| 10th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
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| 20140062932 | INPUT DEVICE - Display unit ( | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062933 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL WITH A 'DUAL LAYER' FORCE SENSOR - A capacitive touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged relative to the first substrate. A plurality of drive electrodes are arranged on the first substrate, wherein each drive electrode comprises a first drive electrode section and a second drive electrode section. In addition, a plurality of sense electrodes are arranged on the second substrate, the plurality of sense electrodes including touch sensing electrodes and force sensing electrodes. At least part of a sense electrode of the plurality of sense electrodes forms a force sensitive coupling capacitance with a second drive electrode section and not with a first drive electrode section. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062934 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL WITH FORCE SENSING - A capacitive type touch sensing device includes a first electrode array including a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of sense electrodes, and a second electrode array spaced apart from the first electrode array and including a plurality of discrete, electrically floating conductive regions. At least part of the second electrode array positionally overlaps with at least part of the first electrode array to define a separation distance therebetween, the separation distance varying with a force applied to a surface of the touch sensing device. Further, each conductive region is positioned relative to a respective drive electrode and sense electrode of the first electrode array so that a capacitance between certain pairs of drive and sense electrodes is more sensitive to a variation in the separation distance than a capacitance between other pairs of drive and sense electrodes. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062935 | DISPLAY SCREEN DEVICE WITH COMMON ELECTRODE LINE VOLTAGE EQUALIZATION - A display screen has pixels, gate lines, data lines, and a number of common electrode lines. Each of the common electrode lines is coupled to a respective group of the pixels. Switch circuits are coupled to the common electrode lines. A control circuit controls the switch circuits so as to equalize the voltages of the common electrode lines to a known voltage when the display screen is turned off. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LCD DISPLAY PANEL RESISTANCE - Systems and methods for monitoring internal resistance of a display. The method may include supplying the display via a capacitor with a first voltage configured to enable the display to receive one or more touch inputs. After supplying the display with the first voltage, the method may include discharging the capacitor to a second voltage configured to enable the display to display image data. The method may then monitor a discharge waveform that corresponds to when the capacitor discharges from the first voltage to the second voltage. Based at least in part on the discharge waveform, the method may determine a chip on glass resistance value and a flex on glass resistance value that correspond to an internal resistance of the display. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062937 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INPUT SENSING USING A DISPLAY PROCESSOR REFERENCE SIGNAL - Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus that is configured to reduce the effects of interference that is undesirably provided to a transmitter signal that is delivered from a transmitter signal generating device to a sensor processor to determine if an input object is disposed within a touch sensing region of a touch sensing device. In one embodiment, the sensor processor includes a receiver channel that has circuitry that is configured to separately receive a transmitter signal delivered from a display processor and a sensor processor reference signal that is based on a display processor reference signal to reliably sense the presence of an object. Embodiments of the invention described herein thus provide an improved apparatus and method for reliably sensing the presence of an object by a touch sensing device. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCE IN INPUT DEVICES - The embodiments described herein provide devices and methods that facilitate improved input device performance. Specifically, the devices and methods provide improved resistance to the effect of interference on input devices, and in particular, to the effect of unison noise on proximity sensors that use capacitive techniques to generate images of sensor values. The devices and methods provide improved resistance to the effects of interface by using images of sensor values and one or more profiles of sensor values. An image of sensor values is combined with one or more profiles of sensor values to produce a modified image of sensor values, the modified image having reduced errors due to noise. This reduction in errors due to noise can improve the accuracy and performance of the input device. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062939 | Electronic Device Component Stack - Electronic devices that include reflective displays for rendering content, touch sensors layered atop the reflective displays for detecting touch inputs, front lights layered atop the touch sensors for lighting the reflective displays and antiglare components for reducing glare caused by ambient light. This disclosure also describes techniques for assembling electronic devices including these component stacks. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062940 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING LCD DISPLAY PANEL RESISTANCE - Systems and methods for monitoring internal resistance of a display may include supplying the display via a capacitor with a first voltage and a second voltage configured to enable the display to receive touch inputs and display image data, respectively. The method may discharge the capacitor at least three times via a first resistor, a second resistor, and the first resistor and second resistor coupled in parallel with each other. The method may monitor three discharge waveforms that corresponds to when the capacitor discharges from the first voltage to the second voltage via the first resistor, the second resistor, and the first resistor and second resistor coupled in parallel with each other. Based at least in part on the discharge waveforms, the method may determine a chip on glass resistance value and a flex on glass resistance value that correspond to an internal resistance of the display. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062941 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY DEVICES - Touch screen display devices are disclosed. The touch screen display device may include a first substrate, a first sensor line extending in a first direction on the first substrate, an optical switching layer on the first sensor line, a second substrate on the optical switching layer, a second sensor line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction on the second substrate, an interlayer insulating layer on the second sensor line, and a third sensor line extending in the first direction on the interlayer insulating layer. At least one of the second and third sensor lines may sense a variation of a current or a capacitance from the first sensor line when a distance between the first sensor line and the second substrate is changed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062942 | Capacitive Touch Pen - A capacitive touch pen includes a shaft, and a tip formed of a multilateral elastic conductor and located at the bottom side of the shaft for touching a touch screen to induce a signal. Preferably, the tip has the maximum width in the range of 2.5 mm˜4 mm. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062943 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display panel that displays an image during a display period and detects a touch event during a non-display period. The display panel includes a plurality of common electrodes and a plurality of data lines capacitively coupled to the common electrodes during the non-display period. Coordinate information of a position at which the touch event occurs is calculated on the basis of a capacitance variation of the common electrodes and the data lines. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062944 | Capacitive In-Cell Touch Screen Panel And Display Device - A capacitive in-cell touch screen panel and a display apparatus are disclosed in present disclosure. At least one touch control inducting electrode is disposed on the color film substrate and at least one touch control driving electrode is disposed on the TFT array substrate. Each of the touch control driving electrodes overlaps with multiple sets of gate lines in the TFT array substrate, respectively, and each of the touch control driving electrodes comprises touch control driving sub-electrodes disposed along the row direction and a driving control unit is disposed at the connection of each of the touch control driving sub-electrodes and each set of gate lines. Since the driving control unit is able to release the display driving signal delivered by the gate line after it is loaded to the touch control driving sub-electrodes, which is equivalent to the situation where a driving pulse is loaded on the touch control driving sub-electrodes, so that the multiple sets of gate lines overlapping with the touch control driving electrodes input the touch control driving signal sequentially to the touch control driving electrodes through the driving control unit, and thus a plurality of driving pulses can be loaded on the touch control driving sub-electrodes, increasing the frequency of the touch control driving signal loaded on the touch control driving electrodes. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062945 | METHOD FOR INCREASING A SCANNING RATE ON A CAPACITANCE SENSITIVE TOUCH SENSOR HAVING A SINGLE DRIVE ELECTRODE - A system and method for increasing a scanning rate, reducing the effects of noise and reducing power consumption when using a touch sensor having an electrode grid formed by co-planar but orthogonal XY electrodes, wherein the touch sensor may be used to determine the position of an object on a surface of the touch sensor in a single measurement cycle by using a single drive line that defines a touch sensor area and the XY electrodes as sense electrodes of the touch sensor. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED DISPLAY IMAGES - Systems and methods for providing an enhanced image based on determining a proximal object is in proximity of a control panel. The enhanced image may be displayed on a heads up display of a vehicle. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062947 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATION OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN AND CAPACITIVE TOUCH APPARATUS - A method for calibration of a capacitive touch screen and a capacitive touch apparatus are disclosed. The calibration method includes obtaining a temporary reference capacitance value of a touch detection point of the capacitive touch screen when the capacitive touch screen powers up. A first difference between a backup reference capacitance value of the touch detection point and the temporary reference capacitance value of the touch detection point is obtained and a reference capacitance value of the touch detection point is determined according to the first difference and a first preset threshold. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062948 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - Provided is a touch screen device which includes an Electromagnetic Resonance (EMR) sensing panel for sensing, an input from an electronic pen, a display panel that is installed on a top layer portion of the EMR sensing panel, configured to receive a control signal or graphic signal from outside, and displays a corresponding image, a bracket that is formed in the form of a plate beneath the EMR sensing panel and the display panel and has an extension portion that extends from the corresponding portions of the EMR sensing panel and the display panel, and a frequency compensating plate that is formed of a soft magnet installed on the extension portion. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062949 | Touch sensing method, processor and system - The invention provides a touch sensing method. The touch sensing method comprises the following steps: obtaining a first 1-D sensing information, wherein the first 1-D sensing information comprises a plurality of first values; obtaining a second 1-D sensing information, wherein the second 1-D sensing information comprises a plurality of second values, wherein the positions of the first values respectively correspond to the positions of the second values, and the first 1-D sensing information is generated when no external conductive object approaches or touches; determining a plurality of first variations based on the differences between the first values and the corresponding second values; determining an average variation based on all or part of the first variations; and determining a plurality of second variations based on the differences between the first variations and the average variation. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062950 | Touch sensing method, processor and system - The invention provides a touch sensing method. The touch sensing method comprises the following steps: searching each line piece of a line piece group in a 1-D sensing information which comprising a plurality of values, and each line piece comprises part of the values; keeping a first line piece in the line piece group if at least one value of the first line piece of all line pieces is higher than a preset range; and excluding a second line piece from the line piece group if at least one value of the second line piece of all line pieces is lower than the preset range. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062951 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION - The invention provides a method and a device for image segmentation. After obtaining an image constructed of a plurality of 1D sensing information, each line piece in each 1D sensing information, which corresponds to touch or proximity of one or more external conductive objects, is determined. Next, the line pieces corresponding to touch or proximity of different external conductive objects are segmented based on overlapping relationships between the adjacent line pieces. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062952 | REDUCING COMMON MODE NOISE IN TOUCH APPLICATIONS - A processing device performs a first scan of a first plurality of electrodes along a first axis in a capacitive sense array to generate a first plurality of capacitance values corresponding to a mutual capacitance at electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device performs a second scan of a second plurality of electrodes along a second axis in the capacitive sense array to generate a second plurality of capacitance values corresponding to the mutual capacitance at the electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device determines a first coordinate of a conductive object proximate to the capacitive sense array based on the a first subset of first plurality of signals and a second coordinate of the conductive object based on a second subset of the second plurality of signals. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062953 | REDUCING COMMON MODE NOISE IN TOUCH APPLICATIONS - A processing device performs a first scan of a first plurality of electrodes along a first axis in a capacitive sense array to generate a first plurality of capacitance values corresponding to a mutual capacitance at electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device performs a second scan of a second plurality of electrodes along a second axis in the capacitive sense array to generate a second plurality of capacitance values corresponding to the mutual capacitance at the electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device determines a first coordinate of a conductive object proximate to the capacitive sense array based on the a first subset of first plurality of signals and a second coordinate of the conductive object based on a second subset of the second plurality of signals. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062954 | METHOD FOR ACTUATING A TACTILE INTERFACE LAYER - A method for actuating a tactile interface layer for a device that defines a surface with a deformable region, comprising the steps of detecting a gesture of the user along the surface of the tactile interface layer that includes a movement of a finger of the user from a first location on the surface to a second location on the surface; interpreting the gesture as a command for the deformable region; and manipulating the deformable region of the surface based on the command. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062955 | MULTIPOINT TOUCHSCREEN - A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062956 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LOADS ON MULTIPLE POINTS USING THE INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes a capacitance type touch panel sensor configured to detect positional coordinates of multiple pressing points that are simultaneously pressed on an operation face, load detection sensors configured to detect barycentric coordinates of and a barycentric load on the pressing points, and a controller configured to calculate loads on the pressing points on the basis of the positional coordinates of, the barycentric coordinates of, and the barycentric load on the pressing points. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062957 | TOUCH DETECTION FOR A DIGITIZER - A detector for providing position detection of objects over a sensor with a first and second set of conductor lines forming a grid with a plurality of junctions there between at which the conductor lines do not contact, includes a signal generator providing a signal to at least one conductor line of the first set of conductor lines, and circuitry detecting output arising from one or both of an electromagnetic stylus and one or more fingers when present. The output arising from each of the one or more fingers is detected from at least one conductor line of the second set of conductor lines in response to the signal provided to the at least one conductor line of the first set of conductor lines. The circuitry detects positions of one or both the electromagnetic stylus and each of the one or more fingers when present responsive to the output detected. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062958 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sensor unit | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062959 | TOUCH PANEL - The present invention is directed to a touch panel. The touch panel includes an optical layer disposed on a bottom surface of at least one peripheral edge of a transparent substrate. A light shielding layer is disposed on at least a portion of a bottom surface of the optical layer. A touch sensing layer is disposed below the transparent substrate and the light shielding layer. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062960 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING AIR TOUCH USING THE SAME AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first camera and a second camera disposed adjacent to the display panel; and a distance determining part determining a position of a body portion of a viewer and a distance of the body portion of the viewer from the display panel based on a first image of the first camera and a second image of the second camera. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062961 | OPTICAL TOUCH CONTROL APPARATUS AND BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTING APPARATUS - An optical touch control apparatus, which comprises: a light source; a light guiding board, for emitting the light, including at least one reflecting region for generating reflected light for adjusting; a detecting surface, for generating an object image when a distance between a object and the detecting surface is lower than a predetermined distance; an image sensor, for computing a brightness for adjusting that the light source generates to the light guiding board according to the reflected light for adjusting, and for catching a plurality of frames of the object image; and a control unit, for adjusting the light source according to the brightness for adjusting, or for adjusting the image sensor according to the brightness for adjusting, such that the image sensor can sense a plurality of adjusted frames; wherein the control unit computes a location of the object on the detecting surface according to the adjusted frames. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062962 | TEXT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A TERMINAL - A text recognition apparatus and method of the portable terminal is provided for recognizing text image selected by a pen on a screen image as text. The text recognition method of the present invention includes displaying an image; configuring a recognition area on the image in response to a gesture made with a pen; recognizing text in the recognition area; displaying the recognized text and action items corresponding to the text; and executing, when one of the action items is selected, an action corresponding to the selected action item. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062963 | COORDINATE INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Angle information indicating the direction in which one sensor unit of at least two sensor units is positioned is detected by directly receiving light from a light projecting unit of the other sensor unit at the light receiving unit of the one sensor unit. The coordinate values of the designated position are calculated based on the detected angle information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062964 | HANDWRITING INPUT SYSTEM - Dot mark decoding circuitry sets an initial value of a relative position of each of dot marks with respect to a corresponding lattice point; and then sequentially executes, in repetition, a calculation process of calculating a projective transformation matrix based on a position of each dot mark in a pixel coordinate system and a position obtained by adding the relative position to the position of a corresponding lattice point; a transformation process of transforming the position of each dot mark from the position in the pixel coordinate system to a position in a L coordinate system using the projective transformation matrix; a generation process of generating the relative position information based on the post-transformation position of each dot mark and the position of the corresponding lattice point; and an update process of updating the relative position in accordance with the relative position information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062965 | APPARATUS FOR MEASURING COORDINATES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for measuring coordinates of input from an input means and a control method thereof are provided. The control method includes displaying a user input interface and receiving a user input from the input means, detecting an increase in a distance between the input means and the apparatus for measuring the coordinates, determining whether a hover event is completed, based on the distance between the input means and the apparatus for measuring the coordinates, and displaying a result of recognizing the user input as text when the hover event is completed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062966 | Stylus Having a Flexibly-Resilient Tip - A stylus has a first end and a flexibly-resilient tip disposed at that first end. By one approach this tip is seamlessly connected to the stylus and thereby affords a fully-sealed connection that prevents contaminants from entering the stylus via the tip. The stylus can further include a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed therein that is configured to sense compression of the flexibly-resilient tip. If desired, the stylus can also include a wireless transmitter that operably couples to the pressure-sensitive sensor and that is configured to transmit information in response to sensed tip compression. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062967 | STYLUS AND CAPACITIVE PRESSURE SENSING ELEMENT EMPLOYED THEREIN - A capacitive pressure sensing element includes a main body, a power supply with a positive electrode and a negative electrode connected to a first electrode and a second electrode mounted on the main body, a first sheet metal electrically connected to the first electrode, a second sheet metal, and a spring element connected between the second electrode and the second sheet metal. When the spring element is uncompressed, the second sheet metal is misaligned relative to the first sheet metal. When the spring element is compressed, the second sheet metal is move towards the first end to a position with a reduced misalignment degree relative to the first sheet metal, thereby the portion of the first sheet metal squarely opposing the second sheet metal is increased to generate an inductive capacitance between the first sheet metal and the second sheet metal. A related stylus is also provided. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062968 | MEASUREMENT OF SIGNAL GENERATED BY CONTACT OF INPUT DEVICE WITH SURFACE - A system for measurement of a signal generated through interaction between a device and an electrically active surface member wherein a flexible conductive tip element supported by the device's body, when in contact with or proximity of the electrically active surface member, gives rise to a signal which is variable as a function of the contact area between the tip element and the surface member or of the proximity of the tip element to the surface member, and wherein there is circuitry to afford a grounding path for the flexible conductive tip element and to measure the signal; and further a method for measuring a signal resulting from such interaction. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062969 | TOUCH PEN AND MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING THE SAME - A touch pen is configured for use with a mobile terminal. The touch pen includes a pen point having one end pointedly formed or tapered, and a pen grip extended along a longitudinal axis from one end of the pen point. At least a portion of the pen grip has an asymmetrically shaped outer edge circumference defined with reference to a cross sectional area along the longitudinal axis. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062970 | Tuning Algorithm for Noise Reduction in an Active Stylus - In one embodiment, a stylus receives a signal, the stylus being able to wirelessly transmit signals to and receive signals from a device, and the stylus having a plurality of electrodes disposed in a tip of the stylus. The stylus compares a first value of the signal to a first threshold and determines whether to start a timing period based at least in part on this comparison. If the timing period is started, the stylus compares a second value of the signal to a second threshold and determines whether to stop the timing period based at least in part on this second comparison. If the timing period is stopped, the stylus determines whether the duration of the timing period is within a pre-determined range of timing period values. If so, the stylus processes the signal. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062971 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are included in one field. In the x-coordinate detection subfield, an x-coordinate detection waiting period is set in which a voltage higher than an x-coordinate detection voltage is applied to the scan electrodes and a voltage lower than the voltage of x-coordinate detection pulses is applied to the data electrodes. After the x-coordinate detection waiting period, the x-coordinate detection voltage is applied to the scan electrodes, and the x-coordinate detection pulses are sequentially applied to the data electrodes. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062972 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield group constituted of image display subfields, a timing detection subfield, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are set in one field. In the timing detection subfield, a plurality of timing detection pulses for causing timing detection discharge in discharge cells is applied to scan electrodes and sustain electrodes alternately. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062973 | IMAGE-DISPLAY-DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Discharge for detecting the position coordinates of an electronic pen is caused stably, and the position coordinates are detected accurately. For this purpose, in a driving method of an image display device, an image display subfield group constituted of image display subfields, a y-coordinate detection subfield, and an x-coordinate detection subfield are set in one field. An initializing period, in which an up-ramp voltage and a down-ramp voltage are applied to the scan electrodes, is set in the x-coordinate detection subfield, and the x-coordinate detection subfield is disposed immediately after the y-coordinate detection subfield. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062974 | SYNCHRONOUS MEDIA DISPLAY THROUGH AUTOMATIC HARDWARE PROFILES ACROSS MULTIPLE DISPLAY UNITS - Disclosed are methods, an apparatus and a system of synchronous media display through automatic profiles across multiple display units. A method of a display driver involves automatically identifying a hardware profile data associated with a plurality of display units, applying a logic function to the hardware profile data to create a set of synchronization display settings when a match of the hardware profile data with a set of synchronization display settings in a hardware profile lookup table is not found, and automatically applying the set of synchronization display settings to simultaneously display a sequence of graphics signals across the plurality of display units. The method may also include automatically designating one display unit from the plurality of display units as a master display unit and setting a synchronization timing based on an automatic designation of the one display unit from the plurality of display units as the master display unit. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062975 | AUTOMATIC TOPOLOGY CONFIGURATION THROUGH AUTOMATIC HARDWARE PROFILES ACROSS MULTIPLE DISPLAY UNITS - Disclosed are methods, an apparatus and a system of automatic topology configuration through automatic profiles across multiple display units. A method of a display driver involves automatically identifying a hardware profile data associated with a plurality of display units, applying a logic function to the hardware profile data to create a set of automatic topology display settings when a match of the hardware profile data with a set of settings in a hardware profile lookup table is not found, and automatically applying the set of automatic topology display settings to simultaneously display a sequence of graphics signals across the plurality of display units. The method may also include automatically designating one display unit from the plurality of display units as a sample display unit and setting a scaling factor based on an automatic designation of the one display unit from the plurality of display units as the sample display unit. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062976 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MOBILE TERMINAL - A terminal includes a sensor to sense bending of a flexible display and a controller to control display of information on the display. The controller divides a first screen on the display into at least first and second regions when bending of the display is detected and displays at least a portion of a second screen in a space located between the first and second regions. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062977 | PIXEL STRUCTURE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY PANEL - Embodiments of the present invention provide a pixel structure and a control method thereof and a display panel. The pixel structure comprises a plurality of sub-pixels, and a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that are crossed with each other, wherein the gate lines comprise a plurality of first gate lines and a plurality of second gate lines, each sub-pixel comprises a first part and a second part, and each sub-pixel comprises a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor, the first part is connected to a corresponding data line through the first thin film transistor, a gate of the first film transistor is connected to a corresponding first gate line, the first part and the second part of each sub-pixel are connected with each other through the second thin film transistor, and a gate of the second film transistor is connected to a corresponding second gate line. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062978 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes first pixels emitting light in a first field and second pixels emitting light in a second field. The first field includes a first compensation period during which threshold voltages of driving transistors of the first pixels are concurrently compensated, a first scan period during which scan signals corresponding to the first pixels are sequentially transmitted and corresponding data signals are programmed, and first light emission periods during which the first pixels concurrently emit light according to the data signals. The second field includes a second compensation period during which threshold voltages of driving transistors of the second pixels are concurrently compensated, a second scan period during which scan signals corresponding to the second pixels are sequentially transmitted and corresponding data signals are programmed, and second light emission periods during which the second pixels concurrently emit light according to the data signals. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062979 | BIDIRECTIONAL SCANNING DRIVING CIRCUIT - The invention provides a bidirectional scanning driving circuit, which comprises N stages of driving modules. Driving module comprises an output unit, a forward input unit, and a reverse input unit. For the n-th stage driving module, the forward input unit receives a first input voltage and a front forward scan signal of any of the driving modules lower than or equal to (n−2)th stage for charging or discharging a control node of the output unit. The reverse input unit receives a second input voltage and a back reverse scan signal of any of the driving modules higher than or equal to (n+2)th stage for charging or discharging the control node of the output unit. When the forward input unit is charging the output unit, the output unit outputs a forward scan signal; when the reverse input unit is charging the output unit, the output unit outputs a reverse scan signal. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062980 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY SYSTEM - An electrophoretic display system includes an electrophoretic display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, and a gate driver. The data driver includes a first serial-to-parallel converter and a data converter. The first serial-to-parallel converter receives a plurality of first series data and converts the first series data into a plurality of second series data. The quantity of the second series data is more than the quantity of the first series data. The data converter receives the second series data and is electrically connected to the electrophoretic display panel. Besides, the data converter converts the second series data into display voltages, and the quantity of the display voltages is more than the quantity of the second series data. The gate driver is electrically connected to the electrophoretic display panel and the timing controller and controlled by the timing controller to provide gate driving voltages to the electrophoretic display panel. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062981 | ITO ELECTRODE DESIGN FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS (LCDs) - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for an electronic display with thermally compensated pixels. Such an electronic display may have an array of pixels, at least some of which may be thermally compensated pixels that exhibit reduced thermal color shift over an operational temperature range. These thermally compensated pixels may have compensation electrodes that induce an electric field in the thermally compensated pixel that cause a reduction in color shift. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062982 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel capable of realizing desired brightness and of displaying a uniform image is disclosed. In one aspect, the pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor having a second electrode thereof coupled to an anode electrode of the OLED to control an amount of current supplied to the OLED in response to a voltage applied to a gate electrode thereof. The pixel also includes at least one second transistor coupled between the second electrode and the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a third transistor coupled between the second transistor and the gate electrode of the first transistor. The third transistor is turned off in a partial period of a period in which the second transistor is turned on. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062983 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - Discussed are an LCD device and a method of driving the same in which, by decreasing the number of lines of a PCB, the manufacturing cost is saved, and the influence of noise is reduced. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062984 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a signal line driver. The array substrate includes a signal line, a pixel electrode, and a thin-film transistor. The counter-substrate includes a common electrode. The signal line driver is configured to deliver video signals of a positive polarity and a negative polarity to the signal line and execute HV reverse driving. The signal line driver is configured to deliver, prior to delivering the video signals to the signal line, a precharge signal to the signal line in every 1 horizontal scanning period. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062985 | DRIVING DEVICE OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A driving device of a display apparatus includes: a gate driver, a gate on voltage modulator, and a signal controller. The gate driver includes a plurality of gate driving circuits, each of the gate driving circuits being configured to: generate a gate signal according to a gate control signal, and apply the gate signal to at least one gate line. The gate on voltage modulator is configured to: modulate a gate on voltage according to a modulation control signal, and generate a first modulated gate on voltage. The signal controller is configured to generate the modulation control signal and the gate control signal. At least one of the plurality of gate driving circuits includes an amplifier configured to: receive the first modulated gate on voltage, and output a second modulated gate on voltage including substantially the same waveform as the first modulated gate on voltage. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062986 | DRIVING CIRCUIT CHIP AND DRIVING METHOD FOR DISPLAY - A driving method for a display apparatus used in a driving circuit chip, includes: receiving first and second voltages; outputting the first and second voltages to a first input-stage circuit of a first amplifier and a second input-stage circuit of a second amplifier, respectively, in a first period; outputting the first and second voltages to the second input-stage circuit and the first input-stage circuit, respectively, in a second period; receiving a third voltage outputted from the first input-stage circuit and a fourth voltage outputted from the second input-stage circuit; outputting the third and fourth voltages to the first and second output-stage circuits, respectively, in the first period; and outputting the third and fourth voltages to the second and first output-stage circuits, respectively, in the second period. A driving circuit chip is also provided. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062987 | INTEGRATED DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR MULTI-SEGMENT ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAYS - An integrated drive circuit for multi-segment electroluminescent displays is provided. During a charging phase, the electroluminescent segments are charged by a common charge circuit, and partially discharged using separate discharge circuits associated with individual electroluminescent segments. A controller provides essentially independent control over the respective discharge circuits so, by the end of the charging phase, the EL segments can be charged to correspondingly different final voltages. Then during a discharging phase following the charging phase, the electroluminescent segments are completely discharged, thereby emitting an intensity of light that varies roughly in proportion to the final accumulated voltage. The controller can be pre-programmed with a spatial-temporal light pattern so that, using the disclosed integrated drive circuit, the electroluminescent display can be operated to generate rudimentary animations. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062988 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting diode display includes at least one pixel circuit, a scanning drive unit connected to the pixel circuit through a scan line and generating a selection signal to be applied to the pixel circuit, and a data drive unit connected to the pixel circuit through a data line and applying a data voltage to the pixel circuit. The data drive unit includes a first line to which the data voltage is applied and a demultiplexer connected between the first line and a first end of the data line, the demultiplexer time-divisionally applying the data voltage applied to the first line to the data line according to a demultiplexing signal. In one horizontal cycle, at least a portion of a period in which the demultiplexing signal is applied and at least a portion of a period in which the selection signal is applied overlap each other. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062989 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes a voltage drop amount calculating circuit that regulates a power source voltage, a power wire network in the organic EL display unit includes a row-wise resistance component Rah and a column-wise resistance component Rav, and the voltage drop amount calculating circuit divides the organic EL display unit into blocks each made up of pixels in Xv rows and Xh columns, and sets, for each of the blocks, a row-wise resistance component Rah′ to a value obtained by multiplying the resistance component Rah by (Xh/Xv), and sets, for each of the blocks, a column-wise resistance component Rav′ to a value obtained by multiplying the resistance component Rav by (Xv/Xh), thereby estimating a distribution, for the respective blocks, of amounts of voltage drop which occurs in the power wire, and regulates, based on the distribution, a voltage to be supplied to the display unit. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062990 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING COMMON VOLTAGE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a field of display technique. It is provided a circuit and method for compensating a common voltage and a liquid crystal display apparatus, which have a high accuracy in compensation, may acquire a more stable common voltage, avoid phenomena such as a residual image, the abnormality of displaying gray scales, a crosstalk and the like caused by a shift of the common voltage, and raise the display effect. The method for compensating the common voltage according to the embodiments of the present invention comprises: comparing a feedback voltage with a reference common voltage output from a common voltage generation circuit and outputting a compared result; generating a compensation control signal according to the compared result; and compensating the common voltage according to the compensation control signal. The common voltage compensation circuit comprises: a comparison unit, a logic unit and a compensation unit. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062991 | SEQUENTIAL ADDRESSING OF DISPLAYS - A display device includes a row driver configured to provide a row voltage, and a row electrode connected to the row driver. A column driver is configured to provide a column voltage to a column electrode. Further, a common driver is configured to provide a common electrode that includes a negative level. In addition, a controller is configured to switch the common electrode between at least two levels when all rows have a non-select level of the row voltage. The controller may be further configured to switch the common electrode at a substantially same time and with a substantially same voltage swing as a storage voltage of a storage capacitor. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062992 | PIXEL CIRCUITRY OF DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuitry of a display device is provided to make a voltage level transmitted to a display element be close to a voltage level of a received data voltage, such that the pixel circuitry faithfully transmits the data voltage to the display element. The pixel circuitry of a display device includes a first write switch, a first write memory unit, a first voltage following module, and a display element. The first voltage following module is to detect a first data voltage stored in the first write memory unit, and to generate a corresponding first output voltage at a terminal of the display element based on a detection result. A first output terminal of the first voltage following module is controlled by a switching voltage. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062993 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTION OF PARASITIC PARAMETERS IN AMOLED DISPLAYS - A system reads a desired circuit parameter from a pixel circuit that includes a light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input, and a storage device to store a programming signal. One embodiment of the extraction system extracts a parasitic capacitance value from a pixel circuit by measuring at least one parameter of the pixel circuit when in a first state having a first set of operating voltages and currents, measuring at least one parameter of the pixel circuit when in a second state having a second set of operating voltages and currents different from the first set, and extracting the value of a selected parasitic capacitance from the measurements. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062994 | TIMING CONTROLLER, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a timing controller including a driving signal generation module, a time-locking module, and a first logic circuit. The driving signal generation module generates a first isolation signal. The time-locking module detects whether or not all of a plurality of source driving units of a source driver lock a timing signal. The first logic circuit generates a second isolation signal, and adjusts the second isolation signal according to the output status of the first isolation signal. The gate driver selectively outputs a plurality of gate driving signals to a plurality of gate driving units of the gate driver according to the output status of the second isolation signal. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062995 | SOURCE DRIVER, METHOD THEREOF, AND APPARATUSES HAVING THE SAME - A method of muxing data by using clock signals having different timings and an apparatus performing the method are provided. Storing and muxing (or dividing) the data are simultaneously performed. The apparatus includes a first latch circuit arranging data blocks, which are input in series, in parallel in response to non-overlapping latch control signals and a second latch circuit latching the data blocks arranged in parallel simultaneously in response to a clock signal. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062996 | USER INTERFACE POWERED VIA AN INDUCTIVE COUPLING - A hinge is provided for mechanically and electrically coupling a machine and a display wirelessly. The hinge includes a machine portion having a first transceiver for wirelessly sending a signal concerning an operation or status of the machine and a display portion having a second transceiver for wirelessly receiving the operating signal. The hinge machine portion and the hinge display portion are mechanically connected so as to: (i) swivel with respect to each other; or (ii) tilt with respect to each other. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062997 | PROPORTIONAL VISUAL RESPONSE TO A RELATIVE MOTION OF A CEPHALIC MEMBER OF A HUMAN SUBJECT - Disclosed are several methods, a device and a system for repositioning a multidimensional virtual environment based on a relative motion of a cephalic member of a human subject. In one embodiment, a method includes analyzing a relative motion of a cephalic member of a human subject. In addition, the method may include calculating a shift parameter based on an analysis of the relative motion and repositioning a multidimensional virtual environment based on the shift parameter such that the multidimensional virtual environment reflects a proportional visual response to the relative motion of the cephalic member of the human subject using a multimedia processor. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062998 | User Interface for Orienting a Camera View Toward Surfaces in a 3D Map and Devices Incorporating the User Interface - The present disclosure relates to devices and user interfaces for orienting a camera view toward surfaces in a 3D map. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods that determine a zoom level associated with a 3D scene and 3D geometry of a map feature with the 3D scene and orient a 3D cursor to a surface of the map feature based on the zoom level and the 3D geometry when a user moves the 3D cursor over the map feature. When a user selects a point within the 3D geometry of the map feature, the 3D map is re-oriented with a view of the surface of the map feature. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140062999 | Display system and display control method thereof - The present invention discloses a display system and a display control method thereof. The display system comprises a display screen, a display controller, and a timing controller. The display controller comprises a 2D to 3D converter for converting image data with 2D format into converted image data with 3D format, and an encoding module for converting the converted image data with 3D format or first image data with 3D format into “2D image plus depth diagram” format data. The timing controller comprises a decoding module for converting the “2D image plus depth diagram” format data into decoded image data with 3D format or scaling the “2D image plus depth diagram” format data into scaled image data with 2D format suitable for outputting on the display screen. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce the required transmission line in order to reduce the production cost. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TAKING AERIAL SURVEYS - A method of taking an aerial survey maps boundaries of a first image and a second image from a first plane to a second plane to determine boundaries of an output image in the second plane. For a plurality of pixels in the output image, the method determines a corresponding pixel of either the first image or second image in the first plane. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063001 | ACTIVE BARRIER PANEL AND THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An active barrier panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first opening electrode configured to operate as a first opening transmitting the light and a first barrier electrode configured to as a first barrier blocking the light, the first opening electrode and the first barrier electrode having a step structure. The second substrate includes a second opening electrode configured to operate as a second opening and crossing at a right angle to the first opening electrode, and a second barrier electrode configured to operate as a second barrier and crossing at a right angle to the first barrier electrode. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063002 | OBJECT INFORMATION ACQUISITION APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A display control unit included in an object information acquisition apparatus receives information about a depth range, subjected to display of a distribution related to acoustic characteristics, input by a user, and outputs, when the depth range is narrower than a predetermined range, image information for displaying an image of second distribution information subjected to adaptive signal processing in an area corresponding to the depth range or a combined image obtained by combining first distribution information subjected to addition processing with a predetermined weight and the second distribution information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063003 | Method and System of Producing 2D Representations of 3D Pain and Stimulation Maps and Implant Models on a Clinician Programmer - The present disclosure involves an electronic device for visualizing a sensation experienced by a patient. The electronic device includes a touchscreen display configured to receive a tactile input from a user and display a visual output. The electronic device includes a memory storage component configured to store programming code. The electronic device includes a computer processor configured to execute the programming code to perform the following tasks: generating, in response to the tactile input from the user, a three-dimensional (3D) sensation map that represents the sensation experienced by the patient; deriving a two-dimensional (2D) sensation map based on the 3D sensation map, wherein the 2D sensation map contains substantially less data than the 3D sensation map; and sending the 2D sensation map over a network to facilitate a reconstruction of the 3D sensation map using the 2D sensation map. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063004 | Collapsing areas of a region in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources - Described herein are processes and devices that coalesced and/or collapse areas in a region of a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. Some embodiments are directed to detecting an indication to reduce usage of a computing resource in the virtual universe and, in response, determining the first area of the virtual universe for coalescing and collapsing into the second area of the virtual universe. In some embodiments, the first area comprises a plurality of virtual universe objects. Some embodiments are further directed to selecting a first set of the plurality of virtual universe objects for moving from the first area into the second area, coalescing the first set of the plurality of virtual universe objects into the second area from the first area, and, in response, collapsing the first area of the virtual universe. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063005 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY - Display apparatus and method are provided. The display apparatus may include a receiver for receiving an image; a grouper for analyzing the received image and grouping a plurality of frames of the received image based on the analysis; a depth allocator for determining at least two key frames from a plurality of frames grouped into at least one group, and allocating a depth per object in the determined key frames; and an image generator for generating a 3D image corresponding to other frames excluding the key frames based on a depth value allocated to the key frames. Hence, the display apparatus can allocate the depth value of a higher quality to the object in the frames of the received image. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063006 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC INFORMATION RELATED TO ULTRASOUND SECTIONAL PLANE OF TARGET OBJECT - A method of displaying stereoscopic information related to an ultrasound sectional plane of a target object includes: setting a line of interest on the target object; obtaining brightness information of the ultrasound sectional plane of the target object along the set line of interest; converting the obtained brightness information into height information; and displaying the stereoscopic information related to the ultrasound sectional plane of the target object based on the height information. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063007 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRAINT-BASED TEXTURE GENERATION - The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to texture mapping a surface. In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes defining a triangular mesh model of the surface; identifying at least one user-specified texture underfold constraint; computing a weighted energy functional for the triangular mesh, the weighted energy functional comprising a plurality of nodal texture values from which the triangular mesh is specified, the nodal texture values computed in accordance with the at least one user-specified texture underfold constraint; and iteratively recomputing the nodal texture values to converge the weighted energy functional toward a minimum value. The subject matter described in this specification can also be embodied in various corresponding computer program products, apparatus, and systems. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063008 | INTERACTIVE THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS ON HANDHELD DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for rendering an anamorphic projection of 3D scene geometry on a handled device using a correct asymmetric perspective geometry projection. Once pose of the handheld device is determined, a relative eye position may be inferred when the device is tilted away from an initial or default pose, based on data supplied by accelerometers. Thus, embodiments of the invention result in a holographic style display without the need for glasses or external sensing attachments. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063009 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063010 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - In accordance with an embodiment, a simulation apparatus includes a two-dimensional section dividing processing unit, a two-dimensional simulator, a one-dimensional combining processing unit, and a three-dimensional shape combining processing unit. The two-dimensional section dividing processing unit divides a three-dimensional shape as a simulation target into at least one set of two-dimensional sections intersecting with each other and defines the three-dimensional shape as the two-dimensional sections. The two-dimensional simulator runs a two-dimensional shape simulation in each time step for each of the two-dimensional sections obtained by the dividing and acquires a two-dimensional shape. The one-dimensional combining processing unit extracts a film configuration for each intersection of the two-dimensional sections from the acquired two-dimensional shape and combines the film configurations to acquire one-dimensional film configurations. The three-dimensional shape combining processing unit creates a three-dimensional structure from the acquired one-dimensional film configurations on the basis of information on the intersection. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063011 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHODS THEREFOR - According to an embodiment, in a medical image diagnostic apparatus, an accepting unit accepts input of conditions with respect to regions to be photographed and arrangement of the regions. An extracting unit extracts an area of interest of each subject by analyzing medical image data photographed based on the conditions accepted by the accepting unit. Based on the conditions and on the area of interest extracted by the extracting unit, a setting unit sets display conditions of a parallax image group to be displayed on a display unit having a stereoscopic viewing function. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063012 | COMPUTATION REDUCED TESSELLATION - Systems and methods for a tessellation are described. The tessellation unit is configured to determine a number of points that reside along a first edge of a first ring within a domain, determine a first set of coordinates for a first portion of the points that reside along the first edge of the first ring within the domain, and determine a second set of coordinates for a second portion of the points that reside along the first edge of the first ring within the domain based on the first set of coordinates for the first portion. The tessellation unit is also configured to stitch points that reside along the first edge of the first ring with points that reside along a second edge of a second ring to divide the domain into a plurality of primitives that are mapped to a patch. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063013 | STITCHING FOR PRIMITIVES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING - Techniques described in the disclosure are generally related to determining the manner in which to connect points that reside along an outer ring edge and an inner ring edge for purposes of tessellation. For example, a two-dimensional (2D) stitching table may define the manner in which points along the edges should be connected together to form a plurality of primitives. The techniques may index the 2D stitching table to retrieve entry values that define the manner in which the points along the edges should be connected together. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063014 | STORAGE STRUCTURES FOR STITCHING PRIMITIVES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING - Techniques described in the disclosure are generally related to generating points of a domain. A tessellation unit may determine outer ring point coordinates for a point of an outer ring of the domain, and inner ring point coordinates for a point of an inner ring of the domain. The inner ring is inner to the outer ring within the domain. The tessellation unit may enqueue the inner ring point coordinates at a location of a queue, read the inner ring point coordinates from the queue, and read the outer ring point coordinates from the queue when the outer ring is not an outermost ring, where the outer ring point coordinates were previously enqueued in the queue when the outer ring was a previous inner ring. The tessellation unit may connect the inner ring coordinates and the outer ring coordinates each of which being read from the queue. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063015 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES USING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source part and a directional light projecting element. The display panel displays a first image during a first subframe and a different second image during a second subframe. The light source part provides light to the display panel. The directional light projecting element is disposed between the display panel and the light source part. The directional light projecting element includes a barrier part and a lens part disposed above the barrier part. The barrier part has a plurality of barriers defined as a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes crossing the first electrodes. The lens part has a plurality of lenses disposed in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the lenses corresponds to a subset of plural lenses among the plurality of the barriers. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063016 | UNIFIED RASTERIZATION AND RAY TRACING RENDERING ENVIRONMENTS - A graphics processor architecture provides for scan conversion and ray tracing approaches to visible surface determination as concurrent and separate processes. Surfaces can be identified for shading by scan conversion and ray tracing. Data produced by each can be normalized, so that instances of shaders, being executed on a unified shading computation resource, can shade surfaces originating from both ray tracing and rasterization. Such resource also may execute geometry shaders. The shaders can emit rays to be tested for intersection by the ray tracing process. Such shaders can complete, without waiting for those emitted rays to complete. Where scan conversion operates on tiles of 2-D screen pixels, the ray tracing can be tile aware, and controlled to prioritize testing of rays based on scan conversion status. Ray population can be controlled by feedback to any of scan conversion, and shading. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063017 | Method and System of Model Shading and Reduction of Vertices for 3D Imaging on a Clinician Programmer - The present disclosure involves a method of providing three-dimensional imaging in a medical environment. A first three-dimensional (3D) model is provided. The first 3D model represents a part of human anatomy or an implantable medical device. The first 3D model contains a plurality of vertices. A second 3D model is then generated by performing a vertex-reduction process to the first 3D model. The second 3D model has fewer vertices than the first 3D model. A shading texture is applied to the second 3D model to obtain a texture-shaded second 3D model. The applying the shading texture is performed using the first 3D model as a reference so that the texture-shaded second 3D model resembles the first 3D model. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063018 | DEPTH ESTIMATION DEVICE, DEPTH ESTIMATION METHOD, DEPTH ESTIMATION PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An outline identification unit identifies an outline of an object in a target image. A distance identification unit identifies the minimum distance between a target pixel in an object region and the outline. A depth value determination unit configured to determine a depth value of the target pixel in accordance with the distance. The distance identification unit examines can determine the minimum distance to the outline by spirally searching for a point of contact with the outline starting at the position of the target pixel. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063019 | 2D TO 3D USER INTERFACE CONTENT DATA CONVERSION - A method of two dimensional (2D) content data conversion to three dimensional (3D) content data involves receiving 3D video content and 2D user interface content data via a 2D to 3D content conversion module. A displacement represented by disparity data that defines a separation of left eye and right eye data for 3D rendering of the 2D user interface content data is determined. 3D user interface content data is generated at a 3D depth on the display based upon the received 2D user interface content data and the determined displacement. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063020 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING AND COMPARING CHOROPLETHIC HOUSING STATISTICS - The present invention relates to a mapping and comparing choroplethic housing statistics. In one example, this comprises accessing property data corresponding to a geospatial area. Analytics are used to generate usable property data statistics from the accessed property data. A thematic map image based on the usable property data statistics is then generated according to comparison categories, so that the thematic map image may be displayed. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063021 | ANIMATIONS - At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least two animations. The method further includes determining the progress of each animation. The method further includes completing each animation based on a single timer. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063022 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS DEVICE - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for electromechanical systems devices including one or more storage capacitors. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate structure, a movable element configured to move relative to the substrate structure, and at least one switch. The movable element includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that form a storage capacitor. The switch is configured to control a flow of charge between a source and the storage capacitor. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063023 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device having a display panel including a plurality of data lines; a data driver including at least one data driving circuit chip which transmits data signals to the plurality of data lines; and a signal controller transmitting a dummy control signal and an output image signal to a first data driving circuit chip of at least one data driving circuit chip. The first data driving circuit chip may include zero or more dummy channels which are not connected with the data lines, and the dummy control signal includes information on positions of the dummy channels included in the first data driving circuit chip and information regarding the number of dummy channels. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063024 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA COMPRESSION USING COMPUTER GRAPHICS RENDERING PIPELINE - A method includes obtaining three-dimensional range data, using a computer graphics rendering pipeline to encode the three-dimensional range data into two-dimensional images, retrieving depth information for each sampled pixel in the two-dimensional images, and encoding the depth information into red, green and blue color channels of the two-dimensional images. The two-dimensional images may be compressed using two-dimensional techniques including dithering. The step of obtaining the three-dimensional range data may be performed using a three-dimensional range scanning device. The method may further include storing the two-dimensional images on a computer readable storage medium. The method may further include setting up the viewing angle for the three-dimensional range data. The viewing angle for the three-dimensional range data is a viewing angle of a camera used in obtaining the three-dimensional range data. The computer graphics rendering pipeline may provide for geometry processing, projection, and rasterization. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063025 | Pipelined Image Processing Sequencer - To provide optimal power and performance policy choices for imaging and analytic processing, In accordance with some embodiments, reusable, reconfigurable, dedicated function process elements may be allocated to execution sequences made up of sequentially executed process elements. Any given process element may be reconfigured in any given execution sequence to meet a sequence performance metric. A plurality of sequences may then run in parallel. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063026 | SOC PERFORMING DYNAMIC VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY SCALING POLICIES USING 3D WORKLOAD, AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes a graphics processor unit (GPU) configured to receive three-dimensional (3D) input data and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to receive the 3D input data and adjust a frequency and operating voltage of the GPU based on the 3D input data. The GPU performs image processing on the 3D input data based on the adjusted frequency and the operating voltage. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063027 | REMOTE GPU PROGRAMMING AND EXECUTION METHOD - User-specified GPU kernel functions and input data sets are sent over a Web service to a remote computer equipped with a programmable GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for execution. The Web service then returns resulting data to a client, which uses the same Web service. This is accomplished by incorporating a serialized request formed from the GPU kernel function code and input data set by using JavaScript® Object Notation (JSON) serialization. The request is then sent to the remote computer and programmable GPU, where the request is deserialized, kernel code is compiled, and input data copied to the GPU memory on the remote computer. The GPU kernel function is then executed, and output data is copied from the GPU memory on the remote computer and reserialized using JSON to form a serialized response. The serialized response is then returned to the client via the web service. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063028 | Memory Space Mapping Techniques for Server Based Graphics Processing - The server based graphics processing techniques, describer herein, include loading a given instance of a guest shim layer and loading a given instance of a guest display device interface that calls back into the given instance of the guest shim layer, in response to loading the given instance of the guest shim layer, wherein the guest shim layer and the guest display device interface are executing under control of a virtual machine guest operating system. The given instance of the shim layer requests a communication channel between the given instance of the guest shim layer and a host-guest communication manager (D3D HGCM) service module from a host-guest communication manager (HGCM). In response to the request for the communication channel loading, the D3D HGCM service module is loaded and a communication channel between the given instance of the shim layer and the D3D HGCM service module is created by the HGCM. The given instance of the shim layer maps the graphics buffer memory space of a host D3D DDI binary executing under control of a host operating system. Thereafter, function calls are sent from the given instance of the guest shim layer through the communication channel to the D3D HGCM service module utilizing the graphics buffer memory space mapping. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063029 | SHADER INTERFACES - Allocation of memory registers for shaders by a processor is described herein. For each shader, registers are allocated based on the shader's level of complexity. Simpler shader instances are restricted to a smaller number of memory registers. More complex shader instances are allotted more registers. To do so, developers' high level shading level (HLSL) language includes template classes of shaders that can later be replaced by complex or simple versions of the shader. The HLSL is converted to bytecode that can be used to rasterize pixels on a computing device. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063030 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PARTIAL FRAME BUFFER UPDATING - Aspects include a pixel source that produces data for a rendered surface divided into regions. A mapping identifies memory segments storing pixel data for each region of the surface. The mapping can identify memory segments storing pixel data from a prior rendered surface, for regions that were unchanged during rendering the rendering. Such changed/unchanged status is tracked on a region by region basis. A counter can be maintained for each memory segments to track how many surfaces use pixel data stored therein. A pool of free memory segments can be maintained. Reading a surface, such as to display a rendered surface by a display controller, includes identifying and reading the mapping to identify each memory segment storing pixel data for regions of the surface, reading such, and updating the counters for the memory segments that were read. | 2014-03-06 |
| 20140063031 | PIXEL BUFFERING - In an example method and system, image data to an image processing module. Image data is read from memory into a down-scaler, which down-scales the image data to a first resolution, which is stored in a first buffer. A region of image data which the image processing module will request is predicted, and image data corresponding to at least part of the predicted region of image data is stored in a first buffer, in a second resolution, higher than the first. When a request for image data is received, it is then determined whether image data corresponding to the requested image data is in the second buffer, and if so, then image data is provided to the image processing module from the second buffer. If not, then image data from the first buffer is up-scaled, and the up-scaled image data is provided to the image processing module. | 2014-03-06 |
