22nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 25 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100134485 | RENDERING AVATAR DETAILS - The rendering of avatars in a virtual universe is selectively controlled by the avatar owner. Avatar ranking by several criteria, operating either jointly or independently, is employed to control avatar rendering in ways intended to reduce computational loading while not significantly impacting the virtual universe experience. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134486 | Automated Display and Manipulation of Photos and Video Within Geographic Software - A system and method to create geographically located data and metadata from photos, video and user input. In one form, a user with a cell phone/camera can create and share a depiction of a real world location in 3D along with tagging and annotation of elements within the scene to aid in search indexing and sharing. In another form, these processes are used to automate the large scale collection and tagging of real world locations and information in 3D. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134487 | 3D FACE MODEL CONSTRUCTION METHOD - A 3D face model construction method is disclosed herein, which includes a training step and a face model reconstruction step. In the training step, a neutral shape model is built from multiple training faces, and a manifold-based approach is proposed for processing 3D expression deformation data of training faces in 2D manifold space. In the face model reconstruction step, first, a 2D face image is entered and a 3D face model is initialized. Then, texture, illumination and shape of the model are optimized until error converges. The present invention enables reconstruction of a 3D face model from a single face image, reducing the complexity for building the 3D face model by processing high dimensional 3D expression deformation data in a low dimensional manifold space, and removal or substituting an expression by a learned expression for the reconstructed 3D model built from the 2D image. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134488 | REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM AND REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS - A remote control system and a remote control apparatus allow a human operator to remotely control a mobile body easily even if the system uses a low-speed communications link. The remote control system includes a remote control apparatus, in which a CPU selects old information based on both old information and the latest mobile body information from a mobile body, and determines a virtual view point V. The CPU generates a three-dimensional environmental image K and the virtual view point V based on the selected old information, and also generates a mobile body model M, a reference point B and a clipping center point based on the latest mobile body information and data regarding a mobile body model M, in a global coordinate system GC. The CPU calculates an angle of view based on a distance d between the virtual viewpoint V and the reference point B, makes a perspective projection of the three-dimensional environmental image K and the mobile body model M from the virtual view point V toward the clipping center point to obtain a projected image, makes a clip from the projected image based on the angle of view thereby making a composite image, and converts the composite image into a display image of a predetermined size. The resulting display image is displayed on a monitor. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134489 | IMAGE SYNTHESIS APPARATUS AND METHOD SUPPORTING MEASURED MATERIALS PROPERTIES - An image synthesis apparatus supporting measured materials properties includes an input unit for receiving from a user selected information on material information processing, sampling and rendering; a material information processing unit for converting measured material data into raw material data, performing material model fitting on the raw material data to generate material information and performing material mixing on the material information to generate mixed material information, wherein the model fitting and the material mixing is performed according to the selected information; and a sampling unit for sampling the raw material data to generate sampling information. The apparatus further includes a materials properties rendering unit for rendering scene information contained in the selected information, the mixed material information and the sampling information to generate surface material information; and an output unit for visualizing the material information and the surface material information. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134490 | REAL TIME GENERATION OF ANIMATION-READY 3D CHARACTER MODELS - Systems and methods for automatically generating animation-ready 3D character models based upon model parameter and clothing selections are described. One embodiment of the invention includes an application server configured to receive the user defined model parameters and the clothing selection via a user interface. In addition, the application server includes a generative model and the application server is configured to generate a 3D anatomical mesh based upon the user defined model parameters using the generative model, the application server includes at least one clothing mesh template including a clothing mesh, a template skeleton, and skinning weights and the application server is configured to apply the clothing mesh from the clothing mesh template corresponding to the user clothing selection to the generated 3D anatomical mesh to create a clothed mesh, the application server is configured to adjust the template skeleton of the clothing mesh template corresponding to the user clothing selection based upon the shape of the clothed mesh, the application server is configured to generate skinning weights based upon the skinning weights of the clothing mesh template corresponding to the user clothing selection, and the application server stores an animation-ready 3D character model including the clothed mesh, the adjusted skeleton, and the generated skinning weights. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134491 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR FLEXIBLE OCCLUSION RENDERING - The invention relates to flexible occlusion rendering, including receiving a first set of three dimensional image data including image data for a surface of interest and image data for a region occluding the surface of interest from a desired viewpoint. The purpose of this invention is to improve occlusion rendering via imaging by locating the occluding surface of the incoming three-dimensional data and, and modifying the characteristics of this data, to show the surface that is being occluded so that the image includes viewing through the occlusion to the surface of interest. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134492 | TERTIARY LIGHTING SYSTEM - One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and system for adding an intermediate color to a computer-rendered object or scene to provide a more dynamic quality to the graphic. The method may add an additional, or tertiary, color to a computer graphic object or scene such that the tertiary color may be blended with a light source color based on calculated surface normals of the pixels of the object in relation to the location of the light source. The blending of the intermediary color with the color of the inserted light source may provide the graphic with a more painterly look giving the graphic or scene a more dynamic feel to a viewer. Another implementation may allow the amount of intermediate color blended into each pixel to be adjusted manually by a graphic designer to achieve a desired look to the object or scene. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134493 | Apparatus and method for compensating for crosstalk between views in three dimensional (3D) display apparatus - Provided are a method and apparatus for compensating for a crosstalk between views in a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus. The method and the apparatus may pre-set a crosstalk weight matrix through an actual measurement by considering a characteristic of a display. The crosstalk weight matrix may offset an effect that each of multiple views affects other different views. Also, when multi-view input signals are received, the method may generate luminance-compensated multi-view input signals by multiplying the crosstalk weight matrix and a luminance matrix that includes a luminance of each of the multi-view input signals, and may output the luminance compensated multi-view input signals as input signals of the display. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134494 | REMOTE SHADING-BASED 3D STREAMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A remote shading-based three-dimensional (3D) streaming apparatus includes a 3D streaming server and a 3D streaming client. The 3D streaming server includes a 3D primitive extraction unit for extracting 3D primitives from 3D scene data provided thereto; a 2D primitive conversion unit for converting the extracted 3D primitives into 2D primitives; a 2D scene and network packet construction unit for constructing 2D scene data and network packets; a network packet transmission unit for transmitting the network packets to a 3D streaming client. The 3D streaming client includes a 2D scene reconstruction unit for reconstructing 2D scene data from the network packets; a 2D primitive extraction unit for extracting 2D primitives from the 2D scene data; a 2D rasterizing unit for determining screen pixel values within a primitive region; and a display unit for providing 3D and/or virtual reality contents using the determined screen pixel value. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134495 | MIXED REALITY PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF VIRTUAL LIGHT SOURCE - Based on an observer's position and observing direction measured in the real world and positions of a virtual light source and virtual object in a virtual world, a brightness adjustment value of the virtual light source is adjusted in a way that, when light from the virtual light source is blocked by an observer, brightness of the virtual object observed by the observer is reduced as if the observer were observing in the real world. As a result, a mixed reality presentation system that achieves a sense of reality is provided. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134496 | BIT RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT - Devices, systems, apparatuses, methods, and other embodiments associated with bit resolution enhancement are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes logic configured to produce a high-resolution pixel from a low-resolution pixel. The apparatus includes logic configured to classify the high-resolution pixel as being in a smooth region of an image based on at least one of a gradient value and a variance value associated with the low-resolution pixel. The apparatus includes logic configured to selectively re-classify the high-resolution pixel as not being in the smooth region of the image based on a set of neighboring high-resolution pixels associated with high-resolution pixel. The apparatus includes logic configured to selectively filter the high-resolution pixel based on whether the high-resolution pixel remains classified as being in the smooth region of the image. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134497 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Graphing Data - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for graphing data. A layout is retrieved that comprises locations for vertices. A proximity location is generated for each vertex. Each vertex's location from the layout is merged with each vertex's proximity location. A cost function associated with the layout is minimized. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134498 | Domain Decomposition By the Advancing-Partition Method for Parallel Unstructured Grid Generation - In a method for domain decomposition for generating unstructured grids, a surface mesh is generated for a spatial domain. A location of a partition plane dividing the domain into two sections is determined. Triangular faces on the surface mesh that intersect the partition plane are identified. A partition grid of tetrahedral cells, dividing the domain into two sub-domains, is generated using a marching process in which a front comprises only faces of new cells which intersect the partition plane. The partition grid is generated until no active faces remain on the front. Triangular faces on each side of the partition plane are collected into two separate subsets. Each subset of triangular faces is renumbered locally and a local/global mapping is created for each sub-domain. A volume grid is generated for each sub-domain. The partition grid and volume grids are then merged using the local-global mapping. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134499 | STROKE-BASED ANIMATION CREATION - A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided that allow a user to easily generate and play back animation on a computing device. A user can use a mouse, stylus, or finger to draw a stroke indicating a path and speed with which a graphical object should be moved during animation playback. The graphical object may comprise a cartoon character, drawing, or other type of image. In a sequential mode, separate tracks are provided for each graphical object, and the objects move along tracks sequentially (one at a time). In a synchronous mode, graphical objects move along tracks concurrently. Different gestures can be automatically selected for the graphical object at each point along the track, allowing motion to be simulated visually. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CROWD ANIMATION - An apparatus for producing crowd animation includes: a user-input controller for receiving from a user level of detail (LOD) of each individual in a picture of the crowd animation; a simulation controller for performing simulation of the crowd animation for a specific time period to update simulation information on each individual; and a display controller for displaying the picture of the crowd animation by using display information corresponding to the LOD of each individual, the display information being selected among the simulation information. The LOD of each individual indicates: displaying the individual with location information thereof only; displaying the individual with the location and model information thereof; or displaying the individual with the location, model and motion information thereof. The simulation information includes location information, model information and motion information of each individual. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134501 | DEFINING AN ANIMATION OF A VIRTUAL OBJECT WITHIN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A method of defining an animation of a virtual object within a virtual world, wherein the animation comprises performing, at each of a series of time points, an update that updates values for object attributes of the virtual object, the method comprising: allowing a user to define the update by specifying, on a user interface, a structure representing the update, wherein the structure comprises a plurality of items and one or more connections between respective items, wherein each item represents a respective operation that may be performed when performing the update and wherein a connection between two items represents that data output by the operation represented by one of those two items is input to the operation represented by the other of those two items; allowing the user to specify that the structure comprises one or more items in a predetermined category, the predetermined category being associated with a predetermined process such that an item belongs to the predetermined category if performing the respective operation represented by that item requires execution of the predetermined process, wherein said predetermined process may be executed at most a predetermined number of times at each time point; and applying one or more rules that (a) restrict how the user may specify the structure to ensure that performing the defined update does not require execution of the predetermined process more than the predetermined number of times, (b) do not require the user to specify that an item in the predetermined category is at a particular location within the structure relative to other items and (c) do not require the user to explicitly specify which operations need to be performed before execution of the predetermined process when performing the update nor which operations need to be performed after execution of the predetermined process when performing the update. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134502 | Display method and viewing device making it possible to protect the screen against freezing of the image - The invention relates to a display method for an image-generation means making it possible to protect a screen of a viewing device against freezing of the image, characterized in that the image-generation means continually and alternately displays during the operation of the said viewing device a first sub-image and a second sub-image the first sub-image comprising a warning message and the second sub-image being the negative image of the first sub-image, the frequency of the display being sufficiently high to hide the warning message and when the viewing device sustains a failure causing the freezing of the image, the image-generation means permanently displays the warning message according to the last sub-image displayed on the screen. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134503 | CONTROLLER AND DRIVER FEATURES FOR BI-STABLE DISPLAY - The invention comprises systems and methods for controller and driver features for displays, and in particular, controller and driver features that relate to displays with bi-stable display elements. In one embodiment, such a display includes at least one driving circuit and an array comprising a plurality of bi-stable display elements, where the array is configured to be driven by the driving circuit, and where the driving circuit is programmed to receive video data and provide a subset of the received video data to the array based on a frame skip count. In some embodiments, the frame skip count is programmable or dynamically determined. In another embodiment, a method of displaying data on an array having a plurality of bi-stable display elements comprises receiving video data comprising a plurality of frames, displaying selected frames based upon a frame skip count, measuring the change between each selected frame and a frame previous to the selected frame, and displaying non-selected frames if the measured change is greater than or equal to a threshold. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134504 | ELECTROPHORESIS DISPLAY - An electrophoresis display is provided to reduce writing time of a memory. The electrophoresis display includes: an electrophoresis display panel; a first memory and a second memory for alternatively storing a previous state image and a current state image; and a controller sets the first digital data generated by the system as the current state image and stores it alternately in one of the first and second memories every cycle, keeps storing the first digital data previously stored in the other one of the first and second memories in it as the previous state image, compares the current state image and the previous state image, and generates second digital data to be displayed on the electrophoresis display panel by use of waveform information corresponding to the result of the comparison among the plurality of waveform information. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134505 | Image Rendering - Systems, methods, and computer program products receive an image request identifying an image having a width and a height. A number of interleaved buffers is identified, each of the interleaved buffers operable to store data associated with the image. The image is split into each of the interleaved buffers on a computing device. An interleaved image is displayed corresponding to at least one of the interleaved buffers, where the interleaved image having substantially the same width and height of the image. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134506 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCHING METHOD USING THE SAME - An image display apparatus, and an image searching method using the same. The apparatus includes: a channel buffer configured to temporarily store information relating to a moving image being currently reproduced; a display unit configured to display a plurality of moving images or still images relating to a plurality of moving image sections included in the moving image being currently reproduced at one region of a screen, and configured to reproduce a moving image corresponding to one moving image section selected by a user among the plurality of moving image sections at another region of the screen; and a controller configured to activate an image searching function, and to control the display unit to reproduce the selected moving image section based on the moving image-related information temporarily stored in the channel buffer. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134507 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FRAME BUFFER MANAGEMENT - Methods and apparatuses for dynamic virtual frame buffer management. At least one embodiment of the present invention dynamically enables or disables the use of a virtual frame buffer, which is not under control of graphics hardware of a data processing system, without restarting the graphical user interface system (e.g., the window system) of the data processing system. For example, in response to the addition or removing of a frame buffer that is under control of a graphics controller (e.g., due to the activation or deactivation of the graphics controller, or the hot plug-in or hot disconnection of the graphics controller), the virtual frame buffer is disabled or enabled respectively. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134508 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a plurality of images, an input unit configured to input information for designating a part of the plurality of images, a setting unit configured to set a speed or a timing of deleting each image according to a degree of relativity of each image with the input information, a deletion unit configured to delete the images from the display unit according to the speed or the timing set by the setting unit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134509 | IMAGE RENDERING PROCESSING APPARATUS - There is provided an image rendering processing apparatus including: a deriving section that, based on range data representing an image rendering range for performing image rendering, derives an image rendering region for each image rendering line configured by a plurality of pixels configuring an image; a determination section that, for each pixel in each of the image rendering lines, determines the density of the pixel according to the ratio of the image rendering region relative to the pixel region and according to the density of the image rendering region. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134510 | Methods and Systems for Providing Texture Tiling and Mirroring - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing texture tiling. The disclosed systems and methods may include copying a source image into a texture of a size the same or larger than the source image. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displacing texture coordinates corresponding to the texture into a desired range. A displacement map may be used in displacing the texture coordinates. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include rendering, within the desired range, an output image corresponding to the texture coordinates associated with the texture. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134511 | Process for Generating Display Images from Acquired Recorded Images, and Means for Carrying out the Process - An image processing device comprising an acquisition interface for acquiring recorded image data or recorded image signals and a graphics interface for a display device is constructed in such a way that a temporal sequence of recorded images can be acquired via the acquisition interface and an image data acquisition device connected to the latter and a temporal sequence of display images can be generated from the recorded image sequence, preferably with a smaller quantity of display images over the period of time in which the recorded image sequence is acquired. A display image of the display image sequence is generated from a partial sequence of at least two already acquired recorded images of the recorded image sequence, this partial sequence being associated with the display image of the display image sequence, and the display images can be sent to the display device via the graphics interface. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134512 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the same are provided for one or more embodiments. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of display blocks and displaying an image in response to image signals; a plurality of light-emitting blocks emitting light to the liquid crystal panel and corresponding to the plurality of display blocks; a first look-up table including a normalized value obtained by normalizing an initial duty ratio corresponding to the brightness of the image to a maximum duty ratio corresponding to the maximum brightness of the image; and a timing controller receiving the normalized value corresponding to each of the light-emitting blocks from the first look-up table and using the normalized value to provide an optical data signal corresponding to each of the light-emitting blocks. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134513 | PIXEL DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel display device includes a decoding unit for decoding an image signal, a first storage unit for storing the image signal decoded, a second storage unit for storing the image signal whose aspect ratio has been converted, and a control unit. The control unit initializes the second storage unit by storing image data having a predetermined color tone therein, and divides the image signal stored in the first storage unit into a predetermined number of regions corresponding to the number of display pixels of a display screen. The control unit subjects the image signal stored in the first storage unit to an enlarging process, based on horizontal/vertical magnification information indicating the different magnification factors of the different divided regions in at least one of the horizontal and vertical directions, and stores the image signal subjected to the enlarging process in the corresponding regions of the second storage unit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134514 | Data Driver and Liquid Crystal Display Device Including the Same - A data driver for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a common grayscale voltage generator configured to output a plurality of common grayscale voltages, a data processing unit configured to expand externally input image data to provide expanded image data and to adjust an offset of the expanded image data to output data offset adjusted image data, and a data signal output unit configured to output as data signals a first grayscale voltage corresponding to the expanded image data and a second grayscale voltage corresponding to the data offset adjusted image data among the plurality of common grayscale voltages. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134515 | HIGH BRIGHTNESS WIDE GAMUT DISPLAY - A device to produce a color image, the device including a color filtering arrangement to produce at least four colors, each color produced by a filter on a color filtering mechanism having a relative segment size, wherein the relative segment sizes of at least two of the primary colors differ. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134516 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Video signals which represent a scene as viewed by a camera are processed to combine a computer generated object with the video signals with the effect that the computer generated object appears within the scene when the video signals are displayed. The scene includes a first object. The process includes mapping a virtual model of the first object to a position of the first object within the scene so that the virtual model substantially corresponds with the real object. The virtual model has a degree of transparency such that the virtual model can be rendered as a substantially transparent virtual object within the scene. The process further includes detecting occluded regions of the virtual model. The occluded regions correspond to regions of the virtual model which are hidden from a virtual light source by the computer generated object. The process also includes modifying the degree of transparency of the virtual model at the occluded regions so as to generate modified transparency regions, and rendering the scene in combination with the computer generated object and the virtual model such that the modified transparency regions of the virtual model appear as shadows on the first object. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134517 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC BOUNDARY SEGMENTATION OF OBJECT IN 2D AND/OR 3D IMAGE - Segmenting the prostate boundary is essential in determining the dose plan needed for a successful bracytherapy procedure—an effective and commonly used treatment for prostate cancer. However, manual segmentation is time consuming and can introduce inter and intra-operator variability. This present invention describes an algorithm for segmenting the prostate from two dimensional ultrasound (2D US) images, which can be full-automatic, with some assumptions of image acquisition. Segmentation begins with the user assuming the center of the prostate to be at the center of the image for the fully-automatic version. The image is then filtered to identify prostate edge candidates. The next step removes most of the false edges and keeps as many true edges as possible. Then, domain knowledge is used to remove any prostate boundary candidates that are probably false edge pixels. The image is then scanned along radial lines and only the first-detected boundary candidates are kept the final step includes the removal of some remaining false edge pixels by fitting a polynomial to the image points and removing the point with the maximum distance from the fit. The resulting candidate edges form an initial model that is then deformed using the Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) model to obtain a closed contour of the prostate boundary. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134518 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - There are provided a first image enlarging means ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134519 | Method and apparatus for image processing - An image processing apparatus has stored therein in advance, as image conversion parameters to coordinate-convert images acquired by in-vehicle cameras incorporated at different positions in an own vehicle, directions connecting between a sight-line starting position of a driver and predetermined positions of the own vehicle, values of a depression angle from the sight-line starting position of the driver, and a range that the driver is caused to visualize, for each of the in-vehicle cameras, corresponding to a state of the own vehicle. The image processing apparatus receives from the driver an input of a display output condition, and determines a current state of the own vehicle. The image processing apparatus acquires the image conversion parameters based on the display output condition and the current state of the own vehicle, and converts images captured by the in-vehicle cameras, by using the acquired image conversion parameters, and outputs the images. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134520 | Displays including semiconductor nanocrystals and methods of making same - A display comprises a substrate and a light-emitting device disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a semiconducting material and a circuit for controlling the light-emitted from the light-emitting device. A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting material comprising semiconductor nanocrystals and an electrode in electrical connection with the light-emitting material on a side thereof remote from the substrate. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134521 | DEVICE COMPRISING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY | 2010-06-03 |
20100134522 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING A SCANNING BACKLIGHT - A scanning backlight ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134523 | SEQUENTIAL COLOUR MATRIX DISPLAY AND ADDRESSING METHOD - A matrix display with a progressive color display, of active matrix-type, includes pixels arranged according to N rows and m columns. The N rows of the display are distributed into n groups, and each pixel column includes n column conductors, allowing for a write-selection of pixels of n rows in parallel, one row per group. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134524 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment of the present invention, a display device is disclosed that can realize a wide color reproduction region and high color purity while maintaining a configuration of a display element having a high resolution and a high numerical aperture. The display device includes: an illumination device including a first light source that emits light of a first color and a second light source that emits light of a complementary color with respect to the first color; a gate driver that successively selects each of the scanning lines at a cycle of 0.5 frame; a data driver that writes a data signal into pixels of the first color and into at least one of pixels of a second color and a third color at a first half of one frame time period and writes a data signal into the pixels of the second color and the third color at a latter half thereof; and a switch circuit that switches on the first light source and switches off the second light source at the first half of one frame time period and switches on the second light source and switches off the first light source at the latter half of the time period. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134525 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - One embodiment of the present invention discloses a transmissive display device including a display panel, a backlight including a plurality of fluorescent tubes, an inverter section that supplies a driving voltage to the backlight, and an inverter control section that controls whether to drive or stop the inverter section and stops the inverter section when at least one of the fluorescent tubes is not lighting. The display device includes a mode determination section that determines whether a driving mode of the display device is a normal mode or a maintenance mode. Upon receiving, from the mode determination section, a signal indicating that the drive mode is the maintenance mode, after having stopped the inverter section due to a fact that at least one of the plurality of fluorescent tubes is not lighting, the inverter control section drives the inverter section again. Such a configuration makes it possible to, in a display device in which a backlight including a plurality of fluorescent tubes is used, make maintenance work more efficient by identifying a failed fluorescent tube while the backlight is not lighting. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134526 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE - In one embodiment of the present invention, a transmissive liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a backlight, and an inverter section. The liquid crystal display device further includes: a comparison process section for judging whether or not a voltage supplied to the inverter section is not less than a predetermined voltage required for normally driving the inverter section; a lighting state detection section for detecting lighting state of the backlight; and a backlight failure detection section for (i) judging whether or not the backlight has failed in accordance with each of processed results, and outputting a signal in accordance with a judged result. The backlight failure detection section outputs a backlight failure signal, in a case where (i) the voltage is not less than the predetermined voltage and (ii) the backlight is not lighting normally. Whereas, the backlight failure detection section does not output the backlight failure signal, in a case where the voltage is less than the predetermined voltage. According to the configuration of the display device including a backlight, a cause of improper lighting of the backlight can be identified. This allows maintenance work to be carried out efficiently. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134527 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a display control apparatus and method, and a program which make it possible to prevent deterioration in image quality due to insufficient luminance of light from a backlight. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134528 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, DRIVING APPARATUS, DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERTER AND OUTPUT VOLTAGE A - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display, a driving device thereof, a digital to analog converter, and an output voltage amplifying circuit. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display driving device including a reference gray voltage generator for generating a plurality of reference gray voltages, and a data driver for generating a plurality of gray voltages based on the plurality of reference gray voltages and applying a data signal that is generated by selecting a gray voltage corresponding to m-bit video signals applied from the outside from among the plurality of gray voltages to the pixel The data driver includes: a voltage generator for selecting a first gray voltage and a second gray voltage corresponding to bit values of (m−k) bits from among the video signal from among the plurality of gray voltages, and outputting the first and second gray voltages; an output voltage generator for outputting 2k voltages determined as one of the first and second gray voltages corresponding to bit values of k bits from among the video signal; and an output voltage amplifier for generating the data signal by combining the 2k voltages, and applying the data signal to a plurality of pixels. According to the present invention, a liquid crystal display having a small cost and area can be realized. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134529 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING COLORS ON DISPLAYS WITH DIFFERENT MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS - A system and method for adjusting modulation transfer function includes a color correction module configured to adjust source picture content based upon a reference display to output color corrected picture content. A modulation frequency function (MTF) simulation module is configured to receive the color corrected picture content and simulate the reference display using the color corrected picture content for a display with MTF characteristics different than the reference display. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134530 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An LCD device improving picture-quality and a driving method thereof are disclosed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134531 | INPUT DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An input device includes light-emitting units, which are arranged around a display, and configured to emit an inspection light, light-receiving units, which are arranged around the display, and configured to receive the inspection light, and a control unit configured to determine whether an input is valid or not based on an intensity of light received by the light-receiving units, and transit to an energy-saving mode when the input is not valid. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134532 | METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS WITH VARYING LUMINANCE AND A DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A method for driving a light source and maintaining its target white color coordinates despite of varied and decreased light source luminance includes detecting an amount of colored light generated from a plurality of colored light sources, comparing detected colored light to reference data and verifying that colored light source has the correct preset duty cycle colored light. If the colored light source is driven by the preset duty cycle, the method includes modifying the reference data based on the detected light from the colored light source and adjusting the amount of colored light by controlling a driving signal to the colored light sources based on the modified reference data. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134533 | Unit and method of controlling frame rate and liquid crystal display device using the same - A frame rate control method capable of enhancing picture-quality is disclosed. The frame rate control method generates red, green, and blue frame rate control signals by frame-rate-modulating red, green, and blue frame rate control patterns on the basis of lower-bit red, green, and blue data. The lower-bit red, green, and blue data are extracted from red, green, and blue data. The red, green and blue frame rate control patterns are obtained through a process of shifting basic frame rate control patterns by different sub-pixel numbers in one direction. The basic frame rate control patterns are established for a plurality of frames. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134534 | DISPLAY UNIT, AND DISPLAYING METHOD FOR THE BINOCULAR REPRESENTATION OF A MULTICOLOR IMAGE - A display unit for binocular representation of a multicolor image including a control unit triggering an imaging element such that the imaging element generates in a temporal successive manner the image to be displayed for a first beam path and a second beam path as a first image and second image, respectively. The images are generated in a pre-distorted manner, opposite of the chromatic aberration of the respective beam path, such that the chromatic aberration generated in the respective beam path is compensated when the first and second image is displayed. The display unit includes a switching module which operates in temporal synchrony with the first and second image being generated, such that a user can see the first image only via the first beam path and the second image only via the second beam path. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134535 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A display device is provided which includes: a still image detection unit ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134536 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING IMAGE THEREOF - An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a liquid crystal pane and a gamma correction module. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixels including normal pixels and abnormal pixels. For a same gray scale, the normal pixels are driven by a first gray scale signal and the abnormal pixels are driven by a second gray scale signal, in order that the brightness of an image displayed by the normal pixels and the brightness of the image displayed by the abnormal pixels are substantially identical. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134537 | DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD - The display apparatus includes a dot matrix type display device including a display material; a driver circuit that passively drives a plurality of pixels in the display device; and a control circuit that controls the driver circuit. The control circuit applies a voltage pulse to initialize a plurality of pixels to be rewritten and applies a voltage pulse to change a tone state of the plurality of pixels and display the tone. The voltage pulse to be applied for the tone display includes an all-selected voltage pulse to be applied to a plurality of pixels the tone state of which are changed, and a half-selected voltage pulse and a non-selected voltage pulse to be applied to a plurality of pixels the tone state of which are not changed, and a ratio of the all-selected voltage to the half-selected voltage is larger than 2 | 2010-06-03 |
20100134538 | DRIVING METHODS FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS - This application is directed to driving methods for electrophoretic displays. The driving methods comprise grey level waveforms which greatly enhance the pictorial quality of images displayed. The driving method comprises: (a) applying waveform to drive each pixel from its initial color state to the full first color then to a color state of a desired level; or (b) applying waveform to drive each pixel from its initial color state to the full second color then to a color state of a desired level. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134539 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS, INK SUPPLYING MECHANISM AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes an ink jet head having a pressure chamber facing a nozzle, and an upstream port and a downstream port connected to the pressure chamber, a main tank connected to the ink jet head via the upstream port and capable of storing ink therein, and a sub-tank connected to the ink jet head via the downstream port and capable of storing ink, wherein at least when printing by ejecting ink from the nozzle, the relation between ph, r, R and Q is held to satisfy ph−{QR×(1/(1+r))}=Pn (Pn being a constant representing a proper pressure in the nozzle), where ph represents a potential pressure in the main tank as viewed from a surface of an orifice plate where the nozzle of the ink jet head is formed, R represents a total flow path resistance from the main tank to the sub-tank via the ink jet head, a ratio of a flow path resistance from the main tank to the nozzle and a flow path resistance from the nozzle to the sub-tank is expressed by 1:r, and Q represents a flow rate of ink that circulates in a circulation path formed by connecting the ink jet head, the main tank and the sub-tank. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134540 | METHOD OF PRIMING PAGEWIDTH PRINTHEAD - A method of priming ejection nozzles of a printhead is provided in which inwardly directed force is applied on an exterior wall of a bag containing fluid for distribution to the nozzles so as to reduce an available fluid volume of the bag, thereby causing fluid to be distributed from the bag to the nozzles, and a biasing member in the bag is caused to apply outwardly directed force on an interior wall of the bag so as to restrain the reduction of available fluid volume of the bag only once the available fluid volume of the bag has been reduced to a predetermined volume. The printhead is a pagewidth printhead having a pagewidth of greater than 100 millimetres. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134541 | SECURE UPDATING OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - A method of attempting a write to an entity to cause performance of an action is provided in which a first message is sent to the entity which causes performance of the action and adjustment of initial values in respective security fields of the entity to respective first adjusted values, and a second message is sent to the entity which causes adjustment of the initial values to respective second adjusted values. The security fields have write restrictions which prevent values in the security fields being adjusted, in accordance with the first message, if the initial values have been adjusted in accordance with the second message, and vice versa. The action is only performed when the initial values have been adjusted in accordance with the first message. The respective first adjusted values are different than the respective second adjusted values. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134542 | INKJET PRINTING PARTIALLY IMAGED PANELS WITH SUPERIMPOSED LAYERS - A panel and method for making the panel are disclosed. The panel includes a substrate sheet partially imaged with a print pattern. The print pattern subdivides the panel into a plurality of discrete printed areas and/or a plurality of discrete unprinted areas. The design is superimposed on or forms a part of said print pattern. The design comprises a design layer. The print pattern includes a base layer. The print pattern includes elongate printed areas orientated lengthways in one direction. The design layer and base layer include inkjet printable ink in elongate ink deposits orientated lengthways in the one direction. The elongate ink deposits may have an aspect ratio of length:width greater than 1.5:1. The base layer may include white ink. The panel may be made using a digital inkjet cylindrical printer that prints the base layer during at least 10 revolutions of the cylinder. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134543 | RECORDING ELEMENT SUBSTRATE AND RECORDING HEAD HAVING THE SAME - A recording element substrate includes a recording element, a first voltage conversion circuit configured to receive a first control signal and to output the first control signal with an increased amplitude, a second voltage conversion circuit configured to receive a second control signal and to output the second control signal with an increased amplitude, a PMOS transistor connected to one end of the recording element, and an NMOS transistor connected to the other end of the recording element, wherein the PMOS transistor has a gate connected to an output of the first voltage conversion circuit, and the NMOS transistor has a gate connected to an output of the second voltage conversion circuit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134544 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - A voltage pulse that keeps the ejection volume within a specified range is selected for a plurality of print element columns, based on the heater rank and ink temperature information that influences the ejection volume during ink ejection. At this time, the voltage pulse is controlled so that the voltage value of the pulse is equal for a plurality of print element columns at any ink temperature and varies according to the ink temperature. This control process enables pulses of the same voltage value to be applied at all times to a plurality of nozzle columns even if these nozzle columns in the print head have different heater ranks. As a result, the ejection volumes of all nozzle columns can be kept within a specified range with high precision over a wide range of base temperature, without requiring complicated circuit configurations. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134545 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a line head which includes first and second basic heads each having a plurality of nozzles in a predetermined direction and in which the first and second basic heads are arranged in the predetermined direction so as to form an overlapping section in the predetermined direction and a controller which controls the first and second basic heads when at least one of a print medium and the line head moves in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction and which controls the first and second basic heads so as to print the contour of a character or a line image by using only one of the first and second basic heads when the character or the line image is contained in an image printable by the overlapping section. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134546 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes: a first head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at a first pitch in a predetermined direction; a second head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at a second pitch larger than the first pitch in the predetermined direction and which is spaced from the first head by a predetermined distance in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction; and a controller which controls the first and second heads so that only the first head prints the contour of a character or a line image and at least the second head prints a portion of the character or the line image other than the contour, when a print image is the character or the line image. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134547 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes: a first head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at a predetermined pitch in a predetermined direction; a second head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at the predetermined pitch in the predetermined direction in the predetermined direction and which is spaced from the first head by a predetermined distance in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction; and a controller which controls the first and second heads so that one of the first and second heads prints the contour of a character or a line image and both the first and second heads print a portion of the character or the line image other than the contour, when printing the character or the line image in the direction intersecting the predetermined direction. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134548 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head that includes a discharge port face on which a plurality of discharge ports for discharging ink is formed, a cap configured to cap the discharge port face, a suction recovery unit configured to suck ink from the recording head via the cap, and a control unit configured to control the suction recovery unit so that a suction amount changes based on elapsed time from when the discharge port face is capped by the cap, in a state where ink discharged from the recording head is present, wherein the control unit controls the suction recovery unit so that the suction amount decreases as the elapsed time increases when the elapsed times does not exceed a first time. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134549 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An inkjet printing system and method for printing comprising a printhead having two columns of nozzles, and the printhead is in fluid communication with an ink source and in electrical communication with a controller. In response to the print control signals transmitted from the controller, the printhead ejects ink from the two columns in alternating succession to print images having a checkerboard pattern. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134550 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTING CONTROL PROGRAM - A printing control apparatus includes a printing unit which designates a color material amount set corresponding to a designated index by referring to a lookup table defining a correspondence between the index that specifies a target value that is information indicating a color of an object and a target color material amount set that is the color material amount set of which approximation to the target value is maximized. The target color material amount set is a second color material amount set obtained by predicting a first color material amount set based on a predetermined prediction model so that the approximation is maximized while the used amount of the low-concentration color material is suppressed and by using the first color material amount set as an initial value of the predetermined prediction model so that the approximation is maximized while the used amount of the high-concentration color material is suppressed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134551 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a plurality of image sensors imaging a sheet to be conveyed, and a direct sensor unit performing the signal processing of the outputs of the image sensors to detect the movement of the sheet. Here, the plurality of image sensors are provided on the carriage at least at two positions with at least the recording element array diagonally put between the two positions. The plurality of image sensors can image the sheet at two positions separated in a main scan direction and a sub-scan direction. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134552 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus including a sensor unit for measuring a moving state of a sheet by optically detecting a surface of the sheet conveyed by a conveying unit. The sensor unit measures and compares the moving states of the sheet at a first measurement position and a second measurement position which are distinct from each other in a main scanning direction, to thereby obtain information on a skew state of a skew component of the moving sheet. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134553 | PRINTER FOR NESTING WITH IMAGE READER - A printer is provided having a body shaped for nesting with an image reader, and a printhead for printing of print media. The body is configured so that the nested image reader extends outwardly therefrom such that printed media from the printhead is collected on a surface of the image reader. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134554 | PRINTHEAD INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING SENSING AND TEST CIRCUITRY - A printhead IC is provided having ejection nozzles, drive circuitry for sending drive pulses to resistive heaters of the nozzles to cause ejection from the nozzles, sensing circuitry being activated to sense the temperature of the printhead IC and adjust the profile of the sent drive pulses in accordance with the sensed temperature and being de-activated after a period of use, and test circuitry for selectively disabling the resistive heaters when they receive the drive pulses while comparing the resistance of the resistive heaters against a predetermined threshold to assess whether the resistive heaters are defective. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134555 | RESIN COMPOSITION, RESIN CURED PRODUCT, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD - An epoxy resin composition, including: an epoxy resin (A) represented by Formula (1); an epoxy resin (B) having an epoxy equivalent of 220 or less and having twice or more epoxy groups in a molecule than epoxy groups of the epoxy resin (A); and a photocationic polymerization initiator (C), in which: the epoxy resins (A) and (B) constitute main components; and a weight of the epoxy resin (A) is 40% or more and a weight of the epoxy resin (B) is 30% or more with respect to a total weight of the epoxy resins (A) and (B): | 2010-06-03 |
20100134556 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A liquid droplet ejection apparatus for drawing on a workpiece by ejecting functional liquid droplets includes a functional liquid droplet ejection head that is movable relative to the workpiece; and a suction unit that sucks the functional liquid droplets from an ejection nozzle of the functional liquid droplet ejection head. The functional liquid droplet ejection head is able to be replaced when the functional liquid droplet ejection head faces the suction unit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134557 | PLATEN AND IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A platen for supporting a reverse surface of a recording medium under a recording head capable of performing image recording with ink droplets on the recording medium, which is conveyed along a specified direction in a main body of an inkjet recording apparatus. The platen comprises an ink receiving portion which receives ink and an ink guiding portion. The ink guiding portion guides the ink received by the ink receiving portion to an ink absorbing member. Specifically, the ink guiding portion guides the ink to an ink guide groove provided in an upper surface of a placement portion, on which the ink absorbing member is placed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134558 | CARRIAGE AND RECORDING APPARATUS PROVIDED THEREWITH - A carriage mounting a head unit having a recording head thereon and reciprocatably supported on a recording apparatus, the carriage includes: a displacement mechanism displacing the head unit in the direction intersecting with a head surface of the recording head; and a tilt angle adjusting mechanism to adjust a tilt angle of the head unit in a rotation direction along the head surface. The tilt angle adjusting mechanism has a slidably contacting member slidably contacting with the head unit in the case of the displacement of the head unit to define the tilt angle of the head unit, and has an adjusting eccentric cam engaging with the slidably contacting member to adjust the position of the slidably contacting member. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134559 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING LAMINATED INK DISTRIBUTION STACK - An elongate printhead assembly for a pagewidth printer includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having mounted thereon various electronic components to facilitate operation of the printer; one or more printhead integrated circuits, each angularly disposed with respect to a longitudinal axis of the PCB; one or more printed circuit interconnections for providing signal communication between the one or more printhead integrated circuits and the electronic components; an ink distribution molding for receiving ink from an ink reservoir, the ink distribution molding having defined therein a plurality of ink ducts and a plurality of transitional ducts provided below the ink ducts, the ink ducts and transitional ducts being connected via ink transfer ports; and a laminated stack arranged between the ink distribution molding and the one or more printhead integrated circuits, the laminated stack having defined therethrough a plurality of ink holes for feeding ink to the printhead integrated circuits. The transitional ducts are angled acutely with respect to the ink ducts to align with the plurality of ink holes. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134560 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NOZZLE PLATE FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, NOZZLE PLATE FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - Provided is a method for manufacturing a nozzle plate which has a through hole having an ejection port. In the method, the through hole, which has one opening as an ejection port for ejecting the liquid, is arranged on a Si substrate by an anisotropic etching method wherein etching and side wall protection film formation are alternately repeated to the Si substrate and the following steps are performed in the following order; forming a film to be an etching mask on a surface of the Si substrate whereupon the ejection port is to be formed, forming the etching mask pattern having an opening for forming the thorough hole by performing photolithography and etching to a film to be the etching mask, and performing the etching by the anisotropic etching method by satisfying the conditional expression. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134561 | DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A droplet ejection device includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a droplet ejection surface which has a plurality of nozzles opening thereon and a flat bonding surface which lies opposite to the droplet ejection surface. The droplet ejection surface is curved corresponding to a curved surface onto which the nozzles ejecting droplets. The second member is bonded to the bonding surface of the first member. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134562 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH FIRST AND SECOND NOZZLE PLATES - An inkjet printhead with first and second nozzle plates. The first nozzle plate is comprised of a first material spanning a plurality of nozzles. The first nozzle plate has a plurality of cavities filled with a filler such that an upper surface of the first nozzle plate and an upper surface of the filler together define a contiguous planar surface. The second nozzle plate is comprised of a second material disposed on the planar surface. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134563 | Modular Printer With Arcuate Printheads - A modular printer includes a housing having an upper and lower cover, a first side wall having an air duct with an air inlet, and a second side wall defining air exit vents, the air duct, air inlet and air vent facilitating ducting of warm air over print media passing through the housing; entry and exit media feed roller assemblies located at opposite ends of the housing for feeding the print media through the housing, each roller assembly having a pair of rollers with a print media feed path interposed between the rollers; and a print engine having two opposing printhead assembly, each printhead assembly having two arcuate printheads. Each printhead has a radius of curvature approximating a radius of the rollers. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134564 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - A liquid ejecting head is provided which ejects liquid from nozzle openings by driving pressure generating elements, and includes: at least two rows of lead electrodes that supply an electrical signal to the pressure generating elements; and at least two wiring boards for supplying the electrical signal to the lead electrodes, wherein: the wiring boards respectively have individual wires which are electrically connected to the pressure generating elements, respectively, via the lead electrodes, and common wires which are electrically connected in common to a plurality of pressure generating elements via the lead electrodes; and, the wiring boards are formed such that a spacing between the respective common wires of the two opposing wiring boards is narrower than a spacing between the respective individual wires of the two opposing wiring boards. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134565 | Inkjet Nozzle Device With Static And Movable Nozzle Chamber Portions - A nozzle device for an inkjet printer includes a support structure defining an ink inlet chamber connected to a source of ink; an elongate actuating arm cantilevered relative to the support structure; and a nozzle chamber structure defining a nozzle chamber for receiving ink from the ink inlet chamber, the nozzle chamber structure comprising a static portion extending from the support structure, and further comprising a movable wall portion mounted to the actuating arm between the ends of the elongate actuating arm. The elongate actuating arm terminates in a free end within the nozzle chamber, the free end adapted to move within the nozzle chamber to eject ink therefrom. The elongate actuating arm is positioned to divide the nozzle chamber from the ink inlet chamber. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134566 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, AND PRINTHEAD, HEAD CARTRIDGE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS USING THE ELEMENT SUBSTRATE - This invention relates to a printhead element substrate having a plurality of electrothermal transducers and a plurality of switching elements which drive the plurality of electrothermal transducers. The element substrate has a level converter which is shared by adjacent electrothermal transducers and steps up an input driving signal, and a switch circuit which supplies the driving signal output from the level converter to one of the adjacent electrothermal transducers. The switch circuit switches the supply destination of the driving signal in accordance with an external input selection signal. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134567 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH HEATER ELEMENTS HAVING PARALLEL CURRENT PATHS - An inkjet printhead having an array of ink chambers is disclosed. Each ink chamber has a nozzle and a heater element for generating vapour bubbles to eject ink through the nozzle. The heater element has multiple current paths connected in parallel. Each current path has at least one portion with a reduced cross-section relative to the remainder of the current path. A cross bracing structure is also provided for connecting intermediate portions of the current paths. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134568 | MEMS Device with Uniform Membrane - A MEMS based device is described with recesses covered by a membrane. The membranes over the recesses are highly uniform due to being formed by a stack of layers that are epitaxial layers with high uniformity. The unnecessary layers of the stack, such as the handle layer, are removed prior to completion of the device to achieve a membrane with a desired thickness. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134569 | CONTINUOUS INKJET PRINTERS - The invention describes a print-head for a continuous inkjet printer having a charge electrode array in which each charge electrode in the array is relatively wide (W) compared to the spacing (s-W) between the electrode. Preferably the width is an order of magnitude greater than the spacing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134570 | INK REFILL DEVICE AND METHOD - This disclosure provides a device and method for refilling ink cartridges. In some embodiments the device and related method are partially automated. In some embodiments the method involves very few manual steps, the use of the device results in very little ink loss, and the device is easy to maintain. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134571 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND INK-JET PRINTER - A liquid ejection head may include a first flow channel member and a second flow channel member, wherein the first flow channel member and the second flow channel member are disposed to form a liquid supply flow channel configured to supply liquid to an ejection port, a supply and discharge flow channel communicated with a supply port and a discharge port, and a communicating flow channel configured to communicate the supply and discharge flow channel to the liquid supply flow channel. The liquid ejection head may also include a seal member which constitutes a part of the supply and discharge flow channel and connects the first flow channel member to the second flow channel member in a water-tight manner. The communicating flow channel may be communicated with the supply and discharge flow channel via a filter disposed in the interior of the second flow channel member. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134572 | Ink Jet Recording Apparatus and Ink Jet Recording Method - An ink jet recording apparatus which records information on a medium by jetting an ink onto a recording surface of the medium includes an ink accommodation section which accommodates the ink; a head which jets the ink onto the recording surface; a transporting roller which transports the medium on which the information has been recorded; and a powder supply mechanism which supplies a powder to the transporting roller. Image transfer from the recording surface of the medium to the transporting roller and image retransfer from the transporting roller to the recording surface of the following medium are inhibited and which has excellent recording quality. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134573 | PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY WITH INK SUPPLY SHUT OFF - A printhead assembly with a printhead and a shut off ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134574 | ATTACHMENT, LIQUID CONTAINER, AND LIQUID SUPPLY APPARATUS - An attachment is mounted on a cartridge holder of a printer as a replacement of an ink cartridge. An ink outlet member having a link passage is separably secured to an attachment body. Ink is supplied from the exterior to the ink outlet member through an ink supply tube. When the attachment is mounted on the cartridge holder, a downstream end of the ink outlet member is positioned with respect to and connected to an ink supply needle of the printer. Accordingly, the attachment is easily and quickly installed in a liquid ejection apparatus. This reduces costs and makes it easy to use the attachment. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134575 | REFILLABLE INK CARTRIDGE WITH INK BYPASS CHANNEL FOR REFILLING - A refillable ink cartridge has an ink port for both supplying ink to a printhead and refilling the cartridge. An ink reservoir has ink absorbent material disposed therein with a main fluid channel extending between the ink port and the ink absorbent material. A bypass fluid channel with a control valve extends between the main fluid channel the said absorbent material. The bypass control valve is configured to allow ink to flow through the bypass fluid channel only when refilling the ink reservoir via the ink port. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134576 | FLOTATION APPARATUS - A flotation apparatus F includes a tank | 2010-06-03 |
20100134577 | Inkjet Printhead With Pressure Pulse Priming - An inkjet printer that has a printhead with an array of ink ejection nozzles, an upstream ink line for connecting the printhead to an ink supply, a downstream ink line for connecting the printhead to a sump, a pump in the downstream ink line for drawing fluid out of the printhead, a gas inlet in communication with the printhead, the gas inlet being configured to open to atmosphere during a printhead de-priming operation, and close to atmosphere during a printhead priming operation and, an accumulator positioned in the upstream ink line for generating a positive pressure pulse for priming the printhead. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134578 | Liquid Ejection Apparatus with a Transporter Surface Including at Least One Hard Porous Member - There are provided a sucking unit having a recording medium transportation surface including a plurality of sucking holes, a decompression chamber communicating with the sucking holes and a sucking device for sucking air in the decompression chamber, and a delivering device for sucking a recording medium supplied onto the recording medium transportation surface of the sucking unit onto the recording medium transportation surface through the sucking hole by the sucking device, and delivering the recording medium from an upstream side of the sucking unit to a downstream side thereof. Each sucking hole of the sucking unit is formed by a through hole section communicating with the decompression chamber and a sucking chamber having a larger area of a sucking surface opposed to the recording medium than a sectional area of the through hole section. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134579 | Hand Operated Marking Device Incorporating Printer With Movable Printhead And Replaceable Cartridge - A hand operated marking device includes a pair of housings movably interconnected together, a first one of the housings adapted to be received in a second one of the housings responsive to a compression of the housings; a printer located along a bottom surface of the first housing, the printer including a movable printhead exposed through an aperture of the first housing; a moving mechanism housed within at least one of the housings, the moving mechanism for moving the printhead in a printing direction responsive to the compression of the housings; and a shutter for covering the aperture of the first housing, the shutter adapted to be retracted as the moving mechanism moves the printhead. The moving mechanism includes a pair of arms pivotally mounted at one end to the second housing and at the other end to the printhead, and further comprising an extension return spring extending between the other end of the arms and the first housing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134580 | THERMAL PRINTER AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL HEAD - A thermal printer includes a first thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with one side of a paper, a second thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with the other side of the paper, and a controller. The first thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on one side of the paper. The second thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on the other side of the paper. The controller is configured to shift the energization times between the first thermal head and second thermal head. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134581 | THERMAL HEAD, THERMAL PRINTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THERMAL HEAD - To improve printing quality and reduce manufacturing cost, a plurality of heating resistors ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134582 | THERMAL HEAD, THERMAL PRINTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THERMAL HEAD - To improve heat generating efficiency and printing quality, a plurality of heating resistors ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134583 | THERMAL HEAD, THERMAL PRINTER, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THERMAL HEAD - To improve print quality, a plurality of heating resistors ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100134584 | THERMAL PRINTER AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD OF THERMAL HEAD - A thermal printer includes a first thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with one side of a paper, a second thermal head which is so provided as to be brought into contact with the other side of the paper, and a controller. The first thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on one side of the paper. The second thermal head energizes a plurality of heater elements to print dot image data on the other side of the paper. The controller is configured to shift the energization times between the first thermal head and second thermal head. | 2010-06-03 |