31st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 24 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130194256 | VIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE - Displaying an environment of a vehicle comprising recording an image of an adjacent exterior environment of the vehicle in the form of image data with the aid of a plurality of image capture units and displaying an output image with the aid of a display device. A virtual, three-dimensional space and a surface are determined with the aid of an arithmetic unit the virtual, three-dimensional space being at least partially delimited by the surface. A projection of the image data onto the surface is calculated with the aid of the arithmetic unit. A virtual vehicle object from predetermined data is calculated as a computer-generated graphic in the virtual, three-dimensional space with the aid of the arithmetic unit. The output image is generated with the aid of the arithmetic unit by rendering a viewing volume which includes the virtual vehicle object, the viewing volume being delimited by the surface, and the viewing volume being based on a viewing position and a viewing angle and a zoom factor in the virtual, three-dimensional space. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194257 | MATCHING A SYSTEM CALCULATION SCALE TO A PHYSICAL OBJECT SCALE - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to scale a diagram. An image is selected and utilized as a background image. Full geometry is obtained and is displayed with the background image. The full geometry is a first geometry and remaining second geometry. The first geometry is selected and a reference length for the selected first geometry is specified. The remaining second geometry is in the diagram is scaled based on the specified reference length. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194258 | REPRESENTATION OF OVERLAPPING VISUAL ENTITIES - Various embodiments present a combined visual entity that represents overlapping visual entities. The combined visual entity can include a primary visualization that represents one of the overlapping visual entities and annotations that represent others of the overlapping visual entities. For example, a map view can include multiple geographical entities that overlap. A primary visualization can be rendered that represents one of the multiple geographical entities. The primary visualization can be visually annotated (e.g., with symbols, letters, or other visual indicators) to indicate others of the multiple geographical entities. In some embodiments, a zoom operation can cause visual entities to be added and/or removed from the combined visual entity. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194259 | VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT GENERATING SYSTEM - A system and related methods for visually augmenting an appearance of a physical environment as seen by a user through a head-mounted display device are provided. In one embodiment, a virtual environment generating program receives eye-tracking information, lighting information, and depth information from the head-mounted display. The program generates a virtual environment that models the physical environment and is based on the lighting information and the distance of a real-world object from the head-mounted display. The program visually augments a virtual object representation in the virtual environment based on the eye-tracking information, and renders the virtual object representation on a transparent display of the head-mounted display device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194260 | SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZING THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS OR TERRAIN - A system for visualization of 3D objects and/or 3D terrain includes a processor, a display in communication with the processor, and a range metering device in communication with the processor. The system visualizes the 3D objects and/or the 3D terrain based upon their respective distances from the mobile device and based upon a respective parameter measuring the detail of the 3D object and/or the 3D terrain. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194261 | System For Skin Treatment Analysis Using Spectral Image Data To Generate 3D RGB Model - A method is provided for tracking and analyzing changing skin conditions and displaying such conditions in an RGB image format on a three dimensional virtual model to facilitate research and consumer communication. The system involves building a catalog, library or database of skin conditions in the form of datasets taken from spectral images that include the skin conditions of interest. For each spectral image dataset identifying a skin condition of interest a corresponding RGB dataset is calculated and compiled in a database. The database of calculated RGB datasets is used to diagnose skin conditions of subjects by analyzing RGB or spectral photographs of the subject. The spectral or RGB data sets can also be used to predict the effects of proposed treatments and the resulting altered skin condition can be displayed in RGB images that are readily comprehended. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194262 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING IMAGE REPRESENTATIVE DATA - Apparatus for processing a digital mesh representing a three-dimensional subject automatically filters out portions of a predetermined color to simplify further processing. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194263 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - When generating an approximate right prism model, an approximate right prism model generating unit | 2013-08-01 |
20130194264 | UNTRANSFORMED DISPLAY LISTS IN A TILE BASED RENDERING SYSTEM - A three-dimensional computer graphics rendering system allows a tile-based rendering system to operate with a reduced amount of storage required for tiled screen space geometry by using an untransformed display list to represent the screen's geometry. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194265 | System for Reconstruction of Virtual Frequency Selective Inversion MR Images - A virtual frequency selective inversion (VFSI) method receives at least one MR image representative dataset and an associated phase reference dataset, and classifies anatomical material into a first component representing anatomical material having a first range of resonance frequencies associated with a first range of phase differences between the MR image representative dataset and the associated phase reference image dataset, and a second component representing anatomical material having a second range of resonance frequencies associated with a second range of phase differences between the MR image representative dataset and the associated phase reference image dataset. The method assigns different visual attributes to first and second components derived using phase differences between the MR image representative dataset and the reference image dataset and displays an image. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USE OF FUNCTION-FUNCTION SURFACES AND HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURES AS A TOOL - Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for displaying information. In a specific embodiment, at least two pluralities of voxel values for a corresponding at least two functions with respect to at least a portion of a subject can be obtained. The at least a portion of the subject can have a plurality of local volume elements, where the at least two pluralities of voxel values for the corresponding at least two functions each correspond to the plurality of local volume elements. In this way, there is a voxel value for each function for each local volume element of the portion of the subject. Each of the at least two pluralities of voxel values represents the value of the corresponding function of the at least two functions for the corresponding plurality of local volume elements. A representation is created where the value of one of the at least two functions is on a first axis and a count of voxels is on a second axis. The count of voxels on the second axis is at least a portion of the count of voxels having the value of the one of the at least two functions on the first axis. In another embodiment, the value of the other one of the at least two functional mechanisms can be on a third axis. The count of voxels on the second axis can then be the count of voxels having the value of the one of the at least two functional mechanisms on the first axis and having the value of the other one of the at least two functional mechanisms on the third axis. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194267 | ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND ULTRASONIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - For generating ultrasonic projection images in which various kind of ultrasonic projection images have been appropriately combined, the invention is provided with: a storage unit that stores tomographic image volume data and elastic image volume data; a volume rendering unit that generates tomographic projection images by volume rendering on the basis of the tomographic image volume data; a display device that displays the ultrasonic projection images generated by the volume rendering unit; and an operation unit for inputting commands to control the volume rendering unit. For one of the rendering spaces partitioned by a cutting plane set in the rendering space by a command input from the operation unit, the volume rendering unit renders voxels of tomographic image volume data corresponding to the voxels of elastic image volume data that have elasticity values satisfying a set threshold value, and generates and displays the tomographic projection image on the display device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194268 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR IMPROVED SAMPLING FOR PARALLEL LIGHT TRANSPORT SIMULATION - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a system that allow for deterministic parallel low discrepancy sampling, which can be efficient processed, and are effective in removing transitionary artifacts that occur in low-dimensional projections generated in low discrepancy sequences. Embodiments of the claimed subject matter further provide improvements upon the low-dimensional projections and thus the visual quality when using the Sobol' sequence for image synthesis. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194269 | Three-Dimensional Shadows Cast by Objects - Particular embodiments display an object over a background on a screen of an electronic device; and display a shadow effect for the object on the screen of the electronic device, including simulating a three-dimensional (3D) environment encompassing the object; simulating a light source at a specific position within the simulated 3D environment; simulating a shadow cast by the object on the background as a result of the light source shining on the object in the simulated 3D environment; and rendering the shadow on the screen of the electronic device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194270 | Remote Graphics Corresponding to Region - A computing device to receive remote graphics based on a size of a display component from a second computing device, display a user interface to include the remote graphics, detect a user repositioning a region of the user interface, transmit information of the repositioned region to the second computing device and receive remote graphics corresponding to the repositioned region for display on the display component. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194271 | Visualization of Uncertain Times Series - Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for receiving a probability distribution function model, the probability distribution function model representing an uncertain time series and providing a plurality of probability distribution functions, each probability distribution function corresponding to respective values at a respective time in the uncertain time series, generating a visualization based on the probability distribution function model to create a transparency gradient, the transparency gradient including a plurality of points graphically representing the plurality of probability distribution functions, and displaying the visualization including the transparency gradient, wherein a visual characteristic of each point of the plurality of points of the transparency gradient is a function of a probability of the respective value associated with the respective point. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194272 | PLACING PIXELS ACCORDING TO ATTRIBUTE VALUES IN POSITIONS IN A GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION THAT CORRESPOND TO GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS - Data records representing user feedback are received, where the data records are associated with geometric coordinates. Pixels representing the corresponding data records are placed in positions in a graphical visualization according to the geometric coordinates of the data records, where the positions correspond to geographic locations. A subset of the pixels sharing a particular set of geometric coordinates is placed in a subregion of nearby positions in the graphical representation, where the pixels in the subset are placed in an order in the subregion according to values of an attribute of the data records corresponding to the pixels in the subset. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194273 | DATA EXHIBITION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON RING ANGLES - Data values are exhibited based on sector-ring angles. The data values to be exhibited are first received by a processing device. The sector-ring angles are then determined for the data values to be exhibited. Using the sector-ring angles for the data values to be exhibited, the data values are exhibited in a sector-ring manner. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194274 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A GRAPH GENERATION PROGRAM, GRAPH GENERATING METHOD, AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium storing a program including a procedure, the procedure includes: receiving an instruction for generating a graph regarding production of a product in a chronological manner for each of first unit period and second unit period that is longer than the first unit period; referring to aggregate data on production volumes for individual unit periods, and calculating, based on a production volume for a different unit period having a length that is different from a length of a designated unit period of the first unit period and the second unit period, a different production volume to be obtained by converting the different unit period into the designated unit period; and generating the graph in such a manner that at least the different production volume is indicated for the different unit period that is different from the designated unit period. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194275 | GRAPH BASED DEGREE OF FREEDOM COUNTER FOR TWO DIMENSIONAL DRAWINGS - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to utilize a degree of freedom (DOF) for a construction. In a preparation phase, a graph structure is constructed from a construction model that transforms construction primitives into graph primitives. In a search phase, all compact sub-graphs of the graph structure are identified. In a counting phase, a DOF is calculated for each compact sub-graph and adjusted based on interactions between the compact sub-graphs. In an internal DOF searching phase, an internal DOF is computed for each compact sub-graph and used to determine and solve overconstrained sub-graphs. A determination regarding whether a structure of the construction model can be modified based on the DOF and internal DOF is output. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194276 | APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING LAYOUT OF WIRELESS BASE STATIONS IN BUILDING - In the construction of a wireless network in a building, structure conditions such as the floor plan of the building and the shape of the floor, material conditions such as materials for structures, and the like have a great effect on radio wave propagation characteristics. This causes a problem that unless these pieces of information are taken into consideration, an accurate layout design of wireless base stations cannot be made. In the construction of a new wireless network in a building, a wireless network similar to structure conditions of a newly constructed building is extracted from structure conditions of past buildings in which a wireless network is constructed. The layout positions of wireless base stations used in the extracted wireless network are regarded as the layout positions of wireless base stations in the new wireless network. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194277 | SCREEN GENERATING APPARATUS, SCREEN GENERATING SYSTEM, AND SCREEN GENERATING METHOD - According to an embodiment, provided is a screen generating apparatus that includes: a position information acquirer that acquires a screen position information file that sets a font size of a font included in a screen and position information of an image or a part included in the screen; a screen display size acquirer that acquires a screen display size of a display devise as a target display; a magnification calculator that calculates a magnification by using a predetermined screen display size and the acquired screen display size; a font size determiner that determines a font size in the display devise as the target display based on the calculated magnification; a converter that converts the screen position information file based on the calculated magnification and the determined font size; and a screen generator that generates a screen compatible with the converted screen position information file. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194278 | PORTABLE VIRTUAL CHARACTERS - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for portable virtual characters. One aspect provides a method including: providing a virtual character on a first device, the virtual character having a plurality of attributes allowing for a plurality of versions of the virtual character; providing a device table listing at least one device having at least one attribute; transferring to a second device information to permit an instantiation of the virtual character on the second device, the instantiation of the virtual character on the second device including at least one attribute matching at least one attribute of the second device as determined from the device table; and receiving virtual character information from the second device related to the at least one attribute of the second device to permit updating of the virtual character on the first device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194279 | OPTIMIZING GRAPH EVALUATION - A system for performing graphics processing is disclosed. A dependency graph comprising interconnected nodes is accessed. Each node has output attributes and the dependency graph receives input attributes. A first list is accessed, which includes a dirty status for each dirty output attribute of the dependency graph. A second list is accessed, which associates one of the input attributes with output attributes that are affected by the one input attribute. A third list is accessed, which associates one of the output attributes with output attributes that affect the one output attribute. An evaluation request for a requested output attribute is received. A set of output attributes are selected for evaluation based on being specified in the first list as dirty and being specified in the third list as associated with the requested output attribute. The set of output attributes are evaluated. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN AVATAR SERVICE IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT - Provided is an avatar service system and method for providing an avatar in a service provided in a mobile environment. The avatar service system may include a request receiving unit to receive a request for the avatar to perform an action, an image data selecting unit to select image data and metadata for body layers forming a body of the avatar in response to the request, and based on the selected body image data to further select image data for a plurality of item layers disposed on the body of the avatar, and an avatar action processing unit to generate action data for applying the action of the avatar based on the selected image data and metadata. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194281 | Moisture Barrier for Electronic Devices - An electronic display configured to provide a visual output, such as a liquid crystal display. The electronic display includes an optical shutter and a first polarizer operably connected to the optical shutter. The first polarizer includes an optical filter layer, a protective layer, and a moisture barrier positioned on a first surface of either the optical filter or the protective layer. The moisture barrier substantially prevents water molecules from being transmitted therethrough. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194282 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, UPGRADE APPARATUS, DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus, an upgrade apparatus, a display system including the same, and a control method thereof are provided, the display apparatus including: a first image processor which processes an input image signal and outputs a first output signal; an upgrade apparatus connector which is connectable to an upgrade apparatus including a second image processor; a display which displays at least one of a first image corresponding to the first output signal and a second image corresponding to a second output signal output by the second image processor; a first storage which stores first apparatus information about the upgrade apparatus; and a first controller which sets the upgrade apparatus to a communication state based on the first apparatus information stored in the first storage if the upgrade apparatus is connected to the upgrade apparatus connector. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194283 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, UPGRADING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - The display apparatus includes: an image processor which processes an image signal; a display which displays an image based on the processed image signal; an interface to which an upgrading apparatus for processing the image signal is connected; and a controller which controls the interface to cut off power supplied to the upgrading apparatus upon receiving a user's selection to change the upgrading apparatus mode from an active mode to a passive mode. Thus, the active and passive modes of the upgrading apparatus are changed without removing the upgrading apparatus and without rebooting the display apparatus, thereby improving user's convenience. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194284 | GAMMA BUS AMPLIFIER OFFSET CANCELLATION - The present disclosure generally relates to gamma bus wiring techniques that saves space in a display such as a liquid crystal display. In certain embodiments, a voltage offset associated with gamma bus amplifiers configured to provide analog voltage levels to a pixel may reduce at least some of the visual performance characteristics of the attached display when it transitions between different voltage values provided by different gamma bus amplifiers. The voltage offsets associated with the gamma bus amplifiers may be distributed between multiplexers that are coupled to gamma bus amplifiers by interlacing the wires routed from a resistor string to the multiplexers. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194285 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - There is provided a storage apparatus for providing an effective memory addressing method. The storage apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one controller coupled to the at least one memory to provide address information. Each of the controllers includes a first controller for providing on/off information of subfields included in one frame for driving pixels in a display panel, a third controller for horizontal position information corresponding to a selected scan line from scan lines of a display panel, and a second controller for providing vertical position information corresponding to a pixel on the selected scan line. On/off information of subfields for at least two pixels is stored in a cell located at the vertical position and the horizontal position in the at least one memory. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194286 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT BUFFER MANAGEMENT - The techniques are generally related to management of buffers with a management unit that resides within an integrated circuit that includes a graphics processing unit (GPU). The management unit may ensure proper access to the buffers by the programmable compute units of the GPU to allow the GPU to execute kernels on the programmable compute units in a pipeline fashion. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194287 | BUFFERING MECHANISM FOR CAMERA-BASED GESTURING - A method can include buffering video data to a buffer that includes a buffer capacity that corresponds to a video time interval; sampling video data at a sampling rate of at least once per video time interval; processing the sampled video data for gesture evidence; and, responsive to gesture evidence in the sampled video data, processing the buffered video data for additional gesture evidence. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194288 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING INFORMATION OF A PICTURE - Disclosed are method and apparatus for storing information of a picture. The method includes presenting a picture file to be edited, which at least includes original picture data; editing the picture file with an interface engine; integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and storing the original picture data and the rendering information. According to the invention, the interface engine is improved, and thus may directly edit a picture in use, and integrate the rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture format. Therefore, during development, it is not required to store rendering information of a picture into codes, so that no programmer is required to intervene in rendering and setting of the picture. An art-designer may directly operate on the interface engine to change rendering effects, meanwhile, final rendering effects may be observed without running a program. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194289 | SOFTWARE FOR DISPLAYS WITH DIFFERENT PIXEL DENSITIES - According to embodiments, a computer-implemented method for designing software for use on multiple devices having different display resolutions comprises determining with a computing device a display characteristic of a first display device, determining with a computing device a display characteristic of a second display device, wherein the computing device has stored in a non-transitory memory a display characteristic of one or more second display devices, calculating with a computing device a display ratio based on the display characteristic of the first display device and the display characteristic of the second display device, and rendering on the first display device a scaled display of the second display device based on the display ratio. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194290 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In order to effectively accomplish blur restoration in a short time, an image processing apparatus includes a blur restoration unit configured to perform blur restoration processing on image data according to an object distance and a blur restoration distance correction unit configured to correct a blur restoration distance that represents an object distance at which the blur restoration processing is performed by the blur restoration unit. The blur restoration distance correction unit is configured to set an interval of the blur restoration distance according to a difference between a reference object distance and another object distance. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194291 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a storage which stores a transformed image and attribute information indicating a content of the image transformation, a display controller which reads and displays the transformed image stored in the storage, a processor which processes an image in an arbitrary portion in the image displayed by the display controller, and an image update module which updates the image in the portion, which is processed by the processor, according to the attribute information stored in the storage. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194292 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING COLOR OF IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE - An apparatus and a method for correcting colors of an image projection device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a photographed image by photographing a sample image projected on projection surface; generating input-output color information for n regions, based on color values of a block in the sample image and corresponding color values of the block in the photographed image; selecting one of the n regions of photographed images as a reference region; generating look-up tables (LUTs) for non-reference regions, based on the reference region and the input and output color information; and correcting colors of input images to be projected by the image projection device using the look-up tables, thereby minimizing color difference of the input images on the projection surface for both intra and inter projection device color correction while simplifying the correction procedure. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194293 | SELECTIVELY TRANSFORMING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY - A method for selectively transforming a multi-dimensional input array comprising D dimensions includes, with a computing system, determining a D-dimensional convolution of the input array at only selected points in the array, each the convolution being a function of a product of D one-dimensional kernels; determining partial convolutions at each dimension iteratively, an iterative determination of one of the partial convolutions being determined, in part, from a previous iterative determination; and collecting transformed values from the convolutions into the input array to form a transformed input array. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194294 | RELATIONAL RENDERING OF MULTI-FACETED DATA - Technology for rendering representations of multi-faceted data are disclosed. As one example, the technology includes organizing and rendering multiple subsets of a dataset according to temporal or other linear attributes, e.g., for visual comparison and/or other visualization. A collection of subsets may be determined in response to a selection of a facet having multiple facet attributes. Each subset may include the entries of the dataset that have the facet attribute corresponding to that subset. Optionally, the multiple subsets may be rendered in alignment with corresponding portions of a hierarchical depiction, e.g., to visually represent the parameters of the subsets. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHOOSING DISPLAY MODES - This disclosure provides apparatus, systems, and methods for updating display devices. In one aspect, a display can switch between a plurality of display modes based at least in part on a spatial distribution of changed image regions over a number of frames of an image to be displayed. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194296 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTI-VIEW THEREOF - A display apparatus and a multi-view providing method are provided. The display apparatus includes a signal processing unit for constructing an image frame of first image content; a display unit for displaying the image frame on a screen; a user command input unit for receiving a user input of a multi-view mode start command; and a control unit for, when the multi-view mode start command is received, displaying second image content by generating a sub-screen in the screen, and when the second image content displayed in the sub-screen is selected, controlling the signal processing unit and the display unit to operate in a multi-view mode in which a plurality of content views are displayed by combining an image frame of the first image content and an image frame of the second image content. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194297 | METHOD OF SOLVING PAGE LAYOUT CONSTRAINTS - The invention provides for a method of solving a set of page layout constraints by a computer comprising the steps receiving a set of page layout constraints. The method further comprises the step of dividing the set of page layout constraints into a groups dependent upon the type of constraint. Each of the set of page layout constraints is a member of only one of the groups. The method further comprises the step of transforming each constraint of each of the groups into a resource constraint. The method further comprises the step of assigning a priority to each of the groups. The method further comprises the step of solving each of the groups in the order of the priority using a resource allocation algorithm. All members of a group chosen from the groups are solved simultaneously. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194298 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is configured to extract contour information of a medium area from readout image data, and correct distortion of the medium area based on the contour information. The medium area is an area for image data corresponding to a medium serving as a reading target. The image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires the readout image data, an extracting unit that extracts the contour information of the medium area from the readout image data, a displaying unit that displays the contour information so as to superpose the contour information on the readout image data, a detecting unit that detects an instruction of changing a position of the contour information. The extracting unit extracts again the contour information by reflecting the instruction of changing, and the displaying unit redisplays the contour information extracted again by the extracting unit. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194299 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-IED EVENT CLASSIFICATION IN AN ELECTRICAL GRID - A method for providing a navigation tool of a user interface for an industrial control system. The control system is arranged with a plurality of process graphics including one or more software objects. The software objects are arranged in hierarchical groups each representing a process, part-process or an equipment, in which materials are moved and/or processed in a predetermined order. The navigation tool includes a graphic image or map showing the plurality of process graphics symbolically arranged as a plurality of nodes. Each node is spatially arranged at a given distance from the centre of the map according to a hierarchical relationship between the process graphics, and the map is displayed superimposed on top of the process graphic currently displayed on the workstation. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194300 | DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control program causing a processor to execute display control process includes: specifying relationship between a first page screen and a second page screen; allocating the first page screen and the second page screen respectively to a first unit region and a second unit region in one display window in a case that the specified relationship is dependent relationship; and displaying the one display window having the first page screen and the second page screen placed in the first unit region and the second unit region. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURELY TRANSMITING SENSITIVE INFORMATION - A system and method for securely transmitting information over a communications network comprises receiving a message notification that a recipient has a message on a recipient's client device from a processor based server upon receipt of the message from a sender's client device. The message from the sender's client device is stored in a storage device by the server. The recipient accesses the server to view the message using the recipient's client device. The message is rendered and displayed on the screen by the recipient's client device in accordance with a display method selected by the sender of the message to present only a portion of the message at any given time to the recipient. The prevents the message from being recorded or captured. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194302 | DISPLAY SYSTEM INCLUDING A DISPLAY APPARATUS AND AN UPGRADING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - A display system including a display apparatus and an upgrading apparatus are provided along with a control method. A display apparatus includes an image processor which processes an image signal, a display which displays the processed image thereon, a connector to which an upgrading apparatus comprising at least one upgrading function is connected and a controller which communicates with the upgrading apparatus and controls the display to display thereon a user interface (UI) screen displaying at least one upgrading function list generated by the upgrading apparatus in response to a user selection. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194303 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AND PROCESSING FACILITIES MAP INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER IMAGE INFORMATION ON A MARKING DEVICE - A marking device for a marking operation to mark a presence of an absence of one or more underground facilities is configured to access and display facilities map information, and/or other image information, as a visual aid to facilitate the marking operation. In various aspects, methods and apparatus relate to: selection of an “base” facilities map, or information from a database of facilities map data, relating to a given work side/dig area; selection of an pan and/or zoom (resolution) for displaying facilities map information; updating displayed facilities map information while a marking device is used during a marking operation (e.g. changing pan, zoom and/or orientation); overlaying on the displayed facilities map information marking information and/or landmark information relating to the marking operation; and storing locally on the marking device, and/or transmitting from the marking device, facilities map information and/or overlaid marking/landmark information (e.g., for further processing, analysis and/or subsequent display). | 2013-08-01 |
20130194304 | COORDINATE-SYSTEM SHARING FOR AUGMENTED REALITY - A method for presenting real and virtual images correctly positioned with respect to each other. The method includes, in a first field of view, receiving a first real image of an object and displaying a first virtual image. The method also includes, in a second field of view oriented independently relative to the first field of view, receiving a second real image of the object and displaying a second virtual image, the first and second virtual images positioned coincidently within a coordinate system. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194305 | MIXED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROVIDING SERVER, DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY PROGRAM - A Mixed Reality display system and others capable of experiencing Mixed Reality by changing own line of sight of a user in a case where a plurality of users experience a synthesized image are provided. The Mixed Reality display system is a system in which an image providing server and a plurality of client terminals are constructed to be capable of being communicated with each other, the image providing server represents a virtual object, synthesizes the represented object and an omnidirectional image taken by an omnidirectional image obtaining camera, and then delivers the synthesized image information to a plurality of client terminals. The client terminal extracts a partial area image from the synthesized image indicated by the synthesized image information received from the image providing server based on the portion/pose information defining the line of sight of a user observing the client terminal, and then displayed the extracted image. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194306 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC INFORMATION USING AUGMENTED REALITY - The present invention relates to a system for providing traffic information using augmented reality, and comprises: an AR server for providing a virtual image which is obtained by processing transfer information on transfer locations at stops for transportation means and information according to the transportation means, using characters and graphics; and a personal portable communication device which displays the virtual image received from the AR server while overlapping the virtual image on a real-captured image of a transfer location obtained through a camera. According to the present invention, a virtual image which displays transfer information on transfer locations such as bus platforms, subway stations, airports and the like and information according to transportation means and the like is displayed while being overlapped on an actual real-captured mage, thereby making it possible for a user to easily and simply obtain information on the detailed traffic flow at transfer locations or the surroundings thereof. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194307 | Visual Embellishment for Objects - Particular embodiments display a series of objects across a screen of an electronic device, the objects being arranged side by side; display a boundary of each object in the series, the boundary of an object near the center of the series slightly overlapping a portion of each of two objects next to the object nearer the center of the series; and display a shadow around the object near the center of the series, the shadow overlapping a portion of each of the two objects next to the object near the center of the series to simulate an visual effect that the object near the center of the series is above the other objects in the series. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194308 | REVERSIBLE USER INTERFACE COMPONENT - A method of configuring a widget and a tactile user interface which displays the widget are disclosed which enable menu-setting operations with minimal touch gestures and occupation of screen space. The interface includes a touch sensitive display device and memory which stores instructions for displaying the widget and a set of graphic objects together on the display device. The widget has two or more virtual sides, each of the sides being associated with a respective functionality. The widget is flipped, in response to a recognized touch gesture, from a first of the sides to a second of the sides, whereby the functionality of the widget is changed. The graphic objects are associated, in memory, with respective items having attributes. The graphic objects exhibit a response to the widget functionality of a currently displayed one of the sides of the widget based on the attributes of the respective items. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194309 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE INFORMATION - An image processing method and apparatus for automatically rotating an image and a display unit, and an information storage medium storing image information. The apparatus including a photographing unit which generates image data and a rotation sensing unit which generates rotational information of a rotation state of the photographing unit. When an object is photographed, the rotation information of the image is obtained and stored together, and when the image is displayed, the rotation is analyzed and the image and display unit are automatically rotated. When an image including moving picture information is watched, an image always optimized to be horizontal without additional work by a user can be seen. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194310 | AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTATION OF APPLICATION DATA RESPONSIVE TO AN OPERATING CONDITION OF A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for displaying data associated with a first application and data associated with a second application on a portable computing are disclosed. Data from physical and virtual sensors is captured and used to determine a context vector. The context vector may provide information about portable computing device usage. Application modes associated with the context vector by the first application and by the second application are identified in addition to a container mode associated with the context vector by a display container. In one embodiment, the display container is a virtual display space used to identify and describe data for display on a display device. A display configuration is determined form the application modes associated with the context vector and the container mode associated with the context vector and used to display data on a display device. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194311 | IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An image reproducing apparatus includes a first displayer. A first displayer displays a photographed image having a size equivalent to a size of a monitor screen, on the monitor screen. A first changer changes a position of the photographed image displayed by the first displayer when a position changing operation is sensed so as to ensure a vacant region in a peripheral portion of the monitor screen. A second displayer displays attribute information indicating an attribute of the photographed image displayed by the first displayer, in the vacant region ensured by the first changer. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194312 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing method more excellent in convenience for the user. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194313 | Method of Enhancing Moving Graphical Elements - A method performed by a processor of a electronic device, including rendering ( | 2013-08-01 |
20130194314 | DESKTOP EXTENSION - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided, including detecting user applied twisting of an apparatus having a touch display that provides a desktop; and revealing a desktop extension on twist-direction side of the desktop in response to the detected twisting. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194315 | GAMUT CONTROL USING RGB DRIVING WITH ADDITIONAL BALANCING PHASE FOR FIELD SEQUENTIAL COLOR DISPLAYS AND OTHER DISPLAYS - A system includes multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs), where different LEDs are configured to generate light of different individual colors. The system also includes a display driver configured to generate drive signals for driving the LEDs. The display driver is configured in different phases of a repeating frame to activate different ones of the LEDs in order to generate the different individual colors of light. The display driver is also configured in a balancing phase of the repeating frame to activate two or more of the LEDs in order to generate a non-white color of light. The non-white color of light comprising a combination of at least two of the different individual colors of light. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194316 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - There is provided an organic light emitting display capable of improving the display quality of a low brightness region. The organic light emitting display includes pixels positioned at intersections of scan lines, emission control lines, and data lines, a converter for receiving data to generate brightness values, a timing controller for extracting emission time values and gamma values to correspond to the brightness values, an emission control line driver for supplying emission control signals to the emission control lines so that emission times of the pixels are controlled to correspond to the emission time values, and a gamma voltage generator for generating gamma voltages corresponding to the gamma values. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194317 | SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of operating a data processing apparatus for testing visual acuity and/or visual contrast, the method comprising displaying symbols on a display device, the symbols displayed having luminance, colour and contrast, varying the luminance, colour and/or contrast or any one or combination of luminance, colour and/or contrast of the symbols displayed on the display device; and varying the time period for displaying the symbols. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194318 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREFOR - A light source device including: a boost-type conversion unit configured to convert an input AC voltage into a DC voltage; a detection unit configured to detect a voltage value of the input AC voltage; and a control unit configured to control the brightness of a light source unit on the basis of an input image signal. The control unit changes the timing of brightness change of the light source unit according to a voltage value detected by the detection unit. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194319 | Color Signal Converter, Display Unit, Color Signal Conversion Program, Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Color Signal Conversion Program, And Color Signal Conversion Method - A color conversion circuit converts a three-primary-color signal PS | 2013-08-01 |
20130194320 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS - In one embodiment of the present invention, when a still image is displayed, applied voltages respectively corresponding to a total of n (n being an integer of not less than 4) types of gradation | 2013-08-01 |
20130194321 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS USING LOCALIZED GAMUT DEFINITIONS - Methods and apparatus are provided for encoding and decoding image data using localized gamut definitions. The localized gamut definitions may be defined based on gamut characteristics of the image data. A gamut transform is applied to the image data wherein color coordinates specified by the image data are mapped to corresponding color coordinates in the localized gamut definition. Use of localized gamut definitions may facilitate image data compression of increased color depth specification of image data. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194322 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit that includes a plurality of pixels and is configured to display at least one image frame by illuminating the plurality of pixels on a pixel basis; a motion measuring unit that measures a motion per pixel of the at least one image frame by comparing a plurality of image frames to be displayed on the display unit; and a controller that adjusts a light emission intensity and a light emission time per pixel of the display unit according to a magnitude of the measured motion. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194323 | MICRO-LENS CAPABLE OF CHANGING FOCAL LENGTH, MICRO-LENS ARRAY INCLUDING THE SAME, 3D DISPLAY INCLUDING MICRO-LENS ARRAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING 3D DISPLAY - Provided is a micro-lens capable of changing a focal length. The micro-lens includes a plurality of electrodes, and an electrowetting liquid layer that is separable from the electrodes and that has a focal length that is controlled by a voltage applied to the electrodes. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194324 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INK RECIRCULATION - A method for recirculating ink in an inkjet printer includes applying air pressure to an ink supply to expel liquid ink through a plurality of inkjets in the printhead. An ink receptacle that is positioned at a predetermined distance from the inkjets collects the expelled ink. The ink receptacle moves into fluid communication with an ink supply, and the ink collected in the ink receptacle enters the ink supply. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194325 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a printing apparatus capable of safe high-speed leakage detection and contact detection of a printhead. The leakage detection and contact detection are executed in the apparatus which prints on a printing medium by scanning a removable printhead mounted to a carriage. When the printhead is mounted, connection with a capacitor used in normal printing is disconnected, a lower voltage is applied to drive a printing element and monitor the voltage. If the monitored voltage is not less than a predetermined threshold, occurrence of a poor contact is determined. This is performed for electric contacts one by one. During the operation, a lower voltage is applied at a predetermined timing to drive a printing element and monitor the voltage. If the monitor voltage is not higher than a predetermined threshold, occurrence of current leakage is determined. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194326 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head having nozzles that eject a liquid; a plurality of liquid flow passages where the liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting head flows; and a heating portion that heats the liquid in the liquid flow passages, in which the liquid flow passages include circulation passages where at least a part of the liquid supplied to the liquid ejecting head is circulated to upstream of the heating portion by being discharged from the liquid ejecting head without passing through the nozzles; and non-circulation passages where the liquid supplied to the liquid ejecting head is not able to be circulated to upstream of the heating portion by being discharged from the liquid ejecting head without passing through the nozzles, and in which the circulation passages are disposed at outer sides of the other liquid flow passages. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194327 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - It is an objective of the present invention to provide an image processing method that can perform an accurate calibration corresponding to an ink receiving characteristic of a printing medium. The present invention obtains information regarding an ink amount that can be applied to a unit area of a printing medium. Then, the present invention determines, based on the information obtained, a combination of a plurality of ink application amounts corresponding to a plurality of first patches for adjusting ink application amounts corresponding to the respective gradation levels of an image to be printed on the printing medium. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194328 | CONTROL ELEMENT FOR PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A printhead includes a nozzle and a jet control element. The jet control element includes a continuous heater element positioned to surround the nozzle and a plurality of three or more electrical contacts in electrical communication with the continuous heater element. The plurality of three or more electrical contacts define a plurality of three or more continuous heater element portions that are actuatable with sufficient independence so as to control jet steering. The number of the continuous heater element portions equals the number of electrical contacts. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194329 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - Provided is a printing method for multi-pass printing with column thinning in which the multi-pass number is not restricted to being a multiple of the column thinning number. A mask pattern of a size corresponding to the number of printing elements in use is prepared, and divided into blocks | 2013-08-01 |
20130194330 | CONTROL ELEMENT FOR PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A continuous printing system includes a printhead and a controller. The printhead includes a nozzle and a jet control element including a continuous heater element positioned to surround the nozzle. A plurality of three or more electrical contacts is in electrical communication with the continuous heater element and define a plurality of three or more continuous heater element portions that are actuatable with sufficient independence so as to control jet steering. The number of the continuous heater element portions equals the number of electrical contacts. A controller is configured to apply a waveform to at least one of the plurality of three or more electrical contacts to affect at least one of the plurality of independently actuatable continuous heater element portions. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194331 | CONTROL ELEMENT FOR PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A method of printing includes providing a printhead including a jet control element including a continuous heater element positioned to surround a nozzle. A plurality of three or more electrical contacts is in electrical communication with the continuous heater element. The plurality of three or more electrical contacts define a plurality of three or more continuous heater element portions that are actuatable with sufficient independence so as to control jet steering. The number of the continuous heater element portions equals the number of electrical contacts. A liquid is provided under a pressure sufficient to eject a jet of liquid through the nozzle. A waveform is applied to at least one of the plurality of three or more electrical contacts using a controller to affect at least one of the plurality of independently actuatable continuous heater element portions to control the jet of liquid. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194332 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF PRINTED INK IMAGES - An inkjet printer ejects ink drops onto a surface of a print medium to form an ink image. A fluid emitter sprays fluid onto the ink image. The fluid sprayed on the ink image reduces or eliminates an offset of ink from the ink image during additional processing of the print medium after the ink image is printed on the print medium. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194333 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head having a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row. One nozzles of the nozzles in a k-th nozzle group (1≦k≦p−1; p is the number of types of droplets) in the conveying direction and of the first nozzle row and second nozzle row ejects the specific type of droplets, and the other nozzles in a k-th nozzle group ejects droplets other than the specific types of droplets. The control unit controls to eject, in one of directions of the reciprocal movement, droplets other than the specific types of droplets from nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets and the specific type of droplets from the first and second nozzle groups that eject the specific type of droplets and in other one of the directions of the reciprocal movement, droplets other than the specific types of droplets from nozzle groups that do not eject the specific type of droplets. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194334 | PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A printer includes a feed portion configured to feed a print medium in a sub-scanning direction, ejection port groups including a first ejection port group and a second ejection port group configured to eject a first ink and a second ink, respectively, the first ejection port group being disposed on an upstream side of the second ejection port group, a moving portion configured to relatively move the ejection port groups in a main scanning direction, and a control portion configured to cause at least one of ejection ports of the first ejection port group to eject the first ink a plurality of times to a dot array extending in the main scanning direction, and cause at least one of ejection ports of the second ejection port group to eject the second ink, at least once to the dot array onto which the first ink has been ejected. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194335 | LIQUID-DROPLET EJECTION DEVICE - A printer includes an inkjet head that includes a plurality of individual flow passages each including a nozzle and a manifold commonly communicating with the plurality of individual flow passages, a heater that heatsink in the manifold, and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of ink in the manifold. After the heater heatsink in the manifold, liquid droplets are ejected from the nozzles of the inkjet head. Abnormal ejection of the nozzle is detected based on a detected change in a temperature of the ink in the manifold. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194336 | PRINTING APPARATUS, DRIVING APPARATUS, AND DRIVING METHOD - A printing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a carriage configured to mount a printhead and reciprocate, a driving unit configured to move the carriage, the driving unit including a motor as a driving source, a measurement unit configured to measure a velocity fluctuation of the carriage, a correction unit configured to correct driving of the motor by correction data to reduce a velocity fluctuation of the carriage arising from cogging of the motor, and a setting unit configured to set a parameter which defines a periodic fluctuation manner of the correction data. The setting unit determines a current preferable value of the parameter based on the velocity fluctuation measured by the measurement unit for a current set value of the parameter, and sets a next set value of the parameter from the determined preferable value. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194337 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing control device comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction to perform adjustment of the number of droplets to be ejected from ejection ports of an ejection head on a unit region of a printing medium, the ejection ports corresponding to an energy generation element, the energy generation element using electrical energy to generate energy for ejecting liquid; and a decision control unit configured to decide an amount of the electrical energy to be applied to the energy generation element corresponding to the ejection ports so that each of the ejection ports ejects the droplets; wherein the decision control unit decides whether to decide an amount of the energy in response to the receiving unit's receiving the instruction. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194338 | PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A continuous printer system includes a jet control element, associated with each nozzle bore of an array of nozzle bores, which is selectively actuated to form or steer or form and steer print drops from a liquid stream emitted from the associated nozzle bore. A memory element associated with the inkjet printer is selectively loaded during a printing operation with data that modifies the subsequent actuation of each of the jet control elements to form or steer or form and steer print drops that print pixels on a receiver in a second regularly spaced pixel grid, the second regularly spaced pixel grid having a second spatial density of pixels extending in a direction perpendicular to a travel path of the receiver that is different when compared to a first spatial density of a first regularly spaced pixel grid. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194339 | PRINTED DROP DENSITY RECONFIGURATION - A method of printing includes selectively loading a memory element during a printing operation with data that modifies a subsequent actuation of jet control elements to form or steer or form and steer print drops that print pixels on a receiver in a second regularly spaced pixel grid, the second regularly spaced pixel grid having a second spatial density of pixels extending in a direction perpendicular to a travel path of the receiver that is different when compared to a first spatial density of a first regularly spaced pixel grid, printing pixels on the receiver in the second regularly spaced pixel grid, and catching drops that are formed but not used to print pixels on the receiver in the first regularly spaced pixel grid or used to print pixels on the receiver in the second regularly spaced pixel grid. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194340 | ISSUE DETECTION IN A DIGITAL PRINTER - Detecting an issue in a digital printer that has an optical element positioned to direct a laser beam towards a photoconductor surface may include sending optical element position commands to move the optical element to compensate for inconsistent movements of a photoconductor drum and creating a record of the optical element position commands. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194341 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided are an image scanning device that can prevent a rise in the temperature and overloading or overheating of a conveying motor during continuous conveying of document sheets, and a conveying device that includes the image scanning device. According to the present invention, the temperature of a drive motor and the temperature of the periphery of the drive motor are predicted, and based on the predicted values, the conveying mode is selected. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194342 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a liquid ejection head formed by performing bonding and fixing operations speedily and highly accurately when a recording element board is bonded to a supporting member, the liquid ejection head having a high liquid-landing accuracy and achieving a high printing quality. A method of manufacturing the liquid ejection head is also provided. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194343 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The inkjet recording method includes ejecting an inkjet ink toward a recording medium to form an ink image on the recording medium. The inkjet ink includes a pigment, water, a surfactant, and at least one of 3-methoxy-N,N-dimethylpropionamide and 3-n-butoxy-N,N-dimethylpropionamide. When Dp represents the diameter of a pigment portion in a dot image formed by dropping a droplet of the inkjet ink with a volume of 0.5 μl on the recording medium, and Dv represent the diameter of a vehicle portion in the dot image, the ratio Dv/Dp is from 1.4 to 1.7. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194344 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The inkjet recording method includes ejecting an inkjet ink toward a recording medium to form an ink image on the recording medium. The inkjet ink includes a pigment, water, a surfactant, and a compound having a formula (1) CH | 2013-08-01 |
20130194345 | CLEANING FILLING LIQUID, CARTRIDGE, CLEANING FILLING METHOD, AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - A cleaning filling liquid for inkjet device comprising: Water; 10.0% by mass to 45% by mass per whole amount of the cleaning filling liquid of an amide compound having following structural formula (1). | 2013-08-01 |
20130194346 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head with multiple nozzles on a surface of the recording head to discharge droplets, the surface with the nozzles facing in a horizontal direction or in a direction leaning upward or downward with respect to the horizontal direction, a wiper to wipe the surface with the nozzles of the recording head from top to bottom, a guide member attached to the recording head at the lower end of the surface with the nozzles, to have contact with the wiper, and a cleaning member attached to a main body of the apparatus to clean the guide member. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194347 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A first common tangent of a first pulley and a second pulley is in parallel with the scanning direction. A second external common tangent of the first pulley and a third pulley intersects with the scanning direction. A motor has a shaft extended in a first direction and connected to the third pulley. An endless belt is wound on the first, second, and third pulleys. A belt connecting potion is provided on the carriage and connected to the belt in a portion on the first external common tangent. The distance between the head passing region and the third pulley is greater than a radial difference obtained as the length of the radius of the motor minus the radius of the third pulley. The distance between the head passing region and the belt connecting portion is smaller than the radial difference. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194348 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an image forming method and an ink composition whereby deterioration of a head plate, which is formed of silicon, is suppressed, and an image with higher precision is formed stably, the ink composition including an inorganic silicate compound and being ejected to form an image from an ink-jet head having a nozzle plate where a C | 2013-08-01 |
20130194349 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH MULTI-LAYER MOUNTING SUBSTRATE - An inkjet printhead includes a printhead die including: a mounting substrate on which the printhead die is mounted, the mounting substrate including: a base layer including a hole; an intermediate layer including: a first surface including a plurality of contact pads; a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface being proximate the base layer; and a slot that is aligned with the hole in the base layer; and a face layer proximate the first surface of the intermediate layer, the face layer including a window, wherein the printhead die is disposed within the window such that an ink feed opening of the printhead die is in fluid communication with the slot in the intermediate layer of the mounting substrate; and a plurality of electrical interconnections connecting bond pads of the printhead die to the plurality of contact pads on the intermediate layer of the mounting substrate. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194350 | THIN FILM FORMING APPARATUS, THIN FILM FORMING METHOD, ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCER ELEMENT, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - A thin film forming apparatus which automatically forms, on an electrode layer formed on a substrate, a functional thin film which is crystallized from a precursor layer is disclosed, including a water-repellant film forming unit which forms, on a region other than a region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, a water-repellant film which includes a self-assembled monolayer; an inkjet coating unit which coats, on the region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, the precursor layer by an inkjet method; and a controller which controls, to within a predetermined time, a time from forming the water-repellant film with the water-repellant film forming unit to coating the precursor layer with the inkjet coating unit. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194351 | INKJET PRINT HEAD - In an inkjet print head an actuation chamber substantially extends in a first direction and the actuation chamber is associated with a piezo actuator arranged to generate a pressure wave in the actuation chamber. The pressure wave propagates in said first direction. A nozzle is associated with the actuation chamber such that a droplet may be expelled through the nozzle upon generation of the pressure wave in the actuation chamber. A reservoir is in fluid communication with the actuation chamber via an inlet and an outlet of the actuation chamber. A pump means is provided for pumping ink from the reservoir, via the inlet, through the actuation chamber, via the outlet back into said reservoir. The print head is provided with a means for reflecting the pressure wave at the outlet of the actuation chamber for enabling to generate a sufficient pressure at the nozzle for expelling the droplet. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194352 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head includes a communication plate in which a first liquid chamber that communicate with a plurality of pressure chambers is formed, wherein a plurality of the first liquid chambers separated from each other are provided in the first direction and the first liquid chamber communicates with the pressure chamber through an opening in the thickness direction of the communication plate. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194353 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head includes a substrate in which a pressure generating chamber that communicates with a nozzle opening is formed; and a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode that is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric layer on a side of the substrate so as to correspond to the pressure generating chamber, and a second electrode that is formed on a surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite to the side on which the first electrode is formed so as to extend over a plurality of the pressure generating chambers, wherein the second electrode is formed to extend to an outside of the pressure generating chamber in a longitudinal direction of the pressure generating chamber. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194354 | PRESSURE REGULATION FOR INKJET PRINTER INK SUPPLY - An inkjet printing system includes an inkjet printhead including a nozzle array and an ink inlet fluidically connected to the nozzle array; a pressure regulated ink supply including: an unvented regulator chamber including: a capillary medium; and an ink outlet connected to the ink inlet of the printhead; a free ink reservoir including an ink inlet connector; and a dividing wall disposed between the regulator chamber and the free ink reservoir, the dividing wall including an ink passageway permitting ink to pass from the free ink reservoir into the regulator chamber; a carriage configured to move the printhead and the pressure regulated ink supply back and forth across a print region; a stationarily mounted main ink supply; and a flexible ink supply line connecting the main ink supply to the ink inlet connector of the free ink reservoir. | 2013-08-01 |
20130194355 | SEAL AND SEAL PULLING MEMBER FOR INK TANK - An ink tank that is mountable to a printhead, the ink tank includes a tank body including a first wall including an ink outlet configured to supply ink to the printhead; a slider guide disposed on an exterior surface of the tank body, wherein the slider guide is proximate the first wall; and an ink reservoir including interior surfaces of the tank body; and a film that is adhered to a sealing area surrounding the ink outlet. | 2013-08-01 |