50th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120313855 | Wireless input device integrable with mobile device - The present invention is to provide a wireless input device integrable with a mobile device, which includes a wireless keyboard, a carrier and a retracting plate. The wireless keyboard has a top surface provided with a plurality of keys and two opposite sides each provided with a first rail element. The carrier has a top surface concavely provided with a receiving cavity so that the mobile device can be placed and secured in position in the receiving cavity. The retracting plate is movably embedded in a bottom surface of the carrier, and provided with a second rail element at each of two opposite positions for engaging with the first rail elements respectively, so that both the carrier and retracting plate are movable along the rail elements to a position where the wireless keyboard is completely covered by the carrier or where all the keys are exposed outside the carrier. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313856 | KEYBOARD PROVIDING SELF-DETECTION OF LINKAGE - A keyboard providing self-detection of linkage includes a key set module, a circuit unit, a wired transmission interface electrically connected to the circuit unit, a wireless transmission interface electrically connected to the circuit unit, and a micro-control unit electrically connected to the circuit unit. The key set module includes a plurality of keys depressible by users to trigger the circuit unit to generate a message signal. The micro-control unit detects an electrical connection signal generated by electrical connection between a transmission cable and the wired transmission interface, and transmits the message signal to the wired transmission interface upon detecting presence of the electrical connection signal, or sends the message signal to the wireless transmission interface when no electrical connection signal is detected. Thus the keyboard is equipped with both the wired transmission interface and wireless transmission interface at the same time. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313857 | ADAPTABLE INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE - The present invention relates to an adaptable input/output device. One embodiment of a hardware device for facilitating an interaction between a computing system and a user includes: an interaction surface for supporting the interaction, a single actuator capable of driving a first region of the interaction surface, and a first selective clamping mechanism capable of restricting movement of one or more second regions of the interaction surface that partly intersect the first region, wherein a displacement of one or more desired portions of the interaction surface is dynamically controllable. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CHARACTER INPUT INTERFACE - A method and an apparatus for providing a character input interface are provided. The method for providing a character input interface in a terminal having a touchscreen, includes simultaneously displaying a first keyboard on a first region and a second keyboard including second keyboard language selection keys on a second region by the touchscreen in a character inputting mode; and changing a language of the second keyboard to a language corresponding to a second touched keyboard language selection key touched while maintaining a language of the first keyboard when input touching the second keyboard language key is received. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313859 | Method and Apparatus for Touch Panel - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention an apparatus comprises a display having an edge and side and a first layer coupled with the display having a first portion opposing the display comprising a wiring pattern for receiving a touch signal, the first layer having a second portion extending beyond the edge and along at least a portion of the side, the second portion comprising a wiring pattern for coupling the wiring pattern for receiving a touch signal with an electronic circuit. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313860 | Metallic Nanoparticle Pressure Sensor - An electrical pressure sensor is provided with a method for measuring pressure applied to a sensor surface. The method provides an electrical pressure sensor including a sealed chamber with a top surface, first electrode, second electrode, an elastic polymer medium, and metallic nanoparticles distributed in the elastic polymer medium. When the top surface of the sensor is deformed in response to an applied pressure, the elastic polymer medium is compressed. In response to decreasing the metallic nanoparticle-to-metallic nanoparticle mean distance between metallic nanoparticles, the electrical resistance is decreased between the first and second electrodes through the elastic polymer medium. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313861 | IN-CELL TOUCH SENSOR TOUCH AREA ENHANCING ALGORITHM - A touch detection method includes: scanning the row electrodes or the column electrodes in sequence to obtain touch data of the touch sensor; labeling a plurality of coordinates as a touch image according to the touch data; mirror copying the touch data of the touch image corresponding to at least one column electrode and at least one row electrode which are adjacent to an edge of the pixel active area in the x-direction and the y-direction, respectively, to at least one corresponding location which is outside of the touch sensor active area with respect to the edge of the pixel active area; calculating a location (x | 2012-12-13 |
20120313862 | ACTIVE FLEXIBLE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Included in an active flexible display is flexible display unit to output an image; and a driving unit to deform the display unit based on a voltage being applied to the display unit. A method to control a flexible display includes recognizing an occurrence of a specific event; and applying a voltage to deform the active flexible display to a shape based on the recognized event. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313863 | INTEGRATED TOUCH PANEL STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An integrated touch panel structure and manufacturing method thereof are described. The integrated touch panel structure is integrated by a first sensing layer, a displaying layer, a backlight plate and a composite component layer. The composite component layer includes a second sensing layer and a processing circuit layer. The processing circuit layer further includes a metal area for preventing a touch signal from electromagnetic interference to increase the precision of the touch signal. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313864 | TOUCH PANEL - The present disclosure relates to a touch panel. The touch panel includes a substrate having a surface, a transparent conductive layer, at least one electrode, and a conductive trace. The substrate defines a touch-view area and a trace area. The transparent conductive layer is located on the surface of the substrate and on only the touch-view area. The transparent conductive layer includes a carbon nanotube film. The at least one electrode is electrically connected with the transparent conductive layer. The conductive trace is located on only the trace area and electrically connected with the at least one electrode. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313865 | INTERACTIVE SURFACE WITH A PLURALITY OF INPUT DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES - There is disclosed an interactive display system including a display surface, a first means for detecting a first type of user input at the display surface and a second means for detecting a second type of user input at the display surface, wherein at least one portion of the display surface is adapted to be selectively responsive to an input of a specific type. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313866 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL - A touch screen panel is disclosed. The touch screen panel includes a pixel unit, a touch sensing unit, and a data driver configured to provide data voltages to the pixel unit and to provide driving signals to the touch sensing unit. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313867 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE DISPLAY - Provided is a thin three-dimensional interactive display which enables multi-touch sensing and three-dimensional gesture recognition. The three-dimensional interactive display includes a light source for irradiating an object to be detected with a light, a light modulation layer, into which a scattered light generated by irradiating the object with the light from the light source enters, at least for modulating an intensity of the scattered light, a transparent light-receiving layer for receiving the light transmitted through the light modulation layer, and a display panel or a back light panel disposed on the opposite side of the transparent light-receiving layer from the light modulation layer. The transparent light-receiving layer has a two-dimensional array of light-receiving elements. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313868 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes: a first input unit for inputting information through an input operation; a detecting unit for detecting an event that interrupts the input operation of the first input unit; and a second input unit for inputting information through an input operation as an alternative to the first input unit, in a case in which the detecting unit detects the event. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313869 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing terminal including: an input unit for receiving an input of a gesture; a recognition unit for recognizing the gesture input to the input unit; and a display unit for displaying gestures enterable on a screen to which the gesture has been input as correction candidates if the input gesture is unrecognizable. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313870 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a graphic acquisition unit for acquiring graphic data, an operation acquisition unit for acquiring an operation of a user, a determination unit for determining the operation acquired by the operation acquisition unit, and a processing unit for performing a process on the graphic data based on a determination by the determination unit. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313871 | TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A touch panel and a display apparatus are provided. The touch panel includes a substrate, first sensing lines, second sensing lines, first extending portions, second extending portions, and insulation pads. The first sensing lines are disposed on the substrate in parallel with a first direction. The second sensing lines are disposed on the substrate in parallel with a second direction. The first sensing lines intersect the second sensing lines to define meshes. The first extending portions are connected to the first sensing lines and extended toward the meshes. The second extending portions are connected to the second sensing lines and extended toward the meshes. The first extending portions and the second extending portions are distributed next to each other in the meshes. The insulation pads are disposed at where the first sensing lines intersect the second sensing lines to insulate the first sensing lines from the second sensing lines. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313872 | ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, PRESSURE DETECTING METHOD AND PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE - The present invention provides electronic equipment, pressure detecting method and pressure detecting device. The electronic equipment comprises: a horizontal pressure detecting device arranged at the periphery of the touch screen to detect the pressure applied to the touch screen in the horizontal direction and generate a horizontal pressure signal; and a pressure processing unit to determine the direction of the pressure applied to the touch screen in the horizontal direction according to the horizontal pressure signal generated by the horizontal pressure detecting device. The direction of the pressure applied to the touch screen may be determined by the embodiments of the present invention, and the precision of detection is high, the manufacture is simple, and the cost is low. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313873 | TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE WITH MULTILAYER ELECTRODE AND UNDERLAYER - A touch sensor including one or more multilayer electrodes and an underlayer disposed on a substrate. The underlayer is disposed between the multilayer electrodes and the substrate. The multilayer electrodes including at least two transparent or semitransparent conductive layers separated by a transparent or semitransparent intervening layer. The intervening layer includes electrically conductive pathways between the first and second conductive layers to help reduce interfacial reflections occurring between particular layers in devices incorporating the conducting film or electrode. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313874 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A VIBRATORY ACTUATOR FOR A TOUCH PANEL WITH HAPTIC FEEDBACK - The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing vibratory elements, comprising forming on a substrate a multilayer structure by an integrated circuit manufacturing method, the multilayer structure comprising an element susceptible of vibrating when it is subjected to an electrical signal, and electrodes for transmitting an electrical signal to the vibratory element, the vibratory element comprising a mechanical coupling face that is able to transmit to control element vibrations perceptible by a user. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313875 | MANUAL OPERATING DEVICE - A manual operating device includes a display input device, an arm position sensing section, a physical position sensing section and a control section. The display input device includes a display section that displays an operating screen, and a touch panel. The arm position detecting section detects an arm of an operator at a plurality of positions in a right and left direction. The physical position sensing section detects a body of the operator at a plurality of positions in the right and left direction. The control section makes a determination as to whether it is right hand or left hand that the operator has touched the display input device with based on results detected by the arm position sensing section and the physical position sensing section, and then controls display of the display section based on the result of the right-or-left determination. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313876 | PROVIDING SUBPAGES IN A TOUCH PANEL USER INTERFACE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of retrieving subpages from memory and rendering the subpages for display on a user display device, such as a smartphone or other display with limited viewing area. The method may also include identifying each of the subpages as being part of a sequence of subpages and displaying a first portion of the subpages on the display and storing a remaining portion of the subpages in the memory as rendered and ready for display. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313877 | INTEGRATED TOUCH SCREEN - Disclosed is a structure of a touch screen which is integrally implemented with a liquid crystal panel. In the structure, a touch sensor module is integrally implemented with the liquid crystal panel, a substrate of the liquid crystal panel is formed of two side strengthened glass, and the touch sensor module is integrally implemented on the two strengthened glass, thereby being capable of improving strength of the whole touch sensor module and simplifying a process. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERPRETING INPUT MOVEMENT ON A COMPUTING DEVICE INTERFACE AS A ONE- OR TWO-DIMENSIONAL INPUT - A computing device is capable of intelligently interpreting input movement. The computing device detects a movement of a finger or object over an input interface. The movement is interpreted as one-dimensional or two-dimensional. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313879 | HAND-HELD DEVICE WITH TOUCHSCREEN AND DIGITAL TACTILE PIXELS - A mobile electronic device has a touch screen display, a processor operably coupled to the touch screen display, and a network interface coupled to the processor. An array of one or more tactile pixels is located on the display or proximate the display along at least one edge of the touch screen display. Each of the tactile pixels in the array includes an actuatable portion coupled to an actuator. The actuatable portion is actuatable by the actuator in response to execution of one or more instructions by the processor. A tactile feel of the actuatable portion changes as a result of actuation of the actuatable portion by the actuator. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313880 | TOUCH SCREEN SENSOR WITH LOW VISIBILITY CONDUCTORS - A touch screen sensor with a conductive micropattern includes one or more features to obscure or reduce the visibility of the conductive micropattern. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313881 | DISPLAY SCREEN SHIELD LINE SYSTEM - Electrical shield line systems are provided for openings in common electrodes near data lines of display and touch screens. Some displays, including touch screens, can include multiple common electrodes (Vcom) that can have openings between individual Vcoms. Some display screens can have an open slit between two adjacent edges of Vcom. Openings in Vcom can allow an electric field to extend from a data line through the Vcom layer. A shield can be disposed over the Vcom opening to help reduce or eliminate an electric field from affecting a pixel material, such as liquid crystal. The shield can be connected to a potential such that electric field is generated substantially between the shield and the data line to reduce or eliminate electric fields reaching the liquid crystal. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313882 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACTLESS DETECTION AND RECOGNITION OF GESTURES IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE - The invention relates to a method for the contactless detection and recognition of gestures in a three-dimensional movement space (3D gestures), wherein
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20120313883 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH DEVICE - A capacitive touch device includes a transparent handholding portion and a touch portion, and the transparent handholding portion has at least one sensing structure, and the touch portion is disposed at an end of the transparent handholding portion and has a flexible conductive element, and a user can hold the handholding portion. When the flexible conductive element is contacted with the capacitive touch panel, a capacitive coupling is formed to produce current, to achieve the touch operation effect. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313884 | COVER GLASS STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF AND TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE - A cover glass structure includes a glass substrate, a touch-sensing structure and a decorative layer. The glass substrate has at least one cutting section, and the cutting section is etched to form an etched structure. The touch-sensing structure is disposed on the glass substrate, and the decorative layer is disposed on the glass substrate. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313885 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes a substrate having a surface, an adhesive layer located on the surface; a transparent conductive layer including a carbon nanotube layer and fixed on the substrate by the adhesive layer, at least one electrode electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer, and a conductive trace electrically connected to the at least one electrode. The touch panel defines two areas: a touch-view area and a trace area. The transparent conductive layer is located only on the touch-view area. The conductive trace is located on the adhesive layer and only on the trace area. Furthermore, a number of carbon nanotube lines are located between the adhesive layer and the conductive trace. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313886 | TOUCH PANEL AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A touch panel includes a substrate, an adhesive layer, a carbon nanotube film, an electrode and a conductive trace. The substrate has a surface defining a touch-view area and a trace area. The adhesive layer is located only on the surface of the touch-view area. The carbon nanotube film is located on the adhesive layer and only on the touch-view area. The electrode is located only on the trace area and electrically connected with the carbon nanotube film. The conductive trace is located only on the trace area and electrically connected with the electrode. A method for making the touch panel is also provided. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313887 | TOUCH PANEL - The present invention relates to a touch panel. The touch panel includes a sensor, an optically clear adhesive layer, and a cover lens. The sensor has a surface. The optically clear adhesive layer is located on the surface of the sensor. The cover lens is located on a surface of the optically clear adhesive layer. The touch panel defines two areas: a touch-view area and a trace area. A space is defined between the sensor and cover lens in the trace area. The space is filled with dielectric material with a permittivity less than a permittivity of the optically clear adhesive layer. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313888 | METHOD OF DETECTING A TOUCH POSITION, TOUCH SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE TOUCH SUBSTRATE - Method of detecting a touched position on a touch display of a display apparatus includes determining an amount of an electrical charge generated by a touch on the touch display panel of a display apparatus, determining a difference between the amount of the electrical charge generated from the touch and an amount of a reference electrical charge and comparing this difference to a threshold value, detecting the position of the touch if it is determined that the difference between the amount of the electrical charge generated from the touch and the amount of the reference electrical charge is substantially the same as or larger than the threshold value and detecting the touched position using a pressure according to the touch if it is determined that difference between the amount of the electrical charge and the amount of the reference voltage is smaller than the threshold value. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313889 | Touch Display Apparatus - A touch Display apparatus is disclosed. The touch Display apparatus includes a backlight module and a sensing plate. The backlight module includes a support member, a light guide plate, and a backlight source. The support member is formed by a non-metallic material and has a bottom and a plurality of sidewalls. The sides of the bottom connect with the sidewalls respectively to form a containing space. The light guide plate is disposed in the containing space and has a light emitting surface. A side of the containing space has a light incident end. The backlight source is disposed corresponding to the light incident end in the containing space. The backlight source generates a light emitting to the light incident end. The sensing plate is disposed on a lower surface of the bottom and senses an action of an item above the support member through an electromagnetic reaction. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313890 | INTER-SYMBOL INTERFENCE REDUCTION FOR TOUCH PANEL SYSTEMS - A touch panel system is described that is configured to reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI). In an implementation, the touch panel system includes a touch panel assembly that includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged one next to another and a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged one next to another across the drive electrodes to form a plurality of pixels having a mutual capacitance. The touch panel system also includes a transmitter configured to drive the drive electrodes with drive signals derived at least partially from excitation values. The transmitter is configured to apply a window function to the drive signals. The system also includes a receiver configured to sense signals furnished from the sensor electrodes and to determine the mutual capacitance of the pixels. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313891 | DISTANCE SENSING CIRCUIT AND TOUCH-CONTROL ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a distance sensing circuit and a touch-control electronic apparatus. The touch-control electronic apparatus includes a distance sensing circuit. The distance sensing circuit comprises a distance sensing unit, a capacitive sensing unit, and an operation unit. The distance sensing unit senses the distance between an object and the touch-control electronic apparatus and generates a first sensing signal. The capacitive sensing unit generates a second sensing signal corresponding to the object. The operation unit judges the distance between the touch-control electronic apparatus and the object according to the first and the second sensing signals. The touch-control electronic apparatus according to the present invention can truly judge the distance between itself and the object by means of the distance sensing unit and the capacitive sensing unit for controlling touch-control functions of the touch-control electronic apparatus. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313892 | Capacitive Position Sensor - A capacitive position sensor for detecting the position of an object relative to a resistive sensing element. The sensing element comprises a sensing path that has terminals connected along it that subdivide the sensing path into multiple sections. Each terminal is coupled to its own sensing channel, each of which generates a signal that is sensitive to the capacitance between its terminal and a system ground. The signals are fed to a processor for analysis. The processor determines over which section the object is positioned by comparing the signals from the sensing channels, and determines the position of the object within that section by comparing the signals from the terminals spanning that section. The sensing path can be formed in a closed loop, such as a circle for a scroll dial, in which the operator's finger position and movement can be uniquely determined in a straightforward manner. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313893 | TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES WITH COMPOSITE ELECTRODES - A matrix touch panel having upper and lower electrodes, the upper electrodes being composite electrodes made of a plurality of spaced micro-wires, and allowing, for example, an electric field from lower electrodes to pass between the micro-wires and thereby capacitively couple with a touching object, such as a finger. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313894 | INTEGRATED IN-PLANE SWITCHING - This relates to adding multi-touch functionality to a display without the need of a separate multi-touch panel or layer overlaying the display. Instead, embodiments of the invention can advantageously utilize existing display circuitry to provide multi-touch functionality while adding relatively little circuitry that is specific to the multi-touch functionality. Thus, by sharing circuitry for the display and the multi-touch functionalities, embodiments of the invention can be implemented at a lower cost than the alternative of superimposing additional multi-touch related layers onto an existing display panel. Furthermore, since the display and multi-touch functionality can be implemented on the same circuit, they can be synchronized so that noise resulting from the display functionality does not detrimentally affect the multi-touch functionality and vice versa. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313895 | TOUCH SCREEN - A method for determining the location of an object on a touch panel is provided. Initially, a pulse of terahertz radiation is transmitted through a touch panel, which formed of a dielectric material such that the pulse generates a evanescent field in a region adjacent to a touch surface of the touch panel. A reflected pulse is generated by an object located within the region adjacent to the touch surface of the touch panel, and a position of the object on the touch surface of the touch panel is triangulated at least in part from the reflected pulse. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313896 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an object in a space and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a reference object such that the reference object appears to be located in the space. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313897 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control device according to an embodiment of the present technology obtains each image taken by several cameras, detects a particular object displayed in a certain image out of the obtained images, and performs control so as to set a mode to display an object in an image different from the certain image where the particular object is detected using the object in the certain image as a reference and to display the object in the different image on the same screen when the same object is detected in the different image in the obtained several images. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313898 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE - A touch-sensitive device including a display, a set of solar cells and a set of light sensors is provided. The display includes an external frame and a display panel. The external frame is located around the display panel. The set of solar cells is disposed within the external frame and applied to form a set of infrared light sources in the state of electro-luminescence. The set of light sensors is disposed within the external frame for receiving a corresponding light emitted by the set of infrared light sources. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313899 | FORCE-SENSING MODULES FOR LIGHT SENSITIVE SCREENS - A light sensitive screen includes at least one sensing element each being configured to detect a force applied to a position of the light sensitive screen and generate an electrical signal when a force is detected, and a sensor module configured to receive and process the electrical signal from the at least one sensing element. The sensor module may amplify the electrical signal from one of the at least one sensing element and generate an amplified signal, compare the amplified signal with a threshold and generate a comparing result, and generate a digital signal based on the comparing result, the digital signal including information as to whether the position of the light sensitive screen is touched. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313900 | USER INTERFACES - A first electronic device is operated in the presence of a second electronic device. Both are configured to transmit acoustic signals, the first being configured to transmit signals with a first characteristic. The first device determines the presence of the second device and thereafter transmits acoustic signals having a second, signal characteristic, different from the first characteristic, and giving a reduced interference between signals transmitted from the first and second devices respectively than the first signal characteristic. Acoustic signals comprising reflections of the transmitted signals from an object are received at the first device, and are used to characterise the motion of the object and thereby control a function of the first device. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313901 | COMPENSATING FOR AN ANTENNA THAT IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO A TOUCHPAD TO CAUSE INTERFERENCE WITH TOUCH SENSOR OPERATION - A touch sensor that can operate normally while located within a distance that would otherwise cause an antenna used for communication with a contact less smart card to interfere with operation of the touch sensor by providing a means for the touch sensor to compensate for the interference caused by the antenna. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313902 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH STRUCTURE - A capacitive touch structure comprises a transparent hand holding portion and a touch portion, and the transparent hand holding portion includes a rod and a transparent conductive film covered onto an external surface of the rod, and the touch portion is disposed at an end of the transparent hand. holding portion and includes a flexible conductive element electrically coupled to the transparent conductive film, such that a user can hold the hand holding portion, and the flexible conductive element can be contacted with the capacitive touch panel to produce a capacitive coupling and generate a current to achieve the effect of a touch operation. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313903 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY - An organic light emitting display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes pixels formed in every horizontal line, scan lines coupled to the pixels positioned in two horizontal lines, i data lines coupled to pixels positioned in odd horizontal lines, (i+1) data lines coupled to pixels positioned in even horizontal lines, and first and second emission control lines coupled to the pixels positioned in the two horizontal lines to supply first and second emission control signals, respectively. Each of the pixels includes a pixel circuit coupled to one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, a first organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a second OLED coupled to the pixel circuit to emit light to correspond to current supplied from the pixel circuit, and a selection unit for supplying current from the pixel circuit to the first or second OLED. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313904 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus capable of enhancing pixel charging rate includes a substrate, a first column transmission line for transmitting a first column driving signal, a second column transmission line for transmitting a second column driving signal, and a row transmission line for transmitting a row driving signal. The substrate has plural row wiring areas and plural column wiring areas. The row and column wiring areas, substantially perpendicular to each other, are isolated by an insulation layer. The first and second column transmission lines, electrically isolated from each other, are disposed in one and the same column wiring area. The row transmission line is disposed in a corresponding row wiring area. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313905 | FLAT DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a flat display device and method of fabricating the same which can make narrow bezel design easy and minimize resistance variation between adjacent link lines for improving of a picture quality. The flat display device includes a display region having a plurality of pixels, a driving integrated circuit for forwarding driving signals for driving the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of link lines for transmitting the driving signals to the display region, wherein each of the plurality of link lines includes a first metal line, a second metal line formed on a layer different from the first metal line, and a contact portion for connecting the first and second metal lines to each other. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313906 | SEMI-TRANSMISSIVE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DRIVING SEMI-TRANSMISSIVE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A semi-transmissive display apparatus includes: a reflective electrode provided for each pixel, wherein the semi-transmissive display apparatus performs reflective display operation by using the reflective electrodes and transmissive display operation by using spaces between the reflective electrodes of the pixels. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313907 | Display Device - In a display device having driving circuits formed on the same substrate where pixels are formed, the lateral frame area of the display device is reduced. A gate signal line driving circuit is placed in parallel with a source signal line driving circuit, so that no driving circuits are provided in at least two opposing directions out of four directions with respect to a pixel region. With the above-described structure, the area the gate signal line driving circuit occupies in prior art is removed to reduce the width (side to side) of the display device. Therefore a display device that has a small frame area in the lateral direction can be provided. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313908 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION TRANSMITTED BY AN OPTICAL ELEMENT - A method of adjusting electromagnetic radiation transmitted by an optical element is described. The method includes sensing the electromagnetic radiation transmitted by the optical element to produce sensed electromagnetic radiation information, and adjusting the sensed electromagnetic radiation information to produce adjusted electromagnetic radiation information based on the a spectral transmission of the optical element. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313909 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes: a light emitting unit which emits light; a light scanning unit which includes a light reflector reflecting light emitted from the light emitting unit and being swingably installed around a swing axis and scans the light reflected by the light reflector on a display surface where an image is to be displayed in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and an amplitude changing unit which changes an amplitude of the swing of the light reflector, in which the amplitude changing unit changes the amplitude of the swing of the light reflector, so that a first state where the light is scanned in a first region of the display surface and a second state where the light is scanned on the first region and a second region different from the first region of the display surface is switched over each other. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313910 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A projecting unit which projects image light based on an inputted image signal to a projection surface. An invisible light emitter is provided such that an irradiation area of invisible light includes a predetermined region. An image pickup unit receives at least one of a plurality of color lights constituting the image light as well as the invisible light, and which picks up an image of the projection surface to generate a pickup image. An object detector detects at least one of a position and a behavior of an object that has come into the predetermined region based on the pickup image. A display controller changes the projected image based on at least one of the position and the behavior of the object detected by the object detector. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313911 | AMBIENT LIGHT CALIBRATION FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN DISPLAY SYSTEMS - A method, system, and apparatus that can be used to operate a display device in an energy efficient manner. The energy efficient display device can effectively and efficiently compensate for changes in ambient light incident at a display screen of the display device using an internal ambient light sensor to provide control signals to a backlight driver. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313912 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH LIGHT SENSOR - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel | 2012-12-13 |
20120313913 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Detection signals of respective photo sensor circuits (senS, senD, senON, and senOFF) are activated so as to be output at once for each group of prescribed plural number of sensor rows (LSk) by a row driver ( | 2012-12-13 |
20120313914 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display panel has a display region and a non-display region formed around the display region. The rear plate has data electrode that applies a drive voltage to the rear plate, a dummy electrode that is in parallel with the data electrode and does not apply a drive voltage to the rear plate, an insulating layer that coats the data electrode and the dummy electrode, and a plurality of horizontal barrier ribs formed on the insulating layer and orthogonal to the data electrodes. The data electrode is arranged in the display region and the non-display region. The dummy electrode is arranged in the non-display region. An outermost horizontal barrier rib is arranged in the non-display region. The outermost horizontal barrier rib is opposed to the data electrode via the insulating layer, and is not opposed to the dummy electrode. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313915 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFT) ARRAY AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY (LCD) PANEL THEREOF - A thin-film transistor (TFT) array and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel thereof are described. The TFT array includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of control transistors. When the control transistor turns on and a video signal is transmitted to the pixel unit, the second sub-pixel of another pixel unit is charged. When the gate electrode of the control transistor turns off and the switching transistor of the second sub-pixel of another pixel unit turns on, the second sub-pixel of another pixel unit charges the first sub-pixel of another pixel unit. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313916 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a plasma display panel comprising a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and an address electrode, an integrated driver applying a driving voltage to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode, a data driver applying a driving voltage to the address electrode, and a controller applying a sustain pulse to the scan electrode and the sustain electrode and applying a predetermined constant voltage or higher to the address electrode in a sustain period. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313917 | CONSTANT CURRENT DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODE BACKLIGHT APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A constant current driving circuit includes a control integrated circuit which generates a switching signal, a switching device which switches an input power supply voltage based on the switching signal, a rectifying diode which rectifies a current of the input power supply voltage, a smoothing inductor which smoothes the current of the input power supply voltage, and a smoothing condenser which outputs an output current. The control integrated circuit includes a reference signal generator which generates a reference signal having information about a target constant current, a comparator which compares the current of the input power supply voltage with the reference signal, a flip-flop circuit which outputs a flip-flop signal having information about a time period during which a set state is maintained, and a delay circuit which outputs the switching signal to the switching device based on the flip-flop signal to control the switching device. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313918 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - This disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel, comprising a first polarizer sheet, a liquid crystal layer and a second polarizer sheet from the bottom up in this order. A first biaxial ¼ wave plate and a first biaxial ½ wave plate for expanding the wavelength range of the first biaxial ¼ wave plate are provided, in order from the top down, between the liquid crystal layer and the first polarizer sheet; and a second biaxial ¼ wave plate and a second biaxial ½ wave plate for expanding the wavelength range of the second biaxial ¼ wave plate are, in order from the bottom up, between the liquid crystal layer and the second polarizer sheet. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313919 | LCD CONTROLLER AND LCD CONTROL METHOD - A liquid crystal display (LCD) controller includes a plurality of segment/key source control circuits connected with an LCD panel and a key matrix through a plurality of segment/key source terminals, to periodically output a signal for one frame which contains a display output period and a key source output period. The plurality of segment/key source control circuits output segment signals having display drive voltages indicating a maximum value, a minimum value, and intermediate values between the maximum value and the minimum value. The plurality of segment/key source control circuits output first key scan pulse signals varying between maximum and minimum values to the plurality of segment/key source terminals during the key source output period in a key scan state when the key matrix has been operated, and then, second key scan pulse signals obtained by inverting the first key scan pulse signals to the corresponding segment/key source terminal. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313920 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-12-13 |
20120313921 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE - A stereoscopic image generating device comprising: a display device to include a plurality of pixels which emit brightness and non-brightness-emitting portions in the peripheries of the pixels; a lattice unit to be installed in parallel with a display surface as well as being adjacent to the display surface of the display device and to include a brightness-emitting portion which covers the non-brightness-emitting portions; and an optical unit to be installed in parallel with the lattice unit as well as being adjacent to the lattice unit and to include lens portions which form images of the light coming from the pixels at predetermined image-forming points. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313922 | DISPLAY DEVICE, PIXEL CIRCUIT, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display portion, a hold capacitor, a write transistor writing a drive voltage corresponding to a video signal to the hold capacitor, a drive transistor driving the display portion in accordance with the drive voltage written to the hold capacitor, and a pulse width adjusting portion adjusting a width of a pulse signal causing a drive pulse used to drive at least one of the write transistor and the drive transistor so as to correspond to an environmental change. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313923 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND PIXEL CIRCUIT DRIVING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit including: a light emitting element; a storage capacitor; a writing transistor for writing a driving voltage corresponding to a video signal to the storage capacitor; and a driving transistor for driving the light emitting element on a basis of the driving voltage written to the storage capacitor, wherein a characteristic of the writing transistor is controllable in such a manner as to be operatively associated with a process of writing the driving voltage corresponding to the video signal to the storage capacitor. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313924 | DRIVE CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a drive circuit including: an image supply section for supplying an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal panel ( | 2012-12-13 |
20120313925 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOBILE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a method of controlling a mobile device includes detecting, by the mobile device, one or more objects associated with a displayed first page and located on a page other than the displayed first page; receiving, by the mobile device, a selection of at least one object of the one or more detected objects; and displaying, by the mobile device, the at least one selected object on the first page. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313926 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALLY PREVIEWING VARIABLE INFORMATION 3-D STRUCTURAL DOCUMENTS OR PACKAGES - Systems and methods are presented for previewing 3-D images of produced 3-D variable information structural documents or packages in which still images and/or animations are provided showing the text, data, graphics and/or images of 3-D structural documents or packages defined by a variable information print job file allowing a user to preview the produced 3-D structural documents or packages as a sequence of still images and/or as animations showing different forms of the 3-D produced structures. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313927 | COLOR MESH COMPRESSION - A method of compressing data defining a colored polygonal mesh surface is disclosed. Color data associating points on a polygonal mesh surface is processed to determine a set of representative colors for coloring the polygonal mesh surface. The mesh surface is then divided into a number of sub-meshes each associated with one of the representative set of colors, wherein each of the sub-meshes comprises the portions of the colored polygonal mesh surface associated with colors which are determined to be similar to the representative color associated with the sub-mesh. An alternative representation of the colored polygonal mesh surface is then generated comprising mesh data defining geometry and connectivity of polygonal mesh surfaces corresponding to each of the sub-meshes and color data indicative the representative colors associated with the sub-meshes. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313928 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a two-dimensional image display device that generates and displays a tomographic image on a panorama-orthogonal cross-sectional plane, which extends in superior-inferior direction and is orthogonal to a panoramic cross-sectional plane, from three-dimensional image information generated from X-ray CT photographic data of a head and neck region. The panorama-orthogonal cross-sectional plane is shiftable in a mesial-distal direction along the panoramic cross-sectional plane. Furthermore, the panorama-orthogonal cross-sectional plane is tiltable around the line of intersection formed by the panorama-orthogonal cross-sectional plane and a horizontal cross-sectional plane. The image display device displays a tomographic image of the head and neck region that is on the shifted and tilted panorama-orthogonal cross-sectional plane. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313929 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF AN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an instruction receiver, a 3D depth information acquiring module, and a 3D display information output module. The instruction receiver receives an instruction to output GUI display information. The 3D depth information acquiring module acquires pieces of 3D-depth-related information corresponding to items to be displayed as a GUI display in response to the instruction. The 3D display information output module outputs GUI display information according to the acquired pieces of 3D-depth-related information so that at least part of the items to be displayed as a GUI display will be displayed in 3D if the acquired pieces of 3D-depth-related information comprises information corresponding to an item that should be displayed in 3D. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313930 | DUAL VIEW DISPLAY METHOD AND DUAL VIEW DRIVING METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLURAL IMAGES TO PLURAL USERS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DUAL VIEW GLASSES USING THE SAME - A dual view display method for displaying a first content to a first user and displaying a second content to a second user, a display apparatus having a dual view function, dual view glasses and a method of driving dual view glasses are provided. The dual view display method includes displaying a first frame of the first content; displaying a second frame of the second content; creating a removal frame for the second frame based on the second frame; and displaying the removal frame. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313931 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image generating device for generating an image of an object including a plurality of elements connected to one another. The image generating device includes: a calculating section for iteratively calculating a motion of each element of the plurality of elements based on a physical constraint condition of the each element with respect to another connected element; a parent-child information acquiring section for acquiring parent-child information corresponding to a connection between the each element and the another element based on information indicating an element having a predetermined relationship with another object; a correcting section for correcting a position of a child element with respect to a parent element based on the parent-child information and the motion of the each element; and an image generating section for generating information on the image of the object based on the corrected position of the each element. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313932 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing method and apparatus may generate a reference layer about a reference viewpoint. The reference layer may include information used to perform a hole recovery with respect to holes within output images. The information may be generated by warping the reference layer to a viewpoint of an output image. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313933 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing system includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires a rendering condition used for generating a parallax image group from volume data. The determination unit sets corresponding information for causing a space coordinate of a stereoscopic image viewed stereoscopically by referring to a stereoscopic display device that displays the parallax image group to correspond to a space coordinate of a captured site in the volume data based on the rendering condition and a display size and determines a scale for converting a length in a space of the stereoscopic image into a length in a space of the captured site based on the corresponding information. The output unit performs output control such that the scale is displayed. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313934 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - An electronic device capable of simultaneously displaying in two-dimensional and three-dimensional fashions the same content. A flash memory of the electronic device stores first image data for two-dimensionally displaying the content, and second image data for three-dimensionally displaying the content. A CPU of the electronic device two-dimensionally displays the content on a display of the electronic device, using the first image data. When the CPU accepts an instruction for selecting the content displayed on the display, the CPU three-dimensionally displays the selected content on a display of a display device, using the second image data. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313935 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOTIONS OF AN OBJECT IN A 3-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to a method, system and devices for controlling motions of an object in a 3-dimensional Virtual Environment by a Human Interface Device of a user browsing a 3-dimensional Virtual Environment. The human interface device being coupled to a client device for accessing the 3-dimensional Virtual Environment. The 3-dimensional Virtual Environment being deployed at, at least one application server. The client device and the at least one application server being coupled over a communication link This method first determines a starting point at a 2-dimensional surface by detecting a location of a pointer at the 2-dimensional surface and subsequently based on the starting point allocates a first inner area on the surface surrounding the starting point, a second area on the surface surrounding the first area and a third area on the surface, surrounding the second area. Further, an object motion control instruction is generated based on the motion of the pointer and the object motion control function associated to the area wherein the motion occurs is detected. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313936 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY SYSTEM AND STEREOSCOPIC GLASSES - A stereoscopic display system includes an image display unit which displays a left eye image and a right eye image for stereoscopic viewing, a pair of stereoscopic glasses worn by a viewer for viewing the images, and a tilt measurement unit which determines a tilt of a line connecting both eyes of the viewer with respect to a reference direction. The pair of stereoscopic glasses includes an optical axis change unit which transmits light which should enter one of the eyes of the viewer, and changes at least one of directions of optical axes of the optical axis change unit, and a control unit which changes at least one of the directions of the optical axes based on the tilt determined by the tilt measurement unit so as to reduce an effect of the tilt of the line on how the images appear to the viewer. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313937 | COUPLED RECONSTRUCTION OF HAIR AND SKIN - Techniques are provided to model hair and skin. Multiscopic images are received that depict at least part of a subject having hair. The multiscopic images are analyzed to determine hairs depicted. Two-dimensional hair segments are generated that represent the hairs. Three-dimensional hair segments are generated based on the two-dimensional hair segments. A three-dimensional model of skin is generated based on the three-dimensional hair segments. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313938 | Interface and Mechanism for a 3D Geometry Transformer and Translator - The Transformer with an Interface of Built-In Geometry and Spatial Units in combination as interactive tools for control automation in motion detects and analyzes the dynamics of nodes and elements and automates a hybrid process of creating two types of equilibriums: Conforming Equilibrium automates geometry that conforms to dynamics of detected elements and nodes of a system in motion to lock into the motion, while Desired Equilibrium geometries are generated to achieve desired dynamism of the elements and nodes by controlling their dynamics. Another function of the Transformer is to attach physical or non-physical objects to nodes or elements for other purposes and operations. The Translator is a device which uses invented Interface and Transformer to translate elements and nodes or any other mathematical, geometrical, or symbolic expression into a standard geometric expression or an approximation of the expression utilizing the built-in functionalities of the Invention. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313939 | LEVEL OF DETAIL PROCESSING - A method for the level of detail processing in the visualization of virtual models. In the method, the patches for each object are sorted according to the visualization error for producing the fine detail level of the model. When more than one geometry level is used, reduced detail levels are formed so that the patches are in the same order as in the fine detail level. When visualizing the model, a sliding window is placed on the model according to a determined quality factor. The sliding window is positioned on the levels so that it can be partially on two different levels. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313940 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FILLING LIGHT IN FRAMES DURING 2-D TO 3-D IMAGE CONVERSION - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D image conversion. The systems and methods fill in light among image frames when object have been removed or otherwise changed. In one embodiment, light is treated as an object and can be removed during image processing. The light is added back during the rendering process using the created light object. In other embodiments, light from other frames is filled in using weighted averaging of the light depending upon temporal distance from a particular frame and a base frame. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL VOLUME PROCESSING - A method for processing a digital volume image receives the volume image formed as a stack of image slices, each slice containing voxels and forms a 1:1 mapping of each of the slices, in order, to a corresponding tile in a digital flat volume. The method defines, for at least one voxel in a plurality of voxels in the digital flat volume, a neighborhood that includes the at least one voxel and adjacent voxels that are within the corresponding tile of the voxel, and adjacent voxels to the at least one voxel that are within the preceding tile in the digital flat volume, and adjacent voxels to the voxel that are within the next tile in the digital flat volume. The at least one voxel is rendered according to the adjacent voxels in its defined neighborhood. The volume image having the at least one rendered voxel is displayed. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL VOLUME PROCESSING WITH GPU ACCELERATIONS - A method for processing digital volume image data, executed at least in part on a computer that has an associated graphics processing unit, orders the digital volume image data as a stack of two-dimensional image slices of voxels. A 1:1 mapping of each of the slices is formed, in sequential order, to a corresponding tile in a digital one-row flat volume in a global memory. For each voxel in the digital flat volume, a neighborhood is defined that has, relative to each voxel, four or more adjacent voxels that are within the corresponding tile of each voxel, and one or more adjacent voxels that are within the preceding tile, and one or more adjacent voxels that are within the next tile. Each voxel is updated according to information stored for the adjacent voxels in the defined neighborhood for said each voxel to form a rendered volume image, which is displayed. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313943 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first image creating unit, a second image creating unit, and a display controller. The first image creating unit creates a first image by performing a rendering processing on volume data which is three-dimensional medical image data. The second image creating unit creates a second image having a different stereoscopic effect from the first image by performing the rendering processing on the volume data. The display controller that controls to display the first image and the second image in a designated region that is designated in a display surface of a display unit and a background region other than the designated region, respectively. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313944 | COHERENT OUT-OF-CORE POINT-BASED GLOBAL ILLUMINATION - A computer-animated scene is shaded by a computing system having an in-core memory and coupled to one or more out-of-core storage devices. The scene is comprised of shading locations on a surface element of an object in the scene. A point cloud representation of the scene is generated. An octree data structure based on the point cloud representation of the scene is generated. To generate the octree data structure, the Morton code for each point in the point cloud representation of the scene is computed. The points are then sorted based on the Morton code, recursively subdivided to find at most a threshold number of nodes, and written to the one or more out-of-core storage devices. The shading locations are then shaded based on the nodes written to the out-of-core storage devices. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313945 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING A CREATIVE ELEMENT TO MEDIA - A system for adding a creative element to media includes a media file having content and metadata associated with the content, logic for analyzing the content to determine at least one of a lighting characteristic, a shadow characteristic, and a presence of an identifying element associated with the content. The system also includes a creative element store configured to store at least one creative element, a rendering engine configured to develop a three dimensional rendering of the creative element, the three dimensional rendering including at least one of the lighting characteristic and the shadow characteristic, and a compositor configured to add the three dimensional rendering of the creative element into the content based on the metadata. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313946 | DISPLAY SWITCHING APPARATUS, DISPLAY SWITCHING METHOD, AND DISPLAY SWITCHING PROGRAM - Provided is a display switching apparatus including an operation unit used to instruct a display unit to switch a display of a display image having a background image, and a control unit that, when instructed to switch the display of the display image via the operation unit, exercises control so that the display of the display image on the display unit is switched to the display image having the background image in a visible state indicating whether the display is switchable. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313947 | Automatic Selection of Different Visualizations for the Organization of Multivariate Data - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method comprises generating a plurality of charts to visually represent a multivariate data set, mapping variables within the multivariate data set to components of each chart, calculating a score value for each chart based on a plurality of factors, and presenting one or more of the plurality of charts based on corresponding score value. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313948 | Method and System for Providing Community Networking Services in an Organization - A method of providing community networking services in an organization creates a graph which has a plurality of people nodes representing persons in the organization and a plurality of content nodes representing content objects authored by the persons. The nodes are connected by edges, which include author edges linking the content objects to the persons and similarity edges each linking two content objects and having a similarity value indicative of a conceptual similarity between said two content objects. The graph is analyzed to compute a relevance value between a focus node and a query node in the graph. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313949 | Automatic Selection of Different Visualizations for the Organization of Multivariate Data - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method comprises generating a plurality of charts to visually represent a multivariate data set, mapping variables within the multivariate data set to components of each chart, calculating a score value for each chart based on a plurality of factors, and presenting one or more of the plurality of charts based on corresponding score value. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313950 | Texting system - A texting system includes a computer. The computer includes a display screen, a microprocessor, and a memory. A conventional alphanumeric keyboard is operatively associated with the computer to generate commands to the computer. A chart includes abbreviations each corresponding to a particular descriptor in a selected language. A texting keyboard is operatively associated with the computer and includes a plurality of keys, each key including at least one of said abbreviations inscribed thereon, and when activated generating a signal causing the computer to produce one of the abbreviations on the display screen. A system generates communication signals corresponding to keys on the texting keyboard which are activated to produce a message comprised of at least one descriptor. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313951 | TECHNIQUES FOR SYNCHRONIZING HARDWARE ACCELERATED GRAPHICS RENDERING AND SURFACE COMPOSITION - A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions recorded therein for performing the method, and processing device for rendering an animation for a screen. The method includes rendering a frame of animation of a screen, attaching a Move Surfaces at BufferSwap (MSBS) command to at least one surface to be aligned with the frame of animation, swapping the buffer of the frame of animation, updating at least one of a size and a location of the at least one surface having an attached MSBS command, and composing a scene including the contents of the at least one surface of which the at least one of the size and the location has been updated. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313952 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a first drawing processing block configured to generate a video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on entered image data; a second drawing processing block having a higher drawing processing power than the first drawing processing block and being configured to generate a video signal by executing predetermined signal processing on entered image data; a workload measuring block configured to measure at least one of a workload in the first drawing processing block and a workload in the second drawing processing block; a storage block configured to store an application; and a control block configured to select the first drawing processing block or the second drawing processing block to execute the application read from the storage block, on the basis of at least one of the measured workload in the first drawing processing block and the second drawing processing block. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313953 | GRAPHICAL DATA CONVERSION/TRANSLATION - A computer-readable storage media for storing computer-executable instructions executable by processing logic causes the processing logic to receive data in a first format for conversion to a second format different than the first format, wherein the data includes information having a first type and information having a second type and display the data in the first format via a graphical interface. One or more translation rules are received relating to processing the information having the first type or the information having the second type. The one or more translation rules are pre-applied to the data in the first format. Effects of the pre-applied rules on the displayed data are displayed via the graphical interface. The data in the first format is converted to the data in the second format based on the one or more translation rules. | 2012-12-13 |
20120313954 | OPTIMIZED ON-SCREEN VIDEO COMPOSITION FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A method for displaying continuous video content on a mobile phone LCD renders plural source video textures as consecutive surfaces on the display. A hardware scaler, rather than a general purpose graphical processing unit (GPU), is used to render a particular surface whenever possible, because it uses less battery power than the GPU. The method determines if the hardware scaler is capable of rendering a particular surface and if the particular surface is to be rendered with one or more additional images derived from a source other than a source video texture. The hardware scaler renders surfaces, including any additional images, if it is capable of doing so; otherwise the GPU renders the surface. The method is applied dynamically to each video texture in a video session, so that the manner of rendering each surface, whether by using the hardware scaler or the GPU, can change from surface to surface. | 2012-12-13 |