32nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090195461 | Antennas Integrated with Dielectric Construction Materials - Antenna radiating elements are combined with dielectric construction materials, with the radiating elements designed to produce a certain radiation pattern taking into account the construction materials. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195462 | ANTENNA AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An antenna including a substrate, a ground layer, a conductive sheet and a feeding microstrip line is provided. The substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The ground layer is disposed at the lower surface. The conductive sheet is disposed at the substrate, substantially perpendicular to the ground layer and electrically connected to the ground layer. The feeding microstrip line is electrically connected to the conductive sheet. The antenna may be used in a communication device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195463 | ANTENNA AND PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a portable terminal including a terminal body and a retractable antenna operatively connected to the terminal body and capable of being retractably housed into and withdrawn out of the terminal body. The retractable antenna includes a base rotatably supported at the terminal body, an antenna rod connected with the base and including at least one telescoping member for extending a length of the antenna rod, and a pivot connection unit connecting the base to the antenna rod and allowing the antenna rod to pivot with respect to the base. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195464 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PACKAGING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIPS WITH ANTENNAS FORMED FROM PACKAGE LEAD WIRES - Apparatus and methods are provided for integrally packaging semiconductor IC (integrated circuit) chips with antennas having one or more radiating elements and tuning elements that are formed from package lead wires that are appropriated shaped and arranged to form antenna structures for millimeter wave applications. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195465 | DUAL TRANSMITTING ANTENNA SYSTEM - A vehicle system includes a signal processing module and a first antenna that provides a first transmitted signal that has a first phase. A second antenna of the system provides a second transmitted signal that has a second phase that differs from the first phase. At least one receive antenna of the vehicle system receives first and second received signals that correspond to the first and second transmitted signals, respectively. The signal processing module processes the received first and second signals based on the first and second transmitted signals and selectively controls transmissions of the first and second transmitted signals. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195466 | Antenna For a Wireless Personal Area Network - An antenna includes a loop radiating element, and first and second radiating arms. The loop radiating element includes first andsecond segments, each of which has opposite first and second ends, and an intermediate segment that interconnects the second ends of the first and second segments thereof. The first and second radiating arms extend outwardly and respectively from the first and second ends of the first segment of the loop radiating element. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195467 | COMPOUND TWO-WAY ANTENNA WITH INSTALLATION COMPENSATOR - A two-way terrestrial antenna, employing electrical down tilt and azimuth beam adjustment capability is disclosed. Such antenna configuration allows for a variable antenna coverage footprint within designated coverage sector. To compensate for installation support structure variations the two-way antenna employs a positional sensor that can provide feedback to BTS or automatically compensate azimuth and tilt beam angles so as to provide uniform sector coverage. In particular by monitoring tri-vector gravitational inclinometer and earth magnetic field sensors, and determining correction factors for antenna tilt and azimuth beam adjustments, uniform or compensated sector coverage is provided. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195468 | Slot antenna for a circuit board ground plane - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a slot antenna that is formed on a ground plane of a circuit board. The slot antenna may be connected to radio circuitry adapted on the circuit board by way of a feedline, which is coupled to the radio circuitry and across a portion of the slot antenna. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195469 | ANTENNA SYSTEM AND ANTENNA THEREOF - An antenna system and an antenna thereof are provided. The antenna system comprises an antenna array including a plurality of antennas and at least one plate. The at least one plate is used for isolating two neighbor ones of the antennas. Each of the antennas comprises a first surface and a second surface. The first surface has a metal area and a slot area. The metal area is coated by a metal material, while the slot area consists of three slots. Each of the slots comprises a first area and a second area. The first areas are connected to each other, and each of the second areas extends to different directions individually. The second surface is coated by a metal line as a signal feed end. The metal line terminates at an opposite position of a signal feed slot, which is one of the three slots. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195470 | WIDE-BAND ANTENNA - A wide-band antenna includes radiation devices and an electric supply line. The radiation devices include a first radiation device and a second radiation device. The electric supply line includes a coaxial cable. The first and the second radiation devices are conductor members placed opposite to each other across an electric supply point. The conductor members are line-symmetrical with respect to a straight line passing through the electric supply line. The first radiation device is connected to an inner core of the electric supply line. The second radiation device is connected to an outer conductor of the electric supply line. A conductor member including two electrode portions is connected to the second radiation device. The two electrode portions are placed such that a longitudinal axis thereof is parallel to the electric supply line and is line-symmetrical with respect to the straight line passing through the electric supply line. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195471 | MULTI-ELEMENT BROADBAND OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA ARRAY - A broad beam width antenna array, preferably having 360 degrees of azimuth coverage, which also has broad frequency bandwidth, for use in a wireless network system is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the antenna array comprises a planar dielectric substrate, micro strip elements on both sides of the dielectric substrate, and a corporate feed structure employing parasitic conductive beam width enhancing tubes as feed line conduits. The antenna array comprises dipole radiating elements formed on both sides of the dielectric substrate and a balanced feed network feeding each dipole arm. The shape of the dipole is symmetric and the overall structure, including feed network, preferably has a ┌-shape when viewed from either side of the dielectric substrate. Disposed proximate to each dipole arm are bandwidth enhancement coplanar micro strips which are parallel to each dipole arm and at least partially overlapping each other. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195472 | DIVERSITY ANTENNA ASSEMBLY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT - An antenna assembly (AA), for wireless communication equipment, comprises i) an antenna structure comprising at least a loop type antenna (LA) arranged to deliver a first current when it is used in a balanced mode and/or a second current when it is used in an unbalanced mode with respect to a ground plane (GP) from received radio signals, and E) current extraction means (A | 2009-08-06 |
20090195473 | Multi-band antenna - A multi-band antenna includes a grounding element located on a first planar, a connecting element, a first radiating portion, and a second radiating portion. The connecting element is substantially of L-shape configuration and located on the first planar. The first radiating portion, with a free end, extends from connecting element. The second radiating portion, with a free end, extends from the connecting element and is separated from the first radiating element. The free end of the first radiating portion and the free end of the second radiating portion extend in the same direction. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195474 | DUAL-FEED PLANAR ANTENNA - The invention provides a dual-feed planar antenna including a first resonant portion, a second resonant portion, and a grounding portion. The first resonant portion provides a first radiation path and includes a first feed-in portion and a grounding end receiving a grounding level. The first feed-in portion receives a first antenna signal to transmit the first antenna signal to the first radiation path. The second resonant portion provides a second radiation path and a third radiation path and includes a second feed-in portion respectively receiving a second antenna signal and a third antenna signal to correspondingly transmit the second antenna signal and the third antenna signal to the second radiation path and the third radiation path. The grounding portion receives the grounding level and is disposed between the first and second resonant portions. The dual-feed planar antenna covers the communication bands for GSM850, GSM900, GPS, DCS, PCS, and UMTS. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195475 | PORTABLE NAVIGATIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM - A portable navigation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a multi-antenna assembly configured for including an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The antenna assembly includes a master antenna, and at least two auxiliary antennas. The at least two auxiliary antennas are radially distributed about the master antenna. Furthermore, the master antenna and auxiliary antennas are substantially coplanar when the antenna assembly is in the expanded configuration. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195476 | LOW PROFILE ANTENNA INSERT NUT - An antenna mount comprising a front cylindrical mount, the front cylindrical mount having a threaded interior for installing an antenna; a flanged central portion; a base mount consisting of a hollow cylinder cut away along a longitudinal axis, leaving a half-circular cross section. The antenna mount can be installed by inserting it into an opening in the casing of a device and rotating the antenna mount until it abuts a stop stud. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195477 | STACKED PATCH ANTENNAS - According to various exemplary embodiments, an antenna assembly generally includes one or more antennas, such as a single multi-frequency antenna, first and second stacked patch antennas, etc. The antenna assembly may be operable for receiving signals having different frequencies (e.g., a frequency associated with a satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS), a frequency associated with a global positioning system (GPS), etc.). The antenna assembly may generally include at least one antenna (e.g., a single multi-frequency antenna, first and second stacked patch antennas, etc.) having at least one feed point and tuned to at least one of a first frequency and a second frequency that is different than the first frequency. A low noise amplifier may be in communication with the at least one feed point for amplifying signals having the first frequency and signals having the second received from a signal output. A single communication link may be used for communicating an output signal of the antenna assembly. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195478 | Low-Profile Antenna - An antenna includes a dielectric substrate, feeding and grounding elements, a base element, a radiating element, and an interconnecting element. The feeding and grounding elements are formed on the dielectric substrate. The base element is mounted on the dielectric substrate such that the base element is in electrical contact with the feeding and grounding elements. The radiating element is spaced apart from the dielectric substrate. The interconnecting element interconnects the base element and the radiating element. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195479 | OUTPUT DEVICE AND WEARABLE DISPLAY - A headphone ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090195480 | Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including a pixel array section; and a driving section; the pixel array section including a plurality of scanning lines extending along the direction of a row, a plurality of signal lines extending along the direction of a column, a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns at places at which the scanning lines and the signal lines intersect with each other, and a plurality of feed lines disposed in parallel to the scanning lines, the driving section including a signal selector for supplying a driving signal having a signal potential to the signal lines, a write scanner for successively supplying a control signal to the scanning lines, and a drive scanner for supplying a power supply, which changes over between a high potential and a low potential, to the feed lines. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195481 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A color display device includes a display area where a non-rectangular display range is determined. Pixels of which a display color is set to a mixed color formed by adjusting brightness of sub-pixels having a plurality of different single-colors are arranged within the display area. In addition, parts of the pixels subjected to non-coloring drive and display are arranged so as to extend to the contour of the display area. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195482 | PDP DRIVER AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR DRIVING PDP - A PDP-driving semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of PDP drivers each for converting an input signal into a high-voltage pulse having an amplitude greater than that of the input signal and outputting the high-voltage pulse. The PDP-driving semiconductor integrated circuit has a function of performing sequential operation in which the PDP drivers operate at different timings and sequentially output the high-voltage pulses and a function of performing simultaneous operation in which the PDP drivers operate at the same timing and output the high-voltage pulses at a time. In each of the sequential operation and the simultaneous operation, at least one of the speed of change in voltage level of the high-voltage pulse from a low level to a high level and the speed of change in voltage level of the high-voltage pulse from the high level to the low level is controlled. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195483 | USING STANDARD CURRENT CURVES TO CORRECT NON-UNIFORMITY IN ACTIVE MATRIX EMISSIVE DISPLAYS - A plurality of gray level versus OLED current curves are generated by measuring many OLED panels from a stable manufacturing process, and those curves are stored as standard gray level versus OLED current curves. When a new OLED display is manufactured from the process, each of its sub-pixels is characterized as having the characteristics of one of the pre-generated standard gray level versus OLED current curves, based on a gray level versus OLED current measurement at a single gray level. This drastically reduces the time it takes to determine the TFT gate voltage versus OLED current characteristics of the sub-pixels in the OLED display. The OLED display can use the selected one of the pre-generated standard gray level versus OLED current curves to correct non-uniformities of the sub-pixels in the OLED display caused by non-uniform TFTs in the active matrix. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195484 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof. The organic light emitting display includes a display unit for emitting light in response to a current flowing through the display unit from a first power supply to a second power supply. The current corresponds to a data signal and a scan signal. According to one embodiment, the organic light emitting display further includes a power supply unit having a first output terminal for outputting a first power of the first power supply and a second output terminal for outputting a second power of the second power supply to the display unit, and a driving voltage calculation unit for determining a voltage of the second power corresponding to the current, thereby the power consumption of the organic light emitting display may be reduced. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195485 | Organic light emitting diode display - An OLED display that is enhanced in mechanical strength by improving a structure of a bezel supporting a panel assembly. The OLED display includes a panel assembly that includes a display region, a pad region, and a plurality of OLEDs arranged in the display region and a bezel coupled to the panel assembly, the bezel including synthetic resin, wherein, when a diagonal length of the display region is in the range of 25.4 to 101.6 mm, the bezel being designed to satisfy the following inequality t≧0.0003×a, where t(mm) is a thickness of the bezel and a(mm | 2009-08-06 |
20090195486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLOR CONTROL OF DISPLAY DEVICES - Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of color control in display devices are disclosed. One such method includes measuring an input/output profile of a display, then applying a mathematical model to the display's measured profile to generate color control tables. One such method may include tracking a first color temperature below a high-luminosity transition point and gradually transitioning to tracking a second color temperature above the high-luminosity transition point. One such method may also include gradually transitioning from tracking a darklight color temperature below a low-luminosity transition point to tracking the first color temperature above the low-luminosity transition point. Another such method may include tracking a response curve for a specified chromaticity above a low-luminosity transition point. One apparatus according to aspects of the present invention includes means for measuring an input/output profile of a display, and means for applying a mathematical model to the display's measured profile to generate color control tables. One such apparatus may include means for tracking a first color temperature below a high-luminosity transition point and for gradually transitioning to tracking a second color temperature above the high-luminosity transition point. One such apparatus may also include means for gradually transitioning from tracking a darklight color temperature below a low-luminosity transition point to tracking the first color temperature above the low-luminosity transition point. Another such apparatus may include means for tracking a response curve for a specified chromaticity above a low-luminosity transition point. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195487 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels, each including first and second subpixels. When a predetermined grayscale tone is displayed continuously through four or more consecutive even number of vertical scanning periods, the first and second subpixels have different luminances in at least two of the even number of vertical scanning periods, first polarity periods that are included in the vertical scanning periods and that maintain a first polarity are as long as second polarity periods that are also included in the vertical scanning periods and that maintain a second polarity for each of the first and second subpixels, and in each of the first and second polarity periods, the difference between the average of effective voltages applied to the liquid crystal layer of the first subpixel and that of effective voltages applied to the liquid crystal layer of the second subpixel is substantially equal to zero. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195488 | Liquid crystal display - A segmented-pixel liquid crystal display has a plurality of pixels of which each has three sub-pixels | 2009-08-06 |
20090195489 | Thin film transistor substrate having high aperture ratio and method of manufacturing same - An exemplary TFT substrate ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090195490 | Driving method for display device - A liquid crystal display includes pixels each having an switching element, drain drivers and gate drivers for operating the switching elements and the pixels, and drain lines and gate lines supplying signals from the drain drivers and the gate drivers to the switching elements being formed on one of a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal layer. Wiring lines are formed on the one of a pair of substrates for transferring display data signals and a clock signal to the gate drivers. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195491 | Multi-domain display device - There is a problem inherent in a multi-domain display device having a configuration in which a plurality of domains are formed in one pixel or one sub-pixel, in that a resolving power beyond the size of a unit pixel or a unit sub-pixel cannot be obtained. Provided is a multi-domain display device, including: a display element including a unit pixel or a unit sub-pixel divided into a plurality of domains; and a mode switching circuit for switching, in response to a mode control signal, a mode in which the plurality of domains are collectively driven to enable a high-viewing-angle image display, and a mode in which the plurality of domains are independently driven to enable a high-resolving-power image display. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195492 | Liquid crystal display device - A liquid crystal display device used in miniaturized portable equipment which adopts dot inversion in performing a display and adopts frame inversion in driving the liquid crystal display device thus acquiring favorable display quality with low power consumption is provided. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal driver circuit, pixel portions are arranged on both left and right sides with a video signal line sandwiched therebetween. Pixel portions which are connected to an odd-numbered scanning line are formed on a left side of the video signal line and pixel portions which are connected to an even-numbered scanning line are formed on a right side of the video signal line thus performing a display by dot inversion. When the pixels are arranged on a right side of the video signal line, a distribution circuit may be configured to supply video signals outputted from a left-side terminal out of two neighboring terminals of the driver circuit also to the video signal lines which are connected to the right-side terminal. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195493 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image display method and apparatus for generating display data from predetermined high-order bits of original image data, the display data reflecting an error of low-order bits in the original image data. The display data is used to drive each of pixels arranged in line and column directions. The high-order three bits of six-bit original image data are regarded as intra-frame process data. A process value is determined based on the low-order three bits of the original image data, on a frame number, on a line number and on a column number. That process value is added to the least significant bit of the intra-frame process value made of the high-order three bits, whereby three-bit display data is generated. The addition of the process value evenly distributes the gray level error of the low-order three bits within each frame and between frames for simulated high quality gray level display. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195494 | LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A liquid-crystal display device comprises; a display panel having a matrix array of pixel dots in red, green or blue color; a surface illuminant device that has white-light LEDs as light sources; one or more driver ICs, each of which includes three converter circuits respectively for the red, the green and the blue and performs a conversion to signal voltages from image data signals according to a respective conversion curve; and a nonvolatile memory in which data determining the conversion curves are stored after the data are attuned to variation in chromaticity of the white-light LEDs in the surface illuminant device so that said variation is compensated based on measurement of the chromaticity of each of the white-light LEDs. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195495 | LCD WITH SUB-PIXELS REARRANGEMENT - An LCD includes a display panel, a source driver, a gate driver, a timing controller, and a data converter. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units, and each pixel unit has three sub-pixels. Each pixel is driven according to one or two data lines. The sub-pixels of the display panel are arranged to improve the display effect. The data converter converts the image data to drive the display panel. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195496 | INFORMATION DISPLAY HAVING SEPARATE AND DETACHABLE UNITS - An information display has an information carrier including a storable display panel separate from a processing unit including a battery, and where there is a need to perform a process such as updating or manipulating information displayed on the display panel, it is possible to perform a desired process by connecting the processing unit to the information carrier. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195497 | GESTURE-BASED POWER MANAGEMENT OF A WEARABLE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISPLAY - Methods and systems for providing gesture-based power management for a wearable portable electronic device with display are described. An inertial sensor is calibrated to a reference orientation relative to gravity. Motion of the portable device is tracked with respect to the reference orientation, and the display is enabled when the device is within a viewable range, wherein the viewable range is a predefined rotational angle range in each of x, y, and z axis, to a user based upon a position of the device with respect to the reference orientation. Furthermore, the display is turned off if an object is detected within a predetermined distance of the display for a predetermined amount of time. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195498 | Signal Generator Providing ISI Scaling to Touchstone Files - A device and method for producing Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) scaling of S-Parameter Touchstone files for the generation of ISI scaling effects on serial data patterns by direct digital synthesis is described. The features of the present invention allow user to set parameters such as data rate, voltage amplitude, encoding scheme etc. as per requirements for the serial data patterns. An ISI scaling value is selected and applied to an S-Parameter Touchstone file representing transmission path effects. The serial data pattern parameters and the ISI scaling value used with the S-Parameter Touchstone file are compiled to generate a digital data waveform record file. The digital waveform record file is applied to a waveform generation circuit for converting the digital data into an analog serial data pattern with ISI scaling effects. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195499 | OPTICALLY BASED INPUT MECHANISM FOR A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Handheld electronic communication device is presented and includes a body with a display screen and an optically based user input device. The optically based user input device is a light-transmissive tubular member. The light-transmissive tubular member has an exposed surface and an image sensor. The handheld electronic communication device further includes a microprocessor which is connected between the image sensor and the display screen. The microprocessor is capable of executing a microprocessor-run program, which receives input data representative of cursor guidance instructions from the image sensor and processes the data for output on the display screen. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195500 | System and method for determining coordinates - A coordinate determining system is disclosed. The coordinate determining system comprises an image capturing module, a dividing module, a determining module, and a converting module. The image capturing module is used for capturing a plurality of images corresponding to the screen. The dividing module is used for dividing an overlapping image region of the images into a target image comprising a plurality of sub-regions. The determining module is used for determining a position of the indicating point on the target image. If the indicating point is in a target sub-region among the sub-regions and has an image coordinate relative to an original of the target sub-region, the converting module will convert the image coordinate into the screen coordinate according to a proportional parameter. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195501 | HANDHELD POINTING DEVICE, POINTING METHOD THEREOF AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING STATIC DRIFT - The invention discloses a handheld pointing device, a pointing method thereof and method for improving static drift. The handheld pointing device includes a first piezoelectric vibrating gyro element, a second piezoelectric vibrating gyro element and a processing unit. The processing unit is coupled to the first and second piezoelectric vibrating gyro element, respectively. The piezoelectric vibrating gyro elements are used to detect the rotation of the handheld pointing device and produce a first rotation output and a second rotation output. The processing unit is used to produce a pointing signal via the first rotation output and the second rotation output. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195502 | Pointing Device - A pointing device is communicated with a computer system for controlling movement of a cursor shown on a display screen of the computer system. The pointing device includes a housing and a scroll wheel assembly. The housing has an opening therein. The scroll wheel assembly is positioned within the opening of the housing and a portion thereof protrudes away from the outer surface of the housing. The scroll wheel assembly includes a rotatable member, a soft member covering the rotatable member, and a sensing member arranged between the rotatable member and the soft member. The sensing member is actuated in response to deformation of the soft member when a lateral force is applied on the soft member, thereby controlling lateral movement of the cursor. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195503 | REPORTING OPTICAL TRACKING DATA BASED ON INTEGRATED RESOLUTION SWITCHING AND SURFACE DETECTION - An integrated resolution switching surface detection system for an optical navigation device. The integrated resolution switching surface detection system includes a resolution switching engine, a surface detection engine, and a navigation engine. The resolution switching engine sets a resolution status based on a motion speed of a tracking surface relative to a navigation sensor, wherein the motion speed is a measure of motion data over time. The surface detection engine sets a surface detection status based on the resolution status that is set by the resolution engine. The navigation engine reads motion data from the navigation sensor and reports the motion data to a computing device according to the surface detection status that is set by the surface detection engine. Embodiments of the integrated resolution switching surface detection system maintain smooth and predictable cursor movement associated with a plurality of finger assert and finger de-assert events. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195504 | Optical Pointing Device - An optical pointing device includes a light source, a light beam splitter, an image sensor and a lens. The light source provides an illumination light beam. The light beam splitter is disposed on a transmission path of the illumination light beam and configured for splitting the illumination light beam into a first light beam and a second light beam. The image sensor is for sensing the first and the second light beams. The lens is disposed before the image sensor. When the optical pointing device is put on a reflective surface, the first light beam is reflected to the lens by the reflective surface and then is focused on the image sensor. When the optical pointing device is put on a transparent body disposed on the reflective surface, the second light beam is reflected to the lens by the reflective surface and then is focused on the image sensor. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195505 | MOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF - A power saving method for a motion estimation device which has a fixed sampling period and includes a light source illuminating with an adjustable emitting cycle to provide the needed light for the motion estimation device during capturing images. The power saving method includes: capturing a first image at a first time; capturing a second image at a second time, wherein a time interval between the first time and the second time is identical to one emitting cycle which is an integral multiple of the sampling period; comparing the first image and the second image to obtain a displacement; comparing the displacement with at least one threshold value; and adjusting the emitting cycle of the light source according to a comparison result of comparing the displacement and the threshold value. The present invention further provides a motion estimation device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195506 | Dynamic Soft Keyboard - In accordance with one or more aspects of a dynamic soft keyboard, a user input is received via a soft keyboard having multiple keys. Information describing a current input environment for the soft keyboard is obtained, and a determination is made as to which one or more keys of the multiple keys was intended to be selected by the user input. This determination is made based at least in part on the current input environment. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195507 | Keyboard and electronic equipment - A keyboard includes a plurality of key row holders each supporting a plurality of key elements constituting each of the plurality of key rows, a support shaft placed to be rotatable about an axial center and support the plurality of key row holders arranged to intersect the axial center, an engaging portion formed on a support surface of each of the plurality of key row holders for the support shaft, and an engaged portion formed spirally on a surface of the support shaft in a direction of the axial center so as to be engaged with the engaging portion of each of the plurality of key row holders, the engaged portion causing the plurality of key row holders to shift in the direction of the axial center by an engagement with the engaging portion upon rotation of the support shaft. The keyboard enables easy and accurate key pitch adjustment. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195508 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH KEYBOARD - A keyboard for a handheld electronic device having a row of alphanumeric keys, each alphanumeric key having a plurality of associated alphanumeric characters. A plurality of alphanumeric keys located on a left side of the vertical centerline of the keyboard are rotated counter-clockwise and a plurality of alphanumeric keys located on a right side of the vertical centerline of the keyboard are rotated clockwise. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195509 | NARROW ANGULAR KEYBOARD FOR A HANDHELD MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Handheld wireless communication device is presented and includes a housing with a display above a keyboard exposed for user actuation. The length of the device is greater than the width, and the width is less than five centimeters. The keyboard has a right-hand key field and a left hand key field. Each key of the right-hand key field has a longitudinal axis oriented at a left-to-right inclined angle from the vertical centerline, and each key of a left-hand key field has a longitudinal axis oriented at a right-to-left inclined angle from the vertical centerline. The respective inclined angles are between about ten degrees and about fifteen degrees. A left boundary and a right boundary of the keyboard is located adjacent the left and right lateral side edges (respectively) of the device so that the keyboard spans a substantial entirety of the width of the device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195510 | ERGONOMIC USER INTERFACE FOR HAND HELD DEVICES - A user interface for a hand held electronic device, such as a cell phone, provides multiple touch sensate feature functions. In one embodiment, the user interface may include a plurality of touch sensitive keys arranged contiguously with an outermost first subset of the plurality of touch sensitive keys symmetrically forming four corners of a substantially rectangular touch pad, a second subset of the keys arranged circularly within the outermost first subset of the plurality of touch sensitive keys, and a third subset of the plurality of touch sensitive keys arranged symmetrically within the second subset of the plurality of touch sensitive keys, wherein each of the plurality of touch sensitive keys is configured to receive user input to operate at least one feature associated with the hand held electronic device. Moreover, the second subset of the plurality of touch sensitive keys may comprise twelve keys and may be configured to mimic an analog clock layout, with each of the twelve keys representing corresponding telephonic dial pad digits, 1-9, 0, *, #, respectively. The touch sensitive key area may be overlayed with a display function, e.g., a LCD. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195511 | Touch sensitive display employing an SOI substrate and integrated sensing circuitry - Methods and apparatus for producing a touch sensitive LCD employing a semiconductor on glass (SiOG) structure provide for: a glass or glass-ceramic substrate; a single crystal semiconductor layer bonded to the glass or glass-ceramic substrate; display circuitry including a plurality of thin-film transistors disposed on the single crystal semiconductor layer and forming a matrix of display pixels; display control circuitry operable to drive the display circuitry to produce viewable images; and sensing circuitry operable to detect electrical characteristic changes in one or more of the single crystal semiconductor layer and the display circuitry, the electrical characteristic changes resulting from user touch events. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195512 | TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY WITH TACTILE FEEDBACK - A mobile communication device may include logic configured to receive input on a touch sensitive surface of a device and heat a substance to produce an expansion of the substance in response to the received input, where the expansion of the substance provides tactile feedback to a user indicating that the device has received the input. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195513 | INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA CONTROL MODULE - An interactive control module communicates with one or more portable electronic devices to control the portable electronic devices. The interactive control module includes a touch screen display that displays a virtual image of the portable electronic device. A user enters a command into the touch screen display by touching a virtual control feature corresponding to an actual control feature of the portable electronic device. The interactive control module then executes the command by either transmitting the command to the portable electronic device or by executing files downloaded from the portable electronic device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195514 | CONTROLLER USER INTERFACE FOR A CATHETER LAB INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND SYSTEM - A touchpad controller for a componentized intravascular ultrasound system is disclosed for acquisition and display of intravascular information in a catheter lab environment. The system includes a patient interface module (PIM) adapted to hold a catheter having an imaging probe located near a distal end, a control panel, a monitor for displaying images and patient data, and a processing unit. The touchpad controller facilitates use beneath a sterile drape and sensitivity to gloved touch. Furthermore, the touchpad controller is sized for handheld use during an imaging session. A rail mount facilitates easy attachment of the touchpad controller alongside a patient table. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195515 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING UI CAPABLE OF DETECTING A PLURALITY OF FORMS OF TOUCH ON MENUS OR BACKGROUND AND MULTIMEDIA DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of providing a user interface (UI) and a multimedia device on a touch screen, the method including: detecting a first form of touch or a second form of touch on a menu or on a background of the touch screen; and performing a first operation if the first form of touch is detected and a second operation if the second form of touch is detected. Accordingly, the user can select a diverse range of options from menus with greater ease and convenience. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195516 | Sensing Structure of a Display - A sensing structure includes a display module, a sensing unit, and a chip. The display module includes an active area. The sensing unit is disposed on the display module and overlaps at least part of the active area. The chip is disposed on the display module and outside the active area. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195517 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATIONS OF AT LEAST TWO IMPACTS - A method for determining the locations of at least two impacts F | 2009-08-06 |
20090195518 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LIFT OFF ON A TOUCHSCREEN - A composite touchscreen incorporates acoustic pulse recognition sensing and capacitive sensing technology. The hybrid screen incorporates the advantages of each technology while minimizing the drawbacks. When such a screen is incorporated in a gaming device specialized gestures and functions can be implemented that enhance the interface, the range of games, and the gaming experience. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195519 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus comprises a display module, a control module and a scroll wheel module. The display module is used to display a digital image. The control module is connected to the display module for controlling the display module and conducting image processing. The scroll wheel module is connected to the control module for providing at least five operation modes, each in a different direction, and generating at least five control signals for controlling the control module to conduct image processing. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195520 | METHOD FOR WRITING DATA AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A method for writing data and a display apparatus using the same are provided. The display apparatus records data to a storage space from which an external device reads the data. According to this, it is possible for the display apparatus to write data, to the display apparatus itself, which the external device reads from the display apparatus, and to write the data without an extra data recording device. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195521 | Row driver cell and row driving method for an electroluminescent display - For an electroluminescent display having an electro-luminescent element connected between a column scan line and a row scan line, a row driver cell switches the row scan line to connect to a high voltage input or a low voltage input, or to be floating, and prevents the current consumed by panel charging and discharging from flowing to the high voltage input from the row scan line. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195522 | DRIVE CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A drive circuit for driving a display panel having wirings and display devices to be connected to the wirings, has a first switch that transits potential of the wirings toward the first potential, a feedback amplifier that maintains the potentials of the wirings at the first potential, and a second switch that selects whether or not to supply an output from the feedback amplifier to the wirings. The first switch and the second switch are connected to the wirings in parallel. A drive performance of the first switch is lower than that of the feedback amplifier. As a result, stable driving waveforms can be output in a simple and inexpensive circuit configuration. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195523 | Electrooptical Device and Method of Fabricating the Same - There is disclosed an electrooptical device capable of achieving a large area display by making full use of the size of the substrate. An active matrix substrate acts as a driver portion for the reflection-type electrooptical device. A pixel matrix circuit and logic circuitry are formed on the active matrix substrate. At this time, the logic circuitry is disposed, by making use of a dead space in the pixel matrix circuit. The area occupied by the pixel matrix circuit, or image display region, can be enlarged without being limited by the area occupied by the logic circuitry. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195524 | MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE THEREOF - A multimedia system and a remote control device are provided. The multimedia system includes a remote sensor, a wireless transmitter, and a display apparatus. The remote sensor is used for sensing an environmental luminance. The wireless transmitter is used for transmitting a control signal corresponding to the environmental luminance. The display apparatus includes a light source and a wireless receiver. The display apparatus receives the control signal via the wireless receiver and adjusts a brightness level of the light source based on the control signal. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195525 | Signal Generator Producing Intersymbol Interference Effects on Serial Data - A device and method for generation of Intersymbol interference (ISI) effects on serial data by direct digital synthesis is described. The features of the present invention allow user to set parameters such as data rate, voltage amplitude, encoding scheme etc. as per requirements. An ISI parameter value is selected and applied to the serial data to produce ISI effects in the serial data. Alternatively according to another feature the patterns may be set as per industry standards. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195526 | DRIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR REDUCING COUPLING VOLTAGE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE APPLYING THE SAME - A driver integrated circuit (IC) for driving a panel having pixels controlled by gate lines and data lines is disclosed, including a power circuit for generating a high level voltage and a low level voltage, a timing controller, a source driving circuit controlled by the timing controller to drive the data lines, a gate driving circuit controlled by the timing controller to selectively enable one of the gate lines for a line period. The gate driving circuit first asserts the selected gate line with the high level voltage in order to activate the corresponding pixels for receiving the driving signals from the corresponding data lines, and the gate driving circuit subsequently asserts the selected gate line with the low level voltage such that the corresponding pixels are still activated for receiving the driving signals. An LCD device utilizing the driver IC is also provided. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195527 | Display apparatus, driving method for display apparatus and electronic apparatus - A display apparatus, including: a pixel array section; and a driving section; the pixel array section including a plurality of scanning lines disposed along the direction of a row, a plurality of signal lines disposed along the direction of a column, a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns at places at which the scanning lines and the signal lines intersect with each other, and a plurality of feed lines disposed in parallel to the scanning lines; the driving section including a scanner for successively supplying a control signal to the scanning lines with a phase difference of a horizontal period, a selector for supplying an image signal having a signal potential, which changes over between a reference potential and a signal potential within each horizontal period, to the signal lines, and a power supply for supplying a power supply voltage, which changes over between a high potential and a low potential within each horizontal period, to the feed lines. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195528 | DRIVE CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A drive circuit, which drives a display panel having wirings and display devices to be connected to the wirings, has first driving means that allows a potential of the wirings to transit toward the first potential, second driving means that maintains the potential of the wirings at the first potential, and a control circuit that outputs the control signal for controlling the second driving means according to an output of the first driving means. As a result, a plurality of driving means can be controlled at appropriate timing in a simple structure. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195529 | Apparatus and method for controlling driving of liquid crystal display device - The present invention involves a technique of recognizing a demand for displaying a shutdown pattern when driving a liquid crystal panel in an inversion method and converting the inversion method into another inversion method causing no horizontal crosstalk. The present invention is achieved by providing an apparatus for controlling driving of a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a timing controller for processing input RGB data by a certain inversion method to supply the data to a data driver and, upon inputting of RGB data of a shutdown pattern, converting the RGB data by an inversion driving method causing no crosstalk to supply the data; a gate driver for outputting gate signals to each gate line of a liquid crystal panel in response to a gate signal control signal; and a data driver for supplying data voltages to each data line of the liquid crystal panel in response to a data signal control signal. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195530 | DISPLAY DRIVE APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DRIVE METHOD THEREOF - A display drive apparatus performs a display drive of a display panel on the basis of display data and comprises a selection drive section for applying a selection signal to each of display pixels arranged in each row of the display panel, a data drive section for generating a drive signal based on the display data, and a power source drive section for setting at least a row as a writing region and at least a region as a designated region separated from the writing region by the number of one or more rows and sequentially moving correspondingly to moving of the writing region, and the power source drive section supplies a power source voltage for operating each display pixel to make each display pixel corresponding to the row of the writing region and each display pixel corresponding to the row of the designated region perform non-display operation. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195531 | Liquid crystal display, driver chip and driving method thereof - A liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof. The LCD includes a timing controller, a plurality of driver chips and a display panel. The driver chips are cascaded together for driving the display panel to display frames. A driver chip includes a differential receiver, a single-ended receiver, a shift register, a differential transmitter, a single-ended transmitter and a pixel driver. The driver chip receives a pixel signal and drives the display panel according to the pixel signal, and outputs the pixel signal to the next driver chip. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195532 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof is presented in which a first liquid crystal cell is provided at one side of the data line, and a second liquid crystal cell is provided at the other side thereof. A first switching part is provided for each first liquid crystal cell positioned at an ith horizontal line (wherein i is an integer) to be controlled by the (i−1)th gate line and the ith gate line. A second switching part is provided for each second liquid crystal cell positioned at an ith horizontal line to be controlled by the ith gate line. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195533 | HIGH-ACCURACY MULTI-CHANNEL CIRCUIT - A multi-channel circuit includes a first-channel circuit configured to receive a digital input and a second-channel output voltage, and to generate a first-channel output voltage as a function of the received digital input and second-channel output voltage. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195534 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes a plurality of unit circuits that are disposed in correspondence with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, a scanning line driving circuit that sequentially selects the plurality of scanning lines, one scanning line being selected for a drive period of one unit period, and a data line driving circuit that outputs data electric potentials to the plurality of data lines for a write period of the one unit period, the data electric potentials corresponding to gray scale data of the plurality of unit circuits that are in correspondence with the one scanning line selected for the drive period of the one unit period and the write period being a period before the each drive period starts. Each of the plurality of unit circuits has an electro-optical element that has a gray scale level corresponding to the data electric potential, a capacitor element that has a first electrode connected to a capacitor line and a second electrode connected to the data line, and a switching element that is disposed between the second electrode and the electro-optical element and is in a conductive state at a time when the one scanning line is selected by the scanning line driving circuit for making the second electrode and the electro-optical element to be conductive to each other. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195535 | METHODS FOR FAST AND MEMORY EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSFORMS - Embodiments of the present invention include a set of processes and systems for implementing a forward weight-adaptive over-complete transform of an image/video frame, an inverse weight-adaptive over-complete transform of an image/video frame, and fast and low-memory processes for performing the forward weight-adaptive over-complete transform, processing coefficients in the transform domain and performing the inverse weight-adaptive over-complete transform simultaneously. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195536 | System for three-dimensional rendering of electrical test and measurement signals - The system for three-dimensional rendering of signals has a computer system having acquired, streaming, or previously stored data in its memory representing multiple channels of signals in which each channel has a value which varies over a domain, e.g., time or frequency, and a display coupled to the computer. For each channel, the computer system segments the data of the channel into segments, orders the segments, renders on the display each of the segments, in which each of the rendered segments are aligned in such order along a three-dimensional perspective with gaps between adjacently rendered segments, and lines are rendered extending from each line of each one of the rendered segments to form a three-dimensional plane in the gap to the next successive one of the rendered ordered segments to form a three-dimensional continuous or discontinuous surface characterizing the channel. The surfaces of each of the channels are aligned on the display, and may be of different color, shading, and translucency, whereby channels of overlaid surfaces are viewable on the display. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195537 | GRAPHICS REMOTING ARCHITECTURE - Systems and methods to implement a graphics remoting architecture for rendering graphics images at remote clients are disclosed. In one implementation, when a D3D application hosted on a remote server is used by a remote client, the graphics associated with the D3D application are created and rendered at the remote client. For this, the D3D commands and D3D objects corresponding to the graphics are abstracted into data streams at the remote server. The data streams are then sent to the remote client. At the remote client, the D3D commands and D3D objects are extracted from the data streams and executed to create the graphics images. The graphics images are then rendered and displayed using output devices at the remote client. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195538 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HAPTIC INTERACTION IN AUGMENTED REALITY - The present invention relates to a method and system for haptic interaction in augmented reality. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for haptic interaction in augmented reality that can effectively remove noise from real images captured by an image capturing device and minimize discontinuity of force generated in the haptic interaction so as to stably and smoothly perform the haptic interaction in the augmented reality. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195539 | METHOD OF PROCESSING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE IN MOBILE DEVICE - A processing method of interfacing a 3D image and a camera image is provided. In the processing method, a specific image pattern defined by a user is recognized, the recognized pattern is traced within an image, and a camera image and a 3D image are interfaced based on the tracing result. A 3D object is animated and rendered using a 3D graphic engine. The rendered image of the 3D object and the camera image are integrated and displayed. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195540 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a shape information storage portion in which shape information, which is information specifying a shape of a solid object, which is a three-dimensional object, can be stored; a placement information storage portion in which placement information, which is one or more pieces of information that can be placed on a surface constituting the solid object, can be stored; an acquisition condition information storage portion in which acquisition condition information, which is information indicating a condition for acquiring information that is to be each placed on one or more surfaces constituting the solid object from the placement information, can be stored; and a surface information acquiring portion that acquires surface information, which is information that is to be placed on one or more surfaces of the solid object, from the placement information, using the acquisition condition information. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195541 | RENDERING DYNAMIC OBJECTS USING GEOMETRY LEVEL-OF-DETAIL IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT - The present embodiments provide a system for graphically rendering an object. This system operates first by pre-processing a geometry mesh for the object offline, wherein the geometry mesh is partitioned into a set of patches, and wherein each patch is bounded by a bounding box. The system then builds a multi-resolution representation for each of the set of patches. Next, during real time rendering, the system deforms the bounding boxes associated with the set of patches through superposition of object motions in each frame weighted by a set of predetermined mesh-skinning parameters. For each deformed bounding box, the system computes a geometry level-of-detail (LOD) value based on a projected area of the deformed bounding box in screen space. The system next deforms the object through a set of mesh skinning operations. The system then renders the deformed object based on the computed geometry LOD values for the set of patches and the multi-resolution representation for the geometry mesh. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195542 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an image processing apparatus using a read buffer, in a case where access request target data is not stored in the read buffer, the read buffer is controlled such that data corresponding to a position having coordinates, which is most distant from a position having coordinates corresponding to the access request target data, is discarded or replaced. Consequently, the image processing apparatus increases the probability that data corresponding to a position close to a position corresponding to the access request target data remains in the read buffer. Accordingly, the hit rate of the read buffer is increased. Thus, the frequency of access to an external memory can be reduced. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195543 | Verification of animation in a computing device - Methods and systems of verifying an animation applied in a mobile device may include a timer module that is programmed to time-slice the animation into multiple scenes at predetermined time points along a timeline of the animation. A first capture module is programmed to capture actual data of each scene at each of the time points while the animation is running. A first comparison module is programmed to compare the actual data of each scene with expected data of the corresponding scene to determine whether the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene. A first output module is programmed to generate a verification failure if the actual data of any scene does not match the expected data of the corresponding scene, and generate a verification success if the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLENDED ANIMATION ENABLING AN ANIMATED CHARACTER TO AIM AT ANY ARBITRARY POINT IN A VIRTUAL SPACE - A method for blended animation by providing a set of animation sequences associated with an animated character model is disclosed. In one embodiment, a geometric representation of a blend space is generated from the set of animation sequences using locator nodes associated with each animation sequence. A subset of animation sequences is selected from the set of animation sequences by casting a ray from a reference bone to a target through the geometric representation and selecting animation sequences that are geometrically close to the intersection of the cast ray and the geometric representation. A blend weight is determined for each member animation sequence in the selected subset of animation sequences. A blended animation is generated using the selected subset of animation sequences and the blend weights, then rendered to create a final animation. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195545 | Facial Performance Synthesis Using Deformation Driven Polynomial Displacement Maps - Acquisition, modeling, compression, and synthesis of realistic facial deformations using polynomial displacement maps are described. An analysis phase can be included where the relationship between motion capture markers and detailed facial geometry is inferred. A synthesis phase can be included where detailed animated facial geometry is driven by a sparse set of motion capture markers. For analysis, an actor can be recorded wearing facial markers while performing a set of training expression clips. Real-time high-resolution facial deformations are captured, including dynamic wrinkle and pore detail, using interleaved structured light 3D scanning and photometric stereo. Next, displacements are calculated between a neutral mesh driven by the motion capture markers and the high-resolution captured expressions. These geometric displacements are stored in one or more polynomial displacement maps parameterized according to the local deformations of the motion capture dots. For synthesis, the polynomial displacement maps can be driven with new motion capture data. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195546 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, IMAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND IMAGE DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - In order to prevent a duplicate of a still image from being generated, an MFP includes an image obtaining portion to obtain one or more still images, a moving image generating portion to generate a moving image in which the obtained still images are displayed sequentially, and a distribution portion to perform real-time streaming distribution of the moving image in response to a request from a PC connected to a network. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195547 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An image signal processing apparatus has an inverse γ-conversion unit for receiving γ-converted video signals and subjecting the video signals to processing for canceling γ-conversion characteristics, and a conversion unit for generating floating point data from fixed point type data which is proportional to luminance as an output from the inverse γ-conversion unit to transfer the floating point data or to subject the floating point data to reference table processing or signal processing, wherein the floating point data has a significand and an exponent, and the radix of the exponent is 4. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195548 | Method and Apparatus for Improved Display of Digital Mammographic Images - A method and apparatus for improved display of digital mammographic images, which include at least two mammograms that represent different orientation views on a display. It is intended that a place on a mammographic image of a first orientation view and a correspondence strip ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090195549 | Color gradient generating method and device - Color gradient generating method and device are provided. The color gradient generating method includes the steps of: setting at least two colors in a color table including a plurality of colors as control points; storing interpolated colors between the control points; calculating a distance of a position, a color of which should be determined, in coordinates; and determining one interpolated color corresponding to the calculated distance as a color of the position. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the operating time of a graphic processor and to use the calculation result in image coordinates again, thereby reducing a load of the graphic processor. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195550 | Display device and controlling method thereof - A system and method for controlling a display device includes a display panel, an on-screen display (OSD) system, and a gamma correction circuit. The OSD system includes an input system configured for adjusting a gamma value. The gamma correction circuit is configured for receiving a plurality of original grays, and outputting a plurality of correction grays according to the adjusted gamma value and the original grays to the display panel. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195551 | Systems and methods to achieve preferred imager color reproduction - A method and apparatus for processing image pixel signals having at least two color components in which at least some of the image pixel signals are classified into a plurality of classifications and transformed by a transform function associated with the classifications. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195552 | Methods of and apparatus for processing computer graphics - When an alpha test is performed as part of the rendering process in a multisampled graphics processing pipeline, rather than taking the single alpha value initially defined for each fragment | 2009-08-06 |
20090195553 | SERVER-BASED RASTERIZATION OF VECTOR GRAPHICS - Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195554 | Display Device - A display device and a displaying method implemented by the same are provided. The display device includes a first memory module, an identification device, a display screen, and a processing module. The processing module is electrically connected to the first memory module, the identification device, and the display screen. The identification device is provided for identifying a personal feature and generating a personal identity code. The processing module outputs multimedia information stored in the first memory module and then displays it on the display screen according to the identified personal feature. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195555 | Methods of and apparatus for processing computer graphics - In a graphics processing system, the left, right, top and bottom edge planes for the purposes of clipping are set to the maximum values that can be represented using floating-point format numbers, vertex positions are snapped to a grid of predefined vertex positions, and the precision of selected vertices is prioritised when deriving edge functions for a given primitive. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195556 | SYSTEM COMPOSITING IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - A system compositing images from different applications includes a movie clip based application, an image application, and a compositing application that is in communication with the movie clip based application and the image application. The movie clip based application defines one or more movie clip images for display. The image application provides one or more images for display with the one or more movie clip images. The compositing application operates to composite the one or more movie clip images with the one or more images of the image application for viewing on a display. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195557 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An index detection unit ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090195558 | Online Image Processing Methods Utilizing User's Satisfaction Loop - The present invention allows for online image processing. A sample embodiment of the method comprises the steps of determining graphical layers (predetermined graphical layers) and steps (predetermined steps) for creating an image. A substitute layer maybe obtained from a remote User. The predetermined steps may be repeated using predetermined graphical layers and the substitute layer, thus, creating a new image. The image may be further delivered to the User. If the User is not satisfied, the graphical layers or steps may be changed and method repeated. Described systems and methods may allow users to create complex digital images using remote servers, without the use of graphical tools on the user's computer. Even users without substantial technical or artistic skills may create complex digital images. | 2009-08-06 |
20090195559 | Optical correction for high uniformity panel lights - A display has a spatial light modulator ( | 2009-08-06 |
20090195560 | Method of Driving Plasma Display Panel and Plasma Display Device - The present invention provides a method of driving a plasma display panel that displays an image with high brightness, high contrast, and high display quality by stabilizing selective initializing operation. To realize it, a plurality of subfields each having a setup period, an address period, and a sustain period are provided in one field period. Retention time for retaining voltages to be applied to a scan electrode and a sustain electrode is provided between time when voltage for weakening the final sustain discharge in the sustain period is applied to the sustain electrode and time when a ramp waveform voltage which decreases is applied to the scan electrode in the setup period in the following subfield. The retention time is controlled based on average brightness of image signals or ambient temperature. | 2009-08-06 |