11th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140071029 | PIXEL AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - There are provided a pixel and an organic light emitting display device using the same capable of improving image quality. A pixel includes an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor, a second transistor and a second capacitor. The first transistor controls the amount of current supplied from a first power to the organic light emitting diode coupled to a second electrode of the first transistor, corresponding to a voltage applied to a second node. The second transistor is coupled between the second electrode of the first transistor and the second node so as to be turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line. The second capacitor is coupled between the second electrode of the first transistor and a control line. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071030 | PIXEL ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - A pixel arrangement structure of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square. The first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel have polygonal shapes. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071031 | SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - A self-luminous display device includes: pixel circuits; and a drive signal generating circuit, wherein each of the pixel circuits includes a light-emitting diode, a drive transistor connected to a drive current path of the light-emitting diode, and a holding capacitor coupled to a control node of the drive transistor, and the drive signal generating circuit generates the drive signal containing a second level signal adapted to stop the light emission without reverse-biasing the light-emitting diode, a first level signal, lower than the second level signal, adapted to reverse-bias the light-emitting diode, and a third level signal, higher than the second level signal, adapted to enable the light-emitting diode to emit light, the drive signal generating circuit supplying the drive signal to the pixel circuits. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071032 | METHOD FOR DRIVING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A low-resolution image is displayed at high resolution and power consumption is reduced. Resolution is made higher by super-resolution processing. Then, display is performed with the luminance of a backlight controlled by local dimming after the super-resolution processing. By controlling the luminance of the backlight, power consumption can be reduced. Further, by performing the local dimming after the super-resolution processing, accurate display can be performed. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071033 | Liquid Crystal Display And Driving Method Thereof - Embodiments of the invention disclose a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: upon one image frame being displayed, driving each row of pixels in accordance with an arrangement order of rows in sequence; upon pixels in any row being driven, driving two pixels of one same pixel group successively. A driving sequence of the two pixels of the same pixel group is alternately changed in continuous image frames. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071034 | DEVICE FOR REDUCING FLICKERS OF A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD FOR REDUCING FLICKERS OF A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A device for reducing flickers of a liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel is divided into a plurality of blocks. The device includes a memory, a common voltage generation unit, and a controller. The memory is used for storing a plurality of initial codes. Each initial code corresponds to a block of the plurality of blocks and a common voltage. The controller is used for generating a control signal to the common voltage generation unit when the controller starts to count scan start signals corresponding to the block. The common voltage generation unit is used for reading the initial code from the memory according to the control signal, and generating the common voltage to the block according to the initial code. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071035 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND SHIFT REGISTER DEVICE THEREOF - A liquid crystal display and a shift register device thereof are provided. The shift register device includes a plurality of shift registers connected in series, where an i | 2014-03-13 |
20140071036 | INVOKING A USER ENVIRONMENT BASED ON DEVICE COVER - A device cover includes a device cover identifier. A computing device includes a device cover identifier reader for reading the device cover identifier, and the computing device invokes a user environment associated with the device cover identifier. The user environment can include an arrangement of home screen program icons, executing application programs, computing device notification settings, device or application usernames and passwords, brightness levels, or display screen wallpaper. The device cover identifier can include one or more magnets, an RFID tag, color, intensity, or polarity of light passing through the cover, or textual or graphical information on the cover. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071037 | BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in motion. For example, the leg gestures generated when a person runs are different than when a person walks. The system described here can identify such differences and categorize these behaviors. Gestures, as previously defined, are motions generated by humans, animals, or machines. Multiple gestures on a body (or bodies) are recognized simultaneously and used in determining behaviors. If multiple bodies are tracked by the system, then overall formations and behaviors (such as military goals) can be determined. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071038 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT POSITION COORDINATE AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE INPUT SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A method for generating a movement position coordinate adapted to be used in a human-machine interface input controller is provided. The method includes steps of: sequentially generating a plurality of position coordinates by detecting a movement of an object; reading and storing the position coordinates; performing, when the number of the stored position coordinates reaches to a predetermined value, an operation on the position coordinates to obtain a movement position coordinate; and modulating the predetermined value in accordance with a change of a movement rate of the object. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071039 | Electronic Apparatus and Display Control Method - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes at least one sensor, a display processor, and a determiner. The display processor displays a first image corresponding to first content data stored in a first folder on a screen. The determiner determines whether the electronic apparatus moves, using the at least one sensor. If it is determined that the electronic apparatus moves during display of the first image, the display processor displays, on the screen, an second image corresponding to second content data stored in another folder different from the first folder. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071040 | System and method for planning or organizing items in a list using a device that supports handwritten input - A method for generating a list of images associated with items for planning or organizing the items on a device configured for receiving handwritten input is provided. The method includes (i) processing a first handwritten input including a first content associated with a first item, (ii) generating a first image that includes the first content associated with the first item, (iii) processing a second handwritten input including a second content associated with a second item, (iv) generating a second image that includes the second content associated with the second item, (v) generating a list that includes the first image, and the second image, and (vi) displaying the list that includes the first image and the second image. The first image and the second image are stored in a database. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071041 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - A head-mounted display device that enables a user to simultaneously visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene includes a photographing unit configured to photograph at least a part of a visual field direction of the user in a state in which the user wears the head-mounted display device and acquire a motion of the user; a track acquiring unit configured to acquire a track of the motion of the user from the motion photographed by the photographing unit; and an authentication processing unit configured to authenticate, using the track acquired by the track acquiring unit, whether the user is a proper user. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071042 | COMPUTER VISION BASED CONTROL OF A DEVICE USING MACHINE LEARNING - A method for computer vision based control of a device, the method comprising: obtaining a first frame comprising an image of an object within a field of view; identifying the object as a hand by applying computer vision algorithms; storing image related information of the identified hand; obtaining a second frame comprising an image of an object within a field of view and identifying the object in the second frame as a hand by using the stored information of the identified hand; and controlling the device based on the hand identified in the first and second frames. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071043 | METHOD OF EXECUTING APPLICATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTENT SHARING, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a method of executing an application performed by a display device. The method includes detecting a first motion that bends the display device in a first direction to deform the display device into a first form, executing a first application, based on the first motion, detecting a second motion that bends the display device in a second direction to deform the display device into a second form, and executing a second application related to the first application, based on the second motion. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071044 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USER INTERFACING, AND TERMINAL USING THE SAME - There are provided a device and method for user interfacing, and a terminal using the same. The user interfacing method includes setting a reference image of an object to be used for user interfacing, recognizing the object to be used for user interfacing from input user-related images, determining depth-related movement of the object by comparing the recognized object and the reference image, and operating an application according to the depth-related movement of the object. Therefore, it is possible to control the terminal using user movement with respect to a distance between the terminal used by the user and the user. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071045 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING EDITED IMAGES USING EMBEDDED PLUG-IN - Disclosed is a cross-platform image editor configured with image editing tools and that is integrated with a software application and operable on a user computing device. A low-res version of a high-res image stored in an image library is displayed, and a user selection of at least one image editing tool and at least one associated parameter is received. The low-res version is modified accordingly. Without human user intervention the high resolution image is processed by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter. The modified high resolution image is output. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071046 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MOTION SENSOR GENERATED DATA - Systems and methods for processing data from a motion sensor to detect intentional movements of a device are provided. An electronic device having a motion sensor may process motion sensor data along one or more dimensions to generate an acceleration value representative of the movement of the electronic device. The electronic device may then determine whether the acceleration value changes from less than a low threshold, to more than a high threshold, and again to less than the low threshold within a particular amount of time, reflecting an intentional movement of the electronic device by the user. In response to determining that the acceleration value is associated with an intentional movement of the electronic device, the electronic device may perform a particular event or operation. For example, in response to detecting that an electronic device has been shaken, the electronic device may shuffle a media playlist. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071047 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a portable device is provided. The method includes detecting bending of the portable device and determining whether to perform motion sensing correction due to the bending; acquiring a motion sensing correction factor for performing the motion sensing correction due to the bending; performing motion sensing correction of at least one motion sensor using the motion sensing correction factor; and controlling the portable device according to the corrected motion sensing. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071048 | POINTING ERROR AVOIDANCE SCHEME - Technologies are generally described for a pointing error avoidance scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of a computing system with a display, may include detecting an input event applied to the computing system at a pointing location in a first area of the display, determining a first time duration for which the pointing location has been maintained in the first area, determining a second time duration for which the pointing location had been previously maintained in a previous area of the display before the pointing location moved into the first area, and determining an intended pointing location of the input event based at least in part on at least one of the first time duration and the second time duration. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071049 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ONE-HANDED USER INTERFACE IN MOBILE DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN - A method provides a user interface in a mobile device having a touch screen. The method includes detecting a touch region from the touch screen, and determining whether the detected touch region satisfies at least one of a first condition of exceeding a predetermined area, a second condition of exceeding a predetermined time, and a third condition of exceeding a predetermined pressure. The method further includes displaying a pointer at a specific location of the touch screen when the detected touch region satisfies at least one of the first, second and third conditions, detecting a movement of the touch region, and moving the pointer in response to the movement of the touch region. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071050 | Optical Sensing Mechanisms for Input Devices - A computer or other electronic device including a processor and an input device, such as a track pad. The track pad being in communication with the processor and including a movable surface, a light source in communication with the processor, and an optical sensor in selective optical communication with the light source and in communication with the processor. The optical sensor detects movement of the movable surface by receiving light from the light source. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071051 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A CONTROL POINT POSITION ON A COMMAND AREA AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF A DEVICE - The invention describes a method of controlling a position (x′, y′) of a control point (c) on a command area (A | 2014-03-13 |
20140071052 | USER INTERFACE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS THEREFOR - A user interface ( | 2014-03-13 |
20140071053 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS, AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL DEVICE - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus for controlling an external device comprises a communication module, an operation module, a recognition module, and a controller. The communication module is configured to communicate with the external device. The operation module is configured to display a keyboard screen of one of a plurality of types on a display, and transmit a signal to the external device based on an operation on the keyboard screen. The recognition module is configured to recognize an attribute of an input space which is selected in the external device. The controller is configured to perform control to switch a type of the keyboard screen displayed on the display based on the attribute recognized by the recognition module. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071054 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating Soft Keyboards - An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface concurrently displays on the display an application content area and an unsplit keyboard, the unsplit keyboard being located at a bottom of the display. The device detects a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the device converts the unsplit keyboard into a split keyboard and moves the split keyboard away from the bottom of the display over the application content area in accordance with the first gesture. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071055 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL CALIBRATION OF TOUCH SCREENS - Devices and methods for interpreting an input key from a keystroke are disclosed. In an implementation, the method includes displaying a keyboard including keys. The method also includes defining targets on the keyboard. Each one of the targets is associated with one of the keys, an area of the keyboard, and a swipe direction. Each one of the keys is associated with at least two of the targets. The method also includes determining a location and a swipe direction of the keystroke, and comparing the location of the keystroke with the areas associated with at least some of the targets. The method also includes comparing the swipe direction of the keystroke with the swipe directions associated with at least some of the targets, and defining the input key based on the comparisons of the location of the keystroke and the swipe direction of the keystroke with the targets. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071056 | HAND-HELD COMBINATION KEY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING INFORMATION BY HAND-HELD COMBINATION KEY APPARATUS - A hand-held combination key apparatus configured to input information to an intelligent electronic apparatus is provided. Three to five key groups, which correspond to each corresponding finger of a single hand respectively, are set on one of left side and right side of a shell, each key group having two combination keys, and each combination key being the key with compound functions of touch conduction and press conduction. Various combination states of touch conduction of each combination key are used to search and pre-display characters or operational function symbols; and press conduction of each combination key is used to determine character input or operational function input. The hand-held combination key apparatus can be used in any state without limitation absolutely, such as when the user is sitting, standing, lying down and moving, other than the normal standard keyboard which needs a practicable plane to support in use, saving space. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071057 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LEARNING DRAWING GRAPHIC FIGURES AND APPLICATIONS OF GAMES - The present disclosure provides a method that includes displaying a first graphic figure for a period of time to a person; receiving a second graphic figure by a touch screen of a first electronic device, wherein the second graphic figure is drawn on the touch screen by the person based on the first graphic figure after the first graphic figure disappears; comparing the first and second graphic figures to determine a difference between the first and second graphic figures; and showing a result associated with the difference by the first electronic device. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071058 | Positioning Clickable Hotspots On A Touchscreen Display - Positioning clickable hotspots on a touchscreen display, including: identifying, by a hotspot generation module, a clickable object displayed on the touchscreen display, wherein the clickable object has an associated original clickable zone for invoking the clickable object; generating, by the hotspot generation module, a clickable hotspot associated with the clickable object, wherein the clickable hotspot has an associated updated clickable zone for invoking the clickable object; determining, by the hotspot generation module, a position on the touchscreen display for placing the clickable hotspot; and placing, by the hotspot generation module, the clickable hotspot at the position on the touchscreen display, wherein the original clickable zone and the updated clickable zone cover different areas of the touchscreen display. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071059 | REMOTE CONTROLLER FOR MULTIPLE NAVIGATION DEVICES - Embodiments related to controlling one or more controllable marine electronics devices are provided. One example embodiment provides a remote control device comprising a touch-sensitive display. The remote control device is configured to receive device information from each of the one or more controllable marine electronics devices via the computer network, and display a selection graphical user interface (GUI) including a plurality of graphical selectors each associated with a respective one of the controllable marine electronics devices. The remote control device is further configured to display a remote control user interface for a target controllable marine electronics device corresponding to a selected graphical selector on the touch sensitive display. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071060 | PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTAL TRIGGERS OF BUTTON EVENTS - A method for preventing accidental trigger of an action in an electronic device, the method performed by program instructions executed on a computer having at least one processor, the method comprising: providing at least one affordance that is associated with a main action and is in a ready state; responsive to detecting a button event for the affordance, providing the affordance with progressive feedback related to a time the affordance is touched until the main action is invoked; and initiating the main action only after a predetermined touch hold time threshold is reached. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071061 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EXECUTION OF CAMERA RELATED FUNCTIONS BY REFERRING TO GESTURE PATTERN AND RELATED COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A method for controlling execution of camera related functions includes at least the following steps: while a camera is active in a specific operational mode, receiving a user input which includes a gesture pattern; searching a target command mapping from a plurality of pre-defined command mappings according to the gesture pattern, wherein each of the pre-defined command mappings defines at least one pre-defined camera related function mapped to a pre-defined gesture pattern; and controlling execution of each camera related function defined by the target command mapping. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071062 | METHOD FOR INCREASING TOUCH SAMPLING RATE AND TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for increasing touch sampling rate and a touch display device using the same are provided, wherein the touch display device comprises a timing controller and a display panel. A timing control signal is provided by the timing controller. Each cycle of the timing control signal comprises a blanking period and a frame period, every N frame periods correspond to one image frame of a video signal, and every N blanking periods and every N frame periods correspond to one cycle of the video signal, where N is a positive integer larger than 1. Through the timing control signal, the touch display device arranges the timing for driving the display panel to display frame images and to sense touch, whereby increasing the touch sampling rate thereof. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071063 | INTERACTING WITH RADIAL MENUS FOR TOUCHSCREENS - The subject technology discloses configurations for providing a radial menu on one or more computing devices with a touch-sensitive screen. In one example, a user activates the radial menu after touching a first finger at a first or anchor point on a touchscreen that serves as a center of the radial menu. While the first finger is disposed, the user then touches a second finger at a second point some distance from the anchor point corresponding to the first finger on the touchscreen. The radial menu is generated based on a distance calculated between the anchor point and the second finger at the second point. The radial menu is not a complete circle and instead displayed as a partial circle, and the radial menu is generated so that the display area is bisected from the anchor point to the second point in some configurations. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071064 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL FOR DISPLAY DEVICE - This disclosure relates to a touch screen panel for a display device. The touch screen panel includes a base layer, a plurality of first electrode strings, a plurality of second electrode strings, a plurality of first routing wires, a plurality of second routing wires; a third wire formed between the first routing wires and the second routing wires, an insulation layer that covers the first and second routing wires and the third wires and has contact holes exposing a part of the third wire, and a shield pattern that is formed on the insulation layer contacts the third wires through the contact holes, and overlaps either the first routing wires or the second routing wires. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071065 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel connected to a control circuit and includes a substrate, at least one first sensing series, at least one second sensing series, and at least one third sensing series. The substrate has at least one first sensing region and at least one second sensing region alternatively arranged in a first direction. Each first sensing series extends along the first direction and includes at least one first-first sensing portion located in the first sensing region and at least one second-first sensing portion located in the second sensing region. A pattern or material of the second-first sensing portion is different from that of the first-first sensing portions. Each second sensing series extends along a second direction intersecting with the first direction and is intersected with the first-first sensing portion. Each third sensing series extends in the second direction and is intersected with the second-first sensing portion. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071066 | METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS - A display panel driving apparatus a data driving part which applies a first data signal to a data line corresponding to a first area of the display panel during a first sub frame period of a frame period and applies a second data signal to a data line corresponding to a second area of the display panel during a second sub frame period of the frame period, and a touch driving part which applies a touch driving signal to a touch driving line of the display panel during a first blank period next to the first sub frame period and applies the touch driving signal to the touch driving line during a second blank period next to the second sub frame period and included in the frame period. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071067 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING A TACTILE IMAGE AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for representing a tactile image and providing a touch function and a haptic feedback function to a tactile touch panel includes: applying a touch driving voltage to the tactile touch panel; and applying a tactile voltage corresponding to an image to be displayed to the tactile touch panel in a blanking interval when the touch driving voltage may be not applied to a plurality of touch driving lines of the tactile touch panel, when a touch sensing voltage corresponding to a touch on the tactile touch panel may be received through a plurality of touch sensing lines of the tactile touch panel. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071068 | CONSTANT SPEED DISPLAY METHOD OF MOBILE DEVICE - A constant speed display method applied in an electronic device is provided. The electronic device is in a full screen view for illustrating images in a photograph. The method has the following steps of: determining whether consecutive swiping touch actions matching specific criteria have been received by the electronic device; and displaying an aligning animation of the images in the photograph at a constant speed without being affected by a next swiping action after the consecutive swiping touch actions matching the specific criteria have been received by the electronic device. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071069 | TECHNIQUES FOR TOUCH AND NON-TOUCH USER INTERACTION INPUT - Various embodiments are generally directed a method and apparatus having a touch screen module to receive first input data from a touch screen sensor based on one or more detected touch inputs at a first location of a virtual object displayed on a display. In addition, an ultrasonic module may receive second input data from an ultrasonic sensor based on detected non-touch motion associated with the virtual object. The detected non-touch motion may be tracked from the first location to a second location in a direction away from the first location based on the second input data and used to determine the second location for the virtual object based on the tracking. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071070 | TOUCH CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING TOUCH CONTROL APPARATUS - A touch control apparatus, a control method thereof and an electronic device having the touch control apparatus are disclosed, which belong to the technical field of touch control. The touch control apparatus comprises: a panel ( | 2014-03-13 |
20140071071 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK DEVICE AND HAPTIC FEEDBACK METHOD - A haptic feedback device which provides haptic feedback to a user touching a panel, the haptic feedback device including: the panel; a position obtaining unit which obtains a position touched on the panel by the user; a carrier signal generation unit which generates a carrier signal having a first frequency component when the position touched by the user is a first position, and generates a carrier signal having a second frequency component when the position touched by the user is a second position; an acoustic signal generation unit which generates an acoustic signal having harmonics corresponding to a predetermined fundamental frequency; a driving signal generation unit which generates a driving signal by adding together the carrier signal and the acoustic signal; and an actuator which provides haptic feedback to the user by vibrating the panel in accordance with the driving signal. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071072 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A display screen displaying a three-dimensional medical image of a subject to be examined, an operation detection unit receiving an operation input by detecting a touch on the display screen, and a processing setting unit in which a processing table has been set in advance are provided. The processing table links a series of operation inputs to be received on the display screen and kinds of processing to be performed on the image in such a manner that the serial positions of the inputs correspond to the kinds of processing. Further, an image processing unit that performs, on the image, processing corresponding to the serial position of the operation input with reference to the processing table when the operation input has been received on the display screen, and a display control unit that displays, on the display screen, the three-dimensional medical image on which processing has been performed are provided. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071073 | FUEL DISPENSER HAVING ELECTROPHORETIC GRADE SELECT ASSEMBLY - A selector assembly for a fuel dispenser comprises an electrophoretic display module including a price per unit display configured to display price per unit data. Also provided is an overlay attached to the electrophoretic display module so that the overlay is viewable by a user, the overlay defining a first window aligned with the price per unit display and a grade select button area. A touch screen is aligned with the button area of the overlay. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071074 | ADAPTIVE SCROLLING OF IMAGE DATA ON DISPLAY - Systems and methods that enable a client device to control scrolling of image data such as slices of MR or CT images using a scrolling gesture. The gesture may be received from a human interface device, and may be mouse moments, touchpad inputs, game controller movements, trackball movements or a movements on a touch-sensitive display. When a scrolling gesture is received at the client device, a velocity and distance of the swipe may be measured. Based on a relationship of gesture velocity to slice scroll velocity, both fine and course scrolling may be provided through the gesture. Control of document scrolling on the display of a client device is also provided. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS OPERABLE IN RESPONSE TO TOUCH OPERATION - An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a moving speed of an image displayed on the display screen based on information relating to the movement of the touch position acquired, wherein the determination unit determines, if a plurality of pieces of information relating to a sequential movement of the touch position in the touch operation are acquired, whether to reflect each of the plurality of pieces of information relating to the sequential movement of the touch position on the moving speed of the image displayed on the display screen, and further determines the moving speed of the image displayed on the display screen based on information determined as being reflected on the movement of the image displayed on the display screen. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071076 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GESTURE RECOGNITION - A gesture recognition system receives input data from a sensor comprising data representing at least one gesture motion. The system divides a space associated with gesture detection by the sensor into a plurality of blocks and assigns the plurality of blocks to corresponding states. A gesture specific sequence of states is generated in response to the received input data and a gesture is recognized in response to the generated gesture specific sequence. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071077 | METHOD FOR OPERATING ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON TOUCH PRESSURE AND THE DEVICE PERFORMING THE METHOD - Electronic device operating technology based on touch pressure is provided. A method for operating an electronic device includes determining touch pressure caused by a touch occurring on a display unit, comparing the touch pressure with predefined damage data, and performing a predefined specific process when the touch pressure is determined as abnormal touch pressure as a result of the comparison. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071078 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT READING DEVICES - We describe an architecture for a large-area, touch-sensitive electronic document reading device which is able to tolerate bending. In broad terms, a control circuit board is mounted behind a flexible display structure in the housing and at respective points of attachment of first and second laminar connectors to the control circuit board each laminar connector has a plurality of electrical connections running along a longitudinal direction of the laminar connector and disposed alongside one another in a transverse direction across the laminar connector. At the respective points of attachment of the first and second laminar connectors to the control circuit board the longitudinal directions of the laminar connectors are aligned such that, when said device is flexed, a relative displacement in said longitudinal direction between said control circuit board and of said display structure can be tolerated without damage to the control electronics, touch sensitive display screen or connections therebetween. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071079 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HAPTIC FEEDBACK UTILIZING MULTI-ACTUATED WAVEFORM PHASING - A method and device for generating haptic feedback over a touch surface using multi-actuated waveform phasing are disclosed. A haptic device, in one embodiment, includes a touch surface and a group of haptic actuators. The touch surface is capable of sensing an event, wherein the event can be a contact on the touch surface or a movement nearby the surface. A portion of the haptic actuators, which are coupled to the touch surface, is configured to provide haptic feedback on the touch surface in response to the event. Another portion of the haptic actuators is used to minimize unwanted haptic effect on the touch surface. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071080 | TOUCH DETECTION FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN - A touch-screen device includes a transparent dielectric layer. A plurality of first electrodes is located over the transparent dielectric layer. A plurality of second electrodes is located under the transparent dielectric layer so that the first electrodes overlap the second electrodes to form an array of capacitors. A controller provides electrical signals to the first and second electrodes to energize and measure the baseline capacitance and repeatedly energize and measure the present capacitance of each capacitor. The controller calculates a ratio function between the present capacitance and the corresponding stored baseline capacitance for each capacitor and provides a touch signal when the ratio function exceeds a predetermined threshold value. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071081 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTING CABLES IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Systems and methods for routing cables in an electronic device are provided. In some embodiments, the electronic device may include a touch sensor having a number of traces, a display component, and a mechanical button, each of which may be coupled to a circuit board via a single flexible circuit cable. This may save valuable space within the electronic device. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071082 | DIFFERENTIAL SENSING FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSORS - A first signal from a first sense line of a touch sensor is received. A second signal from a second of the touch sensor is received. The first signal is inverted. The inverted first signal and the second signal are summed to produce a differential signal. The differential signal is output to a touch sensor controller. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071083 | DIGITIZER - Disclosed herein is a digitizer including: a transparent substrate; an electrode formed on the transparent substrate to sense a change in capacitance; and a coil formed on the transparent substrate to receive a signal transmitted from the outside. As the touch input unit, various units such as an electronic pen and user's finger, and the like, can be used. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071084 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND TOUCH COORDINATE DETERMINATION METHOD - A mobile terminal device includes an electrostatic touch panel, a resistive touch panel, a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor acquires a touch coordinate detected on at least one of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel and determines a touch mode including the presence or absence of strong touch at equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure based on the acquired touch coordinate. Then, the processor specifies a touch coordinate at which the strong touch is made when a touch mode with the strong touch is determined and the touch coordinate is detected on each of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071085 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH PANEL AND CONTROL METHOD OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH PANEL - Capacitances caused by respective electrodes of a touch panel, which is used to detect an instruction position of the user based on a change in capacitance, are measured, and it is determined whether or not a difference between the measured value and a reference value is larger than a threshold. When it is determined that the difference is larger than the threshold, a portion corresponding to the electrode on the touch panel is detected as the instruction position of the user. After detection, when the difference continues for a predetermined period time, the measured value is set as a new reference value. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071086 | TOUCH INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD - A touch input device and a touch input method are provided. The touch input device includes a first panel configured to be touched by an input tool having magnetic properties, a second panel configured to generate a magnetic field, and a control unit configured to control the second panel to generate the magnetic field in a portion of the second panel that is related to a touched location of the first panel, as the input tool touches the first panel. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071087 | Determination and Reduction of Parasitic Capacitance Variation Due to Display Noise - Embodiments described herein generally take the form of methods and systems for identifying and/or reducing a parasitic capacitance variation in a capacitive integrated touch-sensing module that may arise from proximity to a nearby electronic display. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071088 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING A TACTILE IMAGE AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for representing a tactile image and providing a touch function and a haptic feedback function to a tactile touch panel includes: applying a touch driving voltage to the tactile touch panel; and applying a tactile voltage corresponding to an image to be displayed to the tactile touch panel in a blanking interval when the touch driving voltage may be not applied to a plurality of touch driving lines of the tactile touch panel, when a touch sensing voltage corresponding to a touch on the tactile touch panel may be received through a plurality of touch sensing lines of the tactile touch panel. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071089 | POSITION DETECTOR, POSITION DETECTING CIRCUIT, AND POSITION DETECTING METHOD - A capacitive type position detector is provided, which includes a conductor pattern formed of a plurality of conductors disposed in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a transmission signal supplying circuit for supplying a transmission signal to said plurality of conductors disposed in the first direction; and a differentially amplifying circuit having first and second input terminals for amplifying signals inputted thereto. The differentially amplifying circuit is configured to receive signals from a set of at least three conductors among said plurality of conductors disposed in the second direction, to thereby receive signals from the conductors located on both end sides of the set via said first input terminal and to receive a signal(s) from the conductor(s), which is(are) located between said conductors located on both end sides of the set, via said second input terminal. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071090 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sensor unit | 2014-03-13 |
20140071091 | Camera Based Hover Detection for Touch-Based Mobile Devices - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for providing camera-based hover detection for touch-based mobile devices. One computer-implemented method includes receiving image data from at least one image capture device associated with a particular client device, comparing, by operation of a computer, the received image data to existing image data, wherein the existing image data partially includes extrapolated imaged data, determining that the received image data does not compare with existing image data and transmitting the received image data to a server for post-processing, processing, by operation of a computer, post-processed image data received from the server, wherein the processing includes updating a user configuration with the post-processed image data, and generating a hover event based upon the received image data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071092 | ESD DETECTION ON A TOUCH INPUT DEVICE - A touch sensitive device that detects the occurrence of an electrostatic discharge event on the device by analyzing an acquired touch image for characteristics associated with the occurrence of an ESD event is provided. An acquired touch image is analyzed for characteristics that differentiate it from a touch image generated by a user input and are correlated with an expected touch image generated by an ESD event. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071093 | OPTICAL NAVIGATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIA FOR PERFORMING OPTICAL NAVIGATING METHOD - An optical navigating apparatus, comprising: a displacement detecting apparatus, for determining if the optical navigating apparatus has displacement relative to an target, and for generating a displacement signal according to the displacement; and a touch control panel, for detecting a touch control operation of an user, wherein the touch control panel has a sampling rate and changes the sampling rate according to a control signal, wherein the sampling rate can be adjusted according to the displacement signal, where the sampling rate correspondingly decreases when the displacement signal indicates the displacement increases. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071094 | OPTICAL TOUCH SCREEN USING TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION - A method for use by a touch screen in which light transmitted inside the screen is scattered by an object touching the screen from outside the screen, the method including activating emitter-receiver pairs for a plurality of emitters and receivers while an object is touching a screen from outside the screen, wherein light emitted by each emitter is transmitted inside the screen, wherein each emitter is associated with a limited number of receivers that detect significant light from such emitter while no object is touching the screen, and wherein the activated emitter-receiver pairs include pairs for which the receiver is not associated with the emitter in the pair, determining that receivers not associated with emitters detect significant light due to the object scattering the light emitted by the emitters, and deriving the location where the object is touching the screen from the determining. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071095 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS - This invention relates to methods, apparatus, and computer programme code for processing acoustic signal data to determine where an object has been tapped with a stylus, finger nail or the like. The method involved storing a set of labelled training data comprising digitised waveforms from a sensor for taps at a plurality of different locations. The labelled training data is then processed to determine mean value and covariance data for the waveforms, which is afterwards used in conjunction with a digitised waveform of a tap at an unknown location to identify the location of the tap. Preferably the covariance is decomposed into a plurality of basis functions for each region each with a respective weighting, which are used to represent captured data for an unknown tap and parameters of the representation are classified to locate the tap. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071096 | STYLUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INPUTS OF THE STYLUS - In a method to display a current input of a stylus, the method controls a communication unit to receive a notification signal notifying that a first input of the stylus is selected from a touch device. Then the method selects a second input of the stylus from the storage device, and the second input is the same as the first input. The method further sends the second input to a display unit, and displays the second input on the display unit. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071097 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC INFORMATION BOARD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device includes a display unit having a screen whose orientation is variable; a first member configured to have a pointing member placed thereon or support the pointing member in a standing manner, the pointing member being used for pointing a coordinate on the display unit, the first member having a placement surface where the pointing member is placed, the first member being secured to the display unit; and a housing section configured to house an end of the pointing member moving downward along the placement surface tilted when the display unit is rotated in a state where the pointing member is placed on the placement surface so that the orientation of the screen is changed, the housing section being provided at a first end of the first member facing downward when the display unit is rotated. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071098 | REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DISPLAY METHOD - A display system, a remote control device, and a display method are provided. The display system includes the remote control device and a display device. The display method includes following steps. The remote control device generates a vibration signal of housing by sensing an acceleration of a movement of the housing in a space. The remote control device transmits the vibration signal of housing to the display device. The display device displays a display image. In the display image, the indication path is pointed to an intersection position. An indication pattern is displayed at the intersection position, wherein an appearance of the indication pattern changes according to a number of times that the vibration signal of housing is received. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071099 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE - A projector includes a projection unit that displays an image on a screen, a control unit that allows the projection unit to display a plurality of images based on image data input from a plurality of PCs, a location detection unit that detects an operation location by a pointing tool, an output control unit that selects the PC based on the operation location detected by the location detection unit and a display location of the image on the screen, and an output switching unit that outputs coordinates of the operation location to the PC selected by the output control unit. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071100 | ERGONOMIC STYLUS WITH AN INFLATABLE FINGER GRIP - An ergonomic stylus for operating a mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the ergonomic stylus includes a stylus point, an inflatable finger grip and a fluid injection system. The inflatable finger grip includes an inflatable layer. The fluid injection system is employed to inflate the inflatable layer. The disclosed ergonomic stylus is convenient to use and may be easily docked with the mobile device when not in use. The ergonomic stylus compllies with ergonomics principles. The ergonomic stylus further includes a telescopic extension to adjust the length of the ergonomic stylus. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071101 | PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of using two display panels as a single screen is provided. More particularly, a structure for minimizing the size of a joint between two display panels and an algorithm for coping with a situation where a text line or a text image is located at the joint are provided. A portable display device has at least two panel housings and first and second display panels mounted on the panel housings, respectively, in which the display panels are joined to each other to form a single screen when the panel housings are unfolded. When a text line or a text image is located at the joint between the first and second display panels, a screen is shifted so that the joint is located in a space between the text lines. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071102 | DYNAMIC COLOR PROFILE MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Dynamic white point management techniques include determining a white point of ambient light proximate to a display. A color profile adjustment is determined based upon the determined white point and intensity of the ambient light. The image color space is transformed to a display color space for rendering on the display based on the determined adjusted to the color profile. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071103 | Object Tracking Apparatus and Control Method Thereof - The present invention discloses an object tracking apparatus including a reference object, an optical sensor and a controller. The reference object has a plurality of light emitting devices, for generating an optical signal. The optical sensor is for detecting the optical signal and generating an identification signal in response to the optical signal. The controller is for generating a control signal according to the identification signal and outputting the control signal to the reference object, thereby adaptively adjusting a light emitting number or light emitting intensity of the plurality of light emitting devices. The present invention discloses a method for controlling an object tracking apparatus. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071104 | Shift Register Unit, Gate Driving Circuit And Display Apparatus - A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a first TFT (T1) having a first electrode connected to an input terminal and a gate connected to a second clock signal input terminal; a second TFT (T2); a third TFT (T3) having a second electrode connected to an output terminal, a first electrode connected to a first clock signal input terminal, and a gate connected to the second electrode of the first TFT; a fourth TFT (T4); a fifth TFT (T5) having a gate connected to the second clock signal input terminal, a first electrode connected to the output terminal and a second electrode connected to the low potential connecting terminal; a capacitor (C1), and thus the burrs and miscellaneous spikes in a gate driving waveform outputted by the circuit can be suppressed well. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071105 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A controller in an intermediate inversion drive mode causes a source driver to alternate polarities of voltages applied to pixel electrodes connected to one of source signal lines per plural gate signal lines, and to apply the voltages so that a pair of the pixel electrodes, which are connected to one of the gate signal lines and to source signal lines adjacent to each other, are subjected to different voltage application in polarity from each other, the source driver alternating polarities of the voltages applied to the respective pixel electrodes for each frame. When the source driver, in the intermediate inversion drive mode, applies the voltages sequentially to the pixel electrodes connected to one of the source signal lines, the controller sets a longer voltage application period for the inverted electrode than for the equivalent electrode. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071106 | SOURCE DRIVER AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A GAMMA CURVE - A source driver includes a first drive channel circuit, a voltage controller and a first programmable voltage buffer unit. The first drive channel circuit receives a first pixel data from the timing controller via a data bus, converts the first pixel data to a first drive voltage according to a first reference voltage group, and drives a display panel by the first drive voltage. The voltage controller receives a voltage command from the timing controller, generates and changes a first reference voltage configuration data according to the voltage command. The first programmable voltage buffer unit is coupled to the voltage controller and the first drive channel circuit, and receives the first reference voltage configuration data to generate and adjust the first reference voltage group for applying to the first drive channel circuit. Furthermore, a method for updating a new gamma curve by the source driver is also provided. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071107 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING POWER LINK LINE - There is provided a display device including: a display panel including a display area consisting of a plurality of pixel areas, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a plurality of power lines formed on the display area to supply a first voltage to the plurality of pixel areas; a first power link line connected to the plurality of first power lines, and formed on the non-display area; and a plurality of drivers connected to the display panel, and including a plurality of output pads and a plurality of first power pads, the plurality of (first) power pads disposed between the plurality of output pads and respectively connected to the plurality of first power link lines. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071108 | PIXEL, DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels respectively include: 1) a first capacitor connected between a data line and a first node and 2) a switching transistor including a gate electrode connected to a scan line and first and second electrodes respectively connected to the first node and a second node. The display device also includes a driving transistor including a first electrode connected to a first power source voltage and a second electrode connected to an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The device further includes a compensation transistor including a first electrode connected to the first node and a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071109 | ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An electrostatic discharge protection circuit and a display apparatus are provided. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit adapted to the display apparatus having a display panel which has a signal line and a common voltage line. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a first switching unit and a second switching unit. The first switching unit is electrically coupled to the signal line. The second switching unit is electronically coupled between the first switching unit and the common voltage line. When the display apparatus is shut down, the first switching unit and the second switching unit form a conductive path. When the display apparatus is turned on, the first switching unit receives a first control signal, and the second switching unit receives a second control signal, so that at least one of the first switching unit and the second switching unit is turned off at the same time. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071110 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING TWO POWER DRIVERS FOR SUPPLYING DIFFERENT POWERS, AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An organic light emitting display device operating in a concurrent (e.g., simultaneous) emission method, which includes a first power driver configured to apply first power, which changes between a first low level and a first high level, to pixels of the display unit, and a second power driver configured to apply second power, which changes between a second low level and a second high level, to the pixels, wherein each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, a driving transistor configured to control an amount of current supplied to the organic light emitting diode, and an initializing transistor coupled to an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode and configured to be turned on during a reset period in one frame to supply a reset voltage, which is lower than the first high level of the first power, to the anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071111 | REDUCTION OF CONTENTION BETWEEN DRIVER CIRCUITRY - An electronic display includes a display panel. The display panel includes a pixel array and receives a supply voltage. The display panel also includes a panel driver configured to generate a gate line voltage. The panel driver also supplies the gate line voltage to the display panel based on a comparison between the gate line voltage and the supply voltage. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071112 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device comprising a display panel including a plurality of pixels configured to write a first image data signal corresponding to a corresponding frame for a first frame and emits light according to driving current depending on a second image data signal corresponding to a previous frame is disclosed. In one aspect, the first frame includes a reset period of resetting data voltage according to the second image data signal, a compensating period of compensating threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels, a data writing period of transferring scan signals corresponding to the pixels in sequence, writing the first image data signal, and a light emitting period of simultaneously emitting light according to the second image data signal, wherein the data writing period and the light emitting period frame are overlap each other. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071113 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a driving method of an organic light emitting display which is capable of displaying images at uniform luminance. A driving method of an organic light emitting display of an embodiment according to the present invention includes supplying a data signal to a pixel and, after the data signal is supplied, driving the pixel in a constant-voltage system during a first time period and in a constant-current system during a second time period. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071114 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE ROW DRIVING UNIT, ARRAY SUBSTRATE ROW DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An array substrate row driving unit, an array substrate row driving circuit and a display device. The array substrate row driving unit comprises an emission control module ( | 2014-03-13 |
20140071115 | TIMING CONTROLLER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING THE TIMING CONTROLLER - The present invention discloses a timing controller and a liquid crystal display comprising the same, wherein, the timing controller comprises a data converting module ( | 2014-03-13 |
20140071116 | REDUCING LATENCY IN AN AUGMENTED-REALITY DISPLAY - Disclosed are methods and systems for generating display pixel data so as to reduce latency when rendering a representation of a graphic on a display, such as for augmented-reality applications. The method comprises: receiving a set of display pixel coordinate-pairs at the graphics processing unit; applying a transform matrix to the set of display pixel coordinate-pairs to obtain a set of graphic pixel coordinate-pairs, the transform matrix calculated using orientation data received from an external reference; retrieving a set of graphic pixel data associated with the set of graphic pixel coordinate-pairs; and, determining a set of display pixel data based on the retrieved set of graphic pixel data. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071117 | Method for Using the GPU to Create Haptic Friction Maps - A haptics rendering system comprises: a display device having a display screen and one or more haptic feedback mechanisms associated with at least one tactile output peripheral; and a graphics processing unit (GPU) communicatively coupled to the display device. The GPU: receives one or more portions of display image software code for a three dimensional display image; generates a three dimensional (3D) visual output of the display image for display on the display device; and concurrently generates one or more specific friction maps to provide haptic feedback of depth and/or texture associated with specific portions of the display image that comprise at least one portion having at least one of a different depth and a different texture than other portions of the display image. The GPU renders the display image and the friction map from a same set of 3D commands within the display image software code. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071118 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY WITH PRECONVERGENCE - This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for use in an autostereoscopic display system. In one aspect, a display device can include a pixel array having a first set of pixels configured to display image data for a viewer's right eye and a second set of pixels configured to display image data for a viewer's left eye. The pixels of the first set can be interspersed amongst the pixels of the second set. A prismatic array can be positioned forward of the pixel array and can have a plurality of prisms coupled to the pixel array. Each prism can be aligned with a pixel from the first set of pixels and a pixel from the second set of pixels. The prisms can be configured to selectively guide light from the pixels to an associated one of the left or right eyes, thereby forming a 3D image. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071119 | Displaying 3D Objects in a 3D Map Presentation - Some embodiments of the map display application described herein display three-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects. When the map presentation is moved to display a new area, the three-dimensional representations rise from a ground level to their full heights and transition from transparent to opaque at the same time. The map display applications of some embodiments also remove three-dimensional representations of objects by lowering the objects from their full height to ground level and fading out the representations from opaque to transparent. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071120 | MEMORY REDUCTION DEVICE OF STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE DISPLAY FOR COMPENSATING CROSSTALK - A memory reduction device of a stereoscopic image display includes a compression unit configured to receive first to fourth input data belonging to Gn and comprised of K1 bit, respectively, align the first to fourth input data in order of a data size to generate first to fourth alignment data, generate first to fourth compression data groups including first and second compression data having K2 bits smaller than K1 bits and third compression data having K3 bits smaller than K2 bits based on the first to fourth alignment data, derive an outlier from the first to fourth input data by using a deviation between the first to fourth alignment data, select any one of the first to fourth compression data groups, as the compressed Gn−1 according to the presence or absence of the outlier and an outlier derivation position. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071121 | System and Method for Off Angle Three-Dimensional Face Standardization for Robust Performance - A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The system utilizes a two-stage solution to obtain 3D standardized face representations from non-frontal face views for a statistical learning algorithm. The first stage standardizes the pose (non-frontal 3D face representation) to a frontal view and the second stage uses facial symmetry to fill in missing facial regions due to yaw face pose variations (i.e. rotation about the y-axis). | 2014-03-13 |
20140071122 | 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. A block of geometry, containing a plurality of triangles, is split into sub-portions and sent to different geometry processing units. Each geometry processing unit generates a separate tiled geometry list that contains interleave markers that indicate an end to a sub-portion of a block of geometry overlapping a particular tile, processed by that geometry processing unit, and an end marker that identifies an end to all geometry processed for a particular tile by that geometry processing unit. The interleave markers are used to control an order of presentation of geometry to a hidden surface removal unit for a particular tile, and the end markers are used to control when the tile reference lists, for a particular tile, have been completely traversed. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071123 | COMPACTING RESULTS VECTORS BETWEEN STAGES OF GRAPHICS PROCESSING - Ray tracing, and more generally, graphics operations taking place in a 3-D scene, involve a plurality of constituent graphics operations. Responsibility for executing these operations can be distributed among different sets of computation units. The sets of computation units each can execute a set of instructions on a parallelized set of input data elements and produce results. These results can be that the data elements can be categorized into different subsets, where each subset requires different processing as a next step. The data elements of these different subsets can be coalesced so that they are contiguous in a results set. The results set can be used to schedule additional computation, and if there are empty locations of a scheduling vector (after accounting for the members of a given subset), then those empty locations can be filled with other data elements that require the same further processing as that subset. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071124 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus has a texture mapping unit configured to obtain pixel data including first and second texture coordinates, and generate texel data corresponding to the first and second texture coordinates within a textured image having a gradation pattern based on a non-linear surface. A function of the non-linear surface is defined by a product of first and Bezier curve functions. The texture mapping unit includes first/second Bezier curve function calculation unit configured to calculate the first/second Bezier curve function by obtaining the first/second texture coordinate and control values of the first/second Bezier curve function; a multiplier configured to multiply respective outputs of the first and second Bezier curve function calculation units; and a blending processing unit configured to generate the texel data by blending a plurality of color data corresponding to the gradation pattern using a is multiplication value of the multiplier as a blending ratio. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071125 | Patient-Specific Segmentation, Analysis, and Modeling from 3-Dimensional Ultrasound Image Data - Methods and systems to analyze and predict patient-specific physiological behavior of a human organ or anatomical entity such as the heart complex and the heart subcomponents from 3-dimensional volumetric ultrasound (3D) or time-sequential volumetric (4D) ultrasound image data, to assist physicians in performing diagnostics and cardiac preoperative planning. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems to segment patient-specific anatomical features from 3D/4D ultrasound. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems to compute patient-specific tissue motion and blood flow from 3D/4D ultrasound and contrast-enhanced 3D/4D ultrasound image data. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems to simulate the patient-specific mechanical behavior of the organ and anatomical entity using both 3D/4D ultrasound and mechanical models. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems to estimate tissue stress and strain and physiological parameters of the tissues from 3D/4D ultrasound. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071126 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY OF MAXILLARY AND MANDIBULAR ARCHES - A method for displaying teeth of a patient, generates a three-dimensional model of the patient's teeth and displays the generated three-dimensional model. A displayed image shows a cross-sectional view of the teeth according to the position of a cutting plane extending through the three-dimensional model. The relative position of the cutting plane is adjustable according to an operator instruction. The orientation of the displayed cross-sectional view is determined by the position of the cutting plane. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071127 | MULTI-INSTANCE, MULTI-USER VIRTUAL REALITY SPACES - A multi-instance, multi-user animation platform includes a plurality of modeled parallel dimensions in a computer memory. Each of the parallel dimensions may be an independent model of a physical, three-dimensional space having corresponding features such that the parallel dimensions are recognizable as counterparts to each other. Avatars are located within corresponding ones of the parallel dimensions so as to prevent over-population of any one of the parallel dimensions by avatars. Avatars are animated within different ones of the parallel dimensions using input from respective users to provide virtual-reality data. The virtual-reality data may be configured to cause remote clients to output an animated display of a corresponding one of the parallel dimensions and avatars therein. | 2014-03-13 |
20140071128 | TEXEL DATA STRUCTURE FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT PROGRAMMABLE SHADER AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A graphics processing subsystem and a method of shading. In one embodiment, the subsystem includes: (1) a memory configured to contain a texel data structure according to which multiple primitive texels corresponding to a particular composite texel are contained in a single page of the memory and (2) a graphics processing unit configured to communicate with the memory via a data bus and execute a shader to fetch the multiple primitive texels contained in the single page to create the particular composite texel. | 2014-03-13 |