| 14th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
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| 20090085829 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING BEAM ALIGNMENT - A display apparatus compensating the discrepancy of alignment of beams irradiated on one-dimensional diffraction type optical modulator is disclosed. A 1-panel display apparatus including: a plurality of monochromatic light sources irradiating illumination light beams having different wavelengths; an optical modulator receiving sequentially the illumination light beams and modulating the illumination light beams according to a control signal; a scanner scanning the modulated illumination light beams sequentially on a display screen; and a control unit receiving an image signal and outputting a control signal for controlling the monochromatic light source, the optical modulator and the scanner in correspondence to the image signal, whereas the control unit controls an on/off timing of the monochromatic light source and an image data timing of the optical modulator in such a manner that a position of the modulated illumination light beam is equal to a position of a monochromatic image scanned on the display screen. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085830 | Multiple Video Display Device, Screen Forming Program and Computer Readable Recording Medium - A dual-view liquid crystal display device ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085831 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device including a display element having a planar display face on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix shape and an optical element arranged in close contact with or in close proximity to at least a partial region of the planar display face and optically transmitting image light incoming from the planar display face to a light-emitting face, characterized in that the light-emitting face of the optical element has a surface not parallel to at least the planar display face and forms a nonplanar display face and that the plurality of pixels on the planar display face do not have the same dimensions but different dimensions in accordance with the angle θ formed by the planar display face and the nonplanar display face corresponding to the pixels of the planar display face. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085832 | Direct view 3D display and method - A method for three-dimensional viewing includes the following steps: providing first and second stereoscopic video component signals representative of a three-dimensional scene; providing first and second orthogonally oriented two-dimensional liquid crystal display panels, and respectively coupling the first and second video component signals to the first and second LCD panels to produce first and second two-dimensional polarized images; providing a 90 degree polarization rotation with respect to one of the first and second images, so that the first and second images are orthogonally polarized; providing a polarization-sensitive reflector angularly between the first and second orthogonally polarized images to superimpose and direct both of the first and second orthogonally polarized images toward a viewer; and viewing the superimposed first and second orthogonally polarized images with Polaroid glasses. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085833 | Wearable display - A proposition is to provide a wearable display suitable for enjoying contents including images by plural users simultaneously. To realize the proposition, the wearable display provides an external output unit outputting a signal having the same contents as a signal input to a device to an external device, at an exterior part of an apparatus body including the device making information of contents including images into a state capable of being sensed by a user, and mounting fixtures mounting the device on a head portion of the user. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085834 | Multi-primary color display and the manufacturing method thereof - A multi-primary color display has pixels, and each pixel includes at least four sub pixels which display red primary color, green primary color, blue primary color and cyan primary color, respectively. When the four primary colors are displayed to achieve white balance, their luminance ratios are: the relative luminance of green primary color is greater than the relative luminance of red primary color, the relative luminance of red primary color is greater than the relative luminance of cyan primary color, and the relative luminance of cyan primary color is greater than the relative luminance of blue primary color. A method for manufacturing the multi-primary color display is disclosed as well. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085835 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including scan electrodes and sustain electrodes, a sensor unit for detecting a temperature or a peripheral temperature of the panel, and a scan driver for supplying reset signals to the scan electrodes in a reset period of at least one subfield among a plurality of subfields at a predetermined reference temperature so that a first period in which a lowest voltage of the reset signal is supplied is different from a supply period of a lowest voltage when the temperature or the peripheral temperature of the PDP deviates the predetermined reference temperature. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085836 | PLASMA DISPLAY, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A three electrode plasma display device utilizing an auxiliary reset period and, during a sustain period, sustain pulses of variable widths. In the auxiliary reset period, a voltage at the scan electrode is gradually increased from a first voltage to a second voltage, and then gradually decreased from a third voltage to a fourth voltage. In the sustain period, a plurality of sustain pulses are alternately applied to a scan electrode and a sustain electrode. The sustain pulses include a first sustain pulse group and a second sustain pulse group, where the second sustain pulse group includes at least the last sustain pulse in the sustain period. The width of the sustain pulses included in the second sustain pulse group are wider than a width of the sustain pulses included in the first sustain pulse group. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085837 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A plasma display device driven during an address period and a sustain period includes a discharge cell defined by a scan electrode, a sustain electrode, and an address electrode, an addressing circuit for providing an address voltage to the address electrode, and an addressing compensation circuit for storing voltage corresponding to a displacement current generated during a sustain period to be utilized during the address period. The addressing compensation circuit includes a switch coupled with the address electrode through which the displacement current supplied from the scan electrode and the sustain electrode is received during the sustain period, and a capacitor coupled with the switch for storing the voltage corresponding to the displacement current received through the switch. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085838 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A plasma display device has a cumulative time measuring circuit for measuring the current-flow cumulative time, and a sustain electrode driving circuit. In the sustain electrode driving circuit, one field includes a plurality of subfields having an initializing period for initializing the discharge cells, an address period for selecting discharge cells to be discharged, and a sustain period for causing sustain discharge in the discharge cells selected in the address period. The sustain electrode driving circuit drives the sustain electrode by applying first voltage to the sustain electrode in the initializing period and applying second voltage to the sustain electrode in the address period. The sustain electrode driving circuit varies the value of the second voltage in response to the cumulative time measured by the cumulative time measuring circuit. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085839 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - This invention is directed to a technique capable of achieving image quality improvement by the control of reset thinning drive (second drive) in a PDP drive control and of restricting or reducing the generation of hunting in ON/OFF control of the second drive and flickering of background luminance particularly in the case of low-luminance display. In this PDP apparatus, in addition to the control of the second drive using the SF load ratio, the APL value (k) and APL variation value (q) of the field are used, and when the APL variation value (q) is less than a predetermined threshold value, even when the SF load ratio is changed from zero to a value other than zero between SFs, the execution of the first drive is not started, and the execution of the second drive is continued. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085840 | PLASMA DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A method for driving a plasma display including scan electrodes, address electrodes, sustain electrodes, and a plurality of discharge cells with one frame divided into a plurality of subfields. In the method, a voltage of the scan electrode is gradually increased from a second voltage to a third voltage while applying a first voltage to the address electrode during a first reset period of a first subfield among the plurality of subfields, and the voltage of the scan electrode is gradually increased from a fifth voltage to a sixth voltage that is lower than the third voltage while applying a fourth voltage that is higher than the first voltage to the address electrode during a second reset period of a second subfield among the plurality of subfields. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085841 | Plasma display, controller therefor and driving method thereof - A plasma display, a controller therefor and a method of driving determines a total number of sustain pulses according to a screen load ratio, and allocates sustain pulses to each subfield according to a weight value of that subfield. A ratio of overlap sustain pulses to non-overlap sustain pulses is determined according to the weight value of each subfield, and the overlap and non-overlap sustain pulses are arranged according to the determined ratio. The arranged sustain pulses are applied to a plurality of first and second electrodes that perform a display operation during a sustain period. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085842 | PLASMA DISPLAY APPARATUS - A plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel (PDP) and electrode drivers. The electrode drivers supply driving voltages to scan electrodes and sustain electrodes of the PDP through a connection circuit which includes a base film and electrode line groups electrically separated from one another. Electrodes from a first electrode line group are connected to sustain electrodes of a first sustain electrode group and electrode lines from a second electrode line group to sustain electrodes of a second sustain electrode group. During a predetermined period of an address period, a first bias voltage is applied to the sustain electrodes of the first sustain electrode group and a second bias voltage different from the first bias voltage is applied to the sustain electrodes of the second sustain electrode group. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085843 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an electronic device including, an active matrix region, a short-circuit line, electrostatic protection elements, and a light-shielding film. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085844 | Display device, driving method of the same and electronic apparatus using the same - A display device includes a pixel array section and a driving section. The pixel array section includes scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, and pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the pixels includes at least a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a holding capacitance, and a light-emitting device. The sampling transistor has its control terminal connected to the scanning line and its pair of current terminals connected between the signal line and the control terminal of the drive transistor. The drive transistor has one of its pair of current terminals connected to the light-emitting device and the other of its pair of current terminals connected to a power source. The holding capacitance is connected between the control and current terminals of the drive transistor. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085845 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING LED DOT MATRIX - Provided are a method and apparatus for driving a Light Emitting Diode (LED) dot matrix. The apparatus includes a plurality of R, G and B LEDs, a clock multiplier generating R, G and B Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) clocks using an input system clock, and a column driver generating R, G and B PWM signals using input R, G and B data and the generated R, G and B PWM clocks and applying the R, G and B PWM signals to the R, G and B LEDs in order to drive the LED dot matrix. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085846 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD PERFORMING MOTION COMPENSATION USING MOTION ESTIMATION - An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a calculator and a controller. The calculator performs a block matching algorithm based on a difference between first image data of a macroblock and second image data of each of a plurality of blocks in a search range. The controller generates a motion vector used for motion compensation based on a result of the block matching algorithm and alternately changes a scan direction of the second image data at an interval of one horizontal period in a frame. The image processing device shares the second image data, which is repeatedly used during the block matching algorithm, in a horizontal direction. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085847 | TRANSMISSIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a transmissive liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel and a backlight, the liquid crystal panel contains pixels each divided into four subpixels, a red (R), a green (G), a blue (B), and a white (W) subpixel. The backlight is a white backlight emitting light with controllable emission luminance. A luminance lowering section performs luminance lowering processing on input RGB signals (original input signals) for transformation into luminance-lowered RGB signals. An output signal generating section obtains transmittances and a backlight value from the luminance-lowered RGB signals. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085848 | Liquid crystal display with color sensor on substrate - An exemplary liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a light source, and a color feedback system. The light source includes light emitting diodes. The color feedback system includes either one color sensor or plural color sensors. In one example, a single color sensor is disposed on the substrate and samples the light at the substrate. The color feedback system adjusts the brightness of the light emitting diodes according to the sampling signals of the color sensor. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085849 | Fast Overdriving Method of LCD Panel - A driving method for a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is provided. The method comprises applying corresponding overdriving data for source data to the LCD panel at the beginning of a frame; applying black data to the LCD panel before the end of the frame, wherein the polarities of the applied black data are the same as the pixel electrode driving polarity at the beginning of a next frame; and applying the source data to the LCD panel at a time between the application of the overdriving data and the application of the black data. The driving method of the invention eliminates the need for large TFTs by reducing the voltage change between the end of a previous frame and the beginning of a current frame, and also can perform pre-charging for the pixel electrodes without adding any other device. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085850 | Liquid crystal display device with OCB mode and method dividing one frame into two sub frames for driving same - A liquid crystal display device that operates in optically compensated bend mode includes a gate driving circuit, a data driving circuit, and pixel units. The gate driving circuit is configured for providing a gate signal to each of the pixel units. The data driving circuit is configured for providing a first voltage corresponding to a black signal in a first sub frame of a frame divided into two sub frames to each of the pixel units via a corresponding data line, and a second voltage corresponding to a gray level display signal in a second sub frame of the frame to each of the pixel units. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085851 | NAVIGATION FOR A NON-TRADITIONALLY SHAPED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY FOR MOBILE HANDSET DEVICES - A method, apparatus, and electronic device for displaying data are disclosed. A non-rectangular addressable liquid crystal display | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085852 | DRIVING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A driving apparatus, a system and a method thereof is provided by the present invention. The driving apparatus has at least an output terminal and includes a driving circuit and a control switch. The control switch is electrically coupled with the driving circuit. The driving circuit receives an input signal and converts the input signal into an analog driving signal. The control switch is controlled by a control signal. When the control switch is turned on, the analog driving signal is able to be sent to the output terminal of the driving apparatus. The control signal further controls the spike current generated as turning on the control switch so as to reduce the spike current. The driving apparatus can be applied to an LCD system, so that the panel and the chips of the LCD system have longer life time, lower electricity consumption and better heat dissipation performance. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085853 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A display substrate includes an insulation substrate, an (n)-th gate line, a data line, first and second source electrodes, first and second drain electrodes, a pixel electrode, a third drain electrode, and a storage line. The first source electrode overlaps a first portion of the (n)-th gate line and is electrically connected to the data line. The first and second drain electrodes overlap a second portion of the (n)-th gate line. The pixel electrode is connected to the first drain electrode. The second source electrode overlaps a first portion of an (n+1)-th gate line, while the third drain electrode overlaps a second portion thereof. The storage line overlaps a portion of each of the pixel electrode and the second and third drain electrodes. The second source electrode is formed by extending the second drain electrode in a direction substantially from the (n)-th gate line towards the (n+1)-th gate line. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085854 | DISPLAY UNIT - The invention provides a display unit that has a display area and first and second photodetectors | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085855 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY FOR REDUCING RESIDUAL IMAGE PHENOMENON - A liquid crystal display includes a source driver, for generating a pixel data voltage, a gate driver, for generating a scanning signal voltage, and a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel unit includes a switch unit for delivering the pixel data voltage upon receiving the scanning signal voltage, a pixel electrode electrically coupled to the switch unit, a first electrode for supplying a first common voltage, a second electrode for supplying a second common voltage, a liquid crystal capacitor electrically coupled between the first electrode and the pixel electrode for driving liquid crystal layer in response to the pixel data voltage and the first common voltage, and a storage capacitor electrically coupled between the pixel electrode and the second electrode. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085856 | Display Device - An overdrive device corrects IN data by referring to a look-up table based on IN data, ODA data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by one frame and ODB data outputted from the look-up table, which is previous by two frames. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085857 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CONTROLLER - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085858 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND RELATED DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY PANEL - A driving circuit applied to a display panel includes a driving unit for generating a plurality of driving signals to drive a plurality of pixels in the display panel, and a plurality of multiplexers coupled to the driving unit and the plurality of pixels. Each multiplexer of the plurality of multiplexers is utilized for sequentially transmitting a plurality of driving signals to a plurality of sub-pixels of a corresponding pixel, where two adjacent pixels utilize different driving sequences of the sub-pixels to drive their sub-pixels. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085859 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display panel which includes a data pixel which is formed to a display area in which an image is displayed, and a dummy pixel which is formed to a non display area in which the image is not displayed, a light source unit which supplies a light to the data pixel and the dummy pixel, a light source driving unit which supplies a driving power to the light source unit, a light sensing unit which senses the light emitted from the dummy pixel, and a light source control unit which controls the light source driving unit so that at least one of brightness and a color coordinate of sensed light has a predetermined reference value. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085860 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof - In a method for driving a liquid crystal display, a plurality of first enabling pulses are transmitted to a first group of scan lines in a first period of a predetermined time, respectively. A plurality of second enabling pulses are transmitted to a second group of scan lines in a second period of the predetermined time, respectively. The pixel voltages of pixel units, which are connected to the scan lines of the first and second group, are different in their polarities. During the predetermined time, a common voltage signal, which has different levels in the first and second period, is transmitted to the common line. A liquid crystal display applying the above driving method is also disclosed. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085861 | BACKLIGHT DRIVER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A backlight driver and a liquid crystal display (LCD) including the same, in which the backlight driver includes an interface unit enabled in response to a first carry signal, receiving serially provided optical data, and outputting a second carry signal; and a plurality of control units controlling one or more light-emitting devices in response to the serially provided optical data. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085862 | Video displaying apparatus - A video displaying apparatus is provided that can change light-modulation rate of a backlight source in accordance with changes in a feature quantity of an input video signal based on a difference between times required for the light adaptation and the dark adaptation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085863 | MOTION BASED DISPLAY MANAGEMENT - A display manager is configured to handle the drawing of windows on one or more displays for an application differently based on detected motion information that is associated with a device. The display manager may not display windows for some applications while motion is detected, while the display manager may display windows for other applications even when motion is detected. Motion enabled applications may interact with the display manager and motion information to determine how to display windows while motion is detected. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GESTURE CLASSIFICATION - The present invention is a method of identifying a user's gestures for use in an interactive game application. Videocamera images of the user are obtained, and feature point locations of a user's body are identified in the images. A similarity measure is used to compare the feature point locations in the images with a library of gestures. The gesture in the library corresponding to the largest calculated similarity measure which is greater than a threshold value of the gesture is identified as the user's gesture. The identified gesture may be integrated into the user's movements within a virtual gaming environment, and visual feedback is provided to the user. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085865 | DEVICE FOR UNDERWATER USE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A method of controlling a device for underwater use includes detecting a user-interaction with the electronic device based on signals received from an accelerometer, and performing an operation as a result of the user-interaction. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085866 | Image display apparatus - An image display apparatus includes an input unit which has a display on which an image is displayed, a flexible sheet typed substrate, and a bending detection section which is arranged on a surface of the substrate to detect a bending deformation of the substrate, and a display control section which controls to change an image to be displayed on the display, based on the bending deformation of the substrate detected by the bending detection section. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an image display apparatus which is capable of changing easily an image to be displayed on the display even when a user is not good at operating an equipment. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085867 | Error-correction apparatus and method and 3D pointing device using the error-correction apparatus - An error-correction apparatus and method and a three-dimensional (3D) pointing device using the error-correction apparatus are provided. The error-correction apparatus includes a data-collection module which collects current data and calculates an actual variation in the current data; an estimation module which calculates an estimated data variation for the current data based on a number of data variations for respective corresponding previous data; a threshold-calculation module which calculates a variable threshold based on the data variations for the respective previous data; and a determination module which compares the difference between the actual data variation and the estimated data variation with the variable threshold and determines whether the current data is erroneous based on the result of the comparison. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085868 | Composite notebook - The present invention is a composite notebook, comprising a notebook main body, a controller, and wireless communication units thereon, wherein the controller comprises a switch unit, a touch screen, a keypad unit, a signal processing unit, and a power supply module. The controller respectively provides a joint operation mode when being attached to the notebook main body and a separate operation mode when being detached from the notebook main body. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085869 | REMOTE CONTROL POINTING TECHNOLOGY - Pointing device ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085870 | Multimedia device - A multimedia device includes a display device, a storage device, an orientation sensor and a processing unit. The storage device has a plurality of programs, and each of which is capable of rendering of an operation interface on the display device. The orientation sensor is capable of detecting the disposed orientation of the display device and sending an orientation signal. The processing unit electrically connected to the display device, the storage device and the orientation sensor. The operation interface shown on the display device is determined by the processing unit in accordance with the orientation signal emitted from the orientation sensor. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085871 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A MULTI-FOCUS REMOTE CONTROL SESSION - A method and system for managing a multi-focus remote control session (RCS) within a computer system. A unique identifier (UserID) of each user and associated input devices are registered to the RCS. The users have shared concurrent control of a computer screen via the input devices. Responsive to selection of windows within the computer screen by the input devices, concurrently operative focus is provided to each selected window and is specific to the UserID associated with the input device that selected the window. Each selected window having focus may be accessed and manipulated by only the input devices associated with the UserID to which the focus provided to each selected window is specific. The selected windows to which focus has been provided are recording in a computer readable medium in association with the UserID specific to the selection of the windows. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085872 | TILT-WHEEL MOUSE CIRCUIT - A tilt-wheel mouse circuit is provided. Without adding more I/O pins, the tilt-wheel mouse circuit provides extra scrolling-left and scrolling-right functions through an external-extend circuit and firmware of a micro-controller within the tilt-wheel mouse circuit. It follows that the cost of the manufacturing of the tilt-wheel mouse is accordingly low and the package size of the micro-controller is accordingly small. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085873 | Sensory enhancement systems and methods in personal electronic devices - Disclosed are personal electronic devices (PEDs) having a sensory enhancement (SE) system for monitoring environmental conditions and detecting environmental events, for example but not limited to, changes in acoustic, thermal, optical, electromagnetic, chemical, dynamic, wireless, atmospheric, or biometric conditions. The detection of such events can be used to invoke a notification, an alert, a corrective action, or some other action, depending upon the implementation to the PED user or another party. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085874 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE AND CHARACTER INPUT METHOD THEREIN - A device, computer program product and method of inputting a character in a touch screen device, in which a touch area is partitioned into a plurality of array positions, and one or more letters are assigned to each of the partitioned array positions. The method comprises the steps of: partitioning a touch area of the touch panel into a plurality of array positions and assigning one or more characters to each of the partitioned array positions; sensing an expansion event of selecting one among the array positions; dividing the touch area into a plurality of selection positions and assigning the characters assigned to the array position selected by the expansion event to the respective selection positions; sensing a selection event of selecting one among the selection positions; and recognizing the character assigned to the selection position selected by the selection event as an input character. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085875 | INPUT DEVICE - To enable Japanese character input and the like to be performed efficiently by a simple operation. An input device includes: a device body ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085876 | ENVIRONMENT SYNCHRONIZED IMAGE MANIPULATION - A system for interfacing with a user. The system includes a sensor, a controller, and a display. The sensor is configured to sense environmental conditions about the display and communicate the environmental conditions with the controller. The controller is configured to generate graphics and provide the graphics to the display. The graphics include one or more environmental display elements that correspond to the environmental condition sensed by the sensor. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085877 | MULTI-TOUCH INTERFACES FOR USER AUTHENTICATION, PARTITIONING, AND EXTERNAL DEVICE CONTROL - Multi-touch interfaces allow user interaction with multiple points of contact to control external devices such as game consoles, authenticate users, partition the interface for multiple users, and so forth. The multi-touch interface may provide graphical representations that are manipulated by users through multiple points of contact to participate in games running on an external game console. Additionally, user authentication may occur through multiple points of contact with the multi-touch interface where each user has a unique contact pattern that includes points of contact, location of points of contact, rhythm of points of contact, and so forth. The graphical representations may be customized based on the authentication of a user, and the multi-touch surface may be partitioned based on the number of users present. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085878 | Multi-Touch Device Having Dynamic Haptic Effects - A system for generating haptic effects senses at least two generally simultaneous touches on a touchscreen and, in response, generates a dynamic haptic effect. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085879 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING RIGID INPUT SURFACE WITH PIEZOELECTRIC HAPTICS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - An electronic device and corresponding method provide haptic feedback to a user. The electronic device includes a rigid input surface, a piezoelectric element directly attached to the rigid input surface, sensors disposed adjacent to the rigid input surface for sensing when the user selects various portions of the rigid input surface, the sensors providing electrical signals indicative of the selected portions, and a controller that receives the electrical signals from the sensors, and in response thereto causes drive signals to be provided to the piezoelectric element causing deformation of the piezoelectric element and bending of the rigid input surface, wherein the bending of the rigid input surface provides haptic feedback to the user in response to the user selecting of the rigid input surface. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085880 | Software Flow Control of Rotary Quad Human Machine Interface - A rotary quad control interface that allows a vehicle driver to control several vehicle systems without focusing on the interface itself. The interface includes four touch pads disposed in four quadrants of the interface, an outer rotary dial positioned substantially at the center of the four touch pads and an inner rotary dial disposed within the outer rotary dial and being concentric thereto, where the inner rotary dial also operates as a push button. A display screen displays the operation of the interface, and includes a first display portion, a second display portion, a third display portion and a fourth display portion that are provided as quadrants on the display screen and are representative of the touch pads on the interface. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085881 | DETECTING FINGER ORIENTATION ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE - The determination of an orientation of a finger touching a touch-sensitive device is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computing device comprises a display screen configured to display an image to a user, and an intensity-sensitive touch-sensing input mechanism configured to detect one or more objects touching the display screen. The device also comprises a controller configured to determine an orientation of a finger touching the screen from a direction between a center of a first set of touch data and a center of a second set of touch data, and to adjust an image on the display screen in response to a determined orientation of the finger. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085882 | Directional Haptic Effects For A Handheld Device - A handheld device includes at least two sections that are substantially mechanically isolated. Each section includes an actuator that generates haptic effects. The haptic effects generated by an actuator in one section are substantially isolated to that section so that, for example, directional haptic effects can be generated on the handheld device. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085883 | Antiseptic touch panel and a method thereof - The present invention discloses an antiseptic touch panel comprising: a panel substrate, which is to be touch-operated by users; and an antiseptic layer coated on the panel substrate and having an antiseptic material with Formula (I): | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085884 | CONTROLLER AND MEDICAL TREATMENT APPARATUS - A controller according to the present invention has a control portion. The control portion reads out a panel image that is previously stored in a panel image memory, displays the panel image on a liquid crystal monitor of a touch panel, inputs panel coordinates information that is from the touch panel, converts the panel coordinates information into a corresponding key code based on a key code conversion table stored in a conversion table memory, and outputs the result to a key code output portion. It is therefore possible to simplify a communication driver of an apparatus main unit to reduce a load in communication processing. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085885 | TOUCH PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The touch panel has a double-layered sensing pad structure or a single-layered sensing pad structure. In the double-layered sensing pad structure, the sensing pads in each layer have corresponding dummy sensing pads in the other layer for compensating the difference of transmittance. In the single-layered sensing pad structure, the sensing pads are coplanar so that the problem of color shift can be overcome and the visual effect of the touch panel can be improved. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085886 | Method and apparatus for performing view switching functions on handheld electronic device with touch screen - A method for performing a view switching function of a handheld device with a touch screen is provided. The handheld device has an LCD panel and a touch panel. The touch panel has a touch region larger than a display area of the LCD panel. The touch panel has a main touch region overlapping the LCD panel, and an assistant touch region surrounding but not overlapping the LCD panel. The method includes (a) when the touch panel detects a presence of an object, determining whether the main touch region or the assistant touch region is touched; (b) when it is determined that the main touch region is touched, and it is determined that the object slides to the assistant touch region, switching from a first view to a second view displayed on the LCD panel; and (c) when it is determined that the assistant touch region is touched, and it is determined that the object slides to the main touch region, switching from a third view to a fourth view displayed on the LCD panel. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085887 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING PRESSED LOCATION OF TOUCH SCREEN - A method for determining pressed locations of a touch screen, suitable for an electronic device having the touch screen, is provided. In the present method, coordinates and pressure values of m samples where the touch screen is pressed are detected. Then, the pressure values of those samples are compared to find n samples with the highest pressure values. Finally, the coordinates of those n samples are averaged for determining the pressed location of the touch screen. Accordingly, the accuracy of determining the pressed location of the touch screen can be increased and the convenience for operating the electronic device is enhanced. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085888 | Resistive multi-touch panel and detecting method thereof - The present invention provides a resistive multi-touch panel and its method that comprises a first touch panel module, a second touch panel module, at least one touch sensing device and at least one coordinate acquiring device. Therein, the first touch panel module includes a plurality of first planar resistors independently arranged. The second touch panel module includes a plurality of second planar resistors, also independently arranged. The second touch panel module is positioned below the first touch panel module while an arrangement direction of the second planar resistors differs from an arrangement direction of the first second planar resistors. Thereupon, the resistive multi-touch panel employs the plurality of first planar resistors and the plurality of second planar resistors to achieve multi-touch effect to overcome the defect of the conventional resistive touch panel that merely allows the single-touch input at a time. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085889 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE HAVING A TOUCH KEY - A portable communication device having a panel and a touch key with a touch sensor pad integrally attached to the panel is provided. More particularly, the portable communication device includes a panel, a printed circuit board, and a control unit, wherein the portable communication device includes one or more touch sensor pads disposed on the panel for detecting a touch of the panel and for generating respective signals corresponding to the detection, and one or more connection terminals provided with the touch sensor pads, respectively, the one or more connection terminals for electrically connecting to one or more interconnection devices on the printed circuit board, respectively, for applying the signals from the touch sensor pads to the control unit. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085890 | Touch Panel and Touch Panel Manufacturing Method - A first laminated body is formed by printing an electroluminescent layer that emits radiant light through the first substrate, as well as a first resistive film, upon a flexible and optically transparent first substrate including a principal surface that functions as an operable surface. A second laminated body is formed by printing a second resistive film upon a second substrate. A second resistive film is printed upon a second substrate. The laminated body and the second substrate are then unified such that the first resistive film and the second resistive film face each other and are spaced apart by a predetermined distance. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085891 | Capacitive Touch Panel with Low Impedance - A capacitive touch panel and a display device using the capacitive touch panel are provided. The capacitive touch panel includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between two layers. The first electrode layer has a plurality of first A electrode strings and first B electrode strings extended along a first direction. The first A electrode string and the first B electrode string respectively has a plurality of first direction electrodes. The second electrode layer has a plurality of second direction electrodes connected in series along a second direction. The first A and B electrode strings are disconnected in the first electrode layer while they are simultaneously detected for presence of signal variation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085892 | INPUT DEVICE USING TOUCH PANEL - There is provided an input device using a touch panel allowing input operations to be performed without viewing an input surface. The input device includes a transparent capacitance-type touch panel ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085893 | Field-Sequential Display Apparatus and Display System Capable of Sensing Pixel Address - A field-sequential display apparatus and a display system which is capable of sensing pixel address are provided. The field-sequential display apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels, each of which is adapted to present a plurality of display states. The display states includes at least one colored light and an invisible light, wherein the at last one colored light and invisible light are alternately displayed, and the invisible light is adapted to transmit the address information of the pixel. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085894 | MULTIPOINT NANOSTRUCTURE-FILM TOUCH SCREEN - A touch screen comprising at least one nanostructure film and capable of detecting multiple touches occurring at the same time at distinct locations in a plane of the touch screen is described. The touch screen may comprise a sensing layer, a driving layer and/or a shielding layer. At least one of these layers may comprise a nanostructure film, and at least two of these layers may be formed on a common substrate. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085895 | Image generating system having primary and auxiliary display - An image generating system with a primary display and an auxiliary display, the system comprising a display, the display comprising a primary display area and an auxiliary display area disposed at least partially inside a boundary of the primary display area, the primary display area being in an on condition during a first operational mode of the system and the auxiliary display area being in an on condition during a second operational mode of the system. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085896 | Image Encoding Device, Image Processing Device, Image Display Device, Image Encoding Method, and Image Processing Method - An image encoding device includes a dynamic range generator for outputting dynamic range data Dd | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085897 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image display apparatus includes a version detecting unit that detects a version of data about a subject, a control unit that compares at least a part of the version of the data about the subject detected by the version detecting unit with at least a part of a software version of the image display apparatus and that controls processing of the data about the subject based on whether at least the part of the version of the data about the subject is identical with at least the part of the software version, and an output unit that outputs warning information when at least the part of the version of the data about the subject is not identical with at least the part of the software version, the warning information indicating that the version of the data about the subject is not identical with the software version. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085898 | DATA PROCESSING MODULE FOR GENERATING DITHERED DATA AND METHOD THEREOF - A data processing module for generating dithered data includes a data transforming unit and a dithering unit, wherein the data transforming unit is utilized to transform input data into transformed data containing predetermined data, and the dithering unit is utilized to perform a dithering process on the transformed data to generate the dithered data. By making the display picture of the dithered data contain a fixed pattern corresponding to the predetermined data, the influence on the display picture caused by noise existing in the input data can be efficiently reduced. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085899 | CAPACITIVE LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT AND PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A scan driving circuit includes: a shift register section receiving a scan data signal and a scan clock signal; a plurality of pulse width control circuits each receiving an output signal from the shift register section and a negative pulse width control signal to output a signal whose pulse width is controlled based on the negative pulse width control signal; a blanking section receiving the output signals from the plurality of pulse width control circuits and a blanking signal; and a plurality of high voltage output sections for amplifying the output signals from the plurality of pulse width control circuits, which are received via the blanking section, to successively output negative pulses each having a controlled pulse width to the scanning electrodes. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085900 | APPARATUS FOR THE DISPLAY OF EMBEDDED INFORMATION - An apparatus for the electronic display of information, where the apparatus is a substrate incorporating a digital recording medium attached to or embedded within the substrate. The substrate further includes a flexible-substrate display located on an exposed surface of the substrate, where the display is a medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at each pixel location thereon in order to produce a substrate medium that may be modified in accordance with a user's selection. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085901 | LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DRIVER PROVIDING CURRENT AND POWER CONTROL - As apparatus for controlling operating parameters for a light emitting diode (LED). A driver receives an input voltage from a voltage source and a control signal. The driver provides a driver output current to the LED based on the control signal. The LED has an LED voltage as a function of the driver output current and has an LED power as a function of said LED voltage and said driver output current. A controller determines the LED voltage and produces the control signal provided to the driver as a function of the LED voltage. The control signal corresponds to a constant driver output current when the LED voltage is less than a predetermined voltage value. The control signal corresponds to a varying driver output current for substantially maintaining the LED power at a constant predetermined power value web the LED voltage is greater than the predetermined voltage value. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085902 | Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display Device and Method of Driving the Same - In one embodiment of the present invention, on each source bus line, an electric charge escaping transistor is provided having the same polarity as a pixel transistor and having a gate to which a turn-off voltage signal of the pixel transistor is supplied. When an active matrix liquid crystal display device is powered off, the turn-off voltage signal is made to reach the GND level before a turn-on voltage signal of the pixel transistor reaches the GND level, so that the pixel transistor and the electric charge escaping transistor are made half-open. This lets electric charges accumulated in the pixel escape to a common electrode TCOM. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085903 | Display device, driving method of the same and electronic apparatus using the same - A display device includes a pixel array section and a driving section. The pixel array section includes scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, and pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the pixels includes at least a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a holding capacitance, and a light-emitting device. The sampling transistor has its control terminal connected to the scanning line and its pair of current terminals connected between the signal line and the control terminal of the drive transistor. The drive transistor has one of its pair of current terminals connected to the light-emitting device and the other of its pair of current terminals connected to a power source. The holding capacitance is connected between the control and current terminals of the drive transistor. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085904 | ACTIVE-MATRIX ELECTRONIC DISPLAY COMPRISING DIODE BASED MATRIX DRIVING CIRCUIT - An active-matrix electronic display including a switching circuit for each pixel to control the optical state of the display. The switching circuit includes at least one diode and at least one load impedance for each circuit. The front plane electrode of the display may be unpatterned over a significant portion of the display. The display architecture is especially useful for bi-stable display media that require active matrix addressing, for example electrophoretic displays, and for applications using diodes based on organic semiconductors and/or printed diodes. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085905 | GAMMA-VOLTAGE GENERATION DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a Gamma-voltage generation device and a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device, wherein the Gamma-voltage generation device comprises: a voltage series generation unit for generating a plurality of groups of voltage series; and a multi-path selection unit for selecting one voltage value from each group of voltage series, respectively, according to a voltage selection signal and outputting the same to generate a needed Gamma-voltage series. The LCD device comprises a display panel, a row driver and a column driver, a timing controller, an image analyzing and processing unit, and a Gamma-voltage series generation device. The present invention achieves dynamic Gamma-voltage generation by choosing among a plurality of groups of voltages to output the needed Gamma-voltage series. Further, the plurality of groups of Gamma-voltage series could be obtained with resistor networks and such devices in the existing art as DAC and the like are unnecessary, thereby the response rate is improved and the cost is reduced. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085906 | Power circuit and liquid crystal display using same - An exemplary power circuit includes a first rectifying and filtering circuit, a power factor correction (PFC) circuit, an inverter circuit and a second rectifying and filtering circuit. The first rectifying and filtering circuit receives an AC voltage and transforms the AC voltage to a first DC voltage. The power factor correction circuit includes a first transformer, a first diode and a first storage capacitor. The inverter circuit includes a transistor and a second transformer. A primary winding of the second transformer is grounded via the transistor and receives the first DC voltage via a primary winding of the first transformer, the first diode and a secondary winding of the first transformer in series when the transistor is switched on. The second rectifying and filtering circuit connected to a secondary winding of the second transformer for providing a second DC voltage to a load circuit. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085907 | DRIVING METHOD FOR DRIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The present invention relates to a driving method for a driver IC, comprising: detecting a polarity of a gate line being driven; when the polarity changes, the driver integrated circuit drives the gate line with a first mode signal; when the polarity does not change, the driver integrated circuit drives the gate line with a second mode signal, a driving current of the first mode signal is greater than that of the second mode signal. In the present invention, the driver IC drives a gate line in different driving modes according to a condition that a polarity of the droved gate line changes. Since a driving current of the first mode signal is greater than that of the second mode signal, the present invention is enabled to minimize a difference between charging delays of pixel electrodes on gate lines, improving a dim line phenomenon. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085908 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A driving circuit for a light-emitting device outputs a drive current from an output terminal to the light-emitting device in accordance with a signal current input from an input terminal. The driving circuit includes a drive transistor, a capacitor connected between a gate and a source of the driving transistor, a resistance device and a first switch arranged in series between a drain of the drive transistor and the input terminal, a second switch configured to connect the gate of the drive transistor and a first terminal of the resistance device when the first switch is closed, the first terminal being more remote from the drive transistor, and a third switch disposed in a path through which a drain current of the drive transistor flows from the output terminal to the light-emitting device. The resistance device increases its resistance in accordance with a cumulative amount of a passing current. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085909 | Electro-wetting display device - An exemplary electro-wetting display (EWD) device ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE - A method of rendering a computer generated 3D scene integrated with a base image, the method comprising loading a base image, such as a photograph, and a computer generated 3D scene or model. The base image is displayed on a monitor, and in one embodiment the calibration of the camera which generated the base image is determined. The 3D model is rendered as an overlay of the base image responsive thereto. In another embodiment, the camera calibration of the 3D scene is made consonant with the base image by selecting corresponding points. The base image is then additionally displayed at a predetermined transparency as an overlay of the 3D model. A user then selects pixels of the base image overlay for placement in the foreground. The selected pixels are then displayed without transparency and the balance of the base image overlay removed rendering the integrated image. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085911 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR A 3D VIRTUAL SCENE - A navigation system for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes a model or object with which a user can interact. The system accommodates and helps both novice and advanced users. To do this, the system provides safe navigation features including tool clustering, orientation indicators in the scene, slider indicating scene position, motion warning graphics and other features that help in navigating the scene. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085912 | Full-Color Anaglyph Three-Dimensional Display - Methods and systems for displaying full-color three-dimensional imagery are provided. A first color set, having a first color spectrum, is defined to include a first set of LEDs. The first color set is assigned to a first color-coded image perspective. A second color set, having a second color spectrum, is defined to include a second set of LEDs. The second color set is assigned to a second color-coded image perspective. The full-color three-dimensional imagery is caused by activating, alternatively, at least two LEDs of the first color set or the second color set and one LED of a remaining color set and displaying the three-dimensional image based on the first image perspective and the second image perspective. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085913 | ROAD SHAPE ESTIMATING DEVICE - Roadside three-dimensional objects arranged along the road at irregular intervals are used to accurately estimate a shape of the road. A three-dimensional object extractor extracts a three-dimensional object existing in an image captured by an image pickup device. A feature point extractor extracts a feature point from the three-dimensional object and a feature point corrector corrects a displacement of the feature point according to a detected running state of the vehicle. A residual image generator generates a residual image of the feature point whose displacement is corrected and the running state of the subject vehicle. A vanishing point calculator calculates a vanishing point and a road shape estimator estimates a road shape based on a straight line closest to both right and left sides of the subject vehicle from the straight lines passing through the vanishing point. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085914 | No-reference video quality model - Methods and apparatus relating to video analysis are described. In an embodiment, a method comprises determining desirable features of the video content values, determining undesirable features of the video content values, constructing a quality model using the desirable features and the undesirable features, and storing the quality model in a memory module. Other embodiments are also described. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085915 | GEOSPATIAL MODELING SYSTEM PROVIDING USER-SELECTABLE BUILDING SHAPE OPTIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device, a user input device, and a display. A processor may be included for cooperating with the geospatial model data storage device, the user input device and the display for displaying a geospatial model data set on the display including at least one group of building data points, and displaying a plurality of user-selectable different building shapes on the display based upon the at least one group of building data points. The plurality of user-selectable different building shapes may have different respective feature detail levels. The processor may further replace the at least one group of building data points with a given one of the user-selectable different building shapes based upon user selection thereof with the user input device. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085916 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Non Service Affecting Software Upgrades in Place - The invention includes a method and apparatus for upgrading software represented as a graph, where the graph has a plurality of states and a plurality of state transitions and tokens traverse the graph executing functions. A method includes identifying a target region of the graph, obtaining a new region for the graph, determining a correspondence between states of the target region of the graph and states of the new region for the graph, and replacing the target region of the graph with the new region for the graph using the correspondence between states of the target region of the graph and states of the new region for the graph. The target region of the graph may be replaced by suspending the operation of the target region of the graph, or while the target region of the graph continues running. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085917 | VARIABLE AND EVENT ASSOCIATION ON A DISPLAY - A method is provided for associating a variable and an event on a display. The variable is displayed relative to a time period on the display, resulting in a graph of the variable. A user input is received indicating a portion of the time period. A determination is made if the event occurred during the time period portion indicated by way of the user input. If the event occurred during the indicated portion of the time period, the event is displayed on the display. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085918 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING MOVIES FROM STILL IMAGE DATA - A method and device for creating movies from still image data in which effects applied in creating the movie are randomly selected to create a novel movie experience each time a movie is created. The movie making method may permit the creation of genre specific movie scenes or whole movies. In this case random selection of effects is not obligatory. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085919 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MAPPING SHADER VARIABLES INTO PHYSICAL REGISTERS - The present disclosure includes system and method of mapping shader variables into physical registers. In an embodiment, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a memory coupled to the GPU are disclosed. The memory includes a processor readable data file that has a register file portion. The register file portion has a rectangular structure including a plurality of data items. At least two of the plurality of data items corresponding to data elements of a shader program. The data elements have different data storage types. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085920 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE DISPLAY UTILITY - Methods for controlling complementary dual displays for use with an electronic device are presented including: receiving an input for display on a non-native display, where the input includes a native user interface (UI) input and a non-native UI input, and where the non-native display is a bistable, low frame rate display; if the input is the native UI input, sending the first native UI input to a corresponding application, processing the native UI input by the corresponding application, calling a non-native API for forwarding the processed native UI input to a non-native display driver, and sending a non-native display signal to the non-native display; receiving another native UI input for display on a native display, where the native display is a refresh-based, high frame rate display; and sending the other native UI input to the corresponding application. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085921 | Populate Web-Based Content Based on Space Availability - A method, system and computer usable medium are disclosed for managing the display of content elements within a predetermined display area of a user interface. Content requests are submitted from a browser to a content server. In response, the content server acquires candidate content elements for display within the browser. A content element manager determines the dimensions of a target display area within the user interface (UI) of the browser. The content element manager then determines the space required to display each of the candidate content elements. Calculations are then performed to determine the maximum number of content elements that will fit within the dimensions of target display area. Once determined, the content elements are selected and displayed in the display area. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085922 | DISPLAY DEVICE MODULATION SYSTEM - Arrangements and methods are provided that modulate various display device outputs in response to detected changes in environmental conditions affecting a display screen. The arrangement responds to changing environments to maximize the quality of the display. A sensor that is responsive to the changing environment, such as changes in ambient light, is provided to modulate the display accordingly. The arrangement contains logic for utilizing the sensing input and user preferences to provide the best display under the prevailing conditions. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085923 | Road Image Creation System - To provide a system that is able to generate road images with the effects of obstructions such as parked vehicles eliminated. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085924 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA CONVERSION FOR WIDE GAMUT DISPLAYS - A method and system for converting color image data (data outputting from element | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085925 | DITHERING MASK AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A method of forming a dithering mask includes providing a specific sub-dithering mask, and generating a plurality of sub-dithering masks of the dithering mask by adjusting the specific sub-dithering mask. The dithering mask generated by the method includes a plurality of sub-dithering masks, each sub-dithering mask includes (4N)×(4N) dithering values, where N is an integer, and at least two sub-dithering masks of the plurality of sub-dithering masks have different contents. By breaking the regularity in the dithering mask, flickering patterns or visual patterns can be avoided on the screen, thereby raising the displaying quality of the screen. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING RGB TO RGBW COLOR USING WHITE VALUE EXTRACTION - A system and method of converting a red-green-blue (RGB) pixel to a red-green-blue-white (RGBW) pixel by using a W value extraction, the RGB-to-RGBW converting system including: a lookup table generator to generate an RGBW lookup table using one or more RGB lattice points; and an RGBW value computation unit to compute an RGBW value of an input pixel with respect to an RGB value of the input pixel based on the generated RGBW lookup table. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085927 | LIQUID DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD - The present invention directs to a liquid crystal display device driving method, comprising: compensating data line input voltages according to gate line numbers in which respective TFTs of a liquid crystal panel exist, and outputting the compensated data line input voltage to the liquid crystal panel. The present invention firstly compensates the input voltages according to the gate line numbers in which respective TFTs of the liquid crystal panel exist, and then outputs the compensated input voltages to respective lines of TFTs. The input voltages are gradually increased as the gate line numbers increasing, so as to ensure charging amount of pixels on all gate lines. A charging delay problem due to load difference between a near end and a far end of a high resolution and large size panel is resolved, the uniformity of the panel is ensured, and the display quality of image is improved. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090085928 | ANTIALIASING USING MULTIPLE DISPLAY HEADS OF A GRAPHICS PROCESSOR - Multiple display heads of a single graphics processor are exploited to perform antialiasing and other processing tasks. In one embodiment, two display heads of the same graphics processor are coupled to each other in a master/slave configuration via a pixel transfer path. The “master” display head receives pixels from the “slave” display head in addition to its own pixels, and pixel selection logic in the master display head can blend the two pixels or select either one to the exclusion of the other. If the two pixels correspond to different sampling locations in the same display pixel, the blended pixel is an antialiased pixel. | 2009-04-02 |
