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

20090278763 - System having capability for daisy-chained serial distribution of video display data: A serial display interface such as the VESA-Display Port interface is expanded to support daisy chained coupling of one display monitor to the next. Each daisy chain wise connectable display monitor has a local daisy chain transceiver device associated with it where the local transceiver device selectively picks off passing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090278764 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus 10 includes a lower housing 11, an upper housing 21, a lower LCD 12, an outer camera, a plurality of buttons 14A to 14E, and a touch panel 13. The lower housing 11 has a horizontally long shape. The upper housing 21 has a horizontally long shape,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090278765 - Image adjustment and processing for a head up display of a vehicle: A system and related methods for processing images in a head up display (HUD) system of a vehicle are provided. The images are processed by adjusting the image data in a manner that compensates for different shape and contour characteristics of the windshield of the vehicle. One processing method begins... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20090278766 - Display apparatus and display method: An adequate display operation control in accordance with the external world situation is realized. For example, where a user wears the wearing unit of a spectacle-shaped or head-worn unit, the user is made to be able to view any type of image on the display section immediately in front of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090278767 - Data access method for a timing controller of a flat panel display and related device: A data access method for a timing controller of a flat panel display includes forming a line buffer including a plurality of memory cells in the timing controller, dividing the plurality of memory cells into a first section and a second section, wherein the number of memory cells in the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090278768 - Method and apparatus for processing video data for display on a plasma display panel: A method and an apparatus for processing video data for display on a plasma display panel include dividing gray level values reverse gamma corrected with respect to input gray level values into an integer portion, an upper decimal fraction portion and a lower decimal fraction portion. The lower decimal fraction... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090278770 - Active matrix organic light emitting display (amoled) device: The present invention relates to an active matrix OLED (Organic Light Emitting Display) device. It comprises a matrix of luminous elements associated to different colour components (red, green, blue). According to the invention, the connection of the row driver and/or data driver to the luminous elements of the matrix is... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090278769 - Digital picture frame system: A digital picture frame system includes a storage unit, a display unit, a control unit, a first port, a first user interface and a power supply unit. The control unit is electrically connected with the storage unit and the display unit to access the storage unit and deliver a picture... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090278771 - El display panel, electronic instrument and panel driving method: Disclosed herein is an organic electro luminescence display panel provided with a pixel structure and a wiring structure which are adapted to an active matrix driving method; and driven by an electric potential asserted on each multi-consecutive-row bundle composed of adjacent power-supply lines, which are electrically tied to each other,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090278772 - Organic light emitting display and method for driving the same: An organic light emitting display and a method for driving the same. An organic light emitting display includes: a frame memory having a first portion configured to store a first portion of image signals that is the same in an n−1th frame and an nth frame, and a second portion... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090278773 - Organic light emitting display and method of driving the same: An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof, capable of increasing manufacturing yield by widening a range of gamma correction. An exemplary organic light emitting display includes a display region with pixels at crossings of data and scan lines; a gamma correction unit; a gamma correction circuit; a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090278774 - Content-adaptive adjustment system and method: A content-adaptive adjustment system and method for a light-emitting display is disclosed. An analysis unit analyzes, for example, the average data intensity/power consumption and the data distribution of the image data to be displayed. An adjustment unit then adjusts, for example, the pixel values of the image data or the... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090278775 - Display apparatus and control method of the same: A display apparatus includes: a display unit which displays an image; and a signal controller which generates a first sub-frame having a mean brightness by calculating the mean brightness of an original frame input from an outside, generates at least one second sub-frame for compensating the first sub-frame on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090278776 - Method for driving an lcd device: A method for driving an LCD device having a plurality of sets of gate lines is disclosed. The method includes sequentially enabling odd gate lines of a first set of gate lines in ascending order for writing first-polarity data into corresponding pixels based on a first common voltage during a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090278777 - Pixel circuit and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuit includes a pixel capacitor, a storage capacitor, a first transistor and a second transistor. A common node is between the storage capacitor and the pixel capacitor. The first transistor is electrically connected between a data line and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278778 - Electro-optical device: Provided is an electro-optical device including: a display unit including a plurality of display areas in which pixels are arranged; common electrodes provided in correspondence with the plurality of display areas; pixel electrodes provided in correspondence with the pixels and facing the common electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278779 - Lcd device based on dual source drivers with data writing synchronous control mechanism and related driving method: An LCD device having dual source drivers and related driving method are disclosed for performing data signal driving operation by making use of a data writing synchronous control mechanism. The operation of the data writing synchronous control mechanism includes furnishing all image data signals to both the first and second... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090278780 - Liquid crystal display and switching voltage controlling circuit thereof: A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a switching voltage controlling circuit thereof are provided. The LCD includes a display panel and a number of gate drivers. The switching voltage controlling circuit includes a current-controlled switch, a transmission line, and a feedback circuit. A first terminal and a second terminal of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278781 - Tunable current driver and operating method thereof: A tunable current driver comprising a semiconductor memory device and a selective transistor is provided, in which one of the source/drain pair of the semiconductor memory device is electrically coupled with a lighting device, and one of the source/drain pair of the selective transistor is electrically coupled with the gate... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090278784 - Analog buffer circuit capable of compensating threshold voltage variation of transistor: A buffer circuit includes a driving circuit, a biasing circuit, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a fifth switch, a sixth switch, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. Both the first and second switches are turned on in response to a high voltage... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090278785 - Displays: A display includes a glass substrate, a source driver and a gate driver. The glass substrate includes multiple pixels. The source driver is used to drives the pixels, and the gate driver disposed on the glass substrate enables the pixels. The gate driver has (N+1) shift registers. The nth shift... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090278782 - Gate driving waveform control: A gate driver and associated method for a double gate liquid crystal display (LCD) is disclosed. A gate driving signal generating circuit, such as coupled shift registers, generates the gate driving signals in response to horizontal synchronization signal. In one embodiment, a phase control circuit, such as logic AND gates,... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090278783 - Liquid crystal display with slim borders and driving method thereof: g

20090278788 - Discharge tube, ferrule, lighting device, display device and television receiver: In a discharge tube, a conductive ferrule is provided on an end portion of a glass tube. The ferrule includes a body that is to be mounted to the outer circumference of the glass tube and has a contact portion to be electrically conductively fixed to a relay connector (or... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090278790 - Display device and brightness controlling method therefor: Disclosed is an intelligent display device which has an adaptive backlight brightness control function of controlling the brightness of a backlight according to the gray scale level of an image data displayed by frame unit, and a method for controlling brightness of image in the display device. The display device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090278787 - Merchandise display systems for lighting control devices: Merchandise display systems for lighting control devices are disclosed. Such a display system may include one or more distinct lighting control devices, each having a respective user-manipulatable actuator, and a video display that presents a virtual lighting scene associated with a selected lighting control device. A lighting load may be... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090278786 - Methods and apparatus of dynamic backlight control: A method of adjusting image intensity to compensate backlight dimming in dynamic backlight control, the method including estimating distortion of an image that corresponds to different mapping index values 204 selected from the intensity levels 202 of an image. The estimated distortion of image represents factors including the quantity of... Agent: The H.t. Than Law Group

20090278789 - Scanning backlight color control: A scanning backlight (70) for a display, the backlight having a number of sections separately illuminated, a controller (20) to control the illuminating of the different sections at different times, and to control relative luminance levels of the different sections, and the backlight having a sensor (60) to detect a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090278792 - Identifying user by measuring pressure of button presses on user input device: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a user identifier circuit, a button pressure signature specifying a sequence of button pressure values sampled while a corresponding identified button of a user input device is pressed by a user; the user identifier circuit identifying the user of the user input... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090278793 - Information processing device, information processing method, and medium recording information processing program: A solid body that can be held by a user, a measurement section that is provided in the solid body and measures a state of the solid body with respect to three-dimensional space to obtain state information, a recognition section that recognizes a section facing a predetermined direction among a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090278795 - Interactive input system and illumination assembly therefor: An illumination assembly for an interactive input system comprises at least two proximate radiation sources directing radiation into a region of interest, each of the radiation sources having a different emission angle.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090278794 - Interactive input system with controlled lighting: An interactive input system comprises at least one imaging device capturing images of a region of interest, a plurality of radiation sources, each providing illumination to the region of interest and a controller coordinating the operation of the radiation sources and the at least one imaging device to allow separate... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090278791 - Motion tracking system: A motion tracking system for tracking an object composed of object parts in a three-dimensional space. The system comprises a number of magnetic field transmitters; a number of field receivers for receiving the magnetic fields of the field transmitters; a number of inertial measurement units for recording a linear acceleration;... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090278796 - Program, information storage medium, determination device, and determination method: A determination device stores a plurality of pieces of reference data associated with a predetermined movement pattern of a controller, and determines whether or not output values that respectively have a given relationship with reference data have been output from an acceleration sensor in a predetermined order within an input... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278797 - Method and system for operating personal computer through motion recognition: A method and a system for operating a personal computer through motion recognition are described to enable the personal computer to perform corresponding operations in response to finger motions of a user. The system comprises of a plurality of colored finger cots respectively worn on different fingers of the user;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090278798 - Active fingertip-mounted object digitizer: A finger-mounted implement including a kinesthetic sensor, at least one tactile sensor, and means for securing the kinesthetic sensor and the at least one tactile sensor to a fingertip. The tactile sensor may be a thin-film force transducer, a piezoelectric accelerometer, or a combination thereof. An artificial fingernail may be... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090278799 - Computer vision-based multi-touch sensing using infrared lasers: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates detecting a plurality of inputs simultaneously. A laser component can be coupled to a line generating (LG) optic that can create a laser line from an infrared (IR) laser spot, wherein the laser component and line generating (LG)... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090278800 - Method of locating an object in 3d: Methods and devices for calculating the position of a movable device are disclosed. The device may include multiple optical detectors (ODs) and the movable device may include light sources. Optics may be above the ODs. A controller may calculate the position of the light source based on data from the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090278801 - Method for executing command associated with mouse gesture: A method for executing a predetermined command associated with a mouse gesture includes the steps of: (1) recording a motion track of the mouse; (2) calculating a distance of the motion track of the mouse; if the distance is less than a predetermined value, returning to step (1); (3) transforming... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090278802 - Mouse structure for generating encoding signals: A mouse structure for generating encoding signals includes a main body, a turntable unit and a signal encoder. The main body has a PCB disposed therein. The turntable unit has a turntable and a movable body connected to the turntable, the turntable unit is rotatably disposed on the main body,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090278803 - Facilitating input of user name and password from device having keypad layout different than keypad layout of device used to establish user name and password: If a user establishes a user name and password using a conventional telephone keypad and subsequently wishes to access the account using a PDA with a different key layout, the user is aided by displaying an image of the conventional telephone keypad on the PDA which the user can touch... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090278804 - Handheld electronic device and associated method enabling text input in a language employing non-roman characters: A handheld device includes a plurality of input members, a first set of which each have a Roman character assigned thereto, a least some of which have a first non-Roman and a second non-Roman character assigned thereto. In response to an actuation of a first one of the input members,... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090278805 - Electronic device with switchable user interface and electronic device with accessible touch operation: An electronic device with switchable user interface and an electronic device with accessible touch operation are provided. The electronic device with switchable user interface includes a display, a touch sensing means, a position detecting module and a processing module. The touch sensing means is used for sensing a touch of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278806 - Extended touch-sensitive control area for electronic device: A touch-sensitive display screen is enhanced by a touch-sensitive control area that extends beyond the edges of the display screen. The touch-sensitive area outside the display screen, referred to as a “gesture area,” allows a user to activate commands using a gesture vocabulary. In one aspect, the present invention allows... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20090278812 - Method and apparatus for control of multiple degrees of freedom of a display: A method for controlling multiple degrees of freedom of a display using a single contiguous sensing region of a sensing device is disclosed. The single contiguous sensing region is separate from the display. The method comprises: detecting a gesture in the single contiguous sensing region; causing rotation about a first... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (syna)

20090278808 - Method for controlling pointing device, pointing device and computer-readable storage medium: An input mode is controlled in such a manner that a one-point input mode is set as an initial state, the one-point input mode is changed to a two-point input mode when both the first input point and the second input point are turned on and the two-point input mode... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090278807 - Password input using touch duration code: On a device such as a music player that has no keypad with which to enter a password, the duration of each user touch on a touchscreen is noted, with different touch durations being correlated to respective code elements. A sequence of code elements may be correlated to a predetermined... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090278809 - Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus and information processing method: A game apparatus includes two LCDs, and a game screen is displayed on one LCD, and a touch panel is set on the other LCD. A game screen for teaching an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance is displayed, and music for teaching the input... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090278813 - Touch panel: The present invention provides a touch panel used in a display device. The touch panel of the present invention is configured to display images and to receive as well as to process instructions inputted by user's touches. A display substrate partially overlaps with an image driving circuit substrate of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090278810 - Touch panel and portable electronic device thereof: A touch panel and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. The present invention can accurately determine a position touched by a user on the touch panel by judging whether or not a potential voltage value between a reference capacitor and a sensing capacitor of a pixel having a sensing... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278814 - Touch panel and touch display comprising the same: A touch panel and a touch display comprising the touch panel. The touch panel comprises: a top substrate comprising a communicating electrode formed thereon; a bottom substrate disposed on the top substrate, the bottom substrate being smaller than the top substrate so that a circumference of the top substrate overhangs... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090278811 - Touch-sensitive screen and a touch-sensitive device using the same: A touch-sensitive screen and a resistance touch-sensitive device using the same, wherein said screen comprises: an insulating substrate, a rectangular conducting layer formed on said insulating substrate, a conducting layer electrode array formed on the four edges of said conducting layer, a conductive coat formed on said conducting layer, and... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090278815 - Touch panel: A touch panel includes a first substrate, a first electrode layer, a second substrate, a second electrode layer and an extrinsic spacing layer. The first electrode layer is disposed on the first substrate, and the second substrate is parallel to the first substrate. The second electrode layer is disposed on... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278816 - Systems and methods for resolving multitouch scenarios using software filters: Software heuristics can be applied to determine which two points of a plurality of potential touch points are likely actual touch points based on a potential touch point's location relative to a predefined touch area and/or a characteristic of a hypothetical touch corresponding to the potential touch point. For instance,... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090278817 - Touch-screen apparatus and image-capturing system thereof: A touch-screen apparatus provides input commands from touch or moving action of single point touch, multi points touch by a user for implement of image capture. The touch-screen apparatus is coupled with a control interface of image capture via wire or wireless method, which provides the user another selection to... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC National City Bank Building

20090278818 - Thumb worn tap devices and storage holders for use with handheld electronics: A tap device for use when selecting icons or keying data into a touch screen hand-held electronic device includes a base and associated sleeve that is worn around the thumb. A conductive nib projects outwardly from an opposite side of the base at an angle to the axis of the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090278819 - Controlling haptic sensations for vibrotactile feedback interface devices: An apparatus comprises an actuator that includes an eccentric mass that is coupled to a rotatable shaft of the actuator which defines an axis of rotation. A circuit is coupled to the actuator, the circuit is configured to produce a control signal such that, when the control signal is received... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20090278820 - Method for entering commands and/or characters for a portable communication devic equipped with a tilt senfor: Portable communication devices are disclosed. The devices each include a motion detector configured to measure a movement of the device relative to a neutral position of the device, an indicating unit configured to provide an indication that a current position of the device is to be set as the neutral... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090278826 - Apparatus for producing effect of rotating circular display: An apparatus for producing the effect of a rotating circular display includes a plurality of display panels being connected into a polygonal array and respectively comprising a matrix of pixels and a driving circuit being electrically connected to the display panels and configured for selectively illuminating the pixels. The angle... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20090278824 - Driving a light scanner: Driving a light scanner at a resonant frequency of the light scanner using a phase delay compensated driving signal.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090278823 - Image frame regulation system and image frame regulating method: An image frame regulation system includes a display module a timing controller and the timing converter. The timing controller is coupled to the display module. The timing controller outputs image data to the display module and outputs a timing control command. The timing control command includes a vertical sync signal,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090278825 - Method and system for processing video signals: A method and system for processing video signals are applied to a video environment enabling a user to select the contents of a display screen and then processing the pixel of the selected screen contents for presentation to meet the demands of the user.... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090278821 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device includes an AD converter; a video signal processing circuit producing subfield data; a subfield processing circuit producing control signals of each of drive circuits; a plasma display panel having scan electrodes and sustain electrodes which are alternately arranged in n rows, and data electrodes in (k+m)... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090278822 - Plasma display device: A plasma display panel includes a front substrate and a rear substrate faced to each other to form a discharge space therebetween. The front substrate includes a plurality of display electrodes, each made of a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. The rear substrate includes a plurality of data electrodes... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090278827 - Power consumption of display apparatus during still image display mode: A plurality of gate lines (51) connected to a gate driver (50) for supplying gate signals and a plurality of drain lines (61) connected to a drain driver (60) for supplying drain signals are provided on a substrate (10). Pixels (200) are formed in the regions surrounded by these lines.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090278828 - Method and apparatus for automatic brightness adjustment on a display of a mobile electronic device: A system and method is provided for use in a mobile electronic device for adjusting brightness of a display on the mobile electronic device. The method comprises collecting a plurality of light sensor samples using an ambient light sensor of the mobile electronic device; calculating a representative value of the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090278829 - Electro-optic device, driving method, and electronic apparatus: An electro-optic device includes pixels provided in correspondence with intersections between a number Rreal of plural scanning lines and plural data lines and turned on or off in accordance with data signals each supplied to the data lines when the scanning lines are selected. In the electro-optic device, one field... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090278832 - Device and method for driving liquid crystal display device: Device and method for driving a liquid crystal display device where a driving voltage level is varied with the temperature of an operating environment of the liquid crystal display device to improve display quality. The device includes a liquid crystal display panel, gate and data drivers for driving gate and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090278834 - Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and electronic instrument: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel matrix section including pixel circuits laid out to form a pixel matrix to serve as pixel circuits each having an electro optical device, a signal writing transistor, a signal storage capacitor, and a device driving transistor, and a power-supply section configured... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090278833 - Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and eletronic instrument: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel matrix section including pixel circuits laid out to form a pixel matrix to serve as pixel circuits each having an electro optical device, a signal writing transistor, a signal storage capacitor, and a device driving transistor, and a power-supply section configured... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090278830 - Display control device: A display control device equipped with a controller (101) is provided with a state determination unit (214) for judging the power supply management state of a display on the basis of a combination of presence/absence of a horizontal sync signal (204) and a vertical sync signal (208), whereby the four... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090278831 - Display device: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a display device. In an embodiment, the display device includes a scanning signal line for transferring a scanning signal, a data line crossing the scanning signal line and transferring a data voltage, a switching transistor connected to the scanning signal line and the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090278835 - Mother substrate of organic light emitting display devices and method of aging the same: A mother substrate of an organic light emitting display device capable of effectively aging a plurality of organic light emitting display panels by sheet unit without scribing the panels is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a substrate of an organic light emitting display device, including a plurality... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090278836 - Method of driving plasma display panel: A method of driving a plasma display panel is provided. The method includes supplying a data signal to at least one of a plurality of address electrodes during an address period of at least one subfield of a plurality of subfields, and supplying a first signal opposite a direction of... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090278838 - Driving circuit and driving controller capable of adjusting internal impedance: A driving circuit includes a power supply, a plurality of conductive paths and a plurality of driving controller. The power supply is configured for providing a predetermined voltage. The conductive paths are connected to the power supply to receive the predetermined voltage. The driving controllers are connected to the conductive... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090278837 - Luminous display and method for controlling the same: A luminous display includes pixels arranged in rows and columns. Control signals that are used for controlling first switches for measuring parameters of pixel cells in a first row are also used to control second switches for programming pixel cells in a second row. In this way it is possible... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090278839 - Managing landbases and machine operations performed thereon: A method for management of a land base includes interfacing a machine or equipment to a computer running a geographical information system (GIS) application such that the computer is configured to monitor the operations performed by the equipment or machine on the land base and store the operations as map... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090278840 - Virtual environment simulating travel by various modes of transportation: A restaurant comprising a virtual reality environment simulating travel by a mode of transportation, such as a train or a boat, to allow individuals seating in the restaurant to have the impression of travelling while enjoying their meals. The restaurant comprises a dining room having side walls, each side wall... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090278843 - Computer aided design of three-dimensional cartons with curved creases: A method, a computer readable medium with instructions to execute a method, and a carton designed using a method. The method includes accepting a specification of a carton made up of a substrate and having at least one curved crease. The method further includes for a curved crease, accepting a... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090278841 - Managing use limitations in a virtual universe resource conservation region: A virtual universe can include regions that conserve natural resource usage. A virtual universe natural resource conservation system (“system”) can determine that an avatar is accessing a natural resource conservation region in a virtual universe. The natural resource conservation region is supported with one or more devices that adhere to... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090278844 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding 3d mesh information including stitching information: Provided are encoding and decoding stitching information generated when the 3D mesh model that is the non-manifold or non-orientable model is converted into orientable and manifold models upon encoding the 3D mesh information of the 3D mesh model. The method of encoding 3D mesh information includes the steps of: encoding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090278842 - Method and system for optimized streaming game server: Exemplary embodiments include an interception mechanism for rendering commands generated by interactive applications, and a feed-forward control mechanism based on the processing of the commands on a rendering engine, on a pre-filtering module, and on a visual encoder. Also a feed-back control mechanism from the encoder is described. The mechanism... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090278845 - Image generating device, texture mapping device, image processing device, and texture storing method: A vertex sorter 114 converts a polygon structure instance into a polygon/sprite shared data Cl, and a vertex expander 116 converts a sprite structure instance into a polygon/sprite shared data Cl in the same format. Subsequent circuits 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 11, 130 and 132 generate an image to... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20090278846 - System and method for geometric modeling of tubular structures: v

20090278847 - Simplifying the presentation of a visually complex semantic model within a graphical modeling application: A model simplification tool can receive a command to simplify the presentation of a visually complex semantic model from a graphical modeling application. The visually complex semantic model can be comprised of a multitude of object representations and their associations, such that the usability of the model is impaired. An... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090278848 - Drawing familiar graphs while system determines suitable form: A graphical user interface system is provided. The system includes a graphical component to enable sketching of a diagram and a logical component to associate one or more data sources with the diagram. A visualization component adjusts the diagram in accordance with the one or more data sources.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090278849 - Method and system for segmented propagation visualization: A method and system for visualizing the propagation of a radio-frequency (RF) signal between a first wireless device and a second wireless device is provided. The method includes segmenting (304) the RF signal along its propagation path, based on the one or more characteristics associated with the propagation of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090278850 - Image creating device, image creating method, information recording medium, and program: In an image creating device (201) for creating an image viewably showing the distribution of an environment parameter of the environment around a character in a virtual space, a parameter acquiring unit (202) acquires an environment parameter of the environment around a character in each direction from the character, a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090278851 - Method and system for animating an avatar in real time using the voice of a speaker: This is a method and a system for animating on a screen (3, 3′, 3″) of a mobile apparatus (4, 4′, 4″) an avatar (2, 2′, 2″) furnished with a mouth (5, 5′) using an input sound signal (6) corresponding to the voice (7) of a speaker (8) having a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090278853 - Character input program, character input device, and character input method: This invention easily realizes a process of changing the display order of the candidates according to various input states. In a character input device of a mobile telephone, a wide variety of attributes representing an input state are set, and a conversion dictionary in which the attributes are registered in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090278852 - Control of 3d objects in a light displaying device: Transition effects on 3D objects are carried out in a shader of a graphic processing unit.... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090278854 - Liquid crystal display and method for controlling same: An LCD includes an OSD system and a gamma correction circuit. The OSD system includes an input system for setting gamma values. The gamma correction circuit includes a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of sub-look-up tables, each corresponding to a gamma value. Each sub-look-up table stores a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090278855 - Memory structures for image processing: A display system comprises line buffer memory that stores input image data in a first color space, and a plurality of gamut mapping modules that accept the input image data from the line buffer memory and performs a gamut mapping operation to produce mapped image data specified in a second... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090278856 - Color processing apparatus and method: In order to calculate the calorimetric value of a color patch under a given viewing illuminant, a plurality of colorimetric value sets obtained by measuring the colors of color patches under a plurality of illuminants are stored in a memory, the type of spectral distribution and white point information of... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090278859 - Closed form method and system for matting a foreground object in an image having a background: In a method and system for matting a foreground object F having an opacity α constrained by associating a characteristic with selected pixels in an image having a background B, weights are determined for all edges of neighboring pixels for the image and used to build a Laplacian matrix L.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090278858 - Information processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing program: In an information processing apparatus, object data based on a part of, e.g., a scan image is extracted and the extracted object data is stored in relation to attribute information of the relevant object data. The object data correlated to the attribute information, which matches with a search condition input... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090278857 - Method of forming an image based on a plurality of image frames, image processing system and digital camera: Image fusion based on a modified method of frame averaging for noise removal by partly averaging over images having a smaller resolution than the desired resolution of the de-noised image. The set of images which are summed for averaging out noise consists of two subsets. The first set of images... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090278861 - Displaying still and moving images of a constant size or images that occupy a specified percentage of a screen across different size display screens: Advertisers specify the size of an ad in pixels or in physical units such as inches or millimeters. The physical square area of an ad specified in pixels will change as the physical size of the television screen or computer display screen varies. The number of pixels of an ad... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090278860 - Method of displaying input from a portable computing device: A method and system is described for displaying input from a portable computing device to a second computing device. On the second computing device, a display region is created. The region may be a stand alone application or a region inside an application. The second computing device then receives a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090278864 - Display method of liquid crystal display device: A display method of a liquid crystal display device is provided. First, a liquid crystal display device is provided. Then, the relationship between a gray level and brightness of various view angles is detected. After that, a relationship table of input gray level and output gray level of the corresponding... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090278868 - Driving circuit for display apparatus, and method for controlling same: To obtain an amplifier circuit capable of realizing low power consumption and high-precision output. A controlling unit controls each switch of an offset correction circuit to select one capacitor associated with a voltage level of an input signal selected by an input signal selection unit, have an offset voltage of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090278866 - Gamma corrected display device: A display device includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, a data driver adapted to supply data signals to the pixels, and a timing controller adapted to supply data control signals and image data to the data driver, wherein the timing controller is adapted to divide the pixel... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090278862 - Image display: There is disclosed an image display displaying a multicolor image by using image data expressing color components of a first color specification system. The image display is provided with a display unit displaying an image by a second color specification system which is different from the first color specification system,... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090278867 - Multiprimary color display with dynamic gamut mapping: The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels wherein one such colored subpixel is substantially wide spectrum bandpass; a transmissive... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090278863 - Plasma display panel drive method and plasma display device: A panel drive method and a plasma display device which increase the luminance of a panel and enable further reduction of power consumption are provided with the following configuration. One field is composed of a plurality of subfields including a address period during which a address discharge is selectively induced... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090278865 - Source driver and display device including the same: A source driver having a small layout area and low power consumption includes a signal generation block generating a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) signals and a plurality of staircase waveform grayscale voltage signals according to a digital code generated based on an oscillation signal and a channel driver.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090278869 - Display device: A one-frame interval is divided into a light field interval and a dark field interval. In the light field interval, the display data of high tones is displayed, while in the dark field interval, the display data of low tones is displayed. This divisional display makes it possible to pseudoly... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090278870 - Method of displaying pixels using fractional pulse width modulation: A method for displaying a pixel on a display system using a series of digital pulses obtained by first determining a minimum pulse width (MPW) capable of displaying a pixel on the display system and then using a series of pulses for the display of the pixel, where at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090278871 - Controlling display resolution of a computer display: Methods, apparatus, and products for controlling display resolution of a computer display, the computer display connected through a display resolution controller to a computer, including: retrieving, by a display resolution controller from a computer display, extended display identification data (‘EDID’) of the computer display, the EDID including an actual maximum... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090273539 - Computer with multiple screens: A laptop computer, notebook or personal computer may include a base member including computer electronics, a first screen positioned substantially over the base member and electrically connected to the base member, and a second screen extending substantially vertically from the first screen and electrically connected to the base member. The... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20090273540 - System and method for providing uniform brightness in seam portions of tiled images: The present invention provides method for producing a substantially seamless video image on a display surface. The method comprises the steps of separately projecting at least a first and a second video image onto a display surface such that a seam is defined by overlapping portions of said first and... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090273541 - Frame rate conversion apparatus, frame rate conversion method, and computer-readable storage medium: A frame rate conversion apparatus for performing frame rate conversion upon distributing an input-frame into a plurality of sub-frames detects the degree of motion of an image in the input-frame, determines the amount of distribution of the plurality of sub-frames in accordance with the detected degree of motion, and distributes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090273542 - Content presentation apparatus, and content presentation method: The content presentation apparatus according to the present invention includes: a purpose information storage unit (103) which stores purpose information; a representative information storage unit (109) which stores representative information included in the purpose information; an adapted information obtaining unit (106) which obtains adapted information adapted to the states of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090273544 - Plasma display device and driving method thereof: A plasma display device includes an electrode performing a display operation, an inductor having a first end and a second end that is connected to a first power source supplying a first voltage, first and second switches connected in series between the first end of the inductor and the electrode,... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090273543 - System and method for updating updateable wall art: A system and method for updating or changing a digital display device for presenting and showing wall art, the device comprising a flat LCD display configured with a processing element for receiving, storing, selecting and presenting images from external sources. The digital display device communicates with an external service or... Agent: David E. Orr

20090273545 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes, sustain electrodes, and address electrodes are formed on substrates to form a discharge cell and electrode driving parts for driving the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273547 - Display apparatus and display-apparatus driving method: Disclosed herein is a driving method for driving a display apparatus, the display apparatus including: N×M light emitting units; M scan lines; N data lines; a driving circuit provided for each of the light emitting units to serve as a circuit having a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090273548 - Display device: A display device includes: a display element including a plurality of sub-elements connected to retention capacities, respectively; a plurality of writing transistors arranged corresponding to the sub-elements, respectively, and writing an image signal to the retention capacities; and a plurality of driving transistors driving the sub-elements, respectively based on the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090273546 - Organic electroluminescent display device and driving method of the same: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a power supply unit outputting a driving voltage, a base voltage and a reference voltage, a source driving unit outputting a data voltage, a gate driving unit outputting a positive scan signal and a negative scan signal, a timing control unit controlling the source... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090273550 - Display having a transistor-degradation circuit: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including a device having a liquid-crystal display (LCD) panel that includes a transistor-degradation circuit. In some embodiments, the transistor-degradation circuit is configured to output a signal indicative of a change in a property of a transistor on the LCD panel over time.... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20090273549 - Improvements to bistable nematic liquid crystal displays: A method for addressing a bistable nematic matrix LCD having two stable textures without any applied electric field. Pixel addressing is of the passive multiplex type. The method includes selecting the value of the electrical voltage applied between the substrates so that an average value of the voltage, preferably the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090273551 - Gamma correction apparatus and a method of the same: A gamma correction apparatus comprising a digital to analog converter (DAC), a plurality of compensating circuits, and at least one adjusting circuit is provided. The DAC is used to receive RGB digital signals to further generate analog signals. The analog signals are then transferred to the relative pixel devices through... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090273552 - Display apparatus and driving method thereof: A display apparatus includes a panel part, a data driver, and a gate driver. The panel part includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of pixels each of which is connected to one gate line of the gate lines and one data line... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090273554 - Electro-optical device: Provided is an electro-optical device including: pixel electrodes provided in intersections of gate lines and data lines; counter electrodes provided to face the pixel electrodes with an electro-optical material interposed therebetween; and storage capacitors each of which one end is connected to each of the pixel electrodes, wherein, if data... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273553 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including data lines and gate lines crossing each other and liquid crystal cells, a timing control signal generating unit, a data drive circuit supplying a data voltage... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090273555 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing signal multiplying circuit multiplying a frequency of a timing signal, a timing control signal generating circuit generating a polarity control signal based on the multiplied timing signal, a polarity control... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090273556 - Display device: To make a conventional area grayscale display technique applicable to a driving method that is designed to write data in a vertical blanking interval. A display panel with multiple pixels and a display controller that receives an input video signal and a sync signal and gets an image presented on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090273557 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a data drive circuit that supplies a data voltage, whose a polarity is periodically inverted, to the data lines, a gate drive circuit, and a timing controller. The gate drive circuit sequentially... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090273558 - Backlight driving circuit and driving method for driving the same: A backlight driving circuit and a method for driving the same, which are capable of preventing a flicker phenomenon and delay of response, are disclosed. The backlight driving circuit includes a selective filtering unit for comparing dimming signals currently supplied for a current frame with dimming signals previously stored for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090273561 - Device control system: A device control system allows a user-owned terminal to control a control providing device. A control requester in the terminal sends a terminal message including coordinate information of a display screen and an identifier of the terminal. In response, a control request response processor in the control providing device assigns... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090273559 - Game device that generates a display with a simulated body image and methods for use therewith: A game device includes a first receiver that receives body motion signals from a plurality of remote motion sensing device coupled to a user's body. A user data generation module generates simulated body image data. A processor executes a game application that generates display signals for display on a display... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090273560 - Sensor-based distributed tangible user interface: A distributed tangible user interface comprises compact, self-powered, tangible user interface manipulative devices having sensing, display, and wireless communication capabilities, along with one or more associated digital content or other interactive software management applications. The manipulative devices display visual representations of digital content or program controls and can be physically... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20090273562 - Enhancing computer screen security using customized control of displayed content area: A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the computer screen security. The gaze of a user on a screen is tracked. The locations of the screen other than the location of the gaze of the user are distorted. Information is displayed in an area on the screen (“content... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20090273563 - Programmable tactile touch screen displays and man-machine interfaces for improved vehicle instrumentation and telematics: Disclosed are new methods and apparatus particularly suited for applications in a vehicle, to provide a wide range of information, and the safe input of data to a computer controlling the vehicle subsystems or “Telematic” communication using for example GM's “ONSTAR” or cellular based data sources. Preferred embodiments utilize new... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090273564 - Input device to control elements of graphical user interfaces: An input device to control elements of graphical user interfaces has at least one input element with multiple buttons (keys), and at least one rotatable input element that is actuated at least along one essentially horizontal axis, and at least one elevation (18) that extends essentially perpendicular to a primary... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090273565 - Systems, methods, and cumputer-readable media for invoking an electronic ink or handwriting interface: User interfaces, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for activating and/or displaying text input systems on display devices may include: (a) displaying a text input system activation target at a user changeable location on a display device; (b) receiving user input directed to the activation target; and (c) activating a text... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090273567 - Computing device keyboard: Methods and devices are provided for inputting data via a thumboard utilizing a seven (7) column by five (5) row matrix hosting 30 keys. These keys can be dynamically variable using visually alternating indicia and can provide over 150 key inputs including characters, numbers, functions, symbols, navigation controls, media controls,... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20090273566 - Electronic device system utilizing a character input method: A character input method is implemented in a device with a plurality of keys. If a key is activated by a first operation matching a first input pattern, a first route is selected to traverse a plurality of characters corresponded by the key during presentation of the plurality of characters.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090273576 - Display device: Devices, systems, and methods for directing a beam of light into a display such that the beam of light undergoes internal reflection within the display and capturing a reflected light beam are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090273571 - Gesture recognition: A state machine gesture recognition algorithm for interpreting streams of coordinates received from a touch sensor. The gesture recognition code can be written in a high level language such as C and then compiled and embedded in a microcontroller chip, or CPU chip as desired. The gesture recognition code can... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Atmel

20090273568 - Information management and display system: An information management and display system includes a content management server and at least one retailer, a client advertisements server and at least one content display device communicating with the content management server. The client advertisements server is adapted to store advertising information, the content management server is adapted to... Agent: Gold & Rizvi, P.A.

20090273570 - Multi-touch sensor patterns and stack-ups: Capacitive multi-touch sensor panels in which both row and column traces may be formed on a single conducting surface are disclosed. These stack-ups may be made thinner and more flexible allowing them to be particularly well-suited for curved or other non-flat touch sensor panels, such as those that might be... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20090273569 - Multiple touch input simulation using single input peripherals: A multiple touch input simulation for a virtual interactive display system using single input peripherals is disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a method for simulating a multiple touch input for a virtual interactive display system that receives a first input from a first input device, receives a second... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090273573 - Mutual capacitance touch sensing device: A mutual capacitive touch sensing device is disclosed. The device can include nodes for sensing a touch at the device and for sensing a force applied to the device. Some nodes can perform both touch and force sensing; while other nodes can perform touch sensing. The device can include distinct... Agent: Apple C/o Mofo Nova

20090273574 - Programmable tactile touch screen displays and man-machine interfaces for improved vehicle instrumentation and telematics: Disclosed are new methods and apparatus particularly suited for applications in a vehicle, to provide a wide range of information, and the safe input of data to a computer controlling the vehicle subsystems or “Telematic” communication using for example GM's “ONSTAR” or cellular based data sources. Preferred embodiments utilize new... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090273575 - Programmable tactile touch screen displays and man-machine interfaces for improved vehicle instrumentation and telematics: Disclosed are new methods and apparatus particularly suited for applications in a vehicle, to provide a wide range of information, and the safe input of data to a computer controlling the vehicle subsystems or “Telematic” communication using for example GM's “ONSTAR” or cellular based data sources. Preferred embodiments utilize new... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090273572 - Touch input device: A touch sensor input device includes a first and second array of electrodes, the electrodes in the first array being orthogonal to the electrodes in the second array. A capacitor sensing arrangement senses an electrode capacitance signal which varies in the presence of a touch input. The capacitance signals for... Agent: Liu & Liu

20090273577 - Moire-free touch screen with tilted or curved ito pattern: Touch screens that generate reduced Moiré effects are disclosed. To reduce Moiré effects, the columns (drive or sense lines) of a touch sensor panel can be oriented at an angle with respect to a display device so that the columns are not parallel with the sub-pixel and pixel arrangements of... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20090273579 - Multi-touch detection: A method for multi-touch detection in a touch input device comprising a grid based sensor, the method comprises sampling outputs from a grid based sensor over a first stage of detection, selecting sensor lines based on the sampled outputs, scanning the selected sensor lines along one axis of the grid... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090273578 - Sensing circuit, display device and electronic apparatus: A sensing circuit having a first substrate, a second substrate, a layer of dielectric material, a first electrode, a second electrode and an electrostatic capacitance detection unit is provided. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The dielectric material is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273581 - Display filter and display device having the same: A display filter for a display device having a display panel includes a base substrate disposed in front of the display panel; an optical filter part layered based on the base substrate and comprising at least an anti-reflection layer; and a touch signal sensing part layered on the base substrate... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090273580 - Sensing circuit, method of driving sensing circuit, display device, method of driving display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that face each other; electro-optical elements that are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; light detecting units that are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and output first detection signals having levels corresponding... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090273582 - Touch input program and touch input device: A game apparatus includes a CPU core. In response to a setting of a reverse input mode, the CPU core reverses vertically and horizontally BG/OBJ data corresponding to a question, and displays on an LCD an image based on the reversed BG/OBJ data. When a handwriting input operation associated with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090273583 - Contact sensitive display: An assembly may include a touch screen. A first element may be provided to cause the touch screen to vibrate at a predetermined frequency. A first sensor proximate to a first portion of the touch screen may measure vibration in the first portion of the touch screen. A second sensor... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090273584 - Flexible calibration surface: The efficient calibration of multi-touch sensor panels that have non-flat surfaces is disclosed. The calibration of the sensor panels can be accomplished using a calibration device with a flexible calibration surface. The flexible calibration surface is particularly well-suited for curved or other non-flat touch sensor panels, such as those that... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20090273586 - Device and method for composing and handling messages: A message composing device adapted for being used with for example handheld, portable communication devices such as a mobile phone, is provided together with a method for composing sending and receiving information between other communication devices.... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090273585 - Digital pen with switch function: A digital pen device used as a writing tool for inputting information to be used in a mobile telephone and as an erasing tool for erasing wrongly inputted information. The pen device may be provided with an accelerometer for identifying movements of the pen device corresponding to writing-like and erasing-like... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090273588 - Force-sensing electronic pen with user-replaceable cartridge: A force-sensing electronic pen comprises a user-replaceable cartridge, a retaining boot for securely retaining the cartridge, a force sensor coupled to the retaining boot, a spring for biasing the retaining boot towards engagement with the force sensor; and an end-stop for limiting travel of the retaining boot against the bias... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090273587 - Handheld electronic device, executing application method, and digital data storage media: An application executing method is provided. The application executing method is applied to a handheld electronic device having a body and a touch element. The touch element is disposed at the body. The application executing method comprises the following steps. Firstly, a communication mode is entered. Next, whether the touch... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090273589 - El device: An EL device includes a substrate having a square shape, an element-forming region provided on an upper surface of the substrate and having organic light-emitting elements, a protruding section arranged in a region between the element-forming region and an end portion of the substrate, and a protection film deposited in... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090273590 - Diaplay apparatus and display-apparatus driving method: Disclosed herein is a driving method for driving a display apparatus, the display apparatus including: N×M light emitting units; M scan lines; N data lines; a driving circuit provided for each of the light emitting units to serve as a circuit having a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090273591 - Semiconductor device, display panel and electronic apparatus: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of thin film transistors of a single channel formed on an insulating substrate, and a buffer circuit including an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a seventh thin film transistor; and an eighth thin film transistor.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090273592 - Pixel circuit, display panel, and driving method thereof: A pixel circuit includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel is coupled to a scan line and a data line, so as to determine whether to be enabled according to a first scan signal transmitted on the scan line, and whether to be driven according to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090273595 - Active matrix type display device: ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE In an active matrix type display device including two source line side drivers for driving a plurality of pixel TFTs, one gate line side driver, two line memories respectively including at least first and second memories, and a controller for controlling the first and second line... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090273594 - Apparatus and drive method for light emitting device array: A system and drive method for compensating intensity variation due to variation of operating cycles in a dynamically controlled system comprising a plurality of light emitting devices are provided in this invention.... Agent: Chen-jean Chou

20090273593 - Display device and electronic device: A display device of a type capable of narrowing the pitch, realizing narrowing of the frame, and further lowering the power consumption and an electronic device using the device, wherein two horizontal drive circuits 13U and 13D employ an RGB selector scheme by storing three digital data in sampling and... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090273596 - Systems and methods of actuating mems display elements: Methods of writing display data to MEMS display elements are configured to minimize charge buildup and differential aging. The methods may include writing data with opposite polarities, and periodically releasing and/or actuating MEMS elements during the display updating process. Actuating MEMS elements with potential differences higher than those used during... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090273597 - User interface screen layout analysis using hierarchical geometric features: A technique is disclosed for the performance of application software “screen layout” testing analysis by designation of “fiduciary blocks” (e.g., words, boxes etc.) to serve as geometrical features for identification of data fields of interest viewed within a graphical user interface (GUI) screen. The set of designated “geometric fiduciary blocks”... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090273600 - Design supporting apparatus and design supporting method: A design supporting apparatus calculates, based on flexible object model data as data concerning a flexible object fixed at least at two points, oscillation characteristic data as data concerning oscillation characteristics of the flexible object, and excitation force data as data concerning excitation force applied to the flexible object, an... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090273601 - Image presentation method and apparatus for 3d navigation and mobile device including the apparatus: Provided are a high-performance, real-time image presentation method and apparatus for a 3-dimensional (3D) navigation system that may be used in a mobile environment since a small amount of data and a simple algorithm are used, and a mobile device including the image presentation apparatus. The image presentation method includes:... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090273598 - Methods and apparatuses for automatically converting objects in cad drawing from two-dimensions to three-dimensions: Methods, apparatuses/systems, and software for converting graphic objects representing two-dimensional beams or columns within a drawing into three-dimensional beams or columns by locating all attribute labels within the drawing containing beam or column information, locating all two-dimensional graphic objects corresponding to the attribute labels, converting the attribute labels to simple... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20090273599 - Systems and methods for imaging relationship data in a three-dimensional image: Systems and methods for imaging relationship data as a three-dimensional image, which include rendering a three-dimensional image of an object having at least one attribute, an input marker relative to the object, an output marker relative to the object, and an input/output relationship. A data structure comprising a data field,... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20090273602 - Dynamic visualization of data streams: One embodiment of the present invention includes a data communication subsystem to receive a data stream, and a data processing subsystem responsive to the data communication subsystem to generate a visualization output based on a group of data vectors corresponding to a first portion of the data stream. The processing... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090273603 - Detecting connection topology in a multi processor graphics system: Multiple graphics processors in a graphics processing system are interconnected in a unidirectional or bidirectional ring topology, allowing pixels to transferred from any one graphics processor to any other graphics processor. The system can automatically identify one or more “master” graphics processors to which one or more monitors are connected... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090273604 - Processing vector graphics: Techniques, apparatus, and system are described for providing a vector graphics processor. In one aspect, a vector graphics processor includes a preprocessing unit configured to generate a vector graphics element for vector graphics processing in response to receiving element data parsed from content included in an application. The vector graphics... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090273605 - Operation checking method in information system, operation checking program therefor, recording medium, and operation checking system: An operation checking system in an information system due to automated reproduction of a screen operation has a function of converting screen operation data in accordance with a change in format of a screen or an input item, a function of converting a class name in accordance with a development... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090273606 - Rewind-enabled hardware encoder: Described herein are a number of approaches for implementing a video encoder with hardware-enabled rewind functionality. In several embodiments, rewind functionality can be implemented in hardware, in a manner which allows the transform engine of the encoder to reprocess video data, without requesting data from other stages in the encoder.... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090273607 - Display: A display device has a pixel that is defined by a plurality of sub-pixels. The sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel representing red, a green sub-pixel representing green, a blue sub-pixel representing blue and a yellow sub-pixel representing yellow. When the pixel represents white, the luminance of the red sub-pixel is... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090273608 - Systems, methods and apparatus to unambiguously outline a region of interest: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a graphical object is generated around a mathematical boundary of a region of interest in an image. The graphical object has varying opacity in which a higher opacity in areas of the graphical object in close proximity to the... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20090273609 - Color conversion apparatus, imaging apparatus, storage medium storing color conversion program, and storage medium storing imaging program: A predetermined display image is displayed on a display device, and a hue of the display image corresponding to an input position obtained from a pointing device is obtained. A predetermined range having the obtained hue at a center thereof is set as a conversion target range, and at least... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090273611 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus which converts a frame rate by dividing an input frame into subframes and outputting the subframes, comprises, a preprocessing unit adapted to perform preprocessing of replacing a pixel value of a pixel of interest with a minimum pixel value of peripheral pixels of the pixel of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090273610 - Virtual lesion quantification: A system and method for quantifying a region of interest in a medical image and in particular, a PET image. The system and method allow the clinician to make real time quantitative analysis of a region of interest. The system and method can be used to quantify small lesions within... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090273612 - Test-wearing image producing method for personal products: A method for test-wearing image producing method for a personal product includes the steps of: posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer; defining a display area and a masking area on the base image layer in responsive to the personal product being physically worn by... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090273613 - Method and apparatus for presentation of mosaic theme: The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus for the display of an animated mosaic theme utilizing user images or video. In one embodiment, the method may include electing a mosaic template that includes a plurality of tile regions. The method may also include loading a source image from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090273615 - Color conversion apparatus, imaging apparatus, storage medium storing color conversion program, and storage medium storing imaging program: A predetermined display image is displayed on a display device, and a hue of the display image corresponding to an input position obtained from a pointing device is obtained. A predetermined range having the obtained hue at a center thereof is set as a conversion target range, and at least... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090273618 - Digital-to-analog converter circuit, data driver, and display device using the digital-to-analog converter circuit: A data driver having a positive-polarity reference voltage generation circuit, a positive-polarity decoder, a first amplifier that outputs a positive-polarity gray scale voltage, a negative-polarity reference voltage generation circuit that generates a plurality of negative-polarity reference voltages, a negative-polarity decoder that outputs first to nth negative-polarity reference voltages from among... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090273617 - Display apparatus and display-apparatus driving method: Disclosed herein is a driving method for driving a, display apparatus, the display apparatus including: N×M light emitting units; M scan lines; N data lines; a driving circuit provided for each of the light emitting units to serve as a circuit having a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090273616 - Electroluminescent device having a variable color point: An electroluminescent device (9) for emitting light (7) whose color point is able to be set variably, comprising at least two electroluminescent regions (41, 42) that, to allow the same operating voltage to be applied, are arranged to be connected in parallel electrically, wherein the electroluminescent regions (41, 42) comprise—at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property And Standards

20090273614 - Gamut mapping and subpixel rendering systems and methods: In a first embodiment, a display system comprises a display panel with 4 or more colored subpixels. The display system receives input image data specified in a first color space and outputs image data specified in a second color space. The display system further comprises a gamut mapping module for... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090267867 - Display extension of portable devices: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to establish a temporary short range wireless link between at least one portable device and a public display having public content displayed on a first portion of the public display, provide a display area for the portable device in a second portion of the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090267866 - Laptop computer with a back to back display: A back-to-back dual display laptop notebook computer enables a presenter and recipient passive viewers sitting opposite to each other to simultaneously view the back-to-back display through a master display and a slave display, respectively, with master and slave display units selectively switched off for use as a normal laptop computer,... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090267868 - Display device: A display device includes a display screen including (i) a normal display area for normal display, and (ii) a DV display area for a DV display area. Pixel columns corresponding to the DV display area are provided in a fixed order in accordance with directions in which images are respectively... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090267869 - Ornamental display device: An ornamental display device having an interferometric modulator for displaying an ornamental image. The ornamental device may also have a signal receiver configured to receive an external signal. The ornamental device may further have a processor configured to control an image on the display based on the external signal. The... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090267870 - Circular displays: A rollable circular display device (10) is disclosed, comprising, in one embodiment, a ring-shaped display (6) expandable in two dimensions between a stored configuration and an expanded configuration and a body for winding the ring-shaped display in the stored configuration. In another embodiment, the rollable circular display device (10) comprises... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090267872 - Electronic book with built-in card scanner: An electronic book includes a housing defining a card slot on a first face thereof, the housing including first and second housing portions; a spine member pivotally coupling the first and second housing portions, the spine defining a cavity therein; a screen display mounted on the housing on a second... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090267871 - Switching circuit, pixel drive circuit, and sample-and-hold circuit: At least two FETs are provided having controlled terminals serially connected to each other between an input terminal and an output terminal. The FET are alternatingly driven to “off” via the controlled terminals when an “off” command is present, and the FETs are simultaneously driven to “on” via the controlled... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090267874 - Active matrix type display apparatus: An active matrix type display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix on a substrate, each pixel including, a display element, a driving transistor which controls the light emitting current, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first switch which is on/off controlled by a first control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090267873 - Electrooptic apparatus substrate and examining method therefor and electrooptic apparatus and electronic equipment: An electrooptic apparatus substrate and examination method therefor can be provided which can implement an examination without requiring bringing a probe into contact thereto from the outside and with satisfactory measuring accuracy. A substrate 1 of the present invention includes a video line 7 and transmission gate portion 6 through... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090267875 - Auto-addressing method for series circuit and auto-detecting method for detecting the number of circuits connected in series: An auto-addressing method for a series circuit and an auto-detecting method for detecting the number of circuits connected in series are disclosed. The series circuit includes a number of same integrated circuits connected in series. The auto-detecting method is based on the auto-addressing method. In the auto-addressing method, the integrated... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090267878 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a timing signal multiplying circuit generating a first timing signal and a second timing signal whose frequency is higher than a frequency of the first timing signal, a frame counter detecting a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090267877 - Liquid crystal on silicon panel: The LCoS panel includes a display region, an odd and an even data drivers, and a data-line testing unit. The display region includes a plurality of pixel cells formed at each intersection of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. The data lines include a plurality... Agent: J C Patents

20090267876 - Methods and systems for image compensation for ambient conditions: Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for compensating an image for various ambient illumination conditions. In some embodiments, an image is compensated by modifying image code values to account for ambient conditions.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090267879 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel for performing color display, and a backlight unit that includes RGB-LEDs and white LEDs. The RGB-LEDs and the white LEDs are different from each other in color difference between a white point and each primary color point in the... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090267881 - Liquid crystal display: A data converter divides input data into first subframe data and latter subframe data, and the latter subframe data is given to a data serial-parallel converter and serial-parallel converted. The first subframe data is given to a line memory group, and given to an overdrive operation circuit after a given... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090267880 - Liquid crystal display device: A pixel has a first liquid crystal domain. In the first liquid crystal domain, first and second pretilt directions of liquid crystal molecules, defined by first and second alignment films, respectively, intersect with each other at substantially right angles. Also, in the first liquid crystal domain, when a signal voltage... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090267882 - Common voltage generator, display device including the same, and method thereof: The common voltage generator includes an operational amplifier and a plurality of switches. The operational amplifier is configured to amplify a difference between a first voltage and a second voltage and to output the amplified voltage as a common voltage. The plurality of switches are configured to transmit a third... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090267883 - Driving circuit of liquid crystal display: A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display includes: a timing controller to output a gate control signal and a data control signal to control driving of a gate driving unit and a data driving unit and to output digital video data; a pair of gate driving units to be... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090267884 - Liquid crystal display device and method for driving same: A drive circuit of a liquid crystal display device performs line inversion drive based on a correction video signal V. A look-up table (12) includes two types of tables having stored therein correction values for use in overshoot drive. Based on a current-frame video signal X, a previous-frame video signal... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090267885 - Pixel circuitry and driving method thereof: A pixel circuitry for a display apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuitry includes a storage element, a scan switch, a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The scan switch delivers a pixel signal to the storage element in response to a scan signal... Agent: J C Patents

20090267886 - Potential generation circuit and liquid crystal display device: A potential generation circuit and a liquid crystal display device are provided that are capable of reducing power consumption with a simple circuit configuration. The potential generation circuit is a potential generation circuit for generating a common potential that is applied to a capacitive load, and includes a differential amplifier... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090267887 - Data driving circuit, display apparatus and control method of display apparatus: A data driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a level shift unit. The level shift unit is electrically connected with the shift register unit and a plurality of data lines, respectively. The shift register unit receives a clock signal and at least one input image signal, and generates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090267888 - Overdriving apparatus and method thereof: An overdriving apparatus and an overdriving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel are disclosed. The overdriving apparatus includes a temperature measuring apparatus and an overdriving signal generator apparatus. The temperature measuring apparatus is coupled to the overdriving signal generator apparatus. The temperature measuring apparatus measures an operation temperature... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090267889 - Display device: A display device capable of simplifying the structure and improving the reliability is disclosed. The display device includes an LCD module having a top case formed of metal, a glass substrate arranged on the LCD module, an infrared ray emitting module arranged to face three side surfaces of the LCD... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090267890 - Method of local dimming a light source, light source apparatus for performing the method, and display apparatus having the light source apparatus: In a method of local dimming a light source, which includes driving a light source including a plurality of light-emitting blocks by individually driving the light-emitting blocks, the dimming level of each light-emitting block is determined. In the method, the luminance of a first light-emitting area may be adjusted according... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090267891 - Virtual paper: A virtual paper system configured to receive, store and display data. The virtual paper system comprises a virtual paper device having processing electronics and a memory device coupled to the processing electronics. The virtual paper device further includes a display coupled to processing electronics and configured to be viewed from... Agent: Bamidele Ali

20090267894 - Operational object controlling device, system, method and program: An operational object controlling device including a motion detection unit, a motion obtaining unit, a motion feature quantities extraction unit, a template storage unit, an operational object motion storage unit, a motion feature quantities transform unit and an operational object motion obtaining unit. The motion obtaining unit obtains the user's... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090267892 - System and method for generating energy from activation of an input device in an electronic device: In this disclosure, a description of a system for providing feedback signals relating to input signals provided to an electronic device is provided. The system comprises: an input device; a transducer associated with the input device; and a feedback module to generate a feedback signal indicating activation of the input... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090267893 - Terminal device: An operation estimating portion 2 estimates an input operation on the basis of motions of a nail and a finger which are shot, the directions, the number thereof or others. On the basis of estimation results of the input operation, a controller 3 controls display content on a display 4... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090267896 - Input device: According to one embodiment, an input device includes: a sensor part configured to detect a hand-writing operation; an input recognition part configured to recognize a content from the writing operation detected by the sensor part; a storage part configured to store a conversion command database in which to associate the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090267895 - Pointing and identification device: A pointing and identification device (PID) allows the user to point at objects in the real world, on television or movie screens, or otherwise not on the computer screen. The PID includes a digital camera and one or both of a laser and a reticle for aiming the digital camera.... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090267898 - Input apparatus and control system: An input apparatus includes: a casing; a sensor module that includes a reference potential and outputs, as a detection signal, a fluctuation of a potential with respect to the reference potential, that corresponds to a movement of the casing; a velocity calculation unit to calculate a pointer velocity value as... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090267897 - Remote control transmitter: A remote control transmitter detects motion in a specific direction or in a rotational direction around a specific axis: The transmitter includes a battery placed on a bottom surface side within a case containing circuitry of the transmitter. The bottom surface side has a convex surface, with a center of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090267899 - Optical sensor module for optical pointing device and method of fabricating the same: An optical sensor module for an optical pointing device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The optical sensor includes: a lead frame having a light receiving hole formed in a pad; an image sensor attached to the pad and detecting light emitted from a light source through... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090267900 - Operation method of user interface and computer readable medium and portable device: An operation method of a user interface suitable for performing an input operation on an input panel displayed on a display is provided. The input panel comprises a plurality of keys. The operation method includes deciding an input command through one of the keys of the input panel. Then, a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090267901 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters in a terminal: A character input apparatus and method in a terminal are provided, in which a touch screen displays a first key set and a second key set. The first key set includes first letter keys with all consonants and a second letter key with symbols indicating Tm and positions of predetermined... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090267905 - Cursor input device with dual input modes: A cursor input device with dual input modes is provided, including a control computing module, a coordinate sensing module, a first analog multiplexing module, a first signal processing module, a second analog multiplexing module and a second signal processing module, where the coordinate sensing module further including a touch sensing... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090267912 - Display and operation device, operation device, and program: A display and operation device includes a display unit; a touch panel disposed on a display panel of the display unit; and a control unit for displaying a plurality of icons as an operation screen on the display panel of the display unit, the size of each of the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090267910 - Electronic device and automatically hiding keypad method and digital data storage media: A method for automatically hiding keypad, an electronic device, and a digital data storage medium are provided. The keypad automatically hiding method is applied to an electronic device having a touch screen. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, an input field and a keypad are shown on the touch... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090267909 - Electronic device and user interface display method thereof: An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090267904 - Electronic device including touch-sensitive input surface and method of determining user-selected input: A method of determining input at a touch-sensitive input surface of a portable electronic device includes detecting a touch event at the touch-sensitive input surface, sampling touch attributes during the touch event, determining an actual touch location and determining at least one shift in touch location based on the touch... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090267907 - Information processing apparatus, display controlling method and program thereof: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a display module which comprises a touch sensor on a display surface, a detecting module which detects a range surrounded by a position where a user's finger touches the display surface of the display module, and a position where the user's... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090267915 - Input arrangement for controlling electronic device: An input arrangement for controlling an electronic device. The arrangement comprises a substrate have a position-coding pattern printed thereon. The position-coding pattern codes first and second sets of absolute positions on spatially separate areas of the substrate. The first and second sets of absolute positions are mutually exclusive and coded... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20090267903 - Multi-touch detection panel with disambiguation of touch coordinates: An multi-touch detection system (100) separately determines each of the coordinates of multiple touches and is able to correctly pair the coordinates, the touch panel includes multiple (e.g., two or four) separate sections (104, 106, 404, 406, 504, 506, 508, 510) to detect touches in different areas. The system (100)... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090267914 - Multi-touch touch screen with single-layer ito bars arranged in parallel: A touch screen includes a plurality of single-layer ITO bars having a substantially rectangular shape and arranged in parallel to each other in order to detect touches on the touch screen. The location of a touch on the touch screen in the direction along an ITO bar is determined by... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090267902 - Touch panel: It includes a panel 12 constituting a display screen and an elongated piezoelectric element 16 disposed and secured along each of at least two edges of the panel 12 crossing each other. It includes a pressed position calculating circuit 20 for calculating a position in the panel 12 which has... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090267913 - Touch panel and manufacturing method of the same: A touch panel includes a first support, a second support, a first resistive layer formed on the first support, a second resistive layer formed on the second support, a first conductor pattern including a first electrode portion that extends in a first direction, and a first end portion and a... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090267911 - Touch screen: The present invention discloses a touch screen comprising a flexible print circuit board, an electrically conducting layer, and a flexible control board. The flexible print circuit board has a functional plane, and the functional plane comprises a plurality of electrically conducting areas. Each of the electrically conducting areas is capable... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090267908 - Touch screen device comprising a graphic interface and a control method of the touch screen: A touch screen device comprising a graphic interface and a control method of the touch screen are provided. The touch screen device comprises a monitor and a touch sensing pad. The touch sensing pad is used to sense a touching activity. The monitor is electrically connected to the touch sensing... Agent: Chih Feng Yeh Brian M. Mcinnis

20090267906 - Touch sensitive apparatus: An apparatus includes a touch sensitive input panel operable to detect a location of a touch input and a pressure pad arranged to detect a force due to the touch input.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090267916 - Ground guard for capacitive sensing: A touch sensor panel is disclosed including the use of ground guards or ground isolation bars to improve the touch event detection capabilities of the touch sensor panel. Ground isolation bars can be formed between connecting traces and adjacent sense lines to shunt near-field lines to ground and reduce unwanted... Agent: Apple C/o Morrison And Foerster ,llp Los Angeles

20090267917 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes a transparent conductive layer on an first substrate of a liquid crystal display panel transmitting display light, an insulating layer on the transparent conductive layer, a sensing circuit to generate a touch or non-touch sensing signal based on changes in the amount of surface charge... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090267918 - Method for detecting users' pressing action and optical operating unit: A method for detecting users' pressing action is applied to an electronic apparatus which has at least an optical operating unit for an user to operate the electronic apparatus. The method includes the steps of detecting a deformation of a forcing object which forces the optical operating unit; and determining... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090267919 - Multi-touch position tracking apparatus and interactive system and image processing method using the same: The present invention provides a multi-touch position tracking technique and an interactive system and a multi-touch interactive image processing method using the same. In the present invention, a light guide element is designed to comprise frustrating structures to frustrate total internal reflection (TIR) so that the light beam therein can... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090267921 - Programmable tactile touch screen displays and man-machine interfaces for improved vehicle instrumentation and telematics: Disclosed are new methods and apparatus particularly suited for applications in a vehicle, to provide a wide range of information, and the safe input of data to a computer controlling the vehicle subsystems or “Telematic” communication using for example GM's “ONSTAR” or cellular based data sources. Preferred embodiments utilize new... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

20090267920 - System and method for generating a feedback signal in response to an input signal provided to an electronic device: The disclosure relates to a system for providing feedback signals to input signals provided to an electronic device is provided. The system comprises: a display; an input device; an input module to detect activation of the input device; and a input module to generate a feedback signal for the electronic... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090267922 - Contact-sensing device, mobile information terminal, and capacitance calibration program and method: A contact-sensing device includes a capacitance contact-sensing unit including contact-sensing areas configured to at least detect contact with an external object; a calibration-value setting unit configured to set a calibration value to be used to calibrate capacitances of the contact-sensing areas on the basis of capacitances of the contact-sensing areas... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090267923 - Digital bookclip: The described embodiments present a system and method for obtaining a portion of a digital document from a printed version of the document. Locations where a smart pen device interacts with a digital bookclip aligned relative the printed document are identified via coordinate sets. A digital document associated with the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090267924 - Drive circuit, display device provided with such drive circuit and method for driving display device: While an output signal of a flip-flop is inactive in a shift register, NAND circuits of clock pulse extracting sections prevent the performing of conduction switching operation in accordance with periodic level change of clock signals between a logical derivation path for High output and a logical derivation path for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090267926 - Method for driving light source blocks, driving unit for performing the method and display apparatus having the driving unit: A display apparatus includes light source blocks driven as follows in displaying at least one frame (possibly every frame). An image to be displayed includes image pixels. Each light source block corresponds to an image pixels block which is a block of image pixels to be displayed directly opposite to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090267925 - Signal transmission system of a flat panel device: A signal transmission system of a flat panel device includes an encoder, a transmitter, a receiver, and a decoder. The encoder converts a digital signal to a switch control signal. The transmitter includes 4n signal-lines for transmitting a current signal according to the switch control signal. The receiver includes 4n... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090267927 - Display apparatus and method for supplying power to display apparatus: A display apparatus and a method for supplying power thereto are provided. The display apparatus includes an interface which is connected to an external device and which receives image data and input power from the external device, a display unit which displays the received image data, and a control unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090267928 - Display devices: A drive circuit of a display device comprising a capacitive display (H1) and a further display H2. The drive circuit is arranged to provide to the capacitive display, such as an electroluminescent display, an AC drive signal at a first, high voltage from a low voltage power source such that,... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090267930 - Lcd and overdrive method of the same: In an overdrive method, target level values of an entire frame are inputted and retained in a first frame memory. According to a combination of a target level value and a currently predicted level value, an overdrive value is obtained from a first data table and an expected predicted level... Agent: Liu & Liu

20090267931 - Liquid crystal display device: The present invention realizes an optimum driving method in a miniaturized liquid crystal display device having two liquid crystal display panels so as to realize the low power consumption. The liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal display panel, a second liquid crystal display panel, a drive circuit... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090267929 - Method of reducing off-current of a thin film transistor for display device and circuit for the same: A method of applying an OFF-state offset to a display device includes: supplying a ground voltage from a data driving circuit; to a source electrode of a thin film transistor supplying a gate voltage from a gate driving circuit to a gate electrode of the thin film transistor, the gate... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090267933 - Buffer and organic light emitting display using the same: A buffer and an organic light emitting display using the same that reduces (or prevents) a signal of the organic light emitting display from being delayed by improving an output signal of the buffer. The buffer includes an input unit between a first power source and a second power source... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090267932 - Driving unit: A driving unit comprises a first multiplexer, a second multiplexer, and a plurality of control terminals. The first multiplexer and the second multiplexer individually include an input and a plurality of outputs. Each of the inputs is configured to receive a first polar signal and a second polar signal. Each... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090267934 - Method and device for selective adjustment of hysteresis window: The width and location of a hysteresis window of an interferometric modulator may be altered by adjusting various physical characteristics of the interferometric modulator. Thus, depending on the particular application for which the interferometric modulators are manufactured, the width and location of the hysteresis window may be altered. For example,... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090267935 - Light emitting display, display panel, and driving method thereof: A light emitting display for compensating for the threshold voltage of transistor or mobility and fully charging a data line. A transistor and first through third switches are formed on a pixel circuit of an organic EL display. The transistor supplies a driving current for emitting an organic EL element... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090267936 - Light emitting display, display panel, and driving method thereof: A light emitting display for compensating for the threshold voltage of transistor or mobility and fully charging a data line. A transistor and first through third switches are formed on a pixel circuit of an organic EL display. The transistor supplies a driving current for emitting an organic EL element... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090267937 - Floating transitions: A computer implemented method and apparatus for floating object transitions. In one embodiment, tracking data identifying a location of an avatar in relation to a range of an object in a virtual universe is received. The range comprises a viewable field. In response to the tracking data indicating an occurrence... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090267939 - Input device of computer system and method for operating computer system: An input device of a computer system and a method for operating the computer system are provided. In the method for operating the computer system, a motion state of the input device in three-dimensional space is detected first. Then, a predetermined code is generated at an operation terminal or a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090267940 - Method and apparatus for curved multi-slice display: A method of generating a curved multi-slice display (50) comprises selecting a multi-planar reconstruction (MPR) source view from ultrasound data representative of a 3D volume of at least one structure in a body, generating a reference view (40) from the source view, the reference view including a reference point (42)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090267938 - Three-dimensional (3d) virtual world wormholes: A three dimensional (3D) virtual world wormhole includes hosting a 3D virtual world, and creating a wormhole at a selected location in the 3D virtual world for automatic transport of an avatar from the selected location to a selected destination in the 3D virtual world. Policies may be defined for... Agent:

20090267941 - Multi-surface modelling: Modeling of organ surfaces is a well-established method that may serve in computer-supported teaching, but also in image-based medical diagnosis and in clinical interventions. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method of constructing a multi-surface model from a multi-dimensional dataset of an object of interest is... Agent:

20090267942 - Image processing device, control method for image processing device and information recording medium: To provide an image processing device capable of preferably producing a picture in which the shade expressed on a surface of an object will change according to change in the posture of the object. A pseudo-normal vector information storage unit (60a) stores a posture condition concerning a posture of the... Agent:

20090267943 - Game machine, game image processing method, and information storage medium: When a viewpoint moves in a game space, the movement of the viewpoint is reflected in a game screen image to thereby improve the realism. A game machine for producing a screen image on a real time basis, the screen image showing a picture obtained by viewing from a predetermined... Agent:

20090267944 - Method for display of digital images: A method of displaying and manipulating a digital image is presented. The system extracts information from an image and from the display and display drivers to determine presentation parameters. The user may select various functions to present the image in a desired manner.... Agent:

20090267946 - Systems and methods for displaying and querying heterogeneous sets of data: A visualization system for heterogeneous data sets comprises: a unique visualization interface created by a visualization engine. The visualization interface comprises a window or canvas having a first area defining a center of attention, second area defining a parameter space and a plurality of correlation elements. The first area is... Agent:

20090267945 - Visualization of quantitative mri data by quantitative tissue plot: In a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging display system, the values of at least two quantitative MR parameters for a given Region of Interest (ROI) are displayed and dynamically updated when the ROI is changed.... Agent:

20090267947 - Method and apparatus for data preview: A method and apparatus for displaying information on a device acquiring data is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an input data, generating a version of the received input data to be displayed in accordance with one or more display parameters and displaying the generated version of the... Agent:

20090267948 - Object based avatar tracking: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for object based avatar tracking. In one embodiment, a range for an object in a virtual universe is identified. The range comprises a viewable field of the object. Avatars in the viewable field of the object are capable of viewing the... Agent:

20090267949 - Spline technique for 2d electronic game: A technique for generating splines in two dimensions for use in electronic game play is disclosed. The technique includes generating a computer graphic of a shape to be animated that is formed by one or more splines. The shape also includes at least one joint. When the position or orientation... Agent:

20090267950 - Fixed path transitions: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for fixed path transitions in a virtual universe environment. In one embodiment, tracking data that identifies a location of an avatar in relation to a range of an object in a virtual universe is received. The range comprises a viewable field.... Agent:

20090267951 - Method for rendering fluid: A method for rendering fluid is provided. First, state information of a plurality of fluid particles is provided, wherein the state information records whether the fluid particles are located above or under a fluid surface and the interactions between the fluid particles and a terrain or the dynamic objects. Then,... Agent:

20090267953 - Controller and driver features for bi-stable display: The invention comprises systems and methods for partitioning displays, and in particular, displays of interferometric modulator displays. In one embodiment, a display system includes one driving circuit configured to provide signals based on video data intended for display, and a bi-stable display comprising an array having a plurality of bi-stable... Agent:

20090267952 - Method and appratus for wirelessly transmitting display signals, and dislay device: The present invention discloses an apparatus for wirelessly transmitting display signals between a plurality of external host device and a display device. The apparatus comprises a wireless signal transceiver unit for establishing a network-transmission-protocol-based high-frequency signal channel for respective external host devices; a main controller, connected to the wireless signal... Agent:

20090267954 - Personal electronic device with display switching: A novel personal electronic device includes a first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) processors including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first processor performs relatively limited functions, while the second processor performs relatively broader functions under control of the first processor. Often the second processor requires more power... Agent:

20090267955 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium: An image processing apparatus is configured to rasterize an object into a bitmap using a first memory and a second memory which can be accessed quicker than the first memory. The image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of objects to be rasterized on the... Agent:

20090267956 - Systems, methods and articles for video capture: Video capture of the output of a computer game is achieved by recording, analyzing and compressing source data output by the computer game, wherein the source data is pre-rasterized graphics data generated by a graphics library. Thus, video capture and subsequent playback of the captured video data involves use of... Agent:

20090267958 - Image viewing using multiple individual settings: A method of displaying an image having at least two different image settings comprises the steps of providing at least three different partial images, and displaying the at least three partial images. A first and second pair of partial images constitute the image having a first image setting and the... Agent:

20090267957 - Partial window visibility: A video encoder/adapter comprises a virtual display module for partial rendering of a software application image. The virtual display module presents to the software application a virtual display device upon which the software application window is displayed. From the virtual display device, the user identifies one or more portions of... Agent:

20090267959 - Technique for visually compositing a group of graphical objects: Embodiments of a method for visually compositing a group of objects in an image are described. During operation, a processor determines a modified opacity for a first object in a first group of objects based on a first group opacity for the first group of objects and an initial opacity... Agent:

20090267960 - Color modification of objects in a virtual universe: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying an object. In one embodiment, the process obtains avatar tracking data that identifies a location of an avatar in relation to a range of an object. The range includes a viewable field. The process then calculates modified pixel color... Agent:

20090267961 - Display apparatus and its control method: An image display apparatus for displaying an image on the basis of image data includes a detector for detecting a size of a color region of a predetermined color on the basis of the image data, and a converter for converting the image data of the color region in accordance... Agent:

20090267962 - Flat panel display and method of driving the same: A flat panel display, which can save manufacturing costs and allow various types of dither masks to be applied, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The flat panel display includes a look-up table (LUT) storing one dither mask, which is used to algorithmically generate additional dither masks. The dither... Agent:

20090267967 - Color temperature correction device and display device: A color temperature correction device corrects, in a display device that represents brightness of RGB of a video signal by a plurality of levels of gray scales, a color temperature of the video signal. The color temperature correction device includes: a recording means of storing a gray scale value conversion... Agent:

20090267965 - Data driving circuits for low color washout liquid crystal devices: A data driving circuit for a low color wash-out liquid crystal display includes a serial-to-parallel conversion module for converting to output a plurality of sequentially received pixel data in parallel, a compensation data generation module for performing a function operation for the plurality of pixel data to generate a plurality... Agent:

20090267970 - Driving methods for bistable displays: The disclosure relates to driving methods for bistable displays, in particular, driving methods comprising interleaving driving waveforms.... Agent:

20090267968 - Gamma curve compensating method, gamma curve compensating circuit and display system using the same: An exemplary gamma curve compensating method is used in a displaying process of a display system for inserting a plurality of grey-scale images to adjust the displaying quality of the display system. A grey-scale luminance of each grey-scale image is one of the grey-scales. The gamma curve compensating method includes:... Agent:

20090267969 - Image display device having memory property, driving control device and driving method to be used for same: There is provided an image display device capable of obtaining a renewed screen giving normal feelings by simple LUT (Look Up Table) adjustment even at a time of displaying with multiple gray levels. A screen of the electronic paper section making up the display device is renewed by driving for... Agent:

20090267964 - Indicator device with a barrier discharge lamp for backlighting: The invention relates to an indicator device with a barrier discharge lamp that allows a sequential backlighting process by means of the separate operation of electrode groups.... Agent:

20090267963 - Liquid crystal display device: A control section (6) merely passes an incoming image data signal DAT onto a source driving section for display driving during the display of a still image. During the display of a moving image, the control section (6) converts, using a computing section (61) and a look-up table (5), a... Agent:

20090267971 - Method for driving display device to hide transient behavior: The major characteristics of the present invention lies in that, on one hand, conventional driving or overdriving techniques that do not add significant cost to the display device are used for scanning while, on the other hand, the direct-lit, LED-based backlight is turned off during the pixels' transient period where... Agent:

20090267972 - Method for driving display device to hide transient behavior: The major characteristics of the present invention lies in that, on one hand, conventional driving or overdriving techniques that do not add significant cost to the display device are used for scanning while, on the other hand, the direct-lit, LED-based backlight is turned off during the pixels' transient period where... Agent:

20090267973 - Organic light emitting display device and driving method for the same: An organic light emitting display device is provided. The device includes a photo sensor adapted to: sense a brightness of ambient light; output a pulse width of an emission control signal corresponding to a sensed brightness of the ambient light; and output a gamma compensation coefficient corresponding to the sensed... Agent:

20090267966 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus that can reduce a manufacturing cost even while embodying a screen ratio of 16:9 by adjusting the number of the third electrode formed in the rear substrate is provided. The plasma display apparatus comprises: a plasma display panel comprising an electrode; and a driver for supplying... Agent:

20090267974 - Method for driving plasma display panel: A plasma display device and a method for driving a Plasma Display Panel (PDP), which can reduce power consumption without causing display malfunction or reducing image quality, are provided. When the input of an image signal is stopped or when an input image signal is in an entirely-black image state,... Agent:

20090262044 - Display device: In a head-mounted display (1), functions of a cross key (7) are displayed on a display section (6) immediately after the power is turned on, as shown in A in FIG. 1(a). The functions displayed are FF (fast forward), REW (rewind), Vol+ (increase sound volume), and Vol− (decrease sound volume),... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262045 - In-vehicle display apparatus: There is provided an in-vehicle display apparatus including a display unit that displays different images to be seen from a driver's seat side and a passenger's seat side; and an image control unit that causes the driver's seat side to display a navigation image, when operation mode is switched from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262050 - Display device: A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd

20090262047 - El display panel and electronic apparatus: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including pixel circuits corresponding to an active-matrix drive system, the electroluminescence display panel including a structure configured to include first light-emitting areas corresponding to an emission color that is strongest in a characteristic of changing a threshold voltage of a thin film transistor... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090262048 - Flat panel display device, method of aging the same, and method of testing lighting of the same: A flat panel display device formed in a pentile structure is provided, which includes a pixel portion and a lighting tester. The pixel portion includes a first pixel column, a second pixel column and a third pixel column. In the first pixel column, first pixels for displaying a first color... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090262046 - High aperture ratio pixel layout for display device: A display device, pixel layout and method of forming the same is provided. The display device includes: a plurality of pixels formed in a pixel array area; and a power supply grid for distributing power to the pixels. Each pixel has a light emitting device and a plurality of transistors.... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090262049 - Organic light-emitting substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and organic light-emitting display device having the same: An organic light-emitting substrate includes a base substrate, a gate line, a data line, a bias line, an organic light-emitting diode, a switching transistor, a driving transistor and a repair line. The bias line is spaced apart from the gate line and the data line. The organic light-emitting diode includes... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090262051 - Organic light emitting display device: An organic light emitting display device, may include a pixel unit including scan lines, data lines and a plurality of pixels positioned at intersecting portions of the scan lines and the data lines and electrically coupled therebetween, a scan driver adapted to supply scan signals to the scan lines, and... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20090262052 - Portable electronic apparatus and backlight control method thereof: A portable electronic device and a backlight control method are both provided herein. The portable electronic device includes a display, a backlight module, an orientation sensor, and a light sensor. The backlight control method includes steps of providing the display with a backlight emitted from the backlight module; sensing a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090262054 - Active matrix display device with dummy data lines: An exemplary active matrix display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of scanning lines extending along a horizontal axis, a plurality of data lines extending along a vertical axis, and a plurality of dummy data lines. Two scanning lines and two data lines define two display pixels; each... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090262053 - Resistive module, voltage divider and related layout methods: The present invention includes a resistive module, the resistive module including a plurality of nodes and at least a resistive component. The plurality of nodes include an input terminal and an output terminal of the resistive module; the resistive component is electronically connected between the input terminal and the output... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090262057 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes: a signal controller which converts a first image signal having a first gray level based on an original gamma coefficient into a second image signal having a second gray level based on a target gamma coefficient; a liquid crystal panel connected to the signal controller... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262056 - Liquid crystal display panel with color washout improvement and applications of same: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with color washout improvement. In one embodiment, the LCD panel a plurality of pixels, {Pn,m}, spatially arranged in the form of a matrix, n=1, 2, . . . , N, and m=1, 2, . . . , M, and N, M being an integer... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090262055 - Method and system for grayscale resolution enhancement in video systems: A method and system for enhancing the grayscale resolution of display systems using 8-bit imaging arrays. The grayscale resolution is increased by providing a resolution greater than 8 bits. The on-time for each shade is subdivided in two sub-frames. During a first subframe, a full intensity light source is turned... Agent: Richard M. Sharkansky

20090262058 - Display apparatus having reduced kickback voltage: A display apparatus includes; a display panel including a plurality of data lines which receive a data signal, a plurality of gate lines which receive a gate signal and a plurality of pixels, a data driving circuit which provides the data liens with the data signal, and a gate driving... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262059 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display, and method for driving the same: A timing controller, an LCD, and a method for driving the LCD are provided. The LCD comprises an LCD panel having a plurality of gate lines and source lines, a data driver, and a scanning driver. The scanning driver supplies a m-pulse scanning signal to each of the gate lines... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090262060 - Driving circuit for liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: An LCD driving circuit converts multiple data signals generated by an external circuit to a plurality of desired data signals. The driving circuit includes a detector detecting a current environmental temperature and outputting a corresponding electric signal, a timing controller receiving the data signals, and a look-up table storing a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090262061 - Liquid crystal panel and display apparatus including liquid crystal panel: A liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixel units, each of which include gating lines, data lines, a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor (TFT). Common electrodes of first pixel units in a same row are electrically connected via a first common line, and common electrodes of second... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090262066 - Display device: An object of the present invention is to slow the deterioration in the uniformity of the surface brightness when all of the lights emit light under the same conditions in a display device having a backlight where local dimming control is possible. The present invention provides a display device having... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262062 - Display device and detection sensor having the display device: A display device includes a first display and a second display. The first display includes first display light sections and second displays connected in parallel with each other, and a switch controller for switching first switches and second switches. The first switches each connected in series to the respective first... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090262064 - Lcd and backlight module driving device and method thereof: An LCD and a backlight module driving device and a method thereof are provided. The method is adapted to drive at least one backlight unit in a backlight module. The backlight unit is used for supplying a surface light source to an Nth area pixel of the LCD panel, where... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090262065 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel having display blocks arranged in a first matrix thereon, and light-emitting blocks which provide light to the liquid crystal panel. Each of the light-emitting blocks corresponds to a corresponding column of the first matrix and provides the light to a corresponding... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262063 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: The present invention provides a display device capable of realizing an appropriate screen display luminance in accordance with a video feature quantity and brightness around and sufficiently reducing power consumption. A liquid crystal display apparatus (1) includes: a liquid crystal panel (20) for displaying a video by an input video... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090262067 - Liquid crystal display with colored backlight: A method of backlighting a liquid crystal display so as to improve the quality of the image displayed by the liquid crystal display. The method may vary the luminance of a light source illuminating a plurality of displayed pixels and vary the transmittance of a light valve of the display.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20090262069 - Gesture signatures: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present viewable content to a viewer on a display screen, receive a transmitted signature from a user interface device (UID) associated with the display screen (wherein the signature results from at least one gesture initiated by the viewer and detected by the UID),... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/open Tv

20090262070 - Method and system for reducing effects of undesired signals in an infrared imaging system: Effects of undesired infrared light are reduced in an imaging system using an infrared light source. The desired infrared light source is activated and a first set of imaging data is captured during a first image capture interval. The desired infrared light source is then deactivated, and a second set... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090262068 - Space efficent sortable table: A sortable and space efficient graphical user interface and a system for the efficient display of sortable data are disclosed herein. The graphical user interface may include at least one column, at least one row and a data cell defined by the intersection of at least one column and at... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090262072 - Cursor control system and method thereof: A cursor control system and method thereof, provides two-staging cursor control procedures for the first stage, displaying a template dividing the screen into plural districts, and moving the cursor from the original location to the selected district, and for the second stage, moving the first cursor from the selected district... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090262071 - Information output apparatus: To realize a user-friendly medium and information output thereof by defining a plurality of information in the same region of a dot pattern printed on a surface of a medium, such as a map or the like, and selectively outputting the information through an imaging operation of an imaging unit.... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20090262074 - Controlling and accessing content using motion processing on mobile devices: Various embodiments provide systems and methods capable of facilitating interaction with handheld electronics devices based on sensing rotational rate around at least three axes and linear acceleration along at least three axes. In one aspect, a handheld electronic device includes a subsystem providing display capability, a set of motion sensors... Agent: Sawyer Law Group PC

20090262073 - Touch sensitive remote control system that detects hand size characteristics of user and adapts mapping to screen display: Sensors around the periphery of the remote control unit detect contact with the user's hand. A trained model-based pattern classification system analyzes the periphery sensor data and makes a probabilistic prediction of the user's hand size. The hand size is then used to control a mapping system that defines how... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090262075 - System and method for user object selection in geographic relation to a video display: The invention is directed to a system and method for determining position and orientation with respect to a display device. In particular, the invention is directed to acquiring an observed image from a display device using a pointing device, and calculating pointing device position and orientation using the acquired observed... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20090262076 - Input device for web enabled devices: In one or more embodiments, one or more keys are provided on the keyboard or keypad of a computer, cell phone, PDA, or other web enabled device that, when pressed, automatically enters a character stream for a URL or email address component. In one or more embodiments, a single key... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20090262077 - Keyswitch and keyboard: The invention discloses a keyswitch and a keyboard which makes use of the keyswitch. The keyswitch is co-operated with an antenna. The antenna is used for receiving a signal transmitted by an electronic product. The keyswitch includes a keycap, a conductive foil, and a communication module. The conductive foil forms... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090262078 - Cellular phone with special sensor functions: e

20090262079 - Electronic device in the form of a hands-free telephone system and/or a navigation device: An electronic device in the form of a hands-free telephone system and/or a navigation device, comprising a housing having a base part (1) that is hinged to a display part (3) such that it lies on the base part (1) when folded so that the base part (1) and the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090262080 - Interface for interaction with display visible from both sides: A portable viewing and computing apparatus. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of a bus, a memory unit coupled to the bus, and a processor coupled to the bus. The memory unit is for storing data and instructions. The processor is for processing data and instructions. The portable... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090262081 - Light-emitting module and keyboard having the same: The present invention provides a keyboard and a light-emitting module thereof. The light-emitting module includes a light guide element, a first light source and a second light source. The light guide element includes a first light guide region, a second light guide region, and a masking region located between the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090262082 - Apparatus and method for inputting characters in a terminal: An apparatus and method for inputting Hindi characters in a terminal. A touch screen displays a first key set and a second key set. The first key set includes first letter keys with all consonants and a combination lock key for entering a compound consonant. The second key set includes... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262088 - Athletic performance user interface for mobile device: Systems and techniques for the collection and display of athletic information. Athletic data relating to a single person or group of people is collected at a central location, and subsequently displayed at a desired remote location or on a mobile device so that the person or people can review and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090262092 - Capacitive touch screen suitable for use in an interactive information display: A capacitive touch screen suitable for use in an interactive information display includes a first transparent glass substrate having first and second surfaces and a thickness of less than or equal to about 0.3 millimeters, and a second substrate having third and fourth surfaces and a transparent conductive thin film... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090262084 - Display control system providing synchronous video information: A display control system providing synchronous video information includes an information processing device and a display control module. The information processing device generates video information to be displayed on a primary display unit. The display control module includes an ancillary video unit linking to the information processing device through a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090262091 - Information processing apparatus and vibration control method in information processing apparatus: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit that moves a display position of an object in accordance with movement of a contact position when the position in a screen where the object is displayed is contacted and moved and a vibration control unit that vibrates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090262090 - Input device: An input device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes i) a base comprising an input region, ii) at least one sensor provided at the input region and configured to sense a contact with the input region or a contact movement to the input region and iii) a controller... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090262089 - Operating method, system and stroage device using the same: An operating method and system and a storage medium using the same are provided. The operating method is applied to a handheld electronic device with at least two judging modes. First, the handheld electronic device receives a touch input, and determines a judging mode out of the judging modes according... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090262085 - Smart glass touch display input device: An improved touch display input device for incorporation into a portable electronic device is described. In exemplary embodiments, the touch display includes a smart glass layer that selectively blocks and transmits light from a light source to a transparent touch input surface. As a result of the selectivity of the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090262083 - Systems and methods for receiving user input through a display with a flexible backplane via touch sensors: A computing device that is configured to receive input commands via a display is described. The computing device includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The device also includes a display. The display includes a flexible backplane. The device further includes a touch sensor. The sensor... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090262087 - Terminal and method for recognizing image therein: In a terminal including a touchscreen, a controller senses a touch to a first point of an image displayed on the touchscreen, recognizes an image part corresponding to the first point and performs an image recognition correcting operation relevant to the recognized image part corresponding to the first point. A... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090262086 - Touch-pad cursor control method: A touch-pad cursor control method is discussed. The touch-pad invention is placed in an electronic device and its control method is comprised of steps detecting if an object contacts the touch-pad; detecting the location of the object contacting the touch-pad; examining if an input for quick cursor movement exists, if... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090262096 - Display device with touch panel: Provided is a display device with a touch panel, the display device including a display panel and a capacitance coupling type touch panel disposed on a surface of an observer side of the display panel. The capacitance coupling type touch panel includes on a substrate a plurality of first electrodes... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262095 - Electrostatic capacitance type touch panel and screen input display device including the same: An electrostatic capacitance type touch panel includes: a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed in parallel on the substrate; an insulating film formed so as to cover the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes disposed in parallel to intersect the plurality of first electrodes on the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262094 - Electrostatic discharge protection device for touch panels: An electrostatic discharge protection device adapted for a touch panel, comprising: the touch panel, a flexible printed circuitboard and a plurality of point discharge structures. The touch panel is configured with a plurality of signal lines and at least a ground line while enabling the at least one ground line... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090262093 - Resistance type touch display panel: A resistance type touch display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed above the first substrate. The first substrate includes many scan lines and data lines defining many pixel regions on the first substrate, many pixel units and touch units. Each pixel unit is located in one... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090262098 - Electronics device having projector module: An electronics device having a projector module including a first light source, and a first scanner scanning an image projection surface in a biaxial direction; a distance measuring device performing one-dimensional scanning on a plane over the image projection surface to determine the position of an optical interceptor and including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262097 - Frame assembly for touch screen: The dimension detection system is implemented in cascaded circuit boards housed inside a frame assembly of the touch screen. After the frame assembly is assembled and powered, the dimension detection system in the circuit boards would provide horizontal and vertical feedback signals which are utilized to obtain the size of... Agent: Leong C Lei

20090262099 - Method for driving plasma display panel and display device: A display device (1) including a surface discharge type plasma display panel (2) performs an addressing operation, a sustain operation and a reset operation. In the addressing operation, address discharge of an opposed discharge form with the second electrode (Y) used as a cathode is generated between the second electrode... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262100 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display includes a gate driver, a data driver and a pixel matrix. The gate driver is for outputting a plurality of gate signals successively. The data driver is for providing a plurality of data signals. The pixel matrix includes a number of pixels. Each pixel includes a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090262101 - Pixel circuit, display system and driving method thereof: A display system and method for the same is provided. A display includes a plurality of pixels, each having a light emitting device and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting device, the driving transistor and the light emitting device being coupled in series between a first power supply... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090262102 - Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic device: Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array unit, a first scanning circuit, a second scanning circuit and a selecting circuit.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090262104 - Image display apparatus and voltage control method: An image display apparatus includes a light source, a scanner that scans an output beam emitted from the light source to forms an image on a projection surface, a light source driver that control intensity of the output beam emitted from the light source by controlling a drive current for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090262103 - Method for adjusting common voltage of liquid crystal display device: A method for adjusting a common voltage of an LCD device includes providing an LCD device and a photodetector, obtaining variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc, the variable parameters Ya, Yb and Yc respectively denoting flicker intensity of the LCD device when the common voltages are parameters Va, Vb and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20090262105 - Light emitting display, display panel, and driving method thereof: A light emitting display for compensating for the threshold voltage of transistor or mobility and fully charging a data line. A transistor and first through third switches are formed on a pixel circuit of an organic EL display. The transistor supplies a driving current for emitting an organic EL element... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090262106 - Method of driving a display panel and display apparatus having the display panel: A method of driving a display apparatus having first and second data lines includes applying a first data signal (to which a first gamma curve has been applied) and a first inverted data signal (having a phase opposite to a phase of the first data signal) to the first data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090262107 - Dynamic creation of virtual regions: In various embodiments, virtual universe regions are dynamically generated within a virtual universe based on user requests. Dynamic generation allows virtual universe users or “residents” to create virtual universe regions that are tailored to their desired specifications. Additionally, in some implementations, virtual universe users may have the option to instantly... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090262109 - Illustrating a three-dimensional nature of a data set on a two-dimensional display: A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262108 - Streaming geometery for use in displaying and editing 3d imagery: Method and systems are provided using streaming geometry in 3D imagery production. In one implementation a method for use in the display of 3D video images comprises receiving a first set of data corresponding to an output from a layout in a production pipeline, generating geometry data for one or... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090262110 - Geometric modeling system and optimization method for geometric fitting: A system is provided for creating a modified analytical model from an existing analytical model and CAD data (geometric model data) of the modified model to reduce the workload in creating geometric and analytical models. The system includes means for reading a geometric model and an analytical model which are... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090262111 - Method and apparatus for perspective inversion: A surgical instrument navigation system is disclosed that allows a surgeon to invert the three-dimensional perspective of the instrument to match their perspective of the actual instrument. A data processor is operable to generate a three-dimensional representation of a surgical instrument as it would visually appear from either of at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262112 - Game program, game apparatus, and game control method: A virtual camera for displaying characters to be imaged on a monitor can be readily set. In the present program, a virtual camera and imaging space are set in a virtual game space. A plurality of characters are arranged in the virtual game space. A controller determines whether or not... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090262113 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: A unit (110) acquires an image, sensed by an image sensing device (100), of a physical object having an outer appearance that can be expressed by line segments. A unit (120) stores defining data used to classify line segments configuring a 3D virtual object that simulates the outer appearance of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090262114 - Method and system of generating gamma data of display device: The present invention relates to a gamma data generation method of a display device. In the method, gamma data including red gamma data, green gamma data, and blue gamma data is determined. A target luminance and a target color coordinate of a first reference gray are determined. Then, an image... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090262115 - Method for creating a graphical representation of a string of alphanumeric characters: A method for creating a graphical representation of a string of alphanumeric characters is disclosed. The method comprises determining a key position on a telephone keypad corresponding to each of the alphanumeric characters in the string, including a first key position for the first alphanumeric character, intermediate key positions for... Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090262117 - Displaying traffic flow data representing traffic conditions: An article of manufacture for displaying traffic flow data representing traffic conditions on a road system includes creating a graphical map of the road system which includes one or more segments. The status of each segment on the graphical map is determined such that the status of each segment corresponds... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20090262118 - Method, system and storage device for creating, manipulating and transforming animation: An animation method, system, and storage device which takes animators submissions of characters and animations and breaks the animations into segments where discontinuities will be minimized; allows users to assemble the segments into new animations; allows users to apply modifiers to the characters; provides a semantic restraint system for virtual... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20090262116 - Multi-layered slide transitions: Architecture that enhances the visual experience of a slide presentation by animating slide content as “actors” in the same background “scene”. This is provided by multi-layered transitions between slides, where a slide is first separated into “layers” (e.g., with a level of transparency). Each layer can then be transitioned independently.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090262119 - Optimization of time-critical software components for real-time interactive applications: A method for optimizing the performance of a time-critical computation component for a real-time interactive application includes the use of an algorithm having a precise logical thread and at least one fast estimation logical thread. The computation errors generated by the fast estimation thread are imperceptible by humans and are... Agent: Law Offices Of K. W. Wang

20090262120 - Method for loading images and electronic device: An image loading method applied to an electronic device having a display is provided. The method has the following steps. Firstly, an image is decompressed into a second bitmap file. Afterward, a bitmap attribute is obtained according to the second bitmap file. Following, a bitmap attribute is obtained according to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090262121 - Method and system for streaming documents, e-mail attachments and maps to wireless devices: A method for streaming a vector image to a client computer, including: accessing a pre-processed vector image that was generated from a vector image, the pre-processed vector image including a plurality of local rectangular regions and a plurality of local vector objects, each local vector object being associated with one... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090262122 - Displaying user interface elements having transparent effects: Embodiments are configured to provide information for display. Various embodiments include processing functionality that can be used to efficiently process pixel data associated with video, graphical, and other information. The functionality can be used in conjunction with different hardware and/or software architectures and configurations. In an embodiment, a computing device... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090262123 - Screen display control device: A screen display control device includes: a compression unit which compresses input image data in a line unit; a rewritable image memory to which the compressed data compressed in the line unit by the compression unit is written in non-synchronization with a reading process; a decompression unit which decompresses the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262124 - Drive circuit and display device: In one embodiment of the present invention, LUTs (T3) through (T5) are stored in a table memory. When an overshoot calculation section switches over from the LUT (T4), which is being used, to the LUT (T5), the overshoot calculation section obtains the LUT (T5) not out of an external memory... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090262125 - Rendering a multiple viewpoint image into a single frame buffer using off-screen rendering surfaces: A method and apparatus for rendering multiple viewpoint image data into a single physical frame buffer are described. One example method includes storing image data corresponding to different viewpoints on different virtual buffers, processing the image data stored on the virtual buffers, then blending the image data and storing the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20090262126 - System and method for separated image compression: A method and system for separated image compression are disclosed. According to one embodiment a computer-implemented method comprises initiating transfer of a screen image, preparing the screen image for separation, separating the screen image into image blocks, compressing the image blocks into image packets, and transmitting the image packets.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090262128 - Dynamic brightness range for portable computer displays based on ambient conditions: A portable computer system that comprises dynamically adjustable brightness range settings and brightness control for providing improved user readability and prolonged component lifetime of the display screen. The main processor can change the range settings based on ambient light conditions or the user can perform the changes. The brightness level... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090262127 - Image processing apparatus, display apparatus, and image displaying system: An image processing apparatus, a display apparatus and an image displaying system wherein both secure and public images can be efficiently displayed with high quality without lowering the contrast of the public images. There are included a memory (101) that stores the image data of input secure and reversed images;... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090262129 - Extending the gamut color generation in a display: In a display system, a color gamut of the displayed images is extended by adding one or more primary colors lying outside a tristimulus color space triangle to a Red, Green, Blue (RGB) system, modulating light emitted by both light sources lying inside the tristimulus color space triangle and light... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090262130 - System and method for automatically generating color scheme variations: Methods and systems for generating color scheme variations of a graphical design based on a current color scheme of the design include rotating the colors of the current color scheme by predetermined angular rotations on a color wheel.... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20090262132 - Architectures for parallelized intersection testing and shading for ray-tracing rendering: Ray tracing scenes is accomplished using a plurality of intersection testing resources coupled with a plurality of shading resources, communicative in the aggregate through links/queues. A queue from testing to shading comprises respective ray/primitive intersection indications, comprising a ray identifier. A queue from shading to testing comprises identifiers of new... Agent: San Francisco Office Of Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20090262134 - Device and method for transmitting image data: Provided is a device and method for transmitting image data that converts 2D image data taken by a digital camera to 3D image data and transmits the 2D and 3D image data to a computer. The image data transmission method that converts 2D image data taken by a digital camera... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090262133 - Method and system for streaming documents, e-mail attachments and maps to wireless devices: A method for pre-processing a vector image, including: receiving data for a vector image, the vector image data including a list of descriptions of global vector objects that can be rasterized for display at arbitrary levels of resolution; for each local region from among a plurality of local rectangular regions... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090262131 - Method of visualizing sets of correlated events on a display: A method of visualizing sets of correlated events of a stream of events on a display, each event having a time of occurrence in the stream and at least one attribute indicating its correlation with the other events of a set, including the steps of plotting a glyph for each... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090262136 - Methods, systems, and products for transforming and rendering media data: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for transforming and rendering scenes of video data. A frame of video data is stored as a scene file. Components within the scene are edge detected, such that boundaries of the components of the scene are determined. The edge-detected components are saved as a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090262135 - Overlaid images on tv: An ambient, beautiful, entertaining visual experience that can be displayed on a TV requiring little or no user interaction beyond initiation. Multiple image layers that may be still or moving video, photos, etc, or a combination thereof can be overlaid on each other.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090262137 - Systems and methods for presenting prediction in a broadcast: Methods and systems are presented for presenting prediction in a broadcast. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a prediction graphic generator, at least one of telemetry data, situational data, or historical data. The prediction graphic generator then determines a prediction based on at least two of the telemetry... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20090262138 - Enhanced power distribution unit with self-orienting display: An enhanced power distribution unit (PDU) with self-orienting display uses an orientation sensor in conjunction with a microprocessor to properly orient visual display of information by one or more displays of the enhanced PDU. Information displayed can relate to electrical current furnished to one or more power outlets of the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/leviton

20090262140 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program: An image processing apparatus displaying an image on a display screen having a predetermined image size includes an image scaling unit scaling image information on a main image layer in a first memory area in accordance with the image size of the display screen; an on-screen display enlarging unit enlarging... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090262141 - System and method for representing long video sequences: Systems and procedures for transforming video into a condensed visual representation. An example procedure may include receiving video comprised of a plurality of frames. For each frame, the example procedure may create a first representation, reduced in one dimension, wherein a visual property of each pixel of the first representation... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20090262139 - Video image display device and video image display method: A video image display device is provided to effectively display both basic and closed-up video images. This video image display device is comprised of a closed-up region determining unit (330) for discriminating a display region of a specific object in the basic video image to be subjected to display and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090262142 - Method and system for rendering web pages on a wireless handset: A wireless handset and a method and system for a wireless handset that better enable a user of the wireless handset to identify, select and view objects on a web page. Objects from a web page are rendered on a wireless handset display as selectable panels in perspective views. The... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090262143 - Method for displaying information, and electronic apparatus and storage medium thereof: A method for displaying information is provided. A display area is provided for displaying at least a portion of an information page, wherein the information page includes at least an information column, and the information column is composed of a plurality of information units arranged along an arrangement direction. When... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090262144 - Plant information dispaly device: An object of the invention is to provide a plant information display device which deforms and displays drawing data without hiding all pieces of information necessary for plant monitoring and plant instrument operation while visibility is not lowered. The plant information display device according to an aspect of the invention... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090262145 - Information display device: An object of the present invention is to provide an information display device for presenting, to a user, a correspondence between a position in an actual landscape and a position on a map image. In an information display device (IDA, IDAr), a photographed image acquisition section (1) acquires a photographed... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090262148 - Controller, hold-type display device, electronic apparatus, and signal adjusting method for hold-type display device: To provide a hold-type display device having a fine luminance efficiency while suppressing generation of motion blur. A controller according to the invention adjusts a signal outputted to a hold-type image display panel, which includes: a double-speed drive converting part which divides one frame of an inputted video signal to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090262147 - Liquid crystal display apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display apparatus realizing an improved view angle characteristic of luminance and higher response speed. A sub-pixel group is provided with a plurality of sub-pixels. At the time of display driving on liquid crystal elements of each pixel, space-divisional-driving which allows each of the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090262146 - Source driver: A source driver performs inversion drive on a plurality of data lines of a liquid crystal panel. A differential interface receives brightness data of each pixel as a differential signal from a timing controller. A D/A converter converts the brightness data to a drive voltage of each pixel on the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP