51st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130335391 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting diode display device may include a first transistor connected between a data line and a first node; a second transistor connected between the first node and a second node; a third transistor connected between a reference voltage line and a third node; a fourth transistor connected between a initialization voltage terminal and the second node; a driving transistor having a source electrode connected to the second node, a gate electrode connected to the third node, and a drain electrode connected to a high electric potential voltage terminal; a first capacitor connected between the first node and the drain or source electrode of the driving transistor; a second capacitor connected between the first node and the third node; and a light emitting diode connected to a low electric potential voltage terminal and to the second node. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335392 | GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT - A gate drive circuit in which multiple stages are connected together one after each other. An n-th stage includes a pull-up part, a carry part, a pull-down part, a switching part, a first maintaining part and a second maintaining part. The pull-up part outputs a high voltage of a first clock signal. The carry part outputs a high voltage of the first clock signal. The pull-down part pulls-down the n-th gate signal into a first low voltage. The switching part outputs a first signal synchronized with the first clock signal during an interval other than a high voltage output interval of the n-th carry signal. The first maintaining part maintains the n-th gate signal at the first low voltage in response to the first signal. The second maintaining part maintains the n-th gate signal at the first low voltage in response to a second signal. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335393 | Liquid Crystal Display Panel and Array Substrate Thereof - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and array substrate thereof. The array substrate includes at least a plurality of first scan lines, second scan lines, data lines and a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix form; pixel electrodes of pixel unit being divided into at least first sub electrode, second sub electrode and third sub electrode, and controlling first sub electrode and second sub electrode to have a default voltage difference when displaying voltage signal of a same image in 3D display mode. As such, the present invention can reduce signal crosstalk problem in 3D display mode, improve color difference in large view angle condition and reduce color distortion. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335394 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING A DRIVING CIRCUIT OF AN ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - A driving circuit of an organic light emitting device includes a switch module, a capacitor, and a driving unit. The switch module includes a first switch unit and a second switch unit. The first switch unit is coupled to a data line. The second switch unit is coupled to the organic light emitting device. During a programming period, the first switch unit is turned on and the second switch unit is turned off; and during an emission period, the first switch unit is turned off and the second switch unit is turned on. The capacitor is coupled to the first switch unit for being charged to a data voltage according to a data current of the data line during the programming period. The driving unit is used for generating a driving current to drive the organic light emitting device according to the data voltage during the emission period. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335395 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting display includes pixels positioned at intersections of scan lines, emission control lines, control lines, and data lines, wherein gate voltages of driving transistors of the pixels are initialized by a first or second initialization power supply and an initialization power supply generating unit for supplying the first initialization power supply to pixels positioned in odd horizontal lines via a first power supply line and for supplying the second initialization power supply to pixels positioned in even horizontal lines via a second power supply line. The first initialization power supply and the second initialization power supply repeat a high voltage and a low voltage with different phases. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335396 | DISPLAY DEVICE, POWER CONTROL DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a plurality of pixels and a power supply controller that includes a first power supply source unit supplying a high power supply voltage, and a second power supply source unit supplying a low power supply voltage. The high power supply voltage is different from the low power supply voltage. The power supply controller connects one of the first and second power supply source units to the plurality of the pixels. The one of the first and second power supply source units is switched to another of the first and second power supply source units at a switching time, at which the one of the first and second power supply source units stops operation. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335397 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - A display including: pixels; a gate driver for supplying a gate signal to gate lines; a lighting test circuit coupled to a first input line (for transmitting a lighting test signal), and a second input line (for transmitting a test control signal), the light test circuit being for supplying the lighting test signal to data lines according to the test control signal; a first power supply line for supplying a gate high level voltage to the gate driver and at a periphery of the gate driver and the lighting test circuit; and a second power supply line for supplying a gate low level voltage to the gate driver and at a periphery of the gate driver and the lighting test circuit. The second input line is coupled to the first power supply line or the second power supply line through a resistor. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335398 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECEIVING SYSTEM - An electronic device includes a device main unit and a control unit that controls visual demonstration of a display on a displaying portion so as to visually display, upon receiving from a user an operation pertaining to an energy conservation setup of the device main unit, a state in which the energy conservation setup of the device main unit has been implemented. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335399 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - The display apparatus has a plurality of arrayed pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits has a current light emitting device; a driving transistor supplying current to the current light emitting device; a first capacitor having a first terminal connected with a gate of the driving transistor; a second capacitor connected between a second terminal of the first capacitor and a source of the driving transistor; a first switch applying a reference voltage to a node at which the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected; a second switch supplying an image signal voltage to the gate of the driving transistor, and a third switch supplying an initialization voltage to the source of the driving transistor. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DISPLAY MODES - A 2D/3D switching system contains a 2D/3D switching device having a display area for selectively processing lights from 2D images and 3D images. The 2D/3D switching device includes a first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of second electrodes formed on the second substrate and arranged corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes and separated with a distance, and a liquid crystal layer placed between the first substrate and the second substrate to provide the display area. A driving unit is configured to provide driving voltages to the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. The driving unit applies a plurality of voltages on the first electrodes and the second electrodes to enable the liquid crystal layer to operate in one of a full-screen 2D mode, a full-screen 3D mode, and a 2D/3D mode. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335401 | Multifunctional Operating Device - In a method and devices, data for the display of an application on a screen is provided. In addition, information with regard to a degree of distraction of the application, e.g., information regarding user-interface elements, and/or information regarding a degree of distraction of a driver of a vehicle ( | 2013-12-19 |
20130335402 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STEREOSCOPIC 3-D RENDERING - A method and system for rendering scenes in stereoscopic 3-D comprises identifying, or detecting, that a rate of change, of one or more elements of a scene to be rendered in stereoscopic 3-D, satisfies a criterion. The perceived depth of elements of the scene is then dynamically modified, and the scene is rendered. The method can reduce eye strain of a viewer of the scene, since the perceived difference in depth of objects or elements of the scene is reduced while the object is changing position or visibility dramatically. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335403 | TWO DIMENSIONAL/ THREE DIMENSIONAL SWITCHABLE DISPLAY MODULE AND DISPLAY DEICE HAVING THE SAME - A two dimensional/three dimensional (2D/3D) switchable display module, comprising a display panel, an optical module and a revising circuit is disclosed. The display panel has an active area. The optical module is disposed on the active area for changing a light path of a light emitting from the active area. A relative position information is between a position of the optical module and a position of the display panel. The revising circuit is used for providing a revising information based on the relative position information. The display panel receives the revising information and outputs an image corresponding to the optical module for displaying a three dimensional image. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335404 | DEPTH OF FIELD CONTROL FOR SEE-THRU DISPLAY - One embodiment provides a method for controlling a virtual depth of field perceived by a wearer of a see-thru display device. The method includes estimating the ocular depth of field of the wearer and projecting virtual imagery with a specified amount of blur. The amount of blur is determined as a function of the ocular depth of field. Another embodiment provides a method for controlling an ocular depth of field of a wearer of a see-thru display device. This method includes computing a target value for the depth of field and increasing the pixel brightness of the virtual imagery presented to the wearer. The increase in pixel brightness contracts the wearer's pupils and thereby deepens the depth of field to the target value. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335405 | VIRTUAL OBJECT GENERATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - A system and method are disclosed for building and experiencing three-dimensional virtual objects from within a virtual environment in which they will be viewed upon completion. A virtual object may be created, edited and animated using a natural user interface while the object is displayed to the user in a three-dimensional virtual environment. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335406 | POINT-BASED GLOBAL ILLUMINATION DIRECTIONAL IMPORTANCE MAPPING - Locations are shaded for use in rendering a computer-generated scene having one or more objects represented by the point cloud. A hierarchy for the point cloud is obtained. The point cloud includes a plurality of points. The hierarchy has a plurality of clusters of points of the point cloud. A location is selected to shade. A first cluster from the plurality of clusters is selected. The first cluster represents a first set of points in the point cloud. An importance weight for the first cluster is determined. A render-quality criterion for the first cluster is determined based on the importance weight. Whether the first cluster meets a render-quality criterion is determined based on a render-quality parameter for the first cluster. In response to the first cluster meeting the quality criterion, the location is shaded based on an indication of light emitted from the first cluster. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335407 | COHERENT PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE REALITY AND INTERACTION MODELS - A method for navigating concurrently and from point-to-point through multiple reality models is described. The method includes: generating, at a processor, a first navigatable virtual view of a first location of interest, wherein the first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location; and concurrently with the generating the first navigatable virtual view of the first location of interest, generating, at the processor, a second navigatable virtual view corresponding to a current physical position of an object, such that real-time sight at the current physical position is enabled within the second navigatable virtual view. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335408 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING, GENERATING, STORING AND DISPLAYING IMAGES IN PICTURE ARCHIVING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for storing and displaying images in a picture archiving and communication system (PACS). The apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to: generate a two-dimensional (2D) medical image for a three-dimensional (3D) medical image at each of reference points of a predetermined 3D screen model; and store the generated 2D medical image along with attribute information related to the generation of the 2D medical image to a storage device or a memory. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335409 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus for restoring a three-dimensional shape of an object from images captured from a plurality of viewpoints, includes: a divider configured to divide a surface of a three-dimensional model to estimate the three-dimensional shape into a plurality of partial areas; a camera configured to capture images from various viewpoints of a partial area; a model generator configured to generate a reflection model based on changes of photographing angles and brightness components of the partial area; and an image generator configured to generate a texture image from which an effect of specular reflection is eliminated. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335410 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - When a user instructs a control unit about a position in a substantially central portion of an illustration with an electronic pen, the control unit determines a rectangular area that surrounds the illustration as an enhancement area. An image adjustment unit carries out a process of shifting the portion in the enhancement area in an image for the left eye rightward by a predetermined amount and shifting the portion in the enhancement area in an image for the right eye leftward by a predetermined amount. As a result, the illustration located in the enhancement area is so changed that the image for the left eye is shifted to a position to the right of the image for the right eye and hence recognized as if the illustration were located in front of other illustrations. The illustration in the enhancement area is thus enhanced. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335411 | ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND REPRESENTING TIME-DEPENDENT IMAGERY - The present invention pertains to geographical image processing of time-dependent imagery. Various assets acquired at different times are stored and processing according to acquisition date in order to generate one or more image tiles for a geographical region of interest. The different image tiles are sorted based on asset acquisition date. Multiple image tiles for the same region of interest may be available. In response to a user request for imagery as of a certain date, one or more image tiles associated with assets from prior to that date are used to generate a time-based geographical image for the user. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHORING STEREOSCOPIC 3D VIDEO INFORMATION, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SUCH STEREOSCOPIC 3D VIDEO INFORMATION - A method and an apparatus for authoring stereoscopic 3D video information comprising a 3D video stream and 3D overlay graphics are described. A depth range in z-space for the stereoscopic presentation of the 3D video stream is determined for a plurality of time codes. A reference plane in z-space for placing the 3D overlay graphics is then determined such that depth conflicts between the 3D video and the reference place are reduced. A comfort zone surrounding a display screen plane and comprising the reference plane is defined, wherein the comfort zone specifies a depth range in z-space for preferable presentation of the stereoscopic 3D video information. It is then determined whether a depth conflict between the reference plane and the 3D video stream remains for the respective time codes and/or whether a depth conflict exists between the comfort zone and the 3D overlay graphics for the respective time codes. In this way a set of conflict intervals is generated, which is stored on a media source comprising the 3D video stream and the 3D overlay graphics. The set of conflict intervals is used during playback to adapt a presentation of the 3D video stream or a presentation of the 3D overlay graphics. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CONSTRUCTION DURATION - A system and method for estimating construction duration. The system includes a three-dimensional (3D) building information model (BIM) module, a duration estimation module, and a 4D BIM module. The 3D BIM module constructs a 3D BIM based on inputted modeling instructions and generates quantity information corresponding to the 3D BIM. The duration estimation module calculates duration information for construction work based on inputted construction condition information and the quantity information of the 3D BIM produced. The 4D BIM module constructs a 4D BIM based on the 3D BIM and the duration information. Thus, the present invention can automatically calculate the quantity of building materials, estimate the construction duration, establish a construction progress table, and demonstrate the construction progress of the 4D BIM in an animated way, replacing the traditional way of manually processing information for duration estimation. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335414 | VISUALIZATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF OBJECTS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a method for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. The method may include receiving an import request to import a 2D environment to be used as a background for the 3D model; importing, based on the import request, the 2D environment; receiving wireframe data to define a perspective of the 2D environment; receiving scale data to define a scale of the wireframe; visualizing, based on the wireframe data, the wireframe; receiving a superimposing request to superimpose the 3D model of the object onto the 2D environment based on the wireframe data and the scale data; and superimposing the 3D model of the object onto the 2D environment based on the superimposing request. The two-dimensional environment may include existing graphical materials or graphical materials captured as a still image or a live feed image. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335415 | CONVERGED SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A converged security management system includes a geographical information optimization converter for converting pieces of geographical information collected for converged security management into a data format for high-speed rendering; a three-dimensional (3D) object model generator for generating security facilities that are a subject of the converged security management in a 3D object model like a real object; and a 3D realistic user interface for displaying the security facilities that are the subject of the converged security management using the pieces of geographical information and the 3D object model in a 3D object, receiving an security event from a physical or Information Technology (IT) security sensor, mapping the security event to the 3D object, and displaying a security situation. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A 3-D MODEL OF A VIRTUAL TRY-ON PRODUCT - A computer-implemented method for generating a three-dimensional (3-D) model of a virtual try-on product. At least a portion of an object is scanned. The object includes at least first and second surfaces. An aspect of the first surface is detected. An aspect of the second surface is detected, the aspect of the second surface being different from the aspect of the first surface. A polygon mesh of the first and second surfaces is generated from the scan of the object. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335417 | SPACE CARVING IN 3D DATA ACQUISITION - Three-dimensional scanning is improved with the use of space carving to exclude certain scan results from processing and display. Using space carving techniques, a spatial matrix is maintained to store data on volumetric regions (or voxels) known to be empty. By excluding or modifying processing of outlier data from within these unoccupied voxels, a three-dimensional reconstruction process can achieve concurrent improvements in accuracy and speed. In addition, a real time display of scan results can be improved by modifying how such outliers are rendered. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335418 | ANALYSIS OF FOOD ITEMS CAPTURED IN DIGITAL IMAGES - Data analysis of a food item based on one or more digital images of the food item is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises displaying, on a display unit of the smart device, first and second digital images of a meal, where the first digital image is captured before the second digital image. The method also comprises determining a volume of each food item in the first digital image and a volume of each food item in the second digital image by analyzing the first digital image and the second digital image using a digital image processing technique. The method further comprises generating, on the display unit, an amount of intake for the meal based on a difference between the volume of each food item in the first digital image and the volume of each food item in the second digital image. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335419 | CONSUMER HISTORY GRAPHICS - Apparatus for calculating and displaying a banking customer's banking history is provided. The apparatus may include a receiver configured to receive a first set of data relating to a plurality of deposits and a plurality of withdrawals. Each of the plurality of deposits and each of the plurality of withdrawals may be associated with a numerical value and a calendar date. The apparatus may further include a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may be configured to display a timeline in a first screen region. The timeline may include a plurality of demarcations, each of the demarcations being associated with a calendar date. The graphical user interface may be further configured to display in a second screen region a plurality of balloons. Each of the plurality of balloons may display one or more deposits and withdrawals included in the first set of data. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335420 | USING CINEMATIC TECHNIQUE TAXONOMIES TO PRESENT DATA - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using cinematic technique taxonomies to present data. Embodiments of the invention can be used to infer and identify cinematic techniques or combinations thereof based on a model and user action. Cinematic techniques can be used to meet the data exploration and analysis requirements of a user. As such, embodiments of the invention permit users (including non-programmers) to employ cinematic techniques from a cinematic technique hierarchy (possibly in combination with other techniques) to gain insights into their data and also convey appropriate emotional messages. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335421 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF STRUCTURED DATA, GENERATION APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method for generating a graphical representation of structured data may include: identifying interaction markers in data elements of the structured data, wherein each interaction marker identifies an interaction interface of the respective data element, analyzing at least one predetermined attribute of the identified interaction markers, selecting a symbolic representation for each of the identified interaction markers based on the respective at least one analyzed predetermined attribute, generating the graphical representation of the structured data using the respective selected symbolic representations for all identified interaction marker. Generation apparatuses for generating a graphical representation of structured data and a computer program product are also disclosed. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335422 | SELECTIVE LEARNING FOR GROWING A GRAPH LATTICE - A system and method generate a graph lattice from exemplary images. At least one processor receives exemplary data graphs of the exemplary images and generates graph lattice nodes of size one from primitives. Until a termination condition is met, the at least one processor repeatedly: 1) generates candidate graph lattice nodes from accepted graph lattice nodes; 2) selects one or more candidate graph lattice nodes preferentially discriminating exemplary data graphs which are less discriminable than other exemplary data graphs using the accepted graph lattice nodes; and 3) promotes the selected graph lattice nodes to accepted status. The graph lattice is formed from the accepted graph lattice nodes and relations between the accepted graph lattice nodes. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335423 | SYNTHETIC APERTURE BEAM FOCUSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF COMPOSITE BEAMS ACCORDING TO A MOVEMENT LEVEL - Provided is an apparatus of determining the number of synthetic beams, comprising: a motion measurement unit which measures the degree of motion in an output beam-forming image; a synthetic beam number determination unit which determines the optimum number of synthetic beams based on the measured degree of motion in case of applying the synthetic aperture beam forming; and a display unit which displays the number of synthetic beams determined by the synthetic beam number determination unit. A system using synthetic aperture beam forming detects motion in an image and displays a degree of the motion in various manners, and thus, a user is allowed to actively cope with the motion by adjusting the number of synthetic beams, or the system is allowed to immediately change the number of synthetic beams with reference to data stored in advance. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335424 | CHARACTER DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE - A character display technique relating to computer information processing to improve the display of characters. Whether a thickening process on a glyph outline corresponding to a character to be displayed is needed is determined by calculating a mean grayscale value of pixels of a grayscale bitmap of the glyph outline. if thickening is to be performed, the thickening amount is determined on the basis of the mean grayscale value of pixels, and the thickened glyph outline is output for display, thereby minimizing problems of fading of the displayed color, fuzzy strokes and the like due to strokes that are too narrow, and thus improving the character display effect. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335425 | Systems and Methods for Combining Animations - Systems and methods are disclosed to facilitate a user's ability to create animations. Improved software applications, for example, can facilitate a user's ability to create complex animations by allowing the user to separately declare multiple simple animations, such as individual from/to animations, and then combine these individual animations into a complex animation, such as into multi-part, key frame-based animation. Multiple simple animations can be combined into a single multi-part animation that defines time/value pairs (e.g., keyframes) specifying the values of one or more properties at certain times. Using animations defined in terms of several time/value pairs such as key frames can facilitates the creation of a single animation that describes a motion path that an object will take through several intermediate values between its begin and end points and that involves multiple properties that are changing. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335426 | TEMPORAL NOISE CONTROL FOR SKETCHY ANIMATION - Techniques are presented for controlling the amount of temporal noise in certain animation sequences. Sketchy animation sequences are received in an input in a digital form and used to create an altered version of the same animation with temporal coherence enforced down to the stroke level, resulting in a reduction of the perceived noise. The amount of reduction is variable and can be controlled via a single parameter to achieve a desired artistic effect. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335427 | System and Method for Generating Dynamic Display Ad - In this disclosure, a method and system are disclosed executed on a communication device. The method and system are configured to request for a dynamic display ad from a dynamic display ad system; receive an animation sequence from the dynamic display ad system, the animation sequence comprising one or more instructions to show one or more interest areas on a selected digital flyer; and display the dynamic display ad using the animation sequence, wherein the animation sequence is used to render the dynamic display ad using flyer content of the selected digital flyer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335428 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DISPLAY OF SPREAD IN EBOOK - A method for automatic display of a spread in ebooks is revealed. The method includes several steps. First scan at least one paper book by a scanner to get at least one original page file with at least two original pages. Then execute a transcription suite in a computing device for transcribing the original page file into an e-book and write at least one spread event into at least one electronic page of the e-book by an input device. Next use a reader to read the e-book. The reader triggers the spread event while reading the electronic page written with the spread event. Thus the reader automatically retrieves and displays at least two electronic pages on a monitor of the reader simultaneously. Therefore the spread covering at least two electronic pages is automatically displayed on a monitor of the reader. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335429 | Using Cost Estimation to Improve Performance of Tile Rendering for Image Processing - An analysis of the cost of processing tiles may be used to decide how to process the tiles. In one case two tiles may be merged. In another case a culling algorithm may be selected based on tile processing cost. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335430 | Configurable Information Handling System Display Communication Link - A display cable supports communication of display information and peripheral information between a display and an information handling system by selectively adapting data links of the display cable to include peripheral information. The data links can switch between display information and peripheral information communication or can include identifier information to support switching of both types of information on a common data link. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335431 | VIRTUAL DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVERS COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS DISPLAY DRIVER MODEL - A virtual display system, compatible with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), facilitates extending a display virtually, to any display target, such as a window on the primary display, a tablet, or another personal computer altogether. The virtual WDDM display system device has a PCI filter driver, a virtual device user mode driver and a virtual device kernel mode driver. The virtual WDDM display system interacts with a physical WDDM display device, which it uses as a surrogate renderer. The PCI filter driver is used to force enumeration of a virtual display device. The virtual device kernel mode driver uses chained callbacks at increasing IRQ levels for simulating an interrupt from a real hardware device. Continuous segments in memory are used to simulate video memory on a physical display device. DirectX extensions are used to facilitate expectations at the hardware level. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335432 | RENDERING SERVER, CENTRAL SERVER, ENCODING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, ENCODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - After writing, to a memory which is to be inspected, data appended with parity information, an encoding apparatus reads out the data from the memory, and generates encoded data by applying run-length encoding processing to the data. When the encoding apparatus generates the encoded data with reference to a bit sequence of the written data, it detects a bit flipping error by comparing the bit sequence with the appended parity information. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA OF VIDEO CARD - A video card includes a mapping module to map data of the video card from a first video memory into a second video memory. The video card further includes a detection module to detect whether there is a non-working bit in the first video memory or in the second video memory. If there is the non-working bit, a position of the non-working bit is determined. When the non-working bit in the first video memory is accessed, the video card switches to a bit in the second video memory corresponding to the non-working bit. When the non-working bit in the second video memory is accessed, the video card switches to a bit in the first video memory corresponding to the non-working bit. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335434 | RENDERING GLOBAL LIGHT TRANSPORT IN REAL-TIME USING MACHINE LEARNING - Some implementations disclosed herein provide techniques and arrangements to render global light transport in real-time or near real-time. For example, in a pre-computation stage, a first computing device may render points of surfaces (e.g., using multiple light bounces and the like). Attributes for each of the points may be determined. A plurality of machine learning algorithms may be trained using particular attributes from the attributes. For example, a first machine learning algorithm may be trained using a first portion of the attributes and a second machine learning algorithm may be trained using a second portion of the attributes. The trained machine learning algorithms may be used by a second computing device to render components (e.g., diffuse and specular components) of indirect shading in real-time. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335435 | COLOR VISION DEFICIT CORRECTION - Embodiments related to improving a color-resolving ability of a user of a see-thru display device are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes, on a see-thru display device, constructing and displaying virtual imagery to superpose onto real imagery sighted by the user through the see-thru display device. The virtual imagery is configured to accentuate a locus of the real imagery of a color poorly distinguishable by the user. Such virtual imagery is then displayed by superposing it onto the real imagery, in registry with the real imagery, in a field of view of the user. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335436 | CASE DATA VISUALIZATION APPLICATION - A case data visualization application is provided that, when executed on a device, allows a user to visualize a chronology of events associated with a case, view a summary of one or more supporting details of an event, and drill-down to view specific case data of each supporting detail of an event. Thus, the case data visualization application provides a way of collecting, organizing, visualizing, and sharing data associated with a case. Furthermore, the case data visualization application allow a plurality of users to collaborate on the case, and synchronizes a plurality of supporting details created by a plurality of users that are associated with an event. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335437 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING AREAS OF TEXTURE OF PHYSICAL PRODUCT ON ELECTRONIC DISPLAY - Design images are inserted into scene rendered animations to depict and preview a design at different lighting angles. In an embodiment, the scene rendered animations use real images (i.e., photographs) of real finishes (such as foil, spot gloss, vinyl, etc.) that will be used in the secondary finish regions of a physical product incorporating the design. The animation facilitates an accurate rendering and depicts a natural appearance of the product as light moves across the product in an animated sequence. Because the appearance of the secondary finish is both natural and accurate, the simulated depiction of the product provides a more realistic expectation of how the final product with the design implemented thereon will look, thereby improving the matching of user expectations with the realities of the physical product. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335438 | LOCAL MULTISCALE TONE-MAPPING OPERATOR - Techniques are provided to apply local multiscale tone mapping to relatively high dynamic range images. A global ratio operator may be applied to luminance values derived from an input high dynamic range (HDR) image to generate a high resolution gray scale ratio image comprising luminance ratio values. A local multiscale gray scale ratio image that comprises a weighted combination of at least two different gray scale ratio images may be generated. Each of the at least two different gray ratio images may be of a different spatial resolution level. Ratio values in the local multiscale gray scale ratio image may be used together with the luminance values derived from the input HDR image to generate a tone-mapped gray scale image. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING COLOR GAMUT - A color gamut conversion system comprising a color gamut conversion function generator, a color gamut converter, and a scaler is disclosed. In some embodiments, the color gamut conversion function generator is configured to generate a color gamut conversion function for determining an intermediate color gamut located in a color space between a predetermined color gamut corresponding to a display panel of a display device and a standard color gamut, the color gamut converter is configured to receive input data supplied from an external image source and convert a color coordinate of the input data according to the generated color gamut conversion function and the scaler configured is to scale a value of the data converted by the color gamut converter, generate the value as output data, and transfer the output data. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335440 | DEFINING A MIDLET REGION SPACE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to MIDlet execution in a desktop environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for clip region definition for a MIDlet region space. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for clip region definition for a MIDlet region space can be provided. The method can include extracting a raster image from a MIDlet, computing a clip region from the extracted raster image for the MIDlet, deploying the MIDlet to a desktop environment through an emulator, and applying the clip region to the MIDlet through the emulator to deploy the MIDlet as a widgetized application in the desktop environment. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335441 | System and method for procucing parametric maps of optoacoustic data - A method is disclosed for creating and outputting a masked parametric map that reflects parameters in a first parametric map and second parametric map. First and second parametric maps are generated, and then a masked parametric map that reflects parameters in the first and second parametric maps is generated. The first parametric map may be based upon portions of two optoacoustic images created using differing wavelengths of light. The first parametric map is reflective of areas within the volume of tissue that have a differing response to the longer wavelength light event compared to the shorter one. The second parametric map is reflective of areas within the volume of tissue that have a stronger response to the longer and shorter wavelength light events than the surrounding areas. A masked parametric map is output which is reflective of a combination of information in the first and second parametric maps. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335442 | LOCAL RENDERING OF TEXT IN IMAGE - Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to enhancing the display of images comprising text on various computing device displays. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, on a computing device, a method of displaying an image, the method including receiving from a remote computing device image data representing a non-text portion of the image, receiving from the remote computing device unrendered text data representing a text portion of the image, rendering the unrendered text data based upon local contextual rendering information to form locally rendered text data, compositing the locally rendered text data and the image data to form a composited image, and providing the composited image to a display. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335443 | BUFFERS FOR DISPLAY ACCELERATION - Embodiments enable a graphics processor to more efficiently process graphics and compositing processing commands. In certain embodiments, a client application submits client graphics commands to a graphics driver. The client in certain embodiments can notify a window server that client graphics commands have been submitted. In response, the window server can generate compositing processing commands and provide these commands to the graphics driver. Advantageously, a graphics processor can execute the client graphics commands while the window server generates compositing processing commands. As a result, processing resource can be used more efficiently. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335444 | Mobile Communication Terminal and Method Therefore - Method in a mobile communications device, comprising: providing foreground picture data, providing background picture data, displaying the background and foreground picture data according to determined first positions and amounts on said display unit, receiving direction data, determining, based on the received direction data, a second position and amount of the background picture data and foreground picture data to display, respectively, wherein the relative change of position of the background picture data is different from the relative change of position of the foreground picture data. Also disclosed is a mobile communications device. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335445 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REALISTIC RENDERING OF DIGITAL OBJECTS IN AUGMENTED REALITY - A system and method of rendering in real time a virtual object onto a viewfinder display, the method comprising determining one or more scene properties of a scene on a viewfinder display of a device, receiving a virtual object for insertion into the scene, determining a location for placing the virtual object within the scene, determining a first appearance of the virtual object based on the one or more scene properties, and inserting the virtual object with the first appearance into the scene depicted on the viewfinder display of the device based on the location. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335446 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING LOCATION BASED IMAGES BASED ON A FIELD-OF-VIEW - An approach for enabling users to view an image of a location from different fields-of-view is described. A field-of-view generator causes a rendering of a user interface element representing a field-of-view. The field-of-view generator further processes one or more interactions with the user interface element to determine one or more parameters for specifying the field-of-view. The field-of-view generator further determines a portion of at least one panoramic image that is visible in the field-of-view based, at least in part, on the one or more parameters. Still further, the field-of-view generator causes a rendering of the portion of that at least one panoramic image | 2013-12-19 |
20130335447 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PLAYING REAL-TIME IMAGES IN A VIRTUAL REALITY - In a method for playing real-images in a virtual reality using an electronic device, the method generates a request for obtaining a real-time image of a scene and notifies a Virtual Reality(VR) client to send the request to a web sever to obtain the real-time image. The real-time image is cut into a sequence of static pictures by the web server, and is sent to the VR client through a network. The method triggers the VR client to play each of the sequence of static pictures to present the real-time image on a display screen of the electronic device. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335448 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENTS SERVICE, AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING VIDEO CONTENTS OF USER TERMINAL - Disclosed is a method of providing a video contents service including calculating conversion information indicating a relation between a projection area and an area corresponding to the projection area in order to project video contents on the area corresponding to the projection area which is a partial area within a prepared image in a user image photographed by a user terminal; and transmitting the calculated conversion information to the user terminal. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335449 | METHOD OF GENERATING ANTHROPMORPHIC VEHICLE IMAGES - A method of generating anthropomorphic vehicle images for a vehicle owner is shown that includes providing a plurality of anthropomorphic vehicle images on a visual display for a vehicle owner to select; receiving a selection of an anthropomorphic vehicle image from the vehicle owner using a wireless device; obtaining vehicle data using one or more vehicle sensors located on the vehicle; altering at least a portion of the selected anthropomorphic vehicle image based on the accessed vehicle data; and displaying the altered anthropomorphic vehicle image on a wireless device to the vehicle owner. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335450 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING IMAGES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An apparatus and method for changing a background image or a lock screen image in an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting a first screen image when a screen image change menu is selected, adjusting a size of the selected first screen image, disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image, and displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335451 | PROJECTOR, TRAPEZOIDAL DISTORTION CORRECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING TRAPEZOIDAL DISTORTION CORRECTION PROGRAM - A projector includes a projection unit to project an image on a screen; an angle detector to detect shaking of the projection unit; and a trapezoidal distortion correction unit to conduct automatic trapezoidal distortion correction of the image displayed on the screen based on an inclination angle of the projection unit detected by the angle detector, and to enable manual trapezoidal distortion correction of the image displayed on the screen. When the manual trapezoidal distortion correction is conducted after the automatic trapezoidal distortion correction, the trapezoidal distortion correction unit determines whether an angle deviation of the inclination angle exceeds for a given threshold angle for a given time period. When the trapezoidal distortion correction unit determines that the angle deviation exceeds the given threshold angle, the automatic trapezoidal distortion correction is conducted again. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335452 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALING VECTOR-BASED GRAPHIC DESIGNS - A method to scale a vector-based graphic design by a non-integer scaling factor. The relationships of control points of the vector-based graphic design, with respect to each other and with respect to the coordinate system of the workspace, are determined prior to rescaling the vector-based graphic design. Subsequent a multiplication of the coordinate values of the control points by the non-integer scaling factor to scale the original vector-based graphic design, the relationships of the control points, in the scaled vector-based graphic design, are determined and compared to the relationships of the control points in the original vector-based graphic design. Adjustments of the position of the control points in the scaled vector-based graphic design are effected to obtain, within a pre-determined tolerance, the same relationships. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335453 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus including: a display unit for displaying image data in a first display region of the display unit; a motion sensor for sensing a motion of a user; and a display controller for controlling the display unit to divide the first display region into a bezel display region and a second display region according to the motion of the user sensed by the motion sensor, for displaying variable bezel image data in the bezel display region, for scaling the image data so as to correspond to the second display region, and for displaying the scaled image data in the second display region. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335454 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRESENTING USER INTERFACE METAPHORS AS PHYSICAL CHANGES ON A SHAPE-CHANGING DEVICE - An electronic device having a user interface device that has a flexible surface, a haptic output device operatively coupled to the flexible surface and configured to cause a deformation of the flexible surface, and a controller in signal communication with the haptic output device. The controller is configured to trigger the haptic output device to cause the deformation of the flexible surface based on a simulated physical behavior of a virtual element represented on the user interface. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335455 | HEADS-UP SCROLLING - Methods, program products, and systems for heads-up scrolling are described. In heads-up scrolling, a scrolling control can be used to scroll through multiple data records in a database. When a slider of the scrolling control receives an input dragging the slider, a semitransparent window can be overlaid on content being displayed. The semitransparent window can have a user-specified layout for formatting one or more data fields of a data record. When the slider is dragged, the content being overlaid upon can remain static. Content in the semitransparent window can be updated to reflect content in a data record corresponding to a position of the slider. The content in the semitransparent window can be formatted according to the user-specified layout, which may be different from a format of the content under the semitransparent window. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335456 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A display device having pixels in a matrix where the pixels compose at least two drive blocks each including at least two pixel rows, includes a first signal line and a second signal line disposed in a pixel column direction. The first signal line is disposed in one of the left and right sides of the pixels of the corresponding column, and the second signal line is disposed in the other of the sides. Each of the pixels includes an organic EL element and a current control unit. Pixels in a kth drive block are connected to the first signal line via a first connecting line, and pixels in a (k+1)th drive block are connected to the second signal line via a second connecting line. The first signal line is disposed without crossing the second connecting line, and the second signal line is disposed without the first connecting line. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335457 | DISPLAY UNIT, IMAGE PROCESSING UNIT, AND DISPLAY METHOD - An image processing unit includes: a gain calculating section obtaining, based on first luminance information for each pixel, a first gain, in which the first gain is configured to increase with an increase in pixel luminance value in a range where the pixel luminance value is equal to or larger than a predetermined luminance value, and in which the pixel luminance value is derived from the first luminance information; and a determination section determining, based on the first luminance information and the first gain, second luminance information for each of the pixels. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335458 | IMAGE PROJECTION MODULE, MOBILE DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE PROJECTION MODULE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image projection module, a mobile device including the image projection module, and a method for operating the same are disclosed. A method for operating a mobile device including an image projection module includes splitting an input image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image in a three-dimensional (3D) image display mode, driving left-eye and right-eye light sources for outputting light having different wavelengths based on the left-eye image and the right-eye image, synthesizing light output from the left-eye light source and light output from the right-eye light source, and projecting the synthesized light in a first direction and then a second direction. Therefore, it is possible to conveniently display a three-dimensional (3D) image. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335459 | STEREOGRAPHIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND VEHICLE HEADLIGHT - A stereographic display apparatus and a vehicle headlight can include an optical modulator including a position sensor and a voltage supply. The position sensor can be configured to detect an inclined angle, and the voltage supply can be configured to apply a voltage to the optical modulator in accordance with the inclined angle output from the position sensor. The optical modulator can refract light at a refraction angle in accordance with the voltage output from the voltage supply. Therefore, when the optical modulator is incorporated into a stereographic display apparatus, the stereographic display apparatus can provide comfortable stereographic displays to viewers, even if it inclines due to hand movement and the like. A vehicle headlight incorporating the optical modulator can also form light distributions in a useful direction for drivers with a simple structure, even when it moves in various directions with reference to a road due to road conditions. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335460 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling the Refresh and Illumination of a Display - An apparatus, method and computer program are provided. The method includes detecting, at processing circuitry and illumination drive circuitry, at least one synchronization signal provided by display drive circuitry; writing display data to at least one frame memory using the processing circuitry, in dependence upon the at least one synchronization signal detected at the processing circuitry; and controlling at least one illumination source using the illumination drive circuitry, in dependence upon the at least one synchronization signal detected at the illumination drive circuitry | 2013-12-19 |
20130335461 | CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, ILLUMINATION CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a control device including an illumination control unit that controls an illumination device illuminating a non-display region of a light-shielding unit that includes a display region in which an image is displayed and the non-display region in which the image is not displayed and is designed to be disposed in a region covering a visual field of a user. The illumination control unit controls the illumination device according to display content of the display region. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335462 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING FILM-TYPE PATTERNED RETARDER - A stereoscopic image display apparatus having patterned retarder is described. The stereoscopic image display apparatus having patterned retarder includes an array substrate, a polarized plate and a film-type patterned retarder (FPR). The array substrate includes a gate driver, a source driver, a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of transistor control modules. Each pixel unit corresponds to first scan line, second scan line and third scan line respectively. Each of the pixel units includes at least two data lines wherein the first scan line, the second scan line and the third scan line are insulatedly interlaced with the at least two data lines. A polarized plate receives a light beam passing through the array substrate to generate a linear polarized light beam. A film-type patterned retarder disposed on the polarized plate receives the light beam passing through the array substrate for generating the three-dimensional image on the polarized glasses. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335463 | 2D/3D SWITCHABLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A 2D/3D switchable display device comprising a display module, an optical control module and a driving module is disclosed. The optical control module comprises a plurality of optical controlling elements. The display module is disposed opposite to the optical control module and thereby relative information is generated. The driving module provides a corresponding pixel data matrix to the display module based on the optical controlling elements and the relative information. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRINTING ON MULTIPLE DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE BY THE SAME PRINTING SYSTEM IN A CONVEYOR SYSTEM - A conveyance printing system and methods for printing articles of manufacture of different types and with different content is presented. Systems include a conveyance system configured to convey a plurality of trays, each having an associated identifier and each holding one or more articles of manufacture within the tray, and a printing system configured to receive a print tray from the conveyance system, receive a print job associated with the tray identifier, and print the associated print job simultaneously onto the respective print surfaces of the one or more articles of manufacture held by the tray. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335465 | INKJET PRINTER'S INK PROTECTION METHOD - The present invention relates to a kind of inkjet printer's ink protection method including: the developer generates a rechargeable code in accordance with the print head's nPL, total ink volume G | 2013-12-19 |
20130335466 | CONTINUOUS INK SUPPLY APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A continuous ink supply (CIS) apparatus, a CIS printer system and a method of CIS employ a one-way valve having a minimum negative activation pressure. The apparatus includes an off-axis ink supply to source liquid ink to a printhead of a printer. The one-way valve is positioned between the off-axis ink supply and the printhead. The minimum negative activation pressure at a printhead side of the one-way valve is at least enough to substantially precludes drooling from the printhead. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335467 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING PRINT TRAY POSITION RELATIVE TO PRINT HEAD NOZZLES - Systems and methods automatically adjust a distance between a target print area on a substrate to be printed and a plurality of print nozzles of one or more print heads in a printer to within a predetermined optimal distance. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335468 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD - A droplet discharge device having a droplet discharge head provided with a plurality of nozzles that discharge droplets; a plurality of pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles; and a plurality of pressure generating units for changing a capacity of each pressure chamber by applying a drive signal. The drive signal includes an expansion pulse and a contraction pulse, and the plurality of nozzles are divided into a plurality of groups each comprising one or more nozzles. A drive voltage value of the expansion pulse is set to be common to the respective groups. The drive signal which has a drive voltage value of the contraction pulse independently set in accordance with a droplet speed level for each group is applied to the droplet discharge head, and the droplets are discharged. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335469 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an inkjet head which has nozzle rows having nozzles each of which ejects curable inks cured by imparted activation energy and which are arranged in a first direction at a pitch P, the nozzle rows being N (N≧5) nozzle rows of every color which eject, respectively, thick inks of four colors including cyan, magenta, yellow and black, and at least one light ink among light inks similar in color tone to the thick inks, the nozzles in each of the nozzle rows are arranged so as to be shifted by P/N from each other in a first direction, a nozzle of an ink with lowest cure sensitivity is arranged on the most upstream side in a direction of relative movement of a recording medium in the first direction, and further the nozzle of light ink is arranged in between the nozzles of two different thick inks. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335470 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - Included are: a storage unit configured to store profile data in which the amount of landing deviation and the ejection frequency representing the number of ejections of ink droplets per unit time are associated with each other; a correction judgment unit configured to determine whether to allow ejection timing control in print processing by selecting 30 dots as a unit line in an image, adding up a total volume of ink ejected to the unit line, and comparing the total volume of ejected ink with a predetermined threshold; and an ejection control unit configured to obtain the ejection frequency for ejecting ink at a predetermined time interval, from the total volume of ink ejected in the unit line, calculate the amount of landing deviation from the ejection frequency, and control the ejection timing in accordance with the calculated amount of landing deviation. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335471 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - One aspect of this invention is directed to suitable drive control in accordance with an output from the temperature sensor of a printhead. More specifically, a printing apparatus by using a printhead that includes heaters and a temperature sensor on a substrate and discharges ink by driving the heaters executes the following steps. First, when printing a test pattern by using a predetermined driving pulse in a maintenance mode, a detected temperature is stored as a reference temperature in a memory. Then, in a normal printing mode, the difference between a detected temperature and the stored reference temperature is calculated, and a driving pulse for driving the printhead is selected from a plurality of driving pulses based on the difference. The printhead is controlled to be driven using the selected driving pulse and print. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335472 | CONCURRENTLY DIGITALLY PRINTING/MARKING AN IMAGE WITH A CIRCUIT - In one version, variable data digital printing where certain record images are selected from a database and user designated variable data is entered into the selected record images creating personalized images. Data tags are inserted into the personalized images which are stored. The stored personalized images are scanned for specified tags; and, the results of the scan identified to the user for verification of accuracy. Provision is made for image display and correction, and inputs may be entered from a user interface prior to printing. Another version provides for supplying heated individual colorant resin to printheads for printing on print media. Heated conductive resin is supplied to a separate printhead for concurrently printing continuously conductive resin as a circuit having discrete information therein with the printed image thus forming a concurrently printed RFID tag. In another version, heated electrolyte substrate is printed with the image and separately conductive resin is printed on the substrate as a pair of electrodes to form a battery circuit. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335473 | System and Method for Printing Full-Color Composite Images in an Inkjet Printer - An inkjet printer includes a plurality of color separation modules. Each color separation module includes an image receiving member and a printhead module configured to eject ink drops onto the image receiving member to form a color separation on the image receiving member. The printer is configured to transfix each color separation on each image receiving member to a single sheet to produce a composite ink image on the print medium after the print medium has passed by all of the color separation modules in the printer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335474 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus for forming an image with a plurality of recording element arrays, grouped together on a plurality of recording heads, on a same area of a recording medium. The image processing apparatus sets recording data of each of the recording element arrays from input image data, and a halftone processing unit generates halftone image data to be recorded by each of the recording element arrays by performing halftone processing on the recording data of each of the recording element arrays, which is set by the setting unit. Halftone image data pieces corresponding to at least a pair of recording element arrays located on a same recording head are in phase with each other in a wider frequency band than halftone image data pieces corresponding to at least a pair of recording element arrays located on different recording heads. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335475 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention sets a printing condition, which specifies a condition for permitting printing using a sheet, for that sheet in accordance with an instruction from a user. The printing apparatus then decides on a sheet feed tray, from a plurality of sheet feed units, for which printing using the sheet contained in the sheet feed unit is permitted, as a sheet feed source, based on the printing condition and printing settings including a setting regarding the sheet feed source for the sheet to be used in a print job. Furthermore, the printing apparatus executes the print job using the sheet contained in the sheet feed tray that has been decided on. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEMPERATURE UNIFORMITY OF IMAGE DRUMS - A printer includes an image drum temperature regulation system that helps reduce thermal gradients on the image drum surface. The image drum temperature regulation system includes a feedback controller and a feed-forward controller. The image drum temperature regulation system operates the heaters and fan of the image drum with reference to a temperature difference between actual temperature of the image drum and a temperature setpoint and to the thermal effect of ejecting an ink image onto the image drum. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335477 | Phase Change Magnetic Ink And Process For Preparing Same - An in situ process for preparing a phase change magnetic ink including heating a phase change ink composition to a first temperature sufficient to provide a melt composition; wherein the phase change ink composition comprises a carrier, an optional colorant, and an optional dispersant; placing the melt composition under inert atmosphere; heating the melt composition to a second temperature sufficient to effect decomposition of a metal carbonyl; adding the metal carbonyl to the melt composition under inert atmosphere at this second temperature to form metal nanoparticles thus forming in situ a phase change magnetic ink including the metal nanoparticles; optionally, filtering the phase change magnetic ink while in a liquid state; and cooling the phase change magnetic ink to a solid state. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335478 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A liquid ejection device includes a first rolled medium accommodation unit, a second rolled medium accommodation unit and a liquid ejection head. The first rolled medium accommodation unit is configured to accommodate a rolled medium. The second rolled medium accommodation unit is configured to accommodate the rolled medium, the second rolled medium accommodation unit being movable. The liquid ejection head is configured to eject an ink as a liquid onto a medium supplied by unwound from the rolled medium accommodated in one of the first rolled medium accommodation unit and the second rolled medium accommodation unit. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335479 | ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE INKJET INK, AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - The active ray-curable inkjet ink comprises a gelling agent, photopolymerizable compounds and a photoinitiator, and reversibly transitions into a sol-gel phase according to the temperature. Therein: (1) a (meth)acrylate compound having a molecular weight of 300-1,500 and having 3.44 (—CH | 2013-12-19 |
20130335480 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer has a nozzle cap that keeps the nozzle surface of the inkjet head moisturized, and can keep the nozzle cap moist by means of a simple mechanism. A check processing device incorporating the inkjet printer has an inkjet head, a nozzle cap that covers the nozzle surface of the inkjet head and keeps the nozzle surface moist, and a shutter that closes the open part of the nozzle cap to keep the inside of the nozzle cap moist. When the nozzle surface of the inkjet head is not capped, a moisture retention state in which moisture inside the nozzle cap is prevented from evaporating can be held by the shutter covering the open part of the nozzle cap. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335481 | INK CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form an image and an ink cartridge that includes a deformable ink supply bag having an ink supply port; a deformable waste ink collection bag having a fluid gateway; and a cartridge housing to accommodate the deformable ink supply bag and the deformable waste ink collection bag at the same time. A connecting member having a non-return valve is provided to connect the deformable ink supply bag and the deformable waste ink collection bag with each other at a section other than the ink supply port and the fluid gateway. The non-return valve prevents ink from flowing from the waste ink collection bag into the ink supply bag. A non-return valve control mechanism is provided not to operate the non-return valve in an initial state in which the ink supply bag is initially filled with ink. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335482 | PRINTING APPARATUS WITH ADJUSTING MEMBER - A printing apparatus includes a mounting plate, a driving module attached to the mounting plate, a driven module secured to the mounting plate, an endless belt connecting the driving module and the driven module, a resisting member slidably engaged with the driven module, and an adjusting member rotatably secured to the mounting plate and pressing the resisting member on the driven module. The adjusting member can be loosened and tightened. When the adjusting member is loosened, the driven module is movable relative to the mounting plate along a first direction by urging of the endless belt. When the adjusting member is tightened, the driven module is still movable relative to the mounting plate along a second direction opposite to the first direction, by pressure from the resisting member. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335483 | INKJET PRINT HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An inkjet print head includes a jet assembly which includes a nozzle plate, the nozzle plate including an ink transferring path on a bottom surface of the nozzle plate, and a jet jetting a transferred ink out of the head. A printed circuit substrate is connected to the jet assembly and includes an integrated circuit and a connection electrode. A barrier coating layer covers a surface of the printed circuit substrate and an inner surface and an outer surface of the jet assembly except a bottom surface of the nozzle plate and a surface of the connection electrode of the jet assembly and the printed circuit substrate being connected with each other. The barrier coating layer has a layered structure which includes a flexible layer, a diffusion barrier layer, and a hydrophobic layer. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335484 | LASER WELDED BONDING PADS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC PRINT HEADS - An ink jet print head can be formed using a laser to melt a plating layer interposed between a piezoelectric actuator and a circuit layer bump. The plating layer can be formed on the circuit layer bump, the piezoelectric actuator, or both, and a laser beam output by the laser is used to melt the plating layer to provide a laser weld. In another embodiment, the circuit layer bump or the trace itself functions as the plating layer, which is melted using a laser to provide the laser weld. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335485 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head that includes a fluid channel formation substrate and pressure generation units. The fluid channel formation substrate is made of a silicon single crystal substrate having a crystal face orientation of. The fluid channel formation substrate has a plurality of separate flow channels that include at least pressure generation chambers demarcated by partition walls, each of the pressure generation chambers being in communication with a nozzle opening that ejects liquid drops. The fluid channel formation substrate further has a communication portion that is in communication with each of the separate flow channels. The pressure generation units are provided so as to correspond to the pressure generation chambers and generate a pressure change in the pressure generation chambers so as to cause ejection of liquid drops. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335486 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, AND RECORDING DEVICE - A piezoelectric actuator has a satisfactory electrical connection of a common electrode and a surface electrode without increasing the size of the piezoelectric actuator, as well as a liquid discharge head and a recording device. The piezoelectric actuator includes: a ceramic substrate which is long in one direction and includes a vibrating plate, a common electrode disposed on the vibrating plate and a piezoelectric ceramic layer disposed on the common electrode and having a plurality of first through holes connected to the common electrode; a plurality of individual electrodes disposed in a region of the piezoelectric ceramic layer opposed to the common electrode; and a plurality of first surface electrodes respectively disposed inside a plurality of the first through holes in the piezoelectric ceramic layer and on a circumference of a plurality of the first through holes. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335487 | SHEAR MODE PHYSICAL DEFORMATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC MECHANISM - A piezoelectric mechanism includes first and second electrodes and a thin film sheet of piezoelectric material. The second electrode is interdigitated in relation to the first electrode. The first and the second electrodes are embedded within the thin film sheet. The thin film sheet is polarized in a direction at least substantially perpendicular to a surface of the thin film sheet. The thin film sheet is to physically deform in a shear mode due to polarization of the thin film sheet at least substantially perpendicular to the surface of the thin film sheet, responsive to an electric field induced within the thin film sheet at least substantially parallel to the sheet via application of a voltage across the first and the second electrodes. | 2013-12-19 |
20130335488 | PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL, PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, ULTRASONIC MOTOR, AND DUST REMOVING DEVICE - Provided is a piezoelectric material which has satisfactory insulation property and piezoelectric property and which does not contain lead and potassium. The piezoelectric material includes a perovskite-type metal oxide that is represented by the following general formula (1): | 2013-12-19 |
20130335489 | DIRECTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE OF TRAJECTORIES OF DROPS ISSUING FROM LIQUID JET, ASSOCIATED ELECTROSTATIC SENSOR, PRINT HEAD AND CONTINUOUS INK JET PRINTER - Systems and methods for detection of the directivity of trajectories of charged drops issuing from a jet are disclosed. According to one aspect, an electrostatic sensor is disclosed which includes a flat functional surface. The electrostatic sensor is configured to function in a non-differential manner and has a geometric shape and arrangement that are substantially aligned relative to a nominal trajectory of drops. A trajectory of drops can be followed at the same time in a plane parallel to the flat surface of the sensor and in a plane perpendicular to the flat surface of the sensor. As a result, it can be verified whether a drop is present or remains in a predefined monitoring zone. According to another aspect, a method of controlling trajectories of drops in a print head having a continuous deflected jet, and a method of monitoring the effective recovery by the gutter of drops not intended for printing are disclose | 2013-12-19 |
20130335490 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - Provided is an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in ozone resistance, hardly causes blurring or color change even in a high-humidity environment, and is excellent in humidity resistance. The ink includes a coloring material and a lithium ion. The coloring material includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) and a content of the lithium ion in the ink is 3.5 times or more in terms of molar ratio with respect to a content of the compound represented by the general formula (I). | 2013-12-19 |