41st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140300557 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - The present specification relates to a display device and a method for controlling the same, and more particularly, if an area in which an image is displayed includes a curved area, to a display device rotating the image according to a touch input in the curved area and providing additional information on the image together with the image and a method for controlling the same. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300558 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: an input module formed in a touch panel in which a touch input and a pen input by a handwriting pen are performed on; a hold designation module in which a hand that is to hold the handwriting pen is designated; a pen point portion detector configured to detect a position of a pen point portion of the handwriting input pen with respect to the input module; and a controller configured to control a part of the input module at a position opposed to a holding portion of the handwriting pen so as not to detect the touch input in accordance with the detected position of the pen point portion and the designated hand that is to hold the handwriting input pen. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300559 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN - The present invention aims at being able to prevent unintentional operation and to improve operating characteristics even if the entirety of a touch panel can be effectively used as a touch operating surface. Specifically, a touch control table that is a table storing thresholds set in accordance with regions on the touch screen is provided, and this touch control table has “Region” and “Threshold” as respective columns. A CPU detects a contact position and area of contact as contact states at the time of touch operation on the screen (touch screen) of a touch input display unit. The CPU identifies the touched region on the basis of the contact position, and thereafter compares the detected area of contact to the threshold set in accordance with the region. The CPU interprets the touch operation on the basis of the comparisons of the region. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300560 | OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An object display method and apparatus of a portable electronic device for facilitating selection of an object displayed on the screen by rearranging the objects dynamically is provided. The object display method of a portable electronic device includes displaying at least one object, receiving a touch event input from a region, determining rearrangement of the at least one object based on the touch event, grouping the at least one object according to the rearrangement determination, and rearranging the at least one object according to the rearrangement determination. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300561 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE OR AN APPLICATION, AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS - Methods for the operator control of electronic appliances and appropriately set-up electronic appliances in which an input of at least one letter is captured independently of an input request, and a volume of data is displayed on a screen of the electronic appliance on the basis of the captured letter. The input may be made by handwriting or by voice input, for example. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300562 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a detection unit that detects movement of at least a housing; an information generation unit that generates vibration information based on a quantity value of a predetermined managed object item and the movement of the housing which is detected by the detection unit; and a vibration unit that vibrates based on the vibration information. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300563 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD - A control device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to perform first detection in order to detect write operation by a user on a first display image displayed on a display device, when the write operation is detected by the first detection, associate first feature information calculated from the first display image with write data by the write operation, and store the first feature information and the write data into the memory, perform second detection in order to detect display of a second display image whose second feature information corresponding to the stored first feature information is calculated on the display device, and when the display of the second display image is detected by the second detection, display the write data stored in association with the first feature information together with the second display image on the display device. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300564 | COORDINATE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE - A touch screen includes a capacitive sensor, a sensor driving portion, and a control portion. The capacitive sensor detects a touch position coordinate in a scanning plane for each frame of the scanning plane. The sensor driving portion drives the capacities sensor at a speed of a frame rate, the frame rate representing a number of frames detected by the capacitive sensor per unit time. The central portion acquires an amount of movement of the touch position between successive frames based on positional information detected by the capacitive sensor, and sets the frame rate depending on the amount of movement. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300565 | VIRTUAL LINKS BETWEEN DIFFERENT DISPLAYS TO PRESENT A SINGLE VIRTUAL OBJECT - Virtual links are used between two different displays to represent a single virtual object. In one example, the invention includes generating a three-dimensional space having a first display of a real first device and a second display of a real second device and a space between the first display and the second display, receiving a launch command as a gesture with respect to the first display, the launch command indicating that a virtual object is to be launched through the space toward the second display, determining a trajectory through the space toward the second display based on the received launch command, and presenting a portion of the trajectory on the second display. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300566 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CONVERSION APPARATUS - A three-Dimensional (3D) image conversion apparatus for converting a two-Dimensional (2D) image into a 3D image and a method for controlling the 3D image conversion apparatus are provided. The method includes displaying the 2D image to be converted into the 3D image, receiving a user input designating at least one object included in the 2D image, obtaining boundaries of the at least one object included in the 2D image based on the received user input to identify each of the at least one object, analyzing the 2D image including the at least one object to obtain depth information of each of the at least one object, and arranging the identified each of the at least one object based on the obtained depth information to generate the 3D image. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300567 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic device | 2014-10-09 |
20140300568 | Touch Enhanced Interface - Some embodiments provide a Touch Enhanced Interface (TEI) that translates data from touch devices into a wide variety of output actions, free from the construct of mapping such touch data to an on-screen pointer or direct screen-mapped coordinates. Based on the touch and hold of one or more fingers, the TEI enables access to different sets of operations. Then based on different taps, holds, directional slides, and directional flicks of one or more fingers, the TEI performs specific operations in an accessed set of operations. Some embodiments provide a TEI viewer that displays symbols that identify the operations that can be performed using the various touches. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300569 | USER INTERFACE DEVICE THAT ZOOMS IMAGE IN RESPONSE TO OPERATION THAT PRESSES SCREEN, IMAGE ZOOM METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A method is disclosed of controlling a user interface device for displaying on a display screen a plurality of objects, and for enabling a user to perform an input action by touching the display screen with the user's finger. This method includes: upon the user's touch to the display screen at a region of one of the plurality of objects being displayed, selecting the one object as a zoom target; upon an event occurring in which an intensity of the finger's touch on the display screen exceeds a predetermined threshold, determining a magnification ratio of the zoom target or a change rate of the magnification ratio, based on the intensity of the finger's touch; and zooming in the zoom target on the display screen with the determined magnification ratio or the determined change rate. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300570 | MOBILE INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL - An information processing terminal according to the present invention includes: a touch screen display device | 2014-10-09 |
20140300571 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes a touch sensor, a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure on the touch sensor, and a control unit that performs control to execute predetermined processing when, in a state such that the touch sensor detects contact inside a predetermined region, data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, and performs control not to execute the predetermined processing when, in a state such that the data based on pressure detected by the pressure detection unit satisfies a predetermined standard, the touch sensor detects contact that transitions from outside the predetermined region to inside the predetermined region. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300572 | TOUCH DETERMINATION BY TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION - Objects touching a surface portion attenuate transmitted signals. A data processor processes an output signal from a detector coupled to the outcoupling points, to generate a set of data samples indicative of detected energy for the actual detection lines. The set of data samples is further processed to generate a set of matched samples indicative of estimated detected energy for fictitious detection lines that extend across the surface portion in parallel groups at a plurality of different angles. The individual spacing between the fictitious detection lines in each group and the individual difference in angle between said groups are selected such that the set of matched samples transforms to Fourier coefficients arranged as data points on a pseudo-polar grid in a Fourier domain. The set of matched samples is processed by tomographic reconstruction to generate a two-dimensional distribution of an interaction parameter within the surface portion. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300573 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CORRECTION PROCESSING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a correction processing program causes a computer including a touch panel and a temperature sensor to execute a process. The process includes determining whether a temperature measured by the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined threshold when a first event completing contact with the touch panel is detected, waiting for a second event starting contact with the touch panel and a third event moving a contact position with the touch panel for a predetermined period of time when it is determined that the measured temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold, and discarding the first event and the second event and notifying an application of the third event, when the second event and the third event are detected during the predetermined waiting period of time. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300574 | BIOMETRIC SENSING - An novel sensor is provided having a plurality of substantially parallel drive lines configured to transmit a signal into a surface of a proximally located object, and also a plurality of substantially parallel pickup lines oriented proximate the drive lines and electrically separated from the pickup lines to form intrinsic electrode pairs that are impedance sensitive at each of the drive and pickup proximal locations. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300575 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN - The present invention provides a mutual capacitive multi-touch screen. The conductive strip pattern allows that, when a touch range of each external conductive object on the mutual capacitive multi-touch screen is larger than a predetermined condition, capacitive coupling between each external conductive object and first conductive strip is greater than capacitive coupling between each external conductive object and second conductive strip, such that the proportion of a driving signal flowing out of the first conductive strip via at least one first external conductive object in the external conductive objects and into the second conductive strip via at least one second external conductive object in the external conductive objects decreases as the number of second external conductive objects increases. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300576 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN - A detecting device and method for a capacitive touch screen is proposed. A plurality of frequency settings is employed. Each frequency setting corresponds to a type of driving mode of a type of driving potential. These frequency settings are used for setting the detecting device for the capacitive touch screen. When the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of the signals in the capacitive touch screen is not appropriate, frequency settings are changed by selecting one that yields a more appropriate S/N ratio among the frequency settings. The driving mode includes a single-electrode driving mode in which only a single driving electrode in the capacitive touch screen is driven at a time, and a multiple-electrode driving mode in which multiple driving electrodes are simultaneously driven at a time, and there can be several types of driving potentials. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300577 | MULTIPOINT TOUCHSCREEN - A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300578 | MULTIPOINT TOUCHSCREEN - A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300579 | USER INPUT APPARATUS, COMPUTER CONNECTED TO USER INPUT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER CONNECTED TO USER INPUT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A user input apparatus is provided with user input means for the user to input data or a command by using the user's human body, and use-form detection means for detecting a form in which the user uses the user input means by the user's human body. A computer connected to the user input apparatus changes the operation of the application being executed by application execution means, according to a detection result obtained by the use-form detection means. Therefore, input operations can be performed without inconvenience even if the user cannot use one hand due to another work. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300580 | CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to the contact responding section in one direction within the detecting surface, and control output of the electric change in time series, wherein the contact driving scanning section performs a plurality of scans of different regions of the contact responding section in parallel with each other, and outputs a plurality of the electric changes in parallel with each other. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300581 | System and Method for Reducing Touch Induced Contamination - A contamination control system of an electronic device includes a touch-based surface, an ultraviolet (UV) light source operable to shine on the touch-based surface, a detection module, and a control module. The detection module detects a first event indicating that a user has interacted with the touch-based surface, sends a first indication based upon the first event, detects a second event indicating that a user is done interacting with the touch-based surface, and sends a second indication based upon the second event. The control module receives the first indication and the second indication from the detection module and turns on the UV light source to decontaminate the touch-based surface in response to the first indication and the second indication. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300582 | IMAGE SENSING METHOD AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image sensor comprising: an image sensing unit array, for sensing an object and comprising a plurality of image sensing units arranged in a sensing matrix with M rows and N columns; an image data reading circuit, for reading and outputting image data caught by at least part of the image sensing units; and a control unit, for controlling numbers and locations of the image sensing units for each row or each column, from which the image data reading circuit reads the image data; for computing a read region that is in the image sensing unit array and corresponds to the object; and for controlling the image data reading circuit to read at least part of the image data of the column or the row. The part of the column or the row, which is read, comprises the read region. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300583 | INPUT DEVICE AND INPUT METHOD - An input device includes a light source, a laser beam scanner, a photodetector, and an inclination determination component. The light source is configured to emit a laser beam. The laser beam scanner is configured to scan a plurality of lines of the laser beam in a line scanning direction. The lines of the laser beam are projected in a projection region of a projection surface. The photodetector is configured to detect a reflected light of the laser beam reflected by an object located above the projection region. The inclination determination component is configured to determine an inclination of the object with respect to the projection surface in the line scanning direction based on a change amount in a timing at which the photodetector detects the reflected light. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300584 | SPATIAL INPUT DEVICE - A spatial input device includes a light beam scanner, a photodetector, and a controller. The light beam scanner is configured to emit light beams toward a spatially projected image while two-dimensionally scanning the light beams. The photodetector is configured to detect the light beams that have been reflected by an input object within a detection range. The detection range extends inward of the spatial input device relative to the image. The controller is configured to count a scan line number indicative of a number of the light beams that have been detected by the photodetector, and to detect a depth position of the input object based on the scan line number. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300585 | PRESSURE SENSOR FOR TOUCH INPUT DEVICES - A stylus and sensor capable of determining levels of pressure applied to a tip are disclosed. The stylus has a tip configured to interact with and receive a force from a touch surface. The stylus includes a force sensitive resistor configured to vary resistance in an electrical circuit based on the force and a component for determining an amount of pressure corresponding to the force or a change in pressure based on the resistance in the electrical circuit. The stylus can have a chamber housing a slide-able plunger connected to the tip, the plunger being adapted to move in directions perpendicular or tangential to the surface when the force is applied. The resistor is disposed at an end of the chamber. The stylus can have a conductive strip on the resistor and a disc on the strip. The disc is configured to compress when force is applied by the plunger. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300586 | Charging Mechanism Through a Conductive Stylus Nozzle - Input devices and methods for charging input devices are disclosed. A stylus input device has a tip configured to interact with a touch computing device and a body connected to the tip. The stylus has a nozzle housing between its body and tip, electrical components, and an internal rechargeable power source. The internal power source can store power received via a connection between an external power source and a conductive surface on the nozzle housing and supply power to the stylus' electrical components. A method for charging a stylus determines whether power is being received via an electrical connection between a conductive surface on a nozzle of the stylus and an external power source and then determines an amount of power stored in the stylus' battery. If the stylus is receiving power from the external power source and the battery is not fully charged, the method charges the rechargeable battery. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300587 | MULTI-CONTROL STYLUS - The present disclosure provides for a stylus having at least one switch located within the stylus body and activated by relative lateral motion between the stylus tip and the stylus body. Haptic or audible feedback may be provided to a user when a switch, or combination of switches, changes state. The stylus may also include an axial switch and an axial force sensor. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300588 | DRAWING DEVICE, DRAWING METHOD, AND DRAWING PROGRAM - A drawing device includes an input unit, an object controller, and a display controller. The input unit receives user's input. The object controller controls a display unit to display a position instruction object movable based on user's input when a line displayed on the display unit is selected. The display controller moves an end point of the selected line along the selected line based on a movement amount of the position instruction object. Further, the display controller sets a part of the selected line between end points before and after the movement as a part to be set for display deletion. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300589 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM - A display device having a display surface includes a plurality of black lines defining a plurality of pixels; and a plurality of information patterns arranged so as to overlap the display surface and each representing information regarding a position thereof on the display surface. Each information pattern is formed by using a plurality of marks provided so as to overlap the pixels, and each mark is formed from a material that transmits visible light and absorbs or diffusedly reflects infrared light. A length of each mark in a width direction of the thickest black lines among the black lines defining the pixel overlapped by the mark is larger than a width of each thickest black line. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300590 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method is provided for driving a plasma display panel having parallel first and second electrodes, third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells with electrodes crossing mutually in the form of a matrix. The method includes a reset period during which distribution of wall charges in the discharge cells is uniformed, an addressing period during which wall charges are produced in the discharge cells according to display data, and a sustain discharge period during which sustain discharge is induced in discharge cells in which wall charges are produced during the addressing period. The driving method includes during the reset period, in lines defined by the first and second electrodes, applying a first pulse, in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce first discharge, and applying a second pulse in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce second discharge as an erase discharge. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300591 | DATA DRIVER AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A data driver for driving data lines of a display panel includes a reference voltage section, a resistance circuit, and a selector section. The reference voltage section has at least three kinds of reference voltage sources for supplying their respective reference voltages, arranged in descending or ascending order of voltage values. The resistance circuit has a plurality of voltage division nodes connected between adjacent reference voltage sources, for dividing the reference voltages. The selector section selects and allows output of one voltage corresponding to an input value of a gradation signal, among the reference voltages or the voltages of the voltage division nodes. When the voltage to be output corresponding to the value of the gradation signal is one of the voltages of the voltage division nodes, the selector section selects at least one reference voltage and subsequently selects the voltage of the corresponding voltage division node. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300592 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - Provided is a display device and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data scaling unit scaling a data value of image data received from the outside based on a scaling ratio, a data driver providing a data signal to data lines connected to the plurality of pixels in response to the scaled data value, and a power unit that generates a driving voltage for emitting light from the plurality of pixels and changes the driving voltage in response to the scaled data value. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300593 | POWER-ON RESET CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING POWER-ON RESET CIRCUIT - A power-on reset circuit includes a voltage detector unit to output an electrical signal in response to a power supply voltage received from a power supply terminal, an inverter to output a reset signal according to a level of the electrical signal from the voltage detector unit, a first switch unit to be turned on or off in response to the reset signal from the inverter; a first discharge unit to discharge the electrical signal in response to the power supply voltage from the first switch unit, a second switch unit to be turned on according to a start pulse signal from an external device and to receive the power supply voltage from the power supply terminal, and a second discharge unit to discharge the electrical signal in response to the power supply voltage from the second switch. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300594 | DRIVING OF ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of driving an electrowetting display device including at least one pixel, the method comprising: applying a first pixel voltage to the pixel during a first portion of the display period; and applying a second pixel voltage to the pixel during a second portion of the display period, the first and second pixel voltages corresponding to a display state of the pixel, and the first pixel voltage and the second pixel voltage having different polarities. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300595 | Collision-culling of Lines over Polygons - Collision-culling for early elimination of non-colliding ray segments over a group of polygons in a computer graphics system. The scene is subdivided into cells, at each cell three orthographically viewed buffers of the local scene are created, each buffer is aligned with one of the three main axes. All rays in a cell are examined vs. each of the buffers to eliminate ray segments that for certain do not collide with local polygons. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300596 | POSITION SEARCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON ELECTRONIC MAP - The present invention relates to electronic maps, and provides a position searching method and apparatus based on an electronic map. The method includes: receiving a keyword of a searching object; searching the electronic map with the keyword to obtain a current geographical position; acquiring panoramic images of a plurality of scenes that are located within a geographical area around the current geo-geographical position and of a predetermined size; calculating coordinates of the searching object in one of the panoramic images according to position-related information of each scene; generating an image from an image area of the one of the panoramic images and outputting the image, wherein the image area is centered on the coordinates and of a predetermined size. The present invention can accurately position an image associated with the searching object, and has the advantages of low cost and less amount of data. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300597 | METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF REAL WORLD OBJECTS - A method is provided for the automated identification of real world objects. The invention, implementable via various means such as a processing system, method, or data structure in a recording medium such as memory or as a self-contained electronic circuit, has wide ranging applicability to numerous fields such as in a user interface for gaming systems, like Kinect, or immersive environments such as remote surgical operations, and other medical diagnostic applications. Similarly, our method can be utilized in artificial intelligence application for automated robotic identification of targets, such as drone assisted search and rescue missions, and the enablement of patent protection against unlawful replication on 3D printers. The method of the invention includes the steps of creating a 3D representation for the real world object to be identified, segmenting the newly created 3D representation according to potential identities, alignment of minimal, unique representations for said potential identities to the corresponding segments of the newly created 3D representation, and then the analysis of said alignments to determine which potential identity correctly identifies the real world object to be identified. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300598 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING A THREE DIMENSIONAL MESH - Disclosed is a three-dimensional (3D) mesh compression apparatus and method. The 3D mesh compression apparatus may generate a base mesh through a mesh simplification, may separately compress the base mesh and vertices eliminated by the simplification, and may compress 3D mesh data based on the covariance matrix. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300599 | Method for Factorizing Images of a Scene into Basis Images - A set of nonnegative lighting basis images representing a scene illuminated by a set of stationary light sources is recovered from a set of input images of the scene that were acquired by a stationary camera. Each image is illuminated by a combination of the light sources, and at least two images in the set are illuminated by different combinations. The set of input images is decomposed into the nonnegative lighting basis images and a set of indicator coefficients, wherein each lighting basis image corresponds to an appearance of the scene illuminated by one of the light sources, and wherein each indicator coefficient indicates a contribution of one of the light sources to one of the input images. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300600 | Method for Detecting 3D Geometric Boundaries in Images of Scenes Subject to Varying Lighting - Three-dimensional (3D) geometric boundaries are detected in images of a scene that undergoes varying lighting conditions caused by light sources in different positions, from a set of input images of the scene illuminated by at least two different lighting conditions. The images are aligned, e.g., acquired by a stationary camera, so that pixels at the same location in all of the input images correspond to the same point in the scene. For each location, a patch of corresponding pixels centered at the location is extracted from each input image. For each location, a confidence value that there is a 3D geometric boundary at the location is determined. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300601 | CONTRAST ADJUSTED ANAGLYPH - Methods and apparatus for enabling contrast adjustment to anaglyph images are described. Compensation techniques are employed to reduce ghosting artifacts that would otherwise be introduced by contrast adjustments to input images used to generate anaglyphs. The compensation techniques are applicable to various anaglyph imaging processes. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300602 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING LIGHT FIELD IMAGE - An apparatus and method for forming a light field image includes projecting vertices of a graphic object to a far plane corresponding to a first distance directed to a screen reproducing a light field, and forming the light field image with respect to the graphic object using the vertices projected to the far plane. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300603 | Methods and Systems for Drawing Graphics Into A Data Chart - Methods and systems for drawing graphics into a data chart are described. One described method for drawing a graphical element in a chart includes receiving a graphics control call with at least one data value parameter specifying the location of the graphical element One or more operations associated with the graphics control call may be recorded into a data structure. At least one display data range may be determined for the display of data representations and the graphical element, for example by defining an appropriate axis range. The range and data structure may be used to draw and redraw the chart. For example, upon a change to the data, the chart may be redrawn using the new data set and the data structure. As another example, upon a change to a graphical element, the data structure may be changed or replaced and the new or revised data structure used to redraw the chart. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300604 | VECTOR GRAPHICS AUTHORING TOOL THAT ENABLES DIRECTIONAL INPUT REQUESTS FOR SELECTING REFERENCE POINTS ON A VECTOR PATH OF AN IMAGE BEING AUTHORED - A vector graphics authoring tool supports a directional input request for enabling a user to easily and efficiently advance focus from one reference point on a vector path of an image being authored to another reference point. A “directional input request” does not comprise a user directly identifying (e.g., directly clicking on) a reference point that is to receive focus. Instead, directional input requests merely indicate a general direction in which focus is to be advanced from a reference point currently possessing focus. The vector graphics authoring tool determines a next reference point encountered in the indicated direction. In one embodiment, a directional advancement operation is supported by the vector graphics authoring tool in which a user may advance focus from a reference point on a vector path that possesses current focus along the vector path in an indicated direction to another reference point residing on the vector path. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300605 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ASSESSMENT DATA ON EXTERNAL QUALITY CONTROL - A method includes acquiring the assessment data for external quality control that are an aggregate of measured data which are obtained by measuring a first quality control sample and a second quality control sample with each of a plurality of analyzers, creating an assessment coordinate system which shows statistical distances among the measured data by statistically processing the assessment data and has a first axis that represents first measured values which are measured values of the first quality control sample and a second axis that represents second measured values which are measured values of the second quality control sample, and displaying on the assessment coordinate system respective sets of the measured data of the assessment data, a first permissible range showing a range where the first measured values are permitted, and a second permissible range where the second measured values are permitted. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300606 | DRAWING DEVICE, DRAWING METHOD, AND DRAWING PROGRAM - A drawing device includes an input unit, a first vector calculation unit, a second vector calculation unit, and a display control unit. The input unit accepts user input. The first vector calculation unit calculates a first vector whose starting point is one of the endpoints of a hand-drawn line displayed on a display unit based on the user input. The second vector calculation unit calculates a second vector whose starting point is the one endpoint based on the shape of the hand-drawn line in the vicinity of the one endpoint. The display control unit determines whether to extend the hand-drawn line or to erase at least a portion of the hand-drawn line with the one endpoint as the starting point based on the first and second vectors and also performs the extension or at least partial erasure of the hand-drawn line based on the user input. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABELING MAPS - A system and method for label placement is disclosed that achieves the twin goals of practical efficiency and high labeling quality by employing cartographic heuristics. A caller defines map and label properties. Then labels are pulled within a map boundary. Labels are next ordered by priority in descending importance. The order of testing labels is determined. Attempts are made to move overlapping labels. This is an iterative process; therefore there must be criteria that halt the procedure. Upon reaching an acceptable solution, the label properties are adjusted to reflect the new label placements. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300608 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES - A method for generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image from images of a scene obtained at one or more exposure values is disclosed. In this embodiment, one of the obtained images is selected as a reference image. Further, mapped images are obtained by mapping pixel intensity values to corresponding irradiance values in each image. Furthermore, a pixel intensity value dependent weighting factor is determined. Moreover, a set of images is identified from the mapped images for pixels in the reference image. Also, a set of corresponding mapped pixels is established for the mapped pixels in reference image in the set of images. Further, a similarity measure is computed for the mapped pixels of reference image and corresponding mapped pixels in the set of images. Furthermore, each mapped pixel of the reference image is combined with a subset of its established corresponding mapped pixels in the set of images. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300609 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EDITING INK TEXT DATA - Disclosed are a device and method for editing ink text data. More specifically, a device for editing digital ink data displayed on a display includes a stroke order rearrangement processing unit configured to rearrange an input order of two or more strokes on the basis of a predefined criterion to generate a rearranged input order when receiving a user input including the two or more strokes, a data generation unit configured to generate digital ink data corresponding to a rearrangement stroke reflecting the rearranged input order, and an editing unit configured to change the digital ink data displayed on the display when an editing signal is generated. Thus, a user can intuitively and easily perform the editing operation, such as update, deletion, and insertion, on digital ink data displayed on a screen, and thus feel satisfaction. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TIME RE-MAPPING FOR COMPUTER-GENERATED ANIMATION - Time re-mapping is used for computer-generated animation. A time re-mapper re-maps at least a portion of an animation's reference timeline to produce a different timeline. In this way the, the re-mapping may enable a re-mapped timeline to be generated that is non-linear. The re-mapped timeline may then be employed by animation generation logic that generates some effect in the animation as a function of time. For instance, the re-mapped time may be used (e.g., in place of the animation's reference timeline) by tweening logic for generating tween frames in the animation. Thus, the re-mapping may be employed to effectively produce such animation effects as easing for the generated tween frames. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300611 | WEB AND NATIVE CODE ENVIRONMENT MODULAR PLAYER AND MODULAR RENDERING SYSTEM - A system can include a modular player configured to receive input data, analyze the input data, and provide first output data. The system can further include a scene graph module configured to receive the first output data from the modular player, allocate a hierarchy structure based on the first output data, and provide second output data. The system can further include a modular renderer configured to receive the second output data and provide third output data as a visual representation. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300612 | METHODS FOR AVATAR CONFIGURATION AND REALIZATION, CLIENT TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SYSTEM - It is provided a method for avatar configuration, a method for avatar realization, a client terminal, a server, and a system for avatar management. The method for avatar configuration may include: outputting, at a client terminal, an avatar model for the user to configure when the client terminal receives a request from the user to configure an avatar; obtaining, at the client terminal, configuration data of the avatar model, the configuration data comprising bone movement data and decoration data; and performing, at the client terminal, an encoding process on the configuration data, and forming avatar data of the user. The way of configuring an avatar can be extended, and the avatar can be customized. Therefore, the representation of the avatar can meet actual requirements of the user to exactly represent the image that the user wants to show. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300613 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE EMPLOYING A UNIFIED SHADER - A graphics processing architecture in one example performs vertex manipulation operations and pixel manipulation operations by transmitting vertex data to a general purpose register block, and performing vertex operations on the vertex data by a processor unless the general purpose register block does not have enough available space therein to store incoming vertex data; and continues pixel calculation operations that are to be or are currently being performed by the processor based on instructions maintained in an instruction store until enough registers within the general purpose register block become available. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300614 | PROGRAMMABLE PREDICTION LOGIC IN COMMAND STREAMER INSTRUCTION EXECUTION - Programmable predication logic in command streamer instruction execution is described. In one example, the invention includes a method that includes receiving batch buffer execution start command at a command streamer, the batch buffer containing executable instructions, determining whether predication has been enabled for the instructions using the start command, if predication has been enabled, then comparing a predication condition to values stored in a predication register, and if the condition is satisfied by the predication register values, then executing the batch buffer. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300615 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA FLOW BETWEEN A MEMORY UNIT AND A PROCESSING UNIT - A memory access controller for managing data flow between a memory unit and a processing unit is described. The memory access controller comprises an addressing unit and an unpacking unit. The addressing unit may receive an address from said processing unit and select a data location within said memory unit in dependence on that address. The unpacking unit may read a first word from the selected data location, unpack the first word into a second word by applying a data conversion scheme which depends on the received address, and provide the second word to the processing unit. The data conversion scheme may comprise, for at least one possible address, a pixel format conversion. A data processing system and a method are also proposed. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300616 | RENDERING METHOD AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A rendering method is provided. The method includes: initializing a surface flinger to establish at least two buffer memories; confirming correspondence between all visible surfaces and the at least two buffer memories, rendering all of the visible surfaces to the corresponding buffer memories according to the correspondence, and combining all of the buffer memories to output a result for display; determining whether a change occurs in the visible surfaces; when the change occurs in the visible surfaces, identifying the buffer memory where the visible surface with the change is located; rendering again the visible surfaces that need to be rendered in the identified buffer memory, and combining the buffer memory that is rendered again with the buffer memory that is not rendered again to output a result for display. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300617 | Dynamically Adjusting Color Characteristics of Electronic Content - Exemplary embodiments involve a viewer application dynamically adjusting the color balance of electronic content displayed on a display device. A viewer application can determine color information for a display device and generate a color correction filter based on color information for the display device and color information used by electronic content to specify the test color. The viewer application can receive display data representing at least a portion of the electronic content and apply the color correction filter to the display data to provide a color-corrected version of the display data for display by the display device. The viewer application can obtain the color information from a device driver application for the display device or from a separate data file. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300618 | REGIONAL DIMMING FOR POWER SAVINGS - A solution is proposed that allows power savings via enhancement of pixel data to compensate for reducing backlight intensity levels. According to one embodiment, each pixel of a display is sorted according to the brightness (intensity) of the pixel. Regional pixel gains are calculated and applied on a per pixel basis so as not to exceed a quality threshold. The intensity of the backlight corresponding to each region may be decreased by an equivalent amount, thereby reducing (potentially significantly) the power consumed to operate the backlight while maintaining the color intensity in the image due to the applied pixel gains. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300619 | Programmable Tile Shader - In accordance with some embodiments, a tile shader executes on a group of pixels prior to a pixel shader. The tile of pixels may be rectangular in some embodiments. The tile may be executed hierarchically, refining each tile into smaller subtiles until the pixel or sample level is reached. The tile shader program can be written to discard groups of pixels, thereby quickly removing areas of the bounding triangles that lie outside the shape being rasterized or quickly discarding groups of pixel shader executions that will not contribute to the final image. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300620 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING CHROMINANCE AND LUMINANCE OF DISPLAY DEVICE - An adjustment device including a camera is connected to a display device. An image of a predetermined image displayed on the display device, and an image of a standard color image are captured by the camera. First chrominance differences and first luminance differences between the image corresponding to the standard color image and the standard color image are computed. Second chrominance differences and second luminance differences between the image corresponding to the predetermined image and the predetermined image are computed. Third chrominance differences between the first chrominance differences and the second chrominance differences, and third luminance differences between the first luminance differences and the second luminance differences are computed. According to third chrominance differences and third luminance differences, first adjustment data is obtained. The first adjustment data is sent to the display device. According to the first adjustment data, c. Chrominance and luminance of the display device is adjusted. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300621 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MAP ON NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A method for displaying a map performed by a navigation system, the method comprising: defining a matching area of a numerical map to which a photomap is matched; extracting the photomap corresponding to the matching area from a map data storage; matching a reference point of the photomap and a reference point of the numerical map; matching a scale of the photomap in line with a scale of the numerical map; and performing a boundary treatment at an overlap area of the numerical map and the photomap that are matched. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300622 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether rendering positions of two pieces of rendering data, each representing a semitransparent state by including pixels that are to be rendered by a rendering unit and pixels that are not to be rendered, overlap, and a control unit configured to, if it is determined by the determination unit that the rendering positions of the two pieces of rendering data overlap, perform control such that one of the two pieces of rendering data is not rendered by the rendering unit. Based on the level of the overlap between a plurality of semitransparent objects, the apparatus converts each hatch pattern so that image quality deterioration does not occur. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300623 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PHOTOMAP ON NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A method for displaying a photomap performed by a navigation system, the method comprising: loading a photomap and a numerical map from a map data storage; matching reference points between the photomap and the numerical map; matching a scale of the numerical map in line with a scale of the photomap; and extracting object information from the numerical map; and composing the object information and the photomap. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300624 | REGIONAL HISTOGRAMMING FOR GLOBAL APPROXIMATION - A solution is proposed that performs global histogramming of pre-regionally-enhanced pixel values accounting for inter-regional illumination contributions to verify that over-saturation of an image is prevented. According to an embodiment, pixel values that have been regionally enhanced—that is, with applied gains calculated for the respective regions—are further added to illumination values corresponding to the pixel values, with the resultant summed pixel values being histogrammed again to determine the amount of over-saturated pixels. An over-abundance of over-saturated pixels results in a calculation of a global modifier applied to each pixel to reduce the number of over-saturated pixels below an acceptable threshold. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300625 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING COLORS OF THE DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device including: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels configured to display one of three primary colors; and a color compensator configured to receive color data comprising gradation data corresponding to each of the three primary colors and configured to increase chroma of a color in which the three primary colors are mixed, by compensating a color of the color data based on color ratios of the three primary colors. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300626 | SUBPIXEL ARRANGEMENTS OF DISPLAYS AND METHOD FOR RENDERING THE SAME - An apparatus including a display and control logic is provided. In one example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a plurality of zigzag subpixel groups. Each zigzag subpixel group includes at least three zigzag subpixel units arranged adjacently along a horizontal or vertical direction. Each zigzag subpixel unit includes a plurality of subpixels of the same color arranged in a zigzag pattern. In each zigzag subpixel unit, a first plurality of subpixels are arranged along one diagonal direction from a turning subpixel disposed at a turning corner of the zigzag pattern, and a second plurality of subpixels are arranged along another diagonal direction from the turning subpixel. In another example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a novel subpixel repeating group. The control logic is operatively coupled to the display and configured to receive display data and render the display data into control signals for driving the display. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300627 | METHOD AND APPARATUS INDICATING SCROLL POSITION ON A DISPLAY - A method, apparatus and computer program product for indicating scroll position on a display is presented. A movement event requiring movement of content within a display area is identified. A location indicator is displayed at a first content location relative to content within the display area, the location indicator identifying that the first content location will remain visible on the display in response to the movement event. During movement of the content within the display area, a corresponding movement of the location indicator relative to the first content location is provided as the first content location moves with the content within the display area. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300628 | TILE-BASED COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION FOR GRAPHIC APPLICATIONS - Systems and method for tile-based compression are disclosed. Image data, such as a frame, may be divided into tiles. The tiles may be sized based on a size of a line buffer. Tiles are compressed and decompressed individually. As portions of the image frame are updated, corresponding updated tiles may be compressed and stored. Likewise, as tiles are accessed they may be de-compressed and streamed to a requesting device. In some embodiments, a decoder operable to decompress tiles may be interposed between a memory device and a requesting device. Data encoding one or more compressed tiles may be grouped to enable decompression at a rate of four pixels per clock cycle. Methods for compressing image data including both RGB and RGBα components are disclosed. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300629 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display processor and a processor. The display processor is configured to display strokes handwritten on a screen. The processor is configured to divide strokes into a first stroke group corresponding to pre-defined objects and a second stroke group that does not correspond to pre-defined objects. The display processor is configured to display at least one object corresponding to the first stroke group and at least one line corresponding to the second stroke group on the screen after displaying the first stroke group and the second stroke group. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300630 | Background Removal Tool for a Presentation Application - A presentation application for masking portions of an object, such as the background of an image, is provided. The presentation application may provide a background removal tool that allows a user to define an initial point in the background of the object. The presentation application may establish an initial background color based on the initial point, and may compute and automatically adjust a color tolerance of the background color based on the distance that a user-controlled cursor is from the initial point. Using a seed-fill algorithm, the presentation application can select a contiguous portion of the object for masking that includes the initial point and surrounding pixels that are within the background color tolerance. To smoothen the edges of the contiguous portion, the presentation application can convert the portion to a vector graphic before making the object. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LABELING MAPS - A system and method for label placement is disclosed that achieves the twin goals of practical efficiency and high labeling quality by employing cartographic heuristics. A caller defines map and label properties. Then labels are pulled within a map boundary. Labels are next ordered by priority in descending importance. The order of testing labels is determined. Attempts are made to move overlapping labels. This is an iterative process; therefore there must be criteria that halt the procedure. Upon reaching an acceptable solution, the label properties are adjusted to reflect the new label placements. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300632 | AUGMENTED REALITY APPARATUS - An embodiment of the invention relates to an apparatus and related methods for providing a person with an augmented reality, the apparatus comprising: a projector that projects light that generates an augmenting visual image (AVI); optics that directs to a camera a portion of the projected light and a portion of light arriving from a scene so that a combined image comprising an image of the scene and the AVI are generated in a photosensor in the camera; and a controller that processes the combined image to compare positions of homologous features in the image of the scene with positions of corresponding location markers in the AVI, and renders an adjusted AVI based on the comparison, so that the location markers and the corresponding homologous features are substantially coincident in the combined image. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300633 | IMAGE PROCESSOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processor including a recognition part configured to recognize a captured target on the basis of a captured image, and an image generation part configured to generate an additive image for decorating the target depending on a user circumstance of a user seeing the target and a recognition result by the recognition part. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300634 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING AUGMENTED REALITY BY USING TRANSPARENT DISPLAY - An apparatus and a method for implementing augmented reality by using a transparent display are provided. The method includes calculating a point-of-view of a user based on a face image captured by a front camera, detecting an image of an area depending on an angle of view identical to a viewing angle of the user based on the calculated point-of-view of the user, implementing the augmented reality by using the detected image, and outputting the implemented augmented reality to the transparent display. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300635 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a judgment unit for judging an anteroposterior relationship between a shot actual object and a virtual object for each part by use of depth information, and a display control unit for displaying a virtual image in which the virtual object is projected to be overlapped on a shot image in which the actual object is shot based on the anteroposterior relationship judged by the judgment unit. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300636 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a sound output control unit configured to generate localization information of a sound marker based on a virtual position, and a sound output unit configured to output a sound associated with the sound marker, based on the localization information, wherein the virtual position is determined based on a position of a real object present in a space. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300637 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CAMERA LOCATION INFORMATION AND/OR CAMERA POSE INFORMATION ACCORDING TO A GLOBAL COORDINATE SYSTEM - An approach is provided for processing and/or facilitating a processing of one or more images to determine camera location information, camera pose information, or a combination thereof associated with at least one camera capturing the one or more images, wherein the camera location information, the camera pose information, or a combination thereof is represented according to a global coordinate system. The approach involves causing, at least in part, an association of the camera location information, the camera pose information, or a combination thereof with the one or more images as meta-data information. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300638 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image processing device includes: a sub-image generation section, the sub-image generation section configured to generate a third sub-image by providing a peripheral image including at least a first region that is a transparent region around a first sub-image and to perform a filtering process on the entire or a part of a second sub-image including the first sub-image and the peripheral image; and a composition section configured to composite together a frame image and the third sub-image. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300639 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PUTTING PICTURE UPRIGHT ACCORDING TO PICTURE CONTENT IN TERMINAL DEVICE - A method for automatically adjusting a picture right according to contents of the picture at terminal equipment is provided, including the following steps: analyzing the picture, extracting information from the picture; calculating information to obtain weight. respectively calculating the sum of information weight in each of four directions; comparing sums of information weight of the four directions to obtain the direction with the maximum weight; and adjusting the picture in the direction with the maximum weight. The method judges the direction in which the picture should be adjusted according to contents of the picture itself, avoiding manual adjustment to the picture. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300640 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ORIENTATION RELATIVE TO A USER - Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for determining orientation of a display presented to a user of a device relative to the user. For example, the method includes receiving a first input indicative of a first orientation of a device and receiving a second input indicative of a second orientation of the device relative to a user of the device. The first input and the second input may be analyzed to determine a change in orientation of the device relative to the user of the device. Orientation of a display presented to the user then may be adjusted according to the determined change in orientation of the device relative to the user. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300641 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHANGING DISPLAY AREA - A display device to change an image displayed in a display area when the display area is changed includes a memory, a location output unit and a screen display unit. The memory stores size information of a display area displayed on a screen and the image data of the displayed image. The location computing unit computes a start point of the changed display area when the display area is changed. The display unit decodes data corresponding to the size of the display area based on the computed new start point from the image data to display the decoded data in the display area. Since the start point is obtained with center point of the changed display area and its size information and then a display area to be displayed is determined based on the start point, a current search location is maintained even when the screen is swung. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300642 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION BASED ON DISPLAY SCREEN ORIENTATION - A handheld devise presents information on a display screen in alternate formats. The device determines its orientation relative to a device user and selects a format based on that orientation. The displayed information may also be scrolled or zoomed based on a detected motion of the device. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300643 | RESOLUTION INDEPENDENT CLIENT SIDE RENDERING - Exemplary embodiments involve a viewer application receiving input modifying a rendering attribute of electronic content. The viewer application modifies a view-to-image transformation matrix based on the input. The view-to-image transformation matrix is capable of converting resolution-based coordinates of the electronic content to a corresponding resolution-independent coordinates of the electronic content. The viewer application generates a view-to-resolution transformation matrix based on the view-to-image transformation matrix as modified. The viewer application renders updated electronic content generated by applying the view-to-resolution transformation matrix to the electronic content. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300644 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE CUT-OUT - A method of generating a cut-out from an image of a scene which has been captured by a camera is described. The method comprises: defining the position of a virtual camera, the image plane of the virtual camera being the cut out, with respect to the position of the camera capturing the scene; | 2014-10-09 |
20140300645 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A VIRTUAL CAMERA - A method of controlling the movement of a virtual camera whose image plane provides a cut-out from a captured image of a scene is disclosed. The method comprises: defining a set of first pixel positions forming the boundary of the cut-out of the captured image; defining a set of second pixel positions for the boundary of the captured image; calculating a virtual camera rotation matrix to be applied to the first pixel positions, the virtual camera rotation matrix representative of the difference in at least one of the yaw and pitch of the image plane of the virtual camera and the image plane of the captured image of the scene, wherein the virtual camera rotation matrix is limited such that when one of the set of first pixel positions is transformed using the virtual camera rotation matrix, the transformed first pixel position is located within the boundary of the captured image. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300646 | GENERATING DOLLY ZOOM EFFECT USING LIGHT FIELD IMAGE DATA - According to various embodiments, a dolly zoom effect is generated using light field image data. The dolly zoom effect simulates an in-camera technique wherein a camera moves toward or away from the subject in such a way that the subject is kept at the same size throughout the effect. The effect causes the relative size of foreground background elements to change while foreground elements such as the subject remain the same size. By varying a parameter while projecting the light field image, the size of each object in the projection image scales depending on its relative depth as compared with the depth of the target subject, thus simulating the dolly zoom effect without any need to physically move the camera. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300647 | Scaling vector objects having arbitrarily complex shapes - Scaling arbitrarily complex graphical objects is described by superimposing a grid of four guide lines on a graphical object defined by one or more vectors. The guide lines define nine grid sections. The graphical application development environment (GADE) divides any vectors crossing multiple grid sections into separate section vectors, such that each section contains whole vectors. The application and resulting vector information in each grid section is compiled into an executable file. When executed in a compatible run-time container, the container virtually renders a transformed representation of the graphical object in memory. Using information gathered from analyzing the outline of the transformed representation, the run-time container generates code blocks for transforming each of the vectors within the grid sections an appropriate amount that conforms to the outline information. The resulting transformed vectors are displayed in the running application. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300648 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION IN PARTICULAR IN A VEHICLE AND DISPLAY UNIT FOR A VEHICLE - A method for displaying information in a vehicle wherein a control device can generate graphics data which control a display surface such that, in a first display mode, graphic objects and/or buttons for visualizing information of a first vehicle unit are displayed and, in a second display mode, graphic objects and/or switches for visualizing information of a plurality of vehicle units are displayed. In a transition from the first display mode to the second display mode the representation of the graphic objects and/or buttons for visualizing information of the first vehicle unit are decreased in size and changed, and surface graphic objects and/or buttons for visualizing information of other vehicle units are redisplayed and the graphic objects and/or buttons for visualizing information of other vehicle units are moved. Also disclosed is a display unit for carrying out the method. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300649 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF INSPECTING THE SAME - An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a display area in which pixels are arranged and a non-display area disposed in vicinity of the display area, a scan driver applying scan signals to the pixels, a source driver chip connected to the non-display area to apply a data voltage to the pixels and generating an input signal, a light emitting control driver applying light emitting control signals to the pixels, a detecting capacitor disposed in the non-display area, and first and second test lines connected between the source driver chip and the detecting capacitor to apply the input signal to the detecting capacitor. The source driver chip outputs a charging time of the detecting capacitor on the basis of the input signal as an output signal. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300650 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF LCD PANEL, LCD DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL - A method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes: A: setting an M*M over drive (OD) table, the M*M OD table includes a grey scale value XN*a of a previous-frame image, a grey scale value XN*b of a current-frame image, and an OD value (XN*a, XN*b) corresponding to the grey scale value XN*a and the grey scale value XN*b, where a and bε[0, M], N and M are integers, and N>=2. B: regarding x′ as the grey scale value of the previous-frame image and y′ as the grey scale value of the current-frame image when the LCD panel is driven, the OD value (x′, y′) is fitted to a continuous two-dimensional surface by reference to an OD value (XN*a, XN*b) in the OD table, and the OD value (x′, y′) is correspondingly calculated according to function of the two-dimensional surface fitted and is output to the LCD panel. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300651 | DRIVING BISTABLE DISPLAYS - The invention relates to waveforms, circuits and methods for driving bistable displays. The invention is directed to a method, comprising in combination: applying, across a bistable display device, a shaking signal comprising a plurality of positive and negative pulses each driven for a first time to disperse partially packed particles; applying, across the device, one or more first driving signals to first pixels of the device for second times that are sufficient to drive the first pixels to one or more reference states; and concurrently with the first driving signals, applying, across the device, one or more second driving signals to second pixels of the device for third times that are shorter than necessary to drive the second pixels to any of the one or more reference states. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300652 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is provided that detects brightness and outputs an illuminance value corresponding to the detected brightness, derives a luminance set value for controlling a light emission signal regulating luminance of a light source based on the illuminance value, and displays derived power consumption information related to power consumption of the light source based on the luminance set value. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300653 | LOW COLOR SHIFT MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - According to various embodiments of the invention, gamma curves for multiple pixel groups can be calibrated using look-up tables or by using reference voltage groups provided by gamma voltage generators so that the pixels can display multiple images with correct gray levels at different view angles. Therefore, color shift can be avoided or lessened without necessarily using extra circuitry on the display panel. Also, any related light transmittance or light utilization efficiency reduction may be decreased or eliminated. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300654 | DRIVING CONTROL CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention aims to provide a driving control circuit of a display device, which includes a plurality of data driving circuits each having a timing controller merged with a source driver. The data driving circuits are configured to synchronize data of the respective data driving circuits and compensate for a difference between a data enable signal and a gate output enable signal, when an abnormal display signal is received. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300655 | Projection Type Display Device and Method for Controlling Operation of Projection Type Display Device - A projection-type display device, which projects and displays images in accordance with an image signal includes a light source for projecting the images, output means that is equipped with a coil and switch, that uses electromagnetic induction of the coil to supply a current, and that changes the magnitude of the current by means of the switch, a cooling fan that cools the projection-type display device and for which the rotational speed is variable; and control means that, upon receiving an instruction to set a first mode in which a first current is intermittently supplied to the light source, both controls the switch to set the output current of the output means to the first current and intermittently supply the first current to the light source and sets the rotational speed of the cooling fan to a first rotational speed; and upon receiving an instruction to set a second mode in which a second current that is smaller than the first current is continuously supplied the light source, both controls the switch to set the output current of the output means to the second current and continuously supply the second current to the light source and sets the rotational speed of the cooling fan to a second rotational speed that is lower than the first rotational speed. | 2014-10-09 |
20140300656 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for controlling an image recording apparatus includes: detecting a defective recording element out of a plurality of recording elements on a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium; performing a correction processing including suspension of an output of the defective recording element and increase of an output of a recording element at least adjacent to the defective recording element according to a detection result; determining whether or not an image defect is caused in the image by the suspension of output of the defective recording element, before performing the correction processing, according to the detection result; selecting a forced recording element that is forced to output ink out of defective recording elements when it is determined that the image defect is caused; and suspending the output of the defective recording element other than the forced recording element when the forced recording element is selected. | 2014-10-09 |