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

20080150950 - Method of and apparatus for processing graphics: t

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 - Integrated vehicle control interface and module: An integrated vehicle control interface and module are provided for being disposed onto a direction control device of a vehicle. The integrated vehicle control module comprises a touch-control input/output component and a sense-and-control module. The touch-control input/output component is used for a driver to perform a touch-control input, and the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080143680 - Medical overlay mirror: Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems.... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080143679 - Methods, devices, and user interfaces incorporating a touch sensor with a keypad: Disclosed are devices, user interfaces and methods thereof, that include a touch sensitive surface configured to receive user input, the touch sensitive surface collocated with at least a portion of the keypad and disposed proximal keycaps corresponding to the portion of the keypad. A track of a particular shape is... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080143683 - Pet-based touch pad: A space-efficient substantially transparent mutual capacitance touch sensor panel can be created by forming columns made of a substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a first substantially transparent substrate, forming rows made of the substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a second substantially transparent substrate, adhering... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080143688 - Remote controller, image system comprising the same, and controlling method thereof: A remote controller that controls a broadcasting receiving apparatus having a wireless receiving unit remotely is provided. The remote controller includes a first sensing unit that senses external touch; a second sensing unit that is provided adjacent to the first sensing unit and senses external touch; a data processing unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143684 - Touch screen apparatus and digital equipment having the same, and command-input method thereof: The present invention relates to a touch screen apparatus and a method of inputting a user command through the apparatus. A touch screen apparatus of the present invention comprises an input unit 10 having a sensing unit 12 for recognizing user's touches and converting the touches into electrical signals; a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080143689 - Optical shuttered touchscreen and method therefor: A touchscreen display system (418) is provided which includes a touchscreen (420), a touchscreen input detector (422), a capacitive sensor driver (423), and a display driver (424). The touchscreen input detector (422) is coupled to a first layer (504) of the touchscreen (420) and determines a touchscreen (420) input in... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (mot)

20080143690 - 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; a look-up-table of a plurality of compensation angles in an range of about 0 to about 90 degrees corresponding to each of the plurality of... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080143693 - Haptic stylus utilizing an electroactive polymer: Haptic feedback interface devices using electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators to provide haptic sensations. A haptic feedback interface device is in communication with a host computer and includes a sensor device that detects the manipulation of the interface device by the user and an electroactive polymer actuator responsive to input signals... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080143692 - Method and system for recognising handwritten data: A system for recognizing handwritten data is provided. The system includes an electronic pen and a computing device. The electronic pen is used for forming handwritten data on a medium and for generating an electronic form of the handwritten data. The computing device is used for recognizing the handwritten data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080143691 - Systems and methods for enabling tablet pc/pen to paper space: A pen input device and a computer system are disclosed that are suitable for use with forms in a paperless environment and optionally a paper environment. The pen input device may be configured as an inertial type device so that it can be used on virtual writing surfaces and may... Agent: Quiteso Technologies, Llc

20080143698 - Control board and display apparatus having the same: In a control board and a display apparatus, the control board includes a timing controller, and first and second connectors. The timing controller receives a first external image control signal having one of a first and a second frequency, and selectively receives a second external image control signal having the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080143696 - Display system: The display system also includes an electronic control system for driving the pistons 2. The electronic control system may use a stored data file to produce a particular surface effect on the screen 1. Alternatively, the control system may respond in real-time to an input such as ambient sound, ambient... Agent: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080143697 - Drive voltage control device: A buffer generates a load drive voltage by impedance-converting an input signal and outputs the generated load drive voltage to a load circuit. An input level controller controls a voltage of the input signal to be a boost voltage having a potential higher than that of a targeted drive voltage... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080143695 - Low power static image display self-refresh: A method, apparatus, and system for low power static image display self-refresh are described. In one embodiment, a display controller may operate in a primary display mode or in a low power display mode. The display controller may switch from a primary display mode to a low power display mode... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080143694 - Management of display parameters in communications devices: Techniques involving the management of display parameters are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a display, a radio module, and a control module. The display employs various operational parameters, which can take on different values. Exemplary parameters include refresh rate and/or pixel clock rate. The radio module may receive... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc C/o Intellevate

20080143699 - Display drive circuit: A display drive circuit formed in a chip manufactured by a chip on glass implementation, which is connected to lead lines formed on a glass substrate, includes a rectangularly-shaped substrate, a power supply line formed on the substrate, the line being elongated along the longer side of the rectangular shaped... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080143700 - Electrophoretic display and driving method thereof: A method of driving at least one cell of an electrophoretic display panel through a pixel electrode and a common electrode includes storing at least first data representative of an image currently displayed and second data representative of an image to be displayed; and applying a first AC data waveform... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080143703 - Driving circuit, driving method and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary driving circuit includes pixel electrodes (362) applied with voltage signals (VS) respectively via corresponding switching elements (361) connected thereto and common electrodes (363) applied with common voltage signals. Each switching elements includes an input electrode (3613). The driving circuit further includes at least one comparator (40) and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080143701 - Driving device for plasma display panel and plasma display device including the driving device: A driving device for a plasma display panel. The driving device generates rising and falling ramp signals having a respective constant slope regardless of a change in operating temperature. An optimal discharge voltage is maintained at high and low temperatures by the rising and falling ramp signals having a respective... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080143702 - Liquid crystal display device and method of reducing a discharge time of a liquid crystal capacitor thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes: a power supply unit which outputs a supply voltage at a first level when an outside power is supplied and outputs the supply voltage at a second level when the outside power is removed; a discharge unit which outputs a discharge signal when the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080143704 - Organic light emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device capable of displaying an image having a uniform luminance is disclosed. The organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver for supplying a scan signal to scan lines, supplying a control signal to control lines and supplying a light emitting control signal to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080143705 - Power control system for lcd monitor: A power control system for an LCD monitor having an LCD panel includes a light source unit providing light to the LCD panel, a power supply unit generating a standard low DC current, and a high-voltage generator for converting the lower DC voltage to a relatively high voltage and supplying... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080143706 - Organic electroluminescent display and a driver thereof: A driver for a display may include a first signal processor adapted to output first and third control signals, and a second signal processor adapted to output a second control signal. The first signal processor may include a first shift register adapted to receive clock signals, and a first input... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080143707 - Texture-based multi-dimensional medical image registration: The present invention relates to a method for registering multi-dimensional image data. First and second multi-dimensional texture datasets are determined in dependence upon received first and second multi-dimensional image datasets, respectively. Initial transform data are then provided. The second multi-dimensional texture dataset is then transformed and interpolated using the transform... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080143710 - Method for image rendering: A method for image rendering is disclosed. A leftmost block of a top tile row (RTOP) is defined as an initial block (TINIT) and a reference pixel of the initial block is defined as an initial pixel. Block offset along the X and Y axes (Δx and Δy) between a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080143709 - System and method for accessing three dimensional information from a panoramic image: The proposed invention defines a system and methods for accessing and displaying three dimensional data through a panoramic image. Three dimensional data comprised of points and polygons is stored in a spatial database on a server and is delivered to the client on demand through point or area selections defined... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080143708 - System and method for auto-dimensioning boundary representation model: A system, method, and computer program for modifying a model, comprising the steps of reading a model geometry into a constraint solver; generating a set of base values from said constraint solver; applying said set of base values to said model geometry; recalculating said model geometry in response to a... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080143713 - Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof for drawing 3d water surface according to a real water surface height: The invention generates the water grids in each of the visible range of the water wave maps and the third dimension coordinates according to the intersecting points. The third dimension coordinates are corresponded to the actual water height. Finally, the invention generates a water surface having the wave change according... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080143712 - Intelligent modeling method and system for earmold shell and hearing aid design: A method and appertaining system are provided for automatically modeling a hearing aid sheet design. A 3D geometric description of an undetailed shell model is received, and its features and associated descriptors are automatically extracted. These features are classified, and a database of existing shells and features is queried to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080143711 - Shape deformation: A method and system is provided for deforming a shape of an image. In one example, an input is received for deforming a displayed shape, the shape including a boundary polygon or outline contour and a local area within the outline contour. The local area may further include vertices and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080143714 - Visual file representation: A system, method, and computer program for producing a visualization format from CAD data comprising producing a BREP model for visualization, wherein said BREP model has a topology component and a geometry component; removing a plurality of redundant control points from said geometry component; normalizing a plurality of knot vectors... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080143715 - Image based rendering: The present invention relates to computer production of images. Three-dimensional graphics data (D3D) is automatically rendered by means of a GPU (330), which is adapted to receive two-dimensional image data. This data contains a number of image points, which each is associated with color information (r, g, b), transparency information... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080143716 - Method capable of automatically transforming 2d image into 3d image: The invention discloses a method for the transforming of a 2D image into a 3D image. The method comprises the steps of: (a) selecting an object of 2D image; (b) setting a base line in the 2D image; (c) base on the base line, judging whether the object is located... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080143717 - First-point distance parameter system and method for automatic grid generation: A system and method for automatically generating a computation mesh for use with an analytical tool, the computation mesh having a plurality of ξ-grid lines and η-grid lines intersecting at mesh points positioned with respect to an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The system and method includes receiving information... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080143718 - Method for segmentation of lesions: A method of segmenting a lesion (910) from normal anatomy in a 3-dimensional image comprising the steps of: receiving an initial set of voxels (520) that are contained within the lesion to be segmented; growing a region which includes the lesion from the initial set of voxels; identifying a second... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080143721 - Apparatus, method, and computer readable medium thereof capable of pre-storing data for generating self-shadow of a 3d object: A sphere tree is first generated. Accessibility values and occlusion angles corresponding to each vertex of a 3D object are calculated according to the sphere tree. A 2D texture and a 3D texture are then generated to store the accessibility values and occlusion angles. When a self-shadow effect of the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080143720 - Method for rendering global illumination on a graphics processing unit: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to conduct global illumination. A three-dimensional (3D) model of a scene is obtained in a computer graphics application. A section of the scene is identified as a region of interest. A photon tree is then obtained that consists of a... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080143719 - Spherical harmonics scaling: A method, device and system is provided for providing global illumination of a scene. For example, global illumination may be provided in a rendered 3-dimensional image that may contain objects and/or light sources. Radiance functions or visibility functions may further be represented by scaling of spherical harmonics functions in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080143722 - Simultaneous view and point navigation: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for simultaneous view and point navigation. In a first embodiment of the invention, a single virtual environment interaction method can include maintaining first and second independent views corresponding to respectively different geometric planes in a single virtual environment,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080143723 - System and method for external-memory graph search utilizing edge partitioning: A method and system is provided for generator successor nodes in an external-memory search of a graph having a plurality of nodes and outgoing edges of the plurality of nodes. The method and system includes construction of an abstract representation of the graph to include a set of abstract nodes... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080143725 - Connected and overlapped shapes enhancements: A method of ordering visual objects presented on a display includes comparing visual objects to be placed in an overlapping condition and determining from the comparison the order in which the visual objects are to be placed. The visual objects are re-ordered and placed in the overlapping condition in accordance... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080143724 - Method and apparatus for probabilistic atlas based on shape modeling technique: Methods and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a plurality of objects with a plurality of features; generates a shape model for shapes of the plurality of objects, the step of generating a shape model including generating a baseline object by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080143726 - System and method for designing curves: A curve designing system/method is provided. When similar curves are to be generated by evenly mixing features of given sample curves, the method of the present invention can control the extent of mixing features, smoothness, and size. The technology of the present invention can be applied to designing curve and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080143727 - Method for scripting inter-scene transitions: A method for authoring and displaying a virtual tour of a three-dimensional space which employs transitional effects simulating motion. An authoring tool is provided for interactively defining a series of locations in the space for which two-dimensional images, e.g., panoramas, photographs, etc., are available. A user identifies one or more... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080143730 - Hierarchical processor array: Apparatuses and methods are presented for a hierarchical processor. The processor comprises, at a first level of hierarchy, a plurality of similarly structured first level components, wherein each of the plurality of similarly structured first level components includes at least one combined function module capable of performing multiple classes of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080143728 - System, method and computer program product for adjusting a refresh rate of a display: A display refresh system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, at least one aspect of a display of content is identified by monitoring commands. Based on such identified aspect(s), a refresh rate of a display utilized for the display of the content may be adjusted.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080143729 - System, method and computer program product for adjusting a refresh rate of a display for power savings: A display refresh system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, a refresh rate is adjusted for power saving purposes, and/or any other purpose(s) for that matter. Further, various embodiments are provided for reducing visual manifestations associated with a transition between a first refresh rate and a second... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080143731 - Video rendering across a high speed peripheral interconnect bus: Graphics generated by one graphics processor are transferred across a high speed interconnect bus to a frame buffer. The rendered frames from the frame buffer are presented on a display by way of a display interface in communication with the frame buffer. The display interface of another existing (e.g. integrated)... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080143732 - Data transfer apparatus: In one embodiment, a predetermined amount of bitmap data is accumulated in a first cache memory, a predetermined amount of arrangement-converted bitmap data is accumulated in the second cache memory, the number of instances of switching between value 0 and value 1 when transferring/outputting bitmap data is compared to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080143733 - Systems and methods for providing a shared buffer in a multiple fifo environment: Provided are methods and systems for reducing memory bandwidth usage in a common buffer, multiple FIFO computing environment. The multiple FIFO's are arranged in coordination with serial processing units, such as in a pipeline processing environment. The multiple FIFO's contain pointers to entry addresses in a common buffer. Each subsequent... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080143734 - Image-displaying system, image-displaying apparatus, and image-displaying method: An image-displaying system has a sending apparatus that sends image quality information for adjusting image quality of an image in reply to a request, and an image-displaying apparatus that displays the image based on the image information received from the sending apparatus. The image-displaying apparatus includes receiving device that receives... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080143735 - Method and apparatus for dynamic connector analysis: A method (1100) of creating an editable document is disclosed. The method analyses a bitmap image to detect at least one bit map representation of a graphical object and a bitmap representation of a line object. The method matches the graphical object with one of a plurality of predetermined template... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080143736 - System and method for dynamically altering a color gamut: System and method for dynamically altering a color gamut used in projection display systems. An embodiment comprises determining a dim color from colors used in representing an image, adjusting the dim color to increase an available display time for a non-dim color used to represent the image, adjusting the non-dim... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080143737 - Post-render graphics transparency: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for applying transparency to a rendered surface. The apparatus comprises a graphics processor configured to render a surface, wherein a transparency parameter is associated with the surface, the transparency parameter defining a blending process. The apparatus further includes a display processor configured to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080143738 - Method and system to determine preferred color management settings for printing documents: The presently described embodiments generate a single job that tests multiple image path parameter combinations. The user first selects the part of the document that will be used for the test run. The system then determines all the available image path control parameters and settings that are compatible with the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080143739 - Method and system for dynamic, luminance-based color contrasting in a region of interest in a graphic image: Foreground images, such as cursors, may be displayed over an image by selecting individual pixel colors to contrast with surrounding background pixels. The background pixels in, around and behind the foreground image may be converted from a red-green-blue (RGB) color space to a luminance isolating color space, such as YUV,... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080143741 - Method and apparatus for displaying character string: A method and an apparatus are provided for displaying a character string when the character string is being input. The method includes: grouping a plurality of positions for inputting characters into a plurality of position groups; configuring display format of the characters to be input for every position group; and... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20080143742 - Method and apparatus for editing image, generating editing image, and storing edited image in portable display device: An image editing method of inputting a vector graphic component and editing and utilizing an original image in various forms in a portable display device is provided. The method includes inputting an original image to be edited, inputting a vector graphic component to be added to the original image, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143740 - Stable mask combination in digital image editing: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for combining raster image masks in a digital image. A first raster image mask may be generated that comprises a first set of one or more pixels having a first intermediate value for membership in the first raster image mask. A... Agent: M.h.k.k.g., P.c. / Adobe Systems Incorporated

20080143743 - Adaptive span computation during ray casting: Adaptive span computation when ray casting is presented. A processor uses start point fractional values during view screen segment computations that start a view screen segment's computations a particular distance away from a down point. This prevents an excessive sampling density during image generation without wasting processor resources. The processor... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080143747 - Bit plane encoding/decoding system and method for reducing spatial light modulator image memory size: A bit plane generating system, a method of generating a bit plane and an integrated circuit incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the bit plane generating system includes: (1) a memory configured to store pixel data pertaining to an image to be displayed and (2) bit plane... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080143746 - Display of an equation with graphical data: A graphing system that simultaneously displays an equation with the associated graph is provided. The equation is displayed on the graph. The graph may be adjusted, and the equation is automatically adjusted accordingly. Additionally, modifications to the equation may be automatically reflected on the graph. Embodiments of the present invention... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080143744 - Gradient-domain compositing: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, for forming composite images using gradient-domain compositing are provided. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving two or more source images and aligning the received source images to form an assembled composite image. The method also includes stitching... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080143745 - Selecting a reference image for images to be joined: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to selecting a reference image for images to be joined in accordance with projective transformations. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining projective transformations corresponding to two... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080143748 - Panoramic image straightening: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for forming composite images. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a set of component images for forming a composite image and defining a first projection for the set of component images corresponding to a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080143749 - Post-render graphics rotation: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for rotating a rendered surface. The apparatus includes a graphics processor configured to render a surface, wherein a display orientation parameter is associated with the surface, the display orientation parameter defining a rotation process. The apparatus further includes a display processor configured to... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080143750 - System and method for controlling printing applications over variable layouts: A system and method for accurately controlling a printing process regardless web width or printing layout. A user interface is provided for configuring a printing application that includes a plurality of sensors arranged to form an interface region. The sensors are configured to generate feedback indicating user interaction with the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20080143751 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for displaying image, and apparatus, method, and computer program for providing image, and recording medium: A display apparatus includes a recorder for recording a plurality of two-dimensional images that are obtained with a three-dimensional image viewed from different viewpoints, the three-dimensional image having a plurality of content indicators representing contents and arranged in three-dimensional coordinates representing first through third impression values of impression at each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080143757 - Backlight brightness control for liquid crystal display panel: A display device is provided with a display panel on which a plurality of display pixels are provided; a backlight illuminating the display panel; and a display panel driver driving the display panel. The display panel driver externally receiving image data and a clock signal for controlling timings of receiving... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080143756 - Image display control device: An image display control device calculates a lighting luminance after reduction in luminance and an image correction coefficient by real-time calculations of a common calculator. The common calculator is controlled by microcodes stored in a code table. When correcting an image, chroma correction is enhanced to suppress a decrease in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080143754 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: In the liquid crystal display, a frequency converter doubles a frame frequency of an inputted frame to generate a doubled odd numbered frame and a doubled even numbered frame. A timing controller generates a gamma swing control signal which controls a swing of a gamma reference voltage which is used... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080143752 - Method and device of rapidly generating a gray-level versus brightness curve of a display: A method for rapidly generating the gray-level versus brightness curve of a display includes the step of obtaining a portion of the gray-level values and their corresponding brightness values. These values are then used in a mathematical formula to find variables to obtain the gray-level versus brightness curve.... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143753 - Method and device of rapidly generating a gray-level versus brightness curve of a display: A method of rapidly generating a gray-level versus brightness curve of display causes a color display to display a test image that includes a plurality of block images. Each block image has different gray-level value. By using a light detector and a color analyzing device, corresponding brightness values of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080143755 - Method, medium, and system implementing wide angle viewing: A method, medium, and system implementing wide angle viewing compensation for a digital display device. The system includes a display unit to display an input image, a sensor unit to sense a change in the slope of the display unit with respect to a ground surface, and an image processor... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143758 - Method of driving plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus driven by the method: A method of driving a plasma display panel by reducing the types of voltages applied to the plasma display panel and a plasma display panel driven by the method include. driving the plasma display panel in which discharge cells are formed on regions where address electrodes cross sustain electrodes in... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080143759 - Gate driving circuit and driving circuit unit thereof: A driving circuit unit outputting a driving signal includes an input unit, an assistant output unit and an output unit. The input unit is coupled to an input node and receives a start signal to make the input node have a potential. The assistant output unit receives a first clock... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080143760 - Post-render graphics scaling: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for scaling a rendered surface. The apparatus includes a graphics processor configured to render a surface at a source resolution, wherein a scaling parameter is associated with the surface, the scaling parameter defining the source resolution and a destination resolution. The apparatus further... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080136740 - Multi-monitor displaying system: The present invention provides a system supporting multiple monitors, comprising a computer, a cable for PG-Express data transporting, a PCI-Express graphics processing unit and its memory, and a monitor.... Agent: John Chen

20080136741 - Single plane spanning mode across independently driven displays: A multi-layer display device having a first display screen having a first resolution and adapted to present a first visual image thereon, a second display screen having a second resolution and adapted to present a second visual image thereon, and a logic device configured to communicate with the first display... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080136742 - Method and apparatus for compensating for distortion in a scanned beam system: A scanning system device has a predetermined aberration as it scans or switches light along selected optical paths. A deformable membrane receives the light and introduces an inverse “aberration” that offsets that of the scanning system. In one embodiment the scanning system includes a torsion arm that supports an oscillatory... Agent: Microvision, Inc.

20080136743 - Image signal readout method and apparatus, and image signal readout system: An image signal readout method for reading out an image signal from an image detector including multitudes of pixels, each having a TFT switch, disposed two-dimensionally, in which a leak level flowing out to each of the data lines are detected with a signal for switching OFF the TFT switches... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136746 - Apparatus of driving plasma display panel: A temperature of the plasma display panel is detected by a temperature sensor. An apparatus includes a display panel, a plate disposed adjacent to a rear surface of the panel, and a board disposed substantially parallel to the plate. A temperature sensor is formed on the board, and the temperature... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080136745 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display including a PDP and a driving method. High PDP temperatures and high load ratios impair the sustain discharge operation by creating uncontrollable charges that create a weak discharge during the address period. Subfields are rearranged to place a subfield having a weight lower than a reference weight... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080136744 - Plasma display device and power supply module: A plasma display device includes a PDP module having a plasma display panel (PDP), a drive circuit applying positive and negative sustain pulses having the same absolute value to the PDP, and a voltage detection circuit detecting voltage from the power supply module, and a power supply module having voltage... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080136747 - Plasma display panel driving method, plasma display panel driver circuit, and plasma display device: A driving method and a driver circuit for improving the definition of display image on a plasma display device. In an initial state in an addressing discharge period, a scanning electrode is applied with a scanning base pulse at a first power supply potential. This suppresses a weak erroneous discharge... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136748 - Ac-type gas-discharge display device: A novel PDP device capable of reducing the peak current of a sustain discharge without the need to modify circuits has been disclosed. The PDP device is an AC-type gas-discharge display device comprising an AC-type gas-discharge panel 1 having a plurality of first electrodes X and a plurality of second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080136749 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a plasma display device and a driving method thereof. A second voltage higher than a first voltage is applied to second electrodes while the first voltage is applied to first electrodes during at least a portion of a wall charge compensation period occurring between a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080136751 - Organic light emitting diode display on a flexible substrate: A flexible metal foil substrate organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method for forming the same are provided. The method comprises: supplying a metal foil substrate such as titanium (Ti), Inconel alloy, or Kovar, having a thickness in the range of 10 to 500 microns; planarizing the metal... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20080136750 - Pixel addressing circuit and method of controlling on such circuit: The pixel addressing circuit comprises two actuating transistors connected in series with a same diode to the terminals of a supply voltage, and two switching transistors each comprising a gate and respectively connected between data signals and the gate of the associated actuating transistors. The gates of the switching transistors... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136753 - Circuit and method for driving pixel of organic electroluminescent display: A circuit and method for driving pixels in an organic electroluminescent display that reduces the number of wirings of a compensation circuit for addressing brightness non-uniformity. The pixel driving circuit includes an organic electroluminescent device that emits light corresponding to an amount of a current being applied. A first transistor... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080136752 - Image display apparatus, image display monitor and television receiver: A control LSI (30) time-divides one frame period of an input image signal into a plurality of sub-frame periods and outputs the signal to a display panel, so as to carry out image display by pseudo impulse driving. At this time, in a first display mode, a first tone converting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080136754 - Display apparatus, display-apparatus control method and program: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including an input/output section for displaying an image as well as detecting a light beam representing an input received from an external source and is capable of handling inputs received from the external source as inputs destined for a plurality of points on a... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080136755 - Display apparatus and method for controlling contrast thereof: A method for controlling the contrast of a display apparatus is provided. The method includes following steps. The invention compiles the brightness distribution of the image signal and adjusts at least the contrast ratio and/or the brightness in the on-screen display (OSD) configuration of the display apparatus according to the... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080136758 - Display device: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a panel driven according to a video signal; a light source configured to emit light for illuminating the panel; a lens sheet disposed between the panel and the light source; and driving means for driving the panel. The lens sheet is... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080136760 - Display substrate and display panel having the same: A display substrate includes a base substrate, a first storage electrode, a second storage electrode, a first insulating layer, a first spacing member and a second spacing member. The base substrate includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region that are defined by a plurality of gate lines... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136759 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes each having a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode that face each other in a diagonal direction; a plurality of gate lines; and a plurality of data lines that intersect the plurality of gate lines and at least... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136756 - Liquid crystal display device, system and methods of compensating for delays of gate driving signals thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate driving shift register having symmetrically split circuit portions by which each of plural gate lines is dually driven from both ends of the gate line during ripple-through scanning of rows of the LCD device. The LCD device includes a timing controller generating... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136757 - Semiconductor storage unit, semiconductor device and display device as well as liquid crystal display and image receiving apparatus: To provide a semiconductor storage unit that has a simple structure requiring only a small number of processes to produce, and is provided with a gate insulating film having a memory function. The semiconductor storage unit has a semiconductor layer, two diffusion layer regions forming a source region and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136761 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: In a display apparatus, a data driver converts a first group of image data into a first data voltage based on a first gamma reference voltage during a first period and converts a second group of the image data into a second data voltage based on a second gamma reference... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136763 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, display apparatus, and projection display apparatus: An image processing apparatus is disclosed which carries out correction processing of an image signal made up of a plurality of bits. The apparatus includes: a correction processing unit configured to perform gamma correction of an input image signal; and a fine control processing unit configured to establish as desired... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080136762 - Optical display system and method, active and passive dithering using birefringence, color image superpositioning and display enhancement with phase coordinated polarization switching:

20080136764 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof having a plurality of common electrodes to which a common voltage is independently applied, and divided into more than two portions to change a potential of a common voltage into divided common electrode units, and reducing amplitude of a scanning pulse... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080136765 - Low power active matrix display: Described herein are systems and methods for stress avoidance and stress compensation in low power Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). In an exemplary embodiment, two or more transistors in series are used to hold charge on an LCD pixel. To avoid negative stress on the transistors, the transistors are alternately driven... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080136766 - Apparatus and method for displaying image data: Pixel activation time based brightness uniformity control of a display device is disclosed. A number of pixels within the display device are identified as needing an intensity adjustment when digital image data is rendered by the display device. An activation time of the number of identified pixels is adjusted relative... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080136767 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus and a driving method thereof, in which the display apparatus includes a temperature sensor detecting a temperature, a first memory, a timing controller that receives an (n−1)th image signal and an nth image signal of consecutive frames, corrects the nth image signal and outputs the nth image... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080136771 - Backlight control circuit with primary and secondary switch units: An exemplary backlight control circuit (20) includes a sampling circuit (210), a pulse width modulation integrated circuit (260), a primary switch unit (271), and two secondary switch units (272, 273) connected in series to the primary switch unit. The sampling circuit outputs voltage signals to control on-off states of the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080136769 - Backlight driving apparatus: A backlight driving apparatus is disclosed which is capable of simplifying a circuit configuration for driving of a plurality of light emitting diode arrays and making the current balance of the light emitting diode arrays uniform. The backlight driving apparatus includes n light emitting diode arrays that include a plurality... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080136768 - Display apparatus and method for controlling contrast thereof: A method of controlling the contrast of a display apparatus including the following steps is provided in the present invention. First, the brightness distribution ratios of an image signal are compiled and the backlight brightness of the display apparatus is adjusted according to the brightness distribution ratios of the image... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080136770 - Thermal control for led backlight: A backlighting system comprising: a controller; at least one luminaire comprising a plurality of LEDs; and at least one thermal sensor in communication with the controller, the controller being operative to control the luminance of the at least one luminaire responsive to the at least one thermal sensor. Preferably, the... Agent: Microsemi Corp - Amsg Ltd.

20080136773 - Driving method for electrophoretic display: b

20080136772 - Electrophoretic dispersion liquid and electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic dispersion liquid for an electrophoretic display apparatus includes a plurality of electrophoretic particles each surface of which is modified by one of a basic group and an acidic group, a liquid for holding said electrophoretic particles to be dispersed therein; and a polydiene, having the other group, dissolved... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080136774 - Methods for driving electrophoretic displays using dielectrophoretic forces: A dielectrophoretic display is shifted from a low frequency closed state to a high frequency open state via at least one, and preferably several, intermediate frequency states; the use of such multiple frequency steps reduces flicker during the transition. A second type of dielectrophoretic display has a light-transmissive electrode through... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080136775 - Virtual input device for computing: A virtual input device or apparatus that replaces the typical mouse, keyboard or other finger manipulated inputs currently used as inputs for any type of computing system such as signals used to control computers, PDAs, Video Games, Multimedia Displays and other similar electronic systems whether of a desktop or mobile... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080136776 - Method and device for touch free operation: Method for touch-free operation, in which light is transmitted and the reflected component of the transmitted light is received, in order to active a function. The light is sent from at least two directions, in such a way that the light beams intersect at essentially the desired operating area and... Agent: Joel D. Skinner, Jr. Skinner And Associates

20080136777 - Sweat-free mouse device: A sweat-free mouse device includes a mouse main body and a sweat-free cover. The mouse main body has an upper surface for resting a user's palm thereon and includes a recess structure in the upper surface thereof, wherein a first magnetic element is disposed in the recess structure. The sweat-free... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080136778 - Mouse device for a computer: An apparatus for a mouse device includes a body including a generally cylindrical shape and configured to fit in a palm of a user's hand. A track ball is positioned at an end of the body. A scroll knob is positioned circumferentially of the track ball. Click buttons are positioned... Agent: Eli Hursh

20080136781 - Dual light sources mouse capable of controlling the on and off state of the second light source: A dual light sources mouse capable of controlling the on and off state of the second light source is proposed. The dual light sources mouse includes a first sensor unit, a first light emitting unit, a microprocessor unit, a second sensor unit and a second light emitting unit. The dual... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080136780 - Method for generating a laser light detecting signal of an optical mouse: A method for generating a laser light detecting signal for an optical mouse provides a plurality of different electrical actions of the optical mouse. The optical mouse includes at least an optical emitting unit, an optical receiving unit, a detecting unit, and a signal processing unit. The method for generating... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080136779 - Single-fault laser driver control for optical mouse: The invention concerns an optical pointing device comprising a coherent light source for illuminating a surface portion with radiation, a driver of the coherent light source for controlling coherent light emissions, a photodetector device responsive to radiation reflected from the illuminated surface portion, processing means for determining, based on the... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, Pc

20080136782 - System and method for powering information handling system keyboard illumination: An information handling system keyboard assembly interfaces with an information handling system through a connector that communicates user inputs made at a keyboard and provides power for illumination. Illumination traces formed in a keyboard matrix extend between the connector and an illumination circuit coupling point located proximate the connector. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080136783 - System and method for configuring a computer keyboard: A computer keyboard is set up a with full-scale programmable hotkeys for users. The user easily defines words/word sequences he/she frequently uses for word processing. By depressing a dedicated key, the corresponding predefined word/word sequence is immediately displayed to the user.... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080136789 - Cosmetic enhancement mirror: Cosmetic enhancement mirror methods and related systems... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080136784 - Method and device for selectively activating a function thereof: A method of activating a user function in an electronic device, the method comprising displaying an icon of the user function on a display of the device in response to detecting manual contact at a user's finger contact surface area at a corresponding tablet region of a touch sensitive tablet.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080136786 - Moving objects presented by a touch input display device: The invention concerns a method, touch input display device and computer program product for moving at least one object presented by the touch input display device. In the touch input display device it is detected that a touching member (46) is at least in close proximity of a first object... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080136785 - Operating touch screen interfaces: Techniques and technologies are provided which can allow for touch input with a touch screen device. In response to an attempt to select a target displayed on a screen, a callout can be rendered in a non-occluded area of the screen. The callout includes a representation of the area of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080136788 - Touch panel unit: There are provided a design sheet (5) attached to the surface of an upper electrode film (1) of a touch panel (4) such that the design sheet is protruded at its periphery from the touch panel (4) and a touch-panel-unit casing (6) which is integrally molded with the design sheet... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080136787 - Touchpad having single layer layout: A touchpad has a substrate; and a single trace layer formed on the substrate. The single trace layer has a single trace layer including rows of conductive traces. Each conductive trace has a gradual change resistance according to a distance far away from one end.... Agent: Hdsl

20080136790 - Video signal output device and operation input processing method: A video signal output device is disclosed. The device includes: a video signal generation section that generates an output video signal for screen display; an operation input section that detects a physical touch position and a pressure with respect to an input surface, and in accordance with a detection result,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080136793 - Electronic device having a position sensor: The present invention provides an electronic device comprising: —a position sensor (102; 302; 502), —a first integrated circuit component (106; 306; 506) coupled to the position sensor for acquisition of position data (112; 312), —a memory (114; 314) for storing the position data, a second integrated circuit component (108; 308),... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080136791 - Liquid resistive touch panel: A portable electronic device may include a resistive touch panel that may include an information presentation device. The resistive touch panel may include a flexible outer electrically conducting layer, an inner electrically conducting layer, and a separating chamber containing a liquid may be provided between the outer and inner electrically... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080136792 - Preventing unintentional activation of a touch-sensor button caused by a presence of conductive liquid on the touch-sensor button: An apparatus and method for preventing unintentional activation of the one or more touch-sensor buttons caused by a presence of conductive liquid on the touch panel. The apparatus may include a processing device to prevent unintentional activations of one or more touch-sensor buttons caused by a presence of conductive liquid... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080136794 - Input devices incorporating pixels and photo sensors: Disclosed are devices for integrating photo sensors into sub-pixels of pixels of an array of pixels to substantially maintain the brightness of a touch screen display. In one embodiment, one or more photo sensors are distributed across two colored sub-pixels. Accordingly, the aperture ratios of the sub-pixels can be more... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080136799 - Data driver and display apparatus using the same: A data driver circuit includes a clock control circuit configured to generate a shift clock signal in synchronization to a clock signal; a shift register circuit having flip-flops in cascade-connection and configured to shift a pulse signal in synchronization with the shift clock signal, and a control circuit configured to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080136797 - Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: A display apparatus includes a substrate, an electrode array, a non-crystalline column integrated driving circuit and a non-crystalline row integrated driving circuit. The substrate has a surface. The electrode array is disposed on the surface of the substrate. The non-crystalline column integrated driving circuit is disposed on the surface of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136795 - Display device and driving method thereof: In a pixel circuit Aij, a driver TFT Q1, a switching TFT Q3, and an OLED EL1 are connected in series between a power supply line Vp and a common cathode Vcom. A capacitor C1 is connected between the gate of the driver TFT Q1 and the voltage line Ui.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080136801 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (2) includes a first substrate (21) having a plurality of common electrodes, parallel to each other, formed thereat; a second substrate (22) opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (23) sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The second substrate has a plurality... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080136798 - Liquid-crystal display device using a liquid-crystal display panel and driver circuit for driving the liquid-crystal display panel: A liquid-crystal display device comprises a liquid-crystal panel having liquid-crystal display elements at intersections of a plurality of address lines and a plurality of signal lines, a signal line driver circuit configured to drive the signal line at an image signal voltage, and an address line driver circuit configured to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080136796 - Methods and apparatus for displaying images on a moving display unit: Methods and apparatus for maintaining displayed imagery stationary relative to the physical surroundings when the imagery is displayed on a display device which moves (e.g., translates and/or rotates) relative to the physical surroundings. To maintain an image's position relative to the physical surroundings, the position of the display device may... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080136800 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus comprising the driving module supplying scan pulses to scan electrodes during an address period and supplying sustain pulses to scan/sustain electrodes during a sustain period, a first resonance forming unit that supplies energy for forming the sustain pulses to the scan/sustain electrodes, a second resonance forming... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080136802 - Module operation information display system: A module operation information display system is applicable to a data processing device having a plurality of functional modules and a first electrical connection unit electrically connected with the functional modules. The module operation information display system includes a second electrical connection unit electrically connectable with the first electrical connection... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080136805 - Apparatus and method for driving display panel: A display panel drive apparatus is provided with: a drive circuit outputting drive voltages to a display panel in response to a timing control signal used for timing control of image display on the display panel; and a booster circuit feeding a boosted power supply voltage to the drive circuit.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080136803 - Cable detection method and apparatus: A cable detection apparatus includes; a plurality of conductors which transmit signal information, a detection control circuit operably connected to a first conductor of the plurality of conductors, wherein the detection control circuit outputs an output signal as a first detection signal when a predetermined signal level is detected from... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080136804 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a pixel, a data line that transmits a data voltage to the pixel, a common voltage line that transmits a common voltage to the pixel, and a driver that selectively applies the data voltage and a ground voltage to the data line and selectively applies... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136806 - Data driver and liquid crystal display device using the same: A liquid crystal display having data driving apparatus comprising first and second output switches, a charge sharing line, and first and second charge sharing switches. The first output switch switches an electrical connection between a first amplifier providing a positive gradation voltage and a first data line in response to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136807 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof reduce the number of power supplies by generating each of different levels of voltages from one power supply using a voltage converter. The plasma display device comprises: a plasma display panel formed with a plurality of electrodes including a scan electrode;... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080136809 - Liquid crystal displays: An LCD corrects deviations in pixel kickback voltages caused by delays in gate driving signals. The LCD includes a timing controller generating first and second output enable signals, first and second level shifters respectively generating first and second gate clock pulses and inverted clock pulses, and first and second gate... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080136808 - Method and system for illuminating a display screen of a handheld electronic device: A method (400) and system for illuminating a display screen (106) of a handheld electronic device (100) is disclosed. The system includes a transparent display screen cover (104), which is movably coupled to a housing (102) of the handheld electronic device. Further, the system includes at least one switch (206).... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080136810 - Image display device, image display panel, panel drive device, and method of driving image display panel: In the present invention, during a 1H period excluding a blanking period (1HB) constituting a line display period, pixel data pulses of RGB (61B to 61R) are successively supplied for each color to corresponding signal lines for color display of one pixel line. A control circuit (40) of select switches... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080136815 - Image display controlling apparatus, image display controlling program and image display controlling method: An image display controlling apparatus for displaying three-dimensional information of an object to be examined on a display unit, includes: a planar image obtaining device; a display planar image designating device; a display limit information obtaining device; a display ability judgment device; a synthesis rate obtaining device; a synthesizing device... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080136811 - Image displaying system: An image display system is provided. The image display system is comprised of an image display device and an image generating process. The image displaying system generates an at least one second image, including a at least one second hairstyle after receiving a at least one first image, including the... Agent: Wasserman, Comden & Casselman, L.l.p.

20080136813 - Method and system for region of interest calibration parameter adjustment of tracking systems: A method for adjusting parameters of a calibration model in a position sensing system including a sensor for obtaining a measurement indicative of a location of an object, the method including: a) providing an initial set of model parameters for determining a relationship between a sensor measurement and a location... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080136814 - System and method for generating 3-d facial model and animation using one video camera: Provided are system and method for generating a 3D facial model and animation using one video camera. The system includes a pre-processing part, a facial model generating part, a transferring part, a projecting part, an error calculating part, and a mesh transforming part. The pre-processing part sets correspondence relations with... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080136812 - System and method for model creation and computer animation: A system and method for creating a three dimensional model of an object having a three dimensional shape is disclosed that includes first creating a mathematical function and the related numerical data which defines a three dimensional shape, and wherein the mathematical function and data creates a first patch which... Agent: Venable LLP

20080136816 - Three dimensional graphics system with early occlusion culling using z-ranges: An apparatus and a method for generating 3-dimensional computer graphic images. The image is first sub-divided into a plurality of rectangular areas. A display list memory is loaded with object data for each rectangular area. The image and shading data for each picture element of each rectangular area are derived... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.c.

20080136817 - Modular volume rendering using visual programming: The rendering pipeline is divided into multiple components or modules in a scene graph based visual programming environment. Different stages of the rendering pipeline, such as data conversion, transform function, shading, and rendering, are grouped into independent conceptual modules, and each module is implemented by separate nodes in a scene... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080136818 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Appearance parameters for each object are set by pressing an appearance parameter setting button (208) for each object ID selected by a body object selection button (207). Upon generation of a two-dimensional image for pseudo three-dimensional presentation, the color values of each object are determined based on the appearance parameters... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080136819 - Apparatus and method for screen scaling displays on communication devices: A communication device and method of screen scaling dissimilar resolutions across communication devices is disclosed. A communications device includes a physical display configured to display graphics having a physical display resolution, a communications interface configured to provide an interface with a peer communications device for graphics having a predetermined resolution... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP/ea

20080136821 - Graphing calculation apparatus and controlling method of graphing calculation apparatus: A graphing calculation apparatus comprises a mode setting unit which sets one of a manual mode and an automatic mode based on an instruction made by a user. A key data input unit inputs key data entered by the user. The input key data is stored in a key data... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080136820 - Progressive cut: interactive object segmentation: Progressive cut interactive object segmentation is described. In one implementation, a system analyzes strokes input by the user during iterative image segmentation in order to model the user's intention for refining segmentation. In the user intention model, the color of each stroke indicates the user's expectation of pixel label change... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080136822 - Method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and laying out a graphic within an application program: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating and laying out a graphic within a drawing application program. The method includes receiving a data model defining a set of data and data relationships to be represented in the graphic, receiving a graphic definition describing the mapping of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080136823 - Item editing method, item editing device, and program: An item editing device, and item editing method, and a program stored on a tangible media enable easily editing items whether the item is rectangle or an arch shape by unifying the item editing operation and reducing the number of steps. The item editing method enables editing an editable item... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080136824 - System and method for producing locomotion animation: Provided are a system and a method that automatically produce natural locomotion animation without an applicable discontinuity portion with respect to various moving distance and timing by using motion capture data. The system includes a motion capture data storage, a simulation calculator, and an animation calculator. The method includes defining... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080136825 - Pc-based computing system employing a multi-gpu graphics pipeline architecture supporting multiple modes of gpu parallelization dymamically controlled while running a graphics application: A PC-based computing system capable of displaying images of 3-D objects during an interactive process between said computing system and a user thereof. 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 memory,... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080136827 - Pc-based computing system employing a silicon chip having a routing unit and a control unit for parallelizing multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores during a graphics application: A PC-based computing system employing a silicon chip having a routing unit and a control unit for parallelizing multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores during 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... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq. P.c.

20080136826 - Pc-based computing system employing a silicon chip with a routing unit to distribute geometrical data and graphics commands to multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores during a mode of parallel operation: A PC-based computing system employing a silicon 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 a system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080136829 - Gpu context switching system: A graphics processing unit (GPU) context switching system is provided. The GPU renders digital 3D images based on register values therein. A video random access memory (VRAM) temporarily stores the images before the images are output to a display. A driver controls the GPU. Upon receiving a first request for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080136828 - Remote access device: A remote access device is installed on a first computing device with a first video source to receive a first video signal. A second computing device may access the first computing device via a network. The remote access comprises a second video source to provide a second video signal, a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080136830 - Logo display method and apparatus of multimedia player: A method and apparatus for a logo display of a multimedia player are provided. The apparatus includes a memory which stores at least one logo to be displayed on the multimedia player, a logo location pointer which points to the location of the memory at which a logo to be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136831 - Method and system for renewing screen: There is provided a screen update method and system including: a first step of identifying image resource data associated with a first image update event from a predetermined basic recording space in case that the first image update event occurs; a second step of loading the identified image resource data... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080136832 - Dynamic tuning of user-space process: One embodiment relates to a method for dynamic tuning of a user-space process. The method attaches to the user-space process. Load-time and compile-time base addresses of a data section of an object to be tuned are read. An offset to a symbol to be tuned is determined, and an effective... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080136833 - Sticky note display processing device and sticky note display processing method: A sticky note display processing device is connected to an image reading device and a display device and is provided with at least a storage device and a control device. The control device includes image reading unit that controls the image reading device to read an image on a sticky... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080136834 - Automatically generating a content-based quality metric for digital images: Techniques are described herein for automatically evaluating the quality of digital images based on one or more color characteristics of the images. In some embodiments, a quality metric that indicates the likelihood that the digital images convey semantics is generated based on color characteristics of the digital images. The quality... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080136835 - Image signal processor and image display device: An image signal processor includes a controller configured to generate a red output signal, a green output signal, a blue output signal and a fourth color output signal in accordance with image input signals. A fourth color light component enables to reproduce a color outside the range of a color... Agent: Mots Law, Pllc

20080136836 - Method for mapping colors between imaging systems and method therefor: A method of performing color conversion between profiles includes comparing two sets of measured and reference data for at least one device corresponding to one of the profiles used in the color conversion, the data from the two sets of measured and reference data correspond to the same device values... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080136837 - Image processing device, control method of image processing device, and storage medium: To display display data at high speed without needlessly increasing an amount of the display data to be transferred to a display unit, a display control system is controlled by dividing a display screen into plural areas, displaying the display data on each of the plural areas, and transferring the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080136838 - System and method for visual annotation and knowledge representation: A method and system for visually annotating an image. Annotations and notes to images, such as digital medical and healthcare images, may be stored in a structured vector representation alongside image information in a single, non-volatile and portable file or in a separate file from the image. The annotations may... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, Pc

20080136839 - Flight portal: A flight portal apparatus for displaying a virtual view of a surface of the earth below an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a data processing system and a display device, connected to the data processing system, wherein the display device is positioned to generate a display that is substantially horizontal relative... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080136840 - System and method for merging images of an object: A method for merging images of an object is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) reading the images in a storage merging all the images to form a logic rectangle rcA, and calculating a reduction scale S of the logic rectangle rcA; (b) calculating a reduction scale S... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080136841 - Display apparatus: A map display apparatus includes a display unit, a data access unit accessible to map data, which includes a map image and character strings, and a control unit that allows the display unit to display the map data on a screen in such a manner that each character string is... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20080136842 - Method and apparatus for converting graphics display information including partial scaling and area expansion: A method and device for converting graphics display information from a first display format to a second display format using partial scaling and area expansion and fill. The method includes scaling the graphics display information from the first format to an intermediate format that is larger than the first format... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080136843 - Display device and back light thereof and method of driving the back light: A display device, a back light thereof, and a method of driving the back light are disclosed in the present invention. A field emitting back light plate is used as a back light module of a passive light-emitting display device in the present invention. Because various video signals are produced... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080136847 - Display device, integrated circuit device, and electronic instrument: A display device includes an integrated circuit device and a display panel. The display panel includes a panel test terminal that is used to test the display panel, and a driver output terminal that is electrically connected with a data driver pad of the integrated circuit device and is electrically... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080136844 - Display driver: In a display driver, a first backlight control unit using a histogram and a second backlight control unit using an optical sensor can be used in combination. The display driver includes a PWM generating unit setting a control signal value consisting of a product of a luminance rate of X... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080136848 - Display driver including grayscale voltage generator having plural resistors in series each having suitable width: A gradation voltage generation circuit includes a plurality of serially-connected grayscale resistors. The grayscale resistors produce a plurality of gradation voltages. Based on correction information, a width of a selected grayscale resistor is changed without changing a length of the resistor. As a result, the width of the resistor is... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080136846 - Image display apparatus: A drive circuit of an image display apparatus has a correction circuit for outputting driving data that is corrected on the basis of a correction value. The correction value is a correction value that corrects variation of brightness of a plurality of pixels. The correction on the basis of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080136845 - Image display method and image display device using the same: In the case where a first bit number of a picture signal entered to a driver unit for driving an image display device is larger than a second bit number of display data outputted from the driver unit, a display method for displaying an image in such a gradation of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080129646 - Multi-function picture frame: A multi-function desktop photo frame configured to interchangeably display graphic images in either a conventional paper format or digital format, and incorporating some of widely used office functions. In the preferred embodiment, the photo frame includes an AM/FM radio and an LCD screen on which an alphanumeric message, inputted by... Agent: The Soni Law Firm

20080129647 - Multi-sided display for portable computer: A display apparatus for providing multi-sided viewing functionality. In one embodiment, the display apparatus is comprised of a front cover which is electrically and mechanically coupled to an electronic device. A first display component is disposed on the front cover and includes a front display panel and a rear display... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080129649 - Electronic display frame with coordinated image: A system for decoration of an electronic display generally comprises a border positionable about the display, a first image displayable on the display, and wherein the border carries a design that coordinates with the first image displayable on the display, such that, the border can have a design that: (a)... Agent: Fish & Associates, Pc Robert D. Fish

20080129648 - Video display apparatus: A video display apparatus includes a video window management table 2 for managing video window information; a video window alteration detecting section 3 for updating the video window information in the video window management table 2 by detecting a display state of the video windows; a compressed video region cutting-out... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129653 - Display device mounted with read function and electric appliance: According to the present invention, a material having a light-shielding property is used for a bank layer surrounding the edge of a light-emitting element. Accordingly, light which is not reflected by an object to be read out can be prevented from entering an image pick-up element, and information on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080129652 - Flat panel display device and method of driving the same: A flat panel display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed, to cut down the cost of driving circuit by decreasing the number of data lines, wherein the flat panel display device comprises a plurality of gate and data lines which are formed on a substrate; an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129651 - Memory circuit for display panel driving and driving method thereof: Provided is a circuit driving method which can minimize a problem generated by a peak current in a display memory device. Data to be transferred to a display panel is read out from a memory cell array storing binary information. The read-out data are stored in source data buffers and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080129654 - Muli-signal displayer: A multi-signal desktop digital displayer that can selectively display digital signals created from digital utilities such as a clock, timer, alarm, or thermometer by rotating a large artistically designed disc. The multi-signal displayer has a housing to encase electric circuitry, a disc rotatably mounted on the front face of the... Agent: The Soni Law Firm

20080129655 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel which includes a front panel having a front substrates on which display electrodes each having a scan electrode and a sustain electrode disposed to each other with a discharge gap in between are provided in a plurality of columns; and a rear panel having a rear... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080129657 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel is disclosed. In one embodiment, the panel includes i) a substrate in which a display area where an image is displayed and a non-display area outside the display area are defined, ii) a plurality of discharge electrodes that extend from the display area to the non-display... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080129656 - Plasma display panel driving method: A plasma display panel driving method in which a reset step and an address step are sequentially executed in the first subfield and second subfield of each field. A microemission step is executed in the first subfield for generating a microemission discharge between ones of the row electrodes and the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129658 - Driving apparatus of plasma display panel and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display panel having discharge gaps formed by a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, the method including: measuring a load ratio of an input video signal inputted to the plasma display panel; applying a greatest number of discharge pulses with... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080129659 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a method for driving the plasma display device capable of reducing noise. The plasma display device displays images using a plurality of discharge cells, and is constructed with a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes intersecting... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080129660 - Display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a pixel array; and a driver configured to drive the pixel array. The pixel array including rows of scanning lines, columns of signal lines, a matrix of pixels disposed at crossings of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and feeding lines associated... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080129661 - Display capable of displaying multi-color space: A display capable of displaying multi-color space and including a display unit, a control circuit, and a light source is provided. The control circuit is electrically connected to the display unit and the light source respectively. In addition, the light source is controlled by the control circuit to switch between... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080129663 - Backlight control apparatus, dislay device, and method for controlling backlight of display device: According to one embodiment, a backlight control apparatus includes a setting section which sets a count value according to a cycle of a PWM pulse signal, a counter section which counts to the count value set by the setting section, a comparing/changing section which compares an actually measured count value... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080129662 - Method, medium, and display system with enlarged apparent size: A display method, medium, and system having an enlarged apparent size greater than a display size of a corresponding display panel. The display device may include a display panel outputting input image data, and a periphery element making up the boundary of the display panel, such that the periphery element... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080129668 - Driving liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display, includes receiving source data, reducing the number of bits of the source data, thereby generating a reduced-bit source data, comparing the reduced-bit source data of a previous frame with the reduced-bit source data of a current frame to select a preset modulated... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080129666 - Method and apparatus for changing a display direction of a screen of a portable electronic device: A portable electronic device having a display screen capable of changing display directions is disclosed. The portable electronic device, such as a tablet personal computer, includes a tiltmeter, a display direction determining circuit and a display direction changing circuit. The tiltmeter measures a first tilt angle of a first axis... Agent: Dillion & Yudell LLP

20080129667 - Methods for driving electro-optic displays: A bistable electro-optic display is updated by writing an image on the display using a first drive scheme capable of driving pixels to multiple gray levels, and thereafter varied using a second drive scheme using only two gray levels, at least one of which is not an extreme optical state... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080129664 - Pixel structure and method for manufacturing thereof: A pixel structure including a scan line, a data line, an active device, a shielding electrode, and a pixel electrode is provided on a substrate. The data line includes an upper conductive wire and a bottom conductive wire. The upper conductive wire is disposed over and across the scan line.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080129665 - Timing controller and liquid crystal display comprising the timing controller: A liquid crystal display includes a timing controller, a panel, and a driving chip. The timing controller includes a data pin port, a control pin, and a selector. The data pin port includes a plurality of pins. The control pin receives a control signal. The selector determines a transmission or... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080129671 - Color display system: A color display system comprises a color signal source, a buffer unit, a storage unit, a recovering module, a comprising unit, and a multi-functional comparing unit. The multi-functional comparing unit is used for comparing a recovered OD value of the recovering module, a grayscale of the color signal source, and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080129669 - Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method of manufacturing the same in which the color filter remains in a boundary portion between pixel electrodes on a storage electrode line or the pixel and common electrodes to prevent residuals of the pixel electrode from shorting the pixel electrodes when the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129670 - Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof: A liquid crystal display device for preventing a vertical line defect includes sub-pixels arranged repeatedly in order of red, green, and blue along an N-th (where N is a natural number) horizontal line, and sub-pixels formed in a staggered structure with the N-th horizontal line and arranged repeatedly in order... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129673 - Display device and method of driving the same: Disclosed are a display device and a method of driving the same that improve both moving image visibility and lateral visibility. A display panel including gate and data lines arranged in the form of a matrix for displaying an image, a gate driver for driving the gate line, and a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129672 - Image display apparatus, image display monitor and television receiver: A point at which the luminance varies between successive frames is detected with respect to an input image signal whose one-frame period is represented by a given gradation level. In a frame in which the luminance has just varied (i.e., in a post-change frame), the gradation level is corrected so... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080129674 - Display device: The present invention prevents electrostatic breakdown attributed to static electricity even in and after a cell cutting step. In a display device which includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels which is formed in a pixel part, a plurality of video lines which applies video voltages to the plurality of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080129675 - Display device: The present invention is intended to reduce a peak value of a momentary current, which is generated in a data driver, even when display data items expressing a succeeding display line have changed largely. The data driver includes: an internal control signal production circuit that groups multiple video lines into... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080129676 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed that can decrease the number of data lines used therein, and can improve the picture quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixel cells formed in respective regions defined... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080129650 - Image display system and method: A method of displaying an image with a light modulator on a display device having a timing rate requirement includes image data for the image received at an input timing rate. A frame of the image is created from the image data and a resolution of the image data is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20080129680 - Apparatus and method for controlling backlight and liquid crystal display: Disclosed is a backlight control apparatus for controlling a backlight used in a liquid crystal display, the backlight having a lighting area that includes a plurality of blocks in each of which a backlight luminance is individually allowed to change. The apparatus includes a backlight control unit that calculates the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080129679 - Image display control device: An image display control device includes a statistical information acquisition section that quickly acquires statistical information of a video image. In the statistical information acquisition section, an image signal of a video image is parallelly input to each of a plurality of statistical value units (EX0 to EX255) having an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080129677 - Liquid crystal display with area adaptive backlight: A backlight display has improved display characteristics. An image is displayed on the display which includes a liquid crystal material with a light valve. The display receives an image signal and modifies the light for a backlight array and a liquid crystal layer.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080129678 - User terminal, image display device, and method for adjusting light source thereof: A user terminal, an image display device, and a method for adjusting a light source thereof, are provided. A user terminal is connected with an image display device and comprises a first interface unit which receives a color coordinate of an ambient light; a second interface unit which receives a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129681 - Circuits for controlling display apparatus: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080129682 - 3-d computer input device and method: A 3-D computer input device to provide position information to a computer system in three dimensions is disclosed. Said 3-D computer input device is comprised of five positions or buttons each one capable of generating a signal when it is touched by the user's finger, each two different succeeding position... Agent: Cherif Atia Algreathy Mathematical Inventing - Silicon Valley

20080129684 - Display system having viewer distraction disable and method: A display system and a method of controlling a multiple-view display in a vehicle are provided. The display system includes a display for generating a first image that is viewable within a driver viewing window and a passenger image that is viewable within a passenger viewing window. The display system... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080129687 - Ergonomic hand-held computer input and control device: A hand-held computer input and control device designed to be held in the palm of a relaxed free floating hand, wherein the device is balanced for use with the user's thumb, 1st and/or 2nd fingers. In one exemplary embodiment, a hand held structure having general radial symmetry, for use in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080129683 - Foot-operated electronic device controller: A foot-operated controller is disclosed for controlling a display device. The device is manipulated by a user's feet in order to send commands to a display device. The foot-operated controller can communicate with a display device either wirelessly or through a cable. The foot-operated controller may use buttons, joysticks, track... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080129686 - Gesture-based user interface method and apparatus: Provided is a gesture-based user interface method and apparatus to improve convenience in manipulation of the gesture-based user interface. The gesture-based user interface method includes detecting an input position, determining at least one gesture that can be input in the detected position, and displaying at least one guide corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129691 - Image controller: An image controller structured for allowing inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, one preferred controller structured with at least a sufficient number of sensors to aid in controlling three-dimensional objects and navigating a three-dimensional viewpoint shown by a display. An active tactile feedback vibrator is mounted as... Agent: Brad A. Armstrong

20080129689 - Multi-angle mirror: Multi-angle mirror methods and related systems.... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080129690 - Pointing stick structure for input device: A pointing-stick structure for input device includes: a print circuit board, a light-emitting device, a stick, and a cap. The light-emitting device electrically connects to the print circuit board. The stick receives the light-emitting device and is connected the print circuit board, and the cap covers the top of the... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080129688 - System and methods for using a movable object to control a computer: A system for controlling a computer is provided. The system includes a position sensing apparatus configured to be disposed in operative proximity to a sensed object and thereby obtain positional data pertaining to the sensed object, and engine software configured to receive the positional data and process the positional data... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080129685 - Touch selection device: The invention concerns a selection device (20) of an element among a list of elements of a graphical user interface (INT) intended to be displayed on a screen (2), including a navigation means in the list and a validation means (11) of the said selected element, characterised in that the... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080129692 - Apparatus for managing multiple computers by remote control: A computer management apparatus is provided for interconnecting a single user console including user interface devices, such as a console keyboard, a console video display unit, a console mouse, and speakers for connecting to a plurality of host computers, thereby allowing the user to access one or more of the... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080129693 - Shape-adjustable computer input device: An input device has a main body having a peripheral edge, and a swinging portion pivotally connected to the main body along a rear portion of the peripheral edge, with the swinging portion pivoting between at least two different positions along the rear portion of peripheral edge. The swinging portion... Agent: Raymond Sun

20080129694 - Keyless user interface device: The present invention provides a method and apparatus used to create computer input. The apparatus includes a wearable glove constituted to sense the motions of the wearer's wrist and finger joints. Information regarding the motion of the wearer's joints is transmitted to a computer program which uses the method of... Agent: G Neil Haven

20080129695 - Foot-operated electronic mouse: A foot-operated controller is disclosed for controlling a display device. The device is manipulated by a user's feet in order to send commands to a display device. The foot-operated controller can communicate with a display device either wirelessly or through a cable. The foot-operated controller may use buttons, joysticks, track... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080129697 - Multifunction floating button: A floating button that may be used to replace a plurality of distinct buttons and/or a graphical pointing device. The floating button translates in a region defined by a housing. A sensor detects the location of the button in the region. The locations within the region may be mapped to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080129696 - System and method for verifying dpi values of computer mice: An exemplary system for verifying DPI values of computer mice is disclosed. The system comprises: a stepper motor connected with a horizontal servo axle and controlling the horizontal servo axle to perform back and forth movements which drives the computer mice to move in a straight line back and forth;... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080129698 - Opto-mechanical pointing devices that track the movement of rollers positioned at the base of the pointing devices: Each opto-mechanical pointing device includes a housing having a base that two or more rollers extend beyond to make contact with a surface. An optical module that includes a light source and a detector track the motion of the opto-mechanical pointing device directly or indirectly. Light reflecting off markings positioned... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080129699 - Portable terminal and method for controlling the same: A portable terminal having input and display units used in a controlled manner according to a hinge unit for rotating bodies to expose/hide the units, as well as a method for controlling the portable terminal, are provided. The portable terminal has two display units and two input units adapted so... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080129701 - Input device equipped with illumination mechanism: A light guide member and a sensor that constitute a front light mechanism are bonded with a bonded sheet. A double-sided adhesive tape is provided on each surface of the bonded sheet. A repairing material is printed on a surface of the sensor so as to fill concave portions provided... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080129700 - Interactive input system and method: An interactive input system comprises imaging devices with different viewpoints and having at least partially overlapping fields of view encompassing a region of interest. At least two of the imaging devices have different focal lengths. Processing structure processes image data acquired by the imaging devices to detect the existence of... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080129704 - Multipoint, virtual control, and force based touch screen applications: A method and apparatus are provided providing a touch screen having multipoint sensing and/or force based sensing and feedback capability useful in many applications which extend beyond traditional computer applications. The touch screen can be located in many non-traditional locations as well, such as desks, tables, walls, vehicles, and the... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080129702 - Pointer tool: This invention relates to a pointer tool for connecting to a display device, comprising a number of sensors elements being positioned on a two dimensional surface, for measuring a predetermined parameter at a surface, the measured quantity being sampled at a chosen rate, and calculating means for comparing the measurements... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080129703 - Portable terminal device and control method thereof: Upon determination that a portable terminal device is in a conversation state, a CPU disables a touch panel. The CPU determines whether an external output device is connected to the portable terminal device via a connector. Upon determination that the external output device is connected to the portable terminal device... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080129706 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device for preventing light leakage includes a display substrate having gate and data lines arranged in a matrix format and an image display device connected to the gate and data lines, an opposing substrate bonded to the display substrate with liquid crystals disposed therebetween, a touch... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129705 - Tactile and visual display device: Provided is a tactile and visual display device enabling visual information and tactile information to be simultaneously sensed. The tactile and visual display device includes: a display unit comprising a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of pixels; a tactile sensation generator mounted over... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080129707 - Method and apparatus employing multi-functional controls and displays: Methods and apparatus are disclosed video displays that can sense finger, object or other control information proximate the display face. Electro-optical sensing is general employed, though some embodiments illustrate conventional electronic means. Diverse applications to vehicles, homes and control systems and the like are discussed.... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080129709 - Electromagnetic pen with amplitude-controlled inking function: An electromagnetic pen with an amplitude-controlled inking function is provided, including a DC voltage source with a high voltage output source and a low voltage output source, a pen tip switch and a programmable LC circuit. The electromagnetic pen outputs an electromagnetic signal. The pen tip switch requires only a... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080129711 - Method in electronic pen, computer program product, and electronic pen: An electronic pen capable of recording position data representative of its movement runs a time handling method. In this method, a counter is operated to sequentially generate a monotonous sequence of counter values. Further, a time calculator is operated to generate a current time value. Also, a control device is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129710 - Notebook computer with stylus pen: A notebook computer includes a main body and a display unit pivotably coupled with an end portion of the main body. The main body defines a keyboard area, a handwriting area, and a receiving area having a stylus pen placed therein. The notebook computer facilitates carrying of the stylus pen.... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080129708 - Passive optical pen and user input system using the same: The present invention provides a passive optical pen for using with a display device, which comprises a handgrip for being held by a user, a reflector positioned on an end of the handgrip, and a transparent shield covering the reflector. The reflector reflects ambient light propagated from the display device... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080129712 - Pen-based computer system having variable automatic scroll: An auto-scrolling system suitable for use in a pen-based computing system is operative upon the display during text writing or other marking to exercise an intelligent variable auto scroll action when the right hand limit of the display is reached. The extent of scroll is determined by the left-most or... Agent: Roy A. Ekstrand

20080129714 - Color display device and portable electronic appliance using the same: The present invention is directed to the provision of an FSC type color display device wherein the frame frequency is set within a range of 20 Hz to 59 Hz, and a portable electronic appliance incorporating such a display device. The color display device according to the present invention includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080129717 - Display panel and display apparatus having the same: In a display panel and a display apparatus having the display panel, the display panel includes array and opposite substrates. The array substrate includes display and peripheral areas. Gate and source lines are formed in the display area. A gate driving part and first and second clock lines are formed... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129715 - Liquid crystal display device: An image line driving circuit has: an n-number of switching elements for sampling a k-number of gradation voltages inputted from outside and then sequentially supplying the gradation voltages to first to (n/k)-th groups of a k-number of image lines; and a shift register circuit for sequentially inputting sampling voltages to... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080129716 - Liquid crystal display device having analog-to-digital circuit: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (20) includes a liquid crystal display panel (200), a flexible printed circuit (270) and a driving chip (210). The flexible printed circuit includes a conductive line (273). The driving chip includes an interface circuit (230) and an analog-to-digital circuit (260), the analog-to-digital circuit is... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080129713 - Method of transmitting data from timing controller to source driving device in lcd: A method of transmitting data from a timing controller to a source driving device in a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) providing a setup/hold time; (b) transmitting a test pattern from the timing controller to the source driving device... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080129718 - Capacitive load driving circuit, method of driving capacitive load, method of driving liquid crystal display device: A capacitive load driving circuit includes a gate driver, and a source driver. The gate driver drives a plurality of capacitive loads arranged in a matrix form in a row direction. The source driver drives the plurality of capacitive loads in a column direction. The source driver includes a plurality... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080129719 - Electronic device and method for controlling the illumination of a display and/or a keypad thereof: An electronic device for controlling the illumination of a display and/or a keypad thereof. The electronic device comprises a user interface with a display and a keypad. A lighting device is adapted to provide an illumination effect to the display and/or the keypad to thereby illuminate at least one of... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080129720 - Display device and driving method thereof: In a display device, a line inversion driving chip inverts an image data to a data voltage having a positive polarity and a data voltage having a negative polarity based on positive and negative gammas alternately applied at every period, and alternately outputs a first data voltage having a first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080129721 - Common voltage adjusting method for liquid crystal display: An exemplary common voltage adjusting method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) (20) includes: providing a positive high level voltage to two sub-pixels of a first pixel unit and providing a negative high level voltage to the other sub-pixel of the first pixel unit in a first frame; inspecting the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080129722 - Liquid crystal display having control circuit for delay gradation voltages and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes an LCD panel having a plurality of display regions (240) arranged sequentially; a plurality of gate driving circuit (250) respectively connected to the display regions for providing scan signal to scanning the display region; at least a data driving circuit (230) for... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080129724 - Image editing: Systems and methods are shown for creating images of footwear. A computer device may execute an automation script or program to coordinate the function of multiple applications to manipulate the data and images used to produce variations of digital images. The automation script or program may access design element sources.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080129728 - Image file creation device, imaging apparatus and file structure: An image file creation device comprises: a thumbnail image creation device which creates two or more types of thumbnail images on the basis of a three-dimensional image; a three-dimensional image file creation device which creates a three-dimensional image file from the three-dimensional image; and a thumbnail image file creation device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129726 - Silhouette rendering apparatus and method using 3d temporal coherence for rigid object: Provided is a silhouette rendering apparatus and method using temporal coherence in a 3D space. The silhouette rendering apparatus includes: an edge extracting module for extracting edges of a 3D object by using a smooth surface method generating edges on a surface among silhouette extracting algorithms among mesh information representing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080129725 - 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..

20080129723 - System and method for converting a fish-eye image into a rectilinear image: A system and method are disclosed for converting a region of a Fish-Eye or other wide-angle image into a rectilinear image. According to an illustrative embodiment of the present disclosure, a Fish-Eye to rectilinear image conversion block is defined for use in a block diagram of a diagrammatic programming environment.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080129727 - System and method for generating curvature adapted isosurface based on delaunay triangulation: Provided are a system and method for extracting a curvature adapted mesh from a three dimensional implicit function data. The system includes an initial mesh generation module, a curvature geometry module, a space division module, and a final mesh extraction module. The initial mesh generation module generates an initial mesh... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080129729 - Systems for advanced editing and rendering of images: o

20080129730 - Method and apparatus of feature frame modeling for representing objects and shapes: Graphical objects are designed, manipulated or deduced by interpolating points, curves, surfaces or hyper surfaces through any number of input features, which are independently given curves, surfaces or hyper surfaces with associated derivative information. The interpolation is based on a new method for parameterizing discrete least squares. Said features may... Agent: Dr. Alyn P. Rockwood

20080129731 - System and method for approximating an editable surface: A system and methods are disclosed for automatically approximating an editable surface from a 3D data set or a 3D point set, which may be imaged in the form of a NURBS surface.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080129732 - Perception-based artifact quantification for volume rendering: Artifact quantification is provided in volume rendering. Since the visual conspicuity of rendering artifacts strongly influences subjective assessments of image quality, quantitative metrics that accurately correlate with human visual perception may provide consistent values over a range of imaging conditions.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080129733 - Computer graphics methods and systems for generating images with rounded corners: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program/software code products, operable in a computer graphics system designed to render images and to apply shading to images, enable the following: during rendering of an image, modifying the shading normal in the region of a corner of an object in the image, such thai... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080129734 - Apparatus and method of ray-triangle collision detection for ray-tracing: Provided are an apparatus and method for detecting ray-triangle collision for ray-tracing. The apparatus includes a ray bundle memory for storing ray bundle, a geometry data memory for storing geometry triangle data, a hierarchy structure memory for storing space subdivision and bounding volume hierarchy structure information, a virtual pager for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080129735 - Graphical display with integrated recent period zoom and historical period context data: A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080129736 - Method and apparatus for biological sample analysis: A method of adjusting amplification curves in a PCR experiment includes receiving a plurality of amplification curves for a sample and computing a first parameter for each of the plurality of amplification curves. The method also includes computing a second parameter for each of the plurality of amplification curves and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080129738 - Method and apparatus for rendering efficient real-time wrinkled skin in character animation: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing the optimized speed and realistic expressions in real time while rendering wrinkled skin during character animation. The wrinkled skin at each expression is rendered using a normal map and a bump map. Generalized wrinkled skin data and weight data are generated by... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080129737 - Method and system of producing cartoon animation using character animation and mesh deformation: A method for producing cartoon animation using character animation and mesh deformation is provided. The system includes a motion analysis module, a mesh deformation module, a motion deformation module, and a skinning module. The motion analysis module receives existing motion data having information about non-deformed motions of a character, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080129739 - Methods for simulating and visually representing objects using particles: A method for visually representing an object by simulating the object as a particle with fewer degrees of freedom than those visually represented comprises simulating an object as a particle having linear motion. The method also comprises deriving an angular component of the particle from the linear motion of the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080129745 - Graphics subsytem for integation in a pc-based computing system and providing multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application: A graphics subsystem for integration in a PC-based computing system providing multiple GPU-driven pipeline 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... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080129740 - Image processing apparatus, storage medium that stores image processing program, and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus, plural computational units execute computation relating to image processing. Plural image processing units cause the computational units to execute image processing on image information. A section number acquisition unit acquires a number of sections for sectioning the plural image processing units into groups. A sectioning... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080129742 - Pc-based computing system employing a bridge chip having a routing unit and a control unit for parallelizing multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores during the running of a graphics application: A PC-based computing system employing a bridge chip having a routing unit and a control unit for parallelizing multiple GPU-driven pipeline cores during 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... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080129741 - Pc-based computing system employing a bridge chip 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 parallel operation: A PC-based computing system employing a bridge 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.

20080129744 - Pc-based computing system employing a silicon 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 silicon 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.

20080129743 - Silicon chip of monolithic construction for integration in a pc-based computing system and having multiple gpu-driven pipeline cores supporting multiple modes of parallelization dynamically controlled while running a graphics application: A silicon chip of monolithic construction and software multi-pipe drivers for integration in a PC-based computing system and parallelizing multiple GPU-driven pipeline 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... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080129746 - Image processing apparatus, image forming system, computer readable medium storing program and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores image information on which additional information is to be overlaid; a change unit that changes pixels, within a predetermined range of respective pixels constituting the image information, among pixels constituting the additional information, to pixels having a different density or... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080129747 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system employing real-time automatic scene profiling and mode control: A parallel graphics rendering system is embodied within a host computing system and includes a plurality of graphic processing pipelines (GPPLs) and graphics processing modules. The parallel graphics rendering system supports one or more modes of parallel operation selected from the group consisting of object division, image division, and time... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq. , P. C.

20080129748 - Parallel graphics rendering system supporting parallelized operation of multiple graphics processing pipelines within diverse system architectures: A parallel graphics rendering system is embodied within a host computing system and includes a plurality of graphic processing pipelines (GPPLs) and graphics processing modules. The parallel graphics rendering system supports one or more modes of parallel operation selected from the group consisting of object division, image division, and time... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.c.

20080129749 - Methods and systems for updating a buffer: The present invention relates to methods and systems for updating a buffer. In one aspect, the present invention provides a method for updating a buffer, which includes strategically writing to the buffer to enable concurrent read and write to the buffer. The method eliminates the need for double buffering, thereby... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080129750 - Combined color harmony generation and artwork recoloring mechanism: Obtaining an original set of two or more original colors associated with an artwork is disclosed. An input set of one or more user selected colors is received. For each original color in the original set, a mapping from the original color to one of a plurality of derived colors... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Adobe Sys. Incorp.

20080129751 - Smart blanking graphics controller, device having same, and method: A graphics controller for preventing display artifacts from occurring in an output display image is described. The graphics controller includes input window logic, output window logic, line counter logic, smart blanker logic, and a display interface. The smart blanker logic is configured to receive image data from the output window... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080129754 - Cad apparatus, method of editing graphic data, and computer product: A CAD apparatus includes a layer displaying unit, a graphic-element converting unit, and an element restoring unit. The layer displaying unit displays elements included in each of layers that form graphic data onto a display unit in a superposed manner. The graphic-element converting unit converts an element included in a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080129755 - Cad apparatus, method of editing graphic data, and computer product: A CAD apparatus includes a layer displaying unit and an editing unit. The layer displaying unit displays elements included in each of layers that form graphic data onto a display unit in a superposed manner. The editing unit creates a data structure of associating between elements displayed on the display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080129753 - Connected and overlapped shapes enhancements: A method of ordering visual objects presented on a display includes comparing visual objects to be placed in an overlapping condition and determining from the comparison the order in which the visual objects are to be placed. The visual objects are re-ordered and placed in the overlapping condition in accordance... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080129752 - Spatial and spectral calibration of a panchromatic, multispectral image pair: Method and system for creating a fused image from an image pair comprising a high resolution panchromatic image and lower resolution multi-spectral image. The method includes obtaining image data (204) defining a first image of a panchromatic image type and a second image of a multi-spectral image type. The first... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby Pc

20080129756 - Image generating apparatus and image generating method: An image generating apparatus, which generates monitor image data from camera image data through a viewpoint transformation, includes a rear camera 1, an image processing controller 2, and a monitor 3. The image processing controller 2 sets a first virtual camera by viewpoint shift to have a downward viewpoint from... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080129757 - Image file list display device: An image display device that displays a list of a plurality of image files classified by a series of plural types on a display, including a thumbnail display page drawing unit (23), which displays each of the plurality of image files with a thumbnail that is an image scaled down... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080129758 - Method and system for utilizing a jpeg compatible image and icon: A method and system for utilizing embedded icons into an original digital picture employing an image file, such as a JPEG file, to store the icons as well as metadata associated with the icons. The marker section of the JPEG file would include the original digital picture as well as... Agent: Bernard Malina, Esq. Malina & Associates, P.c.

20080129759 - Method for processing image for mobile communication terminal: A method is provided for processing an image for a mobile communication terminal using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), in which zooming and panning are easily implemented through an input unit provided by the mobile communication terminal. A method for processing an image for a mobile communication terminal according to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080129763 - Display brightness control circuit: A display brightness control circuit of a liquid crystal display device includes a logarithmic-linear converting circuit for converting an illuminance signal having a logarithmic relationship with incident light into a linear signal. When an output of an external light sensor is a logarithmic signal, the logarithmic signal is converted into... Agent: Mattingly Stanger And Malur Pc

20080129762 - Drive method of display device, drive unit of display device, program of the drive unit and storage medium thereof, and display dvice including the drive unit: In one embodiment of the present invention, in the case of dark display on sub-pixels, a sub-frame processing section is disclosed which sets video data for a sub-frame to a value falling within the range for dark display, and increases or decreases video data for a sub-frame so as to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080129764 - Method of driving a discharge display panel for effective addressing, driver therefor and display panel using the same: Driving a display may include dividing a unit frame into a plurality of sub-fields and dividing each of the sub-fields into a reset period, an addressing period, and a discharge-sustaining period. During the addressing period, a voltage difference between an addressing electric potential applied to selected address electrode-lines and a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080129760 - Multi-resolution display system: The invention relates to a multi-resolution display system. The multi-resolution display system of the invention comprises a system module, a plurality of resolution control modules and a display module. Each resolution control module is used for receiving an input data in a first color space and outputting a resolution data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080129761 - Picture mode controller for flat panel display and flat panel display device including the same: The picture mode controller for flat panel and flat panel display device including the same includes an input unit to input a first timing signal indicating transmission sections for pixel data, and a second timing signal indicating a transmission time of each pixel data, a pseudo timing signal generating unit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080129765 - Image adjustment method for display: An image adjustment method for displays is disclosed. Firstly, scan images on a display to get a coordinate of non-uniform brightness. Then the coordinate of non-uniform brightness is measured to obtain a chromatic value and a compensation value list is established according to a threshold value. Next brightness of images... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee