Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 05/08

20080122734 - Image display device, image display method, image display system, image data transmitting device, program, and storage medium: A control section of a slideshow display device includes a display control section. The display control section 115 causes a list of thumbnails to be displayed when a display timing at which a target image other than a currently displayed image is to be displayed comes before a predetermined point... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080122735 - Dual display device: A dual display device includes a display panel having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and including a plurality of first pixels displaying an image on the first surface and a plurality of second pixels displaying an image on the second surface, a gate driver supplying gate signals... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080122736 - Portable communication display device: A head-mounted display system displays information via a matrix display element mounted within a housing that is positioned relative to at least eye of a user. The display is connected to a video or information source such that the user can view information or images shown on the display. The... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080122737 - Apparatus, method, and medium for displaying content according to motion: Provided is an apparatus, a method, and a medium for displaying contents according to motions by identifying the direction of a sensed motion and moving the content region in a direction opposite to the identified direction or moving the background region in the identified direction. The apparatus including a motion... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080122745 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: o

20080122743 - Method of controlling a matrix screen and corresponding device: A device for controlling a matrix screen includes a scanning circuit. The scanning circuit includes a row control block which successively selects each row, and a column control block which, for each selected row, selects or deselects a set of columns of the screen with the aid of column selection... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080122744 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The method includes supplying a first scan signal to a first scan electrode group of a plurality of scan electrode groups each including at least one scan electrode during an address period, supplying a second scan signal having a different... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080122740 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, a sustain voltage supply unit supplying a sustain voltage to the scan electrode, a scan reference voltage supply unit supplying a scan reference voltage to the scan electrode, a scan reference... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080122742 - 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 comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, and a driver. The driver supplies a ramp-up signal in which a voltage gradually rises to the first electrode in... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080122748 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device that reduces ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI) generated by switching during energy recovery includes: a logic controller to receive an image signal and to generate a control signal according to the image signal; a driver to receive the image signal and the control signal and to generate a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080122741 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method of driving a plasma display device wherein one frame is divided into a plurality of sub-fields each including a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period, and a gray level is expressed by a combination of weight values of luminances of the sub-fields. The method includes... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080122747 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: Exemplary embodiments relate to a plasma display device, including a display panel, an image board having an image processor mounted thereon, a logic board having a logic controller mounted thereon, a driver to drive the display panel according to the driving control signals of the electrode, an abnormality detector to... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080122739 - Plasma display device and its method of manufacture: A plasma display device and its method of manufacture includes a chassis base supporting a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) and having at least one assembly hole, and at least one standoff, each standoff having a first end inserted into a respective assembly hole of the chassis base and a second... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080122746 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel device includes a logic controller for preparing a control signal of reset glow due to a load rate, the load rate being calculated from the data signal so that the received signal is converted after an image signal is received from an external source, a driver... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080122738 - Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method: There is provided a video signal processing apparatus including motion picture region detecting, transition region generating unit, still level delay unit which delays the output from the transition region generating unit for output, addition unit which adds an error diffused from neighboring pixels to a video signal, still image processing... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080122749 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel is disclosed, in which the plasma display panel includes one frame divided into a plurality of subfields, the subfield being classified into a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period in order to display a gray scale of the panel... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080122753 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, an elapsed driving time of the plasma display device is accumulated and calculated, and a scan pulse having a first voltage is supplied to a scan electrode during a first period which is an address period of each subfield in response to the accumulated driving... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080122752 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus comprises a plasma display panel and a scan driver. The plasma display panel comprising a first scan electrode, a second scan electrode, and a sustain electrode. The scan driver supplies the first scan electrode with a first scan signal, supplies the first scan electrode and the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080122750 - Plasma display device: The present invention realizes, in a plasma display device with two systems (X and Y systems) of sustain circuits integrated, a stable drive and improvement of the service life. In the present invention, X-electrodes are set at the ground potential, and Y-electrodes have, in a reset period, an application of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080122751 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof which can prevent address discharging from low discharging. The driving method of the plasma display device includes a plasma display panel having first to third electrodes divided into a plurality of groups including a first group and a second group, and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080122754 - Display for creating colored images and text that is visible in incident light: A display for creating colored images and text that is visible in incident light. The screen of the display includes pixels arranged in a grid pattern, each pixel having at least three colored mirrors, arranged next to one another or behind one another for the colors red, green and blue... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080122757 - Active matrix display device: A plurality of pixel units are arranged in a matrix, each pixel unit including a display element and a pixel circuit which supplies a driving current to the display element. Each pixel circuit includes a first memory section which stores, in a write period of the pixel unit, a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080122755 - Active matrix organic electro-luminescence display panel and fabrication method thereof: An active matrix organic electro-luminescence display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate, an organic electro-luminescence device array, a driving circuit array and an insulating layer. A plurality of anodes of the organic electro-luminescence device array is disposed on the substrate. The circuit array is disposed on the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080122756 - Display apparatus and drive method thereof: A pixel circuit of a display apparatus includes a transistor M5 having a drain connected to a light-emitting element, a switch S1 connected between a power supply and a source of the transistor M5, switches S2 and S3 connected between wiring to which a data current is supplied and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080122758 - Pixel driving circuit of electro-luminescent display device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a method for properly controlling the drive current when driving an Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) in order to prevent the brightness from being changed due to temperature changes in a panel or the performance deterioration of the OLED. The present invention comprises: an OLED (organic... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080122759 - Active matrix display compensating method: A method of compensating for changes in the threshold voltage of the drive transistor of an OLED drive circuit, comprising: providing the drive transistor with a first electrode, second electrode, and gate electrode; connecting a first voltage source to the first electrode, and an OLED device to the second electrode... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080122760 - Active matrix display compensating method: A method of compensating for changes in the threshold voltage of the drive transistor of an OLED drive circuit, comprising: providing the drive transistor with a first electrode, second electrode, and gate electrode; connecting a first voltage source to the first electrode, and an OLED device to the second electrode... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080122762 - Dynamic led matrix lighting control using scanning architecture: This invention is a new LED back lighting architecture that each individual LED is controlled by its associated LED drive cell. The LEDs are sequentially connected one after another. A host controller transmits image displaying signals by signal scanning-flows. The current flow for controlling each LED's color lighting is by... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080122763 - Image display device: An image display device incorporates a group of pixels of two or more types, each pixel including a light source whose primary wavelength is specific to the type of pixel; a generating device for generating analog pixel signals to be input to the group of pixels from input digital pixel... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080122761 - Method and apparatus for uniformity compensation in an oled display: A method of compensating uniformity of an OLED device, having a plurality of light-emitting elements, including providing the OLED display; and measuring the performance of one or more light-emitting elements at three or more different code values. At least two different groups of code values are formed from the three... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080122764 - Scaling-friendly architecture for led (backlight) drivers to minimize pcb trace lines: This invention is a new LED back lighting architecture that each individual LED is controlled by its associated LED drive cell. The LEDs are sequentially connected one after another. A host controller transmits image displaying signals by signal scanning-flows. The current flow for controlling each LED's color lighting is by... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080122767 - Array substrate for liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a thin film transistor including a gate electrode of the gate line, a gate insulating layer over the gate electrode, an active layer on the gate insulating layer and ohmic contact layers... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080122766 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device including data lines, scan lines, data driver, and scan driver is provided. An image signal output from the data driver has a plurality of data sections respectively corresponding to the data lines. Each predetermined number of image sections is defined as a group, and each group of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080122770 - Display panel and electronic system utilizing the same: A display panel including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a first capacitor is disclosed. The first sub-pixel is coupled to a first gate line. The second sub-pixel is coupled to a second gate line. The third sub-pixel is coupled to the second gate line. The... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080122765 - Information display device: In an information display panel, in which display media (particles or liquid powders) are sealed between two substrates having paired electrodes, at least one substrate being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information such... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080122769 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a data storage circuit that stores frame data of the previous image of a liquid crystal panel, and an overdrive calculation circuit that compares the frame data stored in the data storage circuit and input data of the next... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080122768 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having liquid crystal pixels on regions defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality data lines, a gate voltage generator configured to generate a gate high voltage and a gate low voltage, and a gate driver configured to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080122771 - Optical display system and method, active and passive dithering using birefringence, color image superpositioning and display enhancement with phase coordinated polarization switching: l

20080122772 - Liquid crystal display: A segmented-pixel liquid crystal display has a plurality of pixels of which each has three sub-pixels 10a-10c, namely one middle and two side sub-pixels, arranged next to one another in the column or row direction. The sub-pixels 10a-10c have different brightness levels when the pixel as a whole is in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080122773 - Driving circuit of a semiconductor display device and the semiconductor display device: There are provided a driving circuit of a semiconductor display device which can obtain an excellent picture without picture blur (display unevenness) and with high fineness/high resolution, and the semiconductor display device. A buffer circuit used in the driving circuit of the semiconductor display device is constituted by a plurality... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080122774 - Apparatus and method of driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus and method of driving an LCD device is disclosed, which has a simplified structure by decreasing the number of signal transmission lines included in a shift register, the apparatus comprising a display panel to display images; a gate driver to drive gate lines of the display panel; a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080122776 - Data driver with multilevel voltage generating circuit, and liquid crystal display apparatus: A multilevel voltage generating circuit includes first and second input nodes provided on a first resistance element and supplied with first and second reference voltages. A current substantially flows in a first specific area for a line between the first and second input nodes based on a difference between the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080122775 - Display apparatus: In a display apparatus, a common electrode receives a common voltage of which a voltage level is inverted at every H/2 period of 1H period during which pixels connected to one row are turned on. A first switching device outputs a first data voltage having a voltage level different from... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080122778 - Driving method and drive control circuit of liquid crystal display device, and liquid crystal display device including the same: A drive control circuit supplies a gate voltage so that display quality is not degraded even in a case where a vertical scanning frequency or a horizontal scanning frequency is changed. The circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal scanning frequency, a gate voltage generating... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080122777 - Source driving device: A source driving device, adapted for pixel array of LCDs is provided. The source driving device includes a data latch unit and a plurality of staged converting output units. The data latch unit is adapted for outputting a plurality of digital latch data according to the latch result. Each staged... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080122779 - Liquid crystal display with driving voltage temperature compensation: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a first substrate (210), a second substrate (220) parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (230) between the first and second substrates, a resistivity sensor (280) adjacent to the liquid crystal layer, and a driver (260) configured to provide driving voltages... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122780 - Electronic device: Disclosed herein is an electronic device including: a solar cell configured to be inferior in absorption efficiency for light having a predetermined wavelength; and a reflective display configured to carry out displaying by reflecting light having the predetermined wavelength and allow transmission of light other than light having the predetermined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080122781 - Inverter for a liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An inverter for a liquid crystal display and its driving method are disclosed. The inverter includes: a DC/AC converting unit that converts DC power supplied from a voltage source into AC power; a transformer that converts the AC power supplied from the DC/AC converting unit into a high voltage AC;... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080122782 - Liquid crystal display device with red, green, and blue light emitting diodes connected in series: An exemplary liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight module. The backlight module includes a driving circuit and a light emitting diode array. The driving circuit includes a first terminal, and the light emitting diode array includes a plurality of red, green, and blue... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122783 - Electrophoretic display panel, electrophoretic dislay device having the same and method for driving the same: An electrophoretic display (“EPD”) panel includes a display substrate and an electrophoretic film. The display substrate includes a display switching element electrically connected to a display gate line and a data line crossing the display gate line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the display switching element, and a sensing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080122786 - Advanced video gaming methods for education and play using camera based inputs: This application discloses active movement based and other video games which may be played over the internet as well in the home or elsewhere. One or two or more persons can play, generally using one or more cameras to determine the relation of an object or a part of a... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080122784 - Communicating system and method thereof: A communicating system suitable for a repeater and communicating method thereof are described. The communicating system comprises a receiving unit, a delay module, a transmitting unit and a control unit. The receiving unit transmits a first signal based on a KB/MS input signal. The delay module is coupled to the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080122785 - Portable display with improved functionality: A method for improving display functionality comprising: (A) detecting movement of a portable display over a physical area by using a motion detector; (B) obtaining a set of data related to the physical area by using an image device; (C) processing the set of data related to the physical area;... Agent: Law Offices Of Boris G. Tankhilevich

20080122787 - Pointing device: A pointing device is disclosed in the present invention, which comprises a planar sensing unit, an inertial sensing unit and a controller unit. The planar sensing unit is capable of detecting a movement of the point device moving on a planar surface and generating a planar sensing signal accordingly. The... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20080122788 - Pointing device for a computer system with automatic detection of lifting, and relative control method: A pointing device for a computer system includes: a first movement sensor for detecting movements of the device along a first axis and a second axis; a second movement sensor, for detecting movements of the device along a third axis not coplanar with the first and second axes; and a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080122789 - Pointing device with a resolution-setting hotkey and a setting method thereof: Present invention provides a pointing device with a resolution-setting hotkey and a setting method thereof. The pointing device comprises a resolution-setting hotkey, a microprocessor and an optical sensor. The present pointing device has a default x-axis resolution and a default y-axis resolution and they are of the same value. By... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080122790 - Optical handwriting input device: An optical handwriting input device includes: a casing, a refill, a PCB, an image data communication module, and a motion detection module. The refill received in the casing has a pen nib, and the pen nib is selectably exposed from a bottom side of the casing or hidden inside the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080122791 - Multi-function optical mouse: The invention relates to a multi-function optical mouse, which integrates various functions of computer peripheral apparatuses onto a mouse body. The feature lies in that a mouse control device in an original optical mouse is combined with a video/audio device and a mass storage device in conjunction with multiple units... Agent: Wei Hsu

20080122797 - Apparatus, method, and medium for outputting tactile feedback on display device: An apparatus, method, and medium for outputting tactile feedback on a display device are provided. The apparatus includes a controller obtaining movement information of two or more vibration devices provided at edges of a vibration panel, and a vibrator vibrating the two or more vibration devices with a predetermined phase... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080122794 - Av processing device, av processing method, and program: Belt-shaped image display means (152) sets a reference position for a belt-shaped image (161) and an extension direction position as a length in the extension direction of the belt-shaped image (161) from the reference position. A greater extension direction position corresponds to an element of a greater number when the... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080122792 - Communication with a touch screen: A touch panel is arranged to enable communication using infrared signals with nearby devices. The touch panel includes an array of infrared sensors, arranged parallel to the touchable surface of the panel and at least one of the sensors is capable of detecting an infrared signal received from a nearby... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080122799 - Human interfaces for vehicles, homes, and other applications: The disclosed invention concerns novel methods and apparatus for controlling computer systems using both touch screens and physical controls, and is useful in many applications such as vehicles, homes and the like. Physical controls and virtual displayed controls on single and multipoint touch screens are used, separately or in combination... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080122798 - Information display apparatus with proximity detection performance and information display method using the same: An information display apparatus with proximity detection performance contains a display device that displays image information, a sensor constituted of plural detection electrodes, and an adjusting device of detection resolution that adjusts the detection resolution to be detected based on a distance between the sensor and an object that is... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080122793 - Input device: To provide a thin input device capable of preventing foreign materials from entering into a gap between an input panel and a chassis and thus preventing malfunctioning of the input panel. A first detection base 3 is made of a thin material and has a planar size larger than a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080122795 - Operation panel structure: An operation panel structure for an image forming apparatus, said operation panel structure having an operation panel protruding from a front side of the image forming apparatus. The operation panel structure has a first support unit for supporting the operation panel such that the operation panel is capable of pivoting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080122796 - Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080122800 - Touch-sensitive liquid crystal display panel with built-in touch mechanism and method for driving same: An exemplary touch-sensitive liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate (21), a second substrate (22) disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (20) interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Scan lines (212) and data lines (213) are formed at the first substrate.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122801 - Electronic devices having a touch screen and method for starting the electronic devices: An exemplary electronic device (10) comprises a display (11), a chip controller (131), a power supply (14) and a main processor (12). The display has a touch screen (111). The power supply is electrically connected to and controlled by the chip controller. The main processor is electrically connected to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080122802 - Liquid crystal dispaly device with touch screen: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device with a touch screen that does not reduce light transmittance but achieves cost reduction. The liquid crystal display device has liquid crystal material sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate. The second substrate has a planar transparent conductive layer on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080122805 - Books, papers, and downloaded information to facilitate human interaction with computers: Disclosed are simple easy to understand TV camera based input and programming devices for computers, as well as local or remote means to assimilate data or commands. The invention in one preferred embodiment, uses printed matter imaged by one or more TV cameras, which results in enhanced ease of comprehension,... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080122804 - Image display unit with screen input function: An image display unit with screen input function is provided, by which it is possible to input image data directly to a screen without decreasing numerical aperture of pixel. The image display unit comprises a light detecting TFT 61 receiving a light entering from a screen of a liquid crystal... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080122803 - Touch sensing using shadow and reflective modes: A touch panel is described which uses at least one infrared source and an array of infrared sensors to detect objects which are in contact with, or close to, the touchable surface of the panel. The panel may be operated in both reflective and shadow modes, in arbirary per-pixel combinations... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080122806 - Method and apparatus for inputting character through pointing device: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for inputting characters through a pointing device such as a stylus or a mouse. The method includes: (a) dividing an input area of the pointing device into a plurality of input sub-areas and assigning a plurality of characters constituting a character set of a... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080122807 - Input device: An input device disposed on a circuit board is provided. The input device includes a frame, a sliding base, a rotary wheel, and a switch. The sliding base is slidingly connected to the frame. The sliding base substantially slides linearly along a slide axis. The slide axis is substantially parallel... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080122809 - Method and device for sensing rotation of wheel in portable terminal: A method of sensing the rotation of a wheel in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes producing at least one interrupt through any one of a plurality of sensors provided in the wheel according to the rotation of the wheel, confirming an interrupt value of the produced interrupt,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080122808 - Scroll wheel input device: An objective of the present invention provides a scroll wheel input device that comprises: a scroll wheel providing a longitudinal scrolling and a lateral triggering, wherein the longitudinal scrolling provides a first dimension selection and the lateral triggering provides a second dimension selection; and a plurality of display elements comprising... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080122813 - Apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: A device and method for driving a liquid crystal display device capable of minimizing a motion blurring phenomenon of a display image and improving the display quality of the display image are disclosed. The apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having liquid crystal... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080122815 - Backlight unit and display apparatus including the same: A display apparatus includes a display panel; a light source unit including a plurality of first point light sources and a plurality of second point light sources, wherein the point light sources supply light to the display panel; an optical film including a plurality of openings, wherein each opening exposes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080122812 - Direct current to direct current converting circuit, display apparatus having the same and method of driving the direct current to direct current converting circuit: In a DC-DC converting circuit, a charge pumping part receives an input voltage, a first clock and a second clock and outputs first and second voltages to first and second nodes, which are boosted by high voltages of the first and second clocks with respect to the input voltage. An... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080122814 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus and a method of driving the same in which a selector outputs one of two high gamma values and one of two low gamma values in one frame unit in response to a selection signal. A gamma reference voltage generator outputs a high gamma reference voltage corresponding... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080122816 - Display apparatus having a timing controller and method of driving the timing controller: A timing controller is adapted to support a display apparatus that operates with image data having a configuration of M-bits per word and an average serial data flow rate corresponding to CK1 image words per second where CK1 is a first clock frequency and M is a whole number. The... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080122818 - Driver circuit for driving display device, a display device having the same, and a method of driving the same: A driver circuit for driving a display device, and the driver circuit includes a control section, a driving section and a switch. The control section provides an image signal and a first control signal in response to a power signal. The driving section receives the first control signal and the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080122811 - Driver monolithic liquid crystal panel driver circuit and liquid crystal display having same: A liquid crystal display including liquid crystal panels of different sizes for displaying an image through a phase-developed image signal and having a reduced circuit scale is disclosed. A liquid crystal panel drive circuit is used for driving first and second liquid crystal panels of driver monolithic type having different... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080122810 - Flat display unit: A flat display unit is applied to, for example, a liquid crystal display unit having a drive circuit integrally formed on an insulating substrate to sample tone data Dod, Dev in respective systems on corresponding horizontal drive circuits (23O, 23E) at a timing corresponding to sampling conducted when tone data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080122817 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an address electrode, and a data driver. The data driver supplies a data signal having at least three voltage levels to the address electrode during an address period using different voltages received from first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080122819 - Data driving circuit and organic light emitting display comprising the same: Provided are a data driving circuit of an organic light emitting display and an organic light emitting display comprising the same. The organic light emitting display comprises a reference pixel controller, a data driver, and a display panel. The reference pixel controller comprises a light detector for detecting an amount... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080122820 - Gradation potential generation circuit, data driver of display device and the display device: A gradation potential generation circuit includes a first ladder resistance circuit supplied with a first and a second reference voltages to both ends to generate j number of gradation potentials (j is an integer of 2 or more) and output the generated j number of gradation potentials to j number... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080122821 - Luminance control for a display: A portable device may include at least one image recording device having a first light sensitive unit configured to record an image and detect first light conditions related to the portable device; a display to render the recorded image; and an illumination device to illuminate the display, wherein the illumination... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080122823 - Display device and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a display device for providing charges discharged from data lines to a battery. The display device includes data lines, scan lines, pixels, a charge storing circuit and a discharging circuit. The pixels are formed in cross areas of the data lines and the scan lines,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080122825 - Display system that reduces power consumption for image processing apparatus having power modes: A display system including an imaging processing apparatus which generates an image based on one power mode of a plurality of power modes and a first display apparatus which receives the image from the image processing apparatus and displays the image. The power mode may include a display power management... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080122826 - Driving circuit for adjusting common voltage and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary LCD (30) includes a liquid crystal panel (31) configured for displaying images and a driving circuit (30). The driving circuit includes a pulse generator configured for providing a pulse signal, and a charge pump (315) configured for provide a common voltage to the liquid crystal panel according to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122824 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving liquid crystal display device: A display device, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a driving circuit coupled with a display panel. The driving circuit may have a buildup of static electricity that could degrade the image quality of the display panel. A reset unit may be a part of the driving circuit.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080122822 - Low voltage micro mechanical device: Methods for driving a plurality of MEMS devices in an apparatus are described. A voltage pulse is applied to an electrode or a structure portion of a MEMS device. The electrode is on the substrate underneath the structure portion. At least two MEMS devices of the plurality of MEMS devices... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080122827 - Data driving integrated circuit for plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus: A data driving integrated circuit for a plasma display panel and a plasma display apparatus are disclosed. The data driving integrated circuit includes a first power input node for receiving a data voltage during an address period according to a data pulse, a second power input node for receiving a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080122828 - Power supply circuit for liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device using the same: An exemplary power supply circuit (200) for a liquid crystal display device (2) includes a switch control circuit (28) for receiving a control signal from an external control circuit, the control signal controlling the turning on or turning off of the switch control circuit; a first DC/DC converter (27) for... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122830 - Display device: To provide a display device capable of generating a power-on reset signal in the inside when the power is applied. A display panel and a drive circuit driving respective pixels in the display panel are included, and VCC voltage is inputted to the drive circuit, in which the drive circuit... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080122829 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) capable of enhancing display quality includes a voltage generation unit, a clock generation unit, a gate driving unit, and a display unit. The voltage generation unit outputs a gate-on voltage and first and second gate-off voltages that are different from each other. The clock generation... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080122831 - Timing controller and method of generating timing signals: A timer controller and method of generating timing signals uses a synchronization signal and a clock signal to generate a timing signal by counting the clock signal only after the synchronization signal has changed states. In a display requiring a dot or line counter having n digits to meet the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080122833 - Image compensation apparatus and method: An image compensation apparatus and method is provided. The image compensation apparatus includes a power control module which controls a light emitting unit according to a power control input signal input thereto by a user and provides power reduction information corresponding to the power control input signal, a control parameter... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080122832 - Image display apparatus: Methods and apparatuses for image display are disclosed. There is provided an image display apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of display modules including display elements manufactured from different bins; a plurality of driving circuits providing different driving conditions for the display modules, at least one driving circuit for each... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080122834 - 3d line of sight (los) analysis of 3d vertical barriers in 3d virtual reality environments: A method for 3D line-of-sight (LOS) visualization in a user interactive 3D virtual reality environment includes the following steps: a) displaying a 3D virtual reality scene; b) determining a 3D LOS between a pair of user determined spaced apart nodes placed on the 3D virtual reality scene, wherein the 3D... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080122837 - Rendering apparatus and method: A rendering apparatus and method are provided. A plurality of nodes of interface data are described using the plurality of nodes connected hierarchically and indicate a plurality of selectable items that are analyzed, and the interface data is rendered based on a result of the analysis. Consequently, a creator of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080122836 - Systems and methods of reducing anti-aliasing in a procedural texture: The disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for reducing anti-aliasing in a procedural texture. One method includes creating a procedural reduction map describing the texture as applied to an object, and querying the map for radiance of a pixel in the object. One system includes memory and a processor. The... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080122835 - Temporary low resolution rendering of 3d objects: 3D scenes may be rendered a resolution lower than a resolution associated with the resultant image. A graphics application or 3D editor may render the 3D artwork at a lower resolution while the user modifies or manipulates the 3D model from which the artwork is derived. In some embodiments, an... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080122839 - Interacting with 2d content on 3d surfaces: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that enable interaction with 2D content placed on a 3D surface. The system determines where relative to a 3D surface an input device is located. If the input device is hitting a 3D surface, a hidden content in 2D is positioned so that a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080122838 - Methods and systems for referencing a primitive located in a spatial index and in a scene index: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems to reduce the amount of space necessary to store a spatial index. According to embodiments of the invention, a spatial index may store pointers to information defining primitives which are located within bounding volumes defined by leaf nodes in the spatial index.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122840 - Temporary non-tiled rendering of 3d objects: 3D artwork may be rendered in a tiled, raster environment without tiling to improve performance and response time. When an image includes 3D artwork, rendering the 3D artwork using multiple tiles may cause performance problems. Instead of rendering a 3D model using multiple tiles a graphic program may render a... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.C. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080122841 - Ray tracing image processing system: According to embodiments of the invention, a normally recursive ray tracing algorithm may be partitioned to form an iterative ray tracing algorithm. The resulting portions of the iterative ray tracing algorithm may be executed by a plurality of processing elements. Furthermore, according to embodiments of the invention, a network of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122842 - Systems, methods and apparatus for plaque visualization and quantification using fuzzy and adaptive region classes: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which coronary plaque is classified in an image and visually displayed using an iterative adaptive process, such as an expectation maximization process.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20080122844 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3 dimensional graphics data considering fog effect: A method, medium, and system efficiently rendering 3 dimensional (3D) graphics data. The rendering method includes calculating the strength of a fog effect that is to be applied to graphics data, determining whether texture mapping must be performed on the graphics data, according to the strength of the fog effect,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080122843 - Multi-thread vertex shader, graphics processing unit and flow control method: A logic unit is provided for performing operations in multiple threads on vertex data. The logic unit comprises a macro instruction register file, a flow control instruction register file, and a flow controller. The macro instruction register file stores macro blocks with each macro block including at least one instruction.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080122846 - Adaptive ray data reorder for optimized ray temporal locality: According to embodiments of the invention, secondary rays may be pooled after they are generated by a vector throughput engine. After pooling the secondary rays, they may be reordered according to similarities in trajectory and originating location. The secondary rays may be sent in the new order to a workload... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122845 - Dynamic determination of optimal spatial index mapping to processor thread resources: By mapping leaf nodes of a spatial index to processing elements, efficient distribution of workload in an image processing system may be achieved. In addition, processing elements may use a thread table to redistribute workload from processing elements which are experiencing an increased workload to processing elements which may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122847 - Method, program and apparatus for generating image data: A method to realize efficient remote control of the server in a client with a limited display function, while maintaining a GUI-based image and minimizing a data transfer amount from the server, includes: receiving a command concerning a control operation to request an operation of the server from the client;... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080122848 - Better landmarks within reach: An algorithm referred to as REAL for the point-to-point shortest path problem combines A* search with landmark-based lower bounds and reach-based pruning. A symbiosis of these techniques is described, which gives a range of time and space tradeoffs, including those that improve both of these complexity measures. Locality is improved... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080122849 - Method for displaying animation and system thereof: The invention discloses a method for displaying animation and system thereof, which can implement an attachment of an action animation and a background animation. In the method, the action animation is moved accordingly when the background animation is moved; or the action animation is attached to the background animation after... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080122850 - Pc-based computing system employing a bridge chip implementing parallelized gpu-driven pipelines cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application: A PC-based computing system employing a bridge chip implementing parallelized GPU-driven pipelines cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080122851 - Pc-based computing systems employing a bridge chip having a routing unit for distributing geometrical data and graphics commands to parallelized gpu-driven pipeline cores during the running of a graphics application: A PC-based computing system employing a bridge chip with a routing unit to distribute geometrical data and graphics commands to multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores during a mode of parallel operation. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080122852 - Shared graphics infrastructure: Systems and methods that provide for a common device enumeration point to a class of software objects, which represent hardware and can emit 2D bitmaps, via a presentation interface component. Such presentation interface component can further include a factory component that centralizes enumeration and creation for any components that control... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080122853 - Dynamic spatial index remapping for optimal aggregate performance: By mapping leaf nodes of a spatial index to processing elements, efficient distribution of workload in an image processing system may be achieved. In addition, processing elements may use a thread table to redistribute workload from processing elements which are experiencing an increased workload to processing elements which may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122854 - Operand multiplexor control modifier instruction in a fine grain multithreaded vector microprocessor: The present invention is generally related to the field of image processing, and more specifically to an instruction set for processing images. Vector processing may involve rearranging vector operands in one or more source registers prior to performing vector operations. Typically, rearranging of operands in source registers is done by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080122855 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device for display controller: The semiconductor IC device for display control disclosed herein aims to achieve a higher rate of memory access cycles without enhancing the current carrying capability of the memory device. The IC device is provided with a memory cell array capable to store display data, peripheral circuits to enable writing and... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080122856 - Systems and methods for providing controllable texture sampling: Systems and methods are provided for controlling texture sampling in connection with computer graphics in a computer system. In various embodiments, improved mechanisms for controlling texture sampling are provided that enable 3-D accelerator hardware to greatly increase the level of realism in rendering, including improved mechanisms for (1) motion blur;... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080122857 - Methods and devices for adjusting display characteristic of a video frame according to luminance statistics: A method for adjusting display characteristic of a video frame according to luminance statistics corresponding to pixels in the video frame is disclosed. The method includes identifying a first target value and a second target value from the luminance statistics, and then separately adjusting the display characteristic of the pixels... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080122858 - Image masks: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, feature receiving an image mask where the image mask identifies a first opacity value of pixels in a raster image. The first opacity value ranges between a value representing foreground and a value representing background. Each pixel in the image has a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080122859 - Border frame color picker: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method of selecting a color for a border frame. The apparatus and method permit a selector to be placed on an object image and select a color for the border frame, based on a location of the selector on the object... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080122860 - Video format conversion using 3d graphics pipeline of a gpu: Video conversion using a 3D graphics pipeline of a graphical processing unit (GPU) is disclosed. A plurality of video data formatted in a first video format is accessed from a memory unit. Moreover, the plurality of video data is converted from the first video format to a second video format... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080122862 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving moving pictures based on rgb codec: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving RGB codec-based moving pictures are provided. The RGB codec-based moving picture transmitting method includes performing RGB-encoding on an RGB image and generating an encoded RGB image; receiving an audio bit stream; and generating a transmission stream on the basis of the encoded... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080122861 - System and method to generate multiprimary signals: System and method for generating multiprimary signals with optimization for bit depth for use in display devices. A preferred embodiment comprises converting an input color signal into an output color signal, wherein the number of colors in the output color signal is less than a number of colors used in... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080122864 - Image processing apparatus and control method thereof: In an MFP having a displaying unit smaller than that of a PC, it is very difficult to select an editing target from a plurality of objects. To accomplish this, an image containing a plurality of objects is displayed. Objects corresponding to a position designated on the displayed image are... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080122863 - Information processing program and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus has a pointing device for designating a position of an arbitrary point with respect to a reference point O, and a processor of the information processing apparatus detects a position of the point designated by the pointing device with respect to the reference point O at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080122865 - Method of showing images at different depths and display showing images at different depths: The invention is a method of showing images at different depths and a display that shows images at different depths. The method includes disposing one or more display screens, which are at least partly transparent, in front of a further display screen so that a viewer sees images displayed at... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080122866 - Graphics system employing shape buffer: The system includes a shape buffer manager configured to store coverage data in the shape buffer. The coverage data indicates whether each mask pixel is a covered pixel or an uncovered pixel. A mask pixel is a covered pixel when a shape to be rendered on a screen covers the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080122868 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes an overwriter, an area storage, and a controller. The overwriter overwrites a plurality of images over another image by performing a transparent process in a writing order from one of the plurality of images disposed uppermost. The area storage stores areas in each of which... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080122867 - Method for displaying expressional image: A method for displaying an expressional image is provided. In the method, each of the facial images input by a user is set with an expressional type. After that, a suitable action episode is selected according to the movement of the user. A facial image of the user corresponding to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080122869 - Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus: Indices allocated or set on an object are detected from sensed images of frames, which are time-serially sensed by an image sensing device. In association with each index detected from the sensed image of the frame of interest, a detection condition from frames before the frame of interest is acquired.... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080122870 - Content abstraction presentation along a multidimensional path: Content abstractions are emerged in to an ingress terminus of a multidimensional path and depth transitioned through the multidimensional path to an egress terminus. The content abstractions are eliminated at the egress terminus.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080122871 - Federated virtual graffiti: Technologies for creating and viewing virtual graffiti using federated devices. The technologies allow users to associate virtual graffiti with geographic locations and restrict access to the graffiti to particular users, groups, federations, or the like. Users with appropriate access rights may be able to discover and view graffiti associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080122872 - Image scaling circuit and method thereof: An image scaling circuit and a method for scaling an image into images with different ratios are provided. The image scaling circuit includes a line buffer memory apparatus, a line buffer control apparatus, a first and a second scaling circuit. The first scaling circuit is coupled to the line buffer... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080122874 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: In a display apparatus and a method of driving the same, an active period during which one pixel is turned on is divided into a red sub frame, a green sub frame, a blue sub frame, and a white sub frame. A controller compares a gray scale of a fourth... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080122873 - Flat panel display and driving method of the same: A flat panel display and a diving method of the same are provided. The flat panel display comprising a controller that comprises a processing unit for processing a digital signal corresponding to one frame to n number of digital sub-frame signals, a driver that receives the digital sub-frame signals from... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080122875 - Liquid crystal display device and driving circuit and driving method of the same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (230), a gate driving circuit (210), a data driving circuit (220) and a compensation circuit (290). The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of gate lines parallel to each other, and a plurality of data lines parallel to each... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122876 - Liquid crystal display having gate delay compensator: A liquid crystal display (400) includes a liquid crystal panel (430), a scanning driver (410), a data driver (420), and a compensator (440). The liquid crystal panel includes gate lines (401) parallel to each other, data lines (402) intersecting the gate lines, and TFTs (403) arranged at each intersection. The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080122877 - Image processing device and method, storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, a storage medium, and a program for performing high-quality enlargement processing. Of input image data, a data buffer 32 holds data of target-pixel neighborhood data necessary for the enlargement processing. A data-position swapping unit 33 swaps the data positions... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080117121 - Thin apparatus for displaying image: A thin apparatus for displaying image, comprising: a first input terminal (6a) for inputting image signal, the first input terminal (6a) is located on back side of the thin apparatus; a panel (2) for displaying images, the panel (2) is located on front side of the thin apparatus; and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080117128 - Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel: An apparatus for driving a plasma display panel comprises: a plasma display panel including a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of sustain electrodes, and a plurality of address electrodes formed in a direction so as to cross the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes; a plurality of scan ICs... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20080117127 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus having a monitor functional mode and a network functional mode, includes a first voltage switching part that controls a first operation voltage; a second voltage switching part that controls a second operation voltage; a voltage drop converting part that generates and supplies a third operation voltage; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080117132 - Display device and method of driving thereof: False contouring during display by time division gray scales can be prevented with high efficiency. The order of appearance of subframe periods, and the times at which the subframe periods begin, are changed between pixels driven by odd number gate signal lines and pixels driven by even number gate signal... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080117130 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel including pixels formed by a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes, the third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, the method including the steps of preparing a plurality of driving signal sets... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080117133 - Pdp energy recovery apparatus and method and high speed addressing method using the same: A PDP energy recovery apparatus and method controls the time point of charging and discharging energy to a plasma display panel (PDP) optimally and performs a high speed addressing. The PDP energy recovery apparatus includes a PDP, a driving integrated circuit unit for driving the PDP; and a PDP energy... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080117134 - Pdp energy recovery apparatus and method and high speed addressing method using the same: A PDP energy recovery apparatus and method controls the time point of charging and discharging energy to a plasma display panel (PDP) optimally and performs a high speed addressing. The PDP energy recovery apparatus includes a PDP, a driving integrated circuit unit for driving the PDP; and a PDP energy... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080117125 - Plasma display and driver thereof: A plasma display driver and a plasma display having such a driver includes: a first switching transistor, a switching controller, first to third input and output terminals, and fourth and fifth input and output terminals. The switching controller generates a switching control signal, according to the input signal, to turn... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117122 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display device (PDP) during subfields of a frame including a first subfield. The PDP includes scan lines corresponding to first and second display regions, address lines crossing the scan lines, and first and second discharge cells respectively defined by the first display regions and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080117137 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display includes a plurality of address electrodes; an address electrode driver that includes at least one power recovering capacitor and a plurality of address driving circuits having a plurality of first switches controlling current paths between the power... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080117135 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes: an electrode of a discharge cell; a first transistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the second terminal being connected to the electrode; a first capacitor having a first terminal to receive a control signal having either a low level voltage or a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117131 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device including a plasma display panel having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, a first electrode driver for driving the plurality of first electrodes, the first electrode driver including a first energy recovery circuit having a first resonance coil, and a second... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080117123 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: When a current frame of a video expresses only grayscales less than a reference grayscale, a sustain pulse applying period and a holding period are alternately provided in a sustain period of at least one subfield having a weight greater than a reference weight in all of the discharge cells... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080117129 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes: a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of third electrodes intersecting the first and second electrodes, and a plurality of discharge cells divided into first and second discharge cell groups, the plasma display device representing a gray scale using a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117136 - Plasma display device and image processing method thereof: Disclosed are a plasma display device and an image processing method thereof, which can decrease stresses of an address circuit by reducing the number of address switching without decreasing the brightness, contrast ratio and clearness of images. The plasma display device includes a pattern detecting and determining unit for detecting... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117124 - Plasma display panel (pdp): A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) includes first and second substrates facing each other; barrier ribs arranged between the first and second substrates to define discharge cells; and a plurality of electrodes extending in a direction between the first and second substrates relative to the discharge cells. The plurality of electrodes... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117126 - Plasma display panel with improved power source unit: A plasma display panel (PDP) is provided having a display panel, scan electrodes and sustain electrodes parallel to each other on the display panel, and address electrodes on the display panel crossing the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes. In addition, the PDP includes a sustain driver for driving the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080117138 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device and a method of driving the plasma display device, one frame is divided into a plurality of sub-fields and each sub-field includes a reset period, an address period, and a sustain period. The method includes: supplying a first rising ramp pulse to at least one... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117139 - Plasma display panel: Provided is a plasma display panel (PDP) including: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; barrier ribs that are arranged between the first and second substrates and that partition a plurality of discharge cells; sustain electrode pairs that are spaced apart from each other on the first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080117140 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display and a driving method for the plasma display. The plasma display is constructed with a control type plasma display panel having a closed barrier rib configuration, and each pair of column-wise neighboring discharge cells have different electrode arrangement. In the driving method, when the control type plasma... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080117141 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that can be driven at a low voltage and prevent undesired discharge from being generated under high temperature environment.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080117145 - Current drive circuit and display device: In a current drive circuit, variation in output current is reduced. A current adjustment section and a current output section generate a grayscale according to a target grayscale. The current adjustment section generates an intermediate current lint, which is a reference current Iref multiplied by a first coefficient, and the... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080117144 - Inspection device and inspection method for active matrix panel, and manufacturing method for active matrix organic light emitting diode panel: An inspection method includes an array process of forming a TFT array on a substrate to fabricate an active matrix panel, an inspection process of carrying out a performance test on the fabricated active matrix panel, and a cell process of mounting an OLED on the active matrix panel after... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080117143 - Organic light emitting diode display and method of manufacture thereof: An organic light emitting diode display having a driving circuit portion for driving an organic light emitting diode portion that includes a thin film transistor that has a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and is disposed between the organic light emitting diode portion... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080117146 - Pixel circuit, display device, and method of manufacturing pixel circuit: A pixel circuit including: a driving transistor; a light emitting element; and a power supply line; wherein the driving transistor is connected between the power supply line and a predetermined electrode of the light emitting element, and the power supply line is formed as multilayer wiring, and an interpolating capacitance... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080117147 - Pixel circuit, display device, and method of manufacturing pixel circuit: A pixel circuit including: a driving transistor; a light emitting element; and a power supply line; wherein the driving transistor is connected between the power supply line and a predetermined electrode of the light emitting element, and the power supply line is formed as multilayer wiring, and an interpolating capacitance... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080117142 - Systems and methods for adjusting display parameters of an active matrix organic light emitting diode panel: Systems and methods for adjusting display parameters of an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) panel are provided. The method includes obtaining optimum display parameters for subpixels of the AMOLED panel, storing the optimum display parameters in a non-volatile memory, loading the optimum display parameters stored in the non-volatile... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080117148 - Liquid crystal display and display panel thereof: An LCD and a display panel thereof are provided. A common voltage generation circuit of the display panel is electrically connected to at least one pixel in a non-active pixels region. According to the display voltage at a drain of a TFT in the pixel, an average of display voltages... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080117151 - Reflectors for display pixels: An apparatus comprises an arrangement of display pixels and reflectors arranged to reflect ambient light passing through the display pixels. The reflectors are electrically controllable, in order to enable an optimization of the portion of the ambient light that is reflected by the reflectors. A required adjustment of such electrically... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080117152 - Backlight processing system and method thereof: A backlight processing system and a method thereof are provided. The gray level values of pixels in an input frame signal are adjusted and the brightness thereof is decreased correspondingly. During gray level value adjustment, the gray level values of the pixels in dark regions are reduced, and the gray... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080117154 - Pixel array and display panel applying the same: A pixel array and a display panel with the pixel array are provided. The number of the scan lines used in the pixel array is reduced to half, while the number of data lines is doubled because every two sub-pixel rows correspond to one scan line in the pixel array.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080117155 - Liquid crystal display having compensation circuit for reducing gate delay: An exemplary liquid crystal display (400) includes a liquid crystal panel (430), a gate driving circuit (410), a data driving circuit (420), and a compensation circuit (440). The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of gate lines (401) and a plurality of data lines (402) intersecting with the gate lines.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080117157 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display with improved display quality and a method of driving the same include a timing controller which receives a main clock signal and outputs a first clock generation control signal and a second clock generation control signal which has a variable duty ratio, a clock generator which... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080117156 - Transflective lcd and driving method thereof: The present invention provides a transflective LCD including a plurality of pixel units defined by scan lines and data lines. Each pixel unit includes two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a storage capacitor. The two storage capacitors are connected to different voltage sources and correspond to a reflection region and a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080117158 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines. The disclosed liquid crystal display device also includes a timing controller to receive a data enable signal and a data signal,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080117159 - Method for driving liquid crystal display with scanning backlight module: An exemplary method for driving an LCD with an LCD panel and a plurality of light sources controlled by an inverter is provided. The liquid crystal panel includes a gate driving circuit, a timing controller, and a plurality of scanning lines. The method includes a: the timing controller controlling the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080117150 - Liquid crystal display and thin film transistor array panel therefor: A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of first signal lines formed on the substrate; a plurality of second lines formed on the substrate, intersecting the first signal line, and including a plurality of curved portions having at least two curve points and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080117149 - Liquid crystal display device: An object of the invention is to repair a drain signal line easily. Each region enclosed by two gate signal lines adjacent to each other and two drain signal lines adjacent to each other that are formed on the liquid-crystal-side surface of one of transparent substrates that are opposed to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080117153 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A display apparatus is provided which can achieve suitable screen display luminance depending on video content as well as can reduce power consumption sufficiently. A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that displays video and a light source that illuminates the liquid crystal panel, and the emission... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117161 - Liquid crystal display (lcd) panel assembling method: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel assembling method, comprising the following steps: preparing a plurality of unitary LCD panels; and aligning or overlapping any one side edge of a unitary LCD panel with any one side edge of another unitary LCD panel, as such forming a large assembled... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080117162 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: In one embodiment, a driving method for a liquid crystal display device having a backlight is provided. Input digital video data is analyzed and an adaptive brightness control signal is generated based on a brightness analysis of the input digital video data. An external brightness control signal is received via... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080117163 - Liquid crystal display having photoelectric conversion unit: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a backlight module and a liquid crystal panel provided adjacent to the backlight module. The liquid crystal panel includes a display module, a gate driving circuit, a power supply input configured for providing a first voltage obtained from a power supply, a photoelectric conversion... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080117160 - Liquid crystal display, as well as, a backlight controller and a method for the same: A liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal display portion for inputting a video signal to display an image thereon; a backlight provided on a rear side of the liquid crystal display portion, for illuminating the liquid crystal display portion from a rear surface thereof; a backlight driver portion for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080117165 - Display device, writing device, and display medium recorded with display program: A display device includes: a display medium including a pair of substrates disposed with a distance therebetween, at least one of the substrates having translucency, a dispersion medium that is disposed between the pair of substrates, and a particle group that is dispersed in the dispersion medium and moved in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080117164 - Non volatile addressable electronic paper with color capability: In accordance with the invention, there are systems for electronic paper, apparatus for electrophoretic display, and methods of making an electrophoretic display. The apparatus for electrophoretic can include an electret substrate and a plurality of capsules disposed in the electret substrate, wherein each of the plurality of capsules can include... Agent: Kurt A. Luther Honeywell International, Inc.

20080117166 - Devices using tactile feedback to deliver silent status information: Devices using tactile feedback to deliver silent status information are described. One embodiment includes an electronic device comprising a housing comprising a user contactable region, a tactile element coupled to the user contactable region, and an actuator coupled to the tactile element and capable of outputting a haptic sensation localized... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080117167 - Storage medium having stored thereon program for adjusting pointing device, and pointing device: A pointing device includes a controller for pointing a position on a display surface by imaging an imaging objective such as two markers positioned with a predetermined interval therebetween in a vicinity of the display surface of a monitor. With the pointing device, a width of the display surface and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080117168 - Method and apparatus for controlling application using motion of image pickup unit: A method of controlling an application using a motion of an image pickup unit, the method includes storing gestures corresponding to a command to control an application, tracing a motion parameter corresponding to an image that is continuously input, detecting a gesture corresponding to the traced motion parameter from the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080117169 - Encoding mechanism with tiltable scroll wheel module: An encoding mechanism with a tiltable scroll wheel module includes a scroll wheel, a wheel carrier and a multidirectional switch unit. The scroll wheel is operable by a user. The wheel carrier has a receptacle for receiving the scroll wheel therein such that the scroll wheel is rotatable in the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080117170 - Speckle interference laser tracking: An optical tracking system is disclosed that provides more precise tracking and better performance in an optical mouse. It involves provides a collimated laser, and imaging a reflection of the collimated laser, such that the reflection has a substantially linear phase gradient. The reflection of the laser includes a pattern... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080117172 - Kvm switch and method of controlling the same: A KVM switch including server units that are respectively connected to computers units, user units that are respectively connected to input-output units inputting and outputting a signal to the computer units, and a main unit that connects the server units and the user units selectively. The input-output unit switches between... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080117171 - Remote control device, character input method and display device using soft keyboard: A remote control device, a character input method and a display device using a soft keyboard are provided. A display unit displays a soft keyboard having a plurality of character buttons, each of which bears at least two characters to input the characters. Also, a user manipulation unit selects a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080117173 - Keyboard and handheld input device system: A system of computer input devices, such as a keyboard and a mouse, is disclosed. The input device comprises a plurality of keys, a housing coupled to the keys, and a dock formed in the housing. The dock is configured to receive a second input device; and contains a mechanical... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080117174 - Hand-held device: A hand-held device that provides communication services and symbol processing is described. The device includes a case having a front side comprising a display and a lid having a transparent portion through which the display can be seen in a lid-closed state. In one version, the hand-held device comprises a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080117179 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters in portable terminal: A method and apparatus for inputting characters in a portable terminal. The method includes displaying on a display unit an arrangement of characters corresponding to a character input mode from among a plurality of arrangements of characters according to various modes, the characters being respectively mapped to combinations of two... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080117181 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels; a plurality of detection units formed in row and column directions that generate an element output signal when the display panel is touched; a detection signal processor that generates detection data based on the element output signal; and a touch determination unit... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080117182 - Display device including sensing elements and driving method thereof: A display device includes a plurality of touch sensors and a touch sensor controller. The touch sensor controller defines sensing units. Each of the sensing units includes at least two touch sensors. The touch sensor controller generates coordinates information of the sensing unit when all of the touch sensors of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080117176 - Electronic devices having a touch screen and method for starting the electronic devices: An exemplary electronic device (10) comprises a display (11), a chip controller (131), a power supply (14) and a main processor (12). The display has a touch screen (111). The power supply is electrically connected to and controlled by the chip controller. The main processor is electrically connected to the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117177 - Electronic devices having a touch screen and method for starting the electronic devices: An exemplary electronic device (10) comprises a display (11), a chip controller (131), a power supply (14) and a main processor (12). The display has a capacitive touch screen (111). The power supply is electrically connected with and controlled by the chip controller. The main processor is electrically connected to... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117178 - Electronic devices having a touch screen and method for starting the electronic devices: An exemplary electronic device (10) comprises a display (11), a chip controller (131), a power supply (14) and a main processor (12). The display has a touch screen (111). The power supply is electrically connected to and controlled by the chip controller. The main processor is electrically connected to the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117180 - Image forming apparatus and facsimile apparatus: A copy and facsimile multifunction peripheral includes an operating unit on the top of a housing on the front side thereof. The operating unit includes a dot matrix display composed of light-emitting elements, a light-transmissive display unit cover that covers a display area of the dot matrix display and constitutes... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080117175 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product providing vibration control interface: A method includes defining a plurality of parameters for a vibration control pulse comprising a start pulse and a stop pulse, and outputting the vibration control pulse to a vibration element to provide tactile feedback.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080117183 - Touch screen using image sensor: A touch screen includes a touch panel providing an image for a user's information input, including a first image sensor, which is arranged at a side or disposed in a side of the touch panel for detecting an input position of the user using an image. A first lens system... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080117184 - Flexible screen display with touch sensor in a portable computer: A user interface for a portable electronic device comprising a flexible display panel and a flexible touch sensor. The flexible touch sensor is operable to register a position where contact is made with a surface of the flexible display panel, such that the position of contact registered is translated into... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080117185 - Key control apparatus of a portable terminal: A key control apparatus for a portable terminal including a first housing with first and second display units and a second housing with first and second key input units is provided. The key control apparatus allows the functions of the portable terminal to be conveniently implemented. The key control apparatus... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080117186 - Touch panel module and method of fabricating the same: A touch panel module including a cover and a transparent touch panel is provided. At least a portion of the transparent touch panel is directly connected to the cover. A method of fabricating the touch panel module including the following steps is also provided. First, a transparent touch panel is... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080117187 - Display apparatus having contact detecting function: Transducers (10, 80) that function as an acoustic wave generating means and a detecting means of an acoustic wave type contact detecting device (ultrasonic touch panel) are integrally formed on a glass substrate 2, which is employed as a display surface of a display section 3. A piezoelectric element 10... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080117188 - Electronic devices having a touch screen and method for starting the electronic devices: An exemplary electronic device (10) comprises a display (11), a chip controller (131), a power supply (14) and a main processor (12). The display has a surface acoustic touch screen (111). The touch screen comprises a substrate (113), two transmitting transducers (114), two receiving transducers (115), two first reflection strips... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117189 - Fingernail stylus for pda use: A finger stylus for attachment to a fingernail for manipulation of a handheld device such as a PDA that can include a base with an adhesive on a lower surface for attaching the stylus to a fingernail and an elongated part coupled to an upper surface where the elongated part... Agent: Clifford Kraft

20080117194 - Apparatus and method of driving for plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of display electrodes and a plurality of address electrodes crossing the display electrodes, and an energy recovery circuit including a power charging/discharging capacitor, an inductor, and a plurality of switches, the method including continuously applying a first sustain discharge... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080117192 - Cancellation method and its circuit of line-decimated phenpmenon: A cancellation method of line-decimated phenomenon and its circuit for a display device includes: inputting the video signal to a circuit of cancelling a line-decimated phenomenon; catching the unwanted data lines, which should be deleted; turning off the pulse of the signal CLKV to avoid the display device displaying the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117190 - Method and driver for driving a display: First and second bits of pixel values of the display are received, and each of the first and second bits is forwarded through one of data signals. Then, levels of the data signals are shifted, and the forwarded first and second bits are received through the level-shifted data signals to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080117191 - Plasma display apparatus and driving device thereof: A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of electrodes, a first power supply, a first driving circuit having a first transistor and a ferrite core in communication with the first transistor, the first transistor being coupled between the first power supply and the electrodes, and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080117193 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display device having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of discharge cells corresponding to the row electrodes, in which a field is divided into a plurality of subfields, the method including dividing the plurality of row electrodes into at least a first... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080117195 - Driving circuit: In a driving circuit of a display device, a period for writing to pixels is shortened while an increase in size of an integrated circuit is avoided. In a first period of the writing period, the pixel is charged up with a gradation potential of a particular node in a... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080117196 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a pixel having a switch device, a driving device connected to the switch device, and a light emitting element to emit light based on a data signal provided to the driving device, a scanning driver to provide a scanning signal to the switch device, and a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080117198 - Display device and controller driver for improved frc technique: A display device is provided with a display panel and a controller driver. The controller driver includes: a preceding image processing stage performing color-reduction processing on input image data to generate color-reduced image data; a memory; a latter image processing stage adapted to perform modification processing on the color-reduced image... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080117199 - Liquid crystal display having voltage change circuits: An exemplary LCD (2) includes a glass substrate (29) having a display area (21); driving integrated circuits (ICs) (210) disposed at two adjacent sides of the glass substrate for providing image signals to the display area; first and second voltage change circuits (216, 217); and a flexible printed circuit board... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080117197 - Plasma display panel and apparatus and method of driving the same:

20080117200 - Liquid crystal display and gate modulation method thereof: A gate modulation circuit is provided. A comparator compares a triangular wave voltage of a capacitor with a second reference voltage. If the triangular wave voltage of the capacitor exceeds the second reference voltage, a conduction path is turned off. A comparator controls desired discharge to a capacitor through a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080117201 - Methods, systems and apparatus for delivery of media: Systems, methods and apparatus for collecting data and presenting media to a user are provided. The systems generally includes a data gathering module associated with an electronic device. The data gathering module communicates gathered data to a management module, which manages at least one user profile based on the gathered... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080117202 - Methods, systems and apparatus for delivery of media: Systems, methods and apparatus for collecting data and presenting media to a user are provided. The systems generally includes a data gathering module associated with an electronic device. The data gathering module communicates gathered data to a management module, which manages at least one user profile based on the gathered... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080117203 - Methods and apparatus for visualizing data: A method for visualizing data includes the step of providing a virtual flight visualization of image data representing a non-landscape object.... Agent: Fisher Patent Group, Llc

20080117204 - Rendering performance regulator: A rendering performance regulator is used to assist in rendering and displaying a three-dimensional image of a three-dimensional image dataset on a display device. The rendering performance regulator may be coupled to a processor, a graphics processing unit, or combinations thereof. The three-dimensional image may be static or dynamic. An... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080117205 - Function-based representation of n-dimensional structures: A method is disclosed for the solid modeling of objects that is particularly suitable to modeling objects obtained from scan data, typically voxel-based data, for example medical imaging data. The method provides a more direct approach to providing solid modeling capabilities in modeling complex objects, such as organic objects, that... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080117207 - Copying and editing method in computer: The present invention includes steps of: acquiring a first image information; making the first image information to have a hidden attribute; acquiring a second image information in a displaying format; acquiring the first image information and the second image information to perform a blending operation for producing a third image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080117206 - Method for improving spatial index efficiency by jittering splitting planes: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to improve the efficiency of a ray tracing image processing system. According to one embodiment of the invention, when building a spatial index the position of a splitting plane used to create a bounding volume may be jittered or moved along an... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080117208 - Method for constructing a triangular mesh surface of a point cloud: A method for constructing a triangular mesh surface of a point cloud is disclosed. The method includes: (a) inputting point cloud data; (b) determining a cubical figure that confines the point cloud, mapping a grid on the cubical figure to obtain a plurality of grid squares; (c) acquiring a point... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080117209 - Medical image segmentation: A method of automatically segmenting a patient's colon in a medical image data set is provided. The method comprises two main stages. The first stage is to classify voxels in the data set as not belonging to the colon based on their radiodensities and/or positions within the volume data set.... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080117211 - Method for picking on fused 3d volume rendered images and updating views: A method of point picking on a fused volume rendered view of multiple registered volumes having the following steps: selecting a rendered pixel, finding the projection ray through the rendered pixel, finding the intersection segment of the projection ray with the fused volume, traversing the intersection segment according to a... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080117210 - Virtual endoscopy: A method for automatically determining a start or finish location near to an end of a lumen in a medical image data set is described. The location may thus be used in determining a camera path for virtual endoscopy (e.g. colonoscopy). The data set comprises a plurality of voxels arranged... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080117212 - Method, medium and system rendering 3-dimensional graphics using a multi-pipeline: A method and system for rendering graphic data using a multi-pipeline are provided. The rendering system includes, a rendering unit to transmit each of a plurality of objects included in graphic data to one of multiple pipelines based on a rendering position at which each object is to be rendered... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080117213 - Method and apparatus for automated graphing of trends in massive, real-world databases: A method and apparatus for leveraging the inherent massiveness of real-world data sets to solve the problems typically associated with graphing the data is provided. Three particular areas of concern are as follows: a high likelihood of containing instances of bad or corrupted data that could distort the graph; little... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080117214 - Pencil strokes for vector based drawing elements: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating displays of vector drawing elements that have the appearance of being hand drawn using traditional media materials, such as a pencil. Multiple pencil strokes to be rendered on top of each other and the structure of the simulated paper surface remains constant,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080117215 - Providing a model with surface features: A computer-implemented method for providing a model with surface features includes obtaining first and second models of an object. The first model has a first-model resolution that is higher than a resolution of the second model and including surface features. The second model is generated independently of the first model.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, Pc

20080117216 - System and method for real-time pose-based deformation of character models: Systems and methods for animating a character model by deforming the character model based on poses. Embodiments may contain a modeling component in which a user may create a character model that contains a rig representing animation controls applied to the model, and geometric/graphic parameters for graphically rendering the model.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080117217 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system employing real-time automatic scene profiling and mode control: A multi-mode parallel 3-D graphics system having multiple graphics processing pipelines with multiple GPUs supporting a parallel graphics rendering process having time, frame and object division modes of operation, wherein each GPU comprises video memory, a geometry processing subsystem and a pixel processing subsystem, and wherein 3D scene profiling is... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., Pc Soundview Plaza

20080117219 - Pc-based computing system employing a silicon chip of monolithic construction having a routing unit, a control unit and a profiling unit for parallelizing the operation of multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores according to the object division mode of paralle: A PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip having a routing unit, a control unit and profiling unit for parallelizing multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores according to the object division mode of parallelization operation, during a graphics application. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080117218 - Pc-based computing system employing parallelized gpu-driven pipeline cores integrated with a routing unit and control unit on a silicon chip of monolithic construction: A PC-based computing system employing parallelized GPU-driven pipeline cores integrated with a routing unit and control unit on a silicon chip of monolithic construction. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS), stored in the system... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080117220 - Graphic processor based accelerator system and method: An accelerator system is implemented on an expansion card comprising a printed circuit board having (a) one or more graphics processing units (GPU), (b) two or more associated memory banks (logically or physically partitioned), (c) a specialized controller, and (d) a local bus providing signal coupling compatible with the PCI... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080117221 - Early kill removal graphics processing system and method: A pixel processing system and method which permits rendering of complicated three dimensional images using a shallow graphics pipeline including reduced gate counts and low power operation. Pixel packet information includes pixel surface attribute values retrieved in a single unified data fetch stage. A determination is made if the pixel... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080117222 - System, method, and computer program product for saving power in a multi-graphics processor environment: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling or disabling a graphics processor during runtime. In use, a command is received to disable or enable a graphics processor. Such graphics processor is enabled or disabled during runtime, in response to the command.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080117223 - Display with memory for storing picture data: A display having a screen, and memory for storing picture data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the screen includes a plurality of pixels, the pixels in a first mode of the display being controlled by the picture data stored in the memory, and in a second mode of the display... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080117224 - Image display apparatus and image display method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an image display apparatus including: a memory storing data; a memory controller causing image data of an image for display at a startup time to be stored in the memory, before a power state shifts to a standby state; and a display controller... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080117225 - System and method for geometric image annotation: A system and method for geometrical annotation of geospatial patient image data. First, an image block having geospatial image data such as an image series is acquired. Then at least one geometric shape having associated annotation data is defined within the image block and at least one display plane is... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080117226 - Method for mapping colors between imaging systems and method therefor: A method for performing color conversion includes configuring a color transformer to perform black point scaling when converting image data from a source device to a destination device. Another method for performing black point adjustment while performing color management conversions includes determining a device independent black reference vector for a... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080117227 - Method for mapping colors between imaging systems and method therefor: A method for performing color conversion between color profiles includes converting source device color profile values to destination device color profile values using one or more plug-in software modules to define intermediate profile connecting space (PCS) values used for the color conversion. A system for performing color conversion between source... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080117228 - System and method for gamma conversion: The invention provides a Gamma conversion system applied on a source of image pixel data. Each image pixel data in the source of image pixel data has an M-bit pixel value with a first Gamma exponent. The Gamma conversion system comprises a storage module, a processing module, and a selecting... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080117230 - Hanging protocol display system and method: An image display system and method for presenting medical images according to a hanging protocol. Each hanging protocol contains one or more presentation groups Each presentation group defines a screen layout for a group of images and a set of interface display rules. A user may navigate through the presentation... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080117229 - Linked data series alignment system and method: A linked image display system and method for synchronizing two or more image series by setting any number of synchronization points and interpolating between these points. The synchronization points may either be selected automatically or by allowing the user to navigate through the image series to select corresponding images. Once... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: Box Ip Dept.

20080117231 - Display assemblies and computer programs and methods for defect compensation: The range of embodiments includes systems, methods, and apparatus for defect compensation that may be applied to displays having multiple imaging layers, such as high dynamic range displays, and/or to stereoscopic displays, such as autostereoscopic displays.... Agent: Hartman Patents Pllc

20080117232 - Virtual showroom system and method: The present invention provides a network server with enhanced graphics and improved methods for displaying articles offered for purchase, to allow a purchaser to fully evaluate the article while shopping “on-line.” In a particular embodiment, a virtual showroom associated with the network server may be provided, for displaying first and... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080117234 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a scan driver block, a high-speed interface circuit block, and a scan driver pad arrangement region in which pads electrically connecting scan output lines of the scan driver block and scan lines are disposed. The high-speed interface circuit block includes a physical layer circuit that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080117236 - Liquid crystal display with rgb gray-scale voltage controller: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a display panel (380), a gate driving circuit (310) configured for applying a plurality of gate signals to the display panel, and a data driving circuit (320) configured for applying a plurality of red, green and blue gray-scale voltages to the display panel... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080117233 - Multiple-viewer multiple-view display and display controller: Techniques are disclosed for reducing the visibility of crosstalk between images in a multiple view display for simultaneously displaying two or more images independently of each other for viewing in different directions by different viewers. A multiple view display typically comprises a liquid crystal panel (20) and a parallax barrier... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080117235 - Source driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A source driver that drives source lines of an LCD panel includes a first driver block including first to pth source output blocks arranged along a first direction, each of the source output blocks including a first output circuit that drives a source line, a second driver block including (p+1)th... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080117237 - Liquid crystal driving circuit and load driving circuit: There is disclosed a liquid crystal driving circuit configured to supply an analog voltage in accordance with digital grayscale data to each of a plurality of signal lines, said circuit comprising: a reference voltage generation circuit configured to output analog reference voltages corresponding to each of said digital grayscale data;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080111763 - Aspect-ratio independent, multimedia capture, editing, and presentation systems and methods thereof: A multimedia presentation system includes a plurality of display systems and at least one control system. The plurality of display systems output image areas of a multimedia presentation to at least partially different locations of a display environment. The control system adjusts the output of the image areas from the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080111764 - Assistive device for people with communication difficulties: Preferably, at least one of said screens is a touch-screen. In particular embodiments, at least one touch-screen comprises both a capacitive sensor and a resistive sensor. In particular embodiments, at least one of said touch-screens comprises a capacitive sensor comprising a conductive loop positioned under said screen. Said loop is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080111765 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes: a system part including a network access module for communication with an Internet; a line share controller that is assigned a public IP address for access to the Internet and controls share of the public IP address so that the network access module and at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080111766 - Display device, method for driving the same, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel array unit and a peripheral circuit unit. The pixel array unit includes first scanning lines arranged in rows; second scanning lines arranged in rows; signal lines arranged in columns; and pixels arranged in a matrix pattern at intersections of the scanning lines and the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080111767 - Driving method for reducing image sticking: A driving method with reducing image sticking effect is disclosed. The driving method includes applying a voltage on the data lines for trapping impurities crossing the data lines and lowering the degree of the image sticking effect, and applying different asymmetric waveforms to different data lines for trapping impurities crossing... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080111769 - Plasma display device: Provided is a plasma display device that can uniformly dissipate heat of an electronic device of a signal transmitter and prevent the electronic device from being damaged. The plasma display device includes a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) that displays an image; a chassis base disposed on the rear of the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080111768 - Plasma display panel and plasma display device including the same: A plasma display device which produces a lower amount of heat. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a plasma display device includes: a plurality of scan electrodes; a plurality of sustain electrodes, wherein the scan electrodes and the sustain electrodes form a panel capacitor; a selection circuit... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080111770 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A method for driving a plasma display panel is disclosed. The panel comprises a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, which are formed on an upper substrate in parallel to each other, and an address electrode formed on a lower substrate in the direction where the address electrode intersects the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080111773 - Active matrix display device using organic light-emitting element and method of driving active matrix display device using organic light-emitting element: An active matrix display device using an organic light-emitting element has a pixel having the organic light-emitting element; a driving transistor that determines an electric current flowing to the organic light-emitting element according to a gate voltage; a storing unit; and a voltage output unit that supplies a voltage to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080111772 - Data driver and organic light emitting diode display device thereof: A data driver for an OLED display device includes a shift register, a first data processing unit adapted to output a first voltage by employing upper bits of the digital data signal, and a second data processing unit adapted to output a second voltage employing lower bits of the digital... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080111774 - Display apparatus: A scanner repeats a threshold voltage correcting process over a plurality of horizontal periods prior to the sampling of a signal potential to hold a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of a driving transistor reliably in a retentive capacitor. Each signal line is associated with a pair of switches,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080111771 - Passive matrix thin-film electro-luminescent display: A passive-matrix, thin-film electro-luminescent display system includes a display having a substrate with organic layers and orthogonally arranged electrodes formed thereon. One or more display drivers: (i) receives an input image signal for addressing the light-emitting elements of the display; (ii) decomposes the signal into a low-resolution component signal and... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080111775 - Apparatus for controlling brightness of display using diffractive optical modulator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for controlling brightness of a display device using a diffractive optical modulator. The apparatus includes a video signal reception unit, a video brightness type classification unit, and a brightness correction unit. The brightness correction unit corrects the brightness of the video based on the brightness... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080111777 - Organic electroluminescent display device and driving method thereof: An organic electroluminescent display device and the driving method thereof that can improve the aperture ratio. The organic electroluminescent display device according to the present invention includes first to third organic electroluminescent elements, first to third driving transistors to apply a driving current to the first to third organic electroluminescent... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080111779 - Liquid-crystal display, method for producing liquid-crystal display, and electronic device: A liquid-crystal display, having a plurality of pixel areas and a plurality of photodetection areas for detecting light disposed in a two-dimensional manner, includes first switching elements each provided for the corresponding pixel area and switching the drive of the corresponding pixel area, and second switching elements formed on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080111778 - Method for displaying and processing video data and related video data processing apparatus: The present invention discloses a method for displaying video data. The method includes: generating an intermediate image between a first and a second image of the video data, wherein the first image is adjacent to the second image in the video data; adjusting a plurality of intermediate pixels of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080111781 - Gray-scale voltage producing module for liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display providing a gray scale voltage at a range in which the transmittance of liquid crystals is non-linearly changed with respect to the applied gray-scale voltage. voltage distributor including an upper variable voltage distribution unit, a fixed voltage distribution unit and a lower variable voltage distribution unit,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080111782 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device includes an LCD panel, an error memory which stores error values obtained by comparing measured values for characteristics of an image displayed on the LCD panel with a reference value suitable for the LCD panel, an image processor which processes a signal supplied from... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080111776 - Light emitting device: An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device that is able to suppress power consumption while a balance of white light is kept, without making a configuration of a power source circuit complicated. A power source potential corresponding to each color of a light emitting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080111780 - Light sensitive display: A light sensitive display.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080111783 - Method and system for adjusting luminance of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp: A method and system for adjusting the luminance of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) is provided, which operates in a BIOS of a liquid crystal screen in a computer-executable way. A plurality of sets of time-luminance values of the CCFL is stored in the BIOS. First, the image quality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080111784 - Transmissive display device: Each of image data sorted so as to correspond to divided areas respectively is stored in an in-area image memory. A maximum luminance extracting section extracts the maximum luminance value therefrom and records it onto the maximum luminance storage section. In accordance with the maximum luminance value that is thus... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080111787 - Electrophoretic display device and method of driving the same: The electrophoretic display device includes an electrophoretic display portion which maintains a displayed image even during a shut-down of power, a thin film transistor substrate connected to the electrophoretic display portion to drive the electrophoretic display portion, a driving circuit connected to the electrophoretic display portion and the thin film... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080111786 - Mixed-mode encapsulated electrophoretic display for electronic device: A substrate (104) has a region of conductor segments (110) and a matrix display driver (106) mounted on it. The matrix display driver is used for creating pixilated images or symbols, while the conductor segments are used for turning on or off iconic elements. An encapsulated electrophoretic display laminate (108)... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20080111785 - Non-volatile addressable electronic paper for disposable flexible displays: In accordance with the invention, there are systems for electronic paper, apparatus for electrophoretic display, and methods of making an electrophoretic display. The system for electronic paper can comprise an electret substrate wherein the electret substrate comprises an inhomogeneous distribution of charges and a plurality of capsules disposed in the... Agent: Kurt A. Luther Honeywell International, Inc.

20080111788 - Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls: A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080111789 - Control device with hybrid sensing system comprised of video-based pattern recognition and electronic signal transmission: The invention provides a method and apparatus for use as a control device for controlling a computing system. The method includes a hybrid sensing system comprised of computer-vision-based pattern recognition and electronic signal transmission. The control device is embedded with a designated color light pattern and an electronic signal transmitter.... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20080111790 - Method and apparatus of signal processing and an inertial point device using the same: A method of signal processing for a sensitive signal generated from a pointing device, which comprises the steps of acquiring an accelerating signal; forming a filtering signal by a first filtering process to filter the accelerating signal; and processing a second filtering process to form a processed signal. By means... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080111792 - Input device including wireless and wired modes: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes an outer housing, a sensor assembly configured to sense a position of the input device relative to a work surface, a wireless transmitter coupled to the sensor assembly, and a cable comprising a cable connector configured to connect to a data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080111791 - Self-propelled haptic mouse system: A haptic mouse system, comprising a self-propelled mouse (102) and a mouse pad (100), is intended for use as a mouse pointing device in a computer system. The haptic mouse system can provide directional force feedback to a user in response to commands from the host computer. The self-propelled mouse... Agent: Alex S. Nikittin

20080111793 - Method and apparatus for implementing magnification and extension of keypads using a dynamic touch screen: A method, and apparatus are provided for implementing magnification and extension of keypads using a dynamic touch screen. The dynamic touch-screen generating device includes a processor coupled to a projector for generating and projecting an image onto a surface, and a camera for detecting a user activity on the projected... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept 917

20080111795 - Method of capacitively sensing finger position: Sensor array configurations that allow for the accurate determination of an object's position are disclosed. The sensor configurations utilize a plurality of varying length sensors that have staggered beginning and ending positions. By staggering the beginning and ending positions of the varying length sensors, fewer sensors need to be utilized... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080111794 - Timepiece with handwriting input unit: A timepiece includes a micro control unit, to which a display unit, a timekeeping unit, a sound emitting mechanism, and a handwriting input unit are connected. The handwriting input unit is formed of a carbon powder layer, a duplicating layer, and a sensing circuit layer. Numerical characters indicating an alarm... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080111796 - Planar waveguide lens design: This invention relates to an improved design for the transmit and receive optical elements of a waveguide-based optical touch screen sensor, where at least one converging lens is incorporated within the body of each transmit and receive element. The optical elements of the improved design are more mechanically robust, easier... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080111797 - Touch screen: A touch screen includes a display screen having an upper surface that provides picture information, and an optical module that emits rays in directions that can be parallel with the upper surface of the screen. When an object, such as a stylus, pen or a finger is placed on the... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080111798 - Laptop computer, system and/or method for using the same: A laptop computer, a system and/or a method for using the same are provided. The laptop computer, the system and/or the method has a monitor, input boards, a base, an intelligent pen and a headset. The monitor has a screen, a magnetic pen guidance system, an on/off switch for the... Agent: Patents+tms, P.c.

20080111799 - Driving an electroluminescent display: A driver (DD, SD, PD1, PD2) drives a display panel which comprises a first set of light emitting elements (PL1) and a second set of light emitting elements (PL2). The driver (DD, SD, PD1, PD2) comprises a data driver (DD) which receives a first set of input image signals (R)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080111800 - Driving apparatus and method thereof: A driving apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The driving apparatus includes a control unit, a driving unit, a current adjusting unit, and a detecting unit. The control unit outputs a control signal. The driving unit generates a driving signal according to the control unit to drive loads. The... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080111801 - Gate driving circuit of liquid crystal display: A gate driving circuit includes several driving circuit units and several switch units. Each driving circuit unit outputs several driving signals to several scan lines sequentially. One of the switch units is respectively disposed between two adjacent driving circuit units and conducts or blocks a first and a second clock... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080111802 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for driving a plasma display panel that can be driven at a low voltage and prevent undesired discharge from being generated under high temperature environment.... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080111803 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A display device includes a plurality of pixels connected with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, a data driving part applying a data signal to the plurality of data lines, a gate driving part applying a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080111804 - Pixel, organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor coupled to a scan line and a data line, the first transistor being configured to receive a data signal via the data line when a scan signal is supplied to the scan line, a storage capacitor configured to store... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080111805 - Liquid crystal display having common voltage initialization circuit and method for manufacturing same: An exemplary method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes providing an LCD panel (201) including a common voltage initialization circuit (2011); testing and inspecting the LCD panel for defects of the LCD panel, and thereby obtaining a preferred common voltage for the LCD panel; writing parameters of the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080111807 - Multi-output switching power supply having voltage limiting circuit: An exemplary multi-output switching power supply (2) includes a switching power supply controller (21) for generating a pulse signal; a transformer device (20) for providing a first and a second AC voltages according to the pulse signal; a first half wave rectifier (23) and a first filter circuit (25) connected... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080111806 - Paperstock card having a printed dynamic display method and apparatus: A paperstock card (201) is integrally combined (102) with each of a printed dynamic display (203), a printed display control circuit (202), and a printed power source (204). So configured, the paperstock card can offer, in a relatively economical and flexible manner, textual and/or image-based content of choice. In addition,... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080111808 - Dc-dc converter, driving apparatus having dc-dc converter, and display device having driving apparatus: A DC-DC converter includes a main inductor connected to an input voltage, a main switching element connected in series to the main inductor, a main diode connected to the main inductor and a load, and a main capacitor connected to the main diode and the load, the DC-DC converter changing... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080111812 - Display drive device and display device: A predetermined voltage is supplied to a voltage supply line connected in common to respective current paths of driving elements of each of a plurality of display pixels. Adjustment voltages based on a predetermined unit voltage are sequentially applied to a plurality of data lines connected to the display pixels.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080111809 - Driving circuit and method for amoled using power pulse feed-through technique: An AMOLED driving circuit and driving method adds an additional switching transistor to a 2T1C driving circuit. An additional switching transistor is connected to the high voltage source, a scan line and a node connected a source terminal of a driving transistor of the 2T1C driving circuit and the light-emitting... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080111811 - Organic electro-luminescence display and driving method thereof: An organic electro-luminescence display is disclosed. The display includes a pixel unit configured to display at least a portion of an image, a first regulator configured to generate first and second power voltages and to transmit the first and second power voltages to the pixel power source line, a second... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080111810 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device capable of suppressing banding noise caused by fluctuation in power consumption in a portable display device, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display includes pixels configured to display an image based on first and second power voltages, a first regulator for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080111814 - Geometric tagging: Geometric tagging is described. A method for transforming an image into a three dimensional (3D) representation includes receiving a first user input that specifies selection of a category from a set of categories of geometric objects. Each category of the set is associated with one or more taggable features. A... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080111813 - Method and apparatus for placing fasteners in a model-based definition: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for placing fasteners in a three dimensional product definition. A fastener is identified from a plurality of different fasteners to fasten a set of components in a three dimensional product definition using a policy to form a selected fastener. A... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080111816 - Method for creating, manufacturing, and distributing three-dimensional models: A method is provided for producing three-dimensional (3D) models. The invention will take any sculpture, character, or model from artwork, still life models, images of human beings, characters from a computer game, or any other 3D digital image or model that is scanned, and turn the digital image into 3D... Agent: Feldmangale, P.a.

20080111815 - Modeling system: A three dimensional model of an urban area is produced by processing a stereo aerial view of the urban area to obtain a three dimensional map, identifying city units by correlation with a geographical database and obtaining ground level image data relating to city units from photographic or laser scan... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080111817 - Automated translation of high order complex geometry from a cad model into a surface based combinatorial geometry format: The descriptions of higher order complex geometry in CAD systems are fundamentally different from and seemingly incompatible with the surface based combinatorial geometry (SBCG) format for describing the same geometry in the context of general ray-tracing applications such as radiation transport. A computer implemented process translates the high order complex... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, Llc.

20080111818 - Spatial organization and display of enterprise operational integration information: A Zeetix encompasses a collection of information organized around spatial domain, which may be around a geographical location in a real geography or a virtual geography, and all human-made constructs on it. A geographic Zeetix may show store locations for a franchise business, listing locations for a realtor, or police... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080111819 - Character processing apparatus and method: A character processing apparatus and method, wherein the character processing apparatus includes an eyesight age determination module which determines an eyesight age, and a character transformation module which transforms an input character based on character property information of the input character according to the determined eyesight age.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080111820 - Ocn-based moving picture decoder: Provided is an On-Chip network (OCN) based moving picture decoder. The moving picture decoder includes: a plurality of switches for providing a parallel data transmission path between a predetermined master module and the other master module, a parallel data transmission path between a predetermined master module and a predetermined slave... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080111821 - Dynamic tile sizing in an image pipeline: An image pipeline performs image processing operations (for example, Bayer-to-RGB conversion, white balancing, autoexposure, autofocus, color correction, gamma correction, zooming, unsharp masking, mirroring, resizing, color space conversion) on tiles whose sizes are varied, whose widths are less than the width of the output image frame being generated, and whose heights... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080111822 - Method and system for presenting video: Methods and systems of presenting video on a computer display having a visible display area are hereby disclosed. At least one video input is received from a video source. A video corresponding to the video put is displayed in a viewing region of the display. The viewing region can be... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080111823 - Graphics processing system: A graphics processing system for processing an input image to an output image. A memory buffer includes a number of line buffers for storing the input image. A sampling controller samples sampling points of the input image, scales the input image by a sampling polynomial equation, and generates a scaled... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080111824 - Quality assurance method for use in system with limited memory: In a terminal device such as a portable consumer electronic device, the device having only limited computational memory, a large compressed image file such as a JPEG file, having some color depth such as 24 bits per pixel, is collapsed to a bit-mapped image file with very little color depth,... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm Llc

20080111825 - Pixel cache for 3d graphics circuitry: Apparatus are provided including device memory, hardware entities, a sub-image cell value cache, and a cache write operator. At least some of the hardware entities perform actions involving access to and use of the device memory. The hardware entities include 3D graphics circuitry to process, for ready display, 3D images... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080111826 - Displaying resources using multiple visualization dimensions: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to arranging resource representations in multiple visual dimensions according to two or more attributes associated with the resources. In aspects, a user interface receives input that associates attributes with visualization dimensions. The user interface may also receive filter input that indicates criteria... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080111827 - Color-information processing method, and program: In order to perform pseudo-three-dimensional display for analyzing color distribution, there are provided a color-distribution-information input step of inputting color-distribution information indicating color coordinate values that sample points in a first color system can have in a second color system, a user's-instruction input step of inputting an instruction of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080111828 - Display device and driving apparatus thereof: A display device displays an image with high display quality even if a temperature is changed, and includes a driving apparatus. Resistors having the same resistance value are used in a resistor string of a gray voltage generator, and a signal controller converts a number of bits of an input... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080111829 - Method and apparatus for image acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication: To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of the present invention first acquires images from a number of different image sources. Images acquired... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080111830 - Automatic parameters adjusting system and method for a display device: A method of automatically adjusting parameters of a display device is provided. The method includes: measuring a current distance between a user and the display device; determining a particular distance range which the current distance falls in; determining corresponding parameter values of the particular distance range according to a parameter... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080111831 - Efficient panoramic image generation: Steps in producing and publishing a panoramic image from component images are automated such that a user can simply click a single button to stitch and publish a panoramic image. The stitched panoramic image is automatically cropped, compression quality is automatically adjusted according to the quality of the stitched panoramic... Agent: James D Ivey Tribute Tower

20080111832 - System and method for generating virtual images according to position of viewers: A method generates and superposes virtual images to an existing image in order to show special effects. Images are generated depending on the relative position of one or more subjects viewing the existing image. The images are generated in order to see an augmented reality. The subjects are people located... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080111833 - Adjusting display brightness and/or refresh rates based on eye tracking: A device may determine an area at which a user gazes on the display screen. The device may identify on the display screen a screen region which does not overlap the area, may darken the identified screen region, and/or may refresh the display screen by updating a screen region that... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080111840 - Data receiver circuit, data driver, and display device: Disclosed is a data receiver circuit including a differential pair having first and second transistors of a first conductivity type, which receives at first and second inputs thereof a binary signal by which data transfer is performed in a differential form, a load circuit composed of first and second diode-connected... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080111838 - Display method and display apparatus using this method: An object of the present invention is to provide a display method capable of displaying all gray levels of an input image signal with reduced flicker, and a display apparatus using this method. The present invention provides a display method that allows a display apparatus to display gray levels represented... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080111839 - Driving circuit and organic light emitting diode display device including the same: A driving circuit includes a first decoder for outputting first decoding signals, a first selection unit for generating selection signals and first inverse selection signals, a switch unit for selecting a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, the second reference voltage being lower than the first reference voltage,... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080111837 - Driving method of a display: A method for driving a display may include sequentially supplying a first scan signal to odd numbered scan lines, and sequentially supplying a second scan signal to even numbered scan lines to display one frame of an image, wherein the first and second scan signals are offset from one another... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080111835 - Method and related apparatus for driving an lcd monitor: A method for driving an LCD monitor includes receiving image data corresponding to a pixel of the LCD monitor, comparing pixel values of a first frame data and a second frame data in the image data, dividing the second frame data into a plurality of sub-frame data when a difference... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080111836 - System for dynsmic gamma correction of multi-scaled clocks and method therefor: A system for dynamic gamma correction of multi-scaled clocks and method therefor are provided, wherein multi-scaled clocks are applied to control the grayscale upon only one set of ramp voltage, so that the linearity of the gamma curve can be adjusted freely or to adjust the gamma correction strategy based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080111834 - Two primary color display: A color display comprising a plurality of pixels is disclosed, wherein each pixel comprises two or fewer subpixels. In one embodiment, a color display comprises a fixed color display element configured to provide light of a first color, and a variable color display element configured to provide light of a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080111841 - Displaying content for various aspect ratios: A resorce manager can vary content for various display aspect ratios used to display information in a computing environment. This allows providing content that is more suitable and/or especially designed for display on a particular aspect ratio. It will be appreciated that resouce manager can faciltiate execution of the same... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080106488 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: If an image acquired from a video camera (113) contains a two-dimensional bar code as information unique to an operation input device (116), information unique to the video camera (113) and the information unique to the operation input device (116) are managed in a shared memory (107) in association with... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080106491 - Method and apparatus for uniformity compensation in an electroluminescent display: where yi is the performance value of the light-emitting element or groups of elements in response to an input intensity value i, and g is a function that is a simplified representation of the performance of the one or more light-emitting elements or groups of elements. A linear transformation function... Agent: Stephen H. Shaw Eastman Kodak Company

20080106492 - Display device with light emitting diode: A display device with light emitting diode (LED) is provided. The display device includes an outer frame, a signal switching circuit for receiving/detecting/analyzing an input signal and outputting a corresponding signal, and an LED control circuit for receiving the corresponding signal output from the signal switching circuit and outputting a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080106493 - Laser display having reduced power consumption and method of operating the same: A laser image projector display system (200) includes laser operating electronics (208, 210, 212, 400, 500, 700) that selectively operates a laser diode at a bias that is low enough to save energy based on analysis pixel brightness values. The laser bias may be high enough that laser can be... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080106499 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display device (PDP) and method of driving it (during an address period) are provided. Such a PDP has an address electrode for receiving an address pulse and a capacitor. Such an address pulse has states including a first voltage and a smaller second voltage smaller. Such a capacitor... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080106496 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes: a sustain drive unit that applies a sustain pulse having a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage to a plurality of first electrodes; a scan drive unit including a plurality of selection circuits coupled to the first electrodes and each... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080106494 - Plasma display device with partly rigid and partly flexible connection between the display panel and the circuit board: A plasma display device having improved connection reliability between display electrodes of a plasma display panel and printed circuit boards, thereby reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise, and reducing cost due to reduction of the number of components is disclosed. The plasma display device includes a partly rigid and partly flexible... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080106495 - Plasma display panel and a method of preventing afterimage thereof: An apparatus of preventing an afterimage of a plasma display panel (PDP) and a method thereof are provided, which includes selecting at least one sub-field to insert an afterimage preventive pattern, among sub-fields of a plurality of frames of a video signal to be displayed, inserting the afterimage preventive pattern... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080106500 - Amolded direct voltage pixel drive for minaturization: The drive circuit for an OLED is designed for use with an external reference voltage source. The OLED is connected to the reference voltage source through a PMOS drive transistor. The circuit includes a data signal transmission gate responsive to a control signal for transmitting the data signal to the... Agent: Epstein Drangel Bazerman & James, LLP

20080106502 - Light-emitting device: One aspect of the present invention is the light-emitting device including a switching transistor, a first driving transistor which is a p-channel transistor, a second driving transistor which is an n-channel transistor, an inorganic EL element, and a resistor; one of a source region and a drain region of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080106501 - Method and apparatus for uniformity compensation in an electroluminescent display: A method of compensating uniformity of an EL device, having a plurality of light-emitting elements, including providing the EL display; and measuring the performance of one or more light-emitting elements at three or more different code values. At least two different groups of code values are formed from the three... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080106503 - Method and apparatus for uniformity compensation in an oled display: where yi is the performance value of the light-emitting element or groups of elements in response to an input intensity value i, and g is a function that is a simplified representation of the performance of the one or more light-emitting elements or groups of elements. A linear transformation function... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080106504 - Organic light emitting diode driving device: The present invention discloses an OLED driving device, including a first switch transistor, a first transistor, a second switch transistor, a storage capacitor and a second transistor. The first switch transistor is used to receive a data signal, and output the data signal by the control of a first scan... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080106505 - Light emitting diode and display device using the same: An LED driver and a display device using the same are disclosed. The LED driver is adapted for driving a first set of LEDs and a second set of LEDs. The LED driver includes an inductor, a main switch, a first switch, a second switch, and a controller. The inductor... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080106506 - Method and apparatus for processing video image signals: An imager achieves a desired image resolution by successively reproducing partial images which complement each other. The imager assigns pixels from an input image to the respective partial images according to complementing patterns that correspond to the pixel pattern of the imager. The imager reproduces the complementing pattern at different... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080106508 - Method of preventing image sticking: A method of preventing image sticking suitable for adjusting a static frame is described. The method of preventing image sticking includes the following steps. First, a gray level display ratio is computed. A frame is displayed by a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit corresponds to a gray level... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080106509 - Optical head, exposure apparatus and image forming apparatus: An optical head represents gray scales of an image by expressing gray scales of pixels, which belong to a block, with binary values, the block being constituted by n pixels (n is a natural number of 2 or more) in a first direction and m pixels (m is a natural... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106510 - Intra-system interface unit of flat panel display: The present invention discloses an intra-system interface unit in a flat panel display comprising: a control IC unit and a driving IC unit. The control IC unit receives an external image data signal and compresses and processes the image signal data. The control IC unit sends the resulting signal to... Agent: Hasse & Nesbitt LLC

20080106487 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus and method for providing multiple screens are provided. The apparatus includes a service processing module which provides a plurality of services to which a plurality of audio contents are respectively allocated, an interface module which receives a command to designate a first audio content of the plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080106489 - Systems and methods for a head-mounted display: A head-mounted display with an upgradeable field of view includes for at least one eye an existing lens, an existing display, an added lens, and added display. The existing lens and the added lens are positioned relative to one another as though each of the lenses is tangent to the... Agent: Kasha Law PLLC 4th Floor

20080106490 - Video display device: A video display device includes: a display unit for displaying video information on a screen; and a mechanical vibrating unit for vibrating at least one of constituent members including a light source that exist on an optical path, starting from the light source, of the display unit, mechanically and randomly... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080106498 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display device having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of discharge cells corresponding to the row electrodes, in which a field is divided into a plurality of subfields, the method including dividing the plurality of row electrodes into at least a first... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080106497 - Plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to an electrode structure of a plasma display panel capable of improving brightness and efficiency. According to the present invention, in the plasma display, assuming that a distance from the center of a discharge region between a pair... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080106507 - Optical display system and method, active and passive dithering using birefringence, color image superpositioning and display enhancement with phase coordinated polarization switching: A display apparatus includes a passive display, a light source, and a video signal input, in operation in response to a video signal the passive display modulates light from the light source to provide an image, and the intensity of the light source is controlled by the video signal. A... Agent: Warren Sklar Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080106511 - Displaying heterogeneous video: Heterogeneous video may be independently encoded in a processor-based system and transmitted for display on a display device. In the display device, the independent video streams may be de-packetized for display on the same display at different frame rates. Thus, each of the video sources may be displayed in a... Agent: Timothy N. Trop Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080106512 - Light source arrangement for backlighting display devices: A light source arrangement for backlighting a display device, comprising a plurality of light sources and a controller that adjusts the luminous intensity of the light sources to the information to be reproduced, and a display device including said light source arrangement.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080106514 - Display control apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program: A display control apparatus includes an input unit which has plural types of keys and accepts an operation of a key from the user, a display unit which displays a screen which allows the user to operate the input unit, and a display controller which selectively displays plural screens of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080106513 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus capable of simultaneously executing a reproduction function of content data and a communication function with an, external apparatus includes a reproduction section configured to execute the reproduction function, a communication control section configured to execute the communication function using a communication section, an operation input allocation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080106515 - Operation apparatus: A manually operated operation apparatus that is combined with a display apparatus for showing a different image for respectively different occupants includes a driver sensor at a position being touched by a driver who operates an operation unit, a passenger sensor at another position being touched by a passenger who... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080106516 - Screen object placement optimized for blind selection: An improved handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a processor apparatus. The input apparatus includes a multi-axis input device such as a rollerball, trackball, joystick or touchpad, allowing the focus of a user interface program to be moved about a display from one screen object... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080106517 - 3d remote control system employing absolute and relative position detection: The present invention can include three-dimensional remote control systems that can detect an absolute location to which a remote control is pointing in first and second orthogonal axes and an absolute position of the remote control in a third orthogonal axis. Remote control systems of the present invention can employ... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080106518 - Tactile input arrangement for a computing device: Described is a tactile input arrangement for a computing device. A portable computing device comprises a housing, a first input arrangement forming at least a portion of a first external surface of the housing and receiving input data from a user and a second input arrangement forming at least a... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080106519 - Electronic device with keypad assembly: An electronic device includes a keypad assembly. The keypad assembly has a plurality of depressible keys and a touch sensitive pad disposed over at least one of the depressible keys.... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080106521 - Computer input system including finger stylus: A contact device typically embodied in a finger stylus is part of an overall input system for computer touch screens. Said contact device comprises a generally short, firm extension element having a distal end for establishing brief but discrete contact with the computer touch screen and is to be used,... Agent: Law Office Of Polly L. Oliver

20080106523 - Ergonomic lift-clicking method and apparatus for actuating home switches on computer input devices: This invention introduces lift-clicking, a gentle method of clicking that utilizes light touch home sensors on the mouse and other computer input devices. It can be used either to replace the prior art depression-type mouse button with a home touch surface and a light touch or proximity sensor, or to... Agent: Richard H. Conrad

20080106522 - Lead wire connection method for touch panel: In a method for connecting lead wires to a touch panel, the method includes the steps of: providing through holes 9a to 9d the number of which corresponds to the number of electrode ends by perforation in a lower electrode plate 3; using a metal-pin 11 having a pin-shaft 11b... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080106520 - Touch location sensing system and method employing sensor data fitting to a predefined curve: Methods and devices for determining the location of a touch implement relative to a touch locating sensing device involve developing touch signals at a touch sensor in response to a touch implement on or near the touch surface. Data associated with the touch signals is fitted to a predefined curve.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080106524 - Method for scroll bar control on a touchpad: In a method for scroll bar control on a touchpad, the fingers touching on the touchpad are detected to start up and terminate a scroll bar control function. In the scroll bar control function, the movement of the finger or fingers touching on the touchpad is detected for scrolling on... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080106525 - Method of employing a switch assembly to provide input, and handheld electronic device: An improved method of employing a switch assembly for use in providing input to a handheld electronic device comprises employing a capacitive sensing system having a capacitive slider input device that detects navigational inputs. The switch assembly further provides a pair of switches mounted to the slider on an underside... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080106526 - Touch on-screen display control device and control method therefor and liquid crystal display: A touch on-screen display (OSD) control device and a control method therefor and a liquid crystal display (LCD) are provided, wherein a sensing control module and a display control module disposed on the LCD are used to sense and analyze a user's operations, so as to enable the user to... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080106527 - Waveguide configurations for minimising substrate area: The invention describes various optical waveguide layouts with reduced substrate area, with particular application to reducing bezel width in optical touch systems. In certain preferred embodiments the optical waveguide layouts include a plurality of waveguide crossings.... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080106528 - Surface acoustic wave touch panel with interdigital transducers: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) touch panel with interdigital transducers (IDTs) includes a panel having a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, a X-axis transmitting transducer, a X-axis receiving transducer, a Y-axis transmitting transducer, a Y-axis receiving transducer and a plurality of reflector structures... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080106532 - Display device: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a driving voltage line that is formed in the display area; a first driver that is attached to the peripheral area; and a driving voltage transferring unit that transfers a driving... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080106529 - Processing methods and systems for drivers: Methods for processing a driver in a portable electronic device are provided. The driver drives the portable electronic device and is stored in a storage unit thereof. The portable electronic device is first coupled to a computer system. The storage unit turns to a storage device of the computer system... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080106530 - Video composition optimization by the identification of transparent and opaque regions: According to some embodiments a method is provided to scan a first row of a display plane, determine that the first row of the display plane includes a non-transparent pixel, indicate the first row has a non-transparent pixel; and composite the first row of the display plane.... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080106531 - Wallpaper for electronic devices: Methods, apparatuses, and machine readable media relating to background images are described herein. An apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a processor for causing a display to display a main image and a memory for storing a plurality of background images. The processor is arranged to cause the display to display... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080106533 - Apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens: An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a screen generating module that generates a logical screen including at least one of a background still image, a video raster, and a graphic raster, each represented... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080106534 - Display apparatus: An active matrix display apparatus is disclosed which can achieve significant improvement in uniformity. The display apparatus uses a horizontal driving circuit to which a precharge function is provided additionally. The horizontal driving circuit applies double sampling pulses including first and second pulses to each sampling switch. The first pulse... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080106535 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed, which can decrease the number of source drive integrated circuits ICs used to supply data, and can also decrease a flexible printed circuit and a printed circuit board to supply signals to the source drive integrated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080106536 - Display system with digital signal processor unit and related display method: An exemplary display system (2) includes a display device (23), an image sensor (20), and a microprocessor unit (21). The image sensor includes an image sensor unit (24) and a digital signal processor unit (22) integrated therein. The image sensor unit is configured for generating a current. The digital signal... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080106538 - Display device with improved gradation expression and driving method of the same: A display device capable of expressing gradations with improved accuracy is presented. The device includes: a switching thin film transistor (TFT) and a driving TFT on an insulating substrate; a first electrode electrically connected with the driving TFT; a light emitting layer; a second electrode that supplies a common voltage... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080106539 - Power supply circuit for liquid crystal display device: An exemplary power supply circuit (3) for a liquid crystal display device includes an interface board (30) having a first DC/DC converter (32), and a power board (31) having an AC/DC converter (37), a second DC/DC converter (35), and an inverter (33). The AC/DC converter is configured for supplying a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080106537 - Process for monitor to operate in dpms mode: A process for a monitor working in a DPMS mode applies when a monitor ends a working mode and enters the DPMS mode. In the DPMS mode, when the signal processor of the monitor detects there is no signal input to the connecting interface, the signal processor will be off... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080106542 - Display system and method for driving the same: A display apparatus that can conserve power without compromising general display quality is presented. In a display system including a main control apparatus and a display apparatus, the main control apparatus generates an image control signal having an image data, and a main clock signal that changes from a first... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080106541 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of common electrodes, pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, a common electrode driving circuit, and a data line driving circuit. When a predetermined number of scanning lines away from the one of the odd... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080106540 - Over-driving compensation method to shorten the response time of a tn/stn passive matrix liquid crystal display: The present invention discloses an over-driving compensation method to shorten the response time of a passive matrix liquid crystal display, wherein N frames are arranged into a super-frame; the data of the current frame is compared with the data of the previous frame; once the data of the current frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080106543 - Power supply switching circuit capable of voltage regulation and flat panel display using same: An exemplary power supply switching circuit (200) includes a first input (210) for receiving a first signal, a second input (220) for receiving a second signal, a voltage regulating circuit (240), and a signal switching circuit (250). The voltage regulating circuit includes semiconductor elements (241) electrically coupled in series. The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080106544 - Motion detection apparatus and method applied to liquid crystal display device: A motion detection method and an apparatus applied to a liquid crystal display device, are such that the method utilizes the steps of storing a first frame image in a storage unit at a first time, receiving the first frame image and a second frame image which is received at... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080106545 - Simulating cultural communications: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, one or more portable electronic devices may be used to simulate cultural communications.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080106546 - Method and device for generating 3d images: A method for generating three-dimensional images based on a sequence of two-dimensional images is characterized by the steps of: analyzing a two-dimensional image with respect to its scene type, selecting a deformation assigned to the defined scene type with which the two-dimensional image is deformed, deforming the two-dimensional image and... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080106547 - Method of generating mesh for analysis: It is possible to automatically correct a six-plane body mesh pattern so as to satisfy the required quality. A device for generating a mesh pattern for analysis comprises: surface mesh generating device for generating a surface mesh pattern of an analysis object by acquiring shape model data on the analysis... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080106548 - Continuous random access points: Techniques for providing a refresh of a scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a scene is divided into a plurality of fragments, and successive fragments comprising the plurality of fragments are transmitted in a refresh stream. In such cases, each fragment comprises a subset that includes fewer than all of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080106549 - Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping: An invention is provided for rendering using an omnidirectional light. A shadow cube texture map having six cube faces centered by a light source is generated. Each cube face comprises a shadow texture having depth data from a perspective of the light source. In addition, each cube face is associated... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080106550 - Image data display apparatus: A controller 103, based on the positional information of the display image, selects whether the 3-dimensional image data decoded by a decoder 102 is displayed stereoscopically (in 3-dimensional display mode) or planarly (in 2-dimensional display mode) and gives notice of the selected display mode to a display portion 104. Specifically,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080106551 - Rendering apparatus, method and medium: A rendering method, medium and apparatus for sequentially performing one or more third raster operations to test whether a fragment can be displayed as a pixel after sequentially performing one or more second raster operations to test whether the fragment can be displayed as the pixel, so as to provide... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080106552 - Deferred page faulting in virtual memory based sparse texture representations: A virtually-addressed local texture memory stores selected regions (a sparse representation) of a texture for use by a graphics processor. The graphics processor requests a texel of the texture by referencing a virtual address of the texel. A memory interface references an address map to determine whether the requested texel... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080106553 - Apparatus and method for displaying picture in portable terminal: Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying a picture in a portable terminal. The method includes identifying a visibility color quality corresponding to the external brightness upon sensing of generation of a visibility control event, identifying external brightness, identifying a set color quality that is a color quality currently... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080106554 - Organic light emitting diode pixel circuit and brightness control method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit and a brightness control method thereof. When the voltage across the source and drain of the driving transistor is fixed, the brightness of the OLED achieves a predetermined brightness for a specific gray level (e.g. white level) as being controlled by the... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080106555 - Method and apparatus for driving display panel: An apparatus configured to drive a display panel by applying voltages of one or more levels to each of a plurality of electrode lines is disclosed. The apparatus includes first control switches configured to control a connection between a power source of a first level and each of the electrode... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080100532 - Presentation apparatus with broadcasting function and method using the same: A presentation apparatus includes: a communication connection establishing unit establishing a communication connection with a plurality of receiving terminals and a source terminal, the source terminal having a token corresponding to an authority of controlling a presentation; a presentation data relay unit receiving presentation data from the source terminal, broadcasting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100533 - Adaptive emission frame projection display and method: A projection image display system includes a plurality of emission sources and a power controller capable of programmable emission frame cycles. The power controller can program each of the emission sources to enhance the display performance of incoming video.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080100534 - Switch: An imaging apparatus and method include a pixel and a two point switching element.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100536 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel and a filter positioned in front of the plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate on which an upper dielectric layer is positioned, first and second electrodes positioned between the front... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100537 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode intersecting the first electrode and the second electrode and a driver. At least one of the first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100538 - Method and apparatus for driving address electrodes in plasma display panel: A method for driving M address electrodes included in a plasma display panel in an address period for selecting specific discharge cells from discharge cells of N rows and M columns that applies a driving voltage rising in two stages from a reference voltage to an address voltage to the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080100539 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel comprises a front substrate, a rear substrate, and a barrier rib. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed in the front substrate. A third electrode intersecting the first electrode and the second electrode is disposed in the rear substrate. A barrier rib partitions at... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100540 - Electroluminescent display: An electroluminescent display includes an electroluminescent panel, and at least one brightness enhanced film. The electroluminescent panel has a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least one illumination surface. The brightness enhanced film is disposed on the at least one illumination surface. The brightness enhanced film has a plurality of micro... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100541 - Organic light emitting diode pixel circuit: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit includes a first switch, a second switch, an energy storage element and an OLED. The first switch is controlled by a scan signal to transmit a data signal or not. The second switch provides a current to turn on the OLED. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080100542 - Electro-luminescent display with voltage adjustment: An active matrix electro-luminescent display system, comprising: a display composed of an array of regions of light-emitting elements, pixel driving circuits for independently controlling the current to each light-emitting element, one or more display drivers for receiving an input image signal for data to drive the pixel driving circuits and... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080100544 - Display units and display panels: A display unit and a display panel are provided. In the display panel, uneven images caused by the electrical difference between driving transistors within the display unit are prevented through increasing the number of switch elements within the display unit and the number of scan signals and controlling data signals.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100545 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display includes a first driving device that includes a first control electrode supplied with a voltage from a first node, and switches a current path between a second node and a third node in accordance with a voltage of the first node; a second driving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080100546 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprising a display unit and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided in a backlight that illuminates the display unit, the display apparatus includes: a power supplier; a current detector which detects a value of a current flowing in each of the LEDs; a current adjusting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100547 - Lcd based environment scanner and 3-d display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device (100) has the dual functionality of image display and environment scanning. Specifically, during environment scanning mode, the LCD device searches for targets, i.e., markers (700) in the environment. To enable such scanning, the LC layer (20) is configured to provide a scanning optical path... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080100550 - Liquid crystal display device and method of controlling the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a driver that drives the liquid crystal panel, an input unit that inputs an option signal from outside the liquid crystal device, a controller that controls the driver and performs an option function corresponding to the option signal, and a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080100548 - Monitor apparatus for a vehicle: The present invention relates to a monitor apparatus for a vehicle. The monitor apparatus is configured such that the LCD monitor protrudes from a case inside a shelf by sliding out through a transfer device. According to the present invention, the monitor apparatus slides in and out by means of... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080100551 - Color liquid crystal display apparatus: Disclosed is a color liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus employing a transmissive color liquid crystal display panel. The apparatus includes, as a light source, a main white light source (21) having a three wavelength phosphorescent lamp emitting light with three or more wavelengths, and an auxiliary light source (22) having... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080100553 - Driving system and multi-gamma driving method for lcd panel: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same. The steps of the method contains: (1) upgrade the frame rate up to p/q times (p, q are natural numbers and p>q) and produce a series of output frames; (2) conduct grey level... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080100554 - Image display device, image display method, image display program, recording medium containing image display program, and electronic apparatus: An image display device corrects image data, which are used for displaying an image, using a gray scale value assigned to each pixel and also controls the amount of source light emitted from a light source. The image display device includes a source light amount control device and an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080100555 - Array substrate and display panel having the same: An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a thin film transistor (TFT), a pixel electrode and a storage line. The pixel electrode includes a main pixel electrode and a sub pixel electrode partly surrounding at least a portion of the main pixel electrode. The storage line includes... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080100556 - Method of layout of a driving chip of a liquid crystal display and related liquid crystal display: A method of layout of a driving chip of an LCD, for reducing a size of the LCD, includes forming a first pin group including a plurality of pins utilized for outputting gate driving signals along a first direction, forming a second pin group including a plurality of pins utilized... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100557 - Driving circuit, driving method, and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary driving circuit (20) includes: gate lines (23); data lines (24); pixel units (240); a gate driving circuit (21); a data driving circuit (22); a signal output circuit configured for providing a set of signals in each frame, each signal in the set of signals selectively being a black... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080100531 - Display control program executed in game machine: In a game machine, image display not giving the player a feeling of oddness or disadvantage during game progress even if a non-display at a physical distance is present between different display screen areas. The game machine executes program for controlling image display of first and second display screens on... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080100535 - Filter, plasma display device thereof, and related technologies: A display apparatus includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and a filter. The PDP has a display surface, and the filter has a panel side facing the display surface of the PDP and an opposing viewer side facing away from the display surface. The filter includes a base unit. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080100543 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which has a drive transistor, an organic EL element and a writing capacitor, in which the drive transistor controls a luminous time period of the organic EL element by a writing signal voltage and a sweep signal so that the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080100549 - Gamma correction device and gamma correction method for liquid crystal dispaly device: A gamma correction device for a liquid crystal display device including LCD panels. The gamma correction device includes a storage device for storing gamma correction data corresponding to chiral directions of LCD panels. A chiral direction data acquisition circuit acquires chirality data on the chiral direction of a LCD panel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080100552 - Display element, method for driving the same, and information display system including the same: The invention relates to a display element, an element drive method, and an information display system having the element, and has an object to provide a display element capable of stably acting even if a received electric power reduces, a method for driving the element, and an information display system... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080100558 - Driving apparatus: A driving apparatus suitable for driving a display panel which includes a plurality of gate lines is provided. The driving apparatus includes a driving unit and a voltage detecting unit. The driving unit is used to generate a plurality of output signals, so as to drive the gate lines with... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080100559 - Integrated line selection apparatus within active matrix arrays: An integrated line selection apparatus within active matrix arrays is described. The circuit includes multiple gate line drive transistor devices, each gate line drive transistor device having a drain coupled to a gate line of multiple gate lines in a gate line driver circuit coupled to an active matrix array... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100560 - Gate driving circuit, display apparatus having the same, and method thereof: In a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus having the gate driving circuit, a pull-up transistor of a present stage among plural stages, which are connected one after another to each other and sequentially output a gate signal, pulls up a present gate signal output through an output terminal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080100562 - Color liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A color liquid crystal display including a back light module and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel disposed thereon is provided. The back light module has a plurality of light sources emitting different kinds of color lights. The LCD panel includes an active device array substrate, an opposition substrate, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080100563 - Light device and control method thereof: Provided is a light device. The light device comprises a backlight unit, a multi-sensor unit, a backlight driving unit, and a backlight control unit. The backlight unit comprises light emitting diode devices to provide light. The multi-sensor unit is included in a light emission region of the backlight unit and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080100561 - System and method for managing led backlight performance in a display: Display backlight illumination provided from LEDs is managed by automatically identifying and compensating for LED failures. Shorts in one or more LEDs of an LED string are identified by comparing the drop in voltage across the LED string against an expected drop in voltage and are compensated for by increasing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080100564 - Color display with polarization-type molecular switch: An electronically addressable display comprises a substrate, at least one polarization-type, electrical field switchable molecular colorant associated with the substrate, and an addressing device mounted for selectively switching the at least one molecular colorant between at least two visually distinguishable states. Electronic devices including the electronically addressable displays and methods... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100565 - Electrophoretic display and the manufacturing method thereof: An elecotrophoretic display device includes a first substrate, a gate line formed on the first substrate, a data line crossing the gate line to form a defined area, a source electrode connected to the data line, a drain electrode facing the source electrode to define a channel area, a color... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080100566 - Electrooptic device and electronic apparatus: An electrooptic device having an image display period and an information gathering period includes a panel unit and a data processing unit. The panel unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrooptic material interposed between the first and second substrates, a plurality of first scan lines provided above... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080100567 - Display with a linear driving device: A display with a linear driving device comprises a base, a driving device, and a display. In assembly, the driving device is mounted on the base, and then the display is fixed on a mover of the linear motor of the driving device. The user can use remote control or... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080100568 - Electronic device providing tactile feedback: An electronic device (100) provides tactile feedback provided by a low cost, thin piezoelectric actuator (142) giving tactile feedback emulating a click like feed. The electronic device (100) comprises a chassis plate (122) having a periphery secured to a housing (102, 104) and comprising a flexible material having a first... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080100571 - Human interface device: A human interface device 10 including a base member 12 having a first 16 and second 18 surface, wherein the first surface 16 is an upper surface and is shaped and dimensioned to be received by a palmer aspect of a user's one hand (not shown), a plurality of sensors... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080100569 - Optical jog wheel: A user navigational apparatus. The user navigational apparatus includes a code wheel and an encoder. The code wheel is coupled to a dial. The code wheel includes a track of alternating reflective and non-reflective sections. The optical reflective encoder includes an emitter and a detector. The emitter generates a light... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080100570 - Augmented-reality system for situation-related support of the interaction between a user and an engineering apparatus: The invention relates to an augmented-reality system having a mobile apparatus for the context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions. The context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions with process-optimized allocation of the necessary work steps provides situation-related support by for work sequences.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080100572 - Touchless user interface for a mobile device: A sensory device (200) for providing a touchless user interface to a mobile device (100) is provided. The sensory device can include at least one appendage (210) having at least one sensor (220) that senses a finger (232) within a touchless sensing space (101), and a connector (230) for communicating... Agent: Marc Boillot

20080100573 - Compact ergonomic computer mouse: A compact ergonomic mouse comprises a thumb side with a thumb engaging portion, a finger side with a finger engaging portion, a top with a button, a bottom, a front, and a rear. The distance between a distal end of the button and a rear of the thumb engaging portion... Agent: Jack Lo

20080100574 - Display cursor control device with enhanced multiple dimensional tilt angle operation: A data-handling and processing system includes an image-display cursor-control device for controlling an image display cursor of an image display. The system is further operated a pad for placing and moving the image-display cursor-control device and the pad has a curved surface. The image-display cursor-control device further includes an accelerometer... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080100575 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless optical mouse comprises an optical movement detection module, a movement detection module, and a control module. The optical movement detection module emits light to detect movement of the wireless optical mouse. The movement detection module has a lower accuracy and consumes less power than the optical movement detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100576 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless mouse comprises a movement detection module that detects movement of the wireless mouse. A detection module detects at least one of movement and usage of the wireless mouse during operation. The detection module consumes power at a slower rate than the movement detection module. A control module selectively... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100577 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless optical mouse comprises an optical movement detection module that emits light to detect movement of the wireless optical mouse. A touch detection module detects user contact with the wireless optical mouse. A control module selectively stops detecting movement of the wireless optical mouse using the optical movement detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100578 - Data input arrangement with multi-facet shaped keys: A data input arrangement includes an array of input keys extending across a typing surface. At least one of the input keys includes a first viewable surface displaying a first set of input data and a second viewable surface angled relative to the first viewable surface. The second viewable surface... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080100580 - Keypad assembly: Disclosed is a keypad assembly including a keypad; a touch sensor having a light-guiding plate, the touch sensor being positioned beneath the keypad so as to reflect light incident on the light-guiding plate towards the keypad; and a switch member positioned beneath the touch sensor. The keypad assembly can provide... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080100579 - Keyboard system with automatic correction: There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to automatically correct inaccuracies in user keystroke entries on reduced keyboards such as those implemented on a touch-sensitive panel or display screen, or on mechanical keyboard systems. A method and system are defined which determine one or more... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080100583 - Data input arrangement with a perch: A data input arrangement includes an array of input keys arranged on a surface; and a perch at least partially extending between first and second rows of the array substantially parallel to one of the first and second rows. The perch extends away from the surface above each of the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080100581 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation and selective disabling of frequency learning: 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 is likely to have intended... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080100582 - Method of indicating additional character combination choices on a handheld electronic device and associated apparatus: A method and associated apparatus for indicating additional character combination choices from a disambiguation function on a handheld electronic device.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080100585 - mobile communication terminal: A method for controlling selection of list items displayed in a list element having one user operation mode on a touch sensitive display of an apparatus further including a controller, the touch sensitive display being configured to detect user input actions via a writing tool, the method includes detecting a... Agent: Perman & Green

20080100589 - Bezel assembly for assembling touch panel with lcd device: A bezel assembly for assembling a touch panel with a LCD device includes an open-bottom integrating case having a front panel defining a central opening, a pair of first side supports downward extended from two opposite ends of the front panel, and a pair of second side supports downward extended... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080100590 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a sensing electrode disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate, and at least one touch sensor protrusion... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080100586 - Method and system for calibrating a touch screen: A method for calibrating a touch screen. Method may be comprised of determining an area for a region suitable for receiving, excluding activations determined to be located within a defined distance from the outer edge of the area determined for the region, accumulating a pattern of activations for a centroid... Agent: Deere & Company

20080100584 - Sanitizing a touch panel surface: A touch panel system that sanitizes a touch panel surface includes a substrate coupled to the touch panel surface. The system further includes an impedance interface coupled to the touch panel surface and a vibration source coupled to the impedance interface. The vibration source vibrates the substrate to generate pressure... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080100588 - Tactile-feedback device and method: A tactile-feedback device configured to enable a user to perceive a state of contact with a virtual object includes a plurality of stimulation generating units attached to a user body and a control unit configured to cause the plurality of stimulation generating units to generate stimulations different from each other... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080100587 - Touch sensor, touch pad and input device: A touch sensor includes a contact sensor and a pressure sensor. The contact sensor includes a first electrode and a first switching element connected to the first electrode, and detects a change in an electric potential when an object contacts a surface. The pressure sensor includes a second electrode and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080100591 - In-vehicle apparatus and control method of in-vehicle apparatus: An in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100592 - Touch panel input device: A touch panel input device of the invention has a panel, an X-line electrode (first electrodes) arranged on a front surface side of the panel, a Y-line electrode (second electrodes) disposed on the back surface side and shifted in planar position relative to the X-line electrode. The device detects whether... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080100593 - Light sensitive display interface for computing devices: According to one or more embodiments, a variation is detected in light that is cast over a display interface of a computing device. A characteristic of the light variation is identified. From this characteristic, a determination is made as to whether the variation in light is to be interpreted as... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080100594 - Information input device: An information input device (1) includes a touch panel (2), an image display (6), and a sensor section (12) for detecting touched contact positions on the touch panel (2). A detection region of the touch panel (2), surrounded by the sensor section (12), is divided into a rectangular main region... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080100596 - Digital photo frame with monthly calendar: A digital photo frame with a monthly calendar includes: at least one storage device for storing a digital photo or image, a processing unit for processing the digital photo stored in the storage device; a time unit for providing a function of calculating a current date and time, the current... Agent: Hdsl

20080100600 - Display systems: Driving methods for display panels are provided, in which a Kth row of pixels in a pixel array is driven during a first period, and a K+1th row of pixels in the pixel array is driven during a second period. A control clock applied for a charge pump is toggled... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100599 - Flat display device and method of driving the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a flat display device which achieves an excellent and stable display even when the periodicity of voltage polarity is switched at the beginning of a frame at the time of driving a signal line while providing a periodicity of every M... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100601 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same include a display panel which has a first and a second surface facing each other, a plurality of first pixels which display an image on the first surface and a plurality of second pixels which display an image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080100597 - Method and apparatus to improve playability in overscan areas of a tv display: A television (TV) monitor or receiver normally displays only the active portion of a video signal, and generally the HBI (horizontal blanking interval) and/or the VBI (vertical blanking interval) are not displayed. In some TV displays however, there is provision to display at least a portion of a blanking interval... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080100595 - Method for eliminating power-off residual image in a system for displaying images: A method of eliminating power-off residual image for a system for displaying images is disclosed, including detecting the end of a final frame by checking a data enable pulse signal, wherein the data enable pulse signal comprises pulses each controlling display of one line of a frame, and generating a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100598 - System and method for providing dynamic refresh rates for displays: A system and method for providing dynamic refresh rates for displays is disclosed. According to one aspect of the disclosure, an information handling system can include a refresh rate processing module coupled to a memory operable to store video display content. The information handling system can further include a display... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080100604 - Driving circuit for liquid crystal display and burning system for burning same: An exemplary driving circuit (20) for an LCD includes a driving chip (22) configured to drive the LCD, a flexible printed circuit (23) electrically connected to the driving chip and an identification register (24). The identification register is located on the flexible printed circuit and stores identification information distinguishing the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080100603 - Driving method of liquid crystal display apparatus and driving circuit of the same: An output circuit of a data driver in a liquid crystal display apparatus conducts a dot inversion driving method. The output circuit includes amplifiers that output the data signals on data lines, switches that separate the data lines from the amplifiers and short/precharge circuit that shorts the lines between the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100602 - Liquid-crystal display apparatus and line driver: A liquid-crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid-crystal panel that includes pixels that are arranged at positions where a plurality of row selection lines and a plurality of line selection lines intersect, the pixels being driven by activating thin-film transistors connected to the row selection lines and the line selection lines;... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080100605 - Display apparatus, data driver and method of driving display panel: A display apparatus includes a display panel; and a data driver configured to output drive voltages from a plurality of output nodes to drive the display panel. The data driver includes a plurality of output amplifiers, each of which is configured to receive a gradation voltage corresponding to a pixel... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100607 - Plasma display, and driving device and method thereof: A driver circuit for a plasma display panel is disclosed. The circuit drives the panel using low supply voltage to reduce cost. The circuit sequentially charges and discharges capacitors to provide signals to the panel during reset, address, and sustain periods.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080100606 - Reducing power during idle state: Included are systems and methods for reducing power consumption in a computer system. At least one embodiment of a method, among others, includes processing data in a normal mode, receiving an indication of a transition into an idle mode, capturing at least one frame of display data, and transmitting the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100609 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device and the driving method thereof that is adaptive for increasing display quality. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel where pixels having an organic light emitting diode device are arranged in a matrix type and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080100608 - Signal regulator module and related display device: A signal regulator module includes a floating current regulator, a signal sensor, and a feedback controller. The floating current regulator is electrically coupled to a driving circuit and the light sources of a display panel for regulating the driving signals based on a feedback signal in a photo couple means.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100611 - Closed-loop integrity monitor: Provided are systems and methods for operating an avionics component to a given level of certification. Steps of the method include: receiving data from a sensor and sending the data to at least two components, a data monitor and an integrity monitor, the data monitor operating at a first level... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080100610 - Image processing device and computer-readable medium storing program: Referring to contents of a user information storage, an MFP information storage, an API information storage and the like, whether or not an API is available is determined, an unexecutable function of an application due to unavailability of the API is determined, and a display way for displaying a list... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080100612 - User interface for efficiently displaying relevant oct imaging data: The present invention is an OCT imaging system user interface for efficiently providing relevant image displays to the user. These displays are used during image acquisition to align patients and verify acquisition image quality. During image analysis, these displays indicate positional relationships between displayed data images, automatically display suspicious analysis,... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080100613 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphics data to minimize power consumption: A method, medium, and system rendering 3D graphics data. The method includes selecting objects to render from graphic data that have rendering results of a current frame that are different from rendering results of a previous frame, setting an operational voltage and an operational frequency based on the selected objects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100614 - Method for graphically representing the surroundings of a motor vehicle: In a method for graphically representing the surroundings of a motor vehicle, whereby graphical elements, which serve to assist the driver in interpreting the spatial information, contained in the scene image, are superimposed on a scene image, which represents a three dimensional surrounding scene of the surroundings of the motor... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080100615 - Sweep with guide surface: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to conduct a sweep operation in a computer-implemented solid modeling system, A 3D non-planar surface is created. A path for a sweep operation is created. A profile for the sweep operation is created. The 3D surface is selected for use... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080100616 - Method for converting two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional solid model and method for converting attribute: The invention provides a method for creating a three-dimensional solid model from a two-dimensional projection drawing created on a CAD screen via a simple operation. Reference points P1, P100 and P200 are respectively selected on a front view, a plan view and a right side view of a CAD screen.... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080100618 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphic object: A method, medium, and system rendering a 3-dimensional (3D) object, with the method of rendering a 3D object including generating a scanline of a primitive forming the 3D object, removing some pixels included in the generated scanline in consideration of visibility, thereby reconstructing scanlines, and determining the color of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100617 - Simultaneous simulation of markov chains using quasi-monte carlo techniques: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer software/computer code products operable to enable computer graphics systems to more efficiently simulate Markov chains (and thus trajectories of photons and the like) comprise simulating, and/or means for simulating, Markov chains using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology, wherein the simulating of Markov chains comprises sorting states,... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080100619 - Mesh generation method and computer-readable article for executing the method: A method for generating meshes and a computer-readable article for executing the method are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: generating a plurality of hexahedral meshes for a model; creating a runner for the model; generating a plurality of meshes for the runner; and modifying the runner meshes located... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080100620 - Image processor, game machine and image processing method: An image processing technology for displaying a real object and a virtual object associated with each other is provided. An image analysis apparatus according to the present invention changes a motion pattern of the virtual object depending on the actual movement of the real object. The change detector 110 detects... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080100621 - System and method for coronary segmentation and visualization: A method of coronary vessel segmentation and visualization includes providing a digitized coronary image, placing a plurality of seed points along an estimated centerline of a coronary vessel, selecting a seed point and constructing a cyclic graph around the seed point in a plane perpendicular to the centerline at the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080100622 - Capturing surface in motion picture: Capturing a surface in motion picture, including: covering a surface with a pattern formed of a marking material; acquiring a sequence of image frames, each image frame of the sequence including a plurality of images of the pattern covering the surface; deriving a mesh object from the plurality of images... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080100623 - Determination of unicode points from glyph elements: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for determining Unicode points from glyph elements are provided. The tools may receive indications of commands that relate to text containing glyphs. Responding to the commands, the tools may convert the glyphs to corresponding Unicode representations. The tools may also provide glyph substitution tables that... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080100624 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: It is determined whether the size of an outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than a predetermined size. If it is determined that the size of the outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than the predetermined size, image data is generated by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080100625 - Forecast weather video presentation system and method: A system and method for generating a realistic weather forecast visualization. Realistic weather graphics and animations are combined with a few of view of location of interest to allow weather presentation viewers to visualize future forecast weather conditions as the would actually be seen. A forecast weather video presentation may... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20080100626 - Network distributed physics computations: An application executing on a rendering computer invokes a physics function request, e.g., to model the movement and interaction of objects to be rendered. The physics function request specifies a physics function to be performed on input data. Physics function request data is formatted for transmission over a network. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080100627 - Processing of 3-dimensional graphics: A graphic rendering pipeline has a number of different rendering units and receives fragments for rendering. A renderer stated word cache is used to store rendering state data to be used to configure the rendering units when they render a fragment. Each rendering unit includes a functional block which carries... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080100628 - Single precision vector permute immediate with \"word\" vector write mask: The present invention is generally related to integrated circuit devices, and more particularly, to methods, systems and design structures for the field of image processing, and more specifically to an instruction set for processing images. Vector processing may involve performing a plurality of permute operations to arrange vector operands in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080100629 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on a cpu/gpu fusion-type chip and/or multiple gpus supported on an external graphics card: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on a hybrid CPU/GPU fusion-architecture chip and/or on an external graphics card, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080100630 - Game console system capable of paralleling the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) employing using a graphics hub device supported on a game console board: A game console system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on game console board, using a graphics hub device, and a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem supporting multiple modes of parallel operation and having software and hardware implemented components. The game console system includes... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080100631 - Method and system for blu-ray/hd-dvd chip: In one embodiment, there is presented an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a transport processor and a host processor. The transport processor parses a media stream. The host processor determines whether a media stream is Blu-ray or HD-DVD and configures the transport processor based on whether the media stream... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080100632 - Digital photo frame for saving power: A digital photo frame includes: at least one storage device for storing a digital photo; a display device for displaying the digital photo; a light-sensing component disposed on the display device, and for detecting an intensity of environmental brightness and sending a signal; and a processing unit for processing the... Agent: Hdsl

20080100633 - Microdisplay and interface on a single chip: A microdisplay having interface circuitry on the same silicon backplane to allow it to receive digital images and video in a variety of formats and convert same to field sequential color signals for generation of full color images. It includes column data processors having a comparator for each block of... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080100634 - Data transfer circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit equipped with data transfer circuit: A data transfer circuit that transfers a first kind of data stored in an external memory circuit includes: an internal memory circuit that is capable of, by an external circuit, writing and/or rewriting a second kind of data including information for one region as a transfer source in the external... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080100635 - System for interleaved storage of video data: A method for reading atoms positioned within a memory having a first memory portion and a second memory portions, comprising the steps of (a) positioning the atoms having memory addresses across the memory, (b) defining a strip across a portion of the atoms, (c) designating a first atom within the... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080100636 - Systems and methods for low-power computer operation: A computer system having low-power operation includes a controller in communication with a first storage device and a second storage device. The controller can be configured to periodically retrieve dynamic frame data from a first storage device during a time period when the computer system is not in an idle... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100637 - Providing for application integrity, improved start-up time, and reduced memory utilitization in a safety-critical graphics processing environment: At least one of graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included within application logic. At least one of the graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included in the program address space of a graphics driver.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080100638 - Display apparatus and method capable of rotating an image: A system for translating a portrait-oriented software address to a portrait-oriented yet landscape-configured display address. Based on the orientation of a display device, an address translation system either passes the software address “as is” or translates the address to represent a portrait-oriented display address. An address generator operates alternatively in... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080100639 - System and method for computing color correction coefficients: System and method for computing coefficients for color correcting rendered colors used in displaying images. A preferred embodiment comprises measuring color values of light output for a display system, receiving color values of desired colors, and computing a color correction matrix based on the measured color values and the input... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080100640 - Graphics processing method and system: The embodiments discussed herein involve flood filling a region with anti-aliasing. In forming a fill region, a candidate pixel can be included in the region based on a color of the pixel and also a color of a neighbor of the point. The inclusion basis may be a color distance... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100641 - Image display adjustment system and method: An image display adjustment system comprises a display setup application executable by a processor and configured to, in response to detecting at least one characteristic associated with a display device, automatically cause an adjustment image to be displayed on the display device and an image adjustment process to be performed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100642 - User definable aspect ratios for image regions: The present invention discloses a method for adjusting an image displayed in a graphical user interface. The method can include a step of identifying an original region that is a visible rectangular region containing a displayed digital image. A user defined aspect ratio can be established using an aspect ration... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080100643 - Method and system for navigating within an image: The present invention relates to at least one image section which is represented according to a zoom factor selected from a number of different zoom factors. Either the represented image section is changed when the zoom factor is lower than a zoom threshold value, or a marker representation superimposing the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080100646 - Display device and display panel driver using grayscale voltages which correspond to grayscales: A display device includes: a display panel; at least one data-line drivers; and a plurality of operational amplifiers. The plurality of operational amplifiers is integrated in any of the at least one data-line driver and generates a plurality of reference voltages, respectively. The data-line driver includes: a driving circuit, a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100644 - Method and device for images brightness control, image processing and color data generation in display devices: The present invention is directed to methods and devices to increase the brightness of images in display devices. A white signal component is generated according to an input color signal, comprising primary signal components Red, Green and Blue. The generated white signal component and the primary signal components will be... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080100645 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device includes: an optical modulation element having a plurality of pixels; light sources illuminating the optical modulation element, each of which is independently controlled; a light source control value setting section setting control values for each of the light sources according to the grayscale of each pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC