Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 06/08

20080150837 - Plasma display apparatus: For providing a plasma display apparatus of driving a large-sized PDP thereof, with using a sustain discharge drive waveform for enabling to obtain a high light-emission efficiency, which is made up with a narrow-width pulse of high-voltage and a wide-width pulse of low-voltage accompanying with this, a sustain pulse, to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080150835 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising a plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a driver driving the plurality of scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, and a negative sustain pulse controller controlling the driver and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080150836 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus comprises a scan electrode and a sustain electrode; a data electrode for intersecting the scan electrode and the sustain electrode; and a pulse controller for controlling to apply a pulse having an opposite phase to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode during a reset period... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080150838 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display panel apparatus capable of displaying high-quality images with high luminous efficiency: Set-up, write, sustain and erase pulses are variously applied to a plasma display panel using a staircase waveform in which the rising or falling portion is in at least two steps. These staircase waveforms can be realized by adding at least two pulses. Use of such waveforms for the set-up,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (matsushita)

20080150839 - Controlling light emission in display device: A display device including a self-emissive type display element in each pixel, the display device further including a detection circuit for detecting light emission data which indicates an amount of light emission while sequentially illuminating only a particular one of pixels according to a particular luminance data; and a supply... Agent: Frank Pincelli, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080150840 - Plasma display panel and driving method thereof: Example embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods for driving a display device, having a display panel including a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes and a plurality of third electrodes formed crossing the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and a plurality of discharge cells formed by... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080150841 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A method of driving a plasma display panel and a plasma display panel are disclosed. The method includes driving the panel with a reset period, which is either a main reset period, during which a decreasing pulse is applied to Y electrodes after increasing the pulse from a first voltage... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080150843 - Display apparatus and fabrication method for display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed in a matrix; a driving wiring line to which the pixel circuits are connected; and a plurality of signal lines wired so as to cross with the driving wiring line and having the pixel circuits connected; the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080150842 - Image display apparatus: There is provided an image display apparatus having: display devices; a spacer; and a drive circuit. The drive circuit has a first correction circuit that corrects inputted data to make it linear with luminance and a second correction circuit. The second correction circuit has a calculation circuit for calculating an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150844 - Organic light emitting diode display: An OLED display having a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, an OLED adapted to emit images, a driving switching element adapted to supply the OLED with a driving current, a storage element having a first electrode and a second electrode, a first switching element having... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080150845 - Display device: A state of a deterioration (resistance change) of a display element is detected by a detecting unit through a switch and a detecting switch connected to a current source. On the basis of a detection result of the detecting unit, a display control unit corrects display data which is supplied... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080150846 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display including a scan signal line forwarding a scan signal, a data line sending a data signal and a pixel coupled to the scan signal line and the data line, the organic light emitting diode display, wherein the pixel includes a first switching transistor transmitting a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080150849 - Line head and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: In a line head, a plurality of element arrays arranged in a first direction. Each array includes a plurality of light emission elements arrayed in a second direction which is perpendicularly to the first direction. The light emission elements emit light for forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080150847 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display, suitable for a high quality and high resolution display device, rapidly charges a data voltage using a voltage programming technique, after compensating for a deviations in the threshold voltage and mobility of a driving transistor using a current programming technique. The organic light emitting display... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080150848 - Organic light-emitting diode panel and touch-screen system including the same: A display device includes a waveguide with a light propagating therein, and a panel including a first organic light-emitting device in a sub-pixel region and a second organic light-emitting device in a sensing region adjacent to the sub-pixel region, the first organic light-emitting device for displaying a data on the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080150850 - Brightness control method, color conversion apparatus implementing the same, and organic light emitting diode display using the same: A color conversion apparatus includes an extraction unit, a summer, a scale vector generation unit, and a multiplier. The extraction unit extracts first white component data and first primary color component data of gray scale, second white component data and second primary color component data of brightness scale in response... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080150851 - Display apparatus: The display apparatus includes a display panel for displaying thereon an image, a middle frame on which the display panel has been mounted, a rear frame in which the middle frame is arranged inside of the rear frame, and a front frame in which an opening portion for exposing a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150852 - Active matrix display devices: An active matrix display device, such as an AMLCD, having sets of row and column address conductors (18, 19) connected to a row and column array of picture elements (12) and drive means (21, 23, 25) for supplying selection and data signals to the sets of rows and column address... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150854 - Automobile digital display device: A digital display system designed to lie mounted on the exterior of a motorized vehicle, such as the front bumper of an automobile (see FIG. 1). The digital display system includes a monitor disposed within a frame secured to the vehicle. A controller is disposed within the passenger compartment of... Agent: Williamson Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080150853 - Backlight device and liquid crystal display incorporating the backlight device: A backlight device for providing backlighting to a liquid crystal display panel displaying a video image comprising a plurality of light emitting devices for providing backlighting to a liquid crystal display panel, a controller unit for receiving a video image and dividing the video image into a plurality of sub-images... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080150858 - Display driver circuit: In an output mode, an output switch (SW11) is turned on and supply switches (SW13a, SW13b) are turned off, and output current is supplied to an intermediate node (nc) from driving transistors (T105a, T105b). In a transition mode, the output switch (SW11) is turned off and the supply switches (SW13a,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080150857 - Display driving chip: Disclosed is a display driving chip of a semiconductor chip. According to an embodiment, the display driving chip comprises, input/output (I/O) pads each electrically connected to a lower interconnection on an active area, the I/O pads forming a perimeter on an inner peripheral surface of the active area, and dummy... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080150855 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a sensing device configured for sensing the presence or absence of a user and generating an indicating signal indicative of the presence or absence of the user, a controller configured to receive the indicating signal from the sensing device and produce a control signal in... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080150860 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof is disclosed, which is capable of removing afterimages from a screen when a power source is turned-off, the liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels defined by a plurality of gate and data lines... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080150859 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) device reduces the size of a liquid crystal (“LC”) panel by reducing the number of data voltage supply lines of the LC panel. The LCD device includes sub-pixels formed in a display area of a substrate, data lines formed in the display area in a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080150861 - Liquid crystal display having two or more cameras that can capture a wide range of video: An exemplary liquid crystal display (2) includes a first camera (23) configured for capturing video from a first orientation, a second camera (24) configured for capturing video from a second orientation different from the first orientation, and a capture circuit (20) electrically connected to the first and the second cameras.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080150856 - Liquid crystal display, connector and method of testing the liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal which self-generates a high voltage for a high voltage stress test, a connector for testing the liquid crystal display and a method of testing the liquid crystal display include an internal connector having an input pin which receives a power supply voltage from an outside source, a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080150862 - Lcd device capable of reducing line flicker and horizontal crosstalk for rgbw subpixel arrangement: An LCD device is disclosed. The LCD device includes an LCD panel, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The LCD panel includes a plurality of pixels, where each of the plurality of pixels has a plurality of subpixels corresponding to different colors and the plurality of subpixels... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080150863 - Transmissive-type liquid crystal display device: In a transmissive-type liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel and a backlight, the liquid crystal panel has pixels each divided into four subpixels red (R), green (G), blue (B), and white (W). The backlight is a white backlight by which luminance of emitted light is controllable. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080150864 - Displays with large dynamic range: The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for increasing a grey dynamic range of a display for displaying video data by providing a grey level, calculated for a reduced number of primary colors using a predetermined criterion, for each field of a frame set by... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080150865 - Lcd and drive method thereof: This invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and its driving method for improving a visual picture quality. A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment includes a liquid crystal display panel where plural pixels composed of sub-pixels arranged in a fixed pattern are arranged by the unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080150866 - Source driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A source driver that drives a plurality of source lines of an electro-optical device includes a grayscale voltage generation circuit that outputs first and second grayscale voltages corresponding to grayscale data, and a source line driver circuit that drives a source line among the plurality of source lines based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080150867 - Display device and electric apparatus using the same: An upper electrode substrate that is provided on a display surface side; and a reflecting sheet (back surface sheet) that is provided on a back surface side of the upper electrode substrate such that an upper space (display space) is formed between the upper electrode substrate and the reflecting sheet,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080150868 - Color passive matrix bistable liquid crystal display system and method for driving the same: This invention provides a color passive matrix bistable liquid crystal display system, in which one respective scan line corresponds to sub-pixels of same color and neighboring scan lines correspond to sub-pixels of different colors. The scan lines are grouped in accordance with the colors of the sub-pixels corresponding thereto such... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080150870 - Display device: An image display device includes a first display panel having a substrate with first scanning lines, first signal lines which intersect the first scanning lines, and first switching elements, a second display panel having another substrate with second scanning lines, second signal lines which intersect the second scanning lines, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080150869 - Display panel and plane display device using the same: A display panel and a plane display device applying the same are provided in the invention. Inside the display panel, the route of one data line changes from one column to another so as to connect with pixels in different columns. The data line also transmits data of pixels in... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080150871 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes pixel cells that can be dot-inverted by a row-inversion driving scheme. According to an embodiment of the invention, a liquid crystal display device includes a first data line, a second data line, a first gate line, a second gate line, a third gate line,... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080150872 - Output circuit and liquid crystal display device: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an output circuit including a first output unit supplying a first voltage, a second output unit supplying a second voltage, a switching unit selectively outputting, to an output end, the first voltage from the first output unit and the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080150873 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method of the same: A liquid crystal display device driven by a N-line inversion driving method, in which N odd horizontal lines and N even horizontal lines are alternately driven, wherein N is a natural number larger than 1, includes a liquid crystal panel including pixels, gate and data drivers providing gate driving signals... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080150874 - Flat display and method for driving flat display: The present invention is applied to e.g. a liquid crystal display. In the present invention, a plurality of signal lines are driven based on time division, and a part of voltage-dividing resistors used for generation of reference voltages V0 to V63, namely, resistors R0 and R54 to R63, is switched... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080150875 - Shift register and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary shift register (20) includes a plurality of shift register units (200). The shift register units receive a clock signal and an inverse clock signal and output a plurality of shift register signals in sequence. The outputs waveforms of pre-stage shift register unit and the rear-stage shift register unit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080150884 - Backlight control unit: According to one embodiment, a gain output of only light emitting elements positioning at a center portion of a light emitting element region of a light emitting portion is increased by a gain adjusting filter in a backlight control unit, and therefore, it becomes possible to decrease an output of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080150879 - Backlight unit and liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel; a liquid crystal driving part that processes an image signal input from an external source, drives the liquid crystal panel based on the image signal, and outputs an image information of the image signal; a light source part that provides a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080150882 - Color display device and method of operating the same: The color gamut of a image display device is improved by the introduction of a broad band stop filter in combination with a band pass filter, a first light field and a second light field. The first light field is generated by a first and a second light source, emitting... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150877 - Current-controlling apparatus: A current-controlling apparatus is suitable for controlling the current passing through a light emitting device string (LEDS), wherein an end of the LEDS is electrically connected to a first-voltage level. The current-controlling apparatus includes a current-adjusting unit and a control unit. The current-adjusting unit, electrically connected between a second-voltage level... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080150878 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus and method are provided, the display apparatus includes: a display part; a backlight unit which illuminates the display part locally; and a control part which controls the backlight unit to illuminate based on an input video signal, and changes a color information of the input video signal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080150881 - Flat panel display and driving method thereof: The present invention provides a flat panel display, which is characterized by comprising a display panel; a backlight assembly having a plurality of light-emitting sources arranged in a predetermined pattern; and a driving circuit coupled to the display panel and the backlight assembly. The driving circuit could be operative to... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20080150880 - Image displaying device and image displaying method: Crosstalk occurring in association with reduction of power consumed by the backlight module is stabilized. An input signal is processed by a signal processing circuit to be divided into an RGB backlight quantity and subpixel transmittance. Based on the quantity, a correction coefficient calculation circuit calculates a correction coefficient. A... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080150883 - Liquid crystal display apparatus, liquid-crystal-display controlling method, and computer program: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a liquid crystal display as a display unit, including the following elements: a backlight configured to illuminate the display unit from the back; and a controller configured to receive display-unit-brightness specifying information input from a user input unit and to adjust output of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150876 - Liquid crystal display with dynamic field emission device as backlight source thereof: A liquid crystal display using dynamic emission device as backlight source includes a field emission device and a liquid crystal panel. The field emission device is divided into plural field emission sections formed as a chessboard. The surface of the field emission device is attached to the liquid crystal panel.... Agent: Hdsl

20080150885 - Bi-stable display: A system comprises a rollable bi-stable display (RD), and a container for holding (HO) the rollable bi-stable display (RD) in a rolled up position, and for allowing the rollable bi-stable display (RD) to be unrolled., An addressing device (AD) locally addresses the rollable bi-stable display (RD) while being unrolled, while... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150887 - Electrophoretic display and driving method thereof: An electrophoretic display device sequentially driven during a data updating period when a data is updated and a sleep-mode period when a data is maintained includes an electrophoretic display panel including a plurality of data lines crossing a plurality of gate lines to form a plurality of cells, a plurality... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080150886 - Electrophoretic display panel: An electrophoretic display panel (1), comprises a plurality of picture elements (2); and drive means (100), for providing reset pulses prior to application of grey scale pulses and for providing shaking potential differences in between application of reset and grey scale potential differences. The display panel comprises two or more... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150888 - Electrostatically addressable electrophoretic display: Novel addressing schemes for controlling electronically addressable displays include a scheme for rear-addressing displays, which allows for in-plane switching of the display material. Other schemes include a rear-addressing scheme which uses a retroreflecting surface to enable greater viewing angle and contrast. Another scheme includes an electrode structure that facilitates manufacture... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080150892 - Collection browser for image items with multi-valued attributes: Disclosed is a method and interface for browsing a collection (201) of images (203-208) represented (200) on a display device (100, 314). The interface provides an ordered arrangement (201) of the images according to at least one specific attribute (Person) of the images. At least one of the images (205)... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150890 - Interactive video window: An interactive video window display system. A projector projects a visual image. A screen displays the visual image, wherein the projector projects the visual image onto a back side of the screen for presentation to a user on a front side of the screen, and wherein the screen is adjacent... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080150891 - Methods, apparatus, and article for force feedback based on tension control and tracking through cables: A haptic interface system includes a cable based haptic interface device and a controller. The controller receives information related to movement of a grip in real-space and generates a stereoscopic output for a display device. The stereoscopic output includes images of a virtual reality tool whose motions mimic motions of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080150889 - System and method for optimal viewing of computer monitors to minimize eyestrain: A system and method for helping ensure that a user of a computer is set up to optimally view the computer monitor under optimal conditions in order to minimize eyestrain. The system includes determining an optimal viewing distance and monitoring the distance of a user from the computer monitor during... Agent: Sherwyne Baker, O.d., Faao Executive Vice President, Panaseca, Inc.

20080150893 - Two-foot operated mouse: The present invention offers a two-foot operated device for controlling the movement of a computer cursor, wherein the first foot rotates a first roller to control the horizontal movement of said cursor and the second foot rotates a second roller to control the vertical movement of said cursor.... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080150894 - Four-direction switch device: A four-direction switch device is used for facilitating the user to operate an electronic apparatus in four directions. The four-direction switch device includes a three-direction switch element, a swing module and a unidirectional switch element. The three-direction switch element is triggered to generate a first direction switching signal, a second... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080150895 - Mouse device: A mouse device includes a main body and at least one mouse foot pad. The mouse foot pad is fixed on the lower surface of the main body. The mouse foot pad includes a first layer with first friction coefficient μ1 and a second layer with a second friction coefficient... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080150898 - Mouse having an optically-based scrolling feature: A peripheral input device for controlling movements on a display screen. The peripheral input device includes a housing and an optical touch pad carried by the housing. The optical touch pad is configured to translate finger motion into movements on the display screen.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080150896 - Optical mouse with selectable dual light source device and detection method for the same: The present invention discloses a selectable light source device for a dual light source optical mouse and a detecting method for the device. The optical input device such as an optical mouse is assembled with a dual light source. One of the dual light sources is selected as an emitting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080150897 - Optical structure for a laser input device: An optical structure of a laser input device includes an input device body; a laser source, inside the input device body to emit a laser light beam which travels linearly along a determined incident path to a work surface; a splitter, having a first interface and a second interface behind... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080150899 - Virtual workstation: In accordance with the present invention there is provided devices and methods for controlling a microprocessor controlled device in a virtual environment through the use of at least one sensor disposed at least one user's finger and a scanner, said sensor and scanner being utilized to input position data, the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080150900 - Image forming apparatus and method of displaying multilingual keyboard using the same: An image forming apparatus and method of displaying a multilingual keyboard uses an identifier of a language-specific entity, such as a country-code top-level domain of a domain name in an e-mail address to automatically output an input device configuration, such as a keyboard configuration, in accordance with stored keyboard table... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080150902 - Detecting and locating a touch or a tap on an input surface: A device may receive measurements from an accelerometer in relation to a tap on a surface. The device may process the measurements to obtain a signal that indicates an occurrence of the tap on the surface and may produce the location of the tap based on the processed measurements.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080150903 - Electronic apparatus with dual-sided touch device: An electronic apparatus with dual-sided touch device comprises a main body and a dual-sided touch device pivoted on the main body. The main body has a first case and a display panel disposed on one side surface of the first case. The dual-sided touch device has a second case and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080150905 - Feedback mechanism for user detection of reference location on a sensing device: An apparatus and method for providing an active feedback of a position of a conductive object, manipulated by a user on a sensing device, to allow detection of a reference location on the sensing device by the user. The apparatus may include a sensing device to detect a presence of... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080150911 - Hand-held device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels: A hand-held electronic device is disclosed. The device may comprise a case case having one or more major surfaces; a touch screen disposed on one of the major surfaces, the touch screen; a processor operably coupled to the touch screen; and one or more tactile pixels disposed proximate the touch... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080150910 - Handwritten charater input device: A handwriting input section, which has a touch position sensing unit and a display unit integrated with each other in it, character-recognizes a handwritten character and causes a display section to display the recognized character as an input character. When the user specifies an input character to be corrected by... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080150908 - Image printing apparatus and method for setting a printing parameter therein: An image printing apparatus for printing an image according to a printing parameter is provided. The image printing apparatus includes a touch screen panel and a printing parameter setting unit. The touch screen panel has a display screen and a touch information acquiring unit. The acquiring unit acquires touch information... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080150901 - Integrated liquid crystal display and touchscreen for an electronic device: An integrated display for an electronic device, comprising: a liquid crystal display having a first polarizing layer coupled to a colour filter layer; and, a first transparent conductive material layer disposed between the first polarizing layer and the colour filter layer to thereby form a capacitive touchscreen sensor.... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080150909 - Method and apparatus for calibrating targets on a touchscreen: A method for using a touch display system comprises defining local distortion zones within regions of a touchscreen. Each of the local distortion zones has an associated calibration touch point and a target. Coordinates of a user touch point are distorted within a first local distortion zone based on a... Agent: Marguerite E. Gerstner Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080150906 - Multi-axial touch-sensor device with multi-touch resolution: An apparatus and a method for resolving locations of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device. The method may include detecting presences of two or more substantially simultaneous touches on a touch-sensor device at respective locations on the touch-sensor device, and resolving locations of two or more... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080150907 - Touch screen-enabled mobile terminal and function display method for the same: A touch screen-enabled mobile terminal and function display method for the same is disclosed. The function display method includes selecting a menu of the mobile terminal; and displaying a user interface window corresponding to the selected menu on a touch screen. As a result, the user can use various functions... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080150904 - Touch scroll mouse with orientation sensation: A touch scroll mouse with orientation sensation comprises a touchpad providing a scroll bar function. The touchpad comprising a plurality of orientation structures, these orientation structures including barriers, protuberant or concave lump structures, protuberant transverse structures or transverse nicks, supplying the users to tell if their finger touch the auto-scrolling... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080150912 - Keypad and/or touchpad construction: A capacitive keypad and/or touchpad construction includes a flexible or rigid printed circuit board and a non-conductive keypad/touchpad top surface layer. A semi-conductive adhesive layer in between said flexible or rigid printed circuit board and said non-conductive keypad/touchpad top surface layer serves both to connect the top surface layer to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080150913 - Computer vision based touch screen: A self-contained interactive video display system. A projector projects a visual image onto a screen for displaying the visual image, wherein the projector projects the visual image onto a back side of the screen for presentation to a user on a front side of the screen. An illuminator illuminates an... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080150914 - Position detecting device and display device: A position detecting device usable with a display having a display-surface side and a rear-surface side opposite to the front side is provided. The position detecting device includes a position indicator, a detector, and a driving coil. The detector is provided on the display-surface side of the display and is... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, Llc

20080150915 - Position detecting device: The position detecting device comprises: a light-guide plate 1 for placement upon a displaying surface of a displaying device, and made of a translucent material; an emitting unit 2 for emitting, from the sides of the light-guide plate 1, arranged in line along the X-axis and the Y-axis, a plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080150919 - Electronic paper display device and a system for interfacing an application: An electronic paper display device includes a display for displaying image or text data, a storage for storing the image or text data to be displayed on the display, a controller for controlling the display, and an interface connectable to another electronic device to transmit or receive data to or... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080150917 - Oscillator circuit for use in an untethered stylus: An untethered stylus is configured to cooperate with a location sensing device that generates a continuously varying magnetic drive signal that powers the stylus. The stylus includes a housing having a tip, a shield, and an antenna arrangement coupled between the tip and shield. A resonant circuit of the antenna... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080150916 - Untethered device employing tunable resonant circuit: An untethered device is configured to inductively couple to a source device, which generates a varying magnetic field having a fixed frequency. The untethered device includes a tunable resonant circuit having a resonance frequency and configured to generate a supply voltage for the untethered device in response to the varying... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080150918 - Untethered stylus employing separate communication and power channels: An untethered stylus is configured to cooperate with a location sensor that generates a magnetic field. The stylus include a housing having a tip and a shield. Circuitry, including a power circuit, is provided in the housing. An antenna arrangement provided at the housing includes multiple coil resonant circuits each... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080150923 - Method and display system for synchronizing data stored in a monitor and a video signal source: A display system synchronizes data stored in a video signal source and a monitor by detecting the state of a status pin coupled between the video signal source and the monitor. When DDC/CI function is on and a user adjusts the display parameter in the monitor by directly operating the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080150920 - Multi-display system and method for displaying video frames thereon: A multi-display system and method for displaying tearing free video frames thereon is disclosed. The present invention eliminates the conventional tearing defect by starting the pixel data updating of a display pattern after a last pixel of the display pattern has been displayed on a display device of the multi-display... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080150924 - Signal processing circuit, low-voltage signal generator and image display incorporating the same: There are provided: a first logic operation circuit which performs a logic operation using a high-amplitude logic signal; a transmission system having a load capacitance; and a low-voltage signal generator which is a step-down level shifter transforming an incoming high-amplitude logic signal from the first logic operation circuit to a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080150921 - Supplementing and controlling the display of a data set: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for supplementing and controlling the display of data set. According to one method, a view of a data set is adaptively rendered on a stationary display device. The location of a portable computing device with respect to the stationary display device is then determined.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080150922 - Type of radial circuit used as lcd drivers: This invention discloses a type of radial circuit for use in driving LCD monitors. The radial circuit includes an odd-even column data generator. The odd-even column data generator receives data from a modulation counter and divides the data into two groups of data having opposite levels: odd column modulation data... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20080150925 - Gate driving circuit and driving method thereof: A gate driving circuit for driving plural scan lines of a liquid crystal display includes N driving circuit units and a control unit. Each of the N driving circuit units sequentially outputs a driving signal to drive a corresponding scan line of the scan lines. The control unit outputs a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080150926 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more specifically, a method and an apparatus for driving a plasma display panel. According to the present invention, a method for driving a plasma display panel in which pluralities of first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged parallel and to... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080150927 - Method and apparatus for driving plasma display panel: There is disclosed a method and apparatus of driving a plasma display panel that is adaptive for improving its contrast and enabling its high speed driving. A driving method of a plasma display panel according to an embodiment of the present invention applies a setup voltage with a first gradient... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080150928 - Display unit: Display units (1) comprising pixels arranged in rows and columns coupled via transistors (12) to row (41, 45, 49) and column (31, 32, 39) electrodes show a relatively large gradient in the image. By introducing means (30, 40) for reducing a voltage difference resulting from a voltage jump on a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150929 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed is a plasma display device and a driving method thereof that can enhance a contrast ration of the screen with high load factor by controlling black luminance as adjusting rising section of a reset period according to load factor of a displayed screen. The plasma display device includes: a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080150930 - Liquid crystal display devices and methods that compensate for location-based source driver power voltage variations: A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a timing controller that divides a power voltage, which is supplied from a power source unit, into a plurality of gamma reference voltages. A regulator generates a second voltage from a first voltage by using the gamma reference voltages as... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080150931 - Method and apparatus for processing an image, image display system, storage medium, and program: In an image display system, when a sequence of frames α, α+1, α+2, α+3, . . . , with a frame rate of m is given as an input video signal S1, a controller controls a frame memory to output a sequence of frames α, α+2, . . . ,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080150933 - Display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array unit and a driving unit configured to drive the pixel array unit. The pixel array unit includes scanning lines in a form of rows, signal lines in a form of columns, pixels in a form of a matrix, the pixels... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080150932 - Drive circuit and drive method for liquid crystal display device: A display ON sequence for preventing problems in a display at the starting time of a liquid crystal display device is prevented from having malfunctions, which might otherwise be caused in a scanning line drive circuit by applying a voltage to scanning signal lines. In the display ON sequence at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080150934 - Image display device: A current detection data is acquired by a scanning line current detection resistance, an adder-subtracter and an A/D converter. the current detection data is inputted to a voltage correction circuit, the voltage correction circuit output a correction signal. Using the correction signal, a scanning electrode voltage correction circuit performs the... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy

20080150935 - Compression and decompression of data using plane equations: The present invention provides a scheme for compressing and decompressing the depth, or Z, components of image data. Image data is grouped into a plurality of tiles. A test is performed to determine if a tile can be compressed so that its size after compression is less than its size... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20080150938 - Computer graphics using meshless finite elements for light transport: Computer graphics methods, systems, apparatus and computer program code (software) products comprise: constructing a sparse implicit scene representation, wherein the representation is independent of geometric encoding and complexity of the input scene description, and the density of the resulting finite elements is proportional to their contribution to the final image... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080150936 - Image quality in a 3d image display device: A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle, the display device including a display panel having a plurality of separately addressable pixels for displaying said image. The pixels are grouped such that different pixels in a group correspond... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080150939 - System and method for displaying content in a three-dimensional virtual environment: Disclosed is a system and method for presenting content within a three-dimensional environment. A data container containing a parameter representing at least a portion of the content is rendered within the environment and a two dimensional prospective view from a view point is produced. The view point is moved along... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080150937 - Systems for visualizing images using explicit quality prioritization of a feature(s) in multidimensional image data sets, related methods and computer products: Visualization systems for rendering images from a multi-dimensional data set, include an interactive visualization system configured to accept user input to define at least one explicit prioritized feature in an image rendered from a multi-dimensional image data set. The at least one prioritized feature is automatically electronically rendered with high... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080150940 - Image processing apparatus and method thereof: If the next endpoint is determined to be neither in the first nor the second reference direction passing through the base endpoint, a point obtained by projecting the next endpoint onto the straight line in the first reference direction passing through the base endpoint or the straight line in the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150941 - Meshing device: A meshing device which first divides a geometric model into a plurality of regions that can be easily meshed, and then performs meshing on a region-by-region basis. More specifically, the meshing device is a device for generating an analysis mesh model by meshing a geometric model created by a three-dimensional... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080150942 - Visualization of volumetric medical imaging data: The present invention relates to a method for visualizing a volumetric medical imaging data set indicative of at least a vessel being imaged using a contrast agent. A first and a second range of intensity values of voxels of the volumetric medical imaging dataset are determined. The first range of... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080150943 - Accurate transparency and local volume rendering: Systems, apparatus, computer software code products and methods for enabling computer graphics systems to accurately render transparency comprise configuring a shader element of the computer graphics system to first extract all layers of an image representation and obtain depth information therefrom, and then rendering all layers back-to-front with shading enabled,... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080150944 - Applications of interval arithmetic for reduction of number of computations in ray tracing problems: Embodiments provide for ray tracing traversal that relies on selected geometrical properties of the application to reduce the number of operations required during each traversal step. The traversal algorithm does not depend on the number of rays in the group. As a result, multi-level traversal schemes may be implemented, starting... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080150945 - Complexity-adaptive 2d-to-3d video sequence conversion: Techniques for complexity-adaptive and automatic two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) image and video conversion which classifies a frame of a 2D input into one of a flat image class and a non-flat image class are described. The flat image class frame is directly converted into 3D stereo for display. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080150946 - Method and system for image editing: A method and a system for image editing are provided. The method includes the following steps: firstly, search for characteristic curves of an image; next, approximate the characteristic curves with spline functions; then, when editing the image, manipulate the characteristic curves through control points of the corresponding spline functions; and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080150947 - Apparatus and method for processing information, and program for making computer execute the method: In an apparatus and method for processing information, the font sizes of characters in display content are changed in different magnifications for each of the font sizes so as to display the content in a legible size when the size of the display area is changed. A program makes a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080150948 - System and method for video choreography: An electronic entertainment system for creating a video sequence by executing video game camera behavior based upon a video game sound file includes a memory configured to store an action event/camera behavior (AE/CB) database, game software such as an action generator module, and one or more sound files. In addition,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080150949 - Quick pixel rendering processing: A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline which processes pixels of sub-screens in the last stage (pixel rendering) in parallel and independently. The sub-screen tasks are stored in a list in a shared memory. The shared memory is accessed by a plurality of processing threads designated for pixel rendering. The processing threads... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

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20080150951 - 3-d rendering engine with embedded memory: A 3-D rendering engine with embedded memory a graphics engine. A graphics engine is disclosed that includes a rendering engine for receiving graphics primitives and converting them to pixel information for transfer to a display, The rendering engine is operable to access memory locations with multiple memory access requests for... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080150952 - Control apparatus, terminal apparatus, display system, and display method: A control apparatus communicably connected to a multifunctional apparatus is provided with a cooperation module that acquires HTML data of an online Web page from a Web server and creates image data by converting the acquired HTML data into data displayable by an operation panel of the multifunctional apparatus. Then,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080150953 - Buffer management for video data provided asynchronously relative to display device: A method includes storing a frame of video data in a location in a memory. A pointer to the location is transmitted to a queue manager circuit. The pointer is stored in a queue. The pointer is transmitted from the queue to an interface unit. The pointer is then transmitted... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080150954 - Moving screen image assembler: A device for modifying source image frames to create modified image frames and for projecting the modified image frames onto a geometrically changing viewable surface is presented. The device may include a viewable surface image sampler for outputting surface image frames each including surface image pixels that reflect the geometrically... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080150955 - Texture synthesis: A texture synthesis device is described, which has a determinator for determining a prioritization among regions to be synthesized of an area to be synthesized, as a function of image information in an area adjacent to the area to be synthesized, and a synthesizer for synthesizing the regions to be... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080150956 - Mapping device, mapping method and program thereof: The center line and lines at the right and left end parts are inputted to a base image from which a texture image is to be mapped, and a position of the base image closest to the view point is inputted as a point closest to the user. Right side... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080150957 - Process for coding infrared images: Coding process on original infrared images, generated in black and white, to codifying them in negative black, white with specific split colours consists on a process af getting original infrared images that, been produced in back and white, are ceded to negative is black, white with a split in specific... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080150958 - Systems and methods for implementinglow cost gamut mapping algorithms: Techniques for low cost gamma mapping convert three-primary input image data, such as RGB data, into a four primary color display color space, such as an RGBW color space, for rendering on the display by calculating a value for W image data based upon the RGB image input data; deriving... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080150959 - System and method for controlling an alarm for an electronic device: A graphical indicator, menu and method for modifying and displaying more than two states for the indicator is provided An alarm indicator algorithm modifies and displays the indicator according to user-selectable options that enables a user to determine at first glance the nature of the next alarm and in particular... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080150960 - Method for mapping colors between imaging sytems and method therefor: A method for converting CMYK source device values to CMYK destination device values includes converting the CMYK source device values to a four-color device-independent color space using a source profile with a four-color device-independent color space. The four color device-independent color space is converted to the CMYK destination values using... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080150961 - Displays with embedded color tracking algorithm based on panel optical characteristics: Displays with embedded color tracking algorithm based on panel optical characteristics are disclosed for color tracking of displays. A display comprising a panel, a switch device, a memory unit and a color tracking unit is provided. The optical characteristics of the panel are obtained by optical measuring equipment, and the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, Pc

20080150962 - Image display using a computer system, including, but not limited to, display of a reference image for comparison with a current image in image editing: When editing an image (160.2) with a computer system, a command may be issued to display a reference image (160.0 or 160.1) to allow a human user to visually compare the current image (160.2) with the reference image. In response, some embodiments display the entire reference image in the position... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080150964 - Method and apparatus for displaying content: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying content. The method includes receiving changed scene information if scene information containing position information indicating the time at which objects constituting the content are displayed and positions of the objects to be displayed is changed, receiving objects for constituting the content based... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080150963 - 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..

20080150965 - Method and device for determining optical overlaps with ar objects: The invention relates to a method for overlaying AR objects on an environmental image representing the environment. According to said invention, a depth image of the environment is recorded from a point of vision; the representation of an AR object to be placed in the environmental image is modified in... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080150966 - Method and apparatus for scaling graphics images using multiple surfaces: An apparatus and method for scaling graphics images using multiple graphics pages or surfaces. The method includes separating an input graphics page into one or more distortion-nonsensitive video page portions and one or more distortion-sensitive video page portions, scaling the distortion-nonsensitive pages using a first scaling algorithm, scaling the distortion-sensitive... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080150967 - Form editing apparatus, control method, and storage medium: An apparatus includes a generation unit configured to encode data and generate a two-dimensional code image; a clipping unit configured to clip an image which fits in a two-dimensional code image display area, from the two-dimensional code image generated by the generation unit; a first display control unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080150968 - Image delivering apparatus and image delivery method: A determining unit determines a vector conversion method for a character image based on the character image and model information of a terminal device that receives the character image. A processing unit performs a vector conversion on the character image by the vector conversion method determined by the determining unit.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080150969 - Image display apparatus and driving method of image display apparatus: There is provided an image display apparatus including: a first correction unit for outputting data to determine a lighting time of a first pixel on the basis of data to indicate luminance of the first pixel, wherein the first correction unit carries out first correction to compensate a loss of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080150971 - Method for the operation of a display device with a plurality of wear-afflicted picture elements and display device: A method for operating a display device having a plurality of wear-afflicted picture elements is provided. Each picture element is acted upon by a control signal assigned to it. A wear value for at least one picture element is determined, the wear value being a measure of the wear of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080150970 - Peak intensity level control device, self light-emitting display device, electronic device, peak intensity level control method, and computer program: A peak intensity level control device that controls a peak intensity level in a self light-emitting display module of active matrix driving type is disclosed. The device includes: an average picture value calculation section that calculates an average picture value of display data to be supplied to the self light-emitting... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080143637 - Multiscreen display apparatus: A phase shifter is provided to adjust the phase of the pixel clock generated by a PLL to the data of the digital image signal regenerated by a digital interface receiver circuit. The pixel clock which is output from the phase shifter is used as a pixel clock in a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080143638 - Three dimensional image display and manufacturing method thereof: A three dimensional image display and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, in which a three dimensional image is obtained by using a patterned retarder (so called, phase contrast plate) and a wire grid polarizer. The dimensional image display and manufacturing method thereof can be easily adapted to a LCD... Agent: Ipla P.a.

20080143639 - Helmet-mounted display system with interchangeable optical modules: The field of the invention is that of helmet-mounted display systems having a support helmet intended to be worn by a user, and a display system. To make the system compatible with daytime and night-time applications, the device includes a single image generator supported by the helmet and two interchangeable... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080143640 - Electronic ink display device and active device array substrate: An electronic ink display device including an active device array substrate and a front panel is provided. The active device array substrate includes a first substrate, multiple scan lines and data lines, multiple pixel units, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and at least one conductive pattern electrically connected to... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080143646 - Apparatus and method for driving a plasma display panel: A plasma display apparatus may include a PDP having respective pluralities of first electrodes formed in a first direction, and second and third electrodes formed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a driving apparatus to alternately apply first and second sustain discharge pulses to one of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080143645 - Method of driving discharge display panel having driving waveform varying in first reset period: A method of driving a discharge display panel is disclosed. In the method, a unit frame is divided into sub-fields, where each sub-field has a reset period, an addressing period, and a discharge-sustain period. The number of sustain pulses in the discharge-sustaining period of each of the sub-fields corresponds to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080143641 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. During a sustain period of a first subfield, a sustain discharge alternating waveform alternating between a Vs voltage and a −Vs voltage is applied to a sustain electrode while a scan electrode is supplied with a constant reference voltage. During an... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080143643 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including first electrodes, second electrodes, and third electrodes, a first driver, a second driver, and a reference separation controller. The first driver supplies sustain signals each including a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080143642 - Plasma display device and driving apparatus thereof: A plasma display device and a driving apparatus thereof includes a main switch in order to prevent current from flowing to a power supply that supplies a higher voltage than a negative voltage while the negative voltage is applied to a scan electrode. The main switch is provided only in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080143644 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and its driving method are disclosed. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) including a plurality of first and second electrodes. The plasma display device further includes a first power source for supplying a first voltage; a second power source for supplying a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080143647 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In one embodiment, a method for driving a plasma display device during an address period is provided. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) having different electrode arrangement configurations between discharge cells of the PDP neighboring in a column direction. The PDP includes the discharge cells formed... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080143648 - Active matrix type display device: The display device of the invention comprises a plurality of scanning lines (Wscan and Escan) which are selected successively, a plurality of data lines (Data) to which the writing electric current (Idata) in accordance with brightness information is supplied according to the scanning line selection, and a plurality of pixels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080143649 - Display device and display unit: A display device capable of improving the view angle characteristics without deteriorating the outside light contrast and a display unit using it are provided. The display device includes a first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting lay and a second electrode sequentially over a substrate, and having a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080143650 - Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels disposed in a matrix shape, each pixel including an electro-optical element, a write transistor for sampling and writing an input signal voltage, a holding capacitor for holding a signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a driver transistor for... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080143651 - Pixel and organic light emitting display using the same: A pixel of a simplified configuration, and an organic light emitting display using the same are disclosed. The pixel includes an organic light emitting diode; a first transistor connected with a scan line and a data line and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to the scan lines;... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080143652 - Temperature control method for display device and display: A method of controlling temperature of a display device which includes a display panel having a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed in a matrix form, and a plurality of driver ICs is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: generating temperature information of the driver IC by detecting an... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080143653 - Semiconductor device and driving method thereof: A display device which can compensate for variations of the threshold voltage of transistors and suppress variations in luminance, and a driving method thereof are provided. Current is supplied to a light emitting element and light is emitted from the light emitting element by following steps: in the first period... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080143654 - Intra-pixel convolution for amoled: A pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel groups, wherein each pixel group comprises: A plurality of light emitting elements, a plurality of driving units, and a plurality of switching units. A plurality of driving units, each of which outputs drives currents for the light emitting elements in a convolution... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080143655 - Organic light emitting device: An organic light emitting device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels, a power supply which generates a driving voltage, an overcurrent detector which detects an overcurrent flowing from the power supply to the display panel, and a driving voltage blocking unit which blocks the driving voltage... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080143656 - Display device and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a display panel, light emitting elements, detecting means, and an image processing circuit. The light emitting elements is disposed in a matrix form on the display panel, a luminance of light emitting elements being controlled by a current value. The detecting means detects an exothermic temperature... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080143660 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device which can reduce the number of parts by incorporating a display control circuit in a video line drive circuit. In a display device which includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and a plurality of video lines which inputs a video... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080143661 - Display device and information processing apparatus: A display device includes a display panel unit that includes a panel body having a display screen for displaying information and a control board on which a control circuit for controlling display on the display screen is mounted. The control board is disposed on a back surface of the panel... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143659 - Lcd driving methods: A method for driving a display device includes sequentially applying a gate turn-on voltage to respective gate lines of the device during successive image display periods thereof, applying a respective one of a plurality of successive data signals, each corresponding to a respective one of the gate lines, to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080143657 - Method, device and system of response time compensation: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method device and/or system of displaying an image on a display having an array of sub-pixel elements. The method may include, for example, obtaining a first set of one or more values by sampling values of one or more sub-pixel value-holders associated... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080143658 - Output circuit, and data driver and display device using the same: Disclosed is an output circuit including a connection switch and an operation unit. The connection switch receives first and second voltages from first and second terminals, respectively, selects and outputs the first voltage or the second voltage for first to third intermediate terminals, including selection of the same voltage and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080143664 - Electrooptic device and electronic device: An electrooptic device includes first insulating layer between a semiconductor layer of a transistor and scanning line. The first insulating layer has a contact hole for electrically connecting the gate electrode and the scanning line, the contact hole having a first portion located beside the semiconductor layer of the corresponding... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080143663 - Liquid crystal display panel and an active array substrate thereof: A liquid crystal display panel and an active array substrate thereof are disclosed. The projected area of the pixel electrodes in each display sub-region is reduced gradually to decrease the parasitic capacitance, the liquid crystal capacitance, and/or the storage capacitance. Therefore, the total capacitance value of each pixel is decreased... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143662 - Liquid cystal display device and method for driving the same: An liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel provided with a plurality of pixels, wherein the pixels are defined by a plurality of gate and data lines formed perpendicularly, an auxiliary storage capacitor formed in each of the pixels, a gate driver to drive the gate lines in... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080143665 - Display apparatus, source driver, and display panel driving method: To automatically control a spatial cycle at which a polarity of an offset voltage is inverted corresponding to a spatial cycle at which a polarity of a data signal is inverted, and satisfactorily maintain the quality of the display image, the present invention provides a liquid crystal display apparatus including... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080143666 - Shift register: A shift register includes a signal generating circuit, a driving circuit, a reset circuit, and a control switch. The signal generating circuit includes a first switch for generating a first output signal according to a clock signal while the first switch is turned on, and a second switch coupled to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080143667 - Surface light source device and backlight unit having the same: There is a provided a surface light source device comprising: a light source body having an inner space therein in which a discharge gas is contained; a plurality of electrodes formed on the light source body in such a manner as to electrically divide the inner space into at least... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080143668 - Electrophoresis display and driving method thereof: In the electrophoresis display, an electrophoresis display panel has a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines which are crossed each other, and a plurality of cells which are driven in accordance with a voltage applied to a pixel electrode and a common electrode. A data driving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20080143669 - Ink substrate, electrophoretic display device having the same, and method of fabricating the same: An ink substrate, an electrophoretic display device including the ink substrate and methods of fabricating the display, where in ink substrate includes a first substrate, an electrode adjacent the first substrate, and an ink layer adjacent the electrode, the ink layer including a plurality of microcapsules. At least one protective... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080143671 - Discriminating among activation of multiple buttons: An apparatus and method of discrimination among activation of multiple capacitive sensor buttons in close proximity to each other is described.... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080143670 - Universal input device and system: The present invention relates to input devices and particularly to input devices for use with computer and telecommunications systems and/or other object systems and/or devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to a universal input device for inputting data.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080143674 - Guides and indicators for eye movement monitoring systems: A computer system aids user positioning of a pointing device by providing an animated post warp retro guide in conjunction with an eye tracking system, based on perceived user intent, to assist a user in maintaining continuity for pointer warps. An eye tracking apparatus monitors a user's eye orientation while... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080143672 - Immobile computer input device for generating a cursor-moving or scrolling signal: An immobile or stationary computer input device includes a body having at least a button, a trace-detecting module having a light transmitting element at one side and a detecting unit at an opposite side, and a switching unit. A micro-controller respectively couples to the button, the trace-detecting module and the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143673 - Method and apparatus for moving cursor using numerical keys: The object of this invention is to provide a method for moving a cursor using numerical keys. In the cursor movement method, a screen of an information device is divided into sub-screens each. The sub-screens are mapped to respective numerical keys provided on the information device. It is determined whether... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20080143675 - Inertial sensing method and system: An inertial sensing method is disclosed, which is capable of detecting tilting of an inertial sensing apparatus with respect to a specific level surface while using the detection for defining/controlling movements of a cursor displayed on a display, In a preferred aspect, as it is capable of acting as an... Agent: Wpat, Pc

20080143676 - Information input device and method and medium for inputting information in 3d space: An information input device and a method and medium for inputting information in three-dimensional (3D) space are provided. The information input device includes a movement signal input unit receiving a movement signal of the information input device under control of a user in a three-dimensional (3D) space, a movement extent... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143677 - Input device with integrated key plate and integrated side grips: The present invention provides an input device such as a mouse which has a unique construction with integrated key plates and integrated side grips. In one embodiment, the input device comprises a housing, which includes a bottom case and an upper member disposed above the bottom case. The upper member... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080143678 - Apparatus for storing a wearable display and a keyboard: An apparatus (300) is provided for storing, when not in use, an input device (314) and a wearable display (100) that displays text provided by an RF communication device (200). The apparatus (300) comprises a soft flexible material (302) including a main portion (304) having a soft keyboard including keys... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080143685 - Apparatus, method, and medium for providing user interface for file transmission: Provided are an apparatus, method, and medium for providing a user interface for file transmission. The apparatus includes a motion perception (recognition) module perceiving (recognizing) a motion input to the user interface and identifying a position of the perceived (recognized) motion; a motion execution module executing a motion corresponding to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143681 - Circular slider with center button: An apparatus and method for detecting the presence of a conductive object on a sensing device. The sensing device may include a plurality of non-linearly disposed sensor elements disposed in an outer sensing area of the sensing device and a center button disposed in an inner sensing area of the... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080143682 - Display device having multi-touch recognizing function and driving method thereof: A display device having a multi-touch recognition function includes an integration module having a plurality of cameras integrated at an edge of a display panel; and a processor that detects a touch area using at least first and second images captured by the plurality of cameras, respectively.... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080143687 - Game program, game device, and game control method: To be able to smoothly instruct a command from a command input region, in this game program, a plurality of commands is assigned to a command icon. Then, when a touch pen touched a contact input type of monitor, the coordinate data of the contact start position SS is recognized.... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080143686 -