32nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120200496 | RETENTION MECHANISM FOR A NAVIGATION TOOL - A retention mechanism for a navigation tool of a mobile device includes a base member and a retainer member. The base member is adapted for insertion into a cutout of a support structure of the mobile device. The retainer member is configured for mating engagement with the base member. A navigation tool is retained between the base member and the retainer member, and a portion of the navigation tool extends through an aperture of the retainer member. A support structure of the mobile device can form a cutout corresponding to the base member to receive the retention mechanism. The base member can protrude through cutout so a bottom of the base member extends a distance beyond a bottom surface of the support structure, thereby allowing for the implementation of navigation tool on a mobile device without significantly altering the profile of the mobile device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200497 | HIGH FIDELITY REMOTE CONTOLLER DEVICE FOR DIGITAL LIVING ROOM - Described herein is an intelligent remote controlling device. The device can include a six-axis motion sensor to accurately track three dimensional hand motions. For example, the sensors can include a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope. The remote control device can also include a processing unit integrated with the motion sensors in a single module. The processing unit can convert data regarding the hand motion to data regarding a cursor motion for a cursor that will be displayed on a screen of an electronic device. The processing unit can be integrated with the motion sensors in a single module. The processing unit can include at least two modes of functionality corresponding to different types of hand motion: a one to one mode where the cursor directly tracks the hand motion and a non-linear mode that filters data from the motion sensors to eliminate hand jitter. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200498 | Motion Tracking User Interface - A method to transition focus of a display corresponding to an object's motion tracked by a video camera or like device is disclosed. In one implementation, the display shows one or more windows or user interfaces on the display. The object's motion can be used to select one of the windows or user interfaces on the display and manipulate content presented in the window or user interface. In another implementations, the object's motion can manipulate a three-dimensional graphical icon in a three-dimensional display environment, for example, by rotating it. In another implementation, the method further tracks motion of a second object and shifts focus of the display corresponding to the motion of the second object. In another implementation, a second display may be added to mirror the focus transition corresponding to the object's motion. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200499 | AR GLASSES WITH EVENT, SENSOR, AND USER ACTION BASED CONTROL OF APPLICATIONS RESIDENT ON EXTERNAL DEVICES WITH FEEDBACK - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the eyepiece includes event, sensor, and user action based control of applications resident on external devices with feedback. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200500 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A game system comprises image obtaining means, direction calculation means, first rotation means, and display control means. The image obtaining means obtains an image taken by an imaging device. The direction calculation means calculates a direction originally determined from the image of an imaging target included in the image taken by the imaging device. The first rotation means rotates an operation target in accordance with the calculated direction. The display control means generates an image in accordance with the rotation of the operation target performed by the first rotation means and displays the generated image on a screen of a display device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200501 | HYPER MOUSE SYSTEMS - Hyper Mouse Systems comprising a combined beverage holder and pointing device for communicating and remotely operating an electronic device. The beverage holder of Hyper Mouse Systems may have an ergonomic profile comprising a finger handle and a thumb handle. The beverage holder may further comprise a round inner-cavity comprising a holder base which may be impermeable to liquid. The holder base may also comprise adjustable grips for retaining beverage containers of varying sizes. In addition, the beverage holder may comprise a pair of handle recesses for receiving a handle of a beverage container comprising a handle (such as a mug). The pointing device of Hyper Mouse Systems may comprise a pair of clickable buttons, a thumb scrolling wheel, and a surface motion sensor for detecting movement about a surface. Hyper Mouse Systems enables a user to drink a beverage retained by beverage holder while simultaneously remotely operating an electronic device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200502 | ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICE SEAMLESS KEY/DISPLAY STRUCTURE - A key/display assembly includes a first switch and a display module disposed aside the first switch. A touch-sensitive input panel overlies the first switch and the display module, and the touch-sensitive input panel includes a first touch-sensitive region proximate the first switch. The electronic mobile device further includes a first key defined by the first switch and the first touch-sensitive region. As such, the first key is actuated by pressing the first touch-sensitive region to displace the first touch-sensitive region and thereby actuate the first switch. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200503 | SIZEABLE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD FOR PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES - Disclosed herein is a method and device for generating and resizing virtual keyboard comprising detecting an input for a size of a virtual keyboard and presenting the virtual keyboard at the desired size on a display surface. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200504 | RECIPROCAL INTERFACE PANELS SUITABLE FOR MULTI-PURPOSE ACTUATORS - A non-destructive inspection and testing instrument includes a housing and a first panel with a first type input to be assembled onto the housing and a second panel with a different, second type input to be assembled onto the housing. A first GUI module for the first panel implements a function upon an actuation of the first type input. A second GUI module for the second panel implements the same function upon an actuation of the second type input. A controller is configured to select the first GUI module when the first panel is associated with the instrument and to select the second GUI module when the second panel is associated with the instrument. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200505 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREFERRING A DIACRITICAL VERSION OF A LINGUISTIC ELEMENT ON A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON LINGUISTIC SOURCE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200506 | MODULAR CONNECTOR FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE - Apparatus for providing modular connection means to electrodes in a touch-sensitive device. The modular connections may include electronics allowing controlling electronics to individually address electrodes associated with driving electrodes and sensing signals occurring on electrodes. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200507 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL SYSTEM TOUCH PHRASE TECHNOLOGY - Electronic medical system touch phrase technology includes a method comprising initializing a touch phrase button by a processor such that the initializing associates a first text with the touch phrase button; receiving an input associated with the touch phrase button; updating a state of the touch phrase button based upon the input including associating a second text with the touch phrase button; and communicating the state of the touch phrase button to a memory device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200508 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY AND METHOD OF FACILITATING INPUT AT THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of facilitating input at an electronic device having a touch screen display, the method including: receiving a character input from a touch on the touch screen display; adding the character input to a character string; identifying objects in reference data that have an initial portion that matches the character string; determining candidate next inputs based on the objects identified; determining a most probable next input by ranking the candidate next inputs based on a criteria; and rendering a keyboard with the most probable next input being associated with a primary key and at least one other probable next input being associated with a key located adjacent to the primary key. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200509 | HAPTICS EFFECT CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE AND INSTRUCTION SET - A method for generating a desired haptics effect is provided. A haptics effect instruction is generated by a host processor responsive to a touch screen, where the haptics effect instruction corresponds to the desired haptics effect. This haptics effect instruction is received by a haptics driver, and a haptic profile from the haptics effect instruction is generated from the haptics effect instruction. The haptic profile includes at least one of a profile word, a move word, wait/halt word, and a branch word, and a sine wave is generated from the from the haptic profile that corresponds to the desired haptics effect. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200510 | MULTICHANNEL CONTROLLER - Multichannel device controllers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multichannel device controller includes a plurality of user selectable control modes for controlling a multichannel device and a plurality of user configurable settings for adjusting parameters associated with the plurality of user selectable control modes. A touchscreen displays a user interface corresponding to a selected one of plurality of user selectable control modes and receives user input indicative of a command to send to the multichannel device. A processor generates the command to send to the multichannel device based at least in part on the user input and the plurality of user configurable settings. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200511 | Display Device with Display Panel Having Sensors Therein - A display device includes a first substrate with pixels for displaying an image and a first wire transmitting a common voltage received from an outside source. A second substrate includes a second wire transmitting the common voltage received from the outside source and a common electrode receiving the common voltage from the first wire and the second wire. Conductive spacers are formed between the first wire and the common electrode in correspondence with a part of an area where the first wire is formed, and electrically connect the first wire to the common electrode. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200512 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACQUISITION OF DATA FROM A MULTICONTACT MATRIX TACTILE SENSOR - A data acquisition method to acquire data from a multicontact matrix tactile sensor having a matrix array of a cells, includes scanning the cells of the matrix array sequentially, and measuring an electrical characteristic of a cell, which represents a weight of the cell. The method also includes comparing the weight with a predetermined significant weight value interval, storing cell data associated with the cell, where the cell data includes the weight and coordinates of the cell in the matrix array, after the weight is determined to lie within the predetermined significant weight value interval. The method also verifies an existence of a data record associated with neighboring cells in a neighboring zone of the cell, and updates the data record associated with the neighboring cells by storing in the data record data associated with the cell, after the existence of the data record is confirmed. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200513 | OPERATING METHOD OF TERMINAL BASED ON MULTIPLE INPUTS AND PORTABLE TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - An operating method of a terminal based on multiple inputs and a portable terminal supporting the same are disclosed. The operating method includes: receiving a sensor signal in a state that a touch-down event having at least one touch point is being maintained, generating respective distinct commands according to at least one of a number of touch points of the touch-down event, and a type and a form of the certain sensor signal, activating one of a user function or controlling an operation of a currently activated user function according to the generated commands; and controlling variation in a screen output on a display panel according to the activation or the control of the user function. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200514 | Graphical Caregiver Interface With Swipe to Unlock Feature - A patient support apparatus includes a patient support structure to support a patient, a graphical user interface coupled to the patient support structure, and control circuitry coupled to the graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is operable to display at least one field over which a caregiver's finger is swiped, without moving any icon, to signal the control circuitry to unlock the graphical user interface for display of a control screen on the graphical user interface for subsequent use by the caregiver in controlling features of the patient support apparatus. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200515 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel which displays pieces of identification information including letters, figures, and symbols and detects a contact of the panel with a finger of a user or other object. When the touch panel detects the contact of the panel, a detection unit specifies identification information of one or more of the multiple pieces of identification information displayed on the touch panel, indicated by a position at which the contact in question occurred. The detection unit also detects an area of part of the panel where the contact occurred. A storage unit stores reference identification information and a reference area range. A control unit performs particular processing upon matching of the detected identification information with the stored reference identification information and the area of the contact detected by the detection unit falling within the stored reference area range. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200516 | TOUCH PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same. A touch panel | 2012-08-09 |
20120200517 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOCATING A LOCALLY DEFORMING CONTACT ON A DEFORMABLE TOUCH-SENSITIVE SURFACE OF AN OBJECT - A device for locating a locally deforming contact on a deformable touch-sensitive surface of an object includes at least one transmitting transducer and at least one receiving transducer configured to respectively transmit and capture elastic mechanical waves propagating in the deformable touch-sensitive surface of the object. Further, an electronic central processing unit is connected to the transmitting and receiving transducers and is programmed to detect a frequency offset of at least one natural mode of a resonant vibration of the touch-sensitive surface due to presence of the locally deforming contact, the vibration being produced by the propagation of the waves transmitted in the touch-sensitive surface, and to locate the locally deforming contact by analyzing the frequency offset. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED AUDIO CONTROL ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER - A system and method for improved audio controls on a personal computer is provided. The system and method provide a unified architecture for audio controls across hardware and software interfaces of the personal computer. An intelligent facility may automatically change audio controls for users to simply interact with various communications and media applications. To this end, a configurable audio controller intelligently handles various aspects of the system's audio devices by following various rules that may be based at least in part on user-configurable settings and a current operating state. The present invention also provides audio controls so that a user may easily change audio settings such as the volume of an audio output device. There are many applications that may use the present invention for automatic control of audio devices based upon the user's context. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200519 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING HANDWRITTEN ANNOTATIONS - An apparatus for capturing and displaying handwritten annotations, for use with a computer system, comprises a transparent digitizing tablet adapted to cooperate with a stylus in order to capture handwritten annotations. It also comprises a transparent electro-luminescent display adapted to display captured handwritten annotations, the transparent digitizing tablet being superposed on the transparent electro-luminescent display. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200520 | Touch Sensitive Device - A method of generating a keyboard switch haptic sensation in a coupled system comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a force exciter or actuator coupled to the touch-sensitive surface, the method comprising generating a carrier wave signal at frequencies within the frequency bandwidth of the coupled system, modulating the carrier wave signal with a modulation envelope so that the modulated carrier wave signal has a closely spaced pair of peaks, and driving the exciter or actuator with the modulated carrier wave signal to excite the touch-sensitive surface to provide a closely spaced pair of impulses whereby the keyboard switch haptic sensation is simulated to a user touching the touch-sensitive surface. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200521 | LINEAR LIGHT SOURCE, BACKLIGHT DEVICE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a linear light source capable of alleviating increases in display apparatus sizes. The linear light source ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200522 | Techniques for Disambiguating Touch Data - Techniques for disambiguating touch data and determining user assignment of touch points detected by a touch sensor are described. The techniques leverage both user-specific touch data projected onto axes and non-user-specific touch data captured over a complete area. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200523 | Techniques for Disambiguating Touch Data Using User Devices - Techniques for disambiguating touch data and determining user assignment of touch points detected by a touch sensor are described. The techniques leverage both user-specific touch data projected onto axes and non-user-specific touch data captured over a complete area. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200524 | NOISE FILTERING DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPACITANCE SENSING DEVICES - A capacitance sensing system can filter noise that presents in a subset of electrodes in the proximity of a sense object (i.e., finger). A capacitance sensing system can include a sense network comprising a plurality of electrodes for generating sense values; a noise listening circuit configured to detect noise on a plurality of the electrodes; and a filtering circuit that enables a filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are above one level, and disables the filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are below the one level. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200525 | INPUT DEVICE, INPUT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An input device that performs input control in accordance with display content displayed on a display device, including: a storing section which stores a plurality of input control information corresponding to a plurality of display identification information respectively assigned to a plurality of display contents capable of being displayed on the display device; a receiving section which receives display identification information of display content currently being displayed on the display device; and a processor which performs retrieval processing for retrieving from the storing section input control information corresponding to the display identification information received by the receiving section, and input control processing for performing input control based on the input control information retrieved in the retrieval processing. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200526 | SNAP DOMES AS SENSOR PROTECTION - A protection mechanism for force-based touch sensitive input panels or displays comprising a “snap dome”, e.g., a semi-rigid pliable dome positioned over each sensor for increased overload protection. The snap dome is unidirectionally-resilient to a known point of collapse. It therefore imparts a predetermined resistance to compression over a known range of travel along the z-axis, but is unyielding along the x- and y-axis. As the touch panel is depressed toward the standoff, the snap dome resists compression until it collapses, allowing the touch panel to encounter the standoff. The standoff then imparts dead-stop overload force protection to the sensors. This allows for the placement of mechanical stops (such as stop screws) with a less exacting tolerance. Moreover, the snap domes introduce no x- or y-axis force losses/increases, and do not cause tilting of the touch panel. The touch force remains perfectly perpendicular and accuracy is preserved. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200527 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANELS - A capacitive touch panel comprising; a transparent substrate, a layer of transparent conducting material ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200528 | User Interface System - The user interface system of the preferred embodiment includes: a layer defining a surface, a substrate supporting the layer and at least partially defining a cavity, a displacement device coupled to the cavity and adapted to expand the cavity thereby deforming a particular region of the surface, a touch sensor coupled to the substrate and adapted to sense a user touch proximate the particular region of the surface, and a display coupled to the substrate and adapted to output images to the user. The user interface system of the preferred embodiments has been specifically designed to be incorporated into an electronic device, such as the display of a mobile phone, but may be incorporated in any suitable device that interfaces with a user in both a visual and tactile manner. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200529 | User Interface System - The user interface system of the preferred embodiment includes: a layer defining a surface, a substrate supporting the layer and at least partially defining a cavity, a displacement device coupled to the cavity and adapted to expand the cavity thereby deforming a particular region of the surface, a touch sensor coupled to the substrate and adapted to sense a user touch proximate the particular region of the surface, and a display coupled to the substrate and adapted to output images to the user. The user interface system of the preferred embodiments has been specifically designed to be incorporated into an electronic device, such as the display of a mobile phone, but may be incorporated in any suitable device that interfaces with a user in both a visual and tactile manner. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200530 | INPUT DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE CONTACT POSITION OF THE DEVICE - Provided are an input device and a touch position detecting method thereof The input device includes a touch panel configured to generate a plurality of different measurement values depending on touch positions and output the plurality of measurement values, a clustering part configured to receive the measurement values, and output clustered measurement values including at least one cluster from the plurality of measurement values using a threshold value, and a center point calculating part configured to receive the clustered measurement values, and calculate coordinates of each cluster using a weighted average to output the coordinates. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200531 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE - A touch panel device detects a touch position of a touch panel | 2012-08-09 |
20120200532 | TOUCH-PRESSURE SENSING IN A DISPLAY PANEL - A touch-pressure sensitive panel includes a locally and resiliently deformable waveguide having an exterior surface for receiving localized touch pressure from a user, and a wetting surface opposite the exterior surface. The panel also includes a de-wettable layer presenting a de-wettable surface arranged beneath the wetting surface, such that the localized touch pressure reversibly increases localized optical wetting of the de-wettable surface by the wetting surface. The panel also includes an imaging detector configured to receive light coupled into the de-wettable layer due to the localized optical wetting. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200533 | SYSTEM WITH OPTICAL SENSOR FOR DETECTING USER INPUT - A light-based input device may be based on a wedge-shaped light-guide structure. Light may be introduced into the interior of the light-guide structure from a light source and corresponding reflected light exiting the light-guide structure may be measured using a light detector such as an image sensor. The location at which a user places an object in contact with an upper surface of the light-guide structure may be detected by analyzing the pattern of reflected light that exits the light-guide structure. Multiple layers of light-guide structures may be separated from each other by opaque material such as plastic so that the device can determine the direction in which the object is traversing the light-guide layers. A light-based input device may be implemented using free-space light beams that are interrupted by the user. Keys may be provided in a light-based input device by movably mounting contact pads to a light-guide structure. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200534 | MULTI-BRANCH LIGHT-BASED INPUT DEVICES - A light-based input device may have multiple branches each based on a respective light-guide structure. A light source may launch light into the light-guide structures. A light sensor may detect light reflected from the light-guide structures or transmitted through the light-guide structures. The light-based input device may be used to gather user input from a user of an electronic device. The user may move an object into contact with the light-guide structures. The light sensor may monitor light intensity fluctuations from the light-guide structures to determine where the light-guide structures have been contacted by the object. Multiple wavelengths of light may be used by the light source and light sensor to reduce crosstalk between adjacent branches of the light-based input device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING MACHINE VISION IN THE PRESENCE OF AMBIENT LIGHT - A system and method utilizing two image sensors to simultaneously capture images of a FOV (field of view). The image sensors are arranged along the same optical path for viewing the FOV. The FOV is illuminated by an illuminator of a specific frequency band. An image is captured by the first image sensor which has a filter that passes at least a portion of the light of the frequency band of the illuminator. An image is captured by the second image sensor that has a filter to pass a band of frequencies adjacent to, but generally not including the frequency band of the illuminator. The images may be manipulated, for example, to provide enhanced performance and/or compensate for variables in the system. A processor subtracts the images to produce an image that represents light reflected back from the illuminator, excluding ambient light at the frequency of the illuminator. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200536 | Waveguide Configurations for Minimising Substrate Area - The invention describes various optical waveguide layouts with reduced substrate area, with particular application to reducing bezel width in optical touch systems. In certain preferred embodiments the optical waveguide layouts include a plurality of waveguide crossings. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200537 | COORDINATE POSITION DETECTION DEVICE, METHOD OF DETECTING COORDINATE POSITION, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - When a coordinate detector detects a first light-blocking object, a display device conducts a first local simultaneous scanning process for scanning a local area including the first light-blocking object and an entire sequential scanning process for scanning the entirety of a display surface in parallel. Additionally, during the first local simultaneous scanning process and the entire sequential scanning process conducted in parallel, when a second light-blocking object is detected by the entire sequential scanning process, the display device conducts a second local simultaneous scanning process for scanning a local area including the second light-blocking object in parallel with the first local simultaneous scanning process. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200538 | TOUCH SURFACE WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPENSATION - An apparatus for determining an interaction between an object and a touch surface of a panel. An illumination arrangement introduces light into the panel for propagation by internal reflection between the touch surface and an opposite surface and towards a receiving light detection arrangement. A processor unit is configured to iteratively i) determine, based on the received light, a current light status representing a two-dimensional distribution of light in the panel, ii) determine the interaction with the object as a function of the current light status and a previously updated background status representing a two-dimensional distribution of light in the panel caused by contaminations, and iii) update the background status as a function of the interaction. A method and computer readable medium are also described. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200539 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD - Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200540 | Utilization of temporal and spatial parameters to enhance the writing capability of an electronic device - The enhanced feature of this invention is the direction of a pen input on an electronic device to a separate canvas where it can be separately manipulated and processed for use. Temporal and spatial analysis can ensure that each canvas contain pen strokes that spatially belong together such as an individual word composed of multiple strokes for easy manipulation of the word on the screen. Another related enhanced feature of the invention for erasing portions of the inputted writing is the process of generating a new curve with different points than the original curve. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200541 | LCD AND DRIVING METHOD APPLICABLE THERETO - Provided is a driving method applicable to an LCD. Whether to perform polarity conversion on a plurality of frames is determined respectively. The frames are displayed, wherein in a unit time, the number of times of converting the polarities of the frames is smaller than the number of times of updating the frames. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200542 | Apparatus And Method For Data Interface Of Flat Panel Display Device - An apparatus and method for data interface of a flat panel display device, which is capable of transferring clocks in a state, in which the clocks are embedded in digital data, thereby reducing the number of transfer lines, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a transmitter unit built in a timing controller, to transmit transfer data with an embedding clock embedded between successive pieces of data, and a clock enable signal to indicate the embedding clock, and receiver units respectively built in a plurality of data integrated circuits connected to the timing controller, to separate and detect the embedding clock and the data from the transfer data, in response to the clock enable signal. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200543 | DRIVING METHOD OF PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - It is an object to provide a driving method of a plasma display panel, whereby a dark contrast can be improved while suppressing an erroneous discharge. In a resetting step in a first unit display period, while a first reset pulse having a predetermined peak electric potential is applied to one of first row electrodes of row electrode pairs formed in the PDP, a second reset pulse having a peak electric potential smaller than that of the first reset pulse is applied to the other of the first row electrodes. In the resetting step in a second unit display period subsequent to the first unit display period, a second reset pulse is applied to each of the one and the other of the first row electrodes. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200544 | SHIFT REGISTER, SCANNING SIGNAL LINE DRIVE CIRCUIT PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a shift register that operates based on four-phase clock signals, including two-phase clock signals that are provided to odd-order stages and two-phase clock signals that are provided to even-order stages, of which phases are shifted by 90 degrees from each other, a potential of a first clock appears as a potential of a scanning signal, when a potential of a first node is at a high level, in each stage. In this configuration, the potential of the first node included in each stage is set to a high level based on a pulse of a scanning signal outputted from a pre-stage, and is set to a low level based on a pulse of a scanning signal outputted from a third stage after a stage concerned. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200545 | FLEXIBLE WIRING BOARD AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention has as its object to provide a flexible wiring board that is devised to retain the shape of the protecting section at a low cost. The flexible wiring board | 2012-08-09 |
20120200546 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Disclosed is a semiconductor device including plural types of semiconductor elements having structures that have respective thicknesses suitable for their uses formed in the same process. A semiconductor device ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200547 | Gate Driver with Multiple Slopes for Plasma Display Panels - According to an exemplary embodiment, a driver circuit for generating a reset pulse of an output waveform includes a plurality of ramp paths, each ramp path being configured to control the slope of the reset pulse. The driver circuit also includes a falling switch configured to selectively hold the output waveform low. The driver circuit further includes a switch controller for selectively enabling the plurality of ramp paths and the falling switch to generate the reset pulse. The switch controller can selectively enable the plurality of ramp paths responsive to a reference setting signal to select the slope of the reset pulse. The driver circuit can also generate a sustain pulse. The driver circuit is can generate the reset pulse and the sustain pulse by driving a transistor. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200548 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Since a first and a second source-follower PMOS transistor in a pixel have gates connected to a first and a second capacitor and are used always in on state, respectively, only respective threshold voltages in the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors are set to be +0.5 V and put in normally-on state. A current value in each of the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors is controlled by a constant current load transistor, and on/off thereof is controlled by the constant current load transistor and each of first and second switching NMOS transistors. Further, each of the first and second switching NMOS transistors intermediates to limit an outputtable voltage range and thereby optimization is performed so as to maximize a range where linearity is secured by shifting the respective threshold voltages of the first and second source-follower PMOS transistors. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200549 | Display Device And Drive Method For Display Device - Provided is a display device which can prevent screen noise caused such that a potential of a common electrode is reversed after a memory mode enters from a refresh period to an entire write-in period, and a method for driving the display device. The memory mode includes (i) an entire write-in period in which a potential of the common electrode (COM) is fixed and the display data is written into all the memory circuits (node (PIX)) in each row and (ii) a refresh period in which the display data which has been written during the entire write-in period is refreshed at least once while the common electrode (COM) is driven. In the memory mode, the potential of the common electrode during the entire write-in period being a potential which the common electrode having been driven had at the end of a refresh period preceding the entire write-in period. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200550 | Means and circuit to shorten the optical response time of liquid crystal displays - A liquid crystal display with a plurality of picture elements arranged in a matrix of rows and columns has a voltage signal applied sequentially to the signal lines such that a first TFT at each pixel in a row is made conductive and driving voltages are applied to the data lines such that enlarged voltages V | 2012-08-09 |
20120200551 | DRIVING METHOD FOR REDUCING IMAGE STICKING - A driving method with reducing image sticking effect is disclosed. The driving method includes applying a voltage on the data lines for trapping impurities crossing the data lines and lowering the degree of the image sticking effect, and applying different asymmetric waveforms to different data lines for trapping impurities crossing the data lines and lowering the degree of the image sticking effect. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200552 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates facing each other, a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, first and second thin film transistors on the first substrate, and first and second pixel electrodes connected to the first and second thin film transistors, respectively, on the first substrate. A transverse center line bisects the first and second pixel electrodes into upper and lower portions. The first and second pixel electrodes include a plurality of branches which alternate. First and second regions include first and second intervals between adjacent branches of the first and second pixel electrodes, respectively, the first interval being larger then the second interval. At least one of the branches includes a first portion forming a first angle with the transverse center line, and a second portion forming a second angle with the transverse center line different from the first angle. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200553 | MULTIPLE POLARITY INVERSION DRIVING METHOD AND DISPLAY DRIVER, TIMING CONTROLLER, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A multiple polarity inversion driving method is provided, capable of being operated in a number of inversion schemes, and being flexibly adjusted in accordance with different design requirements and application conditions. The driving method includes providing display data in accordance with an inversion switching time unit as a repeated time unit. The inversion switching time unit has a number of different types of polarity distribution pattern intervals. Additionally, the display data provided to the different types of polarity distribution pattern intervals respectively have different types of polarity distribution patterns on the display. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200554 | ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING AN ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of driving an electrophoretic display device displays an image during an image frame divided into a plurality of sub-frames. Sub-frame periods of the plurality of sub-frames are determined based on a predetermined resolution of the image. The plurality of sub-frames have sub-frame periods that differ from one another. A plurality of unit pixels are initialized by applying a common voltage to a common electrode and by applying a first voltage to a plurality of pixel electrodes. Each pixel electrode corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of unit pixels. Gray levels of the plurality of unit pixels are controlled by selectively applying one of the common voltage and a second voltage to each pixel electrode during each sub-frame. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200555 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - An organic electroluminescence display has a bottom emission structure in which a white organic electroluminescence element adapted to emit white light is formed, pixel by pixel, on a substrate, and in which light emitted by the white organic electroluminescence element is extracted from a rear side of the substrate. The organic electroluminescence display includes: a color filter used in combination with the white organic electroluminescence element to extract light of different colors; and metal interconnects formed, pixel by pixel, in such a manner as to surround a light-emitting section of the white organic electroluminescence element and the color filter. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200556 | ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTROOPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - In writing performed at a start pulse DY | 2012-08-09 |
20120200557 | Display Module - A display module including a substrate having a plurality of pixels, a data line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line, and a gate driving circuit thereon. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and each of the plurality of pixels include a light emitting device, a first thin film transistor connected to the data line that supplies the data signal, a second thin film transistor connected to the current supply line, and a capacitor. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer connected to the second thin film transistor, an organic layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200558 | LCD DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to eliminate luminance unevenness due to gradation variation occurring in a plane of a division driven LCD panel. An LCD device ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200559 | GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT AND METHOD FOR DECOMPRESSING DATA - A graphic processing unit (GPU) and method for decompressing compressed 3-dimensional (3D) compressed data. The GPU may extract segment information by analyzing a compressed data header and decompress segments included in a bit stream based on the segment information. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200560 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A three-dimensional medical image is obtained, and displayed on a display screen. An input position by a user on the display screen and an input operation by the user are received. If the received input position is located in a center region of the display screen, rotation processing is performed on the three-dimensional medical image based on the received input operation. If the received input position is located in a region other than the center region, region specification processing is performed on the displayed three-dimensional medical image based on the received input operation. The region specification processing specifies a closed curve on the display screen based on the received input operation, and deletes a part of the three-dimensional medical image, and the part being an inside or an outside of a cylinder extending from the specified closed curve toward the depth direction of the display screen. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200561 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a display apparatus including a display configured to display an image in accordance with data for a three dimensional image, a filter configured to receive the displayed image from the display and to transform the displayed image to a stereoscopic image while the displayed image transmitting through the filter, where the filter is operable to be set to be attachable to and detachable from the display, and a detector configured to detect whether the filter is set to the display or not. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200562 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic image display apparatus according an embodiment includes: an elemental image display unit having a display face in which pixels having sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix form, the display face being divided into a plurality of elemental images for display; and an optical plate provided on a viewer side of the elemental image display unit, the optical plate having a plurality of lenses arranged periodically with respect to the display face to be respectively associated with the plurality of elemental images, each of the lenses controlling light rays from the pixels which display an associated elemental image. In each lens, the sub-pixels which display an elemental image associated with the lens differing in isolation degree between adjacent sub-pixels depending upon whether a location is in a central portion of the lens or in a peripheral portion of the lens. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200563 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING SPATIAL DISTORTION IN 3D IMAGING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for characterizing spatial distortions in location data determined by an imaging system, for example as employed in imaged guided therapy. A three dimensional phantom is custom formed for a desired imaging space of a given imaging system. The phantom includes a large plurality of control points fixed rigidly in space to a high degree of known accuracy. The phantom is fixed to a stereotactic frame defining a known calibrated reference or zero and imaged. An algorithm customized for the phantom determines the spatial locations of the control points. A comparison is made between the known and the determined spatial locations for at least a subset of the control points. The comparison results in indicia for any determined spatial distortions observed. The raw image data can be manipulated to compensate for any spatial distortion. The control points can have fixed locations known to an accuracy of 100.mu. or better. The algorithm can determine an initial estimate for the detected location of a control point accurate to .+−.0.5 pixel or better. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200564 | PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVE METHOD, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - A high-quality stereoscopic image is displayed by suppressing crosstalk between an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye and stabilizing an address discharge. For this purpose, in the method for driving the plasma display apparatus, an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye are alternately displayed on the plasma display panel by alternately repeating a field for the right eye and a field for the left eye. In each of the field for the right eye and the field for the left eye, the subfield having the smallest luminance weight is placed first, the subfield having the largest luminance weight is placed next, and the other subfields are placed thereafter so as to have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200565 | 3D-IMAGE-DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, 3D-IMAGE-DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, 3D-IMAGE-DATA RECEPTION DEVICE, AND 3D-IMAGE-DATA RECEPTION METHOD - To facilitate a processing in the receiving side. A subtitle processing unit | 2012-08-09 |
20120200566 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESH REFINEMENT - A method for generating and refining meshes for a three-dimensional domain. The method includes generating a initial Delaunay mesh; identifying selection balls whose radius-edge ratio is greater than an upper bound value; and refining the generated Delaunay mesh by inserting points within the selection balls to reduce the radius-edge ratios of all tetrahedral in the mesh below a given upper bound value. Selection balls include one-dimensional selection balls, two-dimensional selection balls, and three-dimensional selection balls. The selection balls of a lower dimension are refined before the selection balls of a higher dimension are refined. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 3D DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS OF DISPARATE DATA - The system provides a method and apparatus for sorting and displaying collections of communications. These communications can be a single type or multiple types of data and may come from email systems, bulletin boards, text messages, Facebook and Twitter postings and comments, financial transactions, travel itineraries or any other type of communications. The communications represented by the system can be electronic or physical as desired. The system can also present forwarded, copied, replied, or other types of communications. In one embodiment, the system provides a Universe View of a set of communications. The Universe View, in one embodiment, is a three dimensional representation of a plurality of cubes. Each cube represents a subset of a collection of communications. Each cube can be color coded or shaded to represent a dominant theme of the contents of the communications represented by the cube. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200568 | LIGHTWEIGHT THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - A computer-implemented imaging process method includes generating a progression of images of a three-dimensional model and saving the images at a determined location, generating mark-up code for displaying image manipulation controls and for permitting display of the progression of images in response to user interaction with the image manipulation controls, and providing the images and mark-up code for use by a third-party application. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200569 | Micropolygon Splatting - Micropolygon splatting may involve tessellating by subdividing a mesh until triangle edges are shorter than 0.75 pixels. In some cases, rasterizing the primitive may be avoided. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200570 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Based on the refractive property and/or reflectance property of an object, it is determined which one of light, spectra, and channels is to be used as a target for tracing by the ray-tracing method. A pixel value of image data representing the object is determined by tracing at least one entity of the determined target for tracing from a view point in the virtual three-dimensional space to a light source. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200571 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING DISPLAYED IMAGE INFORMATION OF A MOBILE MEDIA DEVICE ON A LARGE DISPLAY AND CONTROL OF THE MOBILE MEDIA DEVICE THEREFROM - Systems and methods are operable to concurrently present images on a small display of a mobile media device and a large display of a media presentation system. An exemplary method receives emulated information from a mobile media device, wherein the emulated information corresponds to at least one image that is being currently presented on a display of the mobile media device; generates at least one image based upon the received emulated information, wherein the at least one image is configured for presentation on a display of a media system; and communicates the at least one image to a display of the media system. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially the same image presented on the display of the mobile media device. The image presented on the display of the media system is substantially larger than the image presented on the display of the mobile media device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200572 | TARGET SELECTION APPARATUS THAT DETECTS TARGET, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A target selection apparatus capable of quickly carrying out selection processing when selecting a desired target according to a target detection result and carrying out image processing on the target. An image corresponding to image data is displayed on a display unit. A drawing line is drawn on the image displayed on the display unit. A target included in the image data is selected based on the drawing line. In response to the drawing line becoming a closed curve, the selected target is determined. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200573 | E-READER WITH LOCKED AND UNLOCKED CONTENT AND READER TRACKING CAPABILITY - A system and method for enhancing the reading experience of an e-book is disclosed. The system comprises an application program configured for installation to an electronic device, a plurality of markup tags to display information stored in the e-book, the system adaptable to create at least one page of the e-book dynamically and to compile the at least one page at run-time. The plurality of markup tags indicates a triggering event or for the system to unlock information stored in the e-book. The processing engine records the progress of a user through the e-book and the user's interactions with the plurality of markup tags. The system and method enable a publisher to quickly, easily, and inexpensively enhance a user's experience of an e-book. The process of adding markup tags to an existing e-book allows a publisher to add additional content and interactive features to an e-book without expensive and time consuming processes, and without reformatting the entire e-book. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200574 | TRAINING FOR SUBSTITUTING TOUCH GESTURES FOR GUI OR HARDWARE KEYS TO CONTROL AUDIO VIDEO PLAY - A user can toggle between GUI input and touch screen input with the GUI hidden using touch gestures correlated to respective hidden GUI elements and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto. When in the GUI input mode, an animated hand can be presented on the display moving through the touch gesture corresponding to a selected GUI element to train the user on which touch gestures correspond to which GUI elements (and, thus, to respective commands for a TV and/or disk player sending AV data thereto.) | 2012-08-09 |
20120200575 | PIXEL BLOCK COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - Compression of a pixel block having multiple pixels comprises calculating a respective prediction error for each pixel component of the pixels except a defined starting pixel. Respective minimum number of symbols required for representing the prediction errors are determined and used to select a symbol configuration among multiple different symbol configurations. Each such symbol configuration defines respective numbers of symbols maximally available for the different prediction errors. A compressed representation of the pixel block comprises a configuration identifier of the selected symbol configuration, a representation of the pixel value of the defined starting pixel and representations of the prediction errors calculated for the remaining pixels. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200576 | Preemptive context switching of processes on ac accelerated processing device (APD) based on time quanta - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for preemptive context-switching of processes on an accelerated processing device are based upon a comparison of the running time of the process and a threshold time quanta. A method includes preempting a process running on an accelerated processing device based upon a running time of the process and a threshold time quanta. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200577 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An image processing method includes: calculating a first index value through back matching between a first image and a second image in relation to a first pixel which is one or a plurality of pixels of the first image and a second pixel which is one or a plurality of pixels located at a position corresponding to the first pixel in the second image; calculating a second index value by normalizing a correlation index value indicating correlation between the first pixel and the second pixel using a complexity index value indicating complexity of an image which is displayed by the first pixel; and calculating a third index value by multiplying the first index value by the second index value. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200578 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image processing apparatus for using one of a device link profile and a set of a source profile and an output profile includes a first selection unit for selecting a set of a source profile and an output profile and second selection unit for selecting a device link profile. In the image processing apparatus, the device link profile and the set of a source profile and an output profile are exclusively selected such that only one of the device link profile and the set of a source profile and an output profile is selected at a time. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200579 | Process Device Context Switching - Methods, systems, and computer readable media embodiments are disclosed for preemptive context-switching of processes running on an accelerated processing device. A method includes, responsive to an exception upon access to a memory by a process running on a accelerated processing device, whether to preempt the process based on the exception, and preempting, based upon the determining, the process from running on the accelerated processing device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200580 | SYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL PIXEL PROCESSING FOR SCALABLE COLOR REPRODUCTION SYSTEMS - What is disclosed is a novel system and method for parallel processing of intra-image data in a distributed computing environment. A generic architecture and method are presented which collectively facilitate image segmentation and block sorting and merging operations with a certain level of synchronization in a parallel image processing environment which has been traditionally difficult to parallelize. The present system and method enables pixel-level processing at higher speeds thus making it a viable service for a print/copy job document reproduction environment. The teachings hereof have been simulated on a cloud-based computing environment with a demonstrable increase of ≈2× with nominal 8-way parallelism, and an increase of ≈20×-100× on a graphics processor. In addition to production and office scenarios where intra-image processing are likely to be performed, these teachings are applicable to other domains where high-speed video and audio processing are desirable. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200581 | FPGA PACKET PROCESSING ENGINE - A graphic processor device is implemented on a field programmable gate array (“FPGA”) circuitry comprises a pipeline formatter that sets graphic commands and vertex data into structures, and a rasterizer that interpolates between vertices in the vertex data to generate lines and filling between at least one edge to generate a structure, wherein output of the rasterizer is a stream of fragments that become pixels. The graphic processor device further includes a frame buffer that receives a stream of fragments and blends a plurality of fragments before the plurality of fragments are stored in a frame buffer, and an output processor configured to retrieve a plurality of fragments from the frame buffer and transmits a plurality of pixels according to a predefined resolution. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200582 | RASTERIZER PACKET GENERATOR FOR USE IN GRAPHICS PROCESSOR - A rasterizer in a graphic processor device implemented on a field programmable gate array circuitry (FPGA). The rasterizer comprises a preprocessor that creates data packets to generate at least one line, a main module that generates a stream of data fragments that become pixels, and a postprocessor that combines the data fragments and pipeline commands into one output to a fragment processor. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200583 | Centralised interactive graphical application server - This invention relates to a method of processing a plurality of graphical programs on a centralized computer system whereby the images produced by the programs are compressed and transmitted to remote processing devices where they are decompressed. Compression assistance data (CAD) is produced by inspecting instructions outputted by the programs and the CAD is then used in the compression step. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200584 | Edge Management Unit For 2-Dimension Vector Graphics, Graphic Processing Apparatus And Method Thereof - Disclosed is an edge management unit of accessing a memory including a first memory area and a second memory area. The edge management unit comprises an edge write controller writing bucket information corresponding to input edge data in the first memory area and the edge data at a location of the second memory area appointed by the bucket information; and an edge read controller responding to a scan line signal to read the bucket information from the first memory area and the edge data from a location of the second memory area appointed by the read bucket information. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200585 | TECHNIQUE TO SHARE INFORMATION AMONG DIFFERENT CACHE COHERENCY DOMAINS - A technique to enable information sharing among agents within different cache coherency domains. In one embodiment, a graphics device may use one or more caches used by one or more processing cores to store or read information, which may be accessed by one or more processing cores in a manner that does not affect programming and coherency rules pertaining to the graphics device. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION-BASED USER INTERFACE FEATURES ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system and method for operating a mobile computing device is disclosed. Each of a plurality of applications that are stored or installed in the mobile computing device is associated with a corresponding design scheme. A user interface feature is displayed on the display of the mobile computing device. The user interface feature is present independent of the operation of the plurality of applications. A change in the state of an application is detected and the appearance of the user interface feature is affected based on the design scheme associated with the application that is changed in state. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200587 | Method and Apparatus For Content-Based Reduction of Display Power - Methods and devices for displaying content in a power efficient manner are disclosed. In accordance with many embodiments, content is received that includes a plurality of subcomponents, and a subcomponent with a larger surface is darkened so as to generate at least one darkened subcomponent. In addition, a contrast of selected ones of the subcomponents is adjusted so as to enable the selected ones of the subcomponents to be viewed against the darkened subcomponent while others of the plurality of subcomponents are left in their source format. The at least one darkened subcomponent, selected ones of the subcomponents, and the subcomponents that are in their source format are composited into a composite view; and displayed. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200588 | AUTOMATIC CORRECTION OF KEYSTONE DISTORTION AND OTHER UNWANTED ARTIFACTS IN PROJECTED IMAGES - A system for manual or automatic correction of geometric or video image distortions introduced by projection onto obliquely angled or imperfect surfaces. Sensors may be disposed at the projector itself, at the projected image surface, or in a portable remote-control unit. Corrections may be applied as part of an original set-up process, or dynamically as the configuration changes. Image-stabilization techniques are utilized where applicable, as is the use of test patterns and the incorporation of “helper” signals into the video image. Tactile-sensing capabilities provide an interactive environment, and various packaging configurations for projection units and sensor provisions are disclosed. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BRIGHTNESS-CONTROLLING IMAGE CONVERSION - A method and an apparatus for brightness-controlling image conversion. The method includes converting an input image of a first non-linear color space into a second linear color space; determining a brightness control ratio; adjusting channels of the second linear color space according to the brightness control ratio; converting the second linear color space into the first non-linear color space to form an output image. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200590 | Determining a layout of graphic objects according to a layout density map - A method performed by a physical computing system for determining a layout of graphic objects ( | 2012-08-09 |
20120200591 | METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - Provided are a method of generating a resulting image as if drawn by an artist and an apparatus for executing the method. The apparatus includes a first generation unit configured to generate a vector field expressing a shape of an image using feature pixels of the image captured by an image device and direction information of the feature pixels, a second generation unit configured to generate a structure grid indicating a structure for rendering the shape of the image using the vector field, and a rendering unit configured to render primitives expressing predetermined tones on the generated structure grid. Accordingly, it is possible to automatically and rapidly generate a resulting image from one image. Anyone can easily generate a hedcut from one photo without the limitation that a limited number of artists need to invest a great deal of time to complete one hedcut. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200592 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - A control device that controls an image display device that forms an image on the basis of an image signal includes: an acquiring unit that acquires, from the image display device, individual information for specifying a control form of the image display device connected to the control device; and a control unit that controls the image display device on the basis of the acquired individual information. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200593 | Resolution Management for Multi-View Display Technologies - Embodiments of the invention relate to multiview displays. Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving input parameters, evaluating the input parameters to determine resolution settings within the display constraints, and outputting the resolution settings to the multiview display to control display of image data. The resolution settings include color, temporal, spatial and view resolutions. The input parameters include viewer tracking information and content information associated with the image data. Some embodiments provide for determination of view resolution and/or power settings for the display based on viewer tracking information. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200594 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display control method includes generating thumbnail images to be displayed on a display unit; displaying the thumbnail images generated in the generating on the display unit; removing a residual image present on the display unit before removing the thumbnail images displayed on the display unit or reducing a display region of the thumbnail images. | 2012-08-09 |
20120200595 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING SIGHT - A method of augmenting sight in an individual. The method comprises obtaining an image of a scene using a camera carried by the individual; transmitting the obtained image to a processor carried by the individual; selecting an image modification to be applied to the image by the processor; operating upon the image to create a modified image using either analog or digital imaging techniques, and displaying the modified image on a display device worn by the individual. The invention also relates to an apparatus augmenting sight in an individual. The apparatus comprises a camera, carried by the individual, for obtaining an image of a scene viewed by the individual; a display carried by the individual; an image modification input device carried by the individual; and a processor, carried by the individual. The processor modifies the image and displays the modified image on the display carried by the individual. | 2012-08-09 |