23rd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 26 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140152655 | Map Systems and Methods for Displaying Panoramic Images - Operations for efficient display of panoramic images include receiving control information a plurality of tiles of a panoramic image, identifying padding included in the received tiles, and processing the tiles to remove the padding. For each of the processed tiles, at least one patch is generated which maps at least a portion of each tile to a three-dimensional surface formed in a memory. Each patch includes a plurality of polygonal areas, and corresponds to a respective portion of a sphere. The panoramic image is drawn using the patches. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152656 | MEDICAL SYSTEM, MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MARKER - A medical system, a medical imaging apparatus, and a method of setting a 3-dimensional (3D) marker on a 3D image are provided. The medical imaging apparatus a display unit displaying a 3-dimensional (3D) ultrasound image generated by using 3D data; a user input unit receiving first input information for selecting a predetermined point of the 3D ultrasound image; and a processor detecting 3D geometry information of a 3D marker that corresponds to the predetermined point in the 3D data based on the first input information, and setting the 3D marker on the 3D image based on the 3D geometry information that is detected. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152657 | Caching in Map Systems for Displaying Panoramic Images - Operations for caching to display panoramic images include repeatedly receiving an indication of one or both of a current geographic location and a current view direction for a user, receiving from a remote server a first plurality of image tiles of a first panoramic image of a predicted geographic location, caching the received first plurality of image tiles, and processing the cached first plurality of image tiles. The processing includes decompressing the cached first plurality of image tiles and storing the decompressed image tiles. When the current geographic location is at the predicted geographic location, rendering, using the stored decompressed tiles, the first panoramic image to a plurality of three-dimensional surfaces in a memory, wherein each of the plurality of three-dimensional surfaces corresponds to a respective portion of a sphere. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152658 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING 3D IMAGE THEREOF - A method including acquiring a source image and depth information of the source image, determining, using depth information, an overlapping region in which some pixels of a source image are shifted and a plurality of pixels overlap, calculating a weight for the overlapping region with a processor, using distance information with respect to a foreground region of the source image and a background region of the source image, generating, using the depth information and the overlapping region, a foreground-depth image in which the foreground region is extended and a background-depth image in which the background region is extended, generating a foreground image using the source image and the foreground-depth image, generating a background image using the source and the background-depth image, and generating, using the weight from the overlapping region, at least one of a left-eye image and a right-eye image by synthesizing the foreground image and the background image. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152659 | GEOSCIENCE DATA VISUALIZATION AND IMMERSION EXPERIENCE - A method for presenting measurements of properties of a subsurface material to a user includes: conveying a carrier through a borehole penetrating the subsurface material; performing a plurality of measurements of multiple properties of the subsurface material at multiple depths in the borehole using a plurality of downhole tools disposed at the carrier; constructing, with a processor, a three-dimensional mathematical model of the subsurface material using the plurality of measurements, the model having data from the plurality of measurements of the multiple properties; receiving, with the processor, an input from a user directing the processor to generate a three-dimensional image of the subsurface material as seen from a virtual viewer-window viewing the model, the input having a three-dimensional position and three-dimensional viewing direction of the virtual-viewer window within the model; generating the three-dimensional image with the processor; and displaying the generated three-dimensional image on a display. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152660 | METHOD FOR CREATING 3-D MODELS BY STITCHING MULTIPLE PARTIAL 3-D MODELS - A method of creating a 3-D model by capturing partial 3-D models each comprising a sequence of 2-D images, analyzing each of the partial 3-D models to identify image features in the sequence of 2-D images of each of the partial 3-D models, identifying pairs of overlapping image features between the 2-D mages of each of the partial 3-D models by identifying image features in each 2-D image in the sequence of 2-D images of each of the partial 3-D models that overlaps image features in 2-D images of the sequence of 2-D images of the other partial 3-D models and selecting a 2-d image from each of the partial 3-D models, computing an initial transformation between 3-D coordinates of individual pairs of identified image features between the selected 2-D image from each of the partial 3-D models; and generating a final 3-D model based on the initial transformation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152661 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING MEDICAL IMAGES - Apparatus and method of medical diagnostic imaging. The apparatus includes: an image unit for constructing volume image data by capturing images from a multiplicity of tomographic images of a sampling specimen and for constructing internal three dimensional images of the diagnosing object of the sampling specimen as seen from a viewing point; a display for displaying the three-dimensional images; an input unit for entering parameters for setting up a precutting plane at an inter-voxel image data boundary between voxel image data of the volume image data closer to the viewing point than the diagnosing object and voxel image data associated with the diagnosing object; and a control unit for controlling the structure of the three-dimensional images constructed by the image unit based on the precutting plane set up via the input unit, wherein the control unit extracts a boundary based on one of the parameters inputted to the input unit. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152662 | VISIBILITY SILHOUETTES FOR MASKED SPHERICAL INTEGRATION - The disclosure provides an approach for determining, in 3D rendering, the integrals of visibility-masked spherical functions using visibility silhouettes. For a given shade point, the visibility silhouette for that shade point includes a set of edges from the scene geometry which form the boundaries between visible and invisible regions of a hemisphere having the shade point as its center. For each shade point, a rendering application determines a set of contour edges of scene geometry, the contour edges being a superset of the set of visibility silhouette edges, by querying a 4D dual mesh. The rendering application then evaluates the integral of the visibility-masked spherical function for a given shade point by integrating over segments of discrete u-isolines for which an overlap function indicates that a ray from the shade point would not intersect scene geometry. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152663 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing device including a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase of pixels of a 3D image projected onto a light shielding unit that limits a region seen by a left eye and a region seen by a right eye of the 3D image displayed on a display unit, and a blend processing unit configured to combine an image for the left eye with an image for the right eye for each pixel based on the phase calculated by the phase calculation unit, the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye being included in the 3D image. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152664 | METHOD OF RENDERING A TERRAIN STORED IN A MASSIVE DATABASE - A method of rendering a terrain stored in a massive database the said terrain rendering being displayed for an observer by a display device comprising at least one graphics card comprising a cache memory, comprises at least: a step of generating several regular grids of different resolution level terrain patches so as to represent the terrain data of the massive database; a step of extracting terrain data from the massive database for several resolution levels, the extracted terrain data forming an extraction pyramid, composed of an extraction window for each level of detail, placed in cache memory. Each window comprises an active zone intended to be displayed, and a preloading zone which makes it possible to anticipate the transfers of data; a step of selecting the patches of the extraction pyramid which contribute to the image; and a step of plotting the rendering on the basis of the selected patches. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152665 | MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATOR - Described herein is a technology for facilitating multi-media collaboration. In some implementations, a digital image with hand drawings is provided at a local location of a collaboration. A graph is formed from the digital image. Connected components (CCs) in the graph are identified. Text CCs in the graph is classified. The text CCs from the graph is segmented. Objects and data of the text CCs are propagated to participants of the collaboration at other remote locations. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152666 | Personalized-Recommendation Graph - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of recommendations for a first user. Each recommendation being made by a second user and including information that: identifies an item being recommended; provides an explanation for the recommendation; identifies the first user as an addressee of the recommendation; and identifies the second user as an author of the recommendation. The method also includes providing for presentation to the first user one or more of the recommendations. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152667 | AUTOMATIC PRESENTATIONAL LEVEL COMPOSITIONS OF DATA VISUALIZATIONS - Embodiments of the invention provide for generating a data presentation artifact. In one aspect of the invention a first data presentation object and a second data presentation object are received from a repository. The first data presentation object defines a first data presentation artifact. The second data presentation object defines a second data presentation artifact. At least one mashup operation is identified that may be performed using the first data presentation object and the second data presentation object. One or more mashup operations are selected from the identified mashup operations. A third data presentation artifact is then generated by applying the selected mashup operations to the first and the second data presentation objects. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152668 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A first receiver receives a first QFD chart having axes, items formed in a hierarchical structure being appended to each axis. A second receiver receives a second QFD chart different from the first QFD chart. An integrating unit integrates the first and second QFD charts into a third QFD chart. Concerning axes of the first and second QFD charts having the same axis name, if part of an item name in a highest hierarchical level of items on the axis of the first QFD chart coincides with that of the second QFD chart and if remaining parts do not coincide with each other, the integrating unit sets the consistent parts as an item name in a highest level of the third QFD chart and sets the inconsistent parts as item names in a second highest level of the third QFD chart. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152669 | Apparatus, Method and Program for Information Processing - The invention provides an information processing apparatus, which can adjust a display range of a time series graph using one operating portion. An information processing apparatus | 2014-06-05 |
20140152670 | CHARACTER STRING PLACEMENT DEVICE - A character string placement device including a character gap function calculator that calculates a character gap function value showing an evaluation to a character gap between a plurality of character strings which are respectively placed from a plurality of candidate points by a character string placer, a road angle function calculator that calculates a road angle function value showing an evaluation to an angle of a road node series along which a character string is placed by the character string placer, and an evaluation function value calculator that calculates an evaluation function value on the basis of the character gap function value calculated by the character gap function calculator and the road angle function value calculated by the road angle function calculator. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS TO READ E-PUBLICATIONS - A system for assisting individuals (e.g., those having physical or other disabilities) to read or otherwise experience electronic publications includes a projector configured to project images of an electronic publication and a controller that is sized and contoured to fit comfortably within or be held by a human hand. The controller may include a processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, which storage device stores processor-executable instructions for providing, via a wireless communication channel and responsive to one or more user inputs, one or more instructions in connection with projection of the images of the electronic publication via the projector. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152672 | Rotatable Animation Devices with Staggered Illumination Sources - An illuminated animation device with staggered sources of illumination with a rotatable member rotatable about an axis of rotation, first and second pluralities of sources of illumination retained to rotate with the rotatable member that are actuatable between illuminated and non-illuminated conditions. The first and second pluralities of sources of illumination are staggered so that the sources of illumination will produce individual paths of illumination to permit image display with enhanced. The rotatable member can be a rotatable panel with first and second arrays retained relative to first and second halves thereof, and the sources of illumination can be longitudinally and laterally staggered, such as by one-half a distance between adjacent sources of illumination. The sources of animation can alternatively be disposed in opposed, radially spaced straight line arrays. The device can be handheld and can include a motor and a power source. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152673 | Patient Monitor for Generating Real-Time Relational Animations of Human Organs in Response to Physiologic Signals - A medical alarm system for processing medical time-series data of multiple physiologic signals in hospitals and other environments is disclosed. The alarm system generates physiologic animations in real-time. The physiologic animations are shaped as a schematic of the physiologic system being monitored. The physiologic system is comprised of multiple components corresponding to organs. The physiologic animation and organs move over time in response to the physiologic signals. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152674 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, EXTERNAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electronic apparatus includes a locking unit to selectively lock a physical connection with an external apparatus and a control unit to control an operation mode of the electronic apparatus, according to a connection state with the external apparatus, in which the control unit controls the locking unit to lock the connection with the external apparatus, when the electronic apparatus is in an operation mode of using a graphic processing unit of the external apparatus. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152675 | Load Balancing for Optimal Tessellation Performance - A system, method and a computer-readable medium for load balancing patch processing pre-tessellation are provided. The patches for drawing objects on a display screen are distributed to shader engines for parallel processing. Each shader engine generates tessellation factors for a patch, wherein a value of generated tessellation factors for the patch is unknown prior to distribution. The patches are redistributed to the shader engines pre-tessellation to load balance the shader engines for processing the patches based on the value of tessellation factors in each patch. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152676 | LOW LATENCY IMAGE DISPLAY ON MULTI-DISPLAY DEVICE - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to displaying images on multi-display devices with low latency. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, on a display device comprising a first display and a second display, a method comprising receiving, processing a first image, and displaying the first image via the first display and not displaying the first image via the second display. The method further comprises receiving a second image, processing the second image while displaying the first image, and displaying the second image via the second display and not displaying the second image via the first display. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152677 | CREATING PRESENTATIONS BY CAPTURING CONTENT OF A SIMULATED SECOND MONITOR - A method whereby a second display device is simulated using software so that images may be directed by a personal computer or other electronic device to appear on the simulated display. The software may then be configured to display images directed to such a simulated display in a portion of the primary display, allowing the user of the method to monitor the simulated display and capture images from the simulated display using an automated capture algorithm to capture and store the image for future use. The presenter or user of the method may make adjustments to the capture parameters, via a control interface, which is viewed on the primary display device. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152678 | LOW POWER APPLICATION EXECUTION ON A DATA PROCESSING DEVICE HAVING LOW GRAPHICS ENGINE UTILIZATION - A method includes determining, through test instructions executing on a processor of a data processing device, utilization of a graphics engine of the processor by an application executing thereon based on initiation thereof through a driver associated with the processor and/or an operating system executing on the data processing device, and detecting, through the test instructions, an idle state of one or more non-graphics engine(s) of the processor. The method also includes transitioning, through the processor, a frame buffer associated therewith into a self-refresh mode of low power utilization thereof, and copying data related to the execution of the application to a memory of the data processing device. Further, the method includes clock-gating the one or more non-graphics engine(s) to reduce a power consumption of the data processing device, and enabling the graphics engine to utilize the copied data in the memory for continued execution of the application. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152679 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has a main processing section that outputs an image processing command signal; an anomaly detection section that detects an anomaly in the main processing section, outputting an anomaly information output signal; an image processing section that outputs a first image signal when the main processing section is in normal operation and that outputs a second image signal when an anomaly has occurred in the main processing section; and an image selection section that selects either the first image signal or the second image signal on the basis of the anomaly information output section. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF A SIGNAL FLOW PROGRAMMED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR CODE - A method according to an embodiment of a system for efficient resource management of a signal flow programmed digital signal processor code is provided and includes determining a connection sequence of a plurality of algorithm elements in a schematic of a signal flow for an electronic circuit, the connection sequence indicating connections between the algorithm elements and a sequence of processing the algorithm elements according to the connections, determining a buffer sequence indicating an order of using the plurality of memory buffers to process the plurality of algorithm elements according to the connection sequence, and reusing at least some of the plurality of memory buffers according to the buffer sequence. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152681 | RENDERING APPARATUS, RENDERING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A rendering apparatus acquires graphic information of a figure to be rendered in a rendering area; specifies for each division area of the rendering area, graphic information of a figure to be rendered in the division area; calculates based on data size of the specified graphic information and for each division area, total data size of graphic information of the figure to be rendered in the division area; selects a division area as a rendering destination, based on each calculated total data size and a data capacity of a memory area to which graphic information is to be stored that is among the acquired graphic information and for the figure to be rendered; writes to the memory area, the graphic information of the figure to be rendered in the selected division area; and generates based on the written graphic information, an image for the selected division area. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152682 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE SCREENS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a display device that displays a frame buffer on a plurality of screens is provided. The method includes receiving a multi-screen mode execution command to display a single frame buffer on a plurality of screens, acquiring the frame buffer, splitting the frame buffer into a plurality of frame buffers to correspond to the plurality of screens, setting an offset for each of the plurality of split frame buffers, and displaying each of the plurality of split frame buffers on an associated one of the plurality of screens based on the set offset. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152683 | METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR USING TEXTURES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A graphics virtual texturing system in which textures stored in a storage medium of a host system are divided into respective pages that are then loaded into a local memory of a graphics processing system for use. If the texture page that is required for performing a texturing operation at an originally desired level of detail ( | 2014-06-05 |
20140152684 | METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR USING TEXTURES IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS - A graphics virtual texturing system in which textures stored in a storage medium of a host system are divided into respective pages that are then loaded into a local memory of a graphics processing system for use. Each page of a graphics texture has an associated fade factor value that can be set by an application that is to use the texture to control the contribution that the page will be used to make to any texturing result that is generated using the texture page in question. The graphics processing system then controls the contribution of texture data from a texture page to texturing result data to be generated in accordance with the fade factor value associated with the texture page in question. This allows texture paging to be done in a more visually pleasing manner than just a binary “page-is-here”/“page-is-not-here” switch. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152685 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A semiconductor device having an eye-friendly display function is provided. When a display portion displays text, a difference between a gray level of the text and a gray level of a background of the text is reduced depending on a scrolling speed of a screen of the display portion. In other words, during fast scrolling, text visibility is lowered by bringing the gray level of the text closer to the gray level of the background. This can prevent a user from following the text with eyes at the time of fast scrolling, thereby eliminating unnecessary movement of eye muscles and reducing stimuli to the optic nerve. In this manner, eye strain can be reduced. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152686 | Local Tone Mapping for High Dynamic Range Images - A method of local tone mapping of a high dynamic range (HDR) image is provided that includes dividing a luminance image of the HDR image into overlapping blocks and computing a local tone curve for each block, computing a tone mapped value for each pixel of the luminance image as a weighted sum of values computed by applying local tone curves of neighboring blocks to the pixel value, computing a gain for each pixel as a ratio of the tone mapped value to the value of the pixel, and applying the gains to corresponding pixels in the HDR image. A weight for each value is computed based on distance from the pixel to the center point of the block having the local tone curve applied to compute the value and the intensity difference between the value of the pixel and the block mean pixel value. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152687 | Color management system based on universal gamut mapping method - This invention is a universal gamut mapping and color management method and relates to color digital image processing technical field. It involves high-accuracy image coordinates conversion in device color space, high fidelity chroma transmission between input and output devices, cross-media gamut mapping technologies and color management system built based on these technologies. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152688 | DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS IN WHICH A PART OF A SCREEN AREA IS IN A THROUGH-STATE - Display control that extends a user's visual ability is accomplished. By wearing an eyeglass-type or headgear-type mounting unit, he or she is allowed to see display means disposed in front of his or her eyes. By causing a part of a screen area of the display means to be in a through-state and a display with a display image signal to be executed, the user can see an image of a scene different from a scene that he or she ordinarily sees with a display of the display image signal while he or she can see the ordinary visual scene with the through-state area. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152689 | METHOD FOR THE TRANSLATION OF A WHITE LIGHT COLOR PALETTE TO A BLACK LIGHT COLOR PALETTE - One implementation of the present disclosure is a computing device for identifying a translated color from a desired color. The computing device includes at least one memory component storing a translation chart. The translation chart includes information implementing a correspondence between each of a plurality of first colors and each of a plurality of second colors. The computing device also includes one or more processing elements in communication with the at least one memory component. The processing element or elements are configured to receive one or more appearance characteristics of the desired color under a first light source and evaluate the translation chart to determine a translated color that includes the one or more appearance characteristics of the desired color under a second light source. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152690 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing device ( | 2014-06-05 |
20140152691 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display controller, and a processor. The display controller displays a locus corresponding to a stroke. The processor performs one of processing of deleting a part of a first locus or processing of deleting all of the first locus, based on a vertical width and a horizontal width which correspond to the first locus. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152692 | MEDICAL IMAGE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a medical image system including a medical image management apparatus including a storage unit, a plurality of client terminals and an image generation apparatus. The medical image management apparatus be on standby for import of a medical image when an image import instruction is received from each of the plurality of client terminals, and the medical image management apparatus includes a control unit which stores the medical image in the storage unit and thereafter cancels the standby for image import. In a case where the image import instruction from another client terminal is received, the control unit cancels the standby for image import that is based on the image import instruction from one client terminal when a predetermined condition is fulfilled. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152693 | CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF COMMAND SPACE USING MULTI-STATE ELEMENT - A multi-state viewing mode user interface (UI) element is used to switch between different viewing modes on a display of a computing device. A user may switch between hidden mode where commands are hidden, a collapsed mode where a portion of the commands are hidden, and an expanded mode where the commands are shown on the display. The viewing mode UI element may remain displayed such that a user may interact with the element to switch to another viewing mode. A trigger zone UI element may be displayed that when activated temporarily displays commands that are hidden according to the selected viewing mode. Other UI elements (e.g. closing the application) may also be shown. A selected viewing mode may persist across an application closing and re-opening. A status UI element may also be surfaced (e.g. temporarily) to indicate various events. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152694 | Merging Multiple Exposures to Generate a High Dynamic Range Image - A method of generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image is provided that includes capturing a long exposure image and a short exposure image of a scene, computing a merging weight for each pixel location of the long exposure image based on a pixel value of the pixel location and a saturation threshold, and computing a pixel value for each pixel location of the HDR image as a weighted sum of corresponding pixel values in the long exposure image and the short exposure image, wherein a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location of the short exposure image and a weight applied to a pixel value of the pixel location in the pixel long exposure image are determined based on the merging weight computed for the pixel location and responsive to motion in a scene of the long exposure image and the short exposure image. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152695 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes: a first video signal input unit that receives a first video signal; a second video signal input unit that receives a second video signal; a video signal rotating unit that converts the first video signal so that an image based on the first video signal rotates, to obtain a converted video signal; a video combining unit that combines the second video signal with the first converted image signal to obtain a combined video image signal; and a display unit that displays a combined video image based on the combined image signal. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152696 | GLASS TYPE MOBILE TERMINAL - A glass type mobile terminal including a transparent screen; a frame configured to secure the transparent screen in front of a user's eyes wearing the glass type mobile terminal; a camera mounted to the frame and configured to photograph an image in front of the user's eyes; a memory; an image recognition unit configured to extract information from the image photographed by the camera; and a controller configured to compare the extracted information with related information stored in the memory, and display the related information to the transparent screen on the transparent screen along with the captured image. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY - A method and apparatus for providing augmented reality are provided and include a controller that is configured to match a head up display area of a windshield and an input image and determine an area in which an information amount is a minimum in the matched image as a position of a display window to display virtual information. In addition, the controller is configured to output virtual information at the determined position. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152698 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENTS AND DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - Disclosed are methods of operating augmented reality (AR) contents, and a device and a system supporting the same. In one method, a real world image is captured using a camera in a portable device. A virtual space corresponding to the real world image is built, by partitioning image elements included in the virtual space into plural background objects and displaying the background objects. Augmented reality contents are generated by mapping one or more user contents onto the background objects. In other embodiments, location information of the portable device is used to obtain AR contents for enhancing captured images. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152699 | Method for Inter-Scene Transitions - A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include a transitional scene based on a transitional object in the first scene and in the second scene. The rendering of the transitional object evolves according to specified transitional parameters as the transitional images are displayed. A viewer receives a sense of the connectedness of the scenes from the transitional images. Virtual tours of broad areas, such as cityscapes, can be created using inter-scene transitions among a complex network of pairs of scenes. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152700 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A MERGED INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATION OF A PAGE - A page description language representation of the page is received, the page description language representation having a plurality of sequential graphic objects ordered by drawing order. One or more groups of sequentially adjacent graphic objects of the plurality of sequential objects is formed according to the drawing order. An intermediate representation for each of the groups is generated, the intermediate representation comprising a set of regions where each region of the set of regions is associated with a set of operations required to render at least one of the adjacent graphic objects of one of the groups that intersect the region. An adjacently located set of the intermediate representations is merged to render the page. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152701 | REDUCING MOIRE PATTERNS - Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method includes receiving illustrated content. The illustrated content includes half-tone content. The method includes blurring at least part of the illustrated content. The blurring is performed according to a blur radius. The method includes downscaling the blurred illustrated content to an output size. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152702 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WHEREON PROGRAM IS RECORDED - An image display device includes an acquisition unit that, when an operation of enclosing an arbitrary region on a display screen is performed in response to sequential instruction inputs by a user, acquires position information indicating positions indicated by those instruction inputs, a recognition unit that specifies an enclosed region by a trajectory of the acquired position information and recognizes the enclosed region as a selected region, a determination unit that determines to zoom in an image displayed in an image display area with a zoom-in ratio determined based on the range of the selected region and the range of the image display area, and a display control unit that displays a zoomed-in transformed image with the determined zoom-in ratio in the display area with the center of the transformed image and the center of the image display area aligned. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152703 | Displays With Adjustable Circular Polarizers - An electronic device display may have an organic light-emitting diode layer that emits light to form images for a user. Reflective structures such as metal signal lines may be present in the organic light-emitting diode layer. Ambient light reflections from the metal signal lines may be suppressed using a circular polarizer on the organic light-emitting diode layer. To increase light emission efficiency from the organic light-emitting diode display layer under low ambient light conditions in which ambient light reflections are not significant, the polarization efficiency of the circular polarizer may be reduced. Control circuitry may make measurements of ambient light intensity using an ambient light sensor and can control the polarization efficiency of the circular polarizer accordingly by applying adjustable amounts of light or electric field. Polarization efficiency may also be adjusted using a photosensitive polarizer material that responds directly to changes in ambient light level. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152704 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CURRENT OF ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method and apparatus for controlling current of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, which is able to accurately estimate the amount of current according to an input image and control current to converge upon target current disclosed. The apparatus includes a current controller for estimating a total current value using a peak luminance corresponding to an average picture level of input data and a histogram analysis result of the input data, comparing an estimated total current value and a target value to generate a luminance control gain, feeding the luminance control gain back and repeatedly performing an operation for estimating the total current value and generating the luminance control gain to determine a final luminance control gain, and applying the final luminance control gain to the peak luminance to determine a final peak luminance, a gamma voltage generator, and a data driver. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152705 | PIXEL ARRAY AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A pixel array and an organic light emitting display device including the same, can display an image with uniform luminance by compensating for a variation in threshold voltage/mobility of a driving transistor for each pixel and compensating for a change in efficiency due to degradation of an organic light emitting diode. A first pixel among the pixel array includes an organic light emitting diode; a pixel circuit positioned among an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode, a first scan line and a first data line through which a data signal is supplied to the first pixel, and controlling current flowing in the organic light emitting diode; and a switching element controlling the coupling between a second data line through which a data signal is supplied to a second pixel of the plurality of pixels and the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152706 | COLOR CALIBRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USABLE WITH DISPLAY DEVICE - A color calibration apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to obtain first and second photographed images which are generated by photographing first and second mono-color test images displayed on the display device; a controller configured to detect an ambient light area on which an ambient light is shining within the first photographed image based on pixel values of the first photographed image, and further configured to determine a remaining area of the first photographed image other than the ambient light area as a representative value calculating area; and an image processor configured to calculate a representative value based on pixel values of an area corresponding to the representative value calculating area within the second photographed image, and further configured to perform color calibration of the display device based on the representative value. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152707 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic electroluminescence display device is provided in which circuit components can be installed at a high density and which can reduce power consumption. The organic electroluminescence display device of the present invention comprises a display part including a first display area including a plurality of first pixels and a second display area including a plurality of second pixels, and a switch unit formed from a plurality of transistors and switching between display in the first display area and display in the second display area. The switch unit does not drive the plurality of second pixels during a frame time period for driving the plurality of first pixels in the display part and drives the plurality of second pixels during a vertical retrace time period in which the plurality of first pixels are not driven in the display part. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152708 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting diode display device can include a display panel in which data lines and gate lines intersect each other; an image processing circuit converting a first digital image data including a plurality of color digital data into any one of a second digital image data including the plurality of color digital data and a first white digital data and a third digital image data including a plurality of color conversion digital data that converts the plurality of color digital data and a second white digital data according to whether the first digital image data is included in a first gray scale region or a second gray scale region which is higher than the first gray scale region; and a data driving circuit converting the second digital image data into data voltages and supplying the data voltages to the data lines. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152709 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a light emitting diode that emits a light in response to a current supplied thereto, a constant current circuit that includes a first transistor to control an amount of the current supplied to the light emitting diode, and a pixel circuit that includes a switching circuit including a second transistor to switch the supply of the current to the light emitting diode and a capacitor including a first terminal connected to a gate terminal of the second transistor and a second terminal connected to a signal line that changes a voltage of the other terminal. The first transistor and the second transistor are connected between a first power supply line and an anode of the light emitting diode including a cathode connected to a second power supply line in series. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152710 | Backlight Driving Method, Backlight Driving Device, and Display Device - The invention discloses a backlight driving method, a backlight driving device, and a display device. The method comprises steps of: acquiring turn-on timings of respective areas of a backlight source of a display device and an opening timing of a 3D glasses; adjusting driving signals for the respective areas of the backlight source based on each length of overlapping time between the opening timing of the 3D glasses and each of the turn-on timings of the respective areas of the backlight source, thus making brightness of light from pictures corresponding to the respective areas of the backlight source in the display device be the same, said light being received through the 3D glasses; and driving the corresponding areas in the backlight source to be turned on by using the adjusted driving signals for the respective areas of the backlight source. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152711 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a heads-up display device that stably achieves a low brightness display in which the display does not feel too bright in a dark environment at night, which further does not give a vehicle driver discomfort with continuous changes in brightness, and which has excellent white balance in the entire range of display brightness. A heads-up display device ( | 2014-06-05 |
20140152712 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to reduce a cause of pseudo contour when display is performed with a time gray scale method. According to the present invention, one pixel is divided into m sub-pixels so that an area ratio of each sub-pixel becomes 2 | 2014-06-05 |
20140152713 | PROJECTION DISPLAYS - A locally dimmed display has a spatial light modulator illuminated by a light source. The spatial light modulator is illuminated with a low resolution version of a desired image. The illumination may comprise a series of lighting elements that vary smoothly from one element to another at the spatial light modulator. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152714 | MULTI-PRIMARY COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE - A multiple primary color display device ( | 2014-06-05 |
20140152715 | FRAME RATE CONVERTER AND TIMING CONTROLLER AND PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A frame rate converter includes: a receiving circuit for receiving an input image data and accordingly outputting an output image data, the input image data having a plurality of data segments with information of a plurality of color components of pixels of a frame, respectively, wherein each of the data segments includes information of a same color component only; a frame buffer for storing the output image data; and a first multiplexer for selecting one of the output image data outputted from the receiving circuit and the output image data buffered in the frame buffer as an output of the frame rate converter. The first multiplexer outputs the output image data buffered in the frame buffer at least once after outputting the output image data outputted from the receiving circuit to generate at least one duplication of the frame. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152716 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device and a driving method thereof for reducing power consumption. The display device includes a plurality of pixels positioned at intersection portions of gate lines and data lines; a gate driver selectively driving the gate lines; a data driver supplying, to the data lines, data corresponding to the gate line selected from the gate lines; and a timing controller controlling the gate drive and the data driver. In the display device, the timing controller includes an order determination unit that compares data for each gate line and determines a driving order of the gate lines. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152717 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - Disclosed are an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for driving the same, which are capable of minimizing required memory capacity and the use rate thereof while achieving an enhancement in display quality through execution of an overdriving (or accelerated driving) in accordance with image information of plural accumulated frames. The OLED display device includes a data modulator for sequentially receiving image data of a current frame from a timing controller, counting a number of accumulations of pixels corresponding to image data having a lower grayscale value than a grayscale value of predetermined reference data, generating modulated image data through application of a weight determined in accordance with the counted accumulation number, and supplying the modulated image data to a data driver. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152718 | PIXEL LUMINANCE COMPENSATING UNIT, FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING A LUMINANCE CURVE FOR RESPECTIVE PIXELS - A pixel luminance compensating unit is disclosed. In one aspect, the disclosed pixel luminance compensating unit includes an uncompensated gray-level region processing unit configured to generate first output-data by processing first input-data corresponding to a first portion of an input luminance curve corresponding to an uncompensated gray-level region. The disclosed unit further includes a compensated gray-level region processing unit configured to generate second output-data by processing second input-data corresponding to a second portion of the input luminance curve corresponding to a compensated gray-level region. The disclosed unit further includes an interpolated gray-level region processing unit configured to generate third output-data by processing third input-data corresponding to a third portion of the input luminance curve corresponding to an interpolated gray-level region, wherein the interpolated gray-level region processing unit is configured to generate the third portion by interpolating between the first portion and the second portion. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152719 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Disclosed are a pixel circuit and an organic light emitting display device using the same. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element configured to include an organic emission cell formed between an anode and cathode of the light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to control emission of light from the light emitting element according to a voltage applied between a gate and source of the driving transistor, a data capacitor configured to include a first terminal and a second terminal; and a switching unit configured to initialize a voltage of the data capacitor during an initialization period, store a threshold voltage of the driving transistor during a threshold voltage storage period, store the data voltage in the data capacitor during a data voltage storage period, and emit light from the light emitting element by using the data voltage stored in the data capacitor during an emission period. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152720 | Liquid Crystal Display Device and Method of Driving the Same - Disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of pixel areas to display an image, a data driver configured to drive data lines of the liquid crystal panel, a dimming controller configured to generate a dimming value via modulation using any one value within the range from an average gray-level value to a maximum gray-level value of image data input from an external source, and output the image data via modulation and control drive time of a backlight unit based on the dimming value, a timing controller configured to allow transmission of the image data modulated by the dimming controller to the data driver, and to control the data driver, and the backlight unit configured to emit light to the liquid crystal panel in response to a drive signal from the dimming controller. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152721 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels each having an organic light emitting element that emits light according to a current corresponding to a data voltage, and a panel driver configured to divide the display panel into first to Mth blocks, calculate an average picture level of each block from data to be displayed in each of the plurality of pixels of each block, convert the data to be displayed by each of the plurality of pixels of each block into the data voltage, and supply the data voltage to each of the plurality of pixels of each block, where the panel driver controls the data voltage to be supplied to an ith block on the basis of the average picture levels of M number of blocks previous to the ith block, where i is a natural number from 1 to M. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152722 | DRIVING METHOD AND DRIVING DEVICE FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display and more particularly to a driving method and driving device for a liquid crystal panel, and to a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal panel. The driving method comprises: receiving an original input signal; judging whether or not a current time is within a signal conversion phase; and when the judgment result indicates that the current time is within the signal conversion phase, generating a target driving signal based on the original input signal, and outputting the target driving signal to a data line of a liquid crystal panel or generating an original driving signal based on the original input signal and outputting the original driving signal to the data line. The polarity of the target driving signal is opposite to that of the original driving signal. An amplitude of the target driving signal corresponding to a first frame within the signal conversion phase is less than an amplitude of the original driving signal. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152723 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on the pixels. The pixel includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a video signal in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor changes the device to a luminous state, the switching transistor becomes ON in advance of the sampling of the video signal to change the light emitting device to a non-luminous state, and the sampling transistor takes in the OFF voltage from the signal line to the driving transistor, thereby preventing a penetration current from flowing from the power source toward the fixed potential. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152724 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first subpixel having a first primary color, a second subpixel having a second primary color; and a transparent subpixel; a panel driver which sets grayscale data of the first subpixel, the second subpixel and the transparent subpixel; a light source part which provides light to the display panel, where the light source comprises a first light source and a second light source having colors different from each other; and a light source driver which turns on the first light source during a first subframe, turns on the second light source during a second subframe, and turns on the first light source during a third subframe, and a first frame comprises the first subframe, the second subframe and the third subframe. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152725 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND AGING METHOD - An embodiment of this invention is directed to preventing a decrease in the number of media printable with ink in an ink tank owing to an increase in waste ink in aging processing, and an increase in aging processing time. According to the embodiment, aging processing is executed as follows in a printing apparatus in which a printhead including a plurality of nozzles and a nozzle array formed from these nozzles and discharge ink is reciprocally scanned in a direction different from the direction of the nozzle array, and an image is printed by forward printing and backward printing. The aging processing is performed by changing the count at which the aging processing is performed, between nozzles at the edge side portion of the nozzle array and nozzles at the center side portion of the nozzle array. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152726 | WAVEFORM SELECTION AND/OR SCALING FOR DRIVING NOZZLE OF FLUID-JET PRINTING DEVICE - A controller is for driving a nozzle of a fluid-jet printing device. The controller can select a waveform from a number of waveforms based at least on values for the nozzle. The controller can scale the waveform based on the values for the nozzle. The waveform drives the nozzle to cause the nozzle to eject fluid therefrom. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152727 | PROCESSING PRINTHEAD CONTROL DATA AND PRINTING SYSTEM - According to one example, a printer includes an inkjet printhead, and the printhead comprises nozzles through which printing fluid is ejectable during a pass of the printhead across a print zone. Processing printhead control data includes obtaining printhead control data describing pixel locations in an image to be printed on a media, and allocating, for a swath of the image, each of the pixel locations to a printhead nozzle and to a print pass of a set of print passes in accordance with a print mask. The print mask defines sections associated different groups of the nozzles. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152728 | Control System and Method for Use in Digital Printing - The present invention provides a control system for use in digital printing, comprising: a host; multiple main control boards connected to the host, multiple sets of nozzle plates, wherein each set of nozzle plate respectively is connected to one main control board and to one set of nozzle. The present invention also provides a control method for use in digital printing, comprising: the host decomposing a job into multiple portions, and distributing each portion of the job to one main control board; the main control boards concurrently converting received portions of the job into pages and distributing the pages to a set of nozzle plates connected thereto; the nozzle plates converting the pages into printing data and driving the nozzle sets connected to the nozzle boards to print the printing data thereof. The present invention achieves the effect of improving processing performance of the control system. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152729 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A print control device communicably connected to an inkjet recording apparatus capable of performing form overlay printing for incorporating original document data into form data, the print control device comprising: a correction unit that performs head shading correction on the form data based on information of a characteristic of a nozzle of a recording head provided in the inkjet recording apparatus; a storage unit that stores the form data therein; and a control unit that, upon reception of information on another recording head different from the recording head, causes the correction unit to perform head shading correction on the form data stored in the storage unit based on information of a characteristic of a nozzle of the another recording head, and causes a transmission unit to transmit, to the inkjet recording apparatus, the original document data and corrected form data corresponding to the another recording head. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152730 | Printing Apparatus and Printing Method - A printing apparatus that includes a head unit in which a plurality of heads are disposed so that parts of nozzle rows overlap with each other between the heads and a control unit configured to make the head unit execute a specified operation for forming flushing dots other than image formation dots on a print medium by discharging liquid through the nozzles. The control unit makes the head unit execute the specified operation in which a liquid amount discharged in the specified operation per nozzle that does not belong to an overlap area where parts of the nozzle rows overlap with each other between the heads is larger in a set movement distance thereof than a liquid amount discharged in the specified operation per nozzle that belongs to the overlap area in a set movement distance thereof, if a specified condition for execution of the specified operation is satisfied. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152731 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus comprising: a first transport unit that transports a printing medium; a line head, having a nozzle row in which the plurality of nozzles are arranged, that ejects the liquid from the nozzles onto the printing medium; a second transport unit, disposed at a distance from the first transport unit downstream from the first transport unit, that further transports the printing medium transported by the first transport unit; and a control unit that causes the line head to execute a flushing operation for ejecting the liquid from the nozzles at a predetermined frequency, wherein when causing the line head to execute the flushing operation, the control unit provides a margin, where the liquid does not land, in a region corresponding to a predetermined distance from a leading end of the printing medium that is an end of the printing medium located toward the second transport unit. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152732 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING DENSITY CORRECTION METHOD AND EJECTION TIMING CORRECTION METHOD - An image recording apparatus includes a head for ejecting ink, a moving mechanism for moving a recording medium, and a control part for controlling these constituent elements. The control part includes an information storage part, a conversion part, and a correction part. The conversion part converts input image data into converted image data which is suitable for image recording. The information storage part stores an LUT indicating a relation between the input image data and the converted image data for each head and each type of recording medium. The correction part updates the LUT on a representative recording medium on the basis of correction amounts determined in accordance with reference images which are recorded onto the representative recording medium and further updates the LUT on another type of recording medium. By virtue of providing this correction part, it is possible to simplify a correcting operation of recording densities. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152733 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND ROLL PAPER CONVEYANCE CONTROL METHOD - An embodiment of this invention is directed to suppressing a circuit scale and ensuring quick response in control of a DC motor. According to the embodiment, upon driving the motor to feed roll paper, the current value supplied to drive the motor is compared with a target value for PWM-control. A value representing the comparison result is counted for a PWM-control signal of one cycle. The output tendency of the comparison result is checked based on an obtained count in every cycle of the signal, and the tendency is encoded. The code values are stored for a predetermined number of cycles of the signal. The code values stored in both the first period and the second period longer than the first period are checked in regard to the past tendency of PWM-control, and the signal is adjusted. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152734 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a position detection unit which includes an optical element, a light source and a light receiving element, radiates light from the light source toward the printing surface, causes diffused reflection light of reflection light which is reflected by the printing surface to be incident to the light receiving element through the optical element and outputs positional information relating to a position of the printing surface at which the light from the light source reflects, from the light receiving element, and a controller which causes movement of the carriage to stop when lifting up of the printing medium is detected on a basis of the positional information output from the light receiving element, in which a virtual plane which contains the optical element and the light receiving element is in a state of being inclined in relation to a normal line of the printing surface. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152735 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus which reads a test pattern formed by ejecting liquid droplets onto a recording medium to adjust an ejection timing of the liquid droplets is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a reading unit including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit; a sensitivity adjusting unit; a relative movement unit; a first correction unit which detects a position of the test pattern; a second correction unit which detects the position of the test pattern; and a correction method selecting unit which selects the first correction unit or the second correction unit based on adjusting results of sensitivity adjusted by the sensitivity adjusting unit. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152736 | DRIVER APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DRIVER APPARATUS - A driver apparatus includes a drive unit to move a moveable unit along a given path using a drive force; a movement detector to detect movement of the moveable unit; a drive control unit to control the drive unit using a given output for a given time to drive the moveable unit; a determination unit to determine whether the movement detector detects a movement of the moveable unit for a given distance or more in a driving direction when the moveable unit is driven under a control of the drive control unit; and an abnormality detector to determine occurrence of abnormal when the determination unit determines that the moveable unit does not move the given distance or more. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152737 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR FORMING TEST PATTERN, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging liquid droplets; and a pattern forming unit configured to form a test pattern used for positional deviation adjustment including a first pattern serving as a reference pattern and a second pattern serving as an adjustment pattern. The first pattern and the second pattern each are a linear pattern that is parallel to a nozzle arrangement direction and has a disconnected portion. The disconnected portion of the first pattern and the disconnected portion of the second pattern are shifted from each other in the nozzle arrangement direction. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152738 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - An inkjet printing apparatus is provided that can establish a test pattern detection region according to the printing format, where performing printing by way of a margined printing and a marginless printing is possible. The inkjet printing apparatus detects the position of both ends of the test pattern. In the case of a margined printing, a detection of the ink ejection status is performed with respect to ejection ports that perform printing at a region between both ends of the margined test pattern, and that eject the ink forming the pixels of the margined test pattern. In the case of a marginless printing, a detection of the ink ejection status is performed with respect to ejection ports that perform printing at a region between both ends of the marginless test pattern, and that eject the ink forming the pixels of the marginless test pattern. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152739 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles through which an ink composition containing an inorganic pigment is ejected, a nozzle surface having nozzle orifices, and a liquid-repellent film disposed on the nozzle surface; an absorbing member that absorbs the ink composition from the nozzle orifices and the nozzle surface; and an actuating mechanism including a pressing member that presses the absorbing member and the nozzle surface relative to each other with a force of 50 to 500 gf. The actuating mechanism moves at least one of the absorbing member and the recording head relative to the other to perform a cleaning operation in which the ink composition is removed from the nozzle surface with the absorbing member. The absorbing member contains an impregnation liquid during the cleaning operation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152740 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid from a plurality of nozzles disposed on a nozzle surface; an absorbing member which makes contact with the nozzle surface and can absorb a liquid which is adhered to the nozzle surface; and a pressing member which causes the ink absorbing member to contact the nozzle surface by pressing the absorbing member from a side which opposes a side which contacts the nozzle surface. In the liquid ejecting apparatus, a pressure applied to a nozzle peripheral region within the nozzle surface due to the absorbing member which is pressed by the pressing member making contact with the nozzle surface is smaller than a pressure applied to a region other than the nozzle peripheral region within the nozzle surface. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152741 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles through which an ink composition containing an inorganic pigment is ejected, a nozzle surface having nozzle orifices, and a liquid-repellent film disposed on the nozzle surface; an absorbing member that absorbs the ink composition containing the inorganic pigment from the nozzle orifices and the nozzle surface; and an actuating mechanism including a pressing member that presses the absorbing member, which contains an impregnation liquid, and the nozzle surface relative to each other. The actuating mechanism moves at least one of the absorbing member and the recording head relative to the other to perform a cleaning operation in which the ink composition is removed from the nozzle surface with the absorbing member. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152742 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head having a plurality of nozzles through which an ink composition containing an inorganic pigment is ejected, a nozzle surface having nozzle orifices, and a liquid-repellent film disposed on the nozzle surface; an absorbing member that absorbs the ink composition containing the inorganic pigment from the nozzle orifices and the nozzle surface; and an actuating mechanism including a pressing member that presses the absorbing member and the nozzle surface relative to each other. The actuating mechanism moves at least one of the absorbing member and the recording head relative to the other to perform a cleaning operation in which the ink composition is removed from the nozzle surface with the absorbing member. The absorbing member contains an impregnation liquid having a surface tension of 45 mN/m or less during the cleaning operation. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152743 | ADJUSTABLE PRINT HEAD - An adjustable print head assembly for an ink jet printer includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes an outer wall and an inner passage. The second member includes an outer wall and an inner passage, the outer wall including an angled surface complementary to the angled surface of the first member. A print head is connected to the second member. At least one ink line runs from the umbilical to the print head, and is disposed through the inner passages of the first and second members. The print head assembly is adjustable from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration, the print head axis is oriented generally parallel to the umbilical axis, and in the second configuration, the print head axis is oriented at a predetermined angle with respect to the umbilical axis. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152744 | FLUID SUPPLY DEVICE, SEPTUM DEVICE USABLE WITH FLUID SUPPLY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A septum device usable with a fluid interconnect unit of a fluid supply device is disclosed. The septum device includes a resilient main body to be inserted into the fluid interconnect unit of the fluid supply device. The resilient main body includes an interior septum surface forming a longitudinal opening to removably receive a fluid extraction member and an exterior septum surface. The interior septum surface includes interior engagement members extending toward the opening and spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction. The exterior septum surface includes exterior engagement members extending away from the opening and spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction to engage an interior interconnect surface of the fluid interconnect unit. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152745 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage, and a cartridge unit. The recording head has nozzles to eject droplets of liquid. The carriage is reciprocally movable and mounting a recording head. The cartridge unit replaceably mounts a liquid cartridge to store the liquid to be supplied to the recording head. The cartridge unit is movable between a supply position at which the cartridge unit does not interfere with a movement range of the carriage and a replacement position at which the cartridge unit interferes with the movement range of the carriage. When the carriage is moved, the cartridge unit is moved to the supply position. When the liquid cartridge is replaced, the cartridge unit is moved to the replacement position. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152746 | CARTRIDGE AND PRINTING MATERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEM - A cartridge comprises an ink supply structure, a terminal bearing structure, and a first restriction portion. The terminal bearing structure has terminals arranged in a terminal plane which is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting direction leading edge of the ink supply structure, so that the contact portions of the terminals receive a force in a direction opposite (RD) from the mounting direction. An engagement portion of the first restriction portion is provided at a position adjacent to the terminal bearing structure. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152747 | INKJET PRINT HEAD - There is provided an inkjet print head having a stable filter structure. The inkjet print head includes a vibration substrate including a first filter formed therein; and a channel forming substrate including a second filter and a pressure chamber formed therein, the second filter being connected to the first filter. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152748 | Phase Change Ink Comprising Modified Naturally-Derived Colorants - A phase change ink composition comprising an ink vehicle; an optional dispersant; and a modified naturally-derived colorant comprising a naturally-derived colorant that is modified with an aliphatic quaternary ammonium salt, an aromatic quaternary ammonium salt, or a mixture or combination thereof. The modified naturally-derived colorant is compatible with phase change ink vehicles. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152749 | ACOUSTIC DRYING SYSTEM WITH MATCHED EXHAUST FLOW - An inkjet printing system, comprising: one or more inkjet printheads for printing drops of ink onto a receiver medium, and an acoustic air impingement drying system positioned in proximity to at least one of the inkjet printheads. The acoustic air impingement drying system includes: an airflow source providing a supply flow rate; an acoustic resonant chamber having an inlet slot that receives air from the airflow source and an outlet slot that directs air onto the receiver medium; an exhaust air channel for removing the air directed onto the receiver medium by the acoustic resonant chamber; a blower for pulling air through the exhaust air channel at an exhaust flow rate; and a blower controller that controls the supply flow rate and the exhaust flow rate, wherein the exhaust flow rate is controlled to match the supply flow rate to within 1%, or to exceed the supply flow rate. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152750 | ACOUSTIC DRYING SYSTEM WITH MATCHED EXHAUST FLOW - An inkjet printing system, comprising: one or more inkjet printheads for printing drops of ink onto a receiver medium, and an acoustic air impingement drying system positioned in proximity to at least one of the inkjet printheads. The acoustic air impingement drying system includes: an airflow source providing a supply flow rate; an acoustic resonant chamber having an inlet slot that receives air from the airflow source and an outlet slot that directs air onto the receiver medium; an exhaust air channel for removing the air directed onto the receiver medium by the acoustic resonant chamber; a blower for pulling air through the exhaust air channel at an exhaust flow rate; and a blower controller that controls the supply flow rate and the exhaust flow rate, wherein the exhaust flow rate is controlled to match the supply flow rate to within 1%, or to exceed the supply flow rate. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152751 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes a liquid substance discharge step of discharging a liquid substance from a discharge head toward a predetermined section of sections of the recording medium, and a radiation step of radiating light toward the liquid substance discharged on the recording medium. The liquid substance discharge step and the radiation step are performed n times, with n being an integer of 2 or greater, on the predetermined section to complete recording on the predetermined section while moving the discharge head and the recording medium relative to each other. In the n liquid substance discharge steps, with a recording rate of a first liquid substance discharge step being denoted by a % and a recording rate of a final liquid substance discharge step being denoted by b %, a>b. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152752 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a head which discharges liquid on a medium; a first transportation section which transports the medium in a transportation direction; a creasing section which performs creasing on the medium; and a second transportation section which transports the medium between the head and the creasing section in a state where the medium is loosed. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152753 | PRINT MEDIUM, PRINTER AND MEDIUM - A print medium includes a plurality of print areas and a plurality of identification markers. The plurality of print areas are set along a longitudinal direction on a printing surface. The plurality of print areas are a plurality of areas on which printing is to be performed. The plurality of identification markers are intermittently printed along the longitudinal direction on the print medium. Each of the plurality of identification markers includes a set of leading edge information and identification information and is printed in correspondence with a single print area group. The leading edge information is information for setting a leading edge position of the print area in the feed direction. The identification information is information for identifying a type of the print medium. The print area group is formed of a plurality of mutually adjacent print areas among the plurality of print areas. | 2014-06-05 |
20140152754 | OPTICAL WRITING CONTROL DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE - An optical writing control device includes a light emission control unit that controls light emission of a light source to exposes a photosensitive element. The light emission control unit is configured to draw two patterns as patterns for correction used to correct a transfer position of a developer image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive element, the two patterns including a narrow width pattern where a width of the pattern corresponds to a width of a detection area of a sensor that detects the patterns, in the main-scanning direction, and a wide width pattern having a wider width than the narrow width pattern, and control the light emission, after calculation of a correction value based on a detection signal of the wide width pattern is properly completed, in a manner where the narrow width pattern is drawn upon the calculation of the correction value. | 2014-06-05 |