Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 11/08

20080291119 - Pc image distributing facility: A PC image distributing facility according to the present invention includes a transmitter 3 connected to a PC 1 and a LAN cable 8 to convert display image data output by the PC 1 into a LAN packet and then output the LAN packet to the LAN cable 8. The... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20080291120 - Head-mounted display for adjusting the intensity of ambient lights: A head-mounted display includes a body including an optical visualizing device. The optical visualizing device includes a displaying unit, a housing, a polarizing unit and a front cover. The displaying unit is adapted to display an image. The housing is adapted to accommodate the displaying unit and having a front... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080291121 - Display for sonar: A low cost, low power consuming display for a solid state depth locator is provided. The display has no moving parts yet provides a real-time output indicative of the depth, size and density of targets in a body of water using colored LCDs.... Agent: Thomas J. Nikolai Esq. Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20080291122 - Digital signal processing methods and apparatus: A method of digitally processing data in a data array defining a target matrix (X) using non-negative matrix factorisation to determine a pair of matrices (F, G), a first matrix of said pair determining a set of features for representing said data, a second matrix of said pair determining weights... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080291125 - Display device, display device driving method, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes a pixel array portion and a driving portion for driving the pixel array portion. The pixel array portion includes row scanning lines, column signal lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form at intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines. The driving portion includes... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080291124 - Soft display system: A soft display system including: a soft display panel composed of a transparent substrate layer, a soft circuit layer and a display layer; a controller having a signal transmission device connected to the soft circuit layer; an input control device for making the soft circuit layer of the soft display... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080291123 - Space-dividing apparatus: The present invention relates to a space-diving apparatus that could well be preferably applied to a single-leaf section, a divider etc. A division plate section 110 constitutes a single-leaf screen device 100 and divides a space. On a front surface of the division plate section 110, nine TV receiving sets... Agent: William S. Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080291126 - Viewing direction image data generator, directional display image data generator, directional display device, directional display system, viewing direction image data generating method, and directional display image data generating method: A viewing direction image data generator which generates n (n is an integer of 2 or more) pieces of viewing direction image data corresponding to n viewing direction images that generates a directional display image. Each of the viewing direction images is composed of a plurality of pixels arranged in... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080291127 - Moving image display apparatus: A moving image display apparatus includes a display unit which sequentially displays an image pattern in the form of a moving image on a display screen, a storage unit which stores area sectional information and display format information, wherein the area sectional information defines predetermined divided areas corresponding to the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080291129 - Methods for driving video electro-optic displays: Video displays using relatively low frame rates of about 10 to about 20 frames per second, but having acceptable video quality are described. The displays may use bistable media, and may be driven such that the medium, when driven, changes its optical properties continuously during the driving of each frame.... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080291128 - Plamsa display device and method for manufacturing the same: wherein k is a constant in a range of less than or equal to 2000 and a unit of the k is an absolute temperature (K), x is an reciprocal of the temperature (1/K), y is an reciprocal of a statistical delay time (Ts) (1/ns), and A is a constant... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080291131 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display, an address buffer board converts subfield data, transmitted by a differential method, into a driving voltage using a control signal transmitted by a Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL) method and a clock signal, transmitted by a differential method, and supplies the driving voltage to an address electrode. The... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080291132 - Plasma display apparatus: A high quality, three-electrode type plasma display apparatus, of which the display of low-luminance gradations has been improved by reducing the minimum luminance of the subfield, has been disclosed. In the plasma display apparatus, a subfield of even lower luminance is provided by: providing at least one subfield made up... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080291130 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device and a method of driving the same, capable of reducing or preventing the deterioration of components such as a switching device, due to an overcurrent. In a reset period, in order to cause the voltage of a scan electrode to ramp down from a first voltage... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080291133 - Plasma display, controller therefor, and driving method thereof: A plasma display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention applies different driving methods according to a maximum grayscale level of image data input for one field. When the maximum grayscale level of the field is higher than a reference level, an address period for selecting a light... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080291134 - Plasma display: The present invention relates to a plasma display and a driving method thereof. In the plasma display, a plasma display panel (PDP) has different electrode arrangement configurations of discharge cells neighboring in a column direction and a closed barrier rib configuration. When the PDP has an alignment error in first... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080291138 - Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic device: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array unit; and a driving unit; wherein the pixel array unit includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines in a form of rows, signal lines in a form of columns, and pixels in a form of a matrix, the pixels... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080291136 - Display device, video signal processing method, and program: There is provided a display device provided with a display portion, in which pixels having a light-emitting element for self-light-emitting, and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to a light-emitting element according to a voltage signal are arranged in a matrix, provided with an average luminance calculation portion... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080291137 - Driver device for an organic el passive matrix device: A driver device is provided for an organic EL passive matrix device that achieves reduction in power consumption and suppression of uneven luminance at a low cost. The driver device includes a column driver, a first row driver, a second row driver, a memory, and a power supply/control signal input.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080291135 - Organic light emitting device: An organic light emitting device is disclosed. The organic light emitting device includes a display unit including a plurality of subpixels, a host memory unit that stores image data received from the outside by the frame, a data adjusting unit that fetches the image data frames stored in the host... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080291139 - Method of dynamically adjusting screen brightness: A method of dynamically adjusting screen brightness is adapted for a screen to adjust the screen brightness. First, an original ambient light level and an original brightness adjustment factor are determined. Then, a relationship curve of an ambient light level and a brightness adjustment factor is determined. The current ambient... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080291140 - Display systems having screens with optical fluorescent materials: Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non-phosphor materials such as quantum dots. A screen... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080291141 - Elements for self assembling displays: Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light emitting elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light emitting and self-organizing characteristics may be used during display assembly.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080291142 - Liquid crystal module: A source circuit for generating, based on image data composed of RGB signals, drive voltages for a row of pixels arranged in a horizontal direction which is a main scanning direction on a liquid crystal panel 12a and applying the drive voltages to signal lines. The source circuit can interchange... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080291143 - Gray scale voltage decoder and digital-to-analog converter including the same: A gray scale voltage decoder includes a first decoding unit and a second decoding unit, in which the first decoding unit includes row blocks. Each of the row blocks receives one of a number of gray scale voltages and determines whether to output the received gray scale voltage in response... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080291144 - Liquid crystal display having common voltage modulator: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a common electrode capable of having a predetermined common voltage applied thereto, a first common voltage line connected to the common electrode, a second common voltage line connected to the common electrode, and a common voltage modulator connected to the first and second common... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080291145 - Liquid crystal display panel, thin film transistor array substrate and curing line structure for phase separation alignment process: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel, a thin film transistors array substrate and curing line structure thereof in use of phase separation alignment (PSA) process. The curing line structure has a contact pad allocated on a periphery area of the substrate, and a transmission line extending from... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080291146 - Liquid crystal display with coupling line for adjusting common voltage and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes parallel data lines, a data driver configured for driving the data lines, a coupling line crossing the data lines, a common electrode layer, and a common voltage generator configured for applying common voltages to the common electrode layer. The common voltage generator is connected... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080291147 - Liquid crystal display device and method thereof: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display comprising a display panel, a plurality of gate drivers sequentially enabling rows of pixels of the display panel, a plurality of source drivers outputting a plurality of driving signals to the enabled row of the pixels of the display panel, and a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080291148 - Multilevel voltage driving device: Provided is a multilevel voltage driving device and system. The multilevel voltage driving device comprises a level converter, which is provided with an AC signal input terminal for inputting an AC signal, a high level output terminal for outputting a high level, and an intermediate level output terminal for outputting... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080291149 - Pixel dithering driving method and timing controller using the same: A pixel dithering driving method and a timing controller using the same are provided. The method uses the N low order bits of M bits together with at least one virtual bit to build several pixel dithering patterns. After the timing controller uses M bits of data received by the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080291150 - Thermal compensation device for display device: In order to solve a problem of deviation of a gamma curve of a display device due to temperature variation, the present invention provides a thermal compensation device for compensating a gamma curve of a display device. The thermal compensation device includes a thermal sensor, a storage unit, and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080291154 - Backlight system with detection circuit and liquid crystal display device using same: An exemplary backlight system includes a power input circuit (21), a detection circuit (27), a control circuit (28), a light emitting diode driving circuit (25), and a light emitting diode array (26). The detection circuit is configured to detect a connection state of the power input circuit with respect to... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080291151 - Color display: A color display device comprises a plurality of picture elements (14), at least two light sources, having different radiance spectra and being activated alternately, and color selection means for generating, together with said light sources, primary colors in a color image (P1, P2). Each of a number of image information... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291153 - Image display device and method: An image display device is presented to solve problems of high power consumption, insufficient contrast, image flicker, and distortion of image display devices. The image display device includes an image display management module which includes a backlight control unit. The backlight control unit includes an image brightness analyzer, generating a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080291152 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and display method: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display panel in which liquid crystal pixels, which are composed with use of an OCB mode liquid crystal, are arranged in a matrix, first and second backlights which illuminate the display panel, and driving control means for controlling the display panel, wherein light... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291155 - Liquid crystal display device: According to the present invention, in a liquid crystal display device which intermittently drives (burst driving) a light source device having a discharge tube which is arranged to face a main surface of a liquid crystal display panel in an opposed manner and is turned on in response to an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080291163 - 3d pointing devices with orientation compensation and improved usability: Systems and methods according to the present invention describe 3D pointing devices which enhance usability by transforming sensed motion data from a first frame of reference (e.g., the body of the 3D pointing device) into a second frame of reference (e.g., a user's frame of reference). One exemplary embodiment of... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20080291158 - Character input device using bio radar unit and tilt sensor: Disclosed herein is a character input device for a mobile device or a wearable terminal. A bio radar unit senses the positions of the fingers of a user. A tilt sensor senses the tilt of the hands of the user. A microprocessor calculates the final input information of the user... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080291159 - Computer input device and method for operating the same: An computer input device with context-awareness functionality generates a lighting pattern in response to a context of data inputting, audio, new message receiving, arranged event or system information in a computer system.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080291161 - Force reflecting haptic interface: A multi-function force reflecting haptic interface including various sub-assemblies is disclosed. The sub-assemblies include multiple function user interfaces, a user interface docking station for setting the interface to a home position, temperature monitoring and control systems, and various kinematic cable drive systems.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080291157 - Multi-direction input device: A multi-direction input device for computers includes a directional wheel, a sliding member and a plurality of electrodes. The directional wheel has a rotational degree-of-freedom and two moving degree-of-freedom to be moved downwards, perform forward rolling, backward rolling and sideward moving thereby to connect corresponding electrodes to generate corresponding signals.... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080291156 - Sanitary user interface: A user interface is configured to detect an attempt to touch a virtual button. The interface includes a first concave mirror facing a second concave mirror. The second concave mirror includes an aperture. A physical control button is arranged proximate to the first mirror and aligned such that an image... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080291160 - System and method for recognizing multi-axis gestures based on handheld controller accelerometer outputs: An example gesture recognition system and method recognizes a gesture made using a handheld control device comprising an accelerometer arrangement. The example system and method involve a database of example gesture inputs derived from accelerometer arrangement outputs generated by making respective gestures with the handheld control device. Corresponding components of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080291162 - Track wheel with reduced space requirements: An input generating device for use in a hand held electronic device having a housing includes a core formed in a planar and semicircular in shape, forming a peripheral edge extending around said core and a track slidably engaged with the peripheral side edge. A curved portion of the peripheral... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080291164 - Coordinate input apparatus, control method thereof, and program: A plurality of sensors for receiving arrival light detect the change ranges of light amount distributions generated upon the pointing operation of a pointer on a coordinate input region. Coordinate values corresponding to the change ranges are calculated on the basis of the number of change ranges in the respective... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080291165 - Computer mouse: The present invention relates to a computer mouse (1) which, by means of an accelerometer (mouseacc), detects the absolute movement of the mouse (1). The invention enables the movement of the mouse (1) relative to a surface (3) to be calculated by using at least one further accelerometer (fixacc) fixed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080291166 - Input system and input device: An input system includes an information generation part which generates input information based on a given input operation, a transmission part which transmits signal generated by having a plurality of different carrier frequencies modulated with the input information, and a reception part which receives the transmitted signals and demodulates the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080291167 - Pointing device and displacement estimation method: A method of estimating image displacement by block matching for a pointing device used in a computer system. The method provided in the present invention comprises capturing digital images sequentially using a photo capture device, obtaining a template frame and a current frame, estimating a predicted velocity vector, and computing... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080291168 - Ground-based haptic interface comprising at least two decoupled rotary finger actuators: A ground-based haptic interface equipped with at least two decoupled rotary finger actuators adapted to be manipulated with the fingertips of a single hand of a user. For each finger actuator, a means are included for measuring the angular position of the actuator or for measuring the torque applied on... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080291171 - Character input apparatus and method: Provided is a character input method and apparatus. The character input method includes assigning character groups, each of which includes at least two characters, to at least two key regions generated by dividing a region of the touch screen and displaying the character groups in the corresponding key regions, based... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080291170 - Keyboard frame with induction light source: A keyboard frame with induction light source is disclosed, which comprises: a frame, a light guide plate, a signal line, a thermal sensor, a light source, a control circuit and a switch. As the light guide plate having the signal line disposed thereon is received in the frame while the... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080291169 - Multimodal adaptive user interface for a portable electronic device: A multimodal electronic device (100) includes a shutter enabled dynamic keypad for presenting one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration, which is presented by an optical shutter (204) that opens or closes windows or shutters that are geometrically configured as alphanumeric or device keys... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080291172 - Compact universal keyboard: A keyboard type input device used in conjunction with a wristwatch or a portable telephone has multiple key positions provided as character entry keys. Each key corresponds to one key in the selected row of the conventional QWERTY keyboard. A second set of control buttons provide for the selection of... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080291173 - Information processing apparatus and storage medium for storing information processing program: An input coordinate point is obtained from a pointing device, and either one of first and second controls is selected in accordance with an operation performed by a user. When the first control is selected, a movement vector is calculated based on the input coordinate point and a predetermined coordinate... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080291175 - Portable computer: Embodiments relate to a portable computer comprising first and second substantially planar portions; the first portion comprising a first output display device of a first size; the second portion comprising a keyboard having a plurality of actuable keys and a touch sensitive display selectively operable as at least one of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080291174 - Selective enabling of multi-input controls: A control system is disclosed that is configurable (e.g., by a programmer) so as to enable input from multiple sources to capture to multiple controls. Also or alternatively, the system is configurable so as to enable input from multiple sources to capture to a single control. The system also provides... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080291176 - Display unit: A display unit includes a display panel having a display screen on which images are displayed, and (b) a touch panel covering the display screen therewith and detecting a touch thereto made by a user. The touch panel detects the touch in accordance with touch-panel drive signals input thereto. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080291177 - Touch controlled display device: An exemplary touch controlled display device includes is provided. The touch controlled display device includes a touch screen, a light emitting diode (LED) array substrate, and a control unit electronically connected with the touch screen and the LED array substrate. The touch screen is configured for allowing a user to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080291178 - Touch pen having an antenna and electronic device having the touch pen: An electronic apparatus has a touch pen. The touch pen includes a pen tube and an antenna. The pen tube has a hollow tube body and a touch end. The tube body is used to accommodate the antenna. Further, the antenna has a fixed tube body and a telescopic tube... Agent: Hdsl

20080291179 - Light pen input system and method, particularly for use with large area non-crt displays: The invention relates to a light pen input system with a light pen which is adapted to generate at least one scanning light line sweep for scanning a surface such as for example a display screen. The time from starting a scan until a light sensing element placed at a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291182 - Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic device: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel array unit; and a driving unit; wherein said pixel array unit includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines in a form of rows, signal lines in a form of columns, and pixels in a form of a matrix, each pixel... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080291183 - Display driver and image display apparatus: A display driver for driving a display device having a plurality of pixels, the display driver comprises: an image processor that receives an image signal that contains information to be displayed on each of the plurality of pixels and applies a predetermined processing on the image signal to output a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291180 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image display apparatus includes an acquiring unit and a transmitting unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire a first image. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit the first image, first additional information that indicates a process by which a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080291181 - Method and apparatus for driving display panel: A method and apparatus for driving a display panel in which a bus link between a timing controller and a source driver block is altered in order to simplify the structure of a circuit. The apparatus includes a timing controller to generate signals including data and a reference signal for... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080291187 - Drive method and display device of display element: In a method of driving a display element, the display element has a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting each other in mutually opposing state, and a display medium between each of the first electrodes and each of the second electrodes. The display medium is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080291186 - Liquid crystal display panel: In a liquid crystal display panel, each pixel unit includes first and second pixels, a first scan line coupled to the first pixel, and a second scan line coupled to the second pixel via an active element. During a first scan period, the first scan line, the second scan line... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080291185 - Method and system for controlling spatial light modulator interface buses: In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method and system for controlling spatial light modulator buses are provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a bus controller includes a configurable bus interface having first and second modes of operation. The first mode of operation... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080291184 - Scrolling function in an electrophoretic display device: Bi-stable electrophoretic display device (1) having a normal mode and a scrolling mode, in which image transitions are effected by causing the charged particles (8,9) to toggle between the intermediate optical states (e.g. grey-to-grey) or between an extreme optical state and an intermediate optical state (e.g. white-to-light grey), with a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080291188 - Driving device and driving method of plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel including: obtaining a temperature of the plasma display panel; and generating an electrode driving signal, wherein: if the temperature between first and second reference temperatures, generating a first waveform, if the temperature is less than the first reference temperature, generating a second... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080291189 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a matrix of liquid crystal cells defined by crossings of the data lines and the gate lines. The LCD device includes a data driving circuit for inverting a polarity of a data voltage in response to a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080291191 - Power source circuits for driving liquid crystal displays: This invention is suitable for use in the field of integrated circuits. It provides a type of power source circuit. Said power source circuit includes: a charge pump circuit used to operate the charge pump to produce driving voltages; a first control circuit, used in the closed-loop control of said... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20080291190 - Source driver and display device having the same: A source driver includes a gamma reference voltage generating unit and a gamma signal supplying unit. The gamma reference voltage generating unit generates a plurality of gamma reference voltages in response to a gamma control signal. The gamma signal supplying unit is integrated into a display panel and provides a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080291192 - Charge recycling system of liquid crystal display and charge recycling method thereof: A charge recycling system of a liquid crystal display includes a controller and at least one switch module. The controller outputs at least one control signal when driving signals of a gate line and a source line of the liquid crystal display are both disabled, and the switch module couples... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080291193 - Display device: Detection voltages of self light emitting elements in a self-luminous display panel are detected by a detection circuit through a selection switch in a data line drive circuit via pixel detection switches and interactive signal lines. The detection operation is performed by making use of a power source supply time... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080291194 - Data transmission method applied in asynchronous display and related electronic system: An electronic system including a display device, a microcontroller unit (MCU), and a display driver is disclosed. The MCU controls the operations of the electronic system. The display driver drives the display device according to the control of the MCU. The MCU and the display driver are interconnected by a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080291195 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixel row groups, each pixel row group including at least one pixel row that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements; a plurality of gate lines connected to the switching elements and transmitting... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080291197 - Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program: An information processing device includes: a control section that displays, in response to an operation of an operation section, a piece of map information on a display section and acquires, in accordance with the piece of map information displayed on the display section, a list of content related to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291196 - Method and apparatus to display a transport service between point a and point z: Common techniques for displaying graphical representations of networks that summarize the network by representing the network at high level views, typically as physical network elements. In contrast, an example embodiment of the present invention simultaneously displays graphical representations for a transport service within a network by displaying network elements and... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080291199 - Computer-aided design apparatus: A computer-aided design apparatus generates a tree structure of coordinate systems defining the topology of a three-dimensional object to be fabricated. The coordinate systems are positioned and orientated in accordance with mathematical functions. The mathematical function positioning child coordinate systems has the identity of the parent coordinate systems as a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080291198 - Method of performing 3d graphics geometric transformation using parallel processor: Provided is a method of performing three-dimensional (3D) graphics geometric transformation using a parallel processor having a plurality of Processing Elements (PEs). The method includes performing model/view transformation and projection transformation on a first group of vertex vectors using the parallel processor; calculating a value used for quaternion correction of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080291200 - System and method for radial component scattering: A system, method, and computer program for radial component scattering, comprising calculating a bounding box for each of a plurality of parts; calculating a centroid corresponding to each of said bounding boxes; calculating a scatter circle for placement of said plurality of parts; calculating a number of locations to place... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080291201 - Efficient rendering of panoramic images, and applications thereof: A fast renderer for panoramic images is herein disclosed. In an embodiment, a precomputation is made of (a) a region on a surface defined by a first transformation from a viewport to the surface and (b) a second transformation that maps from the precomputed region to the viewport. In order... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080291202 - Plenoptic system for recording images from sheets: A system for recording an image as digital data comprises a photosensor array and a plenoptic set, including a main lens and a lenticular grating, to enable the photosensor array to obtain plenoptic image data from the sheet. A subset of the plenoptic image data is selected, such as according... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080291204 - Coupled placement of items using stable marriage techniques: A program and method are disclosed for placing coupled items in a resource graph using stable marriage techniques. Each coupled item requires resources of a first resource and a second resource in a resource graph. The resource nodes in the graph provide either the first resource or the second resource... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20080291203 - Layered graph layouts with a given aspect ratio: A graph layout technique that creates a layered graph layout with a given aspect ratio. The present layered graph layout technique better utilizes the available space and, at the same time, creates an aesthetically pleasing drawing of a directed graph. In one embodiment it determines the layout of the new... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080291205 - Digital mapping system: Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system are disclosed. One such method includes sending a location request from a client-side computing device to a map tile server, receiving a set of map tiles in response to the location request, assembling said received map tiles... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080291206 - Information processing device, information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and recording medium manufacturing method: The present invention relates to an information processing device and information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and manufacturing method for storage medium wherein a user can determine subtitles with certainty. That is, an attribute buffer 123 holds at least font style specifying information which specifies a font... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291207 - Preshaders: optimization of gpu pro: A shader program capable of execution on a GPU is analyzed for constant expressions. These constant expressions are replaced with references to registers or memory addresses on the GPU. A preshader is created that comprises two executable files. The first executable file contains the shader program with the each constant... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080291208 - Method and system for processing data via a 3d pipeline coupled to a generic video processing unit: Methods and systems for coupling a 3D pipeline to a generic video processing unit (VPU) are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include concurrently accessing different portion of stored graphics data by the generic VPU and the 3D pipeline within a chip. The graphics data may be processed by the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080291209 - Encoding multi-media signals: An aspect of the present invention mitigates bottlenecks in components such as buses in the path of a system memory and a GPU memory. In an embodiment, a graphics processing unit (GPU) receives digital values representing a multi-media signal from an external source, encodes the digital values, and stores the... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080291210 - Methods and apparatus for non-intrusive capturing of frame buffer memory information for remote display: Modification to frame buffer memory information associated with a first display may be used to update information displayed on a second display. The first display may be mapped to a matrix of display areas. The modification to the frame buffer memory information may be detected be detecting write memory address.... Agent: Alford Law Group, Inc.

20080291211 - Pixel data transfer controller and pixel data transfer control method: A pixel data transfer controller reads color pixel data including pixel data pertaining to “m” color elements from a memory through a first bus having an “n”-byte width, and transfers the color pixel data to an image processing circuit through second buses which are associated with the respective color elements.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080291212 - Software for creating engraved images: A method of producing an engraved image on a computer screen includes loading an image to be engraved and converting the image into a high contrast image using at least two colors. The first lighter color is used for the lighter portions of the high contrast image and a darker... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080291213 - Automatic color display conversion: A color computer output is dynamically converted into a monochrome computer output based on a stored profile. The stored profile may be for a piece of hardware (e.g., a monochrome printer), or a user (e.g., a color-blind user).... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080291216 - Electronic game utilizing photographs: The present disclosure includes, among other things, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing an electronic game utilizing photographs.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080291215 - Method and apparatus for the display of still images from image files: An apparatus for displaying digital image files on a standard display device such as a television set is provided in the form of a set-top box. The box includes an integrated circuit and memory buffer for computing an image from a file, a second memory buffer for storing computed images,... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080291214 - Theme picture promotional photography and theme picture composition guide for electronic camera display: Theme picture promotional photography, in which the subject image is captured using a temporary composition guide attached to the electronic display on a digital camera. The theme picture composition guide includes an image overlay depicting content to be added to the captured image post-capture to create a theme picture. The... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20080291217 - Viewing and navigating within panoramic images, and applications thereof: A panorama viewer is disclosed which facilitates navigation from within the panorama of a larger, structured system such as a map. The panorama viewer presents a viewport on a portion of a panoramic image, the viewport including a three-dimensional overlay rendered with the panoramic image. As the orientation of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080291218 - System and method for generating interactive video images: The present invention relates to video communication technology and discloses a system and method for generating animated video images. The present invention provides a system for generating animated video images, including a video image capture module, an animation capture module and an overlay module, for the purpose of overcoming the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080291220 - Electronic game utilizing photographs: The present disclosure includes, among other things, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing an electronic game utilizing photographs.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080291219 - Mixed reality presentation apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program: Position and orientation information indicating the relative position and orientation relationship between the viewpoint of the observer and a physical space object on a physical space is acquired. A virtual space image is generated based on the acquired position and orientation information, and is rendered on a memory. A physical... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080291221 - Image processing system, information processing apparatus, image processing method and program: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit that obtains from a terminal device equipped with a display screen attribute information including information indicating the directionality of the display screen, a detection unit that detects the size of a input image, an adjustment unit that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080291223 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit of electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit of an electro-optical device includes scanning lines, data lines, capacitor lines respectively corresponding to the scanning lines, and pixels provided at intersections of the scanning lines and the data lines. The driving circuit includes a scanning line driving circuit that selects the scanning lines in a predetermined... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291224 - Image display device: With the use of pixel control parts for controlling display elements in response to display data using a display-use voltage source and display control parts for supplying the display data to the pixel control parts, the display data is displayed on a display part. Further, the display data is corrected... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080291222 - Pulse generation circuit and display apparatus for adjusting the display brightness of an image: A display apparatus comprises a display panel, a gate driving circuit, and a pulse generation circuit. The display panel displays an image. The gate driving circuit drives the display panel according to a pulse signal generated by the pulse generation circuit. The pulse generation circuit comprises a histogram analysis element... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080291225 - Method and apparatus for re-sizing an active area of a flexible display: A method (400) for resizing an active area of a flexible display or reconfigurable device (100) can include a screen (104 or 210) and a controller (202) coupled to the screen. The controller can initiate (402) a re-sizing program upon detection of an altered shape for the display or device... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080284675 - Configurable imaging system: An imaging system, comprising an image source and a plurality of microtile units for generating respective portions of an image, each microtile unit including a plurality of coupling mechanisms for connection to a plurality of other microtile units such that the microtile units may be arranged in multiple geometrical configurations,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080284676 - Controller and graphics assemblies in multi-screen display systems: A multi-monitor display system is described having an arm adapted for supporting a plurality of monitors containing display screens. The system also includes a column for supporting the arm, a monitor controller assembly for electronically controlling images displayed on the screens, and a graphics assembly for sending signals to the... Agent: Mass Engineered Design Inc.

20080284677 - Modular electronic displays: Modular displays are made up of arrays of modules that include light sources and light modulators. The modules may include control circuits that perform some image processing functions. The modules may illuminate a screen directly or may include optical systems that project light onto a screen.... Agent: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation

20080284679 - Active matrix type display device: A display apparatus includes a capacitor which is provided on each of the pixels and stores the data signal while a first terminal of the capacitor is connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor, an application voltage generating unit which generates an application voltage to a second terminal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080284680 - Image display system: Image display systems comprising a first pixel, a second pixel, a scan line, a first data line, and a second data line. In the first pixel, a first transistor is coupled to a first storage capacitor via a first pixel electrode. In the second pixel, a second transistor is coupled... Agent: Venable LLP

20080284678 - Vehicle display: A vehicle display system includes a display that includes first and second display areas. The first display area displays a plurality of first icons in a first color indicative of a first warning. The second display area displays a plurality of second icons in a second color indicative of a... Agent: Ralph E Smith Cims 483-02-19

20080284681 - Method of driving plasma display panel, and plasma display device: One field is formed of a plurality of sub-fields, and each one of the sub-fields includes an initializing period, addressing period, and sustained period. The sub-field is one of an entire-cell initialization sub-field or a selective-cell initialization sub-field. When the entire initialization sub-field is switched to the selective one or... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080284685 - Plasma display device and capacitive load driving circuit: A problem is to be solved that there is to be provided a plasma display device capable of generating driving signals with less variation in delay time and without carrying out any phase adjustment. There is provided a plasma display device including; a first display electrode; a second display electrode... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080284684 - Plasma display device and method for driving plasma display panel: A plasma display device and a method for driving the plasma display device are provided, wherein deterioration in image quality in a period immediately after power-on can be restrained while improving dark contrast. When driving a PDP, by applying various drive pulses, that includes a phosphor layer containing a secondary... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080284683 - Plasma display device and the method for driving the display: In a plasma display device, one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields, each having a weight, a first subfield to which more than a reference number of sustain pulses are allocated among the plurality of subfields is detected, at least N first sustain pulses are applied to the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080284682 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel is disclosed. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate positioned to be opposite to the front substrate, a barrier rib positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate, and a seal layer positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080284687 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus, that can prevent thermal destruction and burning with a simple structure, has been disclosed. In the apparatus it is judged that there is possibility of a pattern, whose area with high brightness is small, being displayed frequently, when a state in which the total light emission pulse... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080284686 - Method of driving plasma display panel: When a sustain discharge corresponding to the display light is repeatedly produced by applying a drive pulse to a PDP which includes a fluorescent layer in the discharge cells, the drive pulse waveform is adjusted in accordance with the total number of sustain discharges. Furthermore, an auxiliary pulse of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080284689 - Display for multi-function keypad and electronic device having the same: A display for a multi-function keypad and an electronic device including the display. The display for a multi-function keypad includes: a display panel having a plurality of display regions arranged in a matrix pattern and a non-display region surrounding the plurality of display regions; a circuit board on the display... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080284688 - Method for driving, and a circuit of an element of an illuminated display: In illuminated displays with lighting elements which are driven by means of a control voltage, the voltage drop on a supply line, which supplies two or more lighting elements, is compensated for. The currents for all of the light elements which are connected to a supply line, and the known... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080284691 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate line pairs crossing the data lines, and a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20080284690 - Organic light emitting display device: Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device. The exemplary organic light emitting display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises a substrate, a displaying area located on the substrate, the displaying area comprising a plurality of sub pixels, each of which has an emission area;... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080284693 - Active matrix organic light emitting diode display: An improved AM OLED pixel circuit and method of wide dynamic range dimming for AM OLED displays are disclosed that maintain color balance throughout the dimming range, and also maintain the uniformity of the luminance and chromaticity of the display at low gray-levels as the display is dimmed to lower... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080284692 - Method for controlling backlight apparatus and luminance control circuit thereof: A luminance control circuit including a detection unit, a control unit and a current adjustor is provided. The detection unit detects a working current of each light emitting module and produces detection signals to be transmitted to the control unit. The control unit produces control signals according to the detection... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284697 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driver chip. The first substrate includes a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and extended in a first direction, a plurality of data lines disposed on a gate insulating layer insulating the gate lines and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080284695 - Display device and driving method of display device: A IF inversion driving method writes signal voltage of the same polarity to a signal line over a 1F period, and therefore cannot prevent occurrence of crosstalk caused by coupling. Also, shading is caused. In an active matrix type liquid crystal display device including a pixel array unit 11 formed... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284698 - Liquid crystal display device: A driver circuit drives display device and LCD device has a driver circuit that includes driving stages and dummy stage. The driving stage includes output and control terminals. The output terminal of the present stage is connected to the control terminal of the previous state to be cascade-connected each other.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080284696 - Secondary backlight indicator for portable media devices: Systems and methods are provided for displaying icons directly on a display, such as an LCD, regardless of whether the display is ON. When the display is ON, a primary backlight may be used to illuminate the display. When the display is OFF, a secondary backlight may project light through... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080284694 - Wide flat panel lcd with unitary visual display: A flat panel display, particularly a liquid crystal display has a front plate with a plate area defined by a plate perimeter, which is in turn defined by a first and second pair of parallel sides, the pairs of sides in perpendicular relationship to each other. An active display area... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080284700 - Liquid crystal display device: To suppress degradation of image quality caused by using an AC drive method so as to display a high-quality image. If a drive state of each of subpixels at a time when a gray-scale voltage higher than a counter voltage applied to a counter electrode is applied to a pixel... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080284699 - Picture display apparatus and method: A picture display apparatus exploiting a liquid crystal display is disclosed. This picture display apparatus (10) includes an interpolator (11), an over-drive unit (12), an angle of visibility improvement unit (13), and a source driver (15) for driving a liquid crystal display panel (16). The interpolator converts the picture rate... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080284702 - Display device, driving method and computer program for display device: A display device includes: an average value calculating section which inputs video signals having linear property and calculates an average value of levels of the video signals in each pixel; an average value memory section which sequentially stores the average values calculated by the average value calculating section; a still... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284701 - Method for driving liquid crystal display: A method for driving a liquid crystal display is provided. The method includes: turning on a display-enable switch to pass through time of liquid crystal response and light display of a first frame until a reset time appeared. At the same time, turn on a second write-enable switch to pre-deliver... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284703 - Method and apparatus to generate control signals for display-panel driver: A method to generate control signals for a display-panel driver, which needs to receive a set of predetermined number of input signals so as to output a set of control signals. The method includes starting with a reset process. The display-panel driver receives a first part of the set of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284704 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method for driving the LCD device are disclosed. The LCD device includes a frame rate adjusting circuit for controlling a frame rate to be maintained at a 1-fold rate in frame periods other than an Nth frame period (“N” is a multiple... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080284705 - Lcd controller and lcd control method: A liquid crystal display (LCD) controller includes a plurality of segment/key source control circuits connected with an LCD panel and a key matrix through a plurality of segment/key source terminals, to periodically output a signal for one frame which contains a display output period and a key source output period.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080284706 - Driving liquid crystal display with a polarity inversion pattern: This invention relates to driving a liquid crystal display with a polarity inversion. The liquid crystal display panel (98) comprises a matrix of pixels (52, 62, 72), which is driven with a sequence of image frames. The method comprises driving the pixels during a first frame (n−1) with a first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284708 - Liquid crystal display device: In a liquid crystal display device in which each one pixel has two switching elements and two pixel electrodes, a heat value of a drive circuit can be suppressed to a low level thus preventing the deterioration of image quality. In a liquid crystal display device in which a display... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080284707 - Liquid crystal driver, liquid crystal driving method and liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal driver is provided, in which a frame rate of an input image signal is multiplied by 2N (N is an integer of one or more); each frame is divided into N positive field(s) and N negative field(s) respectively; the image signal is supplied to a liquid crystal... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080284709 - Light-emitting device: According to present invention, system on panel without complicating the process of TFT can be realized, and a light-emitting device that can be formed by lower cost than that of the conventional light-emitting device can be provided. A light-emitting device is provided in which a pixel portion is provided with... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080284710 - Semiconductor device and display device: A single-crystal semiconductor layer is separated from a single-crystal semiconductor substrate and is fixed to an insulating substrate to form a TFT over the insulating substrate. Then, a driver circuit is formed using the TFT. The TFT has excellent current characteristics because an active layer is almost in a single-crystal... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080284711 - Method and apparatus to automatically control power of address data for plasma display panel, and plasma display panel device including the apparatus: A method and apparatus for automatically controlling power of address data in a plasma display panel (PDP), and a PDP device including the apparatus are provided. In this method, first, a difference-sum of pixel value differences between adjacent pixels successively arranged along a column of block is calculated. Then, an... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080284712 - Display driver and electronic equipment: A display driver for driving a display element includes an electro-optical layer to which a drive voltage is applied, the drive voltage being a voltage corresponding to a scanning voltage and a data voltage, the scanning voltage being a voltage applied to a scanning electrode, the data voltage being a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080284713 - Apparatus and method for controlling backlight: An apparatus and a method for controlling backlight are provided. The apparatus for controlling backlight is adapted for driving a backlight module of a display panel, and the backlight module includes M luminance-controlling blocks, in which an ith luminance-controlling block corresponds to an ith luminance data. The apparatus for controlling... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284714 - Control circuit of area control driving circuit for led light source and controlling method thereof: A control circuit of a driving circuit for controlling a light emitting diode (LED) light source having a plurality of areas is provided. The control circuit includes the error amplifiers receiving a feed back current signal and a external reference voltage, and generating an error signal; a buffer register receiving... Agent: Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman, P.C.

20080284715 - Display device: An angle of incidence of parallel light from a backlight unit that can change the luminance onto a display element is varied by means of an optical element. By increasing the luminance of parallel light from the backlight unit and increasing the angle of incidence of the light onto a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080284716 - Display devices with ambient light sensing: A method of controlling an illumination source for a display device comprises using an integrated light sensor (14) to detect a light level when the illumination source (12) and light sensor are driven with first drive conditions and using the integrated light sensor to detect a light level when the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284717 - Electro-optical device, method for driving the same, and electronic machine: An electro-optical device includes a liquid crystal drive unit that divides on a temporal axis one field into subfields and that, during the subfields, applies either an on-voltage or an off-voltage to picture elements of a liquid crystal display in accordance with gradation of the picture elements during the one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080284718 - Homochromatic and color display assembly on an electronic device and method for operation thereof: The present invention provides an electronic device (100) comprising a homochromatic liquid crystal display (155), a color liquid crystal display (165), and a backlight (175) having a light-pipe (220), the homochromatic liquid crystal display, the color liquid crystal display and the light-pipe being positioned in overlapping relation to each other,... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080284721 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal television: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display apparatus and a liquid crystal television which are provided with a backlight to be lighted up by a separately-excited inverter circuit and realize improvement of contrast in low brightness. A microcomputer 50 obtains a brightness average value of image data from a... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080284719 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: In a display device including a backlight and a display panel, the area of the backlight is divided into a plurality of unit regions; the display panel includes pixels which are larger in number than the unit regions; a frame rate of image data input to the device is converted... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20080284720 - Liquid crystal display device, electronic device, and driving methods thereof: An object of the present invention is to provide a driving method by which excellent image quality and high video performance can be obtained as well as liquid crystal display devices and electronic devices with excellent image quality and high video performance. A pixel for monitor use is provided in... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080284722 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device is constituted by a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed with a spacing therebetween, a partition wall disposed in the spacing, electrophoretic particles sealed in a closed space defined by the first and second substrates and the partition wall, a first electrode disposed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080284725 - Foot-operated key pad: A foot operated data entry pad has a plurality of foot-operated buttons. The foot buttons are used to enter data values—e.g., numbers or symbols separately or in combination. Each button is capable of entering different data values, preferably depending on the length of time that it is pressed or on... Agent: Pedersen & Company, PLLC

20080284727 - Input apparatus and information processing apparatus: An input apparatus connected to an information processing apparatus is provided, which includes an input unit to enter a key, a transmission unit to make itself recognized as a keyboard by an operating system (OS) on the information processing apparatus and transmit to the information processing apparatus a key code... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080284728 - Method and system for providing input mechanisms on a handheld electronic device: The present invention is related to a system and method for providing input mechanisms in a handheld electronic device. The handheld electronic device includes a casing having a first surface and a second surface, where the second surface faces away from a user of the device when the first surface... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080284723 - Physical user interface: A physical user interface is provided as an adjunct to a graphical user interface to a device having an operating system. The physical interface has a work surface or workspace that is scanned by one or more sensors capable of determining the position of objects. The work surface or workspace... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20080284724 - Remote control systems that can distinguish stray light sources: Remote control systems that can distinguish predetermined light sources from stray light sources, e.g., environmental light sources and/or reflections are provided. The predetermined light sources can be disposed in asymmetric substantially linear or two-dimensional patterns. The predetermined light sources also can be configured to exhibit signature characteristics. The predetermined light... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080284726 - System and method for sensory based media control: An apparatus for sensory based media control is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media device having a controller element to receive from a media controller a first instruction to select an object in accordance with a physical handling of the... Agent: Marc Boillot

20080284729 - Three dimensional volumetric display input and output configurations: The present invention is a system that allows a number of 3D volumetric display or output configurations, such as dome, cubical and cylindrical volumetric displays, to interact with a number of different input configurations, such as a three-dimensional position sensing system having a volume sensing field, a planar position sensing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080284730 - Device, method, and computer readable medium for mapping a graphics tablet to an associated display: A digitizer system for controlling movement of a pointer on a display unit is provided. The system includes a digitizer tablet for detecting an input position and generating tablet coordinate data according to the detected input position. A mapping unit maps the tablet coordinate data to display coordinate data based... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080284731 - Reconfigurable user input device for both left and right handed users: A reconfigurable user input device for use with an electronic video apparatus, such as a video game console, educational console or computer suitable for use by both left and right handed users. The multifunction user device further includes a base housing, a first input device and a second input device... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080284732 - Computer mouse bearing personalized and replaceable graphical indicia: A computer mouse is described comprising a bottom surface movable on a flat surface, an upper surface comprising a switch actuator portion, and a distending portion between the bottom surface and the upper surface. In the first embodiment of the present invention, a detachable and transparent hand rest portion is... Agent: Law Offices Of John R. Mugno

20080284733 - Pointer tracking across multiple overlapping coordinate input sub-regions defining a generally contiguous input region: A touch system comprises overlapping coordinate input sub-regions defining a generally contiguous input surface. Each coordinate input sub-region generates pointer coordinate data in response to pointer contacts thereon. When a pointer contact is made on a region of a coordinate input sub-region that overlaps with an adjacent coordinate input sub-region,... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080284735 - Multi-purpose optical mouse: An optical pointing device has a rotatable optics housing and provides cursor control in one of two modes: a finger navigation mode and a desktop navigation mode. In the finger navigation mode, the rotatable optics housing is in a first position and moving a finger across a transparent plate in... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080284734 - Versatile optical mouse: Apparatus and method for generating a distinct “click” signal from a input device to a computer (541) or other device. The click signal is analogous to a right or left click of a conventional computer mouse. The click signal may be generated from an optical sensor unit by lifting and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284737 - Display for a keypad and electronic device having the same: A display for a keypad and an electronic device including the display that can improve a user interface environment and stability of input in which the display for the keypad includes: a display panel having a first display region and second display regions; a circuit board disposed on the display... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080284736 - Proximity sensor device and method with keyboard emulation: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates improved device usability by providing a at least one control function prior to the specialized host software loading, and then switch to provide full range of functionality when the specialized host software has been loaded. In one embodiment, the proximity... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20080284752 - Delay judgment systems and methods: Delay judgment systems and methods are provided. The system comprises an input device and a processing module. The processing module receives and buffers a plurality of inputs via the input device within a specific time period, where each input comprises an input property. After the specific time period, the processing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284745 - Electronic device: An electronic device that has a sensing function with no-hindrance touching is provided. The electronic device includes a casing, a touch display and a processor. The casing has an opening, and the touch display is disposed inside the opening for receiving an operation of an input tool. The touch display... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284746 - Electronic device: An electronic device including a casing, a touch display and a processor is provided. The casing has an opening, and the touch display is disposed inside the casing for receiving the operation of an input tool. The opening exposes a portion of the touch display. The touch display has a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284743 - Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics, and associated methods: Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics and associated methods are disclosed. The electronic devices can include a touch sensing component that senses a touch from an input mechanism and an input circuitry that measures at least one parameter of the touch from the touch sensing component. The electronic devices can... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080284741 - Electronic devices with touch-sensitive navigational mechanisms, and associated methods: Electronic devices with preselected operational characteristics and associated methods are disclosed. The electronic devices can include a sensing component that senses a touch from an input mechanism and an input circuitry that measures at least one parameter of the touch from the sensing component. The electronic devices can also include... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080284739 - Human interface device: An input device may detect an input on an input device. The input may be compared to stored inputs to determine if the input is related to one of the stored inputs where the stored inputs can be user defined. If the input is related to one of the stored... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080284742 - Method and apparatus for implementing multiple push buttons in a user input device: Method and apparatus for implementing multiple push buttons in a user device are disclosed. The method includes detecting a location of a user input using one or more touch sensors, detecting a force of the user input using a switch, and generating a signal for representing one of the push... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20080284744 - Method and apparatus for inputting characters in a mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus which efficiently inputs characters through a touch screen in a mobile communication terminal is provided. The method, for inputting characters through a touch screen in a mobile communication terminal, includes displaying a virtual keyboard including a plurality of keyboard keys on the touch screen in response... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080284748 - Method for browsing a user interface for an electronic device and the software thereof: A method for browsing a user interface for an electronic device and the software thereof are provided. A processor in the electronic device receives an input signal through a touch sensor. Then the processing unit determines the type of the input tool which generates the input signal. Finally, a user... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284751 - Method for identifying the type of an input tool for a handheld device: A method for identifying the type of input tools for a handheld device is provided. A processor in the handheld device receives an input signal through a touch sensing means. Then the processor determines the type of the input tool which generates the input signal. As a result, the efficiency... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284750 - Method for multiple selections for an electronic device and the software thereof: A method for multiple selections for the user interface of an electronic device and the software thereof are provided. A processor in the electronic device receives an input signal through a touch sensor. Then the processor determines the type of the input tool which triggers the input signal. Finally, a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284749 - Method for operating a user interface for an electronic device and the software thereof: A method for operating a user interface for an electronic device and the software thereof are provided. A processor in the electronic device receives an input signal through a touch sensor. Then the processing unit determines the type of the input tool which triggers the input signal. Finally, various specific... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284738 - Proximity sensor and method for indicating a display orientation change: A proximity sensor device and method is provided that facilitates orientation changes in displays. The proximity sensor device and method provide a user with the ability to indicate an orientation change in a display using the sensing region of a proximity sensor device as a user interface. In one specific... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20080284747 - Touch control display device: A touch control display device (100) includes a base plate (120), a touch screen panel (100) arranged on the base plate, a plurality of touch-controlled light-emitting modules (130) arranged on the base plate, and a plurality of trigger electrodes (140) arranged on the touch screen. Each touch-controlled light-emitting module includes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080284740 - Wireless multi-user touch control device: A wireless multi-user touch control device including at least one input unit having a touch control input pad and a radio transmission element. A user can touch the touch control input pad to write characters or draft drawings thereon. The input unit serves to convert the characters and drawings into... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080284753 - Electronic device with no-hindrance touch operation: An electronic device with no-hindrance touch operation is provided. A processor in the electronic device receives an input signal through a touch display. Then the processor determines the type of the input tool which generates the input signal. Finally, a user interface corresponding to the tool type is switched and... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080284754 - Method for operating user interface and recording medium for storing program applying the same: A method for operating a user interface and a recording medium for storing a program applying the same are provided. The method includes following steps. First, a touch generated by touching a touch display using an input tool is detected. Then, whether or not the touch is generated on a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080284755 - Touch pad: A touch pad (101) includes transducers (201-204) for receiving acoustic signals resulting from touch events, such as the continuous movement of a fingertip across the surface (105) of the touch pad. The acoustic signals are acquired at different transducer locations in the surface. Signals from different transducers are combined, preferably... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080284756 - Method and device for handling large input mechanisms in touch screens: A method of displaying controls in a touch panel includes detecting contact of an object with the touch panel, determining a dimension of the object contacting the touch panel, and increasing a size of controls corresponding to the contact of the object when the dimension of the object is greater... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080284757 - Light pointing device employed in input apparatus, driving method and input apparatus using the same: A light pointing device employed in an input apparatus comprises a signal receiving interface and a light emitting component. The signal receiving interface is used to receive a system signal from the input apparatus. The light emitting component can generate a flashing light source whose intermittence cycle is synchronized with... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080284759 - Display element driving device and method thereof: Disclosed are a device and a method for driving a display element that adjusts a backlight luminescence to be suitable for a mean luminescence of an image data for each frame, analyzes the mean, maximum and minimum luminescence of an image to be displayed to reduce power consumption due to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080284762 - Driving apparatus: Disclosed herein is a driving apparatus for driving a pixel, including a first pMOS type transistor connected to a first potential a first nMOS type transistor connected in series to the first pMOS type transistor and connected to a second potential; and a control section configured to control the first... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080284763 - Image display apparatus and method, and image generating apparatus and method: An image signal representing consecutive video frames is resampled, using different sampling phases so that different subsets of pixels are taken from each frame in a consecutive set of frames. The resulting set of resampled frames is combined into a single frame and transferred to an image display unit that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284761 - Interface and method for image data transmission: An interface and a method for image data transmission that is used for data transmission through a plurality of data lines is described, the correctness of the transmitted data being checked by reference to control data. The checking capability is achieved in that at least one item of control data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080284758 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed on a substrate to cross each other, and a plurality of pixels respectively connected to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080284760 - Localization of driver failures within liquid crystal displays: Methods and apparatus for determining whether a malfunctioning pixel in a large area substrate, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, is due to the pixel itself or to the driver circuit for that pixel and for localizing any driver circuit defects are provided. In an effort to localize... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20080284764 - Electronic paper apparatus and its driving circuit and manufacturing method: A driving circuit of electronic paper apparatus for driving at least one pixel having a pixel switch element includes a shift unit and a sample-hold unit. The sample-hold unit has a sample-hold switch element and a sample-hold energy-storage element. The shift unit outputs a switch control signal. The sample-hold switch... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080284766 - Array substrate and display apparatus having the same: In an array substrate and a display apparatus having the array substrate, a pixel part includes gate lines, data lines and pixels electrically connected to the gate and data lines. A gate driving circuit is electrically connected to a first end of the gate lines and applies a gate signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080284765 - Plasma display device and signal transmitting unit for plasma display device: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel, a chassis base on the plasma display panel, a driving circuit portion on the plasma display panel, and a signal transmitting unit electrically connecting the plasma display panel to the driving circuit portion, the signal transmitting unit including, a film having... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080284767 - Display device, control method and computer program for display device: A display device includes: a light emission amount detecting section which inputs video signals having linear property and detects an amount of light emission from the video signals; a light emitting time calculating section which calculates light emitting time of the light emitting elements based on the amount of light... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080284768 - Method for driving liquid crystal display device: In a period Tin, p-th input image data (p is a positive integer) and (p+1)th input image data are input to a liquid crystal display device. In a period T, i-th original image data (i is a positive integer) and (i+1)th original image data are generated based on the input... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080284769 - 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

20080284771 - Display device and pre-charging circuit: The present invention is to provide a display device having a pre-charge circuit that is simple in construction by eliminating the need for a pre-charge power supply. A pre-charge circuit pre-charges the plurality of source buses prior to driving a plurality of source buses by a source driver. In the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080284773 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The device includes a gamma voltage generation circuit for generating first to ith positive gamma reference voltages having different levels, and first to ith negative gamma reference voltages having different levels, and a plurality of data... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080284772 - Liquid crystal display with alternating current off control circuit: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a power supply circuit, a scaler, and an alternating current off control circuit connected between the power supply circuit and the scaler. The alternating current off control circuit is configured to detect an operation state of the power supply circuit, and output a corresponding... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080284770 - Liquid crystal display, method of adjusting a driving mode thereof and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, a driving chip having a plurality of input leads and a plurality of option leads, a plurality of input pads and a plurality of option pads. Each input pad of the plurality of input pads is connected to a corresponding input lead... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080284774 - Display, method for driving display, electronic apparatus: A display includes: a pixel array section configured to include power feed lines, scan lines disposed along rows, signal lines disposed along columns, and pixels that are disposed at intersections of the scan lines and the signal lines and are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080284776 - Active matrix type display device and driving method thereof: An active matrix type display device in which one signal line is provided for every two pixels along a given direction and in which two pixels adjacent in the given direction on respective sides of one signal line share the signal line and are connected to respective different scanning lines,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080284775 - Liquid crystal display driving system and method for driving the same: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display driving system that uses at least one temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a LCD panel, and outputs a gamma compensation voltage value according to the detected temperature, and further uses an overdrive compensation unit to receive the gamma compensation voltage... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080284777 - Interactive virtual thematic environment: The present invention is directed to a method of integrating information, including real-time information, into a virtual thematic environment using a computer system, including accessing the stored information from a database or downloading the real-time information from a source external to the thematic environment; inserting the real-time information into the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080284778 - Graphical instrument panel: A system for simulating an instrument panel in a wheeled vehicle, comprising: a vehicle interior with an image presentation surface placed on the location for the instrument panel (4); an image presentation means (6) devised to present an image on the image presentation surface; an image presentation computer (8) that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080284779 - Method of displaying 3-d avatar and system thereof: A method of displaying a 3-D avatar provided includes acquiring a 3-D avatar configuration file for a current user; acquiring at least one 3-D item suite indicated by the 3-D avatar configuration file; displaying the at least one 3-D item suite according to the 3-D avatar configuration file. An instant... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080284780 - Method for enabling alpha-to-coverage transformation: An alpha-to-coverage transformation is performed by a pixel shader. The pixel shader compares data of a transparency column of a pixel and thresholds of sub-pixels of the pixel to generate a plurality of coverage masks, and stores the plurality of coverage masks in the LSBs of the transparency column of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080284781 - Fused volume rendering: A rendering system having a customizable database of compositing rule tables that define how the input volumes are to be combined based on the their type, i.e. anatomical, functional, etc. The system also allows for the customization of the transfer function types associated with each type of input volume. Enabling... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080284782 - Electronic display device and method for operating a display device: A display device and a method for operating an electronic display device for displaying several characters in a character set, in particular for displaying letters and/or numbers. At least one character in the character set can be chosen by actuating a choosing device, and selected for further processing by actuating... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080284783 - Wave zones rendering technique: Rendering a deforming object in animation including: defining a deforming object surface angle; identifying a normal vector discontinuity point using the deforming object surface angle; defining front part and back part of the deforming object with reference to the normal vector discontinuity point; dividing the front part of the deforming... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080284784 - Image processing device, method, and program, and objective function: An image processing device that models, based on a plurality of frame images being results of time-sequential imaging of an object in motion, a motion of the object using a three-dimensional (3D) body configured by a plurality of parts is disclosed. The device includes: acquisition means for acquiring the frame... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080284786 - Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering: A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080284785 - Dynamic data rate display: Dynamic data clock rate for data transfer to a display. The rate at which data is transferred from memory by a processor to a display is controlled such that data is transferred at or near one or more pixel refresh rates specified for the display while allowing at least one... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080284787 - Information processing system, method for controlling system and computer-readable recording medium: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a system comprises a processing unit for executing a software program, a storage unit and a display unit for displaying information for the software program, the processing unit saving the instant displayed information and associated data relating to the software program into the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080284788 - Method and apparatus for processing information: An information processing apparatus for encoding image data, includes a filter unit for performing a filtering operation on the image data in a layer fashion to generate a plurality of subbands including coefficient data segmented on a per frequency band basis, an intermediate data storage unit for storing intermediate data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284789 - Image processing circuit: an image processing circuit includes a memory storing an image data, which includes a plurality of line data disposed regularly a first module performing a plurality of thinning processes, at each of which a plurality of line data are readout from the memory, and at each of which one line... Agent: Junichi Mimura Oki America Inc.

20080284790 - Method and system for determining angular position of an object: A method and system for determining the angular position of an object are disclosed. As one example, a method for determining the angular position of an object is disclosed, which includes the steps of obtaining data representing an image of a surface area of the object, the image including a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080284791 - Forming coloring books from digital images: Embodiments herein include a method, service, apparatus, etc., that automatically generates a coloring book image that includes line drawings defining a small number of color coherent, clearly discriminated, closed regions while preserving the basic semantic properties of the original image. These regions hence can be filled in with colored inks,... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080284792 - Method and system for improving display quality of a multi-component display: A method, computer-usable medium, and system for processing graphical data for display on a multi-component display is disclosed. Embodiments improve the display quality of multi-component displays by modifying graphical data to preemptively compensate for distortion caused by interstitial layers and/or display screens of the multi-component display, thereby enabling display of... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20080284793 - Hue and saturation control module: A graphics processing graphics processing apparatus, which includes an RGB color space to a luminance color, blue color difference and red color difference (YCbCr) color space converter module configured to convert one or more pixel data from the RGB color space to the YCbCr color space using a set of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080284794 - Image display system and method for eliminating mura defects: Image display techniques for eliminating mura defects, which collects reference data and adjusts the gray levels. The image display systems comprising a plurality of pixels, a memory, and an ASIC. Each of the pixels relates to a mura compensation coefficient set. The mura compensation coefficient sets of the pixels are... Agent: Venable LLP

20080284796 - Display data generation device, display automatic operation data generation device, display data generation method, display automatic operation data generation method, display data generation program, display automatic operation data generation program, a: An image automatic display device for reading automatic operation data as one of pieces of input data has a display image data generation device and a display image data generation operation processing unit. The display image data generation device generates image data to be displayed on a display device on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080284795 - Method and device for controlling the display of information in two regions of a display area in a transportation device: In a method and a device for controlling the display on a display area of a display device in a transportation device, data are generated for the display of a background region and data for the display in a subregion of the display area. The display in the subregion covers... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080284797 - System and method for registration of cubic fisheye hemispherical images: Systems and methods for registering hemispheric images obtained using a fisheye lens for panoramic viewing, relating to spatial alignment and colour balancing of complement half-side images derived from the hemispheric images. The systems and methods for spatial alignment determine the displacement of the digitized recorded images using a single translation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080284798 - Post-render graphics overlays: In general, the present disclosure describes various techniques for overlaying or combining a set of rendered graphics surfaces onto a single graphics frame. One example device includes a first processor that selects a surface level for each of a plurality of rendered graphics surfaces prior to the device outputting any... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080284799 - Discontinous zoom: In a method and apparatus for zooming on a display device, instead of zooming just on the pixels in the display, zooming is effected on discernable objects comprising pixel in the displayed image. Initially, spaces between the discernable objects is reduced, and then the discernable objects are increased in size... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080284800 - Method and/or apparatus for displaying scaled design drawings permitting measurement directly from the display: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to a display device. The display device may comprise a display capable of displaying at least one design drawing. At least one storage location may be capable of storing at least one design drawing to be displayed. Display programmed logic circuitry may be... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080284802 - Liquid crystal drive device: The present invention provides a liquid crystal drive device comprising a first gradation voltage generating circuit having a plurality of first wirings led out from a first string resistor thereof, a second gradation voltage generating circuit having a plurality of second wirings led out from a second string resistor thereof... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080284801 - Stereoscopic 3d liquid crystal display apparatus with black data insertion: A display apparatus includes an liquid crystal display panel having a frame response time of less than 5 milliseconds, drive electronics configured to drive the liquid crystal display panel to black between images that are provided to the liquid crystal display panel at a rate of at least 90 images... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080278408 - Floor display systems and additional display systems, and methods and computer program products for using floor display systems and additional display system: Improved display systems, methods, and computer program products for advertising and other content delivery using one or more floor display systems are provided. A floor display system and an elevated horizontal display system, which may be configured on a countertop, may be used and able to communicate with one another.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080278409 - Image processing system, image processing method, and program: An image processing system for simultaneously displaying one or more images includes an obtaining unit, a playback unit, and a display control unit. The obtaining unit obtains an information presentation level specified by a viewer. The playback unit plays, at a predetermined playback speed, the one or more images recorded... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080278410 - Display and electronic apparatus: A display is disclosed, having an interconnect layout that allows easy repairing of a short-circuit defect even at the intersection of row and column interconnects. The display includes: row interconnects configured to be disposed along rows; column interconnects configured to be disposed along columns; and pixels configured to be disposed... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080278411 - Method of driving information display device: When information of one frame such as an image is displayed by performing a scanning operation with respect to line electrodes consisting of a plurality of electrodes extending in a line direction on one substrate and column electrodes consisting of a plurality electrodes extending in a column direction on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278412 - Circuit and method for adjusting gray scale of plasma display panel: A method for adjusting gray scale of a plasma display panel (PDP) including receiving a frame and detecting a maximum-displaying gray scale of the gray scale distribution of the frame. As a result, the present invention extends the range of the gray scale distribution of the frame to a maximum... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080278415 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A method for driving a plasma display panel which is capable of improving contrast is provided. A plasma display apparatus which is capable of improving dark contrast and suppressing a degradation in image quality immediately after power-on is also provided. In the PDP, the peak potentials of drive pulses to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278413 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a plurality of electrodes and a driver circuit configured to drive the plurality of electrodes, wherein the driver circuit includes a plurality of driver ICs coupled in common to an electrode with respect to each of the plurality of electrodes, and the plurality of driver... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278414 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A device and method for driving a plasma display including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode crossing the first and second electrodes, and a gap between the first and second electrodes is wider than a gap between the first and third electrodes. In this method, a... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080278416 - Multiple grayscale display method and apparatus: In a PDP apparatus (multiple grayscale display apparatus), an technique for reducing the unevenness of the electric charge states between cells and the background emission by the reset discharge, and also reducing the false outline, therefore, the image quality can be improved, and the drive can be stabilized is provided.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080278417 - Plasma display apparatus: A AC type plasma display apparatus has been disclosed, which satisfies various requirements such as the number of gradations that can be displayed, the display luminance, and the upper limit of power and, further, the efficiency of light emission and the luminance can be increased as much as possible and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080278418 - Plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a PDP apparatus to sufficiently suppress the background light emission and improve the dark room contrast, in which first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged adjacently, a first display line is formed between one side of the second electrode and the first electrode adjacent thereto, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080278419 - Plasma display panel, and substrate assembly of plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes a discharge space between two substrate assemblies opposed to each other, wherein a priming particle-emitting layer containing magnesium oxide crystals to which a halogen element is added in an amount of 1 to 10000 ppm is placed in such a way that the priming particle-emitting... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080278421 - Method for uneven light emission correction of organic el panel and display correction circuit of organic el panel: A correction method for correcting uneven light emission of an organic EL panel, the correction method includes the steps of: supplying a predetermined signal to the organic EL panel to detect the brightness of the panel at horizontal and vertical scan positions; forming, based on a detection output thereof, correction... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080278420 - Source driver and gamma correction method thereof: A source driver and a Gamma correction method thereof with lower layout area and preferred Gamma correction performance are provided. The source driver includes a Gamma correction unit, a latch unit, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The Gamma correction unit receives an original image data, and converts the original image... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080278422 - Field method of pwm for led display, and led display implementing the same: Systems and/or methods for displaying content on an LED display device comprising a plurality of LED modules are provided. A plurality of frames to be sequentially displayed on the LED display device across the plurality of LED modules may be defined based at least in part on the content to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080278423 - Driving method to improve response time of twistred nematic and super twisted nematic lcds without increasing gram: A driving method to improve response time of twisted nematic (TN) and super twisted nematic (STN) passive matrix LCDs without increasing graphic memory (GRAM) adopts an over-driving operation principle to convert data of three primary colors to YCbCr data and over-driving YCbCr data. Then compressing, sampling and combining are performed... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080278424 - Display panel: In a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a first thin film transistor, first and second liquid crystal capacitors, a coupling capacitor, and a discharge circuit. The first liquid crystal capacitor is connected to a data line through the first thin film transistor. The second liquid... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080278425 - Light-emitting device and electronic equipment using the same: A pixel suitable for constant current operation of an active matrix type EL display device. The pixel comprises a first switch of which one terminal is connected to a source signal line whereas another terminal is connected to a current-voltage conversion element, a second switch of which one terminal is... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20080278426 - Method and apparatus for driving lcd panel for displaying image data: A method for driving an LCD panel for displaying image data includes generating a random code sequence including a plurality of random codes with values equal to a first value or a second value, generating a plurality of driving voltages corresponding to a plurality of pixels in the LCD panel... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080278427 - Liquid crystal display device: An LCD with reduced power consumption is described. The LCD includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of gate lines and data lines, a data driver supplying a data voltage to the plurality of data lines, a controller generating a current control signal to control an output terminal of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080278428 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having a simplified printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed. The LCD device includes a first integrated circuit (IC) group operating in accordance with timing control signals to convert digital video data into data voltage and to supply the data voltage to a first data... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080278429 - Liquid crystal display device having controlling circuit for adjusting common voltage: An exemplary liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel configured for displaying images according to external image data. The liquid crystal panel comprising a plurality of sub-pixel regions and a controlling circuit. The sub-pixel regions are arranged regularly, each of the sub-pixel regions having either a positive polarity... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080278430 - Liquid crystal display for improving dynamic contrast and a method for generating gamma voltages for the liquid crystal display: An LCD for improving dynamic contrast by adjusting gamma voltages according to the brightness of an image is provided. The LCD includes: a liquid crystal display panel assembly having a plurality of pixels provided on crossing areas of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080278431 - Liquid crystal display with low flicker and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (20) includes gate lines (21), a gate driver (25) configured for receiving input signals, a comparator (28), a reference voltage generator (29) configured for outputting a reference voltage to the comparator, and a timing control circuit (27). The gate driver is further configured for driving... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080278432 - Liquid crystal display device and image display method thereof: A backlight device is divided into multiple regions, and has a configuration in which light emitted from a light source of each of the regions is allowed to leak to other regions. A maximum gradation detector detects a maximum gradation of a regional image signal displayed on each of the... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080278435 - Display device and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed herein are a display device to prevent light from being incident to a thin film transistor, and a method of manufacturing the same. An electrophoretic device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a first thin film transistor connected to a gate line and... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080278434 - Driving means for electrowetting displays: The present invention relates to driving mean for an electrowetting display device having a picture element. The driving means is arranged to apply, prior to a data write signal (DT), a voltage signal (DS) to said picture element. Further, the voltage signal (DS) is arranged to have a duration and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080278433 - Electrophoretic display and method thereof: An electrophoretic display (“EPD”) includes a display panel displaying an image and a gray-scale generator generating a gray-scale and providing a gray-scale voltage to the display panel. The gray-scale generator generates a gray-scale value of a white color using gray-scale values of red, green and blue colors and a brightness... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080278436 - Electrophoretic display device that executes refresh operation at appropriate timing: A dispersion medium is filled in a display section and is dispersed with charged particles that migrates in accordance with a direction of an electric field. An image forming section applies, upon receiving an image forming request, an electric voltage between a first electrode and a second electrode to generate... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080278442 - Control apparatus and method for input screens: A control apparatus for input screens includes a display unit, a switch portion and a control unit including a microcomputer. If one of a menu switch of the switch portion and a plurality of dummy switches included in a screen displayed by the display unit is operated, the microcomputer causes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080278437 - Copying documents from electronic displays: A system including a Multi Function Printer/Product/Peripheral (MFP) and a portable computing device adapted to allow automatic copying of documents by the MFP from the portable computing device. The portable computing device includes a display, a plurality of sensors for detecting light, a light detection module and a page changing... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080278439 - Dual function operation input keys for portable device and operating method therefor: A dual function operation input key module which applies to portable devices and an operating method therefor provide a using status induction switch which is selectively activated actively or passively, and perform a corresponding operation according to the first using status induction or the second using status induction based on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278440 - Limb image interactive apparatus for information products: A limb image interactive apparatus for information products aims to directly maneuver varying image interfaces on a display interface of the information products through movements of user's hands and feet such as dancing, exercises or data entry without relying on conventional input interfaces such as joysticks, stepping pads and screen... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080278441 - User control in a playback mode: A system comprises a display and logic coupled to the display. The logic causes a user control to automatically be displayed on the display upon a user activating an input device in both a full screen playback mode and a preview playback mode.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080278438 - User interface for selecting a photo tag: There is disclosed a user interface for selecting a photo tag. In an embodiment, the user interface embodies a method of selecting a photo tag for a tagged photo, comprising: providing a tag entry field for entering a photo tag; in dependence upon a string entered by a user, displaying... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080278443 - User input device: User input devices are provided having an input sleeve with an exterior surface and an interior surface shaped and sized to receive a core. A slide sensing system has a slide sensor positioned proximate to the interior surface that senses sliding movement of the input sleeve along a length of... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080278444 - User input system: User input systems are provided having a core extending along a length and an input sleeve having an exterior surface and an interior surface shaped and sized to receive the core. A slide sensing system has a slide sensor that senses sliding movement of the input sleeve relative to the... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080278445 - Free-space multi-dimensional absolute pointer with improved performance: According to one embodiment, a system includes a handheld device having a pixelated sensor, an optical filter for passing a predetermined frequency band of radiation to the sensor and a transmitter, an electronic equipment having a display, and at least two spaced-apart markers, where each of which are positioned proximate... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080278446 - Multi-sensor user input device for interactive programs on a machine: A user input device is provided for a machine having an interactive program and signals for a humanly-perceptible output for said program to allow a user in an inflatable physical structure to interact or perceive the output. The user input device includes one or more physical structures forming an enclosure... Agent: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

20080278447 - Three-demensional mouse appratus: A 3D mouse apparatus is disclosed in the present invention. The apparatus is mainly utilized to calculate, recognize, analyze and output the 3D gestures which include the physical quantity such as 3D position coordinate, displacement, velocity and acceleration of a point light source and the moving behavior of human hand,... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080278448 - Control device: A control device (1) for providing four position parameters of an object (7) attached to a displacement device (6) using a rotatable structure (2) with three determinable position parameters: x and y tilt and rotational angle around a z axis; the forth parameter being a position in the z direction... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080278449 - Apparatus for capturing and analyzing light and method embodied therein: An apparatus including an image sensor is disclosed. The apparatus includes a polarization filter, an image sensor, and a processor connected to the image sensor. The polarization filter is adapted to filter out light polarized in a first direction from a first scene. The image sensor is adapted to capture... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080278457 - Acrylic resin, resin boards, transparent electrode boards for touch panels, touch panels, and processes for production of them: A method of producing an acrylic resin plate, comprising a step of adding 0.001 to 1 part by weight of a polymerization initiator having 10 hours half life temperature of 80° C. or more and 0.015 to 0.2 parts by weight of cyclohexadiene or terpenoid-based compound into 100 parts by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080278450 - Method and device for preventing staining of a display device: A method and apparatus for preventing staining of a display screen by a user's fingers, by encouraging a user not to touch the surface of a display screen while using a graphic user interface associated with the display screen includes determining a first threshold distance from the display screen within... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080278454 - Method for setting touch sensitivity in portable terminal: An apparatus and method for setting touch sensitivity in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes activating a touch screen function of a touch pad when a display unit is activated in a standby mode of the portable terminal, displaying a menu screen for conducting a current mode on... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080278453 - Production testing of a capacitive touch sensing device: In one embodiment, a method for production testing of a capacitive touch sensing device is disclosed. In this embodiment, the present technology for production testing of a capacitive touch sensing device samples a first value corresponding to a first channel of a capacitive touch sensing device when the capacitive touch... Agent: Synaptics C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20080278456 - Touch sensitive display having different adhesives and method for fabricating same: An exemplary touch sensitive display (200) includes a display device (220) and a touch panel (210). The touch panel is attached on the display device through two adhesives (231, 232). The two adhesives have different adhesive capabilities.... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080278451 - Touch-panel-integrated liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A touch-panel-integrated liquid crystal display (“LCD”) which prevents malfunction of a sensor by decoupling coupling noise, and a method of driving the touch-panel-integrated LCD. The touch-panel-integrated LCD includes a plurality of first lines which extend in a first direction, a plurality of second lines which extend in a second direction... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080278455 - User-defined enablement protocol: A user interface method is disclosed. For a particular interface, such as a touch input device, the method involves defining an enablement protocol for a function and recording and retaining the enablement protocol of said function, such that a user enables the function by substantially reproducing the enablement protocol in... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080278452 - Video apparatus operating according to grip of user and control method thereof: A video apparatus that is operated according to whether it is being gripped by a user, and an operation control method of the video apparatus. The video apparatus may detect whether it is being gripped by a user, and may be appropriately operated according to a result of detection. Therefore,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278458 - Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus: Provided a liquid crystal device including a liquid crystal layer interposed between a pair of substrates, the liquid crystal device including: pixel electrodes which are arranged in an image display area, for displaying an image; sensor electrodes which detect a variation in capacitance of the liquid crystal layer; and cylindrical... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080278459 - Display device: A display device which can authenticate fingerprint without a fingerprint sensor device and can be prevented from large size or reduced the size. A display device (1) is provided with a pixel or sub pixel comprising a photo diode (11) for detecting a light from a object, a holding capacitor... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080278460 - Transmissive body: An apparatus and method for transmitting, collimating and redirecting light from a point-like source to produce a collimated optical signal in a substantially planar form are provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus is manufactured as a unitary transmissive body comprising a collimation element and a redirection element, and optionally a... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080278461 - Method for detecting a flexion exerted on a flexible screen and device equipped with such a screen for implementing the method: Present day, technology allows flexible screens to be produced, particularly the OLED screen technology. The invention relates to a device equipped with a flexible screen emitting light. Part of the light rays emitted by the optical cells is imprisoned between the substrate layers and reflecting from one layer to the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080278462 - Portable electronic device with touch screen: A portable electronic device with a simulation touch screen includes a main body, a display screen, a stylus, a camera unit and a processing unit. The display screen is mounted on the main body. The stylus is used for controlling movement of a cursor on the display screen. The stylus... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080278465 - Dot clock generating circuit, semiconductor device, and dot clock generating method: A dot clock generating circuit includes a division ratio holding unit to hold division ratio information specifying a clock division ratio and to output the division ratio information synchronously with switching of frames and a clock generator to divide the frequency of a reference clock according to the division ratio... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278463 - Driving device and related source driver of a flat panel display: A driving device of a flat panel display includes a scan-line-signal output circuit for outputting gate driving signals to a display panel of the flat panel display, and a data-line-signal output circuit including a plurality of source drivers for outputting a plurality of source driving signals to the display panel.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080278464 - Pixel circuit and display device: A pixel circuit includes an electro-optical element configured to emit light in response to a drive signal, a drive transistor configured to supply the drive signal to the electro-optical element, a pixel capacitor connected to a control input terminal of the drive transistor, a switching transistor provided at the control... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080278468 - Electro-optical device, driving circuit and driving method of the same, and electronic apparatus: A driving circuit of an electro-optical device wherein one field is divided into p (p is an integer that is equal to or more than two) groups and each group is divided into two sub-fields. The p groups each are set to have the length of a time period that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080278466 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes an LCD panel, a data driving unit, and a selection unit. A configuration of the selection unit, which includes a plurality of switching devices driven by a selection control signal to connect a plurality of data lines to each channel of the data driving... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080278467 - Liquid crystal display having progressive and interlaced modes, and driving method of the liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) having a progressive mode and an interlaced mode and a driving method of the LCD are provided. The timing controller of the LCD includes a (progressive/interlaced) mode selector and a signal generator. The mode selector receives display mode information from an external circuit and outputs... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080278469 - Display panels driving apparatus and method: A device such as a smart card (100) capable of displaying data on a display panel (122). The panel (122) comprises an array of segments (130) coupled to a battery (124) for activating any or several of the segments. Microprocessor (114) is employed for storing and processing data. Switch (110)... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080278471 - Liquid crystal display with common voltage compensation and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (301) having a plurality of pixel units (340), a data processor (391) having a calculation circuit (393) and an analyzing circuit (394), and a common voltage circuit (305). The calculation circuit is configured to carry out a predetermined calculation... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080278470 - Method for generating a gamma voltage, driving circuit therefor, and display device: A method for generating a gamma voltage comprising, a first low voltage and a first high voltage having a first voltage range between the first low voltage and the first high voltage are divided into a plurality of gamma voltages of a first polarity during a first interval. A second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080278472 - Display unit: Display units (1) comprise selection circuitry (40) for selecting a line (41, 45, 49) during a period of a first duration. As a result, this period must be chosen equal to the duration to the smallest data pulse, and relatively high clock frequency is to be used for the selection... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080278473 - Source line driver and method for controlling slew rate according to temperature and display device including the source line driver: A source line driver and method for controlling a slew rate according to temperature and a display device including the source line driver are provided. The source line driver includes a temperature sensing unit configured to sense a temperature, compare the sensed temperature with a reference temperature, and generate a... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080278475 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278476 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278477 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278474 - System and method for volumetric display of video images extracted from arbitrary background environments: A system and method for volumetric display of video images extracted from arbitrary background environments comprising an arrangement for extracting a video image in real time from an arbitrary background and creating a stream of extracted image data in response thereto and a free space or volumetric display operationally adapted... Agent: William J. Benman

20080278479 - Creating optimized gradient mesh of a vector-based image from a raster-based image: A method for creating an optimized gradient mesh of a vector-based image from a raster-based image. In one implementation, a set of boundaries for an object on a raster-based image may be received. An initial gradient mesh of the object may be created. A residual energy between the object on... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080278480 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus: A polygon selection unit (125) selects, on the basis of a given condition, a base unit to be used in a collision determination process from base units included in a three-dimensional virtual object. A collision determination unit (130) executes the collision determination process between three-dimensional virtual objects by using the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080278482 - Method to render a root-less scene graph with a user controlled order of rendering: A scene graph is provided which represents data and a set of processes thus providing an enhanced approach to the previously known scene graph concept. With this approach the scene graph becomes a rendering description of the data rather than a world description. Previously known scene graphs represent a structure... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080278481 - Photo generated 3-d navigable storefront: Presented are techniques for creating a photo-generated navigable storefront. Such techniques include receiving a images and processing the images through an image matching algorithm. Such images may include, for example, photos taken with a camera. Additionally, the images are tagged with identifier tags in order to associate related or nearby... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080278485 - System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene with a navigation assistance panel: A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene with a navigation assistance panel is presented. Clusters of semantically scored documents are placed in a three-dimensional scene and are arranged as a cluster spine. Each cluster spine is projected into a two-dimensional display. Controls... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080278484 - Systems and methods for implementing haptic systems and simulated environments: A method is provided for simulating interaction between a tool and an object. The method involves: providing a tool model for simulating the tool in a simulated environment; providing a mesh for simulating the object in the simulated environment, the mesh comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080278483 - Three-dimensional image: A three-dimensional image display capable of reducing a difference between a resolution variation rate in a pixel column direction and a resolution variation rate in a pixel row direction and preventing a color separation phenomenon is disclosed. The three-dimensional image display includes a display panel in which n (n is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080278478 - Virtual network operations center: A system, method, program product and service for implementing a virtual network operations center. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for rendering three dimensional (3D) models in an observation space, in which the 3D models mirror actual components in an associated operations center. Also included is a system... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080278486 - Method and device for selecting level of detail, by visibility computing for three-dimensional scenes with multiple levels of detail: The present invention sets out to combine a calculation of visibility from a viewpoint, with the selection of a level of detail for each of the nodes in a tree representing the geometry of the objects in a scene, so as increase the level of geometric detail of the visible... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080278487 - Method and device for three-dimensional rendering: The present invention provides an improved method and system to generate a real time three-dimensional rendering of two-dimensional still images, sequences or two-dimensional videos, by tracking (304) the position of a targeted object in the images or videos and generate the three-dimensional effect using a three-dimensional modeller (308) on each... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080278490 - Anatomical context presentation: A method of providing an image includes providing volumetric data which includes volume of interest data and volume of context data, and providing a first projection image which corresponds with the volume of interest data. A second projection image showing surfaces of objects in the volume of context data not... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080278489 - Image processing system and method for silhouette rendering and display of images during interventional procedures: A medical viewing system in which 3DRA images of a body volume are acquired and two dimensional live image data is acquired within the body volume during an intervention. Direct volume silhouette rendering is performed in respect of the 3D image so as to generate a silhouette rendering of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080278488 - Methods and apparatus for volume rendering: A method for performing a volume rendering of an image uses a computer having a processor, memory, and a display. The method includes globally segmenting image data that represents an image to thereby locate boundaries in the image, determining regional opacity functions using the image data in a vicinity of... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20080278492 - Silhouette blend rendering of anatomical structures: Systems and methods for rendering advantageous images/views of an anatomical structure, e.g., vessel structure(s), and surrounding anatomical features/structures are provided. The disclosed systems and methods combine conventional 3D x-ray rotational angiography (3DRA) with a diagnostic scan of the relevant anatomical region, e.g., a CT or MR scan, to yield a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080278491 - System and method for rendering computer graphics utilizing a shadow illuminator: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to rendering computer graphics using an augmented direct light model which approximates the effect of indirect light in shadows. More specifically, a shadow illuminator light source is provided for. The shadow illuminator light source is associated with an ordinary, or primary light source... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080278495 - Graph plotting device and graph plotting method, yield analyzing method and yield improvement support system for executing the graph plotting method, program, and computer-readable recording medium: In the present invention, a matrix display area for displaying m×n elements arranged in matrix form and a graph display area for displaying a graph image are set on an identical display screen. The m×n statistics between m variates belonging to a first data group and n variates belonging to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080278493 - Metrology methods: A metrology method of displaying results to a user includes graphically representing a target calibration amount and a tolerance associated with the target calibration on a graph, obtaining a reported reading of an instrument to be tested, and graphically representing the reported reading on the graph with an uncertainty associated... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080278494 - System and method for information display: N or more dimensions of information are presented on a conventional M-dimensional graph, where N>M, using a visual attribute type such as color to depict the additional dimensions of information. Each data input value comprised by the graph has additional values beyond those representing the M-dimensional aspects, and the visual... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080278496 - Rendering data visualization with minimal round-off error: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for the rendering of data visualizations with minimal round-off errors. The data visualization method represents a dataset as graphical elements within a graphical layout area by performing layout of a data value within the dataset on the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080278497 - Processing method for capturing movement of an articulated structure: s

20080278498 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278499 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278500 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278501 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278502 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278503 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278504 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278505 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278506 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278507 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278508 - Architecture and method for remote platform control management: An integrated circuit is a baseboard management controller that is a fully integrated system-on-a-chip microprocessor incorporating function blocks and interfaces that provide remote management solution. The integrated circuit uses a microprocessor, and a video compression accelerator in combination with a unified memory architecture to accelerate video processing, and a set... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20080278509 - Graphics processing apparatus: There is provided a graphics processing system that includes a main processing unit and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The main processing unit puts rendering commands generated using a graphics library in the queue of a command buffer in a main memory. In this process, the library function offered by... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080278510 - Renderer for presenting an image frame by help of a set of displaying commands: e

20080278511 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278512 - Information storage medium storing graphic data and apparatus and method of processing the graphic data: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data,... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080278513 - Plotting apparatus, plotting method, information processing apparatus, and information processing method: Registers 32a-32d hold data for pixels interleaved. An operator 34 reads the pixel data from the registers and processes the pixel data in accordance with a program code. The operator 34 writes the result of the process back to the registers via a cache 38 or writes it in a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080278514 - Dynamically adjusted brush for direct paint systems on parameterized multi-dimensional surfaces: A system that implements a “tangent space brush,” allowing a user to paint directly onto a parameterized object, for example a three dimensional object. A tangent space brush projects coordinates from an input device to the world-space point on the surface of the 3D object. A normal is determined at... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080278515 - System and method for generating terrain representation: A method and system for generating a representation of a terrain. The method of generating a representation of a terrain comprises the steps of selecting a set of colors, the colors comprise at least a plurality of colors, determining a minimum terrain elevation, and determining a maximum terrain elevation. A... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080278516 - System and method for adjusting perceived eye rotation in image of face: Various embodiments of a method for changing the perceived view direction in an image of a person's face are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080278518 - Merging images: A method for merging first and second images includes determining a pixel difference image from the first and the second images, determining first and second locations of the foreground subject from the pixel difference image, determining a minimum path of values from the pixel difference image for a region between... Agent: Patent Law Group LLP

20080278519 - Method and apparatus for fast flicker-free displaying overlapped sparse graphs with optional shape: A method for converting graphic elements containing sparse graphs into graphic layers is described, comprising the steps of: correspondingly mapping respective sparse graphs to respective sparse graphic layers, and projecting sequentially from top to bottom the regular graphs between the sparse graphs into a projection plane to form a regular... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20080278517 - System and method for manipulation of document data intercepted through port redirection: The subject application is directed to a system and method for manipulation of document data intercepted through port redirection. A virtual port receives targeted output data from each of a plurality of applications, which are associated with the virtual port. The output data is then stored in associated memory. Document... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080278520 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for modifying an electronic text message with warped images: Methods, devices, and computer program products modify an electronic text message with warped images. At least one emoticon is identified in an electronic text message. An image associated with a sender of the electronic text message is identified. The images warped based on the identified emoticon to provide a warped... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080278521 - Display device and driving method thereof: Example embodiments relate to a display device and a method for driving the same. The method may include receiving an input signal from a user, determining whether the input signal is in a normal state or a degree of color deficiency, and changing a gamma coefficient of the input signal... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080278522 - Display apparatus and display panel driver: Disclosed herewith a liquid crystal display apparatus, which includes a liquid crystal display panel that employs the delta arrangement; a subtractive color processing circuit that carries out a subtractive color processing for input image data, thereby generating subtractive color image data; and data line driving circuit that drives the liquid... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080272984 - Method and apparatus for controlling display monitors provided on an electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus that can use not only an LCD monitor provided as a standard component, but also a DVI monitor. The apparatus incorporates a BIOS. The BIOS acquires display parameters from the DVI monitor if the DVI monitor is connected to the apparatus and causes the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080272987 - Display apparatus including pixels having improved brightness and contrast ratio: A display apparatus having pixel areas defined on a substrate. First color pixels having a white color and second color pixels having a color different from that of the first color pixels are aligned in each pixel area in the form of a matrix. The second color pixels are adjacent... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080272985 - Display panel: A display panel comprises a plurality of pixels (1-4; 22; 57). Each of the pixels (1-4; 22; 57) comprises a plurality of sub-pixel elements (5-9; 31-46; 48-56) occupying respective continuous sub-pixel element areas within a pixel area. At least two non-adjacent sub-pixel elements (5,7; 45, 46; 52,53) are coupled to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080272986 - Terminal and method for displaying an image: In order to enhance image quality, a terminal, when displaying an image on a QVGA display with a resolution greater than the image itself, renders one of every 5 to 7 pixel rows and one of every 5 to 7 pixel columns semi-transparent. The semi-transparent pixel rows and columns are... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080272988 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel (PDP) having electrodes with an improved structure to prevent cutting defects thereof, the PDP including: a pair of substrates including display regions displaying images and non-display regions that do not display images, wherein the substrates are arranged to face each other and spaced apart from each... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080272989 - Light emission panel display device: The light emission panel display device according to the present invention has a scan drive circuit (30) driving a selected scan line to a selected voltage and unselected scan lines to a non-selected voltage higher than the selected voltage in each scanning period and (3) a data drive circuit (20)... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080272990 - Method of driving a pixel and liquid crystal display panel implementing the method: The invention provides methods of driving a pixel and liquid crystal display panels implementing the methods. The invention generates an ideal data voltage corresponding to a gray level of the pixel, and generates a compensated data voltage corresponding to the gray level according to a polarity change of the pixel.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080272992 - Organic electro-luminescent display device and method of manufacturing the same: An organic electroluminescence device which includes a power line formed on the same layer as source and drain electrodes of a thin film transistor (TFT) and formed on a substrate on which the TFT is formed, a first insulating layer formed on the TFT, a lower electrode that electrically connected... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080272991 - Organic electroluminescence pixel, organic electroluminescence device, and manufacturing method thereof: An organic electroluminescence pixel, an organic electroluminescence device comprising the same, and method for manufacturing the organic electroluminescence device are provided. The organic electroluminescence pixel comprises a substrate, a first electrode, a first carrier-injection layer, a semi-trans-flective metal layer, an organic emitting layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080272993 - Device for displaying images on an active matrix:

20080272994 - Apparatus for controlling the liquid crystal display: An apparatus for controlling an LCD is provided. The apparatus includes a memory, an image scaler circuit, a liquid crystal accelerating circuit, an image stretcher circuit, and an interface signal transmitting circuit. A first frame data is stored in the memory. The image scaler circuit receives and shrinks a second... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080272996 - Display system and compensation circuit thereof: A display system comprises an adjustment unit, a pulse generating unit and a light tube. The adjustment unit comprises a thermal resistor and generates an adjustment signal according to the temperature. The pulse generating unit generates a pulse driving signal according to the adjusting signal. When the temperature falls, the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080272997 - Liquid crystal display: A four color liquid crystal display (LCD) including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels are provided. The LCD also includes a plurality of gate lines for transmitting gate signals to the sub-pixels and a plurality of data lines for transmitting data signals to the sub-pixels. The white sub-pixel is smaller... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080272995 - Portable information terminal device and display terminal device: [Means for Settlement] A first pattern area and a second pattern area are formed in a display area of a display device 5; in a wide viewing field mode, the whole of the display area is brought into a wide viewing angle state; and in a narrow viewing field mode,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080272999 - Display device, display driver and image display method: In a display device and a display driver, when a grayscale of a display image is equal to or lower than a specific grayscale value obtained from a histogram of the display image, a display grayscale is extended with a linear function. On the other hand, when a grayscale of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080272998 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device and an image display method able to display a middle gray-scale by using a plurality of pixels or fields and, at the same time, improve viewing angle characteristics are provided. When displaying an image via a direct view type liquid crystal display screen, a gray-scales of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080273000 - Method of preventing flicker, circuit for performing the method, and display apparatus having the circuit: A method for preventing flicker in a display apparatus, a circuit for performing the method and a display apparatus which includes the circuit. The method includes displaying an inspection image on a plurality of sensing pixels formed in a display panel of the display apparatus, sensing an amount of light... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080273001 - Level converter circuit and a liquid crystal display device employing the same: A display device includes a pixel driver circuit. Each of level converter circuits in the pixel driver circuit has an input terminal supplied with a signal swinging between a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a first first-conductivity-type transistor having a gate electrode coupled to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas LLP

20080273002 - Driving chip and display apparatus having the same: Thus, resistances of connection lines are controlled to be substantially the same, or resistance deviation is reduced by adjusting the resistances of the respective connection lines of an output port. Accordingly, a signal delay or a signal distortion induced by the resistance deviation of the connection lines in the driving... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080273003 - Liquid crystal display device, manufacturing method thereof and driving method thereof: An LCD device includes first and second gate drivers coupled on a side of an LCD panel displaying an image, a data driver coupled to the LCD panel adjacent to the second gate driver, a timing controller generating a gate start pulse applied to the first gate driver and control... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080273004 - Shift register and semiconductor display device: The invention provides a shift register which can operate normally while suppressing a delay of signal and a rounding of waveform. The shift register of the invention includes a plurality of stages of flip-flop circuits each of which includes a clocked inverter. The clocked inverter includes a first transistor and... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080273006 - Color-zone layout of light-emitting module and controlling method of color sequence: A color-zone layout of light-emitting module includes at least a light-emitting zone unit. The light-emitting zone unit includes a plurality of blocks, which are divided into a first color-zone, a second color-zone, a third color-zone and a fourth color-zone. A fifth color-zone is located between any two adjacent ones of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080273005 - Mixed color sequential controlling method and back ligh module and display device using the same: A mixed color controlling method for backlight module and display device using the same, in the method, a mixed color sequential (MCS) algorithm with high contrast enhancement technique is provided in RGB LED backlight display. Owing to synchronous control of LCD panel and LED backlight module, high quality image with... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080273007 - Dual output voltage system with charge recycling: A drive system for a flat panel display having segment and common lines is provided. The system may include a first charge pump, including an input terminal for receiving electric charge at an input voltage level and a circuit for generating a first pumped voltage level. The system may also... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080273009 - Information reproducing apparatus and method, dj device, and computer program: An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: a reproducing device (ii) for reproducing content data; an operating device (41) which is movable by an operation of a user and which is used in realizing each of a first function and a second function, the first function being for adding... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080273008 - Interactive image game device for exercise and massage: An interactive image game device for exercise and massage couples exercise, massage and game software together to form an interactive exercise and massage device which includes a plurality of sensors controlled by a user's feet or hands and a display unit which displays game pictures to provide interaction so that... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080273010 - System for controlling movement of a cursor on a display device: A system for controlling movement of a cursor on a display device, the system comprising: a substrate having a position-coding pattern disposed on or in a surface thereof; a sensing device comprising: an image sensor for optically imaging the position-coding pattern; and a processor configured for: generating absolute motion data... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080273011 - Interactive game method and system with sports injury protection: The present invention discloses an interactive game method with sports injury protection, comprising: providing a remote pointing device for a user to swing; and triggering a safety mechanism in one or more of the following conditions: (1) when a user swings the remote pointing device drastically; (2) when a count... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080273012 - Multifunctional portable computing device with special housing: A portable computing device includes pivoting and hinging mechanisms which enable its housing to reconfigure to function in multiple modes. In one configuration the device functions as a laptop computer with keyboard input. In another configuration the device folds into a compact, hand-held, pen-based computer. In another configuration the device... Agent: Edward Bullister

20080273015 - Dual function touch screen module for portable device and opeating method therefor: A dual function operating touch screen module which applies to portable devices and operating method therefor are provided. The dual function operating touch screen module includes a touch screen, a sensor, an instruction executing unit, and a cursor transforming unit. The operating method includes the steps of displaying an image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273014 - Glass touch screen: These needs, and others, are met by at least one embodiment of the disclosed invention which provides for a touch sensitive screen for an electronic device wherein there is a sparse pattern of sensors disposed within the active area and a dense pattern of sensors disposed within the viewing area.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080273013 - Infrared touch screen gated by touch force: A touch-sensitive display device includes a display. A transparent plate is provided in front of the display. A tactile sensor senses a touch event. One or more infrared sensors are positioned in front of the transparent plate. The one or more infrared sensors identify a location of the touch event... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080273016 - Integrated touch-screen control panel for a washing appliance and method for producing the same: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a touch-screen user interface system for a dishwasher. In one aspect, the system includes an illuminated display operably engaged with a door of the dishwasher having a plurality of touch-responsive surfaces associated therewith, and a cover operably engaged with the illuminated display so... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080273018 - Method for scrolling and edge motion on a touchpad: A method of using capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a plurality of zones on a surface thereof, wherein detection of a finger within one of the plurality of zones determines a direction and a speed of scrolling within a window in a graphical user interface, and wherein detection of... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080273017 - Touchpad using a combination of touchdown and radial movements to provide control signals: A physical or virtual circular touchpad that may have an active touch-sensitive surface in a center area of the touchpad, wherein touchdown in the center area is detected by the touchpad having an active touch-sensitive surface, and then radial movement from the center area towards a perimeter of the circular... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20080273019 - Shadow detection in optical touch sensor through the linear combination of optical beams and grey-scale determination of detected shadow edges: An optical based input touch display device with high resolution shadow detection using the linear splitting of waveguides among transmit and receive lenses and grey-scale calculations for shadow edge and center detection is disclosed. The apparatus includes a light source and a transmit waveguide optically coupled to the light source.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080273020 - Mobile communication device and operating method thereof: The present invention relates to a mobile communication device, method and computer program product for controlling a displayed screen using a rotary input device and an operating method thereof. The mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment includes a first input key, a second input key, a third input key,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080273021 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: A plasma display and a driving method thereof. The plasma display includes a plurality of first electrodes, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a first capacitor. The first switch is connected between a first power source to supply a first voltage and the plurality of first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080273023 - Display element drive method, display element and electronic termial: The embodiment relates to a display element drive method performing write at a low speed for still image display and in particular, to a method for driving a display element using cholesteric liquid crystal (electronic paper). The display element includes a plurality of scan electrodes and data electrodes intersecting one... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080273022 - Electrophoresis display device, driving method of electrophoresis display device, and electronic apparatus: An electrophoresis display device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an electrophoresis element interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing charged electrophoresis particles, a pixel including a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit which give a potential difference between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080273024 - Display device and driving method thereof: The present invention comprises pixels each configured by a switching element and a light-emitting element, and a plurality of source signal lines for one pixel column. An input terminal of the switching element is connected to any one of the plurality of source signal lines and an output terminal of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080273025 - Plasma display and driving method thereof: In a plasma display device, a first transistor is coupled between an electrode and a power source supplying a VscL voltage, and a second transistor gradually changing a voltage of the electrode is coupled between the electrode and the power source. First and second resistors are coupled in series between... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080273026 - Separately excited inverter circuit and liquid crystal display television: The present invention discloses a separately excited inverter circuit whose switching circuit having a plurality of switching elements and which is capable of minimizing the damage of other switching elements even if any of the plurality of switching elements is short circuited and damaged. The separately excited inverter circuit includes:... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080273027 - Methods and devices for generating and viewing a planar image which is perceived as three dimensional: A method for generating a planar image which is provided for being perceived by humans as three dimensional, the method comprising the step of generating at least two overlapping portions of planar visual information of which first portion comprises an original planar image and a second portion a diffused image... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080273030 - Drawing apparatus and drawing method: A YSU (19) sorts structure instances #0 to #7 in order that the polygons #0 to #7 corresponding thereto are arranged in ascending order of the minimum Y-coordinates thereof. An RPU (9) sequentially reads the structure instances #0 to #7 sorted by the YSU (19), and performs the drawing process... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20080273031 - Page based rendering in 3d graphics system: A method of rendering 3D graphics image includes the steps of: storing the primitives information into the primitive bank and parameter bank whose entries are made up the primitive IDs; converting the primitives into the pages whose coordinates are made up the page IDs; matching incoming page IDs of the... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080273029 - Stencil operations: Described are a video graphics system, graphics processor, and methods for rendering three-dimensional objects. A buffer is partitioned into tiles of pixels. Each pixel of each tile includes at least one sample. A primitive is received and determined to cover fully one of the tiles. A section of the primitive... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080273028 - Universal rasterization of graphic primitives: A technique for universally rasterizing graphic primitives used in computer graphics is described. Configurations of the technique include determining three edges and a bounded region in a retrofitting bounding box. Each primitive has real and intrinsic edges. The process uses no more than three real edges of any one graphic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080273032 - Stencil compression operations: Described are a video graphics system, graphics processor, and methods for rendering three-dimensional objects. A buffer is partitioned into tiles. Each tile includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel of each tile includes at least one sample. Each sample has a stencil value associated therewith. It is determined that each... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080273033 - Depth operations: Described are a video graphics system, graphics processor, and methods for rendering three-dimensional objects. A buffer is partitioned into tiles of pixels. Each pixel of each tile includes at least one sample. A primitive is received and determined to fully cover one of the tiles of the buffer. A section... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080273034 - Interface and method of interfacing between a parametric modelling unit and a polygon based rendering system: An interface for use in a 3-d graphics system comprising a parametric modelling unit for modelling objects as high order surfaces, and a polygon based rendering system for rendering polygon modelled objects for display. The interface comprises an input for receiving data and a subdivision unit coupled to the input... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20080273035 - Unique method for performing zoom-in and zoom-out operations with horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device having a video display: A method of presenting a selected portion of graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a display screen. The native pixel resolution of the display screen may differ from that of the original graphical image. A... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080273036 - Data display apparatus: A plurality of types of measurement data which are measured by a signal measurement section in a time serial manner are displayed on a predetermined coordinate system. A data type assignment section is operable to assign the types of the measurement data to different coordinate axes in the predetermined coordinate... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080273037 - Looping motion space registration for real-time character animation: A method for generating a looping motion space for real-time character animation may include determining a plurality of motion clips to include in the looping motion space and determining a number of motion cycles performed by a character object depicted in each of the plurality of motion clips. A plurality... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080273038 - Looping motion space registration for real-time character animation: A method for generating a looping motion space for real-time character animation may include determining a plurality of motion clips to include in the looping motion space and determining a number of motion cycles performed by a character object depicted in each of the plurality of motion clips. A plurality... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080273039 - Real-time goal space steering for data-driven character animation: A method for generating real-time goal space steering for data-driven character animation is disclosed. A goal space table of sparse samplings of possible future locations is computed, indexed by the starting blend value and frame. A steer space is computed as a function of the current blend value and frame,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080273040 - Efficient selective updating of multiple-region flexible displays: Methods and systems are provided for efficiently selectively updating multiple-region flexible displays. In an embodiment, multiple regions of a display material each have a common conductor along a first surface and a patterned set of conductors along a second surface. A control circuit includes a separate conductive trace to each... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080273041 - Interactive image and graphic system and method capable of detecting collision: The present invention relates to an interactive image and graphic system and method capable of detecting collision. A storage device stores a plurality of image data streams. Each image data stream includes a header, which has at least one position coordinate field, and the at least one position coordinate field... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080273042 - Apparatus and method for texture level of detail computation: A graphic processing system to compute a texture level of detail. An embodiment of the graphic processing system includes a memory device, a driver, and level of detail computation logic. The memory device is configured to implement a first lookup table. The first lookup table is configured to provide a... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080273043 - Coordinate computations for non-power of 2 texture maps: A graphic processing system to compute a texture coordinate. An embodiment of the graphic processing system includes a memory device, a texture coordinate generator, and a display device. The memory device is configured to store a plurality of texture maps. The texture coordinate generator is coupled to the memory device.... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080273044 - Semiconductor light-emitting device illuminated projection display with high grayscale resolution: A video display includes a semiconductor light-source, a pixilated spatial light modulator (SLM) for spatially modulating light from the light source and projection optics for projecting spatially modulated light from the spatial light modulator onto the screen to form the video. A desired relative brightness contribution in the display of... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP