37th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110221708 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SENSOR ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONICS DEVICE - A display device according to the present invention includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix, and an optical sensor circuit configured by a photodiode ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110221709 | Electrically Conductive Accessory System for Non-Electrically Conductive Glove - This invention is directed to an accessory system including an outer touch component and inner locking component that transmits user inputs an electronic device through a conductive material. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221710 | STYLUS - An exemplary stylus includes a barrel, two slide mechanisms, two housings and a head. The two housings are slidably coupled to the barrel by the two slide mechanisms. The head is attached to an outer end of one of the housings, and configured to contact a touch screen of an electronic device. The two housings cooperatively surround the barrel when the stylus is in a retracted position, and are slidable along two opposite directions to elongate the stylus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221711 | STYLUS HOLDING MECHANISM AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME - A stylus holding mechanism includes a housing, a positioning mechanism and a stylus. The housing defines a receiving space. The positioning mechanism includes a block and a spring. The block forms a projection, and the spring provides elastic force on the block. The stylus is received in the receiving space. The stylus defines a groove, and the projection is received in the groove for releasably locking the stylus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221712 | TELESCOPING STYLUS FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A telescoping stylus includes a housing, a nib portion, a stopper member, a first sleeve, a shank member and a second sleeve. The nib portion is attached to one end of the housing. The stopper member is attached to another end of the housing. The shank member is slidably received in the first sleeve. The second sleeve receives the first sleeve and the shank member, and the shank member is fixed to the second sleeve. The second sleeve is releasably positioned in the housing, and abuts the stopper member. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221713 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a pixel array unit in which plural pixels are arranged, each including an electro-optic device, a write transistor writing a video signal, a storage capacitor storing the video signal written by the write transistor and a drive transistor driving the electro-optic device based on the video signal stored in the storage capacitor, which have a function of correcting mobility of the drive transistors; and a scanning circuit giving a write scanning signal to gate electrodes of the write transistors while sequentially scanning respective pixels in the pixel array row by row as well as generating the write scanning signal based on respective timings of rising and falling of one pulse-state power source potential. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221714 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an image display device including: a laser element that generates light for projecting and displaying an image on a display screen; a Peltier device unit that cools the laser element; a detecting unit that detects a temperature of the laser element; and a control unit that controls driving of the Peltier device unit so that a temperature detected by the detecting unit becomes a target temperature, wherein the control unit controls driving of the laser element to reduce a light output of the laser element when a driving rate of the Peltier device unit exceeds a threshold that indicates that the driving rate approaches a maximum value. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221715 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THEREOF - A flat panel display device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the flat panel display device has parallel gate and data lines in a display area. In some embodiments, all sub-pixels of each pixel are connected to the same data line and are connected to the same gate line. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221716 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus including a first optical modulation device and a second optical modulation device configured to emit formed image lights, wherein in a first period in which the first optical modulation device is caused to form a first image light, and the second optical modulation device is caused to form a second image light, the first image light being caused to switch to a first polarized light, and the second image light is caused to switch to a second polarized light, while in a second period in which the first optical modulation device is caused to form the second image light, and the second optical modulation device is caused to form the first image light, the second image light being caused to switch to the second polarized light, and the first image light is caused to switch to the first polarized light. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221717 | OVER-DRIVE CONTROLLER APPLIED TO A DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD FOR OVER-DRIVE CONTROL THEREIN - An over-drive controller applied to a display panel and a method for over-drive control are provided. The over-drive controller includes an analyzing unit and an over-drive delta value determining unit. The analyzing unit is arranged for analyzing information of a current pixel in order to generate an over-drive information. The over-drive delta value determining unit is coupled to the analyzing unit, and is arranged for determining an over-drive delta value according to the over-drive information. Herein the over-drive information includes a position information or a field information of the current pixel. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221718 | View Projection for Dynamic Configurations - A method and system for compensating for a moving object placed between a projector and a projection scene is shown. The method/system dividing a movement pattern of the moving object into N discrete position states, and for each of said N position states determining a corresponding view projection matrix. While projecting an image within any of the N position states, multiplying a desired projection image by the corresponding view projection matrix. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221719 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a pixel unit having pixels, each of the pixels positioned at a corresponding intersection of gate lines and data lines. A drive circuit unit is positioned at one side of the pixel unit to supply driving signals to the gate lines and the data lines. Test pads are connected to the data lines. In the LCD, each of the data lines is electrically connected between the pixel unit and the drive circuit unit via one or more lines among a first line formed in a first layer and a second line formed in a second layer, and wherein each of the data lines is connected to a different test pad from the test pad connected to adjacent data lines in each of the first and second layers. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221720 | AMOLED DISPLAY WITH OPTICAL FEEDBACK COMPENSATION - In one aspect, the present invention relates to a display. In one embodiment, the display has a substrate, and a plurality of pixels formed on the substrate and arranged in an array. Each pixel includes a driving transistor and a read-out transistor spatially formed on the substrate, where each transistor has a gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode layer, a anode layer and an emissive layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and formed over the driving transistor and the read-out transistor such that the anode layer of the OLED is electrically connected to the source electrode of the driving transistor, and a photo sensor having a photosensitive layer formed between the anode layer of the OLED and the source electrode of the read-out transistor. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221721 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel is provided. A plurality of first shift registers of the display panel output a plurality of first scanning signals in sequence. A plurality of second shift registers of the display panel output a plurality of second scanning signals in sequence. The j | 2011-09-15 |
20110221722 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - Provided is a display device equipped with a display panel having an optical sensor built in a pixel. The display device is equipped with the display panel having a photo sensor element ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110221723 | DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device has a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and a backlight provided to face a substrate over which the pixel array is formed, and display element portions photosensor portions are formed in the pixels. In the display device, in one frame period for displaying a black image which is interposed between two successive periods forming an image or a backlighting shutoff period in one frame period in which the display element portion holds an image, an accumulation operation of the photosensor portion is performed, the pixels are successively selected for each row, and a signal corresponding to the potential of a signal charge accumulation portion of the photosensor portion is output. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221724 | METHOD FOR DRIVING INPUT CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - To reduce power consumption. Included are a selection signal output circuit, a reset signal output circuit, and a plurality of photodetector circuits. After the selection signal output circuit outputs part of the selection signals, output of the other selection signals from the selection signal output circuit is stopped. After the reset signal output circuit outputs part of the reset signals, output of the other reset signals from the reset signal output circuit is stopped. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221725 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SENSOR ARRAY, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONICS DEVICE - A display device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix; photoelectric elements being provided in each of the pixels and each outputting a signal with a value according to the quantity of light received by the photoelectric element, the photoelectric elements forming photoelectric element groups (PDs(n)) in each of which the photoelectric elements arranged along a one-dimensional direction are grouped; and resetting wirings (Vrts(n+1)), each of which is connected to the anode side electrodes of the photoelectric elements in the corresponding one (PDs(n)) of the photoelectric element groups commonly, and is shared by an adjacent one (PDs(n+1)) of the photoelectric element groups. This configuration makes it possible to provide such a display device having a pixel including an optical sensor incorporated therein, that is not affected by the resolution and the performance of an output AMP and is capable of preventing a decrease in the aperture ratio of the pixel. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221726 | Driving Method And System For Electrofluidic Chromatophore Pixel Display - An electronic display is disclosed comprising a plurality of electrofluidic chromatophore (EFC) pixel cells. The display comprises a controller executing the steps of: storing the present cell display properties of the pixel cells displaying the present image content, comparing the present cell display properties with next cell display properties of the pixel cells, determining still-image pixels displaying still-image content wherein the present cell display properties of the pixels are substantially identical to the next cell display properties of the pixels, and providing a still-image drive scheme. The still-image drive scheme involves addressing a voltage to another one pixel cell terminal of the still-image pixels, the still image voltage being derived from the stable supply voltage that stabilizes the cell display properties of the still-image pixels so as to display still-image content in an energy efficient manner. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221727 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A display panel includes first and second data lines and a first pixel column containing pixels that are alternately connected to the first and second data lines. In a method of driving the display panel, a second data voltage having a first polarity is outputted to the second data line during an N-th horizontal period. A first data voltage having a second polarity phase-inverted with respect to the first polarity and a first compensating voltage having the second polarity are respectively outputted to the first data line during first and second intervals of the N-th horizontal period. The first data voltage having the second polarity is outputted to the first data line during an (N+1)-th horizontal period. The second data voltage having the first polarity and a second compensating voltage having the first polarity are respectively outputted to the second data line during first and second intervals of the (N+1)-th horizontal period. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221728 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Having a low-cost transparent electrode, the plasma display panel suppresses variations in discharge characteristics between discharge cells and provides high quality image. To attain above, a scan bus electrode is formed so as to constitute an outer periphery in the lengthwise direction of a scan electrode and have a clearance inside, similarly, a sustain bus electrode is formed so as to constitute an outer periphery in the lengthwise direction of a sustain electrode and have a clearance inside. Besides, a scan transparent electrode is formed in the clearance of the scan bus electrode with use of a dispersion liquid containing particles of metal or particles of metal oxide, similarly, a sustain transparent electrode is formed in the clearance of the sustain bus electrode with use of a dispersion liquid containing particles of metal or particles of metal oxide. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221729 | DOUBLE-GATE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND RELATED DRIVING METHOD - A method for driving a liquid crystal display device provides sufficient charge time for a pixel unit by adjusting a main-charge time and a precharge time of the pixel unit according to the polarities of data driving signals applied during a main-charge period and a precharge period. Meanwhile, the method controls a write period during which a data driving signal is written into a pixel unit, so that each pixel unit can be equally charged. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221730 | METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND CONTROLLER - A method of driving an electro-optical device including a plurality of pixels, one of which having a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optical material layer, includes: when an image is rewritten, selecting a first display state of the one pixel by applying a first voltage to the first electrode and applying a second voltage to the second electrode, or selecting a second display state of the one pixel by applying a third voltage to the second electrode; and when a part of the image is rewritten, selecting any of the first display state and the second display state of the one pixel by applying a fourth voltage which is different from the first voltage to the first electrode and applying a fifth voltage which has a different polarity from that of the fourth voltage with respect to the first voltage to the second electrode. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221731 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING INCREASED APERTURE RATIO - A display device having active level shift (ALS) lines and ALS drivers connected to the ALS lines removed from the display device, and a gate line at a rear end pixel area is used instead of the ALS line to obtain the effect of the ALS lines. Accordingly, a pixel aperture ratio may be increased and a width of an outer black matrix may be reduced. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221732 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, CONTROL CIRCUIT OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electro-optical device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of arranged pixels and a control unit that drives the display unit. When a part or the entirety of the display unit is displayed in a single gradation, the control unit performs a first elimination operation of selectively driving a first pixel group including the pixels displayed in gradations other than a first gradation to change the pixels included in the first pixel group to the first gradation, and a second elimination operation of selectively driving a second pixel group including the pixels positioned on the outline of an area formed of the first pixel group and the plurality of pixels provided adjacent to the area formed of the first pixel group and surrounding the area to change the pixels included in the second pixel group to the first gradation. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221733 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electro-optic device includes pixel electrodes; a data line block for providing an image signal to a first pixel electrode group and a second pixel electrode group in one column of pixel electrodes arrayed in a line in a first direction, the data line block being configured by data line pairs in which a pair of a first data line and a second data line extending in the first direction is arranged for each column; an image signal supplying unit for sequentially providing an image signal in time-series to each of the data line pairs configuring the data line block from one end of each of the data line pairs; and an inspection voltage supplying unit for supplying an inspection voltage from another end of each of the data line pairs each to the data line block and separately to each of the first data line and the second data line. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221734 | DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a display device in which rewriting of only a given section of an image can be achieved or to simplify the configuration of a circuit including wirings in a display device in which partial driving can be performed. A shift of a selection signal in a shift register included in a scan line driver circuit and supply of a selection signal to scan lines are controlled independently of each other, so that rewriting of only a given section of an image can be achieved. The above operation is realized by providing a wiring that supplies a signal representing a clock signal or a fixed potential. Therefore, the configuration of the circuit including the wiring can be simplified in the display device including the wiring while partial driving can be performed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221735 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC CALCULATING APPARATUS - Provided are a control panel or a display as well as an image processing apparatus and an electronic calculating apparatus using the electronic device or the display, the electronic device and the display each using a light transmissive solar cell for electric power generation so as to allow a solar cell part and a display part to be disposed to overlap an input part so that a larger electric power than the conventional cases can be generated without increasing the size of the whole operation panel and the whole display. An electronic device of the present invention includes: a display part capable of electrically and magnetically changing a display region and displaying of a display content displayed in the display region; a solar cell part that transmits light in a visible light region; and an input part that detects whether or not any part of the display region is manipulated, and that transmits light in a visible light region. The solar cell part and the input part are disposed on a display surface side of the display part in such a manner to form layers. An electric power generated by the solar cell part allows the electronic device to change what is displayed in the display part and detect a manipulation of the input part. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221736 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A gate driving circuit for driving a display apparatus is disclosed. The gate driving circuit properly generates gate voltages despite inconsistent transistor characteristics due to processing and environment by maintaining certain nodes in reliably high impedance states. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221737 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes an array of pixels. Each pixel is divided into a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, and different data voltages are separately applied to (or evolved at) the two sub-pixels, thereby enhancing the lateral side visibility. Each sub-pixel includes a sub-pixel electrode (connected to the drain electrode of a sub-pixel's switching element) overlapped with the sub-pixel's storage electrode. A first predetermined voltage is applied to the first sub-pixel and second predetermined voltage is applied the second sub-pixel, and thus the first sub-pixel electrode may receive a voltage lower than the voltage of the second sub-pixel electrode. The first sub-pixel electrode may be larger in area than the second sub-pixel electrode. The overlapping area between the first drain electrode and the storage electrode of a first sub-pixel may be larger than the overlapping area between the drain electrode and the storage electrode of a second sub-pixel. Thus the kickback voltage of the first sub-pixel may be substantially the same as the kickback voltage of the second sub-pixel. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221738 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONICS DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a two-dimensional sensor array in which optical sensor circuits are two-dimensionally positioned. The respective optical sensor circuits are provided with a photodiode ( | 2011-09-15 |
20110221739 | PIXEL CLOCK GENERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A pixel clock generating device includes a time interval detection unit detecting a time interval between a first signal and a second signal in each of cyclically repeating N (≧2) time periods; a comparing unit cyclically selecting a target value from N target values corresponding to the N time periods and outputting an error indicating a difference between the detected time interval and the selected target value for each of the N time periods; a frequency calculation unit correcting a frequency of the pixel clock signal based on the error and cyclically generating a frequency specification signal indicating the corrected frequency for each of the N time periods; a high-frequency clock generating unit generating a high-frequency clock signal; and a pixel clock generating unit generating a pixel clock signal based on the frequency specification signal and the high-frequency clock signal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221740 | DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY - A driving method of an electrophoretic display having at least a display particle is provided. The driving method includes the following steps. A first voltage difference is applied to a data line in a first period, in which the data line corresponds to one of the display particles. At least a particle restore period is inserted in the first period, and a second voltage difference is applied to the data line in the particle restore periods, in which the second voltage difference is different from the first voltage difference. With this method disclosed here, the maxima brightness, maxima darkness, contrast ratio, color saturation, bistability, and image updating time can be largely improved. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221741 | COLOR CONVERSION FILTER PANEL FOR COLOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY AND COLOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY - Separating partition walls, demarcating regions forming adjacently color conversion layers having different chromaticities that are stacked and arranged by an inkjet method, have at least one incision in tip faces of both length-direction end portions extended outside the screen region. A color conversion filter panel can be provided having separating partition wall structures which, when forming color conversion layers using an inkjet method, can prevent color mixing of inks between adjacent color conversion layers at length-direction end portions of the separating partition walls. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221742 | Scalable High Performance 3D Graphics - A high-speed ring topology. In one embodiment, two base chip types are required: a “drawing” chip, LoopDraw, and an “interface” chip, LoopInterface. Each of these chips have a set of pins that supports an identical high speed point to point unidirectional input and output ring interconnect interface: the LoopLink. The LoopDraw chip uses additional pins to connect to several standard memories that form a high bandwidth local memory sub-system. The LoopInterface chip uses additional pins to support a high speed host computer host interface, at least one video output interface, and possibly also additional non-local interconnects to other LoopInterface chip(s). | 2011-09-15 |
20110221743 | Method And System For Controlling A 3D Processor Using A Control List In Memory - A graphics processing device generates control lists for controlling processing of 3D graphics. Control lists comprise primitive data for the 3D graphics, pointers to primitive data and control data. Tags that correspond to records within the control lists may be utilized for the control of processing. The graphics processing device may comprise a 3D pipeline comprising parallel processors. Processing is performed on a tile by tile basis and comprises a tile binning phase and/or a tile rendering phase. The two phases of processing may be performed in parallel on different sets of data. Control lists comprise a main list and/or sub-lists, for example, tile lists. Control lists may comprise links to other lists. Processing control may advance through the control lists without interaction from a driver and/or from a processor that is external to the graphics processing device. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221744 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A stereoscopic image display device for realizing a three-dimensional image includes; an image display device including an image display area having a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels being composed of two sub-pixels selected from a group of a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel, and a retarder disposed on the image display device and configured to convert a linearly polarized image from the image display device into left-handed circularly polarized light and right-handed circularly polarized light. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221745 | INCORPORATING MEDIA CONTENT INTO A 3D SOCIAL PLATFORM - A 3D social media platform is provided that allows users to share and experience a realistic social viewing experience with members of their social network. More specifically, a user shares a virtual 3D social venue with one or more members within their social network (e.g., Facebook friends) for the purpose of experiencing the content (e.g., movie, television, video game) as if each of the members were physically together in the venue. The user selects 2D media content, such as a web page, from an external and independent source (such as a web browser) to instantiate onto a virtual screen, window, or other viewing surface inside the virtual 3D social venue. The instantiated media content is displayed to the user and any invited friends within the context of the virtual three-dimensional space. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221746 | 3D EYEGLASSES, METHOD FOR DRIVING 3D EYEGLASSES AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING 3D IMAGE - Three-dimensional (3D) eyeglasses, method for driving 3D glasses, and a 3D image providing system are provided. 3D glasses which interwork with the 3D display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a power unit which supplies power to the 3D eyeglasses; a sensing unit which detects whether or not a user is wearing the 3D eyeglasses; and a controlling unit which controls the power unit to supply power when the sensing unit detects that the user is wearing the 3D eyeglasses. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221747 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display device and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating the image display device including a plurality of backlight lamp includes receiving a 3-Dimensional (3D) image, alternately aligning the left-eye image and the right-eye image of the 3D image, and displaying any one of the aligned left- and right-eye images if a display switching signal for switching the 3D image to a 2-Dimensional (2D) image is input. In the displaying step, the backlight lamps are turned on in synchronization with any one of the aligned left- and right-eye images. Accordingly, it is possible to easily view the 3D image as the 2D image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221748 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF VIEWING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method of generating an e-book document comprises representing some or all of a page of an electronic document as a graphic textures sequence derived from the document page. The sequence comprises successively smaller graphic textures, arranging them to form a first mip-map suitable for use by 3D graphics hardware, and outputting an e-book document comprising the first mip-map representing some or all of the document page. A method of reading an e-book document includes accessing at least a portion of the mip-map comprising the sequence of graphic textures, constructing a surface in a 3D virtual space comprising one or more polygons, applying to the polygon surface a graphic texture derived from the accessed part of the mip-map responsive to scaling of the polygon surface with respect to an e-book reader display, and displaying the textured polygon surface on the display, thereby displaying some or all of the page. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221749 | Photolithographed Micro-Mirror Well For 3D Tomogram Imaging of Individual Cells - A micro-mirror well. In one embodiment the micro-mirror well includes a plurality of planar mirrors arranged around an axis of symmetry and inclined to form a pyramid well, where each of the plurality of planar mirrors is capable of reflecting light emitting from an object of interest placed inside the pyramid well. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221750 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD - Movement of a display device is detected, and an image is displayed in stereoscopic display or planar display depending on the detected movement. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221751 | SPACE DEBRIS VISUALIZATION - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods visualizing space debris events. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for visualizing positional probability of objects in space. The method includes receiving initial conditions of the objects, determining projected positions of the objects based, at least in part, on the initial conditions, determining a plurality of 2-dimensional (2D) boundaries around the projected positions; and assembling the plurality of 2D boundaries into a 3-dimensional (3D) representation of the positional probability of objects in space. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221752 | HARDWARE ACCELERATED SIMULATION OF ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING - A method and system may include a hardware texture unit having logic to receive parameters of a view ray for a pixel of a graphical scene, and determine an illumination of the view ray. The illumination, which could indicate an in-scatter illumination percentage for the view ray, may be passed to a software module such as a pixel shader for rendering of the pixel. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221753 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display apparatus includes: an image expanding unit which forms an expanded image of an input image; a super-resolution processing unit which performs super-resolution processing for the expanded image formed by the image expanding unit to produce a sharpened image; a display image forming unit which performs image deformation processing including change of the number of pixels on an image area as a display target within the sharpened image to produce a display image; a display unit which displays the display image produced by the display image forming unit; an input unit which receives input of a setting associated with image processing; and a control unit, wherein the control unit changes the degree of the image deformation processing according to the setting, and changes the degree of the sharpness of the super-resolution processing according to the degree of the image deformation processing. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221754 | Method and System for Graph Based Interactive Detection of Curve Structures in 2D Fluoroscopy - A method and system for detecting a curve structure in a 2D fluoroscopic image is disclosed. A plurality of curve segments are detected in the image. A graph is generated based on the detected curve segments. A curve structure is detected in the image by determining a path between a source node and a destination node in the graph. A hyper-graph can be constructed from the graph in order to impose geometric constraints on segments of the detected the curve structure, and the curve structure can be detected by finding a shortest path in the hyper-graph. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221755 | BIONIC MOTION - A camera that can sense motion of a user is connected to a computing system (e.g., video game apparatus or other type of computer). The computing system determines an action corresponding to the sensed motion of the user and determines a magnitude of the sensed motion of the user. The computing system creates and displays an animation of an object (e.g., an avatar in a video game) performing the action in a manner that is amplified in comparison to the sensed motion by a factor that is proportional to the determined magnitude. The computing system also creates and outputs audio/visual feedback in proportion to a magnitude of the sensed motion of the user. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221756 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device capable of effectively displaying the details of a plurality of different branches included in a structure that is divided into a plurality of branches. An image processing device | 2011-09-15 |
20110221757 | Graphics Display Systems and Methods - A graphics display system is provided with a graphics processing module and a display module. The graphics processing module detects whether first frame data is equal to second frame data subsequent to the first frame data, and in response to the first frame data being equal to the second frame data, stops outputting any frame data after outputting the second frame data and a mode switching command. The display module displays graphic images according to the first frame data, and stores the second frame data as temporary data and continuingly displays the graphic images according to the temporary data in response to the mode switching command. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221758 | Apparatus and Method for Manipulating Images through a Computer - An apparatus and method for a subject to provide input to a computer in order to generate and manipulate displayed images. The subject physically interacts with at least one input modality within an input console that is coupled to the computer. The input console converts the provided physical input into a corresponding electronic signal which is received by a graphic graphics module stored within the computer. The graphics module associates the incoming electronic signal with an image to be displayed or to an action or visual effect to be applied to a pre-existing image. The visual effect changes the image and creates a unique second image based on the input provided by the subject. A user may manipulate the image further and then save, print, or transfer the second image to another computer or device for a variety of applications. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221759 | IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH COMPUTER PROGRAM IS RECORDED - The present invention realizes highly realistic texture mapping even if the object, to which a texture is going to be attached, has been deformed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221760 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - In at least one embodiment, a display device includes: a correction section for carrying out gray scale correction on gray scale data to be supplied to a display driver, by use of a correction amount corresponding to a position of each column to which the data signal is to be supplied, the each column being on a display panel, the correction section carrying out the gray scale correction by setting the correction amount to zero for at least (i) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest positive-polarity data signal potential and (ii) gray scale data corresponding to a lowest negative-polarity data signal potential of first gray scale data to be supplied to at least one column constituting a part of all columns, the gray scale data (i) and (ii) being among the gray scale data inputted into the correction section. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221761 | DATA CONVERSION APPARATUS AND DATA CONVERSION METHOD - A data conversion apparatus for converting converted data that belongs to an m-axis data space, includes: a data storage unit that stores correction data at respective lattice points of an m-dimensional lookup table; and a data conversion unit that reads the correction data at the lattice points positioned around the converted data from the first to N-th memories with reference to the m-dimensional lookup table, and converts the converted data, wherein the data storage unit assumes a virtual m-dimensional lookup table, which has an axis in which one virtual lattice point is included on the side of an end portion of the axis, and the data storage unit stores the data at the respective virtual lattice points and the correction data at the lattice points except for the virtual lattice points in the virtual m-dimensional lookup table in the first to N-th memories. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221762 | CONTENT-ADAPTIVE OVERDRIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISPLAY PANEL - A content-adaptive overdrive system and method, for a display panel, include a frame difference device and an overdrive device. The frame difference device generates a frame difference map according to a current frame and a previous frame. The frame difference map includes a number of flags respectively indicating similarity between corresponding pixels or blocks of the current frame and the previous frame. The overdrive device adaptively performs an overdrive function based on the frame difference map, the current frame, the previous frame and an overdrive lookup table, hence resulting in an overdrived frame. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221763 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM, DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE ALTERATION METHOD - A display device includes: a display-side communication section adapted to receive image configuration alteration request information related to a configuration of a first image and image information of at least one second image constituting the first image from at least one terminal device; a display-side image generation section adapted to generate the first image based on the image configuration alteration request information and the image information; and a display-side display section adapted to display the first image. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221764 | LAYING OUT AND CROPPING IMAGES IN PRE-DEFINED LAYOUTS - A layout definition file is created that stores data defining image layouts. An application program provides a user interface for laying out images and associated text using the contents of a layout definition file. The user interface includes a canvas onto which a user may place one or more images and a layout gallery through which a user may select a pre-defined layout. The layout gallery includes selectable visual representations corresponding to the pre-defined layouts. When one of the visual representations is selected, the corresponding pre-defined layout is applied to images on the canvas. Alternatively, one of the visual representations may be selected to cause placeholders for images and text in the corresponding pre-defined layout to be placed on the canvas. Images and text can be added to the layout by using the placeholders. Mechanisms are also provided for cropping images for use in a pre-defined layout. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221765 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A COMPLEMENTARY USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY SURFACE - An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display content controller interacts with the computer utility operating system and hardware drivers to control allocation of display space and create and control one or more parallel graphical user interfaces in addition to the operating system desktop. An alternate display content controller may be incorporated in either hardware or software. As software, an alternate display content controller may be an application running on the computer operating system, or may include an operating system kernel of varying complexity ranging from dependent on the utility operating system for hardware system services to a parallel system independent of the utility operating system and capable of supporting dedicated applications. The alternate display content controller may also include content and operating software delivered over the Internet or any other LAN. The alternate display content controller may also be included in a television decoder/settop box to permit two or more parallel graphical user interfaces to be displayed simultaneously. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221766 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A CAPTURED SCREEN OF WEB PAGES - Provided is a method for printing a captured screen of a web page. If the total size of a web page displayed on a web browser screen is greater than the monitor resolution of a web user, the method automatically scrolls the web browser screen in the horizontal/vertical direction to capture the total region of the web page into a plurality of segments and combines the captured web page screen segments to print or store the same as one web page screen. The method can overcome a problem that the quality of a printed material degrades when a captured screen of a web page displayed on a web browser screen is converted in a bitmap format prior to printing, a problem that a web page viewed by a web user through a web browser screen is not identically printed due to the restricted maximum size of a bitmap if the web page is long, and a problem that the web page contents exceeding the monitor screen of a web user are not printed if the total size of a web page is greater than the monitor resolution of the web user when a captured screen is converted into an Enhanced Meta File (EMF) prior to printing in order to improve the quality of a printed material. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221767 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGING OPTICS WITH 360 -SEAMLESS TELESCOPIC RESOLUTION - A multifacet mirror comprises a catoptric structure configured to reflect light from a first field of view onto an image plane comprising a plurality of sensors, the catoptric structure having a surface comprising a plurality of facets separated by a plurality of catoptric regions; wherein a facet of the plurality of the facets has a second field of view that is smaller than the predetermined field of view; and wherein a catoptric region of the plurality or catoptric regions between two facets of the plurality of facets is configured to reflect light from a world point within the first field of view onto two of the sensors of the plurality of sensors. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221768 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a detecting unit detecting one of an entire person and a part of a person in an image produced by image data acquired by image pickup by an imaging unit; a position/size calculating unit calculating a size and a position of the detected one of the entire person and the part of the person in the image; and a GUI disposing unit disposing graphical user interface (GUI) elements, which are to be displayed by being superimposed on the image produced by the image data, on the image based on the calculated size and position. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221769 | ROBUST OBJECT RECOGNITION BY DYNAMIC MODELING IN AUGMENTED REALITY - Technologies are generally described for providing a robust object recognition scheme based on dynamic modeling. Correlations in fine scale temporal structure of cellular regions may be employed to group the regions together into higher-order entities. The entities represent a rich structure and may be used to code high level objects. Object recognition may be formatted as elastic graph matching. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221770 | SELECTIVE MOTOR CONTROL CLASSIFICATION - Techniques for detecting and classifying motion of a human subject are generally described. More particularly, techniques are described for detecting and classifying motion as either a broad selection or a precise selection to facilitate interaction with augmented reality (AR) systems. An example may include detecting a motion of human and repeatedly analyzing a step response associated with the motion to determine one or more of a peak time t | 2011-09-15 |
20110221771 | Merging of Grouped Markers in An Augmented Reality-Enabled Distribution Network - The present invention relates to systems and methods for merging smart markers in augmented reality. The system includes a server supporting the presentation of information within augmented reality of a plurality of participants. A communication network facilitates the transfer of information from the server to devices of the plurality of participants. A first participant in the plurality of participants is associated with a view of augmented reality and a plurality of smart markers, with each smart marker having an attribute. A merged group of smart markers includes smart markers from within the plurality of smart markers with said attribute being a first common attribute, wherein smart markers in the merged group are displayable within the augmented reality of the first participant. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221772 | System And Methods For Generating Virtual Clothing Experiences - A system for generating a virtual clothing experience has a display for mounting with a wall, one or more digital cameras for capturing first images of the person standing in front of the display, an image processing module for synthesizing the first images and for generating a display image on the display that substantially appears, to the person, like a reflection of the person in a mirror positioned at the display. The cameras capture second images of a garment with the person; the module synthesizes the second images with the first images to generate the image that substantially appears, to the person, that the reflection wears the garment. A home version of the system may be formed with a home computer and a database storing garment images in cooperation with a manufacturer. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221773 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SHARING DRAWING DATA - A drawing image sharing apparatus combines a drawing image of a remotely located site and a background image to be displayed onto a drawing object for display onto the drawing object, generates a differential image based on the difference between a captured image of the drawing object and the combined image, and transmits the differential image to the remotely located site. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221774 | System And Method For Reorienting A Display Of Clusters - A system and method for reorienting a display of clusters is provided. Clusters are maintained within a display. Each cluster includes a center located at a distance relative to a common origin for the display. A location of each cluster is compared to each other cluster. Two or more clusters that overlap are identified. At least one of the overlapping clusters is reoriented until no overlap occurs. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221775 | METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING DISPLAYING IMAGES - A method and an electronic device are used for transforming a first image to a second image on a display of an electronic device. The first image and the second image have same resolution rate. The method includes the following steps. A phase value is acquired from a storage device of the electronic device. A shift proportion value is calculated according to the phase value. The shift proportion value equals to 100 percent divided by the phase value. The first image and the second image are decoded. A series of transition images is generated based on the first image and the second image. The series of transition images includes a first transition image and a second transition image. A plurality of first still pixel values of the first transition images are equal to a plurality of second still pixel values of the second transition images. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221776 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - A display input device is comprised of a touch panel | 2011-09-15 |
20110221777 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MOTION SENSING FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING FUNCTIONS BASED ON MOVEMENT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a display unit, a volume control unit, a motion sensor, and a processing unit. The motion sensor is configured to sense the movements of the electronic device rotated around predetermined axes. The processing unit is configured to rotate a currently displayed image a predetermined degree toward a predetermined direction, control the display unit to flip pages, and control the volume adjusting unit to adjust the volume of an opened audio file if the rotation angle of the electronic device rotated around the predetermined axes reaches predetermined angles correspondingly. A related method is also provided. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221778 | METHOD FOR LOSSLESS DIGITAL SHEARING AND ROTATION WITH FINE ANGULAR INCREMENTS - The present invention discloses methods for lossless shearing and/or rotation of two-dimensional (2D) data, including digital images, with minute discrete angular increments, carried out only by permutations in the Fourier frequency domain, by exploiting the natural shear occurring as a result of computing a single one-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of 2D arrays. Rotations in general, especially for oblong arrays, occur on elliptical paths. Circular rotation, by an angle of arctan(1/width), is achieved on square arrays. When each dimension is multiple of a smaller N, the rotation/shear angle can be increased to arctan(2N/width). Rotation steps can be repeated in long, animation-like series, with neither loss nor degradation of the Fourier content; so much so that tracing the steps back does restore the original data with remarkable precision. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221779 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RECEIVER - A transmitter that outputs an image signal for displaying a first image and outputs an image signal of a synthesized image made of the reversal image of the first image and a second image. A display apparatus, based on the image signals output from the transmitter, displays the first image and the synthesized image with circular polarizations having different senses of rotation from each other. A receiver includes a circular polarization selecting and transmitting means that separates the first image and the synthesized image displayed on the display apparatus, based on the sense of rotation of the circular polarization, and selectively allows the images to pass therethrough, so as to be able to photograph the first image displayed on the display apparatus. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221780 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Compressed image data of different resolutions stored in a hard disk drive is divided into blocks of substantially regular sizes. A determination is made as to whether a required block is stored in the main memory at predefined time intervals. If the block is not stored, the block is loaded into the main memory. Subsequently, the loaded compressed image data is referred to so that data for an image of an area required for display or for an image of an area predicted to be required is decoded and stored in a buffer memory. Of the images stored in a buffer area, i.e. a display buffer, the image of a display area is rendered in a frame memory. The display buffer and the decoding buffer are switched depending on the timing of completion of decoding or the amount of change in the display area. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221781 | PROJECTION DEVICE, PROJECTION DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROJECTION DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A projection device for projecting an image includes: a distance detector that detects the distance between the projection device and a measurement object onto which the image is to be projected; and an image projector that projects a scale image in actual size onto the measurement object based on the distance detected by the distance detector. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221782 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - An electronic document processing apparatus includes: a storage unit that holds region information indicating a region of an electronic document, storage destination information indicating a storage destination of the electronic document, and form information on a form electronic document as a form of an electronic document of the storage destination, linked with each other; a display unit that displays the electronic document and the form electronic document; and an input/output controller that, when the storage destination is designated, controls the display unit so as to enlarge-display a region corresponding to region information linked with the storage destination and stored in the storage unit, in comparison with other regions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221783 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image display apparatus includes: a primary image processing device that performs image processing for an input image represented by input image information; a secondary image processing device that performs image processing for the input image processed by the primary image processing device; a light modulator that modulates an illumination light based on the input image information representing the input image processed by the secondary image processing device; and a projection optical system that projects the modulated light onto a screen as an image, wherein the secondary image processing device performs position adjustment processing, and outputs position information representing the display position of the input image to the primary image processing device after the position adjustment processing on the input image is completed, and the primary image processing device reflects the position information outputted from the secondary image processing device to perform position adjustment on the input image information. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221784 | TEST DEVICE FOR DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF TESTING THE SAME - A test device for a display panel and a method of testing the same are provided. The test device for a display panel includes a luminance measurement unit that measures a luminance value of a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a controller that determines a voltage value of a data signal corresponding to a target luminance value, receives a measured luminance value of a pixel to which the data signal is supplied from the luminance measurement unit from among the plurality of pixels, compares the measured luminance value and the target luminance value, and outputs a control signal that changes a first power source voltage value supplied from a power source voltage supply unit to the pixel until the measured luminance value does not coincide with the target luminance value. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221785 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes light sources, light guide plates, and a bottom cover. The light sources emit light in a first direction. The light guide plates have first sides spaced a predetermined distance in the first direction from each other and facing each other. The light guide plates at least partially overlap each other. The light emitted from the light source is incident in the first direction to the first side and emitted in a second direction crossing the first direction. The bottom cover receives the light source and the light guide plate and includes a side border facing a second side of the light guide plate spaced apart from the first side of the light guide plate by an extension length of the light guide plate in the first direction. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221786 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - A liquid crystal display device of at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a TN-mode liquid crystal display panel which is constituted by pixels of three colors (red, green, and blue) and a color filter. A thickness of a liquid crystal layer (cell thickness) is determined on a basis of a retardation value of green light or red light, which has a larger wavelength than blue having shortest wavelength among the three colors. A display data switching circuit carries out gradation conversion of shifting input gradation values to lower gradation values with respect to image data supplied to pixels of blue. Thus, grayscale inversion is prevented. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention produces an effect of improving transmittance of pixels of colors having wavelengths other than the wavelength of blue. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221787 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of driving a display panel, the display panel comprising a plurality of color pixels, each of the color pixels comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the method including; generating a plurality of color sub-data from color data using a spatial division grayscale algorithm and converting the color sub-data into a data voltages to be provided to the color pixels | 2011-09-15 |
20110221788 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND PICTURE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source section including light emission subsections; a liquid crystal display panel modulating, based on an input picture signal, light emitted from each light emission subsection to display pictures through switching of picture streams from one to another in order; and a display control section including a divisional-drive processing section generating a light emission pattern signal for the light emission subsections and a divisional-drive picture signal based on the input picture signal. The display control section performs a light emission drive on the light emission subsection with use of the light emission pattern signal and performs a display drive on the liquid crystal display panel with use of the divisional-drive picture signal. The divisional-drive processing section determines a logical-OR picture of the picture streams, and generates the light emission pattern signal and the divisional-drive picture signal with use of the logical-OR picture. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221789 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A light emitting device includes a pixel circuit and a data line provided between a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other. The pixel circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit, the first circuit includes a first light emitting element and a first driving transistor connected in series to each other, and a first switching element provided between a gate of the first transistor and the data line, and outgoing light of the first light emitting element is output from the first substrate side. The second circuit includes a second light emitting element and a second driving transistor connected in series to each other, and a first switching element provided between a gate of the second driving transistor and the data line, and outgoing light of the second light emitting element is output from the second substrate side. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221790 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight having at least one light-emitting diode, and an LED drive circuit for driving the at least one light-emitting diode. The LED drive circuit includes a constant voltage circuit for controlling a voltage outputted from an output terminal in such a manner that a voltage inputted to a feedback terminal becomes a constant voltage, and means for driving the at least one light-emitting diode connected to the output terminal of the constant voltage circuit by a constant current. The LED drive circuit has at least one diode provided in a feedback path lying between the output terminal of the constant voltage circuit and the feedback terminal. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221791 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes pixel circuits, a power supply line, and a data line for supplying a data signal to the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits each include a light emitting element, a drive transistor for controlling light emission of the light emitting element, a storage capacitor provided between the data line and a gate electrode of the drive transistor, a both-end connection switch for connecting both ends of the storage capacitor to each other, and a current interruption switch for interrupting a path of a current flowing from the power supply line through the both-end connection switch. Before the data signal is supplied to each of the pixel circuits, the both-end connection switch connects the both ends of the storage capacitor to each other, and the current interruption switch is disconnected. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221792 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - A liquid crystal device includes: a pixel for outputting a specified color light, which is provided with liquid crystals and an electrode for driving the liquid crystals and outputs light of the specified color; a pixel for controlling luminance and color purity, which outputs a control light for controlling the luminance and the color purity of the output light of the specified color; and a driving unit driving the pixel for outputting a specified color light, and the pixel for controlling luminance and color purity based on brightness information that indicates the brightness of an external environmental light. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221793 | ADJUSTABLE DISPLAY CHARACTERISTICS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY EYEPIECE - 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 an electrochromic layer that provides a display characteristic adjustment that is dependent on displayed content requirements and surrounding environmental conditions. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221794 | Electrophoresis display device and driving method thereof - Provided are an electrophoresis display device and a driving method thereof. The electrophoresis display device includes a display unit and a frame buffer-free display controller. The frame buffer-free display controller is configured to generate a plurality of derived frames in real-time based on a frame and a plurality of reference values displayed by the display unit. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221795 | BACKLIGHT CONTROLLER FOR DRIVING LIGHT SOURCES - A backlight controller for driving multiple light emitting diode (LED) strings includes feedback circuitry, phase array circuitry, and encoder circuitry. The feedback circuitry generates multiple feedback signals indicative of currents flowing through the LED strings respectively. The encoder circuitry generates a code signal indicative of a total number of operative LED strings among the multiple LED strings based on the feedback signals. The phase array circuitry generates multiple saw tooth signals according to the code signal. A phase shift amount between two adjacent signals of the saw tooth signals is determined by the total number of the operative LED strings. The phase array circuitry compares each of the saw tooth signals with a dimming control signal to generate multiple phase shift signals so as to respectively control the operative LED strings. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221796 | 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. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221797 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Pixel circuits | 2011-09-15 |
20110221798 | LINE MULTIPLYING TO ENABLE INCREASED REFRESH RATE OF A DISPLAY - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing a frame write time or increasing a refresh rate of a display. In one aspect, displays may include a plurality of pixels arranged along segment lines and common lines, and all or a portion of the display may be driven in a manner which simultaneously addresses multiple common lines. Display resolution or color range of all or a portion of the display may thus be temporarily sacrificed in exchange for a reduced frame write time, enabling the use of higher refresh rates. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221799 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO PERFORM IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A printing system includes inkjet printing apparatuses to print a same image based on output image data having been adjusted depending on color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses. An image processing apparatus includes an output image generating device configured to convert printing data to the output image data representing image with a color depending on color reproduction characteristic of ink. The output image generating device includes a rasterizer and an apparatus common color convertor configured to execute common color conversion for the inkjet printing apparatuses using one ICC profile common to the inkjet printing apparatuses. An adjuster is configured to reduce variation of the color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses using calibration information prepared for each of the inkjet printing apparatuses depending on the color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221800 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO PERFORM IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A printing system includes an inkjet printing apparatus including inkjet heads to print in a single pass system. An image processing apparatus is configured to generate output image data representing image to be printed by the inkjet printing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an output image generating device configured to convert printing data to the output image data which represent the image with a color depending on color reproduction characteristic of ink. The output image generating device includes a rasterizer and a head common color convertor configured to execute common color conversion for the inkjet heads using one ICC profile common to the inkjet heads. An adjuster is configured to reduce variations of color reproduction characteristics with respect to the inkjet heads using calibration information which are respectively prepared for the inkjet heads depending on each color reproduction characteristic with respect to the inkjet heads. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221801 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling an image forming apparatus including a head having a nozzle for discharging a liquid droplet; a sub-tank for temporarily storing the liquid supplied to the head; a main tank for storing the liquid; a pump capable of forwardly sending the liquid from the main tank to the sub-tank and reversely sending the liquid from the sub-tank to the main tank; and a sensor for sensing a pressure in the sub-tank is provided. In the method, before sending the liquid forwardly or reversely to achieve a target negative pressure in the sub-tank, a pressure sensing function of the sensor is checked by sending the liquid with the pressure in the sub-tank being at a negative pressure range in which a meniscus of the liquid is maintained. When the pressure sensing function is determined abnormal, a control is performed not to send the liquid by the pump. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221802 | Apparatus And Method For Detecting Ink In A Reservoir Using An Overdriven Thermistor And An Electrical Conductor Extending From The Thermistor - A method detects the level of ink in a print head reservoir by monitoring the power drawn by a thermistor positioned within the print head reservoir by an electrical conductor. The method includes dissipating heat in a thermistor positioned within an ink reservoir, the thermistor having an electrical conductor that extends from the thermistor, a length of the electrical conductor extending through at least a portion of the ink reservoir, providing electrical power through the electrical conductor to the thermistor to maintain the thermistor at a predetermined temperature that is a fixed differential above a temperature of the ink reservoir, measuring a parameter that corresponds to the heat dissipated from the thermistor and the length of the electrical conductor extending through the portion of the ink reservoir, and correlating the measured parameter to a predetermined value corresponding to an ink level in the ink reservoir to detect a position of the ink level in the reservoir continuously along the length of the electrical conductor and the thermistor. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221803 | INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - An ink supply apparatus includes a sub tank connected to a printer head and having an ink reservoir chamber to store a liquid ink. A fluid level detector is configured to detect a fluid level of the liquid ink stored in the ink reservoir chamber. The fluid level detector has a light emitting device, a light receiving device, and a casing having a section through which a light is to pass and which has an outer surface that is to contact the liquid ink. The light emitting device is capable of emitting the light toward the outer surface through the section. The light receiving device is to receive reflected light reflected at the outer surface. A storage amount determining device is configured to determine whether a predetermined amount of the liquid ink is stored in the ink reservoir chamber based on detection results of the fluid level detector. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221804 | System And Method For Improving Throughput For Printing Operations In An Indirect Printing System - A printer is configured with a controller that transforms operation of the printer to increase throughput. The printer includes an image receiving member, a printhead configured to eject ink drops onto the image receiving member to form an ink image, a transfix roller configured to move towards and away from the image receiving member to form a transfixing nip with the image receiving member selectively, a release agent applicator configured to engage the image receiving member selectively to apply release agent to the rotatable imaging member, and a controller configured to generate firing signals that operate the printhead from image data and to transform operation of the printer from a first printing process sequence to a second printing process sequence in response to a coverage parameter for image data to be printed being less than a predetermined threshold. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221805 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device for carrying out printing on a translucent printing medium includes: a print head having a first applying portion for applying a first color material onto the printing medium, a second applying portion for applying a second color material, and a third applying portion for applying an opaque specialty ink; a conveying portion for conveying the printing medium relative to the print head; and a printing control portion configured to execute printing according to a printing mode in which a first color-producing layer of the first color material is formed on the conveying printing medium using the first applying portion, an opaque light-blocking layer of the specialty ink is formed using the third applying portion, and a second color-producing layer of the second color material is formed over the light-blocking layer using the second applying portion after the light-blocking layer is formed. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221806 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PRINTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention allows for printing a high quality image based on print data which is obtained by dividing multivalue image data into portions, one for each scan, and quantizing the divided portions of image data. To this end, multivalue input data is divided into input pass data for each scan, which is then corrected using error data. The corrected input values are added up to determine a total corrected input value. The total corrected input value is quantized into a total output value, which has fewer gradation levels than the input data. The total output value is then distributed unevenly among a plurality of printing scans to generate print data for each scan. | 2011-09-15 |
20110221807 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device includes a print head having a specialty gloss ink ejection head for ejecting a specialty gloss ink that creates a special gloss effect and a dye-based color ink ejection head for ejecting a dye-based color ink, and an ejection control unit configured to carry out ejection of the specialty gloss ink from the specialty gloss ink ejection head and ejection of the dye-based color ink from the dye-based color ink ejection head, and to carry out printing of a special gloss area with the specialty gloss ink and printing of a reproduction area onto the special gloss area with the dye-based color ink. The ejection control unit has a first printing mode for carrying out printing of the reproduction area in a main scan that chronologically follows a main scan of the print head in which printing of the special gloss area is carried out. | 2011-09-15 |