35th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120218229 | Detecting Multitouch Events in an Optical Touch-Sensitive Device Using Touch Event Templates - An optical touch-sensitive device is able to determine the locations of multiple simultaneous touch events. The optical touch-sensitive device includes multiple emitters and detectors. Each emitter produces optical beams which are received by the detectors. Touch events disturb the optical beams. Touch event templates are used to determine the actual touch events based on which optical beams have been disturbed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218230 | INFRARED TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE AND MULTIPOINT LOCATING METHOD THEREOF - An infrared touch screen device and a multi-touch locating method thereof are provided. On the touch screen, large angle infrared emitting elements and infrared receiving element are used to realize the axis scanning of multi-angle by an optimized sampling and processing circuit. After the data processing of removing ambient light, normalization and so on for original data of the axis scanning, the logic axis touch information is generated, and a luminance map of the current frame is generated according to the information. Multiple valid touch regions are recognized by contrast with a theoretical touch luminance map. Then a tracing algorithm of image is used, and a multi-touch event is outputted finally. The touch device is simple, reliable and accurate and has wide range application. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218231 | Electronic Device and Method for Calibration of a Touch Screen - There is provided an electronic device and method for calibration of a touch screen using a biometric sensor. The touch screen includes a display and a touch sensor associated with the display. The biometric sensor is configured to detect a user input. The display and/or the touch sensor of the touch screen are calibrated based on the user input detected at the biometric sensor. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218232 | ACTIVE STYLUS - An active stylus includes a tube, a signal emitting module, a power module, an electrical energy storage device, a movable element and an energy transformation module. The signal emitting module, the power module, the electrical energy storage device and the energy transformation module are disposed in the tube. The power module is electrically coupled to the signal emitting module, and the electrical energy storage device and the energy transformation module are electrically coupled to the power module. The movable element is movable in the tube. The energy transformation module is configured for transforming energy generated by motion of the movable element into electrical energy. The electrical energy transformed by the energy transformation module is stored in the electrical energy storage device by the power module. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218233 | TERMINAL HAVING ROTARY BUTTON - A terminal includes a rotary button bracket including a dial button and a penetrating member; a housing including a penetrating hole and a click notch, the click notch being disposed around the penetrating hole; and a click bracket having a click protrusion and a planar portion, the click protrusion being configured to engage the click notch. The planar portion is arranged proximate to the penetrating hole, and the penetrating member is coupled to the click bracket. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218234 | CUSTOMIZABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT PANEL - The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218235 | Systems And Methods Providing Active And Passive Charge Sharing In A Digital To Analog Converter - A method for converting a multi-bit digital value to an analog value. The method includes, in a first conversion cycle, converting a first set of digital bits to a first analog voltage using passive charge-sharing. The method also includes, in a second conversion cycle, converting a second set of digital bits to a second analog voltage added to the first analog voltage using active charge-sharing. The first set of digital bits and the second set of digital bits are different bits of the multi-bit digital value. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218236 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A computer-readable storage medium has stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of a display control apparatus which displays an image on a display section in either of planar-view display or stereoscopic display. The information processing program causes the computer to operate as: a switching section configured to switch between planar-view display and stereoscopic display; a setter configured to set image display by the display section to a state of being restricted to only the planar-view display or a state of not being restricted to only the planar-view display; and a display controller configured to switch the image display by the display section to the planar-view display or the stereoscopic display in accordance with display setting when it is set to the state of not being restricted to the planar-view display, and causing the display section to perform planar-view display of an image regardless of the display setting which is set by the switching section, when the image display by the display section is set to the state of being restricted to only the planar-view display. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218237 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention is to provide a display panel and a display apparatus which can reduce the picture-frame area while sufficiently preventing the delay of signals by allowing a required amount of current to flow. The display panel of the present invention is a display panel which includes a circuit substrate, and an opposed substrate facing the circuit substrate, and which is featured in that the circuit section is arranged in the picture-frame area of the display panel, in that the circuit section includes trunk wiring, and branch wiring connected to the gate electrode or the source electrode of a transistor in the circuit section, and in that all or a part of the trunk wiring is provided on the opposed substrate, and the branch wiring is provided on the circuit substrate so as to be electrically connected to the trunk wiring via a conductor. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218238 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a current source, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a light-emitting element. One electrode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the current source through a source and a drain of the first transistor. The same electrode of the light-emitting element is also electrically connected to a wiring through a source and a drain of the second transistor. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218239 | BACKLIGHT CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Embodiments are provided herein which may be utilized to eliminate stray light emissions from an LED while ambient light is being sensed. As such, dynamic backlight control systems for use with an electronic display are presented including: an ambient light sensor for sensing ambient light intensity; a backlight for illuminating the electronic display; a switch for controlling the backlight, the switch configured to set a backlight condition to ON or OFF in response to a backlight-off frequency such that the ambient light sensor senses the ambient light intensity in the absence of the backlight; a logic module for determining a backlight level in response to the ambient light intensity; and a backlight control circuit for adjusting the backlight to the backlight level in response to the ambient light intensity. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218240 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - Stable address discharge is caused while securing a sufficient voltage setting margin, and an image of high quality is displayed on a plasma display panel. For this purpose, in the selective initializing operation, first discharge is caused by applying first voltage to the sustain electrode and applying up-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode. Next, second discharge is caused by applying down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode. Next, third discharge is caused by applying positive rectangular waveform voltage to the scan electrode. Next, fourth discharge is caused by applying second voltage higher than the first voltage to the sustain electrodes and applying down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode. The length of applying time of the positive rectangular waveform voltage to the scan electrode is changed based on the number of sustain pulses occurring in the sustain period of the immediately preceding subfield. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218241 | DRIVING METHOD FOR IMPROVING STABILITY IN MOTFTs - A method of driving a display device includes providing an array of pixels including rows and columns of pixels, each pixel including a switching/driving transistor circuit and at least one light emitting device. Each row of pixels has a scan line and each column of pixels has a data line. The method further includes defining a frame period during which each pixel in the array of pixels is addressed and dividing the frame period into a write subframe, a display subframe, and a rest subframe. A scan pulse is supplied to each scan line, a data signal to each data line and the light emitting devices are disabled during the write subframe. The light emitting devices are enabled during the display subframe and the switching/driving transistor circuits are disabled. A rest pulse is supplied to all scan lines and the light emitting devices are disabled during the rest subframe. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218242 | PIXEL STRUCTURE, DRIVING METHOD AND DRIVING SYSTEM OF HYBRID DISPLAY APPARATUS - A pixel structure, a driving method and a driving system of a hybrid display apparatus are provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, a first active device, a first signal line, a second signal line, an electro-phoretic display device, a second active device and an organic light emitting diode device. The first active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The electro-phoretic display device is electrically connected to the first active device and the first signal line. The second active device is electrically connected to the first active device and the first signal line. The organic light emitting diode device is electrically connected to the second active device and the second signal line. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218243 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A power supply system for a display device includes a switch circuit, a transformer and an output filter circuit connected in series, and a controller connected to the switch circuit. The power supply system also comprises a transforming circuit and a superposition circuit. The transforming circuit adjusts amplitude of scanning signals generated by a scanning circuit to generate adjusted scanning signals. The superposition circuit samples high voltage output power signals output by the output filter circuit, superposes the sampled high voltage output power signals and the adjusted scanning signals together to generate a superposition signal, and sends the superposition signal to the controller. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218244 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method for driving a display panel includes generating a plurality of gate signals, providing the plurality of gate signals to a plurality of switching elements connected to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, providing the plurality of gate signals to a monitoring element, and restoring the plurality of switching elements based on an output signal from the monitoring element. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218245 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device includes a monolithic gate driver capable of quickly eliminating residual charges within pixel formation portions when the power-supply is turned off. Each of bistable circuits that constitute a shift register within a gate driver is provided with a thin-film transistor having a drain terminal connected to a gate bus line, a source terminal connected to a reference potential line for transmitting a reference potential, and a gate terminal to which a clock signal for operating the shift register is supplied. When the external supply of power-supply voltage is cut off, the clock signal is set to high level to turn the thin-film transistor to the ON state, and the level of the reference potential is increased from a gate-OFF potential to a gate-ON potential. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218246 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device in which low power consumption is realized without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal capacitive element Clc is sandwiched between a pixel electrode | 2012-08-30 |
20120218247 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display device including a pixel circuit having a transistor with a low electron mobility, low power consumption is realized without decreasing an aperture ratio. An liquid crystal capacitor element (Clc) is formed between a pixel circuit ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218248 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218249 | VCOM SWITCHING AMPLIFIER - Certain electronic devices with displays, such as LCDs, are configured to provide a common voltage to a display backplane. The common voltage is supplied by a common voltage application circuit coupled to the display. The common voltage application circuit includes a switching amplifier configured to output the common voltage. The switching amplifier functions as a switching power supply having improved power efficiency compared to conventional common voltage application circuits. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218250 | VCOM AMPLIFIER WITH TRANSIENT ASSIST CIRCUIT - Electronic devices with a V | 2012-08-30 |
20120218251 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row of the pixels; a second scanning section configured to drive the switching transistors in synchronism with scanning by the first scanning section; and a third scanning section configured to control the second switching transistors to a non-conducting state within a period after the image signal is written by the writing transistor until the signal writing period of the same row of the pixels ends but to a conducting state within any other period. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218252 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device in which a pixel voltage is held at low power consumption without any influence from fluctuation in threshold voltage is provided. A liquid crystal capacitor element (Clc) is formed between a pixel electrode ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218253 | ADJUSTING 3D EFFECTS FOR WEARABLE VIEWING DEVICES - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to displaying 3D effects for one or more wearable 3D viewing devices. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method which comprises, for each of one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, detecting a property of the wearable 3D viewing device, and for a 3D effect to be presented to users of the one or more wearable 3D viewing devices, adjusting presentation of the 3D effect based on the detected properties. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218254 | DATA VISUALIZATION DESIGN AND VIEW SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Interactive data visualization features are provided, including three-dimensional (3D) visualization features and functionality, but the embodiments are not so limited. An exemplary method includes a declarative process of defining and using 3D data visualizations where visual appearance, states, and/or interaction options are based in part on an associated visualization model and/or measures of data. An exemplary computing architecture includes a number of components configured to provide declarative visualization design, interaction, and/or viewing features. Other embodiments are included and available. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218255 | Image Display Apparatus - An image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a light emission unit capable of illuminating light rays onto at least two divided areas; an image display capable of receiving light rays from the light emission unit and displaying an image signal which includes a plurality of elemental images having multiple parallax image components; a determination module configured to determine a representative pixel value from among the elemental images included in respective areas with respect to the respective areas; and a light intensity calculation module configured to calculate intensities of light rays illuminating respective areas on the basis of the determined representative pixel value. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218256 | RECOMMENDED DEPTH VALUE FOR OVERLAYING A GRAPHICS OBJECT ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO - A method of generating a recommended depth value for use in displaying a graphics item over a three dimensional video is described. The method includes at a headend: receiving a three dimensional video including video frames; analyzing a sequence of said video frames in turn to produce a sequence of depth maps, each depth map in the sequence of depth maps being associated with timing data relating that depth map to a corresponding video frame in the sequence of video frames, each depth map including depth values, each depth value representing a depth of a pixel location in its corresponding video frame; selecting a region of depth maps in the sequence of depth maps; analyzing said region of the depth maps in the sequence of depth maps to identify a furthest forward depth value for said region in the sequence of depth maps; and transmitting the furthest forward depth value as the recommended depth value for the region to a display device and region information describing the region. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218257 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, VIRTUAL INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VIRTUAL INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM - According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a detecting unit, an imaging unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The control unit calculates, based on a first image in which a marker is taken by the imaging unit, a reference position that is a relative position of the real marker when seen from the mobile electronic device. When causing the display unit to display a second image taken by the imaging unit, the control unit calculates a predicted position that is a position at which the marker is predicted to exist in taking the second image, based on a position of the mobile electronic device acquired based on a result detected by the detecting unit in taking the first image, a position of the mobile electronic device acquired based on a result detected by the detecting unit in taking the second image, and the reference position. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218258 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus that displays a three dimensional image configured by a plurality of viewpoint images, the display apparatus comprising: an image display unit having a plurality of pixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions; and an image control unit that controls the image display unit, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in the vertical direction, and the image control unit controls the image display unit so as to sequentially display a plurality of the viewpoint images along the horizontal direction, using a plurality of pixel units, provided that each of the pixel units is regarded as a single unit configured by a plurality of pixels neighboring the horizontal direction. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218259 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided are a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an image processing program executed by a computer of an image processing apparatus capable of outputting an image in a stereoscopically visible manner, the program causing the computer to function as sections configured for: acquiring setting information about a virtual stereo camera configured for imaging of a virtual space to provide images for right and left eyes in a stereoscopically visible manner; designating the position of a first object in the space, including a depth-directional position defining the imaging direction; using the information and the depth-directional position to calculate a displacement for a stereoscopically visible image of the object; and translating from a position, the object associated with the above-designated position, along a plane perpendicular to the depth direction, to generate images for right and left eyes each of which includes an image of the translated object, based on the displacement. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218260 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOTING THREE DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS - Methods and systems for providing three dimensional graphics to remote computing machines and appliances that include an agent executing on a local computing machine to intercept a plurality of graphics commands generated by a three dimensional application executing on a local computing machine. A first portion of the plurality of graphics commands are encoded by the agent using a first codec, while a second portion of the plurality of graphics commands are encoded by the agent using a second codec. The agent creates a frame comprising the first portion and the second portion of the plurality of graphics commands, compresses the frame, and transmits the frame to a remote computing machine. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218261 | GRAPHIC SYSTEM COMPRISING A FRAGMENT GRAPHIC MODULE AND RELATIVE RENDERING METHOD - A graphic system having a central processing unit; a system memory coupled to the central processing unit; a display unit provided with a corresponding screen; a graphic module coupled to and controlled by the central processing unit to render an image on the screen of the display unit, the graphic module including a fragment graphic module having a depth test buffer for storing a current depth value; a depth test stage coupled to the depth test buffer for comparing the current depth value with a depth coordinate associated with an incoming fragment and defining a resulting fragment; a test stage for testing the resulting fragment and defining a retained fragment; a buffer writing stage operatively associated with the test stage for receiving the retained fragment, the buffer writing stage coupled to the depth test buffer for updating the current depth value with a depth value of the retained fragment. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218262 | ANIMATION OF PHOTO-IMAGES VIA FITTING OF COMBINED MODELS - An image animation method implementable in software includes: fitting a fitting model to at least an object in the image, and animating the object in accordance with a corresponding animation model, where the fitting model is at least as rigid as the animation model, and the animation model is no more rigid than the fitting model. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218263 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING VIRTUAL INFORMATION IN A VIEW OF A REAL ENVIRONMENT - A method for representing virtual information in a view of a real environment comprises the following steps: providing at least one virtual object ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218264 | Hierarchical Motion Blur Rasterization - Motion blur rasterization may involve executing a first test for each plane of a tile frustum. The first test is a frustum plane versus moving bounding box overlap test where planes bounding a moving primitive are overlap tested against a screen tile frustum. According to a second test executed after the first test, for primitive edges against tile corners, the second test is a tile corner versus moving edge overlap test. The corners of the screen space tile are tested against a moving triangle edge in two-dimensional homogeneous space. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218265 | PROCESSING DEVICE - A processing device performs a geometry process as preprocessing for rendering a three-dimensional object on a display by modeling the three-dimensional object using a polygon mesh. The geometry process includes a vertex process that is performed for each of the vertices of the polygon mesh by a different one of a plurality of processors, and processed vertex data obtained by the vertex process is notified among the processors so that a polygon process can be performed in each of the processors. Because each processor can continuously perform the polygon process immediately after the vertex process, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of the unbalance of timing in performing the vertex process and the polygon process, thereby efficiently performing computation while minimizing the wasteful idle time of the processors. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218266 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - In a game apparatus, firstly, a depth value in accordance with a state of a virtual three-dimensional space is obtained. Then, an image for left eye and an image for right eye which are obtained by shifting a two-dimensional object that does not exist within the virtual three-dimensional space by a shift amount in accordance with the depth value are synthesized with an image for left eye and an image for right eye which are obtained by capturing the three-dimensional object by a virtual stereo camera, respectively, and the respective synthesized images are rendered, thereby a stereoscopic image is generated. The stereoscopic image obtained as above is outputted to an upper LCD. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218267 | PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS PROCESSOR FOR MULTITHREADED EXECUTION OF PROGRAMS - A processing unit includes multiple execution pipelines, each of which is coupled to a first input section for receiving input data for pixel processing and a second input section for receiving input data for vertex processing and to a first output section for storing processed pixel data and a second output section for storing processed vertex data. The processed vertex data is rasterized and scan converted into pixel data that is used as the input data for pixel processing. The processed pixel data is output to a raster analyzer. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218268 | ANALYSIS OF OPERATOR GRAPH AND DYNAMIC REALLOCATION OF A RESOURCE TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE - An operator graph analysis mechanism analyzes an operator graph corresponding to an application for problems as the application runs, and determines potential reallocations from a reallocation policy. The reallocation policy may specify potential reallocations depending on whether one or more operators in the operator graph are compute bound, memory bound, communication bound, or storage bound. The operator graph analysis mechanism includes a resource reallocation mechanism that can dynamically change allocation of resources in the system at runtime to address problems detected in the operator graph. The operator graph analysis mechanism thus allows an application represented by an operator graph to dynamically evolve over time to optimize its performance at runtime. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218269 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING AND VIEWING A ZOOMED AREA OF DETAIL FROM AN IMAGE ATTACHMENT ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A process is set forth for viewing an enlarged area of an image. The image is stored on a server and re-sized for viewing on a mobile communication device based on screen size and color display capabilities of the device. The image is enlarged within the server by modifying binary raw data of the original image based on crop rectangle coordinates entered at the mobile communication device. The process allows users to quickly retrieve any relevant part of a large image attachment that has been resized by the server. This minimizes bandwidth usage, device memory/CPU consumption, and request/response latency while still allowing the user to view an image area in its original level of detail. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218270 | FACIAL SKETCH CREATION DEVICE, CONFIGURATION INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, CONFIGURATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A facial sketch creation device, a configuration information generation device, a configuration information generation method, and a storage medium that stores a computer program, which acquires position information for characteristic points that pertain to facial features within a facial image of a user, acquires a classification result in which the facial image has been classified as a facial type, using the position information for the characteristic points and based on relative positions of the facial features, and generates configuration information by taking an initial configuration that is based on the position information for the characteristic points and performing modification of the initial configuration by enhancing characteristics that indicate the classified facial type. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218271 | METHOD OF SIMULATING DEFORMABLE OBJECT USING GEOMETRICALLY MOTIVATED MODEL - A method of stimulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218272 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TEXT IN TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for generating a text in a terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a soft key pad comprising soft keys on a text generating screen while in a text generating mode, the soft keys being elliptically arranged in a ring arrangement on the soft key pad, and generating a text comprising a character allotted to a soft key through a drag when the drag is determined to pass through the soft key. As the soft keys are elliptically arranged in the terminal, a terminal user may continuously and easily select soft keys to which desired characters are allotted. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218273 | DYNAMIC TYPESETTING METHOD OF DISPLAY IMAGE - A dynamic typesetting method of a display image includes the following steps obtaining a typeset-able area of a display image; calculating the size of the typeset-able area for applying a template having multiple display panes; calculating a page placement starting position of each display panes; according to the number of the display panes obtaining the data items corresponding to the number from a database; calculating a data weight of each of the data items, and sorting the data items and temporarily storing the data items in a temporary sequence according to values of the data weights; taking out the data items in the temporary storage sequence in sequence according to a typesetting order of the display panes, and placing the corresponding data items according to the page placement starting position of each display panes; and receiving a user operating instruction, and repeating actions in part of above steps accordingly. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218274 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, a contact detecting unit, a housing, and a control unit. The display unit displays an image. The contact detecting unit detects a contact. The housing has a first face in which the display unit is provided and a second face in which the contact detecting unit is provided. When a contact operation is detected by the contact detecting unit while a first image is displayed on the display unit, the control unit causes the display unit to display a second image. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218275 | Apparatus and Method for Processing Extension Information in Image Files - The present invention discloses an apparatus and a method for processing extension information in an image file, wherein, the method includes: editing the extension information for image file; encrypting the edited extension information, and additionally writing the encrypted extension information into the image file; and extracting the encrypted extension information from the needed image file, and decrypting the encrypted extension information. The apparatus comprises an editing module, an encrypting module and a decrypting module. The present invention realizes the method for editing the extension information for image files in various formats; and guarantees the security of the extension information, that is, even if the image information in the image file is leaked, there is no need to worry about the leakage of extended information in the image file, and a user can view the content of extended information as required at any time, and meanwhile, the application fields are wide. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218276 | Image Data Transmission Apparatus and Method for Image Display System - An image display system comprises: a transmission device (PC), for transmitting image data upon receiving a drawing command from an OS or an application; and a receiving monitor, for displaying, on a high-resolution panel, image data received via a monitor cable, wherein the transmission device includes a drawing command analysis device, for detecting an area on a screen wherein the content is changed by the drawing command, and for employing the detected area to calculate an area to be transmitted, and a graphics card, for transmitting a packet that includes the calculated area to be transmitted, and control data provided as header data for the area to be transmitted, and wherein the receiving monitor includes a packet reception device, for analyzing the header data in the received packet and for, based on the header data, rendering image data in an internally provided frame memory. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218277 | DISPLAY LIST MECHANISM AND SCALABLE DISPLAY ENGINE STRUCTURES - A display list with slot instructions is provided to interface between platform software and a display engine. A display list interface is created for each frame of image data that is to be updated and displayed on a display. In some circumstances, the display list may be reused for subsequent frames, for example, when generating a stream of video images for a video mode display showing a static image. A display list may be part of the interface between a software driver and a scalable display engine architecture that has multiple repetitive processing blocks enabling the same or multiple frames to be processed in parallel to produce update frames for one or more display devices. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218278 | Parallelized Definition and Display of Content in a Scripting Environment - Various content may be defined and display in parallel in a scripting environment. The scripting language may not wait for error checking or reporting before proceeding to updating the content definition. In one embodiment, no error checking or reporting may be performed. Content may be defined by setting graphics states while content may be displayed by validating the graphics states and submitting validated states to a GPU. The defining and display of content may be performed asynchronously. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218279 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEMORY ACCESS METHOD THEREOF - A memory access method for processing images includes reading an image data from a main memory. The image data has display rows. Inner memories are configured to be memory blocks arranged in an order of data storage. First pixel data in an i | 2012-08-30 |
20120218280 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING QUALITY OF AN IMAGE - A method of modifying perceptual quality of an image is disclosed. For each of a plurality of predetermined attributes, distribution values are determined for that attribute. The distribution values are determined across the image. Compactness of the distribution values is determined for each of the attributes. The compactness is a measure of spatial localisation of the distribution values for the respective attribute. An attribute is selected from the plurality of predetermined attributes based on the determined compactness of the respective distribution values. The selected attribute is modified in a part of the image associated with spatially localised values, so as to modify the perceptual quality of the image. The image is stored, according to the modified attribute, in a computer readable storage medium. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218281 | COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR DISPLAY METHOD - The color display device includes a colored light generation unit for repetitively generating a plurality of colored lights in a time sequence with a predetermined frequency, and an image generation unit for processing said plurality of colored lights, so as to generate an image corresponding to each of the plurality of colored lights generated in a time sequence. The said predetermined frequency is 180 Hz or more. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218282 | Display Brightness Adjustment - Concepts are described pertaining to controlling a brightness level of a display of a portable electronic device as a function of the ambient light, and controlling the display brightness level to accommodate human light or dark adaptation. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218283 | Method for Obtaining Brighter Images from an LED Projector - A method for improving brightness of projected images from an LED projector employing a plurality of LEDs of different colors by determining, from a histogram of a frame of an image to be projected, an effective maximum saturation. A plurality of main channels and a plurality of subchannels are created, one main channel and at least one subchannel for each color LED. Then the amplitude of the main channel and a subchannel for each color are determined based upon the effective maximum saturation of the frame of the image, followed by using the main channel and the at least one subchannel for a color to drive an LED of that color to generate the image. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218284 | Dynamic thresholds for document tamper detection - Disclosed is a method ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218285 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT OF VESTIBULAR DISORDERS - Methods and systems for assessing and treating vestibular disorders can include displaying a graphic and providing relative movement between the graphic and a user's head. Information can be obtained either directly or indirectly from the user regarding her perception of the graphic. A graphic display parameter and/or a relative movement parameter can be modified in response to the information regarding the user's perception. An indicator of the user's ability to perceive the graphic can be generated through a series of iterations. A graphic display parameter and/or a relative movement parameter for use in a subsequent series of iterations can be modified based at least in part on the indicator. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218286 | GENERATING A SURFACE REPRESENTATION OF AN ITEM - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for generating a surface representation of an item includes identifying, for a point on an item in an animation process, at least first and second transformation points corresponding to respective first and second transformations of the point. Each of the first and second transformations represents an influence on a location of the point of respective first and second joints associated with the item. The method includes determining an axis for a cylindrical coordinate system using the first and second transformations. The method includes performing an interpolation of the first and second transformation points in the cylindrical coordinate system to obtain an interpolated point. The method includes recording the interpolated point in a surface representation of the item in the animation process. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218287 | Apparatus, system and method for electronic book reading with audio output capability - An electronic book reader, an electronic book reading system, and a method for executing electronic book reading. The reader, system and method may include a display, at least one microprocessor that visually executes ones of a plurality of book data to the display, at least one storage element that stores the plurality of book data, and a plurality of modes executable by the at least one microprocessor, wherein at least one of the plurality of modes comprises audibly executing at least one of the plurality of book data, such as to at least one Bluetooth output. The method may further include storing a plurality of electronic book data, visually outputting the electronic book data to a display, wherein a user scrolls through the book data on the display; and audibly outputting the electronic book data to a plurality of automobile speakers, such as via a Bluetooth interfacing simultaneously with the visually outputting. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218288 | INTERACTIVE PROGRAM SYSTEM - An interactive program system for a first viewer and a second viewer to share a display is provided. The display can show two different video images or frames at the same time, and with a screen sharing mechanism, only the video program selected by viewers can be seen by the viewers. The screen sharing mechanism is implemented by code-division or frequency-division technology. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218289 | ANCESTOR-TO-ANCESTOR RELATIONSHIP LINKING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods, devices and systems for implementing an interactive display of ancestor-to-ancestor relationships are presented. The method includes displaying on a display device of a computer system, a user interface for displaying one or more genealogical charts including one or more nodes. The method further includes receiving, from an input device of the computer system, a selection of a first node and a second node. Then, in response to receiving the selection of the first and second nodes, the method includes calculating a sequence of relationships connecting the first node to the second node. Finally, the method includes organizing the sequence of relationships into one or more steps, wherein each step contains a sequential subset of nodes and relationships that can be displayed at the same time, and sequentially displaying the nodes and relationships in each step on the display device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218290 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE CONTROL OF WINDOW/LEVEL PARAMETERS OF MULTI-IMAGE DISPLAYS - A method, system, and article of manufacture are described for interactive control of multiple images with a high dynamic range that are displayed simultaneously. A medical image control engine provides several synchronous functional capabilities, which comprises an input module, a blending factor synchronization module, a window/level synchronization module, a display module, and an image storage. For window/level adjustment of two images in blended views, the blending factor synchronization module is configured to automatically link the activation of a window/level control of one image with a transparency blending factor that affects both images. For synchronization of window/level adjustments of two or more images, a window/level synchronization module is configured to automatically change window/level parameters of all remaining images when the user makes an adjustment to a window/level control of one image such that all images with updated window/level parameters are displayed simultaneously. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218291 | GRAPHIC RENDERING SYSTEM AND PROJECTION METHOD THEREOF - A graphic rendering system and a projection method thereof are provided. The graphic rendering system comprises a processing unit and a storage unit. The storage unit stores a piece of information. The information defines a virtual area in a camera space, wherein the virtual area has three vertices. The processing unit calculates two intersection vertices between the virtual area and near clipping plane of a view volume of the camera space. The processing unit transforms the three vertices and the two intersection vertices to a screen space and derives three projection vertices and two projection intersection vertices. The processing unit decides a valid area, chooses a test vertex from the valid area, and decides whether the signs of the three projection edge functions defined by the three projection vertices should be changed. Then, the processing unit decides pixels to be rendered according to the valid area, projection edge functions, and a predefined window clipping region. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTISTAGE OPTIMIZED JPEG OUTPUT - A system and method for encoding graphical updates to a display screen of a remote device are disclosed in which regions of a display screen of a remote device that require updates are identified. Graphical updates of the display screen regions requiring updating are encoded as consecutive JPEG macroblocks. The encoded graphical updates are transmitted to the remote device with positioning metadata. The positioning metadata specifies locations of the JPEG macroblocks within the display screen of the remote device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218293 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR ADJUSTING PARAMETERS ON USER INTERFACE SCREEN - A parameter adjusting method includes a step (S | 2012-08-30 |
20120218294 | PROJECTION-TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection-type image display apparatus projects an image on a projection plane, and includes a projection unit, an image capture unit, an ambient light detection unit, and a superimposed image generation unit. The projection unit projects an image on the projection plane through a lens. The image capture unit captures the image projected on the projection plane by the projection unit. The ambient light detection unit detects ambient light cast on the projection plane, from the image captured by the image capture unit. The superimposed image generation unit generates information about detection of ambient light detected by the ambient light detection unit, in the form of a superimposed image to be superimposed on the image projected on the projection plane. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218295 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - In a display device for a vehicle displays information on a second layer of a first display screen when a display state is changed, the display device displays, on the second layer of the second display screen, an icon corresponding to the information, the display device displays a predetermined image so that the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is different from the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen, thereafter, the display device gradually changes the image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen so that a part of or the entirety of the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is the same as the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FEATURE-BASED PRESENTATION OF CONTENT - An approach is provided for location-based presentation of content. A content service platform determines one or more representations of at least one structure. The content service platform also processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more representations to determine one or more features of the one or more representations. The content service platform further causes, at least in part, designation of the one or more features as elements of a virtual display area, wherein the one or more representations comprise, at least in part, the virtual display area. The content service platform also causes, at least in part, presentation of one or more outputs of one or more applications, one or more services, or a combination thereof in the virtual display area. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218297 | AUGMENTED REALITY PRESENTATIONS - Technology is generally disclosed for augmented-reality presentations. In some embodiments, the technology can receive an indication of a user's sensitivity to an aspect of a presentation, receive general content relating to the presentation, receive overlay content relating to the presentation, combine the received general content and the received overlay content to create the presentation, render the presentation. The overlay content may respond to the user's sensitivity. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218298 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND TANGIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An example system includes an information processing device, which includes: an arrangement item including a first marker; an arrangement region providing object which provides an arrangement region and includes a plurality of second markers; and an information processing device including: an imaging processing unit to generate a captured image with an imaging device; a positional relationship judgment unit to judge a positional relationship between the first marker of the arrangement item and at least one of the second markers, from a captured image which includes the first marker of the arrangement item and at least one of the plurality of second markers of the arrangement region providing object; an information superimposition unit to superimpose predetermined information based on the positional relationship, onto the captured image; and a display processing unit to cause a display device to display the captured image on which the predetermined information is superimposed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND TANGIBLE RECODING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An example information processing system which includes a plurality of information processing devices, the respective information processing devices carrying out imaging by an imaging device, wherein the respective information processing devices include: an imaging processing unit to generate a captured image by sequentially capturing images of a real space; a virtual space setting unit to set a virtual space commonly used by another information processing device which captures an image of one of an imaging object that is included in a captured image, and an imaging object, at least a portion of external appearance of which matches the imaging object, based on at least the portion of the imaging object included in the captured image; and a transmission unit to send data relating to change in a state of the virtual space, to the other information processing device, when the change in the state of the virtual space is detected. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218300 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An example image processing apparatus has a captured image acquisition unit for acquiring a captured image captured by an imaging device, a feature detection unit for detecting the markers from the captured image, a reference acquisition unit for acquiring, based on each of the detected markers, a coordinate system serving as a reference indicating a position and attitude in a space, and a relative relation information acquisition unit for acquiring, based on the captured image in which a plurality of the markers are detected, relative relation information indicating a relative relation in position and attitude of a plurality of coordinate systems acquired for the respective markers. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218301 | SEE-THROUGH DISPLAY WITH AN OPTICAL ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A WEDGE-SHAPED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content. The optical assembly includes a light transmissive wedge-shaped illumination system with angle selective coatings and an LED lighting system coupled to an edge of the wedge. An angled surface of the wedge directs light from the LED lighting system to uniformly irradiate a reflective image display to produce an image that is reflected through the illumination system to provide the displayed content to the user. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218302 | WINDOWS POSITION CONTROL FOR PHONE APPLICATIONS - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for a phone application are provided. More particularly, a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device can be determined after the device is rotated. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface for a call log of a phone application can be retained after receiving a signal indicating the rotation of the device. However, based on the direction of the rotation, the call log detail window may be moved from a first screen to a second screen, the call log detail window is changed to a landscape orientation, and the call log detail window is expanded to cover the first and second screens. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218303 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION HEAD-MOUNT TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - An information processing apparatus includes an operation part and a display part to display an object selection image. The object selection image includes a position designation figure group including N (N is an integer of 3 or more) position designation figures which are arranged in a ring shape and on each of which one object can be arranged. In the object selection image, the display part rotates and moves the position designation figure group, together with the arranged objects, along a circumferential direction of the ring, and causes a specific position designation figure in the position designation figure group to be displayed to enable recognition that the object arranged on the specific position designation figure can be selected by an operation of the operation part. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218304 | Video Manager for Portable Multifunction Device - A video player for a portable multifunction device is disclosed. In some embodiments, a list of video items is displayed in a portrait orientation of a touch screen display of a portable electronic device. Upon user selection of a respective video item in the list, the user selected video item is automatically displayed in a landscape orientation of the touch screen display. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218305 | Systems and Methods for Manipulating User Annotations in Electronic Books - An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY SCENES TO A USER - A method of presenting a scene to a user according to a preferred embodiment includes determining a real orientation of a device relative to a projection matrix and determining a user orientation of the device relative to a nodal point. The method of the preferred embodiment can further include orienting a scene displayable on the device to the user in response to the real orientation and the user orientation; and displaying the scene on the device. The method of the preferred embodiment can be performed by an apparatus and/or embodied in computer program product including machine-readable code. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218307 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH CONTROL SCREEN AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display control method of a touch control screen and an electronic device applying the same are provided. The method is for enlarging a specific zone at the touch control screen and for the user to edit or selection at the enlarged zone. The method includes steps of: determining whether a plurality of first touch points stay at the touch control screen over a predetermined time; enlarging a partial zone image for showing an enlarged zone on the touch control screen; providing a second touch point on the enlarged zone for generating a corresponding position signal; and scaling the position signal, generating a converted signal and inputting the converted signal to a control module. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218308 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display control method of a touch control screen and an electronic device applying the same are provided. According to the method, small user interfaces are magnified, and the user selects a target user interface according to a magnified zone. The method includes steps of: forming a touch boundary according to a position signal of a touch point; determining whether the touch boundary collides with a user interface; executing an image magnifying action according to the touch boundary and displaying the magnified zone on the touch control screen if the touch boundary collides with the user interface at the touch control screen; vanishing the touch point on the touch control screen after moving the touch point to a target user interface to execute a corresponding function of the target user interface via a control application module. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218309 | ALIGNING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for aligning user interface elements arranged in multiple columns in a user interface. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a group of columns in a user interface, where each column in the group includes one or more user interface elements arranged in a sequence from a top of the column to a bottom of the column; comparing heights of first sequences of one or more user interface elements in a first column to heights of second sequences of one or more user interface elements in a second column; and adjusting the heights of the first sequences to align the first sequences with the second sequences by adjusting the heights of user interface elements in the first sequences, where adjustments to each user interface element in the first sequences are each less than a threshold adjustment value. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218310 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays information. The control unit determines a scrolling speed of the information in accordance with a speed of an operation, and changes a display size of the information to be scrolled on the display unit in accordance with the scrolling speed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218311 | PROGRAM EXECUTION SYSTEM, PROGRAM EXECUTION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM AND COMPUTER EXECUTABLE PROGRAM THEREFOR - A program execution system, has a program execution device which has a controller operated by a user and a display on which images such as characters or players in a game are seen. In order to prevent an incorrect movement of a character on the display when a switching from one scene viewed from one camera viewpoint to another scene viewed from another camera viewpoint without additional steps by the user, the program execution system has a computer-readable and executable program stored on a recorded medium providing a character motion direction step by which, if along the motion of a character on the screen a switching is made from one scene to another, the direction of motion of the character in the second scene is maintained in coordination with the character's motion direction on a map in the first scene at least immediately before the switching. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218312 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING DISPLAY REGIONS FOR A DISPLAY ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure describes a system and method for adjusting a display area for a display for an electronic device. The display system comprises: a display having a first region and a second region; a backlight for the display; and a display adjustment module located adjacent to the first region of the display, the display adjustment module having a first transmissivity mode where light from the backlight passes through the module to the first region and a second transmissivity mode where the light from the backlight is at least partially blocked from passing through the display adjustment module. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218313 | BACKLIGHT DIMMING RATIO BASED DYNAMIC KNEE POINT DETERMINATION OF SOFT CLIPPING - A liquid crystal display (LCD) system including a liquid crystal (LC) panel; an LC panel controller to send output code values to the LC panel; a backlight to illuminate the LC panel; a backlight controller; and a display controller to control the backlight controller and the LC panel controller, and receive input code values from an image source is presented wherein the LCD system uses a dynamic knee point determination of soft clipping to provide output code values to the LC panel. A method for using an LCD system as above is also provided. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218314 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO QUICKLY FADE THE LUMINANCE OF AN OLED DISPLAY - Various embodiments include devices, methods, circuits, data structures, and software that allow for rapid variation in the luminance of an OLED display panel. An OLED display driver circuit can include a first input, a second input, and a scaling circuit. The first input is to receive a scaling factor. The second input is to receive an image input signal including a digital representation of a desired output for a pixel. The scaling circuit is to multiply a pixel-level output voltage associated with the desired output for the pixel by the scaling factor. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218315 | DISPLAY BACKLIGHT STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF ENHANCING COLOR SATURATION DEGREE AND BRILLIANCE AND WHITE BALANCE - A display backlight structure capable of enhancing color saturation degree and brilliance and white balance is provided and disposed in a backlight module to provide light source for a liquid crystal display module, comprising: a plurality of light emitting areas adjoined to each other and respectively comprising: a color light source unit having a red light LED, a green light LED and a blue light LED; and a luminance light source unit having a white light LED; and a controller electrically connected to the color light source unit and the luminance light source unit to regulate turning-on/off or gradation of the color light source unit and the luminance light source unit. Accordingly, the structure could have both high saturation degree and high light emitting efficiency to improve the optical performance of the display. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218316 | LCD DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides an LCD device and a driving method thereof. The LCD device includes data lines, a source driver, pixel units, and a switching circuit connected between the source driver and the data lines. The source driver outputs gray level voltages in two adjacent data lines by using a dot inversion method. The switching circuit includes multiple first switches, multiple second switches, and multiple third switches. Before the gray level voltage is output in the data lines, the voltage level applied on the data lines approaches to the magnitude of the upcoming gray level voltage in advance. The power consumption of the LCD device of the present invention is lower. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218317 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel includes generating compensated grayscale data by increasing grayscale data corresponding to an N-th gate line of a plurality of gate lines of the display panel, where N is a natural number, generating a data voltage based on the compensated grayscale data, outputting the data voltage to the display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of data lines, where each of the plurality of data lines is alternately connected to the plurality of pixel electrodes in a first pixel column and the plurality of pixel electrodes in a second pixel column, generating a storage voltage having a first level and a second level, where the second level is lower than the first level, and applying the storage voltage to the display panel. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218318 | LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS, ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a light emitting apparatus including: one or a plurality of light emitting devices each having a plurality of electrodes and each emitting light from the upper surface of the light emitting device; a plurality of terminal electrodes provided on the lower side of the light emitting devices in a positional relation with the light emitting devices and electrically connected to the electrodes of the light emitting devices; a first metal line brought into contact with the upper surfaces of the light emitting devices and one of the terminal electrodes, provided at a location separated away from side surfaces of the light emitting devices and created in a film creation process; and an insulator in which the light emitting devices and the first metal line are embedded. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218319 | GAMMA SWITCHING AMPLIFIER - Electronic devices with displays are configured to provide a gamma correction signal to each source driver chip driving the display. The gamma correction signal is supplied by a gamma application circuit coupled to each source driver chip. The gamma application circuit includes a switching amplifier configured to output a switching waveform and a filter to input the switching waveform and output the gamma correction signal to an input of each source driver chip. The switching amplifier functions as a switching power supply having improved power efficiency compared to conventional gamma application circuits. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218320 | COMPACT FLAT PANEL COLOR CALIBRATION SYSTEM - A compact flat panel color calibration system includes a lens prism optic able to pass a narrow, perpendicular, and uniform cone angle of incoming light to a spectrally non-selective photodetector. The calibration system also includes a microprocessor operable to determine the luminance of the display based upon the information gathered by the photodetector. A software module included in the calibration system is then operable to process the luminance information in order to adjust the flat panel display. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218321 | IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention provides an image display device capable of maintaining appropriate display luminance for human visual properties. The image display device of the present invention includes: a display device main body ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218322 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Data signal lines are provided to pixel arrays such that adjacent first and second pixel arrays (α, β) and including plural pixels are provided with two data signal lines each. Each pixel includes a pixel electrode ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218323 | MITIGATION OF ARTIFACTS IN PWM ILLUMINATION IMAGING - A system and method for reducing pulse width modulation contouring artifacts. Each input intensity value is translated to at least one non-binary bit pattern for display. Many of the input intensity values are translated to at least two alternate non-binary bit patterns. The alternate codes are used to smooth the transition between intensity codes as major bits are turned on. The smoothing occurs by the gradual transition from codes that do not use the major bit to codes that do use the major bit. Typically the alternate codes are selected based on the location of the pixel in a spatial pattern ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120218324 | RAPID IMAGE RENDERING ON DUAL-MODULATOR DISPLAYS - Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218325 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To extend the range of distance (between a display screen and the eye of a viewer) with which the viewer can see 3D images with the naked eye and to reduce power consumption. A parallax barrier in a shutter panel is controlled to be arranged optimally in accordance with the distance between the viewer and a display panel. Specifically, an optimal parallax barrier is formed as appropriate by selectively switching a light-transmitting state and a light-shielding state of a plurality of optical shutter regions and a display element unit of pixels depending on a retention state. The retention state is realized in such a manner that at least one of electrodes between which a liquid crystal layer is sandwiched is connected to a transistor including a semiconductor layer containing an oxide semiconductor and the transistor is turned off. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218326 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging section which performs a liquid discharging operation for discharging liquid; and a controller which forms a plurality of images on a medium and also forms coating of the images, by executing a pass which makes the liquid discharging section perform the liquid discharging operation while moving the liquid discharging section in a movement direction, wherein the controller forms a common image portion that is an image site common to each of the plurality of images by a predetermined number of passes and forms respectively a variable image portion that is an image site which differs in each of the plurality of images and the coating of the images by a number of passes smaller than the predetermined number. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218327 | Method And Apparatus For Melt Cessation To Limit Ink Flow And Ink Stick Deformation - A system controls application of heat with a melt plate to an ink stick in a solid ink imaging device. The system includes a melt plate, a heater configured to heat the melt plate to a temperature sufficient to melt solid ink, a feed channel configured to direct solid ink sticks towards the melt plate to enable a leading edge of a solid ink stick to be melted by the heated melt plate, and a controller configured to separate the heater and the leading edge of the ink stick by a distance that arrest melting of the ink stick. | 2012-08-30 |
20120218328 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: a conveying unit; a liquid droplet jetting head that jets liquid droplets onto a recording medium conveyed by the conveying unit; an uplift amount detection unit that is provided at the recording medium conveying direction upstream side of the liquid droplet jetting head, projects and receives light along the conveying unit, and detects an uplift amount of the recording medium; a control unit that lowers the conveying speed of the conveying unit or separates the liquid droplet jetting head from the conveying unit when the uplift amount detected is a threshold value or greater; a temperature detection unit that detects temperatures; and a correcting unit that corrects the threshold value or the uplift amount based on the temperature difference between a temperature detected at the periphery of the uplift amount detection unit and a temperature detected at the periphery of the liquid droplet jetting heads. | 2012-08-30 |