34th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100214210 | CURRENT BALANCING DEVICE, LED LIGHTING APPARATUS, LCD BACKLIGHT MODULE, AND LCD DISPLAY UNIT - The present invention includes: a power supply unit | 2010-08-26 |
20100214211 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING GESTURE-BASED CONTROL AND A METHOD OF USING SAME - The present disclosure describes a handheld electronic device having a gesture-based control and a method of using the same. In one embodiment, there is provided a method of controlling a handheld electronic device, comprising: receiving a motion signal as input from a motion detection subsystem in response to a movement of the device; determining from the motion signal a cadence parameter associated with the movement of the electronic device; determining whether the cadence parameter is greater than or equal to a cadence reference level; performing a first command when the cadence parameter is greater than or equal to the cadence reference level; and performing a second command is performed when the cadence parameter is less than the cadence reference level. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214212 | Display Device, Controlling Method and Display System Thereof - A display device is provided. The display device includes a command processing unit, a command converting unit, a universal serial bus (USB) interface and a display module. The command processing unit processes a remote-control command from a remote-controller. The command converting unit generates a human interface device (HID) command corresponding to the remote-control command. The USB interface outputs the HID command to an external host which generates an image in response to the HID command. Then the display module displays the image. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214213 | INTEGRATED CENTER PANEL WITH ROTARY CONTROL - A control panel includes a display for providing visual images to a user and a rotary control including a shaft extending through an aperture formed in the display and a rotary knob coupled to the shaft, wherein the rotary control manages a control feature associated with the rotary control. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214214 | REMOTE INPUT DEVICE - An input device providing users with a pointing capability includes a sender portion ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214215 | INPUT DEVICE FOR USE WITH A DISPLAY SYSTEM - A methods and systems for use of an input device with a display system are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a projection device configured to project a displayed image is provided where the displayed image includes one or more selectable items. The projection system further includes an input device which may be movable in free space and may be configured to point to the selectable items. The input device may be enabled to provide a double-click input to effect one or more changes in a graphical user interface that corresponds with a selection of a particular one of the selectable items at which the input device is pointed. The double click input may be identified such that movement of the input device after initiation of the double-click input may be ignored by the graphical user interface until completion of the double click input. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214216 | MOTION SENSING AND PROCESSING ON MOBILE DEVICES - Display devices including motion sensing and processing. In one aspect, a handheld electronic device includes a subsystem providing display capability and a set of motion sensors provided on a single substrate and including at least one gyroscope sensing rotational rate of the device around three axes of the device and at least one accelerometer sensing gravity and linear acceleration of the device along these axes. A computation unit is capable of determining motion data from the sensor data stored in the memory, the motion data derived from a combination of the sensed rotational rate around at least one of the axes and the sensed gravity and linear acceleration along at least one of the axes. The motion data describes movement of the device including a rotation of the device around at least one of the axes, the rotation causing interaction with the device. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214217 | Theme changeable mouse for automatically matching network communities - A theme changeable mouse for automatically matching network communities is provided and can automatically match and link users of individually customized theme website communities by built-in IDs (identifications). The mouse includes a theme cover and a mouse base. The theme cover can be optionally matched and changed, while each of the theme cover has the IDs therein. A recognition processing unit of a control circuit firmware on a printed circuit board in the mouse base is used to execute a recognition process, so that the user can automatically log into a specific website for providing advanced information service if the user is matched. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214218 | VIRTUAL MOUSE - An apparatus includes a controller, wherein the controller is configured to receive input for activating a virtual mouse and to activate a virtual mouse in response thereto by displaying a cursor adjacent a touch zone. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214219 | TILT WHEEL MOUSE - A tilt wheel mouse includes a scroll wheel, a wheel swing member, a base, a circuit board, a first elastic element, a second elastic element, an encoder, a first tilt switch, a second tilt switch, and a wheel switch. The first tilt switch and the second tilt switch are arranged at the backside of the wheel swing member. The wheel switch is arranged under the wheel swing member. Since the distance between the wheel switch and the first or second tilt switch is increased, the possibility of causing an erroneous operation is minimized. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214220 | TILT WHEEL MOUSE - A tilt wheel mouse includes a scroll wheel, a wheel swing member, a base, a circuit board, a first elastic element, a second elastic element, an encoder, a first tilt switch, a second tilt switch, and a wheel switch. The first tilt switch and the second tilt switch are arranged at the backside of the wheel swing member. The wheel switch is arranged under the wheel swing member. Since the distance between the wheel switch and the first or second tilt switch is increased, the possibility of causing an erroneous operation is minimized. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214221 | MOUSE - A mouse is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the mouse for inputting information to a computer including a monitor can include a touch detector coupled to one surface of a case, a driver, which vibrates the touch detector in a direction parallel to one surface of the touch detector such that a tactile feel of a surface of the touch detector is changed, and a controller, which controls an operating frequency of the driver. Thus, the mouse can provide the user with a better sensation that the tactile feel changes at the portion that the user touches. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214222 | TOUCHPAD MOUSE WAKEUP CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT - A touchpad mouse wakeup circuit arrangement is disclosed to include a control circuit installed in a touchpad mouse and consisting of a microprocessor, a touch panel, a vibration sensor and a power supply module. The vibration sensor detects a micro vibration and provides a voltage signal to the microprocessor when a user touches the housing of the touchpad mouse, causing the microprocessor to output a triggering signal to wakeup the touchpad mouse and to start the power supply module. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214223 | MOUSE WITH TWIST DETECTION MECHANISM - A computer input apparatus, comprising: a base provided with a socket; a ball segment located in the socket and rotatable in the socket, the ball segment being shaped to support a wrist of a user; a handle attached to and extending away from the ball segment and configured such that when the user's wrist is supported by the ball segment, the handle is adjacent to the user's hand and maybe held by the user. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214224 | LIGHT BEAM SHAPING ELEMENT FOR AN OPTICAL NAVIGATION INPUT DEVICE - An optical navigation input device with a light guide which acts as a beam shaping element. The optical navigation input device includes a light source and the light guide. The light source emits a light beam having a substantially elliptical or substantially circular cross section. The light guide is positioned relative to the light source to receive the light beam from the light source in a first direction. The light guide also redirects the light beam in a second direction toward an illumination surface at a non-zero angle of incidence. The light guide directs the light beam through a refraction interface in order to illuminate a substantially circular area on the illumination surface. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214225 | METHOD FOR AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY SCROLLING - An electronic device comprising a display for displaying an image that exceeds the dimensions of the display, a multi-directional input device for navigating the image on the display, at least one button input device on each of opposite sides of the multi-directional input, a touch sensor adjacent and underlying the multi-directional input device and the button input devices for sensing touch adjacent the multi-directional input device and the button input devices and in response generating an output signal, and a processor for receiving the output signal and scrolling the image responsive to the touch sensor sensing touch that commences adjacent the multi-directional input device and moves toward the button input device. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214226 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMI-TRANSPARENT DISPLAY OF HANDS OVER A KEYBOARD IN REAL-TIME - A method for displaying a virtual keyboard with a semi-transparent overlay of an end user's hands. The method begins by receiving a video signal comprising an image of a keyboard and at least one hand belonging to the end user. Next the method creates a virtual keyboard comprising an outline for each key residing in the image of the keyboard. After creating the virtual keyboard, the method sends to a computer screen the virtual keyboard overlaying on top of the image of the keyboard. The overlaying giving an appearance that keys residing in the image of the keyboard obscured by the end user's hand are now visible. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214227 | DUAL SCREEN PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A dual screen portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a first group of function interfaces, a second group of function interfaces, a first screen, a second screen and a central processing unit. The first screen is configured for displaying the first group of function interfaces. The second screen is configured for displaying the second group of function interfaces. The central processing unit is configured for controlling one of the first screen or the second screen to be in an activated state and the other to be in an inactivated state, performing functions corresponding to the function interfaces, and controlling the activated screen to display the function interfaces. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214228 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND KEY ARRANGEMENT - A display device includes a light source, an optical waveguide element with an emission area, optical waveguide element configured to conduct light from the light source onto an emission area, and a transflective element arranged on the emission area including a first layer with at least one first subregion and at least one second subregion, the first layer configured to transmit light from emission area in the first subregion and not to transmit in the second subregion, and a second layer arranged above the first layer in the emission direction of the light, the second layer configured to transmit at least a part of the light from light source. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214229 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal apparatus and a display method which can grasp a state of operation of the apparatus easily. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214230 | ITO layer manufacturing process & application structure - A two-stage manufacturing process for preparation of an ITO layer includes having first a transparent substrate, e.g., a glass or plastic substrate going through treatment without preheating; the substrate is then sputtering processed in a sputtering chamber under process conditions without heating up to form a amorphous state ITO film on the surface of the transparent substrate; followed with a thermal treatment at a preset temperature to turn the ITO layer into a crystalline state without compromising strength of the glass or the plastic substrate while delivering a durable ITO layer and a structure of ITO layer provided with a specific sheet resistance and/or thickness. The ITO layer produced using the present invention particularly fits to be applied in a touch screen structure. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214231 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TWO-FINGER TOUCH COORDINATE RECOGNITION AND ROTATION GESTURE RECOGNITION - A resistive touchscreen system comprises a substrate, a coversheet and a controller. The coversheet comprises a first conductive coating and the substrate comprises a second conductive coating. The substrate and coversheet are positioned proximate each other such that the first conductive coating faces the second conductive coating, and the substrate and coversheet are electrically disconnected with respect to each other in the absence of a touch. The controller is configured to (a) identify a multiple touch state when the substrate and coversheet are electrically connected with respect to each other at at least two touch locations, (b) to detect, over time, a plurality of apparent touch coordinates, (c) identify two possible X coordinates and two possible Y coordinates associated with at least one of the apparent touch coordinates, and (d) identify coordinate locations of two touches based on the apparent touch coordinates and the two possible X and Y coordinates. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A TOUCH PANEL - A controller for detection of touches by a single finger or multiple fingers on a touch panel, the touch panel including a first group of electrodes arranged in a first direction and a second group of electrodes arranged in a second direction, thereby forming a plurality of crossover points. The controller includes: a plurality of signal drivers coupled to the first group of electrodes and configured to excite the first group of electrodes sequentially using a spread spectrum signal; a plurality of signal sensors coupled to the second group of electrodes and configured to detect peaks and troughs of capacitive coupled signals at the second group of electrodes, the detecting being performed simultaneously for the crossover points along a current one of the first group of electrodes that is being excited; and a signal processing device configured to detect the touches on the touch panel and to determine touch positions and touch movements, based on the detected peaks and troughs of the capacitive coupled signals. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214233 | TOUCH PANEL HAVING CLOSED LOOP ELECTRODE FOR EQUIPOTENTIAL BUILD-UP AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A touch panel for a 5-line touch screen or a capacitive touch screen, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. More particularly, a touch panel in which an equipotential forming electrode may be formed in a simple closed-loop pattern in order to reduce a screen dead zone and expand an active region by eliminating the linearity distortion of equipotential lines in around the equipotential forming electrode of the touch panel, and also may be applicable to a touch screen of a small device such as a mobile phone, and may reduce a process error rate and improve a productivity and electrical requirements such as terminal resistance and the like, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The equipotential forming electrode may be patterned using a much more conductive material than a material of a transparent conductive film. The equipotential forming electrode may form a closed loop in a linear pattern, a square-zigzagged pattern, a triangular saw pattern, or a wave pattern. The thickness, the width, and the electrical conductivity of the pattern may be adjusted so that resistance between signal connection terminals may be greater than some ohms. An auxiliary electrode may be further provided to improve the potential characteristic of the electrode formed in the closed loop. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214234 | Apparatus and method for touch screen user interface for handheld electronic devices part I - A user interface in handheld devices has a bounded touch screen control surface that is operable by a thumb tip and is oversized to the size of a thumb tip. The touch screen control surface is approximately sized to be around a ¾ inch square less or more and is partitioned into touch areas. The touch areas may include five overlapping areas of a top area, a bottom area, a left area, a right area and a center area for a simpler user interface control surface. There may be nine separate areas, including one center area and eight surrounding areas. When the thumb tip is placed on any one of these area and moved in a straight line or in a circular line by sliding action between different areas of these nine areas can provide a large number of navigation control functions. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214235 | Electronic Device and Method of Touch Screen Input Detection - There is provided a method ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214236 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TOUCH INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY - A method and a device for processing touch information and a flat panel display using the method and the device are disclosed. The touch information processing arrangement includes: generating sensor output data from a touch sensor array; computing the sensor output data corresponding to each of adjacent frames to generate difference data; first binarizing the difference data based on a predetermined first threshold value; filtering the first binarized difference data; and second binarizing the filtered difference data based on a predetermined second threshold value. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214237 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Information including a first part of a list is displayed on a touch-sensitive display ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214238 | MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY AND OPERATING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY AND OPERATING DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED SELECTION OPERATION - A multifunction display and operating device of a motor vehicle and comprise a display device ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214239 | METHOD AND TOUCH PANEL FOR PROVIDING TACTILE FEEDBACK - A method and a touch panel for providing a tactile feedback are provided. In the present method, a touch operation acting on the touch panel of an electronic device is detected at first. Then, before outputting the tactile feedback, an output attribute of the tactile feedback is altered according to a behavior of the touch operation. Accordingly, the user may experience different tactile feedbacks while performing different touch operations on the same electronic device. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214240 | Medical overlay mirror - Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214241 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - A communication terminal device with which a desired function can be found easily and the function can be activated quickly is provided. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214242 | ISOTONIC / ELASTIC TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE - The input device ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214243 | Systems and Methods For Interpreting Physical Interactions With A Graphical User Interface - Embodiments of systems and methods for interpreting physical interactions with a graphical user interface are disclosed. For example, one system for interpreting physical interactions with a graphical user interface is a device having a housing configured to be grasped by a user, a display disposed in the housing, the display configured to display a graphical user interface, and a sensor disposed in the housing, the sensor configured to detect a movement of the housing in a degree of freedom. The device also includes a processor disposed in the housing and in communication with the display and the sensor, the processor configured to receive a sensor signal from the sensor, the sensor signal comprising a parameter associated with the movement, to determine a command associated with the graphical user interface based on the parameter, to determine a function to be executed based on the command, and to execute the function. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214244 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes an infrared temperature sensor and can detect a user's finger arranged within a detection distance even though the user's finger does not contact the electronic device. Movement of the user's finger is also detected. A pointer positioned and moving according to the position and movement of the user's finger is displayed on a screen of the portable electronic device, and a predetermined function corresponding to the movement of the finger may be performed. A method for controlling the electronic device includes detecting that a user's finger is positioned within a detection distance of an infrared temperature sensor, and displaying a pointer corresponding to a position of the user's finger on a display screen. The method also may include moving the pointer or performing a function corresponding to the movement direction of the pointer. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214245 | INPUT APPARATUS, INPUT DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An input apparatus includes a single light-transmissible substrate, an input unit including a coordinate input surface formed upon one surface of the light-transmissible substrate, and an illumination unit formed upon the other surface of the light-transmissible substrate. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214246 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device having a new touch interface to allow control of an operation of the electronic device is disclosed. In an input system of the electronic device, a touch screen and a touch pad include a first touch zone and a second touch zone, respectively, which are disposed adjacently and symmetrically to each other. The first touch zone receives continuous contact in association with the second touch zone, and creates first input information connected to second input information created by the second touch zone when the continuous contact, starting from the second touch zone, is inputted. Similarly, the second touch zone receives the continuous contact in association with the first touch zone, and creates the second input information connected to the first input information when the continuous contact, starting from the first touch zone, is inputted. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214247 | Capacitive Touch Panel - A capacitive touch panel includes a substrate having a pattern-forming surface, a color pixel layer formed on the substrate, and a patterned conductive layer formed on the pattern-forming surface of the substrate. The patterned conductive layer includes a plurality of first electrode units, a plurality of second electrode units, a plurality of spaced apart first conductive lines, and a plurality of spaced apart second conductive lines. The first electrode units are capacitively coupled to the second electrode units so as to form a plurality of two dimensionally arranged capacitive sensing units. Each of the first electrode units includes a plurality of first electrodes. Each of the first conductive lines is connected to and extends along the pattern-forming surface from at least one of the first electrodes of a respective one of the first electrode units into a bonding area of the pattern-forming surface. The second conductive lines extend respectively from the second electrode units into the bonding area, and do not cross the first conductive lines. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214248 | DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH TOUCH SENSOR FUNCTION - A display apparatus with a touch sensor function includes: a first substrate having a common electrode; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a display section disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a touch sensor that detects a touch position on a touch surface disposed on the side of the first substrate or on the side of the second substrate, wherein the second substrate has a plurality of data lines arranged in a row direction, a plurality of gate lines arranged in a column direction substantially perpendicular to the data lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes each arranged in a pixel region surrounded by a pair of neighboring data lines and a pair of neighboring gate lines, and a plurality of thin film transistors each arranged in the plurality of pixel electrodes and electrically connected to the pixel electrode, the data line, and the gate line, and the touch sensor has a potential increase rate detection unit that detects a potential increase rate upon charging each of the pixel regions and detects a position of the pixel region whose potential increase rate detected by the potential increase rate detection unit falls outside a predetermined range as the touch position. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214249 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus includes an outer frame portion which forms an outer frame of a display portion where an object is displayed; a position detecting portion which detects a position of an operating body coming in touch with or close to the display portion or the outer frame portion; and a display controlling portion which displays on the display portion, auxiliary information about an object situated at a position of the operating body detected by the position detecting portion at a start of the shift when the operating body shifts to the outer frame portion while keeping touch with or close to the display portion. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214250 | TOUCH SCREEN WITH USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENT - The present invention is a graphical user interface in a computing device having a processor running an operating system and a display. The graphical user interface comprises a touch screen and a driver coupling the touch screen to the operating system. The driver can display a plurality of icons on the touch screen, or a plurality of screen images having at least one icon, with each of the icons associated with operations on the display and/or the touch screen. Other embodiments include the touch screen having unactivated and activated states, as well as the presence of an application programming interface that enables an application to display at least one image on the touch screen. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214251 | Touch component for protecting capacitive panel - The touch component of the present invention is consisted of the main body. The said main body is a conductor used for changing current. The said main body at least includes a hand held portion and a touch portion. The said hand held portion is in touch with the capacitive panel; wherein the end of the touch portion is installed with a touch component. The said touch component is made of soft material, which when in contact with the capacitive panel the contact area of the touch component is in close contact with the capacitive panel, which enables the capacitive panel to be able to prevent being damaged due to user's excessive applied pressure. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214252 | Touch panel component for capacitive panel - The touch component of the present invention is consisted of the main body. The said main body is a conductor used for changing current. The said main body at least includes a hand held portion and a touch portion. The said hand held portion is the part for human to hold in the hand; whereas the touch portion is for contacting with the capacitive panel. When user is using the device, the hand is holding the hand held portion of the touch component. At the same time, the conduction of electricity through the touch component could be capacitive-coupled with the electric field on the conductive layer outside the panel, then the human body will attract the minute electrical current so that the electrode could detect the electric current for touch panel operation. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214253 | DRIFT COMPENSATION APPARATUS OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL AND DRIFT COMPENSATION METHOD THEREOF - A method and an apparatus adapted to a capacitive touch panel for drift compensation are provided, wherein the touch panel includes a plurality of sensors. In the method for drift compensation, a plurality of capacitances respectively sensed by each of the sensors are extracted. Whether the touch panel is in a proximity state is determined upon a slope of the sensed capacitances and a slope parameter. Whether each of the capacitances is drifted is determined upon the capacitance and an allowable noise range. When the touch panel is not in the proximity state and each of the capacitances is drifted, each of the capacitances is compensated according to a drift error of each of the capacitances after a first presetting time has passed. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214254 | POWER-DOWN DISPLAY DEVICE USING A SURFACE CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL AND RELATED METHOD - A display device using a surface capacitive touch panel is proposed. Upon a normal mode, an external clock generator supports a clock source; meanwhile, an external clock generator, a signal generator, a current detector, a current-to-voltage converter, an analog-to-digital converter, a filter, an interface controller, a microprocessor, and the touch-position calculators are turned on. But under a power-down mode, the external clock generator, the analog-to-digital converter, filter, the interface controller, the microprocessor, and the touch-position calculators are turned off in order to reduce power consumption. Furthermore, the external clock generator is also turned off to minimize the power consumption. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214255 | Energy-efficient Touch Panel Device and Related Method - An energy-efficient touch panel control device includes a touch panel, a buffer memory, an interrupt initiation unit, for outputting an interrupt signal, an analog to digital conversion unit, for converting analog output voltage to digital trace data and storing the digital trace data in the buffer memory, and according to a control signal, switching an operating mode, an operation unit, generating a detecting result according to the digital trace data, switching the operating mode according to the control signal, a mode control unit, for generating the control signal according to the interrupt signal, and a host interface unit. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214256 | Display Apparatus and Touch Detection Method for the same - An exemplary display apparatus includes a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of gate lines, a readout line and a plurality of touch control units. The gate lines are for deciding whether to enable the pixel units. Each of the touch control units is electrically coupled to the readout line and a corresponding one of the gate lines and includes a switching element. When one of the touch control units is touched, the switching element of the touched touch control unit is turn on, and thereby a waveform on the gate line corresponding to the touched touch control unit is coupled to the readout line and a position of the touched touch control unit is determined according to a timing sequence of a waveform on the readout line. The present invention also provides a touch detection method adapted to be implemented on the above-mentioned display apparatus. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214257 | DETECTING A USER INPUT WITH AN INPUT DEVICE - An input device and methods for detecting user input using an input device. An example input device includes a multi-touch sensing display configured to detect multiple simultaneous triggers on a surface of the multi-touch sensing display as distinct input events. The input device also includes at least one mechanical control element arranged on the surface of the multi-touch sensing display. The at least one mechanical control element is configured to generate an input event. The input event is detected by the multi-touch sensing display in response to actuation of the at least one mechanical control element. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214258 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AVOIDING ERRONEOUS TOUCH ON TOUCH PANEL THEREOF - A method for avoiding an erroneous touch on a touch panel in a portable electronic device includes the steps of: determining whether a triggering event is received; enabling a sensor when the triggering event is received; detecting a distance between the portable electronic device and an object by the sensor; and determining a predetermined touch pressure threshold of the touch panel according to the detected distance. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214259 | SENSOR AND METHOD OF SENSING - A sensor is arranged to determine the presence of an object from a change in a capacitance of a sensing element. The sensor includes a capacitance measurement circuit operable to perform measurement cycles to measure a capacitance of the sensing element, and a controller circuit. The control circuit is operable to detect a periodic noise signal induced on the sensing element, to determine a first part, of a repeating pattern of the periodic noise signal, which causes a change in an amount of charge present on the sensing element, which affects the measurement of the capacitance of the sensing element by the capacitance measurement circuit, to determine a second part of the repeating pattern of the periodic noise signal, which does not cause a change in the amount of charge present on the sensing element, and to control the measurement cycles of the capacitance measurement circuit to perform the measurement cycles during the second part of the periodic noise signal and not to perform the measurement cycles during the first part of the periodic noise signal. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214260 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH INPUT FUNCTION - In a liquid crystal display device having a built-in capacitive coupling touch sensor, a pair of facing transparent substrates sandwich a liquid crystal layer | 2010-08-26 |
20100214261 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel array substrate having signal lines and scan lines arranged in a matrix, and pixel circuits arranged at intersections of the signal and scan lines. A touch panel is attached on the counter substrate to draw pictures or characters on a display panel. A first voltage generation circuit generates an analog pixel voltage applied to the signal lines and a second voltage generation circuit generates a counter electrode voltage applied to the counter electrode. A settling adjustment circuit adjusts a settling time of at least one of the analog pixel voltage and the counter electrode voltage. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214262 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214263 | TOUCH PANEL WITH DISCONTINUOUS CHAIN OF RESISTANCES - The disclosure is related to a touch panel with discontinuous chain of resistances. It is formed by an internal series of electrodes of the conducting layer formed by a chain of discontinuous resistances. The design of the chain of discontinuous resistances can compensate for the voltage compensation by the voltage drop generated by the distance of chain of electrodes wherein the chain of discontinuous resistances is located at the interface of the series electrodes, and the length chain of discontinuous resistances is calculated by the specific equation. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214264 | TOUCH PANEL AND TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel and a touch panel therein are provided. The touch panel includes a first transparent supporter plate, a second transparent supporter plate, and a touch module. The second transparent supporter plate and the touch module are disposed over the first transparent supporter plate. The first transparent supporter plate and the second transparent supporter plate have optical anisotropy. The first transparent supporter plate has a first fast axis and a first slow axis, and the second transparent supporter plate has a second fast axis and a second slow axis. A direction of the second fast axis is substantially perpendicular to a direction of the first fast axis, and a direction of the second slow axis is substantially perpendicular to a direction of the first slow axis. The touch panel of the present invention is helpful to improve display quality of the touch display panel having the touch panel. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214265 | TOUCH SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE - The power source of back lighting device, e.g. a fluorescent lamp, inside typical electronic products is a high voltage and high frequency signal. This invention makes use of this characteristic to provide a low cost touch input device. The characteristic allows the signal to penetrate thick dielectric layers, e.g. a glass plate or the casing, to trigger a sensing circuit. Thus, the sensing circuit can be a simple logic gate and the implementation cost is low. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214266 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE HAVING INPUT FUNCTION AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrodes; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; a first detection electrode that is provided at the inner-surface side of the sealing substrate; a second detection electrode that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate; the second detection electrode having a detection axis that is not the same as that of the first detection electrode; a dielectric film that is formed on the second detection electrode; and a detection unit that detects a position at which electrostatic capacitance is generated via the dielectric film between the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214267 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH VIRTUAL KEYPAD - A mobile electronic device with a virtual input device. The virtual input device includes an optical sensor for detecting movement of a user's fingers over a work surface and an acoustic or vibration sensor, for detecting an impact of the user's fingers on the work surface. A processor, coupled to the optical sensor and to the acoustic sensor, processes the detected signals as input for the electronic device. The user's fingers can be shown on the display overlaid by a virtual mask. The virtual mask may show a keyboard of menu items. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214268 | Optical touch liquid crystal display device - The present invention relates to an optical touch liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image, a backlight unit disposed beneath the liquid crystal display panel for providing a backlight for the liquid crystal display panel, a bezel, at least a light emitting element, and at least an optical sensor. The bezel comprises an inside surface having a horizontal surface and a vertical surface. The bezel surrounds and fixes the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. The light emitting unit is disposed on the inside surface of the bezel for providing light to form an optical matrix at the image display side of the liquid crystal display panel. The optical sensor is disposed on the inside surface of the bezel for detecting a touch on the liquid crystal display panel. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214269 | OPTICAL TOUCH MODULE - An optical touch module is adapted to provide a touch area. At least one sensor is disposed at a corner of the touch area. The optical touch module includes at least one light emitting element and at least one waveguide element. The waveguide element is disposed on at least one side of the touch area, for guiding and emitting light rays provided by the light emitting element to the touch area. Each waveguide element includes a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The light incident surface faces the light emitting element. The light emitting surface faces the touch area. Thereby, the light rays emitted from the light emitting element are distributed on the touch area through the waveguide element, so as to lower the luminance of the light emitting element and reduce the current consumption. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214270 | Light guide module, optical touch module, and method of increasing a signal to noise ratio of an optical touch module - A light guide module is applied in an optical touch module. A focusing component of the light guide module focuses the light emitted from a light guide component of the light guide module, so that all the light emitted from the light guide component can be convergently distributed in a touch area of the optical touch module. In this way, the light provided by a lighting component of the optical touch module can be effectively utilized, and the signal to noise ratio of the received signal of a sensor of the optical touch module increases. Therefore, the optical touch module can determines the location of the finger or the contacting object more correctly. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214271 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, TEMPERATURE DETECTION METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A liquid crystal device including a pair of substrates that are provided opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer being disposed therebetween, a pair of electrodes provided for each intersection of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, the pair of electrodes driving the liquid crystal layer, a driving circuit that applies a driving voltage to the pair of electrodes, an electric current detection element that detects a value corresponding to an electric current that flows in the liquid crystal layer when the driving voltage is applied, and a temperature information output circuit that outputs temperature information of the liquid crystal layer based on the value corresponding to the electric current. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214272 | DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH SAME - An active matrix display capable of compensating leaking current while maintaining the aperture rate is provided. The active matrix display device has a plurality of pixels arranged as a matrix, and each of the pixels includes a liquid crystal display element; a driving control switch for controlling the driving of the liquid crystal display element; and a storage capacitor for storing image data provided to the liquid crystal display element via the driving control switch. The display device is an active matrix display device comprising voltage-compensating means for applying a specified voltage to one end of the storage capacitor opposite to another end coupled to the liquid crystal display element in a maintaining period. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214273 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display device includes an organic EL element and a capacitor. A driving transistor is connected to an anode of the organic EL element and passes a current to the organic EL element. The current corresponds to a voltage held in the capacitor. A first switch is between the capacitor and a data line, and the data line supplies the voltage to the capacitor. A voltage detector is connected to the data line for detecting an anode voltage applied to the organic EL element. A second switch is between the anode and the data line. A controller turns on the first switch, causes the organic EL element to emit light, and causes the voltage detector to detect the anode voltage by turning off the first switch and turning on the second switch while the organic EL element is emitting light. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214274 | ACTIVE-MATRIX DISPLAY PANEL AND DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - In one embodiment of the present invention, to provide an active-matrix display device with simplified features for black insertion drive in pixel formation portions and a display state before a black display being readily restorable after the black display, each pixel formation portion of the present display device includes provided therein a coupling capacitance and a coupling line, which is parallel to a scanning signal line, and therefore can be driven at a suitable voltage, so that a gate voltage at a drive element can be set to a level allowing a black display via the coupling capacitance, and the coupling capacitance is small-sized and therefore can be readily formed when compared to a TFT. Also, by changing the potential on the coupling line by the same amount of change but in the opposite direction to that for the change in potential on the coupling line for setting the gate voltage of the drive element to a level allowing a black display, the gate voltage can be readily restored such that the data signal potential after the black display corresponds to the display state before the black display. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214275 | Display device and method for adjusting the luminance thereof - A display device for receiving and displaying an image signal is disclosed. The display device comprises a display screen, a light sensor, a light information determining unit, an image analysis unit, a luminance determining unit, and a control unit. The light sensor is installed near the display screen for detecting an ambient luminance level. The light information determining unit is utilized for determining a first luminance adjusting value according to the ambient luminance. The image analysis unit is utilized for analyzing the image signal to obtain a color level value. The luminance determining unit is utilized for calculating a second luminance adjusting value according to the color level value, and for determining a final luminance adjusting value according to the first luminance adjusting value and the second luminance adjusting value. The control unit is utilized for adjusting the luminance of the display screen according to the final luminance adjusting value. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214276 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Prior to increasing the voltage level of an input signal to be sampled in a step-by-step manner and writing a signal voltage Vsig at a desired voltage level, a precharge is performed which writes a precharge voltage Vpre, lower than the signal voltage Vsig, so as to apply the same voltage Vpre to the gate of a drive transistor in advance. This not only provides a reduced gate-to-source voltage of the drive transistor at the time of writing of the signal voltage Vsig but also extends a mobility correction time required for a mobility correction operation. The extension of the mobility correction time required for the mobility correction operation ensures a relatively smaller variation in the correction time, thus suppressing the variation in brightness. The extension also permits a write pulse to be set to the optimal pulse width. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214277 | OUTPUT CIRCUIT AND DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides an output circuit that can suppress a voltage drop in an output section of the output circuit and that can suppress a phase delay of an output signal which is feedbacked to an input section of the output circuit. An AC component of a data signal output from an output terminal of an operational amplifier to which an input signal is input, is negatively feedbacked via a capacitor, and is input to an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier. A DC component of the data signal output from the output terminal, is lowered its potential by a second protective resistor to the same potential as the input signal and is output as an output signal to data lines via respective output pads, and is output to an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier via a first protective resistor. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214278 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - To provide an electronic device in which information about an application that is in a non-active state can be displayed during a power saving mode and an operation mode can be changed from the power saving mode to a normal power mode with a pressing operation of a predetermined key. When a plurality of applications are activated and a multi-window is displayed, a mode of a window display area with respect to the application that is in a visible state and in a non-active state is changed to ‘power saving mode 1’ (power saving screen with a character) and after that, it is changed to ‘power saving mode 2’ (complete power saving screen). | 2010-08-26 |
20100214279 | SHIFT REGISTER - A shift register which is capable of minimizing a spike voltage is disclosed. The shift register includes a plurality of stages, each including a plurality of nodes, a scan pulse output unit controlled according to voltages at the nodes for outputting a scan pulse and supplying it to a corresponding gate line through a scan output terminal, a carry pulse output unit controlled according to the voltages at the nodes for outputting a carry pulse and supplying it to an upstream stage and a downstream stage through a carry output terminal, a node controller for controlling voltage states of the nodes in response to a carry pulse from the upstream stage and a carry pulse from the downstream stage, and a discharging unit connected to any one of a plurality of clock transfer lines and the scan output terminal for discharging a spike voltage of the scan output terminal. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214280 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit; a reception unit which receives an image signal from an image supply source; an image processing unit which includes a plurality of input terminals that receive the image signal from the reception unit, wherein if the image signal is a divided image signal, the image processing unit processes and combines parts of the divided image signal to output a processed image signal to be displayed on the display unit; and a controller which controls the display unit to display thereon an error message if one of the input terminals receives a first part of the divided image and the another one of the input terminals does not receive a second part of the divided image signal. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214281 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIGHT GUIDE PLATE - An illumination device ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214282 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LIGHT SOURCE MODULATION IN DUAL MODULATOR DISPLAYS - Dual modulator displays are disclosed incorporating a phosphorescent plate interposed in the optical path between a light source modulation layer and a display modulation layer. Spatially modulated light output from the light source modulation layer impinges on the phosphorescent plate and excites corresponding regions of the phosphorescent plate which in turn emit light having different spectral characteristics than the light output from the light source modulation layer. Light emitted from the phosphorescent plate is received and further modulated by the display modulation layer to provide the ultimate display output. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214283 | METHOD TO VISUALIZE CUTPLANES FOR CURVED ELONGATED STRUCTURES - A method for visualization and inspection of elongated curved structures is disclosed. According to an embodiment improved inspection of elongated three dimensional (3D) curved structures such as blood vessels in a 3D medical image is disclosed. Rendering is performed such that it results in the visualization of a (3D) curved cutplane of said curved elongated structure. The advantages of this method are for instance that the cutplane information is interpreted easily in relation to the three-dimensional shape and surroundings of the elongated object, without distortions, and that cutplanes along more than one structure can be visualized and examined together at the same time, without interpretation problems for diagnosis and therapy of anomalies in e.g. the blood vessels. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214284 | MODEL CREATION USING VISUAL MARKUP LANGUAGES - A method and system for defining a model by analyzing images of a physical space. In some embodiments the images of a physical space contain distinctive visual features with associated semantic information, and the model is defined using image feature detection techniques to identify distinctive visual features and a rich marker-based markup language to give meaning to the distinctive visual features. In some embodiments the distinctive visual features are predefined markers, and the markup language specifies model aspects and rules for combining semantic information from a plurality of markers to define the model. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214285 | RENDERING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL TIME HELIX IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The present invention provides a 3-D time helix renderable in a virtual universe. In one embodiment, there is a time helix tool, including a construction component configured to: generate a 3-D time helix in a virtual universe, and populate the 3-D time helix with a set of data objects. The time helix tool further comprises a rendering component configured to render the 3-D time helix with at least one of the set of data objects to a user of the virtual universe. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, CONVERSION, QUALITY AND PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION, ENHANCEMENT, CORRECTION, MASTERING, AND OTHER ADVANTAGEOUS PROCESSING OF THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method for enabling multiple parties to access and utilize, separately, in parallel, and/or on a collaborative basis, a plurality of distributed modular 3D content-centric solutions that are operable to greatly improve the quality and impact of 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary 3D media playback and display solutions, thus maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. The inventive system and method facilitate and enable multiple parties to work individually or to collaborate, in a scalable and managed manner and at varying degrees, in customizable modular processes of generating, converting into, and/or beneficially processing 3D media content to produce enhanced 3D media content, and thereby greatly improving and maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. In various embodiments of the inventive system and method, a centralized system is provided for managing and selectively controlling access to, and utilization of, the plurality of the modular 3D content-centric solutions by a plurality of pre-registered users, and to manage 3D content-related projects by distributing individual tasks, along with appropriate access to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s), to at least one of the plural pre-registered users. In other embodiments of the present invention, a centralized 3D content generation/conversion/processing (G/C/P) system is provided for managing 3D content-related G/C/P projects and for distributing various tasks for such projects for performance by at least one of the plural pre-registered users by enabling access thereof to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s). | 2010-08-26 |
20100214287 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HARDWARE ROTATION - A method and apparatus for hardware rotation is described. In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a direct access address translation component. The apparatus also includes a frame buffer coupled to the direct access address translation component. The apparatus further includes a 2D coordinate translation component. The apparatus also includes a 2D engine coupled to the 2D coordinate translation component and to the frame buffer. The apparatus further includes a 3D engine. The apparatus also include a 3D coordinate translation component coupled to the 3D engine and the frame buffer. As will be appreciated, further embodiments of the invention are within the spirit and scope of the claimed invention, and the specific details of a specific embodiment as described need not be present in all embodiments of the invention. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214288 | Combining Subcomponent Models for Object Image Modeling - Aspects of the present invention include systems and methods for forming generative models, for utilizing those models, or both. In embodiments, an object model fitting system can be developed comprising a 3D active appearance model (AAM) model. The 3D AAM comprises an appearance model comprising a set of subcomponent appearance models that is constrained by a 3D shape model. In embodiments, the 3D AAM may be generated using a balanced set of training images. The object model fitting system may further comprise one or more manifold constraints, one or more weighting factors, or both. Applications of the present invention include, but are not limited to, modeling and/or fitting face images, although the teachings of the present invention can be applied to modeling/fitting other objects. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214289 | Subdivision Weighting for Robust Object Model Fitting - Aspects of the present invention include systems and methods for forming generative models, for utilizing those models, or both. In embodiments, an object model fitting system can be developed comprising a 3D active appearance model (AAM) model. The 3D AAM comprises an appearance model comprising a set of subcomponent appearance models that is constrained by a 3D shape model. In embodiments, the 3D AAM may be generated using a balanced set of training images. The object model fitting system may further comprise one or more manifold constraints, one or more weighting factors, or both. Applications of the present invention include, but are not limited to, modeling and/or fitting face images, although the teachings of the present invention can be applied to modeling/fitting other objects. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214290 | Object Model Fitting Using Manifold Constraints - Aspects of the present invention include systems and methods for forming generative models, for utilizing those models, or both. In embodiments, an object model fitting system can be developed comprising a 3D active appearance model (AAM) model. The 3D AAM comprises an appearance model comprising a set of subcomponent appearance models that is constrained by a 3D shape model. In embodiments, the 3D AAM may be generated using a balanced set of training images. The object model fitting system may further comprise one or more manifold constraints, one or more weighting factors, or both. Applications of the present invention include, but are not limited to, modeling and/or fitting face images, although the teachings of the present invention can be applied to modeling/fitting other objects. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214291 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A 3D GEOMETRIC MODEL - For generating a 3D geometric model ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214292 | RENDERING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING RENDERING PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - In an image processing for rendering a three-dimensional virtual space by using a perspective projection transformation and a depth comparison that uses a Z buffer, firstly, polygons to be rendered in a rendering process of one frame are classified into a first-type polygon and a second-type polygon. Next, the rendering process is performed for the first-type polygon. Subsequently, at least one of a near value and a far value of a clip space is set to a value different from a value used in the rendering process for the first-type polygon. The rendering process for the second-type polygon is performed by using the clip space having at least one of the far value and the near value having been set to the value different from the value used in the rendering process for the first-type polygon. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER INTERATION IN DATA-DRIVEN MESH GENERATION FOR PARAMETER RECONSTRUCTION FROM IMAGING DATA - A system and method for iterative reconstruction with user interaction in data-driven, adaptive mesh generation for reconstruction of model parameters from imaging data is disclosed. The method includes reading input ( | 2010-08-26 |
20100214294 | METHOD FOR TESSELLATION ON GRAPHICS HARDWARE - An exemplary method for tessellating a primitive of a graphical object includes receiving information for a primitive of a graphical object where the information includes vertex information and an edge factor for each edge of the primitive; based on the received information, dividing the primitive into parts where each part corresponds to at least a portion of an edge of the primitive and at least one vertex of the primitive and where each part has an association with the edge factor of the corresponding edge; for each of the parts, executing a geometry shader on a graphics processing unit (GPU) where the executing includes determining barycentric coordinates for a respective part based in part on its associated edge factor; for each of the parts, outputting the barycentric coordinates to a vertex buffer; and generating a tessellated mesh for the primitive based on the vertex information and the barycentric coordinates of the vertex buffer where the generating includes invoking a draw function of the GPU. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214295 | DRAWING PROCESSING APPARATUS, TEXTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND TESSELLATION METHOD - A drawing processing apparatus for performing tessellation processing, comprising a pixel shader and a texture unit. An internal division operation part of the pixel shader issues texture load instructions to the texture unit, specifying parametric coordinate values of a patch of a parametric surface, and thereby acquires internal division factors interpolated based on the parametric coordinate values from the texture unit. The internal division operation part issues texture load instructions to the texture unit further, specifying the internal division factors acquired from the texture unit as new interpolation factors, and thereby acquires control points internally divided based on the internal division factors in advance from the texture unit. Based on the internal division factors corresponding to the parametric coordinate values, the internal division operation part performs recursive internal division operations on the control points acquired from the texture unit, thereby determining a point on the parametric surface corresponding to the parametric coordinate values. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214296 | DATA DISPLAY APPARATUS, DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A data display apparatus includes a storage, a data retrieving unit, a first display unit, a designation receiver, a display data, and a second display unit. The storage stores time-series data. The data retrieving unit retrieves at least one set of the time-series data from the storage. The first display unit displays the time-series data in a first display width. The designation receiver receives a designation of at least one display subject range. The display data retrieving unit retrieves subset data from the at least one set of the time-series data during at least one period corresponding to the at least one display subject range. The second display unit displays the subset data in a second display width. The first display unit also displays the at least one display subject range in association with the time-series data. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214297 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR OUTPUTTING RESIDUAL ERRORS FOR A FUNCTION CUSTOMIZED TO A SET OF POINTS - The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for displaying residual errors of a function which is fitted to a set of points. In the prior art, the residual errors are displayed in a separate graph apart from the function graph so that it is difficult for an observer to discern the quality of the fit of the function to the data points. An improved method and an improved arrangement make it possible to visually assess the quality of the fit in a simple, accurate manner. According to the invention, visual codes are assigned to the fitted function or to the data points of the point set piecewise or pointwise depending on the residual errors, and the fitted function is displayed graphically at an interface, wherein the fitted function is displayed piecewise or pointwise in the form of the assigned visual codes. The invention is preferably used for raster image spectroscopy with laser scanning microscopes. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214298 | INFOGRAPHIC DISK ACTIVITY INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RELATIVE SATURATION OF ACOMPUTER DISK SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, adapt the computer system to implement a method for displaying relative saturation of a computer disk system. The method includes visually displaying elements of the computer disk system in an infographic disk activity interface. The elements may include at least one of the group including at least one disk controller, at least one physical disk, at least one file, and at least one other files. The elements are visually linked using an arrangement of connectors defining respective data flow paths between the elements. Disk system activity along the data flow paths is visually indicated using static and/or dynamic infographic display elements. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214299 | GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF CHART ELEMENTS FOR INTERACTING WITH CHART DATA - A “Charting Animator” enhances computer-based charting/graphing systems by rendering dynamic animations of chart transitions. In general, when a user changes from one chart type to another, adds new data to a chart, or changes, sorts or deletes data, a new chart is generated to replace the old chart. Conventional charting systems simply replace the existing chart with the new chart. In contrast to conventional systems, the Charting Animator renders animated transitions that dynamically morph the original chart into the new chart. Consequently, these animations avoid abrupt changes that can disorient users. Examples of these animations include animating changes from one chart family to another (e.g., changing from a “Bar Chart” to a “Pie Chart”), animating changes from one chart type within a chart family to another chart type (e.g., changing 2D Bar Charts to 3D Bar Charts or Stacked Bar Charts), animating data changes, animating sorts, etc. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214300 | Displaying Bar Charts With A Fish-Eye Distortion Effect - A system and a method are disclosed for visually displaying data points using charts on a display screen with limited display area. A fish-eye distortion region allows presentation of detailed information for some data points compared to other data points that are displayed. The chart can be moved relative to the distortion region thereby changing the data points displayed within the fish-eye that present additional information. The relative movement between the chart and the distortion region is triggered by different kinds of inputs from the user including, tilting of the device, swiping with a pointing device and selecting a particular data point. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214301 | VGPU: A real time GPU emulator - An exemplary method for emulating a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes executing a graphics application on a host computing system to generate commands for a target GPU wherein the host computing system includes host system memory and a different, host GPU; converting the generated commands into intermediate commands; based on one or more generated commands that call for one or more shaders, caching one or more corresponding shaders in a shader cache in the host system memory; based on one or more generated commands that call for one or more resources, caching one or more corresponding resources in a resource cache in the host system memory; based on the intermediate commands, outputting commands for the host GPU; and based on the output commands for the host GPU, rendering graphics using the host GPU where output commands that call for one or more shaders access the one or more corresponding shaders in the shader cache and where output commands that call for one or more resources access the one or more corresponding resources in the resource cache. Other methods, devices and systems are also disclosed. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLEMENTING AN IMAGE GALLERY WITH STATUS INDICATORS - In various example embodiments, a system and method to provide status indictors on an image galley is disclosed. At least one item to be displayed in an image gallery on a client device is identified. Once identified, status information for the item is obtained. Subsequently, gallery rendering and display instructions are generated and transmitted to the client device. The rendering and display instructions include the status information and enables generation of status indicators from the status information for display over the image gallery at the client device. The rendering and display instructions may also include instructions for displaying the image gallery. The status information at the client device may be updated as status information changes. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214303 | Device Control Using Data Communication - A data processing device connected with a data supply device for performing predetermined data processing includes: a communication control unit for controlling communication with the data supply device; a data processing unit for performing the data processing based on input data received from the data supply device; and a device control unit for performing predetermined processing in correspondence with command data received from the data supply device based on the command data. The communication control unit receives the input data and the command data each of which is contained in a packet having a common fixed length from the data supply device. When an identification part at a predetermined position in the reception packet received from the data supply device is set at a predetermined command identification value indicating the command data, the communication control unit supplies data contained in the reception packet to the device control unit. When the identification part is set at a value different from the command identification value, the communication control unit supplies data contained in the reception packet to the data processing unit. The device control unit uses the remaining part in the reception packet other than the identification part as the command data. The data processing unit uses the remaining part as the input data. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214304 | TWO DIMENSIONAL MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER - A data processing system may include a display, the display having a display surface, and logic to modify the address signals of a graphics processing unit (GPU) if the address signals do not fall within a two-dimensional range of authorized pixel locations corresponding to a subset of the display surface, and to propagate the address signals unmodified to a display memory otherwise. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214305 | System and Method for Processing Graphics Operations with Graphics Processing Unit - Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for accumulating changes to the data structures. A separate buffer is then created from at least a portion of the data structures of the accumulation buffer. The disclosed techniques read the data structures from the separate buffer with the graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit operates on the data structures read from the separate buffer with the operation. Then, the disclosed techniques write the results of the operation onto the portion of the accumulation buffer corresponding to the separate buffer. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214306 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE DATA - An apparatus and method of processing image data sub-samples image data by generating a data patch by dividing the image data into a plurality of blocks and sequentially accessing pixel data values in each of the blocks through a plurality of line memories. The image data is divided into the plurality of blocks, the blocks are stored in each of the line memories, and the pixel data values stored in each of the line memories are sequentially accessed, so as to generate the data patch for sub-sampling the image data. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMBEDDING WATERMARK - Provided is a method and apparatus for embedding a watermark, the method including dividing an image into a plurality of sections, determining a watermark-embedding intensity for a pixel of each of the sections, setting a watermark-embedding intensity for each of the sections by applying the determined watermark-embedding intensity for the particular pixel of each of the sections to all pixels of each of the sections, and embedding the watermark into the image according to the watermark-embedding intensity which is set for each of the sections. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214308 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a selection unit, an extraction unit and a reconfiguration unit. The acquiring unit acquires a processing element group configured by successively connecting a plurality of processing elements for processing information, the information including a plurality of attributes. The selection unit selects, among the attributes, an attribute that allows a reduction in an information amount of the information when the attribute is modified. The extraction unit extracts, among the processing element group and processing elements that are functional equivalents of each of the processing elements, a processing element capable of processing the information of which the selected attribute is modified. The reconfiguration unit places an attribute modification element anterior to the extracted processing element to reconfigure the processing element group, the attribute modification element for modifying the selected attribute, the extracted processing element placed alone or in connected relation. | 2010-08-26 |
20100214309 | METHOD OF GENERATING A COMMON VOLTAGE FOR DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS - A method of generating a common voltage for driving a display panel includes; comparing image data of a previous frame with image data of a present frame to determine whether the image data of the previous frame, which is received during a first setting time, is substantially the same as the image data of the present frame, determining a voltage level of the common voltage applied to the display panel in accordance with whether the image data of the previous frame is substantially the same as the image data of the present frame, generating the common voltage corresponding to the determined voltage level, and providing the display panel with the common voltage. | 2010-08-26 |