28th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 22 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140192024 | OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING WITH AUDIO AND OPTICAL SIGNALS - The technology disclosed addresses these problems by supplementing optical gesture recognition with the ability to recognize touch gestures. This capability allows the user to execute intuitive gestures involving contact with a surface. For example, in low-light situations where free-form gestures cannot be recognized optically with a sufficient degree of reliability, a device implementing the invention may switch to a touch mode in which touch gestures are recognized. In implementations, two contact microphones or other vibratory or acoustical sensors, that are coupled to an optical motion-capture and are in contact with a surface that a user touches, are monitored. When the contact microphones detect audio signals (or other vibrational phenomena) generated by contact of an object with the surface that the user touches, a position of the object traveling across and in contact with the surface is tracked. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192025 | TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAYS INCORPORATING DYNAMIC TRANSMITTERS - Systems and methods for implementing touchscreen displays that utilize a transmitter system to dynamically scan at least one light beam across a surface of interest such that substantially every point in a region above the surface of interest is dynamically scanned by a light beam from two directions, a receiver system to receive and detect the at least one dynamically scanned light beams, and a processor configured to determine locations of contact are provided. The systems and methods may utilize a transmitter system that includes dynamic transmitters, which may be in the form MEMS micromirrors used in conjunction with infrared semiconductor lasers. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192026 | MULTI-TRANSDUCER WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS - Systems and related methods providing for touch sensors having segmented reflective arrays including waveguide cores are discussed herein. A touch sensor may include a substrate configured to propagate surface acoustic waves. The substrate may include two or more segmented reflective arrays. A segmented reflective array may include a major reflective array configured to propagate surface acoustic waves and a waveguide core configured to concentrate acoustic energy of the surface acoustic waves. Two segmented reflective arrays may further include adjacent portions that define an overlap region of the substrate. In some embodiments, the segmented reflective array may further include a beam dump configured to decrease intensity of surface acoustic wave propagation past the end of the segmented reflective array. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192027 | Tail Effect Correction for SLIM Pattern Touch Panels - Techniques for correcting tail effect are described herein. In an example embodiment, a device comprises a sensor coupled with a processing logic. The sensor is configured to measure a plurality of measurements from a sensor array, where the measurements are representative of a conductive object that is in contact with or proximate to the sensor array. The sensor array comprises RX electrodes and TX electrodes that are interleaved without intersecting each other in a single layer on a substrate of the sensor array. The processing logic is configured to determine a set of adjustment values that correspond to a tail effect associated with the measurements, and to generate adjusted measurements based on the set of adjustment values, where the adjusted measurements correct a parasitic signal change of the tail effect. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192028 | Pressure and Angle-Sensitive Stylus Device - There is provided a system and method for a pressure and angle sensitive stylus device. The method comprises detecting a plurality of pressure inputs using a plurality of sensors, determining an angle of pressure applied to a stylus device from the plurality of pressure inputs, and transmitting the angle of pressure to an interactive device. The plurality of sensors may be recalibrated when the plurality of sensors are not in use. Further, using the plurality of pressure inputs may detect a velocity of usage of the stylus device. The plurality of sensors may include three sensors arranged in a radially symmetric pattern about a longitudinal axis of the stylus device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192029 | TOUCH PEN FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING GENDER UNIT - A touch pen includes a hollow pen body ( | 2014-07-10 |
20140192030 | STYLUS AND RELATED HUMAN INTERFACE DEVICES WITH DYNAMIC POWER CONTROL CIRCUITS - A device comprising a body comprising an elongated housing with at least a first conductive tip formed at a distal end and at least one sense electrode on the body; a capacitance sense circuit disposed within the housing and configured to sense a capacitance of the sense electrode to generate a proximity result in response to contact with a human body; and a signal generator circuit disposed within the housing and configured to activate a position signal in response to the proximity result, the position signal being driven at the tip of the device | 2014-07-10 |
20140192031 | PORTABLE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD USING AN ELECTRIC PEN AND PORTABLE DEVICE THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling a portable device using an electric pen, and a portable device thereof, and more particularly, to a method of controlling a portable device using an electric pen capable of controlling the portable device based on an interrupt event generated by a manipulation of the electric pen, and a portable device thereof. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192032 | OVERDRIVING CONTROL METHOD WITH IMAGE COMPRESSION CONTROL AND RELATED CIRCUIT - An overdriving control method includes: receiving an input image; determining whether the input image is a moving image or a still image, and generating a determining signal; dynamically using image compression process according to the determining signal; and dynamically using overdriving process according to the determining signal. An overdriving control circuit includes a receiving unit, arranged for outputting an input image; a determining unit, arranged for generating a determining signal by determining whether the input image is a moving image or a still image; an image compression processing unit, arranged for dynamically performing image compression process upon the input image according to the determining signal, and generating an image compression processing unit output; and an overdriving processing unit, arranged for dynamically performing an overdriving process upon the image compression processing unit output according to the determining signal, and generating an overdriving processing unit output. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192033 | 3D IMAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - A three-dimensional (3D) image apparatus is provided. The 3D image apparatus includes a display unit, a front camera, and a processor. The front camera captures an image of the eyes of the user. The processor is coupled to the display unit and the front camera. The processor determines the position of the eyes of the user based on the image of the eyes of the user, and determines whether to display a 3D image or a two-dimensional (2D) image on the display based on the position of the eyes of the user. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192034 | ELECTRIC OPTICAL APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electric optical apparatus including a display section in which an electric optical material is pinched between a pair of substrates and a plurality of pixels is arranged, wherein the display section is provided with a scanning line, a data line and a power-supply line that are connected to each of the pixels, and each of the pixels is provided with a pixel electrode, a driving transistor that is connected between the pixel electrode and the power-supply line, a capacitance for modulation that is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and the data line, a maintenance capacitance that connects one side electrode to the gate of the driving transistor, and a transistor for correction that is connected to a diode and in which one side terminal thereof is connected to the gate of the driving transistor. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192035 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, ACTIVE SENSING ARRAY, SENSING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A pixel circuit, an active sensing array, a sensing device, and a driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuit includes a sensing transistor, a reset transistor, and a storage capacitor. The sensing transistor is electrically connected to a sensing element and a data line. The reset transistor is electrically connected to a first scan line and the sensing transistor. The storage capacitor is electrically connected to the sensing transistor and a second scan line. During a compensation period, the reset transistor is turned on in response to a first scanning pulse from the first scan line, so that the sensing transistor is connected into a diode configuration, and the storage capacitor charges and discharges to a threshold voltage of the sensing transistor through the sensing transistor having the diode configuration in response to switching of a level of the data line. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192036 | PIXEL CIRCUITS, DISPLAY APPARATUSES INCLUDING THE PIXEL CIRCUITS, AND METHODS OF DRIVING THE DISPLAY APPARATUSES - Example embodiments are directed to a pixel circuit, a display apparatus including the pixel circuit, and a method of driving the display apparatus. The pixel circuit of the display apparatus uses a first transistor as a switching transistor to which a plurality of scan signals and a plurality of data signals are applied. The first transistor controls a second transistor to turn ON or OFF by storing the scan signals in a capacitor electrically connected to a second electrode of the first transistor. A first and second common power is applied to an opposite electrode of a display element and a second electrode of the second transistor, respectively, thereby separating an addressing operation and a displaying operation performed with respect to all of pixels. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192037 | PIXEL, DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE PIXEL AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a data driver; a scan driver; a compensation control signal unit configured to reset voltages of data signals transmitted to a plurality of pixels during a previous frame at a current frame, and configured to generate and transmit a first control signal to compensate for threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels and a second control signal to control simultaneous light emission of the pixels; a power controller configured to control and supply the voltage levels of a first and second power source voltages; a display unit including the plurality of pixels coupled to corresponding data lines, scan lines, first control lines, second control lines, first voltage lines, and second voltage lines; and a timing controller configured to generate a plurality of data signals by processing external image signals and generate a plurality of driving control signals for controlling driving of the drivers. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192038 | OLED PIXEL DRIVING CIRCUIT - The present invention relates to an OLED pixel driving circuit which has a data input unit for sending out controlling signals, a voltage storage unit for storing voltages from a first power source, a driving unit for receiving the controlling signals from the data input unit to selectively activate the voltage storage unit, a second power source providing a voltage to be stored in the voltage storage unit; and a switch connected to the second power source to offset potential loss of the first power source from the voltage stored in the voltage storage unit. The compensation circuit can not only compensate the non-uniformity of the threshold voltage but also eliminate the non-uniformity of the OLED display caused by the power IR drop, so that the effect of display of the OLED are maximally improved. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192039 | SHIFT REGISTER UNIT, SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, ARRAY SUBSTRATE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A shift register unit, a shift register circuit, an array substrate and a display device can avoid a phenomenon that light lines and dark lines appear alternately in a horizontal direction in a gray scale state when the display device is lighted up normally, wherein the phenomenon is generated because a clock signal causes an abnormal output of a gate scanning voltage of the shift register unit when a frame start signal comes. The shift register unit comprises a capacitor (C | 2014-07-10 |
20140192040 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method is disclosed according to one embodiment of the present invention. The method comprises receiving an image according to a first timing signal having at least one first active pixel time period, at least one first horizontal blanking time period and a first vertical blanking time period; and outputting the image according to a second timing signal having at least one second active pixel time period, at least one second horizontal blanking time period and a second vertical blanking time period. A pixel number corresponding to the first active pixel time period equals to a pixel number corresponding to the second active pixel time period. The second horizontal blanking time period is less than the first horizontal blanking time period. The second vertical blanking time period is larger than the first vertical blanking time period. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192041 | TOP VIEW SITE MAP GENERATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for top view site map generation can include receiving a number of non-top view images of an area and generating a top view site map for the area utilizing the number of non-top view images. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE LOCALIZATION - Embodiments include methods that may be used to optically obtain the precise three-dimensional location of multiple objects from one or more two dimensional images. An optical point spread function having a transverse shape which varies with axial distance may be implemented to obtain depth information. The transverse variation in the PSF with depth may be produced using a cylindrical lens. The objects may be imaged by a focal plane array detector. One or more 2D images may be used to find the 3D location of the objects using sparse signal reconstruction methods. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING 3-D MODELS FROM 2-D VIEWS - The present invention generally relates to apparel design. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for generating three dimensional models from two dimensional view, such as flat cut files, for use in the design of patterns for apparel. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192044 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display panel which includes a plurality of sub pixels each outputting a sub pixel value of R, G, or B, a renderer which renders a multi-view image to be outputted by the display, and a controller which determines a rendering pitch according to a viewing distance of a user, and controls the renderer so that each of at least some of the plurality of sub pixels outputs a combined sub pixel value corresponding to a combination of sub pixel values corresponding to each of the plurality of views of the multi-view image according to the determined rendering pitch. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192045 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CARICATURE USING SHAPE AND TEXTURE OF FACE - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) caricature. The apparatus for generating a 3D caricature may include a 3D face data generation unit to generate 3D face data of a user corresponding to a shape and a texture of a face of the user, a 3D unique face model generation unit to generate a 3D unique face model using a shape and a texture of a unique face based on the 3D face data and a reference face, and a 3D caricature generation unit to generate a 3D caricature using the 3D unique face model and a caricature base face model. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192046 | Method and device for elastic registration between a two-dimensional digital image and a slice of a three-dimensional volume with overlapping content - The invention concerns a method and device for elastic registration of a two-dimensional source digital image of an object of interest with a slice of a three dimensional target volume of the object of interest, comprising defining a Markov Random Field framework comprising at least one undirected pairwise graph superimposed on the two-dimensional image domain comprising at least a set of regular vertices and at least a set of edges, defining at least a grid of control points, each control point corresponding to a vertex of the set of vertices, and a neighborhood system of edges associated with vertices. The method of the invention comprises defining a set of multi-dimensional labels of a discrete space to apply a displacement to each control point, a control point displacement defining a transformation adapted to obtain a plane slice of the target volume and an in-plane deformation transformation of the source digital image. A set of labels is obtained, defining a set of displaced control points, by minimizing an energy target function, the set of displaced control points defining a plane slice of the target volume that elastically matches the two-dimensional source digital image according to the energy target function. The energy target function is a sum comprising first order and/or second order and/or third order terms defined over first, second, third order sets of control points. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192047 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, a stereoscopic image display device includes a display, a determiner, a generator, and a display controller. The display is configured to display a stereoscopic image which includes a plurality of parallax images having mutually different parallaxes. The determiner is configured to determine the number of parallaxes in such a way that, the larger a viewing distance from the display to a viewer, the smaller becomes the interval between light beams which belong to each of the parallax images and which are emitted from the display. The generator is configured to generate the parallax images in number corresponding to the number of parallaxes. The display controller is configured to display the parallax images on the display. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192048 | Device, Method and Computer Program for Generating a Synthesized Image - The invention relates to a method of generating a synthesized image representing a view of a scene from a first input image representing the view and a second input image representing the view, the synthesized image comprising synthesized image positions, by assigning a synthesized image data value to a synthesized image position. The method comprises determining whether input images have at the synthesised image position data values associated with them. If either one has a data value associated, that data value is assigned to the synthesized image position. If both, an average of both values is assigned. The average is a weighed average, with weighing factors being a function of a distance or distances to a closest image position with no image data value or valid image data value assigned. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192049 | MEDIAL SURFACE GENERATION - A method of generating a medial mesh of an object. The method first includes obtaining a surface mesh of the object. Define a set of node normal vectors, each having its origin at a node and being directed towards the interior of the object. For each node: select a node normal from the set having their origins at that node; define a sphere wherein a surface of the sphere includes the node and the centre point is positioned at a scalar multiple of the node normal; increment the centre point along the scalar multiple; iterate until the surface of the sphere includes another node or element. The centre point is recorded as a medial point and the diameter as a thickness. The medial mesh is generated from the set of medial points and object thicknesses. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192050 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT PROCESSING AND MODEL GENERATION - A method for three-dimensional point processing and model generation includes applying a primitive extraction to the data in a point cloud to associate primitive shapes with points within the point cloud, the primitive extraction including, estimating normal vectors for the point cloud, projecting the estimated normal vectors onto a Gaussian sphere, detecting and eliminating point-clusters corresponding to planar areas of the point cloud to obtain a residual Gaussian sphere, detecting great-circle patterns on the residual Gaussian sphere to produce a segmented point cloud, projecting each segment of the segmented point cloud onto respective planes to produce respective two-dimensional point clouds, detecting circle patterns in each two-dimensional point cloud, and processing the circle patterns to determine cylinder parameters for each of a plurality of candidate cylinders, and assembling the candidate cylinders into a three-dimensional surface model of the scene. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192051 | Offloading Tessellation from a Graphics Processor to a Central Processing Unit - In accordance with some embodiments, tessellation may be implemented in part on a central processing unit and in part on a graphics processing unit. The part that may be performed on a central processing unit may be a pre-computation stage in which the possible combinations of vertex stitching are computed and stored as a bit mask in a bidirectional array. Then, at run time, the graphics processor runs through the vertices as pre-computed in the central processing unit, in some embodiments. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192052 | 2D RENDERING ON 3D GRAPHICS HARDWARE - An apparatus, computer readable medium, and method of rendering a 2D object using a 3D graphics processing unit (GPU). The method includes one or more shaders running on the 3D GPU forming a 3D object by accessing the 2D object. The method may include the one or more shaders forming the 3D object by forming a plurality of 3D vertex attributes of the 2D object. The 3D vertex attributes may include position, color, and texture. The method may include copying a plurality of the 2D objects from a central processing memory (CPU) to a GPU memory. The one or more shaders may access the 2D object from the GPU memory. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192053 | STEREOSCOPIC CONVERSION WITH VIEWING ORIENTATION FOR SHADER BASED GRAPHICS CONTENT - The example techniques of this disclosure are directed to generating a stereoscopic view from an application designed to generate a mono view. For example, the techniques may modify instructions for a vertex shader based on a viewing angle. When the modified vertex shader is executed, the modified vertex shader may generate coordinates for vertices for a stereoscopic view based on the viewing angle. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192054 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL IMAGES - A method and an apparatus for providing a medical image from volume data for an object are provided. The method includes: determining characteristics of a light source that radiates light onto the object which is located in a virtual space, based on a received user input; generating a three-dimensional (3D) image by performing a rendering on the volume data, based on the determined characteristics of the light source; and displaying the generated 3D image. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING VIDEO ON 3D MAP - Exemplary embodiments disclose a method of projecting an image onto a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) electronic map. The method includes: extracting nearest intersecting points for each of a plurality of virtual view angle vectors with respect to a position of a virtual photographing apparatus and a plurality of polygons that constitute the 3D electronic map; comparing 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points and 3D coordinates of a plurality of pixels constituting the plurality of polygons to select pixels that are within a range of the 3D coordinates of the extracted nearest intersecting points; converting 3D coordinates of the selected pixels to two-dimensional (2D) coordinates to display the selected pixels on a 2D display; and superimposing an input image on top of the selected pixels to output the superimposed image in real-time. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192056 | DISPLAYING DYNAMIC CONTENT ON A MAP BASED ON USER'S LOCATION AND SCHEDULED TASK - Graphic elements for a computer-implemented mapping system may be displayed based on scheduled task data, routine data, or other data corresponding to an application of a client computing device. The application data may include a location and a scheduled time. A user may request a map for the scheduled task location. If a difference between the request time and the scheduled task time is below a threshold, then the mapping system may display or modify graphic elements for the location that are relevant to the scheduled task. For example, a user may include appointment data for an airline flight in a calendar application of a mobile computing device. If the user requests a map of the departure airport within a short amount of time before the flight, the map may include only relevant graphic elements such as a check in counter, a security checkpoint, and a departure gate. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192057 | Data Visualization Methods - A method for creating a graphical representation of data is performed at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory. The device receives a finite set of data points and calculates a respective conical distribution for each respective data point centered on the respective data point and based on a respective data value. Each conical distribution comprises a set of locations and a unique distribution value corresponding to each location. The device determines that a first data value of a first data point is less than a distribution value for a second data point. The distribution value has a location that corresponds to the first data point. Based on that determination, the device calculates an inverse conical distribution in a region around the first data point. The device combines the conical distributions and inverse conical distributions to display a data visualization that includes each of the data points. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192058 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus measures duration of the drawing operation by using coordinate information that indicates coordinate instructed to draw and time information that indicates time when the coordinates are detected, determines predicted time in accordance with the duration of the drawing operation, and generates an drawn image by calculating the predicted coordinates after the predicted time passes. The image processing apparatus calculates a characteristic value of the drawing operation by using the coordinate information and the time information and measures the duration of the drawing operation in case the characteristic value of the drawing operation is less than predetermined threshold value. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192059 | CONTROLLING ANIMATED CHARACTER EXPRESSION - A system includes a computer system capable of representing one or more animated characters. The computer system includes a blendshape manager that combines multiple blendshapes to produce the animated character. The computer system also includes an expression manager to respectively adjust one or more control parameters associated with each of the plurality of blendshapes for adjusting an expression of the animated character. The computer system also includes a corrective element manager that applies one or more corrective elements to the combined blendshapes based upon at least one of the control parameters. The one or more applied corrective elements are adjustable based upon one or more of the control parameters absent the introduction of one or more additional control parameters. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192060 | CONTROLLING MOVABLE LAYER SHAPE FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS DEVICES - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for controlling launch effects of movable layers in electromechanical systems (EMS) devices. First and second EMS devices with first and second step creating layers are positioned over a substrate and spaced, by different gaps, from the movable layers of the EMS devices. The movable layers of the first and second EMS devices include steps having different heights and/or different edge spacing from the center of an anchoring region of each EMS device. The different steps can provide different launch effects for different EMS devices, and if the same thickness of sacrificial material is used for the different devices, the different launch effects can be responsible for different gap heights in the unbiased conditions. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192061 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS HAVING SIDEWALL BEAMS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for electromechanical systems having sidewalls beams. In one aspect, a device includes a substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode, and a movable shuttle monolithically integrated with the substrate, and having a first wall, a second wall, and a base. The first and second walls each have a first dimension at least four times larger than a second dimension. The first and second walls define substantially parallel vertical sides of the shuttle, and the base is positioned orthogonally to the first and second walls and forms a horizontal bottom of the shuttle, providing structural support to the first and second walls. The first wall and the first electrode define a first capacitor, and the second wall and the second electrode define a second capacitor. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192062 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS DISPLAY MODES - Techniques for managing a three-dimensional (3D) graphics display mode are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a graphics processing module, and the graphics processing module may be operative by the processor circuit to execute a graphics context in a 3D display mode if a 3D-aware graphics context data structure includes an entry corresponding to the graphics context or to execute the graphics context in a non-3D display mode if the 3D-aware graphics context data structure does not include an entry corresponding to the graphics context. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192063 | CONTROLLING EMBEDDED IMAGE DATA IN A SMART DISPLAY - A method and apparatus for controlling embedded raw image data within a display having internal memory. The method includes sending a frame of code and a final compilation of raw image data to the internal memory of the display from a primary host processor prior to the primary host processor entering a sleep state. When the primary host processor has entered a sleep state, control of the raw image data is redirected to at least one secondary host processor. The secondary host processor reads the frame of code within the internal memory of the display and instructs the display to perform an image-related behavior output that may include updating the display itself based on the frame of code found in the internal memory of the display. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192064 | LOW-POWER GPU STATES FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that drives a display from a computer system. During operation, the system detects an idle state in a first graphics-processing unit (GPU) used to drive the display. During the idle state, the system switches from using the first GPU to using a second GPU to drive the display and places the first GPU into a low-power state, wherein the low-power state reduces a power consumption of the computer system. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192065 | Parallel Image Processing System - System and method for a parallel image processing mechanism for applying mask data patterns to substrate in a lithography manufacturing process are disclosed. In one embodiment, the parallel image processing system includes a graphics engine configured to partition an object into a plurality of trapezoids and form an edge list for representing each of the plurality of trapezoids, and a distributor configured to receive the edge list from the graphics engine and distribute the edge list to a plurality of scan line image processing units. The system further includes a sentinel configured to synchronize operations of the plurality of scan line image processing units, and a plurality of buffers configured to store image data from corresponding scan line image processing units and outputs the stored image data using the sentinel. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192066 | PARALLEL PROCESSOR WITH INTEGRATED CORRELATION AND CONVOLUTION ENGINE - A system and method for performing computer algorithms. The system includes a graphics pipeline operable to perform graphics processing and an engine operable to perform at least one of a correlation determination and a convolution determination for the graphics pipeline. The graphics pipeline is further operable to execute general computing tasks. The engine comprises a plurality of functional units operable to be configured to perform at least one of the correlation determination and the convolution determination. In one embodiment, the engine is coupled to the graphics pipeline. The system further includes a configuration module operable to configure the engine to perform at least one of the correlation determination and the convolution determination. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192067 | System for Non-Destructive Image Processing - An image processor comprises a plurality of processing modules coupled together in series. Each of at least two of the processing modules includes an image data input to receive at least one of i) an original image or ii) image data output by a previous processing module in the series. Each of the at least two of the processing modules also includes a processing unit configured to i) detect that image data is to be generated and ii) process image data received via the at least one image data input to generate image data. Each of the at least two of the processing modules also includes a memory to store image data generated by the processing unit. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192068 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE POST-PROCESSING OF CONTENTS - A display apparatus for post-processing the image of the contents, an image post-processor and a method for post-processing the image of the contents are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a communicator which communicates with a server, a display which displays contents received from the server, and a controller which determines an image post-processing method for elements of the contents based on source information of the contents and predetermined condition information, renders the elements which are post-processed according to the determined image post-processing method, and controls the display to display the contents generated after the rendering. Accordingly, the display apparatus can selectively implement image post-processing for the elements of the contents. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192069 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEMORY-HIERARCHY AWARE PRODUCER-CONSUMER INSTRUCTION - An apparatus and method are described for efficiently transferring data from a core of a central processing unit (CPU) to a graphics processing unit (GPU). For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: writing data to a buffer within the core of the CPU until a designated amount of data has been written; upon detecting that the designated amount of data has been written, responsively generating an eviction cycle, the eviction cycle causing the data to be transferred from the buffer to a cache accessible by both the core and the GPU; setting an indication to indicate to the GPU that data is available in the cache; and upon the GPU detecting the indication, providing the data to the GPU from the cache upon receipt of a read signal from the GPU. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192070 | CONFIGURABLE IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a configure image process system and a configure image process method thereof applicable to a predetermine image process structure. The configure image process system includes N pieces of logic hardware and a control module, wherein N is a positive integer. Each piece of the logic hardware respectively corresponds to an algorithm structure, and the control module connects to each piece of the logic hardware. The control module can selectively apply the N pieces of logic hardware to combine at least one part of the predetermine image process structure to perform the image process. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192071 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED GRAPHICS ENCODING - Techniques for improved graphics encoding are described. In one embodiment, for example, a device may include a processor circuit and a graphics encoding module, and the graphics encoding module may be operative to receive graphics buffer update information identifying one or more of a plurality of regions of a graphics buffer, the identified one or more regions including updated graphics information, retrieve the updated graphics information from the identified one or more regions of the graphics buffer, encode the updated graphics information, and transmit the encoded updated graphics information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192072 | DRAWING CONTROL DEVICE - An arithmetic processor | 2014-07-10 |
20140192073 | GRAPHIC PROCESSOR BASED ACCELERATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD - An accelerator system is implemented on an expansion card comprising a printed circuit board having (a) one or more graphics processing units (GPU), (b) two or more associated memory banks (logically or physically partitioned), (c) a specialized controller, and (d) a local bus providing signal coupling compatible with the PCI industry standards (this includes but is not limited to PCI-Express, PCI-X, USB 2.0, or functionally similar technologies). The controller handles most of the primitive operations needed to set up and control GPU computation. As a result, the computer's central processing unit (CPU) is freed from this function and is dedicated to other tasks. In this case a few controls (simulation start and stop signals from the CPU and the simulation completion signal back to CPU), GPU programs and input/output data are the information exchanged between CPU and the expansion card. Moreover, since on every time step of the simulation the results from the previous time step are used but not changed, the results are preferably transferred back to CPU in parallel with the computation. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192074 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - Memory management techniques that permit an executing process to store content in memory and later retrieve that content from the memory, but that also permit a memory manager to discard that content to address memory pressure. A process executing on a computing device may notify a memory manager of the computing device that first memory space allocated to the process contains first content that is available for discard. If the memory manager detects the computing device is experiencing memory pressure, the memory manager may address the memory pressure by selecting memory space available for discard and discarding the content of the memory space. Before a process reuses content made available for discard, the process may notify the memory manager of the intent to reuse and, in response, receive empty memory and an indication that the content was discarded or receive an indication that the content is still available for use. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192075 | Adaptive Lossy Framebuffer Compression with Controllable Error Rate - The device and method described in this application relate generally to graphics processing systems utilizing the tile based rendering technique and more specifically relate to the processing of the framebuffer data in graphics processing applications. The present invention discloses techniques to reduce the bandwidth needed to access the color data stored in the framebuffer. A method for adaptive lossy delta based compression of color data is disclosed. The error rate, that is the amount of color data lost during the lossy compression process, is controlled by various parameters of the rendered tiles produced by the graphics processing system. The compression process is driven by a dedicated unit which enables informed compression decisions with controllable error rate so as the output color data can be reliably decompressed to produce the original color data with minimal or no errors. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192076 | Hybrid Image Decomposition and Protection - Hybrid image projection systems and methods can superimpose image components of an input image. An input image can be divided into smaller regions and at least one parameter of each region can be determined. The input image can be decomposed based on the parameter of each region into multiple, less correlated, orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal image components. Each projector can display respective image components so that the images projected may be optically superimposed on a screen. The superposition of orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal image components can result in superposition of images in an existing multi-projector image systems being more insensitive to inter-projector image misalignment. Superimposing orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal images can be used to avoid visible image degradation, and provide more robust image quality in a multiple projector system implementation. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192077 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes a display section adapted to display an image, a photometric section including a variable wavelength interference filter adapted to transmit light with a predetermined wavelength from incident light and a photosensor adapted to detect light obtained by dispersion, and disposed so as to be opposed to the display section, and a control section adapted to control the display section and the photometric section, and the control section obtains a spectrum of the incident light based on light intensity of the light detected by the photosensor, and then performs a color correction of the display section based on the spectrum. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192078 | High Dynamic Range Displays Having Wide Color Gamut and Energy Efficiency - Several embodiments of display systems that have wide color gamut performance are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a display system comprises a plurality of emitters, said emitters emanating light into an optical path; a first modulator, said first modulator comprising a plurality of colored subpixels and wherein said first modulator transmitting light emanating from said emitters in said optical path; and a color notch filter, said color notch filter placed in said optical path for conditioning or convolving light together with said first modulator. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192079 | ADAPTIVE TEMPORAL DITHER SCHEME FOR DISPLAY DEVICES - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for displaying high resolution images using an adaptive temporal dithering scheme on display devices having two or more color planes. The adaptive temporal dithering scheme includes identifying the dither visibility of an image to be displayed by the color planes and adaptively applying temporal dithering to the color plane having the highest dither visibility. In one aspect, temporal dithering can be adaptively applied between two different color planes on a frame-by-frame basis based at least partly on the dither visibility of the image content. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192080 | Multilayer Control of Gobo Shape - A control of gobos defend by records in the gobo. The gobos are formed by menued shapes. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192081 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAYING OUT IMAGE USING IMAGE RECOGNITION - A method of laying out an image using image recognition is provided. The method includes operations of recognizing, from an original image, a subject part of an original image corresponding to at least a partial area of the original image, cropping the subject part, and displaying the subject part in a predetermined area. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192082 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AN AGGREGATED DATA VISUALIZATION - Generating a data visualization by receiving one or more user-defined data sets corresponding to a data graphic, where each of the user-defined data sets may be based on an opinion value assigned to a selected portion of the data graphic. The methods may also include generating a data visualization, where the data visualization may indicate an aggregate opinion value for a particular portion of the data graphic. The aggregate opinion value may be based on at least one received user-defined data set corresponding to the particular portion. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192083 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus displays image data pieces based on an array in which the image data pieces are sorted in accordance with a specified rule. The display control apparatus extracts, with use of one image data piece from the array as a reference, image data pieces at a set interval from the image data pieces arranged in the array, and arranges and displays the extracted image data pieces that include the reference image data piece on a screen of a display unit based on an order of the array. If the reference image data piece or the interval used in the extraction of the image data pieces has been changed based on an instruction from a user, the display on the display unit is changed with use of the new reference and interval. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192084 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY ACCOMMODATION - A mixed reality accommodation system and related methods are provided. In one example, a head-mounted display device includes a plurality of sensors and a display system for presenting holographic objects. A mixed reality safety program is configured to receive a holographic object and associated content provider ID from a source. The program assigns a trust level to the object based on the content provider ID. If the trust level is less than a threshold, the object is displayed according to a first set of safety rules that provide a protective level of display restrictions. If the trust level is greater than or equal to the threshold, the object is displayed according to a second set of safety rules that provide a permissive level of display restrictions that are less than the protective level of display restrictions. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192085 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A head mounted display (HMD) and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. Most particularly, the HMD and the method for controlling the same may detect an external device having a ticket stored therein and display augmented reality information related to the stored ticket in a location approximate to an individual carrying an external device, in order to check tickets. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192086 | CAMERA-BASED DEVICE AND METHOD OF AUGMENTING DATA DISPLAYED ON A DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE CAMERA-BASED DEVICE - A method of augmenting data that is displayed on a display device by using a camera-based device, and the camera-based device are provided. The method includes configuring a network setting of the camera-based device to enable communication between the camera-based device and the display device; performing calibration to capture an initial boundary in the display device; capturing data that is displayed on the display device; associating the captured data with additional data; and displaying the additional data on the display device. The camera-based device includes a communication interface; and a processor that configures a network setting to enable communication between the camera-based device and the display device, perform calibration in order to capture an initial boundary in the display device; capture data that is displayed on the display device, associate the captured data with additional data; and display the additional data on the display device. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for triggering movement of a user in a virtual immersive environment is disclosed. Embodiments provide evaluation criteria derived from a motion capture system to trigger movement of the user within a virtual world when the user moves, within an actual space of the environment, from a first location within a first zone to a second location within a second zone. The first zone and the second zone are concentric. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO DESIGN OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR DISPLAY ADS ON A LARGER SCREEN SPACE - Techniques are provided which facilitate mobile applications displaying advertisements on a larger screen space without worrying about screen clutter or interference with application functionality. Motion events are triggered once a computerized device detects a threshold magnitude of tilt along a first, second, and/or third coordinate axis. A graphical display is presented to the user which includes at least one advertisement. Several embodiments of the graphical display include a three-dimensional object and full-screen display which are maintained so long as a magnitude of tilt of the computerized device is detected. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192089 | PROJECTOR SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A projector system includes: a position detecting unit that detects a pointed position of a pointer on a projection surface; a drawing unit that performs drawing on the projection surface according to the pointed position detected by the position detecting unit; a height detecting unit that detects a height of a user of a projector; and a display changing unit that changes, according to the user's height detected by the height detecting unit, at least one of a shape of the image projected onto the projection surface and a display position of the image on the projection surface. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192090 | METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - A method and a mobile device to display a specific image at the highest layer of a screen are provided. The mobile device displays moving images at a first region of a screen and, if an event to perform a function in a second region of the screen is received, determines a second region for displaying a specific image associated with the event. The mobile device determines whether the second region is overlapped with the first region. If the second region is overlapped with the first region, the mobile device determines a third region not overlapped with the second region. Thereafter, the mobile device displays the specific image at the second region and displays the moving images at the third region. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192091 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a display device with an adjustable viewing angle. The display device at least includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel. When the display device is operated in a wide viewing angle mode, the first and second sub-pixels each have an on-axis brightness at a predetermined gray level. When the display device is operated in a narrow viewing angle mode, the first and second sub-pixels respectively have a first on-axis brightness at a first gray level and a second on-axis brightness at a second gray level. The first on-axis brightness at the first gray level is substantially less than the on-axis brightness at the predetermined gray level of the first sub-pixel. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192092 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A head-mounted display device includes: a display section that outputs an image light to overlap with an outside light and causes an image to be viewed; a distance detecting section that detects a distance to an object positioned in a visual line direction of a wearer; and an image adjusting section that changes the image light output by the display section according to the distance detected by the distance detecting section. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192093 | LASER BEAM DISPLAY DEVICE - A laser beam display device includes: a dimming setting input unit into which any one of the dimming values of plural dimming steps are input; a first dimming processing unit having plural dimming LUTs that store dimming amounts regarding the respective dimming steps with the corresponding gradation levels as indexes; a second dimming processing unit having one gain LUT that holds gains regarding the respective dimming steps and a multiplier that creates the indexes for the respective diming LUTs by multiplying a video signal by the gains; and a light source drive unit that drives a laser diode on the basis of reference results obtained by referring to the dimming LUTs of the first dimming processing unit. The luminance of the emission beam of the laser diode, which corresponds to the video signal, is dimmed in accordance with a dimming setting input from the dimming setting input unit. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192094 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING MODULE THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a driving circuit of a display panel. A plurality of driving units produce a reference driving voltage according to a gamma voltage of a gamma circuit, respectively. A plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits receive the reference driving voltages output by the plurality of driving units, and select one of the plurality of reference driving voltage as a data driving voltage according to pixel data, respectively. The plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits transmit the plurality of data driving voltages to the display panel for displaying images. A voltage boost circuit is used for producing a first supply voltage and providing the first supply voltage to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits. At least a voltage boost unit is used for producing a second supply voltage and providing the second supply voltage to the plurality of driving units. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192095 | AREA-SAVING DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention relates to an area-saving driving circuit for a display panel, which comprises a plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits convert input data, respectively, and produce a pixel signal. A plurality of driving units are coupled to the plurality of digital-to-analog converting circuits, respectively. They produce a driving signal according to the pixel signal and transmit the driving signal to the display panel for displaying. A plurality of voltage booster units are coupled to the plurality of driving units, respectively, and produce a supply voltage according to a control signal. Then the supply voltage is provided to the plurality of driving units. Thereby, by providing the supply voltage to the plurality of driving units of the display panel by means of the plurality of voltage booster units, the area of the external storage capacitor is reduced. Alternative, the external storage capacitor can be even not required. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192096 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: a first analog power supply circuit that outputs, to each data signal line driving circuit, a first analog voltage generated based on a power supply voltage of an external power supply; a second analog power supply circuit that outputs a second analog voltage based on the first analog voltage; and a reference voltage generating circuit that generates a reference voltage based on the second analog voltage, in which the each data signal line driving circuit generates a gray-scale voltage based on the reference voltage. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192097 | DISPLAY DRIVER CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DATA IN A DISPLAY DRIVER CIRCUIT - A display driver circuit includes a source driver and a display driver. The source driver drives source lines of a display panel, and the timing controller transmits image data to the source driver and controls the source driver such that the transmitted image data is displayed in the display panel. The timing controller randomizes the image data in a scrambling mode when the timing controller transmits data packets including pixel data field in which the image data is written. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192098 | Semiconductor Device and Driving Method Thereof - Brightness irregularities that develop in a light emitting device due to is persion among pixels in the threshold values of TFTs used for supplying electric current to light emitting devices become obstacles to improved image quality of the light emitting device. As an image signal input to a pixel from a source signal line, a desired electric potential is applied to a gate electrode of a TFT for supplying electric current to an EL device, through a TFT having its gate and drain connected to each other. A voltage equal to the TFT threshold value is produced between the source and the drain of the TFT | 2014-07-10 |
20140192099 | METHOD FOR UNEVEN LIGHT EMISSION CORRECTION OF ORGANIC EL PANEL AND DISPLAY CORRECTION CIRCUIT OF ORGANIC EL PANEL - A correction method for correcting uneven light emission of an organic EL panel, the correction method includes the steps of: supplying a predetermined signal to the organic EL panel to detect the brightness of the panel at horizontal and vertical scan positions; forming, based on a detection output thereof, correction data adapted to correct uneven brightness of the organic EL panel at a horizontal or vertical display position of the panel; storing the correction data in a memory; and reading the correction data from the memory during viewing to correct the level of a video signal supplied to the organic EL panel. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192100 | BURN-IN REDUCTION APPARATUS, SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, BURN-IN REDUCTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A burn-in reduction apparatus, includes an illumination sensor configured to detect brightness of outside light incident on an area near a display screen; and a contrast control section configured to control a drive condition of a display device in accordance with the detected brightness to reduce a contrast ratio of display brightness steplessly or in a stepwise manner. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192101 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus has an image display unit having a plurality of arrayed pixel circuits, and an image signal compensation circuit compensating an image signal and outputs the compensated signal to the image display unit. Each of the pixel circuits has a compensating capacitor which compensates the threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The image signal compensation circuit has a compensation memory storing a compensation data for compensating the current variation of the driving transistors, a first comparison circuit which compares the image signal and first threshold value, and an arithmetic circuit compensating the image signal. When the image signal has a luminance larger than the threshold value, the compensation is performed. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192102 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A backlight unit includes a power converter configured to generate a light source driving voltage in response to a voltage control signal, a plurality of light emitting diode strings, where each of the light emitting diode strings receives the light source driving voltage through a first terminal thereof, a plurality of transistors corresponding to the light emitting diode strings, where each of the transistors includes: a first electrode connected to a second terminal of a corresponding light emitting diode string thereof; a second electrode; and a control electrode, and a controller connected to the control electrode and the second electrode, where the controller outputs a plurality of current control signals to control electrodes of the transistors and generate the voltage control signal, where the controller generates an over-current detection signal when any one of the current control signals has a pulse width greater than a predetermined reference width. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192103 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A DIMMING OPERATION AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of controlling a dimming operation of an organic light emitting display device that includes an organic light emitting element, a first transistor connected to a data line and a gate line, and a second transistor connected to the first transistor and the organic light emitting element, is provided. By the method, image data is compensated using a plurality of look-up tables respectively corresponding to a plurality of dimming modes, to be outputted compensation data. The compensation data are converted to a data voltage to be provided the organic light emitting element with the data voltage. A level of a current applied to the organic light emitting element is adjusted according to the dimming. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192104 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by forming a raw image on an intermediate transfer member with a liquid ink containing a coloring material and transferring the raw image onto the recording medium. The apparatus has an applicator unit for applying a reactive liquid onto the surface layer of the intermediate transfer member prior to the formation of the raw image. The reactive liquid urges the coloring material in the liquid ink to coagulate. The apparatus further has an adjustment unit for adjusting the thickness of the raw image according to the surface roughness of the recording medium. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192105 | PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT DRIVE METHOD AND LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE - Liquid is forced to be ejected from a liquid chamber as a drive voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element that forms part or all of the walls of the liquid chamber by means of a drive circuit to deform the piezoelectric element. The drive circuit applies a pre-drive voltage to the piezoelectric element prior to the application of the drive voltage waveform for driving the piezoelectric element. The pre-drive voltage is higher than the highest voltage level of the drive voltage waveform. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192106 | LIGHTFASTNESS CONTROL FOR PRINTERS - A printer includes an ink reservoir that includes yellow ink, cyan ink, and magenta ink. The printer includes an ink dispenser that employs a yellow distribution setting to increase the drop volume of yellow ink droplets and lower the drop frequency of the yellow ink droplets on the media with respect to the cyan ink droplets and/or magenta ink droplets to control the lightfastness of the print on the media. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192107 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a recording control unit for recording, by a recording head, a recording position adjustment chart including a pattern for adjusting a recording position of the recording head discharging ink and a mark formed in a position different from that of the pattern, a reading unit for reading the recording position adjustment chart as image data, a first detection unit for detecting a position and inclination of the recording position adjustment chart when reading the recording position adjustment chart based on the mark, a second detection unit for detecting the position of the pattern based on the position and the inclination detected by the first detection unit, and a determination unit for determining adjustment values for the recording position adjustment based on the image data of the recording position adjustment chart in which the position of the pattern has been detected by the second detection unit. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192108 | Printer With Mechanism For Controlling Recording Medium Tension - A printer has a mechanism to counter change in the tension of the recording medium to convey the recording medium with more precision. Such printer has a media conveyance mechanism that conveys a recording medium; a printhead that prints on the medium; a media supply mechanism that supplies the medium to the media conveyance mechanism; a movable member that can move to compensate and thus counter internal tension changes in the recording medium resulting from operation of the media conveyance and supply mechanisms; a detector that detects the movement or position of the movable member; and a control unit that controls the media supply operation based on output from the detector so that the movable member is urged back to or maintained in a home position. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192109 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a print head that forms an image on a target printing surface of a printing medium by relatively moving with respect to the printing medium, an elastic wave radiation unit that radiates elastic waves, in air toward the target printing surface, a reception unit that receives the elastic waves that are radiated from the elastic wave radiation unit and reflected by the target printing surface, and a control unit which measures the time of arrival taken for elastic waves, and stops relative movement when the time of arrival is shorter than a defined time, in which the defined time is a time of arrival in which a distance from the print head to the printing medium and the distance from the elastic wave radiation unit to the printing medium to an allowable minimum distance between the print head and the printing medium. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192110 | TEST METHOD - A test method includes preparing a test medium including a base and an ink-receiving layer that absorbs ink to swell in the thickness direction thereof, applying an ink onto the ink-receiving layer by ejecting droplets of the ink from a liquid ejecting apparatus, and observing the test medium. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192111 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE, AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - The present invention provides an ink that can achieve image characteristics for recording an image having excellent optical density, bleeding resistance, and white blur resistance and also can achieve reliability that provides excellent sticking resistance to a recording head. The ink is one for ink jet containing a first pigment and second pigment. The first pigment is a self-dispersible pigment to a surface of a particle of which a first functional group containing a phosphonic acid group is bonded. The second pigment is a self-dispersible pigment to a surface of a particle of which a second functional group not containing a phosphonic acid group but containing an anionic group other than the phosphonic acid group, and further containing another atomic group is bonded. The introduced amount of the functional group of the second pigment is 0.25 mmol/g or more. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192112 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes discharging an inkjet ink including a water-dispersible colorant, a wetter, a surfactant, a penetrant water-dispersible polyurethane resin having a median diameter of from 0.01 to 0.10 μm water and at least one of a polyethylene wax and a paraffin wax on the surface of the recording medium on which the inkjet ink is discharged. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192113 | LIQUID EJECTING METHOD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - After one ink of a white ink or a silver ink is ejected in a predetermined position of a recording medium such as a piece of recording paper to form a base layer, the other ink thereof is ejected on the base layer to form an intermediate layer, and a clear ink is ejected on the intermediate layer to form an epidermal layer. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192114 | Printing Apparatus - A printing apparatus which prints onto a recording medium by causing a print head to move in a main scanning direction includes a flexible cable through which, together with an arc-shaped loop, a signal is transmitted from a control substrate to the print head, a supporting member which is provided at a position which supports a portion of the flexible cable from the print head to the loop, and an insulating film which is provided between the supporting member and the flexible cable. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192115 | LIQUID JET HEAD AND LIQUID JET RECORDING APPARATUS - The liquid jet head includes an ejecting portion which has a first head chip and a second chip which are laminated with each other, a circuit board which outputs a drive signal for driving the ejecting portion, a first connection board which electrically connects the first head chip and the circuit board to each other, and a second connection board which electrically connects the second head chip and the circuit board to each other. A bend portion is provided in the circuit board. By bending the circuit board at the bend portion, the first electrode terminal portion and the second electrode terminal portion are made to extend in the same direction, and face each other in the lamination direction of the first head chip and the second head chip. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192116 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: a pressure generation chamber that communicates with a nozzle opening which ejects liquid; a pressure generation unit that causes a change in pressure in the pressure generation chamber; and a flexible wiring substrate that transmits a control signal from outside and includes a wiring layer which is connected to each individual electrode of a plurality of pressure generation units and also connected to a terminal portion of a common electrode common to the plurality of pressure generation units. In the liquid ejecting head, the wiring layer of the wiring substrate includes slits in an area connected to the terminal portion of the common electrode of the pressure generation unit, while the wiring layer of the wiring substrate and the terminal portion of the pressure generation unit are connected via an anisotropic conductive material. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192117 | PRINT HEAD FOR AN INK JET PRINTER - The invention relates to a print head for an ink jet printer, wherein the print head comprises at least one ink supply channel and at least one nozzle having a nozzle channel and an inflow opening, and ink can be pressed from the ink supply channel through the inflow opening into the nozzle channel and ejected therefrom, wherein the nozzle is arranged in a stationary manner on a side wall of the ink supply channel and in the ink supply channel a ram is provided, which can be moved back and forth between a reversal point (U | 2014-07-10 |
20140192118 | PIEZOELECTRIC INKJET DIE STACK - A piezoelectric inkjet die stack includes a circuit die stacked on a substrate die, a piezoelectric actuator die stacked on the circuit die, and a cap die stacked on the piezoelectric actuator die. Each die in succession from the circuit die to the cap die is narrower than the previous die. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192119 | FLUID CONTAINER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND KEY SET - A fluid container usable with an image forming apparatus including a receiving unit having a plurality of receiver slots is disclosed. The fluid container includes a housing unit including a plurality of wall portions and a fluid chamber configured to store fluid therein. The housing unit is configured to removably attach to a respective receiver slot of the receiving unit of the image forming apparatus. The fluid container also includes a first key set disposed on an exterior surface of one wall portion of the housing unit. The first key set is configured to form a first key pattern corresponding to a conforming first receiver key pattern of a respective receiver slot. The fluid container also includes a second key set disposed on an exterior surface of an other wall portion of the housing unit. The second key set is configured to form a second key pattern corresponding to a conforming second receiver key pattern of the respective receiver slot. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192120 | RECORDING METHOD - Provided is a recording method of discharging ink including resin and a solvent to a heated recording medium to record an image on the recording medium by an ink jet recording apparatus, in which an absorption amount of the ink per unit mass of the recording medium is equal to or less than 1.0, and a wetting index of the recording medium measured based on JIS K6768 is equal to or more than 46, and when the wetting index is set as x, and the absorption amount of the ink per unit mass of the recording medium is set as y, a relationship of y≧0.002x−0.027 is satisfied. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192121 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet recording method includes forming an image on a coated layer provided at least one side of the substrate of a recording medium with ink containing a colorant; and then applying a post-processing fluid comprising a resin to the image; wherein the application amount per unit area of the post-processing fluid to the image is controlled to be less than the application amount per unit area of the ink to form the image. | 2014-07-10 |
20140192122 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a photoreceptor; a charger configured to charge a photoreceptor surface; an optical scanning device configured to expose the photoreceptor surface to form an electrostatic latent image thereon; a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image thereon; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image to a sheet; a fixing device configured to fix the toner image thereon; and a control unit configured to carry out exposure amount control for formation of an image having a pattern with a spatial frequency from 0.1 c/mm to 3.0 c/mm so that after the exposure, there will be an electric potential difference V | 2014-07-10 |
20140192123 | IMAGE ERASING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, an image erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The erasing unit erases an image formed on a recording medium. The input unit inputs identification data which identifies an apparatus which forms the image on the recording medium. The control unit controls an operation of the erasing unit based on the identification data input by the input unit. According to another embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording medium, the erasing unit, the input unit, and the control unit. | 2014-07-10 |