08th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100045616 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SHOWING PAGE FLIP EFFECT AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for showing page flip effect when use electronic device enjoy electronic document, the method provides a flip-page operation table, the flip-page operation table defines relationships between flip effect parameters and lengths of a first touch path or a second touch path. The method comprising: receiving touch signals, determining the touch path and lengths of the touch path according the touch signals; determining which page will be brought into view (hereinafter target page) according to the touch path; obtaining a flip effect parameter when the touch path increase to lengths defined in flip effect table; combining a combined page according to the current page, the next page and the flip effect parameter. Present invention also providing an electronic device capable of executing said steps. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045617 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR REFRIGERATOR - The present invention discloses a display apparatus ( | 2010-02-25 |
20100045618 | TOUCH-CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH A BEND FORMING TOUCH PANEL - A touch-controlled electronic apparatus includes a housing whereon a transparent region and an opaque region are formed, and a touch panel. The touch panel includes a sensing region disposed on a side of the transparent region, and a non-sensing region disposed on a side of the opaque region and formed outside the sensing region in a bend forming manner. The touch-controlled electronic apparatus further includes an adhesive layer disposed between the housing and the touch panel for gluing the touch panel and the housing. An outer side of the adhesive layer is disposed between the housing and the non-sensing region of the touch panel in a bend forming manner. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045619 | Systems And Methods For Transmitting Haptic Messages - Systems and methods for transmitting haptic messages are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of: receiving at least one sensor signal from at least one sensor of a mobile device, the at least one sensor signal associated with a movement of the mobile device, determining a message to be displayed in a user interface based at least in part on the at least one sensor signal, and causing the message to be displayed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045620 | INTEGRATION DESIGN FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANELS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS - An integrated touch screen and display device includes a polarizer with a layer of transparent conductive material deposited thereon. A touch screen controller is coupled to electrodes of the transparent conductive layer to detect the location of touches by, for example, a finger or stylus. A method for producing an integrated touch screen and display device includes applying a transparent conductive coating to an outer surface of a polarizer of a display device, creating electrodes in the conductive coating, and coupling the electrodes to a touch screen controller. A double super twisted nematic display that includes a capacitive touch panel integrated into a compensation cell of the display is also provided herein. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045621 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method includes displaying a screen image including one or more objects on a first display unit, and if one of the objects is touched and then dragged, displaying the touched-and-dragged object on the second display unit. Therefore, it is possible to continuously display an object even in the event of a power cut by quickly moving the object from the first display unit to the second display unit. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045622 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETECTING POSITION OF DIRECTING OBJECT - An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical element that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optical material pinched by the first and second electrodes of which the optical characteristic is changed in accordance with supply of a predetermined electric potential, a position detecting unit that detects a position of an object, which is brought into contact with an image displaying surface that displays an image configured by the electro-optical element, on the image displaying surface, and a physical amount measuring unit that is included in the position detecting unit and measures a predetermined physical amount of the whole or a part of the image displaying surface for a case where the object is brought into contact with the image displaying surface. The position detecting unit detects the position of the object on the image displaying surface based on the measurement result of the physical amount measured by the physical amount measuring unit and based on the measurement result from which the measurement result measured by the physical amount measuring unit at an inversion time of the polarity of an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode is excluded. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045623 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCHSCREEN - The present invention provides a device that will not force, if the situation permits, the user to abort his or her work entirely when the modes of operation are changed from cleaning into non-cleaning, or vice versa. An information display device includes: a display section; a touchscreen panel, which forms an integral part of the display section and which has an input area that is associated with the display area of the display section; an area locating section for determining, in response to a user's action on the input area, what partial area of the input area has been operated on as a result of the user's action, thereby generating a signal specifying that partial area; and a control section for instructing the display section to display a non-opaque pattern with some degree of transparency. In a cleaning mode for cleaning the input area, the display section displays the pattern on the display area, and the control section increases the degree of transparency of that pattern on the partial area in accordance with the signal specifying the partial area. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045624 | MANIPULATION INPUT APPARATUS - A manipulation input apparatus includes a panel member, strain gauges, and a controller. The panel member has a front surface functioning as a manipulation input surface to which an input is executed by touch manipulation. The strain gauges detect a load which is applied to the panel member. The controller calculates a position to which a load is applied based on load detection result by the strain gauges. A stick as a convex-shaped structural section is further arranged and integrated in the manipulation input surface of the panel member such that an upward load against the panel member is applied via the stick. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045625 | TOUCH PANEL AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES UTILIZING THE SAME - An embodiment of the invention provides a touch panel, which includes a substrate, a lower conductive layer overlaying the substrate, an insulating layer overlaying the lower conductive layer, and an upper conductive layer overlaying the insulating layer. The lower conductive layer includes a plurality of first conductive patterns including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of first dummy patterns, wherein the first dummy patterns are electrically insulated from the first conductive patterns. The upper conductive layer includes a plurality of second conductive patterns including a plurality of second electrodes respectively overlapping the first dummy patterns and a plurality of second dummy patterns, wherein the second dummy patterns are electrically insulated from the second conductive patterns and respectively overlapping the first electrodes. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045626 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHANGING THE POWER STATE OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and system for changing the power state of a portable electronic device is disclosed. A portable electronic device may be powered up or powered down responsive to a user interaction with the portable electronic device. The user interaction may be an insertion of a stylus or other user interface object into a housing of the portable electronic device. Alternatively, the user interaction may be a removal of a stylus or other user interface object from the housing of the portable electronic device. The user interaction may be a rotation of a cover of the portable electronic device. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045627 | SHAPE DETECTING INPUT DEVICE - A system and method for recognizing a signet and for performing an action associated with the signet, wherein the signet is an inanimate object. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a touch signal with a signet, the touch signal representing a particular signet pattern, recognizing the particular signet pattern, and performing an action associated with the particular signet pattern. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045628 | INPUT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A proximity input detection system for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes an inductive field sensor to detect a change in a magnetic field when an input device with a coil is within a threshold distance. In another embodiment, the present invention utilizes a capacitive sensor which can locate the position of an electrically conductive object which is within a threshold distance. The capacitive sensor can also be used, for example, as a switch to activate the device if a user picks it up. The present invention allows user inputs to be detected without actually touching the electronic device. The present invention can also be used to detect inputs through intervening non-metallic layers such as a protective cover or another display of the device without using additional input sensors. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045629 | Systems For Resolving Touch Points for Optical Touchscreens - An optical touch detection system may rely on triangulating points in a touch area based on the direction of shadows cast by an object interrupting light in the touch area. When two interruptions occur simultaneously, ghost points and true touch points triangulated from the shadows can be distinguished from one another without resort to additional light detectors. In some embodiments, a distance from a touch point to a single light detector can be determined or estimated based on a change in the length of a shadow detected by a light detector when multiple light sources are used. Based on the distance, the true touch points can be identified by comparing the distance as determined from shadow extension to a distance calculated from the triangulated location of the touch points. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045630 | Capacitive MEMS-Based Display with Touch Position Sensing - A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) pixel for display and touch position sensing includes a substrate and a capacitive element. The capacitive element includes one or more pixels having a first conductive platelet above the substrate, and a second conductive platelet above and spaced apart from the first conductive platelet, the two platelets forming the capacitive element. A connection to each platelet provides for applying a voltage, wherein the platelet separation changes according to the applied voltage. A transparent dielectric plate, spaced apart from and positioned opposite the substrate, covers the at least one pixel. A capacitance sensing circuit attached to the connection to each platelet of the pixel senses changes in capacitance not resulting from the applied voltage. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045631 | MATRIX SENSING APPARATUS - A matrix sensing apparatus with architecture having reduced quantity of required sensing lines is disclosed. The matrix sensing apparatus includes a plurality of driving lines, a plurality of sensing lines and a matrix sensing region. The matrix sensing region includes a plurality of sensing areas. Each sensing area includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a sensing unit for generating a sensing signal. The first transistor is coupled to the sensing unit and a corresponding sensing line. The second transistor is coupled to the first transistor, a first corresponding driving line and a second corresponding driving line. The first transistor together with the second transistor functions to control the signal connection between the sensing unit and the corresponding sensing line based on the driving signals of the first and second corresponding driving lines. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045632 | Capacitive Position Sensor - A capacitive position sensor has a two-layer electrode structure. Drive electrodes extending in a first direction on a first plane on one side of a substrate. Sense electrodes extend in a second direction on a second plane on the other side of the substrate so that the sense electrodes cross the drive electrodes at a plurality of intersections which collectively form a position sensing array. The sense electrodes are provided with branches extending in the first direction part of the way towards each adjacent sense electrode so that end portions of the branches of adjacent sense electrodes co-extend with each other in the first direction separated by a distance sufficiently small that capacitive coupling to the drive electrode adjacent to the co-extending portion is reduced. Providing sense electrode branches allow a sensor to be made which has a greater extent in the first direction for a given number of sense channels, since the co-extending portions provide an interpolating effect. The number of sense electrode branches per drive electrode can be increased which allows a sensor to be made which has ever greater extent in the first direction without having to increase the number of sense channels. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045633 | INPUT DETECTION SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A proximity input detection system for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes an inductive field sensor to detect a change in a magnetic field when an input device with a coil is within a threshold distance. In another embodiment, the present invention utilizes a capacitive sensor which can locate the position of an electrically conductive object which is within a threshold distance. The capacitive sensor can also be used, for example, as a switch to activate the device if a user picks it up. The present invention allows user inputs to be detected without actually touching the electronic device. The present invention can also be used to detect inputs through intervening non-metallic layers such as a protective cover or another display of the device without using additional input sensors. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045634 | OPTICAL DIODE LASER TOUCH-CONTROL DEVICE - An optical diode laser touch-control device includes two light emitters and a plurality of receivers around a touch-acting area of a touch panel. The light emitters are disposed on two adjacent corners of the touch panel in the touch-acting area, and each employs a diode laser to continuously project a diffused light through a lens for covering the touch-acting area to form an interlaced touch screen. The receivers, which are capable of receiving the diffused light, are disposed on the touch panel around the touch-acting area to receive the diffused light. As a finger touches the touch-acting area of the touch panel, a part of the diffused light is blocked from being projected onto the receivers, and the touch position of the touch-acting area may be calculated accordingly. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045635 | Methods of Making and Using an Apparatus for Providing Multi-Touch Sensing Capability Using an LCD Screen Without an Extra Touch Screen Layer - The present invention relates to methods of making and using and apparatus for providing touch screen capability using an LCD screen without an extra touch screen layer. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045636 | ERROR DETECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An error detecting apparatus includes: a reading device obtaining an image read signal by reading a two-dimensional code pattern, which includes information blocks having information and boundary patterns, the information pattern including first/second pattern images (PIs) corresponding to first/second PIs, respectively, in each reading range corresponding to a size ≧ a size of the information block. A reference point detecting device detects an intersection in the boundary pattern, as a block reference point (P, Q), from the image read signal; an extracting device extracts the first/second information data (ID), based on one portion of the first PIs and the second PIs belonging to an ID extraction area determined according to a position of the block reference point; an error detecting device detects whether any error in the extracted first/second ID based on another portion of the first/second PIs belonging to another area other than the ID extraction area. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045637 | Display device and display drive method - A display device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix state, in which each pixel circuit has a light emitting element, a drive transistor, and a storage capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and an inputted signal value; a threshold correction operation means for performing a threshold correction operation plural times, which allows the storage capacitor to store the threshold voltage of the drive transistor by supplying a drive voltage to the drive transistor in a state in which a gate potential of the drive transistor is in a reference value before giving the signal value to the storage capacitor; and a cut-off control means for cutting off the drive transistor by supplying an intermediate voltage which is lower than the drive voltage to the drive transistor in a after-correction period which is the period after the period of the threshold correction operation. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045638 | COLUMN DATA DRIVING CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THE SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a column data driver configured to apply a voltage or current corresponding to image data to a display panel, a display device having the column data driver, and a driving method of the display device. The column data driving circuit includes a precharge unit configured to precharge at least one of a plurality of column lines in response to a plurality of preset signals corresponding to image data; and a driving unit configured to sequentially drive the plurality of column lines in response to a data signal corresponding to the image data. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045639 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND TESTING AND MANUFACTURING METHODS THEREOF - A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel simplifying its testing and manufacturing. The LCD panel includes (formed on a substrate) gate lines, data lines, and pixels including pixel transistors. The LCD panel further includes a plurality test transistors (e.g., data test transistors for driving the odd and even data lines) formed in a package region of a driving IC (integrated circuit) configured to drive the data lines. The plurality of test transistors may be selectively activated (turned ON) during testing before the driving integrated circuit (Driver IC package) is attached (e.g., fixed) to the driving IC package region. The LCD panel may further include a plurality of gate test transistors configured to drive the odd and even gate lines. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045640 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - The present invention provides a display device which can display a clear stereoscopic image by distinctly separating a left image from a right image, and a method of driving the display device. The display device includes a display panel that sequentially displays a left image and a right image, and a polarizing panel disposed on the display panel, the polarizing panel to change a polarization direction of at least one of the left image and the right image so that polarization directions of the left image and the right image are different from each other. Each left image and a right image includes a black image. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045641 | ELECTRICAL DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING DISPLAY IMAGE BASED ON A ROTATION OF A WEB CAMERA AND METHOD THEREOF - An electrical device having a display screen to adjust displaying image based on a rotation of a web camera. The web camera is rotatably installed on one side of the frame surrounding the display screen. The web camera captures an image data in a first direction or a second direction. An image sensor generates a plurality of brightness signals based on the image data. A processing unit is used for determining the display to show the image data in a first mode or a second mode based on the plurality of brightness signals. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045642 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A first shield electrode ( | 2010-02-25 |
20100045643 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING CIRCUIT OPERATIONS - A method and apparatus for viewing and/or analyzing the operations and logical states of an integrated circuit. The logical state of various flip-flops within the ASIC may be determined at a specified time. The embodiment may store these flip-flop states in a computer-readable data structure, such as a file or database. By repeating this process and incrementing or decrementing the time with each repetition, a more complete picture of the ASIC's operation may be captured. Additionally, the embodiment may graphically display the flip-flop states, for example as a graph or waveform. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045644 | METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE, CIRCUIT OF DRIVING DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - In a method of driving a display device and a driving circuit using the driving method, when a current needed to display an image corresponding to one frame is calculated based on a data signal, a second vertical start signal delayed by a first time interval more than a first vertical start signal based on the calculated current. A first gate signal is sequentially output in response to the first vertical start signal, and a display data voltage obtained from the data signal is output during a high period of the first gate signal. A second gate signal is sequentially output in response to the second vertical start signal, and a black data voltage is output during a high period of a second gate signal. Thus, the current applied to a display part is controlled, thereby reducing power consumption and improving moving image. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045645 | BACKLIGHT ASSEMBLY HAVING EXTERNAL ELECTRODE FLUORESCENT LAMP, METHOD OF DRIVING THEREOF AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING THE SAME - A backlight assembly has a lamp driving device for driving external electrode fluorescent lamps (EEFLs) parallel connected each other. The lamp driving device includes a power switch transistor, a diode, an inverter and a PWM controller. The transistor converts external DC power signal into pulse power signal based on switching signal, the diode prevents rush current from flowing into the transistor. The inverter converts the pulse power signal into AC power signal, raises voltage level of the AC power signal, and provides the lamps with the raised AC power signal. The PWM controller is activated by external on/off signal to provide the transistor with the switching signal so as to regulate voltage level of the AC power signal. The EEFLs can maintain a constant current level, and the backlight assembly can have characteristics of uniform luminance, high luminance and high heat efficiency. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045646 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ITS DRIVING METHOD - In a pixel circuit | 2010-02-25 |
20100045647 | DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR BACKLIGHT UNIT HAVING RESET FUNCTION - There is provided a driving circuit for a backlight unit having a reset function to prevent a malfunction of an apparatus caused by electrical stress such as ESD/EOS. A driving circuit for a backlight unit according to an aspect of the invention may include: a power supply section supplying driving power; a control section receiving the driving power from the power supply section to control the luminance of lamps; and a reset section detecting a voltage level of a luminance control signal from the control section to reset the driving power supplied to the control section when the control section malfunctions. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045648 | Image display device and driving method of image display device - Disclosed herein is an image display device including a display section, a signal line driving circuit, and a scanning line driving circuit. The display section is formed by arranging pixel circuits in a form of a matrix. The signal line driving circuit is configured to output a driving signal for a signal line to the signal line of the display section. The scanning line driving circuit is configured to output a driving signal for a scanning line to the scanning line of the display section. The pixel circuits each include at least a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to drive the light emitting element connected to a source by a driving current corresponding to a gate-to-source voltage, a storage capacitor configured to retain the gate-to-source voltage, and a writing transistor configured to set a terminal voltage of the storage capacitor by a voltage of the signal line. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045649 | DRIVING OF ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS - A method of operating an electro-optic display apparatus, wherein the display apparatus includes a display device having image regions and a display driving system having a data input for selecting image regions. The data input is connected to the input of a distributor for providing signals for driving the image regions. Each image region has an active display state in which the image region is driven with an active voltage signal. The active voltage signal includes a first signal level which sets an image region to the active display state and a second signal level different from said first signal level and which is applied for a shorter duration than said first signal level. The method comprises the following three steps: (1) applying the first signal level to one of said image regions in response to receiving data on said data input indicating that said image region is to be set to the active display state, (2) applying the second signal level to said image region after said first signal level has been applied; and (3) reapplying said first signal level before receipt of further data for said image region on said data input. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045650 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE WITH OPTICAL FEEDBACK AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An active matrix display device comprises an array of display pixels, each pixel comprising a current-driven light emitting display element ( | 2010-02-25 |
20100045651 | VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a printed circuit board, a data driver and a gate driver. The data driver includes a digital processor and an analog processor, and receives image data and a data control signal to provide the display panel with a data signal. The printed circuit board includes a first voltage interconnection which supplies a first source supply voltage to the digital processor of the data driver, and a second voltage interconnection electrically isolated from the first voltage interconnection and which supplies a second source supply voltage to the analog processor of the data driver. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045652 | Display device and display drive method - A display device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each pixel circuit having a light emitting element, a drive transistor, and a storage capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the transistor and an inputted signal value; and a threshold correction operation means for performing a threshold correction operation plural times, which allows the storage capacitor to store the threshold voltage by applying a drive voltage to the transistor in a state where a gate potential of the transistor is fixed in a reference potential before giving the signal value to the storage capacitor. The threshold correction operation is started in a state where the gate potential is made a correction acceleration potential higher than the reference potential only at the threshold correction operation of the first half in the plural threshold correction operations, then, returns the gate potential to the reference potential to be fixed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045653 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - A plasma display device is provided. The plasma display device may include a plasma display panel (PDP) including an upper substrate having a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of sustain electrodes formed thereon and a lower substrate having a plurality of address electrodes formed thereon; and a driving unit applying a number of driving signals to the scan electrodes, the sustain electrodes and the address electrodes, wherein the scan electrodes are divided into two or more groups including first and second groups, at least one of a plurality of subfields includes a first scan period during which a scan signal is applied to the scan electrodes included in the first group, a second scan period during which a scan signal is applied to the scan electrodes included in the second group, and a setting period between the first and second scan periods, and the time of application of a first pulse to the sustain electrodes during the setting period is earlier than the time of application of a second pulse applied to the scan electrodes during the setting period. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045654 | Display device and display drive method - A display device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix state, in which each pixel circuit has a light emitting element, a drive transistor, and a storage capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and an inputted signal value; a threshold correction operation means for performing a threshold correction operation plural times, which allows the storage capacitor to store the threshold voltage of the drive transistor before giving the signal value to the storage capacitor; and a cut-off control means for allowing the drive transistor to be cut off in at least one after-correction period and for allowing the drive transistor not to be cut off in at least one after-correction period in plural after-correction periods which are periods after the plural threshold correction operation periods. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045655 | DISPLAY - A display is provided, which includes a timing controller, a data driver, and first and second termination resistors. The timing controller transmits a transmission signal, including at least one of a data signal, a clock signal, and a strobe signal, in a differential format and drives current in a pull mode. The data driver reconstructs the data from the transmission signal. One end of each of the first and second termination resistors is connected respectively between the data driver and terminations of first and second transmission signal lines, each signal line being a path through which the transmission signal is transmitted from the timing controller to the data driver and the other ends thereof are connected respectively to first and second termination voltage sources. Thus, it is possible to more simply implement the timing controller on the transmitting side, and also to increase data transmission efficiency. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045656 | Display driver with charge pumping signals synchronized to different clocks for multiple modes - A display driver generates a respective charge pumping signal and respective driving signals synchronized to a respective same clock signal for each of the CPU and video interface modes. Because such respective signals are synchronized to a respective same clock signal, the noise superimposed on the driving signals applied on a display panel is regular and uniform across the whole display panel, for each of the CPU and video interface modes. Accordingly, affects of such regular noise are advantageously not noticeable to the human eye, for both the video and CPU interface modes of operation. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045657 | 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. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045658 | PLASMA DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A plasma display and method of driving the display are disclosed. To form wall charges at each electrode such that the sustain discharge is generated, a positive voltage is applied to a plurality of sustain electrodes after a scan pulse is applied to the scan electrodes in an address period and before the first sustain pulse is applied to the plurality of scan electrodes in a sustain period. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045659 | ELEMENT MAPPING APPARATUS AND ELEMENT MAPPING IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - Distribution images that are element mapping images displayed on a parent window of a display unit are switched by selecting a particular element or an analysis line to be displayed on a display element screen or a screen switch button using a keyboard or a mouse, so that the plural distribution images overlap to be overwritten at the same large size. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045660 | Recommendations for Object Use in Virtual Environment - Techniques are disclosed for helping users determine the “best” places to use and acquire inventory objects within a virtual environment, as well as to notify users of useful inventory items when an avatar is at a particular location in the virtual environment. An object index may be used to store data describing attributes of virtual objects, and a user index may be used to store data describing interactions users engage in with virtual objects. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045661 | Method and system for converting a two-dimensional (2-D) graphic user interface (GUI) into a GUI with a three-dimensional (3-D) effect - A method for converting a two-dimensional (2-D) graphic user interface (GUI) into a GUI with a three-dimensional (3-D) effect includes: defining a GUI display region on a screen, the GUI display region being defined by first and second curved lines that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and first and second boundary lines that intersect the first and second curved lines, distances between pairs of points respectively on the first and second curved lines and aligned in the first direction varying in a second direction different from the first direction; performing projection transformation computational processing upon content of the 2-D GUI to result in transformed content; and presenting the transformed content in the GUI display region, the transformed content presenting a 3-D effect. A system that performs the method is also disclosed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045662 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING AND INTERACTIVELY DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS - A method is provided whereby the user can view and interact with live, realtime 3D content using just a web browser, requiring no extra downloads or third party 3D plugins. The invention uses W3C standard bitmap formats, typically JPEG or PNG, as the delivery vehicle for server side rendered 3D content. The invention provides a 3D rendering application that runs on a web server and responds to commands from the user's web browser to manipulate, re-render and deliver new 3D rendered scenes back to the users' browser. The invention preferably uses Ajax—Asynchronous Javascript and XML to create the client side Web 3D scene manipulation tool set. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045663 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING VISUAL CONTENT FOREGROUNDS - A method and apparatus for identifying visual content foregrounds, the method comprises steps of: determining a 3-D opening-by-reconstruction modest structure element (B | 2010-02-25 |
20100045664 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSOR AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is an image processor which makes it easier for a person other than a programmer, for example, a designer of a shape and the like of a collided object, to participate in behavior control performed on a mobile object in the case where the mobile object collides against the collided object. A behavior control information storage unit ( | 2010-02-25 |
20100045665 | Method and device for creating at least two key frames corresponding to a three-dimensional object - The invention relates to a method and a device for creating at least two key images each including an image representing at least one three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional environment, and the exposure of the object in said environment from the viewpoint of the associated image, said method being characterised in that it comprises the following steps: acquiring a first image representing the object in a a predetermined initial position; creating a first key image from the first acquired image and the relative exposure of the least one second image representing said object, the viewpoint of at least one said second image being different from the viewpoint of said first image; determining the relative exposure of the object in its environment based on the difference between the viewpoints of the first image and at least one said second image, each of said viewpoints being determined relative to a position and an orientation; and creating a second key image based on said at least one acquired second image and the relative exposure of the object in its environment. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045666 | Anchored Navigation In A Three Dimensional Environment On A Mobile Device - This invention relates to anchored navigation in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method navigates a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device having a touch screen. A first user input is received indicating that a first object is approximately stationary on a touch screen of the mobile device. A second user input is received indicating that a second object has moved on the touch screen. An orientation of the virtual camera of the virtual camera is changed according to the second user input. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045667 | Navigation In a Three Dimensional Environment Using An Orientation Of A Mobile Device - This invention relates to navigation in a three dimensional environment using an orientation of a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method navigates a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device. The method includes: receiving orientation information of the mobile device; and orienting the virtual camera in the three dimensional environment according to the orientation information. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045668 | Apparatus and Method for 3D Packet Scale Down with Proxy Server in Mobile Environment - A mobile network capable of 3-Dimensional (3D) packet scale down includes a server, mobile station and proxy server. The proxy server includes an apparatus and method for 3-Dimensional (3D) packet scale down. The method includes receiving a 3D packet from a main server, generating a set of unit figures constituting a 3D image using a parameter of the received 3D packet, and increasing a size of a partial unit figure in the generated set of the unit figures, and generating a set of the same size as the generated set of the unit figures, by figures of less number than the generated set of the unit figures. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045669 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION OF FLUIDS - Example embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for simulating and visualizing a flowing fluid when interacting with an intersecting object. An example embodiment provides for simulating the falling fluid as a two-dimensional plane and rendering first and second depth buffers corresponding to current depth information for, respectively, a top surface and a bottom surface of the object. The values of first and second current simulation textures are rendered for the top and bottom surfaces of the object, where for a given frame each of the first and second current simulation texture values is set to either a corresponding value of the first or second depth buffer or a corresponding, velocity-offset value of the previous frame's first or second simulation texture respectively. A visible fluid mesh is rendered in the two-dimensional plane based on the current simulation textures. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045670 | Systems and Methods for Rendering Three-Dimensional Objects - In one embodiment, a three-dimensional object is rendered on a two-dimensional display screen by associating a three-dimensional mesh with an image of the object, generating a vector-based texture map that defines a surface area of the object, and rendering the vector-based texture map on the display screen. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045671 | 3D BALL SKINNING USING PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR GENERATION OF SMOOTH TUBULAR SURFACES - A method of computing a continuous interpolation of a discrete set of three-dimensional (3D) balls, including generating an initial skin, wherein the initial skin is a surface comprised of splines and wherein the splines touch each ball along a circle that is tangent to the ball, solving a first differential equation to minimize the initial skin's surface area or solving a second differential equation to minimize a squared mean curvature of the initial skin's surface, wherein the result of solving the first or second differential equations is an updated skin; and repeating the steps of solving the first or second differential equations for the updated skin, and then, repeating the steps of solving the first or second differential equations for each subsequently updated skin until a desired skin is realized. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045672 | Computerized Image Rendering With Per-Frame Buffer Scene Segmentation - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for image rendering with per-frame buffer scene segmentation. A user specifies how geometric objects, light sources, and various types of rendering operations in a graphics scene are associated. A segmentation API translates scene data into specific instructions used by a rendering engine that cause the rendering engine to generate a set of scene segments within a set of user specified frame buffers. The scene segments may be composited together using a variable contribution value for each scene segment to generate a final image. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045673 | System and Method for Polytopic Mesh Refinement - A method is disclosed for partitioning an input polytope into a conformal set of polytopes according to a subdivision pattern specified on lower-dimensional boundaries of the input polytope. A feature of this method is that it is applicable to any dimension. For input polytopes that are hexahedra isomorphic to a 3-dimensional cube, all members of the conforming partition will be hexahedra isomorphic to a 3-dimensional cube. A further feature of the invention is that it preserves convexity; a convex input polytope will result in a conformal partition comprising convex polytopes. Finally, the method may be used to process large conformal meshes of input polytopes in parallel and produce a globally conformal partition without the requirement of communication between processes. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045674 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE USING SELECTIVE NEIGHBORING VOXEL REMOVAL AND RELATED METHODS - An image processing device may include a memory, and a controller. The controller may cooperate with the memory for determining N nearest neighbors for each voxel among a plurality thereof, and determining a respective distance between each voxel and its N nearest neighboring voxels. The controller may also cooperate with the memory for selectively removing each given voxel if a respective distance to an M | 2010-02-25 |
20100045675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPRODUCTION OF SHADOWS FROM MULTIPLE INCIDENT LIGHT SOURCES - Systems and methods are provided for simulating shadows in a scene. In an embodiment, two or more light sources that cast shadows from objects are identified. Each of those light sources is then assigned to a channel in a shadow mask buffer. The shadows are then accumulated into the shadow mask buffer and may be combined with corresponding lights to render the scene. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045676 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAST REAL-TIME RENDERING OF MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES - Example embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for the efficient rendering of multiple light sources, each controlled individually, in a single pass. An example embodiment encodes the light sources in a texture map, such as DXT. Each channel of the multi-channel texture map encodes data associated with a light source. The pixel shader then renders multiple light sources according to the multiple channels of the texture. Additionally, the pixel shader may render multiple textures, and thus render an even greater number of individual light sources. In a further embodiment, the rendering of a plurality of individually controlled light sources is accomplished in a single pass. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045677 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATION OF PERSPECTIVE IMAGES GENERATED BY A NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL ALGORITHM - A system for creation of perspective images of the present invention includes: A new method for transforming three-dimensional (3D) world coordinates into two-dimensional (2D) screen coordinates using a negative exponential algorithm, instead of the classical projection algorithms that have the distance ‘z’ to the observer in the denominator (division algorithms); A new method for generating realistic perspective images of objects located at any distance from the observer (positive, negative or zero distances) that does not need any correction for zero or negative distances; The demonstration of practical use of the invention by computer graphics programs that generates and displays perspective images based on this exponential algorithm. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045678 | IMAGE CAPTURE AND PLAYBACK - A video signal is generated having a moving image as a series of playback frames and representing movement of a viewer through a computer-generated virtual scene which is generated using stored images by taking the stored images to have different viewpoints within the virtual scene. The video signal is generated by selecting a first stored image based on the selection of a first viewpoint, generating a first playback frame using the first stored image, selecting a next viewpoint from a set of potential next viewpoints distributed relative to the first viewpoint across the virtual scene, selecting a second stored image on the basis of the selected next viewpoint, and generating a subsequent playback frame using the second stored image. The image data is captured by capturing a set of images based on the selection of a set of points of capture, wherein at least some of the points of capture are distributed with a substantially constant or substantially smoothly varying average density across a first two-dimensional area. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPROXIMATING HAIR AND SIMILAR OBJECTS DURING ANIMATION - Simulating dynamics (e.g., physical effects of inertia, forces, wind) on strands (e.g., hair) during computer based animation requires quick and accurate approximations of mathematical curves. Each strand is initially represented as a B-spline curve. Line segments approximating the curve are created by using affine combinations based on the curve's control vertices. Dynamics simulation is performed on the line segment approximation. Once an approximated strand is simulated, it is converted back into a B-spine curve representation for downstream processes, such as rendering. The rendering process displays the simulated strand to the animator. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045680 | PERFORMANCE DRIVEN FACIAL ANIMATION - A method of animating a digital facial model, the method including: defining a plurality of action units; calibrating each action unit of the plurality of action units via an actor's performance; capturing first facial pose data; determining a plurality of weights, each weight of the plurality of weights uniquely corresponding to the each action unit, the plurality of weights characterizing a weighted combination of the plurality of action units, the weighted combination approximating the first facial pose data; generating a weighted activation by combining the results of applying the each weight to the each action unit; applying the weighted activation to the digital facial model; and recalibrating at least one action unit of the plurality of action units using input user adjustments to the weighted activation. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045681 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONTENT DISPLAYED ON AN ELECTRONIC VISUAL DISPLAY - One embodiment of a system and method may include communicating visual content via a visual content signal to an electronic visual display for displaying between a start time and an end time. The visual content signal may be displayed between the start and end times, and an operational parameter (e.g., voltage or current) of the electronic visual display may be sensed between the start and end times. An indicator indicative of the sensed operational parameter may be recorded. The recorded indicator provides for verification of the visual content being displayed by the electronic visual display. Signature analysis may be performed using the indicator to determine that the visual content signal was properly displayed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045682 | Apparatus and method for communicating between a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit - The present invention provides an improved technique for communicating between a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit of a data processing apparatus. Shared memory is provided which is accessible by the central processing unit and the graphics processing unit, and via which data structures are shareable between the central processing unit and the graphics processing unit. A bus is also provided via which the central processing unit, graphics processing unit and shared memory communicate. In accordance with a first mechanism of controlling the graphics processing unit, the central processing unit routes control signals via the bus. However, in addition, an interface is provided between the central processing unit and the graphics processing unit, and in accordance with an additional mechanism for controlling the graphics processing unit, the central processing unit provides control signals over the interface. This enables the GPU to continue to be used to handle large batches of graphics processing operations loosely coupled with the operations performed by the CPU, whilst through use of the additional mechanism it is also possible to employ the GPU to perform processing operations on behalf of the CPU in situations where those operations are tightly coupled with the operations performed by the CPU. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045683 | HARDWARE TYPE VECTOR GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR - Techniques, apparatus and system are described for providing a hardware-type vector graphics acceleration. In one aspect, a hardware-type vector graphics accelerator includes graphics processing modules to communicate with a controller unit. The graphics processing modules include at least one of a rasterizing setup module, a scissor module, a paint generation module, an alpha masking module, and a blending module connected together according to a pipeline architecture to perform two-dimensional (2D) vector graphics acceleration in response to one or more commands received from the controller unit. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045684 | HOST CONTROL DEVICE, SLAVE CONTROL DEVICE, SCREEN OPERATION RIGHT GIVING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING SCREEN OPERATION RIGHT GIVING PROGRAM - A host personal computer (PC) | 2010-02-25 |
20100045685 | Liquid Crystal Display Device - A liquid crystal display device with shorter response time and simpler configuration is provided. The liquid crystal display device including: a plurality of pixels each including a liquid crystal element; and a driving section performing an image display driving by applying a driving voltage based on a video signal to the liquid crystal element in each of the pixels. The driving section performs an overdrive processing on the video signal of current frame to generate an overdriven video signal based on a current frame image and an immediately preceding frame image of the input images based on the video signals, and based on immediately-preceding-state information which is additional information briefly representing a immediately preceding state of the liquid crystal element of the pixel. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045686 | Display Method Applied to Electrophoretic Display and Corresponding Electrophoretic Display - In a display method applied to an electrophoretic display, the electrophoretic display has a first memory, a second memory and an electrophoretic display panel. A plurality of data is stored in the first memory according to a predetermined sequence. The display method includes the following steps. Firstly, whether a first datum of the data is stored in the second memory is determined. Next, the first datum is read out from the first memory and stored in the second memory if the first datum is not stored in the second memory. Next, the first datum stored in the second memory is displayed on the electrophoretic display panel. Next, a second datum before the first datum and/or a third datum after the first datum are/is read out from the first memory and stored in the second memory during displaying the first datum on the electrophoretic display panel. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045687 | OVERLAP IN SUCCESSIVE TRANSFERS OF VIDEO DATA TO MINIMIZE MEMORY TRAFFIC - A method, system, and apparatus of overlap in successive transfers of video data to minimize memory traffic are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a reusable portion of a preexisting video data in an on-chip memory that corresponds to an overlapping video data in an off-chip memory, preserving the reusable portion of the preexisting video data in the on-chip memory in a reserved part of the on-chip memory, determining a non-overlapping video data in the off-chip memory, wherein the non-overlapping video data excludes the overlapping video data in the off-chip memory, defining a subsection of the non-overlapping video data, accessing the subsection of the non-overlapping video data, and selectively storing the subsection in the on-chip memory, such that the reusable portion of the preexisting video data of the on-chip memory is preserved in the reserved part of the on-chip memory. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045688 | Dynamic Image Control Device Using Coincident Blank Insertion Signals - An image control device has display signals and blank insertion (BI) signals. Polarities of the display signals and those of the BI signals are coincident. Thus, BI signals are displayed in a way of 1+2 line inversion and differences of response times are eliminated to avoid affecting MPRT | 2010-02-25 |
20100045689 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DIVIDED SCREENS ON A DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE APPLYING THE METHOD - An electronic device has a display, a video memory, a video data buffer unit, a central processing unit, and a video processing unit. The central processing unit, according to a number of divided screens and a resolution for each of the divided screens, retrieves different but continuous video data corresponding to the resolution of each of the divided screens from the video data buffer unit, and stores the retrieved continuous video data in consecutive memory addresses in the video memory. The video processing unit reads in sequence the continuous video data stored in the video memory, and sends the continuous video data in sequence to the display according to a direction of arrangement of the divided screens such that video contents displayed on the divided screens by the display are continuous. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045690 | DIGITAL DISPLAY - A display system that achieves a gamma characteristic different than 1, such as a gamma characteristic of 2 for example. The gamma characteristic may be selectable and it may be selectable via timing characteristics rather than by varying the intensity of the light source. Defective memory registers are also compensated for by selecting them to store bits of relatively lower significance. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045691 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - An image display device which sets up display positions and drawing order on a display screen of images generated from graphics data for each of layers on the basis of layout information and layer structure information, and which displays the images generated from the plurality of graphics data on the display screen while superimposing them on one another according to this setting information. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045692 | Method and system for processing an image according to deterministic and stochastic fields - A method of assembling an image. The method comprises receiving an image depicting a pattern, identifying a stochastic field and a deterministic field of the pattern, separately increasing resolution of each the stochastic and deterministic fields, and assembling the resolution increased stochastic and deterministic fields to create an additional image of the pattern. The pattern in the additional image having a higher spatial resolution than in the image. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045693 | PICTURE ATTRIBUTE ALLOCATION - The invention concerns image processing and, in particular, the processing of picture attribute fields for an image. A method of obtaining a new picture attribute field of an image is disclosed in which a picture attribute value at one position is allocated to a new position in the image in dependence upon the value of a parameter, such as luminance data, at the original position and at the new position and/or in dependence on the distance between the original position and the new position. The invention may be used to process picture attribute fields comprising: motion vectors; motion vector confidence; segment labels; depth labels; texture labels. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045694 | Image Display Apparatus - In a local dimming technology for reducing power consumption of a display device using a backlight as in a liquid crystal display, the backlight is configured by a plurality of independently controllable light sources, an image is divided into areas of the same number as that of the controllable light sources and light emission intensity of the light source is calculated based on a feature value of each area. However, this technology has a problem that when a backlight luminance distribution within each area is not uniform, image quality is deteriorated or a power consumption reduction effect is lowered. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045695 | SUBPIXEL RENDERING AREA RESAMPLE FUNCTIONS FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - Input image data indicating an image is rendered to a display panel in a display device or system that is substantially configured with a three primary color or multi-primary color subpixel repeating group using a subpixel rendering operation based on area resampling techniques. Examples of expanded area resample functions have properties that maintain color balance in the output image and, in some embodiments, are evaluated using an increased number of input image sample points farther away in distance from the subpixel being reconstructed than in prior disclosed techniques. One embodiment of an expanded area resample function is a cosine function for which is provided an example of an approximate numerical evaluation method. The functions and their evaluation techniques may also be utilized in constructing novel sharpening filters, including a Difference-of-Cosine filter. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045696 | Method for producing 2D image slices from 3D projection data acquired by means of a CT system from an examination subject containing metal parts - A method of at least one embodiment has three method sections. In the first method section, 3D projection data is generated by 3D scanning of the examination subject and first 3D image data is reconstructed therefrom by means of convolution back projection. In the second method section, the image artifacts present in the first 3D image data because of the metal parts are corrected via simple correction methods which produce at least a coarse reduction in the image artifacts involving a low degree of computational complexity. In the third method section, 2D image data is selected from the corrected 3D image data and made available. For image artifacts still contained in the 2D image data, more complex correction methods than in the second method section are used which permit effective elimination of the image artifacts. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045697 | Social Virtual Avatar Modification - The techniques disclosed herein integrate a social aspect into avatar modification. Multiple users may access a virtual environment that allows users to modify the user's avatar. The users in the application may be any combination of remote and local players. The users' avatars may be associated with the same application or different applications. The users may interact in the same virtual environment while modifying their respective avatars. Any user in the virtual environment may view modifications that are made to other users' avatars and interact with other users while modifications are made. Thus, the techniques disclosed allow avatar modification to be a multi-player experience. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045698 | Client Side Multi-Component Image Composition - A method is provided for displaying a client-side multi-component image. A plurality of image component channels derived from captured images of a sample are stored in a server, the plurality of image component channels being stored in the form of a plurality of image data records. A client then requests one or more of the plurality of image data records and the server transmits to the client the one or more of the plurality of image data records requested. At the client, the client-side multi-component image is composited from the image data records transmitted the composited client-side multi-component image is displayed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045699 | Dynamic Exploration Of Electronic Maps - A mapping engine receives map data from a map server and displays electronic maps. The mapping engine also receives one or more templates that specify metrics to show with the map. The templates specify metrics to accomplish specific tasks, such as house hunting. Metrics describe attributes of the areas shown in the map and are received from a metrics server or another source. Metrics are static or dynamic. Some metrics are explicitly specified, while other metrics are computed in response to the map data and/or other metrics. One or more of the templates are designated as “active,” and the mapping engine displays the metrics of the active templates. The mapping engine displays some metrics on the map and other metrics in a metrics panel. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045700 | DEVICE FOR WATCHING REAL-TIME AUGMENTED REALITY AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID DEVICE - The invention relates to a real-time augmented-reality watching device ( | 2010-02-25 |
20100045701 | AUTOMATIC MAPPING OF AUGMENTED REALITY FIDUCIALS - Systems and methods expedite and improve the process of configuring an augmented reality environment. A method of pose determination according to the invention includes the step of placing at least one synthetic fiducial in a real environment to be augmented. A camera, which may include apparatus for obtaining directly measured camera location and orientation (DLMO) information, is used to acquire an image of the environment. The natural and synthetic fiducials are detected, and the pose of the camera is determined using a combination of the natural fiducials, the synthetic fiducial if visible in the image, and the DLMO information if determined to be reliable or necessary. The invention is not limited to architectural environments, and may be used with instrumented persons, animals, vehicles, and any other augmented or mixed reality applications. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045702 | Navigating Digital Images using Detail-in-context Lenses - In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045703 | User Interface Gestures For Moving a Virtual Camera On A Mobile Device - This invention relates to user interface gestures for moving a virtual camera on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method navigates a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment on a mobile device having a touch screen. A user input is received indicating that two objects have touched a view of the mobile device and the two objects have moved relative to each other. A speed of the objects is determined based on the user input. A speed of the virtual camera is determined based on the speed of the objects. The virtual camera is moved relative to the three dimensional environment according to the speed of the virtual camera. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045704 | METHOD FOR CHANGING DYNAMIC DISPLAY MODE AND APPARATUS THEREOF IN CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A method of changing a display mode in a car navigation system, the method including: acquiring distance information from a current vehicle location to a guide point; and gradually changing the display mode into any one of a two-dimensional display mode and a three-dimensional display mode based on the distance information. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045705 | Interaction techniques for flexible displays - The invention relates to a set of interaction techniques for obtaining input to a computer system based on methods and apparatus for detecting properties of the shape, location and orientation of flexible display surfaces, as determined through manual or gestural interactions of a user with said display surfaces. Such input may be used to alter graphical content and functionality displayed on said surfaces or some other display or computing system. The invention also relates to interactive food or beverage container with associated computing apparatus inside its body, and a curved multitouch display on its surface, associated interaction techniques for curved multitouch displays, methods of use, and apparatus for refilling said electronic food or beverage container. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING WITHIN AN IMAGE - The present invention relates to at least one image section which is represented according to a zoom factor selected from a number of different zoom factors. Either the represented image section is changed when the zoom factor is lower than a zoom threshold value, or a marker representation superimposing the image section is displaced when the zoom factor is higher than a zoom threshold value, via input elements. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045707 | COLOR SEQUENTIAL METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A color sequential method for displaying images is suitable for applying in a display with pixels. Each of frames is formed by displaying a first sub-frame, a second sub-frame and a third sub-frame within a displaying time by the pixels. By calculating differences in gray levels between neighboring pixels, variations are gained. Then, a first just noticeable difference is provided, and the pixels having the variations larger than the first just noticeable difference are detected. Next, times of displaying the first, the second and the third sub-frames in the pixels are raised within the displaying time. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045708 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS DRIVING CIRCUIT, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS SOURCE DRIVER, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS CONTROLLER - In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit selectively supplies positive polarity gray scale voltages or negative polarity gray scale voltages to video signal lines as video signals. The circuit includes a gray scale voltage generation circuit for generating a gray scale voltage for display; and first and second gray scale voltage adjustment sections included in the circuit, for increasing positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages while maintaining a voltage difference between the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages and respectively adjust a center potentials of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages. This makes it possible to provide the liquid crystal display apparatus driving circuit which can make the center values of the positive and negative polarity gray scale voltages proximate to values which makes it possible to further reduce the flicker phenomenon without changing the gray scale property. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045709 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AS WELL AS PROGRAM - A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixel circuits arrayed in a matrix fashion; a light emitting circuit provided to each pixel circuit and emitting light correspondingly to a drive current; and a detection circuit provided to a predetermined pixel circuit and outputting a signal according to a temperature that varies with luminance of the light emitting circuit. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045710 | BACKLIGHT APPARATUS AND A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit, and a backlight control circuit. The liquid crystal panel displays an image. The backlight unit supplies light to the liquid crystal panel and includes a plurality of backlight blocks arranged in a matrix. The backlight control circuit controls the backlight unit. When the backlight control circuit turns on at least one of the backlight blocks, it turns off any remaining backlight blocks arranged in a same row of the backlight unit. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF THE TRANSPARENCY OF A DISPLAY MEDIUM, PRIMARILY SHOW WINDOWS AND FACADES - A power transmission cable includes at least one power conductor, an insulating layer surrounding the conductor to form at least one insulated conductor, a flame-retardant halogen free protective sheath provided in a radially external position with respect to the insulated conductor, wherein the sheath has an inner and an outer layer in contact with each other, the inner layer having a thickness at least equal to a thickness of the outer layer, the inner layer including a polymer material having a glass transition temperature equal to or lower than −30° C., and the outer layer including a mud resistant polymer material. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045712 | Printing press with highlighting device for producing personalized printed products - A printing press is provided. The printing press includes a printing unit printing images on a substrate, a highlight application unit producing highlights on the substrate and a controller directing the highlight application unit to produce the highlights on the substrate. A method for producing a highlighted printed product is also provided. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045713 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR INK QUALITY CONTROL - An apparatus and process of controlling ink quality are provided. The process includes providing an imprinted polymer microbalance in an inkjet printer, whereby the microbalance presents an equilibrium setpoint vibratory characteristic when in contact with a setpoint ink containing at least one target compound compatible with the imprinted polymers; placing the microbalance in contact with a supply ink printer; measuring a vibratory characteristic of the microbalance; and issuing a warning when the vibratory characteristic is different from the setpoint characteristic. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045714 | CAPACITIVE LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT AND LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - A capacitive load driving circuit including: a filter including an inductor to which an analog driving signal is input, and a capacitor with a fixed capacitance where one electrode is connected the inductor and other electrode grounded; a plurality of capacitive loads connected in parallel to the capacitor, and driven in accordance with the analog driving signal; a conversion section converting a load voltage to a digital signal; a signal processing section generating a predetermined signal for driving the capacitive load, deriving a signal that represents a magnitude of an electric current flowing to the capacitive load from the digital signal and a digital driving signal, subtracting the signal from the predetermined signal, and outputting the subtracted signal as the digital driving signal; and a switching section generating the analog driving signal by performing switching based on the digital driving signal, and outputting the analog driving signal. | 2010-02-25 |
20100045715 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a carriage carrying a recording head and being movably supported, the recording head being configured to eject liquid onto a recording medium, a plurality of driven units to be driven by a drive source that generates a driving force, a transmission-switching mechanism configured to switch between the driven units, a carriage locker configured to prevent and allow movement of the carriage, and a transmission-switching locker configured to prevent and allow switching between the driven units. Movement prevention by the carriage locker and switching prevention by the transmission-switching locker are in synchronicity, and movement allowance by the carriage locker and switching allowance by the transmission-switching locker are in synchronicity. | 2010-02-25 |