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

20080100532 - Presentation apparatus with broadcasting function and method using the same: A presentation apparatus includes: a communication connection establishing unit establishing a communication connection with a plurality of receiving terminals and a source terminal, the source terminal having a token corresponding to an authority of controlling a presentation; a presentation data relay unit receiving presentation data from the source terminal, broadcasting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100533 - Adaptive emission frame projection display and method: A projection image display system includes a plurality of emission sources and a power controller capable of programmable emission frame cycles. The power controller can program each of the emission sources to enhance the display performance of incoming video.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080100534 - Switch: An imaging apparatus and method include a pixel and a two point switching element.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100536 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus is disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel and a filter positioned in front of the plasma display panel. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate on which an upper dielectric layer is positioned, first and second electrodes positioned between the front... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100537 - 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 including a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode intersecting the first electrode and the second electrode and a driver. At least one of the first... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100538 - Method and apparatus for driving address electrodes in plasma display panel: A method for driving M address electrodes included in a plasma display panel in an address period for selecting specific discharge cells from discharge cells of N rows and M columns that applies a driving voltage rising in two stages from a reference voltage to an address voltage to the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080100539 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel comprises a front substrate, a rear substrate, and a barrier rib. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed in the front substrate. A third electrode intersecting the first electrode and the second electrode is disposed in the rear substrate. A barrier rib partitions at... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080100540 - Electroluminescent display: An electroluminescent display includes an electroluminescent panel, and at least one brightness enhanced film. The electroluminescent panel has a plurality of sub-pixels, and at least one illumination surface. The brightness enhanced film is disposed on the at least one illumination surface. The brightness enhanced film has a plurality of micro... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100541 - Organic light emitting diode pixel circuit: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit includes a first switch, a second switch, an energy storage element and an OLED. The first switch is controlled by a scan signal to transmit a data signal or not. The second switch provides a current to turn on the OLED. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080100542 - Electro-luminescent display with voltage adjustment: An active matrix electro-luminescent display system, comprising: a display composed of an array of regions of light-emitting elements, pixel driving circuits for independently controlling the current to each light-emitting element, one or more display drivers for receiving an input image signal for data to drive the pixel driving circuits and... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20080100544 - Display units and display panels: A display unit and a display panel are provided. In the display panel, uneven images caused by the electrical difference between driving transistors within the display unit are prevented through increasing the number of switch elements within the display unit and the number of scan signals and controlling data signals.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100545 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display includes a first driving device that includes a first control electrode supplied with a voltage from a first node, and switches a current path between a second node and a third node in accordance with a voltage of the first node; a second driving... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080100546 - Display apparatus and control method thereof: A display apparatus comprising a display unit and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided in a backlight that illuminates the display unit, the display apparatus includes: a power supplier; a current detector which detects a value of a current flowing in each of the LEDs; a current adjusting... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080100547 - Lcd based environment scanner and 3-d display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device (100) has the dual functionality of image display and environment scanning. Specifically, during environment scanning mode, the LCD device searches for targets, i.e., markers (700) in the environment. To enable such scanning, the LC layer (20) is configured to provide a scanning optical path... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080100550 - Liquid crystal display device and method of controlling the same: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a driver that drives the liquid crystal panel, an input unit that inputs an option signal from outside the liquid crystal device, a controller that controls the driver and performs an option function corresponding to the option signal, and a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080100548 - Monitor apparatus for a vehicle: The present invention relates to a monitor apparatus for a vehicle. The monitor apparatus is configured such that the LCD monitor protrudes from a case inside a shelf by sliding out through a transfer device. According to the present invention, the monitor apparatus slides in and out by means of... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080100551 - Color liquid crystal display apparatus: Disclosed is a color liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus employing a transmissive color liquid crystal display panel. The apparatus includes, as a light source, a main white light source (21) having a three wavelength phosphorescent lamp emitting light with three or more wavelengths, and an auxiliary light source (22) having... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080100553 - Driving system and multi-gamma driving method for lcd panel: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same. The steps of the method contains: (1) upgrade the frame rate up to p/q times (p, q are natural numbers and p>q) and produce a series of output frames; (2) conduct grey level... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080100554 - Image display device, image display method, image display program, recording medium containing image display program, and electronic apparatus: An image display device corrects image data, which are used for displaying an image, using a gray scale value assigned to each pixel and also controls the amount of source light emitted from a light source. The image display device includes a source light amount control device and an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080100555 - Array substrate and display panel having the same: An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a thin film transistor (TFT), a pixel electrode and a storage line. The pixel electrode includes a main pixel electrode and a sub pixel electrode partly surrounding at least a portion of the main pixel electrode. The storage line includes... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080100556 - Method of layout of a driving chip of a liquid crystal display and related liquid crystal display: A method of layout of a driving chip of an LCD, for reducing a size of the LCD, includes forming a first pin group including a plurality of pins utilized for outputting gate driving signals along a first direction, forming a second pin group including a plurality of pins utilized... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100557 - Driving circuit, driving method, and liquid crystal display using same: An exemplary driving circuit (20) includes: gate lines (23); data lines (24); pixel units (240); a gate driving circuit (21); a data driving circuit (22); a signal output circuit configured for providing a set of signals in each frame, each signal in the set of signals selectively being a black... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080100531 - Display control program executed in game machine: In a game machine, image display not giving the player a feeling of oddness or disadvantage during game progress even if a non-display at a physical distance is present between different display screen areas. The game machine executes program for controlling image display of first and second display screens on... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080100535 - Filter, plasma display device thereof, and related technologies: A display apparatus includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and a filter. The PDP has a display surface, and the filter has a panel side facing the display surface of the PDP and an opposing viewer side facing away from the display surface. The filter includes a base unit. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080100543 - Display device: A display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which has a drive transistor, an organic EL element and a writing capacitor, in which the drive transistor controls a luminous time period of the organic EL element by a writing signal voltage and a sweep signal so that the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080100549 - Gamma correction device and gamma correction method for liquid crystal dispaly device: A gamma correction device for a liquid crystal display device including LCD panels. The gamma correction device includes a storage device for storing gamma correction data corresponding to chiral directions of LCD panels. A chiral direction data acquisition circuit acquires chirality data on the chiral direction of a LCD panel... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080100552 - Display element, method for driving the same, and information display system including the same: The invention relates to a display element, an element drive method, and an information display system having the element, and has an object to provide a display element capable of stably acting even if a received electric power reduces, a method for driving the element, and an information display system... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080100558 - Driving apparatus: A driving apparatus suitable for driving a display panel which includes a plurality of gate lines is provided. The driving apparatus includes a driving unit and a voltage detecting unit. The driving unit is used to generate a plurality of output signals, so as to drive the gate lines with... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080100559 - Integrated line selection apparatus within active matrix arrays: An integrated line selection apparatus within active matrix arrays is described. The circuit includes multiple gate line drive transistor devices, each gate line drive transistor device having a drain coupled to a gate line of multiple gate lines in a gate line driver circuit coupled to an active matrix array... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100560 - Gate driving circuit, display apparatus having the same, and method thereof: In a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus having the gate driving circuit, a pull-up transistor of a present stage among plural stages, which are connected one after another to each other and sequentially output a gate signal, pulls up a present gate signal output through an output terminal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080100562 - Color liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A color liquid crystal display including a back light module and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel disposed thereon is provided. The back light module has a plurality of light sources emitting different kinds of color lights. The LCD panel includes an active device array substrate, an opposition substrate, and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080100563 - Light device and control method thereof: Provided is a light device. The light device comprises a backlight unit, a multi-sensor unit, a backlight driving unit, and a backlight control unit. The backlight unit comprises light emitting diode devices to provide light. The multi-sensor unit is included in a light emission region of the backlight unit and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080100561 - System and method for managing led backlight performance in a display: Display backlight illumination provided from LEDs is managed by automatically identifying and compensating for LED failures. Shorts in one or more LEDs of an LED string are identified by comparing the drop in voltage across the LED string against an expected drop in voltage and are compensated for by increasing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080100564 - Color display with polarization-type molecular switch: An electronically addressable display comprises a substrate, at least one polarization-type, electrical field switchable molecular colorant associated with the substrate, and an addressing device mounted for selectively switching the at least one molecular colorant between at least two visually distinguishable states. Electronic devices including the electronically addressable displays and methods... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100565 - Electrophoretic display and the manufacturing method thereof: An elecotrophoretic display device includes a first substrate, a gate line formed on the first substrate, a data line crossing the gate line to form a defined area, a source electrode connected to the data line, a drain electrode facing the source electrode to define a channel area, a color... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080100566 - Electrooptic device and electronic apparatus: An electrooptic device having an image display period and an information gathering period includes a panel unit and a data processing unit. The panel unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrooptic material interposed between the first and second substrates, a plurality of first scan lines provided above... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20080100567 - Display with a linear driving device: A display with a linear driving device comprises a base, a driving device, and a display. In assembly, the driving device is mounted on the base, and then the display is fixed on a mover of the linear motor of the driving device. The user can use remote control or... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080100568 - Electronic device providing tactile feedback: An electronic device (100) provides tactile feedback provided by a low cost, thin piezoelectric actuator (142) giving tactile feedback emulating a click like feed. The electronic device (100) comprises a chassis plate (122) having a periphery secured to a housing (102, 104) and comprising a flexible material having a first... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080100571 - Human interface device: A human interface device 10 including a base member 12 having a first 16 and second 18 surface, wherein the first surface 16 is an upper surface and is shaped and dimensioned to be received by a palmer aspect of a user's one hand (not shown), a plurality of sensors... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20080100569 - Optical jog wheel: A user navigational apparatus. The user navigational apparatus includes a code wheel and an encoder. The code wheel is coupled to a dial. The code wheel includes a track of alternating reflective and non-reflective sections. The optical reflective encoder includes an emitter and a detector. The emitter generates a light... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080100570 - Augmented-reality system for situation-related support of the interaction between a user and an engineering apparatus: The invention relates to an augmented-reality system having a mobile apparatus for the context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions. The context-dependent insertion of assembly instructions with process-optimized allocation of the necessary work steps provides situation-related support by for work sequences.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080100572 - Touchless user interface for a mobile device: A sensory device (200) for providing a touchless user interface to a mobile device (100) is provided. The sensory device can include at least one appendage (210) having at least one sensor (220) that senses a finger (232) within a touchless sensing space (101), and a connector (230) for communicating... Agent: Marc Boillot

20080100573 - Compact ergonomic computer mouse: A compact ergonomic mouse comprises a thumb side with a thumb engaging portion, a finger side with a finger engaging portion, a top with a button, a bottom, a front, and a rear. The distance between a distal end of the button and a rear of the thumb engaging portion... Agent: Jack Lo

20080100574 - Display cursor control device with enhanced multiple dimensional tilt angle operation: A data-handling and processing system includes an image-display cursor-control device for controlling an image display cursor of an image display. The system is further operated a pad for placing and moving the image-display cursor-control device and the pad has a curved surface. The image-display cursor-control device further includes an accelerometer... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080100575 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless optical mouse comprises an optical movement detection module, a movement detection module, and a control module. The optical movement detection module emits light to detect movement of the wireless optical mouse. The movement detection module has a lower accuracy and consumes less power than the optical movement detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100576 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless mouse comprises a movement detection module that detects movement of the wireless mouse. A detection module detects at least one of movement and usage of the wireless mouse during operation. The detection module consumes power at a slower rate than the movement detection module. A control module selectively... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100577 - Low power optical mouse: A wireless optical mouse comprises an optical movement detection module that emits light to detect movement of the wireless optical mouse. A touch detection module detects user contact with the wireless optical mouse. A control module selectively stops detecting movement of the wireless optical mouse using the optical movement detection... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080100578 - Data input arrangement with multi-facet shaped keys: A data input arrangement includes an array of input keys extending across a typing surface. At least one of the input keys includes a first viewable surface displaying a first set of input data and a second viewable surface angled relative to the first viewable surface. The second viewable surface... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080100580 - Keypad assembly: Disclosed is a keypad assembly including a keypad; a touch sensor having a light-guiding plate, the touch sensor being positioned beneath the keypad so as to reflect light incident on the light-guiding plate towards the keypad; and a switch member positioned beneath the touch sensor. The keypad assembly can provide... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080100579 - Keyboard system with automatic correction: There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to automatically correct inaccuracies in user keystroke entries on reduced keyboards such as those implemented on a touch-sensitive panel or display screen, or on mechanical keyboard systems. A method and system are defined which determine one or more... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080100583 - Data input arrangement with a perch: A data input arrangement includes an array of input keys arranged on a surface; and a perch at least partially extending between first and second rows of the array substantially parallel to one of the first and second rows. The perch extends away from the surface above each of the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080100581 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation and selective disabling of frequency learning: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user is likely to have intended... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080100582 - Method of indicating additional character combination choices on a handheld electronic device and associated apparatus: A method and associated apparatus for indicating additional character combination choices from a disambiguation function on a handheld electronic device.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080100585 - mobile communication terminal: A method for controlling selection of list items displayed in a list element having one user operation mode on a touch sensitive display of an apparatus further including a controller, the touch sensitive display being configured to detect user input actions via a writing tool, the method includes detecting a... Agent: Perman & Green

20080100589 - Bezel assembly for assembling touch panel with lcd device: A bezel assembly for assembling a touch panel with a LCD device includes an open-bottom integrating case having a front panel defining a central opening, a pair of first side supports downward extended from two opposite ends of the front panel, and a pair of second side supports downward extended... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080100590 - Display device: The present invention relates to a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a sensing electrode disposed on the first substrate or the second substrate, and at least one touch sensor protrusion... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080100586 - Method and system for calibrating a touch screen: A method for calibrating a touch screen. Method may be comprised of determining an area for a region suitable for receiving, excluding activations determined to be located within a defined distance from the outer edge of the area determined for the region, accumulating a pattern of activations for a centroid... Agent: Deere & Company

20080100584 - Sanitizing a touch panel surface: A touch panel system that sanitizes a touch panel surface includes a substrate coupled to the touch panel surface. The system further includes an impedance interface coupled to the touch panel surface and a vibration source coupled to the impedance interface. The vibration source vibrates the substrate to generate pressure... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080100588 - Tactile-feedback device and method: A tactile-feedback device configured to enable a user to perceive a state of contact with a virtual object includes a plurality of stimulation generating units attached to a user body and a control unit configured to cause the plurality of stimulation generating units to generate stimulations different from each other... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080100587 - Touch sensor, touch pad and input device: A touch sensor includes a contact sensor and a pressure sensor. The contact sensor includes a first electrode and a first switching element connected to the first electrode, and detects a change in an electric potential when an object contacts a surface. The pressure sensor includes a second electrode and... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080100591 - In-vehicle apparatus and control method of in-vehicle apparatus: An in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100592 - Touch panel input device: A touch panel input device of the invention has a panel, an X-line electrode (first electrodes) arranged on a front surface side of the panel, a Y-line electrode (second electrodes) disposed on the back surface side and shifted in planar position relative to the X-line electrode. The device detects whether... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080100593 - Light sensitive display interface for computing devices: According to one or more embodiments, a variation is detected in light that is cast over a display interface of a computing device. A characteristic of the light variation is identified. From this characteristic, a determination is made as to whether the variation in light is to be interpreted as... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080100594 - Information input device: An information input device (1) includes a touch panel (2), an image display (6), and a sensor section (12) for detecting touched contact positions on the touch panel (2). A detection region of the touch panel (2), surrounded by the sensor section (12), is divided into a rectangular main region... Agent: Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080100596 - Digital photo frame with monthly calendar: A digital photo frame with a monthly calendar includes: at least one storage device for storing a digital photo or image, a processing unit for processing the digital photo stored in the storage device; a time unit for providing a function of calculating a current date and time, the current... Agent: Hdsl

20080100600 - Display systems: Driving methods for display panels are provided, in which a Kth row of pixels in a pixel array is driven during a first period, and a K+1th row of pixels in the pixel array is driven during a second period. A control clock applied for a charge pump is toggled... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100599 - Flat display device and method of driving the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a flat display device which achieves an excellent and stable display even when the periodicity of voltage polarity is switched at the beginning of a frame at the time of driving a signal line while providing a periodicity of every M... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080100601 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same: A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same include a display panel which has a first and a second surface facing each other, a plurality of first pixels which display an image on the first surface and a plurality of second pixels which display an image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080100597 - Method and apparatus to improve playability in overscan areas of a tv display: A television (TV) monitor or receiver normally displays only the active portion of a video signal, and generally the HBI (horizontal blanking interval) and/or the VBI (vertical blanking interval) are not displayed. In some TV displays however, there is provision to display at least a portion of a blanking interval... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080100595 - Method for eliminating power-off residual image in a system for displaying images: A method of eliminating power-off residual image for a system for displaying images is disclosed, including detecting the end of a final frame by checking a data enable pulse signal, wherein the data enable pulse signal comprises pulses each controlling display of one line of a frame, and generating a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100598 - System and method for providing dynamic refresh rates for displays: A system and method for providing dynamic refresh rates for displays is disclosed. According to one aspect of the disclosure, an information handling system can include a refresh rate processing module coupled to a memory operable to store video display content. The information handling system can further include a display... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080100604 - Driving circuit for liquid crystal display and burning system for burning same: An exemplary driving circuit (20) for an LCD includes a driving chip (22) configured to drive the LCD, a flexible printed circuit (23) electrically connected to the driving chip and an identification register (24). The identification register is located on the flexible printed circuit and stores identification information distinguishing the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080100603 - Driving method of liquid crystal display apparatus and driving circuit of the same: An output circuit of a data driver in a liquid crystal display apparatus conducts a dot inversion driving method. The output circuit includes amplifiers that output the data signals on data lines, switches that separate the data lines from the amplifiers and short/precharge circuit that shorts the lines between the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100602 - Liquid-crystal display apparatus and line driver: A liquid-crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid-crystal panel that includes pixels that are arranged at positions where a plurality of row selection lines and a plurality of line selection lines intersect, the pixels being driven by activating thin-film transistors connected to the row selection lines and the line selection lines;... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080100605 - Display apparatus, data driver and method of driving display panel: A display apparatus includes a display panel; and a data driver configured to output drive voltages from a plurality of output nodes to drive the display panel. The data driver includes a plurality of output amplifiers, each of which is configured to receive a gradation voltage corresponding to a pixel... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100607 - Plasma display, and driving device and method thereof: A driver circuit for a plasma display panel is disclosed. The circuit drives the panel using low supply voltage to reduce cost. The circuit sequentially charges and discharges capacitors to provide signals to the panel during reset, address, and sustain periods.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080100606 - Reducing power during idle state: Included are systems and methods for reducing power consumption in a computer system. At least one embodiment of a method, among others, includes processing data in a normal mode, receiving an indication of a transition into an idle mode, capturing at least one frame of display data, and transmitting the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100609 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device and the driving method thereof that is adaptive for increasing display quality. The organic light emitting diode display device according to an embodiment includes a display panel where pixels having an organic light emitting diode device are arranged in a matrix type and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080100608 - Signal regulator module and related display device: A signal regulator module includes a floating current regulator, a signal sensor, and a feedback controller. The floating current regulator is electrically coupled to a driving circuit and the light sources of a display panel for regulating the driving signals based on a feedback signal in a photo couple means.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080100611 - Closed-loop integrity monitor: Provided are systems and methods for operating an avionics component to a given level of certification. Steps of the method include: receiving data from a sensor and sending the data to at least two components, a data monitor and an integrity monitor, the data monitor operating at a first level... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080100610 - Image processing device and computer-readable medium storing program: Referring to contents of a user information storage, an MFP information storage, an API information storage and the like, whether or not an API is available is determined, an unexecutable function of an application due to unavailability of the API is determined, and a display way for displaying a list... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080100612 - User interface for efficiently displaying relevant oct imaging data: The present invention is an OCT imaging system user interface for efficiently providing relevant image displays to the user. These displays are used during image acquisition to align patients and verify acquisition image quality. During image analysis, these displays indicate positional relationships between displayed data images, automatically display suspicious analysis,... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080100613 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphics data to minimize power consumption: A method, medium, and system rendering 3D graphics data. The method includes selecting objects to render from graphic data that have rendering results of a current frame that are different from rendering results of a previous frame, setting an operational voltage and an operational frequency based on the selected objects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100614 - Method for graphically representing the surroundings of a motor vehicle: In a method for graphically representing the surroundings of a motor vehicle, whereby graphical elements, which serve to assist the driver in interpreting the spatial information, contained in the scene image, are superimposed on a scene image, which represents a three dimensional surrounding scene of the surroundings of the motor... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080100615 - Sweep with guide surface: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to conduct a sweep operation in a computer-implemented solid modeling system, A 3D non-planar surface is created. A path for a sweep operation is created. A profile for the sweep operation is created. The 3D surface is selected for use... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080100616 - Method for converting two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional solid model and method for converting attribute: The invention provides a method for creating a three-dimensional solid model from a two-dimensional projection drawing created on a CAD screen via a simple operation. Reference points P1, P100 and P200 are respectively selected on a front view, a plan view and a right side view of a CAD screen.... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080100618 - Method, medium, and system rendering 3d graphic object: A method, medium, and system rendering a 3-dimensional (3D) object, with the method of rendering a 3D object including generating a scanline of a primitive forming the 3D object, removing some pixels included in the generated scanline in consideration of visibility, thereby reconstructing scanlines, and determining the color of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100617 - Simultaneous simulation of markov chains using quasi-monte carlo techniques: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer software/computer code products operable to enable computer graphics systems to more efficiently simulate Markov chains (and thus trajectories of photons and the like) comprise simulating, and/or means for simulating, Markov chains using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology, wherein the simulating of Markov chains comprises sorting states,... Agent: Jacobs & Kim LLP

20080100619 - Mesh generation method and computer-readable article for executing the method: A method for generating meshes and a computer-readable article for executing the method are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: generating a plurality of hexahedral meshes for a model; creating a runner for the model; generating a plurality of meshes for the runner; and modifying the runner meshes located... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080100620 - Image processor, game machine and image processing method: An image processing technology for displaying a real object and a virtual object associated with each other is provided. An image analysis apparatus according to the present invention changes a motion pattern of the virtual object depending on the actual movement of the real object. The change detector 110 detects... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080100621 - System and method for coronary segmentation and visualization: A method of coronary vessel segmentation and visualization includes providing a digitized coronary image, placing a plurality of seed points along an estimated centerline of a coronary vessel, selecting a seed point and constructing a cyclic graph around the seed point in a plane perpendicular to the centerline at the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080100622 - Capturing surface in motion picture: Capturing a surface in motion picture, including: covering a surface with a pattern formed of a marking material; acquiring a sequence of image frames, each image frame of the sequence including a plurality of images of the pattern covering the surface; deriving a mesh object from the plurality of images... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080100623 - Determination of unicode points from glyph elements: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for determining Unicode points from glyph elements are provided. The tools may receive indications of commands that relate to text containing glyphs. Responding to the commands, the tools may convert the glyphs to corresponding Unicode representations. The tools may also provide glyph substitution tables that... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080100624 - Image processing apparatus and method, and program: It is determined whether the size of an outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than a predetermined size. If it is determined that the size of the outline vector to be output is equal to or smaller than the predetermined size, image data is generated by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080100625 - Forecast weather video presentation system and method: A system and method for generating a realistic weather forecast visualization. Realistic weather graphics and animations are combined with a few of view of location of interest to allow weather presentation viewers to visualize future forecast weather conditions as the would actually be seen. A forecast weather video presentation may... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.c. Attn: Linda Kasulke, Docket Coordinator

20080100626 - Network distributed physics computations: An application executing on a rendering computer invokes a physics function request, e.g., to model the movement and interaction of objects to be rendered. The physics function request specifies a physics function to be performed on input data. Physics function request data is formatted for transmission over a network. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080100627 - Processing of 3-dimensional graphics: A graphic rendering pipeline has a number of different rendering units and receives fragments for rendering. A renderer stated word cache is used to store rendering state data to be used to configure the rendering units when they render a fragment. Each rendering unit includes a functional block which carries... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080100628 - Single precision vector permute immediate with \"word\" vector write mask: The present invention is generally related to integrated circuit devices, and more particularly, to methods, systems and design structures for the field of image processing, and more specifically to an instruction set for processing images. Vector processing may involve performing a plurality of permute operations to arrange vector operands in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080100629 - Computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) supported on a cpu/gpu fusion-type chip and/or multiple gpus supported on an external graphics card: A computing system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on a hybrid CPU/GPU fusion-architecture chip and/or on an external graphics card, and employing a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem having software and hardware implemented components. The computing system includes (i) CPU memory space for... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080100630 - Game console system capable of paralleling the operation of multiple graphics processing units (gpus) employing using a graphics hub device supported on a game console board: A game console system capable of parallelizing the operation of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) supported on game console board, using a graphics hub device, and a multi-mode parallel graphics rendering subsystem supporting multiple modes of parallel operation and having software and hardware implemented components. The game console system includes... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq.

20080100631 - Method and system for blu-ray/hd-dvd chip: In one embodiment, there is presented an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit comprises a transport processor and a host processor. The transport processor parses a media stream. The host processor determines whether a media stream is Blu-ray or HD-DVD and configures the transport processor based on whether the media stream... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080100632 - Digital photo frame for saving power: A digital photo frame includes: at least one storage device for storing a digital photo; a display device for displaying the digital photo; a light-sensing component disposed on the display device, and for detecting an intensity of environmental brightness and sending a signal; and a processing unit for processing the... Agent: Hdsl

20080100633 - Microdisplay and interface on a single chip: A microdisplay having interface circuitry on the same silicon backplane to allow it to receive digital images and video in a variety of formats and convert same to field sequential color signals for generation of full color images. It includes column data processors having a comparator for each block of... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080100634 - Data transfer circuit and semiconductor integrated circuit equipped with data transfer circuit: A data transfer circuit that transfers a first kind of data stored in an external memory circuit includes: an internal memory circuit that is capable of, by an external circuit, writing and/or rewriting a second kind of data including information for one region as a transfer source in the external... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080100635 - System for interleaved storage of video data: A method for reading atoms positioned within a memory having a first memory portion and a second memory portions, comprising the steps of (a) positioning the atoms having memory addresses across the memory, (b) defining a strip across a portion of the atoms, (c) designating a first atom within the... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080100636 - Systems and methods for low-power computer operation: A computer system having low-power operation includes a controller in communication with a first storage device and a second storage device. The controller can be configured to periodically retrieve dynamic frame data from a first storage device during a time period when the computer system is not in an idle... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080100637 - Providing for application integrity, improved start-up time, and reduced memory utilitization in a safety-critical graphics processing environment: At least one of graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included within application logic. At least one of the graphics operation description information or graphics object description information is included in the program address space of a graphics driver.... Agent: Fsp LLC

20080100638 - Display apparatus and method capable of rotating an image: A system for translating a portrait-oriented software address to a portrait-oriented yet landscape-configured display address. Based on the orientation of a display device, an address translation system either passes the software address “as is” or translates the address to represent a portrait-oriented display address. An address generator operates alternatively in... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080100639 - System and method for computing color correction coefficients: System and method for computing coefficients for color correcting rendered colors used in displaying images. A preferred embodiment comprises measuring color values of light output for a display system, receiving color values of desired colors, and computing a color correction matrix based on the measured color values and the input... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080100640 - Graphics processing method and system: The embodiments discussed herein involve flood filling a region with anti-aliasing. In forming a fill region, a candidate pixel can be included in the region based on a color of the pixel and also a color of a neighbor of the point. The inclusion basis may be a color distance... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080100641 - Image display adjustment system and method: An image display adjustment system comprises a display setup application executable by a processor and configured to, in response to detecting at least one characteristic associated with a display device, automatically cause an adjustment image to be displayed on the display device and an image adjustment process to be performed... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080100642 - User definable aspect ratios for image regions: The present invention discloses a method for adjusting an image displayed in a graphical user interface. The method can include a step of identifying an original region that is a visible rectangular region containing a displayed digital image. A user defined aspect ratio can be established using an aspect ration... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080100643 - Method and system for navigating within an image: The present invention relates to at least one image section which is represented according to a zoom factor selected from a number of different zoom factors. Either the represented image section is changed when the zoom factor is lower than a zoom threshold value, or a marker representation superimposing the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080100646 - Display device and display panel driver using grayscale voltages which correspond to grayscales: A display device includes: a display panel; at least one data-line drivers; and a plurality of operational amplifiers. The plurality of operational amplifiers is integrated in any of the at least one data-line driver and generates a plurality of reference voltages, respectively. The data-line driver includes: a driving circuit, a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080100644 - Method and device for images brightness control, image processing and color data generation in display devices: The present invention is directed to methods and devices to increase the brightness of images in display devices. A white signal component is generated according to an input color signal, comprising primary signal components Red, Green and Blue. The generated white signal component and the primary signal components will be... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080100645 - Image display device and image display method: An image display device includes: an optical modulation element having a plurality of pixels; light sources illuminating the optical modulation element, each of which is independently controlled; a light source control value setting section setting control values for each of the light sources according to the grayscale of each pixel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080094310 - Accumulation display device, interlocked display method and system: An accumulation display device can interlock a display content according to specification of each of the mobile data terminals. An interlocked display system includes an accumulation display device having a metadata interpretation unit that analyzes metadata transmitted by a broadcast wave or a communication network and an accumulated image processing... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080094311 - Interactive hyperwall for visualization, simulation, gaming: An interactive hyperwall containing a plurality of meta-monitors having a computer with an operating system and bearing multiple graphic cards, multiple displays supported by the graphic cards, and a computer-readable storage device with software; a hyperwall system, for simultaneous visualization of different representations of multidimensional data, the hyperwall system containing... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080094315 - Method: A driver (15, 10, 16) for an electrophoretic display (1) comprising pixels (18), comprises a controller (15) to select a particular drive waveform (Dij) for a particular one of the pixels (18) out of a particular set of drive waveforms (Si) being selected out of a plurality of sets of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094317 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel including first and second substrates facing each other and spaced apart from each other, barrier ribs disposed between the first and second substrates and defining discharge cells, phosphor layers formed in the discharge cells, address electrodes arranged on the first substrate and extending in a first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080094318 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device characterized by having a plurality of first electrodes which are provided on a first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes which are provided on the first substrate and for causing discharge between the plurality of first electrodes and themselves, a plurality of third electrodes which are... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080094321 - Organic light emitting diode display and method of manufacture: An organic light emitting diode display includes a display region where a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of emission layers are formed, and a peripheral area formed along the circumference of the display area; a flexible conductive film that includes contact portions, each of which is formed... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080094323 - Display device: Image display apparatus comprising two or more arrays of light sources is described. Each array is rotatable around a common axis, and the light sources in each array are arranged so that each light source traverses along a unique path around the common axis. A controller is adapted to modulate... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080094325 - Liquid crystal display module: The present invention provides an LCD module, in which elements having high resistance to static electricity impact are used as circuit elements of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) inside a Taped Carrier Package (TCP Board) connecting a front LCD panel to a rear main board, and static electricity introduced via... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080094329 - Color display: The present invention relates to a color display device, comprising at least two light sources (16, 17), having different radiance spectra, and a liquid crystal light valve layer (14). The light sources (16, 17) are activated sequentially and the light valve layer is provided with driving signals (d1, d2) in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094331 - Driving method for reducing color shift: A driving method for reducing the color shift suitable for driving a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes at least one scan line, at least one data line, and at least one pixel unit electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The driving method includes... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080094330 - Structure for storing overdrive image data and a method thereof: The present invention discloses a structure for storing overdrive image data and a method thereof, which divide image data into non-video data and video data and respectively store them in a non-video data storage region and a video data storage region of a memory unit, wherein the RGB data of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094334 - Data driving apparatus, liquid crystal display including the same, and method of driving liquid crystal display: A data driving apparatus includes; an integrated circuit chip, a grayscale voltage generation unit disposed on the integrated circuit chip which receives grayscale generation signals from the outside and generates a plurality of reference grayscale voltages, and a driving unit disposed on the integrated circuit chip which receives the reference... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094333 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device and a method of the driving the same include a display panel assembly, a driving unit which drives the display panel assembly, and a serial peripheral interface which includes a plurality of registers, the plurality of registers being divided into groups of at least two blocks, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094335 - Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display and a method of driving the same. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel displaying an image; a gate driver applying gate signals to the liquid crystal display panel; a data driver applying data signals to the liquid crystal display panel;... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094332 - Method for driving lcd monitor: A method for driving an LCD monitor includes providing a common-voltage signal having a level conversion during each frame duration, dividing each frame duration into a first sub-frame duration and a second sub-frame duration according to a position having the level conversion of the common-voltage signal, driving a first set... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094336 - Integrated circuit module and method for data transmission: An integrated circuit (IC) module for data transmission and a method for the same are disclosed. According to the present invention, the connection is such that in the module a plurality of ICs is electrically connected to a plurality of transmission lines for transmitting data. The module further includes a... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080094337 - Method of driving plasma display apparatus: A method of driving a plasma display apparatus may include supplying a first voltage to the X electrodes during a first reset period of the reset period, supplying, using energy stored in the energy recovery circuit, a ramp waveform voltage that rises from the first voltage signal to a second... Agent: Lee & Morse, P.C.

20080094338 - Data accessing interface having multiplex output module and sequential input module between memory and source to save routing space and power and related method thereof: A data accessing interface between memory and source in LCD display IC includes a multiplex output module and a sequential input module. Suppose a row width of the memory is N bit. The multiplex output module is for outputting a row N-bit digital data. The multiplex output module includes a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094339 - Driving device and related image transmission device of a flat panel display: A driving device includes a plurality of transmitters. Each transmitter includes a first current source, a second current source, a third current source, a fourth current source, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a fifth switch, and a sixth switch. The first and the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080094342 - Timing controller, liquid crystal display including the same, and method of displaying an image on a liquid crystal display: A timing controller capable of reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) and a liquid crystal display including the same are provided. The timing controller includes a line buffer memory, a comparing unit that compares first data information with second data information, and a memory allocating unit dividing the line buffer memory into... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080094312 - Facilitating group discussion: Among other things, a topic for group discussion is displayed in a public place at a scale that is visible to a group of people at the public place, contributions of users that relate to the topic are received from wireless devices of users who are at the public place,... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080094313 - Device for providing a vehicle user with information: In a device for providing information to a vehicle user about various functional elements using a display screen system, having an overview image to display the functional elements, having a rotating actuator, which is assigned to the functional elements, rotatable arbitrarily around its axis for the individual selection of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080094314 - Display unit: Display units (1) comprising display panels (50) with pixels (11) coupled to storage lines (62,63) via storage capacitors (13) are provided with storage line drivers (60,70) for driving the storage lines (62,63) for reducing necessary electrode voltage swings on electrodes such as row electrodes (41,42,43,44,45,49) and column electrodes (31,32,34,35,39). A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094316 - Method for driving a plasma display panel: The present method is to drive a plasma display panel which displays a frame composed of a plurality of sub-fields having different weights of luminance. The method comprises using plural kinds of application voltage waveforms different in light emission luminance, as pulse voltages for sustain discharges in display of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080094319 - Plasma display panel: A plasma display panel. A first substrate and a second substrate are provided opposing one another with a predetermined gap therebetween. Address electrodes are formed on the second substrate. Barrier ribs are mounted between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge cells... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080094320 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a method of driving the same, win which the display device includes a light emitting element and a driving transistor supplying a driving current to the light emitting element, and in which one of a data voltage or a reverse bias voltage is applied to the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080094322 - Flexible active matrix display backplane and method: An active matrix display backplane is formed by annealing a flexible dielectric substrate, and then forming one or more thin-film-transistors (TFTs), one or more pixel electrodes, and an interconnect on a surface of the annealed substrate. The interconnect includes individual, spaced apart electrodes that are electrically coupled to one another.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080094324 - Deinterleaving transpose circuits in digital display systems: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of converting a stream of pixel data in space and time into a stream of bitplane data. In particular, the present invention converts the pixel data stream according to a predetermined output format. The apparatus of the present invention receives the pixel... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080094328 - Electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus and display driver ic using the same: A liquid crystal device having a display section provided with a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes, a master X driver IC and a slave X driver IC for driving the X electrodes, and a Y driver for driving the Y electrodes. The master IC has... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080094326 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises a pair of polarizing plates which are constituted with a polarizing plate at the output side comprising a polarizer at the output side and a polarizing plate at the incident side comprising a polarizer at the incident side having... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094327 - Method of driving a display device: A driving method that does not allow a change in temperature of the surroundings to change the luminance of a light emitting element of a pixel is provided for a display device with less uneven display, higher gradation, and reduced power consumption. A time ratio gradation driving method is applied... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080094340 - Data latch circuit and electronic device: The data latch circuit of the invention includes a means for short-circuiting an input terminal and an output terminal of an inverter and by connecting the input terminal to one electrode of a capacitor and sampling a data signal or a reference potential to the other electrode of the capacitor,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080094341 - Liquid crystal display device: It is an object of the invention to provide a liquid crystal display device that can realize a driving method reducing the power consumption of a driving circuit in a condition that real-time processing is available. In a liquid crystal display device, SW1 is controlled such that pixel data on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094343 - Source line driving circuit, active matrix type display device and method for driving the same: If the frequency of a clock signal is increased, the pulse width of a sampling pulse is decreased, and the amount of time for a video signal to be written to a source line is inadequate. Sampling pulses (sam) rise sequentially in synchronization with the rise of a start pulse... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080094349 - Backlight control circuit: The present invention discloses a backlight control circuit, comprising: a voltage supply circuit for receiving an input voltage and generating an output voltage under control by a control signal; at least one voltage comparison path respectively coupled to at least one light emission device path; a voltage operative amplifier circuit... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080094345 - Backlight device with zone control: A backlight unit usable in a liquid crystal display. In one embodiment, the backlight unit includes a substrate having an edge zone and a central zone surrounded by the edge zone, a first plurality of light emitting elements positioned in the central zone of the substrate, a second plurality of... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080094344 - Display device and method, recording medium, and program: b

20080094347 - Method of controlling luminance of backlight assembly, circuit for controlling luminance of backlight assembly and display device having the same: A method for controlling a backlight luminance in which a reference voltage is set, a sampling voltage is generated based on the reference voltage, and a net photo current signal is generated by a photo current sensing element and a dark current sensing element. The net photo current signal is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080094348 - Liquid crystal display device with light sensor on light guide plate thereof: An exemplary liquid crystal display device (200) includes a liquid crystal panel (220), a light guide plate (210) opposite to the liquid crystal panel, a light source configured for supplying light beams to the light guide plate, a driving chip (230) provided at the light guide plate and configured for... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080094346 - Method for processing image data: A method for processing a frame of image data, wherein the image data is amplified by a gain factor determined in dependence of a number of sub-pixels within said frame of image data having a luminance above a first threshold value. The resulting gain factor allows for optimal amplification of... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080094350 - Active mouse button: A computer system, such as a small footprint Person Computer (PC) or notebook computer, PC pointing device and method of displaying information on the PC. The notebook computer includes a pointing device, such as a mouse button, with an illuminated region. The notebook computer also includes a message handler monitoring... Agent: Lenovo (us)IPLaw

20080094351 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: A plurality of stimulus generators (110), which is used to apply stimuli to the human body, and is laid on the human body of the user, is controlled. A position determination unit (108) determines whether or not a virtual object that forms a virtual space where the user exists is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080094352 - Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling: Improved approaches for users to with graphical user interfaces of computing devices are disclosed. A rotational user action supplied by a user via a user input device can provide accelerated scrolling. The accelerated nature of the scrolling enables users to scroll or traverse a lengthy data set (e.g., list of... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080094353 - Methods for interfacing with a program using a light input device: An input device for interfacing with a computing device is provided. The input device includes a body configured to be held within a human hand. The input device includes a light emitting diode (LED) affixed to the body and a power supply for the LED. A mode change activator is... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080094354 - Pointing device and method for item location and/or selection assistance: The invention describes a pointing device (1) and a methode for item location and/or selection assistance, which method comprises visually presenting a number of items (M1, M2, M3, M4) in a visual presentation (VIP, VP′, aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) and a directable source (12) of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094355 - Data input device, data input method, data input program and recording medium wherein such data input program is recorded: A portable telephone 1 detects the force applied on a force sensor 51 of an input unit 50 as rectangular coordinate data and converts the detected rectangular coordinate data into polar coordinate data. Then, with reference to an allocating table that has recorded characters and ranges of θ values to... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20080094356 - Methods for determining a cursor position from a finger contact with a touch screen display: A portable device with a touch screen display detects a contact area of a finger with the touch screen display and then determines a first position associated with the contact area. The cursor position of the finger contact is determined, at least in part, based on: the first position, one... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094357 - Design for the mouse for any portable device: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate navigating data associated with a portable device. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that facilitate incorporating a motion input on at least one side of a portable device, the portable device includes a casing with a front, a back, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080094358 - Constrained virtual camera control: A method is described that includes receiving, from a first device, input used to select a first object in a computer-generated environment. The first device has at least two degrees of freedom with which to control the selection of the first object. The method also includes removing, in response to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080094360 - Computer mouse having a front sight button and method for generating local coordinates with the same: The present invention relates to a computer mouse having a front sight button and the method for generating local coordinates with the same, which comprises a position sensor for generating coordinates in accordance with the movement of the mouse, a front sight button for generating a local shooting signal when... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080094359 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse is described, comprising a housing (1) which comprises a support surface (2) and a jacket surface (4) for finger support, which jacket surface protrudes upwardly in a tapering manner from the support surface (2). In order to provide advantageous handling conditions it is proposed that the jacket... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080094361 - Control apparatus for enabling computer peripheral to be controlled by keyboard indication commands: A control apparatus for enabling computer peripherals to be controlled by keyboard indication commands is disclosed, which is substantially a control box connected to a computer and a keyboard respectively by interfaces thereof, and is comprised of: a micro control unit (MCU), capable of issuing an activating signal while receiving... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080094362 - Keyboard with keys arranged in pairs and handheld electronic apparatus incorporating the same: The invention provides a keyboard including a plurality of user-operable keys and a processor. The user-operable keys include a first key and a second key. The processor generates a first key signal in response to the key-in action of the first key, generates a second key signal in response to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080094363 - Hand-held electronic device with multiple input mode thumbwheel: A thumbwheel input device oriented on an incline and comprising a wheel such that a first input is generated by rotation of the wheel about its axis, and a holder also having an axis of rotation and a portion thereon to receive the wheel whereby a second input is generated... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080094364 - Object outputting method and information processing apparatus: In order to display the image included in the original one on a display part together with outputting the object, a key in a keypad on an operation part by a user. Thereby, the key operated by the user is specified in both of the mask image creation part 32... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080094365 - Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080094366 - Terminal having color changing function and color changing method thereof: A mobile communication terminal having a color changing function and its color changing method are disclosed. By changing an illumination color of a key input unit, a user can recognize an operation state of the terminal by intuition through the illumination color. In addition, because the key arrangement of the... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080094373 - Keypad assembly: Provided is a keypad assembly used as a data input unit in various electronic devices. The keypad assembly includes a main board having one or more metal domes formed at predetermined positions on the main board, and a keypad disposed on the main board to apply a pressure on the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080094367 - Pressure-controlled navigating in a touch screen: A remote control device has a display monitor for rendering an image and a touch screen for user interaction. The touch screen is pressure-sensitive. The device has an operational mode wherein the image is being scaled dependent on a value of the pressure registered by the touch screen.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080094372 - Touch screen element: A method of mounting a touch-screen element onto a control panel, and a corresponding assembled unit. In the assembled apparatus, the control panel has the touch-screen element mounted thereto. The touch-screen element comprises a sensing element mounted on a semi-rigid carrier, and first and second clamps for holding opposed sides... Agent: David Kiewit

20080094371 - Deletion gestures on a portable multifunction device: Deletion gestures for use on a portable multifunction device with a touch-sensitive display are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with the portable multifunction device comprises displaying a list of items on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display to edit... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094369 - Email client for a portable multifunction device: A computer-implemented method for providing email at a portable communications device with a touch screen display is disclosed. A first portion of a list of entries with information about corresponding electronic messages is displayed in a first area of the touch screen display. A first portion of an electronic message... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094370 - Portable electronic device performing similar operations for different gestures: A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094368 - Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying structured electronic documents: A computer-implemented method, for use in conjunction with a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, comprises displaying at least a portion of a structured electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the structured electronic document comprises a plurality of boxes of content, and detecting a first gesture... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Apple Computer Inc.

20080094374 - Control device for a spreader: A control device is disclosed for a spreader for spreading materials on a road. The device includes a touch screen for entering information and an arrangement associated with the touch screen for processing the information and for providing a color display. The device also includes a color display which permits... Agent: David J. Archer

20080094376 - Stylus calibration system and method: A method calibrates a stylus to a display interface by first resetting a calibration pattern and calibration parameters. The calibration pattern is displayed on the display interface at a location corresponding to an estimated position of a stylus tip. The position of the stylus tip is measured while sensing the... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20080094375 - Universal flat horizontal use stylus: A universal flat horizontal use stylus, this stylus design avoids damage to the fragile outer membranes of existing touch sensitive screens devices mostly found on today's PDA's (personal digital assistant). Due to the curvature of the present inventions flat body and downward angled flat conical nose tip, and control/support curve... Agent: Jerry Craig

20080094377 - Method and device for data management in an electronic pen: A data management device in an electronic pen apparatus operates to receive (602) images of a product surface and extract (604) data from these images. The product surface may be provided with part of a position-coding pattern, and the extracted data may then represent positions encoded by the pattern. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080094378 - Method for reducing sensitivity modulation and lag in electronic imagers: A method for reducing gain and lag signals associated with trapped charges is described. Data is collected from a detector. A forward bias voltage is temporarily applied to the detector between collecting the data.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080094379 - Information display system: The informati