48th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140347329 | Pre-Button Event Stylus Position - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods and systems for correcting position and orientation displacement for a freehand user input device. Systems and methods include measuring the position and orientation of a freehand user input device over a period of time, determining the position and orientation as related to a specific time point at activation of a button, applying a temporal offset to the time point of the activation of the button to determine a button press start time, determining the position and orientation in the virtual space associated with the button press start time and associating the button press to the position and orientation in the virtual space. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347330 | MOBILE TERMINAL - The present disclose provides a mobile terminal, including a terminal body having a front surface and a rear surface, a front display unit disposed on the front surface and configured to output visual information thereon, and a rear input unit disposed on the rear surface and configured to be manipulated to input a control command, wherein the rear input unit includes a frame installed on a case of the terminal body to be manipulated in a pressing manner, and having a mounting portion, and a rear display mounted onto the mounting portion, and configured to output visual information toward the rear surface, the visual information being related to an event generated in the mobile terminal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347331 | CONTROLLING REAL-TIME COMPRESSION DETECTION - A detection learning module is used for enabling and/or disabling real-time compression detection by maintaining a history of real-time compression detection success for sampled data. The enabling or disabling of the real-time compression detection is based on a detection benefit function derived from a set of calculated heuristics indicating the real-time compression detection success on input streams. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347332 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting display and a method for driving the same are presented. The display and the method enable display of images at a substantially constant luminance level over time, even when degradation of the organic light emitting diode occurs. Components are used to compensate for the degradation of an organic light emitting diode and a difference in the threshold voltage/mobility of a driving transistor. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347333 | WIDE VIEWING ANGLE HOLOGRAPHIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A wide viewing angle holographic image display method and apparatus are disclosed. The wide viewing angle holographic image display apparatus includes a scan line unit and a control unit. The scan line unit includes a plurality of lateral scan lines that represent different angles, respectively. The control unit performs control so that different data are output at the respective different angles, represented by the lateral scan lines, using the plurality of lateral scan lines. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347334 | DISPLAY DEVICE, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - In order to enable suitable timing control of a display operation while simplifying a circuit configuration, a display device includes: an oscillation circuit | 2014-11-27 |
20140347335 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a pixel, a data line, a scan line, a data driver, and a scan driver. The pixel is configured to display an image. The data line is configured to transmit data voltages to the pixel. The scan line is configured to transmit a scan signal to the pixel. The data driver is configured to: float the data line during a first period of a frame, apply, after the first period, a first data voltage to the data line during a second period of the frame, and apply, after the second period, a voltage waveform to the data line that varies the applied voltage from the first data voltage to a target voltage during a third period of the frame. The scan driver is configured to selectively apply the scan signal to the scan line. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347336 | DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD WITH MULTI-TYPE COMMON VOLTAGES AND DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT USING THE SAME - A display driving method including the following steps is provided. A common voltage is provided to define a reference voltage of a display. The reference voltage is sequentially switched between a plurality of AC voltage swings, between a plurality of DC voltage levels, or between one or more AC voltage swings and one or more DC voltage levels. Each of the plurality of AC voltage swings is provided for a time length of one or more frames. The step of providing the common voltage is repeated one or more times. A display driving circuit using the same is also provided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347337 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A transistor connected to a power source for driving a light-emitting element driving transistor and a transistor setting to a predetermined voltage a source voltage of the light-emitting element driving transistor are commonly controlled by a control signal that takes one of three levels. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347338 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The invention provides a pixel circuit that can cancel the influence of the mobility of a drive transistor. A drive transistor supplies a light-emitting element with an output current dependent upon an input voltage. The light-emitting element emits light with a luminance dependent upon a video signal in response to the output current supplied from the drive transistor. The pixel circuit includes a correction unit that corrects the input voltage held by a capacitive part in order to cancel the dependence of the output current on the carrier mobility. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347339 | POWER CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a power control device for a display device, including: a current scaling factor calculation unit calculating a current scaling factor according to an input data signal and a load of the input data signal; a data scaling unit generating a data scaling factor based on the current scaling factor and scaling a data signal corresponding to light emitting gradation of a pixel; and a gamma scaling unit generating a gamma scaling factor based on the current scaling factor and scaling a gamma value for gamma correction of a data signal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347340 | Method and System for Detecting Display Driver Error - A system performs a method for detecting display driver error. The method includes sending a first command signal to a display driver to operate according to a first operating state that includes the display driver sending a synchronization signal, and monitoring for the synchronization signal during a first time period after sending the first command signal. The method further includes sending a second command signal to the display driver to operate according to a second operating state that includes the display driver withholding sending the synchronization signal, and monitoring for the synchronization signal during a second time period after sending the second command signal. In addition, the method includes detecting a display driver error based on results of the monitoring during at least one of the first or the second time periods. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347341 | DISPLAY APPRATUS - A display apparatus is provided which includes a display panel; a gate driver configured to drive a plurality of gate lines, a data driver configured to drive a plurality of data lines, a level shifter configured to generate a gate on voltage corresponding to an atmospheric temperature and to generate a gate clock signal, the gate on voltage becoming higher depending on a decrease in an atmospheric temperature, and a timing controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver and to generate agate pulse signal having a pulse width corresponding to a voltage level of the gate on voltage. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347342 | COST EFFECTIVE LOW PIN/BALL COUNT LEVEL-SHIFTER FOR LCD BIAS APPLICATIONS SUPPORTING CHARGE SHARING OF GATE LINES WITH PERFECT WAVEFORM MATCHING - A level shifter circuit has a plurality of channels for providing signals to a capacitive load and has circuits for sharing charge stored in the capacitive load between the channels. A first pair of channel clock generating circuits are coupled respectively to a first pair of channels. A second pair of channel clock generating circuits are coupled respectively to a second pair of channels. A pair of switches couple the first pair of channels together and the second pair of channels together, respectively, for sharing charge between the channels. A single resistor is coupled in circuit with all of the channels for controlling a slope of charge sharing between channels. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347343 | APPARATUS TO SUPPLY POWER IN DISPLAY DEVICE - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a power supply of a display device that includes a driving circuit and a display panel that displays an image according to an output data voltage transmitted from the driving circuit. The power supply includes a first booster and a second booster provided in the driving circuit, the first booster generates a first output voltage supplied to an Op-amp of a source output circuit of the driving circuit, and the second booster generates a second output voltage supplied to buffers of the source output circuit of the driving circuit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347344 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes gate lines which transmits a plurality of gate signals, data lines which transmits a plurality of data signals, and pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a signal controller which generates image data, a data control signal and a gate control signal based on an input video signal and an input control signal; a timing setter including connection pads connected to a voltage of a first level or a voltage of a second level; and a gate driver which generates timing information based on tuning signals transmitted from the timing setter through the connection pads and generates gate signals using the gate control signal and the timing information, where the gate control signal includes a scan start reference signal, which instructs a scan start, and a clock control reference signal, which controls each pulse width of the gate signal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347345 | CIRCUIT AND TELEVISION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a circuit includes: a synchronous driver configured to generate a control signal in synchronization with an output pulse of an AC/DC converter; and an LED current controller configured to start to control a current of an LED in response to the control signal, and configured to output a stop signal for stopping the control signal when a predetermined LED current is detected; wherein the synchronous driver is caused to stop the control signal by the stop signal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347346 | DISPLAY DRIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND A DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A display driver integrated circuit includes a gate driving unit configured to control voltages of a plurality of gate lines connected to a display panel, a voltage boosting unit configured to supply a gate voltage to the gate driving unit, and a control logic, unit configured to receive data, a horizontal synchronization signal, and a vertical synchronization signal, generate a gate control signal based on the data, the horizontal synchronization signal, and the vertical synchronization signal, and transfer the gate control signal to the gate driving unit and the voltage boosting unit. The voltage boosting unit adjusts a level of the gate voltage based on the gate control signal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347347 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode and a pixel control circuit. The pixel control circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor controls an amount of current to the organic light emitting diode from a first power source based on a voltage applied to a first node. The second transistor is coupled between the first node and a data line and turns on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The third transistor is coupled between the first power source and a second node that is a common terminal of first and second capacitors, which are coupled in series between the first node and the first power source. In operation, the third transistor turns on when a first control signal is supplied to a first control line. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347348 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Each of image-signal-line drive circuits includes a timing controller that generates a control signal controlling itself and other image-signal-line drive circuit, and a master/slave selection circuit that sets itself as a master mode image-signal-line drive circuit or a slave mode image-signal-line drive circuit based on a selection signal to be given from outside. From among the plurality of image-signal-line drive circuits, the master mode image-signal-line drive circuit gives the control signal to the slave mode image-signal-line drive circuit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347349 | GATE DRIVER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING SAME - In one embodiment, a display panel includes a substrate and a gate driver disposed on the substrate. The gate driver comprises a wiring unit which receives signals and a circuit unit which outputs driving signals in response to the signals received from the wiring unit. The circuit unit comprises a shift register and a shift register wiring connected to the shift register. The wiring unit comprises first through n-th signal lines (n is a natural number greater than two) arranged sequentially adjacent to the shift register. The first line is located farthest from the shift register and the n-th signal line is closest from the shift register. Further, the first signal line is electrically connected to the shift register by a first connection line that comprises a first contact portion connected to the first signal line and a second contact portion connected to the shift resistor wiring. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347350 | Image Processing Method and Image Processing System for Generating 3D Images - An image processing method for generating 3D images is disclosed. The image processing method comprises: capturing a first image of a first resolution and a second image of a second resolution, the first image and the second corresponding to a same scene; scaling the first image to a third image in the second resolution; analyzing the third image and the second image to determine an image offset between the third image and the second image; duplicating the first image; applying the image offset to the duplicated first image; and providing the first image and the duplicated first image for displaying on a 3D display unit; wherein the first resolution is higher than the second resolution. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347351 | APPARATUS FOR MATCHING BLOCKS OF STEREO IMAGE - The present invention relates to a block matching apparatus, and more particularly, to a block matching apparatus, in which a normal driving power and a low driving power are alternately applied to an absolute difference calculation unit for calculating an absolute difference between a pixel of a first image frame and a pixel of a second image frame corresponding thereto among two stereo image frames, and a low absolute difference of corresponding pixels calculated using the low driving power is compensated with a high absolute difference of adjacent corresponding pixels calculated using the normal driving power, so that since a separate estimation unit does not need to be provided, the block matching apparatus can be lightly manufactured in terms of hardware and can reduce power consumption. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347352 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR 2-DIMENSIONAL AND 3-DIMENSIONAL RENDERING AND DISPLAY OF PLENOPTIC IMAGES - Apparatuses, methods and systems for processing, rendering and displaying plenoptic images are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method comprising storing a plenoptic image in a non-transitory computer readable memory associated with a processor, receiving at the processor a viewing position information, processing the plenoptic image and the viewing position information to render a visual output based upon information of the plenoptic image and the viewing position information, performing a blending or smoothing function on information of the plenoptic image including weighting each of a plurality of pixels of the plenoptic image based upon a first color value associated with each pixel and a set of second color values associated with a plurality of neighboring pixels, and displaying the visual output on a display device. The visual output displayed on the display device varies as a function of the viewing position information. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347353 | OVERLAY AND MOTION COMPENSATION OF STRUCTURES FROM VOLUMETRIC MODALITIES ONTO VIDEO OF AN UNCALIBRATED ENDOSCOPE - A method, system, and program product are provided for overlaying structures from volumetric modalities onto video of an uncalibrated endoscope. The method comprises: determining correspondence ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140347354 | DIGITAL IMAGE TRANSITIONS - Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for displaying a sequence of multiple images to provide an appearance of a three-dimensional (30) effect. A data processing device or system can identify multiple images to be displayed. The data processing device or system can divide a two-dimensional (20) display area into multiple display portions. The data processing device or system can display a sequence of the identified images on the display portions so as to provide an appearance of a three-dimensional (30) effect. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347355 | RAY TRACING CORE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RAY TRACING - A ray tracing core comprises a ray tracing unit (RTU), a control unit, and a tree build unit (TBU). The tree build unit (TBU) builds one selected of a plurality of spatial expression data structures. The ray tracing unit (RTU) performs ray tracing based on the spatial expression data structure which is selected. The control unit selects one of a plurality of spatial expression data by calculating an execution complexity of the ray tracing unit and the tree build unit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347356 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MATED SURFACE OF AN OBJECT HAVING A PLURALITY OF MEMBERS - A method for determining a mated portion of an object can include receiving design data defining a three-dimensional object having a first member mated with a second member. Each member can be represented by a plurality of triangles. The method can include determining an outer layer of the three-dimensional object and a mated surface of the three-dimensional object. The mated surface may be determined by utilizing a recursive process to analyze each specific triangle of the plurality of triangles. The recursive process can classify a triangle as: (i) on the outer layer when all of its vertices are on the outer layer, and (ii) in the mated surface when none of its vertices are on the outer layer. When a triangle has at least one but not all of its vertices on the outer layer, the triangle can be subdivided into sub-triangles, which are then analyzed individually. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347357 | GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT AND TILE-BASED RENDERING METHOD - A graphics processing unit (GPU) is provided. The GPU includes a tiling unit and a rasterizer. The tiling unit is configured to determines primitives touching a corresponding tile in tiles in an image frame, to determine at least one representative primitive of the primitives using a depth value of each of the primitives, and to generate visible primitives of the primitives for the corresponding tile using a depth value of the at least one representative primitive. The rasterizer is configured to rasterize the at least one representative and the visible primitives. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347358 | METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING CREPED MATERIALS - Methods of characterizing the topography of a surface of a creped material, devices for characterizing surface topography of a creped material, computer systems for characterizing surface topography of a creped material, and the like, are disclosed. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347359 | CACHE-EFFICIENT PROCESSOR AND METHOD OF RENDERING INDIRECT ILLUMINATION USING INTERLEAVING AND SUB-IMAGE BLUR - A cache-efficient processor and method for rendering indirect illumination using interleaving and sub-image blur. One embodiment of the processor is configured to render an indirect illumination image and includes: (1) a buffer restructurer configured to organize a reflective shadow map (RSM), rendered with respect to a reference point, into a plurality of unique sub-RSMs, each having sub-RSM pixels, (2) an indirect illumination computer configured to employ interleaved sampling on the plurality of unique sub-RSMs to generate a plurality of indirect illumination sub-images, and (3) a filter operable to smooth accumulated light values of the indirect illumination sub-images for subsequent interleaving into the indirect illumination image. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347360 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION OF DATA USING 3-DIMENSIONAL LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS - A method for multi-dimensional visualization of data performed in a data display apparatus, includes: collecting data obtained by scanning at least one part of a sample, from at least one sensor; and comparing a resolution of 3-dimensional light emitting apparatus and a resolution of the scanned data. Further, the method includes adjusting the resolution of the scanned data to be matched with the resolution of the 3-dimensional light emitting apparatus, when the resolution of 3-dimensional light emitting apparatus is not identical to the resolution of the scanned data; and displaying the data corresponding to the sample in the adjusted resolution by driving the 3-dimensional light emitting apparatus. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347361 | 3D Light Field Displays and Methods with Improved Viewing Angle, Depth and Resolution - 3D light field display methods and apparatus with improved viewing angle, depth and resolution are introduced. The methods can be used to create a high quality 3D light field display of any size from smaller than a postage stamp to larger than a three story building. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347362 | RESOLUTION ENHANCED 3D RENDERING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are provided for rendering 3D images or video without significantly losing resolution or increasing the resolution. The systems and methods for 3D rendering technology can work with different types of 3D data frames that include left eye image and right eye image sub-frames. The 3D data frames render 3D imagery with side-by-side (SXS), top-and-bottom (TB), and frame packing (FP), as well as others such as full high definition 3D (FHD3D), frame sequential 3D, passive 3D rendering or the like. System and methods are provided for creating inverse pixel strips, and preparing 3D images that include the inverse pixel strips. Systems and methods are provided for expanding images in a plane without significant loss of resolution. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347363 | Localized Graphics Processing Based on User Interest - In accordance with some embodiments, processing power is applied based on the user's detected level of interest. In one embodiment, the user's detected level of interest in particular regions within a frame may be determined using an eye gaze detector or eye tracking apparatus. Those frame regions or areas that the user spends more of his or her attention on may be processed faster, at higher resolution or otherwise to enhance their depiction. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING AND DISPLAYING DATA - The present invention comprises a novel method and apparatus for displaying and managing relationships between data elements of a database, including, without limitation, relationships between data elements representing or associated with members of a social network in a social network database. In one or more embodiments, attributes or values of data elements of a database are interpreted as unique locations in a multidimensional environment. Data elements are graphically displayed from the perspective of a point within the multidimensional environment. Attributes and relationships between data elements are displayed by visual characteristics of the displayed data elements (e.g. location, color, shape, animation) and by graphical elements connecting related displayed elements (e.g. similar colors, shapes, or connecting lines or areas). | 2014-11-27 |
20140347365 | BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR GAS CONCENTRATION RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON TUNABLE DIODE LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY - Systems and methods construct a 2 dimensional (2D) gas concentration map (image) from data from one or more laser based absorption projection paths. Embodiments use a Bayesian approach to construct a 2D gas concentration map of a combustion region cross section plane by modeling the 2D map as a Gaussian Process (GP). The GP models the global correlation among all pixels in the 2D map. Data from one or more projection paths is propagated to all pixels in the map instead of just local pixels. The correlation among map pixels is used to propagate projection path data from map pixels traversed by a projection path to other map pixels. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347366 | SLEEP DISPLAY PROGRAM, SLEEP DISPLAY METHOD, AND SLEEP DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a sleep display program, a sleep display method, and a sleep display device for visualizing an internal clock regarding sleep. The sleep display program is a program for displaying, in a display unit, sleep state data of a user that has been measured and recorded by a sleep evaluation device, the data including at least a wakeup time T | 2014-11-27 |
20140347367 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive registration of a symbol by associating the symbol with a plurality of data selected from a group of data when each data included in the group of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display the symbol registered by being associated with the plurality of selected data, by associating the symbol with the designated data, when the designated data is included in the plurality of data, in a case where any one data included in the group of data is designated. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347368 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH INTERFACE MODIFICATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: aggregating context information for capturing a current context of a user; and modifying a navigation avatar based on the context information for displaying on a device. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347369 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING CHANGED SHAPE OF PAGE - Exemplary embodiments disclose a method and device for displaying a changed shape of a page. The method includes: receiving a user touch input on the page; calculating a virtual touch force which acts on a first node on the page based on the user touch input; calculating a virtual spring force which acts on the first node by at least one virtual spring which is connected to the first node based on the calculated virtual touch force; calculating a virtual rod force which acts on the first node by at least one virtual rod which is connected to the first node based on the calculated virtual touch force; and moving the first node based on the virtual touch force, the virtual spring force and the virtual rod force. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347370 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing device, method and computer program product provide mechanisms for making a moving photograph. The information processing apparatus includes a moving area detector configured to detect a moving area in images of a processing target image group. The processing target image group includes a base image and a plurality of reference images. A display controller causes the base image to be displayed along with each of the plurality of reference images in succession. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347371 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING USING DYNAMIC RESOURCES - A system has a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) that includes one or more registers. The GPU can change a resource descriptor in one of the GPU's registers. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347372 | LOAD BALANCING BETWEEN GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS AND GRAPHICS PROCESSORS - Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating load balancing between central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs). A request is obtained to execute a first application in one or more computing devices. In one embodiment, a second application associated with the first application is assigned to be executed in GPUs of the one or more computing devices instead of CPUs of the one or more computing devices when a resource usage profile associated with the first application indicates that the first application imposes a greater CPU load than GPU load. Conversely, the second application is assigned to be executed in the CPUs instead of the GPUs when the resource usage profile indicates that the first application imposes a greater GPU load than CPU load. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347373 | METHOD OF GENERATING TERRAIN MODEL AND DEVICE USING THE SAME - There are provided a method of generating a terrain model and a device using the same. The method of generating a terrain model includes dividing a primitive terrain model into a plurality of partial terrain sections based on a predetermined criterion, assigning the plurality of partial terrain sections to a multiprocessor, and generating a final terrain model by performing a terrain transformation simulation of the plurality of partial terrain sections through parallel processing based on the multiprocessor. Therefore, it is possible to rapidly generate a realistic terrain model. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347374 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - This image processing circuit performs, with reduced power consumption, pipeline processing of image data. This image processing circuit has an image processing unit which performs pipeline processing of image data having N-bit pixel data. The image processing unit has a pipeline register ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140347375 | DEVELOPER CONTROLLED LAYOUT - A method for processing graphics for a GPU program, translating instructions from a shading language into an intermediate language with a front end of a GPU compiler; translating the instructions from the intermediate language into a GPU object language with a back end of the GPU compiler; wherein the instructions in the shading language include instructions defining a layout of resources for the GPU program. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347376 | GRAPHICS SERVER AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STREAMING PARAMETERS - A graphics server and method for managing streaming parameters. One embodiment of the graphics server includes: (1) a real-time bandwidth estimator (RBE) configured to generate a bandwidth estimate for a network over which a rendered scene is transmittable, (2) a quality-of-service (QoS) manager configured to generate streaming parameters based on the bandwidth estimate, and (3) a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to employ the streaming parameters to at least partially prepare the rendered scene for transmission. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347377 | TREAD WITH ULTRA EFFICIENT VULCANIZATION SYSTEM - A global composition system is described. In one or more implementations, the global composition system may be configured to perform rendering for a plurality of applications. For example, the global composition system may be configured to expose one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that are accessible to the applications. The APIs may then be used to cause a single composition engine to perform the rendering for the plurality of applications. The use of a single composition engine may be used to support a variety of different functionality, such as to perform efficient rendering by knowing what elements are provided by each of the applications and how those items relate for rendering to a display device. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347378 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A remote control, upon determining that a power-saving flag is on, or in other words, upon determining that the remote control is conducting power-saving operating behavior, decides on a monochrome image stored in a reduced image memory as image information to be read by a renderer. The monochrome image has ⅛ the amount of information compared to a color image stored in a normal image memory. Consequently, in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control, the renderer is able to read a monochrome image stored in the reduced image memory with less power compared to the case of reading a color image stored in the normal image memory. Consequently, power consumed in the remote control may be restricted in the case of power-saving operating behavior by the remote control. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347379 | TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION DURING FRAME ROTATION - A decode engine is configured to perform a rotation operation with a macroblock in conjunction with performing a deblocking operation that involves the macroblock. The decode engine decodes the macroblock and performs the deblocking operation to generate a deblocked macroblock, then rotates the deblocked macroblock and writes the rotated, deblocked macroblock to memory. With this approach, multiple, redundant reads of the macroblock, as required with conventional rotation techniques, may be avoided. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347380 | UNIVERSAL CODEC - Techniques related to coding data including techniques for coding data using a universal codec are generally described. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347381 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND A DISPLAY DEVICE USING THEREOF - A data processing method that includes: detecting a maximum data cell having a maximum value and a minimum data cell having a minimum value in a compression unit cell; converting the maximum data cell and the minimum data cell into a non-compressed data format; converting remaining data cells of the compression unit cell except for the maximum and minimum data cells into a compressed data format; and generating stream data in which the converted data cells are arranged, wherein the non-compressed data format and the compressed data format include a header field with different values and the non-compressed data format includes a data field corresponding to the value of the converted maximum or minimum data cell. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347382 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ADAPTIVE MEMORY BANK ADDRESSING - A display system comprises a mapping memory comprising a plurality of memory banks configured to store a plurality of image tiles corresponding to an image, and an image mapping component configured to assign each of the plurality of tiles to one of the plurality of memory banks according to a first mapping or a second mapping, wherein the image mapping component determines whether to use the first or second mapping based on a bank interleaving metric of the first and second mappings. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347383 | MAP RENDERING USING INTERPOLATION OF STYLE PARAMETERS ACROSS ZOOM LEVELS - A viewing window of a map surface is determined, at a certain zoom level corresponding to the magnification of the map surface. A first set of style parameters for applying to a feature of the map surface, where the feature is described in a vector format using several interconnected vertices, is determined. The first set of style parameters corresponds to a first zoom level of the viewing window, and the first zoom level corresponds to a first magnification. A second set of style parameters for the feature is also determined, where the second set of style parameters corresponds to a second zoom level of the viewing window, and where the second zoom level corresponds to a second magnification. A third set of style parameters for displaying the feature is determined by interpolating between the first set of style parameters and the second set of style parameters. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347384 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF MODIFYING IMAGE SIGNAL - An image signal modifying method is disclosed. In one aspect, the image signal modifying method includes inputting a gray level interval of a first dynamic capacitance compensation (DCC) lookup table to a current gray level which is a target in a previous image signal when it is overdriven (DTG) and 0 to a gray level of the previous image signal (PIG). The method also includes searching for a data value in an adaptive color correction (ACC) lookup table corresponding to a gray level equal to a numerical value of the DTG (ALT) and performing an algorithm based on the DTG, the ALT, and the gray level interval of the first DCC lookup table. The method further includes generating a second DCC lookup table based on the algorithm, and performing second DCC processing on the input image signal based on the second DCC lookup table. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347385 | LOSSY COLOR MERGE FOR MULTI-SAMPLING ANTI-ALIASING COMPRESSION - Techniques related to graphics rendering including lossy color merge for multi-sampling anti-aliasing compression are discussed. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347386 | IMAGE EFFECT EXTRACTION - Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347387 | Integrating Street View with Live Video Data - An approach is provided in which a system retrieves a street view image that depicts a geographical area viewed from a street view perspective. The system identifies a video device depicted in the street view image that provides a live video stream of a real-time viewable area corresponding to at least a portion of the depicted geographical area. In turn, the system generates a composite image that combines the street view image with a viewing area overlay corresponding to the real-time viewable area. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347388 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM - A user interface and method for identifying related information displayed in an ultrasound system are provided. A medical image display of the ultrasound system includes a first region configured to display a medical image having color coded portions and a second region configured to display non-image data related to the medical image displayed in the first region. The non-image data is color coded to associate the non-image data with the color coded portions of the medical image. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347389 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A medical image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit, a display unit, and an image data processing unit. The input unit inputs designation of a region of interest on a first medical image obtained by imaging an object. The display unit displays, adjacently to the region of interest together with the first medical image, an enlarged medical image obtained by enlarging an image in the region of interest. The image data processing unit decides a position at which the enlarged medical image is displayed, based on a position of the region of interest on the first medical image and a position of the first medical image. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347390 | BODY-LOCKED PLACEMENT OF AUGMENTED REALITY OBJECTS - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to placing virtual objects in an augmented reality environment. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising receiving sensor data comprising one or more of motion data, location data, and orientation data from one or more sensors located on a head-mounted display device, and based upon the motion data, determining a body-locking direction vector that is based upon an estimated direction in which a body of a user is facing. The method further comprises positioning a displayed virtual object based on the body-locking direction vector. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347391 | HOLOGRAM ANCHORING AND DYNAMIC POSITIONING - A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual objects in a mixed reality environment in a way that is optimal and most comfortable for a user to interact with the virtual objects. When a user is moving through the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may remain world-locked, so that the user can move around and explore the virtual objects from different perspectives. When the user is motionless in the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may rotate to face the user so that the user can easily view and interact with the virtual objects. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347392 | AUGMENTED-REALITY RANGE-OF-MOTION THERAPY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A server to perform a selected therapy on a user. The server may include a processor which may obtain activity information (AI) including information related to one or more of augmented-reality (AR) activity information, AR anatomical feature information, and range-of-motion (ROM) information; obtain user information including information related to one or more of the anatomy and physiology of the user; determine expected range-of-motion (EROM) information in accordance with the AI and the user information; track selected body parts (SBPs) of the user corresponding with the AR anatomical feature information; and/or render one or more augmented-reality limbs (ARLs) in relation with one or more corresponding SBPs of the user on a display of the system. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347393 | SERVER APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A server apparatus includes a processor, configured to acquire object specifying information for specifying an object in a reality space captured by a first portable terminal, to acquire condition information including an external condition of the first portable terminal, and to acquire content information associated with the object specifying information and the condition information by referring to a database. The database stores, in association with one another, content information representing a content displayed by being superimposed on an object in a reality space captured by a second portable terminal, object information for identifying the object captured by the second portable terminal, and condition information representing a condition for displaying, in the first portable terminal, the content represented by the content information. The processor of the server apparatus is also configured to transmit the content information to the first portable terminal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347394 | LIGHT FIXTURE SELECTION USING AUGMENTED REALITY - A fixture can include a housing, a member for positioning the housing on or proximate to a surface in a room, an augmented reality (AR) target coupled to the housing and having a unique identifier for detection by an AR software application, and a light source disposed at least partially within the housing and configured to (i) illuminate the AR target for easier detection and (ii) at least partially illuminate the room. A method can include positioning the self-illuminated AR target in a possible position for an interior decoration in the room, initiating the AR software application on a mobile computing device, capturing image data including the self-illuminated AR target with the mobile computing device, and viewing an AR view of the room on a display of the mobile computing device, the AR view including an AR view of the interior decoration at the possible position. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347395 | Augmented Reality Methods and Systems Including Optical Merging of a Plurality of Component Optical Images - The present disclosure provides augmented reality methods and systems where two or more component optical images are optically overlaid via one or more beam splitters to form composite optical images. In some embodiments a second component optical image is an electronic optical image (an image from an electronically controlled emission source) while the first component optical image is one of a physical optical image (an image of a physical object from which diffuse reflection occurs), an electronic optical image, an emission optical image (an image from a non-electronic source that emits radiation), or a hybrid optical image (composed, of at least two of a physical optical image, and electronic optical image, or an emission optical image). In some embodiments the first and second component optical images are used to provide feedback concerning the quality of the overlaying and appropriate correction factors to improve the overlay quality. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347396 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING AND ANALYZING VEHICLE DATA AND GENERATING AN ELECTRONIC REPRESENTATION OF VEHICLE OPERATIONS - Geo-referenced and/or time-referenced electronic drawings may be generated based on electronic vehicle information to facilitate documentation of a vehicle-related event. A symbols library, a collection of geo-referenced images, and any data acquired from one or more vehicles may be stored in memory for use in connection with generation of such drawings, and a drawing tool graphical user interface (GUI) may be provided for electronically processing vehicle data and geo-referenced images. Processed geo-referenced images may be saved as event-specific images, which may be integrated into, for example, an electronic vehicle accident report for accurately depicting a vehicle accident. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347397 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING SCREEN ORIENTATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system for adjusting a screen orientation of a mobile device is provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes obtaining a face image of a user. The method includes extracting location information of two eyes from the face image. The method includes determining a direction vector of a face in the face image according to the location information of the two eyes in the face image. The method includes determining a location relationship between the direction vector and the mobile device in a plane in which a screen of the mobile device is located. Finally, the method includes adjusting the screen orientation of the mobile device according to the location relationship. The embodiments of the present invention provide a technique for making the screen orientation of the mobile device suitable for the user to watch. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347398 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image reducing unit performs a reduction process for each reduction target area in one of a primary scanning direction and a secondary scanning direction, and subsequently performs a reduction process for each reduction target area in the other of the primary scanning direction and the secondary scanning direction. A binarizing unit binarizes pixel values of pixels in the reduction target area. A characteristic value identifying unit identifies a characteristic value on the basis of a pattern of the binarized pixel values and integrates the characteristic value. When the integrated value of the characteristic value exceeds a threshold value before the image reduction unit finishes the reduction processes, a control unit terminates the reduction process, changes the reduction ratio so as to increase a size of a reduced image, and causes the image reducing unit to perform the reduction process with the changed reduction ratio again. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347399 | IMAGE SCALING FOR IMAGES INCLUDING LOW RESOLUTION TEXT - A method and system are provided for image scaling including low resolution text areas. The method may include: determining one or more areas of text in an image to be scaled; scaling the one or more areas of text using two or more scaling algorithms to a required resolution to acquire two or more scaled versions of the text area; selecting the clearest text in a text area from two or more scaled versions of the text area; scaling the overall image to the required resolution; and merging the scaled overall image with the selected scaled version of each text area. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347400 | Electroluminescent display where each pixel can emit light of any EIA color index - A display system, having an emissive body, varying light emitted from the surface in a way that each area becomes a pixel. The emissive body can be a FIPEL type device. Light can be both color varied and also color temperature controlled. The light color is changed by changing a frequency used to drive the body. Multiplexers can be used to reduce the number of generators needed. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347401 | PIXEL, DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a driver which generates a driving current according to an input image data signal and a light emission portion formed of an organic light-emitting diode which emits light according to the driving current and at least one dummy pixel connected to a repair line that is connected to a light emission portion of at least one first pixel among the plurality of pixels. The dummy pixel includes a dummy pixel driver having the same structure as the drivers of each of the plurality of pixels, a dummy pixel light emission portion formed of an organic light-emitting diode, and a repair driver which transmits a driving current generated in the dummy pixel driver through the repair line when a driver of the first pixel fails. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347402 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD - A display device includes a display unit including pixels, each of which emits light according to data voltages, respectively; and a timing controller which divides an area of the display unit into an upper, center and bottom portions, divides one frame time into light emission sub-frames of a light emission period and a blank sub-frame of a blank period in which is supplied a black data signal, divides the upper, center and the bottom portions into groups, differentiates a scan start time of a light emission sub-frame and a scan start time of the blank sub-frame of each group, and increases the light emission period and decreases the blank period in proportional to an increase ratio of the light emission period as a group is closer to a middle of the center portion. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347403 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATION OF IMAGE DATA OF THE SAME - A display device and an image compensation method are disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a controller and a data driver. The controller processes image data signal based on at least one of pixel information, a reference brightness condition, a present brightness of the display device and a target luminance and generate final compensated data. The pixel information is measured under the reference brightness condition. The data driver transmits the final compensated data to an activated driving pixel. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347404 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A controller for a display panel includes a detector, a timing controller, and a voltage generator. The detector detects a predetermined pattern in an image signal. The timing controller generates a control signal based on detection of the pattern. The voltage generator changes at least one driving voltage for a display panel from a first level to a second level based on the control signal. The predetermined pattern may correspond to at least one region having a predetermined arrangement of at least first and second gray scale values of pixels in an image corresponding to the image signal. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347405 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A pixel circuit includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a data storage capacitor to store a voltage for controlling a gray scale value based on an input data signal, a plurality of switch transistors connected in series between a data signal line and the data storage capacitor, and a plurality of connection transistors coupled to the pixels. The switch transistors have a gate electrode connected to a first gate control signal line. At least one connection transistor is connected between at least one node between the switch transistors of a first pixel and at least one node between the switch transistors of a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel. The at least one connection transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a second gate control signal line. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347406 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels, a writing transistor, a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, a holding capacitor, and a second switching transistor; a first scanning section configured to drive the writing transistor in a unit of a row of the pixels; a second scanning section configured to drive the switching transistors in synchronism with scanning by the first scanning section; and a third scanning section configured to control the second switching transistors to a non-conducting state within a period after the image signal is written by the writing transistor until the signal writing period of the same row of the pixels ends but to a conducting state within any other period. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347407 | COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention provides a solution for a highlight or multicolor display device, in which each display cell can display high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises three types of pigment particles, having different levels of size, threshold voltage or charge intensity. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING AND CORRECTING ELECTRONIC VISUAL DISPLAYS - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for measuring and correcting electronic visual displays. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology includes generating a series of patterns for illuminating proper subsets of the light emitting elements of the display, such as regular grids of nonadjacent activated light emitting elements with the elements in between deactivated. For each generated pattern, an imaging device captures information about the activated light emitting elements. A computing device analyzes the captured information, comparing the output of the activated light emitting elements to target output values, and determines correction factors to calibrate the display to better achieve the target output values. In some embodiments, the correction factors may be uploaded to firmware controlling the display or used to process images to be shown on the display. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347409 | 3D DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a 3D display method and a display device. The method includes: step a: driving first sub-pixels of odd numbered rows of pixels to display a first left eye image, driving first sub-pixels of even numbered rows of pixels to display a first right eye image, driving second sub-pixels of the odd numbered rows of pixels to display a black image, and driving second sub-pixels of the even numbered rows to display a black image; step b: driving second sub-pixels of the odd numbered rows of pixels to display a second left eye image, driving second sub-pixels of even numbered rows of pixels to display a second right eye image, wherein the second left eye image is the even numbered row image of the left eye image, the second right eye image is the even numbered row image of the right eye image, driving first sub-pixels of the odd numbered rows of pixels to display a black image, and driving first sub-pixels of the even numbered rows to display a black image; performing steps a and b in a loop until the images are displayed completely. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347410 | DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes an image display panel configured of pixels made up of first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels being arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix shape, and a signal processing unit into which an input signal is input and from which an output signal based on an extension coefficient is output, and causes the signal processing unit to obtain a maximum value of luminosity with saturation S in the HSV color space enlarged by adding a fourth color, as a variable, and to obtain a reference extension coefficient based on the maximum value, and further to determine an extension coefficient at each pixel from the reference extension coefficient, an input signal correction coefficient based on the sub-pixel input signal values at each pixel, and an external light intensity correction coefficient based on external light intensity. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347411 | DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY - There is provided a driving method for a display, which includes a display unit and a phase modulation unit. The display unit includes a plurality of pixel rows and generates image signals having a polarization direction. The phase modulation unit includes two oppositely disposed electrodes and an LC layer sandwiched between the two electrodes. The driving method changes a potential difference provided on the two electrodes of the phase modulation unit to control the twist of the LC layer thereby changing the polarization direction of the image signals generated by the display unit and passing through the phase modulation unit. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347412 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus capable of continuously printing images on a recording medium, each of the images including a variable image of which an aspect is variable for each of the images to be continuously printed and a fixed image of which an aspect is the same for each of the images to be continuously printed, the printing apparatus includes a storage unit that associates and stores therein image data of the fixed image and a template having at least information about a position of printing an image, and a printing control unit that, when a control command which includes information for designating the template and instructs a printing of the variable image is input, superimposes the variable image and the fixed image associated with the designated template, on the basis of the template and print the superimposed image. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347413 | PRINTING DEVICE - The time recorder comprises a casing comprising gears ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140347414 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording device includes a support member, a print head, a tension adjustment unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured: to move the print head to the retracted position; to control the tension adjustment unit to adjust the tension of the print medium to a print tension while the print head is positioned at the retracted position; to move the print head to the print position; to control the print head to execute printing; to move the print head to the retracted position, and to control the tension adjustment unit to release the tension of the print medium while the print head is positioned at the retracted position. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347415 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row that are adjacent to each other in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of a recording medium, a plurality of nozzles being arrayed in the conveying direction in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, each of the nozzles ejecting one of p types of droplets including a predetermined specific type of droplets, the p being an integer equal to or greater than three; a moving unit that relatively reciprocates the recording medium and the recording head in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; and a control unit that controls ejection of the p types of droplets from the nozzles, wherein the nozzles in each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are divided into (p−1) nozzle groups in the conveying direction, first nozzles of the nozzles in a k-th nozzle group (1≦k≦p−1) in the conveying direction and in one of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row ejects the specific type of droplets, and second nozzles of the nozzles in the k-th nozzle group in the conveying direction and in other one of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row ejects one of the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets, nozzles of each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets ejects different one of the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets, nozzles of one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at first in the conveying direction and nozzles of other one of the nozzle groups (p−1) ejecting the specific type of droplets at second in the conveying direction belong to different nozzle rows, and the control unit controls to eject, in one of directions of the reciprocal movement, the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets and to eject the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at first in the conveying direction and from the nozzles of the other one of the (p−1) nozzle groups ejecting the specific type of droplets at second in the conveying direction, and controls to eject, in other one of the directions of the reciprocal movement, the p types of droplets other than the specific type of droplets from the nozzles of the each of the (p−1) nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347416 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PIXEL DROPOUT - A technique is described for determining pixel dropout in a printhead that has a plurality of print elements arrayed along an axis. In the technique, a dataset of integrated intensity values, in the printing direction on a substrate, of a captured image is generated and used to determine if pixel dropout has or may have occurred. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347417 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Multiple test pattern printing using each of multiple printing element arrays are read, and in a case where a streak is present in predetermined test patterns of the multiple test patterns at the same position in the direction of the array of the printing elements, determination is made that the streak is not due to failure of a printing element. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347418 | Use of a Sense Mark to Control a Printing System - A printing system includes a first imaging unit configured to print a first image and a single registration mark associated with the first image on a substrate contemporaneously during a production run, and a sensor configured to detect the registration mark at a point where the registration mark is within a second imaging unit. The printing system further includes a controller configured to calculate an offset along a width direction of the substrate based on the single registration mark and to instruct the second imaging unit to print the second image on the substrate. The second image is shifted in its entirety in accordance with the calculated offset and is printed on the same side of the substrate as the first image. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347419 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF - An image forming system and methods are disclosed. The methods include detecting an ambient temperature of an image forming system by a first thermal sense resistor disposed in a first printhead to obtain a first detected ambient temperature, detecting the ambient temperature of the image forming system by a second thermal sense resistor disposed in a second printhead to obtain a second detected ambient temperature, and determining a temperature difference between the first detected ambient temperature and the second detected ambient temperature of the image forming system by a temperature variation module. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347420 | NOZZLE EJECTION TRAJECTORY DETECTION - Light redirected by liquid droplets ejected from nozzles ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140347421 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND INK SET - The present disclosure provides ways to more appropriately perform high-quality printing with gradation inks. The disclosure provides a printing apparatus for printing using an inkjet scheme. The apparatus includes a plurality of inkjet heads that eject ink droplets of a first-color ink of at least one color selected from a plurality of colors. The plurality of inkjet heads respectively eject ink droplets of different concentrations of the first-color ink (magenta or cyan). At least one of the plurality of inkjet heads ejects ink droplets of a resin dispersed ink, and the resin dispersed ink is a ink in which dispersing particles of a colored binder resin as a dispersoid is dispersed in a dispersion medium. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INK-BASED DIGITAL PRINTING USING VARIABLE DATA LITHOGRAPHY INKJET IMAGING SYSTEM - A system for ink-base digital printing includes an imaging member; an inkjet system for applying a base marking material to the imaging member to for a pattern according to digital image data; a dampening fluid metering system configured for applying dampening fluid to the imaging member after the applying base marking material; and an inking system configured for applying ink to the imaging member, the ink adhering to the base marking material pattern. Methods include jetting base marking material onto the imaging member according to image data, applying dampening fluid, inking the imaging member, and optionally pre-curing the resulting ink image, which enables 99% or greater transfer of the applied ink from the imaging member to a substrate. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347423 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - To appropriately perform textile printing by an ink jet method on a media of fabric. A printing apparatus for performing printing of a design represented by a preset target color on a medium of fabric by an ink jet method includes a plurality of the ink jet heads, each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. The printing apparatus performs printing of a design represented by a plurality of the target colors that are different from each other on the medium. Each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347424 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDED ARTICLE - An ink jet recording apparatus records an image on a recording material by ejecting a first ink composition through at least one first liquid ejecting nozzle having an open end. The ink jet recording apparatus also includes a platen having a surface on which the recording medium is placed. The surface is away from the open end at a distance PG satisfying the relationship 0.5 mm2014-11-27 | |
20140347425 | DROPLET GENERATOR - The present invention provides a droplet generator ( | 2014-11-27 |
20140347426 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A liquid ejecting head includes a substrate; and flow path forming members that form a plurality of liquid flow paths on or above the substrate, wherein grooves are formed between the plurality of liquid flow paths that adjoin in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the flow path forming members are formed on or above the substrate via an intermediate layer. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347427 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE AQUEOUS INK, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an ultraviolet-curable aqueous ink containing: an ultraviolet polymerizable compound; a water-insoluble thioxanthone compound having an absorption at a wavelength range of 375 nm or more and 450 nm or less, a water-insoluble tertiary amine compound, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent at least including a solvent (A) that dissolves the thioxanthone compound and the tertiary amine compound. | 2014-11-27 |
20140347428 | LIQUID CARTRIDGE, IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, AND SUBSTRATE - A liquid cartridge includes a liquid reservoir, a liquid flow path that selectively places the reservoir in fluid communication with an exterior of the cartridge, a sensor that outputs a signal relative to a position of an object in the liquid flow path, a storage that stores data therein, and a plurality of terminals. The plurality of terminals includes a sensor terminal connected to the sensor, a power terminal connected to at least one of the sensor and the storage, and that receives power, and a data terminal connected to the storage. A distance between a first portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the data terminal is greater than a distance between a second portion of the power terminal and at least a portion of the sensor terminal. | 2014-11-27 |