49th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110298779 | Electrophoretic Device and Driving Method Thereof - A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display device is provided. The electrophoretic display device comprises a plurality of scan lines. When scanning a frame of a first set of frames, the plurality of scan lines are sequentially enabled from top to bottom. When scanning a frame of a second set of frames, the plurality of scan lines are sequentially enable from bottom to top. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298780 | REFERENCE VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT, POWER SOURCE DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A reference voltage generation circuit of the disclosure includes a first amplifier circuit and a second amplifier circuit. The first amplifier circuit includes a first input stage including two npn transistors or two NMOS transistors having base terminals or gate terminals to which a variable voltage and a predetermined lower limit voltage are inputted. A first output stage includes a pnp transistor or a PMOS transistor having an emitter terminal or a source terminal connected to an output terminal of a reference voltage. A first amplifier stage controls the first output stage for equalizing the higher one of the variable voltage and the lower limit voltage with the reference voltage. The second amplifier circuit includes a second input stage including two npn transistors or two NMOS transistors having base terminals or gate terminals to which the reference voltage and a predetermined higher limit voltage are inputted, a second output stage includes a pnp transistor or a PMOS transistor having an emitter terminal or a source terminal connected to an output terminal for the reference voltage, and a second amplifier stage to control the second output stage for equalizing the reference voltage with the higher limit voltage. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298781 | CIRCUIT FOR CONTROLLING DATA DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Circuits for controlling a data driver of a display device are provided. The circuit may include a bias block that may output a first or second bias current or voltage to the data driver and a control unit that may control the bias block to output the first or second bias current or voltage based on a control signal. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298782 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic electroluminescent display and method of driving the display are disclosed. The display includes a power supply voltage generator which generates power voltages according to both a temperature of the display and a luminance level setting. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298783 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display panel includes n-number of gate lines, (m+1)-number of data lines and (m×n)-number of pixels, wherein the ‘n’ and ‘m’ are natural numbers. The gate lines are extended in a first direction. The data lines are extended in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The first and last data lines are electrically connected to each other. The pixels are arranged in a matrix shape. M-number of the pixels is arranged along the first direction, and n-number of the pixels is arranged along the second direction. A pixel electrode of the pixels arranged in the second direction are electrically connected to left and right data lines alternately to enhance a display quality and reduce power consumption. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298784 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display unit and a plurality of refreshing units. The display unit has a plurality of the display areas. Each of the display areas has a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels has a memory. The refreshing units respectively control to refresh the pixels of the corresponding display areas at different time periods. Thus, the produced peak current during the pixel refreshing can be reduced, and the stored pixel data can be maintained. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298785 | GATE SHIELDING FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS - Systems and methods for preventing parasitic capacitances within liquid crystal displays are provided. A display panel according to an embodiment may include, for example, a pixel with a pixel electrode and a transistor coupled to a gate line. Additionally, the pixel may include a shielding conductor interposed between the pixel electrode and the gate line. The shielding conductor may shield the pixel electrode from a parasitic capacitance with the gate line by causing a parasitic capacitance to form between the gate line and the shielding conductor instead of between the gate line and the pixel electrode. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298786 | Color electronic paper display device and method for manufacturing the same - The present invention provides a color electronic paper display device including: rotating balls; a barrier structure for partitioning the rotating balls; and an electrode structure which is provided in the barrier structure and applies voltages to the rotating balls, wherein the barrier structure is made of a photo-reactive barrier material including insulating resin, hardener, and a photo-sensitive material. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298787 | LAYER COMPOSITION, RENDERING, AND ANIMATION USING MULTIPLE EXECUTION THREADS - Architecture that creates an independent system which takes as input standard 2D layers and composites and renders the layers in 3D. Hardware accelerated graphics effects can be added to these layers, and additionally, the layers can be animated independently. Layer types provided include CPU, bitmap, GPU, and Direct2D. The layers are organized in trees and the layer manager handles the layers composition, rendering, and animations on hardware or software devices. Layers have properties such as visibility, 3D coordinates, for example. Animations and transitions can be provided at the layer and layer property level. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298788 | PERFORMING VECTOR MULTIPLICATION - A method includes receiving packed data corresponding to pixel components to be processed at a graphics pipeline. The method includes unpacking the packed data to generate floating point numbers that correspond to the pixel components. The method also includes routing each of the floating point numbers to a separate lane of the graphics pipeline. Each of the floating point numbers are to be processed by multiplier units of the graphics pipeline. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DITHERED IMAGE DATA FOR STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A method and apparatus capable of reducing or preventing dithering noises in 3D dither for displaying stereoscopic or 3D images are provided. The method entails generating image data in which two consecutive frames have the same dithered image data. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298790 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image signal processing device including: a central area control processing unit that enlarges or reduces a central image segment of a stereoscopic image signal by a magnification factor according to a desired stereoscopic effect; a surrounding area control processing unit that reduction-processes a surrounding image segment of the stereoscopic image signal by a corresponding magnification factor when the central area control processing unit enlarges the central image segment, and enlargement-processes a surrounding image segment of the stereoscopic image signal by a corresponding magnification factor when the central area control processing unit reduces the central image segment; and a transition area control processing unit that performs, in an image segment that transitions between the central image segment and the surrounding image segment, a process of connecting a gap between the enlargement and reduction factors of the central image segment and the surrounding image segment using non-linear scaling. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298791 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY IMAGE CONTROL METHOD - Disclosed herein is an information display device, including: an image display section adapted to display binocular parallax images; a display image control section adapted to control the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section; and a position information acquisition section adapted to acquire position information representing the three-dimensional position of a target existing in the three-dimensional space on the display surface of the image display section, wherein the display image control section controls the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section according to the three-dimensional position of the target represented by the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298792 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a stereoscopic image display device and a method for manufacturing the same, which facilitates to improve picture quality and to realize wide viewing angle and high luminance of stereoscopic images by improving crosstalk of left-eye image and right-eye image, wherein the stereoscopic image display device comprises a display panel including lower and upper substrates which are bonded to each other, and are provided with a left-eye displaying area (LDA) for displaying a left-eye image of stereoscopic image, and a right-eye displaying area (RDA) for displaying a right-eye image of stereoscopic image; a light-guiding member formed in the upper substrate and overlapped with an interface between the left-eye displaying area (LDA) and the right-eye displaying area (RDA); and an optical-axis changing member formed on the upper substrate, wherein the optical-axis changing member includes a left-eye retarder corresponding to the left-eye displaying area, and a right-eye retarder corresponding to the right-eye displaying area. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298793 | 3D X-RAY IMAGING OF CORONARY VESSELS WITH ECG GATING AND MOTION CORRECTION - A method for three-dimensional visualization of a moving structure by a rotation angiography method is described. A series of projection images is recorded by an image acquisition unit from different recording angles during a rotation cycle. A three-dimensional image data can be reconstructed from the projection images. A continuous rotation cycle is proposed to be performed with simultaneous recording of at least one ECG. A three-dimensional reconstructed reference image is generated through a first correction of the motion of the moving structure by affine transformations. A three-dimensional image data of the moving structure is reconstructed from the data acquired in the continuous rotation cycle when using the reconstructed reference image while performing an estimation and correction of the motion by elastic deformations. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298794 | CIRCULAR POLARIZED CONTACT LENSES AND METHODS THEREOF - An apparatus and method for three-dimensional viewing that includes a first contact lens and a second contact lens of a pair. The first contact lens of the pair has a circular polarization filter in a clockwise direction or counterclockwise direction. The second contact lens of the pair has a circular polarization filter in the other one of the clockwise direction or the counterclockwise direction. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298795 | TRANSFERRING OF 3D VIEWER METADATA - A system of processing of three dimensional [3D] image data for display on a 3D display for a viewer is described. 3D display metadata defines spatial display parameters of the 3D display such as depth range supported by the 3D display. Viewer metadata defines spatial viewing parameters of the viewer with respect to the 3D display, such as viewing distance or inter-pupil distance. Source 3D image data arranged for a source spatial viewing configuration is processed to generate target 3D display data for display on the 3D display in a target spatial viewing configuration. First the target spatial configuration is determined in dependence of the 3D display metadata and the viewer metadata. Then, the source 3D image data is converted to the target 3D display data based on differences between the source spatial viewing configuration and the target spatial viewing configuration. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298796 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMMERSIVE SYSTEM FOR REPRESENTING AN AUTOMATION CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented system for representing a production environment comprises a modeling module that creates a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a production environment. The system also includes a view module that renders a graphical depiction of at least a portion of the three-dimensional model from a reference point that is based at least in part upon a location. Methods of using the system are also provided. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298797 | GRAPHIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a graphic stream. The method may include determining whether a graphic picture is reproducible as a three-dimensional (3D) image by assigning different depth values according to graphic objects or by assigning the same depth value to the graphic picture, using 3D capability information. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298798 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A three-dimensional imaging and display system is provided in which user input is optically detected in an imaging volume by measuring the path length of an amplitude modulated scanning beam as a function of the phase shift thereof. Visual image user feedback concerning the detected user input is presented. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298799 | METHOD FOR REPLACING OBJECTS IN IMAGES - A method for replacing an object in an image is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a first image having a first object. The first image is two-dimensional while the first object has feature portions. The method also comprises generating first image reference points on the first object and extracting object properties of the first object from the first image. The method further comprises providing a three-dimensional model being representative of a second image object and at least one of manipulating and displacing the three-dimensional model based on object properties of the first object. The method yet further comprises capturing a synthesized image containing a synthesized object from the at least one of manipulated and displaced three-dimensional model, the synthesized object having second image reference points and registering the second image reference points to the first image reference points for subsequent replacement of the first object with the synthesized object. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298800 | System and Method for Mapping Two-Dimensional Image Data to a Three-Dimensional Faceted Model - A method for mapping a two-dimensional image data onto a three-dimensional graphic model of an object includes taking a plurality of two-dimensional images of the object. Each two-dimensional image has data, such as temperature data, which is desired to be represented on the three-dimensional graphic model. The three-dimensional model of the object is viewed on a graphic user interface. The three-dimensional model has a plurality of facets, each facet being configured for selectively receiving the data from the two-dimensional images, so that the two-dimensional images are mapped onto the facets of the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional model can then be analyzed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298801 | VIEW GENERATION USING INTERPOLATED VALUES - Images provide rich information regarding what they depict. For example, an image may have additional information, such as depth and/or 3D location values, for some points within the image. It may be advantageous to extrapolate the values from the valued points to the entire image because a new view of the image may be generated based upon values of points. Accordingly, an interpolated image may be generated by interpolating values for unvalued points based upon values of valued points. In particular, a set of valued points having desired cost paths may be determined for an unvalued point. A model may be applied to the set of valued points to interpolate a value for the unvalued point. One or more interpolated images may be projected onto a new view. In particular, points within an interpolated image may be projected onto locations within the new view based upon values of the points. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298802 | MESH FORMATION FOR MULTI-ELEMENT VOLUMES - A method of forming mesh data for three-dimensional (3-D) data is provided. Inside/outside (IO) functions are generated based on indicator functions to identify element interfaces between a plurality of elements identified in the 3-D data. An indicator function is defined to represent a volume identified for an element within the 3-D data. A cell indicator function is defined for each element interface based on the IO functions to identify a plurality of types of element interfaces. The cell indicator function identifies points in the 3-D data where a plurality of the generated IO functions evaluate to approximately zero. The types of element interfaces are identified based on a number of elements that coincide at a point in the 3-D data. 3-D point locations are distributed on the identified element interfaces based on the plurality of types of element interfaces and the IO functions. Surface mesh data is generated based on the distributed 3-D point locations. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor including a controller to receive a broadcast of media content comprising three-dimensional image content for presentation on a display device operably coupled with the media processor, adjust the broadcast of the media content to comprise two-dimensional image content, and present the media content on a display device, wherein the controller adjusts the media content to comprise the two-dimensional image content during presentation of the broadcast of the media content on the display device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298804 | VISUAL DISPLAY OF DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF DATA SOURCES - Systems and methods are provided for viewing, aligning, and correlating data in a visual display from data sources in data management systems. In one method, data sources in a data management system can be identified. Data attributes from the data sources can be displayed together as graphical cells over a common timeline as a reference for cell attribute columns. A first graphical cell in an attribute column at a time position on the common timeline can be selected. The graphical cell can represent a data record for a time measurement interval. A second graphical cell can be aligned with the first graphical cell based on the time position. The second graphical cell can be positioned in a same cell column as the first graphical cell and represent data obtained at a substantially same time as the data represented by the first graphical cell. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298805 | Method and Data Processing System for Financial Planning - A computer-implemented method and system for producing a graphic image representative of a certain geographic region indicating certain datasets. The method including selecting at least one objective dataset correlating to the certain geographic region and segmenting the selected at least one objective dataset into a plurality of interval ranges based upon prescribed values. At least one financial dataset is selected representing financial assets relating to the certain geographic region. A graphic image is generated of the certain geographic region indicating the selected objective dataset in accordance with the segmentation of the objective dataset into a plurality of interval ranges with the at least one financial dataset being superimposed on the objective dataset wherein risk exposure of the financial dataset to the certain geographic regions is graphically illustrated on the generated graphic image. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GRAPHICALLY CONVEYING INFORMATION - Systems and methods for providing graphical information regarding one or more patients' medical information are described. The graphical information can be used in various methods of graphical comparison, including graphical diagnoses, graphical comparison between patients, over time with a single patient, and/or over time with and/or between multiple patients. The graphical information can be used in place of and/or in conjunction with existing methods and systems for conveying medical information, including one or more textual methods and systems. The graphical information is provided electronically to any electronic or computer device or is provided in hard copy, such as a part of a patient's chart. The use of graphical patient medical information permits rapid and improved conveyance of information, and improves recognition and understanding of the most relevant medical information. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298807 | Touch screen and display method - A touch screen to smooth a moving trajectory of a touch unit input as a curved line and to display the moving trajectory, and a display method of the touch screen are provided. The display method of the touch screen may include sampling coordinates at touch points when a touch unit moves on a touch screen, determining whether a moving trajectory of the touch unit is a curved line according to inclination between the coordinates, and fitting the sampled coordinates to a curve and displaying the fitted curve on the touch screen upon determining that the moving trajectory of the touch unit is the curved line. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298808 | Animated Vehicle Attendance Systems - In one embodiment, an animated vehicle attendant system may include: a communication path positioned within a vehicle; an avatar creation interface positioned within a passenger compartment of the vehicle and communicatively coupled to the communication path; a first display positioned within the passenger compartment of the vehicle and communicatively coupled to the communication path, wherein the first display includes a first processor and a first memory; a second display positioned within the passenger compartment of the vehicle and communicatively coupled to the communication path, wherein the second display includes a second processor and a second memory; and an animated avatar including one or more alterable visual characteristics. The animated avatar is stored in the first memory and/or the second memory. The first processor and/or the second processor executes machine readable instructions to: receive input from the avatar creation interface; update the one or more alterable visual characteristics based upon the input from the avatar creation interface; and present the animated avatar on the first display and/or the second display. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298809 | ANIMATION EDITING DEVICE, ANIMATION PLAYBACK DEVICE AND ANIMATION EDITING METHOD - An animation editing device includes animation data including time line data that defines frames on the basis of a time line showing temporal display order of the frames, and space line data that defines frames on the basis of a space line for showing a relative positional relationship between a display position of each of animation parts and a reference position shown by a tag by mapping the relative positional relationship onto a one-dimensional straight line, displays the time line and the space line, and the contents of the frames based on the time line and the space line, and accepts an editing command to perform an editing process according to the inputted editing command. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298810 | MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL DEVICE, MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL SYSTEM, MOVING-SUBJECT CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A moving-subject control device controls a motion of a moving subject based on motion data indicating the motion of the moving subject, and includes an input unit which receives an input of attribute information indicating an attribute of the moving subject, a generation unit which generates motion data for a user based on the attribute information the input of which is received by the input unit, as motion data for controlling a motion of a moving subject for the user generated based on the attribute information input by the user of the moving-subject control device, and a control unit which varies the motion of the moving subject for the user based on the motion data for the user generated by the generation unit. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298811 | FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT TO GLASS ASSEMBLY SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems, methods, and devices relating to directly bonding electrode pads of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) to electrode pads of a glass substrate are provided. In one example, such a system may include a glass substrate with electrode pads and an FPC with corresponding electrode pads. A joining edge of each electrode pad of the FPC may couple directly to a joining edge of a corresponding electrode pad of the glass substrate, without an intervening conductive adhesive layer or an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) layer, or a combination thereof. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298812 | Seamless Switching Between Graphics Controllers - A system and method for resolving the blank screen issue when switching between graphics processing units. The system and method provide a graphics adapter LCD timing controller (Tcon) with a frame buffer specifically dedicated to storing previously presented screen data for use when switching graphic processing units. The system further includes a protocol comparator unit within a serial-to-parallel converter and a memory controller coupled to the protocol comparator. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298813 | Tile Rendering for Image Processing - The time needed for back-end work can be estimated without actually doing the back-end work. Front-end counters record information for a cost model and heuristics may be used for when to split a tile and ordering work dispatch for cores. A special rasterizer discards triangles and fragments outside a sub-tile. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298814 | SWITCHING VIDEO STREAMS FOR A DISPLAY WITHOUT A VISIBLE INTERRUPTION - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates driving a display in a computer system. During operation, the system receives an input video stream from a graphics source, wherein the input video stream comprises a sequence of video frames. Next, the system directs the input video stream through a set of two or more memory buffers including a front buffer and a back buffer to produce an output video stream, which is used to drive the display. While directing the input video stream through the set of memory buffers, the system writes a video frame from the input video stream into the back buffer, and concurrently drives the output video stream from a preceding video frame in the front buffer. When the writing of the video frame completes, the system switches buffers so that the back buffer becomes the front buffer, which drives the output video stream, and the front buffer becomes either a spare buffer or the back buffer, which receives a subsequent frame from the input video stream. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298815 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING OF DISPLAYS SHOWING DETERMINISTIC CONTENT - A method and apparatus for displaying image data is disclosed. The method includes receiving one of a plurality of sets of stored image update data to be displayed on a display device, wherein each set corresponds to one image in a sequence of images and wherein the plurality of sets of image update data comprise information identifying pixels that change from a previous image in the sequence of images, wherein the display device comprises an array of bi-stable display elements. The method further includes updating a portion of the display device, the portion containing the pixels identified in the received set of stored image update data. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298816 | UPDATING GRAPHICAL DISPLAY CONTENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for redirecting output of a graphics rich application, such as a video or animation generation program, to a destination display system. Content that is being generated (e.g., dynamically) is intercepted from a graphics rich content generation application that is rendering to a native graphic processing unit (GPU) rendering abstraction layer, by intercepting a rendering call for the content. The intercepted content (first content) is redirected to a native GPU abstraction layer that comprises surface synchronization functionality. Using the native GPU surface synchronization abstraction layer, the intercepted content is synchronized with an output surface that is rendering second graphics content (e.g., pregenerated content). | 2011-12-08 |
20110298817 | PORTABLE TERMINAL WITH PEEKING PREVENTION FUNCTION - A mobile terminal having a peeping prevention function by which only a portion not desired to be peeped is made difficult to see so that the display screen is easy to see and the privacy is protected. The mobile terminal, when displaying information on the display, searches information to be displayed for a piece of information, extracts a predetermined piece of information, changes the display attribute of the extracted piece of information to a display attribute for decreasing visibility, and displays the information with the changed display attribute on the display. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298818 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - Provided is a display device including a video signal analysis block ( | 2011-12-08 |
20110298819 | HARDWARE-ACCELERATED COLOR DATA PROCESSING - Methods for mapping color data having at least one color associated therewith to an output device based on an input-device profile and an output-device profile, each profile having a tone curve and a color matrix, are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving color data from an input device and determining whether the color data is in a linear space. If it is determined that the color data is not in a linear space, the method further includes applying the tone curve of the input device profile to the color data to convert it into a linear space. The method further includes converting the color(s) associated with the color data from the input linear space to an output linear space by applying the color matrix of the input device profile and the inverse color matrix of the output device profile to create color-converted image data. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298820 | LOCAL DIMMING ON LIGHT-EMITTING SCREENS FOR IMPROVED IMAGE UNIFORMITY IN SCANNING BEAM DISPLAY SYSTEMS - Systems and techniques for scanning-beam display are provided to use local dimming on the optical energy of at least one optical beam to minimize the non-uniform image brightness across the screen. This local dimming during the beam scanning can be achieved by adjusting optical energy of at least one optical beam during the scanning based on (1) the location of the scanning optical beam and (2) the predetermined distortion information at the location. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298821 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGES - A method of displaying images on an electronic device includes the following blocks. A first image is displayed on a display. The first image has a first edge and a second edge opposite to the first edge. A second image is decoded and loaded to a virtual position behind the first image. The first image is divided into a plurality of rectangular areas. The first image is cropped in the plurality of rectangular areas in sequence along a direction from the first edge to the second edge. Each of the plurality of rectangular areas fades to transparency. The second image is shown on the display. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298822 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING AN OBJECT ON A COMPUTER SCREEN - The invention is directed to a computer-implemented method for displaying an object on a computer screen, the method comprising the steps of: (i) computing a first image; (ii) displaying the first image; (iii) repeating k times the following steps: (iv) computing a n | 2011-12-08 |
20110298823 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing section of a game apparatus executes a program including: a step of obtaining an image captured by an outer camera; a step of calculating, when detection of a marker is completed, a position and an orientation of a virtual camera based on a result of the marker detection; a step of obtaining hand-drawn data; a step of capturing, with the virtual camera, a fundamental polygon to which a texture is applied to generate a hand-drawn image, and displaying, on an upper LCD, an image in which the hand-drawn image is superimposed on the camera image; and a step of displaying a hand-drawn input image on a lower LCD. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIRTUAL INTERACTION - A system for virtual interaction, comprising two or more portable electronic devices, is provided. Each device comprises, in turn, coordinate referencing means operable to define a coordinate system common to the portable electronic devices with respect to a physically defined reference position, position estimation means operable to detect a the physical position of its respective portable electronic device with respect to the reference position, virtual environment generation means operable to generate a virtual environment, and communication means operable to transmit positional data using the common coordinate system from that portable electronic device to another portable electronic device. The virtual environment is shared in common between the portable electronic devices. The virtual environment uses the common co-ordinate system within which each portable electronic device defines a position for itself responsive to its physical position with respect to the reference position. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298825 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of the CG image is set based on parameter information used to extract a region of a hand. The transparency parameter of the CG image is set based on a ratio of the size of the region of the CG image excluding the mask region to the size of the shot image. By checking the combined image, which is displayed in the combined-image-display region, the user can set the parameter information by a simple operation. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298826 | TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND APPLICATION COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A terminal device includes a display unit having at least a first display area and a second display area, a detection unit configured to detect a viewing state in which the first display area and/or the second display area are being viewed, and a control unit configured to, when a predetermined application is executed, perform control on the basis of the viewing state detected by the detection unit, for switching between a state in which display is performed on either one of the first display area and the second display area and display is not performed on the other one of the first display area and the second display area and a state in which display is performed on both the first display area and the second display area. A method and computer program storage device holding computer readable instructions cooperate to form a system that performs these functions. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298827 | LIMITING AVATAR GESTURE DISPLAY - Technology determines whether a gesture of an avatar depicts one of a set of prohibited gestures. An example of a prohibited gesture is a lewd gesture. If the gesture is determined to be a prohibited gesture, the image data for display of the gesture is altered. Some examples of alteration are substitution of image data for the prohibited gesture, or performing a filtering technique to the image data depicting the gesture to visually obscure the prohibited gesture. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298828 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes a display unit adapted to generate an image, a projection unit adapted to project the image generated by the display unit, a control unit adapted to control the image generated by the display unit, a detection unit adapted to issue an output changed depending on an inclination angle of the projection display apparatus, and a storage unit adapted to store a plurality of horizontal reference values corresponding to installed states of the projection display apparatus. The control unit in the projection display apparatus changes the image generated by the display unit in accordance with an output of the detection unit and the selected horizontal reference value. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298829 | Selecting View Orientation in Portable Device via Image Analysis - Methods, systems, and computer programs for setting the orientation of a view shown on a portable device's display are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes an operation for capturing an image of the area in front of the display. Further, the location of one or more features of a person's face is identified when the person is located in the area in front of the display. The method includes another operation for determining one axis of the face based on the location of these features. Additionally, the orientation of the view shown on the display of the portable device is set to substantially correspond to the axis of the face. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298830 | Single Point Input Variable Zoom - A method and computer readable medium are disclosed for re-sizing screen content of a user interface comprising an initial view displayed within a touch-sensitive screen. A double tap and hold interaction is detected on the screen at an initial location. A drag interaction is detected, where the drag interaction comprises maintaining contact across the screen in an initial direction. A release interaction is detected, where the release interaction comprises a final location where interaction on the screen is detected. A zoom factor is determined based upon the initial location, the final location, and the initial direction. A zoomed view is generated using the zoom factor, where the zoomed view changes a proportion of the screen filled by an area surrounding the initial location relative to the initial view. Finally, the zoomed view of the screen content is provided for display on the screen. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298831 | CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS, HANDHELD APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A control system including: an input apparatus including a sensor portion; and a control apparatus including a coordinate generation portion that generates, based on a detection signal detected by the sensor portion, positional coordinates of a pointer on a screen, a selection area change portion that changes, in accordance with a level of a shake amount calculated based on the detection signal, a size of an icon selection area as an area where an icon on the screen is selected by the pointer, and a display control portion that controls display on the screen so that the pointer is displayed at a position corresponding to the positional coordinates of the pointer. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298832 | COLOR SEQUENTIAL DISPLAY AND LIGHT SOURCE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A color sequential display and a light source control method of the color sequential display are provided. The light source control method includes the following steps. A frame data of a frame period is received, wherein the frame period includes a plurality of color sub-frame periods. The frame data is analyses to obtain gray distributions of a plurality of colors in the frame data. Whether all or a portion of a plurality of color light sources of the color sequential display are turned on in the frame period is determined according to the gray distributions of the colors. Wherein, a light emitting time of the turned on color light source is longer than any one of the color sub-frame periods. Therefore, the brightness displayed by the color sequential display can be enhanced. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298833 | HIGH CONTRAST LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - Devices and methods related to high-contrast liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are provided. For example, such an electronic device may include an LCD with two liquid crystal alignment layers not symmetric to one another and upper and lower polarizing layers respectively above and below the alignment layers. Light transmittance through the plurality of pixels may increase monotonically with gray scale voltage. The display may operate using a gray scale level | 2011-12-08 |
20110298834 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BACK LIGHT - Disclosed herein is a backlight control apparatus, including an LED backlight drive unit driving an LED backlight module and a control unit outputting an enable signal deterministic of whether to drive the LED backlight drive unit or not to the LED backlight drive unit, and stepwisely decreasing or increasing the duty ratio of a PWM control signal to control the brightness of the LED backlight module and outputting it to the LED backlight drive unit. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298835 | DISPLAY MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD, DRIVING PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A driving device of a display medium that including first and second particle groups migrating independently due to a first voltage being imparted for a first time period, forming aggregates due to the first voltage being imparted for a second time period, and the aggregates migrating due to a second voltage being imparted. The driving device includes a voltage imparting section that: imparts a third voltage that moves, to a display substrate side, a greater-amount-needed particle group for gradation display, in an amount of a difference between particles of the first particle group and second particle group needed for the display; when the greater-amount-needed particle group has an opposite polarity to the aggregates, imparts a fourth voltage that moves the aggregates needed to the display substrate side; and when the polarities are same, imparts a fifth voltage that moves the aggregates not needed to a rear substrate side. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298836 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting diode display is disclosed. A signal from the pixels in the display is transmitted to a circuit which compensates the image data according to the signal, which is indicative of one or more of ageing of the organic light emitting diodes, the threshold voltages of the driving transistors, and current mobility of the driving transistors. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298837 | Methods and apparatus for calibrating a color display - Improved methods are provided for calibrating color on a color display coupled to a computer, which are useful for obtaining calibrated data in a virtual proof network for enabling different color devices to render consistent color. Methods involve user interactions with screens on the display to set color display parameters. An apparatus is also provided for calibrating a sensor which may be used for measuring color of a display in one or more of these methods. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298838 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY - A display apparatus comprises pixels ( | 2011-12-08 |
20110298839 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a display apparatus and a display control method capable of improving display quality of an image. The display apparatus is provided with an LED backlight ( | 2011-12-08 |
20110298840 | Driving method for dynamically driving a field sequential color liquid crystal display - A driving method for dynamically driving a field sequential color liquid crystal display is characterized in that a backlight includes at least two or more different colors, a plurality of fields constitute one frame, each field includes scanning time, non-scanning time of COMs and the time when the backlight is turned off. All liquid crystal pixels are driven by scanning each COM in a certain order during the scanning time. The non-scanning time is the time during which all liquid crystal pixels are not driven while the backlight continues to be bright after the scanning time. The time when the backlight is turned off is the time when all liquid crystal pixels are not driven while the backlight is turned off after the non-scanning time. The sum of two kinds of time mentioned above is larger than or equal to 1 ms and less than or equal to 10 ms. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298841 | OUTDOOR DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The outdoor display system has a solar cell; electricity storing device which stores electric power; a display apparatus which displays information, and a control device which supplies the electric power obtained by the solar cell to the display apparatus or the electricity storing unit. The control device has an acquisition part which acquires weather forecast information, and an accommodating adjusting part which accommodates adjusts the ratio of the electric power supplying to the display apparatus or to the electric power storing to the electricity storing unit according to the weather forecast information acquired by the acquisition part. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298842 | Sparse Source Array for Display Pixel Array Illumination with Rotated Far Field Plane - A pixel array display system including an illumination source of discrete emitters with uniform emitting areas, a separate collimator in front of each emitter, and a condenser in front of said collimators which focuses collimated light from the emitters onto the pixel array. The pixel array display system does not include a light homogenizing optical element such as a light pipe. Each emitter is focused onto at least 75 percent of the pixels. A portion of the emitters which provide collimated light cones proximate to a modulated light optical cone from the pixel array may be provided reduced power in a high contrast operating mode. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298843 | DYNAMIC POWER AND BRIGHTNESS CONTROL FOR A DISPLAY SCREEN - An image is displayed on an electronic display device at a reduced power level. Power used by the display device is maintained below a predetermined maximum power level by uniformly scaling the initial optical intensity of an image to a lower optical intensity whenever displaying the image at the initial optical intensity would result in power consumption of the display device exceeding the predetermined maximum power level. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298844 | Power Calibration of Multiple Light Sources in a Display Screen - A display device with multiple light sources includes a detector that dynamically measures output intensities of the light sources as the light sources are producing light to cause an image to be formed on a display screen. A controller for the display device compares the measured output intensities with desired output intensities determined from factory-calibrated correlation values and adjusts the inputs to the light sources to compensate for drift and other similar effects, so that brightness uniformity among the multiple light sources can be achieved. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298845 | PANEL CONTROLLER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, SIGNAL MODULATION METHOD, SIGNAL MODULATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The object of the invention is to prevent a large amount of unnecessary images from being displayed on an image on a liquid crystal display panel, due to a signal value of a pulse width modulation signal (PWM) which exceeds the minimum signal value of a vertical synchronization signal when the vertical synchronization signal (VS) interferes with the pulse width modulation signal (PWM) within a period of one frame. A liquid crystal display panel controller makes an intermediate signal value (M | 2011-12-08 |
20110298846 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVE METHOD FOR PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method for driving a plasma display panel includes a first mode for carrying out display by applying sustain pulses whose number corresponds to brightness weight of subfields; a second mode for carrying out display in which the one field period includes a smaller number of subfields than that of the first mode and the number of sustain pulses in the one field period is set to be more than that in the first mode; and a third mode for carrying out display in which an address time of a non-lighting line of the second mode is shortened and the shortened time is set in a sustain period. The first mode or the second mode is shifted to the third mode when a lighting rate is a predetermined value or less and a gradation of image is a predetermined value or more of each subfield. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298847 | REMOTE STATUS MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY FOR A TRANSPORT VEHICLE - A display for a transport unit. The transport unit includes a trailer that defines a space with at least one zone, and a vehicle that is attachable to the trailer. The vehicle has a passenger compartment and a rear view mirror. A sensor is in communication with the transport unit and senses a parameter of the transport unit. The transport unit also includes a housing that is coupled to the trailer, and that has a display with a screen configured to display the parameter. A controller is attached to the trailer and is in communication with the space. The controller is in electrical communication with the sensor and the display, and the controller is programmed to selectively switch the display between a forward view mode and a mirror view mode based on a relationship between the vehicle and the trailer. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298848 | INKJET APPARATUS - There is provided an inkjet apparatus which can accurately detect an ink remaining amount and shorten time necessary for an ink remaining amount detecting process. This apparatus has a first reservoir unit that reserves ink, a second reservoir unit that reserve the ink supplied from the first reservoir unit to supply the ink to a head, a calculation unit that calculates an ink remaining amount in the second reservoir unit based upon an ink ejection amount ejected from the head, a remaining amount detecting unit that detects the ink remaining amount in the second reservoir unit, a foam processing unit that executes a foam process to reduce foams of the ink generated in the second reservoir unit, and a control unit that controls the execution of the foam process by the foam processing unit based upon comparison between the ink remaining amount calculated and the ink remaining amount detected. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298849 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - In a line-head type inkjet printing apparatus that ejects a plurality of types of inks, an inkjet printing apparatus is provided in which the change of its ejection properties different depending on the type of ink is prevented from occurring. The line-head type printing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that counts the ejection number of liquid from each of print heads in each of a plurality of print heads. Furthermore, the printing apparatus compares the ejection number of liquid from each of the print heads counted by the acquisition unit with a threshold value set for each of the print heads. The printing apparatus includes a change unit that can move a holder in the main scanning direction when the counted ejection number of liquid exceeds the threshold value set for the print head. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298850 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In order to control smoothness depending on accumulation of a pigment ink in the multi-pass printing, an information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus that forms an image on the same area in a print medium by a plurality of printing scans with the same pigment ink, the information processing apparatus comprises an input unit that receives inputs of image data and a target gloss level; a storage unit that stores a plurality of pattern sets including a recording pattern for each of the printing scans; and a generation unit that generates pattern data corresponding to the recording patterns by selectively using the pattern sets based on the image data and the target gloss level; wherein at least one of the plurality of pattern sets has a different thinning ratio in the recording pattern for each of the printing scans on the same area. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298851 | Inkjet head driving apparatus - Disclosed herein is an inkjet head driving apparatus. The inkjet head driving apparatus includes a multi pulse generator that receives a trigger signal, and converts and outputs the trigger signal into a multi pulse signal; an amplifier that amplifies the multi pulse signal output from the multi pulse generator; and a controller that controls the number of pulses of the multi pulse signal generated from the multi pulse generator. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298852 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head having three rows of nozzles which are three-phase driven and arranged in a staggered arrangement. The nozzles are arranged in the main scanning direction at an interval of L/3, where L is a pixel pitch, and each nozzle row is ejection-driven in the sequence from the last nozzle row to the forward nozzle row in the moving direction of the recording head. The recording head scans at a moving speed of 2×L×f, where f is an ejection frequency per nozzle row. After the completion of one scan, the recording medium is moved a distance of predetermined multiples of the pixel pitch in the sub-scanning direction, and in the next scan, ink is ejected onto the recording medium at pixel positions other than the pixel position on which the ink has landed in preceding scans. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298853 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus includes a plurality of full-line type printheads. The printing apparatus holds information relating to overlap nozzles that overlap between a reference printhead and an adjustment printhead, generates discharge data for causing a tilt adjustment pattern to be printed by nozzles disposed in different positions in the overlap nozzles that overlap between the reference printhead and the adjustment printhead, and causes ink to be discharged from the nozzles in the overlap nozzles that overlap between the reference printhead and the adjustment printhead based on the discharge data. In this manner, the tilt adjustment pattern is printed on a printing medium. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298854 | Recording apparatus and control method therefor - A recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head including nozzles, a moving unit moving the carriage, a platen including plate members connected in a carriage traveling direction to support a recording medium when the nozzles eject ink onto the recording medium, a transferring unit transferring the recording medium in a transferring direction perpendicular to the carriage traveling direction, a recording control unit recording patterns at predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction while moving the carriage in forward and backward traveling directions to form a carriage traveling direction pattern array, a determination unit determining ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction, and a time control unit to linearly interpolate between the determined ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction to control ink ejecting times for intervals between the predetermined positions based on a result of the linear interpolation. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298855 | Defective nozzle detector and image forming apparatus and system - A defective nozzle detector is included in an inkjet recording apparatus in which a plurality of nozzles to discharge droplets is provided and a recording head including the plurality of nozzles scans while moving in a main scanning direction, thereby forming an image. The defective nozzle detector includes a sensor board on which droplets are impacted from the nozzle of the recording head, a plurality of sensor electrodes and a common electrode alternately disposed on the sensor board and arranged in patterns that intersect the main scanning direction of the recording head, and an electrostatic capacitance sensor to detect changes in the electrostatic capacitance between the sensor electrode and the common electrode. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298856 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR RECORDING APPARATUS - A host device sends, as setting data, data including a registration adjustment value corresponding to a relative distance between nozzle arrays in a scanning direction. A recording apparatus includes a recording buffer | 2011-12-08 |
20110298857 | Image Processing Apparatus And Program | 2011-12-08 |
20110298858 | RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - First humidified gas is supplied from a first supply port to a sheet to be conveyed to increase the moisture content of the sheet. Second humidified gas is supplied to a space where nozzles of the inkjet recording head are exposed, from a second supply port provided at a position closer to the inkjet recording head than the first supply port to increase the atmosphere humidity of the space. The part of the sheet of which the moisture content has been increased is made to enter the space where the atmosphere humidity has been increased, and recording is performed. When a conveyance operation stops, the quantity of flow or humidity of the first humidified gas is reduced. In resupplying a temporarily returned sheet, the amount of moisture to be provided by the first humidified gas is set in accordance with regions of the sheet. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298859 | RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A first humidified gas is supplied through a first supply port to a sheet. A second humidified gas is supplied to a space where nozzles of an inkjet recording head are exposed through a second supply port located at a position closer to the recording heads than the first supply port, to increase atmosphere humidity in the space. The sheet portion having a moisture content increased by the humidification in advance is advanced into the space having the increased atmosphere humidity, to record on the sheet using the inkjet recording head. An amount of humidification with the first humidified gas is set according to at least one recording condition. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298860 | IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device includes a recording head, a first pair of conveying rollers, a second pair of conveying rollers, and a conveyance controller. The conveyance controller controls the first and second pairs of conveying rollers to halt a conveying operation of the recording medium when a trailing edge of the recording medium has moved to or exceeded a position downstream from the nip position of the first pair of conveying rollers by a first prescribed distance during a first prescribed period of time running from a time instant when the trailing edge of the recording medium has passed through the nip position of the first pair of the conveying rollers. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298861 | ELONGATE HAND-HELD PRINTER DEVICE WITH MANUALLY ACTUABLE CAPPING DEVICE - An elongate hand-held printer device includes an upper and a lower moulding configured to receive each other in a complementary fashion to define a housing, said housing defining an ink ejection slot; a printhead module housed in the housing, the module having a plurality of micro-electromechanical ejection devices configured to eject ink via the ink ejection slot; | 2011-12-08 |
20110298862 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SERVICING AN INKJET PRINT HEAD ON A HAND HELD PRINTER - A hand-held printer that includes an inkjet array having a plurality of inkjets is disclosed. The hand-held printer may include an inkjet cap sized to cooperatively engage the inkjet array, wherein the inkjet cap is movable between and open position and a closed position, and a plurality of wipers carried by the inkjet cap, wherein each of the plurality of wipers is configured to engage one of the plurality of inkjets as the inkjet cap moves from the open position to the closed position; and wherein each of the plurality of wipers includes a gasket configured to form a seal adjacent to one of the plurality of inkjets. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298863 | MULTICOLOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND PROCESSES OF FORMING THE SAME BY PRINTING - There is provided a method of printing a regular array of rows of subpixels on a workpiece. The subpixels have c different colors and have a subpixel pitch s. A printing head has z nozzles arranged in a row with a spacing p, where z=n | 2011-12-08 |
20110298864 | DISCHARGE HEAD AND DISCHARGE APPARATUS - There is provided a discharge head including: a tubular member that includes a flat portion with an oblate shape where a cross-section of a tube path extends in a first direction, the tubular member being formed so that the flat portion includes a first wall that is flat and has an actuator attached to an outside thereof and the flat portion becomes a cavity with an internal volume thereof varying due to displacement of the first wall; and a nozzle opening that is provided at one end of the tubular member and discharges a liquid substance due to variation in the internal volume of the cavity. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298865 | EJECTION LIQUID DRYNESS SUPPRESSING DEVICE, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND EJECTION LIQUID DRYNESS SUPPRESSING METHOD - There is provided a nozzle contact unit capable of realizing a contact state, where a contact surface comes into close contact with a nozzle formation surface to block a plurality of nozzle openings, and a separated state, where the contact surface is separated from the nozzle formation surface. The nozzle contact unit separates the contact surface from the nozzle formation surface to sequentially open the nozzle openings preferentially from the nozzle opening of the nozzle with a shorter flow passage length of ink flowing from a supply port to the nozzle via a common ink chamber among the plurality of nozzle openings in a procedure from the contact state to the separated state. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298866 | LOW-ADHESION COATING TO ELIMINATE DAMAGE DURING FREEZE/THAW OF MEMSJET PRINTHEADS - Exemplary embodiments provide materials, systems and methods for ink jet printhead, wherein a low-adhesion coating can be applied to at least one surface portion of an ink chamber within the printhead to reduce or eliminate actuator membrane damage during ink freeze/thaw cycles. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298867 | METHOD FOR HYDROPHILIZING SURFACES OF INK PATHWAY - A method of hydrophilizing surfaces of an ink pathway configured for supplying ink to nozzles in an inkjet printhead. The method includes the steps of: treating the surfaces of the ink pathway with a solution comprising an alkoxylated polyethyleneimine; and drying the surfaces. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298868 | INKJET PRINTHEAD HAVING HYDROPHILIC INK PATHWAYS - An inkjet printhead comprising a hydrophilic ink pathway. The surfaces of the ink pathway comprise a layer of an alkoxylated polyethyleneimine. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298869 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PRINTHEAD ASSEMBLY HAVING COMPLEMENTARY HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES - A method of providing a printhead assembly having a hydrophilic ink pathway and a hydrophobic ink ejection face. The method includes the steps of: providing a printhead assembly comprising a printhead attached to an ink supply manifold, the printhead comprising a nozzle plate having a hydrophobic coating and a protective metal film disposed on the hydrophobic coating; treating surfaces of an ink pathway in the printhead assembly with a solution comprising an alkoxylated polyethyleneimine; drying the surfaces; and removing the protective metal film so as to reveal the hydrophobic coating. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298870 | MULTIPLE PRIMING HOLES FOR IMPROVED FREEZE/THAW CYCLILNG OF MEMSJet PRINTING DEVICES - An ink jet print head includes an ink chamber defined by an electrostatically actuated membrane and a nozzle plate opposing the membrane. The nozzle plate includes a nozzle hole and a group of priming holes, the priming holes configured to maintain a substantially ink free surface on the nozzle plate during a freeze thaw cycle of ink in the ink chamber. A method for accommodating expansion and contraction of ink during a freeze thaw cycle of ink in an ink chamber is also provided. The method includes providing a group of priming holes in a nozzle plate of the ink chamber, the group of priming holes maintaining a substantially ink free surface on the nozzle plate during the freeze thaw cycle. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298871 | ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECT USING EMBOSSED CONTACTS ON A FLEX CIRCUIT - A print head has a jet stack having an array of jets, an array of transducers arranged on the jet stack such that each transducer corresponds to a jet in the array of jets, and a flexible circuit substrate arranged adjacent the array of transducers such that contact pads on the flexible circuit substrate make electrical connection to at least some of the array of transducers, the flexible circuit substrate being embossed so that the contact pads extend out of a plane of the flexible circuit substrate. A method of manufacturing a print head includes forming a jet stack having an array of jets, arranging an array of transducers on the jet stack such that each transducer in the array of transducers corresponds to each jet in the array of jets, embossing a flexible circuit substrate having contact pads such that the contact pads extend out of a plane of the flexible circuit substrate, and arranging the flexible circuit substrate such that the contact pads electrically connect to at least some of the transducers in the array of transducers. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298872 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric member having piezoelectric pillars and grooves alternately arrayed. Each of the grooves has a first width at a bottom side of the piezoelectric pillars and a second width at an upper side of the piezoelectric pillars in a direction in which the piezoelectric pillars are arrayed. The first width is greater than the second width. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298873 | COMPACT FRONT-OPERABLE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a substantially flat top face and a slanted front face, the bottom side of which recedes backward. The image forming apparatus may includes a paper discharge tray disposed at a lower portion of the slanted front face, the paper discharge tray protruding forward. The paper discharge tray may be tiltable upward and downward. Because the bottom side of the slanted front face recedes backward, the flat top face can be provided, and simultaneously, enough space for the feeding and discharging of paper can be secured. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298874 | SOLID INK STICK WITH RETRIEVAL FEATURE - A solid ink stick for use in an imaging device, such as a phase change inkjet printer, is provided. The solid ink stick has a retrieval feature located on a top surface thereof. When the ink stick is incorrectly loaded through the insertion opening of a feed channel of the printer, the retrieval feature has a vertical dimension such that the ink stick can be grasped, such as by two fingers of a user, to remove the ink stick through the insertion opening. The retrieval feature generally includes two lower surfaces interconnected with at least one upper surface. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298875 | MAINTENANCE APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND MAINTENANCE METHOD - A maintenance apparatus that removes bubbles from a nozzle is provided in a printer that includes a recording head having a nozzle capable of ejecting ink from a nozzle opening formed in a nozzle formation surface. The maintenance apparatus includes: a pressurizing pump that pressurizes the ink in the nozzle in a direction in which the ink is discharged from the nozzle opening; and a contact member having an upper surface that makes contact with the nozzle formation surface so as to cover the nozzle opening, and that has, formed therein, a flow channel whose pressure loss is greater than that of the nozzle and that allows air to pass through from the side of the upper surface. The ink within the nozzle is pressurized by the pressurizing pump in a state in which the contact member is in contact with the nozzle formation surface. | 2011-12-08 |
20110298876 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image recording apparatus is provided containing:
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20110298877 | PRINT HEAD, UPGRADE KIT FOR A CONVENTIONAL INKJET PRINTER, INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING OPTICAL STRUCTURES - The inventions relates to a print head for printing optical structures on a substrate comprising an ejection device for ejecting at least one droplet of a printing ink towards the substrate and a curing device for curing the at least one deposited droplet, wherein the curing device comprises at least one UV-LED (ultraviolet emitting light-emitting diode). | 2011-12-08 |
20110298878 | PRINTING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR PRINTING A SUBSTRATE - The invention relates to a method for printing a substrate ( | 2011-12-08 |