10th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130057483 | INPUT DEVICE AND MONITOR HAVING THE SAME - An input device and a monitor having the input device are for use in a portable electronic device. The monitor of the portable electronic device has a touch display panel capable of touch control. Disposed on the touch display panel is a physical input unit functionally corresponding to a touch input unit displayed on the monitor. The touch input unit is configured by a programmable procedure, such that the touch input unit is linked to an application. A user executes the application by pressing the physical input unit and touching indirectly the touch input unit. Even if it is impossible for the application to be activated by the touch input unit, the application can still be executed by the physical input unit. Even if it is impossible for the application to be activated by the physical input unit, the application can still be executed by the touch input unit. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057484 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY WITH DETACHABLE TOUCH SENSOR - A liquid crystal display according to the present disclosure is provided. The liquid crystal display includes a frame, a backlight module, a plurality of hooking members, an LCD panel, and a touch sensor. According to the liquid crystal display of the present disclosure, wherein the hooking members on the frame may secure the touch sensor or the LCD panel on the backlight module without need of using double-sided tapes or optical adhesive. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057485 | USER TERMINAL AND DISPLAY DEVICE THEREOF - A user terminal and a display device thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel including a glass plate for displaying an image by outputting light, and a polarizing plate attached to both a top surface and a bottom surface of the glass plate for exposing an edge portion of the glass plate, a cover window mounted on the display panel for transmitting the light, an adhesive sheet interposed between the display panel and the cover window and for adhering the cover window at the edge portion of the glass plate. The user terminal can be formed to have a small thickness and size, and light is shielded from being leaked to the outside of the user terminal via an edge portion of the display panel in the user terminal. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057486 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes an upper substrate, upper conductive layers on an upper surface of the upper substrate, a lower substrate having an upper surface facing a lower surface of the upper substrate, lower conductive layers provided on the upper surface of the lower substrate, and an adhesive layer bonding the lower surface of the upper substrate to the upper surface of the lower substrate. The adhesive layer is curable with ultraviolet ray. This touch panel prevents adhesive from being attached and having a pressing mark, thus being operated easily. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057487 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE ADAPTED TO RECEIVING AN INPUT FOR USER CONTROL USING A TOUCH PAD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A device with a display is provided with a first touch pad on the front face of the device and a second touch pad on the rear face. When an operation is performed only on the first touch pad, the process allocated to the point of contact or the pattern of movement thereof is identified and executed. When both the first and second touch pads are used for operation, the process defined to correspond to a combination of modes of movement of the points of contact is identified and executed. When an operation is performed only on the second touch pad, only the component of the movement of the point of contact in a limited direction is extracted to calculate the amount of scrolling, and a scroll process is performed accordingly. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057488 | Touch Sensing Electrode and Touch Panel Using the Same - The present invention provides a touch sensing including a plurality of first sensing lines. Each first sensing line includes a first main trace and a plurality of first trace patterns wherein at least a first cross posit is disposed between the first main trace and the trace patterns. The present invention further provides a touch panel of using the same. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057489 | RECEIVING INPUT AT A COMPUTING DEVICE - This document describes technologies for interpreting physical contact with a non-touchscreen portion of a computing device's housing (e.g., the computing device's case) as input. For example, a user tapping his/her index finger against the back of a computing device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computing device, can be interpreted as input and can cause an operation to be performed by the computing device, such as turning the page of an electronic book that is being displayed by the computing device. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057490 | LIGHT GUIDING LIQUID GLUE AND A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A light guiding liquid glue and a touch sensitive display using the same are provided. The light guiding liquid glue includes a liquid glue and a plurality of light guiding particles dispersed in the liquid glue, wherein volume percent of the light guiding particles in the light guiding liquid glue ranges between 10% and 50%. The light guiding particles have a light scattering property, which can transfer a linear light into a flat light, and therefore the light guiding liquid glue of the present disclosure has a light guiding property. The touch sensitive display includes a display panel and a touch panel. The light guiding liquid glue is disposed between the display panel and the touch panel, which can transmit evenly lights emitted from the display panel to outside of the touch sensitive display | 2013-03-07 |
20130057491 | CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND ACONTROLLING METHOD OF A TOUCH PANEL, AND A STYLUS PEN FOR APPLYING TO THE TOUCH PANEL - A controlling system of a touch panel comprises of a drive signal generating circuit, a sensing module for sensing a waveform signal from the touch panel, and a signal processing module for enabling and disabling the drive signal generating circuit based on the signal outputted by the sensing module. Therefore, the mentioned controlling system can support the active and the passive touch modes. In addition, the present invention further provides a controlling method of the touch panel and a stylus pen applied to the mentioned controlling system. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057492 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information display apparatus comprises a display unit, a position recognition unit configured to recognize the position where a operator operates the display unit and a sub-screen display unit configured to display the sub-screen on the display unit and on the position correspond to the position of the operator identified by the position recognition unit. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057493 | DISPLAY HAVING TOUCH SENSOR AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TOUCH PERFORMANCE THEREOF - Provided are a display having a touch sensor and a method for improving the touch performance thereof, which can minimize the distortion of an execution result induced by the process of converting the resolution of touch coordinates, by compensating the coordinate values of a touch position by applying different offset values for upper, lower, left, and right sides in accordance with the sensor data values of surrounding sensor nodes adjacent to a center node having peak data. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057494 | METHOD, TOUCH DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONVERTING TOUCH POINTS INTO CHARACTERS - The disclosure is related to a method, a touch device and a computer program product for converting touch points into characters. In particular, through an input interface, the converting method can be applied to the touch device and the computer program product. The converting method for example includes the following steps of: sensing at least one touch point triggered by a user on the input interface to obtain touch point number information and touch point position information; generating a touch point distribution of the sensed touch point(s) according to the touch point number information and the touch point position information; and determining an input character according to the touch point distribution. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057495 | TOUCH DISPLAY PANEL - A touch display panel including an organic electro-luminescent display panel, a cover plate, a touch sensing element, and a decoration layer is provided. The organic electro-luminescent display panel includes a carrier plate, a packing cover, and a plurality of organic light emitting units. The carrier plate and the packing cover are assembled to construct a sealed space. The organic light emitting units are disposed on the carrier plate and located inside the sealed space. The cover plate is adhered on a side of the carrier plate away from the organic light emitting units. The touch sensing element is disposed between the carrier plate of the organic electro-luminescent display panel and the cover plate. The decoration layer is disposed on the cover plate. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057496 | MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING SCREEN UNLOCK BASED ON MOTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and a method perform screen unlock based on a motion. The mobile terminal includes a motion measure unit, a motion pattern storage, and a controller. The motion measure unit measures a first motion pattern of the mobile terminal. The motion pattern storage stores a second motion pattern set for the mobile terminal. When the first motion pattern of the mobile terminal measured by the motion measure unit coincides with the second motion pattern stored in the motion pattern storage, the controller executes a screen unlock of the mobile terminal. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057497 | TOUCH SCREEN, TRANSPARENT CIRCUIT BOARD FOR TOUCH SCREEN, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING TOUCH SCREEN - Provided is a method for fabricating a transparent circuit board for a touch screen. The transparent circuit board includes a transparent substrate that has a conductive bridge layer deposited thereon. A liquid insulating layer is deposited on the transparent substrate and the bridge layer, and a sensor layer having first and second conductive patterns is deposited on the transparent substrate and the insulating layer. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057498 | Touch Screen Device and Methods Thereof Configured for a Plurality of Resolutions - Disclosed is a touch screen and a method of touch screen having a first plurality of sensor segments coupled to first scan lines and a second plurality of sensor segments being subsections of one of the first plurality of sensor segments, the second plurality of sensor segments including second scan lines that are bundled by a multiplexer configured to aggregate output of the second plurality of sensor segments into a single transmission channel. The individual output of the multiplexed sensor segments subsections can be either combined into a single signal for processing during a normal scan, or their individual output can be processed individually for higher resolution. Using two scans, the first a normal scan, and the second a higher resolution scan, the disclosed touch screen and methods zoom in on the proximity of the touched area and scans with a higher resolution the proximity only where it is needed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057499 | TOUCH PANEL, AND TOUCH-TYPE INPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A touch panel capable of detecting a pen and a finger, capable of corresponding to multi-touch, capable of detecting pressing force, and capable of reducing the use amount of a transparent electrode as much as possible. The touch panel has a piezoelectric sheet of poly-L-lactic acid having a predetermined stretching axial direction, electrodes that are opposed to each other and formed on the piezoelectric sheet do not cover the entire surface of the piezoelectric sheet and are formed so that they are discretely distributed in plural positions. The piezoelectric sheet is brought into the condition that tension is imparted in directions not coincident with the stretching axial direction. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057500 | CONTROL DIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A control dial ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130057501 | INPUT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND MACHINE - According to one aspect of the present invention, an input device includes: a substrate; a detecting electrode provided on top of the substrate; and an oscillating body which causes the substrate to vibrate. The oscillating body is provided with a first electrode terminal for electrically connecting the oscillating body with a board. The first electrode terminal is provided on one of opposing surfaces which oppose the substrate. The one of opposing surfaces is positioned on a side far from the detecting electrode. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057502 | Touch-sensing Device with a Touch Hold Function and a Corresponding Method - The invention relates to a touch-sensing device comprising an interaction surface with a touch location system for determining a touch position based on an acoustic signal. Gaskets, forming a means for acoustically isolating the interaction surface from the underground on which it is placed, are provided with an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The gaskets are elastically compressible and have dielectric properties, so that the two electrodes and the gasket form a capacitor with a capacitance that varies with the force applied to the interaction surface. In addition to the touch position determined by the acoustic signal, the touch-sensing device detects a touch duration based on capacitance variations, so that touch events can be classified according to their duration. The invention also relates to the corresponding method. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057503 | Touch Sensor with Touch Object Discrimination - In one embodiment, a method includes conducting a first signal to a first source electrode external to a touch sensor. The first source electrode is capacitively coupled to the touch sensor through a touch object. The method further includes measuring a mutual capacitance between the first source electrode and the first measuring electrode. The method further includes identifying, based at least in part on the measured mutual capacitance and using a controller of the touch sensor, the touch object touching the touch sensor at a detected touch position. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057504 | METHOD FOR DETECTING TOUCH SPOTS OF TOUCH PANEL - A method for detecting a touch spot of the touch panel includes the following steps. The electrode pairs are scanned along the impedance direction for determining a first coordinate. A number of electrode pairs near the first coordinate are selected to obtain an electrode pair signal. The first driving electrodes of the selected electrode pairs are scanned to obtain a first signal. The second driving electrodes of the selected electrode pairs are scanned to obtain a second signal. A second coordinate is determined according to the electrode pair signal, first signal, and second signal. Finally, the touch spot is determined according to the first coordinate, and second coordinate. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057505 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE INPUT APPARATUS - An electromagnetic inductive input apparatus includes a signal transmitting device including a signal transmitter, and a signal receiving device. The signal receiving device includes a transparent substrate, first and second sets of transparent conductors disposed on the transparent substrate, and formed as spacedly arranged straight non-loop lines, and a control device electrically coupled to the transparent conductors and operable to detect a detected signal from the transparent conductors, and to determine a position of the signal transmitting device relative to the transparent substrate. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057506 | Touchscreen System - This disclosure describes systems and techniques for implementing a touchscreen. These systems and/or techniques enable processing of a signal generated from one or more sensors of a touchscreen to reduce noise and increase accuracy. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057507 | TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch screen apparatus and a driving method thereof are provided. The touch screen drive circuit performs a setup operation for selecting Tx lines to be supplied with the drive signal and Rx lines to receive the voltages of the touch sensors, a sensing operation for supplying a drive signal to the Tx lines and receiving and sampling touch sensor voltages through the Rx lines, an ADC operation for converting the sampled voltages into digital data, a coordinate detection operation for analyzing the digital data by a preset touch detection algorithm and estimating the coordinates of a touch input position, and a data transmission operation for transmitting touch coordinate data comprising the coordinates to an external system. At least two operations among the setup operation, the sensing operation, and the ADC operation are performed in parallel. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057508 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes an insulating substrate, a first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer. The insulating substrate has two opposite surfaces. The first conductive layer, fixed on one surface of the insulating substrate, has a minimum impedance along a first minimum impedance direction. The second conductive layer, fixed on the other surface of the insulating substrate, has a minimum impedance along a second minimum impedance direction. The first minimum impedance direction is substantially perpendicular to the second minimum impedance direction. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057509 | HAPTIC OUTPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING A HAPTIC EFFECT IN A HAPTIC OUTPUT DEVICE - A haptic output device includes a touch surface, a sensor configured to sense an input at the touch surface, and a controller configured to read the sensor, identify a location of the input, switch from a read mode to a write mode, and write a voltage based on the location of the input to generate an electrostatic output. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057510 | Resistive Touch Panel with Improved Termination - A resistive sensing touch panel may include row receiver tracks and column drive tracks. A controller may send and receive control signals and sense signals, respectively, to and from the resistive touch panel. The resistive touch panel may provide sense signals when a touch of the panel is detected. The sense signals may be sampled on a number of rows. When sampling a given row, the controller may change the termination of that row by coupling the end of the sampled row to a resistor having a higher value then terminating resistors coupled to the end of non-sampled rows that are adjacent to the sampled row. The controller may further pull the terminating resistors coupled to the end of the non-sampled adjacent rows to a supply rail voltage while the sampled row is being sampled. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057511 | CAPACITIVE SENSING DURING NON-DISPLAY UPDATE TIMES - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device with display screens that periodically update (refresh) the screen by selectively driving common electrodes corresponding to pixels in a display line. In general, the input devices drive each electrode until each display line (and each pixel) of a display frame is updated. In addition to updating the display, the input device may perform capacitive sensing using the display screen as a proximity sensing area. To do this, the input device may interleave periods of capacitive sensing between periods of updating the display based on a display frame. For example, the input device may update the first half of display lines of the display screen, pause display updating, perform capacitive sensing, and finish updating the rest of the display lines. Further still, the input device may use common electrodes for both updating the display and performing capacitive sensing. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057512 | DISTRIBUTED BLANKING FOR TOUCH OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device with display screens that periodically update (refresh) the screen by selectively driving common electrodes corresponding to pixels in a display line. In general, the input devices drive each electrode until each display line (and each pixel) of a display frame is updated. In addition to updating the display, the input device may perform capacitive sensing using the display screen as a proximity sensing area. To do this, the input device may interleave periods of capacitive sensing between periods of updating the display based on a display frame. For example, the input device may update the first half of display lines of the display screen, pause display updating, perform capacitive sensing, and finish updating the rest of the display lines. Further still, the input device may use common electrodes for both updating the display and performing capacitive sensing. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057513 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND RELATED DEVICE - A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, an isolating layer, and a conductor. The first electrode is disposed between the first substrate and the isolating layer, on which the conductor is disposed. Each of the second and third electrodes is disposed on the second substrate and includes a contact surface. The second and third electrodes are not in contact with each other and are separated by a gap. The conductor is disposed in accordance with the location of the gap. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057514 | Firmware Methods and Devices for a Mutual Capacitance Touch Sensing Device - Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and devices for operating a processor or host controller in a mutual capacitance sensing device. Methods and devices for sorting motion reports provided to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, reporting touch points to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, improving noise robustness and navigation performance in a mutual capacitance sensing device, determining a touch area of a user's finger on a touch panel or touchpad of a mutual capacitance sensing device, and avoiding false wakeups and minimizing power consumption in a mutual capacitance sensing device having a touch panel or touchpad are described. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057515 | DEPTH CAMERA AS A TOUCH SENSOR - Architecture that employs depth sensing cameras to detect touch on a surface, such as a tabletop. The act of touching is processed using thresholds which are automatically computed from depth image data, and these thresholds are used to generate a touch image. More specifically, the thresholds (near and far, relative to the camera) are used to segment a typical finger that touches a surface. A snapshot image is captured of the scene and a surfaced histogram is computed from the snapshot over a small range of deviations at each pixel location. The near threshold (nearest to the camera) is computed based on the anthropometry of fingers and hands, and associated posture during touch. After computing the surface histogram, the far threshold values (furthest from the camera) can be stored as an image of thresholds, used in a single pass to classify all pixels in the input depth image. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057516 | OPTICAL TOUCH-CONTROL SYSTEM WITH TRACK DETECTING FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - The optical touch-control system processing track detection includes a light source for emitting a specific light; a sensing array for sampling the specific light reflected by an instruction object in a predetermined period of time for accordingly generating a first and a second sensing image signals; a motion detector for determining the track of the instruction object for outputting a motion vector signal according to the first and the second sensing image signals; and a processor for controlling movement of a target object according to the motion vector signal and the predetermined period of time; wherein the instruction object moves within a first zone of the sensing array. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057517 | Optical Touch Panel System, Optical Apparatus and Positioning Method Thereof - The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system and a positioning method for positioning an object in a touch control area. The system includes: at least two reflective elements respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of the touch control area, wherein the sum of lengths of the first side and the second side is larger than the sum of lengths of the two reflective elements; two lighting elements respectively disposed on a third side and a fourth side of the touch control area; an image sensor forming projected images by capturing an image of the object and at least one mirror image of the object formed by the two reflective elements; and a processor calculating the coordinates of the object according to geometric information of the projected images. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057518 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSOR - Provided is a display device that has a photodetection element in a pixel and can automatically correct a photosensor signal during operation, while resolving offset error with respect to the true black level or white level. As operation modes, a sensor row driver ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130057519 | DISPLAY REFRESH SYSTEM - A display refresh system for video includes a refresh process that selects between two processes. A first process refreshes the entire display with a frame of the video based upon a change between frames of the video which is not based on explicit image motion. A second process refreshes a selected subset of the display based upon pixels of the display that have changed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057520 | DISPLAY, TIMING CONTROLLER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A display, a timing controller, and an operation method thereof are provided. The operation method includes following steps. A first row image data and a second row image data are received sequentially. A row display data and a horizontal clock signal are outputted according to the first row image data. The first row image data and the second row image data are compared. When the first row image data and the second row image data are equal, the output of the horizontal clock signal and the row display data generated based on the second row image data discontinues. When the first row image data and the second row image data are not equal, the horizontal clock signal and the row display data generated based on the second row image data are outputted. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057521 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels. The OLED display includes a first column including a plurality of the first pixels alternately arranged with a plurality of the second pixels; and a second column adjacent to the first column and comprising a plurality of the third pixels. One of the first pixels and one of the second pixels in the first column correspond to more than two of the third pixels in the second column. Rendering driving is applied such that high resolution of more than 350 pixels per inch (PPI) may be realized without deterioration of the image quality while the total number of pixels is smaller than in a pentile matrix arrangement. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057522 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control apparatus includes: a detection block configured to detect a difference between a plurality of pixel data forming image data; and a display control block configured to control switching of said plurality of pixel data based on a detection result. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057523 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY - A display panel includes, for each pixel, an organic EL device and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a first transistor to write an image signal and a second transistor to drive the organic EL device based on the image signal written by the first transistor, the second transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain. The organic EL device has an anode, an organic layer, and a cathode. The gate of the second transistor is a simple structure of a transparent conductive layer, or a stacked structure of a transparent conductive layer and a metallic conductive layer. The anode of the organic EL device has a layer that is formed on a same layer as the transparent conductive layer and is formed of a same material as the transparent conductive layer. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057524 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY FOR AN ITEM OF EQUIPMENT IN STANDBY MODE AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - Method for controlling a display device in an electronic device and associated control device. The electronic device includes a control unit and the display device comprising a plurality of display elements, a display controller and a switching circuit. The display elements have a plurality of pictograms. The display controller having a plurality of storage elements associated with the display elements. The method includes the steps of writing into the storage elements of a contents for display on the display elements, the configuration in standby mode of the electronic device making the storage elements associated with the display elements by the control unit inaccessible, the detection of an event to be indicated by display, and the control of a switching circuit to vary the active pictograms by alternately displaying the contents of at least two of the storage elements on the same display element. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057525 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a driving circuit, one output circuit has a scanning signal line, a first transistor which controls electrical connection between the scanning signal line and a clock signal line which has a gate connected to a first node, the first node which is at an active potential in a first time period including a time period during which the active potential is output to the scanning signal line, a second transistor which electrically connects the first node and an inactive signal line which has a potential to open the transistor in a second time period other than the first time period, and the second transistor has a gate connected to a second node, wherein the second node has two kinds of timings to be charged for retaining the active potential. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057526 | GENERATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, PLAYBACK DEVICE, GLASSES - A display device is provided. Negative image generating units | 2013-03-07 |
20130057527 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device that is capable of ensuring a wide dynamic range of an optical sensor even in the case where an offset due to ambient temperature changes is compensated with use of an output of a reference element. The display device has optical sensors in a pixel region of an active matrix substrate ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130057528 | TOUCH-SENSOR-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device having a photodetecting element in a pixel, and having an input function that is not dependent on light environments. This is a display device having an optical sensor in a pixel region. The optical sensor includes a first sensor pixel circuit that outputs a sensor signal corresponding to electric charges accumulated during an accumulation period in an ON time of a light source for the sensor; and a second sensor pixel circuit that that outputs a sensor signal corresponding to electric charges accumulated during an accumulation period in an OFF time of the light source. A sensor driving circuit for driving the first sensor pixie circuit and the second sensor pixel circuit supplies reset signals (RST | 2013-03-07 |
20130057529 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND POWER MANAGEMENT UNIT THEREOF - A power management unit of a mobile terminal. The power management unit includes a DC-DC converter configured to convert an input voltage into first and second output voltages, the mobile terminal also includes a first boosting circuit configured to boost the first output voltage to a first boosting voltage having a first polarity and to selectively apply the first boosting voltage to a display module of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal also includes a second boosting circuit configured to boost the second output voltage to a second boosting voltage having a second polarity that is opposite to the first polarity of the first boosting voltage, and to selectively apply the second boosting voltage to the display module of the mobile terminal. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057530 | POWER CONVERTING CIRCUIT OF A DISPLAY DRIVER - A power converting circuit of a display driver includes a positive voltage generator and a negative voltage generator. The positive voltage generator includes a first capacitive DC-DC converter and a first inductive DC-DC converter, and generates a positive source voltage by selectively using one of the first capacitive DC-DC converter, the first inductive DC-DC converter, or a first external power supply voltage. The negative voltage generator includes a second capacitive DC-DC converter and a second inductive DC-DC converter, and generates a negative source voltage by selectively using one of the second capacitive DC-DC converter, the second inductive DC-DC converter, or a second external power supply voltage. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057531 | DISPLAY DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A display driving circuit includes a semiconductor die, a logic control unit, a gray-scale voltage generation unit and a driving unit. The logic control unit is on a central region of the semiconductor die, and is configured to control the display driving circuit based on a control signal. The gray-scale voltage generation unit is on an edge region of the semiconductor die, and is configured to generate a plurality of gray-scale voltages based on an input voltage. The driving unit is on a region of the semiconductor die between the logic control unit and the gray-scale voltage generation unit, and is configured to generate a plurality of driving voltages based on the plurality of gray-scale voltages and input data. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057532 | PIXEL CIRCUIT OF ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit of an OLED display device is disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a driving TFT for driving the light emitting element, a delivery capacitor connected between a first node and a second node, a storage capacitor connected between the second node and a third node, a first reset TFT for initializing the first node to a reference voltage in response to a first reset signal from a first reset line, a second reset TFT for initializing the third node to an initialization voltage in response to the first reset signal from the first reset line, a third reset TFT for initializing the second node to the reference voltage in response to a second reset signal from a second reset line, and a switching TFT for supplying a data voltage to the first node in response to a scan signal from a scan line. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057533 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY - A stereoscopic image display includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels each including a main display unit and an auxiliary display unit, is divided into a first screen block and a second screen block, and includes a first discharge control line connected to auxiliary display units of the first screen block and a second discharge control line connected to auxiliary display units of the second screen block, a control voltage generator which generates a first discharge control voltage of a first AC waveform and a second discharge control voltage of a second AC waveform, of which a phase is later than a phase of the first AC waveform by a half frame period, and a control voltage delay unit which delays the first and second discharge control voltages. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057534 | LCD Panel and Method for Controlling Voltage Thereof - The present invention discloses an LCD panel, which includes a gate driver, a source driver, a plurality of gate lines and data lines. The gate lines and the data lines define a plurality of pixel units, and each pixel unit includes a TFT, a common electrode, and a pixel electrode. The data line is utilized to charge the pixel electrode. The LCD panel further includes a common electrode line, the common electrode line coupled to the common electrode. The common electrode line is utilized to provide alternating common electrode voltages to the common electrode, so that a voltage of the pixel electrode still approaches a target voltage by which the data line charges the pixel electrode when a gate voltage of the TFT is turned off. The present invention also provides a method for controlling voltages of the LCD panel. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057535 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel array and a driver, the pixel array including rows of scanning lines, rows of feeding lines, columns of signal lines, and a matrix of pixels disposed at the crossings of the scanning lines and the signal lines, the driver including a write scanner for supplying a control signal successively to the scanning lines, a power supply scanner for switching each of the feeding lines between a high potential, a low potential, and an intermediate potential between the high potential and the low potential, and a signal selector for supplying a video signal, which alternately switches between a signal potential and a reference potential, to each of the signal lines. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057536 | Method for relieving eye strain using animation - The invention presents a method using animation to relax the eyes and help the eyes to do exercises for the ciliary muscles and lens, and enhance the regulating function of the lens. The method does not require any dedicated device except a display screen to play the animation. The method can also interact with the users to provide entertainment. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057537 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH IMAGE CONVERSION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a display system includes: calculating a focus measure for an original image; calculating a segment mean based on the focus measure for a segment; generating an ordered segment based on the segment mean; generating a segment depth based on the ordered segment; and generating a three-dimensional image with the segment depth for displaying on a device. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057538 | Method for providing a rendering of the respiratory tract of a human or animal patient during or after an intervention - A method for rendering a respiratory tract of a patient during an intervention is proposed. During the intervention, a catheter is introduced into the respiratory tract. A 3D image data record is obtained both using an X-ray angiography apparatus and also using a computed tomography system respectively. These 3D image data records are combined to obtain a rendering, in which both the advantages of the good mapping of structures by the computed tomography unit and those of the current rendering respectively, for example in respect of the position of the catheter, by the X-ray angiography apparatus are utilized. Optionally a further combination with images from an endoscope is also possible. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057539 | Barrier Panel and Three Dimensional Image Display Device Using the Same - A barrier panel is disclosed which includes: upper and lower substrates opposite to each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper and lower substrates; a plurality of upper electrodes formed parallel to one another in a direction on the upper substrate; and a plurality of lower electrodes formed on the lower substrate in another direction parallel to the upper electrode, wherein the upper and lower electrodes are alternately disposed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057540 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL STEREO DRAWING - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for stereo drawing that enable the creation of stereoscopic image pairs. A stereo drawing system may present 3D shape(s) via a user interface (UI). The user can position and rotate a 3D shape, for example via direct manipulation technology such as motion tracking technology. A drawing surface may be mapped to an input device via which input strokes may be applied to the surface. The input strokes are mapped locally onto the surface, thereby allowing the user to draw onto a well-defined shape in 3D space. The stereo drawing system maps what is drawn onto the drawing surface; the geometry of the drawing surface provides depth information so that stereoscopic image pairs can be automatically generated. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057541 | 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 the image display apparatus includes entering a 3-dimensional (3D) mode, receiving color data and depth data of a 2-dimensional (2D) on screen display (OSD) according to the 3D mode, converting the 2D OSD into a 3D OSD using the color data and the depth data, and displaying a 3D image including the converted 3D OSD on a display. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057542 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus projecting 3D image data to 2D planar image data includes: an accumulation unit that accumulates the 3D image data having position coordinates and pixel values; an acquisition unit that acquires a display parameter, including a zoom parameter for changing image size, for the 2D image data to be created; a creation unit that creates the 2D image data from the 3D image data with the display parameter by determining a half view angle of the 3D image data and performing inverse projection transformation on the 2D image data while changing, in accordance with a change in the half view angle caused by the change in image size specified by the zoom parameter, an inverse projection transformation method applied to position coordinates used to create the 2D image data; and a display unit that displays the created 2D image data as a 2D planar image. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057543 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES - Systems and methods are disclosed for generating stereoscopic images for a user based on one or more images captured by one or more scene-facing cameras or detectors and the position of the user's eyes or other parts relative to a component of the system as determined from one or more images captured by one or more user-facing detectors. The image captured by the scene-facing detector is modified based on the user's eye or other position. The resulting image represents the scene as seen from the perspective of the eye of the user. The resulting image may be further modified by augmenting the image with additional images, graphics, or other data. Stereoscopic mechanisms may also be adjusted or configured based on the location or the user's eyes or other parts. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057544 | AUTOMATIC 3D CLOTHING TRANSFER METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed here is An automatic 3D clothing transfer method comprising the processes of: (a) inputting the first avatar wearing the input clothing and the second avatar which will wear the input clothing; (b) making the input clothing as skin on the first avatar so that the input clothing deforms to the shape change of the first avatar; (c) fitting the first avatar wearing the input clothing as skin to the shape of the second avatar; (d) deforming the input clothing to the fitted shape of the first avatar based on the skinning result of process (b); (e) separating the input clothing from the fitted first avatar and move it onto the second avatar; and (f) draping the clothing without any intersections in the second avatar wearing the separated input clothing. The present invention enables us to automatically drape any 3D clothing on games, movies, TVs and web sites onto any 3D avatar. Further, it provides an automatic 3D clothing transfer method and device, which allows for making the clothing compatible among different sizes, shapes, and topologies of avatars provided by individual online shopping service, thus, for constructing a automatic clothing transfer platform. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057545 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD AND - Reproducibility of a depth of a stereoscopic moving image is improved. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057546 | PANORAMIC EXPANSION IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING PANORAMIC EXPANSION IMAGE - A panoramic image display device divides a panoramic expansion image into at least two panoramic images and displays the panoramic images. The panoramic expansion image display device including: a clipping reference position setting unit that sets a clipping reference position for the panoramic expansion image; an object detection unit that detects an object as a display target from the panoramic expansion image; a clipping position determination unit that determines a clipping position of the panoramic image according to a relationship between a detected object position and the clipping reference position; and a display image generation unit that displays the panoramic image clipped from the panoramic expansion image at the clipping position. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057547 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE OF AN ORGAN - Provided are a method and apparatus for generating an image of an organ. A medical image is input in real time. The medical image is compared with an image previously obtained using a 3D model, and an image obtained by combining the medical image with the 3D model is output. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057548 | PROCESS FOR CREATING A MODEL OF A SURFACE OF A CAVITY WALL - A process for creating a surface model of a surface of a cavity wall ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130057549 | Tiling Process For Digital Image Retrieval - Techniques for digital image retrieval are described. In an embodiment a system stores a plurality of tiles for a plurality of versions of a particular image. Each respective image of the plurality of versions has a different resolution. Each respective tile of the plurality of tiles comprises a bounded region of the respective version of the particular image. Based on a display resolution where a portion of the particular image will be visible, the system determines a final image resolution for the particular image. The system fetches one or more tiles of the respective version of the particular image that has the final resolution. The one or more tiles include the portion of the particular image that will be displayed. The system applies the one or more tiles to a model and renders the model. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057550 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAP DRAWING SYSTEM - A three-dimensional map is provided by preserving its scale. The three-dimensional map is drawn based on prepared landscape feature data which three-dimensionally draws roads, buildings, and other landscape features. The landscape feature data is generated by a parallel projection method which projects an actual landscape feature (CST | 2013-03-07 |
20130057551 | Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Tools - A system and method for visually displaying and analyzing criminal and/or public health and safety data for geospatial and/or time variations, including the collection of incident data coupled with geographic and time data, filtering the symptom data based upon a selected time period and geographic range, and creating a visual result based upon statistical modeling including power transform and/or data normalization. According to at least one embodiment, the system for visually displaying and analyzing includes selecting and performing at least one aberration detection method and displaying the result to a user via a visual analytics arrangement. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057552 | DRAWING APPARATUS AND DRAWING METHOD - A data converter ( | 2013-03-07 |
20130057553 | Smart Display with Dynamic Font Management - An electronic display is provided that can include any number of features. In some embodiments, the display includes sensors, such as a camera, configured to detect a user parameter of a user positioned before the display. The user parameter can be, for example, an age of the user or a distance of the user from the screen. The display can include a processor configured to adjust a font or icon size on the display based on the detected user parameter. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057554 | CONSOLIDATING GLYPHS OF A FONT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for consolidating one or more glyphs of a font. A common contour, comprising a glyph contour that occurs more than once in one or more glyphs of the font, can be identified. A common simple glyph can be created for the identified common contour. A reference to the common simple glyph can replace one or more occurrences of the common contour in the one or more glyphs of the font. Given that the common simple glyph is generally smaller than the common contour, an amount of font related data for the font can be reduced, thus reducing overhead associated with storing and/or presenting the font. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057555 | Transition Animation Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a transition animation system detecting a screen size of a display screen associated with a computing device executing an application, automatically generating, based on the detected screen size, a plurality of animation step values each corresponding to a different animation step included in a plurality of animation steps that are to be involved in an animation of a transition of a user interface associated with the application into the display screen, and directing the computing device to perform the plurality of animation steps in accordance with the generated animation step values. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057556 | Avatars in Social Interactive Television - Virtual environments are presented on displays along with multimedia programs to permit viewers to participate in a social interactive television environment. The virtual environments include avatars that are created and maintained in part using continually updated animation data that may be captured from cameras that monitor viewing areas in a plurality of sites. User input from the viewers may be processed in determining which viewers are presented in instances of the virtual environment. Continually updating the animation data results in avatars accurately depicting a viewer's facial expressions and other characteristics. Presence data may be collected and used to determine when to capture background images from a viewing area that may later be subtracted during the capture of animation data. Speech recognition technology may be employed to provide callouts within a virtual environment. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057557 | HIGH AREA STACKED LAYERED METALLIC STRUCTURES AND RELATED METHODS - This disclosure provides implementations of high surface area stacked layered metallic structures, devices, apparatus, systems, and related methods. A plurality of stacked layers on a substrate may be manufactured from a plating bath including a first metal and a second metal. A modulated plating current can deposit alternate first metal layers and alloy layers, the alloy layers including the first metal and the second metal. Gaps between the alloy layers can be formed by selectively etching some portions of the first metal layers to define a stacked layered structure. Stacked layered structures may be useful in applications to form capacitors, inductors, catalytic reactors, heat transfer tubes, non-linear springs, filters, batteries, and heavy metal purifiers. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057558 | MECHANICAL LAYER AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for controlling a mechanical layer. In one aspect, an electromechanical systems device includes a substrate and a mechanical layer positioned over the substrate to define a gap. The mechanical layer is movable in the gap between an actuated position and a relaxed position, and includes a mirror layer, a cap layer, and a dielectric layer disposed between the mirror layer and the cap layer. The mechanical layer is configured to have a curvature in a direction away from the substrate when the mechanical layer is in the relaxed position. In some implementations, the mechanical layer can be formed to have a positive stress gradient directed toward the substrate that can direct the curvature of the mechanical layer upward when the sacrificial layer is removed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057559 | DISPLAY DEVICES - A display device includes a panel including pixels defined by data lines and gate lines, a housing chassis covering a sidewall and an edge of the panel, a printed circuit board under the panel, the printed circuit board including circuit elements configured to generate at least one of a data signal, a gate signal, and a control signal, a chip on film connecting the printed circuit board to the panel, the chip on film between the housing chassis and the sidewall of the panel, a driver integrated circuit mounted on the chip on film and configured to respond to the control signal and drive at least one of the data signal and the gate signal applied to the data lines and the gate lines, and a connection unit attaching the chip on film to the housing chassis and dissipating heat generated by the driver integrated circuit to the housing chassis. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057560 | Delivering GPU Resources Across Machine Boundaries - Described herein is providing GPU resources across machine boundaries. Data centers tend to have racks of servers that have limited access to GPUs. Accordingly, disclosed herein is providing GPU resources to computing devices that have limited access to GPUs across machine boundaries. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING GRAPHICS CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN APPLICATION PROCESS TO A DISPLAY AREA MANAGED BY ANOTHER PROCESS - A system and method for displaying graphics content associated with a software application process executing on a computing device in a display area managed by another process executing on the computing device are described. The system includes a processing unit and a memory. The memory contains instructions, which, when executed by the processing unit, cause the graphics content associated with the software application process being executed by the processing unit to be displayed within a display area managed by another process being executed by the processing unit by performing a number of steps. The steps include intercepting one or more function calls issued from the software application process. The steps also include capturing an image stored in a first portion of memory in response to intercepting the one or more function calls. The steps further include displaying the captured image in the display area managed by the other process. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057562 | MEMORY COPY ENGINE FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING - The example techniques described in this disclosure may be directed to interaction between a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a system memory. For example, the GPU may include a memory copy engine that handles tasks related to accessing data that is stored or is to be stored in the system memory. In addition, in some examples, the memory copy engine may perform additional tasks such as modification tasks to increase the performance of the GPU. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057563 | Technique for GPU Command Scheduling - A technique for scheduling the dispatching of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) commands is described. A method implementation of this technique comprises receiving commands from a plurality of applications, buffering the received commands, and dispatching the buffered commands as a command batch towards a GPU. The dispatching is scheduled such that a GPU idle period is created between two successive command batches dispatched towards the GPU. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057564 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A system control unit | 2013-03-07 |
20130057565 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In order to reduce power consumption of a display device when a still picture is to be displayed, a display area of the device is subdivided into a plurality of Still Picture Refresh Groups (SPRGoP's), with each SPRGoP consisting of n pixels. All n of the pixels are charged in every one of sequential frames when a motion picture mode is in effect. Less than all of the n pixels of each SPRGoP are refreshed in each frame of an N-frame refresh cycle when a still picture mode is in effect. Different schemes for cycling through the n pixels of each SPRGoP are disclosed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057566 | USER INTERFACE WITH COLOR THEMES BASED ON INPUT IMAGE DATA - An application determines a colorization strategy for its graphical user interface according to colors of an input image. In particular, given one or more colors from the input image, and a plurality of elements of the graphical user interface, the colors for the elements of the graphical user interface are selected. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057567 | Color Space Conversion for Mirror Mode - The same pixel stream may be displayed on an internal display and an external display while maintaining the original aspect ratio corresponding to the internal display dimensions. A connector with limited number of pins may only support a two-wire display port interface to the external display, which may not provide enough bandwidth to transmit the full resolution image to the external display. To transmit the full resolution image, a color space conversion from RGB space to YCbCr color space may be performed. The Luma component may be transmitted at full resolution, while the chroma components may be scaled. Accordingly, there is no loss of image resolution, while some amount of color resolution may be lost. However, there is no need to retime frames within the system on chip (SOC), and the same pixel stream may be used as the basis for display on both the internal and the external display. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057568 | LCD OVERDRIVING METHOD AND DEVICE AND LCD - A liquid crystal display (LCD) overdriving method, an LCD overdriving device and an LCD are disclosed. The LCD overdriving method improves displaying quality and a response speed of the LCD comprising the following steps of: receiving by a scaling controller, a previous frame image grayscale value stored into a frame buffer of the scaling controller; receiving a next frame image grayscale value by the scaling controller and sending the previous frame image grayscale value and the next frame image grayscale value to a time schedule controller so that the time schedule controller looks up a lookup table and outputs an overdriving grayscale value. The present disclosure can effectively save the cost by eliminating the need of providing an additional frame buffer in the time schedule controller. Furthermore, as image grayscale values of only two pixels need to be stored in the time schedule controller, it can save more memory spaces. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057569 | 2D-2D FUSION FOR INTERVENTIONAL GUIDANCE IN TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION - A method for fusing 2D fluoroscopic images with 2D angiographic images for real-time interventional procedure guidance includes using a 2-dimensional angiographic image to detect injection of a contrast agent into an anatomical structure, where the contrast agent first appears in a detected image frame, subtracting a background image from the detected image frame and binarizing the subtracted image frame to segment the anatomical structure from the subtracted image frame, registering the segmented anatomical structure with a predefined shape model of the anatomical structure to generate an anatomical mask, generating an anatomical probability map from the anatomical mask using intensity information from the subtracted image frame, where the anatomical probability map expresses a probability of a pixel in the subtracted image frame belonging to the anatomical structure, and fusing the angiographic image with one or more subsequently acquired 2-dimensional fluoroscopic images of the anatomical structure using the anatomical probability map. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057570 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus including an image display unit in which a plurality of pixels have self light-emitting elements is arranged, a first unit configured to accumulate a luminance decrease amount per unit time for each of the pixels, and to set the accumulated amount as a first luminance decrease amount, a second unit configured to detect a current flowing in the self light-emitting element or a voltage value of the self light-emitting element for each of the pixels, and to calculate a second luminance decrease amount from a detected current value or voltage value, and a correction unit configured to correct input image data using one of the first luminance decrease amount or the second luminance decrease amount. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057571 | Display Orientation Control - In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method, apparatus, and computer program code to perform the operations of, determining whether there is a corresponding change of a position of a user of the portable electronic device with respect to the display, and in response to the determining indicating that there is not a corresponding change of the position of the user with respect to the display, maintaining a display orientation of information on the display. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057572 | Multiple Display Device Taskbars - Multiple display device taskbars are described. A system is described that includes at least one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are operable to configure a display environment of a computing device to display a first taskbar for display on a first display device of the display environment, the first taskbar configured to include a representation of a plurality of applications that are executed by the computing device. The one or more modules are also operable to configure a second taskbar for display on a second display device of the display environment, the second taskbar configured to include a representation of at least one application that corresponds to a user interface configured for output on the second display device and does not include a representation of another application that corresponds to a user interface configured for output on the first display device. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057573 | Smart Display with Dynamic Face-Based User Preference Settings - An electronic display is provided that can include any number of features. In some embodiments, the display includes sensors, such as a camera, configured to detect a user parameter of a user positioned before the display. The user parameter can be, for example, an age of the user, a distance of the user from the screen, a head angle of the user, a time the user has been positioned before the display, or an ambient light level. The display can include a processor configured to adjust a user preference or display an indicator to the user based on the detected user parameter. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057574 | STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An example program causes a computer connected to a display device to function as: a rendering unit rendering a virtual object image by imaging a virtual object mimicking an object to be displayed with a virtual camera; a virtual camera setting unit setting parameters for the virtual camera; a switching condition determination unit determining that the switching conditions are satisfied when a shooting angle of the virtual camera relative to the virtual object becomes within a predetermined range; an output control unit outputting an image to the display device; and a switching unit switching the output image to be output by the output control unit from the virtual object image to an image for switching which is preliminarily obtained by imaging the object to be displayed from a shooting angle corresponding to the predetermined range according to the switching conditions, when it is determined that the switching conditions are satisfied. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057575 | Stereoscopic Image Display Device And Method For Driving The Same - Stereoscopic image display devices and methods of driving the same. The display device is configurable to display 2D images in a 2D mode and multi-view images in a 3D mode, and includes an optical plate configured to pass through images in the 2D mode, and separate images in the 3D mode; a user detector configured to detect the number of users, and output detection data including the number of the users; a view mode controller configured to calculate the optimum number of views according to the number of the users, and select a view mode based on the number of the optimum views; and a multi-view images converter configured to output image data in the 2D mode without conversion, and convert the image data into multi-view image data for separation according to the number of the views in the selected view mode. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057576 | DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A display method and an electronic device using the same are provided. The display method is used in an electronic device. The display method includes the following steps. Firstly, a first environmental parameter is sensed by a sensing module. Then, a static layer and a dynamic layer corresponding to the static layer are displayed according to the first environmental parameter. The dynamic layer includes at least one dynamic object, which presents a first displaying state. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057577 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are discussed. The method for operating the image display apparatus includes entering a multi-input display mode of the image display apparatus, displaying first and second images respectively viewable by first and second user on a display of the image display apparatus according to the multi-input display mode, and, if a first input is received, displaying a first object corresponding to the first input to overlap any one of the first and second images. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057578 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a plurality of input images are a plurality of divided images or a plurality of independent images, an adding unit that adds a margin image to an edge portion of each input image, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the plurality of input images to each of which the margin image has been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of divided images, and performs image processing on the plurality of images to each of which the margin image generated from another input image has not been added when the plurality of input images are the plurality of independent, and a synthesizing unit that generates one synthesized image by synthesizing the plurality of input images on which image processing has been performed by the image processing unit. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057579 | Methods for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company - Methods are provided for creating dynamic lists from selected areas of a power system of a utility company. The utility company has an energy management system with a control panel. The energy management system is used to access one or more source displays of a site. Rubber-banding or lassoing is used to create selected areas from at least a portion of the source displays. Lists are dynamically created. Operator defined information is displayed for each element type in a list of network elements from the selected areas that have been rubber-banded or lassoed. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057580 | System and Method for Generating and Displaying Climate System Models - An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for generating and displaying climate system models. A data collector automatically extracts global earth data from multiple data sources, wherein the global earth data includes image data and/or text data. The global earth data includes atmospheric data, hydrospheric data, lithospheric data, cryospheric data, biospheric data, and/or anthrospheric data. A processor connected to the data collector generates global images based on the extracted global earth data, wherein the global images display the global earth data on a map. A display connected to the processor displays at least one second global image on a first global image. The first global image includes first global earth data for a select geographic area; and, the second global image includes second global earth data for the select geographic area. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057581 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING VIRTUAL INFORMATION IN A VIEW OF A REAL ENVIRONMENT - A method of displaying virtual information in a view of a real environment comprising the following steps: providing a system for displaying of virtual information in a view of a real environment, determining a current pose of at least one part of the system relative to at least one part of the real environment and providing accuracy information of the current pose, providing multiple pieces of virtual information, and assigning a respective one of the pieces of virtual information to one of different parameters indicative of different pose accuracy information, and displaying at least one of the pieces of virtual information in the view of the real environment according to the accuracy information of the current pose in relation to the assigned parameter of the at least one of the pieces of virtual information. | 2013-03-07 |
20130057582 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus capable of displaying information about an object detected from a captured image causes a display unit to display information corresponding to even an object that cannot be detected from the captured image, if the information is relevant to a query input by a user. | 2013-03-07 |