32nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130201123 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION METHOD USING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of data communication using wireless signals and a data communication method using the same. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a wireless communication unit configured to recognize an external electronic device using a wireless signal, a display unit formed to enable a touch input, and configured to display an image object indicating that the external electronic device has been recognized, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit to enable data communication with the external electronic device in response to a touch gesture on the image object. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201124 | SYSTEM ON CHIP, OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME, AND MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A system on chip (SoC) includes a display controller configured to receive data of a current frame and to determine whether the data of the current frame has been updated from data of a previous frame, and a transmitter configured to output a panel self-refresh (PSR) inactive command and the data of the current frame when the display controller determines that the data of the current frame has been updated and to transmit a panel self-refresh (PSR) active command when the display controller determines that the data of the current frame has not been updated. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201125 | METHOD FOR OBJECT ROTATING BY UTILIZING COORDINATE AXIS RATIO AND DIFFERENCE - A method of display rotation by using axis ratio and difference is disclosed. The method includes: performing a first determination step to determine whether or not two touching points exist within an object shown in a screen by using a touch algorithm; if yes, capturing X-coordinate values and Y-coordinate values of the two touching points on an X-axis and a Y-axis respectively; performing a second determination step to determine the touching point with smaller Y-coordinate value as an axle center point and the another touching point with bigger Y-coordinate value as a rotation point; performing a third determination step after the rotation point shifts to rotate object leftward or rightward by using the modulus of the variation of the ratio of the Y-coordinate value to the X-coordinate value of the rotation point and whether the axle center point and the rotation point are located on the X-axis or Y-axis. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201126 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes an input unit, which is a separate component from a display unit. The input unit includes a first operable region and a second operable region partitioned from each other. The first operable region accepts an input operation with a first finger of a user for indicating information on the display unit. The second operable region accepts an input operation with a second finger, which is different from the first finger, for indicating information on the display unit. A display control unit modifies indication of the information correspondingly to an input operation with the first finger in the first operable region and an input operation with the second finger in the second operable region. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201127 | INPUT DEVICE - On a lower case serving as a supporting base, a movable unit is supported to be able to vibrate in an X direction, with a first elastic member interposed therebetween. In the movable unit, a panel assembly is supported on a movable base to be able to vibrate in a Z direction, with a second elastic member interposed therebetween. A vibration generator is mounted on the panel assembly and supported by a third elastic member on the movable base. When the vibration generator generates vibration in the X direction, the entire movable unit vibrates in the X direction. When the vibration generator generates vibration in the Z direction, the panel assembly vibrates in the Z direction. When the panel assembly is pressed with a finger, the force of the pressing operation can be detected by a second detector which is a force sensor. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201128 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - When an item is selected with a touch from an item list, if display of a guidance is set to ON, the item is selected by a first touch and the guidance is displayed to view another item. A determination operation is performed by a second touch to the same item. If the display of the guidance is set to OFF, a determination operation of an touched item is performed by the first touch without displaying the guidance. Thus, when it is set that the guidance is not displayed, inconvenience that a user needs to touch the same option twice even the guidance display is not required to shift a screen to a sub-screen can be eliminated, and increase of troublesomeness for a shift operation to the sub-screen can be prevented. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel, an area detecting unit detecting a contact area between the touch panel and the input object, and a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and the contact area. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201130 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a touch screen and a controller. The touch screen is configured to detect touch operation. The controller is configured to perform a calibration of the touch screen by using an approximate expression based on pressed location information of the touch operation on the touch screen. The controller is further configured to update the approximate expression such that the approximate expression represents a function that passes through a common reference point before and after the update. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201131 | METHOD OF OPERATING MULTI-TOUCH PANEL AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method of operating a multi-touch panel and a terminal supporting the same includes at least two panels that detect touch in different ways. The method of operating a multi-touch panel includes collecting a value detected from a specific touch panel and a touch event detected from another touch panel according to contact of a touch object in a plurality of touch panels to which different touch techniques are applied; and differently applying the touch event according to the detection value. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201132 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH PANEL - An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) includes a display device with a touch panel for displaying a variety of information. A plurality of screens including a base screen and a pop-up screen overlapping one another are displayed on the touch panel. The MFP accepts operation on any one of the screens and identifies the user who performs the accepted operation. If the identified user does not have operation authority over the pop-up screen, the MFP does not specify the pop-up screen as a screen serving as a target of the operation but specifies the base screen as a screen serving as a target of the operation. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201133 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING A KEY IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for inputting a key in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes setting a font to be used when a handwriting is converted into a text, receiving an input of the handwriting of a user by using a touch pen of a touch screen, and recognizing the input handwriting to convert the input handwriting into the text in the set font. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201134 | Ultrasonic Touch Sensor With A Display Monitor - A touch screen monitor having a display monitor and an ultrasonic device. The ultrasonic device may include a sensor array using piezoelectric sensors to detect the surface topology of a biological or other object that is in contact with a surface of the display monitor. The display monitor may be a LCD or LED monitor. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201135 | Gesture-Based User Interface Employing Video Camera - Systems and methods for providing a free-space gesture-based user interface for a computer workstation and desktop software applications are disclosed. In one implementation, the system includes a video camera to generate real-time video signals responsive to a user gesture as observed by the video camera, and a processor to generate control signals responsive to the real-time video signals responsive to the user gesture observed by the video camera. The control signals are used to control a desktop software application executing on the computer workstation, such that at least one aspect of the desktop software application is responsive to the user gesture observed by the video camera. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201136 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A PROXIMITY-SENSING USER INTERFACE - A portable electronic device comprises a proximity-sensing user interface and a controller. The proximity-sensing user interface is configured to capture position information and distance information. The controller is coupled to the proximity-sensing user interface and is configured to process first distance information ( | 2013-08-08 |
20130201137 | TACTILE SENSATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TACTILE SENSATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - By dual chips exchanging a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation, application process based thereon is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting the pressing load on the sensor for providing the sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a surface the sensor, a provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling an application. The main control unit determines whether a predetermined area of the surface is touched based on an output of the sensor and, when touched, transmits an instruction to the provision control unit. The provision control unit, upon receiving the instruction from the main control unit, detects the pressing load and transmits the detected load to the main control unit. The main control unit, based on the load, performs the application process. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201138 | TACTILE SENSATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TACTILE SENSATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - Dual chips exchange a signal indicating a pressing load detected for providing the tactile sensation such that application processing based on the load is performed. A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor, a load detection unit for detecting the load on the sensor for providing the tactile sensation, a tactile sensation providing unit for vibrating a touch face of the sensor, a tactile sensation provision control unit for controlling drive of the providing unit, and a main control unit for controlling performing an operation corresponding to the load. The main control unit transmits, to the provision control unit, a load detection instruction in activation of the application and a load stop instruction in closing the application. The provision control unit starts detecting the load upon receiving the detection instruction and stops detecting the load upon receiving the stop instruction. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201139 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS - A user interface apparatus includes two touch panels. A drag & drop operation over the two touch panels is described. Adjacent first and second touch panels display a display object, and a location of a designated point related to a display object is determined based on certain conditions. The display object is then displayed on one of the touch panels at the determined location. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201140 | ORNAMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an ornamental system, apparatus and method that is dynamically modifiable. Embodiments of the ornament system comprise a processor, at least one ornamental member and a data controller. The processor is a computer or similar device that stores data for transmission. The ornamental member is configured to receive and display data stored in a database. Embodiments of the present invention can be coupled to other ornamental systems across a wide area network, wherein users can share data files for display. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201141 | Systems and Methods For Shifting Haptic Feedback Function Between Passive And Active Modes - Systems and methods for shifting haptic feedback function between passive and active modes are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes receiving a first signal from a sensor, the first signal associated with a mode of interaction with a graphical user interface; receiving a second signal associated with an interaction with the graphical user interface; determining a haptic feedback effect based at least in part on the mode of interaction with the graphical user interface and the interaction with the graphical user interface; and generating a haptic signal configured to output the haptic feedback effect. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201142 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOMOGRAPHIC TOUGH IMAGING AND INTERACTIVE SYSTEM USING SAME - A touch screen in the form of a panel is capable of conducting signals and a tomograph including signal flow ports is positioned adjacent the panel with the signal flow ports arrayed around the border of the pan& at discrete locations. Signals are introduced into the panel to pass from each discrete border location to a plurality of other discrete border locations for being detected and tomographically processed to determine if any change occurred to signals due to the panel being touched during signal passage through the panel, and therefrom determine any local area on the panel where a change occurred. The tomograph computes and outputs a signal indicative of a panel touch and location, which can be shown on a display, | 2013-08-08 |
20130201143 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND TOUCH SCREEN ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention relates to an optical touch screen, the screen including: a transparent substrate formed at one side with a first detection pattern; and a film layer formed with a second detection pattern, wherein the first detection pattern and the second detection pattern are facing each other. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201144 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an aspect, an electronic device includes: a first housing having a first display unit; a second housing having a second display unit; a detecting unit; and a control unit. The detecting unit detects a first form in which the first display unit is exposed to the outside and the second display unit is covered by the first housing and a second form in which the first and second display units are exposed to the outside. Then the detecting unit detects a change in the form of the electronic device from the first form to the second form, the control unit activates a function corresponding to a selected object among objects displayed on the first display unit, and displays a screen corresponding to the function on the second display unit. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201145 | PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION FOR TOUCH PANEL (As Amended) - Provided are a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a touch panel, a conductive film, a touch panel and a pressure-sensitive adhesive film. The exemplary pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a touch panel, the conductive film or the pressure-sensitive adhesive film has excellent durability and optical properties such as transparency. In addition, such physical properties are stably maintained under severe conditions. Particularly, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is attached to a conductor thin film, and thus resistance change of the conductor thin film is effectively inhibited even when the conductor thin film is exposed to the severe conditions. Therefore, the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition may be effectively used to manufacture a touch panel. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201146 | TOUCH-SENSING SYSTEMS - A method of projected capacitance touch sensing on a display screen, the method comprising: updating said display screen by applying a drive waveform to each pixel of the display screen over a plurality of frame periods, wherein a said drive waveform for a pixel defines a transition of the pixel from a current pixel state to an updated pixel state over said plurality of frame periods, and wherein said updating comprises selecting each row of said display screen in turn for a row driving period and driving columns of the display screen with a time slice of drive waveforms for pixels of the row to perform a frame update of said display screen, and repeating said frame update to drive pixels of said display with a plurality of successive time slices of said drive waveforms to drive said pixels with said drive waveforms; sensing a signal from a projected capacitance touch sensing electrode of said display screen during a sensing interval, and using said sensing to provide a touch sensing response; identifying when column drive levels of said drive waveforms for pixels of one selected row change by more than a threshold level between said one selected row and a next selected row to provide a column drive row change signal; and inhibiting said touch sensing responsive to said column drive row change signal indicating a greater than said threshold level change of said column drive levels from said one selected row to said next selected row during said sensing interval. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201147 | HIGH RESOLUTION NON-GHOSTED GESTURES - A method of performing a two-finger gesture when the absolute position of the fingers does not need to be known in order to perform the gesture, wherein de-ghosting of results from a touch sensor that gives a false position and a real position for each actual finger on the touch sensor is performed by finding a strongest signal when performing a short aperture measurement from one side of the touch sensor so that the direction of a rotation gesture can be determined, and wherein flick and pinch gestures can all be calculated using de-ghosted weighted average and weighted absolute deviation calculations. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201148 | TWO-FINGER GESTURE ON A LINEAR SENSOR OR SINGLE LAYER SENSOR - A linear sensor (a single electrode) or a single layer sensor (a plurality of parallel and planar electrodes) that may be used in a single layer sensor, wherein a pinching gesture by two fingers can be detected on the linear or single layer sensors by measuring and then integrating current to determine if a finger is moving away from or towards an edge of the sensor, or it can be determined if the distance between the fingers is changing. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201149 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH FEEDBACK FUNCTION - An electronic device having a feedback function includes: a body; a button unit disposed in the body and includes a first sensing unit that senses an externally-applied touch operation to generate a first signal and a second sensing unit coupled to the first sensing unit and senses a variation in a physical quantity of the touch operation to generate a second signal that varies according to the variation in the physical quantity; a feedback generating unit disposed in the body and is operated by a feedback signal applied from the touch operation to generate feedback; and a controller that is electrically connected to the button unit to receive the first signal and the second signal and is electrically connected to the feedback generating unit to generate the feedback signal according to a variation in the feedback signal and changes a strength of the feedback generated by the feedback generating unit. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201150 | Pressure Detection Unit and Information Input Device Having the Pressure Detection Unit - A pressure detection unit is disposed in a peripheral portion of a panel member of an information input device for detecting a press operation to the panel member. The pressure detection unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a pressure sensitive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a first electrode provided on the first substrate and a second electrode provided on the second substrate for detecting resistance change via the pressure sensitive layer, the first electrode and the second electrode being provided at positions not facing each other along normal lines of the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode, the second electrode and the pressure sensitive layer together form a series circuit in the form of a loop. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201151 | METHOD FOR DETECTING A CONTACT - A touch panel device including a touch panel unit having transparent electrodes arranged in an X and Y direction; an electrical potential detection unit configured to scan the electrodes and detect electrostatic capacitance values in the X and Y direction; an object type detection unit configured to detect a type of object that has come within proximity to the surface of the touch panel unit on the basis of a distribution shape of the electrostatic capacitance values detected by the electrical potential detection unit; and an operation position detection unit configured to, based on the detected type of object, change a data extraction threshold value used to calculate a touch position of the object, and detect coordinates of a position at which the object has come within proximity to or come into contact with the surface of the touch panel unit based on the changed data extraction threshold value. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201152 | SENSING APPARATUS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION INPUT TYPE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Methods and apparatus are provided for determining an input position of a touch object. An input signal is received from the touch object, and one or more sensing signals are output. A resistance of each of one or more sub-loops is measured, and a resistance information lookup table is generated with each resistance value of a corresponding sub-loop of the one or more sub-loops. The one or more sensing signals are corrected based on the resistance information lookup table. The input position of the touch object is determined based on the corrected one or more sensing signals. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201153 | Biometric Scanner Having A Protective Conductive Array - A biometric scanner having a sensor and an array of conductive strands is disclosed. The sensor has at least one sensor electrode, and that sensor electrode may be a capacitance sensor, an electric field sensor, or an electroluminescent sensor. The array may have an electrical insulating material between adjacent ones of the conductive strands. The array serves to protect the sensor, and conduct through the array information about the electrical characteristics of a biometric object. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201154 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE, AND DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL - A driving circuit outputs driving waveforms to operation signal lines. The waveforms are formed by combining a first-mode waveform for charging a node capacitor with a positive voltage and a second-mode waveform for charging the node capacitor with a negative voltage in a predetermined binary sequence. A sensing circuit is electrically connected with a plurality of sense signal lines and measures sense voltages delivered to one integration capacitor from a plurality of node capacitors which are electrically connected with the sense signal lines. A sense detector adds or subtracts the sense voltages which are measured by the sensing circuit at driving time points to measure capacitances of the node capacitors. Accordingly, an autocorrelation technique which is generally used in communication systems is applied to driving a touch screen device. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201155 | FINGER IDENTIFICATION ON A TOUCHSCREEN - In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a mobile computing device, a first input that indicates a user touched a touchscreen display of the mobile computing device with a pointer, and determining a position of the mobile computing device with respect to the user based on information other than information from the user's touching of the touchscreen display. The method also includes identifying the pointer as a particular finger or type of finger of the user based upon, at least, the determined position of the mobile computing device with respect to the user, and interpreting the received first input on the touchscreen display of the mobile computing device using the identified finger or type of finger. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201156 | OPTICAL TOUCH NAVIGATION - The present disclosure describes touch interfaces that feature optical touch navigation. A lighting device distributes a light over an optical element that, in turn, generates a light beam at an exit of the optical element by internally reflecting the light. A sensing device captures images in response to the light beam striking the sensing device. A processing device detects an object proximate to the optical element by comparing successive images captured by the sensing device. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201157 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING USER INTERFACE - Provided is a user interface device and a method of providing a user interface. The user interface device includes a motion detection unit, and a control unit configured to perform an operation corresponding to the motion pattern of the input unit, wherein the motion detection unit includes a plurality of camera modules installed around both sides of the display unit to photograph the input unit, a position determination unit configured to calculate position coordinate values, at which the input unit is disposed on the virtual input space, from an image of the input unit obtained by the respective camera modules, and a motion pattern determination unit configured to detect the motion pattern of the input unit based on the position coordinate values. Therefore, a user can more comfortably and intuitively control an electronic instrument system. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201158 | MULTI-TOUCH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein are a multi-touch recognition apparatus and a control method thereof. The multi-touch recognition apparatus executes blur filtering for noise removal when an image is input through a camera unit photographing a screen of a display panel supporting multi-touch, calculates and outputs a difference image obtained by removing the background image stored in the storage unit from the blur-filtered image, calculates a new background image using the difference image and a binary image of the difference image, and updates the background image stored in the storage unit using the calculated new background image, thereby effectively removing a background other than multi-touch and thus improving multi-touch recognition performance. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201159 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position detecting unit detecting a contact position at which an input object has touched a touch panel, and a selecting unit selecting any one of a plurality of objects based on the contact position and a last contact position. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - In a case where a plurality of touch points touching on a touch panel is detected, a touch point changed from a previous state among the plurality of touch points is determined to be valid, whether a touch point not changed is valid is determined, and information regarding the touch point determined to be valid is recognized as an input. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201161 | Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Digital-Marking-Surface Content-Unit Manipulation - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for collecting and displaying digital-marking-surface content based on semantic tags. Some aspects of the present invention relate to ink gestures that invoke content-unit tagging. Some aspects of the present invention relate to ink gestures that invoke the collection and display of like-tagged content units. Some aspects of the present invention relate to ink gestures that invoke the restoration of a viewport or digital sheet to a pre-collection state. Some aspects of the present invention relate to manipulation of content units in a collection view and the persistence of the content-unit manipulations upon restoration of a pre-collect state. Some aspects of the present invention relate to action invocation from a collection view. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201162 | MULTI-PURPOSE PEN INPUT DEVICE FOR USE WITH MOBILE COMPUTERS - A compact, hand-held, pen-like multi-functional peripheral device to be used with mobile computers such as smartphones and tablets. The unit communicates with the host device wirelessly via the bluetooth protocol. The unit can be stored inside the host device's hardware where its lithium-ion battery can conveniently be re-charged. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201163 | Display Device Driving Method - A display device driving method is provided. The display device driving method comprises the steps outlined below. A display device is provided, in which each of the first gate lines of a drive circuit of the display device has a first RC value and each of the second gate lines of the drive circuit has a second RC value smaller than the first RC value. A first gate driving signal having a first pulse width is generated to each of the first gate lines to drive corresponding first pixel rows. A second gate driving signal having a second pulse width is generated to each of the second gate lines to drive corresponding second pixel rows, wherein the second pulse width is smaller than the first pulse width. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201164 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device may include a control unit to control display of an interface on a display of the device based on a use place at which the device is located. The use place may be specified by identification information of an apparatus in which the device is installed. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201165 | Serial-Parallel Conversion Circuit, Method for Driving the Same, Display Device, and Semiconductor Device - A serial-parallel conversion circuit for converting a high-speed serial signal to a parallel signal is provided. Further, a display device with high image quality and fewer external connection terminals is provided. Furthermore, a method for driving a serial-parallel conversion circuit for converting a high-speed serial signal to a parallel signal is provided. A serial-parallel conversion circuit includes a plurality of units in each of which a sampling switch and an amplifier are connected to each other. In the serial-parallel conversion circuit, each sampling switch is configured to output part of a serial signal to its respective amplifier only through one transistor. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201166 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A method for driving a display apparatus includes a display panel, which at least includes a scan line, a data line, a control line and a pixel. The pixel has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel is electrically connected with the scan line and the data line. The second sub-pixel has a discharge switch and is electrically connected with the scan line, the data line and the control line. The driving method includes steps of providing a scan signal to drive the first and second sub-pixels through the scan line at a first time and providing a control signal to turn on the discharge switch of the second sub-pixel through the control line at a second time. A time difference between the first and second times is longer than the scan time of a scan line of the display apparatus. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201167 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SENSOR AND MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING SAME - A 3D image sensor includes a depth pixel that includes; a photo detector generating photo-charge, first and second floating diffusion regions, a first transfer transistor transferring photo-charge to the first floating diffusion region during a first transfer period in response to a first transfer gate signal, a second transfer transistor transferring photo-charge to the second floating diffusion region during a second transfer period in response to a second transfer gate signal, and an overflow transistor that discharges surplus photo-charge in response to a drive gate signal. Control logic unit controlling operation of the depth pixel includes a first logic element providing the first transfer gate signal, a second logic element providing the second transfer gate signal, and another logic element providing the drive gate signal to the overflow transistor when the first transfer period overlaps, at least in part, the second transfer period. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201168 | Digital Photo Frame with Power Saving Function and Related Power Saving Method - A digital photo frame having power saving functions includes a display panel, a power generation unit for switching a system power according to a power control signal, a passive infrared sensor installed on the display panel for detecting whether a user exists within a specific range to generate a user detection signal, a central processing unit for adjusting backlight intensity of the display panel when the system power is provided by the power generation unit according to the user detection signal and for generating a power switch-off signal when the backlight intensity of the display panel is turned off according to the user detection signal, and a power control unit for generating the power control signal to switch off the system power when the backlight intensity of the display panel is adjusted to be switched off according to the power switch-off signal. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201169 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY - An organic light emitting display including an image display unit including a plurality of data lines arranged in a first direction, a plurality of scan lines arranged in a second direction, and a plurality of pixels arranged at intersections of the data lines and the scan lines; a plurality of main power source lines and auxiliary power source lines arranged to intersect each other, the plurality of main power source lines and auxiliary power source lines transmitting a first power source as a pixel power source to the pixels; and auxiliary metal layers overlapping portions of the auxiliary power source lines in regions between adjacent pixels, the auxiliary metal layers having a lower resistance value than a resistance value of the auxiliary power source lines, wherein the auxiliary metal layers are electrically coupled with the auxiliary power source lines. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201170 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device is provided with a cover that covers a drive circuit unit and an optical unit and a falling-down detecting unit that detects the falling-down of the image display device. The falling-down detecting unit further detects, based on force to be applied to the falling-down detecting unit in a state in which the cover is attached to the image display device, whether or not the cover is detached from the image display device. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201171 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device for preemptively preventing an error caused by a fault in the scan circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, it includes: a display including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines, a scan driver for sequentially applying a plurality of scan signals to the scan lines, and a signal controller for controlling the scan driver. In addition, the signal controller receives a final scan signal that is output for the last time from among the scan signals from the scan driver, detects output timing of the final scan signal, and determines whether the scan driver is normally driven. Accordingly, a display error caused by a fault of the scan circuit can be preemptively prevented. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201172 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display using the pixel are disclosed. The pixel includes a driving transistor for transmitting a driving current, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) receiving a first portion of the driving current, and a bypass transistor receiving a second portion of the driving current. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201173 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTION OF THRESHOLD AND MOBILITY PARAMETERS IN AMOLED DISPLAYS - A system to improve the extraction of transistor and OLED parameters in an AMOLED display includes a pixel circuit having an organic light emitting device, a drive device to provide a programmable drive current to the light emitting device, a programming input to provide the programming signal, and a storage device to store the programming signal. A charge-pump amplifier has a current input and a voltage output. The charge-pump amplifier includes an operational amplifier in negative feedback configuration. The feedback is provided by a capacitor connected between the output and the inverting input of the operational amplifier. A common-mode voltage source drives the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier. An electronic switch is coupled across the capacitor to reset the capacitor. A switch module including the input is coupled to the output of the pixel circuit and an output is coupled to the input of the charge-pump amplifier. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201174 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A display apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged in association with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines, a data driver configured to drive the data lines, a gate driving unit configured to drive the gate lines in synchronization with a gate control signal, and a timing controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driving unit in response to an image signal and a control signal from an exterior. The timing controller outputs the gate control signal including a plurality of pulses respectively corresponding to the gate lines and an enable time of each pulse of the gate control signal is set according to a position of a corresponding gate line of the gate lines. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201175 | DISPLAY DRIVING APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display driving apparatus and driving method thereof are disclosed. The display driving apparatus includes a display panel and a display driver. The display panel has a plurality of pixels, and the pixels are arranged in an array. The pixels are divided into a plurality of first display regions and a plurality of second display regions, and each of the first display regions and each of the second display regions are arranged in the display panel alternatively. The display driver provides a plurality of driving signals for driving the first and second display regions. The driving polarities of the neighboring first display regions are different, and the driving polarities of the neighboring second display regions are different. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201176 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel unit which comprises a first panel region corresponding to an opaque display region, and a second panel region corresponding to a transparent display region, a panel driving unit which drives the first panel region and the second panel region independently, and a controller which controls to display a main image on the opaque display region and display an additional image on the transparent display region. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201177 | Method for Modeling and Estimating Rendering Errors in Virtual Images - A quality of a virtual image for a synthetic viewpoint in a 3D scene is determined. The 3D scene is acquired by texture images, and each texture image is associated with a depth image acquired by a camera arranged at a real viewpoint. A texture noise power is based on the acquired texture images and reconstructed texture images corresponding to a virtual texture image. A depth noise power is based on the depth images and reconstructed depth images corresponding to a virtual depth image. The quality of the virtual image is based on a combination of the texture noise power and the depth noise power, and the virtual image is rendered from the reconstructed texture images and the reconstructed depth images. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201178 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING A VIEWABLE THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY CURSOR - An apparatus and method are provided for creating a virtual hole between a user's eye point and a cursor through a viewed three dimensional object. The user may select with the cursor an object on the other side of, or within, the three dimensional object without translating or rotating the three dimensional object. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201179 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING AND PORTRAYING SEISMIC INFORMATION - A method of seismic analysis is utilized to produce a display by extracting one or more horizons, where each of the horizons are defined by a plurality of data points. A computer may be programmed to select a plurality of computation points on each the horizons. The information in at least a portion of the first group of data points and the second group of the data points is combined to produce a plurality of combination points. The plurality of combination points may be utilized to produce combination point mappings, which are displayed. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201180 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING A STAIN, A METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL HAVING THE METHOD OF COMPENSATING A STAIN AND A DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD OF DRIVING THE DISPLAY PANEL - A stain compensating method that includes detecting a luminance distribution of a display panel, dividing, using the luminance distribution, luminance profiles of stains overlapped with each other into individual luminance profiles for each of the stains, determining an area and a shape of the stain corresponding to one of the individual luminance profiles, generating a stain compensating value for the stain, and compensating input image data using the stain compensating value. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201181 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - A stereoscopic image display system includes a three-dimensional (3D) image signal generator, a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, and a gate driver. The 3D image signal generator generates left-eye data and right-eye data on the basis of an image signal outputs the left-eye data and the right-eye data to the timing controller. The timing controller outputs the left-eye data and the right-eye data having a first frequency to the data driver in a first mode and outputs left-eye frame data and right-eye frame data having a second frequency to the data driver in a second mode. Two pixels, which are respectively connected to an i-th gate line and an (i+1)th gate line among the gate lines and to a same data line among the data lines, are operated with the same driving time in the first and second modes. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201182 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - In a message exchange system, when an imaging apparatus transmits a photograph-attached message, the imaging apparatus transmits a captured image, position and orientation information of the imaging apparatus, feature point information of an object included in the captured image, and three-dimensional structure information of the object to a server. When an image display apparatus receives the message from the server, the image display apparatus corrects the captured image in a direction corresponding to a position and orientation of the image display apparatus based on the position and orientation information of the imaging apparatus, the feature point information of the object, and the three-dimensional structure information of the object. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201183 | 3D IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EXTRACTING DEPTH INFORMATION IN 3D IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS - A method for extracting depth information, which may include extracting depth information relating to an object by using an actual nonlinear waveform instead of a mathematically ideal waveform and simultaneously may include effectively removing errors due to random noises that may be caused in a light source, an light modulator, an imaging device, or the like, is provided. The method may include performing simple multiplex and addition on captured images and performing a search of a look-up table. Thus, correct distance information may be extracted without being affected by a type of waveform being used, and an amount of memory which is used and calculated for removing random noise may be reduced. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201184 | VIEW SYNTHESIS METHOD CAPABLE OF DEPTH MISMATCHING CHECKING AND DEPTH ERROR COMPENSATION - A view synthesis method of depth mismatching checking and depth error compensation, wherein, input left and right maps are warped in a processor to perform view synthesis, comprising following steps: when a present pixel moves to a position of a target pixel after warping, compute respectively pixel displacement amounts for said present pixel to move to said target pixel in said left and said right maps, to figure out coordinate of said target pixel; determine if depth value of the present pixel is greater than that of said target pixel, if an answer is positive, determine if depth value of said present pixel matches that of coordinate adjacent to said target pixel; and if answer is negative, set depth value of said target pixel to a hole; otherwise, cover said target pixel with pixel value of said present pixel, hereby completing refining even minute errors. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201185 | BOOK OBJECT FOR AUGMENTED REALITY - A method for interfacing with an interactive program is provided. The method includes: capturing images of first and second pages of a book object, the first and second pages being joined along a fold axis defined along a spine of the book; analyzing the captured images to identify a first tag on the first page and a second tag on the second page; tracking movement of the first and second pages by tracking the first and second tags, respectively; generating augmented images by replacing, in the captured images, the book object with a virtual book, the virtual book having a first virtual page corresponding to the first page of the book object, the virtual book having a second virtual page corresponding to the second page of the book object; rendering first and second scenes on the first and second virtual pages, respectively; and presenting the augmented images on a display. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201186 | FILM GRAIN FOR STEREOSCOPIC OR MULTI-VIEW IMAGES - A method and an apparatus for applying film grain to stereoscopic or multi-view images or sequences of stereoscopic or multi-view images are described. After retrieving an image pair or a set of multi-view images a depth map for the image pair or the set of multi-view images and a confidence map for the depth map are obtained. Film grain is then applied to non-occluded areas of the images in accordance with depth values of the depth map and confidence values of the confidence map. Occluded areas of the images are processed separately by first deriving depth values for these areas and then applying film grain to these areas in accordance with the derived depth values. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201187 | IMAGE-BASED MULTI-VIEW 3D FACE GENERATION - Systems, devices and methods are described including recovering camera parameters and sparse key points for multiple 2D facial images and applying a multi-view stereo process to generate a dense avatar mesh using the camera parameters and sparse key points. The dense avatar mesh may then be used to generate a 3D face model and multi-view texture synthesis may be applied to generate a texture image for the 3D face model. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201188 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PRE-VISUALIZATION IMAGE - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for generating a pre-visualization image supporting functions of simulating interactions between the digital actor motion, the virtual space, and the virtual shooting device motion in an actual space and previewing the image by using a virtual camera and a virtual space including a 3D digital actor in an image production operation. Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to support more effective image production. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201189 | SYSTEMS FOR PARAMETRIC MODELING OF THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS - A system for parametric modeling of a three-dimensional object has a processor running a software program operable to configure the object by defining a zone comprising a root of a tree hierarchy, the zone having a three-dimensional region defining an outer dimension of the object to be modeled; a part comprising a child of the zone, the part also having a component object to be modeled, wherein the component object is an element of the object; and a variable comprising a child of the part, wherein variable has data defining characteristics of the zone or part. A user interface can display a representation of the three-dimensional object. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCLOSING TARGET ELEMENTS IN HIGH DEFINITION IMAGES - High definition images are utilized in marketing, gaming, retail, e-commerce, multi-channel retail, mobile, tablet and/or social applications. A system displays the high definition image in its entirety, and in various states wherein portions of the high definition image are magnified. The various states show details of the portions of the high definition image that were not previously apparent. The system allows users to look for and detect certain target elements in the high definition image. These target elements may be used for gaming and/or marketing purposes. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201191 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA VISUALIZATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a multidimensional data visualization apparatus capable of visualizing the distribution of data in an input space of high-dimensional data so that the relationships between input dimensions can be seen. Subplot generation means | 2013-08-08 |
20130201192 | PLANT INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A plant information display method for displaying elements related to a plant in a tree view of hierarchical representation comprises the steps of a tree view display step of displaying plural tree view representations based on different viewpoints side by side and a relation display step of graphically displaying a relation between elements separately contained in the plural tree view representations, which are displayed in the tree view display step. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING TRACE OF COSTS ACROSS A GRAPH OF FINANCIAL ALLOCATION RULES - Embodiments are directed towards budgeting and forecasting of information technology and services. In at least one of the various embodiments, financial allocation models may include multiple cost objects and one or more allocation rules. In at least one of the various embodiments, allocation rules may determine how costs associated with cost objects may be allocated to other cost objects. In at least one of the various embodiments, costs corresponding to one or more selected cost objects may be traced within a financial allocation model. Also, costs associated with multiple cost line items from different cost objects may simultaneously traced for efficient cross-referencing of disparate cost line items. Further, in at least one of the various embodiments, a display of the cost traces may be rendered and displayed to provide a visualization of the traced costs. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201194 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING AN ANIMATION IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are provided for playing an animation in a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying content; determining an object of an animation from the content; determining whether an interaction event occurs while displaying the content; and playing an animation of the determined object, when the interaction event occurs. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201195 | SCREEN COMPRESSION FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a technique for compressing and storing display data and optionally compressing and storing cursor data in a memory that is local to a graphics processing unit to reduce the power consumed by a mobile computing device when refreshing the screen. Compressing the display data and optionally the cursor data also reduces the relative cost of the invention by reducing the size of the local memory relative to the size that would be necessary if the display data were stored locally in uncompressed form. Thus, the invention may improve mobile computing device battery life, while keeping additional costs low. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201196 | Reentrant Window Manager - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for implementing reentrant compositing window manager applications are described. In general, techniques are disclosed for using a second application to composite portions of hierarchically structured objects and the window manager to composite certain other portions of the same object. More particularly, a window manager application may be used to composite objects of a first type (e.g., application backing store bitmaps) and then call or invoke a second application to composite objects of a second type (e.g., hierarchically structured objects). The second type of object includes information (e.g., a reference) of the composite window manager's output buffer at the time the second application was invoked. This knowledge may be used by the second application to call back into the window manager in a manner that permits the generation of unique visual effects without violating modern memory management scriptures regarding the separation of application memory spaces. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201197 | Overscan Support - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for dynamically setting an executing application's display buffer size are described. To ameliorate display device overscan operations, the size of an executing application's display buffer may be set based on the display device's extent and a display mode. In addition, contents of the executing application's display buffer may be operated on as they are moved to a frame buffer based on the display mode. In one mode, for example, display buffer contents may be scaled before being placed into the frame buffer. In another mode, a black border may be placed around display buffer contents as it is placed into the frame buffer. In yet another mode, display buffer contents may be copied into the frame buffer without further processing. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201198 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGES AND MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method for displaying medical images and a medical image display system that do not require a medical practitioner to move his/her line of sight at the time of comparing/interpreting images and that can improve accuracy in diagnosis. According to the medical image display system of the present invention: an X-ray imaging device captures an image of a subject according to a first imaging mode by a fringe-scanning imaging device or a second imaging mode by a Fourier transform imaging device; a controller creates at least two images from among an X-ray absorption image, a differential phase image, and a small-angle scattering image on the basis of the captured moire image; and said at least two images that have been created are displayed in turn in the same position on a display section. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201199 | INITIATION OF ACTIONS BY A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE FROM A LOCKED STATE - A method and apparatus for performing an action while a portable computing device is in a locked state is disclosed. An unlock image is displayed in a first region of a touch-sensitive display. Responsive to detecting contact with the touch-sensitive display at the first region, an action image is displayed in a second region of the touch-sensitive display. While the unlock image remains stationary at the first region, movement of the contact with the touch-sensitive display is detected and a direction of movement of the contact is determined. Responsive to determining the direction of movement of the contact is towards the action image, the action image is visually modified to distinguish it from the unlock image. Responsive to the contact with the touch-sensitive display reaching the second region, an action associated with the action image is performed. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201200 | Auto White Balance Algorithm Using RGB Product Measure - A method and device is provided for adjusting the white balance of a digital image by adjusting the values assigned to the red, green, and blue subpixels of a pixel in the image. The adjustment to the subpixels is determined by identifying pixels in the image that have an RGB product greater than a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is based at least in part on an average of the RGB products of each pixel in the image and a variance between the RGB products of the pixels and the average of the RGB products. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201201 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE, OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD, AND OBJECT DISPLAY PROGRAM - An object display device includes: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image in real space; a shade computation unit for acquiring shade information indicating an appearance position of a shadow in real space; an image processing unit for correcting the image in real space or an image of a marker stored in advance, so as to eliminate the effects of a shadow, based on the shade information; a marker sensing unit for extracting the marker from the image in real space using the image in real space and the image of the marker at least one of which is corrected; and a display unit for overlaying a virtual object associated with the marker on the image in real space. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201202 | MEDIA EDITING WITH OVERLAID COLOR ADJUSTMENT TOOLS - A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space is described. The computer program displays the image on a display device. The computer program receives several inputs on the displayed image. The several inputs include a selection of a point on the displayed image and a vector input. The computer program identifies a pixel of the image that corresponds to the selected point. Based on the color values of the identified pixel and the vector input, the program determines a color space transform for mapping a set of color values defined within the color space to a different set of color values. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201203 | INTUITIVE MEDIA EDITING - A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for displaying color values of at least one particular color channel of an image includes several pixels is described. The computer program retrieves a color value for each pixel in the plurality of pixels of the image. The computer program displays a graphical presentation of a distribution of color values of the image along the particular color channel. The graphical presentation includes ( | 2013-08-08 |
20130201204 | Method And Device For Implementing A Generic Icon With Multiple Display Modes - A method and device for implementing a generic icon with multiple display modes. An original image icon in a Bitmap format is preset, translucent processing is performed on the original image icon according to preset display modes, mask layer icons satisfying requirements of each of the display modes are obtained, the original image icon and the mask layer icons obtained by translucent processing are encapsulated into a skin installation package, and the skin installation package is sent. The number of the images in the skin installation package, and the cost of the downloading made by the user may be reduced. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201205 | METHOD OF STORING DATA, METHOD OF COMPENSATING DATA, AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - An approach is provided for storing data via a processor. Reference data corresponding to an odd row of a look-up table (LUT) is stored in a first plurality of memories via the processor based on one or more grayscale values associated with a current frame and one or more grayscale values associated with a previous frame. Reference data corresponding to an even row of the LUT is stored in a second plurality of memories via the processor based on the one or more grayscale values associated with the current frame and the one or more grayscale values associated with the previous frame. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201206 | EDITING MEDIA USING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF MEDIA - A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space is described. The computer program displays a graphical representation of the color values of the image. The computer program receives a set of inputs on the graphical representation. In response to the received set of inputs, the computer program determines a color space transform for mapping a set of color values defined within the color space to a different set of color values. The computer program modifies the image by using the color space transform to change the color values of the image. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201207 | EDITING MEDIA USING COMPOSITE BUMPS - A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space is described. The image includes a set of pixels. Each pixel includes a set of color values. The computer program displays a composite bump on a tonal adjustment graph that is defined along a particular color component of the color space. The composite bump is generated by blending several bumps on the tonal adjustment graph. In response to receiving an input on a location on the tonal adjustment graph, the computer program creates a new bump based on the input and blending the new bump with the composite bump to create a modified composite bump. The computer program adjusts the color values of the image based on the modified composite bump. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201208 | ICON DISPLAY METHOD FOR A PULL-OUT DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device that incorporates a supplemental display screen that is stored within a main body of the display device must be able to transition objects displayed on a main display to a supplemental display. As the supplemental display is pulled out from storage within the main body of the display device, objects that were displayed on the main display may be transitioned onto the supplemental display. Various methods for transitioning the display of objects on the main display to the supplemental display are discussed, where methods may take into account the length of the supplemental display that is pulled out from storage and also touch input contacts that are made on either one of the displays. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201209 | NETWORK ACCESSIBLE PROJECTORS THAT DISPLAY MULTIPLE CLIENT SCREENS AT ONCE - Systems and methods are provided for provisioning, via a projector, client software for accessing the projector from a network. The projector includes a light emitting unit that projects visible light representing image information onto a screen, a network interface, and a control unit. The control unit provides client software to network devices that enables the network devices to interact with the projector, receives input via the network interface from the client software operating on multiple network devices, processes the input from the client software to generate image information for the light emitting unit, and provides the generated image information to the light emitting unit for projection onto the screen. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201210 | VIRTUAL RULER - In some embodiments, first information indicative of an image of a scene is accessed. One or more reference features are detected, the reference features being associated with a reference object in the image. A transformation between an image space and a real-world space is determined based on the first information. Second information indicative of input from a user is accessed, the second information identifying an image-space distance in the image space corresponding to a real-world distance of interest in the real-world space. The real-world distance of interest is then estimated based on the second information and the determined transformation. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201211 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which side information is facilitated to be inserted or modified in a multimedia content using an optically readable code. The present invention includes the steps of acquiring an image, acquiring side information on the acquired image, converting the acquired side information to an optically readable digital code, and saving the digital code and the image in a manner of linking the digital code and the image to each other. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201212 | External Fixator Deformity Correction Systems and Methods - Systems and methods for planning and optimizing bone deformity correction treatments using external fixators. A computer system generates a display of a tiltable ellipse superimposed on digital medical image(s) (radiograph), the ellipse representing a ring of an external fixator attachable to the patient's bone. Based on axial and azimuthal ring rotation user input, the system calculates a 3D position of the resulting graphical representation of the ring. User input controls translation of ring(s). Strut position user input identifies 3D positions for the external fixator struts. Based on graphical input defining 3D biological rate-limiting points for treatment, the system calculates a 3D bone correction speed and/or a number of treatment days, and generates a graphical simulation of this treatment. Further, the system generates a correction plan specifying for each strut a daily sequence of strut lengths and preferred strut sizes, to minimize strut replacements. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201213 | CONTACT MESSAGES WITHIN PERSONALIZED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES - Medical diagnostic images that are embedded with contact messages about a professional are sent to a patient for sharing with others. Although the images may be obtained using any of a variety of imaging devices, in some instances, the images may be obtained using a soft-tissue-injury diagnostic system for diagnosing soft tissue injury within a patient. A visual display is configured and arranged for receiving and displaying the medical diagnostic image. Personalized contact messages are then embedded within the image as a watermark to with information about the professional, such as an electronic business card, contact information, or hyperlinks to additional information. The sharable image with embedded messages is electronically sent to the patient for sharing with others. Personalized contact messages may also be embedded in non-medical images for sharing with others. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201214 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer-Readable Storage Media for Providing Interactive Navigational Assistance Using Movable Guidance Markers - Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201215 | ACCESSING APPLICATIONS IN A MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - An augmented reality system and method that allows a user to access, and more particularly, install and subsequently have access to an application on an augmented reality mobile device. The system and method enhances the augmented reality experience by minimizing or eliminating user interaction in the process of initiating the installation of the application. This is achieved, at least in part, through the use of a passively activated application program. It is passively activated in that it effects the application installation based on signals received and processed by the augmented reality mobile device, where the signals reflect the surrounding environment in which the augmented reality mobile device is operating. No direct interaction by the user of the augmented reality mobile device is required to initiate the installation of the application. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201216 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a server including a reception unit configured to receive, from a client terminal, position information indicating a position of the client terminal, and direction information indicating a direction in which the client terminal is directed, and a search unit configured to search for image data provided with position information indicating an opposite position across a target object present in the direction indicated by the direction information with respect to the position of the client terminal based on the position information. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201217 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE AND OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD - In an object display device, in the case that a marker is not detected at present, a display complementing unit acquires a change in an image in real space displayed on a display unit between the past when the marker was detected and the present. Since a virtual object is displayed based on the position and shape of the marker in the image in real space, the display position and display manner of the virtual object are also to be changed in accordance with a change in the image in real space. A display decision unit can therefore decide the display position and display manner of the virtual object at present from the display position and display manner of the virtual object in the past, based on the change in the image in real space between the past and the present. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201218 | SHOWING CALENDAR EVENTS NOT VISIBLE ON SCREEN - Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for showing calendar events that are not visible on screen. Event objects are shown when an event is within a viewable time range, but the event object is partially drawn on screen (e.g. clipped) when the event is not within a viewable time range. The displayed parts of event objects indicating off-screen event can stack on top of each other to provide information about a number of off-screen events for a particular day. With the events clipped and stacked, a user has a visual indicator that there are events off screen for a particular day. As a user scrolls to the time of the event, the event can completely reveals itself. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201219 | Method for Managing Screen Orientation of a Portable Electronic Device - There is described a portable electronic device capable of managing screen orientation. The portable electronic device comprises a display, a motion sensor, an image sensor and a processor. The display provides an image at a first orientation. The motion sensor attempts to detect a rotation of the portable electronic device. The image sensor attempts to detect one or more body features. The processor determines a second orientation of the image at the display based on the rotation detected at the motion sensor and/or the body feature or features detected at the image sensor. The portable electronic device may determine an orientation of the image at the display in response to detecting the rotation at the motion sensor and/or the body feature or features at the image sensor. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201220 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - It is difficult appropriately to select only a favorite image in a list display screen of small images such as a thumbnail image. An image processing apparatus is provided that has, in various embodiments, one or more of the features of an indicator for indicating a reduced image to be subjected to a specific image processing among displayed reduced images; a display controller for displaying an image in a size larger than the size of the reduced image indicated by the indicator; and an executor for executing the specific image processing on the stored image after the mentioned display controller displays the image in the size larger than the size of the reduced image. | 2013-08-08 |
20130201221 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image display device, including: display means for displaying on a screen a partial area image indicating a given area within an image to be displayed; display area moving means for moving the given area in response to a predetermined operation performed by a user; and determination means for determining whether or not the given area is located at an end portion of the image to be displayed, in which, when the given area is located at the end portion of the image to be displayed, the display means changes a display magnification of the partial area image displayed on the screen and display the partial area image on the screen in response to the predetermined operation performed by the user (S | 2013-08-08 |
20130201222 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING OBJECTS AT A MEDICAL TREATMENT APPARATUS DISPLAY SCREEN - System and methods are provided for displaying objects at a treatment display screen coupled to an apparatus for performing a treatment. A first arrangement of the objects is presented at the treatment display screen. At least some objects of the first arrangement of the objects are in a fixed state on the treatment display screen. A rearrangement mode of operation of the treatment display screen is activated. The objects of the first arrangement of the objects are changed from the fixed state to a fluid state that allows for rearrangement of the objects of the first arrangement of the objects to a second arrangement of the objects that is different than the first arrangement of the objects. The treatment is prevented from being performed during operation in the rearrangement mode. The second arrangement of the objects is presented at the treatment display screen during operation in the rearrangement mode. | 2013-08-08 |