| 09th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 15 |
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| 20100053078 | INPUT UNIT, MOVEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND MOVEMENT CONTROL METHOD USING THE SAME - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a movement control method and system of a terminal input unit having a plurality of protrusions. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a process and an apparatus for controlling each protrusion so that the input unit forms interface modes used for a function control according to a user function of the terminal. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053079 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM INCLUDING A DISPLAY PANEL AND A TERMINAL FOR REMOTE-CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY PANEL, AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD IN THE REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed are a remote control method in a remote control system including a display panel, and a terminal for remote-controlling the display panel, and the remote control system. The remote control system includes a terminal for transmitting a light signal to a point on the screen of a display panel according to user input, and a display panel for executing an operation corresponding to the light signal received point. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053080 | Method For Setting Up Location Information On Display Screens And A Recognition Structure Thereof - A method for setting up location information on display screens and a recognition structure thereof includes an encoding unit and an image generation unit to output respectively at least one location information and a plurality of image information in a unit of time, and a synthesizing unit to integrate the location information and the image information to become synthesized information transmitted to a display unit to be output. The invention further has an image capturing unit to capture local information of the synthesized information from any location of the display unit. The local information is sent to a recognition unit to be recognized. The recognition unit outputs a recognition signal to the image generation unit which in turns outputs the image information of a location on the display unit pointed by the image capturing unit. This invention can accomplish effects same as the touch screen. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053081 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A mobile terminal is provided that includes a first display module to receive a touch signal and a second display module configured to be extensible. An image and a pointer may be displayed on the second display module if the second display is ejected from the mobile terminal. The pointer may move according to a drag direction and a drag distance corresponding to the touch signal if a touch signal with directivity is detected from the first display module. A character-input operation and/or a search operation may be performed on the image displayed on the second display module using the first display module. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053082 | REMOTE CONTROLS FOR ELECTRONIC DISPLAY BOARD - Techniques for interacting with an electronic display board are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a remote controller includes a laser generator, several motion sensors, a Micro Central Unit has data process capability and memory inside to store programs and a transceiver or a transmitter. A laser beam from the laser generator facilitates a writing movement on the electronic data board, the motion sensors detect the movement of the remote controller, and the MCU calculate the sensor data to derive the movement, the transmitter transmits the movement from the controller to the electronic data board. In accordance of the detected movement, the movement of the remote controller corresponding to the laser is electronically represented on the electronic display board. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053083 | PORTABLE DEVICES AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A portable electronic device including a first input/output unit including a monostable display element, a second input/output unit including a bistable display element, a main setting unit configured to selectively set either one of the first and second input/output units as a main input/output unit and the other one of the first and second input/output units as a sub input/output unit, and a conversion unit configured to convert the sub input/output unit into a touch pad for inputting a command on the main input/output unit. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053084 | COLLAPSIBLE MOUSE WITH PINCH-RISK SOLUTION - Architecture for a collapsible mouse having a hinge with an anti-pinch component. For example, the anti-pinch component can be a sheath that covers the hinge area between a main body portion and a tail portion of the collapsible mouse. The anti-pinch component can also include a hinge having hinge portions respectively connected to the main body portion and the tail portion where each hinge portion has a surface continuous with surfaces of the main body portion and the tail portion, to not permit a gap into which pinching can occur. The anti-pinch component can also include a slot formed between the surfaces of the main body portion and the tail portion. The slot cooperates with a recessed hinge so that the surfaces of the main body portion do not come into contact at any time, thus precluding pinching. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053085 | Control System for Use Within a Sterile Environment - A system for controlling multiple computerized medical devices includes a passive sterile mouse and an active mouse-sensing base for sensing a position of the passive sterile mouse and generating a control signal for controlling at least one computerized medical device. A sterile mouse pad is selectively positioned over the active mouse sensing base for sealing the active mouse-sensing base thereunder. A multiplexer is coupled to the active mouse-sensing base for receiving the control signal and providing the control signal to the at least one computerized medical device enabling control of the at least computerized medical devices, within a sterile field during an interventional procedure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053086 | TRACKBALL MODULE STRUCTURE - A trackball module structure is provided. In the structure, a Hall IC is integrated in a flexible printed circuit, and the integrated structure and a trackball device are disposed on the base to be located. Afterwards, a lid is used to fix the integrated structure and the trackball device to form a module. The module is easy to be disposed on an electronic device. This not only solves the problem that the conventional trackball is hard to locate, but also prevents the ESD with the cooperation of a metal base and a metal lid. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053087 | TOUCH SENSORS WITH TACTILE FEEDBACK - Touch sensors with one or more piezoelectric elements and devices containing such touch sensors are presented. The touch sensor contains keys that are independently actuated. Contact with a key provides tactile feedback through the piezoelectric element to the user. Each key provides an individual tactile feedback pattern that is dependent on the particular key contacted as well as the function of the key at the time of contact. Actuation of the key provides a different tactile feedback pattern. The piezoelectric element is bonded directly to a printed circuit board, on which electronic components are also mounted. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053098 | Information input device, information input method, information input/output device, and information input program - An information input device with a simple structure is provided, which allows information on an external proximity object to be conveniently inputted. The information input device includes: an input panel having a detection function of detecting an external proximity object; a position detection section acquiring position information and area information of the external proximity object based on a detection signal of the external proximity object obtained by the input panel; and an image generation section generating drawing data, which is to be used in a drawing process according to a behavior of the external proximity object, based on the position information and the area information so that the drawing process is performed in a manner according to an area value of the external proximity object represented by the area information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053099 | METHOD FOR REDUCING LATENCY WHEN USING MULTI-TOUCH GESTURE ON TOUCHPAD - A method for executing single and multi-touch gestures that will be immediately recognized by the touchpad without having to wait for any portion of the gesture to be performed, thereby eliminating latency that can be caused by the touchpad or touchscreen having to wait for a portion of the gesture to be performed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053100 | Navigation Display System - A navigation display system includes a navigation device, a projection module and a remote-controlled module. The navigation device has a screen. The projection module is pivotally connected with and rotatable relative to the navigation device to project an image displayed on the screen onto a projection screen. The remote-controlled module is disposed on a direction steering unit of a vehicle to control the navigation device. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053101 | OPTICAL FILM, LAMINATE AND TOUCH PANEL - An optical film that can make interference fringes inconspicuous with maintaining high surface hardness and transmission sharpness is provided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053102 | MOTION SENSOR DATA PROCESSING AND INTERFACE AND METHOD THEREOF - A motion sensor comprises a touch screen, and a motion indictor proximate to the touch screen, the touch screen displaying: an adjusting bar indicating a threshold at which motion is detected, and a level bar indicating an amount of currently measured motion. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053103 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY - A touch screen display includes; a first substrate, a lower sensor electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate disposed substantially opposite to the first substrate, a sensor spacer disposed on the second substrate and aligned with the lower sensor electrode, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, an upper sensor electrode disposed on the sensor spacer and connected to the common electrode, and a cutout disposed at an edge of the upper sensor electrode, wherein when touch pressure is applied to the first or second substrate, a change in capacitance is generated due to a change in a distance between the lower sensor electrode and the upper sensor electrode at a touch position, such that the touch position is detected on the basis of the change in capacitance. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053104 | USER INTERFACE METHOD - The present invention relates to a user interface method of a terminal, more specifically to a user interface method of a terminal that can recognize the track of a touch stroke by a user and that can process the user command on the basis of this touch track. A user interface method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: searching a touch-track-to-key value table, stored in a terminal; checking the track of a touch stroke of the user if the touch track of the user starts at one of a set of outer vertices predetermined by the terminal, passes through a center point predetermined by the terminal surrounded by these outer vertices, and ends at one of these outer vertices; and processing a user command corresponding to the checked key value according to the touch track so generated. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053105 | SONG WRITING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING TOUCH SCREEN IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A song writing method and apparatus using a touch screen in a mobile terminal are disclosed. The song writing method includes: displaying, upon activation of a song writing mode, an onscreen musical keyboard of an octave on the touch screen; identifying, when a key of the onscreen musical keyboard is touched, a musical note mapped to the touched key through computation of coordinates of the touched key; creating musical interval data on the basis of the identified note and the current octave level; and converting the musical interval data into sound data recognizable by the mobile terminal and outputting the sound data. Hence, various types of songs can be conveniently composed through the song writing method employing the onscreen musical keyboard. The applicability of the mobile terminal can be extended through a function that can mix a written song with contents generated through various musical instruments. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053106 | SENSING CIRCUIT FOR TOUCH PANEL - A sensing circuit for a touch panel is disclosed. The sensing circuit includes a switching device, a passive device and a sensing device. The switching device receives an input signal and outputs the input signal according to a control signal. The passive device couples to the switching device. The sensing device couples to the switching device to form a node, receives the input signal to generate a reference voltage on the node, and changes the value of the reference voltage to generate a target voltage according to a touching pressure on a preset position on the touch panel from a user. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053107 | INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT METHOD, INFORMATION INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE, AND INFORMATION INPUT PROGRAM - An information input device is provided, which may perform highly-convenient processing in response to input of information with an external proximity object. The information input device includes: an input panel having a detection function of detecting an external proximity object, to be used in a state of being placed on a display panel; a position detection section detecting position and area value of the external proximity object based on a detection signal of the external proximity object obtained by the input panel; and an image generation section generating display data to be utilized to display an image including a display object, in such a manner that size of the display object displayed on the display panel at the detected position of the external proximity object is allowed to vary in accordance with the detected area value of the external proximity object. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053128 | CURRENT SAMPLE AND HOLD CIRCUIT AND METHOD AND DEMULTIPLEXER AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A data current sample and hold circuit having an input terminal of a current source type and an output terminal of a current sink type. The sample and hold circuit includes a first transistor, a capacitor, and a plurality of switches, for sampling and holding the data current sunk to an output terminal of a data driver. When the sampled and held data current is applied to the data line, the data current is sunk to an output terminal of the sample and hold circuit. The sample and hold circuit is used together with a data driver having an output terminal of the current sink type. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053129 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An integrated circuit device includes: a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data voltage supply lines; a comparator that compares a data voltage corresponding to a data line driving circuit to be corrected among the plurality of data line driving circuits with a comparator reference voltage; a correction data calculation section that calculates correction data for correcting a difference in the data voltage based on a comparison result given from the comparator; and a plurality of correction circuits that each correct image data based on the correction data given from the correction data calculation section, and output the image data after correction processing to a corresponding data line driving circuit among the plurality of data line driving circuits. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053130 | Driver Integrated Circuit Chip and Driving Circuit of a Flat Panel Display - A driver integrated circuit (IC) chip includes an internal operation circuit, a signal output circuit, an output terminal, at least one first power wire and at least one second power wire. The internal operation circuit provides an internal signal. The signal output circuit is electrically coupled to the internal operation circuit and provides an output signal according to the internal signal. The output terminal is electrically coupled to the signal output circuit so as to transmit the output signal. The first power wire is electrically coupled to the signal output circuit. The second power wire is electrically coupled to the internal operation circuit. The first power wire and the second power wire, which are independent from each other, are used to transmit the same type of signals. The present invention also provides a driving circuit for a flat panel display using a plurality of the above-mentioned driver ICs. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053131 | Image display apparatus - The present invention provides an active matrix image display apparatus including an organic EL element capable of efficiently arranging a wiring pattern on an insulating substrate compared to the related art. The present invention provides a dummy region arranged at the outermost periphery of a display unit as a scanning line coupling region or a pitch conversion region. A power supply scanning line is commonly used by a pixel circuit of an odd-numbered line and a pixel circuit of a following even-numbered line. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053132 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD - A liquid crystal display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel; a backlight provided on a rear face of the liquid crystal panel; a detector which detects RGB output light levels of the backlight; a first controller which controls backlight current for driving the backlight so that a prescribed luminance is attained based on the RGB output light levels detected by the detector; and a second controller which controls display signals supplied to the liquid crystal panel so that a prescribed chromaticity is attained based on the RGB output light levels detected by the detector. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053133 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A display device that can reduce power consumption while displaying an image with the same aspect ratio as the display screen, and an electronic apparatus equipped with such a display device are provided. The display device includes a liquid crystal display that displays an image; normal-illumination LEDs that emit illumination light and a partial-illumination LED that emits illumination light; a light guide unit having a first incidence surface that receives the illumination light emitted from the normal-illumination LEDs and a second incidence surface that receives the illumination light emitted from the partial-illumination LED, and configured to optically guide the illumination light received by the first incidence surface to the entire surface of the liquid crystal display and to optically guide the illumination light received by the second incidence surface to a predetermined region having the same aspect ratio as the liquid crystal display; and a switch button used for switching the size of the image displayed on the liquid crystal display the size corresponding to the entire surface or the size corresponding to the predetermined region. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053134 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD - A sustain pulse generation circuit of a plasma display device generates and switches a first sustain pulse for causing light emission having double peaks, a second sustain pulse having a falling edge steeper than that of the first sustain pulse, and a third sustain pulse having a rising edge and a falling edge steeper than those of the first sustain pulse and causing light emission having a single peak. The second sustain pulse or the third sustain pulse is generated immediately before the third sustain pulse. The first sustain pulse is generated immediately before the second sustain pulse. Provided between the second sustain pulse and the third sustain pulse and between the third sustain pulses is a first overlap period in which a time period for causing the corresponding sustain pulse to rise is overlapped with a time period for causing the corresponding sustain pulse to fall. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053135 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING MOVEMENT OF PARTICLES - A method is provided of driving an electronic device comprising an array of device elements, each device element comprising particles which are moved to control a device element state, and each device element comprising a collector electrode, and an output electrode. The method comprises: in a reset phase, applying a first set of control signals to control the device to move the particles to the a reset electrode; and in an addressing phase, applying a second set of control signals to control the device to move the particles from the reset electrode such that a desired number of particles are at the output electrode. The second set of control signals comprises a pulse waveform oscillating between first and second voltages in which the first voltage is for attracting the particles to the reset electrode and the second voltage is for attracting the particles from the reset electrode to the output electrode, and wherein the duty cycle of the pulse waveform determines the proportion of particles transferred to the output electrode in the addressing phase. This control method provides well-controlled packets of particles which are collected in a vortex at the reset electrode before being passed on, in part, towards the output electrode (for example via the gate electrode). | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053136 | GRADATION VOLTAGE CORRECTION SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - In one embodiment of the present invention, a gradation voltage correction system is provided in a liquid crystal display device that is configured to be capable of displaying a color image, and corrects gradation voltages to be supplied to a plurality of pixels. The gradation voltage correction system includes a color sensor (chromaticity change acquiring portion) for acquiring a change in chromaticity of illumination light from light-emitting diodes and a correction determining portion for determining correction values for each color of the red, green, and blue pixels based on the detection (acquisition) results of the color sensor. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053137 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a display device, a signal controller compensates for luminance of an input image signal that corresponds to each of a plurality of pixels in accordance with a luminance compensation coefficient depending on a position of each pixel, and generates a compensation image signal. A data driver generates data signals that correspond to the plurality of pixels in accordance with the compensation image signal, and supplies the data signals to the corresponding pixels, respectively. The luminance compensation coefficient may depend on a magnitude of the input image signal. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053138 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus and a method of driving the display apparatus, data voltages, which correspond to image data, are supplied to data lines to drive a plurality of pixels arranged in pixel areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and data lines, and gate signals are sequentially supplied to gate lines. The gate signals are maintained at a level of gate on voltage such that the data voltages of the data lines are supplied to corresponding pixels during a scan period, and alternately have a first voltage level and a second voltage level in synchronization with a common voltage during a non-scan period. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053139 | Bistable Display Device - In a bistable display device having a driver circuit, the driver circuit has multiple electrical ports for electrically connecting to external circuits. The electric potential difference between any two neighboring ports is less than 10 volts so that electrical punch-through caused by great electric potential difference and short distance between the electrical ports is substantially avoided. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053140 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention improves the reliability of a display apparatus by suppressing the temperature rise of the display apparatus mounted on a wall. The display apparatus is provided with a wall mount switch to detect a wall mount member if the wall mount member is attached to the rear of the display apparatus. If it is detected by the wall mount switch that the display apparatus is mounted on a wall, the display power supplied to a display unit is set lower than normal by a power controller. This suppresses the temperature rise of the apparatus mounted on a wall. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053141 | PIXEL CIRCUIT DRIVING METHOD, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is a method of driving a plurality of pixel circuits. The pixel circuits are disposed corresponding to intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes: a light emitting element; a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element in series; a holding capacitor interposed between a gate of the driving transistor and a path between the light emitting element and the driving transistor; and a selection switch electrically interconnecting the signal line and the gate of the driving transistor at the time of the selection of the scanning line. The method of driving the pixel circuits includes: supplying time-divisionally a gradation potential to each signal line during a first period of each of a plurality of unitary periods, selecting the scanning line during a second period after elapse of the first period of the corresponding unitary period, and supplying the gradation potential to the gate of the driving transistor of each of the pixel circuits corresponding to the selected scanning line; controlling the driving transistor of each of the pixel circuits corresponding to one scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines to be in an ON state, supplying a reference potential from an electric supply line to the gate of the corresponding driving transistor, and executing a first compensation operation for making a voltage across the holding capacitor approach asymptotically to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor before start of the unitary period corresponding to the one scanning line; and supplying driving current to the light emitting element in accordance with the voltage across the holding capacitor after elapse of the unitary period corresponding to the one scanning line. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053142 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electro-optical device includes: an active element layer in which a pixel circuit including a memory circuit for storing gradation data is formed; a pixel electrode formed to overlap with the active element layer, so that an electric potential in accordance with the gradation data is supplied thereto; an electro-optical layer driven in accordance with the electric potential of the pixel electrode; and first and second power supply lines for supplying power to the memory circuit, wherein the first and second power supply lines include portions interposed between the active element layer and the pixel electrode, so that the first and second power supply lines form a capacitor. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053143 | PIXEL UNIT, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM UTILIZING THE SAME - A system for displaying image is provided. The system includes a pixel unit coupled to a source driver and including a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a driving transistor, and a luminiferous device. The first switch includes a first control terminal receiving a first scan signal, a first terminal receiving a first operation voltage, and a second terminal. The second switch includes a second control terminal receiving a second scan signal, a third terminal, and a fourth terminal coupled to the source driver. The first capacitor is coupled between the first and the second terminals. The second capacitor is coupled between the second and the third terminals. The driving transistor includes a gate coupled to the second terminal, a source receiving the first operation voltage, and a drain. The luminiferous device is coupled to the drain and receiving a second operation voltage. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053144 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an image display device including: a plurality of pixel scanning lines; a plurality of signal lines; and a plurality of pixel circuits corresponding to intersections between the pixel scanning lines and the signal lines. Each of the pixel circuits includes: a driver transistor; a light emitting element for emitting light based on the current supplied from the driver transistor; a pixel switch for generating a potential based on an image signal and a scanning signal; a capacitor element for controlling the driver transistor based on a potential difference caused by the potential supplied from the pixel switch; and a reset switch for setting a potential at an end of the capacitor element to a predetermined state based on a scanning signal supplied from one of the pixel scanning lines preceding the scanning signal which corresponds to the corresponding one of the plurality of pixel circuits. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053145 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An integrated circuit device includes: a plurality of data line driving circuits that drive a plurality of data voltage supply lines; and a correction data calculation section that calculates correction data for correcting differences in data voltages outputted from the plurality of data line driving circuits, wherein the correction data calculation section executes, in one horizontal scanning period in a non-display period in a vertical scanning period, a first mode to obtain the correction data corresponding to a data line driving circuit to be corrected among the plurality of data line driving circuits. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053146 | TIMING CONTROLLER AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - In a timing controller and a display apparatus, the timing controller generates an internal enable signal based on an external enable signal and processes image data using the internal enable signal. The timing controller determines a width of each of the plurality of pulses of the external enable signal and subtracts a predetermined reference value from the count value to generate a control signal faster than an effective period of the external enable signal. The control signal is applied to a driver which drives a display panel on which an image is displayed. In an exemplary embodiment, the control signal serves as a vertical start signal which starts an operation of a gate driver applying a gate signal to the display panel, thus preventing or effectively eliminating a delay of the image data applied to the display panel. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053147 | Display Device and Method of Driving the Same - Provided are a display device with improved display quality and a method of driving the same. The display device includes: a display panel which includes a plurality of dither blocks displaying an image that corresponds to a dither image signal; and an image signal controller which generates the dither image signal by using a dither pattern that determines a plurality of dither pixels, which are to be dithered, from among a plurality of pixels included in each of the dither blocks, wherein each of the dither blocks includes a plurality of pixels, whose respective polarities are inverted every frame and which are driven accordingly, and comprises equal numbers of positive-polarity dither pixels and negative-polarity dither pixels. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053148 | LIGHT TURNING DEVICE WITH PRISMATIC LIGHT TURNING FEATURES - A light guide device includes a light guide body and two or more pluralities of spaced-apart slits. The slits are formed by undercuts in the light guide body. Sidewalls of the slits form facets that redirect light impinging on the facets. In some embodiments, the light guide body is attached to a light source. The light source emits light that is injected into the light guide body and the slits redirect the light out of the light guide body and towards a desired target. In some embodiments, the target is a display and a first plurality of slits directs light from the light source across the light guide body and over the face of the display. A second plurality of slits then directs light out of the light guide body and towards the display. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053149 | Display apparatus and display method - A display apparatus includes a content detector configured to, on the basis of meta data of content data being reproduced, detect associated content data associated with the content data being reproduced; and a display controller configured to cause a reproduction image contained in the content data being reproduced to be displayed on a display screen and cause associated images contained in the associated content data detected by the content detector to be displayed as a moving image on the display screen. The display controller causes associated images of different associated content data that is sequentially detected by the content detector to be sequentially displayed on the display screen in accordance with the change of the meta data of the content data being reproduced. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053150 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, INPUT ASSEMBLER DEVICE, AND INPUT ASSEMBLING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A coordinate data read unit ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053151 | IN-LINE MEDIATION FOR MANIPULATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENT ON A DISPLAY DEVICE - A user holds the mobile device upright or sits in front of a nomadic or stationary device, views the monitor from a suitable distance, and physically reaches behind the device with her hand to manipulate a 3D object displayed on the monitor. The device functions as a 3D in-line mediator that provides visual coherency to the user when she reaches behind the device to use hand gestures and movements to manipulate a perceived object behind the device and sees that the 3D object on the display is being manipulated. The perceived object that the user manipulates behind the device with bare hands corresponds to the 3D object displayed on the device. The visual coherency arises from the alignment of the user's head or eyes, the device, and the 3D object. The user's hand may be represented as an image of the actual hand or as a virtualized representation of the hand, such as part of an avatar. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053152 | System and Method for the Interactive Display of Data in a Motion Capture Environment - A system includes an analysis system for performing an analysis and a motion capture environment interfaced with the analysis system. The motion capture system includes at least one sensor-tracker for tracking a location of a tracked object within the motion capture environment and one or more computers collectively operable to generate a virtual reality environment corresponding to the analysis. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053153 | METHOD OF CODING DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL TEXTURE, CODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING SIGNAL AND PROGRAM - The invention relates to a method of coding data representative of a multidimensional texture, said data being initially organized on a number of dimensions at least equal to three, at least one of said dimensions being associated with a rendition parameter for said texture, characterized in that it comprises the steps of:
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| 20100053154 | METHODS FOR AUTOMATED AND SEMIAUTOMATED COMPOSITION OF VISUAL SEQUENCES, FLOWS, AND FLYOVERS BASED ON CONTENT AND CONTEXT - A system with the ability to dynamically compose a sequence of visual views or flows allowing a single object or region, or multiple objects or regions, to be viewed from different perspectives and visual distances is described. The sequence of views can provide smooth flyovers over positions and details on objects that are deemed to be of interest, with changes in zoom level and/or velocity that are functions of the estimated complexity and/or unfamiliarity with features of the object. In an example, a flyover displaying different views on a map of a city arterial system on a small-screened mobile device is composed based on current traffic conditions, swooping up and down with parabolic trajectories, based on distances being traversed, and pausing at times over key traffic jams and other findings of interest based on the estimated visual complexity and predicted atypicality of situations. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053155 | Method for Improving the Performance in Processing an Interprocess Digital Mockup - A method for improving the performance in developing an interprocess digital mockup. Product data elements are compiled from a digital mockup, wherein the product data elements contain geometry data elements and meta data elements. The geometry data elements are addressed and assigned to a geometry structure. The meta data elements are addressed and assigned to a meta structure. The geometry structure and the meta structure are subsequently linked by a communication protocol such that bidirectional interaction between the geometry structure and the meta structure is realized. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053156 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPUTER ASSISTED ASSEMBLY FUNCTION - A method for generating a computer assisted assembly function, according to which a base geometry is input to the assembly function. The base geometry or a portion thereof is subdivided to one or more divisions, where selected forms of objects are applied to the base geometry, and the selected forms or another assembly function are applied to a corresponding division within the base geometry by associating the corresponding division with a feature or with another applied division of the base geometry. A plurality of computer aided design (CAD) models are generated by a primary assembly function and are stored in a service provider server, whereupon a client requests to receive one of the stored CAD models. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053157 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING OR PREPARING DIGITAL OBJECTS OR PORTIONS THEREOF FOR SUBSEQUENT PROCESSING - Methods and apparatus render images of digital objects or prepare digital objects for subsequent processing. The method includes sorting data representative of positions of at least three vertices of polygons of a digital object, then determining whether the orientation of the vertices of each polygon from a specific reference point differs from the actual, or original, orientation of the vertices. Such a determination may be made by generating an orientation decision variable based on the relative positions of the vertices and calculating a cross product term (CPT) after the vertex data has been sorted. The CPT may also be used in other operations involving the polygon, such as in imparting appearance characteristics to the polygon. The method may be embodied as a computer program that controls the operation of a processor. Accordingly, processors, computers, and systems that render images of digital objects in accordance with the method are also disclosed. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053198 | COLOR SELECTION INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention relates to color selection input, for example by means of a color selection wheel or pad, particularly for a lighting system. The invention provides color selection means ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053199 | Image processing method and device implementing said method - The invention relates to a processing method of a sequence of images comprising image points each of which is associated with a colour component. The method comprises a processing step of at least one image of the sequence from reference images, the processing step being adapted to reduce the flicker effects. According to the invention, the reference images are selected according to the following stages:
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| 20100053200 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CODING VIDEO LEVELS IN A PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - The invention relates to a method and a device for coding video levels of pixels of a colour component of a picture to be displayed on a display device into code words. The invention is more particularly applicable to Plasma Display Panels (PDP) to improve the picture quality (grayscale enhancement, dynamic false contour reduction). The main idea of the invention is to automatically change the floor and ceiling levels used classically for dithering each pixel value depending on the neighboring pixels of the same color component. The size of the window determining the neighboring pixels is dependent on the definition of the wanted flat field size. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053201 | DYNAMIC THEME COLOR PALETTE GENERATION - There is provided a method of changing a theme for a user interface of a computer system comprising receiving an identification of an image with which to define a color palette of a theme for rendering elements of a user interface on a color display of the computer system; analysing the image to determine at least one predominant color; and defining the color palette in response to the analysis. The image may comprise a background image selected by a user for display by the computer system. Dynamic generation of the color palette matches the user interface to colors to provide flexible and appealing themes. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon instructions to carry out this method is also provided, as well as a device comprising such memory. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053202 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IMAGE PROCESSING INCLUDING REMOVAL OF DISCONTINUOUS RAMP AND/OR SMOOTHING FEATURES - Systems and methods are disclosed for processing image data to provide adjusted pixel information that achieves smoothed output discontinuities. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of processing image data including analyzing first display information including pixel data indicative of pixel display on a graphical user interface, detecting one or more ramp steps in the pixel data, and assigning, in association with random number generation and/or threshold setting functionality, a carry possibility for a pixel adjacent the one or more ramp steps. Other exemplary implementations may include generating second display information included adjusted pixel data for pixels adjacent the ramp steps. Consistent with certain implementations, the second display information may include pixel values adjusted according to the carry possibility in one or both of the temporal domain and/or spatial domain. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053203 | Contrast Increase in X-Ray Projection Images and/or in Tomographically Reconstructed Volumes by Deconvolution of the Projection Images - The invention relates to a method and a device for increasing contrast in medical images generated by an imaging system featuring an x-ray source and a detector. The detector detects x-rays of the x-ray source and converts image signals from the x-rays. The image signals are transferred to a control and processing unit for processing. Deconvolution of the image signals is carried out by application of an inverse modulation transfer function modified by a regularization. At least a volume image can be reconstructed from the deconvolved image signals. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053204 | Method for setting compensation region for irregular deffect region in manage display device - The present invention relates to a method for setting a compensation region for an irregular defect region in an image display device, including the steps of detecting an irregular display defect, setting a horizontal width of the irregular defect region detected thus, generating a plurality of guide lines which divide the irregular defect region in a horizontal direction along the horizontal width set thus automatically, setting upper and lower side boundary lines to the irregular defect region at every interval of the plurality of the guide lines to generate a plurality of main compensation regions defined by the plurality of guide lines and the upper and lower side boundary lines, and generating a plurality of upper, lower, left, and right supplementary compensation regions at upper, lower, left, and right sides of the plurality of main compensation regions, which maintain a gap of each of the plurality of the guide lines, automatically. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053205 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING GRAPHICS USING HTML ELEMENTS - A method, apparatus, and system for redefining a graphic in a web browser using HTML elements are disclosed. The method begins with requesting the graphic from a data source. The method continues by obtaining graphic data from the data source, the graphic data including at least one primitive defining the graphic. Thereafter, the method continues by mapping the primitive on a grid coordinate system defining a grid, the grid having a plurality of grid elements, each grid element representing pixel values on the web browser. The method continues by determining a filled grid area value for each grid element based upon a portion of the primitive filling each grid element. Subsequently, the method continues by processing the filled grid area values to determine an opacity value for each grid element. The method finishes by using the opacity values to create HTML elements defining the graphic. In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, a computer readable medium such as a software program may redefine the graphic in a web browser using HTML elements. Additionally, a system is provided having various components in a client server configuration that may run the software program to redefine a graphic using HTML elements. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053206 | Storage medium having stored thereon image processing program and image processing apparatus - Image generation means generates an input image corresponding to an output from a pointing device. Image display control means displays the input image generated by the image generation means on a display means. Image change control means disassembles the input image generated by the image generation means into a plurality of partial images, and changes at least one of a display position and a display form of each of the partial images. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053207 | Application control based on flexible electronic device conformation sequence status - A system includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and one or more coordination modules configured to direct coordinating the one or more sequences of two or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the flexible electronic device with one or more commands. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053208 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTOURING A TARGET AREA - A two-dimensional contouring tool that allows a user to maintain a minimum distance away (in 3D) from other structures. The contouring tool allows the user to rapidly define a series of contours that conform to the shape of one or more existing contours (or targets) with user-specified margin limits between the new contour and the existing contours (or targets). | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053209 | System for Processing Medical Image data to Provide Vascular Function Information - A system creates a visually (e.g., color) coded 3D image that depicts 3D vascular function information including transit time of blood flow through the anatomy. A system combines 3D medical image data with vessel blood flow information. The system uses at least one repository for storing, 3D image data representing a 3D imaging volume including vessels, in the presence of a contrast agent and 2D image data representing a 2D X-ray image through the imaging volume in the presence of a contrast agent. An image data processor uses the 3D image data and the 2D image data in deriving blood flow related information for the vessels. A display processor provides data representing a composite single displayed image including a vessel structure provided by the 3D image data and the derived blood flow related information. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053210 | SOUND PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZED POSITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - A sound processing apparatus includes: sound image localization processing means for performing a sound image localization process on a sound signal to be reproduced; a speaker section placeable over an ear of a user and supplied with the sound signal to emit sound in accordance with the sound signal; turning detection means provided in the speaker section to detect turning of the head of the user; inclination detection means provided in the speaker section to detect inclination of the turning detection means; turning correction means for correcting detection results from the turning detection means on the basis of detection results of the inclination detection means; and adjustment means for controlling the sound image localization processing means so as to adjust the localized position of a sound image on the basis of the detection results from the turning detection means corrected by the turning correction means. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053211 | User interface method and system with image viewer for management and control of automated image processing in high content screening or high throughput screening - A user interface method and system for controlling automated image processing operations of HCS and/or HTS systems includes a graphical interface to enable user designation of an image naming convention, image sources and destinations, image processing channels, processing parameter values, and processing spatial designations. The graphical interface includes an image viewer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053212 | PORTABLE DEVICE HAVING IMAGE OVERLAY FUNCTION AND METHOD OF OVERLAYING IMAGE IN PORTABLE DEVICE - Disclosed are a portable device having an image overlay function and a method of overlaying images in the portable device, which can photograph a plurality of images within areas having no overlapping regions between the areas in real time, and can overlay the photographed images. A first camera unit photographs a first area, and a second camera unit photographs a second area which does not overlap with the first area. A first codec and a second codec encode a first area image and a second area image, respectively, which have been obtained by photographing the first area and the second area. An image processing unit overlays the encoded first area image and the encoded second area image. Therefore, it is possible to photograph a plurality of subjects existing in at least two areas having no overlapping regions between the two areas in real time, to overlay the photographed images, and to transmit the overlaid image to a portable device of a counterpart for video telephone communication. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053213 | Medical image display apparatus and method, and program for displaying medical image - A storage device of a report producing terminal stores an importance table. The importance table stores grades of importance of respective items of accessory information on medical images. Prior to displaying a medical image on a screen, an area defining section extracts a main subject display area of the medical image, and defines an accessory information display area outside the main subject display area. A display style defining section calculates a necessary display area for each individual item of the accessory information, and discriminates between those items which fit in the accessory information display area and those which do not. The display style defining section decides not to display the items which do not fit in the accessory information display area, or decides to display them in a transparent style, in a scrolling style, in a switching style or with a small font. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053214 | X-RAY DETECTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An X-ray image diagnosis apparatus allows setting information indicating an object direction in a radiographed image without any errors. This invention is an X-ray detection apparatus which detects X-rays applied to an object and generates a radiographed image of the object. This apparatus includes a unit to display, in a display area, a symbol which has a form corresponding to the object and for which a vector representing a direction as a reference for the symbol is defined, a button to change the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area, and a unit to output information concerning the direction of the vector in association with a radiographed image of the object, when the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area is changed to match the direction of the object with the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053215 | CREATION AND APPLICATION OF PATTERNS TO DIAGRAM ELEMENTS - Users of drawing applications can utilize patterns to efficiently create diagrams as users tend to create similar drawings over time. For example, a user may create two use case diagrams. The first use case diagram depicts use cases for driving a car and the second use case diagram depicts use cases for driving a motorcycle. The use cases and structure of the diagrams are similar. Functionality may be implemented within a drawing application to determine a pattern from a drawing and create a new drawing based on the pattern. Creating a new drawing based on a pattern reduces time spent creating similar drawings because a user is able to edit the new pattern based drawing instead of creating the new drawing from scratch. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053216 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation input receiving means for receiving a user's operation input; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, and displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving means. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053217 | E-paper display control of classified content based on E-paper conformation - A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining first information associated with one or more conformations of one or more portions of one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly and controlling display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with the one or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053218 | System for Adaptively Orienting a Display Image on a Device - A system adaptively orients a display image on a device for presenting data acquired via one or more cables connected to a particular side of the device. The system includes a sensor for detecting orientation of the device and providing a device orientation representative signal indicating whether the device is in a first orientation or a second orientation substantially different to the first orientation. A display screen presents display images on the device. A display generator automatically generates a display image on the display screen oriented to be upright in the first and second orientations of the device, in response to the orientation representative signal. A command processor adaptively selects functions assigned to user selectable buttons positioned on both sides of the display screen of the device, in response to the orientation representative signal. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053219 | Panning In A Three Dimensional Environment On A Mobile Device - This invention relates to panning in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for navigating a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device having a touch screen. A user input is received indicating that an object has touched a first point on a touch screen of the mobile device and the object has been dragged to a second point on the touch screen. A first target location in the three dimensional environment is determined based on the first point on the touch screen. A second target location in the three dimensional environment is determined based on the second point on the touch screen. Finally, a three dimensional model is moved in the three dimensional environment relative to the virtual camera according to the first and second target locations. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053220 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation-input receiving means for receiving operation input of a user; and display control means for arranging one or more images on a virtual desktop having an infinite space size and performing, with a part of the desktop set as a display area, display control for causing the display means to display the display area, wherein when selection operation for selecting a predetermined image among the one or more images arranged on the desk top is performed, as the display control, the display control means shifts a relative position of the display area on the desktop such that the predetermined image is included in the center of the display area. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053221 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus that can fix the position at which some of a plurality of objects are displayed, and scroll objects other than these objects in that state, using a small number of procedural steps is provided. A recognition unit recognizes that a plurality of positions have been designated on a display on which objects are displayed. Where a first position corresponding to a position at which one of a plurality of objects is displayed is recognized by the recognition unit, and a second position corresponding to a position that is located on the display and at which a designated object is not displayed is recognized by the recognition unit, a display control unit scrolls objects other than the designated object, when a movement of the second position has been detected. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053222 | Methods and Systems for Display Source Light Management with Rate Change Control - Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for modifying or adjusting a display source light illumination level based on power consumption goals. In some embodiments, a rate control parameter may be used to limit the rate at which the illumination level is varied. In some embodiments, image content analysis may be used to determine the value of the rate control parameter. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053223 | GRADATION CONTROL METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a gradation control method, for a display device, in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subframes and lighting times for pixels corresponding to the subframes are controlled based on the sum of respective light-emitting times in the subframes, so that gradations of the pixels are rendered; the frame is divided into n (positive integer) subframes (e.g., SF | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053224 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - The characteristics of a filter are controlled based on index information relating to the power consumption of an address driver that drives address electrodes for selecting light emission or no light emission of display cells based on display data, and filtering is performed on the display data in the arrangement sequence of display cells for a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the address electrodes extend on a display screen, thereby controlling the characteristics of the filter so as to suppress high-frequency components in the display data when the power consumption of the address driver is large to reduce the number of changes in the potentials of the address electrodes, enabling reduction of the power consumption of the address driver while suppressing image quality deterioration. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053225 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DRIVING DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DRIVING METHOD - In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal controller includes a memory for storing a plurality of gray scale conversion tables each having a different gray scale changing degree; a selecting section for selecting, from the plurality of gray scale conversion tables, a gray scale conversion table to be referred to; and a conversion section for converting input gray scale data with reference to the gray scale conversion table selected. A selection condition in the selecting section is set such that: (i) as a vertical frequency of a liquid crystal display becomes higher and a liquid crystal temperature becomes lower, the gray scale conversion table of a higher gray scale changing degree is selected; and (ii) in regard to at least one of the gray scale conversion tables, as the vertical frequency becomes higher, a liquid crystal temperature range in which the at least one gray scale conversion table is to be selected becomes wider. As a result, gray scale conversion that is more suitable for an overshoot drive is implemented. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053226 | Image display apparatus and method for driving the same - The present invention sets power supply drive signals DS[ | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053227 | Image recognition method, image recognition apparatus and image input/output apparatus - An image recognition method includes: a first step of acquiring n-th received light data at light receiving elements arranged in a matrix form on a light receiving surface; a second step of acquiring (n+1)-th received light data at the light receiving elements; a third step of calculating differential data resulting from subtraction of the n-th received light data acquired from the (n+1)-th received light data acquired; and a fourth step of carrying out image recognition based on the differential data. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053258 | LIQUID TRANSPORTING METHOD AND METHOD OF CLEANING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid transporting method in a liquid ejecting apparatus having a fluid ejecting head having a nozzle, a liquid storing unit connected through a flow passage to the fluid ejecting head, and a suction unit sucking an inner portion of the nozzle from a nozzle opening side, wherein a portion of the flow passage is used as a pump chamber, and a pump driven to change an internal volume of the pump chamber and an output valve opened only at the time when the output valve is pressed from the pump are provided, the liquid transporting method including: performing choke suction of charging the pump with the liquid, and performing a suction operation of sucking the inner portion of the nozzle by using the suction unit, and then, performing a transmission operation of pressing the liquid from the pump to the output valve. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053259 | MOVABLE WEB SUPPORT AND CAP - A method and apparatus raise and lower a web support and move a cap over and above the web support. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053260 | WEB - A web has a surface layer integrally extending between opposite transverse edges. The surface layer includes absorbent agreed in separated by at least one nonabsorbent region. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053261 | BLADE ENGAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMING MACHINES - A blade engagement apparatus for metering release agent onto an image forming device associated moving surface, such as a Solid Ink Jet drum. The blade engagement apparatus includes a blade positioning mechanism having a blade holder rotated about a fixed pivot point disposed a distance L | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053262 | INK-DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A discharging head turns from a main scanning direction into the opposite main scanning direction in a short period of time in moving from one target of ink discharge to another. An ink-discharging apparatus of the present invention is arranged such that: ink-discharging means takes longer to move from one target of positive-direction discharge ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053263 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DRAWING APPARATUS, DROPLET DISCHARGE DRAWING METHOD, AND DROPLET DISCHARGE DRAWING PROGRAM - A droplet discharge drawing apparatus of the present invention includes: an ink discharging section for discharging droplets to a plurality of targets of discharge present on a target recording material; a gantry sliding mechanism for relatively moving the ink discharging section with respect to the recording medium; and a pre-oscillation section for causing pre-oscillation of the droplet discharging section. The droplet discharge drawing apparatus further includes a control section supplying, to the pre-oscillation section, a pre-oscillation signal for causing the pre-oscillation of the ink discharging section so that the pre-oscillation is carried out before discharge of a droplet and within a time in which the displacement section moves the droplet discharging section relatively with respect to the target recording material. This provides a droplet discharge drawing apparatus which inhibits an increase in viscosity of the droplet during a time when the droplet discharging section moves so that (i) clogging of a nozzle or the like is prevented and (ii) a droplet made of, for example, ink is discharged at a high precision of landing. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053264 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An inkjet printer and a printing method using the inkjet printer are disclosed. The inkjet printer in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can include: a first inkjet head, which prints in one direction; and a second inkjet head, which prints in a different direction intersecting the one direction. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the inkjet printer can print a pattern having a plurality of directions with a stable printing quality. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053265 | ARRAY TYPE INKJET PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An array type inkjet print head includes an ink cartridge to store ink, at least one print head chip disposed on a base of the ink cartridge to project from the base, the at least one print head chip to fire the ink, a flat plate cover disposed on the base of the ink cartridge and to have at least one opening corresponding to the at least one print head chip, and an adhesive member disposed between the base of the ink cartridge and the flat plate cover to fix the flat plate cover to the base of the ink cartridge. The flat plate cover is formed of either a metal material or a ceramic material. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053266 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An electro-optical device includes a substrate having a plurality of film-formation regions configured and arranged to receive a liquid material discharged from a plurality of nozzles of a nozzle row while the substrate and the nozzle row are moved relative to each other in a primary scanning direction. Each of the film-formation regions includes a plurality of landing positions in which the liquid material lands with the landing positions being set by a nozzle interval in a direction of the nozzle row and a discharge interval in the primary scanning direction. At least two or more of the film-formation regions include a portion in which a total number of the landing positions in the at least two or more of the film-formation regions that simultaneously face the nozzles is the same in the primary scanning direction. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053267 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus that superposedly forms an image layer representing an image and a specific glossy layer that is different from the image layer on a printing medium, including: a first connection unit that can be connected to a basic color ink container containing three primary color inks of which combination is used for performing color representation; a second connection unit that can be connected to a specific color ink container containing a specific color ink other than the three primary color inks; a reception unit that receives a kind of print available ink; a print head where nozzle columns in which a plurality of nozzles are aligned in a predetermined direction are arrayed in a direction intersecting an alignment direction of the nozzles in the nozzle columns, and at least one of specific color nozzle columns ejecting the specific color ink among the nozzle columns is disposed as an end-portion specific color nozzle column to at least one of end portions of the print head in the array direction of the nozzle columns; and a printing unit that performs printing by moving the print head relative to the printing medium and ejecting the three primary color inks and/or the specific color ink on the printing medium from the nozzle columns, wherein at least the connection unit that can supply the ink to the end-portion specific color nozzle column inside the second connection unit can be connected to a specific gloss agent container containing a specific gloss agent that is used to form the specific glossy layer instead of the specific color ink container, and wherein, when the specific gloss agent container is connected to the second connection unit and the reception unit receives the specific gloss agent as the available ink, the printing unit ejects the specific gloss agent from the end-portion specific color nozzle column to form the specific glossy layer. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053268 | Nozzle Arrangement With Laminated Ink Ejection Member And Ink Spread Prevention Rim - A nozzle arrangement for a printhead integrated circuit includes a nozzle chamber; an ink ejection nozzle in fluid communication with said nozzle chamber, the ink ejection nozzle defining a nozzle rim around an aperture of the ink ejection nozzle; an elongate actuator adapted to displace towards and away from the ink ejection nozzle; an ink ejection paddle attached to an end of elongate actuator and positioned within the nozzle chamber for acting on ink within the nozzle chamber upon displacement of the elongate actuator; and an ink spread prevention rim provided partially around the nozzle rim, the ink spread prevention rim for catching ink spread from the nozzle rim. The elongate actuator includes an actuator arm of a laminated structure comprising a resiliently flexible inner layer, a conductive layer and a compensation layer. The inner layer is interposed between the conductive and compensation layers. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053269 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle formation member having a liquid repellent layer disposed on a droplet ejection face of a nozzle substrate in which one or more nozzle orifices is formed to eject droplets. The liquid repellent layer includes a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer. The first sub-layer contains a higher proportion of low-molecular-weight molecules than the second sub-layer. The second sub-layer contains a higher proportion of high-molecular-weight molecules than the first sub-layer. Both the first sub-layer and the second sub-layer are exposed on a surface of the nozzle formation member. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053270 | PRINTHEAD HAVING CONVERGING DIVERGING NOZZLE SHAPE - A printhead includes a nozzle plate and a nozzle bore located in the nozzle plate. In one embodiment, the nozzle bore includes a first section, a second section, and a third section when viewed in a plane perpendicular to the nozzle plate. The first section and the second section are spaced apart from each other by the third section. The first section includes a converging area portion and the second section includes a diverging area portion. In another embodiment, the first section and the second section of the nozzle bore are adjacent to each other. The first section includes a converging area portion and the second section includes a diverging area portion. The diverging area portion and the converging area portion are asymmetrical relative to each other when viewed along the plane perpendicular to the nozzle plate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053271 | ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATOR FOR INK JET HEADS - An electrostatic inkjet head providing high pressure to ink in order to enable high quality printing. The electrostatic actuator providing the pressure to the membrane ( | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053272 | INK EJECTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed are an ink ejecting device and a method of manufacturing the same. The disclosed ink ejecting device includes an inkjet head including a substrate, which includes an ink feed hole, a plurality of via holes, which are formed in the rear surface of the substrate, and which expose the ink feed holes therethtough, a chamber layer stacked on the substrate, and a nozzle layer stacked on the chamber layer, and includes a base header, which is attached to the inkjet head and includes a plurality of ink supply slots having a corresponding arrangement with respect to the via holes. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053273 | Printer Having Simple Connection Printhead - A printer is provided having a removably secured cradle in which a cartridge having a pagewidth printhead and printing fluid supply is removably received. The cradle has a printed circuit board mounted on pivoting arms such that terminals on the printed circuit board contact, upon the pivoting arms being pivoted toward the cartridge, corresponding terminals of the cartridge, and a controller for controlling operation of the received cartridge via the connected terminals of the cradle and cartridge. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053274 | INKJET NOZZLE ASSEMBLY HAVING RESISTIVE ELEMENT SPACED APART FROM SUBSTRATE - An inkjet nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle chamber positioned on a substrate and an actuator for ejecting an ink droplet from a nozzle aperture when a resistive element of the actuator is heated by an electrical current. The resistive element of the actuator is spaced apart from the substrate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053275 | Nozzle With Magnetically Actuated Reciprocating Plunger - An inkjet drop ejection apparatus includes a chamber defined by a plunger spaced from an ejection nozzle; and an actuator for moving the plunger towards the nozzle, the actuator including a magnetic plate and a solenoid coil provided circumferentially between the magnetic plate and the plunger, the solenoid coil for inducing a magnetic field in at least one of the magnetic plate and the plunger. The plunger has defined therethrough a series of apertures arranged around a circumference of the plunger, the apertures substantially mapping a locus of the solenoid coil. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053276 | Printhead Integrated Circuit Comprising Resistive Elements Spaced Apart From Substrate - A printhead integrated circuit comprises inkjet nozzle assemblies disposed on a substrate. Each nozzle assembly comprises a nozzle chamber having a nozzle aperture and an actuator associated with the nozzle chamber. The actuator ejects an ink droplet from the nozzle aperture when a resistive element of the actuator is heated by an electrical current. The resistive element of the actuator is spaced apart from the substrate. | 2010-03-04 |
| 20100053277 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A present invention provides a print head improving an ink refill speed to reduce the time from the end of ejection of ink droplets until the beginning of next ejection of ink droplets and maintaining the high quality of images obtained by printing. An ink jet print head has an ejection port portion | 2010-03-04 |
