04th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140022148 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel and a data driver. The display panel includes at least one gate line, at least two data lines, a display area including a pixel connected to the at least one gate line and the at least two data lines, and a peripheral area outside the display area, the peripheral area including a pair of fan-out wiring structures. The data driver is configured to apply data voltage to the at least two data lines. Each of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes a bent structure, the bent structure of one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least one gate line, and the bent structure of the remaining one of the pair of fan-out wiring structures includes the same material as the at least two data lines. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022149 | DC-DC CONVERTER AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - There are disclosed a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same. The DC-DC converter includes a first voltage generator that has an inductor and a plurality of transistors, and converts an input voltage into a first voltage and outputs the first voltage to a first output terminal. The DC-DC converter also includes a controller that controls driving of the first voltage generator by supplying a first driving pulse to each transistor of the first voltage generator. In the DC-DC converter, the amplitude of the first driving pulse is adjustable. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same, which can achieve high power conversion efficiency by change a driving pulse used in a DC-DC converter. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022150 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND PIXEL CIRCUIT THEREOF - An OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display device and a pixel circuit thereof are disclosed. In a pixel circuit, a driving transistor driving an OLED is controlled for a reset operation and a compensation of the pixel circuit, by which a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is memorized on a control terminal of the driving transistor. In the compensation operation, a connection node between the driving transistor and the OLED is specially controlled. A switch circuit is provided in the pixel circuit. Based on a control signal, the switch circuit couples the connection node to a control voltage level. An enable interval of the control signal covers an enable interval of the reset operation and an enable interval of the compensation operation. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022151 | Wireless Control for Configurable Organic LED (OLED) - A mobile controller application for wirelessly controlling the non-structural appearance of a configurable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) object. A configurable OLED object is fitted with a flexible OLED, a power source, and one or more receptors. A mobile controller application instructs a mobile controller device to send signals, indicating a particular color or display pattern, to one or more receptors embedded in a configurable OLED object. An OLED object receives signals and updates it's non-structural display accordingly. A mobile controller application operates on a mobile controller device. A mobile controller device is preferably a mobile device conventionally used for cell network communication. A mobile controller application enables a user to preview, select, and transmit a display pattern to a configurable OLED object. The inventive mobile controller application also enables a user to store, browse, edit, search, import, export, and categorize display options, which are maintained in a local image database. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022152 | PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUITS, PIXEL DRIVING METHODS, DISPLAY PANELS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A pixel driving circuit is provided, including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth switching devices and first and second capacitors. The first switching device has a first terminal coupled to a first power source voltage, and a control terminal coupled to a first scan signal line. The second switching device has a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to a first node and an emitting device, and a control terminal coupled to a second node. The third switching device has a first terminal coupled between the first terminal of the second switching device and a second terminal of the first switching device, a second terminal coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to a second scan signal line. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022153 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device that can reduce picture quality deterioration due to a kickback voltage and can accurately detect a kickback voltage is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a detector configured to generate a kickback voltage detection signal, a detection line for supplying the kickback voltage detection signal, and a ground pattern along and adjacent to one side of the detection line; and a common voltage generator connected to the detection line and configured to generate a common voltage corresponding to the kickback voltage detection signal and to supply the generated common voltage to the liquid crystal panel. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022154 | Liquid Crystal Display Device And Method Of Driving The Same - A liquid crystal display device with low power consumption is provided by using a driver circuit and a pixel that have novel circuit structures. In a liquid crystal display device using n (n is a natural number and satisfies n≧2) bit digital video signals to display an image, n×m (m is a natural number) memory circuits and n×k (k is a natural number) non-volatile memory circuits are provided in each pixel, thereby giving the device a function of storing m frames of digital video signals in the memory circuits and a function of storing k frames of digital video signals in the non-volatile memory circuits. Once stored in the memory circuits, the digital video signals are repeatedly read out for every new frame to display a still image, so that driving of a source signal line driver circuit can be stopped during still image display. Moreover, digital video signals stored in the non-volatile memory circuits are kept stored after power supply is shut off and hence the image of the stored data can immediately be displayed next time the display device is turned on. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022155 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device includes a pixel portion to which a non-inverted video signal is input in a first period and an inverted video signal is input in a second period, and a signal line driver circuit comprising a switch circuit portion for controlling output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion. The switch circuit portion is controlled by a first signal serving as a first high power supply potential and a first low power supply potential in the first period and is controlled by a second signal serving as a second high power supply potential and a second low power supply potential in the second period, so that the switch circuit portion controls output of the non-inverted video signal and the inverted video signal to the pixel portion. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022156 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An LCD device is disclosed which includes: at least one sensor module configured to sense an amount of external light; a liquid crystal display panel configured to display images; at least one light source module disposed under the liquid crystal display panel and configured to emit light; and at least one light guide plate configured to convert light from the at least one light source module into two-dimensional light and apply two-dimensional light to the liquid crystal display panel. The at least one light source module includes infrared LEDs and visible LEDs which are selectively driven according to a sensed light quantity sensed by the at least one sensor module and allow infrared light and visible light to be selectively emitted. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022157 | METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A method and display apparatus for providing content are provided. The method for providing content includes displaying a content UI in which a plurality of content is included, detecting an area at which a user gazes in the content UI, determining a preference for gaze content that is present in the area at which the user gazes by measuring user's brainwaves, and providing the content UI based on the determined preference. The user can be provided with the content UI that is configured more intuitively and conveniently according to the user preference. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022158 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION MODE OF DEVICE USING GESTURE RECOGNITION - An apparatus and method for controlling an operation mode of a device using gesture recognition using temporal change of light intensity. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022159 | DISPLAY APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF DISPLAYS - A display apparatus control system and a method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of display apparatuses are provided. The method of controlling a plurality of display apparatuses includes capturing a region at which a user is located, generating a user-captured image, determining which display apparatus the user is looking at from among the plurality of display apparatuses, based on the user-captured image, and determining the determined display apparatus to be a control target display apparatus, and transmitting a control signal which corresponds to a user's command to be the control target display apparatus when the user's command is input. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH A COMPUTING DEVICE - One or more computing devices may detect the presence of a user, determine default communication mode for communicating with the user, use the default communication mode to elicit a communicative gesture from the user, receive a signal identifying at least one communicative gesture from the user, and convert the identified communicative gestures into a command. The default communication mode may be based on the identity of the user. Alternatively, the default communication mode can be determined by using a first mode of communication to prompt the user to make a mode-selection gesture, and if a mode-selection gesture is detected from the user within a threshold period of time, setting the first mode of communication as the default communication mode. Otherwise, if no mode-selection gesture is detected within a threshold period of time, using an alternative mode of communication to prompt the user to make a mode-selection gesture. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022161 | HUMAN TRACKING SYSTEM - An image such as a depth image of a scene may be received, observed, or captured by a device. A grid of voxels may then be generated based on the depth image such that the depth image may be downsampled. A background included in the grid of voxels may also be removed to isolate one or more voxels associated with a foreground object such as a human target. A location or position of one or more extremities of the isolated human target may be determined and a model may be adjusted based on the location or position of the one or more extremities. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022162 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELICITING CUTANEOUS SENSATIONS BY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION - The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for inducing cutaneous sensations by delivering electromagnetic radiation to directly or indirectly excite neural tissue. An electromagnetic radiation source, such as one or more infrared lasers, may be used to transcutaneously excite neural tissue. The excited neural tissue may be interpreted by the user's nervous system as cutaneous sensations. Accordingly, a system as described herein may be used to induce sensations to allow actual cutaneous sensations to be simulated. A system for inducing a cutaneous sensation via transcutaneously focused electromagnetic radiation may be incorporated in a display to provide cutaneous sensation feedback or used as a separate accessory component associated with a display. Numerous additional applications and variations are provided herein. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022163 | WEARABLE DEVICE WITH INPUT AND OUTPUT STRUCTURES - An electronic device including a frame configured to be worn on the head of a user is disclosed. The frame can include a bridge configured to be supported on the nose of the user and a brow portion coupled to and extending away from the bridge and configured to be positioned over a side of a brow of the user. The frame can further include an arm coupled to the brow portion and extending to a free end. The first arm can be positionable over a temple of the user with the free end disposed near an ear of the user. The device can also include a transparent display affixed to the frame adjacent the brow portion and an input affixed to the frame and configured for receiving from the user an input associated with a function. Information related to the function can be presentable on the display. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022164 | REAL TIME HAND TRACKING, POSE CLASSIFICATION, AND INTERFACE CONTROL - A hand gesture from a camera input is detected using an image processing module of a consumer electronics device. The detected hand gesture is identified from a vocabulary of hand gestures. The electronics device is controlled in response to the identified hand gesture. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022165 | TOUCHLESS TEXT AND GRAPHIC INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a method for a user to type text on a computer screen using wireless actuators attached to the user's fingers. The image of a virtual keyboard and the user's virtual fingers appears on the computer screen. As the user moves his fingers the virtual fingers on screen moves accordingly aiding the user to type. The actuators transmit symbol information to the computer indicative of a key virtually struck on the virtual keyboard by the user's fingers. Text appears on screen. Virtual typing emulates typing on a physical keyboard. In other embodiments the actuators are coupled to other parts of the body for virtual typing. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022166 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an image display apparatus includes displaying an image of specific content, receiving a wheel input from an input device, moving a screen or an object within the screen according to the wheel input, and displaying the moved screen or object. A distance for which the screen or the object within the screen moves according to the wheel input is changed based on the displayed content. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022167 | PROJECTION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION METHOD - A projection apparatus includes: a position detecting unit that detects a position of a pointer indicated by a pointing device on a projection surface; a calculating unit that calculates a characteristic value that represents characteristics of move of the pointer from positions detected by the position detecting unit in a predetermined period; a determining unit that determines whether or not the calculated characteristic value is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value; and an image generating unit that, when the characteristic value is determined to be smaller than the predetermined threshold value, generates an image to be projected by enlarging a region containing and surrounding the pointer. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022168 | REMOTE DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD OF INTERACTIVE SYSTEM - A remote device includes an image sensor, a readout circuit and a processing unit. The image sensor successively captures a first image and a second image containing at least one reference beacon image. The readout circuit is configured to read first image data of the first image and second image data of the second image from the image sensor. The processing unit is configured to calculate an image feature of the at least one reference beacon image according to the first image data and control the readout circuit to only read the second image data of a range of interest in the second image according to the image feature. There is further provided a power saving method of an interactive system. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022169 | Method and apparatus for graphical user interface interaction on a domed display - A graphical user interface is implemented as a human interface device which can directly sense where on a domed screen a user is pointing. The human interface device can be an optical pointing device which emits a beam of light, preferably produced using a laser, which can be tracked by a camera appropriately located inside the dome. As an alternative, the human interface device can be a hand held device capable of tracking position and orientation. Data produced by the human interface device is then detected and mapped to the location for a corresponding cursor. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022170 | LIGHT CURTAIN AND AN INPUT APPARATUS BASED THEREON FOR A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A light curtain having a light source which emits a light beam which propagates in an area to be monitored by the light curtain and then strikes an optical detector surface. The area to be monitored is arranged in the vicinity of a translucent disc and is oriented parallel to the latter. The light source and detector surface are arranged on that side of the disc which faces away from the area to be monitored. The path of the light beam from the light source to the detector surface runs twice through the plane of the disc and via two mirrors arranged on the edge of the area to be monitored. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL SYSTEM USING A REMOTE DEVICE WITH A DEPTH SENSOR - A system and method for implementing a remote controlled user interface using close range object tracking are described. Close range depth images of a user's hands and fingers or other objects are acquired using a depth sensor. Using depth image data obtained from the depth sensor, movements of the user's hands and fingers or other objects are identified and tracked. The tracking data is transmitted to an external control device, thus permitting the user to interact with an object displayed on a screen controlled by the external control device, through movements of the user's hands and fingers. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022172 | GESTURE INPUT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A gesture input system with a two-dimension (2D) image sensor and a processing module is provided. The 2D image sensor obtains a plurality of images of a user. The processing module determines positions of an object and a face of the user in a first image of the plurality of images, and determines an operation area for the user according to the positions of the object and the face. Also, the processing module generates a control command according to the subsequent images to the first image of the user within the operation area. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022173 | COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE WITH SWITCHABLE OPERATION MODES AND MODE SWITCHING METHOD THEREOF - A computer input device with switchable operation modes includes a body, a printed-circuit-board (PCB), a processor, and two switches. Two function buttons are disposed on the body to be pressed to move back and forth; the PCB is disposed in the body; the processor and the switches are disposed on the PCB and electrically connected with each other. The processor outputs control signals corresponding to a first operation mode or a second operation mode to a computer. While the switches are respectively triggered by the pressing of the function buttons, triggering signals are transmitted to the processor simultaneously, so that the processor switches the first operation mode to the second operation mode; or the processor switches the second operation mode to the first operation mode. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022174 | EXTERNAL KEYBOARD AND SHEATH OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An external keyboard of an electronic device having a capacitive touch screen and a connector socket is provided. The external keyboard includes a keyboard body and a plurality of physical buttons. The keyboard body is for being disposed on the capacitive touch screen and includes a connector connected to the connector socket. Each physical button has a trigger portion, and a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other, and the trigger portion is disposed between the top surface and the bottom surface. The physical buttons are disposed in the keyboard body at intervals. When a distance between the trigger portion and the capacitive touch screen is less than a trigger interval, capacitance of a region of the capacitive touch screen corresponding to the trigger portion is changed by the trigger portion to generate a touch signal. Furthermore, a sheath of an electronic device is also provided. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022175 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - An information processing method for a touch screen device includes in response to contact of a user's finger with a touch screen of the touch screen device, identifying the finger contacting the touch screen; determining key(s) corresponding to the identified finger based on set correspondence relationship(s) between the finger(s) and the key(s); and displaying at least one character represented by the key(s) corresponding to the identified finger. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022176 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - An information processing method for a touch screen device includes in response to contact of a user's finger with a touch screen of the touch screen device, identifying the finger contacting the touch screen; determining key(s) corresponding to the identified finger based on set correspondence relationship(s) between the finger(s) and the key(s); and displaying at least one character represented by the key(s) corresponding to the identified finger. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022177 | Input Device Configuration having Capacitive and Pressure Sensors - Input device configurations are described. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a sensor substrate having one or more conductors and a flexible contact layer spaced apart from the sensor substrate. The flexible contact layer is configured to flex to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input of a computing device. The flexible contact layer includes a force concentrator pad that is configured to cause pressure to be channeled through the force concentrator pad to cause the flexible contact layer to contact the sensor substrate to initiate the input. In one or more implementations, an input device includes a capacitive sensor assembly arranged in an array that is configured to detect a location of an object that is proximal to a respective capacitive sensor of the capacitive sensor assembly and a pressure sensitive sensor assembly including a plurality of pressure sensitive sensor nodes that are configured to detect an amount of pressure applied by the object against a respective pressure sensitive sensor node of the pressure sensitive sensor assembly. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022178 | FLIPPING MECHANISM FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A mobile electronic device including a first auxiliary section, a main screen section having a display screen, a second auxiliary section having a user input device, and a back section having a microprocessor and a battery. In a first state, the mobile electronic device includes the first auxiliary section and the main screen section on a first side of the device, and the second auxiliary section and the back section on a second side of the device, the first side and the second side being disposed on opposite sides of the mobile electronic device. In a second state, the mobile electronic device includes the second auxiliary section and the main screen section on the first side, and the first auxiliary section and the back section on the second side. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022179 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING KEYPAD VIA VARIOUS TYPES OF GESTURES - A system and method of receiving various types of gestures and displays corresponding keypads on the mobile device are provided. The method includes receiving a keypad calling command, and arranging and displaying one or more keypad blocks on the screen of the mobile device, according to a track of the keypad calling command. The keypad display system includes an input unit for receiving a user's input, and a controller for determining whether the user's input is a keypad calling command, and for arranging and displaying one or more keypad blocks on the screen, according to a track of the keypad calling command. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022180 | Method for Inputting and Searching Chinese Characters with Easy-Strokes - Disclosed is a method for inputting and searching Chinese characters with Easy-Strokes, wherein the complex strokes of Chinese characters are broken down into simple strokes without any angle (or vertex) and a said simple stroke is identified as an Easy-Stroke. The feature information of Easy-Strokes for a Chinese character consists of the total stroke number of Easy-Strokes, the stroke types of Easy-Strokes, the stroke types of Easy-Strokes at the special locations of a character, and the stroke numbers of different types of Easy-Strokes. A correspondence is established between the feature information of Easy-Strokes and the corresponding input components on a device to implement the input of Chinese characters. A Chinese character database is established according to the feature information of Easy-Strokes to implement the search of Chinese characters. The present invention simplifies complex strokes of Chinese characters and enables users to easily input Chinese characters without memorizing a large number of complex rules, and basic knowledge of mapping between keyboard codes and root characters. In addition, its operation is simple and convenient because users may choose to input the feature information of Easy-Strokes for a Chinese character in any sequence and combination. Thus, both Chinese and non-Chinese can easily adopt the method. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022181 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Enabling User Input - An apparatus, method and computer program where the apparatus: includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program instructions; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, enable the apparatus to: determine fluctuations in a signal provided by a capacitive sensor of a touch pad; wherein if the fluctuations are below a threshold the processor is configured to determine that an object is touching the touch pad. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022182 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROGRAMMABLE BUTTON ON BEZEL OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A terminal and a method for a programmable button on a bezel of the terminal are provided. For a mobile terminal comprising a touch sensor, a first display and at least one second display disposed at the bezel, the bezel at least partially surrounding the first display, the method includes mapping an object displayed on the first display to a button on the at least one second display, displaying the button on the at least one second display, and when the displayed button is actuated, performing an action corresponding to the object. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022183 | SENDING AND RECEIVING INFORMATION - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for sending information from a first computer to a second computer. The first computer may comprise a gesture module, a device-detection module, and a transmission module. The method may comprise receiving, by the gesture module, an input. The input may specify the information that is to be sent and a direction relative to the first computer. The input may have been generated by a user of the first computer performing a gesture. Using the specified direction, the device-detection module may then identify the second computer. The second computer may be located relative to the first computer substantially in the specified direction. The specified information may then be sent, by the transmission module, to the second computer. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022184 | SPEECH AND GESTURE RECOGNITION ENHANCEMENT - The recognition of user input to a computing device is enhanced. The user input is either speech, or handwriting data input by the user making screen-contacting gestures, or a combination of one or more prescribed words that are spoken by the user and one or more prescribed screen-contacting gestures that are made by the user, or a combination of one or more prescribed words that are spoken by the user and one or more prescribed non-screen-contacting gestures that are made by the user. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022185 | INTERFACE AND SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD BETWEEN TOUCH CONTROLLER AND DISPLAY DRIVER FOR OPERATION WITH TOUCH INTEGRATED DISPLAYS - Apparatuses and methods of synchronizing a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) and a touch screen controller (TSC) integrated circuit that are coupled to a display integrated touch panel, such as an in-cell panel, and allowing multi-phase transmit (TX) scanning of the in-cell touch panel. One apparatus includes a DDI configured to receive signals on a video interface from a host processor over a video interface and to drive electrodes of a touch panel. The DDI is configured to receive control signals from a TSC over a control interface to drive different transmit (TX) phase sequences of a TX signal in different sensing interval on the electrodes of the touch panel. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022186 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL, TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch screen panel includes a driving line including a plurality of touch driving units, a sensing line substantially parallel to the driving line and which includes a plurality of touch sensing units, a first driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a first touch pulse to one of an even-numbered touch driving unit and an odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units, a second driving router disposed adjacent to the driving line and which transmits a second touch pulse to the other of the even-numbered touch driving unit and the odd-numbered touch driving unit of the touch driving units and a plurality of sensing routers connected to each of the touch sensing units and which receives a sensing signal from the touch sensing units. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022187 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN SENSING FUNCTION - A display device including a plurality of pixels at a display region of a first substrate, and an electromagnetic resonance (EMR) sensor unit at one surface of the first substrate, the EMR sensor unit including a first group of coils and a second group of coils, the first group of coils and the second group of coils being laminated, wherein the EMR sensor unit is beneath the plurality of pixels. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022188 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch screen panel includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, a driver for supplying a driving signal to the driving electrodes in a touch recognizing mode, and a controller for receiving signals from the sensing electrodes. In a noise measuring mode, the controller is configured to cut off an electrical connection between one of the driving electrodes and the driver or between one of the sensing electrodes and the controller, maintain an electrical connection between another one of the sensing electrodes and the controller, and detect a noise signal from the other one of the sensing electrodes. The touch screen panel and a driving method of the touch screen panel can increase or maximize the reception sensitivity of outside noise. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022189 | TOUCH INPUT SURFACE SPEAKER - Processing an audio signal is disclosed. A source audio signal to be rendered by a touch input medium is received. An indication of an event where the touch input medium has been contacted at a location on the touch input medium such that rendering of the source audio signal by the touch input medium is affected by the contact is received. At least a portion of the source audio signal is modified based on an expected effect of the contact on the touch input medium determined using the indication of the detector. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022190 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022191 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THE SAME - A touch screen panel, which may be included in a display device, is capable of removing influence due to static electricity applied from the outside by forming a guard ring pattern at an edge of one surface of a window substrate and by implementing a connection part electrically connected to the guard ring pattern so as to directly contact a bezel supporting the touch screen panel. The touch screen panel includes: a transparent substrate divided into an active area and a non-active area positioned at an outside portion of the active area; sensing patterns formed in the active area of a first surface of the transparent substrate; sensing lines formed in the non-active area of the first surface of the transparent substrate and connected to the sensing patterns; and a window substrate provided with a guard ring pattern attached to a second surface of the transparent substrate and formed at an edge of a surface thereof attached to the transparent substrate, and at least one connection part extended from one side of the guard ring pattern. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022192 | MOBILE CLIENT DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND OPERATION SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that detects an input operation to a touch panel based on an output of the touch panel; creates an operation command to change content displayed on a display apparatus based on a detected input operation to the touch panel; and controls a wireless interface to transmit the operation command to the display apparatus controlling the display apparatus to change the content displayed on the display apparatus. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022193 | METHOD OF EXECUTING FUNCTIONS OF A TERMINAL INCLUDING PEN RECOGNITION PANEL AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE METHOD - Disclosed are a method of executing a function of a terminal and a terminal supporting the method. The method includes identifying a position of a touch pen on the pen recognition panel; and defining a non-effective area and an effective-area for a touch input event of a touch panel aligned with the pen recognition panel based on the position of the touch pen. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022194 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus detects a touched point where an operation screen has been touched, and when the number of touched points detected has decreased to one point, recognize an input based on one detected touched point as a single-touch operation by using a condition different from that when the number of touched points has increased to one point from a state in which a touched point is not detected. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022195 | TOUCH SCREEN INFORMATION SYSTEM - A touch screen information system provides guests or users of a hotel or business with information. The touch screen information system includes system memory which stores an operating system, programming modules and program data. A touch screen display device is configured to provide a viewable area, capable of receiving a user input in the form of a touch, which includes a guest information display area and an operating system and administrative display area. A bezel covers the operating system and administrative display area of the viewable area of the touch screen display device to prevent access to the operating system and administrative display area by guests or users of the hotel or business, but allows access to the guest information display area by the guests or users of the hotel or business. A processor is operably coupled to the system memory and to the touch screen display device such that the processor is configured with the operating system, programming modules and program data to control the touch screen display device to provide information to the guests or users of the hotel or business by displaying the information in the guest information display area. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022196 | REGION OF INTEREST OF AN IMAGE - A device to detect a user accessing a region of interest of an image, access pixels of the region of interest to identify alphanumeric characters within the region of interest, and store the alphanumeric characters and a location of the alphanumeric characters within metadata of the image. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022197 | NOISE REDUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE - Noise reduction method and system for a touch detection device are disclosed. The noise reduction method includes: step A, performing a synchronous sampling on the touch detection nodes in one same group and storing the sampling data; step B, comparing each sampling data against a corresponding reference data to calculate a differential data which, as a detection data, replaces a corresponding original sampling data; step C, calculating statistics of the replacing detection data to screen out valid data to calculate a DC offset component indicative of a noise ingredient; and step D, obtaining noise-filtered detection data by subtracting the DC offset component from each detection data. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022198 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR ACCEPTING INSTRUCTION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR RECORDING PROGRAM - A stereoscopic display device comprising: a stereoscopic display unit; a space sensor; a determination unit for determining whether the instruction position detected by the space sensor is within a detection area corresponding to the instruction stereoscopic image, and accepting an instruction corresponding to the instruction stereoscopic image; a disparity amount decision unit for deciding a disparity amount between the instruction left-eye image and the instruction right-eye image displayed by the stereoscopic display unit, and decreasing the disparity amount between the instruction left-eye image and the instruction right-eye image according to a decrease in the interval detected by the space sensor; and an image processing unit for displaying the instruction stereoscopic image on the stereoscopic display unit by the disparity amount decided by the disparity amount decision unit. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022199 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL HAVING IMPROVED RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS - An apparatus is provided. A substrate and a cover plate are provided. A sensor layer is formed on at least one of the substrate and the cover plate. The sensor layer includes a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes interleaved with the plurality of row electrodes, where each row electrode and each column electrode is formed of a plurality of stair-stepped diamonds. An insulator is also included so as to electrically isolate the plurality of row electrodes and the plurality of column electrodes, where the insulator is substantially transparent to visible spectrum light. A bridge layer is also formed over the sensor layer and having a plurality of bridges, where each bridge is coupled between two adjacent stair-stepped diamonds from at least one of the column electrodes or the row electrodes. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022200 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL HAVING IMPROVED RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS - An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a second layer disposed over a first layer. Each of the first and second layers have a set of detection electrodes that are spaced apart and electrically isolated from one another and an associated set of interleavers. Each interleaver is located between adjacent detection electrodes from its associated the set of detection electrodes, and each set of interleavers also includes a pair of complementary interleaving electrodes coupled to those that are electrically coupled to the adjacent detection electrodes from its associated set of detection electrodes. The detection electrodes and interleaving electrodes are also substantially transparent to visible spectrum light. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022201 | Gain Correction for Fast Panel Scanning - Settling time for high-impedance conductive materials in capacitance touchscreen may be overcome by employed a series of mathematical or hardware implemented correction factors. Correction factors may allow for faster mutual capacitance measurement and enable greater noise performance for mutual capacitance panels. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022202 | Sensor Array with Edge Pattern - A capacitive sensor array may include a first set of sensor electrodes and a second set of sensor electrodes. Each of the second set of sensor electrodes may intersect each of the first set of sensor electrodes to form a plurality of unit cells each corresponding to a pair of sensor electrodes including one of the first set of sensor electrodes and one of the second set of sensor electrodes. Each point within each of the plurality of unit cells may nearer to a gap between the pair of sensor electrodes corresponding to the unit cell than to a gap between any different pair of sensor electrodes, and a first trace pattern within a first unit cell of the plurality of unit cells may be different from a second trace pattern within an adjacent unit cell of the plurality of unit cells. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022203 | DISCONTINUOUS INTEGRATION USING HALF PERIODS - Apparatuses and methods of frequency hopping algorithms are described. One method monitors a signal on one or more electrodes of a sense network at a first operating frequency and detects noise in the signal at the first operating frequency. The method then switches to a second operating frequency, based on said detecting, for scanning the electrodes to detect a conductive object proximate to the plurality of electrodes, wherein a constant integration time is used for one half-period when scanning the electrodes at both the first and second operating frequencies. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022204 | POLARIZER - A polarizer, having touch sensing capability includes a polarizing layer, a transparent conducive layer, and first driving-sensing electrodes. The transparent conducive layer and the polarizing layer are stacked with each other. The transparent conductive layer is an anisotropic impedance layer having a relatively low impedance direction and a relatively high impedance direction. The first driving-sensing electrodes are spaced with each other and arranged in a row along the relatively high impedance direction and electrically connected with the transparent conducive layer. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022205 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a display having a display screen that displays an image; an acquiring section that acquires information indicating a contact point which is a position where an operator is brought into contact with the display screen by a user; a display controller that makes the display screen display an image showing a designation point designated by the user; and a setting section that sets an operation mode by switching between a first operation mode in which a disposition of the designation point relative to the contact point is changeable and a second operation mode in which the designation point is moved in accordance with movement of the contact point so that the disposition changed in the first operation mode is maintained. The display controller controls display of the designation point in accordance with the operation mode set by the setting section. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022206 | HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR TOUCHSCREEN DATA PROCESSING - A contact's interaction with a sensing array is subject to several external and internal stimuli which may impact a processing unit's confidence in the characteristics of that interaction or the presence of the interaction itself. Fidelity of user action is greatly improved with a step-wise and holistic analysis of a contact on an array of capacitance sensors, which allows for repetition of certain steps of processing or the entire operation if threshold confidence levels are not achieved. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022207 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes a selection circuit that is connected to a plurality of electrodes provided on a capacitive touch panel and selectively connects the plurality of electrodes, a calibration resistor connected to the selection circuit, a constant current source for supplying constant current power to the plurality of electrodes and the calibration resistor, an A/D converter connected to the selection circuit to measure capacitance of the plurality of electrodes and a measured value measured when the calibration resistor is connected, and a control unit controlling the selection circuit to make the A/D converter measure the capacitance of one of the plurality of electrodes and the measured value measured when the calibration resistor is connected, and determining a contact coordinate of the touch object on a touch panel by calculating a ratio of the capacitance to the measured value. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022208 | COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE AND TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL USING SAME - An exemplary color filter substrate for a touch display panel includes a base and a capacitive touch sensitive structure located a first side of the base. The capacitive touch sensitive structure includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a polarizer located between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022209 | METHOD FOR DETECTING BIOMOLECULES USING A CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN - There is provided a method of detecting biomolecules using a capacitive touch screen receiving a touch with a conductor as an input signal to perform an output on a display screen, and more particularly to a method of detecting target biomolecules by applying biomolecules having electrical conductivity to a touch panel and detecting a change in capacitance of a surface of a touch panel generated according to the concentration of the biomolecules. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022210 | TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel includes a color film (CF) substrate and a TFT substrate disposed opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the CF substrate and the TFT substrate. A common electrode having a comb-shaped structure and/or a pixel electrode having a comb-shaped structure are disposed on the TFT substrate close to the liquid crystal layer. The touch display panel further includes a touch layer disposed on the CF substrate close to the liquid crystal layer and having a driving line and a detecting line insulated from each other. The driving line and/or the detecting line have a comb-shaped structure that is at least partially misaligned with respect to the comb-shaped structure of the common electrode and/or the comb-shaped structure of the pixel electrode. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022211 | TOUCHSCREEN DATA PROCESSING - Capacitive touch sensors and touchscreen data processing methods are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes sequentially integrating and converting charge from each of a plurality of sensing capacitors in an array to digital data, the digital data including sample values corresponding to a measured capacitance for each of the plurality of sensing capacitors. Noise is then separated from useful information by filtering the sample values on a sample-by-sample basis. Finally, the filtered sample values are summed and a position of at least one contact on the array determined using the filtered capacitance values. Other embodiments are also provided. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022212 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH AN ADAPTIVELY RESPONSIVE FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - A mobile electronic device having a flexible display device is disclosed. A request to retrieve information from a server over a wireless network is triggered based on flexing the flexible display device and other gestures. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022213 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSITION DETECTION - A method and device for position detection are disclosed. A self-capacitance detection can be performed by a sensing device. According to the result of the self-capacitance detection, a first mutual-capacitance detection can be performed for determining one or more first 1-D positions. According to the result of the first mutual-capacitance detection, a second mutual-capacitance detection can be performed for determining one or more second 1-D positions corresponding to each first 1-D position. One or more 2-D positions can be provided according to the one or more second 1-D positions corresponding to each first 1-D position. Besides, during the self-capacitance detection, the first mutual-capacitance detection, and the second mutual-capacitance detection, a touch related sensing information corresponding to a touch that covers a wide area can be neglected for palm rejection. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022214 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, OPERATION INPUT METHOD AND OPERATION INPUT PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing device including a contact detection unit configured to detect a contact operation for an operation surface, an approach detection unit configured to detect an approach operation for the operation surface, and a control unit configured to recognize the contact operation and the approach operation as a series of operation inputs when the contact operation and the approach operation are continuously detected. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING INDIVIDUAL FORCE IN MULTI- OBJECT SENSING - An input device is provided that facilitates improved user interface functionality by determining force information for each of multiple objects in a sensing region. The input device includes a processing system, a sensor configured to sense objects in a sensing region proximate a surface, and a plurality of force sensors. The plurality of force sensors are coupled to the surface to provide a plurality of measures of force applied to the surface. The processing system is configured to determine positional information for each the multiple objects sensed by the sensor in the sensing region. Furthermore, the processing system is configured to determine force information for each of the multiple objects from the positional information and the plurality of measures of force applied to the surface. Thus, device and method provides the ability to determine both positional information and force information for each of multiple objects in a sensing region. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022216 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - In a multi-functional mobile phone (smartphone), a touch panel is operated to input characters or the like. When an index finger of a user approaches an image key within a predetermined distance, an on-screen keyboard is enlarged with the image key as the center of enlargement such that the size of the image key becomes larger than a contact surface size of the index finger. Touch operation is performed on an enlarged on-screen keyboard displayed. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022217 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS INVOLVING STYLUS TACTILE FEEL - Systems and methods involving stylus tactile feel are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes: a stylus operative to affect an input to an electronic device via interaction with a working surface thereof, the stylus being further operative to interact with the working surface such that electrostatic charges exhibited between the working surface and the stylus simulate friction force exhibited by the surface to be simulated and an instrument to be simulated, the instrument being represented by the stylus. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022218 | ORIENTATION SENSING STYLUS - The present disclosure provides for method and apparatus for controlling an application executed on an electronic device dependent upon the orientation of a stylus. The stylus includes a rotation rate sensor, such as a gyroscope. A signal, dependent on the rotation rate, is transmitted from the stylus and received by the electronic device. The stylus orientation may be determined from the rotation rate using an integration circuit to determine a rotation matrix that is applied to an initial orientation vector. The electronic device may use the stylus orientation to determine the handedness of a user, to control properties of a drawing application, or for other purposes. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022219 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a display panel configured to receive a first-frame image signal for displaying a first-frame image in a first frame. The display panel is further configured to receive a second-frame image signal for displaying a second-frame image in a second frame that immediately follows the first frame such that the display panel appears to display a transition region associated with a boudary between a portion of the first-frame image and a portion of the second-frame image and moving in a moving direction. The display device further includes an optical effect layer and electrode sets. The electrode sets respectively overlap different portions of the optical effect layer and are configured for sequentially starting affecting the different portions of the optical effect layer such that the optical effect layer appears to display a light-blocking section that moves in the moving direction and overlaps the transition region. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022220 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device including: a display panel; and a signal controller which controls signals for driving the display panel, where the signal controller includes a representative value generator which sequentially operates a portion of image data of one frame, where the representative value generator moves a last position digit into another position digit of the portion of the image data and generates a representative value representing a portion of a frame image corresponding to the portion of the image data; a storage portion which stores the representative value therein; and a comparator which compares the representative values of present and prior frames to determine whether the portion of the frame image is a still image or a motion picture, and the signal controller controls the signals for driving the display panel such that a driving frequency for the still image is lower than a driving frequency for the motion picture. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022221 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS CONTROL CIRCUIT - A display apparatus includes: a display device; a display device driver which drives the display device; a compression section adapted to an operation of generating compression data by compression processing performed on image data; and a transmission section which, when receiving compressed data from the compression section, transmits the compressed data to the display device driver by using a serial data signal. The compression section performs the compression processing with a data compression ratio selected in response to a frame rate with which the display device driver drives the display device. The display device driver receives the serial data signal from the transmission section, generates decompressed data by decompressing the compressed data transmitted by the serial data signal, and drives the display device in response to the decompressed data. The data compression ratio used in the compression processing is set so that the transmission rate of the serial data signal from the transmission section to the display device driver is kept constant independently of the frame rate. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022222 | DIFFUSER WITH A DYNAMICALLY TUNABLE SCATTERING ANGLE - A dynamically tunable diffuser having a dynamically tunable scattering angle is provided. The dynamically tunable diffuser has a first diffuser having a first series of microstructures and at least one second diffuser having a second series of microstructures that is rotated relative to the first series of microstructures to provide an angle offset between the first diffuser and the at least one second diffuser. The first diffuser and the at least one second diffuser are integrated together in a display screen to provide good quality, continuous 3D images to viewers regardless of their position and height. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022223 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a controller to change a brightness of a screen at a predetermined rate based on a predetermined condition and to maintain the screen brightness at a threshold value when the screen brightness reaches the threshold value. The predetermined condition may be based on at least one of screen activation, adaption time, ambient illumination, initial brightness value, occurrence of user activity, or a watching time of a user. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022224 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLAZMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method is provided for driving a plasma display panel having parallel first and second electrodes, third electrodes crossing the first and second electrodes, and discharge cells with electrodes crossing mutually in the form of a matrix. The method includes a reset period during which distribution of wall charges in the discharge cells is uniformed, an addressing period during which wall charges are produced in the discharge cells according to display data, and a sustain discharge period during which sustain discharge is induced in discharge cells in which wall charges are produced during the addressing period. The driving method includes during the reset period, in lines defined by the first and second electrodes, applying a first pulse, in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce first discharge, and applying a second pulse in which an applied voltage varies with time to induce second discharge as an erase discharge. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022225 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device and a driving method is disclosed. The driving method includes receiving an image signal for one frame for one pixel, converting the image signal into at least two data voltages according to at least two gamma curves, applying a first gate signal and a second gate signal to a plurality of gate lines respectively connected to a plurality of subpixels included in one pixel during the frame. The method further includes applying the at least two data voltages to the plurality of subpixels during the frame. A gamma curve for the data voltage applied to one subpixel among the plurality of subpixels includes the at least two different gamma curves and is changed with a period of a first time. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022226 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel capable of minimizing power consumption is disclosed. In one embodiment, the pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a first transistor for controlling an amount of current supplied from a first power supply to the OLED to correspond to a voltage applied to a first node, and a second transistor and a third transistor coupled between a second node electrically coupled to a data line and the first node in parallel in a period where a scan signal is supplied. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022227 | VOLTAGE GENERATOR AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A voltage generator includes a DC/DC converter configured to output a first voltage during a first period of a frame period, the DC/DC converter being connected to a first power voltage and to a second power voltage lower than the first power voltage, a first transistor coupled between the DC/DC converter and an output terminal, the first transistor being configured to be turned on during the first period, a second transistor coupled between the output terminal and a third voltage source, the third voltage source being configured to supply a third voltage lower than the first voltage, and the second transistor being configured to be turned on during a third period of the frame period, and a voltage controller coupled to the output terminal, the voltage controller being configured to limit a voltage of the output terminal. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022228 | GATE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A gate driver is provided. The gate driver includes a plurality of cascade-connected stages. The k-th stage of the stages includes a switching unit for connecting a first node to a second node, a driving unit for generating an output signal in accordance with a voltage of the first node, and an input unit for inputting an output signal of a (k−1)-th stage of the stages and an output signal of a (k+1)-th stage of the stages to the second node. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022229 | GATE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed are a gate driver and a display device including the same. The gate driver comprises a register which stores data, a gate driving circuit which generates driving signals based on the data stored in the register, and one or more output terminals which output the driving signals generated by the gate driving circuit. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022230 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING A DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device and method of forming a display device are provided. A display device includes: a first auxiliary electrode coupled to a first power voltage supply line; a second auxiliary electrode coupled to a second power voltage supply line with a first link electrode; an active area, comprising: scan lines; data lines; first voltage lines; second voltage lines; and pixels; and a display drive circuit configured to supply data voltages to data links coupled to the data lines, wherein the first auxiliary electrode, the second auxiliary electrode, the first power voltage supply line, the second power voltage supply line, the data links, and the display drive circuit being in a bezel area corresponding to an area outside the active area, the second auxiliary electrode being between the first auxiliary electrode and the active area, the first auxiliary electrode being between the second auxiliary electrode and the display drive circuit. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022231 | DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD - A display device ( | 2014-01-23 |
20140022232 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An auxiliary wire, which can be connected to each of a plurality of data signal lines (Sn), is constituted by (i) a first auxiliary wire ( | 2014-01-23 |
20140022233 | Driving Device for Liquid Crystal Display - A driving device of a liquid crystal display (LCD) utilized for preventing noises of a clock signal from causing error operation of a shift register is disclosed. The driving device includes a shift register, a reception terminal, a noise elimination circuit and a control signal generation circuit. The reception terminal is utilized for receiving a first clock signal. The noise elimination circuit is coupled to the reception terminal, and is utilized for eliminating noises of the first clock signal and delaying the first clock signal for a preset time to generate a second clock signal. The control signal generation circuit is coupled to the reception terminal, the noise elimination circuit and the shift register, and is utilized for generating a first control signal and a second control signal to control the shift register. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022234 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - There is provided a display device capable of displaying an image that barely changes with low power consumption on the basis of video data included in a transmitted command, and there is also provided a method for driving the same. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022235 | CLOSED LOOP VERIFICATION OF RENDERED CONTENT - An electronic display device provides closed-loop verification that specific content has been displayed by the display device. When desired digital image content is rendered as an image or video by the electronic display device, a confirmation signal is generated by one or more components of the display device to verify that the image content has been successfully displayed. The confirmation signal may include performance measurements of the one or more components of the display device and/or a signature output that is associated with a signature code embedded in the image content. The signature output uniquely identifies the digital image content. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022236 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATING STACKED MICROSCOPY IMAGES - A method for navigating images in microscopic imaging, the method comprising reducing dimensionality of an original sequence of images of a specimen for navigation using an all-focus image and providing a user interface to a user for navigating the original sequence of images and the all-focus image. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022237 | SURFACE CLASSIFICATION FOR POINT-BASED RENDERING WITHIN GRAPHICS DISPLAY SYSTEM - A method including casting a ray from a point toward a point-based three dimensional scene. The scene includes memory resident objects with object surfaces and a first splat and a second splat associated with the object surfaces. The first splat and the second splat have a position and a normal vector. The method also includes forming an event line through the first splat and the second splat. The event line intersects the first splat and the second splat. The method further includes determining whether a visibility conflict exists between the first splat and the second splat. The method also includes separating the first splat and the second splat to different object surfaces if the visibility conflict exists, otherwise merging the first splat and the second splat to a single object surface. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022238 | SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING USER CLOTHING ON AN AVATAR - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for providing a clothing system for simulating user clothing on a virtual avatar. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, an avatar may be associated with the user. A unified clothing file stores any number of actual clothing items and associated virtual clothing items. Each actual clothing item and associated virtual clothing item is encoded with the same identification code. The user may select a virtual clothing item to be worn by the user's avatar by entering a unique identification code. Using the unique identification code, a unified clothing file entry is retrieved from the unified clothing file. An image is generated of the avatar wearing the virtual clothing item. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022239 | GENERATING FULL-PARALLAX DIGITAL HOLOGRAMS - Techniques for efficiently generating full parallax 3-D holographic images of a 3-D real or synthetic object scene are presented. A holographic generator component (HGC) can receive a real object scene or generate a synthetic object scene. The HGC can downsample the scene by a defined downsampling factor and generate, from the downsampled scene, an intermediate object wavefront recording plane (WRP) that can be placed in close proximity to the scene. The HGC can expand and interpolate the WRP to generate the holographic images. The HGC can decompose a scene into polyphase image components (PICs), generate a WRP for the image components, sum the WRP of the PICs, and expand and interpolate the WRP to generate holographic images of the scene. The HGC can utilize look-up tables to store and use wavefront patterns of each region of an image to facilitate reducing computational operations in generating the holographic images. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022240 | IMAGE DATA SCALING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image data scaling method is disclosed. The image data scaling method includes generating a depth map including depth information for each of a plurality of areas of a 3-dimensional (3D) image frame constituting image data, setting a scale ratio in each area of the 3D image frame based on the generated depth map, scaling the 3D image frame based on the set scale ratio, and outputting the scaled 3D image frame. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022241 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON SYMMETRICALLY SPB - Provided are a display apparatus and method based on an SSPB. The display apparatus includes a panel configured to play a 3-D image, a parallax barrier configured to include liquid crystals placed in the front of the panel and configured to transmit or block light emitted from the panel and pairs of transparent electrodes obliquely arranged to cross each other in a symmetric form in the front and rear of the liquid crystals based on the liquid crystals, and a driving unit configured to apply driving voltages to the parallax barrier. The parallax barrier can transmit or block a specific part of the played 3-D image through the panel in response to the applied driving voltages. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022242 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Image processing system | 2014-01-23 |
20140022243 | SOFTWARE INCORPORATING EFFICIENT 3-D RENDERING - Design software in accordance with an implementation of the present invention is configured to provide believable three-dimensional representations of user selections in real-time. Design elements that would otherwise be difficult to efficiently render three-dimensionally in real-time are prerendered for realistic visual effects, such as realistic shading, which correspond to various positions of the elements in a design space. Blanks of the visual effects for each position are then stored in a data store for visual effects. At run time, data associated with user design choices, as well as the blanks for any corresponding design elements are fed in one implementation to peripheral processing hardware, such as a GPU, which sends the processed data to a display device. The user is therefore able to view complex visual data of certain design choices efficiently with added realism. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022244 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In a stereoscopic image processing device capable of displaying and/or recording stereoscopic animated images and stereoscopic still images, stereoscopic still image data representing any stereoscopic still image are extracted from predetermined stereoscopic animated image data, and the parallax amount of the stereoscopic still image represented by the extracted stereoscopic still image data is acquired. The parallax amount of the stereoscopic still image data is converted so as to be larger than the acquired parallax amount. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022245 | MICROWAVE ABLATION SYSTEM AND USER-CONTROLLED ABLATION SIZE AND METHOD OF USE - Disclosed is a system and method for enabling user preview and control of the size and shape of an electromagnetic energy field used in a surgical procedure. The disclosed system includes a selectively activatable source of microwave surgical energy in the range of about 900 mHz to about 5 gHz in operable communication with a graphical user interface and a database. The database is populated with data corresponding to the various surgical probes, such as microwave ablation antenna probes, that may include a probe identifier, the probe diameter, operational frequency of the probe, ablation length of the probe, ablation diameter of the probe, a temporal coefficient, a shape metric, and the like. The probe data is graphically presented on the graphical user interface where the surgeon may interactively view and select an appropriate surgical probe. Three-dimensional views of the probe(s) may be presented allowing the surgeon to interactively rotate the displayed image. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022246 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD - A three-dimensional image output apparatus according to a present disclosure includes a storage that stores image data of a plurality of images obtained by shooting the same one scene at different positions, a selector that selects two image data as image data for stereoscopic viewing from a plurality of image data stored in the storage, and an obtainer that obtains at least one of a display condition at a time of displaying a three-dimensional image relating to the image data stored in the storage and a viewing condition at a time of viewing the three-dimensional image. When at least one condition obtained by the obtainer is different from a currently set condition, the selector reselects two image data from the plurality of image data to outputting the reselected image data. | 2014-01-23 |
20140022247 | RADIOLOGICAL BREAST IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, RADIOLOGICAL BREAST IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - Generating a right-eye image by combining a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of a right breast with a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of a left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other and a left-eye image by combining a left-side capturing image (0° capturing image) of the right breast with a right-side capturing image (4° capturing image) of the left breast rotated by 180° such that the chest walls of the breasts face to each other. Based on the right-eye and left-eye images generated in the manner described above, displaying a stereoscopic image on a monitor. | 2014-01-23 |