21st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140139506 | DISPLAY DEVICE, POWER CONTROL DEVICE, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device having a particular power controller circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a plurality of pixels, and a power controller for supplying a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage for providing a driving current of the plurality of pixels wherein the power controller connects at least one of a first high level voltage, a ground, and a capacitor to a first node connected to the first power source voltage, and connects one of a second high level voltage and the ground to a second node connected to the second power source voltage. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139507 | ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING IMPROVED APERTURE RATIO AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An electrowetting display device includes an electrowetting pixel cell and a driving circuit. The electrowetting pixel cell including a polar liquid and a non-polar liquid disposed between a common electrode and a pixel electrode, the pixel electrode configured to receive a fixed voltage and the common electrode configured to receive a variable voltage that varies according to an image signal. The driving circuit configured to control an operation of the electrowetting pixel cell by, providing an image signal to the electrowetting pixel cell at a display interval where the electrowetting pixel cell displays an image, and providing a reset voltage to the electrowetting pixel cell at a reset interval. An absolute value of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the reset voltage is greater than that of a difference between the voltage applied to the pixel electrode and the voltage applied to the common electrode. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139508 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING LINE ON GLASS - A display device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first PCB including first PCB lines to transmit powers and second PCB lines to transmit an image data, gate control signals and data control signals; a second PCB including third PCB lines to transmit the powers and fourth PCB lines to transmit the image data, the gate control signals and the data control signals; a first COF including first COF lines connected to the first PCB lines and second COF lines connected to the second PCB lines; a second COF including third COF lines connected to the third PCB lines and fourth COF lines connected to the fourth PCB lines; and a display panel including first LOGs connected to the first COF lines and the third COF lines and second LOGs connected to the second COF lines and the fourth COF lines. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139509 | PAD AREAS, DISPLAY PANELS HAVING THE SAME, AND FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICES - A pad area of a display panel having a plurality of pixel circuits is provided. The pad area includes at least one driving pad coupled to a data-line or a scan-line, at least one test pad coupled to a first line for transmitting a test signal to the pixel circuits and a second line for transmitting a driving control signal to the pixel circuits, at least one first transistor that controls an electrical coupling between the first line and the test pad, and at least one second transistor that controls an electrical coupling between the second line and the test pad. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139510 | Organic Light Emitting Display Device - An organic light emitting display device includes a panel driver and a display panel including a plurality of pixels having a pixel circuit, a first driving voltage terminal connected to the driving transistor, a light emitting element, a second driving voltage terminal connected to the light emitting element, and a capacitor connected between a gate and source electrode of the driving transistor, the panel driver to drive the pixel circuit in a data charging period in which a difference between a data and reference voltage is charged into the capacitor, and a light emitting period in which the driving transistor receives a first driving voltage from the first driving voltage terminal and is turned on according to the voltage charged into the capacitor during the data charging period, whereby a current is supplied to the light emitting element which thereby emits light. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139511 | METHOD FOR CHARGING PIXEL POINTS ON TFT-LCD SUBSTRATE, DEVICE FOR THE SAME, AND SOURCE DRIVER - Disclosed are a method, a device and a source driver for charging pixel points on a TFT-LCD substrate, which are capable of charging electrodes on an upper substrate and pixel points on a lower substrate. The charging method includes: switching on a first, second, third and fourth switches, switching off a fifth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a first, second, third and fourth capacitors; switching off the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, and charging a fifth capacitor; switching off the fifth switch, switching on the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh switches, so that the first capacitor stores positive six-bit pixel voltage and the fourth capacitor stores negative six-bit pixel voltage; and charging the pixel points on the lower substrate by the first and fourth capacitors, and charging the electrodes on the upper substrate by the fifth capacitor. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139512 | Recording the Results of Visibility Tests at the Input Geometry Object Granularity - According to some embodiments of the present invention, pixel throughput may be improved by performing depth tests and recording the results on the granularity of an input geometry object. An input geometry object is any object within the depiction represented by a primitive, such as a triangle within an input triangle list or a patch within an input patch list. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139513 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED PROCESSING OF THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) GRAPHICS DATA - A method and apparatus provides for enhanced processing of 3D graphics data such as image-based 3D graphics data. The image-based 3D graphics data may include data defining texture, bump, normals, displacement, etc for underlying objects. In one example, the method and apparatus compresses image-based 3D graphics data as one or more frames contained in one or more videos and decompresses the compressed 3D graphics data using video acceleration hardware provided by a GPU. In another example the method and apparatus may also selectively control caching of image-based 3D graphics data. Before so cached, the image-based 3D graphics data may be compressed as one or more frames contained in one or more videos using video acceleration hardware provided by the GPU to achieve efficient usage of cache space. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139514 | Parallel Approximation of Distance Maps - Method for parallel approximation of distance maps on a discrete representation of a manifold, the method comprising: for at least one Euclidean grid applied on the discrete representation of a manifold, iterating over rows of the Euclidean grid in a first direction, and for each row currently visited during the iterating in the first direction, calculating a distance value for each single cell of the currently visited row in parallel, wherein the calculating is carried out according to a predefined approximation rule, using a distance value calculated for each one of respective cells of a row visited immediately before the currently visited row, wherein the cells of the row visited before the currently visited row are adjacent to the single cell in the Euclidean grid. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139515 | 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE USING THE SAME - A three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus is provided, including an image input device which receives an image and depth information, a multi-view image generator which generates a multi-view foreground image having depth information which is less than a preset depth value, and a multi-view rear ground image having depth information which is equal to or greater than the preset depth value, using the received image and depth information, a multi-view image renderer which performs rendering by arranging the multi-view foreground image according to a first arrangement pattern and the multi-view rear ground image according to a second arrangement pattern, and a display which outputs the rendered multi-view image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139516 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH TRANSMISSION FORMATS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and a control method are disclosed. The method of controlling an image processing apparatus which processes a video signal including first and second images alternately displayed in the display apparatus, and an auxiliary image which includes: adjusting the auxiliary image in accordance with a transmission format for transmitting the video signal from the image processing apparatus to the display apparatus; adding the adjusted auxiliary image to at least one of the first image and the second image; converting the first and second images added with the auxiliary image into a transmission image in which the first image and the second image are composed in accordance with the transmission format; and transmitting the transmission image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139517 | THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF - An adjusting method for a three dimensional image display system, comprising following steps. A three dimensional image displaying function is activated to display a three dimensional image. An adjusting pattern is displayed on the display device. An adjusting function is performed according to the adjusting pattern to obtain an adjusting result. A computing result is generated according to the adjusting result. An adjusted image is displayed on the display device according to the computing result. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139518 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGE - Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying a medical image, the apparatus including: a data acquisition unit for acquiring volume data of an object; an image generation unit for generating a medical image, which includes at least one three-dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image and at least one 2D stereoscopic image generated based on at least one of a direction, a gradient, and a depth of an object shown in the 3D stereoscopic image, from volume data of the object; and a displaying unit for displaying the generated medical image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139519 | Method for augmenting reality - The present invention relates to a method for generating an enriched image from an image (I) of a three-dimensional scene (S) acquired by optical acquisition means ( | 2014-05-22 |
20140139520 | CONTROLLING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL BROADCAST PRESENTATION - Control of a three-dimensional virtual broadcast presentation is disclosed. The three-dimensional virtual broadcast presentation may be generated based on dynamic information such as traffic information, weather information, or other information that may be featured on a three-dimensional virtual broadcast presentation. A signal generated by a control device maneuvered by a presenter and reflecting positional information of the control device is received. A view of the three-dimensional virtual broadcast presentation is manipulated in response to the received signal, the manipulation of the virtual broadcast presentation at least partially based on positional information of the control device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139521 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY USING SYNTHESIZED ENVIRONMENT MAP - An apparatus and method for providing Augmented Reality (AR) corresponding to objects that are hidden from view of a user. The apparatus includes a first extraction unit to extract a first environment map corresponding to a location of a terminal; a second extraction unit to determine an expanded area enclosing the location of the terminal and to extract a second environment map corresponding to the expanded area; and a synthesization unit to generate a synthesized environment map by synthesizing the first environment map and the second environment map. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139522 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO EXTRACT THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FACIAL EXPRESSION - Provided is a method and apparatus of extracting a 3D facial expression of a user. When a facial image of the user is received, the 3D facial expression extracting method and apparatus may generate 3D expression information by tracking an expression of the user from the facial image using at least one of shape-based tracking and texture-based tracking, may generate a 3D expression model based on the 3D expression information, and reconstruct the 3D expression model to have a natural facial expression by adding muscle control points to the 3D expression model. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139523 | METHOD OF GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODELS USING GROUND BASED OBLIQUE IMAGERY - Embodiments of the invention relate to the visualization of geographical information and the combination of image information to generate geographical information. Specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to a process and system for correlating oblique images data and terrain data without extrinsic information about the oblique imagery. Embodiments include a visualization tool to allow simultaneous and coordinated viewing of the correlated imagery. The visualization tool may also provide distance and measuring, three-dimensional lens, structure identification, path finding, visibility and similar tools to allow a user to determine distance between imaged objects. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139524 | Depth Buffering - In accordance with some embodiments, depth values may be split into more and less significant bits. By so doing, some processing can be done based only on the more significant bits. Where the number of more significant bits is significantly less than the total number of bits, some memory bandwidth can be preserved. In other words, by only using the more significant bits for some of the depth buffering operations, memory bandwidth usage can be reduced, improving efficiency. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139525 | Representing a Field Over a Triangular Mesh - Methods and apparatus for representing a field over a triangular mesh are disclosed. A two-dimensional (2D) triangular map may be created for each triangle of a three-dimensional (3D) triangular mesh. The triangular map may be recursively subdivided to create a plurality of sub-triangles. The sub-triangles may be sampled, and an field may be measured or calculated at each level of the recursion. The map of field values may use various compression techniques and may also employ a delayed reading technique. The map may be multi-resolution, hierarchical, and partitioned. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139526 | MEDICAL IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD - A 3D ultrasound image generating apparatus and method includes a volume-data generator to generate 3-dimensional (3D) volume data based on at least one cross-sectional image with respect to a body tissue of a subject, and a controller that generates the final 3D image having the adjusted 3D effect by volume rendering the 3D volume data based on the input stereo-depth value when a stereo-depth value used to adjust the 3D effect of a final 3D image generated based on the 3D volume data is input. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139527 | TEXTURING 3-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHIC IMAGES - A method and apparatus are provided to generate automatically a mip-map chain of texture images from a portion of texture image data such that it may be used in texturing a computer graphic image. A portion of the texture image data is stored temporarily and is filtered to generate at least one lower level of mip-map data from the texture data. This lower level of mip-map texture image data is then stored for use in texturing. Preferably these are stored on a tile-by-tile basis where a tile is a rectangular area of the image being displayed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139528 | POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORK STATE VISUALIZATION - A method and system are provided for visualizing and displaying a state of a power transmission network to an operator, for the supervision of the network. The method and system are provided for visualizing or contouring a power transmission network state by displaying to an operator output data values interpolated at output data locations from input data including geographically distributed input data sensor locations and corresponding dynamically updated input data values. The method includes dividing a geographical area of interest into triangles, wherein a triangle vertex is defined at each input data location within the area, determining, for each triangle, closest input data locations according to a closeness criteria, and interpolating by weighting or scaling at each output data location within a triangle the input data values of a number of closest input data locations to generate output data values corresponding to the output data locations. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139529 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus selects a plurality of interval width sequences of internal knots of a nonuniform B-spline that approximates waveform data, based on a multivariate normal distribution, and then determines a knot vector based on each of the selected interval width sequences and an optimal control point sequence for each knot vector. Also, the apparatus repeats, for a nonuniform B-spline that is defined for each combination of a knot vector and an optimal control point sequence corresponding to the knot vector, the selection of interval width sequences, the determination of knot vectors and optimal control point sequences and the evaluation thereof, until an evaluation whose objective function is minimized is obtained. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139530 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER VIEWABLE TRUNCATION - Systems and methods are provided for displaying and manipulating the display of digital character strings where the length of the character string extends beyond the width of a desired output display. In response to a user request to display a character string, a client can generate a truncated representation of the character string using at least one truncation symbol when the character string extends beyond the width of an output display. A client can modify the display of the truncated representation of the character string in response to detecting a signal. For example, the client can display a selected character string in its entirety or an excerpt of the truncated representation. The signal can be detected from a touchscreen or input device. This allows a user to view those portions of the selected character string that may be obscured by the truncation symbol. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139531 | INTERACTIVE SCOREKEEPING AND ANIMATION GENERATION - Techniques for interactive scorekeeping and animation generation are described, including evaluating a play to form an event datum associated with execution of the play, using the event datum to form an event packet, generating an animation using the event packet, the animation being associated with the execution of the play, and presenting the animation on an endpoint. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139532 | Framework For Dynamic Configuration Of Hardware Resources - Among other things, dynamically selecting or configuring one or more hardware resources to render a particular display data includes obtaining a request for rendering display data. The request includes a specification describing a desired rendering process. Based on the specification and the display data, hardware is selected or configured. The display data is rendered using the selected or configured hardware. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139533 | GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT VIRTUAL APPARATUS, GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT HOST APPARATUS, AND GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT PROGRAM PROCESSING METHODS THEREOF - A graphic processing unit (GPU) virtual apparatus, a GPU host apparatus and GPU program processing methods thereof are provided. The GPU virtual apparatus determines a priority of a GPU program, determines a processing order of the GPU program according to the priority, processes the GPU program according to the processing order, and transmits the processed GPU program to the GPU host apparatus. The GPU host apparatus receives the processed GPU program from the GPU virtual apparatus, determines a priority of the processed GPU program, determines a processing order of the processed GPU program according to the priority, further processes the processed GPU program according to the processing order, and transmits an operation result of the processed GPU program to the GPU virtual apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139534 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING GRAPHICS - A primitive listing and sorting arrangement for a tile-based graphics rendering system in which primitive lists can be prepared for at least two different sets of sub-regions of the render target area. Two or more alternative solutions for listing the primitive for rendering using the sub-regions of at least two of the at least two different sets of sub-regions of the render target area that primitive lists can be prepared for are determined (S | 2014-05-22 |
20140139535 | Buffer Underrun Handling - A graphics system may include a display pipe with a buffer configured to store pixels to be processed by a display controller for displaying on a display device, with a buffer control circuit coupled to the buffer to supply pixels to the display controller. When the buffer control circuit detects an underrun of the buffer responsive to the display controller attempting to read pixels from the buffer that have not yet been written to the buffer, the buffer control circuit may supply an underrun pixel to the display. The underrun pixel may be selected from a set of previously stored set of underrun pixels, which may include a most recent valid pixel read by the display controller. A read pointer representative of the location in the buffer from where the display controller is currently attempting to read may be advanced even when an underrun condition occurs. The underrun pixel may be supplied to the display controller until the underrun has been resolved, at which point the most recent valid pixel read from the buffer may be supplied to the display controller. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139536 | MEMORY ACCESS DEVICE - A first look-up table ( | 2014-05-22 |
20140139537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN EFFICIENT DISPLAY DATA TRANSFER ALGORITHM OVER NETWORK - Systems and methods for an efficient display data transfer algorithm over a network are disclosed. A compressed frame buffer update transmitted from a server via a network is received by a hardware decompression engine. The hardware decompression engine identifies one or more palette entries indicated in the compressed frame buffer update and determines whether the one or more palette entries is stored in a palette cache of the hardware decompression engine. If the one or more palette entries is not stored in the palette cache, the hardware decompression engine writes the one or more palette entries from an external palette memory to the palette cache. Decompressed display data is generated based on the compressed frame buffer update using the palette cache. The decompressed display data is written to an output buffer of the hardware decompression engine. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING IMAGE QUALITY BASED ON MEASUREMENT OF IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFACTS - Adjusting a spatial and/or temporal attribute of an image display device includes measuring a visual change on a display of the image display device, wherein the visual change is caused by an image processing artifact that is introduced or removed, inferring a correlated effect of the attribute on the display, based on the measuring, and generating an adjustment that adjusts the attribute to a setting that is selected based on the effect. Another method for adjusting an attribute of an image display device includes measuring a light volume emitted by a display of the image display device at a plurality of settings of the attribute, identifying one of the plurality of settings at which a greatest change in the light volume is produced with a smallest change in the attribute, and outputting an instruction to set the attribute to the one of the plurality of settings. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139539 | EMERGENCY DIGITAL SIGNAGE - In one embodiment, a plurality of digital displays is connected to a backup power source and to a control computer having a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to communicate with the processor and has instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to determine if an emergency exists. If it is determined that an emergency exists, the processor will send a signal to the plurality of digital displays that includes instructions for the digital displays to enter an emergency mode. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139540 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERPOLATING COLORS - This disclosure provides methods, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media for displaying a final color on an electronic display capable of displaying a set of native colors. In one aspect, a method includes producing a first color from drive instructions for a plurality of display devices. Some aspects include identifying a plurality of weights including at least a first weight and one or more other weights, wherein the one or more other weights are less than the first weight and proportional to the first weight. The method also includes associating the first weight with a first color from the set of native colors and recursively assigning one or more colors from the set of native colors to the one or more other weights. Some aspects determine an error between one or more native colors and a desired color. The final color is then displayed on the electronic display by displaying each of the assigned colors according to its weight. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139541 | DISPLAY WITH OPTICAL MICROSCOPE EMULATION FUNCTIONALITY - An optical microscope digital image processing emulator or emulation is described in which a user input device is used to assist in the emulation of an operation of an optical microscope in a digital image processing system. The emulator or emulation is programmable via a library of processing functions stored in memory. The input device is adapted to generate control signals based on a user input, and to transfer the control signals to a processor, the processor being adapted to alter one or more parameters of the processing functions based on the control signals. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139542 | Display dimming in response to user - In some embodiments a detector is to detect a body of a user. A controller is to determine an area of focus of the user in response to the detector, and to dim a portion of a display that is not in the area of focus. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139543 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing device configured to process a video signal displayed on a display having sub-pixels arranged in a shape of stripes includes: a pixel scan section configured to scan the video signal by two pixels adjacent in a direction orthogonal to the stripes and detect, in the two pixels, dark sub-pixels continuing by a number equivalent to one pixel or more between two bright sub-pixels; a correction target determination section configured to determine at least one sub-pixel in the dark sub-pixels to be a correction target; a correction value computation section configured to compute a correction value of the correction-target sub-pixel based on the values of the sub-pixels included in the two pixels; and a sub-pixel correction section configured to increase the value of the correction-target sub-pixel by the correction value. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139544 | MONITORING WEB SITE CONTENT - Systems and methods for monitoring Web page content associated with processing a resource request are provided. A client computing device generates a sample image corresponding to a set of resources rendered in response to a resource request. A processing component, such as an image analysis component, then compares the sample image with an averaged reference image to identify a compared image. The averaged reference image is determined from averaging a pixel intensity value for each pixel in a first reference image with a pixel intensity value for each pixel in a second reference image. These first and second reference images both correspond to the same set of requested resources. The processing component then weights the compared image to produce a weighted compared image and determines whether a sum of the intensity values for each pixel in the weighted compared image exceeds a threshold. Aspects of systems and methods for generating an alert message if the threshold is exceeded are also provided. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139545 | SCREEN INSPECTION DEVICE, SCREEN INSPECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A combination selecting unit ( | 2014-05-22 |
20140139546 | DATA VISUALIZATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method implemented by a computer for generating an image on a display that represents a plurality of transactions as lines connecting points in the display indicative of a source and an origin for the respective transactions. For each of the lines, an anti-aliasing process is used to determine a coverage value for each pixel of the display that represents the extent to which the line covers each pixel, and a record of a cumulative coverage value for each pixel is maintained in an image buffer. When the lines have been rendered into the image buffer, the method comprises determining a maximum and a minimum of the cumulative coverage values stored in the image buffer, scaling the cumulative coverage value for each pixel, and rendering each pixel onto the display by using the scaled cumulative coverage value to determine a transparency for the pixel. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139547 | Adjusting Color Attribute of an Image in a Non-Uniform Way - Some embodiments of the invention provide an image-editing process that non-uniformly adjusts at least one particular color attribute (e.g., saturation level) of pixels in an image. Specifically, the image-editing process of these embodiments uniformly adjusts the particular color attribute of pixels with a first set of values and non-uniformly adjusts the color attribute of pixels with a second set of values. In this manner, some embodiments provide a vibrancy process that non-uniformly adjusts saturation levels of an image in order to preserve saturation levels for skin tones appearing within the image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139548 | RETAIL DIGITAL SIGNAGE - In one embodiment, a plurality of digital displays is connected to a control computer having a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to communicate with the processor and has instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to prepare graphics information containing an identification of a retail product and a price for the retail product. The graphics information is sent to the plurality of digital displays and the digital displays display a product description and a product price based on the graphics information. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139549 | DELIVERING VIRTUALIZED CONTENT - Techniques for delivering virtualized content are disclosed. In some embodiments, at least portions of obtained source content are mapped to one or more parameterized database objects that collectively define a model environment representing the source content. Data specifying the model environment is provided to an output device at which the source content is desired to be rendered instead of the source content to facilitate a better quality rendering at the output device than the quality of the source content. Rendered content at the output device substantially does not comprise of original data comprising the source content. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139550 | External Fixator Deformity Correction Systems and Methods - Systems and methods for planning and optimizing bone deformity correction treatments using external fixators. A computer system generates a display of a tiltable ellipse superimposed on digital medical image(s) (radiograph), the ellipse representing a ring of an external fixator attachable to the patient's bone. Based on axial and azimuthal ring rotation user input, the system calculates a 3D position of the resulting graphical representation of the ring. User input controls translation of ring(s). Strut position user input identifies 3D positions for the external fixator struts. Based on graphical input defining 3D biological rate-limiting points for treatment, the system calculates a 3D bone correction speed and/or a number of treatment days, and generates a graphical simulation of this treatment. Further, the system generates a correction plan specifying for each strut a daily sequence of strut lengths and preferred strut sizes, to minimize strut replacements. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139551 | AUGMENTED REALITY HELP - A system and related methods for an augmented reality help system in a head-mounted display device are provided. In one example, the head-mounted display device includes a plurality of sensors and a display system for presenting holographic objects. An augmented reality help program is configured to receive one or more user biometric parameters from the plurality of sensors. Based on the user biometric parameters, the program determines that the user is experiencing a stress response, and presents help content to the user via the head-mounted display device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139552 | OBJECT DISPLAY DEVICE, OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD, AND OBJECT DISPLAY PROGRAM - An object display device includes an image capturing unit for acquiring an image in real space, an image feature extraction unit for extracting a predetermined feature about an image either in a plurality of feature regions detected from the image in real space or in the entire image in real space, an image processing unit for performing correction processing on an image of an object based on the predetermined feature about the image, and a display unit for displaying an overlaid image in which the image of the object subjected to correction processing is overlaid on the image in real space. With this configuration, the feature of the image in real space is appropriately reflected in the image of the object in the overlaid image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139553 | VIRTUAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A trapezoidal correction processing portion performs trapezoidal correction (distortion correction) on video image areas each of which is divided into a plurality of video image areas separately in accordance with the divided video image areas. In this case, each of the video image areas is divided into a plurality of areas. Further, a pair of right and left virtual image formation sections perform trapezoidal correction in a mirror symmetric manner, and the center position of the wearer's eye in each of the virtual image formation sections is so adjusted that the center position coincides with a distortion-free image corrected by using a small amount of correction. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139554 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY SYSTEM, TWO-DIMENSIONAL CODE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A two-dimensional code display system has a display unit which can display a two-dimensional code representing predetermined information by plural cells arrange in a matrix, and a control unit which changes the display form of the two-dimensional code. For example, after 0.5 second has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the image of a logo mark, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the image of the logo mark to a two-dimensional code. After 2.0 seconds has elapsed since the display unit starts displaying the two-dimensional code, the control unit controls the display unit to change the display from the two-dimensional code to the image of the logo mark. By repeating such control, the control unit can control the display unit to display alternately the image of the logo mark and the two-dimensional code. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139555 | METHOD OF ADDING EXPRESSION TO TEXT MESSAGES - A string of input characters is received through an input device and associated with an audio stream with at least one character of the string being associated with at least one sound of the audio stream, and each association is stored in a memory for synchronized playback. An electronic text message is associated with an image file, the association including an instruction to output the electronic text message concurrently with the image file such that the image file is output as a background image to the electronic text message. One or more text strings in an electronic text message is associated with one or more other text strings, and the one or more other text strings and associations, which may include start and end indexes, are stored in a memory as tags for the electronic text message. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139556 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SOFTWARE KEYBOARDS THEREOF - An apparatus and a method for displaying software keyboards are provided. The apparatus includes a touch screen and a control module. The touch screen is configured to display a primary software keyboard and configured to receive a user input of a user, wherein the primary software keyboard comprises a focus area, at least one adjacent area, and at least one periphery area. The focus area indicates a location for receiving the user input and is surrounded by the at least one adjacent area, and the at least one adjacent area are surrounded by the at least one periphery area. The control module is coupled to the touch screen for controlling the touch screen to enlarge the focus area and the at least one adjacent area while shrinking the at least one periphery area. By implementing such a method, users are allowed to type faster and more easily on the apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139557 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAVING POWER THEREOF - In a method and a device for controlling luminance of a display unit to save power of a display device including the display unit for displaying on a screen, the method includes: calculating a second luminance to which the luminance of the display unit is to be changed considering a first luminance that is a current luminance of the display unit and a constant K determined according to Weber's law; and changing the luminance of the display unit to the second luminance. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139558 | Driving controller, display panel device, and driving method capable of reducing crosstalk - A driving controller for reducing crosstalk in a display panel device includes a type detection unit and a polarity configuration unit. The type detection unit receives a color domain signal corresponding to one line data of an image so as to decide a data type of the line data. The polarity configuration unit is connected to the type detection unit for producing a polarity configuration corresponding to the data type of the line data based on the data type. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139559 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSPARENT DISPLAY - An electronic device controls a transparent display using a transparent display unit having a front side, a rear side and a lateral side, and allowing penetration of light. A light transmittance adjustable panel is disposed at one or more sides of the transparent display unit and a control unit automatically adjusts light transmittance of at least part of the transmittance adjustable panel in response to data associated with an event. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139560 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING BRIGHTNESS OF SCREEN AND METHOD THEREOF - An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The operation method includes detecting a movement speed of contents being scrolled, if the detected movement speed is determined as being equal to or greater than a set speed, changing a brightness of a screen having been displayed at a first brightness, into a second brightness, and changing the brightness of the screen from the second brightness to the first brightness according to a changing movement speed of the contents being scrolled. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139561 | Display Processing Method Display Processing Device and Display - The present invention discloses a display processing method, a display processing device and a display device. The display processing method is used for the display device having display areas. The display processing method includes: obtaining a first area of the display device which is currently displaying 3D display data; controlling the display in the first area based on a first GAMMA curve, and controlling the display in a second area other than the first area in the display area based on a second GAMMA curve; the first GAMMA curve is different from the second GAMMA curve. In the embodiments of the present invention, GAMMA curves corresponding to different types of display areas are used to control the display of pixels in the different types of display areas respectively. Therefore, the display effect is improved. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139562 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - In a liquid crystal display device adopting a time-division scheme to improve viewing angle characteristics, the occurrence of horizontal lines on a screen is suppressed. When first output gray scales are obtained for one-line data, the sum total of differences between “source voltages for a horizontal scanning period immediately before a horizontal scanning period during which a processing target line is placed in a selected state” and “source voltages determined based on the first output gray scales obtained by a gray scale value obtaining unit” for all source bus lines is determined (step S | 2014-05-22 |
20140139563 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display includes a timing controller and a liquid crystal panel. The timing controller sequentially receives first through third primitive image signals and sequentially outputs first through third corrected image signals. The liquid crystal panel displays an image based on the first through third corrected image signals. The timing controller generates a first converted image signal having a first gray level based on the first primitive image signal and stores the first converted image signal. The second primitive image signal has a second gray level and the timing controller generates a second converted image signal having a third gray level higher than the second gray level when the second gray level is lower than the first gray level. The timing controller generates the third corrected image signal using the second converted image signal and the third primitive image signal. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139564 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention provides an image display device that has an especially satisfactory display quality for animated images, and sufficiently suppresses the irregularities of display quality among pixels. The image display device includes a light emitting drive means that drives a light emitting means, based on an analog display signal inputted to the pixels, and a light emitting control switch for controlling a light-on or light-off of the light emitting means on one end of the light emitting drive means in each pixel. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139565 | DISPLAY DEVICE, APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL CONTROL DEVICE OF THE SAME, AND SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a scan driver sequentially applying a scan signal to a plurality of scan lines, a data driver applying a data signal corresponding to the scan signal to a plurality of data lines, and a signal controller calculating an image parameter from an image signal, and generating and transmitting one of a driving control signal for short period light emitting and a driving control signal for long period light emitting to the scan driver and the data driver by using the image parameter. The driving control signal for short period light emitting is a signal controlling a light emitting period in which a plurality of pixels emit light during one frame with a first period. The driving control signal for long period light emitting is a signal controlling the light emitting period with a second period that is longer than the first period. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139566 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes a display panel, the display panel including a plurality of pixels that, during one frame, receive a first voltage transmitted through a data line and a second voltage having a higher level than the first voltage, receive and store a third voltage of a first image data signal corresponding to a current frame, and emit light by driving current for a fourth voltage corresponding to a second image data signal corresponding to a previous frame, wherein, of one frame, a first period for storing the third voltage and a second period for emitting light by the driving current for the fourth voltage overlap each other. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139567 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CHARACTERISTIC CONTROL SUITABLE FOR MOBILE PHONE AND OTHER DEVICES - A system determines a time period used for controlling a backlight and other processing device power consumption related characteristics to more closely reflect user intent determined in response to an operation state of an application, for the system determines the operation state based on, activity of an application in requesting transmission and reception of data, display screen update and completion of presentation of a view configuration (display area) The system reduces inadvertent turning off of a backlight and other device power consumption features. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139568 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139569 | DRIVING METHOD OF ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE EMISSION PART - A driving method of a display device having a driving transistor and a display element, one source/drain region of the driving transistor connected to a power supply part, the other source/drain region connected to an anode electrode provided in the display element, the method includes the steps of: setting a potential of the anode electrode by applying a predetermined intermediate voltage to the anode electrode so that a potential difference between the anode electrode of the display element and a cathode electrode at the other end of the display element does not exceed a threshold voltage of the display element; and then holding the driving transistor in OFF-state while a drive voltage is applied from the power supply part to one source/drain region of the driving transistor. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139570 | Dynamic Color Adjustment for Displays Using Local Temperature Measurements - An electronic device may include a display and display control circuitry. The display may be calibrated to compensate for changes in display temperature. Display calibration information may be obtained during manufacturing and may be stored in the electronic device. The display calibration information may include adjustment factors configured to adjust incoming pixel values to reduce temperature-related color shifts. During operation of the electronic device, display control circuitry may determine the temperature at different locations on the display. The display control circuitry may determine the temperature at a given display pixel using the temperatures at the different locations on the display. The display control circuitry may determine adjustment values based on the temperature at the display pixel. The display control circuitry may apply the adjustment values to incoming pixel values to obtain adapted pixel values, which may in turn be provided to the display pixel. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139571 | Dynamic Color Adjustment for Displays - An electronic device may include a display and display control circuitry. The display may be calibrated to compensate for changes in display temperature. Display calibration information may be obtained during manufacturing and may be stored in the electronic device. The display calibration information may include color-specific adjustment factors configured to adjust display colors and reduce temperature-related color shifts. During operation of the display, the display control circuitry may receive input pixel values for a display pixel. The display control circuitry may also receive display temperature information from a temperature sensor in the electronic device. The display control circuitry may determine adjustment factors based on a color associated with the input pixel values and the display temperature information. The display control circuitry may apply the adjustment factors to the input pixel values to obtain adapted pixel values. The adapted pixel values may be provided to the display pixel. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139572 | DIRECT-TO-PRODUCT PRINTING TRAY INCLUDING A TRACKING LABEL-DISPENSING MECHANISM - A direct-to-product printing tray to hold a photo product and a plurality of labels in place while a composite image is printed on the photo product and a first label. The direct-to-product printing tray includes a label-dispensing system within the direct-to-product tray. The label-dispensing system is configured to automatically advance a second label to a position previously occupied by the first label in response to the removal of the first label from the label-dispensing system. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139573 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF PROGRAM OF CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus using a roll includes a power shutdown operation detector to detect an operation of shutting down power supply to the apparatus; a power supply switching unit to switch power supply condition to the apparatus; and an apparatus controller to control the apparatus. The apparatus controller controls a roll setting operation to set the roll ready for an image outputting operation, and controls the power supply switching unit based on detection of an operation that shuts down the power supply. The apparatus controller confirms whether the power shutdown operation detector detects the power shutdown operation when the roll setting operation is being conducted. When an operation that shuts down the power supply is detected, the apparatus controller aborts the roll setting operation and shuts down power supply to the apparatus. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139574 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAM - In a print control device which prints a monochrome image by discharge of a black ink from a nozzle for discharging an ink, a chromatic color ink in addition to the black ink is discharged in a region where an amount of use of the black ink indicated by monochrome image data representing the monochrome image, is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value. In the region, chromatic color inks of different colors are discharged to positions which do not overlap with each other. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139575 | METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND DRIVE SIGNAL GENERATION DEVICE FOR LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A method of driving a liquid ejection head adapted to apply a voltage to the liquid ejection head to eject a liquid including a polymer is provided. The method includes raising the voltage from a first voltage to a second voltage; raising the voltage from the second voltage to a third voltage at a gradient larger than that in raising the voltage from the first to the second voltage, and then holding the voltage at the third voltage; dropping the voltage from the third voltage to a fourth voltage, and then holding the voltage at the fourth voltage; raising the voltage from the fourth voltage to a fifth voltage, and then holding the voltage at the fifth voltage; dropping the voltage from the fifth voltage to a sixth voltage, and then holding the voltage at the sixth voltage; and raising the voltage from the sixth voltage to a seventh voltage. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139576 | ELECTROCHROMIC WO3 NANOPARTICLES, A METHOD FOR THEIR PRODUCTION AND INK USING SAID PARTICLES - Tungsten trioxide (WO3) nanoparticles are synthesized via a sol-gel route using metallic tungsten as precursor and printed on a flexible electrode using inkjet printing in order to build solid-state electrochromic cells. A method for separate control of different spectral regions of the electrochromic device (near infrared and visible) is disclosed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139577 | Printing Apparatus And Printing Method - A printing apparatus which can form an image formation dot for printing an image defined as an object to be printed on a printing medium, the printing apparatus comprising a line head which includes a nozzle array arraying a plurality of nozzles, by moving at least one of a printing medium and the head, in a direction intersecting a direction relatively changing a position of the printing medium and the head and a control unit which performs a specific operation forming a flushing dot besides the image formation dot by discharging a liquid on the line head, wherein, when a specific condition increasing viscosity of the liquid is satisfied, the control unit performs the specific operation of discharging the liquid to the printing medium and the specific operation of discharging the liquid to a place other than the printing medium. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139578 | Method And Apparatus For Alignment Of A Low Contrast Ink Printhead In An Inkjet Printer - In an inkjet printer, a first printhead forms a first mark on a print medium using a high-contrast ink. A second printhead forms a second mark on the first mark using a low-contrast ink. The printer generates image data of the low-contrast ink mark and the high-contrast ink, and a controller in the printer identifies a cross-process direction offset between the first printhead and the second printhead with reference to a distance between the center of the first mark and the second mark in the image data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139579 | SPARSE TEST PATTERNS IN PRINTED DOCUMENTS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF INKJET AND PRINTHEAD PERFORMANCE IN A PRINTER - A method for operating an inkjet printer to identify inoperable inkjets includes ejecting ink drops of a first color onto an image receiving surface to impose a control pattern on a document zone in addition to an ink image generated in the document zone. A density of the control pattern in the document zone changes at a rate that is at or less than a predetermined threshold. The method includes generating scanned image data of a portion of the control pattern on the image receiving surface and identifying a performance parameter corresponding to inkjets and printheads in the printer. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139580 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus, comprising: a transportation unit that transports a medium; a head that includes a first nozzle array on which nozzles for discharging a first liquid are arrayed, and a second nozzle array on which nozzles for discharging a second liquid are arrayed; and a controller that controls the transportation unit and the head based on print data, wherein, in a case where the printing of the print data is designated to be performed without forming the printing dots of the first liquid on the medium, the controller causes the head to discharge the second liquid from the second nozzle array to form the printing dots of the second liquid on the medium, and causes the head to discharge the first liquid from the first nozzle array to form the flushing dots of the first liquid on the medium. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139581 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR PRINTING ON RECEIVING MATERIAL IN A SINGLE PASS PRINT STRATEGY - A reproduction apparatus for printing a digital image includes a control unit and a print engine. The digital image is constituted of pixels, each having assigned a pixel value. The print engine includes print elements for ejecting an amount of marking material on a receiving material according to a pixel value. The reproduction apparatus includes a detector for detecting a failing print element and the control unit includes a derivation unit for deriving, before printing of the digital image for a print element, at least one array of pixel values to be printed by at least one other print element, upon detection of a failing of the print element by the detector. A merging unit is configured to merge at least one of the at least one array of pixel values with the digital image, upon detection of a failing print element, for creating a corrected digital image. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139582 | RECORDING APPARATUS, MAINTENANCE METHOD AND RECORDING METHOD OF RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including: a medium support tray capable of supporting a recording medium; a moving mechanism moving the medium support tray; a recording head capable of recording on the recording medium which is transported by moving the medium support tray; a protective member of the recording head; an instruction receiving section which receives an instruction of a maintenance start of the protective member; and a controller which controls the moving mechanism so as to retract the medium support tray from a set position in which the recording medium is set on the medium support tray when the instruction receiving section receives the instruction of the maintenance start. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139583 | PRINTHEAD ALIGNMENT EVALUATION - In one embodiment, a first reference pattern is caused to be printed with transparent ink ejected from a first printhead. A second reference pattern is caused to be printed, with a first colorant ink ejected from a second printhead, to least partially overlap the first reference pattern. The overlapping causes the second reference pattern to be visually discernible where the first and second reference patterns overlap. A background pattern, overlapping and surrounding the first and second reference patterns, is caused to be printed with a second colorant ink less dark than the first colorant ink. The printing of the background pattern causes the first reference pattern to be visually discernible where the first and second reference patterns do not overlap. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139584 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INK CARTRIDGE CHIP, INK CARTRIDGE CHIP AND INK CARTRIDGE - The present invention provides a method for controlling an ink cartridge chip, the ink cartridge chip and an ink cartridge. The ink cartridge chip comprises an interface unit and a control unit, wherein the interface unit is connected to an image forming apparatus and used for receiving a light control instruction sent by the image forming apparatus; the light control instruction includes a light-on instruction used for indicating the illumination of a light-emitting unit on the ink cartridge chip; and the control unit is used for controlling whether to execute the light control instruction according to the state of the ink cartridge chip when the interface unit receives the light control instruction, and updating the state of the ink cartridge chip according to the light control instruction. The present invention also provides a corresponding control method and an ink cartridge. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATING SPOT COLOR - The present invention provides a method for calibrating a spot color comprising: determining a target value for the spot color; and calibrating a printing device in an enumeration cycling manner, so that a spot color measurement value of a color block output by the printing device approximates the target value. The present invention further provides an apparatus for calibrating a spot color, comprising: a target module used for determining a target value for the spot color; a calibrating module used for calibrating a printing device in an enumeration cycling manner, so that a spot color measurement value of a color block output by the printing device approximates the target value. The present invention precisely calibrates the spot color of the printing device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139586 | LIQUID CARTRIDGE - Second and third outer surfaces intersect a first outer surface, and are spaced from each other. A sensor-signal output terminal is disposed on the first outer surface. A discharge port is disposed on the second outer surface. A channel member is closer to the second outer surface than a liquid storing section is. First and second directions are perpendicular to the first and second outer surfaces, respectively. A third direction is perpendicular to the first and second directions. When a space is divided by an imaginary line parallel to the first direction, as viewed from the third direction, into a first region in which the channel member is disposed and a second region in which the liquid storing section is disposed, the sensor and terminal are disposed in the first region. The liquid channel extends linearly in the second direction. The sensor and terminal are aligned in the first direction. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139587 | Printhead Having Apertures For Application Of A Surface Treatment Fluid - A printhead enables surface treatment fluid to be applied to the face of the printhead through at least one aperture located in the printhead faceplate. The printhead receives pressurized surface treatment fluid, which flows through a reservoir in the printhead, through at least one channel in the jet stack, and out the at least one aperture onto the surface of the faceplate. The surface treatment fluid is spread across ink apertures in the faceplate to disable ink from drooling from the ink apertures. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139588 | WIPER UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Ratchets which regulate a rotation of either a reeling-out roller around which one end of a long wiping member which wipes ink attached to a recording head which ejects ink is wound, or a winding-up roller around which the other end of the wiping member is wound to which tension is applied due to a friction force which acts on the wiping member when performing wiping are provided. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139589 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer includes a transfer unit transferring a sheet of paper along a transfer path surface, a printer head ejecting ink towards the sheet of paper, and an air blowing unit blowing air towards ink ejected from the printer head. The sheet of paper may be a postal matter (e.g., letter, postcard, parcel) and the printer head may be used to print barcodes or the like on the sheet of paper for purposes of subsequent sorting and routing. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139590 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A semiconductor device includes unit circuits arranged in a first direction, a bonding pad, and electrically conductive patterns configured to connect the unit circuits to the bonding pad. Each of the electrically conductive patterns includes a first portion connected to the bonding pad and extending in the first direction, and a second portion connected to the corresponding unit circuit. The electrically conductive patterns include a first type pattern in which the first portion is positioned on a first side of the second portion in a view from the first direction, and a second type pattern in which the first portion is positioned on a second side, which is opposite to the first side, of the second portion in a view from the first direction. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139591 | INK COMPOSITIONS INCORPORATING ESTER RESINS - An ink composition including one or more ester resins, the ink composition containing an optional colorant; at least one crystalline phase-change agent; an amorphous binder agent; and optionally one or more additives; where the at least one amorphous binder agent includes at least one ester compound. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139592 | LIQUID JET HEAD, LIQUID JET APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID JET HEAD - A liquid jet head according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an actuator substrate having slender ejection grooves and slender non-ejection grooves partitioned by slender walls each including a piezoelectric body. The non-ejection grooves have, at ends on one side thereof, respective inclined surfaces rising from bottom surfaces thereof to upper surface openings at upper portions thereof, common electrodes are provided in a strip form along a longitudinal direction of walls on both side surfaces of the walls facing the ejection grooves, active electrodes are provided in a strip form along the longitudinal direction of the walls on both side surfaces of the walls facing the non-ejection grooves, and the active electrodes are provided from positions in the vicinity of the ends on one side of the non-ejection grooves to ends on the other side thereof. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139593 | LIQUID JET HEAD, LIQUID JET APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID JET HEAD - A liquid jet head is provided with an actuator substrate partitioned by elongated walls of a piezoelectric body and having elongated ejection grooves and elongated non-ejection grooves alternately arrayed thereon so as to penetrate the actuator substrate from an upper surface through a lower surface thereof; a cover plate provided on the upper surface and having first slits communicating with the ejection grooves on one side and second slits communicating with the ejection grooves on the other side; and a nozzle plate provided on the lower surface and having nozzles communicating with the ejection grooves. The non-ejection grooves extend, on the other side, up to a second-side peripheral end of the actuator substrate, and the actuator substrate is left to form raised bottom portions on bottoms of the non-ejection grooves near the second-side peripheral end. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139594 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD UNIT, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes nozzles for ejecting liquid; pressure generation chambers, each in fluid communication with one of the nozzles; and a manifold substrate with manifolds disposed therein. Each manifold supplies liquid to at least one of the pressure generation chambers. The liquid ejecting head also includes a head case with a piezoelectric element housing unit. Piezoelectric elements, for changing pressure of liquid within the pressure generation chambers, are provided in the piezoelectric element housing unit. The liquid ejecting head also includes a vibrating element for absorbing pressure changes in the liquid within the manifolds, cavities provided on the vibrating element at positions that correspond to positions of the manifolds, and an atmosphere exposure channel that fluidly connects one of the cavities to the atmosphere. At least one other one of the cavities is in fluid communication with the atmosphere exposure channel via the first cavity. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139595 | SELF-CROSSLINKING DISPERSIONS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THE SAME - A dispersion comprising a pigment, a polymer comprising a carboxyl group, a crosslinking agent capable of undergoing a crosslinking reaction with the carboxyl group, an inhibition agent comprising a tertiary amine, and a liquid carrier, wherein at least one of the mean particle size and the viscosity of the dispersion increases by less than 20% over about three months in sealed storage at ambient temperature, as determined by accelerated shelf life testing. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139596 | POLYMERIZABLE INK COMPOSITION, INK CARTRIDGE, AND INKJET PRINTER - An improved polymerizable ink composition contains polymerizable monomers containing one or both of an acrylic acid ester compound and a methacrylic acid ester compound and a vinyl ether compound; an alkali component; and an aromatic secondary amine compound. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139597 | POLYMERIZABLE INK COMPOSITION, INK CARTRIDGE CONTAINING THE SAME, AND INKJET PRINTER - A polymerizable ink composition contains polymerizable monomers containing at least one of an acrylic acid ester compound, a methacrylic acid ester compound, an acryl amide, and a methacryl amide; and a vinyl ether compound; and one of potassium oxide and sodium oxide. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139598 | LIQUID CARTRIDGE AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - In a liquid cartridge, a liquid storing section defines a liquid storing chamber storing liquid, and a channel section defines a channel in fluid communication with the liquid storing chamber. A field forming section forms a field that changes depending on a position of a movable member that is movable in the channel. A power-source potential is inputted to a power-source terminal, and a ground potential is inputted to a ground terminal. A sensor is electrically connected with the power-source terminal and the ground terminal, and generates a potential based on the position of the movable member by being disposed in the field formed by the field forming section. An output terminal outputs the potential generated by the sensor. The sensor generates the potential higher than a ground potential regardless of the position of the movable member. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139599 | PHASE CHANGE INKS COMPRISING INORGANIC NUCLEATING AGENTS - A solid ink composition suitable for ink jet printing, including printing on coated paper substrates. In particular, the solid ink composition comprises a crystalline compound, an amorphous compound, and an inorganic nucleating agent, which provides for a robust and fast printing ink. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139600 | CUTTER DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A cutter device includes a cutter configured to cut a material to be cut; a carriage having a cutter and moving in a widthwise direction with respect to a feeding direction of the material to be cut; and a guide unit configured to guide the carriage in the widthwise direction and, assuming that the movement of the carriage when the cutter cuts the material to be cut is an outward route, a homeward route of the cutter of the carriage is different from the outward route of the cutter, and is shifted from the outward route toward one material to be cut which moves first in the direction away from the other material to be cut in the feeding direction immediately after the cutting from between the materials to be cut divided into two parts. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139601 | INKJET RECORDING MEDIUM - An inkjet recording medium includes a substrate, an intermediate layer disposed on the substrate, and an ink receiving layer disposed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a binder, an inorganic pigment, and a pigment ink fixing agent chosen from divalent salts, multivalent salts, and combinations thereof. The ink receiving layer includes a non-film forming polymer, a binder chosen from any of water dispersible binders or water soluble binders, and a pigment. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139602 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device includes a light source, a scanning portion that includes plural reflection surfaces, makes light beams incident to the reflection surface such that optical axis directions of the light beams emitted from the light emitting parts are tilted with respect to a direction perpendicular to the reflection surface, and scans the light beams in the main scanning direction through rotation, an optical system that includes an optical member made of a resin, is disposed between the scanning portion and the surface to be scanned, and makes the plural light beams incident to the surface to be scanned such that optical axes of the plural light beams are parallel to each other, and a correction portion that is provided in the optical system, and corrects positional deviation of scanning lines of the light beams in the sub-scanning direction on the surface to be scanned. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139603 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVE CIRCUIT, OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, SEMICONDUCTOR DRIVE CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light source drive circuit which drives a light source is disclosed, including a drive current generating unit which generates a drive current, the driving current including a predetermined current for obtaining a predetermined light amount from the light source; and first and second overshoot currents which are applied to the predetermined current in synchronization thereto; and a control unit which sets, to the drive current generating unit, a value of the first overshoot current to a fixed value, and a value of the second overshoot current in accordance with a light amount output from the light source. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE THEREOF - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive media, a light source unit which comprises a plurality of light sources, a polygon mirror which deflects a plurality of beams output from the plurality of light sources into the plurality of photosensitive media using a plurality of reflective surfaces, a beam detector which receives beams reflected from the polygon mirror during a rotating process of the polygon mirror, and outputs a beam detection signal, and a horizontal sync signal generator which receives the beam detection signal and counts beam reflecting times during which the beams are reflected from the plurality of reflective surfaces, and compares the plurality of counted beam reflecting times with the compensation values calculated for the reflective surfaces, respectively, generates a horizontal sync signal for a corresponding reflective surface, and provides the horizontal sync signal to the light source unit. | 2014-05-22 |
20140139605 | LIGHT SOURCE DRIVE CIRCUIT, OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A light source drive circuit for driving a light source is disclosed including a drive current generating unit generating a drive current, the drive current including a predetermined current for obtaining a predetermined light amount from the light source, a first auxiliary current input to the light source prior to input of the predetermined current, and a second auxiliary current added to the predetermined current in synchronization thereto; and a signal generating unit generating a first signal and a second signal, the first signal causing the first auxiliary current to be input for a first period and the second signal causing the second auxiliary current to be applied to the predetermined current for a second period. The first period is shorter than a period from a rise of the predetermined current to when a light amount from the light source reaches the predetermined light amount with the predetermined current. | 2014-05-22 |