12th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130069929 | CIRCUITS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display includes an array of light modulators each having a first actuator and a second actuator. A control matrix includes a circuit having a first state inverter having an output coupled to an input of a second state inverter. A data store capacitor is coupled to an input of the first inverter and configured to store a data voltage corresponding to a future pixel state of the pixel. A first update interconnect is coupled to the first state inverter and configured such that altering a voltage applied to the first update interconnect causes the first actuator to respond to the stored data voltage. A second update interconnect is coupled to the second state inverter and configured such that altering a voltage applied to the second update interconnect causes the second actuator to respond to a voltage state of the first inverter. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069930 | SHIFT REGISTER, SCANNING SIGNAL LINE DRIVE CIRCUIT, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal, an output terminal that outputs an other-stage control signal, a first node of which a potential is controlled based on a set signal and a clear signal, a thin-film transistor that provides a potential of a second clock to the output terminal when a potential of the first node is at a high level, a thin-film transistor that provides a potential of a first clock to the output terminal when a potential of the first node is at a high level, and a thin-film transistor for changing a potential of the other-stage control signal to a low level based on a reset signal. The first clock is generated by a power source of a different system from the second clock, and has a smaller amplitude than that of the second clock. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069931 | CORRELATING MOVEMENT INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES - A system is described herein which receives internal-assessed (IA) movement information from a mobile device. The system also receives external-assessed (EA) movement information from at least one monitoring system which captures a scene containing the mobile device. The system then compares the IA movement information with the EA movement information with respect to each candidate object in the scene. If the IA movement information matches the EA movement information for a particular candidate object, the system concludes that the candidate object is associated with the mobile device. For example, the object may correspond to a hand that holds the mobile device. The system can use the correlation results produced in the above-indicated manner to perform various environment-specific actions. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069932 | ADJUSTABLE DEPTH LAYERS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A system and method for generating a three-dimensional image using depth layers is provided. A plurality of depth layers may be generated from the image, where each depth layer has a height, a width, and a thickness. Certain regions of the image may be assigned to one of the plurality of depth layers. A depth map may be generated based on the depth layers. Further, a disparity map may be generated based on both the depth map and the depth layers. A stereo view of the image may then be rendered based on the disparity map. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069933 | TRANSPARENT MULTI-VIEW MASK FOR 3D DISPLAY SYSTEMS - A multi-view mask apparatus for creating a three-dimensional (3D) display. The apparatus includes a relay lens assembly that is non-inverting of images passed through the relay lens assembly including images of background objects. The apparatus includes a mask display device concurrently displaying first and second mask content via the relay lens assembly. The first mask content is viewable from a first point of view (POV) and the second mask content is viewable from a second POV or the first mask content is apparent from a first light source direction and the second mask content is apparent from a second light source direction. The relay lens assembly includes four lenticular sheets arranged into first and second pairs with adjacent back sides. The mask display device is disposed in one pair between two lenticular sheets and operated to display the first and second mask content as interlaced images under the lenticules. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069934 | System and Method of Rendering Stereoscopic Images - In some embodiments, a method of rendering a stereoscopic image based on a two-dimensional image frame and a depth map comprises generating a saliency map of the two-dimensional image frame, determining a region where is located an object of focus from the saliency map, modifying the depth map such that a range of depth values in the depth map that is associated the object of focus is redistributed toward a depth level of a display screen, and generating a virtual stereoscopic image frame based on the modified depth map and the two-dimensional image frame. In other embodiments, systems of rendering stereoscopic images are also described. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069935 | DEPTH GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A depth generation method adapted for a 2D to 3D image conversion device is provided. The depth generation method includes the following steps. Motion vectors in an image frame are obtained by motion estimation. A global motion vector of the image frame is obtained. Motion differences between the motion vectors of each block and the global motion vector are calculated. A depth-from-motions of each block is obtained based on the motion differences. Furthermore, a depth generation apparatus using the same is also provided. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069936 | FEATURE-BASED DATA STRUCTURE FOR DIGITAL MANIKIN - A feature-based data structure of a digital manikin for describing the exterior features of a body comprises a plurality of feature points of the body, a plurality of girth lines, and a plurality of meridian lines. The girth lines pass through the feature points. Each of the meridian lines is formed by connecting the corresponding feature points respectively out of the girth lines. The girth lines of an arm of the body include an arm-hole girth, an elbow girth, and a palm base girth. The arm-hole girth passes through the shoulder end point, the front arm pit, and the rear arm pit. The elbow girth passes through the concave and convex points on the elbow girth. The palm base girth means the location where the size variation of the cross-sectional profile from the fore arm to the palm is the largest. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069937 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTENTS GENERATION METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a contents generation method thereof are provided. A first mode and a second mode are provided. In the first mode, a position of at least one object is determined in response to depth information of the at least one object and the at least one object is displayed at the determined position. In the second mode, contents including the at least one object are displayed as a stereoscopic image. Conversion between the first mode and the second mode is controlled on the basis of a motion of the electronic device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069938 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal is disclosed, which enables a user to change and view a 2D image and/or a 3D image on a display unit by changing a view angle without manipulation of an input unit. The present invention includes a display panel configured to display a plurality of output images, a multi-view angle panel provided in front of the display panel to provide a user with a prescribed one of a plurality of the output images in accordance with a plurality of preset view angles, and a controller partitioning the display panel into a plurality of display regions, the controller partitioning a plurality of the output images into a plurality of partitioned images to correspond to the number of a plurality of the display regions, the controller controlling the display panel to display a plurality of the partitioned images on a plurality of the display regions. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069939 | CHARACTER IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FOOTSKATE CLEANUP IN REAL TIME ANIMATION - Provided are an apparatus and method for cleaning up footskate in real-time character animation that is generated using a depth camera. According to an aspect, a character image processing apparatus determines, when a character image frame is received, whether a character's foot included in the character image frame reaches a predetermined ground; sets a first character image frame in which a character's foot reaches the predetermined ground as a reference constraint frame; and designates the character's foot position in the reference constraint frame as a reference foot position. Then, the character image processing apparatus extracts any constraint frames in which the character's foot has to reach the predetermined ground from among character image frames received sequentially following the reference constraint frame, and adjusts a posture of the character in each constraint frame based on the reference foot position. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069940 | Systems And Methods For Projecting Images Onto An Object - In one embodiment, a method for projecting images on a subject includes determining a pose and position of the subject, adjusting a three-dimensional model of an anatomical structure of the subject to match the determined pose and position, and projecting an image of the anatomical structure onto the subject in registration with the actual anatomical structure of the subject to illustrate the location of the structure on or within the subject. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069941 | NAVIGATIONAL AID HAVING IMPROVED PROCESSING OF DISPLAY DATA - A technique for processing display data on a screen for a navigational aid between a current position point and a destination point by comparing the distance from the current position with a threshold distance, processing display data, controlling a command of the display on the screen, respectively from the bottom to the top of the screen: a first 3-D representation, according to a perspective defined with a first angle of view in relation to a selected plane, of a panorama separated from the current position point by a distance that is less than said threshold distance; and a second representation, according to a perspective defined with a second angle of view in relation to said selected plane, of a panorama separated from the current position point by a distance that is greater than said threshold distance, the first angle being smaller than the second angle. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069942 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONVERTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE USING DEPTH MAP INFORMATION - One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a apparatus for converting a three-dimensional image using depth map information. The apparatus comprise a depth map estimation unit which estimates the depth map information for each pixel present in each frame of input image data, a depth map application unit which moves each pixel by the depth map information in the X-axis direction, a 3D image interpolation unit which, when a blank pixel occurs in the frame due to the movement, forms an interpolated pixel in the blank pixel by applying a weight to adjacent pixels of the blank pixel, and a 3D image rendering processing unit which renders a left-eye image and a right-eye image to which the interpolated pixel is applied. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069943 | OPTIMIZING RESOLVE PERFORMANCE WITH TILING GRAPHICS ARCHITECTURES - Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of processing graphics that includes organizing graphics data into a plurality of polygons and assigning to each of the polygons a polygon index value that indicates an order in which each polygon will be rendered. The method also includes associating pixels of graphics data with one of the polygon index values and determining when the pixels of graphics data will finish rendering based at least partially on the association of the pixels to the one of the polygon index values. The method also includes resolving the pixels of video data based on the determination. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069944 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAP SYSTEM - A method of operating a three-dimensional (3D) map system including: receiving an image and a geo-location tag of the image; determining a building model for a physical building corresponding to an object captured in the image based on the geo-location tag; mapping, on a region-by-region basis, the image to a stored facade of the building model; and mapping, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the image to the stored facade of the building model for displaying the image as a new facade of the building. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069945 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES OF THE HEART - This invention describes a method, the starting point of which is a three-dimensional image of the heart. A region of interest is defined on said image. Moreover, the surface which will be represented in the display in the form of a three-dimensional polygon mesh is defined. Each vertex of the mesh is associated with a function which assigns weights to each element in the region of interest. Display parameters are assigned to the vertices using said functions together with the intensity values of the elements in the region of interest. Said parameters are used to generate the interactive display of the surface. One application of the method would be the use thereof to help to characterize the myocardial substrate of ventricular tachycardia in patients with ischemic heart disease and to guide ablation procedures for correcting said tachycardia. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCURATE MEASUREMENT WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Certain examples provide collaboration systems, apparatus, and methods to facilitate display, review, and annotation of image data on a small display. An example method includes determining an initial display resolution by comparing an image dimension at an image display resolution and an available screen dimension of the reduced size display screen. The example method includes, based on a selected region of interest in an image, displaying the selected region of interest at the initial display resolution. The example method includes, using the selected region of interest, displaying image data in the selected region of interest to set a plurality of data points via user interaction with a touchscreen display. The example method includes computing a potential error introduced for a measurement between the plurality of data points based on a tolerance value. The example method includes adjusting the image display resolution and zoom based on the potential error. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069947 | CALCULATING DISPLAY SETTINGS AND ACCURATELY RENDERING AN OBJECT ON A DISPLAY - In one embodiment, a system for displaying parameters of an original object on a display is described. The system includes a user interface that displays data. The system further includes a system for calculating pixels per distance and displaying parameters of an image on the display device. The system calculates the pixels per distance ratio by displaying a width and height parameter on the display and adjusting the width and height parameter to correspond to a standard sized object. The system calculates the pixels per distance ratio based on the adjusted width and height parameters. The system is further configured to receive an image from a provider to for display. At least one parameter of the image from the provider as displayed corresponds to at least one parameter of the original object. The corresponding parameters of the image and original object share approximately the same geometric dimensions. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING DATA RELATING TO CONSUMPTION DATA - A system, method and device for processing data are provided. The method comprises: determining a start point and an end point in a set of datapoints; determining a scale for a range of values for the set between the start and end points; determining a first segment in a first subset of datapoints in the set; determining a first boundary for the first segment in the scale; determining a second segment in a second subset in the set; and generating a graphical representation of the datapoints on an output device. The representation includes: an axis for the scale; first and second markers for the first and second boundaries; first and second graphical features representing the first and second segments, the first feature spanning a first length along the axis, the second feature spanning a second length along the axis; and a first indicator for a first datapoint in the set. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING, PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING DATA RELATING TO CONSUMPTION DATA - A system, method and device for generating and processing data are provided. The method comprises: generating a first graphical representation of data, such as consumption data, over a period of time with band showing ranges of consumption at various times and generating a second graphical representation of the data as a snapshot of the consumption data a target time in the period of time. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069950 | Data Processing Environment Integration Control Interface - A system and method for controlling an integration of data processing resources. A first graphical element corresponding to a first endpoint node is displayed, wherein the first endpoint node corresponds to first data processing resources in a data processing environment. A second graphical element corresponding to a second endpoint node is displayed, wherein the second endpoint node corresponds to second data processing resources in the data processing environment, wherein the second data processing resources comprise data processing resources provided as a service by a provider of data processing resources. A third graphical element corresponding to an integration node is displayed. An arrangement of the first graphical element, the second graphical element, and the third graphical element is displayed, wherein the arrangement depicts integration of the first data processing resources and the second data processing resources by the integration node. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING, PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING DATA RELATING TO CONSUMPTION DATA WITH AN APPLICATION - A system, method and device for integrating consumption data with an application operating on a device are provided. The method comprises: accessing calendar data stored in memory relating to calendar entries; accessing consumption data stored in memory; and generating a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display for the device. The GUI comprises: a table containing at least one day entry and at least one time entry for the at least one day entry; a first graphical representation in the table representing a calendar entry in the calendar data for the at least one day entry, when applicable; and a second graphical representation in the table representing a consumption data level in the consumption data for the at least one day entry. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069952 | Text-to-Visual Switching and Mapping - System, methods and computer-readable mediums for generating a visual representation of a continuous computation language (CCL) document. The CCL document includes one or more CCL statements. For each CCL statement, a text-to-visual mapping module converts each CCL statements to visual objects as a representation of instruction logic of the CCL document graphically on a display device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069953 | User Interface Feature Generation - An example embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: obtain a representation of an appearance of a physical device type; obtain one or more current backgrounds used in a desktop of a specific physical device; and generate a device icon relating to the specific physical device by associating the obtained one or more backgrounds with the representation of appearance of the physical device type, wherein the generated device icon is displayed on a display as a user interface feature. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069954 | Method of Transforming Time-Based Drawings and Apparatus for Performing the Same - A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method including: rendering a first object on a display, the first object having first location coordinates and first temporal coordinates, in which the first location coordinates define a first drawing and each first location coordinate is associated with a respective temporal coordinate; receiving input defining a second object, the second object having second location coordinates and second temporal coordinates, in which the second location coordinates define a second drawing and each second location coordinate is associated with a respective second temporal coordinate; applying a transformation to the first location coordinate(s) responsive to receiving each second location coordinate, based on a most recently received second location coordinate and generating an animation by rendering the transformed first location coordinate(s) on the display according to the respective first temporal coordinates. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069955 | Hierarchical Representation of Time - A method performed by a data processing apparatus, in which the method includes selecting an object in which the object represents input defining a drawing, each drawing comprising location coordinates and temporal coordinates, in which each location coordinate is associated with a respective temporal coordinate; associating the object with a respective clock in a hierarchy of clocks, each clock in the hierarchy having a respective rate of progression that is coupled to the rate of progression of one or more parent clocks in the hierarchy; and generating an animation by drawing the location coordinates according to the rate of progression of the clock associated with the object. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computing platforms and computer program products. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069956 | Transforming Time-Based Drawings - A method performed by a data processing apparatus, in which the method includes determining multiple first temporal coordinates, while receiving input defining a drawing from an input device, the drawing including multiple first object location coordinates received during a time period, in which each first temporal coordinate is based on a time when a respective one of the first object coordinates was received, receiving an input defining an animation period, applying a transformation to the first temporal coordinates to provide multiple transformed temporal coordinates respectively corresponding to the first image location coordinates, and periodically generating, based on the animation period, an animation by drawing the first object location coordinates according to the respective transformed temporal coordinates. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computing platforms and computer program products. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069957 | Method and Device for Playing Animation and Method and System for Displaying Animation Background - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for playing an animation, belonging to a communication technology field. The method includes obtaining a first attribute value of an animation object of the current moment when an audio signal is detected, and determining a second attribute value and a first speed value corresponding to the audio signal; taking the first attribute value and second attribute value respectively as a starting point and end point, and playing the animation object according to the first speed value; and stopping, when the audio signal stops, playing the animation object if the playing of the animation object does not end. The device includes an audio starting animation playing module and an audio ending animation playing module. In embodiments, the playing of the animation is achieved through detecting the audio signal and playing the animation object combing the audio signal, which achieves the effect of the animation and enriches the displaying effect. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069958 | ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE WITH OPTICAL FUNCTION SEPARATED FROM MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL FUNCTION - A microelectromechanical (MEMS) device includes a substrate, a movable element over the substrate, and an actuation electrode above the movable element. The movable element includes a deformable layer and a reflective element. The deformable layer is spaced from the reflective element. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069959 | RENDERING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS - A rendering device includes a temporary memory, plural rendering processors, and a rendering controller. The temporary memory stores one or more rendering instructions and rendered results therefor in association with each other. The plural rendering processors each perform rendering processing in accordance with a rendering instruction, store the one or more rendering instructions and rendered results in association with each other in the temporary memory, when one or more similar rendering instructions exist for pages for which rendering processing was consecutively performed, and read and use the rendered results, in a case where rendered results associated with one or more rendering instructions are stored in the temporary memory. The rendering controller controls assigning a given rendering instruction to a corresponding one of the rendering processors in accordance with a given page editing instruction and causing the corresponding one of the rendering processors to perform rendering processing. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069960 | MULTISTAGE COLLECTOR FOR OUTPUTS IN MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS - Aspects include a multistage collector to receive outputs from plural processing elements. Processing elements may comprise (each or collectively) a plurality of clusters, with one or more ALUs that may perform SIMD operations on a data vector and produce outputs according to the instruction stream being used to configure the ALU(s). The multistage collector includes substituent components each with at least one input queue, a memory, a packing unit, and an output queue; these components can be sized to process groups of input elements of a given size, and can have multiple input queues and a single output queue. Some components couple to receive outputs from the ALUs and others receive outputs from other components. Ultimately, the multistage collector can output groupings of input elements. Each grouping of elements (e.g., at input queues, or stored in the memories of component) can be formed based on matching of index elements. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069961 | PROJECTOR, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A projector of an embodiment is provided with: an input line memory which holds an input image signal corresponding to one line; an image processor which generates an intermediate image signal correction-processed according to distortion of a projection lens, using the input image signal transferred from the input line memory; an output line memory which holds the intermediate image signal corresponding to one line; and an LCOS which guides light radiated from a light source to the projection lens in accordance with the intermediate image signal. The image processor is provided with an input supplementation buffer which stores the input image signals of a plurality of lines, an input data buffer which stores input image signals required to generate the intermediate image signal corresponding to one line, and a number-of-supplementary-lines calculator which calculates the number of supplementary lines of the input image signals. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069962 | Active Lock Wallpapers - The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology in which a mobile device such as a phone automatically changes its lock wallpaper content (e.g., an image or video) that appears when the device is in its lock state. An API or the like allows information to be received from an application or service according to which the content is changed, including obtaining the content as needed. The lock wallpaper content may change in response to an automatic change event, and may correspond to a current device context. For example, lock wallpaper content may be displayed based upon a currently playing podcast, audio track, or currently running application program or service. The lock wallpaper may change among content obtained from a social networking site, or from a favorites store. The device may allow gesturing to change the content. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069963 | Integration of Graphical Application Content into the Graphical Scene of Another Application - This application describes a system that captures 3D geometry commands from a first 3D graphics process and stores them in a shared memory. A second 3D environment process creates a 3D display environment using a display and display hardware. A third process obtains the 3D commands and supplies them to the hardware to place 3D objects in the 3D environment. The result is a fused display environment where 3D objects are displayed along with other display elements. Input events in the environment are analyzed and mapped to the 3D graphics process or the environment where they affect corresponding processing. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COMPLIMENTARY STATE RETENTION - A method, integrated circuit and apparatus are operative to control a plurality of passive variable resistance memory cells to store complimentary state information from at least one active memory circuit, such as a flop, latch, or any other suitable state generation circuit. The method, apparatus and integrated circuit may be operative to control the plurality of passive variable resistance memory cells to also restore the stored complimentary state information for the at least one active memory. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069965 | TWO DIMENSIONAL MEMORY ACCESS CONTROLLER - A memory control device derives a two dimensional location on a graphic display surface from address signals of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The memory controller compares the derived two dimensional location to a two dimensional range of authorized locations corresponding to a subset of the display surface. The memory controller modifies the address signals of the graphics processing unit (GPU) if the address signals do not fall within the two-dimensional range of authorized locations corresponding to a subset of the display surface, and propagates the address signals unmodified to a display memory otherwise. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069966 | Frame Buffer Pixel Circuit of Liquid Crystal on Silicon Display Device - The present invention discloses a frame buffer pixel circuit for a LCoS display device, wherein said circuit consists of a first transistor (M | 2013-03-21 |
20130069967 | Methods And Apparatus For Creating A Visual Language For Diagrams - Improved systems and techniques for representation of information. As a user creates a graphic design, properties represented by graphical elements of the design, are associated with visual characteristics of the elements, and a palette of elements is made available for use in development of the design or creation of new designs. As generalized elements are added to a design, the generalized elements may take on visual characteristics associated with properties identified by the positioning of the generalized elements in the design. Ongoing or existing designs may be surveyed to identify elements, properties represented by the elements, and visual characteristics associated with the properties, and new elements added to the palette or existing elements modified as a result of one or more surveys. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069968 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HYBRID HALFTONING OF AN IMAGE - This disclosure provides methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media for tone based halftoning of digital images. By exploiting knowledge of local image features and tone levels, the halftoning method may be adaptively switched between error-diffusion and mask-based dithering with reduced boundary artifacts. By further utilizing a smart quantization error clipping scheme, artifacts inherent to the method of error diffusion are also reduced. The method consistently generates higher quality halftone images for both still and video applications when compared to conventional methods. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069969 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MESSAGE THEREOF - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal displays a group chat area for displaying a group message transmitted to or received from a plurality of another parties and a private chat area for displaying a private message transmitted to or received from one of the plurality of another parties within one chat window. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069970 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Light source characteristic data representing the spectral characteristics and light distribution characteristics of a light source which illuminates a scene is input. Object characteristic data representing the spectral property of an object contained in the scene is input. Ray tracing is performed for respective rays having different wavelengths. A spectral radiance in each pixel of a computer graphics image representing the scene is calculated based on the light source characteristic data and the object characteristic data. The color signal values of each pixel are calculated from the spectral radiance in the each pixel, and the computer graphics image of the scene is generated. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069971 | VISUALIZATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosed method includes: classifying plural particles in a diffusion field into plural groups, based on data of positions and velocities of the plural particles, so that particles between which a distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance and of which an absolute value of a difference between velocity vectors is equal to or less than a predetermined value among the plural particles are classified to a same group; first generating, for each of the plural groups, group display data for particles belonging to the group; and second generating display data by attaching the generated group display data to particle display data for displaying the particles belonging to the group. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069972 | CIRCUITRY FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A method of increasing the color saturation of the RGB values of at least one pixel of an image, the method involving: calculating a luminance value based on RGB values of a first pixel; calculating a first maximum increase of said color saturation based on the highest of said RGB values and on said luminance value; calculating a second maximum increase of said color saturation based on the lowest of said RGB values and on said luminance value; and increasing the color saturation of said first pixel based on said first and second maximum increases. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069973 | Color Perception Tester, Control Program and Method of Controlling Color Perception Tester - A color perception test has a color matching processor that executes a color matching processing on a color monitor, and an image display controller that displays two or more images for color perception test in order on the color monitor on which the color matching processing was done. When displaying each image for color perception test, a color perception test is done in a state that one of its hue, brightness, saturation and display time is changed and the other elements are fixed. Since the color perception tester has the color matching processor, colors of the image are not changed with passage of time different from color printed one, and correct test can be done thereby. If the test is periodically done on some examinee, a degree of decreasing color perception function by aging can be exactly known. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069974 | HYBRID VIDEO HALFTONING TECHNIQUES - This disclosure provides techniques related to halftoning video images for display on an electronic device. The techniques include adaptively selecting, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, between a mask-based dithering (MBD) and an error diffusion (ED) halftoning technique. The ED technique may be selected for halftoning pixels of an input frame of data having either a temporal change rate metric (CRM) or a spatial CRM exceeding a respective threshold. Where both the temporal CRM and spatial CRM are less than the respective thresholds, halftoning may be performed by the technique that produces a halftone value closer to a comparison halftone value of a comparison frame. The comparison frame may be a preceding frame, or an immediately preceding frame. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069975 | IMAGE INTERPOLATION METHOD WITH DECISION MIXING - The method comprises for a pixel of an output grid which is not on an input grid on which pixel values are received in an input signal: determining a loss value for each of a plurality of candidate interpolators by analyzing the pixel values of the input grid along a direction associated with the candidate interpolator; selecting at least one interpolator by minimizing the loss value; and determining an output pixel value. At least two interpolation modes are provided, including: a first mode in which one interpolator is selected and the output pixel value is deter mined as an interpolated value obtained by applying locally the selected interpolator to pixel values of the input grid; and a second mode in which more than one interpolator is selected and the output pixel value is determined as a weighted sum of a plurality of interpolated values obtained by applying locally the selected interpolators. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069976 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN EFFECT ASSOCIATED WITH A KEYWORD - An apparatus to generate an effect associated with a keyword, the keyword being selectable by a user, includes a display unit to view the content; a database to store a keyword and an effect; and a controller to allow a user of the terminal to set an association with the keyword, the effect, and the content, wherein the terminal executes the effect if the keyword matches the content in response to the content being viewed. a method for providing content on a terminal, includes: displaying the content; storing a keyword and an effect; associating the keyword with the effect; and executing the effect if the keyword is displayed among the content. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069977 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, SERVER AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - An image display method using a display apparatus that displays an image, and using a server communicably connected to the display apparatus through a network, includes: obtaining a post-processing-unneeded image of a format displayable without performing post-processing by the display apparatus based on display-related information related to an image display performance of the display apparatus, the obtaining being performed by the server; transmitting the post-processing-unneeded image obtained in the obtaining to the display apparatus, the transmitting being performed by the server; receiving the post-processing-unneeded image transmitted from the server, the receiving being performed by the display apparatus; and displaying the post-processing-unneeded image received by the receiving, the displaying being performed by the display apparatus. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069978 | DETECTION DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE AND IMAGING CONTROL DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE DETECTION DEVICE, BODY DETECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A detection device has an animal detection part that detects an animal from a captured image, a person detection part that detects a person from the image, and a detection result output part. The detection result output part outputs a detection result including at least information indicating that a target body is detected when the animal detection part detects the animal from the image and when the person detection part detects the person from the image. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING STATE OF APPARATUS - A method of displaying a state of an apparatus having a user interface which includes generating state display information indicating the state of the apparatus and displaying the generated state display information in the user interface. The state display information indicates the state of the apparatus through a metaphorical indicator. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069980 | Dynamically Cropping Images - In one embodiment, in response to an action from a user, which results in an image to be displayed on a user device for the user: accessing information about the user and the image; cropping the image based at least on the information about the user and the image; and causing the cropped image to be displayed on the user device. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069981 | System and Methods for Managing Composition of Surfaces - A system and a method for compositing graphics on a computing device are provided. The computing device includes one or more hardware layers. The method includes determining if the number of surfaces to be displayed by the computing device is more than the number of the hardware layers. If so, two or more of the surfaces are combined to form one or more pseudo surfaces. The combined number of the pseudo surfaces and the remaining ones of the surfaces is equal to or less than the number of the one or more hardware layers. This allows for each of the pseudo surfaces or the remaining ones of the surfaces to be assigned to separate hardware layers. The computational cost for combining the surfaces is also considered during the process. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069982 | ADJUSTING USER INTERFACES BASED ON ENTITY LOCATION - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for adjusting user interfaces based on entity location. Embodiments of the invention provide applications (or an operating system) with entity distance/proximity data. Applications can then scale content appropriately based on the proximity data. An operating system contains a distance/proximity driver framework for distance/proximity aware hardware sensors (IR, Radar, capacitive, camera, other). The proximity framework performs distance/proximity/number of viewers calculations from sensor data to formulate proximity data. From the proximity data, an application can determine how to scale user interface data. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069983 | DIGITAL IMAGE SELECTION IN A SURFACE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of image selection in a surface computing device which includes: responsive to placing a device containing a plurality of images in proximity to a surface computing device, transferring the plurality of images to the surface computing device; creating tags from attributes of the plurality of images and grouping the tags together to form a tag cloud; responsive to selecting one tag as a primary tag, identifying tags related to the primary tag; displaying the primary tag and related tags as a series of geometric shapes in a primary tag diagram with each of the primary tag and related tags being represented by a geometric shape such that at least one geometric shape representing one of the related tags overlaps the geometric shape representing the primary tag to form an area of intersection representing an image; responsive to selecting the area of intersection, displaying the image. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069984 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SHOWING PAGE TORE-OFF EFFECT - An electronic device includes a storage unit, a touch display unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a parameter table comprising a plurality of parameters, and each parameter includes a first group of coordinates to determine the first part of a page and a second group of coordinates to determine the second part of the page. When the user's touch crosses a predetermined area, the processing unit obtains the parameters in sequence, and produces a tear-off-page figure on the first part of a current page, to cover the second part with a second area of the following page to display a combined page. Then the processing unit may store or delete the tore-off page according to a user selection after the next page is displayed in full. A related method is also provided. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069985 | Wearable Computer with Superimposed Controls and Instructions for External Device - A wearable computing device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) that provides a field of view in which at least a portion of the environment of the wearable computing device is viewable. The HMD is operable to display images superimposed over the field of view. When the wearable computing device determines that a target device is within its environment, the wearable computing device obtains target device information related to the target device. The target device information may include information that defines a virtual control interface for controlling the target device and an identification of a defined area of the target device on which the virtual control image is to be provided. The wearable computing device controls the HMD to display the virtual control image as an image superimposed over the defined area of the target device in the field of view. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069986 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR AUGMENTED REALITY - A mobile device, a method in a mobile device, a server and a method in a server for augmented reality. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069987 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROTATING A DISPLAYED IMAGE BY USING MULTI-POINT TOUCH INPUTS - Apparatus and method for rotating a displayed image by using multi-point touch inputs. In order to rotate an image displayed on a display of a user equipment having a touch input device. A first touch input may be made at a first position of the touch input device. Then, a second touch input may be made at a second position of the touch input device while the first touch input remains at the first position of the touch input device. The second touch input may be advanced from the second position to a third position while the first touch input remains fixed at the first position. After advancing, the displayed image may be rotated based on a change in slope of a virtual line connecting the first touch input and the second touch input as the second touch input advances from the second position to the third position. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069988 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF SWITCHING DISPLAY DIRECTION - A portable display device comprises: a tilt detection unit detecting an angle of rotation, measured between a vertical plane component of a tilt vector of a predetermined reference line in the display and a gravitational vector, as a display tilt; a facial orientation specification unit recognizing a face of a person facing the display and specifying an upright orientation of the face; a terminal orientation determination unit establishing a plurality of angle ranges, and determining whether the display tilt newly detected by the tilt detection unit exceeds a given angle range and enters another angle range, the given angle range including the angle detected by the tilt detection unit upon updating a previous display orientation; and a control unit causing the facial orientation specification unit to begin the specification when the terminal orientation determination unit makes an affirmative determination, and updating the display orientation according to the specified upright orientation. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069989 | MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY CONTROL OF MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A mobile terminal device includes: a display; a display control module which displays an execution screen for an application program on the display; and a detection module which detects a posture of the mobile terminal device based on a gravity acceleration applied to the mobile terminal device. In this arrangement, the display control module controls a display direction of the execution screen with respect to the mobile terminal device according to the posture of the mobile terminal device, and performs suppression control so as to, even if the posture of the mobile terminal device is changed, suppress switching of the display direction corresponding to the changed posture, provided that a suppression condition for suppressing switching of the display direction is satisfied while the execution screen is displayed on the display. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069990 | Interactive Image Display and Selection System - An interactive image selection and display system having a image selection and display application that makes maps, images, and media stored in one or more server computers available to client devices in a common format including a graphic user interface depicted on a display surface which allows a user to select within an interactive visual representation a target area and view a plurality of images presented in serial order concurrent with the presentation of a location identifier matched to each image on the display surface and to further select one or more of the plurality of images for concurrent still presentation on the display surface and to retrieve media associated with each selected image and to retrievably store the interactive visual representation, target area, selected images, and associated media as an image bucket file. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069991 | ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS ON A MULTI-TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE - A process for enabling objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together is disclosed that includes defining a target element that enables objects displayed on a multi-input display device to be grouped together through interaction with the target element. Operations are invoked that establish a relationship between a particular displayed object and a position on the target element and that causes transformations applied to the target element also to be applied to the particular displayed object while maintaining the relationship between the particular displayed object and the position on the target element. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069992 | PIXEL STRUCTURE - A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit and a discharge unit. The first pixel unit includes a first active device and a first pixel electrode. The second pixel unit includes a second active device and a second pixel electrode. Gates of the first active device and the second active device are electrically connected to a scan line. Drains of the first active device and the second active device are electrically connected to a data line. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to a source of the first active device. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to a source of the second active device. The discharge unit is configured to set that a voltage of the second pixel electrode is smaller than a threshold voltage according to a driving signal received by a driving line. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069993 | ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DRIVING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - An electro-optic device has electro-optic elements; a storage units storing a first table including pairs of a gray-scale value and an a-bit sub-field code and a second table including pairs of a gray-scale value and a b-bit (b>a) sub-field code; a converting unit converting the gray-scale value of an object pixel into the sub-field code using the second table when a difference in gray-scale value between a first image and a second image is less than a threshold value, while converting the gray-scale value of the object pixel into the sub-field code using the first table when the difference in gray-scale value between the first image and the second image is the threshold value or more; and a driving unit supplying a signal corresponding to the sub-field code converted by the converting unit to drive the electro-optic elements. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069994 | Projector and Electronic Apparatus having Projector Function - This projector includes a laser beam generation portion emitting a laser beam on the basis of an input image signal, a projection portion scanning the laser beam, a light detection portion detecting the laser beam reflected by a detection object, and a control portion controlling the laser beam generation portion to project a detection guide beam, different from the laser beam corresponding to the input image signal, for detection by the light detection portion when determining that detection of the laser beam corresponding to the input image signal by the light detection portion is unexpectable on the basis of color information of the input image signal. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069995 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - A liquid crystal display includes: a display section including a plurality of pixels and displaying an image through varying a gray scale of each of the pixels based on an image signal; a detection section detecting, based on the image signal, variations in gray scales of a first pixel and a second pixel which are adjacent to each other; and a control section performing control, based on a detection result of the detection section, to allow one of the first and second pixels to be maintained in black state of display for a predetermined period. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069996 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A plurality of pixels are arranged corresponding to interconnection between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines. A drive circuit alternately displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image on the plurality of pixels every display period. Specifically, the drive circuit sequentially selects the scan lines and supplies a preparation potential corresponding to given grayscale potential (for example, black grayscale) to each of the pixels corresponding to the scan line in a selection state, during a preparation of each of the display periods, and sequentially selects the scan lines and supplies grayscale potential that is in response to an assigned grayscale of the corresponding pixel to each of the pixels corresponding to the scan line in the selection state, during a drive period that starts before selecting the scan line during the preparation of each of the display periods. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069997 | DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH A BACKLIGHT UNIT FOR DECREASING VARIATIONS IN BRIGHTNESS - A display apparatus for decreasing variations in brightness is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a cover; a display panel accommodated in the cover; a light source unit disposed along at least one side wall on one edge from among side walls on four edges of the cover at the rear of the display panel and radiating light in a direction parallel with a plane surface of the display panel; a rear sheet disposed at the rear of the display panel which faces the display panel and reflects the radiated light to provide to the display panel. At least one side sheet is disposed along a side wall on a different edge from among the sides walls on the four edges of the cover, to stand upright to the rear sheet and totally reflecting the radiated light. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069998 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING, STORING, TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING IMAGES - An imaging and display apparatus for passive displays evaluates the illumination of an input scene and incorporates data representative of such input scene within a transfer media. The transfer media may be a storage medium storing image data, illumination data and gamma information for delivery to a passive display system. The data controls the optical characteristics of the illumination source for the passive display and the gamma and tends to minimize energy requirements, to maximize contrast or shades of gray in the displayed image, and to optimize light source operation for color fidelity. The data provided the media and/or display as a video signal, modulated video signal, s-video signal, digital signal, or other signal that can be used by a passive display system to display images. | 2013-03-21 |
20130069999 | POWER SAVING DRIVE MODE FOR BI-LEVEL VIDEO - Liquid crystal display (LCD) driver circuits, and corresponding driving methods, having selectable grayscale and bi-level modes, that also provide DC restore are presented, including an example embodiment driver circuit having selectable direct current (DC) restore voltage switches including a digital to analog converter, a high voltage video signal path including a high voltage video amplifier, a set of high voltage level switches, a high voltage capacitor and a low voltage video signal path including a low voltage video amplifier, a set of low voltage level switches, a low voltage capacitor. Advantages include, for some applications, a display operates in a bi-level mode saving power relative to operating in a grayscale mode, while also being able to offer full grayscale mode in other applications. Further, advantages of some example embodiments include an extended DC-restore mode providing a longer period of DC restore voltage. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070000 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark image, and a driving method thereof. A display device which displays a gray scale by dividing one frame period into a plurality of subframe periods, where one frame period is divided into at least a first subframe period and a second subframe period; and when luminance in the first subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax1 and luminance in the second subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax2, (½) Lmax22013-03-21 | |
20130070001 | DRIVING METHOD OF LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - If a potential of a gate electrode of a driving transistor varies after a gray scale signal is inputted into each pixel, a current value of a current supplied to a light emitting element varies so that accurate gray scale display cannot be obtained. In particular, in the case of performing black display, current may flow, which makes clear black display difficult. Accordingly, the invention provides a light emitting device capable of performing accurate gray scale display, and a driving method thereof. According to the invention, a signal for display is inputted plural times within a predetermined timing period, or a writing operation period is lengthened. Consequently, the gate voltage of the transistor is determined after the anode potential of the light emitting element is stabilized, and therefore accurate gray scale display can be performed. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070002 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention is to provide a display panel and a display device in each of which the white luminance and/or the color reproduction range are/is sufficiently improved by changing the sub-pixel area for each color, so that unevenness of luminance is sufficiently suppressed, and the influence of line width variation on the aperture ratio is reduced. The display panel according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates, a display element sandwiched between the pair of substrates, and pixels each formed by sub-pixels of four or more colors, and is featured in that one of the pair of substrates includes scanning lines, signal lines, and sub-pixel electrodes, and in that the area of at least one of the sub-pixels of four or more colors is different from the area of the other sub-pixels, and the sub-pixel having the larger area overlaps with a plurality of the signal lines in plan view of the main surface of the display panel. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070003 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEFECT CORRECTION METHOD - A liquid crystal display device ( | 2013-03-21 |
20130070004 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device wherein display performance of a two-dimensional image and that of a three-dimensional image are both improved. The liquid crystal display device is provided with: a liquid crystal display panel, which displays the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image by selectively switching the images; and a backlight, which supplies light to the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes an illuminating region, which is scan-lighted corresponding to scanning of the liquid crystal display panel, and the scanning frequencies of the illuminating region at the time of displaying the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image on the liquid crystal display panel are different from each other. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070005 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A driving circuit applies a voltage according to an assigned grayscale during each unit period of each display period, in such a manner that the applied voltage to a liquid crystal element during one of the unit periods and the applied voltage to the liquid crystal element during the other of the unit periods are opposite in polarity during each of the display periods, and an overdrive control unit enables the drive circuit to perform overdrive of a compensation grayscale according to a display image during the corresponding display period and to a display image during the immediately preceding display period during each of the first and second unit periods of each of the display periods, during each of the display periods. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070006 | METHOD OF USING A PIXEL TO DISPLAY AN IMAGE - A first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel of a pixel are utilized to display a first white image, then a first brightness of the first sub-pixel and a first brightness of the second sub-pixel are measured. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel and a fourth sub-pixel of the pixel are utilized to display a second white image, then a second brightness of the first sub-pixel and a second brightness of the second sub-pixel are measured. How image data should be displayed is determined according to whether the first brightness of the first sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the first sub-pixel, whether the first brightness of the second sub-pixel is greater than the second brightness of the second sub-pixel, and whether a chromaticity coordinate of the image data is within a chromaticity range capable of being displayed by the first, second and third sub-pixels. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070007 | Optical Compensation Method and Driving Method For Organic Light Emitting Display Device - An optical compensation method for an organic light emitting display device comprises: setting initial gain values of RGB subpixels; making each of the RGB subpixels converge on target luminance; selecting subpixels to emit light with the W subpixel from the RGB subpixels, and setting an initial gain value of the W subpixel; measuring color coordinates and luminance of the W subpixel to which the initial gain value is applied; calculating the luminance ratio of the W subpixel and the selected subpixels; adjusting maximum gains of the W subpixel and the selected subpixels; measuring maximum color coordinates and luminance ratio of the W subpixel and the selected subpixels; and making the W subpixel and the selected subpixels converge on target color coordinates and luminance. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070008 | RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A RECORDING DEVICE, AND A PROGRAM - A recording device has a cartridge that holds a first ink tank filled with ink, and a second ink tank that is filled with ink of the same color; an inkjet head that prints using a first nozzle row that ejects ink supplied from the first ink tank, and a second nozzle row that ejects ink supplied from the second ink tank; and recording control unit that prints on a recording medium by ejecting ink from the first nozzle row or the second nozzle row. The recording control unit determines which ink tank contains more ink, and ejects ink to print from the nozzle row connected to the ink tank containing the most ink. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070009 | CONTROL DEVICE - A control device may generate processed image data, supply the processed image data to a print performing unit and execute a compensation process on a target pixel by using correcting data for a target image forming element which is to form an image at a position corresponding to a target pixel. The correcting data may be data acquired by using a difference between a target value and a value being acquired by using characteristic data corresponding to a first image forming element within a plurality of image forming elements. The target value may be acquired by using characteristic data corresponding to the target image forming element. The first image forming element may be an image forming element which is to form a first neighbor raster neighboring a target raster formed on the print medium by the target image forming element. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070010 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH INK-JET PRINTING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus comprises a printing head unit, a driving waveform generator that generates and outputs a driving waveform having four or more driving pulses in chronological order per driving cycle, and a selector that selects and applies one of multiple driving pulses to a pressure generator to cause a printing head unit to selectively discharge a liquid droplet of three or more different sizes. The driving waveform includes three or more driving pulses at least having a final driving pulse to collectively discharge the biggest liquid droplet. The driving waveform includes a micro-driving pulse for discharging a smallest droplet within a time period of from about 2×Tc to about 4×Tc after the driving waveform starts being outputted when Tc represents a natural vibration period of a separate liquid chamber of the printing head unit. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070011 | IMAGE POSITION INSPECTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image position inspecting apparatus includes a reading unit, a generating unit and a specifying unit. The reading unit includes light receiving elements arranged with a reading resolution Rs and reads an inspection image. The generating unit generates a profile based on the read inspection image. The specifying unit acquires a position of the center of gravity of the pixels of the inspection image with respect to the light receiving elements from the profile and specifies a position of each of the pixels of the inspection image based on a phase difference which is a deviation of the acquired position of the center of gravity of the pixels with respect to a light receiving center of the light receiving elements. A resolution of the inspection image is Rp. The reading resolution Rs and the resolution Rp satisfy the following equation. And, m is a positive integer. Rp·((m+1)/2)2013-03-21 | |
20130070012 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes: a nozzle plate formed with a nozzle aperture through which liquid is ejected; and a flow channel plate formed with at least a flow channel connected to the nozzle aperture, the flow channel plate being bonded to the nozzle plate with the flow channel aligned to the nozzle aperture in the nozzle plate, wherein the nozzle plate is provided with a detection element configured to detect a mechanical abnormality in the nozzle plate. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070013 | Motor Control Device and Image Forming Apparatus - A motor control device comprises: a motor control unit that controls a motor; and a signal output unit that outputs a signal according to rotation of the motor, wherein the motor control unit controls the motor based on an output signal of the signal output unit so that a driven object driven by the motor is displaced to a target stop position. The motor control unit is configured to function as: a first control unit that estimates a upper current limit and controls the motor according to the upper current limit; a second control unit that controls motor according to an operated amount of at least one of the motor or the driven object; a switching unit that switches between the first control unit and the second control unit; a first calculating unit that calculates an amount necessary for stop; and a second calculating unit. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070014 | Motor Control Device and Image Forming Apparatus - A motor control device comprises: a motor control unit; and a signal output unit, wherein the motor control unit controls a motor based on an output signal of the signal output unit, wherein the motor control unit is configured to function as: a first control unit performs a first motor control, in which a current upper limit is estimated based on a rotation speed of the motor and is input to the motor, a second control unit performs a second motor control, in which a second driving current, which is a driving current lower than the first driving current at the end of the first motor control is input, a third control unit performs a third motor control, in which a third driving current to be input to the motor is determined, and a switching unit that sequentially switches the first, second, and third control units. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070015 | INK SET WITH NEAR INFRARED DETECTION CAPABILITY AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An ink set with near infrared detection capability is disclosed. The ink set includes a cyan ink including a cyan colorant, a magenta ink including a magenta colorant, and a yellow ink including a yellow colorant, each of the colorants having maximum light absorbance in the visible wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nm, wherein each of the cyan, magenta and yellow inks includes a near infrared (NIR) absorbing pigment, which is different in spectral absorption characteristic from the colorant and absorbs light in the wavelength range of about 750 to 1200 nm. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070016 | SEALING SHEET, AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND INKJET APPARATUS USING SAME - A sealing sheet is configured to restrain at least one of leakage of liquid in and out. The sealing sheet includes: a film member which is impermeable to the liquid and configured to cover a region that needs to be sealed; and electrical wires which are arranged on the film member. An electrical signal corresponding to change in electrical resistance due to contact with the liquid is obtainable from the electrical wires. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070017 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE USING THE SAME - An image forming method including applying a processing fluid for inkjet recording to both sides of a recording medium and, after applying the processing fluid, discharging ink onto at least one side of the recording medium to form an image thereon. The processing fluid for inkjet recording comprises water and a hydrosoluble organic solvent. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070018 | LIQUID-JET HEAD AND LIQUID-JET HEAD DEVICE - A liquid-jet head includes nozzles, pressurized chambers to communicate with the nozzles, a common liquid chamber to communicate with each of the pressurized chambers, each of the common liquid chamber and the pressurized liquid chambers having a negative pressure of a predetermined value, first communicating paths to communicate between the common liquid chamber and the pressurized liquid chamber to serve as a filter to prevent air bubbles from intruding into the pressurized liquid chamber, the filter having openings, each opening having an opening area smaller than an opening area of each of the nozzles, and an air bubble discharge chamber including a second communicating path to communicate with the common liquid chamber having an air bubble remaining part in a region downstream in a liquid flow direction, and an opening part from which the air bubbles having entered via the second communicating path are discharged during a maintenance-restoration operation. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070019 | SUPPORT FOR CARRIAGE GUIDE IN PRINTER - A carriage printer includes a printhead; a carriage guide disposed along a carriage scan direction, the carriage guide including a first end and a second end opposite the first end; a carriage for transporting the printhead along the carriage scan direction across the print region, the carriage including a bearing surface that is configured to contact the carriage guide as the carriage transports the printhead; a plurality of carriage guide supports each including a support surface, the plurality of carriage guide supports including a first carriage guide support disposed proximate the first end; a second carriage guide support disposed proximate the second end; and a third carriage guide support disposed between the first carriage guide support and the second carriage guide support; a first biasing force applied in a bias direction proximate the first end; and a second biasing force applied in the bias direction proximate the second end. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070020 | LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INCLINATION OF HEAD HOLDER OF THE LIQUID JETTING APPARATUS - A liquid jetting apparatus includes a liquid jetting head having a liquid jetting surface in which a plurality of nozzles are aligned along a predetermined direction, a head holder holding the liquid jetting head and being rotatable within a plane parallel to the liquid jetting surface, a rotation regulation member contacting with two contact portions of the head holder to regulate rotation of the head holder, and an inclination adjustment mechanism, which has a cam member being rotatable about a rotation shaft and being capable of displacing a first contact portion of the two contact portions in a direction including a directional component perpendicular to a direction linking the first contact portion with a second contact portion of the two contact portions within the plane, and which adjusts inclination of the head holder by rotating the cam member to rotate the head holder about the second contact portion. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070021 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head; a carriage to which the recording head is detachably mounted; and a first head protection member that is arranged on the carriage; wherein the recording head is positioned with respect to the carriage in a relative movement direction by moving the recording head relative to the carriage until a first position reference plane of the recording head and a second position reference plane of the carriage come into contact; the first head protection member is arranged at both sides in the relative movement direction of a nozzle face of the recording head and protrudes further than the nozzle face; and the first head protection member is movable with respect to the carriage in the relative movement direction and moves along with the recording head when the recording head moves relative to the carriage. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes recording heads, head holders, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing member. The recording heads have nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The holders hold the recording heads. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holding the holders. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the holders. The pressing member presses at least one of the holders toward at least another of the holders. The holders have reference faces to contact each other in the main scanning direction to determine relative positions of the holders. With the recording heads positioned based on the reference faces of the holders, the recording heads are held by the holders. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070023 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head and a carriage. The carriage includes a slide member that is provided so that the position of the slide member relative to a carriage body is changeable in a direction where a gap between the recording head and a medium changes, and moves together with carriage body in the scanning direction, a gap adjusting cam that is interposed between the slide member and the carriage body, and, upon reception of the dead weight of the carriage, changes in the scanning direction relative to the slide member and the carriage body to change the gap, and a restriction section that restricts at least one of expansion of the interval between the carriage body and the gap adjusting cam and expansion of the interval between the gap adjusting cam and the slide member in such a way as to keep a predetermined gap. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070024 | PRINTER FOR MINIMIZING ADVERSE MIXING OF HIGH AND LOW LUMINANCE INKS AT NOZZLE FACE OF INKJET PRINTHEAD - An inkjet printer includes an inkjet printhead having a plurality of color planes for ejecting a plurality of different inks. Each color plane has a nozzle row defined in a nozzle face of the printhead and each nozzle in a respective color plane is supplied with a same ink. The printhead is plumbed such that a first color plane ejecting a first ink having a relatively low luminance is sandwiched between second and third color planes ejecting respective second and third inks having a relatively high luminance A plurality of ink reservoirs are in fluid communication with the printhead, the ink reservoirs containing the first, second and third inks. An amount of surfactant in the first ink is at least 0.4 wt % greater than an amount of surfactant in the second and third inks. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070025 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle array constructed of multiple nozzles from which liquid droplets are ejectable; a channel plate in which grooves that form part of multiple pressure chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles are provided with partition walls interposed therebetween, a wall member that covers the grooves to form part of walls of the pressure chambers, and multiple first through-holes formed in the channel plate to connect the nozzles and the pressure chambers, respectively. The multiple first through-holes are provided with partition walls interposed therebetween, and each of the multiple first through-holes has a first opening and a second opening. The second opening is offset from the first opening in a direction in which the nozzle arrays extend. Each of the multiple first through-holes further has a portion between the first and second openings to change a direction of flow of liquid. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070026 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head including a nozzle plate having a nozzle array constructed of multiple nozzles, a channel member that forms multiple individual channels communicating with the multiple nozzles, a pressure generator to pressurize liquid within the multiple individual channels, and a common channel member that forms a common channel from which the liquid is supplied to the multiple individual channels. The channel member includes a first surface facing the common channel, a second surface provided at both ends of the channel member and protruding beyond the first surface toward a direction opposite a direction of flow of the liquid, and a third surface that connects the first and second surfaces. At least a gap between the common channel member and a part of the second surface is sealed by a seal member that forms a wall of the common channel between the channel member and the common channel member. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070027 | INKJET HEAD AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes actuators configured to pressurize ink. The actuators include piezoelectric elements provided on an insulating layer, first electrodes electrically connected to the piezoelectric elements, and second electrodes connected to the piezoelectric elements and configured to hold the piezoelectric elements in cooperation with the first electrodes. The first electrodes of all the actuators are electrically connected to a common first energization pattern. The second electrodes of all the actuators are individually electrically connected to second energization patterns. The first energization pattern and the second energization patterns are separated from each other without overlapping each other on the insulating layer. | 2013-03-21 |
20130070028 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, DISCHARGING HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electromechanical transducer element including a first process of hydrophobizing a first area of an electrode by forming a self-assembled monolayer film; a second process of applying a sol-gel solution onto a predetermined second area of the electrode so as to produce a complex oxide; a third process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode; a fourth process of acid-washing the electrode on which the complex oxide has been produced; a fifth process of hydrophobizing the first area of the acid-washed electrode by forming the self-assembled monolayer film; a sixth process of applying the sol-gel solution onto the predetermined second area; and a seventh process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode. | 2013-03-21 |