Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 10/08

20080258995 - Display device: The present invention relates to a dual view display device where a display surface is divided into a first and a second sub-section (10a, 10b). A backlighting arrangement is used which provides light with different angular distributions (16a, 16b; 16a′, 16b′) to the different sub-sections. This allows at low cost... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258996 - Image display system and image display method: A viewing angle can be broadened without causing degradation in resolution of a three-dimensional image by a retinal scanning display. An image display system includes a projector which displays an image in a first region by projecting an image onto a screen, and a retinal scanning display which displays an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258997 - Display device, method of driving display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a display body in which a plurality of unit display areas that display images having a parallax therebetween so as to be viewed stereoscopically is arranged and a drive circuit that sequentially displays single-color images of a plurality of color components which constitute a first image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258998 - Pulse output circuit, shift register, and display device: An object is to suppress change of a threshold voltage of a transistor in a shift register and to prevent the transistor from malfunctioning during a non-selection period. A pulse output circuit provided in the shift register regularly supplies a potential to a gate electrode of a transistor which is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080258999 - Chameleon glasses: A color coordinating personal use device including a color detector (16) to detect a color of an object of personal use and a color changing material (18) of the personal use item that color changes to a color based on the detected color.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259000 - Active matrix type display apparatus and a driving device of a load: An active matrix type display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix shape. The pixel circuit has a display device, a drive transistor of a first conductivity type for controlling a current flowing in the display device, a capacitor provided at a control electrode of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259001 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device driven by dividing one frame into a plurality of subfields includes a plasma display panel including a plurality of scan electrodes, a scan electrode driver configured to apply a falling ramp waveform to scan electrodes in a reset period, and a logic controller configured to control... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080259002 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes an upper substrate; first and second electrodes formed on the upper substrate; a lower substrate disposed opposite to the upper substrate; and a third electrode formed on the lower substrate. At least one of the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080259003 - Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same: A plasma display panel having a dielectric with a stepped structure and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a first panel comprising a plurality of electrode pairs each including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a dielectric layer formed over the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080259005 - Display panel and electronic system utilizing the same: A display panel including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a processing unit is disclosed. The first sub-pixel includes a first storage capacitor for storing a first voltage. The second sub-pixel includes a second storage capacitor for storing a second voltage. The processing unit processes the first voltage and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259006 - Driving circuit of organic light emitting diode display panel and precharging method using the same: d

20080259004 - Passive matrix electro-luminescent display system: A passive matrix, electro-luminescent display system has a passive matrix, electro-luminescent display having an orthogonally oriented array of column and row electrodes and an electro-luminescent layer located between the electrodes at the intersection of each column and row electrode forming an individual light-emitting element. Drivers provide separate signals at different... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080259007 - Method for dynamically adjusting brightness of image: A method for dynamically adjusting the brightness of an image is provided. In the method, a plurality of first pixel values of pixels in a captured display image are converted to a plurality of first brightness values when an application program is executed with a full screen picture. Then, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259008 - Deformable micromirror device: A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements each of which makes pulse width modulation for incident light depending on the deflection state of light and which are arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixel elements has a mirror,... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080259010 - Gate driving circuit and liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a gate driving circuit comprising at least an output processing unit, and further comprising an amplifying device correspondingly connected to the output processing unit, said amplifying device being used to process a signal output from the output processing unit and then output a driving signal.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080259011 - Image output apparatus and image display apparatus: A video display device outputs display device information including physical resolution of a display device included in the video display device and subpixel information to a hard disk recorder through HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. A receiver of the hard disk recorder receives the display device information and outputs... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259009 - Liquid crystal display device, manufacturing method and repair method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device comprises a data signal line in a first plane and a common electrode line in a second plane, and the common electrode line comprises an intersection region, which is a region where a projection of the common electrode line... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080259013 - Gamma correction circuit: A gamma correction circuit includes: a first set of operational amplifiers each configured as a voltage follower, each of the first set of operational amplifiers including a phase compensation circuit that has a variable current source; and a second operational amplifier configured as a voltage follower, the gamma correction circuit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259014 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device prevents the gray level folding in at least one of the vicinities of the highest and lowest gray levels while avoiding the complication of the data line driver circuit. The data line driver circuit generates output voltages whose number is equal to a predetermined gray... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259015 - Liquid crystal display element, driving method of the same, and electronic paper having the same: A method of driving a liquid crystal display element includes a first step for initializing a liquid crystal in a pixel and displaying an initial grayscale at the pixel and a second step for displaying a desired grayscale lower than the initial grayscale by making a cumulative time difference between... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259012 - Optical display system and method, active and passive dithering using birefringence, color image superpositioning and display enhancement with phase coordinated polarization switching: m

20080259016 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels, signal line groups each including a predetermined number of signal lines, and a drive circuit which selects the pixels on a row-by-row basis and drives the pixels of the selected row via the signal lines. The drive circuit includes a signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259017 - Reducing power consumption in a liquid crystal display: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus to reduce power consumption in a passive matrix LCD driver circuit by using a plurality of drive buffers and active power management of sub-blocks in the passive matrix LCD drive circuit. Each drive buffer may operate in a first phase,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Cypress

20080259018 - Liquid crystal device, method of driving the same and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device has a display mode in which an image is displayed and a non-display mode in which no image is displayed. A scanning line driving device selects a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order every unit period. A data line driving device supplies pixel circuits... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259019 - Asynchronous display driving scheme and display: A novel method for driving a display includes the steps of defining a modulation period during which a particular intensity value is asserted on a pixel of the display, dividing the modulation period into a plurality of coequal time intervals, receiving a data word, which includes a plurality of equally-weighted... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080259020 - Scanning backlight for a matrix display: A scanning backlight unit (BU) for a matrix display comprises a plurality of light sources (L1, . . . , Ln). A driver (2) supplies drive signals (D1, . . . , Dn) to the light sources (L1, . . . , Ln). A controller (3) controls the driver (2)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259021 - Method of displaying an image and electrophoretic display device for performing the same: A method of displaying images on an electrophoretic display (“EPD”) panel includes displaying a (K)-th image on the EPD panel including a plurality of electrophoretic particles, wherein K denotes a natural number. Then, when an interrupt signal for converting images is inputted during one of a plurality of driving intervals,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259025 - Device for user interface using rotatable input device and method of operating user interface: Provided are a device for a user interface for efficient navigation and a method of operating the device interface. The device for a user interface includes a rotatable input device which is manipulated by a user, a contact detection device which detects whether the user contacts the rotatable input device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259023 - Method and system of making a computer as a console for managing another computer: A video signal processor encodes a video signal received from the target computer through the computer interface. A peripheral interface controller is coupled to the video signal processor, and transmits the encoded video signal to the console computer in a peripheral interface standard through the console interface. A console module... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259024 - Method for providing graphical user interface (gui) and electronic device thereof: A method for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an electronic device using the same are provide. The method for providing a GUI includes receiving rotation information from an external input device by sensing movement of the external input device, and changing a display state of information output on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259022 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for text entry with partial word display: A computer-implemented method for text entry includes receiving entered text from a user, selecting a set of candidate sequences for completing or continuing the sequence, and presenting the candidate sequences to the user, wherein the candidate sequences include partial words. The candidate sequences are identified based on usage frequency weights... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259026 - Ergonomic cursor control device that does not assume any specific posture of hand and fingers: An ergonomic mouse-like cursor control device is disclosed that does not assume any specific posture of hand and fingers. The device provides for freedom of hand's movements rather than supports the hand in a presumably best operative posture. As a result, a human operator can continuously use the inventive cursor... Agent: Velikanov Cyrille

20080259027 - Multiple cursor system and method for vehicle: An in-vehicle multiple cursor system properly provides information necessary for a user in case that the number of wirelessly connected portable devices increases to thereby cause lack of a memory space for drawing. A cursor operation for requesting a drawing occurs in a portable device. An in-vehicle navigation system thereby... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080259031 - Control apparatus, method, and program: There is provided an intuitive, easy-to-use operation interface that is less liable to erroneous operations and is operated by a motion of a user. A motion operation mode is entered in response to recognition of a particular motion (preliminary motion) of a particular object in a video image and, after... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259028 - Hand glove mouse: A hand glove mouse, including first, second and third buttons or sensors and a cursor positioner that is not a motion or tilt sensor (i.e., a roller ball, a light sensor, etc.) for adjusting the position of a cursor on a computer monitor. In one embodiment the positioner and buttons... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080259029 - Input device having the function of recognizing hybrid coordinates and operating method of the same: The present invention relates a coordinate input device to input a variety of job commands, diagrams or characters, and to store or output the input data. More particularly, the present invention provides an input device for recognizing hybrid coordinates and a method of operating the device. The input device uses... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080259030 - Pre-assembled part with an associated surface convertible to a transcription apparatus: An apparatus including a part board having an associated surface or a frame for a surface, such as a whiteboard, that is pre-assembled to include components that when connected to an external module convert the surface to an electronic transcription apparatus. In one version, the components include a set of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080259033 - Book-notepad personal computing device: Using stylus-mouse combo pen input device replacing conventional keyboard and mouse on personal computing device, the book-notepad personal computing device decreases the size and weight of personal computing device provides more user friendly nature input interface for personal computing devices. This invention can be widely used for portable personal computing... Agent: Songchun Mu

20080259032 - Wheel assembly of a computer input device: A computer input device has a body that includes a housing that has a top and a lateral side, with an opening provided in the lateral side. A micro switch is positioned inside the housing, with a shaft extending from the housing through the opening. A wheel assembly is located... Agent: Raymond Sun

20080259034 - Optical pointing device and method for calculating motion value in the same: The optical pointing device of the present invention includes a light source for emitting light; a mode identifier for outputting an upside-down mode signal when the optical pointing device is used upside-down; an image sensor for receiving reflected light from an object and obtaining image information of the object; a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259035 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a main body, a display screen mounted on the main body, a track ball, a light source, a camera module and a signal processor. The track ball has a reflecting pattern provided on an outer surface thereof and is rotatable relative to the main body.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259036 - Ergonomic keys: Key members of an article of manufacture can be detached and attached to keys of a keyboard of a computing device, such as a laptop or a cellular phone. These key members enhance visibility with the computing device. Colors, shapes, and types are used alone or in combination to enhance... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080259037 - Multifunction key pad display and electronic device having the same: A multifunction key pad display for an electronic device, including: a display panel including display regions arranged in a matrix, and bounded by non-display regions as boundaries; a printed circuit board positioned on the display panel, including openings facing the display regions, and keys disposed at sides of the openings,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259038 - Apparatuses and methods for facilitating user designation of device functions: Systems, apparatuses and methods for facilitating input function designation. A function of a device specified via a user input is identified, and one of a plurality of sub-functions of the identified function is activated, based on an associated durational user input. One representative function is a keyguard function, and user... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080259047 - Apparatus and method for displaying symbols on a terminal input area: A terminal has an input area that supports touch input, and a controller for responding to the touch input area. The controller also displays selected symbols in the touch input area responsive to an operational mode of the terminal. When the terminal is in a call mode, a command or... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259044 - Coordinate input device and display device: Provided is a coordinate input device including: a plurality of detection electrodes which are arranged in a planar shape in a detection area of a substrate; a plurality of routed wires connected to the plurality of detection electrodes; a coating film which coats the plurality of detection electrodes; a detection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259043 - Device capable of being operated within a network, network system, method of operating a device within a network, program element, and computer-readable medium: A device (A) is described, which is capable of being operated within a network comprising a touch interface (2) which is adapted to detect that a user (3) touches the touch interface (2) and simultaneously touches a touch interface (6) of another device (B) capable of being operated within a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259049 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus provides improved expressive capability during presentations. Image, sound, memo information and other related input data that are recorded in an electronic camera are set to be reproduced in a predetermined order. When reproducing information that is set, images are displayed on a liquid crystal display that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259045 - Method of controlling mobile communication device equipped with touch screen, communication device and method of executing functions thereof: A method of controlling a mobile communication device equipped with a touch screen, and a communication device and a method of executing functions thereof are disclosed. A method of controlling a mobile communication device includes displaying a plurality of execution keys on a touch screen in a standby mode and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259041 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for activating hyperlinks: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for activating hyperlinks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device: displays content on a touch screen display, wherein the content includes a plurality of links to additional content; detects a contact by a finger with the touch screen display, wherein the contact... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259040 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for positioning an insertion marker in a touch screen display: An insertion marker that is displayed on a touch screen may be moved by a user via an insertion marker placement aid. The insertion marker placement aid is displayed on the touch screen after a contact with the touch screen is detected. The insertion marker placement aid provides visual feedback... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259039 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for selecting a soft keyboard: A portable electronic device may display one of a plurality of soft keyboards in a first display area and input characters in a second display area. The user may select a key on the soft keyboard, causing a plurality of objects corresponding to the plurality of soft keyboards to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259048 - Operation device and image formation device: An operation device includes: a touch panel on which at least one operation button is displayed; a press position detection unit detecting a press position when a user presses the touch panel; a button operation detection unit determining whether an operation is applied to the operation button based on the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080259046 - Pressure sensitive touch pad with virtual programmable buttons for launching utility applications: A pressure sensitive Display Pad having embedded dual functionality such as operating as a mouse for pointer navigation and an array of Virtual Programmable Applications Buttons for selection on the computing device and displaying applications such as a calculator, currency converter, daily event calendar, etc. The device is an improvement... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20080259042 - Using touches to transfer information between devices: A device may comprise a display and a processor. The processor may obtain a first set of one or more touches on a remote surface of a remote device based on a signal received on a communication link between the device and the remote device. receive information associated with the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080259051 - Display device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a display device including: a light source that emits a plurality of light-source lights having intensities different from one another at points in time different from one another from a back side opposite a display surface that is pointed by pointing means toward the display surface; a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259050 - Optical touch control apparatus and method thereof: The present invention discloses an optical touch control apparatus, comprising: a light guide module having a screen, the light guide module guiding light to the screen, and generating optical information according to light input through or reflected from the screen; and an image sensor module for sensing the optical information,... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080259052 - Optical touch control apparatus and method thereof: The present invention discloses an optical touch control apparatus, comprising: a light guide module having an optical information capturing position, the light guide module guiding light to the optical information capturing position, and generating optical information according to light input through or reflected from the optical information capturing position; and... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080259053 - Touch screen system with hover and click input methods: A touch screen system that can approximate tracking and dragging states regardless of the user's orientation and without reliance on direct sensing of touch pressure or area. A first detector generates a signal representing a first image of an object interacting with the touch screen. A second detector generates a... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080259054 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a thumbnail display control unit, a process display control unit, and a changing unit. The thumbnail display control unit controls a thumbnail image representing a content of the image data to display on the touch panel. The process display control unit controls process-indicating images corresponding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080259055 - Manipulating an object utilizing a pointing device: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080259057 - Electronic reading device mimicking a reading experience of a paper document: An apparatus comprises a display screen (DS) for visualizing digital information page by page, and a flip bar (FB) being movable upon user activation in at least two directions for flipping pages of the digital information back and forth, respectively. Such an apparatus may be an electronic reading device mimicking... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080259058 - Systems and methods for user interfaces designed for rotary input devices: Systems and methods for providing visual navigation cues in user interfaces for use with rotary input devices are described. One described method comprises causing a plurality of graphical objects to be displayed in an arc. The curvature of the arc is configured to convey the ordinal relationship for navigating between... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080259056 - User interface for controlling a bathroom plumbing fixture: A plumbing fixture is operated by a user interface that has an enclosure with a faceplate from which a pedestal seamlessly projects outward. An alphanumeric display is visible through the faceplate and a plurality of switches respond to the user pressing different portions of the faceplate. A selector includes a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080259061 - Control method for eliminating deficient display and a display device using the same and driving circuit using the same: A control method for eliminating deficient display and a display device using the same and a driving circuit are provided herein. The display device includes a display panel, source driver, and a control device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The source driver is used to provide a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259062 - Driving circuit, driving method and plasma display panel: A PDP driving circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a scan driver divided into at least more than two groups, a logic controller generating scan driver control reference signals, which are used to generate scan driving signals of the scan driver, and a buffer block giving different delay times to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080259063 - Electronic display device and method thereof: An electronic image device and a driving method thereof. An image of one frame is displayed in a frame period divided into at least two periods including first and second periods. A barrier layer includes a first barrier driven during the first period and a second barrier driven during the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080259059 - Overdrive technique for display drivers: The invention relates to a display driver comprising an embedded frame memory and an overdrive logic block for moderating display data of a current frame received by the display driver by means of overdrive. The overdrive logic block is arranged for reading data from and writing data to the embedded... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259060 - Video connection line to integrate analog and digital signals: A video connection line to integrate digital and analog signals includes a first video connection port (may be one conforming to DVI-I specification) to transmit digital and analog signals that is divided to be coupled with a second video connection port (may be one conforming to DVI-D specification) to transmit... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080259065 - Configurable liquid crystal display driver system: Embodiments of the invention relate to a configurable LCD driver system having a plurality of configurable LCD drivers. Each LCD driver may be configured as a common or segment driver by selecting a drive voltage from an appropriate set of drive voltages associated with a common or segment driver in... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080259064 - Display and pixel circuit thereof: A display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a data line, a scan line, a first switch connected to a first voltage, a second switch connected to a second voltage, and a pixel. The pixel is further comprised of a data transistor having a first source/drain electrode connected to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080259066 - Method for addressing active matrix displays with ferroelectrical thin film transistor based pixels: A pixel (P) of a display (20) includes a memory element in a form of a ferroelectric thin film transistor (“TFT”) (60) and a display element (62) operably coupled to the ferroelectric TFT (60). The ferroelectric TFT (60) is set to a conductive state in response to a conductive row... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080259067 - Method for adjusting backlight brightness and electronic device using the same: A method for adjusting backlight brightness of a screen, including the following steps of: detecting a brightness of ambient light; collecting the ambient light; adjusting a proportional ratio between collected light and light emitted from an internal light source according to the brightness of the ambient light; coupling the collected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259068 - Display panel and electro-optical apparatus: A display panel including a liquid crystal layer, several driving circuits, several flexible circuit films and at least one printed circuit board is provided. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the first substrate has a display area and at least one... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259069 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display may include a plurality of first electrodes, a first switch, a second switch, and a switch driving circuit to control the first switch. The first switch may be between a first power source supplying a first voltage and the plurality of first electrodes. The second switch may... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080259070 - Active liquid crystal display drivers and duty cycle operation: A liquid crystal display (LCD) driving system includes a reference voltage generator to generate a plurality of reference voltages. The LCD driving system also includes a plurality of drive buffers to generate drive voltages according to at least one of the reference voltages, and to drive at least a portion... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080259071 - Information display device, information displaying method, and computer program product: A display control unit performs a control of displaying first image information on a display unit. An electric-power supply unit converts thermal energy generated from a body temperature of a user into electric power upon the user contacting the electric-power supply unit, and supplies the electric power to the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259074 - Multi-spectral reconstruction method based on adaptive finite element: A multi-spectral reconstruction method based on adaptive finite element comprising the following steps: discretizing the diffusion equation in the object domain on the single spectral; establishing the relationship between the boundary measurement data and the unknown source variables on single spectral based on a posteriori permissible source region selection method,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080259072 - Smooth gray-level based surface interpolation for an isotropic data sets: A method of determining a distance of a source point to a surface of an object in three-dimensional space, wherein the object is represented by a decision rule and a plurality of volume elements arranged in slices comprising rows and columns, wherein each volume element carries at least one value,... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080259073 - System and method for processing video images: Embodiments use point clouds to form a three dimensional image of an object. The point cloud of the object may be formed from analysis of two dimensional images of the object. Various techniques may be used on the point cloud to form a 3D model of the object which is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080259075 - Dynamically configuring and selecting multiple ray tracing intersection methods: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to determine a coordinate system to use when traversing rays through a portion of a spatial index corresponding to a dynamic object which has a unique object coordinate system. An image processing system may take into consideration a number of factors including,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080259078 - Apparatus and method for determining intersections: In a data processing system for determining intersections between geometric objects, the work is split between a CPU and a stream processor. The intersection determination is controlled by the CPU. Data processing intensive parts of intersection algorithms, such as checking possible overlap of objects, checking overlap of normal fields of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080259077 - Shape preserving mappings to a surface: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to map a detail model to a destination while preserving the shape of the detail model. A destination surface (that is a smooth surface) is obtained. The destination surface is tessellated to generate a mesh representation of the destination surface.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080259076 - Tile based graphics rendering: A graphics system for tile-by-tile converting of vertex data into output images for displaying on a screen. The vertex data represents objects by a set of polygons and comprises 3D space coordinates for each vertex (q1,q2, . . . ,q12) in the image. A polygon is constituted of at least... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259079 - Method and system for volume rendering: Herewith disclosed a computerized method of volume rendering, a volume rendering tool and a radar imaging system capable of rendering volumetric data. The method of volume rendering comprises obtaining volumetric data represented as a plurality of voxels, sampling the voxels at different resolutions corresponding to the limited number of two-dimensional... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080259080 - Image processing method, apparatus, and program: In an image processing method for generating a pseudo three-dimensional image by a volume rendering method in which a pixel value of each pixel on a projection plane on which a three-dimensional image illuminated by an arbitrary light source is projected is determined using a brightness value at each examination... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259081 - System and methods for real-time rendering with global and specular illumination: Frames of image data representative of a scene containing deformable geometry are computed for display on a display device. Frame animation data is computed for a series of frames representative, in animated sequence, of a scene containing deformable geometry. The frame animation data includes a control mesh descriptive of the... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20080259083 - Calibration of transmission system using tonal visualization components: The present disclosure relates to broadcast signal calibration devices and methods. A system is provided that permits calibration or tuning of broadcast signal transmission and reception equipment through the use of visual representation of test signals. The generated visualizations, incorporating color and shape, are examined to determine whether any adjustments... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080259084 - Method and apparatus for organizing data sources: A method and apparatus for organizing deep Web services are provided. In one aspect, the method and apparatus obtains a collection of sources and their associated attributes and/or input modes, for instance, using a crawling algorithm. The method and apparatus uses this information to organize the sources into communities. A... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080259082 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers.... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080259085 - Method for animating an image using speech data: A method for animating an image is useful for animating avatars using real-time speech data. According to one aspect, the method includes identifying an upper facial part and a lower facial part of the image (step 705); animating the lower facial part based on speech data that are classified according... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080259086 - Hybrid image processing system: The present invention provides a hybrid image processing system, which generally includes an image processing unit for receiving image data corresponding to a set of images, generating commands for processing the image data, and sending the images and the commands to an image processing unit of the hybrid image processing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080259087 - Programming framework for closed systems: Mechanisms allow for execution of unsigned managed code graphic resource call in a closed system when such unsigned content is executing on the system. For example, a managed code graphic resource device is used between an application running unsigned content and a supervisor mode graphic resource device. A managed mode... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080259088 - Display device: Disclosed herein is a display device in which input data is written to a RAM as current frame data and read from the RAM as preceding frame data. Then, the current frame data and the preceding frame data are added up in a correction circuit and the result is subjected... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080259089 - Apparatus and method for performing motion compensation by macro block unit while decoding compressed motion picture: A method of a motion compensation, comprising specifying a reference region which is larger than a region of a macro block, based on a motion vector, specifying an object read region larger than the reference region, dividing the object read region into a plurality of divided object read regions; and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080259090 - System and method for smooth pointing of objects during a presentation: A system and method are provided that allows a speaker to provide real-time annotations to one or more displayed images during a presentation. The speaker inputs the annotations my manually identify a portion of the displayed image using an input mechanism such as a touch screen that is in communication... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259091 - System and method for enhancing the contrast ratio of an image: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that enhance the contrast ratio of a display device. An exemplary embodiment comprises determining brightness level of a brightest object of a video frame, determining a required illumination for the video frame based on the pixel brightness level of the brightest... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080259092 - Systems and methods for color managing content elements on a display device: A system and method for color managing content elements on a display device are provided. The systems and methods for color managing content elements on a display device comprising using a set of color space characteristic values that describe a color space of the display device to create a profile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080259093 - Electronic device and method for displaying a full frame image: An electronic device is proposed for cooperating with a first electronic device to display a full image corresponding to a video signal. The electronic device includes a display screen for displaying a first partial image of the full image. The first electronic device includes a first display screen for displaying... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259094 - Portable electronic device adapted to change operation mode: A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080259096 - Gps-based location and messaging system and method: A system and method for viewing a target in a background from a user's perspective. In one form, the views are selectable by the user on, for example, a GPS equipped cell phone, to include a view from the participant's position, zoom, pan, and tilt views, or views from another... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080259095 - Method and apparatus for changing display orientations on a monitor of a portable computer: A method for changing the display orientation on a monitor of a portable computer after the portable computer has been rotated by a user is disclosed. In response to a detection that the portable computer has been physically rotated, a determination is made whether or not the new physical orientation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080259097 - Method for displaying images on display screen: Method, apparatus and program product for efficient display of an image at a targeted position in an image on a display screen by displaying, on the display screen, an image on which the targeted position is not displayed; setting a first position specified on the image displayed on the display... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080259099 - Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a display device that includes: a separating section that generates a separation image signal, which specifies the gradations of a plurality of color components and the gradations of a plurality of white components, from an input image signal, which specifies the gradations of a plurality of primary... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259098 - Display method and system for stimulating the blinking of the eyes of a user by subliminal modification of display parameters: In a method for displaying visual information (9) on a display surface (3, 13, 20, 21), a display parameter (P) is modified, at trigger intervals, in at least one region of the display surface (3, 13) for a subliminal period of time. The display parameter (P) is preferably selected from... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080258995 - Display device: The present invention relates to a dual view display device where a display surface is divided into a first and a second sub-section (10a, 10b). A backlighting arrangement is used which provides light with different angular distributions (16a, 16b; 16a′, 16b′) to the different sub-sections. This allows at low cost... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080258996 - Image display system and image display method: A viewing angle can be broadened without causing degradation in resolution of a three-dimensional image by a retinal scanning display. An image display system includes a projector which displays an image in a first region by projecting an image onto a screen, and a retinal scanning display which displays an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258997 - Display device, method of driving display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a display body in which a plurality of unit display areas that display images having a parallax therebetween so as to be viewed stereoscopically is arranged and a drive circuit that sequentially displays single-color images of a plurality of color components which constitute a first image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258998 - Pulse output circuit, shift register, and display device: An object is to suppress change of a threshold voltage of a transistor in a shift register and to prevent the transistor from malfunctioning during a non-selection period. A pulse output circuit provided in the shift register regularly supplies a potential to a gate electrode of a transistor which is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080258999 - Chameleon glasses: A color coordinating personal use device including a color detector (16) to detect a color of an object of personal use and a color changing material (18) of the personal use item that color changes to a color based on the detected color.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259000 - Active matrix type display apparatus and a driving device of a load: An active matrix type display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix shape. The pixel circuit has a display device, a drive transistor of a first conductivity type for controlling a current flowing in the display device, a capacitor provided at a control electrode of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080259001 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device driven by dividing one frame into a plurality of subfields includes a plasma display panel including a plurality of scan electrodes, a scan electrode driver configured to apply a falling ramp waveform to scan electrodes in a reset period, and a logic controller configured to control... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080259002 - Plasma display apparatus: The present invention relates to a plasma display apparatus. The plasma display apparatus includes an upper substrate; first and second electrodes formed on the upper substrate; a lower substrate disposed opposite to the upper substrate; and a third electrode formed on the lower substrate. At least one of the first... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080259003 - Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same: A plasma display panel having a dielectric with a stepped structure and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a first panel comprising a plurality of electrode pairs each including a scan electrode and a sustain electrode, and a dielectric layer formed over the... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080259005 - Display panel and electronic system utilizing the same: A display panel including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a processing unit is disclosed. The first sub-pixel includes a first storage capacitor for storing a first voltage. The second sub-pixel includes a second storage capacitor for storing a second voltage. The processing unit processes the first voltage and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259006 - Driving circuit of organic light emitting diode display panel and precharging method using the same: d

20080259004 - Passive matrix electro-luminescent display system: A passive matrix, electro-luminescent display system has a passive matrix, electro-luminescent display having an orthogonally oriented array of column and row electrodes and an electro-luminescent layer located between the electrodes at the intersection of each column and row electrode forming an individual light-emitting element. Drivers provide separate signals at different... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080259007 - Method for dynamically adjusting brightness of image: A method for dynamically adjusting the brightness of an image is provided. In the method, a plurality of first pixel values of pixels in a captured display image are converted to a plurality of first brightness values when an application program is executed with a full screen picture. Then, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259008 - Deformable micromirror device: A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements each of which makes pulse width modulation for incident light depending on the deflection state of light and which are arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixel elements has a mirror,... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080259010 - Gate driving circuit and liquid crystal display: The present invention relates to a gate driving circuit comprising at least an output processing unit, and further comprising an amplifying device correspondingly connected to the output processing unit, said amplifying device being used to process a signal output from the output processing unit and then output a driving signal.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080259011 - Image output apparatus and image display apparatus: A video display device outputs display device information including physical resolution of a display device included in the video display device and subpixel information to a hard disk recorder through HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. A receiver of the hard disk recorder receives the display device information and outputs... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259009 - Liquid crystal display device, manufacturing method and repair method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided. The LCD device comprises a data signal line in a first plane and a common electrode line in a second plane, and the common electrode line comprises an intersection region, which is a region where a projection of the common electrode line... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080259013 - Gamma correction circuit: A gamma correction circuit includes: a first set of operational amplifiers each configured as a voltage follower, each of the first set of operational amplifiers including a phase compensation circuit that has a variable current source; and a second operational amplifier configured as a voltage follower, the gamma correction circuit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259014 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device prevents the gray level folding in at least one of the vicinities of the highest and lowest gray levels while avoiding the complication of the data line driver circuit. The data line driver circuit generates output voltages whose number is equal to a predetermined gray... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080259015 - Liquid crystal display element, driving method of the same, and electronic paper having the same: A method of driving a liquid crystal display element includes a first step for initializing a liquid crystal in a pixel and displaying an initial grayscale at the pixel and a second step for displaying a desired grayscale lower than the initial grayscale by making a cumulative time difference between... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080259012 - Optical display system and method, active and passive dithering using birefringence, color image superpositioning and display enhancement with phase coordinated polarization switching: m

20080259016 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes liquid crystal pixels, signal line groups each including a predetermined number of signal lines, and a drive circuit which selects the pixels on a row-by-row basis and drives the pixels of the selected row via the signal lines. The drive circuit includes a signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080259017 - Reducing power consumption in a liquid crystal display: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus to reduce power consumption in a passive matrix LCD driver circuit by using a plurality of drive buffers and active power management of sub-blocks in the passive matrix LCD drive circuit. Each drive buffer may operate in a first phase,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Cypress

20080259018 - Liquid crystal device, method of driving the same and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device has a display mode in which an image is displayed and a non-display mode in which no image is displayed. A scanning line driving device selects a plurality of scanning lines in a predetermined order every unit period. A data line driving device supplies pixel circuits... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259019 - Asynchronous display driving scheme and display: A novel method for driving a display includes the steps of defining a modulation period during which a particular intensity value is asserted on a pixel of the display, dividing the modulation period into a plurality of coequal time intervals, receiving a data word, which includes a plurality of equally-weighted... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080259020 - Scanning backlight for a matrix display: A scanning backlight unit (BU) for a matrix display comprises a plurality of light sources (L1, . . . , Ln). A driver (2) supplies drive signals (D1, . . . , Dn) to the light sources (L1, . . . , Ln). A controller (3) controls the driver (2)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259021 - Method of displaying an image and electrophoretic display device for performing the same: A method of displaying images on an electrophoretic display (“EPD”) panel includes displaying a (K)-th image on the EPD panel including a plurality of electrophoretic particles, wherein K denotes a natural number. Then, when an interrupt signal for converting images is inputted during one of a plurality of driving intervals,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259025 - Device for user interface using rotatable input device and method of operating user interface: Provided are a device for a user interface for efficient navigation and a method of operating the device interface. The device for a user interface includes a rotatable input device which is manipulated by a user, a contact detection device which detects whether the user contacts the rotatable input device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259023 - Method and system of making a computer as a console for managing another computer: A video signal processor encodes a video signal received from the target computer through the computer interface. A peripheral interface controller is coupled to the video signal processor, and transmits the encoded video signal to the console computer in a peripheral interface standard through the console interface. A console module... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080259024 - Method for providing graphical user interface (gui) and electronic device thereof: A method for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an electronic device using the same are provide. The method for providing a GUI includes receiving rotation information from an external input device by sensing movement of the external input device, and changing a display state of information output on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259022 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for text entry with partial word display: A computer-implemented method for text entry includes receiving entered text from a user, selecting a set of candidate sequences for completing or continuing the sequence, and presenting the candidate sequences to the user, wherein the candidate sequences include partial words. The candidate sequences are identified based on usage frequency weights... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259026 - Ergonomic cursor control device that does not assume any specific posture of hand and fingers: An ergonomic mouse-like cursor control device is disclosed that does not assume any specific posture of hand and fingers. The device provides for freedom of hand's movements rather than supports the hand in a presumably best operative posture. As a result, a human operator can continuously use the inventive cursor... Agent: Velikanov Cyrille

20080259027 - Multiple cursor system and method for vehicle: An in-vehicle multiple cursor system properly provides information necessary for a user in case that the number of wirelessly connected portable devices increases to thereby cause lack of a memory space for drawing. A cursor operation for requesting a drawing occurs in a portable device. An in-vehicle navigation system thereby... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080259031 - Control apparatus, method, and program: There is provided an intuitive, easy-to-use operation interface that is less liable to erroneous operations and is operated by a motion of a user. A motion operation mode is entered in response to recognition of a particular motion (preliminary motion) of a particular object in a video image and, after... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080259028 - Hand glove mouse: A hand glove mouse, including first, second and third buttons or sensors and a cursor positioner that is not a motion or tilt sensor (i.e., a roller ball, a light sensor, etc.) for adjusting the position of a cursor on a computer monitor. In one embodiment the positioner and buttons... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080259029 - Input device having the function of recognizing hybrid coordinates and operating method of the same: The present invention relates a coordinate input device to input a variety of job commands, diagrams or characters, and to store or output the input data. More particularly, the present invention provides an input device for recognizing hybrid coordinates and a method of operating the device. The input device uses... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080259030 - Pre-assembled part with an associated surface convertible to a transcription apparatus: An apparatus including a part board having an associated surface or a frame for a surface, such as a whiteboard, that is pre-assembled to include components that when connected to an external module convert the surface to an electronic transcription apparatus. In one version, the components include a set of... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080259033 - Book-notepad personal computing device: Using stylus-mouse combo pen input device replacing conventional keyboard and mouse on personal computing device, the book-notepad personal computing device decreases the size and weight of personal computing device provides more user friendly nature input interface for personal computing devices. This invention can be widely used for portable personal computing... Agent: Songchun Mu

20080259032 - Wheel assembly of a computer input device: A computer input device has a body that includes a housing that has a top and a lateral side, with an opening provided in the lateral side. A micro switch is positioned inside the housing, with a shaft extending from the housing through the opening. A wheel assembly is located... Agent: Raymond Sun

20080259034 - Optical pointing device and method for calculating motion value in the same: The optical pointing device of the present invention includes a light source for emitting light; a mode identifier for outputting an upside-down mode signal when the optical pointing device is used upside-down; an image sensor for receiving reflected light from an object and obtaining image information of the object; a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080259035 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device includes a main body, a display screen mounted on the main body, a track ball, a light source, a camera module and a signal processor. The track ball has a reflecting pattern provided on an outer surface thereof and is rotatable relative to the main body.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259036 - Ergonomic keys: Key members of an article of manufacture can be detached and attached to keys of a keyboard of a computing device, such as a laptop or a cellular phone. These key members enhance visibility with the computing device. Colors, shapes, and types are used alone or in combination to enhance... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080259037 - Multifunction key pad display and electronic device having the same: A multifunction key pad display for an electronic device, including: a display panel including display regions arranged in a matrix, and bounded by non-display regions as boundaries; a printed circuit board positioned on the display panel, including openings facing the display regions, and keys disposed at sides of the openings,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080259038 - Apparatuses and methods for facilitating user designation of device functions: Systems, apparatuses and methods for facilitating input function designation. A function of a device specified via a user input is identified, and one of a plurality of sub-functions of the identified function is activated, based on an associated durational user input. One representative function is a keyguard function, and user... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080259047 - Apparatus and method for displaying symbols on a terminal input area: A terminal has an input area that supports touch input, and a controller for responding to the touch input area. The controller also displays selected symbols in the touch input area responsive to an operational mode of the terminal. When the terminal is in a call mode, a command or... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259044 - Coordinate input device and display device: Provided is a coordinate input device including: a plurality of detection electrodes which are arranged in a planar shape in a detection area of a substrate; a plurality of routed wires connected to the plurality of detection electrodes; a coating film which coats the plurality of detection electrodes; a detection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259043 - Device capable of being operated within a network, network system, method of operating a device within a network, program element, and computer-readable medium: A device (A) is described, which is capable of being operated within a network comprising a touch interface (2) which is adapted to detect that a user (3) touches the touch interface (2) and simultaneously touches a touch interface (6) of another device (B) capable of being operated within a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080259049 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus provides improved expressive capability during presentations. Image, sound, memo information and other related input data that are recorded in an electronic camera are set to be reproduced in a predetermined order. When reproducing information that is set, images are displayed on a liquid crystal display that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259045 - Method of controlling mobile communication device equipped with touch screen, communication device and method of executing functions thereof: A method of controlling a mobile communication device equipped with a touch screen, and a communication device and a method of executing functions thereof are disclosed. A method of controlling a mobile communication device includes displaying a plurality of execution keys on a touch screen in a standby mode and... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080259041 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for activating hyperlinks: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces for activating hyperlinks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a portable electronic device: displays content on a touch screen display, wherein the content includes a plurality of links to additional content; detects a contact by a finger with the touch screen display, wherein the contact... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259040 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for positioning an insertion marker in a touch screen display: An insertion marker that is displayed on a touch screen may be moved by a user via an insertion marker placement aid. The insertion marker placement aid is displayed on the touch screen after a contact with the touch screen is detected. The insertion marker placement aid provides visual feedback... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259039 - Method, system, and graphical user interface for selecting a soft keyboard: A portable electronic device may display one of a plurality of soft keyboards in a first display area and input characters in a second display area. The user may select a key on the soft keyboard, causing a plurality of objects corresponding to the plurality of soft keyboards to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080259048 - Operation device and image formation device: An operation device includes: a touch panel on which at least one operation button is displayed; a press position detection unit detecting a press position when a user presses the touch panel; a button operation detection unit determining whether an operation is applied to the operation button based on the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080259046 - Pressure sensitive touch pad with virtual programmable buttons for launching utility applications: A pressure sensitive Display Pad having embedded dual functionality such as operating as a mouse for pointer navigation and an array of Virtual Programmable Applications Buttons for selection on the computing device and displaying applications such as a calculator, currency converter, daily event calendar, etc. The device is an improvement... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20080259042 - Using touches to transfer information between devices: A device may comprise a display and a processor. The processor may obtain a first set of one or more touches on a remote surface of a remote device based on a signal received on a communication link between the device and the remote device. receive information associated with the... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080259051 - Display device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a display device including: a light source that emits a plurality of light-source lights having intensities different from one another at points in time different from one another from a back side opposite a display surface that is pointed by pointing means toward the display surface; a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259050 - Optical touch control apparatus and method thereof: The present invention discloses an optical touch control apparatus, comprising: a light guide module having a screen, the light guide module guiding light to the screen, and generating optical information according to light input through or reflected from the screen; and an image sensor module for sensing the optical information,... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080259052 - Optical touch control apparatus and method thereof: The present invention discloses an optical touch control apparatus, comprising: a light guide module having an optical information capturing position, the light guide module guiding light to the optical information capturing position, and generating optical information according to light input through or reflected from the optical information capturing position; and... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080259053 - Touch screen system with hover and click input methods: A touch screen system that can approximate tracking and dragging states regardless of the user's orientation and without reliance on direct sensing of touch pressure or area. A first detector generates a signal representing a first image of an object interacting with the touch screen. A second detector generates a... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080259054 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus includes a thumbnail display control unit, a process display control unit, and a changing unit. The thumbnail display control unit controls a thumbnail image representing a content of the image data to display on the touch panel. The process display control unit controls process-indicating images corresponding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080259055 - Manipulating an object utilizing a pointing device: The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080259057 - Electronic reading device mimicking a reading experience of a paper document: An apparatus comprises a display screen (DS) for visualizing digital information page by page, and a flip bar (FB) being movable upon user activation in at least two directions for flipping pages of the digital information back and forth, respectively. Such an apparatus may be an electronic reading device mimicking... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080259058 - Systems and methods for user interfaces designed for rotary input devices: Systems and methods for providing visual navigation cues in user interfaces for use with rotary input devices are described. One described method comprises causing a plurality of graphical objects to be displayed in an arc. The curvature of the arc is configured to convey the ordinal relationship for navigating between... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080259056 - User interface for controlling a bathroom plumbing fixture: A plumbing fixture is operated by a user interface that has an enclosure with a faceplate from which a pedestal seamlessly projects outward. An alphanumeric display is visible through the faceplate and a plurality of switches respond to the user pressing different portions of the faceplate. A selector includes a... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080259061 - Control method for eliminating deficient display and a display device using the same and driving circuit using the same: A control method for eliminating deficient display and a display device using the same and a driving circuit are provided herein. The display device includes a display panel, source driver, and a control device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The source driver is used to provide a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080259062 - Driving circuit, driving method and plasma display panel: A PDP driving circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a scan driver divided into at least more than two groups, a logic controller generating scan driver control reference signals, which are used to generate scan driving signals of the scan driver, and a buffer block giving different delay times to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080259063 - Electronic display device and method thereof: An electronic image device and a driving method thereof. An image of one frame is displayed in a frame period divided into at least two periods including first and second periods. A barrier layer includes a first barrier driven during the first period and a second barrier driven during the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080259059 - Overdrive technique for display drivers: The invention relates to a display driver comprising an embedded frame memory and an overdrive logic block for moderating display data of a current frame received by the display driver by means of overdrive. The overdrive logic block is arranged for reading data from and writing data to the embedded... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259060 - Video connection line to integrate analog and digital signals: A video connection line to integrate digital and analog signals includes a first video connection port (may be one conforming to DVI-I specification) to transmit digital and analog signals that is divided to be coupled with a second video connection port (may be one conforming to DVI-D specification) to transmit... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080259065 - Configurable liquid crystal display driver system: Embodiments of the invention relate to a configurable LCD driver system having a plurality of configurable LCD drivers. Each LCD driver may be configured as a common or segment driver by selecting a drive voltage from an appropriate set of drive voltages associated with a common or segment driver in... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080259064 - Display and pixel circuit thereof: A display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a data line, a scan line, a first switch connected to a first voltage, a second switch connected to a second voltage, and a pixel. The pixel is further comprised of a data transistor having a first source/drain electrode connected to... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080259066 - Method for addressing active matrix displays with ferroelectrical thin film transistor based pixels: A pixel (P) of a display (20) includes a memory element in a form of a ferroelectric thin film transistor (“TFT”) (60) and a display element (62) operably coupled to the ferroelectric TFT (60). The ferroelectric TFT (60) is set to a conductive state in response to a conductive row... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080259067 - Method for adjusting backlight brightness and electronic device using the same: A method for adjusting backlight brightness of a screen, including the following steps of: detecting a brightness of ambient light; collecting the ambient light; adjusting a proportional ratio between collected light and light emitted from an internal light source according to the brightness of the ambient light; coupling the collected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080259068 - Display panel and electro-optical apparatus: A display panel including a liquid crystal layer, several driving circuits, several flexible circuit films and at least one printed circuit board is provided. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the first substrate has a display area and at least one... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080259069 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display may include a plurality of first electrodes, a first switch, a second switch, and a switch driving circuit to control the first switch. The first switch may be between a first power source supplying a first voltage and the plurality of first electrodes. The second switch may... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080259070 - Active liquid crystal display drivers and duty cycle operation: A liquid crystal display (LCD) driving system includes a reference voltage generator to generate a plurality of reference voltages. The LCD driving system also includes a plurality of drive buffers to generate drive voltages according to at least one of the reference voltages, and to drive at least a portion... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger, LLP/cypress

20080259071 - Information display device, information displaying method, and computer program product: A display control unit performs a control of displaying first image information on a display unit. An electric-power supply unit converts thermal energy generated from a body temperature of a user into electric power upon the user contacting the electric-power supply unit, and supplies the electric power to the display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080259074 - Multi-spectral reconstruction method based on adaptive finite element: A multi-spectral reconstruction method based on adaptive finite element comprising the following steps: discretizing the diffusion equation in the object domain on the single spectral; establishing the relationship between the boundary measurement data and the unknown source variables on single spectral based on a posteriori permissible source region selection method,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080259072 - Smooth gray-level based surface interpolation for an isotropic data sets: A method of determining a distance of a source point to a surface of an object in three-dimensional space, wherein the object is represented by a decision rule and a plurality of volume elements arranged in slices comprising rows and columns, wherein each volume element carries at least one value,... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brai)

20080259073 - System and method for processing video images: Embodiments use point clouds to form a three dimensional image of an object. The point cloud of the object may be formed from analysis of two dimensional images of the object. Various techniques may be used on the point cloud to form a 3D model of the object which is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080259075 - Dynamically configuring and selecting multiple ray tracing intersection methods: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to determine a coordinate system to use when traversing rays through a portion of a spatial index corresponding to a dynamic object which has a unique object coordinate system. An image processing system may take into consideration a number of factors including,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080259078 - Apparatus and method for determining intersections: In a data processing system for determining intersections between geometric objects, the work is split between a CPU and a stream processor. The intersection determination is controlled by the CPU. Data processing intensive parts of intersection algorithms, such as checking possible overlap of objects, checking overlap of normal fields of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080259077 - Shape preserving mappings to a surface: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to map a detail model to a destination while preserving the shape of the detail model. A destination surface (that is a smooth surface) is obtained. The destination surface is tessellated to generate a mesh representation of the destination surface.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080259076 - Tile based graphics rendering: A graphics system for tile-by-tile converting of vertex data into output images for displaying on a screen. The vertex data represents objects by a set of polygons and comprises 3D space coordinates for each vertex (q1,q2, . . . ,q12) in the image. A polygon is constituted of at least... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080259079 - Method and system for volume rendering: Herewith disclosed a computerized method of volume rendering, a volume rendering tool and a radar imaging system capable of rendering volumetric data. The method of volume rendering comprises obtaining volumetric data represented as a plurality of voxels, sampling the voxels at different resolutions corresponding to the limited number of two-dimensional... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080259080 - Image processing method, apparatus, and program: In an image processing method for generating a pseudo three-dimensional image by a volume rendering method in which a pixel value of each pixel on a projection plane on which a three-dimensional image illuminated by an arbitrary light source is projected is determined using a brightness value at each examination... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259081 - System and methods for real-time rendering with global and specular illumination: Frames of image data representative of a scene containing deformable geometry are computed for display on a display device. Frame animation data is computed for a series of frames representative, in animated sequence, of a scene containing deformable geometry. The frame animation data includes a control mesh descriptive of the... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20080259083 - Calibration of transmission system using tonal visualization components: The present disclosure relates to broadcast signal calibration devices and methods. A system is provided that permits calibration or tuning of broadcast signal transmission and reception equipment through the use of visual representation of test signals. The generated visualizations, incorporating color and shape, are examined to determine whether any adjustments... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080259084 - Method and apparatus for organizing data sources: A method and apparatus for organizing deep Web services are provided. In one aspect, the method and apparatus obtains a collection of sources and their associated attributes and/or input modes, for instance, using a crawling algorithm. The method and apparatus uses this information to organize the sources into communities. A... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080259082 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers.... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20080259085 - Method for animating an image using speech data: A method for animating an image is useful for animating avatars using real-time speech data. According to one aspect, the method includes identifying an upper facial part and a lower facial part of the image (step 705); animating the lower facial part based on speech data that are classified according... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080259086 - Hybrid image processing system: The present invention provides a hybrid image processing system, which generally includes an image processing unit for receiving image data corresponding to a set of images, generating commands for processing the image data, and sending the images and the commands to an image processing unit of the hybrid image processing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080259087 - Programming framework for closed systems: Mechanisms allow for execution of unsigned managed code graphic resource call in a closed system when such unsigned content is executing on the system. For example, a managed code graphic resource device is used between an application running unsigned content and a supervisor mode graphic resource device. A managed mode... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080259088 - Display device: Disclosed herein is a display device in which input data is written to a RAM as current frame data and read from the RAM as preceding frame data. Then, the current frame data and the preceding frame data are added up in a correction circuit and the result is subjected... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080259089 - Apparatus and method for performing motion compensation by macro block unit while decoding compressed motion picture: A method of a motion compensation, comprising specifying a reference region which is larger than a region of a macro block, based on a motion vector, specifying an object read region larger than the reference region, dividing the object read region into a plurality of divided object read regions; and... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080259090 - System and method for smooth pointing of objects during a presentation: A system and method are provided that allows a speaker to provide real-time annotations to one or more displayed images during a presentation. The speaker inputs the annotations my manually identify a portion of the displayed image using an input mechanism such as a touch screen that is in communication... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080259091 - System and method for enhancing the contrast ratio of an image: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method that enhance the contrast ratio of a display device. An exemplary embodiment comprises determining brightness level of a brightest object of a video frame, determining a required illumination for the video frame based on the pixel brightness level of the brightest... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080259092 - Systems and methods for color managing content elements on a display device: A system and method for color managing content elements on a display device are provided. The systems and methods for color managing content elements on a display device comprising using a set of color space characteristic values that describe a color space of the display device to create a profile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080259093 - Electronic device and method for displaying a full frame image: An electronic device is proposed for cooperating with a first electronic device to display a full image corresponding to a video signal. The electronic device includes a display screen for displaying a first partial image of the full image. The first electronic device includes a first display screen for displaying... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080259094 - Portable electronic device adapted to change operation mode: A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080259096 - Gps-based location and messaging system and method: A system and method for viewing a target in a background from a user's perspective. In one form, the views are selectable by the user on, for example, a GPS equipped cell phone, to include a view from the participant's position, zoom, pan, and tilt views, or views from another... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080259095 - Method and apparatus for changing display orientations on a monitor of a portable computer: A method for changing the display orientation on a monitor of a portable computer after the portable computer has been rotated by a user is disclosed. In response to a detection that the portable computer has been physically rotated, a determination is made whether or not the new physical orientation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080259097 - Method for displaying images on display screen: Method, apparatus and program product for efficient display of an image at a targeted position in an image on a display screen by displaying, on the display screen, an image on which the targeted position is not displayed; setting a first position specified on the image displayed on the display... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080259099 - Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a display device that includes: a separating section that generates a separation image signal, which specifies the gradations of a plurality of color components and the gradations of a plurality of white components, from an input image signal, which specifies the gradations of a plurality of primary... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080259098 - Display method and system for stimulating the blinking of the eyes of a user by subliminal modification of display parameters: In a method for displaying visual information (9) on a display surface (3, 13, 20, 21), a display parameter (P) is modified, at trigger intervals, in at least one region of the display surface (3, 13) for a subliminal period of time. The display parameter (P) is preferably selected from... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080252555 - Multimedia notebook having sliding auxiliary dual monitor and desktop lcd monitor having the same: Provided are a multimedia notebook having a sliding auxiliary dual monitor and a desktop LCD monitor. The multimedia notebook includes a main monitor including a receptible recess, an auxiliary monitor including second guide portion, and a main body. A first guide portion is formed at an inner surface of the... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080252556 - 3d imaging system employing electronically tunable liquid crystal lens: A system for photographing an object and generating a three-dimensional display of the object without the need for the observer to wear special glasses employs a camera having an electronically tunable liquid crystal lens in which the focal plane of the lens may be adjusted by controlling the voltage on... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080252557 - Plasma display and its method of manufacture: A plasma display includes: a Plasma Display Panel (PDP), a chassis base having a first surface attached to the PDP; and a printed circuit board assembly arranged on a second surface of the chassis base and electrically connected to the PDP; the chassis base includes a plate portion attached to... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080252558 - Color display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a color display apparatus which has a pixel pattern including a plurality of repeating units of a pixel array, wherein each of the plurality of repeating units of the pixel array is composed of at least five sub-pixels while including at least one sub-pixel from a first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080252559 - Plasma display and a driving method for the display: A method for driving a plasma display in which a light emitting state of a plurality of discharge cells of a row electrode is determined in an nth subfield, a line load ratio of the row electrode in the nth subfield is calculated based on the light emitting state, and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080252560 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a scan electrode and a sustain electrode positioned parallel to each other, and an address electrode positioned to intersect the scan electrode and the sustain electrode. A sustain signal is supplied to at least one of the scan electrode... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080252561 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a scan electrode and a sustain electrode positioned parallel to each other, and an address electrode positioned to intersect the scan electrode and the sustain electrode. A reset signal is supplied to the scan electrode, and a first bias... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080252563 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel, which includes secondary electron emission material in a fluorescent layer in discharge cells, has a resetting process in which a first reset discharge is generated between one of a pair of row electrodes of the plasma display panel as an anode and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080252562 - Plasma display panel driving method and plasma display device: A method for driving a plasma display panel including discharge cells at the intersections of data electrodes D1 to Dm and pairs of scan electrodes SC1 to SCn and sustain electrodes SU1 to SUn. One field period is composed of a plurality of subfields each including a wrting period and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080252564 - Plasma display panel and method of driving the same: Provided is a method of driving a plasma display panel (PDP) that comprises X electrodes, Y electrodes, and address electrodes, wherein a frame, which is a display cycle, comprises a plurality of subfields for time-divisional gray scale display. Each of the subfields includes a reset period, an address period, and... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080252565 - Electron emission display device and driving method thereof: An electron emission display device may include a pixel unit configured to emit electrons from first electrodes in accordance with voltages applied to the first electrodes and second electrodes, a clock generator including first and second lookup tables storing pulse widths of clocks, the clock generator configured to select one... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080252567 - Active matrix display device: An active matrix display device has a display section including a plurality of pixel sections each controlling the light intensity of an electro-optical element, a data driver supplying a data value to a data line, a gate driver supplying a selection signal to a gate line, and a controller. The... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080252566 - Display, display method, and electronic device: A display, comprising: a planar display section; a pixel space provided next to a side adjacent to one surface of the display section and encapsulating a plurality of kinds of colorants, each kind having a different color; an accumulation section provided in the pixel space and accumulating the colorants; a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252571 - Method of compensating an aging process of an illumination device: The present invention relates to a method of compensating an aging process of an illumination device comprising at least one organic light emitting diode (1) (OLED) having a light output that changes with time and a driver (2) connected with the OLED (1) having an individual current-voltage characteristic.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252568 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display capable of displaying an image with uniform luminance regardless of deterioration of an organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage and/or mobility of a drive transistor is disclosed. The organic light emitting display senses deterioration of the organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage and/or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080252569 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display capable of displaying an image with uniform luminance regardless of deterioration of an organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage and/or mobility of a drive transistor is disclosed. The organic light emitting display senses deterioration of the organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage and/or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080252570 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display capable of displaying an image with uniform luminance regardless of deterioration of an organic light emitting diode and threshold voltage/mobility of a drive transistor is disclosed. The organic light emitting display senses deterioration of the organic light emitting diode and the threshold voltage and/or mobility... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080252572 - Organic electroluminescent display and image correction method thereof: An organic electroluminescent display includes an image signal processor configured to receive an analog image signal from an external source and to convert the analog image signal to a digital image signal, a brightness sensor configured to measure brightness of an external light and to convert the measured brightness into... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080252573 - Transistor control circuits and control methods, and active matrix display devices using the same: A transistor control circuit (74) comprises a source-gated thin film transistor (70), an input for receiving a drive voltage representing a desired control of the source-gated transistor and a current source (82) for causing a known current to pass through the source-gated transistor (70). A first capacitor (78) stores a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252574 - Led display apparatus: An LED display apparatus 1 in which at least multiple LEDs are serially-connected to a power circuit part having a constant current power source, each one of the LEDs has a switching element parallel-connected thereto, and a control circuit part is used to selectively turn on/off the switching elements to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252575 - Photo-luminescent backlight support for power saving: Backlight support is provided for flat panel displays through use of phospho-luminescent materials. Photo-luminescent materials are integrated into a flat panel display such as an LCD display as a back panel substrate or by embedding in display pixels. When ambient light levels exceed a predetermined threshold the material is activated... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080252578 - 2d/3d liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A 2D/3D image display device including a display unit with a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, the plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and the plurality of pixels being coupled to the plurality of gate lines and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080252577 - Liquid crystal display device having drive circuit: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can be used in a miniaturized portable equipment, wherein the liquid crystal display device integrally incorporates a drive circuit therein so that a circuit scale can be miniaturized. A liquid crystal drive circuit includes a first drive circuit and a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080252576 - Panel display apparatus and source driver thereof: A panel display apparatus and a source driver including a set of first input terminals, a set of second input terminals, a set of first output terminals, a set of second output terminals, an interface module and a driving module are disclosed. The sets of the first and the second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252579 - Vehicle display apparatus: A display apparatus for use in a vehicle has a liquid crystal display panel, and the panel includes a first pixel area for displaying a meter image that represents vehicle condition values, and a second pixel area for displaying an outside image that calls attention of occupants as a warning... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080252581 - Liquid crystal display backplane layouts and addressing for non-standard subpixel arrangements: Liquid crystal display backplane layouts and addressing for non-standard subpixel arrangements are disclosed. A liquid crystal display comprises a panel and a plurality of transistors. The panel substantially comprises a subpixel repeating group having an even number of subpixels in a first direction. Each thin film transistor connects one subpixel... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080252580 - Rgv display system: A color display system includes a sensor assembly having a plurality of sensor pixels for sensing incident light. Each of the sensor pixels generates a photocurrent in response to sensing the incident light. An image processor being in communication with the sensor assembly receives each of the photocurrents and computes... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080252582 - Luminance compensation device and method thereof for backlight module: A luminance compensation device for a backlight module and a method thereof are provided herein. In the present invention, a light sensor unit is utilized to sense a light intensity of the backlight module. A difference parameter based on the sensed light intensity and a preset luminance is calculated. Then,... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080252583 - Liquid-crystal display apparatus, control method thereof, and computer program: A liquid-crystal display apparatus comprising, a liquid-crystal display device driven by an AC voltage, an image divider configured to temporally divide input image data into N (N≧2) for each frame, a correction unit configured to correct a driving voltage for driving the liquid-crystal display device based on a difference between... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080252584 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of scanning lines, a scanning line drive circuit which supplies a scanning voltage to the plurality of scanning lines, and a counter voltage supply circuit which supplies a counter voltage to a counter electrode of each pixel, the counter voltage supply... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080252585 - Outputting apparatus: Disclosed is an outputting apparatus connected to a plurality of external apparatus, the outputting apparatus including: a specifying section to specify the one external apparatus among the plurality of external apparatus; a storage controlling section to make a first storing section store switching information; an updating section to update switching... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080252586 - Method for driving liquid crystal display with inserting gray image: An exemplary method for driving a liquid crystal display includes: dividing a frame into a first sub-frame period and a second sub-frame period; displaying a normal image in the first sub-frame period; and displaying a gray image in the second sub-frame period. The gray image includes a plurality of pixels,... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080252588 - Column electrode driving circuit and display device using it: An object of the invention is to mitigate effect of variations of electrical characteristics or other performances of amplifiers used in a driving circuit system and combat the so-called artifact such as stripe patterns in displayed images even in a case of the same gray-scale of display. A column electrode... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080252587 - Driving method: A driving method for driving a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixel units electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. The driving method comprises enabling the pixel units controlled by... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252591 - Distributing and driving light sources of backlights: The present invention relates to a backlight for a display device comprising at least a first light source arrangement (1) and a second light source arrangement (2) and drivers for controlling said light source arrangements. The backlight further comprises a third light source arrangement (3), wherein each one of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252590 - Liquid crystal display and display control method for the same: In the case where a screen divided display is performed on a liquid crystal panel, a change in brightness or chromaticity between sub regions divided may be reduced. A display includes: a display panel; a backlight arranged corresponding to each of sub regions, and selectively illuminating the corresponding sub region,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080252589 - System and method for information handling system lcd white balance alignment: LCD panel white balance adjustment provides a desired brightness with minimal impact on optical performance by maximizing Red, Green and Blue gains of the LCD panel for a predetermined color temperature and then adjusting brightness with backlight current. For example, Red, Green and Blue gain settings are set at substantially... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080252592 - Electrophoretic display panel: The electrophoretic display panel (1) for displaying a picture and subsequently displaying a subsequent picture has a pixel (2) having an electrophoretic medium (5) having first and second charged particles (6, 7) and an optical state depending on the positions of the particles (6, 7) in the common region (30)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252596 - Display using a three-dimensional vision system: An interactive video display system allows a physical object to interact with a virtual object. A light source delivers a pattern of invisible light to a three-dimensional space occupied by the physical object. A camera detects invisible light scattered by the physical object. A computer system analyzes information generated by... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080252593 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, method and program for controlling highlighting on a screen on the basis of an operation on a touch panel overlaid on a display. A touch-panel operation determining unit 31 detects positional information supplied from a touch panel and generates a control... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080252595 - Method and device for virtual navigation and voice processing: An apparatus for virtual navigation and voice processing is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer readable storage medium having computer instructions for processing voice signals captured from a microphone array, detecting a location of an object in a touchless sensory... Agent: Marc Boillot

20080252594 - Vibration actuator with a unidirectional drive: A haptic feedback generation system includes a linear resonant actuator and a drive circuit. The drive circuit is adapted to output a unidirectional signal that is applied to the linear resonant actuator. In response, the linear resonant actuator generates haptic vibrations.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080252597 - Modifying a value based on a user's directional motions independent of cursor position: A method for changing a value displayed on a screen is provided. In response to receiving a user input indicating motion in a particular direction, changing the value independent of where the position of a cursor is on the screen. The value being changed may comprise of a series of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080252598 - Remote controller and multimedia education system using same: A remote controller includes a sensor, a first processor, and a transmitter. The sensor is used for sensing movements of the remote controller, and generating corresponding sensed signals. The first processor is for processing the sensed signals and generating movement signals. The transmitter is used for transmitting the movement signals... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252599 - Video production switcher panel and related methods: Various improvements for video production switchers are disclosed. In a user input module, a Link button is operable to link key functions with a user controllable input device. A multicolor lighting arrangement may be provided, and possibly calibrated, for illuminating each button of a switcher with a controllable color and/or... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080252600 - Adaptable control device: The invention relates to a control device for controlling vehicle functional units. There is a need for a control device which can be used for controlling a variety of different functional units without there being uncertainty with respect to what function is being controlled. The control device is adapted to... Agent: Deere & Company

20080252601 - Computer peripheral with touch screen capability: A computing system for calculating has a host computing appliance able to communicate with a computer peripheral, a computer peripheral having there on a touch screen user interface and an activation control for activating and deactivating the touch screen interface.... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080252602 - Dynamically reconfigurable pixel array for optical navigation: Embodiments of an apparatus are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus is an optical navigation circuit. In particular, the optical navigation circuit may be part of an optical navigation device. The optical navigation circuit includes an image sensor, dynamic reconfiguration logic, and a digital signal processor. The image sensor includes... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080252603 - Condensed keyboard for electronic devices: Apparatuses and systems for generating characters for electronic devices using condensed keyboards are disclosed. One embodiment comprises a keyboard that monitors two sets, of keys, one for each hand, for manipulation and desired character generation. The keyboard generally has four or more keys for each hand, and the keyboard may... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080252605 - Keyboard with changeable key display: A keyboard system comprises a first plurality of keys. The first plurality of keys have top surfaces with fixed indicia disposed thereon. The keyboard system further comprises a recessed section. The keyboard system further comprises a programmable display key module disposed in the recessed section. The programmable display key module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080252604 - Osd controlling system and operation method thereof: An exemplary on-screen display (OSD) controlling system (20) for a display device is provided. The system includes OSD buttons (22) without any symbols and an OSD menu (25) configured for displaying and adjusting characteristics of the display device. The OSD menu includes a primary OSD menu (211) and OSD submenus... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080252606 - Display device: A matrix display device (32) comprising at least one structured layer, arranged on a substrate and formed so as to include a code (31), detectable by a pointing device (33) to determine a position on the display (32). Providing the pixel structure with a location code can be achieved by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252609 - Image display and touch input integration module: An image display and touch input integration module includes a keyboard microcontroller connected to an image memory, a touch module, and a display module, and selectively operable in a touch mode or a display mode. The image memory has at least one image data stored thereon. The touch module defines... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080252607 - Image display that moves physical objects and causes tactile sensation: An image display including a touch-sensitive display, that creates tactile sensation and movement of an object (3-2) along its surface is provided. Actuators including conductive rods (4-111, 4-112) attached together may be used, such that each rod of the actuator (4-11) may increase or decrease in size when current is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252611 - Object search method and terminal having object search function: An object search method, computer program product, and a terminal having an object search function are disclosed. The object search method includes: displaying a list of a plurality of objects including a first object and a second object in a first screen area, and displaying a touch input window for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252612 - Touch panel display device with signal transmission channel: An exemplary touch panel display device (2) includes a display device (26) including a driving chip and a touch panel (20). The touch panel includes a transparent conductive substrate (21) including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a transparent conductive film (22) including a third electrode and a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080252608 - Touch sensor with electrode array: A touch sensor is provided that includes an array of discrete electrodes disposed over a touch sensitive area, the electrodes being elongated in a first direction and having a variable width measured in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. A touch location can be determined by... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080252610 - Variably positionable touchpad interface: An electronic device comprises a touchpad module having at least one touchpad pick button rotatably coupled to a housing of the electronic device to enable movement of the at least one touchpad pick button between a non-extended position and an extended position relative to the housing.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080252613 - Method for regulating sensitivity of an electrical touch pad and the electrical touch pad using the same: An electrical touch pad includes a touch sensor for detecting operational inputs, and generating analog signals according to the operational inputs; a touch detection unit for receiving analog signals, amplifying the analog signals by a controllable gain to generate amplified analog signals, converting the amplified analog signals to generate digital... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080252615 - Sensing device having capacitive force sensor with saturated output at minimum capacitance: A sensing device is provided for interacting with a substrate. The sensing device has a force sensor for detecting whether the sensing device is interacting with the substrate and an image sensor for sensing coded data disposed on the substrate. The force sensor has a capacitive sensor circuit incorporating a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252614 - Touch panel: A touch panel has a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a polarizing plate. The upper substrate is stacked on the upper surface of the lower substrate, and the polarizing plate is stacked on the upper surface of the upper substrate. Lower conductive layers that are insulated from each other... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080252617 - Display apparatus with optical input function: In making a contact determination between an object and a display screen, a display apparatus of the present invention is capable of adjusting a region on which to make a contact determination in response to the displayed image in a liquid crystal panel, so that the influence by the displayed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080252618 - Display having infrared edge illumination and multi-touch sensing function: A touch-sensing display screen includes an upper transparent substrate, a lower substrate opposite the upper substrate and an infrared light source configured to illuminate a portion of the upper transparent substrate. A light converting layer is disposed between the upper and lower substrate and is configured to convert the infrared... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080252619 - System for providing a frustrated total internal reflection touch interface: A system for providing a touch interface on a display are described. The system include providing an emitter on a first side of the display and providing a detector on a second side of the display. The emitter provides an electromagnetic signal to the display. The electromagnetic signal has a... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080252616 - Visual simulation of touch pressure: The simulation of touch pressure on a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, a touch pressure is simulated on a touch-sensitive display by detecting inputs corresponding to each of an untouched display and two or more measures of touch pressure, and displaying images on the display corresponding to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080252620 - Optical waveguide for touch panel and touch panel using the same: A band-shaped touch panel optical waveguide includes a planar base; an over-cladding layer; and a plurality of cores arranged in juxtaposed relation between the base and the over-cladding layer, and respectively having end portions arranged parallel to each other in a longitudinal edge portion of the band-shaped optical waveguide. The... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080252621 - Sensing device having capacitive force sensor: A sensing device is provided for interacting with a substrate. The sensing device has a force sensor for detecting whether the sensing device is interacting with the substrate and an image sensor for sensing coded data disposed on the substrate. The force sensor has a capacitive sensor circuit incorporating a... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080252627 - Display array driving circuit and driving method thereof: A display array driving circuit is provided. The circuit includes a first memory block, a second memory block, and a main circuit. The first memory block stores the most significant bit (MSB) of the data of one pixel. The second memory block is utilized to store non-MSB bits of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080252625 - Display method with interlacing reversal scan and device thereof: A display method with interlacing reversal scan and a device thereof are provided. The scan mode is interlacing reversal scan. Thus, in time and space, each color frame with poor luminance response can be alternately distributed on up-side and the down-side region of the frame instead on low-side region of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080252624 - Liquid crystal display device: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device which is capable of reducing the number of data drive integrated circuits (ICs) to curtail a production cost. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel cells formed respectively in areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and a... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080252623 - Method for improving the emi performance of an lcd device: A method for improving the EMI performance of an LCD device is disclosed, adapting for a point-to-point transistor transistor logic interface of the LCD device. The disclosed method comprises the following steps: receiving a plurality of image data based on a fifth CLK signal; providing a first CLK signal and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080252626 - Self-luminous display panel driving method, self-luminous display panel and electronic apparatus: A self-luminous display panel driving method for driving a self-luminous display panel of the active matrix driving type, includes the step of executing threshold value correction operation for a driving transistor divisionally in a plurality of periods within at least one of which, after a point of time of an... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080252622 - Systems for displaying images and driving method thereof: Systems for displaying images. The system comprises a signal driving circuit with X+1 shift registers connected in series, generating X+1 output pulses in sequence according to a start pulse and a clock signal, and a logic unit coupled to the X+1 shift registers, generating Z driving signals in sequence according... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080252629 - Display apparatus and brightness correction method thereof: A display apparatus and a brightness correction method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a body and a light sensing device. The body includes a screen and a control module and the control module is coupled to the screen for controlling brightness of the screen. The light sensing device,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080252628 - Image processing apparatus and method of reducing power consumption of self-luminous display: An image processing apparatus and a method to reduce power consumption of a self-luminous display. The image processing apparatus includes a parameter selection unit to select a parameter to adjust a degree to which power consumption is reduced; a scale factor setting unit to extract a high-frequency component of a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080252630 - Display device and method for driving the same: Provided are a display device and a method for driving the same. The display device includes: a plurality of display modules; a plurality of display module drivers for respectively driving the display modules; a data divider receiving data signals for displaying an image on the display device and separating the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080252631 - Driver of display unit: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a driver of a display unit including a latch circuit holding gradation information, a D/A converter outputting analog signal based on the gradation information held by the latch circuit, a test circuit provided between the latch circuit and the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080252632 - Gamma voltage generating circuit and display device having the same: A gamma voltage generating circuit includes a resistor string part including a plurality of resistors electrically connected in series between a first power terminal and a second power terminal, the first power terminal receives a first power voltage and the second power terminal receives a second power voltage. The resistor... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080252633 - Analog output buffer circuit and organic light emitting display using the same: An analog output buffer circuit is provided. A first transistor has a source, drain, and gate coupled to a first node, a second node, and a third node, respectively. A second transistor is coupled between the second node and the third node. The second transistor has a gate coupled to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080252634 - Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument: An integrated circuit device includes a first circuit block that includes low-voltage transistors (LVTr) and operates using a first high-potential power supply voltage and a first low-potential power supply voltage, a second circuit block that includes low-voltage transistors (LVTr) and operates using a second high-potential power supply voltage and a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252635 - Interface system and flat panel display using the same: An interface system capable of minimizing an electro magnetic interference. The interface system may be constructed with a serializer for receiving a first data and second data having a plurality of bits from an external device and sequentially outputting bits of the received first data and second data; a transmission... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080252636 - Synthesis method for intervisibility images: The field of the invention is that of synthesis methods for a map image which is composed of pixels and represents the distribution of the intervisibility regions on a terrain overflown by an aircraft. The image synthesis method according to the invention provides both a two-dimensional cartographic representation in plan... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080252638 - Cost effective rendering for 3d displays: A method and apparatus for rendering image data on a 3D display is disclosed. A first image signal is received and then at least one colour component of the first image signal is rendered in reduced spatial resolution to produce a second image signal. The second image signal is spatial... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252639 - Switchable display device: A switchable display device (100) which is arranged to switch between a two-dimensional view mode and a three-dimensional view mode is disclosed. The switchable display device (100) comprises: a structure (104) of light generating elements (105-108) for generating light on basis of respective driving values; and optical directory means (110)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252637 - Virtual reality-based teleconferencing: A virtual reality environment is applied to teleconferencing such that the environment is used to enter into a teleconference.... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20080252640 - Systems and methods for interactive real estate viewing: In one embodiment, the system and method provides the user with the ability to interact with a piece of real estate using a 360 degree full range of motion. The software further enables a user to change textures/features at will. A 3D virtual environment is used so developers can classify... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080252641 - Projection image generation apparatus and program: When a projection direction or position has been changed by the operation from the outside, the resolution of a projection image in a region of interest on a projection plane is set higher than that of the projection image other than the region of interest. Then, a projection image is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252642 - Method and drug administration device for enhanced display of diary data: The invention provides for a method and a drug administration device for enhanced display of data in a modal day format. The method in accordance with the invention provides the user with an option to select one or more data points (430) on the graph and on selection all the... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20080252643 - Method and system for developing a strategy for use in a controller and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method: A method and system for developing a strategy for use in a controller and storage medium for storing instructions which effectuate the method are provided. A computer graphical approach of at least one embodiment of the invention eliminates computer programming by presenting a user with a blank 2-dimensional graph on... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080252644 - Measuring device, graphics generating method, program and recording medium: There is provided a measuring device including an EVM measuring unit 32 which measures, in association with time, a physical quantity (EVM) of an RF signal, which uses different frequency bands according to time, a used band determining unit 36 which determines the type of the frequency band used by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252645 - In-context paint stroke characteristic adjustment: In-context paint stroke characteristic adjustment, in which a first user input selecting a path of a paint stroke rendered on a display is received, an anchor point on the path is defined based on the first user input, and a characteristic adjustment control is rendered adjacent to the anchor point.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252646 - Enhanced motion behavior framework: An enhanced motion behavior framework, in which an input is received from a user corresponding to an object to be animated and one or more animation parameters to be applied to the object, the one or more animation parameters are applied to the object, and an animation of the object... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252647 - Method and apparatus for bandwidth corruption recovery: A graphics processor is provided. The graphics processor includes a memory storing image data for presentation and a display memory region in communication with the memory, the display memory region supplying image data to a display panel for presentation. The graphics processor includes bandwidth control logic configured to monitor a... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080252648 - Method and apparatus for providing bandwidth priority: A memory for a graphics processor is provided. The memory includes a write first-in-first-out (FIFO) region of the memory for receiving pixel data, and a read FIFO region for accessing the pixel data received into the memory through the write FIFO. The memory has a memory controller having write assembly... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080252649 - Self-automating bandwidth priority memory controller: A memory controller that includes a write first in first out (FIFO) region of the memory for receiving pixel data and a read FIFO region of the memory for accessing the pixel data received through the write FIFO is provided. The memory controller is configured to rearrange the pixel data... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080252650 - Organic light emitting display, driver system therfor and driving method thereof: The organic light emitting display may include a scan driver configured to sequentially supply a scan signal to scan lines during every subframe period, a data driver configured to supply a data signal to data lines when the scan signal is supplied, at least one lookup table configured to store... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080252651 - Representing a printed product using image blending: A design image is combined with a product image to create a composite image to illustrate the result of printing the design image onto the product. To create the composite image, the opacity of each pixel in the design image is set according to the brightness value of the pixel... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20080252652 - Programmable graphics processing element: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for performing graphics operations using programmable processing units in a graphics processing unit (GPU). As described herein, a GPU includes a graphics pipeline that includes a programmable graphics processing element (PGPE). In accordance with the techniques described herein, an arbitrary set of instructions is... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080252653 - Calibrating rgbw displays: A method for calibrating a display device having four or more channels, including three main channels which include in their gamut a desired display white point, and one or more further channels, said display device also having one or more individual adjustment controls for each channel. The method uses a... Agent: Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080252654 - Display control circuit and display device: A display control circuit has a memory configured to store three-colors pixel data, a first selector configured to select one color pixel data for m pixels in order among the three-colors pixel data for the m pixels read out from the memory when performing vertically long display in a display... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080252655 - Techniques for efficient dithering: A system comprising a storage including an image file associated with a plurality of pixels and processing logic coupled to the storage. The processing logic is adapted to determine an average of least significant bits associated with a maximum of two of the plurality of pixels, add the average to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080252656 - Method for enhancing colour resolution and device exploiting the method: The invention relates to a method for enhancing colour resolution and particularly for obtaining 18 bit resolution in a display using a 16 bits per pixel system frame buffer. The invention uses logic to create intermediate pixel values between 16 bpp colour values. The invention proposes to store the image... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080252657 - Color conversion circuit and method of color conversion using interpolation from conversion coefficients some of which are substituted: Exemplary embodiments of color conversion circuits and color conversion methods convert input color data into output color data. The input color data is positioned in a three-dimensional color space, which is divided into a plurality of unit cubes each having a fixed dimension. The input color data is converted by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080252658 - Method of converting signals for multi-primary color display: A method is described which converts a three primary color input signal (Cx, Cy, Cz) into N drive signals (P1, . . . , PN) to drive N>3 primary colors of a multi-primary color display (3). The method determines (1) a valid range (VS) wherein the N drive signals (P1,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080252659 - Post-rendering anti-aliasing with a smoothing filter: A system to apply a smoothing filter during anti-aliasing at a post-rendering stage. An embodiment of the system includes a three-dimensional renderer, an edge detector, and a smoothing filter. The three-dimensional renderer is configured to render a three-dimensional scene. The edge detector is coupled to the three-dimensional renderer. The edge... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080252660 - Curved line correction method, apparatus, and program: A curved line correction method is provided, which is used when correcting a curved line displayed on an image display device and formed of a plurality of dots by moving a dot selected from the plurality of dots. The method includes the steps of correcting a portion of the trajectory... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252661 - Interface for computer controllers: A software module for providing a user interface for a hardware peripheral device for controlling graphical elements of a virtual world defined in a computer system and rendered on a display device of the computer system, the module providing software including motion algorithms, and the module being capable of generating,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080252662 - Methods of displaying information at different zoom settings and related devices and computer program products: A method of displaying pages of information on an electronic screen may include receiving a first page of information including first text, and rendering the first page of information including the first text on the electronic screen at a first zoom setting. After rendering the first page of information at... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080252663 - Solving networks of geometric constraints: Systems, program products and program products for accepting a request to move a first geometric entity that is constrained to other geometric entities in a drawing that may contain both one-way and two-way geometric constraints. A set of affected geometric entities that need to be repositioned or otherwise changed as... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252665 - Current driver and display device: A current driver to which image data including a plurality of grayscale values is input and which outputs an electric current according to the grayscale values of the image data, the current driver comprising: a first input section to which a first reference current is input, a current value of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080252664 - Device and method for driving light-emitting diodes: A light-emitting diode (LED) driver is provided to drive an LED. The LED driver includes a clock supply to periodically output a modulation period. A brightness controller is provided to receive brightness data corresponding to the desired brightness of the LED. The brightness controller generates a pulse-width-modulated (PWM) duty pulse... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080252667 - Digital-to-analog converter and method thereof: A digital-to-analog (D/A) converter comprises a decoder apparatus and an operational amplifier. The decoder apparatus comprises first and second decoder unit. The first decoder unit selects a voltage of first voltage set as first and second voltage in response to a value of first gray level set. The second decoder... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080252666 - Display apparatus and method for adjusting brightness thereof: A display apparatus and a method for adjusting brightness thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a panel unit which displays a video signal, a light emitting unit which provides the panel unit with a ray of light and causes the video signal to be visualized, a light emission control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080252668 - Selecting a refresh time and/or gray-scale lookup table in a liquid crystal display device: A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver and a scan driver. The display panel includes pixels respectively electrically connected to scan lines and data lines. The timing controller calculates the statistic numbers of pixels whose gray level variations between previous and current frames cross... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080246692 - Foldable multi-display apparatus: Provided is a foldable multi-display apparatus that forms a foldable type large screen by connecting housings in which unit display panels are supported. The foldable multi-display apparatus includes a sliding member that moves the unit display panel supported by the housing towards the adjacent unit display panel when an unfolding... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080246693 - System and method of enhanced virtual reality: A method and system for virtual reality imaging is presented. The method includes placing a user in a known environment; acquiring a video image from a perspective such that a field of view of the video camera simulates the user's line of sight; tracking the user's location, rotation and line... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080246694 - Personal theater display: A system for combining an overlay image with externally-displayed visual content, the system including: a tracking module to receive alignment information; an image generator module to generate the overlay image, and to align the overlay image using the alignment information; and a personal display module to superimpose the overlay image... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080246695 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display and a driving method thereof, a sustain pulse of a high level voltage is supplied to a scan electrode or a sustain electrode during a sustain period using a capacitor charged to a voltage corresponding to a voltage difference between a high scan voltage and a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080246696 - Plasma display and driving device thereof: A driver circuit for a scan electrode of a plasma display panel is disclosed. The driver circuit has reduced voltage drop in the current path used to drive the scan electrode during a sustain period. Accordingly, the circuit provides improved power efficiency and speed.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080246700 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality simultaneously, the arrangement is provided such that if the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246697 - Organic light emitting display: An organic light emitting display includes: a first shift register which is electrically coupled with a clock line, a negative clock line, and an initial drive line; a first NAND gate which is electrically coupled with the initial drive line, a first light emitting control line which is an output... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080246698 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof: A driving method of an organic light emitting display device according to the present invention includes the steps of: supplying scan signals generated by scan driving power supplies and scan driving control signals to a pixel unit; supplying data signals generated by data driving power supplies, data, and data driving... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080246699 - Organic light emitting display, and image modification method: An organic light emitting display, and an image modification method may include an analog to digital image signal processor configured to output present digital image data, a frame data analysis unit electrically coupled to the image signal processor, the frame data analysis unit configured to receive the present digital image... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080246702 - Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting display includes an organic light emitting display panel, a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of the organic light emitting display panel, a driving voltage determining unit for outputting voltage data by calculating the driving voltage of the organic light emitting display panel on the... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080246701 - Organic light emitting display and its driving method: In an organic light emitting display and its driving method, a pixel portion includes a plurality of pixels which express images corresponding to a scan signal, an emission control signal, and a data signal. A scan driver transfers the scan signal and the emission control signal to the pixel portion.... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080246704 - Display device: The invention provides a display device (26) including a plurality of discrete display segments (2). Each display segment (2) is provided with a drive circuit for driving the display elements arranged within the display area. The display device may be provided either as a passive, active or direct pixel addressed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246703 - Display driving methods and apparatus for driving a passive matrix multicolor electroluminescent display: A method of driving a passive matrix multicolor electroluminescent display, the display comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns, each said pixel comprising at least first and second sub-pixels having different respective first and second colors, the method comprising: driving groups of said pixels in turn to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080246705 - Off-state light recapturing in display systems employing spatial light modulators: In display systems employing spatial light modulators, the OFF-state light from OFF-state pixels of the spatial light modulator can be captured and directed back to the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to recycle the OFF-state light in the display system.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080246707 - Display device: A display device includes a pair of substrates, a drain signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the drain signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246706 - Pulse width modulation algorithm: In display systems employing spatial light modulators, the OFF-state light from OFF-state pixels of the spatial light modulator can be captured and directed back to the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to recycle the OFF-state light in the display system. Bitplanes derived from the desired image to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080246709 - Display device: A display device which includes a display panel with plural sub-pixels, first and second conversion circuits for converting the display data in the intermediate gradation input from the external system into different values, a driver which outputs the video voltage corresponding to the display data to the sub-pixels, and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246710 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device includes an active-matrix-type display panel including video signal lines, and a video signal lines driving circuit which supplies display data to the video signal lines, and a display control circuit receiving video data from an external signal source, and outputting the display data to the video signal... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246708 - Liquid crystal device, image sensor, and electronic apparatus: The invention provides a liquid crystal device including: a first substrate; a second substrate that is provided over the first substrate in such a manner that the first substrate and the second substrate face each other; a plurality of optical sensing sections that is formed in an image display area... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246711 - Using packet transfer for driving lcd panel driver electronics: In a digital display device, a packet based method of driving selected pixel elements by way of associated data latches included in a column driver is disclosed. For each frame lines in a video frame, a number of video data packets are provided directly to the column driver at a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080246713 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels and a panel driver. The panel driver receives original image signals corresponding to successive frames which are displayed in a predetermined number within a predetermined period of time, forms an interpolation image signal on the basis of... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080246714 - Image display device, display panel and method of driving image display device: An image display device capable of applying a higher voltage than the original voltage to the pixel, without causing deterioration of the display quality is provided. The image display device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a main capacitive element as a display element performing display operation in accordance... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246712 - Programmable gray level generation unit: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (12) for providing voltages for generation of different gray levels in a display device (11). It further relates to a display device (11) applying such circuit arrangement (12). The invention further relates to a method for providing different gray level curves (33-36) representing... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080246715 - Image displaying apparatus and image displaying method: In an image displaying apparatus, first and second detecting units detect quantities of light propagating through a light path at two different locations. A variation calculating unit calculates the variation in the light quantity in the light path based on the quantities of light detected by each of the first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080246716 - Display device: To provide a display device which can ensure high reliability of a driver circuit even when a threshold voltage of a TFT shifts. The display device includes a power supply control circuit which can apply a forward bias voltage or a reverse bias voltage to a gate of a transistor... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080246717 - Display device: The display device includes an output circuit, a threshold control circuit which sequentially selects one of a forward bias voltage and a reverse bias voltage, and a power supply control circuit which applies one of the forward bias voltage and the reverse bias voltage which is selected to a gate... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20080246718 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device including an image line drive circuit having an amplifier circuit for outputting an image voltage to an image line. The amplifier circuit has a switching unit for connecting one of two input terminals to either of an inverting input terminal or a non-inverting input terminal... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246719 - Gradation voltage selection circuit and display control circuit: A gradation voltage selection circuit has a plurality of gradation selection parts, a plurality of tournament circuits, and a decoder circuit. Each of the plurality of gradation selection parts includes two first switch circuits and a second switch circuit. The tournament circuit repeating operations of selecting one of two gradation... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080246720 - Display substrate and liquid crystal display having the same: A liquid crystal display includes: a first pixel connected to first and second gate lines, a first positive data line and a first negative data line, and which is supplied with a positive data voltage from the first positive data line when enabled by a first gate-on voltage from the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080246721 - Method of driving image display, driving device for image display, and image display: An image display according to the present invention includes a driving device which performs pulse width modulation drive, restrains power consumption, and produces a good multi-tone display. The image display makes the difference between the scan line voltage and the signal line voltage equal in positive polarity writing and negative... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080246722 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes an input/output unit adapted to display an image and sense light incident thereon from the outside. The input/output unit is capable of accepting simultaneous inputting to a plurality of points on a display screen of the input/output unit. The display screen is covered with a transparent... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080246723 - Integrated button activation sensing and proximity sensing: Apparatuses and methods for coupling a group of sensor elements together in one mode to collectively measure a capacitance on the group of sensor elements, in addition to individually measuring a capacitance on each of the sensor elements in another mode. The touch-sensor buttons may be used individually for button-activation... Agent: Cypress/blakely

20080246725 - Apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer with low sensitivity to particle contamination: An apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer includes an at least partially coherent light source for illuminating an imaging surface, thereby generating reflected images. The apparatus includes a navigation sensor for generating digital images based on the reflected images, performing a movement computation based on the digital... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080246724 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and/or analyzing anatomical images: A method for monitoring a target in a medical display in a medical imaging apparatus includes receiving echo signals from an area of interest of a patient, extracting raw data from the received echo signals, processing the extracted raw data to display a dual mode image on the medical display,... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080246726 - Portable electronic device having a pliable or flexible portion: A portable electronic device or handheld computer is disclosed. The device has a housing and computing electronics supported by the housing. A pliable sensor that is supported by the housing is also disclosed. The pliable sensor provides input from the hand of a user by applying pressure to the pliable... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080246729 - Casing of mouse: The present invention provides a casing of a mouse. The casing includes a base, a first step, and a second step. In particular, the casing according to the invention enables users to conveniently hold, and is not easily to fall while lifting.... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080246728 - Cursor pointing device with memory card receiving mechanism: The present invention is to provide a cursor pointing device having a memory card receiving mechanism, which is enclosed by a housing including an upper housing, a lower housing, and a space formed in the housing after assembling the upper housing and the lower housing together. A receiving unit is... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080246727 - Stand alone module mouse with replaceable cover: A computer mouse includes two components. A fully functional module mouse and a shell mouse that fits over the module mouse. The module mouse is configured to perform at least one complete mouse function, independently of the shell mouse. Other functions can be split between the shell mouse and the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080246730 - Computer input device with improved control performance: The invention relates to a computer input device comprising means for registering a displacement of said device relative to a substrate for selection of an item on a display panel. The computer input device comprises a device bottom, intended to face said substrate in use of said computer input device.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246731 - Backside control utility, bcu.: Backside Control Utility, BCU, is disclosed. Invention is an innovative way of BCU touchpad and keyboard in various applications as backside control utility, meaning locating touchpad and keyboard at a back of various hosting devices such as cellular phones, Tablet PCs, laptops, portable displays, portable music players and others. Invention... Agent: Michael Chechelniker

20080246732 - Method and apparatus for masking keystroke sounds from computer keyboards: Disclosed herein is a method of masking audible sounds emanating from a keyboard in response to a stroking of keys on the keyboard, the method comprising, selecting components from a plurality of components with various masses, building the keyboard with the selected components, moving a movable mass within the keyboard,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080246733 - Tv interface control system and method with automatic text entry: An automatic text entry system and method is disclosed which automatically displays a text entry menu on a TV in response to opening a remote control having an internal concealed keyboard. One of plural text entry modes may also be automatically selected based on past text entry mode selections or... Agent: David L. Henty

20080246734 - Body movement based usage of mobile device: Body-based sensors are used to interact with one or more mobile devices. This interaction can be an alternative to or a supplement to traditional input methods on mobile devices. In order to facilitate everyday use, sensors can be hidden in jewelry or other fashion accessories normally worn by a user... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080246736 - Apparatus and method for interfacing between digital devices: An apparatus and method for interfacing between digital devices. The apparatus for interfacing between two or more digital devices through wired and/or wireless communication includes: a display unit that outputs information regarding communicable digital devices and receives information for specifying digital devices that it is desired to interface with each... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246740 - Display device with optical input function, image manipulation method, and image manipulation program: Provided are a display device with an optical input function, an image manipulation method, and an image manipulation program. Shape information on an object adjacent to a display unit is detected. A function indicated by an icon which corresponds to contact coordinates of the object is assigned to the shape... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246742 - Electronic device capable of executing commands therein and method for executing commands in the same: The present invention provides a method for executing commands in an electronic device having a touch sensing element. A stylus or finger is used to touch the touch sensing element and move through several sensing areas on the touch sensing element. A responsive signal is generated by the touch sensing... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080246741 - Input device, and electro-optical device: An input device includes an input panel, a cover member that is provided with a housing portion, in which the input panel is housed, and a film member that is disposed over a main surface of the input panel provided in the housing portion and a main surface of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080246737 - Method and devices of transmitting tactile information description: (c) a series of instructions is activated when the server receives the word, this series having a start address that depends on said word, said series of instructions being used to display the successive images together forming the pattern corresponding to the word to be displayed, said series of instructions... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080246738 - System and method for projecting control graphics: Systems and methods for projecting graphics onto a surface are provided. According to exemplary embodiments, systems and methods for projecting control graphics onto a surface that includes control functionality are provided. The surface may take the form of a control panel, touch panel or the like. The control panel is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080246735 - Tactile feedback for capacitive sensors: A tactile feedback apparatus for a capacitive sensing device is comprised of a dielectric insulator having a surface. A finger receiving recess is defined in the surface. The finger receiving recess is configured for receiving a deflected portion of a finger. The finger receiving recess is comprised of a finger... Agent: Synaptics C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20080246739 - Touch sensitive display device, apparatus and method for driving the same: A touch sensitive display device has a driving apparatus. The driving apparatus includes at least one of a plurality of stages, and each stage includes an input section, a middle processing unit, an output voltage generator, and an output path selection unit. The input section outputs a first voltage in... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080246744 - Touch-screen display device: A touch-screen display device includes a touch panel and a display panel. The touch panel includes a signal terminal portion transmitting a coordinate signal corresponding to a touch position. The display panel is disposed under the touch panel, and includes a display area and a peripheral area that surrounds the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080246743 - Transport control module for remote use: A method of controlling a light emitting display includes receiving an input signal with a transport control module that includes a touch screen, displaying a command overlay that includes an input command on the touch screen, selecting the input command from the command overly, processing the input signal based upon... Agent: Element Labs, Inc.

20080246745 - Stylus for portable electronic device: A portable electronic device (40) includes a housing (41), a display section (42) formed on the housing, and a stylus (20) connected to the housing. The display section has a screen. The stylus includes a writing portion (21), a sleeve (23), and a holder (25) formed on the sleeve. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080246746 - Display controller blinking mode circuitry for lcd panel of twisted nematic type: A display controller for providing signals to a discrete display panel unit comprising: a set of registers configured to hold data to be displayed; a first logic circuitry connected to the set of registers and configured to receive the data from the set of registers, generate the signal waveforms required... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20080246747 - Display, method for driving display, and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including an electro-optical element, a write transistor for sampling and writing an input signal voltage supplied through a signal line, a holding capacitor for holding the input signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080246748 - Laminated and tilled displays and methods of manufacturing the same: A display having a front plane, a back plane and a border edge. The display includes a color changing cell located behind the front plane of the device and a first and second electrically conducting attachment layer. The color changing cell includes an active color layer having at least one... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080246749 - Organic light emitting diode (oled) display and a method of driving the same: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes an illuminance sensing unit configured to sense an external illuminance, a brightness determination unit configured to determine a brightness of the OLED display according to an illuminance sensed by the illuminance sensing unit, a driving voltage determination unit configured to determine a... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080246750 - Driving circuit and image display apparatus: There is provided a driving circuit including; a plurality of output terminals to be electrically connected to the scan wirings, respectively; a scan controlling unit for selecting one or plural output terminals to output a driving signal for the scan wiring from among the plurality of output terminals; a potential... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080246751 - Power factor corrector: A power factor correction circuit (PFC) including a switch, a feedback signal generator for generating a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage, and a switching controller for receiving the feedback voltage and for controlling turn-on/turn-off of the switch. The feedback signal generator includes first and second resistors serially connected... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080246752 - Display, timing controller and column driver integrated circuit using clock embedded multi-level signaling: The present invention relates to a display, a timing controller and a column driver IC, and more particularly to a display, timing controller and column driver integrated circuit using clock embedded multi-level signaling. The present invention provides a timing controller including a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal wherein a... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20080246755 - Display, column driver integrated circuit, and multi-level detector, and multi-level detection method: The present invention relates to a display, a column driver integrated circuit, and a multi-level detector, and multi-level detection method, and more particularly to a multi-level detector, multi-level detection method, a display and column driver integrated circuit reducing a possibility of an error by removing the common mode from the... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20080246753 - Method and device for tracking sweet spots: The invention relates to a method and device for tracking the sweet spots of a sweets spot unit for a transmissive electronic display. The aim of the invention is to improve the reproduction quality and the uniformity of illumination in displays of this type. The display contains a sweet spot... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080246754 - Method of driving discharge display panel performing adaptive initialization: Provided is a method of driving a discharge display panel that applies a reset driving signal to all display cell in the discharge display panel during an initialization period. The reset driving signal includes a rising voltage signal and a descending voltage signal. A rising rate of the rising voltage... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080246757 - 3d image generation and display system: A 3D image generation and display system facilitating the display of high-quality images in a Web browser comprises means for creating 3D images from a plurality of different images and computer graphics modeling and generating a 3D object from these images that has texture and attribute data; means for converting... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080246756 - Pictorial representation of three-dimensional data records: The invention relates to a method for the pictorial representation of a three-dimensional measuring data record, comprising the creation of the three-dimensional measured data record by means of a computer tomographic or nuclear spin tomographic device, the processing of a first subset of the three-dimensional measured data record for a... Agent: Ip Strategies

20080246758 - Terrain modeling based on curved surface area: A terrain modeling system provides a terrain model having variable resolution. The system receives an input terrain made up of raster points. The system identifies raster points that differ in height from an adjacent raster point by a threshold. The system interpolates the identified raster points to calculate one or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080246759 - Automatic scene modeling for the 3d camera and 3d video: Single-camera image processing methods are disclosed for 3D navigation within ordinary moving video. Along with color and brightness, XYZ coordinates can be defined for every pixel. The resulting geometric models can be used to obtain measurements from digital images, as an alternative to on-site surveying and equipment such as laser... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080246760 - Method and apparatus for mapping texture onto 3-dimensional object model: Provided are a method and apparatus for mapping texture onto a 3-dimensional (3D) object model. The method includes converting object model data, in which at least one object is modeled, into object model data of a predetermined view point, generating raster graphics data expressing the texture of the object by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080246762 - Method for generating three-dimensional shape data, apparatus for generating three-dimensional shape data, and three-dimensional shape data generating program: A placement position of a sketched image into a three-dimensional space and viewing point direction are determined using the angle method or the three-point method, and the cross-section lines of a door cross-section line and center cross-section line of a vehicle depicted in the sketched image is determined and, based... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246761 - Systems for hybrid geometric/volumetric representation of 3d objects: The invention provides a system for modeling three-dimensional objects using hybrid geometric/volumetric representation, wherein sharp edges are created by a geometric representation that is connected to the volumetric representation. The system creates, maintains, and updates the hybrid representation according to user input. The system also provides for conversion of the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080246763 - Apparatus and method for a frustum culling algorithm suitable for hardware implementation: A method and apparatus for a frustum culling algorithm suitable for hardware implementation. In one embodiment, the method includes the separation of coordinates of a normal vector of each frustum plane of a frustum view into positive normal coordinates and negative normal coordinates. In one embodiment, the separation of the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080246764 - Early z scoreboard tracking system and method: Early Z scoreboard tracking systems and methods in accordance with the present invention are described. Multiple pixels are received and a pixel depth raster operation is performed on the pixels. The pixel depth raster operation comprises discarding a pixel that is occluded. In one exemplary implementation, the depth raster operation... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080246765 - Method and apparatus for constraint-based texture generation: A method and apparatus for texture mapping a surface. The method is applicable to texture mapping either a two-dimensional representation (image) of a three-dimensional surface as well as a three-dimensional computer model of a three-dimensional surface, such as a triangular wire mesh model. In one embodiment, the texture mapping process... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080246766 - Numerical analysis mesh generating method and apparatus: The triangular mesh generating portion divides the surface of geometry model to be meshed in a meshed manner according to a target element dimension and generates a triangular mesh on the surface of geometry model. The regular mesh generating portion assumes a shaped parallelpiped enclosing the shape to be meshed.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246767 - System and program product for re-meshing of a three-dimensional input model using progressive implicit approximating levels: A system and program product for re-meshing of a three-dimensional (3D) input model using progressive implicit approximating levels are provided. Specifically, an initial quadrilateral mesh for a 3D input model is provided. Then, an implicit approximating field is built for a first approximating level (L) of the 3D input model... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080246768 - Imaging volume data: A method and apparatus for generating a two-dimensional output image of a slab multi-planar reformatting (MPR) volume data set from a selectable view point and view direction is described. The method comprises factorising a view transform matrix into an intermediate transform matrix and a warp transform matrix. The intermediate transform... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080246769 - Method of stable incremental layout for a hierarchical graph representation: Embodiments of the present invention generate a stable incremental layout of a hierarchical graph by determining a level of the layout for each new node of the graph using information about hidden nodes of the graph, determining positions of nodes on levels of the layout using information about hidden nodes... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080246770 - Method of generating a 2-d image of a 3-d object: There is described a method for generating a 2-D image of a 3-D object represented by a volume data set comprising a multiplicity of data points each having an opacity value. A plurality of notional rays are cast through the 3-D object and for each ray, a ray path is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080246771 - Graphics processing system and method: A graphics processing system and method for displaying an image having first and second graphics processors coupled together. A main display device is coupled to the first graphics processor. Secondary display devices are coupled to the second graphics processor. The first and second graphics processors are operable to share processing... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080246772 - Multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (mmpgrs) employing multiple graphics processing pipelines (gppls) and real-time performance data collection and analysis during the automatic control of the mode of parallel operation of said gppls: A multi-mode parallel graphics rendering system (MMPGRS) employing multiple graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs) and real-time performance data collection and analysis during the automatic control of the mode of parallel operation of the GPPLs. The MMPGRS supports multiple modes of parallel operation selected from the group consisting of object division, image... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080246774 - Implementing limited function mode in a display device: A display device for use with a computer adapted for operation in an unrestricted use mode and a limited function mode and a method for enforcing a limited function mode display is disclosed. The display device enters a limited function mode when a condition of non-compliance with an operating policy... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080246773 - Indexes of graphics processing objects in graphics processing unit commands: This disclosure describes techniques of loading batch commands into a graphics processing unit (GPU). As described herein, a GPU driver for the GPU identifies one or more graphics processing objects to be used by the GPU in order to render a batch of graphics primitives. The GPU driver may insert... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080246775 - Display system and a method of operating a displaying system: A display system comprises a plurality of display devices, a plurality of display control devices, each display device O connected to at least one display control device, a data processing device and a data network, the data processing device connected to each display control device via the data network. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080246776 - Motion estimation and compensation of image sequences: The invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program for dynamic imaging of a moving object. First, motion between the elements of common portions of images Im(t), Im+1(t) is computed. At step 1 motion compensation the said elements is performed, using a suitable transformation. Assuming that Im+1... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080246777 - Method and apparatus for background replacement in still photographs: A first digital image is acquired of a framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a first lighting condition. A second digital image is then acquired of the same framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a second lighting condition. Preferably, the first lighting... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080246778 - Controlling image and mobile terminal: A method of displaying information on a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying an object on a screen of the mobile terminal, receiving at least two least two input signals corresponding to the displayed object, and animating the displayed object based on the at least two signals corresponding to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080246782 - 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

20080246784 - Display device: The present invention improves, in a display device to which normal display data and interpolation data are inputted from the outside, the moving image performance by applying overdrive processing to both of a bright frame and a dark frame. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080246786 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of video lines, and a drain driver receiving n-bit display data, and connected to the plurality of video lines. The drain driver includes a gray-scale voltage generating circuit which generates M (M<2n) pieces of gray-scale voltages, a decoder circuit which... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080246780 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device is provided. The display device includes: a panel assembly including: a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines; and a plurality of pixels defined by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines. The device also includes a backlight unit including: a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080246783 - Display system comprising a mirror device with micromirrors controlled to operate in intermediate oscillating state: A display system includes a spatial light modulator for displaying a image by the modulation state of a plurality of micromirrors, and a control device for controlling the spatial light modulator. The control device includes a data conversion device for converting the digital image data into non-binary data, and a... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080246779 - Driving apparatus of display device, display device including the same, and method of driving display device: The driving apparatus of a display device calculates a slope using a minimum gray, a maximum gray, a gray average of frame data in a current frame, and a gray average of frame data in a previous frame, and corrects and outputs the input frame data according to the slope,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080246785 - Emission apparatus and drive method therefor: An emission apparatus includes an emission element, a pixel drive circuit connected to the emission element, a data line connected to the pixel drive circuit, and an emission drive apparatus that, in a selection period, lets a reference current with a predetermined current value flow to the pixel drive circuit... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080246781 - System and method for providing improved display quality by display adjustment and image processing using optical feedback: A display system and method created by adjusting the properties of one or more displays to obtain coarse control over display behavior, by using sensors to optimize display parameters and meet a quality target. The display may construct a display map by selectively driving the display and sensing the optical... Agent: Loginov & Associates, PLLC

20080238812 - Multi-screen display system and method of setting multi-screen display: The invention provides a multi-screen display system and a method of setting a multi-screen display. The multi-screen display system comprises a computer mainframe and a plurality of displays. The computer mainframe is provided with an obtaining module for obtaining a moving track of a mouse; a monitoring module for monitoring... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080238813 - Computing device and display for computing device: A display system for a handheld computing device includes a processing unit having a first communication port, and a visual display unit separable from the processing unit. The visual display unit further includes a visual display, and a second communication port. The display unit can be expanded from an initial... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080238814 - Head-up display apparatus: A head-up display apparatus allows an occupant of a vehicle to visually perceive a virtual image of an image light reflected by a windshield after passing through a cylindrical lens. The cylindrical lens is inclined against the image light to thereby reflect outside light not to reach an eye range... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080238815 - Head-mounted display: A head-mounted device mounted on a wearer's head has a first pressing unit to press against the wearer's head from a position of his/her medulla, a second pressing unit to press against the wearer's head in an opposite direction to a pressing direction of the first pressing unit, and a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080238816 - Information processing apparatus: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a first chassis; a second chassis; a two-axis joint part that joins the second chassis to the first chassis openably and swingably with respect to a first axis and a second axis; a magnet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080238819 - Differential signaling system and flat panel display with the same: A differential signaling system that clearly detects a presence of an impedance mismatch utilizing a test circuit in a flat panel display using a signal transmission method for transmitting a differential signal. A first transmission line and a second transmission line are coupled between a transmitter and a receiver as... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080238817 - Display device: In a display device, pixel electrodes I, II and III corresponding to color filters R, G and B are coupled to TFTs which are turned on in accordance with signals on gate lines G, and the drain (source) of the TFT coupled to the pixel electrode II is connected with... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080238818 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels in a form of matrix and a controller configured to control the plurality of pixels of the display panel so that an instrument image indicating an instrument is displayed on the display panel. The instrument image includes a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080238820 - Motion picture image processing system and motion picture image processing method: A motion picture moving on a display screen 21 of a display device 2 to be evaluated is captured a plurality of times by means of a galvano camera 3a. The captured data include locations of the moving picture in the moving direction on the display device 2 to be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080238822 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display includes a plurality of first electrodes divided into at least two groups. In the plasma display, first group cells corresponding to first electrodes of the first group are initialized, and light emitting cells are selected from the first group cells to be sustain-discharged. In addition, second group... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080238825 - Plasma display device: An electrode drive circuit of a plasma display device includes a scan driver provided with plural drivers having first and second switching elements and first and second diodes, and a positive reset pulse generating circuit by which a first superposed voltage obtained by applying a predetermined first voltage to a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080238823 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: Disclosed driving method concerns resetting discharge cells during a predetermined time period. In the driving method for the plasma display panel by a plurality of subfields divided from a frame, the frequency of a video signal input for a frame is detected, a frequency change is determined from the detected... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080238824 - Plasma display device and method for driving the same: When a discharge start voltage takes a normal value under the normal temperature, priming discharge starts at a time t1. In this case, at a time t3 that is later than the time t1 by a predetermined time t, a sustain driver control signal Ssud2 is raised to put a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238821 - Plasma display panel: To prevent sucking of a sealing material in steps of sealing and exhaust of a plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate, in which the peripheries thereof are sealed by a glass sealing material. A sealing portion formed by the glass sealing... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080238826 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device includes: a chassis base having a first side and a second side; a plasma display panel on the first side of the chassis base; a first circuit unit on the second side of the chassis base, and the first circuit... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080238827 - Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same: A plasma display panel, and a method for manufacturing the same. The plasma display panel includes a first electrode sheet between a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a second electrode sheet between the second substrate and the first electrode sheet. The first electrode sheet... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080238829 - Color electro-luminescent display with improved efficiency: A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut that includes substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<=u′<=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′v′ chromaticity... Agent: David Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080238835 - Display apparatus and driving method therefor: A display apparatus disclosed herein includes a plurality of pixel circuits, each having a plurality of switches configured to receive a driving signal of a predetermined period and to be controlled for opening and closing operation by the driving signal, a drive circuit configured to control the open/closed state of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080238836 - Display apparatus and method for making the same: A pixel has an outer region extending linearly along a boundary with an adjacent pixel and an inner region extending along the inner side of the outer region. Wiring lines are arranged across the outer region and the inner region. An outer uneven zone is formed along the outer region... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080238834 - Electroluminescence display apparatus: During a blanking period of a video signal, an element driving transistor for controlling a drive current supplied to an EL element is operated in its saturation region to thereby set the EL element to an emission level, and a current flowing through the EL element at that time is... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080238833 - Light emitting display device: An inspection display signal is supplied to a pixel to be inspected so that a light emitting element operates, and a current flowing through the light emitting element is detected. An element current detection signal having a number of bits which is less than a number of bits of a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080238832 - Organic electroluminescent device and display device: The invention provides an organic electroluminescent device having at least an anode and a cathode forming a pair of electrodes. At least one electrode being transparent or translucent, and a buffer layer and an organic compound layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic compound layer has... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238831 - Organic electroluminescent display device and method of fabricating the same: An organic electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate; a gate line, a data line an a power line on the substrate, the gate line and the data line crossing each other to define a pixel region, the power line parallel to and spaced apart from the data line; a switching... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080238837 - Image display apparatus and driving method thereof: An image display apparatus includes a display having a plurality of light emitting elements. The image display apparatus also includes a controller configured to control displaying an image on the display, wherein the controller is operable to calculate an amount of light output by the plurality of light emitting elements... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080238839 - Backlight assembly, display device having the same and method of driving the same: A backlight assembly includes a plurality of line light source sections and a light source driving section. The line light source sections include a plurality of point light sources disposed along a first direction, and are disposed along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The light source... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080238838 - Digital color controller: A digital color controller for illumination of dashboards and instrument panels is provided. In one embodiment, a digital color controller comprises a single control mechanism for varying the color of illumination of RGB LEDs. A microcontroller maps the signal derived from the control mechanism to an array of discrete color... Agent: Patrick Stellitano

20080238840 - Display device comprising an ajustable light source: The display device (DD) comprises an adjustable light source (BL), a display panel (DP) with display pixels for modulating light originating from the light source (BL) and processing circuitry (P) coupled to the display panel (DP) and the light source (BL). The processing circuitry (P) has an input for receiving... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080238847 - Image display unit: An active matrix type display panel is a hold type display panel which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, and holds and displays an electrical signal pixel by pixel for a predetermined time. A frame rate conversion circuit converts a video signal having a first vertical... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080238842 - Liquid crystal device, driving circuit for liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a plurality of pixels disposed in the shape of a matrix of n rows×m columns (where n and m are natural numbers equal to or larger than two), n scanning lines, 2m data lines including pairs of a first data line and a second data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238843 - Liquid crystal device, driving circuit for liquid crystal device, method of driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a substrate having pixel electrodes disposed in correspondence with intersections of scanning lines and data lines, a common electrode disposed to face the pixel electrodes, a liquid crystal interposed between the substrate and another substrate, a scanning line driving circuit that sequentially supplies selection voltages... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238846 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, data lines and gate lines that are connected to the pixels, a signal controller that processes image data from an external device and outputs normal image data and impulsive image data, a gray voltage generator that generates... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080238844 - Liquid crystal driver circuit and method of driving liquid crystal display device including the same: A liquid crystal driver circuit includes a timing controller emitting at least two control signals therefrom, and at least two gate drivers receiving the control signals from the timing controller. The control signals are controlled such that signal levels thereof are not simultaneously varied.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238841 - System for displaying images: A system for displaying images is disclosed. A display panel having a multi-domain pixel structure comprises a plurality of electrodes that are physically separated form one another, each defining a domain within pixel, and a capacitance element, electrically connecting the electrodes.... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080238845 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display device having the timing controller and method of driving the lcd device: An LCD device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels on which an image is displayed and a timing controller, which includes a receiver receiving image data in series for displaying the image on the display panel wherein the image data being made up of pixel data of... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080238848 - Display device: A hold-type display device reduces the blur of a moving image and makes less conspicuous the color shift caused due to different blur positions among RGB. In the case where the relative brightness of the video data of one or two of the three primary colors RGB changes from between... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080238849 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a receiver, which receives color image data by frame in series, a generator generating gray image data, which are displayable at the liquid crystal display panel, a selector inserting the gray image data as a frame image between two frames of... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080238850 - Liquid crystal device, pixel circuit, active matrix substrate, and electronic apparatus: A liquid crystal device includes a lateral electric field mode liquid crystal element that controls alignment of liquid crystal molecules by applying an electric field in a direction of a substrate plane to a liquid crystal layer. A voltage inverter circuit is provided in each pixel circuit, and inverts a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238851 - Display and source driver thereof: A pixel circuit has a light emitting diode, a first driving transistor, a second driving transistor, a capacitor, and a switch unit. When a scan signal is asserted, the switch unit couples sources/drains of the second driving transistor respectively to a first and a second source/drain of the first driving... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238852 - Flat panel display and gate driving device for flat panel display: A flat panel display includes pixel electrodes, multiplexers and a gate driver. The gate driver has an amorphous silicon gate structure and includes a displacement temporary storage unit having a plurality of shift registers each with a power supply source and a clock terminal. One of a first voltage and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238854 - Hold type image display system: The present invention aims to insert a black screen in one frame period to alleviate moving image blur due to overlap recognition of a current frame image and an afterimage of the previous frame and improve the image quality of the moving image, and to set a black insertion rate... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238855 - Image display apparatus and image display method: An image display apparatus includes a display section having a pixel unit included in a layout of a pixel matrix and provided with a memory unit used for storing a logic level of input image data; a vertical driving section for asserting a scan signal on a scan line provided... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080238853 - Liquid crystal display and display panel thereof: A liquid-crystal-display (LCD) and a display panel thereof are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel row units and a plurality of switch units. Each pixel row unit is connected between a scan line and a potential switch line. The first end of each switch unit receives the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080238828 - Display apparatus and driving method for the same: A display apparatus comprises a self-emitting first display device (10) which is in a light transmission state when no image is displayed, and a second display device (40) which is formed on the first display device (10), and is capable of being switched between a light transmission state and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080238830 - Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes pixel array unit and a driver unit. A sampling transistor samples a signal potential to hold the signal potential in a holding capacitor. A driver transistor flows a drive current to a light emitting element in accordance with the signal potential held. A main scanner in... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080238861 - Backlight control apparatus and backlight control method: According to one embodiment, a backlight control apparatus includes a conversion unit which, upon receipt of a video signal in the YCbCr standard, converts the video signal into a video signal in the RGB standard, a generation unit which select one signal of the maximum gradient based on pixel-by-pixel comparison... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080238863 - Backlight unit and liquid-crystal display device using the same: A backlight unit shortens the necessary time from the time immediately after the turn on to the time the emitted light is converged to a predetermined chromaticity while the quality of time-varying images is improved. Under the control of the backlight controller section, the Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), which are assigned... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238858 - Backlight unit, display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a light source unit which comprises a light source and has a plurality of division areas which are separated and independently driven each other, and is located at the back of the display panel; a drive unit which supplies drive power for the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238857 - Display device and method for controlling backlight module of the display device: A method for controlling a backlight module of a display device includes: generating an acceleration signal representing the magnitude of an acceleration of the display device; comparing the acceleration signal with a predetermined threshold to determine whether the acceleration signal is greater than the predetermined threshold; and changing a state... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080238862 - Fluorescent lamp driving method and apparatus: A fluorescent lamp driving method drives a fluorescent lamp by using an alternating current driving signal generated by an inverter circuit using direct current power as an input. The driving signal is supplied from the inverter circuit to a load including the fluorescent lamp. The method includes the steps of,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080238859 - Lamp driving apparatus for liquid crystal display device: Disclosed is a technology for implementing a high contrast ratio that cannot be implemented by only an analog dimming or burst dimming method, by selectively turning off lamps on the LCD device, comprising: a control unit outputting control signals and video data for controlling a driving of a gate driving... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080238864 - Light emitting diode driving circuit and liquid crystal display using same: A light emitting diode driving circuit includes a light emitting diode, a temperature detector provided adjacent to the light emitting diode, a micro-processor and a constant current circuit. The constant current circuit is configured for generating a driving current to drive the light emitting diode. The micro-processor is configured for... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080238860 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: A display apparatus having an LCD panel and an LED backlight panel performs display, which includes a display area brightness calculation section which calculates brightness of each of a plurality of display areas based on the image data; a brightness sensor provided in each of a plurality of backlight areas... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080238856 - Using spatial distribution of pixel values when determining adjustments to be made to image luminance and backlight: A method of adjusting the display of data oh a flat panel display may include ascertaining color value information and spatial distribution information for pixels in an image. A desired image adjustment and a desired backlight adjustment may be determined based on both the color value information and spatial distribution... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080238866 - Drawing circuit of electro-optical display device, drawing method of electro-optical display device, electro-optical display device, and electronic apparatus: Provided is a drawing device of an electro-optical display device which includes a drawing circuit for outputting image data to a driving circuit for driving electro-optical elements of a display unit for displaying an image based on the image data, and a control circuit for controlling the drawing circuit, wherein... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238865 - Electrophoretic display device, method for driving electrophoretic display device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display device includes a plurality of pixels which are connected to scanning lines, data lines, a first control line, and a second control line, and which have first electrodes, a second electrode facing the first electrodes, electrophoretic elements which are sandwiched between the first electrodes and the second... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238867 - Electrophoretic display device, method of driving electrophoretic device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoretic display device includes a pair of substrates, an electrophoretic element that includes electrophoretic particles and that are held between the pair of substrates, and a display portion formed of a plurality of pixels. The display portion includes pixel electrodes, an opposite electrode, a first control line and a... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238868 - In-plane switching display devices:

20080238869 - Capsular medical apparatus: A capsular medical apparatus according to the present invention includes a capsule which can be swallowed or inserted in the body, a recording device which receives living body information transmitted from the capsule and which records the received information, and a display device of the living body information. Further, the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080238870 - Option menu for use with a computer management system: A method for improving video quality of a video stream. The method decodes the video stream and generates subblocks of video data from the video stream. The method then removes effects of subblock boundaries from previous deblocking. Each subblock is then smoothed to create pixel values and optionally, subblocks are... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080238871 - Display apparatus and method for operating a display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a plurality of scanning lines and data lines and, at each intersection of said data lines and scanning lines, an electrochromic pixel element and a sensor element connected to the pixel element. The sensor element is sensitive to a user's graphical input, which changes a charge... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238872 - Navigation device: The invention relates to a navigation device (2) for an electronic device (1), particularly a navigation device of the joystick type with two operating positions. In one position the navigation device (2) is extended as a joystick and in a second position the navigation device is retracted to function as... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080238873 - Mouse including storage: In some embodiments a mouse includes a user interface to interact with a computing device and storage to store information received from the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080238875 - Onboard pointer system: A laptop computer includes a wireless pointer device which is located within the base of the laptop. In an exemplary embodiment, the pointer device is an infrared mouse designed to fit within a cradle mechanism. In one example, the cradle mechanism is located centered and below the keyboard and may... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080238874 - Operation device: A display device is provided in a central position of an instrument panel in a vehicle compartment, and an operation device is provided in a center console. The operation device is formed with a case body having a palm rest, with is provided with a pointing device and four finalizing... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080238876 - Contaminant-resistant optical mouse and cradle: A contaminant-neutralizing cradle comprises a base and a support surface configured to removably receive a coherently-illuminated mouse. A neutralizing element is disposed on the support surface for alignment with at least one exposed surface of an optics module of the mouse and is configured to neutralize the optical effect of... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080238877 - Portable information device: The present invention provides a portable information device including a display for displaying information, a key input unit having a plurality of keys to which numbers are assigned, a key input receiver for receiving an input of a key of the key input unit, a first detector for detecting contact... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080238880 - Image display device, image correction control device, and image correction program: An image display device has a touchpad and an image display area that is composed of a plurality of sub-areas obtained by dividing the image display area into a two-dimensional array. A sensor surface of the touchpad is positionally correlated to the image display area. In response to a touch... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080238878 - Pointing device using fingerprint: The pointing device mainly contains a fingerprint sensor capable of capturing continuous images of the fingerprint of a user's finger when the finger is moved across a sensing area of the fingerprint sensor. From these continuous images, the pointing device is able to calculate the direction and speed of the... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080238881 - Shield for a digitizer sensor: A digitizer comprises a sensor configured for detecting an object implemented for user input, the sensor including at least one transparent layer, circuitry connected to the sensor configured for processing signals detected on at least a portion of the sensor and a conductive shield configured for providing shielding over an... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080238879 - Touch sensor control devices: The invention provides mechanical devices to enhance the input process for touch screen devices. Fader tracks with or without fader caps, rotary and fixed knobs, and joysticks may be removably adhered to a touch screen and used to emulate their respective functions, using software interpretation of the touch detections provoked... Agent: Zimmerman & Cronen, LLP

20080238884 - Edge sensors forming a touchscreen: The methods, systems, and apparatuses of edge sensors forming a touchscreen are disclosed. In one embodiment, a touchscreen (e.g., may be in rectangular shape) includes a display area of the touchscreen, a set of edge sensors (e.g., may be piezo-resistive, microelectromechanical sensors, and/or capacitive sensors) at boundary locations of the... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP C/o Iatellevate

20080238883 - Liquid crystal device: An object of the invention is to provide a liquid crystal device that can produce a display and allow data input thereon with a simple configuration. The liquid crystal device includes a liquid crystal layer provided between first and second substrates, and a capacitive sensor electrode, which is not provided... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080238882 - Symmetric touch screen system with carbon nanotube-based transparent conductive electrode pairs: A symmetric touch screen switch system in which both the touch side and panelside transparent electrodes are comprised of carbon nanotube thin films is provided. The fabrication of various carbon nanotube enabled components and the assembly of a working prototype touch switch using those components is described. Various embodiments provide... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080238885 - System and method for multiple object detection on a digitizer system: A digitizer system comprises at least one object incorporating an electronic tag configured for radiating at least one modulated signal and at least one second signal; a digitizer sensor configured for detecting the at least one second signal while the object is positioned on or over the digitizer sensor; and... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080238886 - Method for providing tactile feedback for touch-based input device: A system detects when a user's finger is near a key on a touch screen. When the user's finger is near the key, the touch screen may begin to vibrate. The vibrations may increase in frequency and/or intensity as the user's finger approaches the key. The vibrations may decrease in... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080238888 - Image detecting device: An image detecting device is provided. The image detecting device includes a first shaft; a second shaft; a connecting shaft connected between the first and the second shafts; and an image detector mounted in one of the first shaft and the connecting shaft, wherein a first angle is formed between... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080238887 - Method and apparatus for programming an interactive stylus button: A method and apparatus are provided for programming an input device such as a stylus provided with a button and coupled to a computer. Information associated with a position of the stylus may be transferred and a substantially corresponding position of a cursor displayed within a work field of an... Agent: Gateway, Inc. Attn: Patent Attorney

20080238904 - Current sensing bi-directional switch and plasma display driver circuit: A discharge sustain driver circuit for a plasma display device, the driver circuit comprising a first transistor switching circuit for switching a DC bus voltage across the plasma display device; a storage capacitance; at least one inductor; and first and second bi-directional switching circuits coupled in series and being coupled... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080238896 - Data driving device, display apparatus having the same and method of driving the same: In a data driving device, a display apparatus having the data driving device and a method of driving the data driving device, an input circuitry receives an image data signal in a digital form from an exterior, and a converter converts the image data signal from the input circuitry into... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080238901 - 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 to sample a video signal and store the sampled video signal, a holding capacitor configured to... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080238902 - Display device with automatic power on-off switching: An exemplary display device (200) includes a display module (230), a power supply circuit (240), a detecting circuit (210), and an anti-interfering circuit (250). The detecting circuit detects a predetermined type of radiation from an object near the display module. The anti-interfering circuit determines whether the radiation is from a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080238899 - Display system, display device, and method for the same: A display system includes: a display device including a display section having a dispersed system containing electrophoretic particles between a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein an electric field is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode according to display data, and the electrophoretic particles are migrated... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238898 - Driving circuit and driving method of active matrix display device, and active matrix display device: In an active matrix display device, one source line is arranged for every two pixels arranged along a gate line direction, and each two pixels which are adjacent to each other along the gate line direction across one of the source lines share the source line and are each connected... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080238895 - Driving device of display device and related method: In order to increase charge time of thin-film transistor (TFT) cells of a display device, the present invention provides a driving device, which includes a timing controller, a column driver module and at least a delay module. The timing controller is used for outputting at least a load signal. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080238900 - Driving device of electrophoretic display panel, driving method of electrophoretic display panel, electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus: Provided is a driving device of a segment display type electrophoretic display panel including a common electrode, a plurality of segment electrodes which face the common electrode, and a dispersion system containing electrophoretic particles arranged between the common electrode and the segment electrodes, the driving device including: a driving circuit... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080238897 - Hold type image display system: The present invention aims to prevent display luminance difference and burning with a line at which the polarity inversion switches when the order of inversion of black and video changes in the middle of the screen by a frame polarity inversion drive in a liquid crystal display device for performing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238893 - Image capture apparatus wireless display: A wireless display module for an image capture device, comprises a housing, a display element disposed on the housing, a wireless communications interface coupled to the display element, and an attachment mechanism disposed on the housing and configured to releasably attach the display module to the image capture device. In... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080238889 - Message board with dynamic message relocation: A display system detects a position of a viewer relative to the display device, and adjusts the presentation of information at the display device based on this relative position. The adjustment of the presentation may be to increase or decrease the intrusiveness of the displayed information. In a commercial billboard... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080238903 - Osd controlling system and controlling method thereof: An exemplary on-screen display (OSD) controlling system (1) includes an extended display identification data integrated circuit (EDID IC, 12) and a scalar integrated circuit (IC, 13) electrically connected to the EDID IC. The EDID IC includes a read-write part (122). The scalar IC includes a micro-controller unit (MCU, 131). The... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080238890 - Pixel circuit: A pixel circuit has an organic light emitting diode, a driving transistor, a capacitor and a first switch. The organic light emitting diode has a first end coupled to a first power source terminal. The driving transistor has a source and a drain respectively coupled to a second power source... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238891 - Pixel circuit: A pixel circuit has a light emitting diode, a driving transistor, a capacitor, and a first switch. The light emitting diode had a first end to receive a first supply voltage. The driving transistor has a source and drain respectively receiving a second supply voltage and coupled to a second... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238892 - Pixel circuit: A pixel circuit has a light emitting diode, a driving transistor, a capacitor, and a switch unit. The driving transistor has a first source/drain coupled to one end of the light emitting diode. The capacitor is coupled between a gate of the driving transistor and the end of the light... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238894 - Segment driving method and system for a bistable display: Method and apparatus are provided for driving segments of a bistable display. The method may include providing, at the same time, a plurality of independent waveforms corresponding to display data for driving a plurality of segments of the display. The method may include selecting, for each segment, one of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080238905 - Driver circuit of display unit separating amplifier and output terminal in response to test signal and method of controlling the same: A drive circuit of a display unit includes an output circuit. The output circuit has an amplifier which amplifies an analog signal voltage according to a digital image signal, and a switch which turns off to isolate an output of the amplifier from an output terminal in response to a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080238906 - Display driving circuit and method for controlling signal thereof: A display driving circuit capable of driving a display device with a selected polarity includes a plurality of selection units for selecting any one image data signal from a plurality of input image data signals in response to a first control signal, and a plurality of level converting units, each... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080238909 - Display device, driving method therefor, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel array and a drive unit that drives the pixel array. The pixel array includes first and second scanning lines in rows, signal lines in columns, a matrix of pixels arranged at respective intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, power supply lines... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080238908 - Driving circuit device of plasma display panel and plasma display apparatus: In this PDP apparatus, in a sustain driving circuit device for supplying sustain discharge pulses, an energy recovery circuit has a coil, switches, and diodes, and a Vs clamp circuit has switches. In the energy recovery circuit, the switches are connected to a panel capacitor, and the coil is connected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080238907 - Multimedia terminal and method for switching state of the multimedia terminal: A method for switching a state of a media terminal includes: detecting for an infrared signal emitted by a human body around the multimedia terminal; processing the infrared signal into a trigger signal, inputting the trigger signal into the multimedia terminal, and switching the multimedia terminal from a power-saving state... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080238911 - Apparatus and method for controlling picture quality of flat panel display: An apparatus and method for controlling picture quality of a flat panel display. The apparatus for controlling picture quality of the flat panel display includes a position determining unit which determines a display position of digital video data; a gray-level determining unit which determines a gray-level value of the digital... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080238910 - Overdriving a pixel of a matrix display: An overdrive circuit (20) for a display panel (1) comprising a pixel (10) having inertia further comprises a table look up circuit (24) or a function circuit (24) which receives a start value (SV) and a desired value (DV) being either an input value (IV) indicating an image to be... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080238912 - Electro optical device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus: A driving method of an electro optical device includes pre-charging “m” columns of data lines belonging to each block to at least two different voltages before selecting the block. In addition, the combination of the at least two different voltages pre-charged to the “m” columns of data lines belonging to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238913 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel for displaying an instrument image including an index image constituting an index and a pointer image constituting a pointer for pointing the index of the index image and a controller for displaying the instrument image on the display panel. The controller varies at... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080238917 - Graphics hub subsystem for interfacing parallalized graphics processing units (gpus) with the central processing unit (cpu) of a pc-based computing system having an cpu interface module and a pc bus: A graphics hub subsystem for interfacing parallelized graphics processing units (GPUs) with the CPU of a PC-based computing system having a CPU interface module and a PC bus. The PC-based computing system includes system memory for storing software graphics applications, software drivers and graphics libraries, and an operating system (OS),... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080238914 - Map information creating device, map information creating method, and map information creating program: A 3D road object is an object having road width, height, and length. The 3D road object corresponds to a link. A road surface texture is drawn repeatedly on the top surface of the 3D road object. With a map information creating device, geometry data in a cube shape containing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080238915 - System and method for acceleration of collision detection: One embodiment includes a method of pre-computing a support map which includes a run-time environment comprising at least one three dimensional convex body having a plurality of vertices on each of at least six sides, each side being divided into a predetermined number of sample regions. The embodiment includes determining,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080238916 - Three-dimensional orientation indicator and controller: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to control a three-dimensional scene view. A three-dimensional (3D) scene having one or more three-dimensional objects is displayed. A 3D representation of a coordinate system of the scene is displayed. The 3D representation contains a current viewpoint, one or more... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080238919 - System and method for rendering of texel imagery: A point cloud data set may be pre-processed for fast and efficient rendering. The pre-processing may comprise creating an octree hierarchy from the data, generating a level of detail (LOD) representation for each octree node, simplifying the points in each node according to a simplification tolerance, and storing the data... Agent: Utah State University

20080238918 - View-specific representation of reinforcement: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for representing reinforcement. A three-dimensional (3D) solid object in a computer aided design (CAD) model is identified. The solid object has a volume. A reinforcement element is associated with the solid object. The reinforcement element defines a path within the volume, occupies... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080238920 - Color buffer contrast threshold for adaptive anti-aliasing: According to one embodiment of the invention, by increasing the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels with colors of high contrast while maintaining the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels which do not have colors of high contrast, a ray tracing image processing system may render an anti-aliased... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080238921 - Realistic transformation of 3d lighting models: A lighting model specified in light space may be transformed to a 3D scene, which may include numerous lights. When the lighting model is transformed to the 3D scene and is uniformly scaled or near-uniformly scaled, intensity or brightness of light at sample points, corresponding to points in the 3D... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080238923 - Method and system for automatically assembling stream processing graphs in stream processing systems: A method for assembling stream processing graphs in a stream processing system, includes: performing, in an offline manner, translating a plurality of processing element and data source descriptions into a planning language and performing reasoning on the plurality of processing element and data source descriptions during the translation; and performing,... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080238922 - Techniques for displaying information for collection hierarchies: Techniques for displaying information related to collection hierarchies. In one embodiment, an integrated direct-manipulation image-based interface is provided for displaying information related to collections. The interface also enables operations to be performed on collections and their elements. Multiple levels of the collection hierarchy are made visible and editable at the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080238924 - Character rendering device, display device, and printer: A character rendering device includes: a first drawing unit that divides a shape of a character represented by character shape data into partial areas, and renders the shape of the character area by area; a second drawing unit that renders the character on the basis of the shape of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238925 - System and method for representation of business information: A system and method generates a map representation of information from a BI (business intelligence) application. The BI information is used to generate map data, which in turn is used to generate a map representation. The system and method are arranged to generate the same thematics in a representation as... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080238927 - Non-linear text flow: Rendering glyphs is disclosed. A set of glyphs to be flowed along a nonlinear path are received. A first glyph included in the set is placed at a corresponding location along the nonlinear path such that the first glyph is spaced from a second glyph, at a point nearest the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080238926 - System and method for indicating/confirming special symbols to be interpreted literally: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to perform a task using a special character. The method further includes receiving from a user an indication specifying an interpretation of the special character and storing the indication. The method further includes interpreting the special character using the indication, and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080238928 - Frame buffer compression for desktop composition: An apparatus may include two or more frame buffers, a control module, a management module, and a display engine. The two or more frame buffers may each store frame data arranged in a plurality of lines. The control module may designate one of the frame buffers for output. This designation... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080238929 - Local themeing of remote applications: Methods and systems for local themeing of remote applications is disclosed. In an implementation, a redirection surface is defined by a server corresponding to a remote application executed by a client. The client sends to the server, a set of theme metrics and parts corresponding to the client and non-client... Agent: Emmanuel A. Rivera Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080238930 - Texture processing apparatus, method and program: A texture processing apparatus includes a CG data acquisition unit acquiring calculator graphics (CG) data including CG model data, camera data, light data, texture data items, and a preset emphasis parameter for texture mapping processing, the CG model data, the camera data and the light data composing data for rendering... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080238931 - Video signal processing device, video signal processing method, and video display system: A video signal processing device which processes a video signal input into a display monitor inputs illumination profile information relating to an illumination spectral characteristic of a light source and monitor profile information relating to a display profile of the display monitor. A video signal conversion unit performs color conversion... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080238932 - Method and device for adjusting color value for a low-noise visualization of volumetric objects: A device for adjusting a color value assigned to a spatial point for a low-noise volume rendering of an object is provided. The device mixes a first color value from a classification unit with a second color value obtained by the application of an illumination model on the first color... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080238935 - Contrast control apparatus and contrast control method and image display: A contrast control apparatus includes a statistic distribution unit and a characteristic judging unit. The statistic distribution unit receives an image data to have a brightness histogram distribution in statistic. The brightness histogram distribution has a plurality of statistic nodes, respectively corresponding to a plurality of gray levels in statistic.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080238933 - Display method and apparatus for adjusting contrast of map elements for navigation system: A method and apparatus of valuing contrast of representation on background displayed on a screen of a navigation apparatus, by counting a number of the presentations on the background of the screen, adjusting contrast of the representations against the background displayed on the screen in response to the number of... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080238934 - Reduction of mura effects: A display that includes at least one gray level being provided to a plurality of pixels that illuminates each of the pixels with the gray level. The display applies corrective data for the pixels so as to reduce the mura effects of said display for those characteristics generally visible by... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080238936 - Method and apparatus for compensating for display defect of flat panel display: A method and apparatus for controlling picture quality of a flat panel display capable of electrically compensating for a display defect of a display panel are disclosed. The method of compensating for a display defect of a flat panel display includes reading identification information of a display panel; generating positional... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080238937 - Haptic interface system for video systems: A haptic interface system is presented including manipulating a haptic controller having an accelerometer; programming a video system processor for responding to moving the accelerometer of the haptic controller; and activating a haptic response device by the video system processor for updating the haptic controller including heating, cooling, illuminating, or... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20080238938 - Effects for interactive graphic data in disc authoring: Authoring a Blu-ray Disc including: defining layers of graphics to be used in a display; overlaying the layer on to video display thereby providing a composite display, wherein overlay includes using an effect.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080238940 - Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, program and reproduction method: A BD-ROM has recorded therein an AV Clip generated by multiplexing a video stream and a graphics stream. The graphics stream represents an interactive display to be overlayed with the video stream, and includes a sequence of three Button State groups. The interactive display includes a plurality of buttons, each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (matsushita)

20080238939 - Video compositing device and video output device: A video compositing device includes: a first video input unit configured to input a first video; a second video input unit configured to input a second video; a parameter input unit configured to input a parameter indicating a relative positional relationship between the first video input by the first video... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238941 - Adding custom content to mapping applications: Digital maps can be composed of a series of image tiles that are selected based on the context of the map to be presented. Independently hosted tiles can comprise additional details that can be added to the map. A manifest can be created that describes the layers of map details... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080238942 - Object-based image inpainting: Systems and methods provide object-based image inpainting. The object-based inpainting can recover part of a missing object or can synthesize visual objects that are entirely missing. In one implementation, an exemplary system generates a target visual object to be inpainted into an image, by geometrically matching key features with a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080238943 - Apparatus for scaling image and line buffer thereof: An apparatus for outputting an image by scaling an original image to a different size is disclosed. The apparatus includes an interpolator and at least one line buffer. The interpolator generates lines of the output image, at least one of which is derived by interpolation of lines of the original... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238945 - Image display devices: An image processing device includes a first display section configured to display an image, an input receiving device configured to receive an input associated with the image, and a computer processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to determine a selected portion of the image based on the input, to... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080238944 - Image processing devices and methods of recording a scaled portion of an image on a recording medium: An image processing device includes a display including a first display portion, and a second display portion positioned adjacent to the first display portion. The device also includes a scaling factor designation device configured to designate a scaling factor, and an image display control device configured to display an image... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080238946 - System and method for providing a replica of a graphic presentation: A system providing a graphic presentation replica of an original graphic presentation represented by an original graphic data set established by an originator employing a first graphic instruction set includes: (a) a data extractor accessing the original data set to generate validation data defining validation parameters for evaluating the graphic... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080238947 - System and method for non-linear magnification of images: A system for performing non-linear magnification of an image includes a graphics processing unit that runs a shader program featuring a magnification algorithm. The magnification algorithm calculates an index using a position of a pixel and the center of magnification as well as the radius of magnification. The index is... Agent: Patent Group C/o Dla Piper US LLP

20080238948 - Display control device, media management device, and computer-readable medium: A display control device includes a state specifying unit, an information specifying unit and a controller. The state specifying unit specifies a placement state of a medium on a display screen. The information specifying unit specifies either (i) electronic information which is a source of an image recorded on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080238949 - Electronic device, image displaying method and image displaying program storage medium: An electronic device including a display section, a control section, a detection section, a storage section, an acquiring section and a setting section is provided. The control section controls images corresponding to plural predetermined scenes to be displayed on the display section in predetermined order. The detection section detects an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080238952 - Color display device and method for reproducing color with an increased number of gradation levels: A color display device has a display screen having pixels arrayed, each of which is composed of primary color sub-pixels capable of reproducing respective primary colors and at least one subsidiary color sub-pixel capable of reproducing gray. While gradation signals are generated and supplied to the primary color sub-pixels on... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080238951 - Gamma corrector with a storage capacity for gamma correction data reduced: In a gamma corrector for handling gamma correction data used in performing gamma correction on image data represented by plural component colors for each of the component colors, a storage stores common data employed in common in predetermined gamma correction data in one-to-one correspondence to the plural component colors when... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20080238950 - Illuminating display and weighted-bit driving methods for use with the same: A method for driving the output of a illuminating display is provided. The method includes providing a display panel having a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel includes at least one diode color. A display controller is also provided that is configured to process video data numbers for display. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080238953 - Display drive apparatus, display apparatus and drive method therefor: A display drive apparatus includes a detection voltage applying circuit that applies a predetermined detection voltage to the drive element of the pixel drive circuit, a voltage detecting circuit that detects a voltage value corresponding to a device characteristic unique to the drive element after a predetermined time elapses after... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080238955 - Display apparatus, driving method therefor and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including a pixel array section, and a driving section configured to drive said pixel array section.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080238954 - Display control device, display, display system and computer-readable medium: A display control device includes a position specifying unit, an image specifying unit and a controller. The position specifying unit specifies a position of a second apparatus on a display screen of a first apparatus. The image specifying unit specifies one of an image displayed on a display screen of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC