Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 09/08

20080231544 - System and method for automated audio visual system control: A system and method are provided for automating control of a plurality of video displays coupled to a plurality of video sources through a switchable network. The method includes the operation of mapping a signal path for each signal between the plurality of video sources and the plurality of video... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080231545 - Video picture management equipment and method for video picture management: A video picture management equipment includes a first display control module and a second display control module which are connected to each other. The first display control module displays first video data on first video window, and second video data on the first video window at the same time according... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080231546 - Multi-display system and method of automatically setting display mode: A multi-display system comprises a host, a main display, multiple second displays connectable to the host and multiple display detection units. The display detection units are adapted for detecting the statuses of the second displays and transferring detection signals to the host in real time. The host is adapted to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080231547 - Dual image display device: A dual image display device 1 according to an embodiment of the invention includes a crosstalk corrector 6 that corrects the grayscale of a sub pixel subject to correction based on the grayscale of an adjacent sub pixel. The crosstalk corrector 6 carries out corrections in K grayscale for N1... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231548 - 3d display device and 3d display method: A 3D display device, including a plurality of display means located in tandem on the same line of sight of an observer at a given distance; a control means which controls the plurality of display means to display an image obtained from the same object on almost the same screen... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080231549 - Display and control device therefor: The display (10) comprising a number of basic display elements arranged according to a plotting representing an alphanumeric character, and it is linked to transcoding circuits (2, 3) that, after receiving data representing a digit, furnish a specific set of individual commands for various basic display elements, whereby this furnished... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231550 - Display panel and fabrication method thereof: A display panel including a substrate and a plurality of chips is provided. The substrate has a display region and a non-display region disposed on one side of the display region. The non-display region has a plurality of pad regions, and each pad region has a plurality of first pins... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080231551 - Discharge display device: On a front substrate, a dielectric layer for accumulating the wall charge is formed, and inside the dielectric layer, a first electrode and a second electrode intersecting each other are formed with a predetermined pitch. The dielectric layer is not flat but is convex at the intersection of the first... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080231552 - Plasma display apparatus: In the plasma display apparatus, after a rising signal and a falling signal are applied to the scan electrodes, the first signal is applied before or after the scan signal is applied during the address period, thereby preventing a loss of wall charges and performing stable address discharges and sustain... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080231553 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel including an address electrode disposed on a first substrate, a pair of first and second display electrodes disposed on a second substrate and crossing the address electrode, a dielectric layer covering the first and second display electrodes on the second substrate,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080231554 - Electro-luminescence display: An electroluminescent display comprises a substrate with a plurality of pixel regions, wherein each pixel region has a first sub-pixel region, a second sub-pixel region, and a third sub-pixel region. Pluralities of first color light-emitting layers, second color light-emitting layers, and third color light-emitting layers are formed on the substrate.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080231555 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel including: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; X electrodes and Y electrodes extending in a first direction between the first substrate and the second substrate; third electrodes extending in a second direction between the first substrate and the second substrate; barrier ribs... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080231556 - Active matrix of an organic light-emitting diode display screen: p

20080231559 - Display apparatus and driving method therefor, and electronic device: After a sampling transistor is turned ON at a first timing when a control signal has risen, during a sampling period from a second timing when a video signal has risen from a reference potential to a signal potential to a third timing when the control signal has fallen and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080231560 - Display device: A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080231561 - Display device and manufacturing method thereof: A display device in which a light shielding film is formed so as not to increase the number of steps and its cost, is provided. The display device of the present invention includes a monitor element for controlling influence on a light-emitting element due to temperature change and change with... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20080231557 - Emission control in aged active matrix oled display using voltage ratio or current ratio: Compensation needed to be made for reduced light efficiency in aged sub-pixels of an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display are determined using a current ratio or a voltage ratio pertaining to an aged sub-pixel relative to un-aged, reference sub-pixels.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080231558 - Emission control in aged active matrix oled display using voltage ratio or current ratio with temperature compensation: Compensation needed to be made for reduced light efficiency in aged sub-pixels of an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display are determined using a current ratio or a voltage ratio pertaining to an aged sub-pixel relative to un-aged, reference sub-pixels. When the current through the sub-pixels or the voltage... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080231562 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display capable of displaying images of uniform luminance and a method for driving the display are disclosed. The display senses degradation of the organic light emitting diode and threshold and/or mobility of a drive transistor and modifies the data supplied to the pixel according to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080231563 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof capable of improving outdoor visibility by controlling the emission of the pixel. In one embodiment, the organic light emitting display includes an organic light emitting display panel; an emission control driver of the organic light emitting display panel; a sensor... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080231564 - Display apparatus and method for controlling the same: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a display function and a light-receiving/imaging function; a first image processing section configured to generate a detection signal that indicates whether a to-be-detected object has been detected based on a result of first image processing performed on an image... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080231565 - Light emitting display device and driving method thereof: A method of driving an organic light emitting display device includes: receiving an image signal by sub-field with respect to a single frame comprising the N number of sub-fields (N is a natural number greater than 2) from the exterior; dividing a single sub-field into an address period and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080231566 - Minimizing dark current in oled display using modified gamma network: The current drivers of an emissive display device such as an OLED display are shut off to have minimum drain current when sub-pixel current is measured, in order to minimize dark current during sub-pixel current measurement. The current drivers in the sub-pixels not under test are biased in such a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080231567 - True color flat panel display module: A full color flat panel display module is formed of a matrix of pixels in rows and columns. Each pixel is formed of respective red, green and blue solid state light emitting diodes that can form any color on that portion of a CIE curve that falls within a triangle... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080231570 - Display device: A display device includes a display module, a control module, and an elastic component. The display module includes a plurality of light emitting units. The control module is electrically connected to the display module, and the elastic component is connected to the display module. When the display module moves in... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080231568 - Efficient spatial modulator system: A spatial light modulator system includes an array of pixel cells each that includes two static random access memory (SRAM) devices configured to store digital data and output a first voltage signal in response to the digital data, a level shifter configured to receive the first voltage signal from at... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080231569 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit and electronic apparatus: Each of pixels 110 includes a pixel capacitor and a storage capacitor of which one end is connected to a pixel electrode and the other end is connected to each capacitive line 132. If first, second, third, . . . , 320th, and 321st scanning lines 112 are sequentially selected,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231571 - Color overdrive for color sequential matrix-type display devices: A method and apparatus for increasing the brightness of a color-sequential matrix display, in which the matrix display is addressed on a line-by-line basis, includes dividing a frame period of said matrix display into sub-fields corresponding to the number of light colors being used to sequentially illuminate said matrix display... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231572 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary LCD (20) includes a first substrate (21), a second substrate (22) parallel to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer (23) sandwiched between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a number of separated common electrodes (25). The second substrate includes a number of gate... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080231573 - Liquid crystal display device: A display device includes a TFT substrate with gate signal lines, drain signal lines, thin-film transistors connected thereto, a gate driver connected to the gate signal lines, a drain driver having output terminals connected to drain signal lines, and a film substrate having first wirings. The first wirings are disposed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080231574 - Light modulating display device using electrowetting effect: A light-modulating or display apparatus employs electrowetting effect to controllably modulate, directly or indirectly, the shape or location of one or more measures of liquid. In one embodiment, at least one measure of liquid obstructs the passage of at least some portion of light passing onto, through or reflected off... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080231575 - Liquid crystal panel and method for driving same: An exemplary liquid crystal panel (20) includes a plurality of scanning lines (23) that are parallel to each other, a plurality of data lines (24) that are parallel to each other and orthogonal to the scanning lines, at least one first data driving (221) circuit configured for proving a plurality... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080231577 - Displaying method: A displaying method for trans-flective type display device is provided. The pixel array of the display device has a selected pixel unit formed by three sub-pixels selected from three basic-color sub-pixels and one enhancement sub-pixel, wherein there is a reflective area within the enhancement sub-pixel. The displaying method includes the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080231576 - Pixel circuit and display apparatus as well as fabrication method for display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit including: at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal received by a control terminal; and a driving wiring line to which the drive signal is propagated, the control terminal of the transistor being connected to the driving wiring line.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080231584 - Active matrix type display device: In an active matrix type display device including two source line side drivers for driving a plurality of pixel TFTs, one gate line side driver, two line memories respectively including at least first and second memories, and a controller for controlling the first and second line memories, storing and transmitting... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080231582 - Display devce and gate driver thereof: A gate driver for driving a display device is disclosed. The gate driver, which includes: a first input buffer configured to for receiving a reference voltage and outputting a first buffered voltage, a control circuit configured to for outputting a plurality of scan starting signals and compensating starting signals, a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080231580 - Lcd device driven by pre-charge procedure: The LCD device driven by a pre-charge procedure includes a source driver for generating data signals, a gate driver for generating gate signals, a plurality of data lines for receiving data signals, a plurality of gate lines for receiving gate signals, a plurality of display units for displaying data signals,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080231581 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus enables image display with optimum quality corresponding to the genre of an image to be displayed. The liquid crystal display apparatus controls the emission luminance of a backlight according to the APL of an image signal measured at an APL measuring portion 14. Upon emission... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231578 - Lvds display system: A display system comprises a controller having a plurality of TTL inputs and a corresponding plurality of LVDS output pairs, the controller configured to receive display data comprising a first plurality of TTL signals at the plurality of TTL inputs, to convert each of the first plurality of TTL signals... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080231579 - Motion blur mitigation for liquid crystal displays: Visual quality of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is enhanced by combining black pixel insertion with response time correction (RTC) to mitigate motion blur. The black pixel insertion is performed during a portion of a current frame to establish a baseline for RTC in a next frame and therefore... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080231583 - Pixel array substrate: This present invention disclose a pixel array substrate comprising a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of active elements, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of first patterned floating lines, and a plurality of first patterned connecting wires. A plurality of pixel... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080231585 - Display apparatus of dynamic image and display method thereof: A display apparatus of a dynamic image and a display method thereof are provided. The display method includes the following steps. An image signal is received and then displayed through either a black insertion (BI) technology or a dynamic backlight luminance (DBL) technology according to image luminance. The image signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080231586 - Driving method or apparatus for flat panel display device: A driving circuit board for a flat panel display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second, opposite surface. A first timing controller is disposed on the first surface, and a second timing controller is disposed on the second surface of the substrate. At least one electrically... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080231587 - Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic apparatus: The invention relates to a display device that performs gradation display by means of a sub-field driving scheme. The display device according to an aspect of the invention has a display area in which a plurality of pixels is arrayed, where the display device controls an ON/OFF state for each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231588 - Avoiding image signal being interfered method and apparatus thereof: The present invention provides a method for preventing an image signal from being interfered with an operation signal of a light source in a display. The method comprises adjusting the frequency of the operation signal to generate an operation signal spectrum, wherein the operation signal spectrum and the image signal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080231591 - Display apparatus and method thereof: A display apparatus includes a backlight assembly, a first display panel assembly and a second display panel assembly. The backlight assembly includes a plurality of lamps disposed substantially parallel with each other. The backlight assembly emits first light through a first face and second light through a second face. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080231590 - Light guide plate and backlight assembly using the same: Disclosed herein are a light guide plate and a backlight assembly using the same, which may improve the uniformity of light using prism patterns having a trapezoidal shape. The light guide plate includes a body, a plurality of first projections, and a plurality of second projections. The body includes an... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080231589 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit, first, second and third light emitting diode drivers, a light-intensity detector, and an adaptive light-intensity compensator. The backlight unit includes first, second and third light emitting diode arrays respectively generating red... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080231592 - Electrophoretic display device: A display device (1) comprises electrophoretic particles (8,9) and an image screen comprising an array of display elements comprising a pixel electrode and a second electrode. The display device comprises control means (15) for supplying drive signals to the electrodes. In operation the image is displayed in subsequent frames. The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231593 - Electrophoretic display device: The electrophoretic display panel has an electrophoretic medium having charged particles, a plurality of picture elements, electrodes associated with each picture element for receiving a potential difference, and drive means. The drive means are arranged for controlling the potential difference of each of the plurality of picture elements to be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080231594 - Haptics transmission systems: A method of compensating for network latency in haptics transmission in which the position of a haptic effector is controlled by signals received from a network. The method comprises storing a series of locations of the haptic effector, determining from the series using Fourier Transformation or other means frequencies having... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080231595 - Remote control apparatus and method of interacting with a multimedia timeline user interface: Remote control devices and methods of interacting with a multimedia timeline user interface are disclosed. A remote control apparatus may include a first selector to make a selection of a graphical user interface associated with a multimedia timeline. The remote control apparatus may include a transmitter to transmit the selection... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080231596 - Key shaped pointing device: A key shaped pointing device adapted to mounted on a keyboard of a notebook computer, a keypad of a mobile phone, or a keyboard of a PC includes a substrate including two opposite top latches; a circuit board releasably secured to the substrate; a chip fixedly mounted on the substrate... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080231598 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse, wherein the electronic circuitry associated with the mouse is physically isolated from the outside environment by means of a sealed housing and the use of a non-physical coupling between the operating means and the movement centre which detects movement of the operating means and enables such movement... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20080231599 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is provided which includes an elastic cover detachably secured upon a main body of the mouse, to enhance ease of operation and reduce muscle strain and soreness by repeatedly operating the computer mouse. The main body has left and right click knobs and optionally a scrolling wheel,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080231597 - Wireless mouse receiver with camera: A wireless mouse receiver with a camera includes a receiver body, a rotary connection piece, and a signal-receiving unit. The receiver body has a fixed piece and a movable piece. The fixed piece is provided with a connection port for being electrically connected with a computer. The movable piece is... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080231600 - Near-normal incidence optical mouse illumination system with prism: Disclosed are various embodiments of an optical mouse illumination system that provides near-normal incidence of light beams upon a surface without employing complicated beam-splitter assemblies, and without employing near-grazing incidence methods of illumination. The optical mouse illumination systems disclosed herein provide higher efficiencies than most prior art optical mouse illumination... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080231601 - Input device for continuous gesturing within a user interface: An input device for a graphical user interface in a handheld mobile communications device. The navigation system comprises a trackball for generating trackball input when the trackball is actuated, a detector, proximate to and cooperating with the trackball, for generating detector input when the detector is actuated, and a processor... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080231602 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus 20 of the present invention includes operating means 220, control means 221, attitude detecting means 222, and assignment changing means 223. The operating means 220 has a plurality of keys capable of being operated independently from each other. The control means 221 performs predetermined operations different from... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20080231605 - Compound touch panel: A compound touch panel comprises a capacitive touch panel unit; a resistive touch panel unit and a signal processing unit; the capacitive touch panel unit is overlapped with the resistive touch panel unit; sensing signals from the capacitive touch panel unit and resistive touch panel unit being transferred to the... Agent: Kai-ti Yang

20080231606 - Display device and control method of the same: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a sensing electrode generating a sensing signal in response to an external stimulus, a sensing line connected to the sensing electrode, a sensing driver connected to the sensing line, receiving the sensing signal from the sensing line and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080231610 - 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

20080231607 - Liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus and position detecting method: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel, a touch panel, a position signal generating device, and a display control device. The liquid crystal panel is formed so that a liquid crystal is sealed in a gap between an element substrate and an opposite substrate, which are opposed to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080231609 - Manipulating association of data with a physical object: Data elements stored in a computing system and associated with a physical object are reassociated with the same or another physical object. An identifying characteristic presented by the physical object, such as a reflective pattern applied to the object, is detected when the object is positioned adjacent to the interactive... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080231604 - Method for extending the life of touch screens: In an embodiment, a signature area and virtual keypad, among other display elements, are displayed in more than one location on a touch screen display. As a result, wear and tear may be strategically distributed evenly across the touch screen, instead of isolated to fixed locations, thus increasing the touch... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080231608 - Operating input device for reducing input error: An operating input device is provided in which input errors can be prevented. A finger area image is extracted from an image captured by a camera. A fingertip area is extracted from a difference image generated between the finger area image and a shifted image. A fingertip position is detected... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080231603 - Touch screens: A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen (14) having first (50) and second conductive layers (52) arranged to be brought together by touching of the screen (14). A detection system (20, 30) is arranged to detect a contact position at which the screen (14) is touched by monitoring... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20080231611 - Interaction between objects and a virtual environment display: An interactive table has a display surface on which a physical object is disposed. A camera within the interactive table responds to infrared (IR) light reflected from the physical object enabling a location of the physical object on the display surface to be determined, so that the physical object appear... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080231612 - Touch sensitive device employing bending wave vibration sensing and excitation transducers: A touch sensitive apparatus includes a touch plate to which several pickup sensors and at least one excitation transducer are coupled. Each of the sensors is configured to sense bending waves in the touch plate, and the excitation transducer is configured to induce bending waves in the touch plate. The... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080231613 - Digitizer pen capable of utilizing solar power: A digitizer pen includes a solar cell for converting solar power into electrical energy, an energy storing circuit connected electrically to the solar cell for storing electrical energy therefrom, a magnetic field generating circuit for receiving electrical energy from one of the solar cell and the energy storing circuit, and... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080231614 - Trigger operated portable electronic device: A trigger operated portable electronic device is provided. A user only needs to insert a touch pen having a first metal contact into a touch pen receiving slot having second metal contacts. When the first metal contact is electrically coupled to the second metal contacts, the portable electronic device can... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080231615 - Input device: Disclosed here is an input device used for input operations of electronic equipment. According to the input device, an illuminating display section is disposed on an operation knob, and the controller of the device effects on/off control of the illuminating display section in connection with showing indications on the display... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080231617 - Display device: To provide a display device in which reliability of a driver circuit can be improved by suppressing shift of the threshold voltage of a TFT. The minimum power supply voltage that is optimal for driving a transistor used in the driver circuit is found by actually changing voltage applied to... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080231616 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display and a method for driving the same, wherein one or more horizontal lines carrying no data among horizontal lines of a progressive-processed frame can be compensated with data, are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a frame processor, a timing controller, and a data driver. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080231618 - Method and apparatus for image processing: An overdriving apparatus is provided in the invention. The apparatus includes a receiving module, a storing module, a dynamic information generating module, and an image driving module. The receiving module receives image data relative to an image signal. The storing module is used for storing the image data. Based on... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080231619 - Apparatus and method for driving liquid crystal display: A apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display that minimizes the generation of electro-magnetic interference (EMI) in a cost effective manner includes a gate control signal generator that generates a gate control signal using a externally inputted synchronizing signal, a data control signal generator that generates a data... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080231620 - Active matrix display device: A display device comprising an array of pixels, with gates of thin film transistors of the pixels in a row connected to a row conductor. Row driver circuitry provides row address signals for controlling the switching of the transistors of the pixels of the row including an ON gate voltage... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080231622 - Display device, and driving method of display device: It is an object to provide a high reliable display device which can suppress the generation of high electric field near the drain of the transistor used as a switching element and a driving method thereof. A relaxation time when charge is stored in the display element of the pixel... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080231623 - Lcd driving method using self-masking, and masking circuit and asymmetric latches thereof: Provided are a method of driving a liquid crystal panel using self-masking, a masking circuit for performing the method, and asymmetric latches. The method includes supplying power to the liquid crystal panel; receiving a horizontal start pulse signal instructing source lines of the liquid crystal panel to be driven, from... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080231621 - Liquid crystal display apparatus, backlight module and light source driving device thereof: A light source driving device for driving a plurality of light-emitting units includes a power supply unit and a feedback control unit. The power supply unit is electrically connected to the light-emitting units and outputs a driving signal for driving the light-emitting units. The feedback control unit is electrically connected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231625 - Display apparatus and drive method thereof and electronic device: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel array section and a drive section. The pixel array section has power supply lines, scan lines arranged in row, signal lines arranged in column, and pixels arranged in matrix at intersections of each of the scan lines and each of the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080231624 - Temperature adaptive overdrive method, system and apparatus: A method and system for calculating an overdrive parameter for a liquid crystal within an LCD device to compensate for temperature variations. An example system includes a temperature sensor for measuring an ambient temperature near a liquid crystal and a memory for storing a lookup table containing a plurality of... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080231626 - Method and apparatus to facilitate a differently configured virtual reality experience for some participants in a communication session: Virtual reality experiences are provided (101 and 102) for a first participant and a second participant. A virtual representation of the second participant's interaction with the shared experience is rendered (103) for the first participant. Similarly, a virtual representation of the second participant's interaction with the shared experience is rendered... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20080231631 - Image processing apparatus and method of controlling operation of same: In an image processing method of determining the positional relationship among virtual objects in virtual space and generating a virtual shadow of the virtual objects, a plurality of virtual objects are rendered in a first plane to which a first axis passing through a virtual light source is normal, and... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080231629 - Method and system for representing geometrical layout design data in electronic design systems: A method and system of representing geometrical layout design data having a plurality of polygons in electronic design systems is provided. The method includes extracting topological characteristics data corresponding to one or more polygons to form one or more virtual topological polygon. Each virtual polygon is represented by Scan order... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080231627 - Using ray tracing to enhance artificial intelligence character behavior: Embodiments of the invention provide use ray-tracing to simulate vision for a artificial intelligence controlled character within a three-dimensional scene. According to one embodiment of the invention, an artificial intelligence system may cast rays into the three-dimensional scene from a viewpoint of the character and may perform ray-tracing with the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080231628 - Utilizing ray tracing for enhanced artificial intelligence path-finding: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to use ray-tracing to perform artificial intelligence path-finding. Embodiments of the invention may cast a ray into a three-dimensional scene to determine a path from a starting point to an ending point. The ray may have a trajectory which originates at the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080231630 - Web enabled three-dimensional visualization: A method for presenting a perspective view of a real urban environment, augmented with associated geo-coded content, and presented on a display of a terminal device. The method comprises the steps of: connecting the terminal device to a server via a network; communicating user identification, user present-position information and at... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080231632 - Accelerated volume image rendering pipeline method and apparatus: A multi-dimensional volume data set is rendered into a resulting image by acquiring image data and filtering the image data to provide filtered image data comprising substantially only image data contributing to the resulting image prior to applying at least one of a group including an interpolation calculation, a classification... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery Varian Medical Systems

20080231633 - Terminating spatial partition hierarchies by a priori bounding memory: The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program code (software) products for terminating spatial partition hierarchies and other hierarchies by a priori bounding, thereby to provide, among other aspects, more efficient ray tracing in computer graphics systems.... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080231634 - Intuitive modification of visual output from a multi-function display: According to an example embodiment, a method for changing the display of a function on a flight deck display having a plurality of non-overlapping display regions comprises the steps of, receiving a first input that identifies the function, receiving a second input that identifies a first display region of the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080231635 - Methods and processes for recognition of electronic ink strokes: A method and process provides structure recognition to a node-link diagram formed by a plurality of digital ink strokes drawn on a canvas of an electronic device by an input device. The method and process include grouping related strokes into multiple hypotheses reflecting structure interpretations of the strokes in a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080231636 - Method of recognizing waveforms and dynamic fault detection method using the same: A dynamic fault detection method comprises the steps of acquiring a data curve from a machine, performing a waveform-recognition process to check if the data curve includes an effective waveform, performing a data-diagnosing process to check if the value of the effective waveform in an effective region falls outside a... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080231637 - Acquiring a series of gradient stops from a bitmap source: An apparatus and method provide for generation of a gradient or other image pattern based on a captured image. In one example, a portion of a displayed image may be selected. The selected portion of the displayed image may include an image pattern such as a gradient. The selected image... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080231638 - Screen display apparatus and adjustment method of image apparatus: A screen display apparatus is provided. A first display device has a first display module. A screen adjustment device is coupled to the first display device through a transmission line, and comprises a user interface adjusting a display setting value of the first display module, and a memory device storing... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080231639 - Image display device and image display method: Provided is a structure in which an input image is normalized by a normalization value in a case where an amount of saturation is within an allowable range so as to adjust an intensity of a backlight according to the normalization value. Allowing slight saturation of an image thereby, effectively... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080231640 - Animation retargeting: Systems and methods are described, which create a mapping from a space of a source object (e.g., source facial expressions) to a space of a target object (e.g., target facial expressions). In certain implementations, the mapping is learned based a training set composed of corresponding shapes (e.g. facial expressions) in... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080231641 - Display device, and circuit and method for driving same: In one embodiment of the present application, a display is disclosed in which any defective pixel is rendered less noticeable even if a full-screen white display or suchlike is effected. In a normally-white liquid crystal display device, which transitions after power activation from non-display state through display starting state, where... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080231642 - Data distribution system and method therefor: An object of the present invention is to provide a data distribution system which is suitable to distribute data to a mobile terminal device and the like to cause the mobile terminal device and the like to display an image, and a method therefor. In response to a request from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080231643 - Method and apparatus for controlling the size or opacity of map elements rendered in an interactive map view: To provide the illusion of smooth motion during zoom or pan operations of an interactive map display, relatively unimportant map elements are not rendered during map movements. By reducing the number of elements to be rendered in each frame during the movement, a map display rendering engine can increase its... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080231644 - Method and system for navigation of text: A method and system for navigation of text are provided. A linear text (110) in electronic form is selected. The system includes a display (131) of a plurality of phrases representing the content of the text (110) with means for emphasizing a displayed phrase to indicate the relevance of the... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20080224948 - visual interface control based on viewing display area configuration: An visual interface (800) having a plurality of picture elements disposed on a substrate wherein a viewable display area of the visual interface may be configured by expanding or contracting the substrate in at least one dimension, and a characteristic of the visual interface is controlled based on the configuration... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080224950 - Computer program and apparatus for display control: A computer program and apparatus for display control, which are capable of allowing a user to easily know the positional relationships among a plurality of display devices in the case where he/she uses the plurality of display devices to display content. An area information memory stores information on the display... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080224949 - Multi-display apparatus and method thereof: A multi-display apparatus includes two panels disposed with a step difference so that pixel boundaries of display devices formed on substrates overlap, and at least one of the two panels includes a thin film encapsulation layer covering the display device and disposed on an adjacent surface of one of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080224951 - Visual interface with configurable viewing area for electronic device: A visual display interface (910), suitable for use in an electronic device (900), includes an elastic substrate having a plurality of addressable picture elements disposed on a side thereof forming a viewable display area. The size and/or shape of the viewable display area are configurable by expanding or contracting the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080224952 - Plasma display device and driving apparatus thereof: A plasma display device, and a driving apparatus thereof, is provided, which includes: a plasma display panel for displaying an image, the plasma display panel including a plurality of discharge cells and a plurality of electrodes corresponding to the discharge cells; and an electrode driver for applying a driving voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080224953 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode each having a single-layered structure, a rear substrate including an address electrode, and a barrier rib. The scan and sustain electrodes each include at least one line portion... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080224956 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel (PDP) includes first and second substrates facing one another, a plurality of discharge electrodes, a plurality of first address electrodes, the plurality of first address electrodes having a first surface area and spaced apart from the discharge electrodes by a first vertical distance, and a plurality... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080224954 - Plasma display panel driving method: A driving method includes generating an address discharge in selected cells out of discharge cells and setting the selected cells to either an emission enable state or a non-emission state in an address period which is set in each subfield period. The driving method also includes generating sustaining discharge in... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080224955 - Plasma display panel with high brightness: A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes N scan electrodes, N common electrodes, M address electrodes, and N rows and M columns of lighting cells. The ith row of lighting cells among the N rows of lighting cells is corresponding to the ith scan electrode among... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080224957 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel (PDP) capable of reducing or suppressing resonance between adjacent capacitively coupled sustain electrodes, which can generate audible noise from a panel, and accordingly reducing the noise of the panel. The sustain electrodes comprise a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, which cross... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080224958 - Plasma display device and driving apparatus thereof: In a plasma display device and a driving apparatus thereof, a scan electrode driver for applying a driving voltage to a scan electrode has a diode including a cathode coupled to a sustain voltage supplying power and an anode coupled to a switch for applying a reset rising waveform to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080224959 - Display control circuit for vacuum fluorescent display: The invention provides display control circuits for Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFDs). The display control circuit controls a plurality of display units of the VFD and comprises an image signal generator generating a plurality of image signals, a clock signal generator generating a clock signal, and a plurality of control signal... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080224963 - Display apparatus and electronic device: A display apparatus, includes: a substrate; a plural light emitting elements provided on the substrate and each formed from a lower electrode, a light emitting function layer and an upper layer stacked in this order; a partition for element isolation provided on the substrate and having a plural apertures individually... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080224964 - Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and electronic equipment: In the present invention, there is provided a display apparatus including: a pixel array section including pixel circuits each having an electro-optical device, a write transistor configured to carry out a voltage storing process, a holding capacitor configured to hold the sampled video signal, and a driving transistor configured to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080224962 - Image display device: An image display device includes switches directly connected a constant current source to a self-luminous element to be able to detect a characteristic of the self-luminous element, generate a coordinates and convert information of the characteristic and coordinates into a system communication signal, transferring an input with a temperature variation... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080224960 - Image display screen and method for controlling said screen: A single compensating transistor is connected to all the modulation transistors of a column and is intended to compensate for the threshold trigger voltages of all the said modulation transistors of this column. This compensating transistor is formed in the extension of the said modulation transistors of a column along... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080224961 - Organic light emitting display and method for manufacturing the same: An organic light emitting display capable of reducing or preventing damage due to static electricity by using a structure for reducing or preventing the damage due to static electricity and a method for manufacturing the same. A pixel region includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080224965 - Pixel, organic light emitting display using the same, and associated methods: A pixel including an OLED, the pixel including a first transistor coupled between a data line and a first node, the first transistor being turned on by a low signal on an i-th scan line, a second transistor coupled between a first power source and a fifth transistor, a third... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080224966 - Led device compensation method: A method for controlling and compensating aging in an LED device includes measuring a performance change in light output of the LED device. The LED device is controlled with a first compensation algorithm derived from the measured performance change, during a first period, to effect a luminance change over time... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080224967 - Light source control apparatus and method for controlling light source: A light source control apparatus and a method for controlling light source are provided. The light source control apparatus is used to controlling N light-emitting devices connected in series. N+1 nodes are sequentially defined at two terminals of each light-emitting device mentioned above, where N is a natural number. The... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080224968 - Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a red pixel configured to be provided with a red light-emitting element that generates red light; a green pixel configured to be provided with a green light-emitting element that generates green light; and two blue pixels configured to be provided with blue light-emitting... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080224969 - Increase of perceived resolution for a dual view display device: A representative display device for displaying a first and a second view (V1, V2) incorporates a color generating layer a barrier layer, and a light source. The color generating layer includes a plurality of color elements arranged in a two-dimensional array extending in a plurality of rows in a horizontal... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080224970 - Reset circuit for display devices: The present invention relates to an active matrix display device, more particularly an electrowetting display device, comprising at least two rows of pixels and being provided with selection wires (RW) and data wires (COL) for addressing of the pixels. The pixels in each row are arranged with a respective connection... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080224972 - Digital/analog converter circuit, level shift circuit, shift register utilizing level shift circuit, sampling latch circuit, and liquid crystal display device incorporating the same: This invention relates to a digital/analog converter circuit, a level shift circuit, a shift register containing this level shift circuit, a sampling latch circuit and a latch circuit as well as a liquid crystal display device mounted with these respective circuits, wherein a drive circuit integrated with the LCD device... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080224971 - Liquid crystal device, electronic apparatus and position identification method: A liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal panel, a plurality of detection electrodes, a switching circuit, and a position identification device. The liquid crystal panel is configured so that a liquid crystal is sealed in a gap between a first substrate and a second substrate, which are opposed to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080224973 - Color sequential backlight liquid crystal displays and related methods: A color LCD arrangement with a lower substrate, an upper substrate, liquid crystal material between the lower substrate and upper substrate, and a backlight unit with light sources. The backlight unit is divided into a plurality of segments. Each segment has a light source arrangement to generate light with at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080224974 - Liquid crystal display: In one embodiment, a display device, comprises a liquid crystal module, a backlight assembly comprising an array of red light emitting diodes, an array of green light emitting diodes, and an array of green light emitting diodes, and a timing controller to drive the array of red light emitting diodes,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080224975 - Display device and method for driving the same: A method for driving a display device includes: dividing an entire gray-scale region corresponding to a data gray scale into a first gray-scale region and a second gray-scale region and setting a first gamma value of the first gray-scale region and a second gamma value of the second gray-scale region,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080224977 - Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display device: An apparatus for driving a liquid crystal display includes a picture quality improving unit that extracts a brightness component from first data, analyzes the brightness using the extracted brightness component, and generates second data having a contrast in accordance with the analyzed brightness. The contrast of the second data is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080224976 - Method and apparatus for temporally/spatially randomly dithering and liquid crystal display using the same: A method of temporally and/or spatially randomly dithering, to facilitate converting an input M-bit subpixel signal into an (M−N)-bit subpixel signal, may include spatially and/or temporally randomly generating a dithering mask pattern satisfying a condition that a spatial mean and/or a temporal mean of an image signal before dithering matches... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080224978 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display is capable of minimizing power consumption and providing an excellent image quality by having a varying array wire structure of the liquid crystal display so that the liquid crystal display can employ a low driving voltage and obtain advantages of a dot inversion drive system. Also,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080224979 - Method for improving image quality of a display device with low-temperature poly-silicon thin film transistor: The Low-Temperature Poly-Silicon thin film transistor display device of the invention arrayed with a plurality of gate lines and data lines and a switch unit and a pixel unit are located in the intersection of scan line and the data line. The device comprises a gate driven unit a data... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080224980 - Liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines having odd-numbered gate lines and even-numbered gate lines, a plurality of source lines, a first gate driver which drives the odd-numbered gate lines, a second gate driver which drives the even-numbered gate lines and a driving controller which outputs an... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080224982 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit, and electronic apparatus: The object of the present invention is to decrease a frame size in a case where data lines are driven by using a demultiplexer. The data lines 114 are divided into groups each having three data lines. TFTs 52 and 54 are provided for each data line 114, and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080224983 - Method of compensating for kick-back voltage and liquid crystal display using the same: A method and apparatus of compensating for a kick-back voltage to reduce the generation of flicker in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The method of compensating for a kick-back voltage includes correcting input pixel data using a kick-back correction function that meets a condition on which a response characteristic of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080224981 - Temperature-dependent overdrive circuit for lcd panel and method of implementing the same: A circuit for overdriving an LCD panel according to an image data and a temperature, and the corresponding are disclosed. The circuit includes: a memory for storing a previous image data; a plurality of LUTs, each coupled to receive the previous image data from the memory and a present image... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080224984 - Method for driving a display panel: A method for driving a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first scan line, and the first scan line includes sub-pixels. A first portion of the sub-pixels is controlled by a first gate line, and a second portion of the sub-pixels is controlled by a second gate... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080224985 - Shift register: A shift register is disclosed, which can prevent malfunctioning of device by decreasing the load on a discharging voltage source line, and can decrease a size of stage. The shift register comprises a plurality of stages to sequentially output scan pulses through respective output terminals, wherein each of the stages... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080224986 - Color sequential display having backlight timing delay control unit and method thereof: A color sequential display having backlight timing delay control unit and method thereof are described. The color sequential display includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight source, a driving circuit, and a backlight delay control unit. The driving circuit generates a pixel voltage to drive the liquid crystal panel. The... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080224988 - Handheld devices as visual indicators: A computing device and methods of operating computing devices are disclosed. The computing device includes a backlit display that provides visual stimulus for relaying information to a user or a user's surroundings.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/apple Inc.

20080224987 - Method for displaying a moving image on a display: A method for displaying a moving image on a display, such that all pixel lines of the display are addressed in each case during image periods for displaying image information, and a backlight for displaying the image information backlights the pixel lines. The display of moving images is enhanced by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080224990 - Active matrix circuit substrate and display device: Provided is an active matrix circuit substrate including: a substrate on which a plurality of pixels are formed in a predetermined region; a plurality of pixel electrodes which are respectively provided in the pixels formed on the substrate and include peripheral pixel electrodes which protrude from the predetermined region to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080224989 - Electrophoretic display and a method and apparatus for driving an electrophoretic display: An electrophoretic display, in which a driving method is employed whereby a sequence of discrete picture potential differences in the form of a driving waveform is supplied for enabling the charged particles (6) of the display to occupy a position for displaying an image, the position being one of a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080224992 - Electrophoretic display and method of driving the same: In an electrophoretic display, a display panel includes a first electrode receiving a data voltage, a second electrode receiving a common voltage while facing the first electrode and a plurality of pixels each of which includes charged particles arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The display panel... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080224993 - In-plane switching display devices: A display device comprises an array of rows and columns of pixels, wherein each pixel (48) comprises portions of first and second row-wise electrodes (42) and portions of first and second column-wise electrodes (34). This pixel arrangement has a unique combination of four electrodes dedicated to each pixel, and arranged... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080224991 - Repairing method and structure of display electrode: A display electrode structure and the repairing method thereof are described. The display electrode structure includes a display electrode and at least one opening formed on the display electrode and extending toward the inside of the display electrode so as to easily repair a display electrode defect thereon. The display... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080224994 - Slide operation apparatus: A slide operation apparatus capable of preventing a movable unit from being unintentionally moved in a box body, while being easy to assemble and simple in construction. The movable unit includes a gondola to which an operating element is fixed. The gondola is adapted to be movable relative to upper... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080224999 - Apparatus and method for information processing and storage medium therefor: In a game apparatus, when a user name input mode is selected on a screen displayed with a mode selecting software input region, a user name inputting software input region (including a software keyboard area, and an SW button (decision) and an SW button (cancel) which are formed at positions... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080224997 - Computer cursor control method and apparatus: A computer cursor control apparatus operating in a mouse mode or a non-mouse mode in response to a switch signal is provided. When operating in the mouse mode, the computer cursor control apparatus outputs a wireless signal to a wireless signal receiving unit for determining the displacement of the computer... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080224998 - Computer cursor control method and apparatus: A computer cursor control apparatus operating in either the mouse mode or the non-mouse mode is determined by the switch signal. When the computer cursor control apparatus is operating in the mouse mode, the cursor-moving module calculates the cursor-moving signal and outputs it on the monitor of a host for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080224995 - Input device, input method, corresponding computer program, and corresponding computer-readable storage medium: The invention related to an input device and an input method as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used, in particular, to very precisely change parameters in data processing programs or electric devices in conjunction with a graphic user interface (GUI).... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080224996 - Operation input device and electronic instrument using the same: The present invention provides a low-profile operation input device of which assembling work is easily performed and the productivity is high. An operation input device includes a base; a printed board in which a plurality of push-button switches are mounted on a circumference while an MR sensor is mounted, the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080225000 - Cancellation of environmental motion in handheld devices: A method, system and computer program product for compensating the environmental motion in handheld devices. A sensor unit is affixed to an object in the environment to detect and measure environmental motion. Upon measuring any detected environmental motion, the sensor unit transmits a value corresponding to the measured environmental motion... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080225001 - Method for controlling an interface using a camera equipping a communication terminal: The invention concerns a method for controlling a graphic, audio and/or video interface using a camera equipping a communication terminal which consists in acquiring and/or storing a first image, acquiring and storing a new image, computing the apparent movement by matching both images, interpreting, in accordance with a predetermined control... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080225002 - Joystick with a sensor device: A joystick (1) comprising a substantially stationary part (4) and a movable part (3) adapted to be manipulated by an operator. The joystick further comprises a sensor device adapted to detect a position of the movable part (3) relatively to the substantially stationary part (4), the sensor device comprising a... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080225003 - Computer input device: A computer input device is disclosed, including a base element arranged for resting on a surface, detecting device for detecting movement of the base element relative to the surface, communication device for communicating information about the movement to a computer, and a grip element connected to the base element in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225004 - Wireless mouse: A wireless mouse includes a main body, a cover disposed above the main body, a circuit board mounted in the main body, a power switch disposed on the circuit board configured for controlling power supply from a power source to the circuit board, and a trigger mounted on the cover... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080225005 - Hand-held micro-projector personal computer and related components: A mobile personal computer comprising a case sized for handling by a single, adult human hand, a micro-projector system maintained by the case, and a speech recognition system maintained by the case and including a microphone. A microprocessor is maintained within the case and electronically connected to the micro-projector system... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080225006 - Universal touch screen keyboard: The invention relates to a touch screen keyboard, characterized in that it comprises a screen with a tactile faceplate (1), luminous, with colour display and capable of displaying a basic standard keyboard and keys for rapid access to functionalities that can be displayed on the said tactile faceplate screen via... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080225007 - 3d pointing method, 3d display control method, 3d pointing device, 3d display control device, 3d pointing program, and 3d display control program: A three-dimensional pointing method is disclosed. In the three-dimensional pointing method of the present invention, a desired point in a three-dimensional space represented on a display apparatus is pointed at based on two-dimensional coordinates of a position that is pointed at by a pen tip of an input pen on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080225013 - Content playback device with touch screen: The invention concerns a content playback device comprising a touch-sensitive surface superposed with an integrated display the first display can be disabled and wherein the touch-sensitive surface and control means cooperate to provide user control functions of content playback independently of whether the display is enabled or disabled. The invention... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080225014 - Electronic device and method of controlling mode thereof and mobile communication terminal: A mobile communication terminal, an electronic device, a computer program product, and a method of controlling including receiving a control signal for controlling a predetermined area; and controlling a size and an operating mode of a screen by the control signal. Therefore, various operation modes can be easily selected, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080225015 - Input device: A first planar input unit includes a transparent first substrate and a transparent second substrate that are stacked on each other. On an electrode formation surface of the first substrate, transparent Y-driving electrodes and transparent shielding layers are formed. On an electrode formation surface of the second substrate, X-driving electrodes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080225011 - Position detecting apparatus, position inputting apparatus, and computer including the same: A position detecting apparatus includes a display apparatus having a screen for displaying images by changing states of a plurality of display elements arrayed in the screen along a predetermined direction which is parallel to a side boundary of the screen, and at least one detecting conductor disposed on the... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080225008 - System and method for driving and receiving data from multiple touch screen devices: In one embodiment, multiple touch screen devices are driven from a graphics signal. A general-purpose computer provides a graphics signal of a particular display resolution. A display segmentor is configured to divide each graphics frame of the graphics signal into a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group associated with... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080225012 - Touch frame interface: A plurality of switches are disposed about the periphery of a display. The switches input information from a user to a controlled electronic device. By pressing down on any point of the periphery of the display, two switches disposed at the corners adjacent to the pressed side are operated. A... Agent: Gerald John (jack) Lipovski

20080225009 - Touch-initiated power-saving clock system and method for touch screen controller: A touch screen controller circuit (1A) including means for generating a first and second levels of a pen touch signal (PENTOUCH) if a touch point (Q) is present or absent, respectively. A clock start signal (CLKSTART) is generated in response to the first level. An internal clock signal (INTCLK) is... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080225010 - Wait mode pen-touch detection and method for touch screen controller: A touch screen controller (1A) includes circuitry (2B) for generating a pen touch detection signal (PENTOUCH) having a first level if a touch point (Q) of a touch screen assembly (30,31) including first (30) and second (31) resistive screens is detected, and generating a second level of the pen touch... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080225016 - Control panel and washing machine having the same: A control panel and a washing machine, capable of providing an aesthetic external appearance and preventing characters or symbols which indicate control functions from being erased and preventing the characters or symbols from being displayed when the operation stops or the control functions are not used. The control panel includes... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225017 - Refined coordinate detection method and error correction method for touch panel: A refined coordinate detection method for a touch panel, which more finely measures coordinates of an object without increasing the number of infrared emitting/receiving elements, and an error correction method, which minimizes position detection errors caused by received optical level errors due to external environment or their inherent characteristics, are... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080225018 - Handheld electronic processing apparatus and a method of operating the same: A personal digital assistant (PDA) (10) includes a casing (30) in which a touch-sensitive display screen (20) is mounted. The casing (30) also has a stylus-receiving bore (32) formed therein. A stylus (40) is provided for data input via the screen (30) and is stored in the bore (32). A... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080225019 - Electronic ink pen structure with an immediate charging function: An electronic ink pen structure with an immediate charging function includes a casing, a refill, a light-emitting element, a double-layered capacitor, two conductive pieces, and a repositioning module. The refill is movably disposed in the casing, and has a pen nib on a front side that is exposed outside a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080225020 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus including a housing in a plate shape, a display screen arranged in an area excluding a peripheral area adjacent to a side surface, on the front surface of the housing, and a grooved part which is formed on the peripheral area along the circumference of the peripheral... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225026 - Display apparatus, driving method thereof, and electronic system: A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of first and second scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080225025 - Display device and electronic apparatus: A transistor connected to a power source for driving a light-emitting element driving transistor and a transistor setting to a predetermined voltage a source voltage of the light-emitting element driving transistor are commonly controlled by a control signal that takes one of three levels.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080225023 - Drive circuit and drive method of light emitting display apparatus: A drive circuit for a light emitting display apparatus including a pixel circuit having a light emitting device for emitting a light having brightness determined based on supplied current and a drive transistor for supplying the current to the light emitting device, comprises a threshold value correction circuit converting a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080225024 - Electro-optical device, method of driving electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optical device includes data lines divided into groups of M data lines, where N is a natural number equal to or greater than three. Output lines are arranged in correspondence with the data lines and receive, during a predetermined period, output of a correction voltage having a predetermined voltage... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225021 - Multi-primary driving values calculation unit and method: The calculation unit (220) is arranged for calculating based on an input target color (T,TV) as output a number (n), larger than three, of quantized driving values ([R′]o, [G′]o, [B′]o, [C′]o) usable for driving an electronic multi-primary display unit (200) with the same number (n) of primaries to substantially reproduce... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225022 - Organic light emitting display, and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display and a method for driving the same, which may shorten a charge time of a data signal in a pixel. A display region includes a pixel for receiving a data signal, a scan signal, an emission control signal, and drive voltages and for operating in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080225027 - Pixel circuit, display device, and driving method thereof: Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array unit and a control unit.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080225028 - Method for driving a light emitting tube array: A light emitting tube array drivable in an ADS subfield mode wherein a fluorescent material layer is arranged on an inner wall of each light emitting tube sandwiched between a front substrate and a rear substrate, a discharge gas is airtightly put therein, and a plurality of electrodes formed for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080225030 - Display with multiplexed pixels and driving methods: A multiplexed pixel display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of storage elements, a first voltage supply terminal, a second voltage supply terminal, a common electrode, and a plurality of multiplexers each selectively coupling an associated one of the pixel electrodes with one of the first voltage supply... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080225029 - Driver for reducing a noise, display device having the driver, and method thereof: A driver may include a plurality of data output units and/or a multi-phase clock generator. The plurality of data output units may be configured to output data based on a plurality of clock signals. The multi-phase clock generator may be configured to receive a master clock signal to generate the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225031 - Common voltage output method and display device utilizing the same: A display device comprises a detection controller, common voltage generator and multilevel common voltage selecting circuit. The detection controller detects a display pattern of a display array to transmit a control signal. The common voltage generator generates first and second common voltages. The multilevel common voltage selecting circuit receives the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080225033 - Display devices and row voltage generation circuits: A display device comprises an array (12) of display pixels arranged in rows and columns and provided on a common substrate (18). A first row driver circuit (20) is for a first sub-set of the rows of pixels and a second row driver circuit (22) is for a second sub-set... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225032 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, computer-readable recording medium storing image forming program, and computer-readable recording medium storing operation control program: An image forming apparatus includes a display section for displaying an image associated with an operation of the apparatus. An operating section receives operating instructions and a user ID from a user. A panel display log storage section stores a panel display log which has been inputted from the operating... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080225034 - Image sticking erasing circuit and method for using the same: The image sticking erasing circuit includes a detection circuit and a switching circuit connected to the detection circuit. The detection circuit is for use in detecting a first voltage signal, which closely follows the variation of the voltage source, and a reference voltage, which loosely follows the variation of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080225035 - Liquid crystal display and pulse adjustment circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display comprises a power supply, a pulse adjustment circuit, and a gate driver. The pulse adjustment circuit is connected between the power supply and the gate driver. The power supply provides power signals. The pulse adjustment circuit adjusts the plurality of pulses of the power signals or... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080225036 - Liquid crystal display: A disclosed display includes a display panel including a first group of data lines and second group of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the first and a second groups of data lines, and a plurality of picture cells arranged in a matrix. The display also includes a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080225037 - Apparatus and method for truncating polyhedra: An apparatus for creating truncated polyhedra without using complex formulas and without requiring advanced computer processors and computer memory according to one embodiment includes at least one processor, means for inputting vertex data to the processor, a display in data communication with the processor, and computer memory coupled to the... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080225038 - Display apparatus having a plurality of input terminals and method thereof: A display apparatus having a plurality of input terminals is provided. The display apparatus includes a plurality of input terminals, and an output unit for displaying on a screen a graphic image corresponding to the arrangement of the plurality of input terminals. Graphic images corresponding to an arrangement of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080225039 - Display control apparatus for enhancing the visibility of displayed information: A display control apparatus which improves the visibility of a display unit (for example, wristwatch) having a normal display section and a normal non-display section provided outside the normal display section along its at least one side. When it is not sensed that the display unit is inclined at a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080225041 - Method and system for vision-based interaction in a virtual environment: A method and system for vision-based interaction in a virtual environment is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving data from a plurality of sensors to generate a meshed volumetric three-dimensional representation of a subject. A plurality of clusters is identified within the meshed volumetric three-dimensional representation... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080225040 - System and method of treating semi-transparent features in the conversion of two-dimensional images to three-dimensional images: A two dimensional image which has a semitransparent object in the foreground of the image has three contributions to the final color shown in a pixel where the semitransparent object is present. Properties of a semitransparent object and background in the given two dimensional image are processed to determine the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080225042 - Systems and methods for allowing a user to dynamically manipulate stereoscopic parameters: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for controlling 2-D to 3-D image conversion. In one embodiment, stereo visualization and rendering of the final image is performed by allowing a user to independently select inter-ocular and convergence distances on a frame by frame basis. The user can view... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080225043 - Computer-implemented process and system for creating a parametric surface: The invention is directed to a computer program product, a computer system, computer apparatus and a computer-implemented method for creating a parametric surface. The invention provides a base mesh having a plurality of outer or inner vertices with valence greater than two. The vertices define faces and at least one... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080225044 - Method and apparatus for editing three-dimensional images: A method for editing three dimensional images comprises the steps of obtaining three dimensional data representative of an image (2), segmenting the data to select data to be processed (3), generating a three dimensional model of the selected data (6) and interpolating the three dimensional model of the selected data... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080225045 - Systems and methods for 2-d to 3-d image conversion using mask to model, or model to mask, conversion: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for controlling 2-D to 3-D image conversion. In one embodiment, a mask is generated from an object model of the image. The mask is then used to from a 2-D mesh which is then converted to a 3-D volume mesh. The... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080225046 - Three dimensional image processing: A method of preparing on object files a first device that are used for rendering two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects on a second device by processing data defining triangle primitives representing at least one three-dimensional object. A plurality of planar triangle primitives corresponding to a plurality of surface portions of... Agent: Perman & Green

20080225047 - Three dimensional image processing: A method of preparing on a first device object files used for rendering two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects on a second device by processing object files containing data defining triangle primitives representing at least one three-dimensional object to determine a rendering order in which the triangle primitives may be rendered... Agent: Perman & Green

20080225048 - Culling occlusions when rendering graphics on computers: An occlusion culling system is provided. In various embodiments, the occlusion culling system can combine a hierarchical object space tree with image space occlusion queries to reduce the number of occlusion queries that are issued to a GPU. In various embodiments, the occlusion culling system can enable culling of dynamic... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080225049 - Method and apparatus for generating a plurality of stencil reference values for a corresponding plurality of pixels or pixel samples: Based on a driver programmable stencil reference value command, stencil reference value logic produces a plurality of stencil reference values for a corresponding plurality of pixels or pixel samples. At least one of the plurality of stencil reference values has a different value than at least one other of the... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.C.

20080225050 - Image processing program and image processing system using same: By means of an image drawing program stored in a storage medium readable by an image processing system, the corresponding image processing system and the corresponding image drawing method, shadows are drawn for a plurality of characters, without imposing a large load on the processor, by referencing a shadow created... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080225051 - Method and apparatus for three-dimensional graphics, and computer product: A graphic apparatus that draws an object three-dimensionally using a level plane and a height-axis perpendicular to the level plane includes a receiving unit, a calculating unit, and a drawing unit. The receiving unit receives vertex data identifying a position of a top surface of the object on the level... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080225052 - Digital reading device and method: A digital reading device comprises a pair of tablet portions each having a display screen, with the tablets being foldable relative to each other between a closed position wherein the display screens are protected and not visible and an open position wherein the screens are adjacent and coplanar with respect... Agent: Colin P. Abrahams

20080225053 - Image processing device, image processing method, and electronic instrument: An image processing device that supplies image data to a driver section of a display panel includes an encoding section that encodes image data on a block-by-block basis to generate encoded data, the image data corresponding to one scan line of an input image, the image data being divided into... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080225054 - Dithering system and method for use in image processing: A dithering system includes a linear transformer, a dither data generator, an adder and a shifter. The transformer linearly transforms M bit input data using a linear function having a predetermined gradient in order to generate and output M bit transform data. The dither data generator generates and outputs M−N... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080225055 - Method for obtaining primary color values of display device and method for establishing color correction tables of same: An exemplary method for obtaining primary color values via measuring color values of a display device, the method including: measuring tristimulus values when the display device respectively displaying a red, green, and blue monochromatic patterns, the red, green, and blue monochromatic patterns respectively having the largest intensity; measuring tristimulus values... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080225056 - Redistribution of n-primary color input signals into n-primary color output signals: A method of redistributing an N-primary color input signal (IS) having a particular number≧4 (N) of input components (I1, . . . , IN) into N-primary color output signal (OS) having the particular number (N) of output components (P1, . . . , PN) under a constraint (CON2). The method... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080225058 - Effects applied to images in a browser: Methods, tools, and systems are provided for editing an image in a browser. One method includes presenting an image in a browser, receiving a selection from a user to transform the image and transforming the image in the browser without interaction with the server.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080225057 - Selective image editing in a browser: Methods, tools, and systems are provided for editing an image in a browser. One method includes presenting an image in a browser, receiving a selection identifying an area of an image to transform and a transformation and transforming the area of the image in the browser without interaction with the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080225059 - System and method for using off-screen mask space to provide enhanced viewing: Methods and apparatuses for compensating for clipped portions of one or more objects in an image provide a boundary mask portion adjacent to one or more edges of an image display. The boundary mask portion is used to display information which will fill clipped portions of the objects in the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080225060 - Insertion of graphics into video game: A video computer game is described that enables a user to generate and play a customized video game. The user retrieves a user generated pictorial background for placement in a graphics window in the game. User generated or previously provided objects are selected for placement on the background object. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080225061 - Electronic device, display device, and semiconductor device and method for driving the same: A pixel having a transistor which controls a current value supplied to a load, a first storage capacitor, a second storage capacitor, and first to fourth switches is included. After the threshold voltage of the transistor is held in the second storage capacitor, a potential in accordance with a video... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080225062 - Drive circuit, display apparatus, and method for adjusting screen refresh rate: A display apparatus and a drive circuit for adjusting a screen refresh rate of the display apparatus and a method thereof are disclosed. The display apparatus comprises an OLED diode display array and a drive circuit. The drive circuit comprises a detection unit, a clock generating unit, and a timing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080218431 - Method for remote transfer of display data between two computers: A method for exchanging image data with a number of image elements, which are respectively parameterized by a display value set, between a data source computer and a data query computer that each have a display device for the presentation of the image data, an input device for the input... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080218432 - Image display system and method: The disclosure is directed to image display system and apparatus. In one example, a system comprises a plurality of display apparatus each having a display area. The display apparatus are configured to display images based on image information supplied from a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, Llc

20080218433 - Optical sheet for three-dimensional image and three-dimensional image display device using the same: An optical sheet for three-dimensional images and a three-dimensional image display device using the same, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the three-dimensional image display device includes a display unit to display two-dimensional images using unit pixels each including at least three colors of sub-pixels, and an optical sheet to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218434 - Electrically dimmable combiner optics for head-up display: Methods and systems for providing an electrically dimmable combiner optics for head-up displays are disclosed. In one embodiment, a dimmable head-up display includes a display portion configured to provide head-up display information to an operator. Additionally, a dimmable portion is coupled to the display portion configured to change a transmissivity... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080218435 - Peripheral with a display: A headset may include a communication interface to receive one or more images from a device. The headset may further include a pair of earpieces, each earpiece including a speaker and a display to show at least one of the one or more images from the device.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.l.p.

20080218436 - Zero-lag image response to pilot head mounted display control: A method and a system for tracking a line-of-sight (LOS) and providing zero-lag image response to a display is disclosed. The method according to one embodiment receives image data having a filed of view (FOV) that is larger than what is displayed on the display using an initial LOS, combines... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218437 - Computer and display device: An electronic paper display device, which retains a display state even when power is off, is installed outside a server main body. A display control unit provided as software in the server main body displays the information, which indicates a substance of the abnormality detected in the server main body,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080218438 - Deformable micromirror device: A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements which are arranged in the form of a matrix and each of which modulates incident light by using an ON state for deflecting incident light to projection optics, an OFF state for deflecting incident light... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218439 - Plasma display panel and imaging device using the same: A plasma display panel and an imaging device realize a high luminous efficiency, a long lifetime and stable driving. The plasma display panel uses a discharge-gas mixture containing at least Xe, Ne and He. A Xe proportion of the discharge-gas mixture is in a range of from 2% to 20%,... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080218444 - Bistable electrowetting picture element: A bistable electrowetting picture element that has both stable “On” and “Off” states in which no power is consumed, and a switching voltage threshold. Displays using such picture elements may be either passive or active matrix addressed. A picture element contains two immiscible, fluids within a space between two surfaces.... Agent: Mrm, Llc

20080218446 - Cooling fan mounting structure for flat display, and plasma television set: A cooling fan mounting structure for a flat display displaying an image on a screen based on a video signal is disclosed. The structure includes a chassis bracket attached to a rear of the display, and a type of fan holder to which the cooling is attached. The fan holder... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080218443 - Method for driving a plasma display panel: A driving method in which, when a sustain discharge is caused only at each discharge cell set in on-mode by applying a sustain pulse to each row electrode pair of a plasma display panel, the electric field between row electrodes of each row electrode pair can be intensified by applying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218442 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first electrode lines, a plurality second electrode lines, and a plurality of third electrode lines crossing the first electrode lines and the second electrode lines, and being driven by dividing a frame into a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080218445 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A driving method of a plasma display device including a plurality of first electrodes divided into a plurality of groups including first and second groups, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes that intersect the plurality of first and second electrodes, may include dividing one frame... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.c.

20080218441 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel is provided in discharge spaces in which phosphor layers are disposed between first and second electrodes which are spaced apart from each other. The cross-sectional area of each discharge space in two regions where the first and second electrodes are respectively arranged has a different structure.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080218440 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display device: A PDP driving method. A falling ramp voltage is applied to a scan electrode so as to reset a state of wall charges of a discharge cell during a reset period. In this instance, a sustain electrode is maintained at a high voltage during an initial period for applying the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080218447 - Plasma display module and its driving method, and plasma display: Luminance of a plasma display is enhanced while suppressing deterioration in resolution. In a plasma display module comprising panel sections (12, 18) and a circuit section (27) and performing display by receiving an interlace signal, two horizontal lines adjacent vertically in each of odd field and even field form a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080218454 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same: In a display apparatus, as shown in FIG. 1, by using a reference signal, a shift register and a logical operation circuit generate a driving signal in periods for correcting a threshold voltage based on a rectangular wave signal. Also by using the reference signal, a write signal in a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080218452 - Image display apparatus: When an organic EL display apparatus enables display of a standard luminance mode and a high luminance mode, it takes long time to reset the gate potential of the OLED drive TFT to a given value in a standard mode. In the reset operation of the gate potential of an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080218448 - Organic electro luminescence display and driving method of the same: Disclosed are an organic electro luminescence display and a driving method of the same. The present invention provides an organic electro luminescence display including a pixel unit for displaying an image to correspond to a scan signal, a light emission control signal and a data line. The image is composed... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080218450 - Organic electro-luminescent display and method of making the same: An organic electro-luminescent display and a making method of the same. The organic electro-luminescent display according to the present invention includes a luminance control unit including a data sum-up unit to generate a frame data; a look-up table for storing an information corresponding to the light emission control signal to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080218451 - Organic electroluminescence display: The voltage-current property of the specific pixel is measured to store the data on a single line in a line memory. The property data of adjacent pixels are compared. A failure determination unit detects whether or not the pixel to be compared is faulty. If it is determined as being... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080218453 - Organic electroluminescence display: In an organic EL display, correction is made for a difference in screen luminance between the case of measuring characteristics of OLED elements, and the case of not measuring the characteristics of the OLED elements. A data line for feeding image data items, and a detection line for measuring the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080218455 - Organic electroluminescence display: The present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence display including a plurality of pixels, each pixel being composed of a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels having: an organic electroluminescence element configured to have a structure arising from stacking a drive circuit and an organic electroluminescence light-emitting part... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080218449 - Organic light emitting display and method of manufacturing the same: An organic light emitting display including: a pixel unit to display an image, according to a data signal and a scan signal; a data driver to supply the data signal, according to a video signal; and a scan driver to supply the scan signal. The data driver includes a memory... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080218456 - Driving circuit and organic light emitting display using the same: Disclosed are a driving circuit and an organic light emitting display using the same, which realizes stable gray levels. The driving circuit includes a first selector that produces a first selection and sub selection signals, and a second selector that produces a second selection and sub selection signals. The driving... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080218457 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device is disclosed. The device includes a brightness controller configured to selectively control a brightness controlling range based at least in part on the magnitude of the video data input in one frame, and a gamma correcting unit configured to control the portion of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080218458 - Color display system: A color display device including: at least one spatial light modulation element forming a display picture by modulated light obtained by modulating illumination light, a color sequential light generation device changing in a time series the illumination light or the modulated light into multiple groups of different color lights in... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218459 - Electronic display device: An electronic display device having viewing-angle adjusting and stereoscopic-image displaying functions. The display device includes a display unit for displaying an image and a liquid crystal barrier disposed in front of the display unit. The barrier includes: first and second substrates facing each other; a liquid crystal layer disposed between... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080218460 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a conversion portion processing a plurality of data signals to increase at least one of a plurality of gray levels of the plurality of n-bit data signals; a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels supplied with the plurality of data signals processed;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080218461 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device in which: there are provided lenticular lenses 1 and color separation filters, associated with a subpixel row direction, on the backlight 59 side with respect to lenticular lenses 1; and there are arranged, in a RGW row, a color separation filter 19B reflecting B wavelengths,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080218464 - Device control apparatus and image display apparatus: A device control apparatus that controls an image display device including a plurality of main scan lines is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a cumulative correction value calculation section that calculates, in response to an input image signal, a cumulative correction value in accordance with a cumulative value of each gray-scale... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218463 - Display device and method for driving the same: A display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The display device driving method includes applying a first gray scale display voltage according to a first gamma curve to a liquid crystal layer during a first sub-frame period and applying a second gray scale display voltage according... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080218462 - Method for driving electro-optic device, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus: A method for diving an electro-optic device including a pair of substrates sandwiching an electro-optic layer, and first and second electrodes disposed on one of the pair of substrates, the first electrode being used to drive the electro-optic layer, the second electrode being disposed closer to the electro-optic layer than... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218465 - Display panel, display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display panel, a display apparatus and the driving method thereof are provided. The gate control signals can interactively control more number of scan lines by disposing corresponding switches between the adjacent scan lines in the display panel, wherein every two scan lines correspond to a gate control signal, so... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080218466 - Display device and electronic equipment: A display device includes a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix state and a drive circuit selecting respective pixels in the display unit by each row and giving additional potential to pixel electrodes of the pixels by using coupling, in which the drive circuit has a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20080218467 - Backlight controller and scaling factor using full range search and local range search method: A backlight controller generating a scaling factor for scaling the intensity of a backlight illuminating a LCD (LCD) is provided. The backlight controller includes a histogram generator and a scaling factor selector. The histogram generator generates a histogram in response to an input frame image of the LCD. The scaling... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080218470 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an image display body having a front surface that rewritably displays image information and a light unit that illuminates the front surface of the image display body. The light unit has a light source and a light-transmitting sheet-shaped first lighting member superimposed over the front surface... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080218468 - Method and apparatus for controlling power of display device based on histogram of input image and display device including the apparatus: A method and an apparatus for controlling a power of a display device including a backlight, and a display device having a power controlling function are provided. The apparatus includes: a histogram analyzer that analyzes a histogram of an input image signal including one or more color components, and determines... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218469 - Transient liquid crystal architecture: Methods and systems for displaying videos with high contrast using fast transient response of liquid crystal materials are disclosed. The system comprises a liquid crystal material treated with a chiral dopant, which is aligned between two substrates with conductive layer on each substrate. The system can be operated in an... Agent: Groover & Associates

20080218471 - Electrophoretic display with thermal control: An electrophoretic display (EPD) with thermal control is disclosed for controlling and maintaining an image in extreme temperature environments. Techniques are also disclosed for maintaining the EPD cell threshold voltage for EPD cells comprising an EPD display media at or above a desired level in an environment in which the... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080218473 - Enhanced artificial intelligence language: A method of determining an appropriate response to an input includes linking a plurality of attributes to a plurality of response templates using a plurality of Boolean expressions. Each attribute is associated with a set of patterns. Each pattern within the set of patterns is equivalent. The method also includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080218472 - Interface to convert mental states and facial expressions to application input: A method of interacting with an application includes receiving, in a processor, data generated based on signals from one or more bio-signal detectors on a user, the data representing a mental state or facial expression of the user, generating an input event based on the data representing the mental state... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080218475 - Method and apparatus for dynamically modifying web page display for mobile devices: A method of dynamically modifying web page displays used in various mobile devices. The method uses a motion detection mechanism to detect whether the mobile device is moving or in motion and then modifies web page displays sent to the device based upon the sensor readings. As such, the method,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080218474 - Ultra thin optical pointing device and personal portable device having the same: The present invention relates to an ultra thin optical pointing device, and a personal portable device having the optical pointing device. The optical pointing device includes a PCB (508). An infrared LED (501) is provided on a side of the top surface of the PCB. A cover plate (503) detects... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080218476 - Apparatus and method for wrist supporting movement translator and mouse button device: A movement translator configured to be worn on a wrist for transmitting movement information relative to an external surface. The movement translator may include an enclosure. The enclosure may include an arcuate wrist supportive concave surface having a shallow wrist-rest and an enclosure side. An adjustable strap may cooperate with... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p.

20080218477 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is described. The main body has a base part and a movable part. The movable part is slidingly connected with the base part and the movable part slides along a plane that is parallel to the base part. A cover is pivotally connected with the main body... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080218478 - Separable and shape-changeable mouse: A separable and shape-changeable mouse includes a first housing, a second housing, a first connecting member and a second connecting member. The first housing includes a cursor signal generation unit, a first slant and a first connecting member. The second housing includes a receptacle for accommodating a battery therein, a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080218481 - Apparatus having liquid crystal touch panel and operation keys: In one embodiment, the present invention provides an apparatus having a liquid crystal touch panel and operation keys, the liquid crystal touch panel displaying display buttons, and the operation keys being outside of the liquid crystal touch panel, and the display buttons of the liquid crystal touch panel and the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080218479 - Device having a joystick keypad: A device includes a display for displaying images relating to the operation of the device and a controller for controlling the display. The controller includes a layered menu structure and a joystick for moving a cursor in menus and making selections. The device further includes a function key. The controller... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080218480 - Display and keypad assembly and mobile telephone that includes said assembly: Assembly suitable for applying to appliances that are used with one hand, which includes a casing (2), and is characterised in that the display (3) is mounted on the upper side (2a) of said casing (2) and the keypad (4) on the lower side (2b) thereof, with said keypad (4)... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080218482 - Input apparatus: The invention provides an input apparatus, which includes a signal-scanning line, a plurality of signal-outputting lines, an output end, and a plurality of first keys. In addition, the signal-scanning line has a first signal level, whereas each of the signal-outputting lines has a second signal level. Moreover, the output end... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218483 - Apparatus and method for a converged keyboard and remote control device: Apparatus and method for a converged remote control and keyboard device. An embodiment of an apparatus comprises a remote control, a keyboard and a processor to receive a control signal to determine whether to enable functionality of the remote control or functionality of the keyboard. Other embodiments are described and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080218484 - Input apparatus, mobile apparatus, and information recording medium: Keys that structure the keyboard have a diamond-shaped form that is symmetrical in both the vertical and the horizontal directions, disposed so that none of the edges of the surface in which the keyboard is formed are parallel with any of the edges of the diamond shapes. To each key... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080218488 - Active driving type visual-tactile display device: Provided is an active driving type visual and tactile display device, in which a flat panel display device for visually displaying an image and a haptic part for generating a tactile sense using an electrostatic force are integrated to generate textures according to an electrostatic force based on an image... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080218487 - Capacitive-type touch pad having special arrangement of capacitance sensor: A touch pad has a controller circuitry for generating an X-Y coordinate signal; a touch screen connecting with the controller circuitry, which has a transparent substrate and a transparent conductive film provided at the transparent substrate. The transparent conductive film having a plurality of capacitance sensors distributed along an X-coordinate... Agent: Hdsl

20080218486 - Contextual touch panel: In one embodiment, a touch panel for an electronic device includes: an electronic display; a frame bordering the display, the frame including a plurality of icons each representing a device control and wherein any icon representing a control that is available for a device function appearing on the display is... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080218489 - Display device and method of driving the same: A method of driving a display device having a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sensing units, and a plurality of sense data lines to which the plurality of sensing units are connected, includes: reading sense signals from the sense data lines; determining whether or not the display has been... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080218493 - Display with motion sensor: The present disclosure provides for a display device for interfacing with a control and/or automation system. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for an improved display device for interfacing with a control and/or automation system, wherein the electronic display device includes a motion sensor or the like. In exemplary embodiments,... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20080218491 - Input interface and input method: An input interface for an electronic apparatus includes a touchpad, a touch sensor, a touch command generator, a push sensor and a push command generator. The touchpad has a plurality of keys arranged thereon. The touch sensor senses whether an object touches one of the keys. The touch command generator... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080218485 - Sensor array: Embodiments of a sensor array are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080218490 - Terminal and method of controlling terminal: A terminal and a method of controlling the terminal are provided. The method of controlling a terminal receives a touch input while performing real-time communication, and transmits the input data to another party's terminal. Therefore, while performing real-time communication with another party, an operation of user may be transmitted to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218492 - Touch panel: A touch panel which is not deteriorated in the linearity of electric potential gradient despite having a protruding portion. In the touch panel, the local protruding region of at least one of a pair of electrode plates is electrically insulated from the transparent conductive film. The at least one electrode... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080218494 - Touch detection for a digitizer: A detector for detecting touches of at least one object on a transparent sensor located over a display screen, the detector comprising. a display screen; a patterned arrangement of conductors extending into said sensor situated over said display screen; and detection circuitry adapted to detect capacitive coupling of said at... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080218495 - Circuit capable of selectively operating in either an inspecting mode or a driving mode for a display: A circuit capable of selectively operating in an inspecting mode or a driving mode for a display is formed in an integrated circuit and on a glass substrate. The circuit in the IC has a control circuit, a first input circuit, a second input circuit and a fourth input circuit.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080218499 - Display device: To shorten the measuring time of the characteristics of light emission of OLED elements for feedback to image data for image display in an organic EL display device. Pixels that emit red lights, pixels that emit green lights, and pixels that emit blue lights are arranged on a screen in... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080218498 - Image display control device and image display control method: An image display control device, which can communicate with an image formation device having an authentication function, an imaging device for acquiring an image of an operator of the image formation device, and a recording management server for storing the acquired image respectively through a network, comprises: a first display... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080218496 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention generally relates to an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) device, and more specifically, to an LCD device which comprises a driving circuit comprising: a data comparator for storing video data inputted in a previous stage from a timing generator, comparing size of the stored previous video data with... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080218497 - Method for driving pixel circuit, electro-optic device, and electronic apparatus: There is provided a method for driving a pixel circuit including a light-emitting element that emits light whose amount corresponds to a driving current, a driver transistor that supplies the driving current to the light-emitting element, a first transistor provided between a gate of the driver transistor and a drain... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218500 - Display driver: A liquid crystal display device includes, in one of an even row and an odd row of a liquid crystal panel, a switch for short-circuiting, for example, an even signal line and an odd signal line adjacent on the left side to the even signal line, and a switch for... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080218501 - Display illumination system and method: The present invention provides automatic adjustments to an image presentation based upon changes in ambient light. The adjustments can be made to the back-lighting and/or the pixel data. The ambient lighting can be measured by a variety of sensors (e.g., a digital camera) from a variety of orientations. For example,... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080218502 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: A display apparatus includes a gate driver which sequentially outputs a gate signal at a high state in response to a gate control signal and a data driver which converts image data into a data signal in response to a data control signal. The display apparatus further includes a display... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080218504 - Power supply and driver for plasma display panel: A plasma display panel having a power supply unit connected to a scan driver without a bootstrap circuit. The driver includes a power supply unit supplying a first output voltage of a first level and has a pair of output terminals, a scan driving unit comprising a first driving switch... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080218503 - Power supply, plasma display including power supply, and method of driving plasma display: In a power supply, a plasma display including the power supply, and a method of driving the plasma display, a DC voltage output by a power factor correction unit is converted into a voltage Vs supplied to a sustain or scan electrode during a sustain period, and the voltage Vs... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080218505 - Image display apparatus for controlling an external data transmitting device using a usb connector and a method thereof: An image display apparatus which controls an external device transmitting data using a USB connector is provided. The image display apparatus includes a first connector and a second connector which receive an image signal, respectively, a display unit which selectively displays the image signal input via the first connector and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080218507 - Digital image display: A digital image display capable of controlling an image signal output to a display screen portion, particularly capable of precisely controlling the phase of the image signal, regardless of provision/nonprovision of a function of communicating with an image signal output device is obtained. This digital image display includes an analog-to-digital... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080218506 - Single coil parallel imaging: An imaging apparatus for an object in change includes an MRI system having a computer, a first channel and at least a second channel which produce corresponding images of the object in change. The computer combining the individual images into a composite image of the object. Alternatively, the MRI system... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080218510 - 3d-2d adaptive shape model supported motion compensated recnstruction: A method for generating or reconstruction of three-dimensional (3D) images corresponding to a structure of interest (60) including: acquiring a plurality of image projections corresponding to a structure of interest (60); applying a shape model (66) at a selected 3D seed point (64); and adapting the shape model (66) to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080218511 - Design method and recording media: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises an extracting detailed shape information which is unnecessary for a simulation from data of a three-dimension CAD model, simplifying the detailed shape information, and creating a simplified model in which the detailed shape information included in the data of three-dimension... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080218508 - Generation of 3d look-up tables for image processing devices: An image processor is disclosed which is capable of automatically generating a series of test signals, running the test signals through its image processing software and hardware, and capturing the resulting output signals to automatically generate a 3D LUT that represents most or all of the imaging processing steps being... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080218509 - Method and system for repairing triangulated surface meshes: A method of repairing a three dimensional surface mesh model to be watertight and manifold generally includes identifying a plurality of hole edges in the surface mesh model, selecting one of the hole edges, creating a cycle of hole edges that defines a hole in the surface mesh model, converting... Agent: Sjm/afd-wiley

20080218512 - System and method for interactive masking and modifying of 3d objects: A system and method for providing an intuitive and efficient mechanism to select areas of interest on a 3D model, and modify a pose or shape of the 3D model. A masking module allows an artist to interactively mask portions of a 3D object and leave other portions of the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080218513 - Triangulation method of a surface of a physical object: An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method for producing a triangulation of a surface of a physical object the method comprising the steps of generating an intermediate mesh representation of the surface out of surface voxels (102) and detecting at least one T-junction in the intermediate mesh representation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080218514 - Method and apparatus for generating and interfacing with a haptic virtual reality environment: A method for generating a haptic interactive representation including the steps of defining a haptic interaction space and building a hierarchical construct, for use within the haptic interaction space, using a plurality of underlying constructs. In one embodiment the method includes determining the forces to be applied to a user... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080218515 - Three-dimensional-image display system and displaying method: A three-dimensional-image display system generates a first physical-calculation model generator that expresses a real object, based on both position/posture information expressing a position and posture of the real object, and attribute information expressing attribute of the real object. The three-dimensional-image display system displays a three-dimensional image within a display space,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080218517 - System and method for calculating multi-resolution dynamic ambient occlusion: A system and method for generating a three-dimensional image is provided. An embodiment of the present invention includes calculating the ambient occlusion at a vertex in multiple, independent stages. Determining the global AO at the vertex may be performed using a first technique. Determining the local AO at the vertex... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080218516 - System and method for factorizing light in a sequence of images: A method factorizing a sequence of images acquired of a scene into lighting components. The scene is illuminated by a moving light source. An appearance profile is constructed for each pixel in the sequence of images. The appearance profile is a vector representing intensities of the pixel at instances in... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080218518 - Balancing collections of vertices in a network: A representation of a network having vertices connected by arcs is provided. Different collections of vertices in the network are iteratively selected. Balancing moves are performed in corresponding collections of the network, where the collections are represented by corresponding graphs according to a predefined structure.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080218519 - Graph embedding techniques: Approaches to embedding source graphs into targets graphs in a computing system are disclosed. Such may be advantageously facilitate computation with computing systems that employ one or more analog processors, for example one or more quantum processors.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080218520 - Acceleration of triangle scan conversion through minor direction detection: A method and system for performing triangle scan conversion in a manner that reduces the number of scanlines generated when performing rasterization. The method includes determining a width and a height of a triangle to be rasterized. A minor axis is established in a direction of the shorter of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080218521 - Offset tiles in vector graphics: An efficient rendering method for processing computer graphics in tiles. First a frame of data, typically at least one polygon, is received for rendering. While rendering a polygon the tile for the polygon is assigned so that it minimizes the number of the tiles needed for processing the polygon. It... Agent: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. C/o Vedder Price P.c.

20080218522 - Scalable stroke font system and method: A method of creating font format data from source font data includes analyzing the source font data to obtain glyph data for a plurality of glyphs, dissecting the glyph data, extracting midline data from the dissected glyph data, classifying the midline data as unique element data and common element data,... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080218523 - System and method for navigation of display data: Navigating display data (e.g., large documents) on an electronic display is described in which a first set of visual indicators are layered over the portion of the portion of data displayed on the electronic display. The user selects a particular navigation task, which selection signal is received by the navigation... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP (adobe)

20080218524 - Display apparatus, displaying method and computer readable medium: The display apparatus is provided with: a display that displays a raw image and an identification image by which an electronic document is identifiable within a screen including at least two areas, the raw image representing a content of the electronic document, the identification image being smaller than the raw... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080218525 - Memory system and method for improved utilization of read and write bandwidth of a graphics processing system: A system and method for processing graphics data which improves utilization of read and write bandwidth of a graphics processing system. The graphics processing system includes an embedded memory array having at least three separate banks of single-ported memory in which graphics data are stored in memory page format. A... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080218526 - System and method for image-based rendering with object proxies: A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing direction for rendering; selecting at least two view textures from the formed set based on the selected viewing... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080218527 - Method and apparatus for improving hit rates of a cache memory for storing texture data during graphics rendering: A method for improving hit rates of a cache memory for storing texture data during graphics rendering is disclosed. In response to a request for a mipmap block from a first mipmap to render a texture, a determination is made whether or not the mipmap block from the first mipmap... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080218528 - Determination method of edge direction: An edge direction determination method for a pixel of a display picture. The display picture has a corresponding edge map. The pixel has corresponding pixel direction pairs. First, in step (a), it is judged whether the pixel is an edge pixel according to the edge map. Next, in step (b),... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080218529 - Image creating device, load display method, recording medium, and program: An operation input reception unit (201) receives an operation input for a virtual vehicle to be run on the running path. A running condition managing unit (203) manages the running condition of the virtual vehicle based on the received operation input. A load calculation unit (205) calculates a load imposed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080218530 - Displaying data sensitive targets: Users are often in environments that require specific inputs into a device. However, it can be advantageous to display a limited number of targets to a user for inputting information. Therefore, the can be a selection of a limited target set based on a user activity and/or environment. The limited... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080218531 - System and method for visualization and interaction with spatial objects: A computer program product including machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the product for assembling and providing a visual interface for a user to interact with spatial information, the product including: a build subsystem for assembling spatial information by converting drawings including the spatial information into scalable vector... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080218532 - Canvas-like authoring experience atop a layout engine: An apparatus and method provide for modifying a graphical layout intelligently. Objects may be placed in a grid structure which may include any number of rows and columns. In additional display elements such as icons or other adornments may be displayed corresponding to design functionality. The layout may function in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080218533 - Terminal apparatus and processing program thereof: In the terminal apparatus, a CPU 100 reads out a simultaneous/switch display condition that is currently employed from display control table information stored in a simultaneous/switch display condition memory section 102c, and identifies whether a screen display instruction operation instructs a switch display or a simultaneous display in accordance with... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080218534 - Displaying of item through electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus, a computer program product and a method of displaying an item using the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory for storing an item list having at least one item, a display for displaying at least one object capable of fluidly moving and corresponding to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080218537 - Color display system: A color display device including: at least one spatial light modulation element forming a display picture by modulated light obtained by modulating illumination light, a color sequential light generation device changing in a time series the illumination light or the modulated light into multiple groups of different color lights in... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080218536 - Method for driving image display apparatus: c

20080218535 - Portable electronic device with auto-dim timers: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. In some embodiments, the time period after which the display is dimmed due to user inactivity is extended based on user interaction with the device subsequent to a dimming event. The dim time can be extended for a single application,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080211732 - Driver for operating multiple display devices: A driver chip for controlling a high-resolution display panel is presented. The driver chip is not much larger than a conventional driver chip that is currently used for lower resolution display panels. The driver chip applies data signals to the data lines of the display panel and gate control signals... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211731 - Video data transmitting apparatus, communication system, display device, and video transmitting method: A video data transmitting apparatus includes a memory to store management information indicating corresponding relation between identification information elements for identifying a plurality of stackable display devices and orders of the display devices, an image data generator to generate a plurality of image data streams having a sequence according to... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080211734 - Combined single/multiple view-display: The present invention relates to a display device comprising an outer display stacked with an inner display and being arranged to be operable in a first, multiple view mode and a second, single view mode. An idea of the invention is to arrange an electrophoretic display on top of an... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080211733 - Partially flexible displays device: The present invention provides a partially flexible display device (30) including at least one relatively flexible display region (54) and at least one relatively non-flexible display region (56); whereby the at least one relatively flexible display region (54) and the at least one relatively non-flexible display region (56) share a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080211735 - Rear seat entertainment system: A rear seat entertainment system (50) is disclosed. The rear seat entertainment system (50) includes a rear view imaging device (54) that captures one or more images (I) behind a vehicle (10) and a display device (52) including a first viewing surface (58) and a second viewing surface (60). The... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080211737 - Three-dimensional display apparatus using intermediate elemental images: A three-dimensional image display apparatus using an intermediate elemental image is disclosed. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional image display apparatus includes: i) an image input unit, generating a plurality of elemental images extracted from a three-dimensional object, the elemental images have different perspectives, ii) an image processing unit, generating an... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080211736 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus: A three-dimensional image display apparatus includes an image display configured to output image light which arrays a plurality of pixels and has polarization, a lens array arranged in front of the image display, configured to function as lens at light which has a 1st polarization direction, and not to function... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080211738 - Chassis base assembly and display apparatus including the same: Provided is a chassis base assembly and a display apparatus including the same. The chassis base assembly includes a chassis base having a plurality of protrusions disposed thereon, the plurality of protrusions extending parallel to each other on the chassis base; and a circuit board disposed on the chassis base... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080211740 - Display driving device: In a display driving device which performs scan driving of a PDP or similar, to enable rapid scan operation, reduction of the chip size, and lowering of costs, as well as elimination of coupling problems. The display driving device is provided with a pull-up switching element Nu connected to a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080211739 - Plasma display panel: A PDP with improved durability is provided. The PDP includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate. An electrode sheet is between the first substrate and the second substrate. The electrode sheet includes barrier ribs, a plurality of discharge cells, discharge electrodes for generating discharge in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080211741 - Drive method of plasma display panel: A drive method of a plasma display panel that can increase the dark contrast, without causing a discharge failure. When a discharge cell that assumes a black display state in a first field from among first and a second fields that are adjacent in time and switches to a display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080211742 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: There is provided a plasma display apparatus comprising a plasma display panel and a driver. The plasma display panel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The driver alternately supplies a first sustain signal and a second sustain signal to the first electrode and the second electrode in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211743 - Plasma display device and driving method of plasma display panel: A driving method of a plasma display panel including a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes formed in a direction to be intersected with the first electrodes and the second electrodes is disclosed. The method includes resetting the electrodes by applying... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080211746 - Driving circuit for an oled (organic light emission diode), in particular for a display of the am-oled type: A driving circuit of an OLED diode is inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and having at least one input terminal receiving an input voltage signal and an output terminal for the generation of a driving current of the OLED diode, the driving circuit having at least... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080211747 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display includes a first switching element including a control electrode electrically coupled to a scan line and between a data line and a first voltage line, a driving transistor electrically coupled between the first voltage line and a second voltage line, a second switching element including... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080211744 - Organic light emitting display and driving circuit thereof: An organic light emitting display includes a first light emitting control driver electrically coupled to a clock line, a negative clock line, and an initial driving line, and adapted to output a first light emitting control signal via a first light emitting control line, a first pixel unit electrically coupled... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080211745 - Organic light emitting display and driving circuit thereof: A driving circuit including a plurality of light emitting control drivers includes an input terminal coupled to an initial driving line or a light emitting negative control line of a previous light emitting control driver, a first clock terminal and a second clock terminal that are electrically coupled to a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080211748 - Display screen addressing system: A display device comprising individual elements wherein the placement, on each element, of an electronic microcircuit capable of recognizing its address among those of other microcircuits connected in parallel to the common addressing electrodes, recording the brightness data sent to its address and modulating the brightness of its display element... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080211749 - Method for grayscale rendition in am-oled: The present invention relates to a grayscale rendition method in an active matrix OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) where each cell of the display is controlled via an association of several Thin-Film Transistors (TFTs). In order to improve the grayscale rendition in an AM-OLED when displaying low grayscale levels and/or... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080211750 - Resistance balance circuit: This invention discloses a resistance balance circuit including: at least two electronic components aligned in a row matrix, connected to one another in parallel, thereby forming a row matrix structure; an input end disposed at one end of the row matrix structure and configured for entry of current passing the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211751 - Active matrix display devices having improved opening and contrast ratios and methods of forming same: Active matrix display devices having improved opening and contrast ratios utilize light blocking lines to improve display contrast ratios yet position the light blocking lines on the same level of metallization as the gate lines to thereby limit parasitic capacitive coupling between the data lines and the pixel electrodes. The... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211754 - Display device, method of manufacturing the same and display panel for the same: A display device includes a display panel, an application module, a printed circuit film and a driving unit. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel portions formed in a display area, at least one output pad formed in a first peripheral area that is formed at a first side... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211756 - Driving method of liquid crystal display apparatus, driving apparatus of liquid crystal display apparatus, and program thereof: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of areas in which response speeds greatly different from each other coexist in a pixel. A first replacement process section replaces the image data of the desired target frame with a first gradation, when a gradation transition from a current frame to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211755 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A method of optimizing pixel signals for a liquid crystal display includes receiving the first, second and third pixel signals for the (n−1), (n) and (n+1)th frames. The first and second pixel signals are compared to determine if the second pixel signal requires overshooting or undershooting. The second and third... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080211752 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Provided are a liquid crystal display device capable of improving motion image quality and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit, an overdriving compensation unit, a selection unit, and a data selection control unit.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211753 - Liquid crystal display driving apparatus and method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) driving apparatus and the method thereof is disclosed. The method receives a pixel and drives a pixel of the LCD according to the pixel value During a frame period, wherein the frame period is divided into a precharge field and a compensation field. Firstly, a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080211759 - Digital image displays: A method of adjusting a signal for a digital display where the input signal includes a number of discrete input intensity values which causes the display to give actual output signals having discrete output intensity values, and where the relationship between the input signal to actual output signal departs from... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080211757 - Image processing device and method thereof and image display device: Gray scale distribution of an input image signal is obtained through statistics to determine the contrast characteristic of the input image signal. Based on the gray scale distribution, by a look up table, corresponding gamma setting values are derived and stored in a register. The register outputs the stored gamma... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080211758 - Liquid crystal display having gray voltages and driving apparatus and method thereof: An apparatus of driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a gray voltage generator generating a range of gray voltages that correspond to different LC light transmittance levels. These gray voltages, along with image data, are fed into a data driver. The data driver converts the gray voltages to a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211760 - Liquid crystal display and gate driving circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display and a dual gate driving circuit therefor wherein the number of signal lines are reduced by sharing a start pulse and an output signal of a dummy stage. The liquid crystal display includes a timing controller generating an output enable signal, a gate clock, and a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211762 - Apparatus for adjusting luminance, display device having the same and method of adjusting luminance: An apparatus for adjusting luminance includes a comparing part, a summing part, a mode selecting part, an inverting part and a decoding part. The comparing part compares a photo sensing voltage with a reference voltage in each of a plurality of sensing periods and generating a photo sensing signal. The... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080211763 - Device and method for adjusting backlight brightness: A device and method for adjusting backlight brightness employed in a display. The device has a buffer, a counter, and a comparator. The buffer receives and stores an image data of a frame. The counter receives the image data and obtains an image-loading value of the image data. The comparator... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080211761 - Display unit, display device and information processing apparatus: A display unit having a pivot function and prolonged lives of light sources has been implemented according to the present invention. The display unit includes; a screen that is changeable between a first position and a second position and displays an image; at least one first light source that illuminates... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080211764 - Stylus-based addressing structures for displays: Novel addressing schemes for controlling electronically addressable displays include a scheme for rear-addressing displays, which allows for in-plane switching of the display material. Other schemes include a rear-addressing scheme which uses a retroreflecting surface to enable greater viewing angle and contrast. Another scheme includes an electrode structure that facilitates manufacture... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080211765 - Stylus-based addressing structures for displays: Novel addressing schemes for controlling electronically addressable displays include a scheme for rear-addressing displays, which allows for in-plane switching of the display material. Other schemes include a rear-addressing scheme which uses a retroreflecting surface to enable greater viewing angle and contrast. Another scheme includes an electrode structure that facilitates manufacture... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080211766 - Multitouch data fusion: A method for performing multi-touch (MT) data fusion is disclosed in which multiple touch inputs occurring at about the same time are received to generating first touch data. Secondary sense data can then be combined with the first touch data to perform operations on an electronic device. The first touch... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080211767 - System for printing coded data providing interaction with computer software: A system for enabling user interaction with computer software. The system includes a printer for receiving print data, printing a form, using the print data, with information related to an interactive element coincident with coded data indicative of the interactive element, receiving indicating data from a sensing device which is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080211768 - Inertial sensor input device: Head motion input devices for providing control to a computer are described.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080211769 - Input device for content providing device and method of operating the same: An input device for a content providing device and a method of operating the same are provided. The input device includes: a pressure sensor having first pressure pads varying impedance according to contact strength, and periodically generating and outputting first pressure data having values corresponding to impedance of each of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080211770 - Pointing device, portable terminal, point information generation method, and portable terminal strap: A pointing device includes a plurality of magnetic sensors and a point information generator. The point information generator generates one of positional information and moving information on a magnetic source based on outputs from the plurality of magnetic sensors.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080211771 - Approach for merging scaled input of movable objects to control presentation of aspects of a shared virtual environment: A system for controlling operation of a computer. The system includes, a sensing apparatus configured to obtain positional data of a sensed object controllable by a first user, such positional data varying in response to movement of the sensed object, and engine software operatively coupled with the sensing apparatus and... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080211772 - Successively layered modular construction for a portable computer system: A modular portable computer system is described. A top modular layer with a coupled display interface and adapted to be interconnected with other modular layers. A second modular layer is interconnected with the top modular layer and other modular layers, for providing a power source to supply operating power to... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080211773 - Locus smoothing method and pointing device utilising the same: A pointing device with a locus smoothing function. The pointing device comprises a locus processing circuit receiving a digitized displacement and executing an accumulation procedure to generate an accumulated value of displacement, wherein when the accumulated value satisfies a preset condition, the accumulated value is output to a processing device... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080211774 - Cordless mouse apparatus having internet phone based on bluetooth protocol, operation method thereof, and communication system having internet phone based on bluetooth protocol: A Bluetooth-based cordless mouse apparatus has a communication function of an internet phone and optionally further has a USB mass storage so as to enhance a user's convenience and improve voice quality. This apparatus provides several functions such as a wireless mouse, a wireless keypad, a USB mass storage, a... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080211775 - 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

20080211776 - Keypad assembly having light leakage prevention structure: A keypad assembly having a light leakage prevention structure includes a switch board having at least one switch; a light guide panel mounted on the switch board, light propagating inside the light guide panel; and a first light blocking member stacked on a lateral surface of the light guide panel,... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080211777 - Stroke number input: Stroke number input may be provided. A first integer corresponding to a number of stokes in a logogram or corresponding to a radical associated with the logogram may be received. If the first integer corresponds to the radical, a second integer corresponding to the number of stokes in the logogram... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080211780 - Component for use as a portable computing device and pointing device in a modular computing system: A core component is disclosed which includes a processing module and a touch screen. The core component may operate by itself in a first mode to perform functions similar to that of a conventional personal digital assistant (PDA). In particular, the touch screen may both provide visual output and receive... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080211779 - Control systems employing novel physical controls and touch screens: Disclosed are methods and apparatus, which enable the reconfigurable control of vehicles, homes, computers and other applications. Physical controls and virtual displayed controls on single and multipoint touch screens are used, separately or in combination to enable higher visibility and understanding of control information and easier operation of controls, particularly... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080211783 - 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

20080211784 - 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

20080211785 - 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

20080211781 - Photoelectric transducer capable of detecting a finger resting on it, and display panel having the same: A photoelectric transducer according to this invention includes a photoelectric-transducer element array which has a first and a second regions in which a first and a second photoelectric transducer elements having a photoelectric transducer part are arranged, respectively, and a light-emitting member which is arranged below the photoelectric-transducer element array.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080211778 - Screen rotation gestures on a portable multifunction device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display includes displaying information on the touch screen display in a portrait orientation. The method also includes detecting simultaneous rotation of two thumbs in a first sense of rotation on the touch... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080211782 - Touch simulation system and method: Systems and methods provide for simulating an effective touch on a touch screen sensor. A touch screen sensor includes a first surface, an opposing second surface, and one or more electrodes disposed on or proximate to the second surface. Signals are applied to the first and second surfaces in a... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080211786 - Display device: A display device, includes: a touch panel which outputs a predetermined enable signal corresponding to an external pressure; a display panel which includes a light detector responding to external light and generating a predetermined electrical signal representing the position of the light; and a panel driver which forms an image... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211787 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display panel configured to have a plurality of scanning lines for which liquid crystal display elements each containing an optical input device and a display pixel are arranged, respectively, a backlight configured to be arranged facing the display panel to illuminate the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211791 - Differential signaling system and flat panel display with the same: A differential signaling system where a first wire and a second wire are connected to a sending end and a receiving end of a differential signal line. A termination resistor is connected between the first wire and the second wire adjacent to the receiving end. A programmable compensation circuit is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080211793 - Driving apparatus for an oled panel: A driving apparatus for an OLED panel comprises a common timing controller with a multi-line addressing algorithm and a segment controller with the multi-line addressing algorithm, to control a common driver and a segment driver, respectively, to drive the OLED panel. The common driver and the segment driver are connected... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080211794 - Driving circuit, timing controller, and driving method for tft lcd: A TFT LCD driving circuit, a timing controller and a method for reducing the power consumption thereof are disclosed, wherein the timing controller includes a video data determining circuit, and a power-saving source/gate timing control circuit. The video data determining circuit receives a video data and obtains an effective resolution... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080211795 - Driving method for plasma display panel and driving circuit for plasma display panel: A length of an addressing period in a first sub-field is made shorter as time from an end of a second sub-field which provides light emission just previously to the first sub-field in a frame including the first and second sub-fields to a start of the first sub-field decreases, and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080211792 - Liquid crystal display and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing over the gate lines while being electrically insulated from the gate lines. Pixels are placed at the cross regions of the gate and the data lines arranged in a matrix form. Each pixel... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080211790 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver, a data driver, and an initial driving control unit. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells. Each liquid crystal cell is defined by a gate line, a data line and a thin film... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080211788 - Method for displaying images and display apparatus using the same: A method for displaying images in a display apparatus is provided herein. In the display apparatus, an image is displayed during each frame period of a plurality of contiguous frames. At first, original images are received, and each of the received original images is composed of M number of contiguous... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080211796 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display, including a driving transistor electrically coupled to a first power line, a first switch electrically coupled to the driving transistor and an emission line, a second switch electrically coupled to the driving transistor and a previous scan line, a third switch electrically coupled to the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080211789 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a display panel including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes; a selection circuit connected to a corresponding one of the scan electrodes, and selectively applies first and second voltages to the corresponding scan electrode; an energy recovery circuit connected to a sustain voltage source for supplying... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080211797 - Organic light emitting display and driving circuit thereof: An organic light emitting display and a driving circuit therefor to prevent a variation in scanning signals supplied to scan lines due to coupling capacitance caused by scan lines and data lines that intersect each other and to prevent a variation in the scanning signals due to a leakage current... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080211798 - Pixel control device and display apparatus utilizing said pixel control device: A pixel control device and a display apparatus using said pixel control device are provided. The pixel control apparatus is electrically connected to a sub-pixel area to provide a first voltage level and a second voltage level to the sub-pixel area. A scan line of the pixel control device transmits... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080211800 - Display device: A display device is driven through no wire cable such as an FPC, and a display image is continuously held for a certain period of time by storing an image signal received from a wireless communication device so that the display image can be held even when the display device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080211799 - Driving mechanism for thick liquid crystal cell: An optimized driving method for thick liquid crystal cavity rap (thick cell) type liquid crystal panel, that is used for common electrode driving of liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, wherein a second DC or AC adjustable-period or tunable power source is applied to drive the common electrode of the LCD... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080211801 - Display apparatus driving method, display apparatus driving device, program therefor, recording medium storing program, and display apparatus: A control section is disclosed which divides a display screen into small regions, evaluates the relative brightness of each of the small regions in accordance with color data to be inputted as color data by which each pixel is displayed, and determines whether or not the display screen has a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211802 - Display device and control method of the same: A display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels in a matrix form, an image signal comparator which compares image signals corresponding to at least two successive frames and increases a count value if a proportion of the image signals that are the same as each... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080211803 - Graphic processor and information processing device: An information processing apparatus 1000 includes a main processor 200 which exercises centralized control on the entire apparatus, a graphic processor 100 which performs image processing operations, and a main memory 50. The graphic processor 100 includes a control unit 20 which exercises centralized control on the graphic processor, and... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080211805 - Method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video: A method and system for minimizing an amount of data needed to test data against subarea boundaries in spatially composited digital video. Spatial compositing uses a graphics unit or pipeline to render a portion (subarea) of each overall frame of digital video images. This reduces the amount of data that... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080211804 - Method for hybrid rasterization and raytracing with consistent programmable shading: A method of generating a computer image wherein secondary raytrace vectors are calculated for the image after the image is rendered using rasterization. The secondary raytrace vectors are based on virtual camera angles that are stored during the rasterization process. The raytrace vectors can be calculated using the same processor... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080211806 - Rendering apparatus, rendering processing method and computer program product: A setup section acquires vertex data including at least homogeneous coordinate and window coordinate relevant to two vertexes of rendering primitive, that is, segment. An edge coefficient calculation unit calculates an edge coefficient used for determining whether or not a pixel exists inside a projection area (parallelogram) of the segment.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211807 - Mesh design method and tool: s

20080211808 - Method and device for acquisition of a geometric shape: According to the invention, a set of sensors (4a) is placed on this shape (curve or surface), each sensor outputting signals representative of the orientation of the curve or the surface at the location of this sensor; a model of the curve or the surface is chosen; model parameters are... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080211809 - Method, medium, and system with 3 dimensional object modeling using multiple view points: A modeling method, medium, and system. The modeling method may include specifying an object in a plurality of 2 dimensional (2D) images expressed from different view points, considering an edge and contents of each component of each 2D image, generating a 3 dimensional (3D) model of each specified object, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080211811 - Drawing apparatus for displaying image data about a plurality of objects including semitransparent object and opaque object on computer display screen: A drawing apparatus which can display image data about a plurality of objects including opaque objects and semitransparent objects, each having information about a depth direction, on a computer display screen.... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080211810 - Graphic rendering method and system comprising a graphic module: A method for rendering a three dimensional scene on a displaying screen comprises: generating for a tile of a current scene a hierarchical z-buffer which comprises a plurality of levels organized according to depth values; calculating a minimum depth value d of a submitted primitive; calculating an intersection area associated... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080211812 - Method and system for detection and registration of 3d objects using incremental parameter learning: A method and system for detecting 3D objects in images is disclosed. In particular, a method and system for Ileo-Cecal Valve detection in 3D computed tomography (CT) images using incremental parameter learning and ICV specific prior learning is disclosed. First, second, and third classifiers are sequentially trained to detect candidates... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080211813 - Device and method for light and shade simulation in an augmented-reality system: A device and a method guide light in an augmented-reality system, whereby a recorder unit, with an optical axis, records a real object and displays the same on a display unit. A data processing unit generates a virtual object and also displays the same on the display unit. Based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080211814 - Graphics generation device comprising means for monitoring its operation: The field of the invention relates to the operational safety, security and reliability of Man/Machine Interface systems displaying information in the form of graphics or symbology. The monitoring principles according to the prior art are all based on monitoring graphical information coming from the display system and the verification that... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080211815 - Mobile motion capture cameras: A system for capturing motion comprises: a motion capture volume configured to include at least one moving object having markers defining a plurality of points on the at least one moving object; at least one mobile motion capture camera, the at least one mobile motion capture camera configured to be... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080211817 - Internet-based application profile database server system for updating graphic application profiles (gaps) stored within the multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system of client machines running one or more graphic applications: An Internet-based application profile database server system for updating, graphic application profiles (GAPs) stored within a behavioral profile database in a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (MMPGRS) embodied within a client machine running one or more graphic applications. Each graphics application has a graphic application profile (GAP), and each client... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080211816 - Multiple parallel processor computer graphics system: An accelerated graphics processing subsystem combines the processing power of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) or video cards. Video processing by the multiple video cards is organized by time division such that each video card is responsible for video data processing during a different time period. For example, two video... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20080211818 - Graphics processor with integrated wireless circuit: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that are capable of processing graphics information and wirelessly transmitting processed graphics information to a monitor. In order to achieve a high bandwidth, one embodiment of the present invention provides a graphics processor chip that includes multiple RF transmitters such that processed graphics information can be... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080211819 - Raster image processor using a self-tuning banding mode: A raster image processor (RIP) using a self-tuning banding mode is disclosed. The RIP automatically and continuously adjusts the band size used for generating the raster image based on past performance (i.e. past data throughput values) and corresponding band sizes. At the start of each page of image, or after... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080211820 - Information processing device, graphic processor, control processor, and information processing method: An arithmetic processing unit in a graphics processor alternately executes a process of a first image processing which generates a main image of an application, i.e., a base image and a process of a second image processing which generates a display image eventually displayed by performing a desired processing of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080211821 - Apparatus and method for reducing output rate of video data: A method for reducing output rate of video data for DisplayPort sink device is disclosed. By reducing the size of a blank area in a video frame, the invention reduces a pixel rate to become compatible with more types of back-end circuits having lower processing rates.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080211822 - Method and system for loading of image resource: Disclosed are image resource loading method comprising the steps of: identifying source data associated with a particular cell from a predetermined basic recording space, in case that a rendering event for the cell occurs; sequentially moving (5) unit source data constituting the identified source data to a first loading queue... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080211824 - Portable communication terminal: There is provided a portable communication terminal capable of switching between icon display and non-display. Processes executed by a control unit of a portable phone which is an aspect of the portable communication terminal comprises the steps of detecting, during the execution of an icon-bar displaying process, a press of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211823 - Three-dimensional graphic accelerator and method of reading texture data: A three-dimensional (3D) graphic accelerator accessing an external memory storing a plurality of texture data is provided. The 3D graphic accelerator may include a texture cache storing the texture data, a geometry processing unit generating texture status information, and a texture processing unit generating a texture address to access the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080211826 - Circular intensity distribution analysis for the detection of convex, concave and flat surfaces: A method for characterizing a shape of an object surface includes acquiring image data including the object. The image data is analyzed at a locus of points that are at a predetermined distance from a point of interest proximate to the object surface to determine which of the locus of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080211825 - Display control apparatus, display apparatus, display control method, and display processing method: A display control apparatus comprising a division unit configured to divide image data into a plurality of image data, a position information generation unit configured to generate position identification information required to identify positions of the plurality of image data divided by said division unit; and an image data transmission... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080211827 - Filtering unit for floating-point texture data: Floating-point texture filtering units leverage existing fixed-point filter circuits. Groups of floating-point texture values are converted to products of a fixed-point mantissa and a scaling factor that is the same for each texture value in the group. The fixed-point mantissas are filtered using a fixed-point filter circuit, and the filtered... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080211829 - Driving device for quickly changing the gray level of the liquid crystal display and its driving method: A driving device for quickly changing the gray level of the liquid crystal display and its driving method are disclosed. The driving device includes a group of thin film transistors with matrix array, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The object of quickly changing the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080211828 - Method and apparatus for generating characteristic data of illumination around image display device: A method of generating illumination characteristic data around an image display device, includes making predetermined illumination characteristic data around the image display device into a data format comprising a type block and an illuminance block. The type block indicates information on a type of illumination, and the illuminance block indicates... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080211830 - Apparatus and method for video signal conversion: According to one embodiment, there is provided a video signal conversion apparatus including a determination unit which receives a video signal to determine whether the video signal is an xvYCC standard video signal or a YCBCR standard video signal, a first conversion unit which converts the xvYCC standard video signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080211831 - Portable communication terminal: There is provided a portable communication terminal capable of switching between icon display and non-display. Processes executed by a control unit of a portable phone which is an aspect of the portable communication terminal comprises the steps of detecting, during the execution of an icon-bar displaying process, a press of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080211832 - Vehicular operating apparatus: A vehicular operating apparatus in which an operating portion on which operating switches are arranged is arranged in a vehicle cabin in a separate location that is physically distanced from a display portion that displays an operation menu image showing the positional arrangement and function of the operating switch of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211835 - Data line driver circuit for display panel and method of testing the same: A data line driver circuit for a display panel includes a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter circuit. The D/A converter circuit includes a first gradation voltage selecting circuit configured to control transistors of a first group to select one of gradation voltages of a first polarity based on a first display data;... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080211834 - Device and method of driving light source in display device: A device for driving a light source in an image display device includes input terminals to receive a horizontal synchronization signal and a control signal, an oscillator to generate a reference signal having a frequency, a controller to modulate the reference signal in response to the control signal and output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080211833 - Drive method for a display device, drive device, display device, and electronic device: A drive method for a display device that displays by causing charged particles to migrate by applying an electric field, including a gray level drive step of causing the particles to migrate to a gray level that is not a saturation state in which migration of the particles is saturated.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080211836 - Drive system for an optically addressed spatial light modulator: A system includes a driving apparatus configured to operate on an optically addressed spatial light modulator (OASLM) including a modulation layer notionally divided into a plurality of separately addressable segments. A pulse generator is configured to provide one or more voltage patterns and an optical pattern generator configured to provide... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP