15th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150097797 | DESKTOP REVEAL - A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097798 | GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR ON-BOARD DISPLAY - Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to recognize the drivers and/or passengers within the automobile. Based on the recognition, the vehicle may change a configuration of the automobile to match predetermined preferences for the driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for the person. Further, the configuration can also include the tracking of health data related to the person. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097799 | Reduction of Touch-Sensor Interference from Active Display - An interference suppression module coordinates devices susceptible to interference such as a touch sensor with potentially interference generating devices such as a display drive matrix, an active haptic device, and so forth. As a result of status signals generated by the interference suppression module, controllers of the susceptible devices may modify the input received to mitigate or avoid interference. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097800 | ELECTROSTATIC HAPTIC BASED USER INPUT ELEMENTS - A user input element includes a first part having a first capacitive surface, a second part having a second capacitive surface configured to be movable relative to the first capacitive surface, and an insulator positioned in between the first capacitive surface and the second capacitive surface so that a haptic effect is generated when the second capacitive surface is moved relative to the first capacitive surface from a first position to a second position. The user input element may be part of a haptic feedback interface system configured to provide haptic effects to a user operating the system. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097801 | TOUCH-SENSOR ELECTRODE DETAILS - In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes a drive electrode and a sense electrode. The sense electrode is separated from the drive electrode by a gap having a width, and the width of the gap is substantially uniform throughout the entire extent of the gap. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097802 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH SENSORS - A display device includes a display panel, a signal controller, sensing signal lines, and a touch sensor controller. The display panel includes pixels configured to display images, and touch sensor electrodes configured to sense a touch event. The touch sensor electrodes overlap a conductive layer. The signal controller is configured to generate signals to control the display of the images via the display panel. The sensing signal lines are respectively connected to the touch sensor electrodes. The touch sensor controller is configured to transmit a sensing input signal via the sensing signal lines, receive a sensing output signal via the sensing signal lines, and generate touch information based on reception of the sensing output signal. The touch sensor controller is configured to apply the same signal to the touch sensor electrodes and the conductive layer. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097803 | LATENCY MEASURING AND TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are disclosed for measuring latency in a device which includes a user interface that receives user input and provides output in response. In an embodiment, a body separate from the device under test is provided. A first sensor operatively attached to the body detects a touch event input to the device at a first time and a second sensor detects a response output from the device at a second time. A computational engine computes a time differential between the first time and the second time and an output outputs an indication of a measurement of latency in the device, the measurement being reflective of the time differential between the first time and the second time. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097804 | Method for manipulating the touchscreen of a mobile computer - A device for manipulating a mobile computer is proposed. The device includes a case, a number of buttons mounted thereon having switchable contacts, electrical contact elements attached to the computer's touch screen, a metal capacitive plate attached to the case while electrically connected with the switchable contacts, and electric circuits each connected to one corresponding contact element and to the switchable contacts. The switchable contacts are normally disconnected, while, when the respective button is pressed upon by a user, they are connected thereby connecting the contact elements with the metal plate. Preferable parameters and materials of the device's components are also disclosed. Thus, the device allows for manipulating the touch screen without producing mechanical stress thereon. At the same time, the reliability of detection of control signals inputted into the computer is increased. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097805 | TOUCH SCREEN FILM, AND TOUCH SCREEN USING SAID FILM, AND STYLUS PEN USED TOGETHER WITH SAID FILM - To detect a position on a screen with which even a thin nib is in contact, and improve operativity, visibility at the time of operation, and a feeling of use. A touch screen film | 2015-04-09 |
20150097806 | TOUCH INPUT APPRATUS - The present invention provides an input apparatus which can include a conductivity tip, a coil electrically connected to the tip, and a ground plate electrically connected to the coil and forming an open loop in a circumference direction of the coil. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097807 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL - A touch screen panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the touch screen panel includes a plurality of first touch electrodes, a plurality of second touch electrodes, and an electrode driving unit. The second touch electrodes cross the first touch electrodes. The electrode driving unit applies a driving signal including a plurality of driving pulses to the first touch electrodes. The electrode driving unit changes the width of each of the driving pulses while maintaining the frequency of the first driving pulses. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097808 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY - A touch screen display is disclosed. In one aspect, the touch screen display includes a plurality of first touch electrodes each including first and second ends opposing each other and a plurality of second touch electrodes crossing the first touch electrodes. The touch screen display also includes a first voltage line providing a voltage, a first signal line providing a touch driving signal, and a plurality of first switching units respectively connected to the first touch electrodes. Each of the first switching units is electrically connected to the first voltage line, the first signal line, and the first end of a corresponding first touch electrode. Each of the first switching units alternately provides one of the voltage and the touch driving signal to the corresponding first touch electrode. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097809 | CONTINUOUS CIRCLE GESTURE DETECTION FOR A SENSOR SYSTEM - A method for detecting a continuous circle gesture, has the following steps: receiving vectors representative of an object movement by a object detection unit; determining from the received sequence velocity vectors a sequence of velocity vectors or an approximation thereof; estimating an angle between subsequent velocity vectors; and determining a rotation direction. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097810 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097811 | OPTICAL TOUCH DEVICE AND GESTURE DETECTING METHOD THEREOF - A gesture detecting method is adapted to an optical touch device. The optical touch device includes an indication plane and two image sensing units disposed at two corners of one side of the indication plane. The gesture detecting method includes steps of sensing two images of a gesture by the two image sensing units, wherein the gesture is performed on the indication plane; determining whether at least two touch points exist in one of the two images; if at least two touch points exist in one of the two images, generating a quadrangle according to a far left boundary and a far right boundary of each of the two images; calculating a reference radius of a reference circle corresponding to the quadrangle; and determining whether the gesture is a grab gesture according to a variance of the reference radius. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097812 | INTERACTIVE OPERATION METHOD OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An interactive operation method of an electronic apparatus is provided. An image sequence is captured by an image capturing unit. An image pre-processing is executed on an image of the image sequence. A fingertip candidate region is obtained from the image. Whether the fingertip candidate region is connected with a hand region is determined. If the fingertip candidate region is connected with the hand region, the fingertip candidate region serves as a target fingertip region. Whether a click event occurs is determined by continuously tracking the target fingertip region. When the click event occurs, a corresponding function is executed. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097813 | OPTICAL TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The optical touch panel device can optically detect a position of an object on a display screen at a plurality of kinds of position-detection resolutions, and sets a position-detection resolution according to a screen resolution of the display screen or an image resolution of an image to be displayed on the display screen. The optical touch panel device sets the position-detection resolution so that an average value of distances between optical paths used for position detection over the whole display screen is smaller than a dot pitch or a pixel pitch and is as close as possible to the dot pitch or the pixel pitch. The capability of position detection matches the capability of image display in the optical touch panel device, thereby user does not have a feeling of strangeness about an image displayed according to position-detection resolution. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097814 | DAMPING VIBRATIONAL WAVE REFLECTIONS - A touch input detector is disclosed. The touch input detector includes an acoustic transmitter for transmitting an acoustic wave across a touch input medium. The touch input detector also includes an acoustic receiver for receiving the transmitted acoustic wave, wherein the timing of the incidence of the acoustic wave on the acoustic receiver indicates at least a portion of a touch input location on a surface of the touch input medium. The touch input detector further includes an acoustic dampening material coupled to the touch input medium to dampen reflections of the transmitted acoustic wave. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097815 | CONDUCTIVE BRUSH FOR USE WITH A COMPUTING DEVICE - A conductive brush, or stylus, for use with touch screen computing devices. The bristles or filaments are attached to an electrically conductive ferrule, so that even when the brush is pressed against the tablet to make the bristles splay apart, the conductive ferrule itself maintains electrical communication with the tablet. The brush thus allows users to conduct paint operations in an uninterrupted manner, even when its bristles spread apart. Further, this ferrule can be made removable so that users can swap out different brush heads quickly and easily. Additionally, the ferrule has at least a portion that is flexible, deforming visibly upon application of pressures commonly achieved during a typical painting operation. This deformation at least partially absorbs stresses on the filaments, preventing them from splaying apart excessively during painting, and thus helping to prevent loss of detection by the tablet and/or undesired visual effects. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097816 | WIRELESS HANDHELD CONTROLLER - A wireless handheld controller includes a housing and a plurality of scroll wheel assemblies mounted in the housing. Each of the scroll wheel assemblies including a rotatable member and a key adjacently associated with respective rotatable members. The wireless handheld controller also includes circuitry in electrical communication with the scroll wheel assemblies. The circuitry is configured to control the device and provide remote control of equipment in communication with the device. The circuitry comprising a movement sensing system configured to sense movement of the rotatable member, and a key sensing system configured to sense a mode signal received from the key. The circuitry configured to operate in a first mode initiated with the mode signal in which each one of the plurality of scroll wheel assemblies are representative of one of a plurality of input channels, and a second mode initiated with the mode signal in which each one of the plurality of scroll wheel assemblies are representative of parameters of only one of the plurality of input channels. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097817 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INTEGRATED WITH TOUCH SENSOR - A liquid crystal display with a touch sensor includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels coupled to gate lines and data lines and a second substrate opposing the first substrate. The display also includes a plurality of common electrodes corresponding to respective pixels, a plurality of sensing electrodes on the second substrate, a touch controller to supply a channel selection signal and a touch control signal to a common electrode driver during a touch driving period, and a common electrode driver to progressively supply a touch driving signal to the common electrodes based on the channel selection signal. The touch driving signal may have the same frequency as the touch control signal. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097818 | ASSEMBLY AND METHOD TO ALIGN DISPLAYED IMAGES TO AN OVERLAYING APPLIQUE - An instrumentation assembly suitable for use as a vehicle instrument cluster, and a method to align an image displayed by a reconfigurable display of the assembly to an applique that overlays the display. The applique defines a reference hole located so light from the display to passes through the reference hole. A light sensor detects light from the display that passes through the reference hole. A relative alignment between the display and the applique is determined based on the signal. The relative alignment is used to shift or reposition images on the display so they align with features on the applique. The assembly and method also provide a way to adjust for image flicker of the display. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097819 | ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND BACKLIGHT ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure provides an electronic display device including a backlight module, a light sensor, a storage device, an embedded controller, and a processing unit. The light sensor detects ambient light surrounding the electronic display device. The embedded controller controls intensity of the backlight module according to the ambient light and a brightness table of the storage device. The processing unit performs a basic input/output system to draw a brightness curve diagram according to the brightness table for users to adjust the curve of the brightness curve diagram during a boot process of the electronic display device and update the brightness table in the storage device according to the adjusted brightness curve diagram in response to a storing signal. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097820 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPTICAL DETECTION METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a panel assembly including: a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-display area at a periphery of the display area; an optical measuring component at the non-display area of the panel assembly and configured to measure light generated from the pixels; and a controller configured to control the panel assembly to sequentially display an emission pattern in which the pixels emit light and a non-emission pattern in which the pixels do not emit light, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a pure emission value by comparing an emission measurement value obtained by measuring the emission pattern through the optical measuring component with a non-emission measurement value obtained by measuring the non-emission pattern through the optical measuring component. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097821 | Display Bridge with Support for Multiple Display Interfaces - Method and apparatus for a display bridge with support for multiple display interfaces are disclosed. The novel display bridge comprises a predriver configured to provide data input signals. A shared output driver is configured to receive the data input signals and provide output display signals compatible for driving MIPI-DSI, EDP, or LVDS displays. A regulator and current source is coupled to the shared output driver configured to regulate the shared output driver operating voltage and provide a current source for the shared output driver. A shared termination output coupled to the shared output driver is configured to provide termination resistance for the output display signals and termination voltage for the termination resistance. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097822 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND DESIGN METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A light emitting device including a drive transistor that generates a drive current of a current amount corresponding to a gate-source voltage, a light emitting element that emits light at a luminance corresponding to the current amount of the drive current, and a control unit that controls the gate-source voltage according to a specified gradation is configured as follows. The gate-source voltage is a voltage of a first voltage value or more and a second voltage value or less. The first voltage value and the second voltage value are set such that a change minimum voltage value is a gate-source voltage when a change rate of the drive current with respect to an environmental temperature change is a predetermined value or less and is included between the first voltage value and the second voltage value. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097823 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A flat panel display includes a signal generator to generate data signals to respective data lines via an output terminal or to generate a control signal for controlling switches. The signal generator includes a first voltage supply unit to supply, to the output terminal, a voltage of a first voltage sources, a voltage stabilizing unit to raise or drop the voltage supplied to the output terminal, and a second voltage supply unit to supply, to the output terminal, a voltage from a second voltage source, after the voltage of the output terminal is raised or dropped. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097824 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of thin film transistors of a single channel formed on an insulating substrate, and a buffer circuit including an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a seventh thin film transistor; and an eighth thin film transistor. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097825 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus acquires viewpoint information indicating a viewpoint for which rendering of a 3D scene is performed and generates, by a predetermined calculation, a viewpoint independent map for an object included in a rendering scope based on the acquired viewpoint information. And then the apparatus stores each pixel of the generated viewpoint independent map in association with a distance between an object corresponding to the pixel and the viewpoint indicated by the acquired viewpoint information. The apparatus does not perform the predetermined calculation in a case where a pixel of the viewpoint independent map for the object included in the rendering scope corresponding to the distance from the viewpoint indicated by the acquired viewpoint information is already stored. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING DYNAMIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL APPEARING IMAGERY ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL USER INTERFACE - System and method for rendering dynamic three-dimensional appearing imagery on a two-dimensional user interface screen of a portable computing device in dependence on a user's view-point of the screen. The method includes processing, on a portable computing device, data defining a plurality of user view-points of a user interface screen of the portable computing device. The method next includes rendering a first image of a constructed scene on the user interface screen based on a first determined user's view-point of the user interface screen of the portable computing device. The method then includes rendering a different image of the constructed scene on the user interface screen based on a subsequently determined user's view-point of the user interface screen and thereby presenting the illusion of a three-dimensional image of the constructed scene on the user interface screen. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097827 | Target Region Fill Utilizing Transformations - Target region fill techniques involving transformations are described. In one or more implementations, a patch to be used to fill a target region in an image of an scene is identified. A transformation to be applied to the patch is guided using depth information of the scene and at least a portion of the target region in the image is filled using the transformed patch. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR 3D MODELING USING FEATURE DETECTION - A method includes providing a processor, obtaining an image of a scene including one or more objects, and presenting, using the processor, the image of the scene to a user. The method also includes receiving a geometry type associated with one of the one or more objects, receiving a set of inputs from the user related to the one of the one or more objects, and determining, using the processor, a centerline of the one of the one or more objects. The method further includes measuring, using the processor and inputs from the user, two or more coordinate positions along the centerline, receiving a dimension associated with the one of the one or more objects, and creating, using the processor, a 3D solid model using the geometry type, the dimension, the set of inputs, and the two or more coordinate positions. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097829 | 3D Modeling Using Unrelated Drawings - A method is disclosed to create a 3D model using unrelated drawings. The unrelated drawing may represent the top view, front view, and side view of the 3D model. A user can draw on a computer display to automatically generate the 3D model in real time. The user can also draw on a piece of paper using a pencil, and capture the picture of the drawing using a mobile phone camera to display the 3D model on the mobile phone screen. The drawing can be outlines extracted form a picture of a building, object, natural element or creature using a computer vision program. various designers in designing innovative buildings, products, furniture, vehicles, machines, jewelry, cartoons, or the like. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097830 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing method includes: determining whether a draw command that is identical to a previous draw command is input; obtaining information about a transparency of a previous frame that is performed with the previous draw command; and performing image processing on a current frame based on the information about the transparency. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097831 | EARLY DEPTH TESTING IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING - An apparatus and method for processing graphics primitives for display is disclosed. The apparatus comprises in sequence: rasterization circuitry, depth testing circuitry and rendering circuitry. The depth testing circuitry determines if a selected graphics fragment would be obscured when displayed by comparing a depth comparison function and a depth value associated with the selected graphics fragment with a stored depth value. The depth testing circuitry is configured to suppress rendering operations with respect to the selected graphics fragment if the depth testing indicates that the selected graphics fragment would be obscured. The depth testing circuitry is configured to store an update indication in dependence on a received depth comparison function, wherein the update indication shows a possible change direction due to the updating for a stored depth value which depends on that received depth comparison function. The depth testing circuitry is configured to perform the depth testing with respect to the selected graphics fragment using the possible change direction shown by the update indication to modify the depth comparison function to allow for the updating of the stored depth value by the rendering operations. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097832 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESH LEVEL OF DETAIL GENERATION - A system method for applying hierarchical mesh partitioning and reduction to provide efficient run-time rendering includes bounding a mesh to define a mesh volume, recursively subdividing the mesh volume a number of times, and reducing the mesh the number of times the mesh volume was subdivided to generate a plurality of level of detail meshes. The plurality of level of detail meshes is equal to the number of times the mesh volume was subdivided. Each level of detail mesh is then partitioned based on the number of times the mesh volume was subdivided. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097833 | APPARATUS FOR, AND METHOD OF, PROCESSING VOLUMETRIC MEDICAL IMAGE DATA - Apparatus for performing an imaging procedure comprising processing volumetric image data comprising an image processing unit configured to obtain first image data representative of a region including at least one vessel and at least one associated feature, and second image data representative of at least part of the region, an image refinement unit configured to process the first image data and the second image data to produce a combined image representative of the at least one vessel, wherein the associated feature is removed or reduced in intensity in the combined image, and a rendering unit configured to render the combined image as a simulated view that simulates a view obtainable from an alternative imaging procedure. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097834 | Photorealistic Rendering of Scenes with Dynamic Content - Methods for rendering three-dimensional photo meshes having dynamic content include: (a) detecting a shadow in a three-dimensional photo mesh; (b) removing the shadow from the three-dimensional photo mesh to form a modified photo mesh having a shadow-free texture; (c) simulating a real-time condition in the modified photo mesh; and (d) rendering an image that shows an effect of the real-time condition. Systems for rendering three-dimensional photo meshes having dynamic content are described. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097835 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-EXPERIENCE ADAPTATION OF MEDIA CONTENT - A method or apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for adapting media content of a source device for a recipient device. Characteristics of a first environment of a source device and of a second environment of a recipient can be identified. At least one difference between the characteristics of the first environment of the source device and the characteristics of the second environment of the recipient device can be determined. A presentation of media content can be modified according to the at least one difference between the characteristics of the first environment of the source device and the characteristics of the second environment of the recipient device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097836 | WEB BASED FAST QUERY VISUALIZATION OF TIME-VARYING MULTI-VARIATE VESSEL FLOW FIELD BY USING UNIFORM PARTITION STRATEGY - A method for visualizing flow data from computation fluid dynamics (CFD) applications in 2-dimensions (2D) includes receiving a 3-dimensional (3D) image volume from a CFD simulation of fluids flowing through vessels in a patient that is a snapshot of a fluid flow in the vessels at a certain time, subdividing the 3D image volume into 3D data blocks, minimizing a sum over a matrix of energy interactions defined for each pair of data blocks in the 3D image volume, where the minimization preserves a local shape of the vessels, where minimizing the sum over the matrix of energy interactions is performed on a graphics processing unit (GPU), and using the minimized energy interaction matrix to display on a monitor a 2D sketch of the 3D image volume, where the 2D sketch is displayed in real-time with respect to the time scale of the CFD simulation. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097837 | VARIABLE RESOLUTION SEAMLESS TILEABLE DISPLAY - A tileable display panel includes an illumination layer, a display layer, and a screen layer. The display layer is disposed between the screen layer and the lamp layer and includes pixelets separated from each other by spacing regions. Each of the pixelets is positioned to be illuminated by lamp light from the illumination layer and to project a magnified image sub-portion onto the backside of the screen layer such that the magnified image sub-portions collectively blend together to form a unified image on the screen layer which covers the spacing regions on the display layer. Each of the pixelets includes core pixels having a common size and a first separation pitch and peripheral pixels surrounding the core pixels on two or more sides which provide a higher image resolution in overlap regions on the screen layer when the magnified image sub-portions overlap on the screen layer. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097838 | SONAR DEPTH DISPLAY - Various implementations described herein are directed to a marine electronics device used to display marine sonar data. The marine electronics device may include a computer system with a processor, memory, and a display. The memory may have a plurality of executable instructions. When the executable instructions are executed by the processor, the processor may receive depth information determined using a sonar device disposed underneath a vessel and configured to acquire sonar data in the direction of travel of the vessel. The processor may then cause the received depth information to be displayed on a navigation chart. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097839 | STOCHASTIC RASTERIZATION OF WAVEFORM TRACE DISPLAYS - A stochastic system in a waveform monitor reduces the amount of memory used to store waveform data as it is being accumulated. The system produces a high quality trace display using fewer bits of memory by incrementing pixels using stochastic methods. In at least some embodiments, possible memory values are divided into two or more value ranges and an increment percentage is ascribed for each of the value ranges. During operation, first a present stored value is read from the memory store and its ascribed increment percentage for the particular range is selected. Then the present stored value is stochastically incremented based on the percentage for the particular range. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097840 | VISUALIZATION METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A visualization method of manufacturing status is implemented by a computer that visualizes manufacturing status of a product manufactured sequentially by a plurality of processes. The visualization method includes: placing a first symbol that indicates a start and an end of the manufacturing of the product in a first process of the processes on a first temporal axis of the first process with a width corresponding to a time taken from the start to the end of the manufacturing in the first process, and a second symbol that indicates a start and an end of the manufacturing of the product in a second process following the first process on a second temporal axis of the second process with a width corresponding to a time taken from the start to the end of the manufacturing in the second process, the first and the second temporal axes extending in a same direction. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097841 | DRAWING APPARATUS, DRAWING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A drawing apparatus that displays a character rendered in an outline method includes a number-of-commands identification unit configured to identify a number of drawing commands required for the character based on outline data that corresponds to a shape of the character, a level determination unit configured to determine a level of an antialiasing process to be performed on the character based on the number of the drawing commands found by the number-of-commands identification unit, and a drawing unit configured to execute the antialiasing process of the level determined for the character by the level determination unit, when the character is drawn based on the outline data of the character. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097842 | Analyzing Font Similarity for Presentation - A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data representing features of a first font and data representing features of a second font. The first font and the second font are capable of representing one or more glyphs. Operations also include receiving survey-based data representing the similarity between the first and second fonts, and, training a machine learning system using the features of the first font, the features of the second font and the survey-based data that represents the similarity between the first and second fonts. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097843 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRE-OPERATING SYSTEM AND POST-OPERATING SYSTEM REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM - A method may include during a pre-operating system environment writing user graphics data to a discrete graphics controller and an embedded graphics controller of a service processor integral to the information handling system and storing user graphics data written to the embedded graphics controller in a frame buffer such that a remote management information handling system remotely coupled to the information handling system via the service processor may receive user graphics data from the frame buffer. The method may also include during a post-operating system environment establishing a remote management connection between the service processor and a host processor of the information handling system via an internal network, communicating datagrams from the host processor to the embedded processor, wherein the datagrams comprise a payload including post-operating system user graphics data, and communicating the post-operating system user graphics data from the service processor to the remote management information handling system. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097844 | SPLIT DRIVER TO CONTROL MULTIPLE GRAPHICS PROCESSORS IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes an operating system having a kernel and configured to launch a plurality of computing processes. The system also includes a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), a front-end driver module, and a plurality of back-end driver modules. The GPUs are configured to execute instructions on behalf of the computing processes subject to a GPU service request. The front-end driver module is loaded into the kernel and configured to receive the GPU service request from one of the computing processes. Each back-end driver module is associated with one or more of the GPUs and configured to receive the GPU service request from the front-end driver module and pass the GPU service request to an associated GPU. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097845 | HEURISTICS FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN A TILE-BASED ARCHITECTURE - One embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for processing graphics primitives in a tile-based architecture. The technique includes storing, in a buffer, a first plurality of graphics primitives and a first plurality of state bundles received from a world-space pipeline, and transmitting the first plurality of graphics primitives to a screen-space pipeline for processing while a tiling function is enabled. The technique further includes storing, in the buffer, a second plurality of graphics primitives and a second plurality of state bundles received from the world-space pipeline. The technique further includes determining, based on a first condition, that the tiling function should be disabled and that the second plurality of graphics primitives should be flushed from the buffer, and transmitting the second plurality of graphics primitives to the screen-space pipeline for processing while the tiling function is disabled. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097846 | External Validation of Graphics Pipelines - Data may be streamed out of a graphics pipeline during run time without preprogramming the stream out. A command stream may be captured, draw commands monitored, and shader output definitions may be parsed to determine how to stream out shader data, for example for debugging. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097847 | MANAGING MEMORY REGIONS TO SUPPORT SPARSE MAPPINGS - One embodiment of the present invention includes a memory management unit (MMU) that is configured to manage sparse mappings. The MMU processes requests to translate virtual addresses to physical addresses based on page table entries (PTEs) that indicate a sparse status. If the MMU determines that the PTE does not include a mapping from a virtual address to a physical address, then the MMU responds to the request based on the sparse status. If the sparse status is active, then the MMU determines the physical address based on whether the type of the request is a write operation and, subsequently, generates an acknowledgement of the request. By contrast, if the sparse status is not active, then the MMU generates a page fault. Advantageously, the disclosed embodiments enable the computer system to manage sparse mappings without incurring the performance degradation associated with both page faults and conventional software-based sparse mapping management. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097848 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A display apparatus which can communicate with an information terminal via a network is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives content data which are caused to be displayed on the display apparatus and reproduction control information on reproduction of the content data from the information terminal, a storage unit which saves thereon the content data and/or the reproduction control information based on whether there was an occurrence of a stopping cause in a process of saving the content data and/or the reproduction control information that are received from the receiving unit, and a display unit which causes the content data to be displayed on the display apparatus based on the reproduction control information saved in the storage unit. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097849 | INTER-PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES IN A MULTIPLE-PROCESSOR COMPUTING PLATFORM - This disclosure describes communication techniques that may be used within a multiple-processor computing platform. The techniques may, in some examples, provide software interfaces that may be used to support message passing within a multiple-processor computing platform that initiates tasks using command queues. The techniques may, in additional examples, provide software interfaces that may be used for shared memory inter-processor communication within a multiple-processor computing platform. In further examples, the techniques may provide a graphics processing unit (GPU) that includes hardware for supporting message passing and/or shared memory communication between the GPU and a host CPU. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097850 | Overlap Aware Reordering of Rendering Operations for Efficiency - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for rendering using a graphics processing component (GPC). A computing device can receive instructions for a GPC, including an instruction IA associated with a first portion of a canvas. An insertion position in an instruction buffer for instruction IA can be determined by: determining an instruction IB in the instruction buffer that is associated with a second portion of the canvas. If the first and second portions overlap, the insertion position can be based on an overlapping-instruction position of IB in the instruction buffer. Otherwise, if instructions IA and IB are similar, then the insertion position can be based on a second position of IB in the instruction buffer. Otherwise, the insertion position can be determined based on an ending position of the instruction buffer. Instruction IA can be inserted in the instruction buffer at the insertion position. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097851 | APPROACH TO CACHING DECODED TEXTURE DATA WITH VARIABLE DIMENSIONS - A texture processing pipeline is configured to store decoded texture data within a cache unit in order to expedite the processing of texture requests. When a texture request is processed, the texture processing pipeline queries the cache unit to determine whether the requested data is resident in the cache. If the data is not resident in the cache unit, a cache miss occurs. The texture processing pipeline then reads encoded texture data from global memory, decodes that data, and writes different portions of the decoded memory into the cache unit at specific locations according to a caching map. If the data is, in fact, resident in the cache unit, a cache hit occurs, and the texture processing pipeline then reads decoded portions of the requested texture data from the cache unit and combines those portions according to the caching map. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097852 | DISPLAY DRIVER - A display driver that receives display line data of plural display lines to perform drive control on a display panel includes a line memory for storing display line data which is supplied from the outside. The display driver includes a logic circuit that controls write and read-out of the display line data in and from the line memory, and sorts pixel data of the display line data using read out data from the line memory, to generate display drive data. Drive circuits drive the display panel in units of display lines based on the drive data which is output from the logic circuit. The drive circuits are separately arranged on both sides of the logic circuit and the line memory which are interposed therebetween. The storage capacity of the line memory corresponds to the number of lines smaller than the number of display lines of a display frame. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097853 | DYNAMIC BACKLIGHT CONTROL FOR SPATIALLY INDEPENDENT DISPLAY REGIONS - Embodiments of the disclosure describe a tileable display panel including a screen layer to display a unified image, an illumination layer including a two-dimensional array of lamps, and a display layer disposed between the screen layer and illumination layer. The display layer includes a plurality of pixelets each positioned to be illuminated by a corresponding lamp from the illumination layer to project a magnified image sub-portion corresponding to a received subset. The magnified image sub-portions collectively blend together to form the unified image displayed on the screen layer. Embodiments of the disclosure further include illumination layer control logic to determine a brightness value of each of the received subsets of pixel data, and adjust an illumination setting to reduce or increase an illumination output of a lamp in the illumination layer based, at least on part, on the brightness values of the corresponding subset of pixel data. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097854 | RENDERING METHOD, RENDERING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A rendering method includes performing a binary representation of input data by using input data of target subpixels of an RGB stripe structure, such that the binary representation defines binary data, calculating the binary data via a line detection mask to detect a target line made of the target subpixels, rendering adaptation data of a plurality of adaptation subpixels included in an adaptation line corresponding to the target line, and controlling the adaptation data of a plurality of white subpixels corresponding to the target line among a plurality of adaptation subpixels to generate output data. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097855 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING SELECTION OF COLOR CHANGING EYEWEAR LENSES AND WINDOWS - A system for facilitating a consumer's selection of customized color-changing lenses for eyewear, or windows, captures a digital color image of at least the face of the consumer and displays that color image to the consumer on a video display while superimposing a pair of lenses over the eyes. The display simulates the color of the superimposed lenses when made of a selected photochromic or thermochromic material. The color of the superimposed lenses is changeable, in response to consumer-controlled inputs, over a range between (a) an initial color for the lenses when subjected to at least one of (i) a first predetermined temperature and (ii) a first predetermined light condition, and (b) a final color for said lenses when subjected to at least one of (i) a second predetermined temperature higher than said first predetermined temperature and (ii) a second predetermined light condition brighter than said first predetermined light condition. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097856 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processor including: a color converting unit converting an original image to a brightness image and a chromaticity image; an illumination image generating unit generating, from the brightness image, an illumination image; an image generation processing unit executing a processing for generating a brightness reproduction image which is reproduced so that visibility of the original image is enhanced, based on the brightness image, the illumination image, and an enhancing degree information which represents an enhancing degree of a reflection rate component of the original image, a chromaticity adjustment image generating unit generating a chromaticity adjustment image by adjusting chromaticity of the chromaticity image, and a color reverse converting unit performing a conversion reverse to a color conversion performed by the color converting unit, with respect to the brightness reproduction image and the chromaticity adjustment image. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097857 | Selective Rasterization - According to one embodiment, a given tile, made up of pixels or samples, may be of any shape, including a square shape. These pixels may contain colors, depths, stencil values, and other values. Each tile may be further augmented with a single bit, referred to herein as a render bit. In one embodiment, if the render bit is one, then everything is rendered as usual within the tile. However, if the render bit is zero, then nothing is rasterized to this tile and, correspondingly, depth tests, pixel shading, frame buffer accesses, and multi-sampled anti-aliasing (MSAA) resolves are not done for this tile. In other embodiments, some operations may be done nevertheless, but at least one operation is avoided based on the render bit. Of course, the render bits may be switched such that the bit zero indicates that everything should be rendered and the bit one indicates more limited rendering. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097858 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is an image processing device that includes: an image generation section configured to generate a peripheral image in an outer periphery of a first frame image to generate a second frame image that includes the first frame image and the peripheral image; and a coordinate conversion section configured to perform coordinate conversion on the second frame image to generate a third frame image. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097859 | METHOD FOR COLLOCATING CLOTHING ACCESSORIES ON HUMAN BODY - A method for collocating a clothing accessory on a human body for an electronic apparatus, is provided. A human body picture is shown on a display unit, and a human body description file corresponding to a human body model included in the human body picture is obtained from a database. A clothing accessory picture is obtained from another database based on a user choice, and a clothing accessory description file corresponding to a clothing accessory model included in the clothing accessory picture. The object picture is superposed on the human body picture automatically according to the human body and the object description files. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097860 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC IN-VEHICLE VIRTUAL REALITY - A method for in-vehicle dynamic virtual reality includes receiving vehicle data from one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle data includes vehicle dynamics data and receiving user data from a virtual reality device. The method includes generating a virtual view based on the vehicle data, the user data and a virtual world model, the virtual world model including one or more components that define the virtual view, wherein generating the virtual view includes augmenting one or more components of the virtual world model according to at least one of the vehicle data and the user data and rendering the virtual view to an output device by controlling the output device to update display of the virtual view according to the vehicle dynamics data. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097861 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC IN-VEHICLE VIRTUAL REALITY - A method for in-vehicle dynamic virtual reality includes receiving vehicle data from one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle data includes vehicle dynamics data and receiving user data from a virtual reality device. The method includes generating a virtual view based on the vehicle data, the user data and a virtual world model, the virtual world model including one or more components that define the virtual view, wherein generating the virtual view includes augmenting one or more components of the virtual world model according to at least one of the vehicle data and the user data and rendering the virtual view to an output device by controlling the output device to update display of the virtual view according to the vehicle dynamics data. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097862 | GENERATING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT FOR UNKNOWN OBJECTS - Techniques described herein provide a method for defining virtual content for real objects that are unknown or unidentified at the time of the development of the application for an augmented reality (AR) environment. For example, at the time of development of an AR application, the application developer may not know the context that the mobile device may operate in and consequently the types or classes of real object and the number of real objects that the AR application may encounter. In one embodiment, the mobile device may detect unknown objects from a physical scene. The mobile device may then associate an object template with the unknown object based on the physical attributes, such as height, shape, size, etc., associated with the unknown object. The mobile device may render a display object at the pose of the unknown object using at least one display property of the object template. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC IN-VEHICLE VIRTUAL REALITY - A method for in-vehicle dynamic virtual reality, including receiving vehicle data from a portable device, the portable device operably connected for computer communication to an output device, the vehicle data including vehicle dynamics data, and receiving user data from at least one of the portable device or the output device. The method including generating a virtual view based on the vehicle data, the user data and a virtual world model, the virtual world model including one or more components that define the virtual view, wherein generating the virtual view includes augmenting one or more components of the virtual world model according to at least one of the vehicle data or the user data. The method including rendering the virtual view to the output device by controlling the output device to update display of the virtual view according to at least one of the vehicle data or the user data. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097864 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC IN-VEHICLE VIRTUAL REALITY - A method for in-vehicle dynamic virtual reality includes receiving vehicle data and user data from one or more portable devices, wherein the vehicle data comprises vehicle dynamics data of the vehicle. The method includes generating a virtual view based on the vehicle data, the user data and a virtual world model. The virtual world model including one or more components that define the virtual view and wherein generating the virtual view includes augmenting one or more components of the virtual world model according to at least one of the vehicle data and the user data. The method includes rendering the virtual view to an output device by controlling the output device to update display of the virtual view according to at least one of the vehicle data or the user data | 2015-04-09 |
20150097865 | METHOD AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY - A method and computing device for providing Augmented Reality (AR) is provided. The method of providing AR includes detecting at least one physical object from a real scene obtained through a camera of a computing device, rendering at least one virtual object at a desired position of the detected at least one physical object on the real scene provided on a display, enabling communication through a command for interaction between the rendered at least one virtual object, and enabling the at least one virtual object to perform an action in response to command communication between the at least one virtual object. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097866 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROJECTION APPARATUS - In a display control apparatus configured to control image data displayed on a predetermined display medium, an information acquisition unit acquires a first information associated with the predetermined matter at a first time and acquire a second information associated with the predetermined matter at a second time after the first time. A determination unit judges whether there is a predetermined change between the first information and the second information. A control unit controls the image data such that in a case where a predetermined change is detected, at least one of parameters including a location, a size, and a shape of a restricted area, in which the displaying of display information including in the image data is limited, is changed so as to achieve the parameter defined in relation to the second information. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097867 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN INTERFACE MODES IN VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS - One preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a method for transitioning a user interface between viewing modes. The method of the preferred embodiment can include detecting an orientation of a mobile terminal including a user interface disposed on a first side of the mobile terminal, wherein the orientation of the mobile terminal includes an imaginary vector originating at a second side of the mobile terminal and projecting in a direction substantially opposite the first side of the mobile terminal. The method of the preferred embodiment can also include transitioning between at least two viewing modes in response to the imaginary vector intersecting an imaginary sphere disposed about the mobile terminal at a first latitudinal point having a predetermined relationship to a critical latitude of the sphere. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097868 | CLINICAL WORKSTATION INTEGRATING MEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOPSY DATA AND METHODS USING SAME - An imaging visualization workstation ( | 2015-04-09 |
20150097869 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a display apparatus which facilitates a simultaneous comparison of a plurality of images which respectively illustrate different features on one divided display screen such that the images are seamlessly displayed on the screen, and an image display method which is performable by using the apparatus. The display apparatus includes a memory configured to store a plurality of different types of images of an object, an input device configured to receive an input of a command relating to simultaneously displaying the different types of images, and a display device configured to display images. Upon receiving the command, the display device divides a screen upon which an image of the object is displayable into a first region within which a first image showing one portion of the object is displayed and a second region within which a second image showing the remaining portion of the object is displayed. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097870 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device Includes a control board including a timing controller (TCON) for controlling driving of the display device, and further including a driving memory for storing driving data for driving the display device, and a source board coupled to the control board by a connection cable, the source board including a driving integrated circuit (IC) for outputting a data signal, and further including a panel memory for storing panel characteristic data for compensating for the data signal. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097871 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes an acquiring circuit, a calculator, and a delay controller. The acquiring circuit acquires a gray scale voltage of a gray scale value of a pixel. The calculator calculates a first delay correction value based on a voltage currently retained on a data signal line to which the gray scale voltage is output and a gray scale voltage to be subsequently output to the data signal line. The delay controller determines a timing when the gray scale voltage is to be output to the data signal line based on the first delay correction value. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097872 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE - Discussed is an organic light emitting display device capable of reducing power consumption and increasing lifespan of the device. The device includes a display panel including pixels in respective pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate lines, data lines and driving voltage lines, wherein each pixel includes an organic light emitting diode which emits light by a current, and a pixel circuit having a driving transistor for controlling a current flowing from the driving voltage line to the organic light emitting diode on the basis of data voltage; and a panel driver for converting frame video data into the data voltage, supplying the data voltage to each pixel, calculating peak luminance value and maximum grayscale value by analyzing the frame video data, and varying the driving voltage based on the peak luminance value and maximum grayscale value. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097873 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - A head-mounted display device includes: an image display unit including an image-light generating unit that generates image light representing an image and emits the image light and a light guide unit that guides the emitted image light to the eye of a user, the image display unit being for causing the user to visually recognize a virtual image; and a control unit that includes an operation surface, is connected to the image display unit, and controls image display by the image display unit. When it is assumed that the user shifts the user's attention from the virtual image, the control unit adjusts the luminance of the image-light generating unit or adjusts the image light generated by the image-light generating unit to reduce the visibility of the virtual image. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097874 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING AN ARRAY OF LIGHT EMITTING PIXELS - A technique for driving a column of pixels that include light emitting elements. The technique incorporates feedback data provided from feedback data sources connected to the data line and to feedback line of the array, pixel driving circuit with feedback path. The technique can also include block of the reference elements for input signal corrections. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097875 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes: a light source unit that includes a light-guiding plate with a light-exit plane partitioned into emission subsections, and one or plural sides, and light sources; a liquid-crystal-display panel that includes pixels, and modulates light emitted from the light source unit, thereby performing image display; and a display control unit that includes a partitioning-drive processing section generating each of a light-emission pattern signal and a partitioning-drive image signal, performs light-emission driving for each light source, and performs display driving for each pixel. The partitioning-drive processing section performs a gain correction of multiplying each pixel signal in the input image signal by a predetermined gain factor that is set so that a value increases as a pixel position of the pixel signal goes away from the light source, and generates the light-emission pattern signal and the partitioning-drive image signal, by using gain-corrected pixel signal. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097876 | IMAGE STICKING CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image sticking controller includes a gamma conversion unit configured to gamma-convert gray scale values respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixels, and to output the gamma-converted gray scale values as gamma conversion values, a data accumulation unit configured to accumulate the gamma conversion values into an accumulation data, the accumulation data including a minimum accumulation value, a maximum difference value indicating a difference between the minimum accumulation value and a maximum accumulation value, and difference values indicating respective differences between the minimum accumulation value and an accumulation value of each of the pixels, an image sticking analysis unit configured to output an image sticking decrease control signal when the maximum difference value is greater than a reference value, and a data conversion unit configured to convert the gray scale values in response to the image sticking decrease control signal, such that image sticking is reduced. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097877 | DRIVING METHODS FOR COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is directed to driving methods for a color display device which can display high quality color states. The display device utilizes an electrophoretic fluid which comprises three types of pigment particles having different optical characteristics. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097878 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on the pixels. The pixel includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a video signal in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor changes the device to a luminous state, the switching transistor becomes ON in advance of the sampling of the video signal to change the light emitting device to a non-luminous state, and the sampling transistor takes in the OFF voltage from the signal line to the driving transistor, thereby preventing a penetration current from flowing from the power source toward the fixed potential. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097879 | ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - The invention relates to an electronic device comprising a limited colour display and a method of driving the display. The display has an array of pixels, a driver for driving each of said pixels in said array and a colour filter which is aligned with said display whereby each of said pixels is sub-divided into a plurality of sub-pixels of different colours. The method comprises receiving a target image; generating a brightness image for said target image by determining a brightness value for each sub-pixel within said display; generating an output signal from said brightness image by determining an output value for each of said plurality of sub-pixels of different colours within the brightness image; and outputting said output signal to said driver to drive the display. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097880 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A control circuit conducts a drive control of a RGBW display panel to operate white pixels to light up together with red, green and blue pixels, where the drive control includes a luminance control of a backlight to reduce luminance of the backlight according to an amount of an increase in luminance of the display panel due to a lighting operation of the white pixels. The control circuit includes: a first circuit section configured to generate control signals for controlling the display panel; and a second circuit section configured to generate control signals for controlling the backlight. The first circuit section includes a redistributing circuit section configured to distribute a luminance component of each white pixel to corresponding the red, green and blue pixels and reduce luminance of the each white pixel when the display panel has a white chromaticity dependence on gradation values. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097881 | LIQUID SUPPLY DEVICE - A liquid supply device includes a first container storing liquid; a second container to which the liquid is supplied from the first container; at least one flow path to connect the first and second containers; a valve in the flow path to allow or interrupt the flow of the liquid in the flow path by opening or closing the valve; a pump provided to the flow path to transfer the liquid from the first container to the second container; and a control unit to operate the pump under a state in which the valve is opened to transfer the liquid in the first container to the second container, then close the valve and stop the pump, and then open the valve under a state in which the pump is stopped to transfer the liquid in the second container to the first container. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097882 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus which includes a plurality of liquid receiving portions in which the same kinds of liquid are received, a switching unit which switches the liquid receiving portion that supplies the liquid to a liquid ejecting head, and a controller which performs a maintenance process including discharging the liquid through the liquid ejecting head, in which, when a liquid residual amount of the liquid receiving portion that supplies the liquid to the ejecting head, which is calculated by a residual amount estimation portion, is less than a determination value, the controller performs the maintenance process in a state where the liquid receiving portion to supply the liquid to the liquid ejecting head is selected among the plurality of liquid receiving portions and the liquid is supplied from the selected liquid receiving portion to the liquid ejecting head. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097883 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND DROPLET EJECTING METHOD - A droplet ejecting apparatus which includes a control unit which controls a recording operation in which dots are recorded on a medium by performing multipass recording in which recording of dots which are located in one main scanning line which goes along a main scanning direction is completed in a recording operation in the main scanning direction of N times (N is integer of 2 or greater), and a maintenance operation in which maintenance with respect to an ejecting unit is performed, in which the control unit performs a control so that at least recording operations in the main scanning direction of (N−1) times is performed between the previous maintenance operation and the subsequent maintenance operation when performing maintenance operations of a plurality of times. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097884 | DUAL-MODE INKJET NOZZLE OPERATION - An inkjet printhead includes an inkjet nozzle with a main actuator and at least one peripheral actuator in the same firing chamber. When the inkjet nozzle has sat idle, both the main actuator and the peripheral actuator are activated to jet at least one ink drop to renew the inkjet nozzle to mitigate decap conditions. When the inkjet nozzle has not sat idle, only the main actuator is activated to jet ink drops. The ink drops jetted by activating both the main and the peripheral actuators and the ink drops generated by activating only the main actuator have the same drop weight and drop velocity. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097885 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a driving signal generation unit that generates a driving signal; a piezoelectric element that displaces according to the signal; a cavity whose inside is filled with an ink and in which a pressure in the inside is increased or decreased due to the displacement of the piezoelectric element based on the signal; an ejection unit that includes a nozzle communicating with the cavity and capable of ejecting the ink filled in the inside of the cavity by the increase or the decrease of the pressure in the inside of the cavity; a residual vibration detection unit that detects a change of an electromotive force based on the change of the pressure in the inside of the cavity; and an ejection state determination unit that determines an ejection state of the ink in the ejection unit based on the detection result of the residual vibration detection unit. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097886 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND LANDING POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD - A printing apparatus which performs printing by using an ink jet method includes an ink jet head including nozzles which eject ink droplets on a medium, a landing position reading unit which reads a landing position which is a position on which ink droplets are landed on the medium, and a landing state determination unit which determines whether or not a landing position is deviated from a normal position which is set in advance based on a landing position which is read by using the landing position reading unit. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097887 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head that ejects a light-curable UV ink onto a medium; an irradiator that irradiates the UV ink ejected onto the medium with UV light and cures the UV ink; a control device that controls intensity of the UV light applied from the irradiator to the medium; and a carriage motor that moves the irradiator in one direction, in which the control device changes the intensity of the UV light applied from the irradiator to the medium while the carriage motor moves the irradiator in one direction. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097888 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a nozzle head that has nozzles ejecting ink that is cured by an electromagnetic wave and relatively moves with respect to a printing medium; an applying section that relatively moves together with the nozzle head, and applies the electromagnetic wave; and a control section that controls intensity of the electromagnetic wave, in which a first intensity of the electromagnetic wave in a region in which the applying section and the printing medium face each other and that is a constant speed region in which a speed of the relative movement is constant is greater than a second intensity of the electromagnetic wave in regions in which the applying section and the printing medium do not face each other in at least a part thereof and that are acceleration and deceleration regions in which the speed of the relative movement is not constant. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097889 | Ink Compositions for Controlling Exposure in Three Dimensions within a Layer of Photopolymer, and Methods of Using - The UV opacity from 0 to 100% in one inkjet pass, and the visual color, of solvent-based inks is controlled by the amounts of pigments, dyes, UV blockers and UV brighteners in the inks. The depth-of-cure in photopolymers is controlled by these factors and the % laydown of the ink in one pass. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097890 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING - A recording apparatus has a controller that controls a conveying roller and a discharge roller for conveying a recording medium. The controller controls the rotation phases of the conveying roller and the discharge roller when the recording medium leaves the conveying roller before the recording medium enters the conveying roller. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097891 | OPTIMIZATION OF DRYING FOR WET COLORANTS IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an operational range of colorant densities and heating powers that result in successful drying for a print media that is based on a drying quality of test images printed by a printing system. One embodiment comprises a printing system that applies colorant onto a continuous-form medium and applies heat to the medium based on a heating power. The printing system prints a plurality of test images onto the medium, where one or more of a colorant density and a heating power vary for each of the printed test images. The printing system determines a drying quality for the printed test images, and calculates an operational range of colorant densities and heating powers for the medium based on the drying quality of the printed test images. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097892 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A liquid discharge head has a substrate having an inorganic material layer, an organic material layer, and an intermediate layer contacting the inorganic material layer and the organic material layer between the inorganic material layer and the organic material layer, in which the intermediate layer contains a resin having three or more cyclohexene oxide skeletons in the molecules, a photocationic polymerization initiator, a thermal cationic polymerization initiator, and an onium salt containing a cation portion structure represented by (d1) and an anion portion structure represented by (d2). | 2015-04-09 |
20150097893 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION - Provided is a black ink composition containing a pigment, wherein the value calculated from the average particle diameter and the particle size distribution width of the pigment and the ink viscosity is regulated within a certain range, and the number of coarse particles contained in the ink composition is regulated to a certain value or less. The ink composition is excellent in ink storage stability and can give an image realized with good balance between color development, in particular, in high-speed printing and inhibition of a time-dependent change in printing density due to pigment sedimentation. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097894 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, an ejection detector, a cleaner and cleaning ejection controller. The ejection detector has a droplet landing member disposed in an area in which the droplet landing member faces the head. The ejection detector detects ejection or non-ejection by detecting electric change caused by landing of the droplets on the droplet landing member. The cleaner cleans a droplet landing surface of the droplet landing member. The cleaning ejection controller controls the recording head to eject droplets on the droplet landing surface for cleaning the droplet landing surface before cleaning the droplet landing surface by the cleaner. A quantity of the droplets for cleaning the droplet landing surface is greater than a quantity of the droplets for detecting ejection or non-ejection. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097895 | MIST COLLECTION DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MIST COLLECTION DEVICE - A mist collection device capable of suctioning and recovering mist generated at the time of ejecting a liquid is disclosed. The mist collection device includes an exhaust duct having a suction portion which is installed to extend downwardly to suction external air. The suction portion is provided with a suction port extending in a vertical direction, and an upper end portion, which communicates with the exhaust duct, of the suction portion is installed to protrude in an annular shape from an inner bottom portion of the exhaust duct. | 2015-04-09 |
20150097896 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PRINTING POSITION - An adjustment value obtaining unit obtains an adjustment value for a first scanning speed before a pattern forming unit forms adjustment patterns for a second scanning speed, the pattern forming unit forms adjustment patterns by scanning with a print head at the second scanning speed with a shift amount based on an adjustment value obtained for the first scanning speed, and the adjustment value obtaining unit obtains an adjustment value for the second scanning speed based on the adjustment patterns formed by scanning with the print head at the second scanning speed. | 2015-04-09 |