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

20080204356 - Multi-display apparatus: Provided is a multi-display apparatus that can mitigate a disconnection of an image and its perspective view at a seam between panels. The multi-display apparatus is characterized in that the two panels are disposed with a step difference so that pixel boundaries of display devices formed on substrates overlap, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080204358 - Information distribution system, information distribution method, and information display device: In an advertising system where contents to be displayed are sent to display devices by digital broadcasting and the contents are displayed on sheet-shaped visual display units, when data update complete reply messages for confirming that specified advertisement has been displayed are communicated, channel congestion may arise due to simultaneous... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080204357 - Method and system for transmitting and recording synchronized data streams: System for transmitting one or more presentation data streams from a presentation workstation. In response to receiving an input to open a presentation application, operating parameters are obtained for a presentation to provide presentation operating parameters for the presentation. One or more selected presentation data streams are captured based on... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080204359 - Electronic display device for displaying digital images: A display device has a screen for displaying digital images located on a housing that encloses a storage medium for storing the digital images, and a processor for performing functions such reading images from the storage medium and displaying the images on the display screen. A frame detachably securable to... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080204360 - System and method for optimizing head-up display uniformity: A system and method for optimizing image uniformity in a head-up display (HUD) are provided. An imaging subsystem is characterized in that if light of a first uniformity is propagated therethrough, an uncompensated image would be displayed to a user via uncompensated image light. The uncompensated image light has first... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080204361 - System and method for video image registration and/or providing supplemental data in a heads up display: Video sources and inertial sensors are attached to a weapon and to goggles. A computer receives video images from the weapon- and goggles-mounted sources and inertial data from the sensors. The computer calculates a location for an image from the weapon-mounted source within an image from the goggles-mounted source using... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080204363 - Display device: The display device consists of a generally flat body member (1) with an attachment-retention element on the rear surface (2), this has three distinct sections, one that attaches the element to the body member (2.1), one that is free from the body member (2.2) and is capable of being bent... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080204362 - Extension of display lifetime: A method is provided for reducing or eliminating degradation effects in a display 22, 22′ of a portable device 10 and a portable device for performing such a method. The method comprises the steps of presenting particles 410 of a particle system 400 on the display 22, 22′ and moving... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080204364 - Color display device and color display method: The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to generate an image corresponding to each of the plurality... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080204365 - Color display device and color display method: The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to generate an image corresponding to each of the plurality... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080204366 - Broad color gamut display: A method of making a color electroluminescent display device that includes determining a number of light emitting elements per pixel; and providing a substantially continually variable wavelength set of inorganic light-emitters having a spectral width. The same number of different inorganic light emitters is selected to emit light at the... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080204368 - Electronic imaging device: An electronic imaging device capable of displaying a planar image or a stereoscopic image. The electronic imaging device includes a display unit and a barrier layer. The display unit includes a plurality of scan lines for transferring a plurality of selection signals, a plurality of data lines for transferring a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080204369 - System for displaying electronic visual messages adjacent a suspended ceiling: A system for displaying visual messages below and adjacent a dropped ceiling grid includes an electronic visual messaging display having first and second end portions and a first and second bracket each having a proximal portion and a distal portion. Each pair of proximal and distal portions define substantially orthogonally... Agent: Innovation Law Office Of Dennis Schell

20080204367 - Wrap display system having a flexible display: A wrap display system employs a stick (40, 50), and a flexible unit display (20, 120) having an integration of a flexible display (21) and a display cover (22, 122) that are structurally configured to be wrapped around the stick (40, 50). A holdout mechanism (30) can integrated with the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080204370 - Display device: A display device or optical switch, based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e.g. oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid (6)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204371 - Filter and flat panel display device using the filter: A filter and a plasma display device using the filter are provided. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel (PDP) which includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate that are coupled to each other; and a filter which is disposed on the upper substrate. The filter includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080204372 - Method and apparatus for processing video pictures: wherein, for at least one horizontal line of pixels comprising pixels of first type area and pixels of second type area, the area of second type is extended until the next pixel in the first type area is a pixel encoded by a sub-field code word belonging to both first... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080204373 - R-port assembly for video signal format conversion: The disclosure is directed to a display device, and more particularly, to a flat panel display (FPD) device with a color graphics array (CGA) port. An adapter includes a driver having a plurality of first input terminals, such as transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) terminals, and a plurality of analog... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080204376 - Amoled including circuit to supply zero data voltage and method of driving the same: An active matrix organic electroluminescent display including a circuit to supply a zero data voltage, and a method of driving thereof. A driver of the organic electroluminescent display includes a zero data process block which outputs a zero data voltage enable signal when pixel data that is to be displayed... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080204374 - Method and apparatus for driving an amoled with variable driving voltage: The sharpness impression when displaying a movement on an AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Display) shall be improved. For this purpose, an apparatus for driving a cell of an AMOLED is provided including driving means for applying a driving voltage to the cell and for applying a luminance control... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080204377 - Organic el display device: The present invention realizes a high-quality display by optimizing a light emitting efficiency among pixels which differ in light emitting characteristic from each other by enabling to apply voltages corresponding to pixels which differ in color from each other while suppressing brightness irregularities attributed to a voltage drop of a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080204375 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, including a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines and data lines, a scan driver adapted to generate and supply scan signals to the scan lines, a data driver adapted to generate and supply data signals to the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204378 - Organic electro luminescence display and driving method thereof: An organic electro luminescence display and driving method uses an image determination unit to generate image determination signals indicative of whether images generated in response to data signals are moving images still images, selects a gamma value corresponding to the brightness of the ambient light sensed, applies gamma correction signals... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080204379 - Display with integrated audio transducer device: Systems and methods that integrate audio capabilities within a display. A multilayered arrangement of dielectric and conductive layers can form a transducer that is integrated into the display. The dielectric layer can subsequently be charged (e.g., a biased voltage) and subject to a voltage to produce distortions and/or deflections of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080204380 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, including a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines and data lines, a scan driver adapted to generate and supply scan signals to the scan lines, a data driver adapted to generate and supply data signals to the data... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204381 - Light emitting element drive apparatus and portable apparatus using same: A light emitting element drive apparatus capable of always outputting the lowest voltage satisfying the drive conditions and having a high light emitting efficiency and a low power loss, and a portable apparatus using the same, comprising an LED drive apparatus 10 to which LEDs 20-1 to 20-n of different... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080204382 - Color management controller for constant color point in a field sequential lighting system: A color management system for a field sequential lighting system. The color management system includes a plurality of light sources, a driver circuit, and a controller. The driver circuit is coupled to the plurality of light sources, and the controller is coupled to the driver circuit. The driver circuit drives... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080204383 - Multicolor light emitting device incorporating tunable quantum confinement devices: A multicolor light emitting optical device is a programmable, multifunctional, general-purpose, solid-state light source. The device can use any of several light sources, including LEDs. The device couples a light source and a tunable optical converter composed of a quantum confinement device to produce a tunable, monochromatic light emission. The... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080204384 - Organic electroluminescence display (oeld) and driving methods thereof: An OELD, including a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels to emit light, a photosensor configured to generate a control signal corresponding to an amount of ambient light, a control unit having a gamma control unit, a color coordinate control unit and a light emission control unit, the gamma... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204386 - Driving circuit of flat panel display and driving method thereof: A driving circuit of a flat panel display can transfer a signal input from a decoder to a corresponding channel while minimizing a size of a MOS transistor for a switch or an amplification driver. The driving circuit of the flat panel display includes a first data signal processing unit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080204385 - Multiple control data interface between different hosts and controller for an image projection arrangement: A lightweight, compact image projection module has a controller operative for causing selected pixels in a raster pattern to be illuminated to produce an image of high resolution of VGA quality in color. The controller has a video data channel for receiving video data from a host, and a control... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.c.

20080204390 - Display driving device and method and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel assembly having pixels arranged in a matrix form, which have a first group of pixels and a second group of pixels, gate lines having a first group of gate lines and a second group of gate lines that are connected... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080204389 - Lcd display element and lcd display panel: An LCD display element is provided that achieves a uniform LCD display panel by arranging individual LCD display elements side-by-side. The margin areas outside of the viewing field in the vicinity of the left and the right lateral edges of the LCD display element are configured to be equally narrow.... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20080204388 - Liquid crystal display device having time controller and source driver: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes a time controller and a plurality of source drivers. The time controller may receive first data, and output a plurality of clock signals and a plurality of pieces of second data to display the first data. The plurality of source drivers may receive... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204387 - Method of driving liquid crystal display device: A method of driving a liquid crystal display device, which includes first and second substrates, gate lines on the first substrate, data lines crossing the gate lines to define pixel regions, a thin film transistor connected to each gate line and each data line, a common line between adjacent gate... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080204391 - Liquid crystal display panel modules: A liquid crystal display panel module includes a display panel, a plurality of source drivers, a plurality of gate drivers, a gamma reference voltage generator and a timing controller, in which the timing controller controls operations of the gate drivers, of the source drivers and of the gamma reference voltage... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080204392 - Display device and driving method therefor: A display device, includes: a plurality of thin film transistors which comprise a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are respectively connected to the drain electrode of the thin film transistors; a plurality of gate lines which are respectively disposed to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080204393 - Method, device and system of response time compensation: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus, system, and method of reproducing a sequence of at least first and second color image frames by controllably activating an array of liquid crystal elements, the array including at least a first liquid crystal element to reproduce first and second sub-pixel values... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080204397 - Backlight device and liquid crystal display device having the same: A backlight device for a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel displaying an image is disclosed. The backlight device includes a plurality of light source groups and a light source driving section. The light source groups include a predetermined number of light sources providing the LCD panel with light. The light... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080204395 - Backlight unit, liquid crystal display device having the same and control method thereof: A liquid crystal display device, includes: a liquid crystal panel; a point light source which emits light to the liquid crystal panel; and a light source driver which comprises a power input terminal to receive initial power, a power supply to supply power to the point light source according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080204396 - Image display apparatus and electronic apparatus: The invention provides an image display apparatus that includes: a frame memory into which inputted image data is stored; a statistical computation section that performs statistical computation on a gradation value of each pixel on the basis of the image data for each frame image; a correction section that corrects... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080204394 - Image display apparatus and method of adjusting brightness thereof: An image display apparatus and a method of adjusting brightness are provided. The image display apparatus includes a display panel unit which displays an image, a digital micromirror device (DMD) panel unit which reflects incident light using a plurality of DMDs to the display panel unit to provide a backlight... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080204398 - Method for driving lamps, driving circuit for performing the same and liquid crystal display device having the same: A lamp driving circuit includes a power-generating section, a distribution sensing section and a feedback control section. The power-generating section generates a lamp driving power to drive a plurality of lamps. The distribution sensing section divides the lamp driving power to the plurality of lamps. The distribution sensing section senses... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080204400 - Display device and recording medium storing display program: A display device allows a user to move displayed pages as the user actually reads a paper book. The display device includes an n-page forwarder for moving a displayed page forward by n pages (n is an arbitrary integer equal to or larger than 3), a one-page forwarder for moving... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080204399 - Driving method for electrophoretic display: A driving method for an electrophoretic display including first electrodes, a second electrode, and electrophoretic particles positioned in pixel areas, includes applying a reset voltage to the particles, applying a reset compensation voltage having an opposite polarity to that of the reset voltage to the particles after applying the reset... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080204406 - Computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program and information processing apparatus: A controller includes imaging means for capturing predetermined imaging targets and acceleration detecting means for detecting an acceleration applied to an input device. Based on a tilt which is related to images, included in a captured image captured by the imaging means, of the imaging targets and which is included... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080204407 - Computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program and information processing apparatus: A controller includes imaging means for capturing predetermined imaging targets and acceleration detecting means for detecting an acceleration applied to an input device. A game apparatus repeatedly calculates a target position which is related to images, included in a captured image captured by the imaging means, of the imaging targets... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080204401 - Control apparatus: The present invention is to provide a control apparatus, which includes a casing with two sides each comprising a holding portion extending outwardly and towards a bottom thereof for being held by a user while viewing a front of the casing, the front is inclined progressively from a lateral edge... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080204405 - Method and system of displaying an exposure condition: A feature quantity for a sectional shape of a resist pattern of an FEM wafer is calculated for each chip region on an FEM wafer using an image of a resist pattern for an FEM wafer. The feature quantity of a sectional shape is displayed for each chip in a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080204404 - Method of controlling a control point position on a command area and method for control of a device: The invention describes a method of controlling a position (x′, y′) of a control point (c) on a command area (ACM). This method comprises the steps of: —aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) in the direction of the command area (ACM); —generating an image (I) of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204403 - Transaction system, method of verifying a user's authorisation to carry out a transaction and cash dispenser: A transaction system comprises an input device for inputting of data by a user, and at least one screen which is visible during use of the input device. The system is arranged for displaying an area located at least partially behind a user facing the input device on the screen... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080204402 - User interface device: A UI device of a digital camera has a display screen, a left-side touch strip provided outside of and on a left side of the display screen and a right-side touch strip provided outside of and on a right side of the display screen. The touch strips 22 and 24... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080204408 - Audio reproducing apparatus, information processing apparatus and audio reproducing method, allowing efficient data selection: An image display field, a whole map display field, a cursor are displayed on the music data selection screen. In the image display field is displayed an array of images which belong to one partition that can be displayed at a time and which are included in an array of... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080204409 - Cursor control device and method: We describe an apparatus including a plurality of sensing elements, a conductive layer, and a compressive layer interposed between the plurality of sensing elements and the conductive layer. The conductive layer can include a plurality of segments. A user applies a force to an actuator positioned over the conductive layer.... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080204410 - Recognizing a motion of a pointing device: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080204411 - Recognizing a movement of a pointing device: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080204412 - User interface navigation mechanism and method of using the same: A user interface navigation mechanism for a non-touch screen display of a computing device includes a vertical tracking input disposed in a front of the computing device in a right margin between a right of the non-touch screen display and a right of the computing device, the vertical tracking input... Agent: Kyocera Wireless Corp.

20080204413 - Operation method of wireless pointing input apparatus: An operation method of a wireless pointing input apparatus is provided. The operation method includes following steps. The displacement vector of the wireless pointing input apparatus is detected with a resolution. The displacement vector of the wireless pointing input apparatus is transmitted to a host in a wireless way every... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080204414 - Mouse cable management: Disclosed are embodiments of portable electronic devices, such as computer mice, which have structures for temporarily storing a cable and/or electrical connector between uses. Some embodiments include structures and/or mechanisms for releasably attaching the electrical connector with a computer mouse or other peripheral device. Some embodiments may also include a... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080204415 - Optical coordinates input apparatus, optical sensor module and method for assembling thereof: In an optical coordinate input apparatus, a body includes an opening portion adjacent to a reflective surface, and a circuit board is installed in the body. An optical sensor module is installed in the body adjacent to the opening and separately from the circuit board, and has a light-receiving surface,... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080204416 - Optoelectronic module provided with at least one photoreceptor cell: The optoelectronic module (1) includes a photoreceptor circuit (3) for picking up light from a light source by reflection on an external surface. The photoreceptor circuit and the light source circuit are mounted on a substrate (2), and contact pads (6) of the circuits are electrically connected to pads of... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080204417 - Multimodal adaptive user interface for a portable electronic device: A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080204418 - Adaptable user interface and mechanism for a portable electronic device: A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080204423 - Executing functions through touch input device: A method of executing a function through a touch input device. The method includes displaying a plurality of soft keys on a screen of the touch input device, and executing a function when one of the soft keys is touched and slid on the screen of the touch input device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080204425 - Force/tactile display, method for controlling force/tactile display, and computer program: A force/tactile display that presents force/tactile sensation that occurs in response to physical interaction with each of a plurality of objects present in a virtual environment includes an action point defined on the mechanical structure, the action point presenting the force/tactile sensation, an applied force control means for controlling the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080204426 - Gestures for touch sensitive input devices: Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080204420 - Low relief tactile interface with visual overlay: Described is a method and a system for providing user interaction with various devices that incorporates adaptable visual and haptic stimuli. Both the visual and tactile elements of this user interface are aligned with each other and are animated in such a way as to convey more information to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080204424 - Screen display method for mobile terminal: A content display method for a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes at least two hierarchical structures each having at least two contents at a level. The content display method includes: displaying, in response to selection of a content, a window associated with the selected content; displaying, in... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080204419 - Stimuli-sensitive display screen with consolidated control functions: According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a stimuli-sensitive display screen and a first Cursor Control Device (CCD). The first CCD is within a second area (902) of the stimuli-sensitive display screen, and the first CCD operable to generate a first signal for control of a first cursor in... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080204421 - Touch input method and portable terminal apparatus: A touch input method applied to a portable terminal apparatus includes the following steps. First, a touch command is received. Then, a pressing area is derived by conducting a range computation according to the touch command. After that, a cursor is produced according to the touch command. Finally, the cursor... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080204422 - Touch sensor and signal generation method thereof: A touch sensor and a signal generation method thereof are provided. The touch sensor includes: an input signal generation unit generating an input signal; a reference signal generation unit delaying the input signal by a predetermined time to generate a first signal; a plurality of touch sensing signal generation units... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080204428 - Multimodal adaptive user interface for an electronic device with digital branding capabilities: A multimodal device (100) includes a segmented optical shutter (204) that functions as a morphing user interface along the front surface (105) of the multimodal device (100). The morphing user interface is configured to present one of a plurality of mode-based actuators by selectively opening and closing segments (601,602,603,604) of... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080204427 - Touch screen with pressure-dependent visual feedback: A data processing system, e.g., a remote control device, has a pressure-sensitive touch screen arranged over a display monitor. The monitor provides a visual indication depending on a magnitude of a pressure registered by the touch screen. The indication is rendered as centered on the touch area and has an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204429 - Controller arrangement for an optical sensing pen: Provided is a controller arrangement for an optical sensing pen having a nib. The controller arrangement is configured to operatively sense location data by sensing location tags on a page of printed media, and to calculate an orientation of the pen and a nib-to-tag distance. The controller arrangement includes an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080204430 - Input device and mobile communication device having same: An input device is provided. The input device includes a first input unit configured to provide at least two directional signals, a second input unit located in the first input unit, the second input unit including a housing and a rotatable member located therein, the second input unit being configured... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080204431 - Display system: A display system is provided including forming a display array, connecting a control block to the display array, configuring a communication protocol between the display array and the control block, and operating the display array with the communication protocol.... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20080204433 - Liquid crystal display having black insertion controller and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (301), a data circuit (303), and a black insertion controller (305). The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixels (330). The black insertion controller receives a display signal of the pixel, and generates a black insertion control signal... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080204432 - Portable computer: Disclosed is a portable computer with improved transception sensitivity to radio wave data. The portable computer includes an antenna for transceiving radio wave data. The antenna is disposed opposite to a display panel driver, a display region of the portable computer interposed therebetween.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080204434 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel, a first source driver chip and a connection section. The display panel includes a plurality of source lines, each of which is electrically connected to a plurality of pixels. The first source driver chip is electrically connected to a first group including a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080204435 - Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode facing each other, a plurality of charged particles disposed between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, an organic transistor electrically connected to the pixel electrode, a data line electrically connected to the pixel electrode via the organic transistor,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080204436 - Display device and electronic equipment therewith: Reduction in efficiency of a power supply circuit in a display device is prevented. A positive power supply generation circuit and a negative power supply generation circuit are placed close to a terminal portion to which a drive clock and a power supply electric potential are applied externally. The terminal... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080204437 - Light-sensor-placement device for color display, and displays comprising same: Light-sensor devices are disclosed for use with a color display such as a CRT, LCD, plasma display, or other type of display. The device includes an arm having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein a light sensor is situated on or near the distal end. A mover, coupled... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080204438 - Organic light emitting display, controller therefor and associated methods: A display driven by a data signal and a light emission signal may be controlled by a control system including a first through fourth controller. The first controller may select a gamma value in accordance with ambient illumination and output a corresponding gamma compensation signal to control a gradation voltage... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204439 - Source driver, electro-optical device, projection-type display device, and electronic instrument: A source driver includes P grayscale signal lines, a corresponding grayscale voltage being supplied to each of the P grayscale signal lines, Q switch signal lines, a corresponding grayscale voltage being supplied to each of the Q switch signal lines, a first DAC that outputs a grayscale voltage among P... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080204440 - Display system in article of clothing: An wearable assembly wherein a display system is incorporated into an article of clothing, such as a video jacket or vest. The display system includes at least an output device, a mass storage device, and an input device. The output device includes at least a display device with a substantially... Agent: Bruce A. Jagger

20080204442 - Driving device of plasma display panel and method: A driving device of a plasma display panel for performing a reset period using a ramp pulse. The driving device changes the lowest potential of the ramp down pulse in response to temperature change in order to prevent or reduce low discharge or over-discharge due to the temperature change. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080204443 - Portable display device and display method of portable display device: According to one embodiment, there is provided a portable display device including a recording section which records a video file, a decoder section which decodes the video file and outputs a video/audio signal, a display section which displays a video picture on a screen based on the video/audio signal from... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080204441 - Reset circuit and plasma display device including thereof: A reset circuit preventing the malfunction and breakage of an integrated circuit included in a plasma display device, and a plasma display device including thereof, wherein the reset circuit monitors the input voltage applied to the integrated circuits of the plasma display device to control the reset or non-reset operation... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080204444 - Timing controller to reduce flicker and method of operating display device including the same: A timing controller to reduce a flicker in a display device is provided. The timing controller includes a line pattern detector and a frame pattern detector. The line pattern detector divides received data into a plurality of unit blocks and detects a line polarity of each of a plurality of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080204445 - Dynamic decoder switch: A method provides for dynamic changes in a software video player. The method includes learning of a dynamic change from an input pin of a decoder filter, recording states of the decoder filter and a renderer filter, stopping the decoder and the renderer filters without changing a state of a... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080204446 - Instruction set to instantiate an effect on a time container: A method (800) is disclosed of producing an instruction set for rendering on a graphic display (114). The instruction set includes a plurality of time containers (502, 503, 504) to be rendered, with each time container (502, 503, 504) containing at least one timed element to be displayed on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080204450 - Avatar-based unsolicited advertisements in a virtual universe: A system, method and program product for providing a virtual universe in which unsolicited advertisements are embodied in automated avatars. A system is provided that includes: a registration system for introducing an advertisement avatar into the virtual universe; a targeting system for targeting a user avatar for delivery of advertising... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080204449 - Enablement of virtual environment functions and features through advertisement exposure: The present invention relates to the enablement of virtual universe functions and features through advertisement exposure. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: viewing, by the avatar, advertising content within the virtual environment; and earning a number of points for viewing the advertising content.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080204451 - Geometry processor using a post-vertex cache and method thereof: A geometry processor of a three-dimensional graphic accelerator may include a storage unit storing vertex data and an index corresponding to the vertex data, a vertex shader geometrically processing the vertex data provided from the storage unit, a vertex cache storing vertex data geometrically processed by the vertex shader, and/or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080204452 - Maximize data visibility using slated viewer: A slanted viewer is provided to maximize data visibility. In the context of computer graphics and a rendering technique, the slanted viewer's use of three-dimensional rendering provides an instant view of full data without compromising the visibility of other view areas or data and with minimum user interactions. The slanted... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080204447 - Method for modeling and animating object trajectories in three-dimensional space: A method for modeling and animating an object trajectory in three-dimensional (3D) space. The trajectory includes at least one course which represents a 3D model mesh. A course includes at least one segment which is a display unit of the 3D model mesh. A segment includes two 3D points. Multiple... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080204448 - Unsolicited advertisements in a virtual universe through avatar transport offers: A tool is provided that provides unsolicited advertisements in a virtual universe through avatar transport offers. An information collector component is configured to collect information on an avatar that is online in the virtual universe. A transport offer generator component is configured to present an offer to transport the avatar... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080204453 - Method and apparatus for generating three-dimensional model information: A method forms a region image extracting a region of a physical object which generates three-dimensional model information from a video image of physical space. Then, from position and orientation information for the physical object and from the region image, a primitive virtual object of a size to encompass the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20080204454 - System and method for partitioning cad models of parts into simpler sub-parts for analysis of physical characteristics of the parts: A slicing tool works with a solid modeling system to partition the geometric representation of a three-dimensional part into a series of simpler sub-parts the union of which replicates the original part in a maimer that introduces a minimal number of new surfaces in each sub-part and in total. This... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20080204455 - Method for displaying an autostereoscopic image having n viewpoints: The invention relates to a method for displaying an autostereoscopic image having N viewpoints on at least a portion of a screen containing display pixels arranged in lines and columns, each display pixel containing a first, a second and a third color point aligned on the same line and each... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080204456 - Methods and graphical user interfaces for displaying balance and correlation information of signals: The present invention relates to a method of displaying balance and correlation information of at least a pair of a first channel signal and a second channel signal. According to the present invention, the method of displaying balance and correlation information of at least a pair of a first channel... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080204457 - Rig baking: Model components can be used to pose character models to create a variety of realistic and artistic effects. An embodiment of the invention analyzes the behavior of a model component to determine a statistical representation of the model component that closely approximates the output of the model component. As the... Agent: Jonathan M. Hollander Pixar - Hollander

20080204458 - System and method for transforming dispersed data patterns into moving objects: A motion-based method and system for rapidly identifying the presence of spatially dispersed or interwoven patterns in data and their deviation from a test model for the pattern includes transforming dispersed patterns into one concentrated moving objects, for which there is a characteristic, identifiable motion signature. The method may be... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080204459 - Digital system for capturing and real-time outputting graphic: A digital system is provided for capturing and real-time outputting a graphic, which captures an external digital data and then converts it into a digital graphic for being output. The system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a graphic capture module, and a wireless output module or a storage module.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080204460 - Device having multiple graphics subsystems and reduced power consumption mode, software and methods: Many computing device may now include two or more graphics subsystems. The multiple graphics subsystems may have different abilities, and may, for example, consume differing amount of electrical power, with one subsystem consuming more average power than the others. The higher power consuming graphics subsystem may be coupled to the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20080204461 - Auto software configurable register address space for low power programmable processor: A configurable graphics pipeline has more than one possible process flow of pixel packets through elements of the graphics pipeline. In one embodiment, a data packet triggers an element of the graphics pipeline to discover an identifier.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080204463 - Adaptable user interface and mechanism for a title portable electronic device: A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080204462 - Map interface with removable path locations: A map user interlace is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a first map and the initial path displayed on the first map, the initial path being from a starting location via at least one intermediate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080204464 - Image display system and method for preventing image tearing effect: An image display system includes: a frame buffer including plurality of lines; a memory controller conducting writing and reading operations with the frame buffer; an image data provider supplying image data to the memory controller and generating a writing address; a display controller generating a reading address and receiving image... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080204465 - Network hardware graphics adapter compression: A Video Card with standard video output and a Network Ethernet port output of compressed digital video output that represents the image seen by a monitored computer user. A custom video card software driver is used to set up the dual display video controller configurations that assist with the functioning... Agent: Scott James Mcgowan

20080204466 - Dynamic configurable texture cache for multi-texturing: Techniques for dynamically configuring a texture cache are disclosed. During a texture mapping process of a three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline, if the batch is for single texture mapping, the texture cache is configured as a n-way set-associative texture cache. However, if the batch is for multi-texture mapping the n-way set-associated... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080204467 - Graphics memory switch: A graphics device delivers a graphics address to a graphics memory switch that includes a graphics random access memory translator and a graphics memory page table. The graphics memory address is delivered to the graphics memory switch via a point-to-point, packet based interconnect. The graphics memory switch generates a physical... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080204468 - Graphics processor pipelined reduction operations: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method to initialize a texture buffer and pipeline reduction operations by utilizing the texture buffer.... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080204469 - Color transformation luminance correction method and device: The method of color correction in a luminance direction, comprises: applying a color transformation (T) to an input color (Ci), yielding a transformed color (Ct); determining a scaling factor (f) on the basis of a first display driving value representation (Rs5Gs5Bs) of the input color (Ci) and a second display... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204470 - Display apparatus, image forming apparatus and display method: A display apparatus according to the invention includes a display unit, an index-data storing unit, and a palette-table storing unit. The index-data storing unit stores data for different uses in different planes. The indexes, which can be divided into the data, indirectly indicate display colors that should be colored on... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080204471 - Systems and methods for improving image clarity and image content comprehension: A system and method employing a software-coloring tool designed to automatically display specified background color tints to all documents and windows displaying white backgrounds on any image display unit including but not limited to desktop, laptop, tablet and handheld computers, televisions, telephones, and other handheld technology using a computer readable... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080204472 - Method and/or apparatus for color space reduction for transcoding subpicture elements: An apparatus including a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to collect color statistics. The second circuit may be configured to sort colors based upon the color statistics collected by the first circuit. The third circuit may be configured to generate... Agent: Christopher P Maiorana, PC Lsi Corporation

20080204473 - Methods and systems for legacy graphics emulation: Embodiments of the present invention provide a seamless way to emulate legacy graphics processing on modern graphics hardware. In particular, in some embodiments, the present invention provides a way for modern GPUs to emulate the bitwise operations and rendering processes of previous generations of graphics hardware. The present invention utilizes... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080204474 - Dual window display box: A dual window display box for displaying two objects includes a display arrangement and an attachment arrangement. The display arrangement includes at least two displaying frames, wherein each of the displaying frames has a displaying window and defines a storage cavity between the displaying frames when the displaying frames are... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080204475 - Power reduction driving controller, organic light emitting display including the same, and associated methods: A power reduction driving controller includes an image analyzer adapted to analyze input image data, a scaling factor calculator adapted to generate a scaling factor with respect to the analyzed input image data, and to apply the scaling factor to the input image data to generate a scaled-down image data,... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080204476 - Methods for combination tools that zoom, pan, rotate, draw, or manipulate during a drag: After positioning the cursor and pressing-and-holding a mouse button to begin a drag, a user continues to drag the cursor out of and into plural popped up regions. While the cursor is within a region, an associated function effects the displayed graphical information in a particular way, such as continuously... Agent: Roland Montague

20080204477 - Zooming controller: A method and device for accessing a broad data field having a fine resolution. The user selects a scale which can be varied. The scale controls a range within the data field. By moving the range to encompass different portions of the data field, the user can scan that portion... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080204478 - Method of enlarging display content of a portable electronic apparatus: The present invention is to provide a method of enlarging display content of an electronic apparatus having an enlarge display mode, which comprises the steps of determining whether or not the enlarge display mode is being activated; reading at least one enlarge parameter preset in the enlarge display mode when... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080204482 - Apparatus for automatically setting over-driving look-up table for liquid crystal display device and control method thereof: An over-driving look-up table automatic setting apparatus for a liquid crystal display device includes: an input device that specifies a critical response condition for a liquid crystal display device; a sensor that detects an amount of light from the liquid crystal display device and that generates a signal corresponding to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080204481 - Device and method for controlling a backlit display: A method and device for controlling a display, the device includes: a frame buffer adapted to receive image data, a processor adapted to receive a power parameter and an allowed image degradation level parameter, and an image converter that is adapted to perform a linear image conversion and a non-linear... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080204483 - Display apparatus, and image signal processing apparatus and drive control apparatus for the same: In a display apparatus having a display panel 301 having display devices which are arranged in a matrix layout and driven through a plurality of row wirings and column wirings, a scanning unit 302 adapted to scan the row wirings, and a modulation unit 303 adapted to supply a modulation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080204480 - Method of driving displays comprising a conversion from the rgb colour space to the rgbw colour space: An apparatus (200) for driving a display (310, 320) including an array of display elements (20), each element (20) comprising a plurality of sub-pixels of red (R), green (G), blue (B) and white (W) colors. The apparatus (200) comprising a processor (300) operable: (a) to receive input signals (RI, GI,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080204479 - Wide color gamut displays: A display has a modulator illuminated by a illuminator comprising an array of light sources. The array includes light sources of a plurality of colors. The light sources of different colors are individually controllable. Within each color, the light sources that illuminate different areas on the modulator are individually controllable.... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080198095 - Image display device and electronic apparatus: An image display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel display portions arranged in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction thereof, a plurality of slits arranged on the display panel so as to correspond to spaces between the pixel display portions adjacent to each other, an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080198094 - System and method for detecting real-time events in an image: A system and method for displaying a plurality of images. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an event detector configured to detect at least one true target in the plurality of images using a threshold based on average and peak pixel values, (2) an image processor configured to define... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20080198096 - Dual monitor: A dual monitor includes a first monitor, a second monitor and a connecting member. The first monitor includes a first screen heading for a first direction. The second monitor includes a second screen heading for substantially same as the first direction for which the first screen heads, and being fixed... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080198097 - Head-mounted display and head-mounted video display: where f is a focal length of an optical system, D is a human pupil diameter determined statistically in advance, B is a width of the frame area, and A is a value determined statistically in advance as a width which will not be able to be shielded on a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080198098 - Electronic sign: An electronic sign employs a bi-stable, non-volatile display material activatable by electrodes to convey information. A sensor detects when the electronic sign is inserted in or in the vicinity of an insertion area, and controls the operation of the sign based on the detected location. A backplane in the electronic... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080198099 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A plasma display driving method in which, in an erase stage of a last sub-field of a one-field display period, a scanning pulse is sequentially applied to one row electrode of each of the row electrode pairs for each scanning line or for each scanning line group having a plurality... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080198100 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel is provided in which wasteful power consumption is reduced and light emission efficiency is improved when the number of cells to be lighted is relatively small. The method includes classifying a display ratio into plural group ranges, selecting a suitable display pulse... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080198101 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In the method, the number of sustain signals assigned to at least one of a plurality of subfields of a frame is different from the number of sustain signals assigned to the other subfields depending on an... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080198102 - Display apparatus, driving method thereof, and electronic system: A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, with each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080198104 - Display apparatus, method of driving a display, and electronic device: In a display apparatus including a correction unit and a switching transistor, the correction unit operates in a non-light emission period such that a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080198103 - Display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array unit having pixel circuits arranged in a form of a matrix; and a control unit having a writing scanning unit for outputting, to the sampling transistor, a writing scanning pulse. The control unit effects control to supply a control input... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080198106 - Electronic circuit and method for dynamic piloting of light sources in variable message information panels: The invention concerns an electronic circuit for dynamic command of light sources in variable message information panels. It includes a number of elementary circuits consecutively connected between them, each having at least one LED connected through respective switchable branches, to a feed voltage, to a LED short-circuiting line, to a... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080198105 - Organic light-emitting display device and driving method thereof: Provided is an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display device includes a light-emitting unit having a plurality of OLEDs to emit light, a light-emitting level setting unit setting a light-emitting level depending on a light-emitting area and/or change in a light-emitting degree of the light-emitting unit, a look-up... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080198107 - Apparatus and method of driving liquid crystal display: An apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display includes a signal controller. The signal controller has a frame memory and an image type detector. The signal controller compares image data for a present frame from an external device with image data for a previous frame stored in the frame memory... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080198108 - Array substrate and display unit using it and production method for array substrate: The present invention provides an array substrate in which delay in signal transmission is reduced and provides a display device in which superior display quality is achieved, by using wirings of low resistivity, and moreover, by suppressing increase in wiring resistance caused by contact resistance. A display area in which... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080198109 - Color magnetic display pixel panel: A magnetic display panel having pixels formed of red, green, blue, and black sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixel includes a magnetic material layer in which magnetic moments are oriented in a direction when a magnetic field is applied, a sub-pixel electrode applying a magnetic field to the magnetic material layer,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080198111 - Display apparatus and drive method therefor, and electronic equipment: A drive section sequentially supplies respective scanning lines with a control signal and supplies respective signal lines with a video signal to carry out a correction operation for holding a voltage equivalent to a threshold voltage of a drive transistor in a holding capacitance, and subsequently performs a write operation... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080198110 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel provided with plural sub-pixels, plural video wirings for inputting the video voltage to the sub-pixels, plural main-scanning wirings for inputting the selective scanning voltage to the sub-pixels, plural sub-scanning wirings provided corresponding to the plural the main-scanning wirings, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080198113 - Driving method for reducing response time of twisted nematic liquid crystal displays and super twisted nematic liquid crystal displays: The present invention discloses a driving method for reducing the response time of TN LCD and STN LCD, wherein a dynamic picture judgment mechanism is arranged behind the RGB data bus and used to compare the current picture with the previous picture; if the pictures are different, an over-driving compensation... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080198114 - Partially filterless and two-color subpixel liquid crystal display devices, mobile electronic devices including the same, and methods of operating the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels configured to display an image. The plurality of pixels respectively include a first subpixel configured to display first color image data, and a second subpixel configured to display second and third color image data. The... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080198112 - Partially filterless liquid crystal display devices and methods of operating the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a backlight configured to emit first, second, and/or third colors of light, and a backlight controller. The backlight controller is configured to activate the backlight to simultaneously emit the first and second colors of light to generate a first image component including a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080198117 - Display device, liquid crystal monitor, liquid crystal television receiver, and display method: In the present display device, a control section (15) divides each frame into a preceding subframe and a succeeding subframe and designates the preceding subframe for black display for low luminance and the succeeding subframe for white display for high luminance. That mitigates excess brightness phenomena. The control section (15)... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080198118 - Driving circuit for display panel having user selectable viewing angle, display having the same, and method for driving the display: A driving circuit for a display panel comprising a driving voltage generator for outputting a plurality of gamma reference voltages, and a gray scale voltage generating unit for selecting one out of the plurality of gamma reference voltages and generating a gray scale voltage based on the selected gamma reference... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080198116 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a timing controller, a data driver, a gate driver and a liquid crystal panel. The timing controller receives an image data signal to output a first control signal, a second control signal and a data signal corresponding to the image data signal. The data... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080198115 - Liquid crystal display overdrive accuracy adjustment device and method: An overdrive accuracy adjustment device and method for use in liquid crystal display panel is presented. According to a current grayscale value of a pixel in an awaiting to be displayed image and a previous grayscale value of the corresponding pixel in an already-displayed image, the corresponding overdrive grayscale value... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080198120 - Liquid crystal display: A small or middle-sized liquid crystal display employing a black insertion driving method overcomes the after-image or blurring of a moving picture by shifting the level of a voltage applied to a storage capacitor line within a predetermined period corresponding to about 20% to about 80% that lasts after image... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080198119 - Liquid crystal display and display panel with integrated data-storage: A liquid crystal display includes a display panel having a data-storing unit including transistors integrated into the display panel. The data-storing transistors of the data-storing unit may be formed in the same film (layer) as the TFT pixel transistors on the display panel. Each of the plurality of transistors of... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080198121 - Liquid crystal display and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a first display area, a second display area, a peripheral area outside of the first and second display area, and a dummy pixel unit formed on the peripheral area, wherein the first and second display areas include a plurality of pixels arranged in a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080198122 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a gate driving part, a data driving part, a display panel and a kickback voltage compensating part. The gate driving part outputs a gate signal, and the data driving part outputs a data signal. The display panel displays an image in response to the gate signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080198124 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: There is provided an liquid crystal display apparatus configured to invert a pixel voltage and a common voltage on a frame to frame basis while setting a transition voltage Vt in such a manner that the polarity of the pixel voltage to be applied to a pixel electrode of each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198123 - Liquid crystal display, apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display, and method of generating gray voltages: A liquid crystal display, apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display and a method of driving gray voltages for the same. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines transmitting gate signals, a plurality of data lines intersecting the plurality of gate lines and transmitting data voltages, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080198125 - Circuit board and liquid crystal display including the same: A circuit board includes; a reference common voltage generating circuit receiving an input voltage from an input node and outputting a reference common voltage to an output node, wherein the reference common voltage generating circuit includes a voltage distribution unit including a first resistor connected between the input node and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080198126 - Display apparatus and display drive circuit: Disclosed is a display apparatus including: an X driver to drive signal lines; and a Y driver to drive scanning lines; wherein the X driver is provided with: a line buffer to latch the receive display data in a plurality of latch circuits; and a horizontal shift register to sequentially... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080198127 - Display apparatus: The display apparatus (10) includes a signal processor (20), an illumination source (40) and a pixel array (50) for optically modulating the light generated by the illumination source (40) to generate a series of images for user-viewing. The illumination source (40) comprises a plurality of individually addressable segments (s1 to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198129 - Indication position calculation system, indicator for indication position calculation system, game system, and indication position calculation method: An imaging section successively outputs light-reception information relating to each pixel from a starting pixel SP to an end pixel EP, the starting pixel SP being provided on one end of an image PC acquired by the imaging section and the end pixel EP being provided on the other end... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080198128 - Kvm switch capable of providing edid of display for computer coupled thereto and method thereof: A KVM switch capable of providing real EDID of a display, rather than default EDID, to a computer coupled thereto. The KVM switch includes a processor, at least one memory and at least one switch. The processor queries EDID of the display when the KVM switch is booted and stores... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080198130 - System and method for acquiring a target with intelligent pointer movement: The present invention is generally directed to assisting users to position a pointer on a target. Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer-readable medium that guide a pointer toward a target. After the pointer is located on a target, pointer movement continues to be adjusted so... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080198131 - Temperature feedback pc pointing peripheral: A new pointing device implementation method that uses temperature sensors mounted on or in a personal computing device's pointing device or game console's game controller to collect and effectively send temperature information about the surface of the peripheral pointing device to the connected personal computing device or game console for... Agent: Christopher Rondot

20080198132 - Input pointer and input device: An input pointer includes two top-surface switches and a rotary switch on the top surface of the main body, a protrusion on an imaginary center line on the bottom surface of the main body, and two bottom-surface switches at the sides of the protrusion. The two top-surface switches and the... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080198133 - Pen-type optical input device: The pen-type optical input device of the present invention is utilized for controlling the cursor of operating system of electronic device. The pen-type optical input device comprises a main body, a circuit board and an opaque ball. Therefore, the operational efficiency is improved and the input device is utilized whether... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080198134 - Wireless device and power-saving device thereof: A wireless device and a power-saving device thereof are provided. The power-saving device includes a bracket, a rocker arm and a struck element. The bracket is electrically connected to a circuit board of the wireless device. The rocker arm is movably disposed on the bracket. The struck element is disposed... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080198135 - Key input device for mobile phone: A key input device for a mobile phone is provided. The key input device includes a printed circuit board with a plurality of dome switches. The key input device further includes a holder unit provided on the top of the print circuit board, a wheel key provided on the top... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080198136 - Ultra mobile personal computer: An ultra mobile personal computer includes a monitor, a keyboard apparatus, and a micro-touchpad. The monitor is coupled on the keyboard apparatus such that the monitor could be shifted relatively to the keyboard apparatus to display a keyboard panel built inside. In addition, the micro-touchpad is arranged on the keyboard... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20080198137 - Electronic device and information input method: An information input method applied to an electronic device, which includes a host body, a first direction key module and a second direction key module, includes the following steps. First, the first direction key module generates a first input signal, a second input signal, a third input signal, a fourth... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198139 - Haptic feedback system with stored effects: A haptic feedback system that includes a controller, a memory coupled to the controller, an actuator drive circuit coupled to the controller, and an actuator coupled to the actuator drive circuit. The memory stores at least one haptic effect that is executed by the controller in order to create a... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080198138 - Identification of devices on touch-sensitive surface: The identification of a data storage device detected on a touch-sensitive display surface of a display device is described. In one embodiment, the presence and location of the data storage device is detected on the display surface and the data storage device is detected on a wireless communications channel. It... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080198140 - Image display apparatus with image entry function: An image display apparatus with image entry function of high accuracy enabling high-speed direct screen input without decreasing a pixel aperture ratio. Data lines of thin-film transistors which do not receive light and storage lines are connected to respective selector switches. The selector switches are turned on and off by... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080198142 - Image processing apparatus and method: An image processing apparatus provided with a display unit for displaying an operation picture, showing control indicia (e.g., icons) corresponding to multiple image processing functions, is operated to display the operation picture on an external display device. The operator selects one of the indicia shown on the external display device... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080198141 - Touch event-driven display control system and method for touchscreen mobile phone: A touch event-driven display control system and method for a touchscreen mobile phone is provided to control the information display by onscreen touch manipulation. An information display method for a touchscreen-enabled device according to the present invention includes detecting a touch on an information region of a touchscreen, determining a... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080198143 - Image display apparatus with image entry function: An image display apparatus with image entry function capable of high-speed and high-accuracy direct screen entry without increasing the peripheral circuit scale or the number of circuit elements for each pixel that lower the pixel aperture ratio. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit are alternately arrayed horizontally.... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080198144 - Optical waveguide for touch panel: An optical waveguide for a touch panel which includes a planar base; light emitting cores and light incident cores provided on a surface of the base; and an over-cladding layer covering the cores. The light emitting core has a first lens portion provided at the end thereof for suppressing lateral... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080198145 - Acoustic wave touch actuated system: A touch pad assembly includes a substrate and a plurality of acoustic wave switches positioned with respect to the substrate. Each of the plurality of acoustic wave switches includes a touch surface connected to an acoustic wave cavity and a transducer secured to the acoustic wave cavity. The plurality of... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080198146 - Electronic pen and method for recording of handwritten information: An electronic pen for recording of handwritten or hand-drawn information has a control unit and a memory. The control unit registers pen movements across at least one base, stores a plurality of digital pen strokes in the memory as a function of said movements, and supplies a set of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080198147 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a display unit which displays, simultaneously side by side, a plurality of main items aligned in one direction as the setting items of the portable electronic device and a plurality of sub items aligned in the one direction as the setting items of the lower... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080198150 - Display device: A display device wherein a common voltage generating circuit selectively outputs a high- or a low-potential-side common voltage to common electrodes in response to an alternating signal; a complement circuit which selectively outputs display data or complement data of display data in response to the alternating signal; a storage circuit;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080198149 - Display device and driving method thereof: A gate driver circuit is formed on a glass substrate of a display panel and includes a plurality of gate driver units that are connected to respective gate lines GL. A control circuit controls the gate driver circuit so that the gate driver units sequentially drive the plurality of gate... Agent: Venable LLP

20080198148 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device and data processor system: To provide an input interface technique of display data which can contribute to improvement of reliability and high performance of a system in which a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a RAM and a display driver circuit is incorporated. A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first high-speed serial interface... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080198151 - Driving method and driving apparatus of liquid crystal display: A driving method includes sensing illuminance of ambient light determining a first contrast ratio based on the sensed illuminance, determining a second contrast ratio and a relative ratio of the contrast ratio, determining a gradient of a compensation gamma curve using the relative ratio, determining an average gray of input... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080198152 - 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

20080198153 - Method and apparatus of generating or reconstructing display streams in video interface systems: A method and system for reading data from a link buffer for output to a display device. A link buffer read period is determined which balances a write throughput over a source video frame time and a read throughput over a display frame time. A threshold is determined indicating a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080198154 - Image processing apparatus and method for supporting operation of image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus of the invention has an object to provide an image processing apparatus enabling the user to improve the operation ability even when furnished with a wide variety of capabilities, and a method for supporting an operation of the image processing apparatus, which is formed by including:... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080198155 - Portable display device: A portable display device is applicable to an electronic device having a socket provided with a second electrical connector. The portable display device includes a body having a display and a plurality of operating keys; an extension portion having a first end pivotably connected to the body, and a second... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080198156 - System and method of report rendering: A report rendering system and method of filtering and navigating reports on mobile devices are provided. The report rendering system comprises a scene generator for generating a scene of a report in response to a request to view the report or a subset of the report and a navigation module... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080198158 - 3d map display system, 3d map display method and display program: A three-dimensional (3D) map display system for outputting display information on a 3D map includes: a processor for performing arithmetic processing; and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores 3D map vector data for each of partitioned areas determined in advance according to coordinates and a real landscape... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080198157 - Target zone display system and method: A display system and method for a vehicle are provided. The system includes a processor configured to receive data representative of a target zone and topography and to supply display commands associated with the target zone and the topography. The system further includes a display device coupled the processor for... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080198159 - Method and apparatus for efficient and flexible surveillance visualization with context sensitive privacy preserving and power lens data mining: The surveillance visualization system extracts information from plural cameras to generate a graphical representation of a scene, with stationary entities such as buildings and trees represented by graphical model and with moving entities such as cars and people represented by separate dynamic objects that can be coded to selectively reveal... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20080198160 - Appropriately sized target expansion: The present starburst target expansion technique connects targets to peripheral screen space to produce reasonably sized tiles for all targets including those that are located inside of a cluster. The resulting layout is characterized by lines escaping from the cluster center. By providing targets located inside a cluster with access... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080198161 - Tissue stiffness assignment: A method for assigning stiffness values to voxels of an inputted discretized image includes assigning stiffness values according to intensity values of voxels of the image, wherein the inputted discretized image comprises the intensity values and refining the stiffness values assigned to voxels using a segmentation.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080198162 - A method of generating curved baseline for map labeling: Apparatus and methods of generating a curved baseline for a map labeling include receiving a polyline P={p1,p2, . . . ,pn} of n points, generating a supporting polyline Q={q1,q2, . . . ,qm} (m≧n) of m points at an expected distance d between polyline P and a curved base line... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv3)

20080198163 - Drawing method, image generating device, and electronic information apparatus: An edge function is computed from two vertex coordinates given by a rendering target line 66 as shown in FIG. 8. Gradient determination is then performed on the edge function, and if the acute angle formed by the rendering target line 66 and the x-axis of the rendering plane coordinate... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080198165 - Character rendering device, display device, and printing device: There is disclosed a character rendering device capable of rendering characters at a higher speed. The character rendering device includes an internal storage unit including plural storage areas; a first bus connected through an external bus to an external storage unit storing character shape data sets, each expressing a shape... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080198164 - Method and apparatus for conducting presentations: A method of managing a document presentation comprising presenting a document image to the audience on a display apparatus, positioning a timer image on the display apparatus so that the timer image overlays the document image at least partially, and so that the timer image is configured to be noticeably... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080198166 - Multi-threads vertex shader, graphics processing unit, and flow control method: A vertex shader. The vertex shader comprises an instruction register file, a flow controller, a thread arbitrator, and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) pipe. The instruction register file stores a plurality of instructions. The flow controller concurrently executing a plurality of threads, reads the instructions in order from the instruction... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080198167 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of graphics processing units (gpus) supported on an integrated graphics device (igd) and one or more external graphics cards, employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering s: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing one or more graphics-based applications, (ii) one or more CPUs for executing the... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080198168 - Efficient 2-d and 3-d graphics processing: Techniques for supporting both 2-D and 3-D graphics are described. A graphics processing unit (GPU) may perform 3-D graphics processing in accordance with a 3-D graphics pipeline to render 3-D images and may also perform 2-D graphics processing in accordance with a 2-D graphics pipeline to render 2-D images. Each... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080198169 - Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques: Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding processing and communication techniques are provided. For an improved graphics pipeline, the invention provides a class of co-processing device, such as a graphics processor unit (GPU), providing improved capabilities for an abstract or virtual machine for performing graphics... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080198170 - System and method for dma controlled image processing: A system for processing image data from a plurality of images is disclosed. The invention involves alpha blending of two images of different resolution and color space utilizing shared logic for multiple image streams and without display storage frame buffer. The invention utilizes Direct Memory Access (DMA) fetching module for... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080198171 - Multi-dimensional texture drawing apparatus, compressing apparatus, drawing system, drawing method, and drawing program: As for a multi-dimensional texture constituted by a plurality of textures different in photographing environment such as a viewing position or lighting conditions, texture images constituting the multi-dimensional texture are rearranged block by block or pixel by pixel, and converted into an anisotropic texture expressing anisotropic variations of the multi-dimensional... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080198172 - Color information encoding in monochrome printing: An image processing system including a processor configured to analyze a color image to determine a set of target colors and a database including factor profiles associated with a set of stored colors. The image processing system further includes a printer controller that assigns the factor profiles to the target... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP/sharp

20080198173 - Driving of a cholesteric liquid crystal display apparatus: A cholesteric liquid crystal display apparatus is driven in accordance with image data having a predetermined number of possible grey levels. Drive signals are applied to the electrodes of the at least one cell which drive each pixel of the display apparatus into a state selected from a number of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080198174 - Image input unit and image input method: The invention is characterized by the fact that an area sensor for outputting an analog signal responsive to the light reception amount of light of CMYG is used and when CMYG image data is converted into RGB image data, RGB image data having a domain also in negative values is... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080198175 - Drag-and-drop pasting for seamless image composition: Systems and methods provide drag-and-drop pasting for seamless image composition. In one implementation, a user casually outlines a region of a source image that contains a visual object to be pasted into a target image. An exemplary system automatically calculates a new boundary within this region, such that when pasted... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080198176 - Method for calculating height of chuck top and program storage medium for storing same method: A method is for calculating a height of a chuck top. A height of the top surface of the chuck top which corresponds to an arbitrary position specified on the XY coordinate plane by a computer is calculated in each of the four quadrants based on a coordinate transformation formulas.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080198177 - Method for processing a digital image: A method for varying a view of a digital image to be sent to a display. The method comprises retrieving image data representing a first area of the digital image from a reduced size, in regard of number of pixels, representation of the digital image, sending the retrieved image data... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20080198178 - Providing area zoom functionality for a camera: The invention relates to a method for adjusting a digital camera. The invention also relates to a corresponding device and a corresponding computer program. An original image recorded by the camera is received. The original image has an original aspect ratio. A first user input defining a center point of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080198182 - Display device and electronic apparatus: With a source voltage of a transistor driving a light emitting element set to a fixed voltage, variations in an emission luminance due to variations in the threshold voltage of the transistor are corrected. The fixed voltage is set in accordance with a signal level of a drive pulse signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080198180 - Method and apparatus of converting signals for driving display and a display using the same: A method, apparatus and computer program for driving displays including an array of display elements, each element comprising sub-pixels or red, green, blue and white colours, the method comprising steps of; receiving input signals for controlling red, green and blue colours of each element of the display; processing the input... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198179 - Sequential colour display device: A display device produces colour images by sequentially projecting monochromatic images. Multispectral light is projected via optical means and a filter arrangement with changeable primary colour filters onto an imaging device. For each primary colour the imaging device produces a number of constant-length pulses corresponding to a desired brightness level.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080198181 - Video display method and apparatus: A video display method can lower visibility of flicker in video display and maintain constant display luminance, wherein a display period and a non-display period for a video signal being displayed are provided in one frame period. The method includes frame period controlling by varying the frame period in terms... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080198183 - Inverter for liquid crystal display: An inverter of driving a light source for a display device is provided. The inverter includes a temperature sensor sensing a temperature and generating an output voltage based on the sensed temperature, a buffer generating an output signal having a state depending on the output voltage of the temperature sensor,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080198184 - Fast and interruptible drive scheme for electrosphoretic displays: An image update scheme for an electrophoretic display reduces driving delays while allowing display of a reduced quality image when driving is interrupted. A first portion (605) of image data is transmitted to a display device (500) such as from a mobile network device (400). The first portion may include... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080198185 - Display device: A signal converter to make a display module conduct an n-ply display operation divides one frame period of input display data into n subframes to obtain n-ply display data, shifts the sampling position for each n-ply display data, samples the data to convert resolution thereof, rearranges in n ways a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080191963 - Display device: A display device 10 comprises a first display 11 arranged with a display surface (luminous display surface) 11a inclined to a direction E of line of sight of an observer to emit a first light L1 to form a first displayed image 21, a second display 12, which emits a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080191964 - Auto-stereoscopic display with mixed mode for concurrent display of two- and three-dimensional images: An auto-stereoscopic display (104) is operable in mixed mode so as to divide the screen spatially into two- and three-dimensional areas, respectively (S332,S336). Accordingly, metadata (260) of a three-dimensional image can be displayed two-dimensionally alongside the image, and can be seen clearly from various viewpoints.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080191965 - Apparatus and method for eye exercises: Apparatus and method for eye-exercise utilizing a set of goggles, the set of goggles containing a display suitably positioned for a wearer to observe a set of LEDs, which when lit in a sequential manner cause the wearer to exercise the muscles of the eye. One set of LEDs is... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.c.

20080191966 - Autostereoscopic display apparatus and colour filter therefor: An autostereoscopic display apparatus, comprising: a plurality of coloured individually addressable display elements (2) arranged in an array of rows and columns; and light directing means, for example a lenticular sheet (15), comprising a plurality of light directing elements, for example lenticular elements (16); wherein the colour order of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080191967 - Passive display with planar interconnect: Disclosed is an electrical display system using novel single plane interconnect. All display elements are individually addressable using three state driving, meaning that each signal can be high, low, or off. Furthermore, a method is given to generate planar display interconnect via tile selection and quilting that is guaranteed to... Agent: Karl Papadantonakis

20080191968 - Active matrix display device: Selection lines are formed using one type of transistor. A data driver supplies data to data lines provided in correspondence with pixel rows. A gate driver supplies selection signals via a first switch to gate lines provided in correspondence with pixel lines. Also, each gate line is connected via a... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080191969 - Flat panel display: A high-speed flat panel display has thin film transistors in a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a driving circuit portion for driving the pixels of the pixel array portion, which have different resistance values than each other or have different geometric structures than... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080191970 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. In the method, a first reset pulse including a rising pulse and a falling pulse is applied to a scan electrode during a reset period of a first subfield of a plurality of subfields. A second reset pulse including a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080191971 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device and a driving method thereof, a switch for applying a voltage rising waveform to a scan electrode during an idle period and a first period is coupled between the scan electrode and a power source. The switch applies the voltage rising waveform having a first... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080191972 - Plasma display panel driving method, plasma display panel gray displaying method, and plasma display device: A plasma display panel (PDP) driving method and a PDP gray-representing method for improving representation performance of low gray scales is disclosed. A voltage rising from a low level voltage to a reset voltage of a reset period of a subsequent subfield is applied to a scan electrode, without having... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080191974 - Method for driving a gas electric discharge device: A method for driving a plasma display panel having at least three electrodes. The method includes applying a first pulse having a voltage changing with time in a positive direction and a second pulse having a voltage changing with time in a negative direction to a second main electrode in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080191973 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The method includes supplying a first reset signal to a scan electrode during a reset period of a first subfield of a plurality of subfields of a frame, and supplying a second reset signal, whose a peak voltage is lower... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080191975 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel for displaying an image at its front surface by employing gas excitation, the plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells for displaying the image, wherein phosphors colored with a first color are coated in the discharge cells, and at least one layer having a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080191976 - Voltage-programming scheme for current-driven arnoled displays: A system and method for driving an AMOLED display is provided. The AMOLED display includes a plurality of pixel circuits. A voltage-programming scheme, a current-programming scheme or a combination thereof is applied to drive the display. Threshold shift information, and/or voltage necessary to obtain hybrid driving circuit may be acquired.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080191977 - Method and apparatus for digitally driving an amoled: In a method for digitally driving an AMOLED to display a plurality of different areas of the AMOLED including a first area displaying a first image and a second area displaying a second image, the method comprises: commencing display of at least one of a plurality of lines of the... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080191978 - Apparatus for driving micromechanical devices: An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is provided for matrix addressed arrays of IMods or other micromechanical devices. An improved color scheme provides greater flexibility. Electronic hardware can be field reconfigured to accommodate different display formats and/or application functions. An... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080191979 - Display control device and display device: A red light sensor (222D), a green light sensor (232D), and a blue light sensor (242D) are provided on the LCD panel (200) of a display device (100). A processing section (170) of the display device (100) corrects, in an LCD correction control unit (173), a video image display state... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080191982 - Display device: A display device includes a light-providing part, a first display panel part disposed at a first side of the light-providing part, a second display panel part disposed at a second side of the light-providing part, a receiving part disposed between the second display panel part and the light-providing part and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080191981 - Display substrate and method for manufacturing the same: A display substrate includes a first metal pattern including a gate line and a signal line, a first insulation layer formed on a substrate where the first metal pattern is formed, a first electrode formed on the first insulation layer, and a second metal pattern including a connecting electrode and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080191980 - Driving apparatus of display device and display device including the same: A display device includes driving apparatus having first, second, third, and fourth gate drivers. The first and second gate drivers are connected to gate lines and are positioned on one side of the display device side by side. The third and fourth gate drivers are connected to gate lines and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080191983 - Liquid crystal display having gradation voltage adjusting circuit and driving method thereof: An exemplary LCD (200) includes gate lines (23), data lines (24); a gradation voltage adjusting circuit (26) for receiving the gradation voltages respectively corresponding to the j, j+1, k, and k+1 frames interchanging the j+1 frame gradation voltage and the k frame gradation voltage when a first voltage difference between... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080191984 - Display apparatus: The object of the invention is to provide an FSC display apparatus that can easily achieve color balance. The display apparatus (1) according to the present invention, which includes a light source (30) for emitting a plurality of colored lights in sequence and in a repetitive manner and a display... Agent: Ernest F Chapman Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner

20080191985 - Image correction method and image display device: A luminance distribution at the highest gradation level is corrected to a curved plane luminance distribution in such a manner that the maximum gradation input to a display panel shows a curved luminance plane having the highest luminance at the center of the display panel and a lower luminance in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080191986 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: Disclosed is an LCD and driving method thereof. The present invention comprises a data gray signal modifier for receiving gray signals from a data gray signal source, and outputting modification gray signals by consideration of gray signals of present and previous frames; a data driver for changing the modification gray... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080191988 - Driving method of an electric circuit: A variation in threshold may be suppressed by structuring an analog switch by a MOS transistor and forming a signal synchronized to a clock by making the clock which is a common signal in continuity or discontinuity. An object of the present invention is to reduce the variation in the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080191987 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix format. The plurality of gate lines transmit a gate signal to the pixels. The plurality of data lines cross the gate lines... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080191990 - Driver and display method using the same: A driver includes a first memory including a plurality of memory cells and redundant memory cells. An address control circuit replaces a defective memory cell of the plurality of memory cells with one of the redundant memory cells based on a defect address data indicating an address of the defective... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080191991 - Driver for a liquid crystal device: A driver for a liquid crystal device includes a plurality of common drivers having a first common driver and a last common driver for comb-like driving that is coupled in cascade connection and a frequency divider that produces a second clock for interlaced driving by halving a period of a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080191989 - Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device having the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a plurality of data and gate lines, a plurality of main switching elements, and a plurality of liquid crystal capacitors. Each main switching element is electrically connected to a main data and gate line. Each liquid crystal capacitor is electrically connected to a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080191992 - Display panel driving device, display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display panel for driving a display panel in response to data and gate signals, includes first and second switching sections, a timing control section, a driving voltage generating section, a gate driving section and data driving section. The first switching section switches a source voltage in response to a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080191993 - Shift register with lower power consumption 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 clock signal input terminal (TS), a high level signal input terminal (VH), a low level signal input terminal (VL), an input terminal (VIN), a first... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080191994 - Shift register with no overlap effective output signal 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 clock signal input terminal (TS), a high level signal input terminal (VH), a low level signal input terminal (VL), an output terminal (VOUT), a reverse... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080191995 - Image data compensation device and method and method display system employing the same: An image display device includes an image signal source unit to provide primary image data and selected compensation data to compensate the primary image data, and a display unit to display images using compensated image data obtained by compensating the primary image data with the selected compensation data. The selected... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080191996 - \"method and/or apparatus to improve the visual perception of an image displayed on a screen\": The invention relates to a method and/or apparatus to improve the visual perception of an image displayed on a liquid crystal (LCD) panel, said method comprising steps for generating an adjusting signal (PE,i+1) of a rear-lighting lamp of said panel depending on an target power value (PT) and for generating... Agent: Neil Steinberg

20080191997 - Collimator for backlight unit and lcd using the same: Provided are a collimator for a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display (LCD) using the collimator. The collimator includes a plate including a plurality of light passing areas, passing light incident from the backlight unit, and light non-passing areas formed among the plurality of light passing areas. The light... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080191998 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight, a luminance control instruction receiving component, an inverter circuit, a backlight control component and an image quality adjustment component. The liquid crystal panel displays an image. The backlight emits light to the liquid crystal panel. The luminance control... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080191999 - Method for displaying a moving image on a display: Disclosed is a method for displaying a moving image on a display, such that all the pixel rows of the display are addressed during each image formation, and a backlight for displaying the image information backlights the pixel rows. The display of moving images is improved by delaying the backlighting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192001 - Display device with sensing units and driving method thereof: A display device includes a display panel having a first panel and a second panel that face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of first sense data lines extending in a row direction on the second panel, a plurality of second sense data lines extending in... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080192000 - Multi-pointing method using magnetic field and device therefor: A multi-pointing method using a magnetic field is provided. When one or more pointing devices that generate magnetic fields move or rotate, locations and directions of rotation of the one or more pointing devices are sensed based on patterns of magnetic fields generated by the one or more pointing devices... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192003 - Information processing apparatus, display control method, and program: An information processing apparatus that allows a display to show a plurality of windows on a same screen is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes: a detecting means for detecting a signal sent in response to a press of a button allocated on a remote controller; a control means for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192002 - Operating panel: The present invention provides an input device where the input, is created by translating a front plate in relation to the chassis such that the translation movement may easily be controlled, and at the same time, due to the freedom built into the device, any level of menu control and... Agent: James C. Wray

20080192004 - System for scrolling page displayed on a display device: A system for enabling scrolling of a page displayed on a display device, the system comprising: a substrate having a position-coding pattern disposed on or in a surface thereof, a sensing device operable in a plurality of modes including a cursor mode, said sensing device comprising: an image sensor for... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080192005 - Automated gesture recognition: A gesture recognition engine and method provides for recognition of gestures comprising movement of an object. Input data is received related to a succession of positions, velocities, accelerations and/or orientations of the at least one object, as a function of time, which input defines a trajectory of the at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080192007 - Determining a position of a pointing device: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080192006 - System for enabling user input and cursor control: A system for enabling user input and control of a cursor on a display device, the system comprising: a substrate having a position-coding pattern disposed on or in a surface thereof, said substrate having at least one input element and a discrete cursor zone; a sensing device comprising: an image... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080192008 - Magnetically coupled fader controller for electronic display: A control device provides a transparent overlay for an electronic display, the overlay having at least one closed channel formed therein to accommodate a fader tongue that is translatable therealong. A fader cap has no mechanical attachment to the fader tongue but includes a magnet, whereby the fader cap may... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20080192011 - Four axles center wheel module for mouse: A four axles center wheel module for mouse comprising a coder assembly for outputting a encoded pulse electronic signal, a center wheel, and a mouse circuit board, the coder assembly is set on the center shaft of the center wheel; a swing component is installed in a slot on a... Agent: Global Ip Services

20080192009 - Storing structure of wireless mouse for storing wireless signal receiver therein: The present invention relates to a storing structure of a wireless mouse for storing a wireless signal receiver therein. The storing structure of the wireless mouse includes a cover member, a carrier and a carrier door. The cover member includes a receiving portion therein. The carrier is disposed in the... Agent: Apex Juris, Pllc

20080192010 - Tilt wheel type mouse: The present invention relates to a tilt wheel type mouse. The tilt wheel type mouse includes a tiltable scroll wheel, a switch button and a switching program. Under execution of the switching program, a frame shown on a computer screen is backward to the previous page or forward to the... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080192012 - Input device: An input device constructed in a carrier electronic apparatus comprises a letter button module and a number button module. The letter button module has a plurality of letter buttons to represent different letters respectively, and the number button module has a plurality of number buttons to represent different numbers respectively.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192017 - Automatic projection calibration: The present invention is a whiteboard method and system (100) having automated projection calibration that does not require user interaction. The method and system are accomplished by placing sensors (302) beneath a target surface and projecting a projected pattern to discover a geometric correspondence between the target surface and the... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080192018 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sensing units formed in row and column directions in the display panel, each of the sensing units generating a first sense data signal based on a contact on the display panel, a sense signal processor... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080192015 - Enhanced triangulation: Apparatus for information input to a computing device including imaging sensors arranged to simultaneously view an input region and enhanced triangulation signal processing circuitry receiving signal outputs from two of the imaging sensors, which signal outputs contain information indicating an angular position of an object relative to each of the... Agent: Klony Lieberman Lumio Inc.

20080192019 - Method of controlling touch pad in mobile communication terminal and mobile communication terminal thereof: A method of controlling a touch pad in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes first controlling a display device to enter into an ON state, a touch pad light to enter into an ON state and the touch pad to enter into an active state, second controlling the display... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192020 - Method of displaying information by using touch input in mobile terminal: A method of displaying information in a mobile terminal having a touch screen is provided. The method includes determining whether a touch input is generated by a touch screen, determining whether a touch area moves, calculating a movement direction of the touch area by extracting a value of the touch... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080192021 - Onscreen function execution method for mobile terminal having a touchscreen: An onscreen function execution method for a mobile terminal having a touchscreen is provided. The method allows for executing functions of an activated application by a tap on a specific area of the touchscreen. An onscreen function execution method of the present invention includes mapping active regions of the touchscreen... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080192024 - Operator distinguishing device: An operator distinguishing device has a display part, an operation part provided in a touch panel arranged in front of the display part, and a control part. The touch panel has a plurality of electrodes for generating electrostatic capacity change when a hand of one of the operators approaches the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080192016 - Screen information edition device, method, and program, recording medium, and information processing terminal manufacturing method: A device including an information input unit; a display; a screen information master unit storing screen information shown on an information processing terminal with a touch panel and defining processing content of the information processing terminal according to the touch position on the screen; an image master unit storing image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192022 - Sensing device having automatic mode selection: A sensing device for interaction with a surface, said sensing device having automatic mode selection, said sensing device comprising: an image sensor for imaging the surface and generating image data; a motion sensor configured for determining one or more relative position changes of the sensing device; a processor configured for:... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080192023 - Setting operation support device for substrate processing apparatus, setting operation support method and storage medium having program stored therein: A setting operation support device includes an operation target object among components constituting a substrate processing apparatus, an operation setting of which can be selected, a simulator that simulates an operation of the operation target object, a touch-panel type operator operation display unit and a touch-panel type simulation operation display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080192013 - Thin multiple layer input/output device: A multilayer input/output device with a low power and a high resolution display suitable for use in paper-like computing includes a first display layer, a second display layer, an input layer and control logic. The first display layer is a low power display. The second display layer is a fast,... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080192025 - Touch input devices for display/sensor screen: A method and apparatus used in conjunction with a combined display/sensing screen (DSS) includes a transparent outer layer overtop of the sensing screen. A plurality of IR emitters inject IR light edgewise into the outer layer, where it undergoes total internal reflection. Touch input devices have reflective pads on them... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20080192014 - Touch screen using carbon nanotube electrodes: A touch screen substrate assembly includes a substrate having a surface at least partially coated with an electrically conductive material to provide an electrically conductive touch area on the surface. At least one electrode is disposed over the substrate adjacent the touch area. The electrode is positioned over the substrate... Agent: Marguerite E. Gerstner Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080192026 - Methods and systems for changing the appearance of a position sensor with a light effect: Systems and methods for detecting a position of an object in a sensing region are disclosed. One system includes a position sensor having an opaque capacitive proximity sensor, a light source, and a light conductor coupled to the light source and at least partially disposed over the opaque sensor, the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (syna)

20080192027 - Interactive window display: A method and system for providing an enhanced window shopping and retail information exchange with shoppers, includes acoustic sensing in connection with one or more storefront windows of a retail store, and a corresponding transparent display located within the store and visible through the storefront window, the interior of the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080192028 - Electronic pen, and control device and method thereof: A control device is used in a method for controlling the pen based on an analog measuring signal from the force sensor by a processor comparing the analog measuring signal with a fixed reference signal and, based on the comparison, selectively initiating conversion of the analog measuring signal into a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080192031 - Apparatus and method for driving display panel: An apparatus for driving a display panel includes a timing control part, a line memory part, a frame memory part and an image compensation part. The timing control part receives a horizontal synchronizing signal from an external system via a CPU interface process. The line memory part stores an image... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080192032 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus and a method of driving the same that can prevent erroneous operation by compensating for the delay of a gate turn-on signal. A signal detector generates a delay control signal according to an internal clock signal and the gate turn-on signal. The signal detector detects whether the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080192034 - Display device and method for adjusting display response time: A method for adjusting display response time includes: a) providing an overdrive table; b) determining a response time setting status; c) changing the overdrive table according to the response time setting status; d) receiving video data; and e) with reference to the video data, looking up the overdrive table changed... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick Llc

20080192035 - Liquid crystal display having an initialization ic and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes an LCD panel (210), a driving integrated circuit (IC) (220) provided with the LCD panel and configured for driving the LCD panel to display image, and an initialization IC (240) provided with the LCD panel and configured for initializing the driving IC at... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080192029 - Passive circuits for de-multiplexing display inputs: A display array which can reduce the row connections between the display and the driver circuit and methods of manufacturing and operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display device comprises an array of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) display elements and a plurality of passive impedance network circuits coupled... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20080192036 - Pixels, display devices utilizing same, and pixel driving methods: A pixel including a light-emitting element, a driving transistor, a maintain capacitor, a switch device, and a control device. The driving transistor is serially coupled to the light-emitting element for driving the light-emitting element to emit light and has a threshold voltage and a gate connected to a point. A... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080192030 - Serial data transmission method and related apparatus for display device: In order to mitigate signal reflections in a transmission interface of a display device, the present invention provides a serial transmission method for embedding data and non-data signals into transmission lines for a display device. The serial transmission method includes: obtaining a plurality of data transmission modes of the display... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080192033 - System, method of controlling system and apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a system comprises a display having a display area for displaying an image corresponding to image data signals applied thereto, the display being capable of maintaining the image to be displayed after termination of application of the image data signals, an area designation... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080192037 - Display device: The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel and an integration chip. The first display panel includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels having a switching element, and a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines respectively connected... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080192038 - Display panel: A display panel including a substrate, several data driving circuits, at least one first scan driving circuit and at least one second scan driving circuit is provided. The substrate has a display region and at least one non-display region adjacent to the display region. The non-display region has at least... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080192039 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (2) includes a liquid crystal panel (20) and a data driving circuit (212). The liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate (22), a second substrate (23) parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer (24) interposed between the first and second substrates, and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080192040 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including an address electrode, and a data drive integrated circuit. The data drive integrated circuit receives a data voltage output by a data energy recovery circuit and a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080192042 - Circuit for generating driving voltages, display device using the same, and method of generating driving voltages: The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a circuit for generating driving voltages, a liquid crystal display, and a method of generating driving voltages having advantages that a plurality of driving voltages are not reduced so that desired grays are displayed and the contrast ratio is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080192041 - Liquid crystal display for multi-scanning and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a system circuit, a source driver, a gate driver, and a plurality of pixel units. The system circuit is used for generating a first scan line clock signal, a second scan line clock signal, a first scan line control signal, and a second scan line... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080192046 - Box casting using an integrated acceleration data structure: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to reduce the number of intersection tests required to determine if an object moving within a three-dimensional scene collides with any other objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a physics engine may cast a velocity box into the scene and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192044 - Deferred acceleration data structure optimization for improved performance: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to defer the optimization an acceleration data structure (e.g., a kd-tree) in response to movements of objects within a three-dimensional scene. According to one embodiment of the invention, an image processing system may determine portions of an acceleration data structure affected by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192043 - Display, displaying method, information recording medium, and program: In a display (201) suitable for presenting a virtual three-dimensional space to an observer in an easy-to-understand manner by three-dimensional graphics display even in a case where the area occupied by an object in the screen increases, a projecting unit (202) projects, onto a first projection plane, the appearance of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080192047 - Dynamically load balancing game physics using real-time object scaling: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for dynamically varying a physics workload by scaling the classification of objects within a three-dimensional scene. According to embodiments of the invention, a physics engine may classify a plurality of objects within a three-dimensional scene as either static objects or as dynamic objects.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192045 - Holographic information display: In a holographic heads-up display, a first set of data and a second set of data are provided. A three-dimensional image or scenery displaying the first set of data in a first layer and the second set of data in a second layer are created. The first layer is separated... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c.

20080192048 - Virtual sightseeing tm system for the visualization of information superimposed upon real images: The invention is a visualization system of information superimposed upon a real image to be used, for example, in sightseeing locations. It includes a mechanism that measures the position and orientation of the system, a system that captures real images, typically, a video camera (11), a coin collection system (06),... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080192049 - Image deformation using physical models: A method for deforming an image using a physical model includes inputting the image, discretizing the image into a grid, applying forces to the grid upon receiving an input command for dragging the grid, updating a mesh deformation of the grid according to the forces, and wrapping the image according... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080192050 - Efficient and flexible data organization for acceleration data structure nodes: Embodiments of the invention provide an efficient and flexible organization of data for an acceleration data structure (e.g., spatial index). In contrast to storing primitive information within a spatial index, embodiments of the invention may store pointers in the spatial index which point to or link to primitive-defining information in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192051 - Expanding empty nodes in an acceleration data structure: Embodiments of the invention may update an ADS (e.g., spatial index) when an object moves into an empty bounding volume by partitioning the empty bounding volume and adding corresponding nodes to an ADS. The added nodes may be branched to from an empty leaf node which corresponds to the empty... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192052 - Computer processing of multi-dimensional data: The present invention relates to a solution for processing source data into target data. The source data is here divided into a number data blocks (B1r0, B2r1, B3r2) B4r3) each block representing an information space having at least two dimensions. The blocks (B1r0, B2r1, B3r2, B4r3) are delimited by a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080192054 - Combined spatial index for static and dynamic objects within a three-dimensional scene: Embodiments of the invention create links or branches from a static spatial index which partitions a three-dimensional scene based on the position of static objects to a dynamic object spatial index which partitions a three-dimensional scene based on the position of dynamic objects in a three-dimensional scene. By branching from... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080192053 - Transforming offline maps into interactive online maps: A system is disclosed that transforms offline maps into interactive online maps. In the system, geo-coordinate relationships are determined between geo-coordinates on a source map and geo-coordinates on an online reference map. An image of the source map is transformed to form an image of a modified source map having... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080192055 - Digital image displays: A digital display includes a processor and memory, for displaying an image, the image having a range of brightness, the image being composed of a plurality of binary bit plane images displayed for varying amounts of time and in a sequence, the time and sequence of the bit plane images'... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080192056 - Animated transitions for data visualization: A “Charting Animator” enhances computer-based charting/graphing systems by rendering dynamic animations of chart displays. In general, when a user changes from one chart type to another, adds new data to a chart, or changes, sorts or deletes data, a new chart is generated to replace the old chart. Conventional charting... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080192057 - Geometry primitive type conversion in a gpu pipeline: An input stream of graphics primitives may be converted into to a predetermined output stream of graphics primitives by a processor in a graphics pipeline. The processor recognizes a predetermined sequence pattern in the input stream of graphics primitives to the processor. The processor determines whether the recognized sequence pattern... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080192058 - Scene generating method and system of mobile game: A scene generating method and system of mobile game. The scene generating method of mobile game generates scenes by the scene generating system of mobile game; the system includes at least a scene designing module and a scene storage module. The scene generating method of mobile game includes: setting primitive... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080192059 - Multi-user display: The sharing of data via a multi-user data sharing display device is described. One disclosed embodiment comprises a body, a display disposed on the body, a first data input disposed on the body, and a second input disposed on the body. The device also comprises a controller configured to divide... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080192060 - Image converting apparatus and image converting method: An image converter converts an image rendered at a given vertical synchronous frequency into an image compatible with the specification of a display. A frame memory holds the image converted by the image converter by switching a plurality of buffers. A display controller selects one of the buffers in accordance... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080192061 - System for response speed compensation in liquid crystal display using embedded memory device and method of controlling frame data of image: Provided are a system for compensating response speed and a method of controlling frame data of an image. The system includes: a circuit for compensating response speed; an internal frame memory that comprises N sub frame memories formed in a single chip with the circuit for compensating response speed, wherein... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080192062 - Method and apparatus for painting group of objects: Methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for processing digital artwork. In one aspect, the techniques process aggregations of artwork where both the aggregation and at least some of the aggregated artwork have attached styles. The techniques handle various combinations of conditions resulting in applying style elements to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080192064 - Image apparatus with image noise compensation: An image apparatus (10) for providing an adjusted image (242) of a scene (236) includes a capturing system (16) and a control system (24). The capturing system (16) captures an underexposed first frame (240) that is defined by a plurality of pixels (240A), including a first pixel and a second... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20080192063 - Managing multiple contexts in a decentralized graphics processing unit: Provided is a system for managing multiple contexts in a decentralized graphics processing unit. The system includes multiple control units that can include a context buffer, a context processor, and a context scheduler. Also included is logic to receive multiple contexts, logic to identify at least one of the contexts,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080192065 - Mechanism to mitigate color breakup artifacts in field sequential color display systems: A mechanism for mitigating undesired color image breakup artifacts arising in display systems that exploit the principle of field sequential color generation. By suitably reducing the time interval during which image information strikes the moving retina, such that the differential position for the respective red, green, and blue components of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080192066 - Raster operation table conversion for color spaces: A conversion table includes a conversion index number corresponding to a logical operation identified in a raster table. The conversion index number provided in the conversion table is mapped from a reference index number provided in the raster table, wherein the reference index number is associated with a raster image... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP/sharp

20080192067 - Depth perception: A rendering unit (300) for rendering an output image (102) comprising output pixels, on basis of an input image (100) comprising input pixels and on basis of depth related data elements corresponding to the respective input pixels is disclosed. The rendering unit (300) comprises: a shift computing unit (302) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080192068 - Computer system with digital micromirror device: Algorithms stored on one or more computer readable medium for interfacing an imaging display with an electronic-ink generating system are described. The algorithms includes instructions for capturing an electronic-ink image, instructions for converting the electronic ink image into control instructions for controlling an electromechanical aspect of the imaging display, and,... Agent: Dunlap Codding & Rogers, P.c.

20080192069 - Data analysis: The invention provides a charting method in which a plurality of segments of a data series are selected and plotted on a chart, the segments being overlaid on one another on the chart. The segments to be plotted can be selected using one or more filters.... Agent: Stites & Harbison Pllc

20080192070 - Manipulating objects displayed on a display screen: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080192071 - Automatic formation of groups of channels: A method of automatically grouping channels for display uses a pair of multipurpose knobs, one assigned for selection and the other assigned for movement. A channel or a grouping of channels that forms a “virtual group” may be selected from a menu or from a display by the selection knob.... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080192072 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and driving method for same is disclosed. The liquid crystal display device included: a plurality of pixel cells formed at pixel regions defined by crossings of a plurality of gate and data lines on a substrate, each pixel cell for displaying one of three... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080186252 - Method and apparatus for eliminating seam between adjoined screens: A method for eliminating a seam between adjoined screens includes step A: acquiring an original image and adapting the acquired image to an image translation in subsequent step B; step B: translating the acquired image toward the position of the seam; and step C: reverting the translated image to the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080186253 - Display apparatus and image output method thereof: A display apparatus includes: a display unit; an image processor which includes a plurality of scalers to process an image signal; an output unit which outputs an image according to the processed image signal to an external display apparatus; and a controller which controls the plurality of scalers to independently... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080186254 - Portable heads-up display system for cellular telephones: A portable heads-up display system for a cellular telephone. The display system includes a transparent, flexible display panel removably affixable to a windshield of a vehicle, a keypad for entering cellular telephone numbers to be dialed, and a keypad box, coupled between the cellular telephone and the display. The display... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080186255 - Systems and methods for data annotation, recordation, and communication: Systems, devices, and methods to provide tools enhance the tactical or strategic situation awareness of on-scene and remotely located personnel involved with the surveillance of a region-of-interest using field-of-view sensory augmentation tools. The sensory augmentation tools provide updated, visual, text, audio, and graphic information associated with the region-of-interest adjusted for... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080186256 - Security television simulator: Method and apparatus for simulating an operating television for the purpose of deterring potential intruders by providing the appearance that one or more occupants are at home. Realistic simulation of a television is accomplished via perceived random combinations, amplitudes, colors, and durations of television program scene modes, these scene modes... Agent: Blaine C. Readler

20080186257 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A method of driving (a plasma display device having a first electrode and a second electrode, a frame for display being divided into a plurality of subfields) includes: determining a number of sustain discharge pulses to be allocated to the subfields, respectively; and applying to the first electrode or the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080186259 - Display device and electronic paper: A display device for an active matrix drive includes a plurality of pixels each having display retainability and including a first sub-pixel through an nth sub-pixel (n is a natural number greater than 1), a selection switching element provided correspondingly to each of the sub-pixels, connected to a data line,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080186258 - Display device and method of displaying image: A display device includes a controller detecting a black line, in which all light emitting diodes in one line are non-luminescence, counting a number of times (S) that display data indicating the black line is sent to the display panel in serial, halting a scanning operation to the display data... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080186260 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device including: an optical sensor for generating an optical sensor signal corresponding to brightness of ambient light; a first luminance control unit for generating a pulse width (EW1) of a brightness control signal in accordance with the optical sensor signal; a second luminance control unit... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186261 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device including: an optical sensor for generating an optical sensor signal corresponding to brightness of ambient light; a first luminance control unit for generating a pulse width (EW1) of a brightness control signal in accordance with the optical sensor signal (Ssel) and supplying a selection... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186262 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines, light emission control lines and data lines; a scan driver electrically connected to the display area through the scan lines and light emission control lines; a data driver electrically connected to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186263 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device includes a display area including pixels coupled to scan, light emission control, and data lines; a scan driver electrically coupled to the display area through the scan and light emission control lines; a data driver electrically coupled to the display area through the data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186264 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device includes: a display area including a plurality of pixels coupled to scan, light emission control, and data lines; a scan driver electrically coupled to the display area through the scan lines and the light emission control lines; a data driver electrically coupled to the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186265 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display device including: an optical sensor for generating an optical sensor signal corresponding to brightness of ambient light; a first luminance control unit for providing a first luminance control signal (Vc1) for controlling a pulse width of a light emission control signal in accordance with the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080186267 - Display device: A display panel is scanned every two lines during a period of binary writing area in the first half of one frame period in partial display (or in small gradation display) and a steady-state current of an output amplifier for buffering gradation signals supplied to the display panel in a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080186266 - Display driver ic having embedded memory: A display driver IC for controlling display of an image on a display panel is provided with a memory and a switch circuit. The memory, in which digital data corresponding to the image is stored, operates with a first voltage. The switch circuit turns ON and OFF supply of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080186268 - Liquid display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a group of first signal lines ( . . . , Sm−1, Sm, Sm+1, . . . ) arranged in parallel, a group of second signal lines ( . . . , Gn−1, Gn, Gn+1, . . . ) and a group of auxiliary... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080186269 - Method and related apparatus for driving pixels located in a row of an lcd panel toward the same average voltage value: A driving device for driving a flat panel display apparatus is disclosed. The driving device includes a first driving unit, a second driving unit, a third driving unit, wherein the second driving unit is deposited between the first driving unit and the third driving unit, and a fourth driving unit,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080186270 - Source driver circuit and display panel incorporating the same: A source driver circuit includes several sampling-transmitting units each including a first sub-latch unit, a second sub-latch unit and a transmission channel set. In a first period, the first sub-latch unit samples first pixel data. In a second period, the second sub-latch unit samples second pixel data. The transmission channel... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080186271 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display having an improved pixel aperture ratio includes vertical scan lines disposed between adjacent pixels, video signal lines disposed between adjacent pixels, and sub-capacitor lines disposed between adjacent pixels while regularly and repeatedly crossing the vertical scan lines.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080186272 - Backlit display and backlight system thereof: A backlight system for a backlit display, the system comprising a plurality of backlight units corresponding to an adjacent region of a backlit display, each unit having at least one light emission source; and a controller for individually controlling each backlight unit to vary at least one light characteristic of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080186273 - Illumination module: The invention relates to an illumination module (1) comprising a plurality of light sources (2) distributed over a light guiding plate (3) accommodating said light sources and capable of guiding light of said light sources through at least a portion of said plate. The light guiding plate has one or... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186274 - Method for selecting digital files and apparatus thereof: A method for selecting digital files and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. In the present invention, a selection path is constructed by a user, and all digital files are selected according to the selection path. The construction of the selection path is achieved by using only one input interface, thus... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080186275 - Human-computer interface including efficient three-dimensional controls: The present invention provides a method of human-computer interfacing that provides efficient implementation of intuitive controls in a three-dimensional space. The method comprises providing a three-dimensional space, characterized by x and y dimensions, together defining a plane approximately orthogonal to the user's direction of view into the space. A z... Agent: V. Gerald Grafe

20080186276 - Evaluation of visual content usage: A method may include determining a plurality of sets of interaction events, each set of interaction events associated with a use of a user interface. Determining common interaction events among the sets. Determining a common interaction path including an ordered sequence of the common interaction events. Providing a simulation associated... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080186279 - Aee (articulated, elevated, ergonomic) computer mouse: An ergonomic computer mouse whose design and function is solely dedicated to ergonomic benefit and optimal operator comfort for improved operator efficiency and avoided injury. The ergonomically formed mouse body is elevated from a base structure via a short pedestal where the ball-socket interface to the mouse body allows for... Agent: Phillip Francois Van Dalen

20080186277 - Computer mouse with a sliding cover: A computer mouse includes a sliding cover and a control platform. The sliding cover is disposed on the top surface of the computer mouse, and the control platform is disposed under the sliding cover. Several control keys are provided on the control platform. Two rails are provided on the sliding... Agent: Hdsl

20080186278 - Mouse capable of measuring vital signs of a user manipulating same: A system includes a mouse pad, a mouse including a display, a circuitry including a display circuit, a first amplification circuit, an inflation control circuit, a control IC, an ADC, and a second amplification circuit, a first measurement device, and a second measurement device; and a band assembly including a... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080186280 - Mouse apparatus and computer system having same: A mouse apparatus configured for concurrently controlling a cursor displayed on a display screen connected to a host unit of an information technology system includes: a light pointer emitting invisible light in a predetermined wavelength range toward the display screen and forming an invisible light spot thereon, a selectively reflective... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080186286 - Data input device, image processing device, data input method and computer readable recording medium on which data input program is recorded: A method for displaying a plurality of key icons on a display includes displaying a first screen on the display, the first screen having at least one first key icon and a plurality of second key icons, wherein the first key icon corresponds to a first input instruction while each... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080186281 - Device having display buttons and display method and medium for the device: A display method performed in a device having a plurality of buttons includes sensing a touch to the device, and displaying a plurality of images on the plurality of buttons based on length of time of the sensed touch. Accordingly, the convenience to a user when operating the buttons increases.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080186284 - Dual-mode touch input apparatus and mode-switching method for the same: A dual-mode touch input apparatus, mounted in an electronic apparatus and capable of arbitrarily switching around a 1-D input mode and a 2-D input mode, comprises a touch pad, a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) and a control chip. The FPCB is used for detecting a position of a user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080186282 - Method for attributing equipment operation to a specific operator: A system, apparatus, and method are provided for controlling equipment operable by a plurality of operators. A control state evaluation device is configured to evaluate a control state of an equipment control. A signal detection device is configured to detect if a signal associated with an operator of the equipment... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080186283 - Mobile communication device capable of providing candidate phone number list and method of controlling operation of the mobile communication device: A mobile communication device capable of providing a candidate phone number list and a method of controlling an operation of the mobile communication device is provided. The method includes displaying a phone number input window and a display window on the touch screen, displaying a string of numbers input to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080186285 - Mobile equipment with display function: A piece of mobile equipment has a display processor that displays an image and at least one icon on a screen, and a touch-sensitive device disposed on said screen. The display processor displays input information in accordance with an input operation to said touch-sensitive device, and removes the icon on... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080186288 - Liquid crystal display panel and method for manufacturing the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) panel includes a touch spacer formed in a first substrate, a common electrode formed to cover the touch spacer, a first touch conductive line formed in a first direction in a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a second touch conductive line formed in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080186287 - User input device: A user input device for an electronic apparatus including a roller and a sensor system. The roller is adapted to be axially rotated by a user. The roller comprises an elongate longitudinal length. The sensor system is adapted to sense a position of the finger of the user relative to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080186289 - Image display device: An image display device includes: a source wiring; a first gate wiring intersecting the source wiring to scan a first pixel electrode corresponding to a first scanning period; a second gate wiring adjacent to the first gate wiring to scan a second pixel electrode corresponding to a second scanning period... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186290 - Apparatus and method to eliminate the power-off image noise of a flat panel display: An apparatus to eliminate the power-off image noise of a flat panel display has a reset circuit and a switching device. The reset circuit asserts a switch signal when the flat panel display is turned off. The switching device decouples a source driver from several latch signals generated by a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080186291 - Display device: The present invention is to prevent a capture error of display data caused by a delay due to a built-in driving circuit in a display device with a built-in driving circuit. The display device comprises: a display area having a plurality of sub pixels; and a driving circuit formed at... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080186292 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display device having the same, and method of operating a timing controller: In a timing controller and a liquid crystal display device having the same, the timing controller includes a line memory block receiving and storing pixel data received at a first data transfer frequency, and outputting the stored pixel data at a second data transfer frequency. A control unit, which is... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080186293 - Display device including wiring board: A display device includes a display panel including a display area, a first driving IC chip and a second driving IC chip, which are disposed with an interval along an end edge of the display panel, a cascade wiring line which connects the first driving IC chip and the second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080186294 - Method and apparatus for controlling backlight in display device: A method and circuit for controlling the brightness of a backlight in a display device. The circuit comprises a backlight brightness selecting block that measures the brightness of ambient light and selects brightness information of the backlight based on the measured brightness of the ambient light. An image processing block... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080186295 - Data driver and flat panel display using the same: Disclosed is a data driver including a holding latch and a digital-analog converter. The data driver includes a holding latch for storing data and for generating a counting signal corresponding to the value of the stored data. A digital-analog converter receives ramp pulses from an external apparatus, and controls supply... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080186296 - Electro-optical device, driving method, and electronic apparatus: A method of driving the electro-optical device includes selecting a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order in each of first and second fields of one frame; when one of the plurality of scanning lines is selected in the first field, for each pixel located on the selected scanning... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080186298 - Display apparatus: m

20080186299 - Display device: A display device mounts a video line drive circuit on a lateral side of a display panel while reducing a vertical picture frame size of the display panel. A display device includes: a display panel having a plurality of video lines; and a video line drive circuit which supplies a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080186300 - Image forming apparatus having an energy-saving display: An image forming apparatus includes an operating unit including a flat panel display that displays information for a user. The flat panel display maintains displaying displayed information even after power for driving the flat panel display is shut off.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186301 - Organic light emitting diode display device and method of aging the same: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for aging the organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device. The OLED display device is constructed with an organic light emitting diode, a scan line for applying a scan signal, a data line for applying a data signal, a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080186297 - 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.

20080186304 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same: In a display apparatus, pixels are arranged in a matrix defined by gate lines and data lines, and each pixel includes a first sub pixel charged to a first pixel voltage and a second sub pixel charged to a second pixel voltage having a same voltage level as the first... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080186303 - Display driver ic having embedded dram: A display driver IC for controlling display of an image on a display panel is provided with a DRAM, a power supply circuit and a driver circuit. Digital data corresponding to the image is stored in the DRAM. The power supply circuit generates a predetermined voltage. The driver circuit converts... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080186302 - Display with charge function and display controller thereof: A display with charge function and a display controller thereof are provided. The display provided by the present invention includes a display controller and a charge base, wherein the display controller is built-in in the display, and includes a voltage output unit and a voltage detecting/regulating unit. The voltage output... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080186307 - Method and a protocol for describing procedural content for games: A method for producing procedural content for games having a plurality of nodes. The method includes defining a layer of abstraction in the form the plurality of nodes in a root-parent-child tree for creating a fluid data structure that can be interpreted at build time by predefined parameters. The method... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20080186306 - Procedure for rendering images in real time of three-dimensional models of items of jewelry: Procedure for rendering images in real time of three-dimensional models of items of jewellery Procedure for rendering images in real time of three-dimensional models of items of jewellery comprising at least one transparent or translucent stone having facets, which procedure comprises the steps consisting in determining a reference point in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080186309 - Techniques for representing 3d scenes using fixed point data: A quantization transform, corresponding to a geometric object, is determined. The geometric object represents at least a portion of an object in a three-dimensional scene. The quantization transform is suitable for converting a floating point space to a fixed point space, where the floating point space contains floating point data... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080186305 - Techniques for representing and navigating information in three dimensions: Techniques for representing and navigating information in three dimensions are provided. Information content is rendered to at least one side of a three-dimensional representation of a graphical shape. Summary information is link to the information from a top of the shape. The information also links to background information housed on... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080186308 - Three-dimensional image display system: Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional image display system, including: a multi-parallax image reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce two-dimensional images, which include a plurality of parallax images within one frame, at a first frame rate; and a three-dimensional display apparatus configured to carry out multi-parallax stereoscopic moving picture display at a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080186311 - Method and system for three-dimensional imaging in a non-calibrated geometry: A technique is provided for three-dimensional imaging in a non-calibrated geometry. In one embodiment, the technique includes acquiring a plurality of projection images through an imaging volume; estimating an imaging geometry using at least one of fiducial markers or anatomical features represented in the projection images; and reconstructing a configurable... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080186312 - Method, medium and apparatus detecting model collisions: A method, medium and apparatus determining whether models collide with each other. In the model collision detecting method, medium and apparatus, it is possible to quickly examine whether models collide, and to recognize the collision generated at an arbitrary time, which is not a predetermined collision check time of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080186310 - Transforming a polygonized object into an implicit-function representation: An image processing method using a computer includes extracting vertex coordinates (S13) of a triangular-shaped polygon, setting a region (S14) surrounding the triangular-shaped polygon (TP) on the basis of the vertex coordinates, measuring a distance (S15) from a lattice point included in the region to the triangular-shaped polygon (TP), and... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080186313 - Method and apparatus for high-speed image processing based on graphic processing unit: A method for high-speed image processing based on graphic processing unit includes processing an input image for the image processing in a texture format of a 32 bit floating point, and performing a predetermined algorithm for the image processing on the input image through at least one or more Framebuffer... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080186314 - Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, recording medium storing image processing program, and image display device: An image processing device outputs four-color image data to a display section, the display section performing display using display pixels each composed of four sub-pixels, and having an arrangement of the display pixels in which a pixel arrangement in an even line of a scan lines and a pixel arrangement... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080186315 - Method and system for providing sound information to a user:

20080186316 - Minimized table lookup: A system for providing data from a lookup table more efficiently includes a video processing engine which provides a pixel address as an output signal. A leading zero detector receives the pixel address and determines the number of leading zeros in the pixel address. Based on the number of leading... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080186317 - Image processing device, method and program: There is provided an image processing device for controlling a display device to display a plurality of unit images making up a moving image at predetermined intervals, the image processing device including: 4×N (N: an arbitrary integer) quadrant memories; a separation section; a memory output control section; an assignment section;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080186318 - Memory management for systems for generating 3-dimensional computer images: Memory management system and method for use with systems for generating 3-dimensional computer generated images. The system includes a) means for subdividing the image into rectangular areas, b) a memory having a first portion(s) for storing object data for each rectangular area and a second portion(s) for storing depth data... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080186319 - Dynamically activated frame buffer: Methods and systems for storing or not storing images in a frame buffer during the provision of images to a screen. In one embodiment, the selective usage of the frame buffer may lead to a reduction in power consumption.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080186320 - Arrangement, method and computer program product for displaying a sequence of digital images: An arrangement for displaying a sequence of digital images is described, including a chip with a first memory for storing an increment image which can be combined with a first digital image in such a way that a second digital image arises, an off-chip second memory for storing the first... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080186321 - System on chip including an image processing memory with multiple access: A system on chip (Soc) includes a system bus, a plurality of sub-systems, an image processing logic block, an image memory interface and an image processing memory block. The sub-systems are respectively connected to the system bus. The image processing logic block is connected to the system bus. The image... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080186323 - Converting a three-primary input color signal into an n-primary color drive signal: A method of converting a three-primary input color signal (IS) comprising three input components (R, G, B) per input sample into an N-primary color drive signal (DS) comprising N≧4 drive components (D1, . . . , DN) per output sample for driving N sub-pixels (SP1, . . . , SPN)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186322 - Luminance adjustment in a display unit: A method and system for adjusting luminance in a display device. The method includes displaying (304) an image with saturated colors. The method further includes adjusting (310) the luminance settings of sub-pixels so that a relative luminance ratio between full white color and any fully saturated color is within approximately... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080186324 - Method for generating a frame stream to be displayed on a display device: A method of dark frame insertion for improving a display device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a gray level data stream, generating a first brightness data stream according to a first gamma curve, generating a second brightness data stream according to a second gamma curve, sequentially inserting the second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080186325 - Pre-subpixel rendered image processing in display systems: Display systems and image processing methods process pre-subpixel rendered images embedded in input color image data. The display systems include a pre-subpixel rendered (P-SPR) image detector that detects locations of a marking code that marks the portion of the input data that has been pre-subpixel rendered and which is ready... Agent: Clairvoyante, Inc.

20080186326 - Image interpolation method: An image interpolation method is provided, including the steps of detecting a color value of each pixel provided in a pixel array; calculating R/G/B (red/green/blue) color values of a central pixel aligned at a center of a unit block provided in the pixel array; calculating R/G/B standard deviations based on... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080186327 - Converting a three primary color input signal into four signals: A method of converting a three primary color input signal comprises a first, a second, and a third input signal (C1, C2, C3) into a four primary color drive signal comprising a first, second, third, and fourth drive signal (P1, P2, P3, P4) for driving four primary colors of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080186328 - Color conversion device, color conversion method, color conversion program, recording medium recording color conversion program, image processing device, and image display device: A color conversion device that color-converts colors of input image data into colors used in a display unit for displaying images using at least white includes: a ratio calculating unit that calculates a lightness ratio and a saturation ratio between a color reproduction range in the standard color space and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080186329 - Full-scene anti-aliasing method and system: A method and system for performing full-scene anti-aliasing for an image through a technique of rotating and unrotating rasterization of a scene and rendering a resulting image. A scene is rasterized at a first angle relative to a first coordinate system to generate a plurality of pixels, which are then... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080186331 - Automatic 3d modeling system and method: An automatic 3D modeling system and method are described in which a 3D model may be generated from a picture or other image. For example, a 3D model for a face of a person may be automatically generated. The system and method also permits gestures/behaviors associated with a 3D model... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080186330 - Three dimensional virtual rendering of a live event: A method is disclosed for three-dimensional rendering of a live event such as an automobile race over a client device such as a personal computer. Moving and stationary objects at the event may be rendered using computer-generated graphics of the moving and stationary objects and real time positional data giving... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080186332 - Apparatus and method for providing wallpaper: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing a wallpaper. To this end, a current state of a mobile terminal is detected, particle images and fluid image reflecting the detected current state of the mobile terminal are generated, and the generated particles and the generated fluid are displayed on... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080186333 - Image rotation with substantially no aliasing error: A system, method and program product for rotating a first image in an image buffer such that the resulting, rotated image is substantially free of an aliasing error, i.e., broken lines, stair stepped edges, etc., is disclosed. An algorithm is applied to the first image that uses weighted sums of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080186335 - Display driver ic having embedded dram: A display driver IC for controlling display of an image on a display panel is provided with a DRAM and a driver circuit. The DRAM has a plurality of memory cells and stores digital data corresponding to the image. The driver circuit converts the digital data into a gray-scale voltage... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080186334 - Field sequential display of color images: A color display has a monochrome modulator. An active area of the modulator is illuminated by an array of light sources. The light sources include light sources of three or more colors. The intensities of the light sources may be adjusted to project desired luminance patterns on an active area... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station