13th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120075229 | TOUCH SCREEN, RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND SYSTEM - An exemplary embodiment concerns a touch screen arranged to determine when touched by a user's screen-engagement member and further arranged to identify an identifying characteristic of the engagement member and so as to differentiate between different screen-engagement members and wherein at least one aspect of subsequent operation of the screen is responsive to the identification of the member. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075230 | Coordinate Input Device And Display Apparatus With Coordinate Input Function - According to an embodiment, a coordinate input device includes a translucent substrate, a detection electrode pattern, and an adjustment pattern. The detection electrode pattern includes a plurality of detection electrodes for detecting an input location. The detection electrodes are arranged on or above the translucent substrate in at least one direction. The adjustment pattern is formed between the detection electrodes in a planar view and is electrically insulated from the detection electrodes. The adjustment pattern includes the same material as the detection electrodes. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075231 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A UI, AND DISPLAY DEVICE ADOPTING SAME - A method for providing a (UI) and a display apparatus to which the method is applied includes displaying an onscreen keyboard on a screen; displaying a plurality of applications on the screen, selecting one of the plurality of applications on the screen as an input target application into which to enter text using the an onscreen keyboard. Consequently, a user may easily use the onscreen keyboard on the screen on which the plurality of applications are simultaneously displayed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075232 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE - A touch-sensitive input device includes a first set of conductors and a second set of conductors. The first set of conductors include a first conductor including a plurality of first fingers extending from a first spine, and a second conductor including a plurality of second fingers extending from a second spine, wherein the first fingers are interleaved with the second fingers. The second set of conductors are separated from the first set of conductors by a dielectric material and include a third conductor including a plurality of third fingers extending from a third spine, and a fourth conductor including a plurality of fourth fingers extending from a fourth spine, wherein the third fingers are interleaved with the fourth fingers. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075233 | DEVICE DISPLAY WITH A TOUCH SENSOR - A device display with a touch sensor includes a housing bezel, a plain clear substrate, and a display panel. The display includes a circuit board having a display aperture, the circuit board disposed between the clear substrate and display panel, and assembled with the housing bezel such that a portion of the display can be viewed through a bezel aperture. Sensor electrodes are disposed around the display aperture of the circuit board. A capacitive touch controller generates an electric field between sensor electrodes such that the electric field extends through and above the clear substrate. The controller can then detect a disturbance in the electric field above the clear substrate within and along a periphery of the bezel aperture. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING ONE OR MORE OBJECTS - A method for detecting one or more objects is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: receiving one or more induction signals caused by at least one object along one or more directions; comparing each received induction signal with a reference to detect at least one upward trend and/or at least one downward trend in the induction signal; and determining the number of objects based on the number of upward trend and/or downward trend in each received induction signal. A device for detecting one or more objects on a touch device is also disclosed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075235 | METHOD OF DETERMINING TOUCH COORDINATE AND TOUCH PANEL ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method of determining a touch coordinate in a touch panel includes detecting a touch cell among a plurality of touch cells, wherein the plurality of touch cells are defined by a plurality of areas in the touch panel in which a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode overlap with each other, detecting a touch position in the detected touch cell based on a first electrical signal measured at least one of a plurality of terminals of the first and second touch electrodes, determining a number of touches based on a distance between a first touch and a second touch, determining expected touch coordinates corresponding to the number of touches, and determining the touch coordinate based on a second electrical signal measured at least one of the plurality of terminals of the first and second touch electrodes and the expected touch coordinates. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075236 | TERMINAL WITH TOUCH SCREEN - Disclosed herein is a terminal with a touch screen, including: a main body part including a display and a first touch screen positioned on the display; a folder part including a second touch screen, and transparent dots protruding from the second touch screen; a hinge part connecting one side of the folder part to the main body part so that the folder part is in a closed state or an open state with respect to the main body part; and a controller selectively operating the first touch screen and the second touch screen, whereby the transparent dots are provided on the second touch screen, thereby making it possible to improve operating feeling to at the time of touching the terminal and accomplishing accurate touch. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075237 | Touch detection function display device and electronic apparatus - A touch detection function display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate that includes a plurality of touch detection electrodes provided in parallel and a terminal portion formed along one substrate side and connected to each of the plurality of touch detection electrodes, a display function layer that is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a seal portion that is provided to surround the display function layer to seal the display function layer between the first substrate and the second substrate and a shield electrode that is provided on the first substrate, the second substrate, or both substrates along the substrate side on which the terminal portion is provided. The shield electrode includes an electrode pattern portion that is selectively formed between the first substrate, the second substrate, or both substrates, and the seal portion. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075238 | Display device with touch detection function and electronic unit - A display device with a touch detection function includes a display function layer, a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a first direction, and a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, electrostatic capacitance being formed at intersections of the touch detection electrodes and the drive electrodes. The plurality of drive electrodes extends to a first position or a second position outside of the first position, the first position being away from a center of an outermost touch detection electrode by a half length of an arrangement pitch of the touch detection electrodes, the outermost touch detection electrode being defined as outermost one of touch detection electrodes included in an effective display region of the display function layer, and an outer edge of the effective display region is located on or inside the first position. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075239 | Touch detector and method of driving the same, display with touch detection function, and electronic unit - A touch detector capable of achieving high position resolution while improving detection sensitivity to a touch is provided. The touch detector includes: a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in one direction; a detection electrode extending in a direction orthogonal to a direction where the drive electrodes extend, and arranged to form a capacitance at each of intersections with the drive electrodes; and a scanning drive section sequentially selecting a predetermined plural number of target electrodes from the plurality of drive electrodes in a time-divisional manner, and applying a touch detection drive signal with a plurality of pulse waveforms for detecting an external adjacent object to the selected target electrodes to perform a scanning drive. A scanning pitch in the scanning drive is smaller than the total width of the plural number of selected target electrodes. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075240 | Display unit with touch detection function and electronic unit - A display unit with touch detection function includes a plurality of pixel signal lines each transmitting a pixel signal for display; a pixel signal line drive section applying the pixel signal to each of the pixel signal lines; display elements each performing display based on the pixel signal; touch detection electrodes each outputting a detection signal based on a change in capacitance occurring due to an external proximity object; and a touch detection section detecting, in a touch detection period, a touch event based on the detection signal, the touch detection period being different from a display period for the display elements to perform display operation. The pixel signal line drive section maintains a voltage of each of the pixel signal lines at a certain level during the touch detection period. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075241 | Interface Apparatus And Methods - Input devices are provided. In accordance with an example embodiment, an input device includes an interface layer that flexes in response to pressure, a plurality of sense electrodes, a dielectric between the sense electrodes and the interface layer, and interconnecting circuitry. The dielectric compresses or expands in response to movement of the interface layer, and exhibits dielectric characteristics that vary based upon a state of compression of the dielectric. The interconnecting circuitry is to the sense electrodes and provides an output indicative of both the position of each sense electrode and an electric characteristic at each sense electrode that provides an indication of pressure applied to the dielectric adjacent the respective sense electrodes. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075242 | CAPACITANCE SENSING ELECTRODE WITH INTEGRATED I/O MECHANISM - A touch sensing device is disclosed. The touch sensing device includes one or more multifunctional nodes each of which represents a single touch pixel. Each multifunctional node includes a touch sensor with one or more integrated I/O mechanisms. The touch sensor and integrated I/O mechanisms share the same communication lines and I/O pins of a controller during operation of the touch sensing device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075243 | Display Device - A touch panel of capacitance type includes plural X-electrodes, plural Y-electrodes, and a Z-electrode. Each of the X-electrode and the Y-electrode is formed to have pad portions and thin line portions alternately arranged in an extending direction. The pad portion of the X-electrode and the pad portion of the Y-electrode are arranged without being overlapped in a planar view. The Z-electrode is electrically in a floating state, and formed to be overlapped with both the adjacent X-electrode and the Y-electrode in a planar view. The touched position is calculated based on a local minimal point as an intersection with the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or smaller than each of the interelectrode capacitance values of four peripheral intersections among those at the intersections between the plural X-electrodes and the plural Y-electrodes. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075244 | TOUCH SCREEN AND ADDRESSING METHOD THEREOF - The disclosed technology provides a touch screen, comprising a touch screen body, comprising a plurality of first channels extending in first direction and a plurality of second channels extending in second direction; and an interface device provided with a plurality of I/O ports, wherein at least two first channels of the touch screen body spaced apart with first predetermined distance are connected electrically to a parallel connection node so as to form a first channel group, and the parallel connection node is connected electrically to one I/O port, and wherein the first predetermined distance is a predetermined length of a touching region in the first direction. An addressing method for the touch screen is also provided. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075245 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CAPACITIVE POSITION DETECTION - The method and device for capacitive position detection are disclosed. The touch related sensors within a sensing device with a plurality of sensors are detected first. Therefore at least a range of the mutual capacitance detection for detecting sensing information can be determined according to the touch related sensors. The sensing information within the range of the mutual capacitance detection can be used for generating a two-dimension sensing information. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075246 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING POSITIONS - A method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. In sensing information, at least one position is determined according to a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information. The sensing information also has a touch related sensing information with a second characteristic, which is opposite to the first characteristic. The touch related sensing information with the second characteristic is neglected or filtered. In addition, another method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. An AC signal is provided through a pen, and a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information corresponding to a finger is opposite to the second characteristic of the touch related sensing information corresponding to the pen. The first characteristic and the second characteristic can be used to distinguish the touch of the finger from the touch of the pen or for palm rejection. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075247 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING POSITIONS - A method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. In sensing information, at least one position is determined according to a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information. The sensing information also has a touch related sensing information with a second characteristic, which is opposite to the first characteristic. The touch related sensing information with the second characteristic is neglected or filtered. In addition, another method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. An AC signal is provided through a pen, and a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information corresponding to a finger is opposite to the second characteristic of the touch related sensing information corresponding to the pen. The first characteristic and the second characteristic can be used to distinguish the touch of the finger from the touch of the pen or for palm rejection. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075248 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING POSITIONS - A method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. In sensing information, at least one position is determined according to a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information. The sensing information also has a touch related sensing information with a second characteristic, which is opposite to the first characteristic. The touch related sensing information with the second characteristic is neglected or filtered. In addition, another method and device for analyzing positions are disclosed. An AC signal is provided through a pen, and a first characteristic of a touch related sensing information corresponding to a finger is opposite to the second characteristic of the touch related sensing information corresponding to the pen. The first characteristic and the second characteristic can be used to distinguish the touch of the finger from the touch of the pen or for palm rejection. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075249 | PROXIMITY SENSING FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - A method and apparatus for operating an input device having an array of capacitive sensor electrodes and a proximity sensor electrode are disclosed herein. The input device includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the array of capacitive sensor electrodes and the proximity sensor electrode and configured to operate in an input mode and a proximity mode. When operating in the input mode, the processing system scans the array of capacitive sensor electrodes to detect input from an object in an active region of the input device. When operating in the proximity mode, the processing system drives a sensing signal on at least one sensor electrode of the array of capacitive sensor electrodes and receives a resulting signal from the proximity sensor electrode. Based on the resulting signal, the processing system generates an indication of an object presence in a second sensing region from the resulting signal. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075250 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING TWO-DIMENSION SENSING INFORMATION - The method and device for analyzing two-dimension sensing information are disclosed. The two-dimension (2D) sensing information is analyzed for determining touch related sensing information. The touch related sensing information may include touch related sensing information with inner low values within outer high values and with inner higher values within outer low values. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075251 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device. In each pixel circuit, a pixel electrode is connected to a source line via a third transistor. When a refreshing circuit performs a refreshing operation, a boosting signal line is supplied with a voltage pulse. If the pixel electrode is at a high voltage level at this time point, a voltage at a node is boosted and a first transistor turns ON to supply a refreshing voltage to the pixel electrode. If the pixel electrode is at a low voltage level, there is no boost, and the first transistor stays in OFF state, so a node assumes a voltage which is given by an off-resistance ratio of the first and the third transistors, and this voltage is supplied to the pixel electrode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075252 | RUGGEDIZED DISPLAY DEVICE - A ruggedized display device is disclosed. The ruggedized display device may include an optical stack configured to resist a load up to a load threshold. The optical stack may include an electronic display including a top surface and a bottom surface, and a top protective component coupled to the top surface of the electronic display via a bonding material layer, to shield the electronic display. The top protective component and the bonding material layer may collectively have a first thickness of less than 1.0 millimeters. The optical stack may further include a bottom protective component, coupled to the bottom surface via a resiliently deformable adhesive layer, to support the electronic display from below. The bottom protective component and the adhesive layer may collectively have a second thickness less than 10.0 millimeters. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075253 | OPTICAL TOUCH SYSTEM AND OBJECT DETECTION METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075254 | Touch System Having An Uninterrupted Light Source - According to the invention, an optical position sensing system is disclosed. The system may include a surface having a perimeter and a plurality of position sensing components. Each position sensing component may be located at a different point on the perimeter and include an optical sensor, a primary radiation source, and a supplemental radiation source. The supplemental radiation source may include retroreflective material or a discrete radiation source. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075255 | MOUSE WITH OPTICAL SENSING SURFACE - A touch-sensitive device is disclosed having a touch-sensitive surface that includes first and second touch-sensitive areas. A force feedback unit can be coupled to the second touch-sensitive area to provide force feedback at the second touch-sensitive area in response to a touch input detected at the second touch-sensitive area. In some embodiments, the first touch-sensitive area can be the surface of a mouse, and the second touch-sensitive area can be a member protruding from the surface of the mouse. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075256 | Touch Sensing Using Shadow and Reflective Modes - A touch panel is described which uses at least one infrared source and an array of infrared sensors to detect objects which are in contact with, or close to, the touchable surface of the panel. The panel may be operated in both reflective and shadow modes, in arbitrary per-pixel combinations which change over time. For example, if the level of ambient infrared is detected and if that level exceeds a threshold, shadow mode is used for detection of touch events over some or all of the display. If the threshold is not exceeded, reflective mode is used to detect touch events. The touch panel includes an infrared source and an array of infrared sensors. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075257 | Touch Screen Panel - A touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate. A plurality of first and second sensing cells are formed so as to be connected along first and second directions, respectively. The second sensing cells are disposed between the first sensing cells. A plurality of first and second connection patterns connect the first and second sensing cells to one another along the first and second directions, respectively. A first insulating layer is interposed between the first second connection patterns. In the touch screen panel, each of the first connection patterns includes a main bridge pattern separately patterned in a different layer from the first sensing cells connected by the main bridge pattern to connect adjacent first sensing cells to other along the first direction, and one or more sub-bridge patterns which branch from the main bridge pattern, and which have both ends connected to the main bridge pattern so as to form a detour path. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075258 | HANDWRITING PEN - A handwriting pen is disclosed. The handwriting pen comprises of a pen barrel | 2012-03-29 |
20120075259 | Scan Driver and Driving Method Thereof - A scan driver comprises a plurality of scan driving blocks which include a sequential input terminal, a first clock signal input terminal, a second clock signal input terminal, an inverse-output input terminal, and a signal output terminal. The scan driving blocks each include: a first block for receiving a frame start signal or an output signal of an adjacent scan driving block through the sequential input terminal, for receiving a first clock signal through the first clock signal input terminal, for receiving a second clock signal having an inverse-phase voltage level of the first clock signal through the second clock signal input terminal so as to output a first output signal to the signal output terminal; and a second block for receiving the first output signal through the sequential input terminal, for receiving the second clock signal through the first clock signal input terminal, and for receiving the first clock signal through the second clock signal input terminal so as to output a second output signal to the signal output terminal. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075260 | ACTIVE-MATRIX ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME - According to one embodiment, an active-matrix organic EL display device includes a display region and a peripheral region. The display region includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix configuration. The peripheral region includes a drive circuit. The pixel includes a bottom gate-type first transistor, a cathode electrode, an anode electrode, and an organic EL layer provided between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode. The drive circuit includes a bottom gate-type second transistor and a back gate electrode provided on the second transistor. A gate potential of the first transistor is lower than a potential of the cathode electrode when the pixel displays a minimum luminance. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075261 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS - An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus has an improved structure so as to decrease a capacitance load between a power line and a control signal line. The OLED display apparatus includes a first substrate on which a thin film transistor (TFT) and an organic light emitting diode are disposed; a second substrate facing towards and spaced apart from the first substrate; a power line via which a voltage is applied to the source and drain electrodes of the TFT, and to the second electrode of the OLED; and a control signal line providing a control signal to the embedded circuit so as to control timing for supplying current to the gate electrode of the TFT. The control signal line is laid-out at an outer portion of the first substrate with respect to a position of the power line. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075262 | UNDER-RUN COMPENSATION CIRCUIT, METHOD THEREOF, AND APPARATUSES HAVING THE SAME - An under-run compensation circuit is provided. The under-run compensation circuit is configured to receive a clock signal, data, and an under-run detection signal that indicates whether or not an under-run is occurring. The under-run compensation circuit is further configured to output the clock signal and the data when receiving the under-run detection signal that indicates that an under-run is not occurring. The under-run compensation circuit is additionally configured to output the clock signal and dummy data when receiving the under- run detection signal that indicates that an under-run is occurring. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075263 | DRIVING CIRCUIT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A driving circuit and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The driving circuit includes at least one first channel, at least one second channel, a selecting module, and at least one switching module. The selecting module is coupled to input ends of the first channel and the second channel. The at least one switching module is coupled to output ends of the at least one first channel and the at least one second channel. The selecting module and the switching module will perform corresponding switching actions to make the driving circuit selectively under a first operating mode or a second operating mode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075264 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING INTERACTION INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for presenting interactable item information include receiving interaction information relating to one or more interactable items. The methods and apparatus may further include calculating a display rate for displaying the interaction information. The display rate is based upon a number of the interaction information occurring during a time period. The methods and apparatus may also include sending a feed with the interaction information and the display rate for generation on an output mechanism. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075265 | PROJECTION DEVICE, PROJECTION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - A projection device includes a projection unit configured to project a screen, a distance detection unit configured to detect a projection distance of the screen, and a control unit configured to control the amount of information on the screen according to the projection distance detected by the distance detection unit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075266 | HOME MEDICAL APPARATUS - A home medical apparatus can give explanations corresponding to the levels of proficiency in operation when explaining to a patient about operation procedures. A home medical apparatus according to this invention includes a selection unit which selects an explanation mode corresponding to the level of proficiency in operation, a storage unit which stores a plurality of display windows classified to the respective explanation modes upon associating them with each other between adjacent levels, and a display control unit which displays the display windows classified to the selected explanation mode in a predetermined order. When a detailed explanation button is pressed, the display control unit makes transition to a display window classified to an explanation mode one level lower than the current explanation mode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075267 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF ASSOCIATING DATA WITH EACH OTHER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An exemplary embodiment provides an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a display portion having first and second display regions, a first display control unit for displaying a first object showing first data in the first display region, a second display control unit for displaying a second object showing second data in the second display region, an acceptance portion for accepting a series of position indication operations in the second display region, and an association control unit for selecting the second object based on a position indicated by the series of position indication operations within the second display region accepted by the acceptance portion and performing processing for associating the first data with the second data corresponding to the selected second object based on subsequent variation in the indicated position. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075268 | Source Driver, An Image Display Assembly And An Image Display Apparatus - An image display panel assembly includes a flexible printed circuit (FPC), an image display panel, a gate driver integrated circuit (IC) package, and a source driver IC package. The FPC is configured to receive gate and source driving signals. The image display panel is electrically connected to the FPC, and includes a gate driving signal transfer pattern along a first edge of the image display panel, a source driving signal transfer pattern along a second edge adjacent to the first end, and a plurality of pixels. The gate driver integrated circuit (IC) package is configured to receive the gate driving signal through the gate driving signal transfer pattern and provide the gate driving signal to the plurality of pixels. The source driver IC package is configured to receive the source driving signal through the source driving signal transfer pattern and provide the source driving signal to the plurality of pixels. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075269 | INTERFEROMETRIC OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH BROADBAND REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS - An optical device suitable for forming a pixel in a video display. The optical device includes a first layer having a first refractive index; a second layer over the first layer, the second layer having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index; and a third layer over the second layer, the third layer having a third refractive index larger than the second refractive index; and a fourth layer that is at least partially optically absorptive, wherein the optical stack and the fourth layer are a first distance from one another when the device is in a first state and are a second distance from one another when the device is in a second state, the first distance different from the second distance. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075270 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can reduce the power supply voltage and the power consumption of the liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is a reflective liquid crystal display device having a built-in pixel memory. In a thin film transistor | 2012-03-29 |
20120075271 | FULLY ADDRESSABLE CUT-TO-MEASURE LED ARRAY - A cut-to-measure display device comprising a plurality of pixel groups ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075272 | Display Device - In order to provide a display device with a light workload in repair, a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a source driver for driving the display panel, a timing controller for supplying a timing control signal to the source driver, a memory storing intrinsic correction data for correcting display unevenness generated on a display screen of the display panel, and the memory is provided on a source substrate on which the source driver is provided. It is therefore unnecessary to do work, such as attachment of the memory to a new control substrate, when a repairer replaces the control substrate with new control substrate in repair of the liquid crystal display device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075273 | INDOLO[3,2,1-JK]CARBAZOLE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE CONTAINING THE SAME - There is provided an indolo[3,2,1-jk]carbazole compound having an excellent membrane property, a high T1 energy, and a deep HOMO level. There is also provided an organic light-emitting device that contains the indolo[3,2,1-jk]carbazole compound. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075274 | Display Device And Display Control Method - A display device includes: an LED control section ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075275 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL SHIFT REGISTERS - A display device having bi-directional shift registers is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a first dummy shift register set, a second dummy shift register set, a third dummy shift register sets, a fourth dummy shift register sets, a first valid shift register set coupled between the first dummy shift register set and the second dummy shift register set, a second valid shift register set coupled between the third dummy shift register set and the fourth dummy shift register set, and a first directional circuit coupled to a first valid register in the first valid register set and the third dummy shift register set. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075276 | Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the plasma display apparatus - A plasma display apparatus and method are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel in which first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged adjacently and third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes. The method for driving a plasma display apparatus in which first electrodes and second electrodes are arranged adjacently and third electrodes are arranged to cross the first and second electrodes and in which one field comprises subfields having a reset period followed by an address period and a sustain period includes in a reset period, applying to second electrodes a voltage of a first waveform in which an applied voltage value increases according to a lapse of time and applying to second electrodes a voltage of a second waveform in which an applied voltage value decreases according to a lapse of time. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075277 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an active-matrix type display panel and a signal drive circuit. The active-matrix type display panel includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, pixel electrodes arranged on one of the substrates in rows and columns, switching elements connected to the pixel electrodes, scan lines connected to the switching elements, and signal lines connected to the switching elements. Each signal line extends between two columns of the pixel electrodes, and any two pixel electrodes adjacent in the row direction use one signal line in common. One of two pixel electrodes is connected to an odd-numbered scan line, and the other of two pixel electrodes is connected to an even-numbered scan line. The signal drive circuit supplies display signals to the pixel electrodes through the signal lines, and to invert the display signal in polarity at every two other scan lines. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075278 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY - According to one embodiment, an organic EL display includes a substrate and a pixel. The pixel is disposed on the substrate and includes a first color displaying portion and a second color displaying portion. The first color displaying portion has a first organic light emitting layer. The second color displaying portion has a second organic light emitting layer having an emission spectrum different from an emission spectrum of the first organic light emitting layer. The first color displaying portion has two sub-pixels. One of the two sub-pixels has a color filter. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075279 | LEVEL SHIFTER CIRCUIT, SCANNING LINE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to achieve a scanning line drive device which allows further reduction of circuit scale and production costs. A gate driver ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075280 | Display Driving Circuit and Display Driving Circuit - A display driving circuit includes a timing controller, agate driving circuit, a control unit, a boost converter and a level shifter. The timing controller functions to provide a first start pulse. The level shifter generates a second start pulse by level shifting the first start pulse. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of shift registers coupled in series and is driven by the second start pulse and the level shifter so as to generate gate signals. The control unit uses the second start pulse and a gate signal generated by a kth shift register to switch a high working voltage provided to the level shifter by the boost converter to a suitable range for driving the gate driving circuit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075281 | METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a method of driving a display panel, a voltage of a first polarity with respect to a reference voltage is outputted to an n-th data line and an (n+1)-th data line (ānā is a natural number), respectively, and a voltage of a second polarity with respect to the reference voltage is outputted to an (n+2)-th data line and an (n+3)-th data line, respectively, during an N-th frame (āNā is a natural number). Then, a voltage of the first polarity is outputted to the n-th data line, a voltage of the second polarity is outputted to the (n+1)-th data line and the (n+2)-th data line, respectively, and a voltage of the first polarity is outputted to the (n+3)-th data line, during an (N+1)-th frame. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075282 | DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR DISPLAY PANEL, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In a unit drive circuit in each stage in a shift register, a transistor which is maintained in ON state during a period where the unit drive circuit in the stage does not perform an outputting operation is configured not to generate Vth shift. As switches, transistors T | 2012-03-29 |
20120075283 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL DRIVE METHOD AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - In a driving method for a plasma display panel, in the initializing period in at least one of a plurality of subfields, selective initializing operation is performed that selectively causes initializing discharge only in a discharge cell having undergone address discharge in an immediately preceding address period. The selective initializing operation includes the step of applying first voltage to the sustain electrode and applying an up-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode, the step of applying a first down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode and then applying a positive rectangular voltage to it, and the step of applying second voltage higher than the first voltage to the sustain electrode and applying a second down-ramp waveform voltage to the scan electrode. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075284 | Computer Method and Apparatus for Rotating 2D Cartoons Using 2.5D Cartoon Models - Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and computer program programs that use 2D drawings of a cartoon in different views to automatically construct rotated views of the subject cartoon. Embodiments involve a novel structure, the 2.5D cartoon model, which can generate plausible renderings of the cartoon in any view. Two or more input drawings can be leveraged to construct a 2.5D cartoon model that supports full 3D rotation. Unlike a 3D model, however, renderings produced by a 2.5D cartoon model retain the 2D nature and hand-drawn appearance of the input drawings, and support a wide range of 2D stylizations and shapes that would be impossible with a 3D model. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075285 | STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image taken by a real camera is repeatedly obtained, and position and orientation information determined in accordance with a position and an orientation of a real camera in a real space is repeatedly calculated. A virtual object or a letter to be additionally displayed on the taken image is set as an additional display object, and based on a result of recognition of a sound inputted into a sound input device, at least one selected from the group consisting of a display position, an orientation, and a display form of the additional display object is set. A combined image repeatedly generated by superimposing on the taken image the set additional display object with reference to a position in the taken image in accordance with the position and orientation information is displayed on a display device. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075286 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, SHUTTER GLASSES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display apparatus and a control method thereof, shutter glasses and a method of controlling the same, and a display system having the display apparatus and the shutter glasses. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source unit which generates light that is provide to the display panel to display an image on the display panel, and a controller which controls turning on and off of the light source unit based on a pattern corresponding to first information during a non-display period during which an image frame is not displayed on the display panel so an external device configured to detect light from the light source unit extracts the first information corresponding to a turning on and off pattern of the light source unit. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075287 | Image processing apparatus and method - Provided is an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may perform an intersection test for rendering of a ray tracing scheme. The image processing apparatus may include a first calculator and a second calculator. The first calculator may perform a ray-plane test to determine whether a ray intersects a plane including a primitive and a barycentric test to determine whether the ray intersects the primitive. The second calculator may calculate a hit point based on the ray which intersects the primitive. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075288 | Apparatus and method for back-face culling using frame coherence - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for back-face culling using coherence between chronologically adjacent frames. The apparatus and the method determine whether face properties of polygons are changed based on a matrix reflecting three-dimensional motion of a frame. When the face properties are not changed, face properties of the polygons used in a process of a previous frame are reused to cull back-face polygons. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075289 | 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A 3D image display device includes a display device including a plurality of pixels and displaying each of a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The display device inserts an insertion image between the left-eye image and the right-eye image such that the left-eye image is displayed for part of four frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining frames and the right-eye image is displayed for part of four other frames and the insertion image is displayed for the remaining other frames. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075290 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a 3D image converter and a 3D image generator. The 3D image converter performs conversion processing for converting a 2D image including a plurality of planes that are created with virtual distances into a 3D image on the basis of the virtual distances among the plurality of planes of the 2D images. The 3D image generator generates a 3D image from the two-dimensional image on the basis of the conversion processing performed by the 3D image converter and displays the generated 3D image. When a virtual distance between the corresponding planes of the 2D image is changed while the 3D image is being displayed by use of the 3D image generator, the 3D image converter performs the conversion processing in accordance with a change in the virtual distance. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075291 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE APPLIED TO THE SAME - A display apparatus and a method for processing an image are provided. The image processing method includes: extracting an object from an input image; obtaining depth information of the object from the input image; adjusting a size of the object using the depth information; and alternately outputting a left eye image and a right eye image including the object of which the size is adjusted. Therefore, the size of the object is adjusted using depth information of the input image and thus, a user may enjoy a 3D image having more depth and more stereoscopic sense. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075292 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - It is so arranged that margins will not be produced in an image compositing area. Specifically, a user sets an amount of parallax. A stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area and the stereoscopic image is adjusted to as to take on the set amount of parallax. It is determined whether margins will be produced within the image compositing area owing to the adjustment of amount of parallax. If margins will be produced, the stereoscopic image is enlarged in size to such an extent that margins will not be produced. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075293 | ADJUSTMENT METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY, ADJUSTMENT DEVICE USED THEREFORE, STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USE THEREFORE - In an adjustment method of a stereoscopic display used for stereoscopic display and an adjustment device used therefore, the burden on an observer can be reduced. An adjustment method of a stereoscopic display having a light output unit for a right eye which outputs a light signal for the right eye and a light output unit for a left eye which outputs a light signal for the left eye includes: performing first measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the right eye; performing second measurement for measuring the luminance of the light signal for the left eye; acquiring first and second representative luminance values corresponding to each other by the first and second measurements, respectively; and adjusting an output of the light output unit such that a difference between the first and second representative luminance values falls within a predetermined range. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075294 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING PLURALITY OF DISPLAY PORTIONS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An exemplary apparatus at least partially displays a first object group on a first display portion, selects at least one first object from the first object group in response to an operation of a direction operation portion, changes a selected position in an order of alignment in a second object group in response to an operation of a first or second operation portion, displays at least one object included in the second object group and corresponding to the selected position on a second display portion, adds a new object corresponding to the selected first object at a position corresponding to the selected position in the second object group in response to an operation of a third operation portion, and displays at least one object included in the second object group on the second display portion. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075295 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide an information display device for displaying at least one item of display target information in respective screen element, receiving, while catalog display takes place, an instruction operation which is made utilizing display target information shown in the screen elements displayed as a catalog, and executing a process based on the instruction operation. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075296 | System and Method for Constructing a 3D Scene Model From an Image - A method for constructing one or more 3D scene models comprising 3D objects and representing a scene, based upon a prior 3D scene model and a model of scene changes, is described. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an image of the scene; initializing the computed 3D scene model to the prior 3D scene model; and modifying the computed 3D scene model to be consistent with the image, possibly constructing and modifying alternative 3D scene models. In some embodiments, a single 3D scene model is chosen and is the result; in other embodiments, the result is a set of 3D scene models. In some embodiments, a set of possible prior scene models is considered. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMOOTHING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - A method and system for converting two-dimensional artwork into three-dimensional models. Data relating to an image is imported and segments of the image are chained into contiguous curves. The contiguous curves together may form loops. Subsets of closed loops are split and created where surfaces of the image are to be created. The closed loops are contoured to create contours. The geometries created are projected onto a surface as an image. Finally, the image is smoothed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075298 | Automatic 3D Modeling - An automatic 3D modeling system and method are described in which a 3D model may be generated from a picture or another image. For example, a 3D model for a face of a person may be automatically generated. The system and method also permits gestures/behaviors associated with a 3D model to automatically generated so that the gestures/behaviors may be applied to any 3D models. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075299 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS - A three-dimensional image display method, includes: displaying a three-dimensional image including a left eye image signal and a right eye image signal displayed at a display focus angle; determining whether to change a viewing focus angle with respect to the display focus angle; calculating a pixel distance between the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal if it is determined to change the viewing focus angle; and displaying indicator marks at positions spaced as much as a half of the pixel distance from a center of a screen in leftward and rightward directions. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075300 | RAY TRACING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The ray tracing apparatus for three-dimensional ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075301 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - The invention relates to a device for displaying a three-dimensional image, comprising: a display unit for alternately displaying a left image and a right image on an entire screen; a polarizing unit disposed on a front surface of the display unit, for changing a polarizing direction of incident light by a horizontal line unit; and a polarizing control unit for controlling the polarizing direction of a horizontal line of the polarizing unit to be synchronized with a refresh time of the horizontal line of the display unit corresponding to the horizontal line and changed. Accordingly, by changing the polarizing direction between a left image and a right image in synchronization with screen-refreshing, crosstalk can be minimized when displaying a three-dimensional image and a user satisfaction with three-dimensional images can be increased. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075302 | METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING A 3D MESH MODEL THAT COMPRISES ONE OR MORE COMPONENTS - 3D mesh models are represented by three types of data: connectivity data, geometry data and property data. The surface of a 3D object is a triangle mesh. 3D meshes contain huge amounts of data that need to be compressed efficiently. Additionally to the common world coordinate system for the complete model and local coordinate system for a single triangle, an individual component coordinate system for each connected component is used. The component coordinate system is used to normalize the orientation of the respective component for quantization and de-quantization. This improves the accuracy of encoded 3D mesh models after quantization/de-quantization, particularly if a 3D mesh model comprises one or more distinct components. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075303 | Multi-View Ray Tracing Using Edge Detection and Shader Reuse - A multi-view image may be generated by detecting discontinuities in a radiance function using multi-view silhouette edges. A multi-view silhouette edge is an edge of a triangle that intersects a back tracing plane and, in addition, the triangle faces backwards, as seen from the intersection point, and the edge is not further connected to any back facing triangles. Analytical visibility may be computed between shading points and a camera line and shared shading computations may be reused. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075304 | Backface Culling for Motion Blur and Depth of Field - In order to efficiently backface cull rendering primitives during computer graphics rendering, it is important to be sure that the rendering primitives to be culled are guaranteed to be backfacing even if the primitives are moving or are undergoing defocus blur. Therefore, we derive conservative tests that determine if a moving and defocused triangle is backfacing over an entire time interval and over the area of a lens. In addition, we present tests for the special cases of only motion blur and only depth of field. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075305 | GRAPHIC FOR USE IN DETERMINING A CHARACTERISTIC OF A CONSUMABLE - A graphic may include a consumable and having optically encoded information. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075306 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH ON-SCREEN OPTICAL NAVIGATION - A mobile computing device, including a main body, a processor and associated memory housed within the main body, a display screen housed within the main body and responsive to signals from the processor, an optical sensor fixed to the main body for capturing successive images and providing image signals representative of the captured images to the processor, and a navigation module associated with the processor for determining, based on the image signals, a relative movement between the main body and a reference surface and moving a pointer on the display screen based on the determined relative movement. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075307 | Systems and Methods for Displaying Digitized Waveforms on Pixilated Screens - Systems and methods for displaying digitized waveform data on a pixilated screen are provided. Certain methods include retrieving waveform data that exists as a plurality of sequential samples in a buffer. A first sample is associated with a first point of a pixilated screen. A second sample that follows the first sample is associated with a second point of the screen. A boundary of a rectangular line segment connecting the points is determined. For each pixel of the pixilated screen that has any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment, a number of subpixels within the pixel that have any portion inside the boundary of the rectangular line segment is determined and that number of subpixels is correlated with an intensity value that is then associated with the pixel. Waveform data is displayed by painting pixels of the screen with the associated intensity values. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075308 | CHROMATOGRAPH MASS ANALYSIS DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A chromatograph mass analysis data processing method for obtaining pertinent information on a compound series including a plurality of compounds whose structures and characters are similar. Based on the data obtained by a chromatograph mass analysis, a two-dimensional isointensity line graph is created and displayed with a retention time and a mass-to-charge ratio on the two axes and with a signal intensity represented with a contour. When the operator specifies a desired range, the data contained in the range specified are collected, the signal intensities along the mass-to-charge ratio axis direction are summed up for every retention time to create a summed mass chromatogram based on the summed value. Simultaneously, the signal intensities along the retention time axis direction are summed up for every mass-to-charge ratio to create a summed mass spectrum based on the summed value. These are then displayed on the same screen of the isointensity line graph. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075309 | System And Method For Configuring A Thermal Imaging Instrument - A graphical user interface for configuring parameters associated with a portable infrared imager is provided. The interface can be used to manually or automatically set range and span parameters. The interface can also be used to configure one or more alarms to notify a user that a detected temperature is outside a predetermined range. In some embodiments, a non-linear temperature scale can be displayed. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075310 | ARC SPLINE GPU RASTERIZATION FOR CUBIC BEZIER DRAWING - A curve drawing system is described herein that rasterizes arc splines in the GPU of a computer for cubic Bezier drawing of strokes and thin features. The curve drawing system first converts a cubic Bezier representation into an arc spline representation. Then the curve drawing system uses a similar approach to Loop/Blinn modified to cause the pixel shader to perform a point-in-circular-arc test instead of a point-in-Bezier test. Calculating arc radius is a much simpler operation than the alternatives and can be easily and efficiently performed by the pixel shader. Since the stroke of an arc spline is also an arc spline, the drawing system provides a resolution-independent representation of strokes. Thus, the curve drawing system allows several previously difficult graphical features to be efficiently drawn by readily available legacy hardware and used in software programs that are designed to run on a wide variety of hardware. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075311 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION ON SCREEN - An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel serving as a display apparatus and an input apparatus for accepting a request for performing processing and a control unit for controlling display on the operation panel. The control unit performs determination processing for determining whether a time period required for the processing requested to be performed is predictable or not, provides animation display by continuously displaying two or more windows relating to the processing when it is determined that the time period required for the processing is predictable, and provides pop-up display by displaying one window relating to the processing when it is determined that the time period required for the processing is not predictable. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075312 | Avatars in Social Interactive Television - Virtual environments are presented on displays along with multimedia programs to permit viewers to participate in a social interactive television environment. The virtual environments include avatars that are created and maintained in part using continually updated animation data that may be captured from cameras that monitor viewing areas in a plurality of sites. User input from the viewers may be processed in determining which viewers are presented in instances of the virtual environment. Continually updating the animation data results in avatars accurately depicting a viewer's facial expressions and other characteristics. Presence data may be collected and used to determine when to capture background images from a viewing area that may later be subtracted during the capture of animation data. Speech recognition technology may be employed to provide callouts within a virtual environment. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075313 | INTERFEROMETRIC OPTICAL DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH BROADBAND CHARACTERISTICS - Broad band white color can be achieved in MEMS display devices by incorporating a material having an extinction coefficient (k) below a threshold value for wavelength of light within an operative optical range of the interferometric modulator. One embodiment provides a method of making the MEMS display device comprising depositing said material over at least a portion of a transparent substrate, depositing a dielectric layer over the layer of material, forming a sacrificial layer over the dielectric, depositing an electrically conductive layer on the sacrificial layer, and forming a cavity by removing at least a portion of the sacrificial layer. The suitable material may comprise germanium, germanium alloy of various compositions, doped germanium or doped germanium-containing alloys, and may be deposited over the transparent substrate, incorporated within the transparent substrate or the dielectric layer. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075314 | Prevention of DOS Attack by a Rogue Graphics Application - A mechanism is described for mitigating the effects of such a DoS attack by detecting a multiple TDR situation within a short duration, identifying the errant virtual machines, and suspending all rendering ability for that virtual machine or set of virtual machines. While the disclosed embodiments are described in the context of virtual machines, the principles may be extended to the general problem of DoS attacks due to TDRs and bugchecks on any physical machine that includes a GPU. For example, DoS attacks can be generated from web sites directly using GPU rendering. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075315 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIDEO PROCESSING BASED UPON A PLURALITY OF COMMANDS, AND ASSOCIATED VIDEO PROCESSING CIRCUIT - A method for performing video processing based upon a plurality of commands is provided, where the method is applied to a video processing circuit. The method includes: grouping the commands into command chains, wherein the command chains have respective dependence relationships; and utilizing a plurality of hardware modules of the video processing circuit to execute the command chains, respectively. For example, at a time when the commands are grouped into the command chains, each command of one of the command chains is independent of any command of another of the command chains. In particular, the command chains include a first command chain and a second command chain, where the commands of the first command chain have a first dependence relationship, and the commands of the second command chain have a second dependence relationship. An associated video processing circuit is also provided. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPILING AND EXECUTING AN APPLICATION USING VIRTUALIZATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for compiling and executing an application including Central Processing Unit (CPU) source code and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) source code. The apparatus includes a hardware device including a CPU and a GPU; a compiler that compiles the GPU source code into a GPU virtual instruction; and a hybrid virtualization block that executes an execution file by translating the GPU virtual instruction into GPU machine code. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075317 | Sharing a graphical processing unit between a plurality of programs - A centralised server in a bank ( | 2012-03-29 |
20120075318 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING IMAGE DATA - For providing a display device and a method for transferring an image data, shortening process time required to transfer image data without greater processing capacity, the CPU | 2012-03-29 |
20120075319 | Hierarchical Memory Addressing - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for addressing data in a hierarchical graphics processing unit cluster. A hierarchical address is constructed based on the location of a storage circuit where a target unit of data resides. The hierarchical address comprises a level field indicating a hierarchical level for the unit of data and a node identifier that indicates which GPU within the GPU cluster currently stores the unit of data. The hierarchical address may further comprise one or more identifiers that indicate which storage circuit in a particular hierarchical level currently stores the unit of data. The hierarchical address is constructed and interpreted based on the level field. The technique advantageously enables programs executing within the GPU cluster to efficiently access data residing in other GPUs using the hierarchical address. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075320 | DEFECT MAPPING FOR A DIGITAL DISPLAY - A digital display with image data storage memory that minimizes the impact of defective memory cells by remapping stored image data. Memory defects may be detected by automatic or visual testing. The digital display may perform a mapping process such that image data placed in the location of the defective storage cells is based on the significance of the data, both by bit and by color. The mapping process may operate on addressed rows of memory cells of the digital display. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075321 | MONITORING GRAPHICS PROCESSING - A graphics processing apparatus is provided with rendering circuitry which separately renders different areas of a frame of pixel values. Monitoring circuitry coupled to the rendering circuitry captures for each area rendered one or more parameters and stores these parameters to a parameter memory. A performance frame can be generated from the captured and stored parameters with performance-representing pixel values for each area within the performance frame corresponding to an area within the image frame and having a visual characteristic selected in dependence upon the performance parameter which was captured. The visual characteristic may be a grey-scale value, a pixel intensity or a pixel colour. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075322 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS - A method of automatically analyzing data from at least one data set including a plurality of process factors of interest and a process output of interest to determine the relationship between the factors of interest and the output of interest at a given significance level and preserving model hierarchy. The method uses a computer to carry out the steps of calculating the effects of the factors of interest against the process output of interest, developing a model including the significant factors of interest and respective estimated coefficients and omitting the insignificant factors of interest, generating a representation of the model, and generating at least one graphical representation of the factors of interest. The graphical representation provides a first representation corresponding to factors of interest identified as significant and a second representation corresponding to factors of interest identified as insignificant. Calculating the effects includes calculating at least one of an analysis of variance test testing the significance of the individual effect of each factor of interest, coefficients and effect estimates for each factor of interest, and model comparison statistics, and identifying the factors of interest having significant effects relative to the given significance level and model hierarchy. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075323 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND PROCESSING GRAPHIC DATA - A method and apparatus for generating graphic data. The method includes: forming pixel information expressing graphic data in luminance components and chrominance components; and generating the graphic data by selectively using a direct output method and a table mapping method on pixel data according to determined conditions of the chrominance components. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075324 | IMPROVED DATA VISUALIZATION METHODS - A method of creating a graphical representation of data points in the form of a heatmap wherein the heatmap represents a plurality of multi-directional flow values between the data points, the method including the steps of positioning data points on a heatmap for graphical representation, calculating bi-directional flow values between at least a first and second data point, determining the intensity and direction of a predominant flow from the bi-directional flow values, and graphically representing the predominant flow and bi-directional flows between the data points in the heatmap. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING MOLECULAR PROBES AND CHROMOSOMES - The present invention relates to systems and methods for displaying molecular probes and chromosomes, and chromosome information with which the probes are associated. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075326 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a backlight device includes a plurality of light guide plates, a plurality of light sources and a light-source substrate. The light guide plates overlap each other with a same light output direction; each of the light guide plates includes a plurality of stripe-shaped projections aligned on a light output face and a light output pattern. Each of the light sources emits light incident into any one of the light guide plates and propagating in an extending direction of the stripe-shaped projections. The light-source substrate includes a plurality of interconnections, a turning-on signal is selectively supplied via the interconnections to at least one of light source groups, and each of the light source groups includes at least one of the light sources. At least one part of a light emission face, including the light output faces, emits light output from the light source group receiving the turning-on signal. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075327 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - A portable electronic device having a display and a processor is disclosed herein. The processor is configured to render an active application on substantially the entire display. In response to a status change, an alert is rendered in a visually insignificant area of the display. | 2012-03-29 |
20120075328 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR CHANGING COLORS OF DISPLAYED ASSETS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for changing a color of an asset used as part of a displayed avatar from an initial color to an destination color. An indexed color can be defined for the asset, where initial colors of the asset that are sufficiently similar to the indexed color can be changed to replacement colors. In particular, the replacement colors can include gradients or other optical effects that may be similar to those of the initial colors. A model encoding color information for each pixel of an asset can include a color index indicating whether the color of the pixel is changeable. In some cases, the model for a particular pixel may be converted from a RGB model to a HSV model for reducing the processing that may be required to define replacement colors when a selection of a destination color is received. | 2012-03-29 |