41st week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 19 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110248921 | KEYCAP CONSTRUCTION FOR KEYBOARD WITH DISPLAY FUNCTIONALITY - A computer peripheral is provided. The computer peripheral includes a display device and a keyboard assembly disposed over the display device. The keyboard assembly is configured to permit viewing of images produced by the display device through the keyboard assembly. The keyboard assembly includes a plurality of keys. Each of the plurality of keys is selectively physically depressible to cause production of an input signal. Each of the plurality of keys includes a keycap having a perimeter piece and a central piece. The central piece is transparent so as to permit passage of light from the display device through the central piece to a user of the keyboard assembly. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248922 | ADAPTIVE KEYBOARD LIGHT PILLAR - An input device includes a display device configured to selectively modulate light to produce a changeable display image. The input device also includes a keyboard assembly disposed over the display device and including one or more depressible keys. Each depressible key includes a keycap having a light transmissive window; a light pillar between the keycap and the display device; and a light-turning layer between the light pillar and the keycap. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248923 | ADAPTIVE KEYBOARD LIGHT TURNER - An input device includes a display device configured to selectively modulate light to produce a changeable display image. The input device also includes a keyboard assembly disposed over the display device and including one or more depressible keys. Each depressible key includes a keycap having a light transmissive window and a light-turning feature or element between the display device and the keycap. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT INPUT FOR TOUCH-TYPABLE DEVICES - Described systems and mechanisms relate to techniques for improving usability, speed, and accuracy of text input to touch-typable devices. A touch-typable device can include a movable keymask comprising of a plurality of cells mapped with one or more keys of text input keypad of the touch-typable device, wherein each of the plurality of cells of the movable keymask superimposes over textual input choices enabling the user to select the desired textual input from the plurality of cells of the movable keymask using the text input keypad of the touch-typable device. The textual input choices can be chosen after every user input from a set of likely input choices, wherein the likely input choices can be selected based on previous textual input sequence, phoneme and syllabary patterns, statistical correlation between the previous textual input sequence and set of textual input choices, dictionary lookups, and usage patterns of said user. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248925 | TELEPHONE KEYPAD WITH MULTIDIRECTIONAL KEYS - A telephone keypad for one touch text messaging the QWERTY pattern of keys in a matrix of nine keys. Using the multi position biasing keys only one touch is needed for each character, so in use to input the letter “C” you touch one key one time, decreasing the time spend text messaging from cell phones or desk tops and dialing phone numbers advertised in letters. The keypad also has a shift key to get upper case included in the nine keys, and a 2 | 2011-10-13 |
20110248926 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND KEYBOARD HAVING MULTIPLE-FUNCTION KEYS - An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keyboard provides enhanced usability with fewer keys by enabling the keys to pivot slightly to provide multiple functions to the keys. The improved keyboard may, for example, include internal strips of conductive carbon that are disposed adjacent the keys and are electrically engageable with contacts on a printed circuit board. Specifically, when a key is pressed directly downward it collapses a single dome and connects together a set of primary contacts to provide a first function. When the key is pressed at the side thereof, the key pivots slightly, collapses the dome and connects together the primary contacts, and also engages a carbon strip with a pair of secondary contacts to connect together the secondary contacts, all of which provide a second function. The keyboard may be configured to be of a QWERTY configuration while using only a relatively small number of keys. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248927 | MULTI-MODE TOUCHSCREEN USER INTERFACE FOR A MULTI-STATE TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - A simple exemplary embodiment can leverage the ability of the touchscreen or touchpad device to distinguish between a fingernail and a palm-side fingertip press as binary distinctions. This can be done via long nails or alternatively, by rotating a hand to invert the finger. The binary distinction can be used to perform different functions. For example, a fingertip press could be the functional equivalent of a left-click on a mouse, and a fingernail press could be the equivalent of a right-click. Another example using a simply binary distinction could be that a fingertip press while typing will result in lower case, and fingernail press while typing will result in upper case. Another example, using a binary distinction, would interpret a light touch for right-clicks or upper case characters and a heavy touch for left-clicks or lower case characters. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248928 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GESTURAL OPERATION OF CONTEXT MENUS ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - There is described a portable electronic device and method for gestural operation of context menus. The portable electronic device comprises a touch-sensitive sensor, a display having the touch-sensitive sensor corresponding to at least a portion of the display, and a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive sensor. The display provides an activation image and a plurality of transient menu options arranged radially from the activation image in response to detecting a first activation at the touch-sensitive sensor. Each transient menu option corresponds to a distinct device action. The processor activates a device action corresponding to a particular transient menu option in response to detecting a second activation at the touch-sensitive sensor that corresponds to the particular transient menu option. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248929 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - A method includes detecting a touch at a touch location on a touch-sensitive display, identifying a delay associated with the touch location, and when a force value related to the touch meets a first threshold value, providing a first tactile feedback after waiting the delay. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248930 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME TO PROVIDE TACTILE FEEDBACK - A method includes detecting a touch at a touch location on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device, identifying a first tactile feedback associated with the touch location, and providing the first tactile feedback in response to determining that a force value related to the touch meets a first threshold value. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248931 | TACTILE FEEDBACK FOR TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, an actuator configured to impart a force on the touch-sensitive display to provide tactile feedback, and a controller configured to detect a touch based on input from the touch-sensitive display and to initiate the tactile feedback by the actuator. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248932 | GHOST CANCELLATION METHOD FOR MULTI-TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE - A ghost cancellation method for the multi-touch sensitive device is disclosed. The multi-touch sensitive device includes a sensing array having multiple lines of a first axis and multiple lines of a second axis intersecting with each other. All the lines of the sensing array are scanned to determine which ones of the lines are touched, so as to determine touch point candidates. For each touch point candidate, a driving signal is applied to the line of the first axis, and the line of the second axis is detected to check if the touch point candidate is actually touched. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248933 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - A handheld electronic communication device includes a body that has an input device, and a display assembly that includes a display. The display assembly is connected to the body and rotatable relative to the body, between a first position in which a first portion of the display is covered by the body and a second portion of the display extends from the body, and a second position in which the display is displaced generally linearly relative to the first position such that the first portion and the second portion of the display are exposed. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248934 | CONTACTLESS TOUCH PANEL - A contactless touch panel comprises a first transparent substrate, a plurality of planar (or miniaturized) microsensors dispersedly arranged on a surface of the first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate stacked on the first transparent substrate to cover the microsensors, and a detecting element electrically connected to the microsensors. Thus, when a touching object approaches (does not touch) the touch panel, the microsensors sense the touching object via an electric field or a magnetic field and generate sensing signals sent to the detecting element according to changes in the electric field or the magnetic field and their strength. The detecting element determines a position of the touching object above the touch panel to achieve the purpose of non-contact control. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248935 | Apparatus and method for sound reproduction - In an embodiment an apparatus includes a graphical display panel and a loudspeaker. The panel has a display layer for displaying images and defines a plurality of apertures penetrating through at least the display layer. The loudspeaker includes a diaphragm arranged substantially parallel to the display layer. Sound from the loudspeaker diaphragm is directed outside a host device through the apertures. The speaker may be an electret or a piezo-electric speaker for thinness. There may be apertures on an opposed side of the host device housing to achieve a dipole pattern which is directed and gives acoustic privacy to the user, or a rear acoustic cavity for a monopole pattern which more broadly disperses the sound. One illustrated embodiment is selectable between monopole and dipole. Size and total area of the holes determines acoustic resistance and so a method is described to determine those from physical parameters of the display panel. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248936 | TOUCH SCREEN-INTEGRATED LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Disclosed herein is a touch screen-integrated liquid crystal display, including: a backlight unit emitting light; a first polarizing plate disposed on the backlight unit; a liquid crystal panel disposed on the first polarizing plate and creating an image using the light emitted from the backlight unit; a touch screen disposed on the liquid crystal panel; a cholesteric liquid crystal plate disposed on the touch screen; a phase difference plate disposed on the cholesteric liquid crystal plate; and a second polarizing plate disposed on the phase difference plate. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248937 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A mobile communication terminal | 2011-10-13 |
20110248938 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL - A touch screen panel that that is less susceptible to malfunction by static electricity. The touch screen panel includes: a transparent substrate; sensing cells formed on the transparent substrate, comprising: first sensing cells connected in a first direction; and second sensing cells connected in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and connecting patterns formed on the transparent substrate, comprising: first connecting patterns connecting the first sensing cells in the first direction, and second connecting patterns connecting the second sensing cells in the second direction; wherein the sensing cells include prominences extending toward adjacent ones of the sensing cells. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248939 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING TOUCH - An apparatus and method for sensing a touch are provided. A touch type of a touch input may be determined based on a contact area of the touch input, and a function may be performed based on the touch type and a touch scheme of the touch input and it may be possible to provide a user with various interactions in a touch interface environment. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248940 | TOUCH DISPLAY STRUCTURE AND TOUCH DISPLAY APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - A touch display apparatus comprises a touch display structure and a touch controller electrically connected thereto. The touch display structure comprises a display layer, an electric circuit layer, and a second electrode. The electric circuit layer, disposed under the display layer, comprises a substrate, a driving electrode, and a first electrode. The driving electrode and the first electrode are disposed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the substrate, respectively, and are electrically connected to the touch controller, respectively. The second electrode is disposed under the first electrode and electrically connects to the touch controller. The first electrode and the second electrode generate a touch control signal in response to a press of a user or an electromagnetic signal. The touch controller receives and processes the touch control signal, and then, the touch controller transmits the touch control signal to the driving electrode to drive the display layer. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248941 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING HAND ANNOTATIONS - A capture device for remote, virtual on screen data input by hand annotation comprises at least three functional layers including a bottom rigid layer, a middle pressure sensor layer and a top flexible layer. The bottom rigid layer has a surface that provides a mechanical support for writing. The middle pressure sensor layer is adapted to measuring a pressure array or map on the capture active area and to send data representing the measured pressure to a personal computer. The top flexible touch-sensitive passive LCD display layer includes an LCD surface by which whatever is written down on the LCD is impressed graphically due to its liquid crystal physical properties wherein applied pressure changes the crystal particles orientation and light properties, such that when a stylus presses against a writing surface thereof, it leaves a visible trace allowing the user to produce a drawing though no real ink has flown. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248942 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS, DETECTION-FRAME ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus including an interface that acquires image data, a touch panel display that displays the acquired image data and receives a touch input, and a controller that controls a range of a detection frame displayed on the touch panel based on the received touch input. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248943 | Touch Panel - A touch panel is provided. The touch panel having a pixel area and a sensing area includes a first substrate and an opposite second substrate. A press sensing spacer is disposed on the sensing area of the first substrate. A press sensing stage is disposed on the sensing area of the second substrate, corresponding to the press sensing spacer. An alignment layer is disposed over the second substrate, covering the press sensing stage and the pixel area of the second substrate. In an embodiment, the height of the press sensing stage is greater than the height from the surface of the second substrate at the pixel area to the bottom of the alignment layer by at least 0.05 μm. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248944 | TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel having a display area and an operation area is provided. The touch display panel includes a first substrate, a first transparent electrode layer, a dielectric layer, a second electrode layer, a display medium, an active array device, and a second substrate sequentially disposed. The first substrate and the second substrate are disposed opposite to each other. The first transparent electrode layer includes a first display area pattern located in the display area and a first operation area pattern located in the operation area. The second transparent electrode layer includes a second display area pattern located in the display area and a second operation area pattern located in the operation area. The second display area pattern has a plurality of openings so as to expose a portion of the first display area pattern. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248945 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal ( | 2011-10-13 |
20110248946 | MULTI-MODE PROSTHETIC DEVICE TO FACILITATE MULTI-STATE TOUCH SCREEN DETECTION - Aspects are directed toward an active prosthetic that includes, for example, an LED, RF transponder, or comparable electrical, optical, and/or electromagnetic componentry that allows the characteristics of the prosthetic to be changed. These characteristics then can be correlated to different modes of operation when used with a corresponding input device. Other aspects are directed toward utilizing prosthetics with different shapes to affect different modes of behavior and input with an input device, such as a touchscreen or touchpad. Even further aspects are directed toward providing handicapped individuals with increased dexterity by providing a prosthetic that allows different modes of behavior when used with an associated input device. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248947 | Apparatuses, Methods, and Systems for an Electronic Device with a Detachable User Input Attachment - An electronic device ( | 2011-10-13 |
20110248948 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROL - A method includes identifying a value of at least one parameter of a portable electronic device. A touch threshold is modified based on the value of the at least one parameter, yielding a modified touch threshold. A touch is detected on a touch-sensitive device and a first function is performed when the touch meets the modified touch threshold. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248949 | EQUALIZING PARASITIC CAPACITANCE EFFECTS IN TOUCH SCREENS - Reduction of the effects of differences in parasitic capacitances in touch screens is provided. A touch screen can include multiple display pixels with stackups that each include a first element and a second element. For example, the first element can be a common electrode, and the second element can be a data line. The display pixels can include a first display pixel including a third element connected to the first element, and the third element can contribute to a first parasitic capacitance between the first and second elements of the first display pixel, for example, by overlapping with the second element. The touch screen can also include a second display pixel lacking the third element. The second display pixel can include a second parasitic capacitance between the first and second elements of the second display pixel. The first and second parasitic capacitances can be substantially equal, for example. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248950 | SCANNING METHOD OF A TOUCH PANEL - A scanning method of a touch panel is provided. The touch panel has a horizontal channel group including a plurality of horizontal channels and a vertical channel group including a plurality of vertical channels. According to the scanning method, N channels may be scanned simultaneously, wherein the N channels are selected from the horizontal channel group or the vertical channel group, the N channels are not adjacent to each other, N is a positive integer, and N is less than a channel amount of the selected channel group. Thereby, the scanning speed and the sensing accuracy of the touch panel using the scanning method are enhanced. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248951 | RESISTIVE TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A display device includes a resistive touch panel, which includes a touch layer, a conductive layer, a resistance layer and an insulation layer, wherein the touch layer is the outermost layer of the touch panel, the insulation layer is arranged between the conductive layer and the resistance layer to separate the conductive layer and the resistance layer. The conductive layer is electrically connected to a voltage detector. The resistance layer includes a resistor, the resistor is oriented in a labyrinth-type pattern on the resistance layer and includes a first end and a second end, the first end and the second end are connected to a power source, and the first end further is connected to a current detector. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248952 | TOUCH DISPLAY APPARTUS - A touch display apparatus including a display module, a circuit board, and an insulation elastic element is provided. The display module has a display surface, and the display module includes a metal frame, wherein at least of a portion of the metal frame is opposite to the display surface. The circuit board is disposed at a side of the display module away from the display surface. The circuit board has a plurality of capacitance sensing element disposed corresponding to a plurality of corners of the display module. The insulation elastic element is disposed between the circuit board and the display module. The capacitance sensing elements are separated from the metal frame at a changeable distance and a sensed capacitance formed between the capacitance sensing elements and the metal frame is changed with the changeable distance. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248953 | Touch screen panel - A touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate, connecting patterns on the transparent substrate, the connecting patterns including a plurality of first connecting patterns arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second connecting patterns arranged in a second direction, sensing cells including a plurality of first sensing cells connected in the first direction by the first connecting patterns and a plurality of second sensing cells connected in the second direction by the second connecting patterns, and conductive dummy patterns between adjacent sensing cells, the conductive dummy patterns and sensing cells being positioned at different height levels relative to the transparent substrate, and the conductive dummy patterns including prominences projected toward the sensing cells and partially overlapping the sensing cells. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248954 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch panel device includes a plurality of touch position detection electrodes provided in a touch area, and a detection circuit configured to detect a touch position or positions based on a capacitance or capacitances formed between the touch position detection electrodes and a touching object. The touch position detection electrodes include a first electrode and second electrodes formed along a curved substrate surface. The first electrode has a center portion provided at a center of the touch area, and a plurality of tip portions radially extending from the center portion to reach a periphery of the touch area. The second electrodes are located in a region including the periphery of the touch area, and one of the second electrodes is located between each adjacent pair of the tip portions. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248955 | Touch detection method and circuit for capacitive touch panels - The present invention discloses a touch detection method and circuit for capacitive touch panels. The touch detection method for capacitive touch panels comprises scanning the rows and columns of the capacitive matrix of a touch panel respectively, wherein during the scanning of the rows or columns of the capacitive matrix of the touch panel, two rows or columns are synchronously scanned at the same time to obtain the capacitance differential value between the two rows or columns, or one row or column is scanned at the same time to obtain the capacitance differential value between the row or column and a reference capacitance; and then processing the obtained capacitance differential value. The present invention creates conditions for the elimination of common code interferences and greatly improves the interference resistance of a capacitive touch panel. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TOUCH INPUT IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for a touch input of a portable terminal are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for improving performance of a touch input device by using a multi-touch panel which supports both a resistive type and a capacitive type of touch input detection are provided. The apparatus includes a multi-touch panel for performing both a capacitive type and a resistive type of touch input detection in one touch panel, a pattern determining unit for analyzing a touch input pattern of a user by using the multi-touch panel, and a touch manager for determining a touch input coordinate corresponding to the touch input pattern of the user based on one of the capacitive type and the resistive type of touch input detection. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248957 | MOBILE DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE SAME - A mobile device includes a touch screen panel having first and second terminals. When a touch is inputted, the touch screen panel creates a resistance between the first and second terminals. The mobile device further includes first and second switches and an output unit. The first switch is connected at one end thereof to the first terminal and connected at the other end thereof to a power supply and a processor. The second switch is connected at one end thereof to the second terminal and grounded at the other end thereof. In a sleep mode, the processor closes the first and second switches, measures a voltage at a connection point with the first switch, and determines whether the measured voltage is varied. If the measure voltage is varied and its duration is greater than a critical time, the processor controls the output unit to output a vibration or sound. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248958 | HOLOGRAPHIC BASED OPTICAL TOUCHSCREEN - Disclosed are various embodiments of a holographic based optical touchscreen and methods of configuring such devices. In certain embodiments, a touchscreen assembly can include a holographic layer configured to receive incident light and turn it into a selected direction to be transmitted through a light guide. The holographic layer can be configured to accept incident light within an acceptance range and so that the selected direction is within some range of directions so as to allow determination of incidence location based on detection of the turned light. A light source can be provided so that light from the source scatters from an object such as a fingertip near the holographic layer and becomes the incident light. Thus the determined incidence location can represent presence of the fingertip at or near the incidence location, thereby providing touchscreen functionality. Non-limiting examples of design considerations and variations are disclosed. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248959 | VIRTUAL KEYBOARD ENTRY - A control has up, down, left, and right controls, with a select control located adjacent to the directional controls (e.g., in the center) to allow a user to move an erroneously entered key on a virtual keyboard to a desired key and to select the desired key without requiring the user to take the user's eyes away from the virtual keyboard and to move the user's hands significantly. The virtual keyboard may be displayed on the control or on a separate remote device, such as a television. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248960 | HOLOGRAPHIC TOUCHSCREEN - Disclosed are various embodiments of a holographic touchscreen and methods of configuring such devices. In certain embodiments, a touchscreen assembly can include a holographic layer configured to receive incident light and turn it into a selected direction to be transmitted through a light guide. The holographic layer can be configured to accept incident light within an acceptance range and so that the selected direction is within a range of directions so as to allow determination of incidence location based on detection of the turned light. A light source can be provided so that light from the source scatters from an object such as a fingertip near the holographic layer and becomes the incident light. The determined incidence location can represent presence of the fingertip at or near the incidence location, thereby providing touchscreen functionality. In certain embodiments, the distance between the fingertip and the holographic layer can be estimated based on measurement of a width of a distribution resulting from the detected directed light turned by the holographic layer. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248961 | Device Including Multi-Function Circuitry Having Optical Detectors and Method of Flip-Chip Assembly Therefor - A device includes a substrate is substantially transparent and includes a contact surface and an interface surface. The interface surface includes a plurality of electrical contacts. The device further includes a semiconductor die, which includes a plurality of connections, a first photo detector and a second photo detector. Each of the plurality of connections includes a connection bump formed thereon to couple to the plurality of electrical contacts of the interface surface of the substrate. The plurality of connections positioned relative to the first and second photo detectors to alter a directional response of at least one photo detector of the plurality of photo detectors. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248962 | INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE, TACTILE SENSE PRESENTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information presenting device of present invention includes a conductive layer to which an AC voltage is applied, an insulating layer for covering the conductive layer and presenting a tactile sense when a part of a body of a user set to a ground potential is in contact with the insulating layer. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248963 | Touch Sensitive Image Display - We describe a touch sensitive image display device for projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device comprises: light sources to project two-dimensional first and second light distributions in respective first and second planes; and a multi-pixel sensor system to remotely detect touch of an area of said surface within or adjacent to the displayed image by detecting light from the first distribution to provide a detected touch signal. The multi-pixel sensor system also remotely detects presence of an object within the second light distribution to provide a detected presence signal. The device is configured to multiplex projection of the first light and second distributions. A controller has an input to receive the detected touch and detected presence signals and is configured to control the device responsive to these signals. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248964 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HAND MOTION DETECTION AND HAND MOTION TRACKING GENERALLY - Apparatus and method for hand motion tracking including a hand-held device including at least one accelerometer providing an acceleration indicating output, computation circuitry receiving the acceleration indicating output and providing a non-user specific output and a hand motion tracker receiving the non-user specific output and providing a tracking output indication. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248965 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY - An organic light emitting display with a reduced dead space. The organic light emitting display includes a scan driver for supplying scan signals to a plurality of scan lines; a data driver for supplying data signals to a plurality of data lines; and a pixel region including a plurality of pixels at crossing regions of the scan lines with the data lines. The pixels include organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and pixel circuits for controlling currents flowing to the OLEDs. The scan lines are arranged to extend along a vertical direction of a screen realized in the pixel region. The data lines are arranged to extend along a horizontal direction of the screen. The pixels are configured to horizontally display an image on the screen. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248966 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a display unit displaying an image in response to a driving signal, a driving unit outputting the driving signal to the display unit in response to a plurality of control signal, and a controller outputting the plurality of control signals and image data. The controller includes a plurality of timing controllers providing the image data and the plurality of control signals and a storage device. The plurality of timing controllers share the storage device and may be either connected in series or parallel. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248967 | ELECTRONIC READER WITH TWO DISPLAYS AND METHOD OF TURNING PAGES THEREFOF - An electronic reader includes a first display, a second display, a hinge, a comparing unit, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a swipe page unit unit. The hinge is rotatably connected to the first display and the second display. The first sensor is used for sensing the angle which the first display rotates relative to the hinge. The second sensor is used for sensing the angle which the second display rotates relative to the hinge. The comparing unit compares the rotation angles of the first display and the second display to obtain a comparison result. The swipe page unit turns one or more pages based on the comparison result and updates the first display and the second display accordingly. The disclosure also discloses a method of turning pages. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248968 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE - A flat panel display device having a reduced dead space. The flat panel display device includes a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels, and a built-in circuit unit in which a driver circuit for driving the pixels is formed. In the flat panel display device, the built-in circuit unit is disposed to partially overlap with the pixel unit. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248969 | LCD DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LCD DRIVING METHOD - A liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus and an LCD driving method are provided. The LCD apparatus drives an LCD module by applying temperature compensation to change driving timing according to temperature of the LCD module. Accordingly, the LCD apparatus may reduce a cross-talk occurrence rate in low temperature. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248970 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - In the liquid crystal display device, image signals are concurrently supplied to pixels provided in a plurality of rows among pixels arranged in matrix in a pixel portion where input of image signals is controlled by transistors including polycrystalline semiconductors or single crystal semiconductors in channel formation regions. Thus, the image quality of the liquid crystal display device can be improved. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248971 | LINEAR CONTROL OUTPUT FOR GATE DRIVER - The present invention relates to a gate driver circuit and application of the same in a liquid crystal display (LCD) for improving the display performance thereof. The gate driver circuit includes at least one PMOS transistor and two NMOS transistors configured to modify a falling edge of a corresponding scanning signal according to a linear function that defines a waveform shape for the scanning signal. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248972 | POWER CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF DRIVER IC CHIP - A power connection structure of a driver IC chip including a first power terminal unit formed on one side thereof, a second power terminal unit formed on the other side thereof, and a dummy power terminal unit formed between the first power terminal unit and the second power terminal unit. The driver IC chip is mounted to a liquid crystal panel of a liquid crystal display device in a chip-on-glass (COG) type. Both of the first power terminal unit and the dummy power terminal unit and both of the dummy power terminal unit and the second power terminal unit are connected through routing lines in the driver IC chip. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248973 | BRIGHTNESS CONTROL DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR A CURRENT-DRIVEN DISPLAY DEVICE - A current-driven display device includes sub-pixel drive circuits with integral photo-sensitive circuits that modify the respective sub-pixel drive currents as a function of the locally sensed ambient light level. The photo-sensitive circuit may include a photo-transistor or photo-resistor connected in the output circuit of a drive transistor used to control the on-off state of a respective sub-pixel element, or the photo-sensitive circuit may include a photo-resistor that adjusts a control voltage or current supplied to an input circuit of the drive transistor. In any event, the photo-sensitive circuits individually and independently adjust the drive current, and hence the luminance, of each sub-pixel element based on the locally sensed ambient light level to locally and dynamically compensate for changes in ambient light impinging on the display device. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248974 | BACKLIGHT DRIVE DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING SAME - Backlight drive units included in a backlight drive device of at least one embodiment of the present invention each have a plurality of metal pads functioning as a plurality of address setting terminals. To provide a potential for setting a unique address by coming into contact with the metal pads, metal protrusions are provided at corresponding locations of a backlight housing. A backlight drive control unit is directly connected to each unit through an IIC bus by a bus scheme and receives, via the IIC bus, a detected amount of light and temperature from each unit identified by the address. With such a simple configuration, a unique address can be automatically set for each unit, obtaining the commonization of backlight drive units. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248975 | Image display apparatus and image displaying method - An image display apparatus includes: a display panel including an image display area and a dummy pixel area different from the image display area; an optical sensor detecting light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area on the display panel; and a control unit dividing the image display area on the display panel into a plurality of division areas, allowing pixels within the dummy pixel area to perform light emission to the same degree as the light emission of one or a plurality of pixels within each division area, and correcting luminance or chromaticity of the pixels within each division area based on the light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area detected by the optical sensor. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248976 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus which achieves high definition and has excellent resolution that the human eye feels is provided. In the display apparatus which comprises a display region on which a plurality of display devices are arranged in a matrix, the plurality of display devices include a first display device, a second display device and a third display device, and are arranged in order of the first display device, the second display device, the third display device, the third display device, the second display device and the first display device in a first direction, luminescent colors of the first display device, the second display device and the third display device are different from others, and the display apparatus comprises a low-pass filter circuit configured to modulate an image signal to be input to the display region. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248977 | GATE DRIVER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A gate driver and a liquid crystal display using the same are provided. The gate driver includes a scan signal generating unit and a compensation unit. The scan signal generating unit has a plurality of output channels, and is used for sequentially outputting a scan signal through the output channels according to a basic clock and a start pulse. The compensation unit is coupled to the scan signal generating unit, and used for compensating the total resistance of each of the output channels, and sequentially receiving and transmitting the scan signal to a display panel. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248978 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - To increase the frequency of input of image signals in terms of design in a field-sequential liquid crystal display device. Image signals are concurrently supplied to pixels provided in a plurality of rows among pixels arranged in matrix in a pixel portion of the liquid crystal display device. Thus, the frequency of input of an image signal to each pixel can be increased without change in response speed of a transistor or the like included in the liquid crystal display device. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248979 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Included are a driving circuit that divides one field into subfields and applies predetermined voltages to liquid crystal elements of pixels to turn on or off each of the pixels, and a determination unit that determines whether a first pixel to be turned off of the pixels is adjacent to a second pixel to be turned on of the pixels. The driving circuit applies a first voltage to the liquid crystal element corresponding to the first pixel and applies a second voltage higher than the first voltage to the liquid crystal element corresponding to the second pixel, and applies a third voltage higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage to the liquid crystal element of the first pixel for which the determination unit has determined that the first pixel is adjacent to the second pixel. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248980 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR DRIVING AN ARRAY OF LIGHT EMITTING PIXELS - A technique for driving a column of pixels that include light emitting elements. The technique incorporates feedback data provided from feedback data sources connected to the data line and to feedback line of the array, pixel driving circuit with feedback path. The technique can also include block of the reference elements for input signal corrections. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248981 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - To solve the lack of program time, which is a problem of a display device including an EL element, and to provide a display device including a pixel circuit with a high aperture ratio and a driving method thereof. In a circuit including a driving transistor, a capacitor, a display element which can be used as a capacitor, a first power supply line and a second power supply line, potentials of the first power supply line and the second power supply line are set to be almost the same, thereby a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is held in the display element, and after that, a charge is divided into the display element and the capacitor. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248982 | SOURCE DRIVER AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVNG A DISPLAY PANEL - A source driver includes a shift register, a latch, a digital to analog converter (DAC), an output buffer, a level shifter, and a comparator. The shift register receives digital image data. The latch stores digital image data under control of the shift register. The DAC is coupled to the latch and converts digital image data to analog image data. The level shifter shifts a voltage level of analog image data, generates a number of first driving voltages, and outputs the first driving voltages to the output buffer. The comparator controls a voltage generator to generate a number of second driving voltages between corresponding two neighboring first driving voltages; and the voltage generator outputs the second driving voltages to the output buffer. The output buffer sequentially outputs the first driving voltages and the second driving voltages. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248983 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING PROJECTION MODE IN PROJECTION DEVICE - A projection device capable of automatically controlling on/off of a projection module for projecting display data onto an exterior surface according to an open/closed state of a cover of the projection module, and an operation method thereof are provided. The method for operating a projection module in a projection device includes turning-on the projection module when a first detection signal is detected, wherein the first detection signal is generated when a cover of the projection module is open, and after the projection module is turned on, turning-off the projection module when a second detection signal is detected, wherein the second detection signal is generated when a cover of the projection module is closed. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248984 | User programmable graphics in non-volatile memory for EPD driver IC - Systems and methods are disclosed for a display driver having an internal non-volatile memory in order to save memory storage and computation effort of a host processor. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the display driver is applied for an electronic paper display. Contained within the display driver are user-definable display graphics bitmaps, multiple stored bitmaps used to assemble complex display images, and multiple phase tables, each table of arbitrary length. The invention removes the requirement for a host processor to store display images and/or display image decodes of numerical data and simplifies the process required to construct a display image from stored bitmaps. Furthermore the invention provides pre-programmed multiple phase tables (phase/delay waveform definitions), allowing a simple mechanism to alter the waveform generation, required for example to accommodate temperature variations, blanking the display before updating an image, etc. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248985 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD AND SOURCE DRIVING CIRCUIT - A display device includes multiple first data lines, multiple second data lines, multiple pixel columns, at least a first charge sharing switch circuit and at least a second charge sharing switch circuit. The second data lines are alternately arranged with the first data lines. Each of the pixel columns includes multiple first pixels and multiple second pixels. The first pixels of each of the pixel columns are coupled to one of the first data lines, and the second pixels of each of the pixel columns are coupled to one of the second data lines. The first charge sharing switch circuit each is electrically coupled to at least a part of the first data lines. The second charge sharing switch circuit each is electrically coupled to at least a part of the second data lines. A display device driving method and a source driving circuit also are provided. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248986 | INTELLIGENT MEDIA DECODING - A request to decode media data is received from an application running on a computing device. A decoder decision module in media processing software also running on the computing device receives the request and intelligently determines which of a plurality of media decoders to route the media data to for decompression. The plurality of media decoders may include a hardware media decoder and a software media decoder. The decoder decision module may consider a number of factors that may affect the efficiency of the decompression. These factors include the file format of the media data, limitations of the hardware decoder(s), the size of the media data, a state of the requesting application, load balancing considerations, and other factors. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248987 | INTERACTIVE THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS ON HANDHELD DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for rendering an anamorphic projection of 3D scene geometry on a handled device using a correct asymmetric perspective geometry projection. Once pose of the handheld device is determined, a relative eye position may be inferred when the device is tilted away from an initial or default pose, based on data supplied by accelerometers. Thus, embodiments of the invention result in a holographic style display without the need for glasses or external sensing attachments. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248988 | IMAGE CONVERTING DEVICE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An image converting device includes; a downscaling unit which downscales a two-dimensional image to generate at least one downscaling image, a feature map generating unit which extracts feature information from the downscaling image to generate a feature map, a visual attention calculating unit which generates a low-level attention map based on a visual attention of the feature map, and an image expansion unit which up-scales the low-level attention map, wherein an increasing gray value may be added to image data disposed on the upper portion in the low-level attention map, and 0 or a decreasing gray value may be added to the image data disposed on the lower portion. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248989 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR SETTING DISPLAY MODE, AND 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM - A 3D display apparatus, a method for setting a display mode thereof, and a 3D image providing system are provided. The method for setting a display mode in a 3D display apparatus which displays a 3D image in association with at least one 3D glasses include obtaining information regarding an age of a user who is wearing the 3D glasses and adjusting stereoscopic sense of the 3D image according to the age information. Since the 3D image display apparatus determines the age of a user and adjusts 3D image display environment according to the age of a user, the user may feel less fatigued while viewing the 3D image. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248990 | GENERATION OF A MODIFIED 3D IMAGE OF AN OBJECT COMPRISING TOOL MARKS - There is provided a method for generating a 3D representation of an object, comprising: acquiring 3D topographic data representative of at least one portion of the object having a macroscopic form and microscopic features; separating the 3D topographic data into microscopic data representative of the microscopic features and macroscopic data representative of the macroscopic form; independently scaling one of the microscopic data and the macroscopic data in order to enhance the microscopic features with respect to the macroscopic form, thereby obtaining scaled topographic data; and generating a 3D image using the scaled topographic data, thereby obtaining a modified representation having enhanced microscopic features for the at least one portion of the object. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248991 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING 3D GLASSES, DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL TERMINAL, AND 3D GLASSES, DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL TERMINAL AND 3D DISPLAY SYSTEM THEREOF - Methods of controlling three-dimensional (3D) glasses, a display apparatus, and a control terminal for controlling brightness of a 3D image, and the 3D glasses, the display apparatus, the control terminal, and a 3D display system related to the same are provided. The method of controlling the 3D glasses includes: obtaining a control signal related to controlling brightness of an image; and controlling a shutter of the 3D glasses according to the obtained control signal. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248992 | AVATAR EDITING ENVIRONMENT - An avatar editing environment is disclosed that allows users to create custom avatars for use in online games and other applications. Starting with a blank face the user can add, rescale and position different elements (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth) on the blank face. The user can also change the shape of the avatar's face, the avatar's skin color and the color of all the elements. In some implementations, touch input and gestures can be used to manually edit the avatar. Various controls can be used to create the avatar, such as controls for resizing, rotating, positioning, etc. The user can choose between manual and automatic avatar creation. The avatar editing environment can be part of a framework that is available to applications. One or more elements of the avatar can be animated. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248993 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STEREO PICTURES - A three-dimensional stereo display, and a system and method are provided for controlling the three-dimensional stereo display. The three-dimensional stereo display includes backlight, a first polarizer, a first liquid crystal panel, a second polarizer and a second liquid crystal panel which are sequentially arranged on the backlight source. The second liquid crystal panel switches the polarizing angle of the light travelling through and exiting from said second liquid crystal panel between a horizontal and vertical polarization. Due to the polarization direction of light could be changed by the liquid crystal panel, and makes the light for the left-eye image and the right-eye image are mutual perpendicular. The polarization direction of the light for the left-eye image is the same as that of the left lens, and the polarization direction of the light for the right-eye image is the same as that of the right lens. So the light belongs to the left-eye image or the right-eye image can pass through the left lens or the right lens respectively, then a stereo image will emerge in people's brain due to the effect of “fusion activity”. Further, there is no need to close the polarized spectacles, the displaying efficiency is improved compared with the “Active Stereo”. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248994 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - An autostereoscopic display device comprises a display ( | 2011-10-13 |
20110248995 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL CONTENT BASED ON MACHINE ANALYSIS OF FREEFORM PHYSICAL MARKUP - Systems and methods are described for creating virtual models, primarily through actions taken in actual 3D physical space. For many applications, such systems are more natural to users and may provide a greater sense of reality than can be achieved by editing a virtual model at a computer display, which requires the use of manipulations of a 2D display to effect 3D changes. Actions are taken (markup is drawn or laid out, etc.) in a physical workspace. Such physical workspaces may in fact be identical to the space being modeled, small physical scale models of the space, or even a whiteboard or set of papers or objects which get mapped onto the space being modeled. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248996 | EMBEDDING IMAGES INTO A SURFACE USING OCCLUSION - A three-dimensional relief can be produced from one or more two-dimensional digital (2D) images. A height field is computed from the one or more 2D images and illumination direction information. The height field comprises a multiplicity of geometric surface elements arrayed in a 2D field corresponding to the pixels of the one or more 2D images. Each geometric surface element corresponds to a pixel of each of the digital images and has at least one height parameter representing a displacement from a surface floor. Once the height field is computed, optimizations or adjustments can optionally be made to the height field. The height field can be used to fabricate relief elements in a material, such that each relief element corresponds in shape, position in the height field, and height above the surface floor, to one of the geometric surface elements in the height field. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248997 | Hierarchical Bounding of Displaced Parametric Surfaces - Hierarchical bounding of displaced parametric surfaces may be a very common use case for tessellation in interactive and real-time rendering. An efficient normal bounding technique may be used, together with min-max mipmap hierarchies and oriented bounding boxes. This provides substantially faster convergence for the bounding volumes of the displaced surface, without tessellating and displacing the surface in some embodiments. This bounding technique can be used for different types of culling, ray tracing, and to sort higher order primitives in tiling architectures. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248998 | IRRADIANCE RIGS - Techniques are disclosed for using a local lighting representation to explicitly model spatial variation of a character in a graphics scene as well as for using error driven criteria to determine whether to evaluate a given light source analytically or in a lighting rig. For near light sources, the error driven criteria may be used to determine when a spherical light source should be evaluated in the lighting rig verses analytically. For large characters, local irradiance models may be used to provide a limited form of spatial variation. | 2011-10-13 |
20110248999 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A computer-readable storage medium has stored thereon an program that is executed in a display apparatus that takes an image of a virtual three-dimensional space in which a first object and a second object are present, by a virtual camera and renders the virtual three-dimensional space. The program allows the apparatus to generate a silhouette image for representing a silhouette of the first object, in which silhouette image, gradation information changes in accordance with a distance from the second object to each part of the first object; to generate an image of the second object that is seen from the virtual camera; and to synthesize the silhouette image on the image of the second object that is seen from the virtual camera, such that the silhouette image is darker at a portion thereof corresponding to a part of the first object closer to the second object. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249000 | Control Module for a Field Device - A control module of a field device includes an image processing module that is able to generate an image from process data of the field device, which process data are present in numerical form, which image can be displayed by a corresponding image display unit, for example the display of a PDA, in such a manner that a person can directly interpret the process data. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249001 | MATRIX GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | 2011-10-13 |
20110249002 | MANIPULATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LINKS AND NODES IN LARGE GRAPHS - Scalable architecture for managing and rendering a large graph containing a large number of nodes and edges. The user can group arbitrary nodes to encapsulate complexity without losing any of the cross-group edges dependencies. All edges of the nodes contained in the group are rolled up into roll-up links (or “arteries”) where the graphical thickness indicates relatively how many links are bundled. By collapsing groups the entire view gives the user a clearer understanding of the graph. Information related to the groups and links is retained for drill-into to obtain the details inside each group on the same canvas and for user navigation across groups. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249003 | CONFIGURABLE FRAMEWORK FOR RICH DATA VISUALIZATION - A data visualization system is described herein that provides a flexible, extensible framework for visualizing analytics data. The system allows new data and data sources to be easily added to a dashboard framework without custom programming. This allows organization members without in-depth technical skills to identify organization data that is relevant to them and to quickly produce visualizations that the system can display as organization data changes. Users can leverage visualizations written by third parties and place the visualizations within analytics pages to use the visualizations to view the user's data. The system maps selected visualizations to existing or automatically generated stored procedures or other data interfaces. The system allows third parties to brand the dashboard and individual visualizations. Thus, the data visualization system empowers non-technical organization users to create visualizations of data applicable to their job function or that of other organization members. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING MEDIA THUMBSCAPES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating a visualization of video content. The method includes receiving video content, receiving user input associated with the received video content, extracting each frame in the video content, processing the extracted frames based on the received user input, and outputting a still image including each of the processed extracted frames positioned sequentially. The still image can include a histogram of sound data associated with the processed extracted frames. The user input can indicate an image adjustment to be applied when processing the extracted frames, a number of frames of video content per column, a paper size, and/or a frame size. The frames can be positioned sequentially in columns and/or rows. The image can be output as an image file or on a printable medium. The image can contain more than one video clip, such as films in a trilogy. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249005 | REPARAMETRIZED BULL'S EYE PLOTS - The invention relates to a system for visualizing, in a first bull's eye plot, results of a first quantitative analysis of an object represented in first image data, in particular for cardiac analysis. The first image data comprises a first plurality of data slices, and the system comprises a slice unit for associating a data slice of the first plurality of data slices with a concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, a radius unit for computing the length of a radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and a value unit for computing at least one value for displaying in the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, on the basis of the data slice associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and wherein the length of the radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot is defined on the basis of the position of the data slice, of the first plurality of data slices, associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, with respect to the object. The dependence of the first bull's eye plot concentric ring radius on the position of the data slice associated with said concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, with respect to the object, defines an objective framework for the first bull's eye plot, based on the geometry of the object. Thus, the results of the first quantitative analysis of the object visualized in the first bull's eye plot can be more easily compared with results of a second quantitative analysis of the same object represented in second image data visualized in a second bull's eye | 2011-10-13 |
20110249006 | VENTILATOR BREATH DISPLAY AND GRAPHIC INTERFACE - The invention is directed to a ventilation control system for controlling the ventilation of a patient. The ventilation control system utilizes a user-friendly user interface for the display of patient data and ventilator status. The user interface includes a graphic representation of a breath cycle that displays the breath cycle currently being ventilated, and is also responsive to changes in ventilation settings to assist the user in evaluation the effect of those changes on the ventilator strategy before the changes are implemented. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249007 | COMPUTER RENDERING OF DRAWING-TOOL STROKES - A drawing-tool renderer provides real-time rendering of lines with the look of artistic line drawings. A tip of a drawing tool (e.g., pencil) can be modeled as a constellation of points representing locations on the surface (or within the volume) of the tip. For a given point on a line being rendered, the location of the point and corresponding tool-tip parameters are used to determine which points in the tool tip model touch which portions of the paper. The effect of pigment transfer on cell color is modeled realistically. Various parameters of the model can be tuned to achieve a desired balance between rendering speed and accuracy of the simulation. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPUTER MODEL TO DISPLAY A POSITION OF A PERSON - Generating a computer model to display a position of a person in a defined location is disclosed. A method includes the operation of selecting a substantially overhead image of a defined location having spatial coordinates. A perimeter of the defined location is marked using a graphical user interface. The marked perimeter is related to the spatial coordinates of the defined location. A computer model of the defined location is generated based on the marked perimeter. Multiple levels can be added to the computer model. Spatial coordinates of the person can be determined. The position of the person can be displayed relative to the computer model of the defined location based on the spatial coordinates of the person relative to the spatial coordinates of the defined location. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249009 | STATE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD OF STATE DISPLAY DEVICE - A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249010 | UTILIZATION OF A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT BASED ON PRODUCTION PIPELINE TASKS - A method includes performing a task in response to a request of a secondary user interface of a secondary device. The method also includes calculating a utilization of a graphics processing unit of a machine based on the task performed by the graphics processing unit. The method further includes determining the utilization, through a processor, based on a comparison of a consumption of a computing resource of the graphics processing unit and a sum of the computing resource available. The method furthermore includes performing another task in response to the request of another secondary user interface of another secondary device. The method furthermore includes calculating another utilization of another graphics processing unit based on the another task performed by the another graphics processing unit. The method furthermore includes determining the another utilization based on the comparison of a consumption of the computing resource of the another graphics processing unit. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249011 | LIST TEXTURE - A method, apparatus, and system are described for list texturing being performed over a data path of a graphics pipeline. Input data is received at a graphics pipeline of a graphics processing unit to be processed and generated into a final image to be displayed on a display device of a computer system. Geographic primitives are obtained from processing the input data, and neighbor aggregation of pixels within the geographic primitives is performed. The neighbor aggregation of the pixels includes rendering list texture of the pixels by merging the geographic primitives. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249012 | COMPUTING THE IRRADIANCE FROM A DISK LIGHT SOURCE AT A RECEIVER POINT - Techniques are disclosed to determine the irradiance from a disk light source with much higher accuracy than may be obtained using the common approximation often used currently. By pre-computing, SH coefficients using a specific coordinate frame, only six SH coefficients need to be stored in a first and second texture, one used to determine irradiance of a point within the radius of a disk light source and another for more distant points. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249013 | PLUG-IN ARCHITECTURE FOR DYNAMIC FONT RENDERING ENABLEMENT - A computer system provides a plug-in architecture for creation of a dynamic font. The computer system can incorporate a new filter function into a filtering layer of a font program. The filtering layer includes pre-defined filter functions to transform a base font into a new font. The computer system applies one or more font rules in the filtering layer to the base font. The font rules are implemented by the new filter function and at least one of the pre-defined filter functions to randomize an appearance of each character in a character string. The character string rendered with the new font has a dynamic and randomized appearance. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249014 | INTERWEAVING OF IR AND VISIBLE IMAGES - Systems and methods for interweaving infrared and visible moving image data using a single optical system and imager device based on an infrared input signal and a visible input signal are disclosed. Infrared image frames can be substituted in for complete visible image input frames or for partial visible image input frames, i.e. substituting in an infrared image input frame for one or more of the color channels in one or more visible image input frames. Moving video or computer-generated moving graphics can include both infrared and visible image data to be displayed users viewing the resulting images with and without night vision imaging devices. In particular, the system and method can be used in projection systems for night-vision imaging device team training simulators to reduce the cost of the system while increasing the ease of use and performance of such systems. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249015 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT BASED COLOR MANAGEMENT OF OUTPUT DEVICES - A method includes querying a database to determine the color profile of the multimedia content. The method may include comparing the secondary color profile of the secondary display to the primary color profile of the primary display and then determining a secondary color profile to apply to the multimedia content on the secondary display. The method may include selecting the secondary color profile from a database and applying the secondary color profile to the multimedia content. The method includes displaying the multimedia content with the secondary color profile on secondary display to reduce a color discrepancy of the multimedia content between the primary and the secondary display. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249016 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device which enables image display that takes full advantage of a color reproduction performance of a panel without providing a viewer with a feeling of strangeness. An image processing device ( | 2011-10-13 |
20110249017 | Image signal processing device, display device, display method and program product - An image processing device includes an input unit that receives at least one of image signals for a left channel and image signals for a right channel, a color conversion processing unit that converts at least one of the image signals for the left channel and the image signals for the right channel, which are input to the input unit, into image signals for a solid color image of a specific color, and an output unit that outputs image signals including the image signals converted in the color conversion processing unit. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249018 | Methods and Apparatus for Color Grading with Gamut Match Preview - A method for color grading within a component color space associated with a display includes receiving a source image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel is associated with a color comprising a plurality of color component values in the component color space, wherein the component color space comprises RGB, and wherein a pixel is associated with a color inside a gamut of the display but outside a gamut of a target media, receiving a color grading signal from a user, modifying the color associated with the pixel from the plurality of pixels in response to the color grading signal, to form a graded image comprising the pixel, wherein the pixel is associated with a graded color comprising a plurality of color component values, displaying the graded image on the display to the user, automatically performing a gamut remapping of the graded color associated with the pixel, to form a gamut remapped image comprising the pixel, wherein the pixel is associated with a gamut remapped color comprising a plurality of color component values, wherein at least one color component value of the graded color is substantially similar to one color component value of the gamut remapped color, and displaying the gamut remapped image on the display to the user, wherein the gamut remapped image comprises a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel from the plurality of pixels is associated with a color within a gamut of the target media. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249019 | PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A projection system includes first and second cameras, a projector, and a processing unit. The first camera captures an object to obtain a first image of the object. The projector projects the first image to a projection region. The second camera captures the projection region to obtain a second image of the projection region. The second image is detected to determine whether a gesture is in the projection region. If a gesture is in the projection region, a number of symbols are transmitted to the projector. The symbols are projected in the projection region to form a number of controlling symbols. The second image is further detected to determine whether one controlling symbol is selected. If one controlling symbol is selected, the processing unit controls the first camera, the second camera, or the projector. | 2011-10-13 |
20110249020 | Scanning Projector with Vertical Interpolation onto Horizontal Trajectory - A scanning projector includes a scanning mirror that sweep a beam in two dimensions. Source image data is interpolated vertically, and the results are stored in a frame buffer. Each row of the frame buffer holds vertically interpolated pixel data that lies on a trajectory corresponding to a horizontal sweep of the beam. Pixel data in each row is then interpolated to determine display pixel data. At least one light source is driven with the display pixel data to produce the beam that is reflected by the scanning mirror. | 2011-10-13 |