15th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120086799 | FOCUS OFFSET CONTAMINATION INSPECTION - A system and method for detecting defects on a reticle is disclosed. The method may comprise determining a best focus setting for imaging the reticle; obtaining a first image of the reticle, the first image obtained at the best focus setting plus a predetermined offset; obtaining a second image of the reticle, the second image obtained at the best focus setting minus the predetermined offset; generating a differential image, the differential image representing a difference between the first image and the second image; and identifying a defect on the reticle based on the differential image. The method in accordance with the present disclosure may also be utilized for detecting defects on at least a portion of the reticle. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086800 | Surface Inspection System with Advanced Illumination - Disclosed are apparatuses, methods, and lithographic systems for surface (e.g., mask) inspection. A surface inspection system can include a plurality of illumination sources, an optical system, and an image sensor. The plurality of illumination sources can be a standalone illumination system or integrated into the lithographic system, where the plurality of illumination sources can be configured to illuminate radiation onto a target portion of a surface. The optical system can be configured to receive at least a portion of reflected radiation from the target portion of the surface. Further, the image sensor can be configured to detect an aerial image corresponding to the portion of the reflected radiation. The surface inspection system can also include an analysis device configured to analyze the aerial image for defects. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086801 | TRACKING HEAD POSITION AND ORIENTATION - Methods, devices, and systems are presented for determining a distance to an object using a color camera and special markers mounted on the object that refract or reflect different colors depending on the angle at which they are viewed. Different colors can be refracted or reflected using lenticular lenses or other technologies. The color received by the camera reveals the orientation of the markers. The orientation information can be combined with the perceived angular distance between the markers and the known distance between the markers to determine the actual distance to the object. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING WATER QUALITY - A system and system for monitoring water quality. The system comprises a container for receiving a flow of water to be monitored, the container containing a plurality of fish and configured such that a substantially 3-dimensional group behaviour of the fish is accommodated; a first imaging device disposed above the container for obtaining top view video data of the fish; and means for identifying individual fish based on foreground object detection. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086803 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTANCE ESTIMATION USING PROJECTED SYMBOL SEQUENCES - Certain examples of the present invention are directed to an image-recording device. The image-recording device includes an imaging component that records an image of an environment, a projection component that projects, into the environment, an (n,d) reliable M*-sequence of symbols, and a distance component. The distance component identifies j consecutive symbols reflected back to the imaging component from a surface in the environment, where j≧n, detects and corrects a misidentified symbol within the j consecutive symbols based on the minimum distance t of the (n,d) reliable M*-sequence, determines a first position of the j consecutive symbols with respect to the image, determines a second position of the j consecutive symbols in the M*-sequence of symbols, and determines, from the first and second position, a distance t from the surface to the imaging component. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086804 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided an imaging apparatus including a power generation unit which converts natural energy into electric energy and generates electric power, an imaging unit which captures a subject image and generates imaging data, a memory which stores the imaging data, a radio communication unit which transmits the imaging data stored in the memory, a control unit which controls operation of the imaging unit and of the radio communication unit, and a battery which is charged with the generated electric energy and supplies electric power to the imaging unit, the memory, the radio communication unit, and the control unit, where the control unit estimates a charge amount of the battery in the future based on average power generation of the power generation unit and changes operation of the imaging unit or of the radio communication unit, based on the charge amount in the future. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086805 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE, SUCH AS A COMMUNICATION SERVICE - A system an method are provided for providing a service, such as telemonitoring, in particular via the Internet. The system includes a terminal device of a communication network having elements for establishing a connection with a service provider device through at least the communication network, and an application server able to receive a service request from the service provider device on the connection. Thus, the terminal device can make itself accessible to a service provider device as soon as it is put into service. Furthermore, the fact that the terminal device is at the initiative of the connection for this service secures access to the data of the terminal device relating to this service. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086806 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SECURITY METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes an operating unit, a behavioral information acquiring unit to acquire behavioral information of an operator as triggered by operation of the operating unit, a matching unit to match input matching information input by the operator against registered matching information, a recording unit to be recorded with the behavioral information, and a recording control unit to record, when the matching unit determines that the input matching information is not coincident with the registered matching information, the behavioral information in the recording unit. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086807 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE VISUAL DISPLAY OF SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE - A method for visually displaying surroundings of a vehicle, includes recording a surrounding image field with a wide-angle lens, rectifying the surrounding image field recorded with the wide-angle lens by producing a display image field, which reproduces the surrounding image field in rectified form, and displaying the display image field. The rectification includes imaging the surrounding image field according to a rectification acting at least in the vertical direction, which shows a lower edge of the recorded surrounding image field on a lower setpoint image edge. The setpoint image edge at least approximately corresponds to an outer contour section of the vehicle. The course of the setpoint image edge differs from the lower edge. The rectification represents continuous imaging for pixels of the surrounding image field which are not on the lower edge. A related device for the visual display of surroundings of a vehicle is also described. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086808 | VIDEO MIRROR SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE - A video mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly with an electrochromic reflective element. The reflective element has an electrochromic medium disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate and has a transflective third-surface mirror reflector. A video display is disposed to the rear of the reflective element and emits light when actuated that passes through the transflective mirror reflector. The video display includes a thin film transistor video screen that is back lit by a plurality of white light emitting light emitting diodes that are operable by a control. The control includes DC to DC conversion circuitry that includes circuitry for converting an ignition voltage of the equipped vehicle to a lower voltage that is closer to the forward voltage applied across individual white light emitting light emitting diodes of the plurality of white light emitting light emitting diodes than the ignition voltage. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086809 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND MOTION TRACKING METHOD - In a motion tracking method using an image capturing device that is installed on a track system, images of a monitored area are captured in real-time using a lens of the image capturing device. The captured images are analyzed to check for motion in the monitored area, and a movement direction of the motion is determined when the motion is detected in the monitored area. The image capturing device is controlled to move along the track system to track the motion using a driving device according to the movement direction. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086810 | METHOD FOR A TOUCHLESS DETERMINATION OF THE TEMPERATURE OF AN OBJECT AND CORRESPONDING THERMAL IMAGING CAMERA - A method for a touchless determination of the temperature of an object ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086811 | METHOD FOR ELIMINATING CHROMATIC ABERRATION CAUSED BY AN IMAGING ENVIRONMENT AND FOR TESTING STABILITY OF THE IMAGING ENVIRONMENT, AND CHROMATIC ABERRATION CALIBRATION DEVICE FOR USE WITH THE SAME - A method for eliminating chromatic aberration caused by an imaging environment and for testing stability of the imaging environment is disclosed, along with a chromatic aberration calibration device for use with the same method. The method serves to detect errors resulting from environmental factors and human factors and, by using a specific measurement distance and angle, eliminate chromatic aberration caused by such factors. Environmental factors include variations of the image capture device itself; the hue, lightness, and chroma of external light; and the distance and angle between the chromatic aberration calibration device and the image capture device. Human factors include operator-related variations, focusing variations, and hand tremor during measurement. When the same chromatic aberration calibration device and imaging environment are used, the method can show color variations caused by the environmental and human factors in the image capture process and thereby determine whether the imaging environment has the expected stability. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086812 | DIGITAL CAMERA IMAGING EVALUATION MODULE - An operator friendly camera testing module is described. The camera testing module includes at least a color shift evaluation unit and a color non-uniformity evaluation unit. The color shift evaluation unit providing a color shift metric and the color non-uniformity evaluation unit providing a color non-uniformity metric each used to characterize a digital camera. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING TAMPERING WITH VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for controlling transmission of signals are described. A camera-side modem is configured to receive two signals from a video camera and to extract a received passband signal from a transmission line. A detector in the camera-side modem generates an alarm signal when disruption or loss of the received passband signal is identified. An enable signal is used to control transmission of at least one of the baseband video signal and the passband video signal. The passband signal may be identified by an estimate of mean square error in a quadrature amplitude demodulator, a measurement of reliability provided by a constellation detector, a measurement of reliability based on a sequence of frame synchronizations and/or an estimate of mean square error in an equalizer. The detector may monitor a gain factor in an automatic gain control module of the camera-side modern and/or a magnitude of the received passband signal. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086814 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A transmitting device in accordance with the present invention includes an encoding unit that converts an input video signal into encoded data and sends out the encoded data to a transmission line, and a synchronization signal generation unit that generates a synchronization signal SYNC for adjusting the phase of an input video signal on the basis of phase information transmitted through the transmission line, wherein the phase information PHS includes information indicating that a timing of a synchronization signal generated by the synchronization signal generation unit is to be advanced by the time necessary for transmission, and the synchronization signal generation unit generates the synchronization signal SYNC so that an input video signal is advanced by the time necessary for transmission. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086815 | RAPIDLY INITIALIZING AND DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING MEDIA STREAMS - A device may generate a media stream to be shared with other users by building a media graph, comprising a series of interconnected processing units that perform various processing tasks. However, the time involved in generating the media graph may delay the initialization of the media stream, and adjusting properties of the media stream (such as resolution or codec) may result in an interruption of the media stream while a new media graph is built. Instead, a media graph cache may be provided to cache a set of media graphs, which may be interchangeably selected for rapid initialization and adjusting of media stream properties. The media component (e.g., a video camera) may also be configured to promote rapid adjustments to some media stream properties, while maintaining other properties (e.g., field of view and white balance) for a smooth transition between media stream property sets. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086816 | SPEED DOME CAMERA - A camera includes a front portion, a rear portion and a electric brush connecting the front portion and the rear portion. The front portion includes a camera module for capturing image. The front portion further includes a wireless transmission module. The rear portion further includes a wireless receiving module. The front potion sends the image to the wireless receiving module by the wireless transmission module. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086817 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera is provided that includes an imaging module and a first wireless communication module. The first wireless communication module is used to perform radio communication with a monitor device separated from a camera body. A volume of data being transferred per unit time is reduced compared to a volume of moving-image data transferred via wired communication to display the moving image, when moving-image data obtained by the imaging module being transferred to the monitor device uses the first wireless communication module. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086818 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera is provided that includes a first wireless communication module and image data processor. The first wireless communication module transmits image data to a monitor device via wireless communication. The image data processor processes image data before transmitting it to the monitor device via the wireless communication module. The image data processor has a first mode in which the image data are compressed at a predetermined compression ratio when transmitting a through-the-lens image to the monitor device, and a second mode in which the image data are compressed less than the predetermined compression, including zero compression, while carrying out at least one of reducing a frame rate compared to the first mode or extracting part of an image comprising the image data. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ORIENTATION INDICATION AND CORRECTION - Tilt imparted to video images captured by a handheld electronic communication device is identified and corrected by the disclosed method and apparatus for image orientation. The handheld device includes image capturing capability and an orientation sensor, which provides a signal representative of orientation relative to gravity to calculate an angle of rotation for the captured images suitable to compensate a difference between the orientation of the handheld device and the orientation relative to gravity. The handheld device also includes a receiver wherein the angle of rotation is recovered and used to determine the changes needed substantially eliminate the difference between the orientation of the captured images and the orientation relative to gravity. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086820 | METHOD OF GENERATING MOVING PICTURE INFORMATION - A moving picture file is generated from moving picture data received from a camera. Control sequence information from the camera corresponding to the generated moving picture file, and information relating to an address of the camera, are incorporated into the moving picture file. The moving picture file is generated by dividing the received moving picture data, based on camera control information. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086821 | Lens barrel and image pickup device - Provided is a lens barrel having, in order from an object side to an image side, a first to a third group lens, the lens barrel including: a fixed frame; a cam frame supported by the fixed frame so as to be rotationally movable in a optical axis direction between a forward and a backward movement ends; and a shutter frame which moves in the optical axis direction in a rotation restricted state, through the rotation of the cam frame, in which: a third group frame is fixed to the shutter frame so that the object side of the third group lens is arranged on an inner peripheral side of the shutter frame; and the second frame is configured so that the image side of the frame is stored on the inner peripheral side of the shutter frame when the cam frame is positioned at the backward movement end. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086822 | BLUR CORRECTION DEVICE AND BLUR CORRECTION METHOD - Blur correction device ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086823 | DIGITAL CAMERA - A digital camera is provided that includes a camera body and a monitor device. The camera body includes an imaging module, an image stabilization module, a first connector half and a first wireless communication module. The monitor device is detachable from the camera body and includes a monitor, a second connector half complemental to the first connector half and a second wireless communication module complemental to the first wireless communication module. An operation of the image stabilization module is suspended when monitor device is detached from the camera body. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086824 | CAMERA WITH IMAGE STABILIZATION FUNCTION - A camera according to the present invention is equipped with an image sensor; an A/D converter that converts analog image-pixel signals read from the image sensor to digital image-pixel signals; an image stabilizer that comprises a coil and a movable member configured to move in a given direction while supporting the image sensor; an image stabilization controller that controls a position of the movable member at given time intervals by sending pulse drive signals through the coil; and a timing adjustment processor that shifts at least one of a rise timing and fall timing of the pulse drive signals from a signal-processing interval associated with an A/D conversion process. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086825 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF CAPTURE PARAMETERS BASED ON REFERENCE DATA - Reference data associated with an image capture device is collected while the image capture device is directed toward a scene area. A capture control on the image capture device is automatically adjusted based at least in part on the reference data. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086826 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A solid-state imaging device includes first-group pixels | 2012-04-12 |
20120086827 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING MONITORING OF MEDICATION ADHERENCE - A system and method for positioning a pill to be ingested by a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera. The method includes the steps of determining a desired location of the mouth of a user in a field of view of an image acquisition camera, determining a current position of a pill to be ingested by the user in the field of view of the image acquisition apparatus, and indicating on a display a movement to be made by the user to move the pill towards mouth of the user. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086828 | WHITE BALANCE METHOD AND WHITE BALANCE DEVICE - Disclosed are a white balance device and a white balance method. The device comprises a unit used to extract background pixels of an image; a unit used to obtain representative color of background; a unit for determining a global magnification ratio of the background pixels; a unit used to carry out pre-adjustment with regard to original color of each of the background pixels; a unit used to, for each of the background pixels, determine expected final background color of the corresponding background pixel, and then determine an accurate magnification ratio of the corresponding background pixel; and a unit used to, for each of the background pixels, carry out adjustment with regard to the original color of the corresponding background pixel by using the accurate magnification ratio of the corresponding background pixel. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086829 | IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing unit includes a memory unit, a comparative image generator to generate a comparative image from a non-reference image, an image divider to divide a reference image, a non-reference image, and a comparative image into image blocks of a predetermined size, a motion data calculator to calculate motion data between the reference image and comparative image, an average calculator to calculate an average of pixel output values for each image block of the reference image and the comparative image, a threshold determiner to determine a threshold for synthesis determination according to the average of pixel output values of an image block of the reference image, a synthesis determiner to determine whether or not the image blocks of the reference image and of the non-reference image are suitable for synthesis, and a ratio determiner to determine a synthesis ratio of the image blocks determined as suitable for synthesis. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086830 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, WHITE BALANCE CORRECTION METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - An image processing device of the present invention comprises: an image combining section for combining a plurality of combination image data and generating combined image data; a WB setting section for performing setting for white balance correction processing; an image WB gain calculation section for calculating image WB gain respectively for the plurality of combination image data in accordance with setting of the WB setting section; a combined image WB gain calculating section for calculating combined image WB gain for the combined image data in accordance with information relating to a combination ratio for the image combining section and image WB gain for the respective plurality of combination image data; and a WB correction section for carrying out white balance correction for image data according to the combined image WB gain. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086831 | METHOD OF PRODUCING AN IMAGE - A method of producing an image is disclosed. At least one symbol is received. The at least one symbol is, optionally, displayed on a first image with at least one light spot. Subsequently, a position of an incident light projected on an image sensor of an image capturing device is varied during an exposure period according to the at least one symbol. Accordingly, a second image with a light track that traces the at least one symbol is captured. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086832 | Wearable Decorative Ornament With Visual Display - A wearable decorative ornament capable of photographing, storing and displaying an image, such that the image appears integral to the design of the decorative ornament, comprising a decorative case, an image-displaying device, an image capturing device, a communications port and a controller. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086833 | DEVICE WITH CAMERA - A portable telephone is provided with a camera module ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086834 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADDING AN EFFECT TO AN IMAGE - A terminal apparatus including: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject; a storage unit configured to store a table that associates information related to an image with at least one effect to be applied to an image; a control unit configured to detect or receive information related to the image captured by the image capturing unit, and select an effect from the table stored in the storage unit based on the detected or received information related to the image; and an image processing unit configured to apply the selected effect to the captured image. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086835 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention can perform a developing process or editing process, with a high response, for raw image obtained by image sensing by a digital camera or the like. When, therefore, raw image data is input, an extraction area in the raw image data is determined on the basis of the size of an image display area in which a processed image is displayed and a magnification set at this time. A developing process is then performed for partial raw image data in the determined area, and the resultant data is displayed in the image display area. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086836 | Electronic Apparatus, Image Capturing Apparatus, and Method Thereof - The present invention discloses an electronic apparatus, an image capturing apparatus and a method thereof. The image capturing method comprises the following steps of: capturing a plurality of temporal images by an image capturing module, and setting one of the temporal images as a base image by a processing module; dividing each temporal image into a plurality of temporal image blocks, and dividing the base image into a plurality of base image blocks by the processing module; determining whether the difference between each temporal image block and the corresponding base image block is lower than a threshold value by the processing module; integrating the temporal image block and the corresponding base image block to generate a final image by the processing module when the difference between the temporal image block and the corresponding base image block is lower than the threshold value. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086837 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus comprises plural pixels each including a photoelectric converting element; plural capacitors which receive signals from the plural pixels at first terminals; plural clamping switches for setting a second terminal of each of the plural capacitors into a predetermined electric potential; plural first storing units for storing signals from the second terminals of the plural capacitors; plural second storing units for storing the signals from the second terminals of the plural capacitors; a first common output line to which the signals from the plural first storing units are sequentially output; a second common output line to which the signals from the plural second storing units are sequentially output; and a difference circuit for operating a difference between the signal from the first common output line and the signal from the second common output line. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION USING NOISE MODELS - A method and apparatus for processing imager pixel signals to reduce noise. The processing includes receiving a target pixel signal, receiving at least one neighboring pixel signal, formulating a dynamic noise signal based at least in part on a value of the target pixel signal, and controlling a noise reduction operation using the dynamic noise signal. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086839 | TIMING ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT, AND CAMERA SYSTEM - A timing adjustment circuit includes at least one data line; a phase synchronization circuit that includes a plurality of oscillation delay elements which oscillate an oscillation signal, and that is configured to oscillate the oscillation signal by synchronizing a phase of a feedback clock with a phase of a reference clock; at least one delay circuit that includes a delay element which is disposed on the data line and which is equivalent to one of the plurality of oscillation delay elements, and that is configured to delay data which is to be transmitted on the data line; and a delay adjustment unit configured to adjust an amount of delay of the delay element of the delay circuit in accordance with a signal associated with oscillation of the phase synchronization circuit. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086840 | DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCEMENT - A method of increasing dynamic range of pixels in an imaging sensor is disclosed. In one aspect, two image captures are performed, one at a first short integration time and one at a second optimum integration time. An electrical value obtained from a pixel or group of pixels at the first short integration time is used to predict the second integration time using a comparison with a set of reference values. The reference values relate to a saturation electrical value for each pixel or group of pixels to predict the second integration time. The first short integration time is determined as a fractional multiple of the saturation electrical value. The second integration times are such that there is no saturation of the pixel or group of pixels. Adjustments can be made to the reference values to allow for offset immunity and variability in light levels during the second integration time. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086841 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE - A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel unit including a photoelectric converter, an amplifier arranged on the output side of the pixel unit, an output unit arranged on the output side of the amplifier, a first restriction circuit, and a second restriction circuit. The first restriction circuit restricts, between the amplifier and the output unit, a noise level read out from the pixel unit via the amplifier in reading out the noise level from the pixel unit. The second restriction circuit restricts, between the photoelectric converter and the amplifier, a noise level to be provided to the amplifier in reading out the noise level from the pixel unit. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086842 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SOLID-STATE IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, AND IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS - A CMOS image sensor in which column-parallel ADCs are mounted. Reference voltages Vref | 2012-04-12 |
20120086843 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND CAMERA - An object of the invention is to cause a part of charge spilling from a photoelectric conversion unit to flow into a charge holding unit and thereby extend dynamic range and at the same time improve image quality. There is provided a solid-state image pickup device having a pixel including: a photoelectric conversion unit generating and accumulating charge by means of photoelectric conversion; a first charge holding unit being shielded from light, and being adaptable to accumulate a part of charge spilling from the photoelectric conversion unit in a period during which the photoelectric conversion unit generates and accumulates charge; an amplifying unit (SF-MOS) amplifying charge; a first transfer unit (Tx-MOS) transferring the charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit to the amplifying unit; and a second transfer unit (Ty-MOS) transferring the charge accumulated in the first charge holding unit to the amplifying unit. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086844 | CIRCUIT AND PHOTO SENSOR OVERLAP FOR BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION IMAGE SENSOR - A method of operation of a backside illuminated (BSI) pixel array includes acquiring an image signal with a first photosensitive region of a first pixel within the BSI pixel array. The image signal is generated in response to light incident upon a backside of the first pixel. The image signal acquired by the first photosensitive region is transferred to pixel circuitry of the first pixel disposed on a frontside of the first pixel opposite the backside. The pixel circuitry at least partially overlaps the first photosensitive region of the first pixel and extends over die real estate above a second photosensitive region of a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel such that the second pixel donates die real estate unused by the second pixel to the first pixel to accommodate larger pixel circuitry than would fit within the first pixel. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086845 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, a through-hole, a vertical gate electrode, and a charge fixing film. A photoelectric conversion unit generating signal charges in accordance with the amount of received light is formed in the substrate. The through-hole is formed from a front surface side through a rear surface side of the substrate. The vertical gate electrode is formed through a gate insulating film in the through-hole and reads out the signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to a reading-out portion. The charge fixing film has negative fixed charges formed to cover a portion of the inner circumferential surface of the through-hole at the rear surface side of the substrate while covering the rear surface side of the substrate. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086846 | Interface system of an image-capturing device - An interface system of an image-capturing device is disclosed, which is set on a hand-held image-capturing device. The interface system of an image-capturing device includes a display unit, a touch sensor unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a variety of setting pictures of the image-capturing device. The touch sensor unit senses a touch of a user so as to change the setting pictures displayed on the display unit. The control unit is connected with the display unit and the touch sensor unit, for controlling the operation of the image-capturing device. The disclosed interface system of an image-capturing device enables the user to adjust various kinds of exposure parameters quickly and intuitively. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086847 | CONVERGENCE FEEDBACK INDICATOR, PROVIDED WHEN TAKING A PICTURE IN A CAMERA APPLICATION - An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates capturing an image in an electronic camera without the image being completely focused. A “most-in-focus” indicator is provided to an operator of the camera to notify the operator that a reasonably good image is available for capture, without having to wait for the camera to finish a fine focus adjustment. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086848 | OPTICAL IMAGING LENS SYSTEM - This invention provides an optical imaging lens system in order from an object side to an image side including: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power, and a fourth lens element having a concave image-side surface, and at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein the optical imaging lens system further comprises an aperture stop and an electronic sensor on which an object is imaged, and the aperture stop is positioned between an object and the first lens element; wherein there are four lens elements with refractive power. By such arrangement, total track length and photosensitivity of the optical imaging lens system can be effectively reduced while retaining high image quality. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086849 | CAMERA DEVICE - A camera device includes: an image pickup element; a birefringent plate fixed to a front surface of the image pickup element; and an optical glass member arranged on an optical path of the image pickup element on a front side of the birefringent plate. The optical glass member has a plurality of optical characteristic areas with different optical characteristics from each other. The optical characteristic areas are switched such that one of the plurality of optical characteristic areas is arranged on the optical path by moving the optical glass member in a direction intersecting with the optical path. The plurality of optical characteristic areas include an infrared cut filter area and a blank glass area. The infrared cut filter area is formed by depositing an infrared cut material with infrared cut characteristics on a surface of the optical glass member. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086850 | SUPER RESOLUTION FROM A SINGLE SIGNAL - A method implementable on a computing device includes exploiting data redundancy to combine high frequency information from at least two different scales of an input signal to generate a super resolution version of said input signal. An alternative method includes exploiting recurrence of data from an input signal in at least two different scales of at least one reference signal to extract and to combine high frequency information from a plurality of scales of said at least one reference signal to generate a super resolution version of said input signal. An alternative method includes generating a super resolution version of a single input video sequence in at least the temporal dimension by exploiting data recurrence within the input video sequence or with respect to an external database of example video sequences. A signal may be an image, a video sequence, an audio signal, etc. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086851 | SIDE LOADING - Side loading of content elements is provided. A selection of a content element from a terminal device may be received and a content format associated with the terminal device may be identified. If the content element is not available in the identified content format, the content element may be transcoded from a current content format to the identified content format and the content element may be transferred to the terminal device in the identified content format. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086852 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPRISING DEFLICKER UNIT FOR FILTERING IMAGE DATA, AND A METHOD THEREFOR - An integrated circuit comprises deflicker unit is described for adaptively applying deflicker filtering to image data to be displayed using an interlaced scan line technique. The deflicker unit comprises analysis unit arranged to receive the image data and identify at least one region of an image to which deflicker filtering is to be applied, and filter arranged to apply deflicker filtering to those regions identified by the analysis unit. In one example, the analysis unit may be arranged to identify regions of the image to which deflicker filtering is to be applied based at least on energy levels for a high frequency range component within the vertical frequency domain of the image data. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086853 | Information Transmission Method And Device, Information Recording or Reproduction Method and Device, And Recording Medium - An information transmission method capable of reproducing the atmosphere of a concert hall or a live performance hall, wherein bio-information of a speaker, player, actor or conductor, who serves as a source of speech, sounds or music and/or bio-information of a performer included within an image are multiplexed with respect to information of speech or music and/or information of the image for transmission thereof. At the receiving side, sense stimulation based on the bio-information is provided to the viewer, or information of speech or music and/or information of the image are controlled on the basis of the bio-information to thereby reproduce presence or live appeal. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086854 | Digital Processing Disruption Systems - A method and apparatus are described for modifying an analogue video signal to impair its conversion to a digital signal by an analogue to digital converter. The resulting modified signal may prevent the operation of the analogue to digital converter altogether, or, even if a digital signal can be output and recorded, may result in a signal which is difficult to view due to a reduction in quality on playback. The modifications made to the signal include altering the amplitude of the horizontal synchronization pulses in the original signal, and/or modifying the level of the back porch, or the region of the signal adjacent the back porch. Additionally, methods are contemplated for the use of specific response models for target analogue to digital converters, and display devices. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086855 | VIDEO CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEM, VIDEO CONTENT GENERATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIA - A video content generation device generates video data synchronized with music data based on motion data, representing a motion graph including nodes, edges, and weights, and metadata indicating a synchronization probability per each node between the motion graph and a musical tune. A music data storage unit stores the predetermined amount of music data and their musical characteristics in connection with the predetermined number of beats, in a reproduction order, retrieved from the musical tune. An optimum path search unit searches an optimum path connecting between nodes, each of which is selected per each beat with a high synchronization probability, on the motion graph with motion characteristics matching with musical characteristics based on the predetermined amount of music data. Video data synchronized with music data is generated based on synchronization information for correlating motion data to music data along with the optimum path. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086856 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A MENU OF AN EXTERNAL DEVICE, AND TV RECEIVING DEVICE - A method and a device for processing a menu of an external device, and a TV receiving device are disclosed. By associating a displaying position of a menu of an external device of a display device with interface position information of an external interface, the present disclosure allows the menu of the external device to be displayed at an insertion position of the TV receiving device (i.e., a position corresponding to the external interface) so that the user can clearly know the using conditions of the external interface. This makes the TV receiving device intuitive and convenient to use. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086857 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A multifunctional display device includes a processor to control display of information during booting of an operating system. The operating system is booted in response to a predetermined signal and displayed the information includes first information corresponding to visual information, and second information indicating that the operating system is currently booting. The operating system is one which controls display of multimedia content. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086858 | DISPLAY AND MULTI-VIEW DISPLAYING SWITCH METHOD THEREOF - A multi-view displaying switch method of a display includes the following steps. The display receives multiple channel signals, and captures multiple corresponding static images from the channel signals. The display displays the static images in a first multi-view pattern, and displays one multi-view switch key on the display. When the multi-view switch key is triggered, the display switches the first multi-view pattern to a second multi-view pattern to display the static images. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086859 | VIDEO OUTPUT APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND VIDEO OUTPUT METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING VIDEO SIGNAL TO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video output apparatus includes an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information of a display apparatus through a communication unit, a determination unit that determines whether to superimpose additional information on a video signal based on the attribute information of the display apparatus acquired by the attribute information acquisition unit, an output unit that superimposes the additional information extracted by an additional information extraction unit on the video signal output from a video decoding unit and outputs the additional information superimposed on the video signal to the communication unit if the determination unit determines to superimpose the additional information on the video signal, and outputs the video signal output from the video decoding unit to the communication unit without superimposing the additional information on the video signal if the determination unit determines not to superimpose the additional information on the video signal. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086860 | TELEVISION AND CHANNEL BROWSING METHOD THEREOF - A channel browsing method of a television includes the following steps: receiving a channel browsing control command, receiving a first television signal of a current channel being played via a main tuner, outputting frequency data of at least one browsing channel needed to be browsed to a vice tuner, receiving at least one second television signal corresponding to the at least one browsing channel via the vice tuner; and processing the first television signal and the at least one second television signal, defining a vice window for playing at least one program of the at least one browsing channel and a main window for playing the program of the current channel. With the channel browsing method of the present disclosure, users can browse the program of each channel when watching the program of the current channel. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086861 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - A basic pattern generating unit | 2012-04-12 |
20120086862 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE, VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD, VIDEO DISPLAY SCREEN AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display system of the present invention includes (i) a projector that generates a display image in accordance with a digital video signal and (ii) a screen on which an image generated by the projector is projected and displayed. Provided behind the screen is an infrared-emitting unit that emits infrared light through a video display surface during a period of time in which a picture is being displayed on the screen. This allows invisible light to be emitted through a video display section such as a screen together with a displayed image, thereby degrading the image quality of a re-shot picture and rendering use of re-shot image content impossible. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086863 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Motion - An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory that cause the apparatus to perform receiving a video indicating a motion, generating a set of scalar representations of movement based, at least in part, on at least part of the video, and identifying at least one predetermined motion that correlates to the set of scalar representations of movement is disclosed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086864 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Motion - An apparatus, comprising a processor and memory configured to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving a video indicating a motion, generating a set of normalized representations of movement based, at least in part, on the video, evaluating a reference set of representations with respect to the set of normalized representations of the movement, and determining that at least one predetermined motion correlates to the set of normalized representations of the movement based, at least in part, on the evaluation is disclosed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086865 | TAGGING DIGITAL TELEVISION SIGNALS - A method and apparatus for detecting leakage of a digital CATV channel signal from a CATV system. The digital CATV channel signal is amplitude modulated with a tag signal having a frequency in the range of about 3 Hz to about 35 Hz, and coupled to the CATV system. At a point of leakage from the CATV system, the amplitude modulated digital CATV channel signal can be detected using a leakage detector capable of recovering the tag signal. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086866 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE OF TV RECEIVING DEVICES - A hybrid architecture of a television (TV) receiving system is disclosed. The architecture includes two portions, a hardware portion and a software portion. The hardware portion includes a minimum amount of hardware to achieve operations of receiving a RF signal, producing an IF signal and outputting data representing the IP signal. The software portion, taking advantage of available computing power (e.g., high-speed microprocessor and a lot of memory) in a computing device and executed therein, includes one or more demodulators, all implemented in software. Each of the demodulators is implemented in accordance with one type of TV standard. Thus depending on the received data, a corresponding demodulator is activated to demodulate the received data and subsequently produces audio and video data. One of the advantages, benefits and objects in the present invention is to have a band of software-based demodulators, any of which may be updated or expanded whenever there is a new TV standard or modification to an existing standard. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086867 | MODULAR UPGRADES FOR WIRELESSLY POWERED TELEVISIONS - A wireless power television system includes a television electrically connected to a device magnetic resonator, wherein the device magnetic resonator is configured to wirelessly receive power when separated from a source magnetic resonator by more than 10 cm, and wherein the television is powered directly by power received wirelessly by the device magnetic resonator. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086868 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAMPER LOCKING ELECTRONICS - A remote control designed to operate an electronic device comprising: a housing, a plurality of buttons arranged on the housing, and a single button is designed to lock the plurality of buttons on the remote control. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086869 | USING TV TO PROGRAM UNIVERSAL REMOTE COMMANDER - A TV prompts a user to point a device remote commander (RC) at the TV and to press a key on the device RC where the key is associated with a predetermined infrared signal. The TV then accesses a data store on an Internet server with a request to correlate the coded signal from the device RC to a list of devices. A list of devices is then presented to the user. The user then selects a device from the list, which causes the TV to send command codes for the device to a universal remote commander (URC). The user is thereafter able to control the audio video device using the URC instead of or in addition to the device RC. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086870 | REMOTE CONTROLLER SETTING MODULE, TELEVISION AND REMOTE CONTROL COMMAND SETTING METHOD THEREOF - A remote control setting module which is suitable to be installed in an electronic apparatus to set a button command corresponding to a remote control signal from a remote controller is disclosed. The remote control setting module includes an infrared sensing unit and a signal processing unit. The infrared sensing unit receives the remote control signal from the remote controller and then identifies a signal waveform corresponding to remote control signal. The signal processing unit is coupled to the infrared sensing unit and used for setting the button command to correspond to the received signal waveform. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086871 | LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, ILLUMINATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The backlight unit ( | 2012-04-12 |
20120086872 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and is excellent in workability in assembling the panel to the backlight while securing a wide effective display region. A display device | 2012-04-12 |
20120086873 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID CRYSTAL TELEVISION HAVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL MONITOR HAVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A device is provided for setting a voltage applied to each of data signal lines so as to correct a voltage, applied to the pixel, which corresponds to a gradation data signal in each of sub-frames of a single frame. As such, voltage drop, caused by a combination of voltages of the gradation data signal in each of the sub-frames, may be partially or even fully compensated. On this account, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal display device which can lessen or even avoid an influence of the voltage drop caused by, for example, gate-drain capacitance of the thin film transistor in case of adopting time-division driving, and/or a method for driving the liquid crystal display device. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086874 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing improvement in brightness of an intended area such as a center area of an irradiation surface. A lighting device | 2012-04-12 |
20120086875 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a lighting device realizing reduction in cost and suppression of power consumption and suppressing generation of a lamp image. A lighting device | 2012-04-12 |
20120086876 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a display device that can be provided as a final product such as a television receiver simply by assembling a display panel and a backlight and is excellent in workability in assembling the display panel to the backlight while securing a wide effective display region. The display device according to the present invention includes an LED | 2012-04-12 |
20120086877 | SENSOR-ACTIVATED STILL AND VIDEO IMAGE DISPLAY - An electronic display (e.g., a LCD) may be built inside a picture frame. The picture frame may include an opening the same size of the electronic display to enable a viewer to view both the picture frame and the electronic display. The electronic display may include a media player storing the still picture and video data, and a sensor. The electronic display may default to displaying the still picture. However, upon the sensor detecting a person approaching, the still picture may be replaced with a video to be played to the approaching person thereby engaging the person. After the video has been played, the electronic display may return to displaying the still picture until the next approaching person is detected, or alternatively may continue to play video until the sensor detects that there are no persons within the detection range. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086878 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A first peripheral electrode and a second peripheral electrode are provided at a peripheral region sandwiched between a pixel region and a seal material in a first substrate of a liquid crystal device, and strength of electric potentials which are applied to the first peripheral electrode, the second peripheral electrode, and a common electrode of an opposite substrate satisfies the condition of the second peripheral electrode2012-04-12 | |
20120086879 | Liquid Crystal Display Device with Interred Touch Screen - A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal panel in which a plurality of common electrodes are formed; an interred touch sensor for applying a common voltage to the common electrodes, and detecting a touch point of the liquid crystal panel with a capacitance that is induced in the common electrodes; a plurality of common electrode lines for connecting the common electrodes to the touch sensor; and an equivalent potential unit formed in the common electrode lines, and discharging residual electric charges of the common electrodes. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086880 | VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TYPE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE WITH VIEWING ANGLE CHARACTERISTICS IMPROVED BY DISPOSING OPTICAL PLATES - First and second polarizers are disposed in cross-Nichol configuration. A liquid crystal cell is disposed between the two polarizers and establishes vertical alignment in a state of no voltage application. An even number of optical films having optical anisotropy and disposed between the liquid crystal cell and first polarizer. A retardation of the liquid crystal cell is in a range between 300 nm and 1500 nm; and each optical film satisfies nx>n≧z, an in-plane retardation is smaller than 300 nm, a thickness direction retardation is in a range between 50 nm and 300 nm, an angle between an in-plane slow axis of the optical film disposed nearest to the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the first polarizer is smaller than 45°, and the slow axes of mutually adjacent optical films are perpendicular to each other. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086881 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - An array substrate for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device include: a substrate; a gate line formed in one direction on one surface of the substrate; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel area; a thin film transistor (TFT) configured at a crossing of the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode formed at a pixel region of the substrate; an insulating film formed on the entire surface of the substrate including the pixel electrode and the TFT, including a first insulating film formed of a high temperature silicon nitride film and a second insulating film formed of a low temperature silicon nitride film, and having a contact hole having an undercut shape exposing the pixel electrode; a pixel electrode connection pattern formed within the contact hole having an undercut shape and connected with the pixel electrode and the TFT; and a plurality of common electrodes separately formed on the insulating film. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086882 | BACKLIGHT CHASSIS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME - Provided is a backlight chassis which has a reduced weight, while ensuring sufficient rigidity and heat dissipation. The backlight chassis having a light source unit mounted thereon is configured with the combination of a resin member and a highly rigid and highly heat conductive member which has a rigidity and heat conductivity higher than those of the resin member. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086883 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A backlight unit includes alight guide plate, an inner frame that surrounds an outer periphery of the light guide plate, and an outer frame that surrounds an outer periphery of the inner frame. An inner periphery of the inner frame is formed with an inner protrusion that projects toward the outer periphery of the light guide plate. The outer periphery of the inner frame is formed with an outer protrusion that projects toward an inner periphery of the outer frame. The inner protrusion and the outer protrusion are located on opposite sides of a wall part that is one side part of the inner frame, and arranged at a distance from each other in a longitudinal direction of the wall part of the inner frame. According to the backlight unit, relative positional displacement of members can be suppressed while ensuring the ease of assembling. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086884 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides an art of properly fixing a light source board without using any screw. A backlight unit | 2012-04-12 |
20120086885 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An object of the present invention is to suppress deformation of a reflection member. A backlight unit | 2012-04-12 |
20120086886 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - A lighting device configured to produce light in a substantially uniform overall color includes a plurality of light source boards and a plurality of point light sources. The point light sources are mounted on the light source boards. An average color of the point light sources is in an equivalent color range. The equivalent color range is defined by a square with two sides that are opposed sides each having an X-axis coordinate length of 0.015 and two sides that are opposed sides each having a Y-axis coordinate length of 0.015 in the CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086887 | Wire Grid Polarizer, Liquid Crystal Device Including The Wire Grid Polarizer, 3-D Stereoscopic Image Display Device Including The Wire Grid Polarizer, and Method of Manufacturing The Wire Grid Polarizer - The present invention relates to a wire grid polarizer capable of securing a high brightness and reducing the number of processes, a liquid crystal device including the wire grid polarizer, and a method of manufacturing the wire grid polarizer. According to the present invention, the wire grid polarizer, including first grids arranged in parallel at certain intervals over a substrate and second grids formed on the first grids, can be formed using only an imprint process, a deposition process, and a wet etch process. Accordingly, the number of processes and the process costs and time can be reduced, and high reliability can be guaranteed. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086888 | LIGHTING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - The present invention provides a lighting device configured to produce light with a substantially averaged overall color. The lighting device | 2012-04-12 |
20120086889 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND BACKLIGHT MODULE THEREOF - A backlight module includes an LGP and a linear light source. The LGP includes a light-incident side surface and a top light-emitting surface that has a peripheral region and an effective illumination region. The linear light source includes a circuit board, solid-state light-emitting devices configured on and electrically connected to the circuit board, and a reflector covering a portion of the peripheral region. Light emitted from each solid-state light-emitting device enters the LGP from the light-incident side surface. The reflector includes first reflection parts that correspond to the solid-state light-emitting devices and second reflection parts. Each second reflection part is connected to two adjacent first reflection parts. Each first reflection part and each second reflection part extend towards the effective illumination region from an edge of the top light-emitting surface. An extension length of each first reflection part is shorter than that of each second reflection part. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086890 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A mold frame used for a backlight device is thinned to enable a frame of a liquid crystal display device to be narrowed. Gates for injection molding are arranged on an inner side surface of a mold frame. The inner side surface forms recesses in portions including the positions of the gates. Protrusions for preventing optical sheets from dropping out are disposed on an edge of the optical sheets housed within the mold frame in correspondence with the recesses accompanied by the injection molding. The recesses are used for engaging the protrusions, thereby requiring no provision of additional recesses for engaging the protrusions. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086891 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate both of which have a first surface and a second surface, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate. The liquid crystal display device further comprises a first polarizer and a second polarizer, which allows incident light incident to the second surface of the first substrate or the second surface of the second substrate to pass through the liquid crystal layer, and a photo sensor, formed on the first surface of the second substrate together with driver circuitry, sensing the light passing through the first polarizer and the second polarizer. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086892 | ADHESIVE COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive composition, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. The present pressure sensitive adhesive composition may provide a pressure sensitive adhesive having excellent endurance reliability, optical physical property, workability and adhesion property in high temperature or high humidity condition. Especially, the present pressure sensitive adhesive composition may provide a pressure sensitive adhesive that antistatic property suitable to the applied use can be stably maintained for a long time. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086893 | PHOTO ALIGNMENT PROCESS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A photo alignment process and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The photo alignment process includes the following steps. A photo alignment material layer is formed on a substrate. The photo alignment material layer is irradiated by a linearly polarized light. A surface of the photo alignment material layer is a first plane. A wave vector of the linearly polarized light is a K vector. A second plane is constructed from a normal vector of the first plane and the K vector. A polarization direction of the linearly polarized light is neither perpendicular nor parallel to the second plane. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086894 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY ELEMENT - A liquid crystal display element comprises a first and a second substrates, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a first and a second polarizers arranged to cross approximately their absorption axes and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied at almost 45 degrees. At least one of the electrodes comprises a polyline extending to an extending direction as a whole and having no straight line in parallel to the extending direction along an electrode edge, and the polyline is formed along an edge of at least one of the first and the second electrodes where the alignment directions when a voltage is applied and when no voltage is applied are opposite to each other if the polyline is a straight line along the extending direction. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086895 | Display substrate and display device including the same - A liquid crystal display device with improved display quality is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a signal line formed on a first substrate to extend generally in a first direction, a color filter at least partially overlapping the signal line, a black matrix pattern separated from the color filters by a separation region, and a column spacer pattern formed on the separation region. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086896 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes a diffuser plate which diffuses light, support members which support the diffuser plate, and a liquid crystal panel on which diffused light is incident. The support members each include a placement surface on which the diffuser plate is placed, a first connected surface connected in a slanted manner to an end section of the placement surface, among two end sections of the placement surface that face each other in a width direction, and a second connected surface connected to one of the end sections. A synthetic resin film is glued seamlessly across the placement surface, the first connected surface and the second connected surface via an adhesive layer provided on one surface of the synthetic resin film. The synthetic resin film has a smaller frictional coefficient with respect to the diffuser plate than the placement surface. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086897 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a polymer stabilized alignment (PSA) liquid crystal layer, a first alignment layer, a second alignment layer, and a plurality of pixel structures. The PSA liquid crystal layer is configured between the first and second substrates, and liquid crystal molecules of the PSA liquid crystal layer are substantially arranged in parallel to the first and second substrates. The first alignment layer is configured between the first substrate and the PSA liquid crystal layer and has a first alignment direction. The second alignment layer is configured between the second substrate and the PSA liquid crystal layer. Each pixel structure is configured between the second substrate and the second alignment layer and has a pixel electrode and a first common electrode. The pixel electrode has at least one slit which is overlapped with the first common electrode. | 2012-04-12 |
20120086898 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A substrate of a liquid crystal display device includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction, a third pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first alignment film provided in a first gap between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode to align the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer along the second direction, a second alignment film provided in a second gap between the first pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode to align the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer along the first direction, and a third alignment film provided in the first gap and the second gap while covering the pixel electrodes to align the liquid crystal molecules along a normal of the substrate. | 2012-04-12 |