02nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130009935 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a signal line drive circuit provided with an analog amplifier through which a stationary electric current flows. The display device further includes a control signal output section which suspends operation of the analog amplifier during a period (non-scanning period) from an start time after application to a data signal line S(i) of a voltage necessary for display is completed in a horizontal period to an end time in the horizontal period. The control signal output section sustains an AMP_Enable signal through which the analog amplifier is controlled at an L value (a low value) in the non-scanning period. As a result, stationary electric current flowing through the analog amplifier is cut off in the non-scanning period. According to this, the display device allows for reduction of electric power consumption while being capable of displaying a moving image without causing flickering. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009936 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - A pixel circuit provided on a substrate on which a signal line, first and second scanning lines supplying first and second control pulse signals, a fixed power line, and a variable power line are arranged includes a capacitance element, a sampling transistor connected between the signal line and one of ends of the capacitance element, where the gate of the sampling transistor is connected to the first scanning line, a drive transistor of which gate is connected to the other end, where one of a drain and a source of the drive transistor is connected to the fixed power line, an initializing transistor of which gate is connected to the second scanning line, which is connected between the other end and the other of the drain and the source, and a light emitting element connected between the variable power line and the other of the drain and the source. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009937 | POWER DEVICE CAPABLE OF IMPROVING FLICKER OF A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CAPABLE OF IMPROVING FLICKER, AND METHOD THEREOF - A power device capable of improving a flicker of a liquid crystal display includes a direct current (DC) voltage/direct current (DC) voltage converter, a common voltage circuit, and a clamper. The DC voltage/DC voltage converter is used for generating a DC low gate voltage. The common voltage circuit receives a polarity reversion signal generated by a timing control circuit, and generates an alternating current (AC) common voltage according to the polarity reversion signal. The clamper is coupled to the DC voltage/DC voltage converter and the common voltage circuit for receiving the DC low gate voltage and the AC common voltage, outputting the AC common voltage and outputting an AC low gate voltage according to the DC low gate voltage and the AC common voltage. A display panel improves the flicker according to the AC low gate voltage. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009938 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a first gate driver that applies a gate-on voltage to gate lines of a first gate line group in each period of n first scan periods for a first frame, n being a natural number. A second gate driver applies a gate-on voltage to gate lines of a second gate line group in each period of n second scan periods for a first frame. A data driver applies a data voltage to a plurality of data lines. A signal controller transmits a control signal to the first and second gate drivers and the data driver, wherein an interval between start points of the n first scan periods is gradually decreased according to time, and an interval between start points of the n second scan periods is gradually increased according to time. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009939 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a variable-voltage source supplying power source voltage; an organic EL display unit including power lines on high-potential side and low-potential side that are connected to pixels; a potential difference detecting circuit detecting a potential on the high-potential side of a monitor pixel; a voltage drop amount calculating circuit calculating an amount of voltage drop generated in the power line on the low-potential side from video data and estimating a potential at, at least one point of the power line on the low-potential side; and a signal processing circuit regulating power source voltage to be supplied from the variable voltage source such that a potential difference between the potential on the high-potential side detected by the potential difference detecting circuit and the potential on the low-potential side estimated by the voltage drop amount calculating circuit reaches a predetermined potential difference. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009940 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The occurrence of crosstalk in a display device which performs 3D display is suppressed. When 3D display is performed, part of a plurality of pixels perform desired color display and the other part of the plurality of pixels perform black display. Thus, as compared to the case where all of a plurality of pixels perform desired color display, the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A plurality of pixels which perform desired color display are changed depending on the display state. Therefore, as compared to the case where a plurality of pixels which perform desired color display are fixed when 3D display is performed, the display device can have a longer period until display change in a pixel becomes obvious (a longer lifetime) and variations in display among the plurality of pixels can be reduced. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009941 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels and operates in a 2D mode and a 3D mode, a patterned retarder for dividing light from the display panel into first polarized light and second polarized light, and a control voltage generator which generates a first DC control voltage of an off-level and a second DC control voltage of a slight-on level, which is higher than the off-level and is lower than a full-on level, and selectively outputs the first DC control voltage and the second DC control voltage depending on a driving mode. Each of the plurality of pixels includes an upper display unit and a lower display unit, which are vertically disposed in a mirror form. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009942 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a display device, the anode voltage of an organic light emitting element is periodically reset. The control terminal of a driving transistor is periodically reset, and an input data voltage is connected to the control terminal through an input terminal and an output terminal of the driving transistor. As a result, good control over the displayed luminance is achieved. Other features are also provided. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009943 | MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR SUPPORTING REAL-TIME 3D IMAGE RENDERING ON AN AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY - A multi-core processor system may support 3D image rendering on an autostereoscopic display. The 3D image rendering includes pre-processing of depth map and 3D image wrapping tasks. The pre-processing of depth map may include a foreground prior depth image smoothing technique, which may perform a depth gradient detection and a smoothing task. The depth gradient detection task may detect areas with large depth gradient and the smoothing task may transform the large depth gradient into a linearly changing shape using low-strength, low-pass filtering techniques. The 3D image wrapping may include vectorizing the code for 3D image wrapping of row pixels using an efficient single instruction multiple data (SIMD) technique. After vectorizing, an API such as OpenMP may be used to parallelize the 3D image wrapping procedure. The 3D image wrapping using OpenMP may be performed on rows of the 3D image and on images of the multiple view images. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009944 | 3D computer graphics object and method - A graphical object template associates multiple human language attributes each with a subset of the defined numerical values associated with at least one of the numerical value data fields. The graphical object template provides the same to virtual reality (VR) software and thus allows for automatic interpretation of a fuzzy definition of a component of a new VR scene. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009945 | Electronic Display Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus for displaying images on a viewing surface using a single image source to generate different portions of the image, the combined image having a higher resolution than the image source. A first apparatus switches images using a micro-electro-mechanical systems mirror array onto the viewing surface, the images being received perpendicular to the viewing surface. A second apparatus uses a movable scanning mirror in one or two axes to reflect images off of a parabolic mirror perpendicularly onto the viewing surface. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009946 | STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND STEREO IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A stereo image display apparatus that causes a display device to display a stereo image having a parallax, wherein a stereo image of a currently displayed frame is advanced frame by frame to a stereo image of the next frame in response to a frame-by-frame advance indication, the apparatus comprising: a frame-by-frame advancing device that, once frame-by-frame advance is indicated, switches the stereo image of the current frame on the display with a parallaxless image of the current frame, thereafter advances the image frame by frame to display a parallaxless image of the next frame, and further thereafter displays a stereo image of the next frame on the display device, wherein the frame-by-frame advancing device performs the frame-by-frame advance with sliding-out/sliding-in. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009947 | PASSIVE 3D IMAGE SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A passive 3D image system including a passive 3D image display apparatus, a scaling module and a luminance adjusting module is provided. The 3D passive image display apparatus includes N rows of display units. After receiving an original image including N rows of original data, the scaling module merges the N rows of original data to generate a scaled image including N/2 rows of scaled data. The original image is either a left-eye image or a right-eye image. The luminance adjusting module adjusts the N/2 rows of scaled data to increase the luminance of the scaled image. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009948 | Apparatus and Methods for Wrapping Texture onto the Surface of a Virtual Object - The invention provides techniques for wrapping a two-dimensional texture conformally onto a surface of a three dimensional virtual object within an arbitrarily-shaped, user-defined region. The techniques provide minimum distortion and allow interactive manipulation of the mapped texture. The techniques feature an energy minimization scheme in which distances between points on the surface of the three-dimensional virtual object serve as set lengths for springs connecting points of a planar mesh. The planar mesh is adjusted to minimize spring energy, and then used to define a patch upon which a two-dimensional texture is superimposed. Points on the surface of the virtual object are then mapped to corresponding points of the texture. The invention also features a haptic/graphical user interface element that allows a user to interactively and intuitively adjust texture mapped within the arbitrary, user-defined region. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009949 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR RE-CONVERGENCE OF A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE - First and second views of a stereoscopic image are received. A first portion of the stereoscopic image is located at a first coordinate that is equal within the first and second views. For displaying enlarged versions of the first and second views, at least one of the first and second views is shifted, so that a second portion of the stereoscopic image is located at a second coordinate that is equal within the enlarged versions. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIEW OF A REAL SCENE FOR MILITARY PLANNING AND OPERATIONS - Generation of views of a real scene is based on selection of view criteria and the content of multiple types of source data. The viewpoint and at least one other criterion area used to determine which texture to sue for each surface, or portion of a surface, of a three-dimensional model. Regions of the images of the scene are associated with at least one portion of at least one surface of the three-dimensional model of the scene, wherein at least one of the portions is associated with the regions of at least two of the images. View selection criteria includes a criterion other than viewpoint. Based on the view selection criteria, selecting at least one of the regions for at least one of the portions and rendering a multi-view using the selected regions in combination with the three-dimensional model of the scene. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009951 | 3D IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMPLEMENTATION METHOD OF THE SAME AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A three-dimensional (3D) image processing apparatus and method in which 3D image conversion information for an input image having a plurality of frames is generated, and the input image is converted into a 3D image by rendering a preview image of the 3D image based on the 3D image conversion information and a subset of frames of the input image of which the 3D image conversion information is generated. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009952 | GENERATING A DEPTH MAP FROM A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOURCE IMAGE FOR STEREOSCOPIC AND MULTIVIEW IMAGING - Depth maps are generated from a monoscopic source images and asymmetrically smoothed to a near-saturation level. Each depth map contains depth values focused on edges of local regions in the source image. Each edge is defined by a predetermined image parameter having an estimated value exceeding a predefined threshold. The depth values are based on the corresponding estimated values of the image parameter. The depth map is used to process the source image by a depth image based rendering algorithm to create at least one deviated image, which forms with the source image a set of monoscopic images. At least one stereoscopic image pair is selected from such a set for use in generating different viewpoints for multiview and stereoscopic purposes, including still and moving images. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009953 | Stereoscopic format converter - A device and method for converting one stereoscopic format into another. A software-enabled matrix is used to set forth predefined relationships between one type of format as an input image and another type of format as an output image. The matrix can then be used as a look-up table that defines a correspondence between input pixels and output pixels for the desired format conversion. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009954 | SPATIALLY REGISTERING USER PHOTOGRAPHS - Photographs of an object may be oriented with respect to both the geographic location and orientation of the object by registering a 3D model derived from a plurality of photographs of the objects with a 2D image of the object having a known location and orientation. For example, a 3D point cloud of an object created from photographs of the object using a Photosynth™ tool may be aligned with a satellite photograph of the object, where the satellite photograph has location and orientation information. A tool providing scaling and rotation of the 3D model with respect to the 2D image may be used or an automatic alignment may be performed using a function based on object edges filtered at particular angles. Once aligned, data may be recorded that registers camera locations for the plurality of photographs with geographic coordinates of the object, either absolute latitude/longitude or relative to the object. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009955 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING ERRORS IN STEREO IMAGES - An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for correcting errors in stereo images. The apparatus for correcting errors in stereo images according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a space histogram generation unit generating space histogram information using the depth map information on the input image data; a peak frequency generation unit generating a peak frequency using the 2D image data of the input image data; an object analysis unit determining the error in each frame of the input image data on the basis of the space histogram and peak frequency; a depth map error correction unit correcting the depth map information to reduce the error; and a rendering processing unit generating left and right eye images, which are stereo images, by using the corrected depth map information. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009956 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a display control apparatus controlling display of a transmissive display which includes a screen configured to transmit light arriving from an object located on a side of a first surface so that the object is viewable from a viewpoint position set on a side of a second surface which is an opposite surface to the first surface and which displays a display object to be stereoscopically viewed. The display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a relative positional relation between the transmissive display and the object, and a display control unit that changes, in accordance with a change in the relative positional relation in the position information, a depth of the display object from the screen perceived from the viewpoint position, the display object being displayed to be stereoscopically viewed by the transmissive display. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009957 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a stereoscopic display device, a determining unit, and a rendering processor. The stereoscopic display device displays a stereoscopic image that is capable of being viewed stereoscopically using a parallax image group generated from volume data as three-dimensional medical image data. The determining unit identifies positional variation of a predetermined moving substance in a stereoscopic image space as a space in which the stereoscopic image is displayed by the stereoscopic display device from positional variation of the moving substance in a real space in which a coordinate system of the stereoscopic image space is present and determines an operation content on the stereoscopic image based on the identified positional variation. The rendering processor performs rendering processing on the volume data in accordance with the operation content determined by the determining unit to generate a parallax image group newly. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009958 | PROJECTION IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD - A structure extraction element obtains three-dimensional structure extraction data by extracting a tubular structure from volume data obtained by imaging a predetermined subject. A relating element relates positions on paths of a two-dimensional template representing a schematic diagram of a three-dimensionally branching tubular structure obtained by imaging a predetermined subject and positions on paths of the three-dimensional structure extraction data to each other. A projection image generation element generates a two-dimensional projection image by projecting voxel values of the tubular structure that is present on the paths of the three-dimensional structure extraction data onto corresponding positions on the paths of the two-dimensional template. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009959 | Image Processing System - A process for generating enhanced resolution images of fibrous tissue within a portion of a body being sampled, including accessing source data representing a distribution of the tissue orientations for a plurality of discrete sample imaging elements defined within the portion based on a first imaging resolution; generating, based on the source data, streamline data representing a plurality of fibre tracks, each representing an estimated path of fibres in the tissue within the portion; generating an output matrix for a plurality of discrete output imaging elements within the portion based on a second imaging resolution that provides higher imaging resolution than the first imaging resolution; generating, for each output imaging element, image data including intensity data based on a number of fibre tracks at a location corresponding to the output imaging element; and generating display data for a device to display an enhanced image generated based on the image data. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009960 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER VISUALIZATION - A method and apparatus for providing a visualization of power for display. The method establishes a power visualization scale based on a color saturation and intensity range for a hue and a range of power to be visualized, and generates a display image for at least one measured value of power as a level of color saturation and intensity for the hue based on the power visualization scale. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009961 | Software System And Method For Wastewater Treatment Control And Interpretation Using ORP - A method for controlling and optimizing the treatment of wastewater in a batch reactor using the calculation and manipulation of ORP readings. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009962 | AUTOMATIC ZOOM FOR A DISPLAY - A method, apparatus, computer program product, and user interface provide for determining a minimum and optimum font size for information displayed on a display based on a predetermined set of criteria, and automatically adjusting the displayed information on the display using a module such that a size of a smallest font of the information is not smaller than the minimum font size and that a size of a main font of the information is not smaller than the optimum font size. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009963 | GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF DATA WITH ANIMATION - An animated graphic transition is displayed to represent a data difference between data sets. A plurality of data sets is provided, and a user is presented with a plurality of options that includes selection of one or more data sets. A user selection from the plurality of options is detected. Displayed are a first graphic element that represents data in one data set and a second graphic element that represents data in another data set. An animated graphic transition is displayed in conjunction with the first and second graphic elements to represent a data difference between the selected data sets. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009964 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM ANIMATION SMOOTHING - Methods and apparatus to perform animation smoothing are disclosed. An example method includes determining an estimated drawing time associated with each of a plurality of frames of an animation, calculating a metric based on the estimated drawing time associated with each of the plurality of frames, and updating an assumed frame time based on the metric. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009965 | ANIMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - A converter | 2013-01-10 |
20130009966 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROJECTOR - An image processing device adapted to perform image processing on an image signal input, and then output the image signal includes an interface section adapted to perform input and output of the image signal in process with a storage device located outside the image processing device, and connected to the image processing device, a compression processing section adapted to compress the image signal output from the interface section to the storage device, and a compression rate setting section adapted to set a compression rate used when compressing the image signal in the compression processing section. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009967 | MOBILE TERMINAL, SETTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A mobile terminal including a display unit and communicably connected to a storage apparatus storing setting information of a user interface for an information processing terminal for receiving a user operation to data in the information processing terminal. The mobile terminal includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires the setting information from the storage apparatus. The control unit displays a user interface for the mobile terminal using the setting information on the display unit. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009968 | Remote Control Electronic Display System - A display apparatus and display system wherein displays are generated at a remote source and transmitted to the display apparatus for real time or timed presentation. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009969 | Methods circuits & systems for wireless transmission of a video signal from a computing platform - Disclosed are methods, circuits and systems for wireless transmission of a video signal from a computing platform. There is provided a video and/or audio signal source device such as a laptop computer. The video and/or audio signal source device may include a Display Mini Card (DMC) System Connector. The video and/or audio signal source device may include a Mini Card (HMC or FMC) System Connector, and/or a Display Port (DP) connector. There may be provided a Display Mini Card (DMC) or a Mini Card (FMC or HMC) which may include electrical circuits adapted to receive video and/or audio signals from the DMC System Connector or the DP connector of the video and/or audio signal source device. Received video and/or audio signals may be transmitted to a functionally associated video/audio receiver. The electrical circuits of the Display Mini Card (DMC) or the Mini Card (FMC or HMC) may be adapted to transmit a video and/or audio signal using a video link such as WHDI, WIFI DIRECT or WIFI DISPLAY. The Display Mini Card (DMC) or the Mini Card (FMC or HMC) may include additional circuits adapted to perform additional functionality such as Wi-Fi communication. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009970 | Method and System for Display Output Stutter - Apparatus and methods for reducing power consumption of a data transfer interface in a computer system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for reducing power consumption of a data transfer interface between a first device and a second device, includes, identifying a free interval between a first data and a second data, disabling the data transfer interface during the free interval, enabling the data transfer interface at the end of the free interval, and transmitting the second data. The method may also include a step of notifying the second device that the data transfer interface is being temporarily disabled. Another embodiment, for example, includes the transfer of display data (or video frames) over an interface, such as, a DisplayPort interface, between a graphics controller device and a timing controller device in a computer system. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009971 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PREVIEW IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: an image processor which performs a plurality of image processing operations on one target data object separately; a display; and a controller which extracts from the target data object a plurality of data sections changed by the image processing operations of the image processor and displays the extracted data sections all together on the display as preview images. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009972 | SPAWNING PROJECTED AVATARS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The present invention provides a computer implemented method and apparatus to project a projected avatar associated with an avatar in a virtual universe. A computer receives a command to project the avatar, the command having a projection point. The computer transmits a request to place a projected avatar at the projection point to a virtual universe host. The computer renders a tab associated with the projected avatar. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009973 | DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PROGRAM - A development support apparatus and development support program are used to facilitate the development of a program executed by an image processing apparatus. A user selects a desired purpose from a displayed list that includes the purposes of the processing units. Accordingly, an explanatory screen of a sample unit corresponding to the selected purpose is displayed. When the user selects a link of a folder saving a program of the sample unit, the directory including the folder is displayed. When the image of the folder is dropped onto a screen displayed during an initial operation, the sample unit is executed. The sample unit includes one or more image processing modules (processing units). When the sample unit is executed, processing defined by each processing unit is executed on image data stored as a default, and a result thereof is displayed on a monitor. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009974 | Apparatus, Display Module and Methods for controlling the Loading of Frames to a Display Module - Apparatus including: a controller; a display panel; a first frame memory configured to load a frame of data to the display panel during insertion of a blank frame at the display panel and configured to be filled by a frame of data from the controller, wherein the controller is configured to insert blank frames between frames of data displayed on the display panel. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009975 | METHOD FOR REDUCING GRAPHICS RENDERING FAILURES - A method and electronic device employing the method of processing a frame of graphics for display is provided that includes developing a frame in a first software frame processing stage following a first vertical blanking (VBL) heartbeat, issuing a command indicating the first stage is complete, and performing a final software frame processing stage without waiting for a subsequent VBL heartbeat. The method may alternatively include performing the final software frame processing stage regardless as to whether a target framebuffer is available, performing all but final hardware frame processing stages regardless as to whether the target framebuffer is in use, and performing the final hardware processing stage if the target framebuffer is not in use. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009976 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An LCD device and a driving method thereof are provided. The LCD device includes a panel, a timing controller, and a backlight unit. The panel is driven by a data driver and a gate driver. The timing controller controls the data driver and the gate driver. The backlight unit turns on or off a light source according to a dimming control signal transferred from the timing controller. The backlight unit is configured such that a turn-off delay time of a light source turned off according to the dimming control signal is shorter than a turn-on delay time of a light source turned on according to the dimming control signal. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009977 | Multi-Mode Processing of Texture Blocks - Multi-mode decoding and encoding of texture blocks are disclosed wherein in a default decoding and encoding mode all bits of a codeword sequence are available as payload bits for representing texel values of the texels in the texture block. In an auxiliary encoding and decoding mode one less bit of the codeword sequence is available as payload bits. The auxiliary mode is employed as a complement to the default mode and will be used to process those texture blocks, which the default mode handles poorly. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009978 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINING IMAGES INTO A FILE USING MULTIPLE COLOR PALETTES - Image data systems and methods combine a plurality of images into a single multiple-palette image data file, or generate a selected image from the multiple-palette image data file. An exemplary embodiment receives first pixel information for a first pixel of a first image, the first pixel having a first color; receives second pixel information for a like-located second pixel of a second image, the second pixel having a second color; and specifies a color palette location value that identifies a first color palette array element in a first color palette of the first image and identifies a second like-located color palette array element in a second color palette of the second image. First color information stored in the first color palette array element defines the first pixel color. Second color information stored in the second image data color palette array element defines the second pixel color. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009979 | Automatic 3D Modeling - An automatic 3D modeling system and method are described in which a 3D model may be generated from a picture or another image. For example, a 3D model for a face of a person may be automatically generated. The system and method also permits gestures/behaviors associated with a 3D model to automatically generated so that the gestures/behaviors may be applied to any 3D models. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009980 | VIEWING-FOCUS ORIENTED IMAGE PROCESSING - A method and a processor for implementing the method are disclosed for processing of an image. A first algorithm is selected to be used for processing information representing an area of interest in the image. A second algorithm is selected to be used for processing information representing an area of the image that is not in the area of interest. The first and second algorithms are applied to their respective portions of the information representing the image. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009981 | TRANSCODING DETECTION AND ADJUSTMENT OF CONTENT FOR OPTIMAL DISPLAY - Technologies are generally described for detecting transcoding and adjusting visual content for optimal display on user devices. A content provider may deliver visual content to a service provider for transmission over a network to user devices, and may monitor the quality of the visual content that the user devices receive. The service provider may apply transcoding to the visual content during the transmission causing the quality of the received visual content to be degraded. The content provider may receive a sample of the visual content from the user devices and may compare the sample with the original visual content to evaluate the transcoding applied by the service provider network. The content provider may adjust quality aspects of the visual content based on the evaluation of the visual content and may transmit visual content with adjusted quality aspects for optimal display over the service provider network to user device(s). | 2013-01-10 |
20130009982 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE OF AN OBJECT ON A VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT - Method and apparatus for displaying an image of an object on a visual display unit, wherein the image that is shown on the visual display unit depends on a parameter or parameters that is/are selected from the group comprising the 3-D orientation of the visual display unit, a position of a viewer's head or eyes in relation to the visual display unit, and a position of a light source or light sources at a location where the visual display unit is located, or a combination thereof. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009983 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus comprises a display control unit configured to display an image in each of a plurality of areas within a display screen, and a notifying unit configured to, when identical images are displayed in the plurality of areas, give a notification which indicates that the images are identical and not to give the notification when different images are displayed in the plurality of areas. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009984 | DISPLAY INSTALLED IN HALL - It is an objective to provide a display system installed in hall for displaying avatars at an event hall as a real space, and for appropriately displaying such avatar at the event hall according to the number of users who wish to display the avatar. We provide a display system, that is installed in a hall for live performance etc. and displays an avatar appearing as an audience outside, the system, comprising a display for displaying the avatar, a first receiver for receiving a display signal for avatar from a viewer terminal or a peripheral device for viewer terminal, an acquisition unit for number of avatars to be displayed, acquiring number of avatars to be displayed on the display on a basis of the received display signal for avatar, and a controller for an appearance of avatar to be displayed on the display according to the acquired number of avatars to be displayed. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009985 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR FAST FILL-IN OF A FIGURE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An image processing method includes steps of acquiring a first two-dimensional parallelogram image, creating a second two-dimensional parallelogram image by dividing the first image into two figures by a line along a predetermined scanning direction and joining together respective sides of the two figures corresponding to an upper base and a lower base of the first image, calculating a value w representing a numerical number of pixels constituting an upper base or a lower base of the second image and a value h representing a numerical number of pixels in a height direction of the second image, securing a w×h two-dimensional memory space, writing pixel values on each scanning line of the second image, sequentially in a scanning order, onto a corresponding scanning line of the two-dimensional memory space, and storing supplementary information of the second image in association with the two-dimensional memory space. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009986 | Event Handling In An Integrated Execution Environment - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for handling input received from a common interface of a program and a runtime environment when both the program and the runtime environment are configured to consume the received input. Given that both a browser program and a media player program hosted by the browser program are configured to detect an event of a certain type, there may be a contention of whether the browser program or the media player program may act first on the detected event. The disclosed systems and techniques enable interpretation of a user's intent when the user interacts with a webpage hosting media content and when the user's input occurs over media content rendered by the media player program. Similar advantages may also be realized within the context of another execution environment, or other program, different than a browser program. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009987 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes a display control module | 2013-01-10 |
20130009988 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZING DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - An automatic analyzing device has an easy-to-use user interface. In particular, the automatic analyzing device for analyzing samples has a reaction disk to which samples are dispensed conveyed through a conveying path; a control unit that controls movement of the reaction disk; and a display unit that is controlled by the control unit and displays various screens. A sample list including sample IDs and states of analysis of the samples is displayed on a display screen of the display unit so that the sample IDs and the states of analysis can be selected, such that a menu displaying button for displaying processing menus for the sample selected in the sample list is displayed at the sample, and such that options of the menus for the sample are displayed as menu buttons when the menu displaying button is indicated. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009989 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND RELATED APPLICATIONS - The invention provides methods and systems for image segmentation and related application in a portable device. Movements of a input tool on an image is detected for determining a region to be segmented from the image. When image segmentation is done, segmented region can be applied with various visual effects. For example, background can be replaced with a plurality of other different images. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009990 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information display method for an electronic device is provided, wherein the electronic device includes a display apparatus, a processor and a sensor unit. The display apparatus displays at least a stacked icon composed of a plurality pieces of information. The information display method includes processing the sensing signal received from the sensor unit by the electronic device. According the sensing signal, a launching signal is provided by the processor. According the launching signal, the stacked icon is spread out by the processor to display each piece of the information. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009991 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING INTERFACES - Methods and systems for displaying interfaces are provided. In an embodiment of invention, a method for displaying interfaces for use in an electronic device is provided. The method comprises providing an interface comprising at least one interface object; selecting an interface display layer; obtaining a first object from an image; selecting a first display layer; and displaying the first object in the first display layer and the interface object in the interface display layer simultaneously on a screen of the electronic device, wherein the first displayer is above the interface display layer. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009992 | System and Method for Displaying Object Location in Augmented Reality - A system and a method are provided for displaying location information on a mobile device. The location information can include direction, distance, positional coordinates, etc. The mobile device's display displays an image captured using the mobile device's camera. A selection input is received to identify an object in the image. A facing direction of the mobile device is detected using the mobile device's magnetometer. The mobile device determines a bearing to the object relative to the mobile device's facing direction. The mobile device then determines a distance between the mobile device and the object. The obtained or computed location data is overlaid on the image, thereby augmenting the image. The location data can include at least a direction indicator of the object and the distance between the mobile device and the object, whereby the direction indicator can be determined using the bearing. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009993 | Systems, Computer Medium and Computer-Implemented Methods for Providing Health Information to Employees Via Augmented Reality Display - Provided are embodiments of systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for providing feedback of health information to an employee when the employee is engaged in their work duties. The method including receiving health data output by a set of health sensors provided on or near the employee when the employee is engaged in work duties. The health sensors comprising at least one of biometric and biomechanic sensors. The health data corresponding to biometric and/or biomechanic characteristics sensed by the set of health sensors. The method including processing the health data to identify health status information for the employee, and providing for display via an augmented reality display, augmented reality content including the health status information. The augmented reality display providing the employee with an augmented reality view including a real world view of a surrounding environment having the health status information for the employee overlaid thereon. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009994 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE VIRTUAL-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS - Example methods and apparatus to generate virtual-world environments are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves receiving real-world data associated with a real-world environment in which a person is located at a particular time and receiving virtual-reality data representative of a virtual-world environment corresponding to the real-world environment in which the person was located at the particular time. The method also involves displaying the virtual-world environment based on the virtual-reality data and displaying, in connection with the virtual-world environment, a supplemental visualization based on supplemental user-created information. The supplemental user-created information is obtained based on the real-world data. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009995 | CLAMP MODE EMULATION - Various technologies described herein pertain to filling a fill area of a canvas with a source visual object and/or a supplemental visual object to emulate a result of clamping the source visual object onto the fill area of the canvas. A source sub-region of a canvas is filled with the source visual object. Moreover, an extension sub-region of the canvas, which includes at least a part of the fill area outside the source sub-region, is formed based on the source sub-region of the canvas. Further, a supplemental visual object is generated by using a tiling clip on the source visual object and repeated within the extension sub-region of the canvas. The tiling clip specifies a size of the portion of the source visual object used as the supplemental visual object. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009996 | USER INPUT BACK CHANNEL FOR WIRELESS DISPLAYS - As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. The input data received at the wireless sink device can have associated coordinate information that is scaled or normalized by either the wireless sink device or the wireless source device. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009997 | PINCH-TO-ZOOM VIDEO APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - Full-motion video displayed on a portable communications device such as a tablet personal computer, can be processed “on the fly” to provide a “zoom-in” and “zoom-out” functionality. Image elements are added to video image frames as they are read out from memory and prior to being display on the picture elements (pixels) of a display device in order to make objects depicted in an image file as being larger than how it appears in the original image file. Similarly, image elements are subtracted or deleted from video image frames as they are read from memory and prior to their being displayed in order to make objects depicted in the image frames as being smaller. Video from any source can be zoomed in and zoomed out. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009998 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM - A display control system is provided. The display control system is electrically coupled to a first display device, a second display device and an image output device which is configured to generate an image. The display control system comprises a control unit, a first control device and a second control device. The first control device is configured to retrieve a first portion of the image according to a first image control command transmitted from the control unit and to display the first portion on the first display device. The second control device is configured to retrieve a second portion of the image according to the second image control command transmitted from the control unit and to display the second portion on the second display device. | 2013-01-10 |
20130009999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPONENT DISPLAY PROCESSING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a component display processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving indication information indicating that a component is in a waiting-to-be-processed state; and according to the indication information, reducing a displayed region of a container that is displayed on a display screen, so that t a hidden region of the container is displayed on the display screen. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010000 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FILES IN THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for managing files using an electronic device, the method determines whether a touch operation on a touchscreen corresponds to an icon of a confirmed file. If the touch operation corresponds to the icon of the confirmed file, touch operations of dragging the icon of the confirmed file to an icon of a target folder on the touchscreen are detected. The icon of the confirmed file is controlled to move towards the icon of the target folder and the target folder is confirmed. The confirmed file is stored into the target folder when the target folder is confirmed. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010001 | LCD DISPLAY, A DRIVING DEVICE FOR DRIVING THE LCD DISPLAY, AND A DRIVING METHOD FOR DRIVING THE LCD DISPLAY - The present invention discloses an LCD display and related driving device and driving method. The driving method includes: obtaining an accumulated working time of the LCD display; obtaining a high reference voltage corresponding to the accumulated working time; utilizing the high reference voltage to drive the LCD display; making a multiplying product of a transmittance and a backlight magnitude of the LCD display remain equal or proximity. The present invention suppresses the backlight magnitude decrease phenomenon due to the long-used term of the LCD display such that the display quality can be improved. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010002 | ILLUMINATION UNIT AND DISPLAY - Provided are an illumination unit and a display capable of achieving size reduction in a case where a plurality types of light sources emitting light with various different wavelengths are in use. An optical-path conversion member | 2013-01-10 |
20130010003 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control device includes: a display control unit that controls displaying on a display allowing light, which is incident from a rear surface side opposite to an observation surface that is a surface of a side at which an observing user is present, to be transmitted through and to be observed by the user; and a state information acquiring unit that acquires state information representing a rear surface side state of the display, wherein the display control unit changes the displaying on the display in response to the state information. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010004 | FIBER OPTIC TAPESTRY - A woven fiber optic tapestry for conveying a specific representation of data on a woven fiber optic threaded surface. The tapestry is provided in a particular system including fiber optic threads threadedly arranged together to form a woven fiber optic panel, in which each of the threads is operatively connected to a light source, and a data interpretation device operatively connected to the light sources so as to provide a transfer of a pre-assigned value of data from the data interpretation device to the light sources and the threads, the transfer of the pre-assigned value causing an illumination of the light sources so as to correlate to a specific representation of the data. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010005 | CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device includes: a first storage device storing a dither matrix of two-dimensionally arranged dither values; a second storage device storing data of a-gradation levels; a first correction device that performs a first correction processing of calculating a first correction value for correcting gradation blurring-out from the target pixel to an adjacent pixel; a second correction device that performs a second correction processing of calculating a second correction value for correcting gradation blurring-in from the adjacent pixel to the target pixel; and a gradation value deciding device that decides a gradation value of the target pixel expressed in the b-gradation levels by using a value obtained by adding a corresponding one of the dither values stored in the first storage device, a corresponding one of the gradation values stored in the second storage device and at least one of the first correction value and the second correction value. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010006 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In one unit period of a display period, each pair of two scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to an image signal of pixels of one scanning line of each pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line. In another unit period, the other scanning line of each pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to an image signal of the pixels of the other scanning line is supplied to each signal line. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010007 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In one unit period of a display period, each first pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to pixels of one scanning line of the first pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line. In another unit period, each second pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to pixels of one scanning line of the second pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010008 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display portion including a plurality of pixels; a voltage driving portion that provides voltages to the plurality of pixels; and a control portion which controls the voltage driving portion to provide the voltages to the plurality of pixels, each of the voltages corresponding to a characteristic of a respective type of pixel of the plurality of pixels. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010009 | COLOUR CALIBRATION OF ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SCREENS - Process of colour calibrating an electronic display screen comprising the steps of displaying at least one trial colour of at least one physical sample having standardized colour on an electronic display screen, visually comparing the colour of the at least one physical sample and the at least one trial colour displayed on the electronic display screen, selecting the trial colour having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample, and using the selected trial colour on the electronic display screen having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample colour to colour calibrate the electronic display screen. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010010 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING A COLOR DISPLAY - Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters. An apparatus is also provided for calibrating a sensor which may be used for measuring color of a display in one or more of these methods. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010011 | DISPLAY METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display method of a plasma display apparatus to which primary color video signals are inputted and which carries out color display by letting phosphors for primary colors emit light is provided. The display method displays the primary color video signals by changing a gray level of an output primary color video signal in accordance with a gray level of an input primary color video signal. When each gray level of the inputted primary color video signals changes from a first value to a second value which is larger than the first value, a gray level of a primary color video signal for a phosphor having the largest influence of luminance saturation properties among the phosphors is increased relative to a gray level of the other primary color video signal. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010012 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COLOR UNIFORMITY - Methods and apparatus for achieving color and luminance uniformity in color output devices. In one embodiment, measurements of luminance and chrominance are taken at various regions of the display surface for a range of color inputs. Using the collected data, a color volume is formed for each of the measured regions. This color volume comprises a set of all colors producible at the measured region. The color volumes for each of the measured regions are then used to generate a common color gamut, i.e., a volume of colors that are producible in each of the measured regions. A gamut mapping can then be performed for all or a portion of the positions on the display surface to a target color gamut. Input data for the gamut mapping process may be determined by conventional interpolative techniques. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010013 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a display method and a display device. The display method comprises the following steps: a display screen provided with an optical wavelength conversion layer receives an exciting light which is projected by at least one projection device and carries image information; every projection pixel of an image carried by the exciting light corresponds to a unit optical wavelength conversion material in a series of repeating units which are arranged on the optical wavelength conversion layer according to a predetermined rule; and the exciting light excites the corresponding optical wavelength conversion materials in the repeating units to produce an excited light, and the image is reproduced in the display screen based on every repeating unit. Due to the modulation of a projection light source, the display brightness of the screen can be enhanced and seams of the image can be eliminated. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010014 | MULTI-PRIMARY COLOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL DRIVE CIRCUIT, MULTI-PRIMARY COLOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL DRIVE METHOD, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND OVERDRIVE SETTING METHOD - A multi-primary-color liquid crystal panel driver ( | 2013-01-10 |
20130010015 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device which realizes constant display having multiple tones with low power consumption is provided. A pixel circuit | 2013-01-10 |
20130010016 | DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of driving a display panel having a display area including different first and second display areas includes: (1) supplying image data to each of the first and second display area by a supply circuit to display an image therein; and (2) performing a first correction to correct only the image data supplied to the first display area in the image data supplying step. The first correction is performed based on a first correction data stored in a first memory. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010017 | DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide a display device capable of displaying an image in a color maintaining a hue and a tone expected from an input signal. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010018 | Method Of Optically Transmitting Digital Information From A Smart Phone To A Control Device - A load control device is able to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smart phone, via a wireless local area network. The load control device comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series between an AC power source and an electrical load, a controller for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive and non-conductive, and a Wi-Fi module operable to receive the RF signals from the wireless network. The controller controls the controllably conductive device to adjust the power delivered to the load in response to the wireless signals received from the wireless network. The load control device may further comprise an optical module operable to receive an optical signal, such that the controller may obtain an IP address from the received optical signal and control the power delivered to the load in response to a wireless signal that includes the IP address. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010019 | INK JET PRINTING HEAD, INK JET PRINTING DEVICE, AND INK JET PRINTING HEAD MANUFACTURING DEVICE - An ink jet printing head includes a head portion, an ink tank, a first rigid circuit board, a second rigid circuit board, a flexible printed circuit board, and a connector. The connector is disposed on a top surface of the ink tank, the first rigid circuit board is disposed on a side of the ink tank, the second rigid circuit board is disposed between the ink tank and the head portion, and the flexible printed circuit board is disposed in a bent condition between the first rigid circuit board and the second rigid circuit board. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010020 | LIQUID APPLICATION APPARATUS, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD AND IMPRINTING SYSTEM - A liquid application apparatus includes: a head including a plurality of nozzles which eject droplets of liquid having functional properties toward a substrate; a relative movement device which causes the head and the substrate to move relatively to each other in a relative movement direction; a droplet ejection control device which operates the head at a prescribed droplet ejection period so as to deposit the droplets discretely onto the substrate; an x-direction droplet deposition pitch changing device which changes a deposition pitch of the droplets on the substrate in an x direction perpendicular to the relative movement direction; and a y-direction droplet deposition pitch changing device which changes a deposition pitch of the droplets on the substrate in a y direction parallel to the relative movement direction. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010021 | PRINTING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE AND PRINTHEAD - A printing element substrate, comprising a printing element, a switching element which drives the printing element based on an input control signal, a first current source which generates a predetermined current, a second current source which generates a current based on an input voltage, and a current generation circuit which generates the control signal by amplifying a current obtained by adding a current generated by the second current source to a current generated by the first current source, and then generates the control signal by amplifying a current generated by the first current source. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010022 | Direct Marking Printer Having A User Configurable Print Resolution - A printing device can be configured with different numbers of ink colors and ink types to print with a different cross-process direction print resolution for each ink color and ink type. The printing device includes a plurality of printhead arrays with each printhead array being configured to eject ink onto an image receiving surface at a first print resolution in a cross-process direction. Each ink supply in a plurality of ink supplies is configured to provide ink to one printhead array in the plurality of printhead arrays, and a controller is configured to operate the printhead arrays at one of at least two combinations of ink colors and ink types. The controller operates the printhead arrays ejecting a same ink color or a same ink type at a second print resolution in the cross-process direction that is different than the first print resolution. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010023 | Printing Apparatus and Printing Method - A printing apparatus that generates printed matter composed of a plurality of printing layers, wherein the apparatus includes an ink amount selection unit that selects an ink amount that corresponds to each of printing layers using a profile that regulates the correspondence relationship between the component values of input color data and the ink amount in each of the printing layers; and a print execution unit that generates the printed matter by adding layers of printing layers to a medium based on the selected ink amount, wherein in the profile, the ink amount of each printing layer is regulated so that the number of dots that are formed by a first ink and the number of dots that are formed by a second ink with a lower concentration than the concentration of the first ink change according to the printing order of each printing layer. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010024 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TENSION OF A SUBSTRATE WEB - A device for controlling substrate web tension includes first and second driving units with respective driving rollers around which the substrate web is partially guided and tensioned. The first and second driving units have different rotational moments of inertia. A measuring unit measures the tension of the substrate web. A control unit has first and a second filtering units with different filtering characteristics for filtering the measured value. The control unit includes a first control device for controlling the first driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the first filtering device, and a second control device for controlling the second driving unit based on the measured value filtered by the second filtering device. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010025 | INK-JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK STAIN DETECTION METHOD IN THE SAME - An apparatus includes a printing unit configured to eject ink from a print head onto a sheet conveyed in a direction to perform printing on the sheet; a conveying unit configured to be provided on a downstream side of the print head in the direction, and configured to include a rotating member in contact with the sheet; and a reading unit configured to read a surface of the sheet on a downstream side of the rotating member in the direction, in which information on ink adhesion to the rotating member is obtained based on a result read by the reading unit. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010026 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus to record an image on a recording medium using a recording head includes a first conveying roller, a second conveying roller, and a controller. The first conveying roller is positioned upstream of the recording head in a conveying direction and the second conveying roller is positioned downstream of the recording head in the conveying direction. In response to a first conveying mode being selected, the controller performs a rotational phase control in which the controller controls rotational phases of the first conveying roller and the second conveying roller such that the recording medium is conveyed by predetermined sections of circumferences of the first conveying roller and the second conveying roller when a trailing end of the recording medium passes the first conveying roller. In response to the second conveying mode being selected, the controller does not perform the rotational phase control. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010027 | INKJET RECORDING HEAD - An inkjet recording head includes plural element substrates and a coolant flow channel. Each of the plural element substrates is provided with an ejection port surface and plural energy generating elements. The coolant flow channel is provided with a first heat transfer portion overlapping, in a direction vertical to the ejection port surface, a central portion of each of the element substrates in a direction in which the plural energy generating elements are arranged, and a second heat transfer portion overlapping, in the vertical direction, an area between the plural element substrates which adjoin in the arranged direction. The first heat transfer portion and the second heat transfer portion are provided with recesses or projections, and arrangement density of the recesses or the projections of the first heat transfer portion being greater than that of the second heat transfer portion. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010028 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND HUMID-AIR SUPPLY METHOD - A liquid ejection apparatus, including: a head having an ejection face having at least one ejection opening for ejecting liquid; a sealing mechanism configured to selectively establish one of a sealing state in which the sealing mechanism seals an ejection space and an open state in which the sealing mechanism does not seal the ejection space; an air introduction opening configured to open in an area that faces the ejection space in the sealing state; a humid air supplier configured to supply a humid air from the air introduction opening to the ejection space in the sealing state; a cleaner configured to clean the liquid contacting at least a part of an area of the head and the sealing mechanism, the area facing the ejection space; and a controller configured to control the cleaner to clean the liquid before the supply of the humid air supplier. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010029 | PRINTER HAVING PRINTER HEAD ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLY - A printer includes a hanger, a printer head, a carriage, and an adjustment assembly. The hanger includes a base and a board above the base. The carriage includes a body, a rod, and an actuator. The body is rotatably connected to the rod. The actuator is rotatably connected to the body. The actuator includes a projection and a resisting member. The adjustment assembly includes a protruding post. When the body moves in a first direction, the projection applies a push force to the protruding post, the protruding post rotates downward. When the body moves in a reverse, second direction, the protruding post applies a push force to the projection, which causes the actuator to rotate, the lateral surface of the resisting member stays in contact with the board during the rotation of the actuator, causing the carriage to rotate, the distance between the printer head and the base is changed. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010030 | BENDING MEMBER, RAIL MEMBER, AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - A bending member includes a bent portion formed by bending a plate material, the bent portion including a concave surface side and a convex surface side, a curvature radius r of the concave surface side of the bent portion being set to a thickness t of the plate material or below, and a plurality of grooves provided in the bent portion on the convex surface side, each of the grooves being vertical to a longitudinal direction of the bent portion, wherein each of the grooves opens on both surface sides sandwiching the bent portion, and each of the grooves includes a bottom portion having a straight line shape connecting the openings of the groove on the both surface sides. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010031 | INK JET PRINT HEAD - An ink jet print head is provided which has a reduced size and still can prevent an overall temperature increase in a printing element board. To this end, among ink supply port arrays formed on both sides of each nozzle array, the heat resistance of the portion (beams) of the printing element board between the adjoining ink supply ports is lowered in those arrays that are close to the end portions of the common liquid chamber. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010032 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device has: a supporting/conveying member that supports a sheet-shaped recording medium from a bottom surface of the recording medium, and conveys the recording medium while rotating; an abutment member that abuts a leading end portion of the recording medium and stops the leading end portion of the recording medium; and a pushing roller that is provided at an upstream side in a conveying direction of the recording medium so as to face the supporting/conveying member, and pushes the leading end portion of the recording medium against the abutment member by rotating while contacting the recording medium and sliding on the recording medium. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010033 | DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID DISCHARGE SUBSTRATE, AND INKJET PRINTHEAD - A driving circuit which includes a plurality of MOS transistors electrically connected in parallel between a first node and a second node, and drives a load electrically connected between the first node and a third node by the plurality of MOS transistors, wherein the plurality of MOS transistors include at least two MOS transistors having channel lengths different from each other and thus having threshold voltages different from each other. | 2013-01-10 |
20130010034 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A liquid discharge head includes a recording element substrate including an electrode pad, a support member including a recess that supports the recording element substrate on a bottom surface thereof, an electric wiring member, and a sealant. The electric wiring member includes an opening through which the recording element substrate is exposed, an electric lead wire extending from the opening and connected to the electrode pad, and a protrusion formed in the opening and extending between a side surface of the recording element substrate and an inner side surface of the recess facing the side surface. A distal end of the protrusion is in contact with the bottom surface of the recess. The sealant is disposed in a region surrounded by a surface of the protrusion, the bottom surface of the recess, the inner side surface of the recess, and the side surface of the recording element substrate. | 2013-01-10 |