20th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130120400 | ANIMATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT IN PRESENTATION APPLICATION PROGRAMS - An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct manipulate objects in the scene to author animations. The animations can include motion path animation effects, which can be directly manipulated utilizing a motion path tweening method. To aid in direct manipulation of a motion path of an object, a ghost version of the object can be shown to communicate to a user the position of the object after a motion path animation effect that includes the motion path is performed. The ghost version may also be used to show a start position when a start point is manipulated. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120401 | Animation of Computer-Generated Display Components of User Interfaces and Content Items - Animation of computer-generated display components of user interfaces and content items is provided. An animation application or engine creates images of individual display components (e.g., bitmap images) and places those images on animation layers. Animation behaviors may be specified for the layers to indicate how the layers and associated display component images animate or behave when their properties change (e.g., a movement of an object contained on a layer), as well as, to change properties on layers in order to trigger animations (e.g., an animation that causes an object to rotate). In order to achieve high animation frame rates, the animation application may utilize three processing threads, including a user interface thread, a compositor thread and a rendering thread. Display behavior may be optimized and controlled by utilizing a declarative markup language, such as the Extensible Markup Language, for defining display behavior functionality and properties. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120402 | Discarding Idle Graphical Display Components from Memory and Processing - Memory storage and processing for idle computer-generated graphical display components are discarded for conserving memory capacity, processing resources and power consumption. If a computer-generated display frame goes idle for a prescribed duration, for example, 30 seconds, wherein no user action or processor action is performed on the idle display frame, stored data representing the idle display frame is discarded from memory and processing for the idle display component is ceased, thus conserving memory space, processing resources and power consumption (e.g., battery power). If the discarded display frame becomes active again, its discarded resources may be recreated. Alternatively, an idle display component may be passed to a separate application and may be reclaimed by a requiring application when the idle display component becomes active again. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120403 | ANIMATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT IN PRESENTATION APPLICATION PROGRAMS - An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct manipulate objects in the scene to author animations. The animations can include motion path animation effects, which can be directly manipulated utilizing a motion path tweening method. To aid in direct manipulation of a motion path of an object, a ghost version of the object can be shown to communicate to a user the position of the object after a motion path animation effect that includes the motion path is performed. The ghost version may also be used to show a start position when a start point is manipulated. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120404 | Animation Keyframing Using Physics - An animation-authoring environment includes a graphical user interface usable by a user to define an initial key frame, including one or more scene entities with one or more respective physics properties. The authoring environment generates a sequence of extrapolated frames from the initial key frame by using a physics simulation to extrapolate respective motion paths for scene entities in the key frame and configuring each frame in the generated sequence to depict each such scene entity at a successive location along its respective extrapolated motion path. The authoring environment may then produce a movie comprising the sequence of frames. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120405 | ANIMATION CREATION AND MANAGEMENT IN PRESENTATION APPLICATION PROGRAMS - An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct manipulate objects in the scene to author animations. The animations can include motion path animation effects, which can be directly manipulated utilizing a motion path tweening method. To aid in direct manipulation of a motion path of an object, a ghost version of the object can be shown to communicate to a user the position of the object after a motion path animation effect that includes the motion path is performed. The ghost version may also be used to show a start position when a start point is manipulated. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120406 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING - An embodiment of the present invention includes a device for real-time graphics processing. The device includes an interface coupled to exterior for receiving external data. The device includes a data converter coupled to the interface for converting the external data received from the interface. The device includes a graphics processing unit coupled to the data converter to process the external data that has been converted. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120407 | Seam-Based Reduction and Expansion of Images Using Partial Solution Matrix Dependent on Dynamic Programming Access Pattern - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for resizing images using seam carving techniques may include generation of a partial solution matrix by at least partially isolating dependencies between sub-problems of a dynamic programming problem corresponding to its solution within different regions of an input image. The number and/or shape of the isolated (or partially isolated) sub-problems may be dependent on the access pattern used by a dynamic programming operation to identify seams in the input image. Multiple sub-problems may be processed independently and in parallel on respective processor core(s) or threads thereof to generate the partial solution matrix. The partial solution matrix may then be processed to identify one or more low-cost seams of the input image. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU configured for parallel processing. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120408 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT MODULE - A general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) module, a system containing the general-purpose GPU module, and a method for driving the system are provided in accordance with various embodiments of the invention. In an embodiment, a general-purpose GPU module comprises a GPU, a data transfer input/output (I/O) port, a power supply I/O port, a control/SYNC module, and a power supply module. When a new general-purpose GPU module is detected being coupled to the transfer link bus, the graphics processing tasks are allocated to all the coupled general-purpose GPU modules. In accordance with various embodiments of the invention, the costs of designing and using GPUs will be decreased. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120409 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first graphics chip having a first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a first image signal; a second graphics chip having a second drawing processing capacity higher than the first drawing processing capacity and being capable of producing a second image signal; an output changeover section capable of selectively outputting one of the first or second image signals; an inputting section configured to input a user operation to select one of the first graphics chip or the second graphics chip; and a control section configured to control the output of the output changeover section in response to the inputted user operation. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120410 | MULTI-PASS METHOD OF GENERATING AN IMAGE FRAME OF A 3D SCENE USING AN OBJECT-DIVISION BASED PARALLEL GRAPHICS RENDERING PROCESS - A multi-pass method of generating an image frame of a 3D scene, using a parallel graphics processing system having a plurality of graphics processing pipelines (GPPLs), including a primary GPPL. In the system, each GPPL includes a color frame buffer and Z depth buffer, and the GPPLs support an object-division based parallel graphics rendering process, in which the 3D scene is decomposed into objects that are assigned to particular GPPLs for processing. The multi-pass method involves, during a first pass, providing a Global Data Map (GDM) to the Z depth buffer of each GPPL. This step involves the transmission of graphics commands and data for all objects in the frame, to all GPPLs to be rendered. Then, during subsequent passes, a complementary-type partial image is generated within the color buffer of each GPPL using the GDM and a Z test filter supported by the Z depth buffer, and transmitting graphics commands and data of objects in the image frame, to only assigned GPPLs. After subsequent passes are performed, a complete color image is recomposited within the primary GPPL, using the complementary-type partial images stored in the color buffers of the GPPLs, without comparing depth values in the Z depth buffers. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120411 | ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATIONS FOR CONCURRENT GRAPHICS OPERATIONS - A method and an apparatus for notifying a display driver to update a display with a graphics frame including multiple graphics data rendered separately by multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) substantially concurrently are described. Graphics commands may be received to dispatch to each GPU for rendering corresponding graphics data. The display driver may be notified when each graphics data has been completely rendered respectively by the corresponding GPU. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120412 | METHOD FOR HANDLING STATE TRANSITIONS IN A NETWORK OF VIRTUAL PROCESSING NODES - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for executing an operation once work associated with a version of a state object has been completed. The method includes receiving the version of the state object at a first stage in a processing pipeline, where the version of the state object is associated with a reference count object, determining that the version of the state object is relevant to the first stage, incrementing a counter included in the reference count object, transmitting the version of the state object to a second stage in the processing pipeline, processing work associated with the version of the state object, decrementing the counter, determining that the counter is equal to zero, and in response, executing an operation specified by the reference count object. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120413 | METHOD FOR HANDLING STATE TRANSITIONS IN A NETWORK OF VIRTUAL PROCESSING NODES - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for receiving versions of state objects at one or more stages in a processing pipeline. The method includes receiving a first version of a state object at a first stage in the processing pipeline, determining that the first version of the state object is relevant to the first stage, incrementing a first reference counter associated with the first version of the state object, assigning the first version of the state object to work requests that arrive at the first stage subsequent to the receipt of the first version of the state object, and transmitting the first version of the state object to a second stage in the processing pipeline. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120414 | PATTERNING OF ANTISTICTION FILMS FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS DEVICES - A laser absorption layer is first selectively formed in a seal pattern region surrounding an array of electromechanical systems elements, followed by depositing an antistiction layer as a blanket layer over the substrate and the laser absorption layer. The antistiction layer is then selectively removed from the seal pattern using a laser. An epoxy sealing material is provided in the seal pattern where the antistiction layer was removed and a backplate is sealed to the substrate using epoxy. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120415 | COMBINED RESONATORS AND PASSIVE CIRCUIT COMPONENTS ON A SHARED SUBSTRATE - This disclosure provides implementations of electromechanical systems combined resonator and passive circuit component structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related processes. In one aspect, the device includes a piezoelectric resonator structure formed over an insulating substrate. A portion of the piezoelectric resonator structure is spaced apart from the substrate by a first gap. A passive circuit component structure such as an inductor or a capacitor is formed over the insulating substrate. A portion of the passive circuit component structure is spaced apart from the substrate by a second gap. The first gap and the second gap are defined by removal of a sacrificial (SAC) layer. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120416 | STORAGE CAPACITOR FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for storage capacitors. In one aspect, an electromechanical systems (EMS) device includes a substrate, an optical stack disposed over the substrate, a mechanical layer positioned over the optical stack, and a storage capacitor. The optical stack includes a stationary electrode and at least one dielectric layer disposed over the stationary electrode, and the storage capacitor includes a first plate, a second plate and a dielectric structure disposed between the first and second plates. The first plate includes a portion of the mechanical layer positioned over an optically non-active region of the device, and the dielectric structure of the storage capacitor includes a portion of the at least one dielectric layer of the optical stack. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120417 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A display controlling apparatus that is capable of communicating with an image processing apparatus that sends image data to the display controlling apparatus in response to a notification from the display controlling apparatus, includes the following elements: a sending unit configured to send the notification to the image processing apparatus; a first receiving unit configured to receive the image data sent from the image processing apparatus in response to the notification; and a first computing unit configured to compute a first time required to display the image data received by the first receiving unit. The sending unit sends a new notification to the image processing apparatus at a timing based on the first time computed by the first computing unit. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120418 | Web-Based Graphics Rendering System - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that renders graphics in a computing system that includes a plugin associated with a web browser in the computing system and a web application configured to execute in the web browser. During operation, the web application specifies a graphics model and provides the graphics model to the plugin. Next, the plugin generates a graphics-processing unit (GPU) command stream from the graphics model. Finally, the plugin sends the GPU command stream to a GPU of the computing system, which renders an image corresponding to the graphics model. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120419 | Memory Controller for Video Analytics and Encoding - Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120420 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENTLY ORGANIZING DATA IN MEMORY - A method and system for efficiently organizing data in memory is provided. Exemplary aspects of the invention may include storing linear data and block data in more than one DRAM device and accessing the data with one read/write access cycle. Common control signals may be used to control the DRAM devices and the address lines used to address each DRAM device may be independent from one another. The data read from the DRAM devices may be reordered to make the data more suitable for processing by applications. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120421 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING AND RENDERING SCENES VIA DISPLAY LISTS - Various embodiments of a method and system for modifying and rendering scenes via display lists are described. Various embodiments may include a graphical application for generating a display list including display list nodes each corresponding to a respective scene element. To generate a given display list node, the graphical application may determine a scene graph node of a scene graph, allocate a portion of memory dedicated to the display list node, and store in that portion of memory, at least one of the attributes of the respective scene element determined from the particular scene graph node. The graphical application may modify a particular display list node corresponding to the particular scene element by modifying a respective attribute stored in the portion of memory allocated to the particular display list node, and render an image of a scene that includes the particular scene element modified according to the notification. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120422 | FILE FORMAT FOR REPRESENTING A SCENE - A file format that includes a constant section and a varying section. The constant section provides a referencing scheme that references the various components that comprise the scene, as well as a listing of attributes of the scene that are modifiable. Within the same file format, the varying section provides an overriding mechanism to modify the attributes that are available to be modified. Accordingly, the disclosed file format can access cached animated geometry directly and/or aggregate other files via the aforementioned referencing and sparse override semantics. This allows the same set of inspection, manipulation, and rendering tools to be used throughout the rendering pipeline, from asset creation to final rendering. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DRAWING ANTI-ALIASED LINES IN ANY DIRECTION - A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120424 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED RENDERING OF IMAGES - Methods and devices for displaying content with improved speed, performance, and/or improved power efficiency are disclosed. In accordance with many embodiments, content is received that includes a plurality of objects including an image object, and the image object is decoded to obtain a bitmap representation of an image. A pattern of usage of the bitmap representation is identified that indicates whether the bitmap representation may be used repetitively when the plurality of objects are composited, and the bitmap representation is analyzed to identify whether compositing computations may be avoided a next time the bitmap representation is composited. The bitmap representation is then composited in a manner to avoid at least some of the compositing computations. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120425 | CHARACTER GENERATING SYSTEM, CHARACTER GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A character generating system ( | 2013-05-16 |
20130120426 | System and Method for Generating Vector Output From a Physical Simulation of a Bristle Brush - A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for simulating bristle brush behavior and generating vector output from such simulations. User input may represent a stroke made by a paint brush comprising multiple bristles sweeping across a canvas. A vector representation of the brush stroke's effects may be generated by, for each of the plurality of bristles: determining a path along which the bristle has swept, and generating a vector representation of the path along which the bristle has swept (e.g., a set of Bézier curves, or straight line segments). The vector representation of the effects of the brush stroke may comprise the vector representations of the paths along which each of the plurality of bristles has swept. The vector representations of the paths of each bristle sweep may be composited over each other in an image editing application to depict the brush stroke for display and/or for printing. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120427 | System and Method for Simulation of Paint Deposition Using a Pickup and Reservoir Model - Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) using a two-layer model of a virtual paint brush may more accurately simulate real world painting techniques than conventional painting simulations. A two-layer brush model may include a reservoir buffer and a pickup buffer to separately represent the paint stored in the belly of a paint brush tip and paint that has been picked up on the surface of the brush tip during a brush stoke, respectively. The two-layer brush model may also include methods that automatically control how virtual paint moves between these layers and a digital canvas. In simulations that employ this two-layer brush model, virtual paint may be deposited on the digital canvas directly from both of the buffers. The amount of paint deposited from each buffer (and/or the ratio of the amounts) may be configurable by a user. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120428 | Mobile Projector with Position Dependent Display - A projection apparatus memorizes settings as a function of location, orientation, elevation, or any combination. The projection apparatus recalls the settings when the location, orientation, elevation, or combination of the projection apparatus matches memorized values. Memorized settings may include projector settings, image source settings, audio output settings, audio source settings, and the like. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120429 | METHOD OF REPRESENTING EMOTION IN A TEXT MESSAGE - A method of representing an emotion in a text message. The method includes providing a mobile system that has a display and operating system with a short message service. The operating system receives a text message and reviews the text message with a text application that is integrated into the software of the short message service. The text application then detects a series of characters that are provided in the text message and alters the text to indicate the emotion associated with the series of characters that has been detected. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120430 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TEXT READING GUIDE METHOD THEREOF - A text reading guide method for an electronic device including a display screen and a storage unit is provided. The storage unit stores a database recording a number of feature values of images and a plurality of coordinates. Each set of coordinates corresponds to a display region and is associated with a feature value. The method includes the steps of capturing an image of finger of a user; extracting a finger image feature value from the captured finger image; searching the database to find a matching finger image feature value, and retrieving the coordinates associated with the finger image feature value; determining the display content on the display region corresponding to the retrieved coordinates; and displaying the determined contents in a manner of highlighting on the display screen. An electronic device using the method is also provided. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120431 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - A transformation rule of color transformation in an appropriate color space is set even without advanced knowledge and know-how. A three-dimensional lookup table unit transforms color information on an input image signal on the basis of a transformation rule. A correction range calculation unit calculates a correction range in a predetermined color space on the basis of a positional relationship between source coordinates and destination coordinates in the color space. A lattice point transfer distance calculation unit calculates the transformation destination coordinates at respective points on the basis of the positional relationship between the source coordinates and the destination coordinates, and a positional relationship between coordinates at the respective points within the correction range and the source coordinates to reflect the calculated transformation destination coordinates on the transformation rule. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120432 | COLOR MANAGEMENT DETECTION - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to enhancing the visual distinction between color managed image elements and non-color managed image elements. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120433 | System and Method for Simulation of Brush-Based Painting In a Color Space That Includes a Fill Channel - Systems and methods for performing brush behavior simulation in an image editing application may facilitate realistic paint simulation by the addition of a fill channel to a color space representation that includes a set of color channels and an alpha channel representing opacity of the paint. The fill channel value for each pixel of a brush model or canvas may represent the amount of paint stored at the pixel. The system may include logic to support paint compositing, mixing, and depletion operations that calculate a consequent color of a destination pixel resulting from the operations dependent on the fill channel values for the source and/or destination pixels. The resulting color channel, opacity channel, and fill channel values may be converted to a color space that does not include a fill channel or opacity channel for display. A source pixel may be a pixel of an atomic element of a texture. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120434 | Methods and Apparatus for Image Editing Using Multitouch Gestures - Methods and apparatus for digital image editing using multitouch gestures in which two or more digits may be used to select a region of an image via a multitouch device. The number of digits used may indicate the shape of the region being selected. The selected region may be applied to the image or to another image according to an image editing technique using an implement held or manipulated with the other hand, such as a stylus or cursor control device, or using one or more digits of the other hand. Image editing techniques in which the multitouch gestures and application methods may be used may include various techniques that sample pixels from a selected location in an image and apply the sampled pixels to other pixels in the image or to another image. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120435 | System And Method For Simulating Paint Brush Strokes Using Configurable Wetness, Drying, And Mixing Parameters - Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) may more accurately simulate real world painting techniques than conventional painting simulation applications. The digital painting application (or simulation module) may provide a small set of physically meaningful parameters (e.g., canvas wetness, drying rate, and pickup mix ratio). By setting the values of these parameters (or overriding default values for a selected paint type), the user may better control the appearance of brush strokes made by a virtual paint brush on a digital canvas. For example, the length of a brush stroke, the amount of streaking caused by paint picked up during the brush stroke, and/or the mix of paint deposited from a pickup buffer and a reservoir buffer of a brush model may be affected by changing the values of these parameters, thus allowing users to create different realistic painting effects. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120436 | System and Method for Non-Uniform Loading of Digital Paint Brushes - Systems, methods, and apparatus for simulating natural media painting in a digital painting application (or painting simulation module) may provide user interface elements and methods that allow a user to load a brush with non-uniform paint colors by directly sampling the digital canvas. For example, a user may hover the brush over an area on the canvas having a non-uniform color distribution, and the application (or module) may sample the colors of the pixels under the brush, and load the brush with a collection of paint values reflecting the non-uniform distribution of colors in the sample. The application may support two non-uniform paint loading modes, e.g., one that fills the brush with a distribution of paint matching a single sample, and one that fills the brush with paint continuously as it is swept over the canvas. Non-uniform paint loading may be applied to stamp-based brush models and/or bristle brush models. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120437 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING UNIT, IMAGE DISPLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING IMAGE DATA - A display controlling unit comprises an input connectable to receive input image data representing an input image comprising a first set and a second set of image elements. The second set of image elements comprises a safety relevant information. The display controlling unit also comprises an output connectable to provide output image data representing an output image at least comprising the safety relevant information, an image enhancement module arranged to perform an image enhancement processing for the first set of image elements when a safety mode signal indicates a first mode, and a verification module arranged to perform a verification processing for the second set of image elements when the safety mode signal indicates a second mode. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120438 | Methods and Apparatuses for Generating Co-Salient Thumbnails for Digital Images - Methods and apparatus for generating context-sensitive, co-salient thumbnails are described. Co-salient thumbnails may effectively convey more useful information than conventional thumbnails while using the same or similar display space. As such, co-salient thumbnails may make it easier for a user to locate a particular image in a large collection of similar images. In some embodiments, for each of a plurality of patches in a first image, an illustrative method may identify a corresponding similar patch in a second image based on one or more similarity measures. The method may then determine a distance from each of the plurality of patches to its corresponding similar patch and select a crop in the first image relative to the second image based on the determined distance. Optionally, the method may repeat these operations in the opposite direction to select a crop in the second image relative to the first image. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120439 | System and Method for Image Editing Using Visual Rewind Operation - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing a visual rewind operation in an image editing application may include capturing, compressing, and storing image data and interaction logs and correlations between them. The stored information may be used in a visual rewind operation, during which a sequence of frames (e.g., an animation) depicting changes in an image during image editing operations is displayed in reverse order. In response to navigating to a point in the animation, data representing the image state at that point may be reconstructed from the stored data and stored as a modified image or a variation thereof. The methods may be employed in an image editing application to provide a partial undo operation, image editing variation previewing, and/or visually-driven editing script creation. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN IMAGE TO PROVIDE SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method uses an image manipulating application to define in an object image a plurality of discrete cells. Predefined image information is substituted for image information in selected ones of the plurality of discrete cells to form a translated version of the object image. The translated version of the object image may then be provided to an image recognition capable search engine to obtain search results. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120441 | Intelligent Memory Management System and Method For Visualization of Information - A computer system and method removes or changes graphic content not discernable from the rendering tree stored in memory. The content modified depends on its redraw area in a physical monitor or a pane, which is contained within a layout in a frame. One or more frames are defined as part of a logical monitor. A physical monitor may have one or more logical monitors. Each redraw area is determined and graphic content is modified with different graphic having a memory use less than the original graphic that is determined not to be discernable based on the resolution and zoom information. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120442 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Editing Seam Carving Masks - Systems and methods for creating and editing seam carving masks may allow a user to combine masks, and/or to modify automatically generated suggested masks, manually created masks, combination masks, or previously stored masks using tools of a graphical user interface in a graphics application (e.g., a mask brush or mask eraser). The method may include accessing data representing an image and automatically generating a suggested mask for the image (e.g., based on a color or color range, a threshold energy value, or input specifying two or more previously stored masks for combination). The method may include displaying the suggested mask as an overlay of the image, highlighting mask pixels using a respective color or pattern. The user may indicate pixels to be added to or removed from the suggested mask to produce a modified mask for application in an image editing operation (e.g., a resizing, filtering, or feature identification operation). | 2013-05-16 |
20130120443 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING IMAGE BACKGROUND SELECTION - A method for automatically displaying an organ of interest includes accessing a series of medical images acquired from a first imaging modality, receiving an input that indicates an organ of interest, automatically detecting the organ of interest within at least one image in the series of medical images, automatically placing a visual indicator in the region of interest, and automatically propagating the visual indicator to at least one image that is acquired using a second different imaging modality. A medical imaging system and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also described herein. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120444 | CROSS WINDOW ANIMATION - Animations may cross different windows. These cross window animations may include interwindow animations and/or window transition animations. Interwindow animations are used to animate elements across windows. Window transitions are used to animate moving/resizing/showing/hiding windows simultaneously. To perform these animations, an overlay window covers the animation area that includes at least a portion of two different windows. Layers may be used to represent images or visual elements that can be moved as part of an animation. These layers may be placed in the animation overlay window to move visual elements across the underlying windows. Supported underlying windows are directed to draw content directly to the overlay window during the animation. A picture of the underlying window is drawn to the animation overlay window when the underlying window is not-supported such that the underlying window is included within the animation. When the animation is complete, the animation overlay window is removed. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120445 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes exercise of a person reflected in an input image, and a display control unit that superimposes on the input image a virtual object varying according to effectiveness of the exercise recognized by the recognition unit. The image processing device further includes a score calculation unit that calculates a score denoting the effectiveness of the exercise recognized by the recognition unit, and the display control unit superimposes on the input image the virtual object representing greatness of the score calculated by the score calculation unit. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120446 | Geometrical Graphical User Interface For Displaying Related Data - A graphical user interface for interactively displaying large amounts of related data using a geometrical pattern is provided. The geometrical user interface permits users to view, navigate and interact with large amounts of related data in a single display window without going through multiple clicks, menus, drop-downs and scrolling events. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120447 | MOBILE DEVICE FOR EXECUTING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS AND METHOD THEREOF - A mobile device for executing multiple applications and a method thereof are provided, in which a touch screen is included, a multi-application panel is displayed in a portion of the touch screen, including a plurality of multi-application sets, each multi-application set having a plurality of applications, and when at least one of the plurality of multi-application sets is touched in the multi-application panel, a controller executes a plurality of applications included in the touched multi-application set and displays the executed applications on the touch screen. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICS USING GRAPHICAL ENGINE - Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. One such system includes at least one graphical pipeline and a graphical engine. The at least one graphical pipeline is coupled to a bus and operable to generate a plurality of graphical layers. The graphical engine is coupled to the bus and operable to receive, over the bus, the plurality of graphical layers. The graphical engine is operable to composite the received plurality of graphical layers into a composite graphical layer, and to store the composite graphical layer in a local memory of the graphical engine. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120449 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A failure analysis apparatus obtains information associated with an operational status of a data center, determines information regarding fault repair work for the data center, based on the information associated with the operational status, and transmits the information regarding the fault repair work to an HMD. The HMD synthesizes and presents computer graphics image data for providing guidance for a method of the fault repair work, with an image of real space, based on the information regarding the fault repair work. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120450 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY TOUR PLATFORM SERVICE INSIDE BUILDING BY USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of providing an augmented reality tour platform service for the inside of a building by using a wireless communication device. The method includes: acquiring an image of the building from the wireless communication device; collecting information associated with the acquired image; extracting a candidate building group from a previously established database on the basis of the acquired image and the collected information; specifying a building matching the acquired image from among the extracted candidate building group; and transmitting information regarding the inside of the specified building to the wireless communication device. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120451 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - When combining a virtual subject with a background image, there may be a case where the hue is different between both and a feeling of difference arises. Moreover, conventionally, it is necessary to manually adjust rendering parameters etc. from the rendering result, which takes time and effort. An image processing device that combines a virtual subject with a background image to generate a combined image is characterized by including a correction coefficient deriving unit configured to derive a correction coefficient by performing rendering of a color object arranged in a position where the virtual subject is placed using an environment map indicating information of a light source around the virtual subject, a background image correcting unit configured to correct the background image based on the derived correction coefficient, and a combining unit configured to combine a corrected background image and the virtual subject using the environment map. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120452 | WIRELESS AUGMENTED REALITY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The system of the present invention is a highly integrated radio communication system with a multimedia co-processor which allows true two-way multimedia (video, audio, data) access as well as real-time biomedical monitoring in a pager-sized portable access unit. The system is integrated in a network structure including one or more general purpose nodes for providing a wireless-to-wired interface. The network architecture allows video, audio and data (including biomedical data) streams to be connected directly to external users and devices. The portable access units may also be mated to various non-personal devices such as cameras or environmental sensors for providing a method for setting up wireless sensor nets from which reported data may be accessed through the portable access unit. The reported data may alternatively be automatically logged at a remote computer for access and viewing through a portable access unit, including the user's own. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120453 | FUSION OF MULTIPLE IMAGES - A method includes fusing at least three images together into a single fused image, wherein at least one of the three images includes a binary-pattern representation image. A system includes an image processing system ( | 2013-05-16 |
20130120454 | Methods and Apparatuses for Generating Thumbnail Summaries for Image Collections - Methods and apparatuses for generating thumbnail summaries for image collections are described. Thumbnails summaries may be representative of the image collection while being disjoint from each other. In some embodiments, a method may sample crops from some or all images in an image collection. From these candidate crops, the method may select representative but disjoint crops. In some embodiments, a desired representativeness and/or disjointedness of the candidate crops may be defined by a user. The method may then generate and/or select thumbnail summaries for the collection of images based at least in part on the selected candidate crops. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120455 | Network Appliance for Transcoding or Enriching Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Desktop Images - Disclosed in an example embodiment herein is an apparatus that comprises an interface for receiving image data from a hosted virtual desktop and sending a desktop image to a client device and graphical processing logic coupled with the interface. The graphical processing logic receives the image data via the interface and performs a graphical processing operation on the image data to create a desktop image. The graphical processing logic employs the interface to provide the desktop image to the client device. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING, REPLACING AND MODIFYING EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT SHAPE IN SKETCH-STYLE DRAWINGS OF VARIOUS STYLES - A computer method and apparatus for selecting and manipulating curvilinear shapes entered by a user is shown. The curvilinear shapes are represented within the computer using parameterized equations. The representation is reduced to maximal elements. The maximal elements are extended. Registration points of the extended maximal elements are then identified. Once the registration points and maximal elements are known, curvilinear shapes can be matched using those maximal elements and registration points. Therefore a user can create a sketch that looks like part of a drawing and the computer can find the corresponding section for the user and transform it. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120457 | Methods and Apparatus for Manipulating Images and Objects Within Images - Methods and apparatus for manipulating digital images. A warping module is described that enables the manipulation of a surface by selectively deforming portions of the surface while maintaining local rigidity. The user may position multiple control points on a surface to constrain deformation. The user may specify multiple properties (e.g., translation, rotation, depth, and scale) at each control point. A mesh may be overlaid on the surface. The warping module may perform an initialization in which the properties are propagated other vertices in the mesh to generate an initial deformed mesh. The warping module may then perform an iterative optimization operation on the deformed mesh to improve the deformation while retaining local rigidity. Thus, instead of moving every pixel in the surface, the warping module moves or adjusts coordinates of the vertices of the mesh. The surface is then deformed according to the deformed mesh. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120458 | DETECTING SCREEN ORIENTATION BY USING ONE OR MORE PROXIMITY SENSORS - Techniques and tools are described for detecting screen orientation using proximity sensors. A display mode of an electronic display of a mobile device can be changed based on input from one or more proximity sensors. The display mode can be changed to a portrait, a landscape mode, or other display mode based on the input from the one or more proximity sensors. In one embodiment, the input can indicate that one or more objects are proximate to or in physical contact with a perimeter of a front surface of the mobile device. In another embodiment, the input can indicate that the one or more objects are proximate to or in physical contact with a portion of the mobile device, such as a side surface. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120459 | Display Device, Corresponding Systems, and Methods for Orienting Output on a Display - A display system includes a display and a control circuit operable with the display. The display is configured to provide visual output having a presentation orientation. When user input is received, the control circuit can alter the presentation orientation from an initial orientation in response to user input. When non-user events or device events are detected, the control circuit can revert the presentation orientation to the initial orientation in response to the non-user event or device event. Where the presentation orientation has a user input configuration associated therewith, the user input configuration can either be altered with the presentation orientation or retained in an initial disposition. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120460 | Animations for Scroll and Zoom - Smooth animation effects during zooming are provided by retaining content displayed at a previous zoom level. If the zoom operation is a zoom out operation, new content is stretched to a current zoom level, aligned with the retained content, and placed underneath it. If the zoom operation is a zoom in operation, new content is scaled down to the current zoom level, aligned with the retained content, and displayed on top of the retained content. The new content is then zoomed with the retained content. The retained content is then deleted. When zooming out, the retained content fades out. When zooming in, the new content fades in. Smooth scrolling animation is also provided by pre-rendering a portion of content and teleporting to a final viewport position and thereby skipping over blank content. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120461 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing method includes: generating reduced information obtained by reducing input image information with a reduction ratio; calculating a moving amount in a unit of a first display area based on the reduced information and reduced previous information obtained by reducing image information input prior to the input image information with the reduction ratio; calculating a moving amount in a unit of a second display area of the input image information by magnifying the moving amount in the unit of a first display area calculated with a first magnification ratio that is an inverse of the reduction ratio, and calculate an adjustment level in the unit of the second display area based on the moving amount in the unit of the second display area, which indicates a level of high frequency component image information to be blended on the input image information. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALING VISUALIZATIONS - A system for scaling visualizations may include a human machine interface (HMI) configured to display a visualization on a screen, a secondary display device configured to display a scaled visualization such that the scaled visualization is determined based at least in part on the visualization, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive an indication that the secondary display device has been coupled to the HMI, present two or more scaling mode options on the screen or the secondary display device, receive an input that corresponds to one of the scaling modes, generate the scaled visualization by applying a scaling factor to the visualization, wherein the scaling factor is based at least in part on the input, and facilitate sending the scaled visualization to the secondary display device. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120463 | Methods and Apparatus for Natural Media Painting Using Proximity-Based Tablet Stylus Gestures - Systems and methods for providing a natural media painting application may receive user inputs through tablet stylus gestures. Various digital painting and image editing tasks may be invoked and/or controlled using such gesture-based inputs. The application may detect stylus gestures that mimic real-world actions of artists, and may perform appropriate painting and image editing actions in response to detecting and recognizing the stylus gestures. The system may provide an automatic zoom mode in which, as the stylus is moved into proximity of the tablet, the application zooms into a displayed image to focus on an area of interest. The system may also provide an automatic panning mode that allows the user to pan an image when the stylus is in proximity to, but not touching, the tablet. One or more thresholds for determining whether the stylus is in proximity with the tablet may be pre-defined or may be user configurable. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120464 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CHANGING COORDINATES OF ICONS ACCORDING TO SENSING SIGNAL - An embodiment of the invention provides a method for changing a coordinate of an icon according to a sensing signal. The method comprises: outputting the sensing signal via a sensor according to an interactive operation of a user; displaying a plurality of the icons of an operating system via a display device, wherein each icon corresponds to a data element; when receiving the sensing signal and a trigger signal by a processor, by the processor, acquiring the icons currently shown on the display device, generating an updated coordinate of each icon according to the sensing signal output by the sensor, changing the coordinates of the icons of the operating system, and displaying the icons on the display device according to the updated coordinates. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120465 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DRIVING MULTIPLE LINES OF DISPLAY ELEMENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for driving a pixel of a display. In one aspect, a segment driver and a common driver may be used to substantially concurrently address all display elements in the pixel. This addressing may reduce write time of the pixel, and may reduce the power consumed during the write process. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120466 | DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A driving method of a display panel is described. A display panel including a pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes N scan lines, M data lines, and a plurality of first pixel units and a plurality of second pixel units electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. When an image is displayed with a wide-viewing angle mode, a first scanning procedure is performed to sequentially scan the first scan line of the scan lines to the Nth scan line of the scan lines in order. When the image is displayed with a narrow-viewing angle mode, the second scanning procedure is performed to sequentially scan the Nth scan line of the scan lines to the first scan line of the scan lines in order. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120467 | COLOR SEQUENTIAL LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The color sequential LCD device comprises an LCD panel, a data drive circuit, a gate drive circuit and backlight units. The LCD panel comprises data lines disposed along a major-axis direction of a substrate of the LCD panel, gate lines orthogonally intersecting the data lines, and a plurality of color sequential displaying areas defined along the major-axis direction of the substrate. The data drive circuit disposed at one side of the substrate in the minor-axis direction applies image signals to the data lines. The gate drive circuit disposed at one side of the substrate in the major-axis direction applies strobe pulse to the gate lines. The backlight units disposed at one side of the substrate in the major-axis direction at least comprises red LEDs, green LEDs and blue LEDs. The invention improves the displaying effect due to increase the number of the color sequential displaying areas. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120468 | Four-Primary Color Display Device and Method for Calculating Relative Brightness of Fourth Primary Color - A four-primary color display device and a method for calculating relative brightness of a fourth primary color are provided. The display device includes plural pixels and a relative brightness computation module of the fourth primary color for calculating relative brightness of that color. The pixel has at least four sub-pixels for displaying red, green, blue and the fourth primary color respectively. The relative brightness computation module of the fourth primary color includes a basic value computation unit, a gain value computation unit, a weighting proportion computation unit and a relative brightness computation unit of the fourth primary color. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120469 | PIXEL ARRAY - A pixel array includes a first color pixel unit, a second color pixel unit and a third pixel unit, and the first, second and third pixel units respectively include a scan line, a data line, an active device electrically connected to the scan line and the data line and a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the active device. The first pixel electrode has at least one first slit, and a first acute angle is formed between an extending direction of the first slit and an extending direction of the scan line. Any two of the first acute angle of the first color pixel unit, the first acute angle of the second color pixel unit, and the first acute angle of the third color pixel unit are different. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120470 | SHIFTED QUAD PIXEL AND OTHER PIXEL MOSAICS FOR DISPLAYS - This disclosure provides systems and apparatuses having pixels connected to various drive lines. In one implementation, a passive matrix display apparatus comprises a plurality of display elements, arranged in rows and columns, each common line driving display elements of a single color, wherein at least one common line of the plurality of common lines is coupled to display elements in two or more rows to drive the two or more rows, and a plurality of sets of multiple segment lines, each set of multiple segment lines associated with a column of display elements, wherein one segment line of the set of multiple segment lines addresses display elements of a given color of one row along the column and an other segment line in the set of multiple segment lines addresses display elements of the given color of another row along the column. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120471 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS THEREOF, AND SCALER CHIP IMAGE - A display control apparatus applied for an image display apparatus having a plurality of display regions is provided. The display regions are respectively corresponding to a plurality of backlight modules and the luminance of the backlight modules are independently controlled. The display control apparatus includes a backlight control unit. The backlight control unit receives a first image data to generate a plurality of local backlight control signals accordingly. The local backlight control signals are used for controlling the luminance of the backlight modules. The backlight control unit divides the first image data to be a plurality of local image data respectively corresponding to the display regions. Furthermore, the backlight control unit generates one of the local backlight control signals according to one of the local image data respectively. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120472 | 4-PRIMARY COLOR DISPLAY AND PIXEL DATA RENDERING METHOD THEREOF - A 4-primary color display includes a display panel including a plurality of 4-primary color pixels each including red, green, blue, and white liquid crystal cells, and a pixel data rendering circuit for producing 4-primary color pixel data corresponding to a second horizontal resolution, which is equal to a physical horizontal resolution of the display panel, using 3-primary color pixel data corresponding to a first horizontal resolution, which is two times higher than the physical horizontal resolution of the display panel. The pixel data rendering circuit determines a weighting factor based on a luminance ratio of two 3-primary color pixel data so as to increase a cognitive horizontal resolution of a luminance in the 4-primary color pixel data to the first horizontal resolution, and reflects the weighting factor to the calculation of a gray value of one 4-primary color pixel data. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120473 | CONTROL DEVICE, ELECTROOPTICS DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND CONTROL METHOD - For a target pixel to be processed among plural pixels, when a comparison result between the gray level value stored in the first memory and the gray level value stored in the second memory, and the remainder frequency stored in the third memory meet a predetermined condition, the control device rewrites the remainder frequency to a set value decided according to the gray level value stored in the second memory, and the control device performs a cleanup processing to display a predetermined image at the plural pixels with a predetermined timing. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120474 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is a display device including a display section configured to display an image and a light source device for emitting light for displaying the image to the display section. The light source device includes a first light source for applying first illumination light, and a light guide plate having a plurality of scattering areas, the light guide plate emitting the first illumination light applied from a direction of a side of the light guide plate to an outside by scattering the first illumination light in the plurality of scattering areas, and a light scattering characteristic is added to the scattering areas by forming a plurality of depression and projection shapes in surfaces of the scattering areas or dispersing a light scattering material in the scattering areas, and density of the depression and projection shapes or concentration of the light scattering material in the scattering areas changes according to position. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120475 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed herein is a display device including: a liquid crystal display section adapted to display an image based on a video signal; a backlight; and a processing section adapted to correct the video signal and set the luminance of the backlight based on two pieces of information, a peak level of the video signal in a display screen or in each of a plurality of partial display areas into which the display screen is divided, and factor data obtained from a data map made up of a reference position on the display screen and the factor data that are associated with each other. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120476 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DRIVING A PLURALITY OF DISPLAY SECTIONS - An apparatus for displaying data includes a first array of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns, a second array display of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns, and a third array of display elements having a plurality of rows and columns. In some implementations, the third array is disposed between the first and second arrays. The apparatus further includes a first set of busses connected to supply display signals to columns of the first array, a second set of busses connected to supply display signals to columns of the second array, and a third set of busses connected to supply display signals to columns of the third array. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120477 | DISPLAY APPARATUS LIGHT EMISSION CONTROL METHOD AND DISPLAY UNIT - A light emission control method controls a display that includes a display portion, a scanning portion, and a driving portion. The display portion includes light emitting elements in a matrix form. The scanning portion is connected to common lines. Each common line is connected to the anode terminals of corresponding elements in corresponding row so that the common lines are scanned. The driving portion is connected to driving lines. Each driving line is connected to the cathodes terminals of corresponding elements in a corresponding column. The driving portion can drive selected elements when the common line corresponding to the selected elements is scanned. The method displays an image in each cycle including frames. All common lines are scanned in each frame. A part of the rows in one frame in one cycle is/are driven. Other part is driven in a frame after the one frame in the one cycle. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120478 | DISPLAY SIGNAL GENERATOR, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY - In a display signal generator for use in a display device, in order to display the image corresponding to the input image signals, a combination of desired display time aperture ratios are obtained for each pixel in N number of sub-frame phases, a combination of display time aperture ratios in the N number of sub-frame phases at the time the display color is actually reproduced is set from the combination of the desired time aperture ratios on the basis of response characteristics of a pixel array unit, and a modulation signal which implements the combination of display time aperture ratios that were set is output. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120479 | MONITOR RETRAINING DEVICE - A monitor retraining device includes a handheld housing, a controller disposed within the housing, and a connector connected to the controller and connectable directly to a monitor having a screen. The controller has a first state wherein the controller provides an output signal to the connector to cause the monitor to display a white image over the entire screen for a first time period, and a second state wherein the controller provides no output signal to the connector to cause the monitor to display a black image over the entire screen for a second time period, the controller automatically alternating between the first and second states without feedback as to the white image or the black image displayed. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120480 | DISPLAY DRIVER - In a display driver, a first backlight control unit using a histogram and a second backlight control unit using an optical sensor can be used in combination. The display driver includes a PWM generating unit setting a control signal value consisting of a product of a luminance rate of X % and a luminance rate of Y % as a luminance rate of a control signal for controlling a backlight with respect to maximum backlight luminance when a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by first backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is X % and a luminance rate of a control signal obtained by second backlight control with respect to the maximum backlight luminance is Y %. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120481 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVER APPARATUS, AND BACKLIGHT UNIT - An image display apparatus comprising: a driver apparatus; and a total of N device groups of a first group to an N-th group (2≦N) each of which includes one or a plurality of light emitting devices, the image display apparatus uses the driver apparatus to make each of the device groups emit light preventing light emission capable periods from overlapping one another and displays an image by using the obtained light as backlight; wherein the driver apparatus includes: a power output circuit that outputs light emission power used for the light emission of the light emitting device; and a switch mechanism that switches, in accordance with arrival of the light emission capable period of a device group K (1≦K≦N), an output destination of the light emission power output from the power output circuit to the device group K. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120482 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - This invention enhances gloss uniformity of a formed image surface by selectively using colorless inks according to dot layouts of colored inks. A dot-layout unit sets colored dot layouts for respective colors of colored ink data. A colorless-dot-layout unit sets a colorless dot layout for one colorless ink with reference to a colorless dot layout table according to the colored ink data. An image is formed according to the colored and colorless dot layouts. In the colorless dot layout table, when a specular glossiness calculated according to the colored dot layouts is high, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a low refractive index on a colored ink having a high refractive index. Conversely, when the specular glossiness is low, the colorless dot layout is set to superpose a colorless ink having a high refractive index on a colored ink having a low refractive index. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120483 | Fluid Ejecting Apparatus and Fluid Ejecting Method - A fluid ejecting apparatus includes first and second nozzle groups that eject first and second fluids respectively; a third nozzle group that does not eject any fluid; and a controlling section that performs image formation and transportation operations, including ejecting the first and second fluids while moving the first and second nozzle groups in a movement direction, and transporting the medium relative to the first and second nozzle groups in a predetermined direction. The controlling section performs control for forming a first image using the first nozzle group and for forming a second image on the first image using at least the second nozzle group. Relative to the predetermined direction, the first nozzle group is located upstream of the second nozzle group, and the third nozzle group is located downstream of the first nozzle group and is located upstream of the second nozzle group. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120484 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD OF DRIVING PULSE APPLIED TO INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus comprise a printhead including a temperature sensor and an element array formed by arraying a plurality of heat generation elements each of which generates a thermal energy required to discharge an ink in response to application of a driving pulse, a specifying unit configured to specify a portion used in printing of the element array, and a selection unit configured to select a driving pulse to be applied to the respective heat generation elements based on the portion specified by the specifying unit and a temperature of the printhead measured by the temperature sensor. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120485 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid ejection head including: nozzles configured to perform ejection of droplets of liquid toward a substrate; and liquid chambers connected respectively to the nozzles and defined by side walls, at least respective parts of the side walls being constituted of piezoelectric elements, the liquid ejection head being configured to cause shear deformation of the piezoelectric elements to eject the droplets of the liquid in the liquid chamber through the nozzles; and a droplet ejection control device configured to group the nozzles into groups of not less than three in such a manner that adjacent nozzles belong to different groups, and is configured to control operation of the piezoelectric elements in such a manner that the droplet ejection is performed at a same timing only through the nozzles belonging to a same group so as to deposit the liquid discretely onto the substrate. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120486 | PRINT HEAD CHECK METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A printer has a print head check unit that performs an ink ejection check to confirm whether or not ink is being ejected normally from nozzles, the printer sets a flag F to 1 so as to start an ink ejection check and starts a paper feed process. When the processes has been terminated, the printer starts printing. Accordingly, ink ejection check takes place concurrently with the paper feed process, the overall time required for the processes can be reduced. In this way, the overall time required for the processes of the ejection check of the print recording liquid and an image forming process can be reduced. Further, the ink ejection check may be performed in parallel with or partly overlapping with a process of receiving print data, a process of conversion into print data, a process of ejecting paper after printing, or a flashing process. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120487 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet that is a continuous sheet. The printing unit prints an image onto the conveyed sheet. The detection unit detects a splice of the conveyed sheet. A following sheet area follows and is continuous from the splice. The control unit adjusts, in response to the detection unit detecting a splice of the conveyed sheet, the conveyance by the conveyance unit of the following sheet area depending on conveyance characteristics of the following sheet area. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120488 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM CONVEYANCE METHOD - A recording apparatus includes an ink discharge part, a first drive part that drives a rotation of a roll body in which the recording medium is wound, a second drive part that drives the conveyance part that conveys the recording medium, and a control part that controls operations of the first drive part and the second drive part. The control part drives the first drive part in a halted state of the second drive part and executes a measurement that measures a relationship between a load and a drive speed when conveying the recording medium and the control part executes the measurement for a single rotation of the roll body. The control part also provides a first measurement mode to execute the single rotation which is divided into plural number. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120489 | PAPER USED IN AN INKJET PRINTER, AND PRELIMINARY EJECTION METHOD FOR AN INKJET PRINTER - Paper used in an inkjet printer has a recording area where information is recorded; a non-recording area where information is not recorded; and an open part formed in the non-recording area. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120490 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus which includes an ejecting unit which ejects liquid cured by being irradiated with light onto a medium for printing, an irradiation unit which irradiates the liquid which has landed onto the medium for printing with the light, and an image quality inspection unit which inspects an image quality of an image which is formed on the medium for printing, in which, when the image quality inspection unit detects abnormal formation of the image, an intensity of the light of the irradiation unit is controlled. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120491 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK REMAINING AMOUNT DETECTION METHOD - According to this invention, an inkjet printing apparatus having an arrangement for detecting an amount of remaining ink in an ink tank starts a printing operation in a short time immediately after power-on. If an operation in preceding use is ended without any error at the time of power-off, and no error has occurred even at the time of power-on, the inkjet printing apparatus of this invention starts the printing operation without executing the operation of detecting the amount of remaining ink in the ink tank after power-on. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120492 | NONAQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - The nonaqueous ink composition for ink jet printing contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) below, and a heterocyclic compound selected from lactones and lactams. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120493 | Liquid Ejection Apparatus - A liquid ejection apparatus includes a cap, an opposing member opposing an ejection surface of a liquid ejection head which is elongated in one direction, and a cap moving mechanism arranged to move the cap. The cap includes a lip component, a diaphragm, and a holder having a lower linear expansion coefficient and higher rigidity than the lip component. On the elongated portions of the lip component, either first hooks or first receiving portions hooked on the first hooks are formed, whereas the other first hooks or first receiving portions are formed at parts of the holder which parts oppose the elongated portions. The lip component is connected with the holder such that the first hooks hook the first receiving portions in a direction orthogonal to the ejection surface. In the one direction, gaps are formed between the first hooks and the first receiving portions. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120494 | REDUCING CONDENSATION ACCUMULATION IN PRINTING SYSTEMS - A printing system includes one or more printing system components positioned opposite a moving print media. A wick assembly can be attached to a printing system component to wick condensation away from a surface of the printing system component that is opposite the moving print media. A heating element can be in contact with one or both of the wick assembly and a printing system component. A protective layer can be attached to the surface of a printing system component that is opposite the moving print media to prevent condensation from forming on the component. A vacuum assembly can be positioned opposite the moving print media to produce suction over the print media that pushes humid air or some condensation into the vacuum assembly. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120495 | WIPER UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Ratchets which regulate a rotation of either a reeling-out roller around which one end of a long wiping member which wipes ink attached to a recording head which ejects ink is wound, or a winding-up roller around which the other end of the wiping member is wound to which tension is applied due to a friction force which acts on the wiping member when performing wiping are provided. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120496 | WIPER UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A sun gear which is rotationally driving according to power which is transmitted from a driving motor, a planetary gear which can be displaced in the circumferential direction of the sun gear in a state of being engaged with the sun gear, and a winding-up gear which transmits a rotational driving power to a winding-up roller are provided, and the planetary gear is released from an engagement with a rack gear unit, rotates the winding-up roller by being engaged with the winding-up gear, and winds up a wiping member after the planetary gear moves a wiper holder in the wiping direction by being engaged with the rack gear unit of the wiper holder. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120497 | INKJET PRINTHEAD HAVING ROWS OF PRINTHEAD SEGMENTS - An inkjet printhead includes: a first row of longitudinally spaced apart first printhead segments, each first printhead segment having a plurality of nozzle rows configured for ejecting a plurality of different colored inks; and a second row of longitudinally spaced apart second printhead segments, the second row being parallel with the first row, each second printhead segment having a plurality of nozzle rows configured for ejecting a plurality of different colored inks The first and second printhead segments overlap in a media feed direction transverse to the first and second rows so as to provide seamless printing across a width of the printhead. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120498 | Fluorinated Poly(amide-imide) Copolymer Printhead Coatings - Disclosed is an ink jet printhead comprising a plurality of channels, wherein the channels are capable of being filled with ink from an ink supply and wherein the channels terminate in nozzles on one surface of the printhead, the surface being coated with a coating composition comprising a fluorinated poly(amide-imide) copolymer. | 2013-05-16 |
20130120499 | Siloxane-Etherimide Copolymer Printhead Coatings - Disclosed is an ink jet printhead comprising a plurality of channels, wherein the channels are capable of being filled with ink from an ink supply and wherein the channels terminate in nozzles on one surface of the printhead, the surface being coated with a coating composition comprising a siloxane-etherimide copolymer and a fluorinated nonionic surfactant. | 2013-05-16 |