Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 04/08

20080094310 - Accumulation display device, interlocked display method and system: An accumulation display device can interlock a display content according to specification of each of the mobile data terminals. An interlocked display system includes an accumulation display device having a metadata interpretation unit that analyzes metadata transmitted by a broadcast wave or a communication network and an accumulated image processing... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080094311 - Interactive hyperwall for visualization, simulation, gaming: An interactive hyperwall containing a plurality of meta-monitors having a computer with an operating system and bearing multiple graphic cards, multiple displays supported by the graphic cards, and a computer-readable storage device with software; a hyperwall system, for simultaneous visualization of different representations of multidimensional data, the hyperwall system containing... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080094315 - Method: A driver (15, 10, 16) for an electrophoretic display (1) comprising pixels (18), comprises a controller (15) to select a particular drive waveform (Dij) for a particular one of the pixels (18) out of a particular set of drive waveforms (Si) being selected out of a plurality of sets of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094317 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel including first and second substrates facing each other and spaced apart from each other, barrier ribs disposed between the first and second substrates and defining discharge cells, phosphor layers formed in the discharge cells, address electrodes arranged on the first substrate and extending in a first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094318 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device characterized by having a plurality of first electrodes which are provided on a first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes which are provided on the first substrate and for causing discharge between the plurality of first electrodes and themselves, a plurality of third electrodes which are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080094321 - Organic light emitting diode display and method of manufacture: An organic light emitting diode display includes a display region where a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of emission layers are formed, and a peripheral area formed along the circumference of the display area; a flexible conductive film that includes contact portions, each of which is formed... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080094323 - Display device: Image display apparatus comprising two or more arrays of light sources is described. Each array is rotatable around a common axis, and the light sources in each array are arranged so that each light source traverses along a unique path around the common axis. A controller is adapted to modulate... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080094325 - Liquid crystal display module: The present invention provides an LCD module, in which elements having high resistance to static electricity impact are used as circuit elements of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) inside a Taped Carrier Package (TCP Board) connecting a front LCD panel to a rear main board, and static electricity introduced via... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080094329 - Color display: The present invention relates to a color display device, comprising at least two light sources (16, 17), having different radiance spectra, and a liquid crystal light valve layer (14). The light sources (16, 17) are activated sequentially and the light valve layer is provided with driving signals (d1, d2) in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094331 - Driving method for reducing color shift: A driving method for reducing the color shift suitable for driving a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes at least one scan line, at least one data line, and at least one pixel unit electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The driving method includes... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080094330 - Structure for storing overdrive image data and a method thereof: The present invention discloses a structure for storing overdrive image data and a method thereof, which divide image data into non-video data and video data and respectively store them in a non-video data storage region and a video data storage region of a memory unit, wherein the RGB data of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094334 - Data driving apparatus, liquid crystal display including the same, and method of driving liquid crystal display: A data driving apparatus includes; an integrated circuit chip, a grayscale voltage generation unit disposed on the integrated circuit chip which receives grayscale generation signals from the outside and generates a plurality of reference grayscale voltages, and a driving unit disposed on the integrated circuit chip which receives the reference... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094333 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device and a method of the driving the same include a display panel assembly, a driving unit which drives the display panel assembly, and a serial peripheral interface which includes a plurality of registers, the plurality of registers being divided into groups of at least two blocks, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094335 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel displaying an image; a gate driver applying gate signals to the liquid crystal display panel; a data driver applying data signals to the liquid crystal display panel;... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094332 - Method for driving lcd monitor: A method for driving an LCD monitor includes providing a common-voltage signal having a level conversion during each frame duration, dividing each frame duration into a first sub-frame duration and a second sub-frame duration according to a position having the level conversion of the common-voltage signal, driving a first set... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094336 - Integrated circuit module and method for data transmission: An integrated circuit (IC) module for data transmission and a method for the same are disclosed. According to the present invention, the connection is such that in the module a plurality of ICs is electrically connected to a plurality of transmission lines for transmitting data. The module further includes a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080094337 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus may include supplying a first voltage to the X electrodes during a first reset period of the reset period, supplying, using energy stored in the energy recovery circuit, a ramp waveform voltage that rises from the first voltage signal to a second... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080094338 - Data accessing interface having multiplex output module and sequential input module between memory and source to save routing space and power and related method thereof: A data accessing interface between memory and source in LCD display IC includes a multiplex output module and a sequential input module. Suppose a row width of the memory is N bit. The multiplex output module is for outputting a row N-bit digital data. The multiplex output module includes a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094339 - Driving device and related image transmission device of a flat panel display: A driving device includes a plurality of transmitters. Each transmitter includes a first current source, a second current source, a third current source, a fourth current source, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a fifth switch, and a sixth switch. The first and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094342 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display including the same, and method of displaying an image on a liquid crystal display: A timing controller capable of reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) and a liquid crystal display including the same are provided. The timing controller includes a line buffer memory, a comparing unit that compares first data information with second data information, and a memory allocating unit dividing the line buffer memory into... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094312 - Facilitating group discussion: Among other things, a topic for group discussion is displayed in a public place at a scale that is visible to a group of people at the public place, contributions of users that relate to the topic are received from wireless devices of users who are at the public place,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080094313 - Device for providing a vehicle user with information: In a device for providing information to a vehicle user about various functional elements using a display screen system, having an overview image to display the functional elements, having a rotating actuator, which is assigned to the functional elements, rotatable arbitrarily around its axis for the individual selection of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080094314 - Display unit: Display units (1) comprising display panels (50) with pixels (11) coupled to storage lines (62,63) via storage capacitors (13) are provided with storage line drivers (60,70) for driving the storage lines (62,63) for reducing necessary electrode voltage swings on electrodes such as row electrodes (41,42,43,44,45,49) and column electrodes (31,32,34,35,39). A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094316 - Method for driving a plasma display panel: The present method is to drive a plasma display panel which displays a frame composed of a plurality of sub-fields having different weights of luminance. The method comprises using plural kinds of application voltage waveforms different in light emission luminance, as pulse voltages for sustain discharges in display of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080094319 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel. A first substrate and a second substrate are provided opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween. Address electrodes are formed on the second substrate. Barrier ribs are mounted between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge cells... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080094320 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a method of driving the same, win which the display device includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor supplying a driving current to the light emitting element, and in which one of a data voltage or a reverse bias voltage is applied to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080094322 - Flexible active matrix display backplane and method: An active matrix display backplane is formed by annealing a flexible dielectric substrate, and then forming one or more thin-film-transistors (TFTs), one or more pixel electrodes, and an interconnect on a surface of the annealed substrate. The interconnect includes individual, spaced apart electrodes that are electrically coupled to one another.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080094324 - Deinterleaving transpose circuits in digital display systems: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of converting a stream of pixel data in space and time into a stream of bitplane data. In particular, the present invention converts the pixel data stream according to a predetermined output format. The apparatus of the present invention receives the pixel... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080094328 - Electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus and display driver ic using the same: A liquid crystal device having a display section provided with a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, a master X driver IC and a slave X driver IC for driving the X electrodes, and a Y driver for driving the Y electrodes. The master IC has... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080094326 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises a pair of polarizing plates which are constituted with a polarizing plate at the output side comprising a polarizer at the output side and a polarizing plate at the incident side comprising a polarizer at the incident side having... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094327 - Method of driving a display device: A driving method that does not allow a change in temperature of the surroundings to change the luminance of a light emitting element of a pixel is provided for a display device with less uneven display, higher gradation, and reduced power consumption. A time ratio gradation driving method is applied... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080094340 - Data latch circuit and electronic device: The data latch circuit of the invention includes a means for short-circuiting an input terminal and an output terminal of an inverter and by connecting the input terminal to one electrode of a capacitor and sampling a data signal or a reference potential to the other electrode of the capacitor,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080094341 - Liquid crystal display device: It is an object of the invention to provide a liquid crystal display device that can realize a driving method reducing the power consumption of a driving circuit in a condition that real-time processing is available. In a liquid crystal display device, SW1 is controlled such that pixel data on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094343 - Source line driving circuit, active matrix type display device and method for driving the same: If the frequency of a clock signal is increased, the pulse width of a sampling pulse is decreased, and the amount of time for a video signal to be written to a source line is inadequate. Sampling pulses (sam) rise sequentially in synchronization with the rise of a start pulse... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080094349 - Backlight control circuit: The present invention discloses a backlight control circuit, comprising: a voltage supply circuit for receiving an input voltage and generating an output voltage under control by a control signal; at least one voltage comparison path respectively coupled to at least one light emission device path; a voltage operative amplifier circuit... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080094345 - Backlight device with zone control: A backlight unit usable in a liquid crystal display. In one embodiment, the backlight unit includes a substrate having an edge zone and a central zone surrounded by the edge zone, a first plurality of light emitting elements positioned in the central zone of the substrate, a second plurality of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080094344 - Display device and method, recording medium, and program: b

20080094347 - Method of controlling luminance of backlight assembly, circuit for controlling luminance of backlight assembly and display device having the same: A method for controlling a backlight luminance in which a reference voltage is set, a sampling voltage is generated based on the reference voltage, and a net photo current signal is generated by a photo current sensing element and a dark current sensing element. The net photo current signal is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094348 - Liquid crystal display device with light sensor on light guide plate thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (220), a light guide plate (210) opposite to the liquid crystal panel, a light source configured for supplying light beams to the light guide plate, a driving chip (230) provided at the light guide plate and configured for... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080094346 - Method for processing image data: A method for processing a frame of image data, wherein the image data is amplified by a gain factor determined in dependence of a number of sub-pixels within said frame of image data having a luminance above a first threshold value. The resulting gain factor allows for optimal amplification of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080094350 - Active mouse button: A computer system, such as a small footprint Person Computer (PC) or notebook computer, PC pointing device and method of displaying information on the PC. The notebook computer includes a pointing device, such as a mouse button, with an illuminated region. The notebook computer also includes a message handler monitoring... Agent: Lenovo (us)IPLaw

20080094351 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A plurality of stimulus generators (110), which is used to apply stimuli to the human body, and is laid on the human body of the user, is controlled. A position determination unit (108) determines whether or not a virtual object that forms a virtual space where the user exists is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080094352 - Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling: Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080094353 - Methods for interfacing with a program using a light input device: An input device for interfacing with a computing device is provided. The input device includes a body configured to be held within a human hand. The input device includes a light emitting diode (LED) affixed to the body and a power supply for the LED. A mode change activator is... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080094354 - Pointing device and method for item location and/or selection assistance: The invention describes a pointing device (1) and a methode for item location and/or selection assistance, which method comprises visually presenting a number of items (M1, M2, M3, M4) in a visual presentation (VIP, VP′, aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) and a directable source (12) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094355 - Data input device, data input method, data input program and recording medium wherein such data input program is recorded: A portable telephone 1 detects the force applied on a force sensor 51 of an input unit 50 as rectangular coordinate data and converts the detected rectangular coordinate data into polar coordinate data. Then, with reference to an allocating table that has recorded characters and ranges of θ values to... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20080094356 - Methods for determining a cursor position from a finger contact with a touch screen display: A portable device with a touch screen display detects a contact area of a finger with the touch screen display and then determines a first position associated with the contact area. The cursor position of the finger contact is determined, at least in part, based on: the first position, one... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094357 - Design for the mouse for any portable device: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate navigating data associated with a portable device. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that facilitate incorporating a motion input on at least one side of a portable device, the portable device includes a casing with a front, a back, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080094358 - Constrained virtual camera control: A method is described that includes receiving, from a first device, input used to select a first object in a computer-generated environment. The first device has at least two degrees of freedom with which to control the selection of the first object. The method also includes removing, in response to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080094360 - Computer mouse having a front sight button and method for generating local coordinates with the same: The present invention relates to a computer mouse having a front sight button and the method for generating local coordinates with the same, which comprises a position sensor for generating coordinates in accordance with the movement of the mouse, a front sight button for generating a local shooting signal when... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080094359 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is described, comprising a housing (1) which comprises a support surface (2) and a jacket surface (4) for finger support, which jacket surface protrudes upwardly in a tapering manner from the support surface (2). In order to provide advantageous handling conditions it is proposed that the jacket... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080094361 - Control apparatus for enabling computer peripheral to be controlled by keyboard indication commands: A control apparatus for enabling computer peripherals to be controlled by keyboard indication commands is disclosed, which is substantially a control box connected to a computer and a keyboard respectively by interfaces thereof, and is comprised of: a micro control unit (MCU), capable of issuing an activating signal while receiving... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080094362 - Keyboard with keys arranged in pairs and handheld electronic apparatus incorporating the same: The invention provides a keyboard including a plurality of user-operable keys and a processor. The user-operable keys include a first key and a second key. The processor generates a first key signal in response to the key-in action of the first key, generates a second key signal in response to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080094363 - Hand-held electronic device with multiple input mode thumbwheel: A thumbwheel input device oriented on an incline and comprising a wheel such that a first input is generated by rotation of the wheel about its axis, and a holder also having an axis of rotation and a portion thereon to receive the wheel whereby a second input is generated... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080094364 - Object outputting method and information processing apparatus: In order to display the image included in the original one on a display part together with outputting the object, a key in a keypad on an operation part by a user. Thereby, the key operated by the user is specified in both of the mask image creation part 32... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080094365 - 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

20080094366 - Terminal having color changing function and color changing method thereof: A mobile communication terminal having a color changing function and its color changing method are disclosed. By changing an illumination color of a key input unit, a user can recognize an operation state of the terminal by intuition through the illumination color. In addition, because the key arrangement of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080094373 - Keypad assembly: Provided is a keypad assembly used as a data input unit in various electronic devices. The keypad assembly includes a main board having one or more metal domes formed at predetermined positions on the main board, and a keypad disposed on the main board to apply a pressure on the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080094367 - Pressure-controlled navigating in a touch screen: A remote control device has a display monitor for rendering an image and a touch screen for user interaction. The touch screen is pressure-sensitive. The device has an operational mode wherein the image is being scaled dependent on a value of the pressure registered by the touch screen.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094372 - Touch screen element: A method of mounting a touch-screen element onto a control panel, and a corresponding assembled unit. In the assembled apparatus, the control panel has the touch-screen element mounted thereto. The touch-screen element comprises a sensing element mounted on a semi-rigid carrier, and first and second clamps for holding opposed sides... Agent: David Kiewit

20080094371 - Deletion gestures on a portable multifunction device: Deletion gestures for use on a portable multifunction device with a touch-sensitive display are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with the portable multifunction device comprises displaying a list of items on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display to edit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094369 - Email client for a portable multifunction device: A computer-implemented method for providing email at a portable communications device with a touch screen display is disclosed. A first portion of a list of entries with information about corresponding electronic messages is displayed in a first area of the touch screen display. A first portion of an electronic message... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094370 - Portable electronic device performing similar operations for different gestures: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094368 - Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents: A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, comprises displaying at least a portion of a structured electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the structured electronic document comprises a plurality of boxes of content, and detecting a first gesture... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094374 - Control device for a spreader: A control device is disclosed for a spreader for spreading materials on a road. The device includes a touch screen for entering information and an arrangement associated with the touch screen for processing the information and for providing a color display. The device also includes a color display which permits... Agent: David J. Archer

20080094376 - Stylus calibration system and method: A method calibrates a stylus to a display interface by first resetting a calibration pattern and calibration parameters. The calibration pattern is displayed on the display interface at a location corresponding to an estimated position of a stylus tip. The position of the stylus tip is measured while sensing the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080094375 - Universal flat horizontal use stylus: A universal flat horizontal use stylus, this stylus design avoids damage to the fragile outer membranes of existing touch sensitive screens devices mostly found on today's PDA's (personal digital assistant). Due to the curvature of the present inventions flat body and downward angled flat conical nose tip, and control/support curve... Agent: Jerry Craig

20080094377 - Method and device for data management in an electronic pen: A data management device in an electronic pen apparatus operates to receive (602) images of a product surface and extract (604) data from these images. The product surface may be provided with part of a position-coding pattern, and the extracted data may then represent positions encoded by the pattern. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094378 - Method for reducing sensitivity modulation and lag in electronic imagers: A method for reducing gain and lag signals associated with trapped charges is described. Data is collected from a detector. A forward bias voltage is temporarily applied to the detector between collecting the data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080094379 - Information display system: The information display system has: a display panel portion 100, in which display media are sealed in a closed space between opposed two substrates, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic filed is applied, are made to move so as to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094380 - Electronic device with multiple array devices: An electronic device has a first active matrix pixel array device (52) and a second pixel array device (54). The first and second pixel arrays are provided on separate substrates (56,58), and a part (62) of the addressing or processing circuitry of the first active matrix array device (52) is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094381 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: In a case where the data drive circuit is used for a face-up mounting, a reverse switching circuit is controlled so that a reverse switching signal RB can be at an “H” level. Thus, an output terminal S11 is caused to function as an output terminal from which to output... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080094382 - Display panel driving mechanism for electronic device: A display panel driving mechanism for electronic device supports a lower side of a display panel (1), which is arranged on a front plane of an electronic device, to be freely turned around a first shaft (5a) which moves by following a slider (4) driven in to and fro directions.... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080094383 - Driving a display with a polarity inversion pattern: This invention relates to a method for driving a display panel (DP) having pixels (P). The display panel (DP) is driven with a sequence of image frames. The image frames are converted to a drive signal (V2) comprising refresh frames with a refresh frame period (TR) shorter than the image... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094385 - Drive circuit of display device and method of testing the same: A first switch circuit is provided between a gradation voltage selection circuit and an output circuit. The output circuit includes a test switch that disconnects the gradation voltage selection circuit from the output circuit in a test mode; a test switch that connects, in the test mode, the gradation voltage... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080094384 - Driving circuit having counter and liquid crystal display employing same: An exemplary driving circuit for a liquid crystal display (3) includes a power supply circuit (34), a backlight control circuit (356) and a counter (355). The power supply circuit provides voltages for the LCD. The backlight control circuit controls whether or not the voltages provided by the power supply circuit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080094388 - Electro-optical device, drive circuit, and electronic apparatus: A drive circuit of an electro-optical device includes: plural rows of scanning lines; plural columns of data lines; a plurality of common electrodes; pixel switching elements, pixel capacitors; and pixels. Here, the drive circuit includes a scanning line drive circuit; and first transistors corresponding to the plurality of common electrodes.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080094387 - Method for controlling power and display parameters of a monitor and monitor for the same: Under the condition of a computer system being powered on, a switch on a monitor controls the power or the display parameters of the monitor according to the triggering time of the switch. When the switch is triggered for more than a predetermined period of time, a control unit of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094386 - Methods and apparatus for latch-up free boosting: A voltage generator includes a boosting circuit boosting a power voltage to generate first through fourth voltages, and a boosting controller controlling the boosting circuit. The boosting controller sets the third and fourth voltages to a voltage level lower than that of a ground voltage while the first and second... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080094389 - Image processing system for automatic segmentation of a 3-d tree-like tubular surface of an object, using 3-d deformable mesh models: An image data processing system with computing means for the automatic segmentation of a treelike tubular structure in a 3-D image comprising: means (20) for computing a treelike center path of the tubular tree-like structure; means (21) for dividing the treelike center path of the tubular treelike structure into segments... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094392 - System and method for performing a selective fill for a hearing aid shell: A method and appertaining system load 3D shape information defining a hearing aid shell into a processor and present a representation of the shell on a display. A fill boundary is entered by a user operating a user input device and a fill region for the shell is thus defined.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080094390 - Video generation device, load display method, recording medium, and program: An operation input reception unit (201) receives an operation input for a virtual vehicle to be run on the running path. Further, a running condition managing unit (203) manages the running condition of the virtual vehicle based on the received operation input. Then, a video generation unit (204) generates a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080094391 - Image processor, image processing method, information recording medium, and program: To perform three-dimensional graphics processes by reducing the number of polygons to be processed, a storage unit (202) of an image processor (201) stores each of a plurality of polygons making up the surfaces of an object placed in a virtual three-dimensional space, in association with any of the surfaces... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080094394 - Automated derivative view rendering system: A system and method for creating a derivative view from graphical data which is derived from native application data. The native application data may be extracted from a graphical application, such as a CAD application, converted to an intermediate or derivative format, and a derivative view of the graphic information... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080094393 - Method and apparatus for collating object: An object collation method comprising a registration procedure for registering the registered data of a registered object in a database, and a collation procedure for collating the input image of a target object with the registered data. The registration procedure includes a step of storing the three-dimensional shape of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080094395 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphic data to enhance image quality of transparent objects: A method, medium, and system rendering 3-dimensional (3D) graphic data. The method of rendering 3D graphic data may include grouping objects from among transparent objects included in graphic data, which overlap each other in a 3D space, and rendering the group and remaining objects excluding the grouped objects, in an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080094396 - System for the three-dimensional imaging of a moving joint: The invention relates to a system and a method for the generation of 3D images of a moving joint (1). A rotational X-ray device (10) generates projections of said joint from different directions while the simultaneous periodic movement of the joint (1) is recorded by a monitoring device (20). The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094397 - Progressive refinement for texture-based volume rendering: A method for rendering a two-dimensional image comprising: (a) obtaining a first three-dimensional set of data for a relatively high quality image; (b) generating a second three-dimensional set of data for a relatively low quality image from the obtained three-dimensional set of data; (c) rendering a relatively low quality two-dimensional... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080094398 - Methods and systems for interacting with a 3d visualization system using a 2d interface (\"dextrolap\"): In exemplary embodiments of the present invention a 3D visualization system can be ported to a laptop or desktop PC, or other standard 2D computing environment, which uses a mouse and keyboard as user interfaces. Using the methods of exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a cursor or icon can... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20080094399 - Method and apparatus for displaying graphical representations of graph layouts: The invention includes a method and apparatus for displaying a graphical representation of a graph including nodes and edges. A layout of the graph is determined. The layout of the graph is determined by determining respective positions of each of the nodes and edges within the layout. The position of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080094400 - Content based graphical user interface application: A method including processing and modeling a script stored in a first device, determining a state transition diagram of the first device based on the script model, utilizing the state transition diagram to determine a state of the first device and displaying an image based on the state of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080094401 - Method of animating vector graphics: A method of simplifying the programming of animation of vector graphics for the graphic user interface of, for example, a SCADA system. The programming method allows the programmer to input unique yet simple instruction codes instead of inputting multiple lines of logic script to animate vector graphic objects and texts.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080094403 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation graphics processing units (gpus) supported on a cpu/gpu fusion-architecture chip and one or more external graphics cards, employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsy: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing one or more graphics-based applications, (ii) a CPU/GPU fusion-architecture chip including one or more... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080094402 - Computing system having a parallel graphics rendering system employing multiple graphics processing pipelines (gppls) dynamically controlled according to time, image and object division modes of parallel operation during the run-time of graphics-based app: A computing system having a parallel graphics rendering system employing multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) dynamically controlled according to time, image and object division modes of parallel operation during the run-time of graphics-based applications running on the computing system. The parallel graphics rendering subsystem includes a plurality of graphics processing... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080094404 - Computing system having multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem including multiple graphics processing pipelines (gppls) and supporting automated division of graphics commands and data during automatic mode control: A computing system having a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem which includes multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) and automated division of graphics commands and data during automatic mode control. The multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem supports multiple modes of parallel operation selected from the group consisting of object division, image... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080094405 - Scalable shader architecture: A scalable shader architecture is disclosed. In accord with that architecture, a shader includes multiple shader pipelines, each of which can perform processing operations on rasterized pixel data. Shader pipelines can be functionally removed as required, thus preventing a defective shader pipeline from causing a chip rejection. The shader includes... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Suite 100

20080094406 - Stripe-based image data storage: The present invention relates to a way of storing 3D images. The 3D image is composed of a stack of two-dimensional video data subsets represented by arrays of pixel data. Each array of pixel data is partitioned into a plurality of overlapping and adjacent vertical stripes of pixel data having... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094407 - Systems and methods for storing texture map data: Systems and methods for graphics data management are described. One embodiment includes a graphics processing system comprising a texture management unit configured to organize texture map data according to a slice major format, wherein the texture map data spans at least one mip level. Furthermore, the graphics processing system comprises... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080094408 - System and method for geometry graphics processing: The present invention provides a method and system for graphics processing. The graphics processing system comprises the primitive assembly, a vertex/geometry shader, the second primitive assembly, a cache memory, and a texture engine. The vertex/geometry shader can receive primitive data to execute can output vertex data.... Agent: John Chen

20080094409 - Image generation device and image generation method: A calculation unit (58) references texture data (62) in a storage unit (60) and acquires texel information of index color formal An integral look-up table (64) has a structure containing a plurality of color look-up tables based on the detail degree (LOD) of the area to be plotted A look-up... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080094410 - Programmable blending in a graphics processing unit: Techniques for implementing blending equations for various blending modes with a base set of operations are described. Each blending equation may be decomposed into a sequence of operations. In one design, a device includes a processing unit that implements a set of operations for multiple blending modes and a storage... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080094411 - Transparency group computation on a graphics processing unit: A new transparency group may be rendered and blended with other, previously rendered, transparency groups, by using the Porter-Duff algebra available on the GPU even though the transparency groups include pre-multiplied color and alpha information. Additionally, the number of copies of the back buffer (the image information for the previously... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080094412 - 3-d clipping in a graphics processing unit: A graphics processing unit (GPU) efficiently performs 3-dimensional (3-D) clipping using processing units used for other graphics functions. The GPU includes first and second hardware units and at least one buffer. The first hardware unit performs 3-D clipping of primitives using a first processing unit used for a first graphics... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080094413 - Display controller: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a display controller are described. One display controller embodiment includes a data store to store overlay control data, a port to communicate with an overlay control data provider, and a logic to provide an overlay to a display device. The display device may... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080094414 - Multimedia video generation system: A multimedia video generation system is disclosed. The system comprises a receiving unit, a characteristic recognition unit, an object providing unit and a video synthesis unit. The receiving unit is for receiving a video consisted of a plurality of frames. The characteristic recognition unit is for recognizing an attribute parameter... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai And Associates, P.C.

20080094416 - Graphics display system with anti-flutter filtering and vertical scaling feature: A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, and graphics input. The chip includes a single polyphase filter that preferably provides both anti-flutter filtering and scaling of graphics. Anti-flutter filtering may help... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080094415 - Method and apparatus for identifying application in multiscreen environment: A method and apparatus for identifying an application in a multi-screen environment are provided. The apparatus includes a digital signal processing module which receives at least one of video information, audio information and data information, and restores a service based on the at least one of the video information, the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080094417 - Interactivity with a mixed reality: Methods of interacting with a mixed reality are presented. A mobile device captures an image of a real-world object where the image has content information that can be used to control a mixed reality object through an offered command set. The mixed reality object can be real, virtual, or a... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080094419 - Generating and displaying spatially offset sub-frames: A method of displaying an image with a display device includes receiving image data for the image. Sub-frame shifting parameters are identified based on at least one of image characteristics of the image, system status information, and user-defined parameters. A first plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the image data is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080094418 - Method for automatically generating graphically displayed indicating instruments: The invention relates to a method for automatically generating graphic display instruments for measured, regulation and/or control values, comprising the following steps: a) selection of a display instrument type; b) dynamic calculation of reproduction positions for reading-aid information in accordance with the type of display instrument that has been selected... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20080094420 - System and method for automatic layout of images in digital albums: A system and method for automatic creation of digital image albums. A Page Creator Module utilizes a genetic engine and a layout evaluation module. The genetic engine evolves a group of images to a plurality of album pages, based on certain layout criteria. The evaluation module calculates layout criteria and... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080094421 - Information display apparatus and information displaying method: Even when the display contents on the display screen are changed, the entire or a part of the display item is displayed, given a higher priority. When a part of image (20) is displayed in a displayable area (14 or 15) that displays a display item on a display screen,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080094422 - Mobile communication terminal and method of processing input signal thereof: A mobile communication terminal including a scroll device configured to output a scrolling signal, a display configured to display information, and a control unit configured to variably recognize the scrolling signal of the scroll device based on operational modes of the mobile communication terminal such that an amount of information... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094424 - Light source control unit and light source control method: A light source control unit includes: a controlled variable calculation unit continuously calculating a controlled variable of a light source based on a luminance of an image represented by an image data; a limiting unit limiting a time variation of the calculated controlled variable; and a control unit controlling the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080094425 - Display device: In an embodiment of the present invention, basic reference voltages VRT, VRB, VR, VG, and VB are divided by resistors to produce plural reference voltages V0 to V15, and voltages are selected from these plural reference voltages V0 to V15 for digital-analog conversion processing of image data DR, DG, and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080094423 - Lighting system power adaptor: A power adaptor for a lighting unit, comprising an input for coupling to an electrical power supply and a controller adapted to monitor the input and operable to provide at least two independent electrical outputs, each output having a power level based on an amount of power available at the... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20080094426 - Backlight modulation for display: A display (10) has a non pixel addressable backlight (130), having a temporal modulation applied, a pixel addressable LCD (120) in an optical path and the pixel addressable part being arranged to output each pixel of a frame as a temporal sequence of output values unrelated to colour components of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080094427 - Asynchronous video capture for insertion into high resolution image: A display system has a first resolution video buffer 20, and can insert a second resolution analog video signal, the first resolution being higher than the second resolution. It can sample the second resolution video signal and insert it 50 without substantially reducing the resolution of the image. An advantage... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080088526 - Method and apparatus for rendering an image impinging upon a non-planar surface: The present invention is directed to a method and system to render an image that impinges upon a non-planar surface to attenuate, if not abrogate, distortions introduced by the surface that features mapping the image as a plurality of spaced-apart planar cells to coordinates of the non-planar surface to produce... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080088527 - Heads up display system: A vehicle having a heads up display (HUD) system is provided. The HUD system includes an image rendering device configured to provide a distorted representation of image data to a non-planar surface within a field of view of an occupant of the vehicle. Warp image circuitry configured to store offsets... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080088528 - Warp image circuit: A heads up display (HUD) is provided. The HUD includes a projector configured to project a distorted representation of image data onto a non-planar surface. The HUD also includes warp image circuitry configured to store offsets to be applied to the image data to generate the distorted representation. The offsets... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080088529 - Enhanced image display in head-mounted displays: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for projecting a source image in a head-mounted display apparatus having a left and a right display for projecting a left and right images viewable by the left and right eyes, respectively, of a user. Source image data is... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080088530 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel for displaying images, a chassis base, at least one circuit board fixed to a planar surface of the chassis base and at least one connection cable electrically connecting the at least one circuit board to the display panel. At least one connection cable... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080088537 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an address electrode and a data driver. The data driver supplies a rising signal gradually rising from a first voltage to a second voltage during a first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080088536 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving thereof: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel, a temperature detector and driver. The plasma display panel comprises a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes formed in parallel to each other. The temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the plasma display panel to output... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080088531 - Plasma display device, apparatus for driving the same, and method of driving the same: A plasma display device includes first to fourth transistors and a plurality of first electrodes. A first terminal of a first capacitor is connected to a power supply supplying a voltage. A second terminal of a second capacitor connected to a second terminal of the first capacitor is connected to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080088534 - Plasma display device, driving apparatus thereof, and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes a plurality of electrodes; and a switch having a first terminal connected to a power source to supply a sustain voltage that is applied to the plurality of electrodes in a sustain period, and having a second terminal connected to the plurality of electrodes. The... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080088532 - Plasma display panel: Disclosed is a plasma display panel (PDP) that includes a protective layer formed to cover a dielectric layer of the PDP. The protective layer includes magnesium oxide (MgO) material and dopant elements. Sintered magnesium oxide, which has higher response speed than monocrystalline magnesium oxide, is used as the magnesium oxide... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080088533 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) that prevents an increase in manufacturing cost due to an addition of a reinforcing material includes: a display panel; a driving circuit to supply a driving signal to the display panel; and a chassis base, disposed between the driving circuit and the display panel, and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080088540 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate facing the front substrate, and barrier ribs dividing a space between the front and the rear substrates to form discharge cells and channels between the discharge cells. Display electrodes are formed at the discharge cells in a second direction... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080088541 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and a driver. The plasma display panel comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first electrode and the second electrode. During a first frame, the driver alternately supplies a sustain signal to the first electrode... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080088545 - Amoled panel display system with temperature regulation and controlling method thereof: An active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel is disclosed. The AMOLED panel comprises a pixel array, a temperature sensor and a feedback control circuit. The temperature sensor measures the temperature of the AMOLED panel. The feedback control circuit decides the driving current of the AMOLED panel according to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088544 - Modulation of common voltage and method for controlling amoled panel: A control circuit for use in an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel comprising a memory unit and a voltage control unit is provided. The operating time of the AMOLED panel is counted and saved by the memory unit. According to the memory unit's information, the voltage control... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080088548 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device is disclosed. The device includes a brightness controller configured to selectively control a brightness controlling range based at least in part on the magnitude of the video data input in one frame, and a gamma correcting unit configured to control the portion of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080088550 - Dc-dc converter, liquid crystal display device, aging test apparatus of liquid crystal display device, and method thereof: A gate-on voltage/LED driving voltage generator includes an inductor boosting an input voltage through a PWM voltage and the input voltage, a diode and capacitor rectifying the boosted voltage, a first output terminal outputting the rectified voltage to supply an LED driving voltage to an LED, and a second output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080088552 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a plurality of first scan lines for analog display, which are arranged along one direction on a substrate; a plurality of second scan lines for digital display, which are arranged along this one direction on the substrate; a plurality of data signal lines which are arranged... Agent: Mccarter & English LLP Cityplace I

20080088551 - Microfluidic prism: A projection-type imaging array comprising a plurality of microfluidic devices are provided, each microfluidic device having a reservoir containing first and second fluids that are immiscible with respect to teach other. A drive unit is provided for each microfluidic device to selectively displace the surface formed at the interface between... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Law Department Ab 2

20080088554 - Driving device of backlight unit, liquid crystal display apparatus having the same, and control method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes: an LCD panel; a light source unit which emits light to the LCD panel; a heating device which preheats the light source unit; a temperature sensing unit which senses temperature of the light source unit and outputs a temperature information; and a variable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088555 - Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same: A gate driving circuit includes a shift resister having stages cascade-connected to one another. Each stage includes a pull-up part, a first pull-up driving part, a first pull-down part and a first ripple prevention part. The pull-up part outputs a high value of a first clock signal to a first... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080088556 - Method of driving liquid crystal display device: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes supplying data voltages to a pixel on a moving path of an image during a scroll operation, wherein the data voltages displaying the image have opposite polarities.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080088557 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus, includes: a plurality of light emitting elements which emits light of colors respectively; a light sensing part which senses a spectrum emitted from the light emitting elements; a diffusing part which mixes light emitted from the light emitting elements to form a white light; and a control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088559 - Method for driving display panel: Disclosed is a method for driving a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels and a plurality of switches. The switches are used for controlling the unit pixels to display. The method includes transmitting a plurality of gate signals to the switches for driving the switches.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080088560 - Display device and control methods therefor: A display device, includes: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels; a signal controller which receives an n+k bit first image signal to divide one frame into 2k number of sub frames and generates a non-image signal according to an upper k most significant bits of the binary code... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080088561 - Active matrix display device: A display device includes an array having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each pixel circuit includes optoelectronic element and a plurality of thin-film transistors for controlling the optoelectronic element; data lines arranged to correspond to columns of pixel circuits for providing data signals to the pixel... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080088562 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display device: In the driving apparatus of the liquid crystal display device, a driving controller reduces or restores a duty ratio of a driving control signal which controls a generation of a driving current of a backlight assembly in accordance with whether a predetermined enable signal is applied or not. A master... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080088564 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display: A driving circuit includes a plurality of connected driving circuit units, and each of the driving circuit units includes an input unit, an output unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, and a pull-down circuit. Each of the driving circuit units receives a start signal and a clock... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080088538 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel. 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080088539 - Method of driving plasma display panel and apparatus thereof: Disclosed is a method of driving a plasma display panel and apparatus thereof enabling to minimize power consumption for driving the plasma display panel. 1. The present invention includes the steps of generating a reset discharge by supplying ramp waves so as to equalize cells in the plasma display panel... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080088535 - Plasma display device: A display apparatus includes a plasma display panel (PDP) having an upper substrate at which black matrices are disposed. The apparatus includes an external light shield having a panel side facing a display surface of the PDP and an opposing viewer side facing away from the display surface. The light... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080088542 - Determining leakage in matrix-structured electronic devices: One embodiment of this invention pertains to a high throughput screening technique to identify current leakage in matrix-structured electronic devices. Because elements that are likely to develop a short have relatively high leakage current at zero operation hours, by identifying elements with the relatively high leakage current, the electronic devices... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080088547 - Display system and pixel driving circuit thereof: A pixel driving circuit comprises a storage capacitor, a transistor, a transfer circuit, a driving element, and a switch circuit. The storage capacitor comprises first and second nodes. The transistor has a gate coupled to a discharge signal and is coupled between the first and second nodes. The discharge signal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080088543 - Display, array substrate, and display manufacturing method: Provided is a display including pixels (PX) arrayed in a matrix form and video signal lines (DL) arranged correspondently with columns which the pixels (PX) form, wherein each pixel (PX) includes a display element (OLED) and a pixel circuit including a drive transistor (DR) whose source is connected to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080088546 - Image display device: An image display device comprises a light emitting element; a driver which has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal, and which controls the current flowing between the first terminal and the second terminal by the voltage between the control terminal and the first terminal, to control... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088549 - Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit: A method and system for driving an active matrix display is provided. The system includes a drive circuit for a pixel having a light emitting device. The drive circuit includes a drive transistor for driving the light emitting device. The system includes a mechanism for adjusting the gate voltage of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080088553 - Portable apparatus: The present invention is aimed at obtaining a portable terminal capable of display of high luminance with low power consumption and is configured to be provided with an LED display panel having a plurality of light-emitting diodes matrix-arranged in a display window formed on the surface of a casing accommodating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080088558 - Driving circuit for use in cholesteric liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a liquid crystal display panel; a cholesteric liquid crystal layer in the liquid crystal panel; a data controller having a connection with the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the data controller receives red, green and blue data signals from an... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080088563 - Driving circuit having compensative unit and liquid crystal panel with same: An exemplary driving circuit (20) includes: gate lines (201); data lines orthogonal to the gate lines (202); thin film transistors (203); gate driving circuits (210) for driving the gate lines; data driving circuits (220) for driving the data lines; and a compensative unit (230) having a first input terminal (235),... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088568 - Display device: Disclosed is a display device for use of a surface display of an arbitrary shape, including a plural number of display element units, each made up of a circuit that forms a single stage of a scanning circuit and a pixel circuit connected to an output of the scanning circuit,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080088566 - Driving system and method for color sequential liquid crystal display (lcd): A driving system and method for color sequential liquid crystal display (LCD) are described. The driving system includes a sensor, scanning modules, switching modules and a control unit. The control unit receives the sensing signal from the sensor and controls the first switching module based on the sensing signal for... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080088569 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a scanning-line driving circuit disposed in a peripheral region around the pixel area, and supplies, through scanning lines, a plurality of scanning signals to a plurality of pixel portions in the pixel area. The data-line driving circuit is disposed in the peripheral region, and supplies a... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080088565 - Level shift circuit and display using same: The level shift circuit and the display using same are disclosed. The level shift circuit includes a shift logic circuit and a logic controller. The shift logic circuit is capable of shifting a level of an input signal. The logic controller is capable of resetting the shift logic circuit before... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080088567 - Method and device for measuring panel current: A method of measuring a panel current in an active matrix organic electroluminescence display panel, wherein when a current flowing through a display panel when one or a plurality of pixels are caused to emit light is measured, a flow-in current flowing into the display panel from a side of... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080088571 - Led driving apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: There are provided a LED driving apparatus and a liquid crystal display apparatus using the same, in which a circuit configuration of the LED driving apparatus can be simplified and the cost of the LED driving apparatus can be saved in employing a LED as a light source of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080088570 - Light-emitting diode light source and backlight module using the same: An exemplary LED light source (20) includes plural LED modules (201). Each LED module includes three circuit boards (202), (203), and (204) arranged in parallel, and plural light-mixing units (206). Each light-mixing unit has two first color LEDs (2061), a second color LED (2062), and a third color LED (2063).... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080088573 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and control method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes: an LCD panel which displays an image; a backlight unit which is formed of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and emits light to the LCD panel; a cooling fan which radiates heat generated from the backlight unit; a fan driver which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080088574 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is provided to reduce the edge-blurred influence of the liquid crystal response in accord with temperature dependency, comprising a temperature detector in an inverter circuit detecting the temperature of a liquid crystal display panel and outputting a temperature signal of the liquid crystal; a phase... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080088572 - Method for controlling luminance of divided block backlight of liquid crystal display: A method for controlling luminance of divided backlight block of a liquid crystal display(LCD) includes the steps of: inputting an image; dividing the image into a plurality of blocks according to the backlight blocks; obtaining a weighted color value of each pixel by performing a weighted operation on a maximum... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080088575 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display replaces the common electrodes of a conventional LCD with a plurality of switch electrodes. The plurality of switch electrodes is grouped into several switch electrode sets. Each of the switch electrode sets' potential is modulated by a different driving circuit. The driving circuits can also separately... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080088576 - Epaper stamp: A method and apparatus are provided for stamping a piece of ePaper. A grid is positioned within a selected distance to a first side of the piece of ePaper. A grounding pin conductively connects a conductive backing plate located on a second side of the piece of ePaper. The grounding... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080088578 - Flexible object simulator: A method of simulating a flexible object such as a catheter includes modeling the flexible object as a plurality of segments in which each segment has a plurality of nodes connected by one or more edges. The method further includes modeling each segment as a plurality of tetrahedral elements formed... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080088582 - Gimballed scroll wheel: An input device that includes both a movement detector, such as mechanical switch, and positional indicator, such as touch pad touch screen, and/or touch sensing housing is disclosed. These two input devices can be used substantially simultaneously to provide a command to the device. In this manner, different commands can... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080088583 - Method and apparatus for moving list on picture plane: Provided are an apparatus and method for moving a list on a picture plane. The apparatus for moving a list on a picture plane includes a centripetal acceleration control module providing acceleration in the direction in which an image moves, with respect to an amount of movement of the center... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080088581 - Online ad placement in response to zone of paper input: A method of displaying an advertisement to a user via user interaction with a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data enabling the user interaction, said method comprising: (a) a user performing the user interaction with the substrate using a sensing device, said sensing device reading at... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080088579 - Time-lapsing mirror: Time-lapsing mirror methods and related systems.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080088577 - Vehicular multifunction control system: A control system for a vehicle with a plurality of selectively variable characteristics includes a mode selector input device and a characteristic adjustment input device. Manipulation of the mode selector input device causes the control system to alternate between first and second modes of operation. In the first mode of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080088580 - Information input and output device, information processing method, and computer program: An information input and output device having a polyhedral shape includes plural display units set on respective sides forming a polyhedron, a sensor that detects the rotation or the tilt of the information input and output device, and a control unit that detects user input based on user operation of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080088584 - Computer input device and method of using the device: A hand-held device includes a display, a position sensor, a communication port operable to receive screen image data, and a processor. The processor is operable to determine a new cursor position in response to a change of position detected by the position sensor. The processor is additionally operable either to... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080088585 - Input display device, display control method and control program: An input display device for enabling a user to input various kinds of information by using a cursor and displaying an input state on a display unit, including a memory for storing a processing target search/select record concerning selection of processing target candidates, and a cursor shift record concerning a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080088586 - Method for controlling a computer generated or physical character based on visual focus: A user interface allows an operator to control the visual focus of digital, CG characters and/or physical robotic characters. An interface with one or more tiered shapes is overlaid on a video feed of the digital or physical character's surrounding environment. An operator can move the overlaid tiered shapes around... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20080088588 - Method and apparatus for controlling electronic appliance: An apparatus for controlling an electronic appliance having a display is provided. A plurality of control buttons are displayed on the display. An operator in front of the display is photographed with a video camera and is displayed on the display. The operator holds his or her hand to specify... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080088587 - Compact rtd instrument panels and computer interfaces: This concerns my RTD invention disclosed in co pending applications, particularly but not necessarily for use in the “center stack” region of vehicle instrument panels. Disclosed are novel prism devices to shrink the size of the unit, while increasing resistance to vibration and condensation and providing easier assembly into the... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080088589 - Scanning circuit and method for keyboard: A scanning circuit is provided for scanning keys of a keyboard. The scanning circuit includes n column wires C1˜Cn (where n is a natural number), a ground row wire R0, n row wires R1˜Rn, and n*n switches. The ground row wire R0 is connected to ground. The n row wires... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080088590 - Display input equipped data entry device and methods: A display-input equipped data entry device and method of configuring and operating it. Sets of images can be assembled into a layout configuration assignable to a particular program, including a particular key combination that can be pressed during operation of the program. An image is assignable to a particular input... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080088591 - Input device and mobile communication terminal having the same: An input device and a mobile terminal including the same is provided. The input device includes a housing formed of a non-conductive material and having at least one transmissive region, a touch board spaced from the housing, a displaceable conductive member located between the housing and the touch board, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088592 - Contamination detection in touch based sensor arrays: A touch based control system for a device includes a first sensor and a second sensor proximate the first sensor. At least one of the first and second sensors includes a touch sensitive area associated therewith. A controller is coupled to the first and second sensors. The controller monitors detected... Agent: Helen Odar Wolstoncroft Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080088596 - Gimballed scroll wheel: An input device that includes both a movement detector, such as mechanical switch, and positional indicator, such as touch pad touch screen, and/or touch sensing housing is disclosed. These two input devices can be used substantially simultaneously to provide a command to the device. In this manner, different commands can... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080088595 - Interconnected two-substrate layer touchpad capacitive sensing device: A touch-sensor device has a first board coupled to a second board. The first board has a first substrate with a first plurality of sensing elements and a second plurality of sensing elements. A first plurality of conductive trace connects the first plurality of sensing elements along a first axis.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080088600 - Method and apparatus for implementing multiple push buttons in a user input device: Method and apparatus for implementing multiple push buttons in a user device are disclosed. The method includes detecting a location of a user input using one or more touch sensors, detecting a force of the user input using a switch, and generating a signal for representing one of the push... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080088593 - Multi-user touch screen: A multi-user touch-responsive viewing screen is described which uses frustrated total internal reflection in a slab of transparent material to illuminate the contact point between the slab and a finger or other object substantially matching the slab's index of refraction. Light, coupled upon touch, can be detected with a video... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080088597 - Sensor configurations in a user input device: Method and device relate to improved sensor configurations in a user device are disclosed. A device implements the improved sensor configurations includes a switch configured to detect a force applied by a user, one or more touch sensors configured to detect an angular position of the user input which are... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080088594 - Two-substrate layer touchpad capacitive sensing device: A touch-sensor device has a first board coupled to a second board. The first board comprises a first substrate, a first conductive trace coupled to a first sensing element formed on the first substrate along a first axis, and a dielectric material formed on the first conductive trace and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080088601 - Circuit layout on a touch panel: A circuit layout is provided on a touch panel having a transparent glass substrate and a transparent conducting layer coated on a transparent conducting layer coating zone of the glass substrate. A peripheral wiring zone is defined on an area on the glass substrate that is not coated by the... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080088599 - Data entry for personal computing devices: In one aspect of the present invention the user can rapidly enter and search for text using a data entry system through a combination of entering one or more characters on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to obtain a list of completion... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080088598 - Gaming apparatus and method of controlling image display of gaming apparatus: A gaming apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, and a controller. The display displays an image thereon. The touch panel is provided so as to cover a display screen of the display and outputs a position signal corresponding to a point touched by a player. The controller receives the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080088602 - Multi-functional hand-held device: Disclosed herein is a multi-functional hand-held device capable of configuring user inputs based on how the device is to be used. Preferably, the multi-functional hand-held device has at most only a few physical buttons, keys, or switches so that its display size can be substantially increased. The multi-functional hand-held device... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080088603 - Interactive display system, tool for use with the system, and tool management apparatus: An interactive display system that may be implemented to provide an electronic whiteboard that enables users to input information to the system by engaging a display with one or more objects. The system may present an image via the display that reflects the inputs received from the user. For example,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080088604 - Contextual information encoded in a formed expression: Embodiments include a method, a manual device, a handheld manual device, a handheld writing device, a system, and an apparatus. An embodiment provides a manual device operable in a context. The manual device includes a writing element operable to form a mark on a surface in response to a movement... Agent: Searete LLC

20080088605 - Decoding digital information included in a hand-formed expression: Embodiments include a method, a manual device, a handheld manual device, a handheld writing device, a system, and an apparatus. An embodiment provides a device. The device includes an imaging circuit operable to acquire digital information encoded in a hand-formed analog expression marked on a surface by a handheld writing... Agent: Searete LLC

20080088606 - Information encoded in an expression: Embodiments provide a method, and a device A device includes a writing element operable to form a mark on a surface corresponding to a movement of the writing element over the surface. The device also includes a controller operable to digitally encode information in the mark.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080088607 - Management of internal logic for electronic pens: In a system for managing information from electronic pens, each electronic pen includes a memory which is designed to store controlling software and a set of templates. Each template associates pen positions with functionality implemented by the controlling software. In a method and arrangement of controlling operation of electronic pens,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080088608 - Control apparatus with a rotating wheel and pushbutton: A space-saving and user-friendly operating device includes a rotary transducer to which a rotating wheel is connected. The operating device also includes at least one tracer arranged behind the rotating wheel section, wherein a pressure produced by the rotating wheel section also produces a pressure on the tracer.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080088609 - Control system with a display interface for a fitness equipment meter: The present invention is a control system with a display interface for the fitness equipment meter. The control system includes an IC board and A/D board. The A/D board is connected to a display unit, and the information input from the IC board can be converted by A/D board and... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080088611 - Driving apparatus and driving method for display device: A driver and a driving method of a display device that includes a signal controller that processes image data input from an external circuit and a memory that is connected to the signal controller, wherein the signal controller includes a data converter that converts the image data and outputs the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080088610 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display: A driving circuit controlled with a clock signal to drive scan lines of a liquid crystal display includes cascade-connected driving circuit units, and each of the driving circuit units includes an input unit, an output unit, a pull-down circuit, and a control unit. The input unit receives a start signal,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080088612 - Method for correcting image distortion and apparatus thereof: The present invention relates to an image processing method and an apparatus thereof, more specifically to a method for correcting image distortion and an apparatus thereof. When a display apparatus using a diffractive optical modulator corrects the distortion of an image in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080088613 - Simplified pixel cell capable of modulating a full range of brightness: A simplified pixel display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of storage elements, a single arbitrary voltage supply terminal, a second voltage supply terminal which may be either of the rail voltages of the display, a common electrode, and a plurality of externally controlled switches each selectively coupling... Agent: Elcos Microdisplay Technology Attn: David Mcdonald

20080088614 - Video data correction circuit, display device and electronic appliance: A video correction circuit of the invention includes an detection unit for detecting the cumulative light-emission frequency data on each pixel by sampling video data supplied to a display device having a plurality of pixels; a cumulative data storage unit for storing the cumulative light-emission frequency data on each pixel;... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080088615 - Driving method for liquid crystal display using block cycle inversion: An exemplary method for driving a typical liquid crystal display (2) with a matrix of pixels (205) includes the steps of: (a) applying video signals with a first polarity pattern to the pixels during a frame period, (b) re-defining the first polarity pattern by sequentially shifting the polarity sequences of... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080088616 - Buffer amplifier, driver ic and display apparatus using that driver ic: [COUNTERMEASURE] The present invention is provided with a first comparator in which a comparing portion is constituted by one of P channel and N channel MOS transistors provided between an input terminal and an output terminal of a buffer amplifier and a predetermined offset voltage is set for the comparing... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge

20080088617 - Electronic display device: An electronic display device includes a page data acquisition section which acquires page data including display data and text data, a display data buffer, a write processing section which writes the display data into the display data buffer, a display processing section which displays an image on a display section,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080088618 - Adaptive sampling of a satic data set: A sampling module for adaptively sampling static data sets is provided. Two or more rays are cast onto a surface from a single point of origin. The ray or rays intersect the surface at various locations. The distance between the intersection points of each pair of adjacent rays is calculated.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080088619 - Branch prediction for acceleration data structure traversal: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for pre-fetching bounding volume information while tracing a ray through a spatial index. According to one embodiment of the invention, a first ray may be traced through a spatial index and a traversal history may be recorded. Later, a subsequent ray may... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080088620 - Systems and methods for sculpting virtual objects in a haptic virtual reality environment: A user of a virtual object or computer model uses a haptic interface device in the real world to manipulate a virtual tool in a virtual environment to interact and modify the virtual object. The user uses the virtual tool in a sculpting mode to modify the shape of the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080088622 - Dynamic reallocation of processing cores for balanced ray tracing graphics workload: A ray tracing image processing system may use a plurality of processing elements to render a two dimensional image from a three dimensional scene. A first portion of the processing elements may function as workload managers responsible for performing operations relating to traversing a ray through a spatial index, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080088621 - Follower method for three dimensional images: A computer-based method enables a selected part of a three-dimensional image on a screen to the followed throughout the three-dimensional image. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a part included in the image, removing any obstacles included in the image that impede viewing of the part, moving a cursor... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080088623 - Image-mapped point cloud with ability to accurately represent point coordinates: A laser scanner scans a scene to form a point cloud representing points on a surface within the scene. The point cloud is used to create a corresponding visual representation of the point cloud from a single eye point that is displayed as an image array, such as a cube... Agent: Stallman & Pollock, LLP

20080088625 - Method and apparatus for transferring an angle -angle vision graph to a three dimensional surface: A computer aided design system accurately determines the location, shape, and dimensions of a transparency that provides a field of view meeting a clear view area specified by a two dimensional polar vision plot. The computer aided design system projects points on the two dimensional polar vision plot onto a... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (boeing)

20080088624 - Virtual window with simulated parallax and field of view change: A system and method for simulating to one or more individual observers a view through a window using a display screen comprising a storage device containing in electronic form one or more images of a scene selected from the group consisting of one or more images of the scene at... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080088626 - Three-dimensional image data compression system, method, program and recording medium: A 3D image data compression system, a method a program and a recording medium storing the program are provided for effectively compressing a data amount and obtaining a decompressed 3D image with little distortion. A recording medium also is provided for storing the compressed 3D image data. The system generates,... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080088627 - Video management system: A video management system comprises a calculating unit calculating, with respect to each of a plurality of size orders, a minimum bounding region (MBR) embracing a view volume that defines a range to be shot in real space based on pieces of data representing a shooting position and a shooting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080088628 - Method and system for constructing a labeled treemap with balanced layout: The present invention provides a method and system for constructing a labeled treemap with balanced layout. The method comprises: determining a range of possible densities of leaf nodes based on designated weights of the leaf nodes and a designated treemap region, wherein the density of a leaf node is the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080088629 - Preventive module for avoiding diseases: Embodiments of a system are described for visualizing the state of health of a patient, comprising an input unit for reading in patient data, an evaluation unit for evaluating the data and an output unit which outputs the results of the evaluation in a graphical form. The evaluation unit contains... Agent: Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc.

20080088632 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on an integrated graphics device (igd) within a bridge circuit, wherewithin image recomposition is carried out: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on an integrated graphic device (IGD) embodied within a bridge circuit, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080088630 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display subsystem employing a graphics hub device (ghd) for interconnecting cpu memory space and multple graphics processing pipelines (gppls) employed with said system: A multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system supporting real-time graphics rendering and display operations using a graphics hub device. The system includes a CPU memory space, one or more CPUs for executing graphics-based applications, and a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (MPGRS) supporting multiple modes of parallel operation including... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080088631 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system supporting real-time detection of scene profile indices programmed within pre-profiled scenes of the graphics-based application: A multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system supporting real-time detection of scene profile indices programmed within pre-profiled scenes of the graphics-based application. The system includes a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem (MMPGRS) having multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) and supporting multiple modes of parallel operation selected from the group... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080088633 - Apparatus and method for providing data: A data providing apparatus stores data waiting to be rendered, and communicates with a data rendering apparatus through a commonly supported standard. The data providing apparatus includes a digital media controller (DMC) for controlling the data rendering apparatus, a controller outputting the data waiting to be rendered, a converter converting... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080088634 - Usb image transmission system and device: A USB image transmission system is provided. The USB image transmission system may include a content source configured to be operatively coupled to a USB-enabled display device. Image data may be transmitted over the USB connection from the content source for display by the display device. In some embodiments, a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080088635 - Video display mode control: A video graphics chip includes a graphics module configured to process incoming video information in accordance with different modes to produce a video output signal and to transmit the video output signal toward a display screen for rendering of video corresponding to the video information, and a display mode module... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080088636 - System and method for the display and control of virtual environments in a single pipe graphics memory controller hub using picture-in-picture: A system and method for the display and control of virtual environments in a single pipe graphics memory controller hub using picture-in-picture. The system has a first virtual machine to render on a primary framebuffer, where the primary framebuffer has a picture-in-picture. The system also has a second virtual machine... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080088637 - Electronic system and method for display using a decoder and arbiter to selectively allow access to a shared memory: An electronic system, an integrated circuit and a method for display are disclosed. The electronic system contains a first device, a memory and a video/audio compression/decompression device such as a decoder/encoder. The electronic system is configured to allow the first device and the video/audio compression/decompression device to share the memory.... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080088638 - Systems and methods of testing micro-electromechanical devices: An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provides greater flexibility. Electronic hardware can be field reconfigured to accommodate different display formats and/or application functions. An... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080088639 - Method for generating a graphical user interface: A method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of an electronic device such as a mobile phone, includes the steps of analyzing a bitmap, comprising a layout of fields of different colors, to determine the color and location of the fields. Each field represents the intended... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080088640 - Outline font brightness value correction system, method and program: Having an outline font data readout unit read a correction subject pixel and surrounding pixels thereof, referring to the already stored pre-correction and post-correction brightness value pattern data that are related to the read correction subject pixel and surrounding pixels, deriving a post-correction brightness value pattern uniquely from among candidates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080088641 - Structure-preserving clone brush: The invention provides tools and techniques for clone brushing pixels in an image while accounting for inconsistencies in apparent depth and orientation within the image. The techniques do not require any depth information to be present in the image, and the data structure of the image is preserved. The techniques... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080088642 - Image management through lexical representations: In a method for image management, image data for an image containing objects is accessed. Graphical representations of the objects are generated and the centroids and the sizes of the graphical representations are determined. The locations of the centroids are determined and the morphologies of the graphical representations based upon... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080088643 - Automatic trapping of drop shadows: Methods, program products and systems for automatically trapping drop shadows. For at least one segment incident to an atomic region which includes a drop shadow, and for each side of the segment, determining a first flattened color of the side's incident atomic region, and if the atomic region includes a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080088644 - Stereo windowing system with translucent window support: An operating system level windowing system provides for the reliable display of multiple translucent windows. Incorporating stereo object processing within the windowing system itself (rather than at the application level), permits the windowing system to ensure that stereo content is reliably displayed (e.g., via use of blue-line technology) regardless of... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080088645 - Storage medium storing game program, and game device: Trace shape information, representing the shape of a trace along which an object has moved across a game field in a virtual game world is updated based on the change in the position where the object is located in the virtual game world. A ground texture is produced by blending... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080088646 - Imaging display apparatus and method: An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080088650 - Liquid crystal display device and related operating method: In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, a plurality of pixels is driven to display a first frame and a second frame in sequence. A gray-scale difference between the first frame and the second frame is detected to determine a driving mode variation between the first frame and the second... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080088649 - Liquid crystal display unit and system including a plurality of stacked display devices, and drive circuit: LCD unit includes first and second LCD panels stacked one on another. An image-data processing unit outputs monochrome image data to the second LCD panel, and color image data to the first LCD panel The monochrome image data specifies a full transmission for a pixel having a luminance not less... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080088647 - Rendering luminance levels of a high dynamic range display: Systems, methods, and computer software for use in driving a high dynamic range display involve generating table entries of luminance levels for a high dynamic range display and ordering the table according to the luminance levels. If the table includes multiple entries with equal values for a particular luminance level,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080088648 - Oled luminance degradation compensation: A system and method are disclosed for determining a pixel capacitance. The pixel capacitance is correlated to a pixel age to determine a current correction factor used for compensating the pixel drive current to account for luminance degradation of the pixel that results from the pixel aging.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080088651 - Divided mirror pixels for deformable mirror device: A mirror device comprising a plurality of mirror elements for modulating illumination light, and each of the mirror elements has a plural number of sub-mirror elements that is a single mirror element divided approximately perpendicularly in an incidence direction of illumination light. A projection apparatus has the mirror device and... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080084359 - Method and apparatus to provide multiple monitor support using a single displayport connector: A video display controller for at least two DisplayPort-enabled display devices comprises a main link channel and an Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) manager. The main link channel is in communication with each of the display devices. The EDID manager accepts EDID data from the display devices and controls output... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080084360 - Display device and method of renewing display: Display panels are located in a predetermined arrangement to form a screen in a display device. A driver circuit is independently attached to each of the display panels in the display device. The driver circuit outputs a driving signal to the display panel in response to the reception of a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080084364 - Display apparatus having improved substrate: Disclosed is a display substrate including a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor formed thereon. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and the pixel electrode is formed by extending the drain electrode thereby reducing the required number of process steps... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080084363 - Method of making micro-pixelated fluid-assay precursor structure: A method of producing a precursor, active-matrix, fluid-assay micro-structure including the steps of (1) utilizing low-temperature TFT and Si technology, establishing preferably on a glass or plastic substrate a matrix array of non-functionalized pixels, and (2) preparing at least one of these pixels for individual, digitally-addressed (a) functionalization, and (b)... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080084366 - Display device: A photosensor for selecting a specific function is arranged around an effective screen. A window is formed in a portion of a display substrate corresponding to the photosensor. When a user touches the window with his/her finger, an external light is interrupted and a signal is generated, and the signal... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080084367 - Control apparatus and panel assembly comprising said control apparatus: A control apparatus and a panel assembly are provided. The panel assembly comprises a panel device and a control apparatus. The panel device includes a plurality of organic light emitting diodes and a power system. The control apparatus is configured to control the panel device and includes a drive circuit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080084369 - System and method for color-specific sequence scaling for sequential color systems: System and method for adjusting the color segment durations for colors in a color sequence in sequential color display systems. A preferred embodiment comprises receiving a desired color sequence to display, computing a scaling factor for each color in the desired color sequence based on a reference color sequence, and... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080084370 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. A gate driver drives a first pixel of the display via a first scanning line within a frame period including first and second data writing intervals. A first data voltage and a second data voltage are transmitted to the first pixel... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080084371 - Liquid crystal display for preventing residual image phenomenon and related method thereof: A liquid crystal display device for preventing residual image includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixel units for displaying an image, a detecting circuit for generating a power control signal in response to a power switching signal, and a source driver. The source driver includes a processing... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080084373 - Method of making micro-pixelated fluid-assay structure: A method for producing an active-matrix, fluid-assay micro-structure including, utilizing low-temperature TFT and Si technology, establishing preferably on a glass or plastic substrate a matrix array of digitally-addressable, assay-material-specific-functionalizable pixels, and employing pixel-specific digital addressing for selected, array-established pixels, individually functionalizing these pixels.... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080084372 - Micro-pixelated fluid-assay structure: A pixel-by-pixel digitally-addressable, pixelated, fluid-assay, active-matrix micro-structure including plural pixels formed preferably on a glass or plastic substrate, wherein each pixel, formed utilizing low-temperature TFT and Si technology, includes (a) at least one functionalized, digitally-addressable assay sensor including at least one functionalized, digitally-addressable assay site which has been affinity-functionalized to... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080084376 - Color display, liquid crystal display, and translucent liquid crystal display: In a color display device, when using white (W) sub-pixels in addition to subpixels of red (R) and green (G) plus blue (B) without increasing a wiring line number, the per-color pixel number in a unit area decreases so that the image resolution is deteriorated. The area and number of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080084378 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device and a method for driving the same wherein the timing of the gate clock signal, which is an output of a timing controller, is changed to a time before a data latch signal is applied, so that degradation of the image due to gate noise can be... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080084377 - Display device, light receiving method, and information processing device: A display device, light receiving method, and information processing device are provided. The display device including a plurality of sub-pixels forming a pixel as a unit of display resolution of an image, the plurality of sub-pixels being arranged in a delta arrangement, a display circuit for displaying the image, a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080084380 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel and a driving circuit for driving each pixel of the display panel, in which a VCCIO voltage and a VCC voltage equal to or larger than the VCCIO voltage (VCCIO≦VCC) is inputted to the driving circuit. The driving circuit has a first level... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080084361 - Display device: A display device comprising a display unit (1001) capable of displaying separate images on the same screen in a plurality of viewing directions, a mounting place data-obtaining unit (1021) for obtaining data related to a place where the display unit (1001) is mounted, and a display control unit (1002) for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084362 - Image display device: An image display device 1 includes a main body having a shape of a glasses frame, a right-eye display device 20R and a left-eye display device 20L. Each of the right-eye display device 20R and the left-eye display device 20L is for displaying a predetermined image and is provided in... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080084365 - Drive method of el display panel: A switching transistor is controlled to turn on or off depending on a turn-on voltage or a turn-off voltage applied to a gate signal line. A driver transistor is supplied with an image signal applied to a source signal line through a switching transistor. A voltage based on the supplied... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084368 - Portable terminal: This invention relates to a portable terminal such as a portable telephone provided with an LED display panel where a plurality of LEDs are arranged in a matrix on the surface of a case. When an incoming call comes in, a speaker rings a ringtone melody while the LED display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084375 - Active matrix panel: In an active matrix panel, a pixel matrix which includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, and thin film transistors is formed on a first transparent substrate. A second transparent substrate is formed opposite to the first transparent substrate. A liquid crystal material is disposed between... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080084374 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080084379 - Display device: The present invention suppresses the generation of a leak current that accompanies the polarity inversion of the voltage waveform of the opposing electrode. The display device that performs display by sequentially scanning a plurality of scan signal lines in a single cycle period comprises: a plurality of data signal lines... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080084381 - Magnetic display for watches: A smaller sized flip dot display utilizes a magnetically actuated pixel that rotates between two orientations. The orientations display two different optical states. A simulated dot matrix design improves the aesthetics and consumer appeal, and also permits a flip dot display capable of producing a positive contrast display image with... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080084383 - Controller having pointing module: A controller uses a a pointing stick to move a cursor on an electrical device. By using the pointing stick, the controller is minimized in size and is light-weighted. And energy is saved too.... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080084384 - Multiple mode haptic feedback system: A haptic effect device includes a housing and a touchscreen coupled to the housing through a suspension. An actuator is coupled to the touchscreen. The suspension is tuned so that when the actuator generates first vibrations at a first frequency, the first vibrations are substantially isolated from the housing and... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Pllc

20080084382 - Ultrasonic/electromagnetic non-contact buttons/switches for elevators: A method of providing non-contact data selection, comprising the steps of providing at least one data selection, transmitting at least one signal in proximity to the at least one data selection, altering the path of the at least one transmitted signal through interaction with a selection device, detecting at least... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c.

20080084386 - Light-weighted and minimized pointing device: The present invention is a pointing device, which is a kind of pointing stick. The pointing device is light weighted and has a small size. The pointing device is applied to a portable device or a remote controller so that the size of the equipment can be minimized.... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080084385 - Wearable computer pointing device: Described is a technology by which a computer pointing device (generally a mouse but alternatively a game controller or remote control device) may be worn on the hand and operated without needing to contact a mousing surface. Gyroscopic-based sensors convert the wearer's hand and wrist movements to signals which are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080084389 - Handheld electronic apparatus with functions of intelligent remote control: A handheld electronic apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of buttons, a wireless signal transmission unit, a processor and a storage unit. Each button with a display device for showing an icon corresponding to one of operation functions is provided for a user to select from operation functions.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080084388 - Mobile terminal and method for moving a cursor and executing a menu function using a navigation key: A mobile terminal and method for moving a cursor and executing a menu function in respons to operations of a navigation key by the user are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes an optical sensor navigation key installed in the mobile terminal, wherein the navigation key senses a direction of movement... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080084387 - Pointing device having rotational sensors: A pointing device and method for providing both translational and rotational input to a computer, to manipulate graphical objects. In one embodiment, a pointing stick is cantilevered to a base. One or more translational sensors are coupled to the pointing stick to generate translational signals in response to lateral forces... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20080084390 - Remote control system for use with a glove: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a wired or wireless remote control unit engineered to fit over a gloved hand and having large buttons capable of being pressed through gloved finger tips. Accordingly, a user is able operate a wired or wireless remote while wearing gloves and... Agent: Jones Product Innovations, Llc

20080084391 - Mouse: A mouse is primarily constituted by a housing, an interior of which is provided with a glider which is formed with a default pattern of texture, at a position corresponding to an inner surface of the housing on which is installed with a window, allowing a user to activate the... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080084393 - Device for inputting information: In an information input device, which includes: a flat main body; a rotary input module that includes a maneuver part, which is rotatably supported by a support part, and a detector part, which generates signals in correspondence to the rotation of the maneuver part, where the maneuver part is exposed... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080084394 - Device for inputting information: An information input device is disclosed. A device for inputting information, which includes: an integrated board coupled inside a flat main body; a rotary input module that includes a maneuver part, which is rotatably supported by a support part secured to the board, and a detector part, which generates signals... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080084392 - Optical mouse and method of use: An optical mouse device that includes a light source and an object, such as an operator's hand or other instrument that is disposed in the path of the light energy to reflect the light energy emitted from the light source. At least one sensor unit receives the reflected light energy... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080084395 - Motion based adjustment of display transparency: A data processing system and a computer implemented method is provided for adjusting the transparency of a display screen based on detecting motion in an area obscured by the display screen. When a motion is detected in the area obscured by the display screen, the transparency of the display screen... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080084396 - Tablet pc and method for keyboard containing the same: A tablet computer is provided. The tablet computer includes: an electronic computing base having receiving portion; a liquid crystal display pivotally connected to the electronic computing base; a keyboard detached contained in the receiving portion and wirelessly communicating with the electronic computing base; a container disposed on the receiving portion;... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20080084397 - Navigation pad and method of using same: A handheld electronic device has an outer face in which a user display and a navigation touch pad are located. The touch pad is adapted to provide a user input for controlling at least one function of the electronic device. A plurality of touch sensors are located at predetermined locations... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080084400 - Touch-gesture control of video media play on handheld media players: A video media player for controlling the playback of video media in response to one or more finger gestures performed over the displayed image of a playing video media file. A display is adapted to display the video media. A touch screen surface is disposed in a position on the... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20080084398 - User interface, and digital camera: There is provided a user interface which enables a reduction in the chance of occurrence of erroneous operation. A display used for displaying various items of information, a captured image, or the like, is provided in the back of a digital camera. A first touch strip and a second touch... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080084401 - Input device and mobile communication terminal having the same: An input device and mobile terminal having the same is provided. The input device includes a housing having at least one transmissive region, a touch board located substantially adjacent the housing, the touch board being configured to sense a touch applied to the housing, a plurality of light emitting units,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080084399 - Method and apparatus for touch scrolling: Apparatus for touch scrolling, the apparatus comprising a scrolling activator for scrolling activation by a finger of a user, the scrolling activator comprising a first end zone adjacent a first end of the scrolling activator for fast scrolling in a first scrolling direction, a second end zone adjacent a second... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080084402 - Display device and information processing apparatus: A display device having at least a display circuit for displaying an image, and a light receiving sensor for detecting a light disposed is provided. When a light receiving circuit region including the light receiving sensor is made a dark portion, and a region other than the light receiving circuit... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080084404 - Invisible, light-transmissive display system: An invisible, light-transmissive display system with a light resistant material is provided. Substantially invisible holes penetrate through at least a portion of the light resistant material in a predetermined light-transmissive display pattern.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080084405 - Liquid material arrangement method, color filter manufacturing method, and organic el display device manufacturing method: A liquid material arrangement method includes a first patter generating step, a dot deleting step and a liquid material arranging step. In the first pattern generating step, a first dot pattern is generated in which a first prescribed number of dots is set. In the dot deleting step, a second... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080084403 - Method for driving display device: There is no method combining advantages of both an analog gray scale method and a digital gray scale method. An object is to provide a means that can perform display in a plurality of display modes. In a display mode-specific video signal generation circuit, an input video signal is output... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080084406 - Method of automatically recovering bit values of control register and lcd drive integrated circuit for performing the same: A method of automatically recovering bit values of a control register includes storing command data inputted from a host in the control register and a portion of a graphic RAM (GRAM), and while a scanning operation is performed by the GRAM, outputting the command data stored in the GRAM to... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080084408 - Gate driver, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and drive method: A gate driver includes a first gate output circuit which outputs a select signal for selecting the first gate line, a second gate output circuit which outputs a select signal for selecting the second gate line in a select period subsequent to the select period of the first gate line,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084407 - Method of driving display panel: A display panel driving method comprises the steps of setting at least one sub-field of the plurality of sub-field to be a simultaneous address sub-field, and setting at least one sub-field arranged immediately before or immediately after the simultaneous address sub-field to be a line sequential address sub-field, and executing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080084409 - Apparatus and method for generating chopper-stabilized signals: A method for generating chopper-stabilized signals includes the following steps. First, a voltage polarity control signal is received. Next, the voltage polarity control signal is sampled to obtain a sampling signal, and a voltage transformation manner of the voltage polarity inversion of the voltage polarity control signal is judged according... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080084410 - Power supply circuit, driver circuit, electro-optical device, electronic instrument, and common electrode drive method: A power supply circuit which outputs a common electrode voltage to a common electrode of an electro-optical device provided opposite to pixel electrodes through an electro-optical material includes a voltage booster circuit which generates a boost voltage boosted by a charge-pump operation in synchronization with a charge clock signal, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080084411 - Display apparatus, source driver and dispaly panel: An organic EL display apparatus includes: a display panel on which a plurality of pixel sections are provided; source drivers provided with pixel drivers, which includes current drivers for supplying drive currents to the pixel sections, registers for latching data signals and timing control units; signal lines for supplying the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080084412 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device and method of driving the same capable of eliminating pressure induced light leakage includes a liquid crystal display comprising an LCD panel having a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines formed in a direction to intersect the plurality of gate lines,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080084413 - Method for generating multi-resolution three-dimensional model: Disclosed is a method for generating a multi-resolution three-dimensional model, and for extracting feature lines using texture images and geometric data from a three-dimensional model. First, contours are detected for texture images using an image processing on the texture-mapped three-dimensional mesh data. With respect to geometric data, a discrete curvature... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080084414 - Method for creating a parametric surface symmetric with respect to a given symmetry operation: The invention is directed to a method for creating a parametric surface symmetric with respect to a given symmetry operation (20). The invention method: (i) identifies a mesh pattern (15a); (ii) creates a base mesh (15s) from the mesh pattern, according to a symmetry operation; (iii) subdivides the base mesh,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080084415 - Orientation of 3-dimensional displays as a function of the regions to be examined: A system and method provide automatic image visualization of an object of interest. One or more data sets may include image data of the object of interest. The image data may include medical images and the object of interest may be an anatomical structure or region. One or more of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080084416 - User-pluggable rendering engine: A rendering engine allows users to define properties used to render, animate or otherwise represent objects (such as graphic objects, sound players, feedback force generators, and the like) so that the properties are used by the rendering engine to render the object. Users can also define a timeline to control... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080084417 - Character input apparatus and program: A character input apparatus includes a display device, list display control means, a storage device, operation means, and retrieval means. The list display control means displays selectable characters in a one-dimensional character list display area defined in a character input screen. The list display control means is configured to display... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080084421 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphical processing units (gpus) supported on external graphics cards, with image recomposition being carried out within said gpus: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing one or more graphics-based applications, (ii) one or more CPUs for executing the... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084423 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics pipelines (gppls) implemented on a multi-core cpu chip: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics pipelines (GPPLs) implemented on a multi-core CPU chip having multiple CPU-cores, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components, and supporting multiple modes of parallel operation. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084418 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on an integrated graphics device (igd) within a bridge circuit: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on an integrated graphic device (IGD) embodied within a bridge circuit, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084422 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on external graphics cards connected to a graphics hub device with image recomposition being carried out across two or more of said gpus: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components, with image recomposition being carried out within or across two or more of the GPUs. The computing system... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084420 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on multiple external graphics cards connected to an integrated graphics device (igd) supporting a single gpu and embodied within a bridge circui: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on an integrated graphic device (IGD) embodied within a bridge circuit, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084419 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units supported on external graphics cards connected to a graphics hub device: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing one or more graphics-based applications, (ii) one... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080084424 - Early retiring instruction mechanism, method for performing the same and pixel processing system thereof: An early retiring instruction mechanism, a method for performing the early retiring instruction mechanism and a pixel processing system employing the early retiring instruction mechanism applied to a graphic processor unit (GPU) are described. The pixel processing system comprises an early retiring instruction mechanism and a pixel shader. The early... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080084425 - Image processing apparatus and method: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus for inputting a plurality of rectangular images each composed of n×n pixels and outputting line-by-line image data in which one line is composed of n×n×m pixels. A line buffer stores n lines of image data, each line is composed n×n×m pixels. The apparatus generate... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080084426 - Off-screen buffering management device and method: An off-screen buffering management device and method are disclosed. In the device, an application unit creates a window to be displayed on a screen, and makes a request for a drawing of the created window. An off-screen buffering area for storing off-screen data corresponding to the window is set in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080084427 - Visual emphasis for cognitive training exercises: Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition of a participant using visual emphasis. One or more scenes are provided and are available for visual presentation to the participant, each scene having a background and at least one foreground object. A scene is visually presented to the participant with a specified visual emphasis... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.c.

20080084428 - Medical image display apparatus: Provided is an image display apparatus which includes a display unit that displays a series of images obtained by imaging an inside of a subject in time sequence, and displays a specific area with a predetermined size; and an input unit having an input button group for performing a display... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080084429 - High performance image rendering for internet browser: Additionally, exploiting the infrastructure of the invention thus described, further means by which a single image, embedded in a group of images co-located within a shared display region, can be easily designated by a simple pointing device such as a computer mouse, even though said single image may appear substantially... Agent: Sherman Wissinger

20080084430 - Image display device, image display method, image display program, and computer -readable storage medium: An image display device (1) of the present invention is an image display device having a function of rotating a display image, the image display device including: a size comparison section (17) for making a comparison (i) between a vertical length of an outer edge of a display region in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080084431 - Portable multimedia playback apparatus: A portable multimedia playback apparatus is provided. The portable multimedia playback apparatus comprises a first video processing unit, a second video processing unit, a third video processing unit, a multiplexer, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The first video processing unit generates a digital video signal. The second video processing unit... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080084432 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method of driving the same are provided. The LCD includes a graphic controller providing raw image data and a conversion data set for correcting the raw image data, a timing controller correcting the input raw image data using the conversion data set and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080084433 - Luminance control method and luminance control circuit for organic el display: A luminance control method for an organic EL display comprises a first step of calculating a luminance accumulation value for each screen on the basis of a video input signal, and a second step of controlling the amplitude of the video input signal on the basis of the luminance accumulation... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080079654 - Method of storing and displaying photos on a digital photo frame: A method of storing and displaying photos on a digital photo frame is provided. The digital photo frame has a photo-sized display screen rotatably mounted on a support such that the display screen is configurable in landscape-viewing or portrait-viewing orientations by rotation of the screen. The method comprises the steps... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080079655 - Image processing system, image processing method, computer readable medium for image processing and computer data signal for image processing: An image processing system includes: a display that displays a still image and a moving image to move over the still image; a snapshot-image producing unit that produces the snapshot image of the moving image; and an arranging unit that arranges the snapshot image on the still image.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079656 - Multi-display apparatus and method thereof: In a multi-display device, first and second panels, each of which has a display device, are stuck fast to each other to embody a screen. The first panel has an interface surface formed of a hard material, and the second panel has an interface surface formed of a soft material.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079657 - Multi-display apparatus and method thereof: A multi-display apparatus, which can greatly improve the image disconnection at a seam between unit panels when an image is viewed at an inclination angle, includes a plurality of unit panels, each including a display device between a substrate glass and a cover glass, wherein the plurality of unit panels... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079658 - Screen synchronous control apparatus: A screen synchronous control apparatus includes a reference timing transmitting unit 3 for transmitting a reference timing signal about display of a plurality of display screens 11, 12, and 13 at predetermined intervals, a display control unit 1 for transmitting a drawing instruction for displaying display data on the plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079660 - 3d image displaying method and apparatus: A method of displaying 3D image on a 3D image displaying apparatus that produces a parallax at least in one direction, the method includes displaying by a displaying unit 2D information that is viewed as a 2D content by a viewer in such a manner that a 2D information angle... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080079661 - Method for generating a font-based sparkline: The present invention relates to a method for generating a font-based sparkline, the sparkline being composed of two or more than two glyphs, said glyphs comprising one or more lines or consisting of one or more lines, which lines have two margins defining the thickness of the lines, the method... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080079663 - Micro-pixelated fluid-assay precursor structure: A pixel-by-pixel, digitally-addressable, pixelated, precursor, fluid-assay, active-matrix micro-structure including plural pixels formed on a substrate, wherein each pixel includes (a) at least one non-functionalized, digitally-addressable assay sensor, and (b), disposed operatively adjacent this sensor, digitally-addressable and energizable electromagnetic field-creating structure which is selectively energizable to create, in the vicinity of... Agent: Robert Varitz

20080079662 - Stereoscopic display apparatus: A stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display having pixels arrayed in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction to form a matrix, each pixel including sub-pixels with color components, and a control element opposed to the display and having linear openings extending in the longitudinal direction and arrayed in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080079665 - Drive method for plasma display panel and display device: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel, a signal processor, a scan electrode driver, a sustain electrode driver, and an address electrode driver. The plasma display panel includes address electrodes, scan electrodes, and sustain electrodes. The signal processor is used for generating scan drive signals, sustain drive signals... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080079664 - Plasma display device: In a plasma display device, a lighting rate is calculated from a video signal input in a plasma display device, and an output current of DC-DC converter (140), which is the same as a discharge current in a sustain period corresponding to the lighting rate, is synchronized with a generation... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080079666 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel having a discharge space filled with a discharge gas, the discharge space being formed inside of the panel formed of a front-side substrate assembly and a rear-side substrate assembly bonded to each other, the panel having first and second holes each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080079668 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first, second and third electrodes and a sustain driver. The sustain driver supplies a sustain signal swinging between a positive sustain voltage and a negative sustain voltage to the first electrode. The sustain driver... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080079669 - Light-emitting device and image forming apparatus: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device including: a plurality of light-emitting elements which emit light with light intensities according to the levels of driving currents; a plurality of current generation circuits which are provided in correspondence with the plurality of light-emitting elements, have a plurality of current sources, and combine... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079671 - Information processing apparatus and display control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display unit comprising a plurality of light-emitting devices, a light-emitting unit which, if a predetermined area of the display unit is displayed, urges the plurality of light-emitting devices corresponding to the predetermined area and an area wider than the predetermined... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080079676 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same: In a display apparatus and a method for driving the display apparatus, the display apparatus includes a display panel and a gate driving part. The display panel has a gate line, and a gate driving part has a plurality of stages and a plurality of signal lines. At least one... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079675 - Driving device for display device and image signal compensating method therefor: A driving device for a display device and a method of compensating an image signal of the display device in which the driving device for a display device having a plurality of pixels includes: a first compensating unit that converts an image signal corresponding to the pixel into a first... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079672 - Driving method for a liquid crystal display device and related device: A driving method for an LCD device determines whether an Nth image data to be outputted to a pixel in an Nth frame period is different from an (N-1)th image data outputted to the pixel in an (N-1)th frame period. If the Nth image data is different from the (N-1)th... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080079673 - Driving method for lcd and apparatus thereof: A driving method and the apparatus thereof are provided based on the response characteristics of liquid crystal. A first and a second scans are executed during a frame time. During the execution of the first scan, the liquid crystal is twisted in response to an over-driving voltage to reach an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079678 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed which includes first, second and third data lines arranged in one direction, a data driver for alternately supplying a data signal of a first polarity and a data signal of a second polarity to each of the first, second and third data lines... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080079677 - Method for driving display: A method for driving a display device includes the following steps: providing a first displaying data to a first region of a display panel, wherein the first displaying data is a first color displaying data; providing a backlight source of the first color at the first region; and displaying a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080079680 - Driving circuit and driving method of liquid crystal device, liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus: Any one can be selected out of an entire screen display mode and a partial screen display mode, a driving circuit including; a scanning line driving circuit; a first control circuit for supplying the plurality of common electrodes with any one of a first voltage, a second voltage higher than... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079679 - Method of driving electro-optical element, pixel circuit, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: Provided is a method of driving an electro-optical element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optical material provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and having optical characteristics which vary in accordance with an applied voltage, including: applying a fixed voltage to the first electrode... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079681 - Display device having improved substrate and method of manufacture: A display device having improved aperture ratio includes a switching element, a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The switching element is electrically connected to a gate line and a source line crossing each other. The liquid crystal capacitor has a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080079682 - Control circuit for releasing residual charges: A control circuit includes a plurality of shift register stages. Each shift register stage is capable of outputting an individual output signal. The output signal is utilized to be a driving signal of next shift register stages. Each shift register stage comprises a transistor for receiving a clear signal CLR.... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080079659 - Image processing apparatus: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which improves processing efficiency by allowing display of a message according to a usage status of a user and also has good operability. The image processing apparatus includes a setting section 9a for setting a display form of a message 13c. The... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080079667 - 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)

20080079670 - Image display apparatus: Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus, including: a plurality of scanning lines extending along rows and configured to successively supply a control signal in synchronism with a horizontal period in order to perform line-sequential scanning over one field; a plurality of signal lines extending along columns and configured to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080079674 - Display device and method for driving the same: A range of higher applied voltage (lower applied voltage) than maximum (minimum) applied voltage, which is conventional maximum (minimum) liquid crystal transmittance, is provided; and the liquid crystal response compensator, which sets reference voltage, is provided so that the range can be utilized to compensate liquid crystal response; and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080079683 - Display device, driver circuit therefor, and method of driving same: A driver circuit for driving a display device includes N-number of grayscale selecting circuits, which correspond to N-number of data electrodes, each for selecting one grayscale voltage from among a plurality of grayscale voltages in accordance with an image signal; one voltage follower circuit for subjecting the grayscale voltages, which... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080079685 - Display device: To suppress fluctuation in the threshold voltage of a transistor, to reduce the number of connections of a display panel and a driver IC, to achieve reduction in power consumption of a display device, and to achieve increase in size and high definition of the display device. A gate electrode... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080079684 - Display device comprising an integrated gate driver: An active matrix display device comprising an integrated gate driver and an external driver circuit being arranged for driving the active matrix display in association with the integrated gate driver, the integrated gate driver including a monitoring unit for monitoring changes to the I-V characteristics of TFTs on the integrated... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079686 - Lcd panel with scanning backlight: A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a strobing backlight source (50). The operation of the backlight source (50) and the liquid crystal (LC) layer are synchronized in such a manner that, when each LC cell is updated, the updated cell is at a specified level of transmissivity before the... Agent: Honeywell International Law Department Ab 2

20080079687 - Lcd touchscreen panel with external optical path: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device (5) having an integrated touchscreen includes a probe light source (80) behind the liquid crystal (LC) layer (20) for transmitting a probe signal. The device further includes a probe light sensor (90) behind the LC layer for sensing the probe signal. An external optical... Agent: Kurt Luther Honeywell International Inc.

20080079688 - Methods for driving electrophoretic display so as to avoid persistent unidirectional current through tft switches: Certain types of displays such as electrophoretic displays tend to deteriorate if their pixel units are persistently driven by currents flowing in only one direction for the purpose of maintaining (i.e. refreshing) a relatively constant optical state. A first method pulses the pixel unit with a drive pulse of opposed... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080079691 - Information processing apparatus, transmitter, and control method: An information processing apparatus including a switch configured to detect a first operation and a second operation and a display screen includes a first display control unit configured to display information on the display screen according to a first setting, a second display control unit configured to, when the first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080079690 - Portable device and server with streamed user interface effects: The invention relates to a portable device (1) having wireless capability and a basic user interface (2) that may be enhanced by objects temporarily downloaded or streaming to the device. Effects of the temporary objects may be added on the basic user interface. The portable device is connectable to a... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080079689 - Rotating ui for better usage: A method for a user interface is disclosed. The method comprises determining an orientation of a display of the user interface; adapting a display view of said display depending on said determined orientation; and assigning functions to input means of said user interface depending on said determined orientation. A user... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080079692 - Method for flipping pages via electromechanical information browsing device: A method for flipping pages of an electronic book via an electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides tactile feedback so as to lessen the user-interface differences between conventional books... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080079693 - Apparatus for displaying presentation information: An information displaying apparatus includes a presentation displaying unit that displays presentation information on a display unit, a pointing-input receiving unit that receives a pointing to the display unit, a pointing-area detecting unit that detects a pointing area with respect to a predetermined coordinate area including the displayed presentation information,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080079694 - Biomechanically low load multi-angle multi-dexterity computer mouse: A multi-angle, multi-dexterity mouse apparatus comprising: a base, configured to be placed on a working surface and having: a bottom surface configured to be placed on a working surface; a first inner surface; a second inner surface, the second inner surface being the mirror image of and opposed to the... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080079695 - Method and program for a personalized mouse: A personalized computer mouse controls activity on a computer display by selecting from a plurality of windows a predetermined window and designating the predetermined window as a default window. The windows that are not designated are set as miscellaneous windows. A mouse button is designated to correspond to the default... Agent: Nicholas Martin Apt 4c

20080079696 - Terminal and display method thereof: Provided are a terminal and a display method of the terminal which recognize the result of operating at least some of a plurality of buttons, and display a plurality of images corresponding to the recognized result on the buttons according to techniques which are preset for each of the images.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079697 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: A display device and manufacturing method thereof suitable for providing a slim and lightweight display device with a low manufacturing cost includes a display panel having first and second substrates opposing each other, a first sensor electrode on the first substrate, a third substrate spaced apart from the first substrate,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080079698 - Item navigation and selection methods: Item navigation and selection methods are provided. Scrolling navigation and item selection can be initiated on a list of items by contact with a specific zone on a touch-sensitive mechanism. Contact movement along the touch-sensitive mechanism allows scrolling and selection of specific items.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079699 - Unambiguous capacitance sensing using shared inputs: Capacitance sensing apparatuses are described. The apparatus includes capacitance sensor elements that traverse a sensing region. The apparatus also includes sensor circuitry that has multiple inputs. More than one of the capacitance sensor elements are electrically coupled to the same input. A position of an object along an axis of... Agent: Wagner Murabito & Hao LLP

20080079700 - Jog dial for mobile terminal: A mobile terminal is provided for use in a wireless communication system. The mobile terminal comprising a housing having an opening and a selective input device. The selective input device includes a hub secured in the opening in the housing such that at least a portion of the periphery of... Agent: Gregory A. Stephens Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

20080079701 - Low-leakage gate lines driving circuit for display device: A gates-line driving circuit of a display device includes a plurality of stages that are serially connected to each other, where each stage includes a plurality of transistors and a plurality of capacitors and receives a scanning start signal, a plurality of clock signals, and first and second gate-off voltages... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080079702 - Integrated driving apparatus for display apparatus: An integrated driving apparatus having an elongated shape mounted at a peripheral portion of a display apparatus comprising a display section on a panel substrate comprises a logic section, a power supply circuit section, and a D/A converter. The logic section comprises a digital display data processor and a timing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080079703 - Method of driving the display device and display device: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of driving a display device to drive plural pixels arranged on the same line in a time-division manner in a driving period of the line, includes: changing a time-division driving order of a plurality of pixels to an order in... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080079705 - Light source system with leds and driving method thereof: A driving method includes setting resistances of resistors in three driving circuits according to maximum tolerable currents corresponding to RGB LEDs respectively, using a PWM module to drive the RGB LEDs respectively in turn with a frequency higher than a visual persistence frequency, using a light sensor to detect light... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080079704 - Multi-color read-out integrated circuit: Embodiments of a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) include a plurality of unit cells. Each unit cell includes a bias subsystem, a reset switch, at least one integration capacitor, and at least one read switch. A focal plane array includes a plurality of photo detectors disposed in a grid and a... Agent: Kutak Rock LLC For Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC

20080079706 - Reducing power consumption associated with high bias currents in systems that drive or otherwise control displays: Provided herein are methods and configurations for use with systems that drive or otherwise control displays (e.g., LCD displays). Such systems often include devices (e.g., buffers, DACs, ADCs, etc.) that require a sufficiently high bias current to enable the device to have a sufficiently fast slew rate and settling time,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080079707 - Signal transfer circuit, display data processing apparatus, and display apparatus: First and second input/output circuits each have an input terminal connected to the input node. A first power supply wiring supplies a first voltage. A second power supply wiring supplies a second voltage. The first and second input/output circuits each select any one of the first and second power supply... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080079708 - Low voltage driver for high voltage lcd: A low voltage driver for a higher voltage LCD includes a plurality of LCD drive bias voltage input-terminals; an LCD drive voltage output terminal; an input transistor switching circuit having at least one switch for each LCD drive bias voltage for selecting one of the bias voltages; an output transistor... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080079709 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel that can generate stable and reliable discharge without making the circuit configuration of the driver complicated. According to this drive method, a plasma display panel where a pixel cell is formed at each intersection of a plurality of column electrodes and a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080079710 - Electrooptic device and method for driving the same: An electrooptic device includes 1) row groups of pixels that are made black during successive first precharge periods that are next to row groups of pixels to which a voltage corresponding to the gray level is written during successive first writing periods, 2) row groups of pixels that are made... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079711 - Electrooptic device, scanning-line driving circuit, method for driving the same, and electronic device: An electrooptic device is driven so that row groups of the pixels that are made black in a first precharge period and a row group of the pixels that are made black in a second precharge period are next to each other.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079713 - Area optimized full vector width vector cross product: The present invention is generally related to the field of image processing, and more specifically to vector units for supporting image processing. A dual vector unit implementation is described wherein two vector units are configured receive data from a common register file. The vector units may independently and simultaneously process... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079712 - Dual independent and shared resource vector execution units with shared register file: The present invention is generally related to the field of image processing, and more specifically to vector units for supporting image processing. A dual vector unit implementation is described wherein two vector units are configured receive data from a common register file. The vector units may independently and simultaneously process... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079721 - Method for corresponding, evolving and tracking feature points in three-dimensional space: A method for corresponding, evolving and tracking feature points in a three-dimensional space performs corresponding, evolving and tracking on the features points after transferring the two-dimensional feature point information in an image information into a corresponding state in the three-dimensional space. A recursion is employed to continuously update the states... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079717 - Method, device, and computer product for creating height-limited-area information, and method of manufacturing three-dimensional structure: A base-plane-height determining unit determines whether a base plane is formed with planes of different heights. A base-plane determining unit determines, when it is determined that the base plane is formed with the plural planes of different heights, whether to take the plural planes or a single plane as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079718 - Method, medium and system rendering 3-d graphics data having an object to which a motion blur effect is to be applied: A 3D graphics rendering method, medium and system that provide a motion blur effect. Clone objects of an object are generated based on animation information of the object to which a motion blur effect is to be applied and 3D graphics data including the generated clone objects is rendered, thereby... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079720 - Method, medium, and system authoring three-dimensional graphic data: A method, medium, and system authoring 3D (three-dimensional) graphic data. In the method, a rendering function corresponding to characteristics of an authored object is generated. It is determined whether the total number of rendering functions including the generated rendering function exceeds a predetermined number. The object is re-authored to correspond... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079719 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphic objects: A method, medium, and system rendering 3-dimensional (3D) graphic objects. According to the 3D rendering method, medium, and system, a minimum number of objects for expressing a current state of a user interface are extracted, and the extracted objects are rendered, thereby enabling the rendering performance of a user interface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079716 - Modulating facial expressions to form a rendered face: Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for modulating facial expressions to form a rendered face having an expression are described.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080079715 - Updating spatial index partitions based on ray tracing image processing system performance: An image processing system may perform various tasks in an effort to evenly distribute workload amongst workload managers. According to one embodiment of the invention, the image processing system may divide a frame of pixels into different regions and assign responsibility for the regions to different workload managers in order... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079714 - Workload distribution through frame division in a ray tracing image processing system: An image processing system may perform various tasks in an effort to evenly distribute workload amongst workload managers. According to one embodiment of the invention, the image processing system may divide a frame of pixels into different regions and assign responsibility for the regions to different workload managers in order... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079722 - System and method for view-dependent cutout geometry for importance-driven volume rendering: A method for creating a cutout surface for volume rendering includes providing a digitized medical image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of points, identifying a surface of interest in said image volume, representing said surface-of-interest by a polygonal mesh, extracting a set of curves... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080079723 - System and method for visualizing multiple-sensor subsurface imaging data: A user interface includes a display for displaying of a plurality of sensor data sets representative of signals associated with a plurality of sensors configured for sensing of a subsurface. At least some of the sensors are configured for subsurface sensing in a manner differing from other sensors of the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080079725 - Apparatus and method for visualizing the relationship between a plurality of sets: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to associate two or more data sets with two or more vertices in a Venn graph. An intersection of the two or more data sets is associated with a vertex in the Venn graph. A plurality of outliers is associated between the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080079724 - Description language for structured graphs: A general purpose high-performance distributed execution engine can be used by developers to deploy large-scale distributed applications. To allow developers to easily make use of the distributed execution engine, a graph building language is proposed that enables developers to efficiently create graphs (e.g., direct acyclic graphs) that describe the subprograms... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080079726 - Visual display of process sequences: The aim is to make it easier to compare industrial or clinical processes. To this end provision is made for the processes to be systematically divided into prescribed process steps. The process steps are also divided into prescribed sub-process steps. Each of the processes is then shown in a respective... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080079727 - Method and system for creating and manipulating embroidery designs over a wide area network: A method and system are disclosed for creating and manipulating embroidery designs over a wide area network. The method includes steps to transmit various embroidery design data over a wide area network between a client and a server The manner in which the embroidery design data is created, manipulated, and... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080079728 - Vector graphics shape data generation apparatus, rendering apparatus, method, and program: Shape-data-generation apparatus includes unit acquiring first-shape data of vector graphics from data source, unit storing sets of second-shape data as structured-vector-graphics data obtained by processing vector-graphics-shape data in specific format and shape number corresponding to second-shape data, unit reading second-shape data corresponding to designated shape number from first storage unit,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080079729 - Methods and systems for defining, identifying and learning geometric features: Methods and systems are provided for defining, identifying and learning geometric features.... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080079730 - Character-level font linking: A “Character-Level Font Linker” provides character-level linking of fonts via Unicode code-point to font mapping. A lookup table is used to identify glyph-level support for runs of particular characters on a Unicode code-point basis for relative to a set of available fonts. This lookup table enables automatic selection of one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080079731 - Integrated acceleration data structure for physics and ray tracing workload: According to embodiments of the invention, a data structure may be created which may be used by both an image processing system and by a physics engine. The data structure may have an initial or upper portion representing bounding volumes which partition a three dimensional scene and a second or... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079732 - Method of controlling voltage of power supplied to 3d graphics data processor and the 3d graphics data processor using the method: Provided is a method and of controlling a voltage of power supplied to a 3-dimensional (3D) graphics data processor and the 3D graphics data processor using the method. The method includes controlling the voltage of the power supplied to the graphics data processor based on the amount of data representing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079733 - Video processing architecture having reduced memory requirement: In a system comprising a plurality of processors and a memory shared by at least a subset of the processors, a method for processing video data includes the steps of: (a) a first one of the processors receiving a first video frame and storing the first video frame in the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080079736 - Dual processor accelerated graphics rendering: Dual processor accelerated graphics rendering is a method which allows for optimizing graphics performance using two processors and 3D hardware accelerators. This method allows for real time embedded systems to have multiple partitions to render to multiple windows with non-blocking graphics calls. One processor queues up graphics calls within a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080079735 - Graphics controller, display controller and method for compensating for low response time in displays: Embodiments of a graphics controller, display controller and method for compensating for low-response-time (LRT) displays are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an interleaved pixel stream is provided by a graphics controller to a display controller. The display controller may select low-response-time compensation... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080079734 - Updating frame divisions based on ray tracing image processing system performance: An image processing system may perform various tasks in an effort to evenly distribute workload amongst workload managers. According to one embodiment of the invention, the image processing system may divide a frame of pixels into different regions and assign responsibility for the regions to different workload managers in order... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080079737 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system supporting real-time detection of mode control commands (mccs) programmed within pre-profiled scenes of the graphics-based application: A multi-mode parallel graphics rendering and display system for running a graphics-based application that generates pre-profiled scenes programmed with mode control commands (MCCs). The system includes a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem (MMPGRS) having multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) and supporting multiple modes of parallel operation selected from the group... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080079739 - Graphics processor and method for controlling a display panel in self-refresh and low-response-time modes: Embodiments of a graphics processor and method for controlling a display panel in self-refresh and low-response time modes are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a self-refresh (SR) control signal is generated for a display controller when an image represented by the frames... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/intel

20080079740 - Intelligent display: In one embodiment, a display device comprises a graphics interface, an image processing system, an input device coupled to the image processing system to receive a screen capture signal and transmit the screen capture signal to the image processing system, and a storage subsystem coupled to the image processing system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080079738 - Method and system for testing computer graphic display controller: The invention provides a system and method of testing a computer graphic display controller applicable to a computer platform, for allowing the user to perform testing procedures on a graphic display controller installed in a computer, characterized in that all video formats that need to be set for testing the... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080079741 - External access to meter display: A utility meter comprises a measurement circuit configured to measure consumption data, a memory configured to store meter data including the consumption data, and a receiver configured to receive a priority message from a source external to the utility meter. A meter display on the meter comprises a plurality of... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080079742 - Image display system: An image display system includes: an information processing apparatus that performs predetermined correction processing for image data to be displayed; and an image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of the image data correction-processed in the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a first image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080079743 - Moving-picture processing apparatus: A moving-picture processing apparatus includes a plurality of decoding or encoding units, and a pre-fetch memory shared by the plurality of decoding or encoding units.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080079744 - Systems and methods for performing a bank swizzle operation to reduce bank collisions: Systems and methods for graphics data management are described. One embodiment includes a method for reducing bank collisions within a level 2 (L2) cache comprising the following: reading texture data from external memory configured to store texture data used for texture filtering within the graphics processing unit, partitioning the texture... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080079745 - Display apparatus and image processing method thereof: A display apparatus using a light emitting diode (LED) light source is provided. The display apparatus including an input unit which includes at least one shortcut key, a storage unit which stores at least one color gamut profile capable of being expressed by the LED light source, a detector which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080079746 - Method and device of obtaining a color temperature point: A method of obtaining a new color temperature point as applied in a color display device. The color display device has a brightest temperature point when its red, green, and blue components are all in their brightest states. The method of obtaining a new color temperature point uses a mathematical... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080079747 - Display method of measurement information of biologically relevant material: A display method of measurement information of a biologically relevant material according to the invention displays measurement information on a computer screen when measuring the amount of a biologically relevant material of a test sample or the amount ratio of a biologically relevant material among a plurality of test samples... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080079748 - Image sensor and image data processing system: An image data processing system. According to the arrangement of the image sensor, two color dots having higher light intensity than the other two color dots in a white balance status are disposed on diagonal positions of the pixel group. The higher light intensity color such as green and white... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080079749 - White balance method for image processing: A white balance method is disclosed for image processing. Characteristic information of a portion of pixels in a first frame is detected. First pixels are selected when the characteristic information of the first pixels in the first frame meets an optical requirement. An average hue of the selected first pixels... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080079750 - Perceptually adaptive graphical user interface: An apparatus including a display and a processor connected to the display, the processor configured to automatically modify an input user interface according to a perceptual optimization function and to cause an output user interface to be presented on the display.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080079751 - Virtual graffiti: An application is disclosed, the application comprising an image content receiving module for receiving image content from a remote image providing apparatus, wherein said image content receiving module further comprises an image viewer arranged to invoke received image content into a view of a graphical user interface of a communication... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080079752 - Virtual entertainment: Systems and methods that provide for a virtual reality entertainment system that supplies immersive entertainment and creates a sensation for a user similar to having guests in a remote location to be physically present as virtual guests. Such virtual reality entertainment system can supply a graphic and/or audio; wherein interconnected... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080079754 - Content providing method, a program of content providing method, a recording medium on which a program of a content providing method is recorded, and a content providing apparatus: A content providing method, a program of a content providing method, a recording medium on which a program of a content providing method is recorded, and a content providing apparatus are provided. The content providing method includes the steps of: outputting moving image data of video contents; selecting moving image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080079753 - Method and system for presenting information: Methods and systems are disclosed for presenting information for viewing by a driver of, e.g., a vehicle, of a train, a captain of a ship, a pilot of an airplane, or by any other person who has to gaze in a certain direction, especially for observing or monitoring the environment... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20080079756 - Display driver: A liquid crystal driver of liquid crystal display device in which a plurality of expansion/contraction ratios of display data, for example, two kinds of expansion/contraction ratios can be set in a register is provided. Further, the two kinds of expansion/contraction ratios are applicable respectively in two kinds of areas (still-image... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080079755 - Driving device for display panel, display device including the driving device, method for driving a display panel, program, and storage medium: A display panel is the one in which a pixel composed of sub-pixels of red (R), green (G), blue (B), and at least one other color has two sub-pixels at least in a vertical scanning direction, and color filters are provided respectively corresponding to the sub-pixels. There are provided: an... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080079757 - Display resolution matching or scaling for remotely coupled systems: A method comprises receiving, by a first system, from a second system a display resolution of the second system. The first and second systems are remotely coupled to one another via a network. The method further comprises, either setting, by the first system, the display resolution of the first system... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080079758 - Display output device: The communication unit requests an image display device that displays an image to transmit first resolution information specifying the resolutions at which the image display device can perform output, and receives the first resolution information. The resolution adjustment unit adjusts the resolution when outputting a video signal outputted to the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP