40th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130257864 | MEDIAL AXIS DECOMPOSITION OF 2D OBJECTS TO SYNTHESIZE BINOCULAR DEPTH - A computer-based method for generating a stereoscopic image from a two dimensional (2D) image such as a 2D cell animation. An object is selected in the 2D image, such as an animated character, and is stored in memory as the base image. With an erosion engine, the selected object is eroded to generate a set of eroded versions of the base image corresponding to a number of erosion levels. Each erosion level image may be formed by eroding or removing a set of outer or edge pixels from the image on the prior level. The method continues with calculating a parallax shift value for each of the eroded versions of the base image. An alternate eye image is then generated by compositing the set of eroded versions along with the base image. The eroded versions are horizontally offset from the base image by the level-specific parallax shift values. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257865 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS - A medical image processing apparatus including a storage, virtual endoscopic image generating unit, region identifying unit, and image generating unit. The storage stores three-dimensional images of a tubular body. The virtual endoscopic image generating unit generates, by using the three-dimensional images of the tubular body, virtual endoscopic images when an inside of a tract of the tubular body is observed based on a view point location and view direction placed inside the tract. The region identifying unit obtains an observation region and/or non-observation region based on the view point location and view direction by using the three-dimensional images. The image generating unit that generates an image that corresponds to the observation region and/or non-observation region are/is distinguishably displayed on the image obtained from the three-dimensional images. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257866 | FLEXIBLE DEFOCUS BLUR FOR STOCHASTIC RASTERIZATION - User-controllable defocus blur for a stochastic rasterizer may be implemented by modifying circle of confusion coefficients per vertex to express more general defocus blur. The method can be applied to limit the foreground blur, extend the in-focus range, simulate tilt-shift photography, and specify per-object defocus blur. Furthermore, with two simplifying assumptions, existing triangle coverage tests and tile culling tests can be used with very modest modifications. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257867 | SITE MODELING USING IMAGE DATA FUSION - Site modeling using image data fusion. Geometric shapes are generated to represent portions of one or more structures based on digital height data and a two-dimensional segmentation of portions of the one or more structures is generated based on three-dimensional line segments and digital height data. A labeled segmentation of the one or more structures is generated based on the geometric shapes and the two-dimensional segmentation. A three-dimensional model of the one or more structures is generated based on the labeled segmentation. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257868 | ITEM MODEL BASED ON DESCRIPTOR AND IMAGES - A model generation machine may form all or part of a network-based system. The model generation machine may generate an item model (e.g., a 3D model of the item) based on a set of images of an item and based on a product model (e.g., a 3D model of a product of which the item is a specimen). The item may be available for purchase from a seller. The model generation machine may access the set of images, as well as a descriptor of the item. Based on the descriptor, the model generation machine may identify the product model. Accordingly, the model generation machine may generate the item model from the identified product model and the accessed set of images. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257869 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING RECONSTRUCTED 3-D TOMOSYNTHESIS VOLUME IMAGE - A method for providing tomosynthesis 3-D volume image data, executed at least in part on a computer, acquires a number of radiographic projection images of a subject over a range of angles. Reconstructed volume image data is generated from the acquired projection images. A number of regions of interest are defined within the reconstructed volume image data, wherein each region of interest has a number of image voxels. Image voxel data values are conditioned within at least one of the regions of interest to enhance contrast within the at least one region of interest. The conditioned image voxel data values are adjusted within the at least one of the regions of interest according to interpolation with two or more neighboring regions of interest. An image slice having at least a plurality of the adjusted image voxel data values is displayed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257870 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire volume data of a three-dimensional image; and a superimposed image generating unit configured to generate a superimposed image that is made by superimposing light information on a depth image when a parallax image obtained by rendering the volume data from multiple viewpoints is displayed as a stereoscopic image. The light information represents a relationship between a position in a depth direction of the stereoscopic image and resolution of the stereoscopic image. The depth image is obtained by rendering the volume data from a depth viewpoint at which the entire volume data in the depth direction is viewable. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257871 | Content Customization - A content processing service may analyze an item of original content and identify several objects, attributes of those objects, and relationships between those objects present in the item of original content. The content processing service may also analyze a source graph, such as a social graph or supplemental graph, and identify several objects, attributes of those objects, and relationships between those objects present in the source graph. The content processing service may customize the item of original content by selecting an original object and selecting a source graph object. One or more of the attributes or relationships of the selected original object in the item of original content may be replaced by one or more of the attributes or relationships of the selected source graph object, thereby forming an item of modified content. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257872 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VISUALLY GROUPING RELATIONSHIPS FROM DATABASES - Provided herein is a method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a visual representation of relationships between information entities from databases. In particular, the method may include identifying a plurality of entities with a primary relationship with a root entity, and a plurality of entities with a secondary relationship with the root entity, providing for display of the root entity, a first subset of the plurality of entities with a primary relationship with the root entity, and a first subset of the plurality of entities with a secondary relationship with the root entity. Methods may further include providing for display of an indication that the first subset of entities with a primary relationship has a primary relationship with the root entity and providing for display of an indication that the first subset of entities with a secondary relationship has a secondary relationship with the root entity. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257873 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that tests independence among a multiplicity of variables includes an execution section and a determination section. The execution section executes a test for conditional independence between two variables in a graphical model that are at least not independent in the case where a condition variable serving as a condition for independence between the two variables is provided on a path between the two variables. The determination section determines whether or not a V-shaped structure is present on a path between the two variables, the V-shaped structure being a graph structure in which first and second variables that are independent are each not independent of a third variable. The execution section does not execute a test for conditional independence between the two variables in the case where the condition variable is provided only on a path determined to have the V-shaped structure. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257874 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A GRAPH LATTICE FROM A CORPUS OF ONE OR MORE DATA GRAPHS - A document recognition system and method, where images are represented as a collection of primitive features whose spatial relations are represented as a graph. Useful subsets of all the possible subgraphs representing different portions of images are represented over a corpus of many images. The data structure is a lattice of subgraphs, and algorithms are provided means to build and use the graph lattice efficiently and effectively. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257875 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus. The apparatus includes: a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an acquisition module configured to receive a first synchronization data from the external apparatus and to determine a time interval of the external apparatus, after association with the external apparatus; and a display module configured to display a first image and to vary the first image according to the time interval determined by the acquisition module. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257876 | Systems and Methods for Providing An Interactive Avatar - Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of providing an interactive avatar that reacts to a communication from a communicating party. Data from an avatar characteristic table is provided to an avatar action model, where the avatar characteristic table is a data structure stored on a computer-readable medium that includes values for a plurality of avatar personality characteristics. A communication with the avatar is received from the communicating party. A next state for the avatar is determined using the avatar action model, where the avatar action model determines the next state based on the data from the avatar characteristic table, a current state for the avatar, and the communication. The next state for the avatar is implemented, and the avatar characteristic table is updated based on the communication from the communicating party, where a subsequent state for the avatar is determined based on the updated avatar characteristic table. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257877 | Systems and Methods for Generating an Interactive Avatar Model - Systems and methods are provided for generating an avatar configured to represent traits of a human subject. First interactions of the human subject are observed, and characteristics of the human subject are extracted from the observed first interactions. An avatar characteristic table is generated or updated based on the extracted personality characteristics. Second interactions of the human subject are observed, and the avatar characteristic table is updated based on the observed second interactions. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANIMATING STATUS CHANGE OF OBJECT - An apparatus and a method for animating a status change of an object on a display. The apparatus for animating a status change of an object includes a display unit, an input unit, one or more processors, a memory, and one or more modules. The display unit displays a status change process of a first object. The input unit receives a status change instruction for the first object. One or more modules are stored in the memory and executed by the one or more processors. The module displays a second object in response to the status change instruction to animate a status change of the first object. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257879 | GEOLOGICAL ANIMATION - An example embodiment of the present disclosure may include one or more of a method, computing device, computer-readable medium, and system for animating geology. An example embodiment of a method may include providing a geological model that includes a first object and a second object, wherein the first and second objects comprise geological data relating to a first and second geological time respectively. The method may also include interpolating a property value of the first object and a property value of the second object to produce an interpolated property value. The representation of the interpolated property value may be output along with an animation that comprises the representation of the interpolated property value. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257880 | LIGHT GUIDE WITH INTERNAL LIGHT RECIRCULATION - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for illumination using illumination systems having a light guide. A light source is configured to inject light into a light input edge of the light guide. The light guide is configured to recirculate the injected light therein such that the light passes back and forth across the light guide one or more times. The light guide includes light-turning features that extract light out of the light guide. To promote light recirculation, the light-turning features have a per-pass light extraction efficiency of about 50% or less and one or more edges of the light guide may be reflective. The light extracted out of the light guide by the light-turning features may be used to illuminate a display. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257881 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a method capable of performing serial transmission of data whose data values change in short fixed cycles, while suppressing an increase in power consumption. In a liquid crystal controller, data sequence conversion is performed on data included in an input image signal by a first data sequence conversion circuit and a second data sequence conversion circuit every predetermined period of time. The data sequence conversion is performed by reversing the values of predetermined bits of each data. The data obtained after the data sequence conversion is transmitted, as a digital video signal, to a source driver. In the source driver, the same data sequence conversion as that performed by the liquid crystal controller is performed on each data included in the digital video signal by a first data sequence restoring circuit and a second data sequence restoring circuit. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257882 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An image processing device, in a case in which an image processing module, uses in image processing a processor that is different than a processor used in image processing by an image processing module of a preceding stage, is connected at a subsequent stage, carries out transfer processing that transfers image data, that has been written into a buffer by the image processing module of the preceding stage, to a buffer for transfer that is reserved in a memory space corresponding to the processor that the image processing module of the subsequent stage uses in image processing, and carries out processing that causes the image processing module of the subsequent stage to read-out the image data transferred to the buffer for transfer. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257883 | IMAGE STREAM PIPELINE CONTROLLER FOR DEPLOYING IMAGE PRIMITIVES TO A COMPUTATION FABRIC - According to some embodiments, an image pipeline controller may determine an image stream having a plurality of image primitives to be executed. Each image primitive may be, for example, associated with an image algorithm and a set of primitive attributes. The image pipeline controller may then automatically deploy the set of image primitives to an image computation fabric based at least in part on primitive attributes. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257884 | METHOD OF SETTING TARGET LOCATIONS FOR REDUCING IMAGE STICKING, ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A method of setting target locations for reducing image sticking is provided. According to the method, a plurality of images, each of the images being displayed during each frame by an organic light emitting display device are acquired. The target locations at which image sticking frequently occurs are set by comparing the images. Image data corresponding to the target locations are stored in a memory unit. A plurality of pixel circuits may simultaneously emit light in the organic light emitting display device. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257885 | Low Power Centroid Determination and Texture Footprint Optimization For Decoupled Sampling Based Rendering Pipelines - The problem of generating high quality images with a rendering pipeline based on decoupled sampling may be addressed by generating non-extrapolated shading locations and by determining improved texture filtering footprints. This may be accomplished by performing shading at the center of a bounding box that bounds mapped shading samples. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257886 | SYSTEM FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - A system for improving content visibility on a display under low-contrast viewing conditions. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257887 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - A system for improving content visibility on a display under low-contrast viewing conditions using an image separation technique. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A SIMULATED APPLICATION OF AT LEAST ONE COATING TO A DIGITAL IMAGE - A computer implemented method that includes enabling, using a processor, a user to identify a first area of a digital image, wherein the first area will be colored with a first color. The method also includes segmenting, using the processor, the digital image into a first segment that represents the first area and a second segment that represents a second area of the digital image, wherein an original color of the second area will remain unchanged. The method further includes enabling, using the processor, the user to select the first color, wherein the first color corresponds a first coating color, and displaying, using the processor, the digital image with the first segment colored with the first color. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257889 | Method and Apparatus for Color Conversion Based on Lch Color Space, and Liquid Crystal Display Device - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for color conversion based on LCH color space. The method includes: converting source plane Hn, Hn−1 to target plane Hn′, Hn−1′; computing Hx between Hn and Hn−1; computing Hx′ between Hn′ and Hn−1′ and at the same hue level as t Hx; computing conversion matrix Hn and Hn′; computing target color converted from color of any point of Hx and completing space color of target color. Through this method, it is possible to make the color performance closer to the actual object color or closer to expected effect than the actual object color. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257890 | COLOR ADJUSTMENT DEVICE, COLOR ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM, COLOR ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A color adjustment device includes a color-value obtaining unit, a color-property-value deriving unit, a correction-item selection unit, a target-property-value setting unit, a correction-coefficient deriving unit, and a color-adjustment-profile generating unit. The color-value obtaining unit obtains color values when an image is displayed on image display devices. The color-property-value deriving unit derives values of color properties from the color values. The correction-item selection unit selects a color property as a correction item on the basis of the derived values. The target-property-value setting unit sets a target property value for the correction item. The correction-coefficient deriving unit derives a correction coefficient to be used to correct the values of the color property to the target property value. The color-adjustment-profile generating unit generates a color-adjustment profile on the basis of the correction coefficient. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257891 | Post Tesellation Edge Cache - In accordance with some embodiments, domain shader and/or tessellator operations can be eliminated when they are redundant. By using a corner cache, a check can determine whether a given corner, be it a vertex or a quadrilateral corner, has already been evaluated in the domain shader and/or tessellator and if so, the result of the previous operation can be reused instead of performing unnecessary invocations that may increase power consumption or reduce speed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257892 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE DETERMINING BINARIZING THRESHOLD VALUE - An image processing device comprising: a processor to perform: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a letter; and generating binary image data representing the letter in the target image by using the target image data, the generating of the binary image data comprising: identifying a background color value representing color of background of the target image; identifying a letter color value representing color of the letter in the target image; determining a characteristic value concerning a sharpness of the letter in the target image; determining a binarizing threshold value by using the background color value, the letter color value, and the characteristic value; and performing a binarizing process on the target image data by using the binarizing threshold value to generate the binary image data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257893 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY - A display is provided. The display includes an image generating device and an adjustable panel. The adjustable panel, disposed at a side of the image generating device, presents in a diffusing state or a transparent state. When the image generating device generates an image to define an image region and a transparent region out of the image region, a first corresponding area of the adjustable panel corresponding to the image region presents in the diffusing state while a second corresponding area presents in the transparent state. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257894 | SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - An improved spatial light modulation display system includes light sources for providing red, green, and blue light. A system controller includes functionality for controlling a color balance of the red, green, and blue light. A sensor is provided for sensing light from each of the light sources. The controller can detect a shift in color balance based on the intensity of light sensed by the sensor. If the sensor output indicates that the sensor is operating out of a desirable range, the spatial light modulator can modulate the light in order change the brightness of light sensed by the sensor. The modulation pattern can be varied until the sensor output is a specified value or within a specified range of values. In a preferred embodiment, the sensor is located to receive off-state light from the spatial light modulator so as to avoid obstruction of light used for displaying images. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257895 | IMAGE ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE ADJUSTING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image adjusting apparatus includes the following elements. A set color temperature obtaining unit obtains a set color temperature which is set when a white image is displayed, in an image display apparatus. A maximum tone value calculator calculates a maximum tone value of a reference color when the displayed white image is changed into a white image corresponding to the set color temperature. A tone characteristic setting unit sets a tone characteristic of the reference color on the basis of the calculated maximum tone value. If the calculated maximum tone value is decreased from a maximum tone value before the set color temperature is set, the tone characteristic setting unit corrects, in a region in which a tone value of an input image signal is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, the tone characteristic so that a tone value of an output image signal is increased. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257896 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device has a first color mode in which an image is output in monochrome except for a designated color and a second color mode in which colors in an image are output in non monochrome. The display device includes a display unit operable to output a display, and a display controller operable to control the display output on the display unit. While a selecting operation by a user on an image is urged, the display controller displays an image on the display unit in the second color mode, and after completion of the selecting operation by the user, the display controller changes a color mode from the second color mode to the first color mode and then displays an image on the display unit in the first color mode. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257897 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including an image signal controller, a dither memory, and a display panel. The display panel includes a dither block including pixels displaying an image in response to a dither image signal. The dither memory stores a dither set corresponding to a dither level. The dither set includes dither patterns. Each dither pattern determines that a corresponding pixel is a dither pixel that is to be dithered and a polarity of the dither pixel. A combined matrix, obtained by adding respective dither polarity matrices of the dither patterns, is zero. Thus, although the same image is displayed for a long time, an after-image caused by accumulation of the polarity may be prevented. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257898 | DIGITAL MEDIA MODIFICATION - Embodiments enable generation of a modification of digital media. The modification may be applied to one digital image of a plurality of associated digital images to be displayed via a client device. The modification may be identified in response to a scroll function. Once identified, the scroll function may stop and the digital image including the modification may be output. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257899 | PHYSICAL-VIRTUAL HYBRID REPRESENTATION - A virtual environment, including at least one virtual element representing a component of an item is generated. The virtual environment is mapped to a physical environment that includes a physical mockup of at least a subset of the item. The virtual environment is provided to a display. The at least one virtual element is displayed in relation to the physical element according to the mapping. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257900 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING AUGMENTED REALITY POINT-OF-INTEREST INFORMATION - An approach is provided for storing and accessing point of interest information depicted in augmented and/or mixed reality mobile applications. A notification platform causes, at least in part, a rendering of a user interface depicting a virtual environment comprising one or more notifications associated with one or more points of interest. The notification platform determines one or more interactions with the user interface, the virtual environment, the one or more notification, or a combination thereof. The notification platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more interactions to cause, at least in part, a storage of the one or more notifications, one or more images, one or more videos, or a combination thereof. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257901 | USING AN ELECTRIC DISPLAY FOR DECORATION - An electronic display such as electronic paper can decorate a structure by using a display system. The display system includes a content minding unit and a conversion unit. The content minding unit produces content information according to reference parameters generated by sensing devices. The conversion unit converts the content information into theme information. The display system transmits the theme information to the electronic display disposed in the structure, such that the electronic display can display scenes according to the theme information. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257902 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit, an identification information obtaining unit, a state information obtaining unit, a display setting obtaining unit, and a processing unit. The specifying unit specifies data displayed on a display screen. The identification information obtaining unit obtains identification information identifying an operator who performs an operation on the data on the display screen. The state information obtaining unit obtains state information representing a display state of an operation unit, which is used for performing an operation on the data on the display screen. The display setting obtaining unit obtains setting about display of the operation unit. The processing unit performs, when a predetermined storage operation of storing a display state of the operation unit is performed by the operator, a process of storing the state information in association with the specified data and the identification information. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257903 | OVERLAYING TRANSPARENCY IMAGES INCLUDING PIXELS CORRESPONDING TO DIFFERENT HEIRARCHICAL LEVELS OVER A GEOGRAPHIC MAP - Data records contain corresponding values of an attribute and are associated with location information. Hierarchical levels of transparency images are generated, where each of the transparency images includes corresponding pixels that represent the respective data records, and where the transparency images at different ones of the hierarchical levels correspond to different zoom levels of a geographic map. At least one of the transparency images at a dynamically-selected one of the hierarchical levels is overlaid over the geographic map according to which of the zoom levels is selected by a user in zooming of the geographic map, where the at least one transparency image is automatically selected without user input. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257904 | System and Method for Virtual Engineering - A method and system for generating a virtual image of a virtual environment is provided. A virtual reality manager receives hand position data for at least one hand of a user from a hand system. The virtual reality manager receives head position data for a head of the user from a head-mounted system. The virtual reality manager identifies image-based position data and a current frame of reference for a current time using a target image corresponding to the current time. The virtual reality manager generates virtual image control data for the current time using the hand position data, the head position data, the image-based position data, and the current frame of reference. The virtual image control data is configured for use by a virtual image application. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257905 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes a synthesizing unit which synthesizes a drawn image drawn on a displayed image on a display device with the displayed image; a content data receiving unit which receives content data; a content data conversion unit which converts the received content data to image data; an external snapshot generation unit which generates an external snapshot to be displayed on the display unit based on the converted image data and stores the external snapshot in a storage unit; and a display control unit which displays the synthesized image by the synthesizing unit on the display device and also displays an object corresponding to the external snapshot in a selectable manner so that the external snapshot is displayed on the display device when the object is selected. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257906 | Generating publication based on augmented reality interaction by user at physical site - Interaction data represents augmented reality interaction by a user using a mobile computing device with physical points of interest at a physical site. A publication is generated based on this interaction data and provided to the user. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257907 | CLIENT DEVICE - An information processing apparatus comprising an image recognition unit that detects whether an image preset as a marker image exists in a captured image; a spatial recognition unit that, when the marker image is detected by the image recognition unit, constructs a real-world coordinate system computed from a position and orientation of the marker image, and computes information corresponding to a position and orientation of the information processing apparatus in the constructed real-world coordinate system; and a virtual object display unit that acquires at least one of the data stored in the storage unit, data existing on a network, and data transmitted from the one or more other information processing apparatuses and received by the communication interface, places the acquired data in the constructed real-world coordinate system, and controls the display unit to display the acquired data as one or more virtual objects. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257908 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE, OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD, AND OBJECT DISPLAY PROGRAM - An object display device includes a virtual object process unit that processes an object based on imaging information that an imaging unit references upon acquisition of an image in real space, an image synthesis unit that superimposes the processed object on the image in real space, and a display unit that displays a superimposed image. Accordingly, the feature of the image in real space is reflected in the object superimposed. Thus, a sense of incongruity upon superimposing and displaying the object on the image in real space is reduced. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257909 | TERMINAL DEVICE - A terminal device is disclosed. The terminal device includes a display unit, an acceleration sensor, a display controller and an operation unit. The acceleration sensor senses an acceleration of a body of the terminal device when the body is being tilted. The display controller displays a vertical screen on the display unit when the body is in a vertical orientation. The display controller also displays a horizontal screen on the display unit when the body is in a horizontal orientation. The display controller further switches between the vertical screen and the horizontal screen based on an output from the acceleration sensor. The operation unit accepts a setting of a sensitivity of the acceleration sensor. The display controller controls switching based on the sensitivity and the acceleration. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257910 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LESION DIAGNOSIS - An apparatus and method for supporting lesion diagnosis are disclosed. An apparatus for facilitating lesion diagnosis includes: a candidate detection unit configured to detect one or more lesion candidate using a primary image of a body region, a calculation unit configured to calculate a movement path corresponding to a sequence for analyzing the one or more lesion candidate, and a control unit configured to request an additional image with respect to the one or more lesion candidate along the movement path. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257911 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, SCROLL PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A portable terminal includes a display and a touch panel device that detects an operation on a display screen of the display. The portable terminal includes a determining whether scroll is enabled within an application screen in a scroll direction corresponding to a scroll operation, when the scroll operation on the application screen in the display screen is detected. The portable terminal further includes an entire scrolling the entire application screen in the scroll direction corresponding to the scroll operation, when the determining includes determining that the scroll is not enabled within the application screen. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257912 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a display control unit, including a processor, configured to control a display to display an image on a screen and to scroll the image toward a target position. The display control unit is configured to scroll the image with a scroll speed based on a difference between a current position and the target position. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257913 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A driving method for an image display device including sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns, the driving method including: receiving first data corresponding to one frame; dividing the one frame into fields; generating second data from the first data for each of the fields; and supplying the second data to the sub-pixels. Where, the second data is generated by selectively inserting black data in portions of the first data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257914 | ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display capacitor, a data switching device, and a reset switching device. The data switching device may transmit a data voltage to the display capacitor in response to an activating gate signal that is applied to the data switching device for a activating gate signal duration. The reset switching device may transmit a storage voltage to the display capacitor in response to an activating reset signal that is applied to the first reset switching device for an activating reset signal duration. The storage voltage is configured for resetting a pixel associated with the first display capacitor. The activating reset signal duration is longer than the activating gate signal duration. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257915 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus having improved display quality is disclosed. According to one aspect, the display apparatus includes a display panel including first to Mth data lines extending in a first direction, where M is an integer greater than 2, first to Nth scan lines extending in a second direction, where N is an integer greater than 2, and a plurality of pixel regions defined by one or more of the data lines and one or more of the scan lines. An image data processor is configured to process input image signals and output corrected input image signals, and a data driver is configured to receive the corrected input image signals and supply the same to the first to Mth data lines. The plurality of pixel regions include first to Mth pixel arrays extending in parallel, and the image data signal processor is configured to output the corrected input image signals to adjust a gray value applied to at least one of the first pixel array and the Mth pixel array. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257916 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD AND ENCODING METHOD USING THE SAME - The present disclosure discloses a display device including a display unit, a backlight module, a decoding device, and a backlight driver. The display unit includes a plurality of pixels, including a plurality of sub-pixels, arranged in a matrix. The decoding device decodes an encoded RGB data stream, and produces a dimming control signal, wherein the encoded RGB data stream is arranged to drive each of the sub-pixels to display a frame, the encoded RGB data stream includes a first set of the encoded RGB data stream corresponding to a row of pixels of the frame and having binary data corresponding to each of the light emitting elements, and the decoding device produces the dimming control signal according to the binary data. The backlight driver controls brightness of a plurality of light emitting elements of the backlight module according to the dimming control signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257917 | DISPLAY DRIVING OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND DISPLAY DRIVER - A display driving optimization method and a display driver are provided. The method includes following steps. Previous data and current data of at least a data line of a display panel are estimated to obtain an estimate result. A pre-charge operation or a charge-sharing operation of the data line is enabled or disabled according to the estimation result. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257918 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image display apparatus according this invention includes: a light-emitting unit configured to emit light; a display panel configured to display an image by transmitting the light from the light-emitting unit at a transmittance based on an input image signal; and a control unit configured to set a plurality of lighting periods respectively having different lengths on a frame-by-frame basis and control lighting and extinction of the light-emitting unit in such a manner that the light-emitting unit is lit during the lighting periods and extinguished during a period other than the lighting periods, wherein the control unit makes the number of lighting periods within one frame larger when a brightness of the image is bright than when the brightness of the image is dark. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257919 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image display apparatus of the invention includes a storage unit that stores representative point brightness data, which is data of brightnesses in predetermined representative points at the time when only one each of a plurality of light emission blocks is caused to emit light, and brightness distribution data, which is data showing a brightness distribution in individual positions between representative points at the time when only the one light emission block is caused to emit light. An amount of correction corresponding to each representative point is calculated based on an amount of light emission for each light emission block, and representative point brightness data, and an amount of correction for correcting a pixel value of each of pixels other than those at the representative points is calculated based on the amount of correction corresponding to each representative point, and the brightness distribution data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257920 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, a third light source, a first color filter, a second color filter, a third color filter, and an opto-functional device. The first light source and the second light source are allowed to emit light in a first emission time period to form a first display pattern. The third light source is allowed to emit light and the opto-functional device controls the third color filter to transmit light in a second emission time period to form a second display pattern. The first emission time period and the second emission time period are alternately repeated to combine the first display pattern and the second display pattern to obtain an intended display pattern when the display apparatus displays the intended display pattern. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257921 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH READBACK DISPLAY - A display device includes a plurality of cells arranged in a two-dimensional matrix and including luminous elements and feedback elements arranged in the cells. A control device emits control signals to control the luminous elements individually in accordance with a setpoint control pattern. An evaluation device receives from the feedback elements feedback signals depending on actual control states of the luminous elements and determines a feedback pattern based on the feedback signals. The evaluation device then compares the feedback pattern with the setpoint control pattern and producing a normal reaction when the feedback pattern matches the setpoint control pattern, and producing a fault reaction that is different from the normal reaction when the feedback pattern fails to match the setpoint control pattern. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257922 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE MODULE - A light source module having a plurality of light source blocks corresponding to a plurality of display regions, a method for driving the light source module, and a display device having the light source module. The output brightness of each of the light source blocks is individually dimmed according to a dimming control signal. A dimming control unit determines the average gray level and inherent brightness of each of the respective display regions, calculates a threshold gray level of each display region by using its inherent brightness, outputs a fixed brightness as a dimming control signal when the average gray level of the display region is greater than the threshold gray level, and outputs a variable brightness based upon the inherent brightness value, as the dimming control signal when the average gray level of the display region is less than the threshold gray level. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257923 | DISPLAY DEVICE USING LED BLOCKS - The present invention relates to a display device using LED blocks, which includes at least one LED block having an LED installed. The LED block adjusts the color of light displayed according to the contact by the user. According to the present invention, the display device using LED blocks includes: at least one LED block including a plurality of installed color LEDs and a contact sensing unit for sensing contact by the user; and a controller for adjusting the color of light displayed by the LED block on the basis of the color data corresponding to the contact data which is generated by the contact sensing unit in accordance with contact by the user. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257924 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device includes a display portion having red, green, blue and white sub pixels, a converter generating red, green and blue conversion signals using a brightness ratio from a ratio storage, an upper limit value calculator calculating an upper limit value of a display brightness of the white sub pixel using the red, green and blue conversion signals and the brightness ratio, a lower limit value calculator calculating a lower limit value of the display brightness of the white sub pixel using the red, green and blue conversion signals and the brightness ratio, and a white control signal generator generating a white output control signal for controlling the display brightness of the white sub pixel such that the display brightness is not more than the upper limit value and not less than the lower limit value, and outputting the generated white output control signal to the display portion. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257925 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, sub-pixels arranged in areas between the data lines and the gate lines, a data driver that drives the data lines, a first gate driver that drives first gate lines from among the gate lines, a second gate driver that drives second gate lines from among the gate lines, and a timing controller that controls the data driver, the first gate driver, and the second gate drivers according to an image signal and a control signal. The second gate driver does not drive the second gate lines during a 3D display mode. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257926 | DRIVING METHOD FOR DRIVER CHIP AND DISPLAY METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a display method for a stereoscopic display device. First, a frame formed by a left-eye frame with a first color and a right-eye frame with a second color different from the first color is generated with a liquid crystal panel. A first light source emitting a first light beam of the first color and a second light source emitting a second light beam of the second color of the stereoscopic display device are turned on. The first light beam and the second light beam are guided separately toward the liquid crystal panel with the directional light guide plate. When the liquid crystal panel generates the frame, the first light beam and the second light beam penetrate the liquid crystal panel separately, and the left-eye frame and the right-eye frame are displayed at a first view angle and a second view angle respectively. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257927 | DISPLAY HAVING LIGHTING DEVICES INTEGRATED WITH AN E-BOOK AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display having lighting devices integrated with an E-Book includes a display panel, and the display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a control unit, a lighting device driving unit, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and an E-Book unit. The lighting device driving unit includes a lighting device. The control unit, the lighting device driving unit, the first switch unit, the second switch unit, and the E-Book unit are used for performing corresponding operations to let the lighting device or the E-Book unit properly display an image corresponding to an image signal when the display receives the image signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257928 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display for displaying multi-viewpoint images, a lens unit disposed in front of the display, for separating the multi-viewpoint images according to directions, and a controller for, if at least a part of viewpoint images perceived to the left and right eyes of a first viewer are overlapped between the left and right eyes of the first viewer, controlling processing of at least a part of the overlapped viewpoint images as black. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257929 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus may includes a central processing device, a first switching regulator and a second switching regulator. The central processing device may perform information processing associated with image formation. The first switching regulator may receive an input of a first voltage and output a second voltage which is lower than the first voltage. The second switching regulator may receive an input of the second voltage and output a third voltage which is lower than the second voltage. The third voltage may be input to the central processing device. A first switching frequency which is a switching frequency of the first switching regulator may be lower than a second switching firequency which is a switching frequency of the second switching regulator. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257930 | POWERING A WIRELESS PRINTER DURING SLEEP MODE - A method of operating a printing system, the method includes charging an energy storage device; determining that printing has not occurred for a predetermined period of time; switching the printing system into a low power mode in which power provided through an AC line is disconnected from a printing device and a wireless communication device when the predetermined period of time has elapsed; providing power to the wireless communication device from an energy storage device when the printing system is in the low power mode; receiving image data through the wireless communication device when the printing system is in the low power mode; switching the printing system into an operating mode upon receiving image data when in the low power mode; providing power from the AC line to the printing device when the printing system is in the operating mode; and printing an image. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257931 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF WIPING RECORDING HEAD - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage, a wiping unit, and a control unit. The recording head includes a discharging port surface provided with a first discharging port row group having at least one discharge port row formed by arraying a plurality of discharging ports in a predetermined direction and a second discharging port row group having at least one discharge port row formed by arraying a plurality of discharging ports in a predetermined direction. The carriage causes the recording head to scan reciprocally in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction. The wiping unit includes a sheet member for wiping the discharge port surface and a winding device to wind the sheet member. The control unit controls the winding device so that the first discharge port row group and the second discharge port row group are wiped with different areas of the sheet member. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257932 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A liquid ejection apparatus including: a head having an ejection face and configured to eject liquid toward a recording medium; a capping mechanism which switches the ejection space being opposite the ejection face between capped and uncapped states; a conveyor which conveys the recording medium along a conveyance path; a sensor which senses whether the recording medium is present at a sensing position located on an upstream portion of the conveyance path; and a controller configured to: control the capping mechanism and the conveyor; determine whether the conveyor is normal, based on driving of the conveyor for a first period from the start of the driving of the conveyor in the capped state; and when the recording medium is sensed by the sensor within the first period, stop the driving of the conveyor even before the first period passes from the start of the driving of the conveyor. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257933 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus predicts the volume of air bubbles generated in a storage section of a recording head based on an input recording job. When the volume of the amount of ink in the storage section of the recording head is less than the predicted volume of air bubbles, a recovery operation is performed. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257934 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - In a case where a forcible detection execution flag is set to ON, the end position of the CR movement is changed and the acquiring range of the detection value “Is” is changed such that the movable range of the carriage is enlarged to a range that makes detection of an ink remaining amount by the ink sensor possible. Then, a print process for forcible detection is conducted in which the printing head and the carriage motor are controlled such that the printing head ejects ink while the carriage is moving in the enlarged movable range. Consequently, in a case where the forcible detection is requested, the ink remaining amount in the ink cartridge installed in the carriage can be detected regardless of the printing area based on the print data. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257935 | Method and Inkjet Printer for Acquiring Gap Information - A method is provided that is implemented on a control device connected with an inkjet printer, which includes an inkjet head having an ink discharging surface, a head scanning unit reciprocating the inkjet head relative to a recording sheet along a scanning direction parallel to the ink discharging surface, and a wave shape generating mechanism deforming the recording sheet in a predetermined wave shape that has tops of portions protruding in a first direction toward the ink discharging surface and bottoms of portions recessed in a second direction opposite to the first direction alternately arranged along the scanning direction, the method including acquiring gap information related to a gap between the ink discharging surface and each individual one of the tops and the bottoms on the recording sheet, and determining whether the gap information acquired for each individual one of the tops and the bottoms is abnormal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257936 | INKJET PRINTER, GAP DETECTABLE DEVICE, AND A METHOD TO OBTAIN FLUCTUATION OF GAP LEVELS - An inkjet printer including an inkjet head with an ink discharging surface, a head scanning unit to drive the inkjet head to reciprocate along a first direction, and a pattern-printing control device to control printing a gap level pattern on a recording medium, is provided. The pattern-printing control device controls the inkjet head and the head scanning unit to print the gap level pattern including a plurality of unit patterns, in each of which the first linear pattern and the second linear pattern intersect each other, aligned along the first direction by manipulating the inkjet head to form a plurality of first linear patterns, which are formed to intersect the first direction, along the first direction, and to form a plurality of second linear patterns, which are formed to intersect the first linear patterns respectively at a same angle, along the first direction. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257937 | Inkjet Printer and Method for Acquiring Gap Information of the Inkjet Printer - An inkjet printer, including an inkjet head, a conveyer unit to convey a recording medium in a conveying direction, a position detecting unit to detect a position of the recording medium along the conveying direction, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform the recording medium into a predetermined wave shape along a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface of the inkjet head and the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to a position of the recording medium along the conveying direction, is provided. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257938 | Method and Inkjet Printer for Acquiring Gap Information - An inkjet printer including an inkjet head, a head scanning unit, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform a recording medium into a predetermined wave shape, an obtaining device to obtain information concerning a type of the recording medium to be used in a printing operation, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and the recording medium in association with a predetermined type of the recording medium, the gap information being acquired from a predetermined range in the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device when the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device is different from the predetermined type of the recording medium stored in association with the gap information, is provided. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257939 | Inkjet Printer and Method for Acquiring Gap Information - An inkjet printer is provided, which is configured to acquire gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and a recording sheet in each individual position of top-formed positions and bottom-formed positions within a predetermined wave-shape generating range, identify, when the predetermined wave-shape generating range includes a partial range in which the recording sheet is not placed, a top-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired and a bottom-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired, within the partial range, complement the unacquired gap information in the identified top-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other top-formed positions, and complement the unacquired gap information in the identified bottom-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other bottom-formed positions. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257940 | INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING GAP INFORMATION - An inkjet printer is provided that is configured to store a plurality of pieces of gap information respectively corresponding to a plurality of examined sections discretely arranged along a head moving direction on a recording sheet, each of the plurality of examined sections including a corresponding one portion of top portions and bottom portions on the recording sheet, and calculate interpolation gap information to be interpolated over a whole width in the head moving direction of at least one of a plurality of segments, each of which has a width in the head moving direction defined by two adjacent sections of the plurality of examined sections, based on the stored gap information. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257941 | INKJET DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD FOR INKJET DEVICE - An inkjet recording device includes an inkjet head that is equipped with a nozzle to discharge ink, an ink flow path connected to this inkjet head, an adjustment unit that adjusts the pressure in the ink flow path, and a maintenance unit that wipes the nozzle of the inkjet head, and a control unit that executes a maintenance mode of the inkjet head by controlling the adjustment unit and the maintenance unit. The control unit controls the maintenance unit to wipe the nozzle after the adjustment unit adjusts the pressure inside the ink flow path to a first positive pressure, and then again, after the adjustment unit adjusts the pressure in the ink flow path to a first negative pressure. The control unit further controls the adjustment unit to adjust the pressure in the flow path to a second negative pressure that is smaller than the first negative pressure. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257942 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device has a support and heating unit for supporting and heating a medium, a head for discharging color image ink and background image ink on the medium supported by the support and heating unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a color image printing process for executing a plurality of color image recording passes by which the head is moved relative to the medium in a moving direction, and a background image printing process. The controller is configured to execute a wait process of evacuating the head from above the support and heating unit and moving it to an evacuation position to have the head wait at the evacuation position for at least one of between the color image recording passes and between the background image recording passes. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257943 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device has a support and heating unit, a head for discharging color image ink and background image ink on a medium supported by the support and heating unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform one of a color image printing process for discharging the color image ink and printing a color image on the medium, and a background image printing process for discharging the background image ink and printing a background image that is a background of the color image on the medium, and to perform the other one of the processes subsequent to the one of the process. The controller is further configured to execute a wait process of evacuating the head to an evacuation position from above the support and heating unit to have the head wait at the evacuation position between the color image printing process and the background image printing process. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257944 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - By performing an average process of a result of a plurality of times of samplings by the temperature sensor provided on a printing element substrate, temperature of the printing element substrate is obtained. In this case, the number of times of samplings is determined on the basis of a simultaneously driven number in the printing element substrate. This enables the number of times of samplings for the temperature sensor to be determined depending on a simultaneously driven number at each time, and therefore while suppressing an influence of noise, the temperature of the printing element substrate can be measured in a highly reliable state where there is no separation from an actual temperature. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257945 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INSPECTION METHOD - A liquid discharge apparatus which causes a liquid to be discharged through a first nozzle by applying a driving signal to a first driving element, and causes a liquid to be discharged through a second nozzle by applying the driving signal to a second driving element, and which, with respect to the first nozzle, determines on the basis of an image formed by causing the liquid to be discharged through the first nozzle whether or not the first nozzle causes a liquid discharge failure, and, with respect to the second nozzle, determines on the basis of a detection signal which is obtained by applying the driving signal to the second driving element whether or not the second nozzle corresponding to the second driving element causes a liquid discharge failure. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257946 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - With an ink jet head in which color nozzles are aligned with an interval of three times an interval of black nozzles at the right side in a scanning direction of the black nozzles, when an image is recorded by ejecting black ink and color ink superposed on each other, a first unit recording operation is repeatedly executed, in which scanning by ejecting ink from at least one of the black nozzles and color nozzles is repeated three times while moving a carriage in the scanning direction, and a recording sheet is conveyed by a predetermined amount every time scanning is completed. In the first unit recording operation, the carriage is moved to the left side while ink is ejected from both the black nozzles and color nozzles at the first scanning. Moreover, in each of the second and third scanning operations, ink is ejected only from the color nozzles. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257947 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording head having recording elements arranged in a first direction; a first transporting mechanism having a first supply roller and a first discharge roller to transport the first recording medium; a second transporting mechanism arranged between the first supply and discharge rollers in the first direction to transport the second recording medium, the second transporting mechanism holding an overlap portion, of the second recording medium, overlapping in the first direction with a portion of a recording range in which the recording elements of the recording head are arranged; and a controller controlling the recording head to perform recording on the second recording medium by using only a part of the recording elements which are located to overlap with the overlap area of the second recording medium. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257948 | INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INK DISCHARGING TIMING - An inkjet printer is configured to acquire gap variation information related to a variation of a gap between a specific portion of an ink discharging surface and a recording sheet as a function of an inkjet head position, the specific portion located within a usage nozzle disposed area where usage nozzle rows to be actually used are disposed, determine representative gap variation information related to a variation, as a function of the inkjet head position, of a representative gap representing actual gaps between the usage nozzle rows and the recording sheet, by multiplying the gap variation information by a correction coefficient dependent on a width of the usage nozzle disposed area in a head moving direction and a wavelength of a wave shape of the recording sheet, and determine ink discharging timing based on the representative gap variation information, assuming that the actual gaps are equal to the representative gap. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257949 | Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus and Printing Control Method - An ink-jet recording apparatus and printing control method are provided in which when a moving speed of a printing object is changed, a difference in writing start position is reduced and printing quality is improved. The apparatus includes an ink container, a nozzle connected to the container for ejecting ink, a charging electrode to charge the ejected ink, a deflecting electrode to deflect the charged ink, a gutter to collect ink not used for printing, a writing start timing control circuit to generate a first line clock signal, a printing width control circuit to generate a second line clock signal, and a control part. The control part controls print start timing based on the first clock signal, and when the printing object reaches the printing start timing, the control part performs a width adjustment of a character string of printing content based on the second clock signal. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257950 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - In an image recording apparatus, only small ink droplets are ejected toward a recording medium in the range of tone values less than a second tone value. In the range of tone values greater than or equal to the second tone value and less than a first tone value, large and small droplets are ejected toward the recording medium. The first tone value is less than or equal to a 50% tone value, and the total ejection rate at the first tone value is less than 50%. In the range of tone values greater than or equal to the first tone value, only large droplets are ejected toward the recording medium. Thus, the occurrence of streaking can be suppressed while reducing the degree of instability of the landing positions of fine droplets of ink. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257951 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer includes an image control unit that controls rotation of image data so that a direction of a short side of a rectangular area in a printing sheet becomes a print width direction that is orthogonal to a sheet transport direction if a first warm-up time calculated by a warm-up time calculation unit is shorter than a warm-up time until an ink temperature of an overall ink discharge target width of an ink jet head reaches an appropriate temperature range. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257952 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet recording device includes: first and second pairs of rollers for conveying a sheet while nipping the sheet; and a recording head disposed between the first and seconds pairs of rollers. The recording head performs an image recording on the sheet by ejecting ink droplets onto the sheet when the sheet is stopped in an intermittent conveyance of the sheet. The recording head performs the image recording in accordance with a first image-recording data, before a trailing end of the sheet passes through the first pair of rollers that is disposed on an upstream side of the second pair of rollers. The recording head performs the image recording in accordance with a second image-recording data which is based on the first image-recording data and which has a higher image resolution than the first image-recording data, after the trailing end of the sheet passes through the first pair of rollers. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257953 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head which jets ink droplets, a head transporting mechanism which transports the recording head, and a control unit which controls the head transporting mechanism to reciprocate the recording head along a transporting path and controls the recording head to form an image on a sheet by jetting the ink droplets when the recording head passes over an image formation area within the transporting path. When the control unit controls the transporting mechanism to transport the recording head toward a turn-around point in the transporting path, the control unit decelerates the recording head in accordance with a first acceleration profile and a second acceleration profile which has a peak of deceleration higher than that of the first acceleration profile. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257954 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head configured to eject droplets of liquid toward a recording medium; an elevator device configured to change a distance between the liquid ejection head and the recording medium; a recording device configured to carry out recording onto the recording medium by driving the liquid ejection head to eject and deposit the droplets of the liquid onto the recording medium while driving the movement device to cause the relative movement of the liquid ejection head and the recording medium; an evaluation acquisition device configured to acquire droplet deposition performance of the liquid ejection head evaluated in accordance with results of the recording carried out on the recording medium; and a setting device configured to set the distance to as large a value as possible while satisfying droplet deposition performance required for the liquid ejection head, in accordance with the acquired droplet deposition performance. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257955 | THRESHOLD MATRIX GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE DATA GENERATION METHOD, IMAGE DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND THRESHOLD MATRIX - A threshold matrix generation part determines a turn-on order in a matrix area where a threshold matrix is generated and determines a threshold value of each matrix element. In determining the turn-on order, a temporary evaluation value element is obtained based on a distance between each undetermined matrix element whose position in the turn-on order has not been determined and each determined matrix element. If these matrix elements are located in the same position with respect to a row or column direction, the temporary evaluation value element is corrected such that the undetermined matrix element is less evaluated based on the evaluation value. Then, the position of an undetermined matrix element that is most highly evaluated in the turn-on order is determined. Accordingly, a threshold matrix that suppresses the occurrence of a grid-like dot pattern can be provided. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257956 | EXCESSIVE SUBSTRATE MEDIA HEIGHT DETECTION IN A PRINTING APPARATUS - A substrate media height detector for a printing system having a print head including a media transport having a surface for moving a sheet of substrate media along a media path in a process direction. An elongate detection member includes a portion extending across the media path in a cross-process direction and is spaced from the media transport surface a predetermined distance. The detection member is movably attached to a support structure and is deflectable upon engagement with a sheet of substrate media. A deflection sensor senses the deflection of the detection member by the substrate media. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257957 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS INCLUDING CURL CORRECTING DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING METHOD INCLUDING CURL CORRECTING PROCESS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR LIQUID EJECTION AND CURL CORRECTING - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejection head that ejects liquid on recording media, an output tray that supports the recording media stacked thereon, a curl-correcting device, a detecting device, and a controller. The curl-correcting device performs curl-correction processing on the recording media, which reduces an amount of curl of the recording media. The detecting device detects information related to a stacking thickness of the recording media. The controller sets the curl-correcting device to perform the curl-correction processing on the recording media at a first processing level when the stacking thickness is greater than or equal to the threshold stacking thickness. The controller sets the curl correcting device to perform the curl-correction processing on the recording media at a second processing level when the stacking thickness is less than the threshold stacking thickness. The first processing level includes more curl-correction processing than the second processing level. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257958 | SHEET SUPPLY APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A sheet supply apparatus includes a supply unit capable of loading a plurality of continuous sheets, a reading unit for reading sheet information that a continuous sheet has, and a control unit that, when the continuous sheet is loaded on the supply unit, enables the reading unit to read the sheet information in a first state and provides a notification to prompt an input of the sheet information in a second state, the first state being the state in which the reading of the sheet information by the reading unit is available, the second state being the state in which the reading of the sheet information by the reading unit is unavailable. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257959 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRYING RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head that ejects a liquid onto a recording medium; a drying device that dries the recording medium; a sheet discharged tray including a sheet placed face; a sheet discharging device that discharges the recording medium to a space over the sheet placed face; a stopper that causes the recording medium discharged by the sheet discharging device to collide with the stopper; an obtaining device that obtains a height of the plurality of recording media stacked on the sheet placed face; and a controller that controls the drying device so that a degree of drying of the recording medium becomes larger in a case in which the height obtained by the obtaining device is equal to or more than a set specific value, than in a case in which the height is less than the set specific value. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257960 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A discharged sheet reception tray is displaced between a most protruded position which protrudes most and an accommodation position which is accommodated inside an apparatus. Since a control unit switches the positions of the discharged sheet reception tray depending on a length of a sheet to be discharged, taking the sheet from the discharged sheet reception tray is easily improved. Specifically, since a drive unit driving the discharged sheet reception tray is controlled so that a leading edge of the discharged sheet protrudes by a predetermined amount from the discharged sheet reception tray, it is possible to easily take the sheet from the discharged sheet reception tray by picking up the leading edge of the sheet. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257961 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS INCLUDING CURL REDUCTION DEVICE, CURL REDUCTION METHOD EXECUTED IN THE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM USED FOR THE APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: (a) a storage device for storing an image data set representing a plurality of images; (b) a liquid ejection head for performing an image formation on each recording medium; (c) a curl reduction device for reducing curl caused in each recording medium having the corresponding image formed thereon by the liquid ejection head; (d) an output tray for receiving each recording medium whose curl has been reduced by the curl reduction device, such that the received recording media are stacked on the output tray; and (e) a control device configured to control the curl reduction device, such that the curl caused in an earlier one of the recording media is reduced by a smaller degree than the curl caused in a later one of the recording media that has been subjected to the image formation later than the earlier one of the recording media. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257962 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - In an ink-jet recording apparatus, when a controller receives an image recording command for a sheet placed on a manual feed tray in a state in which a cap is in a first posture in which the cap covers a nozzle face, the controller is configured to rotate the motor in a first direction by a first rotation amount smaller than a complete switch rotation amount required for the image recording. And, the controller is configured to rotate the motor in a second direction by a second rotation amount equal to or less than the first rotation amount. Then, the controller is configured to rotate the motor in the first direction by a difference rotation amount between the complete switch rotation amount and the first rotation amount. | 2013-10-03 |
20130257963 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSPORTATION OF PRINT MEDIUM IN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND THE INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - Web paper is transported by roll with two or more drive rollers. The two adjacent drive rollers each have difference in rotation speed in accordance with a draw ratio. Accordingly, tension is applied to the web paper. Tension of the web paper between the adjacent drive rollers is detected by a tension sensor. A tension controller controls the detected tension value so as to be a target tension value. A predictive control device predicts decrease in tension during an initial printing period where tension control is not stable, and increases rotation speeds of the drive rollers downstream of a print unit to suppress the decrease in tension. Consequently, tension acting on the web paper is appropriately controlled also during the initial printing period, resulting in possible reduction in printing quality. | 2013-10-03 |