Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 12/08

20080316144 - Image displaying system, image displaying device, image data outputting device, image displaying method, image displaying program, and image data outputting program: A system consisting of a plurality of terminals storing image data and an image displaying device which are connected with each other through a network capable of two-way communication has the disadvantage of decreasing in throughput on account of slow image data transfer over the network. The image displaying device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316146 - Projector and image processing apparatus: A projector which displays an image by projecting a projection image onto a projection surface, includes: a fixed pixel display device for displaying the projection image in a predetermined vertical period; and an image processing device for generating the projection image in the vertical period, wherein the image processing device... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316145 - Virtual shadow for physical object placed on surface: The placement of a physical object at a location on a surface is detected. A virtual shadow for the physical object is displayed at the location on the surface.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080316147 - Methods for resetting and driving plasma display panels in which address electrode lines are electrically floated: A method of resetting a plasma display panel includes a wall charge accumulation operation and a wall charge distribution operation. In the wall charge accumulation operation, the voltage applied to second display electrode lines is gradually increased to reach a first voltage. In the wall charge distribution operation, while the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080316148 - Plasma display device and method of driving the same: A technique capable of suppressing or preventing generation of flickers (blinks) by a sustain period control as well as capable of ensuring or enhancing display quality in a PDP device. The PDP device adjusts a sustain pulse of the sustain period for every subfield by selecting a combination of one... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080316149 - Electro-luminescence pixel, panel with the pixel, and device and method for driving the panel: An electro-luminescence display having a plurality of pixels is disclosed. One of the pixels of the electro-luminescence display includes an electro-luminescence diode electrically connected between first and second voltage sources; first and second thin film transistors adjusting an amount of current flowing to the electro-luminescence diode; and a control circuit... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080316151 - Electro-optical apparatus and method of driving the electro-optical apparatus: The invention provides an electro-optical apparatus that can prevent a shift in a threshold voltage of an amorphous silicon transistor while driving an organic EL device in a pixel circuit including the amorphous silicon transistor. A characteristic-adjustment circuit can be provided, which has a function of returning a shift in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316150 - Organic light emitting diode display device: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device minimizes a threshold voltage variation of a drive transistor in a pixel circuit, increases an aperture ratio, and minimizes power consumption by applying a same range of data voltages to respective pixels. The OLED display device includes a first capacitor electrically connected... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080316152 - Transistor circuit, display panel and electronic apparatus: A transistor circuit is provided including a driving transistor where conductance between the source and the drain is controlled in response to a supplied voltage, and a compensating transistor where the gate is connected to one of the source and the drain, the compensating transistor being connected so as to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316153 - Flexible led screen: A flexible LED screen includes a flexible printed circuit board having a front surface and a rear surface, a plurality of SMT-LEDs mounted on the front surface of the flexible printed circuit board, and a plurality of integrated circuits mounted on the rear surface of the flexible printed circuit board.... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20080316154 - Apparatus and method for generating vcom voltage in display device: An apparatus for generating a VCOM voltage in a display device includes first and second buffer amplifiers and a charge pump. The first buffer amplifier is biased with high and low rail voltages for generating the VCOM voltage. The second buffer amplifier generates the high rail voltage at an output... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080316155 - Computer and display control method for the same: According to one embodiment, there is provided a computer including a display to display a video in one of a normal mode in which the video is displayed according to a progressive scheme and a multi-field drive mode in which the video is displayed according to an interlace scheme, and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080316156 - Display device: A shift register circuit has a plurality of shift pulse generation circuits, and a scanning voltage generation circuit has a plurality of base circuits. The base circuits are presented with a first shift pulse generated by a shift pulse generation circuit, and a scanning line clock. The base circuits have... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080316157 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display comprising: a receiver for receiving power and differential signal; a backlight power supply which supplies the power to a backlight unit; a power-off sensor which senses power-off of the backlight power supply and distorts one of the differential signals; and a controller which senses the distortion... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080316158 - Driving method and apparatus for an lcd panel: A driving method for an LCD panel includes generating a sequence, generating a plurality of gate driving signals, determining a gate-on sequence of the plurality of gate driving signals according to the sequence, and driving pixels of the LCD panel using the plurality of gate driving signals according to the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080316159 - Liquid crystal display device with scanning controlling circuit and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal panel, a gate driver, gate lines, a data driver, and a scanning controlling circuit. The gate driver is configured for providing scanning signals to the gate lines. The scanning controlling circuit is connected between the gate driver and the gate... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080316160 - Common voltage driving circuit of liquid crystal display: A common voltage driving circuit of a liquid crystal display, includes: a clock signal input unit that comprises a plurality of transistors and inputs first and second clock signals according to a gate output voltage; an output node voltage controller that comprises a plurality of transistors and condensers and changes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080316161 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines crossing the plurality of data lines, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells defined as a first and second liquid crystal cell groups, a data driving circuit to supply... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080316162 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (301) receiving reference voltages; and a polarity resetting circuit (354) receiving display signals from external circuit and resetting the received display signals to attain resetted display signals, which makes the voltage difference between the resetted display signals and the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080316163 - Active matrix display devices and methods of driving the same: An active matrix display device has a column driver circuit for providing pixel drive signals to columns of pixels, and comprising current source circuits. Each current source circuit has a supply switch (78) for controlling the time during which the current source supplies current to or drains current from the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080316167 - Display driver: A display driver driving a display panel according to inputted display data comprises: a first circuit changing brightness of a display image by conversion of the display data based on a first reference value and a second reference value, the first reference value being a display data value at a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080316164 - Display product providing a night light illumination mode: There is described a display product (10) suitable for use in bedrooms, the display product (10) being arranged to provide a “night-light” facility. The display product (10) includes a display (20). Moreover, the display product (10) includes processing circuits (40, 50, 70, 80) for receiving one or more image signals... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316165 - Liquid crystal display having inverter for controlling back light for liquid crystal display panel having a variety of shapes to obtain uniform luminance: There is provided a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a TFT-LCD panel having any one of a variety of shapes including a circular shape, an elliptical shape, a circular arc shape, and a shape with an angle other than 90°; a plurality of straight light sources disposed... Agent: Yong Beom Kim Ga-kyung International Patent & Law Office

20080316166 - Plane light device for liquid crystal display and driving method of the same: A method of driving plane light is used in a liquid crystal display. A plane light device includes a first substrate, a frame, a second substrate, a fluorescent layer, a plurality of spacers, and an outer electrode layer. A plane chamber is formed between the first substrate and the second... Agent: Hdsl

20080316168 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display apparatus includes a first substrate provided with a plurality of closed containers, a fluid filled in the closed containers, a plurality of positively charged particles which have a relative dielectric constant different from the fluid and are dispersed and held in the fluid, a plurality of negatively charged... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080316170 - Computer mouse: Provided is a computer mouse including a grip portion having a flat bottom surface and a longitudinal central grip axis; a grip central point located at the center of the longitudinal central grip axis; the grip portion standing on a surface on which the computer mouse moves; a vertical axis... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, LLC

20080316169 - Method circuit and system for interfacing with an electronic device: According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided an interface apparatus for a multi-application electronic device, including a human interface surface having integrated presentation and sensing elements, such that the device has substantially full functionality for substantially all applications without the use of other human interfaces.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080316171 - Low-cost haptic mouse implementations: Low-cost haptic interface device implementations for interfacing a user with a host computer. A haptic feedback device, such as a mouse or other device, includes a housing physically contacted by a user, and an actuator for providing motion that causes haptic sensations on the device housing and/or on a movable... Agent: Immersion -thelen LLP

20080316173 - Computer cursor control device which can broadcast multimedia data: A computer cursor control device is disclosed which can broadcast multimedia and control a computer cursor and comprises an interface unit; a mouse module connecting to the interface unit and controlling the computer cursor in a mouse mode; a multimedia module connecting to the interface unit and accessing a multimedia... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080316172 - Manual input device: A manual input device configured for translating a planar movement of the manual input device into an electrical signal, comprising a site for accommodating at least one finger tip top down, the site being configured such that the manual input device can be moved in any planar direction by means... Agent: Ip Strategies

20080316174 - Motion estimation with adaptation of the correlation block size: A process for determining the displacement of an entity equipped with a sensor for capturing a sequence of images, comprising a step for determining a motion vector associated with a current image as a function of at least one correlation calculation between a first block of pixels in the current... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080316175 - Track ball device: An object of the present invention is to provide a track ball device capable of storing information in a ball. In a track ball device 1, a ball section 12 has embedded therein at least one non-contact IC chip capable of storing various types of information. In a case 19... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080316177 - Mouse-type mobile phone: A mouse-type mobile phone comprises a phone body and an upper lid, wherein the phone body has a battery cover on the backside, an optical reading device on one side of the battery cover and a push cover mounted above the optical reading device. The push cover is a power... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080316176 - Portable computer system with extendable usb-powered i/o device: A laptop computer system having an extended touchpad functionality includes a base having a media bay, the base housing a microprocessor based computer system; a keyboard having a plurality of keys, the keys communicatively coupled to the microprocessor based computer system; a display screen connected to the base via first... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080316179 - Key arrangement for a keyboard: A key arrangement includes a plurality of keys that are arranged in a regular grid of rows and columns. The columns include a first column, a last column, and at least one middle column. The keys in the first and last columns are smaller than the keys in the at... Agent: Lorri W. Cooper, Esq. Jones Day - North Point

20080316178 - Portable communication device including touch input with scrolling function: A portable communication device is equipped with a touch input device configured to provide key press functionality and scrolling functionality. The touch input device is electronically defined to include a plurality of key press areas separated by grey zones. The portable communication device is configured to provide scrolling functionality in... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080316180 - Touch screen keyboard with tactile feedback, and associated method: An electronic device employing a flexible display module overlying a key module enable a virtual key to be positioned on the display module to overlap at least one physical key on the key module and to enable an actuation force applied to a virtual key by the user to be... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080316186 - Digital notepad: A digital notepad that is compact, lightweight, very portable, and readily useable for taking and storing digital handwritten notes. The digital notepad is a stand-alone device that instantly and digitally captures everything the user handwrites onto the screen with stylus, and stores it in real time. The device generally comprises... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20080316184 - Method and system for calibrating an acoustic touchscreen: A method for calibrating an Acoustic Pulse Recognition (APR) touchscreen comprises touching an APR touchscreen at N comparison touch points. N audio profiles are acquired, and each of the N audio profiles are associated with one of the N comparison touch points. A predetermined calibration file is selected based on... Agent: Marguerite E. Gerstner Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080316181 - Moving buttons: A device is provided with a housing that has a substantial portion covered by a touch sensitive surface. The touch sensitive service is capable of detecting multiple simultaneous points of touch. The handheld device determines to which finger or fingertip of the user the points of touch correspond and the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080316183 - Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboards: Systems, methods, and devices for interpreting manual swipe gestures as input in connection with touch-sensitive user interfaces that include virtual keyboards are disclosed herein. These allow for a user entering text using the virtual keyboard to perform certain functions using swipes across the key area rather than tapping particular keys.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080316187 - Touch panel device and method for manufacturing touch panel devices: Each of transducers of a touch panel device includes a piezoelectric thin film, a plate electrode disposed at one surface of the piezoelectric thin film and a comb-like electrode disposed at the other surface of the piezoelectric thin film. The comb-like electrode has a plurality of comb-like electrode fingers and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080316182 - Touch sensor and method for operating a touch sensor: Touch detection within display devices with a first conductive layer with first and second electrodes, a second conductive layer with third electrodes, a spacer spatially spacing the first conductive layer from the second conductive layer, the first electrodes being arranged for capacitive touch detection, and the second and third electrodes... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080316185 - Wireless multiuser meeting/interactive class device with memory card connectors: A wireless multiuser meeting/interactive class device with memory card connectors. The device includes a host control end unit having a memory card connector wherein a memory card can be inserted. The host control end unit can pick up the data of the memory card to show the data on a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080316193 - Demultiplexer and display device using the same: A display device includes a demultiplexer. The demultiplexer programs time-divided and sequentially input data currents to at least two signal lines. The demultiplexer includes first and second sample/hold circuits for alternately sampling data currents and holding sampled data corresponding to the sampled data, and third and fourth sample/hold circuits for... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080316191 - Display control apparatus and display control method: Playback which allows the user to easily grasp playback contents is implemented by a simple method while shortening the playback time in a display control apparatus capable of sequentially playing back drawn contents. This invention relates to a display control apparatus connected to a display. The display control apparatus includes... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080316189 - Display device: A display device includes a display panel assembly that includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines connected to the pixels, and a driver that includes a plurality of stages connected with one another for sequentially generating output signals in synchronization with a plurality of clock signals.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080316192 - Image display device: An image display device has a display pixel area having plural pixels arranged in a matrix fashion, plural signal lines for supplying display signal voltages to the pixels, and plural pixel selection lines for selecting pixels from among the pixels to be supplied with the display signal voltages. The pixel... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080316188 - Liquid crystal display comprising driving circuit unit: There is provided a liquid crystal display comprising a driving circuit unit. The driving circuit unit has an adaptor and an inverter for converting an input voltage integrally configured with each other. Thus, the liquid crystal display is made small. The liquid crystal display can stably and efficiently display an... Agent: Ga-kyung International Patent & Law Office 4th Floor Yensu Bldg.

20080316190 - Video outputting apparatus and mounting method: Disclosed is a video outputting apparatus including: a first display controlling section; and a second display controlling section for displaying predetermined image information during a period from a time when a power source is turned on to a time when the video information is displayed, wherein: the second display controlling... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080316194 - Reference voltage selection circuit, display driver, electro-optical device, and electronic instrument: A reference voltage selection circuit includes a first switch element SW1 that outputs a first selection voltage among first to third selection voltages as a first reference voltage among first and second reference voltages, a second switch element SW2 that outputs the second selection voltage as the first reference voltage,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316197 - Conserving power in a computer system: A computer system may comprise a processor, a chipset, and a memory. The processor may enter low-power mode based on the occurrence of pre-specified events. A graphics controller of the chipset may drive the display such as the LVDS display panel to a self-refresh mode and then enter low-power mode.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080316196 - Display device and driving circuit for display device: A driving circuit for a display device for selectively outputting a driving voltage positive or negative with respect to a given reference voltage of the display device in accordance with an image signal, includes an input stage circuit; and an output stage circuit for outputting a driving voltage between a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080316195 - Gate driving circuit and power control circuit: A gate driving circuit and a power control circuit are disclosed. The gate driving circuit includes a gate driver and the power control circuit. The gate driver is adapted for receiving a starting signal and sequentially outputting a plurality of scan signals accordingly. The power control circuit includes a delay... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080316199 - Circuit system for reading memory data for display device: To reduce power consumption and enhance memory-data transmission efficiency, the present invention provides a circuit system for reading memory data for a display device includes a memory, a data bus and a latch circuit. The memory is used for storing pixel data corresponding to a plurality of pixels and outputting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080316198 - Display device, viewing angel control device, and electronic apparatus: A portable phone has a main LCD and a SW-LCD, provided on a path of light to be transmitted by the main LCD, which electrically switches between (i) an image to be seen in a single image display mode and (ii) an image to be seen in a multiple image... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080316200 - Method for running computer program on video card selected based on video card preferences of the program: A parameter relating to the video card preferences of a target computer program is determined. In response to the target computer program being started on a computing device having a number of video cards, one of these video cards is selected to run the target computer program on, based on... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080316202 - Direct manipulation of subdivision surfaces using a graphics processing unit: A graphics system allows for manipulation of a detail mesh for a subdivision surface. To deform the subdivision surface, the graphics system generates a corresponding deformed control mesh by attempting to satisfy both position constraints of the manipulation and Laplacian constraints for the detail mesh. After the deformed control mesh... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080316203 - Information processing method and apparatus for specifying point in three-dimensional space: An information processing method includes measuring a line-of-sight direction of a user as a first direction, specifying a first point based on the first direction, calculating a three-dimensional position of the first point, setting a first plane based on the three-dimensional position of the first position, measuring a line-of-sight direction... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080316204 - System and method of computer-aided design of a 3d object modeled by geometries: A computer program, system and method of computer-aided design of a 3D object. The 3D object is modeled by: (i) cells, the cells being restrictions of geometries of the model; and (ii) a cell graph comprising relations between the cells, which relations capture a topology of the model. The invention... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080316201 - Systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional images: Systems and methods for displaying three-dimensional (3D) images are described. In particular, the systems can include a display block made from a transparent material with optical elements three-dimensionally disposed therein. Each optical element becomes luminous when illuminated by a light ray. The systems can also include a computing device configured... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20080316207 - Computer-readable storage medium having stored therein image processing program and image processing apparatus: A shell texture image shared for use among multilayer shell polygons and including a plurality of areas having transparency different from one another, is distorted to varying degrees depending on a position of each layer of the shell polygons, so as to texture-map each layer of the shell polygons therewith... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080316205 - Drawing standards management and quality control: The method of the present invention comprises an on-line single source of CADD standards information from a network based user interface application, accessible from within a CADD drawing application, to deliver CADD drawing standards information to a CADD drawing, and any other information that may be included in a feature... Agent: Timothy F. Mills

20080316206 - Drawing standards management and quality control: The computer implemented business method for marketing a CADD standards management system of the present invention comprises providing a CADD user with a centralized distributive control system for managing, controlling and updating CADD standards from a single source, permitting interactive input from a client, enabling data analysis of information included... Agent: Timothy F. Mills

20080316208 - Perpendicular view three dimensional electronic programming guide: A method and apparatus of displaying an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG). In one embodiment, an EPG is constructed of a three dimensional virtual mesh, in which independent objects representing television programs are situated. The virtual mesh is displayed perpendicularly, so that the hardware requirements of the set top box (STB)... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080316209 - Image-based viewing system: Systems and methods are disclosed for visualizing changes in a three dimensional (3D) model by receiving an initial 3D model; determining a target 3D model; and generating one or more intermediate 3D models by morphing one or more of the 3D models.... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080316210 - Signage display system and process: The invention is a novel display system, for signage and the like. An apparatus and process is provided for displaying a static source image in a manner that it is perceived as an animated sequence of images when viewed by an observer in relative motion to the apparatus. The source... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080316211 - Adaptive and dynamic text filtering: A device sensor determines an external state of a device. Text to be displayed on a display screen of the device is dynamically filtered based on the external state of the device.... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080316212 - System and method for a user interface for text editing and menu selection: Methods and system to enable a user of an input action recognition text input system to edit any incorrectly recognized text without re-locating the text insertion position to the location of the text to be corrected. The System also automatically maintains correct spacing between textual objects when a textual object... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080316213 - Topology navigation and change awareness: An apparatus and method are described for displaying a topological graph that allows a user to navigate through a history of previous topology displays to increase the user's understanding and awareness of the state of the topology. In a preferred embodiment, a topology display mechanism receives state changes to a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080316214 - Prefix sum pass to linearize a-buffer storage: The architecture implements A-buffer in hardware by extending hardware to efficiently store a variable amount of data for each pixel. In operation, a prepass is performed to generate the counts of the fragments per pixel in a count buffer, followed by a prefix sum pass on the generated count buffer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080316215 - Computing device for running computer program on video card selected based on video card preferences of the program: A computing device includes a number of video cards. The computing device also includes a mechanism to determine one or more parameters relating to video card parameters of a target computer program. The mechanism is to select a video card from the video cards of the computing device based on... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080316216 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing pipelines (gppls) supported on a multi-core cpu chip, and employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on external graphics cards, employing a software-implemented multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for storing one or more graphics-based applications, (ii) a multi-core GPU chip including one or... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080316217 - Hard/soft frame latency reduction: Procedures for minimizing video latency using different frame rates are described. In an implementation, a video captured at a first frame rate is obtained. At least one frame of the video is eliminated and the resultant video, with the eliminated at least one frame is processed as if the video... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080316218 - Remote graphics rendering across a network: A method for remotely displaying 3D information on a remote machine is disclosed. An application graphics command is generated, corresponding to a first 3D API from an application on a first machine. The application graphics command are translated to a remote graphics command corresponding to a second 3D API wherein... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080316219 - Processing composite data by expansion: A computer system for processing composite data is provided. The system includes means for processing a computing operation that is designed to receive a non-composite data type as at least one input. The composite data is provided to the computing operation as the at least one input. The system further... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080316220 - Common modules for ddrii sdram and ddriii sdram: A common module for a double data rate-synchronous II synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDRII SDRAM) and a DDRIII SDRAM applied in a computer is provided. The common module includes a first bus, a termination circuit card, a first slot, and a second slot. The first bus transmits a plurality... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080316221 - Down-sampled image display: A memory controller of an apparatus repeatedly retrieves a down-sampled file of a digitally captured image from a non-volatile memory for refresh of a raster display screen.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080316222 - Display device calibration system: A display device calibration system is provided. The overall color response of a display family is characterized, and the idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are determined. The idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are related to respective idiosyncratic color response points. Individual idiosyncratic color response... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20080316223 - Image generation method: A plurality of samples having different pairs of a background color and a text color, and entry fields provided in correspondence with the individual samples and configured to be filled in by a user are printed on a sheet. After the user has filled in the sheet, the sheet is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080316224 - Color level graphical user interface: A graphical user interface for performing color correction and methods for implementing the color correction are disclosed. The graphical user interface allows a user to adjust the colorspace of the pixels in the image. In one embodiment, a color adjustment pad allows the user to push the pixels from a... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080316225 - Method for requesting and viewing a zoomed area of detail from an image attachment on a mobile communication device: A process is set forth for viewing an enlarged area of an image. The image is stored on a server and re-sized for viewing on a mobile communication device based on screen size and color display capabilities of the device. The image is enlarged within the server by modifying binary... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080316226 - Method for displaying high resolution image data together with time-varying low resolution image data: A method allowing display of time-varying merged high resolution and low resolution image data with a smooth frame rate. In one embodiment the high resolution data is structural image data and the low resolution image data is functional image data. The functional image data is gathered (20) into groups and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080316227 - User defined characteristics for inheritance based avatar generation: The generation of characters within computer animations is currently a labor intensive and expensive activity for a wide range of businesses. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080316229 - Content display method, content display program and content display device: An area dividing section divides a display area into two areas having random dimensions. One of the divided display areas is further divided into two with random dimensions. This division is continued until the number of divided display areas reaches the number of content information to be displayed.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080316228 - Content optimization for receiving terminals: The invention discloses a method, server and a computer program for optimizing content delivered to a variety of terminal devices. In the solution disclosed in the invention, a user is able to create exact layouts and optimize the amount of content to different media environments simultaneously.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080316230 - System and method for scaling navigation information of a user's selection: A scaling system for showing navigation information on a display includes a selection module configured for selecting a target zone on the display; a scanning module configured for identifying a leftmost point, a rightmost point, an uppermost point, and a lowermost point of the target zone; a positioning module configured... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080316233 - Computer system and method for rendering a display with a changing color frequency spectrum corresponding to a selected frequency spectrum: Embodiments provide methods and systems for selecting a frequency spectrum (e.g. a changing color frequency spectrum) to be emitted by a display device of a computer system and for rendering a display on the display device by emitting light corresponding to the selected (color) frequency spectrum. Other embodiments may also... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080316231 - Method and system for line by line addressing of rms responding display matrix with wavelets: A method for line-by-line addressing of RMS responding display matrix with wavelets, said method comprises steps of: selecting the wavelets such that energy of them is proportional to an integer power of two to form an orthogonal matrix; obtaining select waveform profile by summing elements of column in the wavelet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080316234 - Method of driving electro-optical device, source driver, electro-optical device, projection-type display device, and electronic instrument: A method of driving an electro-optical device that drives a source line of the electro-optical device based on K-bit (K is an integer equal to or larger than two) grayscale data includes, when data of a most significant bit of the grayscale data is first data, generating converted grayscale data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080316232 - Method of driving organic light emitting diode display device: A method of driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device that displays grayscales in a time-division manner and can prevent the occurrence of false contours and flickers at an interface between neighboring grayscales when displaying sequential images, such as moving images, at a high speed. The method is... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080316235 - Multi-primary color display device and liquid crystal display device: A display device which exhibits functional effects in which color separation between sub-pixels constituting a pixel is hardly recognized and white line display is easily recognized as one line, in enlargement of the color reproduction range in image display using multi-primary colors, and thereby improves display quality, and provides a... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080309582 - Receiving assembly with function of displaying data about objects therein: A receiving assembly with a function of displaying data about objects therein, comprises: a container having at least one receiving unit; at least one sensor unit being installed in the receiving unit for sensing data about objects in the receiving unit and transferring the data; a display unit for receiving... Agent: Chih-ching Hsieh

20080309583 - Receiving assembly with function of displaying scanning images about objects therein: A receiving assembly with a function of displaying scanning images about objects therein comprises a container having at least one receiving unit; at least one scanning unit being installed in the receiving unit for scanning data about objects in the receiving unit and transferring the data; a display unit for... Agent: Chih-ching Hsieh

20080309584 - Video extender devices capable of providing edid of a display to a computer: In a KVM switch system in which one or more consoles and one or more computers are connected to a KVM switch via dongles (console dongles and computer dongles, respectively), a method is provided for transferring the extended display identification data (EDID) of a display of a console to a... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080309585 - Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprises the steeps of: forming a first insulating film on a first substrate; forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film; forming an amorphous silicon film on the second insulating film; holding a metal element that promotes the crystallization of silicon... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080309587 - Head mount display: A head mount display having a display part rotatable relative to a head mount band, which is improved in portability and in which the display part can be protected. A restraint part (170) is provided on the outside of the head mount band (110). The restraint part (170) is provided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080309588 - Head mount display: A head mount display having a display part rotatable relative to a head mount part, in which, when the display part is rotated and retreated from in front of the eyes to the top of the head of the wearer when not is use, the display part is less possible... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080309586 - Viewing system for augmented reality head mounted display: The viewing system is a head mount display (eye glasses, goggles, head piece or helmet) with emitters on the user's nose bridge emitting an optical image towards reflector screens a predetermined distance from the user's cornea or eye. Each emitter unit is fed with a signal forming the optical image... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20080309589 - Segmented electroluminescent device for morphing user interface: A dynamic user interface (1000) is configured to present one of a plurality of keypad configurations to a user. Each keypad configuration includes a plurality of user actuation targets that may be selectively presented to, or hidden from, a user. A segmented optical shutter (204) having segments (801,802,803,804) configured for... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080309590 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Disclosed herein are a liquid crystal display device which is capable of maintaining the level of a common voltage applied to a common electrode constant, and a method for driving the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixel rows for displaying... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080309591 - Image display method: An image display method for allowing an image display device having a large number of pixels arrayed in a planar form to perform an image display by forming one field period from plural sub-fields for which luminance weights to be displayed are determined, and choosing plural luminances among displayable luminances... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080309592 - Electron source and image-display apparatus: By preventing an electron-emitting device from being short-circuited when the discharge occurs, currents flown due to the short circuit are reduced to reduce effects of a discharge.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080309594 - Control of an electroluminescent display: A device for controlling an electroluminescent matrix display by successive selection of its lines, including a column control circuit having circuitry capable of placing, at the beginning of the selection of a line, the display column at a precharge voltage based on the operating voltage of the previous line, the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080309595 - Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080309593 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and an illumination unit. The illumination unit has a planar light emitting region formed by an EL element. The light emitting region is formed by a plurality of linear light emitting regions that extend in a direction perpendicular to the... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080309596 - Display control device, display control method, and display control program: A mobile telephone 1 includes an input section 2, a display controller 3, an LCD 4, and a data storage section 8. The display controller 3 has an input acceptance section 5 for distributing processing in response to input from the input section 2, a focus position control section 6... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080309597 - Driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display and liquid crystal display including the same: The present invention is related to a driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display, and a liquid crystal display including the same. A gate-on voltage generator includes first and second resistors connected between a predetermined reference voltage and a ground voltage, a voltage follower connected to a contact between the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080309598 - Stacked color photodisplay: The invention comprises a stacked color photodisplay apparatus using a photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystalline material on which an image can be optically addressed, retained without degradation for an indefinite period of time, electrically erased and a new image addressed. This is similar to a photographic film except that the photodisplay... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080309599 - Active matrix type display device and drive control circuit used in the same: In an active matrix display device having six or more data lines grouped to be connected to one output signal line of a data line drive circuit and including a color filter, the degradation of an image quality due to a parasitic capacitance or the like can be reduced effectively.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080309600 - Display apparatus and method for driving the same: A display apparatus includes pixels, a signal controller, a gray-scale voltage generator, and a data driver. The signal controller converts input image signals having a first frame frequency to first and second output image signals having a second frame frequency. The second output image signal is an interpolation between the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080309601 - Liquid crystal display and liquid crystal drive circuit: A liquid crystal display includes pixels, gate lines, source lines and a drive means. Each of the pixels includes a TFT element, a liquid crystal element and an auxiliary capacitive device. One end of the liquid crystal device is connected to one end of the TFT device, and the auxiliary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080309603 - Liquid crystal display capable of adjusting brightness of backlight thereof and method for driving same: An exemplary liquid crystal display (20) includes a liquid crystal panel (27) having at least one pixel block, a source driver (26) configured to drive the at least one pixel block, a backlight module having at least one light source block, a backlight driver (23) configured to drive the light... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080309602 - Video display device capable of compensating for display defects: A video display device capable of compensating for display defects, comprising: liquid crystal panel for displaying an image through a pixel matrix; a data driver for outputting data to data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; a gate driver for driving the gate lines of the liquid crystal display... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080309604 - Liquid crystal display having polarity analyzing unit for determining polarities pixels thereof: A liquid crystal display (300) includes a liquid crystal panel (310) having a plurality of pixels P(i, j) arranged in a matrix, a brightness identification unit (343) configured for identifying a brightness of an image element to be displayed by at least one pixel, a polarity analyzing unit (344) configured... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080309605 - Liquid crystal display and method of testing the same: A liquid crystal display is capable of detecting a failure of a gate driver, and a method of testing the same are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel on which liquid crystal cells connected to thin film transistors (TFTs) located at crossings between gate lines... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080309607 - Liquid crystal display driver and liquid crystal display device: A driver includes a delay-time adjuster. A data clock is inputted to the delay-time adjuster through a data-clock signal line. While receiving input of a load signal that is a sampling signal of a second register, the delay-time adjuster adjusts a delay time of the data clock so that a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080309606 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display including timing controller, and method of driving liquid crystal display: A timing controller that can reduce malfunctions, a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the timing controller, and a method of operating the LCD, in which the timing controller includes a counter providing a converting enable signal; an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter converting a user command signal into a digital user command... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080309608 - Dc-dc converter with temperature compensation circuit: A DC-DC converter includes a temperature compensation circuit arranged between a feedback differential amplification circuit and an output voltage detection circuit to compensate the variation of the voltage level of the DC output voltage of the converter caused by ambient temperature changes. The temperature compensation circuit includes a temperature detection... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080309609 - Liquid crystal display device with scanning voltage adjusting circuit and method for driving same: An exemplary liquid crystal display device includes a scanning voltage adjusting circuit (250), a scaler (220), and a liquid crystal display panel (200). The scanning voltage adjusting circuit is configured for detecting an environment temperature and generating a scanning voltage adjusting signal corresponding to the environment temperature. The scaler is... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080309611 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same, which are capable of reducing manufacturing cost of the liquid crystal display device and reducing a luminance deviation so as to improve image quality, are disclosed. The driving circuit of the liquid crystal display... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080309610 - Image display device: An image display device has: a display 4 for displaying a video image; a backlight 3 for illuminating the display 4; a level detector 6 for detecting level of a video signal; a video signal adjuster 5 for adjusting a video signal to a signal of a level adapted to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080309612 - Spatially masked update for electronic paper displays: Electronic Paper Displays can suffer from “ghosting” or previous images remaining partially visible after the display has updated to show a new image. A pseudo-random noise intermediate image is used to make the ghosting less visible to human observers. Further, other intermediate images can be used to convey visible information... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080309613 - Electrophoretic display and method for manufacturing thereof: An electrophoretic display includes a thin film transistor array panel including a first substrate, a gate line on the first substrate having a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the gate line, a semiconductor on the gate insulating layer, a data line including a source electrode and a drain... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080309616 - Alertness testing method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for detecting the alertness of an equipment operator by displaying a moving icon, and asking the operator to track the movements of the icon, either by following it with the eyes in a head mounted display, or by following it with a finger on a touch... Agent: Gerald W. Spinks

20080309615 - Storage medium storing information processing program and information processing device: An object has a plurality of joints 51 to 55 which are connected to each other. A game apparatus calculates, when one of the plurality of joints having a fixed position with respect to the object is set as a reference joint, an orientation of an adjacent joint connected to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080309614 - User interface with software lensing for very long lists of content: A user interface with software tensing may be described. An apparatus may include a user interface module to display an index list, a software lens list, and an aperture box. The index list may represent a list of available options. The software lens list may display a sub-set of the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080309617 - Graphical communication user interface: New devices, systems and methods are hereby provided that enable a user to open a communication channel by selecting an image on a monitor. A device that includes a monitor and a graphical position user input mechanism is configured to display one or more images on the monitor, to receive... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080309618 - Methods and systems for controlling an input device, for generating collision data, and for controlling a camera angle: A method includes sampling a controller's pointer position and tilt angle, wherein the pointer position is based on an interaction between the controller and a screen of a monitor; calculating a center region tilt value based on the sampling; calculating upper and lower tilt value limits based on the calculated... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080309619 - Cursor control method applied to presentation system and computer readable storage medium: The invention discloses a cursor control method applied to a presentation system. The presentation system comprises a computer, an imaging plane, an optical pointer, a camera, and a projector. The projector is a mobile or built-in projector of the computer for projecting output from the computer onto the imaging plane,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080309620 - Multifunctional integrated image sensor and application to virtual interface technology: A gaming apparatus including a template projector, an electronic imaging sensor and an illuminator for sensing optically encoded reflections from gaming pieces, operative to determine the location and orientation of the gaming pieces and for game management.... Agent: Klony Lieberman Lumio Inc.

20080309629 - Bottom up watershed dataflow method and region-specific segmentation based on historic data: The application of a watershed algorithm to pixels and their touch values obtained from a scan of a touch sensor panel to determine patches corresponding to images of touch is disclosed. Prior to applying the watershed algorithm, background pixels having little or no touch values can be eliminated. A primary... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309635 - Capacitive input device: A capacitive input device includes a translucent substrate; first translucent electrode lines, extending in a first direction; second translucent electrode lines, extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; interlayer insulating layers; and relay electrodes. The first translucent electrode lines intersect with the second translucent electrode lines at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080309628 - Detection of low noise frequencies for multiple frequency sensor panel stimulation: The identification of low noise stimulation frequencies for detecting and localizing touch events on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. Each of a plurality of sense channels can be coupled to a separate sense line in a touch sensor panel and can have multiple mixers, each mixer using a demodulation... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309644 - Image-selecting device and image-selecting method: An image-selecting device includes a storing unit, a displaying unit, a detecting unit, a reading unit, an identification data storing unit, a display controlling unit, an image data identifying unit, and an image data selecting unit. The displaying unit displays a plurality of images based on a plurality of pieces... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080309643 - Image-selecting device and storage medium storing image-selecting program: An image data identifying unit identifies at least two pieces of image data for images displayed in display regions detected by a detecting unit. The at least two pieces of image data includes a first image data firstly identified by the image data identifying unit. An image data selecting unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080309638 - Input device and method of manufacturing module unit for input device: An input device comprises a wiring board having stationary contacts and a module unit placed on the wiring board. The module unit has a structure formed integrally with actuating key portions, movable contacts, cushioning members and protruding portions. The movable contacts are disposed under the actuating key portions, and actuated... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080309637 - Input device, mobile terminal having the same, and user interface thereof: An input device includes a scroll unit installed on a case and configured to select a menu, a manipulation unit configured to operate a menu selected by the scroll unit and having a translucent region, and a menu display unit mounted on a rear surface of the manipulation unit and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080309639 - Input method for touch screen: The present invention discloses an input method for a touch screen comprising a first step of acquiring the coordinates of all current touch points on the touch screen, the method further comprises steps of: (a) comparing and determining whether the distance between any two of the uncompared touch points on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080309627 - Integrated in-plane switching: This relates to adding multi-touch functionality to a display without the need of a separate multi-touch panel or layer overlaying the display. Instead, embodiments of the invention can advantageously utilize existing display circuitry to provide multi-touch functionality while adding relatively little circuitry that is specific to the multi-touch functionality. Thus,... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309631 - Integrated multi-touch surface having varying sensor granularity: This relates to an event sensing device that includes an event sensing panel and is able to dynamically change the granularity of the panel according to present needs. Thus, the granularity of the panel can differ at different times of operation. Furthermore, the granularity of specific areas of the panel... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309641 - Interactivity in a large flat panel display: An apparatus is provided that comprises a hand held device comprising a first transmitter and a second transmitter; a flat panel display having a surface and a plurality of receivers placed near or proximate to the surface for receiving signals transmitted from the hand held device; and one or more... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080309624 - Mode sensitive processing of touch data: Embodiments of the present invention provide for a hardware or software utility layer operating at a multi-touch enabled device that can perform application aware processing of touch data. More specifically, various applications executing at the device can send to the utility layer definitions of the types of touch data they... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309634 - Multi-touch skins spanning three dimensions: One or more multi-touch skins can placed along three dimensions of an object. The one or more multi-touch skins enable multi-touch inputs during the operation of the object. The multi-touch inputs can be tracked to monitor the operation of the object and provide feedback to the operator of the object.... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309625 - Multiple simultaneous frequency detection: The use of multiple stimulation frequencies and phases to generate an image of touch on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. Each of a plurality of sense channels can be coupled to a column in a touch sensor panel and can have multiple mixers. Each mixer in the sense channel... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309636 - Pen tracking and low latency display updates on electronic paper displays: A system and a method are disclosed for fast pen tracking a low latency display updates on an electronic paper display. Pen input information is received on an electronic paper display that updates at a predetermined display update rate. A line drawing module of the electronic paper display driver determines... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080309622 - Periodic sensor autocalibration and emulation by varying stimulus level: The automatic calibration of a sensor panel is disclosed by varying the amplitude of an input stimulus Vstim to simulate a full-touch condition and calibrating each pixel of the sensor panel in accordance with the difference between the simulated full-touch condition and a baseline full-touch condition. To accomplish this, a... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309632 - Pinch-throw and translation gestures: The detection of finger pinch, rotate, and tap gestures along with a translation and optionally liftoff motion to initiate certain actions is disclosed. To detect both the gesture and the translation, a certain amount of gesture scaling speed can be detected along with a certain amount of translation speed and... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309640 - Portable device: A portable device including a main body having a display unit for displaying information provided with on one surface thereof; and a touch input board pivotally coupled to one side of the main body to be unfolded at a predetermined angle with respect to the display unit, wherein first and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080309621 - Proximity based stylus and display screen, and device incorporating same: An electronic device includes a display for displaying icons selectable with use of a stylus, a stylus location determination function that determines a location of the stylus in relation to the display without necessitating that the stylus make physical contact with the display, and a highlight function, operatively coupled to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080309626 - Speed/positional mode translations: Gestures for converting from a position control mode to a motion continuation mode are disclosed. A position control mode can be invoked when the user simultaneously places two or more fingers upon a sensor panel. The fingers can then be moved around to effect position control. A motion continuation mode... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309630 - Techniques for reducing jitter for taps: Distinguishing sloppy taps from sliding motions is disclosed using an algorithm that can take into account both a time instability factor Tinst and a touch instability factor Zinst. A limited amount of motion per frame can be subtracted off immediately following the detection of a touch event. Small lateral motions... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309642 - Touch panel, film therefor, and protection sheet therefor that can extend the life cycle of the touch panel: A touch panel includes a membrane adapted to receive a pressing and/or rubbing operation from an external pen. A transparent conductive film is disposed with respect to the membrane. The membrane includes a structure that suppresses generation of friction heat due to the pressing and/or rubbing operation.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080309623 - Touch screens with transparent conductive material resistors: Systems and methods for touch screens with integrated transparent conductive material resistors are provided. Metal traces on the surface of a touch screen may be subject to radio-frequency interference (RFI) that can adversely affect the performance of the touch screen. Transparent conductive material resistors inserted within the metal trace paths... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309633 - Touch-sensitive display: A substantially transparent mutual-capacitance touch sensor panel is disclosed having sensors fabricated on a single side of a substrate for detecting multi-touch events. Substantially transparent row and column traces can be formed on the same side of the substrate, separated by a thin dielectric material, using diamond, rectangular, or hexagonal... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080309646 - Large screen information interactive system and method of use: A large screen information interactive system and method are disclosed, including a computer 3, a projector 4, a pointer equipment 2, and an interactive whiteboard 1 including at least one display panel 6 on the same plane and at least one electronic writing board 5 used for sensing and receiving... Agent: Ruden, Mcclosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A.

20080309645 - Mobile electronic device: A mobile electronic device includes a display module and a location module which is separable from the display module. The mobile electronic device utilizes a stylus and ultrasonic transducers arranged in the location module and the stylus to locate the stylus. The display module can be a bi-stable display module... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080309649 - Current drive circuit and display apparatus: A current drive circuit supplies a driving current to a pixel portion included in a current-driven display panel. A driving current generator includes an output terminal for supplying the driving current. A protective transistor has a drain connected to the pixel portion, a source connected to the output terminal, and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080309647 - Determining presentation effects for a sequence of digital content records: Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to determining presentation effects for a sequence of digital content records based at least upon a comparison of environmental conditions in which the digital content records were captured. Examples of such environmental conditions include time-date of capture, geographic location of capture, direction of... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080309648 - Video playback on electronic paper displays: A system for displaying video on electronic paper displays to reduce video playback artifacts comprises an electronic paper display, a video transcoder, a display controller and a waveforms module. The video transcoder receives a video stream on for presentation on the electronic paper display. The video transcoder processes the video... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080309650 - Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same: A display apparatus has a driving panel including a circuit part, a coating layer, and a display part, provided sequentially over a driving substrate. The driving panel includes: an adhesion region which includes the circuit part, the coating layer and the display part and to which a seal panel is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080309651 - Drive control circuit device for flat panel display apparatus: Provided is a technology related to a PDP apparatus and capable of realizing the efficiency improvement in the processing of a control circuit including the processing between a control circuit (waveform generating circuit unit) and a non-volatile memory (waveform ROM). In a control circuit of a PDP apparatus, an SFM... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080309652 - Adaptive refresh rate features: A device may include a display capable of providing variable refresh rates, and a display controller that determines a refresh rate and outputs an image to the display based on the determined refresh rate.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080309655 - Common voltage generation circuit, power supply circuit, display driver, and common voltage generation method: A common voltage generation circuit includes a first operational amplifier which outputs an amplitude voltage of a common voltage based on a first power supply voltage, a second operational amplifier which outputs a high-potential-side voltage of the common voltage based on the first power supply voltage, and a low-potential-side voltage... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080309654 - Common voltage source of liquid crystal display and charge recycling system applying the common voltage source: A charge recycle system implemented in a liquid crystal display includes a common voltage source, a control unit, and a source driving circuit. Before the common voltage source switches its common voltage level, the control unit controls the common voltage source to let a voltage driving circuit of the common... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080309653 - Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus: The invention provides an electro-optical device that includes: a plurality of scanning lines that include a first scanning line; a plurality of data lines that include a first data line; a plurality of unit circuits that include a first unit circuit, the plurality of unit circuits being provided at positions... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080309656 - Dispaly pixel inversion scheme: A display device (500) having a plurality of picture cells (502) is controlled by adding a phase change to the regular cyclic inversion scheme. Thereby, it is possible to overcome the drawbacks of DC build-up due to, e.g., de-interlaced images and images comprising rotating symbols and “ticker tape”. The control... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080309657 - Independent pixel waveforms for updating electronic paper displays: A system and a method are disclosed for updating an image on a bi-stable display includes a module for determining a final optical state, estimating a current optical state and determining a sequence of control signals to produce a visual transition effect while driving the display from the current optical... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080309658 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program: Object data representing an image object extracted from image data is stored. A display unit displays the image object or the contour of the image object in accordance with the display mode designated by a user.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080309659 - Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons: The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of occludee polygons. Occluders and occludees are also transformed into non-interpenetrating, non-overlapping polygons. Winged-edges are employed to minimize... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080309662 - Example based 3d reconstruction: A method includes reconstructing the 3D shape of an object appearing in an input image using at least one example objects of a collection of example 3D objects and their colors.... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080309661 - Method for the display of process information for a data processing equipment as well as data processing system: A method for the display of process information for a data processing equipment shall enable a particularly simplified and flexible processing, even of complex datasets, based on situation or problem-specific evaluation rules. For this purpose, according to the invention, control data defining the rules for the evaluation of the diagnostic... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080309660 - Three dimensional rendering of display information: Game data is rendered in three dimensions in the GPU of a game console. A left camera view and a right camera view are generated from a single camera view. The left and right camera positions are derived as an offset from a default camera. The focal distance of the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080309663 - Three-dimensional image display apparatus, method of distributing elemental images to the display apparatus, and method of displaying three-dimensional image on the display apparatus: An apparatus is provided with a display unit and a optical filter. The unit has pixels arranged in a matrix form, which are groped into a first group and second groups to display two-dimensional image information constituting elemental images, the image information being obtained from different directions. The optical filter... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080309665 - Distributed rapid prototyping: A three-dimensional modeler for rapid prototyping three-dimensional modeler is registered with a global server in a network. The three-dimensional modeler receives, via a network interface, a build including information for use in generating a physical representation of a three-dimensional model. A queuing mechanism is used to determine the order in... Agent: 3d Systems, Inc. Attn: Keith A. Roberson

20080309664 - Mesh puppetry: t

20080309666 - Stereo graphics system based on depth-based image rendering and processing method thereof: A stereo graphics system based on depth-based image rendering is disclosed. A master pipeline renders a first image from graphics data and derives a depth image relating to the first image. A rendering unit accesses the first image and the depth image from the master pipeline and renders a second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080309667 - Interactive relighting with dynamic reflectance: Interactive relighting with dynamic reflectance involves relighting a graphical scene with dynamic changes to the reflectance(s) in the graphical scene. A graphical scene may include source radiance, regions having reflectances, a surface spot, incident radiation from the source radiance at the surface sport, an incident direction, a viewing direction, exit... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080309668 - Image processing method and apparatus: A plurality of items of panorama data are prepared and associated with a plurality of coordinates in a three-dimensional space. The data represent distant view as viewed from the respective coordinates. When a camera is located at a coordinate not associate with the panorama data, background data representing a distant... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080309669 - Method and apparatus for generating elemental image in integral imaging: A method and apparatus for generating an elemental image by an integral image technique are provided. The method includes normalizing coordinates of dots in a frustum formed in perspective projection by mapping the dots in the frustum into a cube; reversing a grade of depth of the cube viewed from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080309670 - Recasting a legacy web page as a motion picture with audio: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for recasting a legacy web page as a motion picture with audio. Embodiments include retrieving a legacy web page; identifying audio objects in the legacy web page for audio rendering; identifying video objects in the legacy web page for motion picture... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080309671 - Avatar eye control in a multi-user animation environment: In a multi-participant modeled virtual reality environment, avatars are modeled beings that include moveable eyes creating the impression of an apparent gaze direction. Control of eye movement may be performed autonomously using software to select and prioritize targets in a visual field. Sequence and duration of apparent gaze may then... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080309672 - System and method for digital video scan using 3-d geometry: A system and method for providing digital video scan using 3-D geometry. The digital video scan system includes a 3-D scan scene maker for generating a plurality of video display units for displaying digital video data; a plurality of video producing devices producing a plurality of video feeds; a video... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080309673 - Rasterizing device: (3) the rasterizer deletes the predetermined DL object from the first storage area in a case where bit-mapped data of the predetermined DL object for the predetermined band is created and the predetermined DL object is not to be included in a band after the predetermined band, wherein the predetermined... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080309674 - Full framebuffer for electronic paper displays: A system and a method are disclosed for updating a bi-stable display includes a framebuffer for storing waveforms for each pixel individually. The system includes determining a current state of a pixel of the bi-stable display; determining a desired state of the pixel of the bi-stable display; and updating the... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20080309675 - Metadata for avatar generation in virtual environments: A method of provisioning avatars comprises receiving at a first computer system associated with a first user, a metadata file relating to an avatar of a second user. In particular, the metadata file comprises data for use with an avatar generator process that is in execution on the first computer... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080309676 - Random-access vector graphics: A “Vector Graphics Encoder” encodes vector graphics in a randomly accessible format. This encoding format enables particular portions of encoded images to be directly accessed, at any desired level of zoom, without processing or otherwise decoding the entire image. This random-access format is based on a coarse image grid of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080309677 - Dynamic user interface for inheritance based avatar generation: The generation of characters within computer animations is a labor intensive and expensive activity. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they provide limited variations to the businesses employing... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080309678 - Methods and apparatuses for resolving a cad drawing conflict with an arm around: The present invention is directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for automatically resolving conflicts in a computer automated design application, and more particularly to utilizing an arm around to alter a graphic object to avoid an obstruction created by a second graphic object. The present invention allows a CAD user... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20080309679 - Display device: A display device includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module includes a first elongated chamber, a first capacitor, a second... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080309680 - Noise cancellation device for an image signal processing system: A noise cancellation device for an image signal processing system includes a receiving end for receiving image signals, a 3D filtering unit for adjusting a filtering parameter according to a motion estimation value, and filtering the image signals and a former filtering result for generating a current filtering result, a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080309681 - Device and method for driving liquid crystal display panel: A device for driving an LCD panel comprises: a gray level voltage generation circuit, for generating gray level voltages, and determining whether the gray level voltages are generated by utilizing a first set of reference voltages or a second set of reference voltages according to a polarity inversion control signal,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080309686 - Display device: To reduce heating value of the drain driver in a display device applying an FBI drive method. In a display device applying the FBI drive method in which each subpixel displays one gray scale required by an external system by displaying two gray scales which are a gray scale corresponding... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080309684 - Display driving device, display device, and electronic apparatus: A display driving device for driving a display device having a plurality of display pixels in which a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of data electrodes are provided so as to overlap and correspond to each other and each of which has an electro-optical layer to which driving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080309683 - Driving device, display apparatus having the driving device installed therein and method of driving the display apparatus: A driving device including a signal controller which receives input image data corresponding to a plurality of frame periods, outputs the input image data during a first sub-frame period of one frame period among the plurality of frame periods, and outputs impulsive data having gray-scales, which are lower than those... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080309685 - Lcd panel driving circuit: The LCD panel driving circuit includes a plurality of supply signal lines and feedback signal lines provided for respective differential driving amplifiers. Each driving amplifier has two input terminals, and generates a gradation signal in accordance with a write potential supplied to one of the two input terminals. The supply... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20080309682 - System and method of boosting lamp luminance in a laptop computing device: An information handling system is disclosed and includes a display, a lamp back lighting the display, and a lamp control system coupled to the lamp. The lamp control system is configured to boost a maximum luminance of the lamp as the lamp ages.... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080309687 - Data driving apparatus and method for liquid crystal display device: A data driving apparatus and method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided, the apparatus including: a liquid crystal panel; a timing controller configured to output control signals for controlling the driving of a gate driving unit and a data driving unit; a gate driving unit configured to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080303745 - Register authorization system and its method of downloading extended display identification data: The present invention provides a register authorization system and its method of downloading extended display identification data (EDID), comprising: a parent system unit, stored with a plurality of EDID, and used for accepting a logon and registration request; and a sub system unit, coupled to the parent system unit, after... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080303746 - Displaying and using 3d graphics on multiple displays provided for gaming environments: 3D images (or graphics) are effectively displayed across multiple displays provided in a gaming environment based on a 3D imaging (or graphics) model (or world). A game scene for a game played on a gaming machine is effectively displayed as a larger 3D scene across multiple displays configured for multiple... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Igt Attn: Igt

20080303747 - Methods and systems of large scale video display: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for displaying and managing dynamic, multi-media, video content presentation on an architectural scale. Methods and systems described include associating a video display with an advertising marketplace and leasing rights to a video display. A plurality of physical panel, rod, curtain,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080303748 - Remote viewing and multi-user participation for projections: Members of a presentation audience can make changes to digital visual aids from remote locations. This can take place through rendering images of the digital visual aids at a projection site. A participant device can send a signal to a host device to modify the digital visual aid. Furthermore, an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080303749 - Active matrix array device: An active matrix array device includes integrated driver circuitry which comprises a multiplexer circuit (2). The multiplexer circuit comprises an array of multiplexer elements (50), each comprising a multiplexer transistor (30), between a multiplexer input (Vdata) and a multiplexer output (32), and a threshold voltage storage capacitor arrangement (44) for... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080303751 - Image displaying apparatus and method for displaying images and additional information: An image displaying apparatus for displaying images and additional information is provided. The image displaying apparatus includes a display unit; an image data obtaining unit for obtaining image data of an image from a storage; an additional information obtaining unit for obtaining additional information; a display controller for displaying the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080303750 - Video display driver with data enable learning: Data enable learning is provided for a video display driver in which a data enable signal and pixel clock exclusive of their associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals for a digital video signal are used to facilitate generating of signals corresponding to the associated horizontal and vertical synchronization signals.... Agent: National Semiconductor Corporation C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080303753 - Display apparatus: Provided is a display apparatus that includes a panel assembly which has a plurality of substrates and displays images, and a filter assembly which is formed in front of the panel assembly, has a base film, a refraction control film layer that is attached to at least a surface of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080303752 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The driving method supplies a data signal whose on-time is longer than off-time. The plasma display apparatus includes a data driver including a data integrated circuit (IC) and an energy recovery unit. The data IC allows one... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080303754 - Electroluminescence display apparatus: In performing a display in accordance with a video signal, a display signal for inspection is supplied to a pixel within a predetermined inspected row to operate an EL element therein and to thereby detect a current that flows through the EL element. The current detection data is stored in... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080303755 - Organic light emitting display device and mother substrate thereof: An organic light emitting display device capable of being inspected in a mother substrate unit, and a mother substrate of an organic light emitting display device including a plurality of organic light emitting display devices including data lines and scan lines; and scribing lines arranged between the organic light emitting... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080303756 - Passive matrix display drivers: A method of driving a passive matrix electroluminescent display, the display having a plurality of rows and columns of emissive elements addressed by respective row and column electrodes, the method comprising: addressing said row electrodes, one at a time; and driving a set of said column electrodes whilst addressing each... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080303757 - Light emitting device, area light source apparatus and image display apparatus: Disclosed herein is a light emitting device, including: a light emitting diode; an sealing resin member having an arrangement face and configured to seal the light emitting diode; and a lens disposed on the arrangement face of the sealing resin member and formed so as to have a circular shape... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080303759 - Contrast ratio enhancement system using black detector: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method of enhancing a contrast ratio of a display device. An exemplary method comprises determining a quantity of pixels in a frame of video data having a predetermined level of blackness, comparing the quantity of pixels to a reference value, and modulating... Agent: Fletcher Yoder P.C.

20080303758 - Display device: High-order bits to be utilized for current-frame display data and previous-frame display data, and low-order bits to be utilized for the current-frame display data alone are stored in independently controllable memory areas. For reading the current-frame display data from a frame memory, data of the high-order bits and data of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080303760 - Array substrate and display panel having the same: An array substrate of an LCD having: a gate line formed along a first direction; a data line formed along a second direction crossing the first direction; first and second pixel electrodes spaced apart from each other; a thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to the gate line; a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080303761 - Data output circuit: A data output circuit includes: a data generating circuit configured to generate output data; and a serial output circuit configured to receive an address corresponding to the data generating circuit, hold a parallel data input during a time period over which the address is being received, and serially output the... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080303762 - Display device: A display device which arranges a memory part for every display pixel is configured to prevent a charge from remaining in liquid crystal when a power source is turned off. Each display pixel includes a memory part for storing video data, a pixel electrode, and a switch part for selectively... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080303765 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: In a liquid crystal display device, the TFT(i,j) is switched by a gate signal supplied from the gate driver 13 to supply the data signal to the pixels P(i,j). The gate driver 13 includes a charging waveform section with the electric charge lower than the threshold voltage to the TFT(i,j),... Agent: Yokoi & Co. U.s.a., Inc.

20080303763 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same is described for reducing a compensating deviation of a common voltage. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel; a data driver for driving data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; a gate driver for... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080303764 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same: Liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same, which has a gate high voltage generating circuit for preventing flickering of a gate high voltage. The liquid crystal display device includes a gate high voltage generating circuit for generating a gate high voltage by using n (where n is... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080303766 - Methods of measuring image-sticking of a display: A method of measuring image-sticking of a display is described. A display having N gray levels is provided. Next, an image-stick test frame having at least a first pattern having a low gray level and at least a second pattern having a high gray level is displayed on the display.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080303767 - Video display driver with gamma control: Voltage generator circuitry for providing a plurality of voltages for use in gamma compensation of a video signal.... Agent: National Semiconductor Corporation C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080303768 - Display apparatus and method of driving the same: In a display apparatus having a plurality of pixel parts, each pixel part receives a data signal in response to a present gate signal and charges first and second pixel voltages having the same voltage level. A plurality of voltage controllers includes a level-down part to lower a voltage level... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080303769 - Image display device and drive circuit: The present invention aims to provide an image display device capable of reducing power consumption, and a drive circuit used in the same. The present invention relates to an image display device including signal lines, scanning lines, lines, transistors, capacitances, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit of the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080303770 - Liquid crystal display device: A counter voltage supply circuit has an inverting amplifier that inversely amplified a voltage detected from a specified part of a counter electrode of a liquid crystal display panel and supplies the amplified voltage to a counter voltage supply end of the counter electrode. The inverting amplifier includes an operational... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080303771 - Display and two step driving method thereof: A display and a two step driving method thereof are provided. The method includes: converting an image signal to a corresponding data driving voltage by using a driver; providing a pre-driving voltage by using a voltage generator; and finally, driving the display panel by using the pre-driving voltage and data... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080303772 - Method and device to optimize power consumption in liquid crystal display: Power consumption in liquid crystal displays is analyzed by including frequent polarity reversals and duty cycle control. A multi-step voltage profile is proposed to reduce the power consumption in multiplexed and non-multiplexed displays. The present invention relates to a method to optimize power consumption in Liquid Crystal Display, wherein said... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080303773 - Power control method and system for polarity inversion in lcd panels: A power control method for polarity inversion in an LCD panel comprises the step of providing a storage capacitor on a circuit board. Thereafter, the storage capacitor is charged to a first middle voltage. Next, the voltage of the VCOM channel is pulled up by a common output amplifier, only... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080303774 - Display apparatus: A display apparatus includes a substrate having a metal layer, a plurality of scanning signal lines and a plurality of data signal lines which intersect with each other and are disposed on the substrate, a display device which has a display element located at an intersecting position of the scanning... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080303775 - Liquid crystal display having logic converter for controlling pixel units to discharge: An exemplary liquid crystal display (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (240) having pixel units (248), a scanning circuit (210) configured to activate the pixel units, and a power supply circuit (230) having a control unit (231) and a logic converter (232). The control unit generates a control signal when... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080303776 - Flat panel display device: A flat panel display device is capable of reducing a resistance difference according to the lengths of signal lines and has a stably designed resistance value of the signal lines arranged in edges of wire groups diverging from a driving circuit unit. The flat panel display device includes a display... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080303777 - Optical adjusting member, and illumination device and liquid crystal display device including the same: An optical adjusting member according to the invention includes a base member, a plurality of lenses, and a light diffusion layer. The base member has optical transparency. The plurality of lenses are formed on the base member. The light diffusion layer is formed on the plurality of lenses, and at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080303780 - Driving methods and circuit for bi-stable displays: The disclosure is directed toward driving methods and a driving circuit which are particularly suitable for bi-stable displays. In certain embodiments, methods provide the fastest and most pleasing appearance to the desired image while maintaining the optimal image quality over the life expectancy of an electrophoretic display device.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080303779 - Image display medium and image display device: An image display medium including a pair of substrates, a transparent dispersion medium, one or more kind of colored particles and larger sized colored particles. The pair of substrates is disposed with a separation therebetween and at least one of the pair of substrates is transparent. The dispersion medium is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080303778 - Image display medium, image display device, storage medium storing an image display program, and image display method: There is provided an image display medium that includes: a pair of substrates at least one of that is light-transmissive; a liquid enclosed between the substrates; and three or more types of colored particles dispersed in the liquid that move in accordance with electric fields applied between the substrates and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080303781 - Shutter device for pixel element and pixel arrangement: A micro electromechanical shutter device and a pixel arrangement in which respective shutter elements are configured to controllably take a first geometrical state open and a second geometrical state closed by different degrees of actuation, and wherein the first geometrical state of the shutter element is configured to correspond to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080303785 - Display apparatus and method for notifying user of state of external device: A display apparatus for displaying the state of an external device and a method thereof are provided. According to the present invention, messages indicating the connection state, the power state and the sleep mode of the external device are displayed on a screen of the display apparatus to which a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080303786 - Display device: An object of the present invention is to achieve an advanced input operation without complicating image processing. A display device of the present invention includes a display unit, an optical input unit, and an image processor. The display unit displays an image on a display screen. The optical input unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080303784 - Information processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a control portion and an IF portion. Haptic sense presentation devices are connected to the IF portion. The control portion calculates an area of an image object based on features of the image object and determines the calculated area of the image object as a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080303788 - Input system and input apparatus: An input system executes an input to an information processing apparatus depending on the hand motion. Plural myoelectric sensors are provided on an area between a wrist of the person and bases of a second finger to a fifth finger, and detect myoelectric signals depending on the hand motion. A... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080303789 - Method and apparatus for compensating for position slip in interface devices: Method and apparatus for compensating for position slip in interface devices that may occur between a manipulandum and a sensor of the device due to a mechanical transmission. A device position delta is determined from a sensed position of a manipulandum of an interface device. It is determined if position... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080303782 - Method and apparatus for haptic enabled flexible touch sensitive surface: A method and apparatus for an electronic interactive device having a haptic enabled flexible touch sensitive surface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic interactive device includes a flexible touch sensitive surface, a flexible screen (or display), and an actuator. The flexible touch sensitive surface is deposited over the flexible... Agent: Orion Law Group, PLC.

20080303787 - Touch screen apparatus and methods: A touch screen computing apparatus, methods, and software product are provided. In one embodiment, an the computing apparatus provides a plurality of regions on a touch screen that are mapped to functions. In some embodiments, the regions include a keyboard region, a game control region, a mouse region and a... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080303783 - Touchless detection display: A touchless detection display includes a transparent display, a display face, a light detector and light control material. The transparent display displays information to a viewer. The viewer views the information through the display face. The light detector detects incoming light that travels into the touchless detection display through the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080303791 - Controller system and method for controlling a cursor: A controller for controlling a cursor includes an identifying module for identifying at least one of a first period when a cursor is in motion and a second period when the cursor is not in motion, and a calibrating module for calibrating an input parameter signal using a first hands-off... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080303790 - Program for game apparatus, game apparatus, and recording medium storing program for game apparatus: An object is to provide a program for a game apparatus for making a plurality of moving objects including a moving object operated by a player to compete in virtual space against each other, in which players are capable of fully using the stage effects specific to a virtual game... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080303792 - Mouse structure: An improved mouse structure, in which one side of a main body is provided with a depression corresponding to position of the fingers, and a micro joystick is disposed in the depression. Upward, downward, leftward and rightward directional contact portions are located on the micro joystick, and a control circuit... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080303793 - On-screen keyboard: Embodiments of an on-screen keyboard are described. In embodiment(s), a display of an on-screen keyboard can include letters arranged for user selection based on a frequency of the letters that are used most often. The letters can be of an alphabet for a language where the letters are arranged in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080303801 - Display apparatus and display method: A display apparatus includes a display section, a touch panel on the display surface of the section to allow the user to specify a desired position on the displayed image being displayed on the section by pressing a pointer against it, a display control section causes a plurality of indicators... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080303798 - Display device with touch panel: Suggested is a display device with a touch panel which adopts a novel detection structure. The display device with the touch panel includes: a touch panel including a pair of substrates provided with electrodes on opposing surfaces thereof, and a spacer for retaining a gap between the pair of substrates;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080303795 - Haptic display for a handheld electronic device: A handheld wireless communication device features a haptic, touch-sensitive display screen. The handheld wireless communication device is constructed such that it has a hand cradleable body and a display screen disposed on the body. The display screen is configured to display images of buttons, icons and/or other graphical user interface... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080303799 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including an operation input unit including an operation surface having virtual buttons variably set thereto, a position detection unit detecting whether a user touches or almost touches the operation surface of the operation input unit, and a position at which the user touches or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080303796 - Shape-changing display for a handheld electronic device: A system and method is disclosed that provides for a shape changing upper surface of an adaptive display screen on a wireless handheld communication device. The system and method include visually displaying visibly different key arrangement to an operator of the device in dependence upon the mode of operation of... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP (rim)

20080303797 - Stimuli sensitive display screen with multiple detect modes: According to an example embodiment a display screen includes a first sensor array that is operable to detect a first external stimulus that meets a first detection criteria, and a second sensor array that is operable to detect a second external stimulus that meets a second detection criteria, the second... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080303794 - System and method for managing media data in a presentation system: A media integration device associated with a touch system including a touch screen, comprises a media control module operative to receive media information from a plurality of devices and generate media data associated with each of the plurality of devices. The media control module selects one device from the plurality... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080303800 - Touch-based input device providing a reconfigurable user interface: A touch-based input device is disclosed providing a reconfigurable user interface. Said touch-based input device comprises an input receiving element having a touch sensitive contacting surface as part of a first configured user interface adapted to receive an applied force, a sensing element operable to detect and to determine at... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080303802 - Method and device for user interaction: The invention relates to a user interaction device (200, 300) comprising an optical module (210, 310) having a layer (5) of a substance being electrically switchable between a first visual state and a second visual state, and an electrical switch (6a, 6b) for electrically switching the substance between the first... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080303803 - User interface for multifunction device: A system implements a circular navigation paradigm that matches a physical input device to a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may be displayed on a personal navigation device, music player, or any other electronic device that employs a GUI. The match between the physical input device and the GUI... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080303805 - Digital picture frame and method of displaying digital image data on a display unit of the digital picture frame: A digital picture frame includes a display unit connected movably to a base unit, and a driving unit operable so as to drive the display unit to move relative to the base unit between a lengthwise position and a widthwise position. A controller determines whether digital image data acquired from... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080303804 - Hybrid driver for light-emitting diode displays: Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for controlling the luminance of a display. One apparatus includes a pre-charge circuit configured to supply a pre-charge voltage to a column of LED pixels, a programming circuit configured to supply current to the column, and a switch configured to selectively couple the pre-charge... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080303806 - Automatic illuminance compensation in displays: A sensor for continuously measuring the illuminance of ambient light (112) falling on a display. The sensor comprises a photo-sensitive device (100) and a diffuser (110), and conforms reasonably closely to the cosine effect. The proposed sensor performs like an illuminance meter and provides an illuminance measurement for use in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080303807 - Determining apparatus and method for controlling the same: There is provided a method for controlling a determining apparatus including: a first pixel for displaying a first image; a second pixel for displaying a second image; a light shielding member that allows the first image to be viewed from a first direction and blocks the first image from a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080303808 - Liquid crystal display with flicker reducing circuit and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes an image signal analyzing circuit, a frame rate controlling circuit, an image signal processing circuit, and an output circuit. The image signal analyzing circuit is configured for judging whether images corresponding to input signals have flicker by analyzing pixel intensities and pixel voltage polarities... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080303809 - Display and method of driving the same: A predetermined voltage is precharged according to a grayscale section of image data and then applied to a pixel, whereby voltage rising time and voltage falling time when charging the pixel can be shortened. Therefore, even though the charge time of the pixel is shortened and bias current of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080303813 - Method for recording three-dimensional video data and medium recording the same: Disclosed is a method of storing scene comprising a three-dimensional image, which has been generated by converting an image input an apparatus supporting photographing of the three-dimensional image, into a recording medium. The method includes: loading, in a predetermined file type field, image type information indicating one of a single... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080303812 - Storage medium storing image processing program and image processing apparatus: A game apparatus generates an image of a three-dimensional virtual space as viewed from a predetermined viewpoint, an object being provided in the three-dimensional virtual space. Next, the game apparatus obtains a depth value (Z value) indicating a depth from the viewpoint in a line-of-sight direction in the three-dimensional virtual... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080303810 - System and method for calculating loft surfaces using 3d scan data: A mechanism for automatically calculating loft surfaces from raw 3D scan data represented as a mesh or point cloud model is discussed. Users enter parameters related to the loft surface calculation via a provided user interface. User input and/or programmatically calculated parameters may include U-V direction, guide curve identification, and... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080303814 - Three-dimensional data processing system: A three-dimensional data processing system performs a collating operation precisely and can reduce the quantity of data necessary for presenting candidate data. A storage device stores the three dimensional data of each reference body in a set of the primary compressed data, which has been prepared by compressing three-dimensional data... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080303811 - Virtual professional: A virtual environment including a plurality of virtual professionals capable or providing goods and services to players in the virtual environment is described. The goods and services may be relevant to the real world, the virtual world, or both. Single-use avatars whose availability is limited and which are configured to... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20080303815 - Method and apparatus for detecting between virtual objects: A collision target map and a collision target LUT are generated for each pixel to be subjected to rendering as collision target information with recorded identification information for CG data rendering on the pixel, while carrying out rendering of colliding object group CG data. Then, collision target information corresponding to... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080303816 - Three dimensional image processing: A method and apparatus for storing object files containing triangle strips and displaying the triangle strips in the order in which they were created and stored in the object files.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080303817 - Analyzing mesh generating apparatus: An analyzing mesh generating apparatus has a model read unit for reading data, a required quality and shape data of an input hexahedral mesh model, a display unit for displaying said hexahedral mesh model, and a mesh element number reduction unit for reducing the number of mesh elements in the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080303818 - Medical image display apparatus and program, and recording medium therefor: With the present invention, using the schematic depiction of the tubular tissue in which the run path of the tubular tissue is adjusted so that the tubular tissues may not overlap, the information of the tubular tissue acquired from the volume image (three-dimensional image) is mapped onto this schematic depiction... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080303819 - Method and apparatus for comparing program graphs: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that highlights differences between two graphs that represent programs in a graphical programming language. During operation, the system identifies unique nodes in the two graphs which are not identical to any other node in the other graph. Note that each of... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080303820 - Common phase error vs. time display: A method and apparatus for displaying information on a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of displaying a graph of an acquired signal, displaying a graph of Common Phase Error versus time data generated from the acquired signal, and aligning the graph of the acquired... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080303821 - Graphic processing method and apparatus for supporting line acceleration function: Provided are a graphic processing method and apparatus supporting a line acceleration function. The graphic processing method includes: transforming at least one line represented by graphic data, to a polygon; and rendering the polygon and at least one polygon represented by the graphic data. Therefore, a graphics chip set which... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080303823 - Display control apparatus: When a list of file names is to be displayed on a display device, a comparison is made between a necessary display width of each of the file names and a width of a display area of the display device. For each of the file names having a necessary display... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080303822 - Font metadata: A method and an apparatus for deriving one or more selection criteria to select one or more fonts to present character data in an electronic document are described. The selection criteria may be applied on font metadata to select the fonts. An available font may be determined in place of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303824 - Portable electronic device and character display method for the same: A portable electronic device including a display unit uses a still character font and a scroll character font. The display unit can scroll through one or more images on a screen. The still character font is used for characters on a still screen. The scroll character font is used for... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080303825 - System and method for dilation for glyph rendering: A system and method for dilating a glyph for glyph rendering is described. The method includes receiving information including at least one of an element value of a rendering matrix, a glyph characteristic, a display background characteristic, an application characteristic, a display characteristic, and a graphics engine characteristic. The method... Agent: James C. Scheller, Jr. Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303830 - Automatic feature mapping in inheritance based avatar generation: The generation of characters within computer animations is currently a labor intensive and expensive activity for a wide range of businesses. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080303826 - Methods and systems for animating displayed representations of data items: Methods and systems for animating visual components representing data items. One embodiment comprises a method for producing an application using declarative language code to specify animation behavior for data item representations. A programming application may be used to create the declarative language code using a display design area for placing... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20080303827 - Methods and systems for animating displayed representations of data items: Methods and systems for animating visual components representing data items. One embodiment comprises a method for producing an application using declarative language code to specify animation behavior for data item representations. A programming application may be used to create the declarative language code using a display design area for placing... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP- Adobe Systems, Inc. 58083

20080303829 - Sex selection in inheritance based avatar generation: The generation of characters within computer animations is currently a labor intensive and expensive activity for a wide range of businesses. Whereas prior art approaches have sought to reduce this loading by providing reference avatars, these do not fundamentally overcome the intensive steps in generating these reference avatars, and they... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080303831 - Transfer of motion between animated characters: Motion may be transferred between portions of two characters if those portions have a minimum topological similarity. The elements of the topology that are similar are referred to as basic elements. To transfer motion between the source and target characters, the motion associated with the basic elements of the source... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel Avid Technology, Inc.

20080303828 - Web-based animation: Approaches providing web-based animations using tools and techniques that take into account the limited capabilities and resources available in the web environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, such web-based animations are implemented in JavaScript.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080303832 - Method of generating two-dimensional/three-dimensional convertible stereoscopic image bitstream and method and apparatus for displaying the same: Provided is a method of generating a two-dimensional (2D)/three-dimensional (3D) convertible stereoscopic image bitstream. The method includes receiving 3D image data; storing predetermined display mode information in a header region of a stereoscopic image bitstream in order to determine whether to display the 3D image data in a 2D display... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080303833 - Asnchronous notifications for concurrent graphics operations: A method and an apparatus for notifying a display driver to update a display with a graphics frame including multiple graphics data rendered separately by multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) substantially concurrently are described. Graphics commands may be received to dispatch to each GPU for rendering corresponding graphics data. The... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303834 - Deferred deletion and cleanup for graphics resources: A method and an apparatus for maintaining separate information for graphics commands that have been sent to a graphics processing unit (GPU) and for graphics commands that have been processed by the GPU are described. The graphics commands may be associated with graphics resources. A manner to respond to a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303835 - Serializing command streams for graphics processors: A method and an apparatus for determining a dependency relationship between graphics commands based on availability of graphics hardware resources to perform graphics processing operations according to the dependency relationship are described. The graphics commands may be received from graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) for rendering a graphics object. A... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303836 - Video display driver with partial memory control: Partial memory control for a video display driver in which data storage is provided for storing and providing a plurality of video pixel data having selectable ones of a plurality of pixel color depths to be displayed by a plurality of video displays having a plurality of mutually distinct dimensions.... Agent: National Semiconductor Corporation C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20080303837 - Batching graphics operations with time stamp tracking: A method and an apparatus for updating graphics resource usage according to a stream of graphics commands atomically submitted to a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The stream of graphics commands may be received from a plurality of graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) by a graphics driver. Availability of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303838 - Image processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus processes compression encoded data of a moving picture and outputs image data divided into a plurality of frames for displaying of the moving picture on a display device. A host CPU outputs a decoding command and a drawing command separately from each other. The decoding process... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080303839 - Facilitating caching in an image-processing system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for performing caching in an image-processing system. The system starts by receiving a filtering query for resources in a cache. The system then returning a subcache in response to the filtering query. Upon receiving a resource query for resources in the subcache,... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080303840 - Mesh quilting for geometric texture synthesis: Mesh quilting for geometric texture synthesis involves synthesizing a geometric texture by quilting a mesh texture swatch. In an example embodiment, geometry is matched between a mesh texture swatch and a portion of a synthesized geometric texture. Correspondences are ascertained between elements of the mesh texture swatch and the portion... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080303841 - Extrapolation of nonresident mipmap data using resident mipmap data: A multi-threaded graphics processor is configured to use to extrapolate low resolution mipmaps stored in physical memory to produce extrapolated texture values while high resolution nonresident mipmaps are retrieved from a high latency storage resource and converted into resident mipmaps. The extrapolated texture values provide an improved image that appears... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080303842 - Display system and image processing apparatus: In a display apparatus capable of multiple-view display, a restriction is imposed on an image to be displayed depending on the viewing area set with reference to a screen, thereby enhancing security and preventing leakage of confidential information. When an image processing apparatus outputs an image to the display apparatus,... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080303843 - Method and device for generating graphic images: A method generates an image from a set of image zones each delimited by a contour of polygonal shape defined by a set of vertexes, and comprising pixels having an attribute value which can be deduced from the value of a corresponding attribute of each of the vertexes of the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080303844 - Methods and apparatuses for placing a flexible drop in a cad drawing: The present invention is directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for automatically placing flexible drops in a computer automated design application, and more particularly to automatically placing and drawing flexible connections between sprinkler heads and sprinkler system pipes within a CAD drawing. The present invention allows a user to automatically... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20080303845 - System and method for display stand height adjustment: Information handling system flat panel displays, such as liquid crystal and plasma displays, are supported on an adjustable stand having a rotation limiter that restricts adjustments of display positions to prevent damage to the display. A display bracket allows rotation of a display between landscape and portrait orientations and a... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080303846 - Assymetric two-pass graphics scaling: A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale factor and the down scale... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080303847 - Display panel driving method, display apparatus, display panel driving apparatus and electronic apparatus: In the present invention, there is provided a display panel driving method of the type wherein the total light emitting period length within a one-field period is controlled to variably control the peak luminance level of a display panel, including the step of: variably controlling, where the one-field period has... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080297432 - Display control apparatus, and setting method and program for display control apparatus: When a first display device displays image data, a display control apparatus reserves a memory space having the first horizontal pixel number in the storage unit, and sets the frequency of a clock signal supplied to the display control unit to a first frequency. When a second display device displays... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080297431 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and information device: In a liquid crystal display, a pixel driving circuit 16 alternately displays a first image and a second image on a liquid crystal panel 11. A front light 12 lights up while the first image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel by the pixel driving circuit 16, and another... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297433 - Secure activation of auxiliary display: A computing apparatus includes a primary keyboard and a primary display, which are respectively arranged to accept input from a user and to display information to the user. An auxiliary display is arranged to display auxiliary information to the user when the apparatus is in a switched-off operational state, and... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080297434 - Stereoscopic liquid crystal display (lcd) with polarization method: A display system for stereoscopic displaying of images includes a pair of wide viewing angle displays arranged at an angle to each other, each display providing respective images formed by plane polarized light. A beam combiner is located between the displays such that the beam combiner transmits light from one... Agent: Warren Sklar Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080297435 - Enlarged reality visualization system with pervasive computation: The present invention relates to an enlarged reality visualization system with pervasive computation. More specifically, this invention refers to a system that makes available data and information for individual's moving, spatial and geographical positioning, acquisition of data and information in real time or stored in some storage device, for users,... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20080297437 - Head mounted display and control method therefor: A viewpoint information calculation unit (710) calculates a difference value (α) between reference position and orientation information and position and orientation information held by a camera viewpoint storage unit (207), and a difference value (β) between the reference position and orientation information and position and orientation information held by a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080297436 - Head mounted display, display, and control method thereof: If the size of an error portion within an image of the frame of interest is equal to or larger than a threshold and it is determined that no error portion exists within an image of a frame immediately before the frame of interest, a display unit (115) is caused... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080297438 - Digital photo frame: A digital photo frame includes a body and a stand. The body has a first combining portion, and the stand has a second combining portion. The first combining portion and the second combining portion are combined by magnetic attraction.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080297439 - Display panel for a motor-vehicle dashboard: A display panel (1) for a motor-vehicle dashboard has—a front surface (3) substantially dark on which there can be displayed symbols or icons (4) and/or wordings or numbers generated by a liquid-crystal display (5) by means of activation of one or more light sources (6) that backlight them. The front... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080297440 - Display device and driving method thereof: The display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels, a gate driver which sequentially applies gate-on voltages to the plurality of pixels for a first period and a data driver which generates data voltages for at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels for the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297441 - Electronic circuit, electro-optical device, electronic device and electronic apparatus: Aspects of the invention can provide an electronic circuit that can include a first transistor having a first and second terminal between which a first channel region can be formed, and a second transistor having a third and fourth terminal between which a second channel region can be formed. In... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080297442 - Electronic-ink based display tagging system employing a plurality of programmable electronic-ink display tags having a stacked architecture, and portable tag activation module for programming the same: An electronic-ink based display tagging system including a plurality of programmable electronic-ink display tags, and a portable tag activation module for programming display indicia to be displayed on each electronic-ink display tag. Each electronic-ink display tag includes an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq

20080297447 - Display device: A display device (10) includes: a scan drive circuit (74) operating to apply scan voltages to respective ones of the display electrodes (2, Y1-Yn) during a first period of time, and apply sustain voltage pulses to the ones of the display electrodes (2, Y1-Yn) during a second period of time;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080297445 - Flat panel display device: The plasma display panel device according to the present invention includes a the data driver that includes a data IC applying a driving signal to at least one address electrode and a data driver applying a driving data signal to the data IC to reduce EMI and ensure timing margin... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080297443 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed that includes a panel substrate, a chassis adhered to a rear surface of the panel substrate and supporting the panel substrate, and plural address driver modules arranged along a rim portion of the panel substrate. Each address driver module including a flexible board and... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080297444 - Plasma display apparatus and driving method thereof: A plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof performs a selective writing operation in a first subfield, and performs an selective erase operation in a second subfield to an n-th subfield.... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080297446 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate having first and second surfaces opposite each other, the first substrate including a plurality of grooves in the second surface, the grooves extending along a first direction, a plurality of address electrodes in the grooves along the first direction, a thickness of... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080297449 - Display device: A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage-capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage-capacitor at... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20080297448 - Oled display apparatus: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display apparatus having four types of light producing dots, including R (red), G (green), B (blue), and W (white) dots, includes detecting the amount of high frequency components of a portion of a color image to be displayed, or calculating average brightness or power... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080297450 - Organic electroluminescent device: An organic electroluminescent device comprises: a substrate; a display unit located on the substrate and including a plurality of subpixels; a sealing region located at the outer periphery of the display unit and defined to form a sealing member; and a plurality of wiring lines connected to the display unit... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080297451 - Methods and apparatuses for increasing the apparent brightness of a display: Methods and apparatuses to varying the apparent brightness of a display are described. The change in apparent brightness is accompanied by unchanged in relative contrast, rendering a display with higher or lower brightness while maintaining contrast fidelity. In exemplary embodiments, the signals for the middle tone levels are adjusted to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080297452 - Apparatus, systems, and methods for dimming an active matrix light-emitting diode (led) display: Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for dimming pixels on an active matrix light-emitting diode display. One apparatus includes an LED couplable between a voltage source and ground. First and second pulse-width modulation (PWM) drivers are also coupled to the LED. A system includes a plurality of LEDs forming a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080297453 - Method of manufacturing addressable and static electronic displays: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic display. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of cavities of a substrate to form a plurality of first conductors. A plurality of electronic components in a suspending medium are then deposited within the plurality... Agent: Gamburd Law Group LLC

20080297454 - Remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device employing an integrated circuit structure having a gbs signal receiver for receiving gbs signals, and a programmed processor for locally processing received gbs signals, determining the occurance of c: A remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device for displaying graphical indicia within a GPS system transmitting a plurality of GPS signals to the device display device. The device employs an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080297455 - Image display device and liquid crystal television: There is provided an image display device in which a display panel is driven based a plurality of sub-frame image data produced from a frame image data representing an image of one screen to display the image, the image display device includes:a dividing unit to divide the frame image data... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc.

20080297456 - Methods and systems for white point adjustment: Methods and data processing systems are disclosed for adjusting a white point of a display. In one embodiment, a method includes setting the display to a first state. The method further includes providing a two dimensional array of white points to the display. The method further includes selecting a target... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080297457 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a driving method where the LCD device includes a data controller for interleaving one of black gray scale data and intermediate gray scale data into input digital video data to input digital video data in a specific period preceding a second one of... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080297458 - Liquid crystal display using combination dot inversion driving method and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a data circuit, a memory, and a timing controller. The timing controller includes: a data analysis circuit configured for analyzing video signals stored in the memory and generating a corresponding control signal; and a polarity generating circuit configured for receiving the control signal and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080297464 - Display device and display method: A display device includes: a display unit having a first and a second display area displaying a first and a second image corresponding to first and second image data; a light source unit disposed so as to correspond to the display unit and having a plurality of unit light-emitting areas... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080297461 - Driving apparatus for displayer and metheod thereof: A driving apparatus for a displayer and a method thereof are provided. The driving apparatus includes an image processing unit, a timing controller, and a backlight controller. The image processing unit divides a frame period into an image period and a dark state period. During the dark state period, black... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080297463 - Liquid crystal display apparatus and luminance control method thereof: For the purpose of suppressing untrue black with the change in luminance of video, which is displayed as the same object, being reduced to improve the contrast, there is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus that is capable of: extracting the pixel frequency distribution of an input video signal on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080297468 - Liquid crystal display apparatus including a photosensor: A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a backlight assembly. The first substrate includes a display part and a sensor part. The sensor part is disposed in a peripheral area of the display part and senses external light. The... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080297465 - Liquid crystal display device and driving method thereof: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of driving a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, and a backlight assembly providing light to the liquid crystal panel by a field sequential driving method, the method includes: displaying an image, at the liquid crystal panel and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080297466 - Liquid crystal display, electronic device, and method for controlling brightness of illumination unit of liquid crystal display: A liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel, an illumination unit for the liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of photodetectors, and a control unit Cnt to control the brightness of the illumination unit. The photodetectors are TFT ambient light... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080297467 - Method for backlight modulation and image processing: A method for backlight modulation and image processing is disclosed to control the backlight to modulate the brightness with different image data inputs and re-process the original image data. In the part of the backlight control, the method comprises acquiring a reference value, APL (average picture level), based on histogram... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080297460 - Method of displaying a low dynamic range image in a high dynamic range: A method of increasing the dynamic range of an image comprising a plurality of pixels each having a luminance value within a first luminance dynamic range. The method includes determining a background luminance value for each pixel of the image and determining a minimum and a maximum of the background... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080297459 - Reflector and backlight device: A back light device realizing improvement in hotspots and bright line in the region of light incidence and of darkness arising in between light sources is provided by forming the reflective surface of the reflector as a structured face comprising an iteration of prism elements of trapezoidal section.... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080297462 - Split power supply circuit for lcd tv: A liquid crystal display (LCD) television (TV) power supply circuit is split into a backlight module power supply sub-circuit and a TV circuit power supply sub-circuit, wherein the backlight module power supply sub-circuit supplies an operation voltage to a backlight module of the LCD TV and the TV circuit power... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080297469 - Visual notification methods for candy-bar type cellphones: A wireless handheld communications device with a liquid crystal display, especially, a field sequential liquid crystal display, includes a visual notification for a powered up, inactive state. The visual notification is preferably through a light emitting diode that may be part of the backlighting system for the LCD or may... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080297470 - Electronic document readers and reading devices: This invention generally relates to an electronic document readers and reading devices, that is to a device that presents a document to a user on a display to enable the user to read the document. An electronic document reading device configured for one hand operation, the device including: a housing;... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080297471 - Gesture recognition method and touch system incorporating the same: A gesture recognition method includes detecting multiple pointers in close proximity to a touch surface to determine if the multiple pointers are being used to perform a known gesture. When the multiple pointers are being used to perform a known gesture, executing a command associated with the gesture. A touch... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080297472 - Combined extreme concentricity capable camera-based pointing device and a method of using it: Contrary to the prior art it has been discovered that in order to build a perfectly concentric camera-based pointing device it is not necessary to make concentric all components of the pointing device itself. Instead, it is possible to rely on an axial symmetry created by rotation of the machine... Agent: Marcin A Stegawski

20080297473 - Pointing device and pointing method: According to one embodiment, there is provided a pointing device including a camera section which receives video light and outputs a video signal, a switch section which outputs an operation signal according to an operation, a detecting section which compares the video signal at first time supplied from the camera... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080297474 - Electronic device and a method for controlling the functions of the electronic device as well as program product for implementing the method: The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a display component, in which at least one controllable element is arranged to be visualized in its entirety, the control of which element is arranged to be based on determining a change (M) relating to the attitude or position of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080297476 - Ambidextrous mouse: An ambidextrous mouse is disclosed. The ambidextrous mouse is configured for both left and right handed use. The mouse may include right handed buttons on the front side of the mouse and left handed buttons on the back side of the mouse. The user may change the handedness of the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080297477 - Ambidextrous mouse: An ambidextrous mouse is disclosed. The ambidextrous mouse is configured for both left and right handed use. The mouse may include right handed buttons on the front side of the mouse and left handed buttons on the back side of the mouse. The user may change the handedness of the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080297478 - Ambidextrous mouse: An ambidextrous mouse is disclosed. The ambidextrous mouse is configured for both left and right handed use. The mouse may include right handed buttons on the front side of the mouse and left handed buttons on the back side of the mouse. The user may change the handedness of the... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080297475 - Input device having multifunctional keys: The invention relates to an input device having multifunctional keys, wherein the different functions are triggered by varying the pressure on the keys or by varying the depth to which the key is depressed or the distance it is moved (see FIG. 3). The input device requires substantially fewer keys... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080297481 - Direct access mobile content system: A portable wireless device facilitates easy access to sponsored content over a wireless network. The wireless device includes a keypad user interface having a set of dedicated launch keys that have an assigned function to launch programs/modules providing access to sponsored content. The keypad user interface also includes a first... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080297479 - Industrial portable data processing device with a keyboard set replaceable: An industrial portable data processing device with a replaceable keyboard set comprises a device body, a short/long keyboard set, a keyboard extension part and a scanning part. A display is provided on the device body, under which the long or short keyboard set may be assembled following a user's request... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080297480 - Method of inputting multi-languages by using symbol characters allocated in keypads of user terminal: A method of inputting multi-language characters using symbol characters, which can quickly input a character with a small number of inputs by converting a word unit character input system into a combination type character input system, and adopting a character input method using a combined symbol based on a stroke... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080297486 - Communication terminal having touch panel and method for determining touch coordinate therein: A communication terminal having a touch panel and a method for determining a touch coordinate therein are provided. The method includes setting one of a plurality of temporary coordinates of a touch position as a touch coordinate when a touch occurs on the touch panel, extracting a temporary coordinate at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080297485 - Device and method for executing a menu in a mobile terminal: A device and a method for executing a menu in a mobile terminal are provided. The device for executing a menu in a mobile terminal includes a display unit for displaying, when a request for displaying a menu list is input, the menu list, including at least one menu, in... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080297487 - Display integrated photodiode matrix: The use of one or more proximity sensors alone or in combination with one or more touch sensors in a multi-touch panel to detect the presence of a finger, body part or other object and control or trigger one or more functions in accordance with an “image” of touch provided... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20080297484 - Method and apparatus for providing gesture information based on touchscreen and information terminal device having the apparatus: A method and apparatus for enabling user interface (UI) interaction between an information terminal device and a user based on a touchscreen, and an information terminal device incorporating the apparatus. The method includes displaying an operation image on the touchscreen in accordance with an operation mode; sensing whether the touchscreen... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080297483 - Method and apparatus for touchscreen based user interface interaction: A method and apparatus for a touchscreen based user interface (UI) interaction that controls a volume through circular UI graphics and switches between different application images by dragging an indicator on a touchscreen of a terminal device. The method includes: displaying an application image on a touchscreen; sensing whether the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080297488 - Method and system for providing directions for driving: A system and method of providing information (such as directions) to a driver of a vehicle while driving the vehicle without requiring that the driver remove his eyes from looking out the windshield at the road ahead. A positioning device is associated with the vehicle and determines the present location... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080297482 - Recognizing selection regions from multiple simultaneous inputs: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for recognizing selection regions from multiple simultaneous inputs. Input selection regions are calculated from simultaneous contacts on a multi-touch input display surface. Computer system users can use natural and/or more intuitive hand gestures to select items on an input/display... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080297489 - Data input system: A data input system including electronic paper and a stylus writing device is disclosed. The electronic paper includes a transparent display substrate on which a number of optically readable code patterns have been formed, the optically readable code patterns representing positional information on a display surface, a rear surface substrate... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080297492 - Storage medium storing movement controlling program and movement controlling apparatus: A movement controlling apparatus includes a pointing device for operating a movement of an object. A distance between a straight line connecting previous input coordinates and current input coordinates and a central point of the object is calculated. A velocity of the object is calculated on the basis of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080297490 - Stylus for a touch-screen device: A stylus for use in operating any small device requiring small buttons or touch-screen commands. The stylus is comprised of a wrap, and stylus tip. The wrap encircles and engages a user's digit. The tip of the stylus extends downward from the central axis of the user's digit to be... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080297491 - Stylus for a touch-screen device: A stylus for use in operating any small device requiring contact for inputting commands. The stylus is comprised of a wrap and a conductive contactor. The wrap encircles and engages a user's digit. The conductive contactor is positioned to easily contact a touch-screen device when the wrap is placed on... Agent: John Wiley Horton, Attorney Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080297493 - Stylus for a touch-screen device: A stylus for use in operating any small device requiring contact for inputting commands. The stylus is comprised of a wrap and a tip. The wrap encircles and engages a user's digit. The tip is positioned to easily contact a touch-screen device when the wrap is placed on a user's... Agent: John Wiley Horton, Attorney Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20080297495 - Apparatus for driving a display device, display device including the same, and method thereof: An apparatus for driving a display device includes a plurality of stages connected to each other, wherein each stage includes first to seventh transistors and first and second capacitors, the seventh transistor is connected to one terminal of the first capacitor, and a ratio of an area of the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297494 - Portable electronic device: If the key of the key operation unit is continuously pushed down for not less than 3 minutes in a state in which the pushdown can hardly be considered as a user operation, the control unit distinguishes this pushdown from the long-time key operation and executes the battery saving processes.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080297496 - Electronic document reading devices: This invention generally relates to an electronic document reading device, that is to a device such as an electronic book which presents a document to a user on a display to enable the user to read the document. A portable flex-tolerant electronic document reading device, the device including a flex-tolerant... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080297497 - Control circuit and method of liquid crystal display panel: A control circuit of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a method thereof are provided. The circuit includes a frame memory, a look-up table (LUT) module, and a signal processor. The frame memory provides a previous value of a pixel, and the previous value includes at least one bit... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080297498 - Light-source driving device and its signal transforming circuit and pulse generating circuit: A light-source driving device includes a pulse controlling circuit, a signal adjusting circuit and a driving circuit. The pulse controlling circuit generates a first controlling signal and a second controlling signal. The signal adjusting circuit is coupled to the pulse controlling circuit and outputs a first switching signal, a second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080297500 - Display device and method of driving the same: Provided is a display device including a timing controller configured to generate a pulse of a start pulse signal (STH) once in every two frames. This configuration makes it possible to drive a source driver and a gate driver once in every two frames, and thereby to reduce power consumption.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080297499 - Lcd power supply: An LCD (liquid crystal display) power supply includes an AC to DC converter circuit, a transformer, a DC to AC converter, and a feedback circuit. The AC to DC converter circuit couples an AC power supply to generate a DC signal. The DC to AC converter couples the DC signal... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080297501 - Active matrix display device: A display device includes a dynamic ratioless shift register which is operated in a stable manner and can expand the degree of freedom of design. In the dynamic ratioless shift register which is provided with thin film transistors having semiconductor layers made of p-Si on a substrate surface, a node... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080297502 - Method and system for detecting and evaluating 3d changes from images and a 3d reference model: In a method and system for aligning first and second images with a 3D reference model, the first image is gathered from a first viewpoint, the second image is gathered from a second viewpoint and the first and second images are aligned with the 3D reference model. The image alignment... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080297504 - System and method for component scattering from a list: A system, method, and computer program for component scattering from a bill of material, comprising selecting a plurality of components from a list; calculating a bounding box for each of said plurality of components; calculating a centroid corresponding to each of said bounding boxes; calculating a scatter circle for placement... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080297503 - System and method for reconstructing a 3d solid model from a 2d line drawing: A system and method for reconstructing a 3D solid model from a 2D axonometric projection (line drawing) are described herein. The system comprises an interactive face identification module for identifying candidate 2D boundary loops for a user to selectively verify as corresponding to valid faces in the 3D solid model.... Agent: Cassan Maclean

20080297505 - Method and apparatus for real-time 3d viewer with ray trace on demand: A computer implemented method of providing a photo-realistic view on demand of a real-time interactive three dimensional simulation, the method comprising: providing a real-time interactive three dimensional simulation; selecting a camera position; and ray tracing the provided real-time interactive three dimensional simulation as a function of the selected camera position,... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080297506 - Ray tracing with depth buffered display: An image is generated that includes ray traced pixel data and rasterized pixel data. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) uses a rendering algorithm to generate ray traced data for objects that require high-quality image rendering. The ray traced data is fragmented, whereby each fragment includes a ray traced pixel depth... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080297508 - Distributed calculation of images of volumetric objects: A method for calculating an image in the context of a volume visualization by ray casting using a plurality of computing nodes is provided. The method includes subdividing a volume that is to be visualized into subvolumes assigned to the plurality of computing nodes; assigning a subdivision of data to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080297509 - Image processing method and image processing program: In an image processing method of visualizing information of a living body near an imaginary path, the image processing method includes: creating a cylindrical cross-sectional image on a cylindrical cross section defined by a reference distance from the imaginary path; creating a cylindrical projection image according to said imaginary path;... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080297507 - Method and apparatus for determining item orientation: A computer-implemented method and computer software for calculating an orientation for an item. A bounding cube is constructed which encompasses a mesh representation of the item. The bounding cube is divided into a plurality of voxel elements. A data structure may be used to subdivide the bounding cube. Calculations are... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080297510 - Volume body renderer: Irregular volumes within one or more three-dimensional volume datasets are identified and extracted in response to criteria. The processing involves automatically finding a seed voxel or seed cell that0 meets the criteria and thus belongs to an irregular volume of interest, and then identifying cells related to the seed cell... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080297511 - Mode detecting circuit and method thereof: The invention discloses a mode detection circuit and a method thereof, for detecting an image signal, the image signal includes a horizontal resolution and the vertical resolution. The mode detection circuit includes a measuring unit, a calculation unit, and a decision unit. The measuring unit receives a clock signal and... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080297512 - Method for displaying performance information for one or more vehicles: A method and system for displaying information related to a work vehicle comprises sensors for detecting levels associated with corresponding performance variables. An assigner assigns points in an image or graphical data representation associated with corresponding detected levels. A graphical module interconnects the points in the image to form a... Agent: Deere & Company

20080297513 - Method of analyzing data: A computer assisted method of analysis suitable for process control, comprises the steps of: receiving first data streams representing values from a process; receiving second data streams representing states of the process; recording metadata about the data streams; calculating relationships between pairs of the data streams; and recording relationship data... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080297514 - Interactive labyrinth curve generation and applications thereof: Complex labyrinth curves are interactively generated by an iterative process that spatially modulates curve evolution by an image or other function defined on the evolution space. After curves and evolution parameters are initialized [100], the iterative process allows the curve and evolution parameters to be interactively modified by a user... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080297516 - Generating a surface representation of an item: Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for generating a surface representation of an item includes identifying, for a point on an item in an animation process, at least first and second transformation points corresponding to respective first and second transformations of the point. Each of the first and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080297515 - Method and apparatus for determining the appearance of a character display by an electronic device: A method and an electronic device are for for selecting apparel for a character that is generated by an electronic device. The method and electronic device determine a changed context of the character, select an updated set of apparel for the character based on the changed context of the character,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080297517 - Transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow: A method of transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow includes replacing a first image with a lower resolution copy of that first image and fading out the lower resolution copy of the first image to reveal a second image. A system for transitioning between two high resolution... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080297519 - Animating hair using pose controllers: The present invention deforms hairs from a reference pose based on one or more of the following: magnet position and/or orientation; local reference space position (e.g., a character's head or scalp); and several profile curves and variables. In one embodiment, after an initial deformation is determined, it is refined in... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080297518 - Variable motion blur: Variable motion blur is created by varying the evaluation time used to determine the poses of objects according to motion blur parameters when evaluating a blur frame. A blur parameter can be associated with one or more objects, portions of objects, or animation variables. The animation system modifies the time... Agent: Jonathan M. Hollander Pixar - Hollander

20080297520 - System and method for interfacing graphical information with an information handling system wireless transceiver: Wireless communication of display information between an information handling system and display is supported by a direct connection between a graphics system of the information handling system and a transceiver of the information handling system. For example, the graphics system outputs pixel level display information through a cable directly to... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080297521 - System and method for providing skins for a web page: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for dynamically modifying the appearance of a resource based on skins. The method of the present invention comprises building a user skin library based upon user selected skins and receiving requests to change the appearance of a resource from a user.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080297522 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium: An image processing apparatus has a memory in which a plurality of image processing commands are stored, a dependent information producing unit which produces dependent information in each image data block becoming a target image processing, the dependent information indicating a dependency relationship between image processing of the image data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297523 - Image display system, game machine, image display method, image display program, and recording medium: An image display system includes: a background image transfer section which commands the image producing unit to produce a background image corresponding to the background image data and transfer the background image to the resolution adjusting unit; a window display image transfer section which commands the image producing unit to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080297524 - Liquid crystal display with symbol bit generating circuit and driving method thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a data circuit, a memory, and a timing controller. The data circuit includes a polarity generating circuit. The timing controller includes: a data analysis circuit configured for analyzing video signals stored in the memory and generates a corresponding symbol bit to each datum according... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080297525 - Method and apparatus for reducing accesses to a frame buffer: An apparatus comprises a first unit to receive a first frame. The first unit replaces each datum of the first frame with a datum having a particular value if the datum of the first frame is within a region of the first frame. A second frame is thereby created. The... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080297526 - Method for enhancing rendering performance of navigation device: A method for displaying map data on a screen of a navigation device. The method includes receiving a screen display request, rendering a particular interpolation point that is not within a filtering range among interpolation points included in the map data to be displayed on the screen and displaying the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080297527 - System for regional data association and presentation and method for the same: A database methodology that concerns the mapping of any arbitrary object into a plurality of regions, enabling the assignment of multiple region-specific attributes thereto and facilitating the concurrent, graphical presentation of any assigned attributes. Attribute storage, manipulation, and presentation are driven by the individual regions and characteristics of the object.... Agent: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.

20080297528 - Method and system for processing texture samples with programmable offset positions: A method and system for performing a texture operation with user-specified offset positions are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of deriving a first destined texel position based on an original sample position associated with a pixel projected in a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080297529 - Color processing apparatus and method: A color processing apparatus includes a device characteristic acquisition unit configured to acquire a monitor device characteristic, a viewing condition acquisition unit configured to acquire a viewing condition of a display screen, a correction unit configured to correct the monitor device characteristic based on the viewing condition of the display... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080297530 - Four primary color display apparatus and method: A yellow primary color is used to increase the brightness of images displayed in four primary colors including red, green, blue and yellow primary colors. The yellow primary color may have a luminosity approximately equal to the luminosity of the red primary color or less, and not contribute substantially to... Agent: Dr. Monte Jerome Ramstad

20080297531 - Color gamut component analysis apparatus, method of analyzing color gamut component, and color gamut component analysis program: A color gamut component analysis apparatus includes: a histogram processing section that performs histogram processing on color components in a video signal; a color gamut component calculating section that calculates a wide color gamut component larger than a signal by a predetermined standard, from the result of the histogram processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297533 - Method and arrangement for improving the grayscale resolution of a monochrome monitor: A method and an arrangement for improving the digital-signal-generated grayscale resolution of a monochrome visual display unit (3) to which the digital signals from an image source (1) can be supplied over n-bit wide RGB channels (2). Measures are proposed that make it possible to display distinguishable grayscale gradations on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080297532 - Rotation and scaling optimization for mobile devices: Image processing in mobile devices is optimized by combining at least two of the color conversion, rotation, and scaling operations. Received images, such as still images or frames of video stream, are subjected to a combined transformation after decoding, where each pixel is color converted (e.g. from YUV to RGB),... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080297534 - System and method for transparent object rendering: The subject application is directed to a system and method for transparent object rendering. An electronic document, inclusive of a plurality of objects, is first received. The electronic document is then parsed so as to generate a transparency table. The generated table includes entries corresponding to transparency characteristics of each... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080297535 - Terminal device for presenting an improved virtual environment to a user: The virtual environment terminal device comprises a user terminal device that interfaces the user to a computer controlled virtual reality system via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user to emulate the sensations that the user would encounter in the environment emulated by the... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080297536 - Image processor: An image processor enabling a user to quickly select desired images from a large number of images without scrolling repeatedly through the images. The image processor assigns image numbers to segments of a scroll bar and displays image data corresponding to an image number assigned at the position on the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080297538 - Apparatus and method for setting a common voltage: An apparatus for setting a common voltage include a screen generator, a flicker measuring part, a main controller and a read-only memory (“ROM”) programming part. The screen generator generates image data of a test screen. The flicker measuring part measures flicker on the test screen displayed on a display panel... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297537 - Devices and methods for synchronized illumination: Disclosed is a display of a particular size that may be perceived as larger than the particular size as a result of light emitted by one or more light guides adjacent the perimeter of the display. The display may also be perceived as brighter. In particular, the display is configured... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080297540 - Electro-optical apparatus, driving method thereof, and electronic device: An electrooptical apparatus having a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and electrooptical devices each being placed at an intersection of each of the scanning lines and each of the signal lines, and the electrooptical apparatus is driven according to the amount of drive current supplied to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080297539 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display which can selectively display an image having a high visibility or an image having a high luminance. The liquid crystal display includes a panel unit having a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels, each pixel being coupled to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080297541 - To color flat panel display sub-pixel arrangements and layouts for sub-pixel rendering with split blue sub-pixels: Various embodiments of a sub-pixel octal grouping are disclosed. The octal grouping may comprise three-color (red, green and blue) sub-pixels with blue colored subpixel comprising twice the number of positions within the octal sub-pixel grouping as the red and green colored sub-pixels. Various embodiments for performing sub-pixel rendering on the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080297542 - Projector, image display system, and image processing system: The image processing device stores a fixed horizontal resolution and a fixed vertical resolution established in advance for use in resolution conversion of an input image. The first resolution converter of the image processing device converts the input image to a fixed resolution-converted image so that at least a horizontal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080297543 - Automatic coarseness setting method in video display apparatus: An automatic coarseness setting method in a video display apparatus is provided. According to the automatic coarseness setting method, when an automatic adjustment command is input or when a new mode video signal is received to the video display apparatus, a pixel clock of an input video signal is detected,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080297544 - Method for detecting resolution and timing controller: The invention discloses a method for detecting resolution and a timing controller. The method includes following steps: first, receiving a set of image control signals; judging resolution of image data. Wherein, the resolution of the image data includes a resolution of first dimension and a resolution of second dimension. The... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC