46th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090278832 | Device and method for driving liquid crystal display device - Device and method for driving a liquid crystal display device where a driving voltage level is varied with the temperature of an operating environment of the liquid crystal display device to improve display quality. The device includes a liquid crystal display panel, gate and data drivers for driving gate and data lines of the liquid crystal display panel, a timing controller for controlling the data and gate drivers, a power source unit for transforming an external power into a rated voltage level required for driving the liquid crystal display device and forwarding the power, and a driving voltage generating unit for adjusting a voltage level of the power transformed thus in conformity with an environmental temperature to generate a positive polarity driving voltage and using the driving, voltage for generating a plurality of driving voltages required for driving units, including the liquid crystal panel, the gate driver and data driver. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278833 | Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and eletronic instrument - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel matrix section including pixel circuits laid out to form a pixel matrix to serve as pixel circuits each having an electro optical device, a signal writing transistor, a signal storage capacitor, and a device driving transistor, and a power-supply section configured to change a power-supply electric potential appearing on a power-supply line for providing a driving current flowing to the device driving transistor from one level to another in order to control transitions from a light emission period of the electro optical device to a no-light emission period of the electro optical device and vice versa, and stopping an operation to assert the power-supply electric potential on the power-supply line during a portion of the no-light emission period of the electro optical device. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278834 | Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and electronic instrument - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel matrix section including pixel circuits laid out to form a pixel matrix to serve as pixel circuits each having an electro optical device, a signal writing transistor, a signal storage capacitor, and a device driving transistor, and a power-supply section configured to change a power-supply electric potential appearing on a power-supply line for providing a driving current flowing to the device driving transistor from one level to another in order to control transitions from a light emission period of the electro optical device to a no-light emission period of the electro optical device and vice versa, and stopping an operation to assert the power-supply electric potential on the power-supply line during a portion of the no-light emission period of the electro optical device. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278835 | MOTHER SUBSTRATE OF ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICES AND METHOD OF AGING THE SAME - A mother substrate of an organic light emitting display device capable of effectively aging a plurality of organic light emitting display panels by sheet unit without scribing the panels is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a substrate of an organic light emitting display device, including a plurality of organic light emitting display panels, a plurality of first wires configured to supply a pixel power source to the panels in a first direction, and a plurality of second wires configured to supply a reference power voltage to the panels in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein voltage levels of the reference power voltage are set to different voltage levels relative to a position of panels on the substrate. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278836 | METHOD OF DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method of driving a plasma display panel is provided. The method includes supplying a data signal to at least one of a plurality of address electrodes during an address period of at least one subfield of a plurality of subfields, and supplying a first signal opposite a direction of the data signal to at least one of the plurality of address electrodes, to which the data signal will be supplied, during a reset period prior to the address period. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278837 | Luminous Display and Method for Controlling the Same - A luminous display includes pixels arranged in rows and columns. Control signals that are used for controlling first switches for measuring parameters of pixel cells in a first row are also used to control second switches for programming pixel cells in a second row. In this way it is possible to use a single control signal for selecting one pixel cell for programming and simultaneously selecting another pixel cell for measuring. Programming and measuring are thus performed in a time staggered manner, while the addressing is moved to the respective next row. The programming is preferably voltage programming. In one embodiment the current through the pixel cell that is currently programmed is interrupted. In another embodiment the measuring is performed only after the transient current into signal holding means coupled to current control means has set. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278838 | Driving Circuit and Driving Controller Capable of Adjusting Internal Impedance - A driving circuit includes a power supply, a plurality of conductive paths and a plurality of driving controller. The power supply is configured for providing a predetermined voltage. The conductive paths are connected to the power supply to receive the predetermined voltage. The driving controllers are connected to the conductive paths correspondingly. A first driving controller of the driving controllers has a first internal circuit configured for employing an internal voltage to perform functions provided by the first driving controller, and a resistance adjustment unit. The resistance adjustment unit is connected between a special conductive path and the first internal circuit. The second driving controller has a second internal circuit configured for employing a second internal voltage to perform functions provided by the second driving controller. A resistance value of the resistance adjustment unit is adjustable to make the first internal voltage same to the second internal voltage. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278839 | MANAGING LANDBASES AND MACHINE OPERATIONS PERFORMED THEREON - A method for management of a land base includes interfacing a machine or equipment to a computer running a geographical information system (GIS) application such that the computer is configured to monitor the operations performed by the equipment or machine on the land base and store the operations as map points, lines, or polygons on at least one data layer within the GIS application. The method further includes displaying the GIS application to the operator at the point and time of performing the operations. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278840 | VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SIMULATING TRAVEL BY VARIOUS MODES OF TRANSPORTATION - A restaurant comprising a virtual reality environment simulating travel by a mode of transportation, such as a train or a boat, to allow individuals seating in the restaurant to have the impression of travelling while enjoying their meals. The restaurant comprises a dining room having side walls, each side wall having a series of windows. Screens are placed on opposed facing sides of the dining room at a distance behind the side walls. A set of projectors is provided for projecting a seamless flow of continuous passing by images of a landscape on the screens. A display control unit synchronizes the projection of the passing by images on the screens in order to create an illusion of travel through the landscape when viewed through the windows in the side walls. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278841 | MANAGING USE LIMITATIONS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE RESOURCE CONSERVATION REGION - A virtual universe can include regions that conserve natural resource usage. A virtual universe natural resource conservation system (“system”) can determine that an avatar is accessing a natural resource conservation region in a virtual universe. The natural resource conservation region is supported with one or more devices that adhere to restrictions on natural resource usage. The system can also apply one or more virtual universe restrictions while the avatar is accessing the natural resource conservation region. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278842 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED STREAMING GAME SERVER - Exemplary embodiments include an interception mechanism for rendering commands generated by interactive applications, and a feed-forward control mechanism based on the processing of the commands on a rendering engine, on a pre-filtering module, and on a visual encoder. Also a feed-back control mechanism from the encoder is described. The mechanism is compression-quality optimized subject to some constraints on streaming bandwidth and system delay. The mechanisms allow controllable levels of detail for different rendered objects, controllable post filtering of rendered images, and controllable compression quality of each object in compressed images. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278843 | COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL CARTONS WITH CURVED CREASES - A method, a computer readable medium with instructions to execute a method, and a carton designed using a method. The method includes accepting a specification of a carton made up of a substrate and having at least one curved crease. The method further includes for a curved crease, accepting a folding angle at any point of the crease; and automatically calculating at least one shape of the folded carton in order to determine a three-dimensional model of the folded carton. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278844 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING 3D MESH INFORMATION INCLUDING STITCHING INFORMATION - Provided are encoding and decoding stitching information generated when the 3D mesh model that is the non-manifold or non-orientable model is converted into orientable and manifold models upon encoding the 3D mesh information of the 3D mesh model. The method of encoding 3D mesh information includes the steps of: encoding the 3D mesh information to output an encoded bitstream; encoding stitching information of elements contained in the 3D mesh information, the stitching information having a total number of duplicated original elements and, for each of the duplicated original elements, the duplication number, original-element identification information and duplicated-element identification information; and generating a packet of the bitstream, wherein the encoded stitching information is inserted into the packet. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278845 | IMAGE GENERATING DEVICE, TEXTURE MAPPING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND TEXTURE STORING METHOD - A vertex sorter | 2009-11-12 |
20090278846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEOMETRIC MODELING OF TUBULAR STRUCTURES - A method for extracting a centerline of a tubular structure in a digital medical image includes providing a 3-dimensional (3D) digitized medical image having a segmented tubular structure, finding a path in the image between a starting point and every other point in the tubular structure that minimizes an accumulative cost function, wherein the minimum accumulative cost φ(x) at a point x is a minimum of (φ(x′)+P | 2009-11-12 |
20090278847 | SIMPLIFYING THE PRESENTATION OF A VISUALLY COMPLEX SEMANTIC MODEL WITHIN A GRAPHICAL MODELING APPLICATION - A model simplification tool can receive a command to simplify the presentation of a visually complex semantic model from a graphical modeling application. The visually complex semantic model can be comprised of a multitude of object representations and their associations, such that the usability of the model is impaired. An association status can be determined for each object representation, which can designate the object representation as autonomous, containment, or subordinate. The presentation of the visually complex semantic model can be consolidated based on the association status of object representations. Subordinate objects can be nested within containment objects to produce a simplified semantic model. The simplified semantic model can be rendered within the graphical modeling application. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278848 | DRAWING FAMILIAR GRAPHS WHILE SYSTEM DETERMINES SUITABLE FORM - A graphical user interface system is provided. The system includes a graphical component to enable sketching of a diagram and a logical component to associate one or more data sources with the diagram. A visualization component adjusts the diagram in accordance with the one or more data sources. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278849 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTED PROPAGATION VISUALIZATION - A method and system for visualizing the propagation of a radio-frequency (RF) signal between a first wireless device and a second wireless device is provided. The method includes segmenting ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090278850 | Image Creating Device, Image Creating Method, Information Recording Medium, and Program - In an image creating device ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090278851 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANIMATING AN AVATAR IN REAL TIME USING THE VOICE OF A SPEAKER - This is a method and a system for animating on a screen ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090278852 | Control of 3D objects in a light displaying device - Transition effects on 3D objects are carried out in a shader of a graphic processing unit. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278853 | CHARACTER INPUT PROGRAM, CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE, AND CHARACTER INPUT METHOD - This invention easily realizes a process of changing the display order of the candidates according to various input states. In a character input device of a mobile telephone, a wide variety of attributes representing an input state are set, and a conversion dictionary in which the attributes are registered in dictionary data of a corresponding word is set. An adjustment value setting unit determines the input state at a relative time point according to the start of input of the read character or the confirmation of the candidate, and sets an adjustment value to each attribute according to the determination content. A priority adjustment unit adjusts the priority with the adjustment value set to the attribute of the candidate for the candidate set with an attribute of each candidate extracted from the conversion dictionary by the read character string. A candidate display processing unit determines the display order of each candidate based on the priority after the adjustment process, and causes the display unit to display the candidate in the determined order. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278854 | Liquid crystal display and method for controlling same - An LCD includes an OSD system and a gamma correction circuit. The OSD system includes an input system for setting gamma values. The gamma correction circuit includes a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of sub-look-up tables, each corresponding to a gamma value. Each sub-look-up table stores a plurality of original gray level values and a plurality of corrected gray level values corresponding to the original gray level values. The gamma correction-circuit receives an original gray level value corresponding to a video signal, and searches a sub-look-up table corresponding to a set gamma value for a corresponding corrected gray level value. A method for controlling the LCD is also provided. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278855 | MEMORY STRUCTURES FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A display system comprises line buffer memory that stores input image data in a first color space, and a plurality of gamut mapping modules that accept the input image data from the line buffer memory and performs a gamut mapping operation to produce mapped image data specified in a second color space. The system also includes a subpixel rendering module that renders the image data specified in the second color space for display on a display panel substantially comprised of a particular subpixel repeating group. The system architecture utilizes a plurality of gamut mapping modules which in turn allows for a reduction in the size of line buffer memory needed for the subpixel rendering operation. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278856 | COLOR PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In order to calculate the calorimetric value of a color patch under a given viewing illuminant, a plurality of colorimetric value sets obtained by measuring the colors of color patches under a plurality of illuminants are stored in a memory, the type of spectral distribution and white point information of the viewing illuminant are obtained (S | 2009-11-12 |
20090278857 | METHOD OF FORMING AN IMAGE BASED ON A PLURALITY OF IMAGE FRAMES, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DIGITAL CAMERA - Image fusion based on a modified method of frame averaging for noise removal by partly averaging over images having a smaller resolution than the desired resolution of the de-noised image. The set of images which are summed for averaging out noise consists of two subsets. The first set of images has a resolution (in terms of number of pixels) being smaller than the resolution of the images in the second set. The resolution of the images in the second set is the resolution of the “high-definition” de-noised output image. The lower resolution images are up-sampled by scaling their pixel numbers to that desired output image. The gradation of the first set images is also adapted to avoid intensity saturation (flare) due to summation. Image fusing is also done in fourier space using the high frequency components from the higher resolution images and the lower ones from the lower resolution images. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278858 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus, object data based on a part of, e.g., a scan image is extracted and the extracted object data is stored in relation to attribute information of the relevant object data. The object data correlated to the attribute information, which matches with a search condition input by a user, is searched for, and the object data found through the search is merged to another object data depending on a characteristic of the user. The merged object data are displayed as a search result. In such a control process, different search results are displayed when users having different user characteristics input the same search condition. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278859 | CLOSED FORM METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MATTING A FOREGROUND OBJECT IN AN IMAGE HAVING A BACKGROUND - In a method and system for matting a foreground object F having an opacity α constrained by associating a characteristic with selected pixels in an image having a background B, weights are determined for all edges of neighboring pixels for the image and used to build a Laplacian matrix L. The equation α is solved where α=arg min α | 2009-11-12 |
20090278860 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING INPUT FROM A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system is described for displaying input from a portable computing device to a second computing device. On the second computing device, a display region is created. The region may be a stand alone application or a region inside an application. The second computing device then receives a communication that represents the portable input on the portable computing device. The portable input is then scaled to fit the display region and the portable input is displayed on the second computing device. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278861 | Displaying still and moving images of a constant size or images that occupy a specified percentage of a screen across different size display screens - Advertisers specify the size of an ad in pixels or in physical units such as inches or millimeters. The physical square area of an ad specified in pixels will change as the physical size of the television screen or computer display screen varies. The number of pixels of an ad specified in inches or millimeters will also change as the physical size of the television screen or computer display screen varies. The present invention manages the issue of keeping the physical area size of an image constant across television display screens regardless of the physical size of the screen. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278862 | IMAGE DISPLAY - There is disclosed an image display displaying a multicolor image by using image data expressing color components of a first color specification system. The image display is provided with a display unit displaying an image by a second color specification system which is different from the first color specification system, and displaying each of colors included in the second color specification system per pixel in correspondence to input device data, a basic color computing unit ( | 2009-11-12 |
20090278863 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A panel drive method and a plasma display device which increase the luminance of a panel and enable further reduction of power consumption are provided with the following configuration. One field is composed of a plurality of subfields including a address period during which a address discharge is selectively induced in discharge cells and a sustain period during which sustain pulses the number of which corresponds to the luminance weight are applied to induce sustain discharges in the discharge cells where the address discharges are induced. The plasma display device has a sustain pulse generating circuit composed of a power recovering circuit for inducing the rise and fall of each sustain pulse by resonating the inter-electrode capacity of a display electrode pair with an inductor and a clamp section for clamping the voltage of the sustain pulses to a predetermined voltage. The repetition period of the sustain pulse can be set according to the average luminance level of the image signal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278864 | DISPLAY METHOD OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A display method of a liquid crystal display device is provided. First, a liquid crystal display device is provided. Then, the relationship between a gray level and brightness of various view angles is detected. After that, a relationship table of input gray level and output gray level of the corresponding view angles is obtained according to the relationship between gray level and brightness of the view angles. Thereafter, an angle value is inputted to the liquid crystal display device. Then, the liquid crystal display device outputs a gray level corresponding to the angle value through the relationship table of input gray level and output gray level. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278865 | SOURCE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A source driver having a small layout area and low power consumption includes a signal generation block generating a plurality of pulse width modulation (PWM) signals and a plurality of staircase waveform grayscale voltage signals according to a digital code generated based on an oscillation signal and a channel driver. The channel driver divides latched video data into upper bits and lower bits, generates a plurality of switching signals using one PWM signal selected from among the plurality of PWM signals in response to the lower bits, outputs one staircase waveform grayscale voltage signal selected from among the plurality of staircase waveform grayscale voltage signals in response to the upper bits, and outputs a particular grayscale voltage level included in the one staircase waveform grayscale voltage signal in response to the plurality of switching signals. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278866 | Gamma corrected display device - A display device includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels, a data driver adapted to supply data signals to the pixels, and a timing controller adapted to supply data control signals and image data to the data driver, wherein the timing controller is adapted to divide the pixel unit into a plurality of regions and supply gamma values assigned to each region to the data driver. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278867 | MULTIPRIMARY COLOR DISPLAY WITH DYNAMIC GAMUT MAPPING - The embodiments disclosed herein comprise a plurality of modules and means to provide effect dynamic gamut mapping and backlight control. In one embodiment, a display system comprises: a transmissive display, said display comprising a plurality of colored subpixels wherein one such colored subpixel is substantially wide spectrum bandpass; a transmissive display controller, said display controller providing signals to said transmissive display to set the amount of transmissivity of each said colored subpixel; a backlight, said backlight providing illumination to said transmissive display; a backlight controller, said controller providing signals to said backlight to modulate the amount of illumination provided by said backlight to said transmissive display; peak surveying module for surveying image data and extracting the image gamut hull for providing intermediate backlight data signals to said backlight controller to match said image gamut hull; and a means for normalizing display image data signals according to said intermediate backlight data signals and providing said normalized image data as intermediate display data. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278868 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - To obtain an amplifier circuit capable of realizing low power consumption and high-precision output. A controlling unit controls each switch of an offset correction circuit to select one capacitor associated with a voltage level of an input signal selected by an input signal selection unit, have an offset voltage of an operational amplifier generated according to the voltage level of the input signal stored by the selected capacitor, and correct an output of the operational amplifier by using the offset voltage held by the selected capacitor. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278869 | Display Device - A one-frame interval is divided into a light field interval and a dark field interval. In the light field interval, the display data of high tones is displayed, while in the dark field interval, the display data of low tones is displayed. This divisional display makes it possible to pseudoly display the tones of the input display data. Then, in a case that the tones of the input display data is on the lower tone side, the display data of the dark field is set to the corresponding minimum tone with the minimum luminance, while in a case that the tone of the input display data is on the higher tone side, the display data of the light field is set to the corresponding maximum tone with the maximum luminance. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278870 | Method of Displaying Pixels Using Fractional Pulse Width Modulation - A method for displaying a pixel on a display system using a series of digital pulses obtained by first determining a minimum pulse width (MPW) capable of displaying a pixel on the display system and then using a series of pulses for the display of the pixel, where at least some of the pulses have different pulse widths, and where at least one pulse has a width that is a non-integer multiple greater than 1 of the MPW. In this way, the number of unique intensity levels of the pixels of the displayed image can be increased and display resolution is improved. Even better resolution is obtained using two different, alternating series of digital pulses. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278871 | Controlling Display Resolution Of A Computer Display - Methods, apparatus, and products for controlling display resolution of a computer display, the computer display connected through a display resolution controller to a computer, including: retrieving, by a display resolution controller from a computer display, extended display identification data (‘EDID’) of the computer display, the EDID including an actual maximum display resolution of the computer display, the EDID stored in computer memory of the computer display; replacing, by the display resolution controller, the actual maximum display resolution of the computer display with a limited maximum display resolution of the computer display if the limited maximum display resolution is less than the actual maximum display resolution of the computer display; and providing the EDID including the limited maximum display resolution to the computer for displaying video at the limited maximum display resolution. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278872 | INK JET PRINTER CARTRIDGE REFILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides an automated system for refilling printer ink cartridges. The system includes a computer with memory provided to store information relating to a plurality of ink cartridges, and a user interface that is connected to the computer and can receive a model number of a particular ink cartridge to be refilled. Moreover, the system employs a vacuum chamber with one or more needles provided to add ink into the ink cartridge. The vacuum chamber is connected to a vacuum pump that draws a suction on the vacuum chamber to reduce pressure in the vacuum chamber. In operation, the computer controls the vacuum pump to reduce the pressure in the vacuum chamber to a specific pressure based on the model number of the ink cartridge, and once this pressure is reached, ink is added to the ink cartridge by the needle accordingly. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278873 | Printing control method for a serial inkjet printer, and a serial inkjet printer - A printing control method for a serial inkjet printer prevents paper dust that is dispersed by the air current produced by a vacuum platen from adhering to the ink nozzle area. An inkjet head that prints while moving along the width of the vacuum platen is moved to a position where the ink nozzle area is outside of a first or second retraction position separated a first distance from the first and second paper edge positions of the recording paper, and the recording paper is then advanced. Paper dust and other dust particulate does not adhere to the ink nozzle area when the paper is advanced because the ink nozzle area does not stop in the first and second paper edge positions of the recording paper where paper dust and other dust particulate can be made airborne by the air current produced by the vacuum platen. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278874 | Method of Inspecting the Nozzle Discharge State, A Discharge State Inspection Method, and a Fluid Discharge Device - A method of inspecting a discharge state of a nozzle prevents wrongly determining that discharge is normal even though fluid droplets are not discharged normally. In a fluid droplet discharge device such as an inkjet printer, a momentary induced current is produced when a charged ink droplet | 2009-11-12 |
20090278875 | Jetting Apparatus and Method of Improving the Performance of a Jetting Apparatus - The present invention is generally related to a jetting device for jetting droplets of viscous medium onto a substrate, said jetting device comprising an ejector element for performing the jetting process and a jetting outlet through which said droplets are jetted. In particular, the invention is related to a method, a measuring device, a jetting device, and a viscous medium container for use in such a jetting device for measuring or monitoring a level or volume of viscous medium during a jetting process and/or measuring electrical properties of the viscous medium to determine characteristics of the medium. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278876 | SHORT PULSEWIDTH ACTUATION OF THERMAL BEND ACTUATOR - A method of actuating a thermal bend actuator having an active beam fused to a passive beam. The method comprises passing an electrical current through the active beam so as to cause thermoelastic expansion of the active beam relative to the passive beam and bending of the actuator. The current is delivered in an actuation pulse having a pulse width of less than 0.2 microseconds. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278877 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARTAUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes pressure chambers that communicate with nozzles and an element that varies liquid pressure inside the pressure chamber in accordance with variation in a potential. An ejection pulse generating unit generates a first ejection pulse applied to the element upon ejecting first liquid droplets from the nozzles and a second ejection pulse applied to the element upon ejecting subsequent, second ejection droplets. The first ejection pulse excites the liquid inside the pressure chamber to pressure vibration and then allows the element to eject liquid droplets from the nozzles when the pressure of the liquid inside the pressure chamber reaches a predetermined pressure. The second ejection pulse excites the liquid to pressure vibration and then allows the element to eject the liquid droplets from the nozzles at certain time when the pressure of the liquid becomes lower than the predetermined pressure. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278878 | PRINT ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention is directed to a print element substrate including a plurality of print element arrays in which different numbers of print elements are arranged. The print element substrate can efficiently transfer data to each print element and efficiently lay out circuits. The print element substrate includes the following arrangement. More specifically, a first print element array having a relatively large number of print elements, and a plurality of second print element arrays which are equal in length to the first print element array and smaller in the number of print elements than the first print element array are juxtaposed. The print element substrate includes one shift register which holds data for driving the print elements of the first print element array, and one shift register which holds data for driving the print elements of the second print element arrays. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278879 | PRINT ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, INKJET PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention is directed to an element substrate including a plurality of print element arrays in which print elements are arranged at different arrayed densities. The element substrate can efficiently transfer data to each print element. The element substrate includes the following arrangement. More specifically, the first print element array having a relatively large number of print elements, and the second print element array which is equal in length to the first print element array and has a relatively small number of print elements are juxtaposed. The element substrate includes one shift register which holds data for driving the print element of the second print element array, and a plurality of shift registers for dividing and holding data for driving the print elements of the first print element array. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278880 | INK JET DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A BIOLOGICAL ASSAY SUBSTRATE BY RELEASING A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANCES ONTO THE SUBSTRATE, AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE INK JET DEVICE - The invention provides an ink jet device for producing a biological assay substrate by releasing a plurality of substances onto the substrate, the device comprising at least a print head comprising a nozzle, the device comprising at least a transducer provided to eject a droplet out of the nozzle, wherein a detection means is assigned to the ink jet device such that the state of the print head can be monitored by means of the detection of the behaviour of to the transducer. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278881 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a conveyor portion that conveys a recording medium to a liquid droplet ejection region by the rotational force of a drive roll; liquid droplet ejection heads that eject liquid droplets onto the recording medium conveyed to the liquid droplet ejection region by the conveyor portion; a feed portion that feeds the recording medium to the conveyor portion at a predetermined feed timing; a detection portion that detects a rotational position of the drive roll; and a control portion that controls the feed timing of the feed portion based on the rotational position that the detection portion has detected, so that when the drive roll reaches a predetermined rotational position, the control portion causes the recording medium to be conveyed to the liquid droplet ejection region and causes the liquid droplet ejection heads to start ejecting the liquid droplets onto the recording medium, is provided. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278882 | Method of calculating correction value, method of ejecting liquid, and liquid ejecting apparatus - A method of calculating a correction value includes: forming a test pattern by ejecting a liquid by a liquid ejecting apparatus, which has a first nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles ejecting the liquid to a medium are arranged in a predetermined direction and a second nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles ejecting the liquid to the medium are arranged in the predetermined direction, the second nozzle row being disposed so that an end portion on one side thereof in the predetermined direction overlaps with an end portion on the other side of the first nozzle row in the predetermined direction, to an area of the medium corresponding to certain pixel data on the basis of the certain pixel data from first nozzles belonging to the end portion on the other side of the first nozzle row and second nozzles belonging to the end portion on the one side of the second nozzle row; acquiring a read-out gray scale value by allowing a scanner to read-out the test pattern; and calculating a correction value used to correct the pixel data corresponding to the area to which the liquid is ejected from the first and the second nozzles on the basis of the read-out gray scale value. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278883 | PRINTER WITH DEBRIS CONTROL APPARATUS - A printer with debris control apparatus which minimizes printer fouling. The printer includes a print head for printing on media, a platen having a side for feeding the media along a path past the print head, and debris control member in contact with the media. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278884 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A fluid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection head having an ejection surface with a nozzle region and a capping device that contacts the ejection surface. The capping device includes first and second contact members held by a cap body. When the first contact member contacts the ejection surface, a surface of the first contact member surrounds the nozzle region. The second contact member is formed in a closed frame-shape to be disposed outside a surface of the first contact member opposite the surface of the first contact member. The cap body includes first and second suction ports. The first suction port decompresses a first space formed between the first contact member and the ejection surface when the capping device contacts the ejection head. The second suction port decompresses a second space formed between the second contact member and the ejection surface when the capping device contacts the ejection head. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278885 | Printhead Maintenance Station Having Contact Pad With Sloping Profile - A printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead in an operable condition. The maintenance station comprises an elastically deformable pad having a contact surface for sealing contact with nozzles in an ink ejection face of the printhead. The contact surface has a sloping profile. The maintenance station has a motor and cam arrangement for moving the pad substantially perpendicularly with respect to the ink ejection face. The pad moves from a first position in which the contact surface is sealingly contacted with the nozzles to a second position in which the contact surface is disengaged from the face. The movement and the sloping profile of the pad causes the contact surface to be peeled away from the face during disengagement. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278886 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes an idle ejection receiving part for receiving idle-ejected waste liquid from a liquid jet head and a waste liquid tank provided below the idle ejection receiving part for collecting the waste liquid dropping from the idle ejection receiving part. The image recording apparatus further includes a rotating member having a peripheral surface for rotating and receiving the waste liquid, and a wiping member that contacts or faces the peripheral surface for wiping the waste liquid on the peripheral surface of the rotating member. The wiping member is configured to move in a peripheral direction of the rotating member. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278887 | INK-JET PRINTER AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF INK-JET HEAD THEREOF - An ink-jet printer of the present invention includes an ink-jet head provided with nozzles for ejecting ink, a downstream tank communicating with the ink-jet head, a pressure pump for producing pressure in the downstream tank to eject ink from the nozzles in a purge operation, a sweep member provided in a maintenance unit, for sweeping away ink and foreign matter remaining around the nozzles after the purge operation, and a control device for keeping the nozzles at a slight positive pressure at the time of ink sweep. Further, the control device produces the slight positive pressure after opening the downstream tank to the atmosphere. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278888 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection apparatus including a carriage | 2009-11-12 |
20090278889 | PRINT CONTROLLING METHOD AND RELATED PRINTER - A print controlling method is applied to a printer. The printer includes a plurality of nozzles, wherein each nozzle is respectively driven by one of a plurality of address lines. The print controlling method includes dividing the plurality of address lines into M groups, wherein M is a positive integer; and enabling the address lines belonging to one of the M groups to drive the corresponding nozzles during each slice period, wherein the address lines enabled at adjacent slice periods correspond to different groups. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278890 | PRINT ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention is directed to allow efficiently transferring data to each print element (heater) and efficiently laying out circuits in an element substrate including plural heater arrays in which different numbers of heaters are arranged. This substrate includes: a first array having a relatively large number of heaters; and a second array which is equal in length to the first array and has a relatively small number of heaters. These arrays are juxtaposed. The substrate further includes plural shift registers equal in number to the heater arrays of the substrate. The shift registers include a shift register which holds some data for driving the heaters of the first heater array, and data for driving the heaters of the second heater array. The shift registers further include a shift register which holds data other than some data for driving the heaters of the first heater array. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278891 | Printhead IC With Filter Structure At Inlet To Ink Chambers - An inkjet printhead that has an array of droplet ejectors supported on a printhead integrated circuit (IC). Each of the droplet ejectors has a nozzle aperture and an actuator for ejecting a droplet of ink through the nozzle aperture. Each of the droplet ejectors has a chamber in which the actuator is positioned, the chamber having an inlet for fluid communication with an ink supply. A filter structure in positioned the inlet to inhibit ingress of contaminants into the chamber. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278892 | Printhead IC With Small Ink Chambers - An inkjet printhead that has an array of droplet ejectors supported on a printhead integrated circuit (IC). Each of the droplet ejectors has a nozzle aperture and an actuator for ejecting a droplet of ink through the nozzle aperture. Each of the droplet ejectors also has a chamber in which the actuator is positioned, the chamber having a volume less than 30,000 microns cubed. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278893 | Variable-Volume Nozzle Arrangement - A nozzle arrangement for an inkjet printhead includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet; a static ink ejecting member extending from the substrate assembly and bounding the ink inlet; an active ink ejecting member having a roof and sidewalls that depends from the roof towards the substrate, the roof defining an ink ejection port and the active ink ejecting member movably located relative to the static ink ejecting member to define a variable-volume nozzle chamber; and an actuator arrangement configured to reciprocate the active ink ejection member relative to the static ink ejecting member to eject ink in the nozzle chamber out through the ink ejection port. The static ink ejecting member is located within bounds delimited by the sidewalls of the active ink ejecting member. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278894 | Inkjet Printhead Employing Active And Static Ink Ejection Structures - An inkjet printhead includes a wafer having a droplet ejection side and a liquid supply side opposite the droplet ejection side; a plurality of active ink ejection structures formed on the droplet ejection side of the wafer, each active ink ejection structure partially defining a nozzle chamber, and defining an ink ejection port; a plurality of individual fluid passages formed in the wafer, each fluid passage providing fluid to corresponding nozzle chambers; a plurality of static ink ejection structures formed on the droplet ejection side of the wafer and inside of corresponding active ink ejection structures, each static ink ejection structure defining a nozzle chamber with a corresponding active ink ejection structure; and droplet ejection actuators respectively corresponding to each active ink ejection structure. The droplet ejection actuators are formed on the droplet ejection side of the wafer and attached to respective active ink ejection structures. The droplet ejection actuators are operable to displace an active ink ejection structures towards a corresponding static ink ejection structure to effect ejection of fluid in the nozzle chamber through the ink ejection port. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278895 | Liquid ejecting head, image forming apparatus, device for ejecting a liquid drop, and recording method - A liquid ejecting head comprising a nozzle configured to eject a liquid drop of recording liquid, a liquid chamber communicating to the nozzle, and an energy generating device configured to generate energy for pressurizing recording liquid in the liquid chamber is provided, wherein a flow channel forming member configured to form a flow channel for the recording liquid is made of a metal material containing nickel and a peak intensity for a (200) face of nickel is higher than a peak intensity for a (111) face of nickel which intensities are measured by means of X-ray diffraction analysis, or a flow channel forming member configured to form a flow channel for the recording liquid is made of a metal material containing nickel and thallium. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278896 | LIQUID JETTING HEAD - Disclosed is a liquid jetting head which can contribute to downsizing. A head unit | 2009-11-12 |
20090278897 | Inkjet Printhead With Nozzle Chambers Each Holding Two Fluids - An inkjet printhead that has an array of droplet ejectors, each having a chamber with a nozzle and an actuator for ejecting drops of ink through the nozzle. During use, each of the chambers hold ink and a gas, the gas remaining in the chamber during activation and deactivation of the actuator. The actuators each have a part with a hydrophilic coating for contacting ink in preference to other parts of the actuator such that the gas and the ink are in direct contact with each other at an interface within the chamber, and at least part of the actuator is positioned at the interface between the ink and the gas. By insulating at least some of the actuator from the printhead substrate, more heat is directed into the ink that is ejected from the nozzle. If the actuator is a thermal or thermal bend, the insulating fluid allows the resistive elements to heat more quickly and use less power. This reduces the overall power consumption of the printhead. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278898 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING INKJET PRINTHEAD AND INKJET PRINTHEAD MANUFACTURED USING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing an inkjet printhead includes forming a heater and an electrode on a substrate, forming a flow path forming layer by coating a first negative photoresist composition on the substrate, forming a sacrifice layer, planarizing the flow path forming layer and the sacrifice layer, forming a nozzle layer by coating a second negative photoresist composition on the flow path forming layer, forming an ink feed hole in the substrate, and eliminating the sacrifice layer, wherein the first and second negative photoresist compositions include a prepolymer which comprises one selected from the group consisting of a glycidyl ether functional group, a ring-opened glycidyl ether functional group, and an oxytein functional group in a monomer repeat unit, and one selected from the group consisting of a phenol novolac resin-based backbone, a bisphenol-A-based backbone, a bisphenol-F-based backbone, and an alicyclic backbone; a cationic initiator; a solvent; and a plasticizer. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278899 | Printhead Integrated Circuit Comprising Polymeric Cover Layer - A printhead integrated circuit comprises a substrate having drive circuitry and a plurality of nozzle assemblies positioned on the substrate. Each nozzle assembly has a moving portion moveable relative to a stationary portion for ejection of ink. The printhead integrated circuit is covered with a polymeric layer. The polymeric layer covers a gap defined between each moving portion and each stationary portion. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278900 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK TANK FOR THE SAME - In an intermittent ink supplying system, an ink supply base | 2009-11-12 |
20090278901 | Ink Reservoir - An ink reservoir includes a first portion defining one or more channels each for providing ink to a respective output port; a second portion bearing one or more ink bladders each containing a respective type of ink, each ink bladder adapted to be in fluid communication with a respective channel; and a third portion adapted to couple with the first portion to form a pressurived cavity containing the second portion. The first, second and third portions are adapted to be received within a former of a printer roll such that the first, second, and third portions remain stationary while the printer roll rotates. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278902 | PRINTER - A printer includes a set cover pivotally movably provided on a carriage. The cover can be set in a closed state in which the cover presses a head of the cartridge housed in the housing portion and an open state in which the cover opens the housing portion when the cartridge is replaced. A release lever is subjected to a bias force so as to protrude from an inner wall surface of the housing portion. The release lever is movable against the bias force. The release lever comes into contact with an end of the cartridge which faces the bottom surface when the cartridge is inserted into the housing portion. The release lever contacts the rear surface of the cartridge housed in the housing portion. The bias force is stronger when the cover is in the open state than when the cover is in the closed state. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278903 | Inlet Structure and Assembly Method - In one embodiment, a fluid ejector assembly includes: an inlet structure having an opening therein through which fluid may enter the assembly, the inlet structure having a rim generally defining an outer perimeter of the inlet structure around the opening; a conduit through which fluid may pass from the opening in the inlet structure to an ejector structure; and a filter supported on the inlet structure and spanning the opening such that fluid passing through the opening in the inlet structure to the conduit passes through the filter, a peripheral edge of the filter surrounded by the rim of the inlet structure and the peripheral edge of the filter encapsulated by the inlet structure. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278904 | Inkjet apparatus - An inkjet apparatus is disclosed. The inkjet apparatus for printing a solder resist can include: a first reservoir storing a monomer composition, a second reservoir storing a hardening agent composition, and an inkjet head, which can be connected to the first reservoir and the second reservoir to eject the monomer composition and the hardening agent composition. By utilizing an inkjet apparatus according to certain embodiments of the invention as set forth above, the occurrence of blockage in the nozzles caused by ink solidified inside the inkjet head and reservoir can be prevented. Also, the problem of spreading of the ink during printing can be resolved, and the thermal resistance, chemical resistance, and abrasion resistance of the solder resist after inkjet printing can be improved. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278905 | CONVEYING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A conveying apparatus is provided, the conveying apparatus comprising a lever swinging in contact with a recording medium conveyed along a conveying path in a conveying direction, a sensor detecting the swinging of the lever, a moving unit for moving the lever from a position where the lever is allowed to contact the recording medium in the conveying path to a position where the lever is retracted from the conveying path, a guide unit being movable between a first position and a second position, the guide unit guiding the recording medium conveyed in a direction opposite to the conveying direction, to the conveying path when the guide unit is located in the second position and a transmitting unit for transmitting the movement of the guide unit to the moving unit through motion of at least one member to link the movement of the guide unit from the first position to the second position with the movement of the lever to the position where the lever is retracted from the conveying path, the movement of the lever being performed by the moving unit. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278906 | RESTRAINT DEVICE AND RECORDING DEVICE - An ink jet printer includes a restraint device which applies a restraining force, applied to a support surface used for supporting a recording sheet, to the recording sheet transported from an upstream side to a downstream side in a transport direction. The restraint device includes a second support member which includes the support surface and a suction hole opened to the support surface and generating a negative pressure therein and which is capable of sucking the recording sheet supported to the support surface toward the support surface on the basis of the negative pressure generated inside the suction hole and a shield belt which is disposed to face the support surface. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278907 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An optical scanning apparatus effectively blocks undesirable-light generated in opposed scanning units, and forms high-quality image with simple configuration. The apparatus includes two scanning units disposed with a polygon mirror therebetween, each scanning unit including: an incident optical system guiding a beam from a light source to the polygon mirror; and an imaging optical system including an imaging optical element to cause the deflected beam form an image on a scanning surface. One of the scanning units includes a member to block an undesirable light reflected on optical surfaces of the imaging optical element of the other scanning unit and traveling toward the scanning surface of said one scanning unit. rp2009-11-12 | |
20090278908 | LIGHTSCRIBE OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - An optical disc drive for marking a label side of a lightscribe disc is provided. The optical disc drive includes a spoke detecting device, a traverse assembly frame, a spindle motor PCB and an insulating base. The spoke detecting device is used for detecting spoke patterns on the lightscribe disc. The spindle motor PCB is communicated with the spoke detecting device through a flexible cable. The insulating base is coupled with the frame for supporting the spoke detecting device such that the spoke detecting device is separated from the lightscribe disc by a specified gap. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278909 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIDE DETERMINATION OF OPTICAL DISC - A side determination apparatus of an optical disc includes a light source illuminating one side of the optical disc having a data side and a non-data side obliquely; a sensor receiving a reflected light from the optical disc illuminated by the light source; and a determination unit determining that an incident light into the sensor is a reflected diffracted light from the data side of the optical disc based on a distribution of an output of the sensor onto a surface of the disc to determine the one side. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278910 | Pattern Forming Method, Pattern Forming Apparatus, Method for Manufacturing a Recording Medium and Method of Manufacturing Patterned Member - In order to realize a pattern forming method for more precisely controlling a reacting area of photosensitive resin during formation of a fine pattern on a substrate and also for simplifying thickness management of the photosensitive resin a fine pattern can be formed through reaction of the photosensitive resin layer by particularly condensing an ultra-short pulse laser to a location where the focal point of the laser is at the interface between the substrate and the photosensitive resin. In this case, the ultra-short pulse laser is radiated through the substrate. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278911 | Thermal Transfer Dyesheet and Printer - A thermal transfer dyesheet comprising a substrate bearing a region of a thermally transferable dye, the region including a first printable portion within the region having a first optical density, a second printable portion within the region having a second optical density, the difference in optical density between the first and second optical densities being detectable by a detection means on a dyesheet printer, and a third printable portion within the region having an optical density substantially the same as that of the first printable portion is provided, together with a method for manufacture of the dyesheet and an associated printer. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278912 | MEDICAL AUDIO/VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Two-way audiovideo communications are provided between a patient located in a room and a remotely located caregiver using a wireless handheld device, whereby the remotely located caregiver may remain accessible by patients and may remotely look-in on patients. A method includes: transmitting, to the wireless handheld device used by the caregiver, audiovideo of the patient recorded using a camera located in the room; transmitting, to the wireless handheld device used by the caregiver, audiovideo of the patient recorded using a microphone located in the room; and transmitting, to a speaker located in the room for playing to the patient, audio of the caregiver recorded using the wireless handheld device. The transmitting includes wireless communications between the camera and microphone located in the room, and a computerized controller running a software application including a graphic user interface by which the audiovideo communications between the patient and the caregiver are established. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278913 | GAZE ACCURATE VIDEO CONFERENCING - A gaze accurate video conferencing system includes a screen that alternates between a light-scattering state and a substantially transparent state. A camera is positioned behind the screen and is configured to capture images of a user positioned in front of the screen when the screen is in its substantially transparent state. When the screen is in its substantially light-scattering state, a projector projects a display image on the screen. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278914 | Controller for Photographing Apparatus and Photographing System - A picture photographed by a camera portion is sent to a video capturing portion of a computer. The picture is displayed in an operation area of a monitor. A panorama picture of which pictures in part or all moving range of a pan tiler are combined is displayed in a panorama operation area. A pan tilter portion sends positional information of pan and tilt to the computer through a mode controller. With a mouse, the operation area and the panorama operation area are operated so as to select an object. The computer obtains data for driving the pan tilter. Thus, the selected object is displayed at the center of the operation area. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278915 | Gesture-Based Control System For Vehicle Interfaces - Systems and method for controlling vehicle subsystems using gestures are described. The controlling comprises receiving an image of an object via sensors in a vehicle and outputting gesture data representing a gesture made by the object. The object comprises at least one hand and/or finger of a user. The gesture data is an instantaneous state of the object at a point in time in space. The controlling comprises automatically detecting the gesture of the object from the gesture data by extracting positions of the object, recovering quantized poses and orientation vectors of the object, and translating the gesture data to a gesture signal. The controlling comprises managing user interactions with the vehicle subsystems in response to the gesture signal. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278916 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A device for arranging images three-dimensionally in perspective as partially overlapping pages is disclosed so that a user can visually and intuitively manage the displayed images. The display image operating has means for manipulating a plurality of pre-stored images through buttons or a pointing device to select and display images. Image displaying means are provided for displaying on the same display screen in three-dimensional perspective a central first image group having a plurality of images arranged as pages overlapping sequentially from top to bottom, and second and third image groups disposed one on either side of the first image group at a prescribed distance therefrom and having a plurality of images arranged as fanned out pages overlapping sequentially from top to bottom with a portion of the images displayed on the display screen. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278917 | Providing A Collaborative Immersive Environment Using A Spherical Camera and Motion Capture - Embodiments of the present invention provide a collaborative visualization system, which integrates motion capture and virtual reality, along with kinematics and computer-aided design (CAD), for the purpose of, for example, validating a simulation with a real-world video. A spherical camera captures real-world video at a first location. At a second location, one or more head-mounted display devices display the captured real-world video and also display a simulation corresponding to the real-world video. A motion capture system captures head rotation information for one or more users to thereby to control a pan, tilt, and zoom of the real-world video so that when a position of a user's head changes, the portion of the real-world video displayed in the head-mounted display changes accordingly. Upon user input, a computer program product selects between displaying the real-world video and the simulation in the head-mounted display. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278918 | DISPLAY USING BIDIRECTIONALLY SCANNED LINEAR MODULATOR - A method for forming a stereoscopic image forms separate left-eye and right-eye images in a repeated cycle that forms the left-eye image by providing data for lines of the left-eye image, ordered in sequence from a first to a second edge of an image frame, then forms successive lines of modulated light according to the ordered sequence by progressively scanning lines of modulated light across a display surface by rotating a scanning element forward from a first to a second position. The right-eye image is formed by providing data for lines of the right-eye image, ordered in sequence from the second to the first edge of the image frame and forming successive lines of modulated light, progressively scanning the lines of modulated light across the display surface by rotating the scanning element in reverse from the second to the first position. The left-eye image is distinguished from the right-eye image. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278919 | HIGH-FIDELITY PRINTED ANAGLYPHS AND VIEWING FILTERS - Four primary colors provide a wide color gamut in the anaglyph images. Primary colors with narrow spectral distributions allow the first and second images in an anaglyph to be viewed using colored filter glasses. In print media, primary colors with narrow spectral distributions are provided by fluorescent inks and incident light with narrow spectral distributions. Incident light with narrow spectral distributions may cooperate with broad adsorption spectra of inks to produce reflected light with narrow spectral distributions from printed anaglyphs. Viewing filters for anaglyphs comprised of narrow spectral distributions may have broad, overlapping transmission spectra and utilize adsorption dyes or pigments. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278920 | IMAGE APPARATUS FOR ENDOSCOPES - The invention relates to an image apparatus for endoscopes, which makes sure easier viewing especially at a peripheral portion of a screen while taking care of the observing angle of view and size of an optical system. The image apparatus comprises an optical system adapted to form an optical image of an object, an image pickup device adapted to convert the formed optical image into electric signals to obtain image data, and an image processing means adapted to move and transform a position of the optical image acquired by the image pickup device. A radiation direction magnification is transformable by the image processing means independently from a concentric direction magnification, and a magnification for a conformal object is higher at a peripheral portion than at a central portion of a screen. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278921 | Image Stabilization of Video Play Back - Systems and methods are provided for compensating motion fluctuation and luminance in video data from a capsule camera system. The capsule camera system moves through the GI tract under the action of peristalsis and records images of the intestinal walls. The gut itself contracts and expands but exhibits little net movement. The capsule's movement is episodic and jerky. It typically pitches, rolls, and yaws. Its average motion is forward, but it also moves backward and from side to side along the way. Luminance fluctuation and other luminance artifacts also exist in the captured capsule video. Motion and luminance compensation for the capsule video will improve the visual quality of the compensated video. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278922 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH INTEGRATED REGION OF INTEREST CALCULATION FOR IRIS CAPTURE, AUTOFOCUS, AND GAIN CONTROL - An iris recognition system and method for operating same is disclosed. The iris recognition system includes an image sensor, a buffer, a comparator, autofocus logic, and gain control logic. The image sensor is configured to obtain at least one image from a camera. The buffer communicatively connected to the image sensor stores values associated with the pixels in the image sensor. The comparator communicately connected to the buffer obtains a coarse segmentation of an iris of a subject. The autofocus logic for adjusts the focus of a lens associated with the camera. The gain control logic adjusts the gain of the image sensor. The functions of obtaining a coarse segmentation, adjusting the focus of the lens, and adjusting the gain are based on the locations of the pixels with the highest value in the image sensor as stored in the buffer. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278923 | DEFECT REVIEW METHOD AND APPARATUS - A defect review apparatus comprises a storage for receiving and storing defect information concerning an inspection objective captured by a wafer inspection system, an image acquisition unit for capturing images concerning the inspection objective and a process unit for acquiring data for defect review based on the defect information by using the image acquisition unit. The process unit makes a decision as to whether a cluster representative of a set or gang of defects exists in the defect information read out of the storage unit and when the presence of the cluster is determined, acquires an image of a defective portion forming part of the cluster and additional data in respect of the inspection objective by using the image acquisition unit on the basis of a distributive feature of the cluster. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278924 | Inspection arrangement - It is necessary to provide inspection arrangements in order to facilitate prototype design of assemblies such as gas turbine engines as well as insitu testing of such assemblies. Previously endoscope type arrangements have been utilised, but the flexible or rigid stems in such endoscopes can cause fouling and snagging in use. By providing an inspection arrangement in which the inspection element is combined with a positioning tool such that the inspection element can be detached from the positioning tool through a releasable element, it is possible to avoid such snagging problems. The inspection element will be relatively self-sufficient and incorporate possibly a camera or other sensor for temperature of otherwise. The inspection element will typically incorporate a wireless link arrangement, or possibly incorporate a storage device for data such that the inspection element can be retrieved later with that data. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING OF CURVED SURFACES - A system for capturing a composite image of an object with a curved surface includes a conveyor configured to transport the object to be imaged to a predetermined imaging position. A sensor is configured to produce a signal when the object to be imaged is at the predetermined position, and several cameras are arranged to photograph the object at the predetermined position from a plurality of different angles. A tracking module is used to receive the signal from the sensor, and output an actuating signal to the several cameras, such that each camera captures an image when the actuating signal is received. A processing device receives a captured image from each of the several cameras, manipulates the received images, and generates a composite image based on the manipulated images. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278926 | CALIBRATION METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE TEST APPARATUS - In an electronic device test apparatus using image processing technology to position an IC device relative to a socket, a calibration method of an electronic device test apparatus of calibrating a relative position of a device camera with respect to a socket, the method comprising: calculating an offset amount of a socket guide with respect to the socket on the basis of a relative position of the socket camera with respect to the socket guide and a relative position of a socket camera with respect to the socket; and adding this offset amount to the relative position of the device camera with respect to the socket guide so as to calculate the relative position of the device camera with respect to the socket. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278927 | SENSOR AND APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE HEIGHT MEASUREMENT - The disclosed subject matter relates to a sensor and apparatus for vehicle height and slant measurement which can include a light source, and two cameras with respective lenses. The light source can be configured to emit light towards a road, and both cameras can be configured to receive the image of the road that is illuminated by the light from the light source and to thereby create image data. The apparatus can include a control circuit that can geometrically measure a vehicle height in accordance with the image data. The sensor can also receive image data from different points and from two light sources, and the apparatus can detect a vehicular lean using the different vehicle heights. Thus, because the sensors of the disclosed subject matter do not necessarily include a moving part as in the conventional sensor, the sensors can be easily attached to a vehicle body and can also be used for a vehicular lean detection. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278928 | SIMULATING A FLUTTERING SHUTTER FROM VIDEO DATA - A method and system for simulating a fluttering shutter from video data. Composite images can be generated by adding a sequence of video frames, scaling each according to a weight. By selecting an appropriate sequence of weights, the effects of a fluttering shutter can be synthesized, with the additional flexibility of being able to use negative and non-binary amplitudes. In addition, video analytic functions such as background subtraction and tracking can be used to improve the results of the de-blurring. In particular, the use of background-subtracted frames in generating the composite image prevents background intensities from distorting the de-blurred image. Tracking information can be utilized to estimate the location and speed of moving objects in the scene, which can be used to generate a composite image with a fixed amount of motion blur. This alleviates the need to estimate the direction and extent of motion blur from the coded image, errors in which can reduce the quality of the de-blurred image. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278929 | Video camera with interchangable optical sensors - A video camera | 2009-11-12 |
20090278930 | IMAGE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - An image surveillance system and a method thereof are disclosed. The image surveillance system comprises an image-capturing apparatus, which connects to the Internet, and has an IP address for capturing an image of a predetermined area to produce a digital image signal. At least a display device connects to the Internet. The display device comprises a frame body which resembles a conventional picture frame, a search engine, a receiver and a monitor which are all disposed in the frame body, and a microprocessor which is disposed in the frame body and connects to the search engine, the receiver, and the monitor to lock down the IP address of the image-capturing apparatus so as to make the digital image signal be captured and displayed. | 2009-11-12 |
20090278931 | VIDEO DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR REMOTE-MONITORING AND REMOTE-MONITORING EQUIPMENT USING THE SAME - A video transmitter for remote monitoring includes at least one transmitter and a concentrator. The at least one transmitter is installed in the establishment to be monitored and connected to a predetermined number of surveillance cameras, receives video signals of the surveillance cameras in parallel, and transmits the video signals of the surveillance cameras to the central control center at a predetermined upstream data rate, the transmitter being controlled by control data transmitted by the central control center. The concentrator is installed in the central control center, includes at least two receiving modules for concentrating the video signals transmitted by the respective transmitters, transmits the concentrated video signals to the central control center's manager, receives control data for the transmitters from the central control center's manager, and transmits the control data to the transmitters at a downstream data rate that is equal to or less than the upstream data rate. | 2009-11-12 |