17th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150109291 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING INDIRECT TEXTURING TO EFFICIENTLY SIMULATE AND IMAGE SURFACE COATINGS AND OTHER EFFECTS - Water surface and other effects are efficiently simulated to provide real time or near real time imaging on low-capacity computer graphics computation platforms. Water and other surfaces are modeled using multiple independent layers can be dynamically adjusted in response to real time events. The number of layers used in a given area can be adjusted to reduce computational loading as needed. Different algorithms can be employed on different layers to give different effects. The multiple layer modeling is preferably converted to polygons using an adaptive polygon mesh generator based on camera location and direction in the 3D world to provide automatic level of detailing and generating a minimal number of polygons. The visual effects of water droplets and other coatings on see-through surfaces can be modeled and provided using indirect texturing. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109292 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ACCELERATION STRUCTURE IN RAY TRACING SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and method for generating an acceleration structure in a ray tracing system. The method of generating an acceleration structure includes splitting, at an acceleration structure generator, a space comprising a three-dimensional (3D) object into a plurality of sub spaces, calculating costs for traversing the plurality of sub spaces based on occlusion information of primitives in the plurality of sub spaces, selecting the plurality of sub spaces that minimize the costs for traversing, and generating an acceleration structure based on setting the selected plurality of sub spaces as nodes. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109293 | SELECTIVELY MERGING PARTIALLY-COVERED TILES TO PERFORM HIERARCHICAL Z-CULLING - This disclosure describes techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling in a graphics processing system. In some examples, the techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling may involve selectively merging partially-covered source tiles for a tile location into a fully-covered merged source tile based on whether conservative farthest z-values for the partially-covered source tiles are nearer than a culling z-value for the tile location, and using a conservative farthest z-value associated with the fully-covered merged source tile to update the culling z-value for the tile location. In further examples, the techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling may use a cache unit that is not associated with an underlying memory to store conservative farthest z-values and coverage masks for merged source tiles. The capacity of the cache unit may be smaller than the size of cache needed to store merged source tile data for all of the tile locations in a render target. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109294 | On-Demand Transformation Aware Shape Tessellation - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for tessellating shapes. A computing device that has a display can receive an instruction to draw a shape. The computing device can determine a scale factor for the shape. The computing device can determine a set of polygons that tessellate the shape based on the scale factor. The set of polygons can include at least two polygons. The computing device can display the polygons in the determined set on the display. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109295 | Systems and Methods for Creating a Three-Dimensional Texture Atlas - Systems and methods for reducing the amount of texture cache memory needed to store a texture atlas by using uniquely grouped refined triangles to create each texture atlas. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109296 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING SUBSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING VOXEL REPRESENTATION OF A SCENE - A graphics processing subsystem and method for updating a voxel representation of a scene. One embodiment of the graphics processing subsystem includes: (1) a memory configured to store a voxel representation of a scene having first and second regions to be updated, and (2) a graphics processing unit (GPU) operable to: (2a) unify the first and second regions into a bounding region if a volume thereof does not exceed summed volumes of the first and second regions by more than a tolerance, and (2b) generate voxels for the bounding region and cause the voxels to be stored in the voxel representation. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109297 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING SUBSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CLIPMAP - A graphics processing subsystem and method for computing a 3D clipmap. One embodiment of the subsystem includes: (1) a renderer operable to render a primitive surface representable by a 3D clipmap, (2) a geometry shader (GS) configured to select respective major-plane viewports for a plurality of clipmap levels, the major-plane viewports being sized to represent full spatial extents of the 3D clipmap relative to a render target (RT) for the plurality of clipmap levels, (3) a rasterizer configured to employ the respective major-plane viewports and the RT to rasterize a projection of the primitive surface onto a major plane corresponding to the respective major-plane viewports into pixels representing fragments of the primitive surface for each of the plurality of clipmap levels, and (4) a plurality of pixel shader (PS) instances configured to transform the fragments into respective voxels in the plurality of clipmap levels, thereby voxelizing the primitive surface. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109298 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING VOLUMETRIC DATA FOR A SCENE - A computing system and method for representing volumetric data for a scene. One embodiment of the computing system includes: (1) a memory configured to store a three-dimensional (3D) clipmap data structure having at least one clip level and at least one mip level, and (2) a processor configured to generate voxelized data for a scene and cause the voxelized data to be stored in the 3D clipmap data structure. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109299 | CONTACT SHADOWS IN VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS - Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a process for creating contact shadows. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure include converting an original image to an initial shadow image, cropping the initial shadow image to obtain at least two slices of the initial shadow image, blurring the slices, overlaying the slices to create a combined shadow image, compressing the combined shadow image to create a contact shadow, and displaying the contact shadow on a virtual surface relative to the original image. Further, a user can change the amount of blurring the contact shadow has, the apparent offset from the surface, the perspective, the opacity, and the color of the contact shadow. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109300 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING REDUCED-RESOLUTION INDIRECT ILLUMINATION USING INTERPOLATED DIRECTIONAL INCOMING RADIANCE - A system for, and method of, computing reduced-resolution indirect illumination using interpolated directional incoming radiance and a graphics processing subsystem incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a cone tracing shader executable in a graphics processing unit to compute directional incoming radiance cones for sparse pixels and project the directional incoming radiance cones on a basis and (2) an interpolation shader executable in the graphics processing unit to compute outgoing radiance values for untraced pixels based on directional incoming radiance values for neighboring ones of the sparse pixels. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109301 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING ACCELERATION STRUCTURE IN RAY TRACING - An apparatus and a method of using an acceleration structure in ray tracing, and a method of ray tracing are provided. The method involves setting a bit stack value of a level of an acceleration structure, moving to a child node among the ray-crossing child nodes and setting a route value of a corresponding level of the acceleration structure, and determining a pop level based on one or more bit stack values. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING RAY TRACING FOR RENDERING IMAGE - Provided are methods and apparatuses of performing ray tracing for rendering an image. The method includes performing, at a ray tracing core, a first intersection test based on a traversal of an acceleration structure using a generated primary ray, generating at least one type of secondary ray based on the first intersection test, classifying the generated secondary rays and storing identification information indicating a starting point and a direction of the secondary rays, and performing a second intersection test and shading using the stored identification information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109303 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPUTATIONAL LIGHTING - A device for creating a digital image is described. The device that may receive two or more input images. The input images may have a common viewpoint with unique lighting configurations. The device may utilize basis light functions and modifiers to create a final composite image. The device may include a computing device configured to provide user a graphical user interface enabling a user to create a final composite image. Devices described herein may be useful for computational light workflows in photography. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109304 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - In the present invention, when a 3D medical image is displayed on a 3D display, the position of accompanying information displayed at the same time is appropriately controlled. The position of the accompanying information in the coordinate system of a 3D signal value that is an item to be drawn is computed, and said position is saved in a storage unit. By integrating a 3D data area and an accompanying information area, a drawing process unit generates an output image to be displayed in a display unit, said 3D data area being drawn for an area specified by mask information that specifies an area to be drawn among an array of the 3D signal value that is the item to be drawn, and being drawn on the basis of information that specifies a drawing method for a 2D image based on the 3D signal value array, and said accompanying information area being drawn for the accompanying information, which is associated with the item to be drawn, and being drawn on the basis of position information for the accompanying information determined by a drawing control unit. The display unit displays the drawn output image. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109305 | CHART LAYOUT WHICH HIGHLIGHTS EVENT OCCURRENCE PATTERNS - A method of charting event occurrence counts includes processing event occurrence data recorded during operation of an industrial process to generate a chart having chart entries representing occurrence counts and chart positioning information. The chart positioning information includes an x-axis with a first time interval between x-positions and a y-axis with a second time interval between y-positions. Respective ones of the chart entries are positioned at intersections between the x-positions and y-positions by placing an element at the intersections having first feature attribute which indicates a relative magnitude of its event count. Time division count sums are computed to indicate a relative magnitude of a count sum across the x-positions and y-positions. The time division count sums are represented with a second feature attribute. The time division count sums are positioned for the x-positions adjacent to the second ending time and for the y-positions adjacent to the first ending time. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109306 | AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION OF DIAGNOSTIC FAULT MODEL FROM NETWORK DIAGRAM - A method of automatically generating a fault model from a network diagram comprising parsing a network diagram to identify schematic components and schematic interfaces, mapping each schematic component to a respective standard component, and mapping each schematic interface to a respective standard interface, generating component failure information for each schematic component based on the respective standard component, wherein component failure information includes standard failure modes of the respective standard component, generating interface failure information for each schematic interface based on the respective standard interface, wherein interface failure information includes standard failure modes of the respective standard interface, and constructing a fault model specific to the network diagram based on component failure information and interface failure information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PRESENT POINTS OF INTEREST IN LONGITUDINAL DATA - An example method for displaying longitudinal data includes receiving longitudinal data comprising a plurality of measurements of a variable occurring over a period of time and identifying a first point of interest and a second point of interest in the longitudinal data. The example method includes displaying, in a graph, the first point of interest and the second point of interest in a first time scale. The example method also includes displaying, in the graph, a portion of the longitudinal data occurring between the first point of interest and the second point of interest in a second time scale, which is different than the first time scale. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109308 | Photoelectric Sensor - Provided is a photoelectric sensor capable of enhancing display flexibility of a display section mounted on the photoelectric sensor and making this display flexibility contribute to improvement in user's operability. In a Run mode, a current value is displayed in large-sized numerals on a display section. When switching is made from the Run mode to a setting mode and letter information is to be displayed in the setting mode, a current value is displayed in relatively small-sized numerals at the corner (e.g., lower left) of the display section. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109309 | UNIFIED POSITION BASED SOLVER FOR VISUAL EFFECTS - A method for simulating visual effects is disclosed. The method comprises modeling each visual effect within a simulation as a set of associated particles with associated constraints applicable thereto. It also comprises predicting first velocities and first positions of a plurality of particles being used to simulate a visual effect based on an external force applied to the plurality of particles. Next, it comprises identifying a set of neighboring particles for each of the plurality of particles. The method also comprises solving a plurality of constraints related to the visual effect, wherein each of the plurality of constraints is solved for the plurality of particles in parallel. Lastly, responsive to the solving, the method comprises determining second velocities and second positions for the plurality of particles. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109310 | GPU BASED PARALLEL IMAGE PROCESSING AT THIN CLIENT - Disclosed herein is a computing device that includes: a processor; a graphic processing unit having N graphic processing cores, N being an integer greater than 1; a random access memory (RAM); a video port; a non-volatile memory, and a display processing unit. The non-volatile memory stores a virtual desktop client (VDC). The VDC can communicate with a first virtual machine (VM) of a hypervisor running on a remote computing device and receive an encoded image frame from the first VM; instruct the plurality of graphic processing cores to decode the encoded image frame in parallel; and generate a decoded image frame of the encoded image frame. The display processing unit can generate display signals representing the decoded image frame and transmit the display signals to the video port. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109311 | Display System, Display Device, And Display Method - The correlation between a device on the sending side and a device on the receiving side can be controlled with a high degree of freedom when sending and receiving data between multiple devices. A POS system | 2015-04-23 |
20150109312 | Graphics and Monitor Controller Assemblies in Display Systems - A multi-monitor display system is described having an arm adapted for supporting a plurality of monitors containing display screens. The system also includes a column for supporting the arm, a monitor controller assembly for electronically controlling images displayed on the screens, and a graphics assembly for sending signals to the monitor controller assembly to produce the images. The system is used in conjunction with a central processor located in a computer housing. The monitor controller assembly is disposed outside of the monitors and/or the graphics assembly is disposed outside the computer housing. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109313 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING GRAPHICS - Operating a graphics processing pipeline that includes processing stages including a rasteriser that rasterises input primitives to generate graphics fragments to be processed, each graphics fragment having one or more sampling points associated with it, and a renderer that processes fragments generated by the rasteriser to generate output fragment data for output to a render output, comprising the following steps: (i) determining first information to test whether at least a part of a primitive should be processed further; (ii) using at least some of the first information to decide whether to process at least a part of the primitive further; and if it is decided that at least a part of the primitive is to be processed further: (iii) determining further information to be used in further processing of the primitive; and (iv) further processing at least a part of the primitive using the determined further information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109314 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a method and apparatus for managing memory in a system for generating 3-dimensional computer images. The image is subdivided into a plurality of rectangular areas. A memory is provided and a page of the memory is allocated for storing object data for objects in the image. Object data for objects in the image are then written to the allocated page of memory. Finally, a bit mask for the allocated page of memory is compiled, the bit mask indicating the rectangular areas having object data stored in the allocated page of memory. A rectangular area of the image can then be rendered by deriving data for display from the object data stored in the memory, for objects in that rectangular area. Once the rectangular area has been rendered, the bit mask for each page of memory which stored, before the step of rendering, object data for that rectangular area, is updated so that the bit mask no longer indicates that rectangular area. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109315 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MAPPING TILES TO PHYSICAL MEMORY LOCATIONS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for mapping tiles to physical memory locations. In use, a plurality of virtual tiles associated with a texture is identified. Additionally, a request to perform a mapping of the plurality of virtual tiles to one or more physical memory locations is received. Further, the plurality of virtual tiles is mapped to the one or more physical memory locations, utilizing a page table. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109316 | System and Method for Making a Map - A system and method for making a map is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the method for making a map can comprise the steps storing in a map file within a data store a first set of shapes that together define a geographic region, and storing in the data store data related to a landmark at least partially within the geographic region. The shapes each comprising a unique track code. Additionally, the method further comprising the steps associating the landmark with each of the shape files comprising a relationship to the landmark and displaying on a map of the geographic region, visual representations of the attributes. The display viewable on a computer screen. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109317 | Display Processing Terminal Device, Photosensor-Equipped Unit, And Photometric System - In a photometric system, a photosensor-equipped unit includes a transmission information holding portion that holds transmission information relating to a screen display direction of a display portion with a content suitable for a photosensor. When the photosensor-equipped unit is connected to a display processing terminal device, the photosensor-equipped unit can transmit the transmission information to the display processing terminal device. The display processing terminal device includes a screen display control portion that executes a display direction setting process during connection for setting a screen display direction of the display portion based upon the transmission information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109318 | INSPECTION RECORD APPARATUS AND INSPECTION RECORD METHOD - An inspection record apparatus includes: a display unit; a memory unit configured to store inspection record data including image information concerning a subject and information concerning a damaged state of the subject, and information indicating whether the information concerning the damaged state is in a confirmed status or not; a display control unit configured to read the inspection record data to develop the information concerning the damaged state on an image corresponding to the image information, and display the resultant image onto the display unit; a detection unit configured to detect an operation for the information concerning the damaged state; a storage unit configured to store the information indicating that the information concerning the damaged state is in the confirmed status into the memory unit; and a changing unit configured to change a display manner of the information concerning the damaged state. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109319 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR CONVERSION METHOD - The display device includes an image display unit including pixels each including first to third sub-pixels and a fourth sub-pixel for displaying an additional color component according to an amount of lighting of a self-emitting element; a conversion processing unit that performs, for all of pixels, an image analysis on first color information for display at a predetermined pixel, and if a predicted value of power consumption as a total amount of lighting of self-emitting elements is above a limit, outputs a second input signal through a color conversion process on a first input signal including the first color information at a color conversion rate associated with the predicted value; and a fourth sub-pixel signal processing unit that outputs, to the image display unit, a third input signal including third color information with converted red, green, blue, and additional color components. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109320 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR CONVERSION METHOD - A display device includes an image display unit and a conversion processing unit that receives a first input signal including first color information which is obtained based on an input video signal and which is for displaying at a predetermined pixel, and outputs a second input signal including second color information in which a hue of the first color information is varied by an amount of hue variation within a range defined such that hue variation falls within a predetermined range. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109321 | Tone Mapping - A tone mapping unit applies tone mapping to a block of pixel values. In each of a plurality of iterations, one or more lines of pixel values are processed based on information relating to pixel values of at least one previous line of the block which have been processed in at least one previous iteration. The information is used to determine one or more tone mapping relationships which is/are used to map the pixel values of the current line to tone-mapped pixel values. Furthermore, the information is updated based on the pixel values of the current line and stored for use in processing pixel values of a subsequent line of pixel values of the block in a subsequent iteration. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109322 | Augmented Reality Design System - An augmented reality design system is disclosed. The augmented reality design system allows a user to create a design for an article in real time using a proxy. The system can be configured using a head mounted display for displaying at least one virtual design element over a proxy located in a real-world environment. The system can also be configured using a projector that projects at least one virtual design element onto a proxy located in the real world. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109323 | INTERACTIVE BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE EDITING - A method for generating and/or modifying a grayscale image. The method receives a color image. The method generates an initial grayscale image based on attributes of the color image. The method generates a set of hue values for all the pixels in the grayscale image based on color values of the pixels in the color image. The method defines a hue curve across the range of hue values based on input received from a user interface control. The method modifies the grayscale image based on the hue values and the defined hue curve across the range of hue values. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109324 | METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR CONVERTING IMAGES TO GRAYSCALE - A method and apparatus for generating a grayscale image. The method and apparatus receive a single value. From the single value, the method and apparatus generate a set of grayscale weighting values. The method and apparatus generate the grayscale based on a color image and the set of grayscale weighting values. By limiting the number of values to a single value, the method and apparatus prevents a user from arbitrarily selecting a number of possible weighting values which could result in a grayscale image that is too dim or too bright. This single control method and apparatus quickly and efficiently produces a grayscale image that is neither too bright nor too dim. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109325 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND COLOR CONVERSION METHOD - The display device includes an image display unit including a plurality of pixels each including first to third sub-pixels and a fourth sub-pixel for displaying an additional color component according to an amount of lighting of a self-emitting element; a conversion processing unit that receives a first input signal including first color information for display at a predetermined pixel, where the first input signal is obtained based on an input video signal, the conversion processing unit being configured to outputs a second input signal including second color information with a saturation reduced by an amount of saturation attenuation defined such that saturation variation falls within a predetermined range according to the first color information; and a fourth sub-pixel signal processing unit that outputs, to the image display unit, a third input signal including third color information with red, green, blue components and the additional color component that are converted based on the second color information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109326 | TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING AN ADJUSTMENT FOR A VISUAL OUTPUT - Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for receiving image information for a current frame, determining an amount of change between the current frame and a previous based on the image information for the current frame and image information for a previous frame and determining an adjustment of a frame time based on the amount of change between the current frame and the previous frame. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109327 | RENDERING A MODELED SCENE - Techniques for rendering a modeled scene are disclosed. In some embodiments, a database comprising locally available generic object definitions is maintained at a destination device at which a scene is desired to be rendered. A scene is rendered by configuring one or more locally available generic object definitions obtained from the database according to a received specification of a modeled scene, wherein rendering is constrained to rendering locally available objects whose definitions are included in the database. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109328 | TECHNIQUES FOR NAVIGATION AMONG MULTIPLE IMAGES - Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to providing a user with an image navigation experience. In order to do so, a reference image may be identified. A set of potential target images for the reference image may also be identified. An area of the reference image is identified. For each particular image of the set of potential target images an associated cost for the identified area is determined based at least in part on a cost function for transitioning between the reference image and the particular target image. A target image is selected for association with the identified area based on the determined associated cost functions. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109329 | AUGMENTING A PHYSICAL DEVICE WITH VIRTUAL INFORMATION - In a computer-implemented method for augmenting at least one physical device with virtual information indicia corresponding to the at least on physical device supporting a virtualization infrastructure is observed. Based on the observed indicia, virtual information of said virtualization infrastructure correlating to the at least one physical device is displayed. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109330 | DISPLAY CONTROLLER WITH BLENDING STAGE - A display controller comprising a blending stage and a blending controller. The blending stage is provided for blending multiple image layers into one display output image and comprises a plurality of input channels for receiving pixel data for the multiple image layers. The blending stage further comprises multiple blenders for combining the pixel data received by at least two input channels of the plurality of input channels. The blending controller is coupled to the blending stage for controlling operation of the blending stage. The blending stage further comprises a controllable switch for coupling an output of at least one blender of the multiple blenders to a display output of the blending stage for regular on-the-fly blending or to an offline blending memory for storing a result of an offline blending task. The blending controller comprises an input for receiving layer data describing locations and/or properties of the multiple image layers and a predictor for, based on the layer data, predicting an availability of the at least one blender. The blending controller is further operative to control the blending stage to perform the offline blending task in dependence of the predicted availability | 2015-04-23 |
20150109331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPERIMPOSING AN OPTICAL READABLE DATA MATRIX CODE ON AN IMAGE - According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, a process for superimposing a matrix code on an image can include: (a) superimposing a frame on the image; (b) superimposing the matrix code on the image within the frame and providing a superimposition image; (c) moving the frame on the superimposition image in accordance with the command; and (d) repeating operations (a), (b) and (c) as required. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109332 | REAL-TIME VISUALIZATIONS OF COMPONENTS IN A MODULAR INSTRUMENTATION CENTER - A computer-implemented method for monitoring functions in an instrumentation center, the method comprising: accessing, by a monitoring system that monitors functional operation of the instrumentation center, layout information indicative of a layout of the instrumentation center, the layout information specifies a number of levels in the instrumentation center and types of components in each of the levels; detecting, by the monitoring system, a location of a portable display device that is connected over a network to the monitor system; and generating, from location data that specifies the location of the portable display device, information for a graphical user interface that when rendered on the portable display device renders a visualization of that portion of the instrumentation center in which the portable display device is currently located. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109333 | PROJECTING DEVICE AND PROJECTION IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides a projecting device including a movement detecting unit, an image processing unit, and a projection module. The movement detecting unit is configured to detect displacement information of the projecting device. The image processing unit is configured to receive an image data frame, adjust a position of the image data frame related to a virtual image frame according to the displacement information, and generate a projection frame according to the intersection between the image data frame and the virtual image frame. The projection module is configured to project the projection frame on a projection plane. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109334 | AUGMENTED REALITY AIDED NAVIGATION - In a computer-implemented method for augmented reality aided navigation to at least one physical device indicia corresponding to the at least one physical device supporting virtualization infrastructure is observed. Based on the observed indicia, navigational cues correlating to a location of the at least one physical device is generated. Navigational cues are displayed such that augmented reality aided navigation is provided to the at least one physical device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109335 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of a real space captured by an imaging device; a feature detecting unit that detects a feature from the image; a determining unit that determines a virtual object, or, a virtual object and an aspect of the virtual object while changing the same in accordance with a recognition condition of the detected feature; an image generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the determined virtual object or the virtual object in the determined aspect is placed on a basis of the feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on a display device such that the image of the virtual space is visually recognized by a user while being superimposed on the real space. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109336 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example information processing system includes: a computer; an imaging device; a display device; and a first and a second feature placed in a real space. The computer includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of the real space; a feature detecting unit that detects the first feature and the second feature from the image; a changing unit that changes an association of the first feature with a virtual objects by adding a virtual object associated with the second feature, and an generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space in which the virtual object associated with the first feature is placed at a position based on the first feature; and a display controlling unit that displays an image on the display device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109337 | FEEDBACK TO USER FOR INDICATING AUGMENTABILITY OF AN IMAGE - Methods and systems for determining augmentability information associated with an image frame captured by a digital imaging part of a user device. The determined augmentability score may then be used in the generation of feedback to the user. For example, a graphical user interface may be generated and rendered having a substantially continuous visual output corresponding to the augmentability information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109338 | WIDE AREA AUGMENTED REALITY LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - Apparatus, methods and systems of providing AR content are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter can obtain an initial map of an area, derive views of interest, obtain AR content objects associated with the views of interest, establish experience clusters and generate a tile map tessellated based on the experience clusters. A user device could be configured to obtain and instantiate at least some of the AR content objects based on at least one of a location and a recognition. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109339 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING AUGMENTED REALITY - A method and an apparatus for implementing augmented reality are provided, where the method includes: acquiring real image information by using a camera; acquiring one or more target objects selected by a user from the real image information; with respect to each target object, acquiring an identification image that is used to identify the target object and categorization information of the target object separately; acquiring an image template corresponding to the categorization information, and performing image matching of the image template with the identification image to identify each target object; and acquiring augmented information corresponding to each identified target object, and simultaneously displaying the identification image of the target object and the augmented information to form the augmented reality. The present invention reduces limitation on using the augmented reality, so that it is more convenient for the user to use the augmented reality. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109340 | METHOD FOR DEPICTING SAFETY-CRITICAL DATA VIA A DISPLAY UNIT, DISPLAY UNIT - A method for depicting data on the display of a modular display unit is provided. The data to be depicted comprises safety-critical data portions and non-safety-critical data portions data stream and depicted on the display via a graphical to the invention, a safety component of the display unit generates the safety-critical data portions based on safety-critical signals which are supplied to the display unit, while a background component of the display unit generates the non-safety-critical data portions in the form of a background screen. The safety-critical data portions are put on the display over said background screen in that a multiplexer converts the graphical data stream for display between the safety component and the background component, wherein, the specific regions, graphical content of the background screen changes and safety-critical graphical content is introduced and depicted on the display. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109341 | IMAGE STRIP DISPLAY - A well log is obtained that includes log data gathered along a trajectory of a wellbore. An orientation parameter defining a perspective for displaying the log data along the trajectory is also obtained. Following a path of the trajectory, an image strip is rendered from the log data based on the orientation parameter, where the image strip is a pictorial representation of the log data. The image strip is displayed along the trajectory. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109342 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A system includes a content obtaining circuit configured to obtain a plurality of content and information related to the content from at least one of a plurality of sources, an importance obtaining circuit configured to obtain an importance level for each content, and a display control circuit configured to generate data to control a display of an image corresponding to each of the plurality of content. The importance level is based on the information related to the content. The display control circuit determines a size of each image on a display screen based on the importance level for each content. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109343 | ZOOM PROCESSING DEVICE, ZOOM PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a new framework to perform zoom processing of a screen displayed on a display by unit of a simple operation. A zoom processing device of this invention, includes: calculates a movement amount of a pointer which is selecting an object on the screen; and performs enlarged display of the screen including the object at a first magnification when, as a result of the calculation, the movement amount of the pointer is equal to or less than a threshold value, and performs reduced display of the screen including the object at a second magnification when, as a result of the calculation, the movement amount of the pointer is greater than a threshold value. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109344 | NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions executable by a mobile terminal. The instructions cause the mobile terminal to: change a first image to a first size and change a second image to a maximum size in which the second image is displayable on a display area which remains after the first image of the first size is arranged, when priority mode information indicates a first-image priority mode; and change the first image to a second size less than the first size and change the second image to a maximum size in which the second image is displayable on a display area which remains after the first image of the second size is arranged, when the priority mode information indicates a second-image priority mode. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109345 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GRID OUTPUT IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for controlling a grid output in a mobile device are disclosed. The method includes changing contents displayed in at least one grid arranged in the at least one row moved to under the last of a plurality of rows displayed on the display or to above the first of the plurality of rows displayed on the display by a contents converter, and displaying the moved at least one row and the changed contents in the at least one grid arranged in the moved row on the display by a screen output unit. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109346 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, TELEVISION RECEIVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A backlight control circuit ( | 2015-04-23 |
20150109347 | CHARGE-SHARING CONTROLLING METHOD AND DISPLAY PANEL - A charge-sharing controlling method and a display panel are disclosed. The charge-sharing controlling method is suitable for the display panel including plural sub-pixels. The charge-sharing controlling method includes following steps: determining whether the display panel is displaying a primary color screen; if the display panel is displaying a primary color screen, prolonging an activated time of a charge-sharing circuit, which is coupled between any two of the sub-pixels displaying the same color, adjacent to each other and having opposite polarities. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109348 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DRIVER - The display device includes display drivers including first and second ones operable to output, based on display data, gradation signals to source lines of display panel regions. The display device is arranged to be able to suppress the variation in output voltage between display drivers while minimizing the increases in chip area of the display drivers and in wiring area of a display panel and keeping high noise resistance. Each display driver can generate gray scale reference voltages for producing gradation signals corresponding to display data. The first display driver can sequentially transmit gray scale reference voltages generated by itself to the second display driver. Based on the transmitted gray scale reference voltages, the second display driver makes the first display driver execute calibration for decreasing the absolute value of difference between gray scale reference voltages generated by the first and second display drivers, or executes the calibration by itself. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109349 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: an image display unit that includes an image display region; a plurality of light sources that are arranged corresponding to a plurality of partial regions included in the image display region and irradiate the partial regions with light; a light amount correction processing unit that detects that the partial regions are non-display regions in which no image is displayed, and corrects a light amount of the light sources based on a predetermined threshold when the partial regions adjacent to each other are continuous non-display regions; and a light source control unit that controls the light amount of the light sources. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109350 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: an image display unit that includes a plurality of main pixels in an image display region, the image display unit including sub-pixels; a light source that irradiates the image display region; a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source; and a color information correction processing unit that corrects first color information that is obtained based on the luminance of the light source and an input video signal to second color information, when color information of at least one of a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel included in the first color information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the second information is corrected by degenerating color information of the red pixel, the green pixel, and the blue pixel, and by adding color information of the white pixel included in the first color information based on the degenerated color information. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109351 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; and a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source, the light guide plate illuminating the image display panel from a back side, the edge-lit light source including a plurality of light sources arranged facing a plane of incidence; and a controller that controls luminance of each of the light sources independently. The controller stores therein, as lookup tables for the respective light sources, information on light intensity distributions of light that is incident on the light guide plate from the respective light sources and is emitted to a plane of the image display panel from the light guide plate, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources based on information on an input signal of an image, and on the lookup tables. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109352 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source that has light sources; and a controller. The controller sets luminance determination blocks by virtually dividing the image display panel in a light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block with a highest luminance in the incidence direction, among luminance determination blocks at a same position in the light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block the luminance of which is to be corrected by referring to luminance information of the light sources, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources in such a manner that luminance of the identified luminance determination block is achieved. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109353 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND BIDIRECTIONAL SHIFT REGISTER DEVICE THEREOF - A liquid crystal display and its bidirectional shift register device including N stages of shift registers are provided. An i | 2015-04-23 |
20150109354 | DATA DRIVER - A data driver is disclosed. The data driver includes a first latch unit including a plurality of first latches configured to store data, a selector configured to select and/or output data in two or more first latches, a level shifter unit configured to convert a voltage level of the data in the two or more selected first latches and output the voltage level-converted data, and a second latch unit including a plurality of second latches configured to store the voltage level-converted data. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109355 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL VECTOR SCREENING FOR COLOR DISPLAY DEVICES - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying high bit-depth images using spatial vector screening and/or temporal dithering on display devices including display elements that have multiple primary colors. The systems, methods and apparatus described herein can be configured to select a method of rendering high bit-depth images and/or videos on low bit-depth devices based on the operating speed of the display device. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109356 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE - An image processing device comprising: a conversion unit to receive a first input signal including first color information, a first color being reproduced at pixels on the basis of the first color information, the first input signal including first color information obtained from an input image signal corresponding to a red component, a green component and a blue component, to specify saturation of the first color, and configured to obtain luminance attenuation ratio on the basis of a relationship previously stored between saturation and luminance attenuation ratio, and the saturation of the first color, and to output a second input signal including second color information whose luminance is decreased from the first color information on the basis of the luminance attenuation ratio corresponding to the first color information; and a signal processing unit configured to output an output signal for driving the pixels on the basis of the second input signal. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109357 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a divided display region that includes pixels and gate drivers each configured to scan gate lines included in the divided display region. The display device also includes source drivers each configured to output, for each of groups of data lines, a video signal based on a grayscale signal in order from a corresponding gate driver side based on each delay amount set in advance and a register unit configured to store the each delay amount. The register unit stores the each delay amount so that, when at least one gate driver scans in a first order from an edge of the divided display region toward a center, the video signal corresponding to the pixels positioned on a centermost side of the display region is output to the pixels, in a period including a part of a vertical flyback period of after one frame period has finished. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109358 | ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to electronic reading devices, a display driver, a method of driving a display and a method of reducing degradation of a pixel value in a display driven to display a target image. A target image is received, and a pixel influence value for each of the pixels in the target image is determined. A compensation image is generated using the pixel influence value for each of the pixels in the target image, where the compensation image comprising pixel compensation value data for a plurality of pixels in the compensation image, and where the pixel compensation value data representing a colour for a pixel in the compensation image. A display compensation drive signal is then generated using the compensation image and the display driven using the display compensation drive signal to display the compensation image to reduce the degradation in a pixel value. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109359 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: an image display unit in an image display region, the image display unit including a plurality of main pixels each including sub-pixels; a light source portion that irradiates the image display region; a signal correction unit that calculates saturation and value of the main pixels based on first color information to be displayed on a predetermined pixel, the first color information being obtained based on an input video signal, and generates second color information by correcting the first color information based on the calculated saturation and value; a signal generation unit that calculates the saturation and the value of the main pixels based on the second color information, and generates a signal for determining light source luminance of the light source based on the calculated saturation and value; and a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source based on the signal. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109360 | COLOR CONVERSION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COLOR CONVERSION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A color conversion processing apparatus calculates a hue angle of a spot color based on spot color information that defines the spot color, and then determines a spot color converting condition depending on the hue angle. The color conversion processing apparatus converts an original image signal of a spot color plate into an auxiliary-component image signal representing a color component of a process color plate according to the determined spot color converting condition. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109361 | APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions to cause the apparatus to perform determining a scanning number of times. The scanning number of times is a number of times that a carriage of a printer is to be moved to increase a maximum density of a first ink to be higher than a unit density. The instructions also cause the apparatus to perform generating print data to cause ejection of the first and a second ink by multi-pass scans in a final printing unit. The final printing unit is continuous scans corresponding to a number of passes including a last scan, among the scans to be performed the scanning number of times. The second ink is an ink whose density is equal to or less than the unit density, among the different inks. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109362 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A printer capable of preventing clogging the printhead nozzles due to paper dust produced from sprocket holes in continuous paper, and preventing the printhead from ejecting ink droplets except on the continuous paper, has a printhead that ejects ink droplets toward continuous paper having sprocket holes formed along both sides of the paper width; a cover member that covers the edge part of the width of the continuous paper where sprocket holes are formed in the range of the printhead in the conveyance direction of the continuous paper, and can move in the paper width direction; and a detection mechanism that detects the position of the cover member in the paper width direction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109363 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIGHT SOURCE MODULE - A printer includes a light source module including an ejecting head that ejects a UV ink onto a medium. The UV ink hardens when irradiated with a UV light ray. The light source module includes an irradiator that irradiates the UV ink with the UV light ray. The printer may include a guide shaft to/from which the light module is attachable/detachable and a driving controller that performs control of the irradiator. The light source module includes, in addition to the irradiator, a memory module that stores therein information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator. The driving controller performs control of the irradiator by using the information indicating a light irradiation feature of the irradiator. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109364 | Printer Head With Airflow Management System - A printing system includes a printer head with an airflow management system. The airflow management system includes an air splitter on the leading edge of the printer head and side members that extend the length of the printer head. The air splitter and members are positioned so that a gap is formed between the printer head and the air splitter and members. A vacuum fan positioned within a duct on top of the printer head can draw air through the gap at the leading edge of the printer head and return the air on the trailing side of the printer head. The airflow management system can permit increased printing distances. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109365 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE-RECORDING METHOD - Provided is an ink containing a self-dispersible pigment, an acrylic resin particle, a surfactant, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. The surfactant includes a fluorinated surfactant represented by Formula (1) and having an HLB value determined by a Griffin method of 11 or less. The water-soluble organic solvent includes at least one water-soluble organic solvent selected from a specific group, and the total content of the water-soluble organic solvents of the specific group is 4 times or more the total content of the water-soluble organic solvents other than the solvents of the specific group. The total content of the self-dispersible pigment and the acrylic resin particle is 10% by mass or less based on the total mass of the ink. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109366 | CONTROL METHOD FOR AN INKJET PRINTER, AND AN INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer can desirably clean two inkjet heads mounted on a head carriage before printing starts. The inkjet printer | 2015-04-23 |
20150109367 | PRINT HEAD PRIMING SYSTEMS - A print head priming system comprises a vent closure section to close a vent, where the vent is to compensate backpressure in a print head. An inlet to receive pressurized gas from a source of pressurised gas is to provide the pressurized gas to the print head. A pressure relief valve is to open in response to pressure in the print head reaching or exceeding a predetermined value by the provision of gas to the print head by the source of pressurised gas. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109368 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head including a recording element substrate provided with a substrate and a flow-path-forming member forming a flow path in a principal surface of the substrate, a support member supporting the recording element substrate and an underfill material covering at least a joint portion at which the substrate and the support member are joined to each other, wherein the flow-path-forming member is formed in such a manner that an end portion thereof projects from at least one side surface of the substrate, the underfill material covers an external surface of the joint portion and covers the at least one side surface of the substrate in such a manner that the underfill material reaches the projecting end portion of the flow-path-forming member. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109369 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - A liquid discharge head includes a substrate on the surface of which a liquid supply port opens, and a sealing material that is in contact with a side surface of the substrate and that seals the side surface of the substrate. On the surface of the substrate, an opening of the liquid supply port extends in a longitudinal direction. In a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the sealing material has a narrow region and a wide region. When the width of the narrow region is denoted as W1, and the width of the wide region is denoted as W2, W12015-04-23 | |
20150109370 | PRINTHEAD SUBSTRATE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a printhead substrate, including forming a metal pattern, including a portion forming a pair of electrodes, on an insulating member, forming a conductive film which covers the insulating member and the metal pattern, including a first portion forming a temperature detection element and a second portion except for the first portion, etching the second portion so as to form the pair of electrodes, and etching the first portion so as to form the temperature detection element which is connected to the pair of electrodes, wherein an etching amount in the etching the second portion is larger than a thickness of the conductive film, and an etching amount in the etching the first portion is smaller than the etching amount in the etching the second portion. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109371 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - In a liquid ejection head for ejecting liquid by using thermal energy, reduction of film thickness caused by elution of a protective layer when kogation on the protective layer is removed is uniformized and decrease in liquid ejection performance is suppressed. More specifically, a counter electrode is provided around a portion on which an ejection port of a flow path forming member is formed. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109372 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, PIEZOELECTRIC SENSOR, HARD DISK DRIVE, AND INK-JET PRINTER DEVICE - The displacement as an actuator or the sensitivity as a sensor of a piezoelectric element can be increased and, in addition, the electric power consumption can be reduced by providing a thin film of potassium-sodium niobate, which is a perovskite type compound represented by a general formula ABO | 2015-04-23 |
20150109373 | LIQUID JET HEAD AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - A liquid jet head includes a first piezoelectric body substrate and an opaque substrate. The first piezoelectric body substrate includes n pieces of ejection grooves arrayed with an identical pitch in a reference direction on a surface, and (n+1) pieces of non-ejection grooves arrayed alternately with the ejection grooves while shifted therefrom by a half pitch. The opaque substrate is bonded to the surface of the first piezoelectric body substrate and includes (j+n+k) pieces of through holes passing through the plate in the board thickness direction and arrayed in the reference direction. Each of n pieces of through holes communicates with each of the n pieces of the ejection grooves, while j and k pieces of through holes do not communicate with the ejection grooves. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109374 | LIQUID JET HEAD, LIQUID JET APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID JET HEAD - A liquid jet head includes: a piezoelectric substrate which includes ejection grooves formed in an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and arranged in a reference direction, and a side flow path formed in a first side surface of the piezoelectric substrate and communicating with the plurality of ejection grooves; cover plate bonded to the upper surface; and a nozzle plate bonded to the first side surface and including nozzles communicating with the ejection grooves. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109375 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes a plurality of pressure generators each including a first electrode individually provided therefor, the first electrode being located on a face of the flow path plate so as to correspond to one of the pressure chambers, a piezoelectric layer provided on the first electrode, and a second electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer; a lead electrode electrically connected to the first electrode; and a conductive layer provided in a section where the first electrode is partially exposed, the section being located in a region where the second electrode is not provided and the piezoelectric layer is exposed, at least a part of the conductive layer being in contact with the first electrode. The lead electrode is connected to the first electrode via the conductive layer. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109376 | ADAPTOR - An adaptor includes an adaptor main body capable of being mounted with respect to a liquid accommodation body mounting portion of a printer to which an ink cartridge configured to accommodate ink is mounted in an attachable or detachable manner; a memory cell MC that is updated by a control portion of the printer, and maintains information about whether or not the printing operation is possible in the printer; an electrical terminal that is used in communication between the memory cell and the printer; and an operation button that outputs an update signal that updates information about whether or not the printing operation is possible to information permitting the printing operation of the printer with respect to the memory cell, when the information about whether or not the printing operation is possible maintained in the memory cell does not permit the printing operation of the printer. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109377 | INK FILLING APPARATUS AND INK FILLING METHOD - The present invention enables a suitable ink filling state of an ink tank to be achieved by setting ink filling conditions taking prevention of ink leakage during unsealing of an ink supply port into account. An ink tank includes a first storage chamber formed in the ink tank to store an ink absorber, and a second storage chamber also formed in the ink tank to substantially form a closed space except for a communication section communicating with the first storage chamber. After the pressure in the ink tank is reduced to a target pressure through an atmospheric communicating port, the ink tank is internally filled, through an ink supply port, with a target filling amount of ink associated with the target pressure. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109378 | LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - A liquid storage container includes a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid, a liquid injection section connected to the liquid storage section and configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section, a liquid injection port defined as an intersection at which the liquid injection section and the liquid storage section intersect each other, an air chamber communicated with air, an air introduction section communicated to the air chamber and configured to introduce the air to the air chamber, a communicating passage through which the liquid storage section and the air chamber are communicated to each other, and a collection section configured to collect the liquid and provided in a route of the communicating passage, the route being configured to send the air from the air chamber toward the liquid storage section and being a portion through which the air goes downward from above of the route in a posture where the liquid injection port is oriented upward in a direction intersecting with a horizontal direction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109379 | LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - A liquid storage container includes a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid, a liquid injection section configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section, a liquid injection port defined as an intersection at which the liquid injection section and the liquid storage section intersect each other, an air chamber communicated with air, an air introduction path communicated to the air chamber and configured to introduce the air to the air chamber, a communicating passage through which the liquid storage section and the air chamber are communicated to each other, a first connecting port, which is a connecting port between the air introduction path and the air chamber, being located below a position that is lowered by a first distance from an upper end of the air chamber and located above a position that is raised by a second distance from a lower end of the air chamber in a posture where a liquid injection port is oriented upward in the intersecting direction, and a second connecting port, which is a connecting port between the communicating passage and the air chamber, in the intersecting direction in the posture, where the first distance is defined as a length of the first connecting port in an intersecting direction intersecting with a horizontal direction in the posture and the second distance is defined as a length of the second connecting port in the intersecting direction in the posture. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109380 | Vacuum piston device - A vacuum piston device used in ink supply system, includes: a cylindrical piston body; a conic bulge set at a central area of a frontal end face of the cylindrical piston body; and a piston lid mounted at a rear end face of the cylindrical piston body; at least one exhaust pore is set on the frontal end face around the conic bulge and all the way goes through to the rear end face; an annular groove is formed on the rear end face in such a manner that inner and outer walls of the annular groove project out from the rear end face; the piston lid is for covering the annular groove, and eventually for sealing the whole piston. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109381 | Ink supply valve device - An ink supply valve device used in ink supply system, includes: a valve lid and a valve sleeve embedded into the valve lid; wherein the valve lid is provided with an elastic coupling, so that when it is pushed forward, there is a space formed between the valve lid and the valve sleeve; two sloping sealing faces are provided respectively around the top of the valve sleeve and on the inner wall of the top of the valve lid, which can cooperate with each other to seal the space formed between them. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109382 | INK FOR INKJET RECORDING, INK CONTAINER, INKJET RECORDER AND RECORDED MATTER - An ink for inkjet recording includes water; a hydrosoluble organic solvent; a pigment; and a polymer including a first structural unit represented by the following formula (1): | 2015-04-23 |
20150109383 | LIQUID HOUSING CONTAINER RECYCLING METHOD, AND LIQUID HOUSING CONTAINER - The liquid housing container recycling method includes removing a second case member from a first case member, taking out a liquid housing body from inside of the first case member, forming on the liquid housing body an opening part that communicates with inside of a liquid housing unit, injecting into the inside of the liquid housing unit from the opening part that is formed liquid of a volume that is smaller than an initially housed volume when the liquid is initially injected and housed in the liquid housing unit of the liquid housing body in a state of being housed inside the case member, sealing the opening part of the liquid housing body, housing inside the first case member the liquid housing body for which the opening part is sealed, and attaching the second case member to the first case member. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109384 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE-RECORDING METHOD - Provided is an ink containing a self-dispersible pigment, a polyurethane polymer particle, a surfactant, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. The surfactant includes a fluorinated surfactant represented by Formula (1) and having an HLB value determined by a Griffin method of 11 or less. The water-soluble organic solvent includes at least one water-soluble organic solvent selected from a specific group, and the total content of the water-soluble organic solvents of the specific group is higher than the total content of the water-soluble organic solvents other than the solvents of the specific group. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109385 | LIQUID STORING CONTAINER - A liquid storing container includes a case, a flexible member, a pressure receiving member, a first urging member, and a second urging member. The case constitutes a part of an inner wall of a liquid containing section configured to store liquid. The flexible member constitutes at least a part of a remaining inner wall of the liquid containing section. The pressure receiving member is arranged between the case and the flexible member. The first urging member is provided between the pressure receiving member and the case, and one end is connected to the pressure receiving member to urge the pressure receiving member from the case to the flexible member. The second urging member is provided between the pressure receiving member and the case, and one end is connected to the pressure receiving member to urge the pressure receiving member from the case to the flexible member. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109386 | LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER AND LIQUID JET APPARATUS - A liquid storage container includes a liquid storage section configured to store a liquid, a liquid injection section connected to the liquid storage section and configured to inject the liquid into the liquid storage section, an air chamber communicated with air, an air introduction section communicated to the air chamber and configured to introduce the air to the air chamber, a communicating passage through which the liquid storage section and the air chamber are communicated to each other, a liquid injection port defined as an intersection at which the liquid injection section and the liquid storage section intersect each other, and a connecting port defined between the liquid storage section and the communicating passage and located above the liquid injection port in a posture where the liquid injection port is oriented upward in a direction intersecting with a horizontal direction. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109387 | HOLDER HAVING DETACHABLE LIQUID HOUSING CONTAINER, AND LIQUID HOUSING CONTAINER - A liquid housing container in which a liquid to be supplied to a head can be stored may be attached to or detached from a holder, which is provided to a liquid ejecting device having the head for ejecting a liquid. The holder has a rotation point where the mounted liquid housing container may be rotated in a predetermined so as to be detached from the holder. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109388 | LIQUID EJECTING SYSTEM - A liquid ejecting system includes a liquid ejecting device, a liquid storing container, a tube, and a rotation section. The liquid ejecting device is configured and arranged to eject liquid. The liquid storing container is configured and arranged to store the liquid that is supplied to the liquid ejecting device. The tube has flexibility, is provided between the liquid storing container and the liquid ejecting device, and is configured and arranged to supply the liquid, which is in the liquid storing container, to a side of the liquid ejecting device. The rotation section rotatably supports the liquid storing container with respect to the liquid ejecting device. The tube extends toward the side of the liquid ejecting device from a side of the liquid storing container through a passage provided in the rotation section. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109389 | TRAP CONFIGURED TO COLLECT INK PARTICLE CONTAMINANTS IN RESPONSE TO A CLEANING FLOW - An apparatus includes an inkjet manifold with at least one ink supply port coupled to an ink supply and at least one ink delivery port. A flow path is between the ink supply and ink delivery ports, and the flow path includes a trap configured to collect particle contaminants in response to a pulsed cleaning flow and hold the particle contaminants during an operational flow. | 2015-04-23 |
20150109390 | THERMAL INK JET INK COMPOSITION - A thermal ink jet ink composition include a volatile organic solvent, a binder resin, a dye, a humectant in an amount from 1% to 40% by weight of the ink composition, and an additive for extending the decap time. The additive is present in an amount greater than 0.01% by weight of the thermal ink jet ink composition. The additive is selected from fluorinated surfactants, ionic surfactants, and nonionic surfactants. | 2015-04-23 |