01st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 27 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130002606 | STYLUS AND STYLUS CIRCUITRY FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREENS - A stylus for a capacitive touch screen includes an inverting charge integrator circuit is connected to a conductive tip for providing an output signal proportional to a charge induced at the conductive tip. An inverting amplifier generates an amplified signal proportional to the signal output from the inverting charge integrator. A conductive contact provides electrical or capacitive coupling between the amplified signal and an exterior of the stylus which may provide electrical or capacitive coupling with a person holding the stylus. In other embodiments, the order of the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier may be reversed. A power supply circuit powers the inverting charge integrator and the inverting amplifier. Shielding may be implemented to isolate the stylus circuitry and prevent oscillation. The provided circuitry may enable a ball point or other fine point stylus tip configurations. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002607 | SINGLE-AXIS CAPACITIVE MULTI-TOUCH PANEL, SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is directed to a single-axis capacitive multi-touch panel, system and method. A multi-touch panel includes a substrate and some conductive lines formed on one side of the substrate, wherein the conductive lines are arranged in a single axis. A driving circuit, for producing an alternating-current signal, is operatively coupled to the conductive lines of the multi-touch panel, and measuring circuit, for receiving an output signal according to the alternating-current signal to determine touch location, i s operatively coupled to the conductive lines of the multi -touch panel. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002608 | HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE - The invention relates to a human-machine interface comprising a tactile detection means | 2013-01-03 |
20130002609 | OPTICAL NAVIGATION UTILIZING SPEED BASED ALGORITHM SELECTION - Embodiments of method and systems are disclosed. An embodiment of a method for optical navigation involves generating light at a light source, directing the light to a navigation surface, detecting light reflected from the navigation surface toward a sensor array, and generating movement information, which is indicative of movement of the navigation surface relative to the sensor array, in response to the detected light. Generating the movement information involves determining the speed of the movement, comparing the speed of the movement to a movement threshold, selecting a processing algorithm from a plurality of processing algorithms in response to the comparison, and processing the movement information according to the selected processing algorithm. In an embodiment, the processing algorithms include an adaptive navigation algorithm and a sensor resolution adjustment algorithm. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002610 | TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch display device includes an interferometric modulator display panel and a processor. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. The pixel units each includes a fixed mirror including a reflective surface, at least one spacer, a transmovable mirror and at least one sensor. The at least one spacer is arranged between the fixed mirror and the movable mirror, the movable mirror is spaced an adjustable distance from the fixed mirror, and the movable mirror reflects a first portion of incident light and to allow a second portion of the incident light to pass therethrough. The at least one pressure sensor is fixed on the movable mirror and senses depression of the movable mirror caused by a touch thereon. The processor determines the touch position according to the generating signals from the sensors. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002611 | CAMERA MODULE FOR AN OPTICAL TOUCH SCREEN - The present invention relates to a camera module which senses the position of an on object touching a touch surface of an optical touch screen. The camera module comprises one or more lenses, an optical path converting unit, and an image sensor. Each of the lenses is arranged such that the angle of view for the direction vertical to the touch surface is smaller than the angle of view in the direction horizontal to the touch surface. The optical path converting unit reflects light converging through the lenses in the direction vertical to the touch screen. The image sensor is arranged behind the lenses and in the direction horizontal to the touch surface so as to receive the light reflected by the optical path converting unit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002612 | PHOTO-SENSOR TYPE TOUCH DEVICE AND LIGHT MODULE AND OPTICAL LENS FOR THE PHOTO-SENSOR TYPE TOUCH DEVICE - A photo-sensor type touch device includes a screen, two light modules, a sensor, and a calculating unit. The screen has a displaying region to show images thereon. The light module emits linear invisible light to the displaying region. The invisible light is substantially perpendicular to a normal of the displaying region. The sensor senses a change of the invisible light on the displaying region when an object approaches the displaying region, and sends a signal out. The calculating unit is electrically connected to the sensor to receive the signal and calculate the signal to obtain a location of the object on the displaying region. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002613 | AMBIENT CORRECTION IN ROLLING IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the correction of an image acquired in a rolling image capture system for ambient light. One embodiment provides a device comprising a screen, a rolling image capture system, a local light source, and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the local light source while acquiring first and second frames of image data to integrate each field of image sensor pixels for a duration of local+ambient light and for a duration of ambient light such that a sum t | 2013-01-03 |
20130002614 | ELECTROMAGNETIC 3D STYLUS - A stylus system and method for determining the three-dimensional position and orientation of a stylus operating within a volume located above a surface of a display device is described. In some embodiments, the stylus system includes a stylus and a display device. The stylus senses one or more magnetic fields generated from a set of transmitting coils associated with the display device and transmits sensing information over an RF channel to a receiver in the display device. The display device determines the three-dimensional position of the stylus by applying a cell-based position reconstruction technique that compares the received sensing information with predetermined magnetic field values associated with one or more predetermined regions located above the surface of the display device. The cell-based position reconstruction technique accommodates magnetic field distortions due to the presence of conductive elements within or near the display device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002615 | STAGE CIRCUIT AND SCAN DRIVER USING THE SAME - A stage circuit includes a progressive driver and a concurrent driver, and a scan driver includes a plurality of stage circuits that are capable of supplying a scan signal to scan lines progressively and concurrently (e.g., simultaneously). | 2013-01-03 |
20130002616 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR, AND PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A thin film transistor, a pixel, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including the same are disclosed. The thin film transistor includes a connection to the channel region separate from connections to the source and drain. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002617 | CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SERIAL INTERFACE - A control system with a serial interface is provided. The control system includes a programmable database, a first driver, at least one second driver, and a controller. A data is written into the programmable database through a programming method. The first driver is coupled to the programmable database via the serial interface. The at least one second driver is coupled with the first driver. The controller is coupled with the serial interface and accordingly coupled to the programmable database and the first driver via the serial interface. The controller captures the data from the programmable database through the serial interface and adjusts parameters of the first driver and the at least one second driver according to the data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002618 | DISPLAY AND DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT - A display control circuit of a display performs generation of overdrive processed data and detection of a proper direction of overdriving from current frame uncompressed compressed data obtained by performing compression processing and uncompression processing on compressed data corresponding to image data of a current frame, and previous frame uncompressed compressed data obtained by performing the compression processing and the uncompression processing on image data of a previous frame, and generates post-correction overdrive processed data by correcting the overdrive processed data according to the detected proper direction. The display control circuit transmits post-correction compressed data obtained by compressing the post-correction overdrive processed data to a driver as transfer compressed data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002619 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display apparatus that can execute single unit calibration that is performed by displaying an image stored in the display apparatus in advance, and link calibration that is performed by displaying an image based on an image signal which is input from an external apparatus, comprises an execution unit that performs periodic calibration in which the single unit calibration and the link calibration are periodically executed and a determination unit that determines whether an image signal from the external apparatus is input or not, wherein the execution unit executes the link calibration during a period in which the determination unit determines that an image signal from the external apparatus is input, when the link calibration could not be executed during the periodic calibration. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002620 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND OVERDRIVE METHOD THEREOF - A liquid crystal display (LCD) and an overdrive method of an LCD, which benefits multi-frame polarity inversion technology, are provided. A timing controller of an LCD receives a video and provides the following operations. In a case wherein a multi-frame polarity inversion manner is used, if a current frame that is processed to be displayed on the screen requires polarity inversion, the timing controller performs an overdrive procedure in accordance with a first overdrive rule, and, if the current frame does not require polarity inversion, the timing controller performs the overdrive procedure in accordance with a second overdrive rule different from the first overdrive rule. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002621 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING CIRCUIT - A display device is provided, including a panel having a plurality of display cells, wherein the display cells are respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and gate lines. A plurality of source driver chips output a plurality of pixel signals to the data lines, wherein each source driver chip comprises a timing controller integrated therein for receiving an image control signal provided by a host and generating a plurality of timing control signals and the pixel signals according to-the image control signal. A gate driver chip outputs corresponding scan signals to the gate lines. A printed circuit board is also provided, and a plurality of transmission lines are routed on the printed circuit board and connected the source driver chips. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002622 | Method of Driving Light-Emitting Device - Degradations in light emitting elements occur with the passage of time. The invention provides a method of driving a light-emitting device provided with a plurality of pixels, which includes a light-emitting means with a first and a second electrodes, a drive means for supplying the light-emitting means with a current in response to an analog video signal, and a setting means for setting a sustaining period and an off time period within a frame period. The method of driving a light-emitting device is characterized by including the steps of: supplying the light-emitting means with the current in response to the analog video signal during the sustaining period; and turning the drive means off thereby to make the light-emitting means nonluminous or making the first and the second electrodes identical in potential thereby to make the light-emitting means nonluminous during the off time period. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002623 | Image Display Apparatus and Control Method - A communication unit that communicates with an information terminal; a control unit that controls the image display unit that displays an image; a storage unit that stores model data defining a model of web screen information for instructing the control of the display unit; and a transmitter that transmits the web screen information for display in the information terminal by obtaining the model data and a control item that controls the display unit based on a request signal for the web screen information received from the terminal, and by configuring in the model an instruction unit for instructing the control item. The control unit controls the control item of the display unit based on an instruction signal received from the information terminal as a result of specifying the instruction unit of the web screen information displayed in the terminal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002624 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device of which frame can be narrowed and of which display characteristics are excellent is provided. In a display device including a switch portion or a buffer portion, a logic circuit portion, and a pixel portion, the pixel portion includes a first inverted staggered TFT and a pixel electrode which is connected to a wiring of the first inverted staggered TFT, the switch portion or the buffer portion includes a second inverted staggered TFT in which a first insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second insulating layer are interposed between a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the logic circuit portion includes an inverter circuit including a third inverted staggered thin film transistor and a fourth inverted staggered thin film transistor, and the first to the fourth inverted staggered thin film transistors have the same polarity. The inverter circuit may be an EDMOS circuit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002625 | PIXEL STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A pixel structure includes a scan line, a data line, a driving device, a first pixel electrode, an insulating layer and a second pixel electrode. The driving device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the driving device. The insulating layer covers the first pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode is disposed on the insulating layer. The second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the driving device and is not directly connected to or not contacted with the first pixel electrode. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002626 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a display device capable of reducing a circuit area on a panel substrate and realizing low power consumption by drive using memory. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002627 | Gate Driver and Display Apparatus Using the Same - A gate driver includes a gate driving logic circuit for generating a plurality of switch signals, a plurality of output modules each including a modulation circuit for responding to one of the plurality of switch signals to generate an intermediate signal at an intermediate terminal, a buffer for responding to the intermediate signal to generate a gate driving signal at an output terminal, and a modulation switch for determining an electric connection between the intermediate terminal and the output terminal. The modulation switch is turned on during a modulation period of the gate driving signal to modulate a waveform of the gate driving signal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002628 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PLASMA DISPLAY SYSTEM - In a plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, crosstalk is reduced and an address discharge is caused stably. For this purpose, in the plasma display apparatus displaying a stereoscopic image, each field has a plurality of subfields, each having a sustain period where an up-ramp waveform voltage is applied to the scan electrodes after all the sustain pulses are generated. The luminance weights of the respective subfields are set such that the subfield having the lightest luminance weight is generated first in each field, the subfield having the heaviest luminance weight is generated second, and the third subfield and those thereafter have luminance weights sequentially decreasing. The up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain period of the first subfield in each field is generated so as to have a gradient gentler than that of the up-ramp waveform voltage in the sustain periods of the subfields generated second and thereafter. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002629 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING POWER SAVING DISPLAY MODE - An exemplary electronic device includes a display, a battery, a battery detection module, and a control module. The display displays an operation interface when the electronic device is powered on. The display includes a top section for displaying one part of the operation interface and a bottom section for displaying the other part of the operation interface. The battery provides power to the display. The battery detection module detects a residual electrical energy of the battery and for determines whether the residual electrical energy is lower than a predetermined threshold. The control module turns off the top section or the bottom section when the residual electrical energy is lower than the predetermined threshold. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002630 | Scan driver and organic light emitting display using the same - Embodiments may provide a scan driver including a plurality of stages for simultaneously outputting first scan signals in a simultaneous driving period and for progressively outputting second scan signals in a progressive driving period, wherein each of the stages includes a first signal processing unit coupled to an input terminal, a first clock terminal, a third clock terminal, an auxiliary terminal, a first power source terminal, and a second power source terminal to output a first output signal and a second output signal, and a second signal processing unit coupled to a second clock terminal and the first power source terminal to receive the first output signal and the second output signal and to output a first scan signal and a second scan signal to an output terminal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002631 | TRANSFORMER AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - There is provided a transformer capable of significantly reducing leakage inductance while satisfying safety standards. The transformer includes: a winding part having a plurality of coils wound on an outer peripheral surface of a cylindrically-shaped body part while being stacked thereon; and a terminal connection part extended from one end of the winding part in an outer diameter direction and having a plurality of external connection terminals coupled to a distal end thereof, wherein the terminal connection part includes at least one lead groove formed in a radial direction and at least one catching groove formed in the lead groove in a manner in which a width of the lead groove is extended in a winding direction of the coils. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002632 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY USING THE SAME - A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor having a first electrode coupled to a first power source, the first transistor being configured to control a magnitude of a current supplied from the first power source to the second power source via the OLED in accordance with a data signal, and a plurality of second transistors serially coupled between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a power source line, the second transistors being configured to be turned on when a second scan signal is supplied to a second scan line, wherein a common node between the second transistors is electrically coupled to the first electrode or a second electrode of the first transistor. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002633 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - An organic light emitting display device and a method of driving the same. In a method of driving an organic light emitting display device including a second capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a gate electrode of a driving transistor and a first capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and a first power source, the driving method includes supplying a threshold voltage of an organic light emitting diode to a second terminal of the second capacitor during a period when a first current is sunk via the driving transistor, and supplying a data signal to the second terminal of the second capacitor after a voltage corresponding to a difference between a voltage applied to the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the threshold voltage of the organic light emitting diode is charged in the second capacitor. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002634 | FLEXIBLE PIXEL ELEMENT AND SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION MEANS - Discreet flexible pixel elements connected in series comprise flexible pixel strings that are conformably applied to irregular shapes and surfaces thereby to produce free-form electronic displays and signage. Means for serial connection of discreet flexible pixel elements enable efficient power, data and control signal distribution. Image data conversion means translates conventional graphical image data into visual image data and control signals to drive discreet flexible pixel elements. The discreet flexible pixel element, serial connection means, and signal distribution means of the present invention enable efficient, economical production of large scale, free-form electronic displays, signs and lighting effects. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002635 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE DRIVING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes a pixel array portion and a driving portion for driving the pixel array portion. The pixel array portion includes row scanning lines, column signal lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form at intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines. The driving portion includes a write scanner for supplying a control signal to each of the scanning lines by sequentially scanning the scanning lines in each field and a signal selector for supplying a video signal to each of the signal lines in synchronization with the sequential scanning. The pixels each includes a storage capacitor, a light-emitting element, a sampling transistor for being turned on in response to the control signal, sampling the video signal, and storing the video signal in the storage capacitor, and a drive transistor for supplying a driving current to the light-emitting element in accordance with the stored video signal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002636 | LCD DRIVING CIRCUIT USING OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER AND LCD DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - In an operational amplifier, a control unit switches an operation mode between first and second operation modes. A first output drive stage circuit section is configured to amplify a first input signal differentially-amplified by a first or a second input differential stage circuit section to output as a first drive voltage, similar to a second output drive stage circuit section. First and second power supplies: supply voltages in a first voltage range to the first differential stage circuit section and the first output drive stage circuit section in the first operation mode, supply voltages in the first voltage range to the second differential stage circuit section and the first output drive stage circuit section in the second operation mode, similar to third and fourth power supplies. The drive voltage on each of the first and second output nodes is fed back. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002637 | PIXEL CIRCUIT, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD THEREFOR AND DRIVING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A pixel circuit has a light emitting element and a driver electrically connected to the light emitting element. A reverse bias voltage is applied to the driver to reduce a shift amount of a threshold voltage of the driver. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002638 | BACKPLANE DEVICE FOR A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BACKPLANE DEVICE - A backplane device for a spatial light modulator for generating a two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional representation of a scene or of content. The spatial light modulator includes pixels having pixel addresses and being electronically controllable by the backplane device for assigning pixel values to the pixels. The backplane device comprises at least one electrode for each pixel, at least one analog line and at least one pixel addressing means. Such a pixel addressing means comprises x-addressing lines and y-addressing lines. Every pixel is connected to an analog line, to an x-addressing line and to a y-addressing line. As a pixel value assigning scheme a generating means is adapted to generate a voltage characteristic to be applied to the at least one analog line such that the voltage characteristic depends on the pixel values to be assigned to the pixels. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002639 | DC-DC CONVERTER AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME - A DC-DC converter and an organic light emitting display including the same are disclosed. The DC-DC converter generates first and second power voltages for the organic light emitting display with an inverting converter and a boost converter. The current of the converters is monitored, and if the currents exceed a threshold, the associated converter is stopped to prevent further damage to the display. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002640 | DRIVING CIRCUIT OF A PIXEL OF A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A driving circuit of a pixel includes a driving capacitor for driving liquid crystals according to a voltage difference between first and second ends of the driving capacitor, a reference voltage source for providing a reference voltage, a first data line for providing a first driving voltage, a second data line for providing a second driving voltage, a first scan circuit for electrically connecting the first and the second data lines to the first and the second ends of the driving capacitor respectively when the first scan circuit is turned on, a first scan line for controlling on and off states of the first scan circuit, a second scan circuit for electrically connecting the first end and the second end of the driving capacitor when the second scan circuit is turned on, and a second scan line for controlling on and off states of the second scan circuit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002641 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other and pixels formed at intersections thereof; a gate driving circuit that generates a gate pulse based on a gate power voltage and applies the gate pulse to the gate lines; a data driving circuit that divides the data power voltage to convert input digital video data into an analog data voltage and applies the data voltage to the data lines; a power voltage control circuit that detects an input frame frequency and generates a different power control signal in accordance with the detected frame frequency; and a power voltage adjusting circuit that adjusts at least one of the gate power voltage and the data power voltage differently from a predetermined reference level in response to the power control signal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002642 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH POWER SOURCE SUPPLY SCAN CIRCUITS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels disposed in a matrix shape, each pixel including an electro-optical element, a write transistor for sampling and writing an input signal voltage, a holding capacitor for holding a signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a driver transistor for driving the electro-optical element in response to the signal voltage held in the holding capacitor. The display device further includes a scan circuit for selectively scanning each pixel in the pixel array unit at a row unit basis, and a plurality of power source supply scan circuits for selectively supplying a first potential and a second potential lower than the first potential to power supply line wired per each pixel row of the pixel array unit to supply current to the driver transistors, synchronously with scanning by the scan circuit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002643 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device includes a plurality of display pixels, a plurality of data lines that are connected to the display pixels, and a plurality of sensing lines that are connected to the display pixels. Each display pixel includes: a driving transistor that has a control terminal, an input terminal, and an output terminal; a capacitor that is connected to the control terminal of the driving transistor; a first switching transistor that is connected to the data line and the control terminal of the driving transistor; a light-emitting element that receives a driving current from the driving transistor to emit light; a second switching transistor that is connected between the sensing line and the light-emitting element; and a third switching transistor that is connected between the output terminal of the driving transistor and the light-emitting element. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002644 | DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIER, METHOD FOR INVERTING OUTPUT POLARITY OF THE SAME, AND SOURCE DRIVER - A differential amplifier includes: an output amplifier circuit; a bias circuit; and a pulse applying circuit. The output amplifier circuit receives a positive gradation voltage and a negative gradation voltage alternately by an input stage circuit and supplies a drive voltage generated based on the gradation voltage to a display panel. The bias circuit generates a bias voltage in synchronization with a strobe signal which is a trigger for a polarity inverting operation of the gradation voltage and applies the bias voltage to a constant current source controlling a current of the input stage circuit. The pulse applying circuit generates a pulse voltage having a voltage level higher than a voltage level of the bias voltage and couples the pulse voltage to the bias voltage. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONVERSION - Various embodiments are described for performing multimedia conversion. One embodiment is a method implemented in a multimedia conversion system for converting two-dimensional (2D) multimedia data to stereoscopic multimedia data. The method comprises determining, for each scan line in a frame of the 2D multimedia data, an absolute difference between pixel pairs. The method further comprises accumulating the absolute difference values, deriving a depth map based on the accumulated difference values, and applying the depth map to the frame in the 2D multimedia data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002646 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING, SEGMENTING, AND EXTRACTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - A method for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) image includes accessing a 3D image dataset, generating a 3D mesh corresponding to a 3D segmentation result using the 3D image dataset, displaying a 3D surface rendering of the 3D surface mesh, and navigating the 3D image based on a manual input received from a user indicated on the rendered 3D mesh. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002647 | Managing Web Page Data in a Composite Document - A composite document system is implemented as instructions stored on a computer-readable medium. When executed on a processor, the instructions cause the processor to receive model data that describes a three-dimensional model of an object, where the three-dimensional model is generated using a modeling software, and where the model data conforms to a non-image format of the modeling software. The instructions further cause the processor to receive web page data that includes content and description of the content in a mark-up language, generate a composite document that includes the model data and the web page data, interpret the model data in the composite document to generate a visual representation of the three-dimensional model, and interpret the web page data in the composite document to generate a visual representation of the web page data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002648 | Managing Satellite and Aerial Image Data in a Composite Document - A method in a computing device for generating a composite document includes receiving drawing data from a user interface, where the drawing data includes a plurality of two-dimensional shapes, and generating a first data structure that includes the received drawing data. The method further includes receiving a reference to a geographic location from the user interface and, in response to receiving the reference to the geographic location, retrieving photograph data corresponding to the received reference, where the photograph data includes at least one of satellite image data and aerial image data for the geographic location. The method also includes generating a second data structure that includes the photograph data and the reference to the geographic location. According to the method, the composite document is then generated, and the first data structure is included in the composite document as a first composite document entity, and the second data structure is included in the composite document as the second composite document entity. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002649 | MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, apparatuses and methods to provide image data, augmented with related data, to be displayed on a mobile computing device. Embodiments of the invention display a live view augmented with information identifying an object amongst other objects. Embodiments of the invention may utilize other related data, such as 3D point cloud data, image data and location data related to the object, to obtain a specific location of an object within the live view. Embodiments of the invention may further display a live view with augmented data three-dimensionally consistent with the position and orientation of the image sensor of the mobile computing device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002650 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DISPLAY TIMING CONTROLLER - A stereoscopic image display method is provided. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving stereoscopic information; generating a left-eye image, a right-eye image and a common sub-image according to the stereoscopic information, wherein the common sub-image is a common part of the left-eye image and the right-eye image; and displaying the left-eye image, the right-eye image, and the common sub-image on a stereoscopic image display apparatus according to a predetermined display order. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002651 | Apparatus and Method For Texture Level Of Detail Computation - A graphic processing system to compute a texture level of detail. An embodiment of the graphic processing system includes a memory device, a driver, and level of detail computation logic. The memory device is configured to implement a first lookup table. The first lookup table is configured to provide a first level of detail component. The driver is configured to calculate a log value of a second level of detail component. The level of detail computation logic is coupled to the memory device and the driver. The level of detail computation logic is configured to compute a level of detail for a texture mapping operation based on the first level of detail component from the lookup table and the second level of detail component from the driver. Embodiments of the graphic processing system facilitate a simple hardware implementation using operations other than multiplication, square, and square root operations. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002652 | Stereoscopic Image Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - Provided is a stereoscopic image display device which comprises: an image control unit for outputting a left eye image and a right eye image; an image panel for displaying the left eye image and the right eye image; and glasses consisting of a left eye glass and a right eye glass which have the same transmissive characteristic to transmit only one of the left eye image and the right eye image displayed on the image panel. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002653 | Three Dimensional Image Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - In a 3D image display device and a driving method thereof, a left-eye image and a right-eye image are displayed at a 3D display frequency higher than a 2D display frequency in a 3D mode. The left-eye image or the right-eye image is applied to a data line as data voltages having the same polarity and the same magnitude throughout at least two consecutive frames. A gate-on voltage is applied to a plurality of gate lines crossing the data line sequentially at an interval of a compensation gate-on application time calculated based on a total data delay value. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002654 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLASSES AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - A three-dimensional (3D) glasses and a method for operating the same are provided. The 3D glasses includes a first lens, a second lens, an infrared receiver and a control unit. The infrared receiver receives an infrared signal to output a digital control signal. The control unit is coupled to the infrared receiver. The control unit controls a first state of the first lens and a second state of the second lens according to a first pulse of the digital control signal, where at least one of the first state and the second state is an OFF state. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002655 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES, AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of displaying stereoscopic images includes synchronizing a first image frame with a first shutter in accordance with a first shutter control signal and synchronizing a second image frame with a second shutter in accordance with a second shutter control signal, adding a first modification voltage to the first and second shutter control signals for a first time period after a start point of a shutter open period, adding a second modification voltage to the first and second shutter control signals for a second time period before an end point of the shutter open period, and alternately opening the first shutter and the second shutter based on the first shutter control signal and the second shutter control signal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING 3D TEXT WITH 3D CONTENT - A method and system are defined for best positioning text in a 3D manner into associated 3D content by determining parallax information from the 3D content and by using such parallax information together with one or more requirements supplied by a user or producer for best positioning text in a 3D manner into associated 3D content. The determination of text position can be performed in real-time on the arriving image content stream as an on-line operation or in a non-real time mode on the entirety of the image content as an off-line operation. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002657 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a three-dimensional medical image generating unit, a correction information obtaining unit, a display angle correcting unit, and a display unit. The image obtaining unit obtains medical image data including an object. The three-dimensional medical image generating unit generates stereoscopic three-dimensional medical image data including a plurality of objects based on the medical image data obtained by the image obtaining unit. The correction information obtaining unit obtains correction information for the plurality of objects. The display angle correcting unit corrects, based on the correction information, the three-dimensional medical image data so that a display angle of at least one of the plurality of objects is corrected. The display unit displays a three-dimensional medical image based on the three-dimensional medical image data corrected by the display angle correcting unit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002658 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD - In a database usable for a navigation device, object data units comprising information for a three-dimensional displaying of objects like buildings are provided. At least one of the object data units comprises an adjustable height parameter for adjusting a height of the corresponding object when displayed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002659 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT-BASED FAST CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION - Techniques, apparatus and systems are disclosed for performing graphics processor unit (GPU)-based fast cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) reconstruction algorithm based on a small number of x-ray projections. In one aspect a graphics processor unit (GPU) implemented method of reconstructing a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) image includes receiving, at the GPU, image data for CBCT reconstruction. The GPU uses an iterative process to minimize an energy functional component of the received image data. The energy functional component includes a data fidelity term and a data regularization term. The reconstructed CBCT image is generated based on the minimized energy functional component. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002660 | STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD OF STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - Because a human being has independent visual capabilities in right and left eyes, a right-eye image and a left-eye image constituting a stereoscopic content video are visually recognized as different images (apart from the difference due to disparity), and as a result, stereoscopic viewing may not be performed successfully. Disclosed is a stereoscopic video display device wherein before an actual stereoscopic video is displayed, left-eye and right-eye test images both of which include an identical object, are alternately displayed at a comparatively low speed, and each of the images are respectively visually recognized by the left eye and the right eye of the viewer as different images, and input for image quality adjustment can be received independently for the right and the left so that the identical objects in both of the images can be viewed to be identical by the viewer. Then, using the image quality adjustment value, image adjustment of the image for the actual stereoscopic content video display is performed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002661 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - Designated positions in a left-eye image and in a right-eye image are detected. The dominant eye is input and, if there is a position designation made by the observer, the coordinate position of the designated position is calculated in each of the left-eye and right-eye images. A template image is detected from the dominant-eye image and an image identical with the detected template image is detected from the non-dominant-eye image. Positions in respective ones of the template image and matching image become the designated positions. A distance differential between the template image detected from the dominant-eye image and the image detected from the non-dominant-eye image is parallax. The parallax of the designated positions is adjusted. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002662 | STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS - A stereoscopic display apparatus includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices; a power supply line for supplying current to the light-emitting devices; a switching device provided on the power supply line; a glasses control circuit which generates a glasses control signal for setting, in a pair of shutter-type glasses, a non-viewable period in which both the right-eye image and the left-eye image are made non-viewable at the same time; and a power supply control circuit which generates a device control signal for setting, in the switching device, a voltage reduced period in which the voltage between the electrodes in the light-emitting device is reduced, in which the glasses control circuit and the power supply control circuit control the shutter-type glasses and the switching device, respectively, for setting the non-viewable period to be a period at least from a start to an end of the voltage reduced period. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002663 | MULTI-CORE GEOMETRY PROCESSING IN A TILE BASED RENDERING SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus are provided for combining multiple independent tile-based graphic cores. An incoming geometry stream is split into a plurality of streams and sent to respective tile based graphics processing cores. Each one generates a separate tiled geometry list as described. These may be combined into a master tiling unit or, alternatively, markers may be inserted into the tiled geometry lists which are used in the rasterization phase to switch between tiling lists from different geometry processing cores. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002664 | DISPLAY DEVICE, EYEWEAR DEVICE AND VIDEO SYSTEM - The instant application describes a display device for switching a display mode between a first display mode for displaying a stereoscopic image with an eyewear device, and a second display mode, which is different from the first display mode. The display device includes a signal generator, which generates a timing signal for notifying a timing of an increasing period of an incident light amount to left and right eyes or a stop signal for stopping the adjustment operation as a control signal, which is transmitted by a transmitter to the eyewear device. The transmitter transmits the timing signal for the first display mode while the image is displayed in the first display mode. If the display mode is then switched from the first to second display mode, the transmitter sequentially transmits the stop signal and the timing signal for the second display mode to the eyewear device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002665 | HIGH RESOLUTION AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH INTERLACED IMAGE - An autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a backlight unit, a polarizing plate disposed in front of the backlight unit; a display panel displaying a left eye image and a right eye image by interlacing pixel lines of the left and right eye images alternately and sequentially; a lenticular lens sheet, disposed between the polarizing plate and the display panel, separating light emitted from the backlight unit into a left eye zone and a right eye zone; and a polarization switch controlling a polarization direction of light proceeding towards the left eye viewing zone so that light is incident on pixel lines of the display panel displaying the left eye image and a polarization direction of light proceeding towards the right eye viewing zone so that light is incident on pixel lines of the display panel displaying the right eye image, in synchronization with a vertical scanning time of the display panel. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002666 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING VIDEO, EYEWEAR DEVICE FOR ASSISTING IN VIEWING VIDEO, VIDEO SYSTEM WITH DISPLAY DEVICE AND EYEWEAR DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF VIDEO SYSTEM - The instant application describes display device for switching display mode between first display mode for displaying stereoscopic images with eyewear device which adjusts incident light amounts to the left and right eyes, and second display mode different from the first display mode. The display device includes signal generator which generates timing signals for notifying timings of increasing the incident light amount to the left and right eyes in the first and second display modes or stop signals for stopping the adjustment operation, as control signals for the adjustment operation; and transmitter which transmits the control signals to the eyewear device. During the first display mode, the transmitter transmits the timing signals for the first display mode. Switching operation from the first to second display mode causes the transmitter to transmit the stop signal and then the timing signal for the second display mode to the eyewear device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002667 | USING SMART OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE TO CONSERVE COMPUTING RESOURCES - Described herein are some embodiments that use smart objects in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. Some embodiments describe detecting that a virtual object of the virtual universe enters a resource conservation area in the virtual universe. Some embodiments further include, in response to determining that the virtual object enters the resource conservation area, detecting that the virtual object has a setting that enables automatic reduction of display quality of the virtual object from a first display quality level. Some embodiments further include, in response to determining that the virtual object has the setting that enables the automatic reduction in display quality from the first display quality setting, automatically reducing the display quality of the virtual object from the first display quality level to a second display quality level less than the first display quality level. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002668 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING, VIEWING AND NAVIGATING THREE DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS - A computer program product is tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium and includes executable code that, when executed, is configured to cause a data processing apparatus to display multiple objects in a three dimensional (3D) representation, where the multiple objects are visual representations of real objects, and display a subset of the objects and associated metadata in a shaped lens that is movable within the 3D representation in all three axes, where the subset of the objects displayed within the shaped lens are sized larger than the objects outside of the shaped lens. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002669 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPRESSING RIGID AREA BASED ON EXPRESSION CONTROL POINTS - A method and apparatus for expressing a rigid area based on expression control points that express a motion change of the rigid area with respect to an input expression. The method and apparatus express the rigid area by interpolating a change of expression of an avatar using a weight applied to an expression vector related to a plurality of expression samples to express the input expression and also using a transformation matrix set corresponding to the rigid area of each of the plurality of expression samples. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002670 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING SURFACE PROCESSING DATA - A polygon-meshed surface of a product is divided into regions, and a texture GA is mapped in an initial region A. The boundary line of an adjacent region B is multiplexed outward, and an overlapped region D is provided between the initial region and the adjacent region, and a region X to be processed is projected onto a two-dimensional plane and a texture GB is allocated. An optimal boundary line FS in which the difference between the pixel values of the textures GA and GB becomes minimal in the overlapped region is obtained, and the texture GB is mapped in the region X being processed so that the texture is connected to the texture GA at the optimal boundary line. The apexes of the polygon mesh displaced on the basis of the textures mapped in all the regions are connected to obtain grain-given polygon data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002671 | POINT-BASED GUIDED IMPORTANCE SAMPLING - A computer-animated scene illuminated by indirect light is shaded. The scene is comprised of sample locations on a surface element of an object in the scene. A point cloud representation of the scene is generated. Optionally, an importance map of the scene, based on the point cloud representation, is generated. The importance map is generated by rasterizing one or more points in the point cloud and designating areas of interest based on the energy value of the one or more points in the point cloud. A ray tracing engine is biased, based on the importance map. The biased ray tracing engine calculates the path of the ray to the sample locations in the scene to an area of interest. The scene is shaded using the output from the biased ray tracing engine. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002672 | RAY TRACING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS - Aspects comprise systems implementing 3-D graphics processing functionality in a multiprocessing system. Control flow structures are used in scheduling instances of computation in the multiprocessing system, where different points in the control flow structure serve as points where deferral of some instances of computation can be performed in favor of scheduling other instances of computation. In some examples, the control flow structure identifies particular tasks, such as intersection testing of a particular portion of an acceleration structure, and a particular element of shading code. In some examples, the aspects are used in 3-D graphics processing systems that can perform ray tracing based rendering. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002673 | Volume Rendering Using N-Pass Sampling - A system and method for increasing resolution of an object and increasing rendering speed by rendering with a lesser density for non-object regions. The system and method includes sampling a plurality of first rays in a first density through a volume, each first ray being in a separate section, if a sampling value difference of at least two first rays is above a first threshold, sampling a plurality of second rays in a second density, the second rays being in a first section of the separate sections, the first section being for one of the at least two first rays, and if a sampling value difference between a first one of the second rays and another ray is above a second threshold, sampling a plurality of third rays in a second section spatially different than the first section, the sampling of the third rays being at the second spatial density and the second section being a neighboring section to the first section. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002674 | MEDIA REPRODUCTION DEVICE - A media reproduction device that compresses and decompresses images for display on the media reproduction device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002675 | SUBSCRIBER DATA ANALYSIS AND GRAPHICAL RENDERING - Analysis and graphical rendering of subscriber data is provided. A data analysis component is provided that obtains a set of subscriber data, correlates various subsets of the subscriber data to determine a plurality of data relationships, and graphical renders the subscriber data as a heat map, a fractal map, a tree map, a three dimensional plot, a three dimensional map, a graph, a chart, etc. based on a scale associated with the data relationships. In addition, the data analysis component can obtain a set of line number portability data that can be correlated with the various subsets of the subscriber data to determine the data relationships. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002676 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING ORGANIZATIONAL CONNECTIONS - Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for updating and visualizing information stored in a database system over a network. In some implementations, a request to generate a graphical representation of an organizational chart associated with an organization is received. In various implementations, a first individual to include in the organizational chart is identified. Relationship information associated with the first individual is identified, where the relationship information identifies hierarchical relationships between the first individual and a plurality of second individuals associated with the organization. In various implementations, the organizational chart is generated based on the first individual and the relationship information, where the organizational chart identifies the first and second individuals and the hierarchical relationships. In some instances, a graphical representation of the organizational chart capable of being displayed at a user interface of a display device is generated. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002677 | SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A disclosed method is a shape data generation method including: identifying, from among a plural vertices of a first shape to be transformed, one or plural first vertices satisfying a predetermined condition including a condition that a normal line of a vertex to be processed crosses with a second shape that is a shape of a transformation target, which is identified from image data; transforming the first shape so as to move each of the one or plural identified first vertices a predetermined distance toward a corresponding normal direction of the identified first vertex; and storing data concerning the plural vertices of the transformed first shape after the identifying and the transforming are executed the predetermined number of times. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002678 | RENDERING A TEXT IMAGE FOLLOWING A LINE - A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database in the form of vector data that defines various image objects, such as roads, geographical boundaries, etc., and textures defining text strings to be displayed on the image to provide, for example, labels for the image objects. The imaging rendering system renders the images such that the individual characters of the text strings are placed on the image following a multi-segmented or curved line. This rendering system enables text strings to be placed on a map image so that the text follows the center line of a curved or angled road or other image feature without knowing the specifics of the curvature of the line along which the text will be placed when creating the texture that stores the text string information. This feature provides enhanced visual properties within a map image as it allows, for example, road names to be placed anywhere inside a road following the curvature of the road, thus providing a pleasing visual effect within the map image. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002679 | RENDERING A TEXT IMAGE USING TEXTURE MAP CHARACTER CENTER ENCODING - A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database in the form of vector data that defines various image objects, such as roads, geographical boundaries, etc., and textures defining text strings to be displayed on the image to provide, for example, labels for the image objects. The imaging rendering system renders the images such that the individual characters of the text strings are placed on the image following a multi-segmented or curved line. In doing so, the image rendering system creates and reads a texture map that stores pixelated text characters of the text strings to be rendered in the image and that stores encoding data defining the center position of each text character as stored in the texture map. This center position encoding enables the system to determine whether, in any particular instance, a text character of a text string should be rendered in the image at a particular position along the line or at a different position along the line. This encoding and rendering system enables text strings to be placed on a map image so that the text follows the center line of a curved or angled road or other image feature without knowing the specifics of the curvature of the line along which the text will be placed when creating the texture that stores the text string information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002680 | RENDERING A TEXT IMAGE USING TEXTURE MAP CHARACTER CENTER ENCODING WITH CHARACTER REFERENCE ENCODING - A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database in the form of vector data that defines various image objects, such as roads, geographical boundaries, etc., and textures defining text strings to be displayed on the image to provide, for example, labels for the image objects. The imaging rendering system renders the images such that the individual characters of the text strings are placed on the image following a multi-segmented or curved line. In doing so, the image rendering system creates and reads a texture map that stores pixelated text characters of the text strings to be rendered in the image as a set of glyphs and that also stores first encoding data defining the center position of each text character as stored in a glyph and second encoding data referencing the location of the glyph to be used as the text character. This center position encoding enables the system to determine whether, in any particular instance, a text character of a text string should be rendered in the image at a particular position along the line or at a different position along the line while maximizing the storage efficiency of the texture map used to store the text string by allowing text characters repeated in a text string to be stored only once in the texture map. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002681 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Time Data in a Messaging Environment - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations where an interruption has occurred during a messaging conversation. Time data can also be provided to a user on demand in certain circumstances. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002682 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH FUNCTION OF MAPPING HUMAN MOVEMENT TO DIGITAL MODEL AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a human movement data receiving module, a digital model providing module, a human movement mapping module, and an animated image displaying module. The human movement data receiving module receives human movement data produced by the gyroscopes which are attached to different parts of a human. Each gyroscope is assigned an identifier. The digital model providing module provides a digital model whose shape is similar to the shape of the human. The digital model includes a number of portions associated with the human movement data of one of the gyroscopes. The human movement mapping module identifies the identifiers of the gyroscopes to determine the gyroscopes, and maps the human movement data produced by the determined gyroscopes onto the portions of the digital model associated with the determined gyroscopes to form an animated image. The animated image displaying module displays the animated image on the display unit. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002683 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND CLIENT DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING EXPRESSION INFORMATION - A method for displaying expression information is disclosed, which is applied to an instant messaging system and which includes following steps: a client receives or sends expression information through a chat window; the client transforms attributes of the chat window and an expression image corresponding to the expression information according to animation parameters corresponding to the expression information, and displays the animation effect obtained through the attribute transformation. An apparatus applying the above method and a client device are also provided. By using the solution, the interactivity with the expression information display can be improved. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002684 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DRAW ANIMATIONS - Methods and apparatus to draw animations are disclosed. An example method includes writing a first frame of information into a first buffer, writing a second frame of information into a second buffer, displaying the first frame of information, displaying the second frame of information, and updating the first buffer using a difference between the first frame of information and a third frame of information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002685 | BONDED DOUBLE SUBSTRATE APPROACH TO SOLVE LASER DRILLING PROBLEMS - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for bonding a device substrate formed of a substantially transparent material to a carrier substrate. A laser etch stop layer may be formed on the device substrate. The carrier substrate may be coated with a releasable layer, such as a polymer layer. Vias may be formed in the device substrate by laser drilling. The vias may be filled with conductive material, e.g., by electroplating or by filling the vias with a conductive paste. One or more types of devices may then be attached to the device substrate and configured for electrical communication with the vias. In some implementations, passive devices may be formed on the device substrate before the vias are formed. Before or after device fabrication, the substrates may be separated. The substrates may be separated by laser irradiation or chemical dissolution of the releasable layer. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002686 | Media Action Script Acceleration Apparatus, System and Method - Exemplary apparatus, method, and system embodiments provide for processing an action script for a graphical image for visual display. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a first memory; first circuitry configured to convert a plurality of descriptive elements of the action script into a plurality of operational codes; and second circuitry configured to execute the plurality of operational codes using corresponding data stored in the first memory to generate pixel data for the graphical image. Exemplary embodiments may further include third circuitry configured to parse the action script into the plurality of descriptive elements and the corresponding data, and fourth circuitry configured to extract data from the action script and to store the extracted data in the first memory as a plurality of control words having the corresponding data in predetermined fields. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002687 | MULTIMEDIA CONTENT RECEIVING AND BROADCASTING DEVICE - A lighting device equipped with means for receiving and delivering multimedia content is described. Such a device can be mounted on any type of pre-existing standard lamp-holder so as to transform it into a sophisticated system for providing adjustable lighting and for delivering multimedia content that can be updated as desired by the user, thus being able to be integrated in a simple and cost-effective way into the room furniture without requiring the addition of other elements or the replacement of any pre-existing lighting system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002688 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE DISPLAYS AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method and system for controlling multiple displays is provided. The disclosed method is used to control a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), wherein every GPU controls one or more displays. The method includes the following steps: providing a graphical interface the same to a graphical program library of an operating system to replace the graphical program library to receive a drawing command from an application program; determining a display set of the GPUs according to a display region of the application program, wherein a frame displayed by the display controlled by each GPU is intersected to the display region; and delivering coordinate-transformed drawing commands to the GPUs in the display set according to the display intersection region, wherein each GPU in the display set only draws the content of the corresponding display intersection region. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002689 | MAXIMIZING PARALLEL PROCESSING IN GRAPHICS PROCESSORS - Methods and systems may include a computing system having a graphics processor with a three-dimensional (3D) pipeline, one or more processing units, and compute kernel logic to process two-dimensional (2D) command. A graphics processing unit (GPU) scheduler may dispatch the 2D command directly to the one or more processing units. In one example, the 2D command includes at least one of a render target clear command, a depth-stencil clear command, a resource resolving command and a resource copy command. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002690 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE-INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An optical absorption layer having a plurality of openings corresponding to lenses is provided between a lens array and a first electrode. An edge of each of the openings is provided such that light entering in a normal direction of a substrate and traveling through an area where the corresponding lens has a maximum inclination angle is blocked. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002691 | BATCHING GRAPHICS OPERATIONS WITH TIME STAMP TRACKING - A method and an apparatus for updating graphics resource usage according to a stream of graphics commands atomically submitted to a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The stream of graphics commands may be received from a plurality of graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) by a graphics driver. Availability of graphics resources of the GPU may be monitored by the graphics driver for submitting the stream of graphics commands. A single notification from the CPU may indicate that all graphics commands submitted to the GPU have been executed for updating a usage of graphics resources associated with the executed graphics commands. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002692 | GRAPHICS STACK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002693 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS, BUFFER MANAGEMENT METHOD AND VIDEO DISPLAY SYSTEM - One embodiment provides a video display apparatus, including: a buffer configured to receive data; a buffer controller configured to control the buffer; and a reproduction part configured to reproduce the data accumulated in the buffer, wherein, when reproduction from an arbitrary position is designated for a time during which the reproduction part reproduces the data, the buffer controller controls the buffer to accumulate data of a designated destination while continuing reproduction of the data left in the buffer. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002694 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may perform filtering to emphasize a surface lighting of a low frequency band from an input lighting environment image, and may also perform at least one virtual point light (VPL) sampling from the input lighting environment image. The image processing apparatus may perform precomputed radiance transfer (PRT) based rendering using the filtered lighting environment image and VPL based rendering using the sampled VPL. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002695 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TELEVISION RECEIVER, DISPLAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAMME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display device ( | 2013-01-03 |
20130002696 | Computer Based Models of Printed Material - Computer based models for printed materials. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002697 | HISTORICAL ALARM ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method includes partitioning alarms into two or more alarm groups. The alarms are associated with operation of an industrial process system performing a process, and each alarm has multiple states. The method also includes generating a graphical display for presentation to a user. The graphical display identifies at least one of the alarm groups and multiple alarm indicators. Each alarm indicator indicates a state transition of an associated alarm between two of the alarm's states. The alarm indicators are arranged in the graphical display based on times of their respective state transitions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002698 | VIRTUAL LENS-RENDERING FOR AUGMENTED REALITY LENS - Techniques for displaying content using an augmented reality device are described. Embodiments provide a visual scene for display, the visual scene captured using one or more camera devices of the augmented reality device. Embodiments adjust physical display geometry characteristics of the visual scene to correct for optimal projection. Additionally, illumination characteristics of the visual scene are modified based on environmental illumination data to improve realism of the visual scene when it is displayed. Embodiments further adjust display characteristics of the visual scene to improve tone mapping output. The adjusted visual scene is then output for display on the augmented reality device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002699 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To generate a high-quality mosaic image even in a case where a material image having a shape different from that of a region in which the material image is to be placed is used. A target image is divided into a plurality of different-sized regions. The size of a material image is changed in accordance with the area of corresponding one of the regions, and is placed in the region on the basis of the chromatic component of the region. In the case of overlapping material images that have been placed, control processing is performed so that a smaller one of them is placed on a larger one of them. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002700 | Color and Symbol Coded Visual Cues for Relating Screen Items to Each Other - A graphic symbol is created having a specified pattern and being associated with at least a first graphical object. Color attribute(s) is/are designated for the graphic symbol. While displaying related graphical object(s), the created graphic symbol and its specified pattern and color attribute(s) are retained within such displayed related graphical object(s), wherein the related graphical object(s) are recognizable as related to the first graphical object by the persistence of the specific graphic symbol pattern and designated colors. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002701 | SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES ON PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICES AND HEAD-MOUNTABLE DISPLAYS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING SUCH SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTROLLING SUCH SYSTEMS - A system includes a head-mountable display and a portable information processor. The portable information processor includes a determination device that determines whether communication between a head-mountable display and the portable information processor is enabled. The portable information processor includes an identification device that identifies at least a portion of image data that is displayed by the portable information processor. The portable information processor includes a transmitter that transmits the identified at least a portion of the image data to the head-mountable display when the determination device determines that communication between the head-mountable display and the portable information processor is enabled. The head-mountable display includes a receiver that receives the identified at least a portion of the image data from the portable information processor. The head-mountable display includes a display that displays the identified at least a portion of the image data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002702 | IMAGE-BASED BACKGROUNDS FOR IMAGES - In accordance with one or more aspects of the image-based backgrounds for images, an image is analyzed in order to identify a color that represents the image. An enhanced background is generated based at least in part on the identified color, and both the image and the enhanced background are output on a screen. In addition, or alternatively, the identified color can be saved as being associated with the image in order to be used to generate an enhanced background for the image when the image is displayed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002703 | Non-Real-Time Dither Using a Programmable Matrix - A dither unit with a programmable kernel matrix in which each indexed location/entry may store one or more dither values. Each dither value in a respective entry of the kernel matrix may correspond to the number of bits that are truncated during dithering. During dithering of each pixel of an image, entries in the kernel matrix may be indexed according to the relative coordinates of the pixel within the image. A dither value for the pixel may be selected from the indexed entry based on the truncated least significant bits of the pixel component value. When the kernel matrix is storing more than one dither value per entry, the dither value may be selected based further on the number of truncated least significant bits. A dithered pixel component value may then be generated according to the dither value and the remaining most significant bits of the pixel component value. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002704 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate, on which a reference potential trunk line that supplies a reference potential to a plurality of sub-pixels and a switching element of each of the plurality of sub-pixels, are disposed; and a second substrate, on which a display signal line that supplies a display signal, is disposed. A liquid crystal capacitance of each of the plurality of sub-pixels is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Pixels composed of the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to a plurality of luminance regions are arranged in a matrix. In case that a prescribed half-tone is displayed in between pixels that are adjacent in the row direction, the plurality of sub-pixels that correspond to the same luminance region are arranged adjacently in the row direction. | 2013-01-03 |
20130002705 | RENDERING A TEXT IMAGE FOLLOWING A LINE - A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database in the form of vector data that defines various image objects, such as roads, geographical boundaries, etc., and textures defining text strings to be displayed on the image to provide, for example, labels for the image objects. The imaging rendering system renders the images such that the individual characters of the text strings are placed on the image following a multi-segmented or curved line. | 2013-01-03 |