspondence with an image; a changing unite adapted to change the attribute information... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080055338 - Multi-stage edge-directed image scaling: A multi-stage method of scaling an input image to form a scaled output image and an apparatus for doing the same, are disclosed. The method includes forming pixels of an intermediate image from the input image using edge-directed interpolation in the first stage. The intermediate image contains pixels of the... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080055340 - Display apparatus including optical modulator and image controlling method: An aspect of the present invention features a display apparatus. The apparatus can comprise: an optical modulator that modulates brightness of the incident light from a light source corresponding to a driving voltage and outputs the modulated light; a driver integrated circuit that supplies a driving voltage according to an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080055339 - Method for automatically detecting and adjusting grayscale/white balance of display: A method for automatically detecting and adjusting grayscale/white balance of a display comprises the steps of: detecting a chromaticity coordinate and a brightness of a present white color of the display by a detector; selecting a chromaticity coordinate of three primary colors of red, green, and blue in a known... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080055341 - Display driver circuit and display device: A display driver circuit includes first to Mth SR blocks which are disposed in a region on the right side of a data input control circuit and hold first to Mth gray-scale data, and (M+1)th to (M+N)th SR blocks which are disposed in a region on the left side of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080055342 - Method for displaying a low-resolution image on a high-resolution display device: Frames are utilized to display an image of low resolution on a display device of high resolution. All scanlines utilized for generating the image are turned on to display the image data of the display area in a first frame, and part but not all of the scanlines not utilized... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation