23rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100141538 | Earphone antenna and wireless device including the same - An earphone antenna is provided that can eliminate high-frequency adverse effects on a wireless device transmitted from a human body via an earphone. The earphone antenna can ensure receiver sensitivity required for a signal in a wide frequency range without any sensitivity control operation and can transmit audio signals from a television receiver to an earphone unit. Two pairs of audio/high-frequency signal lines ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141539 | Antenna system - In an antenna array, in particular for diversity operation, a cohesive radiofrequency-conductive area ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141540 | METHOD OF MAKING A VEHICLE ANTENNA - The invention relates to a method for producing a vehicle antenna device ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141571 | Image Sensor with Integrated Light Meter for Controlling Display Brightness - The present invention is directed to an image sensor with an integrated light meter that can be used to automatically adjust the display brightness based on ambient light in the environment. According to one embodiment, an automatic exposure (AE) control loop estimates the ambient light when the image sensor is imaging, and the image sensor measures the ambient light when the image sensor is not imaging. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141572 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - An active-backlight-type image display device includes an illumination device that enables a cost reduction of a light source and can display an image more accurately by eliminating an influence on temperature characteristics. In a so-called active-backlight-type display device, an illumination device includes a plurality of light sources that correspond one to one to a plurality of divided display regions and whose number is the same as that of the divided display regions, and a light transmission medium that transmits light emitted from each of the light sources to the divided display region corresponding to the light source to irradiate the same. Brightness of the plurality of light sources is controlled individually, so that an amount of irradiation light is controlled. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141573 | LUMINANCE ENHANCEMENT STRUCTURE WITH MOIRE REDUCING DESIGN - The present invention is directed to luminance enhancement structure for reflective display devices. The structure not only can enhance the brightness of a display device, but also can reduce the Moiré effect of the display device. The present invention is also directed to a display device comprising an array of microcups and a luminance enhancement structure. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for operating a mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a pressure sensor and an orientation sensor. While a pressure event is detected by the pressure sensor, functions related to content classification, content storage, content display, and menu navigation can be executed in response to a direction event detected by the orientation sensor. Hence, the mobile terminal is capable of operating in a dynamic and a flexible manner. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141575 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display device enabling first and second viewers to view two respective different screens and enabling the first viewer to easily view the content displayed to the second viewer in a two-screen display mode. The video display device ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141576 | TOUCHPAD USING RESISTIVE ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE FIBER AND INPUT DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - There are provided a touchpad using resistive electro-conductive fibers and an input device having the same, which can be used for controlling a personal terminal such as a computer by receiving a user's input using a signal representing a motion of the user detected by the resistive electro-conductive fiber in contact with the user's body part such as a finger, instead of using a separate input device such as a mouse. The touchpad includes a plurality of motion detectors and a signal analyzer. The motion detectors each include a resistive electro-conductive fiber having a resistance value varied according to a change in length caused by contact with a human body part, and a signal generator outputting a signal corresponding to the varied resistance value. The signal analyzer analyzes the signal from each of the motion detectors, and generates a motion signal representing a motion of the human body part in contact with the touchpad. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141577 | POINTING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A data processing device includes a cursor position decision unit, a display control unit, a switch operation signal detection unit, a storage unit, an event generation unit and an event execution unit. The storage unit is configured to store, for a predetermined period, at least one of cursor position information outputted from the cursor position decision unit and event information according to one of a plurality of selection options located in a displayed image at a position corresponding to the cursor position decided by the cursor position decision unit. The event generation unit is configured to generate an execution event when a first switch operation signal is detected at a first timing by the switch operation signal detection unit based on the at least one of the cursor position information and the event information stored in the storage unit at a second timing prior to the first timing. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141578 | IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROLLER, AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display control apparatus comprises a menu creating unit displays an operation menu ME on a liquid crystal display unit of an image display apparatus, a camera with an infrared filter capable of recognizing an infrared signal coming from a remote controller, a remote controller position identifying unit identifies the position which the remote controller occupies during image capturing on the basis of the recognition result, a remote controller position signal creating unit displays the identified position of the remote controller on the liquid crystal display unit, and a user operation judging unit determines the operable specification object in the operation menu displayed on the liquid crystal display unit. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141579 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A COMPUTING SYSTEM - A handheld computing device is introduced comprising a motion detection sensor(s) and a motion control agent. The motion detection sensor(s) detect motion of the computing device in one or more of six (6) fields of motion and generate an indication of such motion. The motion control agent, responsive to the indications of motion received from the motion sensors, generate control signals to modify, one or more of the operating state and/or the displayed content of the computing device based, at least in part, on the received indications. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141580 | PIEZO-ELECTRIC SENSING UNIT AND DATA INPUT DEVICE USING PIEZO-ELECTRIC SENSING - Disclosed herein is a piezoelectric sensing unit and a data input device using piezoelectric sensing. The data input device of the present invention includes a base, an input unit, first piezoelectric sensing parts, and a control unit. The input unit performs a first directional input in such a way that the input unit moves to one of first direction indicating locations arranged around a base location in radial directions at positions spaced apart from each other within a pre-determined input radius defined on the base. The first piezoelectric sensing parts are provided on respective moving paths of the input unit, so that when the first directional input is performed, the corresponding first piezoelectric sensing part is pressed by the input unit, thus generating a first sensing signal proportional to a pressing force. When the first sensing signal is greater than a preset value, the control unit extracts data, assigned to the corresponding first direction indicating location at which movement of the input unit is sensed, from a memory unit and inputs the data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141581 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR COMPUTER - Control device for a computer mouse. In order to enhance comfort as much as possible and to avoid or even cure RSI phenomena, a control | 2010-06-10 |
20100141582 | SLENDER WHEEL MOUSE - A slender wheel mouse includes a mouse case, a base, a circuit board, a supporting member, a tilt frame, a slender wheel, an encoder, a slender ratchet, a resilience sheet and several switch elements. The slender ratchet is engaged with the slender wheel to drive the encoder. The slender wheel has a relatively smaller diameter and thus the height of the mouse case is reduced. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141583 | WHEEL MOUSE - A wheel mouse includes a mouse case, a base, a circuit board, an encoder, a fixing element, a wheel, a switch element and a spring. The circuit board is disposed on the base. The fixing element includes a ring-shaped part and a hollow post. The encoder is accommodated within the ring-shaped part. The wheel includes a rotating shaft and a receptacle. The ring-shaped part of the fixing element is accommodated in the receptacle. A first end of the rotating shaft is inserted into the encoder perforation. The switch element is mounted on the circuit board and under a second end of the rotating shaft. The spring is inserted into the hollow post for offering an elastic force on the fixing element. Since the encoder is accommodated within the wheel, the overall volume of the wheel mouse is reduced and the loading on the wheel is reduced. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141584 | STROKE BASED INPUT SYSTEM FOR CHARACTER INPUT - An improved handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus, preferably a trackball, an output apparatus, namely a display, and a processor apparatus. The processor apparatus is structured to execute a number of routines including a stroke-based input user interface routine. The stroke-based input user interface routine is structured to present a user interface on the display. The user interface includes an active portion, a filter portion and an output portion. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141585 | MID-KEYBOARD-MONITOR COMPUTER-BASED AUDIO I/O DEVICE - A system and device for placement between a keyboard and monitor on a work surface that routes cables and provides access to controls, where the system and device rest in a first position for use and a second position for access to ports and cables. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141586 | Cushioned User Interface Or Control Device - A user interface or control includes a cushion-type support member and a user input member that is interconnected with and carried by the support member. The support member defines an upwardly facing recess, and the input member may be a user interface or control device that is contained within the upwardly facing recess. The support member may be formed to surround the recess about the user interface or control device. The support member may include an air vent that vents air exhausted from the user interface or control device. The user interface or control device may be a laptop computer having a body including a keyboard contained within the recess, and a screen carried by the body. The user interface or control device may alternatively be an electronic input member having an upwardly facing screen, a convertible input member movably mounted to a mounting member, or a game controller. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141587 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING RECONFIGURABLE KEYBOARD LAYOUT AND METHOD FOR RECONFIGURING KEYBOARD LAYOUT - An electronic device having a plurality of operation keys, a position sensor, a keyboard layout controller and a keyboard illumination controller is provided. The operation keys are configured to form a reconfigurable keyboard layout. The keyboard layout controller is configured to reconfigure the keyboard layout in accordance with the position of the electronic device sensed by the position sensor. The keyboard illumination controller is configured to illuminate one of the operation keys being usable in the keyboard layout after the reconfiguration. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141588 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In a portable electronic apparatus, a second keyboard to be manipulated with a right hand is joined to a first keyboard unit including a first keyboard to be manipulated with a left hand so that the second keyboard can be turned down. A display unit having a built-in liquid crystal display is joined to the first keyboard unit so that the display unit can be tuned down. When the display unit is turned down, the display unit engages with the second keyboard unit that is turned down. When all the parts of the electronic apparatus are closed, the electronic apparatus serves as a CD player of a CD jacket size. When the display unit is opened, the electronic apparatus has not only the capability of a DVD player but also the capability of a simple personal computer. When all the parts are left open, the electronic apparatus serves as a personal computer having a full keyboard. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141589 | TOUCH INPUT INTERPRETATION - A method of operating a touch display includes interpreting a touch input on the touch display as a first kind of gesture if a source of the touch input is of a first type and a parameter of the touch input is below a first threshold. The touch input is interpreted as a second kind of gesture if the source is of the first type and the parameter of the touch input is above the first threshold. The touch input is interpreted as the first kind of gesture if the source is of a second type and the parameter of the touch input is below a second threshold, the second threshold being different than the first threshold. The touch input is interpreted as the second kind of gesture if the source is of the second type and the parameter of the touch input is above the second threshold. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141590 | Soft Keyboard Control - This document describes tools associated with soft keyboard control functions. In some implementations, the tools recognize a keyboard launch gesture on a touch sensitive screen and present a preview of a keyboard on the touch sensitive screen responsive to the launch gesture. The tools can also display the keyboard on the touch sensitive screen responsive to cessation of the launch gesture. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141591 | COMPOSITE TOUCH PANEL AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A composite touch panel includes a first insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a plurality of spacers, a second conductive layer and a second insulating layer in turn stacked on each other. The second conductive layer is applied with a predetermined first working voltage, and the voltages at four comers of the first conductive layer are measured. The composite touch panel is judged to work at a resistance mode when one of the measured voltages exceeds a first threshold, and a pressed position on the composite touch panel is determined. The composite touch panel is judged to work at a capacitance mode when all of the measured voltages are smaller than the first threshold. At the capacitance mode, whether a touch is present is judged, and the touch position is also determined when a touch is present. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141592 | DIGITAL CAMERA WITH CHARACTER BASED MODE INITIATION - A digital camera includes a touch-screen for receiving individually or in any combination one ore more characters all of which are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions from a user; memory for storing one or more characters all of which individually or in any combination are short-hand notation for corresponding camera modes or functions; and a processor that receives the user input from the touch-screen and correlates the received input to one of the stored characters and directing the selected camera mode or function to initiate. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141593 | Stylus pen and flat panel display apparatus including the same - A stylus pen includes a body portion, and an end portion on the body portion, the end portion including a reflecting unit and adapted to contact a touch screen. The reflecting unit is adapted to reflect light toward a display apparatus including the stylus pen, so light receiving accuracy of a photosensor in the display apparatus is increased. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141594 | Method of inputting information using touch input device and system for performing the same - A touch input device is configured to apply an information input method and system for use with a portable terminal. In the information input method and system, when a touch against the touch input device is not released, voltage generated in a resistive overlay touch screen is changed by the touch input device and various functions are performed according to the voltage change. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141595 | TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel including scan lines, data lines, pixel units electrically connecting the scan lines and the data lines, at least a sensing-signal line locating between the pixel units, and at least a touch-sensing device is provided. Each touch-sensing element includes a set of sensing pads and a signal transmission element. The set of the sensing pads includes a first pad and a second pad separated from each other. The first pad and the second pad are respectively electrically connected to the scan line and the sensing-signal line. The signal transmission element is located above the set of the sensing pads. When a position where the touch-sensing element is disposed is pressed, the signal transmission element directly contacts the first pad and the second pad. When the position where the touch-sensing element is disposed is unpressed, the first pad and the second pad are electrically insulated. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141596 | User Interface for a Portable Communicator for Use in a Process Control Environment - A portable communicator for use in a process control system. The portable communicator includes a touchscreen configured to receive input from a user. The touchscreen may include a user interface that separate the scrolling functionality from the selection functionality. In one embodiment, the user interface includes a first portion and a second portion that is separate from the first portion. The first portion of the user interface includes multiple input fields associated with a multiple parameters of a field device. The first portion enables a user to scroll through the multiple input fields (e.g., via a grab-and-drag mechanism), and the second portion enables the user to select a value for at least one of the multiple input fields in the first portion. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141597 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PREVENTING INPUT ERROR WHEN INFORMATION IS INPUTTED THROUGH TOUCH SCREEN - Disclosed are a method, device and computer readable recording medium for preventing an input error when information is inputted through a touch screen. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for preventing an input error when information is inputted through a touch screen, including the steps of sensing a start and a finish of a touch on the touch screen and acquiring input data corresponding to a point where the touch is finished when the finish of the touch is sensed, and performing a grammar check on the acquired input data and displaying the input data if the input data is determined to be grammatically correct. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141598 | DISPLAY, DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display includes: a display section having a plurality of pixels provided in a region where a first substrate and a second substrate are disposed opposite to each other; a switch provided in the region where the first substrate and the second substrate are disposed opposite to each other, the switch having two electrodes closed by a pressure from outside; a detecting section comparing a signal from the switch with a reference signal to determine whether the switch is closed or not; and a precharge section applying a precharge potential to a wiring in continuity with one of the electrodes of the switch prior to the detection at the detecting section. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141599 | TOUCH PANEL AND CIRCUIT THEREOF - A sensing circuit for touch panel is disclosed. The sensing circuit includes a switching device, a passive device, a sensing device and a transforming unit. The switching device receives a first control signal and outputs the first control signal according to a second control signal. The passive device couples to the switching device. The sensing device couples to the switching device to form a node, receives the first control signal to generate a reference voltage on the node, and changes the value of the reference voltage to generate a target voltage according to a pressure exerting on a preset position of the surface of the touch panel by a user. The transforming unit receives the target voltage and generates an output current according to the target voltage. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141600 | TOUCH SCREEN - A touch screen is provided, in which a first layer of a transparent electrode is spaced from a second layer of a transparent electrode and a refraction index matching layer is interposed between the first and second layers of the transparent electrodes. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141641 | SHIFT REGISTER - In one embodiment of the present invention, a unit circuit of a shift register includes a bootstrap circuit configured with a transistor T | 2010-06-10 |
20100141642 | SHIFT REGISTER - In one embodiment of the present invention, a unit circuit of a shift register includes a bootstrap circuit configured with a transistor T | 2010-06-10 |
20100141643 | METHOD FOR DRIVING DISPLAY PANEL - A method for driving a display panel is provided. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, providing a first scan signal to turn on a plurality of first sub-pixels within the i | 2010-06-10 |
20100141644 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device and a method of driving the same in which moving image blurring is prevented and a contrast ratio is enhanced by providing a light-emitting element, switching transistors, and a driving transistor with driving signals that include specific voltages at predetermined times, so that the light-emitting element does not emit light for an entire frame and the light output is not influenced by a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141645 | Organic light emitting display device and method of driving the same - An organic light emitting display device capable of driving transistor threshold voltage compensation, including: pixels positioned in the intersections of scan lines and data lines, wherein each pixel comprises: a first transistor and a fourth transistor, connected at a common node, disposed between an anode of an OLED and a first power supply; a cathode of the OLED connected to a second power supply; a second transistor connected between a gate of the first transistor and a data line, and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line; a third transistor connected between the common node and the data line, and turned on when a scan signal is supplied to the scan line; a first capacitor connected between the gate of the first transistor and the anode of the OLED; and a second capacitor connected between the anode of the OLED and a predetermined voltage source. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141646 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device that includes: first and second drive circuits which are provided in each of the plurality of pixels, and connected to a scanning line and a data line of the display panel, to drive the display element; a scan driver which sequentially scans each scanning line of the display panel; a data driver which supplies the data signal to one of the first and second drive circuits via the data line according to the scanning by the scan driver, and writes the data signal in the one of the first and second drive circuits; and a display controller which drives display elements based on data written in the other one of the drive circuits simultaneously with the data write by the data driver, and executes data display on the display panel. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141647 | BACK LIGHT UNIT FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a back light unit for a liquid crystal display device, which can improve safety and reliability of the back light unit; and a method for fabricating the same. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141648 | System And Method For View Management In Three Dimensional Space - A method for managing a display space for a 3D environment is provided. A 3D scene having at least one scene object is displayed and the visible surfaces of the scene objects are represented as visible space in a 2D view plane representation. Controllable objects that are to be placed in the scene are defined by parameters such as size, placement priority, proximity relationships and the like. The available space for placing controllable objects, which can include empty space and low priority background and foreground regions, is determined for each controllable object. The placement for controllable objects in the 3D space is then determined in accordance with at least placement parameter and one of the visible space and available space of the view-plane representation such that view management objectives, such as not occluding important scene objects, are accomplished. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141649 | DRAWING DEVICE - An intersection point is obtained between a triangle forming a 3-dimensional graphics and a straight line. In the straight line, a line in a triangle is obtained. Then, a pixel on the line is obtained, and only these pixels are read from memory for a drawing process. The straight line inside the triangle is determined using an edge functions. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141650 | COMMAND REMOTING TECHNIQUES - Techniques for improved command level remoting are disclosed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141651 | Synthesizing Detailed Depth Maps from Images - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for synthesizing a detailed depth map from a video image. In embodiments, the motion vectors decoded from a video stream may be classified into groups by the application of K-Model clustering techniques based on an affine model. In embodiments, a coarse depth map of the image pixels may be generated using the image segmented according to the motion vector clusters. In embodiments, high resolution gradient maps of the image may be generated using the coarse depth map as well as edge information from the image. In embodiments, a surface reconstruction algorithm, such as the Frankot-Chellappa algorithm, may be applied to the high resolution gradient maps to synthesize a detailed depth map of the image. A detailed depth map of an image may be used to render a three-dimensional surface, for example. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141652 | System and Method for Photorealistic Imaging Using Ambient Occlusion - Scene model data, including a scene geometry model and a plurality of pixel data describing objects arranged in a scene, is received. A first pixel data of the plurality of pixel data is selected. A primary pixel color and a primary ray are generated based on the first pixel data. If the primary ray intersects an object in the scene, an intersection point, P is determined. A surface normal, N, is determined based on the object intersected and the intersection point, P. A primary hit color is determined based on the intersection point, P. The primary pixel color is modified based on the primary hit color. A plurality of ambient occlusion (AO) rays are generated based on the intersection point, P and the surface normal, N, with each AO ray having a direction, D. For each AO ray, the AO ray direction is reversed, D, the AO ray origin, O, is set to a point outside the scene. Each AO ray is marched from the AO ray origin into the scene to the intersection point, P. If an AO ray intersects an object before reaching point P, that AO ray is excluded from ambient occlusion calculations. If an AO ray does not intersect an object before reaching point P, that ray is included in ambient occlusion calculations. Ambient occlusion is estimated based on included AO rays. The primary pixel color is shaded based on the ambient occlusion and the primary hit color and an image is generated based on the primary pixel color for the pixel data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141653 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AND TRANSFORMING SHADER OF 3D GRAPHIC SYSTEM - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing and transforming a shader of a 3-D graphic system. The apparatus for providing a shader of a 3-D graphic system includes a shader expressing unit for rendering a target shader, an option controller for controlling options of the shader, a similar shader generator for automatically generating similar shaders corresponding to the controlled options, and an output unit for outputting the automatically generated similar shaders. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141654 | Device and Method for Displaying Feature Marks Related to Features in Three Dimensional Images on Review Stations - A system is provided for displaying information associated with at least one feature of a three-dimensional image. The three-dimensional image is apportioned along a plane into a plurality of 2-D image slices and a display is provided for viewing the 2-D image slices. A feature window of the present invention is positioned together with a 2-D image display. The feature window displays feature distribution along a plane normal to the plane of the 2-D image slices for one or more regions of interest, thereby increasing reviewing efficiency by enabling visualization of three-dimensions of information using a 2 dimensional display. As a result a reviewer is able to quickly identify image slices with the most pertinent feature information and diagnostic efficiency and accuracy is greatly increased. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141655 | Method and System for Navigation of Audio and Video Files - A method and system for navigation of an audio or a video file are provided. The method includes providing an audio or video file and generating text associated with the file. This may include one or more of: transcripts of audio content, extraction of text from video content, associating text with the audio or video content, including user tagging of the file. A plurality of phrases from the text for the file are displayed in a phrase cloud, with emphasis of a displayed phrase to indicate the relevance of the phrase in a predefined section of the file. The phrase cloud is animated to show changes in the emphasizing during progression through the file. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141656 | Visualization of a parameter which is measured on the human body - A parameter which is measured continuously in a human body, such as a glucose concentration, is displayed for a patient to understand her current physiological situation and predicted changes and if appropriate that corrective actions. A measured value range for the measured parameter is subdivided into two or more sub-ranges. Trend information is then calculated relating to the future expected profile of the measured parameter on the basis of two or more measured values. A time period after which it is predicted that the measured parameter will have left its current sub-range is calculated based on a current value of the measured parameter and the calculated trend information. Finally, the determined time period is displayed. An apparatus and computer program for carrying this method are also disclosed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141657 | SIMULTANEOUS PHYSICAL AND PROTOCOL LAYER ANALYSIS - A method and apparatus for capturing an analog waveform on a serial bus. The method comprises the steps of designating a predetermined digital data sequence, decoding a serial data signal carried on a serial data bus, and comparing the decoded serial data signal to the predetermined digital data sequence. When it is determined that a portion of the decoded serial data matches the predetermined digital data sequence, the portion of the serial data signal corresponding to the matching portion of the decoded serial data signal is marked. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141658 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHADOWS SHOWING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEPTH - Digital shadowing when rendering visual items (e.g., windows) at different virtual display levels (such as z-order levels). The rendering is based on the determination of a position and virtual display level for each of the visual items to be displayed. For those visual items that cast a shadow on lower-level in-shadow visual items, the determined position of the shadow-casting visual item is used to render the shadow on each of the in-shadow visual items differently depending on the corresponding virtual display level of the in-shadow visual items. In particular, the in-shadow visual item that has a lower virtual display level has a longer shadow cast by the shadow-casting visual item than those in-shadow visual items that have a higher virtual display level. This allows the shadows to have a more natural look. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141659 | DISCARDING OF VERTEX POINTS DURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS RENDERING USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS HARDWARE - This disclosure describes techniques for removing vertex points during two-dimensional (2D) graphics rendering using three-dimensional (3D) graphics hardware. In accordance with the described techniques one or more vertex points may be removed during 2D graphics rendering using 3D graphics hardware. For example, the techniques may remove redundant vertex points in the display coordinate space by discarding vertex points that have the substantially same positional coordinates in the display coordinate space as a previous vertex point. Alternatively or additionally, the techniques may remove excess vertex points that lie in a straight line. Removing the redundant vertex points or vertex points that lie in a straight line allow for more efficient utilization of the hardware resources of the GPU and increase the speed at which the GPU renders the image for display. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141660 | IMAGE RENDERING PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image rendering processing device includes an expanding section, a signal output section, and a writing section. The expanding section reads out font data corresponding to the character code indicated in image rendering data and expands the font data into a size corresponding to horizontal and vertical pixel numbers of the image rendering data. The signal output section (a) reads out a valid range corresponding to the character code, (b) adjusts the valid range based on the pixels of the expanded font data, and counts the pixels in the expanded font data along the specific direction, and (c) outputs a valid signal indicating that a given pixel corresponds to the valid range when a counted pixel number matches the pixel number of a pixel corresponding to the valid range. The writing section writes the pixel that corresponds to the pixel number which is counted when the valid signal is output. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141681 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE THAT CAN BE HELD AT LEAST IN TWO DIRECTIONS FOR USE - While a second control mode is set, a control unit controls an image data output portion such that image data is output in an orientation rotated by 180 degrees as compared with a case where a first control mode is set, controls a first display control unit such that the image data output from the image data output portion is displayed in an orientation rotated further by 180 degrees, and controls a second display control unit such that an instruction image is displayed in an orientation rotated by 180 degrees as compared with the case where the first control mode is set. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141682 | Silhouette image acquisition - Systems and techniques to acquire image data. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: acquiring image data for a plurality of areas of a scan region. The technique may further include processing the image data to determine whether an area includes one or more desired features. The technique may further include designating an area as “interesting” if it includes a desired feature, and designating an area as non-interesting if it does not include the desired feature. The areas may be sub-divided one or more times, and subdivisions may be analyzed to determine if they include a desired feature. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141683 | PANORAMIC DISPLAY FOR A WIRELESS DEVICE - Various embodiments of a panoramic display for a wireless device are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a display comprising a plurality of display regions. The display regions may include a central display region and multiple lateral display regions arranged to provide a panoramic display. Image compression and/or scaling may be applied to media content that is to be displayed in one or more of the lateral display regions based on the proximity of the lateral display region to the edge of the display. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141684 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCALING DATA UP/DOWN ON TOUCH SCREEN - A mobile communication device having a touch screen, a detector and a controller is provided. The touch screen is adapted for displaying and entering data. The detector is configured to detect a trace drawn and entered on the touch screen. The controller is configured to scale up and to scale down data displayed on the touch screen depending on a direction of the trace. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141685 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus displaying an image on a screen according to a turn-on signal is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit, and a control unit which performs a boot up of the display apparatus and displays a pre-stored image separately if the display apparatus is turned on. Accordingly, the user can determine that the boot up is in progress. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141686 | VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A video display device providing viewers with operation adaptable to any of various viewing environments. The video display device ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141687 | METHOD OF ARRANGING GAMMA BUFFERS AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY APPLYING THE METHOD - Provided are a method of arranging gamma buffers capable of decreasing a Kelvin of a source driver included in a flat panel display and minimizing a temperature deviation between source drivers, and the flat panel display applying the method. The method of arranging a plurality of gamma buffers which are arranged in one or more source drivers to output corresponding gamma voltages, includes a step of calculating power consumptions of the gamma buffers, wherein the method further comprises one or more steps of: changing tab points of the gamma buffers by using the calculated power consumptions of the gamma buffers; and changing positions of the gamma buffers by using the calculated power consumptions of the gamma buffers. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141688 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE LAMPS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus includes a first lamp, a second lamp and a power supply unit for supplying electric power to the first or second lamp. In the image display apparatus, while a lamp to which electric power is to be supplied from the power supply unit is switched between the first lamp and the second lamp, the light generated by the first lamp or the second lamp is inhibited from being emitted outside. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141689 | ELECTRONIC SKIN READER - A portable electronic device includes a portable electronic device housing having a surface and a primary, light-emissive display. A display skin covers a portion of the surface of the portable electronic device housing. The display skin provides a secondary, light-reflective display. The display skin includes an optically active layer comprising electrooptical material. A first electrode layer is disposed on a first side of the optically active layer proximal the surface of the portable electronic device housing. A second electrode layer disposed on a second side of the optically active layer distal of the surface of the portable electronic device housing. Electronic circuitry selectively activates the optically active layer such that images including portions of a document are selectively displayed by the display skin. The display skin is capable of maintaining a display of a selectively displayed portion of the document while the primary display is in an unpowered state. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141690 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT DRIVING CIRCUIT - A light-emitting element driving circuit comprising: an index data storage unit configured to store n-bit index data for each of a plurality of light-emitting elements included in a display device, the n-bit index data specifying a storage location of gradation data indicating brightness of a light-emitting element in the plurality of light-emitting elements: a gradation data storage unit configured to store the gradation data with m bits larger than n bits, corresponding to the index data; and a driving circuit configured to drive the light-emitting element on the basis of the gradation data corresponding to the index data so that the light-emitting element emits light at brightness according to the gradation data. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141691 | Display apparatus - A display apparatus, that can prevent thermal destruction and burning with a simple structure, has been disclosed. In the apparatus it is judged that there is possibility of a pattern, whose area with high brightness is small, being displayed frequently, when a state in which the total light emission pulse number remains large occurs with high frequency, and if such a state is detected, the total light emission pulse number (sustain frequency) is reduced to prevent the thermal destruction and burning. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141692 | MULTICOLOR VISUAL FEEDBACK FOR NON-VOLATILE STORAGE - An improved storage device is disclosed having an interface, a controller in communication with this interface, a memory in communication with the controller, wireless communications system, volume control and audio output, battery, and a light-emitting-diode assembly or other multi-colored display in communication with the controller. The light-emitting-diode assembly has a first and a second light-emitting-diode element, the first and second light-emitting-diode elements emitting a first and a second color of light, respectively. The first light-emitting-diode element and said second light-emitting-diode element each independently controlled by the controller via pulse-width-modulation, to produce a third color which appears to be in between the first and second colors in wavelength, this third color indicative of the percent completion of an I/O task, the usage of the memory, volume level, wireless strength, or battery strength. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141693 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - The present invention provides an organic light-emitting display apparatus and a method of driving the same. The organic light-emitting display apparatus comprises a substrate; scan lines and data lines that are formed on the substrate to cross with each other; stacked organic light-emitting diodes that are connected to the scan lines and the data lines on the substrate and each have two sub-pixels which are stacked, wherein the two stacked sub-pixels are individually driven by one data line; a data driver that is connected to the data lines and applies data signals to the data lines; a scan driver that is connected to the scan lines and applies scan signals to the scan lines; a controller that controls the data driver and the scan driver; and a power supply module that supplies a power supply voltage to the data driver, the scan driver, and the controller. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141694 | PRINTING APPARATUS - The printing apparatus includes: a print unit to print on a medium using a pigment ink and a dye ink; a stir mechanism capable of stirring at least the pigment ink; and a control unit to perform control to make the duration of the stirring operation executed prior to starting the printing operation longer when the pigment ink is included in the ink to be used in the printing operation than when it is not. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141695 | INK-JET RECORDING DEVICE AND INK-JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink-jet recording device and method capable of recording a high-quality image with no conspicuous joint belt-like line formed along the border portions between bands each of which is formed by horizontal scannings by serial recording. A band having a width corresponding to a predetermined amount M of movement is formed by (n+1) recording scannings. The ink-jet recording device has a control unit ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141696 | EJECTING METHOD AND EJECTING APPARATUS - Provided is a method of ejecting a coating agent cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave, the method including: a first operation which ejects the coating agent onto a medium; a second operation which is performed after the first operation so as to irradiate an electromagnetic wave to the coating agent ejected onto the medium in the first operation; a third operation which is performed after the second operation so as to eject the coating agent onto the medium; and a fourth operation which is performed after the third operation so as to irradiate the electromagnetic wave to the coating agent ejected onto the medium in the third operation. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141697 | INK JET APPARATUS - A drop emitting device that includes a drop generator, a drive signal including a plurality of fire intervals applied to the drop generator, wherein the drive signal includes in each fire interval a bi-polar drop firing waveform or a time varying non-firing waveform. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141698 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD - A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a pressure chamber that is in communication with a nozzle; an element that operates to cause a pressure change in liquid retained in the pressure chamber; and a discharging pulse generating unit that generates a discharging pulse for operating the element to discharge the liquid from the nozzle, wherein the discharging pulse generating unit generates an anterior discharging pulse and a posterior discharging pulse in such a manner that a time period A from the end of the anterior discharging pulse to the start of the posterior discharging pulse satisfies the following formula (1). | 2010-06-10 |
20100141699 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND DITHER MASK - Provided is a printing apparatus that performs printing by moving a print head in main scan directions and sub scan directions relative to a printing medium, including: an input unit that inputs image data constituting an image; a halftone processing unit that converts the input image data to dot data indicating whether or not dots are formed; and a printing unit that performs printing by controlling ejection of ink from the print head based on the result of the halftone process, wherein, in a printing area where an ink duty is in a predetermined range, the printing unit forms dots by forward movement in which the print head relatively moves in one direction of the main scan directions and backward movement in which the print head relatively moves in the direction opposite to the one direction so that a forward-moving dot occurrence ratio that is a ratio of forming the dots by the forward movement and a backward-moving dot occurrence ratio that is a ratio of forming the dots by the backward movement are gradually increased with a biased magnitude relation as the ink duty is increased. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141700 | PRINTING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USE IN PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device configured to operate selectively in one of a single-sided printing mode and a double-sided printing mode comprises a printing unit configured to eject ink, and a controller. When the printing device operates in the double-sided printing mode, the controller is configured to calculate a drying time for a front-side image printed by the printing unit on a front side of a sheet, and to determine whether the calculated drying time exceeds a predetermined threshold value. When the controller determines that the drying time dose not exceed the predetermined threshold value, the controller is configured to control the printing unit to print a back-side image on a back side of the sheet. When the controller determines that the drying time exceeds the predetermined threshold value, the controller is configured to control the printing unit not to print the back-side image on the back side of the sheet, and to print the back-side image on a front side of a next sheet. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141711 | Liquid-jet head chip, liquid-jet head, and liquid-jet recording apparatus - To discharge a liquid from each of liquid discharge flow paths without being affected by an operating state of the other liquid discharge flow paths, a liquid-jet head chip includes: an actuator substrate including a plurality of discharge grooves each being open on one surface of the actuator substrate, and the plurality of discharge grooves being formed in parallel at a distance from each other; a cover plate substrate including a common ink chamber being open on a surface of the cover plate substrate on a side opposite to the actuator substrate and a plurality of slits extending from the common ink chamber to be in communication with the discharge grooves; and a filter having a flat surface at an approximately constant distance from ends of all the slits, the structure being located at a position at which an opening of the common ink chamber is substantially closed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141712 | INK-JET HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an ink-jet head and a method of manufacturing the ink-jet head including a plurality of chambers, a membrane covering the plurality of chambers, and a plurality of actuators separated from one another by a virtual dividing line on the membrane such that pressure is applied to each of the plurality of chambers. The method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: forming a groove at a position on one surface of the membrane, the position corresponding to the position of the dividing line; bonding a piezoelectric member to the one surface of the membrane having the groove formed therein by using adhesive resin; and dividing the piezoelectric member such that the groove is exposed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141713 | Short Circuit Protection for Inkjet Printhead - Systems and apparatus for ejecting fluid. A fluid injection apparatus includes a fluid ejector unit for ejecting a droplet of fluid, an integrated circuit, and a conductive trace electrically coupling the fluid ejector unit and the integrated circuit. A portion of the conductive trace includes a fuse. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141714 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT - A liquid ejecting head includes: pressure generation chambers which communicate with nozzle orifices; and piezoelectric elements which induce pressure change in the pressure generation chambers and each include a first electrode, a piezoelectric body layer formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the side opposite to the first electrode of the piezoelectric body layer, wherein the piezoelectric body layer includes two dielectric films having the substantially same interstitial distance and an intervening layer provided between the two dielectric films and having a different interstitial distance from that of the dielectric film. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141715 | Imaging Apparatus and Methods - A method of modifying an imaging cartridge detachably mountable to an imaging apparatus, the imaging cartridge comprising a cartridge chip, the method including detaching the cartridge chip from the imaging cartridge, the cartridge chip comprising a light emitting device adapted for emitting light in the visible spectrum; and attaching a replacement cartridge chip to the imaging cartridge, the replacement cartridge chip comprising a light emitting device adapted for emitting light outside the visible spectrum. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141716 | Ink cartridge and residual amount display method - To perform a regular movement every time in an ink residual amount detector of an ink cartridge so as to prevent error detection of the ink residual amount. Provided is an ink cartridge including: a housing having a window at a side surface, for accommodating a flexible ink bag a thickness of which changes according to an ink amount; a plate being fixed to a surface of the ink bag to be movable with the ink bag, and including a pin protruding toward the side surface of the housing; a guide groove being provided at the side surface of the housing and enabling a linear movement of the pin, and a slide plate which engages the pin and slidably moves on the side surface of the housing by the movement of the pin, where the slide plate is moved according to a volume of the ink, and a different reflecting plate is displayed from the window for when the ink is left and for when the ink is consumed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141717 | PRINTING DEVICE FLUID RESERVOIR WITH GRIPPING FEATURES - Embodiments of a printing device fluid reservoir with gripping features are disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, the fluid reservoir includes a first surface and a fluid-containing body located beneath the first surface. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first surface includes a protruding grip, and the fluid-containing body has a lever extending therefrom. According to an embodiment of the present invention, both the protruding grip and the lever are configured to receive a pinching force that compresses the lever towards the fluid-containing body, facilitates carrying of the fluid reservoir, and facilitates installing and/or releasing the fluid reservoir into/from a chassis of the printing device. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141718 | PRINTING DEVICE FLUID RESERVOIR WITH GRIPPING FEATURES - Embodiments of a printing device fluid reservoir with gripping features are disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, the fluid reservoir includes a first surface and a fluid-containing body located beneath the first surface. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first surface includes a protruding grip, and the fluid-containing body has a lever extending therefrom. According to an embodiment of the present invention, both the protruding grip and the lever are configured to receive a pinching force that compresses the lever towards the fluid-containing body, facilitates carrying of the fluid reservoir, and facilitates installing and/or releasing the fluid reservoir into/from a chassis of the printing device. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141719 | INK TANK FOR LIQUID PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, LIQUID PRINTING APPARATUS WITH SAME, AND METHOD OF DETECTING REMAINING INK - An ink tank capable of optically detecting ink remaining in an ink accommodation chamber with high precision is provided. A printing apparatus, a method of manufacturing the ink tank, and a method of detecting ink remaining in the ink tank are also provided. Radiated light ( | 2010-06-10 |
20100141720 | SPREADING AND LEVELING OF CURABLE GEL INK - A method of leveling a curable phase-change ink on a surface includes printing the curable phase-change ink onto a transfer surface, pressing the transfer surface onto a print substrate with sufficient pressure to level the ink, and exposing the curable phase-change ink to radiation through the transfer surface to cure the phase-change ink. A method for leveling a region of a printed surface includes printing curable phase-change ink onto a surface, pressing a leveling surface onto the print surface to contact a region of the curable phase-change ink, and exposing the curable phase-change ink through the leveling surface to radiation to cure the phase-change ink. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141721 | Liquid-jet head chip, liquid-jet head, and liquid-jet recording apparatus - To simplify a head-chip is provided with an actuator including grooves and a cover plate bonded onto the one surface of the actuator and including an opening portion including an ink chamber having an aperture plane being open on an upper end surface and slits extending from the ink chamber to be in communication with the grooves, and an flow path for bringing the upper end surface and one end surface extending in a thickness direction into communication with each other, the opening portion and the flow path being provided independently of each other. In the head-chip, foreign substance removal filter for removing a foreign substance is provided at a position at which the aperture plane of the ink chamber is substantially closed, and a filter for allowing passage of air bubbles, is provided at a position at which an opening of the flow path is substantially closed. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141722 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus has: a recording head having a liquid chamber and nozzles; a tank that stores the liquid which is supplied to the recording head; a liquid supply path that supplies the liquid from the tank to the liquid chamber; a supply pump provided on the liquid supply path; a liquid return path that returns the liquid from the liquid chamber to the tank; a return pump provided on the liquid return path; and a control unit that controls the supply pump and the return pump, wherein when the liquid is initially filled into the liquid chamber, the control unit drives the return pump so as to set the liquid chamber into a negative pressure state and subsequently drives the supply pump. The recording apparatus which can fill the liquid at a high speed without raising a pressure of a flow path can be provided. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141723 | Water-Based Ink For Ink-Jet Recording And Ink-Jet Recording Method - A water-based ink for ink-jet recording and an ink-jet recording method allow the formation of sharp text and lines in high density black, and the formation of a high quality gradation image in which the graininess is reduced in a black image of a medium lightness to a high lightness (e.g., an achromatic image in dark gray to light gray) in ink-jet recording. The water-based ink combination for ink-jet recording comprises a black ink, and a color ink (A) and a color ink (B) that satisfy a color relationship of the following expression (I): | 2010-06-10 |
20100141724 | Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus, Ink-Jet Recording Method and Ultraviolet Ray Curable Ink - Disclosed are an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method wherein the problem of image quality degradation caused when an image formed of an ultraviolet-curable ink employing no aqueous solvent is cured using flash light is solved, and a high-gloss high-quality image can be attained quickly while eliminating deterioration in density and adhesion to a recording medium. With such an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method, a high-quality image can be similarly attained even in case of a color image containing an ink of different infrared absorption such as a black ink. Also disclosed is an ultraviolet-curable ink used in such an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method. The inkjet recorder comprises a flash light source, and is characterized by comprising a means for attenuating the quantity of light at least in a part of infrared wavelength region of flash light emitted from the flash light source. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141725 | RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording unit for performing recording on a recordable medium; a transportation unit for transporting the recordable medium; and a drier for accelerating the drying of the recordable medium by ejecting gas to the recordable medium, wherein the drier is configured such that the ejection range of the gas in a direction perpendicular to the transportation direction of the recordable medium is changeable. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141726 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method includes: moisture-controlling one surface of an inkjet recording medium having an air permeability of 300 seconds or more; feeding the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium onto a conveyance path in a state where the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium is curled such that a surface of the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium that is curved inwards faces the conveyance path for conveying the inkjet recording medium; conveying the fed inkjet recording medium while adhering the inkjet recording medium by suction onto the conveyance path; and forming an image by applying ink by an inkjet method on the inkjet recording medium adhered by suction to the conveyance path. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141727 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a transport mechanism that is provided in the apparatus main body and transports a sheet, a recording head to record an image by discharging ink to the sheet transported by the transport mechanism, a sheet guide that is provided to be opposite to the recording head and guides the sheet, a transport roller provided at an upstream side of the sheet guide in a sheet transport direction, an ejection roller provided at a downstream side thereof, and a transport unit that integrates the medium guide, the transport roller and the ejection roller and is provided to freely come in and out of the apparatus main body. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141728 | PRINTER MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A printer module for a clam-shell type printing apparatus having a lid that opens and closes with respect to a housing, includes a head assembly including a head and mounted on the housing, a platen roller mounted on the lid, and a main assembly including a frame and a motor mounted on the frame to rotate the platen roller. The main assembly is arranged to cover the head assembly and is mounted on the housing. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141729 | Laser Marking Method, Laser Marking Apparatus and Optical Element - In a method for producing a permanent mark in an optical element which consists essentially of a material that is transparent in the visible spectral region, a marking region of the optical element is irradiated with laser radiation in order to generate local, near-surface material changes in such a way that a mark of prescribed shape and size is generated. The laser radiation has an operating wavelength λ from the wavelength region between 1.1 μm and 9.2 μm. A thulium-doped fibre laser is preferably used as laser radiation source. The operating wavelength is selected in dependence from the material of the optical element such that the material exhibits a partial absorption with a transmittance between 60% and 98%. The method can be used, in particular, to provide spectacle lenses, contact lenses or intraocular lenses with marks. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141730 | SCANNING OPTICAL APPARATUS - A scanning optical apparatus includes a light source, a deflecting element for deflecting a beam of light emitted from the light source, an optical device for causing the beam of light emitted from the light source to be imaged into a linear shape long in the main scanning direction on the deflecting surface of the deflecting element. The optical device is comprised of a first optical element and a second optical element, and a third optical element for causing the beam of light deflected by the deflecting element to be imaged into a spot-like shape on a surface to be scanned. The third optical element includes a single lens, the opposite lens surfaces of which both include a toric surface of an aspherical surface shape in the main scanning plane, the curvatures of the opposite lens surfaces in the sub scanning plane being continuously varied from the on-axis toward the off-axis in the effective portion of the lens. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141751 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - An imaging system for a microscope comprises: an imaging unit imaging an optical image from a microscope; a display unit displaying the imaged image; a specifying unit specifying at least a given position on the displayed image to set a measurement target; a measurement and drawing unit performing measurement of the measurement target and drawing of the measurement target, as well as making a measurement value obtained by the measurement displayed at a predetermined position on the screen; a magnification change determination unit determining whether there has been a change in an observation magnification of the microscope; a control unit performing, when it is determined that there has been a change in the observation magnification of the microscope after the measurement value is displayed, an output in accordance with the change. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141752 | Microscope System, Specimen Observing Method, and Computer Program Product - A microscope system includes an image acquiring unit that acquires a specimen image formed by capturing a specimen multi-stained by a plurality of pigments using a microscope; a pigment amount acquiring unit that acquires a pigment amount of each pigment staining a corresponding position on the specimen, for each pixel of the specimen image; and a pigment selecting unit that selects a display target pigment from the plurality of pigments. The system also includes a display image generating unit that generates a display image where a staining state of the specimen by the display target pigment is displayed, on the basis of the pigment amount of the display target pigment in each pixel of the specimen image; and a display processing unit that displays the display image on a display unit. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141753 | Optimizing Virtual Slide Image Quality - Systems and methods for assessing and optimizing virtual microscope slide image quality are provided. In order to determine whether a virtual slide image has any out of focus areas and is therefore a candidate for manual inspection, the various focus points used to scan the virtual slide image are used to calculate a best fit surface for the virtual slide image. The distance of each focus point from the best fit surface is then calculated and the largest distance is compared to a predetermined value. If the largest distance from a focus point to the best fit surface is larger than the predetermined value, then the virtual slide image is designated as needing a manual inspection and possible re-scan. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141754 | LUMBER INSPECTION METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An imaging means captures a color image of lumber. An image processing means obtains the color distribution of the color image captured by the imaging means, compares the obtained color distribution with a predetermined color distribution of normal lumber, judges the obtained color distribution as an abnormal one when it is deviated from the color distribution of normal lumber by a predetermined value or more, and detects a defect of the lumber having the abnormal color distribution deviated by a value larger than the predetermined value in an area on the surface of the lumber captured by the imaging means. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141755 | SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD, SUBSTRATE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A substrate inspection method capable of accurately inspecting a substrate is provided. A jig having reference points represented by known coordinates in a three-dimensional world coordinate system is photographed by a camera and coordinates of the reference points in a pixel image coordinate system defined by pixels of an image forming device is determined. The coordinates in the pixel image coordinate system are transformed into those in a camera coordinate system set on the camera, and world-camera coordinate system transformation parameters are calculated. Image data in the pixel image coordinate system obtained by photographing a substrate to be inspected is transformed into image data in a world coordinate system for inspection. The accurate inspection of the substrate to be inspected can be achieved because distortion in the image of the substrate to be inspected in the world coordinate system attributable to the position and attitude of the camera is reduced. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141756 | BEVERAGE BOTTLING PLANT HAVING AN APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING BOTTLES OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS WITH AN OPTOELECTRIC DETECTION SYSTEM AND AN OPTOELECTRIC DETECTION SYSTEM - A beverage bottling plant having an apparatus for inspecting bottles or similar containers with an optoelectric detection system and an optoelectric detection system. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner. | 2010-06-10 |
20100141757 | Method and apparatus for estimating depth, and method and apparatus for converting 2D video to 3D video - A depth estimation and conversion apparatus and method is provided. Depth of an video may be estimated by extracting feature information from the input video, and estimating the depth of the input video based on the extracted feature information. | 2010-06-10 |