| 22nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
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| 20120133617 | APPLICATION USING A SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE (SPAD) - An control device may control an associated electronic device and parameter for the same. The control device may include a proximity detector. The proximity detector may include a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD). The proximity detector may be configured to control the electronic device and change the parameter. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133618 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR FUNCTIONALITY, AND LIGHT-COLLECTING/BLOCKING FILM - A display device with touch sensor functionality with an enlarged distinction margin between the touch state and the non-touch state is provided. The display device with touch sensor functionality includes a light-collecting/blocking film ( | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133619 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND RESET METHOD OF THE SAME - An electronic apparatus including a main body and a stylus is provided. The main body includes a containing trench having a bulge and a reset button. The stylus includes a stylus body, a stylus front end and a stylus rear end. A surrounding trench structure of the stylus body has a first end and a second end connected to a first stylus body and a second stylus of the stylus body respectively, wherein the cross section area of the first end is smaller than the same of the second end. The stylus front end passes into the containing trench to perform a first displacement to a first position, and then to perform a second displacement to a second position by pressing the stylus rear end to make the surrounding trench structure slide over the bulge such that the stylus tip touches the reset button to reset the electronic apparatus. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133620 | ELECTRONIC WRITING INSTRUMENT, COMPUTER SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC WRITING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The electronic writing instrument is provided with: a writing unit that writes down on a medium where a code indicating identity information and location information of the medium is formed; an emitting unit that emits light to the medium; a photoelectric conversion unit that includes photoelectric conversion element receiving a reflected light from the medium by the light emitted by the emitting unit and outputting an electronic signal after converting the reflected light by photoelectric conversion; a receiving unit that receives a user operation; and a condition changing unit that changes at least any one of an emitting condition of the emitting unit to the medium and an output condition of the photoelectric conversion unit when the receiving unit receives an operation. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133621 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal including a body having at least one partial region including a flexible material; a flexible display to display information; a sensor unit to detect a first physical bending of the flexible display; and a controller to display a prescribed mark to a specific region of the flexible display based on the detected bending of the flexible display. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133622 | HYBRID DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention relates to a display device ( | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133623 | ELECTRONIC SHELF LABEL APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING IMAGES AND METHOD THEREOF - There is provided an electronic shelf label including an image display unit displaying a first image; a sensor unit detecting image switching signals; and a processor unit determining whether the image switching signals detected by the sensor unit are valid and switching the first image displayed on the image display unit to a second image when the image switching signals are valid, and a communication unit receiving a plurality of image data displayed on the image display unit. The processor unit determines that the image switching signals are valid when a detection duration time of the image switching signals is longer than a predetermined first threshold time. By this configuration, the electronic shelf label can switch a plurality of images and reduce the influence of disturbance to thereby prevent unnecessary image switching. Further, the electronic shelf label can provide product-related information for a manager or the like as well as for a purchaser. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133624 | DISPLAY PANEL - A display panel incorporates the functionality to determine the three dimensional position of a light reflecting or emitting object ( | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133625 | METHOD FOR DRIVING CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for driving a cholesteric liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels. The method includes steps below. In a first duration, a first square wave is provided for the pixels. The first square wave has an amplitude of a first value. In a second duration, a second square wave is provided for each one of the pixels according to a required gray level of each one of the pixels. The second square wave has an amplitude of a second value. The second value is different from the first value. The first square wave and the second square wave are continuously provided. The method for driving the cholesteric liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is capable of displaying a motion picture and decreasing driving voltages. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133626 | Scan driver and method of driving the same - A scan driver of a display device may include a plurality of scan lines. The scan driver may include a plurality of stages configured to transmit scan signals to the scan lines. Each stage may include an input terminal for receiving a scan signal from a previous stage, an output terminal, an output unit, a sequential switching unit, and a simultaneous switching unit. The output unit may be coupled to the output terminal, and outputs a corresponding scan signal to the output terminal. The sequential switching unit may be coupled to the input terminal, and controls the output unit such that the output unit of each stage sequentially outputs the scan signals having a first voltage in a first period. The simultaneous switching unit may control the output unit such that the output unit of each stage simultaneously output the scan signals having a predetermined voltage in a second period. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133627 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An LCD device is discussed in which a level shifter generates two switching signals, and transmits the generated signals to a gate driver of a liquid crystal display panel by the use of one voltage signal transmitted from a timing controller. The LCD device according to an embodiment includes a liquid crystal display panel in which a gate driver for alternately driving two transistors is formed; a data driver which drives data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; a timing controller which generates one voltage signal for switching the two transistors, and outputs the one voltage signal; and a level shifter which generates two of first and second switching signals to switch the two transistors by using the one voltage signal, and outputs the generated switching signals to the gate driver. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133628 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - The present invention provides a LCD device including: a timing control unit; an oscillator which is included in the timing control unit and generates a clock frequency; a frequency divider which is included in the timing control unit and reduces the clock frequency supplied from the oscillator by dividing the clock frequency by at least 2; and a mode selection part which is included in the timing control unit and changes at least one driving mode of internal logic circuits by using the divided clock frequency supplied from the frequency divider. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133629 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PANEL - A driving apparatus and a display panel are provided. The display panel includes M*2N pixels, N data driving units, 2M scan lines and 2N data lines. The M*2N pixels are arranged as an M*2N matrix. M and N are positive integers. Each scan line is electrically coupled to N pixels in the same row. Each data driving unit is electrically coupled to two data lines that are not adjacent to each other. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133630 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and method of driving the same - Present embodiments may include a liquid crystal display apparatus, using a line reversal method, wherein at least one pulse is inserted between charging periods, and a method of driving the liquid crystal display apparatus. According to present embodiments, in a liquid crystal display apparatus employing a polarity reversal method, audible noise may be removed without increasing a frame frequency and reducing a charging time of a storage capacitor. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133631 | SOURCE DRIVER OUTPUT CIRCUIT OF FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a source driver output circuit of a flat panel display device, first and second latch units receive image data and store the received image data. A D/A converter converts the image data into a data voltage. An output buffer unit outputs the data voltage to a data line. A switching control unit decides whether or not the data voltages of two image data of the same channel among image data of horizontal lines adjacent to each other, stored in the first and second latch units, belong to the same grayscale voltage range, and outputs a switching control signal based on the decided result. A multiplexer unit selects a pre-charge voltage in response to the switching control signal or continuously maintains a connection state between a corresponding channel of the output buffer unit and the corresponding data line. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133632 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER AND DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT USING THE SAME - An operation amplifier, coupled to a control unit, includes: a differential input pair, coupled to an input signal and an output signal; a bias current source, couple to the differential input pair; an output stage, coupled to the bias current source; and a clamp circuit, coupled to the output stage. In discharge, when the control circuit is temporarily short circuit, an internal charge share inside the operational amplifier transiently lowers a first node voltage of the output stage and the clamp circuit pulls high the first node voltage of the output stage. In charge, when the control circuit is temporarily short circuit, an internal charge share inside the operational amplifier transiently pulls high a second node voltage of the output stage and the clamp circuit pulls low the second node voltage of the output stage. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133633 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is provided having improved reliability compared with the related art. The display device includes, for each pixel: a photo-emission element and a first MOS transistor connected in series between a first power source line and a second power source line; a capacitor connected to be inserted between a gate and a source of the first MOS transistor; and a second MOS transistor connected to be inserted between a signal line to be applied with a image signal voltage and the gate of the first MOS transistor, the second MOS transistor being controlled by a scan signal to change between ON-state and OFF-state, wherein ON-period of the first transistor is established within a period in which the photo-emission element is maintained to an extinction state and the signal line is applied with a voltage having a fixed level independent from the image signal voltage. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133634 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A LOW POWER SIGNAL WITH AN OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER - An amplifier, electronic display system, and a related method for generating a low power signal with an operational amplifier are disclosed herein. An embodiment of the present invention includes an amplifier, comprising an operational amplifier and a voltage converter. The operational amplifier includes an inverting input, a non-inverting input, an output, a first power supply input and a second power supply input, and is configured to generate an output signal in response to an input signal. The voltage is operably coupled with the first power supply input of the operating amplifier, and is configured to receive a first supply voltage and generate a second supply voltage to the first power supply input of the operational amplifier. The voltage of the second supply voltage is relatively closer to the expected operating voltage range of the output signal than is the first supply voltage. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133635 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - An LCD device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD device includes a data driver, a detection unit, and a power mode control option generation unit. The data driver controls a consumption power of an output buffer which outputs an image data signal to a liquid crystal display panel. The detection unit detects a low power driving mode interval for driving the data driver at a first consumption power. The power mode control option generation unit transfers a second power mode control option to the data driver during an interval other than the low power driving mode interval, and transfers a first power mode control option to the data driver during the low power driving mode interval. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133636 | LED LIGHTING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention discloses an LED lighting circuit that generates a power supply voltage required to light an LED by boosting a power supply voltage. The LED lighting circuit includes a power supply circuit that is formed integrally with the LED lighting circuit and supplies the power supply voltage. The LED lighting circuit further includes a feedback circuit that detects an LED current flowing to the LED and feeds the LED current back to the power supply circuit. The power supply circuit controls the power supply voltage supplied to the LED lighting circuit so that the LED current converges on a target value. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133637 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array part configured to include scan lines disposed along rows, signal lines disposed along columns, and pixels that are disposed at intersections of the scan lines and the signal lines and arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels having at least a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, a switching transistor, a hold capacitor, and a light-emitting element; and a drive part configured to include a scanner and a driver, the driver supplying a video signal to the signal lines along the columns. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133638 | VIRTUAL EVENT VIEWING - A method may include receiving a number of video feeds for a live event from video capture devices located at an event venue. A three-dimensional model of the event may be generated based on received video feeds. A request to view a virtual event corresponding to the live event may be received from a user device. The 3D model may be forwarded to the user device. A virtual representation of the event may be output based on the 3D model. A request may be received to manipulate a view within the virtual representation. A modified virtual representation of the event may be output based on the request. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133639 | STRIP PANORAMA - A technology is described for generating a strip panorama. The method can include selecting panoramas grouped together for a road to combine into the strip panorama. Side view images can be extracted from the plurality of panoramas. Another operation is computing depth maps for side view images using stereo matching. Depth histograms can be generated for depth map columns of the depth maps. The depth histograms can have column-depth alignment scores computed by multiplying corresponding depth values from at least two related depth histogram maps. A further operation can be aligning related side view images using the column-depth alignment scores. The aligned side view images can be stitched while maximizing a stitching score. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMBINING 2D IMAGE AND 3D MODEL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF - A method and system for combining a 2D image and a 3D model and a computer program product thereof are provided. A corresponding relation between a general model and a 2D image is established. A system provides an operation interface. Next, functions provided by the operation interface include designating a feature point on the 2D image and specifying a confirmation point corresponding to the feature point on the general model. Finally, according to a viewpoint space vector of the general model, a display space vector of the 2D image is decided. Furthermore, when the operation interface displays the general model according to a specific viewpoint space vector, the 2D image having the corresponding display space vector is selected for display. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133641 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An upper LCD capable of displaying an image which is stereoscopically visible with naked eyes is provided on an upper housing of a hand-held electronic device. A 3D adjustment switch for adjusting a parallax of a stereoscopic image is provided on the upper housing. When a slider of the 3D adjustment switch is within a predetermined range between an uppermost position and a position slightly above a lowermost position, the stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopic image is adjusted based on the position of the slider. When the slider of the 3D adjustment switch is at the lowermost position, a planar image corresponding to the stereoscopic image is displayed on the upper LCD. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133642 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A hand-held electronic device includes an upper housing and a lower housing which are foldable. An upper LCD capable of displaying an image which is stereoscopically visible with naked eyes is provided on an inner side surface of the upper housing. In addition, a 3D adjustment switch for adjusting a parallax of a stereoscopic image is provided on the upper housing. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133643 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: a displaying controlling section adapted to control a display section to display a stereoscopic image based on stereoscopic image information; a detection section adapted to detect a change of the eyeballs of a user when the stereoscopic image is displayed on the display section; and a correction section adapted to correct the position of a material body included in the stereoscopic image in the depthwise direction based on the detected change of the eyeballs. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133644 | PARALLAX IMAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS - A parallax image conversion apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a first multiple parallax image generation unit configured to generate a first multiple parallax image concerning a first image signal; a second multiple parallax image generation unit configured to receive a second image signal, depth information, and blend information concerning an OSD image, change the blend information based on the depth information, and generate a second multiple parallax image concerning the OSD image based on the second image signal and the depth information; and a compounding unit configured to compound the first multiple parallax image and the second multiple parallax image by using the changed blend information. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133645 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal as disclosed and broadly embodied herein may include a 3D display configured to display an object that includes a first and second images and a controller configured to change a magnification of the object that includes a first scaled image and a second scaled image and to correct a binocular disparity between the first and second scaled images. The controller may be configured to determine a binocular disparity between the first and second scaled images, determine whether the binocular disparity is within a prescribed range of disparity, reposition at least one of the first or second magnified images based on the determined binocular disparity, and control the display to display the corrected first and second scaled images. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133646 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR HAVING COMPUTER PROCESS IMAGE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a fixed point setting module, a sampling point setting module, and a parallax image generator. The fixed point setting module sets a fixed point to a sampling coordinate space generated from first image data including a first pixel. The sampling point setting module sets a target point to the sampling coordinate space, and sets a sampling point corresponding to the target point to a calculated sampling coordinate. The parallax image generator calculates a pixel value of a second pixel to be located on the sampling coordinate, and generates plural pieces of second image data, each second image data including the second pixel. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133647 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY - A three-dimensional image display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a lenticular layer, and a backlight module, wherein the lenticular layer is disposed on the liquid crystal display panel to separate images generated by the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight module includes a light emitting device and at least one brightness enhancing film. The liquid crystal display panel accepts light from the backlight module and generates a plurality of images. Prisms and lenses are disposed on the brightness enhancing film and the lenticular layer, respectively, wherein orientations of prisms and lenses cross each other. The three-dimensional image display makes the traveling direction of light more perpendicular to the surface of liquid crystal display panel in order to reduce the crosstalk between adjacent images. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133648 | DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - An object is to reduce crosstalk between consecutive frame periods. The writing period of image signals to each pixel and the lighting period of light sources corresponding to the image signals in one frame period are rearranged so that the lighting period of the light sources corresponding to the image signals does not overlap with a previous frame period and the next frame period, and the image signals are written and the light sources corresponding to the image signals are on. Specifically, a display region is divided into a plurality of regions, and each of the plurality of regions is divided for rows in a first half and rows in a latter half. The image signals written to the rows in the latter half are written in the previous frame period, and the light sources corresponding to the image signals are on in the frame period. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133649 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEMS UTILIZING SOLID-STATE ILLUMINATION AND PASSIVE GLASSES - A stereoscopic display system employs narrowband illumination light beams and passive glasses with built-in interference filters. The system is also compatible with multiple viewing functions. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133650 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DICTIONARY FUNCTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for detecting a specific object on preview data according to touch based interaction and displaying dictionary result information about the detected object as augmented reality on the preview data, and a portable terminal supporting the same are provided. The method includes displaying preview data of specific contents, receiving touch based interaction on the preview data, detecting an object corresponding to the interaction, searching for additional information about the object, and generating the found additional information as result information and outputting the generated additional information on the preview data based on augmented reality. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133651 | METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC ILLUSTRATION - The invention relates to a method for the stereoscopic display of a scene on a grid of picture elements (pixels), based on several views that are combined according to a combination rule to form a combination image. The combination image contains only selected parts or pixels of each view. Furthermore, propagation directions are fixed, which make it possible for a viewer to see in the combination image a different selection of views with his left eye than with his right eye, which results in a visual impression of space. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133652 | INTERFACE CUBE FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A computing device presents, on a screen, a three-dimensional rendering of an interface cube that includes a representation of a user's contacts displayed on at least one surface of the interface cube. The computing device receives a communication item from a peripheral application, where the communication item is associated with a particular contact of the user's contacts. The computing device creates a graphic based on the communication item and displays the graphic at a location on the representation of the user's contacts that corresponds to the location of the particular contact within a sequence of the user's contacts. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133653 | LIGHTWEIGHT THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A computer-implemented imaging process method includes generating a progression of images of a three-dimensional model and saving the images at a determined location, generating mark-up code for displaying image manipulation controls and for permitting display of the progression of images in response to user interaction with the image manipulation controls, and providing the images and mark-up code for use by a third-party application. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133654 | VARIABLE-SIZED CONCURRENT GROUPING FOR MULTIPROCESSING - Aspects include, for example, a method for interpreting information in a computer program, or profiling such a program to estimate a group size for instances of that program (program module, or portion thereof). Such a method can be used in a system that supports collecting outputs of executing instances, where those outputs can specify new program instances. Scheduling of new instances (or allocation of resources for executing such instances) can be deferred. A trigger to begin scheduling (or allocation) for a collection of instances uses a target group size for that program. Thus, different programs can have different group sizes, which can be set explicitly, or based on profiling. The profiling can occur during one or more of pre-execution and during execution. The group size estimate can be an input into an algorithm that also accounts for system state during execution. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133655 | METHOD FOR ACCURATE ASSESSMENT AND GRADED TRAINING OF SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTIONS - The invention relates, to the field of motion tracking and sensorimotor assessment and training, by providing a method, system and software for tracking of a target by moving the head and neck or other body part in two or three-dimensional space. In particular the invention teaches a method to create incremental difficult classes of unpredictable movement patterns according to specific criteria. The created movement patterns can be used to accurately grade the deficits of movement control and other sensorimotor deficits of the head/neck and consequently a treatment can be prescribed which starts at each patient's impairment level by using the same method. The invention provides also a reliable and valid method to detect fraudulent neck compensation claims from genuine deficits by said assessment of sensorimotor function. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133656 | Method and system for visualizing a volume dataset - A machine-implemented display method that, with respect to a volume dataset being rendered, enables a user to navigate to any position in space and look in any direction. Preferably, the volume dataset is derived from a computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (RMI) scan. With the described approach, the user can see details within the dataset that are not available using conventional visualization approaches. The freedom-of-motion capability allows the user to go to places (positions) within the volume rendering that are not otherwise possible using conventional “orbit” and “zoom” display techniques. Thus, for example, using the described approach, the display image enables a user to travel inside physical structures (e.g., a patient's heart, brain, arteries, and the like). | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133657 | REQUIREMENT STRUCTURE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A requirement structure display apparatus includes a graph display information generation unit that generates graph display information representing a graph constituted by the parent-child relationships; a first specification acceptance unit that accepts a specification of the requirement data or the strategy data of an object in interest in the graph represented by the graph display information generated by the graph display information generation unit; a part-in-interest display information generation unit that generates part-in-interest display information; and a display control unit that controls a display by a display unit so as to be switched from a display based on the graph display information generated by the graph display information generation unit to a display based on the part-in-interest display information generated by the part-in-interest display information generation unit based on the object in interest accepted by the first specification acceptance unit. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133658 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display control apparatus includes a moving image display unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a moving image thereon, a reading unit configured to read animation information including a plurality of frame images, a detection unit configured to detect touch on the display apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display apparatus to display a first frame image of the animation information thereon if touch on a specific position of the display apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the moving image is being displayed on the display aparatus, and to start a transition display of frame images of the animation information if the touch on the display apparatus becomes undetected by the detection unit. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING STATIC FRAME - A method and apparatus provides for providing a static frame. In one example, the method and apparatus divides a frame into regions and sends the divided regions of the frame from a display data transmitter, e.g., a processor such as a graphic processing unit (GPU), to a display data receiver, e.g., a timing controller (TCON). In a self-refresh mode when the frame is static, the method and apparatus detects alteration of one or more regions in the static frame. The alteration may be due to data errors in one or more regions of the static frame captured by the display data receiver and/or due to updated content (e.g., movement of a cursor) in one or more regions of the static frame in the display data transmitter. The method and apparatus then, in one example, only resends those altered regions from the display data transmitter to the display data receiver to redress the alteration. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133660 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for processing data in a heterogeneous multi-core environment, capable of reducing data processing time by storing frames not having redundant data only among input frames in a shared memory. The apparatus compares a second frame with a first frame having a time difference with respect to a first frame, thereby determining identity between the first frame and the second frame. The apparatus stores address information related to the first frame or stores the second frame according to the determination result, thereby reducing quantity of data to be updated. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133661 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display driving circuit includes a clock dividing unit and a data processing unit. The clock dividing unit receives a first clock signal, generates a second clock signal having a second clock frequency by dividing the first clock signal having a first clock frequency, and outputs the second clock signal. The data processing unit receive the first clock signal, the second clock signal, and input data with a first data frequency, separates input data into first data and second data, outputs the first data based on the second clock signal, and outputs the second data with a second data frequency based on the first clock signal. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133662 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR BINDING ATTRIBUTES BETWEEN VISUAL COMPONENTS - Methods and systems are described for binding attributes between visual components. A first visual component, including a first presentation space for presenting first data by an operating first application, is detected. Binding information, for the first application, is identified that specifies a mapping between a first visual attribute of the first visual component and a second visual attribute of a second visual component including a second presentation space for presenting second data by a second application. A change to the first visual attribute is detected. In response to the detection of the change, change information is automatically sent to change the second visual attribute according to the mapping. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133663 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGES - A medical image display apparatus for displaying medical images of a biological tissue includes a physical quantity calculator that calculates a first physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue, and a display image control unit that displays a first elastic image having a display form corresponding to the first physical quantity calculated by the physical quantity calculator and a second elastic image having a display form corresponding to a second physical quantity related to elasticity of the biological tissue calculated by other another medical image display apparatus as the medical images. The display image control unit displays images in which portions having a same elasticity in the biological tissue in a same display form as the first and second elastic images. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAINTERLY RENDERING BASED ON IMAGE PARSING - A system and method for synthesizing painterly-looking images from input images (e.g., photographs). An input image is first interactively decomposed into a hierarchical representation of its constituent components named parse tree, whose nodes correspond to regions, curves, and objects in the image, with occlusion relations. According to semantic information in the parse tree, a sequence of brush strokes is automatically prepared according a brush dictionary manually built in advance, with their parameters in geometry and appearance appropriately tuned, and blended onto the canvas to generate a painterly-looking image. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133665 | Generating A Texture From Multiple Images - A texture is generated using a plurality of images and a geometry that correspond to an object. The geometry is mapped to each of the plurality of images. A graph includes a plurality of nodes corresponding to portions of the images. An edge exists between a first node and a second node if a first portion corresponding to the first node and a second portion corresponding to the second node can be neighboring portions in a resulting image. Ways of forming the resulting image are represented by paths in the graph. Edges and nodes in the graph may have associated costs. A path in the graph having a smallest total cost is determined and represents the resulting image. A texture is generated for the object using the resulting image. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133666 | Dynamically Configurable Bilinear Filtering System - Apparatus and methods for a bilinear filter system comprising a pre-formatter module, a bilinear module, an accumulator module, and a format module. The pre-formatter module is configured to receive texel data and convert it to a normalized fixed point format. The bilinear module is dynamically reconfigurable to perform an interpolation or an extended precision interpolation on the normalized fixed point texel data from the pre-formatter module and generate re-normalized floating point texel data. The interpolator analyzes the exponent range of fixed point texel data from the pre-formatter module to determine if an extended precision calculation is appropriate. The accumulator module is configured to accumulate floating point texel data from the bilinear module to achieve the desired level of bilinear, trilinear, and anisotropic filtering. The format module is configured to convert texel data from the accumulator module into a standard floating point representation. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING, STYLIZING, AND SUPPLEMENTING AN IMAGE/SCENE - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to utilize scene elements in a computer drawing application. A modeling scene is obtained. The user searches for and selects a pattern scene that includes an environment attribute. The environment attribute is selected and retrieved from the pattern scene to be used in the modeling scene. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133668 | Image display device, driving method of image display device, image display program, and gradation conversion device - There is provided an image display device including a display unit that displays an image by pixels that are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern; and a gradation conversion unit that performs gradation conversion using a dither matrix of diffusion type, wherein the gradation conversion unit applies a dither matrix that is randomly shifted in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and performs gradation conversion of an image that is displayed on a display unit to each region of pixels that corresponds to the dither matrix. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133669 | GRAPHIC RENDERING SYSTEM AND PIXEL UPDATE METHOD THEREOF - A graphic rendering system and a pixel update method thereof are provided. The graphic rendering method comprises a processing unit and a storage unit. The storage unit is stored with a piece of information. The piece of information defines a virtual area on a display. A pixel of the display overlaps a part of the virtual area, and the part corresponds to a color. The pixel defines a first boundary, a second boundary, a third boundary, and a fourth boundary. The processing unit decides a first coverage rate, a second coverage rate, a third coverage rate, and a fourth coverage rate of the virtual area on the first boundary, the second boundary, the third boundary, and the fourth boundary, respectively. The processing unit decides a display color of the pixel with reference to the color and the first coverage rate, the second coverage rate, the third coverage rate, and the fourth coverage rate. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133670 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An image display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels and displaying an image; a color converting portion generating a converted image signal regarding red, green and blue colors and an auxiliary primary color from an original image signal regarding red, green and blue colors using one of a plurality of gains corresponding to the plurality of pixels, respectively; and a data signal generating portion generating a data signal from the converted image signal and supplying the data signal to the display panel. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133671 | Method and System for Processing Mass Analysis Data - In an imaging mass analysis, image information of a sample allows users to grasp specific information about the sample, such as distribution of a portion with a particular function or effect. The mass spectrum intensity data are normalized for each pixel so that the sum of the intensities over the entire mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) is one. Entropy is calculated by totaling the product of the intensity normalizing at each m/z and the logarithm of that intensity over the entire m/z range. After the entropy is calculated for each pixel, the pixels are colored according to their entropy values to display a two-dimensional color image of entropy distribution. The entropy of a cancerous portion is relatively small because of a high content of a specific kind of substance and the simplified composition of the substances. Thus, the cancerous part and the normal part of the entropy image can be distinguished. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133672 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SURFACE AND APPARATUS THEREOF - The present invention provides a method of changing color or transmittance of light on a surface part of an object. The surface part of the object includes a solvent and a plurality of particles dispersed in the solvent. When electric field is applied to the solvent and the plurality of particles, the transmittance of color or light on the surface part of the object is changed due to the change of the inter-particle distances or the positions of the particles, according to the magnitude, direction, application time or application frequency of electric field, wherein the magnitude, direction, application time or application frequency of electric field are changed by associating the input signal by the user of the object or the signal acquired by the object or the signal acquired by the sensing unit provided to the object. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133673 | N-MODULATION DISPLAYS AND RELATED METHODS - A display has a light source, a spatial light modulator and an intermediate spatial light modulator. The display may be a front projection display or a rear-projection display. The spatial light modulator is illuminated with light from a light source. The intermediate spatial light modulator is located in a light path between the light source and the spatial light modulator. The light source may comprise an array of controllable light-emitters. The display may provide a high dynamic range. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133674 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device in which a status, in which an image in a boundary region between image displaying parts is not or hardly seen, is solved in an electronic device in which a large screen is constructed by a plurality of image displaying parts. The electronic device has a display function that displays image data of a region whose width is defined by the predetermined number of pixels in one of displaying parts with respect to the image data on a boundary region where the image cannot be displayed when first and second displaying parts are used as one displaying part. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133675 | REMOTE USER INTERFACE UPDATES USING DIFFERENCE AND MOTION ENCODING - Frames of user interface graphical data can be remotely rendered at a client during a remote session with a server by providing graphical data commands to the client. A server identifies moving objects having a first position in the current frame and a second position in the new frame, generates motion hints for the moving objects, and reduces the motion hints based on collision detection, motion verification and other factors. Motion commands are generated for the reduced set of motion hints and applied to a copy of the current frame at the server. Differences between the modified current frame and the new frame are then encoded as delta commands. The server then sends the motion commands and delta commands to the client. The client receives and applies the commands to the current frame to render the new frame. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133676 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - At least one virtual object for which a predetermined color is set is placed in a virtual world. In a captured image captured by a real camera, at least one pixel corresponding to the predetermined color is detected, using color information including at least one selected from the group including RGB values, a hue, a saturation, and a brightness of each pixel of the captured image. When the pixel corresponding to the predetermined color has been detected, a predetermined process is performed on the virtual object for which the predetermined color is set. An image of the virtual world where at least the virtual object is placed is displayed on a display device. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133677 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to provide a device that changes the way content is displayed depending on an inclination angle of the device. The device includes an inclination acquisition device that acquires inclination information of a display housing that houses a display with a displayed image thereon. A first controller causes a first change to the displayed image according to the inclination information. A second controller causes a second change to the displayed image when a predetermined condition is met with respect to the inclination information. By including subcomponents that cooperate in this manner, the device allows a user to perceive a displayed image at various viewing angles and easily recognize whether certain displayed features are able to be actuated when the device is positioned in a certain inclination angle. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133678 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SCREEN CONVERSION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - Provided is an apparatus and method for controlling the screen conversion mode in a portable terminal based on the intended action of a user. The screen conversion function of the portable terminal is selectively disabled based on predetermined criteria so that a pre-movement screen direction of the portable terminal is maintained upon detecting a movement of the portable terminal. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133679 | SERVER, CLIENT, IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a client apparatus, includes an image acquisition unit, a use reception unit, an image size detection unit, a size change unit and a sending unit. The image acquisition unit acquire an image file from externally. The use reception unit receipt a selection of a use for the image file from various image-related uses. The image size detection unit detect the size information of an image corresponding to the use selected by the use reception unit from various size information and respectively corresponding to images for the various uses. The size change unit change the size of the image data stored in the image file acquired by the image acquisition unit to the size. The sending unit upload the image file in which the image data the size of which is changed by the size changing unit is stored to a server. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133680 | INSTANTANEOUS PANNING USING A GROOVE METAPHOR - User input interpretation mechanisms can pass along user input without delay by initially treating it as freeform movement and passing it along unmodified, rather than waiting to receive a sufficient quantity of user input from which to derive a user's intentions. User input within a defined range from an initial point is freeform movement, passed along unmodified, while user input beyond that range can be confined to a groove if it evidences an intention to move in a precisely linear manner. Grooves can be established to aid in precise vertical movement, with no horizontal deviations, precise horizontal movement, with no vertical deviations, or any other orientation. Before being passed along, user input in groove regions can be modified to center the input within the groove region and eliminate human inaccuracies, such as slight deviations to either side. User input can escape groove regions by moving orthogonally to them. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133681 | GAMMA CORRECTION METHOD - A gamma correction method adapted for a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The gamma correction method includes the following steps. A reference gamma curve is provided. The LCD panel is lighted up with at least one of primary-color frames. Gamma voltages of the primary-color frame are set for the LCD panel based on the reference gamma curve to obtain at least one primary-color gamma curve. The gamma correction is performed on the LCD panel based on the at least one primary-color gamma curve or a linear combination curve of the at least one primary-color gamma curve. By using the gamma correction method, the LCD panel could be allowed to provide good image quality. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133682 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a display apparatus comprising light-emitting elements having colors cyclically aligned, pixel circuits and a processing circuit, the light-emitting elements each having two light-emitting regions aligned in the column direction so as to invert the positions of the two light-emitting regions in accordance with a cycle of the colors, and the two light-emitting regions having different optical characteristics and emitting light alternately over two consecutive frame periods so that the light-emitting regions which emit light in each frame period have the same optical characteristics. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133683 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY APPARATUS - An organic EL display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, organic EL devices, a data line driver, a pixel circuit, and a gate line driver. Each pixel has three or more organic EL device groups, each organic EL device group consisting of two organic EL devices emitting light of the same color; and emits light of three or more colors. The two organic EL devices are a first organic EL device having a light condensing element arranged on the light emitting surface side and a second organic EL device not having a light condensing element arranged on the light emitting surface side. Each pixel has a luminance difference forming unit for varying the luminance ratio of each color in the first organic EL device and the luminance ratio of each color in the second organic EL device. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133684 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH GRAY SCALE PROCESSING CIRCUIT, AND METHOD OF GRAY SCALE PROCESSING - A display device includes a gray scale controller which adjusts the number of pieces of image data successively displayed at the same brightness level to a predefined value or less when a desired brightness level represented by input image data is equal to or less than a predetermined level. Alternatively the display device may include a gray scale controller which may make the frequencies of selection of an immediately lower display brightness level than a desired level and an immediately higher display brightness level closer to each other when the brightness level represented by the input image data is equal to or less than the predetermined level and other than a plurality of display brightness levels. This frequency control is done to prevent a selected display brightness level from continuing at the same level over a period greater than a predetermined cycle. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133685 | LOCAL DIMMING METHOD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A local dimming method and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The local dimming method includes segmenting an input image into N×M (where N and M are positive integer greater than n) blocks; determining representative values of the blocks, which define average luminance of the respective blocks; analyzing the input image; setting a spatial filter mask having a size of n×n (where n is a positive integer greater than 3 and equal to or smaller than 10), increasing the number of coefficients greater than 0 in the spatial filter mask when the input image is determined as a dark image, and decreasing the number of coefficients greater than 0 in the spatial filter mask when the input image is determined as a bright image; and multiplying the block representative values by coefficients of the spatial filter mask to determine a dimming value for each block. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133686 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE WITH LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES IN AN ALTERNATING ARRANGEMENT - A backlight device includes a plurality of light emitting devices arranged at predetermined positions to act as backlight for a display screen, and a plurality of drive circuits that supply currents to the plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the plurality of drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit, and the plurality of light emitting devices include a plurality of first light emitting devices and a plurality of second light emitting devices, the plurality of first light emitting devices being connected in series to the first drive circuit, and the plurality of second light emitting devices being connected in series to the second drive circuit, and wherein the plurality of light emitting devices are spatially placed in an alternating arrangement of one or more of the first light emitting devices and one or more of the second light emitting devices. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133687 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Driving Method of Liquid Crystal Display Device - In one frame period, a field period in which an image signal is input to pixels in odd-numbered rows and a field period in which an image signal is input to pixels in even-numbered rows are alternately provided. Hues of light transmitted to a pixel portion from a light supply portion are different between two sequential field periods. Further, in a plurality of field periods in one frame period, hues of light transmitted to the pixel portion from the light supply portion are different among a plurality of field periods in which image signals are input to the pixels in the odd-numbered rows, and/or those are different among a plurality of field periods in which image signals are input to the pixels in the even-numbered rows. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133688 | OPERATIONAL AMPLIFYING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL DRIVE DEVICE USING THE SAME - An operational amplifier circuit includes: a first differential amplifier section containing a P-type differential pair of P-type transistors; a second differential amplifier section containing an N-type differential pair of N-type transistors; an intermediate stage connected with outputs of the first and second differential amplifier sections and containing a first current mirror circuit of P-type transistors, and a second current mirror circuit of N-type transistors; and an output stage configured to amplify an output of the intermediate stage in power. The first differential amplifier section includes a first current source and a first capacitance between sources of the P-type transistors of the P-type differential pair and a positive side power supply voltage. The second differential amplifier section includes a second current source and a second capacitance between sources of the N-type transistors of the N-type differential pair and a negative side power supply voltage. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133689 | Reflectors with Spatially Varying Reflectance/Absorption Gradients for Color and Luminance Compensation - A Point Spread Function (PSF) of a light source is controlled by the provision of a PSF modifier on a reflector at or near the light source. The modifier may be a gradient or spatially varying application of any of transmission holes, filters, and absorptive dots. The invention may be applied to displays (e.g., backlighting of displays), and arrangement of the modifiers may include patterns that vary according to artifacts occurring in the display. The PSF modifier may flatten, remove, or increase tails, or mitigate fringing colors or patterns. In backlight arrays, the PSF modifier may be similar for all centrally located light sources, and exhibit differences when applied to light sources near edges or other anomalies in the backlight or surrounding structure. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133690 | DISPLAY ELEMENT AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE - A display element ( | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133691 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS, INK JET PRINTING METHOD, AND DATA GENERATING APPARATUS - An ink jet printing apparatus, an ink jet printing method, and a data generating apparatus are provided in which an image performance such as an abrasion resistance can be improved and a printing head can have a longer life by ejecting processing liquid at an appropriate time. The processing liquid is ejected, to a predetermined area on a printing medium in which the formation of a image by ink is completed, from a printing head in two or more scannings in five scannings of the printing heads. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133692 | DISCHARGE ENERGY RECOVERY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING SAME - A discharge energy recovery device to recover discharge energy discharged from a piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven includes a drive voltage generator to generate a voltage to drive the piezoelectric element; a discharge voltage monitoring unit to monitor a discharge voltage discharged from the piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven by the drive voltage generator; a plurality of charge accumulating devices to accumulate a charge corresponding to a voltage monitored by the discharged voltage discharge voltage monitoring unit; and a selection unit to select one or more charge accumulating devices from the plurality of charge accumulating devices having capacity sufficient to enable accumulation of the charge corresponding to the voltage monitored by the discharge voltage monitoring unit. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133693 | DISCHARGE ENERGY RECOVERY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING SAME - A discharge energy recovery device to recover discharge energy discharged from a piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven includes a drive voltage generator to generate a voltage to drive the piezoelectric element; a discharge voltage monitoring unit to monitor a voltage discharged from the piezoelectric element when the piezoelectric element is driven; a first current supplier to supply a current energy to operate a first load circuit when the discharged voltage is equal to or greater than a first voltage that enables driving of the first load circuit, and a second current supplier to supply a current energy to operate a second load circuit when the discharged voltage is less than the first voltage and equal to or greater than a second voltage that enables driving of the second load circuit by monitoring the currently discharged voltage using the discharge voltage monitoring unit. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133694 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGE METHOD - A liquid discharge apparatus includes: movable head having a nozzle line with nozzles arranged in a predetermined direction; and a control unit that performs a first liquid discharge process and a second liquid discharge process, which sequentially form dots on a medium by intermittently discharging liquid from the nozzles while moving the head and maintaining the inclusion of a normal component perpendicular to the predetermined direction in the moving direction of the head and which form dots on the medium such that a dot formation position in the perpendicular direction of the dots formed in the second liquid discharge process is positioned between dot formation positions in the perpendicular direction of the dots formed continuously in the first liquid discharge process. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133695 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus is adapted to form an image on a printing medium | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133696 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND DENSITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD THEREOF - An adjustment drop number setting section | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133697 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING IMAGE - A recording apparatus is provided, including a recording head, a transport mechanism which has an adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a spacing distance between recording media upstream from the recording head, a discharge control unit configured to control the recording head so that a liquid is discharged when discharge ports face the recording medium and configured to control the recording head so that at least one of discharge flushing and non-discharge flushing is performed when the discharge ports are positioned between the two recording media, and a measuring mechanism which is arranged upstream from the recording head to measure the spacing distance between the recording media. The adjusting mechanism is configured to adjust the next spacing distance between the recording media depending on the spacing distance between the recording media measured by the measuring mechanism. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133698 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports, along a transport path, a medium having a recording base material whose one surface is a recording layer for an image and whose other surface is an adhesive layer and a separating base material that covers the adhesive layer; a recording unit that records an image onto the medium; a heating unit that fixes the recorded image onto the medium; and a humidifying unit that humidifies the medium. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133699 | System And Method For Protecting A Printer From An Over-Temperature Condition In A Printhead - A method responds to an over-temperature condition in a printhead. The method includes generating a first electrical signal corresponding to a temperature in a printhead, monitoring the first electrical signal with a first electronic circuit to terminate delivery of electrical power to a printhead in response to detection of a safety event, and monitoring the first electrical signal with a second electronic circuit to regulate an amount of electrical power delivered to the printhead. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133700 | LIQUID-DISCHARGING DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD OF LIQUID-DISCHARGING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - A first discharge inspection part is configured to inspect and judge a first target nozzle regarding whether or not the first target nozzle discharges the liquid, and is configured to again inspect the first target nozzle if noise is detected. A second discharge inspection part is configured to inspect and judge a second target nozzle regarding whether or not the second target nozzle discharges the liquid, and is configured to again inspect the second target nozzle if noise is detected. The first discharge inspection part and the second discharge inspection part inspect the first target nozzle and the second target nozzle in parallel. The first target nozzle and the second target nozzle shift, if the first target nozzle has been judged, regardless of or not the noise is detected during the first target nozzle being again inspected. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133701 | Position Detecting Device, Liquid Ejecting Apparatus and Method of Detecting Smear of Scale - A position detecting device for detecting a position of an object, includes a light emitting portion that emits light, a light receiving portion that receives the light from the light emitting portion, and a scale that is arranged between the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion, and includes a position detecting pattern and a smear detecting pattern. The position detecting pattern has a first light transmitting portion for transmitting the light from the light emitting portion and a first light interception portion for intercepting the light from the light emitting portion which are alternately arranged in a detection range of the object. The smear detecting pattern for detecting smear of the scale has a second light transmitting portion for transmitting the light from the light emitting portion and a second light interception portion for intercepting the light from the light emitting portion which are alternately arranged. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133702 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND LIQUID DISPERSANT - An ink jet recording method including attaching a liquid dispersant in which an amphoteric polymer containing a core portion having a cation group and a shell portion having an anion group that covers the core portion is dispersed in a dispersing medium to a recording medium and discharging and attaching cationic ink containing a coloring material and water to the surface of the recording medium to which the liquid dispersant is attached. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133703 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND LIQUID DISPERSANT - An ink jet recording method including attaching a liquid dispersant in which an amphoteric polymer containing a core portion having an anion group and a shell portion having a cation group that covers the core portion is dispersed in a dispersing medium to a recording medium and discharging and attaching anionic ink containing a coloring material and water to the surface of the recording medium to which the liquid dispersant is attached. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133704 | Multiple Monochromatic Print Cartridge Printing System - A colour ink printing system includes a plurality of print head cartridges, each extending across and spaced apart along a direction of print media propagation; a print head chassis for supporting the plurality of print head cartridges, the print head chassis actuable between a printing position, a transition position, and a maintenance position; a maintenance chassis for supporting a plurality of maintenance cradles, the maintenance chassis actuable between a storage position and an operational position; and a plurality of supporting arms respectively extending upwards from each corner of the print head chassis. Each of the plurality of print head cartridges is held stationary with respect to a platen on which print media is propagated to effect printing on the print media. Each of the plurality of print head cartridges is a monochrome print head cartridge ejecting a fluid different to the remaining plurality of print head cartridges. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133705 | LIQUID JETTING HEAD, LIQUID JETTING RECORDING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR REFILLING LIQUID JETTING HEAD WITH LIQUID - Provided are a liquid jet head and a liquid jet recording apparatus which are capable of improving ability to collect excess liquid to prevent contamination with excess liquid and which are capable of stabilizing jetting of liquid after the liquid is filled. A liquid jet head includes a nozzle guard ( | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133706 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a recording head having a nozzle surface on which multiple nozzles to eject droplets are arranged in a line; a suction device; and a cap to cover the nozzle surface of the recording head. The cap includes a suction hole to connect a space formed by the cap and the nozzle surface with the suction device; an air hole to connect the space with air; and an absorbent located inside the cap. The top surface of the absorbent is retracted from the contact portion of the cap to be contacted with the nozzle surface so that when the nozzle surface is capped with the cap, a flow passage is secured between the air hole to the suction hole without obstructed by the absorbent. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133707 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a recording head; a cap member capping the nozzle surface of the recording head and including a release port and a suction port; a suction unit in communication with the suction port; a switch unit opening and closing the release port to the air and capable of adjusting the opening amount of the release port to at least a first opening amount and a second opening amount larger than the first opening amount; and a control unit that controls the suction unit and the switch unit so that the release port is opened to the first opening amount to have a predetermined amount of air flow into the cap member after the cap member is suctioned by the suction unit, and the release port is then opened to the second opening amount. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133708 | PRINTER WITH REDUCED VORTEX OSCILLATION IN PRINT GAP - An inkjet printer that has a printhead with a nozzle array for ejecting droplets of ink onto a media substrate, a media feed assembly for feeding media passed the printhead in a media feed direction such that the nozzle array and the media substrate are separated by a print gap and, an air flow generation mechanism for generating an air flow in the print gap opposite to the media feed direction. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133709 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INKJET HEAD AND INKJET HEAD - According to one embodiment, when an electrode protection film of an inorganic material, which is apt to form a pin hole by influence of roughness of a ground, is used, an electrode as a smoothed electrode is formed on the ground of the electrode protection film by a plating method, or a film is formed as a smoothed layer (film) by an inorganic coating material such as SIRAGUSITAL (trade name: New Technology Creating Institute Co., Ltd.), such that the thickness of the electrode protection film is 1.0 μm or more, and the average surface roughness of the ground of the electrode protection film is 0.6 μm or less. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133710 | Heater Chips with Silicon Die Bonded on Silicon Substrate, Including Offset Wire Bonding - A heater chip has a substrate and at least one die, made of silicon, and a bond non-adhesively attaching them. The substrate, thick enough to resist bowing, has ink supply vias from back to front surfaces. The die has ink flow vias from back to front surfaces and circuitry including heater elements adjacent the front surface interspersed with ink flow vias. A metal through the die connects a conductor on a front of the substrate to a heater element on a front of the die. A wire bond connects to the front of the substrate, but is offset from die. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133711 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID-JETTING HEAD AND LIQUID-JETTING HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid-jetting head includes: providing a flow passage unit in which a plurality of jetting ports and a plurality of individual liquid flow passages are formed; providing a plurality of actuator units which are arranged to be adjacent to each other on a surface of the flow passage unit and each of which includes a plurality of actuators having individual electrodes corresponding to the individual liquid flow passages; providing a drive circuit for each of the actuator units which supplies a drive signal to each of the actuators; providing a plurality of wiring members each of which is fixed on one of the actuator units to electrically connect the actuator unit and the drive circuit; folding base materials of the wiring members; and joining the base materials to the actuator units after folding the base materials. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133712 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head includes an actuator row fixed to a substrate. Plural concave grooves formed in the actuator row at intervals along a row direction serve as pressure chambers. The inkjet head ejects ink in the pressure chambers from nozzles facing the pressure chambers. The actuator row includes a piezoelectric member formed in a convex shape including a trapezoidal section forming sidewalls of the pressure chambers viewed in a latitudinal direction and a flat section projecting sideways from a side of the trapezoidal section. The flat section fits in a recessed section formed in the substrate. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133713 | INK TANK WITH FLEXIBLE WALL - A tank for holding ink for an inkjet printhead, the tank includes a housing including a back wall and a side wall extending from the back wall, the side wall including an edge; a plate including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a spring disposed between the back wall of the housing and the first surface of the plate; a flexible wall affixed to the edge of the side wall of the housing, wherein a portion of the flexible wall is conformed to a shape of the second surface of the plate, and wherein a space between the flexible wall and the back wall of the housing is configured as a reservoir to hold ink; and an outlet port for transferring ink from the reservoir of the tank to the inkjet printhead. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133714 | Check Valve Unit For Solid Ink Reservoir System - A check valve unit is provided for a high-speed phase change ink image producing machine between a reservoir for receiving and holding a volume of melted ink from a source and a receiving unit, which may be a printhead system. The check valve unit includes a plurality of ball elements trapped between upper and lower housings defining a like plurality of inlet and discharge passageways. The passageways are configured to optimize flow of melted ink through the unit during charging of the secondary reservoir. The check valve unit is scalable as to size and number of reservoirs for a particular application. The unit further incorporates features that simplify the manufacturing and assembly process while maintaining optimal performance. | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133715 | Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method using the same - The present invention is directed to an inkjet recording apparatus | 2012-05-31 |
| 20120133716 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE - An ultraviolet irradiation device | 2012-05-31 |
