Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 07/08

20080180351 - Vehicle display system and method with enhanced vision system and synthetic vision system image display: A vehicle display system displays enhanced vision (EV) and synthetic vision (SV) images to an operator of a vehicle. The display system includes: an EV vision image sensor for generating EV images; an SV database containing information regarding terrain and objects of interest for a travel path of a vehicle;... Agent: Kurt Luther Honeywell International Inc.

20080180352 - System and method for distributing a multimedia message using a wearable multimedia display: A wearable multimedia display is described having a processor connected to a display panel adequate for displaying multimedia content. The processor is also connected to a source of multimedia content that can be displayed on the display panel. The use of the wearable multimedia display allows for a method of... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080180353 - Composition of digits and method of digit display for digital clock: Composition of digits and method of digit display for digital clocks involve implementing seven main segments, which are ranked as two linked squares sharing a common edge wherein the main segments further enclose two transitional display areas and displaying a plurality of sub-segments in succession fleetingly to constitute a continuous... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080180355 - Array substrate and display apparatus having the same: An array substrate comprises a gate line formed on a substrate, a plurality of data lines insulated from the gate line, a pixel area including a first sub-area and a second sub-area, a thin film transistor formed in the pixel area, a pixel electrode formed on the thin film transistor,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080180356 - Display device, driving method of the same and electronic equipment having the same: A pixel circuit of a display device of the present invention has a drive transistor which serves also as a transistor adapted to control the emission and non-emission periods of an organic EL element or other elements. A final stage buffer in an output circuit of a write scan circuit... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080180354 - Process for operating a display device with a multitude of picture elements, which are subject to wear, device for correcting an activation signal for a display device, and display device: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a display device (100) with a plurality of pixels (p)—preferably arranged in matrix form—beset by wear, in which each pixel (p) has applied to it a drive signal (S) assigned to it, in which a wear value (V) as a measure of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080180361 - Gas excitation display apparatus for having doublescan performed therein: Provided is a gas excitation display apparatus having a gas excitation display panel and a driving apparatus. In the gas excitation display panel, a gas is excited by electrons emitted from electron emitters, ultraviolet rays are generated from the excited gas and excite phosphor cells, the phosphor cells emit visible... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080180362 - Plasma display device: In the plasma display device, an electrode drive unit has a main drive circuit applying a drive pulse, a pre-drive circuit supplying control signals to the main drive circuit, and a drive control circuit supplying a drive waveform information signal to the pre-drive circuit. The main drive circuit has switches... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180360 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed are a plasma display device including a reset unit in an integrated circuit, which may prevent an erroneous operation and damage of the IC by sensing an input power source applied to the IC in order to control a reset or a non-reset of an operation of the IC,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080180359 - Plasma display device, and driving device and method thereof: In a plasma display device, a source of a first transistor S1 is coupled to an X electrode, and a drain thereof is coupled to a cathode of a diode D1. An anode of the diode D1 is coupled to a first power source for supplying a first voltage V1.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080180357 - Plasma processing apparatus: A plasma etching apparatus in which discharge instability due to insufficient DC grounding is prevented. A grounded circular conductor is provided as a DC grounding means in a vacuum processing chamber and a control means controls a DC bias power supply according to output value of a current monitor so... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080180358 - Power supply apparatus and flat-screen television set: A safety circuit 16 for monitoring the waveform of a start signal outputted from a microcomputer 40a is provided in a power supply circuit. If a start signal inputted to the safety circuit 16 is not a pulse wave, a power supply cutoff section 16c cuts off the output of... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a, Inc.

20080180365 - Display device and driving method for display device: A display driving device includes a gradation voltage generating section which generates gradation voltage corresponding to display data, a constant current circuit section which supplies a predetermined constant current to a display pixel, a voltage detecting section which detects a voltage of a data line at the time of supplying... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080180366 - Display module: A display module to prevent the leakage current generated between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer that constitute a pixel via an organic light emitting layer and obtains uniform luminance. An interlayer insulation layer is provided between an edge of a first electrode layer and an organic... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080180363 - Organic light emitting diode display and method for manufacturing the same: The method of manufacturing the OLED display entails forming a semiconductor on a substrate, forming a photoresist film on the semiconductor, forming a doped amorphous silicon layer on the photoresist film, removing the photoresist film along with a portion of the doped amorphous silicon disposed on the photoresist film to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080180364 - Organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display device comprises: a display panel having an m-number of first data lines and an n-number of gate lines crossing each other, an m-number of second data lines and the n-number... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080180367 - Organic light emitting display device and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display which includes a display panel having a pixel cell formed in a region defined by gate lines and data lines perpendicularly crossing each other, a power supply which supplies current to the display panel, a scan driver which supplies a scan signal to a gate... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080180368 - Information output unit and electronic apparatus: An information output unit according to the present invention includes a first-gamma-correction-information storing unit that stores gamma correction information suitable for display of an image by a first liquid crystal display unit, a gamma correction unit that applies gamma correction based on the gamma correction information stored in the first-gamma-correction-information... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080180372 - Display device: A display device which comprises a display region including a plurality of pixels includes: a first insulating substrate; a gate line unit which extends in a first direction on the first insulating substrate and comprises a first gate line and a second gate line; a data line which insulatingly crosses... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080180370 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A drive method for a pixel with a first and a second sub-pixel is provided. The method includes the steps of inputting a gray-level signal to the first and the second sub-pixel for forming a first and a second pixel voltage respectively, and providing a first signal and a second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080180371 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (1) includes a first substrate assembly (11), a second substrate assembly (12) parallel to the first substrate assembly (11), a liquid crystal layer (13) sandwiched between the first substrate assembly and the second substrate assembly, and a discharging circuit (120). The first substrate assembly includes... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180369 - Method for driving a display panel and related apparatus: A driving method includes writing data with opposite polarities simultaneously into a first pixel unit of the display panel via a first demultiplexer and into a second pixel unit adjacent to the first pixel unit via a second demultiplexer when displaying a first frame, wherein the first pixel unit and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080180374 - Electro-optical device, processing circuit, processing method, and projector: A processing circuit includes an adder circuit that adds, when converting image data into one of a positive and negative data signals, a correction value stored in a storage unit to the image data, and, when converting the image data into the other of the positive and negative data signal,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180373 - Image display device, image display method, image display program, recording medium containing image display program, and electronic apparatus: An image display device corrects image data, which are used for displaying an image, using a gray scale value assigned to each pixel and also controls a source light luminance of a light source. The image display device includes a scene change detection device, an image correction device, a source... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180375 - Method for establishing gamma correction table for liquid crystal display: An exemplary method for establishing a gamma correction table for a liquid crystal display includes: providing a liquid crystal display, a signal generator, and a color analyzer, the liquid crystal display comprising a predetermined gamma correction table; invalidating a predetermined gamma correction table of the liquid crystal display; initializing the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180376 - Driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device, method of manufacturing the same and display device having the same: A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display, the driving circuit being an integrated circuit having electrode pads disposed on a surface of the integrated circuit, bumps formed on the electrode pads, a conductive adhesive layer formed on the bumps and conductive particles having an outer conductive layer and an... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080180377 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD device (200) includes a first substrate (312), a second substrate (322) facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (330) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, a common electrode (314), a lot of pixel electrode (3231) and a control electrode (316). The pixel electrodes are... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180378 - Method for driving liquid crystal panel with canceling out of opposite polarities of color sub-pixel units: An exemplary method for driving a liquid crystal panel includes: defining the array of pixels as comprising an array of dithering units; providing a predetermined inversion driving pattern for each dithering unit; providing a series of predetermined dithering patterns for each dithering unit; driving the sub-pixel units according to a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180380 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes first to third FRC portions. The first to third FRC portions converts n-bit R, G and B input data into (n−m)-bit R, G and B data having first to third FRC patterns for consecutive P frames according to lower m bits of the n-bit... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080180379 - Liquid crystal display device capable of reducing irregularity in brightness: In a liquid crystal display device, an electric charge is sent to an amplifying circuit from a power supply or an electric charge is returned to the power supply before a gradation voltage generating circuit is used. This makes a difference of an output voltage of the amplifying circuit and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080180381 - Pulse width modulation dimming control method and display apparatus having pulse width modulation dimming control function: A pulse width modulation (PWM) dimming control method and a display apparatus having a PWM dimming control function are provided. The method includes setting a PWM period of a group lighting block based on a state of both a first gate line and a last gate line among a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180382 - Providing an automated visualization of a collection of data values divided into a number of bins depending upon a change feature of the data values: A collection of data values is divided into plural bins, wherein a number of the bins is dependent upon a change feature of the data values. Parameter values associated with respective bins are determined. Based on the parameter values, visualization of the plural bins is provided in corresponding plural display... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180386 - Backlight control circuit capable of distinguishing under current condition: The present invention discloses a backlight control circuit capable of distinguishing an under current condition, comprising: at least one light emission device path having a voltage node; at least one current source for controlling the current amount on the light emission device path; and at least one under current detection... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080180387 - Backlight control circuit with flexible configuration: The present invention discloses a backlight control circuit with flexible configuration, comprising: a light emitting device path; a current source for controlling the current amount on the light emitting device path, the current source receiving a relatively high reference voltage in a first state, and receiving a relatively low reference... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080180383 - Backlight control method for high dynamic range lcd: A cumulative function of image is obtained according to its gray levels of pixels. This function is then mapped to obtain a backlight modulation function according to a reference line. The backlight brightness provided for different regions of the liquid crystal display are decided by the backlight modulation function while... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080180385 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080180384 - Transmission liquid crystal display device: The transmission liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight, wherein the liquid crystal panel has pixels each of which is divided into four sub pixels as red (R), green (G), blue (B), and white (W) sub pixels. Further, an emission luminance of the backlight can... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080180391 - Configurable electronic interface: An electronic interface comprising a scrolling panel including a plurality of image slides, the plurality of image slides including at least one video slide, the plurality of image slides in a scrolling slideshow; and a main panel including one of the plurality of image slides selected to be featured.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080180388 - Foregoing user credential collection if sending system is in an unauthenticated mutually exclusive connection state: A method comprises a receiving system establishing a first connection to a sending system. The method also comprises determining whether the sending system is in an unauthenticated mutually exclusive connection (UMEC) state. The method further comprises foregoing collecting user credentials to establish a connection between the receiving and sending systems... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180392 - Master-slave manipulator system: In a master-slave manipulator system, an intuitive operation can be achieved by a simple structure in which a layout of a monitor and an operation input device is not limited. A master-slave manipulator system is provided with a manipulator, a camera, a monitor, an operation input device, a manipulator controller... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080180390 - Non-contact input device: A non-contact input device includes a printed wiring board (PWB) on which a plurality of self luminous devices is mounted. The PWB is covered by a translucent insulating case, and a plurality of transparent electrostatic capacitance detection electrodes is formed along a rear surface of the translucent insulating case. An... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080180389 - Optical-based interconnect for integrated circuits and related system and method: An interconnect for connecting an integrated circuit to an optical interface subsystem includes a first optical transmitter disposed in the integrated circuit and operable to transmit light signals to the optical interface subsystem, a first optical receiver disposed in the optical interface subsystem and operable to receive light signals from... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080180393 - User interface with thin display device: A user interface includes a thin display device and at least one control device. The control device is associated with a portion of the thin display device. A method of implementing a user interface for a device includes displaying data about a function of the device on a thin display... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080180395 - Computer pointing input device: The computer pointing input device allows a user to determine the position of a cursor on a computer display. The position of the input device in relation to the display controls the position of the cursor, so that when a user points directly at the display, the cursor appears at... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080180394 - Method for providing graphical user interface for changing reproducing time point and imaging apparatus therefor: A method for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for changing a reproducing time point, and an imaging apparatus incorporating the same are provided. The GUI for changing a reproducing time point displays reduction images of specific time points within a time period including a specific time point selected by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180396 - Control apparatus and method for controlling an image display: A control apparatus for controlling an image display includes at least one reference object for generating a predetermined spectrum signal; a modulation unit for modulating the predetermined spectrum signal with a predetermined method; and a remote controller. The remote controller includes an image sensor for receiving the modulated predetermined spectrum... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080180397 - Communication apparatus, kvm switch and communication control method: A KVM switch includes: server units respectively connected to computers; user units respectively connected to input/output devices for transmitting signals to the computers and receiving signals from the computers; and a main unit that connects the server units and the user units. Each of the server units, user units and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180398 - Portable apparatus: A portable apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing, a sliding housing, folding housing, and a connecting device. The second housing is coupled to the first housing by a first hinge part, the second housing being rotatable about a first hinge axis to fold onto and unfold from the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080180402 - Apparatus and method for improvement of usability of touch screen: Provided are an apparatus and method for improving usability of a touch screen. The apparatus includes a touch sensing unit that senses a first touch and a second touch and detects the touched locations of the sensed touches, a pointer setting unit that sets a pointer to the detected location... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180403 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters on touch screen of a terminal: An apparatus and method for inputting a character on a touch keyboard in a terminal, in which a touch screen displays a basic key set and an extended key set, the basic key set including with consonant keys and the extended key set including character keys corresponding to characters combinable... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080180401 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080180399 - Flexible multi-touch screen: A method, apparatus, and system of flexible multi-touch touch are provided. The invention comprising: a flexible layer; and one or more sensors configured to detect a plurality of simultaneous touching positions at distinct locations of the layer and to generate distinct signals representative of the locations for each of the... Agent: Tung Wan, Cheng

20080180404 - Methods of interfacing with multi-point input devices and multi-point input systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-point input devices employ various techniques for controlling displayed images, including 2D and 3D image translation, scale/zoom, rotation control and globe axis tilt control. Various techniques employ three or more simultaneous inputs, changes in characteristics of those inputs, and pressure sensing, among other things.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080180405 - Methods of interfacing with multi-point input devices and multi-point input systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-point input devices employ various techniques for controlling displayed images, including 2D and 3D image translation, scale/zoom, rotation control and globe axis tilt control. Various techniques employ three or more simultaneous inputs, changes in characteristics of those inputs, and pressure sensing, among other things.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080180406 - Methods of interfacing with multi-point input devices and multi-point input systems employing interfacing techniques: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-point input devices employ various techniques for controlling displayed images, including 2D and 3D image translation, scale/zoom, rotation control and globe axis tilt control. Various techniques employ three or more simultaneous inputs, changes in characteristics of those inputs, and pressure sensing, among other things.... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20080180400 - Touch panel with improved reliability and display device employing the touch panel: A display device that is capable of reliably sensing a contact with a touch panel is presented. The device includes: a first insulating substrate; a first sensing line disposed on the first insulating substrate in a predetermined direction; a first pixel disposed on the left side of the first sensing... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080180407 - Input-capable display device: An input-capable display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a detection electrode, a dielectric film, and a detector. A pair of electrodes that drive a liquid crystal layer are provided on the first substrate. The second substrate is opposed to the first substrate through the liquid crystal layer.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180409 - Drawing apparatus: A drawing apparatus includes a CPU. Target image data is written to a drawing area of an SDRAM, and the CPU performs resolution changing processing in a descending direction on the image data of the drawing area. The result of the resolution changing processing is written to a displaying area... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080180408 - Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic lists and documents: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on the touch screen display. The displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080180411 - Computer stylus with integrated memory: A computer stylus comprises at least one memory element for storing data therein.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180412 - Dual mode digitizer: A dual-mode device driver functions either as a mouse or as a digitizer. A switch associated with the input device alternates the mode of operation between the two. The switch may be implemented in hardware or with software.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080180410 - Varying hand-drawn line width for display: The present invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art with a system for varying hand-drawn line width as a function of geometric or temporal properties such as curvature or time of the strokes as the user draws them. In one embodiment, the system of the present invention includes a... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080180413 - Method, system, and program product for controlling grid lines in a user interface: The present invention provides a solution for controlling gridlines. Specifically, the present invention provides a user interface control such as a slider or the like that allows a user to simultaneously control both the style and intensity of a displayed set of grid lines. In a typical embodiment, the user... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080180421 - Active matrix display device: In order to provide an active matrix display device in which a thick insulating film is preferably formed around an organic semiconductive film of a thin film luminescent device without damaging the thin film luminescent device, the active matrix display device is provided with a bank layer (bank) along a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180415 - Driving system of a display panel: A driving system of a display panel has a code identification device and several source drivers. The code identification device provides driving-capacity information of the display panel. The source drivers drive the display panel according to the driving-capacity information.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080180422 - Image display apparatus and driving method thereof: An image display apparatus includes a light emitting unit that emits light by current flowing through the light emitting unit; and a driver unit that includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The driver unit has a characteristic that an absolute value of a current flowing through the second... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080180424 - Image displaying method and image displaying apparatus: In on embodiment of the present invention, an image displaying apparatus is disclosed which divides 1 frame into plural sub-frame periods, and modifies the image signals in the following manner in the case of receiving an image of a frame in which a region denoted by an image signal α... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180423 - Liquid crystal display:

20080180419 - Liquid crystal display device with periodical changed voltage difference between data voltage and common voltage and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (20) includes a plurality of pixel electrode (26), a common electrode (22), a data driving circuit (33) configured for providing data voltages to each pixel electrode, and a common voltage generating circuit (34) configured for providing a common voltage to the common electrode. The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180416 - Liquid crystal display device, driving circuit for the same and driving method for the same: An embodiment of the present invention aims to allow a display device employing the dot-sequential drive system and the line common inversion system to suppress reduction of visual quality when pixel defects are corrected by source-drain short-circuiting or any TFTs with poor properties are present. A display control circuit outputs... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180418 - Liquid crystal panel control circuit having reset circuit and liquid crystal display driving circuit with same: An exemplary liquid crystal panel control circuit (20) includes a direct current converting circuit (23). The direct current converting circuit includes a comparator (231), a reset circuit (232), and a DC-to-DC converting circuit (233) connected in series. The liquid crystal panel control circuit can return to an initial status from... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180414 - Method and apparatus for controlling light emitting diode: A method of driving an LED includes determining an operational parameter of the LED, determining a driving signal parameter for the LED, and generating a periodic driving signal for driving the LED. The generated periodic driving signal has a duty cycle that depends on the determined driving signal parameter and... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080180420 - Multimode-compressive overdrive circuit and associated method: A multimode-compressive overdrive circuit includes a plurality of calculation units, a determination unit and a multimode encoding unit. The calculation units receive display data, and generate a plurality of image error values according to a plurality of compression modes. The determination unit, coupled to the calculation units, generates a best-compression... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080180417 - Transmitter and receiver capable of reducing current consumption and signal lines for data transfer: A transmitter includes a pair of output terminals which output an image data, and a transmitting unit. When the transmitting unit outputs the image data, a first output terminal of the pair is connected to a reference electric potential and a second output terminal of the pair is to a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080180425 - Power-on screen pattern correcting apparatus and source driver using the same: A power-on screen pattern correcting apparatus is for correcting start output data of output terminals of a source driver such that a power-on screen pattern of a display is substantially uniform. The correcting apparatus comprises a flip-flop, a first logic unit and a second logic unit. The flip-flop controls a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080180426 - Luminance control methods and display devices: A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel outputting corresponding luminance according to a luminance control signal. The display device further includes a luminance detection device detecting ambient luminance in real time, and outputting a detected voltage according to the detected ambient luminance. A luminance control... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080180427 - Liquid crystal display device, source driver, and method of driving a liquid crystal display panel: A source driver which can control the spatial cycle of inverting the polarity of offset voltage in response to the spatial cycle of inverting the polarity of data signal. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has an LCD panel, having data lines, and source drivers for... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080180429 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same is disclosed, which can minimize the number of delay devices to delay a discharging time by a preset period of time. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first pumping unit that first pumps a high-potential power source... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080180428 - Plasma display device: There is provided a plasma display device. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and drivers for supplying driving signals to the PDP. The driver includes a capacitor, a first switch turned on in order to supply a voltage of a first end of both ends of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080180430 - Display apparatus: In a display apparatus of a hold type represented by a TFT liquid crystal display, blurring of dynamic picture when the dynamic picture is displayed is improved. One frame is divided into dark fields and light fields. A dark brightness gradation voltage approaching to display of black as near as... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080180431 - Electronic device including display device, and driving method thereof: An electronic device including a display device, and a driving method thereof. The electronic device including the display device includes a central processing unit, a display device, and a feedback unit. The central processing unit provides image signals and input control signals. The display device displays an image based on... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080180432 - Method of increasing efficiency of video display and related apparatus: A method of increasing efficiency of video display includes receiving a first frame signal, where the first frame signal includes a first blank signal and a first image data, where the first blank signal includes a first sync signal, a first front-porch signal and a first back-porch signal. The method... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080180433 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: Some embodiments of the present invention provide an image processing apparatus which causes a display device to display image data, the apparatus comprising: an image selection unit configured to select image data displayed in an image selection area in a first arbitrary order; a layout position selection unit configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180435 - Computer readable medium for modifying an animation wire: An animation wireframe is modified with three-dimensional (3D) range and color data having a corresponding shape surface. The animation wireframe is vertically scaled based on distances between consecutive features within the 3D range and color data and corresponding distances within the generic animation wireframe. For each animation wireframe point, the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080180434 - Plenoptic display with automated alignment: One embodiment pertains to an apparatus for displaying three-dimensional views of an image where the image seen depends on a viewing angle. The apparatus includes at least a plurality of tiles, a plenoptic function projection, and alignment mechanisms. Each tile includes an array of lenses on a front side of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180438 - Image generation method, information storage medium, and image generation device: An inclusion area which includes a player character is set. The maximum diagonal line of the inclusion area is projected onto an image coordinate system of a game screen, and an Xc axis component projection dimension Lx and a Yc axis component projection dimension Ly are calculated. A projection dimension... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180436 - Method of capturing, processing, and rendering images.: A computer-implemented method for capturing and processing a series of images captures a first image incorporating a surface having a plurality of markers varying in texture or color to obtain an image representation. A plurality of alignment tracking points, obtained from the plurality of markers, is designated. The plurality of... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080180437 - Reporting fixed-point information for a graphical model: A graphical modeling environment is provided for a user to build a model in which signals and/or block parameters can be represented using a fixed-point data type. When the graphical model is executed, the graphical model may generate fixed-point data type signals. An exemplary embodiment may information about fixed-point data... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080180439 - Reducing occlusions in oblique views: An occlusion reduction system is described. The occlusion reduction system can reduce occlusions when displaying multiple objects by computing an occlusion measure and applying one or more functional dynamics techniques to minimize the occlusion measure, such as by moving objects, making objects at least partially transparent, and altering the scale... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080180440 - Computer graphics shadow volumes using hierarchical occlusion culling: Techniques, systems, arrangements, and computer program products are operable in computer graphics systems to make shadow volumes more general with respect to the meshes that can serve as occluding geometry in such computer graphics systems, as well as for accelerating shadow volume techniques, particularly for large and complex input scenes.... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080180443 - Apparatus and method for generating cg image for 3-d display: An apparatus generates, by introducing a concept called “virtual viewpoint model”, a CG image for use with a 3-D display through single rendering operation from a single viewpoint without adoption of a process for performing CG rendering operation from a plurality of viewpoints as in the case of a related-art... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080180444 - Cad-system projection method, cad-system, and recording medium: To provide a CAD-system projection method for a further improvement in user convenience by preventing unnecessary dimension lines from being added when a projection drawing is created from a three-dimensional model. A pre-projected projection drawing is used to set, as objects to be projected, a three-dimensional element of a component... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080180442 - Stochastic addition of rays in a ray tracing image processing system: According to embodiments of the invention, rays may be stochastically culled before they are issued into the three-dimensional scene. Stochastically culling rays may reduce the number of rays which need to be traced by the image processing system. Furthermore, by stochastically culling rays before they are issued into the three-dimensional... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080180441 - Stochastic culling of rays with increased depth of recursion: According to embodiments of the invention, rays may be stochastically culled before they are issued into the three-dimensional scene. Stochastically culling rays may reduce the number of rays which need to be traced by the image processing system. Furthermore, by stochastically culling rays before they are issued into the three-dimensional... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080180445 - Output management systems and methods: Systems and methods of output management are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, an output management method may include generating a bifurcated transformation graph including a plurality of format nodes connected by a plurality of transformation edges and at least one production edge. The method may also include simplifying the bifurcated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180446 - System and method for reorienting clusters within a display: A system and method for reorienting clusters within a display is provided. Clusters are maintained within a display. Each cluster includes a center located at a distance relative to a common origin for the display and a radius measured from the center. A pair of the clusters is selected and... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080180447 - Method for carrying out a quantitative analysis of a mixture of molecular compounds by two-dimensional gas chromatography: The Invention is a method for quantitative analysis of a mixture of molecular compounds by two-dimensional gas chromatography having application for quantitative analysis of products from the chemical or petroleum industry. A two-dimensional gas chromatography is carried out, during which a chromatographic signal is recorded. A chromatogram in two dimensions... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080180448 - Shape completion, animation and marker-less motion capture of people, animals or characters: Motion capture animation, shape completion and markerless motion capture methods are provided. A pose deformation space model encoding variability in pose is learnt from a three-dimensional (3D) dataset. Body shape deformation space model encoding variability in pose and shape is learnt from another 3D dataset. The learnt pose model is... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080180449 - Method and system for estimating screen refresh rates of computing units participating in an internet-based collaboration: A method and system for estimating a screen refresh rate of a computing unit participating in an Internet-based collaboration. The computing unit receives a test image that includes pixels located at predefined positions and blinking at predefined frequencies. Measurements of the number of blinks of the pixels in a specified... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080180450 - Split embedded dram processor: A processing architecture includes a first CPU core portion coupled to a second embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) portion. These architectural components jointly implement a single processor and instruction set. Advantageously, the embedded logic on the DRAM chip implements the memory intensive processing tasks, thus reducing the amount of... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080180451 - Display controller, electronic appliance, and method of providing image data: A display controller includes: a first memory that stores multiple frames of the image data; a second memory having a smaller storage capacity than that of the first memory, storing at least one frame of the image data; and a memory data switching circuit that outputs, either the image data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180452 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a display panel having a resolution of a regular square and a plurality of pixels, a signal processor which stores first image signals corresponding to a first image of one frame and outputs second image signals corresponding to a second image having a display type changed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080180453 - Apparatus and method to minimize blur in imagery presented on a multi-display system: From fast moving objects in a video image sequence may appear slightly blurred. A multi-display system including two liquid crystal displays (LCDs) viewed simultaneously via a beam combiner reduces motion blur. The displays operate in time sequential relation, e.g., by alternately and sequentially displaying an image on one LCD while... Agent: Warren Sklar Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080180454 - Rendering apparatus and method: Provided is a rendering apparatus and method. After a rendering image is generated by forming a splat for each of points generated by projecting a model composed of a plurality of points, then a plurality of predetermined regions which extend over a boundary of the generated rendering image are selected... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180455 - Image processing apparatus and image displaying device: An RGB signal from an input terminal is supplied to a triple over-sampling/sub-pixel control processing unit and a brightness signal generating circuit in which a brightness signal is generated. A brightness edge detection/judgment unit detects an edge from this brightness signal, judges the kind of the edge, fetches a coefficient... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080180456 - Fast filtered yuv to rgb conversion: The values of each possible component output R, G, and B may be pre-computed for all values of each possible component input Y, U, and V. Each contribution of Y, U, and V input may then be loaded into a register and added in parallel, without overflow, resulting in a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080180457 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: An information processing apparatus displays in order multiple pages of the same electronic album in each of a first display area and a second display area arranged in parallel on a screen of a display device. A user selects one image from each display area. The information processing apparatus edits... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080180458 - Apparatus and method for data charting with an extensible visualization library: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to define an abstraction layer disposed between a business intelligence application and a set of visualization libraries. The abstraction layer provides an application programmer interface for the business intelligence application to the set of visualization libraries. A visualization settings model is defined... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080180459 - Anonymization pursuant to a broadcasted policy: Embodiments include a system, a device, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a system that includes an imaging device operable to capture an image depicting a member of a class of subjects that may have a temporal presence in an area. The system also... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080180460 - Method for managing annotations in a computer-aided design drawing: Annotations in CAD drawings are given fixed sizes so that CAD application will generate the annotations at the fixed size even though modeled objects within the CAD drawing are scaled in accordance with a paper space scale selected by the CAD designer. The annotations generally comprise text annotations and graphic... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080180464 - Display apparatus with brightness control function: A display apparatus with a brightness control function is provided, in which a camera portion generates a first detection signal in an image mode by capturing an image of an object by an image sensor according to a first control signal and generates a second detection signal in an illumination... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080180463 - Display driving device and method, and display device: A display driving device that drives, based on display data and through a data line, each of a plurality of pixels of different colors, disposed along the data line, connected to the data line and put into a selected state sequentially, comprising: a current generating circuit that generates and outputs... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080180461 - Led luminance control circuit and backlight source of liquid crystal display: The present invention discloses a LED luminance control circuit comprising one or several LEDs and a driving circuit, the driving circuit being connected in series with said one or several LEDs to provide energy to the one or several LEDs, wherein a control circuit is connected in parallel on both... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080180462 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a driving unit configured to drive the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes: a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of pixels. The plurality of scanning lines extends in a first... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080180465 - Apparatus and methods for rapid image rendering on dual-modulator displays: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080180466 - Rapid image rendering on dual-modulator displays: Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080180467 - Ultra-resolution display technology: The present invention relates to ultra-resolution displays and methods for their operation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an ultra-resolution display is provided where a common display screen is displaced from an array of display devices such that native frustums of respective ones of the display devices are... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080174514 - Display device and an electronic apparatus using the same: In a conventional display device comprising a sub-display, the display device is increased in thickness and in the number of components as the number of displays is increased. In the present invention, a dual emission display device is used so that either surface of a display is used as a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080174517 - Data viewing system for an aircraft: The viewing system (1) comprises a concentration means (7) comprising an element for acquiring all the compound images generated by a plurality of sources (S1, S2, S3, Sn), an element for processing these compound images, and an element for managing the display implemented on a plurality of viewing screens (E1,... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080174516 - Mosaicing of view projections: Two projected images from two projector-camera systems, each defined by characteristics c1=T1p1 and c2=T2p2, respectively, are used to create mosaic composite of a desired image c. Formulas p1=T1−1 (c−T2p2) and p2=T2−1(c−T1p1) are iteratively repeated with p2 initially set to zero until p1 converges to a first mosaic image and p2... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080174515 - Tiled electronic display structure: A tiled display device is formed from display tiles having picture element (pixel) positions defined up to the edge of the tiles. Each tile includes a memory which stores display data, and pixel driving circuitry which controls the scanning and illumination of the pixels on the tile. The tiles are... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080174518 - Display state controller, display device, display state control method, program therefor, and recording medium recorded with the program: Provided is a display device for executing processing of enlarging a predetermined region (200) of an image rightward by as much as 0.25 pixels with a first pixel (251) as a reference, and processing of reducing the predetermined region (200) rightward 0.25 pixels with a seventh pixel (257) as a... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20080174519 - Reconfigurable color signage using bistable light valve: Reconfigurable color signage includes an array of light valves each having memory. An active matrix including a plurality of conductive select and data lines is positioned on one side of the array. Each light valve is electrically coupled to be separately addressable by a unique combination of select and data... Agent: Robert A. Parsons

20080174520 - Apparatus and driving method of plasma display: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. The plasma display device includes drivers for scan, sustain and address electrodes and a controller for controlling the drivers. The scan electrode driver includes a capacitor whose charge is proportional to an on period of a switch included in the driver... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080174522 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof prevent a dark image retention by controlling a number of pulses applied in a reset period of a current frame compared to the number of pulses applied in a reset period of a previous frame. The driving method includes applying a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080174521 - Plasma display panel (pdp) and driving method thereof: A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) and a driving method thereof secures a drive time and improves contrast. One frame is divided into a plurality of sub fields. Each of the sub fields includes: a reset period to supply a pulse having a voltage less than or equal to a sustain... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080174524 - Driving method of plasma display panel: The present invention relates to a driving method of a plasma display panel for improving a picture quality. The driving method of a plasma display panel in which an nth frame having a first brightness weighting value and a (n+1)th frame having a brightness weighting value different from the first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080174523 - Method and apparatus to drive plasma display panel (pdp): A method and apparatus to drive a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) having X electrodes, Y electrodes, and address electrodes includes: dividing a unit frame, which is a display cycle, into a plurality of sub-fields for displaying time ratio gray-scale, each sub-field including a reset period, an address period, and a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080174525 - Plasma display device and voltage generator thereof: In plasma display device, a transistor includes a source terminal connected to a power supply that sequentially applies voltage pulses having a scan voltage to a plurality of scan electrode in a address period, and a drain terminal connected to a plurality of scan electrodes. A first resistor is connected... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080174526 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display of the present invention, a VscH voltage is applied to a scan electrode during an address period, and a −Vs voltage is initially applied to the scan electrode during a sustain period. Subsequently, during the sustain period, a sustain pulse alternately having a Vs voltage and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080174527 - Current drive circuit and drive method thereof, and electroluminescent display apparatus using the circuit: A current drive apparatus for an active matrix display operates a plurality of loads, e.g. organic or inorganic EL elements, by applying a current thereto. The apparatus includes a plurality of output terminals to which the loads are respectively connected. A single current generation circuit comprising e.g. a digital to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080174529 - Driving apparatus and related driving method for light-emitting modules: A driving apparatus for a light-emitting module is disclosed for generating a driving current to the light-emitting module according to a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The driving apparatus includes an amplifier, a first feedback circuit, and a second feedback circuit. The amplifier includes a first input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080174530 - Energy sensing light emitting diode display: A display that includes energy sensors within the display itself is disclosed. An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) can be made to operate both as a light emitter and as an energy detector. When forward biased with an appropriate driving signal, the OLED emits light via electroluminescence, which can be... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c. - Intel

20080174528 - Light emitting diode back light system and method for driving back light source used therein: A light emitting diode (LED) back light system and a method for driving a back light source used therein are provided. The LED back light system includes an LED back light source, a power converting circuit, and a sequential outputting circuit. The LED back light source includes a plurality of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080174531 - E-paper apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: An electronic paper (e-paper) apparatus includes a driving substrate, an electronic paper and an optical modulation layer. The electronic paper includes an electrophoretic material and a transparent electrode layer. The transparent electrode layer is disposed opposite to the driving substrate. The optical modulation layer is disposed on the electronic paper.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174532 - 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

20080174534 - Apparatus and method for compensating an image display: An image-compensating apparatus includes an input dividing part, a storing part, a gray scale compensating part, and an output synthesizing part. The input dividing part divides an n-th frame datum into the most significant bit(s) of the n-th frame datum and the least significant bit(s) of the n-th frame datum.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080174533 - Display device and button design thereof: A display device is described. An upper casing and a lower casing are assembled to form a unitary casing to secure an LCD panel. A circuit board is disposed within the unitary casing and around the LCD panel. A first button is disposed on the upper casing for actuating a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080174535 - Driver chip and display apparatus having the same: A driver chip includes a base body, input terminals, first output terminals and dummy terminals. The base body includes a face having first to fourth edge portions. The first and second edge portions are disposed in substantially parallel along a longitudinal side of the face, and the third and fourth... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080174536 - Driving signal generating device and related method for display device: A driving signal generating device for staggering transition time of driving signals to prevent image crosstalk for a display device includes a receiving terminal, a first adjusting unit, a multiplexer, a second adjusting unit and a frame output controller. The receiving terminal receives a plurality of step grayscale waveforms. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080174538 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel having (m×n) pieces of pixels wherein m and n are integers of 2 or more, n pieces of video lines, and m pieces of scanning lines, a video line address circuit, a scanning line address circuit, n pieces of video line vector circuits... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080174537 - Pixel structure and method for generating drive voltages in the same: A pixel structure and a method for generating drive voltages in the pixel structure are disclosed. The pixel structure comprises a first sub-pixel electrode, a first com-line, and a second com-line. The first sub-pixel electrode is applied with a first drive voltage. The first com-line transmits a first com-voltage signal.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174539 - Display device and related driving method capable of reducing skew and variations in signal path delay: An LCD device includes an LCD panel, a timing controller, a plurality of gate drivers, and a plurality of source drivers. The timing controller generates a plurality of horizontal synchronization signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of source drivers based on the signal transmission paths between the plurality of source... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080174540 - Methods and liquid crystal display devices that reduce/avoid tearing effects in displayed images: Methods and related liquid crystal display devices are disclosed that reduce/avoid a tearing effect in displayed images. A scan time of a scan clock signal of a display is detected. A write time of a write clock signal that writes data into a memory for display on the display is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080174543 - Back light unit and liquid crystal display apparatus: A back light unit includes a lamp, a lamp house where the lamp is housed, a diffusion plate provided parallel to a main surface of the lamp house, a display part receiving light irradiated from the lamp and displaying, a frame member that has a structure in which the diffusion... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080174544 - Backlight apparatus, backlight controlling method and liquid crystal display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a backlight apparatus for controlling a backlight wherein light emitting devices for emitting light of red, green and blue and a switching device for switching on or off light emission of the light emitting devices are provided for each of a plurality of divisional regions formed by... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080174541 - Backlight control circuit of lcd: An exemplary backlight control circuit includes two load circuits, a PWM IC having a current sampling pin, a switching circuit, and a first input circuit. Each load circuit includes a backlight and an output. The switching circuit includes first and second transistors. The collector of the first transistor is coupled... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174545 - Control device, illumination device, and display device: A control device has: an external terminal receiving a control signal; an output setting circuit changing an output state every time a predetermined edge appears in the control signal; an oscillator generating a clock signal; a period detector counting the number of pulses in the clock signal to detect whether... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080174542 - Liquid crystal display device and method of controlling the same: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device including: a display unit configured to display an image, the display unit including an LCD panel and a backlight; an input unit at which an adjustment amount is input, the adjusting amount being used to adjust a contrast and a brightness... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080174547 - Controlling devices' behaviors via changes in their relative locations and positions: A mechanism is provided for allowing a user to manipulate the behavior of an electronic device by training the device to react to user-taught gestures in a certain manner. A user performs a characteristic gesture with the electronic device and/or changes the device position. When a user gesture movement is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080174546 - Cushioned user interface or control device: A user interface or control includes a cushion-type support member and a user input member that is interconnected with and carried by the support member. The support member defines an upwardly facing recess, and the input member may be a user interface or control device that is contained within the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080174548 - Punching bag apparatus and method: An apparatus is disclosed including a punching bag and at least a first force sensitive device attached to the punching bag. The apparatus may also include a computer processor, and a display device. The first force sensitive device communicates with the computer processor so that when a sufficient force contacts... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080174549 - Wireless cursor control device with image-tracking: A cursor control device is disclosed to include a fingering with a color mark for fastening to the user's one finger, a digital camera for scanning the color mark and to give an image signal to the computer indicative of direction and movement of the fingering, a wireless operating button... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174551 - Image display system: This image display system includes an image display device, including an image generation unit which generates an image including a predetermined image and an image display unit which displays this generated image, and a remote control device, which includes an actuation unit for controlling display by the image display device.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080174550 - Motion-input device for a computing terminal and method of its operation: The invention relates to a motion-input device for a computing device, comprising a housing; a three-axis acceleration sensor arranged in said housing for outputting inertia signals related to the orientation and the movement of the motion-input device with a three-axis compass arranged in said housing, for outputting magnetic field signals... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080174552 - Portable computer: A portable computer includes a main body casing having an opening formed in a center part thereof, and a first panel and a second panel provided at opposite sides of the opening, a display part which displays an image through the opening, a pointer mover which is provided in one... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174553 - Computer device: A computer input device for inputting graphical location data and alphanumerical data. The device is arranged with a keypad for the input of the alphanumerical data. According to the invention, keys of the keypad are not only used for input by means of individually enacted keys, but also for input... Agent: Torys LLP

20080174557 - Ergonomic mouse: An ergonomic mouse has a sliding cap matching the curvature of a normal human palm. The sliding cap may be slid on the top of a hollow body to reach a desired operation position, then fine-tuned and anchored. Thus when the mouse is moved during operation, it can absorb reaction... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080174555 - Mouse with tilt wheel encoding mechanism: The present invention relates to a mouse device having a tilt wheel encoding mechanism. The tilt wheel encoding mechanism includes a scroll wheel, a wheel carrier and a multi-direction switch unit. The scroll wheel is operable by a user. The wheel carrier has a receptacle for receiving the scroll wheel... Agent: Apex Juris, Pllc

20080174556 - Portable information processing apparatus: A portable information processing apparatus including a main body including a display opening and a front panel surface surrounding the display opening, a display unit to display an image through the display opening, a key button input unit oppositely arranged across the display unit in a first portion of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174554 - System using a living body as a transmission medium: A system for enabling communication between a portable computing device and a stationary computer. A user may wear the portable computing device while simultaneously using a pointing device coupled to the stationary computing device. The pointing device may be, for example, a mouse coupled to the computer via a wired... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080174558 - Portable information processsing apparatus: A portable information processing apparatus including a main body which includes a display opening and a front panel surface surrounding the display opening, a display to display an image through the display opening, and a key button input unit including one or more horizontal key groups including a plurality of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174559 - Turntable-type input device: A turntable-type input device includes a base, a first keyboard, a second keyboard and a turntable. The first keyboard and second keyboard are movably disposed on the base. The turntable is rotatably disposed on the base and locatedabove the first keyboard and the second keyboard. The turntable is coupled to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174560 - Portable computer: A portable computer includes a main body casing having an opening formed at a center part thereof, and a first panel and a second panel which are provided in opposite sides of the opening, a display part which displays an image through the opening, and a first input button group... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080174569 - Computer with a pen or touch sensitive display: A computer with a touch sensitive or pen sensitive display is disclosed in which the position of the fully opened display has been designed in order that the torque typically applied to the top most pen or touch sensitive part of the display, in relation to a rotational axis about... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080174563 - Electronic device with touch screen and method of displaying information using the same: The present invention relates to displaying information on a touch screen of an electronic device. The present invention includes displaying information on a touch screen, sensing at least two points on the touch screen being touched, resizing the information displayed according to a distance between the at least two touched... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080174568 - Inputting information through touch input device: An electronic device and a method for inputting information through touch input device of an electronic device is provided. The method inputs information including at least one of symbols and characters through touching of a screen displayed on the touch input device, and executes a specific application capable of processing... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080174567 - Method for activating and controlling scrolling on a touchpad: A method of activating and using a scrolling function on a touchpad, wherein the touchpad must be capable of simultaneously detecting two fingers on the touchpad surface in order to first implement a scrolling activation function which is separate from a subsequent scrolling use function.... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.c.

20080174564 - Mobile communication device equipped with touch screen and method of controlling operation thereof: A mobile communication device equipped with a touch screen and a method of controlling an operation of the mobile communication device are provided. According to an embodiment, the method includes displaying a display window on the touch screen, and displaying an input window overlapping a portion of the display window,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174562 - Mobile electronic apparatus with touch input device and display method using the same: A mobile terminal having a touch input device and a method using the same are provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit having a touch screen for displaying a data information, the touch screen having a display area configured for a touch input area, and a controller for controlling... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080174561 - Mobile terminal with touch screen: A mobile terminal having a touch screen is disclosed. The terminal includes a touch input unit and a control unit. The touch input unit provides a touch input area for inputting data information, a display area for displaying the input data information and a control region for inputting control commands,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080174566 - System for the perception of images through touch: The invention relates to a system for the perception of images through touch. The inventive comprises hardware and software which enable any person with the sense of touch to perceive images, said system being intended for visually-impaired persons. The hardware comprises a peripheral which uses electromagnetic fields in order to... Agent: Roberto J. Rios

20080174565 - Touch pad device: A touch pad device, constructed in an electronic apparatus, includes a touch module further having a touch pad and an FPCB and a plurality of metal domes located under the FPCB. The FPCB located under the touch pad further has a plurality of holes and a plurality of sensor elements,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174570 - Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080174571 - Pen-type input device with remote control: The pen-type input device with remote control is to perform the identified configuration wirelessly, and comprise a main body, a cursor controller, a position sensor, an identified unit, an emitter, and a controller including a circuit board and a main processing unit, and the units are installed in the main... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080174572 - Input apparatus: An input apparatus is provided which comprises a thumbwheel integrated with a rotational shaft which rotates and oscillates, an encoder (a rotation detector) for detecting a rotational amount of the rotational shaft, and a switch operated by oscillation of the rotational shaft, wherein a first gearwheel (a rotational element) is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080174576 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element, the driving transistor generating a current according to a data voltage; a switching transistor switching the data voltage according to a gate signal; a capacitor storing the data voltage; a data line connected... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080174579 - Display device and driving method thereof: Regarding the time gradation method as the digital gradation expression method, it is an object of the invention to provide a display device which prevents a reduction of frame frequency and implements a low-power-consumption SRAM. The invention overcomes the aforementioned disadvantages of conventional technique by synchronizing a writing and reading... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080174575 - Driving apparatus for display device and display device including the same, and driving method for display device: A driving apparatus for a display device includes a micro processor unit (“MPU”) including a memory, the MPU provides image data and an input control signal and a signal controller including a counter, the signal controller generates an output control signal based on the input control signal, wherein the memory... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080174577 - Electrooptic device: An electrooptic device includes: a plurality of parallel signal lines provided in a pixel array region in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed; a driving circuit electrically connected to a first end of each of the signal lines outside the pixel array region; and a protection circuit in which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174578 - Liquid crystal display with periodical changed voltage difference between data voltage and common voltage and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (20) includes a plurality of pixel units (240) each including a pixel electrode (26) and a common electrode (22), a data driving circuit (33) providing a plurality of data voltages to each pixel electrode, a common voltage generating circuit (34) providing a common voltage to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080174573 - Method and system for pc monitor phase locking in changing content environments: Aspects of a method and system for PC monitor phase locking in changing content environments may include phase-locking video signals at a PC monitor signal receiver, based on locating amplitude transitions for one or more of the video signals. The amplitude transitions may be identified by comparing an amplitude difference... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080174574 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display compensates for a threshold voltage of a thin-film driving transistor to improve display quality. The display includes a light emitting cell connected between a high-level voltage source and a first node. A driving transistor is connected between the first node and a ground voltage... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174580 - Gate driver and driving method thereof in liquid crystal display: A gate driver includes several first and second circuit units outputting first and second driving signals to odd and even gate lines, respectively, and each of the first circuit units or the second circuit units includes a signal output unit for outputting the driving signal and a shift register unit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174581 - Phase-modulating apparatus: A phase-modulating apparatus includes a spatial light modulator, an input value setting unit, a plurality of sets of reference data, a converting unit, and a driving unit. The input value setting unit sets an input value for each pixel. Each set of reference data corresponds to at least one pixel.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174582 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: In driving a plasma display device, a driving time is accumulatively calculated, and the number of subfields to which a main reset waveform for initializing every discharge cell is supplied in a first frame in which the accumulative driving time is longer than a reference time is larger than the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080174583 - Compensating feed-through voltage display device: A compensating feed-through voltage display device comprises a first gamma circuit, a second gamma circuit, a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The first gamma circuit generates first group gamma voltages. The second gamma circuit generates second group gamma voltages differing from the first group gamma voltages by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174588 - Display device and method thereof: A display device includes pixels and a driving voltage generator. A common voltage, including a first common voltage and a lower second common voltage, is applied to the pixels. The driving voltage generator generates first and second voltages from a basic voltage, generates the first common voltage based on the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080174584 - Flat panel display device: A flat panel display device is disclosed that may include a light-emitting layer portion including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer between the first and second electrodes; at least two thin film transistors for controlling the light-emitting layer portion; a scanning signal line for supplying... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080174587 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, a transistor is coupled between a power source that supplies a Ve voltage and a sustain electrode, and a capacitor is coupled between a power source that supplies a Ve voltage and a ground terminal. During a sustain period, a Vs voltage and 0V are... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080174586 - Power supply apparatus for a plasma display device: A plasma display device and a power supply thereof is provided. The power supply includes a power supply unit, a first output unit, a second output unit and a converter. The power supply unit includes a switching transistor, which is coupled to a primary coil of a transformer for transforming... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080174585 - Power supply method and power supply circuit: A power supply method of supplying a high-potential drive power voltage to a data line driver circuit which drives a plurality of data lines in a display panel which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of scanning lines in addition to the data lines. An output from the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080174589 - Pulse output circuit, shift register, and display device: A circuit is provided which is constituted by TFTs of one conductivity type, and which is capable of outputting signals of a normal amplitude. When an input clock signal CK1 becomes a high level, each of TFTs (101, 103) is turned on to settle at a low level the potential... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080174592 - Method and apparatus for controlling backlight of portable display device: A method and apparatus for controlling a backlight of a portable display device for a portable communication system are disclosed. The method for controlling a backlight of a portable display device includes calculating a power adjustment coefficient by using information sensed according to a state where the portable display device... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080174590 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The plasma display includes a power supply that supplies a plurality of voltages to a driver driving first electrodes through a plurality of fuses. The power supply supplies the plurality of fuses with a fuse driving voltage used to control... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080174591 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display device having the same, and driving method thereof: A timing controller includes a frame memory capable of storing previous frame data, a comparator structured to output a selection control signal in response to comparison of the previous frame data supplied from the frame memory with current frame data, an overdriver unit structured to output a compensation data signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080174595 - Controlled impedance display adapter: A display adapter for a digital connector and an analog connector. The display adapter includes a PCB (printed circuit board). A first connector and a second connector are both mounted on the PCB. The first connector and second connectors can be VGA, DVI-I, DVI-D, or HDMI format. The PCB is... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080174596 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus, is provided, including an image processor which processes an image received from an external apparatus; a display unit which displays the image processed by the image processor; and a controller which, if an attribute of the image being displayed needs to be changed, provides the external apparatus... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174597 - Display control apparatus, display control method, and program: In the present invention, there is provided a display control apparatus for providing a tabular display of a plurality of images divided into a plurality of continuous pages, the display control apparatus including: selection means for selecting from the plurality of images the images to be displayed on each of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080174594 - Method for supporting intuitive view specification in the free-viewpoint television application: A method of selecting first and second basis views from a group of at least three provided views where the first and second basis views are used in synthesizing a third virtual view. The group of provided views are spatially offset from one another in at least one dimension.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080174593 - System and method for processing map images: A system of processing map images includes a Web Mapping Service (WMS) for storing map images. A WMS proxy is operative with the WMS and receives from a client a request for a map image for display at the client. A WMS proxy includes a tile broker module that converts... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080174598 - Design visualization system, apparatus, article and method: A system, method, article and apparatus for design visualization is provided.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080174599 - Implicit feature recognition for a solid modeling system: Creating an explicit feature used for construction of a computer-aided design model includes recognizing that model features form an implicit feature, presenting variations of the implicit feature, selecting one of the variations of the implicit feature, and creating the explicit feature. The explicit feature produces geometry that gives rise to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080174600 - Soft shadows for cinematic lighting for computer graphics: A method and apparatus for high quality soft shadows for area lights in cinematic lighting for use in computer graphics, such as computer enabled animation. The method is an extension of traditional shadow maps, so it has the advantage of image based shadow methods; the complexity of the present method... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080174601 - Video control for providing multiple screen resolutions using modified timing signal: A video controller providing control signals for one or more screen resolutions. The video controller does not change or modify the pixel data for a video signal with a screen resolution. Accordingly, the video controller does not require additional computing or memory resources. Furthermore, because the video controller can be... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080174602 - Evaluation of self-intersecting vector graphics objects via planar map profiles: Systems and methods for converting vector graphic object path profiles into planar map profiles for efficient mean value coordinates evaluation wherein the nodes of resultant region paths include a set of quantities of arbitrary dimension.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080174603 - Visualizing object relationships: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for enabling, by a computing device, provision of a visual manifestation of an object of interest and of one or more other objects related to the object of interest to a user of the computing device, are described herein. In various embodiments, the one or more... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080174604 - Subsystem, shared-control apparatus and method: A method for integrating and sharing the monitoring and control of multiple subsystems. The method may include identifying an integration system comprising a first display processor and a first command processor. The first display processor may receive a display signal from each subsystem of the subsystems being monitored and controlled.... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20080174606 - Method and apparatus for low power refresh of a display device: A method and system for rendering a frame to be displayed on a screen includes a memory-sink mechanism configured to store a copy of a screen image in memory, a snoop mechanism configured to monitor a system parameter, a controller configured to switch between first and second operation modes in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080174605 - Video signal processing device, video signal processing method, video signal processing program, integrated circuit, and video signal display device: On the display screen of a video signal display device, when the emission amount is monotonically lowered toward the screen periphery from a certain point (screen center), if there are a plurality of regions that viewers notice easily (such as faces), then correction by monotically decreasing the emission amount cannot... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080174607 - Systems and methods for reducing power consumption in a device through a content adaptive display: A method for reducing power consumption in a device through a content adaptive display is described. A frame of an image is received. A backlight value is calculated. A scaling factor is calculated. The backlight value is applied to a backlight. The scaling factor is applied to a matrix of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080174608 - Method for selecting a color transformation: An output color profile, such as an ICC output profile, contains a look-up table to separate the color of a pixel, for example a CIELAB color, into a set of colorant values, for example CMYK colorants. In practice, most CMYK images have been separated using one of a limited set... Agent: Agfa Corporation Patent Department

20080174609 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A plurality of images with additional information are designed to be displayed on one screen or a recording paper efficiently so as to enhance ease of visual confirmation and facilitate recording paper handling. Image data including a captured image section and an additional information section is inputted from an endoscope... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080174610 - Method and apparatus for displaying information: A method for displaying large amounts of information. The method includes the steps of forming a spatial layout of tiles each corresponding to a representative reference element; mapping observed elements onto the spatial layout of tiles of representative reference elements; assigning a respective value to each respective tile of the... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (formerly Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham)

20080174611 - Numerical-simulation-result display program, numerical-simulation-result display method, and numerical-simulation-result display system: A numerical-simulation-result display system includes an image output apparatus, a three-dimensional-CAD-model-data input unit configured to read three-dimensional-CAD-model data of an object to be analyzed, a CAD-model-data converting unit configured to convert the read three-dimensional-CAD-model data into CAD graphic data capable of being displayed on the image output apparatus, a numerical-simulation-result-data... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080174613 - Active matrix display device: A scanning driver is described which sequentially selects a selection line of each row. A storage unit stores data for setting an arbitrary region in which display is to be updated. Only an output of the selection driver in the region which is set by the storage unit is activated,... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080174612 - Image processor, image processing method, and image display device: An image processing device and an image processing method according to the present invention, by dividing an image into a plurality of blocks, generates a control signal denoting a change in the image data, based on a result of comparing first encoded image data that is quantized from image data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080174614 - High dynamic range display devices: A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen. The display may provide a high dynamic... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080174615 - Resolution setting apparatus, resolution setting method, and recording medium recording a resolution setting program when a television is used as a monitor of a computer: S1: BIOS invokes the second OS only at the first power-up. S2: Two resolution setting tools are invoked on the second OS. S3,S4: A mode check module verifies whether the display mode of the monitor is either an overscan mode or an underscan mode. S5: A test image and an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080169997 - Multi-dimensional image selectable display device: A multi-dimensional image selectable display device, including an image panel adapted to output images and a barrier panel on an upper portion of the image panel so as to display the images as a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image. The barrier panel may include a first substrate... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080169998 - Monocular display device: An apparatus includes a monocular display with a wireless communications interface, a user input device, a transmitter, receiver and a controller. The controller is configured to control the transmitter for sending and receiving control signals to and from an external device via the wireless interface. The monocular display is positioned... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080169999 - Dielectric layer comprising organic material, method of forming the dielectric layer, and plasma display panel comprising the dielectric layer: A dielectric layer of a plasma display panel that can coat a discharge electrode regardless of the form of the discharge electrode and that can be manufactured using a low temperature process, a method of forming the dielectric layer, and a plasma display panel including the dielectric layer. Thus the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080170000 - Driving method and apparatus of plasma display panel: A driving method and apparatus of a plasma display panel prevents a low discharge and an over discharge from occurring in a sustain period of a following sub-field by gradually changing a rising time of a last sustain pulse applied in the sustain period in each sub-field. The driving method... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170001 - Plasma display and associated driver: A display driver includes a first circuit configured to supply a first voltage and a second voltage to at least one electrode of a plasma display panel, and a second circuit configured to supply a third voltage from a first node of the second circuit to the at least one... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080170002 - Method of driving plasma display panel (pdp): A method of driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP) while improving a brightness saturation phenomenon that is caused by an increase in the total number of sustain discharge pulses. A sustain discharge is performed by a plurality of first and second electrodes, a number of sustain discharge pulses for a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080170003 - Plasma display panel: The areas of the transparent electrodes of the row electrodes constituting each row electrode pair facing the required discharge cells vary in accordance with the positions of the corresponding discharge cells within the panel screen. Required column electrodes of a plurality of column electrodes, which are provided for allowing an... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080170005 - Light-emitting device: A-light-emitting device which realizes a high aperture ratio and in which the quality of image is little affected by the variation in the characteristics of TFTs. A large holding capacitor Cs is not provided in the pixel portion but, instead, the channel length and the channel width of the driving... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170006 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display capable of preventing the occurrence of a line defect. A pixel region includes a plurality of organic light emitting diodes connected to scan lines and data lines. A scan driver supplies scan signals to the scan lines. A data driver supplies data signals to the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170008 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display including a demux is disclosed. The display include a plurality of RGB switching transistors which apply a data voltage through RGB data lines as the RGB switching transistors are coupled to the respective RGB data lines, and a plurality of RGB pixel circuits coupled to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080170009 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display operates on at least two different selection signals, which may perform a bi-directional scan that allows a double-sided screen to be displayed. The organic light emitting display includes a data line, first and second scan lines, a bi-directional data driver for applying a data signal... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080170010 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display is disclosed. The display includes a scan line, a data line, and a pixel coupled to the scan line and the data line. The pixel is configured to at least partially compensate for transistor threshold variation and for IR-drop in a power supply line, where... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080170004 - Organic light emitting display and image compensation method: An organic light emitting display and an image compensation method improves the Long Range Uniformity (LRU) of the output image by displaying the identical image when the identical image is input to each pixel, by measuring the luminance, chromaticity coordinates and color temperature after an organic light emitting display panel... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080170007 - Self light emitting device and method of driving thereof: A self light emitting device having a function of correcting drops in brightness in self light emitting elements in a pixel portion, and capable of displaying a uniform image without brightness irregularities, is provided. A specific test pattern is displayed when an electric power source is connected, brightnesses are detected... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170011 - Image display apparatus: In organic EL display apparatuses, when the reset operating time required for compensating variations in the OLED drive TFT voltage threshold is too short then fluctuations in the threshold voltage Vth cannot be corrected and an accurate gray scale is impossible. A precharge voltage is supplied from the precharge TFT... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080170015 - Display device: A display device includes a substrate having light emitting elements for display on a front surface; a substrate supporting body having an opening in the center and positioned on the back surface side of the substrate to support a peripheral region of the substrate; a case body positioned on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170013 - Organic light emitting diode display and fabricating method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed. Embodiments provide an organic light emitting diode display and a fabricating method thereof which prevents a pixel and a driver included in the organic light emitting diode display from being damaged due to an electrostatic discharge by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080170014 - Organic light emitting display and method of correcting images thereof: An organic light emitting display and a method of correcting images thereof prevents the occurrence of excessive pixel aging, burning and image sticking caused by loading effect and includes: a loading effect measuring unit to measure a luminance according to a level at which an image signal having an equal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080170012 - System and method for controlling a multi-string light emitting diode backlighting system for an electronic display: The present invention relates to displays that use LED strings for backlighting. A lead string is provided with continuous drive voltage and the non-lead strings are provided with pulsed drive pulses. The string having the highest forward voltage is selected as the lead string. Feedback information indicative of the currents... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080170016 - Liquid crystal device, method for driving the liquid crystal device and electronic equipment: A liquid crystal device is provided with wiring lines on a second substrate. The signal lines are connected to common electrodes provided on a first substrate at their ends overlaying a sealing material. The wiring lines extend in an area surrounded by the inside edges of the sealing material on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170017 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method of driving the same applies dummy pixel signals each representing a substantially identical brightness level during a blanking period, wherein the horizontal stripe phenomenon is substantially prevented from being generated due to differences in capacitive coupling between liquid crystal cells and... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080170018 - Liquid crystal devices with greyscale: This invention relates to a liquid crystal device with grey scale. The invention uses dither, either spatial or temporal. For spatial dither the invention arranges so that at least one bit of dither is not a multiple of the size of a smaller bit of dither—in other words there is... Agent: Alex Chartove Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080170020 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a signal control unit which supplies an image signal; a voltage supply unit which outputs a first reference voltage when the image signal is not at a highest grayscale level and outputs a second reference voltage having a voltage level higher than that of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170019 - Liquid crystal display device capable of lowering electric power consumption without generating flicker: In the liquid crystal display device, in case a value prepared for setting brightness to a pixel is “001110”(L14), 8 bits obtained by the bit-shifting to lower direction by 2 bits(2 bit-shifting) and the setting of the bit value “1” is “11001110”. Frame rate control is thereafter performed by using... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080170021 - Liquid crystal display exhibiting less flicker and method for driving same: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a frame buffer (41), a frame rate conversion circuit (42), a data divider (43), and a data driver (44). The frame buffer is configured for doubling a frame rate of inputted signals. The frame rate conversion circuit is configured for reducing a bit number... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080170022 - Pixel driving circuit: A pixel driving circuit of this invention utilizes a storage capacitor and an active loading circuit to serve as a pixel data storage buffer for each pixel. The pixel driving circuit of this invention can write the whole-panel pixel data for a next frame in these storage buffers during the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170023 - Aligning method of ferroelectric liquid crystal display and ferroelectric liquid crystal display apparatus using the same: An aligning method of a ferroelectric liquid crystal display includes; disposing a first mask and a second mask, each of which has opening regions and blocking regions arranged in alternating fashion in vertical direction and horizontal direction corresponding to liquid crystal cells of the liquid crystal display; and injecting a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080170024 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines to which a data voltage is supplied, a plurality of gate lines to which a gate pulse is supplied, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, a data drive circuit to invert a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080170025 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells, the plurality of liquid crystal cells associated to a first and second liquid crystal cell groups, a data drive circuit to... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080170026 - Display apparatus: In one embodiment of the present invention, a display module includes a display screen divided in a vertical direction into screen regions in each of which an image can be independently displayed. A control device for controlling an image display operation of the display module includes: upper- and lower-screen data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170028 - Display device: To provide an active matrix display device in which power consumption of a signal line driver circuit can be suppressed, so that power consumption of the entire memory can be suppressed. A plurality of memory circuits which can write data of a video signal input to a pixel in one... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170027 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: A driving apparatus of a liquid crystal display device includes a multiplexer array for performing time-division on inputted pixel data to supply time-divided pixel data, a digital-to-analog converter array for converting the time-divided pixel data into pixel voltage signals, and a demultiplexer array for driving data lines in a time-division... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080170029 - Scan driving circuit, electroluminescent display having the same: A scan driver may include first signal processor adapted to receive an initializing signal, a base clock signal, a base negative clock signal and a feedback signal, and to generate a first output signal, a second signal processor adapted to receive the initializing signal, the first output signal, the base... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080170030 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a first display image data generation unit which acquires image data and generates first display image data including information about a plurality of pixels, a histogram generation unit which generates a histogram showing luminance distribution of the pixels contained in the first display image data,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080170031 - Method for performing chromatic adaptation while displaying image, and corresponding display circuit and device: A method for performing chromatic adaptation while displaying an image having a plurality of pixels within a display device includes: deriving chromaticity coordinate information of an external environment; and utilizing a chromatic adaptation model to perform calculations regarding each pixel according to the chromaticity coordinate information to adjust a plurality... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080170032 - Device and system for presenting information: A presentation system includes a display for displaying data, and an input device for generating a distinctive mark on the display. The distinctive mark has pulse width modulation characteristics. A processor carries out an action determined by the distinctive mark. An image capture device remote from the display detects the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080170033 - Virtual pointer: A method, system, and device are provided for displaying a graphical pointer at a location on a display area. The method includes displaying, with an information processing system, a display image at a display area. The pointing device captures an image corresponding to at least a portion of the display... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080170034 - Wireless computer mouse: A wireless computer mouse is provided. The wireless computer mouse includes an upper housing having an opening, a press key put around the opening of the upper housing, a containing base coupled to a bottom of the upper housing and for placing the receiver, a lower housing coupled to the... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080170035 - Directionality judging method for operation key in direction detecting switch: The present invention is a directionality judging method for an operation key comprising; wherein an initial value is set whose unit is a minimum division region as a criterion for specifying the operation direction of the operation key from the input signal, and a position of the operation key at... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080170037 - Haptic devices having multiple operational modes including at least one resonant mode: An electronic device and method of operating comprises a housing; a base coupled to the housing; and an electro-mechanical transducer coupled to the base, the electro-mechanical transducer configured to operate in a resonant mode and output a haptic effect upon receiving a drive signal at a predetermined drive frequency. In... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080170036 - Method of controlling a joystick and preventing the joystick from enabling unwanted events: When a directional event is triggered, enable the directional event and start to time a first time period, and disable any select event triggered within the first time period. When a select event is triggered, start to time a second time period. If a directional event is triggered within the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080170038 - Shape-changeable mouse: A shape-changeable mouse includes a first housing, a second housing and a connecting member. Via the connecting member, the first housing is connected with the second housing. The second housing is rotated with respect to the first housing to change the shape of the mouse.... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080170039 - Image display device with plural light emitting diodes: Disclosed herein is an image display device having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), which can maintain a primary color which is desired to be expressed, and prevent an interference of other unwanted colors and a change of the primary color at the time of application of a light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170045 - Digital information input apparatus: If a request of handle information to identify data existing in a recording medium is made to a digital camera by a PC, the digital camera collects the data existing in the recording medium by accessing a file system, generates unique handle information independent of the file system on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170043 - Force-based input device: An input device comprising a base support, having a periphery and a plurality of apertures formed therein to define a circumscribed or circumscribing input pad configured to displace under the applied force; a plurality of isolated beam segments, defined by the plurality of apertures, and operable to receive resultant forces... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080170044 - Image printing apparatus and method for processing an image: An image printing apparatus is provided. The image printing apparatus includes a touch screen panel, having a display screen to display an image, configured to acquire a locating instruction from a user for specifying a location on the display screen; and an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080170040 - Touch panel: The touch panel of the present invention has a thermally color-changing portion in the vicinity of a connecting portion which is to be bonded by heat. It can be easily checked whether the heat press has been performed at a predetermined temperature when the wiring board is connected to the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080170041 - Touch panel: A touch panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a slit, and a groove. The first substrate has a first conductive layer, and a plurality of first electrodes that extend from both ends of the first conductive layer and that have first electrode lead sections. The second substrate has... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080170042 - Touch signal recognition apparatus and method and medium for the same: A touch signal recognition apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of this invention includes a sensing unit sensing a touch signal having a predetermined movement trajectory; a strength recognizing unit recognizing a change in strength of the touch signal; an availability determining unit determining an availability of the touch signal... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170046 - System and method for calibration of a capacitive touch digitizer system: A method for calibration of a capacitive touch digitizer system comprises detecting patterns of signals from a plurality of different events over a course of user interaction with the digitizer system, wherein the patterns of signals are outputs from a digitizer sensor of the system, determining a number of times... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080170047 - Liquid crystal display device: m

20080170049 - Pointing device with integrated audio input and associated methods: A mobile personal digital assistant (PDA) allows a user to enter information using both a touch screen and voice commands with a stylus. The stylus includes a microphone positioned at one end, and a transmitter for transmitting received voice signals to either a personal computer (PC) or the PDA. In... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080170048 - Retractable contact-control pen for electric device: A retractable contact-control pen with an inner rod having near its front end a position limiting area that is provided with two protrusions pressed by a compression spring to be normally pressed against the inner wall of a hollow outer rod, when the inner and the outer rods slide relative... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080170052 - Differential signaling system and flat panel display with the same: A differential signaling system and a flat panel display using the system, where a first wiring and a second wiring are connected between a sending end and a receiving end as a differential signal line. A termination resistor is connected between the first wiring and the second wiring in the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170050 - Driver for driving display panel and method for reading / writing in memory thereof and thin film transistor liquid crystal display using the same: A driver for driving a display panel and a method for reading/writing in a memory thereof and thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) using the same are provided. The method of the present invention is a reading timing of memory which different than the prior reading timing of memory,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080170051 - Semiconductor device including correction parameter generator and method of generating correction parameters: A semiconductor device includes an address generator and an output unit. The address generator is configured to output a plurality of addresses in response to a first number of most significant bits of a current pixel value including a first selection bit and a second number of most significant bits... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080170055 - Apparatus for receiving a signal and display apparatus having the same: A connector receives first and second differential signals. First and second signal lines are connected to the connector, and transmit the first and second differential signals, respectively. First and second differential capacitors have first and second end terminals to remove noise components of the first and second differential signals. Each... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080170053 - Pixel circuit: A pixel circuit has a light emitting diode, a first driving transistor, a second driving transistor, a capacitor, and a switch unit. When a scan signal is asserted, the switch unit couples sources/drains of the second driving transistor respectively to a first and a second source/drain of the first driving... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080170056 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells corresponding to electrode crossings, and a controller configured to control reset, address and sustain operations for a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080170054 - Structure and drive scheme for light emitting device matrix as display light source: A system and driving method are provided to accurately reproduce an input image using calibrated intensity profile. Extended dynamic range can be obtained according to the computation method. Improved structures for solid-state backlighting system suitable for such application are provided.... Agent: Chen-jean Chou

20080170059 - Buffer and organic light emitting display using the buffer: The present invention provides a buffer and an organic light emitting display that employs the buffer. The buffer is installed in a scan driver or a data driver, which generates scan signals and data signals, respectively, to drive the organic light emitting display. The buffer of the present invention is... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080170057 - Data driver device and display device for reducing power consumption in a charge-share operation: A data driver device and a display device, in which the data driver device includes a plurality of data lines; a plurality of first charge-share switches connected between a share line and the plurality of data lines, respectively; and a plurality of second charge-share switches each connected between two adjacent... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080170058 - Display apparatus and method for implementing screen saver for the same: A display apparatus and a method for implementing a screen saver for the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit; a communication unit which performs a video communication; a display processing unit which displays an image associated with the video communication on at least partial area... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170060 - Power saving device for display: A power saving device includes a first power connector adapted for connecting to a power source, a second power connector adapted for connecting to a power wire of a display, an infrared sensor, an infrared coupling circuit, a wave shaping circuit, and a switch circuit connected between the first and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080170061 - Display system: The invention provides a display system. The display system includes a display unit, a power unit, and a control unit. The display unit includes a panel and a light emitting module. The power unit is used for providing a current to the light emitting module. The control unit is used... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170063 - Differential signaling system and flat panel display with the same: A differential signaling system and a flat panel display using the same. The differential signaling system includes a first wiring and a second wiring connected to a sending end and a receiving end as a differential signal line; a termination resistor connected between the first wiring and the second wiring... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170062 - Display device, driving method thereof, and signal controller therefor: A display device includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, and a signal controller that receives digital input signals including an input control signal and an input image signal in series through two or less input terminals, and processes the input image signal and applies the processed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170064 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller generating a voltage compensation control pulse and a gate control signal, a voltage compensation signal generator generating a voltage compensation signal, the voltage level of which is gradually reduced during one frame period, in response to the voltage compensation control pulse,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080170068 - Display device, display program storage medium and display method: A display device which displays a list of data, including a date and time acquisition section which acquires the date and time associated with a piece of the data. The display device further includes: a three-dimensional display section which displays a three-dimensional space having axes respectively indicating the three kinds... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170066 - Graphic rendering method and system comprising a graphic module: A graphic rendering method includes: providing data primitive representing primitives of a scene; defining a plurality of three-dimensional cells of a scene view frustum; ordering the cells according to an order based on cell depths from a reference plane; associating each primitive to a cell; and processing data primitives according... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080170067 - Image processing method and apparatus: Provided is an image processing method and apparatus for improving image quality and enhancing a three-dimensional effect. By extracting an interest feature index from an input image based on a depth sensation estimation cue existing in the image, calculating an interest feature index integration map based on the interest feature... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170065 - Method and apparatus to facilitate multi-setting virtual reality experiences: When providing (101) a user a first interactive virtual reality experience via a first virtual setting and upon detecting (102) a need to transition the user to a second interactive virtual reality experience via a second virtual setting (that is different from the first virtual setting), one maintains (103) a... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080170069 - Modeling hair using interpolation and clumping in an iterative process: The present invention models hairs by generating hairs by interpolation and then further modifying the interpolated hairs to form clumps. The modified hairs can be iteratively reprocessed to generate more hairs and thereby produce a greater level of detail in the resulting hairstyle. The invention can be used to model... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080170070 - System and method for generating parts catalog, and computer program product: A system provides a technology for generating a parts catalog of a desired part by using three-dimensional model data. A parts catalog is generated by combining a part image of a desired part, an assembly image, boundary data of a desired part, and parts configuration data. When three-dimensional model data... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080170071 - Generating efficient spatial indexes for predictably dynamic objects: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for modifying a spatial index in response to movements of a predictably dynamic object within a three-dimensional scene. According to one embodiment of the invention, in contrast to generating a new spatial index in response to movement of a predictably dynamic object,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080170072 - Image display apparatus and image display method thereof: An image display apparatus including: a memory unit which stores at least one predetermined pixel value range and a representative value corresponding to the predetermined pixel value range; an image processing unit which receives an image signal including a plurality of pixels, digitizes the received image signal if the received... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080170073 - Computer-readable recording medium having system analysis program stored therein, system analysis method, and system analysis apparatus: A system analysis apparatus acquires time series data representing information on a series of processes executed in a computer system in a time-serial manner. A run table shows the ratio of the number of runs of each process to the total number of processes executed in a predetermined unit time... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080170074 - Method for generating a map depiction for optimal perceptibility of streets to travel through: The invention relates to a method for generating a map depiction displaying street courses to travel through, for example in navigation, toll ticketing depiction or in precision applications such as automatic driving. For this purpose a street course consists of stringing together geometrical elements, for example, one or several circle... Agent: Patent Central LLC Stephan A. Pendorf

20080170075 - Display controller, display control method, display control program, and mobile terminal device: A display controller includes a character display unit for displaying character information on a display unit; a keyword detecting unit for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display unit; an image information detecting unit for detecting image information including additional information corresponding to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170077 - Generating animation libraries: A computer-implemented method includes transferring motion information from one or more motion meshes to an animation mesh. The motion mesh represents the motion of surface features of an object. A shape mesh provides a portion of the shape of the object to the animation mesh.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170076 - System for mapping animation from a source character to a destination character while conserving angular configuration: A system is discussed herein that that stretches or squashes the target body parts based on a relative size difference between a source and the target. The angular configuration of the source is matched exactly in the destination. The system allows a squash or stretch of a part to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080170078 - Using animation libraries for object identification: A computer-implemented method includes comparing one or more surface features to a motion model. The surface feature or surface features represent a portion of an object in an image. The method also includes identifying a representation of the object from the motion model, based upon the comparison.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080170079 - Spatial binning of particles on a gpu: A method of performing spatial binning of particles is described which can be performed on a graphics processing unit. A stencil buffer is primed with a pattern which controls the writing of data to a framebuffer. A first shader is used to calculate the co-ordinates of the bin in which... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080170080 - Method and apparatus for processing object collision: A parallelization permission and prohibition management unit of a processor manages the permission or prohibition of the parallelization for each combination of partial spaces in cooperation with another parallelization permission and prohibition management unit of a different processor. Specifically, when any given object is present across the boundary between a... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080170081 - Bidirectional data transmission system and method: A bidirectional data transmission system and the transmitting method thereof are disclosed. A video graphics array interface or an interface including a display data channel is utilized in the bidirectional data transmission to transmit data in bi-direction.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170082 - Graphics engine and method of distributing pixel data: A graphics engine and related method of operation are disclosed in which a pixel distributor distributes pixel data across a plurality of pixel shaders using a first approach when the presence of one or more rendering features is indicated, else using a second approach different from the first approach.... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080170083 - Efficient memory structure for display system with novel subpixel structures: Embodiments of efficient memory implementations for novel display system are herein disclosed. One embodiment comprises a display system comprising a display, said display comprising a plurality of logical pixels wherein said logical pixels further comprise a first number of center-subpixels and a memory, said memory storing said image data to... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080170084 - Information processing apparatus, information display method, and information display program product: An information processing apparatus displays related information of information displayed in a region when the region is selected from regions displaying predetermined information and is displayed in an enlarged size, and does not display the related information when the selected region is displayed in a reduced size. The apparatus includes... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170087 - Display driver and display driving method for processing gray-level compensation: A display driver and display driving method process display data received from a central processing unit (CPU) and output display data voltages. The display driver includes a synchronization controller that sends a reference synchronization signal to the CPU, and controls the CPU to synchronize a write clock with the reference... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080170086 - Front end signal processing method and front end signal processor: (a) The luminance levels of the optical black part pixels included in the output signal of an image sensor are detected and digitized, (b) the digitized luminance levels of the optical black part pixels are averaged, (c) the number of pixels on which averaging is performed is counted, (d) a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080170085 - Hybrid analog and digital architecture for controlling backlight light emitting diodes of an electronic display: The present invention provides a controller for controlling strings of LEDs in a liquid crystal display. The hybrid controller uses both analog and digital circuit components. Error amplifiers are used to compare analog feedback signals received from the LED strings with reference signals. The results of those comparisons are converted... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080165080 - Back to back lcd flat panel display: A back-to-back replica display facility for a computer uses LCD flat panel displays, including first and second LCD flat panel displays, with the first display being a master display facing in a first direction for displaying a first image, and with the second display being a slave display facing in... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080165081 - Multi-frame display system with perspective based image arrangement: Systems and methods are provided for presenting digital images using a plurality of digital media frames separated spatially along at least two axes. In one aspect the method comprises the steps of obtaining the digital images to be presented determining the multi-dimensional relationship between the digital media frames analyzing the... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080165082 - Function enhancing array for multi-frame display system: A method and digital media frame array are provided comprising a plurality of digital media frame supports each support being adapted to support at least one digital media frame, an array structure positioning the plurality of frame supports to define at least a two-dimensional arrangement of the plurality of digital... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080165083 - Monitor configuration for media device: A display mode can be selected by identifying a plurality of display modes supported by a media client, wherein the plurality of display modes comprise safe modes; sequentially selecting a display mode from the plurality of display modes, wherein the plurality of display modes are ordered according to one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080165084 - Method for a distortion-free display: A method is provided for a distortion-free display of image elements, which are composed of computer-generated pixels and are reflected on a non-planar reflective surface, in particular a windshield of a motor vehicle. According to this method, pre-distorted image data are calculated by a computer unit in an operating phase... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080165085 - Elongated display fibers and display made thereof: The present invention relates to an elongated display fiber (1) comprising an optical fiber body (2) having a plurality of pixel positions distributed along the length of said fiber (1). At least one light source (3) is arranged to selectively illuminate said fiber (1) from at least one end thereof.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165089 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: During a sustain period of a plasma display device, voltages of Vs and 0V are alternately applied to a plurality of scan electrodes. At this time, by applying Vs to a first node, a first capacitor with a first terminal coupled to the first node is charged with a first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080165086 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes: pairs of electrodes having first electrode and second electrode which are arranged in parallel with each other; first substrate having dielectric layer formed so that the dielectric layer can cover the pairs of electrodes; and second substrate having third electrode which is arranged crossing the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080165088 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel having increased brightness may be obtained by employing front and rear substrates having different transmittances. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate that faces the front substrate, the rear substrate having a transmittance different from the front substrate, barrier ribs that partition... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080165090 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes: a first substrate of a first color; a second substrate of a second color and facing the first substrate; barrier ribs disposed between the first and second substrates to define discharge cells; address electrodes extending in a first direction on the first substrate and corresponding... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080165087 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display device: The present invention relates to a PDP device, and mainly provides a technique for preventing occurrence of flicker (in particular, line flicker in an interlace display). In the present PDP device, by control operation in a control circuit, in each of odd numbered and even numbered fields of the conventional... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080165091 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A driving circuit and method for driving a plasma display cell array using the circuit is disclosed. The driving circuit comprises a first transistor configured to drive the cells, a first driving sub-circuit configured to turn the first transistor on, and a second driving sub-circuit configured to turn the first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080165092 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A three electrode AC plasma display device including a plasma display panel and an improved energy recovery circuit. The energy recovery circuit uses resonance to efficiently drive a scan electrode and a sustain electrode with alternating sustain pulses to create a sustain discharge in a discharge cell. A panel capacitor... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080165093 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: An alternating current type plasma display panel with electrodes of asymmetrical construction and a method for driving the same. A first pulse is applied to the first electrode. A second pulse is applied to the second electrode, the second pulse having a width and a phase different from those of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080165095 - Gate driving circuit and display apparatus having the same: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a gate driving circuit disposed on a liquid crystal display is provided. The apparatus further includes a data driving chip, disposed on the liquid crystal display panel, to apply data driving signals to data lines. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080165094 - Pixel circuit and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit is disclosed in the present invention, which includes an OLED, a current-driving unit receiving a signal current on a data line during a programming period to provide a corresponding driving current to the OLED, a first switch coupled between the data line and the current-driving unit and... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080165098 - Driving architecture of liquid crystal display: A driving circuit architecture of a liquid crystal display (LCD) is described. The driving circuit comprises a control circuit, a gate driving module and a data driving module. The control circuit generates a gate control signal and a data control signal. The gate driving circuit electrically coupled to the control... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080165096 - Flat panel display: A display has a pixel, a driver, and a switching circuit. The pixel is driven by a signal transmitted on a conducting line. The driver operates in a transient state during transient periods and outputs driving voltages for the pixel during writing periods each following one of the transient periods.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080165097 - Large area liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes at least one cell which provides a rectangular array of addressable pixels having an average area of at least 4 mm2. The cell comprises: two substrates (11, 12) defining therebetween a cavity; a layer of liquid crystal material in the cavity; and a respective... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080165099 - Lcds and methods for driving same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and method for driving it that removes residual images from the display during power-off include an LCD panel that displays an image, a power-off residual image removal unit that detects a power-off state using pixel data and a driving voltage supplied from a main body... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080165101 - Liquid crystal device and method of driving the same: A driving circuit for driving a liquid crystal display device having a plurality of gate lines, data lines and switch elements connected to the gate and data lines includes a data driver for applying a plurality of data signals to the date lines, a gate driver for applying a plurality... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080165100 - Position structure of liquid crystal display: A position structure of a liquid crystal display for positioning a display panel in a display cover is disclosed. The position structure includes a position piece, a position protrusion, and a position breach. The position piece is placed between the display panel and the display cover to absorb a tolerance... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080165103 - Four color liquid crystal display and driving device and method thereof: A four color liquid crystal display (LCD) including red, green, blue, and white pixels is provided. The LCD also includes a plurality of gate lines for transmitting gate signals to the pixels and a plurality of data lines for transmitting data signals to the pixels. The LCD further includes a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080165102 - Image display system and method: An image display system includes a white-light source, a green-light source and a plurality of pixels. The white-light source generates white light during a frame time, and the green-light source generates green light during the frame time. Each pixel has a red sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel and a white sub-pixel.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165104 - Method of driving a color liquid crystal display and driver circuit for driving the display as well as portable electronic device with the driver circuit: The present invention provides a method and a circuit for driving a color liquid crystal display in a normal driving mode and a power saving mode, wherein in the normal driving mode, voltages corresponding to image display data are applied to data electrodes of the color liquid crystal display, and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080165106 - Driving apparatus of display device and method for driving display device: An apparatus for driving a display device includes a signal controller which converts an input image signal of a first frame frequency into a plurality of output image signals of a second frame frequency and outputs the output image signals, and a data driver which selects the data voltages corresponding... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080165105 - Image processor, image processing method, image encoder, image encoding method, and image display device: In the image processors and the image processing methods of the present invention, the number of bits for quantizing image data is adjusted on the basis of a dynamic range of each block. Therefore, the error introduced by encoding is reduced without increasing the data amount of the encoded image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165107 - Motion image data sequence, a method for generating the sequence, and a display apparatus using the sequence: A motion image data sequence, a method for generating the sequence, and a display device using the sequence are provided. The display device includes an image data input device and an image data processor. The image data input device transmits an initial image data to the image data processor. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165108 - Method for driving liquid crystal display in a multi-frame polarity inversion manner: The present invention discloses a method for driving a liquid crystal display device for enhancing a picture quality. More specifically, a method for driving liquid crystal display in a multi-frame polarity inversion manner is disclosed. Based on standard liquid crystal display structure, hardware and specification, the method improves frame rate... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080165109 - Liquid crystal display and method for eliminating afterimage thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) for eliminating an afterimage includes a power supply, a gate driver and a discharger. The power supply detects the cutting off of external power voltage and supplies a discharge signal. The gate driver simultaneously supplies a gate driving signal to a plurality of gate lines... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080165110 - Gate driving circuit, liquid crystal display having the same, and manufacturing method for thin film transistor substrate: A gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages dependently connected to one another. Each stage comprises a gate pad formed at one end of a gate line; a pull-up transistor outputting a gate driving signal for driving the gate line; a capacitor formed with a dielectric substance disposed between... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080165111 - Display panel and display apparatus using the same and control-signal driving method thereof: A display panel and a display apparatus using the same and a control-signal driving method thereof are provided. Each data line of the display panel includes two sub-data lines and both sub-data lines interlace to connect the pixels thereof. When using the column inversion to drive the sub-data lines, it... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080165113 - Fixed control data generation circuit and display device driving ic having the same: Provided are a fixed control data generation circuit and a display device driving circuit having the same, which can efficiently implement a metal layout for generating fixed control data. The display device driving circuit includes a fixed control data generation unit including a plurality of logic devices having at least... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080165112 - Gate driver: A gate driver is provided. The gate driver generates a original signal by a signal generator, and then the original signal into a plurality of signal parts by a demultiplexer and the signal parts are transmitted into a corresponding gate channel in order to reduce the number of shift registers... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080165118 - Back light module and driving method thereof: A back light module and a method for driving the back light module are disclosed. The back light module includes a plurality of light emitting units and a driving unit. The driving unit is electrically connected to the light emitting units and utilized for driving the light emitting units according... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080165115 - Backlight and ambient light sensor system: Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting of a display control parameter, and altering, based on the user setting, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080165116 - Backlight and ambient light sensor system: Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting or input of a display control parameter, and causing or altering, based on the user setting or input, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080165117 - Display apparatus and backlight scanning method thereof: A display apparatus and a backlight scanning method thereof are provided. The display apparatus having a backlight illuminator includes a parameter generator for generating parameters indicative of motion features of a video signal; and a backlight driver for driving the backlight illuminator by generating a scanning signal which has a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165114 - Lcd backlight driving device with an isolating transformer: An LCD backlight driving device with an isolating transformer comprises a DC power supply, a square wave generator, a square wave controller, said isolating transformer and a driver transformer; wherein said isolating transformer has a primary side connected to said square wave generator and a secondary side connected to said... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080165119 - Active matrix with write memory: A display with memory includes an electrophoretic flat display panel with a common transparent conductive electrode positioned on a major viewing surface. An active matrix with an array of conductive pads is positioned on a reverse side of the panel and each conductive pad defines a pixel in conjunction with... Agent: Robert A. Parsons

20080165122 - Backplanes for electro-optic displays: A backplane for an electro-optic display comprises a pixel electrode (104), a voltage supply line (C) arranged to supply a voltage to the pixel electrode (104), and a micromechanical switch (106, 112) disposed between the voltage supply line (C) and the pixel electrode (104), the micromechanical switch (106, 112) having... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080165121 - Electrophoretic display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof: An electrophoretic display apparatus includes a first substrate including a thin film transistor, a second substrate attached to the first substrate and including electrophoretic particles and an electrophoretic dispersion medium, and a third substrate attached to the second substrate and including a color filter.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080165120 - Passive matrix electrophoretic display with reset: A passive matrix electrophoretic display (1) in which a select driver applies a select waveform to each line of the matrix and a data driver applies a sequence of drive signals (D) to the columns of the matrix according to the image to be displayed on the device. The select... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165123 - Constructive disposition applied to the orthopedic computer mouse: An arrangement applied to an orthopedic computer mouse, comprising a flat base substantially shaped as a parallelogram, the mouse having a central region substantially shaped as a hemispheric dome, separated from a lateral recess wherein the thumb (51) is fitted by a projection feature (40) that ensures the pincer position... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165124 - Mobile terminal comprising rotary type input device and method of setting sensitivity using the same: This document relates to a mobile terminal comprising a rotary type input device and a method of setting a sensitivity using the same. The mobile terminal comprises a display unit for displaying a selection indicator, an input unit comprising a rotary type input device, which is rotated and moved in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165125 - Input apparatus, input method and cellular telephone: Movement of a cellular telephone is detected by an acceleration sensor fixed on a housing (substrate), the cellular telephone and user's operations are detected by an acceleration sensor semifixed on the housing (substrate) via a flexible member, and the user's operations are detected on the basis of a difference between... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080165126 - System for software interaction using printed forms and sensing device: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a printer and sensing device. The printer receives print data and prints a form by printing information related to at least one text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, receiving indicating data from the sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080165127 - Sliding input device and input method: A sliding input device and an input method are provided. The input method using the input device includes: moving an upper plate and a stick unit fixed to the upper plate when force is exerted on the upper plate; sensing movements of the stick unit along guide lines provided in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165129 - Computer mouse capable of switching between a left-handed mode and a right-handed mode: A computer mouse capable of switching between a left-handed mode and a right-handed mode is provided. The mouse includes a first transistor-circuit, a second transistor-circuit, and a control switch. The control switch has at least a first state and a second state. When the control switch is in the first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165128 - Mouse device: A mouse device includes a mouse main body, a roller, a rolling shaft and a switching mechanism. The roller is disposed within the mouse main body and partially protruded from the mouse main body. The rolling shaft is sheathed by the roller and has plural saw-toothed structures on the periphery... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080165130 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse with a power-saving display is disclosed. The wireless mouse has a power-detection module disposed therein to detect a power status of a power supply module inside the wireless mouse. Then, the wireless mouse can learn the power status of the power supply module and display the power... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080165131 - Touch sensor track point and methods: The present invention provides a touch sensor track point (and methods) for a computer such as a laptop or portable device (e.g., PDA, cellular phone, etc.). The touch sensor track point includes a shaft (e.g., typically positioned on a keyboard) and a set (at least one) of directional sensors positioned... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080165146 - Airplane mode indicator on a portable multifunction device: A graphical user interface on a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes an airplane mode switch icon with an “on” position and an “off” position. A communications signal strength icon is displayed if the airplane mode switch icon is at the “off” position. The communications signal strength... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165154 - Apparatus and method for controlling touch sensitivity of touch screen panel and touch screen display using the same: An apparatus and method for controlling the touch sensitivity of a touch screen panel are provided. The apparatus for controlling the touch sensitivity of a touch screen panel includes a register storing a threshold value that determines the touch sensitivity of the touch screen panel, and a touch sensitivity controller... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080165150 - Data scrolling apparatus and method for mobile terminal: A data scrolling apparatus and method for a mobile terminal. For this operation, if a touch-screen input is received from the user, determines whether a touch-screen input received from a user is an input for performing a touch-scroll function for moving a scroll bar. If it is determined that the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080165140 - Detecting gestures on multi-event sensitive devices: A user interface method is disclosed. The method can include detecting gestures on or above a multi-event sensor panel and performing an action associated with detected gestures. Such action can include activating or changing a state of one or more GUI objects and emulate functions performed by a mouse or... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165134 - Digital controller for a true multi-point touch surface useable in a computer system: An embodiment of an improved touch surface controller for controlling a multi-point touch surface such as a touch screen or a touch pad in a computer system is disclosed. The improved touch system controller detects signal capacitance from the pixels in the touch surface digitally, and therefore is easier and... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165135 - Functional expansion system for a touch pad: A functional expansion system for a touch pad of an electronic device includes a mode switching module, a signal receiving module, an instruction data base and a recognizing and figuring module. The mode switching module receives key pressing signal from the key to switch a controlled status of the electronic... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080165141 - Gestures for controlling, manipulating, and editing of media files using touch sensitive devices: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and software for implementing gestures with touch sensitive devices (such as a touch sensitive display) for managing and editing media files on a computing device or system. Specifically, gestural inputs of a human hand over a touch/proximity sensitive device can... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165138 - Information input device for portable electronic apparatus and control method: The present invention discloses an information input device for a portable electronic apparatus comprising a touch unit for perceiving the touch from a user and generating a change in current, a current detection unit for detecting said change in current and sending associated detection signal, an input information generating unit... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080165133 - Method, system and graphical user interface for displaying hyperlink information: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for displaying hyperlink information are disclosed. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device with a touch screen display: displays content on the touch screen display, wherein the content includes a plurality of links to additional content; detects a contact by a finger with the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165152 - Modal change based on orientation of a portable multifunction device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a rectangular touch screen display that includes a portrait view and a landscape view. The method includes detecting the device in a first orientation, and while the device is in the first orientation, displaying... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165148 - Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying inline multimedia content: In a computer-implemented method at least a portion of a structured electronic document comprising content is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable electronic device. A gesture is detected on an item of inline multimedia content in the displayed portion of the structured electronic document. In response, the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165142 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for adjusting an insertion point marker: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display. The method includes: displaying graphics and an insertion marker at a first location in the graphics on the touch screen display; detecting a finger contact with the touch screen display;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165147 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying user interface objects adaptively: A portable multifunction device identifies a plurality of user interface objects. If the user interface objects meet a first predefined condition, the device then displays at least two of the user interface objects on a touch screen display. If the user interface objects meet a second predefined condition, the device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165143 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for interacting with user input elements in displayed content: In one aspect of the invention, a computer-implemented method in a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes: displaying content on the touch screen display, wherein the content includes a plurality of user input elements; detecting a contact by a finger with the touch screen display; choosing a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165145 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for interpreting a finger swipe gesture: A portable device with a touch screen display detects a finger-in-contact or finger-in-range event at a first position on the touch screen display and a finger-out-of-range event at a second position on the touch screen display and then determines a distance between the first position and the second position. Next,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165153 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface supporting user navigations of graphical objects on a touch screen display: A portable multifunction device displays a first user interface object and a second user interface object on a touch screen display. Upon detecting a finger-down event at the first user interface object and one or more finger-dragging events on the touch screen display, the device moves the first user interface... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165144 - Portrait-landscape rotation heuristics for a portable multifunction device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display and one or more accelerometers. The method includes displaying information on the touch screen display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165132 - Recognizing multiple input point gestures: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for recognizing multiple input point gestures. A recognition module receives an ordered set of points indicating that contacts have been detected in a specified order at multiple different locations on a multi-touch input surface. The recognition module determines the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080165137 - Slidable electronic whiteboard system: The present invention provides movable visual communication systems, more specifically movable electronic whiteboard systems. The invention provides an electronic whiteboard having at least one positioning member and a guide element adapted to receive the positioning member, wherein the electronic whiteboard and the positioning member are movable along the guide element.... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080165136 - System and method for managing lists: A computer-implemented method for displaying and managing lists on a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes displaying a list of items, detecting a finger contact on a moving-affordance icon, detecting movement of the finger contact on the touch screen display, and in response to detecting the movement... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165151 - System and method for viewing and managing calendar entries: A computer-implemented method performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes displaying a multiweek calendar on the touch screen display, detecting a contact on an individual day in the multiweek calendar, and displaying at least a portion of a list of events on the contacted individual... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165155 - System for computer software interaction using form identity: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a computer system which transfers print data to a printer. The printer is responsive to the print data to print a form by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080165156 - System for interaction wth computer software using handwritten strokes: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a computer system which transfers print data to a printer, the printer being responsive to the print data to print a form by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field,... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080165149 - System, method, and graphical user interface for inputting date and time information on a portable multifunction device: In one aspect of the invention, a graphical user interface on a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display comprises: an hour column comprising a sequence of hour numbers; a minute column comprising a sequence of minute numbers; and a selection row that intersects the hour column and the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165139 - Touch screen stack-up processing: A multi-touch sensor panel is disclosed that can be produced by forming a plurality of first traces of substantially transparent conductive material on a first substrate, forming a plurality of second traces of the substantially transparent material, and creating a fluid-tight gap between the plurality of first traces and the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165159 - Force-based input device having a modular sensing component: A force-based input device responsive to an applied force to determine a location and/or magnitude of the applied force. The input device comprises a fixed frame and a base support, having an input member configured to receive the applied force and to displace relative to said fixed frame in response... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080165157 - Rf pulse synchronization for data acquisition operations: Data acquisition from a touch-surface input unit may be disrupted during the generation of radio frequency (“RF”) pulses. To mitigate this problem, touch-surface data acquisition is temporarily halted during RF pulse generation. Data collected prior to temporarily halting is retained, with subsequently acquired data being added to prior collected data.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165158 - Touch screen stack-ups: A multi-touch sensor panel is disclosed that can include a glass subassembly having a plurality of column traces of substantially transparent conductive material that can be formed on the back side, wherein the glass subassembly can also act as a cover that can be touched on the front side. Row... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165160 - Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for interpreting a finger gesture on a touch screen display: A portable electronic device having a touch screen display detects a first finger-down event at a first position on the touch screen display. The first position is adjacent to first and second user interface objects. The portable device detects a second finger event at a second position on the touch... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Inc.

20080165161 - Application programming interfaces for synchronization: The application programming interface operates in an environment with user interface software interacting with multiple software applications or processes in order to synchronize animations associated with multiple views or windows of a display of a device. The method for synchronizing the animations includes setting attributes of views independently with each... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080165162 - Electronic pen device: Various electronic pen devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an electronic pen with an improved ultrasound transducer (i.e. transmitter or receiver) is provided. In one embodiment an electronic pen with an improved ‘pen up/pen down’ detector is provided In one embodiment, an electronic pen with an improved structure for... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20080165163 - Hybrid pen mouse user input device: A novel hybrid pointing device combines elements of both a digital pen and a mouse, to collect the advantages of both types of devices in a single user input device. The hybrid input pointing device includes both a digital pen and a cradle. The cradle has a docking bay in... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080165164 - Device, apparatus, method, and computer program for an input interface: A device is disclosed, including a first rotator being associated with a first set of functionalities for selection and a second rotator being associated with a second set of functionalities for selection. A corresponding apparatus and method is also disclosed. Further, a computer program product for implementing the method is... Agent: Perman & Green

20080165166 - Apparatus for driving laser diode used in image display: An apparatus for driving a laser diode (LD) used in an image display. The apparatus includes a signal converter which converts an input image signal into a digital image signal; first through Nth (where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to “1”) current output devices which output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165168 - Differential amplifier and data driver employing the differential amplifier: Disclosed is a differential amplifier which includes first and second input terminals, an output terminal, first and second differential pairs, and first and second current sources for supplying currents to the first and second differential pairs. The first differential pair has first and second inputs of an input pair connected... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080165165 - Driver circuit of amoled with gamma correction: A driver circuit of an AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) with gamma correction includes a voltage selector, an operational amplifier, a MOS transistor, and a resistive element. The voltage selector selects one of a plurality of gamma voltages. The operational amplifier receives the selected gamma voltage and a... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080165167 - Printed circuit board and liquid crystal display having the same: A printed circuit board for a liquid crystal display that has a structure for preventing interference between a feedback voltage generating unit or a compensating unit of a DC-DC converter and a pulse signal wiring line. The printed circuit board has a boosting circuit for boosting an input voltage to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080165169 - Systems for displaying images by utilizing vertical shift register circuit to generate non-overlapped output signals: Systems for displaying images are provided. An embodiment of such a system has a dynamic shift register. The dynamic shift register includes a sampling unit, a holding unit, and a first logic circuit. The sampling unit, which is coupled to an incoming signal and a first input terminal of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080165170 - 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)

20080165174 - Display apparatus: For the purpose of providing a display apparatus capable of improving display quality by expanding the light-emission area of pixels by improving the layout of pixels and common power-feed lines formed on a substrate, pixels (7A, 7B) including a light-emission element (40), such as an electroluminescence element or an LED... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080165173 - Display device, controlling method thereof and driving device for display panel: A display device, includes: a main display panel; a main driving unit which comprises a driving voltage generating unit that generates a plurality of driving voltages to be supplied for the main display panel and a first driving voltage terminal that outputs the driving voltages, and drives the main display... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080165171 - Display driving circuit and method thereof: A display driving circuit has a scan switch, an assistant unit, several storage switches, and several storage units. The scan switch couples to a data line. The assistant unit couples to the scan switch. The storage switches couple to the assistant unit. Each storage unit couples to the assistant unit... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080165172 - Systems for displaying images by utilizing horizontal shift register circuit for generating overlapped output signals: Systems for displaying images are provided. An embodiment of such a system has a dynamic shift register. The dynamic shift register includes a first, second, third, fourth and fifth switching circuits and a level adjusting circuit. The first switching circuit controls if the first supply voltage is transmitted to a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080165175 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A method of driving a plasma display that includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of discharge cells corresponding to the first and second electrodes. The method includes performing an initial energy recovery circuit charging operation, and after performing the initial energy recovery... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080165177 - Flat display device and its control method: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a flat display device which makes drive voltage polarity of pixels of adjacent lines reversed polarity, while drives to reverse drive voltage polarity of the same line on a frame-by-frame basis, has common voltage generation circuit for supplying a common voltage signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080165176 - Method of video display and multiplayer gaming: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow multiple users to simultaneously watch different content on the same video display. In one application, multiple players may play a multiplayer game on a single PC or game console, while simultaneously enjoy a full-screen display on a single video monitor. The video content... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/roc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080165178 - Methods for adjusting the synchronization in digital display application: The present invention is to provide two methods for trimming output HSync in display timing conversion for digital display application, so that the scaling controller can minimize Line Buffer timing shift and match the VSync/HSync timing requirement of digital display device. “Horizontal synchronization vibration” and “Remapping” are the two methods... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080165179 - Active matrix array device: An active matrix array device has driver circuitry for providing address signals to the matrix elements, including digital to analogue converter circuitry. This has a voltage selector for selecting a pair of voltages based on a first set of bits of the digital matrix element signal, and a converter arrangement... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165180 - Method for improving electromagnetic interference by changing driving frequency and liquid crystal device using the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a wireless communication module and a liquid crystal display module. The wireless communication module detects a communication frequency of a received wireless data signal and supplies an address mapped to the communication frequency. The liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal panel displaying... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080165182 - Navigation device and method for enhanced map display: A method and device are disclosed for navigation. In at least one embodiment, the method includes determining map information for display on an integrated input and display device of a navigation device, based upon a determined route of travel of the navigation device; determining, prior to display on the integrated... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20080165184 - Pc-based computing system employing multiple graphics processing units (gpus) interfaced with the central processing unit (cpu) using a pc bus and a hardware hub, and parallelized according to the object division mode of parallel operation: 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.

20080165181 - Rendering 3d video images on a stereo-enabled display: The rendering of 3D video images on a stereo-enabled display (e.g., stereoscopic or autostereoscopic display) is described. The process includes culling facets facing away from a viewer, defining foreground facets for Left and Right Views and common background facets, determining lighting for these facets, and performing screen mapping and scene... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080165183 - System and method for three-dimensional display of airspaces: A system and method for representing an instance of airspace is disclosed. The system includes a two-dimensional aeronautical chart and a three-dimensional model. The aeronautical chart provides information representing the dimensions of an instance of airspace (e.g., the size and shape of a class of airspace). The model translates the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080165185 - Systems and methods for selectively imaging objects in a display of multiple three-dimensional data-objects: Systems and methods for selectively imaging objects in a display of multiple three-dimensional data-objects. Further features include the display of objects and the intersection of objects removed from the display with various types of visualization surfaces for removing data that obstructs the display of objects of interest.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080165186 - Systems and methods for visualizing multiple volumetric data sets in real time: Systems and methods for visualizing multiple volumes of three-dimensional data. A graphics card is used for voxel intermixing, pixel intermixing and image intermixing, which produces a final-combined image of the three-dimensional data in real time.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080165188 - Analysis model generation program, analysis model generation apparatus, analysis model generating method, and method for manufacturing apparatus with analysis model generating method: A program stored in a storage medium directs a computer to perform the processes of: receiving a three-dimensional geometric model; referring to attribute information about fastening between the parts; extracting a fastening portion at which a first and second parts are fastened based on the attribute information and the three-dimensional... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080165187 - Face image synthesis method and face image synthesis apparatus: A face image synthesis apparatus includes a storage device (2) and an arithmetic processing unit (1). The storage device (2) stores a plurality of face images and a plurality of feature points including an origin. The plurality of feature points are set to each of the plurality of face images.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080165189 - Method and system for automatically generating process animations: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer executable method for automatically generating an animation of a disassembling process or assembling process of a product, having the steps of: (a) acquiring three dimensional data (8) of the product; (b) displaying, on the computer, a group... Agent: Konomi Takeshita

20080165190 - Apparatus and method of displaying overlaid image: An apparatus to display an overlaid image includes an alpha-value-checking unit to check a 3D object having an alpha value among 3D objects of an overlay plane, a blending unit to blend the 3D object and the previously painted overlay plane based on a plurality of blending rules if the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080165191 - Display control apparatus and method for enlarging image of content and displaying enlarged image: An analyzer of a display control apparatus analyzes image characteristics of an image that has been pixel-converted by a pixel converter. A number-of-pixels determining unit compares the analysis result obtained by the analyzer with predetermined deterioration determination thresholds and determines the number of display pixels that is optimal for content.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080165192 - Pseudo-string based pattern recognition in l3go designs: A system and method for processing glyph-based data associated with generating very large scale integrated circuit (VLSI) designs. A system is provide that includes a serialization system for converting an input region of glyph design data into a pseudo-string; and a pattern searching system that identifies matching patterns in the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080165193 - Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language: The principles of the present invention relate to iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language. A computing system accesses a more complex constraint that can not be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font-hinting language, the more complex constraint constraining at least a portion of the outline. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080165195 - Method, apparatus, and software for animated self-portraits: A system is provided for generating animated self-portraits of a user that depict lifelike simulated behaviors under computer control. A processor controlled camera captures a plurality of self-portrait photographs of a user, each photograph depicting the user in one a plurality of different facial poses, for example different facial angles,... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20080165194 - Scene modifier representation generation apparatus and scene modifier representation generation method: There are provided a scene modifier generation device and a scene modifier generation method capable of improving expressive power of animation when automatically generating a modifier concerning a scene used in computer graphics from an inputted text sentence. A scene modifier as a modification expression concerning a scene of computer... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080165196 - Method of dynamic load-balancing within a pc-based computing system employing a multiple gpu-based graphics pipeline architecture supporting multiple modes of gpu parallelization: A method of dynamic load-balancing in a PC-based computing system employing a multiple GPU-based graphics pipeline architecture supporting multiple modes of GPU parallelization. During the execution of the graphics application, the stream of geometrical data and said graphics commands is analyzed, and the mode of parallelization of the GPUs during... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080165198 - Method of providing a pc-based computing system with parallel graphics processing capabilities: A method of providing a PC-based computing system with parallel graphics processing capabilities, wherein the PC-based computing system includes (i) system memory (ii) an operating system (OS, (iii) one or more graphics applications, stored in said system memory, (iv) one or more graphic libraries, (v) a central processing unit (CPU)... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080165197 - Multi-gpu graphics processing subsystem for installation in a pc-based computing system having a central processing unit (cpu) and a pc bus: A multi-GPU graphics processing subsystem for installation in a PC-based computing system having a CPU and a CPU interface module including a PC bus. The graphics processing subsystem interfaced with the CPU interface module by way of the PC bus, and a display surface for displaying said images by graphically... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080165199 - Automatic load balancing of a 3d graphics pipeline: A device has a processor for processing a vertex processing stage, a sub-screen dividing stage and a pixel rendering stage of a three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline. The processor includes processing threads which balance the work load of the 3D graphics pipeline by prioritizing processing for the pixel rendering stage over... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080165200 - Hardware background tile generation: A graphics controller for animating a tiled background is described. The graphics controller includes a host interface for communicating with an external host CPU and a plurality of registers in communication with the host interface. Logic circuitry is configured to select between tile image data and main image data when... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080165201 - Flat display device and signal driving method of the same: A flat display device has a circuit configuration in which a division-driving system and an aspect conversion are integrated with each other, and performs driving appropriate to achieve higher resolution even in driving a display unit. The device comprises a memory circuit which includes n unit memories each storing unit... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080165202 - Monitor configuration for media device: A display mode can be selected by identifying a plurality of display modes supported by a media client, wherein the plurality of display modes comprise safe display modes; generating a user interface including a test image and a plurality of commands in accordance with a selected display mode of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080165203 - Luminescence shock avoidance in display devices: A luminescence shock avoidance algorithm is disclosed to selectively limit the brightness level of a display device when the display device is activated in a dark environment to prevent the temporary vision impairment that can occur when a display device is activated in a dark environment. The algorithm receives the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080165204 - Sub-pixel mapping: A method of mapping a four primary input signal (IS) to sets (Pij) of four sub-pixels (RPij, GPij, BPij, WPij) of a display device (DD). The four primary input signal (IS) comprises a sequence of input samples (Sij) each comprising a value for a first input signal (Rlij), a value... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080165205 - Color extraction method and apparatus: This invention is a technique to presume colors of an image. A color extraction method according to this invention include a luminance calculation step of calculating a luminance in a color extraction region, which is included in an image and from which a color is to be extracted, and storing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080165206 - Edge-oriented interpolation method and system for a digital image: An edge-oriented interpolation method is used for enlarging a source image. The region in which each destination pixel in an enlarged image is located is identified as a smooth region, a text region or an edge region, and Sobel edge detection for two adjacent pixels around the destination pixel is... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080165208 - 3-dimensional graphic processing apparatus and operating method thereof: A graphic processing method may include clipping a first polygon with a near plane of a view volume to create a second polygon, clipping the second polygon with a far plane of the view volume to create a third polygon, and/or discriminating if a homogeneous coordinate of the third polygon... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080165207 - Method and system for manipulating graphical images: According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for manipulating graphical images includes providing a browser that renders a graphical image on a display. The browser includes a JavaScript engine that uses one or more Asynchronous JavaScript and XML requests to interact with a graphical image manager. The graphical... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080165209 - Information processing apparatus, display control method and program: An information processing apparatus including recording section for recording information on a feed of an RSS format, converting section where a picture contained in each feed whose information is recorded in the recording means is converted into a picture having a predetermined size on a basis of the number of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165210 - Animations: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least two animations. The method further includes determining the progress of each animation. The method further includes completing each... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080165213 - Display-device drive circuit and drive method, display device, and projection display device: To provide a drive circuit, a drive method, a display device, and a projection display device capable of increasing contrast of an image a mean gray level (first gray level characterizing brightness) Gf is detected from an image signal DATA per unit time. On the basis of the mean gray... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080165211 - Method for driving plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus: A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided, wherein one field period is structured of a plurality of subfields having a write period for generating write discharges selectively in the discharge cells, and a sustain period for generating the number of times of sustain discharges according to brightness... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080165212 - Source driver, electro-optical device, projection-type display device, and electronic instrument: A source driver that drives a source line of an electro-optical device based on (j+k)-bit (j and k are natural numbers) grayscale data includes 2j grayscale signal lines, a grayscale voltage select circuit that outputs two grayscale voltages among 2j grayscale voltages supplied through the 2j grayscale signal lines, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080158095 - Method and system for multi-channel viewing applications: Methods and apparatus for rendering plural channels on a common display are provided. In a method embodiment, a method for allowing sharing of a display by a plurality of users wishing to view a plurality of respective images includes displaying the plurality of respective images sequentially on the display. The... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158096 - Eye-location dependent vehicular heads-up display system: Optimized visual information presentation system and method for a vehicular occupant includes a heads-up display system for generating a virtual display in a field of view of an occupant of the vehicle when facing outward of the vehicle, an occupant sensing system for determining the location of the eyes of... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080158097 - Display device with six primary colors: An exemplary display device (4) includes a plurality of pixels (41). Each pixel includes a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a cyan sub-pixel, a magenta sub-pixel, and a yellow sub-pixel which are capable of displaying red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow, respectively. each of the cyan,... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158100 - Driving device for plasma display panel and plasma display device including the same: A driving device for a plasma display panel including a plurality of address electrodes extending along a column direction and scan electrodes and sustain electrodes sequentially arranged in and extending along a row direction, the driving device being for applying a driving voltage to the scan electrodes and including: a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158103 - Driving method of plasma display panel and display device thereof: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and a driving method for driving the PDP. The PDP includes discharge cells that are formed by scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes. The driving method divides a frame of the plasma display panel into a plurality of subfields... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158098 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel is disclosed. The method including a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and a barrier rib includes applying a scan pulse of a positive polarity to the scan electrode for an address period, and applying a data pulse of a negative polarity corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158099 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display panel comprises a front panel having a front glass, and a rear panel opposing the front panel. The rear panel includes a rear glass positioned to face the front glass, an address electrode formed on the rear glass, a lower dielectric layer covering the address electrode, a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080158101 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method for driving a plasma display device including first electrodes and second electrodes. In one embodiment, the plurality of first electrodes are divided into a plurality of groups including first and second groups. During a first period of a sustain period, a second voltage is applied to the first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158102 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a driving method thereof. The plasma display device is driven in a reset period, an address period and a sustain period. The plasma display device includes a power source unit for providing power with different voltage levels to the scan electrode driver for driving the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158104 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel including first and second electrodes and third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes; a power supply for receiving an input voltage and generating a first voltage using the input voltage; and a first driving unit for applying an output voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158105 - Plasma display panel and method of manufacturing the same: A plasma display panel including: a first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, the first and second electrodes being disposed in parallel on the first substrate; a first dielectric surrounding the first electrodes and the second electrodes and connecting the first electrodes and the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158106 - Plasma display panel: It is intended to provide a plasma display panel including: front panel (1) having front substrate (3) having a plurality of arrays of display electrodes each including scanning electrode (4) and sustain electrode (5) opposed to each other with a discharge gap being defined therebetween and rear panel (2) having... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080158112 - Drive circuit, display apparatus using drive circuit, and evaluation method of drive circuit: For making outputs of a drive circuits accurate, the drive circuit is composed of a plurality of current signal generation circuits for outputting a current signal to each of a plurality of output units, a current signal output line to which outputs of the plurality of current signal generation circuits... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080158107 - Electronic display having improved uniformity: A display with improved visual uniformity, comprised of an array of independently-addressable light-emitting elements, including at least a first independently-addressable light-emitting element for producing a first color of light and a second independently-addressable light-emitting element for producing a second color of light; wherein at least the first independently-addressable light-emitting element... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080158111 - Image display device: An image display device having an image display panel includes: as a casing, a base part mountable on a horizontal surface, a rising part rising from the base part at a predetermined angle, and a panel retaining part connected to an upper part of the rising part, the panel retaining... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080158109 - Light emitting driver and electroluminescent display including such light emitting driver: A driver includes a first signal processor adapted to receive clock, input and negative input signals and to output a first output signal to a first node, a second signal processor adapted to receive the first output signal, a negative clock signal, and first and second negative feedback signals and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080158108 - Organic light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same: A top emission OLED includes a driving TFT including a channel region and source and drain electrodes. A power supply, a ground line, and a light emitting diode are electrically coupled to the TFT and an auxiliary electrode is electrically coupled to the ground line and to the source electrode... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080158110 - Pixel circuit, display, and method for driving pixel circuit: There is provided a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each of the pixel circuits having a drive transistor, a holding capacitor, an electro-optical element, a sampling transistor, and an initialization transistor, a drive current based on information held in the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080158113 - Display device, display system, and computer-readable recording medium in which luminance control program is stored: To improve the convenience of users and facilitate a change into a luminance control mode high in power save effect, the display device includes a luminance control unit for controlling a luminance of the display unit in a luminance control mode selected from a first luminance control mode in which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158114 - Organic electroluminescent display device and method of driving the same: An electroluminescent display device including pixels each adapted to receive respective first and second scan signals via respective first and second lines, a scan driver adapted to supply a respective scan signal to each of the scan lines and to supply a respective light emitting control signal to each of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080158115 - Led display system: A method of displaying an input signal (IV) on a full color LED display is discussed wherein the display has pixels (11) comprising at least four LED's (PLi) which respectively emit light with four primary colors. The method comprises converting (SC) the input signal (IV) into drive signals for the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080158116 - System and method for timing color presentaion of an image display system: In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method and system for the timing color of an image display are provided. In one embodiment, a method for displaying image includes sequentially illuminating a spatial light modulator with a plurality of colors by shining light through a color wheel... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158118 - Electrooptic device and electronic device: An electrooptic device includes two adjacent pixel electrodes. A potential that is different from the potential of the first and second pixel electrodes is applied to an area between the adjacent pixel electrodes.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158119 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method therefor: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes an LCD section and a driving section. The driving section provides the LCD section with a compensated gradation datum based on a first gradation datum of an (n)-th frame, a second gradation datum of an (n+1)-th frame and a third gradation datum of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080158117 - Power saving display: A mobile computing device comprises a power source, a display, a display driver and a control circuit. The power source is configured to provide a power signal. The display comprises a plurality of pixels. The display driver is configured to receive the power signal and to drive the pixels based... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080158120 - Liquid crystal display device including image sensor and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a first data line and a second data line, the first and second data lines substantially parallel to one another, a first gate line, the first gate line crossing the first data line and the second data line, a display sub-pixel defined by the... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080158122 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (10) including pixel units, a digital video card (14), a regulator (12) and a controller (13). The digital video card is configured for sequentially generating video signals. The regulator is configured for generating modulated video signals and generating a black-inserting... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158121 - System and method for gamma regulating of liquid crystal display: An exemplary gamma regulating system (20) for an LCD has a test-needed LCD (26), a light sensor (21), and a MCU (24). The LCD displays each gray scale image according to internal presetting standard gamma curve. The light sensor measures a luminance value of the gray scale image displayed by... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158123 - Active matrix for a liquid crystal display device: An active matrix for a liquid crystal display device including pixel electrodes arranged in a crossed network of rows and columns. Associated with each pixel electrode, an electrode control device is provided, including a first switching element connected between the pixel electrode and an associated column, a control electrode of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158124 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of gate lines formed extending in a first direction of a lower substrate and spaced apart by an equal interval along a second direction of the lower substrate; a dummy gate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158126 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (1) includes a liquid crystal panel (12) including a number of thin film transistors (123), a timing control circuit (16), a common voltage generating circuit (14) and a gamma circuit (13). The timing control circuit is configured for generating timing signals. The common voltage generating circuit... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158125 - Liquid crystal display device: In a driving method capable of dot inversion without an increase in power consumption of an IC, measures are taken to deal with the lack of time for wiring data signals, when the screen is enlarged and the number of pixels increases, or when the frame frequency increases. In order... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080158127 - Liquid crystal display panel having repair line: An exemplary liquid crystal panel (2) includes a data driver (220), a gate driver (210), a plurality of data lines (203) arranged in parallel and spaced from each other, a plurality of gate lines (201) arranged in parallel and spaced from each other, a plurality of data connecting lines (204),... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158128 - Method for driving liquid crystal display via circularly reversing polarities of pixels thereof: An exemplary method for driving a liquid crystal display (200) includes: (a) providing a liquid crystal panel (20) including a plurality of pixels (205) arranged in a matrix to define sub-matrices of pixels, each sub-matrix including a plurality of pixel blocks; (b) providing a predetermined polarity pattern for each pixel... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158129 - Display device driving circuit and display device including same: In an embodiment, a sampling signal to each data signal line is generated by using an output signal outputted from each flip-flop, and a precharge signal by which the data signal line to which the sampling signal is to be outputted is precharged is generated by using an output signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080158131 - Lcd data drivers: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes associated pairs of amplifiers used in an output buffer of a data driver to implement dot inversion driving of the LCD. The data driver includes a first amplifier having an output terminal connected to a first data line and outputting a positive polarity voltage,... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080158130 - Liquid crystal display device that reduces noise, and driving device thereof: A plurality of driving circuits are arranged along a liquid crystal panel and drive it. A signal generation circuit supplies a signal to one of the plurality of driving circuits. A level-shift circuit is provided in the driving circuit to receive the signal and expands the logic level of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080158133 - Shift register and liquid crystal display device using same: An exemplary shift register (20) includes shift register units (S1˜Sn). The shift register units receive a clock signal and an inverse clock signal and output a plurality of shift register signals in sequence. An output of previous adjacent one of the shift register units is an input of the shift... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158132 - Shift register and liquid crystal display using the same: An exemplary shift register (20) includes a plurality of shift register units (200) connected one by one. Each of the shift register units includes a first switch unit (201), a second switch unit (202), a third switch unit (203), a fourth switch unit (204), and a fifth switch unit (205).... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158135 - Backlight assembly, method of driving the same, and liquid crystal display having the same: A backlight assembly, a method of driving the same, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) having the same includes a backlight assembly having first and second lamps, a power source for providing power, a sensor for outputting a sensing signal in accordance with the ambient luminance, a power controller for... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080158134 - Display device and method, key, keyboard and electronic device using same: The invention concerns a display device comprising: at least one so-called upstream filter bearing a message to be displayed, a light source adapted to illuminate each said filter through backlighting, a partly reflecting element located downstream of at least one upstream filter such that, when the light source is switched... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080158141 - Display method and display device: In a field sequential display method the light emission intensities of the luminous colors are controlled to realize a plurality of color reproduction regions having different areas and make the color purity variable. In the case of high-resolution image display, a first control method is adopted in which in synchronism... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080158136 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight configured to illuminate the liquid crystal display panel, and a control unit configured to control the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight, wherein the control unit controls the backlight to shift to a predetermined luminance after... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080158138 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof, and electronic device with the liquid crystal display device: It is an object of the present invention to provide a small-size and highly precise liquid crystal display device which has a function of adjusting luminance by using an optical sensor. Another object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display with high image quality and low... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080158139 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can improve the image quality of a moving image. The liquid crystal display device includes a driver, a backlight unit, a first lamp driver, a second lamp driver, and a lamp driving controller. The liquid crystal panel divided is into at least... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080158140 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device of the invention has data drive circuits provided along both of two opposite sides of a rectangular display region, and gate drive circuits provided along the other two opposite sides. With the liquid crystal display section, the gate drive circuits are formed severally divided, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158137 - Semiconductor device: A photoelectric conversion device includes a light detection circuit which includes an optical sensor to output a current signal corresponding to illuminance and a current-voltage conversion circuit to convert the current signal output from the optical sensor into a voltage signal; an amplifier to amplify the voltage signal output from... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080158143 - Electrophoretic display apparatus and method for manufacturing the same: An electrophoretic display apparatus with reduced malfunction of a gate circuit part caused by external light and enhanced view is presented. The electrophoretic display apparatus includes an array substrate and an electrophoretic layer. The array substrate includes a display area having a thin film transistor (TFT) electrically connected to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080158142 - Method of increasing image bi-stability and grayscale acuracy in an electrophoretic display: The present invention relates to an electrophoretic display device (1) and a method of controlling gray level transitions in an electrophoretic display device. The idea of the invention is that, in an electrophoretic device where drive signals (Dr) are applied to display device electrodes (5, 5′) to effect movement of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080158150 - Driving multiple display interfaces with a single operator application: A self-service terminal (SST) interacts with a human operator by accessing one or more documents that include: (1) text-based content formatted for display on a text-only display device, and (2) instructions for rendering the text-based content with graphical enhancements on multimedia display device. The SST uses the instructions in the... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20080158151 - Electronic devices and input methods therefor: An input method is used for an electronic device having a touch-sensitive element and a display unit. Firstly, a contact on a specific zone of the touch-sensitive element is detected. Then, it is determined whether the contact remains. When the contact remains and slides to a specific position of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158146 - Irregular input identification: Techniques for identifying irregular objects in contact with, or in close proximity to, a touch-surface are described. An irregularity measure is determined based on the regions intrinsic characteristics (e.g., energy content) rather than on the shape (or pattern) of the pixels within the region.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158145 - Multi-touch input discrimination: Techniques for identifying and discriminating between different input patterns to a multi-touch touch-screen device are described. By way of example, large objects hovering a short distance from the touch-surface (e.g., a cheek, thigh or chest) may be identified and distinguished from physical contacts to the surface. In addition, rough contacts... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158147 - Peripheral pixel noise reduction: Techniques for identifying and discriminating between different input patterns to a multi-touch touch-screen device are described. By way of example, large objects hovering a short distance from the touch-surface (e.g., a cheek, thigh or chest) may be identified and distinguished from physical contacts to the surface. In addition, rough contacts... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158148 - Programmable on screen display and remote control: Both an on screen display and a physical programmable remote control have buttons whose functionality may be dynamically reassigned in accordance with a user's navigation through menu levels, states or across different services. The physical programmable remote control, in conjunction with a TV or other video display, provides an intuitive,... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080158144 - Scanning display apparatus: A scanning display apparatus (10) is described. The apparatus (10) includes a display (70) operable: (I) to receive driver signals and generate corresponding visual information for presentation on the display (70); and (ii) to sense radiation received at the display (70) and generating corresponding sensing signals corresponding to a region... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080158149 - Virtual detents through vibrotactile feedback: Systems and methods for virtual detents through vibrotactile feedback are described. One described method includes receiving an input signal comprising information associated with the manipulation of an input device and generating a signal configured to cause an actuator to provide a vibrotactile effect to the input device, the vibrotactile effect... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080158153 - Apparatus, method and medium converting motion signals: An apparatus, method and medium converting a motion signal, which is capable of controlling the motion of the pointer according to a user's intention by removing noise using a filter for the detected motion signal of the pointer in accordance with the moving speed of the pointer. The apparatus includes,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158152 - Cursor jump control with a touchpad: A method and structure for positioning the cursor on a computer which uses a touch pad for cursor control wherein a cursor jumps from one point to another point on the screen without being in between, and wherein a cursor is displayed and a touchpad is connected to the screen,... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080158154 - 3d pointing devices and methods: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, which uses at least one sensor to detect motion of the handheld device. The detected motion can then be mapped into a desired output, e.g., cursor movement.... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080158155 - Methods and devices for indentifying users based on tremor: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a handheld device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, which uses hand tremor as an input. One or more sensors within the handheld device detect a user's hand tremor and identify the user based on the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group Pllc

20080158156 - System for software interaction using handwritten signatures: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a printer for receiving print data, printing a form, using the print data, by printing information related to at least one text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, receiving indicating data from a sensing device... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158157 - Self-powered wireless computer mouse: A self-powered wireless computer mouse utilizes the direct piezoelectric effect to generate electricity. When a user uses the mouse, a flexible flat portion and a piezoelectric element may be deformed or pressed against and the piezoelectric element may convert such mechanical stress into voltage. In addition, the computer mouse can... Agent: Hdsl

20080158158 - Optical navigation device adapted for navigation on a transparent plate: An optical navigation device, such an optical mouse, includes a housing, an illumination system, a tracking engine, and multiple height-specific imaging systems located within the housing. The height-specific imaging systems generate image information in response to reflected light from a navigation surface and each one the height-specific imaging systems is... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080158159 - On-screen cursor navigation on a handheld communication device displaying a modifed webpage: A handheld communication device and method for affecting movement of a highlighting cursor amongst a lighted display capable of displaying a webpage is described. The webpage has a native form including a number of user-actuable links related in series. The webpage displayable on the handheld communication device is modified from... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080158160 - Central storage for data entry processing: A method for filing out electronic forms comprising Identifying data fields in an electronic form, receiving input from a user for at least one data field of the electronic form, retrieving or selecting from a database candidates for data field entries for the electronic from, based on the received input... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080158161 - Data entry processing: A method for filing out electronic forms comprising Identifying data fields in an electronic form, receiving input from a user for at least one data field of the electronic form, retrieving or selecting from a database candidates for data field entries for the electronic from, based on the received input... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080158162 - Method and apparatus for inputting character through direction input unit: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for inputting characters through a direction input unit such as a joystick. The method of inputting characters corresponding to keys arranged on a 4-by-3 keypad by means of a direction input unit having direction buttons indicating up, down, left, and right movements, the method... Agent: Ipla P.a.

20080158163 - Handheld electronic device with reconfigurable keypad: An improved handheld electronic device has a display and a keypad, with the keypad being movable among a number of configurations that enable the “real estate” occupied by the keypad to be increased or decreased, and to correspondingly enable the viewable area of the display to be relatively decreased and... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080158179 - Advanced frequency calibration: An oscillating signal of relatively precise frequency is generated by tuning an oscillator using an external stable oscillating source as a reference. Calibration logic is included to compare a signal from the local oscillator to the reference signal and vary the local signal to a desired frequency. In one embodiment,... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158171 - Digitizer for flexible display: Methods and apparatus to provide a digitizer for a flexible display are described. In one embodiment, a pressure sensitive sensor array may be coupled to a flexible display to detect touch input data. Also, a storage device to store data that is to be displayed on the flexible display may... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080158189 - Display device and method of mobile terminal: A mobile terminal and its display method are discussed. According to an embodiment, the mobile terminal includes a display unit of a touch screen type divided into at least one of first and second display regions; and a controller that performs a particular function or re-adjusts a divisional boundary between... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158181 - Double-sided touch sensitive panel and flex circuit bonding: A multi-touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side. Metal traces running along the border of the substrate can be used to bring the row traces to the same edge as the column traces. A single flex circuit can be... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158183 - Double-sided touch-sensitive panel with shield and drive combined layer: A multi-touch capacitive touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side of the substrate. To shield the column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling from a modulated Vcom layer in an adjacent liquid crystal display (LCD) or any... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158184 - Error compensation for multi-touch surfaces: Normalization of the built-in DC offset error in each analog channel is disclosed to reduce image distortion in multi-event (multi-touch or multi-hover) sensor panels. By eliminating the component-dependent offset error from each analog channel, each analog channel will generate approximately the same output value for a given dynamic input signal.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158168 - Far-field input identification: Techniques for identifying an object in close proximity to, but not in contact with, a multi-touch touch-screen device are described. By way of example, a cheek or ear hovering a short distance from the touch-surface (e.g., approximately 1 to 3 centimeters) may be identified and distinguished from physical contacts to... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158178 - Front-end signal compensation: A touch surface device having improved sensitivity and dynamic range is disclosed. In one embodiment, the touch surface device includes a touch-sensitive panel having at least one sense node for providing an output signal indicative of a touch or no-touch condition on the panel; a compensation circuit, coupled to the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158176 - Full scale calibration measurement for multi-touch surfaces: Normalization of regions of a sensor panel capable of detecting multi-touch events, or a sensor panel capable of detecting multi-hover events, is disclosed to enable each sensor in the sensor panel to trigger a virtual button in a similar manner, given the same amount of touch or hover. Each sensor... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158188 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: One embodiment of the invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a signal generation unit that detects an open/close state of a display panel to generate a detection signal; a first determination unit that determines whether or not the open/close state of the display panel is changed based on the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080158166 - Interactive, touch-sensitive user interface device: Some aspects of the invention provide an interactive, touch-sensitive user interface device. A user interface device for a data processing system is provided, which includes a sensor having a surface configured to contactingly receive a pointing device and further configured to detect physical contact by a living human and to... Agent: Sughrue Mion Pllc Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20080158165 - Location sensing system and method employing adaptive drive signal adjustment: Systems and methods provide for adaptive drive signal adjustment to improve reception of a stylus signal at a location sensor. A location sensing system includes an untethered stylus comprising circuitry configured to receive a drive signal and transmit a stylus signal. The circuitry is configured to be energized by the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080158177 - Master/slave mode for sensor processing devices: A computer system having two or more controllers operating in a Master/Slave configuration is disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer system includes: a sensor panel having a first portion for generating a first set of sense signals indicative of a touch or no-touch condition on the first portion, and a... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158186 - Method for inputting character: A method for inputting characters is provided. In the present invention, a touch-sensitive keypad is used for a hand-held electronic device to enter a text input mode. Multiple characters represented by a key are displayed by turns and repeatedly over a predefined period of time. Thus, the number of times... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080158191 - Method for zooming image: The present invention discloses a method for zooming image, and the method is implemented to an electronic device having a touch panel. When the touch panel of the electronic device detects that touch points on the touch panel are pressed simultaneously, and one of touch points is moved thereon, then... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080158192 - Method of interacting with software using form identity: A method of enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system, transferring print data to a printer, printing a form responsive to the print data by printing information indicative of a text field conicident with coded data indicative of the text field, so that when a sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158194 - Method of interacting with software using handwritten signatures: A method of enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system, transferring print data to a printer, printing a form responsive to the print data by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, so that when a sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158193 - Method of interacting with software using handwritten strokes: A method of enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system, transferring print data to a printer, printing a form responsive to the print data by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, so that when a sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158195 - Method of interacting with software using printed form identity: A method of enabling user interaction with computer software including, in a computer system transferring print data to a printer, printing a form responsive to the print data by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, so that when a sensing... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158175 - Minimizing mismatch during compensation: A method and apparatus for minimizing mismatch effects between a compensation signal and an output signal generated by a touch surface device is disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a touch-sensitive panel having a sense node for providing an output signal indicative of a touch or no-touch condition on... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158170 - Multi-event input system: Multi-event input systems, methods, and devices for use in connection with touch-sensitive electronic devices are disclosed. In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a third state called “hover” can be achieved on a touch-base user interface device in addition to the states of pointer down and pointer up.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158185 - Multi-touch input discrimination: Techniques for identifying and discriminating between different types of contacts to a multi-touch touch-screen device are described. Illustrative contact types include fingertips, thumbs, palms and cheeks. By way of example, thumb contacts may be distinguished from fingertip contacts using a patch eccentricity parameter. In addition, by non-linearly deemphasizing pixels in... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158173 - Multi-touch surface stackup arrangement: A multi-layer cover for an electronic device having one or more of a sensor panel, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a display device can include an outer hardcoat, a structural layer, an IR transmissive ink layer, a mask layer, and a backside hardcoat. The backside hardcoat can... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158169 - Noise detection in multi-touch sensors: Multi-touch touch-sensing devices and methods are described herein. The touch sensing devices can include multiple sense points, each of which can be stimulated with a plurality of periodic waveforms having different frequencies to measure a touch value at the sense point. Noise at one or more of the frequencies can... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158190 - Operating device of a motor vehicle and method for recording user inputs: In an operating device of a motor vehicle and a method for recording user inputs in a motor vehicle, the operating device includes a control unit and at least one operating element coupled to the control unit, via whose operation a user input is able to be recorded, an approach... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080158182 - Periodic sensor panel baseline adjustment: A periodic baseline adjustment algorithm is disclosed that can increment or decrement individual baseline sensor output values by one count to provide periodic fine-tuning of the baseline to track temperature drift. A scan of the sensor panel is performed after a dynamic adjustment time interval has passed. Previously computed offset... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158164 - Portable media storage and playback device: A portable media storage/playback device (“PMSPD”) is disclosed comprising a body, a screen, a horizontal touchpad, and a vertical touchpad. The PMSPD may also include test preparation software, soft-keys, a dictionary, a smart algorithm, a headphone jack, speakers, an encyclopedia, a program for playing audio files, a program for viewing... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080158172 - Proximity and multi-touch sensor detection and demodulation: The use of one or more proximity sensors in combination with one or more touch sensors in a multi-touch panel to detect the presence of a finger, body part or other object and control or trigger one or more functions in accordance with an “image” of touch provided by the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158180 - Scan sequence generator: A sensor panel device that can generate and use a stimulus signal having multiple different waveforms for detecting events on or near the sensor panel is disclosed. Among other things, such a stimulus signal can be used to reject environmental noise present in the device. In some embodiments, the stimulus... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158167 - Simultaneous sensing arrangement: Multi-touch touch-sensing devices and methods are described herein. The touch sensing devices can include multiple sense points, each located at a crossing of a drive line and a sense line. In some embodiments, multiple drive lines may be simultaneously or nearly simultaneously stimulated with drive signals having unique characteristics, such... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158174 - Storing baseline information in eeprom: Pre-stored no-touch or no-hover (no-event) sensor output values can initially be used when a sensor panel subsystem is first booted up to establish an initial baseline of sensor output values unaffected by fingers or other objects touching or hovering over the sensor panel during boot-up. This initial baseline can then... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158196 - System for interaction wth computer software using handwritten signatures: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a computer system which transfers print data to a printer which is responsive to the print data to print a form by printing information indicative of a text field coincident with coded data at least partially indicative of the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158197 - System for software interaction using form identity: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software which includes a printer for receiving print data, printing a form, using the print data, by printing information related to at least one text field coincident with coded data indicative of the text field, receiving indicating data from a sensing device... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080158187 - Touch control input system for use in electronic apparatuses and signal generation method thereof: A touch control input system and a signal generation method are provided. The touch control input system includes a touch control interface, a sensor unit, and a control unit. The touch control input system is featured by sectioning a plurality of blocks based on a plurality of grid lines for... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080158199 - Display device: A display device includes: a first insulating substrate; a main pixel which is formed on the first insulating substrate and comprises a plurality of sub-pixels and a single sensing electrode; a second insulating substrate which faces the first insulating substrate; a sensing spacer formed on the second insulating substrate which... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080158198 - Projection scan multi-touch sensor array: A touch sensor panel can be constructed on a single surface of a substrate. The panel can be formed as a plurality of distributed RC lines arranged in an array of rows and columns. Each distributed RC line can include alternating connected transistors and metal pads formed on a single... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080158200 - Information processing device, control method for information processing device, and information storage medium: An information processing device in which, when one position on a touch panel is newly pressed in a state in which another position or a plurality of other positions are pressed, the newly pressed position can be reliably specified. A pressed-position-information storing section (70) stores positional information indicating a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158201 - Character input device: When a search character string is input via a key input section and a handwriting input section, if a spelling is input, a character is input directly by a key input operation or a recognized character is input by a handwriting input operation. If pinyin is input to input a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080158208 - Debugging system for liquid crystal display device and method for debugging same: An exemplary debugging system (2) for a liquid crystal display device (26) includes a host computer (22). The host computer includes a graphics card (220), a driver layer (225), and an application layer (226). The application layer includes a graphical user interface, and the driver layer includes a plurality of... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158209 - Display apparatus: For the purpose of providing a display apparatus capable of improving display quality by expanding the light-emission area of pixels by improving the layout of pixels and common power-feed lines formed on a substrate, pixels (7A, 7B) including a light-emission element (40), such as an electroluminescence element or an LED... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158205 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a light emitting element, a capacitor, a driving transistor, and first to third switching units. The capacitor is connected between a first node and a second node. The driving transistor has an input terminal connected with a first voltage, an output terminal, and a control terminal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080158207 - Field sequential liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A field sequential driving method includes the following steps. First, a liquid crystal display (LCD) including a display unit and a backlight unit is provided. The display unit includes several pixel units. Next, a white light source of the backlight unit is enabled during a first sub-frame period of a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080158204 - Gate driver structure of tft-lcd display: A gate driver structure of TFT-LCD display, comprising: a plurality of first level shifters, each input terminal of which being connected with an input signal; a plurality of output buffers with a plurality of output terminals, each input terminal of the output buffers being connected with each output terminal of... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20080158203 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes an LCD panel 10 including a liquid crystal layer, electrodes for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, and a pixel, of which the luminance varies according to a display signal voltage supplied through a transistor. The pixel... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080158202 - Ornament: An ornament includes a housing and a hanger at the top of the housing whereby the ornament can be hung on a holiday display, e.g., a Christmas tree. The ornament further includes an electronic memory device for storing images and a data transfer interface for transferring images from an outside... Agent: Kevin D. Erickson Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080158206 - Signal transfer apparatus: A signal transfer apparatus comprises a differential signal generating part which receives an input signal from a positive-electrode side input terminal and an input signal from a negative-electrode side input terminal, and outputs a differential signal obtained from the input signals from both the input terminals; a first selecting part... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158210 - Apparatus and method to display icons and graphic text: A display comprising a display driver termination portion (106), a dot matrix region (402) and an icon region (403). The icon region located in-between the display driver termination area and the dot matrix area, wherein the dot matrix area has a resolution that is greater than the icon area.... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080158211 - Ambient light sensing circuit and flat panel display including ambient light sensing circuit: An ambient light sensing circuit includes a photodiode that flows a current in proportion to ambient light, a first storage capacitor that is electrically coupled with the photodiode and is discharged after being charged with a voltage of a first power supply, a second storage capacitor that is electrically coupled... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080158212 - Display device and display system: A display device and system are disclosed, wherein the display system is so configured that an n-fold rate increasing circuit is arranged with a signal generating device instead of with the display device to realize a low-cost n-fold rate impulse-type drive. The n-fold rate display data is output to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080158213 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A plasma display device to generate a stable reset discharge and to reduce background luminance and a method of driving the same. The plasma display device produces images by dividing the frames of displayed images into a plurality of sub-fields, which include a reset period, an address period, and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080158217 - Display device: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which does not need an input/output terminal such as an FPC or a cable for connecting to the display device and inputting an image signal to the display device directly, and can provide a setting, a display image,... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080158214 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel is disclosed. According to a negative sustain driving method for a plasma display panel using a negative sustain voltage, the negative sustain voltage and the ground level voltage are alternately applied to each of scan electrode Y and sustain electrode Z in... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080158215 - Plasma display device and driving apparatus thereof: In one embodiment, a plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel having a plurality of electrodes; a power supply including first and second power sources for respectively supplying first and second voltages, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage; a driving circuit for driving the electrodes; and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080158216 - Power monitoring and control apparatus for display device: A current detection unit that monitors changes in two types of voltage produced by the voltage control unit, and detects and abnormal current flowing due to a potential between the two types of the voltages at both ends of the voltage control unit and an HPG control that receives a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080158218 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An display and a driving method thereof are capable of displaying images of desired luminance. The display includes a scan driver connected to scan lines, a data driver connected to data lines, pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels being adapted to generate light while... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080158219 - Plasma display device, driving device, and method of driving the same: A plasma display device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of first transistors connected between the first electrodes and a first power source, a plurality of second transistors connected to the first electrodes, a plurality of first capacitors connected between the first and second transistors, a plurality of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080158220 - Power-on-reset circuit and method therefor: A power-on-reset circuit used to detect a first supply voltage for resetting a semiconductor device within an electric system is provided. The power-on-reset circuit is equipped with the first supply voltage to power the semiconductor device and a second supply voltage generated prior to the first supply voltage. The power-on-reset... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080158221 - Liquid crystal display having storage circuit for storing: An exemplary liquid crystal display (20) includes a liquid crystal panel, a driving chip (200) and an external resistor (270). The driving chip is configured for driving the liquid crystal panel. The driving chip includes a storage circuit (210) and a voltage generator (260). The storage circuit includes a memory... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158222 - Apparatus and methods for selecting and customizing avatars for interactive kiosks: A method of generating an avatar for a user may include receiving image data of a user from a camera, generating feature vectors for a plurality of features of a user, associating the user with a likely user group selected from a number of defined user groups based on the... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080158223 - Method and system for dynamic adaptability of content and channels: A method and system for multi-modal fusion of physical and virtual information channels include a virtual information channel and physical information channel and also provide for tracking virtual events and physical events corresponding to the virtual event and altering delivery of virtual space content via the virtual information channel upon... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080158225 - Collision detection of concave bodies using art gallery problem and cube maps: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first polygon, receiving a second polygon, determining a first distance corresponding to a distance from a first origin of the first polygon to a vertex of the second polygon, the origin of the first polygon and the vertex of the second... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080158224 - Method for generating an animatable three-dimensional character with a skin surface and an internal skeleton: The present invention is an animatable 3D character with a skin surface and an internal skeleton and a production method thereof. 3D scanned data is used to generate an animatable 3D character, formed of a skin surface and an internal skeleton. The method includes using scanned data to generate a... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080158226 - Imaging model and apparatus: A system and method for making an imaging model and an imaging apparatus. An apparatus for image processing may include an optical element having a field of view, and image sectoring element coupled to the optical element, the image sectoring element configured to sector the field of view in a... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20080158227 - Method and apparatus for multi-level ray tracing: A method, apparatus, and system related to thermal management. The method includes generating a beam including a group of rays; evaluating the beam against a spatially ordered geometrical database until the beam can no longer be evaluated as a whole in order to discard a portion of the spatially ordered... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080158228 - Optimized specular highlight generation: An approach to optimize specular highlight generation is presented. A single microprocessor instruction is used to generate an intensity value based upon a viewing angle value. An application stores a viewing angle value in an input register. When called, the “intensity instruction” retrieves the viewing angle value from the input... Agent: Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080158229 - System and method for displaying multimedia events scheduling information: A system for displaying information may include memory, one or more processors, and one or more modules stored in memory. The one or more modules are configured for execution by the one or more processors and may include instructions for: presenting a subset of a collection of data on a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080158231 - Apparatus and method for managing music files: An apparatus and method for managing a music file including an extracting of characteristics of the music file and a generating of an animation corresponding to the music file and based on the characteristics is disclosed. The apparatus includes an information-extracting unit that extracts basic information from a predetermined music... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080158230 - Automatic facial animation using an image of a user: In one embodiment, a method for facial animation is provided. The method first determines an image of a user. Facial feature information for a facial region is then detected in the image. For example, a number of points around the face for a user are determined. The facial region is... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20080158232 - Animation control method for multiple participants: A computer system is used to host a virtual reality universe process in which multiple avatars are independently controlled in response to client input. The host provides coordinated motion information for defining coordinated movement between designated portions of multiple avatars, and an application responsive to detect conditions triggering a coordinated... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080158234 - Method of driving display device: A method for driving a display device comprises processing a plurality of sequent frame data by a graphics controller. The graphics controller is capable of optimizing a frame rate and outputting a first plurality of display signals at the frame rate. And then, a timing controller is used to convert... Agent: O2micro Inc C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080158233 - System co-processor: Embodiments of the invention provide assigning two different class identifiers to a device to allow loading to an operating system as different devices. The device may be a graphics device. The graphics device may be integrated in various configurations, including but not limited to a central processing unit, chipset and... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080158235 - Method of rendering pixel-composited images for a graphics-based application running on a host computing system embodying a parallel graphics rendering system: A multiple graphics processing unit (GPU) based parallel graphics system comprising multiple graphics processing pipelines with multiple GPUs supporting a parallel graphics rendering process having an object division mode of operation. Each GPU comprises video memory, a geometry processing subsystem and a pixel processing subsystem. According to the principles of... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski Esq., P.c.

20080158236 - Parallel graphics system employing multiple graphics pipelines wtih multiple graphics processing units (gpus) and supporting the object division mode of parallel graphics rendering using pixel processing resources provided therewithin: A multiple graphics processing unit (GPU) based parallel graphics system comprising multiple graphics processing pipelines with multiple GPUs supporting a parallel graphics rendering process having an object division mode of operation. Each GPU comprises video memory, a geometry processing subsystem and a pixel processing subsystem. According to the principles of... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., Pc Soundview Plaza

20080158237 - Graphics memory module: Methods and apparatus relating to graphics memory modules are described. In an embodiment, a graphics logic is capable of accessing data stored in an external graphics memory module. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080158238 - Format conversion apparatus from band interleave format to band separate format: A format conversion apparatus which converts image data of a band interleave format into image data of a band separate format is provided. The apparatus includes a memory which stores image data of a band interleave format; and a converting module which reads the memory by increasing a read address... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158239 - Surface appearance simulation: A processor-based device for displaying simulated or modeled surface appearances based on surface color and surface texture data stored in a data storage. By selecting different combinations of color and texture, different surface appearances may be modeled and displayed. Also, the device may comprise an orientation sensor. Accordingly, the device... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20080158243 - Image data set with embedded pre-subpixel rendered image: Various imaging processing techniques are disclosed for displaying a pre-subpixel rendered image. The pre-subpixel rendered image can be transmitted directly to a display capable of displaying a subpixel rendered image. The pre-subpixel rendered image can also be stored for later transmission for output to the display. Additionally, the pre-subpixel rendered... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080158240 - Liquid crystal display apparatus with color sequential display and method of driving the same: A method of gamma correction for a liquid crystal display (LCD) having an LCD panel. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of dividing the LCD panel into N areas along a gate scanning direction, each area having a corresponding gamma and being characterized with a corresponding voltage-transmittance function,... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080158241 - Method of optimizing brightness of liquid crystal display panel: A device and a method of optimizing brightness of a liquid crystal display panel includes a plate to mount a target liquid crystal display panel, a back light to provide light to the liquid crystal display panel, a connecting unit to connect to a pad unit of the liquid crystal... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080158242 - Virtual image preservation: A method of preserving a memory within a virtual environment is disclosed. The method includes the steps of entering the virtual environment, viewing a virtual scene in the virtual environment, and capturing at least a portion of the virtual scene from within the virtual environment. A virtual image preservation system... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080158244 - System and method of generating light maps: A method and system for generating light maps for use with an out the window, or a night vision goggles display utilizes inputs from a variety of different geographical and structural data sources. These data sources are then used to determine the locations of structures, roads, and areas of interest... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080158245 - High dynamic range display systems: A display system and method of producing images with high dynamic range are provided. The display system employs multiple light valves for projecting a portion of the image onto another.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158246 - Digital color management method and system: A method and system are provided for managing digital color for a display device having a display screen. Aspects the exemplary embodiments include receiving input display data comprising digital pixel data, wherein the data for each pixel represents 2D differential color space having X, Y coordinate values; remapping at least... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.c.

20080158247 - Display device: There is provided a display device that enables to present an image on its screen at a desired resolution, in response to an operation by a user and on the basis of an image signal, even when the image signal is obtained from image data from which a resolution is... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080158248 - Rendering device and rendering method: A rendering device according to the present invention comprises an information acquiring unit for acquiring system information or rendering object information, a control point generating section for setting a curved surface interpolating level serving to determine number of control points for creating a curved surface or a curved line based... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158249 - Method for displaying graphic objects and communications device: The invention relates to a method for displaying graphic objects in which the graphic objects are arranged in a virtual surface field, in particular an electronic map, the virtual surface field is larger than a display field, a section of the virtual surface field together with the graphic objects is... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080158250 - Rendering multiple clear rectangles using a pre-rendered depth buffer: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means are provided to set a first depth value associated with a plurality of pixels of a video image comprising a plurality of planes, create a first clear rectangle with respect to the first depth value, color render the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080158252 - Method and apparatus for triangle rasterization with clipping and wire-frame mode support: Systems for performing rasterization are described. At least one embodiment includes a span generator for performing rasterization. In accordance with such embodiments, the span generator comprises functionals representing a scissoring box, loaders configured to convert the functionals from a general form to a special case form, edge generators configured to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080158251 - Real-time collision detection using clipping: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first polygon, receiving a second polygon, calculating a vector joining a centroid of the first polygon and a centroid of the second polygon, retrieving vertices of each polygon that are farthest from the other polygon in the direction of the vector... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080158253 - Generating a 3d volumetric mask from a closed surface mesh: A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for generating a volumetric mask. The method includes providing a closed surface mesh, determining a discrete volume representation of the closed surface mesh, determining a temporary surface mask based on the closed surface mesh... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080158255 - Indirect image control using a surrogate image: A system and method for allowing a user to exercise control over a first image that is not directly accessible because it is covered by a second image. Electronic product designs for online user editing are assembled from multiple overlying images. If a content image in a design is positioned... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080158256 - Method and system for providing a perspective view image by intelligent fusion of a plurality of sensor data: A method and system for providing a perspective view image created by fusing a plurality of sensor data for supply to a platform operator with a desired viewing perspective within an area of operation is disclosed. A plurality of sensors provide substantially real-time data of an area of operation, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158257 - Motion-based visualization: A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects satisfying a selection criterion are made to execute... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080158254 - Using supplementary information of bounding boxes in multi-layer video composition: An apparatus for compositing graphical information with video may include a source of planes of video information and a renderer to provide a rendered graphical plane and bounding information specifying multiple disjoint areas that include non-transparent pixels within the rendered graphical plane. A controller may be connected to the renderer... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.c.

20080158258 - Method and system for obtaining a digitally enhanced image: A method and system for obtaining a digitally enhanced image is provided. The method includes capturing a plurality of digital images. The plurality of digital images is captured on at least two different illumination levels from a controlled light source. Further, the method includes analyzing the plurality of digital images... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080158259 - Image warping and lateral color correction: Color or grayscale images having optical elements induced geometric distortions can be corrected on individual color image component by creating correction image component having the complementary distortion; and applying the correction image component to the corresponding distorted color image component.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158260 - Digital picture display with rotatable display frame: An exemplary digital picture display includes a display panel (220), a supporting element (240), and a control section. The display panel is arranged for displaying digital pictures. The supporting element is arranged for supporting the display panel. The control section is arranged for rotating and scaling a digital picture to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080158261 - Computer user interface for audio and/or video auto-summarization: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies... Agent: Heinz Grether Pc G2 Technology Law

20080158262 - Automated bit sequencing for digital light modulation: Disclosed embodiments utilize MIP techniques to determine optimum bit sequences that minimize PWM artifacts. The problem would first be restructured and redefined into a form suitable for MIP. An objective function designed to minimize PWM artifacts would allow for evaluation of resulting bit sequences in order to determine optimality. Constraints... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158267 - Liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a method of controlling luminance of a backlight based on a processed image data after receiving information of image data, in order to improve the visibility of moving picture. An inverter according to the present invention includes a first block generating a first luminance control... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080158266 - Liquid crystal display and overdrive method thereof: A liquid crystal display including a timing controller generating a source output enable signal that controls the drive of an input data, and a data driving circuit modulating the input data to generate a modulation data, sequentially outputting the input data and the modulation data, and adjusting output periods of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080158265 - Method and device for multi-grayscale display: A multi-grayscale display device to appropriately control brightness of a display (screen) and power according to the content of a picture while preventing deterioration of image quality of a picture, so that both of these performances are improved. In a multi-grayscale processing unit of the display device (PDP device), in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080158264 - Programmable liquid crystal display device for controlling viewing angle and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of color subpixels and a plurality of interference subpixels, an input unit for inputting color subpixel data to be applied to the color subpixels, a programmable interference data generating unit for storing viewing mode data to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080158263 - System and method for increasing bit-depth in a display system: In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a system and method for increasing the bit-depth of a video display system using plural spatial light modulators are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes illuminating one or more first spatial light modulators. The method also includes receiving a signal... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158268 - Dynamic bit sequence selection: Disclosed embodiments comprise dynamic pulse width modulation (PWM) bit sequence selection techniques for use with video display devices. By dynamically selecting and applying a bit sequence based on the display image content and the limited dynamic range of human perception, the bit sequence used to display a given scene may... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158269 - Dithering method and related dithering module and liquid crystal display (lcd): A dithering method includes: utilizing a plurality of large dithering masks to perform dithering on a first set of Least Significant Bits (LSBs) of M-bit video data, utilizing a plurality of small dithering masks to perform dithering on a second set of LSBs of the M-bit video data, and adjusting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation